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Free. That's what he wanted to be. A word he no longer knew the meaning of.
Genres: Fluff Era: Hogwarts Characters: Draco , Luna Pairings: Draco/Luna
Advisory: Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature
Published: 2011.12.02 Latest Chapter: 2011.12.19 Updated: 2011.12.19 Status: COMPLETED (778 words)
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Draco is on a mission. In his sixth year, it finally hit him what his master had asked him to do. He has no choice. He is alone, like always. But when a blonde haired girl enters his life, how will she turn his world around with a few words?
Genres: Romance Era: Hogwarts Characters: Draco, Ginny , Harry, Hermione, Luna, Ron Pairings: Draco/Luna
Advisory: Mild Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Sensitive Topic/Issue/Theme
Published: 2010.11.06 Latest Chapter: 2011.12.13 Updated: 2011.12.13 Status: WIP (4203 words)


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Three young women are found floating in a lake.
The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. Reasonable Fear is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this tale, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee. He becomes heavily involved in the investigation with Sheriff Leon Bates and soon realizes that he is up against an enemy that he has never before encountered - someone so rich and so powerful that the course of justice could be altered by money and political influence. But when bodies start showing up in his driveway and his family is threatened with termination, Dillard must ask himself a previously unthinkable question. His life, and the lives of his family, depend on the answer.
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Scott Pratt writes a heck of a thriller. Reasonable Fear is Book 4 in the Joe Dillard novel series, So far all have earned 5 stars, but this is the best yet. Narration by Tim Campbell is stellar.
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The Republicans were all busy elsewhere, the National Association of Latino Elected Officials that sponsors the annual convention was told by the different campaigns.
What was so important? John McCain's people sent me a statement citing an unspecified scheduling conflict. Representatives for Mitt Romney told me he had to be at a candidate's forum being held by the Iowa Christian Alliance. Rudy Giuliani's campaign did not return phone calls before deadline.
The lead Republican at the NALEO convention in Orlando, Fla., was local boy Mel Martinez.
That's not too shabby. He's a United States senator and chairman of the Republican National Committee. But presidential candidate he is not.
Hessy Fernandez, of the RNC's press office, said that while Martinez looked forward to the convention, he had "no way of controlling presidential candidates' schedules."
One has to ask if the Republican candidates decided to pander to the party's grass roots by not appearing to pander to Hispanics during the current furies on the stalled immigration bill.
No, no, no, one is told. Republicans still want the Hispanic vote.
McCain is "taking his common-sense conservative message that includes spending restraint, strong national security addressed in comprehensive immigration reform and support for traditional values directly to all Americans, including Hispanics."
Romney considered NALEO's invitation but decided not to break the previous commitment in Iowa. He "has a conservative agenda that appeals to many Hispanics, and has made Florida a top priority," said Romney spokesman Alex Burgos.
It is a long way to the election. In November 2008, nobody is going to remember the NALEO snub. But the incident is a reminder that some Republicans are increasingly looking like Bob Dole in 1996.
Dole had been a moderate Republican senator, a World War II veteran of unchallenged courage. Yet during the presidential campaign that year he was unwilling to make a clean cut with the hard right of the party, which was then in the midst of one of its periodic anti-immigrant fevers. The result: He was crushed by Bill Clinton, and received a record-low 20 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Is this where Republicans are headed?
McCain has stayed good on immigration reform, but Romney isn't sure whether immigration reform is "amnesty" (in a speech this past March to the Conservative Political Action Conference) or "quite different" from amnesty (in a November 2005 interview with The Boston Globe).
And the Rudy Giuliani who once upon a time knew in his bones that immigrants have always been the soul of New York City, is nowhere to be found. Instead, there's some bald guy that kind of looks like him, carelessly throwing around the A-word.
Maybe he's going to Iowa?
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Assuming you buy the Supreme Court's argument that spending money is an exercise of free speech, you'd have to say that Donald Sterling has been exercising his right to racist rant for a long time.
But if we're talking about Sterling's First Amendment rights, and our own, for that matter, it might be time to toll the bell for another presumed right — to privacy, that is.
Most Americans had never heard of Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers owner, until he was globally outed as a racist by a recording of him telling a woman (alleged by Sterling's wife to be his mistress) that he didn't like her showing up at basketball games with black men. It "bothers… a lot" that she's "associating with black people," he said.
But the media spotlight on Sterling has also revealed that his racist words were preceded by racist conduct. We learned that Sterling was compelled to pay out millions of dollars over the past decade to settle at least two lawsuits accusing him of discrimination, because he tried to keep blacks and Hispanics out of the hundreds of apartments he owns in Los Angeles.
And we found out that he was generous toward minority charities — including the NAACP, which has repeatedly honored him, and whose Los Angeles chapter has now scratched plans to give him a "lifetime achievement award." Was Sterling's charity to make amends for past bad behavior, or was he just trying to buy off critics? Either way, he could view it as simply a cost of doing business as a racist.
That would be his right, of course. And since 1976, the Supreme Court has been moving toward the notion that it's a First Amendment right. Yes, alongside the so-called Five Freedoms — of speech, free press, religion, petition and assembly — the right to spend is now constitutionally protected. It's an argument fully developed in the 2010 Citizens United case.
Stay with me here: If the government can't limit how much cash a person can give to a political candidate because money is a form of free speech, then how can it stop Donald Sterling from using his big bucks to bar black people from his apartment houses? By golly, it's just an expression of his free speech rights, as surely as it's his right to scold his consort for hanging out with men of color.
And because Sterling is reputed to be worth about $2 billion, he has more of that free speech right than anybody I know. That doesn't square with the Constitution, I'd say, but my view was kicked to the curb four years ago by five justices of the Supreme Court.
Even those of us who don't share Antonin Scalia's sense of constitutional rights can agree that while Sterling's views are repugnant, he has a right to hold and to express them. And the National Basketball Association, which has banned Sterling and fined him $2.5 million, is within its rights, too. The NBA is a private club, remember, and Sterling signed on to its rules.
It's not that the NBA is suddenly a moral force in our society. It's just monetary. Like all professional sports leagues, the NBA is all about money, and racism imperils its profitability. So Sterling must go.
Yet you can't help but be a bit unsettled by this: Donald Sterling is getting his comeuppance as a result of a private conversation in his own home, which was recorded and then sold to a gossipy website.
In a nation that remains up in arms over the secret recording of phone calls by the National Security Agency, how can we ignore the implications of somebody being brought down by the exercise of an inalienable right? And here's why it happened: We're in the end times of privacy.
As a newspaper editor, I'll insist that it's the right of the media to report all of this. Once the recording was made public, its spread was inevitable in the era of social media. We journalists would be abrogating our truth-telling responsibility if we didn't report the outrage and backlash that Sterling's words generated.
Maybe we shouldn't worry so. The cost of racism is so high — in its undermining of our fellow citizens and its toll on a society's moral grounding — that perhaps exposing it is good, in any case.
Thank goodness, for example, we got to see the true leanings of Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who stole grazing rights on federal land and briefly became a right-wing folk hero, until his supporters heard Bundy say African-Americans were "better off as slaves, picking cotton." We're right to ostracize bigots, until generations grow up understanding that such thinking is antithetical to civilized society.
Now Donald Sterling, like Bundy, is banished, notwithstanding his economic power-slash-free speech rights. Good riddance. Still, it's hard not to be left a bit uneasy by the way he fell, and to wonder about the implications for all of us.


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The fragmentary work The Castle was published posthumously, against Franz Kafka's instructions, by his friend Max Brod. Critics ever since have debated all aspects of it, from the textual problems to the interpretation of the highly suggestive symbolic structure. It is typical of Kafka's works that a final definition of his symbols is impossible; like dreams, they combine references to the everyday world with absurd fantasies and seemingly coherent mythic structure with a discontinuity that frustrates attempts to develop a rational interpretation. The images Kafka conjures are compelling, but they seem ultimately to stand for themselves and not for any symbolic message.
A knowledge of Kafka's circumstances in 1922 is germane to an understanding of The Castle. The author's tuberculosis was so advanced that he knew he had not long to live and also the manner of his death. Placed by disease in the position of an outsider, Kafka could for the first time view personal and professional concerns with detachment. His imminent death gave him the freedom to rise above manner and restraint and, through his novel's main character, K., to indulge his sense of humor with outrageous observations. K., who calls himself a land surveyor, takes a sharp look at his surroundings. Like Kafka himself, K., too, suffers from those paradoxical effects of advanced disease that leave a patient at once exhausted and impatient.
K.'s main counterpart in the novel is Frieda. Her name connotes Frieden, or peace, an irony because the couple has hardly a quiet moment together. Critics have seen in Frieda the fictional representation of Milena Jesenka-Polak, one of Kafka's translators, who professed to love Kafka but ultimately would not leave her husband. The affair in the novel also reflects Kafka's lifelong attitude toward marriage: Although conditioned by society to feel that he should marry, he repeatedly broke off relationships when it became evident that they would interfere with his writing.
In The Castle, Kafka criticizes the roles imposed on men and women by the society of his time. Too often, women were perceived mainly as sexual objects and expected to be subservient to and dependent on men. Kafka chose to make his strongest female character in his novel a liberated woman. Set up by her parents (in a frilly blouse and garnet necklace) to attract a husband, Amalia instead repudiates the direct sexual advance of a "gentleman" from the castle. Amalia is portrayed as a capable and talented individual, a person who does not need affiliation with a man to realize her potential.
Just as Kafka criticizes the societal reduction of women to a secondary role, so, too, does he criticize the expectation that men automatically fulfill a dominant role. Using the device of satire, he represents all figures of...
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The incident happened Friday in Southampton.
Police say they tried to stop a car that was speeding through residential areas and passing stop signs without stopping.
Southampton town police say they followed the driver and he stopped, put his car in reverse and rammed the front of the police car. They say the driver fled on foot but was eventually arrested. Police found a 3-month-old baby in the back seat of the car.
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Calls are being made for one of the main roads in the Borders to be upgraded.
Calls are being made for one of the main roads in the Borders to be upgraded.
John Lamont, MSP, is calling on the Scottish Government to make the A68 safer.
Statistics revealed there have been nearly 500 accidents on the road in the past 10 years between the Scottish border and Edinburgh.
Mr Lamont is now calling on the Scottish Government to make the road safer after 15 people died on the stretch.
"The A68 is used by Borders residents thousands of times a year, as it is one of the key routes for getting between the Borders and Edinburgh to the north and Newcastle to the south.
"It is therefore important that it is made as safe as possible for motorists to use, but these statistics show that there are too many accidents happening on it.
"Many people will be shocked that nearly 500 accidents have occurred on it in the last ten years, with 100 of them being serious and 15 fatal."
He added:
"It is a clear indication that more needs to be done to improve safety on the road, and the onus is on the Scottish Government to take action to cut down the number of collisions."
19-year-old Duncan Sim from the Scottish Borders was last seen in St Andrews outside Madras Rugby Club.
Transport Minister Humza Yousaf has called on Councillor Jim Dempster to resign after recent claims of racial abuse emerged.
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MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — In a game full of college-bound seniors, Arlington sophomore Jayla Russ stole the show, scoring 22 points as the Eagles defeated Jackson 57-38 in a 4A District 1 semifinal game Friday night.
"Jayla had a great game tonight," Arlington coach Joe Marsh said. "She's got a ton of talent and she's putting it together."
Arlington advances to state for the second time in as many years and will take on Lynnwood next Friday in the District 1 championship — 6 p.m. at Glacier Peak High School.
"It feels like last year again," Russ said of the team's run to the 2013 4A state finals.
Though Russ led all scorers and made three 3-pointers, Arlington's smothering defense was just as important to the outcome.
"Our defense was great tonight," Marsh said.
For the second consecutive game against Arlington, Jackson senior Kelli Kingma, who will play on the college stage for the University of Washington, was held without a field goal in three of four quarters. The Eagles denied the senior guard open looks on the perimeter and ensured any of Kingma's shots would be contested. Kingma averaged 15.6 points a game coming into the contest, but didn't make a shot Friday until 6:12 remained in the game with her team trailing 44-29.
After the game, Marsh revealed his gameplan for slowing down Jackson's talented guard.
"We put somebody next to her and (told) her not to go away," the coach said.
Arlington's Gracie Castaneda — another sophomore — drew the assignment on Kingma for most of the game.
Kingma did make three consecutive shots at one point to cut Jackson's deficit to 44-34 with 4:56 to go in the game. Then a 9-0 run by Arlington made the game a blowout.
Marsh's roster features eight sophomores but he told them before the game, they aren't sophomores anymore. That after what they've done this regular season, they've already graduated.
On Jan. 22, Jackson squandered a 18-point, second-quarter lead against Arlington but held on for a 58-56 victory on its home floor in the teams' only regular-season meeting. The Eagles did not forget that loss and made sure Friday night wouldn't be a repeat.
"It means so much," Russ said. "I feel like we weren't ready for them last time. We just came ready to play and (the victory) feels amazing."
Marsh said missed free throws by his team were the difference in the earlier loss to Jackson. This time, the Eagles didn't let poor shooting from the foul-line become a factor.
"We didn't play our best basketball last time around," Marsh said. "But we did that tonight."
For Jackson, which hosts Monroe at 7 p.m. Tuesday night in the first of potentially three-straight loser-out contests before the 4A state tournament, it was all about missed opportunities early.
Arlington jumped out to a 9-0 edge and the Timberwolves got off shots but they weren't falling.
"We couldn't throw the ball into the ocean," coach Mark Haner said.
Haner said the chances were there, but they were contested and nothing seemed to fall.
"I really couldn't complain about the shots we took in the first half," he said.
With University of Montana-bound senior Sierra Anderson and Kingma held to a combined seven points and two field goals in the first half, the Timberwolves really missed senior Faithaleen Lopez-Flores (15.9 points per gameaverage). She is out of the season with an ACL injury. Lopez-Flores scored 18 in the T-Wolves' victory Jan. 22. Anderson led the Timberwolves Friday with 16 points.
At Mountlake Terrace H.S.
Jackson 9 9 6 14 — 38
Arlington 18 11 13 15 — 57
Jackson—Anderson 16, Kingma 9, Clinton 4, Kipp 2, Johnson 6, Locknane 0, Jackson, Boyd 1. Arlington—Castaneda 6, Balderas 0, Shortt 0, Biesler 0, DeNike 3, Janousek 8, Ludwig 14, Russ 22, Leatherman 4. Three-Point Goals—Ludwig 2, Russ 3, Anderson 1, Kingma 1. Jackson (16-6 overall), Arlington (19-3).


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The Kraus Map Collection
The Ransom Center has only one notable collection of individual maps and globes: the Kraus Map Collection, representing nearly the entire contents of Catalogue 124: Monumenta Cartographica from the New York antiquarian dealer Hans P. Kraus. This 1969 catalogue featured a wide range of individual maps of Europe and America, a few atlases, and a group of manuscript letters by Abraham Ortelius. A supplement included a group of globes, including celestial and terrestrial globes by Vincenzo Coronelli and a 1541 Mercator globe.
In typical fashion, Harry Ransom arranged to acquire most of the maps and atlases as a single purchase. While the Kraus collection has not been developed thereafter, it continues to draw researchers. Because of size and conservation considerations, some of these extraordinary maps, notably the enormous Blaeu wall map (Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, first state 1648) and the manuscript map of Virginia (ca. 1610), a unique relic of America's earliest English settlement, have previously been seen by a relative handful of viewers. This digitization makes it possible for a larger public to examine the entire collection (except Kraus 23 and 33 [not included in the 1969 purchase], the atlases, and the globe gores).
The descriptive notes have been adapted from the 1969 Kraus catalog and do not reflect the latest historical research. Viewers are invited to submit corrections and additions. Roland Folter kindly granted permission for the reproduction of the catalog and its text.
Permission must be requested from the Ransom Center for any re-use of these images. High-resolution images, which are suitable for publication, are available on request and for a fee.
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Globes II, Mercator Terrestrial Globe (1541)
Globes VI, Coronelli Celestial Globe (1688)
Globes VI, Coronelli Terrestrial Globe (1688)
Kraus 1, La gran citta di Milano (1638)
Kraus 2, Venetie (Circa 1514)
Kraus 3, Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula (1648)
Kraus 4, Nova et acurata totius Africae tabula (Between 1601 and 1650)
Kraus 5, America (1673)
Kraus 6, Asia (Between 1650 and 1700)
Kraus 7, Nova et acurata totius Europae tabula (Between 1601 and 1650)
Kraus 8, Nova et acurata totius Germaniae tabula (Not after 1634)
Kraus 9, A Discription of Cartagena (Circa 1697)
Kraus 10, America (1706-1710 [?])
Kraus 11, Peru est la derreniere Contree descouuerte des terres Neufues (1545)
Kraus 12.1, Nova et acvrata totivs Americae tabvla (Between 1580 and 1600)
Kraus 12.2, Asiae Orbis partivm maximae nova descriptio (Between 1567 and 1700)
Kraus 12.3, Nova totivs Africae descriptio (Between 1566-1608?)
Kraus 12.4, Europa (Between 1580 and 1600)
Kraus 13, Etymologiae (1472)
Kraus 14, Urbis Romae descriptio (1557)
Kraus 15, Americae et proximar[um] regionum orae descriptio (Circa 1589)
Kraus 16, Sketch for a map of Germany (Between 1645 and 1650)
Kraus 17, Americae sive Novi Orbis (1587)
Kraus 18, Das Ann Herrspruck samt den Drey darin ligunden Empter Reicheneck (1596)
Kraus 19, Pfleg ampt Liechtenaw (1592)
Kraus 20, Polesine Region (Circa 1600)
Kraus 21, Carta geo-hidro-topographica (1761)
Kraus 22, Africa (Circa 1520)
Kraus 24, Universale Descrittione di tutto il Mondo (Between 1642 and 1647)
Kraus 25.1, Africa (1597)
Kraus 25.2, America (1597)
Kraus 25.3, Asia (1597)
Kraus 26, Venetia (Circa 1688)
Kraus 27, America (Between 1600 and 1625)
Kraus 28, Virginia (Circa 1610)
Kraus 36, Manuscript plans of Dutch towns (1572)
Kraus 57-70, Abraham Ortelius correspondence (1590-1607)


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PSG owner Nasser Al-Khelafi admits he wants to buy Liverpool striker Luis Suarez. Suarez has already had a rollercoaster career in the Premier League, with 10 goals in 34 appearances but also an eight-match ban for racially abusing Manchester United fullback Patrice Evra.
Al-Khelafi, speaking to French magazine ExtraTime, said: "We are already looking at the market for next season.
"We have clear targets in mind. It is true that we want Luis Suarez and Gonzalo Higuain.
"Our real short-term targets are to win the Champions League and find a new Messi."


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Chaga Tea Side-effects
Many people have started drinking Chaga tea due to the health benefits they can receive but they're also considering what Chaga tea side-effectsthere are. It is also crucial to know what it is you are drinking and what health benefits you are supposed to be receiving.
Chaga is a type of fungus that can be found growing in states with often colder climates like Canada, Europe, Russia, Korea, and in the Northerly US. This fungus essentially grows on birch trees while it can be discovered growing on many other assorted tree types too. With reference to using this fungus for its medical properties researchers and scientists have found that the best ones to use are those found growing on the Birch trees. Researchers have the general consensus that there aren't any Chaga tea side effects. Though they have found no general complications re the Chaga tea this does not necessarily mean that nobody will have issues when drinking this tea.
The reason scientists and analysts use the Chaga found on Birch trees for their research per its medicinal properties is because the Birch tree has special complicated compounds. The complex compounds the Birch trees contain are called Betulin which are the same compounds found in the Chaga fungus but humans cannot consume the Betulin directly from the Birch trees. Researchers and scientists have shown that the Chaga mushroomhas the power to absorb and alter this compound into a form that humans can consume.
These complex compounds are what provide the Chaga with its heavy health benefits. Without these compounds there are still some health benefits to be received from the Chaga. Since there are no Chaga tea side-effectsand many health benefits from consuming Chaga people feel they do their bodies a lot of good when drinking Chaga tea. There is no harm in drinking the Chaga but there are a couple of things you ought to be conscious of because unless the complex compounds from the Betulin are removed correctly from the Chaga you aren't going to receive all of the health benefits that are publicized on product labels.
The reason Chaga is so powerful in the medical world, with the power to fight cancer and tumors, is often because the Betulin and other active properties are properly extracted. Though the Chaga itself contains some active parts it's the Betulin that really augments the medical properties of the Chaga. Analysts have discovered that there numerous paths to extract these forceful compounds from the Chaga without losing any of its active elements.
Brandon Gilbert is an herbal expert, teacher, and enthusiastic blogger who has dedicated his to constant learning and education. You can learn more about Chaga Mushroom by checking out the article called Chaga Mushroom Benefits .
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GOP fires first on Moreland issue
Senate Republican chief hints panel probing campaign financing will take Cuomo's lead
Published 9:44 pm, Monday, July 1, 2013
Republicans took a pre-emptive shot at an investigative commission Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he'll call to examine the nexus of money and politics. The commission could be named as soon as Tuesday.
In a radio interview, Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos questioned whether the commission would be independent of the governor, and said he hoped "the governor has not already written (its) recommendations." He suggested the Senate Elections Committee might probe Cuomo's own fundraising habits.
"A legislative body can also do things we feel are appropriate," said Skelos, R-Long Island, on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom. "If this is just aimed at the Legislature, I think that would be inappropriate. Certainly, the governor runs for office; he's raised close to $30 million in his campaign committee. ... Everybody should be cautious here when they move forward."
Cuomo responded after an unrelated news conference in Manhattan by assuring reporters that the commission will be "free to investigate whatever they feel needs to be investigated on the merits."
"It's very important that we restore the public trust. It's very important for people to know they have a government they can believe in," added the governor, a Democrat.
When the legislative session drew to a close last month with no agreement to change New York's laws covering official ethics, including those governing campaign finance, Cuomo promised to convene the commission under the authority of the state's Moreland Act. The century-old law gives Cuomo the power to convene an investigation of any state agency — in this case, Cuomo has said, the Board of Elections. It tracks campaign spending and fundraising, but its enforcement is often derided as lax.
It's still an open constitutional question whether the commission, which can subpoena records and call witnesses to testify under oath, will be able to force testimony or documents from legislators.
Cuomo promised to name the commission last week, but did not do so. The governor made several unplanned trips to the Mohawk Valley late in the week to visit the sites of a train derailment and storm-related flooding, but on June 25 held a $1,000-a-head fundraiser at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi didn't comment on the timing of the announcement, or a New York Daily News report that said a 25-member panel will be announced Tuesday. According to that article, the panel will include several district attorneys and prosecutors, including Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, who wrapped up work on a similar panel examining the Long Island Power Authority.
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Seoul Dookbaegi is a nice little family owned and operated restaruant. I've been here many times, and each time the food has been great. They have all the usual Korean menu items and the prices are similar to other Korean places. The woman that serves us is friendly and usually recommends ordering the dolsot bibimbap (in the stone pot) instead of regular bibimbap (in bowl). Their Korean seafood pancake is also really good. The restaurant has nice decor and a cozy feel to it.
Pad Thai has great lunch specials for $5.50. I think this price is really good since you get the main dish and a spring roll. The dishes can be made vegetarian at your request.
I love the yellow curry with chicken. It's so flavourful and has bell peppers and pineapple chunks. Like other reviewers have said, the pad thai isn't that great and has too much ketchup sauce. So go with the fried rice and curries.
The place is really small too (maybe 10 tables) so many people would order take out instead. The woman owner is really nice and friendly. I enjoy coming here to get thai food because I know you can get a large portion of tasty food at a cheap price.
I came here with my coworkers last week and I have to disagree with some of the earlier posts. We ordered sukiyaki hot pot, beef and enoki mushroom roll, salmon sashimi, takoyaki, a bbq beef dish, okinoyaki?, oyster motoyaki, grilled onion, beef carpacio, a steamed egg with seafood dish, kunpao beef, and kimchee udon. All the dishes except the kimchee udon was presented well and tasted great. The kimchee udon was soggy and we thought t was going to be pan fried.
The restaurant decor is lovely and has a nice modern ambiance. The servers were not bad. They do have alchoholic drinks. When we were there, they had a cocktail drink special where you can mix and match a type of liquor with juice/pop. Depending on how much you eat, the price can really add up. The bill for the four of us came to around $120.
Dai Tung is a good place to get a large variety of cheap dim sum. They are sooo busy on the weekends and holidays. You might be able to get a table faster if you are willing to share a table other people. I think the quality of the dim sum is pretty good. They have all the regular dim sum (ha gow, siu mai) and loads of different special dishes. There salted chicken rice is very tasty and popular, so try one if you are able to get it from the waitress! The service is not too great, probably because they want to get you in and out quickly. The place is a bit small and tables are a bit squished together. But overall, I've been coming to this place for dim sum for years, and I don't mind it at all.
I come to Jan Mo Jib whenever I feel like getting Korean food. The dishes they serve are really good. I especially like the spicy tofu and mushroom soup. The bbq dishes are flavourful and tasty. The bulgogi is awesome! The staff are pretty friendly here, but they seemed to be understaffed. When I was here, the waiters take turns going outside and make the bbq dishes and then bring them to you. So sometimes it is hard to get hold of the staff. The restaurant is pretty big and has a nice atmosphere. I've been to the downtown Jang Mo Jib too and both locations have great Korean food! I definitely recommend this place!


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- n. The hour before the stock market closing on the third Friday of March, June, September, or December, when both options and futures on stock indices expire, known for its high trading volume and volatile prices in futures, options, and underlying securities.
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Finalists Revealed - Mansfield & Ashfield 2020 Business Awards 2017!
Mansfield and Ashfield's longest running business awards have revealed the prestigious list of finalists for this year's awards. Winners will be revealed at the awards event on Friday 28th April 2017. Tickets are priced at £72 each and £720 for a table of 10, and includes a champagne reception, fantastic meal and live entertainment, contact email@example.com to book your tickets.
Caroline Cox Operations Director for 2020 Awards said 'We've been overwhelmed with the amount of interest and participation from local businesses this year. Our judging panel found the process very difficult as the calibre was so high. It is shame we cannot acknowledge everyone but after careful consideration our judges have picked our 2017 shortlist. Everyone should be very proud to have made it this far.'
The categories and their finalists are:
Commitment to the Community – Sponsored by The Evolve Trust
This award recognises businesses that have had a positive impact on society through leadership and integration of responsible business practices. This could be through a broad range of projects that have had a positive effect on the local community. The finalists are:
· Childrens Bereavement
· Pellacraft
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New Business of the Year - Sponsored by Ashfield Effluent Services Ltd
This category was open to businesses established in the last three years that have continued to progress against their plans and have developed a clear commercial understanding of their products, competitors and markets. The finalists are:
· Beauty Chain
· Chic Boutique
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· I Sourcer
The Entrepreneurial Spirit award - Sponsored by REAL Education
This award will go to the outstanding individual or team who is able to demonstrate the realisation of their entrepreneurial vision within their own business or in an organisation. The finalists are:
- I Sourcer
- Mansfield District Council
- Party 2 Go
- Soteria Asbestos
Excellence in Innovation and Design - Sponsored by Ron Brooks (Mansfield) Limited
The award is open to any organisation that can demonstrate a strong business innovation in the past year with a sustainable approach. The finalists are:
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Highlighting an initiative that delivers new standards in customer service, the judges were looking for examples of excellence that build on an already strong commitment to customer service across the business. The finalists are:
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· Pendragon
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· Sauce and Brown
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National PTI Directory | Parent Resources
SPAN's Parent Training and Information Center is funded in part or whole by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Grant No. H328M070007. The contents of the website, however, and any documents cited herein do not necessarily reflect the views or polices of the U.S Department of Education.
SPAN provides statewide training and technical assistance for families of children with developmental delays or disabilities or those who are at risk for academic failure due to poverty, limited English proficiency, inadequate education, special health, emotional or other needs. Our services and programs are many. Following is a description of the early intervention and special education services available through the PTI.
- Through telephone technical assistance, information and referrals, printed materials and trainings for parents and professionals in all areas of early intervention and special education, the PTI can assist you in becoming an advocate for appropriate early intervention, education, and transition services for your children. We do not have the capacity to attend IFSP or IEP meetings, mediation conferences or impartial hearings with the exception of families served under the Community Education Project.
- COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT: targets under-served families in four Essex County communities (Newark, East Orange, Orange and Irvington). The CEP staff offers case management and in some cases, ongoing, intensive services over an extended period of time. CEP staff CAN attend a limited number of meetings with families and may support families at mediation conferences and impartial hearings. The goal is to increase every family's capacity to advocate on behalf of their own children.
- SPAN RESOURCE PARENT PROGRAM: is comprised of trained volunteers who in most cases, have children with disabilities. The volunteers, parents and/or professionals, are provided with extensive training and ongoing support. They understand the dynamics of the systems that serve children with developmental delays and disabilities in their community and have first hand knowledge of and experience with local resources. There are a variety of ways in which an SRP may volunteer their time. Some people may choose to accompany parents to IFSP/IEP meetings to support them. The majority of resource parents provide telephone technical assistance ONLY.
- MULTILINGUAL CENTER AT CATHOLIC FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: offers telephone technical assistance and provides weekly bilingual workshops and monthly parent support group meetings. They also have printed materials in Spanish. The staff may accompany parents to school meetings because a large portion of their clients cannot advocate on behalf of their children due to their lack of English proficiency.
SPAN employees are NOT attorneys and DO NOT provide legal advice. SPAN's ultimate goal is to empower families through education, thereby increasing their capacity to be engaged and effective in every aspect of their child's education.
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Sir Peter Tapsell has been found to have asked David Cameron the most questions of any backbench MP during Prime Ministers Question Time since the formation of the coalition government in 2010.
The Member of Parliament for Louth and Horncastle has been found to have questioned the Prime Minister 20 times in four years.
In research carried out by the BBC, Sir Peter beat Liberal Democrat back bench MP Julian Huppert to second place.
The research also showed that Sir Peter has concentrated on asking questions regarding financial regulation and international affairs.
Recently he has spoken in Parliament about the current situation in Ukraine and the Crimea.
Sir Peter suggested that a referendum should be held in the Crimea in a similar way to the planned Scottish referendum on constitutional arrangements.
David Cameron replied: "To answer the Father of the House directly, the difference between the Scottish referendum and the one in Crimea is that the Scottish referendum is legal."
When asked by the Horncastle News, Sir Peter said he did not wish to comment further.


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India's direct tax receipt up 8.3 percent, but miss targetMay 21st, 2009 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) India's direct tax receipts were up 8.33 percent to Rs.3.38 lakh crore in 2008-09, the finance ministry said in a statement Thursday.
However the direct tax collections fell Rs.6,000 crore short of the target of Rs.3.45 lakh crore for 2008-09 fiscal.
This was despite the government lowering the collection target from Rs.3.64 lakh crore to Rs.3.45 lakh crore to allow for the dent the economic crisis could make on its revenues, the statement said.
According to the ministry, corporate tax collections were up 10.8 percent to Rs.2.14 lakh crore last fiscal, while individual income tax receipts were up 9.1 percent at Rs.1.24 lakh crore.
"Despite economic slow-down and substantial relief to non-corporate taxpayers, direct tax collections exceeded the previous year's collection by about Rs.26,000 crore," the ministry statement said.
Corporate tax deducted at source registered a growth of 35.4 percent to Rs.61,683 crore, compared to Rs.45,450 crore the previous fiscal.
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12:00 amTavis Smiley [#2958] Tavis talks with actor-writer-director Ethan Hawke. The multiple Oscar nominee talks about his latest feature release, the highly anticipated Before Midnight - which he also co-wrote. duration 26:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)
12:30 amImageMakers [#1008H] Modern Times DAS TUB - New Zealand
Lost in the frozen depths of the ocean, a German submarine crew find themselves encountering objects stranger than they can fathom. The truth turns their world topsy-turvy leaving them literally and figuratively in over their heads. A satiric homage to the classic German feature Das Boot. Directed by James Cunningham.
WATCHING - England
A young man sits alone in a cafe spying on the cute waitress not knowing that he himself is being watched. When a stranger approaches him and strikes up a conversation, he is given an opportunity that could change his life forever. Opportunities present themselves for the briefest of moments. If you miss them they don't come back, but is the risk worth it? Directed by Max Myers. Principal cast: Ian Hart, Charlie Cattrall, and Susannah Fielding.
ABOVE THE KNEE - Canada
Jack's restrictive suit and tie career has never been a good fit for him. His home and love life is also in a rut. A radical shake up is in order. When he breaks the mold at work by dressing differently, all of his relationships miraculously improve and actually sets his colleagues free to also express themselves. Director, writer, and producer Greg Atkins tackles sexual politics and the tyranny of gender conformity with a wry comedic touch. Principal cast: Stephen Bogeart, Naomi Sniekus, Allen Altman, and Victoria Adilman. duration 28:09 STEREO TVG
1:00 amThis is Us [#505H] Local Artists from San Jose to Santa Cruz * This week we take a look behind the curtains to learn how a ballet is born. We'll meet Local Ballerina Karen Gabey, conductor George Daugherty and chat with choreographer Jessica Lang as she rehearses her new ballet, Eightyone. We'll even learn some fun facts about ballet shoes.
* In between we'll meet some local visual artists. First, Susana Arias, an international painter and sculptor who shows us how she approaches her really big canvases.
* Then it's off to the colorful and quirky studio of Beth Grippenstraw, whose art reflects her somewhat skewed view of the world as she battles chronic vertigo. duration 27:34 STEREO
1:30 amRick Steves' Europe [#401H] England's Bath & York Medieval York and Georgian Bath - easy side-trips from London - pack an exciting pair of sightseeing punches. Rick explores Roman hot springs, cruises quiet canals, marvels at England's finest Gothic church and gets a surprising dose of Viking history as he enjoys England's easy urban delights. duration 26:46 STEREO TVG
2:00 amAs Time Goes By [#127] Jean's sister-in-law, Penny, is convinced that her husband is having an affair with his dental hygienist. Penny insists on moving in with Jean and Lionel. duration 28:56 STEREO TVG
2:30 amAre You Being Served? [#110] Big Brother Grace Brothers management decides to install a closed circuit television system to keep an eye out for shoplifters, as well as to keep an eye on the staff. This idea does not go over well at all, as the staff decide they do not want to be on TV! duration 28:56 TVPG
3:00 amKeeping Up Appearances [#104] Going to Daisy's Hyacinth is at her wit's end, what with the charity shop, Councilor Nugent, Rose's love life and her Daddy! Can she cope? duration 29:12
3:30 amLast of the Summer Wine [#2902] What Happened to the Horse? duration 29:07 TVG
4:00 amWilliam and Mary [#204] William and Mary take Kate to Oxford for her university interview. Mary had to persuade William not to smother Kate and let her find her own way around. When Mary agrees to cut the trip short to go and help a patient in London William accuses her of being desperate to leave. duration 59:50 STEREO TVG
5:00 amRevolutionaries [#208H] Google's Eric Schmidt Meet Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who has led the tech giant from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader. Computer History Museum CEO John Hollar talks to Schmidt about his background, his strategies at Google and more. duration 53:13 STEREO TVG
6:00 amZoboomafoo [#225] Messy & Clean It's time to clean out the closet but the more Zoboo tries to help, the bigger the mess he makes! No sooner is everything back in its place, than some European wild boars and a capuchin monkey mess everything up again. Zoboo has lots of fun learning how messy and clean means different things to different animals. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
6:30 amRaggs [#208H] Try New Things It is Try New Food Tuesday and Pido wants everyone to try Whole Grain Doggie Puffs, but B. Max likes it so much - it is the only thing he wants to eat. Pido wants a new set of drums because he thinks new must be best, but he learns a very different lesson when he starts to miss his old drums. Will Pido find some new drums that he loves? duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
7:00 amSesame Street [#4321H] Lifting Snuffy Zoe choreographed a special dance, "The Dance of the Six Swans," that she would like her friends to perform. She asks everyone to pair up for the 'lift' part of the dance, but they're missing one person, so they ask Alan to join the dancers. He is partnered with Snuffy who says it's been a dream of his to be lifted into the air like a swan. Alan tries to lift Snuffy, but he's just too heavy. Gina says they need to be a little creative and think of ways they can lift Snuffy. As they observe what's around them, Elmo points out that Chris is lifting a piece of pie out of a plate with a spatula. Gina explains that a spatula is a kind of lever, so if they design a bigger lever, they may be able to lift Snuffy. Using a long board and a crate, Snuffy sits on one end, and Alan tries to lift him by pushing the board down from the other side. But the board breaks. Gina suggests thinking of another way they can lift Snuffy. While looking around again, Zoe sees a girl jumping rope and suggests using a rope. The rope is swung over a beam and tied around Snuffy's stomach, but no matter how hard Alan pulls, he can't lift Snuffy. Gordon comes out to help. He looks at their design and notices that they are missing a pulley. Gordon explains that pulleys are great tools to help lift heavy things. He redraws their design to include a pulley at the top and one at the bottom. Now they're ready to try the pulleys and Snuffy asks if they can perform the whole dance. When the 'lift' part comes, Alan is able to lift Snuffy into the air like a swan! The pulleys work and Snuffy gets to live his dream. duration 58:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
8:00 amWordWorld [#107H] Dog's Camping Adventure/V Is for Vacation * Dog's Camping Adventure: Pig and Frog take Dog on his first camping trip. When they lose one of the letters to their Tent, it's Dog who overcomes his fear and finds it in the dark forest...along with a monster!
* V is for Vacation: The weather is turning colder, and Duck is ready for his yearly vacation (migration). He's not sure, however, how to go. When Bird tells him he just needs to "find the 'V, '" Duck is off and running on what seems, at first, like a wild goose chase.


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Charlie Brennan - Tuesday, May 6th - Cornealious "Mike" Anderson; Maestro David RobertsonCharlie and Debbie talk with Cornealious "Mike" Anderson; with Katty Kay and Claire Shipman about "The Confidence Code"; Charlie with Maestro David Robertson; and STL Entrepreneur Rachel Hankerson of Internat'l Proof Systems LLC.
Man Freed after Delayed Sentence Receives Warm Welcome HomeShortly after being freed by a judge, Anderson, his family, and his attorney were off to New York to appear on The Today Show.
Judge Rules Man Freed in Delayed Prison CaseAnderson was convicted of armed robbery 13 years ago but through a clerical error, did not serve his jail time.
Hearing Set for Man Who Skipped Jail TimeThe St. Louis County man was convicted of robbery in 2000 but never sent to prison due to a Missouri Department of Corrections clerical error.
Man Who Avoided Prison Is Overwhelmed By Support Mike Anderson says he's grateful to everyone trying to get him free once more.
Man Skips 13-Year Prison Sentence Due to Clerical ErrorCornealious "Mike" Anderson never served his 13-year sentence for robbing a Burger King.


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I was picking up a board, yes a 7' Wavestorm, or as I like to joke, a 6'-12". Since Ian and his wife are involved with the company, I asked if Ian could sign my Bronzed Aussies Surfboard. It was such an honor to meet Ian and have him sign this. The Bronzed Aussies started professionalism and marketing of the pro surfing with the formation of the Bronzed Aussies. See the Story of them here on surfline (Bronzed Aussies)
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Tony Alva at Secos
It has been awhile since I surfed(new Years Day) My back has been bad, and I am working on a career change from Real Estate Appraiser to Real Estate Agent.
Anyways, I had to head up to Oxnard this morning. I knew the swell was good, so I went straight to Secos.
It felt real good to get in the water, the kelp was real thick. As I was sitting on my board, i see this guy paddle back out, he looked very familiar. I realized it was Tony Alva!
After I came in I grabbed my camera to get some picks of TA, enjoy!
Anyways, I had to head up to Oxnard this morning. I knew the swell was good, so I went straight to Secos.
It felt real good to get in the water, the kelp was real thick. As I was sitting on my board, i see this guy paddle back out, he looked very familiar. I realized it was Tony Alva!
After I came in I grabbed my camera to get some picks of TA, enjoy!
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
New Surf Movie
The most anticipated surf movie of our time. from Eric Peterson on Vimeo.
Finally....My good friend, "EP"
his wife is a freelance producer and editor, always too busy to do fun stuff, until now. Enjoy!
Finally....My good friend, "EP"
his wife is a freelance producer and editor, always too busy to do fun stuff, until now. Enjoy!
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Surf Story - Phil Edwards
Way back when, there was a one page story in Surfer or Surfing. It included a small excerpt from Phil Edwards's book from 1967.
For some reason, that one page little story stuck with me. I never forgot the name of the book. I made it a mission to find it. It was kind of like looking for the Holy Grail of Surf books.
I looked for this book every place I went, every used book store from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. Remember, this was before the "internet". You actually had to search for stuff and have some luck.
In the Early 90's, things changed, Longboarding was the rage, along with collecting boards. My girlfriend (future wife) and I went to the Longboard Grotto in Luecadia one day. As I was looking around, there it was in all its Glory after all these years. A mint, first edition. Keep in mind, I had never actually seen or held one before. I asked it I could see it, I was literally was pissing my pants. Then, I saw he price. I said thanks, but I will keep Looking.
I forgot about. Christmas came and my Girlfriend, said she had one last gift for me. She handed me a box. I peeled off the paper and opened the box, and there was the book. I mean THE BOOK! (this girl became my wife by the way).
At that time I was living in Newport and she lived in San Diego. I knew where Phil Edwards lived, but not the exact location. Somehow through research, I got his phone number. I called him up, told him who I was and asked if I could mail him my book to sign. He said yes! I was stoked, this was Phil Edwards!
Well I decided instead of mailing the book to him, I would drop it off at his house when I was son my way to San Diego. I stopped by and left it on his porch with a note and a phone number. He called me the next morning to say that he had my book and that he would sign it and wanted to know where to mail it too, I asked if I could pick it up and he said sure. I asked if we could swing by the next morning and he agreed. I was now literally freaking out! I had the Holy Grail and was actually going to meet the man himself.
We drove up in the morning. When we pulled up in front of his house, I was shaking. I remember walking up to his front door. Phil Edwards Front Door! I rang the doorbell and his wife came to the door and invited us in. (I was in Phil Edwards House!). Then Phil came in the room. This is the first guy to ever Ride Pipeline, Phil Edwards, and I am in his living room! We talked, he commented on how that was the best copy of the book he had seen, and then asked me to come back to this other room to see some things he was working on. Phil Edwards!
He talked and shared some things. He included a pictured and signed it. I thanked him for his time and we left. Phil Edwards! I just meet Phil Edwards! I was in his House!
This was one day that I felt Like a grom, I will never forget it.
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Monday, November 26, 2012
The Groms New Used Board
I got the Grom a NEW, used board last month, it is an old Morning star from Santa Barabara, it is 6'-10" x21"x3". These are some pictures of his second session on the board. I think he Likes it.
Also, be sure to check out the new Blog, The Local Surfer, if you know someone who should be on it Let me know
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Only First and Finish!
A wise old Waterman by the name of Mike Eaton told me once in his shop, " There is only First and Finish in paddleboarding". This could not be more true of the Catalina Classic. It starts on Catalina and ends at the Manhattan Beach Pier, 32 miles! A mutual friend, Chuck Camps just did his first Classic, it might be his only, but he did it. He made the cut off at the R10 bouy with 5 minutes to spare. He did not come in first, but he finished! Way to Go Chuck!
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Friday, August 3, 2012
So, the "Grom" and I went down to the US Open this morning. We got there early. Just as we pulled into the parking lot, Brett Simpson was unloading, Cole went over and got his shirt signed and a picture with Brett. Next we got down to the sand, got a photo with the Brazzo,Miguel Pupo. Then Timmy Reyes, Tanner Gudauskas, Kai Otten, Dane Reynolds and then Kelly Slater! In all seriousness, I think the real Grom was me.
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For those of us who endured teenage years with radio presenters who sounded like your Dad in an especially uncool moment – one thinks of Simon Bates and Dave Lee Travis – it's heartening to hear just how frank and direct it can get on Radio 1 these days.
Talk to the Hand – The Story of Masturbation (Radio 1, Sunday), a slickly produced documentary, began with slang names for masturbating, a number of which unsurprisingly had religious overtones ("bashing the bishop", "shaking hands with the Pope"). Then it dealt with the silence surrounding the subject ("It's not exactly dinner-time conversation") which presenter Aled Jones immediately tackled. "First up," he wondered, "what are we talking about here?" The tone throughout was friendly and useful.
What I especially liked was that, before we got on to rather more sensational stories, the programme acknowledged that normality is at best a relative concept. "We are all normal but in different ways," one of the experts suggested, and you couldn't help thinking what a cheering message this was to give out to an impressionable and possibly worried young listener. There were, of course, wince-inducing tales – "I decided it would be a good idea to use a mascara bottle," said one young woman regretfully – but mainly this was sensibly handled and coolly delivered.


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Role Playing With Women
Hey there,
Today I want to talk to you about the number one tool in your flirting arsenal; Role Plays.
Role plays are really good for flirting because role plays are pure emotional communication, which means they're playful, They assume a relationship because you're creating this fun fantasy role play relationship. They are familiar, they create an "us versus them dynamic", they're not too deep and you can nonverbally communicate why you do them. Which is basically everything you want in your flirting.
So role plays are awesome for flirting. Role plays, in fact, are one of the few things that Hollywood gets right when they are depicting scenes of flirting or scenes where a man meets a woman, or a woman meets man. For the most part they are crap but Sex in the City and various movies that I've seen have gotten the role play right. Hollywood gets that when you play around like this and you create this fun, fantasy scenarios you, are flirting.
I want to talk about two specific types of role plays today. The past and future adventurous projection, so we are going to start in the past, as we should, with what a past future projection is. So what a past projection is, and I personally think past projections are a little flirtier, they assume a little bit more of a relationship because you're going to create this fun scenario that happened in the past between you and her. Usually with the two of you as a couple.
So my favorite one of these is the: I cheated on her with a Spanish milk maid, so I'll go if it's a group:
"You know girls, there's something you don't know, Sarah and I actually dated and I'm not too proud of this but I actually cheated on her, you know. It's not my fault though because I did the math and statistically like this was my really only one chance to sleep with a Spanish milk maid, so I had to jump on that, but I do feel bad about it, you know, and I promise I'll never do it again."
At this point, one of two things is going to happen. The girl is going to play along and be like: yeah, I cheated on you with a pool boy; or something like that, that's usually what they say though, or she will like mock-cry or something, and now you know she's flirting. I like that one a lot because there's just an instant reaction: either she's going to flirt or she's not.
Future adventurous projections I like to do, again, ones that assume relationships that are real. Like I don't like to do the ones that are like:
"I'm going to put you on a spaceship and make you my space princess,"
"I'm going to put you in a devil suit and walk you down the street"
Because I guess like at a base, base level, psychologically something is happening there, maybe, but to me I'd much rather make it more realistic and something that we can kind of play into.
So I'd be like:
" you know what, you're going to be my girlfriend for the next five minutes, so we should create a whole relationship including breakup into five minutes, so we had better get started. How do we meet, and I'll just go through this whole role playing, fun, tongue-in-cheek scenario and I don't have a specific way it goes down, it depends on the situation. It could be in the bookstore, and I was making fun of you because you were reading Rush Limbaugh's book. Or I was making fun of you because you were reading Spanish Vogue, didn't really realize it was in Spanish because you were just looking at pictures; and we were on our first date to the mall, and then blah-blah-blah"
I hope by now you see the power of role-plays and also the value of keeping your role-plays a little more realistic in order to assume more of a relationship and move things forward.
Jon Sinn
William Crazyshoe said,
Great ideas. I'm trying to have more fun when I go out to the clubs. My sets were stalling really bad on Saturday night, so I'm going to try to incorporate some role plays. I've definitely found that talking about this stuff with female friends help me understand why it works.
Jon said,
ummm, i hate role playing but if it works ill kept it in mind and throw it in my game and see how it works for me
Ken Carroll said,
Very creative and imaginative. Food for thought..
Alex P said,
I only wanna say thank you for this information in this article about the role plays and the tips you wrote. I think this is a good advice that you give me.
PUA507WATSON said,
Role PLay is cool, i also think that a cool form of Role Play is performing situations like a married couple, or like a boss, girls are not used to that and is very funny for them.
Ronnie said,
The Spanish Milkmaid one seems fun. Role Playing does work. Good show on the article.
nu said,
nice blog
Sk said,
that was really helpfull….
Eric said,
This sounds like awesome advice. I am definitely going to try this. Will post the results soon.
kochan said,
Thanks for the idea
Drew Schroeder said,
i love role playing with women – for Halloween i was huge hefner and my girl was a playboy bunny


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Wheat Baumkuchen – Sleigh-ride with Reindeer and Penguin Soba
Feature - Review, Food - Japanese, Singapore - North
January 26, 2012
Who would have thought this humble shop at Toa Payoh is selling the famous German Baumkuchen (pronounced without the 'c'), also known as the "tree cake"? Located at the revamped Food Alley at Toa Payoh Central, Wheat Baumkuchen has also just introduced cool noodle dishes, named after animals living in the cold climate such as Dolphin, Penguin, Seal, Polar Bear and the very Christmassy Reindeer. Very cute. The Reindeer is grey soba noodles with mushroom, edamame, seaweed and sunflower seed tossed in light miso sauce. The cold soba just slips down the throat. I definitely love this noodles of......
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My Peranakan Spice Box – Nyonya Cuisine with a Creative Twist
Buah keluak toast? Babi chin la mian? Terong assam fries? We bet you have never tried them before till you visit My Peranakan Spice Box. This shop is quite well-hidden opposite HDB Hub, behind the famous Tiong Bahru Pao and Koi Bubbletea shops. I would say this is worth...
January 09, 2012
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Barcelos – Peri Peri Chicken Better Than Nando's?
The signage of the big deep red rooster at Square 2 was what attracted me to dine Barcelos. It kept calling "Eat Me", "Eat Me". However, when you talk about Peri Peri chicken, it is inevitable to first think about the very popular Nando's. So which is better? Barcelos,...
September 08, 2010
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Sakura International Buffet – Underground By The Park
After a 42 minute train ride from town, and a 12 minute walk from Woodlands MRT station under the hot sun, I arrived at a patch grassland overlooking Republic Polytehnic. There was no restaurant in sight, only a big red signboard which sprouted out of nowhere of Admiralty Park....
August 04, 2010
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Galley by the Straits – Super Ulu, Superb View, Superior Seafood
It was a 45 minute drive from town and a 5 minute walk in (plus signing in at the security counter), all for the sake of seafood with a picturesque view of yachts, amazing sunset and velvet sky. Galley By The Straits, located within the SAF Yacht Club, is...
August 02, 2010
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Lerk Thai Restaurant – 'Select' in Thai
Many people still call the 'Lerk' Thai chain of restaurants 'Jerk' Thai, no thanks to the logo. The chain is started by the Select Group Ltd, which many should be familiar with their catering business and 'cai peng' (Chinese rice). And to no surprise, 'Lerk' means 'Select' in Thai....


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What Have We Learned about Building Resilient Regions?
12.31.2013 | By BRR Director Margaret Weir
When we launched the Building Resilient Regions network nearly ten years ago, urban analysts and advocates had high hopes that regionalism would be the way to address the problems of metropolitan areas. Our task was to assess regionalism –– well aware of its vague definition –– as a strategy for addressing critical challenges facing metropolitan areas. We divided our network into four groups examining economic growth, infrastructure and fast growth, immigration, and poverty.
What have we learned? (more…)
Building a Resilient Social Safety Net
By Sarah Reckhow and Margaret Weir, in Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, volume 4, edited by edited by Margaret Weir, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman (Brookings Institution Press, February 2012)
In their chapter in this volume, Reckhow and Weir track the shift of poverty to the suburbs and document the lack of social services and philanthropic networks in those areas to support struggling families.
A Q&A with Weir, "The Safety Net is Thin in the Suburbs Despite Growing Poverty," expands on the ideas in the chapter. This blog post, "A New Image for the Suburbs," adds to the conversation.
Volume 4 in the series introduces and examines the concept of regional resilience. The authors illuminate how the walls that now segment metro regions into political jurisdictions must be bridged in order for regions to cultivate resilience. In addition to a thorough overview of both regionalism and resilience, chapters examine how a regional perspective plays out in the foreclosure crisis, immigration policies, transit-oriented development, and in extending the social safety net to the suburbs, where poverty is increasing but social services are not.
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, Volume 4
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, edited by Margaret Weir, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman (Brookings Institution Press, February 2012). (more…)
Challenging Inequality in the New Metropolis
By Margaret Weir (forthcoming in Justice and the American Metropolis, edited by Clarissa Hayward and Todd Swanstrom)
Property Rights, Taxpayer Rights, and the Multiscalar Attack on and the State: Consequences for Regionalism in the United States
By Margaret Weir and Christopher Niedt (Regional Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, March 2010).
Collaboration is Not Enough: Virtuous Cycles of Reform in Transportation Policy
By Margaret Weir et al. (Urban Affairs Review, vol. 44, no. 4, March 2009).
Multi-Level Power and Progressive Regionalism
By Margaret Weir and Jane Rongerude (BRR working paper, [pdf], May 2007).


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Corporate gift-giving season historically gains momentum every November. Rymax Marketing Services, Inc., is extending five tips for a successful Corporate Gifting Season.
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I agree that I am much more into the local flood. I don't mean to be disrespectful of your view but only ask questions in areas that I have questions myself about. So yes your right, and as I said I think you have some very interesting views!!! I just am not looking to go into some out and out challenging of each others positions, I could forward several things for you to read that are detailed and very much are excellent reasons for a local flood, but alas this is not a power struggle with me, it sis an exchange of ideas and none of these questions are meant to challenge anyone. So we both have views and I am fine with that!
Ok , fully agree with your sentiments. It's not cool to be debating all the time.
It's just I was hoping for more challenges to my view because in other threads those opposed seem to fade away very quickly, from both the evolutionist and "common flood model" views. A view can only get stronger when it has survived continuous challenges. Even though the theory of a flood at the P-T boundary has been known for hundreds of years now, I feel it was discarded too quickly in the early days of geology and needs to be re-visited. So I was sorta hoping you would debate it.