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Director says Jackson 'frightened' him
The director of Michael Jackson's ill-fated comeback concerts has told a jury that he was frightened when Jackson was shivering and seemed lost at one of his final rehearsals.
The rehearsal occurred six days before Jackson died in June 2009, Kenny Ortega testified on Wednesday during a lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother.
"I saw a Michael that frightened me," Ortega said, calling Jackson's appearance "very, very troubling".Jackson improved somewhat as the night went on but wasn't coherent when he arrived that day, Ortega said. The singer didn't rehearse that night.
The director-choreographer also said Jackson had missed numerous rehearsals for his planned This Is It concerts and appeared to be under the influence of a substance on at least four occasions when he did attend the sessions.
Jackson's state was "fairly obvious" to others involved in the production, he said. Ortega later broke down while reading an email he sent to the CEO of concert promoter AEG Live LLC describing Jackson as a "lost boy".
The singer's mother Katherine Jackson also appeared to cry during the court proceedings in which her son's final days were described.
Ortega testified in the negligent hiring lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against AEG Live.
She claims the company missed warning signs about her son's health and failed to properly investigate the doctor later convicted of involuntary manslaughter after giving him an overdose of the anaesthetic propofol.
AEG denies it hired Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray. The company also says there was no way it could have known the doctor was giving Jackson propofol as a sleep aid.
Ortega previously detailed his observations about the June 19, 2009, rehearsal during Murray's criminal trial.
He told the civil jury that he sent the email describing Jackson's poor condition to AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips to suggest that the singer needed professional help.
He also said that based on Jackson's condition, he didn't believe the This Is It shows could go forward, but he hoped there would be a turnaround.
The director said he repeatedly called Murray that night, but his only concern was for Jackson's health. Ortega and Jackson worked on two previous concert tours and had been friends for years.
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Green Screens for Small Spaces
One of the requests I hear most frequently as a designer who lives in a suburban area is for screening plants. Maybe your neighbor's house is a McMansion, or perhaps you just don't want to look out your porch or the dining room window and see the street or – whatever. If you're lucky, you have a large enough yard and enough sun that you can accommodate a mixed grouping of trees – some conifers (no Leyland cypresses, please!), a holly or two, and some deciduous but ornamental trees mixed in.
In some cases, however, the space available is more limited. Here is where I make a pitch for a tree that may not be as well known as the American holly or even the Japanese cryptomeria. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata,' or the fastigiate hornbeam.
Before looking at the slimmed-down version, the straight species deserves its own moment of glory. I first encountered Carpinus betulus on the grounds of the Biltmore Estate outside of Asheville, North Carolina many years ago on a glorious early autumn day. Although the fall color is only hinted at in this photo, it's a glorious golden hue and a real plus.
At the time, I didn't know what kind of tree it was, but I made it my business to find out later. Since then, while I haven't had clients with the kind of space needed in their gardens to plant one of these "regular" Carpinus, I've discovered the merits of its smaller cousin.
Fastigiate hornbeams ('Fastigiata' or a supposedly even narrower version, 'Franz Fontaine,') have a branching structure that is so tight it stops the eye, even when the tree isn't in leaf. I've seen them planted as close together as 4′ on center, although I prefer to space them out six to seven feet apart (measured from trunk to trunk). This photo shows three 'Fastigiata,' planted along a six-foot fence in a back yard in the District of Columbia about seven years ago. Today they are fully grown together, about twenty feet high, and the garden owner loves them, especially since she can no longer see the car parked in her neighbor's back yard.
I have seen them planted more formally (and seemingly "topped"), as a backdrop for a parking area at Muddy Rugs in Connecticut last August on a Garden Conservancy Tour.
They can be kept relatively short and used as a hedge in smaller suburban spaces between houses, although I'm not sure how attractive I find them when treated that way if the height is seriously curtailed.
(Of course, the Ellipse at Dumbarton Oaks is the most famous use of a clipped hornbeam hedge that I know of, but there the height at which the trees are kept is probably closer to 30-40 feet.)
So you probably get the picture. The added bonus is that hornbeams can "take a little shade," as designers like to say. That allows them to be used in less than ideally sunny sites, either mixed with other kinds of screening trees or on their own. And the fastigiate varieties can be utilized where space is very tight (a narrow space between two houses, for example); over time you can limb up the lower branches so that they can clear a low fence, or prune them to keep them tight.
But truthfully? I prefer situations where you can give them some breathing room, even when using them for screening. Here's a perfect example, where local landscape architect Guy Williams has used matching pairs to great effect on one side of a somewhat formally designed back yard, both to screen the house next door but also to set off the space with grace.
So the next time you're contemplating how to screen a view – or just add some beauty to your garden – give some thought to a hornbeam. You won't regret it.
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December 19, 2010 at 11:23 pm
I wonder if hornbeam would grow in Austin. I've never seen it here. Probably too hot and dry for it.
However, I like to use 'Will Fleming' yaupon holly for the same situations. It too can be topped for a hedge look, or left to grow into a tall column. Also suitable for sun or part-shade.
December 20, 2010 at 5:16 am
What lovely trees – particularly when not topped, which always looks so abrupt to my eye. Do you use pleaching too? I'm not sure I'd have the patience, and in any case prefer to see trees in their natural state, but I've seen it used very effectively to create a formal screen.
June 1, 2011 at 12:37 pm
I love the photos you show of the fastigiata trees. I recently purchased three trees with tags showing "Carpinus b fastigiata", no other information. I appreciate the photos and information you provide. I'm concerned about how large the trees will grow after 20-30 years. I would like to plant them within 8-10 feet of each other. Your photos show them even closer then this. Have you had any problems later on? Or do they just sort of mesh together and look great?
June 2, 2011 at 12:06 am
How close can I plant one to a spruce tree?
February 26, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Melissa, first off I love your blog! Your's is the reason I just ordered 16 European Hornbeam Fastigiates to plant in my backyard next month. They'll be here in a couple weeks. I do have a question for you though. If they do get up to 25-30 feet wide in maturity, then does it hurt them to be planted so close to the fence, as the picture above you have shows. The picture shows them planted 6 feet apart (which is what I'm going to do), but in the picture they're planted right up against the fence. I understand the tree's branches being pliant when the trees blend into each other, but what happens to the branches when they bump into a rigid fence as they mature and fill out? Thank you in advance for your time.
February 21, 2014 at 7:50 am
Hi, is there such a thing as a hornbeam hedge? Or is it just a tree? I would prefer the leaves to stay on throughout the winter? Thank you
February 21, 2014 at 8:25 am
Thank you for the quick reply!
July 23, 2014 at 2:44 pm
While the shape of the tree lends itself to planting in a narrow space between two houses, I'd be concerned about the roots damaging the foundations. Is this tree's root system less of a threat than others'?
March 20, 2015 at 10:37 am
Hi there,
nice article. I love the fastigiate hornbeam and have 12 of them planted in my garden either side of the drive way. They really set it off. However can you keep trimming the top of them to keep them small? Some people say the grow to 60 feet while others say they grow to 150+ feet, what do you think the correct height at maturity would be if they were left untrimmed?
October 18, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Hi thanks for the article, I've been really interested in fastigate hornbeams lately for several garden installations I'm working on. Do you know if your last photo of the 4 hornbeams is the fastigiate or Frans Fontaine variety, or are they the regular full sized hornbeams? Thanks for sharing this useful information!
February 14, 2019 at 11:02 am
Hi Melissa, nice blog,the tree in photo of Biltmore estate is an old feathered Carpinus Betulus Fastigiata or synonym Pyramidalis


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Inspiration from prisoners
Every so often I receive a newsletter from the Prison Phoenix Trust www.theppt.org.uk
It is the least glossy, showy newsletter imaginable and every time I receive it I feel a little leap of joy in my heart. The Prison Pheonix Trust supports prisoners through providing resources to help them develop meditation and breath-focussed yoga stretches. I always feel inspired by reading the words of the prisoners. Here is a sample:
"One of the new attendees of the meditation group was spotted telling his wife how to do the breathing exercise over the phone to help her with stress! prisoners not only helping each other but even those outside of prison. Awesome!"
"The only reason I stick to yoga and meditation is because I feel changes in me so much…The guy I used to be couldn't listen to people for long without starting to think of myself and judging,even though the other guy talking had not finished what he meant. A couple of days ago someone was telling me a story and I was really listening to him. I felt everything he said and could smile with him. He is not very liked by the other inmates. My old self wouldn't have the joy to listen to him…Now I smile at people and they smile back. It feels honest and warm."


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Crews aboard one in every two ships across the Navy "cannibalized" spare parts from their neighbors in order to get operationally ready or pass an inspection, according to a report Tuesday in Jane's Defence Weekly. According to data obtained by naval correspondent Sam LaGrone in the wake of last week's House hearing about Navy readiness, the Navy's submarine force -- legendary for its preoccupation with safety and detail -- is the biggest culprit in the fleet.
Top Navy officials admitted to the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee last week that the fleet's cannibalization rates were high, but at the time, neither they nor lawmakers gave details. Now, here they are.
The US Navy (USN) is relying heavily on a maintenance option the service considers "a drastic measure to only be utilised as a last resort" to allow its ships to pass their basic inspections and maintain the operational effectiveness of its fleet, according to previously unreleased data provided to the US Congress and obtained by Jane's .He continues:
In four consecutive quarters in 2010 the USN reported a rate of so-called "cannibalisation" of components between ships of on average twice the current allowable maximum allowed limit (MAL) of about one instance per four ships (.28), according to the data.
Across the fleet in 2010, the USN saw an average rate of cannibalisation of .48, or about one instance per two ships across the entire year. Across the nine ship classes identified in the data, five ship classes exceeded the MAL.Wait, what? If ships across the fleet, including nuclear-powered submarines, can't get spares in time through the normal supply chain and need to borrow them from one another under an informal swap-process the Navy itself calls a "drastic measure" and "last resort," how could the supply chain be "performing at or above goals?"
The US submarine force had by far the highest instances of cannibalisation, according to the data. In the first three months of 2010 US nuclear attack boats (SSNs) and Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) saw a collective cannibalisation rate of 1.4, or about one-and-a-half instances per ship ...
Submarine tenders, auxiliary ships and amphibious warships had the least instances of cannibalisation in the data, well below the current MAL. Many of the cases were justified by the navy in reaction to an October 2009 order from Commander, Naval Surface Forces (NAVSURFOR), to maximise readiness rates of deployed or soon-to-be deployed surface ships, according to an explanation that accompanied the data; NAVSURFOR sought to minimise equipment casualty reports on so-called "deployers". Additionally, ships undergoing USN Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) inspections raided nearby ships' equipment for supplies in order to pass, the USN said in its explanation to Congress.
"Often times cannibalisations occur with potential assets available. However, the timeframe prior to training events or operational requirements do not support the needed order and shipping time (current system goal is 10 days)," read an 18 July statement provided to Jane's from the US Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV). The statement indicated that fleet cannibalisation numbers have decreased to .20 for the first quarter of 2011. The navy also defended its supply lines and systems.
"An evaluation of all cannibalisations for Fiscal Year 10 did not identify any particular weapon systems as the primary cause and determined that the supply system is performing at or above goals," read the USN statement.
Why, in fact, does the Navy have official data about a practice it condemns? Here's one theory: In the rough and ready, pirate's-life-for-me world of the surface force, crews may have been swapping parts and keeping pretty loose about their documentation, under the Navy Standard You-Scratch-My-Back-I'll-Scratch-Yours Doctrine. But when you've got a bunch of nukes trying to get their submarines ready for an inspection or a deployment, their pure nuke hearts just can't accept parts from another boat on the waterfront without pristine, extensive, signed-in-triplicate documentation. So Big Navy learned about it one way or another and someone said, well, no way we can stop this, so we might as well monitor it.
Since it's a last resort and it's discouraged, that probably means it goes on even more than these numbers indicate.
One team, one fight, right? These guys are all on the same side, you could argue, and it's a testament to sailors' dedication that they're willing to beg, borrow and steal to stay ready and get the job done. Maybe there's no way to build a bureaucracy such that it can get components on time to everywhere they're needed, forcing some crews to do without in order to help their colleagues. From the way the Navy's statement to LaGrone sounds, it has given up trying.


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I've been away from the blog for almost three weeks…you'd think I have a ton to say, but I've got other outlets for release so I won't make you read half a novel in this blog post.
What a week this is turning out/going to be! First, I painted our kitchen and my office. Second, the Packers start training camp this week, technically Thursday (physicals and what not today). Third, the Olympics start Friday. All of these things have one thing in common-preparation or prep time.
Painting the kitchen and the office took quite a bit of prep time. In the kitchen, there was a layer of wallpaper and then two wallpaper borders over that at the top…not cool. At the office, I have a wall of wall board with four layers of wallpaper. Because it's wall board, scoring and spraying glue remover was out of the question. Lots of scraping, elbow grease and sweat on that wall. Couldn't get it all off, so now I have what I call a "textured wall".
Packers training camp is prep time and I'm telling you what, there's not a single U.S. Olympian competing over the course of the next couple of weeks that did not put in a ton of prep time. There was a Snickers commercial a few years ago…shoot, it might have been 15 years ago…with a soccer player kicking around a soccer ball talking about all he had to do for practice. He ends the commercial with the line, "I hate practicing, but I love to win".
The interesting thing about prep time, though, is that results vary. Not every U.S. Olympian is going to medal. The Packers aren't the only team heading to training camp this week and only one of 32 teams will win the Super Bowl (that one will, of course, be the Packers). You should see my "textured wall". Prep time doesn't guarantee perfection or even winning results, but it does help a team, athlete or painted wall look formidable/presentable.
We can all fool each other for an hour or two and make it look like we "have it together". That was a common message preached in church on Sunday mornings when I was a kid. How many families were like mine frantically getting ready, looking for shoes, yelling at each other to get out of the bathroom or out of bed or into the car or whatever? Then we get to church, and everything was "perfect". No problems at all…our clothes, smile and hair looked nice and we treated each other like angels. I've come to learn that many people do this…not just church going folks. Married couples going out to dinner with each other, moms at play groups, guys heading to the golf course…they all seem to "have it together" for the time that they are hanging out and some do, while the others are completely "messed up". Maybe the couples argue all the time, maybe a mom constantly berates their kid, or maybe one of the guys struggles with alcoholism.
I guarantee you, though, the difference between those who actually "have it together" and those who don't is prep time. Those who "have it together" in public are working on their marriages throughout the week. Whether it's having a date night alone, calling each other during the work day or just talking to each other every day (you might be surprised at how many married couples don't do that). Those who "have it together" in public are working on their relationship with their kids through out the week. Playing with them and giving fair and productive discipline at the right time. Those who "have it together" in public practice self-control and don't let occasional pleasures become horrid addictions. I can go on and on with examples, but I think you get it.
Do you want to actually "have it together" instead of just playing the part around your friends? Take a lesson from a professional sports team, Olympians and a painted wall…put in the prep time during the week when no one else is around.


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- There is currently a significant interest in being able to model the behaviour of energetic material under thermal attack. The report investigates the method required to establish a reliable parameterization based on simple low cost experimental tests, using the RDX/HTPB family of PBXs as a case study. The experimental and theoretical evidence for the mechanism of RDX decomposition below the RDX melting point is investigated and it is concluded that sublimation of RDX plays a key role in the decomposition of PBXs. The activation energy for sublimation is obtained from TGA meausrements and several computational models employing it are developed. All of these models are capable of reproducing the experimentally measured time to explosion. However, it is demonstrated that these models produce different explosive behaviour in large diameter munitions. It is suggested that coating techniques may be able to reduce the vulnerability of RDX based PBxs by eliminating the sublimation process.
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Our voting rights campaign is working! Since we launched our Defend the Vote campaign in nearly 400 congressional districts across the country, twelve more members of Congress (four Republicans and eight Democrats) have signed on to cosponsor the Voting Rights Amendment Act—the critical, bipartisan legislation that would restore most of the protections of the Voting Rights Act and help millions of voters in upcoming elections.
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Beer is supposed to be fun. Drinking it. Thinking about it. Talking about it. It should all be fun. Which is why, for the most part, I dislike lectures about the nuances of pairing beer and food. It gets academic, dogmatic and patronizing. It becomes uninspired, which is the last thing you want to be feeling at a music festival. I'll be the first to say that beer pairing can be the absolute worst. But at OctFest, I promise, it won't be.
The same flavors that exist in beer also exist in food. We're going to see salt, acid, sweetness, fat, heat and umami. As a general rule, you don't want any single flavor to dominate. If the saltiness of a dish starts to get riled up, you want the sweetness or acid in your beer to sit it back down. A good pairing between beer and food should be a conversation between the two, not a shouting match. So here are the beer and food pairings I'm going to be looking for at OctFest.
Hank's Italian Beef with Collective Arts' Mash Up the Jam
A Chicago-style beef sandwich is a formidable thing, especially when there's spicy giardiniera in the vicinity. It needs a beer that will bring it on all fronts, and Collective Arts Brewing's Mash Up the Jam does just that. This dry-hopped sour delivers hits of acid, bitterness and fruit, which work together to keep that mountain of fat and carbs in front of you from taking over.
Roberta's Bee Sting with LIC's Coded Tiles
The Bee Sting pie from Roberta's is loaded with spicy soppressata, chiles, mozzarella, tomato sauce and honey. There's a lot of aggressive flavors going on. Go for a simple, unassuming beer, or one with just as much flavor. I'll be reaching for a Coded Tiles, a double dry-hopped pale ale from LIC Beer Project. Pale ales give you a sturdier malt base to handle all the heat and fat happening on the pie, and the floral nature of the hops will mesh will with the honey. Plus, they're both from NYC. Not that that matters...but still. It's cool.
Best Pizza's Italian Combo with Sunday Beer Co.'s Sunday Beer
"Cold Cut Beer" is not technically a style of beer, but when it comes to hoagies—or subs or whatever you call them—a light lager is what I call a Cold Cut Beer. Sunday Beer Co. makes a small-batch light lager that tastes more like beer than water. With a balanced sandwich like Best Pizza's classic Italian, you want a beer that won't disrupt the harmony. This light lager's clean base and soft hop presence is just what we need.
Hot Chick's Hot Chicken Sando with Wicked Weed's Medora
When it comes to hot chicken, you really want a distraction from all that heat. The tart, fruity flavors of Wicked Weed Brewing's Medora will take your mind off of the oppressive reign of the hot sauce. The blackberries, raspberries, and hints of oak and red wine in this Asheville brew are enough to make you forget about the sweat on your forehead. Maybe.
Mission Chinese's Green Tea Veggie Dumplings with Live Oak's Hefe
Green tea is one of the more delicate flavors we have on this planet; it's beautiful when given the space to shine, but easily lost when paired with louder ingredients. Mission Chinese's veggie dumplings need a beer with a soft body, delicate fruit notes, and whisper of yeast and hops. Brewed in Austin, Texas, Live Oak Brewing Company's hefeweizen checks all of those boxes, and it also happens to be one of the best hefeweizens in the country.
Colonia Verde's CV Esquite Salad with Radeberger's Pilsner
The charred corn salad from Colonia Verde is topped with cotija cheese, caramelized pepitas and mint and tossed in a cumin dressing. Some would say a Mexican-style pilsner would be best here, but I actually prefer a Radeberger Brewery's pilsner. It's old-school and straight from Germany, with a body that isn't quite as crisp and a hop presence that's spicier and more bitter than an American or Mexican pilsner. It's going to take this salad right into the promised land.
Stuf'd Pulled Pork Sando with Lohn Bier's Gose Salicórnia
Gose is the ultimate food pairing beer. It's gently acidic, slightly salty and has just enough spice and malt to balance out anything. That means we can pair it with something big, bold and loud. Traveling all the way up from Brazil, Bier Brewery Lohn's gose will give the saucy, sweet pulled pork sandwich from Stuf'd the anchor it needs, while cleaning and refreshing your taste buds after every bite.
Kronnerburger's Kronnerburger with Jack's Abby's House Lager
Eating a burger with a lager is a tradition as old as time, so let's honor that and keep things simple. Kronnerburger's burger takes the burger elements you know and love and turns them all up to 11. Cheddar mayo. Tart pickles. Thick-slice tomato. And a patty that's seasoned to perfection. We need a lager that shares that life approach, which is why Jack's Abby Craft Lagers' House Lager, brewed in Massachusetts, is the beer of choice, a balanced, meticulously crafted lager that's familiar but impressive.
Cervo's Lamb Burger with Goose Island's Brasserie Blanc
The lamb burger from Cervo's and its sister restaurant Hart's is a glorious, fatty umami bomb that I love very much. You want to balance the gaminess of the lamb and the fishiness of the anchovies with something light in body and bright with acidity. Hailing from Chicago, Goose Island's Brasserie Blanc hits the burger with a proper dose of acid from the wine barrels it was aged in and bright fruit from the grape juice.
Oddfellows's Vanilla with Sand City's Infinity Plus 2
Everyone and their mother will tell you to pair a stout or porter with ice cream. They're not wrong, but there are more interesting pairings out there. Intensely aromatic, fruit-forward New England-style IPAs, such as Sand City Brewing Co.'s Infinity Plus 2, pair extremely well with simple, vanilla-based ice creams. Milkshake IPAs, whether you like them or not, are a thing for a reason: The flavors work.
Los Viajeros' Fish Taco with Bocanegra's Pils
A fried fish taco and a Mexican-style pilsner were destined to find each other. The crispy, fatty batter and the acid from the lime are begging to be washed over by endless waves of crisp, light, sun-soaked pilsner, and Mexico's Cerveza Bocanegra brews one worthy of the grandest fish taco around.
Whatever Fries You See with Whatever Beer You're Holding
French fries are the Serena Williams or the Meryl Streep or the LeBron James of the beer and food pairing game. They are the best at what they do. It does not matter what you're drinking, where it's from, or how weird it may be. Any beer will pair well with French fries. The crispier, fattier and saltier they happen to be, the better. I'll leave you with this bit of advice: If you're ever feeling overwhelmed in this extravaganza of flavor we call OctFest, just go for the fries. They will never let you, or your beer, down.
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Deep entered his house with Aarohi in his arms and closed the door with his leg. He went to his room and laid her on the bed. 'Don't know what's happening to you, first you cut the cake in star shape. Then you're unconscious in the room, then you said you're waiting for me since long. Then you walk in the graveyard all alone even when you have fear of it. You walk inside your old house when you yourself never wanted to even think of it, you sucked your own blood, what to do for you?' Deep said to sleeping Aarohi.
He covered her with the duvet, bandaged her wound and slept thinking that he will talk to her in the morning. The next morning, Aarohi woke up with sharp pain in her head. She saw that her wrist was bandaged, she wondered what had happened and removed it to see and saw a fang. She saw teeth marks on her wrist as if a vampire had come the last night. Her eyes widened. 'Vampire? Like seriously? I don't remember anything, what has happened? Should I ask Deep? No, he's asleep,' she talked to herself and walked to the washroom lazily.
As she came in front of the mirror, she recalled what happened last time she came in front of the mirror. She held her head and ran out of there. She sat on the bed and recalled her strange dream she had of falling from window but nothing happened to her, her walking to graveyard and singing, then sucking her own blood. 'This wasn't a dream, this was reality,' she said realizing what had happened. She laid down thinking about the recent happenings. 'Deep would know what really happened, I will ask him,' Aarohi said to herself thoughtfully.
Later that day, Aarohi was doing some work in the kitchen when she felt Deep hug her from behind, she was startled but got relieved feeling his touch. 'You came early?' she asked smiling at him. 'Yes. Only for you,' he said and broke the hug turning her around. 'I have something to show you, so come,' he said and as she took a step forward, he sat down and took her foot in her palm before she placed it on the floor. She widened her eyes at him. 'When your husband is alive, then don't you dare to let your feet touch the floor.'
She smiled at him and he stood up lifting her in his arms and took her to their room. 'So Aarohi, whatever I am doing is for you,' he said and she nodded. He made her wear a cross necklace. 'This? OK I will wear it always, I know you were going to say this only, actually Deep, I had a strange dream,' she said narrating everything to him. 'Even I was about to ask the same that why you went in graveyard when you have a fear of it?' he replied questioningly. She got deep in thoughts.
'This wasn't a dream right? This was reality?' she asked. 'Exactly, and I want to know how did Tara die?' Deep asked her.
Deep, Tara, Aarohi, Virat, Vedhika, Vishal and Pankti all were friends since childhood. Infact Virat's family had adopted Taraand Aarohi, the conjoined twins, when they were just babies and so the trio were siblings. Aarohi was conjoined to Tara by her stomach. Everyone had a good bonding since childhood, when almost everyone were in their adolescents, still they had the same friendly attraction towards each other except for Deep, Tara and Aarohi.
The love triangle had formed between the trio. Deep was in love with Aarohi and she was also in love with him but she wasn't aware of Tara's love for him. Tara used to get jealous from insidebut never said anything due to her reserved nature but till when a person can be quiet? Everyone has their breaking point. She always broke from inside seeing the eye to eye talk of Aarohi and Deep. All of them even joined violin class. They all wanted tolearn how to play it. When the teacher saw Aarohi and Tara, he refused to give them admission because for advances tunes, they will have to play fast and if they do that, something unusual may happen that while playing they may cut each other's throat.'No sir, we will try our best,' Aarohi said. 'Yes sir, we can do anything by our trials and passion,' Tara too said. They took their violin and played a tune they play since childhood. ' This was really good but when you will play advanced, no no, I don't want anything unusual to happen,' he refused and they left getting disappointed. Next day, the sir was teaching the advanced music.
He was about to play his violin when he heard that tune play somewhere outside. He went outside with the students. They found Tara and Aarohi play the advanced music and smiled as they finished successfully and received a round of applause from all of them. 'Sorry for refusing earlier, you can join now as you've proved your talent,' said the teacher. 'As we said before, we can do anything by our trials and passion,' Tara said raising her eyebrows. 'You both also proved that you both are one and not two,' he complimented them and they went inside smilingly.
Deep too joined the class for Aarohi and the twins practiced the new tune over and over again along with their eye to eye talk. Aarohi stopped playing the violin and Tara noticed her lost somewhere looking at someone. She looked in the direction in which she was looking at and saw Deep and her lost in each other. She took the violin stick and moved it towards Aarohi's neck and slit it from the side and she hissed in pain. Deep came to her. 'What happened Aarohi? Nothing will happen,' he said making Tara burn in jealousy.
Next day, they were sitting when they noticed Deep staring at them. 'Look at him Aarohi, he's staring at us,' Tara said. 'No he's not,' Aarohi said. 'Come na let's see,' Tara said. 'I don't want tocome,' Aarohi said. 'Oh c'mon,' Tara said and they lifted their bodies together and went there where he was standing, he was gone till then but they saw their sketch made on the paper stuck to drawing board. Aarohi smiled resting her head on Tara's shoulder. Deep came and cleared his throat, she lifted her head and smiled at him, he raised his eyebrows questioningly and her smile faded and he smiled at her. She smiled looking away blushingly.
Next day, he did the same thing but drew only Aarohi's sketchon it and knocked on their door, he just kept the paper and went from there. They came together and saw a folded piece of paper and went upstairs to open it. Tara kept insisting on opening it right there so they stopped in the middle of the stairs and untied the ribbon from it and unfolded it. Aarohi smiled seeing her sketch but her smile dropped seeing her anger. She looked away.
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ROANOKE, Va. — Last month, I discussed that each textile item should be readily recognizable, plus the need to be consistent in purchasing textile products. This month's column will deal with how your existing equipment can dictate the type and style of textile products you purchase.
Every laundry is different. Some have extra washing capacity, some have extra ironing capacity, but all have a critical path that limits production. Understanding your critical path is an important part of production management. Once this is understood, understanding how the textile products you buy affect this critical path is important.
Many laundries have a critical path through their dryer area. They could produce more through soil sort and washing than the dryers can handle on a normal schedule. To increase output in this area, many laundry managers dry at high temperatures with just the required minimum cool-down time. It is an important fact to understand that the higher the temperature a terry product is dried at, the poorer the hand or the feel of the fabric will be. The best-feeling towels I have ever produced came out of a steam-heated dryer. The problem was, it took twice as long to dry. High temperatures also decrease terry textile serviceable life.
Laundries with dryer capacity issues should investigate products with a higher level of polyester in them. There are now 100% polyester thermal blankets and fitted sheets on the market that will reduce the dry times and prolong the serviceable life of the product. Poly/cotton towels will dry faster than 100% cotton towels.
Review the size of the bath towel to make sure that it is large enough to satisfy the customer but not too large for the intended job. You can get more towels per load if a smaller size is purchased. Same review should be conducted with spreads/blankets. The size should meet the needs of the customer but not be so large as to create extra, unneeded weight.
Ironer capacity can be an issue in some laundries. Most laundries have moved away from purchasing contour sheets that require ironing and have moved to knitted fitted sheets. They have stopped ironing various surgical wrappers and drapes to limit the production of lint in the surgical areas.
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Every single decision a manager makes has an impact on several different areas of his or her operation. The challenge is to understand how these decisions affect what happens as the textile products flow through the laundry and evaluate textile purchases based on these effects.
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A Pakistani court has granted bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, lawyers say, a move likely to further inflame tensions with India.
The 60-hour siege on India's economic capital left 166 people dead and was blamed on the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals worsened dramatically after the carnage, in which 10 gunmen attacked luxury hotels, a popular cafe, a train station and a Jewish centre.
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused of masterminding the violence, was granted bail by a judge in the capital Islamabad.
"We had moved a bail application with the Islamabad anti-terror court on December 10, today the judge granted bail to my client after hearing arguments from both sides," Lakhvi's lawyer Rizwan Abbasi said.
Prosecutor Mohammad Chaudhry Azhar confirmed the court had granted bail.
The court's decision comes a day after Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to crack down on terror groups in Pakistan, after Taliban gunmen massacred 148 people at a school.
The horror of the Mumbai carnage played out on live television around the world, as commandos battled the heavily-armed gunmen, who arrived by sea on the evening of November 26.
It took the authorities three days to regain full control of the city and New Delhi has long said there is evidence that "official agencies" in Pakistan were involved in plotting the attack.
Islamabad denies the charge but LeT's charitable arm Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), seen as a front for the militant group, operates openly in the country.
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When Donald J. Trump asserts that the election will be rigged against him, he and his surrogates frequently single out one city for special scaremongering.
"I just hear such reports about Philadelphia," Mr. Trump has told voters outside the city. He's heard "horror shows" about stolen votes there. "Everybody," he's added, "knows what I'm talking about."
Rudy Giuliani does: "I'd have to be a moron," he said, to believe Philadelphia elections are fair. Newt Gingrich, too: To dismiss vote theft there, he said, is to deny reality.
Philadelphia attracts attention for its place in a swing state. It was where a 2008 news story about two New Black Panthers patrolling a polling place gained mythic proportions. And the city — once home to a mighty Republican political machine — does have a history of corrupt elections dating to the 1970s-era mayor Frank Rizzo.
But the most evocative evidence among conspiracy theorists about Philadelphia today turns on a single data point about the 2012 election. There were 59 voting divisions, or precincts, in the city where President Obama swept 100 percent of the vote. The Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, swayed not one soul in these places. A few conservative pundits have called the pattern statistically impossible. Mr. Trump himself has been incredulous: "I mean, like no votes."
There is another, more credible, explanation. "This is definitely more about math than fraud," said Jeffrey Carroll, an assistant professor of political science at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia who has analyzed those 2012 results. It is math partly of the G.O.P.'s own making.
In fact, there are predominantly black pockets in Philadelphia where no one wanted to vote for Mr. Romney. (Officials including the city's Republican commissioner have looked at the data and today's hard-to-rig voting machines and concluded the same).
Precincts in Philadelphia, Chicago and other heavily minority cities point to a pair of trends that shouldn't be mysterious to Republicans: The party has made little effort to court black voters. And a long history of residential segregation — from which Republicans have benefited electorally — has concentrated black voters in these places.
Those suspect voting divisions in Philadelphia contain, on average, several hundred voters and often encompass just a few city blocks. They're small units. And, in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by seven to one, in many of these heavily black, lower-income divisions the Democratic advantage is even more stark. Citywide, about a quarter of all voting divisions contain fewer than 20 registered Republicans. In many of the divisions at issue, that number is in the single digits.
It would be fishy, Mr. Carroll said, if Mr. Romney — and John McCain before him — garnered no votes in the precincts where you'd expect to find Republicans. But no one expects to find Republicans in these places.
"When there was an African-American for the first time ever on the ballot — which no one expected to happen for the next 50 years — who in their right mind would ever say African-Americans should vote for a millionaire Republican?" said Carol Jenkins, an adjunct professor in political science at Temple University and a Democratic ward leader in West Philadelphia. "The expectation that that would happen to me is bizarre."
The Philadelphia Inquirer actually tried to find the few registered Republicans in these divisions after the 2012 election. Most couldn't be traced, had moved, had never actually voted Republican or were startled to learn election rolls had them identified that way.
Such heavily one-party precincts are an asymmetric phenomenon. Mr. Romney rarely fared as well anywhere as Mr. Obama did in these Philadelphia divisions. The Harvard Election Data Archive includes voting results from three dozen states in the 2012 election, including Pennsylvania. Out of about 90,000 precincts in the data set, roughly 3,000 gave nearly all of their vote — 98 percent or more — to one candidate. And Obama was the beneficiary nearly nine times out of 10.
About 500 of these lopsided precincts were in Philadelphia (a city with 1,686 precincts). Others were in Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Atlanta, all heavily segregated cities with sizable black populations.
That pattern may look to some Republicans like a clear sign of fraud in Democratic-controlled cities. To some extent, it's because such lopsided election results just don't appear among loyally Republican voting blocs. White men, for instance, are disproportionately likely to support Republicans. But they don't vote Republican at the high rates that African-Americans vote Democratic. Nor are white men segregated geographically.
Mr. Trump has effectively accused urban black voters of rigging voting patterns that were engineered by decades of public policy and political decisions. And with his rhetoric equating "certain areas" with vote fraud, he's all but guaranteeing that hardly anyone there will vote Republican this fall.
It matters that Mr. Trump is clearly talking about black voters, said Nyron Crawford, a Temple University political scientist. To him, Mr. Trump isn't simply undermining confidence in voting institutions. "You have to pair that with the history of disenfranchisement among minority voters," he said. "This is a time when we're talking about voter IDs, and the implication that has in terms of voting rights. This is following the Supreme Court decision that really diminished the power of the Voting Rights Act."


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The retirement-risk-zone is the period shortly before and after you retire. If you manage this period properly you will have substantially more money for the rest of your life than if you get careless at this time.
For the sake of planning, let's say the period is five years before and five years after you retire and start taking an income from your savings. Let's say you have your money invested in mutual funds.
You know that mutual funds sometimes get a positive return and sometimes you lose money. Unfortunately, if your investments lose money around the time you are starting to draw an income, your retirement-risk-zone, it could be devastating.
When you are approaching retirement you need to consolidate the part of your portfolio that you will be drawing an income from first. You need to put it into a vehicle that protects you from falling stock market trends and even gives you guarantees that your money will grow.
In addition, you need to set things up so you can withdraw extra money if you want to travel or need a lump sum amount for an emergency. You don't want to be locked into something that restricts you from living your life your way.
Ideally, you want to be in a situation where you can potentially increase your income with inflation, or better.
And wouldn't it be nice if you could get a tax break on top of all that.
There are many different options for investors to help you manage the retirement-risk-zone... more than you may have thought of. Since everyone has their own circumstances and goals, one type of investment isn't appropriate for everyone.
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Obesity, by definition, means your body mass index (BMI) is 30 or higher, which usually means you are 20 percent or more over ideal body weight. Morbid obesity is defined as having a BMI of 40 or higher and typically means that you are 100 pounds or more overweight. As the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States, obesity poses a major public health challenge.
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You Never Would Have Guessed All These Health Benefits of Quinoa
Quinoa? We have been hearing about this popular super food for the past 6 years. Quinoa, pronounced Keen-wah started getting its popularity within the past 6 years, now it's everyone's favourite health food! Yes, it is a grain; however, it's completely gluten-free, organic and non-GMO. It feels like we hit the jackpot right? Quinoa "The mother grain", as Bolivians call it was first cultivated in Bolivia thousands of years ago. Thanks to this amazing wholesome plant-based protein grain, we can enjoy a flavorful and delicious taste guilt-free!
We have been eating Quinoa for the past five years. We like using it instead of using rice or other grains. Yes, it might be a bit pricy, but the health benefits that comes with it are totally worth it! Quinoa is a complete protein, meaning that it provides ALL the nine essential amino acids that are necessary to maintain a good health. Below we will explore the health benefits of Quinoa in addition to sharing a secret recipe from our own Co-Founder!
Quinoa is an edible grain that became very trendy among health-conscious people due its high nutritious value. There are three main types of quinoa: white, red and black- we personally prefer the white, especially for everyday consumption. Quinoa has become super popular so much so that 2013 was called, "The International Year of Quinoa" by the United Nations. That was based on its high nutrient value and contribution to food security worldwide. Below are five benefits of Quinoa:
1- Quinoa is very Nutritious
The most striking thing about quinoa is its overall nutrient richness. It is jam PACKED with essential vitamins and nutrients that the body needs and to top it off, it's a great source of protein unlike the rest of grains. Unlike many other grains, quinoa is a valuable source of heart-healthy fatty acids. The nutrient content in 1 cup (185 grams) is as follows:
Protein: 8 grams
Fiber: 5 grams
Manganese: 58% of the RDA
Magnesium: 30% of the RDA
Phosphorus: 28% of the RDA
Folate: 19% of the RDA
Iron: 15% of the RDA
Copper: 18% of the RDA
Zinc: 13% of the RDA
Potassium: 9% of the RDA
Over 10% of the RDA for Vitamins B1, B2, and B6
Small amounts of calcium, B3 and vitamin E
This one cup contains 222 calories, 39 grams of carbs, 4 grams of fat.
Remind us again, why wouldn't anyone include it in their daily life diet?
*** RDA = Recommended Dietary Allowances
2- Quinoa is very high in fibre
Studies have found that quinoa is very high in fibre- much higher than other grains. The same study found between 10 and 16 grammes of fibre per every 100 grammes, which is more than twice as high as what most grains contain. Many studies also show that fibre can help reduce blood sugar level, lower cholesterol and help in weight loss by increasing fullness.
3- Quinoa is Gluten-free
With the modification of foods and the different processes that foods go through until they reach the end consumer, nowadays people have developed many types of allergies towards many kinds of processed food. The most popular of those allergies is gluten! Quinoa has become super popular especially among people who are following the gluten-free diet, especially as it's gluten- free by nature without being processed.
4- Quinoa is very high in Protein and essential amino acids
Protein is composed of a variety of amino acids, the term essential is given to some amino acids that the body can't produce, which mean they need to be taken in from food. Quinoa, unlike any other plant based food, contain all essential amino acids, which makes quinoa a "complete" protein food. Quinoa is the best source of protein for vegetarians and vegans!
5- Quinoa is Very High in Antioxidants:
Antioxidants are natural substances that may prevent or delay some types of cell damage. One study showed that quinoa had the highest amount of antioxidants among other legumes, seeds and grains.
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What I Did For Love, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
>> Tuesday, September 01, 2009
TITLE: What I Did For Love
AUTHOR: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
PUBLISHER: William Morrow
SETTING: Contemporary US
TYPE: Straight romance
SERIES: No, although there are some guest appearances from characters from earlier SEP books
REASON FOR READING: SEP is an autoread, but I was very hesitant about this one.
How did this happen? Georgie York, once the costar of America's favorite television sitcom, has been publicly abandoned by her famous husband, her film career has tanked, her father is driving her crazy, and her public image as a spunky heroine is taking a serious beating.Does SEP actively try to make me hate her protags at the beginning of books? I think she does play a game of how horrid can I make this person and still redeem them in one short book? Well, if I hadn't known this, I think What I Did For Love would have been a DNF. But since I trusted she would make me love Bram and Georgie in the end, I persisted.
What should a down-on-her-luck actress do? Not go to Vegas . . . not run into her detestable former costar, dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard . . . and not get caught up in an ugly incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Before she knows it, Georgie has a fake marriage, a fake husband, and maybe (or not) a fake sex life.
It's a paparazzi free-for-all, and Georgie's nonsupporting cast doesn't help. There's Bram's punk-nightmare housekeeper, Georgie's own pushy parent, a suck-up agent, an icy studio head with a private agenda, and her ex-husband's new wife, who can't get enough of doing good deeds and saving the world—the bitch. As for Georgie's leading man, Bram's giving the performance of his life, but he's never cared about anyone except himself, and it's not exactly clear why.
Two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright . . . and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises.
Bram Shepard and Georgie York were costars in teen hit sitcom "Skip and Scooter". They were completely different kinds of teen stars. While Georgie was always professional and kind and considerate to everyone, Bram, who came from a very underprivileged background, didn't know how to handle his success. He was a total nightmare to work with for everyone involved. Georgie started out with a bit of a crush on him (or rather, the character he played), but by the end of the show's run (it ended up cancelled due to some very public misbehaviour of Bram's) she had come to hate him.
Since the show ended, the two haven't spoken at all. Bram has become unemployable, known for his rowdy lifestyle and having spent all his money. Georgie, meanwhile, is still an icon, even though her movies haven't been hits. She also married an A-list action hero actor, in spite of what she disparagingly describes as her gumdrop eyes and rubber mouth.
The book starts as Georgie is ambushed by paparazzi who confront her with the news that her ex's new wife is pregnant. It turns out that her A-lister husband has left Georgie for this incredibly sexy star known for her humanitarian work all over the world, and the press have been portraying Georgie as a victim ever since.
Georgie is sick of this, and determined to neutralise it by being seen having fun and going out with men. However, her attempts to do this end in disaster during a weekend in Vegas, when after accidentally taking a spiked drink, she ends up waking up naked and with Bram. Even worse, the next thing she discovers is a wedding certificate.
Plans for a quickie annulment are abandoned when the press finds out, and unwilling to be seen as the victim yet again, Georgie convinces Bram to stay married for 6 months. She'll even pay him $50K for every month. But it soon becomes quite clear to the reader that Bram's motivation for staying in this marriage is not necessarily the money.
For most of the book, I disliked the characters. Bram behaves like a complete asshole. It doesn't help that we're not in his head all that much, but even in hindsight, after we find out the truth about what's going on, a lot of his initial behaviour towards Georgie is incredibly childish and needlessly cruel. He seems to resent her, for some reason I never discovered. He was the one in the wrong all those years before. Georgie was always nice to him, right until the time when he made very sure she would stop liking him. And even after that, she never gave him any reason to resent her at all. I felt he should have apologised to her ages before, the minute he realised what a bastard he'd been.
Georgie was a bit of a better person, but I found her obsession with the tabloids and how they portray her to be pathetic. The woman spends most of the book strategising and living her entire life based on what she wants the tabloids to see. She changes clothes several times a day and goes on strategic outings to places where she'll be photographed. Man, she even stays married and goes to live with a man she intensely dislikes and who treats her like shit for a long time just to present a certain image.
The other problem with the first, say, three quarters of the book was that there was as much focus on the characters as there was on their lifestyle, and that was a complete turn-off. I think we were supposed to admire her and envy the way Georgie and Bram lived... Georgie'sstylist and beautiful clothes (each outfit is described in tedious detail, and there are A LOT of them) and PA, their fame and how they're treated as very, very important people. Well, guess what? I found them pretty useless.
Georgie was the worst, I'm afraid. I think we were also supposed to find her somehow better than Jade (her ex's do-gooder new wife), but at least Jade, however annoying and self-righteous, was actually doing some good in the world, not obsessing over going to the right coffee place in the right clothes. Georgie's response to all this is "I'm going to take medical supplies to Haiti!", even though she knows or cares nothing about the problems there. At least Bram delivers a bit of a set-down there, asking her if she doesn't think it's a bit cold to use a country's misery for a photo-op. She also drives a Prius, of course, even though there's nothing else in the book to indicate she gives a fig about the environment. It's all like that for her, all for show and about her image, and it annoyed me.
In the rest of her books, SEP's initially horrid characters work because she's doing it on purpose. In this case, I think she was doing this only with some things about Bram, and that was mostly fair enough, but I don't think she actually intended for Georgie and Bram's celebrity lifestyle to repulse the reader as much as it did me.
Not only did I not like the characters for a lot of the book, I also hated the "grabbed from the (tabloid) headlines" plot. I hate that I actually recognised the parallels between Georgie's situation and the whole Jennifer Aniston / Brad Pitt / Angelina Jolie mess (for pity's sake, at one point Georgie compares herself and Bram with Ross and Rachel, when they did the Vegas drunk wedding thing). Man, I work hard at ignoring that crap, how come I still have that knowledge in my mind?
So did SEP succeed in redeeming this people and making me care about them? Well, mostly yes. In the last quarter or so of the book the celebrity worship receeds a bit and the focus is on Georgie and Bram's relationship and on Georgie coming into her own, and that was much, much better. I especially liked seeing Bram getting his comeuppance, falling for Georgie completely and realising he may have screwed up his chances.
I also liked the secondary characters. Bram's housekeeper Chaz, especially, was the only character I unreservedly liked throughout the whole book. she does worship Bram, but she's got reason for it, it's not at all about him being a movie star (squee!). I also enjoyed the secondary romance involving Georgie's dad.
MY GRADE: As the book ended on a positive note, it's tempting to actually give it a B-. But rereading my troubles with most of the rest of it (much of what's above I wrote as I was actually reading through those sections, as a way of venting), I can't give it more than a C.


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Mother Arrested For Locking 6-Year-Old Daughter Out Of House
A Texas mother was arrested and charged with endangering a child after she allegedly locked her six-year-old daughter out of her home so that she could have sex with her boyfriend.
22-year-old Jolisa Renee Peterson was arrested back in May after witnesses called police to report that a young child was attempting to cross a busy Houston intersection by herself. When police caught up with her, the girl had walked more than a half a mile by herself to a gas station and told police that her mom made her go outside to play because she was "asleep with a boy."
Police later arrived at Peterson's apartment to question her, and initially, she claimed that she didn't know her daughter had left the apartment, but upon further investigation, police discovered that the door was locked from the inside since the young girl obviously didn't have a key. Additionally, court documents say that the apartment complex manager reported seeing the six-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother roaming around the complex on their own.
Peterson was promptly arrested, and now, after appearing before a judge, she's officially been charged with child endangerment.
Sources: Daily Mail, KHOU, USA Today


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The basic story starts off with an alien called the Michi who are planning an attack on mankind. At this point in the future, mankind is near extinction and as their last line of defense, they mobilize a Gunbike Special Assault Unit . The GSAU consists of three different characters armed with mechas - motor cycles with incredible amounts of weaponry!
To give you a better idea, here are the three transforming modes that each mecha will have:
- Armored Fighting Robot mode - This mode's specialty is the attack. It is the slowest moving of the three modes, but its attack ability is the greatest. There are also quick turn options, jumping functions, and a hover mode.
- Armored Rally mode - This is a high turning ability mode. The speed and attack of this ability is inferior to the others, but it boasts high mobility and endurance. In this mode you can make extremely sharp turns.
- Speed Bike mode - This mode has no attack abilities, but it is the fastest mode of the three. It has a high velocity rate, but is extremely difficult to turn. Endurance is low, and if attacked, you can be easily damaged.
For a more in-depth view of the characters you can choose from, just check these pilot profiles:
- Ippei - This hot-blooded youth acts before he thinks. He is passionate about his motorcycle, and is the leader of a bosozoku (speed tribe). He lost his brother, a motorcycle-riding hero, to the Michi and in despair he joined the Gunbike Special Assault Unit.
- Major Nohno - He is the only military officer in the Gunbike Special Assault Unit who was appointed 'elite rider' by his commander. He's a calm and composed ideologist, but tends to be conceited. His brilliant achievement was attacking the Michi forces by himself, but he ominously doesn't speak to anyone about it.
- Ahmi - She is a robot made specifically to be a Gunbike rider. A synthesis of man and Michi, she has various defects, like an unbalanced body and mind. She is in an unstable emotional state, but she can pilot a bike like a pro.
Developed by Sony Music Entertainment, Speed Power Gunbike will be released in Japan in November 1997. A US release has yet to be announced.