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Pig (2021) review
Dir. Michael Sanorski
This film is included in my "Best of 2021" list
It's not what Michael Sarnoski's Pig is about but how it's about it, in so many words. It's a sullen picture liable to leave you feeling glum once the credits commence. Yet it's the way in which it moves, subverting your expectations in forgoing incredulous twists, in turn being beautifully impressionistic. At its most basic, the core of Pig is about being alive, as painful and as awful as it can be at times.
Deep in the Oregonian wilderness, we happen upon Rob, played by a grizzled Nicolas Cage. A once-venerated chef, he's resorted to a hermetic life, his only companion being a foraging pig who can sniff out valuable truffles. Rob sells the truffles to Amir (Alex Wolff), an underqualified salesman who sells coveted ingredients to high-dollar restaurants. Amir pompously arrives at Rob's ramshackle abode in his canary yellow Camaro, trying his best to undercut the fact that he's dealing with a social recluse who can't even be bothered with small-talk.
As fate would have it, Amir becomes Rob's only lifeline when individuals viciously assault him and steal his pig. Rob isn't so much concerned about the money he'll lose from the lack of truffles. He's distraught by the theft of one of the last things about which he cares. Thus, Amir is forced to be Rob's chauffeur when the two head to Portland in effort to retrieve the animal, with Rob — bloodied, bruised, and donning the attire of a rag-picker — being reacquainted to the cold, unfeeling underworld of fine-dining.
"There is no loop," Rob barks at Amir when his buyer angrily says he's being kept out of the loop of the entire trip. "I'm finding my pig. You're not part of a loop, you're my ride."
You already know a film is going to be good when it plunges you into the underbelly of five-star restaurants. Without overstepping into spoiler territory, Sarnoski devotes time to seedy dealings between restauranteurs and salesmen over the minute ingredients that set establishments back a star in their branding if they're not up to par. Furthermore, the sheer presence of Rob is felt once he's recognized. He's revered despite being long gone from the public eye. You get the idea he never wanted any glory. He simply wanted to serve quality food.
Rob is a relic of the good ol' days. He's someone we're led to believe carried out his day-to-day business with a morally conscious attitude — on top of being someone who valued the art of cuisine. Then big business and its shady practices infiltrated on his happy slice-of-life, taking what they believed was theirs, shortcutting the process, and distilling the craftsmanship right out of the experience until what was left was an antiseptic, glossy piece of architecture with no soul. Sound familiar? Welcome to America, where we seldom find industries we can't drain of their integrity.
Consider what is arguably the best scene in Pig. Deep in the second act, Rob sits down at a prestigious restaurant in Portland alongside Amir — who is already on-edge because this is one of his father's clients and he's stepping on toes just being there. It's the typical restaurant you and I likely couldn't afford on our best day, priding itself on outrageously overpriced meals you could finish in two spoonsful. God love ya if you can pronounce the entrées too. Moreover, Rob eats one of the dishes with his fingers. The chef (David Knell) is floored to recognize Rob, but is left speechless while he harshly criticizes the dish (and the establishment) for lacking everything save for pretentiousness. Rob even reminds the chef that is was he who was once gunning to open a pub, but fell down the same, cynical path of chefs who prioritize humungous profit margins over culinary craft. These charged words are delivered by Cage with an understated imposition.
When he's not driving angry of wayward in Wonderland, Cage can deliver a knockout performance like the one he gives in Pig. He's always had it in him. In a manner not unlike the way Adam Sandler gut-punched the masses with his thrilling turn in Uncut Gems, what's long been frustrating about Cage (and Sandler) is they've proven they can leave us with our mouths agape. That is, when they want to. Otherwise, they settle for middle-of-the-road productions or downright dreck that further obscures their real talents. Cage is brilliant here; in actuality, he operates on a plain comparable to the one he did in David Gordon Green's Joe.
We keep waiting for Cage to snap like he so often does. We keep anticipating him slamming his palms on a table before grabbing its ends, turning it on its side, and grabbing a waiter by the collar and screaming something to the degree of, "where's my motherf*****g pig?!?!" That moment never arrives. Sarnoski, in his debut feature, is measured at every step, knowing when to heighten the tension through tone and when to loosen his grip. This is a movie less about revenge, or even a pig. It's a movie about principle and the painful realization of there being desperately few tangible things in life we care about enough to commit to preserving.
There's a good chance Pig falls prey to being shortchanged to the movie where "Nic Cage chases after a pig;" kind of like how Queen & Slim became unfairly deemed "the Black Bonnie & Clyde." But that's only for those not wise enough to give it a shot and be treated to a standout directorial debut and a sobering reminder of the legend that is Nicolas Cage.
NOTE: Pig is now playing in theaters and available to rent on multiple streaming platforms.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, and David Knell. Directed by: Michael Sarnoski.


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Q: Microsoft Graph v1.0 getSchedule api is slow I am referencing the Microsoft Docs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/calendar-getschedule?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http
I'm trying to send a request to https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/calendar/getSchedule.
I get a successful response but sometimes the API is very slow, especially on the initial page load where it can take more than 10 seconds. When I send the request again, however, it only takes 0.3 seconds.
Below is my send request code:
    System.Net.ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback =
        delegate { return true; };

    WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(
        " https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/calendar/getSchedule ");

    string param = "{\"schedules\":[\"" + userPrincipalName + "\"],";
    param += "\"startTime\" : {\"dateTime\": \"" + startTime
        + "\",\"timeZone\": \"Taipei Standard Time\"},";
    param += "\"endTime\" : {\"dateTime\": \"" + endTime
        + "\",\"timeZone\": \"Taipei Standard Time\"},";
    param += "\"availabilityViewInterval\" : 60}";

    request.Method = "POST";
    request.ContentType = "application/json";
    request.Headers["Authorization"] = " Bearer " + token;
    request.Headers["Prefer"] = "outlook.timezone=\"Taipei Standard Time\"";

    using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
    {
        streamWriter.Write(param);
    }

    try
    {
        var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
        {
            var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
            WebUtility.WriteAjaxResult(true, null, result);

        }
    }

The slowdown is happening at GetResponse. I am using System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch to calculate how long var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); takes. It took 14 seconds to respond.
Using Postman to send the request is faster than my backend request and more stable.
I hope someone can answer the reason for me, thanks!

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Australia based DJ and producer tyDi just released his new LP Redefined on September 30th and in our highlighted track "Redefined (feat. Melanie Fontana)" it is clear that the award winning DJ and multi-platinum songwriter are poised to make an impact on the dance charts. Their initial collaboration "Nothing Really Matters" premiered on Billboard online and went on to break the esteemed Top 50 Dance Chart that year. The album itself is an assortment of his compositions and that feature intimately produced vocals from the likes of Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba, The Ready Set, Kerli and songwriter BC Jean (of Beyonce's "If I Were A Boy).
We refer to the productions as intimate since they were all designed through in person studio sessions instead of the normal phone-in conversations that are so often used when working with major names. The title track is aptly named since tyDi has made a sincere effort to mold his personal style through collaborative efforts on this latest compilation. "Redefined" has a decidedly deceptive intro that comes in with a soft, melodic pop piano line and quickly transitions into a fast-paced pure EDM number. If nothing else, Melanie Fontana's soaring vocals make the listener want to dance and are the spark that starts that fire with the pulsing beat and upbeat synths.


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Keeping your data safe & sound
You've seen all the emails, agreed to the new policies, accepted some new terms. The GDPR updates have been flooding everyone's inbox and we're here to keep you in the loop about Luffa's GDPR changes.
For the last few months, we've been focused on upgrading Luffa's security and individual user rights over personal data. We get asked about security fairly often and we want to do everything in our power to show you that we take your privacy seriously. You are trusting us with your voice after all.
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Today's new features that put control in the hands of the user:
Data Export Tool: Request a copy of all your data in Luffa
Remove Personal Data: Edit personal info like name, email address
Delete Profile Data: For owners and admins to anonymize user accounts
New User Consent: An extra layer of consent for capturing audio
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When you start your first capture after signing up (or logging in after today) you'll be asked to agree to give consent to Luffa, showing that you understand that you are giving Luffa permission to capture your voice and perform processing as part of the Luffa experience. If you change your mind at any point this consent can be revoked by contacting our Data Protection Officer at dpo@okluffa.com, or, in the near feature, with a feature in your account settings.
These new features combined with our previously announced Lifetime Policy rules round out our GDPR features for users. But that's not the end of our updates.
New Policy Documentation
As of Friday, May 25th we'll have a new Privacy Policy, Terms of Service as well as other supporting documentation about processing data and data management at Luffa available to read on our website or by request. Security is, and will always be, a big issue so our goal is to be as transparent as possible with everything we do at Luffa. We use your data strictly to provide you with an enjoyable product and experience.
Since we know that no one reads privacy policies we are providing a more user-friendly version of the usual legalese heavy wall of text. Which is why on our Privacy Policy page you'll be able to switch between reading the official legalese version as well as a plain English version that breaks down each point of the document in much friendlier language.
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By continuing to use our product you will be agreeing to these new terms and policies without having to do any extra actions. We will however be asking everyone for the new consent on for first new capture on or after May 25th.
We know that data privacy isn't the most interesting topic, and you're probably tired of seeing it in your inbox. Just know that we're doing everything we can to keep your data safe as well as to let you remain in control of it. If you'd like to hear about any fine-grained details about privacy at Luffa feel free to reach out to our Data Protection Officer at dpo@okluffa.com.
In our next updates, we'll start to share more non-security related features we've had in the works for a while, so stay tuned!

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Donald Trump is battling with a beauty queen
Sheila Verster
Donald Trump — who is sparring with Mexico and the Univision network, and was just dumped by NBC — has a separate battle with a beauty queen in Amsterdam.
Linda Grandia, a former Miss Holland, is accusing Trump of attempting to destroy the international Miss Multiverse pageant she's been building for five years.
Trump's legal team claims Miss Multiverse violates his Miss Universe trademark, citing Grandia's use of the term "Miss." He's sued other contests over "Miss" in the past.
He also objected to the syllable "verse," as in "Universe" and "Multiverse," claiming it will confuse the public.
"It's pure nonsense," Grandia told me. "Mr. Trump seems to think he owns every letter in the alphabet. Pretty soon he will be trying to sue the state of Mississippi."
Grandia is scheduled to conduct her next pageant, in Africa's Republic of the Congo, as a reality television series later this year. But she might need a new name.
Miss Universe president Paula Shugart said, "We enforce our trademark all over the world."
Author: Richard Johnson, NY Post
External Reference: Page Six - NY Post: http://pagesix.com/2015/06/29/donald-trump-is-battling-with-a-beauty-queen/
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Aspen Middle School goes back in time
Erica Robbie
erobbie@aspentimes.com
Thirty Aspen Middle School seventh graders listen to historian Larry Fredrick discuss Aspen's mining history as part of the school's partnership with National History Day.
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Eyes widened across the Aspen Middle School library as historian Larry Fredrick told students that the largest silver nugget mined in the world weighed 2,060 pounds and was discovered in Aspen at Smuggler Mine in 1894.
Prior to this, the largest silver nugget also was mined in Aspen, at the Molly Gibson Mine in 1893, Fredrick said.
Fredrick discussed Aspen's mining era in front of seventh-grade students as part of Aspen Middle School's partnership with National History Day.
National History Day is a nonprofit organization that offers history related academic programs to more than 500,000 middle and high school students around the world.
Aspen Middle School partnered with National History Day three or four years ago, Aspen Middle School English teacher Hallie Harrison said, and has added to its program ever since.
This year, for instance, is the first time the middle school is bringing in outside speakers as part of their National History Day program.
From the end of January through Feb. 8, local experts will teach students about the history of mountaineering, of Utes in the valley and of flight. A former History Channel writer and content director also will speak to students.
Aside from the talks, students also must complete a research paper and project as part of the school's National History Day program.
Students may focus both their paper and project on any event of any significance that occurred more than 25 years ago, Aspen Middle School history teacher Adam Flatt said.
Flatt said that allowing students to select their own research topic is "such an intrinsic motivator because they can choose something that really intrigues them."
Many students research their family's lineage, Flatt said, and enjoy learning about the country their family originated from.
"Whether their uncle was a Nobel Peace Prize winner or their aunt survived the Holocaust, my favorite part of this is that students are actually researching and digging deeper," he said.
Fredrick, who works mainly with young children, said that he thinks having speakers "brings the material to life."
"They're having contact with live people rather than a textbook," Fredrick said. "It also validates what they read by having people verify it."
The seventh-grade class will present their research papers and projects before their teachers and peers Feb. 25 in the Aspen Middle School library.


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Perspective > Medscape Neurology > American Academy of Neurology 2017 Annual Meeting (AAN)
A Surge of New Drug Data in Multiple Sclerosis
Bret S. Stetka, MD; Stephen Krieger, MD; Michelle Fabian, MD
Stephen Krieger, MD, and Michelle Fabian, MD
In just over two decades, multiple sclerosis (MS) has gone from an untreatable disease to one for which clinicians are nearly flummoxed by the options. Since the first MS drug treatment, interferon beta-1b, was approved in 1993, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has greenlighted more than a dozen other therapies. At the recent 2017 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting in Boston, the progress continued, as evidenced by the numerous clinical trials presented. While onsite at the meeting, Medscape editor Bret Stetka, MD, sat down with Mount Sinai (New York) neurologists Stephen Krieger, MD, and Michelle Fabian, MD, to discuss the bevy of new data.
Medscape: Thanks for joining me today. What presentations on MS have most impressed you this week?
Dr Krieger: I think we've seen some clinical trial results from both core and extension studies that give us more insight into efficacy of different therapies in both relapsing and progressive MS.
Dr Fabian: Everybody is excited about ocrelizumab, and there were a number of exciting studies on this drug presented here in Boston, including the ocrelizumab extension data.[1]The highlights were that it showed a remarkable decrease in the formation of new lesions, both in patients who were already on ocrelizumab and in patients who were switched over from interferon.
Dr Krieger: This is the first year of their extension study, which is going to go on for several years. The extent of the reduction in MRI lesions that we saw in the first year of the extension certainly reassures us that efficacy was maintained, including in those who were originally on interferon in the core trial.
Previously we'd already seen a 95% reduction in gadolinium-enhancing lesions. And in the first year of the extension, looking at 700 patients, zero enhancing lesions were seen—not one.
Dr Fabian: It's really remarkable. It's a number I never thought I'd see in a trial.
Medscape: This is the first approved medication for primary progressive MS (PPMS). Are doctors out there using it yet?
Dr Fabian: I think in the next 6 months or so the uptake will be significant.
Dr Krieger: This is the first drug with both a relapsing MS and progressive MS approval, which I think allows neurologists to have a certain amount of leeway in terms of deciding who the right patients are for this medicine. The kind of data we saw in the extension trials really shows how potent an immune modulator this is at preventing disease activity.
Medscape: Do you think ocrelizumab will be incorporated into relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) treatment before long?
Dr Krieger: Absolutely. It's there for both types of the disease.
Dr Fabian: Dr Hauser also presented data[2] showing that the onset of action is really quick. And so for patients with RRMS, especially in aggressive cases, he showed that it's effective within the first 8 weeks. Sometimes our older therapies would take 6 months to reach optimal efficacy. So I think we'll be using it a lot.
Medscape: How do you think doctors will incorporate ocrelizumab into RRMS treatment algorithms, especially given the numerous approved therapies for the condition?
Dr Fabian: I think it will be very interesting to see, as the years go on, who starts it, and either as a new start or a switch.
Dr Krieger: I think many people will want to use it for active disease. We'll have to wait and see whether doctors in the United States use it first-line or as a second-line or "breakthrough" medicine. It will be interesting to see.
More Drug Data and Guidance on Sequencing
Medscape: Data also were presented on the drug siponimod in progressive disease. What did these findings show?
Dr Krieger: We've already seen success with ocrelizumab in primary progressive disease, and now the data presented today[3] show success with siponimod in secondary-progressive MS (SPMS); this is a cousin to fingolimod. The results were modest: around a 20% reduction in the risk for disability.
Dr Fabian: This drug is intriguing because it's the only current drug shown to be effective in SPMS, and it has an analog that's already out. So in terms of safety, we have some added comfort here.
Medscape: There were also some exciting data on alemtuzumab, which has been around for a few years now, right?
Dr Fabian: Yes. And I appreciate that these studies are still giving us data 6 years out. It's meaningful that most patients who have been given this drug in trials are still doing well, both clinically and in terms of MRI findings.[4]
Dr Krieger: Ocrelizumab and alemtuzumab are both medicines with a more durable mechanism of action. So we're now seeing later extension data on alemtuzumab—out to 6 years, like Michelle said—and I definitely see a parallel with the ocrelizumab extension data we're now starting to see.
Medscape: Personally speaking, how do you two choose between all of these medications when treating a newly diagnosed patient?
Dr Krieger: We're going to see more and more biomarkers in the next few years that will help us make these decisions on a more rational and biologic basis. But at the moment, I think it comes down to perceived balance of efficacy and safety, as well as the desired risk profile that a patient is willing to take on with their medicines. And then the field of candidate medications is narrowed on the basis of things like a patient's comorbidities, phase of life, and other contraindications.
Dr Fabian: I think that's one of the hardest questions that neurologists and MS specialists face at the moment. There are actually too many good options! So it has to be a decision based on patient factors and on their comfort level. And like Stephen said, we really need biomarkers to help make these decisions—serologic biomarkers, MRI biomarkers, and hopefully others.
Medscape: Like so many areas of medicine, it sounds like personalizing care will be key.
Dr Krieger: Yes. And as the field of MS therapeutics matures, this is a second-generation problem. The first-generation problem is not having treatments, and the second is having an array of them and trying to figure out which is best for which patient.
Medscape: What biomarkers are currently being used in the clinic?
Dr Krieger: If anything, we use safety-risk biomarkers rather than those for efficacy. So I can't yet know which patient is going to respond to which medicine. But I could know which patients are at highest risk for certain adverse events. I think the JC virus antibody is the best example of a risk-stratification biomarker—knowing that with a positive antibody, the risk for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in a patient on natalizumab increases over the first 2 or 3 years.
There are a few other similar (mostly infectious) biomarkers but not really any drug-specific ones. Soon we might even have microbiome profiles that could help us select treatments. At Mount Sinai we're involved in a microbiome and MS consortium, but it's tricky because the biome can be different in each patient and in different geographic areas.
Real-World Data and Hope for Cognitive Impairment
Medscape: Some data were presented on real-world experience with a few established MS medications. What are your thoughts on these?
Dr Fabian: Research was presented about real clinic experience with dimethyl fumarate (DMF) and fingolimod.[5]They looked at how many patients continue on the agents once they're started and how many discontinue their drug and switch to another agent.
The study showed that DMF was discontinued more frequently due to adverse events in the first year of treatment. Patients on both drugs did about the same in terms of clinical relapses, but the DMF patients had more MRI activity.
Medscape: Can you briefly summarize the data presented on treating cognitive impairment in MS?
Dr Fabian: There was an interesting study[6]done by investigators from Italy, looking at the drug dalfampridine in MS-related cognitive impairment. They used the SDMT—a test for processing speed—and they did show an effect when it was used for 12 weeks. After the dalfampridine was stopped, they tested the patients again after 4 weeks and there was no continued effect. So it was a symptomatic effect while they were on the drug. Also, the treatment did not affect the patient's quality of life. So, even though their cognitive function looked to be improved, their quality of life was the same.
Dr Krieger: This is a medicine that we typically use for ambulatory issues in MS. But now if we have a sense that dalfampridine can improve cognitive function, it's something we can consider when we're treating people with it for gait dysfunction; we can look at it for its effect on cognition, too.
Medscape: How commonly do you see cognitive dysfunction in MS?
Dr Fabian: It's very common—somewhere around 35%-65% of patients.
Dr Krieger: And the closer you look for it, the more you see it. This is one area where the dogma of a generation ago is quite different now. It used to be thought that MS spared cognition, but now we know that often is not true.
Medscape Neurology © 2017 WebMD, LLC
Any views expressed above are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of WebMD or Medscape.
Cite this: A Surge of New Drug Data in Multiple Sclerosis - Medscape - May 26, 2017.
Bret S. Stetka, MD
Editorial Director, Medscape Neurology
Stephen Krieger, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Disclosure: Stephen Krieger, MD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:
Serve(d) as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: Acorda Therapeutics; Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals; Biogen Idec Inc.; EMD Serono, Inc.; Genentech; Genzyme Corporation; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc; Teva
Serve(d) as a speaker or a member of a speakers bureau for: Biogen Idec
Michelle Fabian, MD
Staff physician, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Disclosure: Michelle Fabian, MD has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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Idris Elba thinks the chances of him playing 007 are "gone"
By Leanne Bayley
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No, Idris don't say that!
Although he's been backed by lots of celebs, Idris Elba thinks there is no chance of him playing Bond because of the mass media speculation.
He admitted: "It's a rumour that's really started to eat itself. If there was a chance of me getting Bond, it's gone."
Speaking to the audience at London's British Film Institute, he also took time to comment on Sir Roger Moore's recent comments about him playing James Bond.
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The Luther star responded to recent comments made by former 007 actor Sir Roger Moore who said James Bond should be played by an actor who is 'English-English' , despite the veteran actor later saying his comments has been misinterpreted and were not meant in a racist way.
Idris said: "I was born here. I was born in England, born and raised."
The 42-year-old star also took the chance to clear up rumours he had been in talks with Bond producers, saying that it was actually Daniel Craig who originally sparked suggestions.
"Daniel Craig actually set the rumour off. About four years ago he said Idris Elba would be a great Bond and then it started to creep. I blame Daniel."
Billie Eilish is officially singing the new Bond theme song for James Bond's No Time To Die
007 is back!
On 30 March 2015, we wrote...
Roger Moore has denied claims of racism after he allegedly said that future Bond actors should be "English-English".
French publication Paris Match ran a story under the headline "Idris Elba: the next Bond", with a quote from Moore, which, when translated into English, reads:
"Several years ago I said Cuba Gooding Jr would make an excellent Bond, but that was a joke," he said.
"Even though James has been played by a Scotsman, a Welshman and an Irishman, I think he has to remain English-English. It's an interesting idea, but unrealistic."
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Elba has been strongly rumoured to be the next 007, although nothing has been confirmed.
Moore, 87, has firmly denied accusations of racism, tweeting that his comment was taken out of context.
An interview I gave to Paris Match implies I said something racist about Idris Elba. That is simply untrue. #Lost in translation.
— Sir Roger Moore (Legacy) (@sirrogermoore) March 28, 2015
The actor played Bond between in 1973 and 1985, when he was replaced by Timothy Dalton.
The Bond film, Spectre starring Daniel Craig, is out on 6 November.
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Stephanie Sigman has been announced as the latest Bond girl.
The Mexican actress joins Lea Seydoux and Monica Bellucci in Spectre, which is due out on 6 November.
She will play the role of Estrella, although not much is known about what her part will involve. The plot centres around Bond's orphan past, which leads him "to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE."
Channing Tatum pulled a prank on us & he deserves an Oscar for it 👏
We caught up with the Hollywood star and it wasn't your usual Q&A type interview...
But anyway back to Sigman. We hadn't heard of her either, but IMDB informs us that she is either 27 or 28 and played the lead in the Oscar-nominated Miss Bala, in which she served as a beauty queen mixed up in a world of gangsters.
She also appeared in 2013 thriller Pioneer and in the US remake of Scandinavian series The Bridge before it was cancelled.
Other things we have learned about her:
She has a penchant for selfies (going by her Instagram page)
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She enjoys a motivational quote
These are regular features on her Instagram page - see below:
Daniel Craig is back as 007. But is he worth the reported £100 million payday?
Is Daniel Craig worth £100 million to return as 007?
She appeared in a video for the Arctic
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This is what happens - Sigman gets out of a pool, shakes her hair around a bit, then watches the and on the TV and gets tearful. Then she cavorts around in her bra dancing.
She started out in modelling
But gave up because she didn't feel passionate about it. "You can be skinny, but they still think you're overweight," she once said of the industry.
She loves action movies, which will be helpful
"You have no idea!" she told Anthem magazine. "I have two brothers, so I'm used to watching a lot of those kinds of movies.
On 12 February 2015, we wrote...
The first footage from the set of new James Bond movie Spectre has been unveiled. And here's the first official pic...
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Scroll down to watch Daniel Craig shoot scenes in Solden, Austria. The behind-the-scenes featurette shows Daniel Craig dressed in black firing a shot and running towards a burning vehicle on a snowy mountaintop.
Production Designer Dennis Gassner added: "The thing that Sam [Mendes] and I talked about was how we are going to top Skyfall. It's going to be Spectre and so far it's a great start."
Associate producer, Gregg Wilson said: "This is going to be one of the major action sequences of the movie, a jewel in the crown so to speak. It's going to be spectacular and Austria seemed to offer everything that we needed to pull it off."
And The Next James Bond is....
A look at the men (and a few women) who could potentially fill Daniel Craig's polished shoes
Spectre will be released on 6 November 2015
On 6 February 2015, we wrote...
Bond is not invincible it seems! Daniel Craig reportedly hurt his knee while filming the new 007 movie, Spectre, causing movie bosses at Pinewood Studios to go into a bit of a panic trying to keep the flick on schedule.
The 46-year-old Brit apparently sprained his ankle while shooting a fight scene for the 24th Bond movie, which is due to hit scene is in November.
"Bond bosses would have been panicking," a source said. "Filming deadlines are so tight, any sort of delay can bring mayhem to the schedules."
Is this why Daniel Craig left his role as Bond?
Former Bond girl, Caterina Murino, has said it was due to pressure...
But Daniel proved himself to be a real trooper and a spokesperson for the film confirmed he was already on the mend.
"Daniel Craig sustained a knee sprain this week while shooting a fight sequence on the set of Spectre.
"He will be filming on Saturday as planned."
K-Middy hits the red carpet for Spectre premiere
The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Prince Harry joined loads of celebs to attend the Spectre premiere at the Royal Albert Hall last night.
On 5 December 2013, we wrote...
And the title for the new Bond movie will be…
*drum roll please*
Spectre.
And here's the first official film poster...
Rachel Weisz on married life with James Bond
The actress married Daniel Craig in 2011
Yesterday Sam Mendes revealed the name of the new Bond movie and he also revealed that it'll begin shooting in July 2015. He also presented the returning cast members, and introduced us to the newbie cast - including the new Bond girl, Léa Seydoux.
Returning cast members include Rory Kinnear as Tanner, Ben Whishaw as Q, and Naomie Harris as Moneypenny. Ralph Fiennes, who was introduced at the end of the last Bond movie, will return, also.
Newbies to the cast list, include Andrew Scott as Denbigh, David Bautista as Mr Hinx, Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra, and Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann and Christoph Waltz as Oberhauser!
And who will play 007? Why, Daniel Craig of course.
The 007 production will be based at Pinewood Studios, and on location in London, Mexico City, Rome and Tangier and Erfoud, in Morocco. Bond will return to the snow once again, this time in Sölden, along with other Austrian locations, Obertilliach, and Lake Altaussee.
Spectre is set for global release on 6 November 2015.
Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond film, was a worldwide box office phenomenon, opening #1 in 70 territories around the world, taking over $1.1 billion worldwide and setting a new all-time box office record in the UK by becoming the first film to take over £100 million.
Are you excited for the new Bond movie? Tell us in the comment box below...
On 14 November 2014, we wrote...
Another big name has been added to the Bond cast list - two-time Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz.
The Django Unchained actor has a 'significant' role in the 24th 007 movie, according to Daily Mail.
However it's as yet unconfirmed whether he plays a goodie or a baddie, with the paper reporting his character is both "extremely cunning" and "a nemesis of sorts." Curious.
Christoph is said to meeting with fellow Bond stars Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Lea Seydoux and Rory Kinnear for a script run-through in the next few weeks. With script writers on hand to talk them through the big action scenes.
The cast are set to film scenes in locations spanning Mexico, Austria, Morocco, Italy and London, so it sounds like we're in for some seriously high-octane adventure.
On 10 October, we wrote...
007 fans, meet your new Bond girl - French actress Lea Seydoux.
The star of last year's Cannes prize winner Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Seydoux has appeared in films such as Mission Impossible: Ghost Patrol and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. She is also a fashion darling, regularly on the front row during Paris Fashion Week.
According to the Daily Mail, the Bond 24 storyline meant the casting director was on the hunt for an actress of Scandinavian origin, but that's since changed.
Lea will now join Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris on set, and meet director Sam Mendes and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson to determine this Bond girl's "look".
No word as to whether Rihanna is still in the running for a cameo role, but we can't wait to see Lea on screen.
On Monday 29 September 2014, we wrote...
Well, this could be amazing. Rihanna is rumoured to be appearing in the next James Bond film - the as-yet-untitled movie known as "No 24".
According to The Sunday Mirror, Rihanna has been approached by producers for a cameo role - and she can't wait to accept:
"Rihanna is a big fan of the Bond films and has always loved the idea of appearing in one" a source told the paper.
"She didn't even need to think about it, she knows she wants to do it...She's really excited."
We haven't seen RiRi on screen since her role in Battleship (she was the best thing in that movie FYI) so this is certainly exciting news if it IS true.
Source: OK!
On Friday 12 July 2013, we wrote...
The next Bond movie, film No24, will be released in 2015, it has been confirmed.
Sam Mendes and screenwriter John Logan will both return in the still-to-be-titled movie, set to be released on 23 October 2015 in the UK.
Daniel Craig will also return as 007 for his fourth movie but the other cast members have yet to be announced. Penelope Cruz is rumoured to be in the running to play a Bond Girl.
"Following the extraordinary success of Skyfall, we're really excited to be working once again with Daniel Craig, Sam Mendes and John Logan," producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement. "I am very pleased that by giving me the time I need to honour all my theatre commitments, the producers have made it possible for me to direct Bond 24," Sam Mendes added. "I very much look forward to taking up the reins again, and to working with Daniel Craig, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for a second time."
Sam Mendes had ruled out returning to the franchise after saying that the idea of directing another film made him "physically ill". Ben Whishaw, who plays Q, revealed that filming on the new movie could begin at the end of this year.
SOURCE: DIGITAL SPY
On 3 June, 2013, we wrote...
Penelope Cruz is set to play a Bond girl in the sequel to Skyfall. The actress, who is currently pregnant with her second child, is set to film her scenes next summer, according to Yahoo.
"The producers have tried to get Penélope before, but she has never been available because of other commitments. The discussions have been going on for some time and they are working out the contract details now," a source said.
The news comes after Sam Mendes, who originally ruled himself out of directing another Bond movie because of other commitments, was reportedly persuaded to make a return.
His movie, Skyfall, was the highest-grossing 007 movie of all time and movie bosses are prepared to wait for him to finish work on Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Shakespeare's King Lear.
The 24th James Bond movie is rumoured to be released in 2014 or early 2015. Should the reports about Penelope Cruz turn out to be true, at 40, she will be the oldest Bond girl ever. Her husband Javier Bardem played the villain in the last movie.
SOURCE: YAHOO
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Prior to joining Campbell & Company, Kelsey worked in the University of Michigan's central development office. As a member of the Annual Giving team, she co-created a fiscal year solicitation plan, wrote university-wide direct mail and e-solicitations, and provided ongoing analyses of fundraising efforts to a portfolio of ten schools, colleges, and units. Additionally, she facilitated educational workshops for annual giving officers and helped implement lead generation and non-donor acquisition pilot projects. Kelsey began her career in philanthropy at the Adler Planetarium, where she worked closely with the Board of Trustees and oversaw special events, publications, and partnerships designed to advance the Adler brand.
Kelsey holds an MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in History of Art & Architecture and French from Middlebury College, where she remains involved as a class agent and alumni interviewer. She is an avid runner and an officer of the Girls on the Run-Chicago Associate Board, and she serves as co-chair of AFP's Education Council.


Exposition Park is a block of museums and sports facilities south of the University of Southern California, just west of the 110 freeway opposite Downtown Los Angeles. The 160 acre tract was originally an agricultural park, created in 1872. In 1913 it became the home of the California Museum of Science and Industry, the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, the National Armory and the Sunken Garden, and was renamed Exposition Park. All those institutions have transformed over the years and new ones have grown up around them.
Although Exposition Park houses some of the cities top cultural institutions and neighbors a very expensive university, the surrounding University Park neighborhood is primarily low income with some pockets of local gang activity. You should feel perfectly safe within Exposition Park, but if you don't know the area, you might not want to explore too much beyond the park.
The Los Angeles Metro is building a transit line that will have two stops near Exposition Park. It is scheduled to be in operation by the end of 2011.
The California Science Center is one of the country's preeminent science museums. While a preponderance of the exhibits are designed with children in mind, there is plenty to educate and entertain adults as well. The California Science Center is free, but there is a fee for the IMAX theatre.
The Natural History Museum is located right next door to the California Science Center, but each has enough to see to take all day, so fitting both in the same day is a challenge. The Natural History Museum includes a state-of-the-art Dinosaur Hall, gems and mineral, mammal dioramas and much more.
The California African American Museum is a free museum at Exposition Park that highlights the history and contribution of African Americans in Los Angeles and California.
The Exposition Park Rose Garden is a favorite spot for wedding photos and USC students looking for a relaxing place to study. It's a nice spot to take a lunch break from any of the surrounding museums.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has hosted two Olympic games and been home to a variety of professional football and baseball teams since it was built in the 1920s. The National Historic Landmark is currently the home field of the USC Trojan football team. It's also used for a variety of concerts and music festivals. Public tours are available.
The Los Angeles Sports Arena is used more frequently for music events than sports, but still hosts the occasional boxing match. The 15,000 seat capacity is too small for the larger sports events. Other types of events that take place at the LA Sports Arena include naturalization ceremonies, religious events, Halloween and New Year's Eve parties. It's also often used for TV and movie filming.
The Los Angeles Swimming Stadium was built for the 1932 Olympic games and has hosted more world record swims than anywhere else in the world. These days it's the training pool for USC swimmers, and available for neighborhood kids to take a free dip.
Jesse A. Brewer Park is across from the Natural History Museum, next to the NHM parking lot. There are a couple different playground areas as well as shaded picnic tables and benches. It's a good place to let the kids blow off steam and make some noise before or after being on best behavior inside the museums.


Apple released iOS 10.2 to the public today, bringing new and redesigned emoji, a variety of improvements to system apps and settings, and, for US-based users, the debut of the previously announced TV app . New Emoji iOS 10.2 is a notable release for emoji: Apple is now fully supporting the Unicode 9 emoji specification that includes 72 new emoji first approved by the Unicode Consortium earlier this year.
A few nice little updates to iOS 10.2. The Camera preserve one is a very welcome feature.


Have you ever caught a cold from a friend or work colleague? Did you see the germs go through the atmosphere and enter into your body and then do you harm, causing you dis-ease? Did you sense the dis-ease when it first started to manifest? I would imagine the answers to these questions would be no, as personally, I haven't, but then again, even though my name may suggest it, I am not a superhero. This is exactly what WIFI is doing to all of us and we are not even aware of it. In my personal life, cancer cases are going off the charts, which is ringing alarm bells on all fronts for me, and is Electro Magnetic Radiation anything to do with this rise in cancer rates, which will soon reach 1 in 2 people? The World Health Organisation has just released a rather bleak report saying cancer will rise by 70 % in the next 20 years. Let's take a look at some of the evidence that WIFI may be causing this.
The BBC showed a Panorama documentary in May 2007 discussing the effects of WIFI and how it came to be in the UK. The programme concluded that WIFI is similar to radiation from mobile phones. Sir William Stewart was also interviewed who, at that time, was the Chairman of the Health Protection Agency. He stated 'You can choose whether to have mobiles'. You have no choice with WIFI. He also said 'There may be changes in cognitive function. There were some indications that there may be cancer inductions'. Sir William Stewart was asked by Tony Blair to look into the effects of radiation from mobile masts. He concluded that there were molecular biology changes with the cell. The report recommended masts should not be placed near schools. From this recommendation back in 2007 we now have WIFI antennas inside the classroom, which are mini masts. They give off three times more radiation than when standing in direct line of the mast. What an unbelievable turnaround of events, and a lack of Duty of Care to the general public. Tony Blair has more questions to answer over this money making scheme, along with his Iraq war debacle. The Health Protection Agencies stance today states "There is no consistent evidence of health effects from RF exposures below guideline levels and no reason why schools and others should not use WIFI equipment". This is a very ambiguous statement to say the least!!!
Dr Mike Repacholi, founder of ICNIRP, who also worked with the World Health Organisation stated there were no known health effects on the WHO website back in 2007. Prior to setting up ICNIRP, he worked for the phone industry defending their right to place masts in controversial locations. He was then re-employed by the phone industry after working for WHO and ICNIRP also. This is the man who set the guidelines for our exposure to this type of radiation. There seems to be a conflict of interest here, as does appear in many cases of big business controlling the political system for their own profit. And all this has been done in plain sight.
ICNIRP, is an International group of scientists the government relies on to set radiation limits but their studies do not recognise any biological effects. It bases our exposure limits on a thermal effect. The radiation has to be so strong that it heats up your organs before it is restricted. That's why our safety limits are so high. Switzerland, Italy, Russia and China all have exposure limits thousands of times below ours. In Saltsburg the government advised against WIFI altogether.
A recent International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report suggested that EMF exposures can be more devastating in children because their brain tissue is more conductive, their skulls are thinner, they have smaller brains with softer brain tissue allowing radiation to penetrate more effectively. And, a potentially longer period of exposure due to use beginning at an earlier age. This new French bill seems to have taken these concerns into account.
Dr Ian Gibson, former Norwich North MP said in the BBC documentary 'The British government were not adhering to the guidelines they commissioned. Industry 'rules' in this area and the precautionary principle and the safety of people who may benefit to some extent, from the technologies, are completely dismissed'.
Sir William Stewart also wants a new investigation. He stated 'There are people who are electro sensitive's and feel the effects. They are the human canaries of the future'. So yet again we have another example of human guinea pigs. Do we really want our children to be the canaries in the coalmine? If the technology has not been tested for the pulse radiation that it emits, then how can this be deemed to be safe? Tony Blair and his Billion pound contracts with the telecommunication industries obviously wanted to ignore this fact.
Professor Henry Lai, Dr Gerd Oberfeld, and Dr Olle Johansson all appeared on the Panorama documentary and spoke of the dangers of this type of radiation. I am not promoting the BBC in anyway, but here are the links to the documentary.
Wireless communication devices are listed as a 2B carcinogen. The TUC document, Occupational Cancer: A Workplace Guide, advises that establishments do not introduce class 2B Carcinogens. Page 6 states that "Caution should be used to prevent exposure to substances in Group 2B".
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, and COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health)  means that the first step must always be to remove the hazard altogether if possible.
It seems to me that anyone who is reading this article from London Underground should be approaching their union representatives to get this technology removed from the tube system.
Wireless radiation that children are being exposed to in the classroom has caused so much concern amongst paediatricians in America, 60,000 of them have written to congress urging the removal of WIFI technology from schools.
I have been in touch with Professor Olle Johansson who also says 'There is growing scientific evidence that children are likely to be more vulnerable to pulsed microwave radiation than adults, and new research shows there may be other serious effects on behaviour and learning ability. There is general agreement among scientists that electromagnetic fields penetrate into the brain of children more than in adults because children's skulls are thinner. There is also a broad consensus that children are more vulnerable to adverse effects from radiation because their bodies are still developing.
The World Health Organisation, in 2011, classified electromagnetic fields from wireless information as possible carcinogens. The Council of Europe's Environment Committee in its Resolution no. 1815 from May 2011 calls for strong measures to protect the public against harmful effects of radiation, including a ban on mobile phones and wireless internet in schools with regard to children's health'.
Here is the professor talking about the BioInitiative report with over 2,000 references to the harmful effects of this radiation.
You can download this report from the Ministry of Health's website from here.
The BioInitiative 2012 Report has been prepared by 29 authors from ten countries, ten holding medical degrees (MDs), 21 PhDs, and three MsC, MA or MPHs. Among the authors are three former presidents of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, and five full members of BEMS.
Also I have been in touch with Barrie Trower, who has written and published the 2013 WIFI report. This is entitled WIFI – A Thalidomide in the making. Who cares? That is what I ask myself every day. It seems to me that so many people are bamboozled by the ever increasing intensity of this meme we live in and are not looking at what is happening around them. This is a very frustrating place for the people who have woken up and are putting themselves out there to make a difference. Now is your chance to get involved and do something constructive.
We also urge you to write to your local MP, MEP and councillors with the downloadable letter again from http://www.ministryofhealth.org.uk/wificampaign and send it through the website https://www.writetothem.com . Please collect all responses, both good and bad as we are going to collate all evidence and will be seeking criminal negligence charges from these people if they do not act. This is the wording of the UK's statute. "The failure to use reasonable care to avoid consequences that threaten or harm the safety of the public and that are the foreseeable outcome of acting in a particular manner" Once our civil servants have received this information, they are responsible for the harm done to our children and teachers through the use of this technology.
What our children are subjected to is really intolerable for us as a species. After a baby has been conceived, it is bombarded by microwave radiation in the womb because of the soup we live in today. When the baby is born, the first kick start to the immune system is from the bacteria from the vaginal tract, which is now compromised because of the bad diet many mothers eat, like pre processed and fast food. Then up to the age of two, while still developing the immune system, the baby can be subjected to up to thirty vaccines, which can result in completely destroying the immune system. Then the use of bisphenol A in plastics, aspartame in sweets and other dangerous additives will also be attacking the immune system. Add GM food to the mix, together with the increase in aluminium, strontium and other such toxins in our air , leads to a complete health implosion of epic proportion.
The baby does pick up on the electromagnetic frequency of the mother and fathers heart, where studies prove that a more emotionally balanced child will develop when held close to the heart area frequently, as opposed to ones that are not. This part of a child's development is also being compromised by the pulse radiation, that doesn't appear in nature, and will be disrupting the energy flow from parent to child.
My final note would be to draw your attention to Manly P Hall's speech on the magnetic field we have around us as human beings.
This has again been looked into in recent times, even though it is ancient knowledge, and this pulse radiation from wireless technology does not occur in nature. Therefore we are currently having to deal with an ever growing soup of radiation, and we don't understand the consequences of our actions. Human history is distorted, contrived and controlled to a certain extent, who knows what is the ultimate truth. All I am sensing is this is the wrong path we are taking with untested technology. It is about profit, not safety. Pink Floyd sung about 'Welcome to the Machine'. In this case with the EMF soup we live in, it is 'Welcome to the Coalmine'. You are the canary this technology is being tested upon!!!
Here is an interview on the People's voice featuring Professor Olle Johansson and Peter Parker talking to Richie Allen about the problems with WIFI, and what we can do about it.
Here is the Ministry of Healths Get WIFI out of schools video.
I think this needs serious evaluation. I am not refuting this or agreeing, BUT… Children and adults are both exposed to WIFI EVERY day, at home and in public, why does it make a difference in the classroom? Are you suggesting that NO ONE should ever be exposed? Seriously…..


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Penchant; A strong habitual liking for something or tendency to do something.
Most of us have a penchant for something.
Mine is for telling stories and my yellow bicycle.
Recently I came across someone with a penchant for pots of homemade jam.
This reminded me of another penchantier of not only homemade jam, but of the pumpkins his jam was made from.
And as it is the seventh anniversary of that time, I thought I might tell you the tale of Monsieur l'abbe and his penchant for pumpkins.
For those of you who may be concerned that their penchants are abnormal I hope this story reassures you….
After leaving the two Irish Moira's of Montelieu and their tiny house in the middle of that village, and with their recommendation, (you MUST stay at the old abbey, they insisted, nodding their heads vigorously and smirking knowingly at each other) I cycled over the mountain and down the other side to the ancient Cistercian Abbey now a Chambre d'hote.
Arriving at an enormous pair of iron gates, I spotted a notice nailed to one of the gate posts beside which hung a worn but still thick rope.
'TIREZ FORT ' I read.
So I did as instructed and pulled hard on the rope.
The sound of a deep bell echoed through the innards of the building.
I could hear a dog barking and after a short wait, a tall man of indecipherable years wearing pale linen trousers and a white shirt, approached the gate.
He wore a wide brimmed black felt hat pulled down so low over his brow that I could only glimpse a shadow where his eyes should be.
'Ah the woman on the yellow bicycle', he called out as he pulled the gates open.
'Entrez! entrez! Holding the gate open for me, I pushed the yellow bicycle through passing quite close to him.
He smelt of something familiar. but I was too busy mumbling 'bonsoir' to pay much heed to it.
Any way he had already turned on his heel, and was leading the way into a large dimly lit coach house.
'You may leave your beautiful yellow bicycle ici'.
At first I couldn't see where he was pointing to but, as my eyes became accustomed to the gloom, I saw it was to the only space clear of huge pumpkins.
He stood patiently while I fumbled with the buckles on my panniers and basket and then taking the heavy items from me headed back out into the fading light.
I trotted obediently after him.
Down a cobbled path we went and then through another door and up a stone stairs.
He strode purposefully along a windowed corridor , where on each windowsill lay a beautifully carved pumpkin.
We passed rooms with various names on the doors. The ivy room, the oak room, the magnolia room, I tripping along trying to keep up with his long legged stride.
Finally he stopped at door which read 'the rose room' .
And opening the door he laid my belongings on the bed and bid me goodnight.
I waited till his footsteps had faded before throwing myself onto the bed.
I was exhausted but as I drifted off to sleep, I became conscious of that smell again.
What did it remind me of?
That night I dreamt I was back in Co Sligo in my old house by the waterfall, wandering up through the ferny dripping hazel woods, clambering over moss covered rocks to gather bags of loam made from centuries of broken down trees and leaves for my garden.
Dark, damp, earthy, crumbly loam, smelling of ancient woodlands….
A fascination for the oddness of their shapes.
A passion for the soft blues, greens, orange colors of their skins.
Painted, sculpted, engraved, carved into bowls, jugs, even lampshades.
That morning at breakfast there were at least four different varieties of pumpkin jam.
Some made with added rosewater, some with Cointreau.
The hovering black fruit flies were drunk and in ecstasy.
We had to keep brushing them off our bread.
' Ah but you must try this! Le Monsieur's face loomed close to mine as he pushed a teaspoon of the sweet syrup against my mouth.
'Mmmm' I said widening my eyes for effect.
His were dark brown and very shiny.
His teeth were very white.
I followed him out into the coolness of the morning.
His sandals made a slapping sound on the ancient flags of the cloister floor.
Heading up some steps , He crossed the dewy grass towards a Grecian style tower.
At the base of the tower and covered by its first floor but open at the front to the elements, was a small courtyard screened from the abbey by some giant bamboos.
An ornate pond glistened in the morning sun.
I could see the shapes of goldfish flitting and hiding under the lily pads.
The soothing sound of trickling water over stones had an almost soporific effect.
Three old iron bed frames were placed, one along each of the three walls.
On the rustiest of the three lay some green pumpkins of rather bizarre shapes.
The remaining beds were covered in luxurious throws of some exotic fabric and a few cushions of Japanese silk were strewn casually against the heads of the bed frames.
A small bamboo table stood in the centre.
And so I, normally such a strong and independent woman, found myself scurrying off to do his bidding.
I hurried back across the lawn , past the bird filled magnolia tree, past a blue telephone box filled with pumpkins, passed a zany zen sculpture made of willow winding around a heap of pumpkins, passed a blue wheel barrow overflowing with pumpkins .
Down through the cloisters I ran and in through the door and swiftly up the stairs.
The mirror on the landing showed the flushed face of a woman of middle years smiling like a teenager.
Back in the garden Le Monsieur stood waiting.
In my absence he had replaced the black felt hat of yesterday with a Monet style one, white and wide brimmed, complete with black ribbon and looked for all the world like a great impressionist master.
On the low table now sat an elegant basket its lid fastened by silver clasps.
A dainty teapot and two equally delicate china teacups nestled in the padded silk interior.
He lifted one of the tea cups out and placed it carefully on the table.
Then he lifted the the teapot and with all the ceremony of a geisha poured out a cup of fragrant green tea.
Steam coiled up and diseapearred into the rafters above and the scent of jasmine wafted into the air.
A soft breeze rustled the bamboo and the sunlight flitted and played with shadows across the spear like green leaves.
A few late butterflies danced, dipping and swaying among the hibiscus flowers.
The clinking of wind-chimes hanging in the peach tree broke the silence and every now and again a leaf broke loose and sea sawed through the air landing gracefully on the pond surface with a soft sighing sound only to be caught by the breeze where it sailed like a small boat across the pond.
'Harrumph' Le monsieur cleared his throat wakening me out of my daze.
And before I could reply he lifted my hand and bowing low over it, kissed it briefly.
I caught that smell again.
Earthy, deep, dark and loamy and suddenly I remembered.
The smell of perfect compost for growing pumpkins in.
I lifted my brush and began to paint.


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Petra Kvitova vs Mona Barthel Preview – Wimbledon 2014 Round 2
June 24, 2014 Karim Zidan Mona Barthel, Petra Kvitova, Tennis News 2015, Tennis Previews & Predictions, Wimbledon 1 comments
2011 Wimbledon Champion Petra Kvitova got off to a winning start at SW19 and will now meet Mona Barthel in the second round of the tournament. This is just the second time these two competitors will meet on the professional tour with Kvitova leading the head-to-head series 1-0.
Sixth seed Petra Kvitova was one of the players who had an asterisk next to her name ahead of the tournament, as she withdrew ahead of her quarter-final match at Eastbourne due to a right thigh strain. All that worry disappeared on Monday afternoon, when the Czech No. 1 dropped only three games in her 6-3, 6-0 win against fellow Czech Andrea Hlavackova.
"Andrea played well," Kvitova said. "It was our first meeting in a long time. It's not easy to play Czech girls. I was expecting a tough match and I'm just glad that I won the last point.
"I feel better, which is nice news. I had to pull out of Eastbourne to be ready for Wimbledon, so I'm just glad that it's getting better."
Germany's Mona Barthel also played a dominant match on Monday as she defeated Italy's Romania Oprandi 7-5, 6-0 to secure her spot in the second round of the tournament. She will now be faced with a far tougher challenge in the former champion and is desperately looking to pass the second round of the tournament for the first time since 2011, where she produced her best showing at the event to finish in the fourth round.
This is just the second time that Kvitova and Barthel cross paths on the professional tour and the first time since 2012. Their last meeting took place on hard court, but this is a surface that favours the former champion, as she looks to make another deep run at The Championships this year.
Prediction: Petra Kvitova in Three Sets
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MooTennisBlog June 24, 2014 at 11:11 pm -
I'd agree with Petra in three. Mona has been playing well enough lately to get a set, particularly against someone as streaky as Petra. However, if Mona got into a winning position, I'd be stunned if she could hold her nerve and pull off the upset. A little concerned by Petra's injury, but hopefully won't be an issue!
Venus Williams vs Kurumi Nara Preview – Wimbledon 2014 Round 2
Former five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams picked up her first victory at SW19 this season in a grueling match...


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Seanan McGuire Author Interview
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Photo Credit: Beckett Gladney
Seanan McGuire was born in Martinez, California, and raised in a wide variety of locations, most of which boasted some sort of dangerous native wildlife. Despite her almost magnetic attraction to anything venomous, she somehow managed to survive long enough to acquire a typewriter, a reasonable grasp of the English language, and the desire to combine the two. The fact that she wasn't killed for using her typewriter at three o'clock in the morning is probably more impressive than her lack of death by spider-bite.
Often described as a vortex of the surreal, many of Seanan's anecdotes end with things like "and then we got the anti-venom" or "but it's okay, because it turned out the water wasn't that deep." She has yet to be defeated in a game of "Who here was bitten by the strangest thing?," and can be amused for hours by almost anything. "Almost anything" includes swamps, long walks, long walks in swamps, things that live in swamps, horror movies, strange noises, musical theater, reality TV, comic books, finding pennies on the street, and venomous reptiles. Seanan may be the only person on the planet who admits to using Kenneth Muir's Horror Films of the 1980s as a checklist.
Seanan is the author of the October Daye urban fantasies, the InCryptid urban fantasies, and several other works both stand-alone and in trilogies or duologies. In case that wasn't enough, she also writes under the pseudonym "Mira Grant." For details on her work as Mira, check out MiraGrant.com.
In her spare time, Seanan records CDs of her original filk music (see the Albums page for details). She is also a cartoonist, and draws an irregularly posted autobiographical web comic, "With Friends Like These...", as well as generating a truly ridiculous number of art cards. Surprisingly enough, she finds time to take multi-hour walks, blog regularly, watch a sickening amount of television, maintain her website, and go to pretty much any movie with the words "blood," "night," "terror," or "attack" in the title. Most people believe she doesn't sleep.
Seanan lives in an idiosyncratically designed labyrinth in the Pacific Northwest, which she shares with her cats, Alice and Thomas, a vast collection of creepy dolls and horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She has strongly-held and oft-expressed beliefs about the origins of the Black Death, the X-Men, and the need for chainsaws in daily life.
Years of writing blurbs for convention program books have fixed Seanan in the habit of writing all her bios in the third person, so as to sound marginally less dorky. Stress is on the "marginally." It probably doesn't help that she has so many hobbies.
Seanan was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novel Feed (as Mira Grant) was named as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2010. In 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo Ballot.
Where were you born and where do you call home?
"I was born in Martinez, California, and I currently live in Seattle, Washington."
"My girlfriend at the time yelled at me until I agreed to expand a short story I'd written to amuse her."
Tell us your latest news.
"At the time of answering this question, I am leaving for Walt Disney World in eleven days."
Was there a particular event or time that you recognized that writing was not just a hobby.
"The day I talked to my accountant and realized I could pay my bills with my royalties."
What was your unforgettable moment while writing NIGHT AND SILENCE?
"Writing a novel, for me, isn't something that comes with 'unforgettable moments.' I sit down, I write, I finish writing, I go wandering into the nearest swamp to look for something to play with. Novels aren't how I measure time."
Are there authors that you're excited to engage/work with?
"There are various authors I'd really love to collaborate with someday, but I don't want to list names, because I am a superstitious creature, and wouldn't want to jinx it."
What part of Toby did you enjoy writing the most?
"I'm not really sure how to answer this question. Toby is the main character of the series, and the books are told in the first person; there's no single aspect of her that outweighs the rest for me. There can't be. I wouldn't be able to find her voice if I only focused on one aspect."
What book would you recommend for others to read?
"Of mine, or of someone else's? I usually recommend On Writing, by Stephen King."
What question are you never asked in interviews but wish you were?
"Hey, would you like to take over writing the X-Men?"
Which character have you enjoyed getting to know while writing OCTOBER DAYE Series?
"All of them?"
When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper?
"I have no idea."
What did you do for your last birthday?
"Had a bunch of friends over to drink wine and watch Disney's Descendants and Descendants 2 on DVD."
If you had to go back in time and change one thing, if you HAD to, even if you had "no regrets" what would it be?
"I would tell myself to wear better shoes."
Scariest horror movie you have ever watched?
"Probably The Blair Witch Project. It hasn't held up terribly well, but I saw it under the exact perfect conditions, and it scared the pants off of me."
The twelfth installment of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling Toby Daye urban fantasy series!
Things are not okay.
In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October "Toby" Daye's fragile self-made family is on the verge of coming apart at the seams. Jazz can't sleep, Sylvester doesn't want to see her, and worst of all, Tybalt has withdrawn from her entirely, retreating into the Court of Cats as he tries to recover from his abduction. Toby is floundering, unable to help the people she loves most heal. She needs a distraction. She needs a quest.
What she doesn't need is the abduction of her estranged human daughter, Gillian. What she doesn't need is to be accused of kidnapping her own child by her ex-boyfriend and his new wife, who seems to be harboring secrets of her own. There's no question of whether she'll take the case. The only question is whether she's emotionally prepared to survive it.
Signs of Faerie's involvement are everywhere, and it's going to take all Toby's nerve and all her allies to get her through this web of old secrets, older hatreds, and new deceits. If she can't find Gillian before time runs out, her own child will pay the price. One question remains:
Who in Faerie remembered Gillian existed? And what do they stand to gain? No matter how this ends, Toby's life will never be the same.
Praise for OCTOBER DAYE Series
"The top of my urban-paranormal series list! I am so invested in the worldbuilding and the characters…. The romance is real and awesome, but doesn't overshadow the adventure." —Felicia Day
"I can't believe McGuire can come up with another adventure as riveting as this one. But then I say that after every book in this series." —SFRevu
"McGuire has never lacked for courage in her writing…. The phenomenally inventive October Daye series showcases her narrative daring and ingenuity beautifully." —RT Reviews
"Prepare to be dazzled…. Like the best of urban fantasy, with each reveal and mystery solved, Toby's world grows ever more enticing. As seductive as faerie itself, this is one series I could never give up." —All Things Urban Fantasy
"These books are like watching half a season of your favorite television series all at once…. More than anything else, it's the fun of it all that's kept me returning to McGuire's books and to this series." —SF Signal
"The plot is strong, the characterization is terrific, the tragedies hurt…and McGuire's usual beautiful writing and dark humor are present and accounted for. This has become one of my favorite urban fantasy series." —Fantasy Literature
"With Ashes of Honor, McGuire has crafted a deeply personal and intense story that will keep you on the edge, hoping to be pushed over. In my opinion, it is, hands down, the best Toby to date." —The Ranting Dragon
"An urban fantasy detective series featuring a resourceful female detective…. [October Daye] should appeal to fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files as well as the novels of Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, and similar authors." —Library Journal
You can purchase Night and Silence (October Daye #12) at the following Retailers:
Thank you SEANAN MCGUIRE for making this giveaway possible.
1 Winner will receive a Copy of Night and Silence (October Daye #12) by Seanan McGuire.
John Smith September 4, 2018 at 10:32 AM
"Favorite Series you'd like to share?" Oh, I'll always be a Lemony Snicket man, I think!
Anne September 4, 2018 at 7:31 PM
The Late Daniel's series by Ilona Andrews.


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The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration Summary
The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Alexander (2012) examines the Jim Crow practices post slavery and the correlation to the mass incarceration of African-American. The creation of Jim Crows laws were used as a tool to promote segregation among the minorities and white Americans. Alexander (2012) takes a look at Jim Crow laws and policies that were put into place to block the social progression of African-Americans from post-slavery to the civil rights movement. Fast-forward to 2008 the election of Barack Obama certified the myth that African-Americans are no longer viewed as second-class citizens instead African-Americans are now considered equal to their white counterparts.…show more content…
I have to agree with Alexander (2012) that being labeled a felon condemned individuals to second-class citizenship perpetuate the cycle of criminal behavior. I have seen firsthand individuals being released from prison as a felon back into society and how Jim Crow practices outcast them from society. For example, newly released individuals from prison are indeed released with a financial debt owed to the Criminal Justice System. Many of the individuals often have to pay restitution to victims, court costs/attorney fees, and fees owed to the Probation department. Individual parolees are required to pay money to their probation officers every visit and some parolees may be required to visit their probation officer every month. Because many parolees have felony convictions, it is difficult to find a job to pay such costs, leading probation officers to send individuals either back to jail or to the prisoner work crew that picks up trash on the side of the freeways for not complying with the terms of their probation. Similar to the vagrancy law Alexander (2012) describes post slavery where slaves that did not have employment was in violating the of law and sentence as slave labor to pay off their debt to the Criminal Justice…show more content…
The recommendation calls for civil rights advocates to put mass incarceration on their agenda similar in the ways civil rights advocate's affirmative action agenda. In my opinion, America is at a turning point where mass incarceration is slowly fading away with state lawmakers trying to cut prison cost. Being labeled as a felon is a stigma that can and will follow individuals for the rest of their lives. However, there is a change in the atmosphere and how society view individuals with felony records. Opportunities are slowly becoming available such as jobs and education, allowing these individuals to reenter society. It's been 29 years since the War on Drugs campaign was announced and is not going to be overnight to reverse some of the effects of mass
Mass Incarceration In Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow
It is an existing theory that our society is constructed via racial dimensions, and that racial equality is a figment of the imagination. This very principle is highlighted in Michelle Alexander's novel, "The New Jim Crow." The specific dimensions covered within the text include the unjust aspects of the federal drug policy, and by connection that of mass incarceration as well. Alexander claims that racism is still very prominent in present day society and is direct and frank about the heavy influence of white supremacy.
The 1970s-1980s: The War On Drugs And Changes In Sentencing Policy
Over the past 40 years U.S. incarceration has grown at an extraordinary rate, with the United States' prison population increasing from 320,000 inmates in 1980 to nearly 2.3 million inmates in 2013. The growth in prison population is in part due to society's shift toward tough on crime policies including determinate sentencing, truth-in-sentencing laws, and mandatory minimums. These tough on crime policies resulted in more individuals committing less serious crimes being sentenced to serve time and longer prison sentences. The 1970s-1980s: The War on Drugs and Changes in Sentencing Policy Incarceration rates did rise above 140 persons imprisoned per 100,000 of the population until the mid 1970s.
Summary Of Remembering Jim Crow
Jim Crow was not a person, it was a series of laws that imposed legal segregation between white Americans and African Americans in the American South. It promoting the status "Separate but Equal", but for the African American community that was not the case. African Americans were continuously ridiculed, and were treated as inferiors. Although slavery was abolished in 1865, the legal segregation of white Americans and African Americans was still a continuing controversial subject and was extended for almost a hundred years (abolished in 1964). Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South is a series of primary accounts of real people who experienced this era first-hand and was edited by William H.Chafe, Raymond
Ban The Box Analysis
Atkinson and Lockwood provide this statement in order to instill the idea that not only will previous convicts receive jobs, but the increase in jobs will lead to a decrease in recidivism rates, which will also heighten public
Rehabilitation In The American Prison System
When the American prison system began, it was believed that rehabilitation, the act of restoring one's character, could be beneficial for criminals to start over. According to Tom Wicker, "The system…began as a reform impulse, the idea that if offenders were isolated, shielded from the public mockery that had accompanied hangings and the stocks, given time to repent, and worked hard, they could be turned away from crime and transformed into useful citizens" (xii). Criminals could become better citizens and have a positive outlook for a future if they worked hard and were secluded from the outside world. Although this idea seems more humane, it did not last long in the prison system because many people believed that any crime committed deserved
Analytical Essay: The Role Of Violence In The Jim Crow
Lastly, violence against black people was very prominent during the Jim Crow era. The statistics for the amounts of black deaths from violence is outrageous. Fremon wrote, "In 1890 until 1917, on average, two to three blacks in the South were illegally hanged, burned, or otherwise murdered every week" (Fremon 37). Two to three black people were killed every week. The amount of abuse was so much and was for random minor "crimes" and sometimes black were even falsely accused. Fremon also states that "whites lynched hundreds of African Americans every year" (Fremon 37). The amount of killing in a year was ridiculous and excessive. There was nothing black people could do about any of it at the time. Little things could get a colored person physically
Annotated Bibliography: The New Jim Crow
Annotated Bibliography Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New York: The New Press. Alexander opens up on the history of the criminal justice system, disciplinary crime policy and race in the U.S. detailing the ways in which crime policy and mass incarceration have worked together to continue the reduction and defeat of black Americans.
Mass Incarceration Literature Review
The current system that incarcerates people over and over is unsustainable and does not lower the crime rate nor encourage prisoner reformation. When non-violent, first time offenders are incarcerated alongside violent repeat offenders, their chance of recidivating can be drastically altered by their experience in prison. Alternative sentencing for non-violent drug offenders could alleviate this problem, but many current laws hinder many possible solutions. Recently lawmakers have made attempts to lower the recidivism rates in America, for example the Second Chance Act helps aid prisoners returning into society after incarceration. The act allows states to appropriate money to communities to help provide services such as education, drug treatment programs, mental health programs, job corps services, and others to aid in offenders returning to society after incarceration (Conyers, 2013).
Chapter Summary: The New Jim Crow By Michelle Alexander
Synopsis In the introduction, Michelle Alexander (2010) introduces herself and expresses her passion about the topic of how the criminal justice system accomplishes racial hierarchy here in the United States. In chapter 1 of The New Jim Crow, Alexander (2010) suggests that the federal government can no longer be trusted to make any effort to enforce black civil rights legislation, especially when the Drug War is aimed at racial and ethnic minorities. In response to revolts formed between black slaves and white indentured servants, rich whites extended special privileges to their indentured servants that drove a wedge between them and the slaves that successfully stopped the revolts.
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration
In her book, The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander who was a civil rights lawyer and legal scholar, reveals many of America's harsh truths regarding race within the criminal justice system. Though the Jim Crow laws have long been abolished, a new form has surfaced, a contemporary system of racial control through mass incarceration. In this book, mass incarceration not only refers to the criminal justice system, but also a bigger picture, which controls criminals both in and out of prison through laws, rules, policies and customs. The New Jim Crow that Alexander speaks of has redesigned the racial caste system, by putting millions of mainly blacks, as well as Hispanics and some whites, behind bars
Jim Crow Laws In The 1900's
Al Sharpton radio host, and minister once said, "We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire." (cite) He then goes on to say that his "son" is smarter, slicker, and more cunning than him. This metaphor describes that even though the Jim Crow Laws have been ratified, there is a new racial discrimination in America that is growing and is harder to defeat than the last. The Jim Crow Laws were the set of laws that set the whites and blacks separate from each other in the 1900s, although they have been defeated, America today may be equal lawfully but not on an individual level. With the beginning of the Jim Crow Laws in the 1900s to their abolishment in 1965, and even today, America has yet to resolve the issue of "separate but equal."
The New Jim Crow Analysis
In the eyes of Martin Luther King Jr., Justice within a society is achieved through the implementation of just laws. Furthermore, "just laws are regulations that have been created by man that follow the laws of God for man" ("Clergymen's Letter"). Any law that does not correspond with the ideals of God and morality are considered to be unjust or a form of injustice. King identifies that injustice is clearly evident within the justice system. This injustice can truly be seen through the misconduct imposed toward the African American community. Michelle Alexander, similarly, points out the same truth that African American men are targeted substantially by the criminal justice system due to the long history leading to racial bias and mass incarceration within her text "The New Jim Crow". Both Martin Luther King Jr.'s and Michelle Alexander's text exhibit the brutality and social injustice that the African American community experiences, which ultimately expedites the mass incarceration of African American men, reflecting the current flawed prison system in the U.S.
Jim Crow Laws Unfair And Inhumane
Jim crow laws were laws that separated the colored people from the non colored. The Jim crow laws stripped the colored people of their humanity and placed them below the colored people. In this essay i will be talking about how the treatment towards the colored people was highly unfair and inhumane.
Incarceration In America
While "tough on crime" policies may be effective in incapacitating offenders, little consideration has been given to the impact this mass incarceration effort has had on offenders following their release from prison. Every year more than 600,000 people are released from jails and prisons to face the challenge of re-entering society in a productive capacity (Geiger, 2006; Travis, Solomon, & Waul, 2001). Due to the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, reintegration is often met with a host of daunting and unnecessary barriers. Black Americans comprise a major segment of the neglected population and when they are released from prison the barriers to reintegration are often compounded by the stigma of their racial classification and the mark of a criminal
The New Jim Crow Essay
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Rev. ed.). New York, NY: The New Press. Michelle Alexander in her book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" argues that law enforcement officials routinely racially profile minorities to deny them socially, politically, and economically as was accustomed in the Jim Crow era.
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Late last month we discussed Vidyo's steps toward commercializing web conferencing by bringing their technology to university campuses, and recently PGi announced a partnership with AVI-SPL that will meet a similar goal. AVI-SPL is proud of its status as a global integrator of audio visual systems and services, and through this new partnership their customers can access PGi's audio, web, and event- collaboration services.
PGi's collaboration with AVI-SPL isn't necessarily bringing video conferencing to the masses the way companies like Vidyo and ViVu are, but it will make the technology more prevalent. PGi's CTO, David Guthrie, noted that "video is top of mind with our customers and speeds up decision making in a more competitive business climate." Guthrie has a point—the economic downturn meant budget cuts that largely abolished travel disbursements and left video conferencing nothing but room to grow in the enterprise. A large number of companies discovered during this period that video conferencing was possibly always the better solution to meetings and collaboration, and now it's becoming necessary to survival.
An indication of how mandatory video conferencing is for survival is that PGi's customers' requests are the driving force behind this new partnership—a customer list that includes 90% of the Fortune 500. Of course, many large enterprises already have video conferencing systems, but PGi and AVI-SPL—like so many other conferencing solutions providers these days—want to create a program that's accessible and doesn't mean users have to wrap their heads around multiple technologies. It'll be interesting to see what these two churn out, and how their competitors in enterprise respond.


I got the idea in my head one day to bring some of the Naruto characters face-to-face with the thing they were named after for the first time. I thought it might be fun. Also accepting challenges!
Stories will be posted separately but as part of the Namesake series.
Long-suffering Tobirama is asked to clear up a little Clan feuding.
Tybalt doesn't like to shop for Christmas gifts for his family. Luckily, this year an unwary Montague is in position to assist - whether he wants to or not.
When (Y/n) takes a simple haunting case on her own, she gets in way over her head. Being transported to the past, she falls in love with a young marine with a killer smile. The only problem is she knows his sons and his girlfriend wants to kill her, and probably knows about twenty ways to do so.
John and Laszlo have come together, as they always do, to nurse the wounds of Pentecost Eve. Tension and anger remain between John, Laszlo, and Sara...and Mary is not about to let John off lightly for the injury he caused her benefactor. Meanwhile, an expert provides an important clue to the investigation and also manages to set John off into a fit of jealousy he doesn't yet understand. After Sara shares a breakthrough she's made, John makes a breakthrough of his own—one that will permanently change the way he and Laszlo interact.
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This larger Dreamliner departed Gatwick for the first time yesterday afternoon on the UK's only direct flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The new aircraft has a seating capacity of 344 seats in two classes – 35 in Premium, 309 in Economy and will service routes from Gatwick including low-cost flights to New York, Los Angeles and Ft. Lauderdale.
This Boeing 787-9 will be the workhorse of Norwegian's pioneering low-cost long-haul flights from Gatwick as the airline continues to expand in the UK.
The aircraft is 20 feet (six metres) longer than the 787-8 Dreamliner that Norwegian already operates.
The 787-9 Dreamliner will fly more passengers and cargo farther with the same exceptional environmental performance using 20 per cent less fuel and emitting 20 per cent fewer emissions than other long-haul aircraft.
Norwegian has released a record number of seats for holiday-seeking Brits looking to jet away this summer to the US - 425,000 seats are now available on Norwegian's direct flights between the UK and US.