I, Effing Feline, am rich. My pet human, Ed Hoornaert, gave me another blog post to write and paid me eighteen cents! Do you have the foggiest notion how many millions eighteen cents is in cat money? I'm now the richest cat in the whole state!
I'm skipping ahead to the next turning point of Escapee. In The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart gets drunk because he's angry at Kate Hepburn for wanting to go on to attack the enemy, even after experiencing river rapids. In Escapee, Catt is angry at Hector for wanting to go on to attack the enemy, even after flying through a volcanic eruption.
Does Catt get drunk? Nothing that tame! While her airship has landed for the night, she sneaks out of the cabin and into the cargo hold, where she uses a forklift to pick up a crate holding the cannon Dukelsky needed for his attack. (Her ship delivered military supplies, if you remember.) She's going to dump the weapon off a cliff.
But as she drove the forklift over the bumpy rocks, her mind betrayed her. This was wrong. Dukelsky was right to fight against the invaders who had destroyed her world. She paused, looking around as though she'd never seen the looming bulk of Escapee before.
The seat of the forklift vibrated as the old machine idled, while she debated right and wrong on the barren, hostile crags of an uninhabitable world. If she debated long enough, the motor would run out of oxygen and its power would die of asphyxiation. Then she wouldn't have to decide at all. Would that be better than committing the grossest act of mulishness in a life filled with stubbornness?
Uphill from her, the airlock opened — Dukelsky!
Effing Feline here again. Looks like stubbornness is overruling Catt's sense of right and wrong.
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Watch out Effing, people will want to take out a loan with you!
You can just feel the war going on in Catt between self preservation and doing the right thing. Excellent snippet, as always, Ed.
For her, survival has always been the right thing. The only thing. With all the conflicts between them, perhaps the deepest is that he's an idealist and she's never been able to afford ideals.
Well, take off the hardhat in your image. She's wearing a biosuit helmet to allow her to breathe — rather like a spacesuit helmet.
"…the grossest act of mulishness in a life of stubbornness…" Now that's great writing, Ed.
Why, because I understand stubbornness from the inside?
I just pre-ordered my copy of Escapee!
You will be rewarded in heaven for this act of grace, Paula!
Fun snippet, and can't wait to see whether the plan with the forklift is successful.
Yep, that brings up something even I've wondered about. What's he going to spend his money on?
The act of being caught will, in this instance, help her decide.
Love the momentum in this piece…this may be the most exciting forklift scene ever!
I can't decide whether that forklift comment is a compliment, or sarcasm.
So much going on while that motor idles!! Great job, Ed!
I'm glad you feel the story isn't on idle.
"the grossest act of mulishness in a life filled with stubbornness?" Love this. It also describes my life pretty well.
Congrats to Effing! That's quite a pile of cash. I always refer to mine as the "idle rich," but I probably need to give them money for that to actually be true.
I suggest you go for it. As you can see, you don't have to give them much money.
Call it a bit of delicious-ness going on today. Love everything about this, Ed.
It ended well for me, leading up to probably my favorite scene in the book — which unfortunately doesn't lend itself to 10-sentence fragments.
Not a fan of mulish stubbornness but I do appreciate that she's trying to have an inner dialogue and understand herself. Interesting snippet!
In real life, no. But in a storybook character, mulish stubbornness can be a GREAT trait, leading to wonderful plot complications.
Uh-oh! I think she was about to make one decision, but getting caught might force her into another!
I enjoyed her internal debate, and what a great place to end the snippet. Can't wait to see how it plays out.
It took me a while, but I've come to the realization that a great snippet is one that ends with a zinger.
That was a great snippet Ed, I am enjoying this book very much!! Release day is coming!
All of a sudden, release is galloping toward me … and I'm NOT READY. Help!
Ha! Way to take the bull by the horns, Catt. But love how she waffles with the cannon hoisted in the forklift.
"cannon hoisted in the forklift" … I like the way you phrased that, Rose.
So many great things going on in this snippet. Has it occurred to her that unless she destroys the invaders she's going to be out of a livelihood?
And congrats to Effing on now being a professional blogger!
Now that I think about it, Effing has made more money blogging than I have!
Interesting that you say her mind betrayed her, as if changing her mind would be traitorous to her own future. Or perhaps it will? I have pre-ordered the book and look forward to reading it.
Catt had built herself a confined, straightforward life that didn't require a lot of second thoughts. With Dukelsky on board, she's in new waters.
Gunned the motor right at him! Haha!
At least it isn't a gun she gunned.
If a box from Acme arrives any time soon, I suggest you inspect it for invisibility cream or bat wings. Fun snippet. Her internal struggle, while somewhat irrational, is totally believable.
How many struggles about morality are ever rational? Morality isn't a rational concept.
Loved the stubborn lass' inner debate to fully understand herself. Enjoyed the snippet.
Nooo! You can't leave us there! Great snippet that shows a lot about her. I'm curious to see how he responds.
You ended on a nice little cliffhanger. good excerpt.
LOL! That was awesome! You pause for a few minutes while Catt takes readers along for a thoughtful interlude, then gun the motor in a shock of fright! Can't wait to see what happens next week!
Being caught in the act, even though you're having second thoughts, makes you look totally guilty.
Loved her indecision–at such a moment! These are really fun snippets. Can't wait to read more.
Her indecision kicked in when she got beyond the point of just registering a protest, so to speak, and actually committing the sabotage.
Shakespeare made a whole play out of indecision.
Great writing! Intense to max. Your 18 cents line had me laughing. Very cute!
Unfortunately, any joke about how little writers get paid really hurts, as well as provokes laughs.
I know the feeling all to well Ed! Don't worry, one day we'll sell tons and have a huge following!
I agree with Effing, she is being too stubborn for her own good. Luckily I don't think Dukelsky is going to leave her alone until she sees the light.
Unless, of course, she sabotages the cannon before he can reach her.
Stubbornness sometimes overrides my sense of right and wrong too. Hopefully Dukelsky can talk sense into her. Congrats on being the richest cat in the state, Effing.
It's too bad for Catt that Dukelsky appeared before she'd reached a final decision on right vs wrong.
'Cat burglar' … ooh, what an idea. Thanks Teresa!
Oh she is quite torn, isn't she? Still, if she knows the entire mission could just be suicide and by the sounds of it she's just barely gotten out of a few scrapes already, I would be thinking to foil Dulesky as well.
Yes, there are arguments either way.
Her struggle and getting caught could lead to an accidental decision being made, uh-oh.
Chelle, 18 cents IS the minimum wage for cats. I thought everybody knew that!
sorry Ed, my cats, the 3 of them, have unionized and have me up to a quarter.
Stubbornness can be vicious. Nice cliffhanger.
As I said before about a snippet in which Catt is planning to dump the crate off a cliff — you ended with a very appropriate phrase.
So much fun! I love the picture of her debating as the forklift idles. Captures the sense of her indecision very well. Look forward to reading more!
In hindsight, I wish I'd better captured the sense of the machine vibrating and shaking her whole body.
Great snippet. I can't wait to read what happens next!
You won't have to wait long, because the next week's snippet is already up.


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Q: location of "web-app" folder in development phase During my grails app development phase (when I compile and run using grails run-app), all my static files reside in web-app folder as usual.
Is there a way (using config or command line parameter) I can use a different directory, say web-app2 for my static files? Something like grails run-app -Dgrails.static.loc=~/web-app2 run-app?
I need this only for development time. For production and deployment, I'm fine with the default behavior.

A: in your config.groovy you can set environment-specific configurations,
sth like
environments {
  development {
    grails.resources.work.dir = '/webapp-2/'
    grails.resources.uri.prefix = '/staticstuff/'
  }
  production {
    grails.resources.work.dir = '/webapp/'
    grails.resources.uri.prefix = '/static/'
  }
}

you can start your application with
grails dev run-app  // runs with the "development" data source
grails prod run-app // runs with the production data source

I tryed it out, works well!
have a look at http://www.grails.org/Environments and http://grails-plugins.github.io/grails-resources/guide/9.%20Configuration.html

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Will payment be sweet for Tate & Lyle?
23-Jun-2004 - Last updated on 15-Mar-2017 at 18:35 GMT
Related tags: Adm, High-fructose corn syrup, Tate & lyle
UK ingredients maker Tate & Lyle faces paying out a hefty sum
as the sweetener firm seeks to settle a US lawsuit alleging that
its US unit AE Staley played a role in fixing the price of high
fructose corn syrup, a sweetener used extensively in carbonated
Speculation as to the total figure arose earlier this week when Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of Tate's major competitors in the US HFCS market and a co-defendant in the case, announced it had agreed to pay $400m (€331m) to settle the lawsuit. In February US agribusiness Cargill, and the third co-defendant, agreed on $24m (€19.8m) without admitting liability.
Ignited in the early 1990s the settlement has its roots in a law case filed by over 20 plaintiffs, including soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, that accused the sweetener businesses of linking up to fix prices of the sugar substitute.
The class-action lawsuit filed in 1995 alleged that ADM's actions cost them $1.6 billion. The case had been scheduled for a September jury trial and ADM could have faced damages three times this amount at nearly $5 billion, as jurors could have tripled any award if they found the company guilty.
"We are pleased to have reached a resolution with our customers in the food and beverage industries," said G. Allen Andreas, chairman of ADM.
When Tate & Lyle announced its annual results earlier this month the firm, referring to the lawsuit, said it would continue "to seek a negotiated resolution of the claim so as to avoid facing the cost and uncertainty of a US jury trial." Adding that 'although there is no certainty that it will succeed in reaching a settlement, nor as to the amount of any settlement.'
ABM Amro, Tate & Lyle's broker, played the potential settlement figures down, not 'necessarily expecting that Tate will face the same liability,' because ADM's US HFCS market share of 41 per cent is significantly greater than Tate's 15 per share, 'and its payment may reflect other factors.'
However, writing about the ADM deal Duncan Fox, an analyst at ABN Amro, reported 'that the scale of the ADM settlement is likely to raise concerns about the size of any settlement Tate may make.'
High fructose syrups, known as isoglucose in Europe, kicked off in the US in the 1970s when the country developed new technologies to process this bulk calorific sweetener. The ingredient, an alternative to sucrose, rapidly gained in popularity and is now used extensively by the soft drinks giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Co.
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Ireland: Government report finds a staggering 9,000 children died in church-run mother-and-baby homes
Posted by Vento on 13th January 2021 in International News
The 3,000-page report described the emotional and even physical abuse some women were subjected to in the so-called mother-and-baby homes.
Some 9,000 children died in Ireland's church-run homes for unwed mothers, a government report published on Tuesday found. This is equivalent to 15 percent of all children who were born or lived in the 18 institutions investigated over nearly 80 years.
The nearly 3,000-page report describes the emotional and even physical abuse some of the 56,000 unmarried mothers — from farmhands to domestic servants — were subjected to in the so-called mother-and-baby homes.
"It appears that there was little kindness shown to them and this was particularly the case when they were giving birth," the report said.
The homes, many run by nuns and members of the Roman Catholic Church, operated in Ireland for most of the 20th century, with the last home closing as recently as 1998. They received state funding and also acted as adoption agencies — with many of the children adopted to families in the United States.
The report found the responsibility for the harsh treatment of women who gave birth outside of marriage rested mainly with their own immediate families. However, it added that treatment was supported and contributed to by the "institutions of the state and the churches."
According to anonymous accounts in the report, women giving birth were sometimes "verbally insulted, degraded and even slapped."
"We did this to ourselves, we treated women exceptionally badly," Ireland's Taoiseach, or prime minister, Micheál Martin, told reporters Tuesday after the report was published. "One hard truth in all of this, is that all of society was complicit in it," he added.
The report also noted the "appalling" rate of infant mortality in the homes, calling it "probably the most disquieting feature of these institutions."
In the years before 1960, it said, mother-and-baby homes did not save the lives of "illegitimate" children — instead, they significantly reduced prospects of their survival.
It did not include one single explanation for the high rates of mortality.
Instead, Martin said the report revealed "significant failures of the state and of society," and hoped the publication would be a catalyst for social change.
One religious order, the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, which ran three of the homes investigated in the report, said in a statement on Tuesday that it welcomed the publication.
"For our part, we want to sincerely apologize to those who did not get the care and support they needed and deserved," the statement said.
Adding, "It is a matter of great sorrow to us that babies died while under our care."
The Commission of Investigation Into Mother and Baby Homes, which carried out the five-year inquiry, also looked at allegations that some children in the homes were used in vaccine trials with no parental consent for their participation.
The report identified seven such vaccine trials, which involved "a number of children," that took place from 1934 to 1973 in the homes.
A former resident of one of the homes spoke with NBC News network and said she was used as a "guinea pig" for vaccines at a home in Cork, before being adopted by a family in Philadelphia in 1961.
The report said consent was not obtained from either the children's mothers or their guardians and the necessary licenses were not in place during the trials.
The mother-and-baby homes took in women, some as young as 12, who had become pregnant outside marriage — taboo in the conservative country — and were viewed as an attempt to preserve the country's devout Catholic image. Now, the homes are a byword for a dark chapter in the nation's history, say Irish politicians and survivors.
An amateur local historian, Catherine Corless, first shed light on the issue of maltreatment at the homes.
She discovered an unmarked mass graveyard at Tuam, in the western county of Galway, which prompted an investigation that uncovered the remains of at least 700 children buried from 1925 to 1961, a report found in 2017.
Ahead of publication, details of Tuesday's report were leaked to the media, prompting outrage from the victims — including mother-and-baby home survivor Philomena Lee, whose story was portrayed in a 2013 movie, starring Dame Judi Dench.
Ireland has traditionally been a Catholic stronghold, but decades of abuse scandals have damaged the church's reputation and weakened its influence.
Pope Francis begged forgiveness for the mother-and-baby homes scandal during his first papal visit to the country in almost four decades in 2018.
Although compensation for the survivors was not explicitly outlined in the report, the Irish government said it would provide financial recognition to specific groups, yet to be determined.
It also said it would work with survivors and representative groups to oversee a national memorial, changes to Ireland's education curriculum and provide counselling support.
Leader Martin is due to issue a formal apology to the victims on behalf of the state on Wednesday.
Posted in International News | Tagged abuse, Catholic Church, children, illegitimate, Ireland, mother and baby homes, survivors
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Home Global Village Americas What is behind Donald Trump's UN General Assembly speech?
What is behind Donald Trump's UN General Assembly speech?
Haneul Na'avi |
US president Donald Trump's intimidating, hawkish UN General Assembly speech was, at best, an unflinching reaffirmation to US jingoism, despite his election promises to do the opposite.
Trump hurled his 41-minute tirade of diplomatic gaffs and gas lighting at self-determined governments-Syria, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela-and brazenly guilt-tripped the United Nations' in a manner not seen since Hitler's 1937 address regarding the defunct League of Nations.
Despite the inconsolable depravity of his words, one should focus more on their timing and intentions in order to decipher the US president's subversive agenda.
Despite Trump's calls for rapprochement with China and Russia, the endgame is to supplant them with the petrodollar; evidenced by America's latest round of Russian sanctions and persistent meddling in the South China Sea
Trump's UN call for 'unity and obedience' reveals several pressing matters for the US military dictatorship behind him, who grow more desperate than ever to fulfill their geopolitical agendas sat behind the claptrap of 'human rights, peace, democracy, and national sovereignty'.
Read more: India Resorts to Street level language to attack PM Abbasi's UN…
It has been firmly established that the current US administration is solely in charge of managing eroding dollar diplomacy around the world, and, in the wake of the 9th annual BRICS Summit in Xiamen and flagship Belt and Road Summit held in Hong Kong, are terrified of a massive global divestment in dollar-denominated oil driven by Chinese-led development.
Nearly Trump's entire cabinet—a roster consisting of seasoned military generals—allows him more intimate coordination with its bloated coercive apparatus (military) to enforce this dollar hegemony.
Underneath its harsh, superstructural rhetoric, the Trump administration is attempting to seize two strategic oil shipping routes, the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca, in order to usurp the lion's share of global oil trade from the Asian continent and underpin its petrodollar hegemony.
Interfering with the Strait of Malacca also blackmails another BRICS member—India—by blocking its Andaman Sea conduit via the strait, preventing it from receiving critical oil from none other than, of course, Venezuela
In order to do this, Trump wishes to rally support for a military intervention on Pyongyang and later, Tehran, in order to occupy indispensable maritime shipping lanes to indefinitely frustrate China's access to the South China Sea, which is inextricably connected to both straits; the reason why Trump singled out the two nations in his address.
Read more: PM Abbasi tells UN: Don't involve us in new 'great game'
The US Energy Information Administration asserts,
The Strait of Hormuz, leading out of the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Malacca, linking the Indian and Pacific Oceans, are the world's most important strategic chokepoints measured by volume of oil transit, accounting for a combined 57% of all seaborne oil trade. [EIA]
With a military presence near the Korean peninsula, the Trump administration, with help from its vassals Japan and Taiwan, can eventually obstruct oil transit flowing from both straits, which would stymie China's access to critical Pacific-Atlantic bottlenecks vital to the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative into Europe, southern Africa, and the Western hemisphere.
This would force the Chinese to rely on land transit and secondary shipping routes, incurring a costly and dangerous journey for OBOR resources and significantly hampering the initiative.
America's presence near the South China Sea also endangers long-established core shipping routes with Venezuela, who wields the world's largest proven oil reserves
Additionally, one must stress the baselessness of America's casus belli. It is not in Pyongyang's material or ideological interests to turn South Korea into a "sea of flames" as many corporate media outlets typically report but to reunify the peninsula using its' five-point initiative, put in place since DPRK founder Kim Il-Sung spearheaded it to comply with UN Resolution 377.
The Kim Jong-Un administration has begun procuring several nuclear deterrents as a response to the joint US-South Korean Ulchi Freedom Guardian and Foal Eagle military drills, which, over the last 40 years, have continuously violated this resolution by inflaming tensions.
Read more: PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi demands UN Investigations of Indian HR violations…
Furthermore, the DPRK consistently states that the drills are the primary motivation for its nuclear programme, and a delegate addressed this to the 9 Aug. Geneva Disarmament Conference,
As long as the U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat continue, the DPRK, no matter who may say what will never place its self-defensive nuclear deterrence on the negotiating table nor flinch an inch from the road chosen by itself, the road of bolstering up the state nuclear force.
The Rodong Shinmun seconded this in a 22 Sept. article,
The final goal of our State is to achieve equilibrium of force with the U.S. so that the U.S. chief executive may not talk about a military option against the DPRK.
This is precisely why it has installed THAAD systems to target medium and long-range attacks, and not short-range attacks, which are, ironically, a greater danger to Seoul and America's THAAD programme; a Duran article outlines this in detail
US militarism against Pyongyang expresses the fear that North Korea will attack its vassals or a major American city, not Seoul. This is precisely why it has installed Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) systems to target medium and long-range attacks, and not short-range attacks, which are, ironically, a greater danger to Seoul and America's THAAD programme; a Duran article outlines this in detail.
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The increased hostility against North Korea also reflects just how few options the US truly has, now that the Philippines and Indonesia, two key positions along the Strait of Malacca, have aligned themselves with China and joined the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.
America's hasty attacks on North Korea and Iran reveal another imperative for the US—new developments on the Diaoyu islands, which demonstrate the industriousness of the Chinese in securing them, effectively ending the territorial dispute.
The Brown Review highlighted that,
In February of 2017, satellite photos surfaced indicating that China was close to completing the construction of surface to air missile (SAMs) systems on the [Diaoyu] Islands [which] allow China to move significantly closer to establishing an Air Force Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the area, which would secure Chinese air sovereignty.
America's presence near the South China Sea also endangers long-established core shipping routes with Venezuela, who wields the world's largest proven oil reserves.
A 2015 Oilprice article notes that,
With an estimated 298 billion barrels of oil, [Venezuela] is endowed with the world's largest proven oil reserves, eclipsing Saudi Arabia (266), Iran (157) and Russia (80).
By blocking secure routes to South America, the US wishes to prevent Venezuela's inclusion into China's rapidly expanding repertoire of oil sources and further denomination of oil sales in yuan.
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It continues, drawing a correlation to Venezuela's ever-increasing trade with China,
Since 2007, Beijing has extended $50 billion in long-term loans to be repaid through oil deliveries of 600,000 barrels per day [and] provide Caracas with an additional $20 billion loan. In addition, China is building a refinery in Guandong province in order to process 400,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil per day.
This would force the Chinese to rely on land transit and secondary shipping routes, incurring a costly and dangerous journey for OBOR resources and significantly hampering the initiative
Interfering with the Strait of Malacca also blackmails another BRICS member—India—by blocking its Andaman Sea conduit via the strait, preventing it from receiving critical oil from none other than, of course, Venezuela.
Oil price continues,
India […] imports 72 percent of its oil requirements, with this figure set to rise to 88 percent over the coming decades. Imports from the perennially unstable the Persian Gulf currently meet about half of India's total oil requirements – a statistic that New Delhi would like to change. As a result, New Delhi has taken initial steps to establish a long-term energy relationship with Venezuela.
Fascism is capitalism at gunpoint, and Trump's aspirations are no exception. By monopolizing global oil trade with gunboat diplomacy, Trump, Inc. aspires to thwart the OBOR, potentially inciting a full-scale conflict that will be economical, militarily, and politically disastrous for all parties.
Read more: Trump's speech in Riyadh in fact proves that the US needs…
Nearly Trump's entire cabinet—a roster consisting of seasoned military generals—allows him more intimate coordination with its bloated coercive apparatus (military) to enforce this dollar hegemony
It is doing this by using North Korea, a relatively low security threat, as a means of entering the region to destabilise China's vulnerable Liaoning province, cutting off important shipments to Dalian, a major source of revenue for Liaoning, and endangering safe passage to major waterways to the western hemisphere, violating the 1982 U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea.
Despite Trump's calls for rapprochement with China and Russia, the endgame is to supplant them with the petrodollar; evidenced by America's latest round of Russian sanctions and persistent meddling in the South China Sea.
It is important that Beijing and Moscow take the necessary steps to prevent this from happening. The world depends on it.
Haneul Na'avi is an independent journalist and geopolitical analyst based in the United Kingdom. He is a regular contributor to The Duran and has previously written for RT, Press TV, Global Research, and the Pravda Report. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Global Village Space's editorial policy.
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Note: Thank you to Pauline, and Meltell for cheerleading through the hours it took to carve this, to Cait for trimming and resizing for me, and to Toblass for betaing the text. You're all the best!!!
Summary: A moment in the greenhouse.
The witch and wizard walk in silence, for the language of flowers is a quiet thing. The grass is warmed by the sun, but the Scottish spring air keeps them cool in their heavy robes, even as he holds open the greenhouse door.
Neither dares to speak, as she is uncertain how to begin, and he doesn't know how to bare his heart. They've danced around the topic all year, and now that the castle was quiet over break, they had taken the time to try.
They stroll, him pausing and trying to speak but leaving the words unsaid.
Her hands trail over the carefully-trimmed flowers, kept free of thorns, and breaks off a few stems. She hands him the first with a small smile. They are only rose leaves, saying silently that he may hope, and his harsh features soften.
She hands him the second: a single bud. Her small confession of love is taken with gentle fingers and he casts about the greenhouse before finding what he seeks.
He plucks a single calla lily, but before she can speak, he brushes it across her cheek before laying it upon the ground. A sombre foundation, but not held in hand. The sun from the windows lights her, while he stands partially in shadow beneath a hanging planter. They both find the other beautiful in this moment.
Her heart pounds and she hands him the final stem: a rose in full bloom. He kisses the velvet petals and tucks it into her hair, acknowledging her words of love. It does not escape their notice that the flowers she's chosen are both white, and he leaves her side just long enough to find one more flower.
She accepts the lily of the valley from him, and mimics his earlier action, kissing the delicate blooms before placing it in his buttonhole.
They walk a little longer, their hands entwined.
No words are spoken, for everything has been said.


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White Pine. Our common Pinus strobus is a wonderful wood to use for most purposes if you can get wide, clear, heartwood plank. I am not speaking of the pumpkin pine once so common in Maine. I refer to the second growth pine—lumber cut from trees more or less a hundred years old. There are not many of these left; therefore the hunt for this sort of pine is one that may take you far afield. For best results in pine, I emphasize the fact that the stock must be clear. Nothing is more annoying than to have a carving three quarters done and then run into a pitch pocket whose presence in the stock was not foreseen.
If you do have this happen, there are two solutions: one, cut out the pitch pocket and fag in a "dutchman"; the other, throw the carving out the door. White pine lends itself to carvings where the detail is not too small and where long, sweeping modeling cuts are wanted to shade in or develop the larger detail. Care must be taken to see that your tools are always razor sharp. This fact is true for working on any wood, for that matter, but most essential for work on pine. Long cuts are best made with the run of the grain of the wood. Shorter sweeps can be made diagonally across the wood; but directly across the grain, short cuts give better results.
In working in pine, care must be taken in driving tools (that is, malleting) to make stopcuts; otherwise the stock may split out to the edge of the carving or fracture with the run of the grain. I usually depend upon the strength of my hands and arms to make stopcuts in this wood rather than drive the tools. Pine is best used if the piece can be gessoed and then either painted or gilded. By using gesso on pine, any errors or small fractures in the detail can be modeled up and it is a further insurance that sap spots will not bleed through the applied finish.
the results came up to expectations. My only objection to walnut is that there is a lot of curl in the grain that sometimes, in fact most frequently, is not visible in the face of the stock when work is started. The tightness of the grain precludes long, sweeping cuts.


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While Copy Breitling Watches still insists on calling the Superocean II an "ocean pilot," the Breitling Superocean 44 Special is anything but. In addition to checking off the aforementioned requisite features for a diver of this ilk, the Special differentiates itself from the standard Superocean II by going with a matte steel case finish, a more minimalist dial with square applied indices instead of the busy Arabic numerals, and a solid, ceramic bezel characterized by its singularly smooth surface and extremely sharp, grippy serrations.
Traditional Best Breitling Replica Watches Reviews bezels shrug off these bumps and dings by utilizing a solid metal bezel with a replaceable insert containing the numbered demarcations glued in. So while this might be an aesthetic design choice rather than a functional one, we'll be the first to admit both ceramic color options are the perfect fit to contrast the steely aesthetic on the new 44 Special, and one that we're looking forward to seeing on the wrist.
The added contrast of the new stainless steel case finish is a welcome one, as the previous Blacksteel edition tended to overwhelm the wrist, as most all-black watches tend to do. As mentioned previously, the end result is one of the more cohesive, purpose-built divers in the Breitling catalog, but one that is altogether modern and masculine without appearing to be making great pains to remind you.


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Value from Rm is rotated right 8 bits.
Value from Rm is rotated right 16 bits.
Value from Rm is rotated right 24 bits.
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