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I moved out of state, and had to rent my relatively new Georgia condo. I only lived in it for 7 months, and left the place in pristine condition. I rented it on a yearly lease out to a a girl, no pets, and she stayed there for 9 months, before giving me a 30 day notice. So, I put my condo up for sale, and had my realtor do an inspection with her, and take photos for me.Several burnt out light bulbs were not replacedMarks on one of the walls. These walls were freshly painted last year.Oven not cleanedMy condo has wooden floors throughout. In the kitchen, the baseboards shifted?!? and displayed the concrete underneath. How the hell could that even happen?Damage to two of the bathroom door panels due to hanging rods.Grouting in the kitchen – I understand that could happen, but this was freshly done last year as well!Scratch on the wood floor. She put a carpet on top, but how could that happen?I'm surprised at some of the damage that occurred just after 9 months of living. How should I go about addressing these concerns with her since i have a deposit to return? Thanks, just looking for advice
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I'm going to try to make this short and sweet.
You know what can happen when you get reunited with a long lost love? You jump back in.
It just happened. Toy designs started coming to me and they wouldn't go away. Really, really fun designs that I couldn't ignore. I was daydreaming about them. Even night dreaming about them. And before I knew it, I was sketching new designs. And making them...
And I'm in love again.
Robot blocks! A set of robot parts to play robot factory. I love these. I want to stay up all night and make hundreds of them just so I can play with them. But I won't. Sleep deprivation not allowed this go 'round. I've got rules in place about that sort of thing.
Puzzles that happen to be stand alone toy sets...
Or are they toy sets that happen to be puzzles? Yeah, probably that. I like puzzles in theory but hate that most of them are "just" a puzzle. I wanted to have each piece be a toy itself.
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Last month, we introduced an egg-shaped snack and sake with a rabbit theme in accordance with Easter. How was it? This month we will introduce standard sakes and an unusual sake for anyone who knows Gundam! We will also talk about sakes, snacks, and vessels, as well as recommended ways to drink them and snacks to match drinks!
Saketalk will start selling Japanese sake on a monthly basis this year. We will hand select 3 to 4 types of Japanese sake, snacks, and sake vessels every month, so you can purchase any and as many favorite combinations as you like! Until now, we had been selling sake vessels and introducing sake and vessels separately, but our challenge this year is to try doing it together! We'd like to introduce sake that matches the season such as new sake for winter, summer sake for summer, hiyaoroshi for autumn,etc., and different types of sake from the same brewery such as rice ginjyo and honjozo.
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- Sake vessels
Horai Junami Daiginjyo Tradition Handmade
It is a pure junmai ginjyo sake made with "Hida Homare", a type of rice that is perfectly suited for making sake. A deep richness hidden in its soft texture, with a perfect blend of five flavors. The sake uses the pure flavor of the rice. It is a recommended sake that is not too flashy, but yet is an elegant, pure tasting junmai daiginjyo.
By the way, this sake won the gold award in the "Delicious Japanese Sake From A Wine Glass 2014", and was selected for the ANA International First Class where only the top 3 sakes are selected!
We recommended it both cold and hot. It's good both ways!
Karakuchi Uonuma Junmai
The Uonuma region in Niigata prefecture is known as one of the world's leading heavy snowfall areas. It is a rich natural land surrounded by the high Echigo Sanzan, mountains on the sides of the Mikuni Highway, and the clean flowing "Uono River". "Uonuma" is a local sake which you can feel the blessing of such a place.
From among the three categories of "Tanrei, "Noujun" and "Dry", we chose "Dry" with a refreshing taste that is uncommon to Junami sake.
It is good both cold and warm, but is best at room temperature.
Char – HALLEY Jikakumi Junami
Char, a new brand that appeared as if a comet from the storehouse of a Monde Selection Gold Award regular. It's a new type of sake that's fit for a party, and it's a name that will surely excite Gundam fans. Among these, HALLEY here is a junmai sake that is directly squeezed and bottled. Enjoy its exquisite balance of succulent umami and "kind" acidity! It has a refreshing aftertaste so it is perfect in combination with thick food!
We recommended thoroughly cold!
Natori Rich tasting soft saketoba
First up for snacks is the saketoba. It uses salmon from Hokkaido with the skin removed, and is cut into a bite size. Its soft texture and flavor using the umami of the salmon itself is addictive, and is perfect with beer and Japanese sake. Its fragrance is enhanced when lightly roasted, making it even more tasty. There may be some of you who can't get used to its taste, but Japanese people prefer to match these types of snacks with Japanese sake, so it's worth a try. It is a rich tasting snack, so it most likely goes best Shaa and its defined taste!
Melty Kiss Premium Chocolat
Next up is another snack from Hokkaido! It is a chocolate that is loved by Japanese people, with the catchphrase "A snow-like texture, that you will instantly notice". Using a blend of Hokkaido milk, its richness in its middle layer and thick taste is distinct. Its flavor goes well with all sakes, and of course with wine as well!
Calbee Hard potato crisps Ume flavor
For the last snack we will introduce a plum flavored snack, as it is for April and plums start to bear fruit around springtime.
It tastes better with each bite! These are potato chips made with slowly fried thick potato slices, with a hard texture that allows you to enjoy the potato's flavor with each bite.
This version blends the slightly sour plum, with the umami of bonito seasoning.
It has a very light flavor, so these might be better for uonuma and shaa.
Sake vessels
Arita Ware SAKE CUP Cherry Blossoms
Now up is the first sake vessel, the Aritayaki vessel with a sakura design with a spring vibe. It is extremely fancy with sakura patterns drawn not only on the outside but also on the inside. This vessel with a very Japanese, sakura design is perfect decoration even if it is not the springtime. The sakes that we introduced for this month are not nigori zake or sparkling sake, but rather all standard Japanese sake, so they all go well with this vessel!
Kikichoko Glass AROMA
Next up is a sake tasting glass that is indispensable for sake lovers! This type of design used to be used as ochoko up until this point, but this one is a very rare type in which the design is draw on a glass type cup. It will hold a lot of sake per filling so this may be better for avid sake drinkers. The glass shape helps enhance the scent of the sake, so it is perfect for enjoying both the visual as well as the smell.
Tsugaru Vidro Sake Set
Last up is this Tsugaru Vidro set. The gorgeous Tsugaru Vidro is perfect for spring. The Tsugaru Vidro pattern sways when the sake is poured, and it looks like a real flower petal. This also does not choose the type of alcohol, so you use it for any sake. The design helps cool you down so it will become a must-have as the summer nears!
How was it! We think that our selection for this month suits both those of you who would like to begin trying Japanese sake from this year, and those of you who want to try different Japanese sake every month. Please do choose your favorite combination!
So, what do you think of this month's special? We hope that those of you who want to try Japanese sake from this year, as well as those of you who want to experience different Japanese sake every month found it interesting. Please do pick the combination you like and try Japanese sake!


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The Roxana Shells in cooperation with Major League Baseball are playing host to a Jr. Home Run Derby at noon on April 27 at the Roxana High varsity baseball field.
The fun and exciting youth event is free for entrants and gives them the opportunity of competing at the national finals during MLB All-Star Week.
Boys and girls are divided into 12U and 14U age divisions and have a chance to advance through three levels of competition. The local champs from each division advance to a regional level and winners there qualify for the national finals during MLB All-Star Week.
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"If you were to die today, are you sure you would go to Heaven?"
You can know for sure! The Bible says, "These things have I written unto you … that ye may KNOW that ye have eternal life". – I John 5:13
|ALL OF US HAVE SINNED. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God". – Romans 3:23
SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD. "For the wages of sin is death; (separation from God) but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord". – Romans 6:23
|GOD LOVES US AND CHRIST DIED FOR US! "But God commanded his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us".-
Romans 5:8"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."- John 3:16"If you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved"- Romans 10:9"Jesus said: 'I am the Way the Truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father, but by me" – John 14:6
. "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved". Romans 10:13 Right now, why don't you invite Christ into your heart and life and accept Him as your Savior and Lord. Simply pray this prayer from your heart.
Prayer for Eternal Life Dear Jesus, I am a sinner. I believe that you died and rose from the dead to save me from my sins. I want to be with you in heaven forever. Jesus please forgive me of all my sins. I here and now open my heart to you and ask you to come into my heart and life and be my personal Lord and Savior. Amen.


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People in England will soon have access to DNA tests on an unprecedented scale when their health service becomes the first in the world to routinely offer genomic medicine. The service will first focus on cancers and rare diseases, with future tests to identify patients who may react badly to certain drugs, as well as tests that may predict onset of a disease such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis and dementia. This initiative is an outcome of the UK's 100,000 Genomes project and benefits from the expertise developed therein.
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Genome Canada launched a national initiative for the clinical implementation of precision health, focusing on a rare disease pilot program as a foundational step.
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The Uniden BCT15X was launched in 2009, the BCT15X has been a popular scanner for years.Chat with a BCT15X expert
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|Digital Phase 1 / Trunked Police Scanner Radio Comparison
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There are two scanner manufacturers: Whistler and Uniden.
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Scanners are able to monitor 4 format types:
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Scanners are able to monitor 4 format types:
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and all emergency weather communication is broadcast on the analog format throughout the US.
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These are all a suite of standards that basically mean
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Monitor P25, TDMA, APCO-25, EDACS, LTR, Analog Motorola, Digital Motorola
EDACS is a Digital Phase 2 format used sparingly in the US. Only a few scanners can pick up EDACS, and some require an upgrade to do this.
Scanners pick up frequencies in the 25-1300 Mhz range. This gets needlessly technical, so we recommend focusing on the 4 formats:
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The number of channels or frequencies that can be saved to this scanner.
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Alpha tags are short descriptions under 12 characters used to label frequencies and talk groups.
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Network Access Code (NAC) is a user programmable 12-bit code that prefixes every packet of data sent (including voice packets). NAC codes minimize co-channel interference and allow repeater addressing. Example: 156 = DEA, 330 = FBI
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Location-based scanning allows you to control which systems/sites and channel groups are scanned based on your exact location. This frees you from having to manually enable and disable channel groups or systems as you change location.
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Rapidly detects and monitors frequencies close by. Can be used to pick up nearby radio transmissions when on-the-go.
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Allows you to record conversations for later playback.
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A backlit keypad allows the scanner to be used easily in the dark.
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All scanners use buttons to interface with the device, except the HomePatrol 1 and the HomePatrol 2. Users accustomed to using iPads & smartphones may prefer using a touchscreen instead of buttons.
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I need a trunking scanner, why should I buy the BCT15X?
The BCT15X is the only base and mobile trunking police scanner radio on the market.
Will the BCT15X go on sale anytime soon?
We don't know. Uniden does not disclose when they will be dropping prices and even when prices do drop, it is usually only $5 to $10. You can sign up for our emails & we'll keep you posted. Also, we have a best price guarantee.
Buyers Say
› You can add frequencies manually.
› GPS capable but you must buy GPS receiver for this to work (add on this page).
› Does not come with software or frequencies pre-loaded.
› Mark's Scanners is an excellent website which has a very detailed digital owner's guides for all police scanner radios including the BCT15X. We highly recommend this page to all BCT15X owners (and potential owners) as it loaded with how-to's, screenshots and more.
› Download free BCT15X Software. While software is not included with this scanner, this is free software that you can use. Download this software for free, set up favorite lists, configure for your area & see if you're comfortable operating before you buy. If you buy, you'll have everything set up & ready to go.
› BCT15X Owner's Manual. This is the official BCT15X owner's manual but we highly recommend Mark's Scanners BCT15X guide over this.
› Radio Reference is the largest police scanner radio forum with over 850k users. There are several threads about the BCT15X where just about every question imaginable has been asked and answered by BCT15X owners.
› There are Yahoo Groups for every police scanner radio including the BCT15X.
› Radio Reference has a wiki page for each scanner including the BCT15X.
› eHam has several customer reviews of the BCT15X.
Programming Includes
› Check & install any firmware updates (OS may have updates since production).
› Sync & update frequencies to ensure accuracy.
› Create favorites lists for as many States & Counties as ordered.
› Set clock & date.
› Program with 3rd party software.
› Use national frequency database for frequencies.
Programming Details
With 'One Touch Programming' our technician will program your scanner for your area; all you need to do is simply power your scanner on. Choose as many Counties as you'd like and our scanner technician will create favorites lists for police, fire and EMS in that County using frequencies from a national frequency database. When you choose a County we also program the State that County is in. For example, if you choose Cook County Illinois, we will program Illinois State police, fire & EMS in addition to Cook County police, fire & EMS. If your County is large and you want to listen to a specific City within that County, add this to the notes section. Note programming adds 2 to 3 days to shipping.
Programming Overview
Programming is the #1 concern of potential police scanner radio buyers. Each scanners' programming is unique & we added how-to's on each scanner product page showing how to program that particular scanner (see above for this model). We recommend following the decision tree graphic below & watching programming videos to determine whether you should have your scanner professionally programmed. 95% of all scanner sales include programming either at purchase or after, when users get frustrated.
Can I Program On My Own?
We created a programming decision tree as well as programming videos (above) to help you decided on whether you should include professional programming with your scanner but we HIGHLY recommend adding programming.
Customer Reviews (7)
- BCT15XReview by Jace
Great scanner with a learning curve. While some may not like the learning curve, I actually enjoy finding something new while I explore the different features. (Posted on 8/2/2016)
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- Very easy nice scannerReview by Kal
Most comments say. " cannot seem to program it " anybody with sense can go on YouTube and have all 99 channels if desired programmed. Very easy nice scanner. Loud volume. Picks up nicely. Great scanner all in all. (Posted on 9/1/2015)
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- good price for scannerReview by Joseph
It worked like I expected it to. I knew it wasn't going to be as simple as they were many decades ago. (Posted on 9/1/2015)
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- 5 starReview by Sarah
husband is a retired officer and can still keep up with the local town events, (Posted on 9/1/2015)
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- Great uniden scannerReview by Harry
Works great. Clear sound and easy to operate. Used as a stationary unit. (Posted on 9/1/2015)
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- A Priceless Tool for Your Emergency Toolbox When You Live in Wildfire Country! - And The BCT15X is the Perfect Choice!Review by Oren
Couldn't be more pleased with this excellent radio! Programming though time consuming at first to perform using the front panel controls, (We are a Macintosh Family and NO Mac Software Included) but literally in less than 5 minutes spent with the "Online Owners Manual" I was blazing through my laundry list of Cal Fire and National Forest Service frequency lists and adding them into the radio's handy groups and sub-groups sections.
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Child's play is how I would describe the programming process, so I find it strange to read complaints about the programming process being too difficult. (I picture a VCR nearby flashing 12:00 as these folks pen their misleading commentaries about this product being too difficult to use!)
Like I said... Once you learn the process and the scanner's user interface/controls, it all makes perfectly good sense and although it would have been nice to have a computer to type in all the scanner frequencies and flash them over to the unit with one command, you DO NOT NEED a computer to program this radio!
Regarding the design and layout of the frequency entry... Being able to place CUSTOM NAMES onto every frequency you add to the radio, and being able to group them together based on the agency (s) that use those frequencies is great too! This, unlike using an internet based re-broadcaster, allows us to SEE who is transmitting at any given time. And in addition to the user programmable frequency sections, you also have the "Pre-Set" buttons for Police/CHP/Municipal Agencies etc. as well.
Living up here in the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, now better known as Wildfire Central, it has become almost mandatory to own a scanner like this in order to receive REAL TIME Wildfire related news and information as it happens. And coming directly to our ears via the actual fire crews and dispatchers working on the latest Wildfire in our area.
We actually purchased this radio two days before "The Willow Fire" broke out less than 8 miles from our house, and our new radio proved its worth 100 times over in what became a literal trial by fire product review period! :o)
Reception Impressive Considering Our Location But a Loaded Whip and/or Discone Mast Mounted Antenna is Even Better!
The included WHIP antenna works reasonably well in our location, but we also purchased an Indoor Telescopic Scanner Antenna for use in the backyard when we take the radio out onto the patio to listen outside as we watch the air tankers do their thing! And for base station type use indoors and the best reception performance possible, we purchased and installed a Super Discone Outdoor Antenna on a 20 foot mast.
This commercial grade antenna installation allows us to pull in BOTH sides of the conversation between Cal Fire, the Forest Service Local Dispatchers, air to ground commands, fire suppression aircraft, and the battalion crews actually on the fire line in rugged and remote areas where their transmitting ability is limited. Having a quality Super Discone Antenna makes a HUGE difference in listening in to the ENTIRE Wildfire suppression effort. Which for us isn't simply a form of entertainment, but could quickly turn into a life and death drama for ourselves and our friends and neighbors!
Our only regret is that we waited this long to finally buy one of these! But we are VERY GLAD that the brand and model we chose proved itself to be the perfect choice for us! (Posted on 9/1/2015)
- so far, so goodReview by Vance
This scanner works great so far. I haven't been able to explore all of its capabilities yet. But I am happy with it so far. (Posted on 9/1/2015)
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The team at Lush spend a lot of time in their beautiful local cemetery in Nunhead. They take their dog Truffy and meet other dogs of every kind in amongst the dense undergrowth, trotting through the sunlit glades and getting lost among the ancient the ivy-clad trees, while the departed souls of South East London slumber in their Elysian resting place. Weeks of drawing dogs and photographing and sketching the cemetery resulted in this design which will appeal to dog-lovers everywhere.
Lush Lampshades have proved an incredible hit here at iapetus. Designed with love by Marie Rodgers & Maria Livings, each Lush Designs Lampshade has been hand silkscreen printed in London on laminated tissue. The lampshades never fail to put a smile on the face of your visitors. To look after the shade wipe the inside with a damp cloth. For the outside use a hoover to remove any dust or cobwebs!
This large sized lampshade is perfect for most rooms or standard lamps.
The design comes as either a lampbase or ceiling fitting. Please specify which type of fitting you would prefer from the drop down box above. If the fitting you want is out of stock we will order it for you as soon as we receive your order. If out of stock typically you will receive your lampshade within 4-5 weeks but if you need it sooner let us know and we will do our best to get it to you in time.
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Smooth Sailing
Julie Oriet
Oil, 24" x 18"
Breakfast Buffet
Oil on linen, 20" x 24"
Cameron Lake
Oil on linen, 8" x 10"
River's Edge
Oil on linen, 9" x 12"
Julie considers herself lucky to have been born and raised in rural Montana - enjoying the best it has to offer. She was surrounded by beautiful scenery, big blue skies, and an endless variety of animals. Her enthusiasm for the West, as well as travels to other parts of the world, continue to create new advetnures that inspire ideas for future paintings.
Oriet has participated in numerous shows including Small Works, Great Wonders, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK; Cowgirl Up! Desert Caballeros Museum, Wickenburg, AZ; Heart of the West Art Exhibition and Sale at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, TX; Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale in Cody, WY; Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale in Denver, CO; C.M. Russell Auction and Exhibitors Show in Great Falls, MT; and many more.
Her work is also inlcuded in private and corporate collections around the world and in the permanent collection of the Buffalo Bill - Center of the West Museum and The Brinton Museum.
Julie has been featured in Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western Art and Architecture, Western Art Collector, and Travel Africa magazines.
Currently, Julie lives outside of Cody, Wyoming.
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By Dipo Olowookere
Stakeholders in the maritime industry have commended organisers of the annual The Maritime Standard Awards, which held its fourth edition on Monday, October 23, 2017 at the iconic Atlantis Ballroom, on The Palm.
During the ceremony, a new standard was set for regional awards ceremonies, with exceptional levels of grandeur, glamour and professionalism.
Hosted by well-known Bollywood actress and model, Lara Dutta, the awards attracted a top calibre audience of over 700 executives from across the shipping, ports and related sectors, from almost 70 different countries.
The high profile event, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline and Group, celebrated and rewarded the achievements of leading companies and individuals active in maritime fields in the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent.
The Maritime Standard Awards founder and managing director, Trevor Pereira, said: "We were once again tremendously honoured that His Highness has supported the awards. Having the backing of such an esteemed figure shows how well recognised the TMS Awards are, and how the importance of the industry is appreciated, at the highest level."
The awards demonstrated that the region's ports and shipping sector is one that continues to show innovation, creativity and a determination to succeed in uncertain times. Moreover it leads the way especially in areas such as environmental protection, corporate social responsibility and security.
In total 29 awards were presented to individuals and companies following the deliberations of the judging panel. Clive Woodbridge, editor of TMS and chairman of the judges, said, "This year we received an all-time record number of nominations, of the highest quality. All the judges were impressed by the standard of entries. It is evident that maritime companies in the region are not sitting back – they are being innovative and proactive. It was difficult to select the winners, and as a result not just those who picked up an award, but all of those who were shortlisted, can be justifiably proud of their achievements over the past year."
In addition to the awards determined by the judging panel, there were a number of special awards presented by the TMS team for particularly impressive individual achievements. The Maritime Standard Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Sudhir Rangnekar, of Oman Shipping Company; The Hall of Fame Award was given to H.E. Sheikh Talal Al Khaled Al Sabah, chief executive of Kuwait Oil Tanker Company; The Personality of the Year Award went to DP World's Mohammed Al Muallem; and the Editor's Choice Award was presented to Richard Briggs, executive partner, Hadef & Partners.
Other awards selected by The Maritime Standard included June Manoharan, managing director of Lukoil Marine, who was the recipient of the Woman in Shipping award, and Amir Hossein Mosadeghi, of Islamic P&I Club, who was named Young Person in Shipping. Omar Abu Omar of Gulf Navigation won the Excellence in Shipping Award and the winners of the Deal of the Year were Abu Dhabi Ports and JOCIC of China for their Musataha agreement.
Trevor Pereira added, "It was a fantastic night of celebration, that showcased the tremendous achievements and progress that is being made in the region. On top of that we raised the bar still higher as far as awards ceremonies go. Once again we showed that we deliver the biggest and best awards for the maritime sector in the region, which is what the industry deserves."
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1 Samuel 19:4-10 (KJV)
4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.


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I first encountered Nan Goldin's photography at a sleep-away art camp the summer after my junior year of high school. In an air-conditioned and windowless computer lab, I stared, rapt, as my photography teacher flipped through a slideshow of images from Nan Goldin's collection The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Aperture 1986). Goldin wearing nothing but see-through black panties and high-heeled red boots straddles her lover's hairy belly; a man tattoos a scene of an orange-and-black tiger stalking through palm trees on another man's lower back; a fully-clothed woman kisses a naked man whose hands are bound with a shiny gray necktie. I felt the images as an aching in my seventeen-year-old chest, a longing to be included in a community that pulsed with such immediacy, intimacy, and desire. It was the same feeling I'd had only days before I left for camp, during a metal concert in the basement of a dilapidated house in Albany, NY, the closest city to my suburb.
My teacher explained that the photographs were snapshots of Goldin's "chosen family" from when she was in her 20s and 30s, living in Boston and New York City. "These were the people I lived with, these were my friends, these were my family, this was myself," Goldin said in a 1991 Q&A with Stephen Westfall for BOMB Magazine. "I'd photograph people dancing while I was dancing. Or people having sex while I was having sex. Or people drinking while I was drinking." Goldin's direct involvement in The Ballad's images is reflected in their haphazard construction. They're often blurry, poorly lit, illuminated by an unnecessary flash that blows out her friends' faces and puts their messy spaces on display: apartments strewn with dirty clothing, overflowing ashtrays, and crushed beer cans. In The Ballad, Goldin shines light on what generally stays in the dark.
The basement was a dim, dank, concrete box. The band's lyrics were indecipherable screams and grunts. Each crash of the drums vibrated through my body as I stood with my back against a dirty wall. As the friend of a friend who told me about the show promised, the crowd looked nothing like the squares from my high school. Instead of teenaged baby faces and button-down pastel shirts, I saw people in their 20s who dressed like I did—in black clothes, thick boots, and dark eye makeup. Many had colorful tattoos on their arms that caught the scant light when they lifted cans of beer to their lips.
In the middle of the basement, concertgoers thrashed around with their eyes closed and punched each other at random. I watched them more closely than I watched the band, amazed by these people who expressed anger rather than hiding it. Back at home, my mom and stepdad ignored me when I upset them—I ignored them back.
I followed the pack into a small backyard at set break. In the summer twilight, I envied the freedom with which people kissed, shot-gunned beers, and smoked cigarettes. I stood against the clinking chain-link fence that bordered the scruffy yard and pawed through my purse for a cigarette; I wanted to fit in—at least in appearance. Unlike the adults around me, I was inhibited by a Jewish mother who'd never give me another penny if she knew I smoked, a 10 p.m. curfew, and a clear head to drive the fifteen minutes back to my suburb.
Life at home had been tense for almost a year. I'd been close to my mom and stepdad until the night they came home early and heard me having sex with my then boyfriend, Clark. My mom gave me a pleasure-based sex education, but held strong in her belief that I had to wait until college to have sex. My stepdad was a quiet, funny man from the Midwest who put his hands over his ears and went, "Nahnahnah" at the mention of anything remotely sexual. For months after my transgression, he and I didn't acknowledge each other out of mutual embarrassment. My mom and I at least said "Good morning," but withheld any affection or intimacy. A thick ice settled between us.
Goldin's family, like mine, was middle-class and Jewish. Her parents tried to hide the turmoil of their home life behind traditional gender roles and a well-manicured lawn in a suburb of Washington, D.C. Nancy Goldin, born September 12th, 1953, was the youngest of four children. She was closest to her oldest sibling, Barbara, with whom she shared a love of artistic expression. Their parents favored all the other children over precocious Barbara, which left her struggling for approval and attention. She often acted out at home—throwing knives and smashing windows. During her teenage years, Barbara's parents had her involuntarily committed to various mental institutions.
In 1965, when Nancy was 11 and Barbara was 18, Barbara took her own life. "I saw the role that her sexuality and its repression played in her destruction," Goldin wrote in the short, but poignant introduction to The Ballad's 127 photographs. "Because of the times, the early sixties, women who were angry and sexual were frightening, outside the range of acceptable behavior, beyond control…she saw that her only way to get out was to lie down on the tracks of the commuter train outside of Washington, D.C. It was an act of immense will." The Ballad is dedicated to Barbara.
In the introduction, Goldin also tells how she was "seduced by an older man" and experienced a sexual awakening in the week after her sister's death. She sifted through the complex emotions of grief at the same time as she felt obsessive desire and "intense sexual excitement" for the man, who promised to marry her. The relationship ended when he told Goldin he'd really been in love with her sister. These events changed her forever; they instilled in her an "awareness of the power of sexuality."
My first sexual experience also happened young. I was about eight when an older boy in my neighborhood told me he would give me a piece of candy if I put my hand down his pants. My mom rarely let me eat anything containing high fructose corn syrup; I often watched in envy as kids in the lunchroom tore into colorful bags of M&Ms and Skittles. I slid my small hand under the tight elastic of his green-checkered boxers. I felt something warm and squishy. He told me I had to hold it for ten seconds. I closed my eyes and counted to ten.
On my walk home past brick houses and neat flowerbeds, I had a bad feeling in my tummy, but ate the candy anyway. I don't remember if it was chocolate or fruity, hard or gummy. But I remember burying the wrapper, as if that could make what happened disappear—a child's logic.
A few weeks later, my mom beckoned me to sit next to her on the floral couch by the big windows in our living room. She gave me my first sex talk—"your clitoris is the part that feels good when you touch it"—and a stack of books about puberty. The black-and-white illustrations of girls' and boys' changing bodies caused a warm, wet sensation between my legs. My understanding of why the boy wanted me to touch him collided with the recognition of my own desire to touch myself.
When the static images in my books ceased to satisfy me, I started watching porn every other weekend when I stayed across town with my dad and stepmom. They had a bulky computer on a small desk tucked into the corner of the family room. After they went to bed, I sat in a creaking wooden chair in front of the computer, turned the volume down low, and typed "sex" into a search engine. I was enraptured by the gyrating bodies, the faint moans of pleasure, and the thrill of knowing how much trouble I could get in. I masturbated for hours by bending my thumb and stroking my knuckle against my clit over my underwear. Sometimes I rubbed the skin on my thumbs so raw that I bled.
Watching porn created a cavern of desire inside me where I longed to be a participant and not just a voyeur. Instead of playing Nancy Drew computer games with other 10-year-olds, I was visiting "adult" chatrooms and having cybersex. By 11, the Breast Fairy (as my mom called her) had already bestowed her gifts upon me, and I relished the attention of being eye-fucked by men in the grocery store. Once at this age, I tried to leave my mom's house in a short skirt and a halter top. She barred my exit: "You look like you want sex. Do you want people to look at you and think about sex?" I wanted to say: Yes, I want sex and I want to look like sex. Instead, I stayed silent and changed clothes. Now, at 23, I understand she was trying to protect me from a world often unkind to young, sexual women. But at the time, her chastising reaction to my revealing outfit taught me to hide the power of my sexuality from her.
In the wake of her sister's death and her newfound understanding of sexuality, Goldin stopped speaking, retreating into fantasies of becoming a bad girl. "I wanted to get high from a really early age," Goldin told O'Hagan. "I wanted to be a junkie…I wanted to be as different from my mother as I could and define myself as far as possible from the suburban life I was brought up in." Goldin was expelled from every school she went to for smoking pot, selling drugs, and "other bullshit." At 14, she left home.
She lived in foster homes and communes around the Boston area, eventually landing at the Satya Community School whose Montessori philosophies allowed Goldin an unprecedented freedom to express herself. At Satya, Nancy became Nan. When she was 15 and 16, she acted as the school photographer, often taking pictures of David Armstrong and Suzanne Fletcher—future members of her adult chosen family.
Fletcher, with her thin frame, big blue eyes, and unmistakably large nose is featured in The Ballad. She cries, her forehead wrinkled, her nose a shade brighter than her burgundy sweater; she ferociously kisses a man in a room with blue walls, their faces smashed together; she showers in a stall lined with mustard yellow tiles while beads of water cascade off her perky breasts. In several images, Fletcher stares into mirrors. In her pursed lips and eyes keenly focused on her own face, I see a woman wishing that someone would study her as closely as she studies herself.
Mirrors were key when I started sexting in middle school. My new camera phone was a consolation gift from my dad and stepmom before they moved three hours north to be closer to her family. The phone also kept me entertained now that my mom, after having been a single mother since I was an infant, began devoting all of her time to my future stepdad. I'd stand naked in front of a full-length mirror, able to capture the entirety of my post-pubertal body, and snap away. By sending pictures to boys from neighboring schools, I found an outlet for my sexuality that also provided the attention I was missing at home. I knew the risks of sending nudes, but that only intensified the adrenaline rush each time I pressed Send.
Goldin didn't start taking pictures "seriously" until she was 18, dating a much older man, and photographing a group of drag queens in Boston. Her goal was to get the queens on the cover of Vogue. Goldin lived with the queens and started drinking with them. Around this time, she also began shooting heroin, but then stopped in favor of snorting it—a switch she says saved her life.
In The Ballad's introduction, Goldin writes that her obsession with recording her day-to-day life in photography stemmed from wanting to remember what happened the nights she partied. As she got older, she realized her motivations ran deeper: "In the process of leaving my family, in recreating myself, I lost the real memory of my sister…I don't ever want to lose the real memory of anyone again." Perhaps Goldin initially fixated on the queens because they, like her, expressed themselves as the women they wanted to be—an opportunity not afforded to Barbara.
When I was 15, I became disillusioned with guys shoving their fingers inside of me without asking, grabbing my breasts so hard they left finger-shaped bruises, and forcing their penises into my mouth. I wanted a sexual relationship, but I wasn't interested in having someone touch me when I was the best at touching me. Chatrooms were too anonymous to form any lasting connections, and I was too young to sign up for OkCupid. My work-around was to create an alternative Facebook version of myself: Raina Daughtry, a 21-year-old college student who studied literature and writing. I used the Facebook dating app, Hot or Not, to swipe through guys' pictures and friend them if I wanted to see more.
Raina Daughtry's profile was composed of photos that I'd taken of myself with a tripod and self-timer around my mom's house; lounging in my rumpled purple sheets with mussed hair and bare shoulders; crawling on my hands and knees in black lingerie on the turquoise bathroom counter; posing on the kitchen table in black-and-white leopard-print leggings. To make it look like Raina Daughtry had friends, I scrounged Tumblr for pictures of white women with long brown hair (like mine) whose faces were obscured: in crowded bars, in candle-lit restaurants, in the shade on beaches with white sand.
At her peak, Raina Daughtry had over 300 Facebook friends, mostly men in their early 20s who were lonely and seeking companionship. If I liked someone, we Facebook messaged, texted, then sexted. If things went well, we talked on the phone and had phone sex. I built months-long relationships with a handful of these men and at least three told me they loved me. If a guy got too attached and insisted on meeting, I'd delete him on Facebook and block his number to protect my alter-ego. I believed Raina Daughtry was the person I'd be when I moved away for college; I'd just slipped into her skin early.
Goldin, alongside Armstrong, attended college at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. At the SMFA, Goldin worked with a Pentax camera, wide-angle lens, and flash—the equipment she used for The Ballad. She shot rolls and rolls of film, but hated the painstaking process of making prints in the darkroom. "[Armstrong] and I called our work the dust and scratch school," Goldin said to O'Hagan. "All we cared about was the content. We didn't give a shit about prints."
In the summer of 1976, Goldin lived on Cape Cod with Armstrong and his male lover. She didn't have access to a darkroom, so she shot on slide film, which could be developed and printed for her at a local drug store. She discovered that slide film captured bright colors and skin tones with great accuracy—trademarks of The Ballad. Photographs from that summer pop with color: Armstrong, with his strong jaw and hairless chest, smoking a cigarette and reclining in an orange lounge chair next to a swimming pool; an androgynous woman with short hair partially submerged in a tub, her bright pink nipples in contrast to the cool tones of the murky blue bath water; a man face-down on a blue blanket dotted with red stars, while his lover—whose back is covered in sand—flops on top of him.
Goldin shot almost exclusively on slide film after that summer. While traditional film is developed into a negative, slide film develops into a positive, which can be projected—the original format of The Ballad's nearly 700 images. In the early 80s, Goldin first showed The Ballad to amuse her friends, then publicly in small venues around New York City. She spent days perfecting the sequence of images for her slideshows, each one unique. Many of the slides are scratched because she frequently handled them while she was high on heroin and cocaine.
Accompanying the slideshow there was always music: sometimes a live band, but more often an eclectic soundtrack of jazz, pop, rock, and soul music by notable artists that included James Brown, Nina Simone, The Persuasions, Smokey Robinson, and The Velvet Underground. Also on the soundtrack was the collection's titular song, a ballad from The Threepenny Opera. The music brought the slides to life; viewers felt like they'd occupied the same bars, clubs, and apartments as Goldin and her friends.
After a year of virtual relationships, I craved face-to-face intimacy. I also wanted to have real sex. At 16, I started dating Clark, a boy from a neighboring school. I was charmed by how he dyed his hair purple to defy his mother during her campaign to be elected his town's judge, and the way he played songs on his guitar about taking down "the establishment." He introduced me to The Velvet Underground and cigarettes. We found love in our shared hatred of suburban conformity.
We dated for a week before we had sex. My mom and stepdad had gone out for the night and left us home after we'd promised to "keep three feet on the floor." The banana I'd fucked myself with a few days before hadn't prepared me for the pain of having Clark's entire body weight behind his thrusting. I focused on making the noises I'd learned in porn, as if vocalizing what sex was supposed to sound like could make it feel good. I was so loud, in fact, that when my mom and stepdad came home early, they heard everything.
My mom banished Clark from our house; he stood in the driveway as he waited for his dad to pick him up. She was pissed that I'd broken her trust, pissed I'd had sex so young. She knew, as I do now, that I wasn't capable of coping with the emotional repercussions of sex, or advocating for my sexual needs. To save face, I never told anyone how painful I found sex. I told myself it would get better if I kept at it.
But it never did. I often disassociated and watched myself from above: my body limp, his sweaty and pumping. He nicknamed me "Ragdoll Raina." Sometimes I burned so badly afterward that I sat in his bathroom sink and ran cold water over my vagina.
The most pleasurable part of sex was when he bit my breasts, neck, and chest. The white-hot pain from the collision of his teeth and my flesh moved me into a realm of ecstasy. I also loved how his bites peppered my peachy skin with bruises—a personal sunset that started with deep purples and faded to pinks and putrid greens and jaundiced yellows.
When we weren't having sex, we were usually fighting. Instead of talking it out, we goaded each other: he told me I was fat, I called him a fag—neither of which was true. Then we wrestled on the scratchy carpet on his basement floor, which always led to sex. We broke up and got back together, on and off like a light switch. Our bulb finally burned out in the weeks before I left for photography camp.
In 1978, Goldin moved into a loft on the Lower East Side and began living nocturnally: working in bars and partying after her shifts. Nearly all the photographs included in The Ballad from this time she took at night, inside, with flash. Flash lends a uniformity to these portraits; her family's noses and cheeks are illuminated, eyes glossy with bright white dots at the center as if they're glowing in Goldin's personal spotlight of affection.
The most haunting image from these Manhattan years (and for me, from the entire collection) is "Nan One Month After Being Battered, 1984." In the photograph, Goldin stares directly at the camera with green and purple bruises around her eyes, white spots in her pupils. Her right eye is completely red, nearly swollen shut. The violence of the image is contradicted by Goldin's femininity: her hair cascades down her shoulders in neat black curls, she wears a pearl necklace, and her lips are coated in bright red lipstick. The chronology of photographs suggests Goldin's lover Brian beat her.
He appears often in The Ballad with his large, wide-set blue eyes, hairy body, and masculine aura. He holds a shotgun and smokes a cigarette in a stained white t-shirt; uses the toilet in a dirty bathroom with exposed brick walls, naked but for a cigarette between his fingers; sits on the edge of a bed and smokes while Goldin reclines behind him and watches—the whole frame cast in shades of orange and yellow.
On their first date, Goldin asked Brian to cop her heroin. After that, the couple fell into their passion and addiction, alternating between fighting and feeling deeply connected. In a 2016 interview with Hilton Als for The New Yorker, Goldin said Brian was "dope-sick" the night he beat her. In The Ballad's introduction, Goldin writes about how the intense pleasure of sex and romance perpetuate sexual dependency, which leads to unhealthy relationships lasting far longer than they should.
In 1986, a couple of years after Goldin and Brian split, The Ballad was released as a book. In the wake of its publication, Goldin spent all of her time getting high on cocaine and heroin, rarely leaving her loft. "When I crossed the line from use to self-abuse my world became very, very dark," Goldin told Drusilla Beyfus in a 2009 interview for The Telegraph. She didn't see the sun for almost two years. When she decided to get clean, Armstrong helped her through her first mornings of sobriety in two decades. She went into a detox facility clutching her camera and a copy of The Ballad, both of which were confiscated upon her arrival.
Less than a week after I went to the basement metal concert, I saw images from The Ballad
in that cold, dark classroom. I didn't know it was the year of the 25th anniversary of The Ballad's publication, or that the slideshow was supposed to have music. But I knew I recognized the sexuality, vulnerability, and close physical proximity I'd sought after through porn, chatrooms, Raina Daughtry, and sex with Clark. That Goldin was willing to publically share her most intimate photographs made me feel less ashamed of the wanton desires I'd fulfilled in secret. And having found a community in downtown Albany that resembled Goldin's in New York and Boston, I knew I'd found a place where I could openly seek the connection and catharsis that I craved.
I spent my summer taking pictures of my friends smoking cigarettes on our leafy campus in Upstate New York, undressing on the shores of Lake Ontario, and sprawling on the twin beds in our echoey dorm rooms. My images didn't compare to Goldin's, but I didn't expect them to—I knew I had to wait to return to Albany and shoot the people I wanted to be my chosen family.
When I got home, I went to every house concert I could, driving downtown in my mom's Honda and love-tapping cars as I parallel parked on narrow streets. The more I went to Albany, the more people I met, and the more parties they invited me to. In cramped apartments with scratched wood floors I took flash photographs of my new friends: dancing, drinking, flirting, fighting. I often lied to my already-mistrustful mother as to my whereabouts.
Downtown, I made out with tattooed men in apartments strewn with dirty clothes, overflowing ashtrays, and empty beer cans. It was exhilarating to fuck loudly, smoke cigarettes indoors, and leave dishes in the sink. But after a few weeks, the sex was still painful, the plumes of cigarette smoke made my head pound, and the dishes cultivated a foul gray mold. I thought assuming a life that looked like Goldin's would ameliorate my lifelong craving for something other, something more. But I only felt left out and disappointed. I was a high school student who didn't understand the exhaustion from long hours working in the service industry to make rent, the need to drink every night, or the hardships of breaking away from home. My photographs never had The Ballad's magic because I wasn't fully immersed in the Albany scene. In my distance from it, I'd glamorized sex, addiction, and poverty when Goldin had explicitly presented their realities in The Ballad. At 17, I lacked that awareness and I thought I could force a sense of belonging if I kept going downtown.
One night before I went out, I was in the kitchen editing a photograph on the family laptop: I'm sitting cross-legged in the grass wearing a denim shirt with the arms cut off as I look at a lit cigarette in my hand, nails painted a neon pink. From behind, my mother said, "Are you fucking kidding me?" My stomach dropped. She said she'd never give me money again, or trust me for lying to her. In retrospect, I think I wanted her to catch me, to test the boundaries of her love, to see if breaking a sworn promise would elicit her warmth and concern instead of her ice. When it didn't, I burst into tears and ran out of the house, putting further distance between us.
Sobbing, I lit a cigarette and walked past landscaped lawns and trees whose leaves were beginning to yellow. Instead of calling one of my new friends to pick me up, I called my dad. Things between us had been strained since he moved away, but he said I could live with him if I was sure I wouldn't change my mind. I didn't want to live downtown, work a minimum-wage job, and live in a messy apartment. I didn't want to put in the herculean effort required to repair a relationship with my mom. I didn't care about having to change high schools two months into my senior year; I'd been so consumed, first with the online world of Raina Daughtry, then my relationship with Clark, and finally my time downtown, that I'd lost touch with most of my friends from school.
A day later, my dad picked me up in the early morning. With tears and sunshine in my eyes, I heaved black trash bags full of my belongings into the bed of his truck, and headed toward change.
"I look at Ballad and see the dynamics of both love and hate, tenderness and violence, as well as all kinds of ambivalence in relationships," Goldin wrote in the afterword of the 25th anniversary edition of The Ballad. "In a way, the picture of the heart-shaped bruise could be the symbol of the whole book." The photograph captures the bottom half of a woman lying on a bed. She's pulled down her black tights to reveal her marred thigh, glossy with flash. The bruise is heart-shaped, outlined in vivid pink with a sickly yellow interior. The bruise isn't fresh shades of purple, but faded and lighter: proof that what once hurt can heal.
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What's inside Snoop Dogg's brand new cookbook?
Snoop Dogg is releasing an all-new cookbook. That's right, the man can cook now and wants everyone to know it.
The cookbook, which is called From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen – we kid you not, that's actually the title - features recipes for mac and cheese, "billionaire's beef bacon," and lobster thermidor.
There's a section dedicated to munchies, where you'll find a shopping list that includes Frito BBQ Twists, Starbursts, and Flamin' Hot Cheetos. And for the cocktail crowd, there's a recipe for Snoop Dogg's most famous tipple that he often sips when he rolls down the street. All in all, the book will feature 50 recipes from fine dining to earthier fair.
According to publisher Chronicle Books, these are all taken from Snoop's own collection. Including the lobster thermidor. As the Snoop writes in the cookbook, "I like to serve the lobster claws whole so we can all get it crackin' together with that extra meat and wild out at the dinner table."
Snoop said in a statement about the project: "You know it's blazin' up in my kitchen. I'm takin' the cookbook game higher with a dipped and whipped collection of my favourite recipes, ya dig?"
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 A Walk in the Park
As I've written before, our local salad bar/buffet restaurant, Q. Cumber's, is a little tricky when it's just you and the toddler. Another adult makes it a lot easier. Three's even better. But as I learned this weekend, four grown-ups are ideal.
CorpKitten was in town for the weekend, and we decided to have dinner at Q. Cumber's. Which is perfect for M. Small, because there's a ridiculous variety of food there (even if all he really wants is a big bowl of peas); you don't have to commit him to any one menu item; and, as we discovered on one trip when he was wriggling too much beneath my overcoat, we don't even have to pay for him to eat. Splendid!
So we arrived, and CorpKitten and I immediately went to the salad bar to load up, while Trash got set up to feed M. Small his dinner (amusingly, both CorpKitten and I brought him a bowl of peas, entirely independently of one another). Two members of our party ate while the third fed the fourth, knowing that her turn to eat would come soon. And for once, she wouldn't have to bolt her meal in order to get finished before M. Small ran out of patience with his high chair and tried to turn into his own ejector seat. Because at about the time he was done, I'd be taking him down to the park behind the restaurant, and Trash would eat at her leisure with the newly-arrived Bitter.
"It'll be perfect," I said, "Because I won't have to worry about motor traffic. We'll just have to look out for the piano."
CorpKitten thought I was referring to some imaginary cartoon catastrophe, but I was talking about an actual piano. See, this park is (or was, years ago) frequented by an old guy who'd mounted an upright piano on wheels and attached some bicycle components to the frame so he could pedal around behind it while playing. He did the steering with his ass, I think, and he wasn't all that great at pedaling and playing at the same time. Of our friends, only BuenaOnda and I ever saw him, and when we tried to tell people about him, nobody ever believed us. Which put us into a weird, Snuffalupagusian place for a year or so, until he was profiled in the newspaper. And now I can't find the link, and considering how old he was back then, he's probably dead now. Even disregarding his age; an upright piano's wider than the narrow little bike lanes on the streets downtown, and I can just see him getting clipped by a passing truck and perishing in a mass of crashing chords. M. Small and I didn't see him the other night anyway, so it's not really relevant.
So anyway, this park. It's not your average city park. It looks like a facility that was built by either the malls that Q. Cumber's is part of, or the giant condo complex that would back up to the malls if the park weren't there, but it was in fact built by the city, as a bit of cursory research has told me. It's this over-designed river-walk type arrangement, except the river is not so much a river as a long, narrow pond, and it's not so much a pond as a geometrically irregular concrete tank (which M. Small wanted to hop right into, of course), and it's not lined with shops for fleecing tourists. It's landscaped up the ass, with fancy sidewalks circling around for miles. But easily my favorite part was the "lawn games" area.
Ah, the lawn games area. There's a sign on the edge of it saying its for croquet and lawn bowling only, and no other activities are allowed. And once you step onto the pitch, you can see why. It's about a square mile of the shortest, flattest, greenest, most perfect grass you've ever seen. It could almost be mistaken for really expensive Astroturf, and I decided that the few yellow spots were left there intentionally to prove otherwise. M. Small loved it, of course. I decided to define "no other activities" rather narrowly; specifically, as "tackle football" and "NASCAR." In any case, what damage could a year-and-a-half old toddler do just wandering around on the grass with his dad?
None, actually. I'll just defuse the suspense right now. I quickly realized that this was the ultimate childproof space. Nothing to trip over, nothing to fall on but soft, spongy ground, nothing to steal or break or put in his mouth, no swingable-at-groin-level weapons of any kind. All he could do was try to pry up the heads of the automatic sprinklers, and even that was quickly abandoned as futile. Even though I was the only adult responsible for him, we had the whole vast space to ourselves, and after holding his hand through the whole rest of the park to prevent him from chasing the model boats, I could now let the distance between us stretch to five, ten, even twenty feet. There were no hazards in sight, and visibility was excellent. Even if M. Small were to be approached by an escaped sex offender, or a suddenly-appearing sinkhole, or a chunk of green ice falling from a 747, I'd have plenty of time to react and snatch him to safety. So I just relaxed, hung back, gave him his space, and let him chase after the sparrows. Trash and Bitter took their time eating, while CorpKitten hung out with them at the table and I wouldn't have minded if they'd taken longer. Another bonus: you just know that after all that running around, M. Small slept that night like a dead thing. I'm totally bringing him back there one day soon.
Of course, the place will be completely ruined for both of us the day he catches his first bird. posted by M. Giant 8:40 PM 6 comments
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Wow, I need to find a place like that for us. Every day, our 13-month old son find a new drawer or shelf that he can reach and plunder.
By Lady M, at April 26, 2006 at 9:03 PM
I love your way with words, M. Giant.
You know, you are a great writer. I don't think you have ever told us how you started writing. Have you always been a writer? Who inspired you to start? And most importantly, have you ever considered writing a book about M. Tiny? It's a great story, and you would already have chapters or entries from your blog. Sorry if this sounds to strange.
Ah, but the day he proudly lays that dead bird at your feet will be the day he become a man. Or a cat. Whatever.
I can't decide if I'm proud or slightly mortified that I have played bocce on that lawn, paddled a paddleboat (and of course, tried to drive through the big fountain) and played mini-golf there. Wow - what a blast from the past!
For the strolling pianist, try googling "Jim Shannon" and "Centennial Lakes".


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This Victor Wanyama goal vs Liverpool was an absolute screamer from the midfielder in Spurs' game at Anfield. Trailing 1-0, Mauricio Pochettino brought on Wanyama for Moussa Dembele, and the Kenyan had an immediate impact with this stunner that put the Lilywhites level. An absolute rocket of a shot!
Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham (Wanyama goal vs Liverpool 80′)- S'Ble angles
The game, featuring tons of drama at the end, ended with both teams sharing points in a 2-2 draw.
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Braves star prospect Ronald Acuña Jr. undaunted by return to minors
Ronald Acuña Jr. is still getting used to all the hype. He just spent his first big league spring training under the proverbial microscope, heralded not only as the top prospect in the Atlanta Braves organization but all of baseball.
It's an impressive distinction that brings with it incredible expectations.
Heading into his age 20 season, Acuña is perhaps just weeks away from making his major league debut. That will come after a well-publicized layover in Triple-A Gwinnett. Yes, his ascension to Atlanta is only a matter of time.
But this time a year ago, who would have thought it possible?
To be honest, even Acuña was surprised.
"It's amazing and I'm definitely not taking it for granted," Acuña said through team translor Franco Garcia. "I never imagined that it would all happen this quickly.
"It's like I've said before, I always believed in myself that I could become something and that I could do something with myself as a baseball player. I always had confidence in that, but I never thought it would all happen this quickly. It's very exciting."
The Braves strapped a rocket to his back in 2017 and Acuña went from a player with only 40 games of experience above rookie ball to one who probably deserved a September call-up.
He posted a .325/.374/.522 slash line while belting 21 homers and stealing 44 bases in 139 games. Then he went to the Arizona Fall League and brought home MVP honors.
That reign of terror across three levels of the minor leagues earned Acuña his top prospect status and catapulted him into the national spotlight as one of the top young players in baseball.
That's a far cry from last spring, when he was just hoping to have a full, healthy year. Acuña suffered a thumb injury that robbed him of three months' worth of playing time with Rome in 2016. He returned in time for the playoffs and helped the club win the South Atlantic League title.
To make up for the lost time, Acuña shipped off across the Pacific and turned heads in the Australian Baseball League that winter. Needless to say, he was a big hit in the Outback and that was just the beginning of the buzz that now surrounds this five-tool talent.
Acuña got the chance to show out last spring and impressed Braves manager Brian Snitker, who said he'd have been temped to bring the young outfielder north with the big league club if given the chance.
That said, Acuña still had plenty of developing to do in all facets of the game in 2017.
"I think there's a big difference between last year and this year," Acuña said when asked of his growth over the past year. "I would say last year I hadn't matured as much and wasn't as mature as I was going into this spring training. This year, I just knew what I wanted to focus on and I knew what I wanted to work on."
Heady stuff, but this is an ultra-talented player who climbed the minor league ladder in what felt like a fortnight and got better at every stop along the way. With his skills on display and his confidence building from experience, Acuña's name began to receive regular mention across the industry.
Other than the one injury setback, Acuña hasn't been forced to wait very long in his minor league career. The rapid promotions and ensuing success has given little reason to believe he has much of anything left to prove in the minor leagues.
But lessons come in all shapes and sizes.
Acuña's current learning experience comes courtesy of the business of baseball. He'll spend some time back in Triple-A. The club has cited development and a little bit of seasoning, but two weeks of minor league time buys the Braves an extra year of contractual control with Acuña down the line.
That decision, however, is out of Acuña's hands. And it's already been made.
To his credit, he's seemingly moved on after being reassigned to minor league camp last week despite torching the Grapefruit League in his time with the big league club this spring. It certainly hasn't affected his confidence, of which he has a seemingly endless supply. Acuña has instead turned his focus to doing any and everything he can at whatever level he may be playing. That outlook shows a considerable amount of that aforementioned maturity.
It can also be chalked up to another, equally important quality.
"Patience really," credits Acuña. "I preached that about last spring training and the same could be said for this one as well. Being sent down, I'm trying to just practice patience and just anxiously waiting for the opportunity in the big leagues."
That sounds great, but nobody likes waiting. Acuña is no different. He's put in the work. He's put up the numbers. Now he's simply playing the waiting game.
And that's a game he's determined to win.
"I'm not feeling impatient at all to be honest, and I don't think I'll feel that way," said Acuña. "It's just not the right moment right now and that's just part of the business.
"Baseball is a business and I understand that. There's a lot of things that go into these decisions. All I can do is go down to Gwinnett, give my best effort and hope to get the call as soon as possible."
Gwinnett opens the season with a six-game road trip before coming home for the second weekend in April. That's just a couple of days prior to the April 14th date that Braves could feasibly summon Acuña to the majors while still gaining that coveted seventh year of contractual control.
Atlanta will return home to host the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday, April 16, and all signs seem to point to the impending arrival of a certain top prospect, though the team has yet to specify a timetable.
Who knows, Acuña may never have to fully unpack his suitcase before arriving at SunTrust Park.
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In what starts out sounding like a footwork track, "lonelyfuckingsamurai" goes absolutely berzerk at :50, where Mr. Carmack stamps the track with his signature industrious bass sound and exotic vocal samples. Mr. Carmack's latest release, Drugs EP, further supports why he's the best new artist of 2014.
Once again, a DJ/producer takes a lazy beat from a DJ Mustard produced track and turns it into a massive remix. While the initial remix of this T.I. track came out a week ago, it was taken to another level when ATL club rap gods, Migos, jumped on it.
Another Chaz Bundick album, another change in style. The Toro Y Moi frontman will be releasing his upcoming album "Michael" on November 4 under the moniker of "Les Sins". This impossibly smooth track as "Les Sins" proves that whether he's making chillwave, nu disco, or psychedelia, Bundick is one of indie music's most dependable craftsmen.
This is what wearing spandex in a spaceship sounds like.
With his upcoming album Money Sucks, Friends Rule slated for an October 28 release on Mad Decent, the Moombahton pioneer gave away this re-vamped version of his first hit, "Masta Blasta" for free. With heavier drums and a new 4/4 rhythm, the track is another reason to believe that with the release of MSFR Francis will become a household name.
Hudson Mohawke's EP, Chimes, dropped this week as expected, but when looking at the tracklist there was one glaring (and disappointing) fact: IT WAS ONLY FOUR SONGS! Of the four tracks, one was the Apple commercial featured "Chimes" and one was a Gammer Re-Edit of "Chimes". Despite there being only two unreleased HudMo originals, fans of the former TNGHT member can revel in the beauty of "King Kong Beaver".
Through isolating the airy vocals and throwing them into a melodic drop, Fear Club offered up a wonderful re-work of the Glass Animals track "Cocoa Hooves".
Bro Safari and OWSLA signee Valentino Kahn teamed up to remix MIA, what they delivered was the track that dominated the festival scene this past summer.


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A 24-year-old father sent a crying sad face emoji to his friend on WhatsApp after allegedly raping her.
Bradford Crown Court in the UK heard messages from Ryan Falconer's phone to the 20-year-old victim telling her he's "fucked up."
Falconer said in the text exchange,
I'm sorry! I wanted you to say no one more time then it would have stopped. I've fucked up.
He went on to tell the woman,
Come tomorrow focus on the good you've got. If you need me outa your life completely I understand :,(
The jury heard the alleged rape took place on the evening of May 16 last year.
Falconer was invited to the woman's family home, made his way up to her bedroom and forced her on top of him some time after 8:45 pm.
She told the court she repeatedly asked him to stop.
The victim asked Falconer to leave at around 10 pm. After he left, she googled "I think I have just been raped" and "was I raped."
The court heard how they struck up a friendship years before the alleged rape and chatted regularly on WhatsApp.
Falconer denies one count of rape and insists the sex was consensual and she did not ask him to stop at any point.
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TITLE: Divine Intervention
SERIES: Eternal Flames Maddox
AUTHOR: Maggie Walsh & Cree Storm
GENRE: M/M Paranormal
Print Length: 144
Publication Date: December 13, 2017
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This is book 7 of the Eternal Flames Maddox series, you should read Eternal Flames 1-10 and book 1-6 of Eternal Flames Maddox before this book.
Lotan, father to Fallon and God of Arcadia is out for revenge against the paranormals of Maddox and Crystal. The council has no idea how they were to take down a God, but knew they better figure it out, because they only had a week until the God would attack.
Logan is a paramedic with the Maddox fire department. He has secrets, too many to count. However, when he meets his mate Jensen, Logan discovers that he is not the only one hiding something
Jensen has been living on the streets for three years in Maddox, waiting. He has no idea what he is waiting for, but when his mother brought him here, she told Jensen he would be needed and not to leave. Then he met his mate and discovered that Lotan was preparing to battle and he knew the time his mother had spoken of was here.
Jensen is the only one that can help the people of Maddox and Crystal from total annihilation. He just hopes he makes it out alive so he can enjoy his new life with his mate.
My Review:
This is book 7 of the Eternal Flames Maddox Series. Have to say the books just keep getting better and better. They will keep you on the edge not totally knowing what is going to happen. Jensen for sure will keep you on your toes not knowing what going to happen next. The characters will all their difference and their quirky attitude blend so well. Can't wait to see who is next hopefully the happy ending for someone with the band. Highly recommend this book and series.
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