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Victoria's witchcraft trial begins, in which Abigail and Natalie testify against her.
Synopsis Edit
- A séance has been held in the great house at Collinwood, a séance which has suspended time and space, and sent one girl on an uncertain and frightening journey into the past, back to the year 1795. There each of the Collins ancestors resembles a present day member of the Collins family, but the names and relationships have changed, and Victoria Winters finds herself a stranger in a sea of familiar faces. Not friendly now, forced almost out of recognition by the hatred they feel for her.
Victoria Winters' witch trial will begin this day. Peter Bradford comes to her jail cell to bring her the bad news.
Act I
Peter is devastated to tell Victoria that her trial will begin today but to his surprise, she is relieved. She wants it to be over. Peter tells her that Josette Collins died the previous evening. Victoria is disappointed that the information given to Countess Natalie du Prés from the Collins family history book foretelling Josette's death was unable to prevent the tragedy. He has more bad news: Joshua Collins will not allow his wife Naomi to testify on behalf of Victoria. Peter and Victoria embrace before they leave for the courtroom.
Act II
Victoria pleads innocent to the charge of witchcraft. Reverend Trask gives her one last chance to denounce her master, the Prince of Darkness. Abigail Collins testifies that the reign of terror began when Victoria first arrived at the Old House. Abigail is excused after her testimony so that Peter can question Reverend Trask about the exorcism he performed at the Old House. His testimony is interrupted by a shouting match between Abigail and Victoria.
Act III
Natalie du Prés testifies that Victoria predicted the events that preceded the death of Josette. They were written in the Collins family history book which the countess once possessed. Natalie accuses Victoria of stealing the book from her room while she was still in her jail cell. Because she was in two places at one time, Trask believes this proves her guilt. Peter admits that he let Victoria leave her jail cell to retrieve the history book. While defending Peter, Victoria cries that she has hurt enough people. Trask gleefully claims that Victoria's plea is an admission of guilt.
Act IV
Back in her jail cell, Peter and Victoria discuss what to do about the history book. Victoria says Ben Stokes said he knows that she is not the witch. Peter suspects that there is something that Ben is not able to tell them. He leaves to talk to Ben.
Memorable quotes Edit
- Abigail: Victoria Winters is a witch!
Dramatis personae Edit
- Grayson Hall as Natalie du Prés
- Clarice Blackburn as Abigail Collins
- Jerry Lacy as Reverend Trask
- Roger Davis as Peter Bradford
- Leslie Barrett as Judge Hanley
- Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters
- Hansford Rowe as 2nd Judge (uncredited)
- Tom Gorman as 3rd Judge (uncredited)
Background information and notes Edit
Production Edit
- Clarice Blackburn returns to the cast after an absence of 21 episodes.
Story Edit
- Victoria's witchcraft trial is probably the most glaring anachronism in all of the Dark Shadows time travel stories. The Salem witch trials took place over 100 years earlier, in 1692. The hysteria that brought on those trials proved such an embarrassment to the colony that by 1705, Massachusetts (of which Maine was a district until becoming a separate state in 1820) had removed all mention of witchcraft from its criminal statutes. By 1750, all the New England colonies had removed witchcraft from their statutes. While there were undoubtedly great believers in witchcraft in 1796 like Reverend Trask and Abigail, it would have been impossible to bring Victoria to trial on a charge of witchcraft. Later in the series during a storyline set in the year 1840, Quentin Collins is also tried for witchcraft. The events of 1162 go some way in explaining how such a trial could happen in a town like Collinsport.
- A trial involving a prominent small-town family or one of their household employees would likely be of great interest to the townspeople. But apparently no one shows up in the court room to watch the trial.
- Natalie's beauty mark is heart-shaped and on the right side of her chin.
- TIMELINE: It was last night when Josette died. It's morning at the start of this episode. Victoria's witchcraft trial continues tomorrow.
- Abigail Collins testifies that Victoria Winters arrived at Collinwood on October 12, 1795.
- Abigail Collins testifies that Joshua Collins vanished and in his place was a cat on November 2nd.
Bloopers and continuity errors Edit
- The boom microphone is visible while Abigail is being sworn in.
- Abigail says that the day Victoria arrived was October 12, 1795. She also gives the date that Joshua was turned into a cat as November 2, 1795. These dates are both about a month before the air dates of those episodes. However these dates don't match with previous information. In 366, the date of Victoria's arrival is given as November 20, 1795. Also, the passage of time suggested between Victoria's arrival and Joshua turning into a cat in 378 would seemingly have been eight on-screen days all occurring consecutively, making the date November 28, 1795, and not the gap of 21 days stated in this episode. (Abigail is a somewhat unreliable witness: most of those close to her, such as Joshua and Natalie, believe her to be a religious fanatic - she could be misremembering the dates.)
- Natalie's birthmark is now a heart shape on the lower right of her chin
External Links Edit
Dark Shadows - Episode 427 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Every Day - Episode 427 - Disorder in the Court


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Today, AKAI presented a revolutionary new studio controller. The MPC Touch is a real MPC, but is just as easy to operate as your smartphone or tablet. Its most striking feature is its 7" multi-touch colour display, which literally gives you hands-on control of your beats and music.
A new branch on the MPC tree
The AKAI MPC Touch is a great example of how the renowned MPC series has developed over time. In addition to touch-sensitive knobs and a user-friendly data encoder, it features the familiar sixteen RGB performance pads. Upgraded yet again by AKAI, they now respond even faster, allowing for an improved workflow. AKAI's MPCs were designed to make beats and tracks, and the MPC Touch is no exception. The controller comes with MPC software and a sound library of over 20 GB, so you can get straight down to business. The MPC Touch is able to function as a stand-alone device, but you can also use it as a plugin in your favourite DAW. What are you waiting for? Time to get your hands dirty and discover a great new way of making music!
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1. How does the play, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, open?
2. What does Paulina do when she hears a car?
3. What does Paulina hear while she is hiding?
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God with flesh, the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ both fully human and divine took it. He took it.
He prayed in that garden that the cup may pass Him, so he wouldn't have to take it. Then he accepted it.
He took it from the arrest, to resisting retaliation, to the accusations, to the humiliation; he took it.
Watching it all unfold with the emotions of a human being, being abandoned by his apostles; he took it.
He was scourged, his human body ripped open, and whipped repeatedly, he felt every blow as a human person, he felt his skin tear open and the nerve endings were human, he felt the pain and he took it.
He carried that cross beam as people watched, spat at him and shouted obscenities; he took it.
He never fought back, said a word, or matched the violence for violence, he only gave love, and took the hate; he took it.
They hung him upon that cross and the women were at his feet, they didn't abandon him like the apostles did. The women stayed with Jesus Christ, and although they witnessed his pain they took it to be with him.
He felt the open wounds, the restriction of his breath, the thirst, the pain, and the neglect on that cross; he took it.
He took every sin, every evil, all the violence, the mistrust, the disdain, the hate, and the anger; he took it for each one of us who had yet to be created or born, for every soul that ever dwelled and will dwell on this earth.
Jesus Christ took it for each one of us. He took it, so we could one day take it for another, take it by never retaliating with violence, hate, or evil, but instead take it for the sake of love alone.
That Good Friday Jesus Christ took it for us so that we could learn to take it to become fully like God.
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Overnight on-street parking continues to be the biggest problem in our neighborhood.
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For more information, you can reference section 7.6 Parking and Prohibited Vehicles. The Covenants are available under Documents on our website.
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For someone who loves bedding so much, it took me a long time to find a quality duvet -- despite the fact my master bed has one, both of my kids' beds have them and our guest room bed has one.
I always struggle to get the comforter positioned properly in the duvet. In fact, ask my husband -- when he's in town, it's his job. I neatly lay the clean duvet on whatever bed it belongs and leave him to it. I didn't have that issue with the Crane & Canopy duvet. The duvet pictured above is the one on my bed right now -- The Noe Green Signature. (I also have my eye on The Sutter Lilac... )
Crane & Canopy is a luxury bedding brand offering budget-friendly prices. The first line debuted this summer. If you have pricey wine taste on a boxed wine budget, Crane & Canopy is a great fit. Prices start at $99 for a queen- or full-sized duvet cover, which is the size of the adult beds in our house. The duvets feature 300+ thread count and 100 percent cotton. If you have a bed that fits the whole family, the size goes all the way up to California King.
I love textures and patterns, but I have very simple and clean taste. I've found my new happy place!
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A 10-year-old boy plunged down a slide and onto the concrete on the opening day of a water park in California.
The open-air, three story slide called the "Emerald Plunge" is part of the Bay Area's brand new $43 million water park "The Wave."
The attraction features two tracks with 80 degree drops.
Video shows the boy shooting down the green slide, and as he gets near the bottom, he flies up over the edge and rolls onto the ground.
Park operators rushed to help the boy.
"He seems to be shook, but seems to be OK. He came right up and immediately went to the first aid room where he was assessed by staff," Dublin Assistant City Manager Linda Smith said.
The child suffered some bad scrapes and was briefly treated at a nearby hospital before being released.
This latest slide incident comes on the heels of a $20 million settlement awarded to the family of 10-year-old Caleb Schwab.
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When I found out that I was being gifted a can of Low Country's Cooper broken flake from the good folks at smokingpipes.com I had no idea what this tobacco was all about, so I did a little research online.
"The confluence of the Cooper and Ashley Rivers create Charleston Harbor, the most important port in the antebellum South. Following trade winds, goods flowed to points north and, especially, across the Atlantic to the great British ports of call. Commemorating the Cooper River's contribution to world trade, we have selected choice Orientals and Cyprian Latakia to accent a base of fine Bright Leaf and Red Virginias to create this exceptional medium English Flake."
Furthermore, reviews were raving about it. Understandably, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it, so when it arrived a week and a half later, I bought a special cob pipe so that I would have a virgin bowl to try it with.
When it arrived, I was on my way to Tobacco Land for my weekly supply of tobacco, and it took all my willpower to wait until I got home to open the tin.
When I finally did open it, the note from the can was heavy and pungent, smelling strongly of Virginia tobaccos with a heady note of spicy Orientals. Even the non-smoker in my house was impressed by the smell.
It rubbed out nicely, with a little airing, and packed firmly into my pipe. A false light, repack & light and the air was filled with plumes of delicious smoke.
To most of the people surveyed, the room note was very pleasant with the smell of campfires and old English pipe smokers, though I did receive 1 negative vote from someone who did not like the smell at all. My wife immediately went on a bout of nostalgia about her friends from Singapore when she was growing up and how the room note reminded her of their house. She was also fairly certain she recalled Trixie's dad smoked a pipe.
Some people have said that there is a hint of Perique in this tobacco, but I don't think so. So few tobaccos mix this particular combination of bright and red leaf Virginia's that I honestly think the peppery taste comes from that mixed with the Orientals. The Latakia adds a very smokey, rich flavor.
A moderately strong tobacco, Low Country Cooper should be smoked slowly, as even an experienced smoker can get slightly buzzed. A definitely full flavored tobacco, I can taste no hint of flavoring except the natural tobacco taste.
Ultimately, the taste was malted and nutty, and kept me reaching for it again and again until I almost smoked the whole can before being able to do a review on it.
A definite home run! I look forward to trying the other blends that Low Country puts out. I'll let you know how that goes when my next order comes in.
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They Came To Baghdad, by Agatha Christie
>> Friday, January 11, 2013
TITLE: They Came To Baghdad
AUTHOR: Agatha Christie
PUBLISHER: William Morrow
SETTING: 1950s London and Iraq
TYPE: Thriller
SERIES: None
Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks.After the disaster that was my experience of reading The Body In The Library, I was almost afraid to pick up my next Christie. They Came To Baghdad restored my confidence a bit. I might find a couple of unexploded granades amongst Christie's books, but I'm thinking the majority will be more like this one... a couple of instances of "oh, those foreigners are a bit funny", but nothing to bother me overly.
Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room.
The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer... Basrah... Lefarge...
This one's very definitely not a typical Christie. It's not a domestic mystery, but more of a thriller. It's what I would describe as a caper, madcap adventure along the lines of some of Elizabeth Peters' standalones. It reminded me quite strongly of some of her titles, in fact, such as The Camelot Caper or The Dead Sea Cipher.
Our protagonist is Victoria Jones, a bored typist living in London in the early 1950s. One day, having just been fired from a job (that often happens to her), she meets an attractive young man in the park. They start talking and they seem to click, but unfortunately, the young man, Edward, is about to leave for Baghdad for his job. Impulsively, Victoria decides she must get herself to Baghdad as well.
She has nowhere near enough money to get there, but in a stroke of luck, she gets hired as a travelling companion to a lady who's broken her arm (even travelling by air, getting to Baghdad took days back then, including a couple of pit stops). The job ends once they arrive at their destination, however, so a couple of days later, Victoria is trying to sort out what she's going to do next and how she can get a job.
And that's when a mysterious man breaks into her hotel room one night, begs for her help and promptly dies, but not before uttering some cryptic words. Before she knows it, Victoria has a job: trying to get information on a mysterious international conspiracy which could lead to all-out war between the Americans and the Soviets.
I had an absolute blast reading this. Oh, the plot is complete nonsense (think of the more preposterous Bond villain plans and you'll be in the right territory), but that's not the point. It's all about following the delightfully plucky Victoria, as she gets into situation after situation where it looks like she might be in over her head, and then emerges triumphant. She is street-smart and resourceful, with a facility for telling the most outrageous lies, but a strong sense of right and wrong, and I loved her.
I realise she sounds like a bit of an idiot if you summarise the setup. I mean, going all the way to Baghdad, chasing after a man she met for all of 5 minutes? Reading the book, though, she doesn't come across as stupid for doing it. She tells herself she's chasing after him, but it felt quite clear to me that she was just bored of her life and thirsty for adventure. If it hadn't been Baghdad, she would have been off somewhere else a week later.
Christie is not known for her characterisation. Even her fans will admit it's the plotting she's good at, and characterisation her weak point. Well, this is the exception. McGuffin plot, brilliantly drawn protagonist. The other secondary characters are a bit more reliant on types, but there's still enough to make them come alive.
The other protagonist of the story is Baghdad itself. Christie spent quite a bit of time in Iraq, working in her archaeologist husband's excavations, so the setting comes alive and is drawn with fondness. I enjoyed the strong sense of place, but also the portrait of a time long gone, both in Iraq and the London right after World War II. Christie was obviously writing this as a contemporary, so she doesn't make a big song and dance about her own world, but there are details that stop the 21st century reader short. For instance, no mention is made of the fact that in 1950 London there was still some rationing going on, but the American lady Victoria accompanies to Baghdad gives her a pair of silk stockings as a parting gift, the assumption being that contemporary readers would have know just how impossible it would have been for her to get them on her own.
Anyway, this was a good one, not a typical Christie, but still great. We even get a nice little romance!
AUDIOBOOK NOTES: This was the version I listened to, narrated by Emilia Fox, who was just brilliant. I loved the voice she did for Victoria, and she was great with all the others as well, really brought out the humour.


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The town of Swansboro is located on the inter-coastal waterway of North Carolina. It sits only minutes from the popular destination of Emerald Isle. It has a small town feel with a population of less than 10,000. But don't think that means there is not a lot that the city has to offer. Hammocks Beach State Park is located next to town and is very popular with outdoor enthusiast and has activities that include fishing, hiking and kayaking. Some of the most beautiful and secluded beaches in North Carolina are on your doorstep. Star Hill Golf Course is located less than 10 minutes away from town.
When you live in Swansboro you get to enjoy the feeling of a great small town but are only 15 miles away from the city of Jacksonville and 18 miles away from the Marine base of Camp Lejeune.
If the idea of living in small town with all the amenities of a large city close by, Swansboro is a place for you.


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Now if Hal Jordan thought that life could not get any worse for him, the purple-skinned snide-sod, Sinestro, turns up at his door, and – taunts him – slaps him – before giving him a proposition that Hal cannot refuse – a green power ring.
So this is a good thing, right? Wrong – because this offer does come with one proviso – Sinesto can deplete this power source whenever he so chooses to. And worst still, Sinesto demonstrates this to Hal, when suddenly, out of the blue, a bridge collapses nearby, and they both aide with the rescue – in a manner of speaking.
In the aftermath of this bold event, Hal and Sinsetro are abruptly attacked by the perpetrator of this collapsed bridge – Gorgon, of the Sinestro Corps. And even though Sinestro does manage to vanquish this one time ally, in so doing, he also explains to Hal the reason why he gave him the power ring in the first place – so that he can help him save his home world of Korugar.
Whilst reading this second issue of Green Lantern, I was reminded of a sit-com of times past called 'Soap'. Now for those of you who are not in the know, 'Soap' was a parody of a daytime soap opera, which starred the likes of Billy Crystal and Robert Guillaume, and set in a wealthy neighbourhood. OK, I know what you are thinking to yourself – so what does any of this have to do with this issue of Green Lantern? Well, in a round about way, both this issue and 'Soap' have one thing in common – they both made me laugh for the wrong reasons. Here, have a look a this clip...
Now with this clip in mind, please listen to what I say next. The basic gist of the whole issue, is that Sinestro gives Hal Jordan a new power ring – which is in under his control – so that Hal can help Sinestro save his home planet of Korugar (or 'cougar' as I like to call it, it sounds funnier). However, for Sinestro to accomplish this task, he basically 'takes the piss' out of Hal for a couple of minutes, slaps him around for a bit, before they both get themselves into a bit of 'mischief'! Well – I mean – couldn't Sinesto just say from panel two of page one 'Take this ring and help me save my planet'? Wouldn't that have been much simpler? But no – the writer, Geoff Jones, had to turn this into a page-filler full of exposition and bold poses, which – as I said before – made me laugh.
Granted, on the reverse side of this argument, John's story did have a nice and pithy way of telling this tale – as it illustrated as well as vocalised the premise. And in addition to this, I did like the way that the artist, Doug Mahkne (not monkey), draws action scenes – as he has a panoramic and detailed manner to his line work, which elevated this story much more than what it actually was.
Overall, this issue off Green Lantern wasn't all that bad – as it was unintentionally funny – it looked good on the page – and the zinger at the end is making me anticipate what next issue will bring. Want to guess what that is?
A clean comic book – like 'Soap'.
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StarLink, a value-added distributor in META, announced that as part of its global expansion plans, it has launched its Nigeria hub to cater to the West African region and is looking to engage with interested IT security specialized partners.
StarLink has demonstrated success in the IT security business through its well-developed channel network in South Africa and Egypt, which were the first entry points into the African continent. This expansion is in line with the company's long-term vision to be the largest global IT security VAD by opening up new markets to replicate its unique business model. Nigeria will act as the operational hub for West Africa including neighboring markets such as Ghana.
Yaadhna Singh-Gounden, Regional Manager Africa at StarLink said, "We had envisioned Africa to be a huge opportunity and our continued focus on growth in this region has triggered this expansion into West Africa, which will see further investments towards deploying local skills and a service office for on-the-ground presence that would bridge the gap between lack of skills to representing vendors who do not have local presence. Thus, facilitating bringing best-of-breed technologies to this part of Africa."
StarLink has made its mark as a rapidly growing value-added distributor globally with on-the-ground presence in 13 countries including the US and the UK. With a focus on next-generation IT security technologies, StarLink has grown organically at an average rate of 60% year on year, now a $200 million turnover.


text: Little Big Town will re-release its third album, A Place to Land, on Oct. 14 on Capitol Nashville, with new artwork and four additional songs. The project was initially released last November on Equity Records. However, the band owned the masters to the album and negotiated the new deal with Capitol after completing their two-album deal with Equity. The band will also keep the masters to the albums they record for Capitol Nashville. The first two singles from A Place to Land were "I'm With the Band" and "Fine Line." Capitol Nashville also plans to re-release The Road to Here, the band's first album for Equity. Their self-titled debut was issued by Monument Records in 2002. Little Big Town will tour with Carrie Underwood this fall.


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by Apex Magazine on Jan 30, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments
In 2012, Apex Magazine published 27 outstanding original short stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We would like our readers to select their favorites. The author with the story that receives the most votes will receive a nice framed certificate signed by a grateful editor (Lynne M. Thomas) and grateful publisher (Jason Sizemore), and a free Apex T-shirt.
Naturally, the accompanying fame and glory will be something to behold.
Please vote for your top three story choices over here!
The poll runs from January 30th through February 15th. We look forward to seeing the final results!


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Iraq's Communist Party led a mass march through the center of Baghdad today, commemorating the July 14, 1958, national democratic revolution that ousted the British-installed monarchy.
Streaming through the streets, marchers carried red banners, flags and portraits of Col. Abdul Karim Qasim, who led the 1958 revolt and headed the new government that took its place. Communists and other left and democratic forces played a major role in the revolution and the landmark social and economic reforms that were enacted in its wake under the Qasim government. These included nationalization of Iraq's oil industry, the most advanced women's rights legislation in the region, sweeping land reform, expansion and modernization of public education and massive investment in social welfare programs.
Qasim was overthrown on Feb. 8, 1963, by a coup organized by the Baath Party, in which Saddam Hussein played a key role. Qasim was summarily executed the next day. In the ensuing decades, under Saddam Hussein's leadership, a bloody campaign of repression was unleashed against leaders and members of the Iraqi Communist Party, along with trade unionists, intellectuals, the country's Kurdish population and others.
Today the Iraqi Communist Party has two members of Parliament and plays an influential role in the nation's political scene. It draws wide respect for its advocacy of national unity and democracy, and staunchness over decades in fighting for Iraq's workers and poor.


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I think I need to explain myself because me watching this drama was really unintentional. So, I was skimming through my youtube feed a few months ago and accidentally saw that famous clip of Bogum dancing to "Bombastic" and at that moment, I regretted the fact that I continued to watch that short clip because I instantly fell for him (and that was before discovering his age). Anywhoo, I only know him because he's a good friend of Joongki and that he's the one everybody's been talking about (at that time) because of Reply 1988. After that video, I totally forgot about the drama till a few weeks ago when I saw an episode on TV (episode 9 to be exact) and the rest is history.
It's been a while since I've watched a historical drama. I think the last one I saw was Moon Embracing the Sun and that was way back 2012. I had a few attempts before to watch but the political aspect of it was too much for my faint heart.
Cast: I promise to keep calm while I do this… The cast for this drama was unbelievably young LOL. I didn't expect them to be that young because I'm used to having leads that are older than me but not in this case. Anyway let's start from Kim Yoo Jung as Hong Raon /Hong Sam Nom ; This lady, I am very familiar with since well she played Yeon Woo in Moon Embracing and then I saw her in DongYi before. She is quite the actress and she did play this character very very well. Not many can pull off the cross-dressing but she did it with flying colors and she really is too beautiful to be a man. Kwak Dong Yeon as Kim Byung Yeon; This man is amazing! Them fighting skills are the bomb and if he was my bodyguard, I would probably pull off a Whitney Houston on him, I'm just saying. This young man did his character justice and for his age, he made it look like he has gone through so much and you can really feel the pain and the suffering in his eyes as he try to be loyal to both the one he serves which is the prince and the rebels. He also isn't a joke when it comes to crying. I remember this one scene were he just cries as he apologizes and man, did I cry with him too. Jung Jin Young as Kim Yoon Sung; Now, this person is indeed beautiful and well, I can't blame him for calling himself that because he speaks of the truth. His character is probably best described as a masochist. His love for Raon is undeniable as he goes beyond everything (even his family) just for her safety and if that doesn't show love then I don't know what does. Jinyoung did a great job as Yoon Sung and it really showed that he was one with his character.Park Bo Gum as Lee Young/Crown Prince; Okay, it is an understatement to call this man handsome because he is beautiful. I swear he shines like a bright star whenever I get to see him in interviews and appearances. Prior to seeing the drama, I was able to watch him in 1N2D and he is completely different from what I have been seeing in the drama. He played this playful prince and then suddenly he gets serious by the minute. His crying abilities are not kidding, (SPOILER) I remember this scene from episode 15 (… I think) where Raon points a knife at him and she says these things that he knows are lies and you see his eyes watering up and then he goes something like "I told you that I will believe anything you say, even if they're lies" and he cuts the friggin bracelet of destiny and I am left into pieces just bawling my eyes out because you can see the hurt in his eyes.
Story: The story revolves around Raon, Crown Prince Lee Young and their intertwined fates. It basically is your typical boy falls for the girl who's dressed as a boy plot however, the complication that they need to face is their parents' pasts. The only difference to this thing is that we're dealing with Royalty that's mixed with cross dressing and that hasn't happened before (as far as I'm concerned) so it's a new thing for me to watch.
As I have said, this drama is very new to me. It has also been a while since I've seen/ watched a historical drama. What I like about this one is that it's the typical yet it's not so common. What I'm trying to say is that it has a lot of surprises and twists that you would not find in your typical historical drama. It definitely had the power crave thing story line down to a tee, the sword fights and the disguises and the spies but it also had that forbidden love and also the class difference. Last time I watched, I remember that the leading lady comes from a family where her dad is a scholar.
Lee Young & Hong Raon/ Sam Nom (Park Bo Gum & Kim Yoo Jung) – Guise, how to explain and actually tell you why I love this pairing? I honestly don't know. I love them because they are too adorable and they're willing to do anything for each other. He's willing to give up anything for her and she would do anything in her power just to help him and protect his name. Their chemistry is there and they look good onscreen. I'm so glad that they're fun off screen as well, I think it helps too with their characters. How can we forget the famous "I will not allow it" and "he is my person" line (it sounds better in Korean tho) that officially proclaimed that he is indeed in love with our infamous eunuch.
Kim Yoon Sung & Hong Raon (Jin Young & Kim Yoo Jung) – This one broke my heart to pieces. Oh how difficult it is to love someone who only have eyes for another. To top it all off, you know you can't compete with him so you just love her unconditionally with the hopes that she might possibly return the love that you have been giving her. Not that I know how that feels but yes, in the end we all know what happens to him. We all know that for her, it's friendship but for him it's more than that. What I love about this one is that he stayed true to his intentions in the end, he protected her even though he knows what will happen. If that isn't true love, I don't know what is.
Lee Young & Kim Byung Yeon (Park Bo Gum & Kwak Dong Yeon) – The last historical drama I saw, the bromance between the official bodyguard and the royalty isn't something you mess with. And I LOVE that this one also did not disappoint. Byung Yeon and Lee Young's relationship is for the books because Byung Yeon's situation is messed up since he's tangled with some real shiz that's kinda hard to betray and Young also trusts him with his life. He (Byung Yeon) did some amazing stuff that'll go down in my drama history and I bawled my eyes out because of him too because he's willing to sacrifice everything for his friends as well that he kinds forgets his safety in the process. so yeah #bromance for the win.
Jung Duk Ho & Princess Myungeun (Ahn Se Ha & Jung Hye Seong) – #couplegoals to be honest. He loved her because she was all chubby and cute and he's like the ultimate guy that's adorable when he sees the person he likes and I love how he had this process before he finally said to her that he is indeed in love with her and that he's willing to give up his scholar position for her. Isn't that sweet and that he actually wants her cute and chubby self back because that's who he fell in love with. such couple goals to be honest.
My thoughts: Well, I LOVED IT. It's a drama that will stay with me for a long time and I kinda delayed this review because they were in Cebu and that's like 45 mins by plane for me and I literally didn't read and/or watch anything related to this drama just so I can fight the urge to get a plane ticket to Cebu. This drama is for the books because of it's amazing plot and outstanding cast. Also, the story was something that's new for me just because of the twists and the uncommon scenes. I hope you all have seen this drama because it is worth it! If you've seen it, what were your favorite scenes and lines? if not, give this a go and do tell me what you think! Happy Watching ^^


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From Prison to President, the man that was Nelson Mandela is no-more.
The legend that is Nelson Mandela will live on providing hope and inspiration around the world. After 27 years of imprisonment for his opposition to Apartheid one of the remarkable things was his attitude towards his former captors – forgiveness. In an interview after becoming president he said in effect "of course I am bitter, but there is no time for that – we have a country to rebuild".
Many tributes have already been made by heads of state, politicians and citizens of the world .
Denis Goldberg was a friend of Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist who was also imprisoned for more than 20 years and said "I'm saddened his life has come to an end. But it hasn't come to an end – he lives in our constitution, our society, he lives in the comradeship that he always talked about."
Like others in the world who have struggled against massive odds for freedom it's not only the life of a man to be honoured, but the legacy and example that remains a for all humanity ,a heroic story of near biblical proportions. More than enough for a lifetime.


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DCA's Latest Comeback Corps
Welcome back Chops Inc. to the 2015 competition field! Chops is the second corps this season to have successfully completed the DCA member evaluation. The evaluation was conducted by Amber Roeker of the DCA staff and expectations are high for a successful season for the corps.
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Northern Ireland's political leadership and police force today put on a show of unity as the head of the PSNI denied suggestions of a rift between his force and Stormont following three nights of severe rioting in Belfast.
Rioters and republican dissidents – who have been directing children as young as eight to attack police – would not plunge Northern Ireland back into widespread conflict, the deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, insisted.
His comments followed a meeting at Stormont involving the first minister, Peter Robinson, and the PSNI chief constable, Matt Baggott.
"It is quite clear that there are groups out there who are committed to try to plunge our society back into conflict," McGuinness said after police had come under sustained attack at flashpoints across Northern Ireland over the past 72 hours amid tensions surrounding 12 July parades.
"One thing is absolutely certain — they will not succeed. They will not succeed because we are determined to stand together and use all our resources to ensure that they do not achieve their worst aim – and I think as we go forward, we go forward in unity."
Following comments by one of his officers, who called for "real joined-up strategic political leadership" to resolve disputes surrounding contentious marches, Baggott moved to dispel suggestion of a fallout.
"I have never had a rift with my colleagues standing to the left and right of me here," he said, flanked by the first and deputy first ministers.
Separately, however, the father of a PSNI officer who was seriously injured during violence in the nationalist Ardoyne area of north Belfast said police coming under attack should be allowed to take stronger action against rioters.
He spoke out after police footage showed his daughter, on the ground, being saved by fellow officers after she was hit on the head with a breeze block dropped from a nearby building.
Her attackers also hurled missiles at other PSNI officers and paramedics – but senior officers have since said their tactics were the best way to prevent loss of life and that video images of offenders would be used to arrest suspects during the major investigation that is under way.
The parent of the unnamed officer, who is in a stable condition in hospital, told local radio: "Visiting my daughter in hospital made me really angry – I can't understand why they were just standing there and nobody gets arrested.
"I watched TV footage of earlier that day and there were guys on the rooftops, they were obviously the people that were dropping the breeze blocks – why couldn't they have been arrested?"
The PSNI have said breaking the cordon that officers set up around rioters risked leaving them open to more serious attack from dissident republicans using the riot as a cover to target officers with bombs and guns.
The Northern Ireland justice minister, David Ford, also defended the PSNI tactics and the reluctance of police to arrest those involved in the rioting in Ardoyne.
"Every time they [the PSNI] would have arrested someone, it required taking an arresting officer away from the frontline. Those police officers were bettered used dealing with trouble," he said.
Senior officers have promised there will be "significant arrests" in the coming days, and said the rioter who dropped the breeze block onto the policewoman had already been identified.
"Wherever he is in Northern Ireland, he can sit and be worried – we will be coming for him," the PSNI assistant chief constable, Duncan McCausland, said.
Today, army technical officers defused a so-called coffee jar bomb in Ardoyne.
Speaking in the Commons, the prime minister, David Cameron, said the attacks on police officers were "completely unacceptable".
The latest police figures revealed that 83 officers had been injured in the disturbances.
Police came under gunfire from gangs armed with a pistol in Derry and with a shotgun in the North Queen Street area of Belfast, but the worst violence has happened in Ardoyne, where up to six shots were fired at officers on Monday night.
All the areas in which trouble flared – Lurgan, Armagh city, Derry, Ardoyne and the Lower Ormeau – have pockets of republican dissidents.
Both Sinn Fein and the PSNI have claimed republicans opposed to the peace process orchestrated the violence.


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Hike Vermont's Long Trail!
Berne Broudy, hard at work on the Long Trail.
250 miles of trail, 200 waypoints, 135 photos—that's how much it took for BACKPACKER's Green Scene blogger Berne Broudy to map Vermont's classic Long Trail, which traverses the lush forests, stony peaks, and clear lakes and streams of the entire Green Mountain State.
That's good news for New England ramblers, because the fruits of her labor are live and online at www.backpacker.com/longtrail. You'll notice we also split the trail into 12 major sections for your reading pleasure. Thru-hikers can download the whole massive trail, while section hikers and casual trampers hoping to knock off a smaller portion of the scenic trail can peruse each section to find their their ideal hike.
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I was watching Meet the Patels and every part of the film resonated with me. It's about Ravi Patel, an American Gujarati guy, and his tale of finding a wife – the traditional way – to make his family happy. The film is documented by his sister Geeta Patel.
Leading a double life
He discusses the fact that he felt like he led a double life. At home he was a typical Gujarati boy, watched Bollywood films, ate Indian food and then outside of home he would feel like the average American. Playing sports, hanging out with friends, watching Hollywood films and speaking English. This struck a cord with me because I, along with millions of other Asians, felt exactly the same.
At school you were one person and at home you had to be the obedient Indian daughter. I grew up in a non-Asian town so the feeling of leading a double life was enhanced. My friends would go on holidays in the summer, have their own bedrooms, – in addition to having boyfriends. The b-word? That was an absolute no-go so that idea was shoved to the back of my mind.
Even now, at the age of 26, I still lead a double life and have done for many years.
Obviously it mainly comes down to interfaith dating which is where the double life really comes into play…
Interfaith dating – the guilt
In the film Ravi dated an American girl for 2 years and they adored one another. In the end he broke up with her because he knew his parents wanted him to find an 'Indian' girl. They didn't know about his girlfriend, just that he was delaying getting married.
This is very familiar. Dating an English man knowing full well my parents wanted me to marry an Indian man. The guilt. The constant guilt. Being happy in a relationship but knowing everyday in the back of your mind – what are my parents going to think?
Watching this documentary made me go through so many emotions. I could see the stress and the pain in Ravi's eyes. The dilemma of what to do? He gave up his happiness to try things his parents way. And he gave it a bloody good go, the amount of dates he went on to 'find the one.' It just wasn't happening for him.
Telling your parents about your interfaith relationship
While he was trying things his parents way, he was back in touch with his ex American girlfriend. The sneaking around began and then he decided to tell his parents.
I kid you not.
That moment of telling your parents about your interfaith relationship is one of the scariest moments of your life
And in most cases – one parent reacts worse than the other one. His mum wasn't having any of it. They even stopped talking and Ravi didn't feel like her son anymore. Their relationship was dented. (The risk you take when telling your parents about your interfaith relationship).
Been through all of that too.
Time is a healer
You know what? Time really does heal. At the end of the film, you see his girlfriend learning about his Gujarati culture and making Indian food with his mum. His parents are even telling them to have kids. It just goes to show that some parents need time to digest the situation and in the end Ravi is doing what makes him happy. For those reading or watching the film – you might wonder why he didn't do that from day one. In Asian culture, it's not that simple. Although hopefully the next generation have it easier than us…
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Top 10 DevOps Books for IT Operations
Regardless whether you consider yourself a decision maker in IT or if you are an ITI (IT Implementer), check out our top 10 booklist. Consider it our suggestion for an early summer read.
Rather than a comprehensive guide to every book you may want to read about DevOps, this post reflects literature my team and I have been reading over time and consider it our must-reads to get started and dive in. My hope is our list will help you exploring the some of the background, some key challenges, and a bit about the general theory behind collaboration and team work.
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And of course we hope you share back you favorite book related to the topic of DevOps. Without any further ado, the list*, in no particular order.
Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else …
The Core of Visible Ops Visible Ops is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement in IT organizations needing to increase service levels, security, and auditability while managing costs. Visible Ops is comprised of four prescriptive and self-fueling steps that take an organization from any starting point to a continually improving process. …
Test Driven Infrastructure with Chef
Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef demonstrates a radical approach to developing web infrastructure that combines the powerful Chef configuration management framework with Cucumber, the leading Behavior-driven development (BDD) tool. Learn how to deliver real business value by developing infrastructure code test-first. …
In a perfect world, software engineers who produce the best code are the most successful. But in our perfectly messy world, success also depends on how you work with people to get your job done.
In this highly entertaining book, Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman cover basic patterns and anti-patterns for working with other people, teams, and users while trying to develop software. …
The first and most comprehensive book on bringing the startup mindset into large organizations. Forget vague notions of creating an "innovative culture." This book reveals the methodologies, tools, and incentive structures guiding the world's largest organizations to reclaim their innovation prowess. …
Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, …
"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment." According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. …
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
In this intriguing, readable business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former college professor who teaches, for example, that reduction in the efficiency of some plant operations may make the entire operation more productive. …
A just culture protects people's honest mistakes from being seen as culpable. But what is an honest mistake, or rather, when is a mistake no longer honest? It is too simple to assert that there should be consequences for those who 'cross the line'. Lines don't just exist out there, ready to be crossed or obeyed. We-people-construct those lines; and we draw them differently all the time, depending on the language we use to describe the mistake, on hindsight, history, tradition, and a host of other factors. …
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Workshop on the EPNoSL Toolkit at the "Education and School Leadership" Symposium
EPNoSL is organising a workshop in the context of the "Education and School Leadership" symposium that will be held in Zug, Switzerland on 2-4 September, 2015. The symposium is organised by the project's associated partner University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland (PHZ), Zug. Visit the conference website.
The workshop will be an opportunity to present 4 out of the 8 School Leaderhsip for equity and learning toolsets. The program of the workshop will be the following:
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On Friday, Andrew Cuomo celebrated the opening of a new bridge named for his father, former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, by driving Franklin Roosevelt's black Packard east over the Hudson. This bit of primary-season fanfare was short-lived; later that night, the new span was closed over fears that the old bridge being disassembled next door might fall on it. "It is not our bridge. We are not responsible for it," the governor of New York state said of the bridge that had for 60 years carried the New York State Thruway.
It's fitting that Cuomo has compared himself to Robert Moses, the powerful and controversial midcentury planner who built many of the New York City region's parks, highways, and bridges. Like Moses, Cuomo is ruthless with his enemies, a master of backroom deals, and rarely powwows with New Yorkers themselves. "It's sometimes said of certain politicians that they love humanity but hate people," went Jeffrey Toobin's bon mot in a 2015 profile, "Andrew Cuomo does not appear especially fond of either."
But what Cuomo means is that, like Moses, he gets things done. One of the keys to Moses' success was working quickly: Just get the stakes in the ground, and we'll figure the rest out later. Cuomo would agree. One of his signature projects, a new train line to LaGuardia Airport, is being funded without study of alternate routes. The chosen corridor is the path of least political resistance (it runs along a highway), but it's been widely criticized by transportation planners: The train goes east from LaGuardia, even though Manhattan lies to the west. In 2016, Cuomo applied heavy pressure to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an effort to open three stations of the Second Avenue Subway "on time" (the last in a series of missed due dates). On New Year's Eve, Cuomo drank champagne underground. When the stations opened to the public the next day, it was later revealed, the fire-alarm system was still being tested and more than 17,000 defects identified during inspections had not been fixed.
The opening and closing of the Mario Cuomo Bridge's second span (n.b. this is not a drawbridge) is an illustration of Cuomo's shortcomings as a master builder but also of a more maddening tendency to shirk responsibility. If there's one thing Cuomo loves more than taking charge, it's pretending he's not in charge. He has, on occasion, strong-armed the state's other major executive, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, over issues as trivial as the rescue of a deer found in Harlem. But his distinguishing quality, as governor, has been his recurring game of power peekaboo. Now he has it; now he doesn't.
Well, political-appointee Moses never needed public approval. Cuomo, however, to his evident disdain, has to make the case for re-election in a primary race against actress-turned-activist Cynthia Nixon. He does not seem to be getting better at it with age.
He is almost certain to win a third term on Thursday—the latest polling shows him up by an almost 3-to-1 margin—but he has nevertheless managed to make it feel competitive. On the eve of Rosh Hashana, the Cuomo-adjacent New York State Democratic Committee sent out a mailer accusing Nixon of being "silent on the rise of anti-Semitism" and (falsely) of supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel. The outcry was immediate; Cuomo has criticized the mailer and the party's executive director said it was a "mistake."
Unscripted, Cuomo is something of an anti-Trump, a lugubrious speaker whose tin-eared one-liners rarely impress. He took flak for telling a crowd recently that America "was never that great," regurgitating a popular left-wing line. It got him, for the first time in years, the attention of that other well-known politician from Queens: "Andrew Cuomo, having a total meltdown," the president tweeted. The governor's team walked it back. In another speech, he joked to a Harlem crowd that Jews couldn't dance. In his debate with Nixon, he delivered the following sleepy-headed comeback:
Cuomo: "Can you stop interrupting?"
Nixon: "Can you stop lying?"
Cuomo: "As soon as you do."
In private, the effect is apparently different. A former Democratic leader recalled a cajoling phone call with Cuomo to the New York Daily News like this: "He's smart. He has that sing-songy voice … He's a seductor. I hung up and thought, that was like having phone sex." And indeed, his old-school blend of New York politics—as a Dem hack put it to New York's Chris Smith, "the unions and the blacks and Israel and Puerto Rico"—still carries the day. Especially since he is running against Nixon, whose political inexperience has shown over the course of her campaign.
The Cuomo team likes to remind voters that Nixon starred in HBO's Sex and the City, that document of frivolous yuppie culture. Meanwhile, he's a guy from Queens who listens to Billy Joel, loves cars (the license plate of his Jaguar once read AMC ESQ), and works the same job his old man did.
That job is governor of New York, of course, but you won't hear Andrew Cuomo compared much to his father, a beloved progressive who led the state from 1983 through 1994. He did get his start in politics working for his dad—the only way he could spend time with him. But he didn't coast off the association. Rather, Cuomo quickly made a name for himself as a sharp, skilled housing expert and rose to become, as the 39-year-old head of Clinton's Department of Housing and Urban Development, the youngest Cabinet administrator since Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.
It's more from Clinton that Cuomo learned his political instincts: compromise, triangulation, deal-making. That seemed like a nice, pragmatic cocktail when he ran for governor in 2010 in the election that followed the scandalous resignation of Eliot Spitzer. Tea Party fever was sweeping the nation. Democrats would suffer the biggest swing in the U.S. House since 1938. But Cuomo won easily. As governor, he worked so closely with Albany's House and Senate leaders (Democrat Sheldon Silver and Republican Dean Skelos, respectively), that they were known as the three amigos. (Two of the amigos are now serving time on corruption-related charges.)
Cuomo did get things done: In 2011 he delivered a balanced, on-time budget for the first time in five years. He convinced Republicans (who later lost their seats) to legalize same-sex marriage in 2011. He set the standard for Democrats on gun control and fracking. More recently, he's made himself an advocate for Puerto Rico's recovery from Hurricane Maria. For the type of Washington politico who believes that left-wing ideas are unpopular medicine, Cuomo seemed to have a hell of a bedside manner. He was, Third Way president Jonathan Cowan put it to Politico, "a model for what it means to be a 21st-century Democrat."
But the 21st century was just getting started, and voters in New York (already two-thirds Democratic) were moving left. As New York City elected a mayor who'd honeymooned in Fidel Castro's Cuba, Cuomo was still talking about high taxes and balanced budgets like a Republican. In 2013, he scuttled what might have become a landmark corruption inquiry in Albany, and his 2014 memoir, All Things Possible, was purchased by fewer people than live in some New York apartment complexes. During his first re-election campaign, a primary challenge from little-known law professor Zephyr Teachout was closer than expected. Cuomo finished with about 60 percent of the vote, a woeful total for an incumbent governor.
Yet Cuomo was determined to keep his role as the Great Albany Mediator, even if it meant undermining the left-wing organizers who once supported him. In 2014, the Dems would have gained full control of the state if not for a breakaway group that had rebranded in 2011 as the Independent Democratic Caucus and allowed the GOP to keep hold of the state Senate. It is widely thought that Cuomo condoned the IDC. He certainly hasn't done much to help Democrats take back the statehouse; just last year he told reporters, "We've had a unified Democratic government in Albany … It wasn't extraordinarily successful."
In these matters, too, tracking Cuomo's uses and denials of power will give you whiplash. Could he have put the Senate Democrats back together again? In 2017, he said, "If they don't want to marry, I have no power or role in forcing the marriage." But in April, as Nixon called him a fake Democrat on the campaign trail, he appeared to bring the IDC back into the fold with a snap of his fingers. (Several of those senators face primary challenges on Thursday.)
But no subject illustrates this recurring sleight of hand more than the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the creaking engine of New York's economy. When it came time to press for the completion of the Second Avenue Subway, Cuomo threatened the contractors, and the extension opened. When it came time to talk about a third track for the Long Island Rail Road mainline, or a tunnel under the Long Island Sound, Cuomo was Robert Moses again. Slide after slide of what could be.
From this, you might think Cuomo is the unequivocal owner of the state's transportation infrastructure. Indeed, in 2015, as a blizzard bore down on New York City, Cuomo called a press conference in which he announced that the subway would be, for the first time in history, completely closed because of snow. De Blasio learned about it 15 minutes before Cuomo made the announcement. But as anger simmered last summer over a level of service that would shock commuters in any other world city, Cuomo said that de Blasio was responsible for the subways. Not my bridge; not my trains.
"Who's in charge?" the governor mused in an aside last June about the MTA. "Who knows! Maybe the county executive, maybe the president, maybe the governor, maybe the mayor." ("Maybe Curious George," quipped the Gothamist.)
The correct answer, whether he likes it or not, is Andrew Cuomo. He's always been more comfortable as a leader making the most of a stalemate, and the narrative that he has achieved much atop a fractured state is part of his potential pitch for the White House in 2020. But the state might not be fractured for long. November may bring a fully blue Albany that would demand more of him. He has worked with Republicans. Could he work with Democrats?
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Born in London and now based in New York, Wates is both singer-songwriter and author, this latest collection, his ninth, a companion piece to his short stories collection, City of Lights, both inspired by his time spent living in Paris.
As evidenced by the opening 'The Balladeer', a look back to the 60s troubadours tradition in which he's cast, he often both sings and plays guitar at a brisk pace. In contrast, however, the likes of the strings-enrobed economic-depression themed 'Long Winter Is Coming On' and the eco-themed optimism of 'The Time Will Come' are both slower, bluesier affairs. The songs encompassing a stark look at the dark shadows of today's world with 'The Lights of Paris', the closing number, standing as a symbol of love and hope, he variously reminds me of Ralph McTell, Tom Paxton, Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Chapin, his inflections at times reminiscent of Jake Thackray and Peter Skellern, while the ghosts of Brel and Brecht don't hover too far away.
With the fingerpicked 'Fields of America' and 'The Day The Great Ship Went Down', both laments for the death of the American dream of liberty and equality, and the violin and cello accompanied call to arms of 'I Can't Shut My Eyes' among the many highlights, these lights shine bright.
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In November 2002, the owner of a Marin, CA agreed to pay $70,000 to a family and Fair Housing of Marin (FHM), a private nonprofit fair housing agency. The Consent Decree resolved claims that the landlord placed overly restrictive rules on children at his apartment complex. The names of the parties involved remain confidential, according to the Decree.
The family and FHM filed the federal lawsuit to challenge the rules at the complex that kept the playground closed, except during school hours, and prohibited children over the age of 10 from using the playground equipment.
A condominium association and its management company that allegedly prohibited children from playing outside at their Pico Rivera, California homes, will pay $130,000 to resolve a federal lawsuit. The court also issued a permanent injunction against rules that unduly restrict childrens activities.
The Housing Rights Center, along with Adele Samorano and seventeen other Plaintiffs, sued the condominium association and property management company, Baldwin Management, in federal court in August 2001.
In a case where the management staff of an apartment complex in Gardenia, California allegedly told an expectant mother over the phone that it would not accept families with children because it was a seniors only complex, a federal judge has issued a Consent Decree and Final Order directing the owner to pay $51,000 and enter into a two-year fair housing program.
The City Commission of Daytona Beach, Florida agreed in March to give up a yearlong fight against a home for recovering drug and alcohol addicts. The City will pay $100,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit.
The settlement approved by commissioners includes $60,000 for attorney fees and costs. Michael Gardner, owner of the home, will split $6,000 with 10 clients. Hearthstone Foundation, a nonprofit company that operates the home, will get $34,000.
The owners and managers of an apartment complex in Hartford, Connecticut have agreed to pay $35,000 to the Connecticut Fair Housing Center (CFHC) to resolve a federal lawsuit alleging housing discrimination.
Shirley Stevens, an African American woman from Cook County; the South Suburban Housing Center (SSHC); and two of the Centers African American testers agreed to the terms of a February 2003 Consent Order to settle a federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination by John Gronski, Sr. and Mary Gronski, the owners of several rental properties in suburban Chicago. The Defendants agreed to pay $45,000 in cash for Plaintiffs damages and attorneys fees.
The Department of Justice settled a lawsuit with the architectural firm of Hite/MSM, P.C. regarding violations of the federal Fair Housing Act. Under the consent decree, Hite will pay $415,000 toward making retrofits to add accessibility features to the complexes and $20,000 to four individuals who were harmed by the lack of accessibility features.
A single mother will receive a total of $18,000 in damages and attorney fees to settle a federal housing discrimination lawsuit against the owners and manager of Halewood Manor, an apartment complex in Gallatin, Tennessee. Under the terms of the settlement, the owners and manager of the complex also will receive training on the Fair Housing Act and will refrain from violating state and federal fair housing laws.
The lawsuit alleges that Angela Woodard was denied an apartment at the complex on several occasions because she has a small child.
Ronald Ray Smith, the colorful and sometimes cantankerous Enforcer of civil rights for people with disabilities in Nevada, died on July 16 at his Las Vegas home.
United States District Judge Phyllis Hamilton approved the January 2003 settlement of a housing discrimination case brought by Frances Foster, a person with disabilities, who alleged that she was discriminated against by the City of Richmond Housing Authority. Foster will receive $54,500 in damages and attorneys fees.
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Gilded Flakes
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Beautiful cards I have some gilding flakes but don't think I have used them yet naughty me. you have given me the inspiration to break them out and use them. Love Alison xxReplyDelete
Lovely selection of cards. I haven't tried gilding flakes yet! :o)ReplyDelete
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Lovely cards, I especially like the swirl used :DReplyDelete
What a lovely selection of cards that you have I like Gilding Flakes but have never tried them yet myself, but like the look on cards that I have seen with them.ReplyDelete
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Such a pretty selection of cards, I haven't used gilding flakes before, it's something I am looking forward to trying.ReplyDelete
Lovely set of cards....love the foxy one...JoolsxReplyDelete
Lovely set of cards, love the pheasant one.ReplyDelete
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Really like those gilded card , especially the alium one! I can see this is a technique I might be trying!ReplyDelete
Lovely Trio of cards, AlIzabethy, I think The dinky fox is my favourite!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous cards! I think my favourite is the fox card too, so hard to choose! :-) Happy leapblogging! Elaine-xxx-ReplyDelete
I love these, especially the fox. I have always wanted to try the gilding flakes as they do look good - after seeing your cards I think this will be the next crafty thing I purchase xReplyDelete
I love using gilding flakes....I have been experimenting with my quickie glue pen and double sided tape as an alternative to the glue (and not so messy!) Lovely cards. Just popped over from DC. Sharon xReplyDelete
oh my word alizabethy what a super little card . ... well done ... just hopping over from do-crafts ... hope you have a good week ... happy crafting and love sandy xxReplyDelete
What a fantastic way to show the potential of gilding flakes. We need you to teach us how to make the most of them xReplyDelete
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I adore the simplicity of them but with the gilding flakes adding a touch of shine.
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Some of the world's last Pacific right whales will get special protections in the Bering Sea to boost the animals' chances of avoiding extinction, the National Marine Fisheries Service said Tuesday.
ANCHORAGE Some of the world's last Pacific right whales will get special protections in the Bering Sea to boost the animals' chances of avoiding extinction, the National Marine Fisheries Service said Tuesday.
A 36,750-square-mile area, just outside of southwestern Alaska's salmon-rich Bristol Bay, would be designated as critical habitat for Pacific right whales under the NMFS proposal.
If the designation becomes official, federal agencies would be required to work with NMFS to ensure that no activities in the area destroy or threaten the whales' habitat. The proposal is subject to public review through January 2, NMFS said.
The mammals are the most endangered large whales in the world, with no more than 100 believed to exist, according to the agency.
Biologists have repeatedly seen right whales in that area since the mid-1990s and acoustic devices on the sea floor have recorded their calls there, said Brad Smith, a biologist with NMFS's Alaska regional office.
"They do have a characteristic call that can be recognized and that identifies them as right whales," Smith said.
The NMFS proposal to designate critical habitat came in response to an order issued in June by a federal judge, who sided with environmental plaintiffs' claims that the Bush administration had illegally delayed taking action to protect the whales.
"We finally have, after decades of thinking that they were functionally extinct, some hope of protecting Pacific right whales," said Brent Plater, the San Francisco-based staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, which sued to force the protections.
Right whales in the Pacific were nearly wiped out by commercial hunters by the early 20th century. Because they swim slowly, hug the shoreline and are so fat that they float when dead, they were known by commercial harvesters as the "right whales" to hunt.
They were believed to have vanished entirely from the eastern Pacific until sporadic sightings were reported, starting in the 1960s, Smith said. In the 1996 some were seen swimming in the southeastern Bering Sea and in 2004 three mother-calf pairs were spotted in the area now proposed for protection, he said.
There are separate but small populations of northern right whales in the Atlantic and in the western Pacific off the Russian and Japanese coasts.
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