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SKOPJE, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Alexander Kerzhakov struck early for the second consecutive game to lead Russia to a 1-0 win over Macedonia and top spot in Euro 2012 qualifying Group B on Tuesday.
The in-form striker, who also scored the first goal in Russia's 3-2 win over Ireland on Friday, fired home from a tight angle, beating Macedonia goalkeeper Edin Nuredinovski with a rising shot into the far corner in the eighth minute.
Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeyev saved a penalty from Ilco Naumoski midway through the second half to ensure victory for Dick Advocaat's team.
The home side, missing leading striker Goran Pandev through injury, rarely troubled Akinfeyev in the first half but came alive after the break.
Filip Despotovski wasted a good chance after sneaking in at the far post early in the second half and substitute Stevica Ristic brushed the bar with a header before Naumoski's weak attempt from the spot was kept out by Akinfeyev.
The Russians, who also beat Macedonia home and away in two Euro 2008 qualifiers under Dutchman Guus Hiddink, endured a few nervous moments late in the game but held on for their second away win in four days after beating the Irish in Dublin.
Russia moved top of the group with nine points from four matches, two points ahead of Slovakia and Ireland, who played out a 1-1 draw in Zilina. Armenia also have seven points after crushing lowly Andorra 4-0 in their earlier match.


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Hunslet have signed prolific try scorer Dee Foggin-Johnston from York City Knights.
Foggin-Johnston, 21, is a product of the Warrington Wolves Academy and moved to Doncaster in 2016. Hunslet head coach Gary Thornton said: "Dee is a proven try scorer at League 1 level, and will be a fantastic addition to our squad.
"He finished top try scorer in a York side that made the play-off semi-finals, including a hat-trick against Toronto.
"He will bring some genuine pace and finishing prowess to our outside backs. Having worked with him at Doncaster, I know what he will bring to the group and am really looking forward to seeing him in a Hunslet shirt.
"He has a great work ethic to both training and playing and is always looking to learn and improve himself."
Thornton added: ""Every time he takes the field he puts his heart and soul into playing, and he won't leave anything out on the field, and I'm sure he will soon become a big favourite with the fans."
Foggin-Johnston said: "I'm looking forward to the new challenge and hopefully I can bring some more excitement and success to Hunslet. Gary is a great coach and he sold the vision he has for the club really well to me and I'm happy to be on board.
"The club have been very understanding of my work situation and I hope to repay them by putting my all into every aspect of my game."
He added: "Having been the joint top try scorer last year at York, I hope to kick on from where I left off, and I'm looking forward linking up with the squad that Gary is putting together at Hunslet.
"Hunslet are known for the amazing support they get from their fans and it's going to be a great feeling to be on the positive end of that kind of passion for the game.
"I can't wait to get started."
Marucs Webb, meanwhile, has joined Swinton Lions.

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CAPCOG shares economic analysis expertise throughout the region
Monday, June 06, 2016
For every 10 jobs we create in the food production, processing, and distribution sectors, we create roughly another eight jobs elsewhere throughout the local economy. Moreover, 54 cents of every dollar in sales earned by food producers, processors, and distributors gets funneled back into the local economy. There are important opportunities in these sectors that exist for communities in our region, said CAPCOG Planning and Economic Development Director, Chris Schreck.
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09/02/17 P Jason Motte Oblique 10-day DL (09/01)
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05/28/17 P Armando Rivero Shoulder 60-day DL (03/30)
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09/01/17 P Jon Lester Shoulder 10-day DL (08/17) - expected to start Saturday vs. Atlanta Braves
08/11/17 C Willson Contreras Hamstring 10-day DL (08/10)
08/04/17 SS Addison Russell Foot 10-day DL (08/03)
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The Braves have a 59-74 overall record this season. Starting pitcher Max Fried has a 0-0 record with an earned run average of 5.40 and a WHIP of 1.95. He has 4 strikeouts over his 6.2 innings pitched and he's given up 7 hits. He allows 9.5 hits per 9 innings and he has a FIP of 7.03. The bullpen has an earned run average of 4.64 and they have given up 398 base hits on the year. Teams are hitting .242 against the bullpen and they've struck out 397 hitters and walked 184 batters. As a team, Atlanta allows 9.1 hits per nine innings while striking out 7.7 batters per nine innings. They are 25th in the league in team earned run average at 4.72. The Braves pitchers collectively have given up 1,200 base hits and 622 earned runs. They have allowed 168 home runs this season, ranking them 14th in the league. Atlanta as a pitching staff has walked 482 batters and struck out 1,015. They have walked 3.7 men per 9 innings while striking out 7.7 per 9. They have a team WHIP of 1.42 and their FIP as a unit is 4.63.
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As a team Atlanta is hitting .263, good for 6th in the league. The Braves hold a .414 team slugging percentage and an on-base percentage of .325, which is good for 16th in baseball. They rank 5th in MLB with 9.1 hits per game. Nick Markakis is hitting .280 with an on-base percentage of .359. He has 139 hits this season in 496 at bats with 66 runs batted in. He has a slugging percentage of .397 and an OPS+ of 100. Ender Inciarte is hitting .309 this year and he has an on-base percentage of .350. He has totaled 174 hits and he has driven in 50 men in 563 at bats. His OPS+ is 100 while his slugging percentage is at .410. The Braves have 1,205 hits, including 239 doubles and 137 home runs. Atlanta has walked 377 times so far this season and they have struck out 977 times as a unit. They have left 906 men on base and have a team OPS of .738. They score 4.53 runs per contest and have scored a total of 602 runs this year.
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Chicago has a 74-60 overall mark this year. With an earned run average of 3.29, Mike Montgomery has a 5-6 record and a 1.24 WHIP. He has 85 strikeouts over the 109.1 innings he's pitched. He's also given up 90 hits. He allows 7.4 hits per nine innings and his FIP stands at 4.1. The bullpen has an earned run average of 3.65 and they have given up 359 base hits on the year. Teams are hitting .214 against the Cubs bullpen. Their relievers have struck out 487 batters and walked 209 opposing hitters. As a team, Chicago allows 8 hits per nine innings while striking out 8.8 batters per nine innings. They are 7th in the league in team earned run average at 3.95. The Cubs pitchers as a team have surrendered 1,059 base knocks and 525 earned runs this season. They have given up 164 home runs this year, which ranks 17th in Major League Baseball. Chicago as a staff has walked 459 hitters and struck out 1,172 batters. They give up a walk 3.5 times per 9 innings while they strike out 8.8 per 9. Their team WHIP is 1.27 while their FIP as a staff is 4.24.
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As a team, they are batting .254, good for 17th in the league. The Cubs hold a .442 team slugging percentage and an on-base percentage of .337, which is good for 3rd in baseball. They rank 18th in MLB with 8.6 hits per contest. Kris Bryant comes into this matchup batting .291 with an OBP of .409. He has 134 hits this year along with 59 RBI in 460 AB's. He maintains a slugging percentage of .535 with an OPS+ of 143. Anthony Rizzo is hitting .282 this season and he has an OBP of .399. He has collected 137 hits in 486 at bats while driving in 97 runs. He has an OPS+ of 141 and a slugging percentage of .539. The Cubs as a unit have 1,159 base hits, including 227 doubles and 193 homers. Chicago has walked 509 times this year and they have struck out on 1,155 occasions. They have had 953 men left on base and have an OPS of .778. They have scored 5.05 runs per game and totaled 677 runs this season.
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Summary: Jaden Cain pulls another publicity stunt, much to the chagrin of the EvoSoft Board of Directors. It ends with two, interesting, revelations.
Date It Happened: May 23rd, 2007
Times Square
"Yes, Alison. You heard right. The rumors are true. EvoSoft Billionaire Jaden Cain is cleaning house!" Some hottie reporter is doing some reporting from the side and away from the giant crowd that has gathered to see what in the world is going on.
The crowd seems to be centered around what was once the EvoSoft building. No longer will it be used, though, as Jaden Cain has drawn up plans for a whole new skyscraper that he's going to have built. A huge banner hangs from one side of the EvoSoft building to the other: PUBLISHER'S CLEANING HOUSE. SIDEWALK NOT-SALE! It's in Jaden's paintbrushed handwriting, of course.
"Friends! Roman Numerals! Countrymen! Lend me your ears!" Jaden Cain is standing on the roof of the building, using one of those sweet megaphones to talk to the crowd down below. "WELCOME TO THE SIDEWALK NOT-SALE!" People cheer! "Here's the rules!"
Dramatic Pause.
"THERE ARE NO RULES!" Jaden cackles loudly! "I drop it, you cop it. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!" Jaden holds his fist up in the air: CHIPMUNK SALUTE. "ARE YOU READY?!?!"
Somewhere in this throng outside the EvoSoft building, a five foot eight inch tall brunette with a guitar case over one shoulder and backpack across the other is standing, her eyes trained upward toward the roof and the man with the megaphone. Chipmunk Salute? She chuckles. Not quite her thing. She starts trying to move forward, her aim to get closer and eventually inside the building. Her mind potentially questions the wisdom of this move, and now wonders how the Lancaster folks he merged the company with will take it, but… Jaden Cain will be Jaden Cain. Doctor Forrest slides the guitar case from her shoulder and holds it in front of her body, using it to help make a path toward her destination. "Coming through. 'Scuse me, pardon me, folks." Not exactly being rough, but not letting herself be shunted away either.
Sometimes, Desiree likes to venture out into the city and just explore. It usually results in her getting lost, but that's where public transit comes in handy. It's during one of these journeys that the woman comes upon … whatever is going on in Times Square. First, the crowd gets her attention; then the giant sign; then the reporter; /then/ the announcements via megaphone. Wandering to the edge of the crowd, holding tightly onto the strap of her purse, the dark-haired, hazel-eyed Southerner tries to make sense of the event. With a jangle of gold bracelets on one wrist, she lifts a hand to her head and squints upward. EvoSoft? Isn't that where Elena works?
Pulling a page from Jane's book is always easy- especially if it's about New York. Karoliina is standing on the rofotop, standing on a small makeshift stage, in nothing more than jeans and a t-shirt, hair held back from blowing in her face as she just listens to Jaden for a few minutes, then she steps forward to the microphone. "Alright New York! Get ready to start rockin, after the CEO is done talkin!" There's a pause, then the music starts going and Liina leans into the microphone to sing.
"Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today -
I want to be a part of it - New York, New York!"
She passes close to the slightly taller woman as she begins to make her way through and pauses, spotting her there. "Desiree?" Jane asks, momentarily distracted from her destinational goal. "Is that you?" Her eyes lift again to the rooftop, and widen a bit when the Broadway performer begins to sing. And it's a song she herself adopted to a metal version for opening her appearances at a running gig in Brooklyn not so long ago. The head tilts aside, it dawns on her who the woman is, the face and voice are recognized. What the…?
Rock and Roll. Jaden's other favorite past time. Luckily, he's not that high up. The original EvoSoft building was less high and more technologically sound. He's making himself off towards the edge of the rooftop and he's holding two laptops! EvoSoft Laptops to be exact. "It's go time baby!" Jaden yells and literally hurls both of the laptops off the roof! They do their sailing and twirling down towards the crowd, for people to fight over. He just keeps leaning over the side to watch and see who manages to score each of the laptops.
Thinking she spots a familiar face, but entirely unsure, Desiree is in the process of squeezing her way into the crowd to follow Jane when she's recognized herself. "Jane?" The woman breaks into a bewildered smile. "Heeya," she greets, friendly as usual, but she's distracted by the plummeting computers. "Wha—" She watches the crowd attack the laptops like frenzied dogs. "Does… this kinda thing happen often around here?"
Karoliina spots Jane from her perch and she grins and waves furiously at the other soprano, even as Jaden does his thing. "Don't hit anyone!" She manages to insert into the lyrics, still dancing across the stage as the whole EvoSoft party. … thing … gets going and keeps going. Liina's getting raelly into the music, and Jane should probably watch out before the two end up dueting again.
Maybe the bossman isn't exactly doing the right thing. Because he's wanting things to become rowdy. It gets more fun that way. "Do whatever it takes! Test your might!" Jaden snatches up his megaphone and shouts into it: "MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAT!" Tossing the megaphone over the side, it becomes something else being given away. He runs back over to the pile of stuff on the roof and grabs a handful of… staplers. All of them have the EvoSoft logo on them. When he returns to the edge of the roof, he's picking out sections of the crowd and hurling them with a bit of force! One after another!
Her pace halts as Desiree speaks and the crowd jostles for tossed computer, Jane not wishing to get tackled and trampled here. Times Square and her are on perhaps unfriendly terms, after all. One time she smashed a street lamp by screaming, another time she nearly got blown away by a sudden tornado and the earth shook under her feet. "Around here? I think the weird is normal. Sudden twisters, earthquakes, streetlamps shattering, flying office products…" She manages to duck just in time to avoid getting a stapler to the noggin, one which can be caught by the taller one. "Are you still at the bed and breakfast?"
The young woman up above looks vaguely familiar, and Desiree finds herself staring up at Karoliina in a sort of memory-induced daze as she tries to figure out why. She's broken from her staring when an EvoSoft stapler goes flying past her head. "No, I'm— Jesuschrist!" The next one that comes hurtling over Jane, she actually reaches out to catch before she's face-stapled or something equally tragic. She holds out the stapler and blinks at it. "… stayin' with friends," she finishes.
Karoliina blinks as a stapler goes flinging at Jane's head, and she motions furiously to Jaden to watch where he's throwing, before she throws /him/ off the roof to be taken home by some lucky audience member. She's still singing though, but the song is winding down and she pauses afterwards to take a breath and call into the Mic: "Hi /Jaaaaaaaane/!" Wheee, spotlight.
"Oh yeah! Duck!" is called out as Jaden leans back from the edge of the roof and slides back over towards wherever the pile of stuff is. There's a couple of stacks of papers that are being held down by something heavy. Wind is not a good thing. He grabs them up and moves back to the side of the roof. "I make it rain!" And he throws the papers! They scatter and flutter like there's no tomorrow, sailing down towards the crowd. If anybody catches any of these sheets of paper, they'll find that it's nothing more than EvoSoft Stationary.
Looking up again when Desiree eyes the singer atop the roof and following her attention there, Jane chuckles. "I met her once. We sang together. I still need to make arrangements to play for the Phantom of the Opera cast." And there it is, her name being called out. "I see she hasn't forgotten me. Anyway, you're staying with friends? Glad to hear you're settling into New York life." And there's a blizzard of paper all around, Jaden's own version of tickertape writ large?
Desiree is still looking at her new stapler. In a constant state of confusion today, she looks to the woman beside her. "Looks like you got friends in high places." Ha. Haha. "Oh, /that's/ why she looks so familiar!" Because she was watching Karoliina on stage for hours! Duh. Tucking the stapler into her purse for lack of anything else to do with it, she swipes a swirling paper from the air and glances at it. Her eyes narrow for just a moment on the relatively uninteresting stationary. "I wouldn't say settlin' into /New York/ life, but I'm settlin'. How've you been, Jane?"
Jaden doesn't know what he's doing at this moment. It's really just to piss off the Board of Directors. But when you're as rich as Jaden Cain is, you can do stuff like that. Moving right along, though, Jaden's actually pushing a couple roller chairs (comfy ones!) over to the edge. "Have a seat, guys!" And one after another, he's lifting the chairs and hurling them over the side! It might be good form to let these land before trying to claim them. They're pretty big!
"I'm good," Jane answers with a quiet laugh. "Leading the far from boring New York life, in fact. And meeting tons of interesting people." She takes a step back when chairs go over the side, even though she isn't in range, and eyes the man atop the roof again. "Like that one, who I got romantic with." Her head tilts as she studies Jaden up there, and a realization perhaps sets in. She played Lana for him, but there was no Guido to empty his house, because they didn't really ride a train, so… is this him doing the next step, emptying out a building on his own? "Ohmygod," she whispers, shaking her head, as this possibility registers.
Now chairs are falling! Desiree just stares with a silly smile stuck in place. "Really? Well!" She looks at the young CEO in a new light now, cocking her head to the side. "Good for you, Jane. Ain't he a billionaire? That's what I heard the reporter say a few minutes ago, right? I think… my frien'… Elena works for his company," she says unsurely, clutching the random sheet of stationary to her chest. "'Cept I ain't real sure what she does."
Jaden moves from the edge of the roof and to the microphone that Liina has been using. "And now… for the greatest product up for grabs…" He's using his TV Announcer voice. But it's silent as he's saying nothing else. Instead, he's just running and jumping off the side, opening his arms and sailing towards the crowd. This is probably the stupidest thing he's ever done, but he trusts in the Fans of the Cain! Of course, this is just his crazy stunt to signal to security to open the doors of the building and let the crowd in to unshop until they drop!
"Elena?" She knows an Elena who works for Jaden. Sure, Elena and Gomez might be common names in Spanish, but… probably not that common. Jane studies Desiree for a long moment, considering the odds, before she asks simply "Elena Gomez, of Queens?" And looking up again. "Yeah, he's a billionaire. And an eccentric," she adds softly. It makes her laugh, eases away stress, something she perhaps needs more than occasionally these days, perhaps now as well, only a day after she was told Jack got shot and she saw Daphne reject her advice about escaping holes with such disastrous linguistic consequences.
Karoliina watches Jaden go, and then as he attempts to start running, Karoliina raeches out and promptly snags Jaden by the back of his shirt, and she gives him a /completely/ innocent look. "What? I can't keep a product for myself?" Completely deadpanned.
Desiree is opening her mouth to say something, surprise written all over her features that Jane might know the same Elena Gomez - but that's when Jaden tries to crowd-surf. As the throng rushes forth - either to catch the CEO if Karoliina lets him go, or to stampede into the building - they leave a cluster of papers in their midst, being trampled on. Crumpled EvoSoft stationary, ignored, since it couldn't all be swiped from the sky; but Dezi isn't ignoring it. The woman's brow knitting in deep furrows, she murmurs, "Just a second," and crouches down, teetering on her gold-hued high heels. She picks up a few of the sheets and adds hers to it. She stands still for several moments before dropping them all in a flutter, a determined, if frantic, expression wrecking her prior smile. She tries to force her way into the crowd toward the building.
"Sorry, Sweetheart. But this bird's got to fly the coop." Jaden remarks with all the Humphrey in his Bogart that he can pull off right about now. Weaseling himself out of her grasp, he returns to his running start and his LEAP OF FAITH to take himself into the arms of his loving fans. The ones that haven't decided to rush the building and start claiming stuff. Which, well, is the whole reason that everyone's there.
Oh, crap! She's seen Desiree do that before, it was when she voiced that street lamp in this very square into oblivion and Desi predicted it. So when the taller woman moves, so does Jane. She in fact tries to get in front of her and work to clear the way, using that guitar case as a tool to clear a path. Her best commanding lawyer voice is brought to bear as well. "Look out! Coming through! Out of the way, people! Make a hole!"
Karoliina's foot flies out to boot Jaden in his rear. "C'mon, I'm a fan! I can't keep you? I'm already up here!" She catcalls, following him after snagging the microphone. "Everyone move for m'fried!" She yells, noting Jane and Desiree's movement, before she trails after Jaden again. "Everyone look! It's the famous Jaden Cain! Who will be lucky enough to keep him for a night?" … Jane, anyone?
"Excuse me, Mister Cain? Mister Cain!" Desiree pushes her way through, even if it means elbowing a few folks on the way (although she does murmur sincere apologies) - but thankfully, that amount is few, given Jane's forewarning and Karoliina's help from abvoe. She's one of those who swarm Jaden when he hits the crowd (what's left of it), grabbing for his arm, but there's a desperation about the woman that lends her a more serious air. She looks a little old to be a fangirl. "Mister Cain, I needa speak with you!" She looks over her shoulder at Jane, worried, before she turns again to the CEO. "It's real important. I jus'— I jus' need a few minutes of your time."
Mister Cain is in the midst of his fanbase and finds himself getting tugged by the Desiree. Whomever the heck that is. "Whoa, whoa. Hold on. I do autographs…" He then stops to blink, realizing that he's not talking to some young hottie or anything. He tilts his head as he looks at Desi. "Whoa. You have to be the oldest Chipmunk fan I have." Pause. "I don't mean that in a bad way!" Poor Jaden. Try NOT to say the wrong thing!
Right behind Desiree is Jane. "Jaden," she begins, her voice calm but serious as she steps up, "give her the time she's asking for, the three of us in private, and listen to what she has to say." Her pack is slung around so she can get into it, after she places the crowd parting guitar case back over the other, and a bag of cookies is taken out. Yes, those cookies. If she has to, she'll start walking and leaving them behind her to secure his attention.
Traffic comes and goes. Occasionally in between gaps, across the street, is a middle-aged woman, somewhat round on the face with glasses on. Her hands are in her pockets, and her gaze is focused straight ahead. Whatever she's looking at can't be discerned just by observing her, but there's something….a little absentminded about this one. People pass her without notice, and she shifts only to adjust her glasses on her nose.
Karoliina peers down at Jane. Then she asks, quietly: "I can't come?" She gives Jane a look, and raises an eyebrow, even s she starts yellign into the microphone again. "Come on over, all and one! Just come on over! Mr. Caine doesn't bite!" A pause. "Hard." ANother pause. "Not that I'd know."
Instead of being insulted, Dezi just looks blankly at Jaden. "Chipmunk?" Her lack of comprehension is bypassed quickly in favour of that alarmed look in her eye - the determination to tell him something he needs to know. She exchanges glances with Jane briefly before her focus turns again, her lips pressed together hopefully, eyes wide. "I don't know you but I know someone who works for you, Miss Elena Gomez?" Glancing up at Karoliina, she garners a slightly pained expression. No! Don't come over, everyone! Desiree lowers her richly accented voice and tells Jaden: "I know this is gonna sound way outta left field, but—- think you might be in a bit of trouble."
Walking down the crowded streets, Ryan is taking in the sights of TImes Square. NOticing the crowd to one side and the announcements, he lets his curiosity lead him to gathering. He stands on his tiptoes to see over the crowd to what so interesting.
"Me? In trouble?" Jaden would turn and look at the camera if he was on television or something. But he's not on television, so he tends to find himself doing the complete opposite of being serious. He finds himself twirling on his feet to spin around to behind Jane and there is already leaning in to plant a kiss on Jane's cheek upon sight of her and those Snacks. "Hey Mrs. Cain." Wow. Thinking ahead to the future much?
While Jaden is kissing the cheek she gladly offers, she looks up at Karoliina and flashes a smile. "Hey, Liina," she greets. "You sound really good up there! This thing down here? It's just a little business matter, really. One that can't really be made public." An apologetic expression is shown the Broadway actress above, before she emits a playful chuckle. "I'll never tell if Jaden bites or not, or how hard if he does." She sounds as if she knows, and not so troubled to have people know she knows. Then she's speaking quietly for only Jaden and Desiree to hear. "She knows me too, Jaden. I trust her, you should also. Let's go find a quiet spot." The bag is shaken a time or two and she's on the move, headed into that building and looking for the first office she can find and close the door of.
Karoliina :nods and winks a bit at Jane/Jaden/Dezi, and draw the the crowd off, catcalling them away to the side where she slowly gets their attention away from the disappear Mr. Caine. "I'm sure he'll be back! He know sbetter than to keep us waiting. Now, song requests? Anyone?"
Desiree is starting to get a /little/ frantic as Jaden doesn't take her seriously, but she just stays quiet, wringing her hands, since Jane seems to be making progress. "Yeah. Trouble," she repeats. Okay, /mostly/ quiet. "Can we jus'— can we go inside somewhere?"
Ryan notices who has drawn the crowd. He's not really into the whole 'Jaden' scene, but his siter is, so he tries to move closer and get a picture with his iPhone.
Inside Somewhere…
In the midst of the craziness that's going on in the All or Nothing Giveaway (it has so many names), Jaden leads Desiree and Jane into a corner office that's already been emptied out. Shutting the door behind them, he leans back against it to make sure that nothing, really, is going to interrupt them. They'll all just have to deal with the crazy noise of fans and such getting their hands on whatever they want to get from EvoSoft: FOR FREE. "If this is what I think it is, do you mind if I get it on video? Shaggy'll never believe me…" Oh lord.
Desiree, worrying at her lower lip with her teeth, follows along behind Jane and Jaden all the way. She goes in a flurry, her steps quick and a little shuffling. Go go go! Aaaand inside. Finally (not that it took that long; it only seems that way when you have the burning need to tell someone something like this), when she's in the office, she takes a big, deep breath that forces her narrow shoulders to rise and fall. It's so… quiet all of a sudden. All eyes on her! "V-video… tape?" The woman glances nervously from Jaden to Jane. That's not a yes, but it's not a no, either. Oops. "Well, what I wanna tell you, Mr. Cain, is, um, I have this thing where…" The Southern rambling pauses while Dezi stops to scratch her eyebrow somewhat anxiously. "…well, sometimes I see the future… and I saw you. I-in the future."
Jane rolls her eyes when he mentions video, and seems to understand the track his mind is taking. Now, she did play Lana and ask his Joel if he liked trains, but… her track doesn't go anywhere near that station. "No," she answers simply, her voice taking on a bit of a 'can it, Cain,' sort of tone. "There will be no cameras. What you're thinking? Stop thinking that." She doesn't seem at all surprised by Desiree talking of seeing futures, but is visibly concerned that she speaks of seeing him there.
Roge— Jaden frowns and snaps his fingers, moving across the room to rest on a desk that hasn't been stolen yet. He hops up and spins around, getting comfy. "Whoa! Seriously?! You're like… Ms. Cleo?! Jawsome!" Jaden raises his hands in the air to show his excitement. "So wait, you can toly see me? Marty McFly style? So am I like still super rich? Or wait, are me and Jane married? Did she get implants like I —" He realizes that he's probably saying too much and looks over at Jane, clamping a hand over his mouth. Suddenly, LOUD COUGH. "Umm…" He puts on a little more serious tone. "… what did you see?"
"I ain't no Ms. Cleo," Desiree points out with a hint of indignation, though she hardly looks genuinely offended. "Jane here wasn't in the pictures I saw." She can't help but crack a smile but then she, too, coughs and sobers up. Serious business of the psychic variety. "Well. See." The woman looks around the office. She needs… props (not /those kind of props, Jaden/), but it's been so emptied out that her searching is fruitless. "Oh!" A hand dives into her purse and, after fishing around for a few seconds, she brandishes the EvoSoft stapler that could have been her doom. She plops it on the desk beside Jaden and taps it with one hot pink painted fingernail. "Pretend this is a car and you're a staple. Only. N-not really, you're just drivin' the car 'cause it's a car and that's what you do when you're in a car." Back to the point, Desiree. See above: no Ms. Cleo. She navigates the stapler around on the desk. "And you're goin' along, vrooooom, you're listenin' to music 'cause your head is doin' this thing—" She demonstrates. Head bobbin'. Lots of it. "And… then…"
Her head dips, Jane glances for a moment at her own chest, then looks back up with a clear indignation to her features. She is. not. small! There's a touch of noticeable frost forming about her mood on hearing such a thing suggested. The kind of frost that suggests togetherness of the together variety may be curtailed for a while. And her attention focuses on Desiree's telling of this future tale. Stapler car, Jaden driving, listening to music…
Jaden's sorry! He thinks too much and there's that whole fact that he's a Loudmouth which tends to be one serious Ouchy when it comes to dealing with women. Especially women that have lowered their standards to actually give him a shot. He's going to end up alone, again, that's for damn positive suredom. His apologetic look at Jane turns into one of interest as it crosses to Dezi and her hands, showing off whatever the incident is that's about to happen. He's hanging on her word and leaps in with his own ending, "And then I press a button on the dashboard and the car goes into battle mode and I start blastin' people with my lasers and missiles and I'm TOTALLY KICKING ASS!" By the time he gets to the TKA part, he's hopping off the desk and swinging fists at the air!
Desiree's eyes fly open to wideness of nearly saucer-like proportions - or would, if this were a cartoon - as she watches Jaden take off with his own ending. "I hate to break it to ya, sugar, but ain't exactly how it's gonna go down. I hate to be the bearer of bad news," Boy, does she ever, "And tell ya there ain't any… uhm, lasers, but hopefully, it ain't gonna go down at all if I can help it. So as I was sayin'." Back to /her/ version. She drives the stapler with her hand ever nearer to the edge of the desk. "You're drivin' along, I dunno where it is, maybe an overpass 'cause there's this ledge. W-well, then— uh, jus' hol' on a second!" Desiree stops the stapler-car (she even makes a *eeeehk* of squealing brakes) to dig in her purse. She pulls out a camera, albeit not a video camera, and transforms this into a vehicle with the power of imagination, too - a much bigger one. "And then this big ol' truck comes outta nowhere and BAM!" The camera crashes into the stapler and jackknifes it off the desk. It careens through the air onto the floor.
A quiet smile shows on her face as Jaden is… being himself. This seems to bother Jane far less than criticism of her body shape and parts. One could say she's used to and finds it endearing somehow, this eccentricity. Maybe it's a rock and roll thing? But she's very serious on hearing the vision described. Truck. Car. Overpass. Collision. The eyes widen a bit, concern shows in them, and a question is given voice. "Do you know when this happens?"
Silence. Jaden Cain is silent. In fact, his arms are still in the air when the collision happens. But soon enough his face falls. His arms fall. And he's just standing there, staring at the staple that's on the floor. He doesn't know what to say. Or even try to say. In fact, he looks like he's about to just lose his mind. Or his lunch. "I'm… gonna' die?" Not a happy camper anymore.
Desiree shakes her head regrettably at Jane. "It don't work that way… unless… there happens to be a giant clock in my pictures," she says, managing a little grin at the other woman. She sobers up fast, her emotive eyes settling in concern on the young CEO. Immediately, she's at his side, wrapping a motherly arm around the stranger. "No, you ain't. How I see it, the future can be changed. So you jus' don't drive your car. Can't crash it if you don't drive it."
She nods toward Desiree, and shows a quick smile, remembering that night. But it fades as soon as it appears, there's a Jaden to console. Jane's feet bring her to him, her own arm moving to wrap around the man from the other side. "No," she insists. "No dying for you." Eye contact is attempted, she trying to put his focus on her. "Just like that. You're insanely rich, have people drive for you." Without looking away, she frames another question for the visionary. "Are there any helpful details, like, about the truck or the overpass, the time of day? Maybe it was day, or night. And…" Truck out of nowhere. "Traffic signs or signals? License number for the truck?"
Jaden's worried. Sweating. Bullets. He's not sure what to think about all of this. Mainly because, well, he's the one that's in the driver's seat. Jane's asking all the right kind of wrong questions. Which means that he's going to have to ask his kind of right question. Not that, well, he's really a detective or anything. He's there, but he's not exactly, well, sure of his future. He could be dying. Very soon. "… Which car was it?" He's Jaden Cain. He doesn't have any normal cars. He just needs to know which Television Car it is so he can DESTROY IT.
"I. Well…" Desiree, overwhelmed with questions for details, looks down at the floor and leans back against the desk. "It was-a big truck. You know? A transport. Jus' white. It had somethin' on the side, I dunno, red lettering. It was daytime-maybe gettin' on evenin'? I could only see the inside of the car, I dunno."
Nodding slowly, Jane speaks in a quiet voice. She, it seems, has been quickly thinking on multiple levels of preventive possibility. "I was thinking first we could hopefully find the truck and who drives it, make an anonymous report to the police, maybe the driver is drunk or on medication, uses drugs or somesuch. Maybe even just overworked and falling asleep. It… isn't just Jaden, to me, but anyone who might be in that spot if he isn't. Sorry about the rapid fire questions, Desiree. I've just learned to… be really proactive these last few months."
Jaden isn't liking where this is going. In fact, he can't even stand up any more. He knows that Jane's right there for him to lean on and it's just not happening. His legs get weak and he starts to slump down to the floor. Eventually, he'll just end up in a pile of emoJaden right there next to the two women. "I can't believe I'm gonna' die." For a second there's a glimmer of the Original Jaden, "Like /that/. I mean… I can't even get a cool death? I have to get ran off the road?" His frown reminds him that he's talking about his death and he returns to emode. "I'm never gonna' get to see Paris. I'm never gonna' get to tell Jane that I love her. I'm never gonna' get to try out for the role of Snarf if they ever make Thundercats into a movie…" Depressed, now.
"I get it," Desiree bobs her head to Jane. "You're a fast thinker! Jus' - whoa, I wouldn' even know where to start. S'gotta be somethin' though, somethin' I'm missin'." Hold up. She watches Jaden crumple to the floor and promptly plants a hand on her hip. "Are you even /listenin'/ to word we're sayin', Mister Cain? You! Are not gonna die!" She flops down into a crouch beside him, craning her neck down to try to peer at him. "'Cause we're gonna /stoppit/. And FYI?" The woman smiles encouragingly. She's good at that. "Jane's standin' right there and I think she's got ears, so guess what you just told 'er?"
"So this is how it goes, Jaden," the younger woman says quietly. "We're going to Paris within the next two weeks, to get that out of the way. We'll look the city over, I'll play near the Eiffel Tower, always wanted to do that… Maybe Berlin too, so I can play where the Wall used to be." Yes, Guitar Woman thinks about doing things like that in European cities. Probably cities all over the world, for that matter. That thing you want to tell me? Message received. Love you too, and you are. not. going. to. die. before age seventy." One hand strokes his cheek for a moment, then she stands and lets her eyes wander about the room. That first night, how did she do it? Yes. Coins in the guitar case. Maybe… That stapler is seized from the floor and opened, she dumps the contents out and spreads them around to hopefully trigger another vision.
Wait, what? Jaden's confused. Literally. Because he was hearing voices and didn't know there was people there until Jane kind of let him know that he let the cat out of the bag. Which was definitely not as romantic as he was planning it to be. But since he's going to die… "Seventy five." he offers, forcing a small and determined smile onto his face. He's mostly just trying to fight the feeling that he's going to be out of here for good before he's good and ready. And with Jane by his side, with or without implants, he's starting to feel like he can do this. Probably why his hand is reaching for hers. "So how do we stop me from being Dead Like Me?"
Desiree looks at Jane. She looks at the staples. She looks back at Jane. Frowning, she gets the drift; she stares down the gutted stapler, squinting. Concentrating. …Nothing happens. She rolls her eyes good-naturedly, despite the situation, stepping away from the desk and swinging her arms. "Wee-eeell, step one's keepin' you outta cars like we said. I can look in the ones you got 'case I recognize the insides. I'll get 'Lena to help me with another vision - only it don't always work that way." Way to instil confidence, Desiree. She smiles widely after the fact, though, nodding at Jaden. "Don't you worry, Mister Cain."
"Seventy-five," she agrees. Her hand squeezes his when it's reached for, and Jane nods in the precog's direction. "Just like Desiree said. No driving." Attention shifts to Desiree, as things are considered. "It was worth a try, the staples. Worst that would happen is not knowing what we already don't know. And… Elena. You met her? Wow. The path crossings just keep lining up, don't they? She's one of my closest friends, knows about me and what I do. As does this one." Her head nods toward the visionary subject.
Jaden is not capable of coming up with a good plan. "No driving. Right." He's likely not going to listen, because he has to drive back home tonight, even! But still. "I'm not worried. I'm never worried. I've got the greatest girl in the world and my own personal psychic to keep me alive. Nothing can go wrong. Nothing." Jaden pauses for a brief moment, looking around and expecting something bad to happen. "See? Told you." Somewhere above them a large man can be heard falling down!
"I, uh - I live with her and her family right now," Desiree adds. "I'm jus' a houseguest that kinda doesn't ever leave." She shakes her head, jarring disbelief from its place. "Hunh." She smiles at the pair of Js and after swiping her camera from the desk now that it's not moonlighting as a truck, she starts to sneak toward the door. "I should… be goin'…" She backpedals far enough to take the stapler, sans staples, from the floor. "It was nice to meet you, Mister Cain! Maybe next time, it'll be under, uhm, better circumstances. You take care of him, Jane. Thanks for … the stapler!"
"See you, Desiree," Jane offers to the departing camera holder. "I've got this covered, we'll talk soon, yes?" She watches the older and taller woman make her exit, then turns attention back to Jaden. "So. Plan A. I go home with you tonight, and stay. We'll get a cab, take the subway, or I'll drive your car." She doesn't intend to take arguments from him.


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Affluent American investors have spoken ― taxes are a big deal.
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The U.S. Justice Department has said that is now satisfied with Apple's measures to guard against any repetition of the type of anti-competitive behaviour ruled illegal in the long-running ebooks trial. Bloomberg reports that the department has recommended that the court-appointed monitor is no longer necessary.
In a letter to the Manhattan federal judge who found in 2013 that Apple illegally conspired with publishers to set e-book prices, the U.S. said Apple has "now implemented meaningful antitrust policies, procedures, and training programs that were obviously lacking at the time Apple participated in and facilitated the horizontal price-fixing conspiracy found by this court."
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Apple has scored a belated additional victory against Samsung in its endless patent trial battle with the smartphone rival. Apple had originally asked the court for two remedies: financial compensation, and an injunction forbidding Samsung from continuing to sell devices which infringed its patents. The court said yes to the first, no to the second.
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In a new interview with Fortune, Apple's SVP of Internet and Software Services Eddy Cue opened up about Apple's ongoing ebooks litigation ahead of the company's December 15th appearance before a federal appeals court. Apple formally appealed the ebooks antitrust ruling earlier this year after a judge ruled in favor of the Department of Justice in 2013 claiming that Apple conspired with ebook publishers to raise prices.
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Just as we thought Apple's long-running ebooks suit might finally be settled, the out-of-court agreement has been thrown into doubt. The judge required to approve the settlement terms has expressed concern that they may be unfair to consumers, reports Business Insider.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan said she found "most troubling" a clause requiring Apple to pay only $70 million if an appeals court reversed her finding that the company is liable for antitrust violations and sent it back to her for further proceedings.
Apple was found guilty of price-fixing, an allegation it always denied and is currently appealing. To speed things up, lawyers on both sides agreed what would happen for each of the three possible outcomes of the appeal.
If Apple wins the appeal, it will pay nothing. If it loses the appeal, it will pay $50M in legal costs and $400M to a compensation fund for consumers. The contentious part is what happens if the appeals court overturns the original verdict but sends the case back for new proceedings. In this event, the proposal is that Apple would pay just $70M, of which the compensation fund would receive $50M.
Cote questioned if that would be fair and what might happen if the appeals court reversed her ruling on a minor issue.
This is not the first example of post-trial arguments, Apple having earlier called for the removal of the court-appointed antitrust monitor, a request rejected by the court.
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The new day had reached its full height by the time he reached the ruins where he was meant to meet his most distasteful foe. The smoke-charred battle-zone would be brought more destruction on this violent meeting, hell would come upon this place, but Max could not perceive the difficulty he would face in the foe...
Max drew his main blade taking a defense stance as he strode through the wreckage. Shadows dwelled within the broken buildings, each a possible enemy, each possibly hiding his foe, but as he halted in the center of the wreckage his foe stepped out before him...
"Maximus Ariya," it spoke, and through the mask, any semblance of gender or recognition was lost, "Today I begin the vengeance needed to be wrought, if only you had made the choice to help!"
"Choice?" Max said, his face shaped in confusion, "What choice have I made to anger you? Where you of our Yakuza? Were you one of us? All my choices are made for the betterment of our Yakuza, to live, to keep living, for as long as we live so too does our Yakuza, so too does their legacy of strength. Carry their name like a torch to the universe, let all know of your strength and that you wield it in honor of the Ariya Yakuza!" Suddenly his foe surged forwards, a blast of blue kido fire slamming into him...
"You have no damn right to EVER speak the name of Ariya Yakuza!" screamed the filtered voice in pure rage, "I will kill you, I will purge your name from all history, you will not exist!" The blue kido was blocked partially by his blade, but suddenly, his foe was gone. Max through his glance around, searching for it when suddenly, he was attacked from the side by a strike he took full on. Max's side erupted in pain, burns painting across his skin...
Max let out a deep roar and surged forwards, a chant on his lips... His foe shot another shot of blue flame and he dodged left, coming still at blinding speed. His foe was too slow, not bringing guard in time to deflect the strike, his blade cutting into their right arm and being sent flailing backwards... Suddenly a strike of blue flame hit him in his back, as he fell he looked around, his opponent had gone, but how had they moved so fast?!
Before he had time to think it through another shot flew out at him which he hastily blocked... Seeing the perpetrator he decided to put an end to this, but as he surged forwards and collided violently with the attacker, another shot struck out at him which he fended off with his second sword... But this attack came from a different direction and his foe remained ahead of him... Which put a second opponent in the area... It began to make sense and a plan formed in his mind... A new chant coming to his lips, completely disregarding the original... As he pushed his foe they locked blades, locked in a standstill until he swung his second blade around and hammered into his foe's defense, sending them flying backwards into another ruined structure... He gave chase near-instantly while his foe was still dazed, and as he stabbed his blade into his foe's sword arm he finished his chant...
"Bakudo 22: Kyomon!" Max shouted, a reiatsu barrier surrounding the two of them, he twisted his blade slightly and put his other sword to the foe's neck as a threat against fighting back...
"Who are you?" Max ordered as the pain shot through his victim's body... They spasmed and he released the pain for a moment.
"I am your executioner!" spat the filtered voice, the connection hitting him as the other foe beat vainly beat on the barrier with blue fire. Max could not believe hit, his hand reaching down and removing the mask, the face staring up at him in rage...
"X-Xanthe?" he said as the golden-framed oval face stared up at, reading his reaction. Max fell backwards in a defeated motion... She was his lover, the girl he'd taken as his whenever he took position as head of the Ariya Yakuza... He'd thought her dead, he couldn't believe she lived...
"Yes," she whispered, "Thats twice now you've hurt me. Once the first time we fought here, the second as you tortured me here..."
"I-I d-didn't..." Max whispered curling into a ball, "S-so thats why you think its my fault, because I went to save the dead Soroni..."
Max glanced around, looking into the sky, watching as a third figure, the one he'd wounded, joined in the futile attempts to crack the barrier... They stopped finally, seeing the violence within had ceased...
"I didn't know who they were, who you were, all I saw was a mysterious figure killing what looked like innocents..." Max whispered as if unsure if he could live with himself, "Should I have? Have I truly?" His thoughts rambling around as his mental walls began to collapse within him, she moved slowly, grabbing her arm, and slammed the barrier, destroying it... The other two came down slowly and his mind finally returned...
"I am Ariya Yakuza Lord Maximus, and I order the three last of our Yakuza to retake your oath to me, whom rightfully claims Ariya Yakuza as my own by line of succession!" Max said standing, his remorse wiped away in the moment of the others descent. The three of them looked at him, two unreadable masks and a puzzled woman stood before him... Xanthe looked to the two standing before him and knelt...
"I, Xanthe Decious, pledge myself to Maximus Ariya, new and legitimate lord of House Ariya Yakuza," she whispered, the rest of the oath swallowed up by the voice of the second figure, whom was uninjured, removing their helmet and kneeling, showing a shock of crimson hair and piercing emerald eyes...
"I, Victoria Rielly, pledge myself to Maximus Ariya, new and legitimate lord of House Ariya Yakuza," she stated, repeating each line of the pledge alongside Xanthe. As they finished they looked to the final, whose arm was bleeding, and waited for their response... The third figure sighed heavily and removed their mask, revealing ravenous hair and blood-colored eyes... Her face was tan and closely resembled Max's...
"Alexandria, your alive?" Max whispered, taken aback further, as she knelt and spoke the oath...
"I, Alexandria Ventris, pledge myselt to Maximus Ariya, new and legitimate lord of House Ariya Yakuza," she spoke, beginning the recital of the pledge and as she did, Max looked over the three of them... What had begun as a battle for revenge ended in the resurrection of his great house...
"As for the reason you had come at me as a foe," Max said in a commanding voice, "I am no traitor, I seek to bring strength to the Ariya name not only in Rukongai, but in Seireitei as well, and one day, I shall hold our name in the highest ranks of the Gotei 13... We shall continue the legacy of Ariya Yakuza, but we shall do it my way... Of that, I will swear to you a blood oath." Max looked over them, he had been in the worst battle of his life, and nearly killed by two of the most important people in his life, his lover, Xanthe, and his sister, Alexandria...
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There wasn't much training in this for me to really see it as being a training post. Seemed more like an omake. Your character learned nothing skill wise, showed nothing extraordinary, etc.. He had a brief battle with an old flame but the majority of the post makes this seem like an omake.
Still, I'll grade it as a single person spar.
I was a disappointed at how boring this one was. The action really wasn't that great and for me the most exciting part was the reveal towards the end.
The imagery could have used a bit of work, but as always your eloquence was great. You gave an average amount of effort but from a creative stand point you could have done better.
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+2 exp Just for peaking my curiosity. It will be interesting to see how you will be able to balance being a leader of a criminal organization and a member of the Gotei 13
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In 1993, three years after the release of their debut album, "Dorian Grey", the Flowers Of Romance released their album "Pleasure & the Pain" for the Greek market.
As their single "Love Means Death" prepared the groundwork for the next band release, the Flowers Of Romance appeared on the Belgian/Greek vinyl compilation "Double Shot", and entered the studio to record their newest material.
Prior to the release of their new album, a 7″ single was released with the tracks "Pleasure and the Pain/Winter Waltz". With the same line up of singer Mike Pougounas, bass player Harry Stavrakas, guitar player Dimitris "Bay J" Beis, and Mike "Jabar" Tzavaras on the drums, they went on a string of gigs and appeared at the Rock Management Festival in Thessaloniki. During this same year the Greek TV channel ERT2 aired a 30-minute show featuring the band.
Pougounas had already recorded most of the keyboards for the upcoming album, so when keyboardist Laura Gini joined the band as keyboardist, she recorded piano and additional keyboard parts where needed.
"Pleasure & the Pain" was released during November, 1993.
The album uncovered the gothic rock face of the band with featured hit tracks "Love Commandos" and "Winter Waltz".
There were two songs from the "Pleasure & the Pain" sessions which were not included in the album.
"Island on the Moon" appeared on the German CD edition of the album, while "20th Century Junk" was featured in the Metal Hammer "Hammer Holocaust, Vol. 1" edition (Winter, 1995). Other artists appearing on this exclusive CD included Rotting Christ, Sound of Silence, Into The Abyss, Red Mist, Sacrastic Terror, En-Garde, Necromantia, Fatal Morgana, and H-Quake.
Things got a bit tough when Tzavaras left the group to study in Berkeley (USA) and Beis returned to his hometown (Volos) to aid his father who had become ill right after the release of the album.
Drummer Dimitris Koukas (former member of the blues band Mojo Tooth) and guitar player Aggelos Kakouratos (former member of the post punk band Scoria) joined the band for live performances. Koukas became a permanent member while Kakouratos stayed for only a few months.
"Pleasure & the Pain" was also released in 1994 in CD format through the German label Nyctalopia Records and included four bonus tracks.
Distributed in several countries, it quickly established the band in the international gothic underground scene. Extra tracks contained in the CD release included "Kashmir" (from "Dorian Grey"), "Amaradina" (a song about a Greek witch of the Dark Ages, taken from the "Double Shot" compilation), "Loves Means Death" (from the same titled EP), and "Island on The Moon" (previously unreleased).
There were several differences between the CD edition and the Greek vinyl edition, including:
- The CD edition contained a photo in the booklet with the line up for the gigs.
- The vinyl edition had a photo of Pougounas, Stavrakas, and Beis on the back cover.
- The tracklisting was different.
- The font on the cover was different between the vinyl release and the CD release.
On January 21, 1994, the Flowers Of Romance played live at Mylos in Thessaloniki, and in February they became the first Greek band to be on the cover of a German magazine ("Back Again").
They also made their second appearance on Greek national TV (ERT2) for another 30-minute segment where they were again interviewed and performed some of their hits, including:
- "Kashmir"
- "Who's Playing Jesus" and
- "Love"
Shortly after their TV appearance they were featured in Mick Mercer's book titled "Hex Files" about the international gothic scene.
The year 1994 continued to spin rapidly and the German label Spectre released the CD compilation "Gothic Spirit, Vol. 1" featuring the tracks "The Ocean Floor" and "Winter Waltz", both from the "Pleasure & the Pain" album. Into The Abyss also participated with a cover of the track "Waiting for the Sun" amongst songs from bands such as Midnight Configuration, Venus Fly Trap, Elysium, and others.
The international press music became very interested in the band and interviews were published in European and Australian music magazines and newspapers. This created a fan base, mostly in Germany and Italy, and helped the band's promotion all over the globe. Magazines such as England's "Lowlife", Australia's "Dark Angel", and Germany's "Gothic" were among just a few of the many publications which featured interviews of the band.
The "tape movement" was still very active and several Flowers Of Romance tracks were featured in cassette releases in Germany, Japan, Norway, and other countries.
When the German CD compilation "When The Sun Settles Down, Vol. II" came out in early 1995, an additional track was included.
Released by EFA/Foundation, the album featured the Flowers Of Romance song "Love Commandos" and included tracks by bands such as Nosferatu, Inkubus Sukkubus, All Living Fear, and others.
The band also participated in the compilation CD of the Greek fanzine "The Thing" with the song "Love".
During the prior months, Kakouratos was replaced by Averkios Hatziantoniades (also a former Mojo Tooth member) and Gini (who joined
the band Avaton) was replaced by George Katsanos for a short while.
They soon went back to the studio for the pre-production of their last album "Brilliant Mistakes", which was produced by Wayne Hussey (Dead or Alive, Sisters of Mercy, The Mission).
Through the present day, "Pleasure & the Pain" can be found in catalogues around the world, either through American, European, or Asian distributors.
The album is considered to be one of the top 50 Greek rock albums ever.
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Connected car technology seems to be having its moment in the headlights. Last year, only 8% of executives rated connected car technology as an "extremely important" trend; today, that number has surged to 50%. But to Jamyn Edis, the phrase "connected car" has become an overly vague buzzword.
"People throw around the term, but they don't define it," said Edis, who created smart driving app Dash in 2012. "Is the vehicle connected to a phone? To a network? To infrastructure? Those are all very different experiences."
In the same way as a Fitbit tracks your daily movement, Dash uses your smartphone to inform you about your driving habits – when you're speeding, when you press the brakes too hard – and vehicle condition. The software creates what Edis calls the "automotive graph," a set of driving data that can be leveraged by anyone from insurance companies and manufacturers to users themselves.
We spoke with Edis to see where he thinks the industry is heading:
While most car manufacturers have released apps connecting vehicles and smartphones, L2's Digital IQ Index: Auto finds that they're often short on basic functionalities. For example, only one in four Auto brand apps lets you start your car from your phone. Why do you think that's the case?
The problem is that it's not in car companies' DNA to do great software development. Having an app is a cute thing they can talk about in their marketing, but the actual product is terrible. These companies focus on selling cars. They don't think they'll make much money from an app.
What do you think consumers are looking for in terms of those functionalities?
Remote start, remote unlock, the ability to preheat in the cold – people say they want these things in surveys, but it's not something they want to pay for. Are you really going to start fumbling with the app or just get your keys out?
We haven't spent too much on the control part because we don't think there's a market for it. Instead, we're focusing on questions like: how often do you have to service your vehicle? Where did you park last?
Switching gears a bit, how do you see the future of the auto space?
Mercedes, Ford, Toyota – they all have their own platforms. They can't talk to one another. Now we're seeing a trend toward more open-platform vehicles, with features powered by Google or Apple around navigation, musical entertainment, messaging.
There's a lot of talk about electrical vehicles and autonomous driving. Tesla is a super exciting car, very sexy – but at less than .1% of the market, it's a long way from changing the landscape. And autonomous driving – even Google admits it's 20 to 25 years away from mainstream adoption. There are a lot of technical hurdles. Right now these vehicles can't even tell if a road has snow on it.
What about consumers? Are they ready for autonomous cars?
No, I don't think they are. There's a lot of excitement about the autonomous car, but people don't really know what it is yet. And not everyone wants to be driven around by a car. Some people want to get that macho feeling from stepping on the gas themselves.


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In North America we live in a fast paced world and so we tend to exalt "BUSY." We are fascinated by the ability of some who manage to juggle many balls in the air all at once—labelled tasks, expectations, responsibilities, obligations. We applaud the "busy bees" in our lives as they flit to and fro trying to check off an often impossible to-do list. Many of us get stuck on that "hamster wheel" where we miss so much quality time. We are proud to be "busy, busy, busy" (notice the need to say it 3 times in response to the question "how are you?"). We rush through fast food, pencil in time with friends. Sound familiar at all? Inevitably we drop the ball(s) and have to make changes because this kind of behaviour isn't sustainable. It's not healthy mentally, emotionally, spiritually or physically. Coping suffers. It's exhausting!!! I know this from experience. Almost ten years ago I led a group at my church called "The Worn Out Woman" based on a book by Dr. Steve Stephens and Alice Gray—recognizing even then the dangers of overwhelming busyness. We called ourselves the WOWs. By then I guess I was tightly wired to "busy" and didn't plug in the recommendations we studied and discussed. Four years ago I moved to a much slower paced Zambia taking my busy ways along with me. I absolutely love my work with a passion and commitment like never before. So what did I do? I overextended, didn't take restful breaks, dropped the little time I set aside for pleasurable activities that were not work related, didn't pay attention to proper nutrition, turned to work if I couldn't sleep, forced myself to be strong always . . . And what happened? I got really worn down but didn't change until. . . .
I fell and broke my ankle, had surgery on it, and was forced to be still. That's when I chose to take a really good look at my lifestyle. I was amazed at how neglectful I had become about self care and became determined to make the simple but necessary changes required that would be transferable to life in my beloved Zambia.
The cast is off and with the help of physiotherapy my injured ankle, bone fully healed now, is getting stronger every day. I'm looking forward to graduating from a walker and moving about unaided, moving forward, lessons learned, to a more balanced way of living.
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Spring is Here!/
This winter has been a hard and long one for me, despite it's identification as a relatively mild winter. I think it might have to do with the fact that I broke my foot in July, so my summer and autumn were robbed from me.
Because of all this, I am extremely excited for Spring. It's incredible to see all these tulips popping out of the ground, or running to your car in a rain shower or smelling all the blossoming trees on a walk.
Christian and I starting planting a garden in our side yard. The whole process feels a bit magical to me: picking out the seeds, breaking up the ground and covering your hands in mud as you dig and drop a couple seeds in each finger sized hole.
It's incredible that something so small has so much potential. It can turn into a vegetable or bush or tree with just some good weather, time and care. Not all of them grow, and you never know what's going to happen, but you look over that garden bed and you just feel so proud. You want to watch it and make sure that they all have the best chance at success.
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Why Does Everyone Hate 'The Last Jedi'?
Is Star Wars: The Last Jedi the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back? Is it the worst? You can find a passionate defense of either opinion all over the internet.
Where do the In Reel Deep guys stand? Did they love The Last Jedi, or did they find it to be a bore? And what do they think about the future of the Star Wars universe? The movie came out a month ago but the argumentative fires are still burning; join us as we dissect all things Episode VIII.


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Roger Ebert on the f-word in Hot Tub Time Machine
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I can't be sure, but I think the density of the f-word reaches the saturation point in "Hot Tub Time Machine." I may have heard it employed as three different parts of speech in the same sentence. One wonders if American-spoken English could survive without it. What did we say in the old days? It must have been a quiet land.


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Continuing along Crater Rim Drive past Kīlauea Visitor Center, take the right turn just before the entrance station. This section of Crater Rim Drive takes you to Kīlauea Iki Overlook.
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I have a 16.2hh warmblood who is currently ridden in a french link loose ring. He seems to be happy in a loose ring rather than a fixed cheek as he tends to lean on me when he is in a fixed cheek, whether it be a eggbut, full cheek or hanging cheek. I do find that he comes above the bit quite frequently in the french link and does grind his teeth. I use this bit for dressage and jumping and find in xc that his head does get rather low and he leans on me. No major control issues really, just have to pull his head up ! What would you recommend for dressage and for xc. Thanks
Hi Ruth,
Yes thank you, that helps quite a bit. It sounds to me like he is a bit tongue sensitive. He is trying to escape the pressure most bits place on the tongue.
I would suggest a Happy Tongue for the cross country. It relieves the tongue of the pressure these horse's dislike. I would suggest a Williams cheek piece as well. It give two rein options, as well as being quite solid, so that it aids in turning. But it is not a fixed cheek piece, the mouth piece slides on a bar, thus allowing the pressure to be released instantly, exactly like a loose ring.
Unfortunately the Happy Tongue is not yet legal for Dressage. Here I would suggest you use a Loose Ring Lock Up it does not fold up like the normal Snaffle, therefore eliminating any pinching of the tongue. While it is well accepted by horse's with a sensitive tongue, it is only second best to the Happy Tongue.
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