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In a quiet London suburb, a group of mothers relies on each other for friendship, favors, and gossip. But some of them shouldn't be trusted, and others have dark secrets.
When Callie moved into her new neighborhood, she thought it would be easy to fit in. The other parents have been strangely hostile, though, and her frail daughter Rae is finding it impossible to make friends. Suzy, with her rich husband and her three energetic children, has been the only one to reach out, although their friendship has recently felt inexplicably strained. Now the police have suggested that someone dangerous may be living in their neighborhood, and the atmosphere feels even more toxic. Then there's the matter of Callie's ex-husband, and the shocking truth behind their divorce . . . a truth that she would do anything to hide.
In a quiet London suburb, a group of mothers relies on each other for friendship, favors, and gossip. But some of them shouldn't be trusted, and others have dark secrets.
When Callie moved into her new neighborhood, she thought it would be easy to fit in. The other parents have been strangely hostile, though, and her frail daughter Rae is finding it impossible to make friends. Suzy, with her rich husband and her three energetic children, has been the only one to reach out, although their friendship has recently felt inexplicably strained.
Now the police have suggested that someone dangerous may be living in their neighborhood, and the atmosphere feels even more toxic. Then there's the matter of Callie's ex-husband, and the shocking truth behind their divorce . . . a truth that she would do anything to hide.
A must read that will tap into every mother's primal fears.—SOPHIE HANNAH, internationally bestselling author
LOUISE MILLAR was brought up in Scotland. She started her career as a freelance copy editor for many leading music and entertainment magazines, and most recently has worked as a senior commissioning editor at Marie Claire, as well as writing pieces for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine, Eve, Psychologies, Stylist, and the Guardian travel section. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
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For my parents
Part 1: Friday
Chapter 1: Callie
Chapter 2: Suzy
Chapter 3: Callie
Chapter 4: Debs
Chapter 5: Callie
Chapter 6: Suzy
Part 2: Saturday
Chapter 7: Debs
Chapter 8: Suzy
Chapter 9: Callie
Chapter 10: Suzy
Part 3: Sunday
Chapter 11: Callie
Chapter 12: Debs
Part 4: Monday
Chapter 13: Callie
Chapter 14: Suzy
Part 5: Tuesday
Chapter 15: Debs
Chapter 16: Callie
Chapter 17: Suzy
Part 6: Wednesday
Chapter 18: Callie
Chapter 19: Debs
Chapter 20: Callie
Part 7: Thursday
Chapter 21: Debs
Chapter 22: Suzy
Chapter 23: Callie
Chapter 24: Debs
Chapter 25: Suzy
Chapter 26: Callie
Chapter 27: Suzy
Chapter 28: Callie
Part 8: Friday
Chapter 29: Debs
Chapter 30: Callie
Chapter 31: Suzy
Chapter 32: Callie
Chapter 33: Suzy
Chapter 34: Callie
Chapter 35: Suzy
Chapter 36: Callie
Chapter 37: Callie
Part 9: Saturday
Chapter 38: Debs
Chapter 39: Suzy
Chapter 40: Callie
Chapter 41: Debs
Chapter 42: Callie
Chapter 43: Debs
Chapter 44: Suzy
Chapter 45: Callie
Chapter 46: Debs
Chapter 47: Suzy
Chapter 48: Callie
Chapter 49: Debs
Chapter 50: Callie
Chapter 51: Debs
Chapter 52: Callie
Chapter 53: Debs
Chapter 54: Callie
Chapter 55: Callie
Part 10: Sunday
Chapter 56: Suzy
Chapter 57: Callie
Part 11: Monday
Chapter 58: Callie
The water is cold. I knew it would be, despite the disco ball of early summer sun that twirls through the willow trees onto the dark green, velvety pond. I pull my foot out quickly and rub its soft, icy edges. A small yellow leaf sticks to my ankle. I'm not sure I am up for this.
There's something slimy in there, I say.
Suzy adopts the pout she uses when she's trying to get Henry to eat broccoli.
Come on—it's yummy. We both laugh.
She stands up, towering above me at her full five feet ten. With one swift movement, she pulls her gray toweling dress over her head and kicks off her flip-flops. She stands at the water's edge in a black bikini and looks out. An elderly lady glides toward her with smooth, long strokes, a blue rubber hat perched on wire-wool hair. Suzy smiles and waits patiently for her to pass.
I sit back on my elbows. There are about twenty women on the grass, in various small groups or alone. Some are reading, some talking. Two are lying close together, laughing, their legs entwined. I look back at Suzy, who is still waiting for the old lady to move safely out of her path. It takes me a minute to realize I am staring at her body. It's not that I haven't seen it a hundred times before, marching naked round the swimming baths' changing room after the kids, or whipping off her top in her kitchen when she gets gravy on it. No, what is strange is to see her body unfettered by children. In the two and a half years I have known Suzy, there has almost always been a child attached to it: feeding at a breast, astride a hip, wriggling under an arm.
Suddenly I notice how young she is. It's amazing how well her body has recovered from three children. She has a thick waist, and a flat stomach with no hint of the soft pouch of flesh that Rae has left on mine. Her substantial bust sits high, politely accepting the support of the bikini, but not really needing it. Her skin is creamy and smooth, her frame strong and athletic. Taking a deep breath, she lifts her arms with the confidence of a girl who's spent her childhood lake-swimming in the Colorado mountains, and dives into Hampstead Ladies' Pond, ejecting a startled duck.
I lie back and try to concentrate on where we are. A fly buzzes at my nose. There is an air of calm around the pond. A hidden world behind the trees of Hampstead Heath, where women swim and stretch and smile; far from the company of men. Perhaps this is what the inner sanctum of a harem feels like.
Yes, I think. What could be better than this? Sitting in the early summer sun on a Friday afternoon with no kids and no work to worry about.
Yet that is not really how I feel at all.
The hot sun pricks my face a little unpleasantly. I try to focus on the sounds around me to relax. I used to collect interesting sounds, storing mentally the tiniest hum or echo, or whisper of wind that I heard and liked, in case one day I might need them. Today there is birdsong from a warbler, the soft swish of Suzy's strokes, the crack of a squirrel on a twig.
It is no use. However much I stretch my legs out, the tension that makes my buttocks and thighs clench won't release. My mind is racing. I need to tell Suzy. I can't keep this secret from her. There is enough I hide from Suzy already. I sit up again and check where she is. She's traveled to one side of the pond and is working her way back.
Oh, what the hell. I am here now. I stand up and walk over to the ladder, and begin gingerly to climb into the murky water. The notice board says there are terrapins and crayfish in here.
Good girl! Suzy calls across, clapping to encourage me.
I roll my eyes to show her I am not convinced. The water is cold and earthy as I lower myself into it, shivering. Bit by bit, the icy ring moves up my body until I am almost immersed.
Just swim, calls Suzy. Her bright American tone echoes out across the pond and the female lifeguard looks over.
I launch myself off the edge. I am not a good swimmer. Suzy approaches me.
This is so great, she says, turning on her back and looking up at the clear sky and treetops.
Next week, I'm going to book us a day at that spa you told me about in Covent Garden.
My legs dip, and water goes in my mouth. I splutter, kicking hard. I can't touch the bottom.
Hey, you OK? she says, holding my arm.
Let's swim to the middle then turn back.
I take a breath, clear my nose, and follow her.
Suze, I say,
I can't spend money on stuff like that at the moment.
Don't be silly, hon, I'll get it, she replies. I know she means it. Money is never an issue in the Howard house. Jez's business is thriving even in these uncertain times. For Suzy, money does not have the emotion attached to it that it does for me. It doesn't hang around her house like a critical mother, interfering in every decision she makes, squashing dreams, telling her
maybe next year.
Satisfied that I am OK, Suzy leaves me to swim alone. I wonder which direction to take across the pond. It is a strange sensation swimming in a natural pool, with no tiled edges to aim for, just gentle slopes of black earth veined with slippery tree roots. There is no rectangular structure to measure my lengths. It is lovely; Suzy is right. It's just that right now my mind aches for corners and edges, for beginnings and ends.
I hear a splash and turn round. The old lady is climbing the steps out of the pond. Stunned, I realize she is about ninety. Tanned, loose flesh hangs like draped curtains from strong old bones. I think of my own grandmother, sitting for twenty years after my granddad died, watching telly and waiting for the end. How does that happen? That one old lady watches telly and another walks to an open-air pond on a summer's day and floats around among water lilies and kingfishers?
The woman's lack of self-consciousness about her body gives her an air of confidence as she walks past two young women gossiping animatedly, eyes hidden behind overlarge designer sunglasses, thin limbs spray-tanned the same dulled bronze. Probably business wives from Hampstead. I decide the woman could be an old suffragette or a famous botanist who spent her younger years traveling round remote South America on a donkey, finding new plants. Whatever, I sense she has no time for young women like them. And me. She's probably earned the right to spend her days doing such wonderful things. She knows someone else is paying for ours.
This is not right. This has to end.
Taking a deep breath through my nose, I swim as fast as I can back to the steps and reach up to the railings with dripping hands. As I pull myself from the water, my body feels oddly heavy. Heavy, I suspect, with the weight of my own guilt.
I have to find the words to tell Suzy. I can't do this anymore.
* * *
It became apparent at Easter that Suzy had a lot of plans for her and me. She has never had a daylight hour without children, she claims, since she moved to London. Even when Jez is home, he says he can't manage all three of them together, so she always has one, whatever she does.
So since Peter and Otto both started private nursery in May, and Henry and Rae are now reaching the end of their first year at primary school, Suzy finally has the chance to do the things on the list she has been compiling from Time Out magazine and her London guidebook. All through June, we have been out most days. She knows I have no money, so we have done free things. We have Rollerbladed in Regent's Park, ignoring the sign that says
No skating.
They'll have to catch us first, said Suzy furiously when she saw it. She has waited too long to take long, gliding strokes through the flat paths of the rose garden unhindered by our children's buggies and scooters. I don't like breaking rules, but I go along with it.
Another day, we ate sandwiches in Trafalgar Square after a visit to the National Gallery to see Botticellis and Rembrandts. We've peered through the railings at No. 10 Downing Street and seen Big Ben up close. Suzy even made me come with her to the Tower of London, insisting on paying the entrance fee. As I stood waiting among German tourists to see the Crown Jewels, I had to smile to myself. These are not the things I did with friends in London before I had Rae, but I remind myself that Suzy is from America and not Lincolnshire, like me, and that she wants to do the touristy stuff in the way that I wanted to climb the Empire State Building when Tom and I spent that one precious weekend in New York.
And today it has been Hampstead Ladies' Pond.
We should come here every day, Suzy says, as we get ourselves dressed.
People do.
Sometimes when she says these things I feel like I did in the pond today. I flail around, trying to find something solid and familiar to hold on to, but there is nothing.
* * *
It is 3:25 P.M. It has taken Suzy sixteen minutes to race from Hampstead Heath across North London in her yellow convertible to Alexandra Park. She skids to a stop outside the kids' school, completely ignoring the
No drop off sign.
Go get 'em, pardner, she shouts to me over the horrible American soft-rock music she likes to play loud in the car, oblivious to the looks we get from mothers walking through the school gate.
I laugh despite my embarrassment, and jump out. We both know the routine. I pick up Rae and Henry, she fetches Peter and Otto from nursery. We do it without speaking now, guiding each other through our shared daily routine like dressage horses, with a gentle nod or a kick toward school or soft play or swimming.
I'm going to take them to the park, I say, shutting the door.
Coolio, baby, shouts Suzy cheerfully, and drives off, waving a hand above her head.
I turn and look at the arched entrance with its century-old brick
Girls sign. Instantly, my shoulders hunch up. The massive wall of Alexandra Palace rises dramatically behind the school, like a tidal wave about to engulf the little Victorian building. I run through the gate, turn right in to the infants' department, and smile my closed-mouth smile at the other mums. Everyone told me that having kids is when you really get to know your neighbors in London. They must have neighbors different from mine. A few mums nod back, then continue arranging playdates with each other in the diaries they carry around. I've tried so many times to figure out what I've done wrong. My best guess is that it's because in Rae's slot on the class parent contact list
Callie and
Tom sit separately at two different London addresses; unlike
Felicity and Jonathan and
Parminder and David and
Suzy and Jez. Suzy says if the mothers are not going to be friendly to me because I'm a divorced, unemployed, single mother who lives in a rented flat, she and Jez won't accept their invites to stupid drinks parties in their double-fronted Edwardian houses in The Driveway, the only road apart from ours with a guaranteed catchment into this tiny, one-form-entry infant school. She says this is the price we pay for
getting our kids into a posh, oversubscribed primary school and that
they're a bunch of stuck-up, middle-class cows for ignoring me, and that I am much better than they are.
I try to believe her, but sometimes it's difficult. Sometimes I think it would be nice to belong. Sometimes I think that if one of these mothers invited Rae to her house for a playdate, I would fall on the floor and kiss her feet.
The classroom door opens and Henry and Rae burst out looking grubby and stressed.
What have you got to eat? Rae murmurs. I give them the rice cakes I always carry around in my bag. She has red paint in her mousy hair and her hands are greasy as if she hasn't washed them all day. As usual I search her eyes for signs. Is she overtired? Too pale? I scoop her up and hold her too tight, kissing the side of her face till she squirms and laughs.
Are you all right, Henry? I say. He looks dazed and wired, checking behind me to see if Suzy is there. If she were, he would be whining by now, making his disapproval of her abandonment apparent. I put Rae down and hug him to show that I understand. He leans into me a little, and sighs. Then the pair of them head out of the outer door, gnawing their food like puppies.
At the school gate, Henry starts to run. He does it every day, yet I am so busy trying to shove their scribbled drawings into my bag that it still catches me unawares.
Henry! I shout. I chase him along the pavement, grabbing Rae, who is following him blindly, dodging round a man, a woman, and two girls. The man turns. It is Matt, a divorced dad from another class. Or the Hot Dude That Callie Must Get It On With, as Suzy calls him. And I have just shouted in his ear.
Sorry, I say, lifting a hand to emphasize it. He smiles coolly, rubbing his hand over a new crew cut. Embarrassingly, I blush.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, I mutter. As if.
I catch up with Henry at the play park behind the school.
Henry, I say,
you mustn't run like that. Remember, Rae follows you and it's dangerous for her in case she falls.
He shrugs a
sorry, jumps on a swing standing up, and throws himself in the air with violent jerks, as if trying to shake out his excess energy like ketchup from a bottle. Rae sits on the next swing, playing with the tiny doll that she manages to keep hidden about her person however much I search for it before we leave for school. I am going to look up her sleeve on Monday. They don't talk much, Henry and Rae. But, as their teacher says, they seem joined together by an invisible wire. Wherever one is, the other is never far away—just like me and Suzy.
I wonder what Rae feels about that sometimes. I wonder if she feels like me.
I watch Rae, and I think about Suzy, and I can't even bring myself to imagine what it will be like for them both when I'm not here.
So—he was back.
As soon as Suzy opened the door of her house at No. 13 Churchill Road at 3:55 P.M., she could see from the discarded shoes in the middle of the hall that Jez's meeting in town with Don Berry had finished early.
OK, little boo-boos, she said to Peter and Otto, releasing them from the carry she had given them from the car. Without breaking the broad smile she used like a tractor beam to keep them from teetering over the edge into hysteria after nursery, she kicked her husband's loafers into the shoe rack with its sweetie-shop rows of bright sandals.
Who wants a drink? she called, moving Jez's jacket from the banister onto a peg. The boys nodded, dazed.
And who wants a cookie Mommy made? she growled in a goofy voice. The boys nodded more enthusiastically.
Coolio! she shouted, tickling them as they wandered into the kitchen.
Peter laughed.
Otto cried and hit her hand away, his brown eyes flashing a warning.
This little baby would need more help today, she could see.
Hey, buddy? she said, picking him up again. He resisted, squealing angrily and grabbing her hair.
No, she murmured in his ear, holding him tightly. His little body, heavy with toddler chunkiness, began to relax. His fingers let go. She kissed them gently, smelling exhausted salty sweat and baked beans.
My very beautiful boy, she said. Just holding him made her body ache for more. And a girl this time. A girl called Nora, with Suzy's own childhood freckles and strawberry blonde hair, not the rich darkness of Jez's domineering, upper-class English genes.
Otto brushed his nose across the front of Suzy's dress, marking her territorially with snot, and sighed.
It's OK, hon, she whispered, pressing her cheek against the wet thickness of his.
You're tired.
Hmm. He nodded. She put him down, sighing with the satisfaction of getting it right, and watched him toddle into the kitchen behind Peter, his raven curls bouncing.
The midafternoon sun beamed in through the glass wall that ran across the back of the house, making her Italian kitchen gleam. The boys climbed on the giant sofa. She loved this space. It was impossible now to remember what it looked like as a collection of cramped Victorian rooms. She thought Jez was joking when he told her the price of the house. You could buy a small ranch for that in Colorado. Then he explained how the vendor had just received planning permission to knock the rooms together and extend at the back—just as he and his girlfriend decided to split up. Suddenly Suzy had seen how it could work. A huge family room filled with toys and the new friends they'd make in London, and her serving everyone great steaming bowls of pasta; children running around, playing; she and Jez opening wine together. Jez was right. The room had worked out well.
He just hadn't been in it much lately.
Suzy took paper and felt-tip pens out of the drawer of the kitchen table, and placed them with a cookie and a drink each on top, kissing each boy as she helped him up. She turned on the oven, pulled a tray of meatballs that she'd made earlier from the fridge, and turned to wash her hands.
It was then that she saw it.
He had done it again.
A newspaper was spread out on the quartz countertop beside a white mug whose sparkling interior was violated by a muddy tide line of coffee. Crumbs lay beside it. The remnants of a sandwich eaten without a plate or thought for who would clean it up.
Discarded shoes, jackets, cups, and crumbs. Shaving foam left out. Undrained baths. Uncapped olive oil. A house full of Jez's semaphores for things he wouldn't say.
Clamping her jaw, Suzy folded the newspaper and put it in the recycling box. She and the boys looked up as heavy footsteps came down the stairs and toward the kitchen. Jez filled the doorway like a dark cloud about to rain.
Hi . . . good day, boys? he muttered gruffly. Peter smiled shyly, Otto began to grizzle again. Jez glanced at his wife briefly, then looked around the kitchen.
Can't find the phone charger.
I put it back on your desk, she said flatly, picking up Otto for another hug.
I needed to use the kettle.
He raised his eyebrows and began to walk back out of the room. She couldn't help herself.
Would you like me to put this away, too? she said, nodding at his dirty mug.
He paused, then shrugged.
Or leave it there.
She held Otto closer, like a shield.
All right, little man? Jez said, ruffling his hair as he walked back out the door.
She put Otto down again and began to cut up an organic cucumber, focusing on its uneven ridged bumps to distract herself from the urge to follow Jez. With a start, she realized Peter was watching her silently, his gentle face fixed in a frown. Of the three, Peter was her sensitive one. The one who stood back and let Otto and Henry grab their favorite toys first, who gently stroked Suzy's arm when his brothers bit and kicked each other. She blew him a kiss to show him everything was all right, and began laying the table with plates, trying to concentrate on the polka-dot blue plastic.
Three plates for her three boys, then one for Rae just in case. Now, did Rae like meatballs? Yes, she did, it was sausages she'd gone off . . .
How could Jez say that?
Putting down the jug, she pointed the remote control at the widescreen TV on the wall. Cursing under her breath that she was breaking her own rules of no kids' telly during the week, she flicked through till she found Postman Pat. The boys' faces turned to the wall, amazed.
Mommy go pee-pee, she said, beaming.
Back in a minute.
Checking that they weren't following behind her, she tiptoed up the stairs past the first floor to the office Jez had converted out of the loft. The door was firmly shut.
She nudged it.
It swung open to reveal Jez at the computer, in front of a wall covered with charts and projections that had no meaning for her apart from when money appeared in her bank account. She had given up trying to make him explain what he was working on.
I just want to understand, hon, so I can be there for you if you need support. But he had said there was no point. He'd let her know if there were any problems.
Jez was still wearing his gray Paul Smith suit trousers with a charcoal shirt from his earlier meeting in town. Even on days when he didn't have a client to meet, he dressed impeccably. He turned to look at her, his six-foot-three, 210-pound frame forcing a squeak out of the leather swivel chair. Jez looked big in any setting you put him in. Even among the midwestern men of her hometown with their cowboy-sized hands, who spent their weeks in office suites downtown and weekends hunting in the mountains, Jez had held his own, standing shoulder to shoulder with them in the local bar, meeting well-meant jibes about his English accent with a dry humor that quickly earned him a slap on the shoulder and a shot of bourbon.
At the time, his strength had made her feel safe. She hadn't imagined what it might be like to be on the wrong side of it.
What? he said, turning to meet her with eyes that said nothing.
What? What do you think? she wanted to say. But right now they were past words.
So on an impulse she did something else.
She reached behind her back and undid her bikini top through her dress.
Jez watched. It took him a second to realize.
Oh . . . no, he said firmly, shaking his head and turning back to the screen with a half smile to show how ridiculous he found the idea.
The rejection stung. But it was too late. She walked over and put her hand on his shoulder, pulling him round with the momentum of the swivel chair.
No. Really—get off, he said, the humor disappearing rapidly from his tone, the hard muscles in his shoulder twisting easily away from her fingers.
But she was only five inches shorter, and before Jez could stop her, she had straddled him with one long leg and pushed her chest toward his face to stop him propelling her away.
Suzy! he growled.
I said STOP. I don't want to. Leave it.
How could she stop? Fighting back the humiliation, she pulled his hand and tried to put it inside the top of her dress, needing some kind of connection with her husband, even for him just to laugh at her desperation. Then she could join in and they would hug and joke about her wanting more babies. Anything that broke the silence.
Oh, will you fucking stop it! he shouted suddenly, grabbing that wrist and the other one, and holding them high beside her shoulders.
You are not listening. I don't want to. Their eyes met inches apart. She could see the blackness in his now.
Looking down at her bare legs that smelled faintly of pond water, and the bulk of loosened straps underneath her dress, she felt shame. Blood ran into her cheeks.
OK, then. Let me go, she whispered.
The doorbell rang downstairs. Callie with the kids.
Jez held her wrists for a second more. Then she felt his grip loosen.
OK, then, he said, lowering his voice. His expression softened for a moment.
God, she saw it now. He felt sorry for her.
There was a knocking downstairs.
She dropped her gaze.
I am your wife, she whispered, so quietly she was not sure he even heard. And with that she walked out of the room.
By the time we have wandered through the park back to Churchill Road, Rae and Henry are holding hands. We walk along our quiet street of Victorian terraces, looking at neighbors' window boxes. I say
neighbors, but the truth is, apart from Suzy, the people on Churchill Road are just people with whom I happen to share a postcode. There was a nice woman my age at No. 25 when I first arrived. I asked her once where she got her wrought-iron window boxes. She was friendly, and I thought I'd ask her in for a cup of tea soon. Then two days later I saw a moving van outside her house and she was gone. I didn't even catch her name.
We turn in to Suzy's gate at No. 13. Empty boxes sit outside No. 15, next door. A little surge of hope rises in me. Perhaps the new people will be nice.
I ring Suzy's doorbell, and wait. No answer.
I knock.
That's weird. I open the letterbox and hear the murmur of telly. They must be in the garden. I search my bag and find the spare set of keys Suzy and I swapped long ago, and put them in the lock, praying we don't walk in on Jez wandering around jet-lagged and naked like that first time, after which I couldn't look him in the eye for a month.
There is a pounding of feet down the stairs as I start to open the door.
Sorry—in the loo. Hi, sweetie! Suzy squeals at Henry, sweeping him up high into a hug and covering his face with kisses. "How


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Become An Alegria Sponsor!
Sponsor an Event:
The Krewe of Alegria holds several fund raising events to help support our very own 501(c)3 Charity: Alegria's Kickin' for Kids as to support our krewe to enable us to continue our civic service as "goodwill ambassadors" to the Tampa Bay Community. All contributions are tax deductible.*
Here are a few ways you can sponsor:
• Provide a venue location, such as a conference room, patio, restaurant/lounge - community space.
• Provide catering, music and entertainment, photo booth, and other such services for one or more of our functions.
• Provide financial support. (Can be done through PayPal by using our Donation Button on our Alegria's Kickin' for Kids page.)
• Provide in-kind gifts to be used for auction and or raffles.
• Provide new shoes for children of all ages.
In exchange, you will be acknowledged on our web site, at the sponsored event and pending the amount of sponsorship you will be included on banners that are put on our float at otherwise unsponsored parades and events throughout the year. Our main fund raiser is held in the fall with other events ongoing through May. Acknowledgment of vendors, sponsors and contributor links will be posted on our web site for a minimum of one year starting in May of each year.
*Alegria's Kickin' for Kids, Inc. is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. Alegria Group, Inc., is a 501(c)4 tax exempt organization, authorized to accept deductible contributions." Not all (c)(4) organizations are so authorized. A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Florida Division of Consumer Services by calling toll-free from within the State 1-800-435-7352. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval or recommendation by the State. Alegria's Kickin' for Kids, Inc. and Alegria Group, Inc. does not utilize the services of professionalsolicitors and therefore receives 100% of each contribution.(Alegria's Kickin' for Kids, Inc. EIN #20-3690003, FDACS CH 25290; Alegria Group, Inc. EIN #20-1449176, FDACS CH 23344)
Sponsor a Parade:
The Krewe of Alegria has participated in the Tampa Bay area parades since 1986. We participate in the Downtown
Tampa Holiday Parade (Santafest), the Gasparilla Children's Parade, Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla Day Parade,
the Krewe of Sant' Yago Iluminated Knight Parade, the Rough Riders St. Patrick's Night Parade and the Pride parade.
Each of these parades can be sponsored for a set dollar amount for which the sponsor will receive public attention
through various promotions such as banners on our float, custom throw beads. other promo items, web links and
guest participation at the sponsored parade. Each parade has it's own rules as to what we can offer our sponsors.
We attempt to give back to our sponsors as much publicity and advertisement as possible throughout the year. Click
the flag at right to download parade sponsorship information along with an application form. Payment can be made
through PayPal by using our Donation Button on our Alegria's Kickin' for Kids page.
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KDLT Cares: Washington Pavilion Introduces Mascot Radley Rex
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – There's a new staff member at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls who's quite a character.
This is Radley Rex, the new dinosaur mascot of the organization. Radley's job is to educate and entertain through arts and science. Radley Rex will be part of weekly programming at the Kirby Science Discovery Center and the Visual Arts Center.
The mascot will also be on hand at some of the Pavilion's special events with a Radley Rex coloring book at each public appearance.
"Most of the kids seem to warm up to him quickly. He's a very friendly looking character, maybe not as scary looking as the stand fossil, but yeah, they seem to be taking to him really well," said Director of Marketing Relations, Rebecca Sevening.
Radley Rex will be a the Washington Pavilion's 55th Sidewalk Arts Festival this Saturday. You can meet Radley and take photos during different sessions at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m.


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Shepherd's Shemozzle
2 November
The ULTIMATE Shepherds/Farmers event!
If you like a challenge then this one is for you – one for your bucket list and a must do event. A gruelling cross country course that is not for the faint hearted requiring stamina, strength, courage, mental and physical ability to complete the course with your Huntaway by your side the whole way.
The event also includes separate Children's Shemozzle, Teen's Shemozzle, and Family Shemozzle events.
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The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O'Brien KBE is a British statesman who has recently completed his term as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
Born in Tanzania, Sir Stephen was educated in Kenya and the United Kingdom, where he attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and qualified as a lawyer. He thereafter practised as an international commercial solicitor with City of London firm, Freshfields, subsequently becoming an industrialist as senior executive at FTSE100 global building materials producer, Redland PLC, until 1998, and thereafter an entrepreneur. Since returning to the UK in late 2017, Sir Stephen has taken on the Vice-Chairmanship of AIM-listed Savannah Petroleum PLC and, amongst others, is a non-executive Director-Trustee of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium.
Sir Stephen joined the Conservative Party in 1995, initially building a local branch in Petworth, West Sussex. After the 1997 General Election (during which he was co-campaign manager for the only successful 'Conservative-win' in that election at Mid-Dorset & North Poole), he was elected Chairman of the Chichester Association where he remains an Hon. Vice-President.
In a hard-fought by-election in 1999, he was first elected to Parliament as Conservative MP in Eddisbury, Cheshire, where he and his family have lived since. He was re-elected three times, always with significantly increased majorities. While his party was in opposition he served in various shadow ministerial roles, including as Shadow Secretary of State for Business & Energy, then Higher Education & Skills, from 2001 to 2005, and as Shadow Minister for Health & Social Care from 2005 to 2010. He was appointed a Minister in the Coalition Government, becoming Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development in 2010. In 2012, he was appointed the Prime Minister's Envoy and UK Special Representative to the Sahel in Africa, working for peace in the region. He chose not to seek re-election in 2015 when offered his senior global post at the UN.
Both before and throughout his Parliamentary career, Sir Stephen has been a leading advocate for global health. In 2004 he founded, and then served as first chairman, of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases. He has also been Co-founder/Chairman of the leading NGO, Malaria Consortium, Vice-President/Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Director Trustee of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium, Global Advocate for the UN/WHO's inter-agency Roll Back Malaria Partnership, among other similar roles, for which he has won international awards. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 2013.
In 2015 Sir Stephen was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and
Emergency Relief Coordinator, leading the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. As the world's leading Advocate for crisis-affected people, not least in a record number of forceful engagements before the UN's Security Council, he argued for compliance and accountability under International Humanitarian law, unimpeded access to people in need and the necessary US$23 billion funds, under the transformative Agenda for Humanity which was developed under his leadership at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May 2016. His responsibilities included oversight of all UN humanitarian operations globally, and leadership of coordination mechanisms between UN agencies and other partners. Sir Stephen's term covered the time of the exponential increase to 143 million people across 40-plus countries suffering from natural disasters and in grave humanitarian crises with life-saving and protection needs, caused primarily by man-made conflict and violence, leading to protracted and complex crises notably in and around Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Myanmar, CAR, DRC, as well as the challenge to avert the threatened famines, exacerbated by violence and climate change, in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and north-eastern Nigeria. In recognition of his leadership and achievements in humanitarian and development work, Stephen was awarded a Knighthood (KBE) in June 2017.
Stephen is married to Gemma (a nurse). They have three grown-up children.


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The path of Karlijn Visser
23 September 2016
At which particular event do you definitely want to be present?
Since Holistik is the IPC's media partner, I've been lucky to interview some of the teachers. Each one of them had a great story. One of them was Rolandjan van Mulligen.
I guess his Yin Yoga Journey at the Vondelkerk will be very special, since it's musically supported by cello and han. These instruments combined create some sort of heavenly sound and seem to work on a meditative level, Rolandjan told me. Count me in!
What's your first stop on your path to inner peace?
Saturday at 11.00 Juno Burger's 'The Delight of Being'. A few months ago, Juno cleared my house and I thought it'd be super interesting to hear more about his way of working with energy. His workshop at the IPC is about a place in our hearts, the compassionate heart, where transformation can take place and where no duality exists. Only the endless flow of life.
With which workshop, yoga class or concert will you conclude the IPC?
With Kareem Raihani's performance at the Posthoornkerk. I'll bet the roof will come off during this 'Divine Dance Celebration'. Dancing is freeing and the conscious dance scene is growing and growing.
I am most curious about...
…the 'Active Flow' on the 2nd of October with Erica Jago at 17.30. I have her beautiful book at home on my coffee table and regularly practice her yoga teachings via The House of Yoga.
For me, the IPC is successful if...
…If we can reach as many people as possible about the theme awareness. This is a weekend meant to experience consciousness, practice inner peace, having fun and learning by trial and error. Every individual as part of the bigger plan can make a difference by creating a more beautiful world with a little more light.


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In my opinion, health insurance is more important than life insurance because the probability of you getting sick is more realistic. In last 10 years, the cost of hospitalization and medicines have gone through the roof and it's simply not affordable for many people.
Some critical illness like Cancer or Heart diseases can cost from anywhere 5 lakhs to 50 lakhs. This makes it imperative for everybody to have health insurance in India. In this article, I am going to share my 10 reasons to buy health insurance for yourself, your family including wife and children and your parents.
3 Reasons for Buying Health InsuranceWell, it's not difficult to explain a family guy to explain why he should buy health insurance. Most of them already have some health cover from their employer, so they know the important of medical cover. It becomes even more important if you are working overseas. The cost of medication and hospitalization is very high on abroad, especially in Europe and America. You simply cannot pay hospital bills by your own, it's simply too much for anyone.
Thankfully most of the IT and Software companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, CTS, and Tech Mahindra provides decent health insurance to their employees. So, it's not a problem for them. This health insurance not only cover them but also their family members like spouse and children, what is left behind is the health cover of parents, which often stay behind in India.
To be honest, many highly educated and good working people also don't pay attention until its too late. Since our earlier generation was not so used to health insurance, parents of many of us don't have any solid health cover. They need medical insurance more than us because of their old age.
Thankfully, there are many health insurance companies in India which provide health insurance plans to elders e.g. people with more than 60 years of old. One of the popular ones is complete health plan from ICICI Lombard. So, if you don't have any health insurance for your parents, it's about time you buy one.
Anyway, here are my 3 key reasons to buy health insurance in India for parents:
Expensive Medical Cost
This is the single most important reason why I suggest many NRIs to buy health insurance for their parents and family members living in India. Medical costs are rising on a regular basis, it has become difficult for people to manage expenses such as doctors visiting fees, hospitalization charges, expensive medicines, diagnostic tests etc.
People's thinking has also changed, nobody now likes to go government hospital and try to provide the best healthcare. Buying a health or medical insurance policy will take care of your expensive health care bills within the permissible limitations of the policy.
Focus on Treatment
The second most important reason is not worrying about money when your parents are going through treatment. Don't take it wrong, but if you don't have an insurance the cost of treatment will always haunting your back of mind.
A health emergency needs complete rest, relaxation, and highest levels of care. Worrying about paying bills and can deteriorate your health further. With an insurance plan taking care of your bills, you just need to focus on getting the best treatment for yourself or parents.
Tax benefits
This is not the main reasons to buy health insurance policy but this definitely serves as icing on the cake. Under the section 80D of the Income Tax Act, 1961, you can avail tax deduction up to Rs 25,000 per annum on purchasing health policy for self, spouse, and dependent children.
Senior Citizens (60 years and above) can avail deduction up to Rs 30,000. Additionally, you can also avail deduction of Rs 25,000 if you buy a health insurance for your parents. For senior citizens (60 years and above), the deduction is available up to Rs. 30,000. See here for more tax saving options for salaried people in India.
That's all about why you should buy health insurance for your family members and parents living in India. In short, with an insurance plan in hand, you can have the best of health treatment without worrying about expenses. Buying a good health insurance policy can help you lead a happy, healthy and peaceful life. Buying a health or medical insurance policy for your parents also ensures you quality financial support during the time of a health emergency and emotional breakdown.


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France offers many jobs in it's winter and summer tourist industries. The largest Ski Resorts In France include Alpe d'Huez, Les Portes du Soleil, Courchevel, Les Arcs, Meribel, Les Menuires, Val Thorens, Chamonix, La Plagne, Val d'Isere, Tignes and Serre-Chevalier. Between the months of December and April there are many jobs offered in Hotels, Bars and Restaurants. Many British and European ski companies operate in the French Alps so work can also be found as Representatives, Chalet Hosts and Childcare Staff.
Several British and European camping companies operate throughout France and jobs can be found in the summer working in campsites.
Jobs Teaching English are offered, particularly during the summer where there are many positions offered in Summer Camps teaching children.
Fruit pickers are needed throughout the year picking apples and maize as well as grape, peaches, strawberry and cherry picking, particularly in the South East and West and Loire and Rhone Valleys. Strawberries - May - June, Cherries - May - July, Peaches June - September, Apples - September - October and Grapes September - October. The A.N.P.E advertise many of these jobs on there web site.
Au Pairs usually need some childcare experience but won't always need to be able to speak fluent french. Au pairs live with host families, looking after the children and perform basic domestic duties such as cleaning. Wages are often low but food and accommodation is usually included.


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It's called a "restaurant accelerator" because chefs market-test their visions by renting a shared food hall space instead of locking into a costlier operation at a building they lease or own.
Patrons gain cuisine choices in a casual atmosphere with communal seating and individual tables.
Detroiters can check out the approach from 5-10 p.m. Friday at the debut of Fort Street Galley, with four food stalls, about 220 seats and a 30-seat bar at 160 W. Fort St. near Campus Martius.
It's run by two Pittsburgh food hall developers who launched two similar sites in their city and one in Cleveland. Chicago is next.
A tourism news site, Travel Pulse, reports last month on this emerging niche, which also popped up in the Cass Corrdior five months ago at Detroit Shipping Company, a "restaurant collective and beer hall" at 474 Peterboro St. Similar sites are in Atlanta, Miami, Boston and Tampa, the November post says:
Across the country, suburban malls are being abandoned, and with them, their once-bustling food courts. But sprouting up to replace them (at least in spirit) in hip urban centers are higher-end so-called "food halls." These facilities are often set in refurbished buildings with expansive spaces. . . .
Some of these serve almost as incubators, providing entrepreneurs with something more permanent than a food truck, yet cheaper than opening a full-blown restaurant on their own.
Detroit's entrepreneurs (pictured below) were chosen from among five dozen applicants and eight finalists. Eater Detroit editor Brenna Houck describes their fare:
- Allenby, a Middle Eastern-style sandwich shop from former Selden Standard chefs Michael Goldberg and Katie Nelson. Small-plate choices incude Cuban sandwiches, milk-braised pork belly poutine and merguez sausage sandwiches with harissa aioli, greens, Bulgarian feta, and Hawaii-spiced red onion on a focaccia.
- Isla, a Filipino-French restaurant from chef JP Garcia and pastry chef Jacqueline Diño, a married couple. The menu has Filipino egg rolls, lumpia, noodle dishes, stews, and other dishes from the Philippines -- such as bangus croquettes with milkfish, purple yam purée and tropical ube cake.
- Pursue: Mike Han serves sushi with a Korean flavor profile.
- Lucky's Noble BBQ: Rattlesnake Club alumni Jimmy Schmidt, a James Beard Award winner and Brian Recor serve Wagyu beef barbecue, sandwiches, salads, protein shakes, bratwurst, and hot dogs.
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'Tuesday Night Football' is for anyone and everyone over 18 years old, who enjoys a good game of football. We meet every Tuesday at 7:45pm (for a prompt 8pm start) at the Academy Sport Leisure Centre, playing on their outdoor astro-turf pitches. Depending on numbers, we either split up into two separate games or play one large game across two pitches. Games finish at approximately 9pm with the evening then being wrapped up with a 5-10 minute talk on the Christian faith.
So, if you're over 18 years old (male or female, novice or pro), then we very much welcome you to come and join us. Just turn up on the night at 7:45pm, we'll put you in a team and then you're good to go. We encourage fair play, sportsmanship and competitiveness – there's nothing quite like an honest and committed game of footie.
8-9pm Tuesdays.
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£3 per person, per session with no advanced notice needed.
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The Divergent series may have struggled to differentiate itself from the flood of other post-Hunger Games "YA Dystopia" films with critics, but a devoted audience seems to have embraced the story of Tris and her struggle against the oppressive as well as mysterious forces that have governed her post-apocalyptic world across two films. Despite underwhelming reviews and word of mouth, a reliable fanbase has formed around the series' mix of young romance, psychedelic action, and reality-bending subplots reminiscent of The Matrix.
In the new trailer for the franchise's third outing, Allegiant, Tris and her comrades find new dangers waiting in the blighted wilderness and high-tech cities located beyond the perimeter of their former home.
In the Divergent universe, a post-apocalyptic society survives in the walled-off ruins of Chicago governed by arranging citizens into genetically-calculated roles as part of a strictly-regimented caste system. The system is upset when Tris (Shailene Woodley) discovers that she is a "Divergent;" a genetic anomaly who can't be classified into any one group and possesses extraordinary physical and mental abilities. Along with a group of loyal friends, she turned against her city's leaders and (as of the first sequel, Insurgent,) was preparing to find her true destiny in a futuristic city revealed to exist beyond the wall.
Though the series repeats many tropes familiar to fans of other works in the genre (not only Hunger Games but also The Maze Runner and The Giver,) fans have responded to Woodley's winning performance in the lead and the presence of respected actors like Kate Winslet, Maggie Q and Ashley Judd in the supporting cast, along with a who's-who of emerging younger talents like Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney and Zoe Kravitz. The series is also noteworthy for eschewing or inverting many of the tropes typical of the genre: For example, though Divergent, Tris pledges her allegiance to the athletics-focused "Dauntless" caste, while the villains have thus far tended to hail from the intellectual "Erudites" - thus upending the "nerds vs jocks" dynamics usually found in teen-targeted stories using high school social-structures as their central metaphor. The franchise has also been noted for the incorporation of extreme sports and mixed martial-arts into its action sequences, along with more conventional chases and gunplay.
Where the series has continued to face criticism, however, is in regards to its overall storyline; which many critics have given poor marks for a lack of originality within an already overcrowded genre. It remains to be seen whether Allegiant will break from this trend, as the trailers have thus far not revealed any significant plot details for audiences who didn't already follow the series of books that inspired the franchise. The new footage features Tris, Four and their friends still fleeing from danger, fighting in high-tech combat vehicles and contending with being trapped in strange energy bubbles; but offers precious little in the way of noteworthy story turns save for the implication that the heroes may be walking into a situation just as complicated and dangerous as the one they just escaped from. Even less encouraging: These implied twists are eerily similar to those that comprised the plot of the second Maze Runner film, The Scorch Trials.
As with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Lionsgate has elected to divide the storyline of Allegiant's book into two parts, bringing the final total of films in the series to four. Robert Schwentke, late of Red and R.I.P.D., directed this first installment from a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage and Stephen Chbosky. Schwentke is also set to helm the final installment, originally titled Allegiant: Part II, which was set to be released in March of 2017 but was bumped by the studio to make room for the reboot of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers franchise. The film will now debut the following June, re-titled as Ascendant.
The Divergent Series: Allegiant will hit theaters on March 18th, 2016, followed by The Divergent Series: Ascendant on June 9th, 2017.
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Imagine a world in which the delivery of health care is of the highest quality and so efficient that it is affordable to every person—and government. Today, that world seems distant, but not because of lack of progress in the diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease. Science and technology are enabling new cures and techniques at a rate never experienced before. The world we seek is beyond our reach because the work of delivering health care has not kept pace with advances in science and technology.
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Lynn Whipple is teaching the Year of the Spark lesson for the second half of April... using music to influence mark making.
I don't have music playing while I work in my studio unless I am doing chores (cleaning and tidying up for the next project). When seasons permit, I prefer to listen to the birds' songs or soft rainfall. Or I like to listen to recordings of nature or lectures by people with engaging speaking voices.
For this lesson, I chose music that had a slow to medium tempos with occasional tempo changes.
The "music" warm up sketches:


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Li, I agree with most of what you say but this sentence intrigues me: "The ownership relations should be entailed by the protocols themselves (otherwise, the protocols are incomplete)." In your opinion, are the ownership relations in the current versions of WS-Eventing and WS-Enumeration sufficiently described, or are the protocols incomplete? - gp On 5/4/2010 9:39 AM, Li, Li (Li) wrote: > > Gil, > > Please see comments inline. Thanks. > > <><<>>><<<<<>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<< > Li Li, Ph.D. > Dialogue System Research Group > Avaya Labs Research > 233 Mt. Airy Road > Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 > Voice: 908-696-5141 > Fax: 908-696-5402 > Email: firstname.lastname@example.com > ><>><<<>>>>><<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Gilbert Pilz [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:21 PM > *To:* Li, Li (Li) > *Cc:* email@example.com; Chou, Wu (Wu) > *Subject:* Re: issue 8273: proposal for WS-Eventing > > Li, > > A couple of comments on your proposed changes. > > 1. I would prefer not to use the term 'endpoint' in sentences like > "the requester ought to be checked against the endpoint that > performed the original Subscribe request". Firstly, what are > talking about here are representations of authenticated > identity. Although it is a kind of identity, an 'endpoint' (as > represented by an EPR) is not a representation of an > authenticated identity in the way that, for example, X.509 certs > or SAML tokens are. Secondly, when you tell a developer that > "the requester ought to be checked against the endpoint that > performed the original Subscribe request", they might think that > all they need to do is check the ReplyTo of the GetStatus > request against the ReplyTo of the original Subscribe request > and they are done - which is not what we want to say. If you can > think of another, better term for 'authenticated entity' I would > welcome any suggestions. In my DCE days we use to just call > these things 'principals' (derived from the Kerberos term) and > everyone knew what we meant . . . > > Wu/Li: Our use of "endpoint" follows from WSDL 1.1 and the rest WS-RA > specs. The concept is not tied to WS-A per se, as WS-A is one way to > represent an endpoint. For security purpose, other information, such > as certificate or username token, can be associated with an endpoint. > But "check against the endpoint" covers all these cases as it means to > check the security data associated with the endpoint. If you think > this is confusing, we can: > > Option 1: delete the sentence in bracket, since it does not add any > significant information. > > Option 2: Change to "the requester ought to be checked against the > identity authorization requirements performed in the original > Subscribe request." > > Option 3: Change it to "the requester ought to be checked against the > authenticated identity of the endpoint that performed the original > Subscribe request" > > 2. W/regards to the notion of "subscription/enumeration ownership", > it is very hard to discuss this stuff without that concept > creeping in. It's understood that subscriptions and enumerations > are instances of context that are shared between the client and > service. This is why we needed the state tables. When you are > authorizing messages (e.g. Renew, SubscriptionEnd) it is natural > to think of yourself and your peer (the thing that you share > context with) as co-owners of the shared context. We can > describe the authorization decisions without using the word > "owner", but I'm not sure if that helps make things any clearer. > > What makes things even harder is that, although we can speak of a > "subscription owner/co-owner" we really can't say much about how > the owner->subscription relationship is established. For example, > the most intuitive way to think of establishing the > "subscriber-owner->subscription" relationship is to say "the > identity of the thing that sent the Subscribe request is the > 'subscriber-owner' of the subscription", but this might not > necessarily be the case. That's what I attempted (clumsily) to say > in the sentence "Note that determinations of subscription > ownership are particular to individual deployments." > > Wu/Li: The ownership relations should be entailed by the protocols > themselves (otherwise, the protocols are incomplete). And > therefore, we don't have to use new concepts to restate them. In > addition, we want to stay away from overstating things that may > limit potential applications. > > - gp > > On 4/20/2010 7:41 AM, Li, Li (Li) wrote: > > Gil, > > Thanks for the proposal. We agree the general technical content but have > the following editorial changes to > > 1) avoid introducing new concepts that are already defined in WS-E, such > as "notification stream", "entity", "source owner" and "sink owner" etc. > 2) remove some advices that are either well-known or too specific (to be > specific on threats, but general on solutions). > 3) Clarify some statements (e.g. per-notification authorization). > 4) shorten some sentences without changing their meaning. > > The attached word document, which a copy of Ram's version, has our > change marks. > > Thanks, > > Wu, Li >
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Love Mandala.
Many years ago a wise woman told Gayle Mandel that she could manifest her soulmate by coloring a love mandala.
A mandala is an intricate design of shapes usually in a circular pattern. Gayle colored in the various pieces of the mandala. Each time she colored in a space she spoke out loud the quality she was seeking in her soul mate. With a purple crayon she announced "I would like a man that is kind to animals." With the blue crayon she said "I would like a man who appreciates my sense of humor." Using dozens of crayons and announcing dozens of traits, Gayle completed her task.
Within a very short time she met Howard. He was exactly what she had asked for. Now, more than 20 years later, they are still happily married.
Applicable To
Although the primary intention of coloring this Love Mandala is to open your heart and powerfully magnetize your Partner / Mate to you, this Mind Exercise, according to me, is applicable to everybody.
If you're not Single, or if you're going through a rough phase with your partner, while coloring each little section, just say out loud all the good qualities in your partner or those that you'd like to see. This exercise has the potential of activating so much positivity within your energy that you will magnetize the essence of those positive traits towards you via your current committed partner or through the other people around you.
Btw., the beauty of this Mind Exercise is that it is not just applicable to attracting a Romantic Love Relationship. It can be applied to any area of life.
If you're looking for a new job or an expansion in your business, while coloring each little section, say out loud all the experiences or feelings that you would like to experience in your new job or business.
Keep an open heart and let the Universe show you some miracles!
To Do
1. Print out your favorite Mandala(s) from the templates embedded here, and color it over a period of days. I have selected my most favorite ones here from thousands of them available on Google Images.
2. You do not need to color the entire Mandala in one sitting. Take your own time. In case you're doing this exercise as part of my Activities, you're supposed to do it over the specified number of days. Space out the coloring plan accordingly.
3. Most importantly, do it ONLY WHEN you're in a pure / stable / happy state of mind. To do this manifestation project, treat it as a sacred ceremony. Do it at a time when you have an open heart and a clear mind. Not when you're hungry or when you've not yet freshened up (e.g. in the morning). It would be nice, though not mandatory, to fix a particular time of the day, and do it during that time for 5-10 minutes.
4. Color each small area with crayons or colored pencils while vocalizing and meditating on the qualities you want in your soul mate. If you're doing this for something else, speak out accordingly. Saying out with your mouth is not important.
5. Use different colors for different qualities. It's okay to repeat colors, if you're short of them. Don't stress about it :)
6. Finishing it off is not the purpose of this exercise. The process of coloring it is important, and needs to be enjoyed.
The entire credit goes to all the information available on Google, but don't forget to let me know how it works for you :)
How It Works...
Well, it's not magic. It's the Law of Attraction in action! You may just want to go through those articles for a deep understanding.
If you color the Mandalas in a frustrated mood or to try and forcefully tell the Universe to manifest what you want for you while you're coloring it, it won't work. It will backfire, in the sense that you will get even more frustrated :)
On the contrary, if you do it just as a beautiful coloring exercise, for fun, may be as a strain-buster after a tiring day, if you do it because you enjoy coloring, if you do it with the intention and attitude that at least during the time you do it, your mind remains silent, it will work for you.
By letting go of that obsession, you build trust and faith in the Universe to yield to you what you want. This is exactly what one should do when one is confused (see the Life Hack here). When your mind is preoccupied or consumed with the active awareness of the absence of your desire, you keep looking for and keep attracting its absence. It is as simple as it is written here. Just do it with this faith and understanding in this knowledge, and you'll know it for yourself.
A silent mind is the most powerful magnet. Silencing the mind is nothing but meditation! You allow the Universe to yield shovels full of manifestations to you when you silence your mind. Focusing your mind on something like this is one of the easiest methods to silence it.
Other names...
Such coloring art is also known as "Stoner's Coloring" (tougher coloring sheets meant for Adults). A stoner is a person who regularly takes drugs, and it is (rightly) believed that if he can turn his focus to such a beautiful coloring exercise, there are high chances of his drug addiction going away. It works exactly as mentioned in the above (How It Works...) section.
Not just a stoner - I believe that every person who is frustrated, running in life, constantly fighting and struggling in life needs to slow down, and this exercise is helpful for one and all.
Just search Google Images for 'Love Mandala', and you'll find thousands of them. There are plenty of Mandala Coloring Books available as well.
These are some ebooks and Pinterest links. Simply download and print them:
- Children Mandala Book - 34 Mandalas (PDF)
- Mandala Coloring Sheets - 10 Mandalas (PDF)
- Mandala coloring on Pinterest (Countless)
- www.mandala-4free.de (Many)
- Coloring Castle (A few more)
Click here to buy one from Amazon.
These are my top few favorite ones, which I have found on Google Images.
Mandalas Colored by me
Below are the Mandalas colored by me. I love doing this a lot.
Click here to see more colored Mandalas - by all those who are connected with me - on my Facebook Page.
Be aware of the precautions before you pick up a Mind Exercise to practice.


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I often use the Full CTOs to give the shots a warm, candle-light look. In this case, it didn't quite work, possibly because the mule's natural color (the white blaze on her face) was rendered too warm to be believable. I experimented in trying to correct the color balance in post production, but was really happy with the results. One problem with filtration - If the saturation of a any of the primary colors (red, green blue) goes "over the top", you can never recover a attractive relationship between these three primary colors.
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I was pleased with the two-light setup I used that evening. That bright fireball near the left edge of the photo is actually the key light, held aloft with by Cissie with a monopod. If you look at the highlight on the fence, you can see that the beam angle has been narrowed to form a spot of light centered on my subject's face. From the position at camera left, the speedlight provides a classic Rembrandt lighting, while the on-camera fill speedlight, feathered up slightly to prevent foreground overexposure, provides the necessary fill.
This is Jay, a photographer working with the event who I met last year. He too uses a Fuji XT2, but opted for the 16-55 2.8 as his main lens, one I passed on because it was too bulky and not wide enough for my taste We were experimenting with flashes, and I made this photo using my two speedlights and his flash, a Phottix I think, triggered in the optical slave mode. Since it wasn't equipped with a gel, its light is rendered impossibly blue when the camera is set to the Incandescent white balance preset.
I had considered trying to get a one of the rabbis to stand in front of the shadow cast by the menorah, but there wasn't time, space, or (long) lens enough to make the shot come together. I'll file this idea away for next year, and may experiment with the concept well before then.


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The international market opens new scenarios and new possibilities.
It is easy to understand how and why Nughe felt the need to integrate the translation service into his complete proposal.
The international market opens new scenarios and new possibilities.
It is easy to understand how and why Nughe felt the need to integrate the translation service into his complete proposal.
Here are the services we can offer and why contact Nughe for translations:
International marketing is done with the objective of placing one's own company in the market of one or more "foreign" countries or strengthening its presence in the same markets. To do this it is important to adapt the language to the country or even to the region of your target audience / target.
Every market has its own peculiarities and risks, so it may be important to work on a complete project.
This is why we integrated the translation services into Nughe's services.
We wanted to allow our team to have a complete vision and work in a coordinated way: from the project, through the strategies, up to the operational phases - including management.
Linguistic work on texts and advertising campaigns can be more precise and functional if done with an overview and a strong cooperation.
As well as for local campaigns, doing SEO for international businesses serves to position your web site so that it is easyly found by customers that we need to intercept through search engines.
Obviously, however, the positioning on each country presupposes and requires searches of different keywords and the relative translation of the texts.
Each country has its own language, so we must both find the words used in that region to look for our product or service, and have the whole site translated.
This is a job that must be done in a precise way, so it can give a lot of possibilities to the sites in order to increase their visibility exponentially.
In websites with international ambitions we advise in all cases to never miss the English language, in addition to that of the specific countries in which you want to expand your market.


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Suddenlink Girds for Viacom Carriage Fight
About 1.1 million Suddenlink Communications video customers across the country could lose access to Viacom networks like Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central on Sept. 30, if the two don't come to a renewal agreement.
So far, it doesn't look too good that a deal will be reached in time.
According to Suddenlink's website – SuddenlinkOnYourSide.com – Viacom is asking for a significant increase in affiliate fees, which the cable operator believes is unwarranted.