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The Novel in Your SoulA Lesson by Polymath Chameleon
Motivation and pointers from a noob writer to myself.
1. Brainstorming
-Write down everything you can that pertains to your novel or may not involve your novel (notes can be used for a different novel). Keep a notebook close or have a notepad app on your phone. Use inspiration from any aspects of your life or others' lives.
-Write what you know or do research.
-Always know the skeleton of your story and in what direction/ tone you want it to be in.
-Read a lot and write a lot.
2. Duration of Writing
-Just write.
-Write a lot when you're most passionate about it.
-Avoid cliche. If it absolutely has to have a certain form of cliche, put a unique twist.
-Write with a certain level of sympathy to all your characters.
-Make each character's voice unique, if not slightly nuanced.
-Have interesting characters or write in a way that a reader may sympathize with the characters. Character dynamic or personalities are top priority. Plot is secondary.
-Tone is everything. Without it, your novel won't express what had passionately set this novel off in the first place.
3. The Final Stages
-Multiple revisions. Let family, friends, and strangers express their opinions on it. With an open mind, take into account of all criticisms and determine if it does in fact improve your novel.
-After it's written, take a break from it for a month or so and re-read it with a fresh eye.
-At the end of the day, your biggest audience is yourself.
No Motivation?
-Experience what had originally gotten you motivated in the first place.
-It won't write itself.
-Don't like the novel anymore? Just scrap it but don't completely abandon the parts of the dead novel that you once liked. It may come in handy for future novels.
-Take a break and empty your mind from it for a bit.
-If the novel went of course, re-write it from the start of its deviation in a radical way that may be out of your comfort zone.
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In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!
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High above, a white cloud flies,
Bright as newly fallen snow.
Oh the joy to those who know October!
Colors bright on bush and tree.
Over the weedy swamp, we see
A veil of purple and brown and gold.
Thy beauty words have never told. October!
Scolding sparrows on the lawn,
Rabbits frisking home at dawn,
Pheasants midst the sheaves of grain,
All in harmony acclaim, October!
Brown earth freshly turned by plow,
Apples shine on bended bough,
Bins o'erflowed with oats and wheat,
And satisfaction reigns complete. October!
Radiant joy is everywhere.
Spirits in tune to the spicy air,
Thrill in the glory of each day.
Life's worth living when we say, October!
~ Joseph Pullman Porter ~
I am rich today with autumn's gold,
All that my covetous hands can hold;
Frost-painted leaves and goldenrod,
A goldfinch on a milkweed pod,
Huge golden pumpkins in the field
With heaps of corn from a bounteous yield,
Golden apples heavy on the trees
Rivaling those of Hesperides,
Golden rays of balmy sunshine spread
Over all like butter on warm bread;
And the harvest moon will this night unfold
The streams running full of molten gold.
Oh, who could find a dearth of bliss
With autumn glory such as this!

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Author: Sarah Tregay
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Length: 368 pages
When the picture tells the story…
Senior year is almost over, and Jamie Peterson has a big problem. Not college—that's all set. Not prom—he'll find a date somehow. No, it's the worst problem of all: he's fallen for his best friend.
As much as Jamie tries to keep it under wraps, everyone seems to know where his affections lie, and the giggling girls in art class are determined to help Jamie get together with Mason. But Jamie isn't sure if that's what he wants—because as much as Jamie would like to come clean to Mason, what if the truth ruins everything? What if there are no more road trips, taco dinners, or movie nights? Does he dare risk a childhood friendship for romance?
This book is about what happens when a picture reveals what we can't say, when art is truer than life, and how falling in love is easy, except when it's not. Fan Art explores the joys and pains of friendship, of pressing boundaries, and how facing our worst fears can sometimes lead us to what we want most.
Protagonist: Jamie is just trying to get through his final months of high school without any drama. Yeah right. Even though Jamie is out to his immediate family, who threw him a party upon coming out, he has yet to tell anyone else, even his best friend in the entire world, Mason. I really enjoyed Jamie's character, he has realistic flaws and fears that really help move not only his character development forward, but also the plot in a realistic albeit possibly idealistic way.
Romance: So ironically, while the romance or at least Jamie's feelings are a driving point to the plot there's not really very much romance. In fact what your in for is more romantic tension than anything else. Going into this I thought Jamie would already have feelings for Mason, but we get to see his crush develop over the course of the book. We see him go from denial to self-loathing and finally acceptance. the book isn't over at that point however and I really liked watching Jamie face not only his feelings for Mason but working toward coming out to him.
World-Building: So going into this, given the lack of pronouns referring to Mason in the synopsis and that Mason can be a girl's name, I had wrongly assumed that this was a story about a boy who falls for his female best friend and gets help from the girls in his art class to find a way to express his feelings. That alone sounded like an amazing story and reminded me a lot of my sophomore year of high school, sans art class fairy godmothers, but when I found out after reading the first page that Mason is male I became all the more interested. I feel weird having to state that it's an LGBT book instead of saying that it's a love story, but given the stigma not only in our real world life, but it this book it's sort of mandatory. That being said I really enjoyed the plot and world-building of this book, it's one of my first fluffy lighter contemporary and I have have to say it really started bringing me around to liking contemporaries in general as opposed to the darker more intense one I'm partial to.
Predictability: Given that this was more of a fun contemporary I went into it expecting it to turn out well, meaning that I didn't expect this book to really surprise me or have very many shocking twists. However I was pleasantly surprised to find that there were a few that truly caught me off guard. Some were heartbreaking, other inspired hope for the characters and overall I was really impressed that this book, while being fluffy and happy, could still pull at my heartstrings like the more intense and darker contemporaries.
Ending: As I said before the ending of this book was a bit idealistic, however unlike Sia, the other fluffier contemporary I've read this book still has plenty of trouble and hardship ahead for these characters going forward and so the idealistic ending really helped to numb the possibly sadder things to come. It was a great ending to this book and while there were still a few things that I wondered about that were never answered, I couldn't fault the author or story for that as this is supposed to mirror real life and for everything to be wrapped up so neatly wouldn't seem real.
So yeah, I really loved this book, it gave me a new perspective on contemporaries. It's both light-hearted and fun, funny and heartwarming, and while it has it's sad and even heart-breaking moments. In the end this book is not only a great love story, but one that carries a powerful and great message.


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It's always nice to come across fresh pictures, particularly ones of real quality. It really does give you a lift and I got a great call last week to a house in Churchtown, where I was invited to value a collection put together by a collector with a very good eye. Evie Hones, a Mainie Jellet, Yeats sketches and a wonderful oil by English artist Stanley Royle will all now be included in our auction on March 27th. The famous 'Goose Girl' painting by William Leech that hangs in the National Gallery and for years one of the most popular paintings in the Gallery, was subsequently discovered to have been painted by Stanley Royle. All the 20 works in this nice collection are as fresh as the day they were painted and retain their original frames. Auctioneers gold!
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Back in the 1960s, baby boomers changed how everyone gave birth by demanding choices. Today that generation has kicked open the door to end of life conversations using those same determined voices. Some individuals, however, who are not personally involved in our ever-changing healthcare environment, have been left confused and alone. Many community members have realized that they didn't know what they didn't know until it was too late.
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I am almost done with the first round of painting and then I should be getting back to blogging and sewing. I promise!
Here is my list of what I hope to get done this weekend. And I will keep my camera with me to take some before and after pictures so that you can all see that there is something going on here.
1. Fill in nail holes in quarter round (kitchen, hallway, bathroom)
2. Touch up yellow paint in kitchen and bathroom
3. Touch up tan paint in hallway
4. Fix trim paint where needed
5. Paint inside of front door
6. Touch up ceiling paint in bathroom and stairwell
7. Touch up tan paint in stairwell
8. Fix primer in upstairs bathroom including re-primering where needed
9. Paint upstairs bathroom ceiling
10. Paint upstairs bathroom walls
11. Reassemble kitchen
And lastly, I need to organize my coupon binder. I'm supposed to do this on Monday with Jodi, but we don't have specific plans yet.
I also finished a book this week so I will be posting that review tonight or tomorrow.
And I am still behind on blogs and replying to emails.
Also, once I get things upstairs in order, I need to get my stockpile (or what I have of one so far) organized. This means a bit of organizing in the basement.
And I can not wait to start on cleaning out the spare bedroom to start painting it and begin the room swap!!!
I hope that everyone else has more exciting weekend plans than I do! Although I will be happily chipping away at my list!


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BOE needs to find experienced superintendent for Norwalk
To the Editor:
In a recent Op-Ed, Ms. Susan Wallerstein has raised the 900-pound gorilla question. Will the BOE in its search for an experienced outside superintendent be diverted by the BOE's byzantine politics and instead select Interim Superintendent Daddona?
Reportedly Mr. Daddona has support from some BOE members. And, importantly, also support from teacher union chief Bruce Mellion who sharply criticized former Superintendent Marks. Mr. Mellion has more recently sharply criticized BOE members associated with the recent arbitration award giving the BOE a hard freeze, noting that Norwalk's teachers are the fifth highest paid in the state.
Despite these concerns of selecting the interim superintendent favored by the teachers' union, the BOE under the new leadership of Mike Lyons is scoring high marks with expressions of confidence from the BET and other city officials. And BOE members do seem to have abandoned their peculiar practice of publicly disagreeing with majority BOE decisions when personnel matters are involved.
And, there are reasons to hope that BOE members will avoid past practice of criticizing publicly the new superintendent. Every BOE member knows the devastating consequences of selecting a new superintendent who doesn't enjoy the broad support of the community. Norwalk desperately needs a highly experienced superintendent with real bona fides, one who can readily meet the challenges of a hostile teachers union.
So while we can't expect the BOE to announce early in the selection process that the interim superintendent doesn't have the votes, we can take some real comfort that a recently revitalized BOE enjoying new support from city officials will do the right thing and hire a thoroughly experienced outside superintendent. How wonderful it would be for our new superintendent to spend five or 10 years or even longer restoring our once proud public school system.
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MOU between Northern University Bangladesh and Brac IT Services Ltd.
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Northern University Bangladesh (NUB) and Brac IT Services Ltd (bits) signed an MOU on 8th November 2017. According to this MOU Brac IT Services Ltd and Northern University Bangladesh will be involved in different activities that will be mutually beneficial for both the institutions. According to the MOU, biTS will provide internship offer for NUB graduates, arrange mock interview for NUB students amongst many others. Similarly, Northern University Bangladesh will be involved in employer branding of Brac IT Services Ltd.
Honorable Chairman of Northern University Bangladesh Trust Prof.Dr. Abu Yousuf Abdullah was present at the event along with the Vice Chancellor Prof.Dr.AnwarHossain, Pro Vice Chancellor Prof.Dr. Anwarul Karim, Director, Development and International Affairs Lt. Col. Aqtedar Ahmed Siddiqui (Ret), Treasurer Mr. Md. Anwar Hossain and Registrar Mr. Md. Rashidul Islam. Representing Brac IT Services Ltd, were Head of HR and Communications Ms. IsmatJahan, Head of Financial Solutions Mr. Bikash Kumar Nandi and Associate Manager, Mr. Md. TasaufurRahman. Vice Chancellor of NUB Prof. Dr. Anwar Hossain signed the MOU, while Ms. IsmatJahan, Head of HR and Communications signed on behalf of biTS. The two witnesses were Mr. ErfanHaque, Manager, Development and Operations, Marketing, Promotions and Branding Department representing NUB and Mr. Md. TasaufurRahman, Associate Manager, Human Resources & Communication representing biTS.
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Thanks Oxygenation for the sincere and thoughtful post! It's always good to say "I Love You" but to say it like that - we know that you mean it brutha!
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LAUREL HILL — Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies retrieved a pellet gun that was used to shoot street signs on Old Ebenezer Road.
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A Lifetime of Suspicion
Freshman Emily Yates (Paloma Kwiatkowski - The Christmas Calendar) tends to keep to herself and suffers from depression which is why she is on medication. Her mum, Jill (Lindsay Hartley - Nightmare Nurse), is concerned especially as her relationship with Connor (Dan Payne - Cradle of Lies) is now serious and fears that Emily will resent them. But it turns out Emily has started dating and is seeing blonde haired Gary (Jedidiah Goodacre - If There Be Thorns) and that isn't such a good thing as Gary's violent temper sees him and Emily ending up in trouble with the law. Fearing he will be sent down the two of them apparently jump off a bridge, chained together and to a breeze block. But Jill is suspicious as Emily has had an aversion to water ever since the accident which led to her depression and it doesn't make sense which makes her suspect that Gary is on the run and taken Emily with him.
About 20 minutes into "A Mother's Suspicion" there is a scene where Jill and her boyfriend Connor go to Gary's home to have a meal with his mother and we quickly learn two things. One is that Gary is bad news as he makes lewd comments to Jill and secondly his brother is a cop. Shortly after this we learn thanks to a private investigator that Gary has a track record for trouble but somehow is always getting off. And so we have the basic building blocks in place with lots of bits built around it so we have the troubled daughter, the protective mother, the troublesome boyfriend and of course some things which don't quite add up.
Now you may ask where all this is going, well after 35 minutes and we have the apparent double suicide Jill's motherly suspicion leads to he investigating things off of her own back and discover that things are not as they seem as some people are not what the appear. Of course as an audience we are already sure that some people are not how they first appear because "A Mother's Suspicion" is not the most subtle of movies. What follows is pretty typical as Jill questions things and finds that she is alone in her thoughts that the suicide was fake.
Here is the thing about "A Mother's Suspicion", which I should mention also goes by the name of "Dying to be Loved", it is all incredibly typical of a Lifetime movie with the mother never giving up and uncovering a twisted web of things. As such this is another Lifetime movie, which for fans of easy to watch nonsense, will be an okay time filler but for those looking for grit, realism and a believable mystery are likely to spend more time mocking both the flaws and also some of the acting.
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What is the path to the folder you showed me on the picture? I will check if these files are present there on my laptop. There are some MaxxAudio files but no EXE. And, during installation, where you can see current progress as files which are currently being copies, I saw files with "maxxaudio" in filename but still no EXE anywhere :/
Any other idea what to try? I would really like to have the latest version since I'm always trying to keep my PC clean and up to date.
What is Maxx Audio and is it better than Realtek HD Audio Manager?
I've not checked the contents of the download from Microsoft.
Have you tried downloading the latest Maxx Audio driver from the ASUS site?
Also have a read of this [FIX] Windows 10 and Asus G750JS Realtek MaxxAudio [How to Get it!]
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What are peoples preference here to the Microsoft HD driver vs Realtek drivers?
What about the motherboard brand specific Realtek drivers, are they just Realtek drivers with an audio manager software included like the Asus Realtek HD Audio Manager?


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KARACHI, Pakistan — A senior Pakistani health official says the death toll in the country's southern Sindh province, which has been struck by a heat wave, has reached 622.
Senior provincial health official Saeed Mangnejo said on Tuesday that he expects the number of fatalities to climb further.
Mangnejo says the death toll is for the past three days, though most of the deaths were reported in the province's largest city, Karachi.
Temperatures reaching 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) struck Karachi over the weekend. Hours-long power outages also hit the city, leaving fans and air conditioners inoperable.


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Volume 17 Issue 26 | Nov. 19 - 25, 2004
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Ellen DeGeneres did a jig for American Express employees in the Winter Garden Nov. 8 as part of a private party to launch the credit cards new ad campaign, My life. My card.
Planning group discusses retail future of the W.T.C.
By Sascha Brodsky
A planning group is urging the creation of a more complete plan to encourage retail development in Lower Manhattan.
The city needs to foster the growth of unique retailers to give the area a unique identity rather than the usual mall stores, according to the Urban Land Institute that presented a preliminary draft of its plan to Community Board 1 last week. The retail plan is part of a larger effort to revitalize the Lower Manhattan economy in the wake of the 9/11 disaster.
This is a world-class team and I think that the committee had a very favorable impression overall of the suggestions they have made, said Richard Kennedy chairperson of the boards World Trade Center redevelopment committee.
But Kennedy said that he was waiting until the final version of the report is released before making a final judgment, adding its premature right now to comment on this.
Mary Beth Corrigan, a spokesperson for the institute, told the board that retailing could help develop a sense of community in the area. She also said that the highest priority would be given to respecting the 9/11 memorial. Corrigan said that the plan emphasizes variety, adding that the retail shops should be as varied as possible so as to provide a unique experience.
Retailing can be part of the linkage [of the W.T.C. site] with surrounding areas. Once those linkages are established, retail can become an important driver for other downtown elements, including office development, said the institutes Michael Beyard in a statement. Think of it [retail] as reflective of the neighborhoods that border it, and how the character of those neighborhoods can spread onto the World Trade Center site.
In order to effectively implement the retail expansion, the commercial angle of Lower Manhattan needs an advocate, according to the group. One suggestion has been for a developer to become a champion of the retail sector.
Key to developing retail in the area is targeting potential customers. The earliest potential market for retailers would be commuters, according to the institute. Office workers and tourists would also need to be served by different kinds of stores.
No date for the final draft of the recommendations has yet been set.
Key recommendations made by the team included:
* Establish unified retail development and control;
* Develop and implement the full, permanent retail program for the W.T.C. site immediately;
* Maximize retail development at the sites grade level;
* Develop 600,000 to 1 million square feet of retail on the W.T.C. Site to achieve the appropriate critical mass;
* Depress West St. to facilitate connections to the World Financial Center and Battery Park City; (The community board has opposed the proposed West St. tunnel in part because of its costs, but the subject was not discussed at the meeting.
* Create precincts of shopping to accommodate the needs of the workers, residents, commuters and tourists;
* Develop Cortlandt St. as an enclosed pedestrian passage open to the east and west;
* Allow Fulton St/ (an adjacent street) to evolve with new retail space as the W.T.C. retail comes on line;
* Provide financing options, including incentives and public/private partnerships.
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Time and time again we hear of these mass shootings. Mostly from a country with ridiculous gun laws. And always from people who want some kind notoriety from their crime. Posting their shit on social media etc. And time and time again we see the media pecking at it like starved vultures. They create more fame for the perpetrators than they do for the victims. We all seem to be more aware of the names of the killers than those who are killed. That would be rather enticing for a mentally ill future mass killer, don't you think? The thought of their name and face all over the world medias. Household names if but for a short time. To a point where they are all trying to do worse than the last mass killer.
I see it. Often. On my news feed; Post after post about the state of the perpetrator's mind. The 'Monster'. Inadvertently feeding ,feeding, feeding the drive of a future 'monsters' motivations.
I wonder if we were to stop. If there was a global media blanket put over these acts. No coverage of it. Most certainly no coverage what so ever of the people committing these crimes. If the world stopped paying attention to these nobodies who are trying to be somebodies;Could we drastically reduce these happenings?
I won't be giving these things ANY attention anymore. My heart will still hurt. I will still despair at the fact that some people's internal suffering leads them to commit these acts. But I will ignore the articles. Change the channel. NEVER even breathe the name of the people doing this. Being that the media feeds us what we consume….maybe…. if we are a little more selective about our media consumption, we could actually save some lives?


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Tormented Dale Ferguson is ready to put the worst year of his career behind him and show Bradford Bulls fans his true value in 2015.
The Scotland World Cup star was restricted to just seven games last term following a series of injury problems following his switch from Huddersfield Giants
He was left almost helpless as the club fell out of Super League, but agreed to stay at Odsal, vowing to help them make a swift return to the elite.
Though fit again, the powerful second-row will not be risked in the friendly against Huddersfield tomorrow as Bradford build towards their Championship opener at Leigh.
But he said: "I'm desperate to get going again. It was a massive disappointment for me last season, the worst year of my career, to be honest.
"I've a lot of fixing to do. I had other options to stay in Super League, but Bradford really didn't get value for money last year and I felt I let a lot of people down.
"I'd come here as a marquee signing and didn't really keep my side of the bargain.
"That made it a lot easier for me to sign again and hopefully my body's fully right now so I can kick on and forget about last year.
"I'm sure I can get back to my best and repay Bradford for the faith they've had in me."
Ferguson, 26, should be a genuine force in the Championship and, in general, the former World Club champions have recruited well in readiness for life in the second tier.
"I'm fully confident we can get in the top two with what we have," he added.
"We've signed very well and have a strong team which you could say is a Super League team.
"Obviously, the Championship will be difficult as everyone at the top end are signing well.
"It's going to be hard towards the back end when it goes into the middle 8s but I'm fully comfortable we can do a job."
On Huddersfield, he added: "They are always a physical pack with Danny Brough and Luke Robinson elusive out the back and some big outside backs, too, like Leroy Cudjoe and Joe Wardle, so it'll be a good test."


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A BAKER was given a curfew after admitting to watering his father's cannabis plants in the attic of their home on Hall Street, Southport.
North Sefton Magistrates' court heard Derrick Holmes plead guilty to the charges.
Cathy Mitchell, prosecuting, said: "Last year the police went into the house occupied by the defendant and his brother and conducted a full search of the property. Thirty-one cannabis plants with a value of approximately £2,800 were found – some of which were in the defendant's bedroom."
Mrs Mitchell explained that the defendant admitted to watering the plants sometimes at his father's request.
Mr Grahame Halliwell, defending, said: "He has no previous convictions. He pleads guilty on the basis that he assisted his father. The father was growing cannabis plants in the attic and asked his son to bring water for the plants."
Chairman of the bench, Mr R. Mawdsley, gave Holmes a one month curfew to remain at home daily from 7pm to 7am. He also said that a tag would be attached to the defendant's ankle which he should not remove and ordered him to pay costs of £65 within 28 days.
Father and builder David Holmes, 46, pleaded guilty on January 28, to growing the plants in his home. The property was searched by police on July 2, after Holmes's son, Anthony, was arrested on the street for possessing cocaine.
David Holmes was given 160 hours of unpaid work and a curfew from 7pm to 7am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for three months.


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Not all old houses are worth saving for historical reasons, but chances are their value as shelter at least outweighs their value as scrap.
That's why a group of six investors is trying to give away four small homes occupying land on Southeast Fifth and Sixth streets near South Dixie Highway. The group plans to build a 20,000-square-foot office building on the site.
There is a catch, however, investor John Morrison said.
The investors have decreed that charities have first crack at the houses. Each charity must demonstrate a need for a building, find land to put it on and pay to move it.
If no charity can make the necessary arrangements within 30 days, bids will be accepted from individual buyers. Charities still will benefit, because the proceeds from any sale immediately will be turned over to a charity of the buyer's choice.
"We've had a number of people interested in the second option," Morrison said. The charities standing to benefit include the Boca Raton Community Hospital, the Florence Fuller Child Development Center and a home for abused children.
So far no charity or group has been able to find land that would enable direct acquisition, Morrison said. Moving expenses do not appear to be a problem, though they range from $2,500 to $7,000.
Since the houses were offered several weeks ago, some potential owners have asked for more time to make arrangements, Morrison said. Some don't believe they can do so for months.
"That doesn't do us any good," he said. "We're trying to build."
If nothing can be arranged for the houses within a reasonable period of time, Morrison said, "we'll just have to tear them down."


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Fox delves into the Shakespeare Authorship Question with this collection of essays dealing primarily with education in Elizabethan England. Fox contends that the works attributed to William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and supports his argument by careful analysis of the works of Shakespeare, especially passages related to schools and teaching and what they might suggest about the education of the author.
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An unusually ornate smoking accessory, 3 3/4" x 2 3/8" x 11/16" very finely crafted from Tahitian black-lip M.O.P. (Pinctada margaritifera). The nicely (but hastily, as this came from a mass-production shop) carved front depicts a peasant fisher-woman on a beach carrying her basket and net; the back has "Berck Plage" engraved in script, so this would have been a high-end memento from a popular tourist beach of that name near the town of Calais. This exact theme was actually very common on French "Grand Tour" treasures, almost identical to those found on carved whole shells meant to be hung on the wall (see our item #00686).
A ball-snap catch keeps the case solidly closed, and the interior reveals blue satin lining with edge-tooled leather pockets which can hold small cigars or modern cigarettes up to 3 1/8" long.
Condition is good but certainly not perfect: some light tobacco staining to the satin; slight tarnish and wear to the nickle plated brass parts; a couple of very small nicks on the top two corners of the front pearl; and a hairline crack halfway across the back panel just underneath the engraving (but which is still very solidly attached).
Not just a display item, but fully functional, and a real attention grabber next time you pull out a smoke!
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- 1 -1/2 lbs. chicken breast filets, boneless
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- 16 oz. of crimini mushrooms, sliced
- 1 small yellow onion
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- 1/4 C. chopped fresh chives
- 1- 1/2 C. chicken broth, low-sodium
- 2 tsp. cornstarch
- sprinkle of sea salt
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Take an extra five minutes to brown the chicken on both sides in a separate skillet, because this is going to add a depth of flavor to the whole dish. After the meat, it's onion's turn to be sauteed for about 4 minutes (enough to pour yourself a glass of wine). Combine everything into the slow cooker and forget about it for the next 3 and half hours. Remove the chicken; add cornstarch and whisk until everything gets a creamy consistency. Leave it to simmer for another 15 minutes. Marry chicken with warm noodles; top with generous helpings of this low-cal sauce and –Voila! – you got yourself an Instagram-looking dinner.
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Why pay the big bucks for the store stuff when you can make your own Pecan Butter at home? Creamy, delicious and slightly spiced with some cinnamon. Perfect on toast, slathered on top of pancakes or waffles, added to smoothies or oatmeal and/or to give out as a holiday gift!
Let me start by saying that I should never ever make this recipe again!
It is just too dangerous. As in "I ate it all in two days dangerous". ???
I had so many ideas on how to use this delicious pecan butter. I was going to make muffins, a milkshake, banana bread… But noooo, the whole thing ended up on crackers and in my belly.
Ashamed? A little. Regretful? Never. It was SO GOOD! ❤
This all coming from someone that doesn't care for peanut butter.
'Whaaaaat?'. Yep, I know, I know. You are probably thinking there might be something really wrong with me. But the truth is I don't love PB like most people do and I'm okay with that, because that means more space in my heart for all things Pecan Butter-y. And Almond Butter-y too, since I also love that stuff!
Now, the thing is, the world – or the food industry – cares way more for all the peanut butter lovers out there than for us poor pecan butter lovers. Hence why you can find a million brands and varieties of peanut butter but you are lucky if you find one single jar of pecan butter.
'Why oh why, must the universe do this to us? ??? We will have to settle for some other nut butter and lock our pecan butter love deep inside so it never sees the light of day again!"
WRONG! Take my hand. Come with me! There IS light at the end of the tunnel.
What if I told you that you can make your own pecan butter at home? And what if I told you it would take less than 10 minutes? All you need are toasted pecans, a pinch of salt and a powerful blender. And if you want to go the extra mile: some brown sugar and a little cinnamon.
Now, if you do not own a strong blender (like a Blendtec or Vitamix), you can do this using your food processor. It will just take a little longer!
Could you hand grind it? Absolutely, if that's your thing. Dust off your mortar and pestle and get working. In the mean time, I will have made a bazillion batches with my blender and will be enjoying it while watching some Netflix shows. ? But, hey, no judgement. Some people really love the old fashioned way of doing things!
Whenever I make nut butter at home, I like to use raw nuts and toast them myself, so I control the amount of salt that goes into my butter. If you're in a hurry and have some store-bought roasted pecans at home, go for it but skip the salt if your roasted pecans are salted.
Once you're done eating your second jar of this delicious homemade pecan butter – because believe me, you will end up making two or possibly three batches – I guarantee you will be inspired to try other kinds of nut butter.
That's what happened to me and I am now completely obsessed with making nut butter at home! I am thinking my next adventure will involve hazelnuts, or perhaps Brazil nuts as a homage to my home country. What do you think?
And when that happens, I'll make sure to report back to share my creations! So stay tuned! ?
- 12 ounces roughly chopped raw pecans (about 2½ cups)
- Pinch of salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon, or to taste (optional)
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar, or to taste (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray and arrange pecans in a single layer. Toast them until they start to smell amazing, about 5 minutes. Reserve to cool.
- Once pecans are cool, transfer them to the jar of a strong blender and add the remaining ingredients. Blend on medium to medium-high speed for about 50 seconds or until desired consistency is reached. If using a Twister lid, turn it counterclockwise a few times while blending. If not using one, you might need to stop a few times to give it a stir. You can also make your pecan butter in a food processor, but that will take a little longer (5 to 20 minutes depending on how strong your food processor is.)
- Transfer the pecan butter to a glass container and allow it to cool fully before storing it in the fridge.
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Through the Arches
Leslie McLain 12/1/2012 6:50:54 PMAmazing capture, Usman. #1501353
Laura E. Swan 12/1/2012 10:01:58 PMIs an SP? :D You are so creative, Usman! Great arches and blending!
Awesome sky, gold tones, light...It looks like a long way down, too! It was brave to stand up here like that!!!!
-Laura :D #10445935
Katarina Mansson 12/2/2012 1:28:47 AMI believe you have created another winner Usman! Superb and beautiful work! #10446088
Nikki McDonald 12/2/2012 7:08:28 AMVery cool, Usman, and the lighting and color are fantastic! I think Katta may be right - sure hope so :) #10446444
Martha R. Mazon 12/2/2012 11:09:58 AMSuch a fun image, Usman! Great job! #10446703
Sharon Sawyer 12/3/2012 9:06:52 PMIs this the Rocky of Photography? :) :) :) Brilliant work, Usman!!! #10449453
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 12/18/2012 8:45:14 AMHow cool and creative. Eye catching for sure. WTG Usman!!! #10469213
Irene Colling 2/6/2013 6:47:44 AMBet you got your exercise the night you took these photos.
Great result; wonderful composit Usman. #10556015
Joy Rector 2/13/2013 4:20:17 AMgreat shot #10566198
Carol Quina 2/13/2013 8:23:55 AMWhat a fun & creative shot! That sunset background doesn't hurt either! #10566568
Usman M. Bajwa 5/29/2013 9:02:40 PMEntering for the Phellos Club Monthly Challenge. Sorry I couldn't find time to make a new one so just submitting an old one. Hope this is within rules.
Jeff E Jensen 5/30/2013 4:39:28 AMYup, I'd say this fits the challenge well! I've always loved your images of these arches, what a great place to shoot. #10715167
Dale Hardin 5/30/2013 8:21:34 AMThanks for this great entry for the challenge Usman. It works perfectly. But, five second timer? Five seconds? Wow, you are one fast mover my friend. #10715391
Michael Kelly 5/30/2013 8:12:07 PMJust wonderful Usman - unlike Dale I am impressed that you could stay so still rather than move fast. Nice hold on your poses for a 10 sec. exposure!
The colors in this are spectacular. #10716159
Dale Hardin 5/30/2013 8:37:56 PMMike,he wasn't taking a five second exposure, he was using the five second timer so he could get in the image. :O) #10716196
Usman M. Bajwa 5/30/2013 10:22:26 PMThanks Jeff, Dale and Mike for your kind comments.
Dale and Mike you are both right about what you write above!!!
Dale, my run from the tripd to the arch was about 3 secs and I had 2 seconds to jump up and get into the pose. It was close but doable.
And Mike, you are right, holding my stretched arms steady for a 10 secs exposure was the toughest part and as a result my fingers are seen blurred.
Well, let me tell you what was the hardest part in shooting this. There is a good 20-25 feet straight drop in front of me, so I made sure that I anchored my feet well with the steel railing to avoid falling down before stretching my hands. So actually, the pounding of my heart during this one minute adventure was not just because of my running to and away from the camera but also because of the height where I was standing on !!!
Dale Hardin 5/30/2013 10:33:29 PMQuite a feat Usman. I didn't see the exposure time when I first looked at this image. #10716324
Teresa H. Hunt 5/30/2013 11:01:16 PMGreat image. I love the colors. And I have to say I'm impressed that you could get yourself posed in 5 sec . . . especially with the hight concern. :) #10716344
Susan Williams 5/31/2013 7:04:51 AMUsman, I am really impressed with this work, having done the mad dash myself without the risk of falling 25 ft. Very creative idea and a great result. I wonder if you could use the skew tool and pull the corners out a bit to straighten the architecture. #10716682
Elaine Hessler 5/31/2013 7:07:58 AMWow-there sure is a story behind this one! Glad you didn't fall and hurt yourself! I think maybe it's time to get a remote:)
I really do like this one though! #10716688
Rita K. Connell 6/1/2013 6:09:41 AMgreat shot Usman agree I think you need to get yourself a remote. #10717788
Beth Spencer 6/1/2013 9:37:32 AMGreat shot and colors!!! It must have been something to watch! #10717960
Emile Abbott 3/20/2014 12:22:33 PMNice Selfie UB #11004640
Amanda D. Austwick 9/29/2017 10:38:46 AMJust love this. I hope some day it goes higher, since it is so creative. #11644733
A self portrait, just after sunset overlooking Islamabad. These arches are located on top of a small hill in the center of the Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan.
A composite of three separate exposures shot about 20 secs apart (time required to get back to the tripod, push the 5 sec timer and run back to stand in the next arch). Using Tokina wide angle lens, common settings of 16mm, f/11, 10 secs, ISO400 for each of the three exposures.
Exif: F Number: 11, ExposureTime: 1000/100 seconds, ISO: 400, FocalLength: 16.00 mm, Model: NIKON D40
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I think the answer was given to me after the service when one of the older women of the church said to me, "It is nice to hear that we are actually singing." Iona's John Bell wrote in his book The Singing Thing:
"If people sit more than four feet away from each other, they won't sing in case they are heard. If they sit less than four feet away from each other, they will sing because they hear others singing."Not only can they hear themselves but they apparently like what they hear: I know I did on Sunday.
We opened the service with The Lord's My Shepherd (CRIMOND) with just two acoustic guitars and a fiddle. We repeated the last verse without any instruments and the voices swelled in the large sanctuary. I don't think I know of anything more moving than a large group of regular folks singing together - "lustily and with good courage" as John Wesley said. This particular hymn (a metrical psalm) comes from the the Scottish Psalter of 1650 (though the tune is not nearly so old (1872)). These metrical Psalms were traditionally sung unaccompanied and some smaller Presbyterian denominations still continue this tradition. I am not in danger of joining their ranks for theological reasons . . . but man, they can sing!
So some areas for us to think about:
1. Repertoire: It is not surprising that songs designed for unaccompanied singing work well, but AFUMC is not about to ditch its hymnals and projector for a 17C. Scottish psalter (nor should it). I would love to get to the place where the congregation is singing in harmony. Perhaps this is a wild fantasy but the starting point is singing rounds - or hymns with a fugue (women and men) in the refrain.
2. Instruments as accompaniment - we need to continue to work on our instrumentation so that we accompany the congregation singing. Thinking of a pianist accompanying a soloist, the accompaniment gives instrumental queues at the beginning of phrases but then drops back and lets the soloist lead. Similarly with our unplugged arrangements, the instruments can provide the intro's to verses etc.but then must play a supporting role.
3. The Voices Lead . So what then "leads worship." The answer has to be the human voice. it is the singing of the worship leaders that leads the congregational singing. This means that Red Team needs to think about increasing the number of singers - particularly if treble harmony lines will be heard. It also creates another question. If the volume of congregational singing increases over time, the song leaders will be less audible. So how do you lead if your unamplified voice blends into the voices of the congregation?
There seem to be two ways to do this:
i) Visually - this does not necessarily mean having a conductor. If the song leaders can be seen by the congregation, they can give less formal but equally physical queues for tempo, entrances etc. Oddly enough the right hand of the guitarists strumming is a strong indication of tempo, as is the physical movement of the musicians (swaying etc.).
ii) Singing in the Gaps - i.e singing instructions or first lines when the congregation is taking a breath or break between verses - we are all familiar with this. My favorite example is Joseph Shabalala's sung direction to Ladysmith Black Mumbaza to "sing."
Pete Seeger would sing (not say) the words to guide the large audiences in folk singing . I am a little apprehensive to try this on the unsuspecting Methodists, but the time may come . . .


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text: This era is like no other in American journalism: People are consuming more news than ever, but they're also far more critical of its purveyors than they've ever been. We remain generally agreed that a free press is democracy's cornerstone, but there's less consensus than ever on what the news media ought to be -- or, for that matter, what rapid technological, economic and demographic change will allow it to be. That makes three sets of little-noticed numbers released last week of more than passing interest. The first set has to do with the audiences of the three cable news networks. For the first time, CNN's prime-time broadcasts will finish the year in third place, behind Fox and MSNBC among the 25- to 54-year-old viewers advertisers regard as the desirable television audience. To some observers, that seems to suggest that the television news audience increasingly is split along ideological lines. Fox has made itself king of the prime-time ratings hill by programming a slate of right-wing commentators, while MSNBC has set itself up as the progressive alternative. CNN's attempt to play it down the journalistic middle looks like a ratings loser. So, is the lesson here that most Americans want their news refracted through the sort of forthrightly ideological lens Fox and MSNBC provide? No, and here's why. First of all, the universe of cable news viewers, while growing, remains relatively small. Fox's average prime-time audience increased an impressive 10 percent in 2009, but it still was just 699,000. MSNBC averaged 307,000 viewers and CNN 299,000. (A reasonably sized U.S. newspaper rolls up comparable numbers.) Moreover, over any given 24-hour period in 2009, the average Fox audience was 320,000; CNN had 185,000 viewers and MSNBC 149,000. What these numbers suggest is that the cable networks attract a relatively small national audience of what might be called "news junkies," who follow events throughout the day and are more likely to be strongly partisan than other Americans. By the time evening rolls around, they're hungry for analysis rather than recycled reportage, and like most Americans today, they prefer interpretation that reinforces their own opinions. The significance of this preference tends to be exaggerated because news junkies include most of the people who write about the media. Overall, in fact, the cable networks' audience pretty much resembles that of more conventional print and broadcast news organizations in that it's relatively old -- and getting older. The average Fox viewer is 64, while a typical CNN watcher is 62 and an MSNBC viewer 59. It's also interesting to note that CNN's determination to position itself as the most traditional of the three cable news operations is paying big dividends in the digital realm, where its Web site is far and away the most frequently visited. That brings us to an even more interesting set of numbers released last week by Scarborough Research, a partnership of the Nielsen and Arbitron ratings services. Its most recent survey found that three out of every four American adults -- roughly 171 million people -- continue to read the print or online edition of a newspaper each week. When the survey broke the numbers down into people who continue to read their paper's print edition, the findings were even more striking: In any given week, 84 percent of all American college graduates read a print newspaper, as do 82 percent of all adults with annual household incomes of at least $100,000 and 79 percent of all adults employed in white-collar positions. Even though Scarborough's data reflected the continuing slow decline in print readership, its senior vice president, Gary Meo, concluded that, "Reports about the pending death of the newspaper industry are greatly exaggerated." But, unlike CNN, which is backing its bet on traditional, nonpartisan journalism by expanding its news-gathering operations, American newspapers have continued to slash staffs. According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, by the time New Year's Day rolls around, the country's papers will have eliminated another 40,000 jobs, the most in any year on record and twice last year's loss of 21,000. According to the bureau, the total number of American newspaper jobs has declined over the last decade from 424,500 to 284,220. This paper's readers, for example, rely on the efforts of about half as many journalists as 10 years ago. The Scarborough survey's findings, and the success of CNN's digital news site, suggest a continuing hunger on the part of the best-educated and affluent Americans for what's traditionally been called "straight news." The question now is whether, once the recession recedes, U.S. papers will be in a position to satisfy it. E-mail Timothy Rutten at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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On the Strand, Bella Italia offers Italian cuisine in warm, inviting surroundings. From the varied menu, choose from a wide selection of pizzas, pasta and fresh salads. Featuring Italian-style cosy decor, Bella Italia Strand has an excellent ambience. With an eclectic variety of dishes, this restaurant features a range of tasty pasta dishes like penne sautéed with duck and plum sauce or spaghetti with prawns in a spicy tomato sauce. The tempting dessert menu offers sweet treats like tiramisu, three layer lemon tart or Italian-style banoffee pie. As well as a range of Italian beers, Bella Italia offers an all-Italian wine list with a good selection of whites, reds and roses.
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Playing Gekkeiju Online™ requires you to download and install the game client on your computer. If you haven't yet, you can download the client's installation file for free from here: download the game.
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After downloading of the game client to your computer has finished, you're all ready to start the installation. Do this by starting the game client install (gektox.exe).
The installation-wizard will walk you through the whole installation-process of the game. Once the installation has finished, you can launch the game either through the Start-menu or from the shortcut created on your desktop.
When you launch the game, you'll first be taken to the game's auto updater. This application will download the latest patches to make sure your game is always up-to-date with the latest features. You are also able to adjust your graphics settings only from this application. You can adjust the settings by clicking the Options-button.
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Kristina Egan, the Patrick administration's point person on extending commuter rail to New Bedford and Fall River, will leave her job at the end of next month.
Kristina Egan, the Patrick administration's point person on extending commuter rail to New Bedford and Fall River, will leave her job at the end of next month.
Egan, who has served as the South Coast Rail manager since 2007, said she plans to spend more time with her family in Maine and start a consulting company.
"It has been such a fun, wonderful and creative job," said Egan, whose last day is June 30. "I loved working with all of the people from Fall River, New Bedford and the surrounding communities, because people so need the rail line and are so willing to work hard to get it."
State transportation officials are already searching for a replacement. State and local officials, as well as Egan herself, expressed confidence that her departure would not set back the project.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a draft environmental impact statement in March that was seen as favorable to the Stoughton route, one of the alternatives it reviewed. Today is the deadline for written comments on the draft, and the corps will review the comments before issuing a final report.
Egan chose the report's completion as an appropriate time to make a transition. She expects the project will receive a certificate from the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act office by the end of next month.
"I feel good about the progress we have made in the environmental review," she said.
She also said the project has made progress in other areas, including the purchase of rail lines, reconstruction of three bridges and technical assistance to communities preparing for rail-related development.
Last summer, Egan moved to Maine to be with her husband. Since then, she has been commuting to Boston and SouthCoast, and she wanted to travel less.
Egan, who previously served as executive director of the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, plans to start a consulting company focused on green energy and transportation.
Joe Landolfi, assistant secretary of transportation, said state officials are working hard to find the best person to fill Egan's position in time to ensure a smooth transition. He said Egan is helping with the search.
"We're committed to continuing to advance this project," he said, adding they were grateful for Egan's contributions.
Local officials praised her work and emphasized the need for the state to appoint another point person to keep the project going.
"There was no one who could have done a better job than Kristina in getting the project off the ground," Mayor Scott W. Lang said. "I'm extremely sad to see her go."
"I don't think we could have asked for more over the last several years in terms of the way she was committed to the project," said state Rep. William Straus, D-Mattapoisett, who is co-chairman of the Joint Committee on Transportation. "She just worked constantly to help us with it."
Egan was the first manager for the project. Before then, the responsibilities were spread across different agencies, said Steve Smith, executive director of Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District.
"In terms of Kristina's successor, it's important the governor and the secretary of transportation have a person clearly designated as South Coast Rail manager," he said.
Local officials also said it's not a bad time to for the change, since the Army Corps' review is almost done and the focus will shift to financing the project and construction.
"It's never a good time to change horses when you're riding a winner, but I suppose in some ways it could be worse," Smith said.


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I discovered this trick when I was doing co-op and did a lot of document editing and formatting. While not as useful as the repeating shortcut I wrote about as my first post, it can be useful at times. Once my co-worker had an excel sheet of about 200 names but they weren't capitalized and since she was using it for a letter merge, she had to go through each one and capitalize it in the excel sheet. Using this shortcut, she would have saved a lot of time.
Use Shift + F3 to quickly capitalize, de-capitalize or caps lock words.
For example, select the words and press Shift + F3 until you get the format you want:
1. Capitalize: this is a word –> This Is A Word
2. De-capitalize: This Is A Word –> This is a word
3. Caps lock: This is a word –> THIS IS A WORD
Just cycle through pressing Shift + F3 to try out all of the options.
** Sadly this only works with PC computers and on Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Some keyboards don't do it for some reason but this has only happened to me once **


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If your house seems too small, you can always move into the Bentley Arnage T. But you may have an even bigger mortgage.
"IS that the car alarm?" my wife said as she shook me out of a dead sleep, and then I heard it, the WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! of the Bentley Arnage T's alarm system going off like Hell's Ladder Co. No. 5 in my driveway. It was precisely 3:48 a.m. Let me just now pause in the narrative - the part where I run panicked through the night in my tighty whities and T-shirt - to say that the Bentley's alarm system is the most piercing in automotive Christendom. I don't live that far from Forest Lawn, and I had visions of Sid Grauman and Irving Thalberg holding me while Norma Shearer punched me in the head.
Now I'm standing in front of the car with the key fob in hand - see above re: tighty whities - pressing the remote-locking button for all I'm worth. With an ordinary car, activating the key fob will shut off the alarm, but the Bentley
Arnage T - $271,000, 500 hp, nearly 18 feet long and 406 stone (5,687 pounds) - is about as far from ordinary as you can get. With my usual cool appraisal, I determine that I must move the car to a more remote location to avoid waking up anyone within earshot. This being Los Angeles, a more remote location is about 80 miles away.
And then I realize: That's how it happens - driving around in the middle of the night in my underwear in a Bentley that's screaming, "Bloody 'ell, I've been stolen!" This is how people wind up on "Cops."
Life with a 2007 Bentley Arnage T proffers a peculiarly euphoric kind of automotive masochism. This is British luxury measured by the imperial tonne, a spectacular assemblage of diamond-quilt leather upholstery, French stitching, chromed switches, analog gauges, organ-stop vents and burled wood veneers such to bring a dendrologist to tears. Sic transit gloria Bentley.
To call it fast hardly does it justice. It's fast like a rocket-powered apartment building, a huge hunk of mass bullied about by staggering force. In the case of the Arnage T - the sporting model in the Arnage line - that force is a nice, even 1,000 Newton-metres (738 pound-feet) of torque at a mere 3,200 rpm. I stomped on the car once getting onto the 210 onramp. I think I gave my brain a hernia.
But all that old-world charm comes at a price, above and beyond the six figures: old-world electronics. Unlike the state-of-the-art Continental cars (GT, GTC, Flying Spur), designed after VW's purchase of the company in 1998, the Arnage dates back to the '90s, and so it has quite a bit more, um, character than those cars. For example: Even though the car has two Igloo cooler-size batteries in the boot (trunk), if you leave a map light on overnight, as I did, the car will generate a low-volt warning that will set off the alarm. This low-volt code doesn't go away until the alternator charges the batteries up again.
A driveway coronary seems a heavy toll for leaving the map light on, but on the other hand, I'll never do that again.
The Arnage T (there's also the 450-hp R and long wheelbase limousine, the RL) is a fascinating case study in car culture. On most counts, the Continental cars are far superior: lighter, stiffer, powered by super-efficient overhead-cam W12 engines and suspended on velvety cushions of air, with a multitude of semiconductor systems and sensors chatting away on the cars' high-speed data links. The Arnage has a more rudimentary nervous system. And so, for example, instead of an integrated navigation system built into the center stack, the Arnage gets by with a pop-up navigation head and a remote control that looks like it came with a Wal-Mart karaoke machine.
Also, the Continental cars are cheaper. The Flying Spur is about $60,000 cheaper than the Arnage.
But for about 200 U.S. customers a year - many of them in Holmby Hills and Bel-Air - the Crewe, England-built Arnage is a proper Bentley and the other cars merely VWs with delusions of grandeur. Let the untitled arrivistes, the spoiled, phone-throwing celebs have the Continental cars. The rivets-and-deck-plates Arnage - haughty and majestic - is motoring the way it used to be before, say, the Magna Carta.
It sure looks the part. In fact, of the three ultra-sedans on the market - the Maybach, the Rolls-Royce and the Bentley - the Arnage is unquestionably the most beautiful and elegant, though handsome seems to be more apt. But, unlike the Continental GT - which frequently gets a thumbs-up from other drivers - the Arnage T doesn't fill onlookers with much joy. From the outside, no car makes you feel more like a barefooted vassal.
Another side of the Bentley's unreconstructed appeal is the car's titanic torque, a characteristic gestalt of utterly effortless acceleration and fluid pace. We're talking major waft-titude. Under the long fluted hood is a low-speed (4,600-rpm redline), low-compression (7.8:1), 6.75-liter pushrod engine whose five-main-bearing bones date back to the 1950s. For 2007, this haymaker of a motor is dressed with huge new Mitsubishi-sourced turbochargers, replacing the previous Garrett units, and retuned in various esoteric ways to extract an additional 50 hp over last year's model. Also, the GM-sourced four-speed automatic has been replaced with a ZF six-speed transmission with sequential-shift mode.
Needless to say, the thrust is spectacular, capable of launching this steely ballista to 60 mph in 5.2 seconds on its way to a top speed of 179 mph. Just toe the accelerator and the thing jumps like it's been jammed with a very aristocratic cattle prod. It's a good thing Bentley recalibrated the traction control system because, without it, this car would be nigh undriveable.
A little more needfully said, the Arnage T gets the worst gas mileage of any car I've tested in 15 years of automotive journalism. I estimate eight miles per gallon. This car is a huge extended middle finger to all that is wholesome and good and virtuous in the world. You might as well use one to torpedo the Greenpeace Warrior.
Speaking of superlatives: The seat heaters are easily the hottest of any car. I'm talking instant sterility.
Other notes:
The audio system's sound reproduction is perfection itself, though the CD changer is, alas, in the trunk.
You would think this car would have a huge trunk, but it's actually only 13.2 cubic feet. I had a little trouble putting a set of golf clubs against the rear bulkhead.
If you define your terms very carefully, you could say this car handles well. The steering is heavy and direct, with lots of feedback through the wheel. Considering the sheer weight of this monster, it has good reflexes, corners well and maintains its composure, particularly if you activate the Sport system, which tenses up the adjustable dampers. However, the Arnage T doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. I found it significant that I kept humming, "Jesus, Take the Wheel."
The Arnage is the template for the new Brooklands Coupe - say it properly, coo-PAY - and the next generation Azure convertible. These are ultra-low volume, bespoke motorcars aimed at a very discriminating class of car connoisseurs (and pro basketball players). The Arnage T is a car that makes virtues of its glorious idiosyncrasies. The rich really are different from you and me. At least they wear a better class of underwear.
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2007 Bentley Arnage T
Base price: $244,990
Price, as tested: $271,000
Powertrain: Turbocharged and intercooled 6.75-liter overhead valve V8; six-speed automatic transmission; rear-wheel drive
Horsepower: 500 hp at 4,200 rpm
Torque: 738 pound-feet at 3,200 rpm
Curb weight: 5,687
0-60 mph: 5.2 seconds
Wheelbase: 122.68 inches
Overall length: 212.6 inches
EPA fuel economy: 11 miles per gallon city, 20 highway
Final thoughts: Curiously strong


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The Labor Department presented an optimistic view recently of female workers' progress, but not all women were convinced.
A report by the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics enthusiastically describes the "extraordinary growth in the participation of women in the work force . . . and the growth in the representation of women in a wide variety of managerial occupations. . . .
"Women now constitute 40 percent of all workers in executive, administrative and managerial occupations, up from 20 percent in 1972 and 30 percent in 1980," the report says. "While the women in these fields still earn substantially less than men, the relative wage gap between women and men in these fields has narrowed gradually."


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Manuals for Saab accessories installation. Also known as Saabdocs.
To find instruction manuals:
- Select the directory for your language
- Enter the Saab part number in the Search field above the Size column of this page. You can also use the regular keyboard shortcuts CTRL-F (windows) or COMMAND-F (os-x).