The blank page is staring at me. It's new, untouched. I look at it and find myself excited with the endless possibilities that this page could provide me.
I think of writing- the stories that could be told. Will someone fall in love? Will a loved one die? Will they fall, literally, crack their tailbone and therefore meet the love of their life who happens to be a gorgeous doctor at the local emergency room? Perhaps Bigfoot makes his debut, or a young mother gets stalked. Maybe God sends angels down from Heaven and a massive battle between good and evil begins.
My heart races as I think about what could happen on this blank page. How 26 letters can flow together causing emotional havoc.
My head, eager, as the possibilities flow from the never-ending, always questioning wrinkles of my brain. Thoughts are non-stop. Every blank page awaits an untold story dying to be shared.
The blank page could always be pretty, filled with frill and purple prose. The way a bee buzzes, bouncing from the silky touch of one flower petal to the velvety sweet scent of the next on a humid summer day. The bee carrying on like the deer frolicking in the woods. With the snap of a twig and the scent of a human, it's gone, vanishing into the sunlight. The bee alone, sucking on the nectar helping the reproduction of the flowers as it fills it's tummy in the afternoon delight. The human wiping sweat from his brow as he reaches for his binoculars in search of the fawn he swore he heard only moments before.
A blank page can be utterly terrifying. The way she was laying along in the bed, awaiting her beautiful husband as she swore she heard a noise coming from the closet. With her heart racing she decides to check it out. The floor creaking as she slowly gets out of bed. She can hear the blood pulsing through her veins as she tiptoes toward the door. Just as she felt the coolness of the door handle his hand reached up and grabbed her mouth, taking her breath away, silencing her scream.
The blank page can be anything you want it to be, really. The more ideas I conjure up for the blank page, I realize the page isn't blank anymore.


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Vivid Beilngries
Beilngries is a lively city and this vitality is felt by the visitor at every turn. It was the gastronomy that has played a pioneering role and still does today. With considerable effort, historical buildings have been brought back to life and convey the same traditional flair that appeals to the soul of man. The attractiveness also applies to the revitalized markets and the numerous festivals, which people from near and far attract to come to Beilngries.
Historic Beilngries
The study of history means looking back and one is thankful for and pleased with every single picture. It is well known that pictures say more than a thousand words, which is why photographs that were taken 100 years ago are real eye-catchers. The city fortifications, the wall with its towers and gates, and much more, have become a lot clearer today. Inside, some buildings, outside the mills and the impressive structure of the brewery clearly stand out. Everything is dominated by the Duke's Castle.
Beilngries before 1886, photo archive Foto Marburg / Photographer Teufel, Carl / Filser, Benno, www.fotomarburg.de
Town fortifications
Sources point out that Beilngries already had a city wall with gates before 1407, which was strengthened and expanded over time. The visible parts of the town fortification with walls and towers essentially date back to the first half of the 15th century and have been restored several times. To this day, nine of the originally twelve towers within the city wall, mostly named after the municipal servant who was assigned the tower as an apartment in exchange for his work, are mostly well preserved (e.g., the "Sauhüterturm"(pig shepherd's tower)). In the Middle Ages, the wall primarily served as a protection against attacks, but also to control access to the town. This was done through the gates, where transiting trade was checked and people had to pay various fees, such as the so-called plaster duty. At night the gates were closed.
In Beilngries there was the southern gate at the current traffic light junction and the northern gate at the Schattenhofer brewery, the now visible passages to the east and west were not part of the historic fortifications. Both gates were demolished in the 1880s, in order not to hinder traffic with the widening wagons. The gatehouse was preserved in the northwestern corner of the crossing area.
Upper gate, outside, shot before 1887
Upper gate, inside, shot before 1887
Lower gate, outside, shot before 1886
Lower gate, inside, shot before 1886
Flurerturm in the southeast of the city, photo taken around 1907, photo: LfD
Flurerturm with exposed truss, photo taken around 1910, photo: LfD
Badturm in the east of the city, photo: LfD
Bürgerturm in the northeast of the city at the Schattenhofer brewery, photo taken in 1907, photo: LfD
Seelnonnenturm in the east of the city, photo from 1907, photo:LfD
Sauhüterturm at the northwestern corner of the city fortification, photo: LfD and estate H. Prinstner
View of the western city wall with Strohbauern-, Wasserschöpfer- and Sauhüterturm, photo: LfD
Rossturm on the southwestern corner of the city fortification, photo: LfD
Southern city wall, in the background the Rossturm, photo: LfD
Former Reiglturm on the western city wall, demolished between 1914 and 1918, photo taken in 1907, photo: LfD
The city of Beilngries as a motif of early painting and graphics
The few prints, watercolors and paintings of Beilngries are even older, but they are really fascinating. Most of them date back to the 19th century.
Beilngries in archival sources
In this document from the year 1007 Bilingriez was mentioned for the first time
Documents and archival records date back to older times, with the oldest being a document of the donation of Beilngries to the new Bishopric of Bamberg by Emperor Henry II in the year 1007. Beilngries was already an important place then. The certification of being a "market town" in 1053, which Bishop Gebhard asks Emperor Henry III. for, can be compared with founding a new town. In the 15th century, Beilngries has definitely become a city with walls, towers, gates and moats.
Archaeological sources from Beilngries
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Even before this time, there are documents, land certificates and other objects that have survived and that can be "read" by archaeologists. It is a rich "harvest" that began in Beilngries more than 200 years ago. And there was a lot of gathering, of which little was preserved at the place itself today. There are the estimated 1000 graves of the Hallstatt culture, whose excavation, or rather exploitation began more than 100 years ago.
Beilngries as a location and place was highly significant also because of its castle on the mountain spur, the Duke's Castle, which was probably called "Hirschberg" early on. Perhaps the facility dates back to the time of the Hungarian invasions of the 10th century and continued to develop. Presumably, the exposed mountain spur was already a fortress in prehistoric times. There is still much to research here.
The Virtual Museum is to be understood as an offer to study Beilngries, as initially referred to, in retrospective. Nothing is complete. It is meant as a beginning - for countless glances back, like a movie, to make the past of Beilngries understandable, for those who live here, and for those who come to visit Beilngries.

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Direct Observation of Spatial Distribution of Carrier Localization Sites in Ultrathin GaN/AlN Quantum Wells by Spreading Resistance Microscopy
S. Rouvimov, D. V. Nechaev, V. I. Kozlovsky, S. V. Ivanov
Spreading resistance microscopy (SRM) was used to study nanoscale variations in electronic and structural properties of an ultrathin near-surface GaN/AlN quantum well (QW). In the SRM images of the growth surface of the GaN/AlN QW heterostructure, an inhomogeneous current contrast was detected in the form of disk-like regions of increased conductivity with the sizes in the range of 50–160 nm and a density of 1.7 109 cm 2 . Analysis of the current contrast dependence on the polarity of the sam…
Direct modulation characteristics of microdisk lasers with InGaAs / GaAs quantum well-dots
N Kryzhanovskaya, E. Moiseev, F. I. Zubov, A. M. Mozharov, M. V. Maximov, N. A. Kalyuzhnyy, S. A. Mintariov, Yu Bernikov, S. Rouvimov, A. E. Zhukov
GaAs-based microdisk lasers with an active region representing a dense array of indium-rich islands (InGaAs quantum well-dots) were studied using direct small-signal modulation. We demonstrate that using dense arrays of InGaAs quantum well-dots enables uncooled high-frequency applications with a GHz-range bandwidth for microdisk lasers. A maximum 3 dB modulation frequency of 5.9 GHz was found in the microdisk with a radius of 13.5 μm operating without a heatsink for cooling. A modulation curr…
Direct Observation of Spatial Distribution of Carrier Localization Sites in Ultrathin GaN/AIN Quantum Wells by Spreading Resistance Microscopy
D. E. Sviridov, V. N. Jmerik, S. Rouvimov, D. V. Nechaev, V. I. Kozlovsky, S. V. Ivanov
Direct modulation characteristics of microdisk lasers with InGaAs/GaAs quantum well-dots
E. I. Moiseev, F. I. Zubov, A. M. Mozharov, M. V. Maximov, N. A. Kalyuzhnyy, S. A. Mitairov, M. M. Kulagina, S. A. Blokhin, K. E. Kudyavtsev, A. N. Yablonskiy, S. V. Morozov, Y. Bernikov, S. Rouvimov, A. E. Khukov, N. V. Kryzhanovskaya
Kinetics and Mechanism of Ignition in Reactive Al/Ni Nanostructured Materials
K. Manukyan, J. Pauls, C. Shuck, S. Rouvimov, A. Mukasyan, K. Nazaretyan, H. Chatilyan, S. Kharatyan
A high-speed electrothermography approach is applied to investigate the mechanism and kinetics for nanostructured Al/Ni foils. Application of the Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami and adiabatic thermal explosion models reveal that the activation energy for nucleation appears to be much higher than that for reaction. It is shown that formation of intermetallic nuclei is the limiting step that defines the ignition characteristics of the foils at temperatures below 500 K, while the process is react…
Optical properties of hybrid quantum-well–dots nanostructures grown by MOCVD
S. A. Mintairov, N. A. Kalyuzhnyy, A. M. Nadtochiy, M. V. Maximov, S. Rouvimov, A. Zhukov
The deposition of InxGa1 – xAs with an indium content of 0.3–0.5 and an average thickness of 3– 27 single layers on a GaAs wafer by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) at low temperatures results in the appearance of thickness and composition modulations in the layers being formed. Such struc- tures can be considered to be intermediate nanostructures between ideal quantum wells and quantum dots. Depending on the average thickness and composition of the layers, the wavelength of the…
Multilayer Quantum Well–Dot InGaAs Heterostructures in GaAs-based Photovoltaic Converters
S. A. Mintairov, N. A. Kalyuzhnyy, A. M. Nadtochiy, M. V. Maximov, V. N. Nevedomskiy, L. A. Sokura, S. Rouvimov, M. Shvarts, A. E. Zhukov
GaAs photovoltaic converters containing quantum well-dot (QWD) heterostructures are studied. The QWD properties are intermediate between those of quantum wells (QWs) and quantum dots. The QWDs are obtained by the epitaxial deposition of In0.4Ga0.6As with a nominal thickness of 8 single layers by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy. QWDs are a dense array of elastically strained islands that localize carriers in three directions and are formed by a local increase in the indium concentration and/…
Density Control of InP/GaInP Quantum Dots Grown by Metal-Organic Vapor-Phase Epitaxy
D. V. Lebedev, N. A. Kalyuzhnyy, S. A. Mintairov, K. G. Belyaev, M. V. Rakhlin, A. A. Toropov, P. Brunkov, A. S. Vlasov, J. Merz, S. Rouvimov, S. Oktyabrsky, M. Yakimov, I. V. Mukhin, A. V. Shelaev, V. A. Bykov, A. Yu. Romanova, P. A. Buryak, A. M. Mintairov
We investigated structural and emission properties of self-organized InP/GaInP quantum dots (QD) grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition using an amount of deposited In from 7 to 2 monolayers (ML). In the uncapped samples, using atomic force microscopy (AFM), we observed lateral sizes of 100–200 nm, together with a bimodal height distribution having maxima at ∼5 and ∼15 nm, which we denoted as QDs of type A and B, respectively; and reduction of the density of the type-B dots from 4.4…
Lasing in microdisks with an active region based on lattice-matched InP/AlInAs nanostructures
D. V. Lebedev, A. M. Mintairov, A. S. Vlasov, V. Yu. Davydov, M. M. Kulagina, S. I. Troshkov, A. A. Bogdanov, A. N. Smirnov, A. Gocalinska, G. Juska, E. Pelucchi, J. Kapaldo, S. Rouvimov, J. L. Merz
The emissivity of unstrained quantum-dimensional InP/AlInAs nanostructures and their lasing properties in microdisk cavities prepared by wet etching have been studied. For as-prepared structures, it has been found that they radiate owing to quantum-dimensional InP islands 50–300 nm in diameter. At temperatures below 160 K, whispering gallery modes have been observed in the microdisks. Experimental data on the PL intensity for microcavity modes versus the pump power, which were obtained at liq…


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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. A Xhosa, Mandela was born to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, British South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Mandela was appointed President of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign against the government. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1962, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the state following the Rivonia Trial. Mandela served 27 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison, and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure, and with fears of a racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk led efforts to negotiate an end to apartheid, which resulted in the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and became president. Leading a broad coalition government which promulgated a new constitution, Mandela emphasised reconciliation between the country's racial groups and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Economically, Mandela's administration retained its predecessor's liberal framework despite his own socialist beliefs, also introducing measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty, and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and served as Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999. He declined a second presidential term, and in 1999 was succeeded by his deputy, Thabo Mbeki. Mandela became an elder statesman and focused on combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the charitable Nelson Mandela Foundation. Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Although critics on the right denounced him as a communist terrorist and those on the far-left deemed him too eager to negotiate and reconcile with apartheid's supporters, he gained international acclaim for his activism. Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and social justice, he received more than 250 honours—including the Nobel Peace Prize—and became the subject of a cult of personality. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba, and described as the "Father of the Nation".
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Q: Rails sqlite string equality not working Why is this query doesnt create a proper result ?
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 => [#<Caption id: 3, text: "another another caption", point: 1, up: 1, down: 0, submission_id: 1, user_id: 1, created_at: "2011-09-11 10:19:38", updated_at: "2011-09-11 12:04:03", flags_count: 1, status: nil>]

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 => "SELECT \"captions\".* FROM \"captions\" INNER JOIN \"flags\" ON \"flags\".\"caption_id\" = \"captions\".\"id\" WHERE (status != \"safe\")"

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I'm using rails 3.0.9 and ree-1.8.7
here is my model
class Caption < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :submission
  belongs_to :user
  has_many :votes
  has_many :flags

  validates_presence_of :submission_id
  validates_presence_of :user_id
  validates_inclusion_of :status, :in => ['safe', nil]
end

class Flag < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :caption, :counter_cache => true
  belongs_to :user
end

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A: Caption.joins(:flags).where("captions.status != ?", "safe")

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Listening to him explain the mysteries of life to you in the Mufasa voice.
The chance of soaking up some of his insanely talented aura.
The hoards of fans always waiting around every turn to ask him to say "Luuuuuke, I am your father."
The permanent trauma that would come with watching the whole wildebeest incident in The Lion King.
He oozes intelligence and gives off the vibe that he could solve any problem.
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He's totally a knight. Who can say their grandpa is a knight?
He's not afraid to speak his mind and stirred the pot awhile back with his comments about British politics. Which might be a downside for those who have conflicting opinions.
If he can inspire a bunch of Hobbits to cross a netherworld and throw a ring into a pit of fire, imagine what he could inspire you to do.
His accent is awesome. Everything he says sounds like Shakespeare.
He's one of the greatest screen and stage actors alive.
Those steely blue eyes would cut through the slightest hint of your b.s.


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"Earthly Baroque" Online: A World of Wild Wonders Awaits!
Musicians of the Old Post Road presents Earthly Baroque, the third concert of its subscription series, on Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 pm EDT at First Parish, Wayland and online via livestream. Transport yourself to a world of wild wonders with a delightful program of Baroque instrumental selections inspired by the sounds of nature!
The works on this program contain depictions of birds and other sounds of nature intended to enchant the listener, not so much by their resemblance to nature itself, but by the composer's incorporation of the "natural" with the "artful." Hear the sweet chirp of the Goldfinch through Vivaldi's ears in his vivid and virtuosic Goldfinch flute concerto, the song of the nightingale in Couperin's Le Rossignol-en-amour, the chatter of bird banter in William William's Sonata in Imitation of Birds, and the call of the cuckoo in the ensemble's original reconstruction of J.F. Lampe's playful Cuckoo Concerto.
Experience the clever effects that Biber employs on the violin in imitation of all sorts of crawlers and jumpers in his Sonata Representativa and the sounds of crashing waves and howling winds in Gregor Joseph Werner's Il November. Performers include Suzanne Stumpf, traverso; Sarah Darling and Jesse Irons, violins; Marcia Cassidy, viola; Daniel Ryan, cello; and Michael Sponseller, harpsichord.
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The True Story Behind Those Jack Daniel's Tube Adverts
The "Postcards from Lynchburg" campaign was launched in the 1950s, but now only exists in one place: the London Underground.
by Oscar Rickett
June 21, 2018, 9:07am
Photo: Jack Cummings
Take the London Underground, and it's more than likely you'll see an advert for Jack Daniel's.
Waiting on a platform, you will look up to see a poster sporting a black-and-white photo accompanied by some text about the real-life Mr Jack Daniel and the folks down in the little old town of Lynchburg, Tennessee, where the whiskey is made.
You might learn that "Mr Jack" was a game but unsophisticated musician, that he was a lifelong bachelor who was nevertheless a hit with the ladies, or that he only loved one woman – but that it was a case of unrequited love. You might learn that there's only one stop sign in Lynchburg, and that the town is in a dry county, meaning you can't legally buy the world's best-selling American whiskey where it's made. You may also learn that the only thing that "stirs up the local ducks" is a "squeaky grain wagon".
If you are not you, but are in fact me, then you will become curiously obsessed with where these adverts come from, what they mean and whether there is any truth in them at all. You will think about the disparity between ageing pickup artists ordering JD and Coke in mirror-lined bars and monochrome posters of old white dudes rolling barrels around in their dungarees.
You will affect an unconvincing southern accent and mutter things like, "Old Mr Jack wasn't much for reading, but he could sure as hell comprehend a glass of whiskey," or: "We got a saying down here in Lynchburg: a goose in the barrel is worth twice a frog in the tree."
Vintage Jack Daniel's adverts
Depending on who you believe, Jasper "Jack" Daniel was born in either 1849 or 1850. The youngest of ten children, he never grew any higher than five feet and an inch, and by the time he was a teenager both his mother and father were dead.
Parcelled off to a local preacher and moonshine maker, Jack learned the tricks of the distilling trade from a slave called Nathan "Nearest" Green, a fact only recently recognised by Brown-Forman, the multi-billion dollar corporation that owns the Jack Daniel's Distillery.
In the mid-1950s, Jack Daniel's launched its "Postcards from Lynchburg" advertising campaign, which ran for four decades in American print publications. This campaign is still alive: it runs on the London Underground, and nowhere else.
Before the folksy whimsy of "Postcards from Lynchburg", Jack Daniel's was marketed as a luxury product. Newspaper and magazine adverts from the early 1950s show gentlemen in dinner jackets and lounge suits raising glasses of Jack under the strap-line, "Man to man, the good word gets around." In one, a black waiter in a white uniform holds a tray of Jack Daniel's aloft as a group of white fellows sit around, no doubt discussing that fine Jack they're all sipping.
In other adverts of this era, JD was described straightforwardly as a "luxury in rare whiskies", the "choice of men who want only the best", "the rarest whiskey in the world" and "worth the difference in cost".
"Jack Daniel's is, frankly, EXPENSIVE!" announced another, exclamation mark, capital letters and all.
According to Phil Epps, Jack Daniel's global brand director, the luxury product strategy changed after articles in Fortune and Time magazines paid attention to the unusual, close-knit way in which Jack Daniel's was made, in this little old distillery in the Tennessee hills.
Speaking to me as he's driving back from the distillery to Louisville, Kentucky, where he's lived for almost ten years, Epps' accent is unmistakably English. He's from Winchester and has just switched off a football (soccer) podcast. His kids speak in Kentucky accents and he's one of the main people in charge of selling a whiskey from the American south.
Epps tells me that in the American 1950s, at a time when more and more people were moving to the suburbs and the cities, the articles focusing on the Jack Daniel's distillery talked about "this small brand that was starting to get some interest, and these men's men who were making the whiskey".
"We're not selling a bottle of booze," the original creative director of "Postcards from Lynchburg" said. "We're selling a place." A new style and technique was adopted – one that, says Epps, was an "antidote to the time".
Americans may, in increasing numbers, have been putting on white shirts and going to work in offices, living in suburbs and riding the commuter train, but they still longed for the great outdoors, for community, for something they could believe was authentic.
Increasingly bourgeois, they were drawn to the anti-bourgeois. They wanted to purchase it. All adverts tell a story – even if the story is just that you have a headache, and if you take this pill you won't have a headache – and here was the right story at the right time, a tale about a down-home place where people worked in blue-collared overalls, told to consumers in cities where people worked in white collars. As Epps says: "We're a storytelling brand built on authenticity and heritage."
A worker at the Jack Daniel's distillery in Lynchburg Tennessee. Photo: Martyn Goddard / Alamy Stock Photo
Jack Daniel began his distillery in 1875, but it was in the 1950s, with the formulation of the advertising strategy you see on the Tube, that this distillery – the place it's in and the people who work there – got spun into a tradition.
This kind of heritage branding – as the Invention of Tradition, a 1983 book edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, demonstrated – is nothing new. From the highlands of Scotland, where supposedly "ancient" clan tartans were fabricated in the 19th century, to European colonies across the world, traditions were invented in order, among other things, to legitimise control and promote a sense of unity. Or, in a modern context: brand loyalty.
"Traditions which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented," Hobsbawm writes in the book's introduction.
On the Tube, Jack Daniel's has a captive audience ready to receive its tradition. It takes about the same amount of time to read a Jack Daniel's advert as it does for your train to come. The posters' dark colours won't take too much of a beating from the grubby environment they exist in.
As the creative strategist William Skeaping puts it: "The design is legible from the platform, the ol' timer fonts don't feel menacingly trendy first thing in the morning, and you could probably look at them with a hangover and not have flashbacks."
"Honestly, this is the best stuff we do," says Phil Epps, of the Underground adverts. He adds that Jack Daniel's gets an "incredible deal" – JD's annual package would cost "any old punter walking in off the street" £1 million a year. As it is, they get it for far less.
Epps says his team talk about the "tensions" present in marketing Jack Daniel's, particularly between the "old white dudes" making the drink and the more rock 'n' roll reputation the brand tries to cultivate elsewhere (Slash loves his Jack, the Jack Daniel's logo is forever popping up at festivals).
Other tensions not mentioned by Epps would include the disparity between the folksy tradition presented in the adverts, and bar bros ordering JD-and-Coke partly because of the rock 'n' roll thing, and partly because it just rolls off the tongue and they don't know what else to order.
Then there's the tension between truth and mythology. Mr Jack of the adverts is in love with a woman called Clara, who doesn't love him back. Peter Krass, Jack's biographer, told me the girl he was in love with was actually called Fannie Blythe, and, in a strictly Baptist part of the country, Fannie's family would not let her marry Jack because "he was a sinner who make liquor".
Then there are darker stories; stories that get left out. Lem Motlow, Jack Daniel's nephew, was a key part of the business side of the distillery before, during and after the prohibition period. He was also, by many accounts, a murderer and a racist. In 1924, drunk and on a train, he shot a black porter. The man died, but Motlow, deploying seven lawyers, mounted a racist defence that played heavily on the prejudices of the jurors. Motlow got off, with the head juror saying, "We didn't believe the negro."
Such horror is hardly surprising, and – again, unsurprisingly, will always be kept away from the brand story, where possible. In Lynchburg, and in the people who work there, Jack Daniel's have something to draw on. The town really is, Peter Krass told me, "This place deep in the countryside, with folks like those depicted in some of the ads."
That reality is then cooked up into something that, standing on a Tube platform, can seem almost like a parody of a time and place.
A Jack Daniel statue in the visitors' centre at the Jack Daniel's distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Photo: Radharc Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Lora Faris, a copywriter who worked on the Tube adverts between 2015 and 2017, told me that her boss said she should imagine an "old Southern lawyer, like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird", when she was writing. There is a "Wizard of Oz, Emerald City" feeling to the way Lynchburg is portrayed, she said.
Having already worked on a number of the adverts, Faris – who is from Ohio – actually visited Tennessee. "'Wait, this is a real thing,'" she remembers thinking after arriving in Lynchburg. "I was blown away by how 'authentic' it was."
This longing for authenticity is almost pathological. It is experienced as a form of melancholy, an attachment to something we have probably never known and that may not have existed. Global capitalism unmoors us from place and time and community, and then, feeding on that sense of dislocation, tries to sell those things back to us.
Brown-Forman, which owns Jack Daniel's, is a multi-national conglomerate that makes hundreds of millions of dollars in profit every year. But the Jack Daniel's distillery is in a little old town in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Down there, it's just the ducks, the grain wagons and a few old boys rolling some barrels about. Folks just ain't in no kind of hurry.
If that's a cliché, then here's another one: on the London Underground, there is nothing but hurry. Alienated commuters wait for deliverance. On the platform, they look up and there's old Mr Jack, a glint in his eye and a goose in his back pocket. There are the rolling hills of Tennessee, the winding lanes and the shady hollows. Stretch out your hand, you can almost touch it.
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YouTube makes captioning more accessible for deaf viewers
Millions of people enjoy viral videos each day, but some people aren't getting the jokes — and it's not for a lack of humor, either. Because many videos on YouTube do not include closed captioning, deaf viewers can be left out. But thanks to a new change at YouTube, more hard-of-hearing people will be able to indulge in the wealth of online videos.
The video sharing site enabled caption support in 2006, but it announced Tuesday options that make user-uploaded videos more accessible for those who rely on closed captioning, with new languages, search options, and settings for video text.
YouTube now supports automatic captions in Japanese, Korean and English, and captions can be added in 155 languages and dialects. New settings can also change the caption color — not an aesthetic choice, but rather, to make the captions easier to read against the background of videos where the colors may blend in. Videos uploaded with broadcast caption support, which positions text near the character speaking, are now visible on YouTube in the same format. It's also easier to upload videos that already have captions embedded in them.
Though television stations are required to provide closed captioning for deaf and hearing-impaired viewers, Internet TV was not — until recently.
Explains Melissa Bell: "Last year, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, requiring that captioned television shows must be captioned online. But there's a loophole: The law does not require original online programming to be captioned."
"At the same time that the web series industry is growing, web series producers are not required to closed caption," Jamie Berke, a Washington-based deaf activist wrote in an e-mail. "So deaf and hard of hearing people like myself are largely left out of this 'new television.' "
As a host of original programming, YouTube's improved captioning isn't mandated by the CVAA either, but it's to their advantage to make videos available for as many viewers as possible. Deaf viewers have found YouTube to be an adept communications tool for sign language — check out some of the viral music videos of pop music sign-language performances, like Miley Cyrus's "Party in the USA" — but with these new tools, their playlists will get a lot longer.
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b. non-metropolitan towns and schools may locate polling places up to five miles outside the precinct boundary.
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I've gone through my closet a couple of times in the past month or so, weeding it of pieces I've had for years. The soft loosely fit pants I bought in both a steel grey and khaki because the trousers I normally wore to work were getting too snug around my waist and were too warm for summer. The newer navy pinstriped trousers I found on sale, with a more comfortable waistband that kept me from thinking about my expanding midsection. Three pair of my favorite Bermuda shorts I think I lived in last summer. A couple pair of ancient light-weight cargo shorts that made shrugging out of pajama bottoms so easy from one day to the next.
And then there were the jeans.
Stretchy jeans. Favorite faded jeans that had gotten too small, then happily fit again, now too big even after a good hot water washing and spin in the dryer. Big jeans purchased in desperation, only briefly worn when things were seriously getting out of hand. Dark colored trouser jeans I bought for our trip to England a year and a half ago and then outgrew. It took a year, but I managed to do it.
As I removed each piece of clothing from its hangar, I tried it on — something I detest doing. The better part of a day was spent standing in front of our mirror clad closet doors while I examined my reflection noticing sagging in the rear, or a gaping waistband. Pants easily removed with a simple tug — no unzipping necessary. As much as you might expect I'd cheer each time it happened, I didn't. I was busy trying to ignore my practical self voice– the one that thinks about how much was paid for something worn only a few times. Or the seemingly helpful self who cautioned that a waistband wasn't all that loose and that I may need to hang on to some things.
Four large plastic garbage bags were filled by the time I was done and as much as I can say it felt good to realize losing 20 pounds makes a such difference, I noticed my preoccupation with other things. Things like the sizes on the clothes — many of which were 14s. Size 14s that all fit so differently from huge to still just right. Fourteens with waistbands too high and tight, and others low cut and baggy. A couple of size 12s were also too big, others too small. One size ten I could squeeze into if I thought I wanted to look like an enormous trussed chicken ready for the oven.
That was nearly five pounds ago — and counting. Every other day or so weigh-ins to document my progress have become something that can easily upset me depending on what that progress actually is. Sometimes, there seems to be no logic to it: a one and eight-tenths gain, then a two and four-tenths loss the very next morning regardless of the strict consistency I strive for with this routine. It's maddening, catching me wanting the gratification of a particular number instead of the understanding that the big picture provides.
Eat breakfast before 9am. Check. Alternate between eggs and veggies, whole grain cereal with a bit of fruit, or a carefully orchestrated smoothie. Check. Eat enough calories in one day. Struggle to check. Get your cardio and strength exercises done each week. Sort of check but always working on it.
All my life, I've thought of food, but thinking about it in this capacity at times has become exhausting. I've begun to notice that instead of wanting to be constructive about planning meals with creativity, I simply want to get it over with. How challenging can it be to grill a small piece of fish or lean meat and roast a vegetable? Grab a healthy snack between meals. Fire up the blender for a smoothie?
I've reached the halfway point — or to be more accurate — see it right in front of me, taunting me. Telling me I need to step it up. Get myself moving. But today, I'm tired and cranky. And I'll allow myself that because staying on good course for 18 weeks, I've done what I set out to do. But I've been waking earlier than I normally do and staying up later. When I'm not careful about what I eat, I end up with too few calories in my body and feeling like I'm out of fuel, because that's exactly what I am.
No patience, easy to rile, and seriously lacking in motivation. Flat.
But I don't "cheat." I use that term loosely because most understand that being on a diet implies there are rules that must be followed just so — and if they're broken, it's cheating. I never set out to be on a diet. I set out to change the way I live my life and feed my body.
At first, I was almost religious about eating five times a day. Three fairly even meals with a morning and afternoon snack. But as I've progressed, things have changed. The snacks have sort of disappeared and not by intention. I get busy and don't think about it. Saved calories, right? That doesn't work for me. I've figured that if I don't keep the fuel steadily coming, then the whole thing breaks down. I've also shifted away from eating even sprouted wheat bread once in a while — toasted with a measured mound of egg or chicken curry on it. Again, this hasn't been by design.
It's been days that I've been writing this and struggling over how to say it all. When I read it over, there's no justice served to what I've learned.
Perhaps it's a lesson about my life in general. What I've learned must be summed up in a particular way, and because I'm not done, well then, it's not easy to put down.
Words escape me, but I've taken photos just to document. Yes, photos. Each month on a given day, I subject myself to photos taken in three positions. I make a collage of sorts and date it, and each month, I compare the extent to which I've grown smaller. Clearly, I have. The clothes show it, the photos show it, and I can see it. I share the photos only with my husband who says he could never do it himself.
But it holds me accountable far more than loose clothing or a number on a scale. A glance in the mirror.
Yet, I'm wondering. Am I just giving in to something I've always said I've deplored?
Good-o – because that's what I've been wondering about lately as I read your posts. But – nah….not you. I'm sure it's a thrill to be thinner, but it's good that you recognize thin shouldn't be the whole thing. Thin because you move more easily? Awesome. Thinner because you set out to succeed – again, awesome. Healthy is good, but to dwell on it? Hmmm, good to be aware. And PS? I've still only lost two or three pounds in two months, but that's just fine – not great, but ok with that.
Nah is right. Definitely not me, but it's funny how much of it really is about numbers — so annoying. The clothing size thing is beyond ridiculous. I've worn a size 12 most of my life — even at 19 when I weighed 123 lbs. Go figure. All in all, I'm focused most on what my ideal weight is supposed to be averaged through a variety of sources. I'm thinking I won't get there because I'm beginning to suspect I will think I'm too thin.
Congrats on the weight loss, Kellypea, you've been working hard on that. Personally, I don't go by sizes, what used to be a 4 is now a 6. What was once a 12 is now an 8. I swear they've change the size labels. Anyway, you just need to be comfortable in your own skin. And in your own clothes!
I agree, which is why I'm looking forward to whether I'll actually get to the weight that I'm supposed to be. The size of clothes I wear won't matter simply because of the crazy difference in sizes. Just want to feel my best!
Congratulations on the weight loss. It's a lot of work but it sounds like your handling it well. I'm with your husband on the photos. I couldn't do it. You are a brave woman but it sounds like it's paying off. Loving this site by the way. Great idea.
I haven't "checked in" for awhile, but I have spoken with you about the "changing your life habits" thing. I ame working with that as you know. I keep forgetting to eat so many little meals as is supposed to be better. My food just sits in my stomach and maes me feel full. Not a good thing. I am tired of being "big in the middle" and it is uncomfortable. You are looking great and we are both over thinking the whole thing. Although, I have acquired some new eating habits which I "just do" without thinking. Keep on Keepin on.
I wish I could write more here and know you would like it if I did. I still write in my head — that seems strange, I know, but it's true. I'm always writing something. It just doesn't make it to the page. I say keep on keepin' on, too. I'm a bit stuck right now, but not horribly. Just distracted. I'll blame it on the grey weather — not very inspiring. 🙂 I guess that means I've turned more into someone who lives near the beach. Only took how many years? LOL.


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En botanique, l'hétérosporie caractérise certains groupes de Monylophytes (appelé il y a quelques années Ptéridophyte mais ce terme a évolué) au sens large dont le sporophyte porte deux types de sporanges, le microsporange et le macrosporange (c'est l'hétérosporangie), qui produisent deux types de spores : les microspores et les macrospores. Chacun de ces types conduit à la formation de prothalles différents : c'est l'hétéroprothallie.

Hétérosporie, hétérosporangie et hétéroprothallie se rencontrent chez les Sélaginelles, les Isoètes, les Prêles et les Hydropteridales.

Les prothalles issus des microsporanges vont produire des gamètes mâles (= anthérozoïdes) et ceux issus des macrosporanges vont produire le gamète femelle (= oosphère).

L'hétérosporie s'oppose à l'isosporie. Au niveau évolutif, l'hétérosporie (hétéroprothallie) semble être un caractère évolué par rapport à l'isosporie (isoprothallie).

Par analogie, l'hétérosporie caractérise également les plantes à graines ou Spermaphytes. On y retrouve ainsi deux types de sporanges (anthèridies et archegones), produisant des prothalles différents.

Voir aussi
 Homosporie
 Hétéroprothallie
 Isosporie
 Prothalle

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29th October 2021 In Ragaris books By Penelope Wallace
Q and A: for fans of Dorac and the Guardian Weekend magazine (Apologies to anyone else)
The story of "We Do Not Kill Children" runs basically from 26th September to 15th November, but reaches its climax on Hallowe'en. Organising the dates was a complicated business when writing it, and so I always think of October as Dorac's month. The following therefore...
1st March 2019 In Ragaris books By Penelope Wallace
Trials and smiles of an author (6)
I had a pleasant meeting with my publisher about two weeks ago, and "The Servant's Voice" has been accepted for publication. I am hoping to supply the final final version by the end of April. This needs to include Acknowledgements (recognising of course Judith Renton's contributions...
27th September 2018 In Ragaris books By Penelope Wallace
Trials and smiles of an author part 5
I thought it was about time for an update, which currently means an update (more accurately, a trailer...
8th June 2018 In Ragaris books By Penelope Wallace
Writing equal genders – some pitfalls
I cannot remember how long ago I invented Ragaris, the medieval continent with equal rights for women – it was before I met my husband, so maybe about thirty years ago. And I certainly can't remember why. You would think that by now I'd have sorted...
2nd June 2017 In Ragaris books By Penelope Wallace
Report on the Party (non-political)
I apologise for being a pest, but can you let me know below if you receive this post? Some six months after publication, "We Do Not Kill Children" finally got its long-promised "launch" party. I certainly enjoyed the evening, and it seemed that other people did...
21st April 2017 In Ragaris books, Uncategorised By Penelope Wallace
Miscellaneous in April
I missed a blog post last week, because: Thought A: Well, here goes, let's blog about the wedding of the century! Thought B: Oops, didn't I say when I started this blog that my family were off-limits? I did! Thought C: OK, but a quick thought about weddings...
3rd March 2017 In General By Penelope Wallace
Telling People Apart
A problem that I don't think film-makers fully appreciate is the difficulty, occasionally, of telling characters apart. If one is a Dalek and one is a Victorian lady, there is no problem, but if both are humans of the same gender and similar age (and...
Trials and smiles of a wannabe author part 3
I've been posting perhaps too much angsty-theological stuff lately, and much better informed people than me are filling the airwaves and the internet with politics. (Just one thought: if we don't want Donald Trump to win a second term, then people who voted for him...
11th November 2016 In Ragaris books By Penelope Wallace
More advertising
Well, so here we are again. With regard to recent news, I don't think I've got much to add to what I said on this blog when the UK voted to leave the EU. It's here if you want to reread: https://www.penelopewallace.com/here-we-go/ - and it still...


The Banking Ordinance provides that no person shall act as a money broker unless that person is approved by the Monetary Authority under the Ordinance.
as agent for, or as the provider of a dealing service to, not less than one of those persons.
It follows from the above definition that the money broker need not necessarily be resident, or be carrying on a business in Hong Kong. The requirement to be approved will apply if the money broker is resident abroad but is providing a service to persons in Hong Kong (one of whom is an authorized institution).
However, the legislation is not intended to cover persons such as investment advisers, securities dealers, solicitors and professional accountants who may technically act as money brokers (e.g. in arranging to place deposits on behalf of their clients), but in a way which is wholly ancillary or incidental to their main business. The Monetary Authority may also specify a person, or a class of persons that the legislation does, or does not apply in notices under section 2(14)(c) and section 2(14)(b) of the Ordinance.
its business should be conducted with integrity, prudence and competence.
The Banking Ordinance empowers the Monetary Authority to attach conditions to the certificate of approval of money brokers, to vary, add, or delete such conditions, to conduct examinations on approved brokers and to obtain information from them.
The Guide to Authorization issued by the HKMA describes the authorisation regime for money brokers and to explain how the HKMA will interpret the minimum criteria for approval of money brokers as set out in the Eleventh Schedule to the Ordinance.


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Surveillance Court: NSA May Resume Illegal Bulk Data Collection
© Flickr / Stephen Melkisethian
https://sputniknews.com/military/201507011024063607/
A US court has ruled that the National Security Agency can temporarily restart their once-secret bulk data collection program after the law it was based on expired on June 1st.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has allowed the NSA to resume its bulk collection of phone metadata after the expiration of the Patriot Act at the start of the month. Section 215 of that act had formed the basis for the collection of phone call metadata — the numbers, times and locations of calls, but not the content of conversations.
— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) June 30, 2015
Congress passed the USA Freedom Act June 2, which eliminated the basis for the bulk collection program and said that the expired Section 215 could not be used for phone record collection after more than six months.
"This application presents the question whether the recently-enacted USA Freedom Act… ended the bulk collection of telephone metadata," the June 29 ruling states. "The short answer is yes. But in doing so, Congress deliberately carved out a 180-day period following the date of enactment in which such collection was specifically authorized. For this reason, the Court approves the application in this case."
However, the American Civil Liberties Union has said it will seek an injunction from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. That court had ruled in May that the surveillance program was illegal, even when Section 215 was in force.
FISA Court Judge Michael Mosman has therefore struck down the Second Circuit's decision.
"Second Circuit rulings are not binding on the FISC, and this Court respectfully disagrees with that Court's analysis, especially in view of the intervening enactment of the USA FREEDOM Act," the ruling said.
— Max J. Rosenthal (@maxjrosenthal) June 30, 2015
The transition period is intended to allow the migration to a new system under which user data is kept by the phone companies, not the NSA. The NSA would still be able to access them, but would have to obtain a warrant and show probable cause.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 30, 2015
However, the USA Freedom Act doesn't actually include language authorizing the bulk collection during the supposed transition period, so, taken together with the contradictory rulings there is some dispute over the legality of the bulk surveillance grace period.
Critics point to the unexpected congressional deadlock over the reauthorization of the bill for creating the odd situation of reviving a program already headed for the chopping block instead of just smoothly phasing it out.
© AP Photo / Charles Dharapak
USA Freedom Act Reforms Intelligence Courts, Limits NSA Data Collection
"[Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell's gamble on a clean reauthorization of [parts of the Patriot Act] without reform and his further attempts to weaken the privacy protections contained in the USA Freedom Act has caused this ridiculous situation in which the bulk metadata program is being reanimated in order to be shut down for good," Amie Stepanovich, an attorney with the digital-rights group Access, told The Guardian.
When the Second Circuit ruled previously that the program was illegal, it did not seek an injunction, deciding it was better to wait and see what Congress would do as the Patriot Act expired.
The ACLU now says it will be asking for that injunction, in light of the reboot of bulk metadata collection.
"Neither the statute nor the Constitution permits the government to subject millions of innocent people to this kind of intrusive surveillance," ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer told the New York Times. "We intend to ask the court to prohibit the surveillance and to order the N.S.A to purge the records it's already collected."
— Daniel DePetris (@DanDePetris) June 30, 2015
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has been one of the most outspoken critics of the bulk metadata program.
"I see no reason for the Executive Branch to restart bulk collection, even for a few months," Wyden said in a statement. "This illegal dragnet surveillance violated Americans' rights for fourteen years without making our country any safer. It is disappointing that the administration is seeking to resurrect this unnecessary and invasive program after it has already been shut down."
Judge Mosman's ruling maintains that, since Congress passed the USA Freedom Act while fully aware of how the bulk collection program was operating, the law implicitly authorizes that collection to continue during the 180-day period mentioned.
— Just Security (@just_security) June 30, 2015
"Congress could have prohibited bulk data collection" effective immediately, he wrote. "Instead, after lengthy public debate, and with crystal-clear knowledge of the fact of ongoing bulk collection of call detail records," it decided to stipulate a 180-day transitional period during which bulk collection could continue, Mosman wrote.
Justice Department Spokesperson Wyn Hornbuckle said in a statement that the Obama White House agrees with this latest ruling.
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Now that I'm dead, I want to tell you a few things. I want to tell you a story about your Grandma – my mom.
She and Grandpa had a swimming pool in the back yard, which they really enjoyed. Grandma was always nervous, though, about the neighborhood kids playing back there when no one was watching and someone, inevitably, drowning. She really worried about it a lot.
One day your aunt was playing with some boys from the neighborhood. Grandma checked on them every few minutes, of course. That's her nature. And, sure enough, one time she looked and they weren't there. Immediately she ran to the back window and there, lying at the bottom of the pool, was one of the boys.
Grandma raced down the stairs and out the back door to the pool. The boy was unconscious when she dragged him out of the water. Long story short, he was OK. There was much crying and gnashing of teeth and Grandpa had to build a high, high fence around the pool. It was really a very close thing. If Grandma had been a little less vigilant, that boy would have died.
I took a lesson away from this, but it's not the one you'd expect.
I had an epiphany the day that boy almost drowned in my mom's pool. I realized that this accident was "the really terrible thing" that my mom, your grandma, always seemed to be waiting for. Your grandma had a very hard life as a girl, much harder than you know. And it marked her, as our childhoods always do. Grandma's motto was always, "expect the worst." She was willing to accept a pleasant surprise if things actually worked out somehow, but she never expected it.
She always expected the really terrible thing. She was always watching for it. Always dreading it. Always resigned to its inevitability. And sure enough, really terrible things happen all the time: people die, houses burn down, marriages end.
And I saw, that day the boy almost drowned in her pool, that the accident justified my mom's mind-set, at least to her. If she hadn't been worried, if she hadn't looked out the window constantly, if she hadn't instantly thought of swimming pool and the danger it represented, then that boy would be dead.
And that was true; but that wasn't my epiphany. What that day showed me was that my mom was wrong, that you can't go through life that way. That the really terrible thing will poison every minute of every day, whether it comes or not. That you can't really be ready for it. And that, usually, it'll be okay anyway.
I dropped acid for the first time that summer, something people usually do as a teenager or not at all. I was a grown man in my 30's. It was something I'd always wanted to try, but I'd always resisted out of my own fear of the really terrible thing.
We took a driving vacation to the southwest the next summer, despite the fact that the car might break down. It did, but it was okay anyway.
I did a lot of things after that day that I might not have done otherwise. They all worked out okay, except the ones that didn't. I survived them all, except the very last one.
There's a paradox here, of course. Without Grandma's constant vigilance against the really terrible thing, that boy – now a man with a family of his own – would be dead. Doesn't that mean that Grandma was right? Doesn't that mean I'm wrong?


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A Fallen Novel
Hell on earth.
That's what it's like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel.
It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts—immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.
At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn't told her everything. He's hiding something—something dangerous.
What if Daniel's version of the past isn't actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?
The second novel in the addictive FALLEN series . . . where love never dies.
From the Hardcover edition.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY SEP 6, 2010
In Kate's sequel to Fallen, fallen angel Daniel has negotiated an 18-day truce with demonic Cam, during which time they will keep his one true love, 17-year-old Luce, safe from the Outcasts, "spineless, waffling angels, shunned by both Heaven and Hell," who are after her. Daniel sends Luce to Shoreline, a Northern California prep school for angel-descended Nephilim. The change is stressful for her because she is there alone and because she is seen as a "legendary freak" by some students for her famous doomed relationship with Daniel, which has unfolded tragically over several lifetimes. Uncovering details from her past lives and meeting charmingly normal Miles, Luce begins to have doubts about Daniel. Equal parts romance and thriller, this sequel can be both schmaltzy ("There was no darkness, no more cold, just the lovely sensation of being bathed in his violet glow. Even the rush of the ocean was canceled out by a soft hum, the energy Daniel carried in his body") and frequently suspenseful. The open-ended finale paves the way for a third book. Ages 12 up. \n
Random House Children's Books
Penguin Random House LLC
Megziepie , 04/12/2011
Omg this book was amazing! I seriously am going to die waiting for passion to come out!!! But wait! So when Luce tells her mother that she is in love with Daniel her mother asks if it's the guy with blonde hair and Luce says yes.....doesn't Daniel have dark hair?? Maybe I'm wrong but it got me very confused. Also is the next book still going to tell what happens after this battle? Like are luces parents worried? But anyways, this was an extremely good book and I am addicted to the series, I read all of these books within 3 days or less because I just couldn't put them down!!
rockchel311 , 10/07/2011
wonderful sequel to "fallen" &..
after the exquisite work of lauren kate, i can only say this book will leave you wanting more.. anxious to find out what happens next! perfect! 5 stars & thumbs up!
Star girl213685 , 10/31/2012
Totally sappy }:(
This book was especially horrible. It's all about how miserable Luce is because her boyfriend left her at this fantastic school. Big freaking deal! When you first read this book series you think awwww how romantic. But after awhile you'll realize god this book series is so sappy. It was so sappy for me that I felt like I was reading a maple tree(sorry that comment really doesn't make sense) Anyway this book was a torment to read.
More Books by Lauren Kate
The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
Torment (VINTAGE)
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Engelsmorgen
Fallen in Love
Fallen: Angels in the Dark


Hello all, my name is Samiksha and I am a student pursuing MBBS. I rarely get free time for myself and when I get free I use it for sleeping; it is my favorite hobby.
Recently, I struggled with a problem which I never thought will trouble me so much. I had a serious burst of acne on my face and due to that; I secluded myself from everybody due to shame.
I had to stop going to parties and combined medical classes as I used to look horrible. I tried various home-made remedies, but they didn't seem to help. My acne was becoming worse day by day and I had no clue of how to get rid of them.
Since I was missing so many classes which actually an MBBS student cannot afford; I was called to the premises by one my professor. She asked me the reason why I am not coming to attend classes? Is everything alright with me?
I had to reluctantly tell her about my acne burst and the mental stress I am going through due to this problem. She asked me to run to the medical store instantly and buy Acnestar soap and gel, as these are the best product available in the market to get rid of acne. Acnestar gel helps reducing acne in a short span of time while soap helps in long term treatment of the acne.
And, here I am writing this piece of appreciation from a combined medical class. My skin is clear and smooth now. AcneStar really did wonder.


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About a week ago my daughter asked me to put on my wedding dress. Amused by the idea, I put it on but I couldn't do it up! Normally that would have made me upset and sent me into a tailspin about my diet and exercise, the "what am I doing wrong" or "what am I not doing enough of" head game. But this time it was different. Instead of jumping out of my body, I landed in it. And I was quite alright with the fact that my body is not the same as it was 8 years ago in my early 30's because where I am today in my life and who am today is totally different than who I was then.
Let's be more realistic about where our body is now as opposed to holding on to the image of where it once was. We can't turn your life back, so how come we think we can turn our body back? That doesn't mean we can't change it, transform it, shape-shift it and optimize it, but can we create a new image in our minds of how we would like to look, that would match where we are and who we are in our lives today?
Amy Bondar, Nutritional Therapist, Author and Speaker has dedicated her life to inspiring, educating and guiding people to realize the significant impact nourishing the body, mind and soul has on achieving optimum wellness. Amy believes that nourishing the body with sound nutrition is only part of the equation to achieving optimum wellness. She offers a deeper understanding of how our thoughts, emotions, unresolved conflicts and disconnect to living our life's mission and purpose can affect our entire being and be a significant contributor to our presenting symptomatology, weight challenges, and imbalanced and emotional eating patterns. With an open heart and inquiring mind, Amy will accompany you on your journey to knowing yourself in a whole new conscious way and will truly help you to transform your relationship with food, your body and your self.


Listen to the awesome Alexandra Demetree making a live appearance in the Thunder studio! You can watch her visit with us via the Youtube links below.
Go to Alexandra's website here.
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Resilient Supply Chain + Advanced Manufacturing
Switzerland as a preferred location for Asian multinationals
Are you in the process of restructuring and digitizing your global supply chain or are you looking for a new location to set up a regional production site in Europe? Then this webinar recording is not to be missed. Our panel of experts will show you the benefits of Switzerland as a location for Asian multinationals that are operating in Europe.
Switzerland is ranked as one of the most resilient and safest countries in the world, it offers direct access to the European market, and has a plethora of emerging tech capabilities like robotics, artificial intelligence and blockchain to develop and test new digital production processes. During the webinar we will discuss use cases such as blockchain in the palm oil industry and biologics manufacturing in Switzerland.
Welcome by Ambassador Fabrice Fillez, Ambassador of Switzerland to Singapore
Presentation by André Guedel, Head of International Headquarters, KPMG Switzerland
Presentation by Kamales Lardi, CEO, Lardi & Partner Consulting GmbH
Q&A Session moderated by Andreas Enderlin, Managing Partner, Hugo Capital Partners
Watch the recorded webinar now:
Find out more why Switzerland is a tech hub
Target audience Multinationals and companies in Asia
Organizer Switzerland Global Enterprise
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André Guedel
André advises multinational companies (MNCs) on choosing the location of their key value drivers and works predominantly with groups from North America and Asia-Pacific with expansion or relocation plans in Europe. He heads KPMG Switzerland's business development efforts in this field and his primary focus is on Value Chain Analysis (VCA) as a methodology to evaluate and (re)locate key value drivers across different business locations. André brings a Life Sciences specialization to his role and acts as the editor of the biannual "Site Selection Report for Life Sciences Companies in Europe". Prior to his role at KPMG, André led the Swiss Federal Foreign Investment Promotion Agency's operations for North America and was based in New York. Before that, he was a scientific advisor within the Swiss Federal State Secretariat for Economic Affairs where he focused on redesigning the Swiss federal regional economic development policy and evaluating the eligibility of private sector projects for federal grants and tax holidays. André brings a wealth of experience to MNCs with existing or planned operations in Europe and is KPMG's primary contact for economic development projects for regional and national agencies.
Kamales Lardi
Kamales Lardi is a bold and strategic thinker in digital and business transformation. She helps companies leverage digital disruption to create new opportunities for business and generate revenue. Kamales combines over 20 years of deep cross-industry experience with the latest digital and technology solutions. Since establishing Lardi & Partner Consulting GmbH in 2012, Kamales has advised companies across various industries such as Cim Finance (Mauritius), UBS, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Pfizer, BonusCard AG, Victorinox and Sanitas Insurance among others. Kamales is a Visiting Fellow and Chairperson of the MBA Advisory Board at Durham Business School, and was recently listed in the "Top 10 Global Thought Leaders in Digital Transformation" (Thinkers360). Kamales founded BloomBloc, a blockchain advisory in sustainable supply chain. Originally from Malaysia, Kamales Lardi has been living and working in Switzerland since 2005.
Andreas Enderlin
Andreas is the Founder & Managing Partner of Hugo Capital Partners, an investment and advisory firm focused on digitally transforming Industrial and B2B companies in ASEAN. Previously, he was the Regional President ASEAN of Schaeffler and a member of the Executive Management Board (EMM). Andreas is actively engaged as a mentor at several accelerators, advising Private Equity funds & Startups in SEA/AP as well as being an active investor himself. In addition, he is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and Chair of the SwissCham Digital Transformation award.
Before his move to Asia Andreas held various corporate leadership roles at Siemens, the 3M Company and Straumann in General Management, M&A and Management Consulting and worked as a COO for a AI/Data Analytics startup which he successfully excited to a strategic investor.
He then spent a number of years working for a Private Equity fund pursuing a distinctive Buy and Build strategy with a focus on operational value creation.Andreas's core interests and experiences are around IoT, Deep Tech, Robotics, B2B, Private Equity and helping companies and people thrive.
Watch the interview with Kamales Lardi about why Switzerland offers a favorable environment for blockchain.
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Q: ASP.NET MVC View ReRenders Part of Itself In all my years of .NET programming I have not run across a bug as weird as this one. I discovered the problem because some elements on the page were getting double-bound by jQuery. After some (ridiculous) debugging, I finally discovered that once the view is completely done rendering itself and all its children partial views, it goes back to an arbitrary yet consistent location and re-renders itself.
I have been pulling my hair out about this for two days now and I simply cannot get it to render itself only once!
For lack of any better debugging idea, I've painstakingly added logging tracers throughout the HTML just so I can pin down what may be causing this. For instance, this code ($log just logs to the console):
...
<script type="text/javascript">var x = 0; $log('1');</script>
<div id="new-ad-form">
<script type="text/javascript">x++;$log('1.5', x);</script>
...

will yield
... <--- this happens before this snippet
1
1.5 1
...
10 <--- bottom of my form, after snippet
1.5 2 <--- beginning of part that runs again!
...
9 <--- this happens after this snippet

I've searched my codebase high and low, but there is NOTHING that says that it should re-render part of a page. I'm wondering if the jQueryUI has anything to do with it, as #new-ad-form is the container for a jQueryUI dialog box.
If this is potentially the case, here's my init code for that:
$('#new-ad-form').dialog({

autoOpen: false,
  modal: true,
  width: 470,
  title: 'Create A New Ad',
  position: ['center', 35],
  close: AdEditor.reset
 });

A: As I suspected in my original question, the issue is with jQueryUI's dialog() method. After the page renders, the element assigned as the dialog box gets re-rendered, meaning any Javascript contained or loaded in that element is re-run. In my case I had two partial views that had their own JS files.
I wrote the ugliest hack to get around it, but I got it working by creating a global variable and checking it before calling anything in the $(function()). I died a bit writing that hack, but heck, now we can ship!
Thanks for anyone who tried to help!

A: Check the JavaScript to insure no requests are accidentally being made back to the same controller. Use Firebug or Fiddler to watch the HTTP requests.

A: I may be Waaaay off base here but have you wrapped your script within $(document).ready()?