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On this frosty, windless day in January Chris Lee's quarry is the elegant grayling — in his estimation by no means just a mere 'Lady of the stream. For him, the grayling is the Queen of the rivers. Though she wears a modest crown of colours on her dorsal fin, her real beauty lies in the gallant struggle she displays when hooked.
It's not practical to arrive too early for grayling fishing in mid-winter, for the early morning cold makes the fish somewhat lethargic and reluctant to feed. For Chris the best time to fish is from 11am to 2pm. 'Patience is the key,' he says; 'the worst thing you can do is to rush up and down the bank looking for fish. If you think there's fish in the area, keep your fly in the water, and fish the water hard.'
To reach the fish which are shoaled up tightly in deep water, Chris uses a small, heavily leaded fly. Wading isn't allowed in the Derbyshire Wye, but there's plenty of room for casting in most places. Chris displays a small grayling before releasing it. Once scorned, the grayling is now gaining acceptance today among many game anglers. Weirs are good places to look for trout and grayling in spring and summer. Chris found most of his winter grayling in the deep, slow-moving parts of the river To reach deep holes, use sinking braided leaders which are effective though it is hard to cast accurately with them.
A way to overcome this is to use a long leader and a fine tippet. The thinner the leader, the quicker the fly sinks because there is less resistance from the water. This is one of the rainbow trout which took his fly. A firm believer in catch-and-release, he returns every fish that he catches as soon as possible. This exquisite rainbow trout with a deep red stripe along its spotted flank was caught on a Killer Bug. The Derbyshire Wye is one of the few waters in Britain where rainbow trout spawn in the wild. His fly rod arched under the weight of a 0.7kg brown trout, Chris prepares to land the quarry before returning it quickly and carefully.
A gold-headed pupa -tumbled over the stony bottom – was too much for the trout to resist in the lean days of winter.
The River Wye
- For information about grayling fishing on the Derbyshire Wye, contact Haddon Hall, tel. (01629) 636255. The season usually runs from November 1 to January 31.
- For more information about rainbow and brown trout fishing on the River Wye, contact the Peacock Hotel, Rowsley, Derbyshire, tel (01629) 733519. Trout fishing is restricted to dry fly only.
The best time of day to fish for grayling in midwinter is usually between 11am and 2pm. This fish, however, was caught at 3:00pm, proving that there are exceptions to most rules.
Just upstream of the A619 – where a small brook enters the river—he begins warming up by working a shallow stretch with a single size 18 Griffith's Gnat (an American pattern). 'If I were pushed to pick one fly that would catch grayling,' he says, 'it would be this one.'
Though it doesn't catch this time his confidence in the pattern is undimmed, but to cover a deeper stretch of the river, Chris decides to switch to a size 14 leaded shrimp. He casts upstream of where he expects to find grayling, gives the shrimp time to drag over the gravel bottom and recasts when
We walk under leafless trees – past exquisite stone houses. Chris studies the water by the Packhorse Bridge near a long, narrow island and then fishes the slow-flowing side of the river with a Sturdy's Fancy, a popular grayling pattern. the current begins to sweep the fly towards the surface.
His technique is best illustrated by using a clock diagram. As you stand directly facing the opposite bank of the river, imagine there is a fish directly in front of you at 12 o'clock. Cast your weighted pattern at about 10 o'clock, assuming the current flows left to right. The fly has sunk to the bottom by the time it reaches 11 o'clock to 10 'clock – where you want it and where it is most effective in conditions such as these. After 10 'clock the fly is on its way up towards the surface again, pulled by the line drag. The less a fish has to work for a meal, the better your chances of catching one.
Bushes and small trees obscure the river bank; Chris can't carry out the overhead cast comfortably here, so he uses the roll cast with great delicacy. 'It's a good technique for small rivers because you don't have to aerialise line at the back of you. It presents the fly well and can cast a fair distance.'
As he works the water near the point of the island, a grayling races out of a sunken, stony hollow, hits the fly and darts off downstream. Even in the slow current it puts up an admirable fight. Chris manoeuvres it to the bank, and the hook conveniently slips out.
He moves farther up river to deeper, faster water and puts on a Brassy Nymph (an American pattern which has a lot of copper wound on the hook with a sparse fur thorax). Chris uses this pattern because there isn't much to impair its sinking rate. The larger the surface area of a fly, the more resistance it has in the water, and the slower it sinks. 'As a general rule of thumb,' he says, 'grayling prefer small flies, but they need to sink quickly, and sometimes you can't get enough lead on the hook.'
He works this fly patiently, so that it imitates a nymph slowly moving in and out of the rocks on the river bed. His patience is rewarded — but not with a grayling. In spite of the cold conditions a VA\b (0.7kg) rainbow trout puts up a good struggle. It's the work of an instant for Chris to remove the barb-less hook and return the fish.
Small rivers and streams often pose problems when catching and landing fish – especially with shoal fish such as grayling. Any unusual activity in the clear water or on the bank can put fish down and make them stop feeding.
Stalking carefully, Chris spots a small shoal of grayling in the slow water and returns to a Griffith's Gnat. In clear rivers a fine tippet, such as 2-4lb (0.9-1.8kg) line, is essential. 'It's a good policy to try to fish upstream when you can, simply because you're behind the fish. But I wouldn't be bound by it; if I had to fish downstream, I would.'
Chris continues, 'In a situation such as this, an important rule about river fishing is: don't false cast more than you have to. Every cast counts.' He places the fly 60cm (2ft) in front of the shoal and then waits. The slow current and clear water help give the grayling a good long look at the fly. Even so, one of the smaller fish succumbs to the fuzzy temptation. Chris brings in a 12oz (0.34kg) grayling which struggles all the way to the bank.
The small grayling spooked the larger ones, so Chris decides to move downstream where the river is about one metre (3ft) deep and where the current is moderate. 'What I'm checking for are the type of bottom, depth, vegetation (if any) and the speed of the current.'
He casts the fly about 45cm (18in) from the opposite bank, where the river bends slightly, and the current whisks the fly downstream. He repeats the procedure again and again, each time casting the fly a bit closer to himself. 'Line control on rivers is vital for success, and that includes everything from where the fly is placed to how to strike after hooking the fish.' After working the area thoroughly, he again moves farther downstream.
Downstream from Bakewell, near a pedestrian bridge, Chris attaches a gold-headed pupa then rubs a bit of mud and debris on the fly and tippet to mask any human scent. Most fly fishermen have their favourite patterns of flies for one reason or another -Chris included. But he stresses that generally fly pattern is less important than the way you present it.
A few casts and a trout hammers the nymph, jumps acrobatically, but in the end shakes the hook. Another cast or so results in another strike, but in the fast current the grayling breaks the line.
The grayling can afford to be a bit picky in the stretch below town because so many people throw bread, corn, cheese and spiced chickpeas for the ducks, and what the birds miss, the trout and grayling do not. As he is fishing, an elderly woman upstream of him tosses in some fish and chips and the remnants of a steak and kidney pie. She seems fully convinced that the ducks and fish enjoy the food, especially the pie. 'They've done so for so many years,' she says. Chris searches his box for a pie-shaped fly, with- out success though.
Instead he puts on a Killer Bug. He casts upstream a bit and lets the current take the fly about 9m (10yd) downstream. A rainbow trout seizes the fly. Using the current to its advantage, the fish gets dangerously close to a weir before Chris gains control.
After a quick lunch – out of the finger-numbing January cold — we resume our grayling pursuits. Chris changes flies to a heavy gold-headed pupa. Casting to the opposite bank and letting the current take the fly and tumble it over the stony bottom proves too much of a temptation for a good-sized (1/2 lb/0.7kg) brown trout which Chris again releases immediately.
Chris once again makes the decision to move downstream to deeper runs to avoid catching trout.
Fishing in a deep eddy – where the slow-moving water swirls and churns steadily and relentlessly — Chris retrieves along the bottom very slowly and gets a strike. A 12oz (0.34kg) grayling uses its sail-like dorsal fin to create resistance in the slow current. But he soon gains control of the battle and with a wet hand gently lifts the fish long enough for a photo, then releases it.
As the light gradually gets dimmer and the temperature colder, Chris fishes for another hour and then decides to pack up. The day's session resulted in three grayling, two rainbows and a brown trout – a catch to be proud of in peak season, never mind in the dead of winter.


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- August 16, 1950 - December 2, 2017
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GILLESPIE, Lillian M., of Eaton died December 2, 2017. Lillian was born in Dayton, Ohio August 16, 1950 to Allen and Hilda Gillespie, she is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Iris Gillespie of Kettering, Ohio; her sister Marjie Gillespie of St. Petersburg, Florida; niece Krista Gillespie Darkow and her husband David of Centerville, Ohio and their daughters Alyssa Wall, Danielle, Brooke and Casey Darkow; nephew Brian Gillespie and his wife Marcella of Troy, Ohio and their sons William and Grant Gillespie. Lillian graduated from Belmont High School and Wright State University. She worked in bank data processing in several cities, and later graduated from United Theological Seminary in Dayton and went on to pastor several churches in Preble County. Memorial service will be held 12 Noon, Saturday, December 16, 2017 at the Sugar Valley United Methodist Church 3022 Sugar Valley Dr. Eaton, Ohio 45320; family will receive friends half hour prior to service.

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Source: Practical American Cookery and Domestic Economy, E. Hall, 1856
Obviously, this recipe falls squarely on the domestic economy side of the publication. One is left wondering, however, why a Victorian homemaker would have need of a recipe to petrify wood?
Stopping a leak, cleaning brass, even making cement I understand – but petrifying wood?
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Cian was asked a week or two how old he was going to be on
his birthday, to which he replied "five alive".
He was making reference to the soft drink, probably not
aware of the significance that the statement would have to the rest of us who
interpreted it in a totally different context.
We all take birthdays a little bit for granted as up to a
certain point making it to the next one always seems inevitable. The thought of Cian not making it to his
fifth birthday was inconceivable before late November; but during the dark days
in mid December I would have given anything to ensure that he would get to
celebrate his special day!
As Cian has improved in both body and mind over the last few
weeks, we have been slowly gearing up to his birthday. We couldn't organise anything concrete as we
couldn't predict if Cian would be in the celebrating mood, or where he would be
spending his birthday.
For a couple of weeks Cian had only been spending a few
hours at home on a Sunday, but all of a sudden everything was starting to fall
into place this week. Cian's specialist
profiling bed and mattress was delivered on Wednesday and all his medical
supplies and feeds arrived on Friday.
This meant that the only thing stopping Cian from spending a night at
home this weekend would be his health.
There was nothing to fear in that department, as Cian
continues to gain in strength.
We got him home late on Saturday morning and just spent the
afternoon spending some family time together watching TV or playing a few
games. Most people wouldn't regard this
as anything special, as it is considered normal… but normal for us is
special; even to the point that the kids were arguing about what to watch and
The evening soon arrived, and although it was strange
putting Cian to bed in his new downstairs bedroom, rather than in his old room;
he was excited and very comfortable thanks to new WWE Wrestling bedding from
his Uncle G.
He didn't find it difficult or fight falling to sleep, so
that gave me and mum some time to put up his birthday decorations and make
final preparations.
Mum slept downstairs with Cian, as there is still lots to do
in terms of giving him medications and food supplements overnight.
The fact that Cian's first overnight culminated with him
waking at home on his birthday was pure chance, but a fantastic sub-plot to his
journey; and his birthday being Valentine's Day just makes it a little more
He had lots of presents to open and a little treasure hunt
for him and his siblings to do. It is a
little more tricky and the hiding places a little more obvious when trying to
organise a hunt for a wheelchair-bound child!
We only had family over during the day, due to being
restricted on time for organising anything more elaborate, and that we were
advised to avoid large numbers of people, especially given that Cian was resuming his chemo a day
We have to thank our LATCH Social Worker Kathy, as she
managed to organise (via Little AJs Parties) for 3 Paw Patrol mascots to visit
the house (Ryder, Marshall and Skye). The funding for the mascots came via The Ethan Perkins Trust, another amazing charity based in Swansea who have similar objectives to what we hope to achieve.
All the children had a fun time tormenting the mascots and
singing happy birthday to Cian.
It was a shame when it was all over, as it was time to get
Cian prepared for going back to hospital.
What's good is that although Cian had a fantastic time at home and
celebrating his birthday, he did not complain about going back to Noah's Ark
with mum.
So today I had to get Dylan and Bethany to holiday club, as
it's half-term. We could have kept them
with us for the week, but decided to keep them in the routine that they are
used to and we will let them come to the hospital on Thursday night and spend
Friday as a family. Otherwise they would
get bored, even though the ward has lots of things to do.
When I got to the hospital Cian was in the middle of his
physio. He had just wowed some of the
ward staff and other patients in his skills of using his walking (Zimmer)
frame, and he was now standing playing with his wrestling figures. The amount of physio support he is requiring to stand upright is starting
to become less and he is showing signs of more control when moving his legs…
although he does get tired very quickly, which is not surprising.
Even though he asked to finish physio due to being tired and
achy, that didn't stop the physios sneaking in another session in the afternoon,
just to keep up the momentum and progress.
Then just before I left at 4 today his chemo kicked off.
For those of you with an interest in the treatment side of things, the
drugs Cian was given today were Vincristine and Cyclophosphamide.
I always think the first is either Vin Diesel's sister (Vin
Christine), or a very posh French wine.
Dylan and Bethany had a visit this evening from Anne the
play therapist, from the Kids Cancer Charity.
Just from the occasional eavesdrop I can tell that she is encouraging
them to ask questions and open up (without getting upset)… plus they really
enjoy her company and the games that they play with her. It is an amazing resource that I hadn't
appreciated the level of benefit that we will all gain from!
The update from the ward is that Cian fell to slepp saying
that he "loves his chemotherapy" whilst cuddling into Chemo Duck and other soft
toys. It's fortunate that Cian isn't
experiencing any of the immediate side effects associated with chemo, but he is
certainly going to feel it when they kick in next week!


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Who Really Is General Muhammadu Buhari? By Professor Tam David-West
I have over time written a lot about General Buhari. This includes two formal works: "Who Really Is General Muhammadu Buhari?" and "The Sixteen 'Sins' of General Muhammadu Buhari." The first was launched publicly at The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island on March 9, 2009. The second book was launched in Kaduna (29 July, 2010) and Port Harcourt (14 March, 2011). Both events were crowd-pullers. I must mention that General Buhari was kept in the dark about both projects. I only informed him some two weeks to the launching. I don't have to consult him to tell the truth about him.
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Clinical Protocol to Evaluate Glycans Analysis As a Diagnostic Test for Ovarian Cancer
- Evaluate the accuracy of glycan analysis to distinguish between normal healthy control
female subjects and those with ovarian epithelial cancer.
- Compare the new assay to the standard CA 125 for diagnostic accuracy.
- Ovarian cancer patients: Blood samples are obtained periodically for up to 2 years.
Patients undergoing surgery have blood samples drawn before and after surgery. Medical
charts are reviewed periodically for up to 3 years.
- Healthy volunteers: One blood sample is obtained. Volunteers also complete a 1-page
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 300 healthy female participants and 400 patients will be
accrued for this study.
Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective
Accuracy of glycan analysis
For healthy controls, a single sample will be obtained. For patients scheduled for surgery, two samples will be obtained: one preoperatively and one postoperatively. Ovarian cancer patients who agree to participate in the longitudinal study will have follow-up serum samples drawn periodically during chemotherapy treatments and then during surveillance visits, to correspond with routine blood testing for CA 125. They will be asked to participate for 2 years, with a maximum of 8 blood draws per year (to be coordinated with other venipunctures, if possible).
one time for healthy volunteers; up to 2 years for patients with cancer
Gary Leiserowitz, MD
Principal Investigator
University of California, Davis
United States: Institutional Review Board
October 2005
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2020 Kawasaki ZX-25R launching in Indonesia, July 10 – paultan.org
Much awaited by quarter-litre motorcycle fans especially in Malaysia and South East Asia, the 2020 Kawasaki ZX-25R will be launched in Indonesia on July 10. The announcement was made via a video posted by Kawasaki Indonesia and shows the ZX-25R in two colours, all black like Kawasaki's Winter Test bikes and in corporate colours of Kawasaki Racing Green.
Setting the ZX-25R apart from the current crop of sports 250s is the inline four-cylinder mill with liquid-cooling and DOHC, along with a 17,000 rpm rev limit. As tested in Jerez, Spain by Kawasaki World Superbike riders Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes in saddle, the ZX-25R is capable of speeds above 160 km/h out of the box.
A racing version of the ZX-25R has also been, loaded with performance bling and destined for a Japan race series. This is done with the addition of a carbon-fibre fairing, A-Tech seat and tank pads, Beet Nassert Evolution Type II titanium exhaust and Dunlop Sportmax 13SP tyres.
In standard form, the ZX-25R comes with a quickshifter, selectable rider modes and traction control, bringing big bike technology down to the small displacement market. Suspension is of similar spec, with Showa's SFF-BP (Separate Function Fork – Big Piston) 37 mm diameter upside-down fork in front and a Horizontal Back-Link mono shock in the rear.
No power figures have as yet been released for the ZX-25R and readers will have to wait till all is revealed at the Indonesia launch. What do you think? Does the ZX-25R need to be released in Malaysia? Leave a comment with your thoughts and opinions, below.
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While most celebrities treat interviews as tedious but necessary bits of self-promotion, Chris Rock approaches each one like a prizefighter returning to the ring. Dating all the way back to his canonical early comedy specials, the writer, director and legendary stand-up has never been afraid to weigh in on tough, controversial issues, and in a week filled with tragedy and heartbreak, his words felt like a bracing and necessary burst of truth. Even at the age of 49, Rock still brings the pain.
While his recent media appearances were all tied to the release of Top Five, his upcoming passion project about the nature of fame, the comments he made were wide-ranging and all-encompassing. From Bill Cosby to Ferguson, and from the structural racism of Hollywood to the state of modern hip-hop, no topic of conversation seemed off-limits to Rock, who mixed careful introspection with the hard-hitting jokes that he made his name with. Each of these pieces is worth a read on their own, but as a tribute to Top Five's list-centric title, we've culled the best quotes from Rock's knockout press run and present them here in one convenient place.
First off, Rock sat down with New York magazine's Frank Rich and shared his nuanced thoughts on the idea of "racial progress":
In the same interview, Rock also got reflective on the legacy of President Obama, offering up a pretty brutally hilarious comparison:
In a similarly wide-ranging interview with Grantland's Rembert Browne, Rock talked about having kids and being a role model:
Next up, there's Rock's impassioned editorial in The Hollywood Reporter, where he touched on, amongst other topics, the lack of good roles for black women in Hollywood:
And finally, from a discussion with Rolling Stone, Rock shared his take on the relationship between comedy and hip-hop:


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Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Win a MAC Lipstick! *CLOSED*
So as a little thank you to the precious followers I have, I want to give you the chance to win a MAC lipstick of your choice.
All you have to do to enter is make sure you follow my blog, either by GFC or Bloglovin and leave a comment on this post telling me the shade of lipstick you would like to win and why, along with your GFC/Bloglovin name.
This competition includes any of the standard MAC lipsticks, including viva glam.
Open to UK residents, closing date will be 18/6/14 6pm GMT.
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Shade choice: Vegas Volt.
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Drought Conditions in North Carolina Increase in Latest Drought Monitor
Drought conditions in North Carolina declined in the latest drought monitor. Last week, 45% of the state was drought free, this week only 22%, all in the counties bordering Tennessee and western Virginia. In the abnormally dry category, conditions declined in the Coastal Plain, going from drought free to abnormally dry. The area of the state reporting moderate drought conditions is largely unchanged at a little more than 15%, and the extreme and exceptional drought categories remain at zero.
Virginia Implements Alert System for Small Livestock Farmers
An alert system is being launched in Virginia to ensure noncommercial livestock and poultry owners are kept in the loop when it comes to threats to their animals ranging from disease to acts of terrorism.
The Animal Health Network is the product of a partnership between the Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. State veterinarian, Dr. Richard L. Wilkes says the network enables his office to reach backyard farmers on critical animal disease alerts going on to say it will be especially helpful for people who only keep a few head of livestock, laying hens, goats and horses.
South Carolina Sees Little Change in Latest Drought Monitor
South Carolina's drought conditions in the latest drought monitor saw little change in the minor categories, but in the moderate drought category the percentage of the state involved increased from 79 to 89% and the severe category increased from 40 to 58% but the extreme category remained virtually unchanged at 13%. Only Oconee, Pickens, and the northwestern end of Greenville counties remain drought free.
CBO Predicts Record Corn Crop in 2013
The Congressional Budget Office is projecting U.S. farmers will plant a lot of corn and soybeans this year. In fact – the CBO expects corn growers will produce a record corn crop of 14.454-billion bushels on 97-million acres. They expect the nation's soybean growers will plant 77-million acres and produce the third-largest crop on record at 3.306-billion bushels. Both production estimates assume a return to normal weather and higher yields despite the lingering effects of the 2012 drought. The CBO expects cotton plantings to drop to a four-year low and wheat plantings to drop slightly from 2012.
Open Outcry Trading officially coming to a Close in KC This Summer
And finally, the end of an era is near… after more than 150 years at the Kansas City Board of Trade – open outcry trading of hard red winter wheat contracts will move to Chicago. The last day of open outcry trading for KCBT will be June 28th – with the process transitioning to the CME Group trading floor on July 1st.


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How to cope with emotional emergencies
I vividly remember how itchy and lonely I was during my first bout of depression. Nothing appealed to me. I didn't want to be awake but I didn't want to go to bed. I felt isolated but I didn't want to talk to anyone. Work both distracted and frustrated me.
It was a struggle to remember things I liked, and for the life of me, I couldn't think of anyone who would be willing to spend time with me. Feeling good seemed like a distant, unattainable memory.
Emotional emergencies like depression, grief, and exhaustion can temporarily erase our wisdom and energy for taking loving care of ourselves. Know that things will get easier. But until then, it helps to be prepared.
These days, when I hear the rumble of overwhelm in the distance, I quickly pull out what I call my Self Care Emergency Kit.
A Self Care Emergency Kit is simple, handwritten guidance for tending to the heart in dark times.
My kit includes things like:
Nurturing food: Green smoothies, avocados, fresh bread, and chocolate.
Comforts: Hot baths, lattes, and a list of loving people to call when I'm feeling low.
Feel-good movement: Gentle yoga and walking outdoors.
Reflection: Journaling and brief, guided meditations.
Fun things to plan: Visiting a friend and getting tickets for an upcoming show.
Mantras: "May all beings everywhere be happy and free from suffering."
Every day that I feel low, even if I don't feel like it, I play at least 2 items from my emergency kit. I let it flow with my energy, even if that means just a few minutes of meditation and a quick phone call to a friend. Sometimes it only takes a little bit of the little stuff to feel much braver and warmer. The kit is surprisingly powerful!
If you'd like to make your own Self Care Emergency Kit, I've made you a guide. Click here to open it.
Write by hand everything that comes to mind, without editing. Let it be easy. Keep adding onto it. There are more comforts and joys available to you than you may realize. What's in your kit? Let us know in the comments!
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Over-the-top Italian fashion line Dolce & Gabbana showed off 103 looks at a Rainbow Room menswear show on Saturday as Liza Minnelli performed and an army of VIP clients, celebs and glamour ghouls were on the scene.
Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana took over New York with a weekend of shows at iconic Manhattan sites including the New York Public Library and Metropolitan Opera (attended by Catherine Zeta-Jones, left).
Vogue called attendees "the international ultra-spenders."
Said one guest at the Rainbow Room extravaganza — where women in gold satin bunny outfits circulated and pasta was served from a station — "It felt like being on a European cruise line."
Starry guests included Nick Jonas, Trevor Noah and Isabella Rossellini.
Spies added that Minnelli — accompanied by Michael Feinstein — crooned tunes from "Cabaret" and "All That Jazz," and Diddy's son, Christian "King" Combs, "closed the Alta Moda show by pulling his famous dance moves . . . doing a milly rock to Liza's 'New York, New York.' "


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Daniel Jones on the Super Jet Tenor 10*
Just received the mouthpiece today and instantly started playing it. This is by far the best mouthpiece I have every played. I didn't think it was possible to improve on the JodyJazz Jet… But this… The JodyJazz Super Jet Tenor has far exceeded my expectations. Just like the the JodyJazz Jet it has the nice bottom end, but the precision and design up into altissimo truly make this JodyJazz Super Jet Tenor. Thank you!


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AFRO+SPACE+TIME Co-collaborators and co-performers: Onye Ozuzu + Qudus Onikeku Musical Score Composer: Ben LaMar Gay AFRO+SPACE+TIME is an improvisational performance with choreographer/performer Onye Ozuzu, Nigerian choreographer/performer Qudus Onikeku, and musician Ben LaMar Gay. Holding reincarnation as the existential foundation, the momentum of our gathering is a non- linear, cyclical relationship to time and a psychic, intangible relationship to space.Find out more »
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Join Bates Dance Festival & Gibney for our 5th annual five-day winter intensive! Focused on inspired dancing and creative exchange, this intensive is designed for intermediate and advanced dancers and will include classes with teachers and other professionals of the field. Limited Drop-Ins for Individual 11:00 am Modern and 1:30 pm Improvisation Available: $20 1:30-3:00pm Improvisation with Onye OzuzuFind out more »
February 2019
danceGATHERING 2019
danceGATHERING is an annual Dance Lab and Anti-disciplinary Festival which takes place in Lagos Nigeria, it is co-curated by Qudus Onikeku, dancer, choreographer and artistic director of the QDance Center Lagos, and Onye Ozuzu, the Dean of the School of Arts, University of Florida USA. danceGATHERING is coming back bigger and better in 2019. For this third edition whose theme is AFROSPACETIME, expect a potpourri of dancers, choreographers, visual artists, thinkers, scholars, scientists, DJs, Ifa Priests, capoeirist, film makers, multidisciplinary artists,…Find out more »
March 2019
Touch My Beloved's Thought @ University of Wisconsin-Parkside
A live dance and music performance in honor of Charles Mingus' album "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, made in collaboration with jazz composer Greg Ward, and originally commissioned by Links Hall and Constellation. The work received the Black Excellence Award (2014-2015) for Special Achievement in Choreography by the African American Arts Alliance.Find out more »
Project Tool Residency @ Dancing Grounds
The Project Tool team will be in residence at Dancing Grounds in New Orleans to prepare for the fall 2019 premiere. The Project Tool residency will occur alongside Dance for Social Change, Dancing Grounds' annual festival centered at the intersection of arts and advocacy efforts and driven by their high school dance company, DG Uprising. This year's theme is Reclaiming Our Home: Gentrification and Displacement in New Orleans. As part of the festival programming, Project Tool will facilitate a workshop…Find out more »
May 2019
Project Tool @ The Ragdale Foundation
The Project Tool team will be in residence at the Ragdale Foundation.Find out more »
July 2019
Bates Dance Festival
Technology of the Circle Ozuzu and Onikeku are contemporary performance artists who approach improvisation through a shared transnational Africanness that is networked in the African Diaspora: Nigeria-US and Nigeria-France, respectively. This co-taught improvisational, process-based course is steeped in their respective understandings of Africanist aesthetics. Technology of the Circle will explore the circle as a structure for improvised group interaction: the circle of playground fights and politics of Brazilian Capoeira, of Jazz music, of B-boying/B-girling, of club culture cyphering and battling,…Find out more »
September 2019
Project Tool Premiere
PROJECT TOOL is a dance and movement performance choreographed to enable the dancers to explore the relationship between mind, body, and tool—in part through the process of building their own dance floor as part of the performance. As the dancers investigate and engage to build a wood, sprung dance floor, they collaborate with tools as partners to the body. The actual, real-time making of the floor through sawing, hammering, sanding, and nailing has the effect of unearthing an improvisational landscape…Find out more »
January 2020
danceGathering Artist Applications Due
ADCAI is now accepting applications from Chicago-based artists looking to join us in Lagos, Nigeria for danceGATHERING 2020! All applications as due January 31, 2020. If you are interested, please click HERE for details. Questions? Please contact Bridgette at firstname.lastname@example.com out more »


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Fireworks promised in Spencer trial
The corruption trial of former junior minister Kern Spencer ended abruptly in the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate Court yesterday, but defence attorney K.D. Knight is promising fireworks when the case resumes today.
"You know how I do my cross-examinations. I start with fire, cool off and end up blazing," Knight, attorney for Spencer's co-accused, Coleen Wright, hinted to reporters yesterday.
He is expected to wrap up his cross-examination of star prose-cution witness Rodney Chin today.
"I am more tactical," responded Director of Public Prosecution Paula Llewellyn.
Full of gaps
The sudden adjournment this time was to give defence lawyers time to listen to one of the tape recordings made by Chin and compare it with the transcripts handed to them in court yesterday by Llewellyn.
Standing next to Llewellyn, Knight explained to reporters that the transcripts were "full of gaps".
As a result, it was agreed that junior attorneys on both sides would listen to the recordings in court yesterday, allowing for today's resumption.
During yesterday's cross-examination, the exchanges between Knight and Chin got testy several times as they went over cheques and company documents Chin had signed.
At one point, Knight shouted a question to Chin, who responded "when you shout you scare me".
"What scares me is that you can't seem to recall the answers to my questions," Knight shot back.
He also got Chin to concede that no one ever informed him that Wright was 'running' any of the companies implicated in the Cuban light-bulb programme.


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Kudos for one officer
My name is KQ. I teach second grade at an elementary school in Pflugerville. On Thursday, April 28, 2016, we were at Zilker Park as part of a day long field trip, when one of our second graders had an accident of the type that one has when one has the stomach flu. His two brothers had been out for several days with the bug. He hadn't missed school yet, and the stomach bug hit while we were at the park. His teacher didn't know what to do...she couldn't take him into either restroom, and certainly couldn't clean him up in the extreme way he needed cleaning up. Enter APD Officer Arturo Canizales. This savior was just walking by on patrol, assessed the situation, and took the child into the men's room and saved our day. This man deserves a medal.


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Luna Legend watching her dad on Sesame Street is the best thing you'll see today. We promise.
Chrissy Teigen shared an Instagram video on Wednesday that features Luna watching a Sesame Street clip on an iPad. But it wasn't just any episode of the lovable children's show — this one featured John Legend. And Luna's face lighting up when she sees her dad on screen is absolutely priceless.
It's not just Legend's appearance that has Luna smiling, either — Elmo also said "Hi Luna!" in the special video.
"When John first posted this video to instagram, Luna had no idea what Sesame Street was. She was sick and couldn't go to set when John was filming so all the characters made this video for her. This is her first time watching it and knowing how freaking epic it is," Teigen explained in her Instagram caption.
John Legend's appearance on Sesame Street was back in December, but it looks like this is Luna's first time seeing her dad with Elmo and Big Bird. "One day Luna will be very excited by who daddy hung out with today," Legend captioned his Instagram post at the time.
Luna may be just over a year old, but she's already had a pretty incredible childhood. The family recently took a vacation to Italy, and Luna looked like she had a blast with her parents in the photos they posted from the trip. (Naturally, they enjoyed pizza, pasta, and gelato on the trip, too.)
And if that's not enough to make you jealous, Teigen and Legend also took Luna to Bali earlier this summer. Yeah, we're officially jealous, too.
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Considered by many to be the one of the most talented horror authors of this generation, Greg F. Gifune has crafted a path of darkness all his own, with some of the best horror fiction for readers of the genre. One of several novels he released in 2016, Savages tells the tale of vacation gone terribly wrong in the South Pacific. A powerful and unrelenting storm… a boat crash on a small uncharted island… the dark secrets that have lasted for decades waiting to be awoken and discovered are brought to morbid and tense life in this book from Sinister Grin Press. We grabbed Greg F. Gifune to talk Savages along with the influence of pulp novels and films as well as the importance of crafting dialogue and relationships.
Jay Kay: Greg, thank you for taking some time to talk with me about Savages. This is well over thirty books that have been put out on Kindle. Each has a distinctive tone, face and darkness reflecting horror storytelling. Before we jump into the human, supernatural and survival horror found in Savages, has the evolution of the Kindle and Nook changed you overall as an author in any step of the process?
Greg F. Gifune: Honestly, no it hasn't. The way in which a certain work may or may not be delivered to the public via the publishers really has no impact or bearing on my process as an author or the way I approach a project.
Jay Kay: Savages has familiar extreme elements, actions and description that we find in the storytelling through Sinister Grin Press. How was that experience with Sinister Grin Press pertaining to Savages? A seasoned author such as yourself, I have no doubt you continue to learn. Did the total process of Savages teach you anything new about your writing, self or the continuing process of getting a novel out?
GG: The folks at Sinister Grin Press approached me a while back and let me know they'd like to work with me, so we spoke, hammered out a deal, and I got to work. Working with everyone at SG has been great. Everyone there is extremely professional and passionate about the books they publish, and it shows not only in their dealings with authors, but in the final products. Seasoned as I am, I do continue to learn, always. It's a must for artists. I don't care how extensive one's resume is, once you feel you know it all or can't improve and continue to evolve as an artist, you're dead in the water. It's like spending your life climbing a mountain you know you'll never reach the summit of, because that summit doesn't exist. The climb, the journey, the process of attempting to get there is where the magic is, where the real power is as an artist. You just have to be willing to see it that way and not only accept it, but embrace it.
As for Savages specifically, I did learn some things writing it, yes. I'd never written anything exactly like it before, so it was a challenge, in that my goal was to do an homage to some of the great pulp novels and drive-in movies of the 1970s (like Shockwaves, for example), and I hope I succeeded in doing just that. Savages is more bare bones and less existentialist than most of my other work, more straightforward, so it was something I wanted to see if I could not only do, but do well, and hopefully I succeeded in that as well. Savages needed to be sleek, like a bullet, and the plot and character development had to keep moving, always being in motion. Like a shark, in this kind of novel, if it stops, it dies, so it helped return me in some ways to my crime writing roots and the James M. Cain school of sleek, bare bones prose that is effective but at times still poetic in its own way. In terms of getting the novel 'out there' SG has done a great job of that with their publicity and PR people, primarily through the work of Erin Sweet-Al-Mehairi, who is not only an excellent publicist but one of the smartest and nicest people in this business. A godsend, really, and it's always a pleasure working with her. Been nothing short of that promoting Savages with her expertise and guidance.
Jay Kay: Savages opens with an incredible trauma that for many is one of several lingering and deep seated fears, travel. We see a ship supposedly crashing into a piece of land that was not mapped. This leads to the idea that this island in the South Pacific was never supposed to be discovered which builds the horror on several levels. With those pillars in place, where did Savages come from and did any personal fears play into the idea a ship crashing instead of plane? Was it difficult to construct that experience of the survivors being thrust into and dealing with a possible watery grave?
GG: Savages was really born from the pulp novels and movies of the 1970s, as I mentioned. I had always wanted to write this novel, and the concept had been in my head for years, but I'd never really had the chance to do it. It never seemed the right time for it, until the deal with SG came through. I felt it would be a good fit for them, so I went ahead with it. It came also from some of my favorite novels, including Lord of the Flies and Deliverance (which I believe is one of the great American novels and one of the great novels period), and other works like that I have always been fascinated by. As a writer, I am of course a student of human behavior and the human condition, and that's what interested me about this kind of premise. The idea of these people, all their usual safety nets and luxuries stripped away, trapped together in a scenario they could not escape, having to deal not only with each other and the breakdown of their civilized selves, but an outside evil as well. There are also personal fears at play, sure, I think that's always part of it and Savages is no exception. That fear of the unknown, the fear of survival itself, the breakdown of civilized behavior and the fight, the literal fight for survival. Because that's ultimately what survival is, a fight. It being a boat rather than a plane was just easier and made more sense to me, but sure, while I'm not the type of person who scares easily at all, I do have personal fears like anyone else, and plane crashes and shipwrecks are on the list. I've flown since I was a kid but I've never enjoyed it. And although I've grown up around water and the ocean and spent most of my life in or around it, I also have a deep fear of it when we're talking about the vastness of the ocean and a primal fear of the possibility of dying at sea, so those personal fears were part of the process, sure, they'd almost have to be, I think.
Jay Kay: Once the crash happens and we find the survivors on the island, we meet a very diverse group that is connected by their profession and social interactions. Talk to me about that group and how much of your personal life influenced these characters? How much did you want to play with the ideas of denial and reality with the characters overall?
GG: I have a connection in some way to all of my characters in any of my works, it's just a matter of degree. All the characters in Savages are based on people I've known or know, and to some degree, there are aspects of myself in them as well. Most are a compilation of people I've known. I know all these people on some level, and I wanted the reader to feel they knew them too. I wanted fully realized human beings, not just caricatures or one-dimensional types, and to get that you need to go deeper into who they are and why they are who they are, because that will tell you who they're likely to be and become as the story unfolds. That depth also gives layers not only to them, but to the novel, which is important. The whole denial and reality thing is difficult, because it's human nature to embrace both in times of enormous stress and danger, it all comes down to the individual and which better motivates them. If you know your characters, you know where and how to drop them into these scenes so they'll react and behave as you intend them to, but also in a way that is seamless, because that's who they are. That's the key.
Jay Kay: As we move into the story, we see certain roles established by each member of the group. As part of those alliances and roles, we see the dialogue find a balance of fear, acceptance and survival. We have sarcasm, humor and tension that floats with each sentence for different reasons. How much was the dialogue also reflected in your life and experiences? How much does fear and humor mirror each other as part of communication?
GG: Dialogue is huge for me. I think maybe it's because I come from an acting and theater background, where you learn the power of language and how it relates to not only the characters but to plot as well. Many of the conversations in Savages are similar to ones I've had with people over the years, albeit slightly different or set in different circumstances, the essence of them are real. I think in terms of using humor, you have to be careful, and it also depends what you're going for. I love comedy, but I don't care for comedy horror or comedy suspense. I like them to be separate (for the most part) as both a reader and writer or even as a moviegoer. That said, I think humor can be a great tool as long as it's real and not forced or injected for a cheap laugh. The humor in Savages is natural to the characters who use it, and most of it (at least in this novel) comes from a place of uncertainty or fear, nervousness, that kind of thing, so it fits not only the piece but the characters as well, because you feel that when they use humor this is how a person like that would use humor. This is how you avoid humor being clunky, out of place, or sudden and distracting. It has to be carefully woven into the fabric of the piece and true to those delivering it—the same as fear—or it becomes less about the piece and more a self-indulgent kind of thing, which I try to stay away from. For example, I've just finished a crime novel called Dangerous Boys, about young guys in the early 1980s who are low-level criminals trying to find their way through a difficult landscape and teetering between becoming something better or falling forever into that kind of life, and most of the characters are based on guys I used to run with when I was 17, 18, 19 in there. There's a lot of humor in the book (most of it less than PC), not because it's a comedy by any stretch of the imagination, it's a very dark story, but because that's how these guys talked and dealt with each other and interacted with the world around them. It's an edgy humor, sometimes a very dark humor, a rarely kind or gentle humor, but a humor that helps in some ways to not only define them, but to protect them as well, and end of the day, it's true to who they are and how they behave, so it works, it fits. In Savages, the humor is used much the same way. It's a natural extension of who they are, applied in situations where they'd likely use it.
Jay Kay: The island for me makes me think of the television show Lost. Like the television show, we see details develop as we go deeper into the island and explore. You also explore the island with very lingering and micro description. Was the island originally constructed as part of the planning and pre-write or did it fully become flushed out as you went through each draft?
GG: From the earliest planning stages of Savages, I knew I wanted the island to be small but dense, and I wanted it to essentially act as another character that would slowly show who, or in this case, what it was and what it was hiding. It's alive and at once beautiful and dangerous, and I wanted to portray it that way. It also appealed to me in the sense that it was almost another planet—or, as one of the characters says, may as well have been—it's so foreign to the people shipwrecked there. And that's important because it adds to the isolation and feeling of being so far from home and anything they know or recognize or can take comfort in. Even the beauty is treacherous, so nothing can really be trusted. As one draft became the next, the island continued to deepen and sharpen and I continued to hone it best I could. Hopefully the end result reflects what I was going for,
Jay Kay: What was your favorite aspect of the island in Savages? What was the thinking with the island detail and effect during the daytime versus the night?
GG: Probably the unknown aspects, the mystery of it, at least initially and for a while, and the way it acts almost like another character unto itself. The detail and night versus daylight angles again had to do with fleshing the island out in a sense, fully revealing without giving away all its secrets just how dangerous and unknown this place was. I wanted it to be frightening at night for all the primal reasons darkness is frightening to human beings, but also to be frightening in the light of day as well, in the beautiful sunshine, so that the level of danger and fear never truly lessened, but rather continued day and night, getting worse with the passing of each sunrise and sunset, as the truth of what they are dealing with (beyond themselves) begins to emerge.
Jay Kay: As we move deeper into the story and island, we realize that there is something truly terrible, insidious that has happened during a very violent and horrible time in our worlds history. War can change people, transform people and bring out worst as well as best in them. How much research did you do looking at the idea of torture, testing and occult during the war time?
GG: Enormous amounts, and it's something I've researched a great deal prior to this novel. The whole occult/torture theme appears within war and outside war in some other works of mine, and I (unfortunately) am aware of it and know quite a bit about it on several different levels.
Jay Kay: These terrible events we come to learn are connected to a juggernaut monster. He is a hunter, a predator and something supernatural, where did this monster come from and when writing it, did you pull from any of your other works?
GG: It's difficult to answer this without giving a lot away, but I can say the being came from research and the stories of human versions of this happening on islands in the past. Once that concept was coupled with the occult aspects, I knew I had something. This being has not appeared in any of my other works, no. Not even in part. The things that make him possible have, but this juggernaut, as you rightly call him, is unique to Savages.
Jay Kay: The line "The longer we're stuck here, Dal, the less human we're going to get," is terrifying. Survival horror is terrifying because we see characters we connect to and come to endear turn out to possibly be the worst and most truthful versions of themselves. We see this with several characters' in very tragic and disturbing ways. Talk about this theme of finding the character's true selves in Savages and why survivalist horror is so effective and connecting?
GG: I think the answers to this can be found in my answers to previous questions about character and truth. That line is born from reality. Once people are taken from their safety zones and thrust into a world where none of the rules or basic elements of 'civilized' behavior apply, they do become less human in a sense, or at an absolute minimum are vulnerable to becoming so. The act of survival is violent and fairly horrific. Nature can be beautiful but also brutal. It's both. So is survival. It can and will bring out the best in people at times, and also the worst. The entire process fascinates me, and that's what I was most interested in while writing Savages.
Jay Kay: Talk with me about how each character faced trauma? We see it in different ways to cope, express and deal with it. Which character was the hardest for you to see go through all these traumatic events?
GG: I'd have to say it was difficult for me that they all had to go through these things. Some characters you feel for more than others, but when you've created them and know them inside and out (and in a much deeper way than is ever expressed on the page), you know the good and bad in them, you understand why they're doing what they're doing, or not doing. It's hard knowing these people will be dropped into a meat grinder, essentially. I can't say which character was hardest without giving away too much, so I won't use names. But there is one character, who is sort of the moral center of the group, that I had the hardest time putting through the ringer.
Jay Kay: The overall theme that is realized and established is that there will be no rescue or recovery for multiple reasons. Does this overall heavy conclusion affect you as author of this world?
GG: Absolutely. As the cover states, there is no escape. And even if there eventually might be, it won't be what they're hoping for really. There is a bleak nature to it, I guess, but I wouldn't say it's totally hopeless (and without giving away too much, there is a rescue, of sorts, at the end). But this is also the power of the piece for me. It's a trade.
Jay Kay: Every character in Savages is well crafted and evolving. However, the trio of the survivalist Gino and the couple of Dallas and Quinn especially are the pillars of this story. Can you talk about these three characters in regards to dealing with their lives before the crash and after as well as their evolution in the pages? With Quinn, what was that experience like to construct empowering female characters?
GG: In terms of Quinn, it wasn't difficult. Most of my work features strong characters, male and female. I don't write wilting female characters who sit around crying and waiting to be rescued. My female characters tend to be just as tough, if not tougher, than their male counterparts, and Quinn is certainly no exception. My characters tend to be deeply damaged and flawed—sometimes even virtually destroyed emotionally—but rarely weak. The challenge in writing Quinn specifically was to balance her heroism and physicality with her intelligence and humanity while not losing her vulnerability or femininity. She's tougher and smarter than anyone else there, and that's not in spite of her being female, but rather precisely because she's female—it's born from her femininity—and that's exactly how I wrote her. Her actions, her toughness and power were natural parts of who she is as a human being, so again, knowing the character, all I had to do was be true to her and who she was. With Dallas, it was much the same, but from the other side of the coin. Dallas is sensitive and smart and less physically tough than his wife Quinn, but doesn't lose his masculinity or any of his vulnerability as a man either, because this is who he is, the man he is. Gino. Well, Gino is what he is. He's a guy who sees the world and people in it as a challenge, a game in a sense, and he plans to win and be in charge and lead the pack, so to speak. He's the alpha male, whether he should be or not, and while he talks the talk, he also does walk the walk for the most part, and he, simply by virtue of his training and previous experiences, is the best equipped (at least initially) to lead and to help the group survive. He's an Italian guy with a chip on his shoulder (something I'm familiar with being one myself), and while I'm very different and nothing like Gino really beyond that, we do share certain things. The difference is Gino has a coldness to him, a cruelty he views as necessary. It's not about right or wrong for him, it's about results, and the result he wants on this island is to live and to make sure his friends live too. The evolution of these characters and how these traits all come into play was what was most interesting to me, as they both help define who these people are and keep the story rocketing ahead and toward its deadly conclusion. In terms of the before and after aspect, all the characters are the same after the crash as they were before, the situation simply reveals them. As things get worse, it is revealed more and more, through circumstance and necessity, who they really are, who they've always been. It's just that they've been in different situations, ones that didn't necessarily require the same level of self-exposure. And that's really how it goes down on the island. These people are (eventually) fully revealed, not only to the reader, but to themselves as well.
Jay Kay: How much did being a senior editor at DarkFuse Publishing reflect the process of your works including Savages?
GG: To some degree, my experience as an editor always helps and influences my work as a writer. It helps in knowing how to do things correctly from a technical aspect and also helps in breaking things down to the bone, where they need to be, so you can build out from there. But listen, every writer, I don't care how good you are or think you are or others think you are, benefits from a good editor. And editing one's own work, while a skill unto itself (and it really is), only goes so far. Someone in my position can edit my own work to a much greater degree than someone without my experience, sure, but that doesn't mean I also don't benefit from a superior editor, because it's much like a doctor treating their own child. It only works until you reach the point where you can no longer be objective. That's when a good editor can be invaluable. With Savages, I turned in a pretty clean manuscript (which I have always prided myself in doing over the years), so generally, my manuscripts tend to need less editing than some, but we can all benefit from a strong editor. The key is to work with good ones. Just like there are a lot of people out there calling themselves writers who have no business doing so, there are just as many calling themselves editors who have no idea what they're doing. Any good house, even smaller or independent ones, have editors on staff who are professionals, but if you need help prior to that point, do your research and find a pro, someone who knows what they're doing and understands what an editor is. Quick hint, it's more than copy editing, more than someone who simply catches your typos and grammar mistakes. But for me, yes, I find that experience very helpful as a writer, and continues to be.
Jay Kay: What is next for you and where can we find out more about you?
GG: I have several upcoming projects, including some new novels and novellas coming in 2017, and also First Impressions, another of my short stories, is being filmed right now, directed by the amazing Eric Shapiro (who directed the film version of my short story Hoax this year), for the DarkFuse Presents series. Lots of exciting things happening I can't talk about publicly yet but stay tuned. The best way to find out more about me or keep track of what's happening is to check me out on Facebook and Twitter. My official website (gregfgifune.com) is being redone and is down right now, so social media is the best way to find me.
Jay Kay: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us, Greg!


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Kilronan Castle Estate & Spa
One of Ireland's most luxurious Castle Hotels in Roscommon Ireland, Kilronan Castle Ireland is the ancestral home of the Tennison family and the legendary Colonel King Tennison. It is one of a few Irish castle estates that can trace its history back to royal families. This secluded, luxury, Roscommon Castle hotel is majestically set on the shores of Lough Meelagh, surrounded by over forty acres of breathtaking Irish scenery, lush green pastures, ancient forests and historical points of interest. Approached by a meandering drive that passes acres of magnificent Roscommon lawns, the luxury Castle hotel overlooks a glistening lake which commands the panoramic beauty of the surrounds. Our World Class Spa & Leisure Centre is now open. Relax and unwind in our Pool or let us pamper you with one of our luxurious treatments. Our commitment is to provide the highest level of luxury, comfort and service. You will enjoy old world elegance with modern day comforts. One step inside Kilronan Castle, Roscommon and you are at home. With our warm and friendly atmosphere we will see to your every need, everything has been designed with your desires in mind.
Address: Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon, F52 R867
- Arigna Mining Experience - km
- Lough Key Forest Park - km
Things to See & Do
- Arigna Mining Experience
- Lough Key Forest Park
- Boyle Abbey
- Roscommon Racecourse
- Roscommon Train Station
Arigna Mining Experience
Lough Key Forest Park
Boyle Abbey
Things to Do
Arigna Mining Experience: If you are looking for a day out with a difference, The Arigna Mining Experience is like no other heritage site in Ireland. Take an underground tour in a disused coal tunnel with a former miner as your guide where you can see the narrowest coal seams in the western world. Over 400 years of mining heritage in the Arigna Valley is brought back to life through the use of exhibitions, audio visual presentations and a demonstration of the different extraction methods. The authentic lighting and sound effects throughout the mine add to the reality of the experience.
Rathcroghan Royal Site: Rathcroghan is the ancient heart of the West of Ireland. It is the home of the Warrior Queen Medbh, the Goddess of War, as well as being the origin for the festival of Halloween. The Rathcroghan Complex, with over 200 ancient monuments, is the historical royal capital of Connacht. The Visitor Centre, in the Medieval village of Tulsk, provides professional guided tours, maps and advice; family friendly activities, workshops and special events, and full café facilities. Whether your interest is History, Genealogy, Literature, Archaeology, Heritage, Spirituality, or Mythology, you will find something here that will capture your imagination.
Strokestown Park & National Famine Museum: Strokestown Park is a unique visitor attraction comprising Strokestown Park House, walled pleasure gardens and the National Famine Museum. A tour of The House gives an intimate insight into life in The Big House, upstairs and downstairs. The Irish National Famine Museum tells a different story and highlights the disparities between social classes during a tragic chapter of Irish History.
Lough Key Forest Park: This historic forest outside the town of Boyle contains a bunch of attractions with a lakeside centre providing an ideal gateway for gentle leisurely activities or more energetic pursuits in the Park. Featuring unique group activities such as the Boda Borg experience and zip lining, to walking and cycling routes, this area will be of interest to adults and kids of all ages.
Roscommon Castle: Just outside Roscommon town, this impressive 13th Century Norman Castle has a chequered history, having been besieged, blown up and burned down over the centuries. Today, you can explore this past while enjoying the adjacent 14 acre Loughnaneane Park and Playground.
Boyle Abbey: An impressive and well preserved Monastery which was founded in the 12th century. Though mutilated during the 17th and 18th centuries when it used to accommodate a military garrison, Boyle Abbey nevertheless retains its ability to impress the visitor as one of the most formidable of the early Cistercian foundations in Ireland. A restored gatehouse of 16th/17th century houses a fascinating exhibition.
Rindoon Village and Walking Trails: Rindoon is an abandoned medieval village and a walker's delight. It is home to Warren Point and Castle Looped Walking Trails which have opened up this tranquil farmland peninsula to the interested visitor. Walking here, you get a sense that past and present are closely interleaved. You will be captivated by the fascinating remains of an Anglo-Norman castle and walled town.
Tullyboy Farm: This real working farm is a great family day out in a safe environment. There is a whole range of activities available, including miniature tractor barrel rides, straw dives for goodies, a playground, indoor and outdoor picnic areas, a large indoor sandpit and toy tractor run. There is also a petting zoo featuring puppies, piglets, Llamas, Alpaca, Emu, and lots more.
Elphin Windmill: This fully restored 18th-century tower mill in Elphin is one of the oldest operational windmills in Ireland. Built around 1740, the mill provided corn meal for people in the area for almost a century, before falling into disuse. The windmill was reopened in 2000 and is a community run project that demonstrates how the mill, as well as other agricultural equipment, were operated in times past.
Roscommon County Museum and Tourist Office: To get a good overview of this county and its' history, a visit to Roscommon Museum is recommended. Located in a former Presbyterian Church the museum houses many exhibits about the town and the county. Items of interest include a 9th Century inscribed slab from St. Coman's foundation, a dugout prehistoric canoe; and a fascinating example of a 'sheela-na-gig' figure from Rahara. The Roscommon Tourist Information Office is also housed in the same building and is open from May to September.


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By Kim Rahn
Staff Reporter
Some 65 percent of Koreans said they are happy and grateful, according to a survey of 1,000 adults by Media Research, Monday, with an average ``happiness score'' of 14.3 out of 20.
Age, sex, educational background, marriage and religion had little influence on happiness, according to the survey, jointly conducted by The Hankook Ilbo, a sister paper of The Korea Times. Instead, the key to happiness was gratitude ㅡ the average happiness level of those who are thankful in their daily lives was 16.6, almost double the 8.9 of those who lacked gratitude.
Thankfulness was a more important ingredient than wealth in making people happy: The happiness level of those having little appreciation was low, between 8 and 10.3, whether they earned less than one million won per month or more than five million won; but the level of those with much gratitude ranged from 15.7 to 17.1 regardless of income.
``Positive psychology, a recent branch of psychology studying virtues that enable individuals to thrive, emphasizes gratitude as a factor for happiness. The theory says gratefulness makes people happier than accomplishment and satisfaction, pleasure, or self-esteem,'' said Kim Joo-hoan, a Yonsei University professor.
In regard to the worldwide economic slowdown, 76 percent said they think the situation was very serious, particularly those running their own businesses and earning less than one million won monthly.
When asked whether they are happier now than a year before, 35.5 percent said yes. Some 50 percent said their happiness level was similar to that of a year ago, while only 13.6 percent said they were less happy.
``It means that despite people have economic difficulty, they are trying to remain happy,'' Kim said.
Respondents were also positive about their ability ㅡ more than 67 percent said they were confident about overcoming difficulty.


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Shire has settled a long-running patent dispute with Barr Pharmaceuticals over the US firm's attempt to market generic versions of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug, Adderall XR.
Shire, the maker of the Adderall XR, said Barr would not be permitted to market a generic version in the US until April 1, 2009, except for certain limited circumstances such as the introduction of a generic version by another firm.
Last year, sales of the once-daily pill totalled $730.8m, representing 46 per cent of Shire's revenues.
As part of the settlement, Barr has agreed to permanent injunctions confirming the validity of three Shire patents and has also admitted that any generic product made under an abbreviated new drug application would infringe on one of these patents.
Shire said no payments to Barr are involved in the deal.
ìWe are very pleased to have reached this settlement on terms that are consistent with our beliefs that Shire's patents are valid and enforceable and infringed by would-be generic competitors,î said Shire chief executive, Matthew Emmens.
In January, Shire announced a settlement with Impax Laboratories allowing the generics firm to market a version of Adderall no earlier than 181 days following a Barr launch.
Analysts said the Barr agreement was very significant for Shire, because it will now ensure ongoing sales of Adderall XR until the UK company can switch patients to its successor, NRP104, which is expected to be launched in early 2007.
In separate agreements, Barr's subsidiary, Duramed, has agreed to buy the original `immediate release' formulation of Adderall from Shire for $63m, while Shire will pay up to $165m for the rights to sell oral contraceptive, Seasonique, and transvaginal ring technology that will be applied to five women's health products, made by Duramed, in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
The Barr settlement has yet to be approved by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) although one analyst commented that the deal was ìnot too offensiveî to antitrust authorities.
ìGiven the structure of the deal, we think there is a reduced probability that the FTC/Department of Justice intervenes,î said analysts at Morgan Stanley in a research note.
In early trade on 15th August, shares in Shire jumped over 5 per cent.
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We are two Icelandic girls, Birna & Hrefna, who moved to Aarhus when we started studying at Kaospilot. When one moves to a new country, it always takes some time to find the best bun in town, comfortable hang out places, and to feel at home.
Hi I'm Birna
and I'm Hrefna
We want to take you through a perfect day in Aarhus when the sun was shining and it felt like summer (Yes, we are from Iceland, so it doesn't take much for us to feel warm) Whether you're moving to Aarhus or just visiting for a weekend trip, we hope we can help you discover places to visit.
Oh, and just for your information, this post is not an #ad
You might not think that taking a cold dip in the sea and to sweat in a sauna with a lot of old, naked men is way to start the perfect winter day but when you have a place like Jomsborg, it actually is. Surrounded by Risskov forrest and beautiful beaches, the winter bathing club Jomsborg has become a sanctuary for many people in Aarhus. It's only a 10 minute bike ride from the city center and allows you to escape to a place where cellphones, clothes, or judgement is not allowed. Jomsborg really makes up for the warm swimming pools that we miss so much in Iceland.
We usually enjoy our morning cup of coffee at school. However, on special days we like taking a stroll through Graven and enjoying a cup of coffee on Hipster Hill. A macchiato on a cold winter day and an iced coffee on a warm summer day, or anytime during the year – did we mention we're from Iceland? We recommend bringing your own cup in order to save plastic, even though we didn't manage to plan ahead this time. We also love treating ourselves to a Danish scone with an extra slice of cheese. Hipster Hill is the perfect place for people-watching and for people to meet. You will most likely run into a Kaospilot there in the weekends. Say hi! We're quite friendly.
Taking time out to focus on our heart and soul is important. A perfect way to feel at ease is to take a break, a lot of them, and talk about our emotions. Birna is the person to look for when you are in need of a prediction into an uncertain future. She will also play you good tunes and offer advice on which books to read. WIN.
We. Love. Printing. And we love cheap printing. Here we allow our inner designer to roam free and create photos, posters or gifts for friends. Self-service, enough said. (If you are in need of any assistance, give Hrefna a call)
Planteceféen is a café filled with tropical vibes, plants, coffee, and scones. Yes, we like coffee and scones. It is the place to be in the winter when the days are shorter and you feel the need to connect with nature. It is also the most instagram friendly place in Aarhus.
Our next stop is REUSE, where one woman's helmet is another woman's headpiece. Need a new bookshelf? Don't know what to do with your old chair? REUSE has got you covered. This wonderful place allows people of Aarhus to reuse each other's furniture, for free! Reusing is life, good for the wallet, and good for our planet.
Even though the supermarkets are super confusing in Denmark, the prices are low so we can't complain (at least compared to pricy Iceland). We picked up some wine and beans and headed home for a more student-friendly dinner party.
We headed home after a long day of enjoying our favourite city. ♡ Thank you for following our journey. We hope to see you around Aarhus.
Other places we love in Aarhus:
Bazar Vest
The Clothing Club
Oli Nico – Best mussels
Marselisborg Beach


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For twenty-two years I've carried a photograph in my memory. At first glance it is rather prosaic: Two young mothers sharing lunch in a sunny, well-organized kitchen. The conversation is lively and the smiles are genuine. The healthy baby in the highchair happily pinching cheerios between pointer and thumb and the healthy toddler on a blanket happily stacking rings onto a plastic post are both picture-perfect. There is no crying, no fussing, no trace of the awkwardness I was expecting.
Two-and-a-half years earlier we had both announced our pregnancies to our young-marrieds Sunday school class on the same day. And then she lost her baby.
My husband said it was too bad that it wasn't me instead. My look of horror caused him to explain: "She isn't handling it well, you're stronger", he said. Still.
I took the brunt of her "not handling it well", probably because my growing belly was a weekly reminder of her loss. I'm still not sure what all "not handling it well" involved, but my spirit felt whatever it was, and I saw the looks and the whispers. I cut her lots of slack, though, because she was hurting and I knew it was going to take her some time to recover.
And then two-and-a-half years later she invited me to her house for lunch. She had, in the meantime, given birth to a beautiful baby girl. We had been cordial all this time in Sunday school, but we hadn't been socializing outside of class the way we once did. Perhaps we were both afraid of tripping over the lumps under the rug. Which is why I expected lunch to be awkward.
But it wasn't. She put a lovely plate of food in front of me, sat down across the table from me and said, "I want to apologize for my behavior. I was wicked. I said horrible, untrue things about you." No hemming, no hawing, no excuses, no awkwardness whatsoever. Just a brave, confident apology. "You were hurting, I forgave you way back then." And then we enjoyed a very pleasant lunch and play time with our daughters.
My cordial, walking-on-eggshells, I-forgive-you-but-I don't-really-trust-you attitude toward her changed instantly and completely to one of high respect. We were friends again.
About ten years later I was sitting in the circle of a large non-denominational Bible study. There were women in attendance from many denominations, churches and surrounding cities. When it was my turn to introduce myself, the woman next to me bristled and muttered something very surprising under her breath.
Have you heard the sermon illustration about the woman who confessed gossip to her pastor? The pastor took her to the roof of the church with a feather pillow in hand. He slit the cover of the pillow allowing the feathers to swirl and scatter in the wind. Then he said, "I forgive you, now go pick up the feathers."
The "horrible, untrue things" my friend said were still swirling all those years later. One had landed at some point on the woman next to me. That's the problem with feathers scattered to the wind, it is impossible to go back and collect them all. I just smiled at her as if I had not heard her comment. I knew its source. And I wondered whether listening to gossip and believing it and allowing it to form your opinion of someone without actually verifying it isn't just as sinful as generating it.
My friend moved to another state many years ago, before the Bible study incident, but we recently reconnected on Facebook. Every time I see her smiling face, I feel the same admiration for her that I felt in her tidy kitchen that day. No stray feathers will ever change that. And whenever my memory album flips open to that little picture, I am reminded of the enduring power of an apology.


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Hey. Today I wore a thrifted band shirt, I bought it on a fleamarket and the seller told me it's a Heavy Metal band. The tulle skirt is from my childhood, as is the bracelet. I also wear thrifted shoes (fleamarket!) and my mum's socks. And I wrote "Happy Bitchday" on my arm because it's my birthday tomorrow.
Yay for birthday! I will turn fifteen and I am not really exited, actually. I have a role in a huge play in our school, so I am very busy and don't have time to celebrate my birthday at all. But next week will be holidays! I really need holidays, duh.
Anyways, there's so much to catch on! I went to the "Leipziger Buchmesse" on Friday, and it was so amazing! It is a huge bookfair, and there was a huge hall ONLY FOR COMICS AND ANIME. Yeah you got me right. It was so incredibly awesome! There were, like, so many Cosplayers! And so much kawaii stuff! And so many Mangas! And Kittens! Ah! I was in awe and felt like in paradise. Here are a few pictures I took:
She was so cute!
The quote on the left thing-y says something like "In the middle of the winter it occured to me that there is this invincible summer inside of me." I love this quote! Especially as I am so sick of winter. It is march and there is snow outside, can you believe that?!
Well., in other news, my saturday was amazing. I sat in my bed, writing letters and this manifesto (read it, I am quite proud of it!), eating pizza and ice cream and listening to Reggae. Sounds quite amazing to me. Whatever, I am tired and talk only bullshit here.


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above: image of Lydia Hearst by Johan Renck, courtesy of her twitter feed
The press release:
A unique Traveler's Exclusive limited edition flavor celebrating the arts of photography and illusion, in creative collaboration with visionary artist Johan Renck.
On the eve of 22 October it was introduced for the first time at a glamorous sneak preview cocktail at Restaurant New York New York in Cannes — ABSOLUT EXPOSURE, the new eagerly anticipated and sensational Traveler's Exclusive limited edition flavor from the world's leading premium vodka brand.
ABSOLUT has pioneered the market with its previous Traveler's Exclusive limited edition launches. ABSOLUT EXPOSURE crosses new boundaries. A new-generation flavor crafted with honey melon and lemongrass, ABSOLUT EXPOSURE is presented in a bottle with an innovative and groundbreaking technique of incorporating photography — for the first time — in bottle printing, with stunning result.
"We're thrilled about the ABSOLUT EXPOSURE launch," says Anders Olsson, Director of The Absolut Company Global Travel Retail. "Both the product itself, the packaging and the campaign represents some of our core brand values — premiumness, innovation and cutting edge creativity. For a frontline brand as ABSOLUT, it's all about constantly pushing boundaries. This launch is also yet another tribute to the brand building qualities of our global duty free/travel retail market and a proud successor of our previous groundbreaking Traveler's Exclusive launches."
Visionary Swedish director, photographer and artist Johan Renck has photographed actress and supermodel Lydia Hearst guised in a number of different "personas". Three of these characters — called Carter, Trojan and Dimitty — were selected to illustrate the multifaceted nature of every individual, adding diversity to the product offer as well as an intriguing illusory effect to store displays. By purchasing all three bottles, the consumer acquires an instant ABSOLUT limited edition collection. In addition to the images of Lydia Hearst, the bottle décor also features a bowler hat (a trademark of Johan Renck) and hands "holding" the image, symbolizing the dual role of the artist — powerful in presence yet invisible in the work of art itself.
above: Instagram image courtesy of Lydia Hearst (that's Johan Renck with the bowler on)
"That's the complex and schizophrenic nature of the photographic medium — being the observer, a voyeur, yet ultimately commanding the position of deciding what reality or perception of reality to project," says Johan Renck.
ABSOLUT EXPOSURE will be launched throughout the global duty free/travel retail market in January 2013. ABSOLUT EXPOSURE will be supported by a powerful and innovative marketing campaign in all available media, including unique in-store brand installations.


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Elayne Spinks Kuehler, a Romantic Realist
|Plein air painting
|"Poetry in Motion"
She has studied with Barrie Van Osdell, Carol Peebles and Auseklis Ozols who each specialize in a different form of art. She has crafted her skills and has won many awards for her work. When she was 28 years old she found directions in an art magazine to enter the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club contest to be allowed the privilege of exhibiting in its gallery in New York. The CLWAC is named after a collector who wished to promote women artists. Her painting was accepted and she has since become a member with privileges of exhibiting there. That was her first competition. Since then she has won many awards internationally, nationally and regionally. Her website, lists all of her memberships and exhibitions.
|Teaching Studio
Elayne's art can be currently seen in several galleries including Taylor Clark Gallery in Baton Rouge, LA or on her website. She participates in exhibits across the nation and has often been selected to have one person exhibits. One such recently was in Fayetteville, Texas where she displayed her work featuring the hill country and its beautiful wildflowers. In October of 2014 her works will appear in the Garden District Gallery in New Orleans, LA and the Three Rivers Gallery in Covington, LA.
|"Hail Istrouma"-Private Collection
Prints available
Elayne is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended Istrouma High School. This year the school closed and Elayne created an oil painting of the building as she remembered it from her days there in the mid 60's. Istrouma has the unique distinction of having a closely-knit group of alums that gathers at least bi-annually at someone's country home for a meal, music and fun. The hosts of these gatherings are to be the recipients of the original oil painting as they have some very generous and appreciative friends. In order for more people to have a copy of the painting Elayne had giclée prints made for folks to purchase. These prints can be ordered directly from Elayne by contacting her through her website. They can also be purchased from Taylor Clark Gallery in Baton Rouge, LA. One can learn more about the alumni gatherings for graduates of the 50's and 60's by reading another post by this blogger.
|"Azalea Still Life"-award winner
Elayne Kuehler is a prolific painter who focuses on oil painting, but is equally talented with pencil drawings and she has illustrated a children's book as well. If you are lucky enough to see her works in person you should not miss the chance. However, her website depicts many still life paintings, pencil drawings, miniatures, landscapes and wild life works. She is versatile and widely recognized for her passion for art. She is shown here at the Brush With Burden exhibit in Baton Rouge in the spring of 2014 beside her award winning painting, Azalea Still Life.


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The adoption of eLearning in industrial fields has not been as fast as it could have been, but it is accelerating. This is due in large part to the advantages offered by eLearning over traditional classroom training. The difference in delivery, cost and effectiveness is considerable, enough to make even the most old-school project management professionals take a closer look at what eLearning has to offer. The need for project management training is ongoing, and eLearning options meet this need in a way that classroom training can not.
Online Learning Becomes Mainstream
Online learning is increasingly become a standard option for education across all disciplines. It's popularity is growing in the workforce and according to eLearning Industry, the projected spending by organizations on eLearning is expected to double over the period from 2013 through 2015. From statistics like these, it is apparent that online learning has crossed into mainstream. This is true for professionals.
Busy? 4 Reasons eLearning is for you
As online learning continues to develop and evolve, it is increasingly becoming the go-to option for project managers. This is true for several reasons, including:
The pace of change in project management continues to accelerate. While the industries where project managers do their work and are not eager to fix what isn't broken, they are also apt to adopt any technology that can make business more efficient and more profitable. This means that the tools and technologies used by project managers will continue to change, and probably at a faster rate than most are prepared for.
Online learning is much more capable of keeping pace with changing technology than classroom training. Because the system is modular, and developed for online access, it can quickly be updated as necessary. New modules can be created to address developments in a particular industry. This means that you can use eLearning to adapt to any changes in your field.
Traditional classroom instruction materials take a great deal of time to develop, and they also cost a considerable amount to publish. This encourages schools to use these materials for as long as possible. This is a problem in industries where specifications and technologies change on a regular basis. For project managers, the information given in classroom training may or may not be accurate in relation to what is currently going on in the workplace.
Online learning, on the other hand, is designed to be up-to-date. Accuracy is expected in eLearning, and any company that fails to meet these expectations will struggle to retain students. This means that if you are using a reputable online learning platform, you will only be learning from the most accurate materials available.
Classroom training typically happens over a short time period. A long weekend or a single week is usually all that is available to learn the required information. This has obvious drawbacks in a field where new information can be extremely complex. It also makes the instruction given in a classroom of limited usefulness.
When you are using online learning, however, you do not need to cram all available information over the course of a weekend. You can come back to the material when you actually need it. This makes it significantly more useful in a real-world setting. Because it is online, you could even brush up on information over a lunch break, or as you were working on a problem.
One of the great benefits of online learning over classroom training is the ability to time your instruction based on your need. While you can certainly take your time on what you are learning, you can also learn extremely quickly when necessary. This means that in situations where you need to acquire information fast – such as when you are facing a possible promotion, or when you need to solve a major problem quickly – you have the option of diving into the information.
eLearning Replacing Classrooms?
Because of its various advantages, online learning is increasingly being referred to as the future of education. The benefits listed above apply not only to project managers, but to anyone who wants to learn a new subject or skill as efficiently as possible. This is true in colleges and universities, in Fortune 500 companies and in the industrial sector.
The need for project management training is ongoing, and eLearning options meet this need in a way that classroom training can not.
If you would like to learn more about our online learning options and take advantage of the future of education for project managers and controllers, check out what Plan Academy has to offer today!
Here are 10 Ways eLearning Can Maximize Your ROI.


text: When Tyler turns up at the Salvatore house with the news that Markos' plan to break the witches' curse puts Stefan and Elena in imminent danger, Damon suggests they hide out in the remote cabin once owned by Caroline's father. Once there, it becomes obvious to Caroline that Stefan and Elena are keeping a secret, so Damon comes up with a parlor game designed to expose the truth. A ghostly presence at the cabin uses violence and fire to make itself known. Meanwhile, Matt takes charge of Tyler's plan to get information from one of the Travelers, and Bonnie continues to keep the truth about the Other Side from Jeremy, despite warnings from Grams.