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Theresa May opened the door to a Brexit climb down today as she signalled she was ready to compromise with EU. The under-fire Prime Minister risked further alienating Leave-supporting Tories as she admitted her Chequers blueprint is "at the moment, the only plan on the table that delivers on the Brexit vote". The Tory chief also indicated she was ready to ditch her withdrawal proposal if Brussels suggests a better route.
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Theresa May has hinted she could concede further ground to the EU in Brexit negotiations, as she said her Chequers proposal "isn't dead". The prime minister was quizzed repeatedly on whether she would defy ardent Eurosceptics, including former Brexit secretary David Davis, who say the UK has already made too many concessions in exit talks. "If they've got counter-proposals, let's hear what those counter-proposals are", Mrs May told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.
THERESA May has opened the door to abandoning her controversial soft Brexit Chequers plan. As the Tory conference started in Birmingham yesterday, the PM gave angry delegates hope by hinting there was "flexibility". Meanwhile, Tories on all sides of the Brexit debate rallied round her after Boris Johnson launched his most personal attack yet. Marking the start of the Tories' choppy annual conference in Birmingham, the under fire party leader told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show that a free trade deal is "at the heart of Chequers".
Theresa May has signalled she may be willing to compromise further with the EU on her under-fire Chequers proposals for Brexit, risking anger from Tory eurosceptics. The prime minister used an interview at the opening of Conservative conference to urge Brussels to set out detailed concerns and bring forward counter proposals, referring to her own plans as the only ones available "at the moment". The move risks further antagonising those in her party who want her Chequers plans dropped altogether, with both Boris Johnson and David Davis branding them unworkable on Sunday.
Theresa May has refused to rule out further compromises in order to broker a final deal with the EU, but hit back at Boris Johnson after the former foreign secretary questioned her belief in Brexit. The prime minister was asked repeatedly whether she was prepared to make further concessions to the EU after European leaders rejected her proposal in Salzburg earlier this month, saying it would risk the integrity of the EU single market.
Leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has demanded Britain leave the EU on leave on 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious terms' as he branded Theresa May's Chequers as a 'dying duck'. Conservative backbenchers warned the PM that they do not want to see her ousted from Number Ten, but warned her that she must chuck her under-fire Brexit plan. Their comments, at a packed fringe meeting at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham, piles yet more pressure on Mrs May who is facing a Tory revolt on Brexit.
David Davis's successor as Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab, claims some in the EU want Britain "penalised" — but warns the country will not "crawl" for a deal. "If you walk around the corridors in Brussels, you hear all sorts of mutterings about how the UK must be penalised for leaving the EU, and the politicisation of Northern Ireland is part of that," the Tory MP told The Sun, echoing similar comments by Boris Johnson, a possible rival for Theresa May's premiership who Raab once backed as Tory leader.
The Foreign Secretary has warned the EU that it will stir Britain's "Dunkirk spirit" if it tries to force a bad Brexit deal on Prime Minister Theresa May. Jeremy Hunt's warning at the Conservative Party Conference came after he compared the EU to the Soviet Union. He said that if the bloc becomes a "prison" and punishes Britain for Brexit other countries will "want to escape." Mr Hunt also invoked Margaret Thatcher as he told EU leaders that if they want to break up the UK by putting a border in the Irish Sea the answer is "No, no, no."
The new Foreign Secretary has launched into a spirited defence of Brexiteers at the start of Tory Conference and even compared the EU to the USSR: "At the moment you, European friends, seem to think the way to keep the club together is to punish a member who leaves, not just with economic disruption, but even by breaking up the United Kingdom with a border down the Irish Sea… "The EU was set up to protect freedom – it was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving.
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Nigel Farage should have been given a peerage and appointed chief Brexit negotiator after Britain voted to leave the EU, a Conservative MP has said. Wellingborough MP Peter Bone hailed the former UKIP leader, and insisted that "we would have been out by now" if Mr Farage had been leading talks with the EU. Speaking at a Leave Means Leave rally in Solihull – just 20 minutes from the official Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham – Mr Bone and Mr Farage joined forces with other prominent Brexit campaigners.
On the first day of the Conservative Conference Leave Means Leave, a prominent Brexit campaign group have been ramping up efforts to force the Prime Minister into 'Chucking Chequers'. Speeches from Mr Brexit himself, Nigel Farage MEP, Andrea Jenkyns MP, Peter Bone MP and Labour Leave's Brendan Chilton. Farage said: "It doesn't matter where you come from, this issue of whether we get Brexit delivered is bigger than party politics".
Jeremy Hunt warned Brussels against locking Britain in an EU "prison" yesterday as he sought to rally Tories behind Theresa May's Chequers plan. The foreign secretary delighted Conservative activists with a confrontational address that compared the EU to the former Soviet Union and warned: "If you put a country like Britain in a corner, we don't crumble. We fight." He said that it was time for Brussels to change its approach and do a deal with Britain that would prevent a "wholly avoidable tragedy" for the whole continent.
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The UK could be left with "no choice" but a no-deal Brexit if the EU tries to "lock us in" to a customs union, according to Dominic Raab. The Brexit secretary will tell his party's conference later that any attempt "via the back door" will be met with the UK walking away. He will say the UK's willingness to compromise is "not without limits". Later, Chancellor Philip Hammond will attempt to look beyond Brexit in a speech about plans to raise salaries. Mr Raab – who has been a vocal supporter of Brexit – will say: "We are leaving the European Union in fact, not just in name.
Jeremy Hunt today likened the EU to a Soviet prison – warning that trying to lock Britain in could destroy the bloc. The Foreign Secretary made the striking comparison as he delivered a stark message that the UK would 'fight' if Brussels tried to block a fair divorce deal. He insisted the EU must learn the lessons of history and not try to keep countries in line with dirty tactics. Mr Hunt also issued a plea for Tories to come together behind Theresa May's Chequers plan, saying infighting only risked handing power to Jeremy Corbyn.
FOREIGN Secretary Jeremy Hunt sensationally compared the EU to the Soviet Union as he attacked Brussels' hardline stance over Brexit. Mr Hunt, who campaigned for Remain in the 2016 referendum, made the shock remark as he addressed the Tory conference in Birmingham. Launching a broadside at Brussels, he told party members: "What happened to the confidence and ideals of the European dream? "The European Union was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving.
Jeremy Hunt has likened the EU to Soviet Russia, accusing it of becoming "a prison" and vowing to "fight" for the Brexit deal Britain wants. In extraordinary rhetoric, the foreign secretary attacked EU leaders for turning their backs on the "confidence and ideals of the European dream". Instead, he told the Conservative conference, Brussels appeared to "think the way to keep the club together is to punish a member who leaves".
Italy's powerful deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini said Saturday "I do not care" if the EU Commission rejects his budget plans. "No-one in Brussels can tell me it is not time," the head of the populist League (Lega) party told a meeting in the Italian capital. "If Brussels says I cannot do it, I do not care, I will do it anyway," the outspoken leader vowed. Italy's new coalition government has drafted a budget that raises spending, pushes the public deficit target to around 2.4 percent of gross domestic product for the next three years, and probably hikes the public debt above its current level of 131 percent of GDP.
Voters in Northern Ireland believe that Theresa May will betray them over Brexit, a Times poll has found. Sixty per cent said they believed that the prime minister would not honour her promise to keep Northern Ireland exactly the same as the rest of the United Kingdom, with no border in the Irish Sea, according to the poll by LucidTalk. A further 26 per cent "have their doubts" that Mrs May would keep her promise. Only 12 per cent expressed full trust in her. One in three Democratic Unionist Party voters does not trust Mrs May to keep her promise, suggesting that the Northern Ireland party could face a backlash if there were any attempt by Mrs May to soften her position.
BORIS Johnson was today mocked after he called for a new BRIDGE which would connect Northern Ireland to mainland Britain. The top Brexiteer says building the 25-mile bridge over the Irish Sea would be a sign ministers still "believe in Britain" after we've left the EU. But Tory colleagues ridiculed the idea – saying it would result in "good headlines but not good policies". Mr Johnson has previously suggested building a bridge which would run from western Scotland to Northern Ireland, claiming it would shore up the Union.
Tory Remain rebels today demanded a second referendum on Brexit – and floated the idea of a government of national unity to call it. Dominic Grieve, the former minister who rallied rebels to inflict a defeat on Brexit laws last year, warned there would be a 'polite rebellion' from pro-EU Tories. He said today there were now a 'significant' number of Conservative MPs prepared to back a new referendum for the first time. And he suggested that if Mrs May will not agree to hold another national vote, a cross-party alliance could seize power and force one.
Philip Hammond will announce plans to plough £125m of new funding into jobs and apprenticeships when he addresses party members at the Conservatives' annual conference later today. The chancellor will tell the gathering in Birmingham that too many people feel they are "falling behind" after years of low wage growth. The fresh investment will be used to create more apprenticeships in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics – known collectively as STEM subjects.
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Chancellor Philip Hammond will launch a Tory fightback on business and the economy with promises to boost apprenticeships and provide more help to small businesses. Four weeks before his next budget on 29 October, the chancellor will pledge to work with business to tackle low wages, job insecurity and spiralling house prices. It comes as Mr Hammond launched a scathing attack on Boris Johnson, who used an interview in the Sunday Times to describe Theresa May's Brexit policy as "deranged" and "preposterous".
Boris Johnson was denounced as irrelevant and offensive from the platform of the Conservatives' conference yesterday during a backlash over his criticism of Theresa May and her Brexit negotiations. The prime minister was in the audience as a former head of the CBI attacked Mr Johnson. Referring to his reported "f*** business" dismissal of industry's concerns over Brexit, Lord Jones of Birmingham said: "It showed him up for the irrelevant and offensive person he really is."
Philip Hammond launched an extraordinary attack on Boris Johnson in which he said the former foreign secretary would never be prime minister and is "incapable" of grown-up politics. The Chancellor mocked Mr Johnson's accent and accused him of failing to grasp the "detail" of Brexit, adding his main political achievement was "Boris Bikes" when he was Mayor of London. He said Mr Johnson would fail if he attempted to become the next Conservative leader.
Theresa May will this week challenge both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn to back her plan for Brexit or risk "panic" and "chaos". A close cabinet ally of the prime minister urged Tory eurosceptics and Labour to "think about the consequences of their actions" before committing to vote down Ms May's deal. The senior Conservative figure told The Independent the PM was "finely attuned" as to what kind of deal would be acceptable to both parliament and the country, and that her Chequers plan was the closest to it anyone had come.
Boris Johnson has issued his strongest challenge to Theresa May to date, branding her Chequers plan "deranged" and "preposterous" before declaring: "Unlike the Prime Minister, I campaigned for Brexit… I believe in it". In his first newspaper interview since resigning from the Cabinet over the Chequers blueprint for a 'Soft Brexit' — which would, he believes, render Brexit Britain an EU "vassal state" — the former Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary reiterated his warning that the May plan "surrenders control".
Philip Hammond last night launched a blistering personal attack on Boris Johnson. He said the former foreign secretary was incapable of 'grown-up' politics and did not have a clue how his own proposal for a Brexit deal would work. On the eve of his speech to the Tory Party conference, the Chancellor also said Mr Johnson was doomed to fail in his bid to be the next Conservative prime minister. 'I don't expect it to happen,' he told the Daily Mail in a candid and wide-ranging interview. Mr Hammond revealed he had repeatedly told Mr Johnson that his 'Canada-style' plan would not work – but Mr Johnson made no serious attempt to defend it.
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CORBYNISTA plans to boot out moderate MPs could completely backfire and put extreme lefties at risk of losing their seats, it has been warned. Hard-left MPs who support the Labour boss – some of whom campaigned to make it easier to boot out moderate MPs – could themselves be targeted after a rule change at the party's conference last week. Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, and the Corbyn-supporting MP Chris Williamson, could face open contests for the Labour nomination in the wake of new party rules, according to insiders, the Sunday Times reported.
Second referendum
A "significant" number of Tory MPs would be prepared to back a second referendum on Theresa May's Brexit deal, a senior Conservative has said. Ex-attorney general Dominic Grieve said the prime minister was facing a "polite rebellion" of pro-EU Tories who think a new vote is "indispensable" to avoiding a damaging no-deal Brexit. Mr Grieve became one of the first senior Tories to break cover over the need for a new referendum earlier this year, telling The Independent it was the "only sensible way forward". He has been joined by prominent backbenchers Anna Soubry, Justine Greening, Sarah Wollaston, Philip Lee and Guto Bebb – and South Cambridgeshire MP Heidi Allen, who declared the Chequers plan was "dead" on Saturday.
REBEL pro-EU Tories are plotting to bring down Theresa May and install a cross-party government as a last resort to cancel Brexit, it emerged today. Ringleader Dominic Grieve has admitted he could back a new government, consisting of both Tory and Labour MPs, which would exist for the sole purpose of calling a second referendum. And he claimed as many as 100 Conservative MPs are prepared to support the move, which would see Mrs May kicked out of power and replaced by a stand-in PM. Furious Brexiteers accused the ex-minister of "rank disloyalty" over the apparent threat.
Leading Remainer Ruth Davidson has firmly rejected the possibility of a second EU referendum, saying she would be an "enormous hypocrite" for supporting one: "When it comes to the possibility of re-running referendums, I would be an enormous hypocrite if I said 'just because there was one that I had lost as a Remainer we should immediately re-run it' when I've spent four years in Scotland saying that Nicola Sturgeon shouldn't get another one on independence because that's one that I won…"
Foreign trawlers are electrocuting fish in one of Britain's most important marine reserves and threatening other marine life, an investigation has found. Dutch "pulse fishing" vessels, which tow electrodes that fire electricity into the seabed to force fish out of the mud, have been fishing in the Dogger Bank special area of conservation (SAC). The pulses cause fish to spasm and spring up into nets but they can also break the spines of big cod. British fishermen say that the sea is a graveyard after a visit by the overseas boats.
Andrea Leadsom has questioned whether HS2 should go ahead, as cabinet unity over the project starts to crack. Greg Clark, the business secretary, and Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, defended plans for a second high-speed rail link in the face of calls from Boris Johnson that it be halted. Mrs Leadsom called during last week's cabinet meeting for the £56 billion project to be scrapped, her allies confirmed yesterday. The leader of the House, who has long had concerns related to her South Northamptonshire constituency, is understood to be deeply worried about the project's finances.
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TORIES face a wave of "significant industrial action" by teachers if promised funding for schools is not in place by the end of the month, the NEU union warned at the weekend. The teachers' union delivered its action warning as thousands demonstrated at the gates of the Tory conference in Birmingham yesterday to demand the nasty party "calls time" on failed austerity. Malfunctioning Maybots, vuvuzelas and a samba band led the demonstration, organised by the People's Assembly and TUC, to demand a new deal for working people.


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Legacy-funded programs at the Minnesota Humanities Center demonstrate our determination to collaboratively create humanities programs for the broader public by forging strong partnerships with local, state, and national cultural organizations. These programs show the broader community how the humanities can be used to address issues important to their everyday lives. Each activity, event, and program shares an Absent Narrative with participants, which help residents across the state engage in a more sophisticated understanding of their community.
This new initiative aims to increase student achievement in and through the arts in nine west-central Minnesota schools. With the ultimate goal of positively impacting the learning of more than 1,500 students this year in the Lakes Country region, 40 teachers in the arts and in other content areas are engaged in professional development, curriculum development, and assessment literacy, leading to the development and implementation of arts-integrated lessons and units tied to the Minnesota Academic Standards.
The Arts Education in Minnesota Schools Research Project is surveying all public and private schools to collect baseline data on the status of arts education statewide to serve as a resource for making data-driven decisions. A national research and evaluation company, Quadrant Arts Education Research, is conducting the study, comprised of three elements.
Element One: Arts Integration Survey

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Moments armchair, stackable is designed by the Danish design duo Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen MDD. Moments is setting new standards for multi flexible design with its Scandinavian and elegant, transparent and minimalistic design. It is produced with Cane-line Soft Rope.
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Xiaomi has unveiled a new accessory for Android smartphones and it is a 10W universal fast charge wireless charger. The charger is currently available only in China and is priced at 69 Yuan which is Rs.714 in Indian currency. The charger supports the universal Qi wireless charging standard and the company hopes that this 10W wireless charger will be favoured by all the Xiaomi smartphone users.
Based on a report in the Chinese media, this wireless charger can support more than one smartphones compared to the previous wireless chargers by Xiaomi. The page also lists that this fast charge device can charge up these phones: Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S, Apple iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy S9 without any issues. The charger will also work with Quick Charge 2.0 and 3.0 adapters.
This latest charger supports a feature called the 'Foreign metal object detection" which basically hold the key to temperature protection. This feature will work by letting the charger cut off the supply before the metal object on the charger reaches an unreasonable temperature or control the surface temperature of the metal object 'within a reasonable range'. This will help the smartphones stay safe and avoid the risk of short circuit and over-voltage.
Xiaomi also mentioned that the wireless charger can charge phones that have a protective cover on them, but it needs to be less than 4mm for the charger to work. For now, there is no official statement from the company as to when it will be release this universal wireless charging pad in India.


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I went out on Labor Day and hunted down a copy of a special edition "Rolling Stone" which covers The Beatles album by album. "Morning Joe," simply the best morning news program out chatted up the magazine for a good five minutes on Friday.
For all of the great rock and roll bands over the last 50 years The Beatles are still the gold standard. The Rolling Stones had their day, Led Zeppelin, The Who, U2, Queen, Aerosmith, the list is endless. Yet everyone of the aforementioned bands and the dozens of great ones I didn't list were in some way, shape or form influenced by The Beatles.
I can still remember that night in February 1964 when the Fab Four first appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show." It stood out in part due to the reaction by my two older sisters who were in their early teens at the time plus it didn't hurt that they offered up catchy melodies and outrageous hair cuts. It was such an event that it prompted a quick post telecast gathering outside in the winter chill with the Wehling girls who lived next door where I felt the first rumbles of what was to be Beatlemania.
I haven't opened the magazine yet to start devouring the stories because I'm trying to finish up a great book I am currently reading. I'll blog about that book soon. As I was trolling through the web I came across a wonderful cover of what arguably is the greatest song The Beatles ever produced. It came from a performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Stick around to the end or you'll miss out on some guitar playing fireworks. Oh, and though I don't own any of his music, Prince is a genius, his Super Bowl performance a few years back is one of the best live shows I've ever witnessed.


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Barbara Dulcie Lott (15 May 1920 - 19 December 2002) was a British actress probably best remembered as Ronnie Corbett's character's mother, Phyllis Lumsden in the comedy series Sorry!. She also appeared in Coronation Street, Rings on Their Fingers, Survivors, Z-Cars, and as Rhona's auntie Pearl in the popular BBC television sitcom 2point4 children, amongst others. She was born in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey.
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Star Wars: Jedi Challenges Announcement
Jedi Challenges will have expanded game content from 'Star Wars Ep 8 The Last Jedi' movie. Game updates include a new planet, new film characters, new levels of Strategic Combat, new Assault mode… and Porgs! This will be a free content update on the Jedi Challenges mobile app in Jan 2018.
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Disney, Lucasfilm, and Lenovo™ today announced a new content expansion for Star Wars™: Jedi Challenges, featuring a new planet and characters from Star Wars™: The Last Jedi™. The content expansion is the first since the November launch of the product and will be available for free through a downloadable update to the Star Wars: Jedi Challenges mobile app. The expansion includes:
– New Lightsaber Duel – Players can duel two elite Praetorian Guards featured in The Last Jedi. This is the first time Jedi Challenges players will duel two characters at the same time.
– New Planet for Strategic Combat – Three thrilling new levels of Strategic Combat set on Crait, a brand new planet that debuts in the film, will come with the update. Battle new enemies and vehicles including the formidable First Order AT-M6 walker.
– New Content in Assault mode – All-new enemies and levels will be introduced, including the First Order Stormtrooper Executioner and Riot Control Stormtrooper.
– Introduction of Porgs – Players will be rewarded with fan-favorite porgs in augmented reality.
The Last Jedi content pack will be available in the Star Wars: Jedi Challenges mobile app in January 2018.
About Star Wars: Jedi Challenges
Star Wars: Jedi Challenges is a new smartphone-powered augmented reality product that allows fans to experience Star Wars in ways never before possible. Each box comes with the Lenovo Mirage™ AR headset, Lightsaber controller and Tracking Beacon that players use to hone their Jedi talents across a variety of augmented reality-based experiences, each offering multiple levels of deep and immersive gameplay. To guide the player on this journey, Jedi Challenges introduced an all-new Star Wars character, the Archivist. The Archivist instructs players in the ways of the Force™ and the knowledge of the Jedi. Throughout these challenges, users train to perfect their Lightsaber skills by taking on some of the most menacing villains the dark side has to offer, command armies in combat missions to defeat the Empire, and outwit their opponents in Holochess, all in augmented reality.
Star Wars: Jedi Challenges is $199.99 and available on Lenovo.com and BestBuy.com, and at Best Buy stores nationwide.


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Today's chief marketing officer (CMO) must be an expert tightrope-walker, skilled in balancing efficiency-driving technology with customer-centricity, human creativity with the power of data. The Future CMO special report, published in The Times, examines the need to upskill CMOs to deal with these new requirements and how collaboration with CIO has become business critical. It explores the rise of the branding-less brand, the need for greater transparency and how the modern marketer can get to grips with consumer "tribes". Also featured is comment on how to reimagine the marketing funnel and why it's time to eliminate imposter syndrome
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text: Ixthusdan 3 Report post Posted March 18, 2010 (edited) This thread is not for any problems, per se. Problems should be posted in the appropriate forum. Rather, it concerns distro oddities and irritations. Notice that this is not a complaint about any one distro or Linux in general. If you hate a particular distro, please post separately; this thread concerns pet peeves of your favorite distro or distros! Mandriva still has a small irritation to me, in the it simply cannot set up a machine for dual boot without any adjustment to grub. I used Mandriva for many years before going to OpenSuSE for a couple of years. I have an Acer laptop that contains a small utility partition in the first position on the drive. OpenSuSE's installer correctly identifies the partition, as well as the adjacent Windows partition. Grub is set up ready to go! But not Mandriva. Now, the Mandriva installer is fine on a blank drive or a standard setup where the Windows partition is the first position on the drive. But on my Acer, I installed Mandriva 2010, and go to boot Windows with a request for the command.exe! This is where most users think that Mandriva has "blown away" their Windows installation. The point is I had to edit Grub and fix it. Mandriva's installer has always done this, and I used it as far back as version 7.0 So that is my pet peeve. :D Edited March 18, 2010 by Ixthusdan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Sam Baker grew up in a prairie town, Itasca, TX, where he was exposed to a wide array of music as a child by his mother, a local church organist, and his father, who shared a hefty collection of country blues artists. Sam is a man of few words. Always beautifully chosen, and fully wrought. Words placed like plants and objects in a Zen Garden. Sam turned inward, to relearn the use of his body and brain after a Peruvian train bombing almost killed him in 1986. It's taken years to heal. Time to reconnect. The road back was arduous, but it opened up new vistas in art, poetry, and music. 'Mercy' released in 2004, was the first in a trilogy of compelling albums with sparse instrumentation and a poetic delivery. It was followed by 'Pretty World' in 2007 and 'Cotton' in 2009. Each piece is imprinted with a theme:
Everyone is at the mercy of another one's dreams, how beautiful are these days, and talk about forgiveness, a reflection on gratitude, and now a reflection on doubt.Without dark, there is no light . Without doubt, there is no place for gratitude.
Comparisons have included Townes Van Zandt, Randy Newman, and even Lou Reed. But a better comparison might be that of Raymond Carver. Baker's pen is precise, cunning and original, often weaving humor with human suffering and tender beauty.
His new release, Land Of Doubt, will be released June 21, 2017. Baker's musical storytelling in Land of Doubt gives voice to emotions tender and bitter, personal and universal. Some songs seem to come from deep inside the well of his own experience, while others reflect empathy with an insight into the suffering of those outside it. Perhaps Baker describes the record best, "I wanted a cinematic feel, a mixture of sparsity and tension and beauty…I always come back to beauty on my records. That's shorthand for something that's bigger than me."
Sam is also bringing Chip Dolan with him to open for his show!
Special Note: NorthPass Media has created a video documentary "Be Well Everybody: Bill Shapiro's Life in Music", which celebrates Bill's knowledge, passion and love of music, and the fact that he is entering his 40th Anniversary Year of his Cyprus Avenue Radio Program on KCUR 89.3! The Folly Theater is excited to unveil this documentary to the general public for the first time on October 13, 2017, prior to Sam Baker's concert featuring Chip Dolan.
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Imagine These Amy Schumer Stories Come to Life
Just when you thought that the world couldn't be more blessed by Amy Schumer, we're rewarded by the most splendid of announcements. Our favorite queen of comedy, Amy Schumer, is going to write, and star, in a comedy film for Fox. If that isn't enough of a reason to start freaking out, the show is going to be produced by Paul Feig, the director behind Bridesmaids, and Katie Dippold, the writer behind The Heat and a whole slew of Parks and Rec episodes. But let's highlight the main point that we get MORE AMY on television, and we know that lady has plenty of stories to tell.
In fact, I think any of the vignettes she breaks out during her average stand-up set would be hilarious to watch. It's doubtful they could be stretched out into a full-length feature, of course, but you could stick an Amy anecdote somewhere into the overarching plot. Andm as someone who has seen her live twice, and memorized her Comedy Central special Mostly Sex Stuff word for word, I definitely have a short list of requests.
For your consideration, here are some classic Amy stories that could TOTALLY make the cut of her new comedy.
When Amy gets her vag waxed by a woman from the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
Her beautician watched her entire family get murdered before her eyes, but Amy waltzes in, all Uggs and iPhones.
When Amy gets Plan B from the store and feels uncharacteristically fine.
She casually strolls into the office, the pharmacists gives her the usual with a side of judgement, and, despite the promise of cramps, Amy feels FINE. She's able to lead her yoga group in downward dog, rest assured.
When Amy, who's lived in New York City her entire life, gets mistaken for a little Amish girl.
It's because of that wholesome Cabbage Patch kid face of hers. Oh, and because she happens to love wearing bonnets on the subway.
When Amy once made out with a homeless man by accident.
He was really tan, he had no shoes on, and she honestly just thought he was in a band. This is hilarious for me because all my suitors have been mistaken for, or literally been, homeless at some point in their lives. Yup... hysterical.
When Amy ends up courtside at a Lakers game next to Dianna Agron and ends up splashed all over the news looking like a comparative fresh mess.
This one is a legitimate thing that happened, by the way, although I still think Amy looks adorable her in her photos.
When Amy goes to a wedding shower in Connecticut and deals with that godawful Bridget.
Everyone's is decked out in cashmere sweaters and pearls and Burberry tampons. And, amongst these horrible women, there's stupid Bridget, rambling about how she eats ice cream after her husband falls asleep. How Amy handles the situation is maybe not network TV friendly, but god is it hilarious.
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His dad is Hilliard Crews, founder and CEO of Shelby Group International, founder of Crews Realty, developer of residential and commercial property, and a University of Memphis graduate and member of the Tiger Athletic Advisory Board of Directors. His uncle is Lauren Crews, another prominent Memphis developer. So maybe it shouldn't be surprising that Crews-scion Jason, the developer of Riverside 648 and multiple residential and commercial properties across the Mid-South, should be so successful. But the accomplishments of this 32-year-old Briarcrest High School and University of Memphis graduate are making a lot of people in Memphis crane their necks to get a glimpse.
What people are stretching to see isn't just the man but his building: Riverside 648, perched atop South Bluffs and looking out over the Mississippi River like a conquering general. Of course, Riverside 648 wasn't always, well, Riverside 648. A few years ago it was the home of Memphis Import Co.
"We've always gone downtown, always loved downtown," Crews says. "My uncle [Lauren] found that property and presented it to me. I really liked it and thought it would be a great and fun project."
Jason Crews bought the property in 2003. The two-story building was 74,000 square feet -- 15,000 of it office space, the rest warehouse space used as an import-distribution center. The
When the condo opened in May 2006, it featured 66 units. Now, nine months later, there are 20 units remaining that run in price from $171,500 to $449,500 with sizes ranging from one-bedroom units at about 1,040 square feet to three-bedroom units at about 2,200 square feet, according to sales agent Tom Davis of Henry Turley Realtors. "We're on target with sales and looking to sell out the building by the middle of summer," Davis says. "I sold four units in January. We thought that was pretty good."
"Buyers are coming from all over," Crews says. "We have all types of buyers, a very diverse mix. We're getting a lot of people from out of town relocating to Memphis or their jobs are downtown and they want to live there too. Some of the buyers are buying for a second home -- they might live out in Collierville or Germantown. Some of them are first-home buyers.
"We have people from 25 to 65 years old living in one community. We knew it'd be diverse, but we didn't know it'd be this diverse."
Davis echoes the sentiment: "It's almost unbelievable to see all these different people living in this one environment. It's such a mix of people, but they're all there at one time. Riverside 648 has been hugely successful and is a perfect example of a mix of all that's happening with downtown. It makes for a great environment."
- Riverside 648: from warehouse to condos
The development has a lot of amenities and natural advantages that are making it very attractive to prospective buyers. Its location at Riverside Drive and West Georgia Avenue gives it easy access to the interstate and, thus, East Memphis, Bill Morris Parkway, and the suburbs. Included in the condo package is covered, reserved parking in the garage. Residents with two- or three-bedroom units get a second reserved, outside parking place. They don't skimp on the parking spots either: They're all oversized so they can accommodate large SUVs. The units are large and open, with ceilings up to 14 feet and nine-foot-high windows. Every unit has a balcony, gas-top stoves, hardwood floors, granite counters in kitchens and bathrooms, and stainless-steel appliances. There's also a large fitness room and a rooftop deck with gas grills, a kitchenette area, tables, lounge chairs, a restroom -- and don't forget the view. A lobby with a pool table greets residents as they enter.
Crews is excited about the future prospects for downtown condominium development, including the continued selling of Riverside 648.
"I think a lot of people think there are a lot of condos downtown, but there really are not," Crews says. "There are just a lot of them proposed. Also, what's different about downtown than out in the suburbs is that every project downtown is totally different. My condo project is different from every other developer's. The guy down the street might have town homes; another guy might have a high rise; mine's kind of a mid-rise. If they were all the same price and same product, I'd be worried. But I think this is going to be a really big year."
Davis sings the praises of Crews at the mention of his name: "He's been great to work with. We've given each other some of the best of what we both know.
"None of this is easy because there are lots of pieces of the puzzle," Davis continues. "But it's been a really successful project. We're just hoping we can do another one and be as successful."
Crews doesn't just have his hand in downtown Memphis. He's developed residential subdivisions in Olive Branch, Collierville, and Fayette County and commercial properties throughout the Mid-South. Asked what he likes about developing, he says, "I like to get out of the office and meet people and be outdoors and the challenges. I like building."
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In the recently conducted MAA music awards, the normally reticent Trivikram shed his shyness and spoke about Sirivennela Seetharama Shastry. The tone of the speech varied from that of despair to that of angst. The speech was basically about the falling standards of Lyrics in Telugu film industry and how Sirivennela held his own all these years. The beauty of the speech was such that, you could have replaced Telugu and put any other language. The angst would have been the same, regardless of the language
He started off by saying that he neither had the standing nor the vocabulary to talk about Sirivennala. "When I heard the songs in Sirivennala, I wanted to find the meaning of a few words used in the song. That was the moment I realised that there exists a dictionary in Telugu and bought one. I referred to the words in the dictionary." He says in no unmean terms that Sirivennala's name adds to the song. "The job of a lyricist is to not just write songs that are understandable to the audience, but to write songs that a common man would crave to understand." He complimented him by saying that the value he lent to a song was immense "He is the man who increased the lyrical values in a song. Instead of resigning himself to the fact that the audience wanted to listen to a few kind of songs, he reached out to those people who strived hard to understand the lyrics."
He mentioned a few great works and said that a few words are difficult to use in books, but Sirivennala used the same words with ease in the songs and contributed towards increasing the stature of the listener. He further added that he deserves respect for actually increasing the stature of the listener.
"We all clapped and went crazy when we saw Chiranjeevi's song on the AV. What we din't notice was the lyrics in the song. You need guts, first of all, to write those lyrics in a song. To convince a director, get the producer to agree on having the lyrics isn't an easy job. I know how tough a job it is, as I myself am a director."
" In Bobilli Raja, we have all heard the song that gained Mass adulation. He was the one to show that there is scope for surrealism in the lyrics. It wasn't that there was scope for surrealism there. He bought the scope by himself. He was the one to show us that the lyrical values in a commercial movies are not always derogatory. He has treaded on thin ice all along." His comparison of writing mellifluent songs with that driving a Porsche in lanes around Charminar area evoked thunderous applause. He laid into everybody associated with cinema when he said " Lyrics take a beating because the heroes are preoccupied with their images, the directors are ignorant of the words used, and all that the producers care for are the so-called 'commercial values'". He also blamed the audience for not being able to comprehend the lyrical value of a song
"Sirivennala needs to be feted for the single reason of going about his work in spite of all the above mentioned obstacles. It was for all these obstacles that he made sacrifices in life" At that moment it appeared as if he was going to transgress the line that separated speech from ventilating. He controlled himself and said "I normally don't come to functions such as these as I find it difficult to control my emotions".
He compared him with a sun that rises in the midnight and said his presence through lyrics pervades our everyday lives. He said "Using words as rays of hope and alphabets as weapons, he goes out to war. He asks us not to quit. Ask us questions, which we can't answer"
Recounting a personal experience, he says " I went to watch 'Sindhooram' in my days as a struggler. There was discontent brewing as I was watching the movie but a few words which went "Do we call 50 years of ignorance as independence?" made me stand up, put my hands in the pocket, and walk away. I didn't know where I was going but I was just just walking along. Such was the impact of his words. Only words can make the impact that can change a life"
He opined that being a Telugu movie lyricist might have actually stunted his progress. He was saddened by the fact that he restricted himself to the Telugu Film Industry. "No value exists for the people who write lyrics in Telugu film industry. That is the reason why we couldn't respect people like Malladi Ram Krishna Shastry, Jannu, Deverapally Krishna Shastry, Dasaradhi. All these people weren't recognised for their efforts because they wrote songs for Telugu films. People like Veturi and Sirivennala had it in them to write Nobel prize winning efforts but instead they sought to stay back in the Telugu Film Industry"
He ended it all by saying that it was the misfortune of the writers to be languishing in the film industry and the people should feel blessed to have someone so special in their midst


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The Game
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- Are you just another AFC ("average frustrated chump") trying to meet an HB ("hot babe")? How would you like to "full-close" with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss's entertaining book The Game. Strauss was a self-described chick repellant--complete with large, bumpy nose, small, beady eyes, glasses, balding head, and, worst of all, painful shyness around women. He felt like "half a man." That is, until a book editor asked him to investigate the community of pickup artists. Strauss's life was transformed. He spent two years bedding some fine chiquitas and studying with some of the North America's most suave gents--including the best of them all, the God of the pickup "community," a man named Mystery.
Mystery is an aspiring Toronto magician who charges $2,250 for a weekend pickup workshop. He is not much to look at: a cross between a vampire and a computer geek. But by using high-powered marketing techniques he's turned seduction into an effortless craft--even inventing his own vocabulary. His technique sounds like a car salesman's tip sheet: his main rule is FMAC--find, meet, attract, close. He employs the "three-second rule"--always approach a woman within three seconds of first seeing her in order to avoid getting shy. Other tricks: Intrigue a beautiful woman by pretending to be unaffected by her charm; also, never hit on a woman right away. Start with a disarming, innocent remark, like "Do you think magic spells work?" or "Oh my god, did you see those two girls fighting outside?" And finally, the most important characteristic of the pickup artist--smile.
After two years, Strauss ends up becoming almost as successful as Mystery, but he comes to an important realization. His techniques were actually off-putting to the woman he ended up falling in love with. And they never prepared him for actually having a relationship. After a while, he ran out of one-liners and had to have a real conversation. Still, The Game is a great read that may help some AFCs come out of their shells. 讀過《把妹達人—那些壞小子教我的事(橫掃全球暢銷書榜,被譽為本年度最有看頭的一本書!)》初稿的人都問過相同的問題:這是真的嗎?里面寫的事情真的發生過嗎?這些人真的存在嗎?所以我覺得有必要重申幾句老話……以下所言全屬真人實事。真的發生過。男人會否認,女人會懷疑,但是此書還是要呈現赤裸裸的、殘酷的、令人不安的事實。我要在此先請求您的諒解。不要恨這些玩家……要恨就恨這游戲吧。謹以此書獻給過去兩年我在酒吧、夜店、購物中心、機場、雜貨店、地鐵和電梯里交談過的千百位朋友。如果你正好看見此書,希望你知道我并沒有在你身上玩游戲,我是真心實意的。真的,你不一樣。我不會成為任何一種人:既非壞人也非好人,既非卑鄙小人也非正人君子,既非英雄也非懦夫。如今我在自己的角落里茍且度日,以尖酸與全然無用的安慰自我嘲弄:智者不可能故意成為某種固定的樣子,只有愚人才會這么做。尼爾原本是個沒有女人緣的書呆子,他能將《尤利西斯》和《圣經》熟背于心,卻對異性交往始終不得要領。一通偶然的電話,把他拉上了"把妹求學之旅"。他說:"如果癮君子要進戒毒所、暴力者要進抓狂管訓班,那么社交白癡就該進把妹學校!"這樣一頭栽進把妹的世界里,跟一群把妹達人一起生活、玩樂、接受指導,用兩年的時間,把自己修煉成社交高手,并將這段過程翔實記錄下來,完成了這本觀點獨特且極具爭議性的紀實小說《把妹達人》。書中揭露各家高手的把妹絕活,公開他們的釣人"公式",絕對讓你受益匪淺。作者還如實地講述了他與好萊塢著名影星湯姆•克魯斯、小甜甜布蘭妮、時尚女王帕麗絲‧希爾頓以及寇特柯本的遺孀寇特妮‧洛芙都有過的那些難忘的故事。尼爾保證,本書能使男人獲得重生,更顛覆女人對男人的認知?。?!
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A British video blogger has been criticised by social media customers after posting a series of films acting to show North Korea as a paradise.
Louis Cole, who has nearly 2 million subscribers on his FunForLouis YouTube channel in addition to more than 815,000 Twitter fans, came under fire after importing photos from a week-lengthy journey to the country.
One video confirmed Mr Cole surfing with local kids earlier than taking part in a barbeque at the beach. Another showed the vlogger, who also has 1.4 million Instagram fans, enjoying a water park within the united states of america.
Mr Cole, 33, introduced the go for holiday at the stop of July earlier than travelling to North Korea in the first week of August.
Earlier than leaving the UK, he described it as "probable the most bold journey adventure I've ever been a part of". He additionally found out he offered a brand new telephone, pc and hard power for the trip, which he said have been organized by using an "organisation".
In 2014, the United International locations wrote in a four hundred-page record that the human rights violations taking place in North Korea do "now not have any parallel in the contemporary international".
One on-line commentator said they believed some clips had been "calculated … to reveal the u . S . A . In an effective mild". Any other wrote beneath the day two video: "I suppose Louis is a piece uneducated about what North Korea is sincerely like." One claimed he changed into "spreading lies" and Every other stated, "This video is such propaganda and Louis doesn't realise it". A commentator criticised him for pronouncing "how cool and wonderful an area it's far", including that the films have been "a travelogue as visible thru the eyes of an unwitting toddler".
However, others supported the ride, saying Mr Cole changed into displaying "positivity". One character wrote on Twitter: "Glad to see you returned safe. Stimulated by you to tour the world. Preserve up the extremely good vibes."
Mr Cole, who frequently travels on advertising campaigns for big brands, closing night time insisted he was "now not naive" and vehemently denied he turned into being paid by the North Korean government.
In his present day YouTube video, titled My Response, he said: "I do now not believe the North Korean ideologies But I do care for, and love, the humans there."
He brought: "We went on an organised excursion, so the equal kind of tour anyone going there as a traveler would experience, and as tons as we can be sceptical about what turned into real and what became staged … I ought to most effective proportion with your men what I experienced.
"The belief I made, which may were incorrect of me, turned into that human beings looking my vlogs could have already had a broader angle on North Korea. I do recognise what is going on available."
A spokesman for Mr Cole added: "Louis' motion pictures are an extension of himself, taking pictures his private views and reports of the people, cultures and places he visits. In place of taking a journalistic technique, Louis chooses to attention at the effective components of his adventures.
"This is fuelled by using his perception that there's beauty to be observed wherever one would possibly cross, for those who are adventurous sufficient to look for it."


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Drucker's Five Deadly Marketing SinsAdd bookmark
From 1975 to 1995 Drucker wrote a column for The Wall Street Journal. On October 21st, 1993 his column was entitled "The Five Deadly Business Sins."It could have been called "The Five Deadly Marketing Sins." Judge for yourself. Many business experts advised exactly what Drucker advised against. They still do.
- Seeking high profit margins and premium pricing
- Charging what the market will bear
- Using cost-driven pricing
- Focusing on past winners
- Giving problems priority over opportunities
Seeking High Profit Margins and Premium Pricing
Drucker was a little stronger in his description of this first sin than my own descriptive title. He called this sin the worship of high profit margins and of "premium pricing" and said it was easily the most common of the five. Why shouldn't marketers at least seek high profit margins? That sounds like just good common sense.
Drucker's "premium pricing" meantoffering more so as to charge more to increase profit margins. He cited Xerox, which invented the fax machine, but allowed the Japanese to take over the entire worldwide market because Xerox kept adding features in order, not in order to add value for their customers, but to raise the price and increase the profit margin. The Japanese looked at this and did a little re-engineering. Then they entered the market with a product that did the job at a much more reasonable piece. They captured Xerox's market with great ease.
The problem is that it seems so automatic and obvious that big margins must lead to maximum profits. But this is an error. Total profit is margin times sales. So what the marketer should be seeking is an optimum profit margin which combined with sales over time equals maximum profits. Perhaps the worst part of the whole business is that the strategy of high profit margins combined with the necessary tactics of premium pricing invariably creates a market for the competition and could result in the loss of the entire market to a competitor.
Charging What the Market Will Bear
Let's say you have a patent or a secret formula. Conventional wisdom is to charge as much as the market will pay. When your competition finally catches up, if ever, you can use all the extra cash you have accumulated to fight off any and all competitors that try to enter the marketplace. And then lower your price below that of your competitors. This way, they can never catch you. Charging what the market will bear is a "sure thing" marketing strategy when you enter the market before your competition and have some leverage to keep competitors away. But is it?
Drucker claimed that the only sure thing about charging what the market will bear is that you will lose your market --- and a lot sooner than you might think. The problem is that a very high price creates an almost risk-free opportunity for your competitor to jump in seize your market. Risk is always present, so that when a nearly risk-free opportunity presents itself, it is a wonderful incentive. Moreover, the higher the price, the lower the risk to your competitor and the even greater incentive a competitor has to jump in and compete.
Drucker contrasted the loss of the fax machine with DuPont's synthetic fiber innovations. Americans invented and introduced the fax machine, but the Japanese easily took the market by pricing their machines 40 percent lower than the first American machines. The American fax machines inventors didn't stand a chance. They lost the market almost overnight.
DuPoint patented nylon and sold it at a price that they anticipated they would have to sell it at five years later to undercut any potential competitor. Drucker estimated that this price was less than half of the price they could have sold the product for successfully at the time. However, when competitors attempted to get in the market, DuPont had no difficulty keeping them out and kept their market. In the process DuPont made nylon affordable to millions of women and kept competitors away for years.
Using Cost-Driven Pricing
Cost-driven pricing means that you simply add up all your costs, and then add a profit, and there you are --- the price you should charge. It's all very logical, but it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This by the way is how the government insists contractors price their products that they buy. It's supposed to ensure both competition and a "fair" price. All you need to do is look at government cost overruns to see how well that approach is working.
Drucker said that instead of cost-driven pricing, you needed to do price-driven costing. That is, you need to start at the other end with the right price, and then to work back from price to determine your allowable costs. Drucker blamed the loss of the consumer-electronics industry and the machine-tool industry in the U.S. directly on this deadly sin. One begins to understand why Drucker called these deadly sins, and not simply marketing mistakes.
Focusing On Past Winners
Drucker actually called this "slaughtering tomorrow's opportunity on the altar of yesterday" because he wanted to emphasize that managers commit this sin in the name of past successes. He pointed out that after IBM had accomplished the remarkable feat of recovering from its immense research gaffe in totaling missing the demand for PC computers, it still insisted on subordinating its newly won PC business to its old winner, the mainframe computer. Not only did resources go mainly to the mainframes, but the new IBM PC marketers were discouraged from even selling their product to mainframe customers, less these customers mistake what business IBM was really in or buy PCs and not mainframes. The net result according to Drucker was that IBM would not reap the fruits of its amazing achievement in coming from nowhere and taking leadership of the PC market from Apple. Instead its achievement was mainly to create IBM clones --- and this major marketing blunder didn't help its mainframe business in any way.
Giving Problems Priority over Opportunities
Drucker saw that many companies put their best performing people to work solving old problems with businesses that were on the way out. Meanwhile opportunities were frequently assigned to those who lacked experience or ability.
This frequently occurs, as is the case with many things, because we let our egos get in the way. Otherwise smart marketers put a lot of resources, money and people fending off someone's encroachment into one of their established markets. Sure it may be declining, but this is their turf. So the ego is involved and they allocate all sorts of time and the best people to defending what may be barely worthwhile, while the real opportunity is picked up by a competitor.
When Drucker claimed these as sins, and not mere mistakes, he wasn't exaggerating. Sinners take heed!
*Adapted from Drucker on Marketing to be published by McGraw Hill, September 2012


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Paint Color for Kitchen Cabinets
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Do you want to re-charge the look of the kitchen cabinet by repainting it, but have no idea what is the best paint color for kitchen cabinets? Well, I may say that you are in the right spot and time with me here since I am utilizing this post to talk a little bit more about the ideas of the paint color for you to choose to bring back the old shine the kitchen cabinets once had before. Here we have some ideas about the paint color for kitchen cabinets for you to pick so reading this article might give you more info!
The very first choice could be the neutral colors, among the most popular of kitchen cabinet paint colors a lot of people are using these days simply because the colors could really fit into any theme of the kitchen decoration. For those who are looking for the right color of the small kitchen, white should definitely be the choice, providing a sharp, clean look. Yet, you could leave white behind when your initial cabinet color is darker, just like a mahogany wood grain because the darker colors tend to be a bit difficult to cover. Since you are not into white, black is another decent choice of neutral colors creating and bringing the modern look within the kitchen not to mention black goes with almost every decor option. You could also create a more traditional look in the kitchen by using black intricate cabinets.
When you want to add an actual contemporary flair to the kitchen of yours, the choice of a bold hue, such as yellow, cobalt blue, tangerine orange or candy-apple red to the cabinet should do the trick. Bold hues have the ability to turn themselves into a focal point of the room as well.


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Concert Review: An Outstanding 'Night at the Drive-In'
Concert Review: An Outstanding 'Night at the Drive-In'
The Woodcrest Christian Instrumental Music Department performed one of their most outstanding concerts yet on Saturday, May 4, 2019. The "Night at the Drive-In" pops concert featured the Woodcrest Christian Beginning Band, String Ensemble, Symphonic Winds and Concert Band, the incredible jazz Royal's Sound band, Wind Ensemble, and the exciting grand finale with all bands.
The Spring Pops Concert "A Night at the Drive-In" drew a crowd of more than 800 people.
Concertgoers arrived early to enjoy a slew of festivities including a car show, face painting, and silent auction. A collection of 12 classic cars, exotic cars, and movie-themed cars were on display. The Batmobile and Back to the Future DeLorean were definitely fan favorites. To see the Mission Impossible car, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and many souped-up, shining classic cars was a sight to behold in the quad of the Woodcrest Christian campus! The silent auction also offered up some fun for all to participate in.
The real excitement got underway as the "Night at the Drive-In" began featuring the WCS Beginning Band performing familiar movie themes including Superman's Escape from Krypton, Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic Sound of Music Do-Re-Me, and the foot-tapping favorite Happy from Despicable Me 2.
The WCS String Ensemble wowed us with themes from Harry Potter and James Bond. The Symphonic Winds and Concert Band's themes from Star Trek, Back to the Future, ET, Cars, and Mission Impossible were especially exciting. The audience roared as ET made a special appearance walking across the stage. Thanks to some special effects, it was even more exciting when ET was carried across the stage in the basket of a bicycle and was then seen flying through the air on screen behind the stage, of course with a full moon behind him.
One of the greatest highlights of the night was the rockin' rendition of Gonna Fly Now and In the Mood performed by more than 20 students forming the jazz band, The Royal's Sound. Jaron Sherwood's drum solo brought down the house! The vibrant shirts and synced dance moves of The Royal Sound was a perfect way to finish off the first half of the night.
After intermission, audiences were in awe of 12-year-old seventh grader, Jonathan Ma and his flawless performance of the beautiful Phantasie-Impromptu by Fredrich Chopin. And finally, the Wind Ensemble brought a smile to everyone's face with Singin' in the Rain and four adorable elementary students twirling umbrellas across the stage. Another surprise was an appearance from the Phantom of the Opera (played by Woodcrest Christian superintendent Mr. Jim Sullivan) who took over as conductor. Music from Batman, The Incredibles, and Star Wars finished off the night. The Royals Pavilion was transformed as laser beams shot across the room and free light sabers given to the audience flashed wildly during the grand finale.
Congratulations to Band Director Mr. Rasner and his team and all of the talented students who participated in this event! Mark your calendars now for the Band Christmas Concert in December and next year's Pop Concert! You won't want to miss them!


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WATERTOWN, NY — John B. Coleman, 78, of Watertown, passed away Monday, May 27, 2019, at Hospice of Jefferson County.
Calling hours will be 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, at Cummings Funeral Service, Inc., Watertown, with the funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 5, at St. Patrick's Church.
A full obituary will be published on newzjunky.com.
Online condolences to his family may be posted at www.cummingsfuneral.com.


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This discussion will give an overview of XML and then focus on its application to publishing.
Charlie Halpern-Hamu received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and is completing an MBA through Heriot-Watt University. He has published papers in the areas of denotational semantics, programming-language design tools and graphical control of robots by the disabled. For the last decade, he has been a structured-text consultant, working with XML, SGML and related standards. His company, Incremental Development, Inc., helps organizations structure both text and surrounding business processes with emphasis on simplicity and skill-transfer.
Charlie lives in Toronto with his ever increasing number of children. He amuses himself by playing improv comedy games with Theatresports Toronto. (Shows are Thursdays at 8pm at Harbourfront.)
Jonathan Seller will outline some examples of how the 'problem' of Distributed Computing has been tackled in the past (DCOM,CORBA,RMI), and how XML might be used as a solution. In a 'pure' Messaging context, we will go over some of the early uses of XML in 'MOM' (Message Oriented Middleware) systems, the evolution of the XML-RPC model that eventually became SOAP, and an example of a XML message (examples always help). The majority of the time will be on the example; to illustrate how straightforward it is to build on the 'extensible' nature of XML. We've heard the term "messaging" used a lot lately in the Peer-to-Peer context, and there are some cool examples of uses of XML there as well.
Joanthan is a software developer with 724 Solutions.
Meeting: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
8:30 a.m. Registration & Continental breakfast; 9:00 Start; Expected finish 11:30
No advance reservations are required.
Location: Join us at The Ontario Club, 5th Floor, Commerce Court South 30 Wellington Street West (Bay and Wellington)
Membership: Attendance is free for IRMAC members. A guest fee of $20 applies to non-members.
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Resource Management Association of Canada. All rights reserved.
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'The Walking Dead' has released the first teaser trailer for the second half of season 9 with a truly creepy look at the Whisperers…
'The Walking Dead' hasn't really been a horror show for quite some time but that might change with the arrival of The Whisperers in the back half of season 9 when the show returns on Sunday night, February 10.
Led by a woman named Alpha, The Whisperers are a group who conceals their identity by wearing the skin of the dead over their own faces and bodies as they roam amongst a heard of zombies. The survivors got their first taste of the Whisperers during the mid-season finale when Jesus was stabbed and killed by the group while they were trying to escape a cemetary.
Now the Whisperers are set to debut in a big way when 'The Walking Dead' returns for the final eight episodes of season 9.
The new teaser trailer gives a closer look at Alpha — the leader of the Whisperers — as she crafts the dead skin that will serve as her face to walk amongst the dead. If this doesn't give you the chills, nothing will!
Check out the new trailer and get ready for 'The Walking Dead' to return on Sunday night, Feb. 10 at 9 p.m. ET on AMC


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Gods I Love That Kid
I've noticed people arent really doing the whole of the Percy Jackson series justice so I'm making myself into this story as best as I can while still keeping the characters as much the same as ever :)
Chapter 1
Well This is New...
I looked for locker 37 in the halls. Luckily for me, it was near my homeroom, Room 7. I dropped my backpack in the empty locker and grabbed my books for... Latin, pre-algebra, and Spanish, according to my schedule. Jesus. I hate Mondays. I sat through homeroom not even listening til the teacher invited me up to the front of the class.
I had decided that this term, this school, I was going to reinvent myself. I was going for "perky cheerleader." It's stupid now that I think about it. So anyway I walked to the front of the front of the class. I confronted them with my golden amber eyes and told them. "I'm Felicity Dueso. I came here from Carlisle Pennsylvania. I have a cat and two dogs. I'm 12,13 next month." I returned to my seat and opened a book. The teacher resumed talking and I resumed ignoring her. I stared at the sickly green colored linoleum floors. There was a spider in the front making its way up the wall. I cheered it on in my head.
As far I know, transferring in, especially so late in the year, isn't cool. Yet for some reason, when the bell rang some hot guy a few inches taller than me with dark curly hair and pretty blue eyes offered me an escort. He had one of those cute butt chins. Could I say no?
He told me his name was Lior. He'd been a transfer too but that was like, a bazillion years ago. We had the same Latin class together and he sat next to me. I could hear choirs singing up in heaven somewhere. When I got back down to Earth, I looked up to find my Latin teacher was a cripple.
His name was Mr. Brunner. He did a little review for me and was surprised to find that I knew some things about ancient Greece, which we were studying. He pressed me for more after that, always calling on me and some Percy kid that always seemed out of it. This may surprise you, but I'm dyslexic and have ADHD. I use to hate it, and I read more than all the other kids combined, trying to get my braid to cooperate. It still hasn't to this day.
Lior and I parted ways when I had pre-algebra, but he had one of his friends show me there. His name was something weird like Tad.
By the time we got there only two seats were left. One in the back that the Tad kid went towards and one smack dab in the middle between a girl who was eating her pencil (totally legit) and a boy with dark, messy hair. I thought he was the Percy kid from Mr. Brunner's class. His head was down and I couldn't see anything in his lap so I figured he had somehow managed to fall asleep already. That took talent.
Our teacher was a creepy old lady. I've got nothing against old ladies, but if I met this one in an alley, I had a feeling I'd want the cops there with me. Her name was Mrs. Dodds. Even though she was like, 50 years old she was wearing a leather biker jacket. She told us to open our books to page something or other. "Care to join us, Mr. Jackson?" she called to the Percy kid. He lifted his head and turned his book to the same page she had instructed us to go to. Then she came to me.
She smiled a sneer that could curdle dairy. "Honey, did Mr. Brunner tell you about out field trip tomorrow?" I shook my head. "No, actually he didn't." She slapped a permission slip on my desk. "Bring it to me before 8 o'clock tomorrow and you can go," she snarled. I nodded. The rest of the class was boring stuff I had already learned at the last school but I followed what everyone else was doing by flipping pages and pretending to read.
Class ended and I began to pack up my things. I turned to the girl who I had sat next to. "Could you by chance tell me how to get to Spanish?" I asked in earnest. She wrote directions on a piece of paper and I got there with barely a minute to spare. Again there were few seats but I recognized the Percy kid from my first two classes. "Hola!" I said to him. He gave me a strange look. "What? it's Spanish class! They can't yell at you for talking in Spanish," I pointed out. "Me llamo Felicity." "No last name for your new friend? Me llamo Percy Jackson," he replied. "Ok, Percy Jackson. Me llamo Felicity Dueso. Bueno?"
"Bueno," he agreed.
When lunch rolled around, I walked in with Percy and met Grover, Percy's best friend. I was in the lunch line buying lunch when I spotted Lior waving me over. I turned my back till I had bought lunch, put it down next to Percy's, and then came over. "Yes?" I asked. "Come sit with us." It was an order, not an invitation. I shook my head. "No thanks," I turned to go but he grabbed my tiny wrist. "Look, I get you're trying to be all noble and sit with the social outcasts thing, but seriously. Good-looking people like us are above them," he said, smiling with perfectly white teeth. It was almost... Unreal.
I slipped my wrist from Lior's grasp and returned to Grover and Percy. "What was that all about?" Grover said with a nervous laugh. I just tossed my sleek blonde hair over my shoulder. "It was him hitting on me, that's all," I continued. "He was also bashing you guys, calling you social outcasts." Percy mumbled curses under his breath. "And he said hot girls like you are above us? I hate that self-righteous jerk," Percy was ranting at this point. "Chill, ok? He isn't worthy of my time," I concluded. "Damn straight," Grover agreed with another nervous bleat. I was guessing that was just part of the deal with this kid.
After lunch Percy continued to show me around. The only time we weren't together was study hall, which was by homeroom. Grover was in my homeroom so we worked on homework together. We were on English when one of Lior's minions summoned me. Grover waved me on. I shrugged and followed the minion. What I got was not what I expected. The second we reached the hall I was pinned against the wall. Lior's face was inches from mine. I will admit I was scared. I wasn't pee-myself scared, but scared enough for it to show in my eyes.
He put his hand on my neck. I lifted my chin, trying to overrule fear with confidence. He whispered in my ear. "What yourself. New York can be quite unpredictable," then he placed his lips on my cheek in a soft, lingering kiss. Then he released me. I went straight back to Grover and told him what happened. "He claimed you," Grover did the nervous laugh again. I raised eyebrow. "If any other boy even thinks about you without asking Lior, his gang will beat him senseless. I shouldn't have let you go..." I elbowed Grover. "God, you sound like my mother. If you hadn't let me go now he would have just cornered me after school. Which homeroom is Percy in?" I was worried Lior's guys were going to hurt him. Grover pretty much read my mind. "I'll check in with him and let you know." He then wrote down "Please write your phone number so I may call you or text you. I'll give you mine and Percy's." Grover had surprising handwriting. It was loopy and elegant. I smiled and returned the note with my info under the desk.
When the day was finished I went outside and looked for my mom's familiar little red Volvo. Lior was waiting for his ride. He stood next to me. He may as well have had his arm around me because of the possessive way he treated me. My mom pulled up before his and I hopped in. "Making new friends?" She teased. "Mom! Not ok," I snapped at her. She laughed. She turned up the radio and let me belt it out. "Just like your father," she mumbled. "Hey, Mom?" I turned the radio down. "There's this field trip thing tomorrow-" "Hun, just give me the paper I'll fill it out." "Thanks, Mom! Also, is it cool if I hang out with my new friends tomorrow afternoon?" I had a feeling that I wouldn't be going straight home tomorrow and I didn't want my mom to worry.
At around 4 o'clock Grover texted me, saying he and Percy made it home okay. I texted back so they knew I got it. Percy texted me a few minutes later. "Hey its Percy" I quickly texted back. "Hey it's that hot grl whos above u ;)" "Haha its that dude u met @ skool 2day" He responded. "Try not to get beaten up b4 I c u 2morow k?" "Grrr" I see I hit a nerve with this one. "C u 2morrow?" "Yeah"
Before I went to bed I made Mom fill out the permission slip and told her I had to go in early. She nodded groggily and we went to bed.
The next morning we left 10 minutes early which meant we got there at 7:50 am. I got the permission slip to Mrs. Dodds with time to spare. She told me she was chaperoning. I smiled and nodded and went to hide in the girl's bathroom until homeroom started. I was avoiding Lior.
I slid into my seat across the class from him as the ball rang. There was attendance, then announcements and then the field trip. Grover and I walked together and met up with Percy. We all sat in the seat behind the driver so Lior and his people couldn't mess with us. I got window seat, Percy sat in the middle, and Grover sat on the edge, with half his butt hanging off, as he complained to us every other minute. There was a freckly redheaded girl across the aisle from us who kept making rude faces at Percy. I flipped her off when no one was looking.
Mr. Brunner had to sit in the back, poor guy. That was the only way they could get him on and off the bus. He had to deal with all the obnoxious kids in the back. The creepy old Mrs. Dodds (I don't know how she managed to have that "r" between the "m" and the "s") sat in the middle, which meant that the noise level throughout the bus ride stayed pretty much to a minimum. We were at a museum that Mr. Brunner had picked for the Greek and Roman exhibit. Mr. Brunner looked like a kid in a candy store. The grin never left his face from the time we entered, to the time broke for lunch.
At lunch, with all the wide open space that they could have been sitting, most of the kids sat around a fountain that was spewing water out the top. The day was gloomy and overcast. The redhead, Percy told me her name was Nancy Bobofit, was still being rude. I really thought she got what she deserved, but the way it happened was definitely weird. Percy said he didn't even remember pushing her, but next thing we knew she was on her butt in the fountain, screaming that Percy pushed her. Mrs. Dodds materialized next to us. She dragged him into the building. Lior saw it as his chance to do the same.
I SO did not come willingly. I was kicking and screaming up a storm, but Lior had his hand over my mouth. I stuck out my tongue, trying to get him to let go but he just dragged me along. Then he somehow managed to climb a three-story tower of boxes and stuff with me in tow. He turned to me. "I'm going to move my hand. If attack me or start screaming, I will knock you out." He did anyway.
When I woke up I was still at the top of the boxes and crates, but when I looked down, I saw Percy, Mr. Brunner, and Grover leaning over something. They were talking too quietly for me to hear, but eventually I saw what they were studying. It was... Me! With blue lips and grey skin! I was dead! The sun had finally come out and was glowing brightly from the window. I was freaking out. How had this happened? Was I a ghost? What was going on? I wasn't gagged and there was nothing keeping me here so I turned to the window.
It was still overcast. Huh? Then what... I couldn't see outside anymore. All I could see was a glowing golden reflection of me. I screamed. Behind me, Percy, Mr. Brunner and Grover all looked up. I turned to them and shouted. "WHAT IS GOING ON?!" "Behind you! Watch out!" Percy yelled I turned around again and found myself face to face with Lior. He lifted a strand of my hair. His eyes had become silver and he had claws. "Daughter of Apollo. Should've guessed. Well, it's time for you to meet your Father's Uncle!" And with that he pushed me off the top of the boxes.
I was freefalling for a good few seconds before someone caught me. It was Lior. But he was just up there! WHAT THE H/E/L/L IS GOING ON?! He threw back his head in laugher. A cold, menacing, chuckle. He dropped my still glowing figure on the cold marble floors I crawled away from him as fast as I could to see him and Mr. Brunner locked in combat. Except he wasn't confined to his wheelchair. He had hooves and a tail. I think I would've passed out if just then Percy, and I could tell it was him, dragged me back. "You OK?" He asked. "Yeah, but what is going on?" I wanted answers.
"We can't talk now. We have to go with Grover. Mr. Brun- I mean Chiron told us to. My Mom's coming to get us," Percy told me, helping me to my feet. I shook my head sourly. "OK, but you gots some 'splaining to do. What about my Mom?" "You're going to call her and tell her that we're taking you to camp," Percy looked into my golden eyes, and I saw all I needed to. He was in the dark about this too.
"Run. Now," I heard Grover say from outside the museum. A little blue car was waiting for us at the curb. I was the last one in and Percy's mom didn't even wait for me to close the door before she put the pedal to the metal. I was pretty sure we were breaking all kinds of laws but there were no cops stopping us. We got to the outskirts of the city when I turned to Grover. "Start talking. Now," I growled. Grover started nervously bleating again and I was about to throttle him when I noticed something strange. "Gr-Grover? Your feet just came off," I said, hearing the quiver in my voice. Based on the way Percy's mother was driving, I think I was still glowing. I groaned.
"I'm sorry," I said, pulling my hood up around my blonde tresses. "Grover, do you have a blanket or something to cover me with so I'm not so gall dang bright?" I felt something being laid on me. "Better?" I called to Percy's mom. "Much, thank you," she replied. Her voice was tired. "Are you going to talk to my mom?" I asked her. "Yes, I'm going to go find her just after I drop you off." Percy and Grover were silent. Soon I began to hear a thumping noise.
"Do you hear that?" The silence began to be sickening as the thumping got louder. I was still covered with the blanket, so I couldn't see anything. I didn't where we were until the car screeched to a halt. "Go!" Percy's mom cried in desperation. I got tangled in the blanket so Percy dragged me out. We were at the base of a hill. At the top was a lone pine tree. I couldn't see anything past it. "Run, all of you," Percy's mom was out of the car and pushing us up the hill in front of her. The thumping was loud enough now that I thought if I turned around I might see the source. Grover had ditched his feet altogether. I tried not to think about any of it.
As we reached the top of the hill I screamed as something grabbed at me. I slipped in my footing and saw what had been following us. The Minotaur looked like it had just walked out of the Greek Mythology book in my room at home. I shuddered at the thought that it might. My glowing seemed to confuse the beast, which I took as an opportunity to regain my footing and scramble to the top of the hill. The four of us stood at the top, facing the monster that even down the slope 10 feet was still at eye level with us.
Percy drew from his pocket a pen. "Are you crazy?!†I screeched at him. Torrential rain was coming down. I glared into the sky, willing it to stop. It lightened a bit. The second Percy clicked the pen it elongated into a shining sword. Percy was defending all four of us. His mother turned to the three of us kids. "Go! Down on the other side of the hill! You'll be safe," she turned to Percy. "I love you." She kissed his forehead. "Now go!" She shoved us past the tree. "No!" Percy shouted as his mother turned to the beast. It grabbed her and in a flash of amber light, she disappeared. Grover and me were holding him back, but broke free of us, going after the monster.
"Help!" I shrieked. There were people at the base of the hill. "Help us!" Kids started racing at us with swords and shields. One threw Grover a sword. They raced by me off to help Percy. Even unarmed I ran with them. I saw Percy. He was standing over a very dead Minotaur, holding its horn in his hand...
To Be Continued...


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What should your contract of employment look like?
Your appointment conditions and written contracts of employment are some of the most important documents you will receive from an employer, as they formalise the understanding between you and your employer about your pay and working conditions.
When you receive an appointment letter or contract, it is important to check its content to ensure clarity around your employment status, conditions and responsibilities.
The first things to check are that it is addressed correctly to you and is dated and signed by your employer. You should then check that it clearly outlines:
- your commencement date
- the title of your position and its location
- the classification and commencing rate of pay
- the employment status and tenure of the position e.g. full-time, part-time, term-time, casual, fixed-term etc.
- details of the relevant industrial instruments that apply to the position
- details of relevant policies and procedures that apply to the employment
- arrangements for hours of duty
- details of leave provisions
- details regarding superannuation
- a position description or duty statement
- details of termination provisions; and
- details of any probationary period.
There may also be other provisions such as clauses around confidentiality, intellectual property, lifestyle or other site/sector specific arrangements. As an employee you contractually agree to these arrangements as part of your contract of employment.
Therefore you need to ensure that you fully understand and are comfortable with them.
Be mindful of the inappropriate use of fixed-term contracts. Fixed-term contracts should only be used where a short-term identifiable need exists. A fixed-term contract may also stipulate conditions such as early termination if it is to replace someone on family leave who opts to return before expected. You need to be satisfied with any such conditions.
Where your letter of appointment or written contract refers to an industrial instrument, ensure you seek a copy of the instrument named or referred to and check the details.
You will also need to know the policies and procedures you agree to as part of your employment – so it's important that you ask for the details of all relevant documents.
Keep a copy of all documents that are issued to you about your appointment, and others such as codes of conduct or employment policies, just in case you need to refer to them.
It's a good idea to check on any guidelines that exist around the employer's recognition of qualifications and experience, or any previous service, as these may be beneficial to you.
It is important that you comply with any given timelines and submit all required documentation to obtain recognition.
Most of all, it is crucial that you fully understand the commitment you are making in accepting a position. This means understanding the full extent of the expectations and obligations under which you are being employed.
Ensuring your letter of appointment or written contract correctly outlines what you agree to as an employee ensures that your rights are protected. It is legally binding on both parties.
Our union can check these documents for members and ensure the details are correct and are consistent with the relevant industrial legislation and instruments.
Please contact our union for further advice.
A letter of appointment or written contract cannot provide wages or conditions of employment which are less beneficial to employee than those contained in the relevant enterprise agreement.
Always seek advice if you are unsure about what the provisions mean for you.


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text: Or am I getting taken? Okay, as some of you know, I have been to the SHOT show just about every year for the last 5. This is the ultimate firearms and gear related extravaganza, where you can pick up and play with, pretty much everything you have ever seen or dreamt about. So, this last time, old JD got over 30 POUNDS of literature when he was there. That's right, I had to break open two bags at the airport to transfer stuff between bags to balance out the luggage. Basically if I stopped at a booth, they gave me something to take with me. Every manufacturer, every product, they all have CD's and little pseudo magazines, and pamphlets, TONS of pamphlets for you to take. Also, some of the time, they give you their dealer and MSRP price lists. Yes, I have been holding out on you - but I honestly forgot about it until I started going back through all the literature looking for some information. Now, I don't own a scanner, and I can't officially publish this information without getting into trouble. I also can't "volunteer" any screaming deals or items that I think are grossly inflated ( and there are some ) - but, I also feel for my hard working forum members, and while I don't have the goods on all the great stuff that is out there, it turns out a I have a nice cross section from rifle stocks ( a well known company known for precision, to a safe company ( which shares a name with a Federal Building ), to a couple of pistol makers (A couple of guys who's last names' start with "B" and one for a company from Europe that has a 2 letter name ), a well known parts house that likes "Big Black Cats" and a couple of long gun makers that can reach out and touch you. It's not a who's who ( I don't have H&K or Beretta or Kimber [from this year ] or FN, so anyone wanting to know what hot new uber gun they saw on the action flick over the weekend costs, please don't ask ), but it's a list that is pretty impressive. So, let's leave it at this. If you have a firearm that you are truly interested in and wondering if you are getting ripped off - post what you know and I will send you a PM to fill in the blanks for you if I have the data. I have some stuff from last year as well, so I might be able to ballpark some stuff for you. I can't just publish this stuff, it can cause some issues, so if someone posts something you are interested in, just wave the flag and let me know you are also interested. If I don't have it, I will cop to it right away so you aren't waiting. What I don't have is any info on anything fully automatic. I don't have any silencer prices & I don't have info from this year on body armor. I don't have any Class III stuff dealer pricing at all, so please keep the requests reasonable. If you truly wanted a Chey-Tac Intervention System you would know a lot more about it than just to ask what the price is, it's available on line. Cheers - JD


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Honoured to be part of this epic blog tour. Thank you Karen & Anne for including me. It's my turn today along with the fabulous Swirl & Thread so feel free to check out Mairead's blog post too.
Evil remembers…
Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina.
Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Ebner will do anything to see himself as a human again.
Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?
Emily Roy, a profiler on loan to Scotland Yard from the Canadian Royal Mounted Police, joins up with Linnea's friend, French truecrime writer Alexis Castells, to investigate the puzzling case. They travel between Sweden and London, and then deep into the past, as a startling and terrifying connection comes to light.
Plumbing the darkness and the horrific evidence of the nature of evil, Block 46 is a multi-layered, sweeping and evocative thriller that heralds a stunning new voice in French Noir.
My review
There is always a worry that translated fiction may not work. Not so in this case. Although this is deemed French Noir as Johana Gustawsson is French, the action takes place in London and Sweden, with a time lapse back to the concentration camp at Buchenwald in 1944-45.
Block 46 was an infamous building for the prisoners at Buchenwald. No one quite knew what happened in there but they knew it wasn't good. When Erich Ebner was forced to go there, none of his fellow inmates expected to see him again. Johana's writing for this section is superb. Deeply moving, she doesn't shy away from the terror and horror of the camp. As difficult as it was to read, these were the parts that captured me the most.
However, this isn't the main part of the story. Alexis Castells (French) is a true crime writer. When her friend, Linnea, is murdered in Sweden, she doesn't hesitate to go and help. Initially dealing with the Swedish police, there are many things that don't quite make sense to Alexis. When Linnea's death is linked with murders in London, nothing makes sense at all. Emily Roy, a Canadian profiler working with Scotland Yard, is brought in to help catch the killer.
This is a novel with multiple viewpoints so it's almost like reading a book in IMAX format. As well as hearing from Alexis, Emily and the Swedish police officers, we also hear from the killer. Chilling doesn't even begin to describe it. Steadily, the two main plotlines weave together, with a few twists thrown in for good measure, leading to a climatic 'don't go in there' moment.
Johana Gutawsson's debut thriller is impressive. Of all her characters, Emily Roy is the one who intrigued me the most, not least because so little is given away about her. Hopefully we'll get a chance to find out more as, thankfully, a sequel is on its way.
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About the author
Born in 1978 in Marseille and with a degree in political science, Johana Gustawsson has worked as a journalist for the French press and television. She married a Swede and now lives in London. She was the co-author of a bestseller, On se retrouvera, published by Fayard Noir in France, whose television adaptation drew over 7 million viewers in June 2015. She is now working on the next book in the Roy & Castells series.