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It breaks the rules
There's an old adage about knowing the rules before you break them. Yet understanding the conventions doesn't mean you must accept them. True creatives have the confidence to think differently; to ask, "What if?". The more you question what is possible, the more you realize that things aren't always as they seem or as they should be, and that it's far more exciting to color outside the lines. Asking "What if" opens up opportunities that didn't exist before, and allows your imagination to soar. This curiosity is the trait that is essential to creativity and innovation.
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Let's face it, we're a jaded bunch. We've seen too much, experienced more than our fair share of real-world problems, and honestly, we think we know a lot about a lot (in other words, everything). This trick restores our sense of wonder. We're never too old to be mesmerized. A belief in the impossible, and a dash of fantasy – however briefly – still has the power to uplift and entertain. Isn't escapism the reason we turn to mobile games as often as we do? We are simply never too old to escape into a bit of magic and believe in the impossible. As Alice in Wonderland so famously stated, "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
It celebrates the nerd in all of us
Practically speaking, the creator of this illusion explains how he reverse engineered the outcome. He started the process by visualizing the end result before he began, and worked back to make it so. He fiddled, tinkered, experimented, and figured out step by step how to achieve the end result. We're certain he failed along the way, each time learning something new and solving a new need, and that's part of the scientific process. Here's more on how this fascinating mind-trick works:


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The Court of Appeal recently confirmed in Global Corporate Ltd v Hale [2018] EWCA Civ 2618 what most suspected: unlawful dividend payments cannot be reclassified as salary in order to render them lawful. The legality of such payments is determined at the time of the payment, not at the time the company realises that the "dividends" were excessive, unauthorised or unlawful and then whitewashed as salary payments.
Many companies still routinely declare dividends on such an "on account" or "wait and see" basis. They should cease this practice now.
The main concern for shareholders is that unlawful payments are liable to be repaid to the company. In this instance, the company was in liquidation and the liquidator was able to demand repayment from the shareholders after the liquidation because the company had insufficient distributable reserves at the time of their receipt of excessive dividends even though those payments were then treated as salary and tax paid on them.
The shareholder concerned also failed to set off that duty to repay against monies owed to him by the company for his lawful and genuine services because his right to such payments had not been properly authorised. This is a reminder that the requirements for authorisation of payments to directors are different from payments to mere employees.
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Review: Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
Published: November 2013 by Hachette Little, Brown & Co
Format: Paper Book
Length: 310 pages
Genre: Steampunk, Spy, Espionage, Paranormal, Young Adult, AU Historical
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Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests?
Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing school is training her to be a spy (won't Mumsy be surprised?). Furthermore, Sophronia got mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and had a cheese pie thrown at her in a most horrid display of poor manners.
Now, as she sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers' quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship's boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a field trip to London than is apparent at first. A conspiracy is afoot–one with dire implications for both supernaturals and humans. Sophronia must rely on her training to discover who is behind the dangerous plot-and survive the London Season with a full dance card.
I have no idea why I like Curtsies & Conspiracies so much when nothing really happens. I had the same problem with this book's predecessor, Etiquette & Espionage. The first book of the Finishing School Series felt like set up with a little bit of action thrown in at the end. The second book, Curtsies & Conspiracies, is a hunt for clues with a little bit of action thrown in at the end. And yet, I enjoyed it a lot. It is cleverly written, quirky, and amusing. It was interesting to watch Sophronia navigate her lessons as an intelligencer, move about the dirigible at night, and piece together a conspiracy plot while taking tea. It's entertaining and I couldn't put the book down but I kept waiting for things to come together, for that big climax. Instead, we're left with a bit of a mess.
It would probably be correct to say that if you like spy novels and steampunk worlds, you'll like the Finishing School Series. The steampunk setting adds a nice flavor to the book. I really like all the little funny names for the machines. (Like the oddgob.) It's a little like the Disney Little Mermaid song Part of Your World – "I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty; I've got whozits and whatzits galore". The toys, as they say, are awesome. The world building is vivid. I especially like the mechanical maids and robots and the fact that the school is a huge dirigible. The characters are varied and unique but the cast may suffer from overpopulation. Some of the characters don't really add anything to the story and just prove to be confusing with an already large cast to keep track of.
But the big draw for the Finishing School Series is that it is funny. There is widespread ridiculousness with everything from the names of objects to the names of people, the lessons the girl's take, and the tongue in cheek foolery between the visiting Bunson's evil genius boys and Mademoiselle Geraldine's young ladies of quality. There is a steam powered metal sausage dog named Bumbersnoot, for heaven's sake. Curtsies & Conspiracies is hilarious.
It is that humor and absurdity that saves the book. I've read both the first and second book of the Finishing School Series and have yet to see a cohesive plot the entire time. We don't know what the mystery is and there is no plot resolution at the end of the books. Our characters are just mucking about in pretty dresses and being overly clever for 15 year old girls. We are presented with facts and events but with no ability to arrange them into a pattern and very little is really settled or revealed at the end of the books. About 3/4 of Curtsies & Conspiracies is Sophronia going about being 'very special indeed' and more than a bit of a Mary Sue perfect girl. Curtsies & Conspiracies was a witty, funny, and quick read. But that's about it.
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Book Review: Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
Published September 25th 2012 by Harlequin Teen
Format: Paper Book
Length: 404 pages
Genre: Zombies, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Horror
Reading Level: Young Adult
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She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.
Her father was right. The monsters are real…
To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies…
I don't read a lot of zombie books. (They have a habit of giving me nightmares. Nightmares where I have a Japanese katana sword, speak French, and kick ass but then have to throw myself out of the dream when the zombie munching gets too graphic.) But my obsession with everything and anything to do with Alice in Wonderland won out over my hesitation and so when I was browsing the shelves at my library I picked up Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter. I'm weak. I do believe this is the first zombie book I've read in almost a decade. (And no nightmares! Although there was one crazy Wonderland dream…)
Alice in Zombieland was not what I expected. For some reason, the blurb made me think this was going to be an apocalyptic zombie novel and that our Alice character would be in an 'end of the world' situation. (Thus, creating some sort of new 'Wonderland' for our Alice character to live in.) Maybe I fell for a stereotype but the book couldn't have been farther from what I envisioned. It's set in contemporary times (In fact, at one point Alice mentioned reading The Iron Fey series and I had to blink in surprise at the destruction of the fourth wall.) and knowledge of the zombies is afforded to only a few select people. The zombies themselves are untraditional and Showalter had to create a whole new mythology for the creatures in order to explain why only certain people could see and fight them. I'm not sure I like the new mythology Showalter created. It works for the book but at the same time it's a bit absurd. It sort of squashes zombies and ghosts together and gets a bit messy in the process. Also, to my disappointment, the Alice in Wonderland connection is thin at best. There are some scattered references that really don't bring anything to the novel and that's it.
Of course, my biggest beef with Alice in Zombieland is the romance. (Romance is pretty much the bane of my existence in Young Adult books.) Alice is a good girl, Cole is a bad boy, they are both ridiculously hot, and have an 'Instant Connection of Destiny'. So a good portion of the book is them playing relationship yoyo and sucking face. There is even an 'Ex-Girlfriend of Doom.' Oh, and Alice is an extra special snowflake among special snowflakes. The only thing that saves Alice in Zombieland for me is that everyone can kick zombie butt and most of the characters are rather interesting, when they're not trying to get into each other pants. So, the romance is clichéd, the zombie mythology interesting but a little convoluted, and there are a lot of awesome fight scenes. For me, Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter was a typical teen drama that was okay but not great. Other reviews bring me to believe you either loved this book or hated it. I fall somewhere in the middle.
Book Review: Croak by Gina Damico
Croak by Gina Damico
Published March 20th 2012 by Graphia Books
Format: Paper
Length: 311 pages
Genre: Paranormal, Supernatural, Mystery
Reading Level: Age 12 & Up
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Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape.
But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He's a Grim Reaper. And he's going to teach Lex the family business.
She quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. But Lex can't stop her desire for justice – or is it vengeance? – whenever she encounters a murder victim, craving to stop the attackers before they can strike again.
Will she ditch Croak and go rogue with her reaper skills?
I'm sorry I waited so long to read Croak by Gina Damico. So long in fact that the sequel, Scorch, came out last fall. (wince) Talk about dragging my feet! I have only myself and my horrible procrastination to blame. I adore grim reaper characters and the many ways different cultures portray them in myths and also modern popular culture. The character and mythos have moved beyond the grinning skull and long black robe and I find it fascinating when grim reaper or death dealer characters are revamped in today's media. Croak by Gina Damico is one such novel that overhauls the grim reaper role and turns the protagonist into a relatable and interesting person.
The hardest thing when creating a grim reaper world is the details; the how and the why of the system of reaping souls. Damico creates a great world with Croak and the Grims, those people who fall between the cracks and end up providing an invaluable service to the living. The world of Croak and the mechanics of how the Grims go about reaping souls is wonderful. I mean, come on! There are jellyfish that sense death, black widow spiders that spin soul vessels, and Presidential Greeting Committees who greet the newly dead. What's not to love? The Junior Grims are the perfect cast of characters and everyone in the town of Croak just adds to the richness of the setting.
I have one disappointment with Croak and that is the 'bad guy'. For most of the story we don't know enough details for the conflict to be anything more than a sense of something wrong in the grim world but once we know exactly what is going on I was rather hoping the 'bad guy' would surprise me. Going by the overused young adult plot pattern, the identity of the 'bad guy' is rather obvious but for a little bit there I was hoping the antagonist would be Lex's twin, Cordy. Wouldn't that make sense? Lex and Cordy are twins, what would the odds be that only one of them had grim reaper powers? I was hoping Cordy had somehow found out about the grim world and been manipulated into killing those people or decided to take matters into her own hands without the limitations of those in Croak. Alas, it was not to be and I feel Damico went the path of least resistance on that score.
Croak by Gina Damico was an excellent book with a fresh take on the grim reaper character. It reminds me of a TV show I used to watch all the time called Dead Like Me. I miss that TV show. Croak has the same mix of hilarity and weirdness that made me love that show. There is a bit of eye roll worthy teenage romance in Croak, mostly the fact that Driggs apparently fell in love with Lex through pictures her Uncle Mort had up around the house. I despair of the romance in young adult books, I really do. But Croak has enough creativity and originality that we can overlook that little hiccup.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Book Review: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Published September 18th 2012 by Scholastic Press
Length: 408
Genre: Paranormal, Young Adult, Romance
Reading Level: Pre-teen
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"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve," Neeve said. "Either you're his true love . . . or you killed him."
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he's looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
Maggie Stiefvater is a hot name right now after the book blogs exploded with glowing reviews of The Scorpio Races last year. It didn't sound quite like my cup of tea but I couldn't miss the announcement of her newest book, The Raven Boys. Now that was a book that sounded like I could enjoy it. When I realized that there were the four Aglionby boys, Blue, plus her whole wacky family and that all of them seemed to get a fair amount of page time I thought The Raven Boys might suffer from having too many characters. While I would have liked to see more of Blue and a bit more depth for her, I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't feel overwhelmed by the number of characters. Instead, Stiefvater manages to somehow control what should have been an otherwise out of control story.
I have nicknamed this book 'the novel where everyone needs therapy'. This is because the boys are all nuts. Blue is the only sane one and she's part of a clairvoyant family of weirdo women, so that's saying a lot. Ronan actually disturbs me and we never find out the details of his backstory, which is frustrating. He has the last line in the novel and it promises a new adventure and weirdness in the sequel that I can't wait for. Adam's pride is both understandable and his worst trait. I don't understand why everyone is so sensitive to Gansey. He's acting perfectly normal and I think both Adam and Blue are just trying to be insulted by what he says because they want to find fault in him. It makes Adam and Blue seem a little childish. Noah seems to be a cardboard cutout and unimportant until he suddenly is. The only disappointing character is the 'villain', Whelk. He's nonexistent for most of the book and I would have liked to see his thought processes a bit more.
The plot is fascinating. The sleeping king legend, of which King Arthur is only the most well-known, is seen many times in history. I made a small study of ley lines when I was a teen and have actually tracked a line using dowsing rods before. I sucked at it, of course, but I can remember it felt like there was a lot of static electricity in the air and if I touched anything I might explode into a star. It was awesome and I find the strange occurrences the teens experienced along the ley line intriguing. It's like if a person could only step a little sideways, a little out of frame, they might be able to find the same thing.
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater is a great offering from a fantastic author. I'll have to give some of her other books a try to see if I love them just as much. Some readers might still be overwhelmed by the number of characters, it is a little hard to know where to focus sometimes, but The Raven Boys is an excellent book that blends reality and the fantastical into a story that grips the reader until the end. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4.5 out 5
Book Review: Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
Published August 7th 2012 by Tor Teen
Length: 332 pages
Genre: Paranormal, fantasy, Romance, YA
Reading Level: Teen
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It's been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can't move on.
His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could live—not walk around half dead. He knows they're right, but in Cas's eyes, no living girl he meets can compare to the dead girl he fell in love with.
Now he's seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he's asleep and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong…these aren't just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears.
Cas doesn't know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn't deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it's time for him to return the favor.
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake was my second favorite book in 2012. I always enjoy paranormal fiction books and Anna and Cas were excellent characters. I often don't care for the love story in YA books but the unusual and creative pairing managed to avoid being annoying and other literary offenses that frustrate me. I was very excited to read the sequel Girl of Nightmares, even though I dropped the ball and it's taken me months to get around to writing up the review. Bad blogger! Unfortunately, Girl of Nightmares doesn't live up to the legacy of the excellent first book.
There is a phenomenon in YA books that I like to call "the sequel syndrome" or "the sequel slump". (I like alliteration.) This is where the sequel to an awesome book turns out to be just meh. It's a big letdown. Girl of Nightmares ended up suffering from sequel syndrome. The first half of the book was slow and frustrating to read. It's basically the characters wondering what to do and I can't stand that type of stagnate whining in books. Plot needs to keep moving forward to be interesting and that's just not happening in the first half of the book. Things only pick up once they cross the pond and go to England to find Gideon.
Anna is almost nonexistent for most of the book. Why Blake would choose to write a sequel where the most popular character, the title character and the main driving force in the story, is barely present I don't understand. The introduction of a new female character feels like the author is trying to fill a gap. This new character's only saving grace is that she's not overly irritating and Cas does not appear to be interested in her and continues to be focused on rescuing Anna. My favorite moment in Girl of Nightmares involves a character that I didn't like very much in Anna Dressed in Blood; Carmel. I found Carmel to be a bit ridiculous and stereotypical in the first book but she does something very human and appropriate in the sequel; she has second thoughts. People aren't able to handle the prolonged tension of being in constant danger (and seeking that danger out knowingly) and when Cas and Thomas continue to hunt ghosts, Carmel tries to separate herself from them, to return to being normal. Her actions feel very appropriate and real for her character.
I was hoping that Girl of Nightmares would continue the excellent writing I saw in Anna Dressed in Blood but the book fell short. Most of the book was uninteresting and slow and it's only the last 1/3 that really has any action. The main opposition is that the adults won't help the teens and I hate that Cas and Thomas are suddenly unable to do anything because the adults won't help. They lost the competence I saw in them in Anna Dressed in Blood. The ending makes me want to throw things. It's overly moralistic, saccharine, and tidy. It lacked the grit I saw in the first book and left me feeling unsatisfied.
Rating: 3 out 5
Book Review: Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe
Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe
Published September 15th 2009 by Henry Holt and Co.
Length: 241 pages
Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy, Ghosts, Romance
Reading Level: Pre-Teen & Up
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Cass McKenna much prefers ghosts over "breathers." Ghosts are uncomplicated and dependable, and they know the dirt on everybody…and Cass loves dirt. She's on a mission to expose the dirty secrets of the poseurs in her school.
But when the vice president of the student council discovers her secret, Cass's whole scheme hangs in the balance. Tim wants her to help him contact his recently deceased mother, and Cass reluctantly agrees.
As Cass becomes increasingly entwined in Tim's life, she's surprised to realize he's not so bad—and he needs help more desperately than anyone else suspects. Maybe it's time to give the living another chance…
Memories of high school, even 10 years removed, still have the power to make me want to hide in the corner and gibber. Hell is other people and teenagers are just the devil in disguise. I saw another book blog review Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe earlier this year and thought it would make an appropriate read for October and Halloween. There are no real spooks in this book and it's more about people than the paranormal. Give Up the Ghost is a look at grief and how teens handle death. It's also a looks at the society of children and high school. The careless cruelty of the teens in this book makes me nauseous.
I had a 'friend' in high school much like the character of Danielle. She was sweet as pie until you crossed her and then she was as sharp as a knife. This 'friend' was exhausting to be around and I was more than a little glad when college started and I could be rid of her and her drama. Her behavior forced more than one wedge between what had been a good group of friends. Give Up the Ghost shows us the effects of bullying and just how all-encompassing it can be. All it took was some spiteful words from Danielle and Cass' whole life was upset, isolating her from her peers. We are shown death, grief, and just how unequipped teenagers are to handle it. The loss of his mother and the hope that she was somehow not really gone sent Tim spiraling down into destructive behavior. Finding out that Cass could talk to ghosts only made it worse for Tim, having a connection to his deceased mother but not really being able to reach her himself. Perhaps it would have been better if Tim had never learned of Cass' abilities.
Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe is short and leaves several questions unanswered. We are never told why Tim's mother decides to leave him and we never learn why Cass' sister, Paige, has remained after her death or why she was the first spirit Cass could see and talk to. There are several little plot points left hanging and that's a bit frustrating for readers. This is a simple story that deals with some hard topics. Death, grief, bullying, and thoughts and even, I'd go so far as to say, attempted suicide is dealt with. Cass' abilities to see and speak with ghosts offers her one last chance to connect with another person, a person that is hurting just as much as she is. Give Up the Ghost feels unfinished. We are only presented with the limited information Cass has and that leaves several things a mystery. I enjoyed it but feel Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe could have been more complete.
(Also, Cass = Cassandra = I see what you did there, miss author.)
Rating: 3.5 out 5
Book Review: Silence by Michelle Sagara (+ Excerpt)
Silence by Michelle Sagara
Published May 1st 2012 by DAW
Length: 289 pages
Genre: Paranormal, YA, Ghosts, Paranormal Romance
Reading Level: Teen
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It began in the graveyard…
Ever since her boyfriend Nathan had died in a tragic accident, Emma had been coming to the graveyard at night. During the day she went through the motions at her prep school, in class, with her friends, but that's all it was. For Emma, life had stopped with Nathan's death. But tonight was different. Tonight Emma and her dog were not alone in the cemetery. There were two others there—Eric, who had just started at her school, and an ancient woman who looked as though she were made of rags. And when they saw Emma there, the old woman reached out to her with a grip as chilling as death…
Emma was not quite like others teenagers. It was true that other girls had experienced grief. Other girls had also lost their fathers, or had their boyfriends die in a senseless accident. But though she hadn't known it till that night in the graveyard, unlike those other girls, she could see, touch, and speak with the dead. In fact, Emma could draw upon the essence of the dead to work magic. That was what Necromancers did. But Emma had no desire to be a Necromancer. She just wanted to help the ghosts who walked the streets of Toronto, unable to escape from the land of the living. And that was just as well, because had she chosen the path of the Necromancer, Eric would have had to kill her.
Instead, Eric and his fellow Necromancer hunter Chase found themselves violating every rule they were sworn to follow, becoming part of Emma's group, helping her to stand against those who preyed upon the dead. But whether Emma and her friends could survive such a battle was anyone's guess. And whether Emma could learn to use the magic of the dead against her enemies without herself falling victim to the lure of such power remained to be seen. Eric seemed to think she could, and her living friends would never abandon her. But only time would tell what Emma's true destiny was…
I was running through the suggestions on Goodreads for books to read in October and ran across Silence by Michelle Sagara. I have a love/hate relationship with paranormal romance. In that I love the paranormal but am not all that fond of the young adult romance pattern. In that it's often annoying and follows a certain set of clichés that I am quickly becoming tired of. But Silence by Michelle Sagara surprised me. Her romance is a tad different and very refreshing. You see, Emma's boyfriend is dead and while there is a boy presented as a potential love interest, Eric, Emma's feeling don't move that way because she is still morning her boyfriend. There is also the potential for a love triangle with the introduction of another boy, Chase, that fails to develop and makes me so glad. Silence is a YA story without the silly romance angle and it works so flawlessly.
Along with the refreshing take on romance, there is the paranormal angle of the story. Emma can see dead people, which is a common trait in paranormal stories, but on top of that Emma has set of powers beyond just seeing ghosts. She is a necromancer, able to do magic by using the strength of the souls of the dead. The complete mechanics of being a necromancer are not clearly spelled out in Silence. I've never seen necromancy used before and I'm looking forward to the sequel and hopefully having the magical system more explained. Emma is, of course, a very special cookie among special cookies. Other necromancers use their powers for evil but Emma seems to be the only one of her kind with empathy and wants nothing to do with her powers over the dead. Which is good, since Eric and Chase would have to kill her if she did. (Let's pause and cringe over this cliché; because of course Emma is the only necromancer to ever have a good heart and nobody else would ever think using the power of souls for your own purposes would be bad. Cringe, wince. End rant.)
Eric and Chase belong to some sort of shadow organization that hunts the necromancers. Not a lot is known about them, something else that is not fully explained, but we do know that Eric is going against orders in not killing Emma and that Eric himself has a dark past. He has an involvement beyond just being a hunter. I'm just happy that Emma and Eric aren't suddenly falling all over each other. Emma keeps her head and is much more focused than most teenaged character in YA books. I adore her because while I can accept a young character being inexperienced and naive, I cannot accept somebody being stupid. I often get stupid in YA books. I love the main characters and I'm pleased that there is an autistic character that is well portrayed and deeply involved in the story, not just a throwaway character. Amy annoys me but the "super popular and bossy without really knowing it" character always do. Silence has an exceptional set of characters. Everyone in this book has a secret they are not sharing, dead and living. Eric is somehow connected with the necromancer leader and even Emma's deceased father knows something about why Emma has her powers that he's not sharing.
I have to take a moment to talk about the cover. It's your usual YA cover. There is a young woman in a fancy evening dress in a cemetery with a lantern that is the wrong color. The lantern in the book is described as blue with an orange light. The lantern on the cover is purple. I just thought that was funny. Silence by Michelle Sagara impressed me enough that I chose it as my giveaway book for October. It was a refreshing YA read that managed to miss my biggest pet peeve. I will definitely be reading the sequel, Touch.
Rating: 4.5 out 5
Excerpt from Silence by Michelle Sagara.
An old woman was watching her. An old woman. Emma was accustomed to thinking of half of her teachers as "old", and probably a handful as "ancient" or "mummified." Not a single one of them wore age the way this woman did. In fact, given the wreath of sagging wrinkles that was her skin, Emma wasn't certain that she was a woman. Her cheeks were sunken, and her eyes were set so deep they might as well have just been sockets; her hair, what there was of it, was white tufts, too stringy to suggest down. She had no teeth, or seemed to have no teeth; hell, she didn't have lips, either.
Emma couldn't stop herself from taking a step back.
The old woman took a step forward.
She wore rags. Emma had heard that description before. She had even seen it in a movie or two. Neither experience prepared her for this. There wasn't a single piece of cloth that was bigger than a napkin, although the assembly hung together in the vague shape of a dress. Or a bag. The orange light that the blue lantern emitted caught the edges of different colors, but they were muted, dead things. Like fallen leaves. Like corpses.
Emma took another step back. "Eric, tell her to stop." She tried to keep her voice even. She tried to keep it polite. It was hard. If the stranger's slightly open, sunken mouth had uttered words, she would have been less terrifying. But, in silence, the old woman teetered across graves as if she'd just risen from one and counted it as nothing.
Emma backed up. The old woman kept coming. Everything moved slowly, everything – except for Emma's breathing – was quiet. The quiet of a graveyard. Emma tried to speak, tried to ask the old woman what she wanted, but her throat was too dry, and all the came out was an alto squeak. She took another step and ran into a headstone; she felt the back of it, cold, against her thighs. Standing against a short, narrow wall, Emma threw her hands out in front of her.
The old woman pressed the lantern into those hands. Emma felt the sides of it collapse slightly as her hands gripped them, changing the shape of the brushstrokes and squiggles. It was cold against her palms. Cold like ice, cold like winter days when you inhaled and the air froze your nostrils.
She cried out in shock and opened her hands, but the lantern clung to her palms, and no amount of shaking would free them. She tried hard, but she couldn't watch what she was doing because old, wrinkled claws shot out like cobras, sudden, skeletal, and gripped Emma's cheeks and jaw, the way Emma's hands now gripped the lantern.
Emma felt her face being pulled down, down toward the old woman's, and she tried to pull back, tried to straighten her neck. But she couldn't. All the old stories she'd heard in camp, or in her father's lap, came to her then, and even though this woman clearly had no teeth, Emma thought of vampires.
But it wasn't Emma's neck that the old woman wanted, she pulled Emma's whole face toward her, and then Emma felt – and smelled – unpleasant, endless breath, dry as dust but somehow rank as dead and rotting flesh, as the old woman opened her mouth. Emma shut her eyes as the face, its nested lines of wrinkles so like a fractal, drew closer and closer.
She felt lips, what might have been lips, press themselves against the thin membranes of her eyelids, and she whimpered. It wasn't the sound she wanted to make; it was just the only sound she could. And then even that was gone as those same lips, with that same breath, pressed firmly and completely against Emma's mouth.
Like a night kiss.
She tried to open her eyes, but the night was all black, and there was no moon, and it was so damn cold. And as she felt that cold overwhelm her, she thought it unfair that this would be her last kiss, this unwanted horror; that the memory of Nathans hands and Nathan's lips were not the ones she would carry to the grave.
Book Review: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
I love a good spook story. I'm not much into horror and gore, even in a book it just makes me nauseous. But I adore the paranormal genre and love ghost stories. That's why I had to pick up Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. Well, that and people have been raving about the book ever since it came out in the autumn last year. I can certainly see why! I really enjoyed this book and, for now, it is my favorite book of 2012.
Cas Lowood inherited an unusual vocation from his father: he kills the dead. Cas and his kitchen-witch mother travel the country with their spirit-sniffing cat to seek out those unruly ghosts and ghouls that trouble the living. When Cas travels to Thunder Bay, Ontario in search of a local legend said to kill any person who sets foot in the house she once lived in, he thinks it's going to be a normal hunt. But when he ends up in the path of Anna Dressed in Blood without his mysterious and dangerous athame to protect him, Cas expects to end up dead himself. But Anna, for some reason, spares him. With his newfound friends, Cas will have to unravel the mystery of Anna Dressed in Blood and confront his past, including the death of his father.
Anna Dressed in Blood turned out to be everything people were gushing about in their reviews. It's an awesome story and blew me away. On the surface it looks like a simple, really well-written ghost story but underneath that we have layers of events that turn this simple ghost story into something truly fantastic. I enjoyed all the characters, even the token defenseless but surprisingly necessary girl character. (Although, I have trouble taking people with ridiculous names seriously and with a name like Carmel, you might as well tattoo 'hooker' across her forehead because that was all I could think about when I read her name.) The characters all drive the story.
Anna Dressed in Blood has ghosts and witches and demons woven into a story about love and redemption. It's complex and well thought-out. I was very surprised with how well the differing elements worked together in this book. The pacing is good and it never slows down. The book never drags and the reader is never bored. I enjoyed how aware Anna was, so unlike the other ghosts Cas had encountered. None of the characters annoy me and nobody suffers from 'too stupid to live' syndrome. It's hard to write reviews for truly good books because I have nothing to nitpick and I'm trying not to sound like I want to marry this book and have its little book babies. (Which I sort of do.)
Anna Dressed in Blood is the best book I've read this year so far. Anybody looking for an exceptional paranormal story will love this book. Whenever I read a paranormal story, I always feel as if I'm reading something that is a little silly. I can't quite believe in it. But with Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake the elements of the book are so well put together and everything just flows in a way that makes this a true treasure to read. The sequel, Girl of Nightmares, comes out on August 7th, 2012.
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Published August 30th 2011 by Tor Teen
316 pages
First in a series


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MicroTek (now Attune) Announces 2018 Charitable Donations
Note: Since the writing of this article, MicroTek has rebranded as Attune.
December 3, 2018
DOWNERS GROVE, IL—MicroTek is pleased to announce the recipients of its annual charitable donations. The donations are made through the company's benevolence account, the David Ironside Fund Charities. Established in 2001, the Fund serves as a way for MicroTek to give back to the communities where it conducts business by helping local organizations that are in need of support.
"Community involvement has always played a major role in MicroTek's corporate culture, so we are thrilled to be able to make this contribution. Every year, our employees get excited to handpick the organizations that will be receiving a donation. We all want to make a positive impact in our communities and this is a great way to accomplish that," said Kimberly Markovich, MicroTek Vice President of Operations.
David Ironside was one of the original employees of MicroTek. As part of his personal outreach, he worked with at-risk and disadvantaged kids—many times taking them into his own home as they sorted out their lives.
Each year, employees at each MicroTek location choose a local charity to receive the donations. "We are grateful for our ability to share during this season. I want to thank MicroTek's employees for their thoughtful consideration in choosing the recipients. It is with great pride that I announce the charities that our employees have chosen for the David Ironside contributions this year," said MicroTek CEO Don Slivensky.
The MicroTek regional facility donations are as follows:
Atlanta – Wounded Warrior Project
Boston – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Chicago – Project Fierce Chicago
Dallas – Metroport Meals on Wheels
Denver – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado
Downers Grove, IL (Corporate HQ) – Childserv
Dulles – Metro Women's Care
Los Angeles – Children's Hospital Los Angeles
New York – Children's Aid Society
San Francisco – Three Seeds
Washington, DC – Greater DC-Maryland National Multiple Sclerosis Society
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Accession Number : AD0443175
Title : COMPARISON OF GRAMMAR OF CHILDREN WITH FUNCTIONALLY DEVIANT AND NORMAL SPEECH,
Corporate Author : MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH LAB OF ELECTRONICS
Personal Author(s) : Menyuk, Paula
Report Date : 29 JAN 1964
Pagination or Media Count : 13
Abstract : A generative model of grammar was used to compare the grammar of 10 children diagnosed as using infantile speech with that of 10 matched children using normal speech to attempt to formalize the description of language simply characterized as infantile. The language of one child was periodically sampled from age two to three. A language sample from each child was analyzed and the syntactic structures used were postulated. A number of children in each group were asked to repeat a list of sentences containing syntactic structures found in children's grammar. The term infantile seemed to be a misnomer since at no age level did the grammatical production of a child with deviant speech match or closely match that of a child with normal speech. It was hypothesized that the differences found in the use and repetition of syntactic structures between the two groups might be due to differences in the use of the coding processes for the perception and production of language. (Author)
Descriptors : , (*SPEECH, CHILDREN), (*VOCABULARY, CHILDREN), LANGUAGE, DISEASES.
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Skin cancer is a growing problem. Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon. (American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures 2015.http://www.cancer.org/
I know a lot of women who wouldn't think of not getting their yearly mammogram and men that get their PSA levels checked each year. And, as soon as you turn 50, every doctor is lecturing you to get a colonoscopy. One thing I don't hear many people talking about though is getting a yearly skin scan. It's easy and painless and can save your life. A Dermatologist will look over your entire body, chart what is on it and keep track of any changes or new lesions from year to year. You should also be doing a self-exam on a monthly basis. Check out www.skincancer.org for a detailed step-by-step self-examination.
Catching skin cancer early is important because when caught early, it is almost always curable and the treatment is usually less invasive. This has been on my mind quite a bit lately because of a phone call I received. It was a client thanking me for pointing out a suspicious spot on her face and urging her to see a Dermatologist. The spot was just a scaly spot on her nose that she thought was dry skin. It turned out to be a basal cell carcinoma that was caught early and the doctor was able to burn it off. If she would have waited even a couple of weeks he told her he would probably have had to cut it out. While a knowledgeable Esthetician will point out suspicious spots and refer you to a Dermatologist, this is not an article about relying on your Esthetician for your skin cancer examinations – we can't diagnose and no one other than a doctor should be telling you not to worry about a lesion on your face or body. This article is about getting everyone to take skin cancer seriously and be proactive in their skin health.
Everyone should keep an eye on their skin, but there are certain people who are prone to developing skin cancer and should be extra cautious
Know the ABCDE's of skin cancer.
These are guidelines. If anything is suspicious looking to you, don't hesitate to have it checked. It's much better to be safe than sorry. As in my example above, my client just thought she had a patch of dry skin. I have seen a lot of clients who have come to me hoping to clear up patches of dry skin and it turned out to be a pre-cancerous or cancerous lesion. Dry patches that look scaly or don't clear up with the correct moisturizer need to be looked at by a Dermatologist. It could be something as simple as dermatitis or it could be cancer.
Do your part in protecting against skin cancer
Summer is around the corner which means it's time to focus on body hair removal. There are many ways to remove body hair, but this article will focus on waxing. Waxing can be performed on any part of the face or body, with the exception of the head. When done regularly, you can expect to… Continue Reading
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The holidays are approaching and you want your skin to sparkle and shine. Unfortunately, the holidays come at the time of year when our skin looks the dullest because of the colder weather, dry heat from the furnace and lack of sunshine. There are also the holiday parties where we overindulge and that keep us up later than… Continue Reading
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July 12,13,14 WCAA 2019 Artists' Studio Tour
We are proud to share with you information about our 17th Annual Wayne County Arts Alliance Artists' Studio Tour! The Tour provides an opportunity to meet Wayne County's established and emerging artists in their studios.
Our Tour Headquarters is at The Cooperage Project in Honesdale. Here are displayed artworks from each of the tour artists.
Map and Artist details are here on our website.
The tour is free and open to the public July 12,13,14 from 10am – 6pm.
The Artists Studio Tour is the premier event which was the catalyst for establishing the WCAA. The Tour gives the public a rare opportunity to visit with the professional artists who call this area their home. Here is your chance to meet the artists and discuss their philosophies, inspiration, and working techniques while viewing their most recent collection of artwork. And if you see something you want to own, take advantage of artists' studio pricing. Don't miss this opportunity to visit Wayne County's diverse and talented local artists right in their own studios.
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A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England, where the office originated. There is an analogous although independently developed office in Iceland that is commonly translated to English as sheriff, and this is discussed below.
Historically, a sheriff was a legal official with responsibility for a "shire" or county. In modern times, the specific combination of legal, political and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country.
The word sheriff is a contraction of the term "shire reeve". The term, from the Old English scīrgerefa, designated a royal official responsible for keeping the peace (a "reeve") throughout a shire or county on behalf of the king.[2] The term was preserved in England notwithstanding the Norman Conquest. From the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the term spread to several other regions, at an early point to Scotland, latterly to Ireland and to the United States.
In British English, the political or legal office of a sheriff, term of office of a sheriff, or jurisdiction of a sheriff, is called a shrievalty[3] in England and Wales, and a sheriffdom[4] in Scotland.
The Arabic term sharif ("noble"), sometimes rendered sherif, bears no historical or etymological connection.
A sheriff's office exists in most Australian states and territories, with various duties.
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Most provinces and territories in Canada operate a sheriffs service. Sheriffs are primarily concerned with services such as courtroom security, post-arrest prisoner transfer, serving legal processes and executing civil judgements. Sheriffs are defined under section 2 of the Criminal Code as "peace officers". Sheriff's duties in Ontario deal only with serving legal processes and executing civil judgments. They do not perform court security-related duties. Court security functions are handled by the jurisdictional police (municipal police or the Ontario Provincial Police) in which the courthouse is located. In other parts of Canada, where sheriff's services do not exist, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police perform these duties. Quebec has a two-tiered court security system where armed provincial special constables perform court security and the provincial correctional officers perform prisoner escort/transport duties.
In 2006, the Province of Alberta expanded the duties[10] of the Alberta Sheriffs Branch (the successor to the former Courts and Prisoner Security agency) to include traffic enforcement, protective security and some investigation functions (SISU and SCAN). As of June 2008, the Alberta Sheriffs Branch traffic division includes 105 traffic sheriffs who are assigned to one of seven regions in the province. Sheriffs also assist various police services in Alberta with prisoner management.
The responsibilities of sheriffs in the Province of British Columbia include providing security for the Provincial Court, Supreme Court, and Court of Appeal; planning high-security trials; providing an intelligence unit; assessing threats towards public officials and those employed in the justice system; protecting judges and Crown prosecutors; managing detention cells; transporting prisoners by ground and air; managing and providing protection for juries; serving court-related documents; executing court orders and warrants; and assisting with the coroner's court.
In the Province of Nova Scotia, the sheriffs service focuses on the safety and security of the judiciary, court staff, the public, and persons in custody. There are local sheriffs for every county in Nova Scotia, numbering over 200 in total. They work with up to 20,000 inmates and travel over 2 million kilometers in a year. Sheriffs are responsible for: court security; the transportation of prisoners to and from institutions and all levels of court; the service of some civil and criminal documents; and the execution of court orders. [11]
In Iceland, sheriffs (or magistrates) (Icelandic: sýslumaður (singular), sýslumenn (plural)) are administrators of the state, holders of the executive power in their jurisdiction and heads of their Sheriff's Office. Sheriffs are in charge of certain legal matters that typically involve registration of some sort and executing the orders of the court. The duties of the sheriffs differ slightly depending on their jurisdiction but they can be broadly categorised as:
There are 24 sheriffs and sheriff jurisdictions in Iceland. The jurisdictions are not defined by the administrative divisions of Iceland but are mainly a mixture of counties and municipalities.
The post of sheriff was mandated by the Old Covenant, an agreement between the Icelandic Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Norway. The agreement which was ratified between 1262 and 1264 makes the post of sheriff the oldest secular position of government still operating in Iceland.[15]
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Among cities in India, only Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta) and Chennai (Madras), the three former British Presidencies, have had a Sheriff. First established in the 1700s based on the English High Sheriffs, they were the executive arm of the Judiciary, responsible for assembling jurors, bringing people to trial, supervising the gaoling (imprisonment) of prisoners and seizing and selling property. After the mid-1800s the responsibilities and powers of the role were reduced and the positions became ceremonial. The Sheriffs of Mumbai and Kolkata still exist, although the post in Chennai was abolished in 1998.
In present times the sheriff has an apolitical, non-executive role, presides over various city-related functions and conferences and welcomes foreign guests. The post is second to the mayor in the protocol list.
Sheriffs have been appointed in Ireland since the Norman conquest (late 12th century) to enforce court judgements. In the modern day, a sheriff (Irish: sirriam) is an officer who collects taxes on behalf of the Collector General (part of the Revenue Commissioners). There are sixteen sheriffs in the country: two in Dublin, two in Cork City and twelve for the rest of the country. These twelve sheriffs are also county registrars. Sheriffs enforce the repayment of a debt which has been specified by court order. This can be in the form of payment or, failing that, in the removal and subsequent disposal of assets (a property and/or its contents).[16]
In Scotland the sheriff is a judicial office holder in the sheriff courts, and they are members of the judiciary of Scotland.[17]
The most senior sheriffs are the sheriffs principal, who have administrative as well as judicial authority in the six sheriffdoms, and are responsible for the effective running and administration of all the sheriff courts in their jurisdiction. Sheriffs principal also sit as appeal sheriffs in the Sheriff Appeal Court; hearing appeals against sentencing and conviction from summary trials in the sheriff courts and justice of the peace courts.[18] The additional duties of a sheriff principal include being Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouse Board (which is the general lighthouse authority for Scotland), and chairing local criminal justice boards which bring together local representatives of procurator fiscal, Police Scotland and Community Justice Scotland, and Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service.[19][20]
Sheriffs deal with the majority of civil and criminal court cases in Scotland, with the power to preside in solemn proceedings with a jury of 15 for indictable offences and sitting alone in summary proceedings for summary offences. A sheriff must be legally qualified, and have been qualified as an advocate or solicitor for at least 10 years. The maximum sentencing power of sheriff in summary proceedings is 12 months imprisonment, or a fine of up to £10,000. In solemn proceedings the maximum sentence is 5 years imprisonment, or an unlimited fine.[17]
Sheriffs also preside over fatal accident inquiries which are convened to examine the circumstances around sudden or suspicious deaths, including those who die in the course of employment, in custody, or in secure accommodation.[21][22]
Summary sheriffs hear civil cases brought under Simple Procedure and criminal cases brought under summary proceedings. Their sentencing powers are identical to a sheriff sitting in summary proceedings.[23]
In South Africa, the sheriffs are officers of the court and function as the executive arm of the court. They are responsible for serving court processes like summonses and subpoenas. They play an important role in the execution of court orders like the attachments of immovable and movable property; evictions, demolitions etc.
The Sheriffs Act 90 of 1986, which came into operation on 1 March 1990, governs the profession. A sheriff is appointed by the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development in terms of Section 2 of the Act.[24]
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In the United States, the scope of a sheriff varies across states and counties (which in Louisiana are called "parishes" and in Alaska "boroughs"). The sheriff is most often an elected county official who serves as the chief civil-law enforcement officer of their jurisdiction. The sheriff enforces court orders and mandates and may perform duties such as evictions, seizing property and assets pursuant to court orders, and serving warrants and legal papers. In some counties where urban areas have their own police departments, a sheriff may be restricted to civil procedure enforcement duties, while in other counties, the sheriff may serve as the principal police force and have jurisdiction over all of the county's municipalities, regardless if they have their own city or town/township police department. A sheriff often administers the county jails and is responsible for court security functions within their jurisdiction.
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Sýslumanna er fyrst getið hérlendis í einu handriti að sáttmála þeim sem Íslendingar gerðu við Noregskonung og öðlaðist staðfestingu á árunum 1262 til 1264 og síðar var nefndur Gamli sáttmáli, en með sáttmála þessum má segja að Íslendingar hafi gerst þegnar Noregskonungs. Eru sýslumenn elstu veraldlegu embættismenn sem enn starfa hérlendis og hafa alla tíð verið mikilvægur hluti stjórnsýslunnar.
34) The sheriff is required to make certain findings and is empowered to make recommendations to avoid a recurrence of the incident.
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Temple of Art is a documentary that looks at what it means to be an artist, how to fail beautifully, and proceed with courage.
Helmed by Directors Allan Amato & Olga Nunes, the film sets out to explore the questions around the people who dedicate their life to art.
Is an artist a different kind of person? Is there something in them that compels them forward, haunted by the blank page? Are they tortured souls, animated by the divine? Is it genius? Talent? Or is there a road to art that is equally traceable by all of us?
To make it happen, Allan and Olga formed Good Bully Collective, a ragtag consort of two stink-eyed misfits hell-bent on crow-barring open the hearts of every aspiring artist everywhere, whether they liked it or not. Together they brought the idea to Kickstarter and succeeded in raising eighty thousand dollars to propel the film.
Since then, Allan and Olga have traveled the world interviewing artists and hunting the story that beats at the heart of why we create.
The film is currently in post-production at Good Bully Collective headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, currently slated for release in 2019.


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Vanessa, the Camper Van
Vanessa, the Camper Van was an important part of Tandy Balson's past. Yet Tandy was astonished to be kicked out of her van by a couple of young girls.
Do you have a camper van story? Share your story with us in the comments below or contact us.
Happy Campers
My husband and I purchased a 20+ year old camper van with the name Vanessa stenciled on both sides. I had never named a vehicle before but since this one came with a name I thought I should use it. For that reason I always refer to her as Vanessa.
Our plan is to do some travelling in a compact vehicle with enough creature comforts for us to live in it for weeks at a time. We have a small fridge, a two burner stove, dinette benches that can be used as two single beds or folded together for one large one plus indoor plumbing. Who could ask for more!
First Trip
Our first trip was to be to a three day Gospel Music Celebration . In preparation, we drove her to a lake an hour from home, where we have a larger RV parked. This way we could make sure everything was in working order and have the larger unit to fall back on if needed.
We arrived in the evening so slept in the 5th wheel. The next morning, our 9 year old triplet granddaughters came over for a visit. My son and his family have an RV in the same park and we enjoy frequent visits from the girls.
They had seen inside Vanessa once before, but it had been months ago and they wanted another look. Once inside, the girls took their time exploring and were fascinated with everything they saw. One even said she'd be very happy if she could have Vanessa for her house!
A Girl's Sleepover
They went back to their trailer for lunch and a short while later one returned with her dad. It seems she told grandad she'd like to sleep in Vanessa and he had said maybe she and I could have a girl's sleepover some time. She had taken him at his word and packed a couple of bags to bring back!
My son wanted to check with me to make sure this was OK. Although it was news to me, I agreed and soon she was back with everything she'd need for the night. I'm thinking she wanted to bring her belongings over before I had a chance to change my mind!
Kicking In Bed
Miss K put her bags in Vanessa and went off to find her sisters. I put a chair in the sunshine and sat down to start reading a new book. Before long there were two girls standing before me. Miss S also wanted to sleep in Vanessa.
- I thought. This will work if I convert the twin beds into one big one. The first night sleeping in Vanessa was supposed to be with my husband but I couldn't refuse these two excited girls. Their sister showed no interest in this sleepover so there should be room for all three of us. My husband was fine with having the big trailer all to himself!
The girls each chose the single bed they wanted. This was not how it was supposed to go. I told them we'd all sleep together on the big bed. They responded by telling me they both kicked and I wouldn't want to be with them!
Voted Out of My Van
To show them how much room we would have, my husband transformed the beds as they excitedly watched. The three of us lay down and I thought this was a positive sign. Then one said, "Have you made a decision, because I have?" The other quickly said, "Me, too." Just like that, I was voted out of my own van!
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I texted my daughter-in-law, certain she would say I needed to be with them. They would have to agree if their mom said so. Imagine my surprise when their mom said she didn't see a problem with it.
We were in a gated, secure family rv park so safety shouldn't be an issue. Still, shouldn't they have someone to protect them or comfort them if they became afraid? It was hours before bed time so plenty of time for them to change their minds.
Fun and Games
The remaining sister headed off for a sleepover with a cousin and these girls asked me what was for supper. They played in Vanessa and referred to us as their neighbours who had invited them for dinner. After dinner they invited us to come over for a visit and to play Snakes & Ladders. We were told, "Just knock on the door and we'll let you in." After two games it was time for lights out and the neighbours were sent home.
We left Vanessa's outside light on as well as the one for the big trailer. The girls knew they could come and get us any time during the night. They were very brave and didn't think this would be necessary. To them this was an exciting adventure and there was nothing to fear.
The Best Sleep Ever
After a long night for my husband and me, we heard the happy chatter of the girls as they approached our door just after 7 am. They told us they'd had the best sleep ever. I wish we could have said the same.
What we did have was the knowledge we'd created some very special memories for our granddaughters. They had tried something new and loved every minute of it. Instead of letting our fears squash their experience we trusted (and prayed a lot) and ended up with very happy campers.
Tandy Balson
Tandy Balson is a wife, mother, grandmother, friend, volunteer and observer of life. She is also a also a contributor to our Christian internet radio station, HopeStreamRadio. Contact us if you are a truth seeker and need some answers. Read and hear more from Tandy Balson on the contributor's page or on her website, www.timewithtandy.com
Tandy's show, "Time With Tandy" airs on HopeStreamRadio. In her program she reflects on spiritual lessons from her observations of life, to encourage and strengthen us in our faith.
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I just got in this heated debate with my sister about the issue of giving my daughter an allowance for doing chores. For quite some time she's pretty much the one responsible for cleaning up hers and Kenzi's room and their playroom. Just recently I feel that Kenzi actually helps her finally but before she helped poor Ave, whether she made the mess or not, was usually the one cleaning it up. She also helps clear the dinner table some nights and now that we have a dishwasher she also helps by emptying the silverware sometimes.
I do think she should do these things because well there are just some things you do because it's what you're suppose to do. Everything she does she shouldn't do just because she gets a reward, but I do know my daughter as much as my well meaning sister may forget that fact. Even though yes sometimes I will have to fight with her to pick up her room or playroom, there are other times she'll tidy it all up just because she's either tired of the mess or she wants to surprise me. She'll also jump in with helping me around the house with chores because again she does it because she has a good heart.
I find two purposes with paying her an allowance. One it teaches her the idea of working for your money so just like with this past vacation she will get a little practice seeing that when it comes to money you have to choose what you're going to buy with what you have because you can't buy everything. I think it's important to learn early that you can't buy everything you want so spend your money wisely.
Even though I will at first give her this money to put in her piggy bank and will let her spend some of it, some of it is also going in her savings with the other money we've been putting in their monthly in hopes of building her a little head start when all those expenses around 16 start coming at us and her faster than we can keep up with. This lead to the second argument.
I worked since I was sixteen, chose to go to community college first because I had an academic scholarship that paid for the first two years there. From there I got a transfer scholarship to a university and after four years total with a Bachelors took out less in loans than what it cost for the first year of college today. Throughout both college experiences I worked and paid for a lot of my extra expenses like rent, utilities, groceries, car payment, insurance, and phone. My parents would slip me a little grocery money when they could and paid my car while I was student teaching. This was all a very valuable experience to me. However, I think if my parents would have been able to help us a little more they would have. It's just there were three of us, and they just didn't have the means to do it. I don't think negatively of this experience at all.
However, again my well meaning but childless sister thinks that they need the tough love parenting whether we have the means to help them or not. No allowance, get a job at sixteen to pay for everything, community college first to save money, and work and loans to get their Bachelors. Even though Nate and I disagree on this I do support the idea of them getting a job in high school unless they're a four season athlete, and again unless they're on an athletic scholarship they're going to have to work to help cover their college expenses. There is plenty time in college to work, and I will expect them to do that first before taking out unnecessary loans. I'm not for paying for everything for them because I don't think it teaches them anything valuable. However, I know with things like prom, driving, college, and then weddings and possibly their first house all within the span of possibly ten years (16-26) it's a crazy expensive time of their life.
My parenting thinking is give them as much of a head start as I can. If we can save up money for her to have a small savings to build on when she does start working part time at 16 or 17 and have a small college savings to help off set the cost hopefully she will learn the value of work ethic and managing money wisely and hopefully not start out in the adult world buried in ridiculous debt from school loans and life events like marriage and home down payments. These are huge expenses. I don't see us realistically or even expect us to cover the expenses of all of these but I don't really think I should deny them our help if we can help them.
So what are your thoughts on giving kids an allowance for chores? On them working in high school and/or college? On paying for college? I would love to hear what you have to say. Feel free to disagree with me :)
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This patent-pending formula is so potent that the whole laboratory had to be abandoned.
Nerd Repellant is a gadget which closes the whole laboratory, and gives it an abandoned appearance. There are no scientists, tumbleweeds roll on the ground, and the red flashing lights turn off. It also makes some door lights flicker and some of the doors have cobwebs on them and some of the lights flicker on and off. Although it is often overlooked due to its seemingly aesthetic use, it can be useful, for example, if the player wants to avoid scattering or touching any scientists when, for example, one of the challenges is to avoid harming any scientists for X meters and the player wants to use the Machine Gun Jetpack or vehicles (maybe to do a vehicle challenge simultaneously). It is especially helpful when trying to get the "Germaphobe" achievement, where you must travel 2 km without touching any coins, scientists or spin tokens, which can be very difficult to get without Nerd Repellant. Otherwise, it's effects are mainly aesthetic, and provides a change from the normal scenery. Also, it makes some missions impossible, such as "High Five 75 Scientists" or "Crush 25 Scientists With Lil' Stomper".
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Foxhol Yard launches Subsea Support Vessel
The new-build Subsea Support vessel, named MV Deep Helder, was launched at Foxhol Yard Groningen on 23rd April.
The vessel will be equipped with Survey and ROV systems, an offshore crane and 3 moonpools. It will ready for operations by July this year. A total of 50 personnel can be accommodated on the vessel.
"Deep Helder" will be a cost effective vessel that we plan to operate on Survey (Geophysics, Inspection & Geotechnical) , IMR and light weight trenching, excavation and Mattress Installation projects for our customers in the oil & gas and renewable markets" says Rick Green, DeepOcean's General Manager of DeepOcean B.V.
The 65 m long DP2 class & 4point mooring vessel is designed for low fuel consumption, clean ship/green passport/SPS2008 and high comfort class notation (Comf1). The vessel Deep Helder is being built by De Hoop Lobith at the Foxhol Yard, Groningen in the Netherlands. The ship management and marine crewing shall be undertaken by Seamar Subsea B.V and the vessel shall sail under the Dutch Flag.
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ABBEY NATIONAL and HALLIWELL LANDAUgreenspun.com : LUSENET : Repossession : One Thread
because Abbey threatened repo,i transferred my mortgage i asked for a redemption figure,however when the transfer was done and dusted i recieved a final statement upon reading i found that they had deducted an extra Ł1750.00 for legal costs.this was for an invoice submitted at the last moment by Halliwell Landau for legal costs back dated for three years this was ontop of costs deducted during the duration of the account.
i threatened court action to the Abbey and they settled out of court but could only pay me Ł1000 as this represented the profit part of Halliwell landaus bill.
i accepted this and then pursued the remainder from Halliwell landau who refused to re pay me the money.
not being able to afford a solicitor i took them to court for the remainder, in reply to my claim against them they applied for a summary judgement,this i found out was so they could claim costs,as they would not been able to do so if my claim was heard,i waited 3 months and did not get a date for a hearing,they applied for summary judgement and got a hearing date within 1 week of their application.its not what you know,but who you know within the courts system.
they got my claim dismissed and now i have to pay thier court costs Ł1500, within 3weeks of that they issued a statuary demand and now threatening me with a bankruptcy petion
can anybody help
-- mark lancaster (firstname.lastname@example.com), April 24, 2003
I think you need to fight fire with fire here and get good legal help. Although, I'm afraid I'm very sceptical about "British Justice" these days. You may be able to get legal aid (even if you are working, as I understand it, depending on your income). Bear in mind though that LSC funded services for civil cases are only available from solicitors or advice agencies which hold a contract with the Legal Services Commission. Perhaps you could obtain 'full representation' and a barrister. Take a look at the Legal Services Commission site "www.legalservices.gov.uk" and particularly the section entitled "A Practical Guide to Community Legal Service funding by the Legal Services Commission April 2003" The following is taken from the guide mentioned previously, it will give you an idea:
2.4 Do I qualify financially?
You must be able to show that your capital AND your income are within the current financial limits. If you are married or living with someone as a couple, your partner's capital and income will be included unless:
You live apart because your relationship is over There is a conflict of interest between you in the matter for which you are seeking help (for instance if you want advice about a divorce).
2.5 Capital: do I qualify?
Work out your disposable capital (see Section 7 of this guide). If this exceeds Ł3,000 you will not be eligible.
2.6 Income: do I qualify?
If you are receiving income support or income based jobseeker's allowance you will be eligible on income but your capital will still need to be assessed.
If you are not receiving one of these benefits your solicitor will take the actual gross income in the past month of yourself and your partner (see Section 7). If this exceeds Ł2,288 you will not be eligible. A higher limit applies if you have more than 4 dependant children in your family for whom you receive child benefit (see table in Section 7). If your gross income is Ł2,288 or less your solicitor will then calculate your disposable income (see Section 7). If your monthly disposable income exceeds Ł621 per month you will not be eligible.
Hope this is of some use. Good Luck.
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If you drop by Gran Canaria and want to make the most of your stay on the archipelago, you can now enjoy entertaining activities on the exotic sand dunes of Gran Canaria: don't miss out the Camel Safar experience!
An activity fit for friends and family in which you can enjoy the warm subtropical climate together with the camels. Be surprised by the fantastic views facing the African coast.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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PAPRC will on occasion rent out the Silhouette or Multi-Purpose Range to selected, qualified groups. Groups wishing to rent the range can contact the Secretary-Treasurer Dude or the Chief Range Officer to book one of the ranges. Renters can pick up the Key fob the day before the rental. Please return it the evening of or the morning after your rental.
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I'm developing on a windows machine using netbeans (Currently looking into automatic deployment to the Pi through SSH).
So far I've built a little test program using the swing gui framework/toolkit. My next goal is to get this running on the Pi but I'm not really sure where to start. It's very easy to test on windows while developing, you just press the run button and your program pops up. However I'm scratching my head trying to get it to run on the Pi.
As I haven't set up the SSH deployment yet I'm just trying to run it off a USB stick. I assume you need to compile the java code and then run it in the same way as you do in this tutorial - http://www.savagehomeautomation.com/piface see below:
I'm using the same commands as above but with a different java file. It seems to compile fine but when I go to run it I get the following:
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cd /opt/pi4j/examples
javac -classpath .:classes:/opt/pi4j/lib/'*' -d . PiFaceExample.java
cd /opt/pi4j/examples
sudo java -classpath .:classes:/opt/pi4j/lib/'*' PiFaceExample
Is this something to do with me not using the pi4j library in the program i'm trying to run? If someone could help me fathom what I need to do to get it to run that would be brilliant.
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ContentEditor (wrong name: content/ editor/ContentEditor)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:792)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:14 2)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
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An earthquake of around 7 magnitude has struck China's far western region of Xinjiang.
There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
China's government put the epicentre in Yutian county in the far south of Xinjiang. It is mostly desert and mountain but also has land used for farming.
Local authorities say the nearest settlement is
some 50 kilometres away and that a 20-person rescue team was being sent to the area.
The US Geological Survey initially put the magnitude at 6.9 before downgrading it to 6.8.
Chinese authorities have put the magnitude at 7.3.


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WDW Memorable Mentions
I am dedicating this post to the Men and Women (I know, I'm going outside the box) that showcase the great things that WDW and Walt himself stands for. Below are my TOP Promoters of the WDW Lifestyle. This list may change and please do not be offended if your not on the list now, you might just be sometime as this is a rotational list. I am listing the TOP people who have helped promote ME and the Disney Dad community! This is how I can say, Thank You.
- StudiosCentral.com – Thank You Matt – Dude, you rock in the community and I love following your Sunday trips! A fellow Connecticut runaway like myself enjoying some Florida sun.
- VacationFieldGuides.com – Tracie, you have a personality that screams Disney! Your books are spot on and very helpful.
- MagicDisMom.com – A Photo Blog of an amazing woman and her child. Live in the footsteps of Krystal.
- EyeOfMara.com – A unique spin on the world of Audio Animatronics and the world of Disney. Play well humans!