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During the past 10 years Marc Harris has focused on financial recruitment working with FTSE listed and private equity companies including, Vodafone, Unilever, Centrica, Mars UK, Avis, TUi and Billabong. This experience is ideal for Norrie Johnston Recruitment which is led by Graham Oates, an ex-KPMG Managing Partner and has a strong and rapidly growing financial recruitment capability. Marc Harris' wider track record supplying both permanent and interim senior managers, executives and directors to meet international briefs, often in Western Europe, will also prove invaluable to the firm which is increasingly being tasked with international assignments.
Graham Oates, Chief Executive at Norrie Johnston says: "Marc brings huge knowledge, networks and experience alongside a great reputation as a recruiter. His understanding of recruitment for the finance function across all sectors together with his ability to deliver against complex, senior briefs quickly will be invaluable as we continue to grow all aspects of our business. We are delighted to have him on board."
Norrie Johnston Recruitment is focused on filling senior permanent and interim executive roles, using a mix of technology plus, importantly, traditional search, employing best of breed recruiters who have real-world business experience. It argues that this combination of technology-enabled, top recruiters together with senior executive experience means the agency can provide hand-picked short lists of perfectly matched senior interim candidates within 4 days while for permanent roles the timeframe from brief to short list can be as little as 21 days.
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This is a reminder for all faculty who have used Turnitin in the past.
Those of you who have used Turnitin Assignments in Blackboard in the past now find that you have Grade Center columns that were attached to the Turnitin Assignments that you cannot delete.
Blackboard has informed us that they can delete these columns from the back-end database, but will need for us to:
(a) rename the Turnitin assignment Grade Center columns to "Delete Me" and
(b) send a list of course Ids for courses with Turnitin assignment columns to be deleted from the Grade Center. The columns must be renamed and the course Ids sent to eLearning by 4:00 PM on Friday, November 21st.
NOTE: Blackboard will only do this ONE time so information must be sent to eLearning by 4:00 PM November 21st
If your course has Turnitin assignment Grade Center columns, please do the following:
1. Go into your Grade Center and rename all Turnitin assignment columns to
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b. Scroll over to the Turnitin assignment column(s)
c. Click on the column menu (down arrow next to the column name)
d. Select 'Edit Column Information'
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3. Send the list of course Ids for each course with "Delete Me" columns to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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There are many reasons why we go to the service of prostitutes. Loneliness, a recent break or the lack of love in the life of a couple often induce us to find happiness or consolation in paid sex. It is an option as valid as any other.
It is a relationship without loving ties, reduced to the pleasure of the moment, but often we find in the prostitute the woman accomplice: we share with her a sexual experience, but also confidences, unspeakable desires. We often establish more trust with strangers, with one-night meetings, than with intimates or close friends.
The prostitute, in this sense, offers us a territory of pleasure and emotional freedom to express ourselves without reservation.
Erotic shower, places like sexual stimulation
There is no doubt that the bed is one of the most traditional places to practice sex. When we hire the services of a prostitute we often get carried away by the routine. We reduce ourselves to the room of an apartment or a hotel and to that element that is already common in every sexual relationship.
But there are other sites that can be more exciting. Nothing better than venturing into new experiences and resorting to the imagination as a source of inspiration. One of those places is undoubtedly the shower.
Not surprisingly, a recent study has revealed that a large percentage of men consider sex in the shower as one of the most stimulating practices in this field.
Erotic shower, sensuality and eroticism
Eroticism is one of the cornerstones of sexual practice. Nothing better than the previous excitement, the stimulation of the senses in its most diverse ways, to reach an intense orgasm.
Sex in the shower offers us, in this field, one of the most rewarding experiences. Steam, water pressure, caresses, kisses and bites, massage to stimulate the erogenous zones, are some of the ingredients of this practice. We speak of sensuality in the strictest sense of the word. Sensuality with an experienced woman, knowing the most appropriate techniques and resources to take us to happiness.
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The positions within this field are very diverse. We can practice anal sex, with it in front of the wall or in the traditional position of the dog; fellatio or his twin brother, cunnilingus;
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Community School is located on a 7-plus acre campus at 7815 Williamson Road in Roanoke County across from Hollins University and convenient to exit 146 off I-81.
Do you offer childcare before or after school hours?
Yes. Community School offers before and after school care that is available to families on an as-needed basis. Before School Care is available from 7:00-8:15 a.m. After School Care is available from 3:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Families are billed at the end of the month for each block of time that a student stays in After or Before School.
What are your school hours?
Before School Care
Morning Drop-Off
Classes Begin
Optional Dismissal for Preschool
Classes End
Afternoon Pickup
After School Program
School Office Hours
7:00-8:15 a.m.
8:15 a.m.-8:45 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
12:15 p.m.
3:10 p.m.
3:10-3:45 p.m.
3:45-6:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
What are your average class sizes?
Elementary & Middle School
6-9 students
10-12 students
10-14 students
Do you provide enrichment classes such as foreign language, the arts and technology?
Our students benefit from Spanish, music, drama, mindfulness, art and technology classes. Visit the preschool, elementary and middle school pages for more details.
How big is the school?
Community School's maximum enrollment is 160 students from ages 3 through middle school.
What is your teacher/student ratio?
Our schoolwide teacher/student ratio is 1:7.
Do you follow a specific curriculum?
Teachers use the standards of national organizations such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children, The National Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to guide their curriculum development. You can visit the curriculum pages for more details.
How much does Community School cost?
Tuition costs vary by grade level and program. Complete tuition and fee information, as well as payment plan options, are available on the Tuition and Fees page.
Do you offer financial aid or scholarships?
We offer limited need-based tuition assistance. We do not offer merit scholarships. For information on how to apply for financial aid visit the Financial Aid page or contact the Admissions Director.
Do you offer transportation to and from school?
We do not offer transportation to and from school, but we do encourage and facilitate family carpools throughout the Roanoke Valley. In addition, our Before and After school Care offer options for parents needing additional flexibility around school hours.
When and why was Community School founded?
Our school was founded in 1971 by a group of local parents who wanted an educational option based on a democratic school model and the tradition of progressive education. Visit the Mission and Philosophy page.
Is Community School associated with any church or religion?
We are a private, secular, independent educational institution. We welcome families of all religious beliefs and backgrounds.
What do you mean by progressive education?
For more than a century, progressive schools have put children at the center of the learning process by giving them a voice. Students are expected to be actively engaged with intellectual pursuits and to be compassionate and responsible members of their community. As the "21st century skills" movement becomes more popular, we are proud to be a part of a tradition that has always recognized the importance of creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication.
Do you offer outdoor recess?
Students can begin their day with an outdoor recess period from 8:15-8:45 a.m. All of our students enjoy additional twice daily outdoor recess periods. It is also common for teachers to take advantage of the outdoor classroom. Walks to Hollins University and hands-on learning experiences at the creek bordering the campus are all part of the Community School experience.
Do your students go on field trips?
Off-campus learning is an essential part of our curriculum. Our students benefit from frequent field trips ranging from regional performing arts programs and visits to cultural/historical sites to service learning activities and overnight excursions. Middle school students may also participate in our Bolivian Exchange program.
Where do your students go to high school and college?
Our students are prepared to succeed at any high school option throughout the Roanoke Valley. Many of our students choose to attend our sister school, Community High School of Arts and Academics. Others attend their local public or private high school and take advantage of special programs like the Roanoke Valley Governor's School or the Burton Center for Arts and Technology. Visit our Alumni Information page for a list of colleges and universities.
Will I be allowed to visit my child's class?
Yes, parents are welcome to visit our classrooms. We hope that parents will be active members of our school community, helping in class and on field trips, having lunch with their children, volunteering around the school and, of course, at the Community School's Strawberry Festival.
Do Community School students take Standards of Learning (SOL) tests?
No we not administer the SOLs. We do, however, administer nationally-normed standardized tests at the middle school level in order to begin preparing students for testing in high school.
If you didn't find your answer here, please contact our Admissions Director for more information.


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I'M DANIELLE...... but my friend's call me Dan.
I'm twenty years old and live in the beautiful country of New Zealand.
I graduated with a Certificate in Christian Ministries from Elim Leadership College in December of 2017.
I'm a full time children's pastor at the GREATEST CHURCH IN THE WORLD.
I practically live at my church.
I have one heck of a group of friends - who quite honestly are more like family than they are friends.
I usually default to referring to almost everything as an adventure because lets be honest once you hit the crazy hours of the morning when you're out with your friends under the stars, everything is much more exciting - even if all you are doing is eating burgers at your local lookout.
My favourite food is mango - give me mango anything at any time of the day and I'll be the happiest person you've ever met.
I'm terrified of birds. Any birds. Chickens, seagulls - they are all evil, seriously.
My all time favourite song is hands down Beautiful Soul by Jessie Mcartney. If you sang this to me while playing it on guitar, I'd most probably marry you right then and there.
I really enjoy writing but my grammar and spelling are always completely shocking at the best of times.
I'm simply here writing about things that matter, things that don't and sharing memories I wish could have lasted forever.
If you would like to follow along - I would absolutely love it!
XO, Danielle


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One Cup Teapot Set
Designed to make the perfect cup of tea for one, this tea set is hand-blown by masters using the purest borosilicate glass; renowned for it's durability and crystal clarity.
The set is comprised of our carefully designed One Cup Teapot and our Glass Cup and Saucer. Based on the Gong Fu tea principle of fully decanting an infusion; the volume of the teapot perfectly matches the volume of the cup - no tea is left stewing in the pot. Designed with the same skill and quality, the items are made to complement each other in style, as well as volume.
As each piece of teaware is hand made, there may be very slight differences in height, thickness & weight.
Read our blog article on why small teapots are the best for tea making.
Our Glass
Stronger, Brighter, Clearer
JING Glass is hand-blown by masters using the purest boroscilate glass available. Borosilicate glass is renowned for its superior durability, heat resistance, brightness and clarity. All of our teaware goes through many stages of production and testing. The result is our JING Glass collection, designed solely to help you make and enjoy tea as it's meant to be. We hope you enjoy using each piece as much as we do.
5 Years
Every master who makes JING Glass has a minimum of 5 years' experience hand-blowing and crafting glass.
10 Steps
Making each piece requires mastery of a minimum of 10 steps. At every stage, the glass is heated and shaped into our signature designs.
4 Days
Each piece of JING Glass takes four days to produce. Slow heating and cooling enables the highest degree of precision and detail.
One Cup Teapot Set
As a single person who is the only person in my house that drinks tea, I seldom make a pot of tea---even though I have teapot that is cute as can be. The problem is that I have so much tea that I rarely drink the same tea blend twice in a row unless it is oolong and my teapot is really meant to serve like 3-4 cups of tea. Yes, I know that I don't actually have to make 3-4 cups of tea and could adjust accordingly, but lets just say that it mostly a decorative teapot and leave it at that. OK, I don't use it because I am addicted to my regular tea maker. Regardless of all that, I am grateful to receive this set from JING to try out. The set consists of a clear glass teapot with cup and saucer.The teapot: This is a cute little teapot that is deceptively larger than it looks. When I first opened the set, I was doubtful that it would even fill the cup completely, but it does. This makes about 10 oz of tea, which is a seemingly odd amount. The teapot is actually fairly ingenious. It has a wire spring strainer that attaches through the tea spout. I love this because I hate the delicateness of glass and ceramic infusers that tend to take a beating and aren't really very durable. The one drawback to this wire strainer is that this will not be able to strain smaller particles like those found in rooibos and even broken black leaves and the like. When preparing black tea, an escapee tea leaf will occasionally make it into your cup. The clear glass design allows you to see the tea leaves do their dance and expand nicely. There is also a small hole in the lid that makes cleaning easy. You simply fill with water turn upside down and allow to drain. Ideally, the tea leaves will collect inside the walled tea lid and allow for easy disposal. JING points out on their website that this pot would be ideal for gong-fu style preparation and I agree.The teacup and saucer: The cup is concave rather than a cup with straight up walls. It is kind of modern and cute. The saucer is made of a nice, durable thick glass and survived a drop onto the kitchen floor. My one concern with the cup and saucer was that they wouldn't resist the heat well and it might be impossible to hold onto the cup and drink a hot cup without burning my fingers, but so long as you hold onto the handles and avoid touching the cup/pot itself with the hotter liquids it is not a problem.JING sells this both as a set and separately. However, there is a bit of a pricebreak if you buy the set rather than individually. JING makes reference to this as being good for travel and though the glass seems durable, I am not too sure that I would travel with this for the simple fact that it is made of glass. Overall, I found the set to be chic, practical and the teapot somewhat ingenious. I think this is a great set and I appreciate JING for sending it. If this sounds like something that would appeal to you, then I would strongly urge you to add it to your cart when shopping with JING.
On a desert island I would bring a Jing glass tea set...
On a desert island I would bring a Jing glass tea set...This glass tea set from Jing is the perfect companion for every tea session. What surprised me as soon as I handled it was its elegance and the solidity of the glass. Glass teaware I had before was made of very thin glass (and it broke easily), while all the teaware from Jing is made of a thick, high quality glass that is long lasting and feels comfortable to the touch. The size is perfect for everyday use, but for Gong Fu Cha I would suggest a smaller teapot. I use this set for every kind of tea: the glass is ideal for green and white teas, but being made of a certain thickness makes it perfect even for oolong, black, and puerh. What makes the teapot my everyday favourite is the easiness of its cleaning, since the filter doesn't retain many leaf fragments.The cup is made of the same quality glass and it's very wide. I really enjoy this feature since the tea cools fast, being safer and healthier to drink. I just love the teapot and the cup so much that I have three sets: the shape of each one is a little bit different, so it's like having different characters to brew your tea with.
Great tea set for enjoying tea for one
Great tea set for enjoying tea for oneThis is just the right size for a generous cup of tea for one, and great quality too. I've washed my teapot, cup and saucer up several times now and there have been no chips or cracks, even around the spout. The tea set looks delicate and elegant, yet is strong enough to last - a winning combination in my eyes!
Carefree Brewing
Carefree BrewingAll of Jing's glass ware seems to be a cut above the rest and this is no exception! Over the years I've brewed in many different ways from 60ml gaiwans with leaves packed to the rim, to clay yixing pots of the highest quality. But actually the best tea session I've had have been out in the garden or sat on the sofa casually enjoying a set like this. Its perfect for solo drinking and I often just have 150ml from this set per brew by just half filling the vessels. When a couple of friends come over I can break out the 80ml-100ml cups and serve 3-4 people over multiple infusion. I love the way with glass you'd don't have to fuss over timings. Just a quick glance at the pot will show me when the tea is where I want it to be.The review below wrote "desert island set" in their title and I totally agree. In fact I've recently sold off the majority of my wares and now just own this set and a few cups and I'm just about to order a second set for the office! Perfect!


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Eat Drink Hebrides - Kallin Shellfish
Type:Eat Drink Hebrides Trail
Isle Of North Uist
Outer Hebrides
Tel: 01870 603258
Surrounded by the pollution free waters of the Outer Hebrides this is the perfect place to stop in for freshly caught seafood. From a small seafood processing plant in beautiful North Uist it is a perfect place to pick up the daily catch.
Owning some fishing vessels and taking fresh catches on a daily basis from several other local fishermen's boats. The local harbour is adjacent to the harbour and the boats catch a diverse range of shellfish.
Some such as lobster and crab are caught mainly on the Atlantic Seaboard on the West of the Hebrides. Some such as succulent Langoustine and scallops famed in the Outer Hebrides are caught on the Eastern Seaboard or the Minch as it is known.
We sell lobsters, crabs, cocktail crab claws, scallops, langoustines, langoustine tails and smoked salmon taken from some of the cleanest and pollution free waters in the world. With daily landings at the local harbour adjacent to our factory, you can be sure that our produce is as fresh as it can be.
Products can also be found in many of the supermarkets and local stores in the Outer Hebrides so keep an eye out for Na Mara products. You can also order online from our website.
Map & Directions
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8/26 – Women's Equality DayAug-10, 2016
According to the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution; Women in the United States were given the right to vote nationally on August 18, 1920, but why is Woman's Equality Day celebrated on August 26th each year; is what we have to know?
While the first amendment was initially introduced many years earlier in 1878; and every president has published a proclamation for Women's Equality Day since 1971 this is the time when legislation was first introduced in Congress by Bella Abzug, this resolution was passed designating August 26 of each year as Women's Equality Day.
The Women rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies Worldwide. In some countries and places, these rights are institutional and supported by local customs, law, and behaviors; whereas in some places they are ignored or suppressed. Again they differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and customary bias against the exercise of rights by girls and women in favor of boys and men.
The issues that are commonly linked with notions of women's rights include, while they are not limited to the rights— to forcibly integrity and independent, to own property, to vote, to work and hold public office, fair wages or equal pay; to education; to serve in the military; to enter into legal contracts; and to have marital or parental rights.
While the simple answer to know why the Woman's Equality Day is celebrated on August 26th each year is just because of a constitutional amendment is ratified. It's not official until it is totally certified by the correct government official. In the year 1920, the official who was dealing was Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. Colby signed a proclamation on August 26, 1920, behind the closed doors at 8 a.m. at his own house in Washington, D.C, ending a move violently for the vote that started a century earlier.
History behind this Date
The United Nations Charter plays a major role for women's rights; as it was the first international agreement to assert the equality between women and men. Since then, the Unites Nations has been an important advocate for the rights of women, adopting an international bill of rights for women in 1979 and sponsoring four global women's gatherings and conferences. The Millennium Development Goals, which all nations agreed at the UN in 2000, sets tangible goals for nations to be achieved by 2015. However, several of which deal directly for empowering women.
Full text of Resolution
The joint Resolution of Congress has published a proclamation for Women's Equality Day since 1971. This resolution then passed designating August 26 of each year as Women's Equality Day. While, the women of the United States have been treated as second-class citizens and have not been included for the full rights and privileges, participation in public or private was not authorized, legal or institutional rights are only available for male citizens of the United States.
However, the women of the United States have united to promise that these rights and privileges are available to all citizens equally regardless of sex. But, the women of the United States have won the designation on August 26, and it was declared as the anniversary date of the passage of the 19th Amendment, and the symbol of the continued fight for equal rights.
The Senate and House Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled and passed that August 26 of each year is designated as "Women's Equality Day," and then President is requested to authorize and issue a proclamation annually in commemoration of that day in 1920, this is the day on which the women of America were first given the right to vote, and day in 1970 on which a nationwide demonstration for women's rights took place.


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This year, the rising took over Miami, and while brains were obviously on the top of the menu, a few restaurants made the cut for Best of Miami, too.
From Lulu in Coconut Grove, to B.O.'s Fish Wagon in Key West, to Prime One Twelve in Miami Beach, we had you covered.
But there are still so many places we love, we just had to bring our Best Of back. This week we're taking it to Coral Gables. Although Route 9 was our official winner, here are five more of our favorites.
5. Mykonos Greek Restaurant
Walking into Mykonos makes you feel as if you've just stepped onto the Greek island of the same name--brightly painted walls depict scenes of the ocean from atop white houses, while the smell of fresh Mediterranean food and music fills the air. This is the place to come with a group and share a variety of appetizers and entrées, because everything is worth trying. Traditional dishes include the lasagna-like pastitsio and moussaka (both $12.95), as well as roasted lamb ($14.95), gyros ($7.95), and keftedes ($10.95), or fried meatballs. While most dishes include meat, there is a vegetarian menu with vegetarian mousaka, lasagna, and Greek style omelet (all $9.95). Dessert is also a must; filo dough and nuts dominate the dessert menu with traditional bakery items like baklava ($3.50), kataifi ($3.50), and ekmek ($5.95 with a scoop of ice cream), while rice pudding ($3.50) and Greek cookies ($1.25) are available for those with nut allergies. Mykonos is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day and has happy hour from 5 to 8 p.m.
4. Smoke'T Southern Kitchen & Tap
Here's a visit to a completely different side of the globe; Smoke'T delivers some of the best Southern food in the Gables. While they've got all types of barbecued platters of brisket ($15.75), smoked chicken ($15), and grilled salmon ($17), as well as the delectable fried chicken and waffle ($13.95). But what we've got a hankering for is the long list of delicious "Fixin's." You can't walk out of there without trying the franks and beans ($4.75), sweet brussels sprouts ($4.50), jalapeno cornbread ($3.75), or baked jalapeno mac & cheese ($5.75). Happy Hour is also a plus, with half off all liquors, draft beers, and wine from 4 to 7 p.m. on week days. It's a good excuse to get the 64 ounce mason jar-full of Dixie Highway Moonshine (Jack Daniels, triple sec, and Lemonade; usually $15).
3. Casola's Pizzeria & Sub Shop
We know how it goes. You say you're going to stick with just two slices, but before you know it, the whole pie is gone. At Casola's, you don't have to worry about any of that: one slice is just enough (and if you get a dessert too, we won't judge). For $4, you get about three slices worth of cheesy goodness. A whole pie at this authentic pizzeria (first established in New York in 1944) starts at $9.99 for a small 14-inch, to $21.99 for a large 20-inch. They've also got warm subs from $4.95 to $8.29, pasta dishes from $6.69 to $8.99, and quite a few salads from $3.99 to $8.99. Oh yeah, they're also open until 2 a.m. on weekdays, 5 a.m. on Saturdays, and 1 a.m. on Sundays for the stoners craving midnight munchies, Groveites coming back from a serious bar crawl, and, face it, we know you're craving a late-night slice too.
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2. Seasons 52
For a place where every item on the menu is less than 475 calories, it's hard to go home hungry. Seasons 52's constantly evolving menu showcases fresh, seasonal fare. Appetizers like the buffalo chili with black beans and cilantro sour cream ($5.75 for a cup) and caramelized crab & shrimp stuffed mushrooms ($8.95) will keep you satisfied until the main course. The wood-roasted pork tenderloin with herb polenta and veggies is a perfect meal at $16.95, and so is the cedar plank roasted salmon at $17.95. Yet, the stars of the show are the signature flatbreads ($3.75-$9.95), with their cheesy, crunchy perfection. Top it off with a "Mini Indulgence" dessert shot (or two!) for $2.50; go with the mango cheesecake and tres leches flavors.
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I haven't tried out a new recipe in a few months. However, when my sister was here she made us a nice flank steak dinner with her special marinade. I loved the flavor, but I'm not a big fan of flank steak. When I had a hankering for those flavors earlier this week, I decided I'd use the marinade for New York Strip Kabobs. They grilled to perfection, both tender and delicious. Amy sure shared a keeper!
2 lbs meat
1/4 c soy sauce
1/4 c honey
1 tbsp ginger
garlic as desired
1/2 c oil
1/2 c vinegar
medium onion
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Everything *seems* to be going well, at least on a superficial level... but is it, really?
My family... I dunno. My mom is making an effort, she's trying to use my name and all, but we don't talk too often. Maybe once a week. My dad... I don't really hear much from him. But, that's nothing new. Hasn't changed much from what things were like before my announcement. My sister... she's regressed, I think. We don't talk as often as we used to. She's busy, and sometimes just doesn't want to hear about it, or deal with it, or something like that. It's hard because they live far away, and don't see me very often. So my changes are not gradual to them. There will be a point in the future where it's not OK for them to say things like "I don't want to deal with this," anymore. I'm not there yet, but I feel closer than ever to this point. This is who I am, and this is the biggest and best thing that has ever happened to me. And if one doesn't want to deal with it, she doesn't want to deal with me. I'm not going to have superficial phone calls with people with all this stuff in the background. What if someone had some other medical condition, like, say they were recovering from cancer? Can you imagine telling someone you didn't want to hear about it? "Ugh, you know, I really don't want to hear about this stupid cancer recovery you keep talking about. I'm done with it." This shouldn't be any different.
Friends... they're supportive in the sense of commenting on my Facebook statuses or clicking "Like" and meeting up for a drink (when I invite), but no one has proactively asked me to do anything or get together, in literally months. It's always me asking. I've gone out with people very often. Which is nice, but it would also be nice if someone asked me to do something once in a while. I'd talked about getting together with a couple people and they said, "send me some dates!!" so I sent a list of dates. Annnnnd, I've not heard back. I had planned this thing at my place, invited a bunch of people, and ended up canceling it after 3 no's, 4 maybe's, 1 yes, and 18 no responses. It was just stressing me out. I don't need that. I've been invited to come visit people (long-distance) for the weekend, which is awesome. I have a couple trips planned. I've invited people to my place for a weekend, and I get a series of we'll sees or we're very busies, etc. I'm so tired of being the one to reach out. So, I'm not going to anymore, for a while. It's exhausting, especially with everything else going on.
There's a pattern here. I don't know if the pattern is more about me as a person, or people are just busy, or lazy, or noncommittal, or what. But for the rest of my life, when these sorts of things go on, I'll always wonder if it's because I am trans. Kinda sucks.
And this trans support site I am on... it gets tiresome. The titles of the last few posts...
- Speedbump
- Grey Inside My Soul
- Things I Don't Like About Myself
- A thought that bothers me
- Be careful what you wish for
- Another disappointing day
- Pieces Left Behind
- A sad day


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The immigration policy that separates children from their parents by The Trump Administration, GOP Senators, GOP Congressman, Trump appointees, and everyone that supports the current President are wallowing in the depths of negativity. It's been a challenge since day one of the Trump Presidency just putting up with the nonsense of a president that has no clue what to do and seems to have one thing in mind and that is to destroy everything our Constitution stands for and to flagrantly abuse the powers of his office.
We have been silent in our posts here and on Twitter we have been outspoken, but after many hours of prayers and meditation we have discovers that falling in to the "Trump Trap" of separation does not solve anything. This is a wake up call to the people of the United States of America and to all the countries of the world. We see that many of the children from high school shootings have steeped up where others have not and they are doing a great job in getting gun laws to change. We are promoting the American Voters to vote Democratic come this November so many of the "hypocrite" GOP Senators and Congressmen / Congresswomen (If there are any) can be replaced by a party that cares about people, not just the 1%ers, all the people both rich and poor. It will probably take years to "fix" the destruction done so far, but in the end this country will be the "new" leader of what God has meant for us to be, "One country under GOD". (It doesn't matter which God you follow, they all talk to each other.)
Many groups of opposition seem to be growing and this latest nonsense of separating children from their families went over the top in total abuse of humanity. To top it off, it being done as blackmail to get a wall built that Trump had promised that Mexico was going to build, but as usual that has been bent out of shape. The wall is more separation and how gullible is this guy? If someone wants to get to the USA they will find a way. Ripping children away from their parents and calling it a "summer camp" just shows how shallow these people are.
We shall keep up our mediations and prayers each day and we believe that "judgment day" is coming son for all these so called "people". Some will probably go to jail, some will probably commit suicide after destroying their family, and then there are the one that will face "The Man". Yes, the Man (God) waiting for your clogged arteries to explode, the cancer lying dormant in your body to wake up and show you what pain is really like, the arteries (Plural) shutting down around your "heart" to stop the flow of blood and a pain in your chest that is beyond your widest dreams, one teeny tiny blood vessel deep inside your brain to pop and set off a chain of other blood vessels leading up to those main veins that will create a pressure in your skull that you will welcome someone cutting off your head to relieve the pressure of what feels like your head is going to explode, and finally the ones that will be hugging a family member and dropping dead in their arms. Yes, just like the families with the children being taken away, the culprit's families will feel the pain of daddy or mommy going away right before their eyes. They won't die immediately, they will lie on the floor watching the family faces and hearing them scream for someone to call 911.
So my friends and supporters of our site we have to believe that The Constitution is based on the "LAW". Many prosecutors are working very hard to bring these criminals to justice and we believe that the Law will win. Our forefathers weren't messing around, they knew exactly what they were doing and this "bump in the road" on our way to complete freedom will be because we enforced and believed in the laws of our cites, counties, states, and country. The most powerful toll we the people have is the VOTE, so please use it wisely and be happy we have that freedom.
God Bless America and everyone on this planet. Thank you to all our followers and please join us in our prayers and meditations to bring a solution to the current events. We specifically do meditation that clear negativity in and around us.
We have nothing to add except if you get a speeding ticket, thank God and be grateful that this country will overcome anything we wish to correct. Want the speed limit lowered? Vote! Want to not be pulled over because you looked cross-eyed at the police-person? Vote! Want all people to be treated the same no matter what color? Vote! Want health-care for all Americans? Vote! Want your children to go to be early? That's on you.


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Charging up for Summer !
|Posted by Linda on May 21, 2013 at 11:50 AM
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Get a Charge out of Beechwood Inn - Electric Vehicle Charging Station
Do you drive an Electric Vehicle?
Well Sylvan Falls Mill now offers a free charge with your lodging or touring. Yes, we have installed a Level 2 Commercial EV Charging Station. Get a full re-charge in about 3 hours.
Sylvan Falls Mill obtained a U.S. Department of Energy grant to help defray the unit's cost.
Oh, Chef Jenny Wilson of Fromage also installed a charging station and the City of Clayton is now installing 2 DC fast chargers.
Summer fun
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Well it is hot this year... except at the mill. Thenights are in the low sixties, the days in the mid eighties, afternoon showers, lightning and thunder in the distance.
The plentiful rain means our waterfalls are flowing and the forests are lush. Come up and take a break from all that is weighing you down, enjoy the fresh produce and clean air. The local farmers have an abundance of amazing veggies and berries this time not to mention the succulent peaches. Our vineyards are featuring great wines and entertainment. Come up for the third annual Clayton Crawl later this minth and taste the best We have to offer. The first weekend of August brings the annual Bluegrass - Bar b que festival to Dillard.
Horseback riding in our County
|Posted by Linda on March 13, 2012 at 10:00 PM
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Equus Mountain Meadow Riding Stable is nestled in the beautiful and panoramic Blue Ridge Mountains at Clayton, Georgia. Just over the ridge from Sylvan Falls Mill and 4 miles from Black Rock State Park. They specialize in privately guided trail rides which offer their riders a wonderful personalized horseback riding experience. Ken, your trail guide, has many years of experience. He allows trotting and cantering to enhance your ride, but if you choose to just go for a walk, that's fine too. The ride is 1-1/2 hours long through beautiful trails, down lovely valley roads and mountain meadows past their lake and stream. Rides are by appointment only. www.equusmeadow.com.
Fall Musings
|Posted by Linda on October 9, 2011 at 8:45 AM
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Well another turn of the wheel has brought another change of seasons to Rabun Gap. The mountains are draped with colorful quilts of reds, yellows, oranges and deep ever green. The nights are nippy and great for cuddling, the days are clear and warm. Harvest festivals abound throughout the area, pumpkin patches, maize mazes, bluegrass music and craft markets dot the road sides. Here at the mill we are turning our thoughts to the holidays. Family gatherings, friends sharing meals, renewed contact with those that get lost in the bustle of daily life. The birds have started making their annual pilgrimage to the warmer climes, the bears are busy eating everything they can reach before they take the long winter nap. Squirrels and chipmunks are busy collecting all the nuts that drop to the leaf carpeted ground. The local farmers are gathering the last of the crops before frost hits and they are busy planting the starts for next year's strawberries.
Meet the author for dinner at Sylvan Falls Mill B & B
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Meet the author for dinner at Sylvan Falls Mill B & B
Start the Father's Day weekend off right at Sylvan Falls Mill Historical Bed & Breakfast with dinner and a book talk with local author Joseph Gatins, 7-10 p.m., Friday, June 18.
Gatins will discuss and read from an engaging, non-fiction family biography, We Were Dancing on a Volcano: Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-Crossed Atlanta Family, 1849-1989, which recaptures the adventures and misadventures of a pioneer family that figured prominently Atlanta's origins as a little railroad junction and, later, as the capital of the New South. Signed copies of the book, offering an often-fascinating glimpse into these worlds, will be available for sale this weekend.
The book also traces five generations of a family at war, from the Civil War to the Vietnam War.
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and how a series of colorful men – and most remarkable women – coped with and survived the conflicts. This no-holds-barred biography focuses particularly on his father's multiple escapes from German POW camps in World War II, culminating in a final, successful escape only made possible by the unflagging help of his mother, who worked closely with the French Resistance in Paris. The author is a retired newspaperman who uncovered a treasure trove of archival information and photos that bring his family historys to life.
Guests that evening will be greeted with a hearty, gourmet dinner prepared by the inn's co-owner and chef, Linda Johnson. Local residents who intend to attend the dinner and book talk should call 706-746-7138 or contact us at: email@example.com for reservations ($30 per person, dinner and talk.) Space is limited so book early.
For more information, event schedules and reader reviews of the Volcano book, click on: http://josephgatins.blogspot.com/


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Book Hunters
Their history class had an unusual assignment. Write a letter to your future self, describing three imaginary books you hoped to read one day. As I perused their finals in Google Drive, I found myself having a conversation with them — sharing links to real books and other ideas. Who was learning more, the students or their professor?
There comes a time in every professor's career where you just have to change things up. The current class doesn't respond to the readings as earlier students did. Names and dates become readily available on-line. Screens shrink; so do attention spans. You look up from your once-trusty syllabus, and the world has changed.
The past twelve months, I've learned quite a bit about this new world, the one my students inhabit. For almost nine years now as a professor, during my time teaching at two universities, I've always started the semester the same way. I hand out index cards to learn something about who is looking at me from the desks. What's your favorite movie? What exciting thing did you do over the winter holiday? What band are you listening to right now? Over the years I've had to add one or two new ones, like What podcasts or YouTube channels do you like? But for nine years, there's always been a core group of questions; and the most fascinating one, to me, has always been, What's your favorite book?
Over the years, I've gotten a whole warehouse of fun answers: from books by Ken Follett to graphic novels about Dante to the still-indisputable champion year-in, year-out, the Harry Potter series. I literally do have in a drawer the index cards with answers for almost every student I've ever taught going back to 2010 — quite a data set, too. In the past year or so, however, I started to notice a disturbing trend in it. The number of students who replied to the question about favorite books with "I don't read books" or "I don't have a favorite book" had creeped up. It wasn't an overwhelming number of every class, but it was there; it was undeniable; and it had me worried.
I became a professor because I liked writing. At every stage of my life, I've always been writing: newspaper articles, yearbook features, poetry (published), short stories (never published), academic articles, later, a dissertation, and, of course, eventually books. Reading was foundational. I still have among my prized possessions the hardcover copy of one of the first books I remember sitting with as a child and enjoying. I was flopped on a chair at home with Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary, a book I think I really took to because of the "pest" nature of the protagonist. It also happened to include Ramona not-very-nicely pulling at the curly hair of her classmate and saying "Boing, Boing, Boing" — which was how our family pronounces its short last name but one which, in Dallas where we were living at the time, many Texans could not bring themselves to say without stretching all the vowels to absurd lengths. Or so my mother told me.
What would it be like to grow up in a world where people didn't read books? Increasingly, with everyone of every age — not just college students — consuming content online, it's a real and scary possibility. But would I have ever become a teacher and a writer if I hadn't read books? I can't imagine not having those constant companions — or even the experiences of finding them. One summer in college, I had stayed in Washington, D.C., to work instead of going back home to Chicago; and I remember how fun it was to stroll the campus bookstore before classes started that summer to see what had been assigned for which courses. I wasn't taking any classes myself, but I knew that if a professor had picked something, there was a chance it might prove entertaining or educational or both. And it would give me something good to read on the bus or in between my shifts at the restaurant where I was working.
I found John Fowles' The Magus this way, and the English translation of my own favorite book, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which — many years and cities later — I learned to read in Italian. I also made a mental note that summer to sign up for the undergraduate class that was reading Beloved and Maus. Eventually, I did (Prof. Randy Bass's "American Literary Traditions.")
What drove me on these mini quests? There were the feelings of personal discovery that I liked but also the sense of dislocation that reading brought and a deeply-felt need to be in the presence of people who were different. I was not out of the closet back then, so reading was one way for me to see how others dealt with life experiences and with family expectations and disappointment and sometimes even failed love. I liked history, too, and The Name of the Rose was probably oddly meaningful to me, as a college student majoring in classics, because I could read all the Latin. But I'm not going to lie; I liked Eco's detective story format first. Murders in a monastery? Stolen books? A mysterious library? I couldn't stop turning the pages.
College students are page-turners. Their lives are in progress; things are always happening; and they are often impatient to skip ahead to what comes next. Some of them want to find themselves by breaking from where they came from; others know that their next chapter is one that fits perfectly into the family story. There are many ways to grow up, and that's as true today as it was for me in the late 1990s.
But what's changed, I think, is the overwhelming number of options for who we can be, where we can find fulfillment, and what we want out of life. Jobs are different. The way knowledge is taught is different. Textbooks (and I have written one) can seem in theory as outdated to the classroom experience as slide rules and the abacus. They do serve a purpose, I believe, but technology has irrevocably changed how students learn. In one way it has atomized it — potentially turning all learning into links — without ever giving students a chance to go out and really explore what spending time with someone else's thoughts might do to their own future selves. It was scary and sad the moment I realized reading a book could no longer be taken for granted.
"When you describe what book you're hoping to find, have fun. Does your imaginary book have a title? What kind of person do you think will have written it? Do you think it's written yet? Will it need to be written by you? Do you want to find a work that would be shelved with history, a novel, a set of poetry, a biography, a cookbook, a comic book? Why?"
I thought long and hard about what to do about this problem until I realized the best approach was to reverse engineer a solution. If I wanted students to develop that same sense of exploration and discovery and sustained empathy and historical wonder that I knew reading could provide, then my answer to "I don't really read books" would have to become, "Yes, you do. You just don't know it yet." The idea for a new final history assignment was born.
The instructions were simple. "Write a letter to your future self in which you identify three books you would like to find and read one day, and explain why."
We had been reading Steven Greenblatt's The Swerve, which is about Poggio Bracciolini's hunt in the Renaissance for a lost copy of the Roman writer's Lucretius's poem, On the Nature of Things. The class introduces students to a lot of material through individual stories and perspectives. We use The Odyssey to set the scene for the Bronze Age but think about how Homer gets things right and wrong about a much distant time, and we use the poem to talk about memory and history as we inch slowly into Archaic Greece (a trick I learned from one of my own graduate teachers, Adam Rabinowitz, at The University of Texas). By the time it's over, students realize that even something as invented as a piece of fictional poetry can be a source for telling lost histories. And lost histories, as it turned out, was exactly what I wanted them to think about when they graduated from my core-required class.
The nature of the new final assignment took shape from there. "When you describe what book you're hoping to find, have fun. Does your imaginary book have a title? What kind of person do you think will have written it? Do you think it's written yet? Will it need to be written by you? Do you want to find a work that would be shelved with history, a novel, a set of poetry, a biography, a cookbook, a comic book? Why?" If I could get them to imagine what might be out there of interest to them — if I could turn the whole world into a library and have them envision sitting down in just one corner of it to pick up a volume — would would they hope to find? And why would they be interested?
Their answers and their imaginations exceeded my expectations, partly because of how inventive they were, partly because many of them imagined books that already exist. And that's where turning their final projects in to me on a shared document in Google Drive really opened up some fun. One of them had told me in advance about wanting to "find a different perspective on being Christian in the Roman Empire, perhaps a woman's perspective," and I told her it would be a great topic to think about and explore more deeply. Where did this anonymous woman live, for example? What century? What challenges did she face? I knew full-well, as a scholar of early Christianity in the Roman Empire, that such a source does exist: the "diary" of Perpetua from Carthage, describing her arrest and martyrdom in early third-century North Africa. But all of a sudden, I saw the benefit in holding back what I knew — until the very end — when I could post a link to the final project with a note that said, "Guess what? If you're interested…"
All of them talked about all sorts of fascinating topics that, I knew, they could eventually learn more about when they had the time. They were impressed by the dome in Florence's cathedral and how it had been built; they imagined Chinese doctors treating patients of the plague as counter-stories to the western evidence for the spread of disease in 1400s Europe and wanted to learn more about those medical accounts; they imagined finding the writings of one of Muhammad's first followers, one of the "Believers," which they hoped which help put big issues of faith and society into some larger context for them and for their own family. They speculated about cook books, books of world maps — and, to my own delight, even stories about murderous monks. I walked away from the drudge of end-of-semester grading feeling like I had gone on a journey with twenty-five adults whose stories were just beginning, and I had gotten the privilege of watching as they turned their backs on me and set out to who they would become.
The final assignment for the class is on-line here. This post also appears at ReligiousDirt.com. Doug's next book, Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome (Norton), will be released in June 2020.


text: Moviemaking in Michigan Moviemaking in Michigan: Adapting to film incentive cuts By Scott Pohl • Aug 4, 2015 Scott Pohl / WKAR For a year and a half, we've been tracking the process of making a movie in Michigan. Filmmaker Rich Goteri's "Eastern Market" is set in Detroit. Current State's Scott Pohl has our latest update, including a look at how the elimination of film incentives from the state of Michigan has affected the project. Listen Listening... / 11:02 Moviemaking in Michigan: Flooding causes a setback By Scott Pohl • Nov 17, 2014 http://michiganactorsstudio.com/ Listen Listening... / 10:03 This year, we've been following a project by a team of filmmakers hoping to make a movie called "Eastern Market" in Detroit. We've met the writer, co-writer, producer and director, with hopes of being a part of the action from start to finish. Moviemaking in Michigan: A producer's role on a small-budget film By Scott Pohl • Jun 9, 2014 Courtesy - Richard D. Jewell Listen Listening... / 11:15 Current State's Scott Pohl is following the production of a movie in Michigan. He's back with our latest installment on the team that's putting together the Detroit-based film "Eastern Market". Moviemaking in Michigan: rewriting and settling on a title By Scott Pohl • Apr 28, 2014 Scott Pohl/WKAR Listen Listening... / 9:20 Current State's Scott Pohl has been following the making of a movie in Michigan for our series "Moviemaking in Michigan". We've met a couple of people involved in this project, and it's time for part three. Moviemaking in Michigan: early view from the director's chair By Scott Pohl • Feb 17, 2014 Scott Pohl / WKAR Listen Listening... / 10:57 Today, we have the second installment of our new series "Moviemaking in Michigan". Current State's Scott Pohl is following the process of making a movie, from start to finish. Moviemaking in Michigan: Getting Started By Current State • Jan 27, 2014 Scott Pohl/WKAR Listen Listening... / 11:22 Making a movie is a complicated business. There has to be a script, a producer, a director, actors, costumes, sets, props, and a seemingly endless list of jobs to be done. If you've ever watched a movie through the end of the credits, you know what I mean. Today, Current State launches an ambitious project to follow the process of making a movie in Michigan from start to finish.


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DescriptionLisa Elias has created two sconces for Children's Interfaith Chapel consisting of glass and wrought iron elements. The Interfaith Chapel is a place for ecumenical worship and quiet, meditative respite. All imagery and aesthetics are designed to be universally relateable and reflective of a serene, peaceful space.
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After the relative success of last month's painting challenge, which saw Andy and Rob compete to paint the Revenant King on Undead Wyrm and Dwarf Steel Behemoth, Rob issued a new challenge. This time he asked the Deadzone community to get involved and paint/play with a 150pt Strike Team before the end of October.
The response on the Deadzone Fanatics Facebook group has been fantastic, with plenty of players getting involved. So, here's a quick update about how everyone is getting on. Remember, there's still time to get involved! You can either upload your pics to the Facebook group or send them to firstname.lastname@example.com
Rob – Veer-myn
Rob had a slight head start, seeing as he came up with the challenge, and is already closing in on that elusive points target. He's using the latest Veer-myn beta list, which adds the speedy Tunnel Runner. Sadly his chosen colour scheme has given him OTSD (orange traumatic stress disorder – due to the amount of layers it requires to get a smooth finish) and he keeps screaming when he sees the fruit selection in the office kitchen.
Martin – GCPS
Another Mantic employee, this time it's Rob's arch nemesis (at least when it comes to Deadzone) Martin. He reckons he's made more progress than this but keeps 'forgetting' to take pictures. The clock is ticking Martin…
Andrew Sharp – Asterians
Official Deadzone Rules Committee mascot Andrew Sharp has been quick out of the blocks with all these Asterians, which he promises he has only just started for the challenge. In fact, he's already moved on to the Support Drones!
Geoff Burbidge – Forge Fathers
Great progress from Geoff with this tight little Forge Fathers force. The bases in particular are superb and we can't wait to see the finished results.
Matt Cross – Forge Fathers
Forge Fathers are clearly flavour of the month and Matt has made a great start here. Again, there's a nice attention to detail on the bases.
Ben Alexander Edwards – Forge Fathers
Ben actually started painting these for a Deadzone campaign at his local store (The Pit) but we're happy to let him enter the challenge when the results are this good. Great work Ben… they almost look like the studio miniatures!
Mark Engle – Forge Fathers
More Forge Fathers?! Thought it was the Veer-myn that were meant to overwhelm in great numbers. Anyway, nice to see The Helfather making an appearance in the squad and fantastic work overall Mark.
Matthew Cross – Forge Fathers
What?! This wasn't the 150pts Forge Father painting challenge! And relax… Matthew's made a good start on his strike team. It'll be interesting to see what the final colour scheme looks like.
Matthew Mountain – Asterians
Finally! Another faction… Matthew has managed to get his colour scheme nailed down and is about to move on to the rest of his Strike Team. The yellow and purple combo is certainly striking. Can't wait to see the rest.
Shane Knerl – Plague
Shane had already set himself a(n insane) challenge of painting all his Plague miniatures before Halloween! Forget 150pts, Shane will most likely end up with about 1,500 points. These are his latest offerings.
So, there you have the latest update! On November 1st we'll choose our favourite entry (remember, you have to play with them too and send us pictures) and the winner will receive a faction starter or faction booster of their choice. Don't worry, Rob won't choose himself.


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Daniel Bo Rogers was appointed to the Chief of Police position on March 6, 2018.
Bo Rogers began his career in law enforcement in August of 1984 with Galveston County Constables Office where he worked until December of 1992. Rogers was hired by Webster Police Department on July 10, 1993. Rogers' assignments with the department have included Patrol, Narcotics Detective, Corporal, Detective Sergeant and Traffic Sergeant, as well as the Lieutenant over the patrol and support services divisions. Rogers holds numerous TCLEOSE certifications to include Master Peace Officer, Standardized Field Sobriety Testing and an Instructors Permit. Rogers holds a Bachelor's Degree from Columbia Southern University in Criminal Justice Administration and is a graduate of the 110th A.O.C. at the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. Rogers has served as an adjunct instructor at several Police Academy's and at Kaplan University's Criminal Justice program.


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Legendary Pictures has optioned the film rights to EA and Bioware's extremely successful video game series Mass Effect. According to the press release, the project will also fall under Legendary's co-production and co-financing agreement with Warner Bros., who will distribute the film worldwide. The producers are in discussions with Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Thor) to draft a screenplay based on the epic science fiction game series. Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce the film with Avi and Ari Arad. BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will serve as executive producers, as will Mass Effect executive producer Casey Hudson.
If you're a fan of the game, you should be very happy Legendary Pictures landed the rights as they're a great movie company with a solid track record (The Dark Knight, 300, Clash of the Titans, The Hangover and Watchmen). More after the jump – including the E3 trailer from 2006 that explains the game.
Mass Effect – E3 2006 Trailer
For those not familiar with the game:
BioWare's epic science fiction series takes place in the year 2183 and follows Commander Shepard of the SS Normandy who leads a team on a mission to defeat an ancient alien race that invades the galaxy every 50,000 years, wiping out all organic life. The most recent game in the series, Mass Effect 2, was released in January of 2010, and earned rave reviews from critics worldwide.
Here's some of the quotes from the press release:
"Mass Effect is a tremendous property ripe for translation to the big screen," said Thomas Tull, Chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures. "Mass Effect is a prime example of the kind of source material we at Legendary like to develop; it has depth, compelling characters and an engaging back story. This coupled with Avi and Ari producing and the skills of a great team adapting the screenplay, are the start of turning this smash videogame based property into a successful feature film."
"We are thrilled to be working with Legendary," said producer Avi Arad. "EA and BioWare are terrific partners who have created a brilliant piece of fiction with a universe filled with amazing aliens and technology. More importantly, though, they created a parable whose conflicts mirror the ones we currently face in our own world. This story emphasizes the need for all cultures to learn to work together. All this magic is presented in a fast paced action-adventure that makes for the best kind of movie experience."
"At BioWare, we've always thought of Mass Effect as having the depth, emotion and plot twists perfectly suited for an adaptation to a motion picture," said Casey Hudson. "With Legendary and Avi and Ari Arad attached, we believe that the Mass Effect movie will be an extraordinary entertainment event that realizes our vision for the franchise and thrills fans."
Pat O'Brien, VP of EA Entertainment added "The mission of EA Entertainment is to take key EA properties and find additional ways to bring these properties to people. We can't think of a better fit than Mass Effect and we couldn't be more excited to bring Commander Shepard's adventures to the silver screen."
Here's some images from the game:


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07-28-14 WWE RAWJuly 28, 2014
SPIKE TV cancels TNA IMPACTJuly 28, 2014
Word came out late Sunday night that Spike TV is opting not to renew TNA's contract. The news even made it to the main stream as TMZ has even picked up the story. Even more strange are the stories that Vince Russo being involved with TNA still could have a deciding factor for Spike to sever ties with the organization.
So, what now?
At the moment it looks like TNA and Spike are trying to negotiate something out of this news. Possibly in regards to staying with the cable channel or an extension until TNA can find a new home.
IMPACT was still pulling a decent rating and if Spike doesn't want wrestling anymore, maybe TNA could look at lesser known channels like ION who use to carry the WWE's Main Event Sh0w.
If TNA does go under for lack of finding a new home, one could only imagine that it would be a matter of time before the WWE would purchase their library for the WWE Network. This could be a good move if for just filling in the void of explaining Sting's career after WCW folded.
This is a big blow to the wrestling community and we will have more on this situation as it unfolds.
7-21-14 WWE RAWJuly 21, 2014
Paige snaps, we get a new trio, Stephanie gets arrested and the main event to SummerSlam is officially SET!
7-20-14 WWE BattlegroundJuly 21, 2014
WWE Battleground – PredictionsJuly 20, 2014
Fatal Four Way for the WWE Title
John Cena vs. Kane vs. Randy Orton vs. Roman Reigns
Mascara De Fuego: Cena. Its fairly obvious that Hunter's plan "C" is Brock Lesnar. I still think it's a great idea to put it on Lesnar and it only makes sense against Cena. He gets vengeance for losing his first match back to the fed which was against Cena many moons ago. Not a bad selling point. The match should be good but not great.
Great Puma: Cena. The cat is outta the bag ain't it? Promotional poster leaks of Cena vs. Lesnar at Summerslam are all over the interwebz. Is the WWE smart enough to use web leaks to sway their audience in a different direction? I'm thinking not. I expect Reigns to get the most shine despite the inevitable LOLCENAWINS outcome. Looking forward to Brock Lesnar destroying Super Cena in August.
Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins
Great Puma: Rollins. People love the chase. The WWE loves the chase. If Ambrose wins, this feud dies. Rollins winning by cowardly, heel ways, would push the storyline and just make the crowd adore Dean Ambrose more. I say Ambrose kicks Rollins ass for thirteen to fifteen minutes, and then Rollins wins with a lot of help from his Authority stablemates. And the beat goes on and on and on and on…
Mascara De Fuego: Ambrose. Man, I really hope this is match of the night. Feels right about time to do this match and Ambrose needs a good win after this week's beat down. I can't wait to see these two finally working against each other.


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Sunday, May 27, 2012
MIA..But Not Forgotten
By Jim Helm, The Daily Bosco
I remember when I heard the news but I can't remember who told me. His younger brother was one of the big kids in the neighborhood and he was so much older than his younger brother that I always thought of him as an "adult". A 20 year old adult. His parents didn't come out of the house much and his younger brother moved away shortly after. As they suffered their loss they probably never imagined that anyone but their family would remember them 40 years later. This is how I remember the war in Vietnam.
I remember when they said the kid up my street, Maplewood Avenue in Fullerton, had died there. I remember the look on my mom's face when we heard her younger brother was going there. I remember the TV news with their daily counts of the wounded and dead. I remember the countless stories 30 years later of the men who were "Dealing with it".
I never went. I was never there. I can't imagine it, but at the same time I can imagine it because I have heard so much and read so much about it. I didn't understand it when I was a kid, but I knew it was bad. And mostly, the thing I remember was at Fullerton High School and the relief that I felt hearing that I wouldn't have to go there. We had all thought about it, talked about it, and tried to prepare for it. And then it was over.
When I asked my mom for the $3.00 to buy the bracelet, her immediate response was "No". But, when I explained to her why I wanted it, I must have been convincing because she kind of sighed and got the money out of her purse. You see, $3.00 back then was about like $30.00 today. So imagine your 10 or 11 year-old asking if they can have that much money to buy a bracelet for a missing soldier from some guy on the street. Would you do it? Would you really do it???? My mom did it twice.
They called them POW Bracelets. The first ones were solid brass and etched with the soldiers name and date and location that the Soldier was lost. It was a flat piece of brass that had been shaped into a semi-circle. You couldn't get your wrist into it without bending it open slightly and once it was on your wrist you had to bend it shut again. When they came around a few months later, the new ones were stainless steel. Same engraving, same message. Somehow I talked mom into one of those too.
I remember they wouldn't let me pick a specific name. You got the name they gave you. But each one had a unique name of a lost soldier engraved on them. That amazed me, one man, one bracelet. So I wore them, I wore them a lot. The first one, the brass one, was overcome by years of surfing and other abuse and wore through the engraving of the name of the soldier after about 10 years. Although I can't read or remember the name, I still feel like I am honoring him by keeping the bracelet. The stainless steel bracelet bears the following inscription:
SSG Charles V. Newton
17, Apr 69 SVN.
SVN, South Viet Nam. Wow, it sounds so far away when you are a kid. Now that I am older and the world has gotten so much smaller, it doesn't seem so far. Still, I can't help but to do the math in my head. He was SSG at that time so I assume he had been serving for a while. Let's assume he was 18 or so when he went in and it took a year or so for him to make Special Forces Rank. He was only 12-15 years older than me. The date of 17 Apr 1969 is when he was reported missing.
I was ten.
There was no Internet back then. No other places for a kid to go to research and see if they were ever found. I know from watching the news some were found and they came back home to be reunited with their families. It would be nice to hear he was found too but I wouldn't throw away the bracelet if that were the case. It's spent too many years on my wrist and a bunch more in my dresser drawer for me to get rid of it now. And every once in a while when I'm wearing it someone looks at me and then looks down at the bracelet and then looks back up at me and smiles. They rarely say anything. They know what it is and they know that it's my way to remember someone who gave their life for our Country. After I started writing this I finally decided to do a search for him on the Internet. Here's what I found.
Charles V. Newton
Charles Newton, was born and reared in the small Texas town of Canadian. Seven months after he graduated from high school, he followed in the footsteps of his three brothers, and enlisted in the U. S. Army. Charles completed Basic Airborne School with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and after a tour of duty in Germany, volunteered for Special Forces and Vietnam.
In November, 1966, Charles joined the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam. He attended the Reconnaissance School in Nha Trang, and was assigned to Special Project Delta Detachment B-52.
During his second tour in Vietnam, Charles landed in the hospital at Long Bihn on January 11, 1968. Following are excerpts from a letter Charles wrote to his mom and dad:
Dear Folks,
Here I am again, flat on my back, however no real harm done . . . got one of the million dollar wounds. Caught a bullet on top of the head Tuesday a.m. and underwent surgery that afternoon. All are amazed that I'm here. I told them, you still can't keep a good man down. Hold all my mail. I should be state side in a couple of weeks.
Charles received a thirty-day convalescent leave, and arrived in his home town. He sported a chest-full of medals, including the Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster, air medal, and three Purple Hearts. He recovered from his wounds, and in May of 1968, married a home town gal. Two months later, he returned to Vietnam.
On March 22, 1969, Charles wrote a letter stating that he would be leaving Nha Trang in one to two days for I Corps (Phu Bai), Northern South Vietnam, and would be gone between thirty and ninety days. Each of his letters, left the reader with a definite sense that Charles intended a long career with the army.
Charles was a Recon Team Leader in Detachment B-52, referred to as "Project Delta." His team included three Vietnamese and three U.S. Special Force soldiers with a mission to conduct long-range reconnaissance into enemy occupied areas. These missions normally lasted for a three to five day period.
On April 14, 1969, his Team infiltrated Quang Nam Province in South Vietnam, and on the 16th, encountered enemy contact, but continued the mission. Shortly after noon on April 17th, the Team reported it was in contact with the enemy and requested air support. The last radio transmission heard from the team stated, "we're in a stream bed and hit bad".
Recon Team six which included SSG Charles V Newton; SGT Charles F Prevedel; SP-4 Douglas E Dahill; and three unidentified Vietnamese, became missing in action.
On this 28 day operation, between 29 Mar 1969 and 25 April 1969, Project Delta had suffered 5 KIA, 33 WIA, and 11 MIA, which included the loss of Road Runner Team 101 and Recon Team number six.
On December 16, 1969, five months after Charles Newton was declared missing in action, the U.S. Army promoted him to Sergeant First Class.
A Bronze Start with Oak leaf and three Purple Hearts. Somehow I knew he was a tough guy. 82nd Airborne were the bad boys they dropped in to clear the way for our other men. Project Delta were Special Forces Units of 5 or 6 men that went deep behind enemy lines. It was nice to hear that he was from an Army family following in his brothers footsteps. But the best thing was to read the letter home and to get the slightest feel of who he was and how much he loved his family. The sense of humor he used to tell them he was wounded but OK and would be returning home soon.
You don't have to have a bracelet to remember them. There are many ways you can show your thanks for our soldiers. My wife can't get through the start of any sports program without a tear in her eye if the Color Guard is performing. It's because she remembers and she is proud and thankful for them. Others may stop in the airport to shake the hand of a retuning soldier to thank them for their service or to let a deployed one know that we pray for their safe return and thank them for putting their life on the line for all of us here at home.
I didn't go....I was never there.... I didn't know Charles V Newton. But I will always have this bracelet to remind me of the ones that did.
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There have been 25 National Geographic Bee champions since the competition started in 1988, the centenary year of the National Geographic Society. What became of the youngsters who walked away with a college scholarship and a lifetime membership of the Society?
Three former National Geographic Bee champions were present at today's championship round in Washington, D.C: David Stillman (1991 champion), Anders Knospe (1994), and Seyi Fayanju (1996). They all agreed to do brief video interviews about what they are doing now, how geography has been useful to them, and how well they thought they could have competed in the Bee won today by Sathwik Karnik of Massachusetts.
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I see a lot of furniture. A lot of lamps, chairs, sofas and tables. I used to work at Vampt Vintage surrounded by simply the best Scandinavian designs in the world and yet I had not encountered real life Ercol. Founded in 1920 in England this remarkable furniture house has produced quality craftsmanship for almost a century.
You may already be familiar with some of the originals that are back in production in a new colour palette?
I am pleased to say I am now the proud owner of a set of four Ercol dining chairs. My new purchase (how exciting) was a super find from Red Rider in St Kilda (thanks to Josh for the excellent service). The design I fell in love with is a little more retro dating from the 1960's however they feel very shaker in their simple aesthetic would you agree? Whilst I am not sure these are collectable at the moment I do not intend to re-sell anytime soon so I don't mind a bit. They are in original condition (Ercol stickers in tack) and have delicious retro fabric covers. The million dollar question is would I ever paint them???
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It feels as if my summer is off to a slow start. Usually, I begin with a bang. Weeks before my students pack up for the last time, I have created an extensive list of projects to complete during the summer months. Then I pick a handful of quick crafts to complete during my first days of freedom. This year is different, for a handful of reasons. I still have my list. It's a really exciting list, full of elaborate projects, simple projects, quick projects, and week-long projects. But, I can't show those to you, yet!
I really, really want too, because my wedding dress is looking amazing! I am super excited at how well it is turning out. It is near completion. I just want to put it on and show the world. For now, a select few people will get to see it. Otherwise, it will stay hidden in my sewing room along with the many other projects I will be working on this summer.
This dress has been such a huge project, that I haven't been doing many little projects as I work on it (which is what I usually do in such cases). Due to this, I don't have filler projects to share. Today, you are getting this story with photos taken while I was on spring break in March. My fiance and I took a trip to Gainesville to visit the Butterfly Rainforest.
We were told not to expect much as it was cold outside and the butterflies were only at a level 1 for movement. Let me tell you, I think a level 10 could possibly create a tornado. There were butterflies everywhere! Thanks to their lack of motivation for movement, it made taking photos rather easy and enjoyable.
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It is difficult to know exactly if this will allow Microsoft to be able to boost the GPU speed beyond the current 853MHz that is believed to be the current speed that Microsoft has opted for after testing. In addition Microsoft is planning to open the GPU reservation time to allow developers additional flexibility, but a time table of exactly when this will be able to be used by developers isn't yet clear.
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June is the first month since the pre-fevered market that we are now seeing signs of a new normal real estate market! For the first time in a year we are seeing the average sale price for The City of Toronto exceed last year's prices. In June the average sale price came in at $870,559 a 5% increase compared to the $829,479 average sale price last year. Supply and demand will continue to play significant roles going forward. It is troubling to see that the number of new listings coming to market is still down. In June Toronto saw 5,243 new listings compared to 6,295 last year. That's a 16% decline. June's results are encouraging; however, declining new inventory is a concern headed to the second half of 2018.
It's easy to see the freehold sector shifting into summer mode. Listings were up slightly over the previous week with the east end up by 33%, but sales were dramatically down with 50% fewer sales last week in all areas of the city. The biggest decline was in the east end where properties in the $700-$1.5m saw a 65% decline in sales from the week before. Chances are buyers are sitting on a dock somewhere up north, but we still recorded 56% of homes traded at or above the list price.
Condo market buyers and sellers expressed a similar sentiment. Listings were up by 44% while sales backed off 36% from the previous week. The condo market is still filling in the gaps left by the housing market as 45% of all sold condos happened at or above the list price. A new interest hike of .25 basis points was announced this week by the Bank of Canada. The rate hike is in reaction to a healthy Canadian economy. The overall impact of the rate hike will be modest for consumers.
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"The top-tier housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver are headed in opposite directions, with fear driving Vancouver's market lower even as optimism returns to Toronto's market, according to Sotheby's International Realty Canada."
Toronto's detached house prices make comeback: Report
"The popularity of Toronto's leafy Little Italy and Trinity-Bellwoods neighbourhoods has helped those downtown pockets achieve the best quarter-over-quarter price increases in the Toronto area this year."
Real estate on the brain: Why buying a home can be so painful
"In June, 2018, the average Toronto home in the Greater Toronto Area cost $807,871, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board. Even in a somewhat calm market, that's fully double what it cost a decade ago. Price gains such as that have led the Swiss Bank UBS to rank Toronto at the top of its most recent Global Real Estate Bubble Index – the most likely market to burst – topping London, San Francisco and other infamously unaffordable cities. Toronto, it seems, has the most overvalued real estate market in the world. Should you buy?."
Buyers Remorse? Here's How Many Toronto Real Estate Buyers Walked Away Last Year
"Toronto real estate sales sometimes fall through, it's a reality of any market. It's often not until a few months later that we find out how many sales actually closed. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) data shows sales fell through at a higher rate than usual last year. In a small window where price growth reached peak, the rate of cancelled sales doubled."
Real estate experts predict a return to normal for slumping GTA housing prices
"The slowdown in the Toronto region's housing market that began last year continued through the first half of 2018, but two big industry players suggest that buyers and sellers are ready to shake off the malaise with a return to normal later this year.."