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Plum Lovin', p.1Part #12.50 of Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum 12.5 - Plum Lovin
A Stephanie Plum Novela
By Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum 12.5 - Plum Lovin
Chapter 1
Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both. I was currently in just such a position… not with shoes, but with men. And this morning it got worse.
A while ago, a guy named Diesel showed up in my kitchen. Poof, he was there. Like magic. And then days later, poof, he was gone. Now, without warning, he was once again standing in front of me.
"Surprise," he said. "I'm back."
He was imposing at just over six feet. Built solid with broad shoulders and deep-set, assessing brown eyes. He looked like he could seriously kick ass and not break a sweat. He had a lot of wavy, sandy blond hair cut short and fierce blond eyebrows. I placed his age at late twenties, early thirties. I knew very little about his background. Clearly he'd been lucky with the gene pool. He was a nice-looking guy, with perfect white teeth and a smile that made a woman get all warm inside.
It was a cold February morning, and he'd dropped into my apartment wearing a multicolored scarf wrapped around his neck, a black wool peacoat, a washed-out three-button thermal knit shirt, faded jeans, beat-up boots, and his usual bad attitude. I knew that a muscular, athletic body was under the coat. I wasn't sure if there was anything good buried under the attitude.
My name is Stephanie Plum. I'm average height and average weight and have an average vocabulary for someone living in Jersey. I have shoulder-length brown hair that is curly or wavy, depending on the humidity. My eyes are blue. My heritage is Hungarian and Italian. My family is dysfunctional in a normal sort of way. There are a bunch of things I'd like to do with my life, but right now I'm happy to put one foot in front of the other and button my jeans without having a roll of fat hang over the waistband.
I work as a bond enforcement agent for my cousin Vin-nie, and my success at the job has more to do with luck and tenacity than with skill. I live in a budget apartment on the outskirts of Trenton, and my only roommate is a hamster named Rex. So I felt understandably threatened by having this big guy suddenly appear in my kitchen.
"I hate when you just show up in front of me," I said. "Can't you ring my doorbell like a normal person?"
"First off, I'm not exactly normal. And second, you should be happy I didn't walk into your bathroom when you were wet and naked." He flashed me the killer smile. "Although I wouldn't have minded finding you wet and naked."
"In your dreams."
"Yeah," Diesel said. "It's happened."
He stuck his head in my refrigerator and rooted around. Not a lot in there, but he found one last bottle of beer and some slices of American cheese. He ate the cheese and chugged the beer. "Are you still seeing that cop?"
"Joe Morelli. Yep."
"What about the guy behind door number two?"
"Ranger? Yeah, I'm still working with Ranger." Ranger was my bounty hunter mentor and more. Problem was, the more part wasn't clearly defined.
I heard a snort and a questioning woof from the vicinity of my bedroom.
"What's that?" Diesel asked.
"Morelli's working double shifts, and I'm taking care of his dog, Bob."
There was the sound of dog feet running, and Bob rounded a corner and slid to a stop on the kitchen linoleum. He was a big-footed, shaggy, orange-haired beast with floppy ears and happy brown eyes. Probably golden retriever, but he'd never win best of breed. He sat his ass down on Diesel's boot and wagged his tail at him.
Diesel absently fondled Bob's head, and Bob drooled a little on Diesel's pant leg, hoping for a scrap of cheese.
"Is this visit social or professional?" I asked Diesel.
"Professional. I'm looking for a guy named Bernie Beaner. I need to shut him down."
If I'm to believe Diesel, there are people on this planet who have abilities that go beyond what would be considered normal human limitations. These people aren't exactly superheroes. It's more that they're ordinary souls with the freakish ability to levitate a cow or slow-pitch a lightning bolt. Some are good and some are bad. Diesel tracks the bad. The alternative explanation for Diesel is that he's a wacko.
"What's Beaner's problem?" I asked.
Diesel dropped a small leftover chunk of cheese into Rex's cage and gave another chunk to Bob. "Gone off the edge. His marriage went into the shitter, and he blamed it on another Unmentionable. Now he's out to get her."
"That's what we call ourselves. It sounds better than freak of nature."
Only marginally.
Bob was pushing against Diesel, trying to get him to give up more cheese. Bob was about ninety pounds of rangy dog, and Diesel was two hundred of hard muscle. It would take a lot more than Bob to bulldoze Diesel around my kitchen.
"And you're in my apartment, why?" I asked Diesel.
"I need help."
"No. No, no, no, no, no."
"You have no choice, sweetie pie. The woman Beaner's looking for is on your most-wanted list. And she's in my custody. If you want your big-ticket bond, you have to help me."
"That's horrible. That's blackmail or bribery or something."
"Yeah. Deal with it."
"Who's the woman?" I asked Diesel.
"Annie Hart."
"You've gotta be kidding. Vinnie's on a rant over her. I spent all day yesterday looking for her. She's wanted for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon."
"It's all bogus… not that either of us gives a rats ass." Diesel was systematically going through my cupboards looking for food, and Bob was sticking close. "Anyway, bottom line is I've got her tucked away until I can sort things out with crazy Bernie."
"Bernie is the… um, Unmentionable who's after Annie?"
"Yeah. Problem is, Annie's one of those crusader types. Takes her job real serious. Says it's her calling. So, the only way I could get Annie to stay hidden was to promise her I'd take over her caseload. I suck at the kind of stuff she does, so I'm passing it off to you."
"And what do I get out of this?"
"You get Annie. As soon as I take care of Bernie, I'll turn Annie over to you."
"I don't see where this is a big favor to me. If I don't help you, Annie will come out of hiding, I'll snag her, and my job will be done."
Diesel had his thumbs hooked into his jeans pockets; his eyes were locked onto mine, his expression was serious. "What'll it take? I need help with this, and everyone has a price. What's yours? How about twenty bucks when you close a case?"
"A hundred, and nothing illegal or life-threatening."
"Deal," Diesel said.
Here's the sad truth, I had nothing better to do. And I needed money. The bonds office was beyond slow. I had one FTA to hunt down, and Diesel had her locked away.
"Just exactly what am I supposed to do?" I asked him. "Annie's bond agreement lists her occupation as a relationship expert."
Diesel gave a bark of laughter. "Relationship expert. I guess that could cover it."
"I don't even know what that means! What the heck is a relationship expert?"
Diesel had dropped a battered leather knapsack onto my counter when he popped into my kitchen. He went.to the knapsack, removed a large yellow envelope, and handed it over to me. "It's all in this envelope."
I opened the envelope and pulled out a bunch of folder
"She's got a condensed version for you clipped to the top folder," Diesel said. "Got everything prioritized. Says you better hustle because Valentine's Day is coming up fast."
"Personally, I don't get turned on by Valentine's Day, with the sappy cards and creepy cupids and the hearts-and-flowers routine. But Annie is to Valentine's Day what Santa Claus is to Christmas. She makes it happen. Of course, Annie operates on a smaller scale. It's not like she's got ten thousand elves working for her."
Diesel was a really sexy-looking guy, but I thought he might be one step away from permanent residence at the funny farm. "I still don't get my role in this."
"I just handed you five open files. It's up to you to make sure those five people have a good Valentine's Day."
Oh boy.
"Listen, I know it's lame," Diesel said, "but I'm stuck with it. And now you're stuck with it. And I'm going to have a power shortage if I don't get breakfast. So find me a diner. Then I'm going to do my thing and look for Bernie, and you're going to do your thing and work your way down Annie's list."
I clipped a leash onto Bob's collar and the three of us walked down the stairs and out to my car. I was driving a yellow Ford Escape that was good for hauling felons and Bob dogs.
"Does Bob go everywhere?" Diesel wanted to know.
"Pretty much. If I leave him at home, he gets lonely and eats the furniture."
Forty minutes later, Diesel was finishing up a mountain of scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes, home fries, and sourdough toast with jam… all smothered in maple syrup.
I'd ordered a similar breakfast but had to give up about a third of the way through. I pushed my plate away and asked that the food be put in a to-go box. I drank my coffee and thumbed through the first file. Charlene Klinger. Age forty-two. Divorced. Four children, ages seven, eight, ten, and twelve. Worked for the DMV. There was an unflattering snapshot of her squinting into the sun. She was wearing sneakers and slacks and a sweater than didn't do a lot to hide the fact that she was about twenty pounds overweight. Her face was pleasant enough. No makeup. Not a lot of hairstyle going on. Short brown hair pushed behind her ears. The smile looked tense, like she was making an effort, but she had bigger fish to fry than to pose for the picture.
There were four more pages in Charlene's file. Harvey Nolen, Brian Seabeam, Lonnie Brownowski, Steven Klein. REJECT had been written in red magic marker across each page. A sticky note had been attached to the back of the file, there's someone for everyone, the note read. I supposed this was Annie giving herself a pep talk. And a second sticky note below the first, find charlene's true LOVE. A mission statement.
I blew out a sigh and closed the file.
"Hey, it could be worse," Diesel said. "You could be hunting down a skip who thinks it's open season on bounty hunters. Unless you really piss her off, Charlene probably won't shoot at you."
"I don't know where to begin."
Diesel stood and threw some money on the table. "You'll figure it out. I'll check in with you later."
"Wait," I said. "About Annie Hart—"
"Later," Diesel said. And in three strides he was across the room and at the door. By the time I got to the lot, Diesel was nowhere to be seen. Fortunately, he hadn't commandeered my car. It was still in its parking space, Bob looking at me through the back window, somehow understanding that the Styrofoam box in my hand contained food for him.
The bail bonds office is a small storefront affair on Hamilton Avenue, just a ten-minute drive from the diner. I parked at the curb and pushed my way through the front door. Connie Rosolli, the office manager, looked up when I entered. Connie is a couple years older than me, a couple pounds heavier, a couple inches shorter, a lot more Italian, and consistently has a better manicure.
"You must be tuned in to the cosmic loop this morning," Connie said. "I was just about to call you. Vinnie's bananas over Annie Hart."
Vinnie's ferret face appeared in the doorway of his inner office. "Well?" he asked me.
"Well what?"
"Tell me you've got her locked up nice and neat. Tell me you've got a body receipt."
"I've got a lead," I told Vinnie.
"Only a lead?" Vinnie clapped his hands to his head. "You're killing me!"
Lula was on the faux leather couch, reading a magazine. "We should be so lucky," Lula said.
Lula is a 180-pound black woman crammed into a five-foot, five-inch body. At the moment, she was wearing a red skin-tight spandex T-shirt that said Kiss MY ass in iridescent gold lettering, jeans with rhinestones marching down side seams that looked like they might burst apart at any minute, and four-inch high-heeled boots. Lula does the office filing when she's in the mood, and she rides shotgun for me when I need backup.
"What's the lineup look like?" I asked Connie.
"Nothing new. Annie Hart is the only big bond in the wind. It's always slow at this time of the year. All the serious crackheads killed themselves over Christmas, and it's too cold for the hookers and pushers to stand on the street corners. The only good crime we've got going on is gang shooting, and those idiots get held without bond."
"It's so slow Vinnie's going on a cruise," Lula said.
"Yeah, and the cruise isn't cheap," Vinnie said. "So get your ass out there and find Annie Hart. I'm not running a goddamn charity here. I take a hit on Hart's bond, and I'll have to fake a stroke and cash in my cruise insurance. And Lucille wouldn't like that."
Lucille is Vinnie's wife. Her father is Harry the Hammer, and while Harry might understand about the need for the occasional illicit nooner, he definitely wouldn't be happy to see Lucille get stiffed on the cruise.
"It's one of them champagne Valentine's Day cruises," Vinnie said. "Lucille's got her bags packed already. She thinks this is going to rejuvenate our marriage."
"Only way it'll rejuvenate your marriage is if Lucille brings handcuffs and a whip and Mary's little lamb," Lula said.
"So sue me," Vinnie said. "I've got eclectic tastes."
We all did a lot of eye rolling.
"I'm out of here," I told Connie. "I'll be on my cell if you need me."
"I'm going with you," Lula said, grabbing her Prada knockoff shoulder bag. "I'm feeling lucky today. I bet I could find Annie Hart right off."
"Thanks," I said to Lula, "but I can handle it."
"The hell," Lula said. "Suppose you gotta go into some cranky neighborhood, and you need some muscle. That would be me. Or suppose you need to make a doughnut choice at that new place on State Street. That would be me, too."
I cut my eyes to Lula. "So what you're saying is that you want to test-drive the new doughnut shop on State?"
"Yeah," Lula said. "But only if you need a doughnut real bad."
Fifteen minutes later, I cruised away from Donut Delish and headed for the DMV
"I can't believe you're not eating any of these doughnuts," Lula said, a bag of doughnuts resting on her lap. "These are first class. Look at this one with the pink and yellow sprinkles on it. It's just about the happiest doughnut I ever saw."
Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich / Mystery & Detective / Humor / Romance & Love have rating 4 out of 5 / Based on32 votes


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Change it to what? If you want to disable it it is *73. If you want to forward to a new number is is *72 then dial the number. When it rings pick it up and it will be activated.
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Morgxn shares video for "XX"
Morgxn's released a sultry new video for his single "xx". The visuals take viewers through a dimly lit, sensual, high-energy dance party as morgxn's smooth falsetto fills the room. The video was directed by MOSES, who also worked with Morgxn on his "home" video.
Los Angeles-based artist Morgxn will hit the road later this year, opening for Phoebe Ryan. The run will be hitting stops along the east coast in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Toronto, and more before heading to the west coast for shows in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Morgxn's journey began with his earliest musical memories are singing with his mom. "I could hold melodies before I could talk," he says. By age six, Morgxn was a "small, chubby Jewish kid dominating the gospel choir" (as he puts it). At age nine, he began taking voice and piano lessons and writing songs. After college, he made his way to New York City where he dabbled in theatre. "Theater unlocked my sense of empathy," Morgxn says. "I could see myself in the characters I was playing, but when you tell someone else's story for so long, you start to lose your own."
Watch the video for "XX" below!
Catch Morgxn in a city near you
*supporting Phoebe Ryan
Fri 09.01 – Anaheim, CA @ The Parish at HOB Live Nation's Ones to Watch
Sun 09.03 – Nashville, TN @ Nashville Block Pride Party Fest
Tue 10.06 – Indianapolis, IN @ Fountain Square Music Fest
Wed 11.01 – New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
Thu 11.02 – Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall *
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Sun 11.05 – Toronto, ON @ The Horseshoe Tavern *
Mon 11.06 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
Tue 11.07 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry *
Fri 11.10 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater *
Sat 11.11 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza *
Mon 11.13 – San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Music Hall *
Tue 11.14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex *
Fri 11.17 – Las Vegas, NV @ Emerge Festival
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Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' Beats Vevo Record
Kudos to that incessant promo campaign, Taylor Swift, because it obviously worked.
Taylor's "Bad Blood" music video -- you know, the one that has a million celebrity cameos, probably spent the entirety of its budget on pyrotechnics and CGI and sees Selena Gomez in a suspiciously Katy-Perry-esque black wig -- officially holds the new Vevo record for most views in a single day. In just under 24 hours the video reportedly racked up 20.1 million views, beating out Nicki Minaj's previous record of 19.6 million views for her bootylicious music video "Anaconda."
As soon as Taylor found out the news, she launched into gratitude mode making sure to tag all of her famous friends involved in the video in a series of tweets. As we've observed in the past, it seems the more famous you are the less likely it is you'll have your friends' phone numbers. Twitter is truly an important form of communication.
We're mostly kidding -- Taylor has never been one to shy away from her emotions publicly. She's built her entire career on communicating those surface-level feelings to her audience, and we're eternally grateful for that fact. So it only makes sense that she would immediately run to Twitter to talk about breaking a record of this magnitude. Admittedly, we'd do the same -- probably with significantly less humility, but that's a problem we need to sort through about ourselves, you know?
Following the release of her pop masterpiece 1989, Taylor's broken a boatload of records, so this latest one should come to no surprise to anyone -- especially when you take into account just how much promo went into it. No one can deny the girl knows how to hustle -- and the numbers are proof of that. Congrats, Taylor, may you continue down this dark(er) path that started with "Blank Space." We're ready.
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Love Story 3
Malcolm Le Grice1972 10mins Colour Film performance
A person walks backwards and forwards across two white screens casting a shadow, later his actual shadow is joined by pre-filmed shadows performing the same actions.
Gradually the actions within the film deviate from what is directly possible for the shadow cast by the person in real TIME/SPACE, but the two 'realities' are kept closely relatable as references to each other. M.L.G. 'Real Time/Space', Art and Artists, Dec 1972.
Formal exploration of the time space situation of the movement of a real person across two screens.. The delay between screens of the shadow, based on the distance apart of the projection lights..build up of expectancy of re-appearance of the shadow..flicker in places makes perceptual white shadow..interplay of real shadow with same actions of filmed shadow..edited to construct new time space expectancy..M.L.G


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Low-fat Christmas pavlova
The tastiest Christmas wreath you are ever likely to meet. Plus it has less sugar than most meringues meaning you can have your wreath and eat it too.
- 5 medium free-range egg whites
- 150g/5½oz caster sugar
- 250g/9oz low-fat natural yoghurt
- 1 orange, finely grated zest and 1 tbsp juice
- drop of almond extract
- pinch cinnamon
- 200g/7oz raspberries
- 50g/1¾oz flaked almonds, toasted
- 1 square of dark chocolate
Preheat the oven to 120C/100C Fan/Gas ½. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
Whisk the egg whites in a clean glass bowl until soft peaks form. Add the sugar a teaspoon at a time and continue to whisk until you have stiff peaks and the meringue looks glossy.
Arrange 8 large spoonfuls of the mixture in a circle on the prepared tray in a ring to form a wreath. Bake for 30 minutes, then reduce the oven to 110C/90C Fan/Gas ¼ and bake for another 1½ hours.
Turn off the oven, leave the door ajar and leave until the meringues are cold.
Just before serving, make the topping. Mix together the yoghurt, orange zest and juice, almond extract and cinnamon.
Top the meringue with the yoghurt mixture and then scatter over the raspberries and almonds. Finely grate over the chocolate and serve.
Recipe Tips
Transform leftover egg yolks into tasty custard.


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Preparation for starting with BAPP
Monday, 23 December 2013
3 comments:
Great post.
I think it's hard to know when you should 'stick to your guns' about something that you personally feel is important and when to make changes to create a more academically acceptable or presentable assignment.
Paula is my tutor and she has been so helpful with what you describe as the 'academic conventions' - my citations skills were sorely lacking in Module 2 so I have asked her many questions so as to get it right - not for the sake of it but from my desire to develop my skills.
Her discussions with me about flow, order and presentation have also given me opportunity to organise my thoughts in a more accessible and logical way, yet they are still my thoughts.
I blogged a little while ago about a little talk I had with myself about how I should stop trying to be clever and just tell my story. In trying to 'impress' I was in danger of losing the honesty and ethos of my inquiry. In taking that advice seriously I feel I have now spoken from the heart in my report (with my head to guide me, obviously!) and finally found my voice!
Wishing you a happy Christmas.
What you say about honesty and just telling the story really resonates with me. It takes time to find your voice rather than the voice of the person you think someone studying 'should' have.ReplyDelete
I think when I was trying to write what I thought people wanted to read, I was actually writing rubbish, and then since then, so for module two and hopefully module three where I've been writing about reality and what really been going on and what I think about it all, it seems to be working out a lot better. Its just about remembering that, so its such a relevant post!ReplyDelete


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December dawns with ice thick on the trees and my breath freezing on the scarf around my neck as I walk the trail out behind the house.
I don't know how many footsteps I've taken over the past 4 months, walking the field behind us, but I still can't get my fill of the horizon that stretches out long before me.
This past week, my footsteps were the first to mark the snow-covered path, and even with earbuds in and my dog in front of me, that pristine covering felt lonely and isolated – the longing to know that someone out there had walked ahead of me pressed in close.
The sun was already sinking as I headed back to warmth at 3:45 this afternoon, and as my feet moved swiftly south, I smiled at the hard packed snow underneath me, at those who passed me as our dogs greeted one another.
The path may appear "less traveled" at times, but it isn't; and the footsteps of the faithful who have gone before us can help us find a sure footing for our own.
This first Sunday of Advent points towards Hope – and as I prepared the memory verse file for the Month of December, I found it fitting that the verses for this first week point our thoughts here.
The Hebrew word for hope in Psalm 119:49 is yachal and it points to the action of waiting; by implication, to be patient, hope:—(cause to, have, make to) hope, be pained, stay, tarry, trust, wait.
This whole season of moving to Canada has been marked by this – and while there has been much rest and healing, there has also been much wrestling on my part, a fight to surrender my expectations, hopes and fear at the unknown what's next?
I was surprised to see another verse that uses yachal is Genesis 8:12,
Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.
For months Noah and his family were held together in the ark, not knowing where they would land, or when.
Over and over again he was called to wait, to tarry, to be patient, confined in a floating boat with 7 other people and restless animals – and it's *this* word, waited, that paints understanding to the word hope.
You may find yourself in a similar position on this first day of December, as Advent unfurls before us, as our hearts long for Emmanuel to return to us to make all things right.
I think of Noah looking towards the sky, waiting for the dove to return, a hope rising that land was appearing and soon the ground beneath his feet would feel solid and firm. But his hope wasn't in the landing place, it was in his Creator who had rescued him in such a tangible, tender way.
In this season of much stress and busyness, maybe you would like to join in with a small group of us memorizing the words of Psalm 119 together. You can begin right now, or start at the beginning – I'll include links below this post. Let's use our seasons of waiting to focus on Jesus and and let the hope we find in Him transform us in the stillness.
If we are bent on a mad tear through life, God will allow us that liberty, but He will not tear madly about with us. he will wait for us until we quiet down and wait on Him. Sometimes we are not interested in quietness until things have suddenly fallen apart or come to a screeching halt, and then, in the ensuing silence we know that we cannot cure our evils and neither is God going to cure them. What He has been waiting for is our attention, our eyes turned to Him who is the very Life of All Ages, the Light that our darkness can never overcome, Christ Himself, with us, in us, suffering, loving, and transforming us into the same image.The Music of His Promises pg. 13-14
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Lord Jesus, thank you for being our hope. Thank you that the waiting, through long and at times painful, can draw us closer to you, can transform our stubborn hearts into ones that bow low before you in trust and surrender. Thank you that *You* are our hope and that "this is the comfort in [our] affliction, that your promise gives [us] life." Amen.
Psalm 119 links:
December ~ https://www.dropbox.com/s/te1a7tl0383fc5c/december2019psalm119.docx?dl=0
November – Review
October ~ https://www.dropbox.com/s/l7gkwaq5n23ksfn/October%20memory.docx?dl=0
September ~ https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5h6uhfhk073xdx/SeptemberPs119.docx?dl=0
August ~ https://www.dropbox.com/s/3kgrkhzjrkhkwea/Psalm119AugustMemory.pdf?dl=0
July ~ https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6qtlcrs7atook0/julypsalm119mem.pdf?dl=0
June ~ https://www.dropbox.com/s/q82mbe4iym4ftik/Junememorycards.pdf?dl=0
May ~ https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5vcfiy8ubzsdrd/mt4spsalm119may.pdf?dl=0


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Empired has admitted a disappointing start to the 2016 financial year, reporting a $3.7 million loss for the six months ending 31 December after last year's $4.8 million profit.
The national solution provider's results were impacted by a restructure to the Australian sales team costing $4.1 million, delays in commencement of new contracts costing $1.1 million and a once-off plant and equipment write-down of $2.3 million after consolidating nine offices to three.
Empired chief executive Russell Baskerville said: "Whilst we are disappointed with first-half trading results, they are largely a result of integration-related activities."
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Boeng Toal Vulture Restaurant is located in remote forest, within the Chhep Wildlife Sanctuary, 15kms from the nearby village Dangphlet, in Preah Vihear Province. The Vulture Restaurant is a feeding program set up by the Cambodian government and conservation NGOs, to help sustain 3 critically endangered species of vultures – Red-headed Vulture, White-rumped Vulture and Slender-billed Vulture.
There has been a drastic decline in vulture numbers, mainly due to Diclofenac poisoning. While in Cambodia, these populations are also threatened by a lack of food. Joining this tour offsets the cost of running the 'vulture restaurant' and includes the local community in the efforts to save these impressive birds.


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_block_master187 posted a topic in ProgramsMy Robot AI uses blocks beneath the robot to identifiy a path to move along. Everything is said in the script. Here is the pastebin: https://pastebin.com/zKiLgp0N pastebin get zKiLgp0N It uses robot inventory slots to compare the path blocks. --[[ Ok so heres how this works. You must place the control blocks in robot slots 1-5. 1: Forward, 2: Right, 3: Left, 4: Up, 5: Down. ]]-- local robot = require("robot") while true do robot.select(1) if robot.compareDown() == true then robot.forward() end robot.select(2) if robot.compareDown() == true then robot.turnRight() robot.forward() end robot.select(3) if robot.compareDown() == true then robot.turnLeft() robot.forward() end robot.select(4) if robot.compareDown() == true then robot.up() robot.forward() end robot.select(5) if robot.compareDown() == true then robot.forward() robot.down() end end
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Okay so I went to the root directory first.. cd / Then I did edit /autorun.lua THEN I pasted in the code for the program.. After that, I saved it then rebooted my computer. When it booted OpenOS, I was expecting the program to kick in and ask me for a password but it didn't. It just did what it normally does and took me to the shell. Did I do something wrong?
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_block_master187 posted a topic in LoungeI think that the OC team should add like, a format command or something. That will format the currently mounted/booted drive. I made something like this, I turned it from a virus to a formatting tool. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ My SecuriWipe program is a program to securely and safely wipe your computer, format the drive, and flash your EEPROM. It leaves NO file behind and is easy to run! WARNING: SecuriWipe deletes ALL FILES on the drive run on! SecuriWipe will FLASH YOUR BIOS, AND RENDER THE COMPUTER UNABLE TO BE OPERATED UNTIL THE EEPROM IS REPLACED AND HAS A NEW FLOPPY DISK/HARD DISK. If you do not feel comfortable with the above method, there is an ALTERNATIVE! The alternative method will only delete files off the drive, leaving the EEPROM to work. You will need to insert a new floppy disk into your computer and reinstall OpenOS to it. To use method 1 of SecuriWipe, run this command in the shell: pastebin get Yc6sv6uQ SecuriWipe;SecuriWipe To use method 2 of SecuriWipe, run THIS command in the shell: pastebin get 3NJj9aSJ SecuriWipe;SecuriWipe ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ It SHOULDN'T delete anything it's not supposed to, have a look at the Pastebin. I need people to try this out so I can submit it to OPPM. I wouldn't reccomend doing this on a survival computer, unless you really need it wiped. Thanks!


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ArrayComm, LLC., headquartered in Grand Forks, North Dakota with an R&D center in Chengdu, China, was founded in 1992. The company has become the world leader in physical layer software (PHY) and multi-antenna signal processing (MAS) for 4G (LTE/LTE-A, Cat-M and NB-IoT) and 5G wireless communication systems. ArrayComm BasePortTM 4G/5G PHY has high performance and efficiency, as well as reliability. Together with ArrayComm's rich experiences providing system integration and validation to services to customers, ArrayComm's BasePortTM PHY, the ArrayComm A-MASTM software provides excellent performance enhancements with advanced algorithms using multiple antennas.
Today, ArrayComm BasePortTM PHY software is deployed in the USA, Japan, China, Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East. Besides enhancing the base station's capacity, coverage and reliability, the A-MASTM software also offers system improvement when embedded in handsets and other client devices. ArrayComm's software is licensed to numerous companies including Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi and Motorola.
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A Sitka teen whose artistic skills were recognized over the weekend will soon see her talent flying Alaska's skies. Sitka High Junior Hannah Hamburg won the Grand Prize in the Alaska Airlines "Paint the Plane" competition, open to all Alaskans in grades K-12. Hamburg's winning design was unveiled Saturday as part of Alaska's 50th anniversary statehood celebration in Anchorage and will adorn an Alaska Airlines 737 sometime this year.
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From the beginning of this project the cabinet company made good on everything they said. One thing I didn't believe was going to happen was that this would be finished before Thanksgiving even though they scheduled to come out Thanksgiving day. They did better and the installers went into the late night so this was done before. Cabinet City is who I would recommend anyone wanting to do a remodel to go and get some prices.
The afternoon before they were coming with the quartz counters, while the cabinets were being finished up, I was told there may be a problem. The island slab and the slab on the other side did not match exactly. It was enough that if the slabs were connected they wouldn't do it. But since the island is separate I would need to give the go ahead over the phone or go out to see this for myself. The issue turned out to be the port strike holding up containers at the dock. I like to ask a lot of questions so I got the full story. How much they were losing each day, how all companies in the area have the same problem, and how they can't do anything about it. Having to pay for the containers to sit at the dock sounds awful and the woman helping me wasn't too happy. She also mentioned that is why their warehouse looked so bare compared to normal.
I learned more than I needed to while I waited for them to lift both pieces next to each other in the sunlight. Honestly from this picture I had to ask what was the difference. I had a smile while asking this since I knew this wasn't going to be a problem. The island side quartz slab was slightly lighter and no one I have asked that doesn't know can tell me the difference. I was prepared for the worst case and thought here we go this could delay everything by months. Yes this quartz is perfect for us and the style we are going in the little 1930's house. Just enough contemporary with neutral colors. Though some marble I saw was making me second guess the quartz. Go look up marble versus granite versus quartz for why we didn't mind paying more for quartz. I gave the go ahead and was happy this didn't hinder the finish date.
That farm sink I keep talking about is that much closer to be installed. New plywood is leveling out the soon to go on quartz counters.
The larger island on top of the pony wall works better than I expected. Everyone who knew what we were doing said put a little bar sitting area. But there is not enough room to do this unless you use tiny little staged table for the eating area. This little house is actually little. But this small overhand would allow for backless barstools to work. Somehow we got what I thought wouldn't be possible. We used the island slab completely.
And yes the dreaded cut the quartz slabs in the backyard. Except if you come into the kitchen all the cuts look nice and straight. Funny how the internet myths go. Maybe skill is involved in cutting a straight line? I don't know, but they did it.
This is the first time I saw our stainless steel sink out of the box. What a beauty. Look at how huge it is. And big enough to put more than a baby in to bathe. I am not a fan of double sinks, give me a huge sink anytime. Please!
Last picture before the sink goes in. What was that? Sink sink sink!
I don't know why negative reveal or undermount sinks are so trendy, when you can have a zero reveal or flush mount sink. You get the best of both worlds. The only negative that I can find is that not every installer will do this. Look at that beautiful quartz.
The island side shows the new pantry. I was trying to figure out do we continue the full grey backsplash over or use the 6″ quartz. I think the quartz made more sense. We already had the electrician move the outlets far enough above to not get in the way of the 6″ area. The primered area is where the landline used to come into the house. Go away landline don't come back ever again. I wish I could find a faceplate that has only ethernet so I could get rid of the gold coax connection, but once again first world problems.
Working from home I was trying to not get in the way. As I got engulfed in one of our grading plans, I looked at the clock and saw 10pm. I thought why are they still here and went out to check on the progress. This is what I was greeted to. They worked until they finished the backsplash. Amazing. Quartz counters and backsplash installed in one day!
Another view showing how the window ledge looks.
Another view showing that I need to level the refrigerator.
After they left I had to place the VIGO VG02007STK2 PullDown Kitchen Spray Faucet in Steel temporarily to see how everything looks.
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What Can You Do with a Finance Degree?Career Paths & Salaries for Students & Graduates
One of the most appealing features of earning a degree in finance is its flexibility and usefulness in the competitive job market. When you think of finance-related careers and successful professionals in the field, the cliche "they must be good with numbers" comes to mind. While that is true, finance professionals also have other valuable skills that translate to a number of career options. From budget analysts and insurance underwriters to entrepreneurs and real estate agents, the skills you obtain from a finance degree are useful and in-demand across many industries.
If you're considering a career in finance, this guide can help you navigate prospective career paths. It also includes advice from Professor Alexander Lowry, a modern educator and professional in the finance field, on career moves, first steps into the field, standing out in the job market, and getting the most out of your finance degree.


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And you thought you had heard it all. This is a perfect example of video/media influence, and it doesn't come from MTV, VH1, or any major network. Once again, a bit of YouTube monkey business has garnished enough attention to draw in serious recognition to a band that might have otherwise been lost in a myriad of Independent Musicians, who struggle for more promotion.
It's been assumed by many, that in order to succeed as an Independent act, you would need to be able to hone right in on a crowd that was either relevant to your musical tastes, or relevant to your local area. While such targeted promotion might often be correct, Da' Zoo showed the world that it was not the only way to achieve widespread recognition and Billboard rankings.
First of all, lets address the issue that may be at hand when a reader takes a glimpse of the title. For quite a while it has been noted and proven that sex sells. I'm not talking about prostitution on the street, or anything that Senator Craig would have taken a strong opposition to. I'm referring to the countless albums of women dressed scantily on album cover art, or dressed with no clothes at all. A perfect example would be the 1976 release of The Scorpian's album, entitled "Virgin Killers", which we tactfully decided not to post the artwork of (hey, there is some morality here). The list continues on and on. Jimi Hendrix released Electric Ladyland in 1968, which showed several nude woman on the cover. In 1978, Queen released Fat Bottom Girls, which came with a full length insert of naked women preparing for a bicycle race.
Even at sites such as Music Forte, which was once dedicated to Independent Music, the same strategy among artists existed as they competed for higher sales. It's a hit-or-miss situation and it isn't always directed to the interests of men. While many may be turned off by the "cheap" and "distasteful" promotion for extra dollars, it may be money in the bank for customers who need some eye candy. Having said that, it's important to remember that "There Is No Such Thing As Bad Press".
Da' Zoo had taken a slightly different approach, and while it may at first seem to trump any sexual references that have appeared in past artist promotions, it is not as bad as it sounds. Their biggest success came from YouTube. Almost every serious artist in the world has worked their way into YouTube to promote their music videos. Some artists have collected thousands of fans and subscriptions along the way. But in order to make it to the top, you have to be amazing and quick about it, but most importantly, you need to be creative. There is no better way to accomplish that than with a viral video.
Don't get me wrong, when I say "viral", there is no reference to sexuality or STDs. Nor does "viral" have anything to do with computer viruses that are often used for malicious promotion. A viral video, is a safe promotional tactic. It is a video that is so interesting, humorous, amazing, or heartwarming, that it creates an instant buzz. Some past examples of YouTube sensations include music by Sick Puppies in their, "Free Hugs" video. This uplifting feature brought the word to tears, and an incredible amount of attention to the music that accompanied the presentation.
Viral videos helped get the word out to younger audiences when will.i.am released, "Yes, We Can", supporting (at the time) Presidential Candidate, Barrack Obama, along the campaign trail.
So who is Da' Zoo, and what have they done that is such a sensation? You may not have heard of them before. Da' Zoo is a Puerto Rican band, with 96% of their sales coming from Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. According to Nielson Sound Scan, they had sold fewer than 1,000 albums in the release of their debut album during the first week. Ruben Leyva, managing director of U.S. Latin at Sony Music Entertainment reports, "It's hard to pitch a new artist when you have no story to tell… Now, more often than not, we're getting, 'Yeah, we've heard of them.'"
And while this is surely good news for Sony, it must be even more exciting news for Da' Zoo, who has recently landed additional sponsorship with Coors, and a chain of trade schools, that now feature the artist's music, by featuring Da' Zoo in it's advertising.
But just how raunchy is it? How low did they have to sink in order to gather so many views in such a short time? And who wants to watch Chimpanzee sex anyhow? That is one of the few reasons I want to stay away from monkey exhibitionists when I take my kids to the zoo (the other would be poo-flinging). The answer to the question is simple. While the title may raise eyebrows, the video relies on good ol' fashion humor that can be understood no matter which language you speak.
Congratulations to Da' Zoo for finding away to expose their music around the world with monkey chuckles and for not exposing anything else!


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Thank heaven for little girls……..for they grew up and gave us what is known today as the 'Girl Group Sound'. Phil Spector was one of the early pioneers of recording girl groups such as The Ronettes and The Crystals. But before him there was the Shirelles which some say was the girl group that started the girl group sound phenomenon. About the same time though we had the Bobbettes and the Chordettes. Both these groups started recording before the Shirelles but didn't have quite the success as the Shirelles so they get much of the credit for the sound see here now.
Let's spend some time this month listening to the 'girl group sound'. After the success of the Shirelles and then Spector's recordings, girl groups popped up all across the country and they were very successful. Along with the top 40 hits there are plenty of recordings that were local hits and some great sounds that didn't get any air play. Come and hear some fun music as we go back to beginning and the era of the girl groups. Bring some of your own to play if you want to.
Another year has flown by and we all feel a little older. Hearing about the passing of many of our music heroes makes us feel that much older. I don't usually spend much time on the sad news of deaths but I thought I would list some of the guys and gals who passed away in 2018 that were part of a long gone era of fun music and an era of music that people who grew up during that time call the greatest music of all time. It's only natural that people will say the music they grew up listening to is the best. So here we go. Thanks to all the people who provided us with that era of music and now we say a big 'thanks for the memories' to these who are no longer with us.
D.J. Fontana: March 15, 1931 – June 13, 2018. Was the drummer for Elvis for 15 years beginning in 1954. Played on over 450 RCA cuts with Elvis. Was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 2009 and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (sidemen category) in 2018.
Floyd 'Nokie' Edwards: May 9, 1935 – March 12, 2018. Was the lead guitar player for the Ventures from 1960-68, 1972-1985. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Ventures in 2008.
Tony Joe White: July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018. Singer/songwriter. Compositions include 'Polk Salad Annie' and 'Rainy Night In Georgia'.
Marty Balin: January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018. Singer/songwriter/musician. Formed Jefferson Airplane. Was lead singer along with Grace Slick for Airplane and later Jefferson Starship. With the group when they performed at Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, and the Altamont Free Concert.
Ray Thomas: December 29, 1941 – January 4, 2018. Musician/singer/songwriter and co-founder of the Moody Blues. His flute solo on the band's hit, 'Nights In White Satin' has been called one of progressive rock's defining moments. Inducted posthumously with the Moody Blues into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Ed King: September 14, 1949 – August 22, 2018. Guitarist/bassist who was with the Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Started as bassist for Skynyrd until the former bassist rejoined thus creating a 3 lead-guitar band which the band referred to as the 'Three Guitar Army'. Co-writer of 'Sweet Home Alabama'. Ed and all the pre-plane crash members were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
Danny Kirwan: May 13, 1950 – June 8, 2018. Guitarist who was with what is known as Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac from 1968-1972. This was when the band was a blues band and before a split and the uniting with Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to form today's Fleetwood Mac. Check out swipe n clean.
Aretha Franklin: March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018. Singer/songwriter/musician. The 'Queen of Soul' who had 112 charted singles which include 20 number-one R&B singles. In 1987 she became the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone Magazine ranks her as the number one on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time'.
Dennis Edwards: February 3, 1943 – February 1, 2018. R&B/Soul singer who was with such groups as the Contours and the Temptations. Sang with the Temptations on the hits "Cloud Nine", 'I Can't Get Next To You', 'Ball of Confusion', and 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone'. In 1989 he was inducted as a member of the Temptations into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Dennis was born in Fairfield, Alabama moving to Detroit with his family when he was 10.
Edwin Hawkins: August 19, 1943 – January 15, 2018. Musician/singer. Leader of the Edwin Hawkins Singers who had a major hit in 1969 with their recording of 'Oh Happy Day'. The song was an 18th century hymn that Hawkins put his own arrangement on. The song was put on the RIAA's 'Songs of the Century list. The group also did the backing vocals on Melanie's 'Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)'.
Clarence Fountain: November 28, 1929 – June 3, 2018. Original member of The Blind Boys of Alabama. The group was formed in 1939 as the school chorus of the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in Talladega, Alabama. The group is a Five-time Grammy Award winners and were inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of fame in 2010.
Barbara Alston: December 29, 1943 – February 16, 2018. Singer with The Crystals. One of the defining groups of the 'girl group era', The Crystals had 8 songs that made the Hot 100 over a 4 year period.
Yvonne Staples: October 23, 1937 – April 10, 2018. Singer with The Staple Singers. Yvonne served as a backup singer and business manager for the group. The Staple Singers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and a Life-time Achievement Award at the 2005 Grammy's.
Roy Clark: April 15, 1933 – November 15, 2018. Musician/singer. Served as host of Hee Haw from 1969-1997. Known world-wide as a guitarist, fiddler, and banjo player. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. He had 8 charted songs on the C/W charts.
Freddie Hart: December 26, 1926 – October 27, 2018. C/W Singer. Had the Country Music Association song of the year in 1971-72 with # 1 C/W & Pop Chart hit, 'Easy Loving'. He had five other C/W # 1 songs. At age 15 he lied about his age to join the Marines and would go on to see combat action at both Iowa Jima and Guam. Freddie was born in Loachapoka, Alabama. His given name was Frederick Segrest.
Lazy Lester: June 20, 1933 – August 22, 2018. Blues singer and musician. Had some of the best remembered blues songs such as 'I'm A Lover Not A Fighter', 'Sugar Coated Love', and 'I Hear You Knocking'. Though none of these made any of the charts nationally they were well known around Birmingham and the southeast. Born Leslie Johnson, he was given the name Lazy Lester for his laconic laid-back style by Excello Label producer, Jay Miller.
Received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 by the Boston Blues Society. In 2018 he was seen in a Geico tax preparation commercial playing the harmonica.
Matt 'Guitar' Murphy: December 29, 1929 – June 15, 2018. Blues guitarist. Moved to Chicago in 1948 and was with the Howlin' Wolf band in 1949. Later worked with Little Junior Parker and Ike Turner. Would record and perform with the Blues Brothers from 1980 – early 2000's. Part of the Blues brothers Band in the movie.
Rick Hall: January 31, 1932 – January 2, 2018. Record producer, songwriter Founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Known for recording some of the best soul sounds of the 1960's. Performers such as Arthur Alexander, Etta James, Percy Sledge, Aretha Franklin, Duane Allman, Clarence Carter, Candi Staton, Wilson Pickett, Tommy Roe, Joe Tex, The Tams, and Jimmy Hughes. Later, acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Osmonds, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, Tim McGraw, and the Dixie Chicks would record with Rick. In 2014 he received the Grammy Trustee Award for his contribution to the field of recording. Received an honorary doctorate from University of North Alabama.
Ray Sawyer: February 1, 1937 – December 31, 2018. Singer. Ray was Dr. Hook of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. 'The Cover of the Rolling Stone', 'Sylvia's Mother', 'When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman' and many more hits made the group one of 1970's most popular group in both the pop and C/W charts. Ray was born in Chickasaw, Alabama. He had at least two recordings released as a solo artist in 1960-61 on the Sandy label out of Mobile, Alabama.
So many others left us also in 2018 such as Eddie Willis – 82 (Funk Brothers Guitarist), Otis Rush – 84 (blues guitarist/singer), Hugh Masekela – 78 (jazz trumpeter had $# 1 hit with 'Grazing in the Grass'). Thanks to all these who gave us many good, fun memories of the music we remember.
Don't forget to check out all the new internet radio shows the club has on its website. Go to http://www.birminghamrecord.com/brc/ and click on 'RADIO'. New shows added weekly..
The Beattle-ettes (1964)
'Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)'
The Shangri-Las (# 5, 1964)
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My boyfriend & I have been living together for six years. We have a one year old son together, and he has a 10 year old daughter from his prior marriage. After our first couple of years together, during which we were very passionate about one another and very sexually active, our sex life seemed to deteriorate very quickly--long before our son was conceived. He no longer seems to be interested in sex. It is rare for him not to push me away when I make advances. I am 33, he is 40. He's made excuses about his age, that he's tired, doesn't feel well, doesn't feel like it; he's even said that relationships don't remain as they begin (duh!) and that's the reason for his decreased interest. I've heard it all. This has effected me in so many ways. I have become very resentful toward him for this and other reasons, so much so that at times, I feel like I hate him. I have become numb to him to avoid the pain of the constant rejection; making advances to him is now sort of a joke to me. I don't even know why I do it. I feel sexually dead, I blame him entirely and I despise him for making things this way and giving me no reasonable explanation for it all. I have wondered if he's cheating on me, if he's gay, if he just doesn't love me anymore. You name it, I've wondered it. I've tried to talk with him about it, and nothing I say changes anything. I've asked him to see a doctor about it, perhaps get on medication for it, he all but refuses. It seems he doesn't care how I feel or about my needs as a human being. I often lay in bed next to him and I can't even face him without crying; I roll over and try to go to sleep hugging the edge of the bed, wishing he would just show me some genuine affection. When he does finally show me affection, which is very rare, I can't stand for him to touch me. He is the opposite of the person he presented to me when we moved in together. I admit I have gained some weight since then; I went from a size 10 to 12, then after the baby I've been a 14. I've wondered if that is the problem, but his ex-wife was bigger than I've ever been when he started dating her--she was always a "big" woman. On top of all this, he has a huge plastic tote packed to the gills with smut magazines and videos. Always has. We've had several major issues in the past over the sex sites he's visited on the Internet. He would tell me he's too tired to have sex, I would fall asleep, then wake up hours later to find him viewing these sites on the internet. There is so much more to the story, but I don't want to impose. The bottom line is I'm desperate for our relationship to change, but I fear it never will and I will have to spend at least the next 20 years with this man for my son's sake. And I despise this man more and more every day. I have suppressed my emotions for him until they are all but dead. And what makes it all even worse is that, other than this issue, he's a good guy; works hard, good to his kids, helps around the house, love my parents, clean and neat, intelligent, basically lets me run the household and do as I please, rarely taking issue with anything. I really don't know what to do. Should I just shut up and put up with this? If I didn't say anything, it's entirely realistic to estimate we would have sex maybe once every two months, and it wouldn't necessarily show any great effort to be pleasing on his part at that. I just don't know what to do; I hope you can give me some suggestions.
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4643 4643_ () 4643 4643 The historic event of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI seems like as good a time as any to share with you the most regret-filled moment on our trip to Italy this summer. I haven't said anything about it because it was once of those moments that I lost sleep over, for consecutive nights, and weeks and weeks later, I could *almost* laugh about with Paul and Fr. Tim. Almost.
We were at dinner on the feast of Corpus Christi. June 7, 2012. Me, Paul, Fr. Tim. Paul and I had spent the day sightseeing in Rome and visiting numerous churches. We didn't have good luck that day, however, because two of the "major" churches were not accessible to us because the Holy Father would be there that evening to celebrate Corpus Christi. He was doing Benediction at one church and celebrating Mass at another.
That evening, as we were finishing up dinner, we heard helicopters overhead. As Fr. Tim is now a seasoned veteran of The Eternal City, he knew that would be people tracking the pope. We were having dinner near the Vatican and walked over to the back gate.
We waited a while, and it was fascinating. The crowd got bigger, but it was nice because while it was exciting, there wasn't that crush of humanity like the audience (which was also amazing).
We stood there, watching and taking it all in. It was just one of those wonderful spans of time where the three of us stood and chatted and laughed. We talked to a few people nearby, but mostly just passed the time being together.
Then the security started lining the street. Not too many, and the best part was there was this woman, probably in her early 50s, who (as it turns out) is head of security for the Holy Father when he is out and about. And she was awesome. I want to be her when I grow up. So do Paul and Tim.
Slowly, you got that feeling that he was about to arrive. You could hear the helicopters getting closer, you could sense the energy from everyone, those in charge and those wanting to see. I was standing on the curb, right on the street. And just like that, flashing lights rounded the corner. Security, motorcycles, official Mercedes' with official flags. I recorded it all with my phone (which takes amazing pictures and video). I recorded about five solid minutes.
Then you started hearing the clapping, and the cars really slowed down. There a few hundred feet up to my right, the Pope's big black sedan rounded the corner. People started clapping and cheering. And I…
switched my phone from video to camera.
And this was the shot I got:
I was so close to Pope Benedict I could practically count the white hairs on his sacred head. And I threw it all away for the hopes of a clear shot with a camera phone of a car moving past me at seven miles per hour.
The minute the motorcade passed, I switched the phone back to video and got a depressing three seconds of the tail end of the Mercedes pulling through the gates and out of sight. Just like that, I had missed my chance for a frameworthy picture.
It wasn't until later that Fr. Tim told me how I could have used an "image grab" to basically take a picture from the video I shot. How amazing that would have been!
This is an example of a screen grab from the video I shot, Awesome Security Woman.
Thinking back now, I guess I can (kind of) laugh about it. But I think what's funnier is just how depressed I was about my poor judgement at the time. Seriously, could not laugh about it. Not at all. 4643″> ,


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Interestingly enough, today I came across an article that was written before I wrote the first of my aforementioned links:
The writer, Chelsea Fagan, wrote about her experience of being "friend zoned" and said that the concept is not something that only happens to men (in one of my posts, I did mention that men do reject women). I thought it was interesting - albeit saddening, of course - how Fagan discussed how she became attracted to a friend but the friend rejected her. While she said that those being rejected should not turn into jerks, I also found the following passage from her article fascinating:
"We should never take advantage (as can sometimes happen) of the person who is clearly devoted to us, using them as an ego-boost or exploiting them being at our beck and call. We shouldn't go out of our way to tell them all about our dating follies when we know that they have feelings for us and are doing their best to be respectful and a friend."
Fagan documented how her friend talked about his romantic life with her, in the full knowledge about how she felt towards him. Long story short, the friendship ultimately ended.
I haven't changed my thoughts about the friend zone: I think it doesn't exist, as I've explained before. Romantic rejection is a sad fact of life but it's not the end of the world. Someone else will come along and in the meantime, it is possible for a friendship to survive - even become a better, stronger friendship - when one person has rejected another. It is upsetting it couldn't happen in Fagan's case.


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I spent a good couple of weekends last month playing alien-busting strategy sequel XCOM 2. I enjoyed a lot of my time with the game, but it also frustrated me a bunch of times as well – in particular, it frustrated me in a lot of ways that Invisible Inc, Klei's 2015 sneaky masterpiece, didn't. After completing my XCOM 2 campaign and going back to Invisible Inc for a bit of mulling, I think I've come to some conclusions about an important way the two games differ, and how it reveals subtle problems with how procedural generation interacts with other game systems. I want to tell you why I think Invisible Inc structures itself better around procedural content and why I think it's important (and why my opinion might not matter, too).
XCOM 2 and Invisible Inc both use generated content to provide a dynamic and shifting set of challenges for the player. Their strategic level is generated, with different missions made available to choose from. The missions themselves have generated layouts with procedural arrangements of enemies, cover, spaces, loot and objectives. There are also opportunities to upgrade your squads which are partly dependent on random elements – only certain items might be available at any one time in Invisible Inc, while XCOM 2 randomises the results of some kinds of research and restricts expansion through randomised resource dumps. On paper, they follow very similar patterns, and then add a layer a fixed set of tactical interactions so the player is always solving the same kinds of problem, but usually in completely new or previously unseen configurations.
I think it's important to distinguish between 'random generation', which is a term we sometimes use incorrectly, from 'procedural generation'. The former implies a certain kind of blindness that usually isn't actually true in games. When a rookie levels up in XCOM 2 it's probably a fair dice roll to decide what class they become. But a lot of generative processes in games follow very strict rules instead of dice rolls – that's why we call them procedural (they follow a procedure). Invisible Inc never places cameras in the starting room, for example, and XCOM 2 always puts a squad of aliens covering black site objectives. Even the combat dice rolls in XCOM 2 aren't entirely random – they're juiced to suit the situation, reducing hit chances for aliens if they get too lucky.
On the face of it, both games have the same unpredictability, and the same potential to cause frustration. Invisible Inc has generated me levels with impassable choke points and perfectly overlapping guard patrols. XCOM 2 has overlapped alien aggro zones in front of wide open death corridors with no cover. It's very hard – extremely hard, in fact – to stop this from happening if you develop procedural generators in the usual way. When developers write procedural generators, they usually test them by looking at the output. You write an algorithm, imagine how the output will look, test it a bit, and if it looks roughly okay then it's good to test. The problem is that a level generator might be able to produce millions of different levels, and manual testing can only show you a dozen, or a hundred, or even a thousand. It's really hard to know if that thousand levels is a good sample, or if they're all clustered around some average level. What are the extremes of your generator? What are the worst-case (or best-case) scenarios it can output? You don't know.
You can mitigate this a bit. You can do lots of playtesting, which means you get a lot more people testing your generator, and if something happens only 10% of the time you'll probably find out. But it's still just more samples, there's no way of really knowing whether your procedural generator will behave in that weird 1% or 0.1% of the time. In any case, some people don't want it to behave – they like the wild, untamed edges of the generative space. Whether you want it or not, though, once you release your game people are going to encounter the unusual, unpredictable, edge cases of your generator. And this is the point at which XCOM 2 and Invisible Inc completely diverge, in my opinion.
Invisible Inc's level generator is really fickle. Sometimes I'll leave an innocuous corner unexplored only to discover it housed the exit twenty turns later. Other times, I'll find the exit in the first room I enter, and the objective next door. In terms of variability, Invisible Inc's generator has way more strange extremes and edge cases than XCOM 2's generator, which is generally more consistent. But it frustrates me a lot less because a fundamental principle of Invisible Inc is that the player always acts with total precision. This means that I can make a decision about how I want to solve this new problem the generator has presented me, and know exactly how it will play out.
What I mean by this is that almost every single interaction in Invisible Inc, with a few small exceptions, is deterministic. Attacks never miss, hacking always succeeds, vision is always explicit and consistent. Some effects are randomised – rewinding a turn where a guard spawned can cause it to spawn at a different location, for example. But in general, when I am planning my turn, I know what the effects of my actions will be. XCOM 2 builds itself a different way – its combat is famously built around percentage chances to hit, it hides knowledge from the player, and most problematically it also unintentionally hides knowledge that the player is supposed to have, through patchy UI design.
Why is this such a big deal? Because sooner or later, your content generator is going to make a mistake, and it's going to make the player feel like you're not playing fairly. The role of a level generator in a strategy game like this is almost like a DM in a pen and paper game: it's setting up a scenario, and asking if you can solve it, and the implication here is that a solution exists because the DM is really there to make sure you're having a good time. When a generator messes up, it feels like you're being treated like a fool – the DM is either stupid or vindictive, throwing down eight dragons and smirking at you when you protest.
In XCOM 2, it's possible to encounter a hiccup in the game's generated content, and respond to it in a completely sensible and strategically clever way – but if the dice roll against you, you will fail. To some people this is simply the appeal of the XCOM series, but I doubt that many other games could get away with treating the player like this, particularly games with such a fierce potential for death spiralling. XCOM 2 seems to hope that everything sort of comes out in the wash – that the troughs of randomness are evened out by peaks of good luck. For a lot of players this is exactly what will happen. But I'm much more interested in the extreme cases – the people who either encountered trivially easy or totally impossible content, and never encountered the idealised average game of XCOM 2 that the designers intended for.
For the record, I'm not saying that XCOM 2 is bad. A friend pointed out that changing XCOM's combat system and removing all dice rolls might be good or bad, but it definitely wouldn't be XCOM. He's totally right – that game is everything it aspires to be. But I think it shows why it's important to provide the player with the tools to overcome the unpredictable systems we put in our games, an emergency toolkit that gives them a way to reassert control over the chaos of procedural content. Even Spelunky, a game with one of the most consistent and conservatively-designed procedural generators ever, gave the player tricks to use in the event of bad level generation. Whatever happens, whatever scrape the player gets into, they're given four bombs to blow through walls and floors with. Spelunky doesn't hope for averages – it plans for the worst, and gives players fun tools to get around problems when they arise.
Rogue Process uses some of these ideas to help the player break through blips in our generated skyscrapers, but I'm also hoping to build analysers into the game itself to help make sure truly bad scenarios are fewer and further between. I'll talk about analysing procedural generators and understanding their output in another blog post, and why I think it's important for some games to be more restrictive in how they generate content. I might even have a little interactive generator demo by then for you to play with, too. In the meantime – thanks for reading! Let me know what you think about the two games in the comments or say hi on Twitter.


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With his first full season of recruiting since taking the Bruins job, Head Coach and G.M. Cliff Cook, along with Assistant Coach Mike Anderson was well prepared for the 2019 tender signing season and the NA3HL Draft.
While there may not have been as clear-cut a theme as there was last season with all the Texans and Alaskans that were either tendered or drafted in 2018, there was a sense of familiarity, especially with Coach Anderson taking the reins on much of the recruiting. Minnesota guys were a prime target for the Bruins this season. No surprise with the St. Paul, MN-native Anderson working along with his father and Bruins Minnesota scout Steve Anderson connecting with several players from the Minnesota High School Hockey ranks.
One name tendered will be very familiar to Bruins fans as Michael Pazdernik signed to re-join the Bruins after playing just six games with Zootown at the end of last season, coming up just short of the 10 games required for the Bruins to automatically retain his rights.
Donovan Burdette – Drafted
(2002 – Dallas, TX – Colorado Rampage 16U T1EL)
Donovan is a highly talented young defenseman originally from Dallas, TX now living in Monument, CO and excelling with the elite Colorado Rampage 16U AAA program. Yet another of the young, elite defensemen the Bruins are hopeful will join the Bruins in 2019-2020 or in the future as a building block for their junior and college hockey careers. Donovan, a more defensive-minded player in a time of offensive-minded defensemen finished the 2018-2019 season with eight points in 39 games.
**Trivia time** Donovan's dad Greg coached Bruins Head Coach Cliff Cook back when he was a PeeWee in Dallas.
Nolan Kingstrom – Drafted
(2000 – Colorado Springs, CO – Colorado Rampage 18U T1EL)
Nolan played for Coach Cook back in 2015-2016 with the Pikes Peak Miners 16U NAPHL program and at the time was a solid developing forward. In the past two seasons with the Colorado Rampage, Nolan made the conversion to defense and has excelled, garnering the attention of NAHL teams and quality Canadian junior teams.
Michael Pazdernik – Tendered
(6'2 – 225 – 2001 – Princeton, MN – Princeton H.S.)
Michael returns to the Bruins after finishing the final six games of the season in 2018-2019 in Missoula, including the Bruins opening round playoff series. Prior to coming to Missoula, Paz was a standout defenseman for Princeton H.S. in Princeton, MN, finishing his senior season with 26 points in 20 games and helping lead the Tigers to a Minnesota High School Hockey Playoff berth.
Justin Sachs – Tendered
(5'11 – 175 – 2001 – North Branch, MN – North Branch H.S.)
Another of the young talented defensemen the Bruins are excited about, Justin finished his career at North Branch H.S. in Minnesota with 59 points in 75 career games. A high Hockey IQ player with great skating ability and puck-handling skills. As a team captain, Justin helped lead the Vikings to their first Minnesota High School Hockey State Playoff berth in school history.
Sam Skillestad – Drafted
(2003 – Missoula, MT – Missoula Bruins H.S.)
Sam is an elite-level talent with high-end skating ability and a great Hockey IQ. As a 2003 birth year, Sam will likely be one of the most sought-after prospects in the NA3HL with a bright future ahead in the NAHL and beyond. While developing talent from all over the country and the world is the goal, it's undeniable having local Missoula talent moving up the ranks is even more exciting.
Jordan Stear – Tendered
(5'10 – 185 – 2001 – Frisco, TX – Wisconsin Rapids Roughriders)
Jordan originally tendered with the Bruins in 2018 but chose a different route in Wisconsin where he had a standout year in the USPHL finishing with 40 points in 49 games, including five assists in five playoff games. An elite talent that should be on multiple NAHL team's radars for the 2019-2020 season, the Bruins are hopeful to get to help continue Jordan's development.
Denim Young – Drafted
(2002 – Billings, MT – Billings H.S.)
Denim is another young, talented Montana defenseman that, along with Sam Skillestad, could provide an exciting young core of elite blueliners for the Bruins for 2019-2020 with a goal of higher levels in the future. Denim finished the 2018-2019 season with 17 points in 25 regular season games and helped lead the Bulls to a MAHA State Runner-Up finish.
Stay tuned next week for a rundown of the Bruins 2019 Tendered and Drafted forwards.


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Summary:UltraBattery is a partial charge lead-acid technology offering a unique hybrid between lead-acid and ultra-capacitor technology. It was invented by Australia's major science organisation, CSIRO. The technology performs the same energy-storage role as any modern partial-charge chemistry (for instance li-ion) while simultaneously performing tasks more typical of lead-acid cells, such as stand-by power or energy shifting. Because it can cycle continuously but retain traditional lead-acid capabilities, UltraBattery is well suited to multi-purpose applications, such as replacing float batteries with cycling batteries so that a cycling or smoothing application can be achieved while stand-by capacity is retained. Multi-purposing – the use of a single technology to perform more than one application within a single installation – gives a range of saving or revenue options from a single battery investment. Usually multi-purpose installations include at least one fast-rate application (such as diesel support, grid frequency regulation, load balancing or renewable smoothing) and one slow-rate "energy" application (such as UPS, grid outage ride-through or renewable energy shifting). Ecoult CEO John Wood will describe UltraBattery technology and review a number of installations where UltraBattery has shown its dual-purposing capabilities. On the kW-scale diesel-coupled installations in telecoms and micro-grids have seen very short (12 month) payback times and significant diesel reduction. One application has been to use batteries to better manage diesel in remote telecom base stations. These are typically expensive to refuel and service. UltraBattery, running on a cycling algorithm developed at Ecoult, has seen fuel reductions in excess of 50%. In a commercial diesel-assisted micro-grid application diesel use has dropped to virtually nil. On the MW-scale the technology has been installed to perform pure frequency regulation (on the PJM grid in Pennsylvania) and, in 2016, will be installed as a dual-purpose MW-scale installation to provide both frequency regulation (for revenue) and stand-by potential for a major water utility. UltraBattery has also been installed as Australia's largest battery to help maintain maximum self-consumption of renewable energy and minimum diesel use for the community of King Island - an 1100 square kilometre (425 square mile) island with a population of roughly 1700. In this application the objective is to provide smoothing, grid services and ride-through. The goal is reduce diesel use on the island by favouring relatively abundant PV and wind generation while improving power quality for end-users.
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Artemis Sterling Silver and Diamond Medallion Necklace
The Artemis medallion necklace is individually handcrafted in solid sterling silver and set with a natural white diamond.
It features the signature Common Era raised high-polish rim, designed to shine like a molten silver wax seal.
Artemis, Goddess of the Moon and Wild Things
Artemis is the Goddess of the Hunt, also known as the 'Lady of the Wild Things'. Strongly associated with night and the moon, Artemis presides over wild animals and nature, hunting, and interestingly enough, childbirth and young children, especially girls—which is how she earned the ancient term 'The Protectress of Dewy Youth'.
Famously disinterested men and choosing a life of chastity, Artemis preferred to roam the mountains with a band of huntress nymphs and women, slaying wild animals (and occasionally impudent mortals) with her golden bow and arrow.
One day, after a successful hunt, Artemis and the huntresses were bathing in the wood when Actaeon, a mortal hunter, spied the goddess and her companions in their nakedness. Rather than brush it off or blame herself, Artemis caught him in the act and made an example of Actaeon by turning him into a stag.
Artemis is the perfect talisman for young women, wild women, willful, assertive, and powerful women.
Also available in gold vermeil
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- Solid sterling silver
- 1 inch diameter
- Ethically sourced 1.5mm white diamond
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Selected for its visual impact and ease of use, this outstanding collection of wood engravings presents over 1,000 species of animals in extremely lifelike poses. Includes many different versions of familiar mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and other invertebrates such as spiders, crabs, squid, earthworms, and more. Captions provide modern common-name identifications.