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That day in Polity, two great plumes of smoke rose from the city. One hung over the docks, where the fire had spread to some nearby homes and shops. The other came from the town square, where a great celebration was held and hundreds of animals were sacrificed.
Hugh was hailed as a hero, given numerous honors, and had people coming up to him all day to thank him or share stories of the battle. Many cheered him on as he consumed every last bit of one of the prized heifers. All the while, Hugh ached in every muscle of his body. He spent much of the day and evening waiting for it all to end so he could get some rest.
After what seemed like hours of constant eating, drinking, dancing, singing and people slapping him on his sore back, Hugh finally retired to his bed on Walker's estate. Just as he was nodding off, Walker came into the room.
"Hugh, I know you're tired, but I want to tell you something, just in case you sleep for an unusually long time again."
"What's that?" asked Hugh.
"I'm giving you an estate within the city," he said. "It's not much, it's basically a small plot of land that includes your forge, but it will make you a land owner, which entitles you to many benefits."
"Okay, thanks," said Hugh.
"What I'm trying to say," said Walker, "Is that I want you to stay."
"I'll have to talk to the twins," he said.
Walker nodded and left.
When Hugh woke up, he ate breakfast and went to his forge. He was determined to get the Vulcan steel to yield under his hammer.
With the help of the twins on both bellows, Hugh heated the slab, then the dwarf carried it quickly using clamps to the anvil. Hugh hammered it with all his might, and after quite a few swings, he thought for sure it had budged, but upon further inspected, Hugh realized that he had hammered it into the anvil, leaving a deep, clear impression after they pried the slab off.
Hugh rubbed his forehead. "Well, our only option then is to find an active volcano."
"Is lava hot enough?" asked the giant.
"I have to assume so," said Hugh. "Lava is a lot hotter than a furnace."
The three of them headed into town for something to eat and to find out where they might locate a volcano. While eating, the giant had a sad look on her face.
"What's wrong?" Hugh asked her.
"I can't stop thinking about the bird that took the old man," she said.
"I try not to think about it," said the dwarf.
"He's dead," said Hugh. "It was just his body."
"I keep having these dreams," said the giant, "Where I see the old man calling out to me to free him."
The dwarf stopped eating and looked at his sister. "I've had those dreams, too."
"He calls out to me, begging me to save him," she said.
The dwarf stared back at her. "Yeah, like he's sinking, or falling… or something."
The two of them looked at each other for a bit, unsure of what to say. Hugh finished his meal and asked if the twins are going to finish theirs. They said no and gave the rest of their salted fish to Him.
"Well, if it makes you feel better," Hugh said, "We can try to find him. I don't know where to look, though."
"I was thinking maybe we should head in the direction where the bird was flying," said the giant.
"You mean sail across the sea?" asked Hugh.
"I guess," said the giant.
As Hugh finished the last of the fish, he shrugged. "Okay, we can do that."
"Let's not be too hasty," the dwarf said. "Maybe there's something else we can do?"
"Like what?" asked the giant.
The dwarf shrugged. "I don't know… ignore it?"
The giant shook her head and they sat in silence for a bit. Hugh stood up and asked the first person he saw where the nearest active volcano was. They seemed confused by the question, but answered that there were some volcanic islands to the southwest, an active volcano in the north near a town called Molk, and that there was a volcano on the outskirts of Austeria. Hugh thanked him and they went off to find the chancellor.
After waiting some time to see him, they stood before Walker asking how they might get to one of these volcanoes.
"You're sure you need lava?" asked Walker.
"No," said Hugh, "But I think it would work."
"It's not exactly easy to locate liquid magma," said Walker. "I'm no expert, but I am pretty sure lava doesn't just sit around on the surface."
Hugh nodded. "We might have to dig for it," he said.
"You can't just dig for lava," Walker said. "But… actually, there's an island where they conduct gladiatorial matches over lava sometimes. They have a system of channeling it from the volcano into an arena. That might be your best bet."
"How do we get there?" asked Hugh.
"It would just take a few weeks by boat," said Walker. "I don't think you should bother, though."
Hugh pinched his face a bit. "But the –"
"Don't worry about the Vulcan steel," Walker interrupted. "Yes, it would be nice if you could work with it, but it's not worth losing you for weeks, if not months. We need to finish the wall, and I think I may have another use for you shortly. After we've dealt with the Otros in the spring, we can worry about this little pet project."
"Is there a nearby volcano that we can at least check out?" asked Hugh.
Walker scratched his chin. "I guess the nearest would be in Austeria, which is actually rather fortuitous. I was saving it for later when I knew for certain, but I would really like to send you there on a diplomatic mission to enlist their help against the Otros. They're the only city in the region that fought the Otros to a draw. If we can get them on our side, we would be invincible, and at the very least you might be able to learn how to beat them."
"We know how to beat them," said the giant.
"Oh? How?" asked Walker.
"You need to train the soldiers to maintain a shield wall, and to equip them with long spears," she replied. "The weapons our troops are equipped with are hopelessly ineffective against their tactics."
Walker nodded. "This is obviously a discussion we should be having with Herbert, but I agree with you entirely. If I could snap my fingers and make it so, I would, but the reality is that we only have a few months to train and equip tens of thousands of men. The use of weapons and tactics which are entirely foreign to us would take much longer. Our best bet is to adapt as well as we can. We lost relatively few troops this time compared to earlier encounters, and I mostly credit the use of shields there."
"We need larger shields, and weapons that can engage the enemy from a greater distance," said the dwarf. "At least start training them in the use of spears. Axes and swords are not going to be enough to win this."
"It's not going to happen," said Walker, shaking his head. "Besides, the next time we face them will be totally different. There won't be any ground battle. Instead, most of our troops will be perched on our wall, firing upon them as they attempt to breech our defenses. Any hand to hand combat will be under vastly different circumstances, and our current weaponry will be very effective in the sort of close-quarters encounters we can expect from a siege."
"How do you expect to turn them back by sitting behind the wall?" asked the giant.
"With all due respect," said Walker, "What do you know of war? How many wars have you won? Before coming here, how many wars have you even fought in?"
The three of them stood there silently.
"I very much respect your opinion, but you speak on matters you know little about."
Hugh stopped looking at the floor and stared at Walker for a few seconds. "I was born into war. I grew up around war. I became an adult through war. This is hardly the first conflict I've been involved in. I still have a lot to learn, but there's one thing I know about war: you cannot win from inside of a wall. You can hide for months, even years, but as long as they have the will, they can keep coming back, time after time. You won't win until you defeat them so soundly that you break their will to fight."
Walker stood up to walk over to them. "Hugh, I know you're right. That's why I need the help of other cities in the region. I'm even sending diplomats to the king's court to secure royal cavalry for next spring's encounter. We will amass an army that will defeat them so severely that they never bother us again, but it will take time. We cannot just march at them and hope to win. It will take months of wearing them down, of depleting their resources, of inflicting heavy losses and hardships upon their army. Then, when they are at their weakest, we can strike with the might of all our allies backing us and crush them."
Walker led them out of his office and handed Hugh a large purse full of coins. "There is a volcano to the west of here. It looks like little more than a mountain now, but it blew its top centuries ago, spilling burning ash upon a nearby town. If you follow the river upstream for a few hours, you will see it to the south, a mountain with no peak. You can reach it in just a day. If you want, I can arrange to have a mule prepared for you to carry everything you'd need to work there."
"I would appreciate that," said Hugh, "Assuming you still want those weapons made."
"I do, I really do," said Walker. "I wish you luck, because anything you make could go a long way in convincing our allies to fight for us. Just promise me you'll hurry back."
Hugh spent the rest of the day packing his tools and preparing for the trip. The next morning, a mule was waiting at Walker's estate. They loaded it up and Hugh left with the twins for the volcano. It was a simple, uneventful journey, and they saw the volcano rather early in the day. They turned towards it, away from the river, and reached the summit by nightfall.
They made camp, ate some salted pork, then slept under the stars.
In the morning, the three of them made slow progress up the slope. Eventually it became so arduous that the giant and dwarf decided to stay with the mule while Hugh made the final length of the climb with just the bare minimum of tools and the slab, all tied in a knapsack to his back. When he reached the summit, he was disappointed to see no lava, not even smoke. The volcano was completely inactive, the crater in the center green with vegetation. Hugh sighed, feeling like the trip had been for nothing.
Hugh set down his pack and lay in the grass for a bit, relaxing, watching clouds pass. His muscles ached from the climb and he decided to rest a bit before going back down. Just as he felt he might be dozing off into a nap, he heard a strange sound, like the whistle of a sharp wind through trees, though there were no trees nearby.
"Hello, Hugh."
Hugh sat up quickly, looking around. He saw no one and thought he was hearing things.
"Do not be afraid."
He was sure he heard that, as clear as anything. He stood up and looked around in all directions.
"Come on, guys, quit messing with me," said Hugh. He walked to the slope and spotted the twins so far down the side of the volcano that they were barely visible. Hugh checked behind some large rocks, finding no one.
"Who are you?" Hugh called out.
"We are the ones who watch." This voice was different, more gruff.
"Are you also the ones who speak and are unseen?" asked Hugh.
"Would you like to see us?"
The voice was also different, clearly female.
"I generally like to see who it is I am talking to," Hugh said.
"Very well," said the female voice.
There was a series of light flashes and Hugh rubbed his eyes. He saw spots for a bit, as if he had just been staring into the sun. Two men and a woman walked up to him. They wore simple white outfits of a style Hugh had never seen. They stood before him as he regained his senses.
To be continued…


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If Facebook users get annoyed with each minor change, including this week's minor News Feed update, the features introduced today by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 event should cause a major uproar.
Sharing everything
The "Like" button has allowed Facebook users to pick things to share with friends. Now, with a user's permission, Facebook' and its partners will use the Open Graph system to automatically share every song, movie, TV show, story and game that a user experiences.
Since all these updates would overhelm Facebook's News Feed system, the new Ticker column on the right side of the screen will carry all these updates.
In a demo, Zuckerburg showed how the Ticker updated automatically to show what his friends' were listening to on Spotify music service. With a click of the mouse on one of the updates, Spotify launched and the audience was able to hear the song as well.
And the friend updates are not limited to Facebook. When you are reading Yahoo News and other partners, the news sites will show the stories that your Facebook friends have read.
If Facebook's algorithm finds an interesting pattern among your friends, such as four friends all watched the same episode of "Glee" on Hulu, it will make mention of it on the regular News Feed.
Reports will be generated to summarize your habits, such as what shows you watched, food you made, etc. These can be viewed by friends to see what you like. There also will be annual reports on what you did in a year.
Rather than focus on just the most recent updates, the new Facebook Timeline virtual scrapbook feature allows users to highlight all moments of their lives from past years. Beside past Facebook updates, users can also add photos to fill in past events.
When does it start
• Timeline: Beta period starts today for users to sign up and changes will be rolled out in the coming weeks.
• Open Graph sharing: Music, movies and TV are launching "now," Zuckerberg says.
Snap judgment
While in theory I would like to see what my friends are reading or watching, I don't want to share that I read that tabloid Yahoo News story about the actress who accidentally exposed herself or that I watched the TV show on Hulu about people who dress like animals.
In the past, Facebook has made users opt out of many of its new features that put users' privacy at risk. Hopefully with these new changes, Facebook will make it clear what information users will be sharing with the new Open Graph system.
Like every Facebook update, there is sure to be an outcry by users. While I enjoy Google Plus and Twitter, it is doubtful that Facebook will see a mass exodus of its 800 million users. It's one thing for you to change social media platforms, it's another to move everyone you know.
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text: Wickedly Imperfect By Ad Published on January 01, 2005. Court Crandall recently added another title to his multifaceted CV. The Ground Zero ECD, who's also made a name for himself in film, most notably as one of the writers on the midlife cult classic Old School, found himself playing another role this past fall-that of house husband. It turns out that Crandall's wife, Denise, a former ACD/AD at BBDO/L.A. (seen with him here), nabbed one of the 12 spots on CBS' new reality series Wickedly Perfect, which debuted this month. Airing Thursdays at 8p.m., the show pits 12 Martha Stewart wannabes against each other in the Greenwich, Conn., home where the original Stepford Wives film was shot. The missus, whom Crandall says "interior-decorated our whole house and has a flair for that kind of stuff"-adding, perhaps most significantly, "she's a big personality with no gatekeeper"-made a spectacular appearance in the teasers, cutting flowers and snarkily commenting to a fellow housemate, "Oh, stop being a pansy!" In the first episode, she won best individual effort for a candied apple party favor she crafted, and drove home with a spankin' new GMC pickup truck. While his wife styled her heart out back east for five weeks, Crandall was "agency owner by day, Mr. Mom by dinner and screenwriter by night." Too bad he wasn't as adept at the homemaking role as he is with the others. "Kids' homework these days is appalling," he notes. "You'd think my third grader was in college." As for the family's abode, "It became a fraternity again. There were definitely some loosened restrictions, so I think Denise found re-entry kind of hard, with the kids eating at places they didn't used to, and stuff left around because I'm not quite as, what's the word I'm looking for-'OCD' about that stuff as she is." Most Popular In this article: The Buzz


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A Case for U.S.-Iran Diplomacy
by SEMIRA N. NIKOU
05 Jul 2011 21:35Comments
Along with five former European ambassadors to Iran, you wrote an open letter in June 2011 encouraging the United States and the European Union to engage Iran on its controversial nuclear program. Given the failure of diplomacy since 2003, what are the prospects of engagement -- realistically?
Let me turn it around -- what are the prospects of non-engagement? The strategies pursued until now are definitely not producing results. At the same time, centrifuges, doubts and tensions increase. The idea that prompted us former ambassadors to suggest a different approach was to see whether this stalemate can be overcome, and how.
We should have two priorities in addressing the nuclear issue. One is to prevent conflict -- preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons, which by itself is a threat to international security, and preventing conflict that might arise around proliferation issues. Second is to follow a policy that does not diminish, but increases, chances for a democratic Iran.
On both counts, what we, the West, have done until now has been counterproductive. If you ask me about the chance of engagement now, I would stay it is slim. In 2003 and 2004...the position of the Unites States and Europeans was that Iran have zero centrifuges. The idea was, since you, Tehran, were a suspicious fellow, you had no more rights. But in international law, especially on non-proliferation, you need rules that are applicable to all.
The assessment of the majority of experts -- both technical and political -- is that what Iran wants is threshold capacity -- to arrive at a stage where it can produce a nuclear weapon if it wants to. The same situation Japan is in, for instance.
We should prevent Iran's development of nuclear weapons -- and make its attainment of threshold capacity more difficult -- by applying strategies that are realistic. There are several elements. One is to shift from the impossible goal of eliminating Iranian capability and instead increase control over Iran's nuclear program. The shift would be from prohibition to enhanced controls.
For instance, Iran had adopted the Additional Protocol from 2003-05. It did not ratify but still applied the protocols. The difference between the present system and the Additional Protocol is that now inspectors still inspect Natanz regularly, but they cannot go to undeclared sites. And of course, the real guarantee is when they can go to undeclared sites. But the Additional Protocol is not universally ratified -- meaning, not all signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty have ratified it. So the Additional Protocol has to be a part of the negotiations. It cannot be imposed as a rule because it is not a universal rule.
The nuclear issue has been singled out as being the only one of concern for us. There are many more -- regional problems, Iranian policy in the Middle East and Afghanistan, etc. If you do not contextualize the nuclear issue...it will always be looked at as a zero-sum game.
Good diplomacy is when you give and take on a wider front... After all, I am not talking about a "grand bargain" -- for which there are no conditions right now, especially given the recent regime and internal political situation -- but at least an attempt to begin talking about the wide range of issues.
In 2003, there was a letter sent...to the United States. Not only did the United States not reply, but it reproached the Swiss ambassador for having transmitted the proposal. It was a very basic, generic proposal...but somebody should have answered, asking the Iranians to be more explicit. At that time, the idea was different -- that there was an unstoppable wave of democracy after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
What tangible steps can the United States and Europe take toward negotiations with Iran?
We have a prerequisite -- which is unfortunately in the Security Council resolution -- that enrichment should stop before negotiation [begins]. This is a bad idea because the result of a negotiation is required as a prerequisite to negotiations. It is very difficult to know how to get out of this. I am afraid we have painted ourselves into a corner.
How has Iran's political crisis affected the regime's interest or position in negotiations on nuclear issues?
There is a common interest in not damaging the system -- because in that case all in the regime would go under. But things could get out of control because President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reckless.
The political confrontation between the supreme leader and the president is...not on whether the nuclear program should be maintained, but on how. The impression is that the Ahmadinejad-Mashaei gang would be more innovative. The supreme leader is more of the status quo. We do not know what exactly others want, but they are probably more willing to change. Having said that, there is no way that Ahmadinejad can prevail over the supreme leader, so this is all very theoretical.
The nuclear negotiations have changed several times...So the West should prove to be more imaginative -- to test, provoke, and challenge. We should not let the status quo just lie there because it is festering; it can go wrong -- also by mistake. I am afraid if we do not do something to address those issues, starting with the nuclear but not only the nuclear, conflict could arise out of carelessness, mistake. Just accidents.
Since 2009, the Obama administration has gradually shifted from a policy of engagement to heightened pressure through sanctions on human rights and nuclear issues. How do sanctions affect the chances of future negotiations between the two countries?
The first problem is a sort of disconnect between the political dynamics in the two countries. I have no doubt that if Obama had been president at the same time as Khatami, something would have happened.
You do not have to overestimate your adversary. George F. Kennan had it right: You prevent your adversary -- in his case the Soviet Union -- from shifting the competition with you onto a military field. From then on, you just have to let everything else play -- your economy, open society, culture. The Soviet Union was not invaded, was not bombed, not isolated -- and it was the Soviet Union! You mean that Iran is more powerful than the Soviet Union?
So why see this Iran as a devilish, all-powerful system that you either destroy or it will destroy you. Iran is not capable of even a match with Israel. Everyone is talking about the possible nuclear weapons in the future of Iran when Israel already has them.
Do you distinguish between human rights sanctions and those against Iran's nuclear program?
Yes. The difference is not in the effect of sanctions but their political significance. They have a different tag and political impact...People who want democracy in Iran have welcomed sanctions against human rights violators.
As far as sanctions against the nuclear program, Iranians -- even democratic Iranians -- are not so unified in approving them because of nationalism and because they think it is legitimate for the country to develop a nuclear energy program under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The idea of saying that since we [the West] do not trust you [Iran] the normal rules do not apply, is hard to sell -- not only to the regime but also to the people.
This article is presented by Tehran Bureau, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as part of the Iran project at iranprimer.usip.org.


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Ascott has strengthened its leadership position as the largest serviced residence operator in south-east Asia with the clinching of seven new management contracts, adding over 1,500 apartment units to its portfolio.
It has expanded in Bangkok in Thailand, Hanoi in Vietnam, and Petaling Jaya in Malaysia while venturing into Bandung in Indonesia, Penang and Shah Alam in Malaysia, and Nha Trang in Vietnam as demand for serviced residences heats up.
It also celebrated the opening of Somerset Medini Nusajaya, Ascott's second serviced residence in Iskandar Malaysia.
Citing the group's reasons to get into the various areas, Lee Chee Koon stated their intention to not only target business but leisure travellers.
Bandung is the third most-visited city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Bali, attracting business, meetings and incentives as well as leisure travellers.
Also, Penang and Shah Alam are both home to industrial parks housing multinational companies and popular with domestic and international tourists.
The coastal city of Nha Trang is one of Vietnam's key tourist destinations and an emerging economic hub of South Central Vietnam.
The new Somerset Ekamai Bangkok and Citadines Bayfront Nha Trang are slated to open at the end of 2016 while Somerset West Point Hanoi will open in 2017.
Citadines Kings Bandung, Citadines Ara Damansara Petaling Jaya, Citadines Batu Maung Penang and Citadines Montfort Shah Alam will open progressively from 2019.


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The Aftermath
- Director: James Kent
- Actors: Alexander Skarsgard, Keira Knightley
- Genre: Drama, Romance, War
- Details: UK / US / TBC mins / Cert TBC
- Release Date: 1st March 2019
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text: We got all new hardwood floors in our house. Actually, they were always there. We bought this house after a family was raised in it and the owners wanted to downsize. It had wall-to-wall carpeting in every room except the kitchen and bathrooms. We were pulling up some carpeting as part of the home inspection before we bought it and discovered oak plank flooring underneath. The subflooring was never finished. It had a couple of stains in spots where things were spilled on the carpet. It looked great sanded and finished. Now we are looking for rugs for sale. I know, it sounds funny to pull up all the carpeting and then get rugs. Continue reading Using Rugs with Hardwood Flooring


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If you want to collect money or sell items on the street for charity, you might need a street collection licence, depending on your local council.
It's not just 'streets' that are covered - you'll need a licence if you collect money in public areas, eg a shop doorway or car park.
You don't need a street collection licence if you're selling or collecting as part of a business.
How to apply
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You only have to rhyme "jolly" with "holly" to sense the Scrooge within slinking off in merry terror. The shiny, deep green of its leaves and the clustering beads of its red berries distinguish holly, even more than the ubiquitous poinsettia, as the ultimate Christmas plant. This slow-growing tree can hardly be brought indoors attached to its roots, though. We deck the halls with sprigs.
It strikes me as strange that the decorational aspects of Christmas are so prickly. Mistletoe is tender enough to the touch, I suppose. But the archetypal spruce tree, as you festoon it with glassy bubbles and kitschy tinsel and attach the recalcitrant lights, repays you in a distinctly hedgehoggy manner. And holly - the common types - are, to put it mildly, scratchy.
It was my job as a child to do the Christmas decorations around the house. I had no objection. But holly was undoubtedly the trickiest part. For a start, there always seemed to be a strange absence in the vicinity, not of holly trees and bushes, but of ones with the slightest hint of a berry on them. I always assumed that the birds had beaten me to it. Maybe. But I didn't realize, then, that hollies can be male or female, and that only the females have berries. And that they only have berries if there are males in the area. I suspect something was out of balance in our neck of the woods.
Either that, or the winters were mild. There is a superstition that if hollies have plenty of berries, it is going to be a hard winter. (This is nonsense: They have many berries when the previous spring was excellent.) Anyway, I recall some roaring winters. I remember one when we sledded a lot. We once did so in a sloping field at the foot of which burgeoned some holly bushes. Like Pooh descending into the gorse bush, I lost my steering and charged discomfortingly into the holly. I do not recommend this.
Where I live today, in Scotland, almost every garden has one holly or more, and every year I am amazed how many berries they produce. This year they are heavy with them. Admittedly, even here it is not wise to leave the snipping of twigs until too close to Christmas. The ones with berries have a knack of vanishing.
At one time you could buy manufactured berries and twist them onto holly branches to fool your visitors. On the whole, I preferred the leaves in their natural state. The berries are, in fact, a temporary bonus on a tree whose form and foliage are quite beautiful in their own tough way all year round. John Evelyn, a 17th-century arboriculturalist and writer, marvelously described his holly hedge as "glittering with its armed and varnished leaves." This captures something of holly's peculiar appeal, its sturdy character. Without it in the landscape, something strong and hard-wearing would be missing.
But at Christmas, the real trickiness was the placing of the pieces of holly. The traditional position was over the top of picture frames. Unless you have tried to do this, you will have no idea how uncooperative both holly and picture frames can be. They conspire. You think you have a branch firmly lodged, you turn your back, and it leaps out with spring-loaded efficiency. If there are any berries, two or three fall off each time this acrobatic feat is performed. No form of sticky tape known to man can secure a determined holly twig.
I ALSO rather think that any picture with self-respect feels it a terrible indignity to have an itchy bit of old tree crowning its brow. Those pieces of holly that did stay put sulked and dried up in no time, rarely lasting until the statutory Twelfth Night when all Christmas decorations have to be taken down, though why I do not have the foggiest notion.
In some parts of Britain, holly used to be known as the Christmas Tree. It certainly looks wonderful, dark and stoical, supporting the weight of snow, or brittle with hard frost, yet reassuringly enduring. The ancient carol claims that "the holly and the ivy, when they are both full grown...." Well, there's an odd twist in the words, isn't there? The poor old ivy (it isn't a "tree" anyway) is suddenly upstaged by the holly, which is firmly announced as the king: "the holly bears the crown." Apart from its potential as a symbol for the crown of thorns, holly is hardly a dominant species. It usually makes little more than a medium-sized tree, and its place is often unassumingly in the shadow of far larger trees with much higher canopies.
The fact is, hollies tend to be overlooked except at Christmas. Perhaps that is why they "arm" themselves so effectively against interfering fingers. Just as a little poignant reminder that they should not be ignored.
800-Plus Ways to Say 'Holly'
SO you thought holly was just holly? Think again. The blurb on Fred Galle's thorough-going book "Hollies" (Timber Press, $59.95) says there are more than 800 species of holly. He describes a great many of them. Some are not what most people expect a holly to be at all. Thirty species drop their leaves seasonally. Some have yellow berries, others white or black. Orange berries vie with the conventional bright red ones.
Even the prickliness of the leaves varies considerably. Some are quite gentle to the touch. The book is furnished with a wodge of good color plates, and many gardeners will probably not need to look further. Garden cultivars abound, offering compact and tiny-leafed hollies for the rock garden as well as larger types, and variegated leaves.
Landscaping with hollies is a major chapter. Mr. Galle gives sound advice on siting different kinds. Holly clips well into hedges or topiary, but allowed to grow freely in the right place, it slowly builds into a fine garden-scale tree. One chapter - by a founding member of the Holly Society of America - looks at holly folklore and legend. A large section is devoted to holly orcharding. Commercial growing of holly in Oregon, for example, dates back to 1927. More than 1,500 acres of holly are grown in the Pacific Northwest.


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FITCHBURG -- The Fitchburg State University women's basketball team has come a long way in just a year, but with a predominantly young roster it is going to take some time to reach the top of the MASCAC.
Westfield State is still the team to beat in the conference, and it showed on Saturday afternoon, as the Owls' defensive pressure caused mayhem and resulted in easy buckets going the other way in a convincing 108-55 victory over the Falcons at the Recreation Center.
The Owls improve to 13-6 (7-0 MASCAC) with the victory, boasting a tough non-conference schedule that includes a trip up next to perennial power Williams College.
The conference slate continues to be a struggle for the Falcons, who drop to 1-6 in MASCAC play and 8-10 overall.
"A lot of it tonight was just us, we need to get better on our passing," Fitchburg State head coach Dan Nagle said. "It was a little off-target here, and a little off-target there. Westfield is so quick to the ball that if it is a little off-target they are there to scoop it up and go the other way. I thought we had a decent enough plan, but it comes down to executing."
Full-court pressure, continuous trapping, and aggressive zone defense when the Falcons were able to cross half-court disrupted much of what Fitchburg State tried to accomplish.
Fitchburg State committed 18 turnovers in each half, finishing with 36 total. Most of the hosts' shots were heavily contested, as FSU shot 18 of 59 for just 30.5 percent from the floor.
Westfield's strategy worked to perfection, with the Owls taking 30 more shots than their opponents, shooting 39 of 89 -- a nearly 44 percent clip.
To keep the pace going the Owls conducted mass substitutions, sometimes as many as five players at a time, fatiguing the Falcon starters with relentless intensity and speed. With the hockey-like rotation, every single player on Westfield's team scored, and the team eclipsed the century mark in points for the second time this season against Fitchburg State.
"One of our goals is to out-shoot the other team by 20 to 30 shots if we can," Westfield State head coach Andrea Bertini said. "We try to shoot quickly (and) press off made or missed baskets to try and create a tempo where other teams will struggle."
Lucy Barrett scored 17 points, Kirsy Segarra came off the bench to score 15, and Jill Valley netted 14 points as the Owls' leading scorers. Townsend native and Westford Academy graduate McKenna Doremus registered two points, one assist and one steal for Westfield.
Fitchburg State had two players in double-digits, as star freshman Kyra Rose came close to her season average in the defeat, netting 17 points and posting 10 rebounds. Shabelli Villa added 12 points.
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On the next trip down, Rose got to the free throw line and knocked both down. The Falcons then made it three straight scores, as Villa sank a triple from up top, making it 8-3 with 7:10 left in the first quarter.
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I like the look of the bottle. A lot different than what you would normally see out there from some of the top companies. A big mad dog...just like what the product is supposed to do to you right?
We don't know too much right now, but we will be one of the first retailers to have this new pre-workout supplement. We should have the full ingredient list within the next week or so, and if the bottle tells us anything, it should be a pretty powerful pre-workout formula. For now, we can just look at the picture of the Mad Dog product. Looking at the front of the label, it's for:
We now have the ingredients list for Mad Dog!
Per Serving:
Agmatine Sulfate: 1500mg
Potassium Nitrate: 400mg
Glucoronolactone: 350mg
Phenethylamine: 250mg
Hordenine: 200mg
What am I most excited about? The flavor! We heard from the owners that the first flavor is lemon lime. Not the most exciting flavor, but I guess you have to start somewhere! Looks like they will be having tropical punch coming soon!
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Soon before her 77th birthday, Marian Seldes will return to the stage for her 50th or 60th opening night in New York City in Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams.
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Actress speaks on living the best part of life
By Jerry Tallmer
On Thursday evening, August 18, five days before her 77th birthday, Marian Seldes will make her characters entrance down an aisle of a theater on East 59th Street, saying to the actor who portrays her driver, morphine supplier, and aide, Gently, gently. Youre a sadist, Edward.
Whether the name Edward is a tribute or not to a certain Edward Albee is something only Terrence McNally knows.
The drama before us is McNallys latest, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, now in previews at the playhouse called 59E59. It will be by rough count the birthday girls 50th or 60th on-stage opening night in this city alone, along with God knows how many outside this city, or on television, or in films. Remember, this is the actress who for four years, from 1978 until late 1982, appeared in Deathtrap on Broadway without missing one single performance; who between 1974 and 1982 appeared in 179 episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
A few weeks before that 77th birthday, Marian Seldes, in the living room of her apartment overlooking Central Park, said, I was told by many people when I was very youngby friends of my parents, for instancethat the last part of my life would be the most interesting. I think they told me that because, though I had an incredible childhood, I was so grown up even then.
The comment never bothered me, and it turned out to be true. It is the best part of my life, said the tall, willowy five-time Tony nominee, multiple Obie Award nominee, winner of one Tony, of a couple of Obies, a Drama Desk Award, all sorts of other encomiums, and about as gracious, generous, forward-looking, joyously dedicated an individual as ever worked in her profession.
I know in films it gets difficult as people get older, but in my good fortune, it gets better. Professionally, everything. And certainly thats true in the part I have nowas Annabelle Willarda lonely, wealthy, irascible woman whos dying, and who has something, a wonderful old theater, that two other people [Nathan Lane and Alison Fraser] want.
The parents of Marian Seldes loving childhood were Gilbert Seldes, journalist, critic, author of The Seven Lively Arts, a seminal 1924 book that raised comic strips, jazz, movies, broadcasting, and more onto the map of culture, and Alice Hall Seldes of the Episcopalian blue-blooded Halls.
They met at [poet] John Peale Bishops wedding. My mother had gone to school at Brearley with Margaret, the girl he married. When my parents in turn got married, my grandmother was surpriseddelicate Marian Seldes locutionbecause my father was Jewish. Then of course he became her favorite member of the whole family.
Something that haunts me, she said, is that my father was 77 when he died, in 1969, and now Im 76. My mother died at 55. You pass these milestones. So shocking to think of lives cut short. Whereas my Uncle Georgeirreconcilably ultra-radical writer/publisher George Seldeslived to be 105. But he took better care of himself than my father did.
What were your fathers sins?
Oh, smoking, drinking, not exercisingall the things people now insist you do or not do. My father exercised his brain, she said. With her sweet, grave smile: I do floor exercises, because I have a bad back. But the theater is what makes me stay well or should I say, makes me stay in condition.
(The writer of this article worries that this is starting to sound like a wide-eyed magazine puff piece. On the other hand, the writer has known and cherished Marian Seldes for upwards of 40 years now; knew her father before her, and liked him a lot; had a speaking and interviewing relationship with her late husband Garson Kanin, as well as with the Ruth Gordon who preceded Marian as Mrs. Garson Kanin and was one of Marians lifelong heroines. This apartment in which we are sitting and talking was in fact Garson and Ruths before it was Garson and Marians.)
The apartment in which I grew up was at 125 East 57th Street. Forty years I lived there. One Christmas in the late 60s or early 70s they tore the building down and put up a hideousness in its place. Look, Seldes said, crossing the room and bringing back, in one hand, an ordinary red brick. My daughter gave me this, salvaged from our old building.
Well, because my father was a theater critic, he took my brother and me to plays all the time. And one of them was The Three Sisters.
That was the 1942 production of the Chekhov masterpiece produced by and starring Katharine Cornell (as Masha) and directed by Cornells husband Guthrie McClintic.
I thought she was wonderful, and when I graduated from the Dalton School I did not want to go to college but to be in theater, be an actress. Two people recommended me. The first one was Robert Edmond Jonesthe great producer, director, writer, set and lighting designerwho was a friend of my parents, and whose book The Dramatic Imagination is still the best there is. And the other was Guthrie McClintic, because my father had written a profile of Katharine Cornell for The New Yorker.
She put the brick back in place.
Being a grandmother is also sheer bliss. My grandchildren are 14, 16, and 19all boys. Another wonderful thing abut being older is that it gives you distance. It makes you appreciate your parents more. My daughter picked up a picture, here, last night, and just looked at it, for a very long time. It shows me and my mother on the Atlantic City boardwalk. She brought the photo overtwo lovely femalesfor me to look at.
At just that instant, the phone rang. She went to answer it, listened, spoke, laughed, hung up, came back and said: That was John Guare. I told him you were interviewing me. He said: Tell him that playwrights are throwing themselves at your feet.
Marians first bit part in theater was as Attendant to Medea in the 1947 Robert Whitehead production of the Euripedes tragedy starring Judith Anderson, Florence Reed and John Gielgud, who also directed. There followed a small part in the 1949 road and Broadway McClintic-Cornell production of That Lady, a Kate OBrien saga about Phillip of Spain and his lady.
In 1964 director Gielgud put her into his production of Edward Albees cryptic Tiny Alice, and in 1966 she won her Tony for her performance in Alan Schneiders staging of Albees far less cryptic A Delicate Balance. Twenty-eight years later she wouldin my 60sgive one of her most compelling, most brilliant performances as the middle figure, the one merely called B, of Albees play about his mother, Three Tall Women, at the Promenade Theater, Broadway and 76th Street. Six years after that she would turn delicious, if menacing comedienne opposite Brian Murray in Albees The Play About the Baby at the Century Center down on East 15th Street. Shes since been in a Beckett/Albee double-bill called Counting the Ways, and recently did a reading with Albee of Occupant, his play about flamboyant sculptress Louise Nevelson.
Edward and I are born the same year, you know1928.
Way back in the Guthrie McClintic production of The Three Sisters that Gilbert Seldes took daughter Marian and son Timothy Seldes to in 1942, the role of Natalya Ivanova, the tough, grasping young sister-in-law, was played by a Ruth Gordon, then in her mid-40s. Fourteen-year-old Marian Seldes would never forget that performance.
The greatest Ive ever seen, and Walter Kerr said the same thing many years later.
Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanins partner both as wife and playwright over the decades, died on Marthas Vineyard in 1985.
And Garson came back to New York after doing all the things you have to do, and we spoke, and I went over to have dinner with him, and I never went home. When I came to stay with him I was 56. I was shattered by her death. Id heard them talk about wills and things, you know, but
They were married 40 years. No, I was never in anything with her. I wish I had been. Garson? Id known Garson my whole life. Theres a book of his Ive always loved, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young. Its interesting, too, about ageRuth was 16 years older than he was. I was 16 years younger than he was.
Marian, have you ever been out of work? You seem to have been in one show or another every day of your life.
She smiled, dug out a piece of paper on which shed made some notes, then said: This I the longest time ever, between doing this McNally play at the Williamstown Theater Festival last summer, and doing it now. But you know, I jotted down some of the things that have happened in a year.
One of the final statements of Anabelle Willard, the fierce old lady played by Marian Seldes in Terrence McNallys Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, is as follows: It all comes home to roost, nest-ce pas? I never liked people who said nest-ce pas. I thought it was affected, and now I say it all the time. God, what a terrible journey this is.
Dont you believe it.
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Thanks for this.
Most MSers now know that MS is an industry - huge amounts of jobs and revenues in the drugs industry and huge amounts of MS researchers in hundreds of teams around the world.
The ACTRIMS / ECTRIMS 2014 website says that there will be 7000 attendees from 90 countries. The 7000 attendees are mostly doctors and researchers specialising in MS. You have to ask what they do all year (MS research has been funded for over 60 years). No one knows the cause of the disease, there are no treatments to stop progression, and no treatments to repair the damage. No doubt there will be lots of research presented on the worthless EAE model and some head to head comparison of copaxone v interferon.
I wouldn't be too scared about Professors in this sector. I come from a different academic background where the Professors knew amst everythign about the subject. Professors in MS know very little about the disease.
Enjoy your time in Boston. As a young doctor you'll have another 25 years of MS conferences around the world (never in Rotherham or Botlon). They are great for air miles and tasting the local food. May be there will be some breakthroughs announced this year - I live in hope.Replies
The neuros may not be specialist MS neuros so they come to these meeting to update their knowledge. All doctors are expected to continue with their medical education. This is what the meeting is about. Some of them are not research active.Delete
As to lots of EAE, I would say not much. However before you go on much more about worthless animal studies and the same breath make the comments about no repair, no treatments for progression...remember without animal experiments in the mix it will not be "no" it will be "never" Their are now plenty of animal studies on repair.
In addition it is a marketing/information event. We look forward to see the stands.
It is interesting their will be the "my stand is bigger than your stand" and so it is interesting that a big sponsor has a smaller size stand than a smaller sponsor at least on the floor plan.
Will heads roll?
MS drugs are getting more diverse as witnessed by more players appearing in the marketing/information stands. These are of various sizes, the me-toos waiting in the wings or the new aires apparent.
As to breakthoughs, it is relative to your perspective....more choice is on the way for RRMSers for progressive MSers it will not be a good enough year because there is no treatment imminent...maybe net year. Gilenya will either be the first new treatment or will be a none-starter.
Not everyone agrees on the cause...unfair to say no one knows they very well may.
Will ECTRIMS be there in 25 years probably but it may not be in the same format, some companies may have lost interest in MS if they are not making money, others will be on the scene and if MS is not a "cash cow" the sponsors will be off like a shot...Go to a Science/ non-clinical meeting and you see how the other half lives.
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I note what you say, but you need to put on the hat of an MSer. This is one of many conference - there is also the AAN meeting, European Charcot Foudntion, LACTRIMS, PACTRIMS..... I would guess that Prof G will rake up 150,000 miles of travel this year. He's been to Oz, South America, Denmark, Boston... and these are the ones he has mentioned o this blodg (there will be many more). 7000 attendees are going to Boston. Let's say their average travel, hotels, food costs are £1000 each for the conference. That's £7 million in an age of austerity. This is at a time when MSers are worried about cuts to their disability allowance. Your picture of a gravy train pretty much summed it up. As ever you are left in Blighty to clean out the mice and taek prof G's lab coat to the dry cleaners. I'm not sure if it's because you take a stand on a matter of principal or because there's a Deff Leppard concert at the O2. But I respect you. I'm sure the landlord of the nearest pub to the London Hospital is rubbing his hands with glee. When the cat's away the mice will play. Try to limit yourself to six pints at lunchtime as Prof G's post won't get opened.
I hate to disappoint you but MD is also in Boston hoovering up the lavish hospitality whilst poor me is left holding the fort!Delete
Prof M has disappointed me. I suppose Prof G needed someone to carry his Gucci suitcase. Your time will come MD2. Can you resist the gala dinner, neuro bowl, free ipads? Make sure you keep Prof M's mice well fed. At least they get a five day break from the sound of their sisters and brothers being dissected by Mouse Doctor.Delete
Prof G's luggage consists entirely of the hides of endangered species (researchers!!!!) ;-)Delete
I attended one ECtrims a while back, I was so nauseous seeing the money wasted on the lavish pharma stands I was unable to eat the gala dinner. Didn't get a free iPad but did get a free abacus.
All the mice are given ear plugs prior to any procedure.
I have yet to get a ipad but went one to go on google glass but i couldnt be boother to do it. If you watch theinnternet you will see what im up to.Delete
ri am seeing double a pharma booth for the rest of the world and a usa one
Enjoyed the article and nice to read your fresh voice on the blog, Arie.ReplyDelete
Glad to see that the sense of humour is still alive and well and living in the ether!ReplyDelete
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Kirat Yakthug chumlung has initiated the concept of saving and credit program to develop economic condition of the rural people as a program among ten listed goals to maintain the life standard of the people in rural areas. Our fundamental measures are yet to be discussed and implemented. Kirat Yakthung Chumlung has commenced the saving and credit program since five days program of Kartik, 2055. Kirat Yakthum Chumlung saving and credit act 2055 has been implemented for the provision of door to door capital management for collective saving from their own income/resources in order to invest in income generating programs.
Awareness Raising program on Saving and Credit.
This program in the preliminary phase was initiated in different places of Taplejung, Panchthar, Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, Sunsary, Dhankutta, and Terhathum. The people saved some amount and invest too. It was reviewed in 2057. The meeting had agreed to continue the program due to their inspiration and success oriented activities witnessed during monitoring and supervision. The training program was organized again in 2057 in order to solve accounting problems appeared in saving and credit and gain additional knowledge, to solve the problems of groups and manage both monitoring and supervision and to increase their knowledge in its widespread scopes and legality. The program had constituted the following groups for saving and credit:
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16. Sekmuri Menchhya Saving Group Barbotte 3 Ilam
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Some of these groups have been changed into cooperative groups and others have been disappeared. The groups changed into cooperative are working well. Some saving groups are yet to develop to change them into cooperative. Such programs have to spread in other villages and districts.


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LONDON (AP) — New IOC President Thomas Bach has convened a summit of sports leaders to consider key issues facing the Olympics.
The meeting Sunday was called without public notice and held behind closed doors at International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams says Bach invited "all the key representatives to discuss key issues facing the Olympic movement."
A statement was scheduled to be released later Sunday.
The meeting underlines how quickly Bach is moving to consolidate his power since being elected as Jacques Rogge's successor on Sept. 10 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Among those attending were three IOC vice presidents and heads of key international sports federations and national Olympic committees. U.S. Olympic Committee head Larry Probst and Russian Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov were among the attendees.


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A striking figure of Insane Black Rock Shooter will be released in June 2013, crafted by the capable hands of Good Smile Company and with both navel and arsenal prominently displayed.
Insane BRS is available for pre-orders now.
Guess what just went on sale the other day!
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I love her flatchest design.
I am totaly gonna pre-order this one, even though I said I wouldn't order any. 😛
good thing the price isnt as ridiculous as its figma
I miss the sexy scars! Huke's original designs for BRS and IBRS had nasty scars on the abdomen. The TV animation removed them. 🙁
Excellent! I've been waiting for the release of this figure since seeing the non-colored prototype pics of it earlier this year. Looks just as badass when painted as I had imagined. Gotta get a pre-order on this soon. I've a feeling this'll sell out pretty quick.
Where did you see them?
Holy shit, I never considered buying a figure until I saw this one….
shut up and take my money. I'm so getting this.
This is truly impressive. I wish more people were into figures so we can share the love.
DAT ARSEnal
fuck you sankaku! just as i get over the last time i went figure shopping you pull out this, fuck you!
time to go sell a kidney
Get a part time job… I'm sure you'd make a measly $100 in no time.
Why waste time and effort, when you can just cut out a kidney and sell it? We have about two of those things don't we?
no thanks i like the one i have left.
true, but you can only sell a kidney once.
Possibly the coolest figure I have ever seen. If I actually knew what Black Rock Shooter was, I`d get it. Unfortunately I don`t like to buy figurines unless I`m familliar with the series that they`re are from. This is a video game or something right?
BRS has an anime, OVA, Game, but at the beginning it's just an illustration that made into a MV… Personally, I really love the concept and character design,, I have all BRS series figures (except iBRS figma),, even though i dont watch the anime bcs it sucks :p
Nope. Basically it is a Vocaloid music video, that got OVA and after that even an TV show treatment.
Nope. Not even close.
First, it was an original character by Huke (Steins;Gate character designs are also his work), with some blurry backstory. A long time before Hatsune Miku was around.
Then there was Ryo, a Vocaloid producer, who liked B*RS so much that he have written a song about her. And since all his songs were insanely popular, this was another hit.
Then, a young animation company Ordet made an OVA (it was their first 100% own project), and then one short season (8 episodes) of TV anime (both were good, especially TV). Between tnese two, there were a game, which were boring and ruined the original concept of B*RS, biggest fail.
Also, there are lots of manga, two more games, also, as I remember, she have a cameo in some nendoroid-based RPG for PSP.
Wow, shows how much I know! I never been into vocaloid and that Hatsune Miku stuff, but if there's an OVA I may check it out 'cause this character looks awesome.
everybody though that, the ova sucked balls
Huh? I thought it all started as an illustration by Huke?
*took money* Thanks.
MY WALLET!!! I don't care if i go into debt! I'm getting this! so fucking sexy!
You go into debt over $100? Lol, being poor.
Nah, it's just a girl and scrap metal strapped together, bad design.
Are you homo?
Girl+scrapmetal=cyborg. Cyborg=instant WIN. Also, she proves that woman can be beautiful with her breasts smaller than her head (moreover, she is as flat as a washboard, yet absolutely gorgeous.)
Considering that she is very slim and very leggy, being small-chested is hardly a detriment to her overall look.


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Interior Design Ideas You Have to Try
Besides moving in to your new place, the most exciting part of owning a property is interior decorating. Think of it as the finishing touch to finally calling the house a "home", as you can get to transform it just the way you want it.
Interior decorating constantly changes just as fashion does – there are hip and trendy designs, classic and so on. So for someone thinking that finishing the home is as easy as 1, 2 and 3, think again, as there are so many options, considerations and factors that go along decorating the home. Some of these are the type of home, the budget, the available space and the intended functionality.
Hiring for a professional designer can be quite expensive. In many cases, home owners just decide on doing the decorating themselves. But before getting on action, they have to first conduct some researches of their own to find out what the things they should and shouldn't do. Here are great interior decorating ideas for the clueless and beginners in home styling:
1. First tip is to get the right furniture. In hotels and villas furniture and appliances are the first things that people notice when they step in. Why? Because all the furniture happen to be stand-out pieces. This is what home owners should be applying to their homes as well. The structure may be plain and flat but that will no longer be the case when an accent piece is placed. Some examples of these are wooden divans, a classic and vintage cabinet, a pendulum, a chandelier, a wall mirror and the list goes on. The idea is to have a big or flashy furniture in the most boring area of the house, that it becomes the first thing seen upon entering the room. Add to that fact is that it's an effortless way to bring life to the house.
2. Sometimes the best home goods and accessories are not the ones bought but made. This is the best time to do some arts and craft that will prove to be very useful, and not a waste of time. Be resourceful. You may have broken glasses or ceramics from plates or mugs at home. Rather than throwing them all away, you can actually make a mosaic with them. Find a spot in the house, such as a bare wall, walkway or even a table that needs some jazzing up. The broken pieces need not be in the same color and shape because the beauty of it lies in the irregularity and difference of the pieces. The finished product of the mosaic can add an "artsy" area to a dull looking house.
3. Try to avoid patterns. When decorating the home, it can be a fabulous idea not to have everything with the same color, shape and style. For instance, make your living room chairs different. It doesn't have to be a whole set where all four seats look the same. In one corner, you can use a Victorian chair and then next to it, have a long bench or a different couch. This variety is refreshing and is indeed a feast for the eyes. The key though, to avoid ending up in a cluttered look, is to make this irregularity an "accent" rather than the whole feature of your house. That means while mismatch is fun, minimise this by doing it in only one or two parts in a room. Remember that the size and function of the room are still the major considerations.
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Buckles Raced Motorcycles in Czechoslovakia in 1982
Tom Buckles of Knightstown recently returned from the 57th International Six Days Enduro Contest held in Czechoslovakia, where he won a bronze medal in competition motorcycle racing.
Knightstown's varsity volleyball team finished its season with a 17-11 record after falling to New Castle in the championship game of the sectional. Seven KHS seniors saw their varsity careers come to an end with more than 50 wins over the last three years. Seniors playing their last volleyball game were Krista Schram, Julie Coon, Suzanne Foster, Susan Davidson, Kelly Phelps, Diane Zinkan and Kristen Willard.
Ten Knightstown seniors will be playing their last game this Friday night against Indianapolis Ritter. Seniors Brian Jones, Ron Hammer, Jim Mackey, Mark Haase, Rodney Cox, Rick Baughman, Scott Lukens, Darrin Hopping, Chris Waits and Mike White will take the field for the Panthers on senior night.
Knightstown's football team lost a heart-breaker to Centerville 12-7 last week. The Panthers fumbled the ball at the Centerville two-yard-line in the game's closing minutes. Then the Bulldogs shocked Knightstown by getting a 98-yard touchdown run the next play to provide the game-winning points. Knightstown had dominated the game, with Pat Spears, Bryan Peggs, Greg Hochstedler and Darrin Hopping all registering three tackles-for-loss apiece in the contest. Brian Jones had two interceptions and Hopping had another.
Knightstown's 7th grade football team lost to Rushville 20-6, dropping their record to 2-2-1 on the season. Gus Taylor scored the team's only touchdown on a 36-yard pass play from Mark Carroll.
Eastern Hancock clinched a playoff berth with a 45-20 victory over Tri High. Dennis Bricker and Jay Wisehart scored three touchdowns apiece for the Royals. The win was the first over Tri since 1972. Eastern had lost to the Titans in 1973, 1974 and 1975, with each loss costing the Royals the Big Blue River Conference title. Barry Welsh rushed for 144 yards and two touchdowns for the Titans.
A trick play flea flicker led to a 50-yard touchdown pass that propelled Knightstown's varsity football team to a 22-20 upset over Centerville last week. The Bulldogs, 7-1, didn't think they'd get much of a game from the 3-5 Panthers.
But Knightstown surprised them when Alex Gatmaitan recovered a fumble. On the ensuing play, quarterback Kirk Hochstedler handed off to Mark Heim, who then handed the ball to Duane Carroll. Carroll lateraled the ball back to Hochstedler, who threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Brett Posey that put the Panthers in front, 22-8.
Knightstown's 8th grade football team beat Shenandoah 22-14 last week. Jeff Stearns intercepted a pass and returned it 30 yards for a touchdown. Quarterback Randy Hall also scored two touchdowns of one and 15-yards, and Hall threw a two-point conversion pass to Stearns. Stearns gained 190 yards rushing, while Hall ran for 99 yards and passed for 46 more.
Trailing 13-6 at halftime, Knightstown's football team scored 32 unanswered points in the second half and thumped Hagerstown 38-13. Senior Richard Richey ran for 208 yards and scored four touchdowns. Junior halfback Mike Todd also scored two touchdowns and had 130 yards rushing for the Panthers.
Mays Tigers baseball team won the Rush County Tournament for the first time in 12 years. They defeated Arlington 8-2 in the championship. Don Simmerman was the winning pitcher. Jim Hall had a double and a triple, while Hugh Grandison and Tyrone Netherly both had two singles.
Carthage Principal Charles Morris was elected president of the East Central Conference at the fall meeting in Union City.
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Go England! Go England! I know we live in America, and are absolutely thrilled about living in Hermosa Beach, California but before, during and after the Olympics we are still English at heart! The girls decided they wanted to be patriotic and put on their matching England outfits for a stroll down to the beach.
Hermosa Beach is a hub of activity in the summer with international surf festivals, sidewalk sales and concerts on the beach throughout the month of August. It seems like everywhere we walked there was a sign of all the great events taking place, which we will of course partake in!
We stopped into the library on the way to the beach to return our library books. The girls participate in a summer reading program which encourages them to read 20 minutes a day. Then we headed down to Pier Ave (our main street) where the girls were happy to strut their England hoodies for the rest of the day!


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BUCKCHERRY To Release 'Confessions' Album, Short Movie In The Fall
California rockers BUCKCHERRY have set "Confessions" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in September. "It's gonna be a little bit different [than our previous albums]," BUCKCHERRY singer Josh Todd told Oklahoma's Z94 radio station in a new interview. "It's definitely a heavier, musically, record than we've ever had, and more melodic. It's pretty intense, but everybody's gonna love it — it's quintessential BUCKCHERRY at the end of the day. But we have all those peaks and valleys. That's what we want on all our records — dynamics — and I think people are gonna dig it."
He added, "At the end of the day, we're a rock and roll band, and we know that. And these are the type of records that we wanna listen to, so that's what we wanna create. We don't wanna make it hard for the listener to figure it all out; that's just a drag. I hate it when I get records that I'm just like, 'I don't get it. I don't understand what they're doing here.' We don't want that. We want it to be really easy to remember, but have substance and all of that, and it's tricky. That art of doing that is you have to write a lot of songs."
In addition to writing and recording the new album, BUCKCHERRY is also planning to shoot a short movie to go along with the new CD release. "[It's] really cool [and] that's something we're really looking forward to," Todd said. "We're still working on all the details of that, but the plan is, hopefully, to release it at small film festivals and do shows around those film festivals as well, and perform the record in its entirety. Because the record is really the soundtrack to the movie. I wrote the screenplay to the movie, and it's based around the seven sins and true events that happened in my life as well, when I was younger. So I think it's gonna be a real treat for people who love this band and people who are just discovering BUCKCHERRY for the first time."
He added, "You've gotta think outside of the box in this rapidly changing business that we're in — the music business — so we thought that this would be a really cool way to go for this record, because it's something that we'd never done and it was challenging. And because of it, I think we made the best record we've ever done together as a band, so we're excited."
When asked if he wrote the album and the screenplay for the "Confessions" movie at the same time, Todd said, "I kind of did it all together. I was writing the screenplay when we were writing songs. We always had the idea of incorporating the seven sins into the record, so that was a lot of fun for me as a lyricist and a writer, because I'm always good when I have a subject."
On the topic of whether he will also be starring in the "Confessions" film, Josh said, "We have a great lead character; I'm not gonna give it away. He's an unknown anyway, so nobody knows him. But he's gonna be great in this film. I'm gonna be in the film, but I won't be playing myself. All the members of BUCKCHERRY will be in the film somewhere."
He added, "We haven't actually shot the film. We're gonna shoot it in June. But we have a director. His name is Billy Jayne. He actually did a viral video with Shaquille O'Neal and Betty White that we did for Childhelp.org. That went really well and we just hit it off and I knew he was the right guy for this project. We started banging the script into shape. He's already got all the locations. Now we've just gotta shoot it."
A new BUCKCHERRY song, "Wherever I Go", can be streamed using the ReverbNation player below. The track will appear on the upcoming soundtrack to this year's highly anticipated movie, "Marvel's The Avengers". "Wherever I Go" is included on "Avengers Assemble", a 14-track compilation of music from and inspired by the film. "Avengers Assemble" will be released on May 1.
Commented Todd: "We're gonna be [playing] 'Wherever I Go' on this next run [of shows], so that will be cool for everybody; we'll at least get to play one new song because we can't play the record material yet until it gets closer [to the release date]."
When asked how BUCKCHERRY's involvement with the "Marvel's The Avengers" film came about, Todd said, "They talked to us about doing a song, and we were super-excited because we are fans. I think [the movie] is gonna be a big hit. And then I just put myself in the third person. When I sat down and I had the music [to write the lyrics to], I was like, 'OK, if I had super powers, what would life be like?' It would be kind of hard coping in society knowing that you had all these powers that you could use at any point in time that you kind of blend in. So that's what the song is about. It's pretty cool. And we were just happy that when we turned the song in, they really liked it, and we knew that we accomplished our goal."


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I've started writing and recording music on keyboards bought for my toddler. Here are some of the results: https://soundcloud.com/isleofsodor
I've started writing and recording music on keyboards bought for my toddler. Here are some of the results: https://soundcloud.com/isleofsodor
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New material on the soundcloud, including a song adressed to Bill Cosby called "Bill, Just Admit It": https://soundcloud.com/isleofsodor
Bandcamp: https://sodor.bandcamp.com/releases
Also I am looking for artists to cover/remix my songs for a mixtape.
Yes I am actually doing this. Yes I know my music sounds terrible, but I believe in the songs.
NoiseAlter did an alt.rock cover of one of my songs: https://soundcloud.com/noisealter/ch...ng-sodor-cover
New song! Written and recorded after breakfast: https://soundcloud.com/isleofsodor/colder-machinations
debut album out now: https://sodor.bandcamp.com/releases
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"Acceptable Failure" awesomely remixed by the awesome @wizfan
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Shitizens. Your voice sucks on all the songs but they're still catchy.
New song: https://soundcloud.com/isleofsodor/switching
It's 18 seconds long. Maybe I should do a whole album of really really short songs.
Two new songs:
a neofolk parody:
and a Linkin Park cover I did in 2014:
Now that you mention it, I can hear it.
To me the song has something of a Guns'N'Roses vibe.
I actually like the jam you got going in I aint got time.
New song. Like "Don't Care," it has something of a NIN/Sister Machine Gun vibe.
New Sodor track: it's called "Gloomy Song / All Wrong"
Hahahaha these are a hoot, man.
Thanks, it's much appreciated.
New song:
also, I'm always looking for collaborators
the song remixed by @wizfan came out great
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New song!
It's called "Astronaut":
(the artwork is a still from David Bowie's "Blackstar" - the song will be on my 4th album "SNOW DUMB" out in 2019, with something of a skulls, snow, alien theme)


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- Wedding: June 2019
I normally do not follow TTC threads as I am NTNP.
However today I went to the bathroom at work and noticed I had a light brown/pink discharge on my panty liner. I was dry yesterday and it seemed random to have this discharge on my panty liner.
I changed myself with a spare panty liner and nothing on it. I just checked and it is nearly 10:30 pm and I am still dry. First I can say I showered in the morning and put on fresh knickers and a panty liner.
My last period was around the 14th of May. I had sore breasts yesterday and sharp headaches.
I have never had this before also my partner and I have done the deed a lot this month.
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DICE: Consoles "Can't Handle" More Players in BF3
With the PC release of first-person shooter Battlefield 3 boasting impressive 64-player matches on large maps, some console gamers were understandably annoyed at the smaller maps and 24-player matches that they will be limited to. If you were wondering why you couldn't experience the game to its full glory, developer DICE has revealed that it's due to a very simple reason – consoles are getting too old.
DICE's Rendering Architect Johan Andersson tweeted a response to someone asking why we weren't seeing 64-player battles on consoles:
The consoles are 5-6 years old, can't handle it. PC on the other hand can
While MAG boasts matches of up to 256 players and Resistance 2 supports 60 simultaneous players, its important to note that the games are vastly different, and do not share the same level of graphical fidelity or destructible environment as Battlefield 3.
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I believe that the public's image of nursing is that he or she is the step stone of the healing process. Nurses are seen as the doctor's helpers. They are also seen as being as the submissive one to the doctor. The nurse is often seen when there is a problem. If interventions such as cleaning wounds, IV medications, or even shot are administered. Nurses are often betrayed on television as the one who gives advice, their own personal advice, and not keeping their personal opinions to themselves. Their personal feelings are always interfering in the way the patient is being cared for. They are often shown as none caring. There is a lack of universal precautions such as washing their hands between patients and performing invasive procedures without proper personal protective equipment. Sounds such as IV pumps beeping have been used to replace the sound of a heart monitor in the shows. The HIPPA law is frequently broken and there are no repercussions for the health care professional who has broken the law.
The desired professional role model, who is employed as a nurse, keeps their own personal feelings to them selves. It is not ethical for myself as a nurse to influence or try to influence a patient in making decisions regarding their own health. If the patient takes my opinion as the nurse and later on is not satisfied with the choice they made, then I, the nurse could find myself being blamed for the patient's dissatisfaction. That is an awkward position for me as a professional to be in. It may also result in legal problems, such as being sued, for myself and the hospital.
The desired role for me as a nurse is to facilitate the use of universal precautions. It is a protection for the patient as well as myself as a health care professional. It guards against the contraction of different viruses such as HIV, Hepatitus A & B, and unknown or uncommon virus's that may come from other countries. Equipment such as gloves, goggles, gowns, and simple hand washing techniques in between patients can decrease the spread unwanted bacteria and disease.
As desired professional myself as the nurse should be knowledgeable about sounds coming from a machine. What those sounds mean is very important. If the heart monitor is going off and the patient is flat lining and the I as the health care professional checks the IV pump, the result could mean the death of a patient. A potential law suit could once again immerge.
The HIPPA law is a very important factor in patient confidentiality. I as a health care professional should only discuss my patient with the doctor caring for that patient and with only other health care professionals who will aid me in caring for this patient. Family members who are inquisitive need to understand that without the consent of the patient, I could not give out any information about their family member.
It is very important that I as a nurse care for each individual client as I'd like to be cared for, or as I would like one of my family members to be cared for. It is important that I remember to give holistic care to each one of my clients and to follow rules and procedures as outlined by individual hospitals. It is vital to do these things because it could slow down the process of the clients getting well or even the death of my client. That in return affects my coworkers who are possibly working underneath me, or the co- workers who may be supervising me. It puts the hospital at risk for lawsuits and me at risk for losing my job and or my license.
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These moreish potato stacks are a take on hash browns but are baked rather than fried so are healthier and as they are free-formed are easier to assemble.
I used parmesan cheese from local cheese maker Hohepa. A fairly recent addition to their range, it is currently not as mature as some other parmesans but it has a great flavour and worked well in this recipe. You, of course, could use your favourite parmesan or mature cheddar. Some finely chopped fresh rosemary or thyme is a
flavoursome addition.
Cheesy Potato Stacks
Prepare several hours in advance then bake when required. Small ones using a teaspoon of mixture are a tasty pre-dinner nibble.
Makes 12-16 stacks enough to feed 4-6 people
2 large (500g) all-purpose potatoes, quartered
2 cloves confit or roasted garlic
½ cup (50g) grated Parmesan cheese
freshly ground sea salt
1 Place potatoes in a saucepan of cold water, cover and bring to the boil. Remove lid season to taste with salt and simmer for 20 minutes or until potatoes are just tender. Drain, run under cold
water, drain again and set aside to cool completely.
2 Preheat oven to 220°C. Line a two baking trays with baking paper.
3 Grate cold potatoes on the large holes of a box grater and place in a large bowl. Add garlic and cheese and mix to combine – I find the easiest way to do this is with two forks.
4 Take tablespoons of mixture, place in heaps on prepared baking trays and bake for 35-40 minutes or until lightly browned.
Happy cooking and eating.
Recipe by Rachel Blackmore
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Welcome home to The Residence at Okemah Apartments - a beautiful apartment community with amenities including a refreshing updated interior lighting, on-site clothes care facility, open kitchen layouts, and much more.
The Residence at Okemah Apartments is conveniently located in the largest city in Okfuskee County off I-40.
The Residence at Okemah is also just minutes to the future Creek Community Hospital and Shawnee, OK
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Looks great! Nice and clean.
Is there a way to give negative stars??? After full time manager left in beginning of the year it's horrible here! Nothing gets fixed, calls never answered or returned. I know exactly why it's so empty in this complex! Don't waste money on this disastrous place would break lease but I've been told they charge you thousands and even if you leave yours apartment move in ready they keep your deposit. Regret wasting money here!!
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Did the X-ray specs from vintage comic book ads really work? Goodness, no
For his upcoming book Mail-Order Mysteries, author Kirk Demarais assessed dozens of craptacular items you could purchase from the sensationalist comic book ads of yore. Here's his video investigation — the ventriloquist dummy is particularly creepy. It's more disappointing than that soothsaying robotic brain.


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