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Kansas Athletics Inc., the operating arm of the Kansas University athletic department, on Friday approved a proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year that is $5.4 million dollars — or 7 percent — higher than the one it worked with during 2013.
But while the KAI budget is expanding, so, too, is the revenue the department expects to earn.
At the board's final regular meeting of the 2012-13 school year, Pat Kaufman, KAI's chief financial officer, said both the budget and the revenue intake would expand by the same amount, meaning that he expected another balanced year from Kansas Athletics when school resumes in the fall.
Kaufman said the bulk of the increase in the budget comes from increased spending on travel and team expenses. The rest would show up in department salaries, with the continued rising cost of health benefits accounting for most of the change.
As for the higher revenue number, Kaufman said most of the extra money coming in would be the result of the new television contracts negotiated by the Big 12 Conference. The rest would come from an increase in men's basketball season ticket costs, which the school announced in early May. The ticket increase is the first in five years and it primarily impacts those with the best seats. Tier-1 season-ticket holders, which include the courtside seats as well as most of the lower level, saw an increase of 23.4 percent (from $1,225 per seat to $1,600); Tier 2 season-ticket holders, which make up most of the upper level, saw an increase of about 6 percent (from $1,155 per seat to $1,225); and Tier 3 season-ticket holders, primarily the upper corners of Allen Fieldhouse, experienced an increase of around 8 percent (from $855 per seat to $925).
Although it was important for the board to understand where the money was coming from, athletic director Sheahon Zenger said the more important thing was where it would go.
"As we continue to grow, the majority of that 7 percent is being driven back into team expenses and the student-athletes," Zenger said. "And that's concurrent with our philosophy of being coach- and student-athlete-centric."
As for the 2013 fiscal year, Kaufman said that through 83 percent of the year, KAI had spent exactly 83 percent of its budget. He also said that 92 percent of the expected revenue for 2013 already had been collected, with most of the remaining 8 percent expected to come from the IMG broadcast contract and KU's cut from the Big 12.
In other news Friday: KU chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Zenger both gave feedback from last week's Big 12 spring meetings, which took place in Dallas after being held in Kansas City, Mo., for the past several years.
Gray-Little said several important financial and contractual issues were discussed and hinted at a serious evaluation of the current state of the NCAA having taken place. Of such discussions, Zenger said: "The upside of that is that conference realignment is in our rear-view mirror and it was nice to move on to other topics."
Is the department still top heavy with admin costs? I seem to recall we were way out of wack on % spent on non-coaching admin vs schools like North Carolina, Kansas State, (not to mention Texas and Michigan).
It's pretty funny that an article that refers to the budget and the increase in both revenues and expenses never bothers to mention the minor detail of WHAT THE BUDGET WILL ACTUALLY BE!
Common guys, that's journalism 101, for crying out loud!
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Lex is in town visiting (for her 3rd time since we moved to Seattle) and we took SO MANY more pictures on her first day here than the entire time she visited
. She brought her boif Teun along for the visit this time, and its been supes fun to show them around our city.
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I'm not even sure where to begin or how to share - but it is with great excitement the MachC Crew is getting ready to start our next adventure, our "next Chapter" as the 8-year-old says with a huge smile ... and with that MachC Photography will be moving to Washington State by the end of the summer!
It will be a huge move for our family, but one that is filling our days with a happy buzz, a newness in the air and a lot of fun & excitement as we start to prep for this journey & next phase.
If you would like to schedule a session with me before we leave for the year, send me an email or get in touch with me & let's make it happen! I only have a handful of dates left before our departure date and am happy to fit you in.
We do plan on making visits back to the 'Banks of course, so if you are one of those that want to be kept on that 'short list' please let me know. In that same token, I would love to photograph your family if we can cross paths in the great state of Washington - so please stay in touch!
And on that note ... the other news we'd like to share ... is that there will be seven of us making this move ... yes! We are expecting baby #5!
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There's no shortage of activity in the mainframe software world right now. Among other things, customers have been coming to grips with the various on-demand services and autonomic capabilities that have rolled out in recent months. From what I have seen, there has also been a great deal of interest in DB2 Version 8, which eases the task of migrating and consolidating enterprise databases and has made many users seriously reassess the relative strengths of DB2 and Oracle.
One major announcement last fall was CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1, an important move by IBM to position CICS more favorably within the Web Services environment. The announcement focuses on three key areas—ease of integration, enhanced application transformation, and performance and system management—and provides a wealth of new functionality to help CICS participate more fully in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Much of the detail was about improved support for the XML-based building blocks of Web Services—SOAP and Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). SOAP has been an optional feature under z/OS for several months now, and has attracted widespread interest from users aiming to simplify the management of transactions and calls between CICS and the distributed world.
But the real message in the CICS TS V3.1 announcement is that CICS is being transformed into a peer player within Web Services—a requestor as well as a server. This is an important strategic signpost, showing that IBM sees CICS being employed not just as a back-end legacy transaction server for Web Services based on other platforms, but as a fully integrated participant in multi-platform SOAs. To this end, new features, such as the CICS Web Services Assistant, are certainly worth watching.
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Two of the leading vendors in this sector, NEON and ClientSoft, have recently joined forces. NEON believes that by adding the capabilities of ClientSoft's ServiceBuilder (one of the longest-standing solutions on the market) to its existing Shadow z/Services products (with their emphasis on event-driven integration), it will have the most complete platform for mainframe integration available.
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Another company that is working on the standardization of security across mainframe and distributed platforms is e3 Sciences. Based in the U.K., e3 has developed the PassGen series of products for creating one-time passwords. Following on from its initial Windows offering, it has now launched PassGen for Java, which enables applications on any platform to generate one-time passwords using the IBM PassTicket algorithm and S/KEY, with a variety of programming interfaces.
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Caught up with LA based artist, Morley during his time in Chicago. Its funny, I was just in LA this past September and remember seeing all these really interesting signs, and pictures. The thing I remember most about them was that they all made me feel. Really strong and specific emotions that i hadn't had in a long time. Which is an incredible thing to be able to do to strangers.
while listening to Morley speak it gave me great comfort knowing that everything he makes and posts are meant to inspire. Which is exceedingly rare in the ever changing art world.


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This article is by Clive Martin and was originally published in Vice UK.
Hey, you know what's not actually a new thing and that people can all stop going crazy about? Having a phone on your camera. I mean, my phone cost £11.99 and it's got a fucking camera on it. Getting excited about having a camera on your phone is a bit like getting excited about having a takeaway coffee or playing a song off your laptop. It ain't no thing.
Still, half the adverts I see on TV are for cameras and phones with cameras on them. There's usually a smiling mum photographing her snowboarding child in the ultra zoom and capturing their soul in a Twitpic forever, and we're all being told we should be doing this. We're told that life is passing us by and that if we don't take pictures of every banal moment in our lives – like Guy Pearce in Memento – these moments will be lost to us forever. It's like we're being told not to trust our own memories.
We're not just being encouraged to be the official club photographers of our own existences, either – we're also being told that we should be documenting every meal as if we were preparing for a retrospective at the Saatchi gallery. This idea finds its epitome and is perpetuated most fervently by something called Instagram. You might have heard of it.
I don't know what it was about the turn of the century – maybe we all got carried away and thought we were the "chosen ones" because our lives spanned two different millennia? – but something in the atmosphere at that time seemed to make us fall in love with ourselves. Our inflated sense of self-esteem is probably why we were complacent enough to allow Travis and jeans that looked like tents to pass as youth culture and why we all bought into the myth that there was an artist in residence within all of us. No longer did we have to be constructive members of society to survive its wilderness, we could all make a living designing logos for juice bars and running our own coffee shops/galleries/grime labels. Don't have the requisite money, talent, intelligence or motivation to do that? It's cool, just get a bank loan or win a competition, or something – we got you, B.
Think I'm generalising? Well, in 2001, I rode my micro scooter into school one day to be told by my art teacher that I'd been commissioned by the council to design a mural for a local underpass. This confused me, partly because I was 12 and partly because I was old enough to realise that I was a shitty artist. I declined, went on to achieve a G-grade at GCSE, killed my art teacher's dream that I had my own suburban version of Guernica buried within me and spent the rest of my adolescence telling posh girls that I wasn't appreciated by the heathens at the exam board and that Van Gogh never sold a painting either.
In the cold light of the dole queue, most of us now realise that this was a complete crock of shit, and it's probably the reason why anyone under the age of 30 is an insufferable bastard with a sense of entitlement equal to that of an exiled Nepalese prince (myself included). The age of Blair begat the culture of rampant self-obsession and bullshit aspiration that brought us Olly Riley and Emmanuel Frimpong rather than the next Issac Newton.
Then there was Banksy, who proved that all you really needed to make it as an artist was a series of ill-informed, left of centre, political metaphors and a rudimentrary understanding of graphic design to get Alan Yentob and Alain De Botton calling you "The Shoreditch Goya" or some shit.
Of course, this has been going on for a while and you only need to go to any South London art college's graduate private view to see that the vast majority of modern creatives should've just taken that job at Snappy Snaps. Recently, though, this ludicrous idea that anybody can be a doyenne of self-expression has found its cruddy conclusion in the unlikely guise of a free smartphone app.
For those of you not in the know – I guess you're busy being good grandmothers or something – Instagram's purpose is to provide an excuse for people without any semblance of taste to spew their own bohemian delusions on the people they went to school with. It's the creative equivalent of a celebrity name drop, a glimpse of a better life foisted onto people who mostly aren't interested, carefully timed and justified with a bullshit excuse, like "Isn't London beautiful today?", when we know that the real reason the photo exists is to prove that you're on the roof of Shoreditch House.
Of course there are plenty of decent people who post interesting, tasteful pictures, but it's the associated culture that so many people seem to want to be a part of that's the problem. The aesthetics, the themes, the tropes. Instagram might just be a photo app, but it's also the weapon of choice for the people who call celebrities they've never met by their first names. It's for people who pass off Jay Rayner restraurant reviews as their own opinions. It's for people who actually bought the Speech Debelle album.
There are many aspects of Instagram that it's easy to take umbrage with, but let's ignore the connotations and motives for a second and just take a look at the aesthetics.
First of all there's that dreadful sub-Windows Moviemaker filter effect that you're obliged to smear over any photo you take. This doesn't make whatever you've taken a picture of appear timeless or classy, but more like a rotting Polaroid of a long forgotten missing girl that David Jason might find in a dusty evidence draw in A Touch Of Frost. I'm no Brian Sewell, but to me Instagram just looks cheap and grotty. I feel a bit queasy looking at the pictures – they remind me of my nan's council flat that hadn't been redecorated since the right to buy came in. It reminds me of polyester suits worn by racist comedians and abandoned furniture shops. It reminds me of death and farts. Maybe this means I have some kind of phobia of them – maybe I was suffocated with a tank top in a previous life – but I just can't hack the way they look.
Then there's the fact that most of the pictures are of food that I'm sure were mouth-watering IRL, but, when instagrammed, end up resembling the photo pages of tattered cookbooks dating from the early days of the microwave, full of turkey curries and scrambled egg lasagnas.
What's the point of these photos, anyway? Sure, I can understand the idea of wanting to capture an important, romantic or amusing moment for purposes of posterity and nostalgia, but really, how many of these pictures are going to stand the test of time? We've become tourists in our own lives, aimlessly snapping away at anything and everything we do. Many of these pictures never even leave the memory cards they're saved on; they are the digital versions of the disposable cameras we used to leave behind in Centre Parcs chalets.
Even if you're just using it to share the lulz, Instagram ceases to be useful. The po-faced nature of it sucks all the amusement out of a passed-out friend or a comical typo. Once funny photos come across like a clip from You've Been Framed that's lost all its soul in an arthouse remake.
Maybe it's just a way of trying to get a grip on a world that's passing us by, capturing those seemingly mundane moments that, when assembled, begin to make some kind of sense of our existence, like a Bayeux Tapestry with less death and more painted nails. Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard whose phone is barely capable of sending an SMS at ground level. Maybe Instagram does have some kind of worth.
I think the problem is that there's a dishonesty at its core. All photography of worth captures some kind of truth, something that you wouldn't have picked up on with the naked eye. At the very least, it presents an interestingly distorted view of reality. Instagram, on the other hand, offers a lie, aesthetically and thematically. It's a filtered and staged version of the real world, which is fine if you're Tim Burton, but Instagram thinks it's street journalism.
Anybody who sees a riot, a terrorist attack or a self immolation is not going to be wasting any time pondering whether "Valencia" or "Nashville" is the best filter to complement the burning American flags. Nobody who sees anything remotely interesting is going to wonder which filter they should use before they send it to the AP. It's people with too much time and not enough originality who inhabit the world of Instagram.
Maybe Instagram isn't something to get worked up about in itself, maybe it's just a slightly crude way of sharing your photos with a bunch of other people who like to do that sort of thing, but Instagram isn't an exclusive club. It's mostly used by smug people to inflict their smug existences and bouji bullshit on the rest of us, and that's when it becomes a different animal altogether.
This is culture as status symbols. It's just that being at the right restaurant at the right time has replaced the second-hand Mercedes Benz.
Sorry Instagram, but I just don't get you (apart from when rappers use it, 'cause they post pictures of themselves fishing in jacuzzis, which is amazing).


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Officials from Japan have indicated plans to have an office in Ghana, Accra to be precise, to coordinate the external trade activities between both countries and beyond.
The new Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Tsutomu Himeno, who made the announcement, explained the move was to attract more Japanese investors into the country.
Known as the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), the setting up of the office in Ghana would be "a way of building close collaboration with Ghana and other African countries," the Ambassador said.
He made these known last week Tuesday, February 5, 2019, when he paid a courtesy call on the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo at his Office.
JETRO is a Japanese government-related organisation that works to promote mutual trade and investment between Japan and the rest of the world.
It was originally established in 1958 to promote Japanese exports abroad. JETRO's core focus in the twenty-first century has shifted towards promoting foreign direct investment into Japan and helping small to medium size Japanese firms maximize their global export potential.
That aside, the meeting with the Senior Minister was hinged on three agendum –including the setting up of the JETRO office by way of partnering Ghana in its quest to becoming an industrialisation hub.
H.E. Tsutomu Himeno, who was accompanied by Dr. Masamichi Yamashita, in charge of international development, indicated that the Japanese government is prepared to partner the government of Ghana in its industrialisation agenda through investment by the Japanese business community, thus the opening of an office to regulate its investors.
Another agenda was to follow up on President Akufo-Addo's invitation to the government of Japan and its business community to take advantage of the automobile manufacturing development policy the Ghana Government has initiated to invest in the country.
Lastly, the meeting also was to fulfill a request made by the Prime Minister of Japan in line with a written proposal from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for Japanese government support for the College of Engineering, in terms of technical and skills development training, at the premier Technology University in Ghana.
The Ambassador was acting on the request by the Prime Minister of Japan to support the College. He assured the Senior Minister of Japan providing the needed support to the College of Engineering.
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, in response, clearly indicated that government has initiated the Ghana Automotive Manufacturing Development Policy and some proposals have been received from well-known automotive companies in the world for the establishment of vehicle assembly plant. The Senior Minister encouraged the Japan government to take advantage of the opportunity in the automobile manufacturing industry.
He indicated that Ghana has recently attracted considerable interest from major global vehicle manufacturers in response to Government's prioritisation of the automotive sector as a key strategic anchor of Ghana's industrialization plan. According to Senior Minister, 89% of cars used in Ghana are second hand vehicles whilst 10% are new cars.
Ostensibly, Government, the Senior Minister noted, wants to encourage the use of new cars and would thus provide incentive packages to local and foreign automobile companies in order to attract new vehicles into the country.
In the discussion, the Senior Minister encouraged the Japanese Ambassador to support the implementation of the Public Sector Reforms as a key mandate under his Office which seeks to improve efficiency and service delivery for citizens and the private sector, whilst acknowledging that the World Bank is partly funding same.
The Senior Minister was elated about the visit as a positive effort in building mutual relations with Japan. He called for more strengthening of the relationship between the two countries for economic growth and development.


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Sue Kim is the Vice President of Development at the Boston Children's Museum, but grew up in Los Angeles in her formative years. She vividly recounts living in Koreatown in the 1980's and what she witnessed on April 29, 1992 and the days following.
What was it like to live in Koreatown in the 80's?
I grew up in LA's Koreatown on Serrano Avenue, a few blocks behind OMC (Oriental Mission Church). My father was a pastor, previously with ministries in Texas and Arizona and was led to LA, where he started the Korean American Christian Press and a Korean Christian Bookstore. They were difficult years and I was a latch key kid in elementary school, home alone or taking care of many household duties like other K-town youth.
The school I attended was composed of immigrants, primarily Latinos with a small minority of Asian Americans. I was bullied, being an Asian girl with a Texan accent. After being repeatedly pushed around, I was finally left alone when I actually punched a bully back one day on the playground. No teachers were ever around. I grew up having to be street smart at an early age wherever I walked or on the RTD bus I rode alone, long distances. Hardship was nothing new for many immigrant families like mine.
As I walked everywhere in K-town, often alone, the aroma from El Pollo Loco on the corner of Western and Beverly, KFC across the street from OMC, Korean stew permeating from hole in the wall restaurants, inter-mixed with engine exhaust and often dirty street odors are still vivid in my mind.
Another distinct K-town memory was when I was mugged one Friday night outside my house after returning from a high school football game. I was cut on my neck with a jagged edged knife as the thieves ran off with my backpack. They were Latinos. My sister opened the door when she heard my car drive up, but I didn't come in. She and I ran after the muggers and all I could yell and curse was, "You SOBs, give me back my books!!!" What a typical Asian high school student's thoughts. Only afterwards did we notice my bloody neck. When the police arrived, they essentially said nothing could be done since the license plates revealed a stolen getaway vehicle. They said I was lucky that nothing else happened, as was likely their intent. It shook my parents to the core to see their daughter attacked in front of our home in K-town.
Where were you in April of 1992?
I was a college student in Boston at the time of the LA Riots. Earlier that year in February, my father passed away from a stroke while preaching as a guest speaker in Killeen, Texas. I took a leave of absence from college to be with my mom in Los Angeles. I wanted to provide comfort, help take care of the bookstore, finances, and other family concerns. Our bookstore was barely in the black. It was a devastating time while we witnessed God's work in our family in the midst of much pain and stress.
With this personal family backdrop, the LA Riots ravaged the community in April. We received news primarily from Radio Korea, because the American news outlets did not provide enough information about what was really happening on the ground. Street names were mentioned, but they never acknowledged that they were K-town streets until much later. As the riots started heading closer to K-town, most store owners decided to camp out at their places of businesses because it was our livelihoods. No one really had insurance. If the stores burned down, what would families do? We risked our lives (literally), but decided to guard nonetheless.
Our family bookstore was on Western Ave, just south of Olympic. We prayed all night as the looters and fire bombers headed our way. We knew because of the smoke in the air, the red sky and reports from Radio Korea. The gunshots were booming and sharp. We stayed clear of the windows. Next door was the Korean Chinese Restaurant and the owners and employees were also there and they had guns. Some of the men had mandatory military training from Korea. Just before the rioters got to our block, literally one block away, something spooked them and just our little section of Western was skipped over. The rioters veered off and found another way up north on Western. I will never forget the darkness of our store, my mom, brother, sister, an employee and me… huddled in the store… knowing that terror and unreasonable cruelty headed our way.
By the following morning, countless stores were burned, looted, shots fired by drive by shooters and by ex-military Korean men on rooftops defending their livelihood. The police were nowhere. We heard on the radio that they were guarding Beverly Hills.
In the midst of the madness, a van full of old Korean women and a pastor from Van Nuys delivered kimbap (Korean hand rolls) to us and many others throughout K-town. We cried. I will never forget their kindness. They were determined to help others in the midst of danger. There were also Korean gang members, and they were willing to help wherever they could defending stores or running errands for people... because this was our K-town.
The K-town community rallied and bonded, but also realized how isolated we were. There were no community spokesmen, the media did not provide correct coverage, the police left us to protect ourselves, and a burning desire in the hearts of 1.5 and 2nd generation Korean-Americans to become activists arose. As we marched, the peace-march, we also felt our continued helplessness and anger. The media still did not cover it properly. Friends in NYC, the East Coast and even in the San Fernando Valley did NOT really know what happened. But how can those who saw the fires and were shot at… ever forget?
How did the LA Uprising/Riot change you?
The LA Riot instilled in me and a generation of Korean-Americans, the importance of engaging with civic organizations, being an activist, about caring for the human condition. Rather than complaining about a lack of voice, I wanted to be a voice for the voiceless. Over the years, there have been moments of anger when faced with racism, but through it all, grounded in faith and trust in the ultimate Peacemaker, I have learned to be a mediator, peacemaker – hopefully to the best of my ability.
I now live in Boston where I am the Vice President of Development at Boston Children's Museum. I am helping with the development of an exhibit at the Museum, titled Our City, designed to build cultural understanding and empathy, spark conversations and inspire individuals and communities to appreciate and celebrate diversity. It will help teach children and families to shatter the "us" and "them" stereotypes and prejudice and work through implicit and explicit biases. We need it now more than ever. Boston or LA, London or Hong Kong… every city and community faces socio-economic challenges, racism, misunderstanding, cruelty.
Am I discouraged by the seemingly never-ending cycle of hate manifested? No. Because there's hope in the Korean grandmother who delivered kimbap to the discouraged. There's hope in the gang member who served a community. There's courage in a few African-Americans and Korean-Americans who marched together rather than exchange gunfire. There's joy in the little children from all backgrounds that I witness playing together in a Museum.


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Do you know about our Business Support group on Facebook ? I am delighted to report that we now have achieved 100 members, and still growing steadily. My target was 100 members by September, but in fact we've beaten that.
What's Next?
I am delighted to announce that I now have an office on Uckfield High Street, at Uckfield Volunteer Centre, every Tuesday from 9 till 5. Just look out for the 'A' board with balloons flying! We will still have our normal drop-in sessions too. More new about that below.
How Can I help your business?
So, if you need help with your marketing or social media, pop in to see me. If I can't give you the answer on the spot I will make an appointment for a free consultation at a time that suits you. I can also signpost you to local experts eg: mentoring, business advice and financial guidance, all locally in Uckfield.
New Business Support drop-in Venue
Our next Business Support drop-in will be at Uckfield Civic Centre, in the foyet. Either Chris Dowling – Dowling Consultants or Sue (me) – SJEMarketing will be there to answer your business questions from 10 till midday. Look out for our large banner and balloons on the path outside!
If Tuesday is not a good day for you and you can't make the Business Support Drop-in, then you are welcome to join our Facebook group, where you can post questions or 'chat' with me when it's convenient for you to do so.
I look forward to meeting you.


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Mac cut his third tooth this weekend while in Mt. Pleasant! It is his right upper front tooth. He did so well with it too. He wasn't fussy or anything but was chewing on everything so I took a little look and sure enough! Tooth number 3! It's really hard to take pictures of baby teeth, I did the best I could... but there is an arrow pointing to where the tooth is coming in.
Also this weekend Mac started walking using the objects he pulls up on!! He pulled up on the foot rest of dad's recliner and walked around to the side to get in a better position to grab at Sandy! haha... I tried to get a video of him doing that this morning but it didn't work out. Apparently he has a "do not perform on command" clause in his contract so I will keep trying... but it's just too cute! He is growing and changing so fast! He is going to be walking soon and that makes me very happy and very sad.
He is getting into the kitchen cabinets now too. I told Jimmy last night that we were going to have to put door pulls on the cabinets so that we would have a way of keeping him out of them!
Ps.. We watched Finding Nemo yesterday. I think Mac liked it!
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Everton name Gretar Steinsson as chief European scout
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Last Updated: 07/12/18 11:31am
Everton have appointed former Iceland and Bolton defender Gretar Steinsson as their new chief European scout.
The 36-year-old joins from Fleetwood, where he spent nearly four years as technical director.
Steinsson will work alongside director of football Marcel Brands and chief UK scout Martyn Glover.
The former right-back played 126 Premier League matches during his time with Bolton, before studying for a post-graduate degree in football management at the Johan Cruyff Institute in Holland after retiring.
Steinsson is a former international team-mate of current Everton midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson and earned 46 caps for Iceland.
He was signed by Brands as a player for AZ Alkmaar in 2005 when the Dutchman was director of football at the Eredivisie club, and also worked there in a football operations capacity before joining Fleetwood.


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By Allison Miller
October is the history month for the LGBTQ+ community! This month coincides with National Coming Out Day which is on October Eleventh. Throughout October, the LGBT+ community takes time to look back on the most influential and important events that have taken place in its history through the ages. Looking back on these events not only educates people about those that have come before and sacrificed things in order for the betterment of their descendants, but it gives a good view of just how much has happened for and against those in the community even in recent years. This commemorative event began as just lesbian and gay history month in 1994 but has since evolved into including everyone that falls into the LGBTQ+ circle as the group itself has evolved.
One of the first recorded same-sex couples was dated back to 2450 BCE in Egypt, where two men were buried in the same tomb with an inscription that read "Joined in life, joined in death." These two were considered the first couple to be recognized by their entire society as together, though in the years to come throughout the Greek and Roman civilizations, there was high acceptance and commonality to same-sex couples in everyday life.
Greek society highly valued the strength of relationships between male couples, even creating an army of 150 couples of only men not only for their physical valor and commitment to the fight but also because of their tight-knit relationships. Another notable Greek person that affected the LGBTQ+ history was the poet Sappho, who wrote many poems about her love of women, eventually leading to the term "sapphic," which is another term used to refer to lesbians.
As time progressed, opposition grew and prosecuted those who chose to publicly, or even privately, be true to their romantic interests, the first of which was established in 1432, named the "Night Officials." Over the course of the next seventy years, those who ran the group arrested over ten thousand men and entirely convicted around two thousand who never left the prisons they established. However, they were only focused on the sabotage of gay men. In fact, the first known conviction for lesbian activity did not come to pass until 1649.
The first official definition of homosexuality was written into the dictionary in 1749, not only giving it an official outline, but also a bit of a defense. The man who wrote it, Thomas Cannon, argued that maybe there were things about it that did not actually require the extreme persecution that society was using at the time.
As the years went on, steps began to be taken to lessen the oppression of those who were anything other than heterosexual, beginning with the small change in 1779 where Thomas Jefferson revised Virginia law so that being gay was no longer punished by death, but only by mutilation, but these events eventually lead to the Stonewall Riots and Pride Parades that are now known and talked about frequently by the community.
Though the LGBTQ+ faction has faced countless hardships throughout the course of its growth, there were still some points where the light broke through for it. With the legalization of gay marriage in 2015 in the United States, the world is making progress in the right direction, no matter how many put their hate in the way.


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Alongside its ergonomic design, the new machine utilises new technologies to give more control to baristas than ever before and stop problems before they happen.
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This year marks the tenth anniversary of Nuova Simonell's exclusive partnership with UCC Coffee in the UK and Ireland.


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When Joan Baez made her breakthrough, and became one of the important people in music, I wasn't even born yet. As a matter of fact, by the time I was 10, There was already a 2nd autobiography. Yep, I'm just a 41 year old kiddo. Off course, over the years you learn about her, what she stands for, and how important she is, and so there I sat Monday evening in Brussels BOZAR to see her perform. Unlike the most of the audience, I didn't have a long history with her Music, or some kind of nostalgia. But if there is 1 thing the evening has proven, it is that you don't need that history to enjoy her show.
At 77 (you read that correctly) she can sing beautifully, her guitar playing is so clear and she stands on that stage with strength, integrity and grace. A lot of today's and tomorrow's popular acts can only humbly bow in respect for that. If you see her perform, you understand why she is the legend, why she is that statue she became.
Joan entered the stage on her own for a few songs in a 'Woman and guitar' style. After a few songs she got backed up by, what she called, her Big Band consisting of Dirk Powell on strings and Piano and her son Gabriel on Percussion. She embraced her audience with warmth, and even put herself in a more difficult situation by trying to address the audience regularly in French. She sometimes had to think and search for her words, but it showed us how comfortable she is on stage. Most artists wouldn't dare to do that, I'm sure. The audience appreciated this big time, and the first time they heard here speak French, it was welcomed with a big applause. It even got better when a music stand was brought on stage, and she asked us to wish her luck. And then she gave us a wonderful version of George Brassens's 'Chanson pour L'Auvergnat'. A song dedicated to people who help out those who are treated as outcasts.
But it wasn't over with baffling us in understanding our culture of French Chansons. As a matter of fact, it seems it baffled her as well. Near the end of show, during a 1th (of 3) encores, she started singing 'Le temps des cerises', a song dating back to 1866 written by Jean Baptiste Clément. She didn't say what she was going to sing, she simply asked us to help her out. When she sang the first few words, she literally had to step back 2 steps to take in the overwhelming sound of a sold-out Bozar singing along immediately. It was no surprise to me that something like that would happen. If I want my mother to sing a long with something, I just have to put on this song, and she'll start singing it from th heart. This is part of our cultural Heritage. The song was inspired by a trip of Clément in Flanders and coming across a house surrounded by cherry trees. It was a controversial song at the time, since it was also interpreted as a metaphor for the ongoing Revolution happening in Paris at the time.
Quand nous chanterons le temps des cerises
Et gai rossignol et merle moqueur
Seront tous en fête
(When we sing of cherry time
and the happy nightingale and the mockingbird/mocking blackbird
all be celebrating)
Monday evening was an evening full of old songs and new songs from her latest album. We received a wonderful 'The President sang Amazing Grace', and an impressive 'Whistle down the wind'. I say impressive, because since I heard Joan Baez do this, I identify this song completely with her. As if T. Waits wrote it for her, before he even knew it. Those who know me personally, understand this is a big thing for me to say.
From the latest album, the song 'Another World' originally from ANOHI, proved how songs still can grow after they have been recorded. In resemblance with the album version, this was a much stronger performance. The soundman put a reverb on the microphone, so you'd litteraly could hear the words disappearing. (Or where that reflections coming from the acoustics of the room ? I was sitting under a balcony.) Anyway, it fits perfectly with this song. "I need another world, this one's nearly gone" she sings. It's a song originally about taking care of this earth, because we are destroying it. But when someone sings it at this moment in a life, it easily becomes a song about mortality.
'Diamonds and Rust', a song about her relationship with Bob Dylan was performed as a duet with a fantastic strong voice by Grace Stumberg. The lighting was set, so that we could see 2 huge shadows in the back. It was like the song was sung by 2 ghosts from the past. It only strengthened the already strong version of this song. At a moment Joan started laughing out loud, and explained the need to change the lyrics from '10 years ago' to '50 years ago'.
The entire show was build up with strong performances of the songs, very early on we received 'Deportee (Planewreck at Los Gatos)' (Guthrie) A song about deported Mexicans, who's plane never made it to Mexico. They had no names, they where just called Deportees. It got the house quiet, and I must admit, when it was done I kept myself from standing up to applaud for it. It's a song from 70 years ago, but still so relevant. Especially over here, where we live in a hardened atmosphere against refugees. A couple of days ago a van full of refugees, was shot by the police. A 2 year old child died…..
"They where only refugees"
This is an atmosphere that hangs in the air with a big part of the population around here, and it angers and frightens me. I guess it also did with a lot of others in the audience. Only for that song already I thank you Joan Baez.
'Imagine' from John Lennon, was the first encore and became a sing a long. A few more songs to go and then she came back a last time and signalled us she needed to go to sleep and so did we.
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living in peace
There are so man reasons to thank her for this concert. Everyone will have their reason. It is clear now, that no matter if you're old or young, this is a must see concert. So go out and enjoy her music live while you can. Because this is her :
Fare thee well tour.
Setlist :
There but Fortune / God is God / Farewell, Angelina / Whistle Down the Wind / Silver blade / It's all over now, Baby Blue / Deportee (Planewreck at Los Gatos) / The things that we are made of / Diamonds & Rust / Me and Bobby McGee / Another World / Chanson pour l'Auvergnat / The President sang Amazing Grace / Joe Hill / Seven Curses / Silver Dagger / The House of the Rising Sun // Imagine / Le Temps des cerises // The Boxer // Swing Low Chariot


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The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA, collectively ESAs) have published a proposed amendment[1] to the EMIR margin rules for OTC derivative contracts not cleared by a central counterparty (the EMIR Margin Rules)[2] with the aim of aligning the treatment of variation margin (VM) for OTC physically-settled foreign exchange forward transactions with the supervisory guidance in other key jurisdictions, in particular the US.
When the EMIR Margin Rules first came into force on 4th January 2017, they provided for, amongst other things, an obligation on counterparties to exchange VM for physical-settled foreign exchange forward transactions (FX Forwards), albeit with a deferred application until 3rd January 2018.
Now that the deferral date has passed and it has become clear that the EU was the only major regulatory jurisdiction now requiring even non-financial counterparties to fully margin their FX Forwards, the ESAs have proposed to amend the EMIR Margin Rules so that only those FX Forwards entered into between credit institutions and investment firms will be within scope of the VM requirements. They have also advised national regulators, until such time as the amended regulations come into force, to apply the EU framework to such transactions in "a risk-based and proportionate manner", signalling a degree of forbearance in their strict enforcement. To date, both the UK Financial Conduct Authority and Central Bank of Ireland have issued public statements stating that they will be applying forbearance.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority, have supported the proposal, stating:-
"The amendments to the RTS should become increasingly clear over time and we would expect firms to make their plans as a result. Although how they will be amended is not completely clear at this time, the proposals as outlined in the ESAs' statement can be used by firms as an indication of what the amended requirements may look like. Accordingly, we will not require firms whose physically settled FX forwards are likely to be outside the scope of the amended requirements to continue putting processes in place to exchange variation margin. This approach is subject to any further statements that may be issued by the ESAs or the FCA. We, in any event, continue to recognise that the exchange of variation margin is a prudent risk management tool." FCA 7th December 2017[3]
The draft amendment is welcome news for those EU institutions trading physically-settled FX forwards in non-EU jurisdictions who might have, without this intervention, been at a disadvantage compared to their non-EU competitors in having to require an exchange of VM. Likewise non-financial EU entities with large physically-settled FX forward portfolios or those "financial" counterparties that are neither a credit institution or an investment firm, should be pleased by the development as, once the amendments come into force, they will have the ability to negotiate whatever prudent risk mitigation measures they are able to agree with their counterparties for such FX Forward transactions, without necessarily having to comply with the VM regime required under EMIR.
However, until such time as the amendment comes into force, parties should continue to seek guidance from the competent authority in their jurisdiction when assessing which EMIR risk management procedures to apply with respect to their physically settled FX forward transactions. It is anticipated that, due to the urgency in needing to avoid any negative impact on the EU FX forward market, this amendment will pass through the EU legislative process relatively smoothly.
The EMIR Margin Rules were based upon international standards finalised by BCBS-IOSCO[4] in 2015 to avoid the build up of systemic risk in the international derivative markets. Developments subsequent to the publication of the EMIR Margin Rules have resulted in the implementation of the BCBS-IOSCO framework by other jurisdictions with a more limited scope of application than the EMIR Margin Rules. In their proposal the ESAs acknowledge the importance of a level playing field in the international derivative markets. The amendment would revise the EMIR Margin Rules so that VM would only be exchanged on a mandatory basis for those transactions between "institutions" as defined in the Capital Requirements Regulation[5] or between institutions and counterparties established in a third country which would meet the definition of "institution" if it were established in the Union.
[1] See external link: https://esas-joint-committee.europa.eu/Pages/News/Variation-margin-exchangefor-
[2] See external links: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/2251 of 4th October 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) 648/2012 with regard to regulatory technical standards for riskmitigation techniques for OTC derivative contracts not cleared by a central counterparty
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"I'll be watching you . . ."
the cryptic e-mail read.
Taylor Halstead, psychologist and successful radio personality, is terrified that she'll never be safe again. Coming on the heels of a series of tragic and terrible events, the e-mail sends chills racing up her spine. Her safe, secure world has already been violated by her cousin Stephanie's boyfriend, Gordon Mallory, in her own apartment. Only the door buzzer and Stephanie's intervening voice rescue her, but not before Gordon promises to return. Soon after, he is killed along with Stephanie in an inexplicable explosion aboard his yacht. Or is he?
The e-mail is just the beginning. The terror campaign escalates when an electronically disguised voice on Taylor's telephone threatens to kill her, and her life becomes a nightmare. It seems the only one she can turn to is attorney Reed Weston, her confidant, protector, and, ultimately, lover. But is Reed's determination to protect her enough to avert disaster? And can Taylor trust Gordon's identical twin, Jonathan, who always seems to show up when she least expects him?
Grief and dread unravel Taylor's sanity, playing tricks with her mind and heart. Someone out there wants her dead—a crazed fan or the troubled teenage boy she's been counseling or, impossibly, Gordon himself. His vow to return and those final menacing words—"I'll be watching you"—haunt her day and night. Whoever is out there is coming closer, and Taylor Halstead has nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
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Andrea Kane's groundbreaking romantic thriller, Run for Your Life, became an instant New York Times bestseller, paving the way for a series of smash hits featuring NYPD detective-turned-private investigator Pete "Monty" Montgomery, and now her current series features the dynamic FBI team of Special Agents Sloane Burbank and Derek Parker. With a worldwide following and novels published in sixteen countries, Kane is also the bestselling author of fourteen historical romances. She lives in New Jersey with her family, where she is learning new ways to sharpen her firearms and investigative skills like a true FBI special agent. Between target practices, she is researching and writing her next supercharged romantic thriller.
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I'll Be Watching You
A Novel
Chapter One
Saturday, September 14
West Seventy-Second Street, New York City
It had been a day from hell.
Four hours in Dellinger Academy's conference room. Two five-minute bathroom breaks. Three sets of hostile parents in total denial. And another one of Taylor's precious Saturdays wasted by an elite private school administration that didn't want to rock the boat.
All the parties involved were so caught up in their own agendas, they seemed to forget that at the center of this storm were three seventeen-year- old kids about to implode.
As a counselor, Taylor had tried desperately to speak for the teens. She knew their fears -- fear of failure, of inadequacy, of letting down their parents.
Fear of growing up.
Didn't anyone remember how traumatic that transition was? Apparently not. Because today's scenario had been as maddening and familiar as always.
After doing her tactful, psychological dance for half a day and getting nowhere fast, Taylor left the boardroom at the close of the meeting frustrated, worried, and with a splitting headache.
By the time she got home and blew through the lobby of her apartment building, she was counting her blessings that her roommate, her cousin Stephanie, was en route to the Hamptons. Taylor had the place to herself. All she wanted was a hot bath, two extra-strength Excedrin, and a long nap.
The last thing she expected, or needed, was to find Gordon Mallory in her living room, as comfortable as if he owned the place.
She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw him, wishing she wasn't already halfway to her bedroom and in full view. If she'd just realized he and Steph were still at the apartment, she would have retraced her steps, waited until they'd taken off, then returned when she could have her peace and solitude.
But it was too late. She was directly across from the living room, and from Gordon. Steph was nowhere to be found, but knowing her cousin, Taylor assumed she was in her bedroom, throwing together some lastminute surprises for her nightlong bash on Gordon's yacht -- a bash she'd be enjoying with about twenty other partygoers. After all, it wasn't every day that a bunch of lucky young Turk investors made a windfall off an investment partnership like the one Gordon had orchestrated. Kudos for the fast crowd.
"Taylor." Gordon tipped his lean, dark head in her direction, raising his old-fashioned in greeting. He'd been strolling from the sideboard to the sofa, sipping his Scotch while he reorganized the contents of Steph's overnight bag. The picture of self-assurance. Right at home.
Then again, Steph had made sure he felt that way from day one. Gordon fit her boyfriend checklist to a tee and then some; rich and successful, good-looking, grand of gesture, glib of tongue. Really smooth. He knew all the right people, went to all the right clubs. On top of that, he was older, sexy, experienced, ambitious -- fast-track all the way. Definitely the kind Steph fell for.
Except that this one had a dangerous edge to him that worried the hell out of Taylor. It was there in his hard brown eyes -- a kind of detached ruthlessness. Taylor just didn't trust the guy.
Unfortunately, Steph did.
"Hello, Gordon." Taylor's tone was cordial but aloof.
He was dressed casually, in khakis, a golf shirt, and dock-siders, but there was nothing casual about the way he carried himself, or about his expression as he eyeballed Taylor. He was scrutinizing her, as one would assess a fine piece of art.
"What a beautiful interruption," he said. "I didn't hear you come in."
"So I gathered." Taylor was used to his I-want-you signals. It was all part of his MO. But this time he was blatant. His intensity was palpable. And the bottle of Scotch was sitting open on the sideboard, ready for him to pour his next refill. How many drinks had he had?
Taylor tossed down her purse and folded her arms across her breasts, her eyes narrowing on his tumbler. "How many Scotches does that make?"
"Two." He set down the glass. "Don't worry. I'm chilling out. But I'm sober."
Yeah, right, she thought. Chilling out. More like revving up. "Good. Because you and Steph have a big weekend planned. Get drunk during the party, not before."
"Sage advice. I'll keep it in mind."
Her headache was getting worse. Taylor didn't want to spar with Gordon; she wanted him to go away. "I didn't realize you and Steph would still be here," she said pointedly. "It's almost three o'clock. Doesn't your charter leave for Montauk soon? I wouldn't want you to miss it."
Gordon's sculpted features tightened. "That's why it's called a private charter. The helicopter will wait until we get there. As for your subtle shove out the door, why the rush? Are you expecting someone?"
"Just my privacy. Look, I didn't mean to be rude. But my day was a killer. I've got a miserable headache. I was hoping for some downtime -- a hot bath and a long nap."
"Poor baby." The hostility vanished. Gordon closed the gap between them and planted his hands on her shoulders, gently kneading them. "Tension has no right ruining such a perfect package. How about a back rub to ease the stress?"
His words creeped her out. His gesture wasn't friendly. It was intimate. So was his proximity. And where he'd positioned himself was like a roadblock.
Taylor's instincts took over. She took an exaggerated step backward, breaking all contact. "No, thanks." She threw a quick glance at her cousin's bedroom, wondering when Steph would emerge. Now that she considered it, the apartment seemed strangely silent. No banging of closets, no thudding of drawers, no cheerful chatter emanating from Steph's neck of the woods. That was weird. Steph was animated and exuberant; you always knew when she was around ...I'll Be Watching You
A Novel. Copyright © by Andrea Kane. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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I had a hard putting this one down. The twists and turns added up to an all engrossing story that had me hooked from the first chapter. Andrea Kane is an maxing storyteller and gifted writer.
Loved this story had a good smoth flow that kept me wanting to get to end Andrea is wonderfull writer
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I had read the reviews for this book beforehand, so I guess I just really built it up in my mind, but it wasn't that good. I don't want to give things away for others, so I will try to talk as generically as possible. The main character and her love interest had the same conversation over, and over, and over again, which really irked me. Also, I had a HUGE problem with the twist in the story. I saw it coming right off the bat, and the DNA "twist" sucked. I already knew about the DNA "twist," and how it related to twins, so as the author kept hinting at it chapter after chapter, I got bored. Those were my two biggest gripes with the book, although I must say that I did NOT see the twist with the bad guy coming at the end. Who he turned into was a surprise, and if I were Taylor I would never have suspected either. It was a good book, just not 5 stars like everyone was saying it was.
The book I¿ll Be Watching You by Andrea Kane is an awesome novel. Her writing style is suspenseful. She uses sensory adjectives to keep you on edge waiting for the next clue. Mrs. Kane uses real situations to capture your attention. I¿ll Be Watching you has many climaxes all over the book. Her endings are perfect, which means reading the book is definitely worthwhile. If you enjoy reading this novel, check out The Scent of Danger by Andrea Kane.
This book was very well written. I did not want to put is down. Very good plot twists. I can't wait to read some of her other books. Especially if they are just like this one or better.
Its hard for me to give any book 5 stars. However this book it awesome. Taylor is very headstrong and such a good heroine, however there were times I found her to be stubborn but I got past it. Reed makes a great companion for Taylor. The twist on the story and the killer was such a great ending. I definately recommend it such a great book.
This book wouldn't let me put it down. Taylor is emotionally strong and gets through all the madness with the help of Reed Weston. But in the end, she has to put all the pieces together and do what she thinks is right. Only then does she show how truly strong she is, emotionally and physically. I recommend this book entirely and hope you all like it.
This particular book is by far an awesome one to read, I found myself wrapped up in it so many times that I read for hours on in. It is definetely a page turner and a very suspense novel, if you enjoy being on the edge of your seat this is a great book to read. I think this one runs neck and neck with the Wrong Place, Wrong Time because they both are excellent mysteries and it keeps you in suspense because it doesnt once let on to you who is actually the bad guy until the very last pages of the book.
I'll Be Watching You, kept me anxious to find out who was watching. I never knew until the very end who it was. The title says it all. I had a hard time putting the book down. The characters were so real and I felt sorry for Taylor. Reed was unbelieveable. I recommend this book highly. I can't wait to read more of Andrea Kane's work.
This book was not disappointing........like her other contemporary romantic suspense genres it kept me reading and enjoying the exchanges/interplays w/characters. I would (like a previous reviewer stated) like to see her heroine in the future have a teensy little flaw rather than being so perfect.
After being nearly raped by her beloved cousin's boyfriend, Taylor Halstead is shocked, relieved, and grief stricken hours later to learn that the man was blown up in a boating accident, unfortunately, her cousin was with him. That should have ended her ordeal, but it only began it. Weeks later, a stalker attaches himself to her, and then she sees the man who assaulted her, Gordan Mallory. However, it is not Gordon, but his identical twin, Jonathan. He is as determined to get to know her as she is to avoid him. Then, the terror begins to escalate; people are murdered, and Jonathan is the best suspect, placing the new man in Taylor's life, Reed Weston in a most difficult position. He finds himself acting as defense attorney to the man she fears. ....................................... **** From the outset, the suspense will hold you on the edge of your seat. This is not your standard good twin, bad twin book- it is much more complex and well done than that. Andrea Kane has definitely made her mark as a queen of suspense. ****
Tony nominee and Obie Award winner Linda Emond gives another award worthy performance as she relates a story which is part every woman's nightmare and part every woman's dream. How would you feel if you had already been the victim of an attempted rape and then opened your email one day to find a terrifying one line message: 'I'll be watching you....'? Probably every bit as frightened as protagonist Taylor Haltead. A psychologist and radio talk show host Taylor is well familiar with the seamier side of life, and now it seems that this darkness may engulf her. Cousin Stephanie's boyfriend, Gordon, attempted to violate Taylor in her own apartment. She was saved by the ringing of her doorbell. (When an attempted rape is the opening scene, you know you're in for a fast paced listen!) Not too long after this attack both Gordon and Stephanie are killed in a boating accident. Or, so it appears. Taylor is being stalked, but by whom? Gordon does have a twin brother, Jonathan; might he be the one. Soon, Taylor is consumed by fear and runs to handsome attorney Reed Watson for protection, solace (and great sex). At this point, she doesn't know who she can believe or if that really matters because whoever is after her is coming closer and closer.
School psychologist and talk show host Taylor Halstead is dismayed to see her roommate and cousin¿s boyfriend Gordon Mallory in their apartment when she gets home from work. Her shock turns to terror when he attacks her. He stops when her cousin Stephanie buzzes him in the lobby that she is ready to leave. He tells Taylor he¿ll be back to finish what he started. She reports the attack to the police but before they can investigate, the boat Gordon and Stephanie is on blows up, killing both of them. In the course of settling her cousin¿s estate, she meets Reed Taylor, a sexy attorney who makes his attraction to her obvious. She also meets Gordon¿s identical twin Jonathan who makes it very plain that he too is attracted to her. During this same period, Taylor realizes she is being stalked by a very dangerous man whom she believes is Jonathan. Reed becomes her protector, but when Jonathan is arrested for a double homicide Reed agrees to defend him. Taylor doubts whether their relationship could hold up under the strain because the stalker is getting more threatening. Andrea Kane¿s hardcover debut is a smashing success, establishing her as a powerful thriller author. There¿s a growing sense of foreboding that readers can actually feel as the strange e-mails, and terrorizing phone calls hint that this stalker will not be stopped until he accomplishes his goal to have Taylor. The romantic sub-plot between Reed and Taylor is beautifully developed and plays out believably. Readers will be watching Andrea Kane after this delightful new year treat. Harriet Klausner
An OK story about a woman who survives an assault by her cousin's boyfriend only to find herself the object of a stalker's attention. The story had a lot of promise but I had a hard time connecting with the characters. It wasn't hard to figure out that Gordon was the stalker, but after he was declared dead early on in the story kept me trying to figure out how he was stalking her while keeping his identity a secret. Most of the story revolves around Taylor living in fear. Fear over Gordon's assault, fear of his promise to come back and finish what he started, fear over the emails and the new stalker, fear over meeting Gordon's identical twin brother. The majority of this story is predictable, but what interested me is finding out about Gordon's background and why he became the person he did. Though I didn't feel a connection to them, I liked Taylor and Reed. I just never felt their reactions and responses came to life. Overall, this book had a lot of potential but never seemed to get off the ground.


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Kill or Be Killed
Colossians 3:5-6
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
1. Be intentional about dealing with your sin.
· Why do you think Paul makes this such an urgent issue? What makes sin so horrible that we must hunt it down and kill it?
· Why do you think that sexual sins are emphasized here in Colossians?
· Why do sins need to be both "starved" and "drowned"?
o Do you think different types of sins should be handled differently?
o If somebody is ensnared by both sexual sin and, for example, laziness, how would you encourage them to kill the sin in their lives?
· In the sermon, I used the biblical examples of stubbornness as making a person either like a donkey or a witch. Do you find it helpful to be creative in order to get God's perspective on sin?
2. Because God is intentional about dealing with sinners.
· Why do people hesitate to talk about the wrath of God?
· In what ways are we witnessing the wrath of God in our present culture here in the US?
· Look up Eph.5:5-6, 1 Cor.6:9-10, and Gal.5:19-21.
o What do these passages say about the person who is given over to a life of sin? Can he be an heir of the kingdom of God?
o In what ways does Paul emphasize the certainty of what he is saying?
o These sins are in all of us in some way. How do you harmonize this with the doctrine of eternal security?


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"Surprised by Joy" is C.S. Lewis's book telling his own story and of his search for answers to his concerns. He said of this search, "It is difficult to find words strong enough for the sensation which came over me; Milton's 'enormous bliss' of Eden (giving the full, ancient meaning to 'enormous') comes somewhere near it. It was a sensation, of course, of desire; but desire for what? Before I knew what, I desired, the desire itself was gone, the whole glimpse was withdrawn, the world turned commonplace again, or only stirred by a longing for the longing that had just ceased. In a sense the central story of my life is about nothing else."
Lewis felt he was suppressing his desires during the time he was an atheist, focusing instead on intellectual interests. Christian authors, such as George MacDonald, the Scottish author, poet and Christian Minister, seemed to have awakened something inside him, and inspired him, but left him feeling sought after by God explaining: "You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now, the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms. The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?"
The book is intended as a memoir but spends more time on the events of Lewis's finding of feelings he calls "Joy" in his conversion to Christianity. Some details of his early life are included. The book is not ranked as one of Lewis's best books, but it does tell us some of his feelings about his conversion and is important.
****See William Wordsworth's poem, Poem "Surprised By Joy — Impatient As The Wind" click here
"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
"The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation."
"…the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."


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5000 Miles of perfect weather, scenic beauty, and the whole family to share it with. We left Salida at the end of July for Driggs, ID for their inaugural plein air open event across Teton Pass from Jackson Hole, WY. When we arrived we were given a quick tour of the area by the event director, Julie Robinson. The area was stunning, a painters paradise for sure. I kept remarking that Driggs seamed like a sister city to Salida in that there was a substantial river running through the bottoms of the valley, mountain backdrops, a ski area similar in size, vertical drop, and distance to Monarch Ski Area and a thriving recreational tourism economy. Julie had done a phenomenal job of organizing this event and the town seemed to really welcome the artists to their area. I taught a quick two day workshop which went nicely as I got accustomed to the new surroundings.
We, of course, had the casita camper trailer in tow and we bounced around the valley. We stayed in full hookup campgrounds every 5th day or so to dump and restock, otherwise we were off the grid and up one of the many wonderful watersheds coming out of the Teton Mountain Range. We spent about 9 days in the area crossing Teton Pass a couple of times and spending some time also in Teton National Park. In the park, we rented a canoe on Jenny Lake and had a blast with Madison helping paddle around the shores. We hiked up Cascade Canyon, Hidden Falls, and Inspiration Point. Also while in the area, we went to go see the Carl Rungius show of his larger wildlife paintings and field study paintings at the National Wildlife Art Museum outside of Jackson Hole. I got a kick out of getting in to his head a bit and seeing his outdoor studies. Bob Kuhn stole the show though with his energetic draftsmanship and technique, I thought. I'm a new big fan of Bog Kuhn's acrylic paintings of wildlife and was especially surprised to see some African wildlife depicted also in his body of work. While spending some time in Jackson, I approached Mountain Trails Gallery there on the square. They ended up taking about 7 paintings and I will now be represented in Jackson Hole by them.
Driggs treated me well with Scott Christensen giving me a 1st place prize in Oils, getting a People's Choice and Artist's Choice for my body of work, and People's Choice in the Quick Draw!! Be on the lookout for my half page advertisement in Southwest Art Magazine which was part of the win!!
Below is the body of work from Driggs, ID (but don't stop there, read on for the rest of the trip below the Driggs body of work):
From Teton National Park, we spent a couple of days in Yellowstone touring the geysers, hot pools, and waterfalls. We spent a day at the Old Faithful geyser and area so that Maddie could see that icon. Be on the lookout this winter for some paintings done of this amazing National Park.
From Yellowstone we drove along the Clarks Fork River in southwest Montana, through Idaho's panhandle to Washington. Across Washington on the HWY 20 was spectacular. Eastern Washington reminded me a lot of Colorado, until we arrived at Northern Cascade National Park which at that time of year (dry season) was hard to beat. The park was incredibly vertical with river sized waterfalls at every bend, falling through a lush rain forest. I'd never seen such a wilderness and was taken by it immediately. We spent about 4 days in Northern Cascade National Park hiking and barely scratching the surface of the offering before we needed to move on the the coastal regions.
I participated in the Plein Air Painter's US Open show held through the Pacific Northwest Art School on Whidbey Island, and needed to check in to the school for the event. There were a couple of artists up there I'd met in their travels through CO earlier in the year. Alfred Currier, and Anne Schreivogl were welcoming as well as one of the locals on Whidbey Island, James Moore.
As far as the Plein Air Painters US Open show goes, I definitely feel it could use a little help. There were a couple of major problems in addition to a very uncommitted feel from the director, Lisa Bernhardt. For one, the sale happened at James Moore's house which was very nice and accommodating, and a ton of work putting up faux walls and lights, but very exclusive also, and I felt for this reason hurt the attendance. Also there was the kiss of death where only three paintings could be shown and changed out when one sold. This is difficult for an outsider because they don't necessarily know what kind of scene is in favor or what to pick to hang on the wall. This can be easily dealt with if there is a back room for people to mill through the other paintings created for the show. But there was not space or desire for this as someone might actually do more sales than someone else (heaven forbid) and an ego could be crushed along the way. There was also a minimum price of 400.00 in order to "train" the buyers the worth of original work. This is absolutely preposterous. You can not train a buyer any more than you can change the market. People have or have not the means to buy artwork. If they like a painting and the price is right, they will purchase but these minimums on price are only in place to protect artists that have their work priced too high, bottom line…period. It's pathetic really. Anyway, about 12 paintings sold on the sale evening and 5 were mine… so get out your notebooks people and take notes on how a really good event takes place. Or not, and continue to put together a mediocre ego-fest as you wish. Not that I would get invited back given this scathing review, but I will not be going back to that event. I will say that the paintability of the area was phenomenal, and with or without an event, I will be back up there to paint more!! Below is the body of work from Washington and Oregon.
From Whidbey Island, WA we crossed Puget Sound to Port Townsend and continued our trip to the Pacific Ocean. We spent a night in the Forks area where we took some hiking trips to the beaches around Lapush and also the Hoh Rainforest. Some incredible painting and site-seeing ensued through our coastal route. We stopped again near Cannon Beach, OR and spent a couple of nights in the area. One of the hi-lights to this Northern Oregon Coast, was Smuggler's Cove. Simply incredible!! After the dunes of the central coast, we headed back east on our way back to CO. A great trip, and I think we had two afternoons and one morning of rain!!


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