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Hopeful that Thankful is a lucky charm
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- Sandra said...
I so hope your car isn't totaled as mine was three years ago around Labor Day. Messed up my shoulders, arm, chest, neck and assorted other things. Was a real pain in more ways than one. My car was paid for too. I know exactly how you feel.
Hope you get lucky with the car and feel better soon.
- August 26, 2013 at 4:15 PM
- Unknown said...
Keeping my fingers crossed that your car is fixable and that it will be back on the road soon! I am working on Matilda Hornbuckle right now - she is a treat...looking forward to doing Ghoul Tidings and Happy Halloween from the same issue.
- August 26, 2013 at 5:01 PM
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- August 26, 2013 at 5:02 PM
- Kaisievic said...
Oh dear, Marly, what happened to your car? And I hope that you are feeling better soon, too. lots of hugs, Kaye
- August 26, 2013 at 5:18 PM
- Mouse said...
(((hugs))) hope every thing can be fixed and you are too soon, too ... love your newest project :) love mouse xxxx
- August 26, 2013 at 5:55 PM
- Shirlee said...
I hope both you & your car have more life left in you : ) Thankful is looking great!
- August 26, 2013 at 6:03 PM
- Linda said...
If you cannot find the JCS issue, I will be more than happy to send you mine! I got it to look at it, but will probably not get around to ever stitching anything from it!
Hope your car can be fixed!!
Linda in VA
- August 26, 2013 at 7:33 PM
- Margaret said...
Well Thankful is beautiful, and hopefully she will be that lucky charm. Fingers crossed your car can be fixed. I hope the doctor helps you get fixed too. You poor thing.
- August 26, 2013 at 8:58 PM
- Chris said...
Your sampler is looking amazing. I am hoping for the best for your car. So sad about the little guy that hit you and the state of things.
- August 27, 2013 at 6:22 AM
- cucki said...
Wow your sampler is looking so pretty...
I hope your car can fixed soon...sending you hugs and love
Cucki x
- August 27, 2013 at 6:28 AM
- Peggy Lee said...
Thankful is looking good! I used to be a nut when it came to every stitch had to be correct but I soon figured it out that I'm usually the only one who notices anyway. That's what makes it MINE!
I hope your car is fixable and please take care of yourself too.
- August 27, 2013 at 7:07 AM


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Football managers are an optimistic bunch.
Given their lack of job security this probably isn't a big surprise; after all, who but the most positive of individuals could take on a role which is more than likely to end in their untimely sacking?
This hopeful outlook which lurks within most gaffers often surfaces when trying to convince their club's supporters that they can still avoid relegation despite being bottom of the table with two games left. Or when trying to persuade their chairman to stretch their budget to allow for that extra loan signing that will make all the difference to the squad.
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"I don't think I have seen anyone like Jefferson in the league," said Little. "He will give me options too as he can play up front with one partner or in a three and I would like to think he will have a big season for us."
Four months and two goals later, he was on the move again, back up a level to the Blue Square Bet Premier for a loan spell with Darlington. He has since been back to Gainsborough, before moving on to Hayes and Yeading in January.
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Lee McEvilly, who has played for a slightly less impressive 12 clubs (or 15 if you count his three separate spells at Rochdale) is a different kettle of fish. With a goal record of better than one in three spread over 200 professional appearances, the former Northern Ireland international is clearly a player of considerable talent.
Sadly he is also a man of considerable, ahem, girth, and his lack of professionalism usually leads to him being bombed out by his frustrated boss after a few months. After signing for Cambridge from Accrington in 2008, the portly front-man memorably revealed that his mum had brought him a new deep fat fryer to celebrate his move south – the perfect gift for a professional athlete I'm sure you'll agree.
He left Cambridge that December and – 18 months and five clubs later – is now turning out for Droylsden in the Blue Square Bet North.
Still, both Louis and McEvilly have some way to go to catch ex-Leicester City man Trevor Benjamin, who has played for 27 clubs in total, including 13 in non-league.
Now player/manager at Morpeth Town, it remains to be seen whether his managerial career will be more settled, though Morpeth's position at the bottom of Northern League Division Two suggests he could be on the move again sooner rather than later.
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It has been over a week since I graduated. Yes, the ordeal is over. After what seemed like an eternity waiting for the verdict of the University Council, I finally donned my sablay, walked onstage, took the fruit of my four years' hard work, and shook hands with the university president. Man, that was just overwhelming. I was nearly brought to tears as I was walking up the stage with my parents because it was only until then when the reality that I was actually graduating sank in! The problem with our curriculum threatened our chances for graduation but I was not overly worried about it. Well, my teachers were confident that the council would let us graduate, considering it wasn't our fault to begin with and considering the consequence that we would probably sue them if they wouldn't. Still, graduating was like a distant dream for me. All the time, I was hovering in my own little world of dreams that I didn't notice one of them was coming true – for real. You see, after the final defense of my thesis, I temporarily shut myself out to the world. I was dead tired and drained to the last drop of blood and tears. I took a supposedly short break during the Holy Week and spent it with my musically-inclined family and relatives in my father's hometown in Barili. But I missed vacation too much that I generously allowed myself to bum the week after that. The thought of graduation was far from my mind since I wasn't sure I would be graduating anyway. So when the good news broke out that majority of the members of the University Council decided to let us graduate after the deliberations, all I did was to shout, in my half-drunken state, "Makagraduate ko!" I jumped up and down, sang my heart out, drank more than a little, ate a full meal after, and threw up. (I'm actually allergic to beer. My brothers say it's in the genes.) In other words, it seemed as if I just heard a joke and I laughed it off. Silly me. But well, I did graduate and reality finally snapped me back to the present.
So now I'm standing at the door of a new chapter of my life. I'm about to join the country's labor and tax-paying force. As of press time, I haven't sent an application letter or résumé. Er, maybe I'll bum a little more while planning my next moves in the chessboard of life. In the meantime, my heart is bursting with profuse thanks for the people who helped me course through my college life. For sure, they didn't make the journey easier but they made the trip worth it. To my parents, for giving me the go signal in the times when I'm about to venture into something new and for knowing when to bring down the red light when my foolishness got the better of me. My brothers and my sister-in-law, for being my professional support system. You guys might suspect that I have more crazy bones in my body but you still backed me up whatever decision I made. To my teachers, whom I have cursed because I sometimes found them unreasonable and unjust, thank you – for all the things I've learned in the four years that I stayed in the university. To my block mates, who have seen me grow (and ehem, mature?) and practically grew up with me. You brought the best and the worst in me. I didn't cry during graduation (it didn't occur to me yet that from now on, we'd go our own separate ways) but I know that days from now, I'll be sobbing on my own because I'll be terribly missing our food trips, night-outs, even the casual conversations in class. To my friends and all the good acquaintances I've made, you made my college years rock and roll. You're the best! Lastly, and definitely not the least, the Lord Almighty, whom I have doubted, trusted, doubted again, and trusted again but who – amidst all those weaknesses, always picked me up when I fell and never failed to teach me the right lessons. For embracing me with loving arms, Father, I thank you. Have Your will in me.


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Borbone Dukes Musical Archive
The Archive is a precious source of both historic and musical-bibliographic interest. It was part of the private library of the Borbone dukes, and it documents the court activity and the interests of the sovereigns belonging to the two dynastic branches, Borbone-Parma and Borbone-Lucca.
The Archive has been acquired by the Public library of Parma (the current Palatine Library) in 1865, after the union of the Parma duchy with the Sardinia kingdom and after that, in 1889, it was moved to the Musical Section of the Palatine Library in the Conservatory palace "A. Boito".
It is mainly composed by manuscripts - among which it has to be signalled an original by Luigi Boccherini in particular - and by printed music that offers a wide panorama of the music publishing of the second half of the XVIII and XIX century.
The documentary sources in the Archive give testimony to the different musical genres cultivated in the time frame of a century by the different sovereigns of the Borbone dinasty, who were first dukes of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla from 1749 to 1801, then kings of Etruria from 1801 to 1807 and dukes of Lucca from 1807 to 1847 and in the end dukes of Parma and Piacenza again, from 1847 to 1859.
The scores belonged to the duchess Maria Luisa of Borbone-Lucca, who was very fond of music and was also an amateur composer, are recognizable from the monogram MLB impressed on the back or on the front of the binding.
The conspicuous music corpus consists of about 5.000 works, among which are to be signalled many scores of plays that constitute the main handwritten sources for the study of some of the most important authors of the XVIII and XIX century (Paisiello, Cimarosa, Rossini, Paër) and various rare and valuable publications.


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Puncture is a David and Goliath law drama based on the true story of a drug-addicted lawyer who took on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a talented young lawyer and functioning drug addict who meets Vicky (Vinessa Shaw), an ER nurse pricked by a needle contaminated with HIV while on the job. As Weiss digs deeper into the case with his longtime friend and partner, Paul Danziger (co-director Mark Kassen), they uncover a health care and pharmaceutical conspiracy and the mounting pressure of the case pushes their business and their friendship to the breaking point.
During a recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, actor Chris Evans talked about how the range of this character was what attracted him to the role, the importance of showing both the brilliance of this guy and how vile he could be, and the experience of working with co-directors, one of whom was also his co-star. He also talked about his current work as Captain America in The Avengers, what it's like to shoot on the streets of New York with all of the chaotic attention they get, and that there's no official word yet on when Captain America 2 will start shooting. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
Question: How did this film come about for you? Was it brought to you, or was it something that you had pursued?
CHRIS EVANS: It was actually just a script that my manager brought to me. The directors were pursuing me and my manager brought me the script and thought I'd really like it, and he was right. I loved it, and then met with (co-directors) Mark and Adam [Kassen], and jumped right on board.
This guy buried himself in drugs and prostitutes, regardless of the fact that he had this brilliance in the courtroom. What was it about him that intrigued you and made you want to take on a role like this?
EVANS: There are certain scripts you read, and when I really respond to a character, I find myself standing up and starting to do the lines. It was one of those scripts that, right away, I got on my feet and started trying to play him. When that happens, I just think, "Man, I've got to play this guy."
How challenging was it to play such extreme levels, with his drug habit and the rapid speech when he was high?
EVANS: It was ups and downs, but that was part of the appeal of the character. There were so many different levels. He goes from being wildly charismatic, intelligent, charming and effective to being a complete disaster. There was a lot of range to play.
How was it to find a balance between making this character both sympathetic and infuriating, so that audiences don't get turned off by him and still want to follow him on this journey?
EVANS: That's exactly what we had to do. It was a matter of trying to tow the line and making him likeable. He had to be likeable. If you don't like the guy, then I didn't do my job. But, at the same time, he's a pretty vile character. Everyone I spoke to, who knew him in life, had some sort of beef with him. I think any guy who's that brilliant and that genius, there's a selfishness that goes along with that type of intellect and, as a result, a lot of people get stepped on in the process. It was a matter of portraying the fact that this guy is not the best human being in the world, but not someone you're willing to write off.
You also make quite the fashion statement with this character. What did you think of his wardrobe? Was that how he really dressed?
EVANS: Oh, god, yeah! We had to tone it down. Every single person I spoke to, within the first five minutes, all mentioned this guy's insane wardrobe. I remember my first fitting with Mark and Adam [Kassen] and I saw the wardrobe rack and just thought, "Is this Patch Adams? This is too much! This is almost going to take away from the film, if we go too big." We did tone it down a little bit. This guy really had a strange fashion sense.
What was it like working with co-directors? How did that whole process work?
EVANS: It was fantastic! I was a little apprehensive, at first. When you're trying to get direction, you want one anchor and one home base, but it just lent itself the way you hope it would. The more brains, the better. They just worked as such an effective team. They're very similar in their approach. I never felt like I was getting contradictory direction.
What was it like to work with Mark, the director, versus Mark, the co-star?
EVANS: It was great! That's such a fantastic thing, the fact that Mark is an actor. Any time a scene didn't feel right or the words didn't feel comfortable in my mouth, having Mark not just be a director, but also come from an acting background, there was such a great empathy that he could express. It just made the collaboration much more smooth.
Is there something you're looking for now, when deciding which projects you want to sign on for? Does it start with the script, or is it more about the director?
EVANS: For me, it starts with the director. You could have a great script, you could have a great role, but if you don't have a good director and storyteller, you've got nothing. I'm trying to make good movies. There are plenty of scripts that I've read where I've been completely in love with the character, but no matter how self-gratifying it is to portray a character, if you don't have a good film, it's not worth it. It's like scoring 50 points, but losing the game. You want to win the game. You want to make good movies. Without a good director, the best role in the world doesn't mean anything.
Did the success of Captain America allow you to breathe a sigh of relief, going into The Avengers, knowing that audiences want to see more of the character?
EVANS: Oh, yeah, absolutely! Plus, with The Avengers, we're sharing the workload. It's a lot nicer when you're not the only one wearing a silly costume.
Having gone from Captain America right into The Avengers, how long do you get to be Chris Evans and not Steve Rogers, especially with Marvel releasing two films a year now?
EVANS: It was pretty quick. We finished Captain America in December. We had about a month off, and then we had to do about a month of re-shoots for Cap. And then, we went right into The Avengers. It was a quick turn-around.
Do you have any idea when you'll start work on Captain America 2?
EVANS: No, not yet. There's no official word.
What's it been like to film The Avengers in New York, with all the attention that draws from people taking photos and fans wanting to get a glimpse?
EVANS: It's chaos! That was the one tricky part of working in the city. There were a lot of rubber-neckers.
Have you adjusted to living life in the spotlight now? Is it easy for you to tune that out and just focus on the work you're doing?
EVANS: Yeah. My life hasn't changed too much. It's tricky when you're working and you're on a set, and obviously it's a spectacle and people are giving you attention. But, when I'm not working and I'm living my life, I still have a decent amount of anonymity.
With Puncture, you're on screen for most of the film and your character goes through so many highs and lows. Were there particular challenges in doing that, or is that just fun to do, as an actor?
EVANS: Oh, that's real fun! Are you kidding? That was part of the appeal of the character. There was just a lot of meat on the bone.
In doing a film that's based on a true story, is it important to you that it has a good balance of entertainment and accurate information?
EVANS: Absolutely! That's part of the pressure. A lot of people who knew Mike and loved Mike, and for whom Mike was dear to their hearts, gave us this story, so we owed it to them to tell his story correctly and not make a bad film. There's a heavy element of pressure there, whenever you're dealing with true stories.
In the beginning of the film, this guy seems like he's pretty self-indulgent and self-obsessed, until he meets this nurse and decides to not only help her, but also really fight for this cause. What do you think it was that made this guy connect to her?
EVANS: To be honest, anytime someone is that intelligent and brilliant, there's a level of selfishness that accompanies that type of genius, and I think the case was redemption for him. He may have burnt a lot of bridges and abused a lot of friendships, and the case was a way for him to feel better about himself.
Are you hoping to continue to balance the big blockbusters with smaller, character-driven films?
EVANS: Yeah, that's the goal. You do movies like Captain America, so that you're afforded the opportunity to take on these smaller ones and hopefully get them greenlit. It's not easy getting movies like that on their feet.
Now that you do have a name and can get smaller films made and in theaters, does that make you scrutinize the films that you're look at more, to make sure that they're things you really want to be a part of?
EVANS: Oh, absolutely! I couldn't have said it better. You have to navigate and make sure that you're making the right choices, and not just working.
Have you thought about what you want to do, once you're finished with The Avengers?
EVANS: No. God, not yet. I'm still living moment-to-moment. There's so much on my plate right now that I'm just trying to take it one step at a time.
What initially got you so passionate about the craft of acting, and are you still as passionate now?
EVANS: More so. My love for acting grows constantly, with every good performance I see, out of another actor. It's inspiring. It was a slow burn for me. I did a lot of theater growing up, and then the more I did theater, the more I thought, "I think I'm falling in love with this."


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chol·an·gi·tis len·ta
low-grade bacterial infection of the biliary tract; sometimes causes fever of unknown origin.
Synonym(s): ascending cholangitis
ascending cholangitisAcute bile duct inflammation.
Clinical findings Right upper quadrant pain that may radiate to the shoulder, variable severity, nausea, vomiting, constipation, episodic chills, fever, slow pulse, Murphy sign, anorexia, weight loss; spontaneous remission is rare.
Aetiology Stricture or obstruction of bile ducts, infection, pancreatic reflux, drugs, chemicals.
Lab Increased white cells (especially neutrophils), increased bilirubin, urobilinogen in urine.
Management Cholecystectomy.


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Your two favorite sites, Wowhead and WoW Insider, are teaming up for an epic BlizzCon Meetup at the Anabella Hotel's Tangerine Grill & Patio. Every year we've had well over 2,000 attendees, and here's no better place to spend your evening before BlizzCon's opening day. Drinks? Yes. Prizes? Absolutely.
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Learnings from a doc sprint
A doc sprint is an event where technical writers work with engineers and other product team members to develop or update documentation. A well planned doc sprint is productive and rewarding for the documentation and the participants. This post shares some of the things I've learned from recent sprints.
A doc sprint can last anything from a few hours to a few days. I've found two days to be a useful period when the focus is fixing bugs. That may seem a little long, but it gives the disparate members of the team time to contribute to the sprint while keeping their primary roles ticking along too. When working with a distributed team across time zones, it's particularly useful to have a flexible period that gives everyone the opportunity to take part.
Sometimes people use the term "doc fixit" when the sprint is focused on fixing bugs rather than developing documentation for a new product. Either way, a sprint or a fixit is a time box focused on the documentation.
Why run a doc sprint?
The primary goal is to fix documentation bugs and thus improve customers' experience of the product. Sometimes it's hard for a small team of technical writers to find the time to fix the small things. Yet, to our customers, those small doc bugs can mean death by a thousand cuts.
By inviting the developers and support or sales engineers to update the documentation, we make immediate and direct use of the expertise of our subject matter experts. By inviting product managers and programme managers to assess the documentation requests and help prioritise them before the sprint, we're making use of their product and customer knowledge too.
Another goal is to foster a feeling of ownership of, pride in, and responsibility for the documentation amongst the engineers. It's likely that they already know the value of the documentation, but they may not feel empowered to suggest and make updates. The hands-on experience of a doc sprint gives them that power. The feeling of power lasts long after the sprint has ended.
A doc sprint offers an opportunity for people to meet each other. Technical writers meet engineers and other members of the product team that we may not cross paths with often.
Some things I've learned from running doc sprints
These are a few things that have made an impression on me from recent sprints, and some hints that I've picked up along the way:
- Engineers and other members of the product team appreciate the value of the documentation, and are keen to help improve it.
- When deciding which tasks to allocate as suitable for the doc sprint, include some gnarly ones. It's tempting, as a technical writer, to think that some tasks can be handled only by a technical writer. Well, that is true for some tasks 🙂 but recently I've found it's rewarding to err on the side of "let's do it". Big things happen in a doc sprint. Big bugs get squashed with surprisingly little fuss.
- As the technical writer, be prepared to spend the entire period of the doc sprint reviewing changes, rather than making changes yourself. The main benefit of getting software engineers and support engineers to fix bugs is that you're making direct use of their technical and business knowledge. They know the products and systems, and the ways the customers use them. On the other hand, the engineers don't necessarily know the ins and outs of your documentation system. So, while the facts are probably right in the documentation created during the sprint, you'll need to tweak the language and the adherence to other documentation standards like content re-use and page structure. It's best to do that as part of the sprint, so the bugs can be closed off.
- Create bug hot lists, to give people priority and focus. A hot list is a collection of bugs of a certain type. Since they're fairly crucial to the success of a sprint, I've dedicated a separate section to hot lists below.
- Hold a kickoff meeting at the start of the sprint, to give people information about what they're doing and how to do it. Keep the kickoff short: 15 to 20 minutes is good. But allocate an hour, in case people have lots of questions.
- Create a sprint guide that you can share with the sprint participants. The guide should be short and sweet, including information such as the date(s) of the sprint, the aims, the sprint organiser, the time of the kickoff meeting, the links to the bug hot lists, information on how to update the documentation, and where to send the reviews. Walk through the sprint guide at the kickoff meeting.
- If you have the budget, provide food and prizes. For example, cakes at the kickoff, and prizes for most bugs fixed, most scary bug tackled, and so on.
- Send out a report on how things are going at the end of the first day, as well as a wrapup after the sprint has ended. Include interesting bits of information such as who fixed the first bug, how many bugs have been fixed so far, and the scariest bug fixed.
More about hot lists
A hot list is a collection of bugs of a certain type. Many bug tracking systems offer a way of creating hot lists, naming them, and allocating bugs to them.
Hot lists are key to the success of a doc sprint where the focus is fixing bugs. When planning the sprint, I spend quite some time devising a set of hot lists that helps define the aims of the sprint, then filling the hot lists with issues. It's worth it. When the day of the doc sprint dawns, people can get started immediately, even if I'm not there yet. (That last is particularly handy when my day starts five hours after many of the team members' due to time zones.)
It's fun to think up some attractive, appealing names for the hot lists. For example, being in Australia, we chose the name Mozzie (mosquito) for the hot list of small, easy fixes. For the big scary bugs, we chose Huntsman (a rather large, strangely beautiful, but admittedly scary, spider). In our most recent sprint, we created a hot list called Product Manager's Choice (fix these bugs to win a PM's mark of honour) and another called Technical Sales Engineer's Choice (fix these bugs to win a TSE's undying gratitude).
Note that a bug can appear in more than one hot list. For example, a big complex doc request could be a Huntsman as well as a Technical Sales Engineer's Choice.
Have one master hot list for the sprint, which includes all bugs to be tackled during the sprint. This hot list will be invaluable in tallying up totals when the sprint is over. It's also a good container for bugs that don't fit into any of the other hot lists, but which you'd still like tackled during the sprint.
Having hot lists also makes it easier to award prizes based on the hot lists.
More about doc sprints
If you'd like to know more, try some earlier posts on planning and running a doc sprint. The sprints I've been involved in recently have focused on bug fixing. In earlier sprints we created entirely new documentation sets.
Bug husks
These are the husks of two cicadas that I spotted while walking in the bush. The bugs themselves have shed their skins and gone on to bigger, better things.
Posted on 17 January 2016, in technical writing and tagged doc sprint, fixit, technical communication, technical documentation, technical writing. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.


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I must have been living under a rock, dear readers, for I had no idea that this British prolific writer of Harlequin Romances passed away from cancer more than a year and a half ago. I found out while surfing the Web. Like many of her fans, this news comes as a shock to me. I've read a few of her titles back in the day, the latest being POWER PLAY. I should say re-reading, since I first came upon it during its heyday around 1988. I was living at my parents' place, having returned after my bout with a rat in the walls of my apartment (precious picture, isn't it?). I remember being glued to the sofa bed (my temporarily haven) and reading Penny Jordan's novel into the wee hours, hoping against hope that the heroine would succeed in her quest to destroy the three men that had hurt her. Because POWER PLAY is about revenge, post-rape style. As you can see, the subject matter is hardly the stuff of Harlequins, but strangely enough it was. Harlequin Books tried very hard pushing Jordan into the big league by releasing this title. Surely enough, it became a New-York Times Best-seller, and the nighttime career of Penny Jordan took off with many other lengthy work such as SILVER and THE HIDDEN YEARS.
One of her latest is called SILK, the first in a trilogy. I own it but I have yet to open it. In fact, truth be told, I have only read three of her novels since POWER PLAY. Though I do collect them still. Not her quick Harlequins, mind you. I much prefer her lengthier stuff, just like SILK, which is all about the fashion industry and the people who run it. Sort of like Barbara Taylor Bradford's Emma Harte series but with a higher amount of melodrama. A Jordan style that I will miss dearly. Oh I'm sure Harlequins has some posthumous mini-titles in store (if it hadn't happened already). But I doubt we'll ever see another lengthy work like SILK.
A couple of years ago, I left her a short note on her now-defunct official website, trusting that she would respond. I wish I could say that she did, but the truth of the matter is, I never heard from her. She may have been just plain too busy or perhaps the strain of having a then-alcoholic hubby (a fact she had later discussed in interviews) prevented her from enjoying the ritual of responding to her fan mail. Who knows? But whatever the reason, I never felt the need to connect with her again. Now I wish I did. I could have reiterated how much I love her books, that her talent as a storyteller deserves to be celebrated… But in the wake of this unexpected news I'd much rather say this: rest in peace, Penny Jordan. Your untimely passing is very unfair.
Until next post—Martin


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The Executive Team for the College of Podiatry is made up of the heads of each department. They work with Council and the Committees of the organisation to ensure that members are fully represented and the services offered by the College are fully tailored to members' needs. They lead each department in carrying out the day to day work of the College including promoting podiatry in the health and political sectors and highlighting the importance of good foot health to the general public, trade union activities and other membership services. The College of Podiatry staff also ensure that the College is serviced.
Steve JamiesonChief Executive and General Secretary
An experienced chief executive and senior health leader, Steve Jamieson joined the organisation as Chief Executive and General Secretary in September 2017. Prior to this Steve was CEO of The Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, where he was instrumental in guiding the organisation successfully through a period of change and development resulting in the Hospice receiving an outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission.
A nurse by profession and a prominent nursing leader, Steve was Director of Nursing at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and was responsible for leading on the RCN's professional nursing agenda, and delivering its mission to represent nurses and nursing, promote excellence in practice and shape health policies. Prior to working at the RCN Steve held senior nursing posts at St Thomas Hospital and Kings College Hospital London.
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Well, it's been a while since I've written, but I am now returning both to my blog and to the States. It's certainly been a busy few past months. Fears, joys, surprises, decisions and disappointments but lots and lots of hope. This past month specifically I've been working in SE Asia on an anti-trafficking project. This work has been a passion of mine for years, but in the words of a close friend, "today I fell in love with this project all over again."
One of the young women we've been working with lately was assaulted last night. Plainly speaking, my friend had the crap beat out of her by a jerk… a jerk attempting to exert his "power" in a prevalent area of this red light district. All day long I've been struggling with a desire to get revenge. I know that's the Lord's job and He's been kind enough to continually remind me of that but of course, it's still hard. I don't like people making mean faces at my friends, let alone physically assaulting them. In any regard, I was reading through scripture this evening and came across Psalms 9 and 10. For those of you like me who have a heart to write wrongs and protect the innocent, I hope these words from the latter Psalm will provide you some comfort as it did me.
Psalm 10
1 Why, Lord, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts about the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord.
4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5 His ways are always prosperous;
your laws are rejected by him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, "Nothing will ever shake me."
He swears, "No one will ever do me harm."
7 His mouth is full of lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.
8 He lies in wait near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent.
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;
9 like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
10 His victims are crushed, they collapse;
they fall under his strength.
11 He says to himself, "God will never notice;
he covers his face and never sees."
12 Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the helpless.
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?
Why does he say to himself,
"He won't call me to account"?
14 But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted;
you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked man;
call the evildoer to account for his wickedness
that would not otherwise be found out.
16 The Lord is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
17 You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
so that mere earthly mortals
will never again strike terror.
May this blog serve as an education to those who do not yet know or understand the atrocities of trafficking and may it serve as an encouragement to those who understand it all too well.
(Post originally written 11/09/12)


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The final trailer of X-Men: Apocalypse teases all the amazing action and destruction fans will get to witness in the movie. Also, the trailer gives the first glimpse of Wolverine's return.
Just two days back, director Bryan Singer had given fans the first look of The Blob, a mutant, who in the comics possesses superhuman strength and impenetrable skin that can even withstand missile attacks.
The trailer begins with Professor X, played by James McAvoy, saying: "Things are better. The world is better." To which Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) replies: "Just because there is no war doesn't mean there is peace. He [Apocalypse] is coming." Apocalypse is being played by Oscar Isaac.
"Everything they built will fall and from the ashes of their world we will built a better one," Apocalypse says as the Sydney Opera House slowly turns to dust. Next scene shows a fight between Professor X and Apocalypse, with McAvoy being taken prisoner. It will be up to Mystique and the young X-Men recruits to face living god Apocalypse, who has woken up after thousands of years hell-bent on cleansing the world of humans.
In the X-Men trilogy, the heroes were merely fighting ordinary humans and mutants. But this time around, the mutant heroes will be facing the strongest mutant of all and his four horsemen (followers). One of the horsemen is Magneto (Michael Fassbender), who from the first X-Men movie was looking to end the rule of mankind.
X-Men: Apocalypse opens in theatres in the UK on 18 May and in the US on 27 May.
Check out the final X-Men: Apocalypse trailer below:


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Happy new year! It's 2013, and the League of Minnesota Cities (LMC) is turning 100 years old.
Please bookmark this blog and enjoy a new post every week during our centennial year. We'll walk down memory lane, discuss what we're doing now, and look toward the future.
This centennial celebration is truly for all of you, our member cities, who have made this milestone possible. So let's have some fun!
Let's begin with a special message from LMC Executive Director Jim Miller. Welcome!


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Lazy day in office, so let's just write bout something shall we (speaking to self)
Lets change it up to comics shall we? But still in relation to movies. 2nd thing (but can be 1st..depends..I can't decide) I'm passionate bout is comics..been collecting since a wee bit (7 me thinks) ..now comics are a tad expensive..and I'm trying to cut down on the titles I follow.
Thankfully I solely follow X-men related titles..Avengers? Me no likey..EXCEPT till recently (last Dec to be exact) I collected Avengers Arena. I know it goes against my strong believes that Avengers sux hard. Howeverrrrr...the name Avengers is just a title..this title compile a list of fan favorite from different teams in the Marvel Universe...taking teams from Runaways (never read but I heard it's good) , Avengers Academy , X-men Academy and Capt Britain Academy (newly introduced)
These mutant kids were brought together by Arcade (from the covers of X-men and Avengers) who before this is hardly a major villain. The kids are gathered on some mysterious island and are forced to off each other or die on the island ..sounds familiar no? Yep it's Battle Royale baby! ..even the cover of issue #1 pays homage to the legendary flick...see for yourself... I.....L-O-V-E IT ...maybe one day when I have the money I'm gonna frame it..who knows maybe one of those Great Britain kids (mostly first appearance here) will become a popular Avengers / X-men
The 2nd issue cover is amazing as well, it got me guessing awhile..I at first thought it was Apocalypse Now (boleh?) ..and after doing a bit of googling..it's a cover from Lord of the Flies ..it's a book cover though..not the flick.. issue 3 and 5 continues with the movie cover theme..with issue 3 being The Hunger Games (pretty obvious) and issue 5 with The Clockwork Orange.
|Lord of the Flies Homage
|Hunger Games
|Kid Briton posing as Malcolm McDowell
Issue 4 is a tricky one..I didn't find any mentioning of it paying homage to a movie flick..I could've sworn I've seen this cover somewhere..maybe you guys know? I was about to say Raging Bull but ooops that's not it. Have a looksie..
|Any ideas?
So that's it for today..comic cover that translate from movie posters...there are a lot more..another more interesting movie covers translated to comics is during the Necrosha run..they covered all the famous Vampire flicks posters..alas I didn't buy the issues..I only bought the Paperback version. I leave you with the Necrosha run cover..(not all)
|Loving this one, John Carpenter's Vampires!


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Officers from the Clementi Neighbourhood Police Centre nabbed two suspects, aged 13 and 17, believed to be responsible for a series of bicycle thefts.
On Feb 25, police received a report of two secured bicycles missing from the void deck of Block 435 Clementi Ave 3. Officers identified the two youths through investigations around the neighbourhood, and detained them.
The suspects are believed to have been involved in other cases of bicycle theft. Three bicycles believed to be stolen have since been recovered.
In a statement on Wednesday, the police advised the public to keep their bicycles at home, secure them to a bicycle rack or label their bicycles with a security label available at their neighbourhood Police Centre for free.