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Getting Updates
This document explains a couple of different methods for manually retrieving the latest update.
Document 4120 | Last updated: 06/13/2017 JH9
We offer updates to all of our customers with an active a la mode membership. These can be run manually at any time for your convenience. You'll need an active internet connection, and because these updates can be quite large, a broadband connection is recommended.
To manually download and install updates for your a la mode software, open the desired program and follow the steps below:
NOTE: Alternately, updates can be checked from the Start menu of your desktop. To check for product updates from the Start menu, click Start, (All) Programs, click on the folder name of your software, and then choose Instant Customer Update OR a la mode update wizard, depending on the program.
Click Next or OK to begin the update process. After checking for updates, if any are available, click OK to download, then install the update. During this process update notes are displayed with the option to print. We recommend that you review this information to see what changes were made in the update just installed.
If you receive an error message stating that certain files couldn't be updated because they were in use, restart your computer and try installing updates again.
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Voice your opposition
There are lots of ways to get involved and join the growing collective of yoga teachers who are uniting to voice their strong opposition to the proposed NOS:
Social Media
Contact Skills Active
We urge people who are opposed to the NOS to contact Skills Active directly: Here is a link for the Skills Active Website
Sign our petition
Over 2600 people have already signed our petition which we will present in due course to Skills Active. Please help send a clear message to Skills Active that we do not want this standardisation.
Here is Peter Yates, one of the founding members of the IYN and co-founder of the Parkdale yoga centre, explaining why yoga regulation is not only impossible, but also damaging.


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The Doctor finally met Robin Hood in 2014's Robot of Sherwood but a meeting almost happened much earlier in the life of the series. The original plan for Season 16 would have seen Tom Baker's Doctor encounter the legendary outlaw in a story titled The Doppelgangers in the quest for the Key to Time.
In a twist to the established legend, Robin Hood would have been depicted as a cold-hearted villain rather than a noble hero. Why this story didn't make it to the screen forms part of a compelling new biography of a largely forgotten but hugely influential British writer.
The Doppelgangers, or The Shield of Zarak as the story was re-titled, was the brainchild of Ted Lewis, writer of the source novel made into the classic British crime film, Get Carter starring Michael Caine in 1971. His work is often overlooked today but Lewis was a massive influence on many modern crime writers, having pioneered a style of British noir writing which hadn't previously existed.
The story of how this chronicler of the darker side of human nature came to have an unlikely involvement with late 1970s Doctor Who is an intriguing and under-explored part of the programme's long history.
Nick Triplow is the author of Getting Carter, a biography of Ted Lewis which tells the story of a complex man who rose from humble beginnings in post-war north Lincolnshire to achieve great success at a young age, before falling back into obscurity.
Triplow's research throws new light on one of the programme's most fascinating eras – and challenges a persistent myth along the way. More importantly, it's also an enthralling study of a creative but flawed writer which will appeal to anyone interested in crime fiction or in one of the all-time classic British films.
Jonathan Appleton recently spoke to Nick Triplow, who also shared some rare documents relating to Lewis's story which are shown below.
DWC: Maybe you could start, Nick, by giving us an overview. Who was Ted Lewis, for anyone that doesn't know the name?
Nick: He's probably best known as the writer of the novel Jack's Return Home, which pretty much by the time it hit bookshelves had been filmed as Get Carter in 1971. Ted was born and brought up here in Barton and went across to Hull and went to art school; we're talking about 1957, he went to art school and graduated in '61 and found his way to London.
And if you look at his life in terms of riding the zeitgeist moments, he hit quite a few. He was a jazz musician in the late '50s, working in animation in the mid-'60s on things like The Lone Ranger, he was clean-up supervisor on The Beatles' Yellow Submarine in Soho in the late '60s, at which point he was writing this novel about a hitman returning to his home town of Scunthorpe to avenge the death of his brother, which became Get Carter.
And I've been to quite a few screenings with the book recently and you realise how that film still resonates with people in a way that not many others do from that era… I think the aesthetic of that film and the way that Ted's story is very much at the heart of it still gives it a power that makes it one of those classic British films.
Then into the '70s, Ted was writing for Z Cars for the BBC – three episodes in the last three series of Z Cars in '76, '77, and '78, and then was invited to write a four-show segment of Doctor Who which would have been in the sixteenth season, so obviously with Tom Baker as the Doctor, and that came about through his friendship and professional association with Graham Williams who had been his script editor on Z Cars.
DWC: So Ted Lewis was obviously a very creative, talented person in lots of different ways…
Nick: Yeah, he was a piano player in a jazz band in Hull in the late '50s and when he went to London he was playing in a band with Helen Shapiro's brother. That was tough, I couldn't really find out much about that! I did a lot of digging around but there's not much about that. And then as an artist as an animator.
I think, more than anything, film was his passion, cinema was his passion. And when he was a kid living here in Barton there were two cinemas and they would change programme during the week so you'd get a short, a newsreel, and a main feature, and in midweek they'd switch. If he could, he'd get in and see everything, he'd see all of those in each of the cinemas. So he was steeped in that whole idea of visual storytelling.
DWC: And so as a writer of these very tough novels he wasn't the most obvious choice for a series like Doctor Who…
Nick: No, Ted is a noir novelist. If there's one thing that you'd say that's important about his work I'd say that he was the first genuine British noir novelist who took the best of American hard-boiled fiction and the best of British social realism and fused that into something new, something different. How at that point in the history of Doctor Who he came to be invited to write in the Graham Williams/ Tony Read era I don't know – perhaps wrong guy, wrong place, wrong time.
DWC: But it was a direct connection that he'd had with Graham Williams?
Nick: It was, and when you speak to Tony Read about it, he says they had a common bond, that they both used to like a drink or six so I think obviously they were drinking buddies…
Graham Williams had been interested in a GK Chesterton novel called The Club of Queer Trades which is about this bohemian society in Victorian London where these gentlemen have invented their own trade through which they make their living.
And he was looking at updating The Club of Queer Trades as a BBC series and had got permission to do that and commission some scripts, and one of the scripts he commissioned was going to be called The Zodiac Factor because there were going to be twelve different shows or 50 minute films and one of them was going to be Lewis's novel Plender, which is about this shady blackmailer who had created a niche for himself. It's set in Hull; it's a very dark, seedy novel – it's the novel that followed Get Carter or Jack's Return Home.
So he had been working with Graham Williams on that script as well so there were the three Z Cars episodes, the first two of which Williams had script edited, then there was The Zodiac Factor, so they had obviously been having conversations and talking to each other. And I suspect what had happened was over a few beers Williams said 'I've got the Doctor Who gig, would you be interested in putting something together?'
Which is where they came up, he and Graham Williams and Tony Read, with this idea of The Doppelgangers in the Key to Time season. And looking back, nobody had done that before, had they? A whole 26 show arc. But I think the reason behind that was they had all grown up at the Saturday morning pictures, Ted included, so they had all seen things like Flash Gordon, Fu Manchu, and all those kind of things which would stretch over quite a long time and the idea was to replicate that for their audience. There was a rationale behind it that was sound.
DWC: And how much is known about what the story was about and what the content was?
Nick: Each of the segments was about finding a piece that would come together to make the Key to Time. With this story, the idea was to turn the Robin Hood myth on its head and the Doctor and Romana would be searching for this part of the Key to Time. And I think this was part of the reason why it didn't quite work. I can give you some dates actually… so that was 1977 when Williams took over and they commissioned those four episodes in January/February of '78.
So the idea was that – and I'm going to quote Tony Read here if that's alright – Tony Read told me:
"Graham thought Ted might be a good bet for such an approach but it was more tricky than it sounds because the general ethos of the series, like most drama, always favours the rebel with the authorities as the bad guys. We worked out a basic storyline with Ted and he went off to develop it."
And I've shown you that bit of documentation from the BBC archive which shows that. So the series was originally called The Doppelgangers and it was re-titled The Shield of Zarak, and the main problem with it was that Robin Hood became the central character and you wanted somebody who could be kind of an equal hero, or not quite equal but certainly somebody who could go toe to toe with him [the Doctor].
I think the general consensus was, and what Anthony Read said is that he was just too dark. There was too much realism, and Ted's gift for looking at the bleaker side of human nature, the darker of human nature meant it simply wasn't working. How much of that was his fault… At the end, Tony Read said when they decommissioned it and said it wasn't working and they canned it, he admits that they had to apologise to Ted for gifting him a bum steer really. Because they had agreed the storyline together, this wasn't Ted coming back and saying 'Look, I've done this.' They had agreed that these were the storylines, fine, let's go with those and it was really in the execution of those…
I suppose, if you look at the pressures on them, they are post-Mary Whitehouse's intervention, so they are trying to lighten things up and make it more humorous. You've got Tom Baker as quite an entrenched Doctor; you can't mess with his character because, by that point, it's a case of "this is who he is, this is what he does". You've also got this crazy-looking 26 part arc; you create a narrative arc and you can't break out of it.
So you've already got constraints within a series format, you've added a whole new level of constraint with the arc, and you're now asking a noir writer to come in and produce something that's going to fit into that seamlessly… It's a big ask, isn't it?
DWC: And how far down the road did he get into the writing?
Nick: He produced the scripts; he produced three of the four and was paid for three of the four. The original deadline was for April '78 and I know that Ted was still working on them over the summer, which isn't unusual to be honest. It's like Douglas Adams was working on that series and his famous quote about deadlines is, "I like deadlines; I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by!" That's Ted to a tee as well.
DWC: And so, for the reasons you've outlined, the production team decide they are not going to go with it. How did Ted Lewis take this?
Nick: He was disappointed by that. How much it would have helped his career at that time, which wasn't going well particularly in terms of book sales, I'm not sure. Tony Read's memory of it is that they parted on fairly good terms and Ted went to the pub, got drunk, and was, again in quotes, "slagging off that b*stard Tony Read" which… I mean, he was obviously p*ssed off about it, as you would be.
I don't know how it sprung up, I suspect it might have come from Ted himself, but there's this myth that he was drunk and got thrown out of the BBC – there's no grounds for that at all, none whatsoever. Or that he was too drunk to produce the goods, which is something else that I've heard from other people; it's absolute rubbish – he produced.
In fact, that's the one thing; no matter how unwell he got – and he got extremely unwell with alcohol issues – he was always writing. I don't know how sometimes with the other things that were going on in his life but he always managed to write, and, in the end, he produced the scripts.
And having seen some of his other scripts, the Z Cars ones, when he worked with a good producer and a good script editor, which Graham Williams certainly was – they're good, particularly the first Z Cars script, Prisoner. It's almost like one of those one-to-one episodes that EastEnders used to do really well, between one of the Z Cars characters, PC Quilley, and this escaped convict played by Keith Barron, and it's them in the back of an off-licence warehouse. And it's great drama, really well-crafted drama. Ted's got the ability to do it – as I say, wrong guy, wrong place, wrong time.
DWC: And it's certainly a shame because that central idea of Doctor Who meets Robin Hood and he turns out to be a baddie is a strong idea…
Nick: And they revisited it in 2014, and I remember sitting watching that in Peter Capaldi's first series, I think either the second or the third episode, and I remember sitting there watching it and thinking 'Oh my God!' Someone had finally – it was Mark Gatiss I think – had gone back to it and it came round again to this idea of the Doctor with Robin Hood [for Robot of Sherwood].
DWC: So it's a perfectly strong theme as you say but wrong time…
Nick: Yes, obviously it shows that was the wrong time.
DWC: You mentioned that there were three episodes written; do we know where those scripts are?
Nick: No, and I would love to know where they are! They are not in the BBC document archive, or at least I couldn't find them. The guys there know stuff inside out; they couldn't find them. The other places where I have managed to unearth scripts, with old friends where he left stuff or whatever, they haven't got them or at least they haven't emerged.
DWC: So you tried everywhere you could really?
Nick: Yeah. There might be, I don't know if there are Doctor Who aficionados who collect these things, I'm sure there are… but I'd like to read them.
DWC: They'd be fascinating to read after all this time. And it's a shame, after you've managed to turn up these other documents about the commission itself, other things which you've managed to trace.
Nick: Yeah, and that's interesting, I think, the process of storylining and then the actual scripts themselves being put together. I wonder how losing those four 25 minute episodes in the fourth part of a 6-part season, how that would have affected things. He'd done major rewrites, Lewis did rewrite the stuff over that summer and Read's recollection is they parted on friendly terms. No producer likes letting a writer down…
DWC: And obviously they had paid him so it's all coming out of the budget.
Nick: Yeah. I think it's not always… In those situations, it's not always the writer's fault if something fails. Sometimes, it's a failure in concept as much as anything and I don't know that series well enough to know how it panned out over those 26 episodes, but I do know they didn't do it again.
DWC: No, that's true, certainly not for quite a long time. So as the book goes on to say, after all this, Ted Lewis was still a relatively young man at the time but sadly didn't actually live that much longer.
Nick: He didn't, no, and he died in 1982 at the age of 42. He'd had problems with alcohol for quite a long time. It's difficult to say when somebody's heavy social drinking becomes alcoholism, particularly around that time when the media industry's drinking was completely commonplace.
You speak to his mates who all worked on Yellow Submarine in the '60s and they'll talk about having three pints at lunchtime, going back and working on precise animation! You're just thinking "How on earth do you do that?" but they did. And that's where a lot of the business was done as well.
DWC: So tell us about how you came to write the biography.
Nick: I moved up here (to Barton) in 2001 from London and I was working on a social history book about the old Ropewalk in Barton in 2007 and talking to a lot of people about old Bartonians and a lot of them said, "you want to look into that Ted Lewis". Now I knew him as the writer of Get Carter, which was a book I'd read and, as a crime fiction fan and as a crime fiction novelist, that was a standout novel if you like.
And I hadn't put two and two together at that point but once I had and realised the guy came from here and I started walking the Humber bank and matching scenes from the novel to locations in Scunthorpe, in Barton, along the Humber bank, he suddenly started to come to life. Then beginning to speak to other people, speaking to some of Ted's friends, I just thought "there's a story here". Why has this guy virtually disappeared from history? Why is he not revered in the same way that the Americans revere Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, those originators of a kind of writing.
DWC: Did you come to any conclusion on why he wasn't remembered that well?
Nick: Why he faded, I guess, he didn't stay in London. He did some really interesting work, he wrote some great novels. His last novel, GBH, is a fantastic example of a dark psychological noir and it's very much an east coast noir but didn't sell particularly well. And I think a lot of it is around timing. Crime fiction at that time, it wasn't a big seller compared to now. That kind of stuff, it didn't shift in the numbers that it does today.
DWC: And tell us about how you went about researching the book, because it's someone who's been dead for a fair while now, and obviously lived before the age of the internet and lived in some ways quite a chaotic life.
Nick: It was a bit like trying to do a 10,000 piece jigsaw without having the picture to go from. You find pieces and you look for fragments, tiny fragments that you can piece together and when you get enough fragments together suddenly you get a picture, you get some idea of "Right, I can pursue that, so I can talk to these people". There were three or four key interviews and key interviewees who I went back to a few times.
I did a lot of research which was oral history based so it was talking to people who knew him and then balancing those things out, because you can't always rely on people's memories. So you'd then try and verify things in as many ways as you can, make sure you're not relying on somebody's recollection and running down a blind alley with them.
And it's like with that idea that Ted had been drunk and thrown out of the BBC; that's written in a few places, stuff people had written about him online. Where it came from, I don't honestly know, but it gets repeated and so part of what I was doing when I spoke to somebody like Tony Read was a case of "Well, is that what happened?" And he was like "Well no, that's not my recollection at all; this is what happened. We parted on quite friendly terms, he might have been slagging me off in the pub later," but in terms of that process I suppose it's detective work in a way.
Then a lot of contextual reading; I'd studied British literature from the '50s to the '70s anyway a few years ago, and then a lot of textual analysis, so he was a very autobiographical novelist so a lot of his stuff you go back to it and once you know a little bit about his biography you start realising which bits he's pulling from his own life and which bits are slightly skewed versions of events that happened to him. And so in the end it's really a long, slow, drawn out process piecing these things together until you can create a unified whole and there he is, in the middle of this jigsaw puzzle, standing there complete.
DWC: And if you had to sum up Ted Lewis's legacy, or what he represents in the canon of British crime fiction, how would you encapsulate that?
Nick: He represents the first truly British noir author. The fusion of hard-boiled American fiction and British social realist fiction in a way that you can't see the join happens with Ted Lewis in Get Carter or Jack's Return Home, in Plender, certainly in GBH, his mid-1970s novel The Rabbit which is about him growing up in and around Barton and working on the quarries in summer holidays; it's almost like a rural noir. The kind of thing that Ben Myers is writing now.
And if his legacy is anything, it's that he created that way of writing. It wasn't there before and others have acknowledged that, Derek Raymond acknowledged that, and gradually that's beginning to become more recognised. And there's a lot more people who know about him now than this time last year. It's caught people's attention because they didn't know; people love an untold story.
Our thanks to Nick Triplow for being so generous with his time and for sharing the rare production documents.
Getting Carter is available from booksellers now. It can be bought direct from publisher No Exit Press for a discounted price of £12.99 (hardback). More of Nick Triplow's books can be found on Amazon.


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Tickets for Radio City Stage Door Tour
Get behind the scenes of Radio City Music Hall and meet a real Rockette
- Tour this Art Deco landmark with a local guide and learn the history of Radio City Music Hall
- See the Grand Foyer, the auditorium, and the lounges
- Meet and greet with a legendary Rockette, a member of the dance precision company who've performed here since 1932!
Take a behind-the-scenes tour of The Radio City Music Hall with a guide, find out the history of this New York City landmark and meet-and-greet with a legendary Rockette! A high-kicking New York highlight for any music and arts fan.
Radio City Music Hall was finished in 1932, built as part of the Rockefeller Center. When it came under threat of closure in the late 1970s, outraged New Yorkers rallied to help this Art Deco icon gain landmark designation.
It's just as loved today! Tour this Manhattan masterpiece with a local guide for a behind-the-scenes look at what makes the music, arts and entertainment venue so special.
Check out the impressive interior design, including the stunning Grand Foyer. Be wowed by the huge 1.8 million cubic feet auditorium, the original aluminum statues, and eight opulent lounges.
The Rockettes, a precision dance squad known for their Christmas Spectacular, have been kicking things up at the Radio City Music Hall since 1932.
As a final 'wow' moment of your tour, you'll get to meet one!
- Go to the Radio City Sweets & Gifts Shop and show your smartphone ticket there
- From November until the end of December, please show your smartphone ticket and enter the tour at the 51st Street tour entrance located on 51st Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues (closer to 6th)
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Metro: Line 1 to 50th St / Broadway or lines B, D, F or M to 47th-50th / Rockefeller Center + a short walk.


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Teaching art with itty bitty students, exploring creativity, finding new passions and purpose, and enjoying the progress of my three greatest works of art out there in the big world.
Merlin Goes Mod
Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian tales, has been portrayed as a time-traveler. My students discovered that Merlin had spent some time visiting the last half of the twentieth century, a time most mod, hip, and groovy, when they interior decorated their wizard towers last week. They also gave his tower a moderately mad scientist look with a telescope on the roof and a chemistry lab by the fireplace. The spells and potions books they made were quite similar to Texas roadkill recipes. I just wish we'd had enough time to make little Oster blenders so Merlin could make nutritious/delicious [eye of] newt smoothies.
History may look back on the past forty years of architecture and interior design with a critical newt eye. I've lived through flocked wallpaper, foil wallpaper, and flocked foil wallpaper. Do-it-yourselfers put crinkle veined mirror tiles on bathroom, living room, and allegedly elegant dining room walls. Both VWs and bathtubs got groovy daisies. The bathtub ones were non-slip, at least. Law students studied in eyeball chairs at the University of Nebraska. Student apartments were hung with black light posters. New construction homes and ancient mildewed basements both got very scary shag carpets in red, burnt orange, and avocado green.
Perhaps strangest of all were the early-1980s personalized custom travel vans with shag carpet on most surfaces. These family vacation get-away van exteriors were done up with airbrush paintings that were part NRA hunting billboards, part carnival midway caricatures, and part drunken truck driver tattoos. A Nascar vehicle looks sophisticated and understated by comparison. That may have been too much for Merlin, as the fad seemed to disappear from the face of the United States as if someone said, "Abracadabra, please and thank you very much!"
Peter Harlaub wrote in the 10/04/05 San Francisco Chronicle about this mysterious disappearance. His story is, "Once, custom vans ruled the road" is worth a read.
My students didn't have to travel through time to style their wizard towers. We received a goodly batch of gift wrap samples that took the place of foil, flock, and crinkle veins. It was a magical riot of cut and paste, plus glitter tempera paint! If only we'd had some shag rug samples--and a disco ball or two.
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Left empty for many years, the property has seen better days.
Jeffrey arrives in town with plans to sell the house but, unbeknown to him, a violent psychopath is lurking inside...
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- Release date: 21/10/2013
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"It is 4:00 a.m. on the first day of my new life as an accused predator in the universe of American journalism."
So began a statement the legendary NBC News anchor emailed to a select group of people Friday morning and later released to the Los Angeles Times. A copy of the email was independently obtained by the Washington Post.
Brokaw was writing in response to stories in the Post and Variety in which a former NBC correspondent, Linda Vester, alleged that Brokaw sexually harassed her in the 1990s on two separate occasions, once in New York and once in London. The Post separately spoke with another woman, a former production assistant who wished to remain anonymous, who alleged that Brokaw put her hands on his chest and invited her back to his office for career advice when she was in her 20s. The Post story reported on the fear of many women at NBC News and elsewhere to speak out about sexual harassment.
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Brokaw wrote of being "ambushed and then perp walked" in both the Post and Variety. Variety ran a video interview with Vester that included some incidents not reported by the Post.
Brokaw alleged that Vester "was given a free hand to try to destroy all that I have achieved with my family, my NBC career, my writing and my citizenship."
In a statement to the Post, Vester's lawyer said that "my client stands by the allegations which speak for themselves."
Brokaw dismissed Vester as having had "limited success at NBC News, a modest career at Fox and a reputation as a colleague who had trouble with the truth."
While Brokaw and Vester appear to agree on some of the details of their meetings, such as location and circumstance, they diverge on who instigated the meetings and exactly what happened. Brokaw wrote that Vester sought him out for the meeting in the New York hotel room, a characterization she rejects.
"I should not have gone but I emphatically did not verbally and physically attack her and suggest an affair in language right out of pulp fiction," he wrote. Brokaw challenged other elements of her account and wrote that Vester "was coy, not frightened, full with office gossip including a recent rumor of an affair. As that discussion advanced she often reminded me she was a Catholic and that she was uncomfortable with my presence. So I left, 23 years later to be stunned by her melodramatic description of the meeting."
Vester told the Post that she was frightened of angering Brokaw during the interaction. She also mentioned she was Catholic as a way of rebuffing his advances.
Of the second meeting, in London, Brokaw questioned why she agreed to meet with him. "If NY was so traumatic, why a reunion?" he wrote. He wrote that she suggested they meet back at her apartment, and recalls them sitting on opposite ends of her sofa.
"As I got up to leave I may have leaned over for a perfunctory goodnight kiss but my memory is that it happened at the door — on the cheek. No clenching her neck. That move she so vividly describes is NOT WHO I AM. Not in high school, college or thereafter." Vester told the Post and Variety that Brokaw, in both London and New York, grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her in forcefully in an attempt to kiss her.
Brokaw writes that Vester "came to NY and had mixed success on the overnight news. As I remember her try out on TODAY did not go well." He notes that her contract was not renewed, a detail Vester also shared with the Post. They both agree that Brokaw was helpful in recommending her to Roger Ailes, at Fox News, where Vester went to work after NBC.
"I am not a perfect person," Brokaw wrote, "I've made mistakes, personally and professionally. But as I write this at dawn on the morning after a drive by shooting by Vester, the Washington Post and Variety I am stunned by the free ride given a woman with a grudge against NBC News, no distinctive credentials or issue passions while at Fox," Brokaw wrote. He referred to Vester as a "character assassin."
In a memo to staff on Friday, NBC News President Andrew Lack repeated that Brokaw "emphatically denies" the allegations. "We take allegations such as these very seriously, and act on them quickly and decisively when the facts dictate," he said. He also added that an internal review launched by NBC Universal in the wake of Matt Lauer's firing was nearing its conclusion and that he could share findings with employees "as soon as next week."
Brokaw announced on Friday that he was cancelling an appearance to give a commencement speech at Connecticut's Sacred Heart University, saying he did not want to distract from the students and their families.


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Lux Poke / Hunter's Potion Removal
Make Lux's E ramp up in damage to fix E poke support lux. At max ramp-up, make it deal the same damage it deals now. Is the Hunter's Potion removal Riot's final nail in the coffin for farming junglers? Now every single jungler will gank mid 2 mins in, again 3 mins in with double buff this time and then proceed to camp bot (or top with herald), with the occasional mid gank without ult? Is this really what you want? Your lane to be decided by the jungler? Do you want to be a full-time babysitter? Because you won't be able to powerfarm without always being at the brink of death thanks to the hunter's potion removal, always one electrocute combo away from death if the enemy jungle finds you. Disgusting meta, honestly. Disgusting. I can't believe just how far they're willing to go to reward the "anti-player". Someone who plays not for themselves, but so other people won't be able to play. Someone with no scaling or 1v2 potential, just a parasitic champ preventing others from playing. And I thought adding bounty for farm and 3v1s STILL being more profitable than 1v1s was the limit. Now they're directly going for the powerfarmers. The people not meddling with others' business.
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Nibbling on
the branches of
an irritable wet blanket
Struck down
torn apart
but determined
Longing for
the peaceful clutter
where the kisses
show their petals
Opening up
one by one
on the faces of the woman I love
Monday, February 8, 2010
Hummingbird Wings
Posted by The Scrybe at 7:11 AM
Labels: The Scrybe
6 comments:
I feel like this sometimes. When feeling shy. Thank you.
- February 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Hannah Miet said...
What a beautifully chaotic balance of words.
I'm suspended in mid-air.
- February 8, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Momo Luna said...
Beautiful! Nice to meet you and read your intense poems.
- February 8, 2010 at 5:00 PM
- Momo Luna said...
Oh and i just found out that this are various poets. :-) Okay...
- February 8, 2010 at 5:04 PM
- Francis Scudellari said...
I love the way this poem unfolds, like those lovely petals.
- February 8, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- The Scrybe said...
@ PO: Thank you :)
@ Hannah Miet: Thank you, and I'd love to join you.
@ Momo Luna: Thanks for dropping by my blog, nice to meet you too.
@ Francis Scudellari: Thank you; she loves me, she loves me not...
- February 9, 2010 at 4:50 AM
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The next video in Blizzard's Overwatch animation series has now been released.
This video explores the conflict between Hanzo and Genji as Hanzo returns to the siblings' family home in Hanamura once again to seek redemption. Absolutely nothing to do with the actual gameplay but it's some more backstory to enjoy and it's entertaining with some top quality animation.


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There are many inventive ways out there to dodge the press.
Some people use disguises, others envelope themselves within a ring of burly bouncers.
But for Barcelona club president Sandro Rosell, the best course of action seemed to be to run into the toilet.
While it may have seemed like a good idea at the time, video footage shows that instead of making his way into the little boy's room like you would expect, Rosell accidentally entered into the female toilets in a desperate bid to escape the reporters and their questions.
Of course, for all we know Rosell might not have been trying to avoid questions (possibly about the future of Barcelona player Thiago Alcantara), but maybe just really needed to use the bathroom.
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Sewing contractor in S. El Monte. Very profitable easy to run business. 12 fully trained employees. Low rent of $1,850 for a 4,000 sq. feet facility. They do sewing for Garment wholesalers in Los Angeles. Labor only. Low overheads.
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This is a busy well established major franchised auto repair service in Anaheim.
4 bays. 2,800 sq. feet with very low rent in a major shopping center.
50% down and seller will carry a note for the rest. This place needs an owner operator.
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A well known Japanese Restaurant selling two excellent locations in South Orange County. Hibachi style cooking and sushi offered in both locations.
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Coping When Nothing is Ever Good Enough for Your Mom
"If it's not one thing, it's my mother!" What do you do when nothing is good enough for your mom? These coping tips for daughters will help you accept your mother for who she is - even if she can't accept you for who you are.


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This 150cc C.D.I is for the DC-FIRED system used on the majority of the 150cc Hammerhead, Trailmaster and American Sport Works vehicles. This 150cc performance C.D.I has a rev limit to 9000rpm and advance the timing up 4 degrees.
This after-market DC CDI will work if your stock CDI part # is 6.000.267 or 13-0322-00.
This after-market DC CDI will NOT work if your CDI part # is 6.000.125.
The Performance CDI will plug directly into your stock wiring harness. However, please be aware that the CDI's larger size may necessitate relocating it elsewhere inside your electrical box.
**CDI may not look exactly like picture, as sometimes the factory sends us different variations of this performance CDI**
How to tell if you have a DC CDI:
Your CDI has two plugs, a 4-pin and a 2-pin. The 4-pin side may have 3 or 4 wires connected to it (both AC and DC versions). If the 2-pin connector has only 1 wire going to it, then the vehicle is using a DC CDI. If there are 2 wires attached to the 2-pin connector, then the vehicle is using an AC CDI.
PLEASE NOTE: A very few DC-powered CDI systems will have two wires on the two-pin connector. For these systems, please check to see if your headlights will work while the engine is not running, and if your stock CDI has "DC" printed anywhere on it. In these cases you will need a DC CDI.
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Soul Food Women's Spring Yoga Retreat
October 19, 2017 - October 22, 2017$1,595
Set on three acres of alpine hillside in Queenstown overlooking Lake Wakatipu and the Remarkables range, the Sherwood Lodge offers a unique setting to unwind, and reconnect with self and nature.
Be guided through an all inclusive 3 day retreat of self renewal and spring detox through yoga and wholesome food. Meditation on breath, movement with intention. Daily led yoga practices, adventures in the pristine central otago area as well as simple self-care rituals on ayurvedic principles and nourishing soul food.
Collectively Jess and Dawn have a compassionate love and dedication to yoga, women's wellbeing and Ayurvedic self-healing rituals and traditions. Both find joy in teaching and holding the space for other lovers of this art in all its entirety, to journey deeper into the body, heart, soul, mind and spirit.
With 500 RYT , Dawn and Jess continue their yoga education and studies with teachers of all yoga styles and traditions.
Our combined offerings support opportunities to gain yoga knowledge, which students can immediately apply to improve their day to day life, awakening the science of self realisation through meditation, self healing, focus, strength, and discipline.
Thursday arrive 3pm. We start with a yoga practice at 4pm.
Ends Sunday 22th after breakfast 11am.
Three nights stay at Sherwood in a Waterfall suite shared or King studio with lake/mountain view
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Join Us For the Official RMCMA After Party at the Moxi Theater
The 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Country Music Awards show is on Sunday at the Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley, but the party doesn't end when the show does...
The official Pepsi After Party will be directly following the show at the Moxi Theater, just a couple of blocks down the street from the show.
Come celebrate with the nominees and winners, have a drink, and listen to the sweet sounds of Jesse Cornett, Lendon James, and Kyle Allgood.
Folks who have VIP tickets to the show get in free, everyone else is invited for a $10 cover, but the place will fill fast, so grab tickets in advance here.


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Reserve your exhibitor spot now – receive a discount on advertising rates
Reserve your exhibitor spot now – receive a discount on advertising rates
Registration for basic stands at the 2019 festival is now underway. As spaces are limited, we recommend you sign up for your exhibitor spot quickly.
World Village Festival is an excellent environment for presenting the efforts of your organisation or company to an audience that numbers in the tens of thousands and is interested in culture, international cuisines, sustainable development and CSO work. The festival is also an opportunity to build your network with others who work in your field. World Village Festival is the largest CSO event in Finland, gathering over 400 exhibitors in Helsinki for the festival weekend.
The smaller basic stands located in Kaisaniemi Park and the Market of Possibilities tent are ideal for CSOs, food vendors and artisans. Applications for basic stands submitted by Fingo members are automatically approved, while the remaining basic stands are assigned to applicants in the order of registration and confirmed in March.
The festival also offers larger exhibitor stands and spaces within three theme sections located on Railway Square. Theme sections help you reach a targeted audience together with others working in the integration of new Finns, climate change or responsible travel. Registrations for large exhibitor stands and theme section stands are confirmed within two weeks. Exhibitor registration for stands of all types ends on 17 February 2019.
Enhance the visibility of your organisation by purchasing advertisement space in the festival magazine – distributed around the Capital Region and at the festival area – or on LED screens located at the festival area during the weekend. By reserving advertising space along with your exhibitor space registration, you are entitled to a 40 percent discount on advertisement prices. Specific instructions regarding advertisement materials will be sent out during February 2019.
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The last week was a wet one for Vashon Island Pirates baseball over spring break. To date, the Varsity Squad has taken the diamond fourteen times and won nine of those.
On Monday, even though the sun was shining in the sky, Vashon fell behind early and went down to Charles Wright Academy 5-3. During the game, the Pirates out-hit the Tarriers 8 to 5 led by sophomore Isaac Patchen, who went 3-3. Senior Wyatt Yates and sophomore Aidan McCann each doubled. Seniors Andreas Stark, Armando Oatman and Junior Ary Dulfer all got hits. Senior Levi Meyer had a strong outing and went three innings on the bump, allowing three earned runs. McCann closed, threw three innings and striked out three while not giving up any runs. A few early team mistakes proved a tough hill to climb with the boys on this day.
Although the weather cleared by the afternoon, Thursday's home game with Cascade Christian was postponed due to the wet field.
On Friday, VHS battled a strong University Prep team at Delridge Playfield in West Seattle for three solid innings. Meyer led our batsmen, both on the mound with two scoreless innings and at the plate, scoring two on a homerun in the third inning. The hit parade continued with a home run from Yates and a double from Stark. Senior Andrew McCamment added a hit to the cause. Vashon was up 9-0 when the umpires called the game in the third due to rain.
The week concluded in front of a friendly Pirates crowd that traveled to the Southwest Athletic Complex (SWAC) where the good guys beat a tough Sealth High School 9-6. The contest was called for rain after six innings. McCann pitched the first inning, giving up one earned run and aided by a 6-4-3 (Dulfer, Oatman, Meyer) double play. Yates went the next two innings, not allowing any runs. Oatman pitched the 4th and 5th while sophomore Alex Hitchcock closed it out, not allowing any hits as the mound got very sloppy. The Pirates proved adept with the bat clubbing eleven hits. Meyer, McCann, and McCamment each got two hits while Stark, Yates, Oatman, Patchen and Hitchcock all recorded knocks of their own. This game had it all: pitching, stellar glove work, great catches and of course, the bats!
The Pirates keep battling on Monday, April 16 at home 4 p.m. against Charles Wright, April 18th at CWA, and Friday back home against Bellevue Christian at 4 p.m.
Many of our varsity games are broadcast on Game Changer, at https://tinyurl.com/ycgphmmh.
The 4-3 Junior Varsity will get back on the field at home on April 16 against Charles Wright on April 18 and will be away at CWA (both games start right after the varsity game) on April 20 at Seattle Christian and Saturday, April 21 in a double header at Marymoor Park against Bellevue Christian.
Come out and catch a game.
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Why are we here? (The Dare Mission)
Just like with people, this inevitable, existential question also comes up for sentient companies. Here at Dare Fashion, our attempt to answer it resulted in a three-part mission statement, which guides everything that we do.
1. Create figure-flattering fashion for women of ALL shapes and sizes.
During our very first photoshoot, we noticed that when the model put on Dare to Wear, she changed immediately: her face lit up, she stood a little taller, threw her shoulders back, tossed her hair, and struck a flirty pose.
The Dare to Wear top made her radiate confidence and positivity, because it was designed to accentuate the best aspects of her figure, while minimizing parts she wanted to de-emphasize.
All Dare Fashion pieces are designed by Natalia to be "Confident Curvy Couture." And, they are all originally designed on a size 2x pattern. We've always known that the best way to make a full range of sizes (in our case, size S to 5x) is to design for plus-size, and then adjust the smaller sizes -- NOT the other way around.
2. Keep manufacturing in USA, paying workers a fair wage in San Francisco.
We are uniquely positioned to manufacture in China. Ben, our co-owner, speaks Chinese, and his sister-in-law's best friend oversees sewing factories near Shanghai for foreign companies. But we made a conscious choice early in the history of our company to keep production here. Sure, manufacturing in San Francisco is expensive: the cost of living is sky-high, rents are astronomical, and the minimum wage is the highest in the US.
But we support the social justice of paying workers a fair wage. Our company doesn't just create jobs for our employees, it also generates work for our fabric and trim suppliers, patternmakers, cutting house, sewing shop, printing service, box suppliers, and various shippers who deliver our goods. We feel strongly that all of these people should have a better life because Dare Fashion exists.
Keeping our operation local also allows us to have tighter quality control, resulting in better, made-in-USA workmanship, with a lower impact on our environment.
3. Develop sustainable apparel solutions to keep our planet healthy.
We set up our Dare to Care program to help manifest our Green initiatives because, let's face it, our planet needs all the help it can get!
Why are we here? To help our customers, to help our workers, and to help our planet!
What do you think about the Dare Mission? And, why are YOU here?
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@BeverlyJeanMcCarty, Thank you very much for leaving a comment for us! We are SO happy you like our style!
We definitely hear your concern and frustration over sizing. From interviews with dozens of customers and from our own personal experiences, we've learned that sizing varies widely from brand to brand, and it's difficult for most people to even say what is their "normal" size. For this reason, we've opted to put a Dare Fashion Size Chart in every one of our listings and ask customers to choose their size based on where their measurements fall on the chart. But we agree, this is not a perfect system – many customers are unable or unwilling to make those measurements before they buy. We are looking into alternative and technical solutions so that customers might be able to see how different sized garments will look on them before make their purchases. Please stay tuned!
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I absolutely adore Dare Fashions! As soon as I discovered them, my life actually changed because there was finally a magical design that looked really GOOD on a plus size woman such as I!!
However, I DO have a suggestion to help prevent loss and extra postage and frustration: Tell the customer to order 2 (TWO) sizes bigger than the customer's normal size OR change the sizing so that clothes will be true to normal size! THERE IS NOTHING ELSE…BECAUSE THE PRODUCT IS SO BEAUTIFUL! Thanks, Dare Fashion, for creating my miracle blouses! Sincerely, Beverly Jean McCarty


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When the owner of Bardstown Road Cycles retired from the bike shop world he switched gears and focused on publishing his book "The Golden Age Of Wheeling." Carson Torpey documents the history of Cycling in Louisville from 1868-1917. During this time Americans were crazy about bicycles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Enthusiasts bought and learned to ride the newest machines, formed clubs, held races, and sang popular songs about bicycling. In many ways, Louisville, Kentucky, was at the heart of this craze.
About the Author:
Carson Torpey is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He attended Atherton High School and the University of Louisville, majoring in mathematics. He and his wife, Alison, have two children. After working at Bicycle Sport for 20 years, he opened his own store, Bardstown Road Bicycle Company in 1994. He began riding a 10-speed bicycle in 1969 as a way to get to the soccer games at the park but found a love for cycling instead. On a ride with the Louisville Wheelmen in 1974, he discovered the lure of bicycle racing and went on to win several state championships. His interest in cycling history began with the closing of Highland Cycle, Louisvilles long-running bike store, after receiving one of Gil Morris's old bicycles. A customer let him ride a high-wheel bicycle, which reinforced his interest in cycling history. His wife, Alison, is the Kentucky captain for the national organization devoted to cycling history, The Wheelmen. More of Carson's writing can be found in the organization's magazine, The Wheelmen.


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TIFF 2015 Review: Fire Song
Fire Song opens with the aftermath of the suicide of a young Anishnabe girl. The film centers on her brother Shane who has aspirations of leaving the reservation to attend college in Toronto. This marks him as being different and so he is given the nickname of "College". Shane also happens to be gay. While his plans to attend college in the big city are begrudgingly accepted his identity as a gay man is not acceptable at all.
Fire Song is important because it tells a story that is rarely told and yet so desperately needs to be heard. Unfortunately though, the film falls flat when it comes to the writing and much of the acting. Andrew Martin brings a lot of energy to his role as Shane but sadly he is just not believable. There is zero chemistry between him and his boyfriend David (Harley LeGarde-Beacham). One reason for this could simply be because there is such little intimacy shown between them compared to the scenes of Shane with his girlfriend Tara (Mary Galloway). Yes David his supposed to be his secret boyfriend but even when they are alone there is little to no intimacy. This is compounded by the fact that David wears a permanent frown throughout the film.
Despite this, Beautiful, understated performances are given by both Mary Galloway as Tara and Ma-Nee Chacaby as elder Evie. Fire Song is worth watching to get a sense of the myriad problems faced by Anishnabe teens.
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The Turnbull government's planned closure of the Manus Island immigration centre could cost lives, Australian Greens senator Nick McKim says.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed the progressive closure of the centre ahead of the complete shut down on October 31, with asylum seekers given the option to settle in Papua New Guinea, transfer to a country other than Australia, or return to their country of origin.
"The potential here is that some detainees may die as a result of the announcement ... Papua New Guinea is not a safe place for these detainees," Senator McKim told reporters in Hobart on Tuesday.


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