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Capital punishment: the media mania over Trump
Good morning.
- Donald goes to Washington
The coverage of Donald Trump's day in Washington yesterday quickly devolved into this: Wolf Blitzer, a self-respecting journalist and good fellow, transformed into Tattoo, the comical aide de camp to Ricardo Montalban's Mr. Roarke on "Fantasy Island," who greeted arriving guests to the mysterious locale by shouting, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" There was Blitzer hosting early afternoon coverage and presumably forced to repeatedly inform us that, look, there was a live shot of Trump's private jet at Reagan National Airport. And, a few minutes later, another live shot. It was as if this were Beaconsfield, Iowa (population 15) and the circus had just showed.
TRUMP MEETS WITH HOUSE GOP LEADERS," declared the crawl on Fox News. "We're on standby for that," anchor Bill Hemmer had assured us earlier. Oh, yes, they were. It was about all one could get on the cable news networks yesterday, as if the planet's sole human event was Trump and all those chagrined Republicans starting to fold and back him. (The Wall Street Journal)
"You may be wondering why we're showing you that alley," said CNN anchor Carol Costello at one point, as a camera was trained on the back of a building where Trump was meeting. Yup. But it was in sync with the everlasting conundrum of Washington, D.C.: a sophisticated but utterly small town. "The P.T. Barnum scene seemed oddly fitting for a campaign that, at times, has felt like a passing parade, the surreal blending viscerally with the passions Mr. Trump elicits. And even while unseen, Mr. Trump demonstrated that he is still fully capable of setting off a Category 5 fuss just by being in the vicinity." (The New York Times)
Thank goodness Fox at one point briefly took us to Brasilia for actual news about the impeachment of Brazil's president amid all-encompassing corruption there that makes the Chicago City Council resemble a Jesuit retreat (nearly three dozen council members have been convicted since 1973).
- Facebook's trending topic: itself
Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook on Thursday evening to say he plans to talk with leading conservatives in coming weeks. "I want to have a direct conversation about what Facebook stands for and how we can be sure our platform stays as open as possible." (ABC News) Facebook put out a statement earlier to rebut allegations of rigging its "Trending Topics" feature. (Poynter)
Meanwhile, "leaked documents show how Facebook, now the biggest news distributor on the planet, relies on old-fashioned news values on top of its algorithms to determine what the hottest stories will be for the 1 billion people who visit the social network every day. (The Guardian) And this: "One notable change between The Guardian's documents and the one Facebook just posted: Yahoo News is no longer considered among the most trustworthy news sites; Buzzfeed News has replaced it." (Motherboard)
- Ex-Guardian editor won't chair its ownership board
Alan Rusbridger, the former top editor of the London-based daily newspaper, has been forced from his chairmanship of The Scott Trust months before he was set to take the post. Rusbridger, who was lauded by staff for positioning the newspaper to succeed digitally at the time of his departure, has since faced critiques of financial mismanagement. (BuzzFeed UK)
- 383 million pageviews
The Daily Mail offered "eyebrow-raising numbers" at an industry function: "The U.K.-based publisher is now posting 650 videos a day, which has resulted in a 516 percent jump in views in the past year. It's getting 383 million monthly video views, 12 million video views per day, and claims an 80 percent completion and viewability rate." (Adweek) It's the most popular English-language destination.
- Edward Snowden on the press
The former National Security Agency contractor was piped in from Moscow to talk to the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics. Imagine, the students there got Jon Stewart and Snowden within four days! (Poynter) "How does the media sell attention? How do they buy attention? How do they get you to watch them? People care about characters, for whatever reason. So they simply would not let me go." He was thus part of what he deems a Traitor or Hero construct that was symbolized by an NBC interview in Moscow conducted by Brian Williams that asked viewers to vote online as to which of the two was Snowden. (Institute of Politics)
- Journalism stunts
Recode notes how filmmaker Les Blank made a movie about German director Werner Herzog eating a shoe after losing a bet. "Facebook Live is forcing journalists to act similarly. For instance, on The Washington Post's Facebook page, right now, this very second, you can watch columnist Dana Milbank follow up on an earlier promise to eat a newspaper. In October, Milbank said that he would literally eat his words if Donald Trump became the Republican nominee. Trump won, and Milbank is being a good sport about making such an abrasively wrong prediction." (Recode) If you want to see this updated version of Milbank paying off a bet, here it is.
- Trump's Bezos conspiracy theory
Donald Trump has apparently contracted out much of his public relations work to Sean Hannity of Fox News. Last night came another squishy Hannity-Trump session in which the candidate told us how great the Paul Ryan meeting went and, not long after, went after The Washington Post and owner Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder. He said Bezos uses the paper "as a toy" and is somehow having an army of reporters go after him because Bezos wants to avoid taxes and prosecution for antitrust reasons ("he's got a huge antitrust problem") during a Trump administration. He's using the paper "as a political instrument...to make sure I don't get in." The Washington Post called B.S. this morning. (Poynter)
- Annals of self-appreciation
A tweet from New York Times reporter Farhad Manjoo: "Read my column on FB and bias, it's good: Facebook's Bias Is Built-In, and Bears Watching." (@fmanjoo) You would tell us if it wasn't, correct? The age of journalist puffery fanned by social media proceeds apace, with ample encouragement from employers.
- Tribune-Gannett pissing match (cont.)
Tribune Publishing has rejected a takeover offer from Gannett. The latter's Securities and Exchange Commission filing this morning makes the case for withholding votes from the company's slate of directors at next month's shareholder meeting. (Gannett) Tribune responds with a presentation that bashes Gannett's opportunistic raid and praise new boss Michael Ferro's vision for running things. (Tribune) Tribune recently adopted a "poison pill" to make any takeover tough. (Poynter)
- George Clooney's take
One of this morning's more debatable cable declarations might have been CNN's "New Day" contributor Mark Preston declaring how Donald Trump has "for the last 72 hours looked presidential." He must have missed the Hannity session. Over at "Fox and Friends" they were in George Clooney-bashing mode. They ran tape of the famous son of a former Ohio local TV news anchor and host sitting next to Julia Roberts at the Cannes Film Festival and saying, "There's not going to be a President Trump. Fear is not going to be something that drives our country. We're not going to be scared of Muslims or immigrants or women." He then blamed "much of the news programs" for not following up during interviews with Trump to "ask tough questions. The ratings go up because they can show an empty podium that says Donald Trump is about to speak." This didn't sit well with the resolute Fox morning crew. "The media has been very aggressive," said Ainsley Earhardt, who magnanimously qualified that with, "I still like his movies." "George Clooney and his wife have thrown fundraisers for Hillary Clinton at their house, so he has a horse in this race and it's Hillary," said Steve Doocy. Brian Kilmeade exhibited further uncharacteristic rhetorical largesse with, "He was really good on 'E.R.'"
- Dining update
Does The Washington Post take us for culinary dunces? Do they really, honestly believe we all don't know that "New Nordic cuisine, with its emphasis on locally foraged ingredients and fermented foods, has redefined Scandinavian cooking in recent years, giving it an identity beyond pickled herring and that frequently scorned dried cod known as lutefisk." (The Washington Post) I did, after all, have lunch with a public TV friend at the Tre Kronor, a Swedish bistro on Chicago's Northwest Side, seven (maybe it was eight) years ago. "Of course, the trouble with New Nordic cuisine is that, by definition, it's rooted in place, non-transferrable to, say, the District, where the White House will host its 12th state dinner on Friday to honor the heads of state of five Nordic countries." Of course. "But that didn't stop White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford from saluting the work of chefs like Noma's Rene Redzepi with baby radishes impaled on pieces of foraged wood.'This wood came from our backyard,' says Comerford, who didn't know what kind of tree it was." Well, get somebody in the West Wing to ask somebody at the National Park Service.
- What is the last great sports story?
Charles P. Pierce writes in Sports Illustrated, "A Chicago Cubs World Series championship is the Last Great American Sports Story. The Red Sox have had their moment; in fact, they've had three of them. The ongoing futility that is the city of Cleveland is an interesting historical glitch — and LeBron James may yet correct it this year — but there are still people alive and prospering who remember Jim Brown and 1964. There have been Triple Crown winners, one as recently as last June. The Cubs are what's left." (Sports Illustrated) Meanwhile, The New York Daily News offers, "Alex Ovechkin and the 25 greatest athletes never to win a title." (Daily News)
- A "Special Relationship"
The proliferating podcast universe does raise the question as to how many folks can actually turn a buck on podcasts. A newcomer is "Special Relationship," a partnership of The Economist and Mic, the millennial-focused media company that's going to experiment with paid subscriptions. (Ad Age) Its latest offering is hosted by Economist U.S. editor John Prideaux and Mic senior political correspondent Celeste Katz, focusing on how Hillary Clinton may be impacted by her gender. It features Joanne Bamberger, author of "Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox," and Economist senior editor Anne McElvoy, who compares Clinton's campaign with the rise to power of Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and others. (Mic)
- Twitter and surveillance
"The tension between Silicon Valley and the federal government over digital privacy has taken a bizarre twist: Twitter has reportedly barred the analytics firm Dataminr, which scans the Twitterverse for breaking news and trends, from selling its services to U.S. intelligence agencies." (Bloomberg) It would not appear to have much reason to stand in the way of national security, "beyond advancing its own public relations strategy."
- Journalists getting rich
Start your weekend with a dose of rank envy. "General Atlantic has emerged as the frontrunner in an auction to buy a controlling stake in Argus Media," a London-based energy reporting company that provides specialized industry data. The sale of a 50-percent-plus stake to the U.S. private equity firm "would see members of the founding Nasmyth family pocket hundreds of millions of pounds. It would also make dozens of Argus employees — including some of its senior journalists — paper multimillionaires. These include chairman Adrian Binks and Ian Bourne, the editor-in-chief." Consider your finances, have a good drink and enjoy the weekend. (Financial Times)
- Job moves, edited by Benjamin Mullin
Julia Ioffe is now a contributor to HuffPost Highline. She is a contributor to POLITICO Magazine. (Poynter) | Jason Abbruzzese is now the business editor of Mashable. Previously, he was a media reporter there. (@benmullin) | Tina Exarhos is now the chief marketing officer of NowThisMedia. Previously, she was chief marketing officer of MTV. (Email) | Job of the day: ProPublica is looking for a senior editor for audience and engagement. Get your resumes in! (ProPublica) | Send Ben your job moves: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Niall Horan was spotted at Taylor Swift's weekend concert in the UK. What would Harry Styles think...and why was he there to support Taylor?
Harry Styles and Taylor Swift are definitely a thing of the past, but a weekend sighting of Harry's bandmate Niall Horan at a Taylor concert has drummed up some new feelings in the fandom.
You know, like "What would Harry think about this?" and "WHY is Niall at Taylor's show?"
We've been pretty secure with the idea that none of the One Direction guys are really Tay fans, so why was Niall there to support her?
And he made it to the show with bum knees and all--as he was spotted standing on crutches to enjoy the concert at the O2 arena in London.
Was Niall there as a fan, a friend...or was he checking out Taylor's duet with Brit singer/songwriter Sam Smith of "Money On My Mind?"
Niall made no hint of his appearance, taking to Twitter only to talk about the Super Bowl, writing this jaw-dropping realization: "Watching the Super Bowl! And all I can think of is! "I can't believe we are playing that stadium in the summer" mind blowing shit"
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Where the streets have historically relevant names (Part 4)
Where the streets have historically relevant names (Part 4)
In this week's Wichitarchaeology, we wrap up our ongoing series on the origin of Wichita place names. In the last installment, we examined the history behind Getto, Harry, Hydraulic and Nims streets; this week, we take a look at Orme, Osie, Rutan and William.
In the earliest days of Wichita's incorporation as a city, there were four quadrants of property recognized as existing within legal city limits, centered on the intersection of Douglas and Main. Each of these zones was owned by one of the four major town founders: Nathaniel English, James R. Mead, William Waterman and "Father of Wichita" William Greiffenstein (more on him later).
In April 1876, a pair of real estate speculators living in Indianapolis, Indiana bought up land to the south of English's and platted it as the first official addition to the city of Wichita not instigated by one of the Big Four. The men behind this move were Charles Orme, a 56-year-old farmer, and Thomas E. Phillips, a 66-year-old tailor; how these unlikely bedfellows were talked into investing their savings in a potentially dicey land speculation gamble in a remote city is lost to history, but it appears to have worked out in their favor.
Their subsection of Wichita is known to this day as the Orme and Phillips Addition. It is a long rectangle extending from Kellogg and the train tracks by what is now Santa Fe Street on the northeast to the corner of Lincoln and Broadway on the southwest.
Though neither Orme nor Phillips are known to have ever set foot in Wichita, their story is still told in the names of several streets: Orme, Indianapolis and Morris, the last being the name of the farmer who sold his 80-acre spread to the gentleman speculators.
There were women named Osie in the families of two of the city's primary founders, William Greiffenstein (daughter) and Nathaniel A. English (wife). But it was Osie English after whom the street was christened.
N.A. English was born in Newark, Ohio in 1830. As an adult, he migrated first to Missouri, then to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he married Osie McEwen, a judge's daughter, in 1864. Eventually, he and Osie settled in Wichita, where they bought — from a Mexican immigrant named N.R. Cordaro — a large parcel of land stretching south and east from the corner of Main and Douglas.
In 1869, English established a trading post and built a residential cabin on William Street between Lawrence and Topeka; soon after, he was appointed one of Sedgwick County's first three commissioners. Over the successive years, he platted several additions to the city, involved himself in numerous local businesses and weathered well the boom and bust cycles of Wichita's real estate market. Upon his death from "congestion of the stomach" on Aug. 3, 1892, the Wichita Eagle reported: "He was generous, charitable, liberal and honest."
English's wife Osie lived another 18 years, dying in 1910, leaving behind five daughters, three sons and a street in South Wichita.
In explaining the provenance of Rutan Street, it is hard to improve on the following notice run in the Wichita Eagle on Friday, Dec. 30, 1904, quoted here at length:
"Captain J. C. Rutan, a pioneer business man of this city, died Wednesday evening at North Yakima, Washington, where he had moved a few months ago for the benefit of his health.
"Captain Rutan located in Wichita in 1873, coming here from Iowa City, Iowa. He was engaged with his brother-in-law, W. W. Kirkwood, in the lumber business for several years and later became interested in the Kansas Trust company. He gave up active business six or seven years ago and lived in retirement at the family home, corner of Douglas and Rutan avenues, until he moved to Washington. Rutan Avenue was named in his honor.
"Captain Rutan was 64 years of age. He was prominent in business circles in this city while he resided here and no man took more interest in Wichita's welfare. He was honest and honorable in all his dealings and extremely popular with all classes. He was a member of the board of education from the third ward for one term. Captain Rutan served in an Iowa cavalry regiment during the Civil War. He rose from a private to captain and was ever loyal to the Union. He was a devout Christian, being a member of the Methodist church. His works of charity were numerous. He contributed liberally to the Y.M.C.A., and it was largely through his efforts that the fine building on Topeka Avenue [now the Scottish Rite Temple] was erected by that organization. Other worthy organizations also benefitted from his generosity.
"The news of his death has spread sadness over Wichita. He was a kind hearted, highly intelligent and courageous man and was greatly esteemed by numberless friends here."
Wichita's founding fathers were a colorful bunch, perhaps none more so than William "Dutch Bill" Greiffenstein, a German immigrant who had made his fortune trading with the natives in Kansas and Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in the 1860s. He operated one of his early trading posts on the present-day site of Eberly Farms. Greiffenstein married twice, both times to women from native tribes, and was widely respected for his fair dealings with the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache people.
He got on the wrong side of General Philip Sheridan, who accused him of selling weapons to hostile tribes; Greiffenstien was expelled from Indian Territory and had to appeal to Washington, D.C. to plead his case. In the end, he was exonerated and paid restitution by the federal government. He settled in Wichita, buying the land along the east bank of the river, south of Douglas.
A major early business booster, Greiffenstein famously gave away alternating lots along Main Street to entrepreneurs and speculators who promised to build commercial developments on them. His first house in Wichita, which was the city's largest for many years, was on the site now occupied by Century II; there is a historical marker on the civic center's lawn indicating the spot where the house used to be.
Dutch Bill was mayor of Wichita in 1878, then again from 1880 to 1884. Sadly, most of his money was tied up in real estate, and the crash of the mid-1880s proved devastating to his assets. Greiffenstein and his second wife, Catherine — daughter of Potawatomi Chief Abram Burnett — moved back to Indian Territory and grazed cattle there, waging sporadic battles with the federal government until his death in 1899.
The town of Burnett, Oklahoma was organized by Greiffenstein and named after his wife's family. The Wichita street name William is Dutch Bill's namesake. He was honored to have a street named for him but fretted that "Greiffenstein" was too hard to spell, so he offered his given name instead.
The man is well-remembered in Orsemus Hills Bentley's book History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: Past and Present, which states: "William Greiffenstein was a warm-hearted, generous man, and in Sedgwick County, his friends are legion. Time will do his memory justice, and posterity will perpetuate his many virtues."


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0:08 Clinical psychology is continually revealing more and more about human emotions, human behaviour, human thinking patterns. And this research is making very real and important differences in our everyday lives. It's helping us to understand particularly mental health problems and how to improve the mental health and well-being of all of us. What we'll do in this course is look at some of the science of mental health, some of the science behind how people respond to and react to challenges in their lives, how they develop their own way of understanding the world, and how that framework of understanding shapes their emotions. So in this first week, I'd like to look at some of the big questions that confront psychologists.
1:00 Essentially, why do people behave in the ways that they do? Why do people feel emotions in the way that they do? What makes us tick? Importantly, is it nurture or is it nature? What explains the differences between people? Can the differences between people be explained by differences in their biology, their biological makeup, the way that their brains function? Or are the differences between people best explained by the circumstances of their lives, the experiences that they've had, and the things that have happened to them in their lives? So some would say, perhaps, more nurture than nature. Or maybe it's a combination of the two. But some would be sceptical even of that.
1:44 Some people would argue that it's rather difficult merely to explain human life as the consequence of the events that we've been exposed to by suggesting that the way in which we think, and the way in which we feel, and the way in which we believe, is just the consequence of the contingencies of reinforcement that have happened to us in our lives, rather takes away from the human involvement. Maybe there's something in addition to nature and nurture.
2:21 Our work within that larger longitudinal study is to determine if early life stresses can interact with your genome to bring about different levels of neurotransmitter usage, the effects of neurochemistry or biochemistry in our brain. Life events definitely impart upon how we develop, and there's a large literature, in both psychology and psychiatry, documenting those events.
2:52 Maybe for the last 10, 15 years, we've been trying to understand how those life events by a chemical level can affect brain structure and brain function. I suppose that comes down to how those life events change neurotransmitter regulation in the brain. So the question would be how does the neurotransmitter variability affect the biochemistry structure of connections in the brain that lead a person to have negative thoughts about themselves. So from a chemical point of view, that seems fairly straightforward, I think.
3:43 The reason that people end up in really bad shape is obviously complex, obviously different for each individual. What we do know, after last 20, 30 years of research is that there is no specific genetic predisposition to any of the mental health disorders. And we know that the best predictors by far of all of them– whether it's depression, suicidality, psychosis– are all life events. The strongest predictor all by itself is poverty, not because poverty by itself causes depression, but because it is a predictor of all the other things that are causal. So poverty has been described as the cause of the causes.
4:32 And those other causes are a whole raft of things- childhood neglect, childhood abuse, loneliness, all sorts of difficulties growing up, from problematic parenting, which I have to say is usually intergenerational. It's not about bad parents, it's about parents who themselves haven't, perhaps, had the sort of childhood that predisposed them to good-enough parenting. And on and on. War combats, rape. All the things, interestingly, that when you ask the public what causes mental health problems, the public say poverty, child abuse, child neglect, unemployment, stress at work, stress at home, and then maybe way down the bottom of the list they might say perhaps some of it's a bit biological as well.
5:20 But the public is well tuned in to what actually causes mental health problems. It's only one part of one profession that seems to get it wrong, that seems to still be left 30 or 40 years behind, that it's a very simplistic idea that something wrong with your brain causes you to have a mental health problems. It's this old style, American style medical model that still seems to dominate in some quarters. But the public and most mental health professionals understand that bad things happen to you and they drive you crazy.
6:06 If we're interested in human freedom, I think from a philosophical perspective it's not necessarily relevant what causes our actions or our choices, but whether there are causes of our actions or our choices. The uncompromising philosophical position, incompatiblism, holds that if our choices have any causes, any prior causes that determine them, that means we're not really free. So suppose it turns out that everything I do is determined by what goes on in my brain. Suppose the brain scientists would tell us that. I think there's still a philosophical question, am I still free?
The course can be found at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/mental-health-and-well-being


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Charlie and Georgie Oughtt have been sent to visit their grandmother Pearl, and this troubles Charlie for three reasons. The first is that he's an exceptionally nervous twelve-year-old boy, and he worries about everything. The second is that the other children in his neighborhood who pay visits to their grandmothers never seem to return. And the third is that Charlie and Georgie don't have any grandmothers.
Upon their arrival, all of Charlie's concerns are confirmed as "Grandmother Pearl" quickly reveals herself to be something much more gruesome than even Charlie's most outlandish fears could have predicted. He and Georgie are thrust into a creepy underworld created from stolen nightmares, where monsters disguised as grandmothers serve an ancient, evil queen by holding children captive as they slowly drain each one of their memories and dreams. But something is different about Charlie. His worrisome nature, so often a burden, gives him an edge in this frightening world. Will he be able to harness this newfound power to defeat the queen and save his sister?


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Most of us have figured out the different ways to save money, but how about finding ways to make some extra money? Earning some extra cash is always nice, and many people have turned to using the Internet in order to make some extra dough. One popular way involves blogging. There are a lot of different ways to make money blogging, but money can also be made online if you don't currently own or manage a blog. However, sometimes that just … [Read more...]
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You can make money as a product representative, consultant, advisor, etc. for companies where you purchase a start up kit and receive commissions off the sales you bring in BUT you must make sure that the products that you select are ones that "Fit" with your lifestyle, personality, etc. For example, I tried selling Avon, and Scentsy, but these products just weren't the right "fit" for me. My Avon Selling Experience When my son was three, … [Read more...]
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(Photo courtesy of: http://www.cheadledatarecovery.co.uk) People's working lives are difficult enough at the best of times, with seemingly endless days for very little pay ruining morale and making you feel worthless, especially when you're stuck in an office through the glorious summer months, or getting up when it's dark and going home when it's…dark! Throw in how little time you get to spend with your family and it's easy to see why … [Read more...]


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(日本語は明日加えます)Classes are over for the academic year at Rikkyo University. The chapel choir sang its last Service on Sunday, and the students are now in exams. Which means things slow down a bit for we choirmasters. This state will not last long, however, as the choir departs for England on Feb. 18, and much remains to do before that. Still, I managed to enjoy myself a bit recently.
On Sunday, Jan. 24, my colleague at Rikkyo University Hiroshi Oshima conducted a performance of Handel's Messiah at Kioi Hall in Tokyo. It was one of the best performances of the work I've heard. The orchestra was the Tokyo Bach Kantate Ensemble, an excellent professional orchestra that was spot on in every respect. The chorus was sprightly and light when the music called for it, and powerful and dynamic when needed. The balances and pitch were good throughout. Subtlety of dynamics and word accent really brought out the meaning in the more dramatic choruses. Dr. Oshima not only conducted this fine performance, but also sang the tenor solos. It was interesting to watch him finish his solo, then return immediately to conducting. Congratulations, Dr. Oshima, the Chorkreis Kantate Ensemble, and Tokyo Bach Kantate Ensemble.
The following day I experienced some pain in my back – probably thanks to the very low (for large Americans, anyway) seats in Kioi Hall. Three hours slouched over with my knees sticking up were not what the doctor ordered. In order to clear things up I spent the afternoon walking down the Shakujii River, and then back home via another route. The river is a rather sorry thing, deeply entrenched in a concrete ditch many meters below street level. Still, the changing scenery along the river banks was good, and there were many parks for taking breaks. If you have back pain I highly recommend five hour walks in winter sunshine along a river. It certainly helped me. Photos of the walk:
I started walking near Oyama Station in Itabashi-ku. Here the river is at its dullest, with modest buildings and no greenery on either bank. It has to make its way under multiple levels of elevated expressways at one point.
Once crossing under the expressways, however, the scenery improves dramatically. Many stretches are shaded by cherry trees (imagine the scene below in the spring!).
Here and there are small river-side parks that use water from the river in imaginative ways. Below is a small catch-and-return fishing pond enjoyed by elderly men in the afternoon sunshine.
There are several temples and shrines near the river path. A fairly new (2008 or so) Buddhist statue sits right along the path, inviting the passerby to detour to the temple up the street. This Yatsu Dai Kannon (谷津大観音)requires a bit of work to photograph. Here are three views. Do you prefer your statues with or without telephone poles and wires?
The most memorable stop on this walk was another temple, the Shojuin(正受院), sometimes called by its nickname "akachan-dera." My first impression was of a jewell hidden away in a rather plain neighborhood. Plum trees were just beginning to blossom.
A wander around the grounds, however, revealed that this temple houses the cremated remains of many thousands of babies. I read that many were aborted fetuses, while others died as babies. Parents leave gifts and snacks for the departed near the building in which the ashes are stored. It is a profoundly melancholy place.
Moving on toward Oji Station brings one to the nicest part of the way. At Oji Shrine (below) the river has been diverted into a tunnel on its way to the nearby Sumida River, and the old riverbed transformed into a water park.
My walk home was less scenic, but pleasant all the same. I saw this building in the setting sun (Kita-ku Central Park).
The next morning I woke up with a much happier back, and good memories of an afternoon spent wandering this great city. Give it a try next time you have a pain to exorcise!


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I shop. I am very good at shopping. Particularly with the internet. I know there are lots of you who are too young to remember taking a bus downtown (that's a place where they used to have stores and now they are bringing them back again because everyone's sick of the mall) or going to the mall to find what you want. Or having to go to a store to get a music album you want. Can you imagine? How odd …….
I was doing my usual check of fabric at one of my favorite sites – http://www.marcytilton.com and I came across this fabric that I must have or I will die – seriously. She has it in black and navy. I sighed because I have no money until payday to be shooting toward some lovely fabric. I have tons of lovely fabric that caught my eye earlier this summer. I'm just praying the fabric lasts on her site until I can get some ………… if not – I might have to make it myself.
Here it is
This is a merino wool sweater knit that is all puckered and has wonderful square areas and lots of poof. I hope you can see this on the photo. I immediately started to plan a fantastic loose top – and it could either be a great cardigan which I would wear over everything all the time or a nice boatneck loose tee. Either way – it's fantastic.
I also checked out elliottbermantextiles.com because of their unusual collection of digital prints. There are two now that I would snap up in a minute. One of them is a pictorial skyline of New York with the multitude of people and skyscrapers. The other is a pictorial knit panel of Venice. Both of these fabrics lend themselves to a simple style – nothing complex because the fabric speaks for itself.
Years ago, as part of my extreme love of textiles and dyeing and marking up and just generally playing with fabric, I would make textured fabric to use in my wall art. When I saw the fabric on Marcy's site and figured that it would be gone before I can afford it, I thought about how I would emulate this fabric on my own. A needle, some embroidery floss or other strong thread and I could pucker navy jersey to my heart's delight. I hopefully won't have to do that – but if I do – who knows? It could be cooler than the original inspiration ……….. you never know ……………..


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Bowman, 49ers shut down Falcons in 2nd half
ATLANTA -- Everything was going wrong for the San Francisco 49ers and their proud defense.
Julio Jones and the Atlanta Falcons gouged them so often in the early stages of the NFC title game that the 49ers seemed too stunned to respond.
"It was us, it wasn't them at all," San Francisco linebacker NaVorro Bowman said. "We weren't communicating, playing the way we want to play. We regrouped in the second half and played our game."
They certainly did.
Bowman, Patrick Willis and Ahmad Brooks combined to stop the Falcons 10 yards short of the end zone in the closing minutes of a 28-24 victory Sunday that sent San Francisco to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1995.
The 49ers will play Baltimore for the NFL title in New Orleans on Feb. 3. The Ravens beat the New England Patriots 28-13 in Sunday's AFC title game.
After Bowman essentially sealed the game by breaking up a fourth-down pass from Matt Ryan to Roddy White with 1:09 remaining, the Falcons had time to run just one more desperate play before the buzzer sounded.
It was yet another big play for a defense that clamped down on Ryan and Atlanta's high-powered passing attack over the final 30 minutes.
"They've got some horses, man," San Francisco defensive tackle Justin Smith said. "They made it tough on us. We made some adjustments at half, played a little bit better, but our offense picked up a lot of slack today, kept us rolling, kept us in it and we were able to win it."
The Falcons got off to a dominant start as Ryan and Julio Jones combined for a pair of touchdowns that helped make it 17-0 early in the second quarter and 24-14 at halftime.
But midway through the third, cornerback Chris Culliver intercepted a pass at the San Francisco 38 that allowed the defense to build confidence.
Though the Niners' offense failed to score off the turnover when David Akers missed a 38-yard field goal attempt, defensive end Aldon Smith followed on the next defensive series by recovering Ryan's fumble on a botched shotgun snap.
The offense again failed to score when receiver Michael Crabtree lost a fumble at the Atlanta 1, but after forcing the Falcons to an ensuing three-and-out, the defense was delighted to see Frank Gore run for a 9-yard touchdown and a 28-24 lead.
"We believe in our offense," Willis said. "We understand that if we get stops, they're going to score points."
The turn of events contrasted sharply from the early stages of the game when the 49ers appeared to have no answer for Ryan, White, Jones and Tony Gonzalez.
By the first minute of the second quarter, Jones had scored two TDs, beating cornerback Tarell Brown both times. On the first score, it seemed that Brown mistakenly released Jones on a deep route, and the blown coverage allowed Jones to outrun free safety Dashon Goldson for a 46-yard score.
After Falcons kicker Matt Bryant's 35-yard field goal made it 10-0 on Atlanta's second possession, Ryan and Jones hooked up on a 20-yard TD. Jones caught the ball over his right shoulder in the left back corner of the end zone and deftly kept both feet inbounds to make it 17-0.
Jones and White combined for 226 yards receiving on 13 catches in the first half, many of them coming on underneath crossing routes as the two wideouts made several athletic plays.
In the second half, however, Jones and White combined for six catches and 62 yards.
Good fortune helped the Niners rally, too.
On the Falcons' final drive, cornerback Carlos Rogers fell down while covering slot receiver Harry Douglas on a deep pass near the right sideline, but San Francisco caught a big break when Douglas stumbled on his way to making a disputed 22-yard catch at the Niners 28.
Had he stayed on his feet, Douglas could have scored a touchdown on Atlanta's final drive.
"It made it tough on them," Rogers said. "Things like that happen. No excuses. We made the plays and were able to get off the field."
Such was the case throughout the regular season as the Niners ranked among the top four in scoring average, third-down efficiency, yards rushing and yards passing.
They just needed to reclaim their identity and prove they had moved past the disappointment of last year's NFC title game loss to the New York Giants.
"I don't really think it's destiny or anything like that written on the walls," Smith said. "It's the team that works the hardest, prepares the hardest and has the best players and coaching staff. You pour all that in together and it comes out pretty good at the end."
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Watch Unfinished Business White Collar s02e05 Full Episode, Sara Ellis
Yes, the time is getting closer to watch White Collar season 2 episode 5 (s02e05) Unfinished Business for full length episode. Watch it really does not need preparation actually, but more than that, I want to present to you some information which I hope can help you. Perhaps you are a bit forgotten, that USA Network has recently been making sure to schedule showing this newest episode. The answer is on August 10, 2010 at 9pm nighttime. Recently I have been getting the opening storyline like this In order to save the life of an insurance police detective named Sara Ellis, Neal and Peter have to discover why a real-estate mogul put a terms on her head. How do you think? I guess you can not wait to watch it immediately.
A routine bond stealing intensifies into an attempted murder while Neal is inadvertently chartered to kill the assigned insurance detective. Yes, it is a sequel, and I think you are quite familiar with the main storyline. By the way, if you believe if the synopsis of the story may already have spoilers? Less well know, maybe yes, or maybe not. Whether it has enough information here for you? I think there is still one thing missing, that's video preview or promo for White Collar Unfinished Business s02e05 that you can watch immediately below. I hope you will be able to enjoy it, because this video is already available. Little additional information, it is usually hard to find video like this from Youtube a few days before the scheduled broadcast.
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The Highlands and Islands has a significant early foothold in the emergent oil and gas decommissioning sector – a multi-billion pound market poised for large-scale growth in the next few years.
In the decommissioning vanguard is Shetland – the region's most northerly but well-placed island group.
As one of the few suitable UK locations for this type of work, Shetland has already established a significant presence in an expected 30-year, £50 billion marketplace.
In what will be a competitive landscape, with facilities in Norway, Holland and Teesside all seeking to secure work, the Northern Isles have an ideal combination of deep water experience and skills to take a major slice of this growing opportunity.
It is now over 40 years since oil was first struck in the North Sea, and although there are still prospects to extract major reserves over the next 40 years, many of the early fields, and the massive offshore infrastructure that goes with them, are reaching the end of their life.
In the coming decades, as fields cease production and oil rigs become redundant, there will be a steady pipeline of major oil industry hardware which needs brought to shore, dismantled and disposed of.
The Shell Brent Delta platform, for example, is the first of four major rigs on the oil giant's former flagship Brent oil and gas field which will need to be decommissioned.
Delta ceased production in 2011. The rest of the field (platforms Brent Alpha, Bravo and Charlie) continues to produce oil and gas although these platforms are scheduled to cease production between 2014 and 2015.
In total, the North Sea contains more than 600 offshore oil and gas installations, of which 470 are in the UK Continental Shelf waters, along with more than 10,000km of pipelines and around 5,000 wells. Of the installations in UK water:
• 10 per cent are floating structures;
• 30 per cent are sub-sea;
• 50 per cent are small steel;
• 10 per cent are large steel or concrete.
Over 90 per cent of these structures will be brought back to shore for re-use, recycling or other disposal. The remaining very large steel or concrete installations will be assessed individually for technical and safety feasibility of complete removal as the preferred solution. Also requiring decommissioning in time will be 15 onshore terminals.
Whilst Teeside and Holland are well placed for the oil platforms of the southern North Sea, Shetland and Norway are perfectly positioned for the massive deep water platforms, such as the Shell Brent Delta, in the northern North Sea and the Atlantic – by far the largest slice of the £47.5bn market.
It is a specialised market, and any bidder must meet stringent environmental and safety guidelines, and those doing it need experience, equipment and proximity.
Shetland has all three. Towing distances from the field to shore are such that movement operations are expensive, to put it simply, the shorter the distance, the better.
In addition to proximity, deep water is key. Most preferred techniques involve towing the platform as near to shore as possible and either lifting major components direct on to the quay, or on to barges and then to the quay.
Lerwick harbour is ideal. With two entrances, the sheltered, deep-water port is open to shipping in all weathers and operates 24 hours a day, handling over 5000 vessels per year.
A major dredging project at Lerwick's north harbour in 2008 deepened access channels for larger vessels and provides deep water (over 45 metres) inside port limits in both
its north and south approaches – making it ideal for deballasting and lifts close to berths.
One Shetland firm, Peterson SBS – the initials stand for Shetland Base Services – already has a considerable track record. Their strength is in heavy lifting, built up over nearly 40 years in oil and gas. Working with Veolia Environmental Services, a £multi-billion waste management business, they are keen to take a slice of the new market.
In 2007 they brought ashore part of Total's TCP2 tonne module support frame – weighting 8,730 tonnes – in one of the largest single decommissioning lifts yet in the North Sea. See the Frigg decommissioning project snapshot for the full story.
Peterson SBS and Veolia have now tabled plans to at least double the size of their decommissioning facility at Greenhead – already a vast 20,000m2 – to offer one of the largest specialist sites in the UK.
At the same time Lerwick Port Authority has begun procurement to build a major deepwater quay at Dales Voe, which would be leased long-term by decommissioning specialists AF Decom Offshore UK.
Each of the proposed facilities would be a major coup for the islands and would put Shetland in a leading position for the years ahead.
It is not yet established which project will go ahead, but whatever the future holds, Shetland will be well placed to gasp the decommissioning opportunity and capitalise on the next chapter of Scotland's unfolding oil and gas story.
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Alpine ICS-X7HD Digital Media Receiver iPhone Features
I've been a camera nut all my life, so it makes sense I'd end up being a video producer. Of course, it has been a roundabout journey for me, as I started at Crutchfield in 2007 writing about car audio gear. Over the years I've learned about all the electronic items we sell, and it is my job to make sure we are making videos that you will find useful, whether you're shopping for something specific or trying to install some new gear yourself. My job is a lot of fun because I get to play around with all the cool stuff you see on our website while I'm making videos about it. Getting hands-on with the gear helps me see what I should show you about a product, though the flip side is my personal wish list is a mile long...
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Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
We've long recommended Alpine receivers to anyone looking for great sound and solid performance. Now, with their ICS-X7HD digital media receiver, Alpine has given you smartphone junkies and digital-media aficionados a receiver that speaks your language. Not only will it connect to your iPhone® or Android™ phone to take advantage of apps you've loaded, it also comes with built-in Bluetooth® that lets you make hands-free calls and stream music wirelessly. To top it off, its built-in HD Radio™ tuner allows you to enjoy vastly-improved sound quality from participating local AM and FM stations.
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Video Transcript
Zak: I'm at the Alpine booth at CES 2013 with Steve — and tell us about the ICS-X7HD.
Steve: Well, what we've noticed.and actually we're now in the "Play Smart" zone. So this area of the booth is dedicated to smartphone integration in the car. And what we've found is, a lot of consumers are really looking to get some of the features that they enjoy so much on their phones into the dash of their vehicles.
An ICS-X7HD is one of our premier products that's designed to do that. So what we're showing is this particular product is really compatible with both major phone platforms. This, what you're seeing here, is the actual iPhone integration features and then next we're gonna show you some of the features that if offers with Android.
Now as far as iPhone goes, one of the greatest technologies that iPhone has developed is Siri because it allows you to control things using your voice. And this is great for the car application, because now instead of looking at your dashboard or your phone you're looking at the road, and you're focusing on driving. So by applying Siri to the car, now we can do things like change sources, we can send an email or a text, and have a text read back to us while we're driving — without having to look at or operate the phone.
So the way Siri works on this model is by pushing and holding the Siri button. That actually activates the Siri function. So now I get all the features and functions that I would be used to with my phone with Siri, but now done through the radio of the car and it allows easier, safer operation in driving.
Now in addition, we've partnered with Aha radio, so now Aha is an integrated feature into this when you're using an iPhone. So now I've got access to all the content Aha has to offer — thousands of different channels of internet radio content, both music, news, sports, those types of things. So it's really, really handy for people who want to have all of their content on the go.
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Sarah L says:September 30, 2012 at 2:28 am
I like the idea of wine in a box.
(why do you have the double spammer whammy? – Isn't just the check box enough?)
I work rather hard on my sites, and when I get a comment like this from someone entering a giveaway I take time to post it bugs me… I honestly didn't think it was much to ask in having one mark a box and answer a math question. For those out there that blog, and enter giveaways you know where I come from with the "double spammer whammy". I work to hard on my site to have a password guessing bot come a long and guess my password.
While I take extra measures to assure that doesn't happen, I have been online long enough to know NOTHING is hack proof. At one time I only had the check box for those to check to state they were human when posting comments; however, this didn't stop the bots from trying to login to my blog. If they made access ALL of you that visit would be at risk. The reason for those to hack a site is to embed a virus. Which would mean when you come to enter my giveaways you would be infected… your computer would then turn into a nice little play ground for those unwanted hackers. Do you want that?
I know I wouldn't so… in order to keep the password guessing bots at bay, I included the math problem protection. This also makes those trying to login have to answer a math question. Do you think everytime I login to blog I like answering a math question? Nope I don't but I know this is the steps that are needed to give myself better protection.
I work to hard on the site to have it get jacked by a dumbass…and I personally don't think it is too much to ask for those wanting to enter the giveaways to answer a simple math question on top of checking a box. I also enter giveaways and trust me those two things are nothing compared to some hoops you have to jump through on other sites to enter into a giveaway… shall I make a "go to this page to get the secret word" for mandatory… then once you are there make you go to yet another page to get the secret word for that day? Ugh.
I try to make entering as simple as possible, for those that have an issue with the "double spammer whammy" don't have to enter the giveaways here on The Neat Things in Life. I do not force anyone to enter, and I try to make it as simple as possible… If anyone else has an issue please feel free to contact me and if I have enough readers who wish the double spammer whammy to disappear I will see about converting over to capitcha. I know how much everyone loves those blended together letters, that make one unable to think straight.


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Sony has announced the software update of one of its biggest PlayStation ever in the history; PlayStation 4. Moreover, the addition of the enhanced console's interface, facilitating the High Dynamic Range output, addition of folders and tweaking menu screens serves as the icing on the top. The update of PS4; a.k.a. Shingen, comes with the launch of Sony's two new versions of PlayStation 4; PS4 Pro, a more model that can handle even 4k games and a slight lighter model, both to be launched on 10 November this year.
The biggest modification brought by this update is the HDR proficiency. As PlayStation 4 can run 4K games; the Shingen updates enable it to run the games in HDR, considering you have a Television that supports the tech and other gadgets. It will now support 1080p streaming for remote play, Twitch and YouTube. The update also integrates the PS4 with wired LAN that enable the transferring of data from one console to another.
If you are fortunate enough to have a tech-supporting TV, you'll observe that the consoles' UI has been altered. The UI of Sony's Vanilla PS4 was easy to steer as compared to the Xbox One's by Microsoft, while the users of regular PS are used to getting stuck in the mesh of menus where they have to browse their files. Shingen comes with the integration of folder organization, finally catering the demands of the users to be given an arrangement option that assembles videos, games and files without any hustle of abysmal probing.


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Your working out in your spandex, your ponytail is swaying back and forth, you have a little perspiration, as your finishing up a rep, and your favorite jam is blaring in your ear... a guy walks up to you, obviously you guys have smiled at each other for a few weeks in passing and nothing more, and now he works up the nerve to introduce himself because he wants a date... is this okay
many believe the gym is a horrible place to pick up a date, and if it depends on the girl, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW SHE IS OPEN TO IT? ladies what is your opinion... Id like to know.
- The Gym is no place for picking up on womenVote A
- The Gym is the perfect place to pick up on womenVote B
- It really depends on the girlVote C
Guys can not vote on this poll
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The odds are not good for reasons ala Hyperorphic
same at swimming, men suspect of drooling over body only, hence sex dates come to mind.
The slim chance that a gal is a true athlete not concerned her body is also sexual in this setting is rare... but these types would most likely approach you first = the clue that maybe after a few chats, they might be comfortable enough to consider a date outside of gym00|00|0
I have a theory in my mind that finding someone who is involved as you are in the gym, and cares about fitness as much the other might, present a chance for man to go for a woman of that caliber, now there I a wide notion that men are not gentlemen and dont take the initiative to approach a woman for fear of rejection and timing... conversely when I workout I hate being distriburbed... uhm complicated
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She is in her residency as a Nurse, and I am I am working on our alone time, we still have to travel, and meet her folks in California then move in after a year, then about six months hopefully pop the question, and a year from there, wedding 💒 by that time, we would be set.
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Baku. 18 March. REPORT.AZ/ The Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) continues searches for missing oil workers as a result of the accident and fire on December 4 on the platform No. 10 on "Guneshli" field in the Caspian Sea.
Report was told in press service of the MES.
At the same time, aviation detachment will continue regular observation flights over the sea. In case of reveal of noteworthy, appropriate measures are taken immediately.


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Disclaimer: I don't know anything... but I would love to. Thanks to Cora Emerald, whose great song "A night like this" inspired this story. I owe you one ;-)
Beware, the rating could change sooner or later... ;-)
A night like this - A reunion of sorts
The rising sun was torturing his face mercilessly, forced him to open his eyes and face the day. In general, there was nothing wrong with sun in the morning, but today his head hurt like hell and he felt sick. Actually, sicker than ever and he couldn't move. Trying to find out where he was and especially why he opened his eyes. Okay, there was sun and he was apparently far away from home. He heard the soft movement of water that hit a shore and though it fucking hurt, he lifted his head – and saw nothing but the blue sky.
"Damn it."
The air was fresh, he lifted his wrist and realized why it was cold. It was just about 6 a m. Pushing his investigation a little further, he looked down on himself and detected the reason for his inability to move. A blond woman had wrapped her arm around his chest and slept peacefully. What he recognized around him was that he was laying on a soft ground that couldn't be grass or something similar. Actually, it felt like... sand.
"Oh fuck..." he groaned as a first flash of memories hit him. "Not again." People called that dejá vu. Reliving a situation in all its glory. Fearing he could get sick immediately, he moved until she woke up and lifted her head. The moment her clear eyes met his, they widened in disbelief and her tanned face became pale. He bet she was the one who felt sicker now.
"Fuck..." Pushing herself up as quickly as possible, she did her best to establish a safe distance between them. With one hand she grabbed the fabric of her untied blouse and held it tightly over her chest. Rossi stole a secret glance from her and had to smile though his headache made it hard to think the situation funny. She looked too cute when she was pissed and helpless.
"What the hell..."
"Please, yell at me in small letters, Erin" he demanded, covering his eyes with his arm. The feeling of the bright sun on his face was awful and worsened his headache.
"What are we doing here?"
"I don't know," he admitted wearily.
"And where are we?"
"I don't know."
"And what do you know?"
"I don't know."
"Fuck off, Rossi!"
"Not now, Erin."
"You bastard, this isn't funny!" she yelled.
"No, it's not... my head is killing me and your lovely voice doesn't help me recovering."
"I'm going to kill you, if you won't tell me right now where we are, why we are here and where you hid my bra!"
Realizing he wouldn't get any silent moment for the next few hours, he pushed himself up on his elbows.
"Are you sure you wore one?"
"Yes," she answered ghastly, giving him her best killer look.
Blinking, he looked around, trying to remember what had happened. He actually lay on sand and in front of him was water. A lake to be specific. He knew this place... just as he knew her.
"We've been here before... about 25 years ago... shit, what a party that was."
"Oh, shut up..."
Sinking on sand, Erin started to tie her black blouse. "I can't believe I did this," she mumbled more to herself than to him. How much did she have to drink to end up in his arms? And how much more did she have to drink to screw him? Ever since she woke up, she had tried to deny it, but the sore feeling between her legs and the whole rest of her body couldn't lie. If she just remembered how...
"David," she asked, as she suddenly started to remember where the whole disaster had started.
"Yes, Erin?"
"Where are the others?"
"Who?" he asked, astonished.
"The others... Jason and... what's her name... Tracy?"
"You mean Stacy..." he said, now remembering the young woman.
He rose slowly, fixed his clothes and looked around. There was no one but them around. He scratched his head. "Maybe she's dead... alcohol poisoning..." he gave her a knowing look.
"She drank it all herself," Erin defended herself, as she rose as well. "I didn't force her."
"Please, you pulled a fast one on her... you gave her champagne and martini. That's a killing combination! It was obvious she had no rich experience with alcohol."
"Well, you certainly didn't try to keep her from drinking," she reminded him. "I guess in your head, you already pictured how willing she would be, once she had enough of that killing combination!"
"Then I just wonder, why you were the willing part in the end." He should really know better than to bring the subject up, but since the obvious evidence in form of two used condoms lay next to his feet, there was no way to avoid it. Maybe they better fought it out right here and now, without witnesses and curios glances.
"I wasn't willing. You... blindsided me," she spat, unwilling to admit the truth.
"Yeah, sure..." he sighed. "Just one tiny little history lesson... I never had to convince you to sleep with me! You've always been the one to knock at my door to ask for a roll in the hay!"
"Untrue, Rossi! I remember several times when you were the desperate party in this game..."
"Just forget it... Fact is we lost two of the fellow participants of our little party..."
Erin turned around. The place looked really lonely and forgotten. Two decades ago, this had been the place were the students of the Academy held their notorious parties, but these days the young people had moved to other places, though she couldn't understand why. She had always liked this place – all right, she had liked it until now.
"There's a parking lot... the car must be there."
"Right, the car..." Rossi mumbled, rubbing his face. He remembered the car. The Cadillac that wasn't his, but belonged to his published. The one he had borrowed and promised to bring back before midnight.
"What?" she asked, when she saw him musing.
"Nothing, let's go... maybe your good old friend Gideon is sleeping on the backseat."


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Volunteers spruce up Schenectady neighborhood
Linda and Richard King have lived in a white, two-story house on Carrie Street for 12 years.
In that time, they have seen at least five houses boarded up along the short street in the city's Northside neighborhood. They have seen pipes stolen and basements flooded, sidewalks crumbled and torn up, peeling paint and overgrown lawns.
As much as the Kings would like to keep their house in mint condition, they haven't the stamina, health or resources to do so anymore. Which is why, when a dozen volunteers showed up to their home Saturday with ladders, brushes, rollers and paint, they couldn't be more grateful.
"I was very surprised and very thankful," said Richard King, whose health has declined in recent years. "I'm standing here and can't do nothing. I feel very thankful."
It all started with a letter one summer day from Mayor Gary McCarthy. Other homeowners along Carrie Street and Foster Avenue also received the letter, which outlined a new Habitat for Humanity program that Schenectady's affiliate was interested in bringing to the city.
About two years ago, Habitat for Humanity International launched A Brush with Kindness, a program designed to serve low-income homeowners who struggle to maintain the exterior of their homes. Volunteers target homeowners most in need — like an elderly or disabled person who can't climb a ladder — and perform minor repairs and renovations to their home. The projects are small and cosmetic in nature, like a fresh coat of paint, repairing steps or basic landscaping.
"For the last 30 years, Habitat's focus has really been putting new homeowners in homes," said Jeff Clark, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Schenectady County. "Our focus has always been on helping people get out of substandard conditions. Well, at some point, somebody said, 'What about the current homeowners who are older and maybe on a fixed income and their houses are falling apart? Why aren't we doing something for them?' So to work with existing homeowners is a new direction, but it's not a real big leap for us."
Habitat teamed up with the city's Home Ownership Made Easy in Schenectady program to identify a neighborhood that would benefit and then have city code enforcement officials make a list of homes most in need of some beautification. After their work is done in Northside, they will branch out into other neighborhoods.
"Codes made two sweeps over a two-week period," said Clark. "And what's different about that is that instead of handing out citations, they handed out letters saying, 'Look, these are the problems that we see, and we have a chance to help fix some of this stuff.' "
The day was muggy, and the overcast sky threatened rain at any moment, which would halt many of the fix-up projects. Volunteers swarmed Foster Avenue between Seneca and Nott streets, peppering lawns and ladders and sidewalks every few houses or so. They bagged litter from sidewalks and lawns, painted fire hydrants a shiny red, repainted foundations and shutters and touched up lacy iron railings on balconies.
In jeans and a collared T-shirt, McCarthy milled about a command tent Saturday outside the city's Department of Public Works garage on Foster Avenue, where Goose Hill Neighborhood Association President Camille Sasinowski greeted residents and handed out food and refreshments to volunteers.
"Sometimes in the past, people have been really afraid to put money into their property because if you've got a house across the street that's dilapidated or run-down, why would you want to fix up your property? You're not going to see any return on it," said McCarthy. "We're trying to get back to that old school mentality: You fix up your house, and then I fix up my house to try to keep up with you, and then she's fixing up her house. So you get the positive reinforcement, as opposed to the negative."
It was barely 11 a.m. and Habitat volunteer Virginia Newton could already see a difference at the Kings' house. This was the day's biggest project. There were dozens of projects lined up for Saturday, but none required repainting the exterior of an entire house like this.
"We were hoping to get six to eight volunteers, and we got a dozen people," she said, looking out at the fresh white paint and black trim.
Newton has volunteered with Habitat for the last nine years, heading out most Wednesdays and Saturdays for a full day of manual labor. But she found the lighter work associated with A Brush with Kindness to be fulfilling in a different way.
"It's a perfect plan, and it expands our reach beyond our Habitat group of regulars to everyone else in the community," she said.
In addition to Habitat volunteers, workers turned out from Union College, Price Chopper and other community organizations. The sight of them all toiling away at her home on a muggy morning warmed Linda King's heart so much the 61-year-old came up with a plan.
"This is really amazing," she said. "This is what I want to do when I get ready to retire. I want to volunteer."


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The Problem with Palm Oil
What's one thing we need to live without but have a hard time eliminating it from our lives? Money may seem like the answer, but for the purpose of today's post, I'm discussing the abundance and reliance on palm oil. What is palm oil? According to Salve Beat, palm oil is edible vegetable oil that comes from the African palm and is a versatile ingredient for many products. Although palm oil crops can produce a lot, unfortunately, it can only be found in a certain part of the land within 10 degrees north or south of the equator. Where this gets complicated is that harvesting palm oil has led to deforestation, animal endangerment, and harm of the atmosphere. The Crowded Planet's post about palm oil depicts the Haze, a toxic cloud created by the fires used to clear rainforests for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. The Haze not only affects Indonesia and Singapore, Malaysia, but it also affects the wildlife in the area, especially orangutans. Is there a way to stop these devastating results? While upholding this month's affirmation searching for more eco-friendly beauty products, I've determined reducing beauty products that use palm oil should be on my list. This is a difficult road, but it provides some solutions to a complex question. Continue Reading ›


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En plein air
I spied this kid painting in Piazza del Popolo the other day and I thought it was fantastic. He looked about 15 or 16 years old, plugs in his ears, baseball cap and backpack, but then with his apron on and seriously contemplating the landspace to complete his canvas. Bravo!


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Hey! If your busy, then you can relate. I am a student and an athlete at the same time. I am just new in volleyball but it's really fun to play and train. I really don't like it when I can't attend training's because I'm either sick or for my family outings. I actually haven't came up with my time schedule but I think I am just ready to do everything without planning. As a high school student, I've been very busy studying since I want to have a good future when I'm in college and when I'm done in college. I hope that these things that I will tell you will give you some ideas on time management. Yeah, every one of us are stressed out or pressured but there's always a way out of that stress and that thing called pressure.
- I have a journal with me every where
Wherever I go I always bring my bullet journal. What I love about bullet journals is that I can write anything inside my journal. The whole notebook is empty so you gotta design it on your own. And that's what i love about bullet journals. I put my schedules there, assignments, reminders, all in one place.
2. I do things earlier
You must do things more early. So that you won't have to hurry up whenever your late. Set an alarm, or write on your planner. Whenever I go home from school, I only have 30 minutes to get changed for our training so I do things really early that every after school I walk as fast as I can to go home to get changed. And it's a really good habit too. People will think of you as a professional.
Nike… Yeah… I love Nike 😉
3. Prepare earlier
Preparing earlier is the best thing, because you won't have to rush when your late. You'll just get your bag and things will just be alright. Feeling early is the best feeling.
I love ANTA too!!
4. Last but not the least you have to find a time for yourself
In here, you will do whatever you want to do. You can reward yourself since your early. Practice your favorite sport or play your favorite game or read your favorite books. I love this one because it's the time just for yourself. You can self-evaluate. You can play with your dog.
Thanks for reading! Hope your enjoyed it and had some awesome ideas about time management as a student. 🙂
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How are you all on this lovely Saturday morning? I'm trying to make up for doing nothing but laying around, sleeping, and trying not to throw up for the last three weeks this morning …. laundry and bathroom-cleaning frenzy! As fun as that sounds, I thought I'd take a break to get Linky Love up.
Here are some of the best things I read this week.
- 'Beam Us Up, Mr. Scott!' Why Misquotations Catch On at The Atlantic – Do you have any idea how difficult it is to verify quotes? That was part of my job as a copy editor. And oh, some of those lasting misquotations and quotes attributed to the wrong person … while, no one likes to be called out on those!
- Once a Month Mom's Calling to Single Parents
- The Summer We Didn't Take Swim Lessons at Sarah Markley
- A Colorful Snack at Not Just Cute – Painting with colored cream cheese and pretzel sticks
- YUM of the week: German Chocolate Chip Cookies at Baking and Boys
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So maybe my headline is a little misleading. After all, Lady Gaga's Born This Way hangs on for a second week at the top of the Billboard album charts. However, after scoring a million + sales week, the pop star's latest record suffers a steeper-than-normal 84% drop and scans a relatively pedestrian 174,000 units in week two. While the drop is slightly alarming, it was inevitable without the benefit of a promotion like Amazon's 99 cent gambit. Regardless of anything, though, Born This Way has been out for two weeks and it's already the year's second best selling album. Can't consider that a failure or a disappointment under any circumstances, although I do wonder how Universal Music is going to keep the album alive since it seems like they've already shot their wad, promotionally speaking.
Indie pop outfit Death Cab for Cutie scores the week's highest debut with their latest album, Codes and Keys. It gets off to a respectable #3 start with 102,000 units sold. It's a bit off from the band's last two albums, but one of the better starts for a rock album in 2011, anyway. They're joined by three other albums in the Top 10: Eddie Vedder's sophomore solo effort starts at #4, My Morning Jacket's Circuital gives the band a new career-high chart peak with a #5 placing, and rockers Flogging Molly start at #9 with Speed of Darkness.
Also have to give a shout out to Jordan Knight, who has two albums in the Top 50 this week. His latest solo effort, Unfinished, gets off to a respectable start at #48. It's his highest solo chart placement since his debut album back in 1999. Good call to release the album in the midst of the NKOTBSB tour. The collaboration album released by the two boy bands slides to #22 this week.
Online deals are the impetus for most of the jumps on the chart this week. with older albums like Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz and Maroon 5's It Won't Be Soon Before Long scoring huge increases due to special pricing. Without any big releases on the chart next week, look for a sleepier-than-usual Top 200. Country superstar Ronnie Dunn will likely have the week's highest debut with his first solo album, perhaps even challenging Lady Gaga and Adele for the chart's top spot.
Meanwhile, over on the digital downloads chart, Adele holds at #1 with "Rolling in the Deep", which has scored a pretty impressive (and unusual) chart feat, appearing on not only the regular pop singles chart, but also placing on the adult contemporary, rock and R&B charts. The last song to do that was Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You" last year. Truly a multi-format phenomenon. She's challenged on the digital chart, though, by two songs that look to compete for the title of Song of the Summer: Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" and LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem". Lil Wayne's acoustic guitar-led "How to Love" sprints from 52-5 this week, and the highest debut belongs to Coldplay, whose "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" starts at #17 with only three days of sales.
Check out the entire Top 20 albums chart after the jump.
1) Born This Way | Lady Gaga
2) 21 | Adele
3) Codes and Keys | Death Cab for Cutie
4) Ukulele Songs | Eddie Vedder
5) Circuital | My Morning Jacket
6) This is Country Music | Brad Paisley
7) Now That's What I Call Music 38 | Various Artists
8) My Kinda Party | Jason Aldean
9) Speed of Darkness | Flogging Molly
10) Glee The Music Vol. 6 | Glee Cast
11) Sigh No More | Mumford & Sons
12) Maybach Music Presents: Self Made Vol. 1 | Various Artists
13) Lemonade Mouth Soundtrack | Various Artists
14) Doo-Wops & Hooligans | Bruno Mars
15) 19 | Adele
16) Teenage Dream | Katy Perry
17) Holding On to Strings Better Left to Fray | Seether
18) You Get What You Give | Zac Brown Band
19) Love? | Jennifer Lopez
20) Angel & Chanelle | Trin-i-tee 5:7


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Shiny outlines, silhouettes, lens flares, vivid colors, and other interesting elements can be brought about with backlighting. Here are some interesting backlighting tips.
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Whether your pet's veterinary visit is a regulatory wellness exam or is meant to treat a serious illness, your communication with the veterinarian is critical. You know your pet better than anyone else and spend adequate time with your pet, enabling you to verify abnormal behavior. During your veterinary visit, conveying any irregularities to the vet will allow them to create a diagnostic method that will best determine what is ailing your pet.
Prior to your pet's veterinary appointment, you can create a list of any questions about pet behavior, nutrition, or changes in pet demeanor. The veterinarian is a trained expert in pet care and will be able to answer your questions during your visit. Also, if you are new to pet ownership, be sure and inquire about the grooming, nutritional, and seasonal needs of your particular breed or species of pet. A vet can inform you of changes in local climate that will affect your pet, as well as inform you about how to adapt to these changes. They can also offer advice about how to properly care for your particular species or breed of pet.
Establishing open communication with your veterinarian allows you to better understand your pet and their needs and grants your veterinarian essential insight into your pet's behavior and potential illness.
Here is a testimonial from my husband and me:
On Valentine's Day in 2013, my husband and I received a call from our nephew saying one of our dogs had been beat up by two other dogs (possibly one of the neighbor's and our other dog). A friend suggested Memphis Animal Clinic because they had taken care of a few stray dogs she found by our school. We rushed our dog there, and Dr. Seratt was the vet that took care of us. Her bedside manner was impeccable. She explained things to us in terms that we could understand, and she kept our dog calm. The assistants were welcoming and calming (I was crying and my husband was so shaken he was filling out the wrong information on the intake sheet). Madison made a full recovery.
After this incident, we took our dogs to see Dr. Seratt whenever there was an emergency - our other dog Sasha also got into a fight and Dr. Seratt took good care of her. Another time, we found out that Madison had heart worms, so we took her to see Dr. Seratt after going to another vet that didn't have the bedside manner Dr. Seratt did. Madison feels like Memphis Animal Clinic is her second home now! She loves Dr. Seratt and Memphis Animal Clinic, and we do too!
Emily Taylor
Our airedale, Maizey went to y'all and when I got my new puppy I knew I would bring her to Memphis Animal Clinic too. Y'all loved Maizey as much as we did! Sadie and I saw Dr. Seratt to get her first set of puppy shots and she was great!
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