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Captain Marvel (Blu-ray Edition) Review
The Marvel Cinematic Universe kicked off this year with Captain Marvel, which served to set the stage for the Marvel Studios superhero extravaganza that was Avengers: Endgame. The Marvel Studios feature, led by Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, started things off on a high note for 2019. The film is now hitting home video, and here's what's in store for fans of the MCU.
The Movie: In my original review for the film from earlier this year, I thought Captain Marvel was not my favorite Marvel Studios film. It's not what I would call a great film, but it is a decent overall movie. It's a good introduction for the character and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
More than anything, I was a little underwhelmed with a few choices made for the film's depictions, specifically in the form of the Skrulls, the Supreme Intelligence and Mar-Vell. All are present here and formally introduced to the MCU. Now, the Skrulls getting changed is understandable. Considering this is a period piece, it would be highly problematic for the villainous Skrulls to show up at this point on Earth.
What I do like about Captain Marvel is setting the film in 1990s. It gives the film a nice, little style that makes it more unique from other Marvel films, and enables Carol Danvers to have a fun partnership with a younger Nick Fury, still played by Samuel L. Jackson. The youth visual FX making a 70-year-old Samuel L. Jackson look 25 years younger are quite impressive here. Clark Gregg is also back on the big screen as Phil Coulson. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a lot to do here.
The film's major plot twist and the actuality of the villains makes sense and works for the story. However, another major misstep is the under-utilization of Ronan the Accuser, featuring Lee Pace reprising the role from Guardians of the Galaxy. Ronan the Accuser would've been a much more natural fit as the major villain for the film. It also would've been a chance to flesh out the character a bit more.
Blu-Ray Info: The Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy multi-screen edition release for Captain Marvel is a single-disc release including the film and all the extras. It's packaged in a standard Blu-ray clamshell case with translucent blue plastic. There's a slip cover for the Blu-ray case. Besides the Blu-ray disc, there's also an insert with a download code for the digital HD version of the film.
Video Info: The standard Blu-ray version for Captain Marvel is presented in 1080p High Definition Widescreen with a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. Overall, I think the Blu-ray transfer looks exceptional. Everything looks, clear, crisp and pristine. I like the movie's color palette. Nothing looks too overly tinted or murky. Everything looks sharps and visible in the movie, which is appreciated.
Audio Info: The original English language track is presented in 7.1 DTS-HDMA. There are also optional Spanish and French 5.1 Dolby Digital language tracks with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, and French. There's also a 2.0 descriptive audio track for the visually impaired. The film's soundtrack and Blu-ray transfer sounds crisp and clear. Since the film is set in the 1990s, it has a very nostalgic, 1990s soundtrack with famous pop songs from that era. The sound effects and music all come across nicely on Blu-ray.
Special Features: As a single-disc release, Captain Marvel doesn't have a ton of special features or Blu-ray extras. However, there's a decent amount here to keep Marvel fans to enjoy, including the deleted scenes, audio commentary and a little more. Here's the main extras:
Audio Commentary: There's a feature-length audio commentary with co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Overall, it's a good commentary track that provides some nice insight on the production of the film. I especially appreciated the anecdotes on Stan Lee who passed away before the film's release and is given an amazing tribute in the film's opening Marvel Studios logo. There's also a nice look at the film's youth visual effects for Jackson and Gregg. They really did a great job with those visuals. Sometimes those types of visuals can be hit and miss, but the company who did the work here did a great job.
Deleted Scenes: There's about eight minutes and 47 seconds worth of deleted scenes on the disc. There's nothing that's very earth-shattering in terms of removal. Some of what's been taken out are just some additional lines or scene extensions. There is one good, interesting scene where Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) converses with the Supreme Intelligence, who looks like himself. Unfortunately, we never get a look at the Supreme Intelligence's true form, which is a bit of a copout. That should've been a credits reveal. There's a bit more of Talos that clarifies he knocked out and tied up Fury's boss at SHIELD, Keller, also played by Ben Mendelsohn. Regardless, the movie didn't really lose a whole lot by deleting all this footage.
Featurettes: There's also a number of short featurettes that can be viewed individually or together as one full 23-minute feature. Now, for some constructive criticism. Most of the featurettes are rather short and could've gone a little bit more in-depth into the production of the film.
Becoming a Hero: There's a six-minute-plus look at Brie Larson joining the MCU as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel.
Big Hero Moment: This is a three-and-a-half minute featurette looking at the history of the Carol Danvers character.
The Origin of Nick Fury: This is another three-and-a-half minute short featurette on the backstory of Nick Fury, which is showcased in the film.
The Dream Team: This is a look at co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, but it runs less than three minutes. Again, a lot of the featurettes are very short, and I think they could've offered a little bit more meat.
The Skrulls and the Kree: This is a three-and-a-half minute look at the alien races of the Skrulls and the Kree that feature a large amount of focus for this film. Captain Marvel did offer a much greater look at Kree society than the MCU has ever really shown before.
Hiss-sterical Cat-titude: This is a look at the Goose character for the film and runs a little over three minutes. I can generally take or leave Goose in the film. I think it was fine to include Goose, but I wasn't super crazy about his plot twist involving a major part of Nick Fury's backstory.
Gag Reel: Finally, we have a two-minute gag reel feature showing some humorous outtakes for the film.

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Up at 9:00. Out of bed by 10:00. Working by 11:00. Have tried to go to bed by 9 or 10 only to toss and turn so I have decided to stick to my old routines and go to bed late and get up late.
The tossing and turning proved somewhat beneficial as I have figured out how I want to identify the themes of my book pictorially. I had been thinking of black and white icons but now think that photographs, that I will take, representing the various themes might be the direction to go.
Last night got up and went down to the kitchen for a glass of warm milk and a look through of "A Room of Their Own" catalogue from the Bloomsbury show at the Block.
Woke up this morning looking forward to visiting with my stories.
This morning spent more time with Bloomsbury, took some pictures of the Ragdale Residents Library, and have been working on "Theme Images." Have come up with four so far: Observations, Quotes, Memoirs, Alzheimer's. More to come. Need to think more about my "Daily Writings:" Leave them as a theme or divide by topic?
Dinner: Pork Roast w/ Portable Mushroom Gravy, rice with a touch of butter, cucumber/tomato/onion salad Tuscan style, apple sauce made from Ragdale apples, sauteed collard greens & onions, mini cheese cake squares and fresh strawberries for dessert.
Worked a lot today. 11:00 through 5:00 then 8:30 through 10:00. Wow!


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Meditation for Busy People
Whenever you have time,
just sit silently with closed eyes.
Whenever you have time, just sit silently with closed eyes.
It will help. It will help you to be more at ease with yourself.
People have forgotten how to close their eyes because they have forgotten how to go inwards.
Our whole interest is outside.
It is really a wonder how people manage to sleep with closed eyes!
Sooner or later they will start sleeping with open eyes... and they will have their glasses on!
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Our eyes have become very fixed on the outside... almost paralyzed.
They cannot move inwards, and that is the most essential thing in life to learn, because we go on missing our real treasure.
In the east that real treasure is called dharma.
We don't call the church religion, we don't call ritual religion; we call the inner experience of one's being religion.
Editor's Note: This meditation for busy people is extremely simple and can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone. It is simply this: Whenever you have time, just sit silently with closed eyes.
Copyright © Osho International Foundation 1998
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Joy: The Happiness That Comes from Within
by Osho.
With an artful mix of compassion and humor, Osho shows us that joy is the essence of life, that even unhappiness has its root in joy. Osho encourages us to accept joy by being grateful to be alive and for the challenges and opportunities in life, and by finding the good in all that we have -- rather than setting conditions or demands for happiness. By embracing joy, one comes closer to a true, peaceful, and balanced state. Includes an original 80-minute talk by Osho on DVD.
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Osho is one of the best-known and most provocative spiritual teachers of the 20th century. Beginning in the 1970s he captured the attention of young people from the West who wanted to experience meditation and transformation. More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. © Osho International Foundation. All rights reserved. For more information, visit www.osho.org where these is an "Ask Osho" section where people can write their question and the web editors will find the nearest answer to the question from Osho, who has answered thousands of questions from seekers over the years.
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March 25, 2014 at 7:19 pm #2960
It is some advantage then, because lot of apartments will be empty when SHTF. You can use that in your favor by making alternative routes in and out, also leading the possible intruders in direction you want will be easier to plan.
Thinking outside box is key there. Think today about all possible routes in and out and alternate ways for that for example.
In some apartments buildings during the SHTF I could go trough the floors up and down trough the hole in the walls or ceiling, and those holes were hidden with rubble or destroyed furniture or similar, if I tried to walk on stairways it looked impossible because it looked buried under destroyed stuff, or stairways were not there at all etc.


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In fine Bachelor tradition, we open to beautiful women lounging around in a not-so-stylish mixture of pyjamas, beanies, floral frocks and full makeup. Thank goodness Osher arrives in the kind of cute khaki bomber jacket I've been looking for in a ladies' size 14 all Winter, but I'll forgive him as he delivers a date card for one of my favourite contestants, 30-year-old jewellery designer Laura.
Matty picks up Laura in a Bond-esque speedboat, and various Bachelor small talk is made – Sydney is beautiful, I feel so much freedom on the water, oh my GOODNESS yes that giant boat is where we're headed, yada yada – before they recline and eat cheese and drink champagne on the front deck of a very large motor boat. Just like a million dates I've been on. Nothing special. (Jokes. My husband has better taste than that. We drink wine and eat cheese at home all the time – and when we go out, it's for delicious ribs and risotto at a cool restaurant in Eumundi. No cheesy Euroyachts for us.)
Sidenote: When Laura slightly awkwardly bounds onto the speedboat from the dock, she said that she was graceful like a llama. I like her.
Back at the mansion, the girls are love-hating the group date card, because there's only one thing worse than sharing Matty with 11 other girls, and that's being left out of any possible catfights that could take place on said date.
Sharlene (or as Jennifer likes to call her 'Miss Happy Pants' which is incredibly misleading, as I see NO parachute pants here anywhere) announces that Cobie, Stephanie, Michelle, Akoulina, Ellora, Alix, Lisa, Belinda, Elise, Sharlene, Leah and Simone are invited on the group date. Our mate Jennifer (not our mate.) seems delighted that her house BFF Leah and Simone might have to duel it out on this group date, and we are left to imagine that she's going to be chillin' back at the mansion, throwin' curses and stirring toad's legs and dragon's blood into a simmering cauldron.
Matty flirts successfully with Laura as they settle in for a life-drawing moment by the harbour, although I'm sceptical that it's actually Matty drawing as he is squinting directly into the sun behind Laura (until I see his drawing and realise that it was all him); and they settle into some very comfortable silence (surrounded by a production crew) which takes Laura straight to the top of my Bachie winner list.
What is with these girls? Laura is the second – after Ellora last week – to ask what Matty was thinking about while gazing into his eyes. HELLO? Are you in high school? Stop it. And then they kiss, to a soundtrack of violins, building to a sweeping crescendo (which sounded a lot like a local life insurance ad jingle which gave it a super romantic touch). Matty describes the kiss as 'nice' and is a little speechless afterwards, and gave Laura a rose for her kissing ability alone.
Osher whisks the group date ladies away to what looks like the local Abbey Medieval Fayre for a few sportin' games for the wenches. Yuk. (Note, the term wench wasn't used once in this entire episode, but it was implied. It was HEAVILY implied, y'all.)
We kick off the Renaissance fun with Ye Olde Piglet Catching competition for Cobie, Akoulina, Simone and Leah.
Before the producers agree to theme an entire group date again, can someone please talk to Osher about authenticity? Anyone who passed year 10 English should really know that the phrase ye olde is pronounced the old. Originally, the English word 'ye' was spelled 'þe.' The symbol þ represents the letter thorn, a letter which died out in English. It had a sound somewhat similar to the Greek letter θ, which is a th- sound, so 'þe' is an early spelling of 'the'. Over generations, the writing of þ changed, so that it looked like a different letter, wynn (ƿ), and eventually became indistinct from the letter y. It's just substituted orthography, and you're welcome. Back to the quality educational viewing and piglet-catching, right?
Matty demonstrates the correct porcine-capturing technique, and squeezes the meaty rump of that little piggy pretty much exactly the same way that I squeeze Trainee Mama's sweet twin babies' thighs. Sorry Frankie and Evie, it looks painful when someone else does it.
Leah is quite the pig catcher and claims that if you want some sausages, you're going to have to catch the pig. I feel like she might have that embroidered on a throw pillow on her bed. Both Leah and Cobie catch their poor terrified piglets and are headed through to the Royal Banquet to dine with Matty.
Lisa, Sharlene, Michelle and Belinda are selected to participate in the next classical game – a combination of Quoits and Sack-racing – to try to win a seat at the Royal Banquet. Now I'm no medieval history buff (well I am a little), but I'm not sure that sack racing in Nicaraguan organic fairtrade coffee bags was a traditional sport for ladies of the gentry in Henry VIII's time. As the ladies Easter-Bunny their way along the course to throw their quoits, I was struck by just how glamorous this show is. As Lisa said after she and Belinda win through to the Banquet, she has sweat in her neck, back and crack!
The final two spots at the Banquet table are up for grabs for Stephanie, Elise, Ellora and Alix, who hike their petticoats for a game of Medieval Football. Which is really just regular football but with a dilapidated-looking leather ball and no thugs with lead pipes down their trousers. Ellora brings all her Glamazon athleticism and aggression, and looks ready to take on a team of twenty men, but Alix and Elise play well together as a team (on The Bachelor, wot?) and win the final two places at the Royal Banquet table with King Matty.
They all awkwardly settle along one side of the table, and the wine flows. Leah's effort to come across sweet and innocent after Matty invites her to dish on the drama is short-lived after she eggs Elise on to interrupt Alix and Matty – although Alix graciously stands up to allow Elise to enjoy her first proper one-on-one time.
Leah follows suit shortly and interrupts Elise before she's really even had a moment to start a conversation with Matty, and Leah takes a seat in the garden. Cue the waterworks, and Leah cries into Matty's shoulder over 'who she is' and how much this experience is so difficult for her caring heart, although she throws to camera and rates her acting ability as a 10/10. If Matty falls for that kind of rubbish again in future episodes, I'm guessing the whole of Australia will start throwing their popcorn at the screen!
Matty disappoints Leah by giving Alix the Group Date Rose.
Surprise Group Date Rose Ceremony
I'm thrilled that they're still in their medieval get up for the Rose Ceremony, because who can get enough 1500s fashion? Not me, McGee.
Who receives roses:
Belinda, Cobie, Leah, Lisa, Stephanie, Sharlene, Michelle, Elise, Ellora, Simone.
Who goes home:
Akoulina. Look, I liked her. Do I think she was gonna be right for Matty? No. But was she here for the right reasons and make for decent tv, sure. I wish her well, and hope to see her in a Cirque du Soleil sometime soon.
Osher bids Akoulina farewell in his best elevator voice, and one of my least favourite things about this season is that we haven't had any farewell-limousine videos yet. I feel like Akoulina would have nailed that, and we've been robbed.
Alix threw just the right amount of humour into her moments with Matty in the garden, asking if this dress makes her butt look big. Simple, but clever.


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Latest Obsession: C.O. Bigelow Lemon Lime Body Splash Review and C.O. Bigelow Lemon Pomegranate Body Splash Review
Oh let me count the ways I oh so love the new C.O. Bigelow Body Splash!
Anyone try yet? If not you NEED these.
I snagged two of these from Bath and Body Works recently and I'm utterly obsessed.
What are they?
A light, fruity fragrance mist laced with tart lemon and cocktail'ed with lime, pomegranate, and orange!
The Good…..
If you're a fan of the C.O. Bigelow Lemon Collection, you'll want to pick these up as they are just gorgeous particularly if you love the tart sweetness of lemon! Each blend is laced with lemon plus an additional note of either pomegranate, lime, or orange blossom. I picked up two of the three which were C.O. Bigelow Lemon Lime Body Splash and C.O. Bigelow Lemon Pomegranate Body Splash. I wasn't partial to the orange blossom mix and felt like it would have been way better if they left it simply as lemon and orange as the "blossom" part of the fragrance comes across a tad meh to me so I left it in the store.
Now the Lemon Pomegranate Body Splash is my fav of the two! It's bright, zesty, tart, and bittersweet thanks to the edge the pomegranate gives to it. It's very fruity, very playful, and very Spring/Summer-ish! Quite a gorgeous scent and ideal for layering with other items in the range for long lasting throw and linger!
Lemon Lime Body Splash was my second fav as it too carries a certain zest to it lent from the lemon and the lime in the fragrance. it comes across incredibly tart with a itty bitty sweetness. It's probably not for everyone as its a tad of lemon/lime overdose but I really liked it.
The Bad…..
If you aren't layering up with other items in the collection the mists fail to linger long. You really have to hose yourself down with the fragrance to get good throw and linger and even after that, if you're lucky, it'll last maybe two hours tops. I felt like they were a tiny expensive at $16.50 each particularly since the scent didn't linger so well.
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Who might not like it?
- Those who want a long wearing fragrance.
- Anyone who dislikes sweet scents or fruity ones.
Final Thoughts…..
I thought they were complete winners particularly the Lemon Pom mix up, I fully recommend purchasing that one at the very least as it was gorgeous. As I mentioned above the Orange Blossom was less than thrilling but all three are worth sniffing.
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The prisoner, left to himself, sat down upon his bedstead: and resting his elbows on his knees, and his chin upon his hands, remained in that attitude for hours. It would be hard to say, of what nature his reflections were. They had no distinctness, and, saving for some flashes now and then, no reference to his condition or the train of circumstances by which it had been brought about. The cracks in the pavement of his cell, the chinks in the wall where stone was joined to stone, the bars in the window, the iron ring upon the floor,――such things as these, subsiding strangely into one another, and awakening an indescribable kind of interest and amusement, engrossed his whole mind; and although at the bottom of his every thought there was an uneasy sense of guilt, and dread of death, he felt no more than that vague consciousness of it, which a sleeper has of pain. It pursues him through his dreams, gnaws at the heart of all his fancied pleasures, robs the banquet of its taste, music of its sweetness, makes happiness itself unhappy, and yet is no bodily sensation, but a phantom without shape, or form, or visible presence; pervading everything, but having no existence; recognisable everywhere, but nowhere seen, or touched, or met with face to face, until the sleep is past, and waking agony returns.
After a long time the door of his cell opened. He looked up; saw the blind man enter; and relapsed into his former position.
Guided by his breathing, the visitor advanced to where he sat; and stopping beside him, and stretching out his hand to assure himself that he was right, remained, for a good space, silent.
'This is bad, Rudge. This is bad,' he said at length.
The prisoner shuffled with his feet upon the ground in turning his body from him, but made no other answer.
'How were you taken?' he asked. 'And where? You never told me more than half your secret. No matter; I know it now. How was it, and where, eh?' he asked again, coming still nearer to him.
'At Chigwell,' said the other.
'At Chigwell! How came you there?'
'Because I went there to avoid the man I stumbled on,' he answered. 'Because I was chased and driven there, by him and Fate. Because I was urged to go there, by something stronger than my own will. When I found him watching in the house she used to live in, night after night, I knew I never could escape him――never! and when I heard the Bell――'
He shivered; muttered that it was very cold; paced quickly up and down the narrow cell; and sitting down again, fell into his old posture.
'You were saying,' said the blind man, after another pause, 'that when you heard the Bell――'
'Let it be, will you?' he retorted in a hurried voice. 'It hangs there yet.'
The blind man turned a wistful and inquisitive face towards him, but he continued to speak, without noticing him.
'I went to Chigwell, in search of the mob. I have been so hunted and beset by this man, that I knew my only hope of safety lay in joining them. They had gone on before; I followed them when it left off.'
'When what left off?'
'The Bell. They had quitted the place. I hoped that some of them might be still lingering among the ruins, and was searching for them when I heard――' he drew a long breath, and wiped his forehead with his sleeve――'his voice.'
'Saying what?'
'No matter what. I don't know. I was then at the foot of the turret, where I did the――'
'Ay,' said the blind man, nodding his head with perfect composure, 'I understand.'
'I climbed the stair, or so much of it as was left; meaning to hide till he had gone. But he heard me; and followed almost as soon as I set foot upon the ashes.'
'You might have hidden in the wall, and thrown him down, or stabbed him,' said the blind man.
'Might I? Between that man and me, was one who led him on――I saw it, though he did not――and raised above his head a bloody hand. It was in the room above that HE and I stood glaring at each other on the night of the murder, and before he fell he raised his hand like that, and fixed his eyes on me. I knew the chase would end there.'
'You have a strong fancy,' said the blind man, with a smile.
'Strengthen yours with blood, and see what it will come to.'
He groaned, and rocked himself, and looking up for the first time, said, in a low, hollow voice:
'Eight-and-twenty years! Eight-and-twenty years! He has never changed in all that time, never grown older, nor altered in the least degree. He has been before me in the dark night, and the broad sunny day; in the twilight, the moonlight, the sunlight, the light of fire, and lamp, and candle; and in the deepest gloom. Always the same! In company, in solitude, on land, on shipboard; sometimes leaving me alone for months, and sometimes always with me. I have seen him, at sea, come gliding in the dead of night along the bright reflection of the moon in the calm water; and I have seen him, on quays and market-places, with his hand uplifted, towering, the centre of a busy crowd, unconscious of the terrible form that had its silent stand among them. Fancy! Are you real? Am I? Are these iron fetters, riveted on me by the smith's hammer, or are they fancies I can shatter at a blow?'
The blind man listened in silence.
'Fancy! Do I fancy that I killed him? Do I fancy that as I left the chamber where he lay, I saw the face of a man peeping from a dark door, who plainly showed me by his fearful looks that he suspected what I had done? Do I remember that I spoke fairly to him――that I drew nearer――nearer yet――with the hot knife in my sleeve? Do I fancy how HE died? Did he stagger back into the angle of the wall into which I had hemmed him, and, bleeding inwardly, stand, not fail, a corpse before me? Did I see him, for an instant, as I see you now, erect and on his feet――but dead!'
The blind man, who knew that he had risen, motioned him to sit down again upon his bedstead; but he took no notice of the gesture.
'It was then I thought, for the first time, of fastening the murder upon him. It was then I dressed him in my clothes, and dragged him down the back-stairs to the piece of water. Do I remember listening to the bubbles that came rising up when I had rolled him in? Do I remember wiping the water from my face, and because the body splashed it there, in its descent, feeling as if it MUST be blood?
'Did I go home when I had done? And oh, my God! how long it took to do! Did I stand before my wife, and tell her? Did I see her fall upon the ground; and, when I stooped to raise her, did she thrust me back with a force that cast me off as if I had been a child, staining the hand with which she clasped my wrist? Is THAT fancy?
'Did she go down upon her knees, and call on Heaven to witness that she and her unborn child renounced me from that hour; and did she, in words so solemn that they turned me cold――me, fresh from the horrors my own hands had made――warn me to fly while there was time; for though she would be silent, being my wretched wife, she would not shelter me? Did I go forth that night, abjured of God and man, and anchored deep in hell, to wander at my cable's length about the earth, and surely be drawn down at last?'
'Why did you return? said the blind man.
'Why is blood red? I could no more help it, than I could live without breath. I struggled against the impulse, but I was drawn back, through every difficult and adverse circumstance, as by a mighty engine. Nothing could stop me. The day and hour were none of my choice. Sleeping and waking, I had been among the old haunts for years――had visited my own grave. Why did I come back? Because this jail was gaping for me, and he stood beckoning at the door.'
'You were not known?' said the blind man.
'I was a man who had been twenty-two years dead. No. I was not known.'
'You should have kept your secret better.'
'MY secret? MINE? It was a secret, any breath of air could whisper at its will. The stars had it in their twinkling, the water in its flowing, the leaves in their rustling, the seasons in their return. It lurked in strangers' faces, and their voices. Everything had lips on which it always trembled.――MY secret!'
'It was revealed by your own act at any rate,' said the blind man.
'The act was not mine. I did it, but it was not mine. I was forced at times to wander round, and round, and round that spot. If you had chained me up when the fit was on me, I should have broken away, and gone there. As truly as the loadstone draws iron towards it, so he, lying at the bottom of his grave, could draw me near him when he would. Was that fancy? Did I like to go there, or did I strive and wrestle with the power that forced me?'
The blind man shrugged his shoulders, and smiled incredulously. The prisoner again resumed his old attitude, and for a long time both were mute.
'I suppose then,' said his visitor, at length breaking silence, 'that you are penitent and resigned; that you desire to make peace with everybody (in particular, with your wife who has brought you to this); and that you ask no greater favour than to be carried to Tyburn as soon as possible? That being the case, I had better take my leave. I am not good enough to be company for you.'
'Have I not told you,' said the other fiercely, 'that I have striven and wrestled with the power that brought me here? Has my whole life, for eight-and-twenty years, been one perpetual struggle and resistance, and do you think I want to lie down and die? Do all men shrink from death――I most of all!'
'That's better said. That's better spoken, Rudge――but I'll not call you that again――than anything you have said yet,' returned the blind man, speaking more familiarly, and laying his hands upon his arm. 'Lookye,――I never killed a man myself, for I have never been placed in a position that made it worth my while. Farther, I am not an advocate for killing men, and I don't think I should recommend it or like it――for it's very hazardous――under any circumstances. But as you had the misfortune to get into this trouble before I made your acquaintance, and as you have been my companion, and have been of use to me for a long time now, I overlook that part of the matter, and am only anxious that you shouldn't die unnecessarily. Now, I do not consider that, at present, it is at all necessary.'
'What else is left me?' returned the prisoner. 'To eat my way through these walls with my teeth?'
'Something easier than that,' returned his friend. 'Promise me that you will talk no more of these fancies of yours――idle, foolish things, quite beneath a man――and I'll tell you what I mean.'
'Tell me,' said the other.
'Your worthy lady with the tender conscience; your scrupulous, virtuous, punctilious, but not blindly affectionate wife――'
'What of her?'
'Is now in London.'
'A curse upon her, be she where she may!'
'That's natural enough. If she had taken her annuity as usual, you would not have been here, and we should have been better off. But that's apart from the business. She's in London. Scared, as I suppose, and have no doubt, by my representation when I waited upon her, that you were close at hand (which I, of course, urged only as an inducement to compliance, knowing that she was not pining to see you), she left that place, and travelled up to London.'
'How do you know?'
'From my friend the noble captain――the illustrious general――the bladder, Mr Tappertit. I learnt from him the last time I saw him, which was yesterday, that your son who is called Barnaby――not after his father, I suppose――'
'Death! does that matter now!'
'――You are impatient,' said the blind man, calmly; 'it's a good sign, and looks like life――that your son Barnaby had been lured away from her by one of his companions who knew him of old, at Chigwell; and that he is now among the rioters.'
'And what is that to me? If father and son be hanged together, what comfort shall I find in that?'
'Stay――stay, my friend,' returned the blind man, with a cunning look, 'you travel fast to journeys' ends. Suppose I track my lady out, and say thus much: "You want your son, ma'am――good. I, knowing those who tempt him to remain among them, can restore him to you, ma'am――good. You must pay a price, ma'am, for his restoration――good again. The price is small, and easy to be paid―― dear ma'am, that's best of all."'
'What mockery is this?'
'Very likely, she may reply in those words. "No mockery at all," I answer: "Madam, a person said to be your husband (identity is difficult of proof after the lapse of many years) is in prison, his life in peril――the charge against him, murder. Now, ma'am, your husband has been dead a long, long time. The gentleman never can be confounded with him, if you will have the goodness to say a few words, on oath, as to when he died, and how; and that this person (who I am told resembles him in some degree) is no more he than I am. Such testimony will set the question quite at rest. Pledge yourself to me to give it, ma' am, and I will undertake to keep your son (a fine lad) out of harm's way until you have done this trifling service, when he shall he delivered up to you, safe and sound. On the other hand, if you decline to do so, I fear he will be betrayed, and handed over to the law, which will assuredly sentence him to suffer death. It is, in fact, a choice between his life and death. If you refuse, he swings. If you comply, the timber is not grown, nor the hemp sown, that shall do him any harm."'
'There is a gleam of hope in this!' cried the prisoner.
'A gleam!' returned his friend, 'a noon-blaze; a full and glorious daylight. Hush! I hear the tread of distant feet. Rely on me.'
'When shall I hear more?'
'As soon as I do. I should hope, to-morrow. They are coming to say that our time for talk is over. I hear the jingling of the keys. Not another word of this just now, or they may overhear us.'
As he said these words, the lock was turned, and one of the prison turnkeys appearing at the door, announced that it was time for visitors to leave the jail.
'So soon!' said Stagg, meekly. 'But it can't be helped. Cheer up, friend. This mistake will soon be set at rest, and then you are a man again! If this charitable gentleman will lead a blind man (who has nothing in return but prayers) to the prison-porch, and set him with his face towards the west, he will do a worthy deed. Thank you, good sir. I thank you very kindly.'
So saying, and pausing for an instant at the door to turn his grinning face towards his friend, he departed.
When the officer had seen him to the porch, he returned, and again unlocking and unbarring the door of the cell, set it wide open, informing its inmate that he was at liberty to walk in the adjacent yard, if he thought proper, for an hour.
The prisoner answered with a sullen nod; and being left alone again, sat brooding over what he had heard, and pondering upon the hopes the recent conversation had awakened; gazing abstractedly, the while he did so, on the light without, and watching the shadows thrown by one wall on another, and on the stone-paved ground.
It was a dull, square yard, made cold and gloomy by high walls, and seeming to chill the very sunlight. The stone, so bare, and rough, and obdurate, filled even him with longing thoughts of meadow-land and trees; and with a burning wish to be at liberty. As he looked, he rose, and leaning against the door-post, gazed up at the bright blue sky, smiling even on that dreary home of crime. He seemed, for a moment, to remember lying on his back in some sweet-scented place, and gazing at it through moving branches, long ago.
His attention was suddenly attracted by a clanking sound――he knew what it was, for he had startled himself by making the same noise in walking to the door. Presently a voice began to sing, and he saw the shadow of a figure on the pavement. It stopped――was silent all at once, as though the person for a moment had forgotten where he was, but soon remembered――and so, with the same clanking noise, the shadow disappeared.
He walked out into the court and paced it to and fro; startling the echoes, as he went, with the harsh jangling of his fetters. There was a door near his, which, like his, stood ajar.
He had not taken half-a-dozen turns up and down the yard, when, standing still to observe this door, he heard the clanking sound again. A face looked out of the grated window――he saw it very dimly, for the cell was dark and the bars were heavy――and directly afterwards, a man appeared, and came towards him.
For the sense of loneliness he had, he might have been in jail a year. Made eager by the hope of companionship, he quickened his pace, and hastened to meet the man half way――
What was this! His son!
They stood face to face, staring at each other. He shrinking and cowed, despite himself; Barnahy struggling with his imperfect memory, and wondering where he had seen that face before. He was not uncertain long, for suddenly he laid hands upon him, and striving to bear him to the ground, cried:
'Ah! I know! You are the robber!'
He said nothing in reply at first, but held down his head, and struggled with him silently. Finding the younger man too strong for him, he raised his face, looked close into his eyes, and said,
'I am your father.'
God knows what magic the name had for his ears; but Barnaby released his hold, fell back, and looked at him aghast. Suddenly he sprung towards him, put his arms about his neck, and pressed his head against his cheek.
Yes, yes, he was; he was sure he was. But where had he been so long, and why had he left his mother by herself, or worse than by herself, with her poor foolish boy? And had she really been as happy as they said? And where was she? Was she near there? She was not happy now, and he in jail? Ah, no.
Not a word was said in answer; but Grip croaked loudly, and hopped about them, round and round, as if enclosing them in a magic circle, and invoking all the powers of mischief.


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→ A is for Chengdu and B for Leshan Giant Buddha
The Giant Buddha of Leshan, also known as Lingyun Buddha, is carved on Lingyun Hill, east of Leshan City, Sichuan Province, at the confluence of three rivers, namely, Min River, Qingyi River, and Dadu River. It is not far away from Mount Emei. It is 162 kilometers (about 100 miles) from Chengdu City to Leshan City if one travels by the expressway. The Buddha is a statue of Maitreya Buddha, with a height of 71 meters. As the biggest carved stone Buddha in the world, the Giant Buddha is featured in poetry, song and story.
How to Get to Leshan Giant Buddha from Chengdu? The transport of Leshan is quite convenient. TopChinaTravel can offer transfer service or tour package of Leshan Giant Buddha from Chengdu. Also, if you want to travel on your own, that is okay. Visitors can travel to Leshan Giant Buddha by bullet train, bus or car rental. Below list some useful transportation information from Chengdu to Leshan. Hope it is helpful to your Leshan tour plan.
To see Leshan Giant Buddha in Leshan City, you need to get to Leshan City first. The best way to get to Leshan City from Chengdu is by bullet train. How to Get to Leshan Giant Buddha from Chengdu by train? No matter which direction you are in Chengdu, take the subway to Tianfu Square and then go to Chengdu East Railway Station.
There are 40 bullet trains depart from Chengdu East Railway Station to Leshan Railway Station every day. The journey takes about from 46m to 1h48m varying from different trains. The first train departs at 06:00 and the last one departs at 22:05. The ticket fare ranges from 54 to 162 yuan depending on which standard seat you are taking. After getting off the train at Leshan Railway Station, take a local public bus like Bus 3 or taxi to get to Giant Buddha Scenic Area.
Bus is the one of the convenient ways to get to Leshan Giant Buhhda from Chengdu. How to Get to Leshan Giant Buddha from Chengdu by coach? Passengers can take the bus from Chengdu Xinnanmen Bus Station, Chengdu Chadianzi Bus Station, Shiyangchang Station, Ximen Bus Station and Shuangliu international airport bus terminal to Leshan.
Buses leave from Chengdu Xinnanmen Bus Station every 30 minutes from 8:10 to 19:35. The bus station is located at No. 57 Lin Jiang Zhong Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu. The journey takes about 2 hours. The bus can take you to Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area directly. And bus starts from Chadianzi Bus Station can also go directly to the Leshan scenic spot.
Also, there are buses at Ximen, Shiyangchang or Airport Passenger terminal Bus Station leaving for Leshan, but the number of Chengdu-Leshan buses departing from these stations is not so much. So, you'd better to go to Chengdu Xinnanmen Bus Station to catch a bus/coach. In the downtown of Leshan City, tourists can get to the Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area by taking public bus Nos. 3, 7, 8 and 13 or ferry.
|Depart Station
|Arrival Station
|Operation Time
|Departure Time
|Xinnanmen Bus Station
|Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
|every 30 minutes(shuttle)
|Chadianzi Bus Station
|Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
|09:00, 09:30, 12:20, 15:00(shuttle)
|Ximen Bus Station
Leshan Passenger Transport
Center Station
07:00, 08:00, 08:20, 09:30, 11:00, 12:30, 14:30, 15:30, 17:30
Bus Station
Leshan Passenger Transport
Center Station
|every 25 minutes
Chengdu Airport
Passenger Station
Leshan Passenger Transport
Center Station
Note: the information is only for your reference.
Car Rental is a comfortable way for traveling to Leshan, which will take you directly to the destinations without transfer. How to get to Leshan Giant Buddha from Chengdu by car rental? TopChinaTravel can offer transfer service with a professional tour guide or tour package of Leshan Giant Buddha from Chengdu. If you need, please feel free to send the details to email@example.com.
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93 Series I Volume XIII- Serial 19 - Missouri - Arkansas Campaign
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|Chapter XXV. SKIRMISH NEAR NEOSHO, MO.
On the morning of the 30th Captain Wilson left on his return to this post. All was quiet during the day, and scouting parties were sent out to a distance of 8 miles to the south and southwest, who returned at evening reporting the country clear. Up to this time Colonel Richardson had pickets stationed on each of the five roads leading into the village, each picket consisting of five men and a non-commissioned officer. These pickets were maintained till his retreat. The usual camp guard was also stationed. In the evening of the 30th, after night-fall, a rumor was brought into camp that a force of men were in the college-yard (some half a mile from camp), and the woods full of horses. A council of war was held, the rumor traced to its source, and scouts sent out to examine the facts, but the rumor was not verified. The camp guard was doubled and directions given as to the course to be pursued.
The night passed without alarm. All danger of attack was supposed to have passed away, and the hour of 8 a.m. had arrived, when a fire was opened from the brush to the southwest. At this time Captains Burch and Julian and Lieutenants Worley and Kelso were absent from camp. The former was the officer of the day, in the discharge of his duty. Captain Julian and Lieutenant Worley were acting under orders to examine the cells in the court-house, and were accompanied by Lieutenant Kelso. Colonel Richardson immediately ordered Lieutenant Wilson, of Company A, to form his men, and left this company to give orders for the other companies to form. Whether he gave such orders is left in doubt by the conflicting testimony. However each company formed in line. Colonel Richardson ordered his company (A) to charge the brush, but it appears that for some reason the order was not executed. The men of this company fired three rounds, as did also the men of Company H. With these exceptions no firing took place on our side.
Just after ordering the charge of Company A, Colonel Richardson received a wound in the arm and his horse was shot under him, in the fall laming his left leg, dislocating his shoulder, and spraining his wrist. At this time his entire command seemed seized with a panic and fled in disorder. Within ten minutes from the time of the first shot the camp of Colonel Richardson was clear of men, all the camp equipage and train being abandoned. No adequate reason can be assigned for this precipitate flight. The fall of Colonel Richardson is of course no justification. The enemy undoubtedly was in superior force, but not so much so as to negative all chances of success; and whatever the superiority may have been, it had not at that time been demonstrated. The screaming and whooping of the Indians is said by the officers of the command to have rendered their untrained horses nearly unmanageable. They further remark that quite a number of refugees had accompanied the command to Neosho in the hope of being reinstated in their homes, and that they fled en masse at the first shot, tending to confuse and alarm the troops.
In this report I have stated as facts what I believe to be true, after the most thorough investigation which the circumstances have permitted me to make. I should state that there is scarcely a point upon which the testimony is not contradictory. The propriety of the conduct of Colonel Richardson upon this occasion is to be inferred from the facts as stated. These is nothing which indicates in any degree a lack of personal courage; neither were any of the ordinary precautions in the way of guards and scouts omitted, save the unaccountable neglect to post a picket upon the hill to the southwest of the camp,
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Becoming a member of The Guild of Enamellers opens many opportunities to develop knowledge, understanding and your own aspirations to improve your own enamelling techniques. At the Annual Guild Conference members can enter their work for assessment, by three selectors, who are appointed on a three year rolling programme from amongst the best known and experienced enamellers within the Guild.
On entering selection members are required to submit six pieces of their work, using at least three different techniques, along with accompanying notes for each piece. A 50% pass mark will secure Associated status and Craftsman is gained with a 75% pass mark.
However, a formal entry and entry fee is required before being accepted for selection. Upon achieving the Associate or Craftsman award, members have the privilege of using the letters ACGE and CGE.
Research Fellowship
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Blockchain Scalability Dialogues : Sharding, StateChannels, SideChains and ScaleCube Metrics
Blockchain Scalability techniques and the scale cube metrics has made my Saturday morning live and loud ! I had the pleasure and privilege to take a live streaming webinar session on Blockchain Scalability – Architectures and Algorithms for the TechAthena community founded by technology leaders Shalaka Verma and Deepthi Annie.
During the initial interaction itself TechAthena community set their expectations clear. They are looking for a session on Blockchain technology beyond a product pitch or a corporate narrative. Hence I did a deep dive on Blockchain Scalability techniques from the vantage point of defining scalability of distributed systems with a specific focus on decentralised scaling.
I could lay out the most prominent Blockchain scalability techniques such as StateChannels, Sidechains, Offchain computation, Sharding, Replicated State Machines, Directed Acyclic Graphs, Gossip Protocols, variants of voting consensus algorithms, vertical and horizontal scaling etc. My presentation from this session is uploaded to SlideShare for further reviews and references. Request your thought and views.
During my preparations for the webinar, I could realise that fundamental postulates such as CAP theorem, Partial Synchronous processors etc. lay at the bottom of the Blockchain Scalability Constraints. It was a clear realisation that Consensus algorithms are not the bottlenecks in Blockchain scalability. Blockchain Trilemma coined by Vitalik Buterin underlined the need for factoring in Scalability trade offs in conjunction with decentralisation and security. I could easily comprehend the fact that in the contours of Blockchain, Decentralisation, Transparency and Scalability are the most important notions.
For a Blockchain evangelist, security and privacy gets redefined within the terrains of transparency. It is quite an interesting dimension. I could also connect with the scale cube defined in the book 'Art of Scalability' along with the Blockchain Scalability Trilemma and CAP theorem.
All together it was a great beginning to the weekend together with a network of hundred plus Blockchain evangelists. Thank you TechAthena community once again ! You can find the YouTube recording of the Webinar in the following channel. Request your views and thoughts.
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I had an opportunity to talk about Blockchain Technology and its building blocks to the students and faculties of MCA department in Jain University in Bangalore.
It was a great experience to reflect on effective knowledge sharing strategies and pedagogic methods in the context of Blockchain technology. Students seem to have good awareness about the importance of cryptography in the Blockchain technology at the outset.
However, they are not well versed in the concepts like consensus algorithms, synchronous and asynchronous processes, time stamping, merkle tree etc. I could see that the history and emergence of Blockchain technology through CypherPunk and Cryptoanarchist community was not much exciting to them.
They were all attentive when I demonstrated Ganache UI and the Geth client. They were very curious when I demonstrated the use of Remix IDE and the Solidity syntax. All together it was a reflective and pedagogic experience to converse with young and ignited minds about Blockchain Technology.


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RBC Capital Markets raised its risk rating on oil-producer Qatar Thursday on the expectation of rising tensions emanating from Middle East oil producers.
RBC's head of commodity strategy, Helima Croft, and Michael Tran, commodity strategist, write:
Saudi "King Salman removed
Mohammad bin Nayef
and elevated his son
Mohammad bin Salman
(MBS) to crown prince. MBS' rise has already brought change, and this will likely mean more hawkish foreign policy and intensified efforts to confront Iran. Under him, the Kingdom has entered a costly war in Yemen and has driven the surprise blockade of a fellow Gulf Cooperation Council member. There remain questions. What comes next to counter Iranian influence? Is the
Qatar blockade
an opening act in a broader anti-Iranian offensive? President
Donald Trump
in the White House likely means that MBS will encounter minimal push-back from Washington and a far freer hand to police his neighborhood. We contend that the region could be subject to more volatility and heightened risk. The geopolitical risk premium may therefore be set for something of a comeback. At the same time, given the lack of any near-term resolution, we are raising the risk rating for Qatar in our OPEC Watch List from 2 to 5 given the ongoing conflict between it and its Gulf Cooperation Council neighbors."
Croft wrote the following Wednesday of King Salman's "dramatic decision to upend succession and install his 31-year-old son":
"We see the move as having no effect on oil policy and the leadership's willingness to pilot the OPEC production cuts. In fact we see the ascension of MBS as deepening the drive to implement the ambitious Vision 2030 economic transformation plan designed to shrink the state and reduce its dependence on oil revenue. Hence we contend that it will be full steam ahead with the planned partial listing of Saudi Aramco and the creation of the country's first serious sovereign wealth fund with the proceeds of the sale. ..."
American Airlines (AAL) revealed Thursday that state-controlled Qatar Airways intends to purchase a 10% stake in the U.S. airline on the open market. It would be subject to board and regulatory scrutiny. American Airlines shares are up 0.9% today, while the iShares MSCI Qatar Capped exchange-traded fund (QAT) was up 2.8%, and the iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia Capped ETF (KSA) was up 2.5%. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) was up 0.8%. Oil prices are higher today, and the United States Oil Fund (USO) was up 1%.
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21 Feb My Phoenix Story: Libby Coyner
Before moving to Phoenix, I thought the city was a maze of strip malls and freeways. But since moving here, I've learned about and experienced the city's rich history, bikeable neighborhoods, and welcoming community. Every morning, I wake up and make a French Press while looking out over historic 1934-era Encanto Park. This park in the heart of Phoenix is incredible. It features tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer fields, playgrounds, lagoons, picnic areas, pedal boat rentals, golf courses, walking paths, an amusement park, and if you're lucky, you can even find some Live Action Role Play (complete with costumes!) I love living in the Encanto area because it is so vibrant – I've never seen a park get so much use! People from every different kind of background gather for family time, fitness, and fun, and I get to watch it out of my window. The neighborhood is also perfect for me because it is filled with lovely historic homes, and the owners have a real sense of pride about getting to own a piece of Phoenix history. Of course, probably the biggest perk for me is that the bike lane is right out my front door. I'm a three mile commute to my work at the State Archives, and haven't driven my car to work since last April!
My Context
Like many people you'll meet in Phoenix, I am a transplant. I grew up in the woods of the Idaho Panhandle in a log house. I moved to Portland, Oregon at the age of 19, looking for all of the radical things that Portland had to offer: a music scene, active bicycling culture, and a progressive community of folks who prioritized environmental issues, supporting local business, etc. I also really liked that I was involved in such amazing LGBTQ and feminist communities there, which I felt really empowered women to step out of traditional gender roles – girls played guitars and fixed bikes and served as the City Bicycle Coordinator (yay, Mia Birk!) So while living in Portland, I went to school to learn bicycle mechanics and wheel-building. I also picked up a History degree from Portland State University. After that, I moved to Vancouver, BC to study Archival Studies and Library Science at the University of British Columbia. Vancouver is a beautiful city, but the rain was just about enough to do me in! After grad school, I jumped at the chance to move to the desert at get some sunshine. I really feel like I've found myself here in the desert – some people love the rain, but I'm one of those who just doesn't want to get out of bed after days of gray and rain.
Advocacy and Place-making – or, Why I've Found My Niche in Arizona
A friend of mine in Tucson remarked one time that she loved her city so much because she felt like there was room to shape it in new ways. She said, "some people like to create their own city, and some people like to move to a city that has already been created." There is a kind of place-making that I really love about Phoenix – never before have I lived somewhere that had such an amazing community of people enthusiastic to map our their future. Those who know me well know that there are three aspects of activism and advocacy that are very near and dear to me, and I'm able to find so much meaning and purpose in these areas on a daily basis: bicycling, archives, and cats. I focus on these areas not to pick on Phoenix, but to highlight how I have never seen such an enthusiastic community willing to pitch in to make a difference, as well as one ready to welcome young people and give them opportunities to participate. Never before have I felt so empowered to apply for a mayor's committee, learn about seats of power, or talk to city staff. It all feels very accessible here.
Most people in the downtown Phoenix community know me as a bicycle advocate. I became involved with the Phoenix Spokes People nearly a year ago after sending ranting letters about infrastructure to everyone at ADOT and City of Phoenix that I could find. Fortunately, I've been able to channel that angst into something more positive and useful. One thing I did was join PSP and help form committees for specific tasks. I formed the Bike Fun Committee, inspired by this article on how Portland became so bike-friendly. I believe that a key aspect of driving up ridership, and thus getting the support of city staff and council, is to just organize fun and accessible rides to bring people together to remind them how fun bikes are. We go out to local businesses for drinks or dinner, volunteer at events like Pedal Craft and Tour de Fat, or just dress up fancy and ride. The other area in which I am involved is through my work as an appointed member of the Mayor's Ad Hoc Task Force for the City Wide Bicycle Master Plan. We have a lot to overcome as a city with a history of car culture, but I'm optimistic that Phoenix will come around – our big wide streets leave plenty of room for bicycle infrastructure, and our beautiful weather and lack of hills make it a perfect place for all kinds of people to ride. Stay tuned for exciting things!
Of course, the original reason I came to Phoenix is my work – I am an archivist at the State Archives. I have found such an incredible archives community here in Arizona, and we are truly doing progressive things. I first became interested in archives work for social justice reasons – I felt that it was important to rework how we document ourselves to include our entire communities in the archival narrative…not just those in positions of power. I found a number of kindred spirits here in Arizona, and we work collaboratively on several projects to ensure that wider swaths of our population are being documented, and that the documentation process is far more participatory. Additionally, the archives community has a number of older archivists who are such great mentors, and who are eager support a younger generation of archivists. My boss was even supportive of me when I asked to present on "Tattoos as Personal Archives" at a conference. (I was very proud to be able to present with Nelson Mandela's Archivists, Verne Harris…you can read more about that HERE).
A final piece of activism that will out me as a crazy cat lady is my work with feral cats here. As many people know, Maricopa County has some serious issues with feral cat populations, and I have discovered there is an incredible underground network of nighttime cat feeders who work to control populations through TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return). I am amazed to learn how many compassionate folks can be spotted in industrial areas trapping or feeding cats. How we treat the other creatures that we share the universe with says a lot about who we are.
What I Love About Where I Live
I couldn't have asked for a better neighborhood with Encanto. It's quiet and walkable, but close biking distance to many of my favorite places. I like riding to Phoenix Public Market, Giant Coffee, Shine Coffee, Songbird Coffee (can you tell I like coffee?!), Bragg's Factory Diner, and Angel's Trumpet. In the other directions, I can hop on the Sonoran Bikeway up to Windsor, Postino, Joyride Tacos, and Federal Pizza. I love supporting local businesses, and all of these places are very nice about catering to my vegan and gluten-free diet. When friends from Portland and Vancouver come, I take them to any of these places and they're always impressed! Being the history nerd that I am, I also like that they are all examples of adaptive reuse development, and many of them take advantage of some great midcentury modern architecture. Most importantly, I live close to most of my best friends. We can hop in the saddle and go downtown for food, ride to each others' houses for mimosas and Downton Abbey, or just ride the canals.
Visions for the Future
I will not discount that Phoenix has many troubling aspects – sprawl has had terrible implications in terms of historic preservation, environmental quality, high-speed/dangerous streets, and an often disconnected feel that takes away from sense of community and place. Reclaiming our streets from the suburbs will help us create vibrant neighborhoods in which walking and biking will provide not just health benefits and recreation, but will serve as a viable form of transportation that can combat high costs of road maintenance and parking. Of course, a shift away from the car-centric mentality in Phoenix through political will, staff support, and massive culture change. We already have so many incredible things going on in our city already, and I'm excited to see what the future holds!


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To Hear the Mourning Doves Sing
On May 20,2019, Wipf and Stock Publishers, through their Imprint, Resource Publications, released my latest book, The Call of the Mourning Dove: How Sacred Sound Awakens Mystical Unity. It is a slightly edited version of my thesis written in fulfillment of my Doctor of Ministry degree from Andover Newton Theological School (now Andover Newton Seminary at Yale) in 2017. I am grateful to report that it was awarded the Frederick Buechner Award for Excellence in Writing at my graduation. In addition, I am honored to say that my former theology professor, the esteemed Dr. S. Mark Heim, has written the Forward, my former Dean, Dr. Sarah B. Drummond, provided an endorsement for the back cover, and my former academic advisor, Dr. Jenifer Howe Peace, was instrumental in promoting the book to Wipf and Stock Publishers, a well-respected academic publisher.
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Playtech's iPoker Network has become the first B2B poker network to take advantage of the new European shared liquidity laws by merging skins in France and Spain with the door open for Portugal and Italy to follow suit.
With the British preparing to rip themselves from the heart of the European Union (EU), the Americans preparing to wall itself in, and my two-year-old daughter screaming the word 'mine' when I grab her rainbow coloured T-Rex as she slurps on her spaghetti, it's nice to write about a moment shared.
On Monday, the iPoker Network became the first B2B poker network to take advantage of the new European laws allowing online poker rooms in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain to share the same dishwasher.
The plan is to merge Betclic and Unibet.fr on the French side of the divide, and bet365, Betfair, Casino Barcelona and Sportium on the Spanish side. It's fantastic news for the online poker rooms and players alike with greater guarantees and prize pools for players and more revenue for skin owners. The story first broke on the Spanish poker news site todoeljuego.com, and Playtech officials turned the gossip into reality when a press release landed in my inbox a few days later.
Playtech secured the thumbs up from the French regulator ARJEL back in March. The Spanish regulator, the DGOJ, gave the green light recently. My shoe shiner tells me the Portuguese will join the fray once they resolve a few piddly licensing issues. The Italians remain on the sidelines, growing heavy beards.
Shimon Akad, COO, Playtech, said the shared liquidity across the European markets represented a huge opportunity for the industry and was a significant move for their operators and players. You can find licensed Playtech Poker software in ten different European markets, with over 35,000 concurrent players enjoying multi-table tournaments (MTTs), Cash Games, Sit 'N' Go and Twister tournaments.
And it works.
PokerStars was the first online poker room to take advantage of the shared liquidity scheme, and have since awarded more than €50m in prize pools across events such as FRESH, SCOOP France and Spain, TRIO Series, Galactic Series, and the most recent Southern Europe Championship of Online Poker (SECOOP), which surpassed its €10m Guarantee by more than €2m.
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Our renaming as Whistle Down Farm is inspired by the many birds of prey that live and nest in the trees and woods surrounding our fields. There is rarely a moment when one can't be seen flying overhead, or heard whistling in the distance.
We chose this name as a reminder of all beings dependent on this land and the importance of protecting natural habitats in our approach to land stewardship.
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Dance is dance. It enlightens and awakes every other person. At salsa classes in Dubai, it makes the person energized and active by making him or her to move and shake his or her body on ever beat and free the body to move on every rhythm and tune.
- African slaves created capaoeira because they were not allowed to practice martial arts when they were brought 300 to 400 years ago; therefore, they mixed fighting and dancing to create the permissible form of martial arts.
- Breakdance was created in New York City's Bronx area in 1970s when there was fighting between African -American gangs. It is lethal form of dance and fight.
- Tango is the dance of modern times. It was created in Argentina in 1890s but it got fame in Europe.
- World's first sustainable dance floor was created in Sweden in 2008. Its tiles have springs. These springs are connected to generator. That's why, the dance and jumping of feet lead to compression of springs, which in return help in generating electrical energy from the energy of a human body who dance on the floor.
- Tupac Shakur was singer and rapper but he was ballet dancer as well. He was artist at 127th Street Ensemble. It is theatre company of Harlem.
- An English man died suddenly in Christmas Party in his office because he danced constantly on Gangnam Style. Too much dance is also not good. It can worsen heart conditions and lead to several diseases.
- In 1518, thousands and dozens of people were died and killed of heart attack suffering from Dancing Plague It was a maniac condition in which people used to dance for month which worsened their heart condition and caused heart attack.
- In mythology of Greek, there were nine muses. Each muse was connected to field of arts. One of them was connected dance. Its name was Terpsichore.
- Micheal Jackson created Moonwalk by himself for his hit song "Thriller" in 1982.
- The most famous ballet was performed in 1892. Its name was The Nutcracker. It was performed by Tchaikovsky.
- Indians wear hungry when they dance to emphasize rhythms of their feet. They can wear up-to 100 ghungru on each feet.
- Modern dancers dance with bare feet because they want to connect themselves to the floor directly. Most of them wear tapes and balls on their feet to keep their feet safe but majority of them feel that feet will toughen as much as you dance with bare feet.
- There are dance studios for kids and disabled people who have passion for dance. Their choreographers mix the capabilities of all dancers to come up with the best team and steps.
- Pow Wow is a get together of singers, drummers and dancers to celebrate arts and culture.
So, these are few facts about dance and dancers which can tell you a lot about this aspect of arts and expressing yourself via body. So, go and attend dance at www.dancedowntowndubai.com and become a popular dancer whose name will come in news and shows.


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Being a woman is not an easy job. I call it a job because it is. You pull yourself up every day, in spite of your body crumbling under the weight of your nebulous thoughts. You fit in all the role that the society expects out of you, and how! It is fascinating how you manage to make it through every day, without complaining. Unabashed and undaunted, you lay waste to all those who ever tried to choke your voice, and tried to mark a territory around you. It is mighty brave of what you do and the way you live. However, the going does get stressful at times, and you might find yourself reeling under pressure. So what do you do? Do you deal with it, or do you let the stress overpower you? While it is necessary to let your guards down once in a while and procrastinate, it is also vital that you face your troubles head on and learn how to manage stress effectively.
The many lives and the many roles that women live through every day are bound to tire them out. However, that does not mean that you throw caution to the air and decide against dealing with stress, though that does sound convenient. Without further ado, thus, let us see how all the beautiful women out there can manage stress.
An employee making you feel uncomfortable at work, office politics, your marriage falling apart, teenage children getting out of hands, or a leaking hand faucet; stress can stare you at your face in all shapes and forms. The term stress is more scientific than you presume it to be. Our body releases hormones during a taxing situation as a defence mechanism. These supply energy and blood to our heart and brain, required to decide whether to 'fight' or 'flight'. However, if such taxing situations keep cropping up in our lives, we ultimately fall prey to the harmful effects of stress.
Prolonged exposure to the detrimental effects of stress leads to several health issues like heart conditions, breathing ailments, blood pressure or mental and nervous breakdowns. Thus, it is essential that you deal with the issue of stress before it turns into something ugly. Though there cannot be any one prescribed route to beat stress, yet you can hope to include certain practices in your daily routine, which can manage stress pretty well.
One of the best tried and tested methods that fit every bill and works like a miracle, are exercises. Channel all your pent up stress, anger and agony in a useful way by working out. Even if you do not engage in heavy exercises, walk around, jog or go for a run. It really helps. It keeps your blood flowing through your body and helps your brain function better than ever.
Meditation might sound philosophical or maybe even spiritual. However, this age-old practice helps you leave your troubles behind and elevates your mood. Once you start practising meditation every day, you will gradually feel your body working in sync and following a harmonious rhythm. Meditation relieves people of stress, and all you women out there, make it a point to meditate for at least 15 minutes every day. You have enough problems on your plate. Ease up your life and let your hair down once a while.
Every time I feel restless or stressed out, I clear my digital space and sometimes even delete my social media accounts. It has worked well for me so far. However, you do not have to go to the extremes of deleting accounts. You could consider taking a sabbatical. Disconnect from social media and take an evening stroll. Walk bare feet on wet grass and feel Mother Nature lifting the weight off your body.
Half of our health issues can be beaten if we maintain a proper diet. Fruits, vegetables and low caffeine intake can turn your life around for the better. Start following a simple but healthy diet and keep your heart health as well as your hormones in proper check.
There is a lot of stigma concerning mental health and reaching out for help. Society is unforgiving and brutal. It judges people who cry out for help and judge them again when they crumble under the weight of mental issues and take the drastic decision to end their life. However, do not let society tell you otherwise. Reach out for help whenever you feel the need for it. See a therapist if stress gets to you, and make your life better. The society will not help you. You have to help yourself.
Stress is not exclusive to women. It is a grave health issue that affects millions across the globe irrespective of their age or gender and sucks the marrow out of their lives. Therefore, though the article caters to problems women face in their lives, and how those can lead to them being victimised by stress, the aforementioned points have proven useful to every age and gender. Take charge of your lives and live happy. In the case of women, understand that there is no knight in shining armour. You are your knight in shining armour. You will have to deal with everything that life throws at you and emerge triumphant. That is the entire notion of 'survival of the fittest'.


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With diabolical wit, the author of Tantalize revisits a deliciously dark world where vampires vie with angels — and girls just want to have fangs.
At last, Miranda is the life of the party: all she had to do was die. Elevated and adopted by none other than the reigning King of the Mantle of Dracul, Miranda goes from high-school theater wannabe to glamorous royal fiend overnight. Meanwhile, her reckless and adoring guardian angel, Zachary, demoted to human guise as the princess's personal assistant, has his work cut out for him trying to save his girl's soul and plan the Master's fast-approaching Death Day gala. In alternating points of view, Miranda and Zachary navigate a cut-throat eternal aristocracy as they play out a dangerous and darkly hilarious love story for the ages.
Cynthia Leitich Smith is the acclaimed author of Tantalize and several other books for young readers. A member of the faculty at the Vermont College MFA program in writing for children and young adults, she lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, author Greg Leitich Smith.
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Distributor: Walker Australia-HEDS
Binding: Hardback
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Dimensions: 133 x 196mm, 320pp
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