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Aquitaine Region
Aquitaine is one of the 26 regions of France that is situated along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. It comprises the 5 departments of Dordogne, Lot et Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes and Gironde. In the Middle Ages Aquitaine was a kingdom and later a duchy, with boundaries considerably larger than the modern ones.
In the Aquitaine Region, Béarn is a former province of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet. Along with the Basque provinces of Soule, Lower Navarre, and Labourd, the principality of Bidache, as well as small parts of Gascony, it forms in the southwest the current département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. The capitals of Bearn is Pau.
The Pays Basque
The French Basque Country or Northern Basque Country constitutes the north-eastern part of the Basque Country and the western part of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It is delimited in the north by the department of Landes, in the west by the Bay of Biscay, in the south by the southern Basque Country and in the east by the Bearn. Bayonne and Biarritz are its chief towns. Basques describe the northern Basque Country as the union of three "French provinces" in the northeast of the traditional Basque Country: Basse-Navarre, Labourd and Soule. Its Basque name is Iparralde ("Northern Side") while the part of the Basque Country located in Spain is called Hegoalde ("Southern Side"). According to an inquiry of 2006, 22.5% were bilinguals (French-Basque), 8.6% were French-speakers who understand Basque, and 68.9% were not Basque-speakers.
Self-guided trips in the Aquitaine Region
Guided trips in the Aquitaine Region
Midi Pyrenees Region
The Midi-Pyrénées isone of the 26 regions of France andthe largest region of metropolitan France by area. The regionhas no historical or geographical unity. It is one of the regions of France created artificially in the late 20th century to serve as a hinterland and zone of influence for its capital, Toulouse, one of a handful of so-called "balancing metropolises".The name chosen for the new region was decided by the French central government without reference to the historical provinces (too many of them inside the region) and based purely on geography: Midi (i.e. "southern France") - Pyrénées (Pyrénées mountains that serve as the region's southern boundary).Historically, Midi-Pyrénées is made up of several former French provinces : Gascony, Languedoc, Rouergue, Quercy, Foix, Couserans, Nébouzan, Quatre-Vallées and Bigorre. The historical makeup of Midi-Pyrénées is even more complex, as the provinces listed above are further subdivided into pays (literally "countries"), with each their peculiarities and particular identities.
Quercy is a former province of France located in the Midi Pyrenees Region. Today, Quercy is divided between the département of Lot and the northern half of the département of Tarn-et-Garonne. The traditional capital of Quercy is Cahors. Like Périgord, the area is noted for its cuisine like the duck dishes, confit de canard and magret de canard and the dark red wines of Cahors.
The Pyrenees
The Pyrenees is a range of mountains that forms a natural border between France and Spain. It separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extends for about 491 km from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea. For the most part, the main crest forms a massive divider between France and Spain, with the tiny country of Andorra sandwiched in between. Catalonia and Navarre have historically extended on both sides of the mountain range, with small northern portions in France and much larger southern parts in Spain.
The French Pyrenees are also part of the following départements, from east to west: Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, and Pyrénées-Atlantiques. The highest summit is the Pico d'Aneto or Pic de Néthou at 3,404 metres (11,168 ft) in the Maladeta ridge. The principal languages spoken in the area are Spanish, French, Catalan (in Catalonia and Andorra), Basque, and Aragonese.
Self-guided trips in the Midi Pyrenees Region
Poitou-Charentes Region
Charente is a department in southwestern France, in the Poitou-Charentes region, named after the Charente River, the most important river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac, are sited. Prior to the creation of the department, the area was not a natural unit, but much of it was commercially prosperous thanks to traditional industries such as salt and cognac production. Although the river became silted up and was unnavigable for much of the twentieth century, in the eighteenth century it provided important links with coastal shipping routes both for traditional businesses and for newly evolving ones such as paper goods and iron smelting.
Charente - Independent Cycling around Cognac and Angoulême
Languedoc Roussillon Region
Languedoc-Roussillon is one of the 26 regions of France. It comprises five departments, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean sea on the other side.
The region is made up of the following historical provinces: province of Languedoc, province of Gévaudan: today's Lozère department and a collection of five historical Catalan pays: Roussillon, Vallespir, Conflent, Capcir, and Cerdagne.
The Languedoc-Roussillon region is dominated by 740,300 acres (2,996 km2) of vineyards, three times the combined area of the vineyards in Bordeaux. The region has been an important winemaking centre for centuries. Grapevines are said to have existed in the South of France since the Pliocene period - before the existence of Homo sapiens. The first vineyards of Gaul developed around two towns: Béziers and Narbonne. The Mediterranean climate and plentiful land with soil ranging from rocky sand to thick clay was very suitable for the production of wine, and it is estimated that one in ten bottles of the world's wine was produced in this region during the 20th century. Despite this enormous quantity, the area's significance was often overlooked by scholarly publications and commercial journals, largely because very little of the wine being produced was classified under an appellation contrôlée until the 1980s.
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Auvergne Region
The Auvergne Region is one of the 26 regions of France. The current administrative region of Auvergne is larger than the historical province of Auvergne, and includes provinces and areas that historically were not part of Auvergne. The Auvergne region is composed of the following old provinces: Auvergne, Bourbonnais, Velay, a small part of Gévaudan, a small part of Vivarais and a small part of Forez.
The region contains many volcanoes, although the last confirmed eruption was around 6,000 years ago, and most have eroded away leaving plugs of unerupted hardened magma that form rounded hilltops known as puys. In the region surrounding Clermont-Ferrand, the highest mountain is 1,885m (6,180ft). From north to south the terrain becomes flatter and rockier. The Auvergne is 25 % woodland, 45 % grassland, 20 % arable land and 10 % other uses (including urban areas). The region is predominantly agricultural with tourism slowly becoming more important. Cows are much in evidence and are used both for meat and for milk, which is made into a number of well known cheeses: Bleu d'Auvergne, Cantal, Fourme d'Ambert and Saint-Nectaire.
Self-guided trips in the Auvergne Region :
The Way of Saint James - Via Podensis - Le Puy en Velay to Aumont-Aubrac- walking
Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur Region
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region or PACA is one of the 26 regions of France.It is made up of the former province of Provence, the former papal territory of Avignon, known as the Comtat Venaissin, the former Sardinian-Piedmontese county of Nice, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera (in French as the Côte d'Azur), and lastly the southeastern part of the former French province of Dauphiné, in the French Alps.It encompasses six departments bounded to the east by the Italian border, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and by the principality of Monaco, to the north by The region logo displays the coat of arms created in the 1990s and which combines the coats of arms of the old provinces making up Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.Rhône-Alpes, and to the west by Languedoc-Roussillon, with the Rhône river marking its westernmost border.
Provence is a "region" on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region. The traditional region of Provence comprises the départements of Var, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes and parts of Hautes-Alpes. The Romans formed this region into their Gallia Transalpina, the first Roman provincia outside the Alps. From thus, it derives its name today. Most of Provence has a Mediterranean climate, characterized by hot, dry summers, mild winters, little snow, and abundant sunshine. Within Provence there are micro-climates and local variations, ranging from the Alpine climate inland from Nice to the continental climate in the northern Vaucluse. The winds of Provence are an important feature of the climate, particularly the mistral, a cold, dry wind which, especially in the winter, that blows down the Rhone Valley to the sea.
The Calanques
The Calanques, also known as the Massif des Calanques, are a dramatic feature of the Provence coast, a 20 km long series of narrow inlets in the cliffs of the coastline between Marseille on the west and Cassis on the east. The highest peak in the massif is Mont Puget at 565 metres. Calanques are remains of ancient river mouths formed mostly during Tertiary. Later, during quaternary glaciations, as glaciers swept by, they further deepened those valleys which would eventually (at the end of the last glaciation) be invaded with sea and become calanques.
Iles d'Or
Les Iles d'Or or Golden Islands, are three islands off the coast of the Hyeres peninsula. The name "golden" dates from the Renaissance, and was given to the islands, due to the light reflected along the islands' coasts.Ile de Porquerolles: Called Protè (first) by the Greek colonists, is the largest of the three islands, about 7 km long.Ile de Port-Cros: It got its name from the deep, hollowed-out shape of its harbor, is thickly forested and is a National Park. It is the central of the three islands and is 4 x 2.5 km, and is higher and wilder than Porquerolles.Ile du Levant:This island is a long, narrow rocky ridge, 8 x 1.2 km and is completely protected by steep cliffs around the shoreline.
Self-guided trips in the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur Region
Guided trips in theProvence Alpes Cote d'Azur Region
Brittany Region
Brittany Region is one of the 26 regions of France. It occupies a large peninsula lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south. Its capital is Rennes. The region of Brittany is made up of 80% of the former Duchy and Province of Brittany. The remaining 20% of the province is the Loire-Atlantique department which now lies inside the Pays de la Loire region. Its capital, Nantes, was the historical capital of the Duchy of Brittany. Part of the reason why Brittany was split between two present-day regions was to avoid the rivalry between Rennes and Nantes. Some people in Brittany and Nantes continue to protest against the current division of Brittany and would like to see Loire-Atlantique combined with the region of Brittany in order to reunify the historic area of Brittany. Western Brittany has maintained a distinctly Celtic language, the Breton which is related to Cornish and Welsh. It has been granted regional language status and revival efforts are underway.
Self-guided trips in Brittany Region
Guided trips in Brittany Region
Visitors have a choice between seaside and countryside. The stunning beauty of the region's interior, with its thatched cottages, traditional farming and ever-changing landscapes, is matched by a long coastline which stretches from the romantic cliffs and sandy beaches of Seine Maritime in the East, to the wild Cotentin seaboard and the World Heritage Site of Mont Saint Michel and its bay, with its huge tidal range and strong currents.
Liguria Region
Given its location on the Mediterranean, seafood is plentiful in the local cuisine. The mountainsides of the Cinque Terre are heavily terraced and are used to cultivate grapes and olives. This area, and the region of Liguria, as a whole, is known for pesto — a sauce made from basil leaves, garlic, salt, olive oil, pine nuts and pecorino cheese. The grapes of the Cinque Terre are used to produce two locally made wines. The eponymous Cinque Terre and the Sciachetrà are both made using Bosco, Albarola, and Vermentino grapes. In addition to wines, other popular local drinks include grappa, a brandy made with the pomace left from winemaking, and limoncello, a sweet liqueur flavored with lemons.
Cinque Terre
The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region. "The Five Lands" is composed of five villages : Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. The coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all part of the Cinque Terre National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Cinque Terre is noted for its beauty. Over centuries, people have carefully built terraces on the rugged, steep landscape right up to the cliffs that overlook the sea. Part of its charm is the lack of visible "modern" development. Paths, trains and boats connect the villages, and cars cannot reach it from the outside.
A walking trail, known as Sentiero Azzurro ("Light Blue Trail"), connects the five villages. The trail from Riomaggiore to Manarola is called the Via Dell'Amore ("Love Walk"). The stretch from Manarola to Corniglia is the easiest to hike, although the main trail into Corniglia finishes with a climb of 368 stairs. The trail from Corniglia to Vernazza is steep at certain places. The trail from Vernazza to Monterosso is by far the steepest. It winds through olive orchards and vineyards and is rough in places, but offers the best view of the bay and the spectacular approaches to both Monterosso and Vernazza.
Self-guided trips in the Liguria Region
Tuscany Region
Tuscany is a region in central Italy with its capital, Florence. It is known for its beautiful landscapes, its rich artistic legacy and vast influence on high culture. Tuscany is widely regarded as the true birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, and has been home to some of the most influential people in the history of arts and science including Dante, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei...
Tuscany has an immense cultural and artistic heritage, expressed in the region's numerous churches, palaces, art galleries, museums, villages and piazzas. Much of these artifacts are found in the main cities, such as Florence and Siena, but also in smaller villages scattered around the region, such as San Gimignano. The UNESCO estimated that Tuscany has the 10% of the World Cultural Heritage!
Tuscany has a unique culinary tradition, and is famous for its wines like Chianti which is arguably the most well-known internationally.
Guided trips in Tuscany Region
Galicia Region
Galicia is an autonomous community in northwest Spain, with the status of a historic nationality. It is constituted under the Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1981. It is bordered by Portugal to the south, the Spanish regions of Castile and León and Asturias to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Bay of Biscay to the north. Galicia has roughly 2.78 million inhabitants, with its capital being Santiago de Compostela.
Galicia has two official languages: Galician and Spanish. Galician is related to Portuguese. Both descend from a Romance language of the Middle Ages now referred to as Galician-Portuguese. The independence of Portugal since the late Middle Ages has favored the divergence of the Galician and Portuguese languages.
The name Galicia comes from the Latin name Gallaecia, associated with the name of the ancient Celtic tribe that resided above the Douro river, the Gallaeci.
The interior of Galicia is composed of relatively low mountains without sharp peaks. There are many rivers, most running down relatively gentle slopes in narrow river valleys, though at times their courses become far more rugged as in the canyons of the Sil River.
Galicia has preserved some of its dense Atlantic forests where wildlife is commonly found. Its landscape is composed of green hills, cliffs and rias. It is very different from what is commonly understood as Spanish landscape.
Capital: Barcelona Provinces: Barcelona, Girona (Gerona), Lleida (Lerida) and Tarragona.
Best known apart from the capital, Barcelona, is of course the Mediterranean coast, Costa Brava and Costa Dorada, with ample beaches
and mild climate.
Catalonia offers as well high mountain ranges, the Pyrenees in the north, the curious formations of Montserrat, the inactive volcans of Garrotxa, and a wide plain area in the region's center.
Catalonia has a very marked culture of its own, most evidently of Mediterranean tradition, and is distinguished of most other Spanish regions in several aspects, not at least by its language, Catalonian (although everybody speaks and understands Castilian Spanish perfectly). Certainly it is one of the most cosmopolitan places in Spain, thanks to its long tradition of international commerce.
Catalonia's excellent gastronomy is characterized by seafood, rice dishes, wines of great international reputation and traditional desserts like the famous "Catalonian Cream".
SPAIN & FRANCE- Catalonia - Independent Cycling on the Green and Blue roads of Catalonia - biking
SPAIN & FRANCE- Catalonia - Independent Walking from Collioure to Cadaques - walking
The Way of Saint James or El Camino de Santiago
The Way of St James, or the Camino de Santiago de Compostela is a series of pilgrimage routes running across all of Europe with Santiago de Compostela in north west Spain as their final destination. People have been walking it – as a pilgrimage route – for over a thousand years. The main Camino route is the Camino Frances. This part of the Camino de Santiago traditionally starts in St Jean Pied de Port and finishes in Santiago de Compostela almost 800 km later. The route has changed little. Today parts of it are modern roads, and many of its accommodations run by religious orders along the way have since disappeared. The Way of Saint James, passes through the same villages, crosses the same rivers and visits the same churches and monuments as it did over the last 1000 years.
The Way of Saint James is unique in many ways, as often footpaths that cross through several regions (like GR paths in France) avoid towns. The Way of St James, because of its historic origins and the need for shelter seeks them out.
There are many reasons to walk the Way of Saint James : for its history & culture, as a religious pilgrimage or even as a significant event in a lifetime. Those that walk the Way of Saint James are of all ages and from all walks of life. Walkers come from Spain, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and others from much further away. Some complete the entire journey in one stretch or others, with less time, one section.
All who walk the Way of St James, and especially those who have been able to do the whole route, agree afterwards that it has changed their lives.
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As a new student in Odense you most likely do not know what the city's businesses, associations and cultural life can offer you. By visiting the Study Start Fair at Lillebaelt Academy you have the opportunity to get an amazing first-hand impression of what Odense exactly can offer you and what the city has with regards to options for students. The Study Start Fair is your obvious opportunity to network and to get in contact with local organisations, associations as well as cultural life and is at the same time a free event that warmly welcomes you to the
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Pastor and Cathy sang a song that Cathy had sung at Pastor and Nancy's wedding when they got married at Mount Calvary years before.
After dinner there was a presentation that lasted about an hour and a half. They sang songs and reminised about times gone by and all the wonderful things that Pastor Haupt has done for Mount Calvary. It was a great night for a great Pastor and his wife. Naomi did an amazing job of sitting in her highchair for 2.5 hours without wiggling to get out, without squeeling (too much) and just entertaining herself. I was totally impressed with her by the end of the night...and so was everyone else! What an awesome kid!
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Since 1945, U-Haul has been serving do-it-yourself movers and their households. Like many other successful ventures, the concept for U-Haul was generated out of need. After World War II, there existed the widespread need for do-it-yourself moving equipment that would be available on a one-way, nationwide basis. U-Haul co-founders L.S. "Sam" Shoen and his wife, Anna Mary Carty Shoen, recognized that need and acted upon it. Their visionary approach spread the cost of ownership among many users, facilitating the mobility of the populations of the U.S. and Canada. The covered wagon of the pioneers morphed into orange U-Haul trailers. In the process, an industry was born.
Discharged from the Navy in the summer of 1945, 29-year-old Sam and Anna Mary tried to rent a utility trailer to move their possessions from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore. It couldn't be done. They had to take only what they could fit in the car.
"Small luggage-type passenger automobile trailers were being rented from 'rental lots' in Los Angeles. Each lot had from 20 to 40 trailers which were rented locally for approximately $2 per day," recalled Shoen in his book "You and Me," "I recognized that here was an item with considerable utility value which had not been exploited at all in the Northwest or in the San Francisco-Oakland area. I was intrigued with the business potential of this idea, especially from the standpoint of one-way rentals."
The Shoens reasoned that many other families had a need similar to theirs: the short-term availability of a trailer that could be rented "here" and left "there." No one, at that time, seemed ready or willing to serve that need.
U-haul is born
With a 1937 Ford and $5,000 in savings, Sam, Anna Mary and their young son moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore. During the drive, they came up with the name and formulated the outline of what was to become the U-Haul Trailer Rental System.
The Shoens launched U-Haul in the summer of 1945. The first trailers were bought from welding shops or second hand from private owners. Within two weeks of leaving Los Angeles, the first U-Haul trailer was parked on a service station lot and being offered for rent. By the end of 1945, 30 4′ x 7′ open trailers were on service station lots in Portland, Vancouver and Seattle, Washington.
An identity was established. First, the trailers were painted bright orange. Secondly, the name U-Haul Co. was established. Third, trailers were imaged on the sides and back with a sales message – "U-Haul Co.," "Rental Trailers," "$2.00 Per Day" – always advertising themselves whether on the road or on display. Lastly, trailer rentals were merchandised from service station outlets. A commission structure for dealers was established, and much of the early recruitment was done by a customer who was offered a discount on their trailer rental for establishing a U-Haul rental agent (now called U-Haul dealers) at their destination.
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The company was not an overnight success. The purchased trailers—generally a frame and tongue built on the running gear of scrapped automobiles, what Sam would later call "junkers"—broke down with painful frequency, often costing more to repair than could be covered by rental fees. That winter, to cut expenses "to the bone," Sam and Anna Mary moved in with her folks on the family ranch. They were broke, but believed they had a business. Based on his appearance of success, Sam obtained credit from a local lumber yard and was able to obtain war-surplus steel from a Navy yard.
By the end of 1949, it was possible to rent a trailer one way from city to city throughout most of the United States and by 1955 throughout most of Canada. And the rest, as they say, is history.
In 1952, a unique financing plan – the Fleet Owner Program – was created to provide capital for growth during the 1950s. Under this plan, individuals or groups of individuals could purchase a fleet of 30 or more U-Haul Co. trailers. The trailer owner would then contract with ARCOA, Inc. for the operation of their trailer fleet in the U-Haul Trailer Rental System and shared the income from the rental of the trailers. By the end of 1959, the U-Haul trailer fleet consisted of 42,600 trailers.
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This last weekend we headed out to Memorial Park for our last camping trip for the season. Two other families joined us on this trip. along with Clem's parents, who drove all the way down from Oregon. Last week we had to spend Tuesday and Wednesday night a hotel due to the remodel. So when Thursday arrived and I was able to get back into the house and pack for the trip. I took a moment to lay down on our bed and it his me like a brick wall. I don't want to go today and instead we choose to leave Friday instead.
That change in plan was certainly a sign of things to come. We land at the campsite by Friday afternoon, followed by our friends. There was parking drama but P. and all her school friends were having to much fun to even notice anything. Friday night and Saturday into the evening was a lot of fun but I just had this weird feeling I need to get to town for some reason. Fast forward to the kids in bed on Saturday night and the parents hovering around the camp fire. Through the evening we were noticing the ranger drive by several times and we had a fear the parking drama would arise yet again but they just kept driving. Then around 10:30pm the ranger went by again and stopped. To which I replied, "Ah crap, here we go again".
The ranger walked into camp and asked if there was a BHK in the camp, to which I replied, "That's Me", it was to dark to tell who was talking so I raised my hand when asked which one of us BHK was. The ranger proceeded to inform me that my brother C. called to tell me that our surrogate has gone into labor and contraction has started. Clem and I were speechless. I got up and our friends stepped right in and told us what we needed to do. It felt like Clem and I were lost and thankfully they were there to keep us focused. One friend offered to take care of Paley but the idea of not having her with us was not an option for both of us. We scrambled to find the necessities and our friends just started throwing everything into our car and said they would bring home the rest.
While packing the car in less than 10 minutes, I began to get really cold. We were sitting around the fire and I really couldn't feel any heat, I realized that my body temp was dropping because I was so frazzled. It wasn't until later when I told my mother what I was feeling, she said I was in shock. Clem and I were both reacting differently to the situation. I tend to be more internally emotional while he's more outwardly. We grabbed Paley who was asleep and put her in the car seat covered by her sleeping bag. We darted out of camp and made it up to Half Moon Bay by 10:55pm. Along the way we got the update that she was experiencing contractions between 2-3 minutes but she was not dilated. The major problem was she was dehydrated and was already hooked up to IV with fluids. They did a test to verify if she was in pre-term labor but they were still awaiting results. We were not ready for this moment to happen. I hadn't share contact information for our family because we were only 29 weeks. The twins room is still a guest room. The house is still a construction zone. Our lives were a mess.
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She bounced back but she started to have some pain in her back. On Monday she had a follow-up appointment with her OB and the doc found she was dehydrated again. The stomach bug also plagued a friend and her son. After being admitted against her fluid levels went back to normal but the back pain was still present. After a ultra-sound of kidneys they determined she had kidney stones. So the prescribed remedy is plenty of water, lots of it.
The camping trip was overall a success, the kids had amazing time and P. was a little bummed she woke up in her bed and not in her tent.
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The long-awaited benefits of artificial intelligence and big data have become so elaborate, that now over 97.2 percent of executives in Australia report that their organizations have started plans to launch AI and big data projects.
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Friendship is one job that I have always taken very seriously and in my life this far I have made some pretty special friends. Every one of my friends are special to me for one reason or another and that is why I love my friends. It is so weird to see how God places people in your life for certain reasons. When I started out in Junior High I was also moving from private to public school, which was very scary. It has a VERY similar feeling to starting college. Not knowing really anyone and being completely scared. Emaly, Darby, Haley, and Hannah were some of the first people to "take me under their wing" when I started public school. They will never know how thankful I am for them. It makes me very sad to think that I won't have them to keep me under that wing as I start this new chapter. This time though, I am not the only one who will be seeking new friendships... we all will. I can't imagine not having Haley to cheer me up. I can't imagine not having Hannah to tell everything to. I can't imagine not having Emaly to explain to me everything that I don't understand. I can't imagine not having Darby to keep me sane at the end of the day. I will miss my friends more than they know, but boy I am excited to what they do in life. I want to thank you girls for putting up with me, (its a task, trust me), for loving me, and for putting me under your wing. I love you and will always be thankful for our friendship until the end. "I will see you when I see you!!"
I am a firm believer that God puts people in your life for a reason. I am going to take advantage of that as I start school and I know I will make different friends that are just as great. Be thankful for these people he puts in your life. You never know who will turn out to be a friend.
Thank you girls for helping me learn to fly. You are oh so precious to me.
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Blessed is an understatement when it comes to my life. Each and every day I am amazed by God's steadfast love. In return, I have claimed this space to show my thanks and whatever else comes along the way. A recent graduate from Texas Christian University who loves any creative insta post, all donuts, and dress pants that make you do a double take. I pray God has a grand purpose for me and I plan to get there with a little Southern and a lot of Thanks! Join me!
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My desktop PC (home-built) resumes from suspend somewhat unreliably. I'd say that it resumes successfully about 85-90% of the time and hangs with a blank screen 5-10% of the time. As far as I can tell, the success or failure of the resume is completely random. I doubt it's a software problem because I triple boot Windows 7, Windows XP and Ubuntu and it's similar under all 3 operating systems.
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The crank Bros design are one of my favorite and they tend to last a decent amount of time (2.5kyear) as long as you take care of them (rebuild every two, and oil regularly). Also, make sure you order extra cleats (like all brass cleats, they wear fast). They have a great amount of float and it is a welcome feature (IMHO) unlike other pedals that have made my knees hurt in the past with their limited yaw travel. These pedals are not the lightest but they are very tough (great price point vs. wear). Western was timely in their ship and a very good price.
It is all about personal preference. but these pedals are pretty nuke proof to even include being the only thing I was able to salvage off my bike after I got hit by a car. They survived a couple of trips to the Utah desert where when you go down it is nothing but rock. And, as for mud clearance, if you can get your shoe out of the mud and find the pedal, you can click in.
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I rode a pair of Crank Bros. Candy pedals for many, many years. They were durable for sure and I loved the idea of the stability of the Candy platform. Still, I felt like the platform limited the number of entry points during a cross race (for example), so I opted for the Eggbeaters. These particular 'beaters are light weight and darn pretty. I consider it a facelift to the look of my crosser and so far I am digging them big time.
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There is the most unbelievably ridiculous column up on the Washington Post today by Kevin Phillips who is promoting his book "American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century". I read the Washington Post everyday, but they really demean themselves by giving a forum to such nonsense. I'd hate to see them go the way of the grey lady and become a newspaper only foaming at the mouth lefty crazies care about. This guy actually starts his column by saying:
"the United States approaches theocracy when it meets the conditions currently on display: an elected leader who believes himself to speak for the Almighty, a ruling political party that represents religious true believers, the certainty of many Republican voters that government should be guided by religion and, on top of it all, a White House that adopts agendas seemingly animated by biblical worldviews."
Now, let me say up front, I don't like G.W. Bush. There are a whole variety of reasons for this, but his excess of religious motivation (I think too many evangelicals allowed themselves to see what they want in him and doubt he's really "one of ours") is certainly not one of them. So, I'm not come at this as a Bush apologist. However, just to show you how unbelievably stupid Mr. Phillips' premise is – his book is being published at the point where more and more religiously motivated people are becoming disillusioned with President Bush for a wide variety of reasons. Many, many people are coming to the conclusion that religious folks were never more than pawns for the president to use to get in office and whose views will always take a back seat to powerful business interests. But never mind reality – Mr. Phillips and those who are going to take his red meat herring certainly aren't ones to let themselves be swayed by little things like reality.
All in all, it is abundantly obvious that Mr. Phillips knows no real-live religious folks other than the caricatures he sees on TV. There are just so many things wrong with his premise that it would take more time than it's worth to deconstruct how ridiculous his thinking is and how completely and utterly removed from reality it is. Kathy Shaidle does a rather nice job of poking fun at Mr. Phillips over on beliefnet.com (ack- religion! the religious right is taking over the internet – be afraid, be very afraid), so I'll just quote from her March 22 column:
American liberals have been predicting the rise of "Theocracy USA" for more than 25 years, since Ronald Reagan won the White House with considerable help from the "Religious Right". (Odd how an honest-to-God "born again Christian" Democrat's occupation of the Oval Office during the previous four years didn't inspire similar concerns…)
It's 2006, and still no sign of concentration camps for homosexuals (you'll find those in Cuba, actually). Yet nothing can dampen the Left's feverish "Handmaid's Tale" delusions of persecution . . . It's awfully sad to watch otherwise intelligent people caught up in such misguided, not to say self-absorbed, terror: the fear that somehow, someday, in ways never clearly articulated, the paranoid individual's sacred right nay, their very duty to abort fetuses, smoke pot, watch porn, get sex change operations, and marry their hamster might just might be challenged, never mind abolished, by somebody, somewhere. Theocracies do exist, of course. Attempting to escape an imaginary one, an American author stumbled upon something like the real thing. Gay journalist Bruce Bawer was so horrified by the "Religious Right" that he fled New Amsterdam (Manhattan) for the European original. Yet the enlightened, tolerant, multicultural liberal paradise of Bawer's imagination turned out to be a seething hotbed of Muslim fundamentalism. In various European nations, he and his boyfriend were gay-bashed, politicians were murdered, terrorists were cheered and women were regularly "honor killed" in broad daylight–and, incredibly, not one of the perps was a "right-wing" Christian or white supremacist skinhead. Funny, that. Bawer's flawed, infuriating, but invaluable book about his experiences, "While Europe Slept," will receive far less attention than "American Theocracy." The chattering classes don't wish to have their strangely comforting dreams of impending doom disturbed by anything as tedious as the truth.
The fact of the matter is that Mr. Phillips and his ilk have No idea what a theocracy is or looks like. The very reality that he can make such ridiculous and demonstrably false claims, get a publishing deal and be subjected to nothing worse than people like me ridiculing him is a demonstration of how far we are from a theocracy. The fact that he can apparently move about in a world where there are no actual right-wing Christians and he must watch Jerry Falwell on TV like the rest of us must watch lions on the National Geographic Channel shows how out of touch with reality this guy is. Having a president who is a Christian doesn't make us a theocracy. Having our laws reflect the values of the majority of the country (ie Christian) makes us a democracy, not a theocracy. I'm sure it can be frustrating to live in a culture where your worldview is a minority POV, not embraced by most of your countrymen or even your president. Mr. Phillips can write a book claiming that the planet was seeded by pink aliens to harvest organs from, if he so chooses, however, what is really disturbing is that a the Washington Post would provide a forum for such flawed, illogical thinking. I would have hoped that their standards of fact and logic would be higher than that. Then again, this is a paper which brought in a plagiarist to represent a conservative POV (because there just wasn't anyone better, ya know) and was attacked by readers for providing the blog as a sop for the right. Because , well, liberal columnists exist for all of our benefit, but conservatives columnists are merely a sop. When are they going to start teaching logic in schools again?
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There is the most unbelievably ridiculous column up on the Washington Post today by Kevin Phillips who is promoting his book "American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century". I read the Washington Post everyday, but they really demean themselves by giving a forum to such nonsense. I'd hate to see them go the way of the grey lady and become a newspaper only foaming at the mouth lefty crazies care about. This guy actually starts his column by saying:


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For those of you who are incoming Freshman in college you are probably freaking out a little bit! I mean, it's only natural right? For most of you, you will no longer have the comfort of having a whole room to yourself, mom and dad aren't there for support, and you're praying your roommate isn't a total psycho. Well here's what I have to say to you…don't stress about it!
You will be fine.
All you have to do is breathe and listen to some nice soothing words of advice…
The first day is always going to be rough. You'll get lost, probably walk into the same room at least five times before finally finding the correct professor who will still give you scowl upon entering, you'll drop a pen that somebody will pick up and claim as theirs, and then you may start to feel alone. However, you'll get back to your dorm room (for my dorm-ing students) or your bedroom (for my commuting students) and then tomorrow will come. You will get the hang of it and finding your way around campus will eventually become ten times easier than it ever was before. Hell, you may even make a friend and if not, that's okay too.
School for most kids isn't always what it's cracked up to be. I know it seems like one big party and for some students, it is. Yet, sometimes the main reason for college gets lost in the parties. What's the main reason everyone? TO GET A DEGREE AND EVENTUALLY MAKE MONEY! LEGITIMATE MONEY. Your main focus always has to be on your school work, why? Because the second you begin to slack off it becomes harder to get your grades back up and then it becomes almost impossible to whip your concentration back into shape, believe me, I know this from experience.
My first semester in college I was an absolute wreck. I thought, screw it, I'm an adult, I do what I want. So, I would ditch out of school…a lot! Being a commuter I hated the idea of driving to a school that was thirty minutes away from my house…even though I knew that was the whole point of being a commuter. My ditching out was so bad my professor's used to think I was in the wrong room every time I actually showed up. On top of ditching out I had no friends, and the friends that I did have from high school that went to this school were off making their own friends. Now, me being me I just got very down on myself thinking clearly college is just not for me…maybe I should have taken a year off, obviously it was too late then.
My second semester finally came around and I had a new head on my shoulders. I told myself I was going to go to every single class possible even if it killed me. And you know what happened? I did it (anti-climactic I know). I actually wound up making a lot of new friends, I learned the entire campus, got my grades up by a long shot, and hell, this time my professor's actually knew my first and last name. Freaky right?
Although I may have gotten my grades up it doesn't mean that it was easy to do so. It took a lot of hard work, focus, and dedication to get to where I'm at right now. So for all of you incoming Freshman, your first year will be a roller coaster ride. You'll either love or hate your classes/professor's, despise or love your roommate, make new friends or lose old friends, and study hard or party hard. You will eventually learn your way and you will be successful at whatever you put your mind to. Don't stress, breathe it out, and never be afraid to be yourself.
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In the ED of the second season of The Eccentric Family we see Benten at a few locations in Hampstead Heath in London.
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Entrance to Hampstead Heath from East Heath Road.
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This bench is located close to the entrance above. I've marked the path between the 2 locations in the map below.
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The final place shown is the Kenwood Ladies' Pond, but I couldn't enter to take pictures since it's women only.
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This location was visited on 2017/04/12.
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Richard Potcova of Monroe guides his ice boat into the pit area while waiting for racing to start in the 2018 DN North American Championship Regatta on Lake Charlevoix on Thursday. The regatta, which has about 90 boats from 7 countries, chose Lake Charlevoix from possible sites from Maine to Minnesota because of its current ice cover and probably weather conditions. Racing continues Friday, weather permitting.
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With Every Drop Of Blood
A Novel of the Civil War
By Christopher Collier , James Lincoln Collier

Johnny promised his father, wounded while fighting for the South, that he would take care of the family and not run off to fight. When there's a request to take his mules and wagon on a bold mission to supply the Rebel troops, Johnny can't resist. Then he's captured by Cush, a runaway slave. Johnny doesn't like taking orders from a black, but he has no choice. He's heading for prison camp wondering what will become of his family and himself.

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Entertainment TV exposure leads to rise of populist politicians: Study
The findings showed that children exposed to entertainment television were less likely to report an interest in politics or be involved in a voluntary group. They were also more likely to become cognitively disadvantaged.health-and-fitness Updated: Mar 29, 2017 09:23 IST
Is your child addicted to entertainment television? Beware, he or she is more likely to become socio-politically challenged as an adult, leading to voting for populist politicians like Donald Trump, researchers say.
The findings showed that children exposed to entertainment television were 13% less likely to report an interest in politics and 10% less likely to be involved in a voluntary group. Further, they were also more likely to become cognitively disadvantaged.
They scored five per cent worse than their non-exposed peers in cognitive test as adults, the researchers reported in a working paper from QMUL's School of Economics and Finance.
"Our results suggest that individuals exposed to entertainment TV as children are less cognitively sophisticated and less socio-politically engaged as adults, and ultimately more vulnerable to populist rhetorics," said Andrea Tesei, economist at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
"It's the first major study to investigate the political effect of exposure among voters to a diet of 'light' entertainment. The results are timely as the US adjusts to the Presidency of Donald Trump," Tesei added.
For the study, the team investigated the political impact of entertainment television in Italy over the last 30 years during the phased introduction of Silvio Berlusconi's commercial TV network Mediaset.
They compared the voting behaviours of people who lived in regions where Mediaset was broadcast versus those where Berlusconi's network was unavailable. The results suggested a relationship between exposure to light-fare TV and preferences for populist parties and leaders.
"Entertainment content can influence political attitudes, creating a fertile ground for the spread of populist messages," Tesei said.
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The Proliferation of Wow
I try to mute the sound during commercial breaks. Thanks to this book, however, I try to keep my eyes open for ones that stir something in me, and then ponder the feelings they arouse. They're rare, but one recent ad has me feeling inspired and annoyed at the same time.
The full spot runs for one minute, built around a montage of brief scenes that invoke, for lack of a better word, "wow."
—a child watches a rocket lift off into space. Awed, she says, "Wow."
—a jogger hops down the front steps of his home and sees a deer standing in his yard. "Wow," he whispers.
—another runner crests a hill, stops and looks behind at the valley below her, and she too whispers…you get the idea.
And then there's a my personal favorite—a family watches the Berlin Wall crumble on live television as a family member enters the home and removes a piece of the wall from his pocket, setting it in on the table.
Then comes the reveal; that big moment when we see the product that's supposed to deliver all that wow. Surely something prolific and life-changing, you reason. A car that runs on water, maybe.
No. It's only Windows Vista.
How you can equate a software package with the fall of the Berlin Wall just escapes me for the moment. The ad feels like watching The Sixth Sense for the first time and knowing Dr. Crowe is already dead. Personally, were I in charge of marketing at Microsoft, I'd have held on to this ad for the release of Vista Service Pack 2. But that's just me.
I know I'm running a little shallow here, but bear with me. Ads are like thirty second movies. Like it or not, they set trends and influence pop culture enough to where I cannot think of iPods without hearing Bono belt the chorus to "Vertigo." All this ad does, at the end of the day, is give us more excuse to celebrate mediocrity.
And when you make everything super, as the saying goes, nothing is.
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Two things….
1) I saw this commerical at the movie theater….LAMEST PLACE TO HAVE TO WATCH TV COMMERCIALS, BY THE WAY!!!
2) There are cars that can run on water –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMovXzVOzc4
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In January, Michigan's newest aquarium opened its doors to allow guests a realistic and interactive look at the world' unseen underwater creatures. Since my children love aquariums and all animals in general, we decided to take a short road trip into Auburn Hills to experience newest attraction for ourselves. Because the aquarium was situated inside a mall setting, we weren't expecting to find what we did on the inside. It was so much more than we could have imagined.
Themed Rooms
As we entered into the first room we quickly found that each room within the aquarium was themed to specific locations and the creatures typically found within those locations. For example, the first room was fashioned after a harbor with a faux boardwalk created to walk underneath. Within the built-in tanks were fish and creatures we would typically find underwater if visiting a real life harbor area.
A second room was fashioned to appear like a shipwreck with a room that looked like we were walking into the broken side of a ship. Inside this area we took an up close look at an octopus, eels and sharks. Each room thereafter kept within its own theme and each room somehow found a way to wow us more and more. Each room was so different from the last, it was if I could leave one room and enter into a new place in the world by simply walking through a doorway.
Interactive Learning
Next to each tank and within a child's reach were interactive touch screen iPads loaded up with interesting notes and information about the creatures within the tank. As my children touched the picture of a creature that they wanted to know more about, the facts, living conditions, predators and origins popped up on the screen. This was especially interesting to my seven-year-old. She read each fact to her little brother (who is 4) as he peered wide-eyed into the large tanks watching the fish swim by. He was more interested in the pretty colors of the fish and tanks than in the facts and figures she was reading off.
To take interactive learning to a whole new level, within one of the rooms was a touch pool where my children could pet, hold and feel different underwater creatures. Some of them were terrifying, like a crab that looked like a spider scurrying around on the water's floor.Some of them were funny, like the starfish that looked like a chocolate chip cookie. Along side the pool were staff to help educate the children with proper ways to touch and hold the creatures because the creatures' well-being is very important to SEA LIFE Michigan. SEA LIFE also participates in a Breed, Rescue, Protect program which funds movements to preserve the sea and its inhabitants for future generations. It was at this location that my kids showed me just how brave they were and how chicken I really was, but there was no way I was holding a spider crab.
Nearby Shopping and Restaurants
At first I wasn't sure about the greatness of the location; however, after visiting, I think that the new SEA LIFE Aquarium has been thoughtfully positioned within the Great Lakes Crossing Outlets right next door to the RainForest Cafe'® and within a mall setting filled with other fun things to do and great places to eat. There is also a movie theatre in the building where you could continue the family
fun. We finished off our fun day with lunch at Rainforest Cafe® and a little bit of shopping without having to bundle up the kids and load them up in the car. Priceless.
Helpful Tip
Be sure to check out the SEA LIFE Michigan website to pre-purchase your tickets as tickets are sold for specific entrance times and tickets have been known to sell out. There are also discounts available for season passes and 10% off when tickets are booked in advance.
While you are in the area, you could check out 14 more great family friendly places to eat in nearby Detroit, MI or keep the family fun going with a trip to the Michigan Science Center!
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Floodgates = Open
Sky have announced the first music subscription service in a revolutionary partnership with Universal Music.
BBC.co.uk Reports.
That was a nice industry we had once.
Posted by Marvin [The Martian] at 09:10
Labels: industry, mp3, Sky, Subscrition, Unviersal
2 comments:
- jen said...
Another one for the ever-expanding files of Murdoch's attempt to summarily control every aspect of the world's cultural output.
The News Co/BSkyB and Universal partnerships of late are worrying. Have you seen all the stuff about Hulu?
- 23 July 2008 at 02:58
- Marvin The Human said...
Ha! I never actually thought of it that way. Murdoch is in charge of distributing Universal music. Hahaha. Wow.
- 23 July 2008 at 04:34
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Klezmer music in unexpected places/
Tonight I had the good fortune to attend a musical program at Seatle's Swedish Center featuring Semmy Stahlhammer, First Concertmaster at the Stockholm Royal Opera, faculty member at the Stockholm Royal Music College, and solo artist on 20 CD recordings. In addition to classical and chamber music, he honors his Polish Jewish heritage with Stahlhammer Klezmer, a trio with accordion and cello. Who knew there was Klezmer music in Sweden? What a fabulous evening of music! I've just started reading his book Code Name Barber, which tells his father's story of life in Poland, then escaping as a teenager in German work camps, as a Polish partisan, in the Red Army, and finally ending up in Sweden with two of his brothers.


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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Our Superbowl Dish Today -Emeril's Crawfish Etouffe
Today my husband and I are going to a neighbor friends for the Superbowl game this afternoon. He is a HUGE NY Giants fan so he is beyond thrilled they are in the game! We always try and bring a dish to our get togethers and this time wanted to try something new. We found this recipe today online and it is awesome!! Especially after neither of us even attempting to make a crawfish etouffe, I was impressed how well it turned out. I can't take credit for it though, my hubby made it all himself :) It came out so delicious I just had to share!
Emeril Lagasse's Crawfish Etouffe
1 stick unsalted butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped yellow onions
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped green bell peppers
1/4 cup chopped green onions
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
2 tablespoons dry sherry
1 1/2 cups shrimp stock or water
1 pound crawfish tails
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves, plus more for garnish
Cooked long grain white rice, accompaniment
In a large pot, melt the butter over medium-high heat. Add the flour and cook, stirring, to make a light roux. Add the onions, celery, bell peppers, green onions, garlic, bay leaves, salt, and pepper and cook, stirring, until the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes.
Add the sherry and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the stock and crawfish tails and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes. Add the lemon juice.
Stir in the parsley and remove from the heat.
Adjust the seasoning, to taste. Serve over rice, garnished with additional parsley.
There are actually a few different versions of his etouffe that we found. This one was featured on his show Emeril Live.
YUM-O! This recipe makes a pretty large pot of etouffe. I'm so glad there are some leftovers for tomorrow!
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Tues 3 January
My Queen is always busy, managing her work, keeping in touch with her special subs. She only stops when she wants to talk with me, or when something else demands her attention, or if we go out. Her work is her passion and it is consuming.
We stay in the room, she working, and taking care of her tongue, me resting. I am getting better, slowly, day by day. She draws my attention to her schedule, which has changed slightly. I note it, or so I think.
Later in the day she showers. After a while she comes out, glares at me, and says "Are you looking for a whipping?" "Not understanding her meaning, I say "Yes, I can take it now." Then I realize that there is a problem. "You will be punished!" "What have I done wrong?" "Invading my privacy! Go, quickly!" I obey, wondering what my latest mistake is. I wait downstairs, still acutely self conscious about my collar and wrist restraints. It is a torment, to be in the public wearing these.
I wait. Eventually her message comes "Come up now." I go, enter the room, and kneel. She is calm. She explains my transgression; I didn't leave the room when I should have. At first I think I have misunderstood her earlier arrangements. Then I realize that, no, no misunderstanding. Just a stupid mistake. She orders me to strip. Soon the whip falls on my back. It is hard this time. Very painful. It is short but intense. She finishes. I turn around, kneel again. Tears come, triggered by the pain, but expressing the difficulties and changes of the past week. I explain my tears. She goes through the schedule again so I am clear. We discuss the week. I tell her that the most difficult thing is public exposure. She says "You should be proud to show that you are owned by me." "When we are together, it is fine," I say. "It is when I go out alone that it is so hard." "I haven't told you to go out alone. You have chosen to. You chose to go to the pharmacy because you love me and don't want me to suffer with my tongue." "Yes my Queen." "You are my slave, I own you, and I care for you too." I nod through my tears.
"Now you can dress, or not, whatever you like." "Ok." I get my clothes, surveying my body as I pass the mirror . Livid diagonal stripes cross my back. High on my chest where the tip of the whip curled over my shoulder is a small cut, slowly seeping blood. I clean it, it is nothing. I am chastened, subdued, and wrung out at this culmination of a difficult week.
Later we order room service, we chat a little then she works on her phone. I clean up. I constantly check the schedule she gave me. I am afraid of unwittingly disobeying her and getting punished again.
Eventually we sleep.