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TV actress Shweta Tiwari has registered a police complaint against husband Abhinav Kohli for domestic violence. Though there were reports that all is not well in Shweta Tiwari's second marriage, both Shweta and Abhinav had refuted the reports.
Now, in a twist of events Shweta has filed an FIR alleging that her husband Abhinav had beat up her daughter Palak. Abhinav and Shweta tied the knot in 2013 and welcomed a baby boy Reyansh in 2016. Before Abhinav, Shweta was married to Raja Choudhary, however, she parted ways with him after becoming a victim of domestic violence.
Later, Shweta's daughter Palak herself spoke up on the issue and penned a lengthy note on Instagram.
Thanking everyone, she wrote, "Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who's reached out to express their concern and support. Secondly, i would like to address and clarify a few things out of my own rectitude: The media does not have the facts and they never will. I, Palak Tiwari, was on multiple occasions a victim of domestic abuse NOT my mother, except for the day that the complaint was filed he hadn't hit my mother."
She added, "As a reader of the news its often easy to forget that you do not know the truth of what goes on behind closed doors or how much fortitude my mother has shown in both her marriages. This is someone's household you're writing about, someone's life you're discussing. Many of you fortunately haven't even dealt with something of such heinous proportions, and hence you have no right to comment, discuss or paint someone else's image through your biased, misinformed views."
"It's beyond disgusting and its time that i stand up for my mother for she is the strongest person i know and since out of all of us I'm the only person who's witnessed her struggle day in and day out, my opinion is the only one that matters," she continued.
About allegations of molestation against Abhinav, Palak wrote, "Abhinav Kohli has never physically molested me, or touched me inappropriately. Before spreading something of this caliber or even believing it, its imperative you as readers know the veracity of the facts that you're blindly divulging endlessly. However, he did persistently make inappropriate and disturbing remarks the impact of which is only known to my mother and I, and if any woman from any walk of life were to hear them she would be greatly embarrassed and provoked too."
"Words which would question the standing dignity of any woman, which you wouldn't expect to hear from any man, especially not your "father". Seeing our lives through social media, reading about us in the papers can only tell you so much about our struggles, but never enough to comment on them. Today as a proud daughter, I'm here to tell you that my mother is the most respectable individual that I've ever come across, the MOST self sufficient, one who's never required or even had a man provide for her and has always taken the social standing of a "man" in both the families that we've been a part of."
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FIFA have announced that Westfield Matildas head coach Tom Sermanni has been nominated for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for the Women's Football awards for 2011.
FIFA have announced that Westfield Matildas head coach Tom Sermanni has been nominated for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for the Women-s Football awards for 2011.
FIFA and France Football have revealed the names of the players and coaches on the short lists for these awards (see below), and the final decisions will be made by the captains and head coaches of the women-s national teams as well as by international media representatives selected by France Football.
The shortlists for the men-s Ballon d-Or award and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men-s Football award will be revealed on 1 November 2011.
The winners of all of the awards will be revealed at the second FIFA Ballon d-Or gala as part of a televised ceremony at the Zurich Kongresshaus on 9 January 2012, during which the FIFA/FIFPro World XI and the FIFA Puskás Award for the most beautiful goal of the year will also be announced. The FIFA Presidential Award and the FIFA Fair Play Award will also be presented during the gala.
The list of ten female candidates has been drawn up by experts from the Committee for Women-s Football and the FIFA Women-s World Cup as well as by experts from France Football.
The list of 10 coaches has been drawn up by football experts from the Football Committee, the Technical and Development Committee and the Committee for Women-s Football and the FIFA Women-s World Cup, as well as by a group of experts from France Football.
On 5 December 2011, FIFA and France Football will announce at a media event in Paris the names of the three men and three women, as well as the three coaches for women-s football and three coaches of men-s football, who have received the most votes. Also announced will be the three nominees for the FIFA Puskás Award.
Women-s shortlists for the FIFA Ballon d-Or gala 2011
The following 10 coaches (in alphabetical order, first nationality and then team) are in contention for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women-s Football 2011:
Bruno Bini (France/France national team), Leonardo Cuellar (Mexico/Mexico national team), Thomas Dennerby (Sweden/Sweden national team), Patrice Lair (France/Olympique Lyonnais), Maren Meinert (Germany/Germany U-20 national team), Hope Powell (England/England national team), Norio Sasaki (Japan/Japan national team), Tom Sermanni (Australia/Australia national team), Pia Sundhage (Sweden/USA national team), Jorge Vilda (Spain/Spain U-17 national team).
The following 10 women (in alphabetical order) are in contention for the title of FIFA Women-s World Player of the Year 2011:
Sonia Bompastor (France), Kerstin Garefrekes (Germany), Marta (Brazil), Aya Miyama (Japan), Alex Morgan (USA), Louisa Necib (France), Homare Sawa (Japan), Lotta Schelin (Sweden), Hope Solo (USA), Abby Wambach (USA).

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The War on President Trump being waged by the media, Democrats, Hollywood and the rest of the wacky left is spinning out of control.
The whole story is best illustrated by the Academy Awards fiasco when the Follywood elites were certain that it was going to be a night to remember with non-stop Trump bashing.
Instead it went completely the other way with the Tinseltown snotbags announcing the wrong Best Picture award, their biggest moment of the year and their biggest Oscar screwup ever. Ever! It was wonderful to watch.
Trump then salted their wounds by calling them out for being so obsessed with their attacks on him that they couldn't even get their awards straight. Trump was correct. Again.
Look at the post-election frenzy by the Trump haters – the riots, the absurd three-state vote recount, the electoral college death threats, the staged attacks on Muslims, and on and on. Every day they threw everything they had at Trump and they could not shake him. And now the attacks are failing and fading away.
They attacked Melania, Ivanka and Barron Trump mercilessly, while now generally there is silence. In fact Ivanka Trump's fashion line is having record sales despite a nationwide boycott by liberals while Melania's popularity is rising steadily.
Then the haters went after Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Rex Tillerson, Betsy DeVos, Scott Pruitt and every other nominated member of the administration. Yet these people are now in office and working quietly every day to get the Trump agenda through. The attacks had zero effect.
The liberals cannot, however, go back and attack the same people again and again since repeated attacks would only sound like "the boy who cried wolf". Thus these direct attacks on these major figures are largely spent unless something really big comes up.
It was interesting to see attorney general Jeff Sessions going about his business normally just a few days after the liberals claimed that he had definitely perjured himself and certainly must resign. Or Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway suffering no ill effects after she was called out in a media firestorm for publicly promoting Ivanka Trump's clothing line in a totally innocuous and cursory comment.
Indeed the War on Trump is dying down. Oh, it will never go away, but these people can only maintain their hysteria for so long before they wear themselves out like a child throwing a tantrum who eventually falls asleep.
Look at how the first Trump travel ban created an immediate frenzy, but the second has created very little. This is part of the pattern.
A recent poll even showed president Trump with 55% approval while the same poll showed Hillary Clinton at 35%. Wow. Amazing.
Can it get any worse for the Democrats? It sure can. The top-selling book on Amazon is a spoof book with blank pages called Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide. This is doubly hurtful because Democrats have always represented themselves as the masters of ridicule, yet now they are the targets.
In France, we are seeing a phenomenon that would not be thought possible just one year ago. The Trump-like presidential candidate Marine LePen, who has been marginalized for years, now is getting enthusiastic Trump-like audiences. Fasten your seat belts for the French elections this Autumn.
Meanwhile it is Trump's courage and audacity that sustains him. He strikes back, like on Twitter, which he is using super-effectively. Look at how he hit back against black "civil rights icon" John Lewis using Twitter, calling out Lewis for lying about never boycotting an inauguration before Trump's when in fact he had boycotted George W. Bush's inauguration 16 years before.
Lewis has been considered untouchable for decades. Until Trump came along, that is. Meanwhile Investor's Business Daily reports:
The mainstream media's open hostility to President Trump may be starting to backfire, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll.
The poll found that 55% of the public says they've grown "weary from the media's persistently negative coverage of President Trump." A roughly equal share (54%) also believe that the news media "has assumed the role of the opposition party, constantly opposing the president and his policies at every turn."
Not surprisingly, Republicans overwhelmingly hold these views (88% say they're tired of the relentless negativity), but the media's attacks are also turning off independents (55% of whom say they're weary of the negative coverage) and moderates (54% of whom are weary). Most also believe that the press has assumed the role of the opposition party…
A study by the nonpartisan group Media Tenor found that only 3% of network news stories in the first month of the Trump administration could be described as positive. Of the rest, 43% were deemed negative, and 54% neutral. That's a stark contrast to the overwhelmingly positive coverage of the early Obama administration, despite the fact that Obama had his own share of early stumbles.
And these attacks are not just malicious political rhetoric. They are usually outright false or they expose the attacker for being crazy or stupid, like the pop singer Madonna saying she wanted to blow up the White House. This is merely pushing people to support Trump in a backlash of sympathy.
There are so many examples. A "comedian" named Sarah Silverman posted photos of what she thought were 'swastikas' spray-painted on the sidewalk near her home, a sure sign, she concluded, of Trump-era anti-Semitism. Unfortunately for Silverman the markings were merely locational symbols painted on the sidewalk by utility crews, and they only looked vaguely like swastikas.
Silverman was embarrassed in a major way. She will not be heard from again about Trump, you can be sure. These famous people are ultra-sensitive to their public images and Silverman got hammered big-time on the internet for her stupidity.
This all is no surprise. Nikitas3.com predicted throughout 2016 that Trump would win the election and that he would make the media regret their relentless attacks on him. This now is happening, along with people who are losing their jobs all over the place for their intemperate internet language, like the Saturday Night Live writer who made a horrible joke about Barron Trump.
The Trump haters are even doing things that are downright illegal. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's tweeted out recently that someone at the IRS should send him Trump's tax returns, which would be a felony. Kristof wrote:
But if you're in IRS and have a certain president's tax return that you'd like to leak my address is NYT, 620 Eighth Ave, NY, NY 10018
Yet Kristof's tweet itself is the solicitation of a felony with penalties equal to the crime itself. Definitions.uslegal.com/c/criminal-solicitation/ says:
"A person is guilty of solicitation to commit a crime if, with the purpose of promoting or facilitating its commission, he commands, encourages or requests another person to engage in specific conduct which would constitute such crime or an attempt to commit such crime or which would establish his complicity in its commission or attempted commission. It is immaterial that the actor fails to communicate with the person he solicits to commit a crime if his conduct was designed to effect such a communication."
So it is time not just to strike back at the haters, but to use every aspect of the legal system against them to bring them down. Nikitas3.com is hoping that attorney general Sessions acts against Kristof soon.
Democrat power has been shrinking for years now, and particularly after the November election. Here are the numbers about how much power the Democrats have lost since Obama was first elected. Republicans now control:
*the White House and the enormous power that goes with it, including the power to appoint Supreme Court justices and federal judges, which will re-make American jurisprudence for decades to come;
*the US Senate, with 52 Republican senators out of 100. That number even could go to 53 since one Democrat may switch parties. This gives Republicans majority control of the Senate again, which they were expected to lose in the recent election. This means that Trump will generally get all of the legislation that he wants and the appointments that he wants, including the Supreme Court.
*the US House of Representative with 240 Republicans to 193 Democrats (with 2 vacancies), a massive GOP majority. As Republican dominance continues long-serving Democrats may quit out of frustration, leading to a possible snowball effect in favor of the GOP;
*Republicans hold 33 out of 50 governorships. Republican governors rule almost all of the thriving and growing American states, and also many once-liberal states like Wisconsin and Michigan. Even ultra-liberal Vermont just elected a Republican governor by a whopping 9 points.
*Republicans have majority control of 68 out of 98 state legislative bodies.
*Republicans have been doing extremely well in mid-term elections and so you can expect their power to rise even more in 2018, with Trump there to help them. Worse for Democrats, only eight Republican US senators are up for re-election in 2018 but 25(!) non-Republicans (Democrats and independents) are. This will provide a clear opportunity for another rout of the Democrats and could easily take Republicans to 60 US Senate seats, the "magic number" that would give Trump almost unlimited power.
Here is an added note from the Washington Post to make these arrogant Democrats even more depressed:
Donald Trump is set to inherit an uncommon number of vacancies in the federal courts in addition to the open Supreme Court seat, giving the president-elect a monumental opportunity to reshape the judiciary after taking office. The estimated 103 judicial vacancies that President Obama is expected to hand over to Trump in the Jan. 20 transition of power is nearly double the 54 openings Obama found eight years ago following George W. Bush's presidency.
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I once spoke with a fellow teacher who told me he had asked his manager why our company had placed my boyfriend and I in Taichung (to live) when our branch was in Yuanlin (nearly an hour away by train). He said his manager replied by asking, "Have you ever been there? No? Well, there's nothing there." In other words, Yuanlin, in the opinion of this teacher's manager, is a %$#&hole.
Well, since I've been travelling there on a regular basis and have had the opportunity to explore this not-so-little country town, I'm happy to report that it actually has a lot to offer, maybe not to the average tourist but certainly to anyone who happens to be passing through on their way to other areas of Taiwan. Or to the Taichung resident who wants to explore their extended neighbourhood.
Yuanlin has the feel of an eccentric, semi-rural township. I liken it to Castlemaine outside Melbourne, Australia. (Sorry for those reading who come from anywhere other than Melbourne but it was my only point of reference.) There are a number of shops, cafes and restaurants that have a unique charm. Among my favourites are:
This store is located in the block of shops to your left that edge the public square outside the train station. I love this store for its name alone, let alone what it contains inside its four walls. This is one of the best streetwear stores I've come across in Taiwan. Their stock of urbanist sneakers is constantly renewed; there is always a new pair my feet cry out for. I mainly stop by for the sneakers, but my boyfriend has purchased chequered shirts and tees from this store and they have a great range of guys pants.
Walk straight ahead from Moustache towards the city, past the High Life on the corner, and keep an eye out for a small white and black sign above your head that says, "Lulu". This teensy store oozes cute. It is hidden down an alley so always feels like your own personal shopping secret. Literally filled to the brim with clothes, shoes, bags and jewellery, it contains many covetable items. My favourites are their selection of dirt-cheap watches (only $150NT), which come in tons of eccentric designs, and their cluster of cute and crafty wooden pendants. Their range of long-length tees and tops are also must-haves. My only regret is that my huge size-10 feet are far too big to fit any of the shoes in their charming collection.
Tony's BBQ
Tony's is a traditional Japanese BBQ and a favourite with the locals. It's completely open plan but has moved away from the standard Taiwanese outdoor restaurant setting and developed a style of its own. Their menu is in English and Chinese and they serve Taiwan Beer in huge mugs. Saki is also available for those who like to avoid the TB headache the next day. The squid with green onion is so good: whole barbequed squid, stuffed with green onion and wasabi. I also really enjoy the lamb with thyme and the grilled mushrooms. There are plenty of vegetarian and seafood options available for those of you so inclined.
This bar is retro-fitted in the actual sense of the term and spans three floors. It's cluttered with knick-knacks in the way essential for kitsch and houses comfy lounge-about chairs, the kind you can curl up cat-like in. The top floor is home to items for sale: original 50s to 70s furniture and household stuff that I've found very hard to locate in Taiwan and will be perusing for purchase once I'm debt free. The music sifting from the speakers ranges from corny local pop to jazz to DJ Shadow to early grunge classics. Pali's menu offers some Western choices, generally mucked up in the way only the Taiwanese can (although I have yet to try their pastas and they could prove me wrong), so it's best to stick with the bar snacks, which are great. I have a deep regard for the deep fried tofu. The drinks menu is outstanding, with many imported beers, including Hoegaarden, dozens of cocktails and the usual mixers. This bar is best enjoyed on the second floor, with an arrival just before sundown, after which the friendly staff dim the lights to a flattering and chill-out inducing level.
So jump on the train and take a trip through the now-harvested rice fields and rural communities to a sleepy, artsy little town, host to a crop of shops and eateries that are both welcoming and oozing cool.
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Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Captain 3rd Rank Valentin Starikov.
Valentin Georgievich Starikov was born in 1913, during the service in the Baltic Fleet participated in the Winter War of 1939-40, from October 31, 1939 – commander of the submarine of the 3rd Division of a separate submarine brigade of the Northern Fleet M-171.
By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 3, 1942, for the successful command of a submarine and heroism displayed in battles against the German fascist invaders, V. Starikov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
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To announce the arrival of the Gap's "Sprize" customer-loyalty program (and probably to shock passersby into noticing), a Gap in Vancouver was completely flipped upside-down, in line with Sprize's motto "shopping turned on its head."
When we say everything was turned upside-down, we mean everything; the store sported flipped cars out front, mannequins suspended from the ceiling, and even shopping bags printed with "GAP" turned up.
The program began just in time for holiday shopping, as Vancouver-area Gaps signed up customers to earn "Sprizemoney" on their purchases, but only if the items purchased go on sale within 45 days of the purchase. The difference between regular and sale price is then deposited in the Sprizemoney account of the shopper, who can later use these kind-of-like-a-refund credits to buy even more items. And from the Sprize Twitter, we see that stores even throw the occasional Sprize party with free mani-pedis.
The goal? Suite101 quotes Marka Hansen, President of Gap Brand North America, as saying "We're taking away the frustration and worry over buying a product at full price, and then seeing the price drop soon afterwards."
Interesting! But there aren't any plans so far announced regarding rolling out Sprize to the US or to other stores beyond the ten in Vancouver, so we'll withhold judgment for now.
The GAP Sprize, New Customer Loyalty Program [Suite101]
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Interview with T. M. Wright
An Unleashed Imagination
Novelist T. M. Wright reflects on creativity, the muse, and finding your writer's voice.
Interview conducted by Matt Cardin
First published in May 2010 at Demon Muse (now discontinued)
Republished June 2014 at The Teeming Brain
Amid the flood of books and authors, many of them quite awful, that made up the 1970s and 80s horror publishing boom, T. M. Wright was one of the few whose works rose above the murky waters to reveal qualities of authentic excellence. Some readers and critics called him a new master of ghost fiction, even placing him in the company of M. R. James. His 1978 debut novel, Strange Seed — about a newlywed couple who escape the urban din of New York City by moving to a farm house in upstate New York, where they're confronted by a shattering supernatural presence in the woods — is a bona fide modern classic that prompted Stephen King to dub it "the best supernatural novel since Interview with the Vampire." King also included the book on his list of essential modern horror novels in Danse Macabre and called Wright himself "a rare and blazing talent." A Manhattan Ghost Story (1984) is likewise recognized as a modern classic, and is credited with introducing a new twist on the ghost story that went on to exert an enormous influence on both fiction and film.
What primarily makes Wright's work so singular and memorable is its visionary evocation of a bizarre supernatural reality that impinges on the mundane world in the most sinister and strange of ways, as expressed in a mesmerizing "experimental" voice, style, structure, and tone. His novels (more than 20 of them and counting), short stories, and poems convey the sense that they are following an obscure thread of meaning that reveals itself not in and through the conventional mechanics of plot, setting, and characterization, but in a more oblique and almost subliminal fashion. William P. Simmons, in reviewing a new edition of Strange Seed that was published in 2006, nailed the whole thing when he said, "While Wright's refusal to play it safe by providing readers with clean-cut moral simplicities or easy-to-understand endings has alienated a large percentage of what could be considered the traditional horror readership, his poetically lush atmosphere, evocation of ambiguity in a lonely universe, and anti-plots of subjectivity have delighted just as many."
I personally became acquainted with Terry (the "T" in "T. M.") in 2006 through our mutual habit of hanging out online at the Shocklines Message boards. One thing led to another, and we ended up co-editing a two-volume fiction anthology titled Holy Horrors (which, sadly, never saw publication). When I was in the early stages of planning and designing the now-defunct Demon Muse blog, which was focused on the experience and discipline of creative inspiration by the muse/daemon/genius, I thought of Terry immediately as a great candidate for an interview, not only because he's such a fine writer, but because his work bears evidence of a profound sensitivity to the nuances of the creative process. I especially wanted to ask him about the deep inner source of his hypnotically expressed ideas.
And so, when we finally sat down in cyberspace to chat, that's what I led with.
MATT CARDIN: Thank you for joining me here, Terry. And apologies up front for starting with a variation of the oldest question in the author interviewing biz, but it leads right into the center of what I want to talk to you about: when you write, where does it come from? What's your guidance, the source and center of the ideas you follow?
T. M. WRIGHT: You know, in all honesty, I'm not sure. I think what I'm probably following is my belief that the universe we live in isn't as benign or dependable as some of us hope. And when I say "the universe we live in," I'm not talking solely about the physical universe, the universe of home, city, country, et cetera, but also the universe of our souls — a word I use very broadly — and creativity. The universe of our expectations and relationships, both with others and with ourselves, is simply not as knowable as we'd like to believe. And sometimes that universe takes us completely by surprise, for good or ill.
MC: So as you go about exploring and explicating this belief in a fundamentally mysterious physical, interpersonal, and soulful/psychological universe, what's your experience, if any, of inspiration, of being given ideas and words in a way that feels spontaneous and beyond your control? Please note that when I ask the question, I'm thinking in the back of my head about the large number of writers, including some prominent ones in the horror genre — I think immediately of Joe Lansdale and Brian Keene, for instance — who have famously championed the "ass in chair" prescription for authorial success. They emphasize the necessity of practical effort, of simply committing to the discipline of sitting down and pounding out words. The thing is, some people of this persuasion — and I'm not saying this is true of Joe and Brian — go at it in a one-sided manner by talking as if effort precludes inspiration, as if they're mutually exclusive. They even dismiss the very idea of inspiration as a distraction from the gritty reality of doing it all yourself through hard work. Personally, I think effort and inspiration go together. I think both are necessary, because effort and discipline are what provide a suitable channel for inspiration to flow through. So what do you say to any of this?
TMW: I make the effort — the writing effort — until what passes for "inspiration" makes an appearance, and then I go with its flow. Often, it takes me to strange places inhabited by strange people, and I find myself writing about these people, in these places, as if they're real, as indeed they are. They have to be real, in some universe, anyway.
MC: What you're describing, that transition where your story takes on its own life and you just follow it and record what happens, is pretty much the Holy Grail for most fiction writers. I've found it's important when writing nonfiction, too — that moment when your project takes on its own momentum, and its inner logic tells you where you're going. How did you originally learn to do this?
"Getting in touch with the creative unconscious is probably a tricky thing to do. After all, it's the 'unconscious' for a reason: it doesn't want to be gotten in touch with. But to find that true creative voice, my advice would be to forget it's there, and simply write. It doesn't really matter what you write as long as it's got some kind of flow, strange or otherwise."
TMW: I spent a few years at the beginning of my career struggling with what the process of writing was all about. Does a writer try just to write in ways that are at least readable, about characters and situations that a reader would probably find interesting and entertaining? In the beginning I guess I took what was almost a one, two, three approach. One, get an idea. Two, pop a few interesting characters and settings into that idea. Three, write the story in a way that keeps readers reading and satisfies them at the end. There's nothing wrong with that approach, of course. It works quite well for many writers. But I sensed that, for me, something was missing. I felt I wasn't getting in touch with something . . . other, something that was part of my need to write, something with which I had yet to communicate.
I found it, whatever it was, by throwing out the "get an idea" stage and simply sitting down and writing whatever came into my head. This was late in my career. Perhaps it started with Cold House, published in 2003 and written a year earlier. Or perhaps it started when TOR offered me a couple of three-book contracts based simply on titles for which I had yet to flesh out "ideas." That approach gave birth to half a dozen trippy novels, including The School and Little Boy Lost, published in 1989 and 1993 by TOR, Sleepeasy, published by Victor Gollancz in 1994, and Blue Canoe, published in 2009 by the PS Publications in the UK.
MC: When you talk about the need to creatively "get in touch with something," I think this naturally suggests something like inspiration, something like the muse. Do you subscribe to such an idea? Do you think of your creativity in muse-oriented terms?
TMW: You know, I think "finding the muse" is simply finding one's true voice. It comes to us when the programmatic one, two, three structure falls apart. Of course, for many writers this approach never falls apart, and that's great for them. They don't need to seek "the muse," because they've already found their voice. But for others of us, it does fall apart, and so we end up sitting and staring and waiting for the "voice," the muse, to arrive. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. But when it does, we — and by "we" I mean "I" — can find new and exciting places and characters for the imagination to work with. And maybe that's all the muse really is: an unleashed imagination. Trying to make something readable and satisfying out of that unleashed imagination, however, can be a daunting task, because on the one hand we have to keep it from making what we write into a mass of ugly pudding, and on the other hand we've got to keep it "unleashed." Sometimes, for me, the process works.
MC: I love the self-portrait you created titled "T.M. Wright with Muse." What's the story there?
TMW: That came about when I was trying to make the black background a little lighter, with burnt umber. I stepped back at some point and realized, "Good Lord, that's my muse!"
MC: So what's your best advice for writers and other creative artists who are looking to get in harmony with their creative unconscious and produce work that's really and truly "them"?
TMW: Getting in touch with the creative unconscious is probably a tricky thing to do. After all, it's the "unconscious" for a reason: it doesn't want to be gotten in touch with. But to find that true creative voice, my advice would be to forget it's there, and simply write. It doesn't really matter what you write as long as it's got some kind of flow, strange or otherwise. How much should you write? As much as you can until it becomes drudgery. When that happens, back away. Oh, and to get in touch with your true creative voice, you should write about people, primarily. Of course, that's what all writers do, to one extent or another. I guess what I mean is, try to write about the whole person, including his or her unconscious/subconscious stuff, nasty though it may be. Don't just be interested in your own unconscious mind; bring that interest to the minds of your characters. I think we're all interested in the whole person. I think we live vicariously through the characters that good writers create.
MC: I want to quote something you said in a 2007 interview for Fearzone when the interviewer, J.G. Faherty, asked you about your writing process. Basically, he asked whether you approach writing intuitively by depending on your unconscious mind to provide ideas, or rationally through deliberate thought, research, and so on. You replied, "I usually wing it. An image, a line of dialogue, even just a title will come to me and I'll start writing and, often (though not always) a story will emerge some two or three-hundred pages later. It's the same way with novellas, and short stories, though the page-ranges are different, of course. Poems, too. I believe in the muse, though I don't think she's a supernatural entity intent on making my literary life easier (if she is, then she's failed miserably). I'm not sure what the muse is, but I believe in it — perhaps because I need something to excuse or justify the terribly anarchic way I approach the writing of anything." So does this still describe the way you view and feel about the muse?
TMW: Hey, good catch. I didn't think anyone had even read that interview. But yes, that's still pretty much the way I see the "muse" — which is to say that I'm not at all sure how I see it, but it's fun to talk about.


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Volleyball is a popular ball game sport played on a courtroom with a heart net in between two groups each individual consisting 6 players. A ball is punched across the net and the objective is to rating points against the opposing group by grounding the ball. Just about every group is only permitted three contacts with the ball before it is hit to the opposite side. The net has a top of 6 foot 6 inches. Having said that it can be reduced in circumstance the game is played by young children.
A physical instructor William Morgan of YMCA produced a game known as Mintonette in 1895. It was for older associates of YMCA who necessary a game of skill alternatively than power. His friend James Naismith who highlighted outstandingly in the background of basketball arrived up with an concept of acquiring a net a little previously mentioned their heads without having necessitating considerably leaping.
The unique title offered to the game was Mintonette, it was offered by Morgan and was picked as a jiggle to Badminton and this game was influential in setting procedures for Volleyball. Having said that the title was not really catchy. A spectator at that time Alfred Halstead had observed that there was a lot of volleying going on in the courtroom and the title Volley Ball was picked soon. Later on the title was contracted to Volleyball.
The Athletic League of the YMCA of North America released the initially official procedures for Volleyball in 1897. It got prosperous rapidly soon after the procedures had been released. In the same yr, Spalding designed a ball acquiring a rubber inside of a basketball, it was redesigned afterwards so that its bodyweight was modified eight and ten ounces and the circumference was the sizing of 26 inches. The game rapidly unfold across Usa and it was played in Cuba by 1905, by Japan in 1908 and by Philippines in 1910.
The procedures of the game had been modified in 1900 for eradicating the innings defined by Morgan. The procedures of the game had been as soon as again improved in 1912 to facial area the realities of the game as the players had been having youthful and energetic. The courtroom sizing was greater and the quantities of players had been set at only 6 for every group.
The Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Association joined with YMCA in 1916 and in 1920, volleyball was founded as a faculty game but not expert. When the United States Volleyball Association (USVBA) was shaped, it was accepted by the YMCA and NCAA as their new umbrella business.
Even though Volleyball was a common game, it struggled to produce a league of groups. In 1930, the initially seashore game staying played and in 1934 referees had been identified who would judge championship and inter faculty online games. The USVBA was finally identified by all Volleyball associations as acquiring jurisdiction in excess of the procedures of the game. The end of Entire world War II resulted in Volleyball acquiring recognition as a international sport. Volleyball was played at international degree in America for the initially time in 1955 and at the Pan American Games and Olympics in 1964.
A new version of volleyball was identified regarded as Seaside Volleyball in the nineteen sixties. It was related to the regular sport while each individual group had two players.


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How to Start a Property Business From Zero
Property business does not always have to be big capital. Even this business can be done without capital. The most important capital for starting a property business is speaking skills. Everyone is certainly equipped with the ability to speak from birth. Of course, this is not a big problem for you who want to start a property business. Below is a summary of 9 ways to start a property business from scratch without capital that you might be able to try.
Start Business Property Starting from Zero
When you jump directly from scratch, you actually have more expertise than other business actors who continue a business starting from the middle level. You will learn how to overcome every failure and of course. When you are successful. So, anyone who says business from zero is hard, you have to prove to them that it is not always that way.
Diligent Viewing Ads
There is now a lot of media that includes property ads. The sources also vary, can be from the internet, newspapers, and billboards on the road. You can participate in marketing the property. That is being sold to relatives or people in need. When installing a price, fix a slightly higher price so that if sold, you make a profit.
Starting from Your Environment
Around you there must be many people who want to buy a house or sell it, you can observe and participate when there is talk about this. Ask more details what kind of house to look for and where it is located. When you are just starting a business, you can learn how to run this business. Yet there is no agreement if you have to find a house until it can. So this business is nothing to lose. But you also have to be diligent and focused on finding the property for the results are not in vain.
Finding a Seller Candidate
When you have discussions with potential buyers, your next job is to find prospective sellers. To find the property for sale, you should first go to a residential location. And exhibit a property that is being held in the area nearest you. Location is very decisive price and interest, dig information as complete as possible so that prospective buyers also have a satisfactory picture of the existing home choice.
Offer Cooperation
When you have found a seller, start offering a partnership. It is better to write the cooperation on paper to be more clear and not harm any party.As well as the desired payment method and the commission you will get if successful selling the house.
Creating a Website for Promotion
You can share information via Facebook or Twitter. Another way is to create a free website at blogger.com or wordpress.com. This website will be able to bring together buyers and sellers.
When business starts smoothly, you can create your own brand to be more professional. Find a name that is easy to remember and make sure you have registered the name legally so as not to…


text: I am an anthropologist who loves to explore new ways of thinking, sensing and doing the city. In my research and publications I focus on the intersections between theories of the city, anthropological fieldwork and practices of urban design and (interior)architecture. My main interest is in the anthropology of urban space, as it relates to issues like the meanings of home and community, public, private and parochial space, narrative cartography, the relations between architecture and the everyday, the use of branding and public art in gentrification neighborhoods, and the practices of domination and everyday resistance.


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I just got back from a trip abroad. We were treated everywhere with the greatest respect while visiting our former exchange student and her family in Serbia and Montenegro, and then in Spain for a meeting, People were happy to help us. We had no Serbian (though I learned how to say "thank you") and little Spanish (though I studied in high school it's virtually gone), but they were happy to use whatever English they had. When we couldn't communicate it was still all smiles. Somehow, only in this country do people believe that English is under fire and all traces of foreign languages should be eliminated, despite the foreign policy disaster if some Americans weren't conversant with other national languages. Of course there is one place where English really is under fire and has been for decades – Quebec. But I've never heard any suggestion that we ban the Quebecois.
That's what I intended to talk about. But the news here on my return has been overwhelming. Another senseless mass killing of people the murderer didn't know, had no grudge against, one a six year old child. Read the rest of this entry »


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collect the coconut water
split the coconut
Cut the coconut in smaller pieces add to the blender with coconut water and filter water, so easy, so rich, so tasty.
The flesh and water from one fresh coconut
- 1 + ½ cup plain filtered water
- Add coconut flesh, coconut water and 1 cup water to the jar of your blender
- Process on the highest possible speed for 5 to 10 minutes; you really want to get the most out of that coconut flesh as you possibly can. You'll notice, as the flesh spins around, that it will get looser and looser and will spin more freely after a while. You want to be able to see some liquid in there. A good amount of liquid!
- When you feel your coconut has given all it had to give, transfer the contents of your blender to a fine mesh sieve that's been lined with cheesecloth.
- Add another half cup of plain water to the jar of your food processor and give it a quick spin just to get every last bit that was left behind. Add that to the rest of the fragrant pile of coconut.
- Now squeeze the bejesus out of your coconut. And I do mean the bejesus. Squeeze until can't get another drop out. You will be left with a bunch of dry, VERY dry, and pretty bland and tasteless, shredded coconut. You could discard this, or dry it and use it in soup or as topping for stir fry …
- Transfer your beautiful coconut milk to an airtight glass jar or container and keep refrigerated for up to 5 days.
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A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from...Show place
Paris Doll Museum
Located not far form Beaubourg, in a dead-end (impasse Berthaud), the museum showcase about 500 dolls since 1994, some dating back to 1800. Events...Show place
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The Carnavalet Museum is dedicated to the history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions : the Hôtel Carnavalet and the...Show place
Shoah Memorial
The Mémorial de la Shoah is a museum devoted to Jewish history during World War II, and the Holocaust. It has opened its doors to the public...Show place
Victor Hugo's house
Located in the former de Rohan-Guémené hotel at the Place des Vosges, where Victor Hugo rented the second story flat from 1832 to 1848...Show place
European House of Photography
Located in the Hôtel Hénault de Cantobre, build in 1706, the 1996-opened center owns more than 20,000 works as well as authoritative...Show place
Mariage Frères Tea House and Museum
Open everyday from 8.30am to 7.30pm, the shop (there are a few others in Paris) and its museum are a worthy stop. Teas are expensive but...Show place
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This historical museum, on the ground floor of the Curie Pavilion of the Institut du Radium, is focusing on radiological research. It was formerly...Show place
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The Institute, often abbreviated "AWI" ("IMA" in French) is dedicated to research and information about the Arab world and its values. The renowned...Show place
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Recently, our factory successfully developed a chlorine washing machine and a foam washing machine which filled up domestic blank. They can replace the ones we had always imported from the USA.
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Fredro Starr Says That Battle Rap Aint For Everybody
Fredro seems confident that he will transition to battle rap comfortably. Fredro feels comfortable that he has the "people skills" to transition but Fredro also says that there are no rule books for Battle Rap. Allegedly he has so much material lined up for Keith Murray that he needs to shorten his rounds.
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|In trauma, we're concerned with one overriding question. How did this happen? What was the mechanism of injury? How do we see past the mess and confusion of trauma to figure out what the damage actually is? Infinite possibilities put the patient on the table in front of you. Now you have to figure out, will they live? Will you be able to save them or are they a lost cause? Every part of a trauma tells a different piece of the story and until you look at each and every injury, you can't see what went wrong. We talk about the mechanism of injury, about where it all started, but the truth is, it's sort of a myth. We can't boil every injury down to one single blow. What hurts us is cumulative. It happens over time. We absorb blow after blow, shock after shock, painful hit after hit. But even then, even if we know exactly how we got here, it doesn't mean we can fix it. You can't heal every wound and that's okay. I have to believe it's okay. I have to believe that even if something seems like it cannot be fixed, it doesn't mean it's broken.
Unbreak My Heart is the 11th episode of the twelfth season and the 256th overall episode of Grey's Anatomy.
Short SummaryEdit
The evolution of April and Jackson's relationship is revealed through a series of flashbacks dating back to when they first met. Simultaneously, we follow the years-long progress of one of Jackson's patients.
Full SummaryEdit
Ben paces outside a church on the phone. Jackson comes up and Ben informs him that he's late and she is starting to worry.
Jackson enters a bridal suite and Tatiana Flauto stands up and says that she didn't want him to see her yet. He says that she's beautiful.
April teaches the anatomy class about finding the source of a trauma.
April and Jackson talk with their lawyers. They have no assets to contest, so they just need to sign the papers. It's one of the simpler divorces they've seen.
Rewind to April and Jackson fighting about her being served divorce papers at the hospital. It's only been four weeks of counseling, but Jackson says it's not getting them anywhere. They have the same fight over and over. April feels like she's being slapped in the face. She asks him when he decided he was done.
Rewind to them leaving counseling. Jackson unlocks the door as they argue about whether or not their therapist said they shouldn't be having sex. April says their sex life isn't their problem, but Jackson says it gets in the way. Jackson keeps trying to unlock the door, but April keeps grabbing the knob, keeping it locked. They fight over whether or not April has apologized for what really matters. Jackson finally successfully unlocks the door.
Rewind to Jackson removing Tatiana's bandages. She asks him if he talked to April. He says it didn't go as expected and Tatiana figures out he didn't ask her for a divorce. He says it's not easy, but she thinks it is. Bailey and Richard come in, excited for the unveiling. It's been over four years since they started working on her and they're finally done. Jackson goes to remove the bandages. Tatiana's not sure she can look, but Jackson says she'll want to.
Rewind to Jackson and April taking about Meredith's recovery. They flirt and Jackson says their therapist said they should be more direct with what they want. April says she has an hour and Jackson says he was heading to an on-call room to get a nap. April says he won't be getting any sleep and they leave.
Rewind to April and Jackson fighting about whether or not he was going to ask for a divorce. He says he was going to ask for a divorce when they went to dinner, but then they had sex. He says he was sure in what he was going to do, but now it's not so clear anymore. He doesn't want the divorce anymore. He wants her.
Rewind to April and Jackson after having sex. Jackson gets up and April starts to get dressed. Jackson then looks back at her as he leaves the room.
Rewind to April and Jackson coming home with Chinese food. They didn't want to wait an hour for a table. Jackson says the place looks nice because she changed some things aorund, but April knows he's lying because he hates throw pillows. April sees that they gave them a bunch of fortune cookies. Jackson says he asked for extra. April apologizes for the previous night and her getting called into work. April quickly prays before they start to eat. She thanks him for waiting. She jokingly says she was praying for throw pillows. April says the place where they got the Chinese food is great and Jackson can't believe he never noticed it before, because he ordered takeout every night while she was gone. April thinks he was trying to pick a fight, but he says he wasn't. He didn't come to fight. She asks why he did come. He jokes that he came for throw pillows. She asks him about a nasal septum reconstruction, Tatiana's final surgery. She's come a long way. He says he'll be proud once it's all done because he's done so many surgeries on her. He says they need to talk, really talk, about them. It's not easy. He says they need to talk about getting a divorce. They're not living together and this is their first substantial conversation in months. She says that's on him because she's been there wanting to talk. He says not to blame him. She says they're having two different conversations because she wants to work on things and he wants to end them. He says he's not taking it lightly. She left him and walked away. She says she was dying. Samuel died and she died. Until she was able to go to Jordan, she felt dead. He says he was dying, too, after Samuel died. She says he wasn't dying like she was. He says he was, but he was covering for her, to take care of her. He was trying to put her first because that's what you do in a marriage. She says she took care of herself so she could survive. She asks if it upsets him that she found what she needed to heal or the fact that it wasn't him. He says he needed her. She survived and he survived, but he doesn't think they will. April says she won't get divorced because no one in her family ever has, but Jackson says everyone in his family has and sometimes marriages just don't work out. Sometimes it's healthier that way. April says she won't give up, but he says she already did. Divorce is not a dirty word to him. It's the light at the end of a really dark tunnel. She picks up some fortune cookies and throws them at him. They fight as they throw cookies. April doesn't know why she's doing it. She stops and asks how they make it stop. They start kissing. April says it's probably not a good idea, but they continue making out and he takes off her shirt.
Rewind to Owen and Amelia examining a patient in the ER who broke his neck falling 20 feet. Jackson comes in to establish an airway. Owen questions him, because he was supposed to be getting on a plane with April. He says he decided not to go.
Rewind to Jackson running through the airport. He's rushing to make his flight. He gets to the gate, but Lori informs him that he's too late. The gate is closed, so he can't board the flight. He says he needs to get to his wife. Lori says that's sweet, but there's nothing she can do. She points out that the flight is leaving.
Rewind to April packing for Jordan. Owen's not going to be there, but the rest of her unit will and they're like family. She asks him to come with her. They always need more surgeons. You can see the immediate effects. In Seattle, people get too caught up in their stuff, but in Jordan, every day has meaning. He says he can't just leave. He has commitments and people. He has patients and he's not willing to abandon people who depend on him. She asks if he thinks she is and he says she is, kind of.
Rewind to Jackson removing Tatiana's bandages. There's a lot of necrosis, despite him harvesting two vessels this time. It's her second forehead flap to fail. He's upset about it, but says they'll figure it out. She jokes that maybe her face just doesn't like forehead flaps. She encourages him, saying he'll figure it out. This one's just especially crappy because it's happening right before Christmas and the anniversary of Samuel's death. She knows things have to be tough for him.
Rewind to April in Jordan, desperately trying to get a signal to call Jackson. It doesn't work.
Jackson is getting stitches in the ER. Ben asks if he needs lidocaine, but he says no. Catherine comes up and asks what happened. Jackson says it's nothing. Catherine asks if April called that day. He says she's busy and probably doesn't even realize what day it is. Catherine asks if she can help. Ben sends her to get lidocaine.
Rewind to Jackson trying to take the screws out of Samuel's crib. He gets frustrated and starts breaking it apart, cutting his arm in the process. He then starts to destroy everything else in the room.
Rewind to Jackson telling April he's going to work. She's sitting in Samuel's nursery and he asks if she's eaten breakfast. She hasn't gone to church in a while, so he suggests that they go together. He sits down and suggests they try again, try for another baby. She gets upset at him for even suggesting it. He gets up and he goes to work.
Ben and Jo work to keep Tatiana still. She's pushing them off her. Jackson comes in and asks what's happening. Ben was trying to mark her face for surgery, but she says the marker stinks and she doesn't want any more surgeries. Jackson sends them away and Tatiana says she used to have a life and then she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and now her face is melted off. It's been a year and half and there's a long way to go. Her life is in the hospital, in that bed. She wants to go back to how it was before.
Rewind to the attendings' lounge. Once April and Jackson are alone, they start to dance to celebrate having a baby. Arizona comes in and questions it, but they just say they're dancing and she joins them. Meredith comes in and asks them who died. She only dances it out when something bad happens. Richard also comes in and starts dancing and then Alex. Callie comes in and starts dancing and then asks if they're celebrating the new baby. They all stop, in shock. Callie apologizes to April and Jackson, but they admit they're expecting a baby. The doctors all celebrate and dance some more.
Rewind to April and Jackson on a plane. They're flying to her parents' house and she wants him to lead them in prayer when they get there, to make a good impression. He doesn't want to change who he is to please her parents. She says it's just a gesture of good faith. It's one day, one prayer. He asks what happens at future events when he's suddenly not praying. He then wonders how long she plans for it to go on. Jackson says the conversation's over. She knew who he was when they got married. They agreed to respect their differences, so he's done with the conversation. April wonders if she really didn't know who she was marrying. The way they're speaking to each other is not who they thought they were marrying. As the flight attendant announces that they're landing soon, April says her parents are picking them up at the airport. He offers her his peanuts, but she points out that she's allergic to them.
Rewind to Tatiana looking at April and Jackson's wedding album as he works on her face. She congratulates him and says April's beautiful. She's upset because she thinks no one will ever look at her like that. He says he looks at her and sees strength and bravery and persistence and beauty. The surgeries will give her a face, but she's already beautiful.
Rewind to April and Jackson being pronounced married by a minister. They kiss.
Rewind to the night before the wedding. April is insistence that they can't have sex until they're married. Jackson tries to convince her, but she says they'll survive and their wedding night will be amazing. She unlocks her door and enters the room. Jackson goes to go into his room, but he knocks her door. She opens the door and says good night. She closes the door, but a moment later, opens it and pulls him inside.
Rewind to a clothing store, where April is looking for a new wedding dress. She wants to get married in white. The sales clerk says the dress she's wearing is beautiful and she knows a cleaner who can get the stain off. April insists she needs a new dress. The clerk goes to look in the back. Jackson comes up and says he found a justice of the peace to marry them. April says she wants someone actually ordained because she wants God at her wedding, but Jackson wants a wedding without a lot of God talk. The clerk shows April a dress, but it's not white, so she sends her back. Jackson agrees to find a minister. The clerk comes back with another dress, which April says is perfect. She stops Jackson from looking at it.
Rewind to them in the car, eating fries. She keeps stealing his. He accidentally spills ketchup on her dress. She asks him where they'll live after. He suggests his place and she agrees. It's nicer and bigger. She says she won't change her name, though. He says Avery's a great name, but she says Kepner is too and asks if he wants to take it. He says he's not changing his name and didn't expect her to either. It's not a thing for him. She laughs because they're actually doing it.
Rewind to April saying they can't have sex in closets anymore. She sees that he's upset and asks him about it. He says he's doing facial reanimation and he's worried about it. Mark practically invented it and Jackson did it with him a few times. April assures him he can do it. He's not a person who makes promises he can't keep.
Rewind to Tatiana in the ER. Richard and Bailey are working on her. A stranger threw acid in her face, severely burning her. A bystander gave her a towel with ice, which then stuck to the burns. Jackson used saline to remove the towel, which he says will be painful. He assured her that she's safe and it'll be okay. He pours the saline and removes the towel. He asks to page Mark, but Mark's on a plane to Idaho, so Jackson has to take care of it. Tatiana starts to panic, but Jackson says that the two of them are a team now and they'll get through it together. It won't be quick or easy, but he'll be with her the entire time. He promises her.
Rewind to April and Jackson as residents complaining about Mark and Owen being hard on them. They go through a hallway and April stops. It's where Reed died. She slipped in Reed's blood there. She hasn't been back since. Jackson says there's a elevator near where Charles died that he never uses. April starts to hyperventilate and Jackson awkwardly tries to calm her. She hugs him and he says they're there and okay. She says her life flashed before her eyes when she had the gun pointed at her. And it was boring. She kept thinking she didn't want to die a virgin. He says she can fix that, but says he's not propositioning her. They brush it off as a joke, and she tells him good luck with Mark. After she's gone, he says she's weird.
Rewind to April and Jackson's first day as interns. They're introducing themselves to the group. Charles offers to go next. He's undecided about his specialty. He has time to figure it out. Jackson goes next. They figure out he's of the Avery family. He doesn't want to talk about it. April asks if he knows Catherine Avery and asks if he's going to urology. He says no, he's going cardio. He wants to be done. April volunteers to go next. She introduces herself and says she's thinking of a specialty that has set hours so she can raise her children.
Back in the present, April says they can't always boil an injury down to a single blow. April asks Jackson if he really wants the divorce. He doesn't answer and she takes the pen and signs the papers as her voiceover says they absorb a lot of hits. And even if they know how they got there, they can't always fix it.
Tatiana asks if it's too late to back out. She says she and Timothy got in a huge fight that morning. Jackson says they'll have the same fights for 50 years, but you can't let it become bigger than them. Marriage is hard, but not as hard as getting acid thrown in your face. She thanks him for keeping all the promises he made to her. She says she's sorry about him and April. He says today is about her and goes to walk her down the aisle.
April is sitting on the couch when Arizona comes in. She didn't know what April would want, so she bought some of every kind of alcohol. She asks April to choose, but April doesn't want anything. April says she's just a little hungry. Arizona questions her having signed divorce papers and not wanting to drink and wonders if she's pregnant. April says according to the test she took that morning, she thinks she is.
Main CastEdit
- Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey
- Justin Chambers as Dr. Alex Karev
- Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
- James Pickens, Jr. as Dr. Richard Webber
- Sara Ramírez as Dr. Callie Torres
- Kevin McKidd as Dr. Owen Hunt
- Jessica Capshaw as Dr. Arizona Robbins
- Sarah Drew as Dr. April Kepner
- Jesse Williams as Dr. Jackson Avery
- Caterina Scorsone as Dr. Amelia Shepherd
- Camilla Luddington as Dr. Jo Wilson
- Jerrika Hinton as Dr. Stephanie Edwards (archive footage)
- Kelly McCreary as Dr. Maggie Pierce
- Jason George as Dr. Ben Warren
- Martin Henderson as Dr. Nathan Riggs
- Giacomo Gianniotti as Dr. Andrew DeLuca (credit only)
Guest StarsEdit
- David Babich as Jackson's Lawyer
- Robin Karfo as Attending
- Kathryn Smith-McGlynn as April's Lawyer
- Courtney Cook as Minister
- Stacey Danger as Sales Clerk
- Caitlainne Rose Gurreri as Lori
Medical NotesEdit
Tatiana FlautoEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Chemical burns to the face and neck
- Contractures
- Doctors:
- Jackson Avery (plastic surgeon)
- Richard Webber (general surgeon)
- Miranda Bailey (general surgeon)
- Ben Warren (surgical resident)
- Jo Wilson (surgical resident)
- Treatment:
- Facial reanimation surgery
- Paramedian forehead flap
- Nasal septum reconstruction
Tatiana came into the ER after a stranger threw acid on her face. A bystander had given her a towel with ice, which adhered to her burns, so when she arrived in the ER, they had to use saline to remove it so they could evaluate and start treating her burns. A year and a half into her treatment, she became discouraged about her lack of progress and wanted to quit. However, Jackson was able to convince her to continue treatment. After another surgery, she still had a lot of necrosis. It was her second flap to die. She had her bandages removed after her final surgery, a nasal septum reconstruction, and after 43 surgeries over four years, three months, one week, and four days, she was pleased with the result.
ER PatientEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Broken neck
- Doctors:
- Owen Hunt (trauma surgeon)
- Amelia Shepherd (neurosurgeon)
- Jackson Avery (plastic surgeon)
- Jo Wilson (surgical resident)
- Treatment:
A patient who had fallen 20 feet came into the ER. His neck was fractured, so Jackson came in to establish an airway.
Jackson AveryEdit
- Diagnosis:
- Arm laceration
- Doctors:
- Ben Warren (surgical resident)
- Treatment:
- Stitches
Jackson cut his arm disassembling Samuel's crib and Ben stitched it up for him. He declined lidocaine.
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Notes and TriviaEdit
- This episode's title originated from the song Unbreak My Heart, originally sung by Toni Braxton.
- This episode scored 7.23 million viewers.
- This is the first episode since Remember the Time to feature new footage of the now-former residents in the light blue scrubs.
- The table read took place on November 19, 2015. It was held with only Sarah Drew, Jesse Williams, and the writers and producers, since the other actors make such small appearances in the episode that they were exempt from participating.
- This is the last episode to feature an anatomy class.
- Kelly McCreary and Martin Henderson appear in the background, but they have no actual lines.
- Crew member Barbara Friend appeared as one of the new Mercy West interns.
- On social media, the episode was referred to as Japril: The Movie.
- The Jordan sequences were filmed on the set of the ambulance bay.
- The airline featured in this episode is Oceanic Airlines, the fictional airline featured on ABC's hit show, Lost.
- The episode re-introduced several props from the past, such as Callie and Arizona's rings and necklaces and April's notebook.
- The episode featured scenes filmed at the Riverfont stages, Air Hollywood, Hollywood Presbyterian Church and St. Luke's Church.
- The episode was submitted for two nomination ballots for the 68th Emmy Awards: directing and hairstyling for a single camera series.
Episode StillsEdit
Behind the ScenesEdit
- April: (to Jackson) You are not a person who makes promises he doesn't keep.
- April: What people do you have here that would prevent you from coming overseas with me?
- Jackson: Patients. I mean, I'm not will to just abandon people that depend on me.
- April: And I am?
- Jackson: Kind of. Kind of, yeah.
- April: I'm serious, okay? No pre-marital sex.
- Jackson: How serious? Like "absolutely not" serious or "I could be convinced" serious?
- Meredith: (dancing) Who died?
- April: What?
- Meredith: I only dance it out when something bad's happened.
- April: What...what is it Jackson? What... what pisses you off so much... that I chose to go after the thing that I needed to heal or that the thing I needed wasn't you?
- April: What is happening to us?
- Jackson: I don't... know.
- April: How did we get to this?
- Jackson: I don't know.
- April: How do we make it stop?
- April: Want to know what I was praying for?
- Jackson: No, that's all right.
- April: Throw pillows. Thousands of them, just raining from the sky.
- Arizona: (to April) I wasn't sure what you'd be in the mood for, so I kind of got everything: Champagne, tequila, pinot noir... pick your poison.
- April: Did you see what we just did there? We disagreed. We discussed. We compromised.
- Jackson: We are pretty amazing at this marriage thing.
- April: We are.
See AlsoEdit
A complete overview of this episode's crew can be found here.
|Grey's Anatomy Season 12
|"The Sound of Silence"
|"I Wear the Face"
|"Walking Tall"
|"All I Want is You"
|"There's a Fine, Fine Line"
|"I Choose You"
|"Unbreak My Heart"
|"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
|"Old Time Rock and Roll"
|"My Next Life"
|"Trigger Happy"
|"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
|"All Eyez on Me"
|"You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side"
|"The Me Nobody Knows"
|"Odd Man Out"
|"Mama Tried"
|"Something Against You"
|"I Am Not Waiting Anymore"
|"At Last"
|"Things We Lost in the Fire"
|"When It Hurts So Bad"
|"Family Affair"
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Affluenza as a defense
What happens when a teenager uses the excuse of not knowing any better as a defense to their crimes? While 10 years ago the idea of affluenza may have been unheard of, if not completely laughable, in today's day and age the defense of affluenza may actually work. Several years ago a Texas teenager used his affluent upbringing as the reason behind him not knowing the difference between right and wrong. Initially, this defense was seen as the desperate attempt of a wealthy family to defend … [Read more...]
Punishments a person can receive for committing a felony
We all have choices regarding the manner in which we conduct our lives. Unfortunately, at some point we all make ill-advised choices. Sometimes, our ill-advised choices may get us in trouble with the law. People commit crimes everyday and when caught, they could very well have to face the consequences of their actions. And the potential consequences of alleged actions that result in felony charges could be quite severe. Felonies are considered the most serious types of crimes that a person … [Read more...]
An attorney may help you avoid a harsh sentence
Juveniles are capable of committing illegal acts that will land them in prison or on probation. While many get away with the crimes they commit, there are some who are caught and end up having to face their day in court. It is only fair that they have consequences for their actions, but not all juvenile crimes warrant a harsh punishment. Being charged with a crime is a scary thing. Luckily, it is not something they have to go through alone. Whether the person facing charges is an adult or … [Read more...]
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I've been freaking out about bed bugs since I moved to New York. Sure, they don't threaten your health, they don't cause any particular harm other than itchy bumps in 70% of people, but they are massively inconvenient. They seemed bad, and then they seemed less bad. People no longer had to move, no mattresses were thrown out, they were just a minor inconvenience some people experienced.
Well, last week life gave me bed bugs. They're not in my roommates' rooms, my boyfriend isn't allergic to their bites, they are my very own bed bugs. Allllll mine. I was settled into my bed with my laptop for a lazy Sunday afternoon, when right there new to me I found a full-grown bed bug, chillin' on my pillow, re-watching season 2, episode 1 of Girls with me.
After spending the last week going through this experience, I'm shocked that every sitcom ever about New York hasn't made a bed bug episode. Why was 30 Rock the only one to cover bed bug territory? The whole process is so annoying, there are so many opportunities for humor.
- If Friends had done it, it would be called "The One with All the Bed Bugs."
- If How I Met Your Mother did it, there would be some awesome physical comedy involving Marshall and the laundromat.
- On Girls, Lena Dunham would schlep her bed buggy bags down the street, counting over her shoulder and getting hollered at by old Brooklyn men. She'd go to the laundromat and fight with her parents while waiting for her items to be heated to 120 degrees about how she definitely hadn't infected their home on her most recent visit and how their throwing out her childhood bed was sending her into existential crisis.
I thought a lot about whether or not I should write about this on my blog, as I don't particularly want to become a social pariah for the next three months, even though the no social obligations and excuse to constantly stay in ordering Seamless sounds kind of awesome. But then, on day three of taking conference calls while sitting next to a 120 heater that was cooking all of my personal belongings so I could vacuum pack all of them for the foreseeable future, I realized I HAD to talk about the bed bugs.
The only things online are tips and tricks, laments, scare tactics to keep you from movie theaters, hotels and Hollister (I support that one). No one tells you about the other stuff – about the moments of near insanity where you start turning all the rap songs you're listening to into songs about bed bugs (it's actually quite easy), about how cute the bed bug sniffing dog is and about the overwhelming desire to get totally shitfaced every night so you can fall asleep in a bed you imagine to be crawling with bugs but knowing you still have I go to work in the morning and vacuum packing things while hungover is hard.
So, I am embracing this experience with open arms (increasing airflow helps with the itching). Just as we walked together through surviving Valentine's Day, feel free to join me in my attempt to beat bed bugs. Come back every day this week and you'll get tips, tricks, songs and rants.
Peace, love and don't get bed bugs I'm serious they are the worst I am losing my mind,


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Secrets of astronaut Chris Hadfield's social media success
Sen—Canada's best-kept space secret is now unleashed on the world. Chris Hadfield, who left Earth December 19 on Expedition 34 with a respectable 20,000 Twitter followers, now has about 10 times that many after less than a month in space.
What makes Hadfield so popular with worldwide audiences? Below are some of the strategies he uses.
Staying cheerful
Fire on a space station is deadly serious. The space is small, meaning the flames can spread quickly. If the fire gets out of control, which could happen quickly, there is no choice but to make an emergency evacuation. Hadfield, like the other astronauts, is well-primed on the fire containment and evacuation procedures. He recognizes the danger. But he belies it with this casual tweet, which brings his audience up to speed without the sense of urgency.
Considering how many Twitter blokes become snarly at the prospect of a longer commute, Hadfield's restraint in this situation was admirable.
Content appropriate to the audience
Hadfield's gift is pithily summarizing a situation for just about anyone - including a Star Trek celebrity of yore. Any fan of the ever-popular series would recognize the joke that Hadfield sent, mimicing words that are similar to what Shatner's fictional crew told him.
But the astronaut doesn't only make time for celebrities. He responds to questions from ordinary folks, often directing them to the Canadian Space Agency for further information. The agency often relays Hadfield's tweets on its own Twitter feed, too.
Poetry-like descriptions of Earth
Sailing in orbit, Hadfield is privileged with a view that few of us will see (at least, until the space tourism business gets going). In a press conference with journalists on January 10, he said these pictures showing a beautiful Earth are among the most important things he and his crewmates do.
"The perspective that we are subject to, that we are privileged enough to see directly to our eyes, is one that, I think, would benefit everyone," he said.
He suggested the view of Earth as a contiguous planet could help overcome the regional and cultural difficulties that some countries face.
"With increased understanding comes a more global perspective," Hadfield added.
Superb time-management skills
Reading this missive, you'd never imagine Hadfield had time to tweet pictures and information more than 20 times on January 9, but he did. Hadfield has Twitter set up in his bunk; the Canadian Space Agency suspects he makes a pit stop there almost every time he flies past that corner during the day.
Twitter posts take only a moment to send, but Hadfield's careful eloquence probably takes a bit of forethought. Factor in the time it took to set up the Internet and (most likely) troubleshoot it - on top of exercise, and training, and maintenance, and science experiments - and you can see how well Hadfield schedules his days.
Overarching humility
Hadfield wrote this amidst his interaction with Shatner and other Star Trek celebrities that shot him to Twitter stardom. Even during the January 10 conversation with journalists, Hadfield laughed off suggestions that he was some sort of "Astronaut 2.0", saying it was the entire work of the crew shining through on his Twitter account.
Any good manager knows success comes through acknowledging the work of his or her colleagues - and playing down his or her own contribution. With words such as these, Hadfield is obviously preparing for his turn to be the International Space Station captain of Expedition 35. His command begins in March - and you can follow his command on Twitter: @cmdr_hadfield