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[TV Results] IMPACT Wrestling – 1/31/2013
IMPACT Wrestling makes its home in the United Kingdom for the next four weeks and TNA kicked things off with the return of Open Fight Night featuring challenges from Velvet Sky, Joseph Park, a returning (and British) TNA wrestler, and a steel cage main event between Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson. GM Hulk Hogan also made his return to the show and Bully Ray, Brooke Hogan, & Sting once again pleaded for Ray's reinstatement. And to top it all off, two new members of The Aces and 8's were revealed.
Click "read more" for results/storyline notes from the show. For a more in-depth look at the show check out my report over at 411Mania.
Match Results:
- Open Fight Night Challenge: Magnus defeated *TNA Television Champion* Devon by Disqualification when The Aces and 8's interfered (5:11).
- Open Fight Night Challenge: Joseph Park pinned Robbie E [w/ Robbie T] with a second-rope splash (3:30).
- Open Fight Night Challenge: Austin Aries [w/ Bobby Roode] pinned Chavo Guerrero Jr. [w/ Hernandez] with the Brainbuster (10:31); Aries/Roode get a shot at the Tag Team Titles next week.
- Open Fight Night Challenge: Velvet Sky & James Storm defeated *TNA Knockouts Champion* Tara & Jessie Godderz when Sky pinned Tara with In Your Face (3:49).
- Steel Cage Match/Open Fight Night Challenge: Kurt Angle defeated Mr. Anderson by submission with the Ankle Lock (15:20).
- Magnus made his return to TNA after a three month hiatus and chased off Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian) who showed up dressed like Braveheart extras before challenging Devon for Open Fight Night.
- After much prodding from Bully Ray, Sting, and Brooke Hogan, GM Hulk Hogan finally reinstated Ray as a member of the TNA roster. He then made a match for next week: Ray and Sting against The Aces and 8's in a tables match.
- TNA President Dixie Carter announced, via awkwardly edited in video, that IMPACT Wrestling is leaving the Impact Zone in Orlando, FL and taking their weekly TV show across the country. This begins March 14th in Chicago, IL.
- Austin Aries and Bobby Roode get a tag team title shot against Chavo Guerrero Jr. & Hernandez next week by virtue of Aries' singles win over Guerrero on this show.
- Wes Brisco and Garett Bischoff revealed themselves to be members of The Aces and 8's at the end of the show, locking the cage and double-teaming their former mentor Kurt Angle. Angle's friend Samoa Joe was taken out backstage before the main event and was unable to help.
- A quick update on TNA World Champion Jeff Hardy: an MRI was done. That's it. No news until next week. Easily the worst part of the show.
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Here we present a protocol for assessing seed survivorship, germination and dormancy under field conditions using buried, labeled seed strips and tetrazolium chloride (TZ) viability testing.
We describe techniques for approximating seed bank dynamics over time using Helianthus annuus as an example study species. Strips of permeable polyester fabric and glue can be folded and glued to construct a strip of compartments that house seeds and identifying information, while allowing contact with soil leachate, water, microorganisms, and ambient temperature. Strips may be constructed with a wide range of compartment numbers and sizes and allow the researcher to house a variety of genotypes within a single species, different species, or seeds that have experienced different treatments. As opposed to individual seed packets, strips are more easily retrieved as a unit. While replicate packets can be included within a strip, different strips can act as blocks or can be retrieved at different times for observation of seed behavior over time. We used a high temperature glue gun to delineate compartments and sealed the strips once the seed and tags identifying block and removal times were inserted. The seed strips were then buried in the field at the desired depth, with the location marked for later removal. Burrowing animal predators were effectively excluded by use of a covering of metal mesh hardware cloth on the soil surface. After the selected time interval for burial, strips were dug up and seeds were assessed for germination, dormancy and mortality. While clearly dead seeds can often be distinguished from ungerminated living ones by eye, dormant seeds were conclusively identified using a standard Tetrazolium chloride colorimetric test for seed viability.
The overall goal of this method is to reliably assess seed survival over time under field conditions.
Soil seed banks are a reserve of dispersed, viable yet ungerminated seeds distributed either on the soil surface, within surface litter, or within the soil profile, which may persist transiently or for many years1,2. When seed burial methods similar to those presented here were applied to a 17-year study using several dozen species, viable seeds were found in many of the species tested3. Seed dormancy is a block to seed germination until the appropriate combination of conditions for seedling survival arise4. Remaining dormant can allow seeds to survive harsh conditions, such as low winter temperatures, nutrient limitation, or seasonal drought, until an external trigger for dormancy-release allows for germination. Triggers for dormancy-release can vary from exposure to extended cold, compounds left by fire, or physical attack on the seed coat through abrasion or contact with animal stomach acids5. As germination cues can be genera or species specific and often result from past natural selection, maladaptive seed germination is that which occurs at an inappropriate time, and may result in seed or seedling mortality or poor seedling growth. While dormancy has been classified into a number of types based on the mechanisms of dormancy release (e.g., physical dormancy, physiological dormancy),6 seed dormancy remains one of the least understood topics in plant biology. Thus, field studies that allow for assessment of the status of individual seeds or groups of seeds under relevant ecological conditions have higher explanatory power than those that simply rely on standard germination tests in the laboratory.
Exploitation of known seed characteristics can provide insight into the mechanisms of dormancy. Control of seed dormancy is complex, including genetic control of physiological and morphological factors. While a full understanding of the breadth of dormancy mechanisms has yet to be elucidated, a general model has emerged, involving a feedback relationship between the two plant hormones Gibberellic Acid (GA) and Abscisic Acid (ABA)7. In this generalized model for seeds with a physiological component to their dormancy, GA serves as signal for dormancy release, while ABA serves to maintain the dormant state. Maternal genetic effects as well as the maternal growth environment can influence dormancy and other seed traits, such as size, through maternally generated tissues and developmental signals8. Maternally generated external structures (or seed coverings) may maintain dormancy, at times in combination with physiological cues. Since maternally derived seed coverings are controlled by the mother plant's genes, they may not reflect the seed's actual nuclear genetic make-up. We have used the Helianthus annuus achenes from an array of crop-wild hybrid crosses to tease out these maternal vs. embryo genetic effects on seed characteristics9,10. Thus, study designs that include diverse species, cross types, or genotypes can glean information about the ecology and genetics of seed dormancy, germination and survival.
An important example of how seed germination and survival phenotypes can affect population dynamics can be seen in crop-wild hybrid zones. Selection during domestication of cultivated plants eliminates most dormancy and reduces a seed's ability to survive outside of the growing season. Yet gene flow, or hybridization, between the cultivated and wild types in crop-wild hybrid zones can reintroduce crop alleles (or genetic variants) into a wild population, with potential effects on seed bank dynamics. Hybrids between cultivated and wild relatives potentially found in crop-wild hybrid zones may possess a variety of intermediate dormancy phenotypes, with only a few phenotypes expected to survive conditions outside of cultivation (e.g., winter months)11.
The aim of this manuscript is to show how, using the seed burial strip method, we can evaluate germination, dormancy, and survival of a range of seed types at different time periods to investigate their natural variation under field conditions. In our example, we employed sunflower seeds from 15 crop-wild hybrid cross types since we are interested in maternal and embryo genetic effects on seed characteristics.
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1. Gather Seed from Multiple Species or Controlled Crosses of a Single Species
Note: This example used seed from 15 cross types within the species Helianthus annuus (sunflower) using wild, hybrid, and crop types as the maternal (seed producing) parent.
- At the end of the growing season, collect mature seed heads in labeled bags. Clean seed from chaff and place seed in envelopes labeled with parental cross type in standard format (i.e., maternal x paternal).
- Bulk seed together in large envelopes using equal amounts of seed from an equal number of identical parental cross types. For example, 100 seeds from 10 cross types with the same maternal and paternal parents. Label the envelopes with identifying (cross type) information. These large envelopes are seed masters for use in filling burial strips in Section 2.
|Maternal Parent
|Paternal Parent
|Wild: WxW
|F1: WxC
|Crop: CxC
|Wild: WxW
|0% WxW
|25% F1xW †
|50% CxW †
|BC: WxF1 or F1xW
|12.5% WxBC
|37.5% F1xBC
|62.5% CxBC
|F1: WxC
|25% WxF1 †
|50% F1xF1
|75% CxF1 †
|F2: F1xF1
|25% WxF2
|50% F1xF2
|75% CxF2
|Crop: CxC
|50% WxC †
|75% F1xC †
|100% CxC
Table 1. Parental cross types produced from hand pollination. Sunflower crop-wild hybrid cross types were produced with hand-pollination for use in seed burial experiment. For all cross types, the maternal parent listed first and the paternal parent listed second. Cross types marked with † are part of reciprocal cross type pairs with the same % crop alleles but different maternal parents. Table has been previously published in: Pace, B. A. et al. (2015)15.
2. Create Custom Seed Burial Strips
NOTE: For this example, we had three removal date treatments and 15 replicates, so we required 45 strips total. This example uses 15 compartments per strip so, we required enough fine-meshed polyester fabric or mosquito netting to house 15, 7 x 10 cm compartments. See Figure 1.
- Start by cutting a 20 x 105 cm strip of fabric for each seed strip.
- Measure and mark compartments, then fold the fabric in half. Using a high-temperature glue gun, seal one short (10 cm) end. Once the glue cools slightly, but not completely, press the fabric sides together to create a seal.
CAUTION: High-temperature glue and glue gun tips can cause burns if contact with skin is prolonged.
- Glue lines from the folded edge to the open short end at each compartment mark. Press the two fabric sides together along the glue lines to ensure seals without holes between compartments. Seeds migrating between compartments contribute to experimental error.
NOTE: Now that the compartments have been created, the unfolded edge should remain open and ready to receive seed and their identifying information (cross type name).
- Randomly assign seed cross types to compartments for each strip.
- Fill seed compartments with a uniform number of seeds (20 for each compartment are used in this example). For labels, use industrial permanent markers on cut-to-fit plastic garden darts so that they are able to withstand burial.
NOTE: Alternative labeling methods may be used.
- After each compartment is filled with seed and its label, seal the compartment immediately with the high-temperature glue gun. Proceed until the entire seed strip is completely sealed. Label overall strip in the first compartment with replicate, block and/or treatment information.
NOTE: For our study, since we had temporal removals, blocks, and replicate strips within blocks, we included all of this information.
- Check for gaps between compartments and spot glue as needed before moving on to the next strip.
- Fill seed compartments with a uniform number of seeds (20 for each compartment are used in this example). For labels, use industrial permanent markers on cut-to-fit plastic garden darts so that they are able to withstand burial.
Figure 1. Burial seed strip schematic. Example of burial strip showing cross type identification for individual compartments. Maternal parent is listed first with the paternal parent listed second. Colors indicate different maternal parentage, with yellow for wild, blue for F1 hybrid, and red for crop. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
3. Bury Seed Strips in the Field
- Dig plots to the specified depth to house strips. Assign strips to individual blocks in which strips are randomly arranged to allow for removal date to be used as the main plot and compartment identity (in this example, cross type) as the subplot in analysis.
- Cover strips with earth. Cut metal mesh hardware cloth to be 10 cm larger than plots and place over buried strips. Use U-pins to secure edges and cover cloth edges with earth.
NOTE: This covering is for excluding burrowing seed predators. As another option, Mercer et al.13 constructed and buried boxes of hardware cloth that surrounded the seed strips due to intense gopher pressure in their field location.)
- Place colored surveyor's flags to distinguish strip location and removal dates to complement clear written records.
4. Excavate Strips and Evaluate Seed
- Dig up seed strips assigned to a given removal date. Maintain the strips in a cool moist environment until they reach the laboratory where seed evaluation will take place. This can be accomplished by wrapping the strips in wet newspaper and placing them in a cooler for transport or overnight shipping.
- Rinse mud and soil from strips in water until strips are clean enough that external debris will not obscure seeds.
- Use scissors to cut open one compartment at a time. Count germinated seeds and remove them. Count clearly dead seeds (e.g., rotting, or putrefied seeds). Place ungerminated seeds on labeled, wet Petri-sized blotter paper to further distinguish ungerminated, dormant, and dead seeds.
- Place Petri dishes with ungerminated seeds into a growth chamber set for standard germination conditions: 25 °C /10 °C 12 hr day/night. Allow seeds one week to germinate. Any that do, count these as viable, but ungerminated since they did not germinate under field conditions.
- After the growth chamber treatment, test remaining ungerminated seeds for viability using Tetrazolium chloride (TZ)13. To accomplish this, make up a percent solution of TZ appropriate for the study species using the AOSA Tetrazolium Testing Handbook14. For this example, a 1% solution is used.
- Cut the ungerminated seeds in half and place one half were the embryo and endosperm are visible in a Petri dish containing enough TZ solution to cover the seed (seeds may float, this is okay).
- Place TZ Petri dishes into an incubator set at 30 °C and wait 3 hr. Note: Higher temperatures will result in a faster reaction, if desired, but overstaining is a risk.
- Remove Petri dishes from the incubator and evaluate. Seeds that have stained red in their embryos are germinable, while unstained seeds are dead. Consult the AOSA Tetrazolium Testing Handbook for more detail on distinguishing marginal cases and particular species.
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Representative Results
Cross types with varied maternal parentage and crop allele percentage (Table 1) differed across removal dates in percent germinated, ungerminated, and dead seed (Fig. 2 and 3). Using TZ testing of ungerminated seeds, we found some truly dormant seeds at the second removal (early spring) (Table 2), while all seeds ungerminated by the third removal (spring) were found to be truly dormant.
In general, lower crop allele percentages reduced maladaptive germination in late fall (Fig. 2). At the early spring removal, all cross types had high germination, but differed in their proportion dead and ungerminated (Fig. 3). In particular, cross types with crop maternal parentage had higher mortality while maternal wild cross types were more likely to remain ungerminated. By spring, germination declined for some cross types. While counter-intuitive, this is likely due to seed mortality within the burial strips for earlier germinating cross types. Accordingly, mortality was higher for more crop-like cross types (i.e., those with higher crop allele percentages) produced by crop maternal parents (Fig. 3)
Figure 2. Germination at the first removal in late fall. Germination of sunflower crop-wild cross types at the first removal date, in late fall. Cross types are organized on the y-axis by increasing crop allele percentages as marked. Maternal parent is listed first for each cross type. Germination least squares means (with s.e. bars) followed by the same letter are not significantly different using a Tukey-Kramer adjustment for multiple comparisons. Figure has been previously published in: Pace, et al. (2015)15. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 3. Percent Germinated, ungerminated, and mortality for the second removal (early spring) and third removal (spring). Percent germinated for early spring (A), spring (B), percent ungerminated for early spring (C), spring (D), and percent dead for early spring (E) and spring (F) removal dates. Sunflower crop-wild hybrid cross types are organized by increasing crop allele percentages, with the most crop-like on the top of the y-axis and the most wild-like at the bottom of the y-axis. Cross type maternal parent is listed first. Least squares means for germinated, ungerminated and dead seed (with s.e. bars) followed by the same letter are not significantly different using a Tukey-Kramer adjustment for multiple comparisons. Figure has been previously published in: Pace, et al. (2015)15. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
|Cross type
|TZ Dormant
|Standard Error
Table 2. Seeds likely to contribute to a persistent seed bank. Least squares means for the percent dormant fraction of ungerminated seeds at the second (early spring) removal. Seeds were determined to be viable using tetrazolium chloride after incubation in favorable germination conditions. Table has been previously published in: Pace, et al. (2015)15.
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Here we present methods for using seed burial strips to observe seed germination, dormancy and mortality of diverse seed stocks at preselected time periods in the field. The advantages of using strips rather than individual packets lie in (1) the speed of strip and compartment construction over creation of individual packets; and (2) the ease and speed of removing multiple compartments in one motion without the danger of omitting a packet or removing one unintentionally. As two of the removal dates in the example presented here were during winter months when the soil is hard and field conditions are cold, this method reduces both labor and the potential for human error. Seed strips also aid experimental logistics by allowing researchers to randomize compartmental locations in the laboratory in a manner that cannot be altered by human error in the field. Through selection of removal times that encompassed the breadth of predicted natural germination times we were able to make inferences about seed bank dynamics-in our example the potential for hybrid seed to persist in seed bank and contribute to future populations. One limitation of this method is that some migration of seed between compartments may be unavoidable, depending on the size of the seed. For this reason, (and as stated in the protocol) it is important that investigators double-check the high temperature glue seals between compartments to minimize seed migration.
Some problems with seed burial experiments can be avoided by thinking shrewdly about timing. Select burial and removal dates at times relevant to the natural cycles of the study species and the study objectives. It is best to plant as soon after natural seed shed as possible. Dates of removal should be selected based on observation of peak seedling emergence time for assessment of normal germination behavior; the addition of earlier dates also allows researchers to capture early germination. Because our previous work had indicated that some maladaptive germination was occurring due to complete lack of dormancy in some cross types, we selected a very early removal date only a few weeks after burial (removal 1, late fall)15, 16.
The advantage of strips over individual packets is that a dozen or more compartments can be buried, removed, and evaluated as one, allowing for complex experimental designs involving everything from multiple removal dates to irrigation or nutrient treatments. Investigators should take care to construct blocks that allow the treatments they are most concerned with understanding to be the main effect. Our example emphasized seed behavior over time, but other treatments can applied that would require consideration of field layout and replicate arrangement within blocks during the experimental design phase. By randomly assigning strip burial position within blocks, removal time can be analyzed as the main effect.
After removal of seed strips, preparing a pre-labeled stack of Petri-sized blotter paper for the entire strip before assessment begins reduces human error. Similarly, opening and evaluating a single compartment at a time helps maintain accuracy. When placing ungerminated seeds into the growth chambers, be sure that the day and night temperatures match optimal seed germination conditions for the study species. While standard germination conditions (25 °C /10 °C 12 hour day/night) may be appropriate for a wide variety of species, this is not the case for all species.
Consider that the TZ treatment application and evaluation of seed staining patterns strongly influences study outcome. When evaluating the ungerminated seeds after the growth chamber treatment, consult the literature (or the AOSA Tetrazolium Testing Handbook14) for the correct concentration of TZ for a given species. While judging individual TZ stained seeds, it is important to remember the difference between seed viability and a seed's ability to germinate-weakly stained seeds may indicate respiring tissue, which may be unable to emerge from the soil and produce a seedling. That stated, truly dormant seeds are those that remain ungerminated under optimal germination conditions, yet when tested are still strongly viable. These seeds are the only seeds likely to contribute to a persistent seed bank and germinate in future years.
A number of applications for these methods are possible beyond those outlined here. Seed burial strips can be customized for virtually any number of experimental units and experimental designs. They can be applied to compare different species, seed sizes, or conditions/treatments. Building on these methods has the potential to deepen knowledge of the basic seed biology of many species in an ecologically relevant context.
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The authors have nothing to disclose.
This work was supported by Biotech Risk Assessment Grant Program competitive grand no. 2006-39454-17438 to A. Snow, K. Mercer, and H. Alexander from the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Experiments using this method were conducted at and supported by the University of Kansas Field Station, a research unit of the Kansas Biological Survey and the University of Kansas. The authors would like to thank P. Jourdan and E. Regnier for helpful reviews on earlier versions of this manuscript. Additionally, this work was aided by the contributions of the staff at the University of Kansas Field Station, Waterman Farm at the Ohio State University (OSU), the USDA Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center at OSU, and the Seed Biology Lab in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at OSU, especially E. Renze, S. Stieve, A. Evans, and E. Grassbaugh, for technical support.
|Catalog Number
|Small coin envelopes
|Large coin envelopes
|fine meshed polyester mosquito netting
|high-temperature glue gun
|high-temperature glue stick refills
|Industrial permenant markers
|plastic garden labels
|Metal mesh hardward cloth
|Surveyor's flags, multiple colors
|Wet newspaper
|blotter paper
|petri dishes
|Temp. controlled growth chamber
|razor blades
|Petri dishes
|Tetrazolium chloride
|heat incubator
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Out Like A Light - Chapter 9CHAPTER IX
It started a million years ago.
In that distant past, a handful of photons deep in the interior of Sol began their random journey to the photosphere. They had been born as ultrahard gamma radiation, and they were positively bursting with energy, attempting to push their respective ways through the dense nucleonic gas that had been their womb. Within millimicroseconds, they had been swallowed up by the various particles surrounding them--swallowed, and emitted again, as the particles met in violent collision.
And then the process was repeated. After a thousand thousand years, and billions on billions of such repetitions, the handful of photons reached the relatively cool photosphere of the sun. But the long battle had taken some of the drive out of them; over the past million years, even the strongest had become only hard ultraviolet, and the weakest just sputtered out in the form of long radio waves.
But now, at last, they were free! And in the first flush of this newfound freedom, they flung themselves over ninety-three million miles of space, traveling at one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second and making the entire trip in less than eight and one-half minutes.
They struck the Earth's ionosphere, and their numbers diminished. The hard ultraviolet was gobbled up by ozone; much of the blue was scattered through the atmosphere. The remainder bore steadily onward.
Down through the air they came, only slightly weakened this time. They hit the glass of a window in the Hotel New Yorker, losing more of their members in the plunge.
And, a few feet from the glass, they ended their million-year epic by illuminating a face.
The face responded to them with something less than pleasure. It was clear that the face did not like being illuminated. It was very bright, much too bright. It seemed to be searing its way through the face's closed eyelids, right past the optic nerves into the brain-pan itself. The face twisted in a sudden spasm, as if its brain were shriveling with heat. Its owner thoughtfully turned over, and the face sought the seclusion and comparative darkness of a pillow.
Unfortunately, the motion brought the face's owner to complete wakefulness. He did not want to be awake, but he had very little choice in the matter. Even though his face was no longer being illuminated, he could feel other rays of sunlight eating at the back of his head. He put the pillow over his head and felt more comfortable for a space, but this slight relief passed, too.
He thought about mausoleums. Mausoleums were nice, cool, dark places where there was never any sun or heat, and never any reason to wake up. Maybe, he told himself, cunningly, if he went to sleep again he would wake up dead, in a mausoleum. That, he thought, would be nice.
Death was nice and pleasant. Unfortunately, he realized, he was not dead. And there was absolutely no chance of his ever getting back to sleep. He finally rolled over again, being very careful to avoid any more poisonous sunlight. Getting up was an even more difficult process, but Malone knew it had to be managed. Somehow he got his feet firmly planted on the floor and sat up.
It had been a remarkable feat, he told himself. He deserved a medal.
That reminded him of the night before. He had been thinking quite a lot about the medals he deserved for various feats. He had even awarded some of them to himself, in the shape of liquid decoctions.
He remembered all that quite well. There were a lot of cloudy things in his mind, but from all the testimony he could gather, he imagined that he'd had quite a time the night before. Quite a wonderful time, as a matter of fact.
Not that that reflection did anything for him now. As he opened his eyes, one at a time, he thought of Boyd. Once, long ago, ages and ages ago, he had had to wake Boyd up, and he recalled how rough he had been about it. That had been unforgivable.
He made a mental note to apologize to Boyd the next time he saw him--if he could ever see again. Now, he knew how Boyd had felt. And it was terrible.
Still sitting on the bed, he told himself that, in spite of everything, he was lucky. To judge by his vague memories, he'd had quite a time the night before, and if the hangover was payment for it, then he was willing to accept the payment. Almost. Because it had really been a terrific time. The only nagging thought in his mind was that there had been something vital he'd forgotten.
"Tickets," he said, aloud, and was surprised that his voice was audible. As a matter of fact, it was too audible; the noise made him wince slightly. He shifted his position very quietly.
And he hadn't forgotten the tickets. No. He distinctly remembered going to see "The Hot Seat," and finding seats, and actually sitting through the show with Dorothy at his side. He couldn't honestly say that he remembered much of the show itself, but that couldn't be the important thing he'd forgotten. By no means.
He had heard that it was a good show, though. Some time, he reminded himself, he would have to get tickets and actually see it.
He checked through the evening. Drinks. Dinner ... he had had dinner, hadn't he? Yes, he had. He recalled a broiled sea bass looking up at him with mournful eyes. He couldn't have dreamed anything like that.
And then the theater, and after that some more drinks ... and so on, and so on, and so on, right to his arrival back in his hotel room, at four-thirty in the morning, on a bright, boiled cloud.
He even remembered arguing with Dorothy about taking her home. She'd won that round by ducking into a subway entrance, and he had turned around after she'd left him and headed for home. Had he taken a taxi?
Yes, Malone decided, he had. He even remembered that.
Then what had he forgotten?
He had met Dorothy--he told himself, starting all over again in an effort to locate the gaps--at six o'clock, right after phoning ...
He looked at his watch. It was ten o'clock in the morning. He had completely forgotten to call Fernack and Lynch.
Hangover or no hangover, Malone told himself grimly, there was work to be done. Somehow, he managed to get to his feet and start moving.
He checked Boyd's room after a while. But his partner wasn't home. _Probably at work already_, Malone thought, _while I lie here useless and helpless_. He thought of a sermon on the Evils of Alcohol, and decided he'd better read it to himself instead of delivering it to Boyd.
But he didn't waste any time with it. By ten-fifteen he was showered and shaved, his teeth were brushed, and he was dressed. He felt, he estimated, about fifteen hundred per cent better. That was still lousy, but it wasn't quite as bad as it had been. He could move around and talk and even think a little, if he were careful about it. Before he left, he took a look at himself in the mirror.
Well, he told himself, that was nice.
It hardly showed at all. He looked tired, to be sure, but that was almost normal. The eyes weren't bloodshot red, and didn't seem to bug out at all although Malone would have sworn that they were bleeding all over his face. His head was its normal size, as near as he remembered; it was not swollen visibly, or pulsing like a jellyfish at every move.
He looked even better than he felt.
He started for the door, and then stopped himself. There was no need to go out so early; he could start work right in his own hotel room and not even have to worry about the streets of New York, the cars or the pedestrians for a while.
He thought wistfully about a hair of the hound, decided against it with great firmness, and sat down to phone.
He dialed a number, and the face of Commissioner Fernack appeared almost at once. Malone forced himself to smile cheerfully, reasonably sure that he was going to crack something as he did it. "Hello, John Henry," he said in what he hoped was a good imitation of a happy, carefree voice. "And how are you this lovely morning?"
"Me?" Fernack said sourly. "I'm in great shape. Tiptop. Malone, how did you--"
"Any news for me?" Malone said.
Fernack waited a long time before he answered, and when he did his voice was dangerously soft and calm. "Malone," he said, "when you asked for this survey, just what kind of news did you expect to get anyway?"
"An awful lot of impossible crimes," Malone said frankly. "How did I do, John Henry?"
"You did very well," Fernack said. "Too well. Listen, Malone, how could you know about anything like this?"
Malone blinked. "Well," he said, "we have our sources. Confidential. Top secret. I'm sure you understand, commissioner." Hurriedly, he added: "What does the breakdown look like?"
"It looks like hell," Fernack said. "About eight months ago, according to the computer, there was a terrific upswing in certain kinds of crime. And since then it's been pretty steady, right at the top of the swing. Hasn't moved down hardly at all."
"Great," Malone said.
Fernack stared. "What?" he said.
"I mean--" Malone stopped, thought of an answer and tried it: "I mean, that checks out my guess. My information. Sources."
Fernack seemed to weigh risks in his mind. "Malone, I know you're FBI," he said at last. "But this sounds pretty fishy to me. Pretty strange."
"You have no idea how strange," Malone said truthfully.
"I'm beginning to," Fernack said. "And if I ever find out that you had anything to do with this--"
"And don't look innocent," Fernack said. "It doesn't succeed in looking anything but horrible. You remind me of a convicted murderer trying to steal thirty cents from the prison chaplain."
"What would I have to do with all these crimes?" Malone said. "And what kind of crimes were they, anyway?"
"What you'd have to do with them," Fernack said, "is an unanswered question. And so long as it remains unanswered, Malone, you're safe. But when I come up with enough facts to answer it--"
"Don't be silly, commissioner," Malone said. "How about these crimes? What kind were they?"
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"Burglaries," Fernack said. "And I have a hunch you know that well enough. Most of them were just burglaries--locked barrooms, for instance, early in the morning. There's never any sign of tampering with the locks, no sign of breaking and entering, no sign of any alarms being tampered with in any way. But the money's gone from the cash register, and all of the liquor is gone, too."
Malone stared. "_All the liquor?" he said in a dazed voice.
"Well," Fernack said, "all of it that's in plain sight, anyway. Except for the open bottles. Disappeared. Gone. Without a trace. And most of the time the extra stock's gone, too, from the basement or wherever they happen to keep it."
"That's a lot of liquor," Malone said.
"Quite a lot," Fernack said. "Some of the bars have gone broke, not being insured against the losses."
The thought of thousands of bottles of liquor--millions of bottles--went through Malone's mind like an icepick. He could almost see them, handle them, taste them. "Hair of the dog," he muttered. "What hair. What a dog."
"What did you say, Malone?"
"Nothing," Malone said hastily. "Nothing at all." After a second another query occurred to him. "You mean to tell me that only bars were robbed? Nothing else?"
"Oh, no," Fernack said. "Bars are only part of it. Malone, why are you asking me to tell you this?"
"Because I want to know," Malone said patiently.
"I still think--" Fernack began, and then said: "Never mind. But it hasn't been only bars. Supermarkets. Homes. Cleaning and tailoring shops. Jewelers. Malone, you name it, and it's been hit."
Malone tried valiantly to resist temptation, but he was not at his best, and he lost. "All right," he said. "I will name it. Here's a list of places that haven't even been touched by the rising crime wave: Banks, for one."
"Safes that have been locked, for another," Malone went on. "Homes with wall safes--though that's not quite accurate. The homes may have been robbed, but the safes won't have been touched."
"Malone, how much do you know?" Fernack said.
"I'll make a general rule for you," Malone said. "Any place that fits the following description is safe: It's got a secure lock on it, and it's too small for a human being to get into."
Fernack opened his mouth, shut it and stared downward, obviously scanning some papers lying on the desk in front of him. Malone waited patiently for the explosion--but it never came.
Instead, Fernack said: "You know, Malone, you remind me of an old friend of mine."
"Really?" Malone said pleasantly.
"You certainly do," Fernack said. "There's just one small difference. You're an FBI man, and he's a crook. If that's a difference."
"It is," Malone said. "And on behalf of the FBI, I resent the allegation. And, as a matter of fact, defy the allegator. But that's neither here nor there," he continued. "If that's the difference, what are the similarities?"
Fernack drew in a deep, hissing breath, and when he spoke his voice was as calm and quiet as a coiled cobra. "The both of you come up with the damnedest answers to things. Things I never knew about or even cared about before. Things I wish I'd never heard of. Things that don't have any explanations. And--" He stopped, his face dark in the screen. Malone wondered what color it was going to turn, and decided on purple as a good choice.
"Well?" Malone said at last.
"And you're always so right it makes me sick," Fernack finished flatly. He rubbed a hand through his hair and stared into the screen at Malone. "How did you know all this stuff?" he said.
Malone waited one full second, while Fernack got darker and darker on the screen. When he judged that the color was right, he said quietly: "I'm prescient. And thanks a lot, John Henry; just send the reports to me personally, at Sixty-ninth Street. By messenger. So long."
He cut the circuit just as Fernack started: "Now, Malone--"
* * * * *
With a satisfied, somewhat sheepish smile, Malone dialed another number. This time a desk sergeant told him politely that Lynch wasn't at the precinct, and wouldn't arrive until noon.
Malone had Lynch's home number. He dialed it.
It was a long wait before the lieutenant answered, and he didn't look much like a police officer when his face finally showed up on the screen. His hair was uncombed and he was unshaven. His eyes were slightly bleary, but he was definitely awake.
"Oh," Malone said. "Hello."
"Hi, there," Lynch said with enormous cheerfulness. "Old buddy-boy. Old pal. Old friend."
"What's wrong?" Malone said.
"Wrong?" Lynch said. "Nothing. Nothing. Nothing at all. I just wanted to thank you for not waking me up last night. I only waited for your call until midnight. Then I decided I just wasn't very important to you. You obviously had much bigger things on your mind."
"As a matter of fact," Malone said, eying Lynch's figure, dressed in a pair of trousers and a T-shirt, speculatively, "you're right."
"That's what I thought," Lynch said. "And I decided that, since you were so terribly busy, it could wait until I woke up. Or even until I got down to the station. How about it--buddy-boy?"
"Listen, Lynch," Malone said, "we made a bet. Ten to one. I just want to know if I can come down to collect or not."
There was a second of silence.
"All right," Lynch said at last, looking crestfallen. "I owe you a buck. Every last one of those kids has skipped out on us."
"Good," Malone said. He wondered briefly just what was good about it, and decided he'd rather have lost the money to Lynch. But facts, he reflected, were facts. Thoroughly nasty facts.
"I spent all night tracing them," Lynch said. "Got nowhere. Nowhere at all. Tell me, Malone, how did you know--"
"Classified," Malone said. "Very classified. But you're sure they're all gone? Vanished?"
Lynch's face reddened. "Sure I'm sure," he said. "Every last one of them is gone. And what more do you want me to do about it?" He paused, then added: "What do you expect, Malone? Miracles?"
Malone shook his head gently. "No," he said. "I--"
"Oh, never mind," Lynch said.
"But I--"
"Look, Malone," Lynch said, "there's a guy who wants to talk to you."
"One of the Silent Spooks?" Malone said hopefully.
Lynch shook his head and made a growling noise. "Don't be silly," he said. "It's just that this guy might have some information--but he won't say anything to me about it. He's a social worker or something like that."
"Social worker?" Malone said. "He works with the kids, right?"
"I guess," Lynch said. "His name's Kettleman. Albert Kettleman."
Malone nodded. "O.K.," he said. "I'll be right over."
"Hey," Lynch said, "hold on. He's not here now. What do you think this is--my house or a reception center?"
"Sorry," Malone said wearily. "Where and when?"
"How about three o'clock at the precinct station?" Lynch said, "I can have him there by then, and you can get together and talk." He paused. "Nobody likes the cops," he said. "People hear the FBI's mixed up in this, and they figure the cops are all second-stringers or something."
"Sorry to hear it," Malone said.
"I'll bet you are," Lynch told him bitterly.
Malone shrugged. "Anyway," he said, "I'll see you at three, right?"
"Right," Lynch said, and Malone flipped off.
He sat there for a few seconds grinning quietly. His brain throbbed like an overheated motor, but he didn't really mind any more. His theory had been justified, and that was the most important thing.
The Silent Spooks were all teleports.
Eight of them--eight kids on the loose, stealing everything they could lay their hands on, and completely safe. How could you catch a boy who just disappeared when you started for him? No wonder their names hadn't appeared on the police blotter, Malone thought.
The Spooks didn't get into trouble.
They didn't have to.
They could get into any place big enough to hold them, take what they wanted and just disappear. They'd been doing it for about eight months, according to the figures Malone had received from Fernack; maybe teleportative ability didn't develop until you were around fourteen or fifteen.
But it had developed in these kids--and they were using it in the most obvious way. They had a sure method of getting away from the cops, and a sure method of taking anything they wanted. No wonder they had so much money.
Malone got up, feeling slightly dazed, and left the hotel.


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Bostwick's first head coaching position was at Vinita High School where in his second season led the Hornets to the State Championship game. After returning to JBU as an assistant coach Bostwick helped guide the Eagles to the 2005 NAIA National Championship. In 2007 he took over as the head coach at Oklahoma Wesleyan University where he led the Eagles to the 2009 NAIA DII National Championship, winning a NAIA DII record 39 consecutive games. Bostwick then spent 6 seasons at Southwestern Assemblies of God University where in 2013 he once again led his Lions to the National Championship Game. Making Bostwick the only coach to ever lead programs to championship games as a high school coach, assistant college coach, and as head coach at both the NAIA DI and DII level. Bostwick received National Coach of the Year Honors in 2009, 2010, & 2013. His 146-29 win-loss record at OKWU over his five seasons at the helm makes OKWU one of the most successful programs in the country. He has coached over 12 All-Americans and 5 NAIA Players of the Year including the No. 1 and No. 3 All-Time Three-point Shooters in the History of College Basketball – Brandon Cole – 527 & Steve Briggs – 498
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This past season Bostwick returned to Oklahoma Wesleyan University and led his team back to the NAIA DII Sweet 16. Bostwick considers coaching a ministry and runs his program like a family. "Our camps are provide excellent high level basketball skills training, but we also invest valuable time in teaching our campers how to include their faith in their game along with teaching the value of leadership, hard work and character."


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Colleen's Story: Small Steps, Big Changes
Ready for a New Approach
Colleen says she is the poster child for yoyo dieting. She did a doctor-supervised protein shake diet in 2003. She lost 100 pouds but gained back 130 pounds. She has also tried Jenny Craig, Atkins, and counting calories. She was considering Weight Watchers or Overeaters Anonymous when she read about a "Get Fit for the Holidays" contest that included an Am I Hungry®? workshop and a women's fitness program. Colleen says, "I was really ready for a new approach."
Colleen has lost 26 pounds and almost 6 inches from her waist over the last three months. More importantly, she says she feels energetic and in charge of her life. She knows she is still early in the process but is taking it one step at a time. "I'm in this for the long-haul. I have done just about every diet and I'm just not doing that anymore."
Recognizing Hunger and Making Better Decisions
She has started asking herself, "Am I hungry?" whenever she feels like eating. Colleen says that for her, "hunger is a subtle feeling, like an emptiness." She's now eating more regularly but less often. In the past, being too hungry was a high-risk time for eating too much too fast. Now if she's overly hungry, she eats a small of food then waits awhile to allow her blood sugar to come back up. She is then able to make better decisions about what and how much to eat.
Colleen has decided to take a walk after dinner to break her old habit of having seconds or thirds when food tastes really good. If she still wants more when she gets back, she'll have it. This is important because like many yoyo dieters, Colleen used to think of herself as "bad" when she broke a "rule." Colleen says, "I'm working on changing the way I think about food." She's learning to eat the foods she loves in moderation without guilt. Since deprivation and guilt are powerful triggers, learning a more flexible approach helping her establish healthier lifelong habits.
One Step at a Time
Colleen is aware that her biggest challenge is emotional eating, particularly due to stress from her job, a controlling boss, and her current relationship. She also eats when she's bored. "One of my goals is to find at least five ways to nurture myself besides eating."
She is also enjoying the women's fitness program and recently discovered a hiking trail near her home. Although she says she can't make it all the way up the mountain yet, she knows that by going a little farther each time she'll eventually make it to the top. She's on her way!
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I don't know how I ended up not putting these photos up. You must forgive me. I beg and plead for your mercy. A couple of weeks back I woke up early in the morning to go and shoot at the 1st Annual Kenya Kite fest. I was doing it for my good friends Urban Live, who were part of the team organizing the event. Without beating many stories, here's my favorite image from the hundreds I shot that day.
By the way, I took this AFTER I got a chance to fly that kite. Best. Feeling. EVER! More images of the fun times in the gallery below 😀
I'm back to regular blogging. You can look forward to at least 2 posts a week from now on 🙂 And that's a promise.


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Hello there, friend. It's been a while!
*dusts off cobwebs*
This blog hasn't been touched since October but with the absence of school and more free time on my hands, I figured it was time to bring it back in some form or another.
It's pretty much impossible to write detailed articles about every new album and EP that I enjoy. I learned that pretty quickly in the six months I ran this regularly. The list of releases I wished to talk about just kept getting longer and the half-written posts sitting in my queue soon found themselves outdated (there's one still sitting there now on French indie math rock band, Totorro, that will never be completed but you should still check out their music anyway).
To remedy this, I'm choosing a quantity over quality solution. I will be posting four quarterly updates throughout the year briefly summarizing and sharing music I've found and significantly appreciated for whatever reason each quarter (i.e. January through March, April through June, etc).
One's taste in music is obviously subjective and heavily influenced by where they grew up, the people they interacted with, the places they've seen, and the things they've learned along the way. All of these help lead to a rich, textured musical background that continuously builds upon itself adding depth and offshooting into paths of complex obscurity. You might hate everything I like. And that's totally cool!
Personally, I've never subscribed to the notion of appreciating art simply because it's popular and my friends are into it. Be your own damn person. Find what you like. What this translates into specifically for this blog is that you're never going to see me praise Top 40 songs or whatever the trendiest pop star at the time is putting out. If you're making art for the sake of being famous and not for the sake of making art alone, you're not worth the money you pay your ghost writers.
But if you appreciate authenticity and an eclectic taste that ecompasses punk, metal, hip-hop, jazz, cumbia, and many a genre in between, then stick around for the soon-to-be-published Quarterlies 1 and 2!
And if you were looking for any substantive musical aspects in this post, here is a list of my favorite albums (EP's not included) from 2016. Several of these were covered in depth on this blog throughout the past year so feel free to browse through the archives and do some readin'. I'll toss in additional artists too because a revisionist's work is never done and I don't necessarily agree with this list as I originally wrote it six months ago.
Favorite Albums of 2016
* Frameworks – Smother [post-hardcore]
* Joyce Manor – Cody [indie punk]
* American Football – American Football [indie rock / emo]
* The Devil Wears Prada – Transit Blues [metalcore]
* Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership [post-hardcore / swancore]
* Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost [indie punk / emo]
* DIIV – Is The Is Are [indie / shoegaze]
* Hacktivist – Outside The Box [djent / rap metal]
* Trash Boat – Nothing I Write You Will Change What You've Been Through [pop-punk]
* Tiny Moving Parts – Celebrate [indie punk]
* Mat Kerekes – Luna & The Wild Blue Everything [acoustic]
* Expire – With Regret [hardcore]
* Scallops Hotel – Too Much Of Life Is Mood [indie rap / glitch hop]
* Adult Books – Running From The Blows [indie / surf punk]
* Enemies – Valuables [indie / post-rock]
* Balance And Composure – Light We Made [indie punk / shoegaze]
Runners-Up / Stuff I Didn't Get Into Until Later
* Old Gray – Slow Burn [emo / punk]
* Nomade Orquestra – Nomade Orquestra [jazz]
* KOOL A.D. – KOOL A.D. & Trackademicks Present: Official [hip-hop / trap]
* Thee Commons – Loteria Tribal [surf punk / psychedelic cumbia]
* My Iron Lung – Learn To Leave [emo / post-hardcore]
* Sianvar – Stay Lost [progressive rock / swancore]
* Erra – Drift [progressive metal / metalcore]
* Forests – Sun Eat Moon Grave Party [emo / punk]
* KOOL A.D. – The Natural [hip-hop]
* Totorro – Come To Mexico [post-rock / indie]
* Noname – Telefone [hip-hop]
* Jeff Parker – The New Breed [jazz]
But on the real tho, fuck Sean Spicer and his bitchass.
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you found any of the artists enjoyable.


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Tradition as well as innovation
Whether hiking to the many pastures, climbing on the numerous peaks, mountain biking, skiing or simply relaxing in a spa and savouring the culinary delights – people from all over the world enjoy spending their holidays in the Tyrol.
There are 10.2 million arrivals and 44.9 million overnight stays in the region every year. 340,000 beds are available. Slightly more than 90% of the overnight stays were generated by tourists from abroad, 52% of them just from Germany. The tourism industry is the third supporting pillar of the economy in the Tyrol, after material goods production and business-related services And with roughly 71,000 employees, tourism in the Tyrol generates an annual turnover of about 7.3 billion euros.
This industry has a long history here. The first visitors came as as early as the middle of the 19th century to spend their summer holidays here. People on educational trips, natural scientists and mountaineering pioneers also visited the region. After all, the development of tourism is directly linked with the start of alpinism. The Austrian Alpine Association was founded in 1862 and the German Alpine Club in 1869. Winter tourism only gained in importance after the First World War.
People were quick to criticise the destruction of the natural environment caused by tourism even in the early 20th century. However, people also discovered the economic importance of tourism. In 1910 a law was passed on a federal state level that regulates everything pertaining to and promoting tourism.
Thanks to this law, the people in the Tyrol can continue harmonising tourism with the natural surroundings. Nature reserves occupy one quarter of the territory. State-of-the-art technologies enable people to enjoy skiing in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way. Numerous ski lifts are powered by solar energy. Highly efficient snow cannons use hydropower and only produce snow where the layer of snow has become thin. And anyway, more and more providers of hotels, cable car stations through to alpine huts as well as entire regions are highly committed to sustainability, which you can read about in the subsequent article.
Health tourism offers are forward-looking and in close touch with nature. Innovative concepts can efficiently prevent or treat conditions, e.g. burn-out syndrome, by enjoying the peacefulness of the natural surroundings. Such as the LANS Med Concept created by Lanserhof, the multiple international award-winning health centre that combines advanced medicine with traditional treatments. This example shows how simple the tourism equation is in the Tyrol: tradition plus innovation is equal to long-term success.


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Manchester entrepreneurs behind Touched Interiors, Kunal Trehan and Thomas Hope, share their secrets to success.
"I have asked Kunal, no more ideas after three" laughs Thomas. He and Kunal are the brains behind the interior design and luxury furniture retail brand Touched Interiors, on-demand beauty service Artisté, and award-winning salon Touched Hair and Beauty. Kunal jokes "We have to be passionate to run three businesses and get out of bed every day." It's the winning combination of Kunal's "attention to detail" and Thomas' "ability to connect with people" that's gained them such a strong client base over their ten years in business together.
Their passion might get them out of bed in the morning, but their real secret to success is personalisation. You'd be forgiven for thinking that hair, beauty and interiors businesses don't have much in common, but they do when they're the products of Thomas and Kunal. Thomas explains that "the consultation process is probably very similar. You discuss all the ideas that you can come up with and eventually decide on an idea together that's personalised to that individual."
Championing what's right for the client isn't always an easy task but it's one Kunal and Thomas dedicate themselves to. They know that their clients "want something that nobody else has", so it's their job to find out a client's needs and wants and translate their vision into a reality that works for them and their lifestyle.
Rising to these challenges brings the greatest rewards: "The best aspect of the job," Thomas explains, "is when you've delivered that moment to them because you've gone above and beyond what anybody else could do". The pair measures a job well done by their clients' happiness. Kunal says "those emails from clients saying that not only did they love your design, but they loved the service are always most satisfying part".
When so much of the nature of their work is bespoke, the customer truly has to be at the heart of their services. The pair are well aware that great customer service, even in luxury retail, can be hard to come by, often feeling that they have to work twice as hard to reassure clients that have come to them after bad experiences. This is what motivates them to approach each client's journey as an ongoing experience, never an exchange. Kunal says "from the moment they answer the door or pick up the phone, to three weeks or three years of having that item, it's all part of an experience." It's this genuine client focus and honesty that never fails to win clients over. Whether you want to buy a cushion, design a piece of furniture, or have Touched Interiors reimagine your whole property, Kunal explains "it's about knowing why the value for money is perfect for them, whatever the price point may be".
For Thomas and Kunal, it's never about recreating a trend or look. Thomas says, "It's really about making sure it's their vision". Although we all take inspiration from interior trends when decorating our homes and fashion trends when coming up with a look for our next big event, Kunal and Thomas believe your identity should always be the most important thing.
It's a method that's clearly working well for them as they launched their third business, luxury on-demand beauty app, Artisté earlier this year. With friends and Touched Interior clients unable to visit the pair's Staffordshire salon Touched Hair & Beauty, they were inspired to remove the restrictions of time and location, allowing clients to enjoy luxury beauty services whenever and wherever they want them.
In an industry where self-appointed makeup artists abound, and express beauty treatments are knocked out in record time, Artisté's success comes from its owners' winning formula of great service and personalisation. Much like Kunal's approach to designing projects, Thomas says he "relishes in deciphering what a client really needs". To make sure the client's vision is always at the forefront, Artisté's services are gender neutral, focusing on a specific look that's then tailored to each client.
Thomas and Kunal's ability to get to the heart of what works for their clients, regardless of what they're spending, is best showcased by Artisté. The pair has strived to make sure that the app is "for everyone". It's important to Kunal and Thomas that people who might not be able to make it to a salon, like busy parents or people with disabilities, can still enjoy a luxury experience in their own home. With a lower price point (full makeup costs £40) and stylists available between 5 am and 10 pm across Greater Manchester and Cheshire – and plans to expand across the UK – Artisté succeeds in providing "attainable luxury".
Despite having three very different businesses, their approach remains the same. Kunal puts it simply: "excellent service and great product delivered to perfection". It's a careful balance of Kunal's perfectionism and Thomas's grounded nature that drives this creative couple to offer a taste of luxury to everyone. With clients on the Forbes list and flying over from Australia, it's easy to see that the pull of this pair is global. Kunal guarantees "You'll never find a bad online review about us. We're not one of those couples that start a new venture for the sake of it. We have to give it 100%". Kunal and Thomas prove that passion and personalisation are exactly what today's clients want and make for strong foundations on which to continue to grow their business empire.
Find out more about Kunal and Thomas' businesses at touchedinteriors.co.uk, artiste.co.uk, and touchedhairandbeauty.co.uk


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[Interview] RAW Pittsburgh Winner Jake Mulliken Has A 'Meltdown'
On Nov. 22nd, RAW Pittsburgh, a monthly artist showcase featuring new and emerging local talent, held a semi-finals awards show to determine the best artists to represent Pittsburgh at the RAWards National Finals. Winners were chosen in the categories of fashion, music, visual art, performing art, hair, makeup, photography and accessories, but only one participant took away the RAW Artist of the Year for film.
Recent Pittsburgh transplant Jake Mulliken beat out the competition with his debut film Meltdown, a 30-minute zombie comedy shot on a budget of $1,200. He wrote, directed and starred in the short, which follows three Pittsburghers as they slash and shoot their way through a horde of radioactive undead. The film is the first project produced under Mulliken's company Out Of Pocket Productions.
Mulliken spoke with Steel Cinema about his move to Pittsburgh from the West Coast, his influences, and his current project Ghost Hunt, a documentary about gonzo journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson.
Why did you decide to move to Pittsburgh?
It was a couple of things. I got swept up in the teacher layoffs when I was out in California, where I was teaching at a private school. A friend of mine was living here finishing up his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon. I always came out to visit and kinda kept an eye on Pittsburgh. It's a great city, but the more I read about it and the more I researched it, it really seemed like, not just in film, but the city in general was just on this whole new upswing. And it's really cheap to live here compared to the West Coast. So I figured what the hell, I'll just go back and do film again.
Do you have formal film training? Or no?
No! No, no. I left Kentucky when I was 21, and I've always loved movies, and we'd goof around when we were kids with cameras and stuff. But when I moved, I had this harebrained scheme that I was gonna be an actor and a filmmaker. So I found myself in the middle of the desert and I got really involved there. I was on Breaking Bad and In Plain Sight. They filmed all that out in New Mexico. I was on the board of directors at the Santa Fe Playhouse for three years and we did about 14 plays. So I learned from watching people. I jumped in that world and watched people who were far more experienced and far more talented than me and just picked things up from there.
Where did the idea for Meltdown come from?
I guess I wrote it six years ago when I was living in Santa Fe. It's one of those things that's always been on the back burner and I never really had time to do it until I moved here, and everything just kind of fell into place. I knew I wanted to do a zombie movie because the genre always kind of freaked me out when I was a kid. I grew up to like it and I think there are a lot of things you can do with it. It was just a natural progression. I wanted to do something zombie-ish, but have it be almost like a spoof. Like a zombie flick on its own legs, but something kind of funny and intentionally cheesy.
And you want to expand it into a webseries?
Originally, we were going to do it as a feature, but I've been watching a lot of stuff online, and I think doing it as a series of ten minute episodes as opposed to an hour or half hour would be the way to go.
You cited Kevin Smith as one of your influences, and I definitely see a similarity between Meltdown and Clerks. I was just wondering if that was intentional.
Oh yeah, Clerks was a major, major influence. When I first wrote the thing, I had seven or eight movies playing constantly – Clerks, definitely, High Fidelity, Shaun of the Dead. One thing that always kind of bugged me about the zombie genre is that a lot of the characters are really over the top, especially the modern ones. And even if you do get emotionally invested in a character, they fucking die in the end anyway. It's like you spent two hours on them and then they're dead. But I think a lot of the characters are really hard to relate to in some sense, and what I really love about what Kevin Smith did in Clerks and about High Fidelity is that they are about these really mundane, normal, everyday people. There's the depressed guy that runs the record store, there's a guy who's stuck behind the counter at a convenience store. So I really wanted the characters to kind of be like that. I thought Shaun of the Dead did a great job doing that.
One of your locations was the Bloomfield Sandwich Shop. What was it like filming in that space?
Oh yes indeed, Mike and Ros (owners Michael Miller and Rosalyn Dukes) are very good friends of mine. Logistically, it was interesting at some points because the place is so narrow, so it definitely called for some creative camerawork. They gave me the keys, and they close at 3 p.m., so we would come in at 4 p.m. and filmed until we were done for the day. The only stipulation they had was that Mike got to be zombie Santa Claus. That was all he wanted was to be a zombie in a Santa outfit, and he horrified the hell out of a bunch of my neighbor kids.
Your next project is a documentary on Hunter S. Thompson. Could you expand on it a little bit?
The idea for the documentary came from one of my seniors. The school I taught at was a school for high functioning kids with language-based learning disabilities. And in the film class I taught, one of my seniors had Asberger's, which is the highest functioning form of autism. And he was a huge Hunter fan, and when we started jiving, we realized that we were both huge Hunter fans. The idea kind of blossomed from … there's the persona, the drug-crazy Fear and Loathing Hunter, but then there's this brilliant political analyst, journalist, social activist and writer. So the goal of the documentary is to peel away the layers of the persona and highlight why Hunter S. Thompson is an important modern literary figure and why he deserves to be that. So it's really more of an academic approach focusing on gonzo journalism, and how he changed the face of journalism by inserting himself in the story, his work on campaign trails, his own run for sheriff in Pitkin County in Aspen. Just really focusing on his achievements and not his extracurricular activities.
I know he's been the subject of other documentaries, including the 2008 film Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. How would Ghost Hunt compare?
It'll be really different. Those are more following the timeline of Hunter's life from Louisville, KY to when he killed himself. You'll see people in my film that have either said no to other films or have never even been approached, like people who were with Hunter when he ran for sheriff, helped with the campaign, and his closest friends and neighbors. I've interviewed his ex-wife, his widow, a lot of his close people. It's just really focusing on specific moments that highlight his importance, not only in his time, but why he's relevant today. I guess that's pretty much the whole point of the documentary is to highlight why he's relevant. When you talk to college kids about Hunter S. Thompson, they always say, oh, he's that guy that did all those drugs raised all that hell, but there's a lot more to it. In the 80s, that fame and that persona took him over. And that's what he was the last 30 some-odd years of his life.
I know you're still working on the documentary, but do you have any other projects in the works?
There are a lot of things. I'm working on a comic book with a friend of mine from back home in Kentucky. We got the first 12 issues done by the first of this year. And the goal with that is to try to pimp it out as a comic book, but we've also talked about possibly just jumping the gun and doing it as a television show. There's another documentary that kind of stems from the Hunter one about George McGovern and the 1972 election between him and Richard Nixon. Those are the things that are the most hashed out. It's interesting, because stuff like Meltdown and the comic book are projects that I've been working on for years, and just never really had time to finish. I was either acting all the time or teaching, and now I'm resolved to do this full-time.
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It's typical really, isn't it? You write one slightly gloating article about the struggles of your rival region and they go and qualify ahead of your second seed just to get back at you. Still, it could be worse: I could be a Gen G fan.
Seriously, though, what a day Sunday was. It had everything. The best game of the tournament so far (Cloud 9 vs Vitality), a North American qualifying from groups ahead of Korean opposition, and so many upsets that they ceased being upsets after a while.
Dubbed the group of death, Group B delivered drama in spades. Of the four teams' final outcomes, only RNG finishing top came as no surprise, but even they lost two games en route to the quarter-finals.
Neither of them came against the defending champions from Korea, however.
Vitality got the crazy train rolling early on, with a huge win over the tournament favourites to start the day.
Cloud 9 countered with a win over Gen G, and it was at this time we all started to realise that anything was possible in this pool.
Vitality countered C9's counter with a win over a Gen G team that looked out of ideas. With C9 set to face RNG, things looked good for the buccaneering Europeans, but we should have known better. Cloud 9 continued to defy the odds, handing the Chinese team a second loss.
C9's win meant that the head-to-head with Vitality was crucial. The winners would stamp their passport for a top-eight appearance, the losers would have to rely on Gen G beating RNG.
In an absolutely absurd game (seriously, if you haven't watched it, stop reading this and go watch it), the North American team somehow emerged victorious and continued their impressive streak of being their region's most successful team at pretty much every Worlds ever.
For Vitality, it wasn't meant to be. Gen G were unable to rouse themselves from the rut they had fallen into and put up almost no resistance against RNG in the final game.
I must admit, I had written off Vitality's chances of making it out of their group as soon as it was drawn, but they were a joy to watch. The fact that they came so close, only to sort of throw it away at the final hurdle will sting, but I hope this team stays together for another run in 2019 because they made Group B so much fun to watch.
Both Western teams proved that you can succeed in League of Legends without copying the Koreans.
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Indeed, the Korean team in this group – defending world champions, no less – were, frankly, awful. On the one hand, they had nothing new to offer but worse still, they didn't really execute properly on the old-fashioned stuff either.
It's bad enough for the defending champions to go out in groups, but the manner of their exit must be even more galling.
The worst performing Korean team in history; more losses in the group stage than all Korean teams combined since they first joined the game in season three; first Korean team to exit at the group stage since 2015. All-in-all, Gen G will need quite the trophy cabinet to house all their Dubious Honour awards.
For Western fans, though, Gen G's insipid performance played a huge part in making Group B what it was. Opening up a knockout spot that everyone had assumed was closed is what made the other games so exciting.
Cloud 9 will be particularly thankful, of course, but let's not kid ourselves: they earned their way. You can joke all you want about the EU/NA fiesta of the Vitality game, but Cloud 9 beat the tournament favourites and the defending champions, too. The latter of those two wins may have be less impressive in retrospect, but a win against RNG is nothing to sneeze at.
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We might have seen C9's success coming if we weren't blinded by the Gap narrative. For starters, previous line-ups of C9 have always managed to make it out of groups somehow.
It always comes as a surprise, but they always do it anyway. Then there's the fact that the second half of 2018 has seen them perpetrate one of the biggest turnarounds in League history.
From a lowly tenth place finish in the Spring Split to a quarter-finals berth at Worlds is staggering.
It is impossible to overstate the impact of coach Reapered on this 180 shift. His Coach of The Split award was the most obvious decision since Mr Bean won Greatest Ever Briton a few years ago*.
His roster changes earned him a great deal of ire from the infamously knowledgeable r/leagueoflegends subreddit, but the evidence that it worked out is now undeniable.
Cloud 9 now goes into the quarter-final without fear. They have already exceeded expectation, yes, but they have also shown the ability to compete with the best in the world.
They will be underdogs against anyone at this stage, but that means they can play without pressure. In fact, they'll probably spend their break winding down with some Fortnite.
*Yes, I made this up.
North American fans on Cloud 9 yet again
It's typical really, isn't it? You write one slightly gloating article about the struggles of your rival region and they go and qualify ahead of your second seed just to get back at you. Still, it could be worse: I could be a Gen G fan.


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REB speaks to some of the country's top network heads to find out the challenges agents are facing and what they are doing about it.
What is the biggest challenge facing real estate agents now?
Grant Harrod, LJ Hooker: Lack of transactions. We're seeing a real contraction in listings on the east coast, particularly in metro markets, and that's a structural shift and it's a structural shift due to a host of different factors.
We've ended up in a scenario where vendors are now making a decision about not selling until they can buy their next place. In the old world, it always used to be 'never buy until you've sold'.
Go to the west coast, it's a different issue. Plenty of listings and no buyers. But again, in every market, we're seeing a contraction in transactions.
The stats of this year will show that we'll probably close the calendar year at about 450,000 transactions. Last year, we were at 475,000 transactions across Australia. That's not just us by the way, that's the whole industry. If you go back to the last peak, it was in 2002 when 600,000 properties transacted in Australia. Since then, one million more dwellings have been constructed, a lot of them admittedly are probably high-rise apartments. And we're getting 1.4 per cent compound annual population growth.
What we are seeing is a real shift in behaviour of home owners that could be staying in their homes longer. We're seeing obviously more bathrooms being upgraded, kitchens, etc and that's reflected in the results by those that participate in that renovation market like Bunnings and everyone else.
But what we do know is there is demand, there is an appetite for customers to want to upgrade their lifestyle to their next property purchase. Because we do know there are lots of property decisions based on lifestyle choices, so whether it's starting a family, having kids, kids get a little bit older, kids leave home ... every one of those situations results in a property decision.
What we're starting to see is that some of those steps are not occurring, so home ownership is extending from about eight years to probably closer to 12 years now and that's going to consolidate the industry. There's going to be a lot of marginal operators that won't survive.
One of the things that we work very closely with those in our network is to have a diversified business. We have a very big focus on property management. LJ Hooker would be by far the biggest managers of rental properties in Australia, with something like about 140-odd thousand properties being managed through our network. And that creates a diversified income stream that certainly underpins the operations of a real estate office in our network to help manage the volatility of the sale cycle. In our view, that consolidation will create opportunity, the good will get better. And certainly, the good leaders will stand out. Our summation of the market coming up is going to be one in which there's going to be consolidation.
Randall Curry, Freedom Property: I think agents are fearing change and they're looking outside of themselves at the moment for where that change is coming from.
We hear this key word of 'disruption'. I believe this franchise group is the start of the disruption. The disruption's not going to come from outside, it's going to come from the agents themselves.
I believe it's going to be the media companies and everyone else who's disrupted by the agents, and I'm going to be the one to make that happen because these franchise groups at the moment don't want to have any bar of it. This is just Freedom Property at the moment but I'm building it with a bigger goal in mind.
John Stewart, One Agency: The declining market. It's a real challenge as you will know. The number of listings are down and sales are tight and slow, that's without question the big challenge.
Sadly, of course, when times get difficult like that, people get a little bit focused on the minutiae. I won't make light of it, but worrying about things that only a sale will change [is pointless]. They're focusing on the results of lack of sales rather than getting out there and going for it and finding that perhaps the restrictions are still there.
Many of the larger groups are very prescriptive in the way people are allowed to operate and it's times like now that you need knowledgeable initiative.
Agents are looking for that freedom. We hear about that time and again, and I have to say at the moment ... we're talking about it across the board.


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