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Celebrity archaeologist Cari Dunn is over Georgia and the threatening messages painted on her motel door. When the network hires bodyguard Jasper Benjamin, passion ignites. Sleeping with her bodyguard is easy. Staying alive is harder.
Uninhibited! Series, Book 1
By Lauren Hawkeye
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Celebrity archaeologist Cari Dunn is so over the Georgia heat, the red tape at her dig site, and the threatening messages left on her motel door. She just wants to dig, and the network just wants to keep her safe—with a bodyguard. She can't complain. Jasper Benjamin radiates raw masculinity that penetrates her to the core and ignites passion she's never felt. Too bad for him, she's not going to be easy to handle.
Lusting after the bodyguard shouldn't be so tempting, especially when her life is on the line.
"Fans of my books will find a new must-read author in Lauren Hawkeye." - NYT Bestselling Author of Seducing Cinderella Gina L. Maxwell
"Lauren Hawkeye's novels are always spicy hot, filled with great banter, a HOT alpha hero and a sassy heroine. That is exactly what we got here with Untamed! I could not get enough of Jasper and Cari!" –Bookgasms Book Blog
"This story takes place in the Georgia heat and heat is what you get!!! From start to finish of this short story, you have a well written romance with characters that have flammable-intense chemistry with a whole lot of steam!" –Books and Boys Book Blog
"A short, fast paced, steamy romance story of danger, intense chemistry, passion, and steamy scenes!" –Cheryl P., Goodreads
"Untamed is the sizzling opener to the Uninhibited series. This is part one of a three part serial and it's going to get you all hot and bothered!" –Deanna, Deanna's World
"This novella does not disappoint!" –Jeanne, Goodreads
"An Intense, fast paced, sexy romance is perfect for a quick pick me up!" –Natalie M., NetGalley
Celebrity archaeologist Cari Dunn knew an affair with Jasper Benjamin was dangerous. When the threats against Cari start to stack up and the list of suspects seems higher than ever, Jasper calls for backup. Some very hot and exciting backup. ...
Series: Uninhibited!, Book 1
Imprint: scorched
Genre: erotic romance
Tropes: bodyguard/protector, fling
Book Review For: 'Untmaed' by Lauren Hawkeye 'Untmaed' by Lauren Hawkeye is book One in the "Uninhibited" series. This is the story of Cari Dunn and Jasper Benjamin. This is a novella with about 65 pages.... that ends to being another part of their story in the next book. Cari is a celebrated arc... ...more
By Bookgasms June 24, 2017
3.5 stars!
I was really excited to start Lauren Hawkeye's Uninhibited serial. Her novels are always spicy hot, filled with great banter, a HOT alpha hero and a sassy heroine. That is exactly what we got here with Untamed! I could not get enough of Jasper and Cari!
I loved the premise of this series... ...more
By Ayekah June 30, 2017
Hot damn this book is smoking! Lauren shoots this one into orbit right out of the gate. This is the first book in a series of three and yes they will come out close together. Grab your fan and some ice and settle right into this one.
Gabi is on a dig in steamy hot Georgia and it seems someone does... ...more
ARC received for review
About 70 pages with 90% of them being chemistry and sex. The beginning was a okay intro to the danger following her. Really steamy bar scene and back to the room for more...then bang...something through the window and cliffy. Didn't like that the bodyguard didn't even try t... ...more
By Elizabeth July 16, 2017
Can you dig it? Cari, a celebrity archaeologist, can, unless you're referring to the Georgia heat. Not to mention she's also tired of the red tape concerning her dig, and, oh yeah, someone's leaving notes on her hotel door, and they aren't complimentary. They know where she's staying. *cue scary... ...more
By Wit & Wonder Books June 29, 2017
***ARC provided by author in exchange for an honest review***
Untamed by Lauren Hawkeye isthe first bookin the Uninhibited series. An Intense, fast paced, sexy romance is perfect for a quick pick me up!
This story takes place in the Georgia heat and heat is what you get!!! From start to finish of... ...more
By Amber - TBR Book Blog July 08, 2017
Review will be for all 3 parts.
This is the start of Cari and Jasper's "thing". Can't call it a relationship except he's her bodyguard that Cari doesn't feel like she needs. Can't wait to read more. Jasper is my kinda guy <3 ...more
By Cheryl June 23, 2017
A short, fast paced, steamy romance story of danger, intense chemistry, passion, steamy scenes, that ends with a cliff hanger. But not to worry because the second book in this series comes out a week after Untamed is released.
I volunteered to review an advanced readers copy of this book. ...more
By Rhi July 07, 2017
As the first part in a serial, I hesitate to rush to judgment. Cari Dunn is an archaeologist who has her own reality tv show. Currently, she is in Georgia, digging on a disputed land site: developer vs. Native American. Cari doesn't really care about the dispute, such as it is - only that she can... ...more
By Alice June 13, 2017
Actual rating: 3.5 stars.
Many thanks to the publisher for providing me with an advanced reading copy in exchange for an honest review.
I was a little dubious reading this little serial as I've not read anything by the author before and I generally don't read 5 star reviews because of personal ch... ...more
By Krista July 03, 2017
The Unihibited serial by Lauren Hawkeye was a story right up my alley. It included a heroine with an interesting job, a dangerous mystery and a big, dominant bodyguard sent to keep her safe.
It seems like each of the three installments in this serial actually equate to a complete novella, not a f... ...more
By Gigi July 03, 2017
Celebrity archaeologist Cari Dunn is so over the Georgia heat, the red tape at her dig site, and the threatening messages left on her motel door. She just wants to dig, and the network just wants to keep her safe—with a bodyguard. She can't complain. Jasper Benjamin radiates raw masculinity that... ...more
By Valeen July 25, 2017
Untamed is a sexy start to a new series! Cari is a celebrity archaeologist who has attracted a stalker of sorts, so her production company and boss have hired her a bodyguard. Unfortunately for Cari, the bodyguard turns out to be a hot, buffed guy, Jasper, who is seemingly immovable in her quest... ...more
By Jessica July 08, 2017
I devoured this three part novella series all in one sitting because it was sexy and entertaining as hell. I was psyched that I didn't have to wait it out to get all of the installments - the cliffhangers would have killed me!!
Cari is a star of a reality TV show about her archaeologist digs and w... ...more
Hot, Sexy Suspense
This is the first of three installments and if this opening installment is any indication, this series will be a panty melter. Ms. Hawkeye wastes no time pulling you into the series by introducing you to our heroine, already in a bit of distress, and quickly getting introduced t... ...more
By Eva July 03, 2017
untamed kicks of a short story trilogy about cari dunn and her sexy bodyguard, jasper benjamin. cari is besieged by a stalker leaving threatening messages. she's a celebrity archeologist and the host of a popular television show. suddenly the network insists that she can't shoot her show and she... ...more
By KnottyGirl July 05, 2017
Untamed is the first part of a three part serialized novel by Lauren Hawkeye about a famous TV archeologist, Dr Cari Dunn. Cari has a TV show, and they are shooting their show on location. However, Cari has made herself an enemy or two, as evidenced by threats she's been receiving, so the show hi... ...more
By Dana July 06, 2017
This is a fairly short novella to read. We find ourselves in summertime in Georgia. Who is Dr. Dunn? What does Dr. Dunn find on the door to the hotel room after returning from filming a show that day? Who is Russ Daly? Who is Nolan? What is going on in Georgia? Who is Jasper and what is he in Geo... ...more
By Sony July 03, 2017
This is a great start to a sexy as hell series! Trust me when I say this is a hot start. Dr. Cari Dunn is an archeologist and a reality TV show star, but with fame also comes your typical perverted stalker. When the stalker starts to leave writings on her hotel door the producer employs Jasper, a... ...more
By Lisa Marie ~ July 03, 2017
Untamed is the start of series about TV archeological star Dr. Cari Dunn and her bodyguard, Jasper. After being on a controversial dig in Georgia, Cari gains a threatening stalker and the TV execs hire the very capable and sexy Jasper to keep an eye on Cari. The two hit it off immediately even th... ...more
By Gale July 03, 2017
Whoa. Get ready for a hawt, sexy read! Right up front, this is part one of three however I wasn't left hanging on a reader cliff. The story doesn't end, or have a conclusion, however it's in a good place, knowing that I have to read the next part! I can't say much except that the heroine is Dr. C... ...more
By Judy July 18, 2017
Cari is an archeologist who has her digs done through a TV show. She is having issues in Georgia with the land she is digging on. When she returns to her hotel room after a days work she finds a message written on her door. She's shocked but not as shocked as when she finds out this isn't the fir... ...more
Untamed is a super short, and sexy story. Basically, Cari Dunn, Celebrity archaeologist, has been getting some threats on her hotel door, and sent in to the network. They want to keep her safe, so she gets a bodyguard named Jasper Benjamin, and the sparks are flying. That's all I know, seriously,... ...more
By Anita July 03, 2017
This was a super hot, fantastic story with extremely likable characters. And by hot I mean crazy Hot. I really liked Cari and Jasper they have an instant attraction and pull to one another. They set the pages on fire. Loved the sparks flying between them. This is pretty fast paced with a lot goin... ...more
By Behind Closed Doors July 05, 2017
Amount of sex 3.5 / 5
How explicit 3.5 / 5
Story 4 / 5
Overall: 4 / 5
Untamed is the first in the three-part Uninhibited series by Lauren Hawkeye. This was a quick and steamy read which focuses on Dr. Cari Dunn, an archaeologist who is the star of the reality show 'Digging Discoveries with Dr. Dunn'.... ...more
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Lauren Hawkeye
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Hot. Summertime in Georgia could be entirely defined by that one word—hot.
Sweat twisted down my spine as I entered the cheap little motel the network had booked. The shoot on the dig today had been grueling, and I was feeling it.
The icy blast of air-conditioning as I stepped inside the lobby was nothing short of heaven. I paused under a vent for a moment, casting a semi-embarrassed glance at the young girl working behind the front desk as I let the cool air dry the sweat on my skin.
She grinned eagerly in return, and I squirmed a bit at the attention. Digging Discoveries with Dr. Dunn, a reality show that followed me as I worked on different archaeological finds around the world, had earned me more attention than I'd ever imagined it would. I wasn't Taylor Swift by any stretch of the imagination, but back in my second season, Ms. Swift herself had tweeted about her new guilty pleasure—aka, me. She might have included a cringe-worthy comparison to Indiana Jones, but even if it had embarrassed me, it had also launched my career.
When I went out in a city like New York or L.A., I attracted a minor buzz of attention.
In a small town like Meadow Ridge, Georgia, where we were filming now, I drew something a little more extreme. In this case, a bit of hero worship from a high-school girl who dreamed of leaving her small-town beginnings, much as I had.
So, yes, I was exhausted, and my inner temperature was set to molten, but I did my best to smile at her.
"There should be some bottled water in your mini-fridge," she called after me as I finally, reluctantly, dragged myself away from the artificial breeze and trudged down the hall toward my room. I waved a hand in thanks, too weary from the day in the sun to respond more than that.
All I wanted right now was a shower. A nice, cool one, which shouldn't be a problem, since the motel had sporadic hot water supply anyway. After that, I planned to lie naked on my bed until the air had taken my core temperature down from geothermal to bearable.
A splash of yellow caught my eye from halfway down the hall. I squinted—that wasn't my door, was it?
It was. My steps quickened, the sound muffled by the worn green carpet as I hurried to see what the hell was going on.
BITCH, scrawled in yellow across the door.
I reached out to touch the word, vivid against the worn wood of the door, but pulled back before I could smear them through the paint—the yellow spray was so fresh that it was still dripping.
"I don't understand." Stepping back, I looked over my shoulder, as though the person who had done this would still be standing there. Instead, the hall was empty, silent except for the quiet drone of a vacuum somewhere in the distance.
This… Surely this wasn't meant for me.
My stomach clenched as I pulled away from the nastygram. Wanting it out of my sight, I took one step, then two, then almost ran back to the lobby.
"Dr. Dunn?" The girl behind the desk—I thought her name was Madison—stood up with alarm as I stopped in front of her desk, panting. "Is everything all right?"
Clutching a hand to my chest, I shook my head, holding up a finger to ask for a moment. I was tired to my bones from the day in the sun, and my short sprint had winded me.
When I could breathe, I looked at her anxious face. "Can you tell me who has passed through here in the last half hour or so? Someone painted 'bitch' on my door."
The paint was wet. Whoever had done it must still be close by.
She crossed her arms over her chest, looking down at her computer. When she looked up again, her face was impassive—deliberately blank.
"I'm sorry, Dr. Dunn, but the only people I've seen come in are members of your own team." She bit her lip. "But couldn't it have been someone already inside the motel?"
"Shit." That hadn't occurred to me at all. Still, the way that Madison was looking at anything but me…
There was something she wasn't telling me. Had she seen something?
"I just wish I knew what I'd done to make someone so angry," I choked out, watching her face. I didn't like confrontations, so I had no way of dragging it out of her, but maybe I could poke a little. "Being called names hurts, especially when I don't understand why."
No, I didn't know for sure, but I wasn't an idiot. Not everybody in this town had been welcoming to the show. We were outsiders, and though we meant well, not everybody saw it that way. I had two guesses as to the culprit. One guess was that I had a fan, someone a bit star-struck, who I had inadvertently blown off.
Door number two was, to me, more likely. Before the discovery of the artifacts, the site had already been a hotly contested piece of land. Technically it belonged to Russ Daly, who'd had plans to sell to a development company out of Augusta. That sale had been halted when a group of Native Americans had laid claim to it as well, wanting it preserved as a historic site.
Me? I just wanted to dig. If I had to guess who had painted my door, though, I'd say Russ Daly or one of his minions. As head of the project and the most recognizable face of the show, I'd had more than one run-in with the man.
I hated run-ins. I hated confrontation. But Daly had tested even my temper when he'd shared his opinion that I should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen instead of pretending to be a scientist. He'd even offered up his own kitchen.
Remembering the conversation, I clenched my fists, my nails digging into my palm, just as they had done then. I was an expert in tamping things down, but he'd very nearly goaded me into punching him in the nose.
The yellow paint dripping on my door made me wish I had. Maybe if I stopped being so freaking nice, he'd leave me alone. Madison had busied herself on the phone. Catching my eye, she covered the mouthpiece. "I've just got our custodian on the line. He's off-duty, but he's going to come clean your door right away."
I could hear the mumble of someone on the other end of the line. Madison grimaced. "Yes, I'll ask."
Turning to me again, she offered a hesitant smile. "He's wondering if you could sign one of our motel brochures for him. He'll pick it up when he's done cleaning."
I was freaking exhausted, I needed a shower quite desperately, and someone had just vandalized my room…and he wanted an autograph.
Part of me wanted to tell him to shove it.
The rest of me? It knew that he was being nice enough to come clean my door when he was off the clock. It knew that meeting a reality TV star was a once in a lifetime thing for most people, even though a Kardashian I certainly was not.
Forcing my lips into yet another smile, I held out a hand for the brochure that Madison was clutching.
"If you could please personalize that for Gus and Rita," she added as she slid a black Sharpie across the counter. "His wife won't even know what to do with herself."
"Of course." A scream was building inside. I didn't want to sign a brochure for Gus and Rita, I wanted to retreat into the quiet of my room and have a shower. I wanted to be alone. I wanted silence.
"I'll leave this here for Gus, then." I tossed the brochure, now with Sharpie scrawled over it, back to Madison. "I'm going to be in my room, and… I'm going to be in my room."
I'd wanted to say that I didn't want to be disturbed—I didn't want Gus knocking on my door when he was done, hoping for a selfie to go along with his autograph.
I couldn't. I sucked at standing up for myself. I'd just put the Do Not Disturb sign out and hide.
"Thank you for your help, Madison." I offered up a tired smile. Her grin wavered, and to my horror, her pale blue eyes started to water.
"Oh, Dr. Dunn, I just have to tell you!" Reaching across the counter, she pulled my sweaty hand into hers. I stiffened but could think of no way to extricate myself from the hold. "They said I'm not supposed to tell you, so you won't worry, but I really think you should know. You know…so you can watch out."
"Madison." She was still talking but stopped when I tapped my free hand lightly on the counter. She looked up at me with sad-kitty eyes. "What aren't you supposed to tell me?"
There was a long pause as she hesitated, and then the words came out in a rush. "This isn't the first time there's been vandalism on your door. It's happened twice before. Nobody's supposed to tell you about it because you're not supposed to worry, because when you worry you can't work."
Oh, for the love of…
One time. One time in five years had I been unable to do my show, and it was because… Okay, it was because I'd had some anxiety. We'd been waiting to hear if the show was going to be renewed beyond the first year. I'd given up a really good teaching job at a university to get it off the ground, and yes, I'd had some anxiety. One day—one!—I'd had a bit of a meltdown on set. I was still mortified by the memory.
"Who told you I wasn't supposed to know?" I asked gently.
"I've said enough." Madison winced.
"You're not going to get in trouble." That thread of temper that I tended to bury deep down was sparking. I was the one being threatened, but I wasn't allowed to know what was going on? To hell with that.
"Your producer. The lady who wears…ah…" Madison's skin flushed pink.
The producer. The lady who wears very little. Margot.
"Thank you, Madison." This time my smile was genuine. I hesitated, feeling the need to give her something more. "Listen, after I've cleaned up, if you want to take a picture together, that would be fine."
"Really?" The way her eyes widened, it looked as though I'd just told her she was going to meet Harry Styles. "Wait until I show my friends! I have to touch up my makeup!"
She was already grabbing a makeup bag from beneath the desk. She didn't even notice when I left, crossing the lobby to the hallway where Margot's room was.
A picture—some days it seemed like that was all anybody wanted from me. Five years ago, people had been interested in talking to me, learning about the show and how I'd gotten into archaeology.
Now? They wanted a picture for their friends to like on Instagram. I got it, but that didn't mean I had to be happy about it.
"Cari?" My hand was raised to knock on Margot's door when I heard my name. I turned, finding Nolan Smith, one of the graduate students working on the dig. In his hand he held my water bottle, freshly filled with cold tea and ice. "You left this at the site, and I thought you might want it. Everything okay?"
"Did you know about the vandalism?" He blanched, guilt written all over his face. "You did. I can't believe you didn't tell me."
"How did you find out?" he asked carefully.
"Because there's more on my door right now." I arched an eyebrow. "And I can't believe you kept this from me."
"We just didn't want to worry you." He studied me, sincerity radiating from insanely blue eyes. "You know I only want the best for you."
"Right." Oh, this was awkward. "Um. Thanks for filling up my tea."
When I took the bottle from him, our fingers brushed, and I couldn't help but feel a little flip-flop in my belly.
Nolan was hot. A handful of years younger than me, he was tall and leanly muscled, looking exactly like the former high school basketball star that he was—golden-brown hair that flopped boyishly into those blue eyes, and a panty-dropping smile meant that he had more than one of the undergrads at the dig sighing over him.
He'd made me sigh a time or ten, as well. One night a couple of months ago, after a few too many rounds of beer at the bar attached to the crappy motel where we'd been staying, I'd let him kiss me. Okay, okay, I'd had a tequila shooter on top of the beer, been feeling uncharacteristically bold, and I'd kissed him. There might have been a bit of tipsy groping, too. What can I say? I hadn't been immune to him any more than the undergrads.
Except when we'd kissed… I can't say I felt nothing. But there hadn't been any chemistry, either. You know…that inexplicable, stomach-churning, toe-curling, indescribable something that randomly brings two people together?
Nothing. Nada. Nyet.
For the most part now, we pretended that those kisses had never happened, that he'd never pulled my breast from the cup of its bra and thumbed its nipple while we leaned against the wall in the hallway outside my room. But once in a while, he'd cast me that sexy little smirk again, making me think that he might have felt a bit more of that chemistry than I had.
"Going to see Margot?" The moment passed, and Nolan leaned against the wall.
"Yeah. About the vandalism." Irritation snaked through me again. I didn't like that I'd been left in the dark. It must have shown on my face, because he pushed back off the wall.
"Well, I think I'm going to go fill my bathtub with ice and sit in it for about an hour." He slid his hands into the pockets of his cargo shorts, though I thought I caught a flash of disappointment in his eyes. "See you at the bar later?"
"Maybe." I smiled tightly. "Enjoy your ice bath, you wild thing."
He laughed, sauntering back down the hall. I sighed, then knocked on Margot's door. "It's unlocked!" The producer of Digging Discoveries with Dr. Dunn had a voice that sounded like she smoked a pack a day, even though she'd quit smoking two years earlier. I pushed into her room—what the motel laughingly called a suite—and found her seated at the desk, dressed in what she considered business attire—a short, tight skirt that wouldn't cover a thing if she sneezed, and a camisole that she wore with nothing underneath.
In her early forties, with cherry-red lips and long black hair, she looked pretty good. But the combination of the air-conditioning and her thin top meant that I didn't quite know where to look. Madison would have been speechless. "Someone vandalized my door. Would you happen to know anything about it?"
Margot and I weren't alone in the room. There was a man standing against the wall, a man so massive I wasn't sure how my eyes hadn't immediately been drawn to him. I knew that I'd never seen him before.
He stood with his boots planted shoulder-width apart, hands behind his back, his bearing rigid. He was easily a foot over my own five-three, but it wasn't his height that made him seem so gigantic. He was just big, a huge mass of rock-solid muscle.
Really hot rock-solid muscle. Simply dressed in jeans and a plain white T-shirt, he had biceps roughly the size of my head. Tawny skin stretched tightly over those muscles, daring my fingers to find out if he was hard or soft to the touch.
His hair was closely cropped and black as night, and the eyes that flicked a steely gaze my way were a pale, ethereal green and surrounded by dark lashes. The eyes seemed at odds with the rest of him, too beautiful to match the solid flesh everywhere else.
"This her?" He barely moved, cocking his head the tiniest bit at Margot, who nodded.
"Sit down, Cari." With a wave of her hand, she indicated that should I sit on the ratty couch against the wall. I did, watching the man warily.
"Margot, what's going on?" My producer often played the part of a Southern belle, ratcheting up the drama, especially in the presence of an attractive man. Right now, though, she simply removed her reading glasses and sighed.
"What's this about paint on your door?"
"Spray paint. Nice and fresh." I fidgeted, crossing my legs before uncrossing them again. "Apparently someone thinks I'm a bitch. And apparently, this hasn't been the first time."
I pursed my lips as I stared her down. No, I didn't care for confrontation, but I knew Margot better than I knew myself most days. I wasn't afraid to let her know how unhappy I was to be left out of this.
"Shit." Margot looked at the man. I don't think he moved, but something in that exchange seemed to answer her question. "Cari, I haven't been honest with you. It's not just your door here at the motel. There have been threats."
"What are you talking about?" She had my full attention now, dragging it away from the massive man.
"Well. Since someone's lips have been flapping…this isn't the first act of vandalism. Someone painted some other choice words on your truck while you were at the site one day."
"What?" I'd felt a little bit nauseous when I'd first seen the damage done to my door. Now I fought against the bile that wanted to coat my throat. "What words?"
"I believe you were called a slut and a cock tease." She tapped her glasses on the desk and cast me a sympathetic glance. "Nolan washed the paint off before it could dry."
"Nolan knew about this?" Temper made the words sound like lashes of a whip. "And no one thought I needed to know?"
"Well, the paint was annoying but not harmful, honey. Given the wording, I thought it was Russ Daly. You know, since you turned down that delightful offer to…what was it? Knock you up and keep you that way?"
Cock tease. Next time I saw him, maybe I'd punch him in the nose after all.
"So why are you telling me now?" I was more than a little pissed that both Margot and Nolan, and hell, probably other members of my team, had known about this and said nothing.
"Yesterday someone sent me one of our promo posters. They'd drawn in some, ah, bodily harm and some more choice names." Margot rubbed her fingers over her lips. The massive man remained silent. "We've notified the local police, but the network decided they'd feel better if you had some protection."
"Protection?" I echoed, staring dumbly at her. This was surreal. I couldn't wrap my head around it. "I'm not carrying a gun. You know I hate them."
"You won't be the one with the gun." The words were a deep rumble, whiskey and steel. Looking up, I found myself on the receiving end of a stare from those insanely gorgeous eyes set in that badass face.
Something inside of me came alive as he watched me quietly—my skin became sensitized, my flesh felt warm.
"Margot, who the hell is this?" I ran my tongue over suddenly dry lips. I didn't know how to deal with this…whatever the hell it was. My pulse was thundering, and I felt short of breath.
"Cari, this is Jasper Benjamin." The man tilted his head, the classic guy nod, but he didn't take his eyes off me. How could he be so stoic when all of these feelings were racing around inside of me? Didn't he feel it, too?
"He's your new bodyguard."


The first part of the warlock entry is uphttp://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/frcc/20070314. This one includes a novel tie in, courtesy of Erik Scott de Bie.
Eytan . . . I have to say I like your Glasya hook a lot better than the one that shows up in the Fiendish Codex II Web Enhancement . . . no offense to the author intended. I like the idea of other evil organizations within Zhentil Keep . . . I can already picture campaigns where PCs have to figure out who the lesser evil is, the Zhentarim or the Black Star.
Thanks. Much of the credit for the Black Star (if not most) goes to Erik's fertile mind. The basic idea was his and I adapted it a bit (with some help from George Krashos) to current Realms events and included the organizational format.
Yeah, Erik and George seem to be alright folk as well . . .
I loved the new format for the warlock any chance you can go back and add a part 2 to the Duskblade, Knight, Beguilers and Dragon Shamans?
I don't know about second parts. Because of the novel tie-in, the folks at WotC gave me a much larger wordcount. As for the tone, you're right about that. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I realized that warlocks were one of those classes that could change the Realms more significantly than others. With the inclusion of a warlock in Erik's novel and as a reference in an existing Realms sourcebook, it seemed to me that it was time to make this particular entry a bit more factual. All of it is still optional, of course. It's a lot easier to adopt a factual tone when you've got a lot of room to include detail. In the other articles, there just isn't room for sample NPCs, organization stat blocks, or new feats. That said, I have described several new organizations in upcoming entries.
It's important to keep in mind that the articles are in a queue. I'd already written several entries before the next installment was released. I have certainly heard the feedback and have taken it into account, but by the time I received it, several of the articles were already written. That said, I think the ones after the PHB2 have been significantly better as a whole, but we'll have to wait and see.
Good job Eytan! I love the article!
Asmodeus' daughter in the Realms hey? now things are getting interesting, and my GREAT COSMOLOGY UNIFYING THEORY is being proven true!
Well done, Eytan -- looks gorgeous.
And I look forward to seeing the rest of your warlocks work in the weeks to come.
Eytan, expanding the question of Dargoth, any chance you can go back and add a part 2 to the Duskblade, Knight, Beguilers and Dragon Shamans here to Candlekeep, or maybe to a new edition of the Candlekeep Compendium?
I won't say never on this sort of thing, but right now my mind is a bit tapped from the numerous additional articles. The first set was a learning experience and now that I know how it went, I have been doing a few things differently with upcoming ones. In other words, it's possible, but not at the moment.
The sage Zeboaster (also known as the "sage on the run" after loudly and publicly proclaiming several poorly-thought-out opinions) has pointed out that previous multi-class groups such as the Knights of Myth Drannor indicate that the classic knight has outlived its time and stiffnecked chivalry is an anachronism of a simpler, more primitive past.
I think you could argue (to a greater or lesser extent) that the same is true of numerous fantasy settings, Dragonlance for example. Either way, there will always be people who buck these trends in their world and hold to the importance of chivalry, honor, and tradition.
Most fantasy has a nestling effect in which it's simultaneously myth, taking place in illo tempore, in the golden age, and realist fiction happening in a historical present from which people can look 'back' into the mythical time. I think the knights thing is a manifestation of that.
Mod edit: Fixed the link.
...And they misspelled Erik's last name.
I really enjoyed this one. It's nicely tied into the setting, and there's plenty of material there that can be used as adventure hooks.
Indeed they did. I didn't even notice in my excitement, but now they you pointed it out, I couldn't help but laugh. Not at the misspelling of Erik's name because that's always annoying, but the change to "Brie." I know what I'm getting Erik for his birthday. Having had my name misspelled in 3 WotC product catalogs, I am very sympathetic.
Oh and the link doesn't seem to work right now at the moment. To access it, just go to the Wizards main page or FR main page.
Mod edit: Fixed the link. The period on the end was throwing it off.
Bah! I'm inured to name-gaffes, generally speaking. "Debris" and "De Brine," "De Vie" and "de Vrie," all are welcome.
I hardly did much as an author on this part -- the most I did was glance through and give Eytan two enthusiastic thumbs up. He's the genius, not I, and he knows his warlocks.
The funny part is that Erik had a lot more input on the first part, but wasn't included in the by line. This one was almost entirely me (though Erik provided a lot of helpful comments) and he gets it here. At least credit appeared somewhere.
Wow . . . just . . . wow. I read this the day I finally got Dragon 354, and one day after getting Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave. I'm on Realmslore overload here. This article was excellent, and not just because it gave Realmsian context to Warlocks.
A lot of these hooks are things that aren't just good for having some Warlock background, they are full blown Realmslore hooks that I hope get followed up on in future products/novels, etc.
I've been hoping for a while that Wendonai would get some follow up material, and the idea that you have tied Wendonai to the surviving daemonfey is brilliant. I really hope to see this whole thread followed up on.
I've also been a big fan of the Shadar-kai, so its great to see some Realms tie in with them as well. Of course, I had them pegged for Shaodwcasters when it comes to the newer classes, but I can appreciate Shadar-kai warlocks as well.
Loved the "return" of the Queen of Air and Darkness and Titania to Realmslore, and the extra fleshing out of Star Elves, their history, and their current events.
Great work once again Eytan.
At least credit appeared somewhere.
Great work again Mr. Bernstein!
I know why that happened. While I was writing it, I had just gotten finished talking with Ari Marmell, the guy who wrote those classes. He admitted that the naming of the classes had allowed a mistake and that they should be switched.. Regardless, you're correct. It should be eldritch disciples, not theurges.


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Dual gunmen strike again, carjacking woman in Loop
December 3, 2020 CWBChicago Bucktown, Lincoln Park, Loop
Police are investigating yet another armed carjacking in which two gunmen emerged from a silver SUV to hijack a vehicle in traffic. Thursday's incident in the Loop follows two similar cases Saturday in Bucktown and Lincoln Park.
Around 2:45 Thursday morning, two gunmen got out of a silver SUV and approached a vehicle that was waiting for the red light on Ida B. Wells at State Street, according to Chicago police.
The offenders both displayed handguns and ordered the 28-year-old female driver and her male passenger out of the victims' black 2019 Mercedes, a police spokesperson said.
Both occupants of the Mercedes complied, and the carjackers sped away westbound with the car, followed by the SUV. Just ten minutes after the hijacking, CPD license plate readers detected the stolen car nearly five miles away in the Garfield Park neighborhood.
The carjacking closely resembles an attempted carjacking over the weekend in Lincoln Park and a successful hijacking about 90 minutes later in Bucktown.
Around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, a woman told police that two men got out of a silver vehicle while brandishing guns in an apparent carjacking attempt near the intersection of Clark and Fullerton in Lincoln Park. They pointed guns at her as she sat in traffic, and pulled on her door handles, but the woman managed to drive away.
Then, just after 8 a.m., a driver was carjacked by two offenders who got out of a silver Jeep that was stopped in front of him at a red light on North Avenue at the intersection of Milwaukee and Damen. Both gunmen got out of a silver Jeep that was stopped in front of the 38-year-old victim's car.
The hijackers ordered the man out of his vehicle and drove off with the victim's black 2019 Audi A5 followed by the silver Jeep.
Investigators believe the Jeep was also hijacked Saturday morning on the West Side, according to a source.
The victims have consistently described the carjackers as two young Black males who stand 5'8" to 5'10" tall and wear masks. In each case, they worked with a third person who stayed in the silver SUV.
Late Saturday night, two men approached a driver while he sat in his car near Monroe and Wabash in the Loop and pointed a handgun at him. The driver stayed in his car, and the men ran into a nearby alley empty-handed. No vehicle was seen in that incident, however.

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Q: Slow ssh response on server On my Centos7 system, whenever I try ssh, the "Login" prompt comes up fast, but the next prompt to ask for password takes about 2 mins to appear. I debugged the ssh session and I found between the below two debugs it gets hung somewhere. After sending 50 packets, it stays put for 2 mins and then it receives 51 packets and then the rest of the part is at normal pace. I have another system which I debugged for ssh but there was no latency observed between those two packet transactions
**debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 51**
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password
debug3: preferred gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password

debug3: authmethod_lookup gssapi-keyex
debug3: remaining preferred: gssapi-with-mic,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password

A: Sounds like there might be several DNS lookup attempts failing during the 2 min delay. The most common reason could be inability to reverse lookup the name of the client host when only its IP address is known.
If you login to the server and run dig +short -x <client IP address>, does the prompt come back effectively immediately (with or without an answer), or is there a delay?
If you are not using the GSSAPI authentication methods, disabling them server-side might help. Also ensure that the server's /etc/ssh/sshd_config has UseDNS no unless you specifically need the sshd to perform DNS lookups.

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What do molds and fungi need to grow? Moisture and warmth.
As the climates of significant parts of our planet become increasingly hot and wet, experts are advising that we'll see changes in the development of the molds that harm agriculture in those areas.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has reported that the gradual increase in temperature seen on the continent in recent decades, along with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air and changing rainfall patterns, is leading to increased amounts of mold in regions that previously were not as greatly affected.
These molds can produce harmful mycotoxins, naturally occurring toxins that especially impact grains, either while they're still in the field, or when in storage.
To ensure their crops meet EFSA's mycotoxin limits in human food and animal feed, producers have increased the amount of mycotoxin testing and strengthened their mycotoxin monitoring programs. Farmers in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, are reporting how the unusually wet weather of 2017 has led to a "bleak picture" in terms of mycotoxins.
Aflatoxin is one such mycotoxin that's become a big deal during the warm, humid summers of Southern Europe, especially in maize. As the weather in parts of Central Europe start looking a little more like that of the south, experts are concerned that aflatoxin will become a bigger hazard there. Using predictive maps, EFSA has shown that the likeliest highest risk of mycotoxins will come with a temperature increase of just a few degrees.
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Morton manager Jim Duffy reckons that his side are visiting Easter Road just as Alan Stubbs' project to make Hibs a force in Scottish football again is coming to the boil.
Duffy was impressed, but not surprised, that the Edinburgh side could make seven changes to their starting line-up against Alloa on Sunday and still run out 3-0 winners.
A win would move Morton back above Queen of the South and into fifth place, but Duffy knows only a perfect 90 minutes will take his side close to three points.
He said: "We actually played okay in our game with Falkirk at the weekend but the performances from both sides were over-shadowed by the injury to Connor McGrandles.
"Falkirk edged a 1-0 win but I did not think that we deserved to lose. We were knocking on the door a lot in an attacking sense but could not get in.
The Greenock squad look set to be five players down tonight with Luca Gasparotto, Frank McKeown, Alex Samuel and Peter MacDonald all ruled out and Michael Miller struggling.


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Is the Big Society Collectivism in Disguise?
Frank Prochaska, University of Oxford
As Benjamin Disraeli once said, Britain is 'a very difficult country to move'. But over the past century it has gradually moved to become a highly centralized state, a trend that all the political parties now say they regret and wish to reverse. As discussed on this blog before, David Cameron will find measures to do so are likely to prompt disappointment and lead to unexpected consequences.
On the face of it, the big society described by Cameron has much to recommend it. In so far as it enlivens local communities and reduces the burdensome regulations on charities it will be of social benefit. Charitable partnerships with local government have advantages in spreading participation and educating the central state about the pressing issues that matter to people on the periphery. But we should not assume that they will reduce the role of government or encourage volunteering or voluntary donations. What we may be undergoing is a further stage in the perfection of the state monolith under the guise of partnership, a process that one charitable director calls 'a cultural takeover by stealth'. Paradoxically, the big society may result in more government rather than less.
Baroness Thatcher visits David Cameron at Downing Street in June 2010
Since the War, both major parties have wished to co-opt rival centres of authority. In the voluntary sector, they have done so through subsidy and regulation. Margaret Thatcher, for her part, often talked about voluntarism, but under the guise of Victorian liberalism she further centralized and carried forward the very collectivist agenda that she disavowed. There is a good deal of Mrs Thatcher in Cameron's vision, though he dare not speak her name for fear of frightening the children and the Liberal Democrats. Only time will tell whether the Prime Minister's version of Victorian values will simply lead to greater government intervention and spending, as happened in the past.
For decades, charities have been, as I put it years ago, 'swimming into the mouth of Leviathan'. Their steady absorption by the state has blurred the boundaries of charitable and government provision, which has created much of the current confusion over the big society. Historically, the two had different philosophies and purposes, which led to a productive tension between them. Such tension is both desirable and invigorating, for one of the roles of a voluntary association, undermined by this merger, is to act as a critic of government policy. As one charitable official admits, 'no one is rude to his rich uncle'.
Charity should be seen not as the 'junior partner' in the welfare state, but as an alternative to statutory or collective provision. The essence of voluntarism is its independence and autonomy. Government provision depends on compulsory taxation; it is not altruistic but materialist in conception. In a benign social democratic state, it is largely about furthering equality. Voluntary provision, on the other hand, cannot be extorted by force; historically, its proponents were driven by individualist motives, though they may also be egalitarian. The myriad charities of the nineteenth century typically grew out of a religious ethos and a liberal polity and were chary of government.
Today, leading charities rush to shelter with the state like creatures in a storm. Consequently, the balance of power in the voluntary sector has tipped in favour of large, publicly funded institutions, which often act more like lobbyists than charitable campaigns. The many letters and articles in the press from institutions pleading with the government for further money suggests the nervousness among the 35,000 societies that presently receive state funding. The 130,000 or so charities that do not receive state support, typically small institutions, rarely have a voice in the media and are largely outside the debate, though they will be influenced by its results. What is the government planning to do for them, apart from offering them contracts?
Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society
It is telling that the first thing the government did when it said it wanted to 'roll back the state' was to expand the ministry that deals with the voluntary sector, in this case the Ministry for Civil Society. Such a ministry would have seemed a contradiction in terms to a Victorian. What is Nick Hurd doing as Britain's Minister for the voluntary sector? Well, he is spending taxpayer money on more government administration and doling out public funds to co-opted, client charities, which he will regulate and control, if only because of the need for government accountability. It is worth noting that a much touted £100 million fund will simply encourage charities to compete for government contracts, which is hardly scaling back the state.
What is little recognized is that 'charities' in receipt of state funding are hardly independent or voluntary. Laughably, the more they take the more they proclaim their independence. As they are brought into the orbit of government, they take on a view of welfare inherited from the state, whose contracts set their agenda. Once on the payroll of the taxpayer, they have less incentive to raise funds privately. Indeed, some 'charitable' directors are embarrassed to be seen as such, for they think of themselves as employees of government. The leader of one prominent society told this writer privately that he thought charity 'demeaning', yet his institution enjoys the tax benefits that charitable status provides.
Most of the commanding institutions of the voluntary sector see links with government as highly desirable, keeping them in the mainstream of national policy while easing their funding problems. It may seem contradictory, but the charitable establishment has been decidedly collectivist for decades. Charitable officials, who often have a background in government service, do not want to return to a time when voluntary institutions were responsible for essential services. Talk about rolling back the state makes them nervous. They are content to take state funding and serve as welfare providers in a devolved form of collectivism. Many of them have simply run out of good campaigning ideas; otherwise they would be able to raise money elsewhere.
In the 1980s, about 10% of overall charitable revenue came from government; today the figure is approaching 50%, while individual contributions are in decline. We may be reaching a tipping point, when individuals will assume that charities are essentially government agencies paid for by taxation and consequently no longer feel the need to contribute as individuals – a problem universities have had for decades. From the point of view of the charities, those that work closely with local and central government are more likely to shape their priorities to suit available grants, to create their own bureaucracies, to distance charitable campaigners from beneficiaries, and to play down religion, which has been the taproot of charity in the past.
Dr Frank Prochaska
Presumably, the big society is not simply about the delivery of social services, but about civic democracy and personal contribution. It is a call for scaling back government in favour of greater self-determination, self help, and welfare pluralism. This is what the government says it wants. But if our politicians really believed in such principles they would dramatically increase the tax incentives to giving and further reduce the unnecessary regulations on those local institutions that receive no state assistance and which are the backbone of civic life. There has been little sign of this to date, for it would reduce government revenue and control.
The charitable establishment seems to be content with further government intervention, seeking only to extract ever-greater sums from the taxpayer. Cameron's commitment to provide government contracts worth billions to charities and social enterprises suits their purposes. But if voluntary institutions cherish their independence they need to be saved from themselves, and the government would be doing them a favour if it reduced the subsidies and removed the charitable status of institutions that receive the bulk of their revenue from government.
Much charity works within classes rather than between them. Why not use some of the money to award prizes without strings attached to innovative institutions in working-class and ethnic communities? Arguably, invigorating the rich tradition of working-class and ethnic philanthropy is the best hope of the big society. But such charity is largely outside the purview of central government. Nor is it of much interest to the media, which is largely insensitive to the charitable grass roots and continues to equate philanthropy with social hierarchy. This is not the way it is viewed on the housing estates and in ethnic communities, where charity, both formal and informal, is a way of life.
In 'a very difficult country to move', the big society does not foreshadow the end of the welfare state as the naysayers predict. It looks set to reshape it in the guise of devolution. But it would be ironic if it simply led to more government responsibility, however devolved, and not to the greater personal responsibility that all the political parties say they desire. A debate about the respective boundaries of charity and the state, between the 'virtue' of charity and the 'right' to welfare, is urgently needed.
This is an amended version of a talk given at a conference on the 'Big Society' at Christ Church College, Oxford, in February 2011.
To cite this article, please use: Frank Prochaska, 'Is the Big Society Collecitivism in Disguise', Voluntary Action History Society Blog (19 March 2012). Available at: http://www.vahs.org.uk/2012/03/big-society-prochaska/
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Cassius Clay (soon Muhammad Ali) fought a ten-round boxing match with Tony Esperti in Miami on January 17, 1961. Clay won the bout through a technical knockout when the referee stopped the fight in the third round after Esparti's left eye had been cut by Clay's jabs. Esperti was later convicted of first degree murder for gunning down mafia boss Thomas Altamura, a member of the Gambino crime family.

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Limonium melitense ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Bleiwurzgewächse (Plumbaginaceae). Sie ist ausschließlich in Malta beheimatet.

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Limonium melitense ist eine ausdauernde, strauchige Pflanze mit niedrigem, verzweigten Wuchs. Sie ist unbehaart und 8 bis 30 Zentimeter hoch. Die flachen, grünen, verkehrt lanzettlichen Blätter sind 10 bis 30 Millimeter lang und 3 bis 7 Millimeter breit und am äußeren Ende gerundet bis abgestumpft. Sie bilden eine bodenständige Rosette. Zur Blütezeit vertrocknet das Blattwerk in der Regel.

Blütezeit ist von Sommer bis Herbst. Die Stängel des Blütenstandes sind aufrecht und vielfach verzweigt, an den Knoten brüchig, die Internodien sind 3 bis 15 Millimeter lang und gerade bis leicht gebogen. Der Blütenstand ist eine endständige Rispe, die einzelnen Ähren sind 1 bis 4,5 Zentimeter lang. Die je Zentimeter drei bis vier Ährchen sind zwei- bis drei-, selten vierblütig. Das äußere Tragblatt ist 1,5 Millimeter lang und 1,5 Millimeter breit, breit eiförmig und mit einem breiten weißen Rand versehen. Das mittlere Tragblatt ist 1,5 Millimeter lang und 1 Millimeter breit, elliptisch-eiförmig und mit weißem Rand versehen. Das innere Tragblatt ist 5 bis 5,5 Millimeter lang, 2,5 Millimeter breit und weist einen breiten transparenten Rand auf. Der Kelch ist 5,5 bis 6 Millimeter lang; der Limbus ist länger als die Röhre. Die spitz zulaufenden Kelchlappen sind 0,5 Millimeter lang. Die Krone ist von hell blauvioletter Farbe und rund 8 Millimeter lang.

Die Chromosomenzahl beträgt 2n = 18.

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Die ausschließlich in Malta beheimatete Art besiedelt dort Küstenstandorte mit salzigen Böden, Klippen und felsige Standorte. Sie ist häufig.

Systematik und botanische Geschichte
Die Art wurde 1988 von Salvatore Brullo anhand einer Aufsammlung aus dem Jahre 1985 erstbeschrieben. Das Artepitheton vom lateinischen Wort für Malta verweist auf die Heimat der Art.

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An aid agency is an organisation dedicated to distributing aid. Many professional aid organisations exist, both within government (e.g. AusAID, USAID, DFID, EuropeAid, ECHO), between governments as multilateral donors (e.g. UNDP) and as private voluntary organizations or non-governmental organisations, (e.g. ActionAid, Ducere Foundation, Oxfam, World Vision). The International Committee of the Red Cross is the world's oldest humanitarian organisation and is unique in being mandated by international treaty to uphold the Geneva Conventions.
Aid can be subdivided into two categories: humanitarian aid (emergency relief efforts, e.g. in response to natural disasters), and development aid (or foreign aid), aimed at helping countries to achieve long-term sustainable economic growth, with the aim of achieving poverty reduction. Some aid agencies carry out both kinds of aid (e.g. EcoCARE Pacific Trust and ADRA), whilst others specialise (e.g. Red Cross, humanitarian aid; War on Want, development aid).
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Agency may refer to:
A governmental or other institution.
The abstract principle that autonomous beings, agents, are capable of acting by themselves: see also autonomy.
Advertising agency, a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients
Employment agency, a business that serves as a representative, acting on behalf of another
Government agency, a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function
International agency, an inter-governmental body
The Agency, a nickname for the Central Intelligence Agency
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Agency (law), a person acting on behalf of another person
Agency (LDS Church), "the privilege of choice ... introduced by God"
Agency (moral), capacity for making moral judgments
Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an autonomous agent to act, relating to action theory in philosophy
Agency (sociology), the ability of social actors to make independent choices, relating to action theory in sociology
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Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last label of every fully qualified domain name. They are called generic for historic reasons; initially, they were contrasted with country-specific TLDs in RFC 920.
The core group of generic top-level domains consists of the com, info, net, and org domains. In addition, the domains biz, name, and pro are also considered generic; however, these are designated as restricted, because registrations within them require proof of eligibility within the guidelines set for each.
Historically, the group of generic top-level domains included domains, created in the early development of the domain name system, that are now sponsored by designated agencies or organizations and are restricted to specific types of registrants. Thus, domains edu, gov, int, and mil are now considered sponsored top-level domains, much like the themed top-level domains (e.g., jobs). The entire group of domains that do not have a geographic or country designation (see country-code top-level domain) is still often referred to by the term generic TLDs.
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Moral agency is an individual's ability to make moral judgments based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions. A moral agent is "a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong."
Development and analysis
Most philosophers suggest only rational beings, who can reason and form self-interested judgments, are capable of being moral agents. Some suggest those with limited rationality (for example, people who are mildly mentally disabled or infants) also have some basic moral capabilities.
Determinists argue all of our actions are the product of antecedent causes, and some believe this is incompatible with free will and thus claim that we have no real control over our actions. Immanuel Kant argued that whether or not our real self, the noumenal self, can choose, we have no choice but to believe that we choose freely when we make a choice. This does not mean that we can control the effects of our actions. Some Indeterminists would argue we have no free will either. If, with respect to human behaviour, a so-called 'cause' results in an indeterminate number of possible, so-called 'effects', that does not mean the person had the free-thinking independent will to choose that 'effect'. More likely, it was the indeterminate consequence of his chance genetics, chance experiences and chance circumstances relevant at the time of the 'cause'.
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Winter is the coldest season of the year in polar and temperate climates, between autumn and spring. Winter is caused by the axis of the Earth in that hemisphere being oriented away from the Sun. Different cultures define different dates as the start of winter, and some use a definition based on weather. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. In many regions, winter is associated with snow and freezing temperatures. The moment of winter solstice is when the sun's elevation with respect to the North or South Pole is at its most negative value (that is, the sun is at its farthest below the horizon as measured from the pole), meaning this day will have the shortest day and the longest night. The earliest sunset and latest sunrise dates outside the polar regions differ from the date of the winter solstice, however, and these depend on latitude, due to the variation in the solar day throughout the year caused by the Earth's elliptical orbit (see earliest and latest sunrise and sunset).
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Winter (Italian: L'inverno) is a 2002 Italian romance-drama film written and directed by Nina Di Majo.
Valeria Golino as Anna
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as Marta
Fabrizio Gifuni as Leo
Paolo Paoloni as Eddy
Yorgo Voyagis as Gustavo
Alberto Di Stasio as Sandro
Romuald Andrzej Klos as Pit
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Winter at the Internet Movie Database
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Winter (born October 5, 2005) is a bottlenose dolphin at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Florida, US, widely known for having a prosthetic tail. She is the subject of the book Dolphin Tale, and the 2011 film of the same name, a dramatization of her story, and the sequel Dolphin Tale 2. Winter was found in the coastal waters of Florida in December 2005, caught in a crab trap, which resulted in the loss of her tail. She was then taken to Clearwater Marine Aquarium. The loss of her tail caused her to swim unnaturally with her tail moving side to side instead of up and down. As a result, she was fitted with a silicone-and-plastic tail that enabled her to swim normally. She has since become a highly popular attraction at the aquarium, which led to the film's making. She lives in her pool with another dolphin, Hope, who is the subject of the 2014 sequel to Dolphin Tale, Dolphin Tale 2.
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Winter was found in the ropes of a crab trap on December 10, 2005, in Mosquito Lagoon of the coastal waters of Florida. Winter received her name because she was found in December, traditionally considered a winter month, even though the exact date of her rescue (December 10) is actually within the American definition of autumn. The rope cut off the supply of blood to her tail. She was spotted and caught by a small fishing boat and a SeaWorld team (with assistance from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute), who brought her to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
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In Winter, Kittie
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You fell to the ground like rain
On deaf ears your cries met hands And knees were blistered
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But they never listen
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The Coldest Winter...
You don't see me like I know you
Hiding behind glass
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Acquired in Portugal and certified to be from its colonies, it is a sculpture from the East-coast, this masterful carving evokes the sculptures of the Makonde.
The Makonde are an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique. The Makonde successfully resisted predation by African, Arab, and European slavers. During the 1960s, the revolution which drove the Portuguese out of Mozambique was launched from the Makonde homeland of the Mueda Plateau. * Wikipedia.


Along with the May 30 minimum wage increase announcement, the Ontario Liberals have put forward legislation that would introduce a number of sweeping changes to labour law in the province. This is a start to supporting working people in Ontario, but it doesn't go far enough.
In a recent speech, Deena Ladd from the Workers' Action Centre in Toronto described Ontario's labour law as "Swiss cheese." Whatever protections it contains do not cover all workers. If you are: a young person, a domestic worker, work in agriculture or horticulture, work in a business with fewer than 20 employees, or a liquor server, then you fall through one of the many holes in Ontario's workplace protections.
If you are 18 or younger — that is to say, if you are one of the many young people struggling to save up for post-secondary education in a province with some of the highest tuition fees in the country — you are not paid minimum wage. Similarly, liquor servers are not paid the provincial minimum wage — for some, this is offset by tips, but this is not the case for everyone. As a former server, I can personally attest that there are evenings when restaurant workers in Ontario are simply making less than minimum wage, tips included.
If you are a worker in a workplace with fewer than 20 employees in Ontario, your employer has no responsibility to ensure that there is a trained Workplace Health and Safety representative in your workplace. Having such a rep means that at least one worker is informed about possible hazards in the workplace and able to make recommendations to management for improvements to safety policy and protocols. This is legally required in larger workplaces. However, smaller workplaces are exempt. The health and safety of workers is compromised as a result.
Lastly, the Liberals' labour law reforms do not address the exclusion of domestic, agricultural and horticultural workers from the right to unionize. Domestic workers, a group comprised almost entirely of women, are excluded on the grounds that a domestic worker's "special bond" with her employer would be damaged if she had the power to file formal grievances when her employer fails to respect her basic rights.
The Ontario Liberals recognize the importance of improving the enforcement of Ontario's employment standards. The best protection a worker can have is education and a formal, protected means of filing workplace grievances. While the Liberals have made a good start in supporting working people in Ontario with the minimum wage increase, too many people are still being left behind.


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One of the largest employers in the Enterprise Park at Calverton was given a 15-year tax incentive by the Riverhead Industrial Development Agency Monday. The package is intended to keep the company in Calverton.
Island International Exterior Fabricators was given a 15-year property tax abatement on three buildings it occupies at EPCAL. The vote was 4-0, with one member absent.
The incentive package will save the company an estimated $2.72 million in property taxes over the life of the abatement. That amounts to around 32 percent less than what they would pay over the same 15 years without the abatements, officials said.
That amount is less than the full abatement on real estate taxes over 15 years that the company had originally asked for in December.
Island International will also receive an abatement of county mortgage taxes totaling $56,250 and sales tax exemptions on building materials used in their expansion proposal totaling $129,375, bringing the total tax savings to $2.9 million.
Island will still pay a total of $5.76 million in property taxes over that 15-year period, which will be comprised of $4.09 million in payments in lieu of taxes and $1.675 million in special district taxes, such as water and sewer district, over the 15 years, according to the IDA.
The tax incentives are contingent upon Island retaining the 214 manufacturing jobs it currently has at EPCAL, plus the 80 additional manufacturing jobs that will be created in the first two years of expansion projects on two of the buildings it owns at EPCAL.
Island also plans to retain between 50 and 75 professional jobs at EPCAL and off site.
The IDA submits annual compliance reports to the state on whether job estimates are being met.
Company officials told the IDA in December that they had considered moving part of its operations to locations in New Jersey or Pennsylvania, which had lower costs. They said their main competition comes from less-costly places like Mexico, Asia and Europe.
"We've invested in EPCAL since 1999 and we're committed to stay here," Island International owner and CEO Tim Stevens said in an interview in September.
IDA member Lori Pipczynski, who wasn't present Monday, said by letter, "Island International represents what Riverhead had in mind when it began planning for the reuse of the (EPCAL) property." She was an assistant to then-Supervisor Jim Stark in 1996.
Island International is planning a 20,000-square-foot addition to the building it owns at 400 Burman Blvd. and a 60,000-square-foot expansion to the building it owns at 1100 Scott Ave. One of the buildings Island has sought tax abatements on, known as Building 347, is leased by them from another company.


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Could you please elaborate on Frisian Shipwrights. Sounds kind of interesting.
I question the statement "when you are done with her". This is not boot camp.
Do you really think we don't know that? It's not the first time for any of us that we're working with an apprentice.
It's a shipwright from the province of Friesland in the north of The Netherlands.
I for one am glad that there are still apprentice programs in parts of the world that encourage passing on practical knowledge and skills to those willing to work, toil, learn and try!
Fact is that in the luxury boat/shop business a few handful of firms in the area together hold a mayor share in the worldwide business, on a par with the Italians.
And there's a good reason for this. Dutch yacht builders, together with the Italians, are the best yacht builders in the world. Take Feadship for example, no other company anywhere in the world delivers the quality they do. A good friend of mine and one of the finest shipwrights I know used to work for Royal de Vries in Makkum (one of the Feadship yards) and he and a couple of his fellow shipwrights went to the US some years ago for a re-fit on a yacht that was built at de Vries. This was at Christensen Yachts if I remember correctly, and the shipwrights over there thought they were pretty good but after a few days the saying was: "If it aint Dutch, it aint much."


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Nidhi Chahal and Santanu Chaudhury, "Stereo Pair Generation by Introducing Bokeh in Single 2D Images", PerMIn 2015, In ACM, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Perception and Machine Intelligence, pages 224-229.
Nidhi Chahal and Santanu Chaudhury, "Fixed Point Learning Based 3D Conversion of 2D Videos", In Springer, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 2015, Volume 9124, pp 85-94.
Nidhi Chahal and Santanu Chaudhury, "2D to 3D Conversion of Videos using Fixed Point Learning Approach", In IEEE, 9th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), pages 8-13, 20 Dec - 22 Dec 2016.
Nidhi Chahal and Santanu Chaudhury, "High Quality Depth Map Estimation by Kinect Upsampling and Hole Filling using RGB Features and Mutual Information," In IEEE, Fourth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), pages 1-4, Dec. 2013.
Nidhi Chahal, Meghna Pippal and Santanu Chaudhury, "Automated Conversion of 2D to 3D Image using Manifold Learning", In IEEE, Fifth National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), pages 1-4, Dec. 2015.
Nidhi Chahal, Meghna Pippal, Santanu Chaudhury, "Depth Estimation from Single Image using Machine Learning Techniques", In ACM, Tenth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4753-2, 18 – 22 December 2016, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Nidhi has earned her Ph.D in Computer Vision and Machine Learning from Electrical Engineering department, IIT Delhi. She has received Master of Technology from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Noida and Bachelor of Technology from MDU Rohtak. The central component of her research has been machine learning and image processing, more specifically in area of 3D applications. The target applications of her research are next generation 3D smart camera devices, vehicle navigation using computer vision techniques. In her last endeavour, she has worked as a research associate at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in projects funded by DST. Earlier, she has worked as visiting faculty at Delhi Technological University (formerly DCE). She has 6 publications in national and international conferences.


There's blue skies in between the random outbursts of hail here in Sheffield, and that can mean only one thing: Spring is on its way.
And that means that political activism is hotting up.
I've just had an email – which will have gone out to every member of the NUS – about a group called "HOPE not hate". Apologies for the strange, unnecessary capitals, but it wasn't me that thought up the name.
Now, I didn't even know that the European elections were coming up. But if there's even a modicum of a chance that the BNP might get in, we need to be voting, because a nastier group is hard to imagine since Robert Kilroy-Silk stopped heading UKIP.
"Next thing: the treatment of women.
And this isn't just my opinion. This is Western culture. Look back, as far as you want to go – the Rennaissance, Roman sculpture, Greek art – central to all those things was the depiction of the female form. It is part of our culture, our heritage.
In all honesty, it's quite a shock to find the BNP mentioning women at all, given that a search for "woman", "women", "girl" and "female" in their 2007 manifesto turned up… absolutely nothing. Women are also not mentioned in their policies tab, and nor are any of their leaflets specifically about women (although unsurprisingly, they are given a fleeting mention in the "Islam issue" leaflet). Why, if I didn't know better, I could almost think that they didn't really care about women!
Sarcasm aside, this is important. The BNP are a serious threat, specifically because they don't hide the fact that they're a party comprised of just about every "phobia" you can imagine. I've put up a link to the HOPE not hate campaign in the sidebar, in the form of a pretty picture, because I'm a sucker for happy-looking graphics.
Less fluffily, this is my call for everybody who can vote in the European elections, to vote. Please. I seriously don't care who you support, as long as it isn't this lot of fascists. Or UKIP, of course. Please register to vote. Please don't let the BNP get in.
The HOPE not hate campaign has a number of local groups, which you can find here. Yorkshire seems a little less well represented than I would have hoped, but they do have a HQ in leeds, and there are email addresses for some other cities. The email address given for Sheffield, however, leads to Barnsley, so I assume that there isn't a Sheffield-specific group at the moment.


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MONUSCO: Guterres' condolences after the death of a Moroccan peacekeeper
A Moroccan blue helmet belonging to the contingent of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) died Tuesday during rebel attacks against several deployment sites of the FAR contingent. In this painful circumstance, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres offered his most sincere condolences to Morocco.
A press release from UN spokesman Farhan Haq indicates that the UN Secretary-General "presents his most sincere condolences" to the family of the deceased and to the Moroccan government.
Guterres thus recalled the status-of-forces agreement concluded between the UN and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which guarantees the inviolability of UN premises, stressing that any attack directed against United Nations peacekeepers United may constitute a war crime.
In this context, he called on the Congolese authorities to investigate these incidents and quickly bring those responsible to justice, reaffirming the firm commitment of the United Nations to sovereignty, independence, unity and integrity. territory of the DRC.
Through his Special Representative and his Mission mandated by the Security Council, will continue to support the Congolese government and people in their efforts to establish peace and stability in the east of the country, he said. added.
As a reminder, a press release from the General Staff of the FAR indicated on Tuesday that the deceased succumbed to his injuries caused by firearms fire during the rebel attacks against several deployment sites of the FAR contingent, taking advantage of an aggressive demonstration by the local population against the presence of MONUSCO, which took place on 25 and 26 July.
These attacks, it is noted, also caused 20 minor injuries among the soldiers of the FAR contingent at the Nyamilima site, who were immediately taken care of.
Two other peacekeepers of Indian nationality were killed in these attacks while another of Egyptian nationality was injured.
In the statement, the UN SG also offered his condolences to the Indian government, while wishing speedy recovery to the injured.


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Mazda Celebrates Educators With New Essential Car Care Program
Following the success of its initial Essential Car Care Program for healthcare workers, Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) today announced its new program to provide educators with free standard oil changes at participating dealers nationwide. This program began with select Mazda dealers in early July and now is available nationally among participating dealers through September 30, for most makes and models.
"Mazda has a history of serving communities and this program is our way of expressing gratitude to the education community," MNAO President and CEO Jeff Guyton said. "By partnering with our dealer network to provide vehicle maintenance, we hope to assist educators who have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic as the new school year begins."