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Jacob/OC. Post-Eclipse. Elizabeth Foster is your typical grad student. When she interns on a summer research project looking for dire wolves in the Olympic Peninsula, she finds more than she bargained for.
11. Stolen Moments
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PART ELEVEN: Stolen Moments
[Jacob POV]
"Are you humming?" Quil eyed me suspiciously in the mirror. I continued brushing my teeth, humming faintly. When he realized he wasn't getting an answer, he glowered and stuck his toothbrush back in his mouth.
Nothing wrong with humming. Not when you had something to hum about. Trying not to grin, I leaned down to spit and wiped my mouth on a towel. "You're too uptight, Quil." I clapped my hands on his shoulders, giving him a little shake. "Loosen up a little." His only response was a snort and a skeptical look, so I gave it up as a lost cause.
Leaving him to finish, I grabbed a clean t-shirt off the bed and pulled it on, eyeing myself critically in the mirror. Shirt was a bit tight, but in the good way, showing some muscle. Hair was a little too tousled. I ran my fingers through it, smoothing the heavy black strands. Not bad. Beth and Kat shouldn't have anything to complain about, as an escort I was stylin'.
Yesterday had been productive. I spent the morning sniffing out a thick patch of wild irises. With an armload of the purple flowers in tow, I'd begged an empty coffee can from the old lady at the front desk. That made for a pretty impressive floral arrangement, and what it lacked in finesse, it more than made up for in volume. Hell, I was impressed and I didn't even like flowers.
Kat made Beth rest most of the day after her sleepless night, while Quil and Embry went to lead a foray in the woods. The research team was hilarious, with all the noise they made it would be a miracle if they found a chipmunk, much less a wolf. That left me to hang around the girls, unobtrusively of course, although I'd caught a break when Kat went out to get them lunch.
I met Kat going and, sort of, got permission. Okay well, she sighed, rolled her eyes and left the door cracked for me with a warning that she'd only be gone for a few minutes. That made it easier to be cool, moving silently across the room to set the flowers on the nightstand. Perching on the edge of the bed, I looked down at the girl that slept there, her hand tucked under the pillow. She was so beautiful like that it was hard to wake her; honey-gold lashes against her pale cheeks, hair a riot of tumbled waves around her face. After a moment, I remembered to breathe again and reached out to touch her face. Her eyes opened, and the way they focused on me and softened with recognition... man, it was worth it.
A smile tugged at my lips and it was hard not to kiss her then. I was so tempted to just throw caution out the window. "I brought something for you." Leaning back a little, I let her see the explosion of purple at my elbow.
She bit her lip, and for just a moment I was afraid I'd overstepped. "Irises..." Carefully, she sat up, reaching out to touch them, a slow and wondering smile lighting her eyes. "They're beautiful." She knew what they were and she liked them. To say I was positively gleeful didn't begin to cover it.
"You think so?" Never hurt to be sure.
"I do."
"Good." I grinned, but I could have danced. "How you feeling?"
She frowned thoughtfully. "Better, I think."
"I'm sorry I kept you up last night." There were dark circles under her eyes still.
Laughing softly, she arranged herself cross-legged on the bed. "It was as much my fault as anyone's." She ran a hand through her hair, giving it a little shake. "I think I needed the company."
"Kat doesn't seem to think so." I made a face. That one could be a pain in the ass when she wanted to be. Which was hypocritical since I knew just by the smell of her that she'd been cuddling with Embry.
Beth laughed again. "She's just being protective. We watch out for each other."
"Well, she's going to be back in a minute, so I'd better make this quick." I could all but guarantee she was going to kick my fuzzy butt out when she returned. "If you feel like it, I was wondering if you'd let me show you around Forks tomorrow?" I shrugged, trying to make it seem like no big deal. "There's no much to see, but I thought maybe you'd like to stretch your legs, get some fresh air?"
The hesitation told me that she wasn't sure it was a good idea. "I don't know..."
"Kat's welcome to come too," I reassured her, willing her to say yes.
The hesitation lingered, and then finally faded. "I guess that would be okay." She smiled again. "I've been here for days and I haven't really taken the time to look around."
"It's a plan, then."
There really wasn't much to see, just a few shops on the main drag, but it was an excuse to spend time with her. So we'd left it at that, since Kat came bustling in just a minute or so after. I was as angelic as a 6'7" werewolf could be, making my exit before she had a chance to evict me.
Which brought us to this morning, and the cheerful anticipation of having two lovely ladies to show around. There was no denying Kat was pretty, or that she looked out for Beth. I just wished she would stop treating me like the big bad wolf. Maybe I could make a better impression on her today.
The weather was typical, overcast but balmy. I played my role to the hilt, appearing at Beth's door moments after Kat pulled the Xterra into a parking space. Opening it, I offered her my hand, helping her step down to the pavement. "M'lady," I tried on the most pretentious expression I could think of, and was rewarded when she laughed.
"Thank you, sir."
She was in no hurry to pull her hand from mine, so I took a chance. My eyes holding her gaze, I raised her hand to my lips and kissed it. Startled, she just stared at me, a slow flush coloring her cheeks.
"Okay, you two, that's enough." Kat stood on the sidewalk, hands on her hips. She gave me an evil look before glancing down the sidewalk. "C'mon Betts, there's a likely looking antique shop down that way."
Beth took a deep breath and dropped her eyes, moving past me to join Kat. Not for the first time, I wished I had the bloodsucker's talent for reading minds. I wanted to know what she was thinking. Kicking at a flattened beer can in the gutter, I followed them down the sidewalk. They'd reached the door to the antique shop with me drifting a few steps behind. I was just passing the jeweler one shop down when a familiar scent wrinkled my nose.
Aw, hell.
I raised my head and suppressed a growl when I found him already watching me through the plate glass window. Edward Cullen, the leech who had convinced Bella to marry him, dropped out of the sky as though my thoughts had summoned him. From what my nose told me, he was alone. That realization let go some small tension inside of me. I wasn't ready to see Bella, especially not with him.
For a moment, I was tempted to just let it be. Mind my own business and let him mind his, today was a good day, no sense in ruining it.
"Jake? What's wrong?" The sound of Beth's voice changed everything.
"Go inside, Beth." Cullen lifted an eyebrow. I tried not to let my thoughts give me away, but it was impossible. My instincts were telling me the same thing over and over again. This was an enemy, and my mate was in danger.
"Come with me." There was a note in Beth's voice that said she knew something was wrong.
"In just a minute. Go ahead, I'll be right behind you." I knew even as I said it that she was too smart to buy it and too stubborn to retreat. I loved her for it, even as it made life more difficult.
"No. I'll wait for you." She appeared at my side, blue eyes fierce, and put her hand in mine. I swallowed hard and twined our fingers together, trying not to dwell on how right it felt.
Cullen spoke briefly with the man behind the counter, then came out to meet us. He stopped a few feet away, under the jewelry shop's awning. "Jacob." He inclined his head just slightly.
"Edward." Bella would have been proud of me for using his name.
"Who's your lovely friend?" A slight smile played at the corners of his mouth, we both knew he was only asking for show. Anything he wanted to know, he'd already plucked from our thoughts.
"This is Elizabeth." I took a step forward, tugging her hand so that she was slightly behind me. I made no attempt to introduce them, as far as I was concerned, she was better off not knowing him.
"It's nice to meet you, Elizabeth. My name is Edward Cullen," he was very polite, observing the niceties. But Beth didn't answer him, I could sense her tension through our joined hands. Cullen noticed it, too, his eyes leaving me briefly to focus on her. She knew something was wrong, and she knew something was different about Edward Cullen, I was positive she didn't know just how different he was, but her brain had a hold of the information and wouldn't let it go. Good. "It's actually not a bad thing that I met you here," Edward continued. "We have some information we were going to share. This just makes it easier."
"Information?" My eyes narrowed. "I'm waiting." He raised his eyebrows just slightly, questioning Beth's presence. I answered him silently, just as I would have with the pack, forming the thoughts and letting him read them. I belong to her in the same way that Sam belongs to Emily. In time, she'll know everything I have to share. Those elegant eyebrows perked upward a bit more, but he nodded as though I'd simply confirmed something for him. Did it please him, I wondered, to know that with Beth's appearance my pursuit of Bella was ended? He tilted his head just a fraction, and the sentiment was clear. 'Wouldn't it please you in my place?' Okay, point.
Turning my head, I looked down at Beth, she was watching Cullen warily, but her attention returned to me as soon as I caught her eye. "Edward has some information I need," I said quietly, "Some of it may not make sense right now, but I promise you that I will explain. Do you trust me?"
She searched my face for several heartbeats, then squeezed my hand, nodding. "I trust you."
"Go ahead."
"We have some evidence that the Volturi are active in this area again." Every muscle in my body tensed. I didn't know much about the Volturi, but everything I did know was bad news. "They haven't approached us directly, so it's hard to know what they want." Cullen's calm facade slipped just a hair, enough for me to know that he was worried. Of course he was, the Volturi wanted Bella ether dead or a vampire. "No, we don't think that's it. Not yet."
"What does the fortune teller think?"
Cullen frowned. "That's just it. Alice isn't seeing clearly. Which of course makes me wonder if the pack is involved." He sighed, casting a troubled look toward Beth. "It could be as simple as a rogue, but if we keep a lookout on both fronts..."
"I'll pass the information along. We'll be in touch." I put my arm around Beth and started herding her toward the shop Kat had disappeared into. My first impulse was to take her someplace far from here, somewhere safe.
"She's safer with you than without you, Jacob," Cullen said, his voice carrying to my ears. "I learned that the hard way."
I'm not you. Beth wasn't Bella. And no matter what, I wasn't going to leave her. I glanced back over my shoulder, but Cullen was already gone.
"Jake." Beth stepped in front of me, resting her hands on my chest. "You said you'd explain. All of it." Her blue eyes held mine, and I was powerless to look away. "I'm ready to hear it."
My heart started racing, and I realized then that I wasn't sure I was ready to tell her. What if it drove her away? I took a deep breath, mastering the fear. Didn't matter. I'd meant what I said. I wasn't Edward Cullen, I wasn't going to hold back information from the woman I loved in some misguided attempt to protect her. She had to make her own choices, even if they were choices I didn't like.
"When we get back," I said quietly. "We'll find someplace quiet... and then I'll tell you everything you want to know. Everything."
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Dear Parents & Carers,
Thank you to all of the parents who supported the Ten Ten Theatre Company assembly. The plays were produced by the company to support the 'Year of Mercy' and were very poignant. Each year group's play had a different focus and the children's responses were very interesting and their questioning mature and adult-like. The day offered useful reflections about how we can show 'mercy' and 'forgiveness' in school. As a follow-up to some of the messages that were communicated to us on the day, all year groups will be participating in the diocesan 'spirited arts' competition. We are hoping to enter art work, liturgical dance and poetry into the diocesan competition.
We would like to thank our 'outgoing' school councillors for all of the hard work and commitment they have shown (particularly with our healthy tuck shop) over the course of the last year. In conjunction with our studies of British values and democracy, elections have been held in each class, and new school councillors have been voted 'in'. We wish them every success in their very important roles and welcome their new, creative and fresh ideas!
Our school councillors are also eager to commence the reopening of our 'Snack Shack' next week. Due to timetabling demands, we are only opening Snack Shack for pupils in Years 1 to 6. As you will appreciate, Reception already receive milk and a healthy snack and we wouldn't want to overload their tummies with food – especially as they're settling into eating the delicious dinners which are on offer at lunchtimes. Thank you for your understanding.
Key Stage 2 North-East Music Co-Operative:
A huge thank you to Mr Docherty for his excellent demonstration of the brass family instruments this afternoon. We currently have spaces for brass and woodwind instruments. Should your child wish to participate in music tuition, then please contact the school office, who will ensure that you receive a copy of the NEMCO expression of interest form. Please return the form to NEMCO – not the school office. The children who participate in the sessions really enjoy them and they are exploring additional gifts and talents that may have otherwise remained undiscovered. We are particularly encouraging Year 3 pupils to commence tuition.
School Mass:
We warmly welcome Fr. Martin Morris to his role as parish priest of St. Aidan's, Benton and St. Teresa's, Heaton and know that many of you will have already met him at church. Fr. Martin has offered to say Mass for us in school, on October 7th at 9:30am. Mass will be offered for harvest-time (see below for more details). A meeting for prospective parents, who wish for their child/ren to commence the sacramental preparation programme for receiving the Eucharist, will be communicated with parents of pupils in Year 4 over the coming weeks.
Harvest Festival – Friday 7th October:
Once again, harvest-time is drawing near and we are fundraising for two charities: a local charity – 'The Peoples' Kitchen' and a global charity, 'CAFOD'.
Therefore, we will be collecting physical food donations both in advance and on the day. In addition to this, children will be able to donate the price of a small snack (e.g. 50p) to the CAFOD Family Fast Day. The idea of CAFOD's Family Fast Day is for children 'fast from their snack' and donate the money that they would have spent on a snack, to a worthwhile cause. Through our participation in this project, we hope that we will be raising pupils' awareness of the terrible difficulties of hunger both in our local area and worldwide.
Attendance at School:
Pupils need to attend school regularly to benefit from their education. Missing out on lessons leaves children vulnerable to falling behind. Children with poor attendance tend to achieve less in both primary and secondary school. Please note that the submission of a holiday request form does not mean that the request will be automatically authorised by the school's governors.
We ask that all GP and dental appointments are arranged for outside of school time - but we appreciate that it is difficult to do this for hospital appointments. Where this is not possible, your child should only be out of school for the minimum time necessary. We will ask for evidence of your child's appointment e.g. hospital card/letter for pre-planned visits.
Should your child's attendance fall below expectations, then you may be subject to a penalty warning notice from the local authority's education welfare officer.
Extra-Curricular Activities:
A timetable for extra-curricular activities has been devised and is always subject to change. We are in discussions with external bodies to help us to deliver more clubs as the year progresses. Your child/ren will be receiving invitations ASAP.
Holy Island/Breakfast Club:
On Monday morning, breakfast club will open at 7:30am for the children in Year 5 who are attending Holy Island. We understand that their siblings may also wish to attend breakfast club at this time too.
Please remember that the bus will depart at 8:00am. We are unable to wait for late comers because of the tide times, so punctuality is a must!
A number of pupils have participated in Mini-Vinnies during the last three years and we are tremendously grateful for their contribution in developing the spiritual life of the school. This year, we have decided to make Mini-Vinnies responsible for: improving the Catholic life and spirituality of school. They will also help to run our charitable giving for different causes. Letters asking for three participants from each Key Stage 2 class, will be sent out and we look forward to having a Mini-Vinnie council who can help us with raising money for good causes including: Children in Need, Harvest Festival, Dog and Cat Shelter, Shoebox appeal and the Lenten 'Soup shack'!
Dates for the Diary: As always, dates are subject to change!
Monday 26th September – Wednesday 28th September – Year 5 Pilgrimage/Residential to Holy Island (Breakfast Club open at 7:30am for those children and their siblings who are attending Holy Island and require breakfast)
Thursday 29th September – Tyne and Wear Fire Service Safety Talk for Year 2/Year 5 PM sessions
Thursday 6th October – Awards Assembly – 9am
Friday 7th October – Harvest Festival Whole-School Mass (in school) – 9:30am
Thursday 20th October – Awards Assembly – 9am and PTFA Halloween Disco after-school (time TBC)
Thursday 10th November – Awards Assembly – 9am
Thursday 24th November – Awards Assembly – 9am
Thursday 29th November – Mr Taylor Bible Story 1pm
Thursday 1st December – SCHOOL CLOSED TO PUPILS FOR INSET DAY
Thursday 8th December – Friday 9th December – More Than Dance Liturgical Dance Workshops
Friday 16th December – PTFA Christmas Fayre (time TBC)
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett. You've all read it, I'm sure. Probably years ago, right after it was published, when it was on the best seller list for many weeks, months, years. I knew about it, of course, even watched the movie, which was wonderful and made me fall in love with Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis. Why on Earth did it take me so long to pick up this book and start reading it?
I never used to watch a movie based on a book without first reading it. Back when I used to read two or three books a week, before chat forums, before blogs, before social media, before menopause. Menopause, or actually peri-menopause, those days of hot flashes, night sweats, brain befuddling, short-term memory loss, was my first downfall. After being a voracious reader since I was six, when I suddenly understood that all those black marks on the page actually meant something, and were orderly and brought joy to a little girl who didn't have much, but had the public library, all of a sudden, I couldn't focus on reading more than a paragraph at a time. I would pick up a book only to put it down a few minutes later, because my mind was on twenty different things that I should be doing, anything rather than reading. That went on for years. I still loved books. Still bought them, still checked them out of the library, but they mostly went unread.
Then came the idea that I wanted to have my own chickens. By this time we had moved to the country again, the Bear Swamp Road mini-farm. I was raised a farm girl with chickens running around my feet, but I knew absolutely nothing about raising them myself. I bought a couple of books from Tractor Supply, but I needed someone with first-hand experience. I was getting into the computer in a small way, after resisting for many years, so I Googled "raising chickens." Such an innocent term, little did I know that the first thing that popped up would be a forum on the Backyard Chickens website. I latched onto that forum and soaked up all that knowledge like a dry sponge and spent many, many hours there, and when I finally got my sixteen chicks, all that I had learned really helped me not make too many mistakes. I also met a woman on there who had a blog. After reading some of her posts, I thought, I could do this blog thing. And I was ready to leave the forum. There were people on there with whom I didn't agree, and I didn't like the way some things were going, so it was time to move on.
That was the beginning of Bear Swamp Reflections. I jumped in with both feet, not really knowing what I was doing, but plunging ahead anyway. I loved it, and when I finally started getting some attention with the help from a few lovely blog friends, it felt wonderful getting positive feedback from others who were doing the same thing, and who really seemed to like what I had to say. I don't have a lot in common with my family other than memories and family history, and now I had a new family. It was a wonderful way to communicate my thoughts and feelings, and I learned a lot about writing.
Then, along came social media with Facebook being the foremost. I resisted for a long time, but my sister and my niece wooed me with pretty words about getting in touch with old friends and staying connected with family. One hit was all it took, and I was hooked. I was looking up old school friends right and left, posting pictures, pithy sayings that I borrowed from other clever people who put them on instantly postable pages. Pretty soon I was posting to my blog less and less. I just didn't have time anymore to write. Facebook was my new addiction, and I had to have it morning, noon, and night. I discovered that I'm an all or nothing kind of girl, and apparently with the attention span of a gnat. Then the new started to wear off. I suddenly remembered why I had never stayed in contact with most of the people I went to school with (and a lot of my family). Because I really didn't like them all that much. I was popular in school, but most of them didn't know my nerdy side, and the ones who did didn't really understand it, or me. I went back and forth sporadically, quitting Facebook for a few months, only to let something drag me back into it, usually my sister. Then, all of a sudden, about six months ago, I decided that was it. I was done, and I wasn't going back, no matter what. I was going to read.
I started in on the hundreds of books lining my shelves, but was slowed down again in the move process. Then I realized a few months ago that an extension of my reading was my writing. I really, really missed it. I know I'm never going to win any awards or publish any books (remember the attention span thing?), but I missed being funny and snarky and talking about things with like-minded people, my loyal and true blog friends who have stuck with me through thick and thin, who have been there to laugh at my silly musings, who have cried with me and shared my broken heart and made me feel a little better with your virtual hugs and beautiful words. You are a big part of my family.
What The Help comes down to is family. The families we were born with, where sometimes we don't seem to fit just right, where we love our parents and our siblings and extended family, but sometimes the connections are because we are related by birth, and not by ideas. Skeeter loved her family, but she came to love the family of comrades with whom she collaborated to write her book, "the help", those women who sometimes sacrificed their own families to care for their white families, and were most often treated like less than the family pet. Women about whom she had never given a second thought until she lost her beloved Constantine, the woman who loved and raised her from an infant. This book moved me so much, to tears on a few occasions. Of course, I knew about the injustices of living in the South and being born with the wrong color of skin, but hearing the stories in those women's voices really touched me. And I will end with this, my highest praise for a book, I wanted it to never end. I wanted to keep on reading about Skeeter and Aibileen and Minny until I could no longer read. My second highest praise—I will probably read it again.
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Boat Named CEO of UC PhysiciansThomas Boat, MD, executive associate dean at the College of Medicine, has been named chief executive officer of UC Physicians, effective July 1 and pending approval by the UC Physicians Board of Directors. Boat returned to an active role within the College of Medicine in April after stepping down a year ago as chair of the pediatrics department and director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, positions he held for more than 14 years. Boat, who will focus his time on leading UC Physicians and ensuring the success of the UCP Re-engineering Project, will maintain his executive associate dean title. He replaces Dan Gahl, who has served as administrator since 1994. Drew Botschner, general counsel for UC Physicians, will be responsible for day-to-day administrative functions of the practice until Boat assumes his new responsibilities.Hoxworth Blood Center Researcher Receives Top HonorJose Cancelas, MD, PhD, has been named the 2008 recipient of the David B. Pall Prize for Innovative Research in Transfusion Medicine by the AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks). The award honors research work conducted under the National Blood Foundation Scientific Research Grants program that is considered innovative, creative and has practical impact on patient outcomes in transfusion medicine. Cancelas, division director of research at Hoxworth Blood Center, is a leader in project development research that contributes to the advancement of transfusion medicine. His work includes clinical trials that evaluate the efficacy of transfusion medicine-related products. He will be presented the award during the AABB Gala in October. For more information, visit www.aabb.org. Strasser Named Director of Research ComplianceJane Strasser, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics and researcher within the infectious diseases division, has been named compliance officer and director of research compliance and regulatory affairs at UC, effective Sept. 1. Strasser will oversee the UC Office of Research Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, comprising the human subjects research protection program, U.S. Food and Drug Administration assistance program, institutional animal care and use committee and the biosafety office. She will be responsible for developing, auditing and enforcing processes and procedures related to regulatory issues in research, in addition to serving as the research integrity officer. Strasser has chaired the institutional biosafety committee at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center since 2006. She has served as a member of Cincinnati Children's institutional animal care and use committee and is the interim biosafety officer at UC. Strasser replaces Melissa Colbert, PhD, who will join the National Institutes of Health on Sept. 1. For more information, visit www.researchcompliance.uc.edu. Warm Elected EIP Council ChairEric Warm, MD, of the general internal medicine division, has been elected council chair of the Educational Innovation Project (EIP). EIP is a national program aimed at improving care for chronically ill patients. It is operated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The internal medicine department is one of 17 EIP participants. For more information, visit acgme.org. First-Year Students Name Gold and Silver Apple Award WinnersFirst-year medical students have selected D.J. Lowie, PhD, associate professor of cancer and cell biology, to receive the Gold Apple Award given for excellence in teaching. Bruce Giffin, PhD, professor of cancer and cell biology, and Michael Lieberman, PhD, professor of molecular genetics, biochemistry and microbiology, have been named silver apple recipients. Students select gold and silver apple winners to honor professors who have had the most profound effect on their futures in medicine and in life.
Air Force Physician to Discuss Head and Neck/Craniofacial TraumaMaj. Manuel Lopez, MD, chief of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Wilford Hall Medical Center on the Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, will be the special guest lecturer during otolaryngology–head and neck surgery grand rounds on Wednesday, June 11. Lopez will discuss "Head and Neck/Craniofacial Trauma: An Iraq Front Line Experience" from 7 to 8 a.m. in Medical Science Building Room E-351. All are invited to attend. For more information, contact Barbara Huber (513) 558-5391.Queen City ENT Symposium The otolaryngology–head and neck surgery department will host its annual Queen City ENT Symposium on Saturday, June 14, at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The free seminar will examine contemporary issues and research by the department's residents, fellows and faculty. Brian Wiatrak, MD, a physician at Children's Hospital of Alabama and UC College of Medicine alumnus, will be the keynote speaker. All practicing otolaryngologists, residents, fellows, audiologists and speech pathologists are encouraged to attend. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. For more information, contact Barbara Huber (513) 558-5391.
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April Race Results 2016
The Newcastle Triathlon Club is the longest established triathlon club in Newcastle and is affiliated with the NSW Triathlon Association.
These two legends looking strong in the run leg today !!! IRONMAN World Championship !!!!
Proud of you boys !!! @Paul Franks @Greg Broadley
Have a great race tomorrow Tomaree Triathlon Club #HITTRACE!!
Enjoy and have fun !!! Get some training racing in !!!
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Discussion in 'Social Networking Sites' started by Inception_AC, Nov 29, 2011.
Is it possible to sell accounts on fiverr???
Not aware of any reason why not. If you can't they'll let you know.
its against twitters terms and conditions , as soon as its noticed the account will be permanently banned
Plenty of people sell plenty of different accounts on Fiverr.
surely having more than 1 facebook account is against there terms and conditions though?
I won't tell them if you don't
Yes you can.
just ask their support
yes you can trade on fiverr...
I sell a lot of of account on fiverr, facebook and twitter...:lol
yes you can sell the accounts..but there are some probs around it..do check it out with certain verification.
Thank u
i think its against fiverr TOS...
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Free Education Planning Seminar for Parents in Uae (Dubai)
Good morning!
For those of you who are parents of kids who will be going to school or are already schooling, we would like to invite you to "Nexus Education Planning Seminar for Parents".
This will be on 6th April Protected content at RITZ Carlton Gate Village, DIFC – Ballroom D from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm.
This seminar will focus on the following areas:
• The benefits of having a good education
• The importance of choosing the right degree and university
• Country wise analysis
• University cost implications
• Why education planning is important?
• The role of Nexus in education planning
Child's education planning is complex which involves making the right choice considering the characteristics of the child, the university, the geographical location and most important financial readiness. The target audience for this seminar is parents who have children up to age 17.
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|1. List of
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|INCITS L2 Recommendation Due:
|June 15, 2004
|Anticipated INCITS EB Ballot:
|June 16, 2004 - July 15, 2004
|Possible Reconsideration Period:
|July 16, 2004 - July 25, 2004
|U.S. Vote to ANSI:
|July 26, 2004
|JTC 1 Closing Date:
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|INCITS L2 Chair: C. Wissink - ACTION REQUIRED
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|Advance Transmittal to INCITS L2 for the "2004 Systematic Review of International Standards "
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In accordance with clause 14.3 of the Procedures for the Technical Work of ISO/IEC JTC 1 on Information Technology, 1998, International Standards coming up to five years of age since publication have to be reviewed by the committee responsible for their preparation. The review aims at deciding whether these International Standards should be confirmed, revised or withdrawn. The decision regarding confirmation, revision or withdrawal should be based on the degree to which the International Standards have been implemented at the national level and applied in practice.
Recommendation for INCITS
The committee is to coordinate and develop the U.S. recommended position to INCITS for approval, by a thirty-day letter ballot or roll call vote. The U.S. vote will be forwarded to ANSI for submission to ISO/IEC JTC 1. For some standards, the Subcommittee (SC) recommendation is provided. If the committee concurs with the SC recommendation, it should state this and provide the technical committee vote.
[Note however: The answers to all five questions are required.]
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Lots of people still shop in malls, but there are many who dislike shopping or live too far away. For these people, online fish suppy shopping is the answer. Other people like to take their time to comparison shop and save online right at home. Read on to learn how you can have the best possible experience while shopping on the Internet.
Comparison shopping and bargain-hunting are integral parts of online fish suppy shopping. With the speed and convenience of online aqurium shopping, it's not at all difficult to locate the best possible deals. Only comparison shop between stores you would actually buy at. Even if you've found an item at a great price, you should avoid any sites that aren't reputable.
Never ever provide your social security details when you are online fish suppy shopping. No website should require this number to order anything. When they ask you for this, they are trying to scam you. You should leave the site for one that you can trust.
Amazon Prime is a must-have for those who love to shop on Amazon. It costs $79 for this annual membership, but the price is well worth it. One of the perks is that you will receive two day shipping on any product sold by Amazon. They have a large movie library where you can get free streaming, too. This is a big savings as well.
Look into the different coupon sites prior to shopping. You are sure to find all sorts of useful coupons that are able to produce real savings. The key is to visit such sites before staring to do your shopping.
Always keep an eye out for coupon codes when buying anything online. Retail Me Not and other sites actively catalog discount codes for a lot of sites. If you're unable to get a code for a site you will purchase from, search for the site's name and add "coupon code". Something just might turn up.
Understand that refurbished items are the same as excessive inventory. If you come across a refurbished item, check the description to find out whether the item has been fixed or if it came from overstock. Searching out deals on refurbished or surplus items is always a good idea.
Take password creation very seriously. Avoid using phrases that are easy to guess or words that are easy. Your accounts that you use online for shopping contain sensitive information, like credit card numbers. Make it as difficult as possible for would be thieves. Make sure your passwords have a healthy mix of numbers, letters and symbols.
As you might realize, online aqurium shopping is often lots of fun. You will find a virtual world filled with a vast array of merchandise spread out before you. When you learn the tips and tricks of online aqurium shopping, you will be thrilled with the money and time and you are going to save.


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And so, I return from my annual January hiatus ready for the onslaught that is the first quarter of the year. There's features on artists to look out for in 2011, my sxsw playlist which was huge last year and i'm even more excited about it this time out, there's gigs and new albums but first I just want to get the first mixtape of the year out there.
As you hopefully won't be aware, I haven't actually had the internet for the past year! I think I did pretty well under the circumstances but I've dragged my household right up to date and though this should see a higher output I learned a lot about quality control through that period and there's no way i'd compromise that.
The next few posts are dedicated to my artists to watch for 2011, I tend to do good- Anna Calvi in 2010 and Joy Formidable in 2009 where NME are only now jumping on these artists' wagons. After that, Bright Eyes' new and possibly final album is released, there'll be a lot of retrospective, a lot of gushing sycophancy and a review of the album- which i'm waiting until Feb 15th to listen to despite the leak. I would probably not do that for anyone else.
It's great that I get to talk to loads of great artists and hear so much awesome new music so thanks for your support which keeps me doing it.
The mixtape is a smaller one to start off the year; bands to look out for in 2011, some that have been hyped quite a bit like the vaccines who are borderline ok and Brother who are actually more than ok. 2:54 and Zoo kid who are both niche but very likeable. Overall it's a lot of great tracks and strangely upbeat. Have a great February (:
Brother- Darling buds of may
The 1900s- Bmore
Antarctica takes it!- Try Try Try
The Vaccines- Wrecking Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
Stamps- Don't let your cheeks hang low
Lucky Soul- That's when the trouble begins
The Go! Team- Buy Nothing Day
2:54- Creeping
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Imagine beauty that is wrapped in wonder, dipped into stardust, then swirl that in fractured dreams and encrust it with hopes gone awry. What you have then is life. With our birth we are given all the wonder that God has set aside for us, then Satan uses all that is in his arsenal to corrupt and break us. What we must remember is that he can only succeed if we allow him to do so.
We are God's creation even if we do not acknowledge it and Satan's target even if we don't want it. Each day of our lives we make a choice, either to shine in all of God's glory, or to become tainted and tarnished by Satan's filth. There are so many ways to make that choice. It is a sad thing to think that if we don't make a conscious choice we're safe, but nothing could be further from the truth. By not choosing we give Satan the upper hand. Simply put if we choose Satan, he wins, and if we don't choose God, he Wins. Satan tricks us into believing that no choice is safe, when in reality it's just the opposite.
God will not force us to choose Him, we must consciously make the decision to accept Christ into our lives, thus rejecting Satan. Are you one of Satan's silent army? I think that is his biggest strength, I do not believe that we would consciously choose to serve Satan, but Satan has the advantage. Ambivalence makes the choice for us. Are you that mindless or are you ready to make a choice


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The messaging starter kit for customer engagement
Main illustration: Kelsey Wroten
"What is customer engagement?" Fair question.
Unless you're selling something as painfully obvious as garbage bags, you're going to need to cajole/convince/nudge your customers to keep using your product. At many different points of their lifecycle, you'll want them to feel something, know something, do something or say something.
For modern software companies, messaging is the single most effective way to engage your customers. The more time and effort you spend sending the right message, to the right people, at the right time, the greater the chances they'll understand, retain and be able to recall that message.
Over the past few years, we've helped thousands of businesses create messages that help grow their business, and we're often asked what types of messages you should send to help engage your customers. That's why we put together a messaging starter kit to help get your customer engagement strategy off the ground. First you can read this post, which explains our thinking behind the message types, including successful examples from some of our customers, and then you can download a set of templates to help you create your own successful strategy.
In the downloadable guide, you'll get examples of messages which will help you:
- Set new users up for success
- Activate new users that might have dropped off
- Avoid sending impersonal, poorly timed messages
- Retain existing customers and turn them into long term, loyal users
We've used messages like these to help grow and scale Intercom – we hope that by following this advice you can do the same.The Messaging Starter Kit for Customer Engagement
1. Check up messages
Many business pour thousands of hours into optimizing sign up buttons, while promptly ignoring the customers they've already got. That's where check up messages come in – they let you proactively identify any issues customers might be having, so you can solve problems before they become deal-breakers.
Here are three basic messages you can start with:
- New user check up message – Ideal for gauging initial reactions to your product's features and finding out how your onboarding experience can be improved. Make sure you only send this message to customers who have completed onboarding and have actually started to engage with the product. (In Intercom this means using message rules like "Signed up more than 30 days ago" and "Sessions is more than 10".)
- Medium term check up message – As customers mature with your product and become more experienced, you can ask for deeper insights into whether specific features are helping with the job they're trying to do. Again, make sure your message is targeted to the right people. You won't learn much from checking in with people who haven't used your product in 6 months. (Use message rules like "Signed more than 180 days ago" and "Last seen less than 7 days ago".)
- Engaged user check up message – Long term, loyal customers are the cornerstone of your business. Their feedback is critical for understanding what's going right, and what's going wrong. (Use message rules such as "Sessions is greater than 250")
For check-in messages, we always recommend you send them inside your app, in context. You're asking in the moment when their attention is on your product, not hours later when they are trying to clear out their inbox. You'll get more replies, and they will be much better quality.
But however you decide to check in with your users, make sure you're asking the right users. It never makes sense to message your entire user list to ask how they're doing, or look for feedback on a feature.
For example, one of our customers, New Relic wanted to get useful feedback about a new feature. Rather than spam their entire database with this request, they only targeted power users of the feature. 21% replied with feedback, representing 2.5x more than their previous, non-targeted survey.
2. Retention messages
It's a simple truth that not every customer is going to stay active. Some will churn because your competitor is cheaper, some because they no longer have a need for your product; that can't be helped. But some will stop using your product because they never understood it in the first place, or they felt that you never cared about them.
Here's a few retention messages you can send to re-engage customers:
Re-engagement message – If customers are slipping away, don't just write "We miss you ? Please log back in." Motivate people to come back to your product. Showcasing features they might not have heard of is a great way to do this.
Education message – Of course, sometimes people have dipped their toes into a particular feature, but dropped off when they didn't know how to use it. (Sidebar: if large numbers of users aren't engaging with a particular feature, you might have a deeper problem that requires more than a once-off message)
If someone isn't engaged with a particular feature that's important to your product, sending messages with best practice guides, tips and tricks, and ebooks, are great for bringing people back into your product to continue their march toward victory.
Retention messages have big impact. For example, Later, a popular mobile app for Instagram scheduling, wanted to reach out to new signups before they slipped away, so they sent an email to new users who hadn't been active for two days. The result? 17% more users were retained from messages like this one:
Unless you're giving customers these timely road signs, they're going to get lost along the way.
3. Milestone messages
Without a finish line (or multiple finish lines) for customers to cross, they will lose interest. You could try gamifying your product and adding things like completeness meters. Or your could use messaging to mark customer milestones as they continue to use your product.
Sending customers a well-timed message when they've created their 10th project, or added 20 teammates, is a great way of rewarding progress and reminding customers of the value your product provides.
These messages should make extensive use of custom attributes so they are personalized for each user. For example, one year after a user signs up you might send a mail congratulating them on the number of projects they completed or how many teammates and clients they have collaborated with.
Of course, you shouldn't be waiting a year for your customer to hit their first milestone, while the user's interest is waning all the time. This tactic is just as effective when congratulating new signups on their first steps towards success, e.g. inviting 5 teammates or creating 15 tasks.
4. Upsell messages
The point of keeping customers around is so they become valuable in the long run. But it's important to make sure it's a profitable situation for you and your customers. Try upselling to customers who don't need it, and you'll only alienate customers who are paying double what they were but who aren't seeing more than twice the business value.
Take this message from Baremetrics, a SaaS analytics and insights product.
Baremetrics sent an email targeting users who had logged in more than 10 times in the first 30 days after signing up. With a a segment of their most active individual users, they could now try nudging them towards annual pricing.
If your product has multiple pricing tiers, or if your product has a freemium model, well-crafted, well-targeted messages can help maximize those opportunities. The trick is to discover when a customer is displaying signs they are getting value out of their first purchase, and clearly articulate the value the customer will get from it.
Remember, most customers who sign up to your product will use it only once. Unless you're giving customers these timely road signs, it's almost certain they're going to get lost along the way. Sure, it can be daunting at first – What if a customer replies? How do I strike the balance between being helpful and being annoying? – but each message takes no more than an hour and will pay back your business many times over. Or, of course, you could download our starter kit and give yourself a headstart.
Thanks to New Relic, Baremetrics and Later for pulling together some of these examples.The Messaging Starter Kit for Customer Engagement


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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
New Hummingbird Painting
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Victorian House Magnolia
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Long Mountain, yet AGAIN
Ok, I guess I like painting this one. Besides, I gave the last painting to Cynthia, so now I need another. I see things on the monitor that I don't see right away in real life. What I notice this time is that I need to punch up the green of the grass more so it looks like the sun is really shining on it. I think I succeeded. Now I'm going to leave it alone!


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SIS Basic "Concert" Kara and Trichelle added to the boring mix! Cool but I want my Lea! =p
None of the dolls and clothes are exclusives, I did liked some of the shoes.
Friday, October 21, 2011
NEW Styled By Me Dolls
Posted by cyano at Friday, October 21, 2011
Labels: Barbie Styled by Me
2 comments:
- Vanessa said...
That's pretty neat. I just went there and designed a couple of Kara dolls. I don't have that particular Kara and I love the hair. I didn't buy the doll. I just designed her. If they come out with a better sale and free shipping, I might seriously consider getting one.
- October 23, 2011 at 7:26 AM
- Black Doll Enthusiast said...
Articulated dolls and separately sold personalized T-shirts would be nice, too.
Sometimes adult collectors forget that dolls like these are actually made for the younger set who are probably not as concerned about face molds, articulation, and separately-sold fashions and accessories. But we still want what we want.
- October 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM
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Syncrude has shutdown and minimized several Upgrader units following a fire at its site north of Fort McMurray.
The blaze broke out shortly before 2:00 p.m. Tuesday in the Mildred Lake Upgrader.
Media Relations Advisor Will Gibson tells Mix News the fire has been fully extinguished.
It started after a line failure caused treated naphtha to leak.
Gibson says the fire is isolated and controlled, but flaring is continuing to ensure excess natural gas and hydrogen is managed.
"The flaring on occasion will continue to consume excess sulphur dioxide and hydrogen in a safe manner," said Gibson.
Syncrude is working on their damage assessment and development of a repair strategy.
Gibson adds the rest of Syncrude's operations are stable, but mining and extraction at both Mildred Lake and Aurora are being paced to balance bitumen demand.
One employee was taken to the Northern Lights Regional Health Centre in serious but stable condition as a result of the fire. Gibson says he's now in an Edmonton area hospital and remains in stable condition.
"Yesterday was a tough day for our organization and especially difficult for one employee and his family. Our thoughts and prayers are with our colleague," Syncrude CEO Mark Ward said in a release.
Once it's safe to proceed, Gibson says they will conduct a complete damage investigation and start repairs.
Syncrude will also launch a full investigation into the incident to understand what happened and help prevent a situation like this in the future.
Occupational Health and Safety are leading the investigation with assistance from Wood Buffalo RCMP.


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New York circa 1910. "Brooklyn. Washington Street from Fulton with Beecher statue." Now Cadman Plaza. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
The statue of Beecher shown is still located not far from this shot in what is now called Columbus Park, in a straight line from Brooklyn's Borough Hall. There is another Beecher statue in the garden of Plymouth Church.
So this shot is from the front steps of Boro Hall, looking toward Manhattan??? I never would have guessed. It's changed a WHOLE lot. Is that statue of Beecher now in the garden of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights?
Statues are different from tombstones I guess as far as the years carved in granite. Left to right, right to left.
[?? Born 1813, died 1887. - tterrace]
But here goes... What is (or was) a Gentlemen's Oyster Parlor?
[Look closer and you'll see that the Dennett's sign reads "Ladies and Gentlemens." - tterrace]
Called a hen a most elegant creature;
The hen, pleased with that,
Laid an egg in his hat;
And thus did the hen reward Beecher.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Below is the same perspective (from the steps of the Brooklyn City/Borough Hall) from November of 2004. A sliver of the Post Office tower in the 1906 view can be seen behind the Brooklyn Eagle Building tower. (Please excuse the dark foreground - long, hard shadows are sometimes unavoidable in later months of the year.)
On the full size pic the window washer seems to be pulling himself up past the third floor using some kind of pulley system. On the same bank building located left of center I see a person or a gargoyle blocking a letter of the bank sign at the 7th floor level.
I wonder what this fellow could be hauling up? Is he standing on the load or is this only one visible end of a window washing scaffold? Is that his white bucket on the window sill just above and to the left? Oops! Look out below!
Always something interesting to see in views like these!
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There are so many times I'm afraid of doing things that I want to accomplish. It's just because I realize that I'm not able to do that, or I know my own efficiency. I just can't. There are also couple times I am successful in things which I had thought I couldn't do. And I wonder if I know my own abilities or I underestimate myself.
One day, my mother told me to write five things that I'm gratitude of and feel happy about every day. The very first day, I was so excited because that day was a good one but I only chose five specific things that had happened to me. And of course I was successful. I was so happy. The second day, third, fourth … on the fifth day, my mom realized that I haven't been writing anything about my day. And she asked me: "have you been writing your journal?" I said: "yeah". "So how come are you so sad?" "No, I'm not sad". "Yes, you are. I know it. I'm the mom and mom knows everything. Don't try to hide your feelings from me". "Ok. My day was so bad and I couldn't find a thing to be gratitude of. I tried so hard but…" and she taught me a lesson: "there is no try in this house. Just choose and can. And you can do what you choose to do". At that time I thought that it was easy for her to say. I tried listening to her though. And I was totally wrong. She was right. I had chosen five things that I was gratitude of. I memorized all the things, big things to small ones, everything that happened to me and made me happy. I even found more than five. That was totally amazing. And I refer a lesson for my own: when I choose to accomplish something, I've aimed that goal. And I do the best of me to reach that goal and don't care about my capacity any more, just go, go and go…I put my time, effort and even life into it. And when I can do that, I win no matter what the result is. Because I've beaten myself – my second person inside me which stops me from being successful.
Since then, whenever I'm nervous about something, I always talk to myself:" you can do it! You choose to do it no matter what." And the truth is I'm successful.
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Prescription drug thieves are stealing from medicine cabinets during open houses, ABC News reports.
Home sellers usually lock up valuables such as jewelry, electronics and personal information, but often don't think of securing their medicine cabinets. A San Diego realtors' group is warning homeowners about these thefts. "The take away here is common sense," Anthony Manolatos of the Greater San Diego Association of Realtors told ABC News. "When an agent is showing your home and you're not there, take your valuables with you or lock them in a safe."
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When Virg Bernero walks into his new office on the 9th floor of City Hall in January, he will have completed a 32-month quest to become mayor of Lansing.
Bernero, 41, went from finishing 18 points down to Mayor Tony Benavides in the 2003 primary to winning in a landslide Tuesday night.
A senior adviser for the Bernero campaign said the campaign's strategy didn't change much from two years ago. What did change, however, are the issues and the state of the city.
"The biggest shift we saw was a sea change in the issue environment, from a positive look about Lansing to a much more pessimistic outlook by voters," the adviser said.
A poll commissioned by Bernero in February of this year showed Benavides with a 41-35 lead over Bernero. At about the same time that poll was conducted, the Lansing School District closed five schools due to high costs and declining enrollment. A few weeks later, General Motors announced it would shut down its Verlinden plant. At the same time, the city struggled to shore up a $6.8 million budget deficit, with Benavides and the City Council battling every step of the way.
Also in the spring, the sour contract negotiations between the administration and the UAW Local 2256, which represents 300 city workers, became public after Benavides' budget called for $2.5 million in labor concessions. On April 18, a crowd of 100 city workers and their families descended upon City Hall to protest the labor cuts.
Two days later, with a gray cloud hanging over Lansing, Bernero formally announced his candidacy.
"To a degree, we didn't have to do anything to capitalize on it," the Bernero adviser said of the city's condition. "We really didn't have to say much to take advantage of that."
But take advantage they did. Within months of declaring his candidacy, Bernero landed all of the major endorsements, including every labor union, the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Michigan Education Association.
With those endorsements came big money. According to the latest campaign finance reports released at the end of last month, Bernero raised $266,785 while Benavides raised $203,940. The actual fundraising gap was even wider; Benavides and his wife, Carmen, were the mayor's biggest contributors, pumping in nearly $80,000 of their own money this year alone.
The negative chain of events within the city combined with Bernero's groundswell of support appeared to inflict tremendous political damage to Benavides: By June, a poll showed Bernero with a 41-27 lead over Benavides. That lead widened even further by the Aug. 2 primary, in which Bernero outpaced Benavides 46 percent to 27 percent. Former state Rep. Lynne Martinez and city worker Dale Abronowitz were eliminated.
"Two years ago, Virg was perceived as too aggressive and with too much energy to the point of making people nervous," the Bernero adviser said. "Two years later, those perceived liabilities became assets."


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The Philippine Coast Guard on Friday said it fired upon one of four Taiwanese fishing vessels that entered the country's territorial waters, leaving one fisherman dead.
Coast Guard commandant Rear Adm. Rodolfo Isorena said the shooting occurred around 10:30 a.m. Thursday, while a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources vessel (MCS 3001) operated by PCG personnel was patrolling the Balintang Channel off Batanes.
The PCG personnel encountered four foreign fishing vessels within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and tried to board one of them, but another "repeatedly tried to ram our MCS," Isorena said in a statement.
He said this prompted the Coast Guard personnel on board the MCS to fire "warning shots" and later on, shoot the vessel's machinery portion "to disable" it.
"While the maneuver is happening, our MCS detected the presence of unidentified grey and white ships, forcing them to withdraw and return back to port," Isorena said.
He said the personnel on board the MCS were not able to immediately verify what happened to the fishing vessel, and the PCG only learned Friday that one of the Taiwanese fishermen died.
Isorena said that while the PCG considers the incident as "very unfortunate," more effort will be done to secure the country's waters.
"Efforts will be instituted to prevent similar occurrences. The government will increase our visibility in the area to prevent future incursion of our waters," the PCG chief said.
"We sympathize with the family of the fisherman who died and we assure them of a transparent and impartial investigation. The PCG will relieve all personnel on board MCS 3001 of their duties while the investigation is ongoing," he added.
Earlier, China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency earlier reported that a Filipino "military ship" opened fire on a Taiwanese fishing boat on Thursday, about 180 nautical miles southeast of Erluanbi, the southernmost tip of Taiwan.
"After killing the fisherman, the Filipino military ship continued to chase and fire in bursts at the Taiwanese vessel," Xinhua said, citing information from Taiwan's fishing authority and media.
Maj. Ramon Zagala, chief of the Armed Forces' public affairs office, said that contrary to the report, the incident involved a "Coast Guard-controlled" BFAR vessel.
Zagala, however, said the incident occurred within the Philippines' "territorial waters."
"Since the incident occurred within our territorial waters, it is therefore within the jurisdiction of our coast guard," Zagala said in a statement.
Col. Edgard Arevalo, the Navy's spokesman for issues in the West Philippine Sea, also denied Xinhua's report.
Commodore Nodolfo Tejada, commander of the Naval Forces Northern Luzon, reported Thursday night that all Navy vessels under his command were in ports in Subic or Sual, Pangasinan, Arevalo said. (John Roson)
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text: Sorry if this is the "wrong section" But I have a few things to get off my chest. I think the situation of a great deal of the internet marketing done today is BS. And I see it happening in all forms. CPA, Blogging, You name it , its there. Let me explain WHAT I am talking about. Say you buy a e-book under the pretense it will teach you how to market something online. Well the only thing it is, is a guide on how to sell e-books online about how to make money online. And those books are about how to sell X service online and that service is a seminar, video set, guide on how to use blogs to make money online. Well the make money blogging service is just.......well ....start reading at the top of this paragraph. I think this is why most internet marketers get a bad rep as "spammers" I have had my friends tell me (as a joke) "dont you have some pop ups to make or something" Sense when did IM become this pyramid like, circular funnel of BS that everyone buys into but few do. Seldom do I see market research, roi projecting, or any other marketing 101 basics used in formulating a plan to make money online. I don't want to see what IM will be in 20 years. ***End Drunk Rant***


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IR illumination and mortars
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Near-infrared does not have much to do with the warmth of objects, unless they objects are quite hot. Warm objects show up in thermal infrared images (much closer to far-infrared)ReplyDelete
Next, any flare putting out near-infrared will also put out quite a bit of visible light.
Standard illumination rounds are not that bright, especially at ranges one likes to be between you and the enemy. Don't point the sensor directly at the flare, point the sensor where you think the enemy is. If the flare gets between you and the enemy, move the next flare over a few hundred metres.Replies
I changed the contradictory part to make sure it's clear IR flares also emit a bit visible light. The embedded PDF actually showed this anyway.Delete
The vast majority of flares used are actually launched by signal pistols or 40 mm grenade launchers. Mortars and arty fire relatiely few illumination rounds by comparison. A problem with the easily man-portable flare launchers is the poor range, small illuminated area (due to small height) and short duration, of course. The range restriction of such munitions makes shifting flares to other places difficult. Mortars and arty can do, but with a longer lag. Furtermore, flares are hardly ever used continually; a poorly placed flare will often not be followed-on by another one for minutes if not hours.
- Anonymous19 March 2016 at 01:09
I was convinced that 'The use of conventional illumination munitions' was unable to nullify a huge part of the IR… FLIR. I remember a Bofors' advertisement from the 1990s 'if they need light, just light them up' or smthg like that: with a picture of an illumination shell in the skies. 'If the room is dark and I cannot see, but someone else can see me; then I have a huge problem!'. 'If I turn the light on, then we can see each other'. What if I can turn both, daylight and nightlight (IR,…FLIR) off; and let the other rascasse think it is walking around freely like a liberator of this Homeland? When, do you think KIKI, will it notice that we can see it, but it cannot see us?ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't get what you're getting at.Delete
I think that there are many parts needed to allow an effective routine of strike and vanish, and only the strike part is "clear":ReplyDelete
It can begin with illuminating rounds (if poor visibility) but it should end with a rain of HE ammunition (one with very loud explosions and with a lot of smoke) --> attacked enemy will be disorganized and must remain in this state for some time, allowing own troops to "vanish".
About the "vanish" part... I think that you are right: it seems that no equipment has been developed for this. But I also think that this is a very difficult task: for me this could be ideally accomplished with soldiers moving like grasshopers... but that is not going to happen (at least in near future). So I can only think in some class of light vehicle (but I can't choose between bikes, motorcycles, perhaps an off-road version of http://www.jebiga.com/electric-three-wheel-motorcycle-sway/ , or whatever ) to improve infantry movement... but this seems easier to write than to do. Probably the design of successful UGVs will lead to the design of "the light vehicle the infantry needs".Replies
Breaking contact doesn't require to mvoe fast or much. To move 400 m with no line of sight to the opposing forces and no obvious route would suffice in most cases.Delete
It's important to do so *before* hostile indirect fires arrive, though.
I have heard claims that thermal imagers can spot a tank from 8 km away at night, and 6 km away at daytime. Do you think these distances are plausible, and if so, what kind of concealment is possible against them? You've said that well camouflaged soldiers should be unseen at distances of 100+ meters, so what range do you think a tank should be undetectable at?ReplyDeleteReplies
Such ranges were given (and supported by screenshots) for the Tiger attack helicopter, for example. There is a huge difference in range between spotting something conspicuous or moving and identifying what it is, particularly if the object is heavy camouflaged with foliage. Identification by thermal sight may be impossible even at arms length if both parties use similar of near-identical tanks (such as Eastern European NATO and Ukraine still using T-72 pattern tanks).Delete
Tanks usually have their exhausts, hot barrels after firing and hot running gear after driving as outstanding warm surfaces that can be detected easily. Netting such as Saab's Barracuda or the Ukrainian pats reduce the visibility of hull and turret (which helps at long ranges against low resolution/weak zoom sensors), but there's little you can do to hide a tank from thermals after firing the main gun or driving.
No-one forces you to hide a tank in plain sight, though. It could wait behind a building or in a depression with a detached picket telling him when to leave the concealment and where to aim at. meanwhile, on the attack or during retreat "multispectral" smoke may be used to block thermal vision.
I think Hilmes and Ogorkiewicz wrote plenty about IR thermal management and camouflage issues of tanks.


text: The LeBaron name first appeared as a Chrysler name plate in the late 1950's as the top trim level of the full-size Imperial. This would continue through 1975, and then in 1977 Chrysler began making and offering stand-alone LeBaron models in the mid-size class. Initially, it was built on the same platform as the Dodge Aspen, but a different chassis placed on the frame. In later years, the LeBaron would take the place as Chrysler's luxury compact offering and give buyers the option of all 4 major body styles: coupe, convertible, sedan, and wagon. By the early 1990's, the LeBaron was so many different things to so many people that buying Chrysler LeBaron parts can sometimes be very confusing. This ultimately led Chrysler to create completely separate model names for its successors based on body style. Fun fact: an episode of Seinfeld heavily featured a Chrysler LeBaron purchased by character George Castanza because it was rumored to be previously owned by actor John Voight.


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The United States has pledged to provide money and communications assistance to rebels in Syria, who have been clashing with the Syrian government.
At least 60 nations, including the US, have pledged $100 million to pay opposition fighters in Syria, according to the New York Times. The Obama administration has also agreed "to send communications equipment to help rebels organize and evade Syria's military."
This would mark the second time since Arab nations began uprisings against their governments in early 2011 that the US has taken such a direct role in an Arab conflict. The United States took an interventionist role in Libya last year -- who like Syria had a testy diplomatic relationship with the US.
The United States has not intervened on behalf of pro-democracy activists in countries where they have strong geopolitical relationships with the government, such as Yemen and Saudi Arabia. This has led critics to allege that the United States intervenes in the name of geopolitical self-interest, and not a commitment to democracy or human rights in the region. Many have expressed opposition to US intervention in Syria.
"Although the impulse to try to end the ongoing repression by the Syrian regime against its own people through foreign military intervention is understandable, it would be a very bad idea," said Stephen Zunes. "Empirical studies have repeatedly demonstrated that international military interventions in cases of severe repression actually exacerbate violence in the short term and can only reduce violence in the longer term if the intervention is impartial or neutral."
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The New York Times: At Summit, Nations Move to Increase Aid for Syrian Rebels
The United States and more than 60 other countries moved closer on Sunday to direct intervention in the fighting in Syria, with Arab nations pledging $100 million to pay opposition fighters and the Obama administration agreeing to send communications equipment to help rebels organize and evade Syria's military, according to participants gathered here.
The moves reflected a growing consensus, at least among those who met here this weekend under the rubric "Friends of Syria," that mediation efforts by the United Nations peace envoy, Kofi Annan, were failing to halt the violence in Syria and that more forceful action was needed. With Russia and China blocking measures that could open the way for military action by the United Nations, the countries lined up against the government of President Bashar al-Assad have sought to bolster Syria's beleaguered opposition through means that seemed to stretch the definition of humanitarian assistance.
The offer to provide salaries and communications equipment to rebel fighters known as the Free Syrian Army — with the hopes that the money might encourage government soldiers to defect, officials said — is bringing the loose Friends of Syria coalition to the edge of a proxy war against Mr. Assad's government and its international supporters, principally Iran and Russia.
Direct assistance to the rebel fighters, even as Mr. Assad's loyalists press on with a brutal crackdown, risked worsening a conflict that has already led to about 9,000 deaths and could plunge Syria into a protracted civil war.
"We would like to see a stronger Free Syrian Army," Burhan Ghalioun, the leader of the Syrian National Council, a loose affiliation of exiled opposition leaders, told hundreds of world leaders and other officials gathered here. "All of these responsibilities should be borne by the international community."
Mr. Ghalioun did not directly address the financial assistance from the Arab countries — including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — but he added, "This is high noon for action."
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the conference that Mr. Assad had defied Mr. Annan's efforts to broker an end to the fighting and begin a political transition. She said that new assaults began in Idlib and Aleppo provinces even after Mr. Assad publicly accepted the plan a week ago, which called for an immediate cease-fire followed by negotiations with the opposition.
"The world must judge Assad by what he does, not by what he says," Mrs. Clinton said in a statement to officials who sat around an enormous rectangular table the size of a basketball arena. "And we cannot sit back and wait any longer."
The question of arming the rebels — as countries like Saudi Arabia and some members of Congress have called for — remain divisive because of the uncertainty of who exactly would receive them. Paying salaries to fighters blurs the line between lethal and nonlethal support.
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Two food posts in a row. Egads! I promise, I have another quilt post coming up. I finished a quilt top today, so its just the rest (and the most tedious) to finish.
You know those days when you are tired and don't want to cook. Sound familiar? Even as a stay-at-home mom, I have a lot of those days. And with a meat and potatoes type husband, this meal is a sure and easy pleaser.
Balsamic Roast Pork Tenderloin
At my store, these comes prepackaged in a bag. Simply remove the tenderloin from the bag. Cut some garlic slivers and using a knife, insert them throughout the tenderloin. You can see one in the photo and these are the most delicious morsels. Yum. Marinate the tenderloin for as short as 30 minutes and as long as overnight in a mix of balsamic vinegar (probably 1/3 to 1/2 a cup), Sriracha (1-2 tbsp), a dash of worcheshire (1 tbsp), and a generous shaking (like 1/4 cup) of Montreal Steak Seasoning.
Heat oven to 500. When hot, cook your tenderloin in an oven safe dish for 22 minutes.
While your pork is cooking, why not whip up a blue cheese sauce to serve with it. Your husband or your taste buds or whomever you are cooking for will appreciate it.
In a pan (I use a small fry pan, seriously), melt 1/3 stick butter. When it is melted, crumble blue cheese into the butter (maybe 2-3 tbsp, depending on your preferences), add a dash of garlic salt and a splash of worcheshire. Crack some fresh black pepper into it and smoosh with a fork to combine.
When your pork is done, let it sit for a couple of minutes covered in tin foil. Slice it about 1/2 an inch to 1 inch thick and serve your pork medallions (see, fancy word for slices!) with a drizzle of blue cheese sauce.
Seriously yummy and perfect for a Fall dinner.


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All registrants should all have received the below message via e-mail. If you didn't, either a) you forgot to register, or b) you have an overactive spam filter. You can private message me to figure out which one it was.
Hi everyone and welcome to 2018 Freezing Saddles! If youre receiving this email, you have registered for Freezing Saddles, the Winter Biking Competition and you are on the list to be assigned to a team. Some Frequently Asked Questions on the next steps are below:
When I registered, I said I had not made any posts on the forum. Can I still play?
Several people indicated in their registration that they had not yet posted on the Washington Area Bike Forum. You have to have posted at least once on the forum to play. And we don't have the time to check each person who said they hadn't posted, to make sure that they did later. So here is what you need to do if you said in your registration that you hadn't posted:
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What should I do if I can no longer play?
We're sorry to lose you! You can send a Private Message to forum member Sunyata on http://bikearlingtonforum.com. She is doing team assignments and needs to know if she needs to remove you. We hope you can play next year.
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1. Confirm that you joined the 2018 Freezing Saddles Strava club herehttps://www.strava.com/clubs/freezingsaddles2018. Most (maybe all) of you have done this, but if you havent, please do.
2. Authorize the Freezing Saddles leaderboard here. Please go do this now. We'll wait...
When do I find out what team I'm on?
Teams announcements occur at the Welcoming Happy Hour on January 10th. Preliminary information for happy hour can be found on the Washington Area Bike Forum at http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showth...-SAVE-THE-DATE! More information will be posted later on the forum.
I didn't read that last question. When is opening Happy Hour?
Wednesday, January 10th at 6 p.m. at Bier Baron Tavern on 1523 22nd St NW, Washington, DC.
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Dont worry! Teams assignments will be posted on the forum later that night, or the next morning. Follow this link http://bikearlingtonforum.com/forumd...ng-Competition and look for a new post announcing team assignments (probably titled Team Assignments or something very similar). We'll send out another email a little closer to that time with details on how to join up with your team.
When does the contest begin?
The contest starts on January 1st at 12:01 a.m. Teams will not be announced yet, but rides and points count. If you are planning to get a super-early start and be out riding your bike as the year changes, be aware that rides starting before midnight will not be counted by the leaderboard. You need to stop your recording device and restart a new ride after midnight for your miles in 2018 to count.
Where can I go for more information?
There is a permanent link here that is updated regularly with new/current information. If the multitude of posts on the forum are confusing, you can check there for basic current information. Game rules and scoring are described there as well.
I really appreciate this super informative e-mail. How can I say thank you to it's authors?
Step 1: Find Sunyata, Judd, or cvcalhoun at Happy Hour. Step 2: Provide these people with free food and/or free high fives.
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This series analyses the 2016 presidential campaign with recaps of Alex Jones Show interviews with Larry Nichols, a Clinton insider from Arkansas days, terminally ill with cancer, and Roger Stone, Trump insider and veteran of five presidential campaigns beginning in 1964. See parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 if you missed them.
Nichols co-created the 1994 film The Clinton Chronicles and Stone co-authored The Clintons' War on Women, published in 2015.
Part 14 featured former White House travel chef Tracey Martin.
Part 15 summarised the first of two interviews Jones had with former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne, author of Crisis of Character, which is about his time in the Secret Service and serving the Clinton family in the White House. The book went on sale on June 28, 2016.
On October 17, Jones interviewed Byrne again. Roger Stone came on afterwards.
At this point, it was unclear whether Donald Trump would be able to win on November 8. Big Media continued their all out narrative assault on him and ramped it up in the final weeks.
Byrne told Jones that Hillary Clinton is:
completely incompetent.
He said that everything Americans hear from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary is a lie, including polling.
He talked again about his former colleague whom she assaulted in the White House. He said that there is:
clearly something wrong with her … [hitting] a Secret Service agent in the back of the head with a Bible — bone crazy.
Jones had spoken with Dolly Kyle, one of Bill Clinton's ex-girlfriends, a few days before and mentioned that she said Hillary sees the military as an enemy. Byrne fully agreed.
Byrne regretted that the Clintons were able to bring their Arkansas 'show' to the White House in 1993. However, he said their scandals are a true reflection of what they are really about.
He told Jones that the people who most live in fear of Hillary are her employees. They are terrified. He emphasised that the Hillary they know is not the person we see on television. Her staff have seen things happen first hand or have heard rumours that something bad will happen to them. He said that what happened to young DNC employee Seth Rich in July 2016 scares them.
Byrne said that the WikiLeaks email to John Podesta wherein someone mentions a dumb, compliant American citizenry accurately reflects Hillary's thinking, too. He said that she also wanted other people's money. He added that reports of her loathing of Catholics, Latinos and blacks is not exaggerated. He told Jones that she goes out of her way to treat people badly, especially the military and law enforcement:
I witnessed those same things at the White House.
Byrne felt sure that Trump would win and will do what he can to repair the frayed fabric of the United States.
Byrne found Benghazi troubling. He wondered aloud how that could happen when the US has tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment, so many armed forces personnel and military operations. He and his colleagues think that if this happened again under a Democrat administration, the government wouldn't send any rescue operation.
Byrne concluded by saying that Bill is very different to Hillary, especially in his treatment of people. (At that point, I thought, 'Maybe not the sexual assault victims, though'.)
Roger Stone came on air in the next segment. He was most unhappy that the Democrats were still accusing him of being in league with the Russians and WikiLeaks.
He mentioned Mike Morrell, whom he said ordered the stand down at Benghazi and was paid in cash by Hillary's campaign to investigate him.
The tone of the media and Democrats during the campaign bothered him:
I've never seen anything like this in nine presidential campaigns.
Nor have I. I pity young people who think this was politics as usual. Fortunately, some Democratic party members saw through it and formed Democrats for Trump. Post-election, a number of ex-Bernie supporters have become readers and contributors to The_Donald. Their first-person introductory posts often say that the American Left is unhinged and they've had enough. Here are three short testimonies:
Can confirm. Was an Obama democrat, now a Trump conservative. Bring back jobs!
Obama Democrat who voted for Trump reporting in. I recently took the political spectrum test and I am still left of center. However, I don't identify with the Democrat Party even slightly anymore. The left has gone insane.
My parents voted for Obama in 2008, I think they voted for Obama or Gary Johnson in 2012, but both are now firm Trump Supporters.
It was around that time that CNN's Chris Cuomo announced on air that it was illegal for Americans to read WikiLeaks and that they should wait for CNN to comment on the content. (It's no surprise that never happened.) Stone said:
These are no longer news organisations. They are propaganda arms.
Stone concluded the conversation by talking about David Brock, founder of Media Matters and head of Hillary's Correct The Record team. He felt sure, based on what he knew from other sources, that WikiLeaks would reveal that Brock was an:
unconvicted felon
involved in:
money laundering.
If the information is there, it never came out, because some person(s) or an intelligence agency stopped WikiLeaks from dumping more Podesta emails. The last drop was the morning of November 8, election day. They were to have continued through to Christmas Day.
I hope that once Trump's cabinet nominees are confirmed that investigations start in the background. There's a lot of swamp to drain.
The next few posts will summarise Alex Jones programme segments with Roger Stone in January 2017.


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Toward the Conservation of Cuban Cacti
A Workshop on Cuban Cacti Conservation will be held from March 23-25th 2005 at the Cuban National Botanical Garden (Havana, Cuba). The objective of the Workshop is to review the conservation status of more than 30 Cuban cacti, to exchange management and conservation information and experience between different groups, and develop future actions toward the conservation of these fascinating plants. Other important goals are to involve private horticulturists in cacti conservation, and to gather and spread unpublished information about Cuban cacti.
The Workshop will begin checking the conservation status of Cuban cacti with the advice of the Cuban Plant Specialist Group SSC/IUCN. National specialists on systematics, protected areas, ex situ collections, population management and ethnobotany will introduce each theme with broad-scope presentations. These will be followed by lectures and posters on specific topics. This wide scientific program will guarantee information exchange as well as building the knowledge of newcomers to the subject.
This Workshop is organized by the Cuban National Botanical Garden and the National Network of Botanical Gardens with the support of the BP Conservation Programme and the British Cactus and Succulents Society.
For further information, please contact:
Luis Roberto González Torres
Jardín Botánico Nacional
Universidad de La Habana
Carr. "El Roc?o" km 3.5, Calabazar,
Boyeros, C. Habana. Cuba. CP 19230.


text: agm04 6 Report post Posted August 27, 2012 I searched the forum for this topic but most of what I found was about whether or not to have one at all, so forgive me if I've missed something! FI's family is starting to plan the rehearsal dinner. Originally they planned to invite all guests. Our guest list is 145 people, and based on verbal responses, we are expecting about 95 to show up. (I know people may back out, but looking at this list, it is really mostly close family and close friends, so I'd be shocked if we ended up with any fewer than 80.) While I really want to show all of our guests a good time, I don't think they should feel like they have to invite everyone to the rehersal dinner, especially if they're doing something on the more formal side. It would be different if we were talking about excluding 10 guests, but it's the difference between 30 people (assuming we invite our entire families, in the wedding or not) and 80-95 people. Thoughts? I mentioned doing welcome cocktails or something like that instead, but then you have the awkward part where the family/wedding party leaves and everyone else stays. I really think if they want to include everyone, just doing something causal is fine. Hoping you guys can give me some feedback. Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites