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Creative cocktails have become the hallmark of bartenders around the world. After all, there's no "right" way to mix up a drink, right?
Apparently, there is — and the U.S. government seems to have signed off on it.
Craig Stoltz, a cocktail enthusiast and former Washington Post editor, posted a curious engineering diagram on Liquor.com.
The diagram, created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service in 1974, spells out exactly how to create some of the most common cocktails around.
A closer look at who signed off on the document — which is preserved in the National Archives— reveals that it is more of a prank than actual law, with signatures like "I. Mixum" and "I. P. Freely." However, that doesn't mean that the chart doesn't contain some useful advice.
Here are 13 of the cocktail construction recipes on the chart that any amateur mixologist should have under their belt, from the martini to the Zombie.
To make a 14 oz drink, shake with cracked ice and remove:
- 1 oz Jamaica rum
- 2 1/2 oz rum
- 1/2 oz apricot-flavored brandy
- Four squeezed lemons
- 1 oz unsweetened pineapple juice
- 1 oz passion fruit juice
- One floater (about 1/2 oz) of Demerara rum
- Orange juice
- One red cherry
- One mint leaf
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This week's trail set by: Tim
At last, it's finally here, the SNRC 5 year anniversary run! The term "run" is used loosely here because the focus this week will be on drinking. We'll begin this week's "run" at Zeno's in Harrison West, a local watering hole for many townies! Fun fact: Zeno's was almost shut down by the DA's office after accruing over $40k in fines for blatantly violating the smoking ban following its passing! Such rich history! We'll head out on a brief 1.8 mile route with not one…not two…not three…not four…but FIVE beer checks in honor of five years up and running! The final beer check, hosted by our benevolent founders Brian & Lisa, will also have delicious homemade pizza snacks to soak up some alcohol and fuel us the grueling quarter mile back to the bar.
Route: http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/1989329909/

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FEMA: Phone number for disaster relief: 1-800-621-3362. Apply for assistance by registering online at http://www.DisasterAssistance.gov. Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.
Rental Assistance: Assistance through FEMA's Individual and Households Program may be available to eligible applicants to secure temporary housing while repairs are being made to the pre-disaster primary residence, or while transitioning to permanent housing while applicant survivor is displaced from their primary residence.
Temporary Blue Roofs: The recent hurricane has left many homeowners with damaged roofs, which can take time to repair. Additional information will be available in the coming days on how to access this type of assistance, but the first step is registering with FEMA for federal assistance.
Disaster Unemployment Assistance: Available for Florida residents whose jobs were affected by Hurricane Irma, specifically those who live or work in the counties included in the major disaster declaration. This may include people not normally eligible for unemployment benefits, such as self-employed persons and farm-workers. They can apply for unemployment benefits online at Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity.
Disaster Distress Helpline: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Disaster Distress Helpline (1-800-985-5990) remains open 24/7 for free help coping with the stress of the storm. This toll-free, multilingual, and confidential crisis support service is available to all residents in the United States and its territories. Stress, anxiety, and other depression-like symptoms are common reactions after a disaster.
Loans from the Small Business Administration (SBA): Loans may be available to help repair flood-related damage to your home or business and replace personal property. Survivors need to register with FEMA first to determine their eligibility for any federal assistance that may be available.
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Elton John uses his house in Grammy wager
Ok, it's not that big of a deal to bet your house... when you have 7 of them (not confirmed he owns 7).
Lady Gaga has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Shallow, along with her collaborators on the tune, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. Well, there's one person who is convinced the group will win the award – Elton John.
In case you missed it, Elton is so convinced that "Shallow" will take home the award, during an interview with Ronson on his Apple Music show he placed a huge bet on the outcome. "And I bet my house that you're going to win the Oscar, so make room for it," he told Mark. "I don't want to jinx it, but I guarantee you you're going to win an Oscar."
So, why does Elton think Gaga and Mark will win? He explains, "Hello, have you seen the competition? No, forget it."


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This is the initial sketch my wife did that is fast becoming the Magi Carta cover!
What is Heroes & Other Worlds?
Heroes & Other Worlds is a game of adventure inspired by Metagaming's classic Melee/Wizard/TFT system combined with inspiration from the Moldvay edited basic game. The rules are easy to learn and use standard six sided dice. The system is simple, sensible and flexible in the spirit of classic role playing games from the early 80's. Become a Hero, Other Worlds await!
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VOLUME XX, ISSUE I - Spring 2019
Honoring Excellence & Achievement
At L100 Conference
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America was enthroned as the seventh Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America on Saturday, June 22, 2019 at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan.
The Enthronement of Archbishop Elpidophoros attracted worldwide interest and was attended by hierarchs from the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops; dignitaries from the political, diplomatic, academic and business worlds; religious leaders, community and organization representatives; and clergy and laity from around the country and around the world. read more
Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
New York, New York (June 22, 2019)
Secretary Azar, Your Eminence, Metropolitan Avgoustinos of Germany, Personal Representative of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew,
Your Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, beloved and esteemed predecessor,
Your Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, Archdiocesan Vicar, and Beloved Brothers of the Holy Eparchial Synod and Bishops of the Holy Archdiocese of America,
Your Eminences and Graces, Hierarchs of our Sister Orthodox Churches and Ancient Oriental Churches,
Reverend Abbots oof the Monasteries of the Holy Mountain and the Monasteries of our Holy Archdiocese,
Devout and Reverend Clergy and Presvyteres of this Holy Archdiocese of America, read more
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros
Enthronement Luncheon Remarks
June 22, 2019
New York Hilton Hotel
New York, New York
Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Dear Friends,
Your love and welcome are truly overwhelming, and I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. So many expressions of appreciation, so many warm words of greeting. From the Enthronement Ceremony in the Cathedral to this festive and magnificent luncheon – a fellowship meal of faith and love. You will forgive me if I say that I am truly overcome by your kind and generous reception of my humble person. I truly thank you all for such a glorious day!
I feel as if we are celebrating the Resurrection in all its panoply and excellence, with all its joy and festivity. But I have only just commenced my ministry, and I have to ask, is it possible for us to have Resurrection before Crucifixion? I ask this not to diminish our present happiness, but to remind all of us that like our Lord Jesus Christ, we must pass through …we must pass over, before we arrive at the further longed-for shore. read more
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided for the first time as Archbishop at the Archiepiscopal and Synodical Divine Liturgy with all the members of the Holy Eparchial Synod on Sunday, June 23, the day after his Enthronement. The Orthros Service and Divine Liturgy took place at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York, NY.
Opening Forum, 9:45 am-10:45 am, Thursday, February 21, 2019,
Rev. Fr. Alexander Goussetis and Presvytera Kerry Pappas of the Center for Family Care.
Bible Study,11:00 am-12:30 pm, Thursday, February 21, 2019,
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America
Health Forum, 1:30 pm-3:30 pm, Thursday, February 21, 2019, George D. Behrakis,
Dr. George Dangas, Dr. Harry T. Anastopoulos
Hellenic College-Holy Cross Office of Vocation and Ministry, 8:45am-9:15am,Friday, February 22, 2019, Dr. Ann Bezzerides, Director.
Lecture, 9:30 am-10:30 am, Friday, February 22, 2019,
Keynote Address, Business Forum, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm, Friday, February 22, 2019,
George Veras, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Producer, Pro Football Hall of Fame
Glendi, 7:00 pm-11:00 pm, Friday, February 22, 2019
Saturday Forum, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, Saturday, February 23, 2019,
Stellene Volandes, Editor-in-Chief, Town & Country
Grand Banquet, Estimated time 8:15 pm, Saturday, February 23, 2019
Argyris Vassiliou, Chairman of Leadership 100 and His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios present the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Award for Excellence to George Veras and Stellene Volandes. Archbishop Remarks.
Exclusive Interview of David Baker, President and CEO of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
by George Veras, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Producer. Estimated time, 9:15 pm, Saturday, February 23, 2019


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I was inspired by the card on page 149 which included a little shaker tag, the original card had stitching on the sewing machine to hold the piece of designer series paper and the white vellum cardstock together but I just used sticky strip.
I heat embossing a couple of butterflies onto the white vellum card stock and wow, I love this effect. I have teamed this with a scatter of with white snowflake and silver sequins in the shaker card and on the card front.
Stamp Set: Papillon Potpourri, Petite Pairs
Ink: VersaMark, Bermuda Bay,
Cardstock: Crisp Cantaloupe, Bermuda Bay, White Vellum, Motley Monsters Designer Series Paper
Accessories: Frosted Sequins, Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine, Lucky Stars Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Burlap 1 1/4" Ribbon, Organza 5/8" Ribbon, Calypso Coral Baker's Twine, Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Bitty Butterfly Punch,


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Feminist Lives: Reprising the Conversation
In the late 1970s, Yasmine Ergas conducted a series of in-depth interviews with Italian feminists living in Rome (of whom, she was one). This project builds on these interviews and—to the extent possible—seeks to repeat and extend them. The interviews have three purposes. First, re-enacting the same setting several decades on—Ergas is still the interviewer, each woman is still the interviewee, at least a substantial part of the interview will remain the same (as much as possible, the same questions will be asked)—to explore the dynamics of narrative and memory. How closely does each woman's story of her childhood, schooling, early romances, sometimes first marriage, and activist experiences repeat the accounts elicited then? What can each person say about the reasons for the changes which Ergas will be able to pick up? Second, this project seeks to explore how those years of feminism shaped their lives. Do they identify as members of a political generation? Did feminism (as they understood it then, and as they understand it now) function as an anchor as they navigated adulthood and does it do so today? To what extent – in their own telling -- did it color their ways of being, permeate their friendships, affect their perceptions of the societies they have lived in? Finally, to the degree possible on the basis of the 1978 tapes, Ergas will inquire into the question of self-foreshadowing. Did they become the women they thought they were going to be?


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Sleeping Beauty
Production shots from the Theatre Royal Stratford East's stunning, time-hopping Sleeping Beauty. The show runs to 12 January.
Production shots from the Theatre Royal Stratford East's stunning, time-hopping Sleeping Beauty. The show runs to 12 January.
Production shots from the Mercury Theatre Colchester's spectacularly lavish pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Not featured, some giant (*cough*) surprises…
Production shots from playwright Irwin Shaw's fascinating protest play, Bury The Dead, which follows six dead soldiers who refuse to be buried and concludes the Finborough Theatre's GREATWAR100 series.
The show runs at the Finborough to 24 November.
Something slightly different this time.
Production shots from the Cambridge Theatre Company's recent (and beautiful) production of West Side Story in Cambridge. The charity aims to encourage full community involvement in theatre and the arts. Its next show, Peter Pan, will take place from 18 to 22 December at the Great Hall of the…
Production shots from James Purdy's haunting The Paradise Circus, which runs at the Playground Theatre to 3 November.
Production shots from the Mercury Theatre Colchester's beautiful and wonderfully irreverent production of Moll Flanders.
The final show will be on Saturday.
Production shots from the hugely entertaining Eugenius! at The Other Palace, which runs to 21 October.
Having toured cathedrals and trotted around the south of France, Antic Disposition's highly entertaining production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing comes to London, where it plays at the historic Gray's Inn Hall to 1 September.
Production shots below.
Publicity and production shots from Antic Disposition's cathedral tour of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
The tour runs to 24 July before the production decamps to France. It comes to London, at Gray's Inn Hall, from 17 August.
Something different this time… Production shots from Milton Keynes theatre and dance school Arts1's sixth form end-of-year showcase, which brought together performances from all different disciplines and a lot of very talented students.
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Dreams of a Mobile Life
ElleZhu.com is an aspirational mobile photography studio. Bringing prints to you while on the road.
The Scene
I ask the indulgence of all the visitors who arrive at this page. It is hard to know thyself. I moved to Sacramento, California searching for something new and discovered myself in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Here was a place I could feel equal parts adventure and the curious sensation of being at home.
The Dream
The outdoors offers such replenishment for those who are seeking something that is real and good and true. Before I knew it backpacking, climbing, and photography would become essential parts of my life- activities that I will continue to pursue and attempt to perfect for as long as I am capable.
The Struggle
Now I am at a crossroads. How do I retain this lifestyle of adventure in the realities of financial and social responsibilities? How do I maintain a state of endless possibility and discovery? I constantly seek the answer that will feel right.


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By Radek Matoušek
This booklet is a set of chosen permitted papers of Mendel convention that has been held in Brno, Czech Republic in June 2015. The ebook contents 3 chapters which signify contemporary advances in tender computing together with clever photograph processing and bio-inspired robotics.: bankruptcy 1: Evolutionary Computing, and Swarm intelligence, bankruptcy 2: Neural Networks, Self-organization, and computing device Learning, and Chapter3: Intelligent picture Processing, and Bio-inspired Robotics. The Mendel convention used to be demonstrated in 1995, and it consists of the identify of the scientist and Augustinian priest Gregor J. Mendel who found the recognized legislation of Heredity. In 2015 we're commemorating one hundred fifty years on the grounds that Mendel's lectures, which he offered in Brno on February and March 1865. the most objective of the convention used to be to create a periodical probability for college students, teachers and researchers to replace their rules and novel examine methods.
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Atta Nahi Hai
The rich get richer and the poor still work hard. You realise this, between the chaos of everyday life when your house help looks at you with embarrassment. She needs Rs 100 because this month she doesn't have money to buy grocery to feed the family. Here we are in the middle of 21st century, trying to buy cheap alcohol. Doesn't it dishearten one that someone struggles to fulfill basic necessities and some of us spend on 'feeling easy'?
The gap between the labor class and the upper middle class is shocking. We all suffer from our woes but to completely different degrees. We all struggle to meet our needs but the definition of "needs" in these classes are different. Despite the argument that these differences define the classes, have we noticed that there's almost no way with which the labor class will improve?
Let's understand this with an example. Here onwards, middle class man is Joe and our labor class buddy is Jeevan.
Jeevan wakes up early in the morning, gets ready and says his morning prayers before he leaves home. In the chai-stall next to his 1-room shelter, he has his "breakfast". On a bicycle, he travels around 7-10kms to reach his workplace. He irons clothes. His boss "welcomes" him with the day's pile of clothes. It's a whopping 200-cloth pile. It doesn't surprise him because he's used to it. In fact, he knows that he's going to get at least 50 more clothes as emergency service. He finishes ironing 150 clothes before lunch. He breaks for lunch and opens the little lunch sack that his wife gives him. He eats the 4 chapatis and potato-curry, drinks water, washes his hands and gets back to work. By 5PM he's ironed 250 clothes for the day. But today the delivery boy has to leave early. So, Jeevan picks up 4 sets of clothes and in the next 45 minutes delivers them to 4 different houses. It's dusk and he's riding back home. He is welcomed by his 2-year-old son who jumps to his embrace. His wife takes the lunch sack and asks him if he needs refreshment. While he drinks water, he's lost in his thoughts. He's done his day's work but he knows he still hasn't made enough for his growing son. He's worried about his future and with every passing day, the concern grows. He's stressed but can't show it. His father was an iron-man and he passed on the skills to Jeevan. Jeevan didn't study beyond Grade 4. It was the same situation. You only make enough for two adults even in this era. Customer's pay higher price per cloth piece today but that's directly proportional to inflation. Hence, what an iron man makes today is worth the same items years ago. You pay a higher rent, buy more expensive grocery and pay higher bills. How hard can Jeevan work to support the unpredictable needs of his son? Will he have to give up on his son too? Despite wanting to be a good father, does his intent match the means to fulfill it?
Joe doesn't wake up before 9. That too because is wife pesters him. He was partying the night before. He's hung-over and needs to recover to be fit for work. He needs to get the dizziness off his head. He walks out of bed like a zombie at 9.15. His wife tells him that the breakfast and coffee are on the table. She has to rush for her workplace. She leaves a peck on his cheek and leaves. He lazily brushes his teeth and suddenly his eyes fall on the clock. He has to rush. But he is used to it. Everyday after 9:20, his life is the same. He runs to the bathroom, he runs for the breakfast, he runs for the carry bag and then forgets the car keys inside the house. He manages to leave the parking at around 9:45. After struggling with the traffic and abusing a few people on the road, he reaches his office at 10:10. It's an auspicious time. Not for him. He walks through the office corridor as a guilty man. But he's done this many times before. He knows this guilt is healthy. At least he knows he's late. Or so he tells himself. He settles on his desk. Takes about another 30 minutes to finish the coffee and finally start his tasks. Joe's clients have again given a negative feedback. Joe gets up with anger and rushes to the manager. He accuses the manager of failing to explain the report he drafted last night. The manager explains that it was too late to talk about it. Joe asks him to set up a meeting right away. It's noon and Joe anticipates the outcome of the meeting. They meet in the conference room. Joe explains his report for about 10 minutes and the manager adds 20 minutes of extra explanation. By 1:30PM, the client agrees to the draft and accepts it. Joe comes out of the conference room looking tired. It was a lot of pain to make the report go through. His manager congratulates him and he looks at his watch. It's lunch time. He searches for his friends. They were all waiting for him to break for lunch. A group of 5 people head out for a nice beer-lunch. After all, it's a sunny friday afternoon. They come back by 3.30. Everyone wants to be done with work early today. Joe is panicking. He runs through the pile of work that's pending. He postpones 3 out of 4 tasks to Monday and somehow finishes 1 task by 5. At 5, his manager runs to him with an emergency. Someone is on leave and their job needs to be sent right now. It'll take about 30-40 minutes to do it. But why should Joe do someone else's work? That too it's a Friday. He doesn't want to sit late hours. Joe refuses to do the job. Even though Joe's polite, for the manager it's harsh. Joe chills around the office till 5.30 and picks up his bag. He asks people to join him for a friday night bash. Everyone will join him wherever he goes. After all, he's our Joe. Our average Joe.
Joe and Jeevan are both living their lives. They have their needs, wants and accomplishments. While Jeevan's accomplishment is in everyday, Joe accomplished a lot when he was in school, college and probably first few days of work. Jeevan has to work hard everyday to make his money while Joe will get his salary even if he puts in some hard work for at least 5 days in a month. Not unjustified but it's very dismal.
Is there anyway to bridge the gap between salaries and wages? If not, can we help the people stuck in everyday hard work by spending less on recreation? Can we give up cigarettes, alcohol etc to lend money to these people? Can we help them help future generations? Can we?


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Flexenclosure opens second production facility in Sweden to meet increasing global demand for eCentre data centres
20th December 2017 – Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish provider of sustainable Internet infrastructure Flexenclosure is establishing a second production facility in western Sweden to manage the increasing global demand for its prefabricated eCentre data centres.
Flexenclosure's custom designed, flexible and energy efficient eCentre is being used by an increasing number of telecom, Internet and colocation service companies across the world. Flexenclosure recently announced its expansion in Latin America with an order for two new data centres in Chile and Ecuador. And earlier this month, Flexenclosure and Virtutel announced a project to roll out up to 20 edge data centres across Australia. eCentre is also very popular in many emerging markets in Africa due to its durability, quick deployment and the company's extensive experience of supplying top quality ICT infrastructure to the most demanding locations around the globe.
In order to meet customers' expectations of increasing volumes and speedy deliveries of new eCentre data centres, Flexenclosure will open a new production facility in January 2018 at Lidköping-Hovby Airport – a regional airport in western Sweden. The company already operates its main production facility at its corporate hub in nearby Vara.
"This is a major milestone for us and a confirmation of our successful growth strategy for both our eCentre product and our business," said David King, CEO, Flexenclosure. "We are rapidly expanding our global eCentre footprint and the new facility will enable us to deliver new data centres even faster to our customers around the world."
Flexenclosure is a Sweden-based designer and manufacturer of prefabricated data centre buildings and telecom site power systems for the ICT industry. eCentre is a state-of-the art, custom-designed, prefabricated and pre-integrated data centre building that is fast to deploy, energy efficient and fully future proofed. With its flexible and easily expandable white space, eCentre enables highly capital efficient data centre deployments and has been Uptime Institute certified up to Tier IV level.
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Flexenclosure provides sustainable Internet infrastructure – designing and manufacturing prefabricated data centres and intelligent power management systems for the ICT industry. The company provides systems that are fully integrated, modular, factory tested for reliability, adaptable to local conditions and quick to install.
eCentre is a state-of-the art, custom-designed, prefabricated and pre-integrated data centre building that is fast to deploy, energy efficient and fully future proofed. With its flexible and easily expandable white space, eCentre enables highly capital efficient data centre deployments and has been certified up to Tier IV level.
eSite x10 is the world's first power system purpose-built for outdoor telecom sites and to outdoor telecom standards. It is a patented, sealed, tamper-proof unit with passive convection cooling, no filters, no moving parts and it requires no maintenance. eSite x10 is the future of telecom site power.
Flexenclosure was founded in 1989. The company is based in Vara, Sweden, headquartered in Stockholm and has additional offices in Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria and South Africa. Customers include ACS, Airtel, Apollo Towers, IHS Towers, Millicom, MTN, Vodacom and Zain.


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A Rose For Emily By Faulkner Summary Essay Example
… William Faulkners short story, Rose for Emily offers two radical different depictions of the South. On the one hand, the South is depicted as a place that is steeped in tradition and traditional approaches to things and to virtue. Indeed, this sort of traditional aspect is embodied by such characters as Emily, herself, and Colonel Sartoris, who represent an older and more traditional order. Secondly, …
… she represents traditional southern attitudes and the values of the Old South that still existed as a sort of holdover from the pre-Civil War days. For this reason,Faulkner literally lists Miss Emily as a tradition, herself:
Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, …
… are no longer useful and have been outmoded. These traditions are the source of many problems and seem not to offer any hope to those who still cling to them.
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Have you ever tried volunteering? This is a wonderful experience you will never forget. Most of people are motivated to work only with money. However, sometimes you can get great experience working for free and helping people. Also, you can invite people and work together. If you are lucky to find volunteers you should be thankful for their time, devotion and willingness to help you. End them a nice card saying thank you for volunteering. All these volunteer thank you quotes will make people happy. They will feel a very special connection with your and your project. Do not be afraid to ask for help and always be ready to help people in return.
A million thanks to your dear (name). You are the best volunteer in the whole world! Without your effort and support, we cannot imagine what we could have been right now. You just saved our lives! Thank you very much!
What a whirlwind week! From start to finish you were an incredible volunteer, and because of your dedication and hard work, our Book Fair was a great success. Thank you so much for your commitment of time and energy to this important project.
On behalf of our family, we would like to thank you for extending your helping hand towards us when we were in trouble. You are indeed a kind person! God bless you dear ! Thank you again!
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Thank you so much for helping us out at the Food Bank this weekend. We are always in need of great volunteers who are hard-working, organized, and get along well with our clients. Every year our food lines become longer and longer as there are more families who find they are in need of our services. It's only with the assistance of local volunteers such as yourself that we can rise to meet the challenge.
If you prefer to talk with the volunteer and say thanks, you can use the note as practice for what you want to say.
Wages in the form of love, perks in the form of hopes and promotions in the forms of blessings – this is your reward for volunteering with all your heart. Thanks.
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You may not realize this but you are the real life Superman in the lives of all the people you have helped. Thanks for volunteering.
Your cookies and cupcakes were absolutely delicious! It was wonderful that you were able to volunteer your time and baking talents to help make our Bake Sale a smashing success. We also appreciated your stopping by to help us man our treat table during lunch-time, and then again after school. You are a highly-valued school volunteer.
The youth is doing everything it can to be different, but few are doing everything they can to make a difference. Thanks for volunteering.
For a one-time volunteer event, thank the volunteers in person near the close of the event.
By choosing to work for us without a fee, you have proven that your time and talents are priceless. Thanks for volunteering.
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
It's especially appropriate to have some words prepared for a volunteer appreciation event, like a luncheon or dinner, as well as any time you present a volunteer with gift to show your appreciation.
I consider you a real superhero because you have helped all these people without any personal interest. People like you are hard to find. Thank you so much.
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You re very lucky to find people who are ready to help you finish the project for free. Nowadays, volunteering is very popular around the world. Be a part of this great community of open-minded people and use these volunteer appreciation quotes to thank them.
Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The only people that are making a difference are those who volunteer. You are the best. Thank you so much.
In the day and age where greed is making everyone focus on getting and receiving, few angels like you are still committed to giving and helping. Thanks.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Volunteer do not donate for the fame. They do not donate for the popularity. They do not want anything in return. They are the best people in this world, and you are one of them. Thank you very much.
Thank You Note for Volunteer Service
Do you want to write a proper thank you note for volunteer service? You will find a lot of interesting ideas in this collection of quotes and wise sayings. Help people and they will be always to help you in return.
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Volunteers don't necessarily have the time, but they have the heart.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
For changing a country, the biggest part is played by volunteers. They give and they make a difference.
Your acts of kindness are small, but the impact they will leave in the world will be is huge. Thanks for volunteering.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
You have been a real support to this cause and we all pray for you that you may find everything you want in this life and may you live long.
Thank you very much.
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If you want to see the change happening for the better in York City, come out February 13th! There will be lots happening in the city for Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardis Gras, or as we like to call it in York, PA, Fausnaught Day.
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Pancakes are free and unlimited!!! Toppings and Juice will be offered for a small donation. ALL proceeds will benefit Nature's Recipe : Free Meals Program for York City Youth. Nature's Recipe provides wholesome, nutritional meals for York City Youth, as well as providing a safe haven for children to receive homework help, daily activities and education on nutritional health as well as sustainable living through horticulture education!


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Easter was a lot of fun this year, not only because we were here in California but Cayden is at a much better age than he was last year and I was excited to see how he was going to react to it all. We started the festivites at the park in town where they had a giant easter egg hunt. Luckily they spread it out by age which made it alot easier, but there were definately kids older than 2 in ours. Cayden was a little confused at first and by the time he got the hang of it there were hardly any eggs left but it was still really fun to see him out there. And another plus... he was not afraid of the Easter bunny!
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To address the social and academic impacts of marijuana use has n our college students,[Mattew J.Burcherding,st.Cloud university]guided by Austin (1985) theory of involvement, the social aspect of involvement examine the effective psychology domain. The literature demonstrates the impact of marijuana on intellectual development [Goode,1971,Indlekofer,et al;2008;Lynkey&Hall,2002;wadsuorthmoss,simpson&smith,2006]and specifically on one's ability to recall information, as well as the conception that marijuana linked is immotivational syndrome-a pattern of behaviour linked to apathy and an overall lack of motivation.
The NACADA 2012 countrywide survey among students and school leavers revealed that substance of abuse both licit and illicit were forming a sub-culture among Kenyan youth. Contrary to common assumptions, the survey showed that substance abuse was wide spread with youth being the most hit; surprisingly, across all social groups with the most common abused drugs being alcohol, khat and cannabis.
According to National statistics from the Rapid Situation Assessment of Drugs and substance Abuse in Kenya,[NACADA,2012]11.7% of people aged 15-24 are current users of alcohol,4.7% Khat while 1.5% are users of cannabis. In addition, the median age of initiation to tobacco products is 10% years while minimum being 8 years.
Several number of authors and researchers have shown that there are many contributing factors to drug and substance abuse among the students. Drug abuse is caused by a combination of factors; Environmental, biological and psychological [Agrawal&Dick, 2008; kuppin&carprino, 2006].The most influential include the family, peer association, school performance and social membership. The family especially parents are the child's basic socializing agents.
Maithiya [2012] and Muchemi[2013] indicate that a child gains his/her first standards of behaviour from the teachings of the parents and other grown up persons around them. They further argue that if the child observes a distinctive between the parents behaviour.Chesang[2013] associates delinquency, for example alcohol and marijuana abuse with inconsistent and abusive parental discipline owing to diverse socialization agents, such as the peer group, teachers, the mass media, the government and the church interaction with various people, the young people are acquiring values that are beyond those of their localized culture. Since the family is less involved in the socialization of the young, very little is communicated to the young people in the way of values and customs of the locality.AS a result, the traditional value system has been eroded leading to drastic moral decay. According to the Sunday Standard Newspaper report by Kibet[June 2014],peers have high degree of influence only when parents have abdicated their traditional supervisory roles.Hence,active and involved parents may be able to limit the influence of peer groups on young people's attitude towards use of drugs and substance and therefore have a crucial influence on children's behaviour.


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"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." Matthew 6:33
Since Enkhtaivan Enkhsumya, who goes simply by Sumya, accepted Christ as a cadet he has followed God's leading to help share the gospel with military members in Mongolia.
"My passion is to share God's love, His truth, with military people," the 29-year-old said. "My passion came because my grandparents and some of my relatives are in the military and I graduated with a degree in National Defense."
In 2009, Sumya graduated from college and had a decision to make. He could choose to go into full-time ministry or commit to working in the military full time.
"I felt God's calling to serve," Sumya said. "I have seen Mongolian people arrested, living in prison. They don't know the truth, they don't know the purpose of life. They were like sheep without a shepherd."
Sumya began to cry out to God that his people would know Jesus Christ. He began to pray about what he could do. That's when he heard God's clear calling to serve.
"The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners." Isaiah 61:1
He decided not to serve in the Army and now serves as the leader of the military ministry in Mongolia.
"Transforming someone's life when they make the decision to following God's way gives me joy," Sumya said. "That joy always confirms my calling."
Sumya's first disciple was his first lieutenant. He was a first-year cadet and Sumya shared the Four Spiritual Laws with him. After that conversation, the first lieutenant accepted Christ.
"He was totally changed," Sumya said of the then-shy cadet who had been a victim of bullying. "He realized his position in God. He is a kingdom leader with joy and passion. He is a very strong, bold military man for the Lord now."
Sumya's influence has not just been within Mongolia. His disciples have been able to influence military efforts in bases all over the world. There are members who are cadets, young officers, senior officers, generals and members of the NGO.
"The spirit-filled life is most critical," Sumya said. "This is God's ministry. It must be from God's unconditional love. We must surrender daily and serve with His spirit."
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A Mongolian basketball player earns the respect of his coach and teammates through taking a bold stand for his faith.
Lance Wang grew up in a remote village in the mountains in Asia, where his family were the only believers in their community. Now as a millennial working in a modern city, he shares Christ with colleagues and friends.
Daniel Singh was just 25 when he thought the only answer to his problems was to end his life. Today, he leads a nonprofit to help those who feel hopeless while continuing to pursue his passion as a businessman.
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Introduction: The paradox of the metaphor.
In our text today Paul uses two metaphors to describe how God grows and builds a church. The first is organic metaphor and the other is a structural one. These two metaphors would seem opposed to each other, but in the kingdom of God they are not. The organic metaphor shows us how spiritual growth is a mystery, while the structural metaphor shows us how strategic it is. This is the paradox of Gospel discipleship.
In light of this I would like to add a metaphor to the discussion. The beauty of what Paul is describing is seen in the image described at the end of the Bible. When the apostle John describes heaven to us he describes it as a Garden City. It is a massive City with beautiful architecture. But it also has this massive Garden with vibrant organic life. So, as we explore this text today we explore these two metaphors and the implications they have on our lives and our church. These metaphors illustrate things to us about our spiritual growth and what we are building or what we are doing with our lives.
Theme: Consistent spiritual growth comes from continuing to build on the foundation laid in Christ.
1. The organic mystery of spiritual growth—I Cor 3.1-9.
In these first 9 verses today we see the organic mystery of spiritual growth. Paul opens this section with a problem—READ I Cor 3.1-2. Paul's first organic metaphor deals with the growth of children. He uses an illustration about the nourishment children need to grow in order to help the Corinthians understand their spiritual growth. While it is completely normal for a child to live on milk as their only source of nourishment for a season as they grow older they need to move on toward solid food. Solid food will help them continue to grow. Paul opens this section with very affectionate language—"brothers", "infants in Christ", "fed you with milk". All of this language could remind his readers of the imitate times they had with Paul.
Imagine you are in there shoes for a moment, "Oh, I love it when Paul's calls us family. Oh, yes, I remember those basics of the faith Paul taught us. We were just mere infants back then. What great memories." Then Paul closes verse 2 with this statement, "And even now you are not ready." Ouch! Paul just brought the heat. Now how does Paul try to prove his point? He does so by asking a series of questions—READ I Cor 3.3b-4.
The greatest mentors I have ever had in the faith are wonderful at this. They ask a series of leading questions. They know where they want to take me and help get me there by asking heart-probing questions. I believe this is what Paul is doing here. Paul shows them their motivation and behavior, and then asks them what kind of behavior is this? Their motivation is "jealously" and it produces "strife". The apostle James explains the same connection to us:
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.—James 4.1-3
Spiritually everyone here suffers from affection disorder. Even our good affections are so distorted by sin that it is hard for us to do anything from truly pure motives. We are sick. Therefore, God can't just give us whatever we want because we are sick spiritual children. Paul says these Christians should be further along by now in their sanctification, but they are not.
The good news is that Paul does not want them to stay there. Paul continues with his series of leading questions, but this time he also gives them some rich theological conclusions—READ I Cor 3.5-9. First, let's look at the questions Paul raises. He says, "What then is Apollos? What is Paul?" He doesn't say, "Who?" Paul does not what them to think about gifting or personality, but foundations. What is the ground or essence of what these men are teaching? Paul knows Apollos' teaching is not opposed to his own, and Paul's teaching is not opposed to Apollos' teaching.
So Paul reminds the Corinthians that the two men have the same role and different roles. They both share the role of servants of God, but they carry out that role in different ways. Paul planted and Apollos watered. Both of these men did their roles and yet Corinthian Christians are not growing. Why is that? Paul says it is because "only God...gives the growth." There is a mystery to growth. God in His divine sovereignty has decided when, where, and what He wants to grow. As much as we want to make it about methods and celebrity personalities it is really about what God wants.
I remember interviewing local pastors that I trusted and one, Dan Williams, said, "John, when I first came into our church there were less than 30 people attending. I just tried to faithfully preach the Bible and God grew our church." I have been taught and study various methods of church growth, but none is greater than the promises of God. For all the engineers, type-As, and organized people in the audience this REALLY bothers them. The first three words that come into their mind is, "But what about?" Simply put healthy organisms grow, and we need to quit comparing ourselves to someone else or our church to other churches. All we can do is strive to be healthy Christians and a healthy church.
2. Healthy Christians & healthy churches are built on Christ—I Cor 3.10-23.
This leads into Paul second metaphor. Becoming a healthy Christian and building a healthy church is about one thing—CHRIST. Healthy Christians and healthy churches are built on Christ—READ I Cor 3.11, 18, 23.
In this section Paul begins to use a structural or architectural metaphor. He refers to himself as a "skilled master builder". While Paul said in I Cor 3.7 that he was nothing this does not mean he is blind. He recognizes he has unique giftings God has given him to help build the Church. Paul used the "nothing" language to remind us that we are not meant to worship gifts, but the Giver of those gifts. Paul models the right kind of language we are to use for us in I Cor 3.10, "According to the grace of God given me."
Paul used his God given "skill" to laid what down? He laid a solid foundation, and that foundation was Jesus Christ. He has already told us specifically what it was about Christ that he taught—READ I Cor 2.2.
No only does Paul use this truth as the foundation for the church, but he also implies that it is Christ and Him crucified that will also be our building materials. Therefore, anyone who comes into their midst and tries to lay another foundation, or tries to get to use other building materials outside of the Gospel, should rejected. Why? Well, because what they are building will be destroyed—READ I Cor 3.12-15.
I believe this is why Paul says, "Let each one take care how he builds upon it" (I Cor 3.10). While the building of the church is a community project Paul wants us all to do some personal evaluation. The verb "take care" is present active, which means Paul assumes you will be currently doing this. Therefore, as we read this warning from Paul we are meant to examine our motives for what we are currently trying to build on. If there is any other motivation than to make much of Christ then we should stop, revaluate, and may need to stop what we are doing. Healthy Christians regularly do this. If we have healthy Christians in healthy churches then the churches will regularly be doing this as well.
This is so important in the Christian life because most changes are not radical but gradual. As we gradually move away from the Gospel, then we slowly move away from the Word, and the next thing we know we are not even a church. We are no longer guarding the good deposit that was delivered to us. The way we started is the way we will continue, and the way we will make to the end. Listen to what Paul says to the Christians in Galatia:
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?—Galatians 3.1-3
The One who got us started is the one who is going to complete the work. No one is powerful enough to destroy God's work in you. But the problem is SO many Christians want live like our first parents and blame everything outside of themselves for their problems. If anyone thinks they are something, then they are nothing. It is only when we realize we are NOTHING before God that He can truly make us into something. And when God decides to do that nothing can stop Him. Why is that? Because you were bought! Christ was crucified for our sins. This is why later Paul will say since we were bought we are live like bought people. We are servants just like Paul and Apollos. We no longer live for ourselves, but God. We live to glorify God the way our Savior did. Keep these things in mind in the evaluations of your spiritual life, churches you attend, jobs you take, or any other circumstances you are going through:
You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.—I Corinthians 7.23
No matter what condition you are in God will not allow His temple to be destroyed. If you are a living temple then you will not be destroyed, but you should also not destroy others. God is not using us to tear communities apart but to bring them together. God is using us to build His Garden City. And what is the foundation of that city? What are the materials that will not be burned? It is Christ and Him crucified. He is the mystery that has been revealed to us and the world.


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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
six years ago
as i sat and looked into seth's sweet face i couldn't believe that i was planning on placing him with another family...that i had to let him go, but because i loved him as much as i did (and still do), i knew i could do it....that i HAD to do it...for him. he was meant to have a beautiful and perfect life, and at the time i wasn't able to provide that, but i COULD give him a family that would make him their everything and that's what i did.
i held seth every minuet that i could for two days...for two days he was just mine...for two days i told him that i loved him..and for two days I was his everything...it was amazing.
i wish i could be there today on his sixth birthday. i want to watch him open his star wars gifts (he loves star wars). i want to watch him play with his friends and marvel at what a grown up boy he is. but even though i can't be there i know that i will get pictures of his day, and emails telling me exactly what it was like and how happy he was, and he will get my little gift in the mail, and even though it's not much he'll know who it came from and that i still love him and think of him every day.
this may seem like it's a sad blog post, but it's not. i'm so happy today. happy that seth has the family that he was meant to have...that his whole family will be around celebrating him today, that he has the perfect life that every little boy should have..and that he's 6 years old!
i'm not gonna lie...i feel a little empty, like i do every year on his birthday....but that's ok...i knew i would feel this way. i used to feel this way (but 50 times worse)every day, but gradually over time it's gotten better. it's been a long road, and i'm go grateful to all the people who have helped me through...so today is a great day!
happy birthday seth!! i love you!
9 comments:
- Holly said...
Ashley, I haven't checked blogs for a while, but I am glad I did today. What a beautiful tribute to Seth! You are AMAZING! Happy Birthday to Seth, and sending you a big hug for making such a selfless and courageous choice!
- April 14, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- mcguire family said...
ashley i love reading your posts about you being a birth mom and how much you love seth even tho you cant be with him. being adopted i hope that my birth mother feels the same way :) thank you for your post it was beautiful.
- April 14, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Shalee said...
I love reading your posts about Seth. You are amazing and I hope with all my heart that my boys' birthmoms feel the same way you do!!
- April 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- Lydia said...
Happy Birthday Seth!
Ash - you are a truly amazing and strong person. I admire you for having the courage to put Seth's overall needs before yours. That says a lot about the type of person you are and the type of person that Stone is going to be. :)
- April 15, 2010 at 6:35 AM
- Chelsi said...
Beautiful post. Seth is an incredibly lucky littl boy for many reasons, one big one being you and your unselfish love for him.
- April 15, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- Britt and Chad said...
Ash, you are amazing. That was written so well and I can tell it was straight from the heart. It made me a little sad for you but I've talked with several girls who are waiting and praying for a baby through adoption and I know that it must've been such a blessing to the lucky parents who get the chance to raise him.
- April 19, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Leslie said...
- April 20, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- R said...
I love reading your sweet birth-mom posts. You are wonderful.
- April 21, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- Kimberly said...
This just makes me smile.
- April 23, 2010 at 8:51 AM


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100121– Espresso II — Time to Wake Up!
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends…..We're so glad you could attend come inside, come inside. — Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Espresso II
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Part Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Hot coffee from the meagre little buffet at Pithion (there would be no restaurant car until midday), a painless visit from the Greek customs and passport control, and then the berths were folded away as the train hurried south towards the Gulf of Enez at the head of the Aegean. Outside, there was extra light and colour. The air was drier. The men at the little stations and in the fields were handsome. Sunflowers, maize, vines and racks of tobacco were ripening in the sun. It was, as Darko had said, another day.
Bond washed and shaved under the amused eyes of Tatiana. She approved of the fact that he put no oil on his hair. `It is a dirty habit,' she said. `I was told that many Europeans have it. We would not think of doing it in Russia. It dirties the pillows. But it is odd that you in the West do not use perfume. All our men do.'
`We wash,' said Bond dryly.
In the heat of her protests, there came a knock on the door. It was Kerim. Bond let him in. Kerim bowed towards the girl. `What a charming domestic scene,' he commented cheerfully, lowering his bulk into the corner near the door. `I have rarely seen a handsomer pair of spies.'
Tatiana glowered at him. `I am not accustomed to Western jokes,' she said coldly.
Kerim's laugh was disarming. `You'll learn, my dear. In England, they are great people for jokes. There it is considered proper to make a joke of everything. I also have learned to make jokes. They grease the wheels. I have been laughing a lot this morning. Those poor fellows at Uzunkopru. I wish I could be there when the police telephone the German Consulate in Istanbul. That is the worst of forged passports. They are not difficult to make, but it is almost impossible to forge also their birth certificate–the files of the country which is supposed to have issued them. I fear the careers of your two comrades have come to a sad end, Mrs Somerset.'
`How did you do it?' Bond knotted his tie.
`Money and influence. Five hundred dollars to the conductor. Some big talk to the police. It was lucky our friend tried a bribe. A pity that crafty Benqd next door,' he gestured at the wall, `didn't get involved. I couldn't do the passport trick twice. We will have to get him some other way. The man with the boils was easy. He knew no German and travelling without a ticket is a serious matter. Ah well, the day has started favourably. We have won the first round, but our friend next door will now be very careful. He knows what he has to reckon with. Perhaps that is for the best. It would have been a nuisance having to keep you both under cover all day. Now we can move about–even have lunch together, as long as you bring the family jewels with you. We must watch to see if he makes a telephone call at one of the stations. But I doubt if he could tackle the Greek telephone exchange. He will probably wait until we are in Yugoslavia. But there I have my machine. We can get reinforcements if we need them. It should be a most interesting journey. There is always excitement on the Orient Express,' Kerim got to his feet. He opened the door, `and romance.' He smiled across the compartment. `I will call for you at lunchtime! Greek food is worse than Turkish, but even my stomach is in the service of the Queen.'
Bond got up and locked the door. Tatiana snapped, `Your friend is not kulturny. It is disloyal to refer to your Queen in that manner.'
Bond sat down beside her. `Tania,' he said patiently, `that is a wonderful man. He is also a good friend. As far as I am concerned he can say anything he likes. He is jealous of me. He would like to have a girl like you. So he teases you. It is a form of flirting. You should take it as a compliment.'
`You think so?' she turned her large blue eyes on his. `But what he said about his stomach and the head of your State. That was being rude to your Queen. It would be considered very bad manners to say such a thing in Russia.'
They were still arguing when the train ground to a halt in the sunbaked, fly-swarming station of Alexandropolis. Bond opened the door into the corridor and the sun poured in across a pale mirrored sea that married, almost without horizon, into a sky the colour of the Greek flag.
They had lunch, with the heavy bag under the table between Bond's feet. Kerim quickly made friends with the girl. The M.G.B. man called Benz avoided the restaurant car. They saw him on the platform buying sandwiches and beer from a buffet on wheels. Kerim suggested they ask him to make a four at bridge. Bond suddenly felt very tired and his tiredness made him feel that they were turning this dangerous journey into a picnic. Tatiana noticed his silence. She got up and said that she must rest. As they went out of the wagon-restaurant they heard Kerim calling gaily for brandy and cigars.
Back in the compartment, Tatiana said firmly, `Now it is you who will sleep.' She drew down the blind and shut out the hard afternoon light and the endless baked fields of maize and tobacco and wilting sunflowers. The compartment became a dark green underground cavern. Bond wedged the doors and gave her his gun and stretched out with his head in her lap and was immediately asleep.
The long train snaked along the north of Greece below the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains. Xanthi came, and Drama, and Serrai, and then they were in the Macedonian highlands and the line swerved due south towards Salonica.
It was dark when Bond awoke in the soft cradle of her lap. At once, as if she had been waiting for the moment, Tatiana took his face between her hands and looked down into his eyes and said urgently, `Duschka, how long shall we have this for?'
`For long.' Bond's thoughts were still luxurious with sleep.
`But for how long?'
Bond gazed up into the beautiful, worried eyes. He cleared the sleep out of his mind. It was impossible to see beyond the next three days on the train, beyond their arrival in London. One had to face the fact that this girl was an enemy agent. His feelings would be of no interest to the interrogators from his Service and from the Ministries. Other intelligence services would also want to know what this girl had to tell them about the machine she had worked for. Probably at Dover she would be taken away to `The Cage', that well-sentried private house near Guildford, where she would be put in a comfortable, but oh so well-wired room. And the efficient men in plain clothes would come one by one and sit and talk with her, and the recorder would spin in the room below and the records would be transcribed and sifted for their grains of new fact–and, of course, for the contradictions they would trap her into. Perhaps they would introduce a stool-pigeon–a nice Russian girl who would commiserate with Tatiana over her treatment and suggest ways of escape, of turning double, of getting `harmless' information back to her parents. This might go on for weeks or months. Meanwhile Bond would be tactfully kept away from her, unless the interrogators thought he could extract further secrets by using their feelings for each other. Then what? The changed name, the offer of a new life in Canada, the thousand pounds a year she would be given from the secret funds? And where would he be when she came out of it all? Perhaps the other side of the world. Or, if he was still in London, how much of her feeling for him would have survived the grinding of the interrogation machine? How much would she hate or despise the English after going through all this? And, for the matter of that, how much would have survived of his own hot flame?
`Duschka,' repeated Tatiana impatiently. `How long?'
`As long as possible. It will depend on us. Many people will interfere. We shall be separated. It will not always be like this in a little room. In a few days we shall have to step out into the world. It will not be easy. It would be foolish to tell you anything else.'
Tatiana's face cleared. She smiled down at him. `You are right. I will not ask any more foolish questions. But we must waste no more of these days.' She shifted his head and got up and lay down beside him.
An hour later, when Bond was standing in the corridor, Darko Kerim was suddenly beside him. He examined Bond's face. He said slyly, `You should not sleep so long. You have been missing the historic landscape of northern Greece. And it is time for the premier service.'
`All you think about is food,' said Bond. He gestured back with his head. `What about our friend?'
`He has not stirred. The conductor has been watching for me. That man will end up the richest conductor in the wagon-lit company. Five hundred dollars for Goldfarb's papers, and now a hundred dollars a day retainer until the end of the journey.' Kerim chuckled. `I have told him he may even get a medal for his services to Turkey. He believes we are after a smuggling gang. They're always using this train for running Turkish opium to Paris. He is not surprised, only pleased that he is being paid so well. And now, have you found out anything more from this Russian princess you have in there? I still feel disquiet. Everything is too peaceful. Those two men we left behind may have been quite innocently bound for Berlin as the girl says. This Benz may be keeping to his room because he is frightened of us. All is going well with our journey. And yet, and yet ... Kerim shook his head. `These Russians are great chess players. When they wish to execute a plot, they execute it brilliantly. The game is planned minutely, the gambits of the enemy are provided for. They are foreseen and countered. At the back of my mind,' Kerim's face in the window was gloomy, `I have a feeling that you and I and this girl are pawns on a very big board–that we are being allowed our moves because they do not interfere with the Russian game.'
`But what is the object of the plot?' Bond looked out into the darkness. He spoke to his reflection in the window. `What can they want to achieve? We always get back to that. Of course we have all smelt a conspiracy of some sort. And the girl may not even know that she's involved in it. I know she's hiding something, but I think it's only some small secret she thinks is unimportant. She says she'll tell me everything when we get to London. Everything? What does she mean? She only says that I must have faith–that there is no danger. You must admit, Darko,' Bond looked up for confirmation into the slow crafty eyes, `that she's lived up to her story.'
There was no enthusiasm in Kerim's eyes. He said nothing.
Bond shrugged. `I admit I've fallen for her. But I'm not a fool, Darko. I've been watching for any clue, anything that would help. You know one can tell a lot when certain barriers are down. Well they are down, and I know she's telling the truth. At any rate ninety per cent of it. And I know she thinks the rest doesn't matter. If she's cheating, she's also being cheated herself. On your chess analogy, that is possible. But you still get back to the question of what it's all in aid of.' Bond's voice hardened. `And, if you want to know, all I ask is to go on with the game until we find out.'
Kerim smiled at the obstinate look on Bond's face. He laughed abruptly.
`If it was me, my friend, I would slip off the train at Salonica–with the machine, and, if you like, with the girl also, though that is not so important. I would take a hired car to Athens and get on the next plane for London. But I was not brought up ``to be a sport''.' Kerim put irony into the words. `This is not a game to me. It is a business. For you it is different. You are a gambler. M also is a gambler. He obviously is, or he would not have given you a free hand. He also wants to know the answer to this riddle. So be it. But I like to play safe, to make certain, to leave as little as possible to chance. You think the odds look right, that they are in your favour?' Darko Kerim turned and faced Bond. His voice became insistent. `Listen, my friend,' he put a huge hand on Bond's shoulder. `This is a billiard table. An easy, flat, green billiard table. And you have hit your white ball and it is travelling easily and quietly towards the red. The pocket is alongside. Fatally, inevitably, you are going to hit the red and the red is going into that pocket. It is the law of the billiard table, the law of the billiard room. But, outside the orbit of these things, a jet pilot has fainted and his plane is diving straight at that billiard room, or a gas main is about to explode, or lightning is about to strike. And the building collapses on top of you and on top of the billiard table. Then what has happened to that white ball that could not miss the red ball, and to the red ball that could not miss the pocket? The white ball could not miss according to the laws of the billiard table. But the laws of the billiard table are not the only laws, and the laws governing the progress of this train, and of you to your destination, are also not the only laws in this particular game.'
Kerim paused. He dismissed his harangue with a shrug of the shoulders. `You already know these things, my friend,' he said apologetically. `And I have made myself thirsty talking platitudes. Hurry the girl up and we will go and eat. But watch for surprises, I beg of you.' He made a cross with his finger over the centre of his coat. `I do not cross my heart. That is being too serious. But I cross my stomach, which is an important oath for me. There are surprises on the way for both of us. The gipsy said to watch out. Now I say the same. We can play the game on the billiard table, but we must both be on guard against the world outside the billiard room. My nose,' he tapped it, `tells me so.'
Kerim's stomach made an indignant noise like a forgotten telephone receiver with an angry caller on the other end. `There,' he said solicitously. `What did I say? We must go and eat.'
They finished their dinner as the train pulled into the hideous modern junction of Thessaloniki. With Bond carrying the heavy little bag, they went back down the train and parted for the night. `We shall soon be disturbed again,' warned Kerim. `There is the frontier at one o'clock. The Greeks will be no trouble, but those Yugoslavs like waking up anyone who is travelling soft. If they annoy you, send for me. Even in their country there are some names I can mention. I am in the second compartment in the next carriage. I have it to myself. Tomorrow I will move into our friend Goldfarb's bed in No. 12. For the time being, the first-class is an adequate stable.'
Bond dozed wakefully as the train laboured up the moonlit valley of the Vardar towards the instep of Yugoslavia. Tatiana again slept with her head in his lap. He thought of what Darko had said. He wondered if he should not send the big man back to Istanbul when they had got safely through Belgrade. It was not fair to drag him across Europe on an adventure that was outside his territory and with which he had little sympathy. Darko obviously suspected that Bond had become infatuated with the girl and wasn't seeing the operation straight any more. Well, there was a grain of truth in that. It would certainly be safer to get off the train and take another route home. But, Bond admitted to himself, he couldn't bear the idea of running away from this plot, if it was a plot. If it wasn't, he equally couldn't bear the idea of sacrificing the three more days with Tatiana. And M had left the decision to him. As Darko had said, M also was curious to see the game through. Perversely, M too wanted to see what this whole rigmarole was about. Bond dismissed the problem. The journey was going well. Once again, why panic?
Ten minutes after they had arrived at the Greek frontier station of Idomeni there was a hasty knocking on the door. It woke the girl. Bond slipped from under her head. He put his ear to the door. `Yes?'
`Le conducteur, Monsieur. There has been an accident. Your friend Kerim Bey.'
`Wait,' said Bond fiercely. He fitted the Beretta into its holster and put on his coat. He tore open the door.
`What is it?'
The conductor's face was yellow under the corridor light. `Come.' He ran down the corridor towards the first-class.
Officials were clustered round the open door of the second compartment. They were standing, staring.
The conductor made a path for Bond. Bond reached the door and looked in.
The hair stirred softly on his head. Along the right-hand seat were two bodies. They were frozen in a ghastly death-struggle that might have been posed for a film.
Underneath was Kerim, his knees up in a last effort to rise. The taped hilt of a dagger protruded from his neck near the jugular vein. His head was thrust back and the empty bloodshot eyes stared up at the light. The mouth was contorted into a snarl. A thin trickle of blood ran down the chin.
Half on top of him sprawled the heavy body of the M.G.B. man called Benz, locked there by Kerim's left arm round his neck. Bond could see a corner of the Stalin moustache and the side of a blackened face. Kerim's right arm lay across the man's back, almost casually. The hand ended in a closed fist and the knob of a knife-hilt, and there was a wide stain on the coat under the hand.
Bond listened to his imagination. It was like watching a film. The sleeping Darko, the man slipping quietly through the door, the two steps forward and the swift stroke at the jugular. Then the last violent spasm of the dying man as he flung up an arm and clutched his murderer to him and plunged the knife down towards the fifth rib.
This wonderful man who had carried the sun with him. Now he was extinguished, totally dead.
Bond turned brusquely and walked out of sight of the man who had died for him.
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I have never been huge on reading but this past year, I have come across some books from others who have suggested them and as I read those, I have built a little collection over time. Now, I am excited to have a book I am reading, I don't get through them very quickly, but worked into my Miracle Morning is reading and I try and always read a few pages at least every morning. I think it is important to start a morning off without looking at a screen, since most of the time My work days consist of doing things on the computer, and let's not mention the social media scroll. :)
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