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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Farm Management Economics
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School of Agriculture & Food Technology
Build a legacy with us!
The USP is one of two regional universities in the world and is the leading tertiary education provider and research facility in the South Pacific. We are supported by 12 Pacific Island Countries; Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The School of Agriculture and Food Technology (SAFT) currently has two broad academic disciplines, namely Applied Sciences and Agribusiness. The SAFT is situated at the Alafua Campus of the University of the South Pacific in Apia, Samoa and aims to assist in meeting the agricultural and related needs and improving the welfare and livelihood of the communities of the USP member countries by providing agricultural education, developing and adapting new technologies and disseminating information throughout the region.
The Opportunity
The University is seeking an experienced and dynamic scholar for the above post located at the Alafua Campus in Samoa. The prospective application will have a major responsibility for leadership in research and teaching. She/he will teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Agribusiness and Agricultural Statistics, both on campus and by distance modes. The appointee will also be required to supervise Postgraduate students at Masters and PhD level in the area of Agricultural Economics. As an individual or with other scientists, the appointee will have the opportunity to conduct and coordinate research on Agricultural Economics and other related areas. The USP also encourages the development of its academics by offering incentives for research and conference leave.
The Person We Seek
To be considered for this position, applicants must have:
- A PhD in Farm Management Economics or related field with a good Master's degree in Agriculture;
- Good relevant teaching experience at undergraduate/post graduate levels;
- A good record of internationally recognised research and publications;
- The experience and ability to conduct research in Agricultural Economics in tropical countries; good written and oral communication skills;
- Experience in tertiary teaching through distance modes.
- For appointment at the Senior Lecturer level you must have a strong record of published research in top-tier journals and books with either a formal tertiary teaching qualification or significant tertiary teaching experience.
Preference will be given to applicants with:
- Experience in conducting advanced research in Agricultural Economics;
- Experience in post-graduate student supervision;
- Experience of obtaining external funding for research projects.
The position is available for a term of 5 years and may be renewed by mutual agreement.
Salary Range: Lecturer WST $101, 117 to WST $133, 048 per annum
Senior Lecturer WST $137, 180 to WST $158, 285 per annum
In addition to the above benefits, the University contributes 10% of basic salary to an approved superannuation scheme, provides airfare and relocation costs where appropriate.
Enquiries: Mr. Mohammed Umar; tel.: (685) 21671 ext. 204; Fax: (685) 22347; email: email@example.com
Closing date for applications: 15 July 2018
How to Apply
Candidates may use the University's online E-Recruitment system to view full details and apply for this position at https://www.usprecruits.usp.ac.fj Manual and emailed applications are no longer accepted. Candidates may request further information from the Human Resources Office; tel.: (679) 32 32072; email: firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com
Please also include the following documents in your application: Cover letter and Resume clearly addressing key Selection Criteria, academic transcript and names of three referees, one of which must be your current or most recent direct work supervisor.
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Senior year is in full swing and I am doing really well. Exhausted and nervous and still awkwardly making things awkward, but good. I'm now, finally, 21 and a senior in college, two milestones that I've imagined reaching for years and I still don't know if I'm qualified to be either. I should be so much cooler now that I'm legal.
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The online community of knife collectors, A Knife Family Forged in Steel
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Yep, Stephen, ever chance I get! LOL But it sure is sweet when one of my knives just glides through what ever it is I am cutting!
Charles, that's cheating. lol
I have never been able to sharpen a knife free hand. Maybe if I had put in hours upon hours of practice I could have learned. However I just don't have that kind of patience. I used a Smith's handheld two sided pull through sharpener to keep my EDC pocket knife reasonably sharp. However as I began to acquire more and better knives such as a set of Case kitchen knives for my wife and my Colonial Bushcraft knife, I needed something better. After much study and research I ordered a KME Sharpening System. As a first test of it and me, I tried it out on an old cheap nothing very dull Chinese knife. I was able to get that knife hair shaving sharp. I've since used it to get several knives hair shaving sharp, including a couple of my wife's Case kitchen knives, my custom knife of 01 tool steel, my daughter's Colt pocket knife, and lastly just yesterday both of my Rough Rider EDC knives of 440A stainless.
So however long I go between sharpening, I'm sure I will be able to make a knife hair shaving sharp.
Hi all! I have about 10 blades. I keep 6 very sharp by taking them to a sharpener company down the street. I asked for and got a Spyderco Sharpmaker. I am interested to learn more about blade angles and how to sharpen hard steels.
The great thing about using super steels is you only have to sharpen them every 6 months. The draw back is, after 6 months of not sharpening a knife that perfect edge is rather elusive.
Great information Thomas , thanks .
Thank you for the overview. I agree that there are no bad edges, just that some are better for some tasks than others. Convex edges are great for axes, hatchets, and knives that do some chopping because a convex edge is the strongest edge for hard work. But, as you say, a flat grind is better for whittling or other tasks.


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Karlie poses in powerful stances, as she flaunts bold and bright dresses in an array of greens, blacks, reds and yellows alongside models Caroline Trentini and Lexi Boling.
The model has walked for Versace's runways before, so it was no surprise that she was picked again with those endless legs!
Donatella Versace described her winter 2015 collection as 'The power of colour, cut and the new #greek motif'.
After two wonderful years, the model recently withdrew her wings from the Victoria's Secret angels and has plans of studying at NYU's Gallatin school of Individualised study later this year.
She also starred in Taylor Swifts music video for Bad Blood in which she played 'The Knockout'.
With an extremely busy schedule, I wonder whats next for Karlie!
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Glenn Greenwald writes: The New Yorker is aggressively touting its 13,000-word cover story on Russia and Trump that was bylined by three writers, including the magazine's editor-in-chief, David Remnick. Beginning with its cover image menacingly featuring Putin, Trump and the magazine's title in Cyrillic letters, along with its lead cartoon dystopically depicting a UFO-like Red Square hovering over and phallically invading the White House, a large bulk of the article is devoted to what has now become standard – and very profitable – fare among East Coast news magazines.
Denouncing the autocratic abuses of foreign adversaries such as Putin has long been the go-to tactic to distract attention from the failures and evils of U.S. actions — including the unpleasant fact that support for the world's worst despots has long been, and continues to be, a central precept of U.S. policy.
That Putin ordered Russian hacking of the DNC's and John Podesta's emails in order to help Trump win is now such consecrated orthodoxy that it's barely acceptable in Decent Company to question it. But that obscures, by design, the rather important fact that the U.S. Government, while repeatedly issuing new reports making these claims, has still never offered any actual evidence for them. Read full article here.


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During the summer of 1999 I was working as a paramedic for the Berkeley, California, fire department, and living in a small town about an hour north of San Francisco. I was 42 and divorced, my kids grown, and lately I'd felt I'd come to a point where things were settling down. I'd found myself taking stock and looking at my life from an increasingly spiritual perspective.
One Sunday morning, sitting on my back porch as the sun rose on the northern California countryside, I opened the paper to an article on the war-torn former Yugoslavia. At the center of the piece was a picture of a bombed-out building somewhere in Kosovo, where the fighting was at its heaviest.
Before earning my paramedic's license, I'd worked for years as a carpenter. I knew just how much time and effort it would take to rebuild that structure. Who on earth was going to do it?
I am. I almost laughed out loud. I was just one man. What difference could I make in the face of all that devastation?
Even as I asked myself the question, I heard familiar words: Sometimes one person taking just one small action can make all the difference. That's what my mother used to say to my seven sisters and me when we were kids. Once a year, she and Dad would pile us into our VW bus and drive from our San Diego home down to Mexico to distribute clothing to needy kids as part of a church outreach. God would bless our efforts, Mom assured us. My sisters and I always had to watch out because a carelessly dropped jacket or hat might easily end up in the "Mexico Box."
I'd done a fair amount of volunteer work myself over the years reaching out to help others whenever my heart told me to. On that Sunday morning, my heart told me to go to Kosovo.
I packed a crate with tools and a backpack with clothes, cramming in a camera at the last minute, and climbed aboard a plane bound for Athens, Greece. After three more days of travel and countless squabbles with customs officials, I finally approached the border of Kosovo on foot, headed for its capital, Pristina. I was swallowed up in a river of humanity. Thousands of refugees- hungry and exhausted and carrying what few possessions were left to them- slogged numbly back home to Kosovo. What have I gotten myself into? This isn't a weekend trip to Mexico to give away clothes. These people have lost everything.
I fell into step behind a young couple. The woman was carrying a crying infant. I reached for my canteen of water and held it out to her. She took it and gave it to her child. The crying stopped, and the woman smiled gratefully. Again, I reminded myself of my mothers: Any action, however small can help. Whatever happens over here, I have to remember that.
I met a man named David Savard, a Chicago high school teacher who was doing relief work with the American Refugee Committee, or ARC, in the town of Gjilan in southeastern Kosovo. At David's suggestion, I joined ARC myself. I was assigned a jeep and an interpreter and began visiting the outlying areas to conduct damage surveys, camera in hand. Seeing a village destroyed by war in a newspaper is one thing, but it is something else altogether in person.
Centuries-old family homes had been reduced to rubble by a single mortar round. The houses left standing lacked doors, windows and roofs. Many of the returning refugees were living in cramped tents with little or nothing to eat.
In the village of Kishnapolë, my interpreter and I were invited to dinner by a farmer named Arsim. The last thing I wanted to do was to take any of Arsim's food, but I knew to refuse would be an insult. I took a seat on the floor and was given a small black bowl filled with a concoction of beans, rice and flour. As I ate, my eye feel on one of Arsim's children- a boy about seven. He was painfully thin, and wearing a grubby, baggy pair of boxer shorts that seemed to be the only item of clothing he owned. His younger brothers and sisters appeared to be even more frail than he.
Looking at these children, I had a sudden and clear insight. There's no way they're going to make it through the winter without a real roof over their heads. I've got to find a way to help these people rebuild their homes. But how?
"There's too much bureaucracy, John," the people at ARC told me. "The supplies are available, but it takes money to pay for them, and getting that money through official channels isn't easy."
Easy or not, I was determined to try my best. I started attending daily U.S. Army refugee relief meetings in Kosovo, hoping to heat about new sources of help. At one these meetings, an Army spokesperson announced that proposals were being accepted for five million dollars in the U.S. Department of Defense grants for rehabilitation projects throughout the region.


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[PANN] 161212 You really can't save yourselves if you fall for these idols
I'm telling you before I begin and I'm a multifan. I love almost all idols. But there are some idols who you can't save yourself if you fall for them so let me list them for you...
1. SNSD Taeyeon
For real. I'm sure Taeyeon is just Kim Ike.
She has that oppa-like charms in her and she dances beautifully too which makes me believe that she was born to be an idol.
(T/N: Kim Ike = Kim (her surname) + Iketeru (Japanese word for cool, popular, flowerboy, etc) It's the nickname Korean fans call Taeyeon)
2. Infinite L
L is a real 신몰남
(T/N: "신"이 "몰"빵한 "남"자 = 신몰남 = Man chosen by God). His dance moves are sharp like a member of the perfect group choreography group and seriously it's so cute when L turns into Kim Myungsoo. Really, he makes my nose bleed.
3. BTOB Yook Sungjae
I thoughtlessly watched BTOB videos because everyone called them crazy and seriously just like his nickname "육잘또", Yook Sungjae was a real 돌+I... but he sings well and seriously my eyes are on Yook Sungjae whenever they make a comeback
(T/N: "육"성재 "잘"생긴 "또"라이(Yook Sungjae jalsaeng-geen ttorai) = Yook Sungjae (the) handsome freak/crazy/weirdo.
돌 + I = 돌아이 (dol-ai). 돌아이 and 또라이 mean the same thing (freak/weirdo/crazy) but since celebrities aren't allowed to curse/use slang on TV 또라이 changed to 돌아이)
4. Big Bang Kwon Jiyong
I wrote his real name instead because I can't remember if it's "레" or "래" ㅠㅠ (when you write G-Dragon in hangul) but once you fall for GD, there's no way out. He's one of the two top idols who were born to be idols along with Taeyeon. When you watch him you'll realize why he has many fans who like only him in Big Bang... and you can really feel him controlling the stage once he gets on it (but if this isn't a photo of GD, please leave me photos in the comments!)
5. Red Velvet Joy
Joy is really great on variety shows and I watched their fancam because people said her smile is so refreshing like a citrus fruit and I was like omg... and her dance moves are pretty too. I added her to the list because I think there's no way you can save yourself from her if you fall for her voice.
(T/N: Knetizens/fans say that celebrities like Suli, Yeri and Joy are 과즙상 (gwajeup-sang). The literal translation of 과즙 is fruit juice and 상 is physiognomy. 과즙상 is used to describe people who look like fruits.)
6. EXO Baekhyun
He's also a person who was born to be an idol... he turns into a different person when he stands on stage... and he looks like a puppy when he smiles so he's so cute like a puppy.
Although Baekhyun was a trainee for only7 months, he pulled off their difficult choreography of MAMA which made be realize he's amazing
7. BTS Suga
Suga has that nickname too. 민빠답.
His diction is crazy when he raps
And he's a good dancer too. Also, I really think he was born to be an idol too.. He's good at producing and composing+writing lyrics...
(T/N: 민빠답 = "민"윤기에게 "빠"지면 "답"이 없다 (Min Yoongi-aege ppajimyeon dap-ee-eup-da) = Literal translation is "There's no answer/solution once you fall for Min Yoongi". Something like "no exit for you once you fall for Min Yoongi"?)
8. Winner Song Minho
I thought he was born to be a rapper when I watched Song Minho on Show me the Money. Also, I hear fans call him 송모지리 and this plays an important role too... you feel like you should kneel to him from fear when he's on stage but when he's not on stage he's so different...
(T/N: 송모지리 (Song mojiri) = imbecile Song)
9. fx Krystal
When I look at Krystal, I really think SM did the right thing by bringing her to their company... she has a good voice and her aura is amazing. And she turns into a different person during photoshoots...
She's not really an idol but her voice is just incredible so you really can't help falling for her when you listen to her voice... and I think she's amazing... Her live performances are good too...
11. Block B Zico
Everyone knows that Zico makes great songs.. and although he looks fierce, his real personality is just Woo Jiho. He's full of aegyo and he talks really well too...
This is my own opinion so please refrain from leaving malicious comments.
12. BTOB Lee Changsub
I just remembered him suddenly ㅠㅠㅠ so I'm adding him too ㅠㅠㅠ sorry ㅠㅠ I'm sorry Melodys... Lee Changsub is just... he's so cute... I love his voice too... he kills me with his cuteness and he's full of... weirdo-ness...
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1. Min Yoongi ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ his 입동굴!!!!!!!!! it really really really really really really makes my heart to flutter... ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ 민빠답.... there's no exit once you fall for him ㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ I'll attach a gif of Min Suga's 입동굴 +97 -15
(T/N: 입동굴 (slang) literally translates to "mouth cave". I honestly don't know what this is called in English but when some smile (like Suga, Xiumin, Onew) you can see more space(?) in their mouth compared to others.)
2. I was not able to escape from Changseob for 2 years and 6 months to be exact... I f*cking love him +58 -5
3. How did you know about 민빠답? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I joined the fandom with Yoongi and now I can't escape from him for real. Every action makes my heart flutter and he's so cool and even his name makes my heart to flutter. ah, what do I do because I love him so much ㅜㅠㅠㅠㅠ +37 -4
4. these two are the entrance and blockades of BTOB fandom. Fans asked BTOB why they can't find the exit and they replied that's just how they designed it (fandom) ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ +30 -1
5. 민빠답 is not a word that was created without a good reason. Thanks for recognizing him, OP! +26 -3
6. Yoongi♡♡ +23 -2
7. He's attractive in many ways and not just his face +21 -0
8. Yeah, there's no solution once you fall for Min Yoongi. You can't find the exit; honestly, there's no solution for you once you fall for Taeyeon too. I can't save myself for years after falling for Taengㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I f*cking love the two... +17 -1
9. Seriously 민빠답... ah I just love him. I love him for breathing and I love him because we're both Koreans. I love his songs, rap and his producing too. I just love his existence. And I'm so grateful to know a person called Min Yoongi ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ I just love everything about him ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ +13 -0
10. Min Yoongi said he would die countlessly if it's a sin to love music. I live in Daegu and I don't know why I never thought about kidnapping Min Yoongi before +10 -1


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President Donald Trump hosted the Chinese premiere Xi Jinping at the Mar-a-Lago beach club. Both the men were accompanied by their wives. Xi was given a very warm welcome by the business mogul for their first summit.
The commander-in-chief had been very vocal about denouncing china previously. He slammed Obama for hosting Xi for a state dinner, "I would not be throwing him a dinner. I would get him a McDonald's hamburger and say we've got to get down to work because you can't continue to devalue (the Chinese currency)," Trump said in August 2015.
"They want out people to starve. They're taking our business away. They've taken our jobs away."
POTUS regularly slammed U.S. companies for building China by manufacturing their products elsewhere and branded China as the currency manipulator. "These are not our friends. These are our enemies. These are not people that understand niceness. And the only thing you can do to get their attention is to say either we're not going to trade with you any further or, in the alternative, we're going to tax your products as they come into the United States," he said in an interview in 2011.
Fast forward some years the former real estate magnate welcomed the Chinese president without any qualms. This is yet another example of Trump's hypocrisy. The billionaire baron had accused China just last year of "raping the U.S" he had also called climate change, a Chinese hoax, but staying true to his personality, his stances change if they benefit him within no time.
"We've had a long discussion already, and so far I have gotten nothing, absolutely nothing," he said.
"But we have developed a friendship - I can see that - and I think long term we are going to have a very, very great relationship and I look very much forward to it."
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- Mandy said...
Wow. So beautiful sisal.
And they think I'm the creative one in the family.
I would please love you to make me a bag :)
You know how my gym bag (with ALL it's contents got stolen) well it was a gift from mum and it was so special to me I can't bring myself to replace it. Even though I have nothing at the moment.
Can I please have a bag big enough to hold my gym gear? (shoes, jacket etc.)
I'm in LOVE with the cute grey fabric's of the bags above.
You are amazing my sis!
- August 6, 2009 at 4:44 PM
- christine said...
Hey darlin. Would love to make you a bag. I've got heaps of yummy fabrics! What fun!
- August 6, 2009 at 4:54 PM
- Mandy said...
great! A supre bag for my clothes and towel and a myer PLASTIC bag for my joggers is really sad!
Oh and can I please have a style that sits over the shoulder with 2 handles and tucks under the arm (not a long strap or anything.)
Oh and I'd love a cutsie grey pattern (like the 2nd of those three bags) with red lining... bit demanding aren't I!
I'm so excited now!
And in return I'm going to send you over some ikea fabric – cause I know you love it.
- August 6, 2009 at 6:45 PM
- christine said...
Poor thing, very tragic bag situation. Will definitely remedy that. The fabric u like has little grey and white sheepies with blue trees and tiny red apples. Really cute. It's mum's fave too!
Very excited about the ikea fabric! YUM!
- August 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- aimee said...
hello christine! you're blog is lovely :) i love the tree fabric - its cute as! you're one creative cookie - can't wait to see some more xx (katie's sister)
- August 6, 2009 at 7:55 PM
- katie lauren said...
hello christine! welcome to blogging! now that you've started there's no turning back. Flickr is next for you! Looks like you have been VERY busy. Looks great - so glad I could be of help with some of the patterns :)
- August 6, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Gina said...
What beautiful work, I love the little details - and I LOVE the wrapping, brilliant! Welcome to the blog world, glad you've finally bitten the bullet, you'll enjoy it. Thanks for de-lurking too...
- August 7, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- christine said...
Wow thanks guys, I'm lovin' all the bloggy love. Does wonders for the ego! And lovely to meet you Gina.
- August 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- Lulu said...
I agree with you about making presents. It sure beats shopping, and they are always well received. Good excuse to go to the fabric shop.
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And, once again, we've made it to see another Wednesday. This weekend is yet another formidable Friday the 13th. Very frightening. Friday the 13th however, according to the list below, seems like a great time to see some comedy or go hear some music.
Every week I'm surprised by what's popular that week. It's ranged from country music, Cirque shows, hockey, baseball, you name it. This week, Comedy is taking charge. Mr. Jerry Seinfeld is taking top listing this week. He has been doing stand-up shows across the country from Buffalo, NY to Oakland, CA. His last show will be in Atlantic City, NJ on August 13th, 2011. Obviously, Jerry Seinfeld rose to fame with his show Seinfeld and included other comedians like Michael Richards, Jason Alexander and Julie Louis-Dreyfus.
Female comedian Chelsea Handler shows up twice on this list. She has her own raunchy and very blunt talk show, Chelsea Lately which can be seen on the E! Cable Television Network. Not many people know that she also has her only feature column in Cosmopolitan Magazine. The well rounded lady has even authored three books on the New York Times Best Seller List. Her books include My Horizontal Life: A Collection of one-Night Stands, Are You There Vodka, It's Me, Chelsea, and Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang.
Not to be outshone, Kathy Griffin is another very funny lady to make an appearance on the list. Ms. Griffin actually gained her first recognition for two appearances on Seinfeld. Her show, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, has even won two Emmy Awards. Her comic routine usually involves heavy celebrity mockery, which has garnered her a lot of attention, both good and bad.
Country Music is also well represented on this list. Tim McGraw's Emotional Traffic Tour featuring opening acts Luke Bryan and The Band Perry is going exceptionally well and is playing in many venues. Jason Aldean makes another appearance on this list. Of his single albums, five have reached the number one position on the Hot Country Charts and six more have reached top ten status. His songs resonate with fans. Sugarland's albums almost fly off the shelves and their concerts are almost equally as popular. Their latest album, "The Incredible Machine" is most popular to date.
1.) Jerry Seinfeld, MGM Grand at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT – Friday, May 13th
2.) Long Island Comedy Festival, NYCB Theatre, Westbury, CT – Saturday, May 14th
3.) Chelsea Handler, Comerica Theatre, Phoenix, AZ – Friday, May 13th
4.) Kathy Griffin, Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA – Friday, May 13th
5.) Autism Speaks 400, Dove International Speedway, Dover, DE – Sunday, May 15th
6.) Chelsea Handler, Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, CA – Saturday, May 14th
7.) Tim McGraw, Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL – Friday, May 13th
8.) San Francisco Giants vs. Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL – Saturday, May 14th
9.) Jason Aldean, Verizon Wireless Center, Noblesville, IL – Saturday, May 14th
10.) Sugarland, First Niagra Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA – Sunday, May 15th


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"Edible History" published this week
My new book, "An Edible History of Humanity", was published on May 12th in Britain and America. It has already been reviewed in New Scientist and the Sunday Times. And there's an interview with me about the book over at gourmet.com, accompanied by a rather terrifying picture of me eating a scone at Fortnum & Mason. Not a pretty sight. Click at your peril.


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Chapter Eleven
"Are you quite sure that you're going to be up to this, Rachel?" asked Giles. "It's only been a few days . . . "
"Giles, a few burns doesn't make me an invalid," snapped Rachel. "Stop it with the over-protective caveman act, will you? I'm just about healed anyway."
"You looked like you'd been hit by a lorry when you came back from dealing with that man," said Giles. "I don't think it's terribly out of line to expect you to actually rest after such an experience."
Rachel waved his concerns away. "I wasn't that badly hurt, Giles, just tired. It'll take more than a single Sith to keep me down for long, believe me."
Giles looked highly sceptical. To be fair, she probably hadn't looked so hot when she stumbled back to the library after disposing of Malak's corpse. That slash down her front had been pretty nasty looking and she'd had a few other minor nicks and scrapes that she hadn't even noticed till someone had mentioned them to her - and then they'd stung like all hell. It certainly hadn't been the best day of her life, that's for sure.
"Look, I'll be alright, Giles," said Rachel in a softer tone of voice. "I got hurt, yeah, but it wasn't that bad, and it wasn't any worse than I've had in the past. I'm a Jedi, Giles, and sometimes we get hurt. That's just the way things are, same as it is for Slayers."
"That doesn't mean I have to like it," said Giles.
"I don't expect you to," said Rachel with a small smile. "That just wouldn't be you. Now go to work. The last thing we need is for you to get into trouble there too."
"Yes, well . . . I suppose you're right," said Giles. "Just you be careful."
"Aren't I always?"
Giles just stared at her and Rachel shrugged her shoulders. It was hardly her fault that trouble seemed to seek her out. "Hmm. Well, don't forget the meeting at the library to discuss the information you retrieved."
"I won't," said Rachel. "Now go, you old mother-hen, you."
And after a bit more umming and ahhing, Giles finally left and went to work. Rachel found herself torn between irritation and amusement. Here she was, former Lord of the Sith and Jedi Knight, being mollycoddled by a middle-aged librarian because of a few fairly minor wounds. It was truly ridiculous. Malak would have roared with laughter if he was around . . . Malak. For a moment she felt a pang of grief but it quickly passed. Malak hadn't really been her friend in a long time.
She winced as she lowered herself into the classic meditation posture. She'd neglected to warm down after her duel with Malak and her muscles were giving her hell for it. Ah well. She closed her eyes and slipped into the warm currents of the Force, allowing it to wash over her and soothe away her aches. With that done she moved her focus deep within herself, observing the lines of energy within her own body.
Her energy was moving freely throughout her body now, with the groin chakra unblocked, but there was still a strange concentration of energy around the heart chakra. She'd thought it was blocked like the groin chakra last time, but now that she looked closer she saw that it wasn't blocked at all, it was filtering the energy that moved through it, changing it in some way. Perhaps if she could tweak that . . .
She reached out with her sense and for several moments observed the way the energy flowed through then filtering power. Hmm. Yes, it was twisting the energy slightly, it was almost unnoticeable but close observation showed the ever so slight modification of the energies flowing through that point. She focussed in closer on the energy streaming through that point . . . that was it! Masculine energy in, feminine energy out.
She reached into the bundle of energy that was altering her energy flows and tweaked it. It took a few attempts to find the right spot but then she felt a change ripple over her. It was a damn strange feeling as some parts grew and other parts shrank, but it passed quickly. And then Xander Harris sat there in overly tight Jedi robes. He couldn't help but smile. Damn but it was good to get back into his own body. Strangely not as good as he'd anticipated but still there was a sense of relief.
He moved to get up and immediately winced. Bloody hell but female underwear did not work for a male body, not one bit. Instinctively he reached back to his heart chakra and massaged the energy back into its previous form, and then transformed back into Rachel. Much more comfortable. Now to find some clothes and give the group a little surprise when she showed up to the meeting. She still had some jeans and shirts leftover from before Hallloween if she remembered right.
It hadn't been difficult to sneak into the library. If you can cloud a Sith Lord's senses to the point where you are near invisible to them, then eluding normal people are a walk in the park. Eluding people who blind themselves to anything even slightly out of the ordinary like the Sunnydale crowd . . . well, that's even easier. The old proverb held true, 'there's none as blind as those who will not see'. They had a very similar proverb in the Star Wars universe and it was something her first master had impressed upon her at every opportunity. Which was slightly odd when he thought about it as she had allowed her own physical sight to atrophy in favour of seeing through the Force.
He waited just outside the library till everyone was there and no-one was facing the door before he entered, till they were thoroughly engrossed in conversation about the contents of the books he'd retrieved from Malak.
"Hey, G-man," said Xander, carefully inflecting his voice to exactly match his old speech patterns. "What's the what?"
The look on their faces - classic. They were all just gaping at him as if he'd sprouted a tail and started calling himself Jabba. Xander mentally patted himself on a job well done as he strolled around to an empty chair and plonked himself down in it.
"What?" he asked. "You'd think you'd never seen me before."
"I haven't," said Wesley dryly.
"Point to the stuffy brit," said Xander. "We got anything useful from those books, then?"
"He's gonna turn himself into a giant demon and eat us all, or something," said Faith. "And not bad, Darth."
"How big is 'giant'?" asked Xander. "Ten metres tall?"
Giles coughed. "More like sixty by the sounds of things," he said. "And the most likely candidate for him given what we know is a giant snake."
"Well, shit," said Xander with feeling. "I don't think a stake's gonna cut it this time."
"What about those ray-guns?" asked Buffy. "And are you really back to being Xander-shaped?"
Xander shrugged his shoulders. "Blasters might work. Depends on how well-armoured the demon is and how much magic he'll have protecting him," he said. "And, yeah, I'm back to being Xander-shaped, but I can be Rachel-shaped when I want to be."
"That's great, Xander!" said Willow, coming out of her shocked stupor. "I mean you have to be really happy to get your body back."
"Yeah, I am," said Xander. "But I'm kinda more worried about becoming a snake-snack than anything right now."
"The books are somewhat less detailed when it comes to how to actually kill the ascended demon, unfortunately," said Giles. "And the only other reference I've found to ascension was rather . . . grim."
"I vote for pretty explosions," said Buffy.
Xander sat back and thought about if for a moment. "Well, thermal detonators are always an option, I suppose," he said.
"I am loathe to make use of weaponry that powerful," said Giles. "The collateral damage would be staggering."
"Less than the collateral damage from having a giant snake eating the town," said Xander. "That would make for a real bad day."
"I think Darth has a point," said Faith. "Blowing a few buildings up won't be anything near as bad as some monster out of a Godzilla movie getting loose."
"What about this thing in the newspaper with the murdered professor?" asked Buffy. "There's something weird about that."
"I-" said Giles, before he was cut off by Xander going rigid.
"Something dark approaches," he said. "Something very, very dark."
A moment later, a pleasant looking middle-aged man in an expensive looking suit walked in through the library doors, Mayor Wilkins. It took more than a moment for Xander to reconcile the overwhelming sense of evil coming from the man with his non-descript appearance. It was just bizarre. The Mayor took a book from the pile on the table and flipped through it before stopping approximately halfway through.
"The beast will walk upon the earth and darkness will follow. The several races of man will be as one in their terror and destruction," he said, quoting from the book. "Aw, that's kind of sweet. Different races coming together."
"You never get even a little tired of hearing yourself speak, do you?" asked Buffy, looking distinctly narked.
The mayor chuckled and then looked at Giles, "that's one spunky girl you've raised," he said, almost as if he was one parent talking to another. "I'm gonna eat her."
In one smooth motion, Giles grabbed a fencing sword from the library table and slammed it into the mayor's chest. The mayor staggered back a few steps from the force of it, but seemed otherwise unaffected. He opened his mouth to say something but was cut off by a blast of telekinetic force that threw him across the library and bounced him off a wall.
"You'll find that that's something easier said than done, demon," said Xander, rising to his feet and adopting a loose stance. "I already killed your pet Dark Lord. I figure that you're next."
The mayor was quickly back onto his feet, seemingly unaffected by a blow that should have shattered his spine. "Well, now. Such violent outbursts, and around children, too," he said. "Such a poor example you set, Mr. Giles."
"See demon, kill demon," said Faith. "Seems like a pretty good example to me."
The mayor ignored her, his attention now firmly on Xander as he pulled the sword free from his chest and wiped it down with a hankerchief. "You . . . you're such a disappointment," he said. "You had such potential after what happened that Halloween, and you've thrown it all away to be a do-gooder. Such a terrible shame. You've even discarded the body, I see."
"As if running some backwater little town like Sunnydale would be enough to tempt someone like me," snorted Xander. "Be serious."
The mayor just shook his head and sighed. "Ah the impetuousity and arrogance of youth," he said. "You might have been the big fish in your dimension, but here . . . well, your friend was easy enough to control."
Xander's lip curled up at corner as he fought down the rage but he didn't say anything more, he just let his cold glare speak for him. It was all he could do not to tear the man apart and fry his remains with force lightning. The bastard might not be killable but he could still make him feel pain.
"Get out," said Buffy, looking supremely pissed off.
"I smell fear. That's smart. Some of your deaths will be quick, if that's worth anything. Well, see you all at graduation," said the mayor. "You don't want to miss my commencement address. It's going to be one heck of a speech."
And with that he turned on his heel and strolled out of the library as if he didn't have a care in the world. Bastard. As the library doors closed, Xander spoke, "he dies. He dies painfully."
"Woah there, Darth," said Faith. "Dark Side, much?"
Xander closed his eyes and with a supreme effort of will allowed his emotions to flow out of him and into the Force. "You are right, Faith," he said. "I just don't like the idea of my friends being used against me like that."
"Buffy, Faith, I think it would be wise for you to investigate this professor's home," said Giles, looking at the newspaper. "There's just something not quite right about him being murdered so close to the ascension."
"So the demon was killed by a volcano?" asked Xander, as he walked through the cemetery with Faith.
"Yeah," said Faith. "Some wicked big eruption from what Jeeves said."
"Well, I suppose it's a start," said Xander, as they exited the cemetery. "At least it proves that it can be killed."
"Yeah," said Faith. "Quiet night, huh?"
"I guess the vampires are all resting," said Xander. "Getting ready for the big party tomorrow, I suppose."
"Huh," said Faith. "A monster straight out of Godzilla on one side and a vampire army on the other. Sounds like fun."
Xander shrugged. "If you're gonna die, it might as well be a good fight, and this is going to be one hell of a fight." he said.
"Yeah," said Faith. "We'll go down swinging if nothing else."
"Damn right," said Xander. "And I've got something set up so that even in the mayor wins, he won't survive much longer."
"Thermal detonators scale up nicely," he said. "And they're pretty easy to make. I've buried a twenty megaton bomb in a park near the school. There won't be much left of Sunnydale but a smoking crater."
"Shit, Darth," she said. "That'll kill everyone in Sunnydale!"
"If we lose, they're dead anyway," said Xander. "At least this way their deaths will mean something."
"That's cold, Darth," said Faith. "Real cold."
"Nothing I haven't done before," said Xander. "And really, it's necessary. We can't let something like that loose on the world. The damage it could cause before the military mobilised to stop it . . . it would be catastrophic, and it could theoretically open the hellmouth too."
"Well, if it opened the hellmouth it would go from being the big fish to being a big fish," said Xander. "It might not want to share its territory. Some demons are like animals when it comes to stuff like that."
"Makes sense, I suppose."
They both fell silent at that and Xander continued to absent-mindedly follow Faith through the streets of Sunnydale. Faith was right, really, it was cold to plan to use a weapon of mass destruction like he was, but it was necessary. Really, it was. Still, he had a real queasy feeling in his gut whenever he thought about it. Sacrificing a hundred thousand people to save millions more was treading close to very familiar and very bad territory that he'd visited as Revan.
Xander blinked. He recognised this part of town. Why were they going to Faith's hotel? He asked her as much, "Faith, uh, why are we going to your hotel?"
"Look, Darth," said Faith, "if I'm gonna die tomorrow fighting some giant demon, then I'm damn well gonna enjoy myself the night before. Get it?"
"Uh, yeah," said Xander, he face slack with surprise. "I think."
Faith just laughed. "Ah, you'll get it soon enough."
Xander staggered home several hours later and collapsed into his bed before promptly falling into a very deep sleep. He could run a marathon without much difficulty with his training and the Force as his ally, but Faith had outdone that quite handily.
"So am I crazy?" asked Buffy.
"Nah," drawled Xander. "It's actually one of your better plans, I think. Better than my doomsday device blowing Sunnydale to atoms plan anyway."
"What?" asked Buffy, looking utterly baffled. "No, scratch that. I don't think I want to know."
"Definitely not, B," said Faith. "Believe me. It's the stuff of nightmares."
"Right, well," said Buffy, looking deeply nonplussed, "do you think you can do it, Xander?"
"I can give you all the bombs you'll ever need give time," said Xander. "But I'm no demolitions expert. You'll need someone to plant them in such a way that they don't level half of Sunnydale."
"Ah," said Wesley, "I may be able to help there. The use of explosives was covered in one of the courses I took at the academy."
"Great," said Buffy. "But that's not all. Xander, I'm going to need you to get the students ready for battle too. I figure you're best qualified for that with the whole Halloween thing."
Xander nodded. "I can do that, but I'll be cutting things fine with making the bombs and sorting out a battle strategy. I'll need help."
"That's where Angel comes in," said Buffy. "It's the best you're going to get."
"Wonderful," said Xander flatly. He looked at Angel, "you so much as look at me funny and I'll make the rest of your very short life deeply miserable."
Angel just nodded.
Buffy didn't look overly impressed but she just ignored it. "Now we need some sort of weakness . . . something we can exploit to lure him into the trap.
"Xander," said Willow. "He's really messed up the mayor's plans with the books and the Sith thing."
"It'll have to do. Now . . . "
Xander ended up sat at the back of the audience in the section for guests and other non-students. He was also in his 'Rachel' form. Too many questions would be asked for him to be Xander just now in public. So she was sat there in loose clothing concealing all the weaponry she was carrying, and she was bored out of her skull listening to some idiot with a soul darker than midnight rambling on about Sunnydale and school and all sorts of stupid nonsense.
He got to a part about graduation before the eclipse stage of the ascension kicked in and he started convulsing in pain on stage. Rachel was on her feet immediately and barking out orders, "flame units, ready! Blaster units, ready!" she called out. The parents were looking at her as if she was a complete lunatic but immediately the front two rows of the audience were on their feet and drawing a variety of very nasty looking weapons.
"Melee units, draw weapons and to assigned positions!" she called out as the mayor's skin started to ripple as his body contorted, and the rest of the student population was on their feet and drawing a variety of wicked looking medieval weaponry. The parents looked about ready to break and run at this point, and Rachel couldn't blame them, but there was nothing that could be done for them. Snyder was yelling something or other at her but she paid no heed.
The mayor's body convulsed one last time and then it exploded outwards as the final physical transformation took place. Rachel's eyes were firmly fixed on the mayor as he transformed but she could feel a small army of vampires showing up to trap them in with the new-born demon.
"Blaster units, aim!" she cried out, and the units immediately aimed their weapons. "FIRE!"
A volley of red blaster bolts streamed out from the second row of students and slapped against the demon's skin. The damage was limited - a few burn marks, was all - but from the way he reared back, it was accomplishing the real goal of keeping him from feeding. And then the snake lashed out with impossible speed and devoured Snyder. Ah, well. Acceptable loss. He was probably in on it anyway.
She saw the mayor begin to coil, ready for a strike at the students. "Flame units, suppression fire!" she called, and the front row immediately opened up with their home-made flamethrowers, keeping the gigantic demon at bay. It probably wouldn't hold him for long - those home-made flamers were pretty lacking in both power and fuel - but it would have to do.
"Blaster units, continuous fire!" she barked and the air was suddenly thick with the smell of ozone as blaster fire ripped through the air. The repeated impacts did a pretty good job of driving the mayor back and away from his food sources, keeping him from reaching his full power and having powers beyond the physical.
By the time she'd reached the front of the audience, the blaster fire was beginning to slow down as the jury-rigged power cells ran dry. She hadn't had time to properly recharge them so they couldn't output anything like their proper levels of power. As the fire tapered off to nothing, she ignited her lightsabre and with a flick of her wrist she hurled it into the air and dealt a glancing blow to the snake-demon's head before summoning it back into her grip. The snake shot her an absolutely venomous glare and hissed at her.
"Hey, moron," she yelled. "You want me? Come get me!"
And with that, she was off, running with Force enhanced speed through the corridors of Sunnydale High School as the mayor smashed through the doorways behind her. This had seemed like a much better idea when they'd just been talking about it. She skidded round a corner and vaulted over a bannister, only two steps ahead of the mayor, before slamming through the doors leading into the library. She didn't so much as break her stride as she continued running and jumped out through the library window. A moment after she jumped out of the window, the building behind her exploded and the sheer force of it knocked her flying through the air before she made a rather solid impact with the concrete floor.
"That was fun," she gasped as she levered herself back up onto her feet.
As Rachel limped around to the front of the school, and to join up with the rest of the group, she saw Wesley being loaded up into an ambulance, whinging all the while about the pain. Quite amusing really. The group had gathered on a small field over the road from the school and they all looked healthy if somewhat the worse for wear.
"Everyone made it then?" asked Rachel as she approached them.
"Everyone seems to have made it out of the battle in once piece," said Giles, "though we're not sure about Angel."
"Can you use your mojo to see if he's still alive?" asked Buffy with a hopeful expression on her face.
"Detect a single vampire on the hellmouth?" asked Rachel incredulously. "I don't think so."
Buffy grimaced and went back to scanning the crowds, searching for Angel, moving off quickly a moment later. Rachel just shrugged.
"Are you all right?" asked Giles. "That was quite an explosion."
"I'm a little sore," admitted Rachel. "But nothing too bad."
"Well, that's the most fun you can have without having any fun," said a disgruntled looking Cordelia, surprising Rachel who hadn't seen her approaching.
"How about the part where we kicked some demon ass?" asked Willow as Oz stroked her hair. "I didn't hate that."
"That part fucking kicked ass," said Faith. "Take that, demon. Teach ya to mess with us."
"Hear, hear," said Rachel.
"You guys want to take off?" asked Buffy, coming back to the group. "I think we've done pretty much all we can."
Cordelia nodded. "I'm for it."
"Are you OK?" asked Willow, looking at the worn looking Buffy. Rachel supposed that the fight must have been tougher than she'd expected.
"Yeah. I'm okay. - I could use a little sleep though."
There was a general chorus of agreement at that. It had not been the easiest of years even compared to the normal Sunnydale fare.
"If someone could just wake me when it's time to go to college, that'd be great," said Buffy, sitting on the bench next to Willow.
"Guys take a moment to deal with this: - we survived." said Oz.
"It was a hell of a battle," said Buffy.
"Not the battle," said Oz, who got a few incredulous looks at that point, "high school."
They, as a group, turned to look at the school, except for Faith who just shook her head, and for a moment there was quiet.
"We're taking a moment," said Oz, and the group turned and looked at each for a little while, Willow and Buffy got up from the bench. "OK, we're done."
Oz put an arm around Willow as they walked off close together. "Why do demons even come here any more? I mean, don't they know . . . " said Willow.
The End


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