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A love for beautiful things motivated our 2017 Gen.T lister Jenn Low to leave a career in merchandise planning to dabble in costume jewellery some six years ago.
Today, her brand Wanderlust+Co has a cult following all over the world from the US to Australia and Asia.
Also read: The inspiring story of how it all started for Jenn Low and Wanderlust+Co
IT girls like Gigi Hadid, Jessica Alba, Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian and Chrissy Teigen are rocking her accessories as they go about doing their thing.
Jenn's personal mantra of 'dream and hustle' is the driving force of Wanderlust+Co, and it has given rise to the popularity of its mantra bangles and Girlgang collections.
That being said, Jenn's crush-worthy style makes her an IT Girl on her own merit. The energetic mother of one adorable baby girl sees accessorising as a way to express herself.
"To choose the right adornment, you should find a part of your body to accentuate. From there, choose a metal colour that you like. The important thing is to just have fun with it!" she says.
Here, the queen of accessories share her favourite jewellery combos for each occasion:
Girls Night Out
"I think that women like to be on trend and look sophisticated on a girls night out. Chokers are still fun and very on-trend, which I think would make a woman feel even more confident with her girls."
Date Night
"Women want to feel sexy and elegant on date night. Little gold drop earrings are sexy because they draw attention to your neck and shoulders. Personally, I think date nights are the best occasion to wear delicate necklaces or lariats."
Coffee Run
" When you say coffee runs, the first thing that comes to mind are sneakers! You just want to be comfortable but not too casual. I'd style my look with lots of different rings and hand chains. Layered rings are also a cool look. You can take your #ootd with a coffee cup with the attention around your hands. It's an effortless style statement."
Beach Vacays
"I love wearing silver metals with a mixture of natural stones such as turquoise and marble stones on beach holidays. There's something so summery about it. You also don't want to be too fussed about too much jewellery so chunky rings are great too."
Family Reunion
"Spherical shapes are in this season. There's something about the clean lines and shapes that are not too fussy but still makes a statement in its simplicity—perfect for time with the fam. I would look to Olivia Palermo as a style muse for occasions such as these."
Credits for main photo:
Hair: Ckay Liow
Makeup: Joey Yap
Watch: Hublot
Outfit: Dior
Another Malaysian constantly pushing the boundaries of e-commerce is Vivy Yusof who recently collaborated with Princess Sarah of Brunei for The Royal dUCk collection.


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Let me preface this by saying that these days when I post on Steepster it is almost always a backlog. Rather than going through spurts of posting a lost and periods of not feeling like writing about tea, I've taken to writing all my posts in a Libre Office file and copy/paste them from there, adding a personal note of general update if and when necessary. I'm trying to space them out more or less equally so as to keep up a relatively constant level of activity on the site. Therefore, by the time you actually read this, the box is well on its way through the remainder of the list.
This is the first tea I'm trying out of the EU travelling teabox, the first teabox I've even considered participating in since… well, yeah, some of you remember the very first teabox we had on Steepster which was fun to organise but there were some other PITA things about it that rather burned me out on travelling teaboxes in general. I did this one because it was local (ish. Bear with me and my inaccurate use of the word 'local' here. You know what I mean), a small chain and not me organising. Furthermore it has emphasis on things that for the most part I can actually buy myself, so I'm treating it as away of introducing myself to things that I didn't know were available to me.
I've taken a fair selection out of it so far for keeps and am going to see if I can try a few of the
others before sending on. This is one that I'm just trying.
It has those little candy hearts in the leaf and it smells rather sweet. I'm wondering if what I'm actually going to get is a cup of pre-sweetened tea which is not a happy prospect for someone who doesn't like sweetened tea at all. It also smells vaguely citrus-y and a little creamy, and it reminds me a great deal of oranges.
This definitely has some citrus in it, because it tastes a bit like orange. No, not orange, really, more like orange blossoms. It also tastes a fair bit of milk, strangely, which leads me to wonder what those little hearts were actually made of. It's not as sugar-y sweet as I had feared at all.
I can't really pick much up about the base of it. It's all hidden in a cloud of milky fatness.
This will stay quite firmly a 'try' and not a 'take'. I find it a little boring and uninspiring.
I love the tea name but I am not very fond of teas with sugar or candy's addition directly in the leaf
I love the tea name but I am not very fond of teas with sugar or candy's addition directly in the leaf

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Biobased Chemistry
- Détails
Carbohydrates represent an interesting resource as they are very available, renewable, complex and chiral molecules. Our projects concern the use of various sugars as starting materials towards chemical intermediates (synthons), functional molecules (monomers, surfactants) or organocatalysts. These projects require both a methodological and fundamental approach focused on selectivity and reactivity issues, as well as on the media which can be used, and the understanding of structure- property relationships. Same strategies can also relate to targets of biological relevance. The projects are built in the frame of collaborations with industrial partners (such as Solvay, ITERG…), other academic laboratories specialized in polymers (Lyon, Bordeaux…), catalysis (Lyon, Poitiers…), physical chemistry (York, Lille…). The team has recognized competences in carbohydrate chemistry through its scientific production, its international relationships (UK, China, Portugal…), its expertise and evaluation activities, meetings organization (such as the French Chinese Conferences in Green Chemistry) and edition duties.
Design of molecules with biological relevance
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The team COB is strongly involved at the chemistry-biology interface, through three types of projects :
1) methodological explorations at the synthetic and physico-chemical level (built on our competences in carbohydrate, lipid and heterocyclic chemistry),
2) the rational design of biologically active molecules (with antibacterial, pesticide, rodenticide activities), within collaborations with several biology labs, notably those belonging to the Biosciences department of INSA Lyon, but also Vet Agro Sup in Lyon, the ISV and LEBS labs in Gif sur Yvette, the University of Santiago in Chile, and in some cases, industrial partners.


text: Edelweiss Begins Its Earth Expedition By Ron Lieback - December 1, 2010 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Pinterest Email Print WhatsApp ReddIt Motorcycle Tour Around the GlobeOn Nov. 21, in Mieming, Austria, Edelweiss – the world's number 1 guided motorcycle tour company – began their Discover Our Earth Expedition. The trip, which is a tour around the globe, will traverse 40,000 miles and last eight months. The tour is the zenith in Edelweiss's 30 years of creating and operating tours around the world for the discerning motorcycle adventurer.The start of this particular tour represents a year of preparation and symbolically started at Edelweiss' home base of Mieming, Austria (which they declare is the center of the universe). Edelweiss has led almost 30,000 motorcycle enthusiasts on over 1,600 tours to all parts of the world since 1980 and for the ultimate celebration they decided to mount the most spectacular motorcycle tour.Thirty, two-wheel adventurers from the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria signed up to be part of this landmark celebration by Edelweiss. Company founder, Werner Wachter, commented moments before departing on the gargantuan journey: "I am excited and very happy that we finally start!" Short but sweet, Wachter's words reflect an unbridled enthusiasm for creating an unequaled venue to give motorcycle enthusiasts the opportunity to comb the world on two-wheels.The Discover Our Earth Expedition started in Mieming, Austria and will travel first to Southern Spain, then cross the Mediterranean to Morocco, delving into the Western Sahara. The travelers will return to Malaga for a flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina. From there they will ride down to Ushuaia before traveling back up to Bogota, Columbia. Crossing the Panama Canal the adventurers will cross Latin America, traveling north to Los Angeles, California. From L.A. they will make the flight across the Pacific to Australia, where they will ride from Sydney, through Red Rock Country, all the way to Perth. The final stage begins in Bangkok, Thailand with the route covering some of the most exotic countries in Asia before returning to Meiming, Austria on July 27, 2011. Stay up to date with Edelweiss online and follow the Discover Our Earth blog at worldtourer.com.


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Those tri-corders from Sunday morning Star Trek re-runs were pretty cool back in the Seventies. My kid brother and I would pile up on the king-sized water bed for our weekly intergalactic adventures of the Starship Enterprise, robotic cries of "Danger, Will Robinson!", and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. No worries, we got a nice dose of educational programming with Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. We would eat Jethro bowls of Lucky Charms or Froot Loops while our parents snoozed through the morning without having to worry about us killing each other for a couple of blissful hours, photon torpedoes and depth charges notwithstanding.
These were the glory days before my head was forever turned by a galaxy far, far away. Somehow, in that mishmash of memory called kiddom, Star Wars and Clash of the Titans marked a sort of awakening. It wasn't quite the magic of cinema that captured my heart, even with the stunning special effects and virtually invisible wires holding up the Millennium Falcon, but the power of story. I saw a connection. I wasn't able to quite articulate it, but it was there. By the time Excalibur rolled around in the early Eighties, I was hooked by the power of myth.
It's funny how fortune/fate/God's plan works. I am not one to bemoan those "if only's" of life. Believe me, I've heard "Mom, YOU could've been the Pioneer Woman" enough to laugh it off without even a catch of regret in my mirth. I believe I'm where I'm meant to be. As a writer, however, I have a big honking "if only". I did not discover Joseph Campbell and his phenomenal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces until my mid-forties. Studying and teaching the concept of the heroic cycle brought back that intuitive recognition of monomyth from my childhood. Actually, I credit Campbell with lighting the fire under my butt to write my own stories. Had I been exposed to this stuff in undergrad school, it is highly likely that the entire trajectory of my adulthood would have fundamentally shifted. Plus, the odds of me penning for some "expanded universe" would've been much higher.
Fortunately for me, that was neither my fate nor the Good Lord's direction for those eventful decades. By showing students the hero's journey in works ranging from The Odyssey to the Harry Potter series, I've been able to refine my own journey. At its heart, the harrowing tale of Debbie Ballard is a creation myth. One doesn't have to roam the Aegean, search twenty thousand leagues under the sea, or make the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs to discover the hero within. You might just find her echoing that story connecting us all… at the craggy trunk of a tree on a lonely Alabama mountain whose siren call haunts the recesses of memory.
Don't know Joseph Campbell? Check this out!
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Heir-Ship Cases Register
When person dies without leaving any valid will his property passes to his legal hairs by personal law of deceased person. His legal heirs receive property by succession. Any person acquiring by succession, any right over the land is required to report his acquisition of such right to the Talathi for the purpose of registration of heirship. Talathi makes an entry in the register of mutations (Village Form VI) only after completing registration of heirship. Heirship case register is prepared by Talathi under Village Forms VI-C.
Heir-Ship Cases Register is prepared on the basis of the below mentioned factors,
- An application to the Tahasildar by one of the heir along with his affidavit. The affidavit should contain the below mentioned details:
- The name of the deceased occupant or the name of the deceased "other right holder." ("other right holder" means person whose name is entered in "other right" column of village form VII)
- Date of death.
- Names of the legal heirs.
- Names of the heirs with whom land is in actual possession.("Occupant")
- Death Certificate
- A summary enquiry undertaken by the Tahsildar, through Talathi, to ascertain the legal heirs of the deceased, so far as may be possible.
1. Name of the deceased occupant or the name of the deceased "other right holder. Date of death.
2. Old khata number of village form VIII-A.( deceased occupant's khata number)
3. Names of the legal heirs
4. Names of the heirs with whom land is in actual possession.("Occupant")
5. Details of the order of the Tahasildar as to who should be entered as a "Occupant" and who should be entered in the "other right column" of Village Form VII.
6. Entry number of village form VI regarding decision taken by Tahsildar about heir-ships.
A Tahsildar has no right to decide on disputed issues of title or succession. Heirship case register creates no title. Any person, who believes that he too is a legal heir, is always be entitled to ignore Heirship case and institute appropriate proceedings before a competent court.
In case the person whose name appeared on the Record of Right is disappeared for more than seven years without any proof that he is alive, his legal heirs can claim their right over the land. The claim of the persons in possession of the lands can be considered if there are no legal heirs to claim the right over land.


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INTERFERENCE Project: Anywhere Out of the World 2.0
A subtle installation will overcome the walls set by the physical world and invite the viewer to take part in an immersive experience. Such a work aims to raise the public's awareness about the ways we perceive, and experience, the public space so as to stimulate unexplored reflections. [Text by Rim Bchir]
INTERFERENCE Site: Dar Lasram (24, rue du Tribunal, Tunis)
Rim Bchir
In her series Anywhere Out of the World 1.0-2.0, Rim Bchir bases her artistic experimentation on the still little-explored led technology. Inspired by the varieties of galaxies swimming in the universe, through her artworks, the young artist questions the concept of the relativity of both distance and space perception.
2014| Anywhere out of the World 1.0 | Light Installation (tn)
2014| Conception d'une piscine municipale à Tunis | Workshop in Architectonic Strucutre (tn)
2011-2016| Studies in Architecture and Urbanism | Ecole Nationale d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme de Tunis | Tunis(tn)
2014| Internship | ATELIER FACILA Architecture et Paysage | Sousse(tn)
2013| Internship | Bureau d'Architecture et Décoration Harzallah | (tn)
Anywhere out of the world from Bchir Rim on Vimeo.
Rim Bchir Web


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Mauro Garza, owner of the Pegasus nightclub in San Antonio, is apparently running as a Republican for a Texas congressional seat even though he failed in his 2018 campaign..
Garza is a self-proclaimed conservative and Log Cabin Republican whose most recent campaign for office was self-funded, using red ballcaps which read "Make TX-21 greater" as both a nod to his district and his support of Donald Trump.
Despite his conservative cred, the website OutinSA mentioned that he'd "contributed over $100,000 to local LGBT organizations" and that his campaign website contains no mention of LGBT issues.
However, OutinSA also points out that Garza's campaign Facebook page (which still updates regularly) contained a post in which Garza wrote:
The only LGBTQ agenda I push is that of RESPECT. I do not wish to force Americans to understand our culture and various subcultures or even to accept them. However, I will continue to fight for the American Agenda that allows the Members of the LGBTQ Community to exercise our freedoms within the parameters of the laws in this great nation.
Garza's Facebook page remains active, leading us to conclude that he may try another political bid in the future.
His Facebook page contains posts seeming to support Chick-fil-A, a link to praise of Trump's questionable plan to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide and numerous links to The Blaze, a conservative site run by former Fox News conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck. The Blaze has published numerous articles supporting anti-trans discrimination and ex-gay conversion therapy.
Related: Gay men are increasingly voting for anti-LGBTQ right-wingers, says gay cultural historian
And yet Garza's page also speaks out against Eric Porterfield, the West Virgina Republican delegate who recently said he'd drown his kids if they were gay. Garza called Porterfield's comment, "outright disgusting," adding, "To each their own when it comes to your sexuality. Government needs to stay out of the bedroom."
It's obvious that Garza is trying to position himself as a centrist, but we wonder how he'd respond to recent state Republican efforts to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination and efforts by state Democrats to expand civil rights.
Garza has previously run for office as a Democrat. His gay nightclub, Pegasus, was in the news last October for a shooting that happened outside of the bar. Three people were hospitalized with non-threatening injuries.
Afterwards, Garza urged local business leaders to come up with solutions to prevent violent crime.


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We live in a connected world, so its no surprise that businesses and organizations of all kinds are joining together and forming partnerships to bring us products and services that make our lives easier, better and even more fun.
Some of the collaborations may seem odd and unexpected at first, but once you realize the need they address or desire they fulfill, they make a lot of sense.
What these partnerships all have in common is that they share customer information and insights to understand and serve their customers better. They realize that new business models and deeper customer insights will enable them to jointly develop products and services to improve customers lives.
Safe, energy efficient homes
Nest is an innovator in smart thermostats that learn customer preferences and adjust accordingly for comfort and energy efficiency. But that was just the beginning. Its Works with Nest program connects data from company partners and the internet of things to make the entire home experience safer and more personalized.
Whirlpool washers and driers, for example, get electric grid data from Nest to turn on when energy consumption is low. Mercedes-Benz cars let Nest know when homeowners are on their way, so the house is comfortable by the time they arrive. And LIFX smart lighting works with Nest smoke detectors to flash a warning in an emergency.
These collaborations anticipate the homeowners needs and puts technology in service of a better life.
Stress free first dates (or first date scheduling)
When Match.com discovered that over a third of singles said that having coffee is their favorite first date activity, it decided to partner with Starbucks to provide a Meet at Starbucks feature for its online dating service. Meet at Starbucks allows users to directly send an invitation to set up a coffee date at Starbucks.
The feature also integrates Starbucks store locator to let members choose a convenient location to meet. The partnership demonstrates that each company understands its customers and wants to make their lives easier.
More exciting travel with less stressful expense reporting
Airbnb has already revolutionized the way people find interesting places to stay all over the worldfrom city-center apartments to treehouses, in over 190 countries.
By partnering with Vayable, an international tourism platform that links travelers to local residents to provide city tours, Airbnb now makes it easy to find interesting things for people to do in the places they visit.
Architecture buffs can stay in a well-designed home and then get a tour of famous buildings by a local expert.
This unified business model gives customers unique experiences that go way beyond traditional tourist services. And because this is a social-first solution, the comments and ratings provided by users boosts the profile for both services.
Airbnb also partners with Concur to better meet the needs of business travelers by allowing Airbnb receipts to appear on company expense reports. This makes it easier for business travelers to use Airbnb and provides an added value service for Concurs customers.
Just plain fun
There are many other examples of successful partnershipssome more serious and others are just plain fun. For fun, you cant beat the Dr. Pepper and Lip Smackers partnership that brought us Dr. Pepper flavored lip chap. And then theres the Spotify and Uber partnership that offers a new level of personalization by playing your favorite playlist when you ride in a hired car.
Strategic partnerships provide effective ways to gain a deeper understanding of customers based on shared data, customer analytics and deeper customer engagement. They help all partners involved boost their brand awareness, and break into new markets. And as more companies take this approach, stronger ecosystems will evolve that are more capable of generating sustainable business growth and improving peoples lives.


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The chance to buy a lovely spacious 4 bedroom family home that is situated in the ever popular Callao Salvaje area.
The living area is all on one floor and comprises of an independent fitted breakfast kitchen, lounge, TV room, dining room, 3 well appointed double bedrooms complete with fitted wardrobes and en-suite bathrooms, rrhw 4th bedroom is currently used as an office plus a guest cloakroom with w.c and hand basin.
Leading from the kitchen there is a further covered sitting area and utility/storage.
This property boasts privacy and a great outdoor entertainment area with private heated pool and jacuzzi, built in BBQ area, bowls green and an annex consisting of changing room, store room, w.c and shower room.
Garage for one car plus off road parking. Delightful sea views.
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50s -Union label- Womens powder blue and white linen short sleeve mid length two-piece maternity suit. The skirt has a cut-out belly with adjustable ties, a banded waist and back hem pleat, the roomy top has is pullover with bust darts and contrasting banding and tab details on the wide round neckline.
Fits 40Bust, 40Hip
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Each accounting software listed below imports one or more formats like OFX, QFX, QBO, QIF, CSV files. Scroll down for each format section to see converters converting to this format.
If your accounting software is not listed below, please let us know to add it to the list below. Check with your accounting software for supported import formats like OFX, QIF, CSV and see the converters below supporting conversion from your original file like PDF format.
All conversions and formats mentioned below are supported by the Transactions app.
Xero.com imports OFX, QFX, QBO, QIF, CSV files.
Xero provides the CSV import option, but make sure to set the output date format to match your country settings in Xero. The CSV format is the most featured as it accepts more transaction details, and OFX choice is great as well as you do not have to worry about the date format with OFX.
This video shows how to convert a PDF file downloaded from your bank or created card account, saved as a CSV file with a layout compatible with the Xero accounting system.
Wave Accounting imports OFX, QFX, QBO, QIF, CSV files. Wave prefers the OFX format as the easiest to import.
FreeAgent imports OFX, QIF, CSV files.
ZarMoney imports OFX, QFX files.
Sage imports OFX files. Sage exists as desktop software (Sage 50, Sage 300) and an online accounting service (Sage One). It is important for both Sage products that the bank ID, the branch ID, the account number on OFX files match account settings in Sage software.
Wave Accounting imports OFX, QFX, QBO, QIF, CSV files. Wave prefers the OFX format as the easiest to import.
LessAccounting supports QIF and QFX import. If you have transactions in these formats, you should be fine and just import those files.
In case you have a CSV or Excel file, you can convert your files to QIF or QFX format and import them into LessAccounting.
If you have a PDF file for your bank or credit card account, you can use the Transactions converter.
If you have QBO or OFX files, you can try to import them into LessAccounting as these are extended OFX files. If LessAccounting does not import them, use the Transactions app to convert.
If LessAccounting is not importing your QIF/QFX file (not created by a ProperSoft converter), it could be that whoever created the file for you, may not follow the file specifications, so the file is called QIF or QFX, but it is not such inside. In this case, you can try the Transactions app which tolerates many mistakes in files and create a correct QIF file from your file.
See above file format(s) supported by specific accounting software/service
OFX files are Open Financial Exchange files.
Convert CSV/Excel/TXT files to the OFX format
Convert PDF files (text-based) to the OFX format
Convert QIF files to the OFX format - this is a great option to avoid the date format confusion as QIF files may have dates as DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY
Convert non-importable OFX/QBO/QFX files to a correct OFX file
QIF format is supported by Xero. Make sure to use the expected date format (based on your country settings). When you use one of the 2QIF converters listed below, select the QIF target as "MS Money or other" and set the expected output date format:
Convert CSV/Excel/TXT files to the QIF format
Convert PDF files (text-based) to QIF
Convert QFX files to the QIF format
Convert QBO files to the QIF format
Convert QIF files to the importable QIF variant
Convert QFX/QBO/OFX files to the QIF format or make your QIF file importable
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The sun's rays slipped further behind the Bed Bath & Beyond sign across the parking lot. Soon it would be dark. All I had to do was not be stupid until dark, less than ten minutes from now.
I wasn't going to make it.
Shoppers drove in and out of the complex. If they noticed me, they chose to mind their own business instead of asking why I was pacing like a crazy person in the back of the parking lot by a Dumpster. If my father were here, he'd urge me to follow their example and mind my own business, too. But the raspberry shimmer in front of the Dumpster called to me. Even the wafting stench of garbage wasn't enough to slow my pulse as I stared at it. This had to be the smelliest gateway this side of the Mississippi, but I was looking at the only known entrance into Nocturna.
For a few more minutes, anyway. The gateway was only active between dusk and dark.
The shimmer in front of the Dumpster started to fade even as the lights in the parking lot turned on, signaling the arrival of evening. If I let the gateway disappear, I'd do the same thing I'd done every night for the past month—go back to my apartment and try not to think about what lay on the other side of that fading raspberry veil.
Don't go back there, Mara. Please.
My father's plea replayed in my mind, but it wouldn't sway me this time. There were worse things than danger. Like guilt, or doing nothing and risking more people you loved being picked off.
I backed up several feet before flinging myself toward the Dumpster. Only the faintest haze remained in front of it now. My sneakers thudded on the pavement as I picked up speed, running right at the center of the smelly container, streamlining my body into a dive . . .
I barreled not into the metal Dumpster but into Nocturna, making it through the gateway before the veil closed into itself. I rolled when I hit the earth, the putrid stench of garbage instantly replaced with a heady, wood-smoke-scented air. Darkness also replaced the previous glow from the parking lot lights. It was always night in Nocturna. A few blinks later and my eyes adjusted, revealing a man on horseback galloping toward me.
"Back again, eh, Mara?" a familiar voice called out when the rider drew near enough for me to see the silver streak in his otherwise dark hair.
I brushed myself off as I stood. My backpack shifted with my movements but I shoved it into place, adjusting the straps until they were straight. Landing on my ass inside another dimension tended to jostle things.
"You're the best patrolman here, Jack, you know that?" I replied, not bothering to answer his question. Obviously I was back or we wouldn't be talking. "Most of the others don't find out if anyone's crossed over unless the person yells for them to give 'em a ride."
"People can pop up anywhere along the barrier, and that runs for miles," Jack said, still with an undercurrent of amusement. "And you said you weren't coming back the last time I saw you."
I didn't look at him but continued to brush my jeans, as though getting every last bit of dirt from them was extremely important. "Can't a girl change her mind without getting hassled? I missed this place—"
"Horseshit," Jack interrupted, even as his mount snorted in what sounded like agreement. "You still think you can find the Pureblood who took Gloria, but you need to let go of that fantasy and get on with your life."
I stiffened, my head snapping up to meet Jack's blue gaze. "I am getting on with my life," I said, biting off every word.
Jack shook his head in a way that reminded me of my father. The two men even looked a little alike, with their lightly lined faces and wiry frames. Plus, Jack had never made a single pass at me, which was why I trusted him enough to stay at his place when I came here.
"Suit yourself," he grunted. "I'm not your babysitter. You're too old for one now, anyway. Go on. You can use my cabin to freshen up."
I thought I heard Jack add, "Like usual," but I chose to ignore that. Now that I was here, a feeling of peace washed over me. Maybe it was because traveling through dimensions was my birthright as a partial demon. Or because I'd determined to let nothing stop me on this trip. That wouldn't be easy—or safe—but I was old enough now that most of the Purebloods weren't interested in me. Twenty-two was almost middle-aged to them. They only liked children or, at most, older teenagers.
Like Gloria had been. And my half sister now was.
That, more than the guilt over Gloria that was so familiar as to feel normal, was why I'd had to break my promise and come back. An overheard conversation between my little sister and her friend about Nocturna had been enough to convince me that I couldn't stay away. I was the only living eyewitness. If I never came back to search for the Pureblood who'd taken Gloria, maybe next time it would be my sister who was doomed to die a horrible death. Damned if I'd let that happen, no matter my father's fears.
By the time I followed the line of mounted lanterns that took me to Jack's cabin, I was convinced that I'd made the right decision. I went inside the small lodge, noting that Jack had added a few more crossbows to his weapons cache, but aside from that, nothing else had changed. The mirror Jack used for shaving looked like it hadn't been cleaned since the last time I'd wiped it, and his floor probably hadn't been swept since then, either. If I didn't stay here occasionally, the dirt would be up to Jack's waist.
I pumped some water from the spigot and cleared away the dust from the mirror, frowning a little once I saw my reflection. Dirt smudged my cheek and I had bits of leaves in my hair. That wouldn't do.
A few more pumps of the spigot and I washed off the remaining traces of dirt from my face, using my fingers to comb bits from the forest floor out of my hair. At least I thought I got it all out; the dried leaves matched the deep brown color of my hair, so a few stragglers might have remained. Then I shrugged out of my backpack and took off my jeans, T-shirt, and sneakers to put on the long denim skirt, boots, and blouse that I'd folded up inside. The other clothes were more comfortable, but a little glimpse of cleavage or a flash of leg went a long way toward getting reluctant residents of Nocturna to spill information. Once I was finished, I put on my gun belt and then my leather jacket, giving my reflection another critical glance.
Lipstick would help, but I'd forgotten to slip some into my backpack. Lucky for me, my mouth was naturally full and reddish, so that, along with a clean face and somewhat tamed hair, would just have to do.r />
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Multiple lights glowed in the distance as I left the lantern-strewn path and approached Nocturna's version of a metropolis. When I first came here, I thought it looked like a cross between the Victorian era and the Wild West. Tethered horses and carriages lined the narrow streets instead of cars, with candlelight the only brightness against the perpetual darkness. Music floated out from different bands, merging together to form a profusion of sounds that dulled out the laughter, shouts, and occasional gunshots from the town's many occupants.
And at the end of the mini-city, set apart from the grid of bars, whorehouses, hotels, and pawnshops, was Bonecrushers. Skulls lit up like jack-o'-lanterns illuminated the front of the bar, a warning that those seeking tamer fun should look elsewhere.
If only Gloria and I had heeded that warning several years ago, but to us, Bonecrushers had looked more exciting than frightening. Add that to the "You're not scared, are you?" challenge from our dates, and nothing would've stopped us from walking through those doors.
Nothing would stop me this time, but that wasn't because of teenage bravado anymore. Bonecrushers was my only link to the Pureblood who'd taken Gloria, so just like all the previous times I'd come here over the past two years, once again, that's where I was headed.
I took a deep breath, then strode into the town, not pausing to look at the various people on the sidewalks. My quick pace—plus the guns holstered on my belt—said I wasn't in a mood to buy something, get laid, or get robbed, which meant I was of no use to most of Nocturna's residents. Rafael kept a loose form of law, but "accidents" were common. No surprise, considering everyone here was at least part demon, and the day people with demon blood could completely obey rules would be the day things got snowy in hell.
Not that I'd seen hell to know if it snowed there or not. Only Pureblood demons could travel through the gravitational layers separating the first few realms from each other. Beyond that, only the original race of fallen angels could make it all the way through the rest of them to the mythical Sheol.
That was the story, anyhow. No one I knew had ever met a Fallen and lived to tell about it. Pureblood demons fed off the life essence of partial demons like me, but the Fallen fed on Purebloods, leaving the predators in the unfamiliar position of being prey. In my opinion, it was poetic justice.
I jerked my head toward the sound of my name, cursing myself for dropping my attention from my surroundings. In Nocturna, that was a good way to end up hurt—or worse.
"Hiya, Billy," I said in a casual tone, pretending I'd spotted the brawny Halfie all along. "What's new?"
Billy grinned, showing sparkling white teeth that contrasted with his unkempt appearance and tattered leathers. "I guess what's new is that you're not gone for good," he noted with amusement.
All those farewells would bite me in the ass now. In my defense, I'd meant it at the time. I just hadn't counted on how heavy my guilt would get if I officially gave up on avenging someone I'd already let down in the worst way.
"Who could live without Bonecrushers's famous warm beer?" I asked flippantly. "Bars serve it watered down and chilled on the other side. Couldn't stomach it."
Billy laughed, his bald head gleaming in the reflection of the lit skulls around him. "Sure. But just in case that's not the only thing you came for, thought you should know: He'll be here soon."
Before I could stop myself, I glanced behind Billy to the open doorway of Bonecrushers. The sensible part of me warned that I could still leave, it wasn't too late . . . but my determination slapped that down. One-quarter reckless demon in my genetic makeup was enough to overcome three-fourths of cautious human any day.
"He who?" I asked, as if I didn't know.
Billy laughed, his deep voice making it sound like his vocal cords were grinding together. "Right. Come on, Mara. I'll buy you a brew, since you came all the way through a dimension for it."
His tone said he wasn't fooled. For a second I hesitated, despair competing with resolve in me. Billy knew I was here for more than Bonecrushers's heated, throat-searing beer. But did he also know, as Jack did, that I'd been drawn back to Nocturna for more reasons than its darkly alluring ruler?
No need to wonder about that waiting out here. I swept out my hand.
"First round's on you? Lead the way, my friend."
Billy shouldered past the crowd by the door and I followed him inside. The open fire pit in the middle of the bar, combined with oil lanterns hung in various locations and the close proximity of numerous people, raised the temperature about twenty degrees from Nocturna's natural chilliness. I took off my leather jacket, tying it around my waist instead of holding it. It had been several months since I'd needed to shoot anyone, but just in case, I wanted both my hands free.
Several sets of male eyes wandered over me as I passed by. I nodded to the people I recognized and gave cool stares to those I didn't. Acting coy would have been like begging for those stares to turn into Bonecrushers's version of being hit on, which frequently consisted of being tongue-kissed before introductions were even exchanged. Shame to end my no-shooting streak on such a silly thing as an unwary flirter.
"Hank," Billy called out once he reached the bar. "Two brews."
The band began playing something that might have been Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The music here tended to be at least a decade behind the times, and the band's look was something from a former era, too. The musicians were pale even by Nocturna's standards, with dark circles under their eyes and clothes that hung off bony frames. The lead singer had no microphone, electricity seldom working in this realm, but he managed to keep his voice louder than the chatter or the continual smashes of drink glasses into the fire pit.
"Someone should tell those guys that the 'heroin chic' look went out in the nineties," I noted to Billy when I made it next to him at the bar.
He grinned, handing me a beer the bartender thunked on the counter. "Help 'em out. Bring some new Rolling Stone magazines next time you come over."
Better to let him think I was indecisive than tip him off to my goal. "Maybe there won't be a next time. I like sunshine, cars, electric toothbrushes, iPhones . . . all those things Nocturna will never have."
Billy's smile turned sly. "Some people can't live without those. But you, Mara, you can't live without your kind."
"Except for my stepmother, my family's all part demon." I took a swallow from my mug and savored the burn regular beer never left. "I've also got Partial friends on the other side, so I'm around lots of my kind."
"That's not what I meant. You're caged there, but here"—Billy raised his beer, indicating our general surroundings—"here we don't pretend to be so emotionless or controlled. Some Partials can shut that part of themselves off, but you're not one of them. Neither am I."
Billy finished his beer in a single gulp, then sent the empty mug sailing into the fire pit. I took another drink, but slower, quietly acknowledging the truth in his words. My part-demon heritage meant I often did feel stifled living in the normal world, but at least there, I didn't have to worry about Purebloods snatching up younger members of my family.
Or wonder which people around me might be helping them get away with it.
I scanned the faces in the crowd more out of habit than the thought that I could spot a Pureblood demon. Partials, Purebloods . . . all of us looked the same. Stand us next to humans and you couldn't spot the supernaturals unless you caught the tiny lights that occasionally appeared in our eyes. Even Fallen were supposed to look normal until their hidden wings made an appearance, but if you saw those, it was already too late to run.
A hand appeared next to my arm, fingers long and masculine, with an ancient knot
adorning the index finger and a simple ebony band encircling the thumb. Even if I hadn't recognized those rings, I'd have known who was behind me for one simple reason—my heart had sped up, like something inside me had known he was close before the rest of me registered it.
"Rafael," I said, not turning around.
That hand slid along my arm in the lightest of caresses, belying strength that had bested even a Pureblood in a fight. Beside me, Billy inclined his head.
"Rafe," Billy rumbled. Then he got up and winked at me. "See ya later."
I didn't protest Billy's departure. Acting flustered would have been the same as slapping a sign on my forehead that said Too Damned Interested For My Own Good.
I tipped my mug at the man as he slid into Billy's seat, admiring Rafael out of the corner of my eye. He moved with a beautiful, controlled fluidity, each gesture full of grace and purpose. His long jacket was open, revealing the trademark black leather vest studded with thin knives over a dark blue shirt. Only Rafael could make postapocalyptic fashions look sexy.
"You've been away a long time," Rafael said, his voice soft compared to the gaze he lasered on me.
I shrugged, glancing back to the scarred wooden bar instead of his vibrant blue eyes. "Technically, with how it's always the same endless night here, I haven't been gone at all—"
"Weeks," he cut me off as his tone hardened. "Tell me I'm wrong."
I took another swallow of my beer, but not even supernatural liquor could suppress my shiver as I turned to stare fully at Rafael. His golden-red hair and cobalt eyes accentuated high cheekbones and a face that could make angels weep with jealousy. If it wasn't for his deadliness, Rafael's ethereal looks might invite constant challenges to his being ruler. But the three-quarter demon was as ruthless as he was dazzling, enabling him to stay in control of Nocturna for the past two hundred years. He could rule for the next two hundred if he could hold off future challengers. Time froze in Nocturna. Night didn't turn into day, seasons didn't change, and even aging stopped—one of the big lures of living in a secondary dimension versus the modernized world.


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GoCanvas Partnership with The Data Collaborative Provides Mobile Business Apps for Quickbooks Users Quickly and Affordably
Flexible offering allows small businesses who use QuickBooks® the ability to mobilize their workers using their Smartphones or Tablets as electronic clipboards.
Arlington, MA and Herndon, VA — October 20th, 2010: Canvas announced today the launch of a Intuit QuickBooks® series of mobile applications built on the GoCanvas platform and designed and offered by Data Collaborative. Along with these mobile applications, offered through the GoCanvas Application Store, Data Collaborative has developed a GoCanvas QuickBooks® Connector making it possible for GoCanvas mobile apps to integrate with QuickBooks®.
GoCanvas Mobile Apps provide an easy, affordable and flexible solution for companies seeking to eliminate duplicative paperwork and increase efficiency by collecting information using mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets instead of traditional paper based forms. With this partnership data collected wirelessly using a GoCanvas Application can now be recorded directly into Intuit QuickBooks®. Developed by The Data Collaborative, a Boston-area consulting firm, the GoCanvas QuickBooks® Connector provides an instant bridge between field staff, their mobile apps they have built on the GoCanvas platform and their back office. Mobile workers, performing standard forms-based data collection, can capture digital signatures, scan bar codes, insert photos, and even access pertinent backend data all from their mobile device.
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"The GoCanvas QuickBooks® Connector allows your staff to complete QuickBooks® data entry activities in the field. This allows for timely creation of invoices, estimates and the like, reducing the need for duplicate data entry and leveraging the power of Intuit QuickBooks® – the financial centerpiece of many organizations," said Steve Wishengrad, Principal at The Data Collaborative, the developers of the GoCanvas QuickBooks® Connector. "We're using our ten years of experience as QuickBooks integrators coupled with the power of GoCanvas to create solutions that focus on customer needs. In addition to standardized offerings, we will build upon the flexibility of GoCanvas and offer customized mobile form-based-apps that integrate with Intuit QuickBooks®."
"We are proud to partner with The Data Collaborative to provide this unique offering to small and mid-sized businesses who have been looking to mobilize their workers, go paperless, and capture real-time data from their staff all within their Quickbooks® environment." stated James Quigley, CEO of GoCanvas.
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Chickpea & Aubergine Salad
Chickpeas are a starchy carbohydrate, but they also contain protein. They are a brilliant substitute for meat, as demonstrated here in this filling meal. The dish also includes pumpkin and sweet potato so eat as it is, there's no need to add rice or other extras. Sweet potatoes and pumpkins get their characteristic orange colour from beta-carotene which we convert into vitamin A in our bodies, which helps to support our eye sight and the growth and development of our cells. This is such a comforting dish for wintery days.
serves 2
1/2 small red onion, finely sliced
1 large aubergine, cut in half lengthways and sliced into thin half moons
good glug of extra virgin olive oil
juice and zest of 1 lemon
2 x 400g tins of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 large fresh tomatoes, cubed
1 bunch of fresh parsley, chopped
2 tsp garlic-infused oil
1 tsp cayenne pepper
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
flaked almonds, to serve
Cover the onion with water and set aside for half an hour – this reduces the harshness of its taste when eaten raw. Next prepare the aubergine. Spread the half-moon slices out on a baking tray and brush them with olive oil. Place under a high grill for 5 minutes, then take out and brush again with a mixture of olive oil and lemon juice – you can make it quite wet, as the aubergine will absorb all the liquid.
Place back under the grill until the edges of the slices are slightly blackened and the flesh is soft. Set aside in a large bowl. On the same baking tray, spread out the chickpeas and grill until they're golden. Add them to the bowl of aubergine.
Dice the tomatoes into small cubes and add to the bowl along with the parsley, drained red onion slices, garlic oil, cayenne pepper, remaining lemon juice, zest, salt and pepper and mix well.
Serve warm, with a sprinkling of flaked almonds.
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You observe Fred and Sally playing a game repeatedly. The game works as follows. Fred spins a spinner counterclockwise on a circular board that is so calibrated that its final position is uniformly distributed. The board has some angles labeled in degrees, counterclockwise, but the payoff for Sally depends solely on the exact final position of the spinner (so if it is between markings, the exact position between markings matters). You don't know how the payoff depends on the final posiiton of the spinner. But now you notice an oddity. Each time, right after the spinner stops, Sally is not allowed to see where it stopped, but Fred asks her: "Do you want me to rotate the spinner by an extra square-root-of-two degrees counterclockwise?" And Sally says: "Of course."
You ask Sally: "Are you superstitious or trying to make more work for Fred or have you peeked at where the spinner landed?" And Sally says: "Not at all. The payoff structure for the game gives me a good reason to ask for that extra counterclockwise rotation if the chance is offered."
And now you're really puzzled. You know Sally is really smart, and yet you wonder how it could be that an extra fixed rotation on top of what is already a uniformly distributed rotation of the spinner could make any difference.
It turns out that it could. Suppose that the game works as follows. Let S be the set of positions defined by the angles r, 2r, 3r, ... in degrees (with wrapping around, of course, so that 361 degrees defines the same angle as 1 degree), where r is the square root of two. If the pointer ends in S, Sally gets an infinite payoff (the idea of using an infinite payoff to make zero-probability outcomes relevant is Alan Hajek's)—maybe she gets to go to heaven. Otherwise, she gets nothing. In this setup, Sally has a good reason to ask for the extra rotation of r degrees. For if after Fred's initial spin, the pointer is already in S, it will still be in S after that extra rotation (nr+r=(n+1)r). But if Fred's initial spin put the pointer at zero, then the extra rotation by r will put the pointer at r, which is in S. Thus, if Fred's initial spin is not at zero, Sally loses nothing by asking for the extra rotation, and if it is at zero, Sally gains an infinite payoff by asking. Since it could be at zero (though the probability of that is, well, zero), we have domination. If Fred allowed it, Sally would have even better reason to ask for a rotation of 2r degrees, and an even better reason to ask for a rotation of 10100r degrees.
Of course, Sally is all but certain not to get anything. But infinite utilities call for desperate measures, and it costs Sally nothing to agree. (We could suppose it delays the next game. That can be taken care of by ensuring successive games are always at fixed times.)


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17 Jun 2019
In honor of National Safety Month, we're proud to recognize UGI Meter Reader, Kyle Christman, who recently received national recognition for going above and beyond to act quickly and safely to save a man's life in October 2017.
The Society of Gas Operators (SOGO) selected Christman as a co-winner of the 2019 Dick Morgan Heroism Award. SOGO established this Heroism Award to provide recognition for an extraordinary service or act of heroism performed by an employee of a member company.
What seemed to be a typical day for Kyle turned into something quite different. Kyle and a fellow UGI employee were on the job at Lehigh Valley International Airport. After finishing the job, they went inside the airport where they saw a man having a seizure, and what seemed to be a heart attack. He was surrounded by airport employees, but no one was taking action. Luckily, Kyle is a part-time EMT, so when he saw the man needed help, he was able to step in and use an AED to stabilize him until the ambulance arrived. Kyle's quick actions saved the man's life.
The Dick Morgan Heroism Award was originally established in 1996 as the Heroism Award and renamed in 2001 after Dick Morgan, a past Society president, and former long-term employee of Con Edison of New York who lost his life as a result of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11th. The award is an opportunity to offer recognition to employees of member companies who have performed heroic acts over and above the call of duty.
We thank Kyle for his heroic actions during this emergency situation and for his dedication to public safety and protecting life.
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I first saw Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years (2012) when it was screened at the FWSA Biennial Conference in June 2013 at the University of Nottingham. The film focuses on the time the African American, feminist, lesbian, warrior, poet, Audre Lorde spent travelling back and forth to Berlin between 1984 and 1992, and her influence on the Afro-German community.
The documentary is made up of home movie footage taken by Dagmar Schultz (director), and after the screening, a member of the audience asked Schultz if she had filmed Lorde with the intention of making a film with it; Schultz told us that she just felt that Lorde's presence was important, her time in Berlin was important and she was moved to record it. I am thankful that she did, because Schultz has presented us with something very important: a historical document of a period in Lorde's life that many of us knew little about, a view of a transformative moment in Afro-German History, and also a fascinating, warming, and healing exchange between a transnational feminist sisterhood.
The film is a collage of dinner parties, social events, public lectures, and planning meetings for several Afro-German community groups Lorde inspired. This is peppered with audio sequences set to still photographs in which Lorde is no longer speaking with her friends or to an audience within a particular shot; instead her voice is stripped of its original setting and she becomes the most prominent narrator of this posthumous documentary, signalling the longevity of her prose, poetry, thinking and activism.
The Berlin Years also gives generous time to Lorde's significance as a unifying figure; many scenes feature Lorde discussing the notion of difference and encouraging her listeners, both onscreen and the viewers, to approach differences of race, gender and sexuality in positive and progressive ways. We see Lorde as muse who inspired many Afro-German women to write about their experiences and record their cultural history, for example, Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out (eds. May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, Dagmar Schultz). More importantly, the documentary represents the exchange of knowledge and ideas that Lorde encouraged.
At the heart of The Berlin Years is the woman-centred community that Lorde fostered during her time in Berlin. As her health deteriorates the most striking scenes are those in which she is surrounded by women who care for her, comfort her and listen to her. We see Lorde taking simple pleasure in activities such as making necklaces or preparing and serving food for her friends at a time when her appetite was waning. All of these moments involve sharing and giving back in some way (the extras included in the DVD provide even more of these scenes). Ultimately we see the kindness and generosity, as well as activism, that can flourish when women come together to, in Gloria Anzaldúa's words, "do the work that matters" (The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, 314).
Check out some reactions to Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years at the FWSA conference here:
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It's been a while since we featured anything about Greece and I'm sure you all miss watching my country burn to the ground. So, here goes: We have elections this Sunday, and it's likely that the broken state of Greece will be reflected in the most fragmented Parliament in 30 years (basically ever since Greece stopped being a dictatorship). About nine parties are likely to do well enough to win seats.
One of these parties is Golden Dawn, the most prominent gang of nationalist assholes in Greece. (Think of its members as being like hairier, darker and shorter versions of the EDL guys.) Because of its extremist and racist views, as well as the Greek media's suspicion that it has close ties with the police, for years Golden Dawn has been in the country's political doghouse. Sadly but inevitably, however, it appears that poverty and a subsequent rise in crime have given Golden Dawn the chance to shine.
The breaking point was reached a year ago, on the evening of May 11, when a 44-year-old man was murdered in the centre of Athens. Worse, he was killed while he was walking his pregnant wife to his car so that she could give birth at hospital. The three guys that did it were after his video camera, and when they were identified as foreigners, a peaceful demonstration held in the wake of the murder was hijacked by nationalists who went out hunting foreigners.
The next day I interviewed Elias Panagiotaros, Golden Dawn's main media guy, because reports indicated that they'd orchestrated the attacks on immigrants. I had been writing a few too many things about Greeks fighting each other at the time, though, and my mum got really upset over the possibility of giving "those disgusting idiots publicity", so the article didn't run.
But what's done is done, Mum; Those "disgusting idiots" are very likely to be making decisions on your behalf in just a week's time.
So, you know, if you happen to be Greek, reading this and of a voting age, maybe think twice before voting for people that carry swastikas coloured in blue and white. It doesn't really make sense. We wouldn't all be so goddamn dark if it did.
VICE: I take it you were present on Thursday's rally and subsequent episodes?
Elias Panagiotaros: As one of the principal members of the Golden Dawn, a shop owner of the area, and a proud Greek, yes, I took part in the grand demonstration that took place in honour of this unfortunate man's memory. And what about the beatings?
What beatings? The beatings of the immigrants. There are videos, photographs and eye-witness reports that show and speak of Golden Dawn members chasing, beating and stabbing immigrants. According to a number of newspapers, more than 40 foreign men ended up in hospital on that day.
Look, I couldn't possibly know who were the people that did those things. At the moment, the people are so angry and desperate that such incidents are something to be expected. The media in Greece have been scapegoating the Golden Dawn for years. We guard our own events because we do not like to see things like this happening, but in a demo like Thursday's, which was not organised by any specific organisation and open to everyone, it is only logical that some outbursts will occur. But the people's rage I find completely understandable.
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How so?
It's a matter of survival. When you can't walk on the street because there's a 50 percent chance you'll get stabbed for the chain you wear on your neck, or your cell phone… it only comes down to who is going to be the one to live and tell the tale. I'm still not clear – should we or shouldn't we take matters into our own hands and start kicking some immigrant ass?
There is no need for violence. And there is no need for an armed struggle when the state and the police are operating properly. But they aren't really operating properly at the moment, are they?
No. This country is completely broken, there is no state, no institutions, nothing. And this is why we have been receiving more calls than 911, lately. As for the armed struggle, it's only a matter of time for the Greek citizens to start it. They're already ready because their towns, their villages and neighbourhoods have been left unguarded. Those foreigners mug, rape and kill them. Um, OK. You want to talk a little about what you guys stand for?
We are nationalist Greeks and we love our country. We have five basic principles: Greece belongs to the Greeks. One does not become a Greek, but is born one. This is not England with all their Pakistanis and those Indians! If a black man comes from Africa and stays in Greece for 15 years, he is still not a Greek. We are anti-capitalists, anti-communists and believe in a national state. We also have extremely normal and strict opinions on matters regarding illegal immigration, drugs and homosexuality. It's all pretty straightforward if you think about it.
Nice. So, you must feel pretty vindicated now.
Of course we do! There is no question about it! We have been crying to keep the foreigners out of Greece for years now. We have been doing it since 1990, when there weren't even any immigrants in Greece. So now, in 2011, that we have more than two million illegal immigrants causing all this debauchery in our country, we certainly feel vindicated. Unfortunately. You must feel pretty empowered too. What are your plans for the future?
We don't feel empowered, we are. Our goal is to get a few seats in Parliament in the upcoming elections and to, literally, cause a stir. What are you gonna do if you do end up with seats in the Parliament?
Immediate deportation of all immigrants. The borders should get boarded up, from sea and land, because at the moment people just come and go at their liking. Those who help the immigrants with their papers, and those who employ or house immigrants will also be severely punished. OK. Do you think that's going to happen?
I'd bet on it. Maybe you should ask those bookmakers of yours in London, see what they have to say. Nah, I'm good thanks.


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Towards the end of the 20th century the majority of England's best table-tennis players came from one street. Silverdale Road accounted for Andrew Syed, who won three national youth titles; his brother Matthew Syed, a three-times Commonwealth champion and twice Olympian (and the journalist who first told this story in his book Bounce); Karen Witt, another Commonwealth champion; Andy Wellman, one of the country's best doubles players; Paul Trott, a leading junior player; and Keith Hodder, who represented his county – despite tough competition from residents of Silverdale Road and its surrounding streets.
What are the odds of finding all that talent on one road? How could a single line of houses produce more successful table-tennis players than the rest of the country combined? Well, it's probably not that surprising given that these youngsters were blessed with a local club that was open 24 hours a day and the training of a top coach, primary school teacher Peter Charters, who devoted his long summers to developing local talent. That they grew up in suburban Reading, where (good people of Earley, please forgive me for this assumption) there probably wasn't much else to do, probably didn't hurt their chances.
Successful athletes are often concentrated densely in small areas. The three speed skaters who picked up gold, silver and bronze for the Netherlands at the Winter Olympics in Sochi on Monday helped take the country's all-time medal tally to 94. Only four of these medals have not been awarded to speed skaters. Their team of skaters have already won eight medals in Sochi.
The Netherlands have won more gold, more silver and more bronze medals than any other country in the history of the sport. That 96% of their medals have come in one sport might sound strange, but it's not that surprising when we consider the country's geography, culture and history.
Speed skating suits the Netherlands' topology. Nearly a quarter of the country's population live below sea level, and when that water freezes, how else are they going to get around? They hosted the very first skating world championships back in the 19th century and they have continued to invest heavily in the sport, right up to the 1990s, when their full-time professional teams helped them pick up a glut of Olympic medals.
Dutch people have the advantage of being the tallest on Earth, and their culture values speed skating. In 54 years of the Dutch Sportsman of the Year award, 17 prizes have gone to speed skaters. Only two footballers – Johan Cruyff and Ruud Gullit – have won the award. Speed skating is accessible, popular and cherished. In short, it's kind of a big deal. When Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands proposed to his now Queen back in 2001, he was wearing a pair of skates.
If the Netherlands is set up for sprint skating, Jamaica is the place to be born if you want to become a sprinter. All but one of their 68 Olympic medals – David Weller's bronze for cycling in 1980 – has been awarded in athletics. Weller cycled the 1km time trial, so managed to cover more ground than any other Jamaican medallist: two ran the 800m; one competed in the long jump and the other 65 have won in the sprints. When it comes to sport, Jamaicans stick to the track – and they only run around it once.
The reasons for Jamaica's dominance in sprinting have been debated, contested and picked over for years, and only a few indisputable facts remain. Their success has been attributed to their possession of the strong ACTN3 gene – which is said to increase speed by producing a protein in fast-twitch muscle fibres – and their consumption of yams and green bananas, but few of their natural advantages are understood fully.
We know they fit into the group of runners who can trace their ancestry back to the west of Africa. These sprinters have taken every lane in the last seven 100m finals and have run over 99% of the 500 fastest times in history. A lot of athletes can trace their family tree back to west Africa, but Jamaicans have the added bonus of growing up in a country that prioritises sprinting to the exclusion of all other sports. Had Usain Bolt been born in the US, he might have made it into the NBA or the NFL (or even fulfilled his dream of playing for Manchester United). But no Jamaican junior who could run 200m in less than 20 seconds was ever going to escape the track.
South Korea have proved similarly successful in one sport. All 46 of their Winter Olympics medals have been won on ice, with 38 of them coming in short-track speed skating. Lee Sang-hwa won their latest gold on Tuesday, with silver medallist Olga Fatkulina hailing her as the "Usain Bolt of speed skating". Lee dominated her sport this season, winning every World Cup circuit event she entered. And she's not even South Korea's most famous skater. That honour goes to Kim Yuna, the figure skater who earned over $10m last year on her way to becoming the sixth-highest paid female athlete on the planet.
Not many Britons will have heard of Kim, but in South Korea she is the face of Nike, Korean Air, Samsung and Hyundai. She was discovered early and began planning for the Olympics at the age of five: "My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating. I was born with a good instrument, maybe more so than the talent. I was lucky my coaches noticed early on and helped me develop that. A lot of people don't know they are born that way." Had she been born in Britain, her best chance of winning gold at Sochi would have been to try out for the curling team.
Mastering a single Olympic sport is fairly common. Fifty-six of Kenya's 86 Olympic medals have been won in the long-distance running events; eight of the 10 medals Pakistan have won were in men's field hockey; and 18 of Indonesia's 27 medals have been won in badminton. Becoming an Olympian requires good genes, ruthless dedication and a willingness to make a lot of sacrifices, but, like most things in life, it helps if you're born in the right place at the right time.


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Soon we would need to feed, even if soberly.
"They are swarming, soon they will fly away toward those trees…" I said, "And disappear beyond those clouds…" you replied. It was the end of the long day, we would soon pack for the night, fold the tent, get ready for the hunt. Soon we would need to feed, even if soberly. Your green eyes turned to me. I could see the signs on your skin. I drew the sharp blade, it glittered in the dying light.
We heard an owl. The starlings had disappeared, as you predicted. "I am thirsty." You said. A small cut would suffice. As you enlaced me, your arms around my neck, I saw the red of your beloved lips, felt the despair in your embrace. I held you tight, and as you drank, became as one with the monster in you.


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Song of the Week: Walk it like Rangeview talks it
March 22, 2018
Feature photo by: Lesley-Ann Sosa Gonzalez- Senior Marvel Rios listens to 'Walk It Talk It' by Migos ft. Drake. "I like the song because it has a good vibe to it and thought it was really creative," says Rios. To watch the music video click here.


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Almost 150 more weld failures (beyond those discovered earlier, as reviewed in the article) mean the nuclear plant scheduled online in 2012 at a cost of €3.5bn is now delayed to 2020, probably, at a cost of €10.5bn, and counting.
Thierry Charles, deputy director general, Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), the technical arm of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN): "The expected high level of quality was not specified (Editor's note: by EDF), the conformity of supplies to the specification could not be attested", plus "the qualification of the welding procedures […] ] does not respect all the rules of art. Charles cites concerns over "other categories of mechanical equipment" than the pipes of the secondary circuit. He flags "human and organizational failures" and "lack of rigor of suppliers". he ascribes all this to the "inadequacies of the monitoring system put in place by EDF" to check the conformity of the work of its subcontractors and he fears "dysfunction potentially damaging to safety". He has invited the ASN to summon EDF to thoroughly review its organization "to improve the quality of realization of welds and make its monitoring system more effective". In a final, potentially lethal, blow to EDF he argues that "additional controls will be requested on other circuits of the reactor to verify that there is no epidemic."
Readers will need no reminding that this reactor is supposed to be the forerunner of the exact model intended for Hinkley Point C in the UK. I hardly need to elaborate.
Image: Wikipedia, the plant at night


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Porto boss focuses on positives despite thrashing by Liverpool
Porto were thumped by Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday but have plenty to be positive about, says Sergio Conceição.
Sergio Conceição refused to be too downbeat despite Porto's 5-0 humbling at the hands of Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday.
A Sadio Mané hat-trick plus goals from Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino wrapped up a comprehensive away win for Jurgen Klopp's side, all but securing their place in the quarter-finals.
"Doesn't take anything away" from league, cup success
For Porto, it was a big surprise to fall to such a heavy defeat given they are top of the Primeira Liga and yet to taste defeat.
With their European adventure almost certainly over, Conceição tried to focus on the positives for his side, as opposed to the heavy beating.
"We are sad, no one is more disappointed than us," he told Sport TV.
"It serves to draw lessons from but doesn't take anything away from what we have done in other competitions.
"We are leaders of the championship, we are in the final of the Taça de Portugal and we want to give a response against Rio Ave [on Sunday]."
At 2-0 down, Conceição felt his side still had a chance of rescuing something from the tie, but once Mané had his second he knew they were facing an uphill battle.
"From 0-3 there was no more game"
"We started the game in a balanced way, until the 20th minute there were no chances on goal from them and we already had an opportunity for Otavio," he said.
"Then, in an attempt to get out quickly for the attack through the goalkeeper, we lost the ball and the first goal appeared, with some mistakes that cost dearly against teams of this quality.
"There was a good reaction to the goal but we ended up conceding the second, with some passivity on our part.
"From there it was more difficult to play, it was a hard blow for the players. If in the second half we had reduced [the deficit], and [Tiquinho] Soares had a chance, everything could have changed.
"But from 0-3 there was no more game."
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Camper van insurance is something you have to consider if you do a lot of van camping. Accidents happen even in your camper van, usually when least expected...
Insurance policies will usually depend on the insurance company and the country you travel to. Either way, take your time to check the small print, just to understand what and where ar you covered for.
If you wish to use your camper van only for the season, check if part-time insurance is possible. You can also think about insuring some camper accessories, such as camper awnings, solar panels, heaters and everything else you consider valuable.
Mandatory camper van insurance usually covers the following;
Optional insurance covers as much as you like and intend to pay for and again, depends on the insurance company. And just to get the general idea of what you can be covered for..
Camper van insurance depends on the type of camper van you have.
I'm far from being all thrilled about this paperwork stuff and usually I don't even understand my insurance agent. I was at the helm of motorcycles, camper vans. Heavy trucks and even sailing boats for decades and all I had was a few minor bump and dent accidents.
But funny as it may sound, even a simple flat tire needs the 24-hour road assistance on special occasions. Don't get me wrong here, I know how to change a flat tire, but when things go wrong, they go wrong...
My wife and I were cruising steadily in our camper van, on a highway somewhere between Madrid and Barcelona in Spain a few years ago. The road was descending and a light left curve was coming up. I started passing a truck and just as I was in front of it, the steering wheel begun pulling slightly to the left side.
Now, I'm talking about seconds here. It was obvious, that the front left tire was about to be flat on the road. I pulled in the emergency lane just in front of the truck to change the tire. The driver was p..... off of course (hey, sorry about that!),but it was an emergency situation. Quite dangerous though...
The narrow emergency lane was barely large enough for the van to fit in. Changing the left tire with all the trucks passing close by was out of the question here or else I wouldn't be here writing this web-page. And the tire wasn't just flat, but in shreds.
My wife and I hopped over the guard rail under a tree as it was even way to dangerous to stay in the van. So there we were, somewhere in the middle of Spain and as far as our eyes could see, there was absolutely nothing around us. Mountains and plains, nothing else.
In this pretty much dead end situation I took out my camper van insurance policy, called the 24/hour emergency number and...
To make a long story short, first of all you have to know where you are in these situations. I use the GPS unit, but I rely on maps, which in this case helped me out a lot.
The tow truck showed up a hole hour and a half later and the drivers first face expression was...ufff, another couple of dumb travelers that don't now how to change a flat tyre. Despite the fact that I speak four foreign languages, my Spanish is null. So I tried to communicate and explain the situation looking at the sarcastic expression on his face, until I was fed up with the situation and just told him in my own language that he is more then welcomed to change the tyre by himself.
He unloaded the jack from his tow truck and started the tyre changing procedure which only lasted for about a couple of minutes. The first truck that came by at a 90km/h or even more going downhill, greeted him with blowing the horn and flashing lights and passed just to close to him. I guess that this was the point, where he became aware of the fact that he might not see the end of the day...well at least alive to say so.
So, the jack went back on the tow truck and he started loading our van. We had not spoken a word for the next half an hour that it took us to get to the closest garage, where we changed the tyre in no time. So much for human ego.
Despite the fact, that we run into a person that obviously had a bad day
and the fact that we had to wait for him an hour and a half I still
have my 24/hour assistance card from my camper van insurance policy.
This was a dumb'n'simple scenario all the way, but remember that other and much worse kinds of accidents can happen.
This is what we get in the so called "civilized world" as we know it. If your travels take you elsewhere in what we where thought to call "the third world countries" it will be the local folks helping you out most of the time. Out there we all speak different languages but everything usually all boils down to a very simple and common human factor...helping each other...


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Physical Characteristics
The potbellied pig is a very sturdy animal with short legs, a slightly swayed back, a pendulous belly, a short tail ending with a flowing switch, short, erect ears, and a snout that varies from short and stubby to long and elegant. A potbellied pig continues to grow for at least two to three years. A typical potbellied pig can weigh anywhere from 100 to 250 lbs., with an average height of 20" to 24" at the shoulder. They have very bristly, coarse hair and very dry skin. Because they do not have sweat glands, it is important that they have plenty of fresh water available at all times to prevent overheating. The potbellied pig has a keen sense of smell. Reports are that a pig can smell odors that are twenty-five feet under the ground. They are used to unearth such culinary delicacies as truffles for our eating pleasure, as well as sniff out drugs for law enforcement purposes. While pigs have excellent hearing capability, they do not see very well.
Habitat & Diet
They are domesticated, and their diet consists of vegetables, fruit and pig chow. Pig chow is important because it has protein, pigs cannot create their own protein so it is a very important part of their diet.
Social Behavior
Pigs are social by nature. In their natural habitat they live in a group and a pecking order is established and maintained by body and verbal pig language. If a pig is irritated, they may throw their head in a side swiping motion, or may scream loudly. Because pigs are social creatures, they may become bored and restless when they are expected to spend inordinate amounts of time alone without either human or other animal interactions. You need to stay one step ahead of your pig or she will train you to do exactly what suits her fancy. Pigs are much like children.
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- pigs4ever.com/pot_belly_pig_information/breeds_and_types.php
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Fascinating Facts
- Pigs are the fifth smartest animal group on the planet, following only humans, apes, whales and dolphins.
- The term "sweat like a pig" is a misnomer because pigs do not actually have sweat glands, and therefore do not sweat!
- Potbellied pigs came to the U.S. in 1986 from Vietnam.
Status In The Wild
Potbellied pigs are domesticated and do not live in the wild.


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When David Sylvian entered Berlin's Hansa studios in the summer of 1983 to start putting together his debut solo album, Brilliant Trees, amongst his top priorities was returning to the recent chart success 'Forbidden Colours', in which his vocal melody was interweaved with Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack theme for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. The intent of this was not to lend some familiarity and commercial impetus to the new release, but rather to re-work the composition from a new musical palette. It was also recognition that in this song, Sylvian found his voice for the new chapter. Continue reading "Forbidden Colours (version)"
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There are a number of things you can do beforehand to ensure that your conference is a great success. Firstly, you need to make sure that the conference content is interesting, conversational and engaging. Try to get to know your attendees a little before they arrive; even a little background information so you can engage with them on a personal level. Make sure there is someone else attending that fully understands the content and the desired results so they can assist you in conversation should any point need to be emphasised.
Now that you know what your meeting is about, you can consider your guest list and calculate the numbers. When booking your venue, the last thing you want is a room that is too small. Put together an agenda and send it out to your attendees so they can review and research where required before the conference. An important aspect of hosting a successful conference is the venue. There are many great meeting venues in London to choose from but choosing the right meeting venue London is important for the aforementioned comfortable environment and the right atmosphere.
Finding the right venue can be tricky but London really does have more than enough impressive options to choose from. If you get stuck, use a venue finder online to find the one that suits you and your requirements. Speaking of requirements, make sure you consider your options for your meeting venue London here as you might want a specific layout, refreshments and specific equipment; check the venue can cater for your needs before you book anything. Refreshments, particularly, can make a great difference to a conference as good food keeps your attendees focused and satisfied.
Coffee, tea and snacks are also a good idea as are regular intervals to help your attendees concentrate. This obviously depends on how long your conference is for though. Make sure you start on time and finish on time; your attendees will have things to do. If you have an employee or two able to attend, make sure they make a great effort to be polite, friendly and gracious along the way so your attendees are happy. Make sure there are accommodation options too for those travelling afar; they have attended at your request, after all.
Writing a to-do list is always beneficial; add to the list and cross things off as you make your preparations. Arranging a conference needs to be a simple thing to do and once you have done once, it will be easy. Keep that to-do list for future reference so that next time you play host you know exactly what you need to do and when you need to do it.