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"I'm having stupid thoughts."
"Like that Tom's seeing someone else."
"What? Surely not."
Amy nodded, stepping away from the coffee machine.
"But, he's not like that." Kay said, inserting her coins for a cup of her own. "You've got your paws on one of the decent ones."
"I know. I said they were stupid thoughts."
"So where's all this coming from? There must be something putting these ideas in your head."
"He's been working late a lot more recently, a few nights a week instead of just once in a blue moon."
"Has he told you why?"
"Something about a new contract and deadlines to meet."
"Well there you go then– Ouch!"
"Just burnt my tongue." Kay said, glaring accusingly at the cup.
"Be careful, it's hot."
"Yeah, thanks, I did notice."
"It's not just that though," she said, taking a seat by one of the few vacant tables, "he keeps mentioning the name of some secretary that's started working there, Jane… something or other."
"So you're putting two and two together…"
"For all I know, I might end up with five; but at least I do know one way to get an answer."
"What's that then, ask him outright?"
"God no, as if a man would admit to cheating if you asked him. Even Tom wouldn't without the evidence waved under his nose."
"You've got something in mind then?"
"I have," she sighed, "And come Saturday night, I'll find out just how good I am with figures."
"Have you seen the bandages?"
With Saturday evening edging towards night, Tom wandered into the bedroom; a towel wrapped around his waist, with the last drops of his shower running down his back. Amy sat on the edge of the bed, nursing her temples as he opened drawer after drawer in his hunt.
"Why, what have you done to yourself?" she asked.
"Nothing. It's part of my costume, remember?"
"Oh, right."
"Which reminds me, you still haven't told me who you're coming as."
She sat back on the bed, stretching her legs out as she leaned back against the headboard. Tom paused in his search as he noticed her moving gingerly, coming across to sit down beside her.
"I think I've got a migraine coming on," she said, "I don't feel up to going out tonight, I'm sorry."
"Hey, that's alright, honey," he said, stroking her upper arm, "If you're not well, then they'll understand if we don't go."
"Oh no, you go. I'll be fine."
"It's okay, it won't be half as much fun without you."
"That's sweet, baby, but you've been working so hard recently, you deserve to let your hair down."
"Of course. I'm just going to pop a couple of pills and get a bit of sleep, so you might as well go, I won't be much company tonight." she insisted.
He kissed her as delicately as possible as he rose from the bed, looking back around the room. Amy had closed her eyes by the time he turned back to her, his initial question on his lips.
"They're in the closet, over there." she said, pointing it out for him.
Opening the door, he found the bandages on a hook, hanging like ties with the rest of his costume. He pulled each of the items out, dimming the lights in the bedroom before disappearing back into the bathroom with them in his arms.
Amy listened to him getting ready, making enough noise for two people, all in spite of trying to keep quiet for the sake of his wife. It wasn't long before he was finished, creeping into the bedroom to pick up his keys from off the bedside table.
"Ha," she laughed, softly, "aren't you just a sight for sore eyes."
It was those features that were the only visible part of him, which he soon remedied as he placed a pair of sunglasses over the thick covering of bandages shrouding his head, giving Amy a twirl that had his trench coat swirling around his legs.
"You like?" he asked, through the thick bandages.
"I said, do you like it?"
"Oh, sorry, you're all muffled in there," she said, "Yes, it looks good. But then, you know I've always like you all smart like that."
The sharp, pinstripe suit she referred to, sat alongside his monochrome tie beneath his unbuttoned coat, the black fedora sat snugly on his head finishing the outfit, giving him the look of a gangster straight from out of the thirties.
"Are you sure about me going?"
She looked at him with an expression which translated into English as 'how many times do I have to tell you?' before mustering a weak smile.
"Alright, just checking," he said, heading for the door, "don't wait up now…"
Amy rolled her eyes at his parting words, listening as he closed the front door behind him. She waited a full ten minutes after hearing him drive off in the car before springing out of bed, confident he wouldn't arrive back to check up on her in a fit of guilt.
Taking her time, sauntering around the house with a glass of wine in hand, she embarked on her preparations. Showered, cleansed, toned and moisturized, she set about adding finishing touches to her skin. A dab of perfume in suggestive places, the smokey effect she achieved around her eyes with her make-up, and the satin sheen of lip gloss shining across her already full, red lips leaving her with only her costume left to put the finishing touches to an already alluring sight.
Hidden at the back of the closet in which Tom's outfit had hung, she pulled out an unassuming looking box, sliding its lid off to reveal her own attire for the festivities ahead. One by one, she took each item from the box, laying them out on the bed until it was time for her to come to them.
Deciding to forego panties, she gently pulled on a pair of skin-tight leather jeans, taking care not to put her painted toes through the razor blade created slashes that cut through the material, exposing the tanned flesh of her thighs. Buckling the thick belt tightly over her flat, toned stomach, she reached for the top that seemed perfect to match her lower half.
It was little more than a bra, a halter-neck black one of the same material as her jeans, different to most, with the sole addition of two straps, decorated with buckles, that crossed just above her navel, down from the cups to the belt around her hips.
Thankful that the night was mild for late October, considering what she was wearing was as covered as she was going to get, she slipped on the few finishing touches that would complete her look, and set off outside into the warm night air.
The partygoers bobbing for apples were the first to see the open toes of her ankle-high boots approach, the stiletto heels clicking across the floor as Amy swept into the largest of the conference rooms within Tom's workplace. Turning heads as she strode through the crowd, interrupting conversations with her presence alone, only to start new ones with herself as the topic, as she sought out one of the guests in particular.
Making her way to the edge of the large area being used as a dance floor, she stood, hands on hips, scanning the throng as it moved to the music; some members of which were still sober enough to keep to the rhythm of the beat. Trying hard not to be distracted by the motley crew of vampires, pirates, witches and fairy tale princesses, she spotted her prey surrounded by bodies as though he were the eye of the storm.
The Invisible Man, still swathed in bandages and buried beneath the sharp lines of his suit, appeared as if he were having the time of his life. Cavorting with a blonde in a Tinkerbell costume, his gloved hands played over her body as they writhed and gyrated, to the point where their hips began to grind against each other.
"I knew it!" she thought, weighing up the blonde with a predator's eye, "I suppose the slut whoring herself out is that 'Jane' he keeps going on about."
Her eyes were like slits as she glared daggers at her rival, lost for the most part in the strobe lights flashing across the room. Forcing her lips into forming a sexy pout, she made her way over; her hips putting on a wiggle as she imagined a long tail sweeping out behind her.
"Well," she thought as she filtered through the crowd, "if he's going to be playing around tonight, it'll be with me."
Circling the pair, she caught his attention the instant she looked into the black of his sunglasses. As the distance between himself and Tinkerbell grew, his focus now following Amy as she prowled around, she took the opportunity to slip in between them. Rubbing herself against him, she unfurled the bullwhip she had coiled around her torso, its length clinging to her like a snake.
"Hey tiger," she purred, her voice adopting a sexy, husky tone to disguise its usual self, "this little kitty wants to play."
Her hands, clad in gauntlets that ran past her elbows, pawed at his chest, the claws protruding from the tips of her fingers pricking through his shirt as she slid them under his jacket.
"I don't know about you, but there's one pussy around here that's just dying for a good workout."
As he squirmed delightfully under her manipulations, she wrapped the whip around his neck, leading him from the dance floor and out towards the door; fueling further gossip as they passed between the guests.
Most of the onlookers chattered amongst each other, commenting on the scene that had left an embarrassed looking Tinkerbell by herself, and of who exactly it could've been that had been daring enough to flaunt enough flesh to come dressed as Catwoman.
Amy led him along the corridor outside, to where the offices of senior management lay, taking him far enough away from the other guests that some measure of privacy could be assumed.
"Here. I think this'll do nicely." she said.
The handle of a door bearing the title of managing director turned in her hand, opening wide into a large, darkened room. She turned to face him as they stepped inside, her hand stopping his as he reached for the light switch.
"Haven't you heard? Kitties can see perfectly well in the dark."
It could hardly have been called dark in the office, the contents of the room were thrown into silhouette by the artificial glow of the cityscape outside. The lack of decent illumination, coupled with the sunglasses still perched on the bridge of his nose, worked in her favor; her charade even likelier to succeed with him unable to pick out the more distinguishing marks on her body.
The buttons of his shirt proved trickier to undo than those of his jacket, the gauntlets making sure more were pulled off than undone as she got her claws on his chest. Scraping the tips over his skin, that left him groaning with pleasure through his bandaged mouth, with just enough of a scratch each time to leave him with more explaining to do when he got home, she licked her way down his sternum, and over his stomach to the belt buckle that had held up his pants until his erection had made it more or less redundant.
"Is that catnip in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?" she teased, distracting him somewhat as she struggled with his zipper.
Feeling him shudder, as much in fear as delight, at the touch of her talons on his flesh, she held his cock lightly with a single finger, peppering it with little licks as though she was a kitten lapping up spilt milk. He felt so good as she took him in her mouth, her hands straying behind him to grasp his buttocks where his pants had fallen and left them exposed; guiding them to push his hips into motion, turning her blowjob into a face-fuck as he quickly caught on to her silent suggestion.
His cock was awash with saliva by the time she pulled away, the combination of his fervent thrusts, with her clawing at his ass, getting him too excited a little too quickly. Not intending to leave without his having put his stiff prick to good use, she saw the desk before her as the ideal place to spread herself open.
Making her way across, she had her pants down to her knees as she bent forward, over the large, oak counter, her chin resting in the palm of her hand as she turned seductively towards him in the half light.
"What's the matter, sugar?" she asked, seeing him pause, "Cat got your tongue?"
He pulled his pants up high enough to walk over to her, letting them fall back to his ankles as he stepped into position behind her. She felt the welcome touch of his suede gloves roam across her skin, caressing her ass as his hand reached down between her legs. Feeling a finger push inside her, she gasped both in joy, and surprise at how wet she'd become; the excitement of taking control every bit as arousing as the charade itself.
Pulling his sodden finger from her pussy, she squirmed as her ran it around the rim of her other hole, wincing as he squeezed it into her. It was no real surprise to her that he'd be taking such a liberty with her body, seeing how far he could go with the beauty who'd made herself so available, when the wife he'd left at home hadn't even wanted to discuss his taking her that way before.
As her shock faded away in tandem with the initial jolt of pain, she felt him working his finger back and forth inside her ass, his motion arousing familiar sensations within her loins. There was an added something in the way her body reacted to his probing, an innate desire that expressed itself in the way her body responded shamelessly to his intrusion.
Deep inside, some part of her felt a loss as he took his hand away, the notion distracting her as he acted on the signals sent out by her body language that even the dark couldn't hide. A spark of apprehension flickered inside her as she felt the slick head of his cock nudge against her puckered hole, its protest shouted down by the excitement that just the thought alone of what he was about to do to her was stirring up.
The sheer difference in size between finger and cock had her biting her lip to suppress the squeal as he pushed the tip inside her, its presence leaving her breathless as he slowly edged deeper. It felt like forever, his gentle easing as her ass accepted each and every inch of his length; mere moments seeming to last minutes before he stopped, having no more to fill her with.
It was a small mercy for her ass, feeling full enough to burst; his hips touching up against her buttocks in a testament to how she'd taken all that was on offer. The slightest movement sent shock waves through her, increasing as he began to thrust in and out, taking his cock so far that the tip came close to being pushed out by her still reluctant muscles, before sliding back to what felt like further and further into her body.
The effect was electric, Amy's excitement betraying all the times she'd said no to Tom's wishes, igniting an ache that she was desperate to placate, a desire that burned so brightly that it needed immediate release. Her hand was between her thighs in an instant, attending to the pressure that built up inside her, letting go as she rubbed her fingers over her clitoris, the relief expressed through her words.
"Oh fuck," she cried, the disguise in her voice disappearing, "that feels so fuckin' good."
He spoke back to her, simple words that were to tell her how emphatically he agreed, only for which to fail in reaching her ears; muffled by the wrapping around his face which caught the sweat forming on his brow, and drowned out by the sound of flesh slapping flesh as his arousal increased his tempo, pounding her ass faster and harder.
She sank her fingers inside her pussy, feeling the walls tighten around them, fucking it in unison with his thrusts behind her, rubbing her clit with the ball of her hand. Gripping the other side of the desk in her free hand, she could almost have splintered the wood as she brought herself to an orgasm that left her lungs devoid of air, a shuddering climax leaving her so weak that she would've sank to her knees had the desk, and his large hands spreading her ass as she bent over it, not kept her on her feet.
The short, stabbing motion of his thrusts brought her equilibrium back to an even keel, his animalistic grunts audible enough to make it clear just how close he was to his own climax. Her thoughts gathered all the pieces of information her bliss had temporarily put aside, from where she was, to who she was pretending to be.
"Cum for me," she said, her tone slipping back into sweet seduction, "on my lips. I want to taste you."
Hearing her words, he pulled out of her, the sudden absence bringing a feeling of emptiness in more than just her body. She quickly turned in the space afforded between them, sinking to her knees as his gloved palm worked up and down his shaft.
"Yes, that's it, cum over me," she said, watching him jack off mere inches from her face, "Let me be the cat who got the cream…"
Parting her painted lips, her mouth opening invitingly, she saw his grip tighten. Falling across her cheek, his cum shot from his cock in a flash of pale white; Amy getting her hungry mouth closer, catching each spurt that followed on her tongue.
His body relaxed as the tension escaped in a mix of aching gasps and ejaculate; the few remaining drops falling from the last spasms of his orgasm and between her waiting lips, each as sublime in its flavor as the first. He took a seat on the nearest chair, head thrown back in exhaustion as his chest rose and fell with each breath, bringing him back down from the exquisite high of orgasm.
Amy stayed on her knees, sucking the cum from her fingers as she wiped it from her cheek; lapping up the splashes that fell from his cock onto her chest, catching it dribbling slowly between her cleavage. With her fingers clean, she stood herself up, dressing again as she pulled her pants back around her hips.
"Well, Mr. Invisible Man," she said, trailing her claws over his tender chest as she walked behind him, "I guess it's time I headed for the cat flap."
By the time the guests had removed their masks and revealed their true identities, Amy had left the building, well on her way home for the time when Tom would come stumbling in through the door. Amusing herself with how hard he'd try to hide the evidence she'd planted of his exploits, she was sat up in bed reading when she heard him slide the key in the front door.
Surprised at how quiet he was managing to be, she continued reading whilst listening to his movements around the house. By the time he came into the bedroom, he was all changed and ready for sleep, wrapped in his bathrobe as he dropped a bag containing the remains of his costume onto the floor.
"Oh, I didn't think you'd be up," he said, seeing her sat there, "are you feeling any better?"
"A little sore," she admitted, though not talking about the faked migraine, "How was your night?"
He turned from her as he sat on the bed, his face reflecting the apathy in his voice.
"Nothing to write home about."
"But you had a good time?" she asked.
"Not really. I couldn't relax properly knowing you weren't feeling well."
Leaning over, he gave her a tender kiss on the cheek, unwittingly allowing her a whiff of the alcohol on his breath.
"You had a drink though, it seems."
"Yeah, just a couple."
"What about dancing, did you have a dance with anyone?"
"No, I didn't feel like it."
Amy put her book down on her lap, quietly getting annoyed at his responses.
"You mean to tell me you didn't have one dance all night?"
"Nope. A few of the guys got a card game going in one of the bosses' offices, so I spent most of the night playing poker." he said, getting up from the bed, "I just about broke even, too."
She watched him leave the room, figuring he'd had enough time to conjure his story up between when she'd left and when he got home. Hearing the toilet flush, she called out to him as he shut the bathroom light off.
"You must have looked pretty silly playing poker as the Invisible Man."
"I didn't," he replied, hanging up his robe on the back of the bedroom door, "Marty from accounts turned up without a costume – the place he was renting from let him down, apparently – so I let him borrow mine. Turns out he had a great time. Lucky bastard."
He turned back to face her, his chest confirming his tale with the healthy state of its skin. Nowhere could she see the scratches she was certain she'd made, with the claws now hanging safely hidden in the closet.
"Damn," he said, pausing as he got into bed, "I could've done with having my face all bandaged while I played. Might have come out on top if I had, talk about the perfect poker face."
She ran her palm over his bare chest, her touch verifying what her sight had told her. Trying to mask her astonishment as he turned to her, she pulled her hand swiftly away, turning the smile on his face into a look of concern.
"What's wrong? You've gone all pale," he said, "I know it's Halloween, but you look like you've seen a ghost."
~ The End ~
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Copyright © 2009, 2011, 2012 Timothy S. Klugh. All Rights Reserved.
Logo art by Eric Gay.
"Magick & Poison: The Musical" is a stage production with a story that is inspired by many fairytales, nursery rhymes, fables and other classic prose to make a new fairytale. From enchanting splendor and dark foulness, this new story embraces and celebrates the great tales of folklore that have inspired generations.
This story of "Good vs. Evil" is portrayed with the great kingdom of Harmonia which has established itself on the edge of the enchanted island of Fabula. Three witches that have long scourged the land are setting out to destroy the kingdom by force or trickery. Tied into this plot is a love story that has many layers that must be worked out in order for true love to be found. It is a story with a long history that has already taken place at the moment the show begins and all must be resolved in the course of one night.
"Magick & Poison: The Musical" was written and composed by Timothy S. Klugh in 2012 based on an original instrumental music work he composed in 2009 called Magick & Poison. It is also based on a love song that Timothy wrote for his wife in 2011 that inspired the creation of the musical, and this love song fittingly appears in the show.
This musical ran as a teaser performance in 2012 at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The debut performance of the show was in April of 2013 at the Northland Performing Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio, USA. It was so well received that the full show ran again in October of 2013 at the same location. This show returns in 2015 at the same location as well.
For more information about "Magick & Poison: The Musical", visit the web site at www.MagickAndPoison.com.
"The Kings then the Princes (Magick & Poison, 3rd Mvt)"
"The Four Minstrels (Magick & Poison, 4th Mvt)"
"Caldron Bubble (Magick & Poison, 8th Mvt)"
"Flight Of The Witches (Magick & Poison, 9th Mvt)"
"Ride In The Giddy-Go-Round (Magick & Poison, 10th Mvt)"
"Three Spinning Sisters (Magick & Poison, 11th Mvt)"
"The Fool And The King (Magick & Poison, 12th Mvt)"
"Poison Apple (Magick & Poison, 13th Mvt)"
"Cow Jumped Over The Moon (Magick & Poison, 14th Mvt)"
"Ace Of Swords (Magick & Poison, 15th Mvt)"
"Great Joy Of The King (Magick & Poison, 16th Mvt)"
"Happily Ever After (Magick & Poison, 17th Mvt)"
Copyright © 1997, 2014 Timothy S. Klugh. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright © 1997 Timothy S. Klugh. All Rights Reserved.
With a tragic past and an uncertain future, a seventeen year old teenage boy named Timothy Reye takes his destiny into his own hands. He gets on his bicycle one night and rides out of the city into the countryside searching for something to fill his emptiness. There is no time to waste for the teenager to clear a great distance from where he is running from, but without knowing where is going, he only becomes more lost inside and out. He will run across more trouble when he enters the unassuming town of Pleasantville, but will soon find the support of the Seneca family who tries to help him deal with the problem that he is hiding deep within.
"The Pleasantville Experience" Audio Book is a new production of Timothy S. Klugh's 1997 novel combining the full story with voice actors, sounds effects and music composition all meant to bring the listener deeper into the novel of a troubled teenager and the town that changed his life. The listener is drawn into the story and experiences it with all the emotion that is elegantly written into the text of the novel.
Even before writing "The Pleasantville Experience", the idea of the fictional town of Pleasantville and many of its tales were already within the mind of its author. Timothy S. Klugh composed several music works starting in 1990 to describe the ambience of Pleasantville. The audio book not only includes these music works but also contains new versions of them as well as other new music works made specifically for this audio book.
The novel is read in full with vary little variation. Talented vocal actors who are passionate about the story of The Pleasantville Experience joined together to bring this tale even more to life with all its struggles, passion and inspiration.
The audio book is due for release in 2016.
Copyright © 2005, 2010 Nancy Reiber Lincoln and Timothy S. Klugh.
Directed by Timothy S. Klugh.
"Trilogy" is a stage production that tells the story of Jesus Christ as witnessed through the eyes of his mother, Mary. His life, death and resurrection are described from the heart of his human mother with her love, fears, flaws and faith. Through this take on the life of the Saviour, one gains a relatable connection with Mary as she deals with the unique position of being the mother of the Redeemer of the world while also the mother of a son.
The words of the show are based on Nancy Lincoln's original three poems that are together called Trilogy. The music was composed by Timothy S. Klugh to tightly follow and represent her expressive words. The show is presented in the format of an opera with a singer representing the voice of Mary and actors on stage representing Mary and the people she encounters in her life. The only character not represented on stage is Christ. He is rather referred to as being over the audience so that the audience is drawn more into the performance as Mary looks out to them.
The production of "Trilogy" is truly an experience for the soul as it allows us to watch a mortal mother's love for her son, the Son of God.
"My Son! (Trilogy, 2nd Mvt)"
"The Honey (Trilogy, 3rd Mvt)"
"At The Foot Of The Cross (Trilogy, 4th Mvt)"
"The Wonder And The Woe (Trilogy, 5th Mvt)"
"He Rose! (Trilogy, 6th Mvt)"
Project (in Columbus, Ohio for 2017) on the Internet.
Promotion for show included on-air playing of "Dance of the Sprites".
Mar, 2010: Version 1 Release.
Apr, 2010: Version 2 Release.
Apr, 2010: Version 3 Release.
"Ode to Lackey, Kentucky (Poker Flat, 1st Mvt)"
"Beaver Creek Waltz (Poker Flat, 2nd Mvt)"
"Coal Miner's Bluff (Poker Flat, 3rd Mvt)"
"Sanctity in the Hills (Poker Flat, 4th Mvt)"
"Moonshine and Bygone Days (Poker Flat, 5th Mvt)"
Adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs.
"Flight Of The Witches (Magick & Poison, 9th Mvt)".
"Dawn Breaks (Waiting for the Rain, 1st Mvt)"
"Music Box Wish (Waiting for the Rain, 2nd Mvt)"
"Morning Chores (Waiting for the Rain, 3rd Mvt)"
"Vast Dry Plains (Waiting for the Rain, 4th Mvt)"
"Modest Dignity (Waiting for the Rain, 5th Mvt)"
"Star Searching (Waiting for the Rain, 6th Mvt)"
"Gone Awry (Waiting for the Rain, 7th Mvt)"
"Frustration and Aggression (Waiting for the Rain, 8th Mvt)"
"The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth (Waiting for the Rain, 9th Mvt)"
"Dusty Waltz (Waiting for the Rain, 10th Mvt)"
"Healing Rain (Waiting for the Rain, 11th Mvt)"
Playwrights: Written by Earl Hamner, Jr.
"The Old Realm (The King is Gone; The Land is Dead, 1st Mvt)"
"Rumors of War (The King is Gone; The Land is Dead, 2nd Mvt)"
"Poisoning the Kingdom (The King is Gone; The Land is Dead, 3rd Mvt)"
"Unrest in the Land (The King is Gone; The Land is Dead, 4th Mvt)"
"The War (The King is Gone; The Land is Dead, 5th Mvt)"
"All is Lost (The King is Gone; The Land is Dead, 6th Mvt)"
Adapted from the Augustin Daly classic melodrama.
Adapted from Chapter Six of Timothy S. Klugh's novel The Pleasantville Experience.


It seems like I'm the last one to know about cool air shows in the area, so when I heard about a new air show happening in San Marcos this coming May, I wanted to make sure I shared the good word as far and as wide as possible.
Don't go home just yet! As soon as the props stop spinning and the jets start to cool, the main stage heats up with performances by Morrow himself, joined by friends including some of the biggest names in the world of Texas Country and Rock & Roll.
With an expected weekend attendance of more than 30,000, GoWheelsUp! Texas promises to be a tremendous boon to the economy surrounding the airport and the city of San Marcos – for many years to come. Our team is projecting a first-year economic impact to the city of San Marcos of more than $2,500,000 with more than $120,000 going directly to local child-focused charities.
Announced just a couple days ago Bret Michaels will be the headliner for the concert.
Hey there! I'll forward your request to the event staff, they should be in touch. Thanks for stopping by the blog!


Placed in the heart of Melaka City, Hotel Sentral Melaka offers 145 modern rooms with free Wi-Fi access. Guests can lounge by the outdoor swimming pool or choose between 2 dining options.
This is newly opened property is just a 15-minute walk to the popular Jonker Street and a 10-minute drive to Mahkota Parade Shopping Centre.
Air-conditioned rooms are fitted with a satellite flat-screen TV and tea/coffee making facilities. The en suite bathroom will include hot/cold shower facilities and a hairdryer. Ironing facilities are available upon request.
Hotel Sentral's 24-hour front desk will be happy to assist guests with luggage storage as well as meeting banquet facilities. Free private parking facilities are also available.
Guests can unwind at the in-house restaurant which will serve local and international cuisines or opt for the café stocked with snacks and pastries.


The CCEA Accreditation online survey regarding the Review of GCSE English Summer 2012 is now closed. Thank you to all of the schools and colleges who provided feedback.
The survey responses will be analysed over the next few days. CCEA Accreditation will send its report to the Minister for Education, John O'Dowd, week beginning 10 September.
Thank you to all teachers involved in the ReVision!


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Stowe, VT
Ben & Jerry's Waterbury Factory
#6 in Best Things To Do in Stowe, VT
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1281 Waterbury-Stowe Road, Route 100
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Ben & Jerry's Waterbury Factory churns out delicious Chunky Monkey, Phish Food and other ice cream flavors in the nearby town of Waterbury, Vermont. Visitors are invited to watch the sweet treat being made on a factory tour, which includes a free sample.
Reviews of the brief tour are mixed. Some recent visitors felt that the whole experience was a bit lackluster and overrated, while others deemed this activity a must-see when in Stowe. Also, expect crowds year-round.
You'll find Ben & Jerry's Waterbury Factory in Waterbury, about 9 miles south of Stowe on Route 100. Green Mountain Transit's buses do not make stops near this attraction, but free parking is provided in one of two on-site lots. Other facilities include restrooms, a playground and the Flavor Graveyard, where discontinued ice cream flavors are memorialized. Admission costs $4 for adults, $3 for seniors and is free for kids younger than 12. The 30-minute tours are offered every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. First and last tour hours vary by season, but tours are generally available (on a first-come, first-served basis) between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Visit Ben & Jerry's Waterbury Factory's website for more information about tour hours and tickets.
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As avid fans of "The Sound of Music" already know, the real von Trapp family was a musical troupe that toured the world after their escape from Salzburg, Austria, in 1938. As the family business became lucrative, the von Trapps purchased a small farmhouse in Stowe and settled down to live amid the mountains yet again. Over time, the farmhouse grew into a large resort with cross-country ski trails, mountain biking paths, tennis courts and more.
The now expansive lodge mainly serves as a ski retreat, but the property's hiking trails and horse-drawn carriage rides are equally popular. "The Sound of Music" fans and von Trapp aficionados recommend partaking in a history tour of the lodge to get an overview of the family's history.
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Major landscape architecture projects have had huge impact. What can we learn?
Lurie Garden. Photo by Virginia Small.
The opening of Millennium Park in 2004 in downtown Chicago is widely credited with launching a renaissance of public spaces—not just in the Windy City but nationally and even globally. The 25-acre park, built above a massive parking structure on a former rail yard, offers diverse and welcoming places for people to enjoy year-round. This ground-breaking "town square" has enhanced the city's tourism, land values and overall cachet. It has also spurred numerous new and renovated parks, including adjacent, family-oriented Maggie Daley Park and the re-imagining of the Navy Pier.
Milwaukeeans have easy access to these exemplary spaces, whether for recreation or civic inspiration. I recently attended two programs that addressed landscape architecture in Chicago—past as well as present. In conjunction with The Cultural Landscape Foundation's touring exhibition about modernist landscape architect Dan Kiley, the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosted a program that concluded with a stroll through the Art Institute of Chicago's Kiley-designed South Garden. (In Milwaukee, Kiley's Horse Chestnut Grove next to the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts has a similar mood of shaded respite. And UW-Milwaukee's School of Architecture and Urban Planning will next host this Kiley exhibition, October 30 through January 12, 2018.
The Illinois Institute of Technology hosted a panel on the same day in Crown Hall, a modernist glass-and-steel icon designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe that feels like a huge treehouse. That program featured several leading Chicago landscape architects. Both events included presentations by Charles Birnbaum, founder and president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C. (an event co-host) and Ron Henderson, chair of IIT's master's program in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism. Henderson has been involved in landscape restorations of national and international significance. The Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects also co-sponsored both events.
Speakers made several references to Milwaukee. Brad McCauley, managing principal of Site Design Group, said he recently participated in a national meeting here of the American Society of Landscape Architects, which focused on Three Bridges Park. Terry Guen, master landscape architect for Millennium Park, gave a shout-out to the Urban Ecology Center for its leading-edge work.
Creative ideas are not bounded by locale—all the more so in today's digital landscape. Here are 10 takeaways gleaned during these forums and from multiple visits to Chicago public spaces, which can help Milwaukee improve its own public spaces.
1. Successful Projects Attract The Public In Millennium Park, throngs mill around the gleaming kidney-shaped sculpture officially titled "Cloud Gate" but known as "The Bean," as well as Jaime Plensa's massive sculpture of ever-changing images that flank Crown Fountain. People rest on varied types of seating or on the park's lawns. Some enjoy food and drink in an outdoor bar and café with plaza seating. There are places to enjoy quietude as well as activity, including free programming 365 days a year.
2 .Popular Public Places Breed Demand for More. Chicago parks have become so popular that developers now are willing to invest in creating more while ensuring they remain fully public. One such developer spoke from the audience at the IIT forum. Fees paid by developers have long played a role in funding parks in Chicago and Bob O'Neill, executive director of the Grant Park Conservancy, says there's a strong culture of "parks philanthropy," since both individuals and corporations recognize their value.
3. Influential Public-Space Champions Are a Key. Chicago's former Mayor Richard M. Daley is unequivocally lauded for "changing the world for landscape architects" by making parks and other types of "urban greening" and beautification a top priority. Daley had an epiphany while visiting Paris and wanting his hometown to be as beautiful and welcoming. Landscape architects gained much stature and many commissions during Daley's tenure from 1989 till 2011, which generated momentum that continues. Although current Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is less evangelistic than Daley, he advocates expanding the riverwalk and improving neighborhood parks.
4. Collaborations Can Be Fruitful. Chicago-based Terry Guen Design Associates worked with influential Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf to implement his plan for Millennium's innovative Lurie Garden, on which Washington, D.C.-based Gustafson Guthrie Nichol served as landscape architect. Guen spoke about how much she learned from that collaboration. Other high-profile landscape architects currently designing Chicago projects include James Corner Field Operations and Michael van Valkenburgh, both based on the East Coast and known for their ecological approaches to landscapes, like Guen.
5. Sustainable Solutions Can Also Be Stunning. And fun. Chicago's new public spaces must meet ecological standards, but that's often not obvious. Van Valkenburgh's Maggie Daley Park, connected to Millennium Park across a long, curvy bridge, includes an Enchanted Forest made from inverted trees recycled from the site. Other trunks became long benches.
6. Great Public Landscapes Should Embrace Nature. Guen spoke about cultivating "biophilia," and sees "no difference between gardening and landscape architecture (noting that the renowned Beatrix Farrand considered had called herself a "landscape gardener"). Guen believes that landscape architects must know how plants grow and how ecology works.
7. Landscape Architects Deserve Equal Footing With Building Architects. Panelists said that often happens now in Chicago. However, there's still work to be done so that landscape planning does not happen as an afterthought, or merely under the direction of architects. Conor O'Shea, who recently moved from Chicago to join the faculty of the University of Illinois in Champagne-Urbana, spoke about the "Grass Ceiling" that often still exists for landscape architects.
8. Sensitivity To The Site Is Essential. In 1893, the World's Columbian exhibition served as a showcase of ideas, including for landscapes designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, considered the father of American landscape architecture. Later, Burnham & Bennett's 1909 Plan for Chicago "set a new bar for what landscape can do for you," said Guen. Nonetheless, landscapes can too easily be undone through neglect or even wrecking balls. Some in Chicago have taken pains to honor existing landscape designs while updating them. Birnbaum noted that today's landscape architects would not think of proceeding without an ecological survey and should take equal pains to know the historic and cultural significance of spaces and neighborhoods. He touted the value of accessing and contributing to the Historic American Landscape Survey. TCLF also has an ever-growing searchable database of important landscapes throughout the U.S.
MKE still has Chicago beat with beautiful parks and public spaces. Mpls is high of the list, but no city that I can think of beats MKE. Just go to Lakeshore Park a view the lakeshore from there. Stunning, absolutely stunning!
"Great Public Landscapes Should Embrace Nature." – BRAVO!
Chicago parks are very well maintained and in beautiful condition. Wish I could say the same for Milwaukee's.
This is an excellent piece. It should be made required reading in a variety of college/university courses, e.g., in the field of urban planning and development. Chicago does have fabulous spaces, and the creativity and stunning architecture are amazing. We are coming along quite nicely–the lake shore state park and the new smaller park connecting Couture to the lake front, and the plans to expand the river walk are good examples. Also, consider the really spectacular architectural additions to the skyline and those in process and to come. But we could really beef up the area at Veteran's Park, especially around the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, which could become a more attractive place (like Millennium Park in Chicago) for Milwaukee folk to gather on beautiful summer days.
There's another notable collaboration (#4) at Millennium, with a SE Wisconsin connection. Plants for the Lurie Garden were all grown by Northwind Perennial Farm in Burlington, just north of Lake Geneva.
Co-owner Roy Diblik is a nationally renowned plantsman specializing in native plants. Also a garden designer, he's been involved in recent projects at Boerner Botanical Garden and the Sharon Lynn Wilson Performing Arts Center in Brookfield (and surely others locally). The latter is a collaboration with sculptor Susan Falkman, who also did the sequence of eight large sculptures for the the courtyard of Boerner's visitor center.
Also, as noted by commenters, 22-acre Lakeshore State Park is an exemplary new landscape gem here that has garnered many awards. Having helped launch this urban state park, the Friends of Lakeshore Park are now turning their attention to raising funds to build one of the world's greenest buildings, which will generate more energy than it uses–and will surely attract eco-tourism.
I fear that with the design of the Lakefront Gateway Plaza, we'll miss out on creating a space that offers anything as magical as the Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago. I see the plans calling for a feature that lights up different colors according to the weather, but will that really be that enticing? Don't get me wrong, there are things to like about the proposed design, but nothing that people can interact with like the "bean", as most call it. I'm not going to sit and stare at a light feature that will tell that it's cold, rainy, snowy, etc. Not that interesting. What about that project says, wow, that is totally cool and unique and I really want to go down and check it out. Water spouts for kids to run through are nice, but they're not unique. Every time we go to Chicago we try to stop at Millenium Park because it's hopping and great people watching, especially around the Cloud gate. Will we be able to say the same about the Lakefront Gateway?


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Known as upper Salinas Valley, the Santa Lucia Highlands, the Salad Bowl of the World, and Gabilan Mountain country, the region isn't quite on the tourism map but should be.
Within a few dozen square miles of sun-baked golden slopes, spooky volcanic spires, and hypnotically geometric farm-fields a two-hour drive southeast of Oakland lies a densely packed wonderland of agricultural splendor, archaeological marvels, breathtaking wildlife, and a dozen-plus wineries.
Franciscan priests tried to put it there in 1791 by establishing La Misión de María Santísima Nuestra Señora Dolorisísima de la Soledad, an adobe-walled spiritual stopover along the Camino Real between Mission San Antonio de Padua and Mission Carmel. Ravaged by fires and neglect but partly restored, this tile-roofed, palm-shaded outpost is in its creamy serenity a lovely, troubling testament to the faith of its founders and generations of pilgrims and to the indigenous Esselen tribe who were conscripted from their nearby village, Chuttusgelis, to build a complex eventually encompassing a church, cheese factory, soap factory, tannery, grist mill, sheep ranch, lodgings, 5,000-vine vineyard, and 15-mile aqueduct.
Missions spawned epiphanies and suffering, but they also spawned towns. Just north of this one sprawls hardworking and largely unsung Soledad: That it was named the state's 27th safest city this year by the National Council for Home Safety and Security and consistently lands on safest-city lists is or isn't surprising, given that its largest institution is Salinas Valley State Prison, home to 3,500 minimum- and medium-security inmates and birthplace of the notorious Norteños gang.
John Steinbeck set his novel Of Mice and Men in this enviably fertile region, whose main crops include strawberries, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, artichokes, broccoli, and celery. U-pick farms dot the valley; some farms offer tours. A lively famers market operates on Thursdays along Soledad's Front and Soledad streets from May through October.
But as the Franciscans realized, these river-fed flatlands and rolling hills — cooled by ocean breezes and sprawling like suntanned supine giants struck down during a drinking game — favor grapes: especially chardonnay, pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, and merlot. Most of the valley's wineries are linked by River Road, a sort of modern-day El Camino Vino whose seemingly endless green rows create a kaleidoscope of ever-shifting vanishing points. It is studded with hand-painted signs directing wanderers toward such outfits as Pessagno, Manzoni, Scheid, Michaud, Chalone, Wrath, Odonata South, Hahn Family Wines, and Sustainability in Practice-certified Smith Family Wines.
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Performance in Place of War
by Edited by James Thompson, Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour
Performance in Place of War > ISBN13: 9781906497132
From the Greeks and Shakespeare to the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, war has always been a major theme for theatre and performance makers. However, the most extraordinary performance projects in recent years have not only been about war but have also come from conflict zones themselves. Performance in Place of War is concerned with these initiatives--theatre in refugee camps, in war-affected villages, in towns under curfew, in cities under occupation. The book presents theatre and performance that occurs literally at the moment bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermaths of war.
Performance in Place of War draws on extensive original material and includes descriptions of practice, interviews with artists, short play extracts, and photographs from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Israel, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, the UK and US.
The authors combine critical commentary, overviews of the conflicts and first hand accounts. They ask: Why in times of disruption has there been a turn to performance? What aesthetic, ethical and political choices are made in these different contexts? What can these examples tell us about the role of performance in our unpredictable times?
James Thompson is a professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, Director of In Place of War, and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond (2003), Digging Up Stories (2005) and the forthcoming Performance Affects (2009).
Jenny Hughes is a lecturer in Applied Theatre at the University of Manchester and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. She has worked as a practitioner in the criminal justice and special education system in the UK and as a researcher for In Place of War, with particular focus on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland.
Michael Balfour is a professor of Applied Theatre, Griffith University, Australia. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles related to applied theatre, including Theatre in Prison, Theory and Practice (2004) and Drama as Social Intervention (co-edited with John Somers) (2006).
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Opus Industrial Services Ltd
One of the UK's most progressive specialist industrial service providers, Opus Industrial Services prides itself on its delivery of cost effective solutions tailored to meet clients' specific needs.
Although the company only commenced operations in 2004, it is drawn upon the experiences of the director's and senior management, which stems back to the offshore markets and developments of the 1980's through to the early 1990's.
Carefully orchestrated by Neil Kerr, company founder and managing director, the success of the business has been built around working towards providing a 'best in class' approach by offering a seamless multi-disciplined service. Neil and his fellow director's Kevin Heilbron, Gary King and Bill Ross decided from the outset to reinvest all profits back into the business, which has had the desired effect of the company growing very rapidly in its development and the range of services that it now provides.
In October 2007 Opus acquired a long standing well established northeast scaffolding and insulation company, as part of its strategy to offer clients a truly multi-discipline service. Today Opus' in-house services include the provision of access scaffolding, rope access, training, specialist coatings, painting, structural fire protection, industrial cleaning, thermal insulation and non-destructive examination (NDE) inspection services.
Constantly striving to raise the standard within the industrial services sector, Opus' significant investment in all aspects of business development, through innovation and focused training, has resulted in exceptional levels of repeat business from clients.
Describing Opus' range of clients, Neil says: "We work on a wide variety of contracts from maintenance works to new build projects across major industries such as the power generation, oil, gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and infrastructure sectors. Two of Opus' main business streams are the provision of rope access and specialist coatings, which were put to very good use on one of our very first major projects – the construction of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport. We've also completed major vessel and tank refurbishment works for companies such as ExxonMobil, Total, Sabic, Ineos and Amec on projects throughout the UK
"Opus is also very active in onshore fixed asset maintenance works and we are looking to roll out shortly to the offshore maintenance market, where we have already been engaged in providing specialist, cost effective technical solutions."
Being a standalone business has enabled Opus to provide its clients with a proactive and innovative service, which has resulted in some of these key clients benefiting from quicker turnarounds, reduction in outage durations, lower cost base and the freeing up of valuable assets.
With rope access fast becoming a preferred means of access within a variety of industries, Opus' expertise in this area is a key asset. Operating a dedicated rope access training school at its headquarters in Billingham, UK, the company has successfully trained well over a thousand individuals. Gary King, operations director, comments: "Anyone who works within rope access needs to be certified by the internationally recognised Industrial Rope Access Trade Association (IRATA) standard. Opus is a Training and Operator member of IRATA and over 90 per cent of the working at height training we provide is for third party businesses. Other in-house training courses available include IOSH managing safely, confined space, safety passport, first aid, working at height awareness and harness training."
Alongside offering added value solutions, many of Opus' defining strengths are down to its management's business approach and long-term strategies. "The benefit of starting this business from scratch is that every employee is effectively hand-picked and this gives us massive leverage compared to some of our competition. One of the biggest things that sets us apart is that we are a stand-alone company, rather than being attached to any bigger corporation or Plc, so we have complete control over how we operate as a business. We also invest a lot of money on training from the shop floor level right up to senior management, myself included, and as a result of this I believe we are one of the few companies in the UK that has every manager and supervisor trained to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) managing safely standard," explains Neil.
Certainly this investment appears to have paid off with Opus achieving the milestone achievement of one million lost time accident (LTA) free hours in October 2010. Commenting on what this means for the company, Kevin Heilbron, operations director, explains: "This is a major achievement for a business of our size and within this industry, particularly when you consider that we have probably only clocked up 1.6 million man-hours in total since the business began, so to go three and half years without a single LTA is quite remarkable. Health and safety criteria are increasingly becoming more rigorous, particularly within the construction industry, and so this achievement is a real benefit to us as a business in terms of gaining new clients because we can demonstrate a really effective track record in health, safety and environment."
With such a strong history and experience behind it, Neil is positive about the potential to further establish Opus as a leader amongst the industrial service providers, both in its current markets and moving into new industries: "In spite of a global slowdown, the strategic approach has enabled Opus to continue to grow over the last 18 months, thus deflecting effects of the recession. Looking forward in 2011 we see a wealth of opportunity for continued growth coming through, particularly in the second half of the year. This, together with the commitment of the senior management, will greatly assist Opus' three-year plan to double the current size of the business."
He concludes: "We have a very strong reputation in the market, and we really want to build upon that to grow the business, and continue to consistently deliver the highest quality of services to our clients."
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On January 24th, the United States' Justice Department, together with several states, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. In the powerful words of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, "We allege that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies."
Charlotte Slaiman, Competition Policy Director of Public Knowledge echoed this assessment, "For years, newspapers, small businesses, content creators, entrepreneurs, competitors, and consumers have been telling their stories of how Google's ad tech systems are unfair, unclear, and uncompetitive, and how the internet suffers as a result. With this lawsuit the DOJ puts a spotlight on the anticompetitive strategies behind the curtain: how Google bought up would-be competitors, froze out rivals, and leveraged its power from one product to the next."
Omidyar Network applauds this latest effort to rein in the power of dominant tech companies, and hold Google accountable for their sustained anti-competitive behavior in the digital advertising market, which has created monopoly abuses, stifled innovation, and excluded scores of competitors from having a fair shot. As we argued in our 2020 roadmap "Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google," Google has effectively taken over every function of the digital advertising space that connects advertisers to publishers, and uses its data advantage, acquisitions, and market power to exclude its rivals, weaken original content providers, reduce transparency, and charge high prices. Such monopolistic and potentially illegal action causes specific harms to advertisers, publishers, and ultimately consumers.
As described by Sarah Miller, Executive Director of the American Economic Liberties Project, "The Department of Justice's rigorous case against Google's ad tech monopolization scheme is a watershed moment for the anti-monopoly movement and pivotal milestone in the broader fight to rebalance economic power in American society. Through this latest demonstration of commitment to holding the most powerful corporations that cause the most wide-ranging harms accountable to the law, the DOJ Antitrust Division is not only working to restore fair competition in digital markets, but also rebuilding public trust that government will stand against corporate power when justice demands it."
Omidyar Network supports the development and enforcement of competition policy because we believe platform accountability requires competitive markets. If done well, competition policy can result in more innovation, more responsible technology, and better outcomes for users. This latest salvo, the first under the Biden administration, builds on a series of antitrust actions over the last few years. It is further proof that the time for meaningful public oversight, including powerful remedy, has arrived in the United States.
As Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Open Markets Institute put it, "The ultimate purpose of anti-monopoly is to protect democracy and individual liberty. By that measure, the DOJ's lawsuit against Google will be remembered as one of the most important cases in American history. Google threatens society in many ways. But the biggest danger comes from their manipulation of information and speech, and their theft of the advertising on which our free press depends. The DOJ deserves enormous credit for putting first things first."
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A savings account is a bank account that is intended for keeping and saving money — not for use on a regular basis. As such, savings accounts carry more restrictions than checking accounts concerning how they can be used, but often provide interest accrual to the account holder.
There are different types of savings accounts that are useful for different situations and goals. Normally, the "better" savings accounts, with higher interest rates or fewer use restrictions, will require some sort of minimum balance that must be carried to keep the account open.
While checking accounts are intended for daily use, providing for a consistent flow of money in and out, savings accounts are different types of bank accounts used for different purposes. Often, account holders can't pay for things directly out of a savings account, the money must be first transferred to a checking account. In return for these restrictions, money in savings accounts accrues interest paid to the account holder at different rates depending on the institution and account type.
1 Starting a Savings Account
1.1 Where to Open a Savings Account
1.2 Can You Open a Savings Account Online?
2 What Do You Need to Open a Savings Account?
Starting a Savings Account
Savings accounts should be started if you want a place to hold money securely for any length of time. In general, the longer you keep money in a savings account untouched, the better. Saving is the key to a strong financial future, and the proper use of savings accounts are a big step toward long-term financial goals.
The longer money is left in a savings account, the more interest it can accrue. Savings accounts have relatively small returns when compared to investments accounts, or even money market accounts; however they carry much less risk. Investments can lose money on the principle amount. Generally, savings accounts won't do that.
Where to Open a Savings Account
You can open a bank account at any bank or credit union. If you already have a checking account, it's likely best to open a savings account with the same bank. This can make transfers easier and more efficient, and you may get some member bonuses for having multiple active accounts.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't shop around. Different banks and credit unions will offer different perks, use limits, fees, and interest rates. You want to find a combination of fees and interest rates that work best for you.
Numbers you should make sure to know when shopping around for a savings account include:
Interest rate: 0.06 percent is average (though this can vary depending on your bank/credit union);
Monthly account fees;
Transaction fees;
Minimum balance requirements.
Take some time to answer questions like: credit union or bank? What's the reputation of the institution you're looking at? Choosing the right bank takes time and research, but it's well worth it to find the right institution to fit your financial needs.
Can You Open a Savings Account Online?
You absolutely can open a savings account online. Online and brick and mortar banks both offer this option. Due to the ease of service on their end, online accounts often offer higher interest rates, however they can be more difficult to access, and may require a checking account connected to them to move money around.
Make sure the online bank account you're opening is being offered by a reputable institution that is insured by the FDIC.
What Do You Need to Open a Savings Account?
Requirements will vary from bank to bank. Some will let you open one right away, some will require you to have a checking account with them, and some will require a minimum balance in order to open a savings account.
There are some generally applicable requirements:
A photo ID with your name, address, and date of birth;
Your social security number;
An amount to use as an initial deposit;
Usually, a checking account to connect with the savings account.
While minimum account balances may vary, most savings accounts must be created using an initial deposit, which is an amount of money to activate the account.
That should be everything you need to open a savings bank account. This is a solid first step in any financial journey, as savings accounts are more difficult to move money from, which means you're less likely to be tempted to spend money rather than save.
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Due to the huge increase in the functional scope since the last pentest, version 8.3.0 was subjected to a new test. The text was passed with flying colours.
SySS GmbH had full access to the source code and to the database server at all times to ensure complete and granular execution of the tests.
*During the course of the security test, it was not possible for SySS GmbH to access protected password information and documents from third party users of the Password Safe 8 software application using unauthorised measures, neither from the perspective of a user with login data nor from the perspective of an external attacker without login data. In the view of SySS GmbH, the processes used for authentication, authorisation and encryption provide effective protection for the sensitive data saved within the application.
*The fact that access to the private RSA key in plain text is only possible after prior entry of the correct password and that this authentication information is thus introduced to the Password Safe application externally by one person as part of the user login process was considered very positive by SySS GmbH. Even in the event of various different weaknesses, an attacker is not immediately able as a result to access encrypted data such as passwords or documents.
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Nursing is viewed increasingly from an international perspective. Communication between nurses from different countries and cultures is becoming an important feature of nurses' education as well as their professional lives. While it is often not possible for nurse educators and students to visit their counterparts in other countries, it is possible for them to engage in personal contact and discussion through videoconferencing technology. An exploratory international videoconferencing case-study project, which was undertaken to enable educators to further their knowledge of videoconferencing as a teaching method, and enable students to meet in a videoconference class and discuss common issues in nursing education and practice with their counterparts in another country is presented. Two groups of registered nurse students, one undergraduate and one graduate, from the Department of Nursing, University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA and the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Dublin, Ireland were brought together for one class each. This article presents these case studies in the context of videoconferencing in higher education, describes the practical and pedagogical considerations in implementation and makes recommendations for further use of videoconferencing to foster communication and help students in different countries to develop greater international awareness of nursing practice and health care. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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New year, new clients. New health and fitness goals, and the opportunity to incorporate some new equipment into your training sessions. Expand your fitness arsenal in 2015 with these 10 tools that top trainers swear by.
Why you should check it out: "It's strong enough to be sturdy at 20, 24 and 30 inches, but soft enough to be safe, giving you the confidence to do more reps or try higher heights. I've had two "misses" already and had no injury on my shins, making the need for wearing knee-high socks unnecessary," shares Jonathan Ross, world-renowned master trainer and author of Abs Revealed.
Why you should check it out: Battling ropes just got better with the addition of shifting sand to add a whole new challenge to training. The 10-foot rope can be filled with either 15 or 30 pounds of sand, making it as heavy as a single 50-foot long heavy rope but with the ability to be easily transported and stored in just a fraction of the space. Plus the easy-to-grip durable neoprene cover enables the ropes to safely be used on any surface with or without being anchored.
Why you should check it out: "For years, I've been a huge proponent of bodyweight training and any implements that can be used for making it more effective, and sliders are one such tool. What separates the HAVYKsliders from other popular sliding tools is the 360-degree freedom of movement. And because there's less friction involved, it requires more control, coordination, balance and muscle activation," says Doug Balzarini, C.S.C.S., M.M.A.-C.C., founder of DB Strength and program director for 22 Athletics in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Why you should check it out: "Speed cords are synergistically fun and effective at developing performance while applying resistance in multiple directions. Not only do the cords add variety and intensity to a workout, they are also the perfect tool to incorporate partner exercises," notes Elizabeth Kovar, M.A., fitness writer and ACE Master Trainer.
Why you should check it out: "This portable, space-efficient version of the popular BOSU Balance Trainer is perfect for training different clientele—such as active older adults and youth—and also for training in small spaces, like a New York City apartment. It is the single piece of equipment I recommend when people ask about having just one piece of versatile equipment for training cardio, strength, flexibility and balance," says Lawrence Biscontini, M.A., mindful movement specialist and award-winning international fitness educator.
Why you should check it out: Portable and cost-effective, this new training tool is essentially five resistance bands rolled into one, making it even easier to offer training sessions on the go without the need for toting around excess equipment. The system comes complete with five different training cables ranging in resistance from 10 to 50 pounds, each of which can easily be inserted into the handles or the door anchor to change in just seconds the amount of resistance used for any given exercise.
Why you should check it out: "I love the ActivMotion Bar because it's simple yet super effective. This training tool automatically creates instability so it's perfect for my clients, especially golfers who want to improve their balance and engage their core during each phase of every exercise," shares Franklin Antoian, ACE Certified Personal Trainer and founder of the online personal training website iBodyFit.com.
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The ultraviolet technique has found a wide application in the field of decontamination and oxidation of organic substances. Ultraviolet rays eliminate all bacteria, viruses, molds and their spores.
The quartz tube is filled with an inert gas that provides an initial discharge and means to excite the very small amount of mercury contained inside the tube. In an excited state, mercury emits radiation with a specific spectrum.
UV radiation, produced with bactericidal amalgam lamps immersed in water, is the most effective form of disinfection. Bacteria, viruses and protozoa floating in the water have no chance of survival, when this solution is applied. An optimally selected radiation dose does not leave any dangerous intermediates (as happens in other solutions). It is also important that disinfection with UV rays is completely safe and user-friendly, as there is no need for hazardous chemicals.
Stations disinfecting the medium with a mixture of oxidants produced in our device.
The disinfection system consists of: an electrolyzer, a water softener, a brine tank, a tank for a mixture of oxidants and dosing pumps.
The effect of work of these devices is the production of brine (NaCl solution) and oxidizing mixture, as a result of the electrolysis process. The basic components of this mixture are: chlorine, directly transferred to the Cl / OCl- solution, ClO2 chlorine dioxide and O3 ozone. The oxidizing mixture neutralizes the bacteria and viruses contained in the water. The use of this technology is a result of efforts aiming to minimize both technical problems and threats resulting from the use of chlorine and sodium hypochlorite in the process of water treatment. Basic advantages of electrolytic production of water disinfection agent include: elimination of hazards for personnel during transport and equipment operation (disinfectant is produced on site, its use does not require specialized service, rescue groups or personal protection equipment), the ability to start and stop production of the disinfectant at any time, significantly reduces equipment corrosion-related problems and the necessity of periodic repairs. Another advantage is the simple, automated and safe operation of electrolyzers.


Forging, or overreaching, is a bad habit, and a horse with this fault is not very valuable. "Clack forging" is meant by the habit of clacking the hind and for shoes together. This kind of forging is not serious or harmful; it will only tend to wear off the toe of the hind foot and annoy the driver, possibly fatiguing the horse a little. The position of the foot at the time of the clack is different from what it is supposed to be. The toe of the hind foot is generally worn off while no mark is made on the fore foot. From this we understand that the hind foot never touches the heel of the front foot, but the shoe. Just at the moment the fore foot is raised up enough on the heel to give room for the hind foot to wedge in under it, the hind foot comes flying under the front foot, and strikes the web of the shoe. This is the reason no mark is found on the front foot, while the hind foot is badly worn off. Overreaching can be overcome by shoeing, but the shoer must know what overreaching is. Overreaching is simply this: the horse breaks over with the hind feet quicker than he does with the front feet. In other words, he has more action in the hind than he has in the front feet, and the result is that the hind feet strike the front feet before the latter can get out of the way, often cutting the quarters badly, and giving rise to quarter cracks and horny patches over the heels. Overreaching means that the hind feet are crowding the front feet, and the remedy is: increase action in the front, retard action in the hind feet.
There are many different ideas about the remedy for this fault, and I am going to explain some of them in order that the reader may judge for himself which method is the best.
One method is to shoe heavy forward and light behind. This is not exactly a bad idea, but it is not heroic enough to help except in light and sensitive cases. Another method is to shoe with sideweight shoes on the hind feet; the weight of course to be on the outer side of the shoe. This is not a bad idea, and will, in many cases, help but it should be remembered that sideweights do not affect the gait except in a swift trot.
Toe weights on the fore feet is another method, but this way of shoeing is not of much value. This remedy must be such that it will increase action in front and retard action behind. Toe weights will not accomplish this.
The most culpable practice is that of shoeing with short-heeled shoes in front, and setting the hind shoes well under the foot, letting the toe stick out over the shoe on the hind feet. This is the idea of a remedy that strikes the mind of the average horseshoer first. It is the easiest way to get rid of the case, but the fault is aggravated, not cured. (See Fig. 61.) So high an authority as A. A. Holcomb, D.V.S., in the work, Diseases of the Horse, published by the Agricultural Department, at Washington, has recommended this absurd method, totally unproductive of any good. The shoe should never be set back under the toes of the hind feet. It will in most cases be found that the hind feet of overreaching horses are shorter from the coronet to the toe than the front feet, and have been stubbed off, as shown in Fig. 62.
The only way to stop overreaching is to make the find foot longer than the front foot, the toe, or breaking-over point, being set forward not under the center of the foot, as is done by the incorrect method just mentioned. The hind foot being shorter and the breaking-over point nearer the center of the foot the hind foot breaks over quicker than the front foot, and the result is overreaching. To remedy this we must find a way by which we can lengthen the toe of the hind foot and shorten the toe of the front foot. The front foot should be leveled, the wall pared down as much as it will stand and the toe shortened. This done, make a shoe as shown in Fig. 63.
The shoe should also stick out behind; the idea being to shoe with a long shoe and set the breaking-over point forward. The result of this is a slow action in the hind foot, and this accomplished, the fault is remedied. This method is a sure cure for overreaching, if the idea is properly carried out.


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