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What are the dates for the 2018 Durango Wine Experience?
May 3-5, 2018. The DWE is always the first full weekend in May!
Save the date for next year: May 2-4, 2019!
How many years has this event taken place?
Twelve! Join us May 3-5 for our 12th anniversary of celebrating food & wine in Durango!
How do I buy Tickets?
You can buy tickets online anytime or starting Wednesday, May 2, 2018 in person at the DWE Event office at R Space .
I bought my tickets online. Where do I pick up my wristband and Riedel wine glass?
Check-in at the DWE Event Office at R Space (734 E. 2nd Ave) to pick up your event program, wristband and Riedel wine glass starting at noon on 05/02/2018. Please bring your ID and e-ticket.
Where is the DWE Check In location?
Durango Wine Experience Main Event Office
Located at R Space (734 E. 2nd Ave)
Vendor Registration, Check In, Ticketing & Will Call
When is the DWE event office open?
2018 DWE Event Office Hours of Operation
Wednesday, May 2, 2018: 2pm-6pm
Thursday, May 3, 2018: 10am-6pm
Friday, May 4, 2018: 10am-6pm
(Ticketing & Will Call moves to the door of the Grand Tasting Tent @ 2pm on Saturday)
What if I "lose" or "drop" my DWE Riedel wine glass?
You need to bring your Riedel wine glass ($10 value) to both the Walk-About and the Grand Tasting. You can purchase an additional DWE Riedel wine glass for only $5.
Nobody needs to know what really happened.
Where is the Grand Tasting?
The Grand Tasting is under the big top festival tent in the Smiley Building Courtyard.
What is the Grand Tasting?
The Grand Tasting is the grand finale to the DWE weekend! You will be able to sample hundreds of wines, beers and spirits at fifty or more beverage tables; fifteen of our top local chefs present samples of their restaurant's cuisine; bid on exciting items at our silent auction to help raise money for our non-profit beneficiary and much, much more!
Can I buy tickets for the Grand Tasting at the door?
Yes! You can pay $100 at the door with cash or a credit card. You must bring your ID.
But you will save $15 and not have to wait in line if you purchase in advance online or at the DWE Event Office at R Space . Only $85 in advance online. (Before May 4th)
What restaurants will be at the Grand Tasting?
2018 Durango Restaurant Showcase Tables at the Grand Tasting:
Where is this "Walk-About Durango" Tasting everyone is talking about?
The Walk-About tasting takes place at fourteen downtown Durango locations. You keep your glass while you stroll around Downtown Durango. Sample wine and light appetizers at the best galleries and outdoor spaces in town. Then go out and have a fabulous dinner!
An amazing value for only $45!
Click here to see the 2018 locations.
Can I buy tickets for the Walk-About at the door?
No. Please buy your tickets in advance online or at one of the DWE Event offices.
You must bring your ID and stop by the DWE Event Office conveniently located at R Space (734 E. 2nd Ave) in order to pick up your wristband and wine glass before proceeding to a Walk-About location. Then go have fun! You must check-in at the DWE Event office to show your ID, receive your wristband, tasting map and DWE Riedel wine glass.
I didn't check my calendar before I bought our tickets and I have a conflict; can I get a refund?
No, we are sorry, all tickets are non-refundable. We are happy to transfer your tickets to another name, as long as they are 21 years of age or older! Contact Mandi with details.
Where do I buy tickets to Sunday Brunch?
Please contact the restaurants directly for brunch reservations.
Click here to see who is serving Brunch.
TMI! Can I just print a basic schedule?
Durango Wine Experience 2018 Schedule of Events
What is the Weekend Tasting Pass?
The Weekend Tasting Pass includes both the Walk-About Durango Tasting ($45), your souvenir Riedel wine glass ($10) and the Grand Tasting ($85 before May 4th & $100 at the door) at a savings!
You must wear your wristband and keep your wine glass for both days!
It is an excellent deal at only $100! Save $55! Click here to buy online.
I bought tickets online for a seminar. Do I need to go to the event office to check in?
No. Please proceed directly to the listed seminar location. Your name will be on a list at the door. Please bring your ID and please, leave your pine tree perfume at home! No perfume or cologne at any DWE event. We want to smell the wine, not the people.
My wristband doesn't match my outfit, can I cut it off?
NO! You must wear your wristband and bring your DWE Riedel wine glass for both days.
The Durango Wine Experience will not accept, will not replace and is not responsible for any mangled, cut, lost, dog chewed or stolen wristbands!
Can I bring my kids?
Only if they are 21 and have purchased a ticket. No one under 21 will be admitted to any DWE special event permitted event.
Sorry, it's the law. Please be ready to show your ID at all checkpoints. No matter how old you think you look!
You will have a lot more fun if you get a babysitter anyway, right?
(Please contact restaurants directly for dinner reservation questions.)
Can I bring my dog, cat or pot-belly pig?
Only if they are 21, have ID and have purchased a ticket.
Please leave your pets at home, you will need one hand to hold your wine glass and the other hand to sample our local restaurant's cuisine! Your pets don't like wine anyway!
We will consider talking birds and swimming pigs… with a wristband.
Can I volunteer to help at the Durango Wine Experience?
Yes! Click here to sign up!
DOWNLOAD the DWE NON-PROFIT CERTIFICATE OF GOOD STANDING: Durango Wine Exp Certificate of Good Standing_Non Profit Corporation
DWE Tax Exempt Status Approval
How can my business donate an item for the Grand Tasting Silent Auction?
Please fill out our Grand Tasting Silent Auction Form online.
We ask that all auction items are somehow, even if it is a stretch, related to the arts, hospitality industry, wine or culinary arts. Wine bottles, Gift Certificates to local businesses, Wine art? Thank you for your generosity!
I want to pour at this event! What does my distributor or winery have to provide to participate?
You must provide proof that you are Licensed, Bonded, Insured in the State of Colorado to distribute and/or produce wine. Or, you must have a Licensed, Bonded, Insured Distributor in the State of Colorado.
The Durango Wine Experience provides general liability insurance, as required, for all of the events.
Can we bring in a camera?
Absolutely! Please post your shots on the Durango Wine Experience Facebook page! Also, there will be a photo booth once again!
Please connect to us on all of our social media sites!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DurangoWine
& Twitter: https://twitter.com/Durango_Wine
& Instagram: https://instagram.com/durangowine/
& Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/DurangoWine/
Do you mail my ticket?
No, but we will email you an "e-ticket". Please bring your photo ID and check in at R Space (734 E. 2nd Ave) for everything except seminars. This is where you will receive your wristband and glass. Seminars attendees please proceed directly to the seminar location. Your name will be on a list at the door.
Do I have to go to the DWE Event office to Check In?
1. If you are only attending seminars, you can take your e-ticket directly to the seminar location.
2. Walk-About Durango attendees must check in and pick up their wristband and wine glass at the DWE Event Office in the back lobby of the R Space before visiting their first Walk-About location.
3. Grand Tasting participants can obtain their wristband and glass at the Grand Tasting door. But, if you check in at the DWE event office early; you will not have to wait in any lines to enter the Grand Tasting. That is a really good idea!
When is the Fort Lewis College Graduation? Is it the same weekend?
Nope! Congrats to the FLC grads on Saturday, April 28, 2018.
We drink wine from May 3-5. In order to be a good partner with our Hotel and Restaurant participants, there was one year we moved the event to April to make sure we did not conflict with FLC graduation. But usually, we are always the first full weekend of May.
Click here to view the FLC Academic Calendar.
What are the dates for the 2018 Durango Wine Experience?
May 3-5, 2018. The DWE is always the last weekend in April or the first full weekend in May.
What are the dates for the 2019 Durango Wine Experience?
Save the date for next year: May 2-4, 2019!
How do I like you on Facebook or follow you on Twitter?
Please connect to us on all of our social media sites!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DurangoWine
& Twitter: https://twitter.com/Durango_Wine
& Instagram: https://instagram.com/durangowine/
& Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/DurangoWine/
Can the DWE accept donated alcohol beverages to serve with a special event permit?
Yes. Please refer to the State of Colorado Liquor & Tobacco Enforcement Division website for more specific details. (See Regulation 47-1010)
Alcohol beverages may be donated by Colorado-licensed wholesalers, micro-breweries, brewpubs, vintner's restaurants, and in-state wineries, if such beverages are used for hospitality and/or fund raising purposes, and are not resold by the drink. Alcohol beverages received from other non-licensed or private sources may not be sold, served or consumed at a special events permit.
Colorado Suppliers may provide financial support and/or services for public-service or nonprofit fund raising activities to those organizations that qualify for a special events permit.
However, no support may be conditioned upon the present or future purchase of alcohol beverages or the exclusive sale of a supplier's products at future events. Suppliers may also share in the costs of advertisements, signs, promotional materials and items of a similar nature used in connection with a non-profit special event permit. Suppliers may also rent dispensing equipment to a special event permittee at fair market value and may sell glassware, cups and similar items at a minimum of cost.
–Regulation 47-1010. Special Event Permittee-Supplier Relationships.
I "won" some DWE tickets at a silent auction. How do I redeem?
Your redemption instructions are on your certificate.
It says: "Please bring this sheet & your photo ID. You must be 21 years of age to participate in the Durango Wine Experience. This sheet cannot be replaced. No duplications will be accepted, we can tell! Check in at the Durango Wine Experience Event Office starting May 3, located at R Space (734 E. 2nd Ave) to receive your wristband & wine glass for the tasting!"
I didn't check my calendar before I bought our tickets and I have a conflict; can I get a refund?
No, we are sorry, all tickets are non-refundable. We are happy to transfer your tickets to another name, as long as they are 21 years of age or older! Contact Mandi with details.
What should I wear?
In Durango, we have a sense of style all our own. You will see everything from dresses and suits to cowboy boots and hats. It could be sunny and 72 degrees or raining and chilly. Welcome to Colorado! Wear your favorite wine colored dress or wine themed tee-shirt. Depending on the year, we have several people sporting "derby attire".
You must bring your id and wear your wristband to gain access to the tastings.
The one thing not to wear: perfume or cologne!
Where do I buy tickets to the wine dinners?
Please contact the restaurants directly for wine dinner, luncheon and brunch reservations. Click here.
Who can I contact with additional questions?
Please call our DWE Event Office with any additional questions:
Mandi Davis
Event Coordinator
[email protected]
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The day finally came and so did the rain. My schedule is such that I must go birding when I can, regardless of weather. The rain was merciful in the first couple hours as I explored Loxahatchee River Bend Park. There is a juvenile Red-headed woodpecker in the back of the park and turkeys roam the open areas. I picked up the turkeys at the farthest back parking lot. The Red-headed would prove more difficult. The clouds may have had something to do with missing this species. They are late risers and can often be difficult to find on cloudy days. The park has lots of trails, lots of birds, and an interesting history. It will be worth coming back to if I can get the time.
Next on the docket was Wakodohatchee Wetlands to see the nesting Neotropical cormorants. I saw my first Great cormorant in a sewage plant in Delray Beach 20+ years ago. Palm Beach would be the first county where I have seen all three cormorants.
The rain couldn't help itself at this point. I circled the boardwalk a couple times to determine exactly where the cormorants were. There are many islands with nesting birds, but only one with cormorants. I managed to hear Virginia rail on the back section of the trail for my second tick of the day. There was no sign of the cormorants at the island as 10:00 approached. The Neotropicals had been reported to leave by 10:00 in past days, so I wondered if I was going to have to come back later in the day. Right about 10:00, a non-breeding Neotropical cormorant flew into the trees. It did not fly to a nest, just lanede and squabbled with a Double-crested cormorant nearby. The rains began to come down steadily at this point. I had seen Neotrops before, so I decided to head back to the parking area and plan my next adventure.
What an adventure it was! I arrived at the Lake Worth Pier and parked in the park north of the pier. The rain was not stopping at all now. It varied from light to heavy, but did not stop. I did not have another day to come back and the Piping and Wilson's plovers are very rare birds in Palm Beach, so I set out to get them in the rain. At least they don't mind getting wet. I walked north toward the small lagoon that had formed on the upper beach. After about a half mile, I found the lagoon along with lots of Semipalmated plovers, Dunlin, Lesser black-backed gulls of all ages, and four Piping plovers. Where was the Wilson's plover? I could not find it in the flock. A couple of Piping plovers had bands, but I could not determine the color and arrangement due to the constant activity of the birds and the rain on my binoculars. I decided to head on up the beach to the next park in hopes of finding the Wilson's plover. It is about two miles up and back and it rained the entire time. I failed to find the Wilson's north of the lagoon, so I trudged back. This time the Wilson's plover was right there in front of me. That was quite a relief. It made the day. Anything else would be a bonus. I got back to the truck and tried to dry out as best I could.
I headed across the lagoon to check out Snook Island, but found the area closed for repairs. Maybe for the better since it was still raining. I needed to get gas before heading home, so I decided to stop nearby in hopes of getting Common myna and House finch. I had five ticks this day, three high quality ticks and two that were finally on my list.
I did not get any more birds, but more importantly I did not get sick from the wet and cold. It was a very satisfying day and I got back home in early afternoon. 273 total for Palm Beach. I have faint hopes of hitting 300 some day. I am still missing some ridiculous birds like Common loon, Hermit thrush, and Scarlet tanager. I'll come back and get Red-headed woodpecker eventually and Common myna and House finch. 300 could happen.

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Snap! It's 6:00am in NZ. I've been up since 4:00am unable to sleep. Haven't written a word and I start work at 8:30am. Have been trying to write 500 words a day since Feb 14, but I haven't succeeded even once yet. When I'm working (just started fulltime work which is complete and utter lunacy on my part) I'm too tired. On the weekends I collapse. I too am riddled with resistance. But somehow knowing that someone else is going through this stuff too seems to help. I guess misery does love company. Have a good day and good luck with your to-do list!ReplyDelete
wow! i really sympathize... finishing a phd when you've started full-time work is tough!... sounds like you need to lighten the load... maybe try having a few days 'off' (no phd at all, just settle in to your new job, sleep/ go to the gym all weekend) and then start writing PhD again, but only for twenty minutes/ an hour/ one page a day? ... look after yourself! and thanks for commenting! xReplyDelete
Thanks for your kind message. Took your advice and mucked about all day took (it's Saturday) but am just about to start writing a little. Love your blog and hope all is well with you xReplyDeleteReplies
woohoo! good for you! now good luck! xxDelete


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Not the dress. But, you know what? Forget that and admire. Source.
Book 5, 26: Embarrassing as Hell
Amy dropped to the edge of the top stair on the second floor of the Yurt, her bare toes, pale manila with winter's darkness, gripped the nap of the gray-background carpet with its black zebra-stripes.
"So?" May asked.
Standing behind May, who was wearing pants, and could therefore get away with crouching to peek, unsuccessfully, around the corner, Charlotte waited for Amy's response. She couldn't help taken a finger-grip's full of bang for the millionth time, in case her hair had, you know, turned into snakes in the last millisecond.
Without even looking at her cousin, May's hand was somehow there, taking Charlotte's, and lifting it away with a gentle squeeze. A little embarrassed at herself, Charlotte focussed on not letting her other hand start fondling her dress.
"They're embarrassing him, of course. I couldn't make out what they were saying, but you could see him squirm." Somehow, knowing that Scout was nervous too, was. Actually, Charlotte had no idea how it made her feel. Her brain didn't seem to be capable of doing anything more than cycling around nightmare scenarios of dinner and questions, questions, questions.
"Anything else?" May asked. It was a significant question.
"He brought his guitar."
May pursed her lips. "Hmm. Could be good, could be very, very bad. But that's now what I meant, and you know it."
Amy shook her head. "Stupid psi dampers."
So, also, her cousin couldn't read Scout's mind. So there was an answer to a question.
The Yurt had dampers, of course. They just weren't turned on, usually. That was dangerous. But David had them under surveillance tonight, meditating in the well decorated and incredibly neat apartment in Cincinnati that his sisters called "the Fortress of Solitude," even though Doctor Wong finally had a boyfriend.
It also had sound dampers, also not usually turned on. Otherwise, Charlotte wouldn't have to be relying on her cousin's psi-ninja powers to eavesdrop on the conversation down in the living room, where the senior Wongs were sitting and making "small talk" with Scout. Uncle Henry had told Charlotte that he wanted to find out what Scout's "intentions towards his neice" were. But he'd said it with the widest, cheekiest Dad grin that Charlotte could ever have imagined.
And certainly not anything she'd ever seen from her actual Dad.
Also, her cousin Jason was down there, acting like this was actually just a thing that was happening. Boys. Because it wasn't happening. Couldn't be happening.
"Breathe, Char Char. You have to remember to breathe. Bad things happen when you stop." May said.
"So what's he wearing?" Charlotte, finally, asked.
Amy passed over her phone. The picture of Scout on the split screen was mainly his white hat, but Amy knew that, and had image searched it. The other side showed some guys in old-timey cavalry uniforms were dancing with women in beautiful Gold-Rush times ball gowns. Was that John Wayne? Having recognised the Duke, Charlotte noticed some other familiar Gunsmokere-reunion-type faces. "Like these guys," Amy said. "Plus his mask. No gold braid, though."
Charlotte sighed in relief. She'd just known that was how he was going to go. A frock coat, blue, wool, blue, white buttons, blue trousers, not creased. Real old-time stuff, but familiar from her summer on Landing. Her dress was perfect. For approximately the eleventy-millionth time, Charlotte regretted not being able to bring the mustard yellow frock she'd worn in the beauty pageant at Geithner's Strike home with her. She hadn't matched the look, gone for something a little fuller below the waist, Gold Rush-style.
She'd spent an awfully long time imagining bringing Scout to something formal. Imagined that he'd be dressed exactly like he was, and that she would be the belle of the ball. A thought she was embarrassed to think again, admittedly. But at least she had the dress for it! And she had been able to pack the shoes from the pageant. (With their heels replaced, of course.)
Still. "You think my dress will work with his outfit?" She asked.
May took her by the shoulders. "It's perfect, Char Char. Now breathe, please."
Charlotte breathed, was pleasantly surprised that, after a moment in which she suspected that she was going to faint, it actually helped.
May turned to her sister. "Wasn't the Old West more about bandannas over the mouth?" May asked.
"He did that look first time I met him," Charlotte admitted. "It's not exactly practical on a date though."
"Snot rag kisses?" Amy asked. "I don't think so!"
"Why is it always making out, with you, Amy-My?" May asked. "Maybe they'll go out to the library and read poetry to each other, instead."
"Char-Char?" Amy said, arching her eyebrow and obviously reading Charlotte's expression. "Yeah, no. Didn't think so."
"So if you've seen him in mask and bandanna, you've seen both halves of his face."
Charlotte nodded. "Still don't have a clue what he looks like, though. I figure that's because I've never met him in his secret identity."
"Then why would he wear the mask?" May asked.
"May!" Amy said, her voice scolding. "If Charlotte can't figure out who Scout is, maybe it's her unconscious or something. You just have to trust in true love."
May put her fingers over her eyes. "This is my eyes rolling. I'm helping with my fingers in case you two dumb-dumbs don't notice." She paused. "No, I'm sorry, Char Char. I'm just being jealous because I've had bad luck with romance."
Jason poked his head around the bottom of the stair. "You know we can hear you gossiping up there."
Amy wrung her hands in front of her in the universal sign of I'm-going-to-strangle-you-the-moment-I-get-you-alone,-twin-of-mine. Meanwhile, May stood up. "Girls?"
But Charlotte was already following her cousin's lead. Though she was mildly surprised not to faint when she reached full height. They were eating in the dining room tonight, actually using it for that, instead of an around-the-corner annex to the living room where you couldn't see the big screen TV.
When she stepped below the wall, so that they could be seen from the living room, Scout stood up from the couch like he'd been hit by an electric shock. "Oh, gosh," he said.
Dimples, a smile, and a flush of embarrassment tried to break out on Charlotte's face at the same time. Part of her was amazed that this was just like TV. The other part was getting mad at the rest of her for blowing her cool.
Scout came to the foot of the stairs. "You're beautiful, Miss Wong." He took her hands and looked into her face, for a long moment, and then stepped back to let her step down on the living room floor.
"Ahem," May said, in way of throat clearing.
"Miss May, Miss Amy, you're as fetching as your cousin said you was," Scout added.
"'Were,' not 'was,'" May said, a cheeky grin on her face.
"May!" Her mother stood up. "Dinner will be served momentarily."
Auntie Ma was as good as her word. Dinner was American-style formal tonight, with a green salad and then a cucumber soup before the meal, with the beef stroganoff served over long, hand-made soba noodles. With the wedding coming up, Auntie Ma had compromised and mixed the sour cream from her own mares with milk she bought from an old Kazakh family in New Jersey.
It was good. Not as good as being at the table with Scout, looking into his eyes, and feeling him, looking back. Though there was a temptation to talk. When she imagined this scenario, Charlotte pictured herself being as effortlessly witty as Elizabeth Bennett, but when she anticipated it (if there was a difference), she expected to babble. She was no Jane Austen character. Charlotte knew that. Heck, she wasn't even an Archie character.
So it was a relief that her Uncle took the lead, when dinner was well done, down to lichee fritters with tea for sweets after, the way it was done in the family restaurant. "I understand you were brought up as a cowboy in the ranch country east of Long Lake, Scout?"
Scout nodded. "You know that Landing got its start when that hombre, Teleios, took over a town somewhere in northern Canada and shipped all the people in it to the planet, so's he could replace them with loyal clones?" He paused. "Well, that's what we tell ourselves. Chances are, the people he sent were clones, too, and the actual people were disintegrated. Anyway, that was forty-two years ago. My parents were just kids, but they took to the wild like anything, going east with the frontier. Eventually, they settled in the ranch country. No doctors, and ma Mom died when I was little. Set my Pop off a little, and after that he rode the cattle drives to Landing, and I was brought up by the cookhouse staff, mostly."
Charlotte felt a wild rush of empathy, and . . something more. Who would those people have been, out on the scarce-populated far frontier of that empty planet. Who? Given what she knew about Scout. Oh. "They were elves, weren't they, Scout? You were raised by elves."
Scout nodded his head, a little flush. "You're a pretty sharp girl, Miss Wong. Yeah. They were. Are."
"She should be. You know she hangs around with a junior detective all the time, right, Scout?" May said. "I think he's rubbing off on her."
Charlotte's kinetic, tactical Eight Spirit Dragon senses detected the flurry of motion as Amy kicked her sister under the table. She ignored the sibling dynamics. There were more important things to think about right now. She put her hand out, let the track lighting play on her bracelet. "So you knew what this was for when you put it on me."
Scout shook his head. "Ah knew it was Elven work of old. Its purposes are a mystery to me. Only, Ah heard its music in my head when I touched it first, and Ah knew it was for you."
"Music is important to elves," Charlotte said, and was amazed at the stupid words coming out of her mouth.
But Scout smiled, like someone remembering something so important and good that it made you sad that you were remembering it instead of being there. "Yeah, yeah, it is."
"Would you care to play something for us, Scout?" Auntie Ma said.
"Well, Ah. . I mean . . ."
"You brought it, you play it," May said, firmly.
"Now she can't make fun of you," Amy said. "So you're clear."
"Ah . . ."
"Please," Charlotte said, and put all her little-girl pleading into it.
They got up from the table and went to the living room. (Well, except for Jason, who was meeting up with John Roy, Rafaella and Emily on Steam for some PvP.) Scout sat in the lone love seat by the window, and put his guitar in his lap, and fretted with it for a long moment, the way that musicians do. Charlotte sat at the piano, idly wondering if she could pick up his lead and accompany him.
At last. "Little Joe the Wrangler, will wrangle never more/ His days with the remuda, they are through. . . It was a long song, and she had the melody by the time that he was done. When he followed it with "Red River Valley," Charlotte was able to play along from the beginning.
Though she wasn't entirely sure why she did. He was good.
Finally, Scout plucked the last note of the plaintive song about the cowboy leaving his girl in one or another of the Red Rivers of the west.
Auntie Ma sighed. "That was good, Scout."
Scout didn't seem to take the compliment well. Hunh.
"No, better than good," she continued. "I'm reminded of Stevie Nix's version. You're pretty ambitious for a fifteen year-old musician."
Charlotte could have picked her chin off the floor to hear her Auntie reference Stevie Nix. A glance around the room showed that her cousins were just as surprised. And now Scout flushed. "Thanks. Ah'm just trying to be my best. That's all Ah do. Shootin', and, for something constructive, music."
He paused, and a fake guile came over him. "But Ah'm getting a little flushed. Ah think a walk after dinner would settle me up a spell. Miss Wong, would you be so kind as to show me this here neighbourhood of yours?" As he said it, he shrugged on his trade blanket jacket, and put the big, fur overcoat he'd worn to the Yurt over his arm.
"Have her back by 9," Uncle Henry said. He did such an awful job of hiding his grin that Charlotte almost went over and puched him. Didn't though. It would have ruined the mood. Instead, she looked up, nodded, and was out the back door and off the porch and almost in the back alley before she realised that she'd been so flustered that she'd walked out of the house without a jacket.
She had a moment to wonder why everyone had let her do that before, even without mentioning how cold she was, Scout put his big, fur jacket over her shoulder. "Buffalo girl, won't you come out tonight," he crooned.
Charlotte laughed, because it was an actual buffalo robe jacket, and leaned into Scout. "Won't you be cold?"
"Ah wasn't lying when Ah said Ah was flushed. But Ah was lying when Ah suggested Ah didn't know this neighbourhood."
Charlotte looked at him quizzically. This night had been so magical up to now. And she had no idea why the word "magic" came to her head so forebodingly.
"What Ah mean is, there's sign around here Ah've seen before. Come on." At the end of the alley, on the opposite side from the tree where Charlotte had too often waited to be picked up by drivers that didn't want to go up the alley or down the street in front of the Yurt, was a little patch of grass. Stranded, like those patches often were, between sidewalk and street. Scout crouched down and tugged on it. It folded back, revealing an unexpected hole.
Well, holes and tunnels were expected. The one that linked the Yurt to the underground base couldn't be more than a half block from here. What was unexpected was that, instead of giving off high tech, underground-base type light, the hole was lit from within by the wet sunlight of spring.
Scout hopped down into it and disappeared. Charlotte followed.
It wasn't a teleportation gate. The space inside the hole was a tunnel. Charlotte's senses told her that, even though it was green and sunny and full of life –well, not actually made of sun and grass and life. It was still a tunnel in the ground. But it was a tunnel in the ground that was the next best thing to a meadow in spring. Somehow. A short tunnel, though, one that ended with a gray wall.
"Did you know that you lived next to an elf mound?" Scout asked. "Old and hidden, but an elf mound."
"No," Charlotte said, "I didn't. Wait. Aren't these stasis traps? Fail your save and be stuck down here for a hundred years?"
"Unless you're the King of Elfland's daughter, and you've been holdin' out on me, Ah wouldn't worry 'bout that."
Charlotte squinted at him. "And you're not?"
Scout shook his head, sadly. "Sometimes Ah wish. You're lucky, Miss Wong. When your Ma and Pop couldn't keep on, yer aunt and uncle were there. Me? Ah can never be the King of Elfland's son. Ah still have a Pop. Now come with me, a little further." And he walked through the wall.
Oh. Again. Charlotte followed Scout, stepping, cautiously, through the wall, and the weird, gray space-that-wasn't space beyond. Because this was familiar. This was like the Drindrish starship, the one that hovered in place in its cave above Geithner's Strike for fifty thousand years until Charlotte, her friends, and her enemies, had come to mess it up.
"And now I know how those stories about elf mounds got started," Charlotte said. "They're in hyperspace." Though this wasn't the hyperspace she remembered. Just like the tunnel beyond had been green and sunlight instead of cold and mechanical, so, inside, it was dark, burnished wood, and the warm, flickering light of lamps and candles in a room hung with characters on bamboo mats. Harmony, Charlotte recognised right away. And Tranquility, Serenity. All what she would have expected. Love was a little too female and warm for classic calligraphy, and . . Intrigue? Well, Scout was wearing a mask.
"You say hyperspace, the elves say the afterlife. This is where they keep themselves away, to live out the ages of the world."
"Doesn't seem so bad, for a Hell," Charlotte said.
"You should see it when they're throwin' parties."
On the mat in the centre sat a tea service. A kettle boiled away merrily over a lamp set beside it.
"Hunh," Scout said. "Seems it's been decorated for you."
Charlotte was already settling herself in a full lotus in front of the service. A porcelain jar of tea leaves was to her left. She lifted a few in the stirring tong, crushing them as she did so. The scent, although obviously tea, was like nothing she'd ever smelled before. She put a good measure into both cups, and poured a hot water wash over them. As she carefully poured it off into the empty pot beside, a wonderful smell of grass and flowers filled the room.
Scout sat down opposite her, managing a full lotus surprisingly easily. "Is this, like, a tea ceremony?"
"Do I look like Japanese?"
"Why are you blushin', then?"
"Well, there is a Chinese tea ceremony, but. . ." Charlotte was not going to go there, give in to the crazy impulse to imitate the wedding offering. It was true what people said about teenage girls in their crushes, Scout would think, as he found some excuse to back out.
"Oh." He said. "Ah get it. Ah think Ah'll just enjoy some tea. Right?"
On the third infusion, the leaves were fully uncurled, and Charlotte handed Scout his cup without a word.
He sipped. His eyes went wide. Another white boy who'd never tasted real tea, properly done, she thought. Not that people on Landing had ever tasted much of anything done properly. Just the thought of that brought the memory of Landing coffee back.
"What?" He said.
"Better than Landing coffee?" She asked.
"Seriously? Have you tried it?"
Charlotte sipped. And realised that Scout's reaction had nothing to do with a first experience of good tea. Her head spun. Her Eight Spirit Dragon senses expanded. She could have sworn she could hear the blood in Scout's veins as it susurrated down the passages, and whatever magic his neck clasp held glowed with light-of-power. Babylonian, though, and not Elven. Hmm. A mystery for another day.
"I'm. . . " She paused. "Is this drugged?"
"Ah don't think so," Scout said. "It's just Elven tea. Be glad it's not Elven wine, or you'd really be flyin'."
"Ah'm not entirely responsible for mah self right now, you know, Miss Wong." He leaned over, kissed her. Quickly, because it was hard to have a long and passionate clench across a mat when you were sitting in the full lotus position.
Charlotte rolled over on her side, kicked her feet out, ended with her head in Scout's lap, looking up, way up, at his face. "You have to be responsible enough to have me home in half an hour."
"Works for me," Scout said, his head coming down to kiss her again.


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Thursday, August 31, 2006
What Do You get When You Cross a Metal Dinosaur and an Indie Rock Pussy?
Monday, August 21, 2006
Technically, The Devil is From There
From the deepest hell-pit in Tasmania, the remotest place on Earth, belches forth the gloriously primitive Striborg (more...)
Thursday, August 17, 2006
There in Your Car, You Would Feel Safest of All Too
According to a recent interview in The Irish Times, Gary Numan's alienation shtick was partly due to his having Asperger's syndrome, a style of anti-social autism, and never smiled because he was embarassed by his giant teeth.
Here is the full interview http://www.ireland.com/theticket/articles/2006/0811/1154691568928.html
Not jumping on any bandwagon or boasting or anything, but I was an immediate adopter of Gary Numan back in 1981 or whatever, my little "Cars" 45 sitting alongside Rod Stewart and the Police and my step-brother's BlackSabbath and Grand Funk Railroad records. I felt his disconnect in my own inability to play well with others, without being to articulate such as a very awkward 10-year old. I felt safest in all in cars (BA-bump, buh BA BA-bump deedle EEP)
The melody from "Cars" was one of the first things I ever figured out on guitar, and the metal-head co-worker identified it immediately and forebade me ever to play it again in his presence, but that's OK. With headphones, distortion pedals and cavernous reverb, it brings back the cold comfort I found in that music.
He played here in town about 8-9 years ago at the goth night at some horrible nightclub that has transformed into countless other horrible nightclubs since, and among the many regrets I have from that era, not going to see him is one of them. Not that I think it woudlve been life-altering or anything, but it might have brought about my resolve to be true to that what the Lord made me. Maybe I tuly was a disaffected freak who felt his life was lived in a fishtank, and maybe I was not the only one. I heard from a girlfriend that did attend that it was rather embarassing - and this was at a goth night , mind you - so maybe its all for the best.
Check this out: It's his car. If I had crazy lottery money, I would buy that car, install it in a pure white, climate controlled garage with no door, just so I could sit in it with the windows rolled up and temporarily protect myself from the world.
I was tempted to say this would also be the Best Suicide Car ever, but that would actually be this one: the Hearse-Jaguar from Harold and Maude.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Rock Out With Your Hitchcock Out
Three composers, Norway's Kaada, Iceland's Mugison and former Bad Seed Barry Adamson, all demonstrate what its like on the movie set in their heads. (more...)
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
We Will All Die When Our Ship Comes In
Review: Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky (Durtro)
The end of the world has never sounded so appealing as it does when Current 93's David Tibet hurries you to the exit (more...)


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A personal breakthrough occurred in my life after a very long, excruciating, misguided and troubled journey. I had a stable job; met Thozi, my husband, and life was great. I was happy and had everything I wanted. It is during this euphoria and sense of accomplishment that I had this Dream, or vision, a heavenly intervention. It was January 2002.
In the dream, it is the eve of my mother's funeral. Her body is at home in preparation for the burial the following day. I am the only one, who is intrinsically aware that my mother is not dead, and I decided to steal the body. I took her and hid her under my jacket and walked away.
I was walking down the street, which at the end, I found myself in these beautiful, tranquil surroundings. This place is huge and stretched out like the sea, with green grass and a blue sky. Whilst marveling at this beautiful spectacle, water started shooting up all around in a circular motion, and then I looked up and saw a white cloud descending from above and in it was....
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I had planned to write an intelligent post today. I'd tell you more about it, but I might get around to writing it soon, so I'll save the brilliance. Naturally, this also allows me to save face if it turns out to be less clever and more huh?
The last week and a half, since my children left school for the summer, it has felt as though my brain shut down. I'm still moving, speaking, and making plans, but I don't feel as though I am thinking. I can't seem to process things more than a step ahead. Which is naturally a problem. Not only do I need to plan life, but I am going on vacation next week and finishing a novel. These are things that require thought and planning.
It's as if I am living someone else's life for a few weeks. Someone has made plans for tomorrow with their children, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't me. Someone wrote out a chapter on my computer; unfortunately I can't use someone else's work. Someone is going to have a great time in Scotland, and I hope they show me pictures when they get back.
I'm going through the motions, feeling slightly disconnected and I'm not sure why.
I imagine it starts with a changing sleep schedule. Since we don't have to be up for school, it's much harder to get up in the morning. Instead of getting up early to run, I shut off the alarm and sleep in. Granted, sleeping in is only until about 7 am, but it is still a slightly off schedule.
Of course since I keep turning off my alarm instead of running, my workout schedule is off. I don't feel the same when I don't run regularly, but it becomes much harder to run down a narrow busy road when you would need to take your six year old along because you overslept.
Having already slept differently and exercised differently, it doesn't take much else to my normal routine to have me completely thrown off. I was trying to establish a routine, but it seems pointless. We have doctors appointments, vacation, and then three weeks of day camp. I can't get us into a routine anytime in the next month because things are going to be changing too much.
So what can I do about this lost, dazed feeling? I can't keep going around, feeling as though I am not a part of the life I am living. I need to wake up and get back on track.
It starts out small. Do something normal, something you would do everyday. Take that tiny, normal moment, and run with it. Add it to something else, and something else, and something else, until you have a whole day of normal activities. Wake up the next day, and do it again. Even when the day is not normal, find something you can do daily, and keep it.
So today, I had my coffee. I wrote a post, even if it isn't about much. I'm going to take my dog for a walk, do my Tone it Up routine. I'm going to write until I hit my word count, do some homework, and maybe watch a movie with my kids. I'm going to cook dinner, go to bed at a reasonable time, read until it is no longer a reasonable hour, and then sleep. In the morning I am going to wake up, and do it again.
Here is to getting back to normal!


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An unidentified middle-aged trader on Friday attempted to commit suicide by lying in front of the rare tyre of a truck to prevent authorities of the Cross River State Ministry of Environment from confiscating her goods worth N5, 000.
It was learnt that the incident, which happened in front of Oando Filling Station, opposite the back wing of the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar, attracted passers-by.
A member of the task force in the ministry had threatened the petty trader over alleged violation of a new trading policy, which barred traders from displaying or erecting shops in opens spaces along major roads.
But the trader, it was learnt, pulled the stunt when her source of livelihood was about to be taken away.
The trader had publicly lamented that she preferred being crushed to death by the truck, than to allow the task force to take her means of livelihood.
Items on the woman's wares were items like biscuits and drinks.
The State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Mike Eraye, had in the last few weeks warned hawkers and roadside traders to desist from displaying their wares along major roads.
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First up is the base and Target Red parallel of the 2013 Topps Update Patrick Corbin All-Star card.
This is my favorite card that Marcus sent. It's the Sepia version numbered to 75. I now have the Base, Refractor, X-Fractor, Purple, Blue, Sepia, and Gold versions of the 2013 Topps Chrome Paul Goldschmidt.
Here is a Purple Toys R Us version of the 2013 Topps Adam Eaton RC.
Here is a Minor League card of A.J. Pollock while he was the Reno Aces.
2013 Topps Update Gold parallel of Eric Chavez.
2013 Topps Archives Paul Goldschmidt.
2012 Topps Gold parallel of Ryan Roberts. I already have it, but it's just a great card featuring a moment that I will probably never forget.


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Call of Duty: WWII is aiming to be as historical as possible so we can expect to visit some great historical places where intense battles took place. It has already been confirmed that Call of Duty: WWII story takes us back to the roots of Call of Duty and its intense storyline is the highlight this year. The very first two missions of the game will take us to Hurtgen Forest And Normandy. Both battles lay the foundation of things to come in Call of Duty: WWII story, the things players will experience.
This means that we know of two locations already, Normandy and Hurtgen battles. Hurtgen Forest hosted fierce battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944 between the American and German forces during the World War 2. The battle of Hurtgen Forest is the longest battle fought on German ground, and longest the American army has ever fought. The main goal was to keep the German forces pinned down in one location to stop them from reinforcing the front line.
Meanwhile, in the Invasion of Normandy, the western allies launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy. Another great battle is the Battle of Bulge. The battle took place on 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945 and it was the final major German Offensive campaign during the World War II.
Battle of Monte Cassino aka Battle of Rome is another major battle we would love to experience in Call of Duty: WWII. Allies lost their lives while fighting for freedom in Italy. The main campaign might not feature this location as it is based on the American efforts. However, DLC is our best bet.
Want to know what other battles we can expect in Call of Duty: WWII? Check out the video above.


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When Josh and I met, I was fairly happy with my body/weight/size. Sure, I could have been more toned and had a little excess weight, but I was content. Now, almost two years later, I feel like a cow. I have gained so much weight that I can't even wrap my head around it. At my smallest in high school, I weighed 115 and could fit into a size 4. Not no more. I won't even tell you what size I am now, because it makes me cringe.
So, I once again decided to try to change that. I started looking into the Atkins Diet, and it intrigued me. It also scared me. I am a total carb lover. Give me bread, give me pasta, give me doughnuts. Anything involving dough. So giving all that up was a daunting task. Now, obviously you have to have some carbs in your diet; its just about limiting those, and getting healthier varieties of carbs. Bye bye doughnuts.
I'm not completely adhering to the Atkins rules, but am using their guidelines. I've started paying more attention to the carb/fiber numbers on packages, and paying less attention to the calories. It has been a real learning experience to see the ridiculous amount of carbs I was taking in. I've learned more about what kinds of foods to choose (veggies, things high in fiber, some fruits), and what kinds of foods to not choose (Cheddar bagels, muffins and doughnuts, pasta). It has taken some getting used to, to say the least.
This is my first week of trying this out, and I am still desperately craving carbs. But that's to be expected! I've been making healthier choices, and being more conscious of just what I'm putting in my mouth. And the best part? I'm already down 3 pounds!
Here's hoping another 20 or so pounds just falls off this weekend! (A girl can hope, right?)
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Lusting for Fat: Gainers Come Out of the Closet
As Fat Acceptance Voices Grow Louder, Blogs Celebrate Putting on the Pounds
He goes by the name "Git," a 22-year-old man from Kentucky who is on a quest: to weigh as much as he possibly can.
The photos of him as a skinny 18-year-old college student are startlingly different than the love-handled, 245-pound man that he has become.
"Lately I've been infatuated with the physics of my belly," he writes on his blog, Gitbigger. "I'm starting to notice how it moves with me, how it gets in the way, and it makes me daydream about how it will feel when I'm bigger."
"The more attention I pay to it, the easier it becomes to imagine sizes like 300, 400. I like to think I don't romanticize it, but I can't help lusting over those sizes."
Those who are obsessed with gaining weight are known as "gainers," a once-underground proclivity that is squeezing its way out of the closet as the voices for fat acceptance grow louder.
Sometimes, the practice is sexual – so-called "feederism" -- when the gainer is aided by a "feeder" who takes on more and more control as the gainer becomes physically incapacitated.
They seek each other out online with acronyms like BBW (Big Beautiful Woman); SSBHM (Super Sized Big Handsome Man) and FFA (Female Fat Admirer).
An array of online blogs like Feeder Fantasy, Dimensions Magazine, and Feed or Get Out extol the virtues of getting bigger.
"The days of justifying our fatness by lying and saying we have a mysterious genetic or metabolic disorder are over," says the Bigger Fatter Blog. "We now freely admit to and embrace what the fat haters would call gluttony. We are fat because we eat huge amounts of food and we like it."
And, as major health experts have noted lately, they say, "fat people are now the overwhelming majority." Fat Bastard, Bigger Fatter Blog
One fat acceptance blogger wrote: "I'm tired of all of us being treated like circus side shows."
AnnMarie, who runs a BBW web site told ABCNews.com she is not a gainer, but defends the privacy of a plus-size world.
"We're just large people trying to navigate a world that is not built for us, in social lives that are set up to belittle and degrade us, and we try to maintain happiness, dignity, love, jobs, families," she wrote. "We're only different because we aren't apologizing for who we are. We're only different because others want to keep making us feel that way."
The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance also condemns the practice of so called "feederism," because it coerces a person to become larger.
In a special report, the celebrity magazine In Touch Weekly looks at what it calls Hollywood's "big new obsession" and the perks of being overweight: "fame and fortune."
Another credible news outlet quotes Bigger Fatter Blog. Link
The days of justifying our fatness by lying and saying we have a mysterious genetic or metabolic disorder are over," says the Bigger Fatter Blog. "We now freely admit to and embrace what the fat haters would call gluttony. We are fat because we eat huge amounts of food and we like it."
I give this Bigger Fatter Blogger a lot and I mean a lot of credit. "We are fat because we eat huge amounts of food and we like it." Amen brother. Can't argue with that. It's the opposite of this guy that give fat people a bad rap. The ones that say they can't help it. The ones that make a stink at the airport that they can't fit in the seat and need a free flight.
Here are some more sources who quote Bigger Fatter Blog.
OF ALL fat related sites Bigger Fatter Blog is ranked number 10 with a bullet!
An important point!
Finally after three years of hard work by Dr Gerald "Teddy" Bear, Fat Bastard, and even our adversaries CG Brady, Michael Karolchyk and MeMe Roth the news media is finally reporting that glorious greedy gluttony is the cause of obesity. The next part of our mission is to show them that gluttony is GOOD!
Driving the point home!
As the Dean of Feederism I most strongly disagree with the assertion that one cannot maintain any body weight they desire. There will be no pseudo-science here. What I would like to convey is that obesity IS a choice and I think it is a good choice for gluttons.
Now for the science:
Your body constantly generates energy, which it needs to power all the systems of your body, heart, muscles, brain, nervous system, etc. After that energy is used to do the many processes, it ALL then gets later given off as heat, in several different ways. Some gets lost by your skin radiating and convecting heat away. More heat is carried away by your warm breath. Your perspiration evaporates from your skin, which gives off additional heat. These things ALWAYS happens!
On average, the total food energy content that you eat/drink is the same as the total energy that your body needs for all of its operations and it is also equal to the total energy that your body gives off after it is done using it. This is called that BMR Basal Metabolism Rate, and for adult men, it is around 2,200 Calories per day. For women a little less. For people of different body types, a little more or less.
During the daytime, you are more active, and so more processes occur inside you, so more energy needs to be processed and then discarded, and so your skin temperature is slightly higher than when sleeping. While you are sleeping, everything slows down BUT DOES NOT STOP!
Consider that this whole sequence can be affected by any of the three stages. (1) You could eat more or less food; (2) you could do a lot more work or exercise to get your body processes to convert more food/fat into energy; or (3) you might alter the ability of your body to dispose of the excess heat, and also to breathe out more breaths of carbon dioxide. Your body has the capability of adjusting its activity due to differences in any or all of these three areas. Specifically, in a really hot environment, your body can shut down many systems to reduce the energy that needs to be generated, down to a low of around 20 Calories per hour (research data from Frederick C. Hatfield, of ISSA), in order to try to avoid overheating.
We are going to consider the situation for the eight hours each night that we sleep. In a relatively cool room environment, your sleeping BMR (Basal Metabolism Rate) only drops a little from the daytime 100 Calories per hour, down to around 80 Calories per hour. Your body has many processes that it still needs to do, like digestion, operation of the heart, lungs and other organs, thinking as during dreams, etc, which is why the 80 Calories per hour is very common. Your rate of breathing slows some during this form of sleep, but not too much, so it still rids the body of a lot of carbon dioxide each hour.
Now that the "I can't be slender myth" is busted I would like for fat folks to embrace their fat, hedonistic and gormandizing ways and rid themselves of the guilt and the apologetics that has kept the FA movement stagnant for so long.
|From EATING MACHINE to HOT and LEAN!
|From ROLL models to ROLE models
|From fat to I'd I'd HIT THAT!
|From eat-beast to human!
|From Landwhale to Human
Myth BUSTED!
|From food slut to hottie!
|From Plumper to I'd HUMP her!
Myth BUSTED!
|From OINKER to I'd BOINK her!
Yes Adam, the jealous fat girls of the old fat acceptance movement are indeed delusional. I agree Jamie. I wouldn't fuck them with Buster's dick.


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Primetime soaps Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Teen Bahuraniyaan and their respective channels (Star Plus and Zee TV) are certainly cashing in on their leading ladies, Gautami Gadgil and Smriti Irani.Mumbai Mirror had earlier (December 12, 2007) reported about Teen Bahuraniyan replicating the look of Smriti's character on the lines of Tulsi. In the same interview, Tarun Mehra, business head of Zee TV, had said, "We are in the business of entertainment. The show is in the 10.30 pm slot and we will definitely do all we can to cash in on our strengths.
And so the channel lives up to its words. Now they have gone ahead and scheduled Smriti Irani's Ahmedabad visit at the same time as Gautami Gadgil's visit to the city's slums.
While Star Plus is planning to take Gautami Gadgil (Tulsi of Kyunki…) to Ahmedabad for a chawl visit on January 11. Zee TV has planned to take Smriti Irani to Ahmedabad for the kite festival. Smriti is supposed to land in Ahmedabad on Janary 13.
Zee has been playing its cards well to take the sheen away from the rival channel's (Star TV) top-grosser. Says a source, "This is a brilliant action plan on the part of Zee TV. They have not only cast Smriti's character in Teen Bahuraniyaan in the Tulsi mould (Vrinda, Smriti's character in Teen… also means Tulsi), but also scheduled her Ahmedabad visit at the same time as Gautami's."
Gautami Gadgil in Kyunki…
Our source adds, "Smriti being a more well-known star will easily grab the limelight. Zee is using Smriti (who was once Ekta Kapoor's protégée) to pull down Ekta's show, Kyunki…, the same show that made stars out of both Ekta and Smriti."
Tarun Mehra of Zee says, "We are planning to take Smriti to Ahmedabad on January 13 to celebrate Sankranti. She is very popular in Gujarat and we are sure that the people will love to have her participating in their celebrations."
He adds, "Smriti and Janaki (the main lead of Teen…) might go to Ahmedabad together for the promotion of the show. Though it was the channel's idea to take her, Smriti herself was quite keen on the visit. I am not aware that Gautami will be going to Ahmedabad at the same time."
When asked about Smriti's Ahmedabad visit being planned at the same time as that of Gautami's, Anupama Modoloi, creative and programming head of Star Plus laughs and says, "Gautami will be going to Ahmedabad to interact with the local people. It has already been delayed because Gautami's daughter was unwell. About Smriti being taken to Ahmedabad at the same time, you have to ask Zee."


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"I don't make hell for nobody. I'm only the instrument of a laughing providence. Sometimes I don't like it myself, but I couldn't help it if I was born smart."
1st Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden.
"From here to Eternity"
1st Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden.
"From here to Eternity"
Paul Valery
"You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time."
The Wisdom of the Ages
"When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed',"
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Pity The Poor Boatswain's Mate
You all can read captions.
Pay attention to the dates.
This is called the "MacKay Low Visibility" camouflage pattern.
More of a standard, if there was such a thing, "dazzle" pattern.
Again, look at the dates.
I'm going to make you guess the punch-line...
PS; I know it's the opposite side of the boat.
It doesn't matter - check the website (link below).
Next slide please...
Make up your fucking minds, people!
Photos courtesy of the Naval Historical Center.
Go, Deck Apes!
You're what keeps the Navy afloat...
and rust-free.
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Ceratodus Sentence Examples
- The " mudfish " of Queensland (Ceratodus Forsteri) belongs to an ancient order of fishes - the Dipnoi, only a few species of which have survived from past geological periods.
- These are the Ceratodus Forsteri and the Port Jackson shark.
- Lung-fish (Ceratodus) was the most primitive (or Archipterygium), placed as the primordial type a fin which palaeontology has proved to be one of the latest types if not the last.
- Three genera of fossil fishes, Cleithrolepis, Semionotus and Ceratodus, ascend from the Beaufort series into the Cave Sandstone.


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Most Haunted Kelvedon Nuclear Bunker
The Bunker had three main lives. Initially as an RAF ROTOR Station and latterly a Regional Government Headquarters, with a brief period in the 1960's as a civil defence centre. There were also spare bunk beds in the tunnel, to help accommodate some of the hundreds of civilian and military personnel that would be stationed here in time of nuclear attack. The bunker was built on land requisitioned from the local farmer J.A.Parrish.
Paradoxically as the heat of the Cold War died down, the bunker and it's ancillary systems were no longer required by the Government, and were costing up to 3 million pounds a year to keep on standby. Upon decommissioning in 1992 the bunker was bought back from the government by the Parrish family, at a closed bid public auction, and hence is now privately owned.
First Broadcast: 24th November 2009