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And since 1987 they have become part of the Sodexo Group, who are experts in the field of hospitality and organise catering and other aspects for well known events throughout the world. As well as being linked with the Bateaux Parisiens, the Sodexo Group are also in partnership with the French Tennis Federation and support the French Tennis Open at the
Roland Garros Stadium
in Paris, they provide the catering requirements for the Dakar Rally, Royal Ascot, the Paris-Vincennes Racecourse, along with supporting the Tour de France, plus they are linked with the
Eiffel Tower restaurants
and much more.
So as you can no doubt tell from their prestige, you are definitely assured of a quality service while on board the Bateaux Parisiens, plus they also have a bistro on the quayside with a fantastic view of the
Eiffel Tower
Also, the Bateaux Parisiens cruises now manage the
shuttle service, which is the boat that constantly goes up and down the River Seine with selected stops that is used as a hop on and hop off service for people on
holiday in Paris
, as well as those living and working in the city.
And because of the quality of service provided by the company, it not only deals with individuals, but also hosts private and corporate events and caters for well over three million passengers each year that want to discover the
monuments in Paris
and the famous river from a completely different perspective.
The Bateaux Parisiens boats
We mentioned earlier that there are twelve boats in the fleet, with the first one being the yacht that is called the Bateau Bretagne and has a capacity of only 92 people seated and this is a restaurant boat utilised for private events and for dinner cruises.
There are four other restaurant boats, which are classed as Panoramic Boats and are named after jewels and the first one of these introduced was inaugurated in 1984 called the Bateau Onyx.
Then came the Bateau Saphyr that was originally inaugurated in 1989 under the name of Symphonie, yet was completely renovated in 2009 and provides seating for up to a maximum of 160 people.
This was followed by the Bateau Cristal, that was designed by the architect Gerard Ronzatti from the Seine Design Agency, seating up to 260 people for a dinner cruise on the River Seine. And finally the Bateau Diamont, which is the largest restaurant boat in fleet that can seat up to 340 people, was inaugurated in 2002.
When it comes to the cruise tours on the River Seine, the Bateaux Parisiens have seven boats and these are all named after famous people in the entertainment world, and the first was a motor launch built in 1975 and named the Bateau Jean Marais after the French actor.
Then came two Hydrospaces boats, with the first being called the Bateau Brigitte Bardot that has been in service since 1979 followed by the Bateau Juliette Greco that has been in service since 1982. And another motor launch was added to fleet in 1984 that was named the Bateau Yves Montand, which was renovated in 2008.
The 1990s saw the launch of three Trimarans that were all designed by the architect Gerard Ronzatti and can accommodate up to 580 people on a tour along the River Seine, with over 300 seats being sheltered from the elements.
The first of these trimarans, which was inaugurated by the French actress Jeanne Moreau and bears her name was put into service in 1995, which was followed a year later by the Bateau Catherine Deneuve and was also inaugurated by the French actress herself, then finally you have the Bateau Isabelle Adjani that was put into service in 1999.
The Bateaux Parisiens services
The Bateaux Parisiens offers the tour cruises on the River Seine with the departure point for the tours being either at the foot of the Eiffel Tower or at the
Notre Dame Cathedral
on the Ile de la Cite island.
There are also many different packages available such as an enchanted cruise with actors providing singing and history, or if you wish to enjoy a meal as well as a cruise you have the options of a lunch cruise or a dinner cruise, whether it be as a family, in a group or for a romantic evening for two.
There is also a quayside brasserie and bistro in Paris run by the Bateaux Parisiens company called Le Bistro Parisien, which provides an exceptional view of the Eiffel Tower, the
Trocadero Gardens
and the River Seine.
And having been entirely redecorated in 2010, this
restaurant in Paris
provides an open airy space inside along with a lovely terrace that provides a self service lunch menu, which turns into a traditional bistro of an evening. Yet Le Bistro Parisien also provides breakfasts, as it is open from 9.30am and has continuous service through to 10pm in winter months and until 11pm from April to the end of October.
The Bateau Quais La Terrace, as it is known, is open from April through to October and offers a variety of different snacks such as sandwiches, pizzas, salads, ice creams and cold beverages, which is open daily from 10am through to 10pm or 11pm during July and August.
In addition to this, on the wharfs where the Bateaux Parisiens are located, you will find their boutiques for a wide range of different goods including leather goods, clothing, tableware, gift packages, postcards, souvenirs and much more, whether they are to take back home or keep for yourself as a memento of your visit to this
tourist attraction in Paris
Access to the Bateaux Parisiens cruises on the River Seine in Paris
Bateaux Parisiens Tours on the River Seine
do not have to be booked in advance and tickets can be purchased at the desk by Pontoon Number 3, although if you are going to be arriving with a group of 20 people or more then booking in advance is advisable, and you just need to print off your booking confirmation and bring this with you. Also if you do book online, then the ticket is valid for any day and any time you choose.
The enchanted cruises do have to be booked in advance online and are a single rate, plus you can book one of the dinner cruises online, or alternatively you can also book at the ticket office located at Pier 1 on the quay at the Eiffel tower departure point. In addition, certain dinner cruises do have to be booked in advance.
But we would like to point out that although every effort is taken to help people with disabilities enjoy the experience, for those that are disabled, you would not be able to access the
on board as a flight of stairs has to be negotiated, yet there are toilets located at the quay where you board the boat.
In addition to this, please remember that if you are booking a Paris Illuminations Cruise on the Bateaux Parisiens, then smart dress is required, also there is a no smoking policy on board all of their boats and animals are not permitted, except for guide dogs.
There are also dedicated dinner cruises on special days of the year, such as Valentines Day, Bastille Day, New Years Eve, etc, but these do have to be booked well in advance and differ in costs and the menu available. Although as with all the dinner cruises, there are menus available for those with special dietary requirements like gluten free, diabetics, vegetarians, etc.
And located at the foot of the Eiffel Tower at the Quay in the 7th Arrondissement of Paris, you normally embark via Pontoon No 1, but there is no actual parking facilities, only for buses and coaches, so the nearest car park is a short walk away at the
Musee du Quai Branly
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Bateaux Parisiens boat cruises on the River Seine in Paris
The Bateaux Parisiens are a company that operate tours and cruises along the River Seine, and whether you are thinking of a short trip with the family, or a romantic dinner, there will be an option for you to enjoy.
About the Bateaux Parisiens
The company was first founded back in 1956 providing boat rides on the
River Seine
in small motor launches, with the first boat being a yacht that was inaugurated by Rene Coty who was the President of France and it welcomed Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain on board on her official visit to Paris.
Over the years they have expanded their fleet of boats and today there are a total of twelve boats in the fleet, seven of which are the cruise boats for tours on the River Seine and the other five are the restaurant boats.


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On Saturday the Cross Country team competed at Kress Creek Farms in the Warrior Classic hosted by Wheaton Academy. The wet and muddy conditions made it a true Cross Country race.
The Varsity ran their best team race of the season to place 2nd out of 12 schools. It was a close finish with only 20 points separating 2nd and 6th place. The top performance came from Joe Sweeney in 10th. Tommy Gleeson set his 2nd PR in as many races to get 21st. Dan Spellman (25th), Jack Mongan (30th), and Steve Sloan (35th) rounded out the scoring for the Crusaders. Other personal best were set by Jack Reddington, Jeremy Frias, Harrison Morg, Grant Gierhahn (Gear-Hon), and Ryan Rice.
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- Alain Aureggio, heir of the Lemercier distillery, based himself on 65 absinthe recipe to create Abisinthe 45 absinthe.
- Abisinthe 45 is delivered in a dark bottle so that the sunlight soes not damage its natural green colour.
- During the Belle Époque, after Pontarlier, Fougerolles had the highest number of producers of absinthe. Sometimes some of the casks used in Fougerolles were sent to Pontarlier to cover their needs.
Lemercier distillery is a family firm founded in 1811. It has always been in the hands of the founder, Nicolas Desle Lemercier's family.
Since 1991, after having achieved commercial studies, Alain Aureggio, also member of the Lemercier family, is at the head of the family firm.
- At first, savour Abisinthe 45 with a piece of sugar. Then add more or less according to your taste.
- For one measure of absinthe (3cl), add 2 to 5 measure of fresh water.
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How do you feel about spring?
I love it! It fills me with such joy to see the first snowdrop… the first daffodil… to hear the birds sing…
After the long, dark days of winter, though it comes gradually, spring keeps coming… and it feels like such a gift.
Below is a poem I wrote one spring, when I'd been going through a rough time. Spring encourages me that, for those turn from wrong, follow Jesus as Lord and trust in alone Him for salvation (and we all need to), there is always hope ahead. Hard times do come to an end… and those who follow Jesus have an eternal hope awaiting them.
When hope comes sparkling, lifts cold mist
And sunshine beckons through bare trees,
And wind once silent trills with song,
The hope of spring has come.
When white buds peep through tired soil
And trees grow little, pregnant buds
And winter, old now, bows her throne
The hope of spring has come.
Then bouncing, laughing yellow life
And madly singing, thrilling world
And sunshine spilling, warming glow
The hope of spring has come.
The rush of colour, laugh of song.
Joy's dance of rainbowed, flowering world.
Strong balm of beauty. Kiss of dawn.
The hope of spring has come.
Forget the long, dark, heavy days.
Gone are the hopeless, weary groans.
The old has gone. The new day dawns.
The hope of spring has come.
And oh! He calls me. Oh, He comes!
"Arise, dear one. Rise up and come!
The winter's past. The rain has gone."
The hope of spring has come.
I lift my weary, heavy head;
Look up with hope now, up to God.
I hear His voice; look up; live on.
The hope of spring has come.
(God is with you right now, waiting to give you hope. He gave His Son to provide a way of rescue from the judgement we all deserve. Jesus died on the cross so that we can be forgiven when we come to Him for forgiveness, turn from wrong and surrender to follow Him. It's not always easy, but He is always there for us and it is the way to endless, eternal hope).


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Monster of the Month brings to life a new monster from ancient folklore every single month for both Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Created using actual folklore gathered by Justin Andrew Mason then expertly illustrated by AAW Games' lead artist Mates Laurentiu (Romania), the monsters are then crafted by Stephen Rowe (Pathfinder RPG) and Chris Harris (5th Edition).
A hulking bipedal figure approaches. It is redolent of pungent musk. Lumbering nearly seven feet tall, the being might be mistaken for a very large human if not for a scant coat of fur. Dark hair (and tangled beard) contrast with its ruddy verdant-toned flesh. The creature moves with cunning and deliberate swagger whilst outfitted with a primitive hide loincloth and crude stone-knapped weaponry. Its wide eyes narrow as its attention focuses on every movement. A dissonance of short grunts call out as it dons an offensive posture.
The basajaun is a caveman like woodland dweller from Basque mythology. The creature was considered to be a protector of livestock, and a teacher to early humans. Legends suggest that the basajaun introduced humans to agriculture, and taught them how to cultivate nature to their advantage. Its name can be loosely translated to mean "Lord of the Forest" and is said to have dwelled within the Pyrenees Mountains. A natural enemy of wolves, the basajaun often befriended shepherds and offered protection to their flocks. Their innate connection as nature spirits also made them privy to the natural world, and distant thunder could be construed as the warning cries of basajaun warning of an approaching storm. Interestingly, some fringe theories suggest that the mythical creature known as the basajaun may actually be a vestigial memories of early Human encounters with Neanderthal, as the Iberian Peninsula from which the myth hails was also one of the last locales the species inhabited before going extinct.


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Laura Mercier Eyeshadows in Black Kharat and Guava
The one is Guava which is a bit of disappointment. Once applied on the actual eye, it really doesn't show up that much, especially if it was used as one wash of colour. Might be enough for a highlight but not much else. It's also reeeally finely milled so it's a little bit on the powdery side of things. I'm sure I'll get some use out of it as I do use neutrals a lot but I'm not so impressed with the quality.
So that's my review of Laura Mercier eyeshadows.
I really want to try the tinted moisturiser which I've heard a lot of things about so if anyone's used this or has a review on it, please let me know and leave me a link- I'd love to read it!
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By Matthew Gass
The last few days have seen hundreds, maybe thousands, of eulogies to Margaret Thatcher. Whether they were kind, cruel, respectful or damning what is clear is that the country felt like it knew her in a very personal way.
I cannot claim to do so. Her last general election victory was a few months before I was born and I spent my formative political years living and studying abroad. […]


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At The Mystic Dandelion, we offer our guests:
- A quiet, comfortable adult environment where you can 'get away from it all'.
- A restful sleep in one of our three luxurious and comfortable guest rooms - each complete with an ensuite bath.
- All guest rooms are non-smoking, and are uniquely appointed with quality linens and furnishings.
- Relax on our back deck or poolside and enjoy the view of our lovely lush gardens.
- Central Air Conditioning.
- Wireless Internet Service available.
- Our friendly dog "Nanouk" and pet cat "Raja", are ready to greet you with a big County Welcome. Since they like to be the centre of attention, we regret we can't accept pets.
- A refrigerator is available for guests and stocked with complimentary bottled water and juices.
- Wineries, art galleries, local food stops and gourmet restaurants, boutique shops, Sandbanks Provincial Park and beautiful scenery are all close by. Enjoy them at your own pace.


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CT1 Chic Chocs, Quebec 2/16/2018
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Chic Chocs, Quebec, QC
Begin: 02/16/2018; End: 02/21/2018
Course Details
The Best Level 1 Avalanche Course on the East Coast!
• Quebec's Chic Chocs are the best training ground for backcountry skiers on the east coast!
• Hut based 5 day course = lots of field time and skiing
• This longer course (5 full days + 1 evening) will go very deep in the Level 1 curriculum ensuring you have ample practice time to get your skills dialed!
• AIARE Companion Rescue single day course included in curriculum→ You will be ready for the AIARE Pro 1 Course!
• Course instructors are IFMGA guides and AMGA ski guides who are out skiing remote locations and big lines making them great teachers ... they walk the walk.
• Acadia Mt Guides Chic Choc courses are the best avalanche courses taught on the East Coast because of the incredible terrain in the Chocs and the course instructors!
The Skinny: What you need to know
• 6 nights lodging in huts, all breakfasts, dinners, final night dinner @ Gite
• 2 guides/instructors→small client to instructor ratio→you learn more!
• Backcountry gear required: AT/tele skis, splitboard
• Cost: 1200.00
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WHY CHOOSE AMG FOR YOUR AVALANCHE COURSE. http://acadiamountainguides.com/instruction/course_descriptions/avalanche_courses.html
#1. Our instructor team is one of the strongest in New England and our courses reflect that. We were at the table early on when the concept of furthering public avalanche education was discussed and AIARE was being created. For several years we were the only climbing school sponsoring AIARE avalanche courses in the eastern U.S. We ran them at a financial loss, brought avalanche guru Karl Klassen (canadian IFMGA guide, chief forecaster for the Canadian Avalanche Assoc., and initial technical director for AIARE) in from western Canada to teach them, and corralled all our friends to attend just to have enough people to run the course. In fact, many of the snow rangers working on Mount Washington were participants in those early courses. Today, times have changed and demand for courses has created an abundance of courses and providers. While all the courses are good, we believe ours to be superior and here's why:
Jon Tierney is the longest standing, continuous provider of AIARE avalanche courses in the east. He first brought avalanche courses to New England as early as 1986 on Katahdin. He began co-instructing with and was mentored by Karl Klassen in the mid 90's. As an IFMGA guide, Jon along with Marc Chauvin (who we also highly recommend) are the only certified Ski Mountaineering Guides regularly teaching avalanche courses in New England. In his lifetime, Jon has spent a lot of time on snow both as a alpine and ski guide and a climbing ranger and you will benefit from that experience. Jon is known for making things easy to understand and his excellent blend of teaching skills that are highly effective with groups. Jon is an AIARE Level I course leader, Level II Instructor course leader and a graduate of the Level III professional course.
Al Mandell is a superb, technically precise skier who has coached several aspiring IFMGA guides on their ski skills in preparation for their ski exams. But more than that he has a huge passion for skiing that you can't help but become infected by. He is an engineer so avalanche science makes sense to him and he is able to share it with participants in a very understandable and excited manner. Al has completed the AMGA Ski Guides Course, is taking his AMGA Advanced Ski Mountaineering Course and Aspirant Exam this spring and will pursue the AMGA Ski Mountaineering Certification the following year. If you take a course with Al, you will take another. Al is an AIARE Level I course leader, Level II Instructor and a graduate of the Level III professional course.
#2. Each participant on an AMGCS avalanche course will be loaned a beacon, probe and shovel. Additionally each group of four will be provided a group snow study kit. Of course, if you have your own we encourage you to use your gear!
#3. At each course we bring a selection of brand new beacons, probes and shovels along with avalanche packs and snow study tools. Student can try these and purchase them at a significant discount.
#4. All AMG clients receive 15% off for LIFE at our retail stores and online at www.AlpenglowGear.com


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Before this new LED household saving bulb, do you remember the CFL bulbs? ugh… what a waste of money, if you tried these bulbs…
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In the past, I have fallen into the light bulb savings hype by the means of the ALL NEW "CFL" (Compact Florescent Light Bulbs) craze. Boy was I tricked by the manufacturers on that hype!
I remember the year I invested approximately over $200 on a few packs of the CFL light bulbs and placed them in my all of my ceiling can lights within the garage, kitchen and living room. What a JOKE!
They were advertised to get something like "100 times" the lifetime of a standard incandescent light bulb as well as reduce the wattage by marginal. Oh yeah, and they were uglier too.
Here are my results/opinions of my experience with CFL Light Bulbs:
- The CFL light bulb replacements burnt out within a years time, one after the other.
- I didn't notice a significant savings on my monthly electric bill.
- As far as reducing the wattage, I noticed when I flicked the light switch ON, the CFL bulbs would be dim in the room until the CFL light bulb would warm up to full wattage after about 1 minutes time.
- Not to mention, if you have to dispose of the CFL bulbs, you practically have to call in a hazmat team. You're not supposed to throw Florescent light bulbs into the garbage due to the gases they contain.
AFTER this, I said NO MORE!
I'm ONLY using the STANDARD, incandescent light bulbs in the future. They cost a couple of dollars each and they last a long time plus, I didn't even see a savings from the CFL light bulbs. Hell, I spent more money on them because they burnt out quicker! What a SCAM, I thought. They GOT ME!
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Ireland enjoys a vast sea area (10 times the land size); fertile, full of fish, clean unpolluted waters onto the Atlantic. That brings both opportunity and responsibility for Ireland. Ireland has a safe, innovative industry that is recognised and respected world wide while its fish-products are acknowledged globally as healthy and nutritious foods. Food Harvest 2020 and Harvesting our Ocean Wealth set out the shared vision of the Government and key stakeholders. Those road maps align completely with the SFPA vision that looks for coasts full of jobs, seas full of fish. Ireland has experienced development, scientific and regulatory agencies and now these increased funds will facilitate the achievement of this shared vision and, in the case of the SFPA, the successful implementation of its strategy over the coming years.
The EMFF funding is a key part of a reformed and reforming Common Fisheries Policy. Ireland has set out a vision for a seafood industry today, and tomorrow, and into the future. This extra funding provides the opportunity to ensure a sustainable present and future for the seafood industry and for the seas and to safeguard the future for Irish seafood. Key features in a reformed and reforming CFP include the reduction of discarded fish and the regionalisation of certain aspects of fisheries management. All of this points to better times ahead for the fishing industry where the exploitation of valuable fisheries resources is managed more thoughtfully and less wastefully for the benefit of producers and consumers alike.
Good regulation underpins everything in these visions. The marine resource is a shared resource for which many actors - big and small – compete. Good regulation is required to protect it and to ensure fish for future generations as well as ensuring consumers world wide can enjoy Irish seafood safely. Good regulators, regardless of their industry or sector, work with all the key stakeholders to deliver fair, effective transparent solutions. The SFPA will do likewise. Ireland's fishery protection responsibilities extend far beyond the Irish fleet. Significant fleets of non-Irish vessels fish in waters under Ireland's jurisdiction, and their compliance is a significant pillar of the equitable basis of the distribution of marine resources off Ireland's shores.
The work of the SFPA supports the livelihoods of some 7,000 Irish fishing industry workers. The SFPA is committed to the continuously fair and sustainable management of the seas, supporting a culture where compliance is the norm. The EMFF money will be used by the SFPA towards achieving this, working together with the Naval Service, Air Corps and the Department.
Specifically, EMFF funding will be used to develop new technologies for managing data, conducting risk analysis and revamping IFIS, VMS, AIS and ERS. The SFPA is going to make it easier to verify compliance, and detect non compliance. The EMFF funding will help the SFPA to develop better risked-based inspection and monitoring programmes where the SFPA intends to combine effective and efficient compliance verification together with targeted enforcement so as to protect the interests of those who uphold the rules for sustainable fishing against those who seek to plunder commonly owned resources for their own short-term profit.
The SFPA is going to develop a common information sharing environment across fishery control partners while also improving interaction with other EU member states. EMFF funding will be also used to support innovation, working with the Department to deliver smart solutions to make it easier to monitor, control and enforce compliance. This will particularly be relevant in relation to the implementation of the new landing obligation, which the SFPA has prioritized during 2015.
As well as assisting with fish on landing, EMFF funding will be also used to support the systems which enable the SFPA to trace the fish and the sales of the fish from Ireland to the growing number of markets abroad.
EMFF funding will facilitate the introduction of education and compliance programs for fishermen to further promote and support a culture of compliance.
EMFF funding will be used towards joint patrols, inspectors visiting and travelling to other key EU ports to carry out inspections, joint training courses to ensure reporting /logging is consistent, whether fish caught in Irish water is landed here or in non-Irish ports. EMFF supported risk analysis systems will lead to more effective sea inspection and air surveillance regime and aligned shore based regime.
EMFF funding will be used to renew and upgrade ships and aircraft, substantially deployed in fishery protection throughout the Irish EEZ.
This money will continue the SFPA's efforts to create a level playing pitch within the Irish EEZ and wider. It will benefit the people of Ireland on whose behalf the SFPA regulates, helping to safeguard the future of Ireland's seas and the reputation of the sea-fishing industry. It will also benefit the 7,000 people who make their living from Ireland's seas, the vast majority of whom operate within the requirements of the EU Common Fisheries Policy. The SFPA aims to protect them through supporting and promoting a culture where compliance is the norm.
The vision for the SFPA is to make compliance easy for them. The SFPA will work with the Department to develop IT systems that make it easy for everyone - from a day lobster fisherman up to a super trawler - to be compliant and to prove it. The EMFF money will be spent on communication, on information and on accessible advice.
There is a small group of people who choose not to be compliant. These people threaten Ireland's marine resources. They have the potential to damage the livelihoods of over 7,000 people and their families and destroy the reputation of Ireland. This funding will help the SFPA ensure that these will be detected and stopped.
This funding presents an important opportunity for the fulfilment of the collective vision for Ireland's marine resource. The EMFF funding is going to allow the SFPA and its aligned fishery protection partners to support and promote a culture where compliance is the norm and stop those who are determined not to be compliant leading to a safe sustainable future for Ireland's incredible resource.
Further information on Irelands EMFF Programme is available on the website of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine at this link: https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/emff/
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I FEEL JUST LIKE RODOLFO, willing the words to spill forth: "This pen is abominable!" he declares as he points his instrument of expression at the painter, Marcello. The painter responds glumly: "So's my brush."
But instead of frustration at lack of inspiration, I am floating on air, still searching for the right words to describe my first trip to the Met Opera. "Overwhelmed" is a good word.
I am privileged to have been one of several lucky staff members from the world's premier opera training institution, the Academy of Vocal Arts, selected to travel to arguably the world's greatest opera stage, the Metropolitan Opera, and to have been able to go backstage as well – how's that for a first trip to the Met?
Our trip didn't start out feeling too lucky, however – in fact, due to a highly volatile combination of heavy traffic and a faulty GPS, we nearly missed the first act. There were seven minutes till curtain and we had just emerged from the depths of the Lincoln Tunnel. "How can we possibly catch it in time?" I lamented regretfully to myself (Snapchat story proves this).
But I had mourned prematurely; my phone read 7:26pm and the Met's entrance was still swarming with people getting to their seats for 8pm curtain. Our party raced off the bus and I tempo-ran between the magnificent columns of the entrance, relief flooding my body as I stepped across the threshold of the international opera house. I'm sure I looked like a cartoon as I stared in open-mouthed wonder, my eyes drinking in the entrance hall.
Inside imagine: all red velvet and blinding chandeliers, cascading royal red carpets, wide glass windows soaking in the light from outside. Look up and the three or four starbursts of glass chandeliers that seemed to be made out of light itself meet your eye. It took me about a beat to realize the great light fixture was made entirely of Swarovski crystals.
Continue looking up, past the chandeliers and your reality of sight seems to multiply: there are levels upon levels of red floors swarming with people. Several times I found myself fin danger of losing my group because I was so immersed in the beauty of the splendor around me.
My phone read 7:29pm and there wasn't any time to waste. We entered the theater and found our seats quickly – the red velvet of the entrance followed us in too and once the chatter and busyness of the crowds fell away and I stopped checking the rows for my seat, I found my eyes trailing upward…
Very little can prepare you for seeing a true wonder. Sure, we've all seen the Great Wall of China's patchwork of bricks or the vastness of the Grand Canyon's gaping mouth in pictures, but when you're actually there, seeing the Wall's graphic and strange beauty or the Grand Canyon's endless, empty space and surprising array of colors, you fulfill a little bit of yourself in some way.
That's how I felt drinking in the sight of the red and gold ageless ceiling of the Metropolitan Opera House, with its seemingly never-ending levels of seats towering up into the sky– dang, the opera hadn't even begun yet and I was already without words, much like Rodolfo (he and I are beginning to have a lot in common).
I settled into my seat (not without taking a bunch of pictures) and almost immediately the lights from the Swarovski crystal chandelier dimmed. The murmur of the crowd ceased and Maestro Dan Ettinger walked into the orchestra pit to uproarious applause. The orchestra quieted, an electricity of anticipation sweeping the theater row by row. I inched forward in my seat like a kid at a movie theater for the first time and held my breath as the curtains parted. The orchestra sprang to life.
Act I opened and time rewound itself.
We were no longer in 2016 New York, 70 degrees outside, but 1830s Paris, 20 degrees and falling. I was looking into the home of two artists, two bohemians as they joyfully lamented their lack of monetary means. The orchestra was beautiful, loud and moved as one musical beast. When listening to the vocalists, I had to keep reminding myself that no mics were in use, that the vocalists' were able to carry their notes effortlessly over the orchestra. This is, of course, one of the many factors that makes opera mind-bogglingly impressive.
Rodolfo, sung by AVA graduate, Bryan Hymel, sang of burning his precious drama to fuel the fire to maintain warmth in the cold apartment. More characters entered and exited the scene until the orchestra filtered itself to just a few violin strings and a knock sounded on Rodolfo's door. A new character was arriving.
"They call me Mimí," says a seamstress as Rodolfo lights her candle for warmth.
Perhaps one of the most well-known scenes in one of the most well-known operas, Rodolfo answers Mimí and in true Bohemian (and operatic) fashion, declares his love for her in a glorious aria. At the end of Rodolfo's aria, to my surprise, the singers froze onstage, locked in each other's gazes as the house erupted in applause, claps echoing around the theater like heavy rain. I was slightly taken aback – I'd thought it wasn't acceptable to clap in between arias, but apparently that's not the case here. Some audience members even stood up and shouted "Bravo!" (for good reason of course – there's a reason Bryan Hymel is one of the world's leading tenors, the evidence of which is still humming in my ears).
An aside – Is it just American audiences that applaud, interrupting the work? I'm told this is common in Europe too and incidentally, as I searched for my seat before the performance began, I heard snippets of languages around me that made me feel as though we were in Europe – but I digress.
Mimí unfreezes, smiles shyly at Rodolfo and Act I continues. In between the first and second act, the curtain comes down and a brief pause is indicated on the subtitles screen on the back of the seat in front of me. I start to contemplate the ability of 3,800 people in one setting to be silent and still, when the curtains part again.
QUICK QUESTION: Have you ever heard a theater full of people gasp in unison? I have. Here's why:
The curtains part to reveal new scene set before us. Now we are on the streets of Café Momus on a hilly and bustling street in the Latin Quarter of Paris, crowds are milling about, shop keepers and peddlers skip in between the SNOW THAT'S FALLING. (GUYS, THERE'S SNOW FALLING ONSTAGE!) Also, there were children running around through the streets (so many kids that I thought, "gosh, they should really be in bed and not outside in the cold," before catching myself). At one point during Act II, a military parade marches by under a giant Tricolore and an actual HORSE is ushered past through the crowd. Musetta enters, AVA graduate, Ailyn Pérez, her voice warm and luscious, ringing throughout the theater, dazzling the crowds at Café Momus with her charm, much to Marcello's discomfort. After much teasing between the two former lovers, Musetta falls back into Marcello's arms and the act closes.
It is worth pointing out that this production is, in fact, 35-years-old. Franco Zeffirelli, famed director and producer of operas, staged La Bohème at the Met in 1981. He designed most of the scenery himself and to this day, the splendor and magnificence of the sets remain onstage and still evoke powerful reactions from audiences.
The opera carries on. Mimí confesses to Marcello that she believes she and Rodolfo are on the cusp of separating. Unaware that Mimí has hidden nearby, Rodolfo enters the scene and shares with Marcello that Mimi's worsening illness is becoming too much for him to bear and that parting with her may be the only solution. Mimí bursts forth from her hiding place and the two reminisce about their past happiness together while in the background, Marcello and Musetta quarrel and hurl insults at each other.
The final act opens with Rodolfo and Marcello reflecting on their mutual loneliness; both have since separated from their lovers and reflect together on lost love. Their friends Colline and Schaunard enter and join them for a meager meal. Suddenly, Musetta arrives at the garret and declares that Mimí is outside but too weak to come upstairs. As Rodolfo rushes to help her, Musetta informs Colline, Schaunard and Marcello that Mimí had asked to be brought to Rodolfo's side to die. Mimí enters the garret and is made a comfortable bed. She and Rodolfo recall their first meeting and happier moments together as Mimí slowly drifts into unconsciousness and dies. The opera closes to thunderous applause and a well-deserved curtain call.
As if the poignancy and pain of La bohème combined with the architectural beauty of the Metropolitan Opera House aren't enough, our party was invited backstage to meet with AVA's alumni after the performance (be still my heart!!). Meeting two of the stars of the opera we had just seen onstage was incredibly thrilling. The entire time I could barely breathe for my excitement. Bryan Hymel and Ailyn Pérez could not have been more personable and generous with their time.
… was long, dark and reflective.
"Dark" in the sense that we drove late into the night and didn't get back into Philadelphia until 2am!
"Reflective" in the sense that I had a luxurious amount of time to mediate on the work I'd just seen. I came to a few conclusions:
1. Puccini's music is lyrical, poignant and tugs at your heartstrings. From a musical standpoint, the melodic structure of the opera contacts sudden increases or decreases in tempo, orchestration and melodies. For me, this musical quickness and suddenness illustrates the speed of emotion and how quickly these characters fall in and out of love with one another, which demonstrates the carefreeness of Bohemian life. The music is a character too: "Musetta's waltz" is nostalgic, syrupy and bittersweet whereas the "streets of Paris" theme is upbeat and celebratory. Even after the orchestra has played its final chord, the music doesn't leave your body.
2. The deeper messages of the opera. "Mono no aware" is a Japanese phrase that expresses a gentle sadness about the passing of something beautiful (example: fallen cherry blossoms on the ground). For me, this was a continuous theme in the opera and the character of Mimí is the personification of this phrase; she is young and gorgeous, yet sick and spends most of the opera near death. She loves the springtime and as part of her occupation as seamstress, she embroiders flowers (which, are in turn, an imitation of a season she won't live to see). It is no accident that she dies in the cruel cold of winter. Her death serves as a reminder of the fleetingness of beauty and the fragility of life, that it is because of life's uncertainly that we are able to appreciate the most precious things life offers us.
3. Opera is art and art is supposed to make you feel stuff. Theater, galleries, orchestral concerts and various other forms of performance/ non-performance art that I'm forgetting help to forge the creative expression with the human existence. All of these experiences open us up to our deeper emotions and reiterations of the human experience, but opera, for me is the most complete: it combines theatrics, music, lyrics and drama in ways that allow stories to come to life onstage. Opera gets inside your body and explores the abilities of the human voice, and in doing so, invites you to look at the world through different perspectives.
There's a reason Puccini has been around for centuries: the work is timeless. If you are fortunate enough to see a performance at the Metropolitan Opera, be it Puccini, Verdi or any composer mastermind, sit back, as they say, relax and enjoy the show.


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Spicy Steve's Thai Recipes
Thai Glass Noodle Salad (Yam Woon Sen)
Thai Glass Noodle Salad description.
200 g lean chicken on minced pork or peeled prawns
3 tablespoons or more chicken Thai soup stock.
1 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon chilli paste
100g cellophane noodles, soaked in warm water for 10 minutes and drained
1 large onion, sliced
2 tablespoons chopped shallots
2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander
2 to 4 tablespoons fresh mint leaves
1/2 cup shredded carrot
Let's Cook:
In a saucepan over medium heat, braise meat in stock for several minutes.
Add lemon juice, fish sauce & chilli paste. Cook another few minutes.
Add half the drained noodles & toss gently, making sure the mixture remains moist.
Add remaining noodles and a little more stock if necessary. Taste. When satisfied with flavour consistency, add onions, shallots, carrots, coriander. Toss gently.
Serve on a bed of lettuce.
Serves 4.


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So, I was planning on making mini cupcakes, but while out shopping my mother and I found this interesting thing from Duncan Hines we'd never seen before. I'm sure by this point everyone has heard of mug cakes; take the ingredients, mix them in a mug, nuke it for a minute–Bam! Instant dessert.
It was really only a matter of time before someone capitalized on such a great idea. So, of course, I had to try them.
They're pretty easy to make. Even easy than "homemade" mug cake, because you don't have to hassle with measuring out all the dry ingredients. The whole thing took about four minutes to make, including cooling time.
Mom suggested adding hot fudge on top. The old adage is true: With age comes wisdom.
It wasn't too dry, but it wasn't really moist, either. It was some middle ground just shy of a dry cake. Adding the hot fudge really helped, and tasted delicious, so if you try these, I recommend picking up a jar of hot fudge, too.
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After the race was abandoned at Ascot last week due to frozen ground, it was rearranged and added to this weekend's amazing Cheltenham Trials Day card, where we'll get some significant pointers for the upcoming Festival in March.
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After last week's racing was frustratingly abandoned, we decided a gesture of goodwill was in order. So, we PAID OUT on the 33/1 enhanced price on Un De Sceaux, even though the race didn't go ahead, and now we're looking to do it all again (with the race actually taking place this time!).
Mullins runner's form points to success
Un De Sceaux won this race 12 months ago when seeing off Sire De Grugy quite comfortably by five lengths and although the rematch isn't going to happen this week, the Mullins runner is still fancied to follow up.
That win was obviously around the Ascot jumps track, but the switch of venue is hardly likely to hinder his chances of success. His last run out at the home of National Hunt racing was in the 2016 renewal of the Queen Mother Champion Chase, where he was beaten by Nick Henderson's popular Sprinter Sacre.
He finished just a nose ahead of the re-opposing Special Tiara that day, but Henry De Bromhead's 10 year old will be vulnerable in the likely slower than ideal conditions, something that will have no impact on Un De Sceaux.
The field don't offer much resistance
Aside from Special Tiara, there's not much else in the field that is likely to trouble UDS. Eastlake and Royal Regatta have won over the distance in the past, but are not given much of a chance at the odds available.
Dodging Bullets hasn't done much since winning the Tingle Creek, Queen Mother and this race between 2014/15 and Top Gamble has struggled in lesser company on his last two outings.
The e/w value could come from Uxizandre, the horse who gave Sir A P McCoy the final win of his illustrious career. Alan King's 9 year old hasn't been seen on a racecourse since that win and is unlikely to conquer Un De Sceaux, but may spring a bit of a surprise to land a place.
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Importance of Post-Acute Alignment, Integration to Value-Based Care
Post-acute alignment and integration at Partners HealthCare is critical to its value-based care efforts.
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- To achieve the ultimate goals of value-based care, healthcare organizations will need to assume greater responsibility over the patient's experience across multiple care settings based on the appropriate level of acuity.
While the process to move away from the fragmentation associated with episodic, fee-for-service care will take some time, it is now requiring the attention of these organizations in the near term to identify areas where alignment and integration with other parts of the care continuum are possible to truly lower care costs and at the same time maintain a high level of care quality.
The continuity gap between acute and post-acute care providers represents an obvious opportunity and one leading organizations are already expending significant effort and resources to address. And at Partners HealthCare, post-acute care has become a vital component of the integrated health system's work in value-based care, according to Partners Continuing Care CIO John Campbell.
"Within Partners, we're a critical part of the care continuum, especially the work that we are doing in accountable care, population health, and other alternative care models," he told RevCycleIntelligence.com.
READ MORE: Post-Acute Care Network Key to Value-Based Purchasing Success
"Alternative reimbursement models really put the emphasis on post-acute as a way to reduce cost," Campbell continued. "We should be able to optimize the patient journey starting at the acute all the way back to home, hopefully being able to move the patient sooner in the process to lower-care, lower-cost settings while still being able to maintain the safety of the patient."
The approach of Partners to aligning acute and post-acute settings is relatively unique and very much a work in progress.
"That's the journey we're on. I wouldn't say we have it perfected by any means, but the fact that we're all in system is a huge asset for Partners and it's allowing us to have conversations and do integration and even understand cost in ways that other systems will be challenged to do," added Campbell.
"We should be able to optimize the patient journey starting at the acute all the way back to home, hopefully being able to move the patient sooner in the process to lower-care, lower-cost settings while still being able to maintain the safety of the patient."
READ MORE: Post-Acute Care Can Help Accountable Care Organizations Save
But that approach points to the road ahead for most of the healthcare industry insofar as forging connections between care facilities specializing in different levels of acuity.
"Post-acute is sometimes overlooked," said Campbell. "In part, that's because not all acute hospitals are part of a fully integrated system like Partners HealthCare. All acute hospitals have to leverage post-acute services, but unless they are within the system, it's not something these hospitals have direct control over or financial exposure to."
According to Campbell, visibility into lower acuity settings is integral to plotting a successful path to value-based care moving forward.
"A previous attitude of 'it's over there and I don't really have control over it, so I'm going to focus on things that I can control' is not going to be sustainable," he asserted. "Obviously, that will change with some of the alternative reimbursement models. Over time, these organizations will have to care about it more. Whether in- or out-of-network, post-acute care represents a huge part of the cost equation and warrants more attention and a focus on integrated delivery strategies.
The burden of post-acute care reimbursement
READ MORE: Post-Acute Care Groups Oppose Value-Based Purchasing Program
Ideally, a patient admitted to an acute care facility gradual progresses through sub- and post-acute settings and eventually moves back to the home. Making that process more efficient allows organizations to reduce the high costs of high acuity to the low costs of low acuity. Doing so is by no means a simple task given the requirements on post-acute care organizations and providers.
"Our top two challenges are we are underfunded and overregulated compared to our acute colleagues. Post-acute was identified a decade ago by CMS as being a huge cost issue within the system — a cost growth area instead of an opportunity," Campbell explained.
"In fairness, there was probably some abuse of post-acute going on," he conceded. "You had what CMS called a hospital within a hospital where an organization designated the fourth floor as an inpatient rehabilitation facility and the fifth floor as long-term post-acute care and kept the patient for the whole time. We're just going to move them to different floors and call it different things. That's not what CMS wants nor is it really improving the cost of the outcome equation."
An increased focus on post-acute services means that these types of organizations are under heavy scrutiny that shows no signs of lessening.
"CMS has come down pretty hard. Every year reimbursements are under increasing scrutiny and the regulatory burden is massive," Campbell observed.
Organizations working toward post-acute alignment and integration will need to come to terms with a different way of doing things than is common in acute settings.
"Acute settings typically have to submit a claim and maybe CMS comes back and asks for documentation to perform an audit," Campbell stated. "Post-acute care organizations have to submit documentation prospectively. We have to submit it throughout this day. We have to submit it at the end of this day. Documentation is voluminous, cumbersome, and costly."
In light of these differences, post-acute care providers face unique challenges tied to documentation and with it demands on their time.
"Therapists and nurses who should be treating patients are spending 20-30 percent of the time completing paperwork frankly that supports revenue cycle but does not really contribute to the clinical care of the patient," said Campbell.
And that documentation burden is not just a matter of ensuring reimbursement. It is also tied to protecting payment against retrospective audits.
"In other words, it's not good enough to say the patient needs 25 percent assistance to walk," noted Campbell. "You have to provide detailed information almost on a day-to-day, shift-to-shift basis. How many steps did the patient walk? Were they were they sitting or standing? Was it in the hallway or in the bedroom? We're literally gathering that detailed information so that if we get audited, it's defensible."
Working toward a streamlined continuum of care
Post-acute integration at Partners began more than a handful of years ago from the very top of the organization.
"Our CEO took the bold step at the time to basically say, 'We need to get it more efficient. We need to start tightening our belt.' The work we did at Partners Community Care was sort of a test for the work that needs to happen and is starting to happen at the Partners level," Campbell recalled.
Prior to that realization, parts of the health system were functioning rather independently and without much regard for its implications for the network as a whole.
"It's really hard to get people to change behavior. It does not come easily. It takes an extraordinary amount of effort, communication, and reinforcement measurements for us to get to value-based care."
"Six or seven years ago, each of our entities was a separate entity with a separate leadership team — these almost semi-autonomous hospitals and delivery sites within our own network within the larger network of Partners," added Campbell.
In working to address fragmentation across the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network at Partners, the post-acute component of the system in conjunction with the academic medical centers, affiliated hospitals, and other specialty facilities to create a means of placing patients in the most appropriate setting and limit variation in doing so.
"We now have a single admitting office that basically from the time the patient is identified as a candidate for discharge begins to manage that whole process," Campbell revealed. "They are dealing with the case management group at the academic medical centers, payers, and admitting offices at the different levels of care within post-acute and gathering all the supporting clinical information and documentation to that ultimately determines where is the patient going to get placed."
That unified methodology carried over to other aspects of the health system.
"On the operations side (nursing, therapy, physicians, etc.), we also have a single executive leadership team — a vice president of nursing, a vice president of therapies, a vice president of physician staff for the network. Having a single leadership team also helps create homogeneity," said Campbell.
The level of behavior change and change management required of these novels approach to streamlined care delivery makes the transition a complex and difficult one. But the payoff of improved patient experience, population health, and cost reduction provides sufficient incentive for staying the course.
"It's really hard to get people to change behavior. It does not come easily. It takes an extraordinary amount of effort, communication, and reinforcement measurements for us to get to value-based care," Campbell concluded.


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P-Rob: A great platform for research and education
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- new "Settings" menu allows to change some myP related settings for improved usability
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On the Tuesday after Labour Day, I logged into my Facebook account to post an update on the Dharma Wanderlust page. Although I do not typically browse my newsfeed, I had a few spare moments and decided to scroll down after seeing an adorable photo of a friend's daughter ready for her first day of the new school year. I clicked 'like' and continued to scroll down, clicking 'like' on many similar photos of children starting kindergarten or Grade 1. I enjoy seeing updates about friends' children. Then the realization dawned on me that of all the parents on my Facebook Friends list, Mr. Wanderlust was one of the very few who did not share a picture of our kids donning backpacks and big smiles.
We consciously choose to not share pictures of our children. In fact, if my personal Facebook account were public, to a scrolling stranger who does not know me or anything about my family status, I might look like a woman in a dating relationship. I'm a parent who occasionally blogs about her family, without sharing too much personal detail.
As part of my Mindfulness practice, I think thoroughly about the subject matter of my blog posts. After I write the first draft of a post, before I sit down to edit it, I ask myself:
Why did I write this? Why do I want to share this? Who is my audience and what might they think of this story? How would the publication of this story make me feel? More importantly, how will the publication of this story affect my family?
Social media and blogging have many merits, but they also allow certain aspects of our lives to be opened to a wider audience, inviting various opinions, whether or not we actually care about them. My children do not choose to have photos of them or stories about them shared with the world outside our home, with people they do not know.
Mr. Wanderlust and I connect with many people online via our social network pages. There are many whom we have never actually met, whom we know only through interaction via this blog or through another online community. We are not comfortable with the notion of certain people looking at pictures of our family. We are not comfortable with the idea that a friend of a friend might be reading stories about the silly things our children did when bored on a Saturday afternoon. If and when I do write a story that involves my family, I edit heavily, doing my best to discern the neutrality of the story.
Respect is the core factor. I do not share photos of my family or friends without their permission; my children are currently too young to understand the myriad implications of using social media, so the decision rests with us, their parents. Some might accuse us of being too paranoid. To some, we might look like parents who don't focus on our children as a priority because we never write about how proud we are of their progress at school, with sports, etc. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We are of the opinion that certain stories are private to us and should stay private, shared only with a select small group of people whom we truly trust and whose judgment matters to us.
When a friend who lives in the same city gives birth to a baby, I prefer the first introduction to be when I visit that friend at home, rather than through pictures posted online minutes after the baby's entrance into this world. I have cringed many times upon reading a status update or seeing a picture that I have deemed to be too private. I have felt like a voyeur intruding on someone's privacy by inadvertently getting a glance into that part of someone else's life.
Several years ago, I used to share photos. Perhaps, I might have been called an over-sharer. It was my mother's question after I posted a picture of myself rocking a pregnant belly that first prompted me to question my online presence. My mom, who spends very little time on social media, asked me why I would want to share a picture of my pregnant self when those who see me every day already know how I currently look, and those who do not see me every day probably do not need to be privy to certain updates. My mom, in her traditional worldview, reminded me of the importance of protecting what is most precious to me and mindfully creating karma. Every action is a catalyst for a reaction that we often cannot predict.
At the time when I received this advice from my mom, I was taken aback, explaining to her that I shared because I enjoyed the connection with the online community. I feel happy for others when they post their pictures and stories, and at the time, I wanted to also share my own joy with the world. My mom didn't press further, but her words led me to re-evaluate my habits.
Today, my personal Facebook page is fairly bare, devoid of the pictures and status updates I once used to share. I might not appear very exciting, but I feel comfortable with this. These days, this blog is my connection to the online community and by writing a post only once a week, I not only provide myself with an opportunity to discern, to edit each story several times, but also to create more time to focus on what is most precious to me: my family.
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Alfred's usual lunch was a roast beef sandwich with horseradish. Most of his life, he'd eaten that on white bread with the crusts cut off, but his doctor had all but twisted his arm over his diet and so now he ate it on multigrain with crusts and alfalfa sprouts.
Today, though, today he was doing a thing that he rarely did, and that was eat out. He did this perhaps once a year and never happily. The great comfort of a regular lunch is never having to decide what to eat, but he had left his sandwich at home in the fridge, so it was eat out or go hungry. And eating out meant making a decision.
Alfred leaned on the counter of his shop and chewed his lip. There was a food court in the South Hertling Mall, but that was far enough away that he felt justified in ruling it out. And both of the food outlets at the Mega Centre had been destroyed at the coming of the Pyramid. That left just two choices, Carol's or the kebab shop.
The nice thing about Carol's was that he could easily order a roast beef sandwich on multigrain bread with alfalfa sprouts, which would certainly please him no end. On the other hand, he felt in a disgruntled sort way that he if he was going out, he ought to eat something out of the everyday. He sighed the weary sigh of the tortured everyman ground down by the mundane horrors of life and trudged from his shop to have a meal that was slightly too greasy for his tastes.
As he left, he noticed Fanaka's spooky girlfriend and hurried on, happy not to have to talk to her. She caused mixed emotions in him. On the one hand, when she turned up to share lunch with Fanaka, he found himself jealous that he had no one to eat with. It had been years since Alfred's marriage had collapsed. On the other hand, she scared the everliving bejeesus out of him. He gave a friendly not in her direction and hurried on without waiting for a response.
He took the long way around to the kebab shop, round past the Gulf of Carpet-aria and through the little gap between Hoonworld Auto and the health food shop. That way he missed going past the music store, for fear of a running into the proprietor Jemmy, and ending up on the receiving end of some interminable anecdote. And at last he found himself in front of the grim, foreboding façade of the kebab shop.
The kebab shop always bothered Alfred. It offended him as a small businessman that such a large building had been rented for such a small shop. The actual kebab sales area was just a little hole-in-the wall place, while the free-standing building it was embedded in was a square, two-storey building made of cyclopean stone blocks. It was showy, expensive and probably a violation of the zoning laws.
The shop's owner, Stavros, was out front, chalking up some specials on the a blackboard that was bordered with pictures of craftsmen's tools. "Alfred," Stavros said. "Don't often see you here! What can I get you?"
Stavros was a tall, thin, thoughtful looking man of about forty. His hair was greying but thick and he had an intense look in his brown eyes that Alfred found disquieting. His employees, to a man, wore polo shirts with all the buttons open, showing off chest hair and usually a medallion, but Stavros wore a white shirt and grey pressed pants and somehow never got grease on them.
"Hello, Stavros." Stavros was right, Alfred seldom came by this way even for a chat. And now he was expected to make conversation... What about... Weather? Family? Did Stavros have kids? Was he even married? The man wore a ring, but it had a weird device on it that made it look unlike a wedding band.
"Going to the Centre meeting next Friday?" Alfred hazarded.
"No, I think not," Stavros said, with a shake of his well-groomed head. "It's all gotten a little strange since… you know." He gestured slightly in the direction of the Pyramid. "Besides, I'm having some friends around that night."
"Do you mean here? Because sometimes if I'm driving past, I see lights—"
"What are you having?" Stavros smiled. "No don't tell me, I think I remember. Chicken yeeros with barbeque sauce, yes?"
The lunch rush was over, and there were two workers behind the counter, but still Stavros made a point of donning his leather apron and serving Alfred himself. Sighing, Alfred took a seat on the stool furthest from the other customers.
"How are the meetings going?" Stavros said.
"Oh, they're going," Alfred said. "Fund raising for the Handy Pavilion people still behind bars. And of course pep talks from… you know."
"She is a good woman," Stavros said, laying out sliced tomatoes with mathematical precision. "But misguided."
"How do you mean?"
"What if… now hear me out… what if the Pyramid is not our enemy? Your kebab, sir."
Alfred unwrapped the foil around the delicacy and took a bite of the soft, salty meat. It needed horseradish.
"But it's a huge evil looking Pyramid with an eye in the top," Alfred said. "That makes it a bad mysterious Pyramid, right? I mean, that's pretty certain."
"Looks can be deceiving."
"Not that deceiving."
Stavros leaned in close. "Ditch the Centre meeting this week. Come by here. There's a few of us who aren't happy with the way things are going. Come and listen, have a talk."
Alfred squirmed. He was not the sort of person who liked going behind the backs of others, but on the other hand he was a sucker for peer pressure. Perhaps that was why he chose not to have many friends.
"I don't know…"
"Look, we're not opposed to... you know who, and the others. We just think we should, you know, think things through a little more before we do anything drastic."
Alfred sighed again as he felt his resolve crumble. Don't do anything drastic. There was no slogan that could have better captured his soul.
"All right, I'll come," he said.
Stavros smiled and put a can of soft drink next to the kebab. "No charge," he said, and there was something in the way he said it that made Alfred want to go and eat his lunch outside.
As he stood up to go, he saw a homeless guy outside the door, shuffling along, hunched over in the remains of an old grey suit. No, not grey. That suit was probably white when it was new…
A shock ran through Alfred as he recognised the vagrant. Karl! It was Karl Wintergreen, missing since the Battle. Alfred waved to get Karl's attention, but the move seemed to spook him. A look of horror flashed across his bearded face and he turned and ran.
Alfred tried to follow, but a large man was entering the shop just as he tried to leave. By the time the doorway two-step had been accomplished, Karl was long gone.


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Veil Of Midnight(The Midnight Breed, Book 5)
Release date: Dec. 30, 2008 | Publisher: Dell | Genre: Paranormal Romance
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Bound by blood, addicted to danger, they'll enter the darkest—and most erotic—place of all.A warrior trained in bullets and blades, Renata cannot be bested by any man—vampire or mortal. But her most powerful weapon is her extraordinary psychic ability—a gift both rare and deadly. Now a stranger threatens her hard-won independence—a golden-haired vampire who lures her into a realm of darkness…and pleasure beyond imagining. A combat-loving adrenaline junkie, Nikolai dispenses his own justice to enemies of the Breed—and his latest quarry is a ruthless assassin. One woman stands in his way: the seductive, cool-as-ice bodyguard, Renata. But Renata's powers are put to the test when a loved one, a child, is threatened and she's forced to turn to Niko for help. As the two join forces, as desire fans the flames of a deeper hunger, Renata's life is under siege by a man who offers the exquisite pleasure of a blood bond—and a passion that could save or doom them both forever.…
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