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Last week, we reported that Fast & Furious 7 had brought on Paul Walker's brothers Caleb and Cody to help finish the production. The specifics of how they'll help the production haven't been revealed, but presumably they'll be working as body doubles. There may be other ways the production tries to fill in Walker's role whether it's through CGI and/or re-writes, but at the very least, hiring Walker's brothers is a sign of respect. It also helps that they look a lot like him. Vin Diesel posted a set photo on his Facebook page, and while I'm not sure which one is Caleb and which is Cody, the brother on the right bears such a strong resemblance that they might even be able to pull off close-ups.
It's odd to think that a Fast & Furious movie will be so heavily scrutinized right down to how it's trying to manage Paul Walker's unfinished scenes. We go to these movies for dumb fun, but there will be a pall over the finished film as it tries to find the balance between big, brash action and deep respect for its deceased star. Check out the set photo after the jump. Fast & Furious 7 opens April 10, 2015.
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Frank Angileri Featured in Bloomberg BNA
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Brooks Kushman Shareholder Frank A. Angileri was featured in Bloomberg BNA's August 11, 2016 article, "Federal Judge Shortages Take Toll on Business Litigation."
The article discusses the potential impacts of the Senate's sluggish pace in filling federal judicial vacancies have on the ability to resolve key cases, including intellectual property disputes. So far the Senate has failed to confirm more than eight district court judges and one circuit judge, holding up a number of cases, especially business litigation. However, according to the article, changes to patent law, such as inter partes review, created under the America Invents Act are helping expedite some IP cases that would otherwise have been delayed due to vacancies.
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Bella entered the Hale house, she yawned and followed the others into the living room. She took a seat at the corner of the sofa and leaned against it needing to just rest her eyes for only a moment. As the others gathered around and talked amongst each other she curled up in a ball and closed her eyes.
Stiles walked past Derek, not stopping when the alpha asked him where he was going. "Bella's asleep on the couch, I'm getting her a blanket. Or I'm sucking up to my big sister, because I'm her favorite person ever."
"Why is she sleeping?" Derek questioned following Stiles.
Stiles shrugged. "I don't know." He looked around the guest bedroom, trying to find a blanket for her sister. "I think she went out last night with some business people, she must've gotten home late."
"She went on a date?" Derek questioned his eyebrows scrunching together in confusion.
Stiles laughed, "I doubt it, if I didn't know any better I would think she and I liked the same sex. But then again you never really know with Isa, she could always accept the random date. Honestly, I don't think she's dated anyone since her fiancé… but that was two years ago."
"Fiancé?" Derek questioned trying his best to tame the wolf in his head.
Stiles nodded, "Oh yeah, she left him at the altar." Stiles laughed, "She walked down the aisle, and when the priest asked if anyone had any objections Isa let go of his hands and dashed down the aisle. Dad and I chased after her, it was pretty entertaining when you look back at the wedding video."
Stiles paused as he was halfway out the door. "Do me a favor, don't tell her I told you. She'll kill me, this is sort of her dirty little secret."
Derek nodded, "Go give her the blanket and hurry up, the pack is anxious for pack night to start."
Derek took a seat on his loveseat and while everyone was watching the movie on the screen he was partially focused on Bella. He could hear the calming beat of her heart, and he could feel the contentment that she was experiencing in her dreams. It wasn't until another hour later that he heard the difference in the beat of her heart. His head turned to her in alarm as she let out a scream and jumped off knocking Stiles over who was sitting on the floor in front of her.
Bella's eyes were wide as she looked around the house and in a second, she was running out of the door, her heart beating rapidly, and she needed air. She ran into the woods and fell against a tree; her heart was still beating hard against her chest and the memories of her dreams were stuck inside her head. She pulled her knees into her chest and tried as best as she could to still her beating heart.
"Izzy." Stiles whispered moving to sit beside her. "Want to go home and play a riveting game of Mario Kart?"
Bella didn't respond right away, taking a few moments to catch her breath. "You're a sore loser."
Stiles laughed, "As if you ever win." He looked over at Derek who just stood watching them. "Really, she doesn't win at all."
Bella looked up and met Derek's eyes. "Sorry for the interruption." Bella stood and dusted herself off. "I think I'll just head home for the night."
"You can't drive like this." Derek responded moving to stand in front of her to stop her from leaving.
Bella smirked, "You can't stop me, Derek. Besides I'm fine it was a nightmare that I'm over and I'm going to be okay. I'll send a text when I get home if it makes you feel better." She moved past Derek and started making her way to her car. She turned to Stiles as she opened the door to her car. "Get home on time, I don't want Dad thinking you're out partying, he calls me when he's worried and I don't want to be woken up."
Stiles smirked, "Well, why do you have to be such a goody two shoe? If you had just been more of a troublemaker when you were my age than Dad wouldn't have such high expectations, would he?"
Bella rolled her eyes, "I'll tell dad about what really happened to the tree in the front yard."
"Safety is first, so I'll be home safe and sound by curfew." Stiles responded, he gave Bella a hug before running back inside the home.
Bella got inside the house but before she could close the door to her car, Derek was holding it open. "I'll be fine."
Derek nodded, "Message when you get home."
Bella smiled, "Yes, sir Alpha." Bella responded with a smirk. "Don't worry about me, I'm going to go home and just sleep. I'll see you tomorrow, Derek."
Derek nodded stepping back and letting her close her door. His wolf had practically preened at haring her call him Alpha."
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Derek opened the door to his loft to see Bella standing there with her laptop bag and two coffees. He moved aside letting her step into the loft. "Feeling better?" He questioned rubbing his face to try and remove the sleep from his eyes.
"Yes. I only get nightmares once or twice a month, they're just intense so when I wake up it takes me a moment to realize that it's not really happening." Bella responded with a smile. "Here, black with an extra shot of energy. I have no idea how you survive on so much caffeine."
"Wolf capabilities, I can survive just about anything." Derek responded watching as Bella headed towards his kitchen.
"Not anything, or do I need to remind you that I could kill you in the blink of an eye? Never get too cocky, Derek, it's a weakness." Bella responded setting her bag down. "I'll make breakfast while you do your morning workout, because you just have to be in better shape than everyone else in this town."
Derek smirked, "I could always help you work out, you might need it."
Bella smiled sweetly. "Don't make me poison your food, because I will, and you'd never know."
Derek laughed lightly before walking away. Even though he wasn't near her he could still hear the beat of her heart. He didn't know when the routine of Bella coming over every morning just to sit with him started, but he was grateful for it. She had been his secret obsession throughout high school. She was the girl that skipped a few grades, the only person in their high school to graduate at 15, and the three-year difference did nothing to stop him from crushing on the girl. When high school was done he was a bit saddened to know that she had left almost immediately after her graduation to Washington.
Derek smiled at the memory when she came back, she had been waiting for Stiles outside of their home and had been just as surprise to see him as he was to see her. Before then he hadn't connected the dots between her and Stiles. But seeing them together he saw the physical resemblance and he could feel the tight connection between the two.
It hadn't taken long to see that although she had grown physically, she was still the beautiful, kind and smart girl she was in high school. The only difference now was that Derek could see that there was an edge to her, something dark that lurked deep down. It was when Stiles was put in danger that he saw it come out of her, saw her brown eyes turn dark and cold, and the tips of her hair burn a bright red. The sweet girl he was accustomed to disappeared and a vengeful one took her place.
After that it didn't take much questioning for her to admit that something had changed in her when she moved to Washington. Something inside her had broken to pieces and when it finally got put back together again there was something new added. As Bella had explained it her family were vulnerable to the Earth, to the power of the core of the earth making them a strong brand of creature. A creature that can only rise from the ashes of the soul. To this day, Bella had never explained what crushed her soul, and he doubted she would anytime soon. But as Stiles hinted he thinks it had something to do with the death of her father when she was 18.
Derek hadn't even noticed that he was almost done with his workout, he was so lost in his thoughts that his body had just gone into autopilot. He finished up the last of his morning routine before heading out to the kitchen to find two plates set up on the counter, but Bella was nowhere in sight. He followed her scent and her heartbeat and found her outside of his front door on the phone.
"They loved your book, they're preparing an offer for you and it should be sent over to you in a few days." The unknown man's voice said through the phone.
"Great, thank you." Bella said unaware of Derek leaning against the door.
"I have a reservation for tonight to celebrate. Would you like to join me for dinner?" The man questioned.
"I'll have to take a rain check, I have plans tonight. Maybe another night, tonight I plan to celebrate with my family. I should get going, I'll talk to you soon." Bella said hanging up the phone. She took in a deep breath. "Eavesdropping is an invasion of privacy."
"I have great hearing, I could have heard you from a mile away. You ready to have breakfast or do I have to wait for you turn down one of your suitors?" Derek questioned lifting an eyebrow.
Bella laughed, "Let's eat Sourwolf, I'm starving."
"I told you stop calling me that." Derek responded following her into the kitchen. "Stiles has started calling me that now."
"Well yeah, he's the one who came up with it, I was just the one who said it to you first." Bella responded with a smile.
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"Why do you always hangout with, Derek?" Stiles questioned as he and Bella were headed out to grab a bite to eat together.
Bella shrugged, "I didn't have the best time in high school, but Derek was always nice to me. He defended me a few times, so I know he's a nice guy. He's not as bad as you think he is, and I like hanging out with him."
"I wasn't saying he's a bad person, he's just always so grumpy, and you're, well you're always not grumpy. I just don't understand how you two get along." Stiles responded with a shrug of his shoulders. "I guess that's just me though."
Bella smiled, "Derek isn't always grumpy, trust me I spend more time with him than you do. We're actually friends."
"Technically, we're all pack soo…." Stiles responded with a smirk.
Bella rolled her eyes, "You're not a wolf, and you're so not allowed to take the bite unless you're of legal age. If you do I'll tell dad."
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Bella curled herself up in her blanket she didn't want to get out of bed this morning, all she wanted was to stay in her little blanket of warmth. She knew her eyes were dark and her hair was burning, but she couldn't control the change, there was too much anger and sorrow for her to control it so easily. She had already messaged everyone she knew to tell them she wished to be left alone for the remainder of the day, she told them all she was sick and thankfully for her they all seemed to believe her.
Bella closed her eyes and her mind drifted off to Charlie. She missed him, and her heart ached for the man that was her father. She had always been proud to say that she two dads who were cops, Charlie might not have been her blood, but he was her dad and she loved him. She loved him just as much as she loved John, and it hurt her to lose him. Losing Claudia was painful, but her death was an end to a painful illness, and she didn't ever really know Renee well enough to feel the pain of her loss. Now all she had in her life was Stiles and her dad and today was just a painful reminder that she could lose them in the drop of a hat.
"Bella." Derek called entering her apartment.
Bella pulled the cover over herself trying to hide herself in the darkness and warmth of her blankets. "Just go away."
"No." Derek responded entering the room and slowly made his way towards the bed. "You're not okay."
Bella didn't respond, she lay as still as possible and just focused her mind on the sound of Derek breathing. Minutes passed with Derek sitting on the edge of her bed and her curled up in a ball until she finally took in a deep breath before breaking the silence. "I miss my dad." She whispered quietly.
"I didn't know you had two dads." Derek admitted. "Until Stiles told me about it."
Bella peeked her head out of the cocoon of her blankets, and looked to Derek, she was grateful that he didn't comment on her appearance. "My dad, John, saved some of his sperm just in case he and his wife ever needed it, and Renee to entrap my other dad Charlie got inseminated, there was mixup and instead of using donated sperm they used John's . When I was 2 my parents split up and when I was 6 my mom died and on her death bed she told Charlie what happened. When I was 7 the clinic called and admitted they made a problem and that my biological father wanted to meet me. In the end, Charlie and John got along well, so they shared custody of me. When Claudia died I moved in permanently with John because I wanted to be with Stiles, and when I graduated I moved back to Washington to spend time with Charlie."
Derek made himself comfortable on the bed and nodded, "Did you even like it here in Beacon Hills?"
"Mostly. I've always loved school, so I always enjoyed my classes, the kids however were awful." Bella responded sincerely, she looked up to Derek. "Except you, you were always nice to me."
"Tell me about Charlie." Derek responded.
Bella sat up and moved to sit against the headboard of the bed, she tugged Derek over and once he was sitting beside her she rested her head on his shoulder. "He's always been really amazing. Charlie used to be the Chief of police in town, and everyone knew who he was. When he…"
Bella's hair flamed to life again and she quickly moved to cocoon herself again when Derek stopped her. "What did you end up doing after high school?"
"I attended UW, I got my master's in school counseling, and a Bachelor's in literature." Bella responded quietly.
"Stiles says you've written a book." Derek continued noticing that Bella had maneuvered herself to rest her head on his lap.
Bella nodded. "I did. Sold 7.8 million copies, I'm publishing another one soon."
"What are they about?" Derek questioned feeling more relaxed now that Bella was calming down.
"They're sort of fiction." Bella responded with a shrug. "This new one is the unexpected sequel to the first one."
Bella sighed and closed her eyes. "Can you just stay with me in the quiet, Derek?"
"I can stay." Derek responded, he watched Bella move around and he followed her order for him to lay down too. He had to contain the practical growl of contentment that was coming from his wolf when Bella moved closely to him her head resting in the crook of his neck and her arms holding him tightly. He held her and softly rubbed her back trying to help her ease the pain that she was feeling.
Finally her breathing slowed and her hair returned to normal, and she was asleep with her grip still tight around Derek. Derek closed his eyes and let himself relax into the bed.
Hours later Derek was awake as he could hear Bella begin to wake from her sleep. "If I order in food, will you eat?"
"If you order good food. I don't eat meat, Derek, so just keep that in mind." Bella mumbled in return.
"I know I already ordered." Derek responded quietly.
Bella nodded but didn't say anything until she heard the knock at the door. She wrapped herself tighter in the blanket as Derek stood to answer his warmth leaving her side. She stood and entered the living room, making herself comfortable on the couch, she watched Derek bring in the food and gave a small smile as her ordered her favorite salad and soup. "Thanks."
"I got you some ice cream in case you wanted something sweet." Derek responded sitting beside her and eating his own burger.
Bella nodded, they ate in silence until they were done. Bella rested her head against Derek's shoulder and closed her eyes.
"I was engaged to be married." Bella said quietly. "He was a great guy, but it just wasn't right. I loved him, but something just wasn't okay in our relationship. I didn't love him as much as I thought I did. Right before the wedding both John and Charlie spoke to me. John told me to follow my heart, but Charlie… Charlie told me to listen to my head. Charlie always said that he knew something was off with Renee, that she didn't really love him that she loved what he gave her and he fell for it. He let himself believe that they were in love and that it was a pure and true love between him. He told me that he wished he would've listened to his head instead of letting his heart get away with him."
"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, Bella." Derek responded.
Bella shook her head. "No, I need to talk about it, I've kept this locked inside for too long." Bella took in a deep breath to try and steady herself.
"I was up there, and I kept looking into his eyes, and I knew he loved me. I knew that his love for me was pure, but I didn't love him in the same way. Edward was a very nice guy, and I think at one point I did love him, but I just couldn't go through with it." Bella shook her head.
"So, you left him at the altar?" Derek responded curiously.
Bella nodded, "I should've realized it sooner, but it wasn't until the father called for objections that I realized that I objected. I didn't know what to do so, I ran. John and Stiles ran after me, but Charlie stayed to make sure things got taken care of."
Bella stayed quiet for moments until she got the strength to speak again. "Edward's family all consisted of adopted siblings. None of them were related, in fact they were couples instead of actual siblings. Before I had met them, they had taken in this girl, her name was Bree, and Bree was infatuated with Edward. When I left the wedding Bree was furious, in her mind I had humiliated Edward and that was unacceptable. A few weeks later, Charlie and I went camping, he thought it would clear my mind up and help me along. I was reading, and Charlie was cooking some fish he had caught that day, and Bree came out of nowhere. She ambushed Charlie and I, she knocked me unconscious and when I woke up the fire was going, and I was tied to a tree. She tortured him, because she saw him as the reason I hurt Edward, in her head he was the reason I left Edward."
"Bella…" Derek tried to stop her noticing her hair getting brighter and brighter.
"For twelve hours she tortured him." Bella whispered getting lost in the memories. "She practically skinned him alive. Then she just threw him into the fire and I could hear Charlie's screams, and he screamed for the longest time and I can still hear his voice as he burned alive. Eventually, I passed out from shock. When I woke up I was in the hospital, I was told that there was a camping fire and Charlie died in the accident. She made it seem like an accident, but I knew the truth and I knew that no one would believe me. When I went to the police station to see if I could gather any sort of evidence, that's when it happened. Edward and his family were there, the family I saw as my own were covering it all up, they were the ones that made it seem like an accident. That's when my soul fell apart, I lost my dad and I lost myself, because for the first time in my life I finally came to realize that it didn't matter if you were a good person, all that mattered was whether or not you had the right money and connections to hide the truth. I lost who I was, I felt it break, I felt my soul just crack into pieces and there was nothing I could do to put it together. For the next few weeks I sort of just drifted, I wasn't dead, but it felt like I was. Then one day I went to the cliffs, and I sat on the edge and I just thought about jumping off into the water. One moment I was on the cliff and the next I was in the water and it didn't matter that I couldn't breathe, because I felt free."
Bella's hair calmed down and she closed her eyes. "I felt the water enter my lungs and as I lost my breath I just felt my soul coming back together, but there was something different there. I don't remember how I got back home, and for the first time since my dad I didn't feel as dead. There was this warmth inside me, and I didn't feel as alone, and I didn't feel as weak and worthless as before. Stiles was right, Charlies death is what crushed my soul, I just I don't like talking or thinking about it. I know it wasn't my fault that he died, but sometimes that's what it feels like."
Bella practically sat on Derek's lap with her head on his shoulder. "Today was the day he died."
Derek held her tightly letting her cry into his shoulder. He could feel the tears wet his shirt, but he could also feel her emotions lighten up with her finally being able to release all the guilt and sorrow she had pent up inside.
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Bella entered Derek's home and handed him the gift bag. "Thanks for putting up with my grief."
Derek looked at the bag, "You got me a gift because I was nice to you?"
"Just open it will you." Bella responded with a roll of her eyes.
Derek sighed but open the bag, he couldn't help but laugh as Bella had gotten him his own shirt, but dry cleaned. "Thanks."
Bella grinned, "Your welcome." Bella moved to sit on his couch. "Hey." She called out to Derek who was in the kitchen getting a coffee. "Are you ever going to ask me for a date, or am I forever going to be in your friendzone?"
"I'll ask you eventually." Derek responded handing Bella a mug of tea. He sat beside her and smiled as she leaned against him.
"Alright." Bella responded quietly.
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Derek sat with a book, a pillow on his lap and Bella resting her head on that pillow as she watched a movie on his TV. He looked down at her as she had turned and had placed a kiss on his stomach. He set his book down as Bella maneuvered herself to straddle his lap. Her hands were in his hair and she looked down at him. He let her do as she pleased and just waited for her thoughts to come out.
One of his arms wrapped around her waist while his free hand wrapped around her neck keeping her still as they kissed. Bella pulled away and rested her forehead against Derek's taking a moment to catch her breath. "You went from being a stranger to being one of the most important people in my life."
"We went to high school together." Derek reminded her. "We weren't really strangers."
Bella smiled, "Aside from the few times you defended me we never really spoke."
"That's really your fault." Derek responded smiling lightly as Bella laughed.
"How is it my fault?" Bella responded pecking Derek's lips.
"You were intimidating, to everyone including me." Derek responded quietly. "You were a kid genius who tutored in Calculus and no matter the situation you were always so happy." Derek pressed his face into Bella's neck taking in her scent. "Even when you were being bullied you didn't feel any hate or anger, you always just let it brush off you. You always smiled at everyone even if they didn't deserve it, you were beautiful back then too, Bella. It was intimidating how amazing you were."
Bella moved capturing Derek's lips again, this kiss was slow, and it felt natural between the two. "I had a crush on you back then." She whispered with a smile. "I'm surprised you never sensed it."
Derek laughed, "I was busy trying to hide my feelings towards you to notice."
Bella grinned and leaned back down to kiss him, this was one she didn't dare break. They allowed it to heat up, both of them losing articles of their clothing in seconds and getting caught up in the moment to notice anything else.
"OHMYGAWD! You're naked!! My eyes, I need to carve out my eyes! I need a knife! Put some clothes on!" Stiles yelled frantically trying desperately to get the image of his partially naked sister with a partially naked Derek.
Bella rolled her eyes, "I'm not naked, I still have my underwear on, and this is what you get when you don't knock when entering. I'm going to take away that damn key I gave you." Bella responded standing up and shrugging on her pants and shirt as Stiles headed into the kitchen. She turned to Derek with a frown. "I thought as Alpha your senses were supposed to be on point."
Derek smirked and shrugged. "I was distracted."
Bella went into the kitchen and sighed as Stiles was leaning over the sink scrubbing his eyes with water. "You're overreacting."
"I am not." Stiles whined turning off the water and using his shirt to dry his face. "You were about to do it, with sir Sourwolf."
Bella laughed at the growl from Derek at the name. "Yeah, I know I was there, thanks for being a cockblock."
Stiles glared at his older sister. "I'm telling dad."
Bella laughed. "I'm not 15, I think I can date, Stiles. Look, Derek and I…"
Stiles shook his head, "NO. I am going to remain oblivious until I can find a therapist to help me through this. I'll see you tomorrow at dinner."
Bella stopped Stiles and sighed. "Let me explain, please."
Stiles shook his head, "Nope. You deserve more than just being someone's fuckbuddy."
"Derek and I are actually dating, Stiles." Bella admitted. "We have been for the last 5 months, I just didn't want to say anything. I didn't want you or dad to worry about me."
Stiles paused and held up a finger for Bella to wait. He took out his phone and sent her a text.
Sourwolf can hear us. So between you and me, are you sure you want this?
Bella smiled and started to type back a response.
Yes. This isn't like Edward. This is different, it's like finally being whole again, like being at home
Stiles nodded and clicked away at his phone.
Scott's going to be so jealous, he's had a crush on you since he was 10.
Bella rolled her eyes. "Is there a reason you stopped by?"
"Huh?" Stiles questioned trying to retrace his train of thought. "Oh yeah, can I stay the night? Dad's working late and Scott is with Allisson and I need someone to hang out with because no one else wants to play Mario Kart with me, and I don't want to be home alone. I've got a bad vibe, kind of like I'm being watched, but I can't see anyone."
Bella nodded slightly worried but wouldn't alarm her brother. "Sure, you can stay and be a permanent cockblock for the rest of the night."
"Good." Stiles paused. "Does this mean Derek is now like my brother? Do I call him bro from now on? Does that mean you're like pack mom if Derek is pack dad?"
"Stiles, I refuse to answer all of your questions." Bella responded with a smirk as she entered the living room. "But you know, you could always ask Derek, he's pretty talkative."
Derek glared and picked back up his book.
Stiles laughed loudly, "HA! He can't say he's going to rip my throat out with his teeth anymore!"
Bella smiled and sat down next to Derek while Stiles turned on the wii and put on Mario kart. "I call dibs on Mario."
Stiles shrugged, "I prefer Peach anyway."
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Bella followed Stiles from a distant her eyes were dark and her hair burning as she used her powers to make her invisible to others. That's when she saw the movement that Stiles was speaking about, she squinted her eyes not trusting herself. Her body shook with anger at the copper hair and gold eyes that were in the tree line. She walked up to the figure and made herself appear behind him. As soon as her scent hit him he turned around.
"We parted ways, Edward." Bella said quietly her eyes back to their regular brown as she tried to calm herself. She couldn't control it for long, as her eyes went dark and her hair glowed once more. "Don't come near my brother. You have no idea what I would do to protect him, especially from you and your coven. This is a warning, Stiles and I, we're part of a pack and a threat against him is a threat against our pack, and we don't take kindly to threats."
Edward nodded, "I just wanted to check in on you. It's been years since we last spoke, I didn't know you underwent some change…"
Bella shrugged. "That's what happens when someone tortures and kills your father in front of you." Bella turned to walk away. "Stop following, Stiles, and leave Beacon Hills, you're not welcome here." Bella added as she left she disappeared. She headed straight to Derek's, knowing that Stiles would be safe in school and in the sunlight.
Bella entered Derek's loft and found him still fast asleep. "Hey, Der, wake up."
Derek opened his eyes and studied Bella. He sat up and pulled her closer to him, he pressed his nose to her neck and pulled back with a disgusted face. "Why do you smell so bitter?"
"I have a problem and I think you need to know about it." Bella responded sitting on his bed. "Remember how I told you about my Ex-fiancé?"
Derek nodded, his jealousy only slightly flaring at the mention of the almost marriage.
"I forgot to mention that he and his family are vampires who feed off animals." Bella said in a rush. "I guess this is also the part where I say that I was supposed to also become a vampire and join their immortal coven/family."
Derek couldn't contain the growl that came up. "Why bring it up now?"
"That's the problem. Stiles mentioned he's been getting this feeling that he's being followed, so I trailed him this morning and it was Edward who was creepily following Stiles. I'm sure by now you're aware that when it comes to Stiles I might be a bit overprotective and I threatened him and his coven if they got close to Stiles again."
Derek stood up, "Where was he?" He demanded pulling on a pair of jeans and a shirt. He turned to Bella his eyes glowing Alpha red, a threat against one of his pack members was a direct threat to him, and that was not something he would stand for.
Bella stood and placed a comforting hand on Derek's chest. "He should be gone, I know Edward and he's not a fighter, he's a flyer and he's probably already gone. There's no reason to do this."
"A threat against a pack member is a direct threat to the alpha. You and Stiles are pack, we protect our own." Derek responded sternly.
Bella smiled, "I know, that's why I already did that. Look, it's sunny out, even if Edward wanted to do something he can't come out without exposing what he is. Let's sit down and I'll tell you all I know about vampires and then we'll figure out where to go from here."


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Allergic rhinitis relief
Are you one of the many Australians diagnosed with allergic rhinitis? Some people have the seasonal variety (more commonly called hay fever), while others are affected all year round (this is known as perennial allergic rhinitis). Both types of allergic rhinitis cause symptoms such as sneezing, a running or blocked up nose, itchy, watery or red eyes and a scratchy throat. You might also feel lethargic and find it difficult to concentrate on anything other than where the nearest tissue box is.
Allergic rhinitis means inflammation of the lining of the nose that follows an allergic reaction — an overreaction of the immune system to something that's normally harmless. The substance that triggers the allergic reaction is called an allergen. Common allergens include pollen, dust mites and their droppings, skin scales or saliva from pets, and mould spores.
For many people, allergies are more than just an annoyance — they have a serious impact on life. The good news for allergy sufferers is that many things can help.
Self-help for allergies
First, if you haven't already done so, see your doctor for a diagnosis — he or she may recommend testing to pin point the offending allergen(s).
Avoiding what you're allergic to is often recommended. However, it can be difficult to completely remove things like dust mites from your environment, and more research is needed into whether this really benefits allergy symptoms. For those willing to try this approach, washing bedding weekly in water hotter than 55 degrees Celsius, using dust mite resistant covers and removing soft toys from the bedroom can help with house dust mite allergy.
For those allergic to animals, removing them from the house entirely may be the best solution — but a compromise may be to ban four-legged friends from the bedroom.
Allergens carried in the air, such as pollen, are almost impossible to steer entirely clear of. However, it can help to stay indoors as much as possible on high-pollen days (windy days and after thunderstorms are often especially bad), to avoid mowing the lawn, and to shower after you've been exposed to a lot of pollen.
If used regularly, saline (salt water) sprays (such as Fess nasal spray) can help relieve a blocked nose, thin the secretions and wash away irritants. Steam inhalation can also ease a stuffy nose — especially if you add a few drops of eucalyptus oil to the water.
Walk into any pharmacy during hay fever season and you'll notice an abundance of products designed to bring relief from allergic rhinitis. Here is an explanation of some of the more common ones.
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|Decongestants narrow blood vessels so fluid doesn't leak through the nasal lining
There are also nasal sprays that your doctor may recommend, including ipratropium bromide (e.g. Atrovent Nasal) for a severe runny nose. Sodium cromoglycate nasal spray (e.g. Rynacrom) can help prevent allergic rhinitis symptoms.
If your symptoms are not relieved by these medicines, you should see your doctor — other medicines may be suitable for you.
Prescription medicines for allergic rhinitis
As well as medicines from the pharmacy or pharmacist, there are also prescription medicines available for the treatment of allergic rhinitis.
Montelukast sodium (brand name Singulair), a leukotriene receptor antagonist, is one prescription medicine that is available for treating the symptoms of allergic rhinitis. Studies have shown montelukast improves symptoms and quality of life in people with seasonal allergic rhinitis. Montelukast, available as tablets, may not be suitable for pregnant or breast feeding women, or children under the age of 2 years.
Some nasal corticosteroids and combination medicines that contain both antihistamines and decongestants are also available on prescription.
'Allergy shots' — immunotherapy
If the above strategies haven't relieved your symptoms, there is another approach that you may be able to try. Immunotherapy (sometimes called 'allergy shots' or desensitisation) involves injections of the allergen under your skin — the aim is to regulate your immune system and subdue your body's reaction to a particular allergen. These injections are given once a week or once every 2 weeks, and must be supervised by a doctor specialising in allergy treatment — you will need to be referred by your GP. For some people, immunotherapy can significantly reduce allergic rhinitis symptoms — if it works, it should bring relief within 6 months to a year. The drawback is that treatment must usually be continued for at least 3–5 years.
Complementary therapies for allergic rhinitis
Extracts of the shrub butterbur, which has an anti-inflammatory effect, may have some effectiveness in preventing seasonal allergy symptoms. However, there are concerns about toxins (called pyrrolizidine alkaloids or PAs) in butterbur that could potentially damage the liver and kidneys. Other possible side effects of butterbur include headache, itchy eyes and stomach upset. If you are thinking about trying butterbur, talk to your doctor and look for a standardised supplement that's labelled PA-free.
If you have allergic rhinitis, one herb to be wary of is echinacea, as it can cause a worsening of seasonal allergies. Serious allergic reactions to echinacea are also possible — these are more likely if you have an inherited tendency to allergies, and especially if you are allergic to ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds or daisies.
So far, there is not enough evidence that other nutritional approaches, such as exclusion diets or taking quercetin or vitamin C, benefit allergic rhinitis symptoms. This is also the case for techniques like kinesiology, Vega testing, homeopathy, acupressure and acupuncture.
You should always tell your doctor about any supplements or herbal products you are taking, to avoid potentially harmful interactions with medicines.
Finally, some good news about getting older — many people with allergic rhinitis find that their symptoms improve by the time they reach middle age.
Last Reviewed: 21/09/2009
1. eMIMS Prescribing Information, October 2009
2. MayoClinic.com. Hay fever [updated 2008, May 2; accessed 2009, Sep 28]. Available at: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hay-fever/DS00174
3. Sheikh A, Panesar SS, Dhami S, Salvilla S. Seasonal allergic rhinitis in adolescents and adults. BMJ Clinical Evidence 2007; 12: 509
4. Therapeutic Guidelines (eTG). Allergic rhinitis. In: Respiratory guidelines [updated 2005, Mar; accessed 2009, Sep 10]. Available from: http://www.tg.org.au
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Allergic rhinitis - hay fever
Rhinitis means inflammation of the lining of the nose. Allergic rhinitis means that this inflammation is caused by an allergy.
Sinus and nasal problems
Most sinus problems are due to allergy, infection, or a foreign substance inhaled up the nose. Find out what products are available for sinus and nasal problems.
Hay fever treatments
Antihistamines work fast and are good at treating mild symptoms of hay fever, such as sneezing and runny nose, whereas corticosteroid nasal sprays may take several days to work.
Post-nasal drip
Post-nasal drip is the feeling of mucus moving down the back of the throat. You may get it if the mucus in your nose and sinuses becomes thicker or increases.
Immunotherapy treatment
Immunotherapy should always be carried out by a doctor trained in allergy, and in Australia is usually carried out in specialist allergy clinics or hospitals.


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Book DescriptionEnglish for Nurses addresses the need for nurses to communicate effectively in English. Combining the essentials of communication with language learning, it provides all the necessary skills for professionals in healthcare. English for Nurses puts equal emphasis on all the four aspects of learning the language: listening, speaking, reading and writing, through a variety of exercises and assessment modules. It provides plenty of practice in functional grammar and also for pronunciation and fluency in speaking.
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3 an abundance in your life of that which makes you happy and giving it away (darwin's definition)
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
My Adventure of a Lifetime
Most importantly, my adventure had no agenda, destination or expectation for success. Equipped with little more than the clothes on our back and some camping gear (which we never used), my five year old son and I headed out on Tuesday for destination unknown.
I know what you're thinking. Yeah sure, this was a fun trip for the kid and as a father you probably had an good time too. And in the this you would be correct but there something else was going on. I decided the morning of our trip that we would have no destination in mind when we hit the road but it wasn't until we we're driving that I decided to let my son make all the decisions.
As we headed out of the city I asked if he wanted to stop at the Golden Gate Bridge. He agreed but when we stopped he wanted to head out onto the pier below the bridge. Now this is where you Type-A type people start getting nervous:
The bridge...it's right there. If we don't get to the bridge quickly it will be hours before we get on the road. And we don't know where we're staying. We don't even have reservations.
And before you know it you're steering away from the pier and walking straight towards the bridge. But a funny thing happened walking away from our intended destination. My son started asking me questions about what we encountered. Ranging from why the men we're fishing from the pier to what's poison oak, our journey started to turn into much more than a vacation.
We took the most out of the way route up to the bridge and we did in fact walk on the bridge. But half way across my son looked up and me and said, "I'm done, let's go." And that is exactly what we did. Good thing too, because that put us in Petaluma precisely in time for lunch. It was there that we saw the sign for Bodega Bay and decided that it was time that we steered West instead of North.
Upon crossing into Bodega Bay we were both struck by the beautiful countryside. And the wind was really kicking so when we passed a kite store I figured it wouldn't be long before we we're trying our luck at some flying of our own.
"Do you want to stop and get a kite?" I asked.
"Nope, we're on a scavenger hunt and I'm not looking for a kite," he responded.
"What are we looking for?" I asked.
"Something round, something cool, peaches and gold," said the magical five year old.
North of Bodega Bay we spotted some cabins at River's End Dining and Cabins. "Do you think we should get a cabin instead of camping?" I asked.
Stone checked out cabin #4 before agreeing but instantly decided to stay when he took a look at the world of adventure awaiting us below the cabin. Surf, a private bay, seals, ducks, rocks, mud...everything a five year old boy loves and more.
The restaurant was closed but our camping gear provided us with a stove for cooking and many of the amenities one needed to rough it in a cabin without preparation. We found the closest grocery store (which was anything but close) and picked up a feast made for a king:
- Bratwurst
- Orange Juice
- Beer (for Dad)
- Chips
- Cookies
- Red Grapes
In fact, we couldn't handle much more.
PS: There is a journal in the cabin that every guest has written in for over a decade. There are many great stories but I thought I'd share with you our entry and another one that I found particularly amusing.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Adventure Begins: Tidal Waves & Seals
Stone and I put on our shorts and ventured down to the beach across the bay from our cabin. We intended to climb on the mammoth driftwood but soon found ourselves fifty feet away from a cadre of California sea lions in their natural habitat.
The surf here is treachorous. On the walk down the beach a lifeguard drove up to warn us that kids and adults get sucked out to sea all the time on this beach. "Yeah, I'm not stupid," was the essence of my reply (in a much more polite manner).
So further down the beach we find ourselves face to face with all these sea lions. There were a pack of about twenty-five a short distance away from us and about one-hundred feet away was another pack. To get where the second group was resting, required walking across this somewhat narrow strip of beach that separated the ocean from the bay. We, of course, started walking across this narrow strip and noticed that the sand was wet beneath our feet. It was obviously wet for a reason.
As we walked by the first set of sea lions I cautioned Stone to be quiet so as to not to scare or disturb the sea lions. They watched us carefully and some of the teenagers scurried into the bay as we walked by.
When we got to the other side we found ourselves in this little lagoon sheltered by a large rock. Nestled beneath the rock we watched the sea lions leisurely swim back and forth watching us carefully.
And then all of a sudden the ocean behind us reared up and sent a wave our way with no warning (or at least no warning to stupid people like me). Seemingly all at once Stone and I were scrambling to scurry back up the beach and get out of there before a set of bigger waves emerged. Stone's little hand gripped mine tightly as the strong surf beneath us ripped both of our flip flops off.
"My shoe!" he screamed.
"Forget the shoe!" I panicked like a school girl. "We gotta get out of here."
In our haste to get back to dry land we ran screaming straight into the pack of resting sea lions and they all scrambled into the water. Up above on Highway One, I could hear the jeers from the onlookers, "You moron!"
Soaked, shoeless and ashamed we walked back to our car and prepared ourselves for the next leg of our adventure.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Destination: River's End Cabins North of Bodega Bay (photo)
Stone and I had lunch in Petaluma and then cut over to Bodega Bay to run up Highway 1. Along the way we noticed a fun beach to explore and spotted some cabins dropping down along the bay. This shall be our home base for "the adventure."
First Stop: Golden Gate Bridge (photos attached)
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Don't you just love homemade puppetshows?
Saturday, June 6, 2009
T-Ball is Life
If you're ever depressed and wondering what's the point in life, I encourage you to make your way over to a t-ball baseball game. The game is like nothing else that you'll experience as it is a unique fusion of fun, passion and appetite for excitement. Their skills have yet to develop but their love of the game is clearly shown on their faces everytime they take the field.
They care not if they're practicing or playing a game. They just want to play. And don't we all long for that approach to life?
Friday, June 5, 2009
Tortilla Boy Attacks Family
Can someone tell me why we spend all that money on Halloween costumes in October? All you really need is a tortilla and an appetite.


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Cannes Film Festival is not only a platform for the best movies of the year, but also doubles as a fashion ramp. Celebrities from across the film industries descend on the Cannes red carpet to flaunt the best (and sometimes the worst) of fashion.
A few names that rocked the Cannes 2017 include Bella Hadid, Susan Sarandon, Marion Cotillard and Deepika Padukone. But Emily Ratajkowski stood out as she dared to don a see-through lacy dress showing all her assets at the 70th Cannes Film Festival.
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The 25-year-old model gave a long black gown a racy twist. In a gothic inspired sheer cat suit, she took the glam quotient to the next level. Wearing a sheer lace gown from Peter Dundas, she stole all the limelight as she joined the star cast of the premiere of a new Russian drama presentation, Loveless.
Ratajkowski's cleavage was on display as the dress was designed with a cut out breast panel, providing an eyeful for everyone looking. The star dazzled in the embellished off-shoulder black dress as she twirled for the cameras.
The gown was designed in a non-traditional style. While train of the dress followed her outfit waist down, the piece of clothing was not placed in a traditional ensemble. The train covered one side of her sheer body suit, giving onlookers a good peek at her toned body.
Letting her body do all the talking, the model completed her sultry look with simple diamond earrings and a big statement ring on her finger. She opted for smoky eyes and plaited her hair down.
While the paparazzi shared pictures from the event, the Gone Girl star too shared the look on her Instagram and Snapchat accounts for fans.
Apart from having fun on the red carpet, Ratajkowski seems to be having a ball with friend Bella Hadid. The two were seen dancing to some music while Hadid fondled with her assets during the sensual dance. The video was shared on Instagram by the actress.


text: Saturday, April 25, mark this day on your calendar. This is when Aunt Stelle's Sno Cone opens for the season. I know its only February and still a bit chilly outside, but the little chubby kid in me was in the mood for a cherry snow cone. Aunt Stelle's is seriously the one of the best. I knew they weren't open, but I decided to swing by to know how long I would need to wait.


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I know it's not brand new this season, but while watching the Reds game last night I found myself annoyed with how much the new intentional walk rule sucks. Since way back in 2017, the manager has been able to call for an intentional walk, giving the batter first base without making the pitcher throw four pitches outside of the strike zone. I can understand the desire for this rule in theory, but it sucks a load of… donkey stuff… in practice. The idea behind the rule, or so I assume, is to help speed up the game and eliminate additional pitches that can cause wear and tear on a pitcher's arm. Is that worth sacrificing some of the greatest and funniest moments in baseball history for? I say no.
Imagine yourself as a pitcher in a high pressure situation. Maybe you weren't scheduled to be available out of the bullpen so you indulged in $17 worth of Taco Bell for lunch thinking there was no chance you'd have to take the mound late in the game. But then the game went into extra innings and the manager was left with no choice other than to burn through all of the arms in the bullpen despite their lunch decisions. Is there anything worse than finding yourself front and center in the bottom of the 12th with bubble guts in a tie ballgame? Maybe one thing:
Poor Lance Odom. He woke up a Lancaster Barnstormer and went to bed a Lancaster Bumstormer (I'll workshop other names and update the blog in real time after your feedback). The poor fella was so programmed to throw strikes that he just couldn't bring himself to throw eight straight balls to load the bases to allow a force-out at any bag. I just got chills down my spine hearing someones parent yell "any base!" from their canvas chair next to the minivan.
The first batter was successfully walked, but if you keep watching, he wasn't so lucky the next time around. With runners on first and third he pulled a Mayor Mark Mallory (or as I called him during our weekly checkers game, 3M) and let the winning run score.
Man, Eric Davis sure could rock the shit outta that baggy suit, couldn't he?
Anyway, this is what's at risk. If this game were played under the new MLB rules, it would've been a boring 12th inning. The bases would've been loaded and the Barnstormers would've gotten their much needed force-out at home followed by a deep fly ball that made all the fans gasp in anticipation of a home run. Lucky for us, and unlucky for Lance Odom (no relation to Lamar, I checked), this rule wasn't around in 2007.
It's not always wild pitches that lead to cool moments via botched intentional walks either. Take Miguel Cabrera for example:
Miggy wasn't gonna let Todd Williams (no relation to Ted, I'm guessing. I didn't check on this one) get away with a lackadaisical attempt at an intentional walk. He knew he had the go-ahead runner on second with a field full of Orioles that had been lulled to sleep by the anticipation of four straight balls and having to live in Baltimore. And amigo, if they give you something to hit, lo golpeas. We can thank Miguel Cabrera for a few things here. One, he gave us a great video to watch accompanied by the finest words ever written in a blog. And two, he did it in a Marlins uniform before they ruined their look during the re-branding to the Miami Marlins. Is it too much to ask for teams to stick with classic looks instead of trying to be cutting-edge with jacked up uniforms? That crap might fly in soccer or basketball, but baseball is a game built on tradition, so get off my lawn and take your neon colored fonts and goofy patterned shoulder stripes with you (I'm looking at you, Miami and Arizona).
Without the four-pitch intentional walk rule, Rookie of the Year would've ended completely differently.
Did the MLB even take Thomas Ian Nicholas' feelings into account with this rule change? Now when his kids are old enough to watch his movies (they should prolly skip the Tara Reid scenes from American Pie), they're gonna look at him like he's a fraud because they don't understand the lost art of the four-pitch intentional walk. Poor kids, and poor Thomas Ian Nicholas (no relation to Jack Nicklaus, obviously).
This is what we've lost, people. Think about how often you see an intentional walk. It's not as common as you'd think now that Bonds is out of the game. Was this an attempt to speed up the game, or is
Lamar Lance Odom working in the league offices after his minor league career came to an end? We'll never know. One thing I do know is I feel bad for the next generation of baseball fans and Thomas Ian Nicholas' children that won't get to see incredible things like this happen. Seems like a pretty miserable life to live, just having to watch guys like Bryce Harper and Cody Bellinger hit bombs and live off of American Pie residuals rather than seeing middle-aged relievers throwing the game away in the wee hours of a school night. Is this the game we want to leave for Thomas Ian Nicholas' children? Do you think his kids hang out with Jason Biggs' kids? Why did Jason Biggs disappear after the first two seasons of Orange Is the New Black? I have so many questions.
While I sit back and wonder what all of my American Pie friends and their children do in their free time, you can check out some more intentional walk blunders that a very noble internet person put together and I stole from YouTube.
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Tamar Braxton was definitely putting her stylist to work with all those costume changes that are featured in the new visual for her latest Aaliyah-sampled single, "Let Me Know."
In the video, for the first official track off of her upcoming project, Tamar keeps us entertained by batting her bedroom eyes and rolling around in gold body glitter for what seems like a full-day photo shoot. When she's not giving glitter realness, she's relaxing by a pool like a French diva, or lounging in a chair like a boss, all while giving us her best magazine-spread worthy poses.
Meanwhile, the Tamartians are on overload and loving it since the new season of "Tamar & Vince" premiered last night. She's also back to hosting "The Real," and she's currently cooking up something hot for her next album.
Keep that hustle game strong!
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Judge your leaders by how well they teach and live God's Word
Leaders get more recognition, but nothing would get done without faithful followers.
When we get to heaven, we'll see many "behind-the-scene" followers rewarded for their kingdom work.
But following can also get us into trouble.
Aaron did fine when he followed his godly brother Moses (Exodus 4:12-16). But he messed up big time when he followed the idolatrous crowd in the Golden Calf incident (Exodus 32:1-4). And he blew it when he joined Miriam's jealous rebellion against Moses (Numbers 12).*
Scripture says "Bad company corrupts good character" (1 Corinthians 15:33). That's why we need to evaluate the character of those we follow. And even when we follow godly leaders, we need to check their decisions with Scripture.
The Bible is our most important resource for knowing what pleases Christ (Ephesians 5:8-17).
* Scripture doesn't specifically say Miriam was the leader. God rebuked both her and Aaron, but he punished Miriam. This fact and the fact that Aaron had followed bad advice in the past leads me to believe he was following Miriam's lead in this situation.


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Ansible: the Puppet outsider!
It's been a while now that I've heard of Ansible but I only started playing with a week ago. You may certainly know that I'm a Puppet lover, but this solution is more powerful than Puppet in my opinion.
So I started to migrate my personal Puppet to Ansible just to play with. Here are the pros:
- No client needed on the clients, only SSH!
- It's written in Python
- By default a lot of modules
- Not only a configuration management tool, it's an orchestrator too!
- Can handle scenario
- Easy YAML language!
For the cons:
- Not enough community yet, but growing very fast
- Not as much modules as Puppet now
And this is enough for me to switch! I also already heard of SaltStack which is an outsider too, but it's unfortunately not agentless and as far as I know (not verified) you can't create scenarios.
To conclude, test Ansible, it's awesome!


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Otaki Civic Theatre - Present Phantom
August 24, 2019
By Penelope Haines
The Phantom of the Opera is one of the world's most loved musicals, having all the elements audiences look for: extravagant costumes and sets, danger, intrigue, dancing, singing, bits of comedy, and intense drama.
This is an ambitious production for the Otaki Players Society and they carry off a complex piece of theatre admirably well. Directed by Teresa Sullivan, with Tracey Orchard as the Production Manager, Graham Orchard as Musical Director and Jacqui Simpson as Choreographer, this is a seasoned team, and their experience shows in the values of this production.
Andrea King and Tracy Wills-Wright assist respectively as Musical Director and Choreographer.
Colin Taylor conducts a strong and capable orchestra. Situated in front of the stage, it is a pleasure to be able to watch the orchestra at work.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's score, with its catchy melodies and lyrical solos, blends seamlessly with Charles Hart's libretto. Based on the Gaston Leroux novel of the same name, it's the story of a love-crazed, disfigured genius who lives in the catacombs of the Paris Opera. He is the Phantom, who for his own purposes, has been terrorizing those who work there.
The 19th century period spectacle, scenic legerdemain, soaring melodies and exceptional singing are all at the service of an involving and piquantly offbeat love story.
Much of the credit goes to the stars.
Ben Wakefield is the eponymous Phantom. His powerful voice and acting are well suited to the part. It's a difficult role, for the Phantom, vindictive, malevolent, self-serving and ruthless, is, by any measure, a monster. Ben manages to show us a more complex character - his is a charming monster, with pain and passion hidden beneath the mask.
Hannah Chisholm's Christine Daaé is lovely. Her voice is exceptional, handling the complex music effortlessly. Her transition from fragile ingenue to mature woman able to conquer the Phantom by the power love is convincing and moving.
Raoul, played by Dominic Van Den Burg, is a perfect partner for Christine. Their voices balance well and blend together harmoniously in a couple of lovely arias.
The part of Carlotta, the resident diva, is played with magnificent gusto by Mary Flemmer. She steals the show every time she is on stage her powerful voice and comic acting providing a great counterpoint to the complex emotions of the three principals.
She is ably abetted in this by Harlan Te Wiata as Piangi.
More comic relief is provided by Lauren Ford-Jones and Petra Rasmussen as the two beleaguered Theatre Managers. Their varied reactions to the numerous missives received from the Phantom, drew several laughs from the audience.
Jessica Clough and Lydia McIvor play, respectively, Madame Giry and her daughter Meg. Jessica is well known to audiences of local theatre on the Kapiti Coast.
Jessica's Mme Giry clearly expresses her compromised position. She is loyal to the theatre, while knowing a good deal more than is prudent about the origins and nature of the Theatre Ghost currently terrifying the cast and crew.
Lydia's Meg is young, curious, enthusiastic, charming and shrewd - an excellent foil for her friend, the credulous and impressionable Christine Daaé.
The ensemble are for the most part experienced players, supplemented with some new faces and the young ballet dancers could have stepped from a Degas painting. The work and dedication all of them have put into this production is clear. Whether as players in the onstage opera, or an angry mob out for vengeance, they bring energy and vitality to their roles.
A simplified set, designed by Dave Timperley, provides scope for the performers, and cleverly integrates elements we've come to expect the boat on the lake; the underground chambers and the special effects.
Special mention must be made of the wonderful costumes and those who designed and developed them. The wardrobe department have outdone themselves with the variety and beauty of the gowns. I suspect some of the quick costume changes would have been very tricky to manage!
The make-up team did an excellent job the Phantom looked genuinely spooky, while the rest of the stars shone in their various roles.
Lighting and Sound are in the experienced hands of Geoff Rose and Stu Clarke.
This is a very good production and an enjoyable night out. No matter how many times you have seen a performance of The Phantom of the Opera, mark this one on your calendar as a must see show.
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Guest blog – Brooklyn Food Conference: Why we're "fast, cheap and easy" — and how we're changing that
Written by our friend and HOMEGROWNer Meredith Modzelewski – thank you, Meredith!
What a great way to spend a Saturday indoors. Looking forward to the Brooklyn Food Conference, I expected inspiration, excitement, and a healthy amount of interest from New Yorkers, but what I couldn't predict was the scale on which I'd witness it.
A fantastic first joint effort from the Caribbean Women's Health Association, World Hunger Year, the Park Slope Food Co-op, Brooklyn Rescue Mission, and Brooklyn's Bounty, the Brooklyn Food Conference at John Jay High School in Park Slope was a smashing success. Officials from the Conference said a total of over 3,000 people were in attendance, and I know from talking to attendees that it wasn't just New Yorkers who came. Food justice advocates, sustainable agriculture activists, food coop and CSA members, home gardeners, nutrition educators, and curious neighbors came to the Conference from all over the region, country, and, in a few cases, the world!
The opening session began with keynote speaker Dan Barber (full text here) of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns and this year's James Beard Award winner for best chef, who told a tale of two fish. He shared the irony of a "sustainable aquaculture" farm where he used to order fish for his restaurants. When he learned that what makes them "sustainable" is that they're fed chicken scraps due to "overproduction" of chicken in the US, he took them off the menu immediately. In contrast, the other fish in question was at a self-sustaining fish farm in Spain, where the fish don't need to be fed, as the system sustains itself on its own, and success is measured by the health of its predators — in this case, flamingos. This fish farm is practically a bird sanctuary! Barber concluded with the point that we aren't healthy unless our food is healthy: the end of the chain is connected to the beginning.
Raj Patel spoke next (full text here). The author of "Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System," Patel discussed the possible origins of the H1N1 virus (otherwise known as "swine flu") from the Smithfield CAFO in Mexico, and how NAFTA helped pave the way. Patel also provided a rousing comparison of the World Bank, his former employer, to a scene in the Terry Gilliam film "Time Bandits" where the John-Cleese-as-Robin-Hood character gives away Napoleon's riches to poor people, only to have thugs punch them in the face as soon as they've accepted the spoils. An important point, too, was his explanation that Barack Obama is not simply a pizza deliveryman of change, bringing a steaming box of change to our doorsteps; we've got to take that inspiration and make it our own, the driving force behind creating our own change with our own two hands.
LaDonna Redmond, CEO of the Institute for Community Resource Development in Chicago, shared with us her personal epiphany about how she got into sustainable food and food justice — living in Chicago and faced with a new son with many food allergies, she realized she couldn't find the food she needed in her own neighborhood, filled with convenience stores selling cigarettes, potato chips, and beer, and began working to educate herself on allergies, pesticides, organics, sustainability and nutrition. Explaining how "our food system has never been just," Redmond urged the audience to ensure agricultural jobs are included in the "green jobs" zeitgeist that Van Jones has begun with the Obama administration and the rest of the country.
Next came the workshops. In speaking with others about the Conference, I found we shared the sentiment that there were simply too many workshops [PDF] to cram into one day. We all wanted two or more days to cover all the territory we wished we could! Instead, we all had to choose carefully but with regret that we couldn't possibly hear everything that we considered important.
First, I headed to "Climate Change and the World's Food Supply," featuring a panel of folks from Brighter Green, Just Food, and Oxfam Action Corps NYC. Mia MacDonald, director of Brighter Green, shared some sobering facts: an estimated one-third of human-caused greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the result of agriculture and changes in land use related to to crops and farm animals. Livestock operations emit one-fifth of the global total of man-made GHGs — that's more than the total effect of the world's railroad, cars, and other transportation systems' effects combined. The growth of these GHGs is directly related to the globalization of the "Western diet" heavy on meats; meat production has tripled globally in the last 25 years.
But there's hope! If everyone in the US converted 10% of their diet to organic, we could capture 6.5 billion pounds of carbon every year. If one person went vegetarian just one day a week, the GHGs prevented from entering the environment would be equal to that emitted from driving a car 1,163 miles per year.
I left halfway through this workshop to find the "Organizing in the Obama Era: Digital Activism" session. Leslie Hatfield, who writes for Eat Well Guide's Green Fork blog, among others, led the panel, which consisted of Winton Wedderburn, CUNY student and head of social media for the Brooklyn Food Conference; Natasha Chart of Change.org's Sustainable Food blog, and Naomi Starkman, whose writing has been featured on Huffington Post and is a regular contributor to the blog Civil Eats. When I arrived, the topic was trending toward how to use digital and social media to your advantage as an organizer around sustainable food issues. Even though new media is coming on fast, we can't abandon old media just yet, as tons of people in this country and worldwide still use newspapers and television to become informed about the world around them.
A question from the audience rang particularly true with me: with all the blogs, Twitter feeds, news articles, podcasts and videos to consume online, how do you manage your time to stay organized, focused and effective? Starkman answered, only half-joking: "I don't sleep." Chart said, effectively, "Let it go." You can't possibly read every blog or see every tweet you want to, so stop trying to and don't feel guilty about missing them.
Next up, I attended "Our Sustainable Restaurants: A Roundtable of NYC Chefs," led by Leonard Lopate of WNYC public radio. On the panel were Dan Barber; Peter Hoffman of Savoy and Back Forty; Bill Telepan of Telepan; David Shea of Applewood; and John Tucker of Rose Water. A very popular panel, the discussion ranged from the chef as instrumental in changing food attitudes to seed sharing, and even tackling the accusation that choosing to eat sustainably is an elitist idea. Barber and Shea explained how chefs, first and foremost, care about taste — and food grown sustainably and responsibly, especially locally, simply tastes better. The chefs agreed that sustainable food's higher prices, which could be seen as elitism by some, is really just a reflection of the true cost of food; Americans have been accustomed to artificially cheap food for far too long and the higher prices are a correction. As one of them noted, many consumers are learning to say, "Food is where I want to spend my money — on what I put into my body, not what I hang off of it."
My favorite verbal nugget of the session? Telepan quipped, "If we are what we eat, then we're fast, cheap, and easy."
Later, I moved on to "Passing the Hoe: New Farmers Share Stories and Experiences." This was a wildly popular session, with the hot, stuffy classroom packed to the gills by the time the young farmers started speaking, and the audience continued to grow as the workshop went on. Michael Grady Robertson, agriculture director at Queens County Farm Museum; Severine von Tscharner Fleming, director of the Greenhorns Project; Sarah Franklin of World Hunger Year and former farmer intern; and Kaycee Wimbish of Awesome Farm discussed the trials and tribulations — but also the bounties and benefits — of being a young farmer today. Some had more growing experience than others before starting out on their own, but all of them spoke of the importance of having an established network of friends, colleagues and connectors, both in the country and in the city, to help their farming efforts.
Lots of great revelations and first-hand knowledge at this session. Wimbish and her farming partner were vegetarians until they decided to start raising animals for meat and dairy. Robertson, originally from Kansas, was extremely depressed after working in a tiny office in Austin with oppressive neon overhead lighting during the dot-com boom. When he spoke to his boss about it, he handed Robertson "a book about depression written by children of celebrities." He said no thanks to all that and decided to start by working on a farm in Texas, then WWOOFed for 3 years at different farms in the US and Europe.
Franklin started out in public health, studying nutrition, and realized slowly that "food science" as she was learning about it was "a myth." She spent time in South Africa where she saw people displaced from apartheid taken from their arable land and eating bad food, but she also saw giant community urban gardens and farms. She apprenticed at several farms but is now on hiatus, working at World Hunger Year. Von Tscharner Fleming got her start through college activism and studied agroecology at Berkeley. She, too, took part in WWOOF and other biodynamic farm apprenticeships. For the past few years, she's traveled around the country filming and interviewing other young farmers for her documentary, "The Greenhorns."
Robertson, in response to a high school senior who had looked in vain for a strong sustainable agriculture program at a big university, said, "I'd rather learn from a farmer than a professor." Wimbish said, "People don't see agriculture as a white-collar job, but youthful energy is behind the jump in sustainable farming. It's something you can do with your hands and with your mind." She added, "Farming is a craft. You do all the learning you can do, but after a certain point, you're simply in charge. There is no book."
Von Tscharner Fleming emphasized that our new presidential administration is part of a true shift in consciousness; "It's not just lip service. Kathleen Merrigan [the new deputy secretary of the USDA] is one of us! She's a farmer!"
To cap off the day, Brooklyn Food Conference coordinator Nancy Romer thanked everyone, and announced that the momentum would keep going through a series of neighborhood meetings in Brooklyn following the Conference to get members of the community to discuss and define what needs to happen to next and what kind of food coalition we'd like to see.
Anna Lappé, daughter of food activist Frances Moore Lappé and activist and author in her own right, sent us forth with the question, "Where is the outrage?" As a pregnant woman, none of the guides she's read to help inform her about what to eat while pregnant talked about the reasons behind avoiding fish (what's mercury doing in our food?).
As she said, changing the food system is about making the connections visible to everyone, to show that we are truly part of a system. I think the Brooklyn Food Conference did a great job at doing just that, and I hope there will be more gatherings like it all over the country in the months and years ahead.
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Morgan Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
This was a fascinating piece – I felt like I was there at the conference! It sounds like an incredibly inspiring event. Thanks for sharing!
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EVERYONE shared the sentiment that one day was not enough.
I hope, that next year, when we come back to learn what everyone did with the information they gathered, the event is extended.
Would you happen to know if that quote was originated by Telepan? I remember reading it somewhere but I can't remember if I read it in the NYTimes Magazine or online.
Thanks for sharing!
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With wicked riffs and a rough, grimy delivery, Repugnant are a super-eeeeeeeeeeeeevil thrash/death band from Sweden (the place that borndeded such things after all) and they're the best I've heard in this vein for quite some time. For fans of Sodom, early Kreator, Bolt Thrower and more obscure bands like Repugnant's countrymen Hypnosia.
Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness (2006)
Sample one track at their MySpace page.
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First Pinkerton by Mike Witmer for October 15, 2007
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Did you realize just how current this strip still is? We have babies in baby jails, people in internment camps and people who are seeking sanctuary, and who are being met by military to our public shame. We have a power hungry, would- be dictator ruling the country teaching white pride white power and is building a wall to either, keep them out or us in depending.