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Wat Arun is one of the most popular sites in Bangkok, Thailand, and one of the most photogenic. In fact, it was at the top of my photography checklist when we planned one of our many trips to our favorite Thai city. Most visitors to Wat Arun won't even see the best view, though, let alone get a photo. In this post, I'll tell you where you can find that great angle (and what you'll have to do to get a photo).
Where is Wat Arun?
What Arun is that beautiful temple on the East side of the Chao Phraya River. I've already described where it is and the best way to get there in my previous article about Wat Arun. But those directions are for visiting the temple. Even though you can take some great photos there, you won't capture the one at the beginning of this article. You're too close to the subject.
Finding the Best Photography Angle for Wat Arun
I first became interested in Wat Arun when I saw a photo that I liked. However, once I arrived at the temple grounds, I quickly realized that I was in the wrong spot. I made the best of the situation, enjoying the scenery and culture, and eating a whole pineapple (don't judge me, I was dehydrated).
But mostly, I was keeping an eye out for the location where I would need to stand for the perfect shot. In hindsight, it was obvious that I was on the wrong side of the river. I'd been assuming that the photo was taken from the ferry on the way to the temple, but the ferry approached from the north, and the angle was never dead on.
From the temple grounds, I looked across the water, and tried to use my arms to draw a straight line between the temple's summit and the opposite shore. It looked as though I would have to stand in a run down little wooden building that was hanging out over the water. I didn't know how I was going to find it, but I knew someone had done it before because I'd seen photos.
Back Across the River
As I returned to the Eastern side of Chao Phraya, I kept my eyes on that building and tried to gauge how far it was to the south of the dock. I walked back out of the ferry building (Google Maps), and turned south down the first alley I saw.
My plan was to use that classic method for navigating a maze: just turn right every time, and you'll get there eventually!
As it turned out, the alley didn't actually have that many turns on the right hand side, so I mostly just walked south.
The alley was narrow at times, dark at times, and in some places it was kind of smelly. Often a road would intersect it from the left, and I could see down the street to Wat Pho (another beautiful temple in Bangkok). Only rarely did catch a glimpse of the river through a crack in a fence or a window in a building. I would peak through whenever I could to see if I was getting closer to that perfect head on view of Wat Arun.
A Good (But Not Quite Perfect) Angle
Eventually, I came to a promising location. It had all the hallmarks of a good photography spot. 1) It was on the water. 2) It was open to the public and 3) the owner of the location was willing to let you take photos if you were a customer. I'd found a restaurant called The Deck at Arun Residence (Arun Residence is a hotel).
When the host saw me sticking my head inside, he quickly came over and urged me to enter. So I entered. The Deck at Arun Residence had enormous windows along the Western side of the building, which provided a great view of the river and Wat Arun on the opposite side. There was also a patio outside (reservations required) that would provide an even better view without a windows reflection to obstruct it.
(The prices were reasonable, so a couple days later, Dannie and Lisa came to the restaurant and enjoyed some Italian food. If you think it's strange to order Italian food at a restaurant in Bangkok, then you probably aren't there on a visa run during your year in China. The food was good and the staff was friendly and accommodating to us and our daughter. We also discovered that they have a rooftop patio for another good view, though it was crowded and it might be hard to set up a tripod)
By the way, the two photos above are taken from the same window. To find out how I made the temple look closer in the second one, read my article about zoom lenses.
But though the view from the restaurant was excellent, I could tell from looking at the spires around Wat Arun that I still wasn't lined up quite right. I had to walk further south. I looked at the menu, then made an excuse and left.
So Where is it Already?
Continuing down the alley, I came to a building composed wooden planks separated by gaps of up to an inch. The structure hung out over the water, and I could see the river through the floor. I couldn't tell whether it was a home or a business, but there was a kitchen inside. The building didn't really have much in the way of walls, and inside, nailed to a wooden beam I saw this sign:
I had a feeling this was the right spot. I called out, but no one answered me, so I took a photo of the sign. I kept walking down the street, for a while just to make sure I'd gone the right distance and soon found that I'd passed the temple. That must have been it.
I went back and decided to risk being caught trespassing, I stepped carefully through the entrance and peered around a corner toward the river. I could see the Wat Arun, the spires lined up perfectly, indicating that this was indeed directly across from the target. I couldn't call the phone number on the sign, but I was eager to pay 100TBT to take a great photo.
I tried to ask around, but no one nearby spoke English, and I don't speak any Thai. Eventually, someone pointed at that location and said "seven" I took that to mean that the owner would be there at seven pm, so I made plans to return then and get my shot.
I saved the location here on Google Maps so I wouldn't have to walk down the alley again to find it. The platform that you have to stand on doesn't feel particularly secure, and the planks are pretty far apart. If you have kids with you, you are probably better off going to that restaurant for photos.
What to Bring
Here's what you're going to want to have with you when you set out to find that location and take your photos.
- 100 Thai Baht: Don't be a trespassing jerk. Pay the woman who lives there if you want to use her dock to take pictures. If she's not there, come back again later. It's not public property. Don't assume they'll have change for 1000.
- Your Camera and Lens: I used my Nikon D810 with a 24-70mm lens, fully extended at 70mm. I honestly might have zoomed further, but it would have meant using a heavier lens, and I was worried about balancing it all on that dock.
- Your Tripod: Any tripod will do (I won't link you to mine because I hate it). Just keep in mind that the dock sways a little bit when a a big boat goes by, so if your exposure is too long there will be some blurring. I mostly used the tripod because I wanted to do an HDR image and a time lapse video (see below).
- Sunblock: This is self explanatory, as Bangkok can be quite sunny. We usually use this baby safe sunblock when we travel, but anything SPF 50 or higher will protect you.
- Water: I wouldn't drink the river water if I were you. Maybe buy a bottle before you head out.
- Your Smartphone: I went to the trouble to get you those Google Maps coordinates. You might as well use them.
When to Photograph Wat Arun
Basically you want to go at sunset. Show up at least 20 minutes early though to make sure you can find the woman who lives there. Also, I was glad I got there in time because another photographer showed up after me and I'd already staked out the best spot.
This link should tell you the time of sunset in Bangkok tonight.
I just thought I'd mention here that if you aren't confident shooting in tricky lighting situations, you might want to check out my ebook, Easy Manual Mode Photography, which will help you take the guesswork out of creating your images.
So that's about it. Grab your camera and track down the house opposite Wat Arun. If you found this article helpful, check out the rest of our material about Bangkok, Thailand, or the other cities we've visited on our destinations page. If you'd like to help support us in our travels, consider heading over to our shop the next time you are planning a trip. Happy travels!


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NEWPORT — Hospitals and healthcare systems across the U.S. are using information technology (IT) to improve the delivery of care to patients.
The College of Healthcare Information Executives, known as CHIME, recently named North Country Hospital as one of Healthcare's Most Wired.
The honor, which is given to hospitals that are at the forefront of using healthcare IT to improve the delivery of care, was announced at the Fall 2018 forum in San Diego.
This makes the third consecutive year that North Country Hospital has received this recognition.
This is the first year that CHIME oversaw the Most Wired program.
The group revised and streamlined the survey to make sure questions reflect leading practices and successful, innovative uses of technology.
Other changes include creating a new scoring methodology, setting a higher threshold to become a recipient.
As a result of these more rigorous standards, North Country Hospital was the only hospital in Vermont that was recognized as Most Wired 2018.
"The evaluation and scoring changes speak volumes to North Country Hospital receiving this recognition for the third time," said Chief Operating Officer, Tom Frank. "We have a fantastic team of skilled experts in information technology here, and with every project, they take the time and detailed analysis essential for the best outcomes."
IT has changed dramatically over the past 15 to 20 years, as has the role of the managers who oversee the technology and support staff at their respective healthcare organizations.
In this new age, they must be strategic and visionary leaders, who with their teams, can transform healthcare and continue to improve patient outcomes.
One of the additional benefits of being a recipient of this honor is that each awarded healthcare organization receives a benchmark report with their overall score and a breakdown in each section of the survey, which can be used as a strength and gap analysis tool.
"Most Wired is a great way for us to see how North Country Hospital compares to organizations across the country, and to identify ways that we can further use IT to improve patient services," noted Kate Pierce, Executive Director of IT/Informatics.
In the summer of 2018, North Country replaced three main medical record systems with a single integrated system, called athenahealth.
This move was instrumental in ensuring that North Country Hospital can continue to meet technological advances in the healthcare industry for 2019 and beyond.
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Senior Ryan Sanders scores twice as Dexter improves to 11-0-1 on the season
By Michael Waltz
Dexter had complete control of its game against Pinckney from the kickoff.
Just a few minutes into Tuesday's game, intense pressure on the Pinckney defense lead to a corner kick for Dreads' senior Ryan Sanders. This ultimately lead to the first goal of the game by senior Cole Harrell knocking it in after a scramble out front.
Just a couple minutes later at the 34-minute mark in the first half, Sanders headed in another goal making it 2-0 dreads. Dexter sustained the intense pressure throughout the first half, but couldn't add to the lead. The Dreads had multiple missed shots and other scoring opportunities the kept the Pirates within two.
Finally, at around the five-minute mark, Pinckney got its first shot on net. For the last four minutes of the first half, the Pirates started to pick up the energy, but couldn't seem to get anything to connect.
With 30 seconds left in the first, Harrell had a nice move deking through the opponent's legs but his shot sailed high and the Dreads led 2-0 at halftime.
As the second half started, the Dreadnaughts picked up right where they left off by ramping up the energy. Only a few minutes go by until a pass from Dexter senior Jaylen Bonilla across the field to Sanders is shot and goes in off the post to make it 3-0 Dexter.
With 33 minutes left in the second, Pinckney's goalie made a great save to keep the game within three.
Keeping the shots coming, Dexter senior Jordan Laski makes a diving header from a corner kick making the score 4-0 with 26:36 left in the second half. Dexter senior Daniel Higgins showing great determination shooting one from the corner and going in to get his own rebound but stopped both times by the Pinckney goaltender.
"I didn't think I could reach it with my foot, so I dove with my head and placed it to the side of the goalie," Laski said. "I kind of knew I was going to make it because Jaylen played a good ball."
The Pinckney goaltender continued to make excellent saves, using a diving stop to prevent a goal from Dexter junior Alex Doletzky with 13:41 left in the game. Dexter continually kept possession for nearly all of the final 13 minutes to finish off a 4-0 victory.
"Excellence" is how junior Noah Rogge chose to describe his teams preformance. Rogge explained that ball possession was a key part to their victory over Pinckney. The win improves Dexter's impressive record to 11-0-1 on the season.


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Coffee with Crafts took place in our Omagh office in May. Four clients from Omagh participated in the workshops and all were successful in gaining a Level 1 Certificate in Vocational Skills, made up of 2 units – using mixed media and team work. The theme for their project was 'nature' and all participants engaged well picking the season they felt more drawn too. At the end of the two weeks we had an exhibition where we had all the creative pieces on display for family and friends to come and admire. The work that both the tutors and participants put in was very clear to see in the end result, with framed pictures of vibrant colours resembling their chosen season, sample books of different types of patterns and a final piece which the ladies all worked on together. All of the clients really enjoyed the course and felt that they would hope to keep up their craft work. Some of the ladies found that taking part in the workshops boosted their confidence as they never would have joined a group before where they did not know anyone, but thought that they could do this again in the future if they found another workshop they would like to participate in!
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I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with polling. On the one hand, it seems reasonable to want a snapshot of how the public feels about issues and candidates at any given moment; it's easy to understand why political strategists and activists desire such information. Taking polls from a number of sources, as a site like RealClearPolitics does, helps to overcome the inevitable weaknesses, sampling errors, and perhaps deliberate bias of individual polls.
On the other hand, polls are often a cheap tactic to manufacture news, and there's always the question of creating feedback loops, as people respond to media coverage of polls and change their opinions to conform with a perceived majority. Opinions change over time. Should our representatives be working to move the polls, as leaders, or trying to follow them?
With those caveats in mind, it's interesting to see polls for both President Obama and ObamaCare cratering. ABC News/Washington Post has Obama at 41 percent approval, with "strong" disapproval 17 points higher than strong approval – the lowest numbers of his presidency in that poll, showing both an erosion of his core support and rapidly growing strong opposition. ObamaCare gets 44 percent support, a drop of 5 points from their last poll, and a whopping 60 percent (correctly) blame the "Affordable" Care Act for rising health care costs.
And the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for April puts ObamaCare at 38 percent approve, 46 percent disapprove, with no measurable lasting effect from Obama's "7 million signups" victory lap on April Fool's Day. Also, detonating a frequent talking point from ObamaCare apologists – which has been used to justify even more taxpayer money wasted on advertising the ACA boondoggle – only 14 percent of the uninsured seemed unclear about how the individual mandate worked; the rest say coverage is still too expensive for them, or they were unable to purchase coverage.
Considering the staggering level of media hype given Obama's "victory lap," and the almost total absence of actual journalism on the subject (i.e. Big Media relayed those cooked numbers from the Administration without question) these are some remarkably bad poll numbers. The "ObamaCare cannot be repealed" argument looks increasingly threadbare – the American people still hate it, they're not falling for any of the Administration's propaganda about how successful it is, they haven't forgiven Obama for the disastrous rollout or the Big Lies about keeping our insurance and health care providers, and they're very interested in giving the Republicans a shot at creating something better. Obama's personal unpopularity, and the growing sense of fatigue with Democrat rule, will make things rough for ObamaCare dead-enders.
And even if the logistics of passing an ObamaCare repeal bill before 2016 are unworkable – there's no way Obama would fail to veto it, no matter how bad his polls look – the Republicans should make him use that veto pen after they win the Senate. Make him pay the price – make his whole party pay a price such as history has rarely seen – for what they inflicted on the American people. There's no better way to set up a good year in 2016 than forcing Democrats to spend 2015 defending the indefensible.


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On the evening of September 11th, we meet together -- all of the members of the Chapter together with a substantial group of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis hailing from different communities -- inside the Chapel of the Motherhouse. The desire is to pray together, at the grave of our Founder, by honoring the healing charism and by celebrating the fact that we are sisters and daughters of Mother Frances.
It is an unforgettable moment that we experience together, and which is imprinted in our minds and hearts for its beauty and profound meaning.
The initial greeting from Sr. Martha Kruszynski, Mother General of the SPSF and from Sr. Licia Mazzia introduces us into an environment of mutual welcoming, alliances...in a single word: sorority.
Here are a few passages:
"It is an immense joy, after 59 years, to be able to welcome you and your General Chapter into our Motherhouse, here in Aachen.
Our two communities, over the course of the past years, have undertaken a journey of reconciliation and we now live together as sisters. This is a very precious gift from God!" (sr Martha)
"Together we want to honor our healing charism. It is the gift that we have received for the good of suffering humanity, in order to heal the wounds of the poor and to heal our wounds, so that we can live as witnesses of the Resurrection" (sr Licia)
We continue to reread some pages of Mother Frances which present to us once again our common roots and our common charism.
The exchange of peace amongst everyone is heartwarming: it is a celebration (even if a little chaotic) of people who want to reach each other in order to declare to each other their mutual affection and esteem. The celebrations continue under the emblem of internationality with typical food dishes from each of our countries and dances that involve everyone with joy and cheerfulness.
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Montague softens tone towards Quallo over Palisadoes gridlock
The national security minister has softened his tone towards the Commissioner of Police, George Quallo, over the traffic nightmare on the Palisadoes Road on New Year's Day.
It was total gridlock along the roadway as patrons attending a party blocked the road for several hours causing delays for arriving and departing passengers to the nearby Norman Manley International Airport.
The road provides the only vehicular access to the airport.
Montague had blasted Quallo's preliminary report on the incident calling it inadequate and disappointing.
In rejecting the report, Montague said it did not meet the standards which the Jamaican public has come to expect of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).
He was criticised by some for his stance towards the police commissioner with critics saying that his action was another example of Montague's interference in the operational duties of the JCF and Quallo.
This afternoon, in a statement to the House of Representatives, Montague, said, in retrospect, he has concluded that he could have handled the matter differently.
Addressing concerns about ministerial interference, Montague said his sole reason for demanding answers on behalf of the public is to foster a culture of accountability.
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Some of my friends have asked me: 'Why do we become ill?" It has inspired me to write today's post and share some reflections with you. The truth will not be easy to swallow, but I believe that then we will take some action to achieve longevity in good health.
6 Reasons Why We Become Ill
I will not write anything new. However, what I will write will be backed up by personal experience and knowledge. Generally speaking, there are five reasons for becoming ill, of which three are physical, another two are spiritual and one can belong to both categories.
1. Intoxication
We are being poisoned from everywhere. Let me mention only some of the sources:
Everyone has heard about chemtrails – the streaks looking like the condensation traces from planes. Yet if you look at the sky more carefully, these streaks vary – they are longer and grow, spreading on their sides. Then they create a kind of cloud, but it is not a cloud. Eventually, all the chemicals contained in chemtrails fall on the ground – on everything around, including water and soil. We also breathe the toxic heavy metals existing there, like aluminum, barium, copper and many others, exceeding the norms sometimes even a thousand times.
Chemtrails are not the only source of toxins from the air. Think of the fumes from cars, the smoke from houses heated by coal (not the smokeless one). Don't forget about the risk of inhaling toxins while working as a painter, hairdresser, working with welding or being a miner.
The last but not least important category comprises… smoking – cigarettes and cannabis. Nearly all the Mendeleyev's board is there. Even e-cigarettes are not safer.
As I wrote before, all the toxic heavy metals from chemtrails and other pollutants in the air fall on the ground and get to the soil with water or by tillage. Farmers plow the soil mixing the toxic ingredients and putting them even deeper. Next, they can pollute the underground waters.
Then the farmer sows or plants out wonderful crops which absorb the toxins from the soil. These dangerous ingredients are then built in the plants' leaves, roots, and fruit and we buy them in the shop, mostly from supermarkets. When you add pesticides and herbicides, from which glyphosate is the worst, soil and food pollution is inevitable.
All the pollutants mentioned in the section about the air fall to the seas, oceans, and the sources of freshwater, lakes, rivers, ponds which become poisoned. And all the pollutants from the soil can also reach rivers and underground waters. Rainwater can be also polluted. You have probably heard about acid rains in some areas of the world. Even if water is treated for drinking, toxic elements are also used there, like fluoride.
You can not only be intoxicated by drinking water. Having a swim in a polluted lake or sea is equally dangerous. Toxins can be absorbed by your skin plus they can irritate it. Therefore, it is important to swim and go only to blue flag beaches.
I have already mentioned about the toxins absorbed by plants. But then farm animals eat these plants. Cows, goats, geese and other creatures absorb the toxic elements from their food and store in their bodies, eggs, milk. Then we process their meat, milk or eggs, adding even more artificial preservatives, commonly starting with the capital letter E.
Think of the cattle, pig, chicken or turkey breeding run on a mass scale. Food is enriched with hormones, antibiotics, and preservatives the same as ours. These animals should eat as much as possible to become fatty (geese, ducks) or to grow as fast as possible (pigs, chicken). Their meat and fat are not natural and they have cumulated plenty of toxins.
Apart from the real food we also eat desserts, drink coffee or tea, energizing sweet drinks. Even if there is no sugar in them, I can assure you, the glucose-fructose syrup or aspartame are even worse.
2. Lack of Necessary Ingredients
On the contrary, our food does not provide us with enough necessary ingredients, especially micro and macro elements. We need nutrients and catalysts. In some cases, the norm is even higher than for an average human being.
Very few people have the right level of selenium or silica, because the soil is stratified and depleted from the necessary elements by excessive farming. Today's fruit has much less vitamin C than 30 years ago and in the winter we suffer from vitamin D3 shortage because of little sun. Even in the summer, work indoors, eat in canteens instead of going out during the lunchtime. Many people suffer from magnesium shortage, mostly because of drinking caffeine which is not only in coffee.
The Special Cases
In some cases, even the right supply of nutrients can be insufficient. When you have flu or cold your body needs more vitamin C and D3, you need more folic acid while pregnant and during intense exercises or heavy physical work you need many more electrolytes than while sitting in front of your computer.
The Catalysts
Lack or shortage of some ingredients can also speed up intoxication of your body. All the antioxidants, while missing, will impair elimination of your own endogenic toxins – free radicals. Too little or no citric acid from lemons, for example, will not remove uric acid from your joints or tendons, causing gout or various inflammations.
In a Nutshell
We become ill because of five reasons. I have described the two first in this article, the rest will be published in the next post. Today you could learn that both intoxication and nutrients shortage can generate illnesses, including the worst ones like cancer.


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For and from love have poured many rows of ink, many books and songs written, many movies made and the biggest dramas lived.
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April, 6. 2012.
at the Béla Bartók – National Concert Hall
The concert begins at 7.30 p.m. last till 10 p.m.
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Phone number: (36 -1-555-3001 or +36-1- 555-3002)
(Opposite to the National Theater. Here's a map to show you around: http://mupa.hu/en/megkozelithetoseg/
On this evening's program, the Hungarian National Philharmonic (http://www.filharmonikusok.hu/english) : Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (suite, op. 64)
Brahms-Schönberg: Piano Quartet in G-minor, Arnold Scheonberg's transciption for orchestra.
Mr. Mattias Barnert, Swiss conductor will be leading the Hungarian National Philharmonic.
In the first part of the concert, Prokofiev's suite will be performed in a version never heard before in Hungary.
The second half features classical music, but again not in its original form.
The Piano Quartet – orchestra transcription
(" Johannes Brahms was one of Arnold Schoenberg's main examples. He dedicated several writings to the composer, taught his students the elderly maestro's compositional techniques and in 1937 he transcribed for symphony orchestra Brahms's G-minor Piano Quartet (1861). When asked, just before the premiere, why he had chosen this particular work and what he had in mind when transcribing it, he replied, 'My reasons: 1. I like this piece. 2. It is seldom played. 3. It is always very badly played, because the better the pianist, the louder he plays and you hear nothing from the strings. I wanted once to hear everything, and this I achieved. My intentions: 1. To remain strictly in the style of Brahms and not to go father than he himself would have gone if he lived today. 2. To watch carefully all these laws which Brahms obeyed […].' Schoenberg changed nothing in the music of the great German master, and the performance apparatus roughly corresponds to a Brahmsian orchestra. The translucent orchestration allows for every part and every small detail to be heard, and consequently the sonority is perplexingly evocative of Brahms's symphonies. The listener experiences a curious illusion of hearing a symphony where there is in fact no symphony, as if he or she were hearing Brahms, but it is in fact not Brahms, since there is no real passage between the different musical eras. If Brahms had wanted to compose a symphony, obviously he would have conceived a completely different work in terms of music and form. The transcription is no more and no less than what the composer intended: a compositional bravura and a curiosity to the audiences of today.
Mr. Matthias Bamert
Matthias Bamert studied music in his native Switzerland, as well as in Darmstadt and Paris, falling in with the likes of Boulez and Stockhausen; these associations can be well detected in his own compositions. He assisted Stokowski at the American Symphony Orchestra in 1970 and 1971, then joined the Cleveland Orchestra's conducting staff under the leadership of Music Director Lorin Maazel. Later on he was Music Director of the Swiss Radio Orchestra, then began making a wider reputation across Europe. He was principal guest conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra and Associate Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. Bamert served as Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival (1992 -1998), where he made inroads in thematic programming and of the London Mozart Players (1993 – 2000). A prolific recording artist, Bamert has made over 80 discs, many of which have won international prizes.")
Seats can be reserved through the Internet, via on their website: http://mupa.hu/en/jegyvasarlasi-lehetosegek/ or can also personally get your tickets at the Place of Art's at cashbox.
Just wish to mention: tickets can be redeemed on the day of the performance by bringing along a print-out copy of the e/mail as the voucher and at the entrance just flip it at the ticket machine and there you go.
There are still a couple of tickets available for the a/m concert, so if you wish to be there, just go for it.
Wish all the tourist spending their Easter holidays in Budapest to have a fine and relaxing holiday and most of all your eyes to enjoy this beautiful environment at the Palace of Art and the fascinating sound for your ears.
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PORTSMOUTH — Former police chief David "Lou" Ferland and police Sgt. Aaron Goodwin both can't be telling the truth about when Goodwin disclosed that he was in line to inherit an elderly woman's valuable estate.
According to a sworn Nov. 18 deposition of the ex-chief, Ferland contradicts Goodwin's claim that he informed his chief, 10 months before the woman died, that she wanted to bequeath her house to him. Ferland's deposition was taken as part of a probate court dispute involving the $2.7 million estate of the late Geraldine Webber, who left her waterfront home, valuable stocks and bonds and a low-mileage Cadillac to Goodwin.
The police sergeant denies allegations by multiple parties alleging Webber was impaired by dementia when he exerted undue influence over her to inherit the estate. A transcript of Goodwin's Oct. 27 deposition quotes him saying that Webber told him on Christmas Eve 2011 that she was going to leave him her home on Sagamore Creek. Goodwin is quoted saying that he disclosed that to Ferland on Jan. 4. 2012 and "it was decided that I won't see her on duty any longer."
At that time, Goodwin said, he had known Webber for about two months and met her while on duty.
Ferland disputes Goodwin's timeline and is quoted saying that after Christmas of 2011, Goodwin told him only that Webber "had given his children a Christmas present" which Goodwin described as "a pretty small present."
"I asked him if he had cleared it already through his captain and he said he had," Ferland said. "I didn't ask any more about it after that."
Ferland said police department policy dictates that gifts can be accepted if they are "a small amount, nothing in return, no expectations of favoritism, must be de minimus, or something very minor."
At about the same time, the former police chief said, he also had a conversation with Goodwin who asked "for clarification" about having a friend he met on duty.
"I said there's nothing that precludes you from becoming friends with somebody," Ferland said. "Just make sure it's not on duty."
Ferland said he had two subsequent conversations with Goodwin about the Webber inheritance, both of which were after he retired from the police department and was no longer chief. He said Goodwin phoned him after Webber died in December 2012 and told him "she had left him nearly everything in her will and he wanted advice."
Ferland said he later met with Goodwin, at a location he doesn't recall, for 45 minutes to an hour.
"He wanted to know if he should take the money, what he should do," Ferland is quoted. "I said, 'Listen, only you and her know the gist of your conversation and, Aaron, if her dying wish was to have you with this money, you need to take that into serious consideration because that's what she would want you to do.'"
Representing attorney Gary Holmes, who wrote Webber's last will and trust that largely benefits Goodwin, attorney Ralph Holmes asked Ferland, "I take it that it is your testimony that Mr. Goodwin did not inform you that Geraldine Webber expressed an intent to leave him her house before she died."
"Correct," Ferland answered.
The former police chief said that if he knew, before Webber died, that she was going to give her home to Goodwin, he would have "requested the attorney general to investigate the circumstances behind that." Ferland said he also would have briefed the Police Commission.
Lisa Bellanti, who is representing Webber's grandson and only heir, asked Ferland during the deposition whether the Goodwin case was the first that he has head of involving a police officer "having been named for a substantial bequest in a citizen's will." Ferland, a published police historian who earned his doctorate with a dissertation about the history of the Portsmouth Police Department, said it was the first such case that he's heard of.
Also during his deposition, Ferland said he was unaware that the city police and fire departments were each 25 percent beneficiaries in Webber's 2009 will, before it was nullified by the new will and trust by attorney Gary Holmes. Ferland said he first heard that the city police and fire departments were beneficiaries of Webber's when he read about it in the Portsmouth Herald.
He said he also first learned that Goodwin took Webber to two out-of-state casinos by reading that in the Portsmouth Herald. Goodwin said during his deposition that he took the elderly woman to the casinos, out for cocktails, had a key to her house, buttered her toast and assisted her with contacting a series of lawyers for the purpose of re-writing her will.
Representing four of Webber's heirs disputing Goodwin's inheritance, attorney Paul McEachern asked Ferland about a Jan. 5, 2011 meeting he had with Webber when she went to the police department to accuse Webber's longtime lawyer Jim Ritzo of stealing from her. Ferland said the police department never investigated those allegations, but instead forwarded the complaints to the attorney general's office. Ferland said the reason he referred it to the state was because he believed there was a conflict of interest "with the proposed friendship between Geraldine Webber and detective Goodwin."
The AG's office later issued reports saying Webber's complaints against Ritzo were unfounded.
Ferland denied during his deposition that retired officer John Connors complained to him about Goodwin's involvement with Webber during an Oct. 18, 2010 police meeting at the Ice House restaurant. In an August Portsmouth Herald interview, Connors said he saw Goodwin visit Webber, his neighbor, more than 100 times in a police cruiser. After the interview, Connors was served with a notice by police management accusing him of insubordination and malfeasance, as well as of violating the police department's media policy.
Ferland's deposition includes his remarks about hearing that now-Deputy Chief Corey MacDonald was solicited by Goodwin for legal advice concerning Webber's estate.
"It was detective Goodwin that had sought legal advice from Captain MacDonald and I told Captain MacDonald to get out of it," Ferland said. "I didn't want him involved in referring attorneys to him or anything such as that."
Ferland said he personally met with Webber once at the police station when she complained about Ritzo and she asked to be Goodwin's friend. He said he found the elderly woman to be angry, lucid, coherent and that he had no concerns about her metal capacity.
According to a transcript from a July deposition, by Webber's longtime accountant Bill MacDonald, the accountant asked Goodwin about the ethical implications of "receiving a bequest from an individual in his role as a police officer."
"I believe he said that he had already cleared it through his superiors and it was OK," the accountant said. "He felt comfortable with the ethical issue. To me, the overriding fact here was (Webber's) mental capacity."


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Title: Timecurse (Darkside, #4)
Author: Tom Becker
Pages: 262 Pages
Publisher: Scholastic
The Blurb
A fourth spine-tingling visit to the secret London borough of Darkside…
A Blood Succession, a mysterious watch, and chaos in the streets – just another day in Darkside. Jonathan is back home again when he hears that Vendetta has gone missing – and that's not even the worst of it.
Teaming up with some old friends, Jonathan becomes embroiled in a terrifying Darkside mystery – and he discovers the answer to a question he's been asking for years: could his mother still be alive?
The Review
Oh I do love the Darkside series. In my quest to finish the many series of books that I have started (The Hunger Games, Geek Girl etc.,) I decided to read the 4th book in the Darkside series. It was bloody good.
In keeping with the gothic dark nature of the book we are once again thrust underground into the Darkside, a Victorian city that runs parallel to modern day London. We meet the same cast of characters from the previous books but what is impressive about Timecurse is that we start to see a different side to some of the more twisted characters. We see that the nature of our villains isn't one dimensional.
Further villains are thrown into the mix and Jonathan Starling, once again, gets caught up in the drama…but he is also one step closer to finding out what happened to his mother.
Basically, Timecurse is boss and it has made me all the more eager to read the final book in the series.
Timecurse (Darkside, #4) by Tom Becker is available now.
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We're going back! We first visited this fantastic Resort over the October mid-term break in 2015, and vowed we'd most definitely be back during the Summer months, so here we go! Returning for a mid-week break, we're arriving Monday July 18th for three nights and two evening meals.
The Breaffy House Hotel & Resort is exactly what you need for a short break away in Ireland. They have everything you could possible want to entertain children of all ages, with plenty of free time for the parents during scheduled Kids Club Activities.
You might decide to have a quick Spa Treatment, a dip in the pool or a walk through the surrounding 90 acre Woodlands.
There are two hotels onsite, and while we will be staying in the family hotel you can wander over to Breaffy House for a relaxing cuppa in style.
But of course it's all about the kids, isn't it! When they're not being entertained you still have plenty to do with them without leaving the Resort.
Bring your bikes for some great bike trails, footballs for a game of 5-a-side on their full size outdoor pitch, or find the children's playground in the middle of the woods while you take a nature walk together.
While the exact schedule for the Kids Club won't be available until closer to the time, we do have a good idea of what to expect on a daily and nightly basis. Your days will start with the Kids Club professional minders collecting the kids from your bedroom door and bringing them on the Breakfast Train to eat breakfast together, followed by games, arts & crafts, and much, much more, until nearly 1pm.
The onsite Sports Arena, outdoor sports field, dedicate Kids Club Apartment are all put to full use during the Kids Club hours, but that's just a small part of what's on offer while you're there.
We'll start the trip with a casual meal in the hotel bar. A main course for each parent and child is included, and we can enjoy this in the spacious bar while we all get to know each other, which also hosts the nightly entertainment for the children. A fantastic magician will have them enthralled, followed by a theatrical Kiddies Disco with dance moves included!
On a second night during the trip we'll have a more formal meal in the hotel restaurant. The children can be fed in the Kids Club or with the adults, whichever you prefer or works best for you, you might find you're setting your daily schedule around that of the Kids Club to make sure they don't miss anything!
The rooms are bright, spacious and comfortable, and even the hallways are extra wide so no-one has to struggle to their rooms dragging arm loads of luggage while trying to watch where the children are. It's such a family-friendly hotel and resort that everyone felt comfortable allowing the children to have fun and spread out, so we're very much looking forward to going back.
With everything that this Hotel & Resort has to offer, you won't have to leave the property and will still find plenty to keep everyone busy, but you're also just a short drive from some of Ireland's most beautiful coastline. Just 20minutes from Westport, and easily accessible to the Wild Atlantic Way, you might want to take the perfect opportunity to explore Ireland's West Coast.
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Rove not likely to survive inquiry
In Washington, you know you're in real trouble when the Media Stakeout occupies your front lawn like an invading army, sprouting panel trucks and satellite uplinks curbside and littering your landscape with candy wrappers and plastic cups.
The atmosphere was captured perfectly in the movie "The Birdcage," when a fictional senator, Gene Hackman, tried to escape reporters clamoring outside his house by climbing out a bedroom window. Greeted by popping flash bulbs, he turns and gives the V-sign, as if this was his usual means of exit and he was just thrilled by the attention.
Caught in that glare last week, Karl Rove took a different tack. Backing out of his driveway in a leafy Washington neighborhood on the day he would make his fourth appearance before the grand jury looking into the leaking of a CIA agent's identity, Rove flashed his high beams at the five pouncing television crews. He momentarily thwarted them. That he didn't react with Hackman's aplomb tells you a lot about the mental state of the usually unflappable Rove.
Rove is showing the strain of the two-year inquiry. If he hadn't been so preoccupied, he surely would have limited the damage from the encampment of Cindy Sheehan at Bush's Texas ranch and sent the president off on his Gulf Coast storm watch before pictures of dead bodies flooded the airwaves.
The nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was well down the track before Rove found out how serious Bush was about appointing his own lawyer, The Washington Post reported last week. By then, it was too late to do much about it.
Although Rove got a high-profile walk across the South Lawn with Bush after he was first exposed as one of the leakers, he's been barely seen at all lately, much less with the president. He canceled two engagements last weekend, one of which was to help out the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, for whom he raised $100,000 in June in an hour. Rove was set to do the same last Saturday but bowed out at the last minute.
As Fitzgerald's quest winds down, the prospect of Rove surviving intact dwindles. Of course, if he's indicted, he'll be gone in a day. Bush can't have an indicted Rove a brainbeat away, although you have to wonder what substitute brain is going to convey that to Bush, whose valuation of loyalty falls somewhere between that of a college fraternity and the Crips.
Even if Rove isn't indicted, we now know he had an attack of amnesia so severe that he was called in for another four hours on Oct. 14 to face the grand jury. The prosecutor apparently thinks it's wrong to participate in smears against those who tell the truth about the absence of weapons you started a war over.
The prospect of Rove leaving the White House one way or the other is so prevalent that speculation about a successor is already in the air, with Ed Gillespie leading the list.
Gillespie began as a parking lot attendant on Capitol Hill and rose to be chairman of the Republican National Committee. In between, he served as a top aide to House Majority Leader Dick Armey and founded a lobbying firm, where he's earned millions representing companies such as Microsoft and Enron. Most recently, Gillespie took off a month to shepherd John Roberts' confirmation as chief justice through the Senate.
One impediment to Gillespie's appointment is how outspoken he's been about the seriousness of the leak. It's fashionable in Washington to say this is a scandal about nothing and that everyone smears everyone in this least perfect of worlds. Yet two years ago on MSNBC TV's "Hardball,"' when host Chris Matthews asked whether the leak was more serious than Watergate, Gillespie said it was, in that it wasn't just about politics.
"If the allegation is true -- to reveal the identity of an undercover CIA operative -- it's abhorrent, and it should be a crime, and it is a crime," Gillespie said Sept. 30, 2003.
What makes Rove's smear so bad this time (as opposed to those aimed at former Texas Gov. Ann Richards and presidential candidates John McCain and John Kerry and White House counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke) is that he made an uncharacteristic mistake.
His purpose wasn't to out a CIA agent. Quite the contrary. Former ambassador Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was collateral roadkill. Rove was just using her to show that Wilson was a twit who couldn't have gotten an assignment but for her, so his finding that Saddam Hussein had not tried to buy uranium in Niger was worthless. If Wilson's wife had worked at the State Department, Rove's effort to turn Wilson into a girlie man would have happened without consequence.
Last week the New York Daily News reported that a senior White House aide is cooperating with the prosecutor, although it didn't say who. Maybe this turns out to be the usual footrace to save yourself at the expense of others. There is no more honor among leakers than among thieves. You leave this political world as you came into it, alone.


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Facing a Liverpool side tipped for a title tilt, Palace nearly got something from Juergen Klopp's side. Here's Ben Mountain with Five Things we learned.
1) Palace can push the best
While Roy Hodgson may be no master tactician, he can certainly drill a squad and have a bunch of footballers playing a well organised, united game. Against Liverpool, Palace showed an unwavering ability to put pressure on some of the league's greatest players. The Eagles pressed, intercepted and battled their way through each half in a manner deserving of more than what they got.
Right to the death, Palace kept Liverpool awake and their efforts haven't gone unnoticed, with Gary Neville proclaiming that Palace will "win a lot of points and a lot of games" and that it "wouldn't surprise me [Neville] if they finish seventh or eighth."
2) Jimmy Mac remains pivotal
Not typically viewed as one who rivals the elites, on Monday night James McArthur showed that he can battle it out with the best of them. As the ever fueled engine room in Palace's midfield, McArthur had to deal with possibly the league's most potent attacking central threat.
He dominated midfield and, as ever, didn't stop working to minimise the threat that Liverpool pose going forward. Somehow keeping the likes of Naby Keïta largely quiet, we should all rejoice for Jimmy Mac's presence in the side and hope for his continued efforts to last.
3) Aaron Wan-Bissaka continues to impress even having left the field
We could end up saying this every post and for every game, but Aaron Wan-Bissaka really is the dog's proverbials. At 20, he remarkably kept up with Liverpool's stunning offensive unit and displayed a blistering pace invaluable for an attacking fall-back. Always working hard to track back having pressed forward and to atone for any of the few errors he does make, AWB has the workings of a future mega-star for Palace.
While his sending off was disappointing and will see him miss the game against Watford, it was essential that Salah was stopped when he was and by making that challenge, Wan-Bissaka gave his side a further 15 minutes to seek out their equaliser; the free-kick resulting from his dismissal ultimately yielding nothing.
4) James Tomkins will prove indomitable this season
Tomkins and Sakho have long been known as a fantastic centre-back partnership resolutely defending Palace's backline, but it was the former of the two who really stood out on Monday. Tomkins seemed to win every ball that passed near his head and at times managed to meet aerial passes that simply shouldn't have been reached.
Always solid with a collected Mama next to him, the Palace No.5 was an island of safety in a sea of attacking threats. The 29-year-old has been a real coup for Palace over the last couple of seasons and will ensure that Hodgson's team always has a reliable, assured core defensively.
5) Palace fans continue to make themselves proud
Admittedly, it was clear for all to see that the absence of the HF on Monday affected the atmosphere quite dramatically. However, from the Holmesdale Lower, things were still impressive and for the first 15 minutes, Palace fans sang like they always have. At other points during the game, Selhurst continued to rival other stadia for the loudest in the country and the side were cheered on as usual with the gusto we've come to expect.
Having built an atmosphere around one collective in one part of the ground for over 13 years, to suddenly lose it is obviously going to have a detrimental effect on the noise. Many fan groups would collapse at this point and lose any atmosphere at all. Palace, however, made themselves proud under difficult circumstances. It's the Palace way.


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"The month of April has some much-anticipated smartphones lined-up, right from Huawei's P30 series to the Nokia 9 PureView"
As the first quarter of the year 2019 comes to an end, most of the bigger launches from the start of the year or MWC 2019 have already landed or are about to arrive in India. And the next month seems as packed if not less, in terms of smartphone launches. Nokia and Huawei are expected to launch their flagships in the country, whereas brands like Realme, Samsung and others could be expected to strengthen their mid-range lineup. In case you are out in the market to pick up your next smartphone, hold on to your purchase as the smartphones expected to launch in India in April might cater to your needs in a better manner. So without further ado, let's begin.
Huawei P30 / P30 Pro
After months of teasing, Huawei finally launched its latest flagship duo — the P30 and P30 Pro at an event in Paris recently. As was anticipated, the Huawei P30 Pro has topped the DxOMark rating with a record-breaking 112 points. Notably, the P30 Pro is the first from the brand to come with a quad-camera array on the rear. Both P30 and P30 Pro are almost identical except for the additional 3D ToF sensor, larger display and bigger battery for the Pro variant. The smartphones are loaded with top-of-the-line hardware like Huawei's Kirin 980 chipset, graphene film cooling system, 40W SuperCharge fast-charging tech, 15W wireless charging and reverse wireless charging. Huawei P30 and P30 Pro launch in India is expected to be around mid-April.
Related read: Huawei P30 Pro unboxing | Huawei P30 and P30 Pro first impressions
Realme 3 Pro
Realme launched its latest budget-offering — the Realme 3 (review) with 6.2-inch HD+ display, dual rear cameras, and AI front camera earlier this month. The brand then went on to announce that the Pro variant of the phone called Realme 3 Pro is coming in April 2019 to compete with the Redmi Note 7 Pro (review). However, at this point, we don't know anything about the smartphone, except for the fact that it would be aiming to take on Xiaomi's budget blockbuster and hence we can expect the Realme 3 Pro price in India to be quite aggressive.
Nokia 9 PureView
The Huawei P30 Pro is not the only camera behemoth landing in India next month. World's first penta camera-toting smartphone, the Nokia 9 PureView India launch is also expected in the month of April. HMD Global has already started teasing the launch of the flagship in India with a video of the handset ending with the typical 'Stay Tuned' tag. As far as imaging is concerned, the penta-camera module comprises five 12MP sensors, with three of them shooting in monochrome and remaining two in RGB. Notably, the smartphone flaunts top-notch spec sheet including a 5.99-inch QHD+ pOLED PureDisplay, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, optical in-display fingerprint sensor and a 3,320mAh battery.
Related read: Nokia 9 PureView first impressions
Samsung Galaxy A20 / A40 / A60 / A70 / A90
Samsung has recently launched the Galaxy A20, A40 and A70 smartphones, which will join the previously-launched Galaxy A10, A30 (review), and A50 (review). Apart from these two, the chaebol is also working on the A40 and A90, which are expected to be launched on April 10th. Notably, the Galaxy A20 and A40 flaunt the Infinity-U display from Samsung, whereas the A60 and A90 are expected to feature the same Infinity-O display as the Galaxy S10e (review) and Galaxy S10. There are speculations that these mid-rangers will launch sooner than later, and they're surely among the most-anticipated smartphones expected to launch in India in April.
Vivo S1
Vivo recently introduced an all-new S series of smartphones in China with the launch of Vivo S1. The smartphone is quite similar to the V15, but comes with a 25-megapixel front camera, instead of a 32MP sensor in the latter. However, as per our sources, the company has plans to launch the same smartphone as an online-exclusive offering in India next month. However, there's no word on the actual launch date of the phone.
Black Shark Helo
The Xiaomi-backed gaming smartphone company recently announced that the Black Shark line-up of gaming smartphones will make their debut in India soon. While the phonemaker has not revealed any particular launch date, it's expected to be in April. Moreover, the announcement from the brand had an emphasis on the word 'Hello', leading us to believe that it could be the Black Shark Helo that might be the first to launch here. The smartphone flaunts features like 60Hz display, Snapdragon 845 SoC, 10GB RAM, dual cameras, gaming-specific design and massive battery as its highlights.
The brand could also have a surprise in store for us in the form of the newly-released Black Shark 2 as well, which comes powered by the latest and greatest Snapdragon 855 SoC.
With so many anticipated smartphones lined up for their launch in India, April sure does look like an exciting month. Which of these upcoming phones piques your interest? Let us know in the comment box below.


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Me Made May Days 25-31
Day 25: Monday Ahhh…Memorial day, a day off of work. I wore my newest version of McCall's 6559, which was made way back in March. This version used exactly 1 yard of a teal ponte that has been in my … Continue reading
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Day 196: Lessons on pre-treating
This is the dress I wore to my brothers graduation. The one I made and never blogged about. Well here it is in all it's stripey floral goodness. For this I used McCall's 6559. I will not be posting a full … Continue reading
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Alexandria "Alex" Yoshinaga is a player character played by Taishou89.
Skin: Fair
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 121 lbs.
Build: Fit and in shape.
Eye Color: Light Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Hair Length: pixie cut, but longer than normal.
Voice: Generally quite soft spoken except when reporting to superiors, addressing lower ranks, and overall when getting right down to business. Alex's speech is quite proper and seemingly well educated and not the most vulgar aside from some common curse words. However when she does get pissed off, irked, or generally excited she will break loose from her proper speech and engage in vulgarities, this has often surprised many who first meet her and haven't seen that side of her. She does speak with an accent which sounds almost British.
Growing up in the slums of Funky City, living a life of struggle just to get by, really strengthened and toughened her up psychologically and this does show from time to time. Conflict, violence, loss, and pain are not new to her and her superiors in the NSMC have given praise on her relatively calm nerves and reactions in heated moments during her training. This is not to say that she is insensitive or immune to the anguish of emotions like all humans are, for as she may react rather calmly she feels the same anxieties and concerns that any person might in the heat of battle, however most times these feelings and her very own emotions do not hit her until the aftermath of whatever just happened. Very aware of this fact, it is not unusual for her to seek solitude to let loose her pains and feelings in the aftermath.
Aside from her stoic and well composed professional nature, she is very kind and generous and she knows how hard Marine life can be and so she often takes it upon herself to help ease the settlement of younger and newer recruits into their new station, although she herself is just a lower ranker as well. Her Kindness and Generosity is often given sometimes at her own expense and sacrifice, but this is usually more so for someone that would be deemed quite high on her list of care and friendship. Like any human, her dark past does occasionally visit her and she can become quite depressing and reclusive when it does, she's good at hiding it in public and social settings, but her reclusive behavior will often be a sure sign that something is bothering her. She only opens up entirely to those she trusts and those in her inner circle, if you're not in, have potential to be in, or she just doesn't like you, then you'll probably get the surface story or a MYOFB. Although most times she avoids consuming alcohol especially in excess, it is in her darkest moments that you may see her indulge in way more than she usually would socially.
She can be impatient with indecisiveness in others and as such is likely to assume control and make the decision out of frustration. This does give her leadership points and it is very possible that she could prove herself to be quite a capable leader, but as of now as Private first class, she has no aspirations of climbing the ranks, but will accept responsibility and duty if it is placed upon her. Her biggest critic is her own self and this is what drives her to perfection and can be one of her greatest assets, although if she isn't careful, it can be one of her greatest faults if it cripples her.
Alex joined the NSMC to pursue glory, adventure, travel the galaxy, make new friends, and see exotic places, but mostly to escape the slums of Funky City and her painful past there. In the NSMC she found order, stability, and structure, but mostly opportunity to build a new life and a future for herself. Upon graduating Basic training, She donned her NSMC Dress uniform with pride, as it was a symbol of a major accomplishment and great step into a new chapter in life. Even upon being recommended by her superiors in the NSMC for the IPG, and after being interviewed and submitting to further training, she still kept her Dress Uniform and Beret as a symbol of her accomplishment. Being Fairly new and having never been in Combat yet, she is eager to prove her worth to her Superiors and often will give her all in whatever task she is given. When it comes to other people's indecisiveness, She can be impatient and as such, likely to assume control and make the decision out of frustration, of course she doesn't do this with superiors. It is very possible that she could prove herself to be quite a capable leader, but as of now as Private first class, she has no aspirations of climbing the ranks, but will accept responsibility and duty if it is placed upon her
Relationship wise, she has had a few crushes in her life, but has never really been with another person and She is bisexual, but mostly attracted to females. If she were to enter into a relationship, her lack of experience would likely result in her taking a more passive role and to allow her partner to take the lead. In a relationship, it is likely that given her nature, she would be a very strong supporting figure to her significant other. She is very loyal and she holds loyalty very high on her list, sometimes this will lead to jealousy and accusations of disloyalty if she mistakes her lover's comments or actions to friends as flirtation, this will undoubtedly lead to conflict and fights.
Alexandria "Alex" Yoshinaga was born in YE 20.
Alex was born in YE 20 in the Slums of the city of Funky City, to a single mother, Victoria Yoshinaga, just scraping the barrel to get by and put food on the table. Her Father was one of the young marines that would frequent the club where Victoria had worked as waitress and they dated for a couple of months, until he up and left on a deployment with the ship he was stationed on, it wasn't long after that, did the young mother of 2 learned that she was with child. Alex's two older siblings, Iris her older sister and the middle child and Jake the eldest of the 3, both shared the same father who was a factory worker who was killed in an accident at work.
While Victoria worked lots of long hours for peanuts at the club left, Jake in charge of the household to take care and watch his younger sisters, although he was just 14 while Iris was 11, and Alex was 6. Jake took it upon himself to be the man of the household and often times did take a lot of the responsibility placed on him to be seriously, while Iris was the crafty and a sly pickpocket who would sneak out through the Ventilation system to earn what little extra household income could be made. Alex meanwhile, was usually always trying to follow her older sister, but often times would be caught and given a crack of the belt by Jake. Iris's little enterprise was usually overlooked by Jake, only if she brought home some decent and worthy loot, but Alex was considered the baby of the family and thus not allowed to leave the apartment without Jake.
However, one day when Iris snuck out while her mother was sleeping after having worked a 16 hour shift, she came across a fairly well dressed man carrying a briefcase. Everything about the man screamed importance and dollar signs, and so she followed him waiting for the right moment to lift the case. Eventually the well dressed man ended up in a dimly lit tavern sitting in a booth in the corner, meeting a man who looked so very familiar and covered in tattoos. As the two men sat and began to colorfully discuss and disagree on certain matters, the well dressed man had placed his brief case on the floor and there was the moment she was waiting for. Carefully, she crawled under each table and booth until she ended up right under the bench like seat that the well dressed man was seated and quietly she switched out the man's briefcase with a beat up ugly looking one she had snatched from another man a little while earlier.
Carefully making her get away, she exited the tavern quite calmly but catching the eyes of several unpleasant and cheeky looking fellows. A commotion erupted from the tavern not long after she exited, followed by the tattooed man dragging the well dressed man with blood streaming down from his head, pleading for his life. As his eyes caught sight of Iris and the briefcase in her hand, he pointed and screamed "That's It! That's my Brief case". "Hey Kid with the case!" the tattooed man called out to her, but Iris bolted down the street as the tattooed man and his henchmen gave chase. Heading for the crowded main street, Iris was confident that she could lose them there since it usually always worked but at one point in the chase, while Iris was squeezing between a fence post and an alley wall, the tattooed man was able to grasp hold of the chain of her locket but with her will to escape, the chain broke freeing her but leaving her locket to the tattooed man. Iris was able to get home quite safely, but this incident would lead to the deaths of her entire family in retaliation. Alex Being the only one who survived and only by having successfully snuck out of the apartment just prior to Iris's return.
Alex would return home through Iris's secret passage way in the air ducts just in time to witness the cold murders of her entire family. As her mother lay there slowly bleeding to death in front of the air vent, their eyes meeting. Tears streamed from both of their eyes, Alex on the verge of screaming and wailing in horror, Victoria softly shushing the young Alex, softly pleading for her to stay silent, to stay alive. She closed her eyes and looked away as her brother could be heard telling Iris to run, followed be his curses hurled at the tattooed man, only to be silenced by a blunt object striking his skull, several more blows landing until all that was left was his twitching form on the ground and a horrifying mess. She heard Iris's screams as the men chased her down to her room, followed by the the thrusts of a blade into her body and then silence. Opening her eyes again she found herself staring into her mother's eyes, no longer blinking and frightfully still. She fought back from making any sound as the tears didn't stop and as she fought against the urge to sob in fear. She could hear the men leaving and once they were gone she didn't hold back any longer and continued to wail, bursting out of the air duct and crawling to her mother and trying to wake her, but to no success. Clinging to her mother and sobbing all night, with no care that the blood soaked and covered her.
A couple years later, she roamed the streets learning to pick pocket to survive, eating scraps wherever she could find them. One day she pick pocketed an old man who was well aware of her actions, grasping her hand just as it left his pocket. Panicking she tried to break away, but he did not release her until he spoke "Calm down child… if you're hungry, come with me." as he released her hand. He could tell that she only did so out of survival and that it was only natural, but Alex bolted off, not entirely trusting the man. However, she was quite intrigued, he did not treat her like an irritant, but that he had a spark of care and kindness. He did not even pursue her even after she made off with the money she lifted from him. On the next day she spied the same man in the market area purchasing some fruit, but instead of attempting to pick pocket him, she followed him all the way home keeping out of sight. Twice the man turned around as if sensing someone followed him, but neither time did he discover her.
Sneaking up the only fire escape on the building, she located the man's apartment, just as he was entering. It was somewhat crowded with books and trunks, as She watched him for some time as he began to prepare some kind of stew. Her stomach growled as the smell entranced her, for a slight moment she feared she may be discovered because it growled quite loud. As he prepared two bowls and set them on the table, he soon departed from the kitchen into a room down the hall, it was then that she snuck into the apartment, and began to almost inhale the stew. "I thought I was being followed…" She spun around to find the man standing in the kitchen's entrance with a book in his hand.
It took 4 months to earn her trust, 4 months of the man preparing a 2nd bowl at each meal time just for her and her sneaking into his apartment via the fire escape, but she eventually began to become more tame, nearly half a year later she was entirely civilized once again, opening up little by little the man as he asked her questions and tried to converse with her, learning her name as she learned his to be Professor Albert Murata. By the time she turned 9, she was living in the Professor Murata's apartment, in a spare bedroom that he had cleaned out for her. He became like a father figure to her and took it upon himself to educate and teach Alex. She was taught in not just subjects of literacy and mathematics, but also informally in Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology, of which Professor Murata was a Professor of. She was no longer feral, no more eating scraps from the trash, no more pick pocketing, and no more sleeping in the streets, She'd become civilized, cultured, and educated. Although, she still pick pocketed from time to time mostly out of fun, but none the less she was much better off. She came to learn that before Albert was a Professor, he had served in the IPG, but he dared not tell much on the subject, usually brushing it off as old boring stories even though she pressed him quite often on the matter, he did not share.
When she was 16, she woke one morning to find Professor Murata in his chair, head tilted over. Not responding to her verbal attempts to wake him, she tried to nudge his arm and found it cold and immediately realized what had happened. Professor Albert Murata had passed away peacefully in his sleep and it was yet another loss in her life of someone so close, that she felt her world beginning to fall around her. She ran from the apartment, tears streaming her face fighting back her emotions, barging through the crowds until she could run no further and found herself in an empty alleyway she began to sob.
After recollecting herself and as she looked up, she saw a large poster of several men and women in green uniforms and the words:
With that she found an opportunity, and followed the directions on the poster to the nearest recruiting center. There, the recruiter laid out a life of adventure, excitement, glory, and travel, steady pay and benefits, the whole 9 yards of what it means to be a Marine. All of these things, only bolstered her hope, but there was one thing that she wanted and that was to leave Funky City and not look back and the Sergeant promised her that she'd likely spend many years rotating around wherever the corps needed her, but that she would get away. With that, she signed the enlistment contract and was given the details on where and when to report to.
Life In Basic Training was Tough, even for her after such a hard upbringing, but she didn't give up. Those years of fleeing from people she pick pocketed on the streets certainly paid off in all the running they did in BT. None the less she was scoring pretty average in most of the training, until they moved on to firearms safety and handling. The concept of target acquisition, proper sight alignment, and trigger discipline wasn't at all hard for her to understand and despite never firing a firearm in her life before, she scored a 35 out of 40 on the Marksmanship qualification, but had come really close to scoring a 36, which would qualify her as Expert Sharpshooter, but the last round missed by an inch from the target. It was during her firearm training and familiarization with most of the Marine Corps's small arms that she discovered she had a fascination and curiosity for firearms, and took it upon herself to learn more including the history behind certain models, she would undoubtedly seek to handle or own some of the firearms that she has read up on. Upon graduating Basic training, she was recommended to attend Marine Sniper School, despite her original enlistment as Infantry. She asked for some time to think on the offer of recommendation from her superiors. It was during that time, that an Officer of the IPG had sought her out with the intentions of recruiting her into the IPG's Commando Training Course, after having gone over her file and the positive feed back from her instructors. Remembering about the mysteries of Professor Murata's days in the IPG, her curiosity compelled her to take up the offer and she accepted.
Reads and Writes Trade and Can speak and read limited amount of Yamataigo just enough to get by.
(Trained to Live off Nature's Land) Basic NSMC Survival Training courses, followed by further IPG Commando Survival Training. Overall survival when supplies are cut off or inaccessible due to a high volume of enemy occupation of surrounding territory. In Short: Trained to live of Nature's Land
(Trained in Combat, Hand to hand) Trained in hand to hand combat for defense and attack with or without weapons of any kind.
(Men who fight by night and day) Qualified sharpshooter with the M3 Rifle, marksman with .45 caliber hand gun.
(Courage peak from the Green Berets) A skill learned while surviving as an orphan on the streets of Funky City, Alex is well capable of scavenging for useful supplies and resources, further enhanced by Survival training.
While in the IPG Commando Training Course, she was trained in basic Hacking, Data Retrieval, and Salvage of deleted information, but she is not a professional.
Basic Camouflage and stealth training received during IPG's Commando Training Course.
Alexandria "Alex" Yoshinaga has the following items: Inventory & Finance Alex has the following:
Alex currently has 6000 DA. (20,000,000 DA deposited into account per Crime Boss Chloe O'Connor.)
Alex is a Scorpio


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Here are a few cool iOS 8 tips and tricks that will save you time and increase your productivity. iOS 8 has significantly improved several key features in mail and added some quick personalization features to Messages. In today's App Chat I also sneak in a Photos app feature that has been around for a while but is not widely known. I personally love this feature as a quick and easy way to share photos with various groups of people.
iOS 8 Training starts tomorrow on site at Mojo Coworking and online classes (webinar) for folks that are not local. All courses are live, instructor led with the ability to ask questions and interact with the instructor!
Check out today's app chat to get a peek at a few cool features.
More iOS 8 Tips & Tricks
- Predictive Text: iPhone Tip: Predictive Text. How to turn it on, off, hide it, reveal it.
- Keyboard Shortcuts – iPhone Tip: Creating Keyboard Shortcuts on your iPhone for faster typing. Customizing Predictive Text
- Control Panel – iPhone Tips: What is the iPhone Control Panel? How do I access it? What do all the buttons mean?
- Siri – iOS 8 New Features: Siri Trick, How to activate Siri without touching your phone.
- eMail Tip – iOS – How to save mail messages to Drafts folder
- eMail Tip – iOS 8 Tips & Tricks: Multitasking between multiple draft email messages
- eMail Tip – iOS 8 Tips & Tricks: How To Multitask in Mail with Draft Messages
- Location Sharing – iOS 8 Tips and Tricks: Share a friend or family member's active location.
- Apple Pay – What is Apple Pay? Why use it? How do I use Apple Pay?


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I believe that one of the best ways to reduce spending is to limit your exposure to advertising. Marketers employ powerful persuasive techniques to circumvent our rational minds, encouraging us to spend our hard-earned money on things we don't really need.
This isn't anything new. Advertising has been a pervasive part of American culture for more than a century. I recently picked up some 100-year-old magazines for cheap at a garage sale.
- One is the May 1904 issue of Women's Home Journal.
- The other is the October 1909 issue of Collier's.
While it's fun to read the articles — the Wright brothers fly a plane over Manhattan! Admiral Dewey at home! — it's even more fun to look at the ads. They provide a fascinating glimpse of the rise of U.S. consumerism.
A few advertisements show products that are still familiar today:
Some of the ads demonstrate new technology that now, 100 years later, we take for granted:
And, of course, certain ads seem quaint or dated:
Of course, there were questionable financial schemes being advertised even back then. People have always been lured by the promise of quick riches. Some of these ads offer guarantees of "perfectly safe" returns of 12-18% a year, while others offer sure ways to make a couple hundred dollars in just a few days while working from home.
Some of the "make money" ads offered legitimate opportunities. This one from the October 1909 issue of Collier's seems to give a peek into the origins of the now familiar bowling alley.
There are two interesting differences between the ads in the 1904 Women's Journal and the 1909 Collier's. In the former, there are several advertisements for carriages:
But five years later, there are no ads for carriages at all. Instead, there are several full-page ads for automobiles! (Unfortunately, the magazine was way too big for my scanner, so I can only get about half of this ad.)
It's also interesting to see the rise of credit. Though consumer credit has been used for centuries, the sort of credit we think of (using installment payments) is a more recent development. For a long time, it carried a social stigma, but that eased during the first part of the twentieth century.
The 1904 Women's Home Journal contains one ad (for pianos) that offers installment purchases. The 1909 Collier's promotes several companies with "easy terms".
I loved reading these old magazines, and intend to keep my eye out for similar bargains in the future. Actually, Kris and I are stopping at an antique store later this afternoon. I should set myself a $10 budget and then see if I can't find a couple of magazines to take home.
Author: J.D. Roth
In 2006, J.D. founded Get Rich Slowly to document his quest to get out of debt. Over time, he learned how to save and how to invest. Today, he's managed to reach early retirement! He wants to help you master your money — and your life. No scams. No gimmicks. Just smart money advice to help you reach your goals.


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Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
INR Kiev
Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv 03680, Ukraine
Department of Lepton Physics, Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospect Nauki 47, MSP 03680 Kiev, Ukraine
Application of PbWO4 crystal scintillators in experiment to search for double beta decay of 116Cd
CARVEL experiment with 48CaWO4 crystal scintillators for the double β decay study of 48Ca
Development of CaMoO4 crystal scintillators for double beta decay experiment with 100-Mo
Experimental research of double beta decay of atomic nuclei
Final results of an experiment to search for 2beta processes in zinc and tungsten with the help of radiopure ZnWO4 crystal scintillators
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