The month of October entails some of our favorite fright-filled movies, decorations of goblins and skeletons haunting every street corner, and a certain ominous atmosphere comes to fruition. Spectacular explosions of sunset-inspired vibrancy, and Jack-o-lanterns beginning to pop up in storefront windows. When the sounds of witches, ghouls, and ghosts begin to fill the air, visit St Augustine and Southern Oaks Inn to experience three frightening must-sees to get you into the Halloween spirit!
Ripley's Believe It Or Not is well known for its expansive odditorium full of the utmost perplexing wonderment; however, for a more bone chilling experience, their ghost train tour is perfect for those daring to challenge the lurking spirits of St Augustine. Embark on the unique Ghost Train Adventure where you will track down the supernatural in an exciting paranormal investigation. This eighty-minute paranormal encounter is perfect for those in search of catching perhaps more than just a glimpse of those who lived in historic St Augustine wandering the streets once more.
It is not uncommon to see trolleys making their way through the tour with groups of people eager to learn the history of our beautiful city. However, one trolley entices a more ghoulish route through St Augustine. Climb aboard the Ghosts and Gravestones trolley tour and immerse yourself in the history of the cities most haunted and ghastly areas. As the Oldest City in America, no shortage of historical occurrences may have left ever lingering presences throughout St Augustine, Florida.
History shows times haven't always been so kind, but what if you could relive the terrors of the darkest age in humanity? This Halloween season, travel back through time to the medieval ages and discover the horrors at the Medieval Torture Museum. Torture devices of unthinkable brutality on display fully realized as common playthings hundreds of years ago. Take a walk through the exhibits and a collection of hundreds of various artifacts and models of devices that once inspired the blood-curdling screams of many a victim. Are you brave enough to stomach this terrifying museum?
Choosing the top three of anything is not an easy feat in a city as diverse and historic as St Augustine; therefore, we have a bonus! Explore the St Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum like never before with the Dark of the Moon Lighthouse Tour. Recount the hauntings and history of this historic lighthouse and even take a step into the role of a ghost hunter with the chance to rent paranormal devices to pick up traces of spirits along the way.
This October, stay with us at Southern Oaks Inn for a St Augustine experience that will send those shiver down your spine just in time for Halloween. The historic downtown area of St Augustine is just waiting for you to discover the dark side hiding in the shadows. Come and experience these excitingly terrifying St Augustine, Florida must-sees with us!


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• To oversee the financial performance of the school and make sure that its money is well and appropriately spent.
So how do the Governors do this at Chapel Break?
Meetings of the Full Governing Body are held at least once every half term where all aspects of the school are reviewed and discussed. Governors also regularly spend time at the school on an individual basis to both help with and monitor all aspects of daily school life.
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During 2017-18, all Full Governing Board meetings and Committee meetings have been quorate.
What have the Governors achieved in 2017-18?
Working with the Local Authority on a proactive approach to budgeting whilst ensuring that the School receive a green overall financial rating.
Visiting the school regularly to monitor progress against the school's improvement and development priorities.
Who are the Governor's at Chapel Break Infant School and how do I contact them?
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Generate the membership distribution for this instance using this
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Sarnia's Preetam Sengupta says he danced in his kitchen the first time he managed to write a song following brain surgery.
Doctors had found a benign growth that was removed, then replaced with a 3-D printed prosthesis.
Prior to surgery, Sengupta was a successful songwriter and performer with one album released and another on the way.
The operation impacted his motor skills and his memory.
Sengupta, 40, didn't doubt he'd fully recover. But he knew it would take patience and hard work. He initially didn't want to speak publicly about his health or recovery.
But a year ago, a journalist who had survived cancer interviewed him and their conversation convinced him he could make a difference in the lives of others if he talked about his recovery.
"I realized, as an artist I have a voice and I'm lucky enough to have a platform," he said.
He began accepting public speaking engagements at brain injury events where he talks about resilience and the road back.
A show in Sarnia featuring Sengupta 11 months after the surgery proved significant. He and some musical friends, including Emm Gryner from Forest, planned an "It's Great to Be Home" show during the holiday season.
That first year, Sengupta played only a couple of songs. "I had to be realistic about my abilities," he said.
But the success of that performance gave him confidence to resume stage work. For Sengupta, being on stage is once again the most comfortable place in the world.
"It's a dream for me. I love connecting with audiences," he said, noting he mixes his brand of folk music with lots of stage banter and storytelling.
Sengupta finished writing his second album called Patience, which won him a 2017 Folk Music Ontario Award.
His career is back on track and this year has seen him touring with Patience and collaborating with other songwriters.
"Great to Be Home" has continued each year and on Dec. 15, Gryner and Sengupta will present the fourth annual. These days, Sengupta is hosting the evening and performing a full set.
Gryner is bringing a number of guests including Stratford guitarist and singer Brad Canning. Her mom Linda and friends are bringing a bit of traditional Christmas music.
And Ashlyn Price of Bright's Grove is also performing. She was a finalist in the Hit Like A Girl drumming contest.
What: Preetam Sengupta's annual holiday concert returns, with Emm Gryner and guests.
Details: Tickets, $20, are available at the Cheeky Monkey downtown, Personal Touch Eatery and Catering (cash sales) and online at www.preetam.ca/EmmGryner.
The Arts Journal reflects Sarnia's vibrant cultural life. Send your ideas to cathy.dobson@thesarniajournal.ca.


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Cuba Opposition 'Needs to Reflect' after Wikileaks
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HAVANA, Dec 28 (IPS) — The internal dissident movement in Cuba faces some big challenges in 2011, after ending the year with low marks from the top U.S. diplomat in Havana, according to confidential cables made public by Wikileaks, some of which were published on the official government website cubadebate.cu.
"The opinion from USINT (United States Interests Section, the U.S. office in Havana) is quite harsh, but it's close to reality. I have quite a critical view of us too," Manuel Cuesta Morúa, spokesperson for the moderate opposition group Arco Progresista, told IPS.
However, Cuesta said the nuances of the case should be kept in mind when reading the U.S. statements, because "not everyone" falls into the same category, and the "traditional" dissident movement has had "the courage to resist for many years," independent of whether it could offer any serious political alternatives.
In cables sent to the U.S. State Department, USINT chief of mission Jonathan Farrar does not so much disparage the Cuban dissidents as note their lack of influence on Cuban society, particularly young people, because their messages don't have much youth appeal.
The dispatches also indicate that the opposition groups waste energy "boycotting" each other, lack programs for attracting a broad spectrum of Cuban society, and although they claim to represent thousands of citizens, USINT said it had seen little evidence of such support.
Another indictment in the cables is that "the greatest effort is directed at obtaining enough resources to keep the principal organizers and their key supporters living from day to day." Farrar cited the case of one who presented a USINT official with a budget to pay his group's salaries.
"We haven't responded with maturity or high-mindedness to the challenges of Cuban society and we have got caught up some childishness," said Cuesta Morúa. In his view, the opposition should not be overly concerned about the USINT comments, but instead accept that it needs to "conduct an in-depth reassessment."
According to the diplomatic cables, Washington "should look elsewhere, including within the government itself, to spot likely successors to the Castro regime." They mention in particular that young people are disillusioned with the system, such as bloggers, musicians and artists, who take "much better" rebellious stances with a greater public impact.
But Cuesta Morúa pointed out that the bloggers "are only trying to be the critical conscience of Cuban society. They do not move in the political sphere, they do not claim to represent the people, nor do they pose themselves as a political alternative, he said, noting that of course "they can have a political position just like any citizen, but that is something else."
Despite the criticisms, and looking ahead to the New Year, the moderate dissident said "an interesting path is opening" for the opposition movement, "as long as it undergoes a profound review of its positions and options." He believes that the chance for the opposition to build a political alternative in the medium-term lies in improving its ability to connect with the Cuban people.
Fragmented into several dozen small groups, which the Cuban authorities refer to as "groupuscules" (tiny groups) on Washington's payroll, the opposition's international notoriety increased after the Feb. 23 death of Orlando Zapata, a prisoner who staged an 80-day hunger strike to demand, among other things, recognition as a "prisoner of conscience."
Zapata's death was followed by the highly publicized hunger strike of psychologist and journalist Guillermo Fariñas in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara, demanding the release of political prisoners. He ended the strike on Jul. 8, and on Oct. 21 received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
The award was the third in seven years that the European Parliament had given to a Cuban dissident. In 2002 it went to Oswaldo Payá, of the Christian Liberation Movement, and in 2005 to Ladies in White, a group of wives and family members of 75 opposition members imprisoned in 2003.
The prize revived Fariñas as a media celebrity, but the Cuban government did not grant him an exit visa, so he was unable to travel to Strasbourg, France, to accept the 50,000-euro (70,000 dollars) prize in person.
The Ladies in White remained active throughout the year, keeping up the demand for the release of their loved ones. Pressure from the Catholic Church, in direct talks with President Raul Castro, won the freedom of most of "the 75," save for 11 who refuse to go into exile in Spain once released.
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IEI, the leading industrial computer manufacturer in Taiwan, offers a range of very competitively priced NAS storage systems for SMBs and datacenter users in nearly 100 countries.
Since its inception in 1997, IEI has focused on bringing top quality products at highly competitive prices to the market. This policy coupled with excellent marketing and customer support has helped make IEI the top Industrial Computer manufacturer in Taiwan, with annual revenue fast approaching US$100 Million.
With a high percentage of the over 500 employees worldwide being in Research and Development, IEI prides itself on its capabilities to provide top quality IT solutions that suit the markets requirements. State-of-the-art manufacturing processes and factories across Taiwan and Mainland China ensure that sales channels in almost 100 countries globally are supplied with the best possible products – one of the reasons why IEI was awarded ISO9001 certification.
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Whereas an EPC reflects the energy efficiency of the building fabric and the systems, Display Energy Certificates (DECs) reflects how efficiently the energy is used in the building. DECs are required for public buildings over 1000m2 in area and need to be produced every year. The certificate needs to be displayed in a prominent place in the building so that visitors can easily see it. The Certificate reports on the previous three years so that improvements in energy use can readily be seen on a year on year basis.
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EU: 8 October 2004
Fable, originally developed under the name Project Ego, is a role-playing video game for Xbox, Mac OS X, Windows, and an Xbox Originals game on the Xbox 360. It was developed by Big Blue Box, a satellite developer of Lionhead Studios, and was published by Microsoft. The game shipped for Xbox on 14 September 2004. An extended version of the game, Fable: The Lost Chapters, was released for Windows in September 2005 and Xbox in October 2005; Feral Interactive ported the game to the Mac platform on 31 March 2008 and Robosoft Technologies created the platform after a delay of more than two years due to licensing issues. A remastered version of The Lost Chapters was released for Xbox 360 as Fable Anniversary in February 2014.
Fable takes place in the fictional nation of Albion. Players assume the role of an orphaned boy who realizes his dream of becoming a Hero. The choices players make in the game affect the perception and reaction to their Hero by the characters of Albion, and change the Hero's appearance to mirror what Good or Evil deeds the Hero has performed. In addition to undertaking quests to learn what happened to the Hero's family, players can engage in optional quests and pursuits such as trading, romance, and theft.
Fable's development utilized more than seventy people. The game's music was composed by Russell Shaw, with the opening title theme written by Oscar-winning composer Danny Elfman. The game's release was widely anticipated, due in part to Lionhead Studios creator Peter Molyneux's enthusiastic hype of the game.
Fable was well-received by critics for the quality of its gameplay and execution, even as they lamented its failure to include many of the features promised by creator Peter Molyneux. The success of Fable spawned two direct sequels: Fable II, released in 2008, and Fable III, released in 2010. The franchise has also expanded to include a number of spinoff titles, including Fable: The Journey and Fable Legends, the latter never released.
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Fable is a role playing game where players control their character from a third person perspective. The main character, known as the Hero, can interact with people and objects as well as battle foes. The goal of Fable is to complete missions known as quests which advance the game's plot. Fable also features optional quests and allows players to pursue actions not directly tied to game completion.
Most quests are undertaken at a central location, known as the Heroes' Guild; required quests are marked with a gold symbol and advance the game's story, while optional quests are coloured silver or bronze and can be completed in any order. Some quests allow players to pick sides and aid either evil characters, such as bandits, or good characters, such as traders and guardsmen. Players can also boast after accepting a quest, wagering some of the quest's reward gold in exchange for a larger return if the player accomplishes their bet, such as sustaining no damage or undertaking the quest naked. Each quest's completion gives players gold, which can be used to buy weapons and items, and renown, which affects the way townspeople react to the Hero. Heroes also earn trophies of their victories, which can be displayed to large groups of townspeople to earn more renown.
In addition to fighting with melee weapons (such as swords and maces) and ranged weapons (longbows and crossbows), Heroes can learn and use spells to augment their abilities, ward off damage, or harm foes. A Hero's spells and attributes can be levelled via experience orbs gained from killing enemies and completing quests. Experience points earned have four categories: General, Strength, Skill, and Will. General points are gained through completion of quests and killing enemies and creatures. Dealing damage by hand, by using a ranged weapon, or by using spells earns more strength, skill, and will points, respectively. The experience the main character gains can be multiplied during combat through the combat multiplier. As the character successfully hits an enemy, his combat multiplier increases. If the character is hit by an enemy, the combat multiplier drops down to the next multiple of five, or zero if below five.
Fable's game world is dotted with towns where recreational activities not related to combat can be undertaken. Enterprising Heroes can buy trade items such as beer kegs or grain sacks and sell them at other towns for profit. Towns are also prime locations to buy clothing, weapons, or other items. Many towns have houses for sale, which the Hero can buy, furnish, or lease to tenants for gold. Heroes may woo and marry men or women in each town, and through sufficient courting engage in sex with them.
Customisation and Alignment[edit | edit source]
In Fable, a player's Hero has a measure of good or evil alignment based on the Hero's actions. Good deeds award good points, which produce a positive alignment; committing evil acts adds evil points, producing a negative alignment. Killing monsters or saving villagers are acts of good. Killing innocents, breaking laws, or abusing a spouse will accumulate evil points. The alignment affects not only the responses of non-player characters around the Hero, but also the appearance of the Hero himself. A Hero with a strongly positive alignment will feature a halo around his head, butterflies swarming around him and lighter features. An evil Hero emits a red haze from around his legs, draws flies, has glowing red eyes and grows horns.
Other actions besides alignment affect the Hero. Eating too much causes the character to gain weight, while drinking excessively causes Heroes to become sick and vomit. Clothing, which provides defence in combat situations, also changes the Hero's attractiveness or scariness as well as alignment in some cases, and townspeople's reactions to the Hero accordingly. Bright clothing makes the character look more noble to the townspeople, and thus cause them to praise and respect him. Dark clothing causes the character to seem evil or threatening to townspeople and cause them to fear him. Heroes can be further customised via hairstyles, facial hair, and tattoos. The Hero's attributes also affect appearance; high levels of strength increase brawn, high levels of skill increase height, and high level spells create arcane patterns on the Hero's body to glow.
Synopsis[edit | edit source]
Main article: Fable Storyline
Setting[edit | edit source]
The game centres on the only playable character, referred to solely by his title or as "Hero". Players start with the title "Chicken Chaser"; new titles such as "Hood" or "Paladin" can be purchased or otherwise obtained by singular accomplishments. The Hero lives in a land known as Albion, a large land with a medieval setting.
Development[edit | edit source]
Fable was the first game developed by Big Blue Box, a satellite studio of Peter Molyneux's Lionhead Studios. Dene and Simon Carter, Big Blue Box's founders, stated that their first project would have to meet several criteria in order to be accepted by game publishers, but that they weren't interested in producing such a generic title. To offset the costs of running a fledgling studio, Molyneux proposed Lionhead 'satellites', where Big Blue Box would receive the technology and support of Lionhead so that Big Blue Box could focus on making the game. After some difficulty in finding a willing publisher, Big Blue Box was contacted by Microsoft who offered a contract.
"We wanted to create a roleplaying game like no other. The world would be a breathtakingly beautiful place filled with waterfalls, mountains, dense forests, populated with compelling and convincing characters with real personality, people who actually reacted to what you did. We wanted to give the player control of a hero who would adapt to the way they played, who would age, become scarred in battle, who could get tattoos, wear dreadlocks and a dress if the player was so inclined. We wanted each and every person who played our game to have a unique experience, to have their own stories to tell. And we called it 'Thingy.'"
— Dene and Simon Carter[1]
Project Ego[edit | edit source]
Main article: Project Ego
Audio[edit | edit source]
With the exception of the title theme, the music in Fable was composed by Russell Shaw, who had previously worked on Molyneux games such as Magic Carpet and Black & White. The job for composing Fable's theme music was given to Danny Elfman. Elfman noted in an interview that Hollywood composers did not typically cross over to video game work, in part because many game developers wanted a synthesized score that sounds like an orchestra, instead of the real thing. At Elfman's insistence, the developers used a small orchestra, which Shaw noted was much more of a challenge than previous projects; "There are more people involved (even without considering the orchestra), and the complexities of any music interactivity are brought to the fore."
Fable: The Lost Chapters[edit | edit source]
Main article: Fable: The Lost Chapters
Reception and Legacy[edit | edit source]
Fable was generally well-received. The original Xbox version of the game has an aggregate critic score of 85% at both Metacritic and Game Rankings. The game won more than fifty awards.
Though pointing out several flaws in the game such as bland character designs, Marc Saltzman of USAToday.com stated that the game "should satisfy you with its incredible depth, open-ended game play, and a solid story that gets even better about half-way through the adventure." Fable has been praised for its concept of free will and having consequences for the Hero's actions.
The short length of the main plot was criticized by reviewers, but many overlooked this due to the much larger array of side quests available to the player. One of the complaints that arose upon the release of Fable was the fact that it failed to include features that Peter Molyneux had mentioned while the game was still in development.
One of the features that were not included in the game's release was the Hero's ability to have children despite the fact that Molyneux had previously mentioned that the Hero's own children would be significant in the game. Molyneux reacted to these complaints by means of a public apology posted on the official Lionhead forums, on which he said, "If I have mentioned any feature in the past [that], for whatever reason, didn't make it as I described into Fable, I apologize."
The PC and Xbox versions of Fable: The Lost Chapters were also well-received, with slightly lower Metacritic and Game Rankings averages than the original title. Reviewers such as Greg Kasavin of Gamespot noted that the addition of new content helped prevent the game from becoming stale. 1UP.com previewed the game and found that the additive content didn't redefine Fable, but helped bulk up the available quests, addressing the complaint of how short the original Fable was. GamePro and IGN judged The Lost Chapters on PC as surpassing its console predecessor.
Sequels[edit | edit source]
In 2005, a Microsoft Game Studios representative stated that Fable would be among the franchises that would appear on the next-generation Xbox 360. Sequels Fable II and Fable III were released in 2008 and 2010, respectively.
For a list of voice actors from the game see this link.
Fable is available for purchase on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace as an Xbox Originals title for £6.75 ($9.99 in the US, formerly 800 Microsoft Points).[2] Ironically some of the screenshots in the Xbox Games Store for Fable were taken from the Project Ego stage in development and some of the vast open areas seen in the sceenshots do not appear in the final game.
During the making of Fable, a whopping 3577 Indian meals, 2828 Chinese meals, and 1915 were consumed.
Trailers[edit | edit source]
Fable - "Attract" Trailer from Debug
E3 2004 Trailer
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World[edit | edit source]
Cullis Gates
Demon Doors
Focus Sites
Silver Keys
↑ Carter, Dene; Simon Carter (14 June 2002). "Developer Diary #1: Out of the Blue". Lionhead Studios.
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Ebook Romance Stories: The Easy Way Out, The Story
~ The Friendship Series ~
Landscape designer, Drew Easton thought he had met the perfect girl in Harmony Jordan, but then Harmony married Drew's best friend and business partner, Aaron Foster. Trying to pick up the pieces of the failed relationship and go on with life, Drew is not prepared for the twists the road to true love is about to take. Will his heart still be in one piece at the end of this ride?
Charity Jordan has one feeling about her older sister. Hate. Never able to measure up, always second-choice, Charity's life has been driven by one bad mistake after another. When Harmony's ex begins showing up to landscape her parent's yard, Charity has no intentions of being his second choice either. But when feelings start to change, will she be able to keep herself from once again taking The Easy Way Out…
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Ebook Romance Stories: The Easy Way Out, Review
Learn a Better Way than Taking the Easy Way Out, (5-stars) Myrna Brorman
There are always lessons to be learned when reading a Staci Stallings novel. I happened to read this one at a pivotal time for me. I was struggling with some issues regarding conditional love. In the novel, Charity struggles with having always felt that she couldn't do anything "good enough". It seemed to her that her sister always "got it right" while she managed to screw things up. As is frequently the case, when one feels "less than", they do things to make their self "feel better" which may not be wise choices at all. Then, when it is time to pay the consequences for those choices, they tend to take "the easy way out". This is a story about two such people. Very inspiring to see them grow in their relationship with God and learning to love unconditionally. I always feel better after reading a Staci Stallings novel. And, I ALWAYS learn some valuable lessons.
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Ebook Romance Stories: Eternity, Review
Don't settle for less than Great! (5-stars) D. Austin
This book made me laugh, shake my head, and cheer. A series of relationship blunders follow the characters through this book. An easy, comfortable read- I really liked how the author portrayed the practice of sleeping together after the third or fourth date vs. waiting, and what the real meaning of love is. Not overtly, but quietly working it into the story. I wish more young ladies would read this and catch that. I feel like I should buy this book in print and highlight that part for my daughter. The whole idea that good could be standing in the way of great is something we all can take from this book.
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Ebook Romance Stories: The Easy Way Out, Excerpt
Excerpt from The Easy Way Out
From the second she had awakened late at her parents' house, the day had been one long Excedrin headache for Charity. She felt like the ugly stepsister playing nursemaid to Cinderella. Charity, do this. Hurry up, Charity, we're going to be late to the salon. Just let her do your hair, Charity. Stop complaining. Come on, we don't have all day. You should've done that last night. And they were all in on it, too—even Hart who usually took her side in the confrontations with her family.
No, today was Harmony's day, and basically that meant that Charity was only there to get yelled at, stepped over, and complained about. When Harmony and Aaron made their way over to the three-tiered cake looking as sugary sweet as the cake itself, Charity could take no more. Without bothering to tell anyone where she was going, she pushed out of the hall and headed in the first direction her feet carried her.
October meant the skies darkened much earlier so that although it was only 8:30, Atlanta was already dark save for the amber streetlights blanketing the parking lot. Where she was going didn't matter much. She could walk to Jamaica, and as long as nothing went wrong, no one would notice she was gone.
The worst part was that if it was just this one day, she could've handled that, but Harmony had always been first in their hearts, and Charity was sure she always would be. Harmony was the child who could do no wrong. She caused no trouble in high school, and once she had graduated, she had left home, gone to school, got a job, and found a man—all without so much as lifting her little finger.
Charity had heard the phrase, "Why can't you be more like your sister?" so many times it should've been permanently engraved on her forehead by now. But no matter what she did, she could never be Harmony. No. Charity was the family screw-up. It was well-documented in all her school records.
Fights, cheating, lying, almost being expelled on two separate occasions, and finally dropping out when it all got too hard—that was Charity. To begin with she had tried to be like Harmony, then when it became clear that nothing she ever did would ever be good enough to justify her place in the family, she had given up even trying.
The October air was cool against her bare shoulders, but even as she looked down at her dress, a picture of Harmony in full wedding attire flashed through her mind and what she really wanted to do was rip the dress right off her body and throw it in the garbage.
"Argh!" In frustration she kicked a rock, sending it skittering across the parking lot. It was then that she saw the figure emerge from the shadows of the cars, and for one moment, fear said she should run. However, just before that message reached her feet, she realized who it was. Drew. And in a rush the annoyance with the whole lousy day returned. "What are you doing out here?"
He smiled at her sadly and slowly lifted the bottle in his hand into the light. "I'm not real big on champagne."
Charity laughed the first real laugh she had all day. "You want some company?"
Drew shrugged and leaned back against the car before taking another drink. She walked up and leaned onto the car beside him.
"You want some?" He offered her the bottle, and she took it and tipped it up.
"Hmmm." She closed her eyes as all the friction from the day slid away from her. "So, what are you doing out here?"
He shrugged. "I can only take being on my best behavior so long, and then I start to spontaneously-combust."
"I hear you there. If I have to take one more picture, I might just break that guy's camera."
"Yeah, and this monkey-suit is about as comfortable as a grass sack."
"Here." She turned to him and loosened the bowtie at his neck. "No reason to be so formal out here."
He smiled at her as she resumed her place against the car.
"Okay, so you know my story, what's yours?" he asked off-handedly as he tipped the bottle up and took another drink.
Without asking, she reached for the bottle in his hand, tipped it up, and took a long swallow—enjoying how the liquid burned all the way down her throat and into her stomach.
"Perfection is highly overrated," she finally said, dropping the bottle but not returning it to his hand. "Being reminded that I'm not tends to make me a little squirrelly."
His forehead knotted. "Harmony?"
"My whole family." She took another drink. "The fact that I'm the weak link isn't lost on a single one of them."
"The weak link?"
"Hey, Charity! You out here?" Hart called from the hall doors, and instantly she thrust the bottle back to Drew who quickly stowed it in his car. "Charity!"
"I'm coming!" she yelled back, waiting just long enough for Drew to find his way to her side.
"They're throwing the bouquet."
"Oh, great," Charity said under her breath.
"Hang in there," Drew said softly. "One more hour, and life will go on."
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Ebook Romance Stories: The Easy Way Out, Chapter 1
"I, Harmony, take you, Aaron, to have and to hold from this day forward until death do us part, and even for the eternity after that, you have my love."
Drew Easton stood on the top step of the church, wishing that breathing didn't hurt quite so badly.
"May I have the rings, please?" the minister asked, and Drew dug into his pocket for the ring that at one time he'd thought he would be placing on Harmony Jordan's finger.
After locating it, he and Harmony's sister, Charity, stepped forward, holding the rings out for the blessing. Drew never heard the minister's words, and there wasn't a safe place to put his gaze. Looking at Harmony in her veil and satin tore his heart out. Looking at Aaron, with that smile that hadn't left his face for months, brought a burning jealousy to Drew's chest that he hated himself for. And then there was Charity.
The emerald green of her satin dress rested just below her cream-white shoulders, and with her hair pulled up in ringlets around her face, she looked far too much like Harmony had the first time Drew had met her—no, not even Charity was safe.
Suddenly he became aware of the silence that had invaded the space around him, and he looked up, wondering what he had missed. The minister smiled at him kindly, and then Drew's gaze fell to the minister's out-stretched hand. Quickly he dropped the ring into it and stepped back.
If he could just get through the next couple of hours in one piece, he could escape to his own apartment where his heart could ache in peace. He looked past Aaron at Harmony, and the look in her eyes as she gazed at her new husband brought tears to his own. He was happy for them. He truly and honestly was. They were right together. But his heart couldn't help but say that if he hadn't been dumb enough to let her go in the first place, he would be the one standing in front of her—tying himself to his best friend forever.
"…it is my honor and my privilege to present to you for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Foster. Aaron, you may kiss your bride."
Drew's gaze traveled not to the newlyweds but across the heads of the congregation as the snapping of his heart cracked in his ears. Somewhere far away from him, he heard the organ swell to life, and he raked in a torturous breath. Just get down the aisle and get some fresh air.
Trying not to think too much, he looked across the step at Charity. For one second their gazes met, and when she smiled at him, he saw the relief that was overflowing through her eyes as well. Gallantly, he reached across the step and took her hand as they turned toward the back.
Like a dove alighting on its perch, she accepted his offered hand, and they stepped down the stairs together. Once in the aisle, he offered her his arm, she accepted it, and together they made their way out of the church.
They were the first ones to make it to the bride and groom, and Drew plastered a smile on his face that he sincerely hoped looked happy. Today was their day, and he wasn't going to do anything to ruin it.
He watched as Aaron enveloped Charity into the lapel of his tuxedo jacket.
"Welcome to the family," Charity said just loud enough for Drew to hear.
"Thanks," Aaron said, and then Charity stepped past him to greet her sister.
"Congratulations, partner." Drew extended his hand to Aaron.
"Drew. Thanks so much for everything," Aaron said, and then for one moment the handshake became a hug. "I'll never be able to repay you, man."
Drew stepped back and looked at his friend. "Just take care of her—that'll be payment enough."
Aaron nodded, and Drew turned his attention to Harmony, whose smile barely masked the tears behind it.
"Drew," she said, extending her arms to him.
He pulled her into a hug, and they stood like that for several heartbeats. When he finally pulled away, he smiled as he nodded at Aaron. "You take care of this one."
"I will," she said, and with one more, quick hug, he stepped away from her.
His heart could take no more, so quickly he walked out of the church into the cool October breeze. However, his brain had been so focused on the happy couple that he hadn't bothered to keep up with where Charity had gone. As he rounded the corner, he met up with her leaning against the building.
"Oh." He stopped, nearly tripping with the suddenness of it. "Sorry. I didn't see you there."
She smiled at him with sarcasm dripping from the look. "Join the crowd."
"Huh?" His forehead furrowed in concern.
Quickly she shook her head. "Never mind."
He nodded, thankful she wouldn't pummel him for his own feelings. "Well, I'm glad that's over."
"Yeah, me, too." Charity pulled a cigarette out of the small handbag at her wrist and put it to her lips. In two seconds she was puffing away. "Seems a little silly to waste all that money and time just so they can set themselves up for heartache and divorce later."
Drew pulled back in surprise. "That's pretty cynical. Don't you think?" Drew asked, having never seen this side of Charity in all the time they had worked on her parents' yard together.
She shrugged and took another long drag on the cigarette as the brunette ringlets danced around her head. "Yeah? Well, sue me."
"Charity." Her younger brother, Hart, emerged from the church in full tuxedo. "You know what Mom said about smoking today."
In annoyance, she yanked the cigarette out of her mouth and blew the smoke into the air defiantly. "Quit being my babysitter, Hart."
"Well, somebody needs to," he said harshly.
She scowled. "I'm old enough to take care of myself."
"Yeah? Then may I suggest you start acting like it." Hart turned to Drew and extended his hand and a smile. "Hey, Drew. How's business?"
"Pretty good. We're shifting into fall/winter mode. Aaron's got two hotels and several Christmas light orders ready to go. But we've been working our silly heads off trying to keep all those lawns mowed without you around. I sure hope school is worth leaving us high and dry."
"It's okay," Hart said with a nod. "Sixteen hours. It's keeping me busy."
"And out of trouble?" Drew asked.
"Now that would take more than a few classes," Hart said with a grin.
"Hart, Charity, Drew," Mrs. Jordan called from the church doors. "Pictures."
"Ugh." Charity coughed. "Don't they have enough pictures already?"
"Cheer up, Char." Trying to act like this wasn't about to kill him as well, Drew laced his arm through hers. "One more round, and we're off the hook."
She smirked at him and then dropped her cigarette to the concrete and snuffed it out with the emerald green toe of her shoe. "I can't wait."
"Drew," Mr. Jordan said as he leaned back in his chair at the reception, "you're on."
With a slow exhale, Drew closed his eyes, gathering his courage. Pushing his chair backward with a screech, he stood, picked up his glass, and tapped on it with his fork.
"Uh-hmm!" He cleared his throat as gazes throughout the room turned to him. "May I have your attention, please?" The dull roar faded to silence, and extreme self-consciousness descended on him. Somehow when Aaron had asked him to be best man, this moment had never entered his mind, and now inexplicably here he was. "I'd like to say a few words about two of the best people I know.
"First, Aaron, you're my best friend and partner. Sometimes we make decisions in an instant that change the course of our lives forever. Aaron made just such a decision when he put his future on the line to win Harmony's heart. I just want to tell you to never forget what you were willing to sacrifice for her."
Drew raised his glass to Aaron who smiled, and then he shifted his focus to Harmony.
"And, Harmony." Drew exhaled slowly, drawing his bottom lip under his top for a moment, trying to figure out how he was ever going to say any more. He dropped his gaze and then lifted it, knowing she deserved that much. "Don't ever settle for good just because you think you can't have great. Okay? Remember this moment and know that great is always within your reach."
He raised his glass to Harmony, whose smile was laced with tears.
"I wish you both love and peace forever. To Aaron and Harmony."
"Aaron and Harmony!" echoed throughout the room as Drew took a small drink from his glass before sitting back down.
Charity leaned into him even as she picked up her knife and fork again. "That was nice."
"Thanks," Drew said as the tension of the day began to curl around him. "I thought I was a goner there for half-a-second."
"You did good."
Careful to keep his gaze on his meat, Drew ducked and forced the air into his lungs. It's almost over. Just keep your eyes on the end, and you can get through this.
Together they stepped onto the concrete steps of the hall.
"Lead me to the humiliation," Charity said as though the guillotine was waiting on the other side of those doors. The hall was blindingly bright when they walked back in, and an invisible wall of heat wrapped around her.
"Charity, come on," her mother called from the front, and wishing she could run without looking hopelessly dorky, Charity hurried to the small knot of women standing in the middle of the floor.
"Okay, I'm here," she said, joining them.
Harmony looked over the small group and then turned around. "Here we go. One. Two. Three!" She flung the green and yellow bouquet over her head right in Charity's direction; however, Charity side-stepped the press of women lunging for it, and in seconds it was in some other woman's hands.
With a sigh of relief she shrugged at Harmony who shook her head and then laughed happily with the woman who had caught it.
"Okay, okay," Mr. Jordan said, taking the reins as master of ceremonies. "We need Drew and Hart up here."
Charity looked across the floor and immediately saw the pained expression cross Drew's face. He glanced over at her as he strode to Mr. Jordan, and she made a small 'your turn' gesture at him. A smile crossed his face as he tore his gaze away from hers and walked up to Mr. Jordan.
"We're going to need to use the two of you for a chair," Mr. Jordan said. "Here kneel down."
Carefully, the two of them knelt facing each other.
"Harmony," her father said, offering her his hand, which she took with a smile. He seated her on the tops of the two men's thighs.
Despite the fact that everyone else in the room was whooping and hollering, Charity could see that if he had half-a-chance Drew would've disappeared right into the floor. As Aaron slipped the garter off of Harmony's leg, Charity watched Drew. It was obvious, to her anyway, that he was hating every single minute of this.
When the garter was free, Aaron stood and gave his hand to Harmony to help her up. Then stiffly the two groomsmen stood. Aaron laughingly shooed them into the pack of single men waiting for the garter toss. It was funny because as Charity watched him, she thought they must have been cut from exactly the same kind of cloth. He hung back, and when the garter flew in his direction, he deftly side-stepped it.
At the bottom of the pile, Hart came up with it, and proudly slipped it onto his forearm. She watched Aaron high-five Hart for a second, but her gaze followed Drew as he quietly disappeared into the crowd. Without more than a second's worth of thought, she pushed her way in the direction he had gone.
After only a few moments of searching, she found him, pressed firmly against the wall, looking like he could use some more of that drink he'd left in the car.
"What's the matter?" she asked, leaning in to him carefully. "You not interested in doing all this for real?"
"Well, I didn't see you sacrificing your life for the bouquet," he said, and the words had an edge to them.
She shrugged. "I figured I'd let someone who believes in marriage give her life for it."
He tilted his head to the side. "You don't believe in marriage?"
"Not for me."
She considered the question and him for a second and then shrugged. "I'm not permanent enough for marriage."
"Permanent enough?"
"Short attention span," she said, using the exact term countless teachers had in her lifetime.
"Well, maybe you just haven't found anything worth concentrating on."
"Doesn't exist."
"Trust me," she said with a knowing nod. "It doesn't."
Movement from in front of them brought her attention back from the land of deep thought.
"Drew," Aaron said, walking up with Harmony's hand tucked firmly in his own. "You still going to take us to the car?"
"Oh, sure." Drew straightened instantly. He took a step away from Charity and then stopped. "You mind if Charity comes along?"
Aaron shrugged. "The more the merrier."
"We'll go get the car," Drew said, and Charity was thankful she wouldn't have to parade around the hall behind the happy couple. Without being at all obvious, Drew reached into the folds of her dress and rescued her hand. "You ready?"
The heat from his hand pulsed up her arm so that it wouldn't have mattered where he was taking her, she would've gone. Wordlessly she nodded, and they walked out to the parking lot.
"You going to be okay to drive?" she asked, not really knowing where the lines of friendship and loyalty crossed with the duties of responsibility.
"Yeah, I only had a little."
She squinted at him carefully.
"I swear," he said, holding both hands in the air, and one of hers accompanied his.
"But you would tell me, you know, if you didn't think you could…"
"I would tell you," he said, nodding seriously. He unlocked her door, and as she opened it, the bottle lying on her seat caught her attention. Without mention, she stowed it under the passenger's seat.
He got in on his side and sat one moment before he reached up to put the keys in the ignition. She could see the tension creep back onto his face, and gently she reached across the seat and touched his arm. "One more hour."
Gratefully he smiled at her. Neither one wanted to be here, but being here together somehow made that fact less soul-wrenching.
The headlights sliced through the amber light as he drove up to the sidewalk edge.
"Maybe we should let them drive," he said, noticing the crowd beginning to push out of the doors.
"Okay." Deftly she pushed out of her door, pulled the back seat forward and climbed in back, where he met her coming from the other side, and their shoulders collided.
"Ugh. Sorry," he said.
"That's okay," she said, feeling instantly how incredibly small the backseat actually was. "Here they come."
In a flurry of satin, petticoats, and rice, the newlyweds raced from the hall to the car door. Aaron helped Harmony in, slammed her door, and then ran around to the driver's side even as the well-wishers continued to shower rice onto the car.
"You don't want to drive?" Aaron asked, dusting the rice from his hair as he slammed the door.
"You can," Drew said solidly. "I'm fine right here." He leaned back, and the shoulder of his jacket brushed Charity's shoulder. Furtively, he looked over at her, and then he reached down and took her hand.
It was like escaping into a dark corner right under the chaperone's nose, and Charity smiled. Her attention caught on the movement of Harmony's hand in the front as it reached across the seats and rested on Aaron's arm.
"We made it," she said softly, and Charity saw the smile cross Aaron's face in the streak of the streetlight as he looked over at his bride.
The words held a happiness that Charity couldn't remember ever feeling. Watching them was like seeing a testament to the fact that happiness was for everyone else other than her. She turned her gaze out the window, wishing she hadn't agreed to come. At that moment Drew's grip tightened on her hand, and she looked over at him and smiled sadly. The absolute knowledge that neither of them would ever be sitting in the front seat like Aaron and Harmony now were engulfed them both.
After many long minutes the car crossed into the parking lot and into a space. Aaron killed the engine, and the four of them extricated themselves from the midst of the car.
"Well," Aaron said as he wrapped Harmony under his arm and extended his other hand to Drew, "thanks for everything, man."
"No problem." Drew shook his friend's hand. "And don't worry about work. I can handle it for a week."
"I trust you," Aaron said.
Drew leaned in and kissed Harmony's cheek. "Be careful."
"Take care," Charity said, leaning in to give Harmony an awkward hug.
"I will," Harmony said, returning the hug with only one arm.
"And you take care of her," Charity said, sliding to the side to give Aaron a hug as well.
They all stood in a long, uneasy silence.
"Well, we'd better get back," Drew finally said, and Charity nodded. "We'll see you two next week."
Aaron waved slightly as Drew climbed in one side and Charity crawled in the other. Drew started the car and threw his arm over the seat to back out. But Charity's gaze was locked on the couple still standing under the carport. Waving and smiling, they looked like they should be on the top of a cake.
"They're sickening," she said under her breath.
"I know," Drew said sadly. "Wouldn't it be great to be as sickening as they are?"
Tears stung the backs of her eyes. It was like he was reading her thoughts as they streaked across the canvas of her mind, and that was even more annoying than the newlyweds.
When they arrived back at the hall, most of the cars were already gone, so Drew pulled up into one of the front parking spaces. Like emerging from a tomb, they climbed out.
"Hey, Char, where'd you go?" Hart asked in annoyance from behind a mountain of foil-wrapped boxes.
"We took them to their car," Charity said, slamming her door in frustration. No matter what she did, it was always wrong.
"Well, Mom's about to have a conniption if you don't get your little self in there and help clean up."
"So, what else is new?" she asked only loud enough for Drew who was right by her side to hear.
They walked to the door, and he pulled it open for her although she could've used the effort to drain the excess of angry energy flowing through her.
"It's about time you get here," her mother greeted her, holding out a folded tablecloth, the guestbook, and a bridal photo of Harmony. "Take these to the car, and then come help me with the rest of this cake."
Charity accepted the stack placed into her hands, and she turned to Drew and smiled. The torture continued.
"So, do you need a ride home?" Drew asked Charity an hour later when everything had been stowed in the cars.
"I don't know." She glanced over her shoulder hesitantly. "I'm just going to Mom's."
"Well, I just happen to know where that is."
She smiled as her mother walked out of the kitchen. "Come on, Charity, we need to get this meat home before it spoils."
"Drew said he could give me a ride," Charity said softly.
"Oh, don't be silly. That's clear across town. He doesn't have time to be taxiing you around."
She hated being treated like she was ten. She hated it. "But he offered."
"Can you hit that light switch?" her mother asked as though Charity hadn't said anything.
With a sigh of resignation, Charity pushed her feet across the floor and hit the switch, plunging the room into darkness. Slowly she crossed back to the door where Drew still stood.
"I guess I'd better go home with them," she said reluctantly.
He nodded, his eyes full of sadness and acceptance. "That's okay. I understand."
But she doubted the truth of that statement. And what she knew he did understand, she wished he didn't.
"Can I call you sometime?" he asked softly as they stepped into the night air.
She shrugged. "It's a free country."
"Charity, come on," Hart called from the car.
Quickly she closed the door and checked the lock. Then as she turned to the car, Drew caught her hand for one more brief second. "Thanks for tonight. It was nice to have a friend."
Her smile cracked right through the annoyance with her family. "Yeah, it was."
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Firm signs sub-agency deal with Game of 2 Halves for Saints Row and Dead Island.
Bulldog Licensing will represent video games brand Saints Row and Dead Island in the US and Canada, after securing a sub-agency deal with global representative Game of 2 Halves.
Both properties are produced by Deep Silver and are targeted at a core audience of 18-34 year old males. Both have potential across sectors including apparel, accessories, books, posters and collectables.
Saints Row has built up a strong worldwide fanbase, with nearly 1.5 million Facebook likes. Saints Row IV, the latest instalment in the series, sold more than one million units in a week of launch last summer.
Dead Island, meanwhile, consists of two games – Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide – with the latest in the series, Dead Island Epidemic, due to launch imminently. The original game was the second biggest new video game IP launch of the last four years.
"We are very excited by the licensing potential of these titles as they are hugely popular with gamers across the US, so there is a ready-made fanbase just waiting to snap up product," said Laurie Windrow from Bulldog Licensing. "We are actively engaged with potential licensees for apparel and accessories, toys, figures, collectables, posters, electronics and accessories."


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Pre-order Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema limited edition book signed by Vanessa Harryhausen
Limited edition book signed by author Vanessa Harryhausen which accompanies the greatly anticipated Ray Harryhausen exhibition, on show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
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200 copies of this new collector's edition book will contain a special book plate signed by Ray Harryhausen's daughter Vanessa. Any pre-orders are expected to be dispatched shortly after the opening of the exhibition, Saturday 24 October.
A landmark exhibition book that examines 100 objects selected from an incredible archive by the animator Ray Harryhausen's daughter. The book is packed with Vanessa's personal stories that have never previously been heard or published from a life watching her father make world-famous films that changed the course of cinema.
Special effects superstar Ray Harryhausen elevated his stop-motion animation to an art during the 1950s to 1980s. An army of fighting skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts; a giant octopus wrapping its tentacles around the Golden Gate Bridge in It Came from Beneath the Sea; snakes writhing atop the Medusa's head in Clash of the Titans – some of cinema's most iconic creatures and images sprang from Ray Harryhausen's imagination and skill.
He inspired a generation of filmmakers, from Peter Jackson to George Lucas, and his legendary influence on blockbuster cinema continues.
With material drawn from his incredible archive, his daughter, Vanessa, selects 100 creatures, mementoes and objects that mean the most to her. The book unveils, for the first time, many newly restored works, accompanied by Vanessa's previously unpublished stories of life with Ray on set and at home. There are also fascinating contributions, telling of working with Ray and his innovative techniques, from many of those who were inspired by him. John Landis, Rick Baker, Caroline Munro, Merlin Crossingham and many others share their own memories in this very personal chronicle of the life of a true titan of cinema.
Hi Diana and Vanessa just received my signed copy (#136). Thank you and loved his work and contribution to make this a happy world in these times of trouble.
Thank you for this new book on your unbelievable dad. I'll be getting my copy very soon…..


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Home Overseas Mission Introduction
The ministry was first started in 1977 by Hung En Lutheran Church, Grace Lutheran Church, and Grace Lutheran Church (Tsuen Wan) under the name of Joint Mission Ministry Among Three Lutheran Congregations. Several other congregations joined this ministry afterwards. In 1987, the ministry was re-named to Overseas Mission Committee of ELCHK. Since July 1993, the Committee has officially become independently as the Overseas Mission Department of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong. Executive staff was employed at that time particularly in running the ministry.
In 1982, an agreement was signed by the Norwegian Mission Society (NMS) and the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM) and ELCHK to form the Lutheran Mission in Thailand (LMT). In 1987, we began to provide financial support for Lutheran mission works in Thailand. By 1988, we sent Evt. Anita, Chan Wai Ling as the first missionary. With God's blessings, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thailand (ELCT) was set up in 1994. In 1999, we sent Rev. Ip Ching-Wah and his family serving in Thailand. In 1998, we sent Rev. Ian Cheung and family to serve the Chinese community in Germany. Missionaries and believers have been sent to various missionary fields including Thailand, Germany, Fiji and Cambodia.
Rev. Anita Chan W. L. returned to Hong Kong in 1997. She has been the overseas mission secretary of ELCHK until now. The work of the Overseas Missions Department is to promote mission work in the congregations, organize mission fellowship, arrange short mission trips, form prisoner concern groups and oversee a host of other programs. We also encourage congregations to collaborate with mission fields to become mission partners, and provide the different age groups from kids to the elders involved in God's Kingdom as a witness to become missionaries in our generation.


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Almost 50 million people are living in poverty in the United States, the richest country in the world. Although many elected officials have boasted of a decline in unemployment rates, mass poverty remains a painful, day-to-day reality for tens of millions. Most new jobs are paying poverty wages. People who have given up on finding meaningful work remain completely unrepresented in the official employment records.
African Americans, Latinos and other people of color have the highest percentages of those living in poverty, but make no mistake: millions of Euro-Americans are also trapped in poverty.
Buffalo has one of the highest poverty rates in the country. In 2014, local TV described Buffalo as the city with the fourth highest percentage in the nation. Of all the cities in the U.S. with more than than 245,000 people, Buffalo has the third highest rate of childhood poverty. Young mothers and their children make up a large proportion of those entering homeless shelters in Erie county.
This economic inequality creates intense competition for jobs and other resources, especially housing. Buffalo is the 7th most segregated city in the country. The racism fostered by unequal access to a decent home only serves to benefit the 1%, leaving Black and Brown Americans in constant fear of displacement, the loss of community, and the violence of police terror.
People living in many cities around the U.S. are suffering from rising rents and gentrification. Buffalo just hit a pinnacle moment: it's first $2,500 studio apartment, ever. The Governor's "Buffalo Billion" has been good to developers and the CEO's in the Medical Corridor. It remains to be seen whether this new money will benefit all the people of Buffalo, or just the 1%. While the Banks and developers celebrate, the working class is thrown into a panic.
The #Fightfor15 is part of this battle against poverty and displacement.
In Buffalo, 20% of white people, 36% of Black people, 38% of Asians, and 56% of Latinos are living in poverty. 47% of children in Buffalo are living in poverty. The national rate of poverty is over 30%. 34% of women and 29% of men are living in poverty.
The crisis of child poverty in Buffalo in itself is reason enough to fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage and a union. Poverty means families cannot afford decent housing or respectable clothing. It means the pain of hunger, poor nutrition, and more health problems. It means little to no medical care and the fear of sickness. It means families are able to buy very little of what they need each and every day. It means almost no toys for their children. It means almost no leisure time or recreational activities and a restricted social life. It means day-to-day worry and fear of the landlord, eviction, and foreclosure. It means the fear of displacement and the loss of community. It means dilapidated housing and lack of representation or concern. It means being unable to pay bills and the fear of losing electricity and communication. It means debt and the fear of creditors. Poverty means the loss of dignity, peace of mind, and security.
There is not much life, liberty or pursuit of happiness when you are trapped in the cycles of poverty that are passing from one generation to the next. The existence of poverty anywhere is an attack everywhere on the ideas of freedom, justice and equality which the U.S. people cherish.
There are many root causes of mass poverty. High on the list is mass unemployment. Wages have also remained the same for many years while prices have gone sky high. There are millions of working people who remain poor because of job discrimination. Many caught in desperation and using drugs for relief are funneled into a cycle of imprisonment even though rich people are also using the same substances, and even though prisons cost more money than rehabilitation centers. Countless others have been criminalized because of their immigration status. Millions have been forced into poverty after new technologies have led to the collapse of basic industry in the U.S. A huge number of jobs have been moved to less developed areas of the world where people can be paid for the same work with much lower wages. The number of those impoverished has gone through the roof as a result of 40 years of concentrated attacks on labor by corporate America and their refusal to give living wages and union rights to their workers. Today, all kinds of people's organizations, unions, tenant associations, churches, civil rights and peace groups like "Black Lives Matter" are working with the $15 and a Union Movement.
Anyone who believes in economic and social justice for all needs to be a part of this historic push for universal economic equality.
It started with the super exploited fast food workers who were just plain sick and tired of the bad working conditions and poverty wages. That movement spread across the country with the unions supporting it nationwide. Ultimately, it called a strike at Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the world, a company worth 100's of Billions of dollars.
Today that movement is active here all over the state. It is the main democratic force that made Governor Cuomo finally support a raise for tens of thousands of workers in NY State from the current $8.75 to $15.
In New York City, a $15 minimum wage will be phased in by the end of 2018. By 2021, the wage hike will have been completed in Buffalo and capped at a mere $12.50/hour.
All workers across the state are not included in this minimum wage hike to $15/hour. Black Americans and Immigrant Americans are still under attack by violent, unaccountable police and deportation centers. Voting and other democratic rights are still being taken away. Rents are still too high. Affordable childcare is not available to all families.
Workers cannot wait 2-5 years for a better life, and corporations can afford to pay them better now. Why should we have to wait for our basic needs to be met, especially when poverty has the greatest amount of permanent impact on our children in the earliest stages of their lives? Why should only some working people have an easier life and not all of us?
We need to keep the pressure on. Join in. Let's make history.


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Capcom stresses that Resident Evil Village will have several DLCs in 2022, and talks about the anniversaries of Street Fighter and Mega Man
Capcom talks about Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak, future DLCs for Resident Evil Village, and Street Fighter / Mega Man anniversaries.
With 2022 just beginning, the main studios in the video game industry are preparing to launch their new games and products. It is the case of Capcom, who wants to give it all this new year.
The latest financial reports from the company indicate that Monster Hunter and Resident Evil are still its most successful IPs, but Capcom also wants to rescue old glories like Mega Man or Street Fighter.
Capcom's immediate future (via Siliconera) goes through improve content and structures from Monster Hunter Rise and Resident Evil Village, two of his greatest hits from last year 2021.
The eighth main installment of Resident Evil left a very good feeling (not in vain, it was the GOTY for Steam), and Capcom is already preparing various bonus content to extend the plot of the game.
During the past year it was confirmed a story DLC for Village, which will be released this year on all platforms. In addition, the company has confirmed that there are more news on the way for survival horror.
Of course, at the moment we do not know when they will be available. The possibility of advertising continues in the air a third Revelations, with the Resident Evil 4 remake in limbo and hopes for Code Veronica fading (although fans are creating a remake).
As for Monster Hunter Rise, don't forget that the next 12th of January is launched the PC version of the title. Likewise, in summer the Sunbreak expansion will arrive, similar to Iceborne for MH World.
Capcom recently confirmed that they will release more details on Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak in the spring. This expansion will launch simultaneously on PC and Nintendo Switch.
What about the more classic Capcom sagas? We talk about heavyweights like Mega Man and Street Fighter, which this year celebrate their 35th anniversary… with no news in sight.
Rumors place the announcement of Street fighter 6 for this year, although for now Capcom has not confirmed anything. This comes from the data breach that occurred during 2021.
On the horizon, and with great expectations, a glimpse of Pragmata. Capcom's enigmatic game will arrive on PS5, Xbox Series X | S and PC in 2023, following the recent delay announced by the company.
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El río Shuyuk  es un corto río del distrito de Lázarevskoye de la unidad municipal de la ciudad-balneario de Sochi del krai de Krasnodar de Rusia.

Tiene una longitud de 9 km. Nace las estribaciones más occidentales del Cáucaso, en las primeras cordilleras desde el mar, al oeste de Nadzhigo y discurre durante su curso alto en dirección predominantemente sur-suroeste. Poco después de nacer, a los 2 km, recibe un pequeño arroyo en su orilla izquierda, su principal afluente. Sigue en dirección suroeste hasta su desembocadura en el mar Negro sin atravesar ninguna localidad, aunque su desembocadura se halla en el término de Vishniovka y hay algunas casas.

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