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Garcinia Cambogia Pill Grenada: Dr. Oz Recommends for Weight Loss
Dr. Oz advises Garcinia cambogia extract very extremely, and it’s very easy to view why. Garcinia cambogia extract has been acquiring a great deal of focus from the media and from bloggers recently in Grenada.
Garcinia Cambogia is being proclaimed as one of the most effective supplement available for assisting individuals in Grenada to lose weight effectively and completely. It assures to do all this with totally natural, totally secure substances, and without creating the user to experience any type of side effects.
So are all these points true? Sinced Dr. Oz recommends Garcinia cambogia extract, it would certainly stand to reason that individuals in Grenada could rely on Garcinia Cambogia to help you realize your weight loss dreams.
Dr. Oz Suggests Garcinia cambogia extract for Weight Loss
A wonderful several items and health suggestions are included on Dr. Oz’s tremendously prominent tv program. Several of them get his referral, and a few of them do not.
Provided his level of proficiency and interest for aiding people in Grenada lead healthier, healthier lives, it stands to factor that his referrals must lug a great deal of relevance. If you’re searching for a purposeful means to burn fat, and to have that weight remain off also, the truth that Dr. Oz suggests Garcinia Cambogia ought to be extremely motivating to individuals in Grenada.
Garcinia Cambogia is easy, yet exceptionally efficient. Taken from the rinds of the Southeast/South Asian fruit of the very same name, this extract has been revealed via a huge assortment of researches to produce remarkably enticing outcomes generally.
Utilizing HCA as its main substance, Garcinia Cambogia is both a fat burner and an appetite suppressant. Folks in Grenada are visiting burn body fat, constructing leaner muscle in the bargain, however you’re going to additionally do a whole lot a lot more.
Garcinia cambogia extract works to make people in Grenada feel fuller with smaller sized dishes, while simultaneously raising things like your serotonin degrees. Without side effects to bother with (just ensure to prevent Garcinia cambogia extract products which contain points like high levels of caffeine), you’re visiting feel much better as a whole. You’ll have more electricity, and you’re not visiting be drawn to succumb to points like stress-eating.
It’s again simple to view why Garcinia cambogia extract in Grenada would certainly acquire such a beautiful review from a person like Dr. Oz. It does precisely just what it assures it will certainly do, and it does this without dangers to your individual wellness. Exactly what can be better than that?
Just how Did Garcinia Cambogia Acquire So Popular in Grenada?
2 years ago this fruit was a mainly not known fruit used by the residents of South East Asia. After some scientific research studies and a scientific trial, plus a popular physician’s recommendation, the road to fame started. But I’m prospering of myself.
Regarding a year ago Dr. Oz presented Garcinia Cambogia extract to the globe. All of us know Dr. Oz– he’s the TV medical professional whose goal is to assist people live a healthier life. No wonder Garcinia cambogia extract made its launching on this show.
Just what I have actually learned from this program is as follows: there was a medical test conducted merely prior to the launch and it passed with flying referrals. All the individuals handled to slim down without any side effects, and they really did not also need to make changes to their weight loss or exercise routine.
The major visitor on the program was Dr. Chen, that discussed exactly what Garcinia cambogia extract is and just how it works. Besides that, 2 random people from the audience volunteered to attempt the extract. The results were magnificent to state the least.
The two girls that checked it managed to lose in between 5-7 pounds in just one week. Much better yet, they didn’t do a harsh eleventh hour weight loss or exercise at the gym. They lived their typical lives and handled to lose a number of weight– safely and naturally.
With Garcinia Cambogia folks in Grenada can burn fat without any kind of hard exercises or insane diets. Everyones in Grenada need to do is take it routinely and delight in the results.
Dr. Oz Reviews Garcinia Cambogia
There have actually been a lot of favorable reviews on Garcinia Cambogia Extract. From health and wellness specialists to bloggers, everybody seems to be stating the same aspect of Garcinia Cambogia. If you’re serious about losing weight, and you’re tired of using products that merely don’t work, this could be the remedy you‘ve sought all along.
Dr. Oz is one favorable reviewer from many others, but when you once again consider his performance history, it’s a referral that brings a massive level of credibility. As opposed to purchasing around for products with unproven reputations, discover for yourself what Garcinia Cambogia can do for individuals in Grenada.
It seems as though the believers in Grenada in this extract are raising each and every single day. Offered just how promptly you’re going to see results, there’s a good chance that you’re visiting end up being a big follower in your own right.
Considering exactly how inexpensive this product is, there truly is no excuse not to try it. Searching for the best nutritional supplement can be challenging. It does not take long for a search to develop into a very costly, continuously annoying endeavor.
Stop wasting your time on possibilities that could wind up taking your cash, and probably also jeopardizing your health somehow. Dr. Oz stands by every item or concept he advises. If that’s insufficient for you, then absolutely nothing is.
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Dhaka University (DU) Affiliated Seven Colleges honours first year admission notice for session 2018-19 has been published. The online application procedure starts from 25 September 2018. The interested and eligible students can apply up to 25 October 2018.
The admission test will be held on 9 November for science unit, 10 November for arts and social science unit and 16 November 2018 for business unit.
The control power of the 7 government colleges of Dhaka city were taken over Dhaka University in 2017. Previously these colleges were operated under National University Bangladesh.
The students who have passed SSC exam in 2013-2016 and HSC in 2018 they will be eligible to apply for admission. The requirement minimum CGPA 7 for seience unit, 6 for arts and social science unit and 6.50 for business unit.
Just wait to see details circular which would be published today. Application process, fees and other criteria is mentioned in the circulation.
The Dhaka University affiliated seven colleges are:
1. Dhaka College
2. Kabi Nazrul Government College
3. Eden Mohila (Girl's) College
4. Begum Badrunnesa Government Girls' College
5. Government Shaheed Suhrawardi College
6. Government Bangla College
7. Government Titumir College
Details circular for Science, Arts and Business units are given below as pdf file.
Read more...
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Getting Kids To School On TimeTags: mornings, responsibilities, school, school aged (7-12)
As I was putting together my “back to school” workshop for the teachers at Foundations Private School Adlerian K-8 school in Aurora I thought that if I am helping the teachers prepare, I should give some pointers to the parent community too. These ideas work best when home and school work together.
Perhaps one of the most universal issues for parents is the morning mayhem that ensues when parents fight to get their children to school on time. Typically, this results in a power struggle. The real issue is right in the name: a struggle for power. A struggle for power is the dance we do with our children to fight to establish just who has power over who. In healthy relationships, interpersonal power is shared and neither party acts as slave and tyrant to another.
The child who acts like a tyrant is fighting for power they perceive has been usurped by an adult who has attempted to “make them” mind. To pin point the power struggle, take a look at the roles and responsibilities of the parties involved. Chances are, a parent is sticking their nose in someone else’s business.
Let’s have a closer look at the morning situation:
Who’s responsibility is it to get to school on time? The child’s.
What happens when you get involved? You rob them of this responsibility and in doing so, take away a piece of their empowerment over themselves.
I understand your motivation. You fear that if you don’t look after this responsibilty, your child won’t either, and the thought of being late for school is abhorrent to you. After all – what would people say about you and your mothering? I promise you, there is no better way to get yourself angry than to make your success dependant on someone else’s behaviour. No wonder you’re fighting for power too. You just gave yours away with thinking like that!
I see it differently, and I’d like a chance to convince you otherwise too.
The first fact that you need to know: Children will not take responsibility for themselves UNTIL you abandon it. This is why very responsible parents raise very irresponsible children – because the parent can’t give it up! You think it is your “job”.
Second fact: Your child will not just jump right up and into perfect action when taking on a new responsibility. They will go through a few stages:
- Disbelief Stage- they don’t really think that you will follow through with letting them manage their morning on their own.
- Testing Stage – they will enjoy taking their time, checking for your reactions, checking to see how long you can go before you jump in and take over again.
- Belief Stage – with repeated experience of you not watching the clock, not shouting reminders, and allowing them to experience the consequence of their choices (namely – being late), they will start to understand that no one else has a vested interest in their problem except them! And TV is starting to get boring, and they are missing their friends at school, and no one fights with them at home anymore….
- Mistakes Stage – when the child finally decides that it is in their own best interest to get to school on time, and that no one else is going to make this happen but them, they will start to figure out how to solve this problem for themselves. Being a neophyte at it, they will make errors in judgement, like not leaving enough time, or skipping breakfast to make extra time, or racing around last minute because they can’t find their shoes, whatever. They will probably be late quit a bit during this particular stage. This is were parents must resist the urge to take over or rescue, but neither does that mean you have to be a meany. If they say “have you seen my shoes” you don’t have to bark back in disdain: “I don’t know, your shoes are YOUR job, If you would have put them in the right place and left more time you wouldn’t be in this mess!” Its okay to have a look around for shoes if you have a moment, so long as it is not a pattern every morning, your child is asking for help, just as your spouse might.
- Competence – the last stage comes down the road.
While it did cost the child many late passes, and missing some school each day, I think it is worth these gains:
- A peaceful start to the day for your family – the best club you’ll ever be in!
- A child’s sense of confidence and empowerment that they manage themselves
- A child’s sense of independence
- A child’s sense of maturity
- A child’s belief that their parents trust and respect them to look after themselves and their responsibilities
If you ask me, there is as much important education going on here for a child as would be covered in the classroom time they missed.
I know you are asking yourself at what age can you start this? I began with my children in grade one and kindergarten. They were late a lot in grade one. By grade two it was much less frequently, but by grade three they had it pretty well figured out. Now my kids are in grade 5 and 6. I love easy mornings. Sometimes it is the only time we are together as a family for the day. They don’t like being late, and if they are late, it is a real rarity. They manage their mornings beautifully. Well worth the time I invested.
Good Luck! Be sure to share your stories of how this goes for you in the comment area below.
5 Responses to “Getting Kids To School On Time”
Sheila
What if they miss the bus and it makes you late for work? I agree with the concept but the execution is hard on parents.
alyson
If you make arrangements with a neighbour or a baby sitter, you will have to execute this only a few times and then you are done this battle for life! SO worth it.
Lisa
Thank you for validating this. I’ve often felt like a bad mom, making my kids get ready on their own and make their own lunches. One of my daughters had to rush to school in her PJs once. Only once! Sometimes their lunches are not the healthiest choices too. However, they have learned by the consequences of their actions. I’ve often told friends who question my methods “I am trying to raise responsible adults, not entitled children”.
Denise
This sounds great but how does it work with multiple (4) children? Some get ready, some don’t but I can’t leave any behind when I drive to school. It’s not fair for those ready on time to be late because of others dragging their feet.
alyson
Actually – its best if they all realize that one person’s behaviour affects all and so they have a common problem of getting out the door in the morning. If your little brother is mad at you for stealing his prize out of the cereal box at breakfast, he can retaliate by dawdling and making you late for the bell. If kids are put in the same boat – they learn they had BETTER treat each other well and encourage one another to co-operate so they all benefit.
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An old friend stayed with us for a couple of days last week. April was visiting her brothers in Vermont and flew down for the weekend. We had been good friends in San Francisco, but that was over 20 years ago. Time flew and we had changed. What was gray hair now was then brown. We were undoubtedly middle-aged.
April was at our wedding and at the hospital for the birth of our first daughter. We flew back to California for her wedding to Jim, which took place on a hilltop in Marin County overlooking the Pacific Ocean. There was drumming and West Coast hippie celebration, some kind of native American vibe that was cool and caring. As we used to say about church – I came to scoff but stayed to pray.
Earlier this summer we met April in North Beach in San Francisco when we went west to be at Eric’s deathbed and to arrange his affairs as best we could. Even in the swamp of emotions that my wife felt for her younger brother’s sudden death, it was good to spend time with April in a little Italian café on Columbus Avenue. She had taken the train across the Bay from El Cerrito where she and Jim had bought a house some years ago. There was hardly anybody we knew who could afford to live in San Francisco anymore.
In those days we frequently had parties at our little railroad flat on Fair Oaks Street between Noe Valley and the Mission, two of the sunnier neighborhoods in the city. We would crowd 15 or 20 people into the living room and kitchen with lots of good food and wine, and we would carry on long and serious conversations about books and politics, philosophy and poetry. They were the kinds of conversations I have not had in a long time.
April remembered those parties with fondness more than 20 years after the events described and recalled them to us on her visit. I miss those old friends even now. I liked all of them. They were all smart, but not full of themselves. They were good companions and kind hearts, and I wish them well.
This SO reminds me of an old, old essay I once recited in speech class WAY back in the day! It is called “40 years ago”… and I can still recite it. I ponder that essay from time to time, when I’m remembering old friends who have passed on to a better realm…… Thanks, Walt, for putting these memories down on paper and for jogging my memories again……
Thanks, I’ll have to see if I can find that old essay.
Walt
Sent you an INCORRECT essay via email…although another favorite from my teen years… here’s the link to 40 years ago. Found this link via McGuffy’s reader… XLIV. is the number of this essay, at this link:;view=toc;idno=00acg9659m
That link to the correct essay…it is continued for several pages. I think there are 7 or 8 stanzas….
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Daddy Faiz trying to keep Emir occupied
Well Emir, I hope one day when tok ngah and tok iain are gone you will look at this posting , read this poem and learn what we are here for. I have 'borrowed' "Anakku Sayang" by Dharmawijaya for Hidayah's and Faiz's son and Maznah's and Harun's grand-son.
lahirlah lahir, anakku sorang, luhurlah mengalir, darah pejuang.
timanglah timang, anakku sayang, besarmu jangan, berbudi telanjang.
dengarlah dengar, anakku sayang, sumpah nanar, usah ditatang.
cekallah cekal, hatimu sayang, usah disesal, derita mendatang.
setialah setia, citamu sayang, melerai sengketa, di keadilan timbang.
relalah rela, kudrat mu sayang, mententeram dunia, bergolak bimbang.
Our generation have not really left you with a harmonious legacy for your country and your fellow beings. Hopefully yours will do a better job. So keep on climbing the doors, windows, tables and chairs. Enjoy playing with your DIY toys like your tok wan's kwali and saucepan lids. Keep your parents awake especially on their weekends when they so need their rest. And be happy and loving - 2 ingredients needed for any child to grow up into a caring human being.
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Thanx for the posting Makngah... that photo reminded me of Emir back when he was "able" to sit still...!!
Btw, my lil' rascal is now at Ampang Putri- its his 5th day there- Demam, batuk, Flu- the whole package..
I bet you're thinking "kesian Emir..lying in bed looking sick & all..." nope... not a chance... he'd be running up & down the corridor, terrorising the cute nurses every chance he gets!!! Afterwhich, he'd leave a trail of vomit along the corridor...!! haha
Pandai memilih pulak tu, makngah... If a male nurse attend to him, he'd resist & cry... but if its one of those female nurses... SENYAP... siap talk to them ... pegang2 muka the nurses lagi tu!!!
Oh well, thats my Emir...
Mummy Emir, you have better warn those pretty nurses that little Emir likes to bite and you know where.
Hope he gets well soon.
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Groaning
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you.
(Genesis 3:17-18)
Sometimes on Mondays when I get out of bed and face my work I curse it. I want to lie around all day. I want to play! But lying around gets old fast. And play loses its charm if it’s all there is to do.
The curse was not the creation of work. The curse was an empty life. No matter how hard I work, all I ever harvest is weeds. The depressed preacher of Ecclesiastes summarizes the curse well for me:
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,
“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”
(Ecclesiastes 1:2)
This curse is not the final word. It is the doorway to life. Jesus said (roughly speaking) “Blessed are the cursed, for their is the Kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3-4). When I come to the end of my attempt to be God, I meet God.
I don’t like this. I wake up each morning with a plan to save the day. But I’m learning to accept the fact that I can’t save the day as an invitation to meet the One who can.
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I feel like an ornery horse that won’t accept the riders direction! I’m like a runaway bronc! It’s hard to relinquish self will!
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In the following brief statement point two is especially related to the article under consideration. The other two points, though raised by the author and peripheral to the main argument of the article, are cogent for anyone seriously concerned with Christian-Muslim relations.
1. The author accepts the traditional Muslim understanding that 'Uzayr is the Biblical Ezra. In establishing a context for the Quranic verse 9:30: "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah ...", the author first notes the nature of Muhammad's attitude towards the People of the Book (the Jews and the Christians). He writes:
Muhammad's attitude toward the People of the Book, and notably the Jews, was ambivalent, and remained so in spite of the sharp conflicts between the two communities in Madina. This ambivalence, moreover, tended to be benign. The Qur'an generally distinguishes between the Jews (al-Yahud) of Madina and the children of Israel. ... (p. 3)
True, the Qur'an generally distinguishes between the Jews of Madina and the children of Israel. But only between the Jews of Madina? What about the Jews outside Madina?
Likewise, no doubt, Muhammad's attitude towards the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) was ambivalent. But could not, should not, Ayoub have mentioned the Qur'an's ambivalence also? The reason for stating this is the assumption of some Muslims and Christians that the Qur'an measures what Muslim attitudes towards the Jews and the Christians are, could be or should be, and the consequently unfortunate tendency among both Muslims and Christians at times to become selective in their citations of Quranic passages referring to the Christians and the Jews, whether in approving or condemning one or both of these communities. Some presentations read as if the Qur'an has only nasty things to say about Christians and Jews. Other presentations would suggest that the Qur'an instructs Muslims to view Christians and Jews, or at least Christians, as their good friends. In fact the Qur'an speaks favorably and unfavorably about Jews and Christians, its judgements upon both generally becoming harsher as time moves on — this despite Ayoub's statement about Muhammad's ambivalence towards the People of the Book "tending to be benign".
Briefly, Muslims and Christians should act according to the Golden Rule when citing their own and other' Scriptures.
2. The Quranic verse that especially concerns us here ("The Jews say: Ezra is the Son of God ...") and the Qur'an's recognition that the blasphemous confession calls for a militant response from God and the Muslim community, as the surrounding verses indicate, is a case in point of the Qur'an's growing harsher judgement upon the People of the Book. (Surah 9 is considered by Muslims to be one of the latest surahs.) A similar judgement is made in the same verse against the Christians who speak about Jesus as the Son of God. In Quranic and traditional Islamic understanding both Jews and Christians are therefore guilty of the unforgivable sin, i.e., calling someone the son of God and, hence, associating someone with God.
Muslims, of course, had no trouble in demonstrating that Christians everywhere confessed Jesus as the Son of God, whatever the designation meant to them or to Muslims. But they have had a problem in demonstrating that Jews have spoken of Ezra as the Son of God. And hence Ayoub's article in reviewing this difficulty.
Ayoub does recognize the problem and even connects it with two other statements which the Qur'an attributes to the Jews and which according to Ayoub, like 9:30 "cannot be historically substantiated" (p. 5): "Allah, forsooth, is poor, and we are rich!" (3:181); "The Jews say: Allah's hand is fettered. ..." (5:64). His article covers an impressive number of references to Uzayr (Ezra) in both Sunni and Shi'i commentaries, noting indeed "the early realization by Muslim traditionists and heresiographers that this claim (that Ezra is the son of God) has no basis in the Jewish scriptures or tradition" (p. 10). For him, as for some others who have grappled with the issue, the easiest solution to the problem is to claim that "The Jews said ..." need not refer to all Jews. (A. Yusuf Ali's commentary on this passage, p. 448, does not really reflect such problems at all!)
Whether or not the confession of Ezra as son of God can legitimately be limited to one or a few Jews (9:30; 5:64), Ayoub does note how the Quranic verse (9:30) has offered "Muslim polemicists a good prooftext for attributing to both Jews and Christians, their chief rivals, one major and unforgivable sin" (p. 15). Moreover, the article tends to leave one wondering if Ayoub himself is sure about this limitation. In any case, the questions about the correctness of the text; the possibility that it may mislead its readers; the suggestion, assuming the validity of the limitation, that the limitation could be more correctly and clearly indicated in the Qur'an do not arise. He does, however, note the comment on the subject by the famous Qur'an commentator, al-Razi (whom in general he appears to highly respect) as simply polemical: "The fact that the Jews deny such a belief proves nothing because God's report concerning them is more true (than their denial)" (p. 12).
3. No doubt, point 2 above is the heart of Mahmoud Ayoub's article. Yet he does make a statement, while discussing "The Children of Israel and the Jews in the Qur'an", on the subject of tahrif (alteration or corruption of the Bible) which will summon sufficient interest among Muslims, Christians and others concerned with the need for a more objective reading of the Bible by Muslims to warrant singling it out here:" (4:26; 5:13, 41; see also 2:75). However, this refers more to interpretation than to actual addition or deletion of words from the sacred books. The problem of alteration (tahrif) needs further study. (p. 5)
Does the problem of alteration need further study? There is little purpose in modifying Ayoub's suggestion by noting that other competent Muslim scholars in the past have made the same observations about tahrif, and that some Christians familiar with the issue of tahrif have wondered whether Muslims, even while charging the People of the Book with "wholesale tahrif", themselves commit tahrif against the Qur'an.
So when Ayoub suggests that Muslims review this subject, we can only applaud and ask that he would assist. In fact, we may even be grateful that he has had the courage to raise this subject also. For many a Muslim controversialist will not be happy to be questioned by other Muslims about "the general Islamic view" (see above quote) of tahrif, his trump card, against the People of the Book, or possibly even to be dispossessed of it. He finds it more convenient in dealing with the Jews and Christians to assume that they are "People of the Corrupted Book" and to ignore what the Qur'an plainly means when it designates them as "The People of the Book".
Reference
* Studies in Islamic and Judaic Traditions, ed. W.M. Brenner and S.D. Ricks, The University of Denver, 1986, pp. 3-18.
Articles by Dr. Ernest Hahn
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Petzval’s lens for portraits, as well as any lens that is not well corrected for optical aberrations, produces an image that has its best quality in the center, near lens’ axis, and degrades as we move away from that center . This is the case for all lenses prior to about 1890, which was when anastigmatic lenses were invented.
It is necessary not to confuse the blurred background in the portraits, produced by the effect of depth of field and that is present in all lenses, with the blurred due to aberrations such as spherical, coma and astigmatism.
The question to consider with a Petzval becomes important when the pictured is not in the center of the photograph. Assuming, of course, that you want a sharp image for your sitter’s face. We are accustomed to focusing, with modern cameras / lenses, anywhere in the frame. Digital cameras allow focus areas at many points in the photo, even far from the center. With a Petzval, or another uncorrected lens, we can focus something out of the center, but it will not do much good, because aberrations will always compromise the sharpness of the image in those regions farther from the axis of the lens.
With small and medium-format cameras, digital or analog, the only remedy is to keep what you want sharp in the center of the image and crop it afterwards. With large-format cameras, where it is usually possible to decentralize the lens relative to the film, we can move the zone of best focus to points farther from the center. This is what we will see in this article.
In the above schematic camera we can clearly see the problem to be solved. If what you want in focus is in ‘A’, right in the center of the film or sensor, the lens stays in its normal position in ‘a’. The optical axis of the lens passes through these two points at a right angle to the plane of the lens and to the plane of ground glass.
However, if the point in the picture where we want the maximum sharpness is in ‘B’, typical situation of a half-body portrait, then we have to adjust the camera so that the lens is as ‘b’. In this way its optical axis continues passing orthogonally by the plane of the image at the point where we want it in its best quality.
Above we have a simulation of a ground glass in which the face in the picture is 30 mm below and 20 mm to the left of the center.
Each large format camera has more or less options of movements according to its characteristics. Some allow you to adjust angles and this greatly facilitates the task of moving the optical axis to the new point in the ground glass. The ideal case would simply be to lower and shift it to the left by about ¼ of the height and width of the frame, respectively. But this is rarely possible in a large format camera. When we need more drastic movements, we must resort to tilts, not just shifts.
To illustrate the reasoning I will show how I adjusted a Linhof Technika 13×18 cm with back to 9 x 12 cm. The procedure can be adapted for a good number of other cameras.
The solution will be to use lateral shift to give the 20 mm to the left and inclination of the lens board and film, to give the 30 mm down.
The lateral displacement is basic. In Linhof Technika, simply turn the knob marked ‘A’ and the lens board slides to one side or the other approx. 20 mm. In the photo above we see how the center of the lens has moved relative to the center of rails.
Vertical movement is more complicated because tilting was used. In the picture above everything happens as if we wanted the axis of the lens to rotate from an angle δ (lowercase Greek letter) to reach not the center, but a point 30 mm below it, on the film. The problem is that by doing that, we lose the orthogonality of the lens axis with the film. It may even result in something interesting but there will be change in focus and relative size of things. The idea was to restore the orthogonality by throwing backwards the lens board, and film back, as shown in the picture below.
The angle δ that the lens rotates produces several similar triangles, and we can then use the fact that:
It seems complicated but it is not: The measure ‘a’ is simply how much we want the center to go down: 30 mm in our example. The measure ‘b’ is given by the simple lens formula. We need the focal length of the lens, represented by f, and the approximate distance from lens to the focused object, represented by p. The formula that gives the distance ‘b’ (from the optical center of the lens to the image) is as follows:
The distance from the lens to the photographed object can be measured with a standard tape or more easily with a laser tape.
Since we have ‘a’ and ‘b’, we can obtain the two measures that we will adjust in the camera for the lens board and for the film: the measures ‘c’ and ‘e’:
This is measure ‘c’ which, in Linhof Technika, was easy to locate it in the gap shown in the photo. What is important is that the measure ‘d’ forms a triangle with it. We can be sure that in this way the film was rotated by the angle δ, as we wanted.
For measurements ‘e’ and ‘f’ you must find elements in your camera that tilt the lens board. In Linhof Technika it rotates on the ‘E’ axis in the photo above and I found a very convenient place to measure the distance by fixing a piece of millimetre scale in a gap that opens when the lens board tilts back . Again, the important thing is that ‘e’ and ‘f’ form a triangle with the larger sides orthogonal to the original plane and the new plane of the lens board. In this way it will rotate exactly from the desired angle δ.
This is a portrait made with a French lens, Rapide # 4 by Derogy, Petzval type, with focal length 223 mm and aperture f / 3.6. I used Ilford FP4 film in 9 × 12 cm format. It was developed in Pyrocat HD, in tray, for 16 minutes at 20°C. The image above is a scan of a print made in Ilford Fiber Glossy, size 18 x 24 cm. A Waterhouse type diaphragm was used to reduce to f/4 only to avoid a ring of oxidized balm present at the edges of the lens.
Two shots were made. In the first the optical axis of the lens passed orthogonally through the center of the film and in the second through sitter’s face, following the procedure described above. It is remarkable how the aberration reduces the quality of the image, although it is focused. Below, I show two scans made directly from the negatives. They illustrate this effect, since everything else remained exactly the same:
This image was perfectly focused through a magnifying glass. The loss of sharpness is due exclusively to aberrations that are accentual at points far from the center.
In this case we have not only the focus, but also the absence of sharp aberrations adding to image’s quality.
The above calculations may seem laborious but for each camera need to be done only once and then, with each photo, we must measure how much we want to decentralize the image and the distance of the lens to the point of focus in the object. After this, three simple formulas for ‘b’, ‘c’ and ‘f’ are calculated and the camera is set accordingly.
Rotating lens and film on both vertical and horizontal axes would be much more complicated and so I’m assuming that sliding is used for horizontal displacement.
It is also possible to do all this without calculations, guess work, what is important is to have the concept present and observe the final result to develop an intuition of how much is sufficient as the case.
For a detailed description of the optics and history of the Petzval drawing read the article: The Petzval’s portrait lens
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Very interesting article !!
I have two questions:
Why do you shift the lens ?
If I am right you are shifting the complete picture, but not only the sweet point ?
This would do a swing IMHO ….
And why do you tilt down the lens in this case ?
The picture on ground glass is upside down, but not the sitter.
So I think in this case you have to tilt the lens upwards?
However, a thoughtful article.
Your are right, the whole image moves when we move lens/film geometry. The important thing is about moving it in a way that lens’ axis ends up pointing directly to the part of your subject where you want the best image quality. Normally that is the sitter’s eyes. If you do not move lens/film relation the sweet spot will be always at image’s center. I a portrait that is often not the case. In most of the cases sitters’s eyes show up in the lower half of your ground glass. In order to have lens axis aiming any point in that lower half you have to do a front fall or tilt lens board backwards. In the first case lens axis remains perpendicular to film plane and no more movements are needed. In the second it is nice perform also a film tilt backwards in order to keep lens axis perpendicular to film. I know that this is not intuitive. We would rather think of “following” sitters’ face and going for a front “raise”. But as the image is upside down, the right movement goes in the opposite direction. Thanks for your visit and comment.
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A uniquely Queensland story of strong disaster management in the context of climate change is the focus of a new Griffith University produced film.
The 50-minute documentary Dealing with Disasters: The Silent Achievers in Public Health provides a compelling look at the efforts of Queensland’s public health workers, and those they collaborated with, to manage a large-scale and intense set of disasters: the Summer of Sorrow.
In 2010-2011, eighty per cent of the enormous state of Queensland was beset by severe flooding and cyclones. Over close to a year, public health workers, in collaboration with emergency management, local government, and the NGO sector, worked tirelessly to prevent loss of life, outbreaks of disease, and other harms.
“With our changing climate increasingly creating more extreme events and disasters, there is more need than ever to be able to manage those disasters,” says Professor Cordia Chu, the film’s co-producer from Griffith’s Centre for Environment and Population Health (CEPH).
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“From prevention planning, to responding to the aftermath of the disasters, public health worked within the emergency management system to tackle challenge after challenge, and to help the community to care for themselves and stay healthy and safe throughout the turmoil.”
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The film – produced by Professor Chu and Elena Schak from CEPH, with help from the Griffith Film School – will be screened at an official launch event on June 12, attended by Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young and representatives from the environment and disaster management sectors including international dignitaries. A series of later public events are scheduled for August.
Professor Chu says the film is intended to serve many purposes including being used as a training and educational film for CEPH and its international partners; as an advocacy film to promote awareness of the increasing importance of public health in today’s climate changing world and also to add settle the academic debate about the need to link disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and health.
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When I was a kid we used to pick up dumped black and white TVs from the streets. In the late nineties and early 2000′s I couldn’t resist to collect all these CRT screens in the street (it’s stil going on but eventually I dumped my electro trash collection a while ago). Today it seems I witnessed a new era of electro trash. It is the very first time that I found a crashed iphone in the street (next to a tree in a small bush, typical CRT spot). I am curious how many more years it ll take till people will dump working iPhones …. (or anyone lost his in Bremen Mitte? Sorry man, I ve bad news!) … and I had to explain to my son why it won t make sense to get it repaired. Another sad part on how to explaining society.
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Hamilton firmly believes that the text is in Columbus's handwriting. The letter displays Toscanelli's knowledge of travels to the Orient by Marco Polo and others and describes how one might travel to the East by sailing west from Europe. First, he said, you would reach Antilia (mythical) and then the rich island of Cipangu (Japan). It would then be a fairly short sail to the Asian mainland and its spices and precious stones. Further, the letter tells of the great prince of Cathay (China), the Grand Khan, who had sent emissaries to the Pope seeking teachers of the Gospel. These themes are repeated in later writings of Columbus.. These documents must have been among the mariner's most prized possessions. COLUMBUS BEGAN to collect evi dence of what might lie beyond the western horizon. He sought sailors and island residents who could contribute to his growing store of rumor, conjecture, and data. He placed this material in what he called his "papers." We know that he heard, and evidently believed, the tale of the island of Antilia and its Seven Cities. Supposedly, in the time of Henry the Navigator, a Portuguese ship was blown off course to the island, where the crew found remnants of settlement by an Iberian archbishop and six other bishops. Columbus also heard reports of other islands to the west of Madeira and the Canaries. From one Martin Vicente, a Portuguese pilot, he learned that, some 1,400 miles west of Cape St. Vincent, the sea had yielded a piece of wood carved by human hand, which must have drifted from the west. A similar piece had been found on Porto Santo. An avocation helped Columbus grow as a cosmographer: With his brother Bartholo mew, who had come to Lisbon, he began to produce and sell marine charts. Other maps available in this marine entrep6t kept him abreast of new discoveries and settlements. Prior to 1492, Columbus sailed extensively in the Atlantic, where he learned open-ocean navigation. In addition to the Madeira journeys, Columbus tells us that he made a voyage to Porto Santo in command of two ships. He continued his interrupted 1476 trip to England, sailing there "with the Portu guese." On that or another trip he went to Galway Bay in Ireland. There, he reported, two bodies with "strange features" had washed ashore in two small boats. In a sec ondary source Columbus says that in Feb ruary 1477 he traveled a hundred leagues beyond Tile (Thule), where he noted the im mense tides. Perhaps he had reached Iceland. The difficult northern navigation certainly appears very familiar to Columbus: "The trade and traffic from Spain to Flanders con tinues substantial. They are great sailors who sail this route. . .. In the month of Jan uary ... it is rare that there are not some strong ENE and NNE winds. These ... are savage, cold, and even dangerous." In the log from his first voyage to the New World, Columbus displays his experience in the wintry Atlantic: "We will return from the Indies with the westerly winds, which I have observed firsthand in the winter along the coast of Portugal and Galicia." His long passages southward were espec ially useful. Genoese trade with Portuguese Guinea and the new Castilian colonies in the Canary Islands involved Columbus in more than one trip from Lisbon to the African coast. He displayed knowledge of the Cape Verdes, the Canaries, and the Portuguese fortress of Sao Jorge da Mina (Elmina) on the Gold Coast. These African expeditions further prepared Columbus for his enterprise of the Indies. They involved him directly in long-distance navigation and the outfitting of vessels for such voyages. They exposed him to the land scape and products of the tropics. Now he knew, despite age-old beliefs, that the torrid zone was inhabited. This had wider implications: No place on earth was forbid den. Man could travel to, even settle, any part he could reach. His southern voyages involved Columbus in trade and barter with indigenous peoples-black Africans and Ca narian Guanches. He also became acquainted with the slave trade, in which Genoese, Por tuguese, and Castilians were active. On his long African passages Columbus, like other dead-reckoning sailors, grappled with the problems of time and distance on the open sea. He says: "In sailing frequently NationalGeographic, January 1992
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LAUREN KINHAN hardly blinking
Singer and songwriter Lauren Kinhan is one of the most arresting and distinctive talents to emerge out of the New York music scene in recent years. Her expressive, multi octave voice, her melodic collection of original songs, and her personal style and musicianship have attracted not only a loyal and growing fan base, but the attention of music business insiders. Legendary producer Phil Ramone (Billy Joel, Pheobe Snow) describes Lauren as a true songstress, like Joni Mitchell and Pheobe Snow: "She is musical, lyrical and really delivers vocally. I am a devoted fan of Lauren Kinhan."
Produced by three musical powerhouses, Phil Ramone, Frank Filipetti and Rob Mounsey, Lauren's soaring vocals and flair for captivating pop hooks are showcased on her debut album, Hardly Blinking. It is an eclectic set of original songs inspired by the imagination and musings of this timeless artist. Lauren's songs are lush with story, built on a musical palate ranging from earthy acoustic settings to cleverly layered productions. Hardly Blinking is full of surprises, yet delivers music and performances that will stand the trends of time.
Lauren is also a member of the Grammy award winning vocal group New York Voices. And with her incredible versatility and desire to know no limits musically, her guest artist appearances range from pop to jazz. For more information contact Lauren at [email protected] or purchase Hardly Blinking at
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The Volts!
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Summary:
Shiro and Allura have four kids. And those kids are growing up fast. With a sarcastic geek, a wonderful cinnamon roll, a possessive cat and a bullied mess, bad things are bound to happen. Forbidden relationships, family problems and university drama, this family is about to go on a long ride.
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Chapter 1
Shiro’s POV
At that time, she was the most gorgeous woman I had ever seen. I was only 14 but it was love at first sight. She was an Altean, had long white wavy hair, blue and purple eyes, brown soft skin, and a very serious look. We started as good friends and before I knew it, we were in love. We spend our high school years together and married each other at 17. But in between those years, something happened. It was an accident but still… . A few weeks later after we did it for the first time, she came up to me and told me she wasn’t feeling well. I took her to the doctor and it turns out… she was pregnant. At that moment we panicked and during those nine months a lot happened. She was so afraid, I told her to abort but she absolutely wanted to keep the baby. Just before the baby was born, Allura decided to drop out of high school and afterwards joined the military. After those 9 horrific yet beautiful months, my first son was born. He isn’t my oldest but still my most precious one. We named him Lance, after Allura’s great-grandfather. I continued school while Allura took care of Lance, and aimed to become a lawyer. At the age of 20, Allura came back home with a little boy a few years older than Lance. Apparently, he lived on the streets and had no parents, so we took him in. His name was Keith. Soon enough we started adopting more children, and ended up with 4. Keith the oldest, Lance and Hunk, the middle ones and the youngest, Katie or Pidge. They grew up so fast and suddenly they were all chasing after their own dreams, making me happy to the core. Everything was going smoothly but every road has at least one bump.
One day as I was driving Keith and Lance home there was a sudden storm. The rain was so loud it could have been mistaken as thunder. It was impossible to see more than five feet in front of the car. Keith and Lance started arguing again as they always do. I turned around to calm them down but before I could even look back it happened. I heard Keith and Lance screaming, and I felt myself fall forward, the adrenaline rushing through my veins. I realized I was crashing into a truck. It was carrying 50 gallons of gas which soon filled the air. Then all I remember is the color red. Red everywhere. Red all over my body but I couldn't feel anything. My right arm was on the passenger seat but the only thought that filled my mind was “save the kids,”. My body started moving on it's own. My mind was lagging behind my actions. I forced my way out of my seat and turned around. There layed Lance and Keith, Lance unconscious and bleeding from his head. Keith was grunting in pain and his leg seemed twisted in a weird way. I grabbed Lance with my only arm left and told Keith to get on my back. I kicked a door of the car and I could smell smoke. I ran for it and dropped the kids once we were far enough. The guy from the truck seemed unharmed and called 911 for us. That’s all I remember from that accident. It was my own fault that I lost my arm and that I gave Lance temporary amnesia. Luckily after a few years he remembered everything. Anyways, I’m now 35 years old and work as a universal lawyer. I live at home with my kids who are almost all in university and with my wife, Allura. I am a happy man but, what is life going to throw at me now?
Allura’s POV
A few years later.
It’s about 8 pm when I finish work and come home. I park the car in the garage next to Shiro’s and and I immediately hear shouting. I enter the living room and see Hunk and Katie running upstairs, followed by Keith pulling Lance by the hand. Shiro comes in wearing a mask of a scary Galra, running after the children while making monster noises. He stops at the edge of the staircase and sighs out of happiness. I could hear it. He turns around and walks towards me. He lifts the mask and pulls me by the waist and kisses me softly.
“IEEEEEUWWWWW!” yell the children but Katie at the top of the staircase.
“Go back to your rooms! It’s time for bed!” yells Shiro back. He turns to me and kisses me again. “Welcome back, babe.”
I smile “I’m back.” I drop my stuff on the desk in the corner and slump on the couch. “I’m dead.”
“Had a rough day, babe?” he asks. I nod.
“Rough wouldn’t even begin to describe it.”
“Come on guys we need to get to bed,” shouts Katie “Or else we’re gonna get in trouble!”
“Hey, no shouting.” Shiro said “Just relax, I've got this.” Shiro runs upstairs and comes back a few minutes later looking as exhausted as me. He slumps next to me and smiles.
“Even though, I look like this, you know I’m extremely happy, right?” he says. I smile back and lay my head on his lap. He starts running his fingers through my hair and I close my eyes and hum. Before I know it I’m asleep.
I am woken up by somebody pulling my hair. “Mommy? Wake up. We’re going to be late for school.” I open my eyes slightly and see Katie before me. I am suddenly crushed by an enormous amount of weight. Apparently, Lance, Keith and Hunk had jumped on me. It felt like I was giving birth all over again. I groan in pain as I push them off and stand up. I reach for my key cars knowing Shiro had left to work a long time ago. I see myself in the mirror and shriek. I look like Haggar from that one childrens serie.
“Fuck! I don’t have time to dress up.” I swear. I hear gasps behind me and am painfully reminded that my kids are right behind me.
“Mommy used a bad word!” Hunk gasps in awe. I grunt and motion the children to follow me. We hop into the car and I groan as I hear Lance and Keith arguing for the 10th time this week.
“No, guns are better! They can kill someone from far!” that’s Lance.
“What! Swords are way better. You can kill someone on the spot!” there goes Keith.
“Guns can do that too!”
“Yeah, but they’re not as efficient. You can slice someone’s head off and that’s cool.”
“No it’s not! It’s disgusting!”
“ENOUGH!” I yell finally having enough of this. They keep their mouths shut and turn away from each other, pouting. As I drive them to school, the car is quiet and I couldn’t be more happier about that.
Shiro’s POV
The next day.
It was just another normal evening. Allura has just come home and we decided to have a movie night.
“How about we have a family movie night? It’s Friday after all!” I tell the kids and they happily agree. “What movie do you guys want to watch?”
“Harry Potter!” says Lance.
“E.T.!” yells Keith.
“No, Spy Kids!” protests Katie.
“I-I vote we watch a cooking show?” Hunk hesitantly asks.
“NO!” yell the other three.
“Well, how about me and your mom choose for once.” I try to calm them down. They climb on the couch and settle down. I am sitting next to Allura, my real arm wrapped around her shoulders. Katie sits next to her while Lance sits to my right and hugs me. Keith takes place next to Lance and takes his hand in his. Hunk tries to get on my lap but I tell him to wait as I move to put in the DVD. When I sit back down, I lift Hunk up onto my lap.
“So what movie is it, daddy?” Asks Lance.
“You’ll see!” I say and turn my head to the tv as the movie starts.
Half way through the movie, I notice that Allura fell asleep on my shoulder. I study her face. She looks exhausted. She has circles under her eyes and she is pale. I kiss her forehead and smile. I look at the kids who are very focused on the movie. I lean back and continue watching. Suddenly, a romantic scene comes on. I know where this is going. First the cheesy lines then… the kiss.
As the two characters in the movie kiss I hear them say “ IIEEEUUUWWW!”.
“What are they doing? It’s the same as you and mom do, daddy.” asks Katie.
“It’s called a kiss. It’s what people do when they love someone.” I explain.
“I love Lance!” exclaims Keith. He grabs Lance’s head and puckers his lips. Lance, who obviously looks stunned, doesn’t know what to do and closes his eyes. I just stare, my eyes wide open as my two innocent sons kiss. THIS IS SO FLUFFING CUTE! My wife wakes up next to me only to see her sons kissing. She wastes no time and grabs her phone and spams it with photos of them locking lips. Katie and Hunk just stare in disgust.
After Keith finally pulled away from Lance, I told them it was time to go to bed. They ran up the stairs.
“I can’t believe that just happened.” Allura says. I smile.
“I have a feeling that when they’re older, a lot is going to happen to them.” I predict. And it turns out I was right.
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Keith's POV
“Next time, how about you think a little before messing with my little brother!” I yell to the guy I had just beaten up.
“Keith, lay off! It’s ok! I’m fine!” Lance tries to pull me off the guy.
“You don’t look fine! He punched you in the face and kicked you multiple times in the guts! There’s no way that’s fine!” I protest and punch the guy one more time, knocking him out. I turn around to face Lance, walk towards him and plant a small kiss on his forehead. His face heats up. “Next time someone attacks you, tell me. Promise?” I hold out my pinkie.
He hesitates then links his pinkie with mine and smiles. “Promise.”
That was 4 years ago. When I arrive back home from university, I rush to my room and lock the door. Mom and dad aren’t back yet as usual. I drop to the floor, my back against the door. This has been the fourth time this week that I catch Lance being bullied. I know Lance gets bullied but I can’t always be there. We’re in different years and we follow different courses. So why doesn’t Lance defend himself? That I’ll never know. Lance never talks about himself. No scratch that, he never talks about his true feelings. He’s always talking about how handsome he is and how he attracts cute girls.
I hear the front door open and hear someone calling “I’m home!”. I run down stairs and see Katie or Pidge, as she likes to call herself, standing in the hall taking off her shoes.
“Yo.” she says casually.
I nod at her. “How’d the test go?”
“It was super easy! Like don’t they have anything harder to give us?”
“Pidge, you’re smarter than most people, you knew the test was going to be easy for you.” I try to reason with her all the time.
Pidge is very smart. She has a higher IQ than most people, together with Hunk. They’re the smart ones in the household. Lance is the stupid, cocky one and I’m the violent one apparently.
At exactly 5pm the door opens and Hunk comes in. He has a very strict schedule. He’s never late for anything and plans ahead. He hates it when unexpected things come up but he loves cooking. And by love I mean, loves cooking. He technically breathes it. He prepares our dinner and breakfast. We usually eat lunch at the university. As soon as he arrives, he goes to the kitchen and starts to prepare dinner. Pidge has retreated to her room where she is probably programming something.
Lance comes home last. He comes in smiling and yelling with his annoying, cocky voice. I sigh as I’m sitting on the couch in the living room watching tv. He drops next to me and smiles.
“Something good happen?” I ask him.
“Yup! Guess what?!”
“What?” I ask in an unimpressed tone.
“You know Nyma right? Well she asked me out! She said she had liked me since high school!”
I felt my heart sting a little. “What did you say?” It took me a while getting that sentence out.
“I said I would think about it. I don’t know if I like her that way. I mean she’s a good friend and all but as a girlfriend? I don’t know.”
“Why don’t you just try it out?” Why did I say that?
“You think I should?”
“Why not? You won’t lose anything from it.” No, that’s not what I want to say.
“Okay, I’ll give it a shot!” he stands up and goes upstairs. Probably to tell her the news. Why do I always mess up what I want to say when I’m with him?
By the time mom is back, we’ve already had dinner and went to our separate rooms. It is currently 11pm and I should go to sleep but I just can’t stop thinking about Lance and Nyma. I wish I had never suggested that he go out with her. I fall into my bed and and slowly drift to sleep thinking about Lance and Nyma as a happy couple. Thinking Lance doesn’t need me anymore.
Lance’s POV
My alarm went off at exactly 7am and I slam it to turn it off. I yawn as I get up to go to the bathroom. I wash my face and do my beauty routine. Can’t go to university without one. I’m thinking about what Keith said. Agreeing to go out with Nyma wouldn’t be a bad idea. The plus side, I’d get to date the most popular girl in university. The negative side, I’d lose my friend Rolo. He’s had a crush on her since elementary. But then again, turning her down would give me a bad reputation. I mean no one disses the most popular girl in university. Especially if she’s had a crush on you since high school. I have no idea what to do.
I put on my clothes and head down stairs. Breakfast is already ready, prepared by the best chef in the house. My brother Hunk. He is my age but we’re not twins or anything. He’s adopted like everyone in the family except for me. Yeah, I was an accident and putting aside the fact that I’m their biological son which should make me happy, it just adds on to my insecurities. I sit down and start to eat. Pidge is on her phone in front of me, she’s texting her brother.
Pidge is also adopted. Apparently Mom and Dad found her in a container when she was only 3 days old. If they hadn’t been there she would’ve been dead. Years later, it turns out Pidge has a biological brother. They’re parents died due to an illness and left Pidge on a container in hope someone would find her. At least it’s what the police report said. Anyway, her biological brother, Matt, was adopted by another family but they still found each other. They meet up from time to time.
Keith enters the kitchen and sits down too. He looks at me with a weird face then starts to eat. Soon enough we’re all eating in silence. We hear footsteps on the stairs signifying the dad was arriving. It was his day off today. Dad doesn’t work in fridays it sundays but he does for the rest of the week. Mom works everyday unless it’s vacation for us. She sometimes leaves for months to another country.
“Good morning kids. Did you sleep well?” Dad always starts off like this. He knows how always breakfast is when he’s home so he tries to warm it up a bit.
Everyone nods but I help him, “Morning dad! How was yesterday? Did you solve a case?”
“Lance, I don’t solve cases. I’ve explained this to you already.” he sighs.
“It’s cause Lance is stupid that he can’t understand the simplest things.” Pidge insults me.
“Katie! We’ve talked about this! Just because Lance is a bit dyslexic that doesn’t mean he’s stupid.”
“Its Pidge, dad! How many times do I need to repeat that!” she shouts back and runs to her room. I look down ashamed knowing it was my fault.
“Don’t mind her Lance. You know she’s in that phase of her life.” Hunk tries to console me but it doesn’t work.
I stand up and excuse myself as I need to go get my bags to go to university. Keith stands up and runs after me.
“Hey, Lance wait! Let’s walk to university together.” He grabs his bag and puts on his shoes. I do the same.
As we walk to university I come across a few people I know. Of course they’re not just anyone, they’re the delinquents that like to bully me. But when they see Keith behind me, they turn around and pretend nothing ever happened and mind their own business. I’m terrified already knowing what was going to happen later at lunch. But that wasn’t here yet and most importantly I need to figure out what I’m going to say to Nyma.
“Lance? Is everything okay?” I hear Keith ask me.
I sigh, “I don’t know what to say to Nyma. I mean you encouraged me to say yes but that would mean losing Rolo.”
He nods indicating that he’s listening. “And how does this situation make you feel?” he asks.
Again with the ‘feeling’! Every time I talk to Keith about something g he always asks me how I ‘feel’ about it. It annoys me so much. “Can you like not! Stop asking me how I feel about something every time I try to have a serious conversation with you! This is why I don’t talk to you! Ugh! I’ll just deal with this whole thing myself!” I make a run for it. I cross the street just as it turns red. He tries to catch up to me but he’s blocked by car. I continue running until I arrive at the university.
Hunk’s POV
“Hot! Hot! Hot!” I loudly whisper. I just spilled some hot oil on my hand and it hurts a lot. I turn on the cold water and put my hand under it to cool it down.
“DAD! Can you bring down the bandages?! I burned my hand!” I shout upstairs. I hear Dad sigh and rummage through the bathroom looking for the box of bandages. I hear his heavy footsteps coming down the stairs.
“Here’s the box. You okay?” he asks, genuinely concerned. I can see he’s exhausted.
“I just spilled some oil on my hand. You should go back to bed Dad. Thanks for the box.” I urge him back up the stairs. Him and Mom have been fighting more and more. I don't know what to do anymore. When mom comes back home, the atmosphere becomes tense and it’s like Mom is on the verge of killing us if we say one word. She might even get Dad in a chokehold … again. Dang her and her military training, it makes her the strongest and scariest person in the house. She may be small but under that beautiful face and clothes, she’s a fluffing bad butt.
I finish cooking my famous fried shrimp with a side of caesar salad. That should cheer him up. I put the plate on a tray and walk to Dad’s room. I stop in front of the door and knock. I wait a little but no reply. I knock again and hear a sigh.
“I’m coming in.” I say and open the door. I spot Dad under the covers half asleep. I put the tray on the nightstand on his side of the bed and sit on the border.
“Hey Dad! Wake up! I brought you a snack.” I half whisper as I shake him. His eyes look red, he’s been crying again. Him and Mom have been fighting too much. Usually we just ignore it but sometimes it gets really bad and we have to split them apart. We never really know what they argue about but it affects us a lot. Mostly Pidge, her attitude became worse after Mom and Dad starting fighting daily. However, just sometimes I can make out words, or more like a name. I hear at least twice every week. Lance. We all know Lance gets bullied a lot at uni, he comes with new bruises every day. But for them to fight over it? I don’t know how to solve this.
I snap out of my thoughts and look at Dad. I bend down and give him a kiss on his temple, just like he does every night to us, after he and Mom had a fight, when we’re asleep. He opens one of his eyes, and then the next one as he sits up. I give him a little smile. He smiles back.
“What did you cook for me this time?” he asks as he ruffles my hair and sits right up.
I giggle and answer, “Your favorite! Fried shrimps and ceasar salad.” He gives an even bigger smile and reaches for the tray and starts eating.
“Is everyone already gone?” he asks. I nod. He stares at me and puts his tray on the bed next to him. “Come here” he says as he opens his arm. I don’t hesitate even a second and dive into his embrace. I can’t help myself as I start crying. He breathes into my hair and kisses my head.
“What’s going to happen to you and Mom, Dad? Why are you fighting every night?” I say, my voice muffled by his shoulder.
He rubs my back, takes a deep breath and says, “Me and your Mom love each other very much. That’s why we have been together for so long. We love you guys too and would do anything to ensure that you are safe and happy.”
“Then why are you fighting?”
“We-We’re deciding what to do with Lance. We’re not sure whether to switch university or to…” he trails off.
“To what?” I ask sternly as I look into his eyes.
“Or to send him to a foster family on another planet.” he confesses, his voice trembling slightly. At that moment I could not believe what I just heard. They’re thinking of sending Lance away! They’re thinking of sending my little brother away because they can’t handle him being bullied! I fumed with anger.
“How could you even think of that!” I yell. “You want to send Lance away just because you don’t know how to handle a bullied kid! That’s weak, Dad!” I dash out of the room before he could even explain anything to me. I was just too angry to even stay in that room. I run back to the kitchen. I almost never get angry but when I do, I could as well be Hulk. I smash my fist onto the table and fling a few glasses around. My hand was bleeding and I burst into tears. There was no way that they were going to send my brother away. Not under my watch.
“God dammit!” I yell, “I won’t let you do this, you hear me! I won’t let you send Lance away!” Suddenly I feel a presence, as if someone was watching me. I turn towards the door of the kitchen and see Lance standing there. His face was in shock, and he dropped his bag to the floor.
“W-what are you talking about?” I hear him say, his lips trembling, his body shaking. “Sending me away? What?” Before I can even answer he runs up the stairs to his room. I had really fluffed up.
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Lance’s POV
8 hours earlier
When I finally arrived to the university’s gate, I was out of breath. I shouldn’t have gotten so angry back there, Keith was just worried about me. Anyway regardless of that, I decided to accept Nyma’s confession. I mean, she is beautiful and I’m super handsome. We go together like yin and yang.
I walk to the classroom for my first period. Math, ugh. Yep, I was aiming to become an architect. I know it may be hopeless for an idiot like me but still I will not give up. I spot Nyma entering the classroom and she sits next to.
“Good morning!” she greets in her usual, cheerful self.
“Hi! What did you do last night?” I always ask her this because she does something every night.
“I went to drink with Rolo and some friends. You should come next time.”
“You know I can’t hold my liquor, Nyma.” Yep, I am a horrible drinker. I’m not like Hunk and Keith who can hold theirs for like, hours. On the first glass, I would be out.
Keith told me that once I was drinking alone in my room and ended up on the roof. I don’t know how I got up there and neither does he. Now that I think about it, Keith started drinking at a young age. He also started drinking way before me. Maybe that’s why he won’t pass out after just one glass. No one in my family gets drunk quickly. Not even Pidge despite the fact that she’s tiny and can only drink beer. Actually everyone in my family is better than me in almost everything. The one thing I’m good at is failing.
“Lance are you ok?” Rolo asked, he had just taken the seat on the other side.
“I’m fine. Just thinking of life and stuff.”
When was the last time I heard Dad say “I’m proud of you”? Did he even say that to me in the first place. What am I worth? What is even likable about me? Everyone probably hangs around me for my good looks. Do I even look as good as they say? How can I trust what anybody says?
“Dude, why are you crying.”
“What?”
I’m so stupid that I didn’t even know I started crying in front of everyone. I wish I could just vanish. I quickly stand up and rush to the bathrooms. I lock myself in one of the toilets and before I knew it, I was crying my heart out. All that frustration, that I was holding in for a month, poured out. I didn’t care if anybody heard me anymore. I just need to let it all out.
I hear someone enter the stall next to me. I looked at the shoes and I immediately knew who it was. Jason! He’s the captain of the football team. He’s the one that orders his teammates around to bully me. I hold my breath, too scared to speak, too scared to breathe. Whenever he spots me, I usually get beat up, badly and I definitely don’t want him to see me in this state.
“Hey, dude, in the next stall? You on the football team?”
Shit! I don’t know what to do! I try to stay calm and decide to keep quiet. He would definitely recognize my voice
He kicks the thin wall in between us which causes me to shriek. I swear I could hear him smirk. “Answer me, you pussy! Are you on a team or not?”
I try my best to change my voice and say, “No!” NOOOO! Why puberty! Why must my voice crack! I thought that was already over! I knew I was doomed.
I hear the toilet flush and him zipping up his pants and that stupidly big jacket he wears all the time . his feet move from next to me to in front of me. Just a thin wall separating us. He bangs the door with his fist.
“Oh, I see. There would be no one as cowardly as you, would there, McClain? I can see your wearing your favorite shoes.”
AHHHH! I got found out. “Please leave, Jason. I’m not in the mood of dealing with your bullshit.”
“HUH! Waddayou just say, you asshole!” He kicked the stall door again. “Open up! So I can show you who really makes the decisions.” If I dodge this now I know I’m going to get beaten up later anyway so might as well get over it.
With trembling hands, I unlock the door and not even a second later he kicks it open. He grabs me by the collar and strikes, punching me. I hear him giggle a little. That asshole. I bring my hand back to punch but I didn’t have the balls to actually hurt him. He would just kick my ass harder.
“Come on punch me! You think you can do anything to me!? I’ll make your life a living hell!” I look back up at he as he raises his now bloody fist again. All of a sudden he gets pulled back.
“What the hell are you doing? Mind your own busine-” Before he could finish his sentence I hear a crack and he falls on me splashing some toilet water. I look back up and see Keith. He just stands there for second with his fist up. He knocked Jason out with one punch! I could tell he was overwhelmed by anger.
“How dare you lay on a finger on him! If I see you messing with Lance again, you won’t just have a bleeding nose.” I swear that I could see Keith’s eyes glint yellow. I’ve never seen him like this.
“God dammit. Think you can do anything just because you’re a little bit older. I’ll show you one day.” Jason gets up and leaves. Keith turns towards me and reaches out a hand. I take it and he pulls me up.
“Are you okay?” He asks me in the most gentle voice I’ve ever heard from him. I nod, staring at the ground as he pulls me up. “Lance, look at me.” He orders but I don’t even budge. I can’t face him, not like this. I’m all bloody and wet from the tears and toilet water. He lifts up my head by my chin so he can look me in the eyes. I can see the pity on his face. I don’t want it! I don’t want him thinking I’m weak! He wipes away some of my tears and caresses my cheek softly. His hand is warm, I wish I could feel that warmth all the time. Suddenly, he does something he hasn’t done in years. He kisses me on the forehead then proceeds to kiss my eyelids, my cheeks but stopped when he reached my lips. I wish he would have continued. Wait! What am I thinking! No that’s wrong, he’s my brother! I slap his hand away.
“I’m fine.” I say.
“But-”
“I’m fine!” I yell. I run away to the court outside. I always run away don’t I. I’m pathetic. I’m a coward. I’m weak. Why do I even exist? I’m a mistake.
Keith’s POV
I am in class, reminiscing about what happened in the bathroom this morning. I was only trying to help but I guess I made him even angrier. And was he crying? Or was that just the toilet water? I can’t concentrate. I can hear the professor talking, but it was as if she were far away. Rolo tapped me on the shoulder, I turned my head to look at him.
“What’s up, man? You seem down.” he asked me in a whisper.
I sighed, “I caught my little brother getting bullied again. I helped him out but he’s just angry at me. I don’t understand why! I mean I stopped him from being beaten up even more but in the end, it made him angrier!”
“Mr. Kogane, if you wish to come teach the anatomy of a cat, please be my guest.” I heard Mrs. Haggar threaten me. Basically, a warning that I shouldn’t talk. I sat back, not even realizing that I stood up while letting getting rid of the frustration. I just can’t handle Lance acting like this. It’s true that I’m constantly worried about him, but what can I say, he’s my adorable, funny, cute, annoying little brother.
Now that I remember, two weeks ago Hunk gave me a lecture about how I am too protective of Lance. He said that I’m overprotective and that Lance doesn’t constantly need a guardian, that one day he will need to defend himself and that we can’t always be there for him. If that’s the case then I wish that Lance would just become mine already.
“AAAAAHHHHHHH! What am I thinking! That’s wrong!” I screamed, until I realized that I was still in class and that everyone was staring at me as if I were crazy. Honestly I might be, how could I think of my brother like that.
“Mr. Kogane, a ten page essay due next week about a cat’s anatomy. I want you to analyse every organ. Pack your bags and leave.” I honestly wish I could punch that witch in her face.
Yeah, Mrs. Haggar is an altean, although she doesn’t look like one. Not one bit. She’s the wife of the principle of the university, Mr. Zarkon or Emperor Zarkon as students refer him to. He’s a galra and he thinks this university is his fucking kingdom or something. He rules it like one anyway. I hate both of them and I hate their son even more.
Anyways, I didn’t waste any time as I packed my bags and got out of the class as fast as I could. I didn’t want to stay near that witch, or Mrs. Haggar, any longer. As I walked towards the gate to go home, as that was my last class of the day, I notice Jason and his gang, whispering to each other about something. I know that this is Lance’s free period, which means everyone in his year also has a free one. Just by looking at them, I knew they were planning something. And by my guess, it involved Lance, as always. I didn’t hesitate as I walked up to those punks to give them a piece of my mind.
“He’ll never see it coming. He’ll be dumbfounded and he’ll scream like a little girl.” They all laughed as if it was that hilarious. “Lance McClain is really the most idiotic, scared, pussy of them all, Immaright?”
Lance got mad at me last time. Maybe I shouldn't hit them. I walk up behind the guy who just insulted lance.
“Boo!” I whisper into his ear. When he recognizes my face he jumps back a little. Those wimps.
“Who the fauck are you?!” he shouts back. I could here the fear in has voice. I’ve beaten all of these guys up several times before. I could see that there was a new guy in the group though. Jason wasn’t here for some reason. I walk up to him slowly with a grin on my face to piss him off.
New guy shouts “Who do you think you are?!” I giggle a little waiting for him to lose control. In less then a second he starts to charge at me. I dodge to the left landing against a locker trying my best to look like I didn’t do anything. I even pull up my phone just to trick whoever saw into thinking that I was just chilling. He tries to slow down so he wouldn’t fall but he failed completely and did a weird spin as he fell on his ass. The thud from his fall was loud enough to make even his teammates laugh a little. Now that I think of it all the guys on the football team where dicks. Time to leave my business here is done. I look around to see if anyone else laughed and see Iance hiding his face in his locker. Did I mess up. All of a sudden the new guy gets up again and starts throwing punches. I Just do the same thing and he trips over his own foot. He starts spouting some shit, but I just ignore him and walk towards Lance. I slam his locker shut.
“Hey. You okay?” I ask very shyly.
He turns away from me and his body starts shaking. At first I’m a bit confused but then, “Pffft, hahahhaha! Did you see that! He fucking tripped over his own foot! Even I’m not that bad!” I smiled, knowing that it was the first time today that I had seen Lance laugh. His laugh always makes my day, no matter how annoying he is. Eventually, his laughter dies down and I can hear the douchebags in the back saying stuff like “you’ll pay for this” or “we’ll show you one day”. Lance looked up at me, into my eyes. It was like he was penetrating my soul.
“Seriously though, I know you’re worried and all but, you won’t always be there for me. It’s okay, I can defend myself.”
“If that’s the case then I want to be by your side forever. I don’t want you going anywhere without me.”
“Stop it, Keith.” he laughed. “People are gonna think you have a brother complex. Well, I’m heading home now. Do you want to walk home together, I mean if you don’t have anything to do…” he trailed off.
I shook my head, “I actually need to talk to a teacher. You go on ahead without me.”
He gave me a sad look then waved and left the school. Now I just have to deal with Mrs. Haggar. I’m going to try to make her cancel that essay she gave me.
Lance’s POV
I am currently walking home, alone. Yeah, Keith left me along for some dumb shit, I don’t even know what that is. At least I don’t live far, about 15 minutes on foot. I like walking to the university or back, because I get to go through a nice park. Usually, the breeze and silence relaxes me but not today. I feel like something is off, like something bad might happen but that could just be me. I haven’t had the greatest of days today.
As I continue walking through the park I hear someone call my name. I turn to see who it is. I just caught a glimpse of white, flowing hair and already knew who it was. Lotor, my ex. I kept walking, pretending I haven’t heard him. I do not want to see him, especially today. Why? Because it was supposed to be our 3rd anniversary if we had stayed together.
“Lance! Hey! It’s me, Lotor!” he calls out. Yeah, no shit sherlock. I turn around sighing, knowing that i couldn’t pretend to not hear him anymore, or it would be obvious I was ignoring him.
I put on my best fake smile, “Hey. I didn’t see you. So, how are you?” I ask him trying to sound interested.
“I’ve been better. Definitely better when I was with you.” he winked. Ugh.
Great, well, see you around.” I wave trying to shake him off and avoid the ‘break-up conversation’. But he grabs my wrist and pull me back and hugs me. I just don’t move as he tightens his hug. My hands stay by my side and I keep my usual serious face.
“Come back to me. Please, Lance. I miss you so much.”
“Yeah, well, I don’t. We broke up for good reason Lotor. After what you did to me, I couldn’t stay with you any longer.” He didn’t let me go.
“Lance, I swear to god, I won’t ever do it again. I promise.
“That’s what you said last time but you still did it again. You’re not getting a second chance. Oh wait no, a fifth chance.” This time he let me go. His expression is sad , he is on the verge of crying. I look away, he knows that that look always gets the best of me. But not anymore.
“It’s not going to work this time, Lotor. I’m sorry.” I turned and walk away. I didn’t feel sorry for that asshole one bit.
I arrive home in the worst mood. Not only did I fight with Keith twice, my depression rose up again during class and I met Lotor on my way back. COuld this day get any worse? The answer. Yes. As I take off my shoes, I hear clatter in the kitchen. I guess something broke.
I walk to the kitchen to check out if Hunk’s okay, until he yells, ““I won’t let you do this, you hear me! I won’t let you send Lance away!”
I freeze and drop my bag in shock, “W-what are you talking about? Sending me away? What?” But before he can answer, I run up the stairs, to my room and lock the door. What did I ever do to be sent away? Does Dad not love me anymore? Did he even love me in the first place? I’m just a big failure. I lay on my bed and quietly cry myself to sleep.
I hear someone knocking really hard on my door. I groan and open my eyes. The person knocks again and doesn’t stop.
“Geez! Okay! I’m awake! Come in.” The door opens, Keith steps inside and locks the door behind him. He moves over to me and sits on the bed so that he was facing me.
“I heard what happened from Hunk. I talked to Dad too. Lance, it’s going to be alright. I swear to the moon and back that you will never be send away. You are part of this family. You are important to us. To me. And even if Mom and Dad come to that conclusion, I will do anything to stop them. I mean it.” I can’t help it, I put my head in my hands and start crying again. I hear Keith shuffle closer to me and I feel two warm arms wrap themselves around me. My body relaxes, despite me not noticing I tensed up. I wrap my arms around his chest and back, and cry on his shoulder.
“Shh, it’s okay Lance. Everything will be alright.” But will it honestly? I pulled back and looked at Keith, who raised his hand to wipe my tears away. I clung to him again.
“Stay. Don’t leave me, Keith. Please don’t leave me.” I plead, desperately holding onto him as if he could slip away at any moment.
“I’m not going anywhere. Not ever.” For some reason that didn’t comfort me.
I wake up and feel someone behind me. tt is Keith, and we are spooning. How am I the little spoon! No, I will not tolerate this! I sit up and pick up my pillow ready to smack him with it, that I nearly forgot what happened last night. Nearly. I lower my pillow and put it back in place as all the memories from yesterday came running through. Luckily it was saturday so I didn’t have to go to university and deal with Jason and his group. I lay back down and turn towards Keith so that we are facing each other. I sigh as I admire his face. His gorgeous purple eyes are hidden behind those thin eyelids, the piercing he has on the side of his nostril. I try to look up at mine, on my eyebrow. We got those piercings together. It was for my 16th birthday and he wanted one too. It makes me smile, remembering that we had matching piercings, except not in the same place.
I see Keith opening his eyes as a huge grin settles on his face, “What are you staring at?” I stumble backwards and fall off bed.
“You! You were awake! Why didn’t you say anything!”
“Didn’t want to disrupt your staring session. So, is there something on my face or what?”
“No, I was just remembering how we got our piercings.” I settle back into my bed, facing Keith again.
“How cute.”
“Stop teasing me!”
“Never, you’re my little brother! And that’s an older brothers job.” He attacks me with tickles. I can’t stop laughing and that bastard just continues while smirking.
“You, ha, you are going to pay for this! Haha, stop!” Keith gets closer to me and we roll around in bed, until we fall smack on the ground. I groan in pain and open my eyes. He is on top of me and blushing like crazy and I can’t help myself as I blush back. The situation, I am panting like crazy under Keith. My shirt halfway up my torso and my boxers lower then they should be. I swear that I could see Keith’s eyes glint yellow again. Everytime I see those eyes, it gives me this weird feeling, as if I knew that he was the one in control of everything. I submitted immediately and turn away, exposing my neck. What is my body doing? It’s moving on its own.
In an instance, it something wakes up in Keith as he gets off of me, flustered. “Sorry.” he says then gets up and leave. I want to stop him but he was already out of the door. What was that about? All I know is that my heart won’t stop beating like crazy.
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Pidge’s POV
Today is a sunday, meaning we’re having our weekly video game competition consisting of me, Hunk, and Lance. We each choose a game and play one, then the other and the other. It’s kind of like a marathon, but we compete against each other. I love these because I almost always win, then I can make fun of my older brothers saying that they should know better since they’re older.
We are currently sitting in my room, where the playstation is, and are picking out the games. I stick the one I’m best at, Faster Than Light. Hunk chooses Sushi maker, and Lance, after taking forever chooses Call of Duty. We play COD first, Lance wins that one, he’s good at shooting games, yet I came so close to beating him, if I just had one more kill. Next up we play Sushi Maker. I win that one, basically all it is is pressing the buttons as fast as possible, and since I’m an expert at pressing buttons, I win. Hunk thinks it’s unfair, because I have a computer and he doesn't. We only had enough to afford one so we share it but I use it most of the time so we just say it’s mine.
Lastly we play my game, which of course, I win. I lecture Hunk and Lance that they are the worst older brothers possible and to my suprise Lance asks if I am being serious. His face looks sad and his eyes are hopeful. Of course I shyly admit that I didn’t mean it and that I love them. Lance flies at me and tackles me. He holds me so tightly I can barely breathe. Then Hunk joins and suddenly we’re having a group hug. I blushed, feeling Hunk’s breath close to my neck.
I push them both away, “Geez, did you guys have to hug me? You know how much I hate being touched.”
Hunk laughed, “Pidge, your being a moody teenager again.” I pout.
“Don’t you just love it when she pouts? It makes her look so adorable.” Hunk nodded in agreement.
“I am not cute!” I stand up and stomp my way out of my bedroom and continue stomping downstairs.
I hear shuffling in the hallway and for the first time in a long time, I see Mom. She came home early today, but why? She never comes home early especially on a sundays.
She sees me, “Hello sweetheart, did you have a good day?”
I nod, “Why are you home early, Mom? You never come home early.”
“Where’s you father?” she dodges the question.
“Upstairs, sleeping.”
“Can all he ever do is sleep? Shiro! You lazy mother fucker!” She yells while running to their shared bedroom.
I follow her and soon enough the whole family is standing in front of the bedroom, peeking inside.
“Shiro, I swear to god! Wake up!” she slaps him across the face, hard…
He wakes up in shock, “What is your problem! I’m trying to take a nap!”
“That’s my problem! Why aren’t you taking care of the kids!”
“They don’t need me on their tails all the time! They’re almost grown-ups now! What do you want me to do!”
“To stop being lazy all the time! Can’t you do one nice thing for us or for me!”
“I work my butt off to get you nice things! I constantly work everyday that I work till I’m sick!”
“You liar! Do even know what day it is!”
“Yes, it’s the 30th of March, our anniversary!”
“Then why aren’t you doing anything! Why are you just sleeping there!” Mom was crying now.
“I’m sick, Allura! I’m sick! I wanted to do something! I had a whole thing planned and then I fell sick! I have a present if that’s what you want! I’m weak, Allura. I went to see a doctor and it’s not good!”
“Wha…” Mom is speechless.
“I wanted to tell you but I was already sleeping every time you came home. And in the mornings you left early.” I could see that Mom felt horrible that she had screamed at Dad. She turns towards us and motions us to leave. Keith pushes us away from the door and closes it. After that we all returned to our rooms, all wondering what Dad has.
Allura’s POV
After I sent the kids back to their rooms, I look back at Shiro, my eyebrows knitted together. “Shiro, babe, are you alright?”
“No, Allura, I’m not. My health had declined severely and the doctors said that I can’t work anymore. Not while in this condition.”
“Baby, what do you have? Tell me, so I can take care of you.”
“Not too long ago, I collapsed at work. I was rushed to the hospital and they diagnosed me with type 3 diabetes. They said that I need to take at least a year off of work, because if I overworked myself more, the chance of me dying would rise, a lot. Type 3 is already extremely dangerous, it’s deadly. Allura, I can’t have you take time off your job for me. We need someone to make the money to pay the rent and the bills. Please, Allura, for the kids.”
I can’t look at him. My husband was diagnosed with diabetes a week ago and no one told me! We fought every night the past week, or he was asleep when I came back home. I never gave him the chance to tell me about it. I have to take a decision right now and I do. My mind is set and no one can change it, not even Shiro.
“Babe, I’m going to take two weeks off. During those two weeks, I’m going to take care of you whether you like it or not.” He opens his mouth as if to protest but I stop him. “No, no, no! No protesting! I have made up my mind!” I sigh as he looks at me with lost eyes. “Baby, Shiro, I love you and nothing can change that. Even Though all we’ve done the past few days is fighting, it will all get better I promise. And the story with Lance, about sending him away, we’re not going to do that either. I know for a fact that the others would kill us for that.”
He hugs me and starts crying, “I love you too, Allura. I really do.” I hug him back, and for a moment we just sit there, on the bed in silence. It was the best moment I’ve had in months.
Pidge’s POV
This is boring. I hate when I get sent to my room. I want to know what's The problem between Mom and Dad. What could be so bad that I shouldn't know about it. I push my ears against the walls to hear what they’re talking about.
“Not too long ago, I collapsed at work. I was rushed to the hospital and they diagnosed me with type 3 diabetes” Dad said. I jump back shocked. How could he be hiding something like that? He might die and he didn’t tell anyone. I tip toe to my door and slowly open it making sure Mom and Dad don’t hear. I’ve got to tell everyone. I make my way towards Hunks room. He will know what to do. He’s good at comforting people. I knock on his door. No response. Maybe he’s sleeping. If he is sleeping I know the one thing that will wake him up. The smell of chicken. Chicken is his favorite food and he will do almost anything to get it. To bad i have to walk past mom and dad’s room. Mom is like a ninja and hears everything. Maybe I should get Keith to do it. I don’t want to get caught. Keith doesn’t care about rules. I sneak past the the bathroom and stub my toe on my old science project. SHIT! It hurts so bad. I cover my mouth to stop myself from shouting. I need to get rid of that. I get to Keith’s door and knock once. In less than a second he swings the door open.
“Lanc...oh it’s you.” Keith mumbles. I don’t have time for his attitude.
“Can you get some chicken from downstairs for me.” I put on my cutest face. I hate doing this but it’s for mom and dad.
“That doesn’t work on me” he says,”Only lanc...” He says something under his breath.
“Only what.”
“Nothing” He blushes a little and turns around.
Keith’s POV
I can’t let her know how I feel about Lance. I need to distract myself, “You know what. I’ll do it.”
“What made you change your mind so fast?” Pidge says with a weird grin on her face. It’s like she knows my secret or something. I rapidly walk past her avoiding the question. I go downstairs to get some stupid chicken for Pidge. I slide down the stairs railing and jump of at the end. It reminds me of how when Lance tried to copy me he fell off and landed on his ass. That beautiful round, probably smooth, ass. He was so cute back then. Still is now. No! I’m doing it again. I need to get Lance out of my head. I walk into the kitchen and see Lance with a chicken leg in his mouth.
“Fuck!” I swear under my breath, “Lance, wait! Don’t eat that chicken!”
“Huh?” he turns around dumbfounded. “Keith?” He continues munching on that chicken.
“Lance, listen to me. Don’t finish that chicken. Pidge needs it to wake up Hunk. You know he sleeps like a rock.”
“You mean this chicken?” he asks, obviously playing stupid. Then a smug smile sets onto his face. Oh no, I know that smile.
“Lance, don’t even think about it.”
His grin gets wider, “Aaah! Mmm, delicious.” He takes another big bite out of the chicken.
“Lance stop right now!”
“Make me.”
I run towards, tackling him to the ground. He tries to break free but can’t so instead he makes us roll over. Now he’s on top of me, with that chicken in his mouth, still chewing it. I know that the only way for him to let go of that chicken is to tickle him. I put my hands to his sides and wiggle my fingers. He starts laughing, while still having that chicken in his mouth. We roll over again on the kitchen floor, this time I’m the one on top.
“Come on, let go of the chicken!” I shout.
“Mhpnephermph!” he mumbles, while laughing with the chicken. Honestly how does he do that.
I got fed up with him, and stop tickling him. It’s as if my body moves on its own and I bend down. I take the other side of the chicken leg in my mouth and pull. Lance is so stunned by my actions, that the leg just goes flying. It lands somewhere next to us. His face is flushed red, just like what happened in the bedroom, but this time he’s avoiding my eyes. I pull his head back in place so he’s looking at me. Look at me, Lance. Only me. You’re mine.
At that moment, I lock lips with him. At first he stares at me with wide eyes, but soon enough melts into it and closes them. I do the same. Our lips start moving in sync, and soon enough he’s whimpering under me. That woke something up, from deep inside of me, I can feel it. I bite his lower lips which makes him moan. I grab that chance, and shove my tongue inside his mouth. He resists it at first, we battle to see who wins, and obviously, I win. He lets me roam every inch of his mouth. I leave no corner untouched. He moans again, and I growl.
Suddenly, we hear a gasp. We immediately pull away from each other and stare in the direction of where the sound came. There stood Pidge. She had just witnessed her brothers make out.
Notes:
SOOOOOO, the kiss has arrived!!!!!! YAAAAAAY! Now let's see what's going to happen to those brothers. Poor pidge or maybe not.
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Keith's POV
“PIDGE!?” How long has she been standing there? What will she think? “I can explain,” I try to reason with her but she immediately runs up the stairs. I look back at Lance, who is still under me. Tears run down his face as he slowly starts sobbing and hiccuping.
“K-keith, what are we going to do? I don’t know what happened to me. I should have been aware of what we were doing.”
“It’s okay, we both got caught up in the mood.”
“It’s not okay!” he pushes me away with a lot of force that I nearly hit my head against the table. “This is wrong in the first place! We’re brothers, Keith! It’s just wrong!”
I look at the ground and mumble, in such a quiet voice that I could barely hear myself, “In that case, I wish that I would have never become your brother.”
Lance looks stunned, “You don’t actually mean that do you?”
I dodge the question, “So, what are we going to tell Pidge?”
“I think we should just tell her that we drank a bit and we are both sexually frustrated?” It sounds more like a question then a statement.
“No, I think we should tell her the truth. That we got caught up in the mood, and we didn’t do it on purpose. And we could add that we were sexually frustrated, I mean that wasn’t a bad idea.” Lance brightens up a bit at that.
We go to Pidge’s room and knock on the door. I can hear soft cries from the other side and by Lance’s expression, he could too. I don’t even bother to ask for permission and ram into the room. Pidge is crying at the foot of her bed, but she is smiling? We run to her side as fast as we could.
“Pidge, I know that what you saw scared you and made you feel disgusted but please, don’t cry. We’ll always be siblings no matter what and Lance and I, well, we were just sexually frustrated. That happens a lot to guys when they don’t do it for a while.” Honestly, I do want to be more than brothers with Lance but for now, Pidge is my main priority.
“That’s not why I’m crying.”
“Then why?” Lance asks.
“Do you think I’m that stupid. Honestly, it's so obvious that you guys have a crush on each other. Come on. But that’s not why I’m crying.” she takes a deep breath before she continues. “To tell you the truth, I’m in the same kind of situation.”
“What do you mean?” I ask. Her face is serious and she stopped crying.
“I’m in love with Hunk.”
We gasp at that. I couldn’t believe what I just heard. I’m not the only one with a crush on my sibling. For some reason, it felt as if a huge boulder just got lifted from my shoulder. I can’t help but smile.
The door creaks. All three of us whip our heads towards the door. There, Hunk eating chicken.
Hunk’s POV
I misheard that, right. Or maybe I just misunderstood. She said she loves me, as a brother, right? I start eating the chicken in my hand really fast, stress eating basically. They all stare at me.
I cough, “Well, Pidge, I love you too. And I love Lance and Keith too. We’re family after all.”
Pidge looks at the ground, she looks hurt. “Not that kind of love, Hunk. The other kind.” she says quietly.
I don’t want this. “You mean the crush kind?” She nods her head. I panic. “That’s disgusting.” Fluff, that’s not what I want to say. But still, I mean being in love with your own brother? That’s wrong, in whatever way you look at it.
Keith stands up and pushes me backwards, not like he could, but I still stepped back. “Hunk, leave.”
“Gladly.” I turn around without once batting my eyes. Liking your brother is just weird.
The next morning, I wake up like any normal day, until I remember last night and start thinking. Pidge likes me, her own brother. I yawn as I move down stairs to start to prepare breakfast. Pidge is the only one sitting at the dining table, the others aren’t awake yet. As soon as she sees me, she stands up and tries to leave.
I grab her by the wrist, “Sit.” I order. She flinches but goes back and sits down where she was. “I haven’t made breakfast yet and today’s your favorite. Wouldn’t want to miss that out, would you.” I try to converse with her like always but she doesn’t answer and just sits there. I get out the ingredients and the materials I need. I start cooking and during the whole 20 minutes that it took to prepare her favorite breakfast, no words was said. If I hadn’t experienced awkward silence before, now I sure had.
Soon enough it was time to wake the others up. I let Mom and Dad sleep a bit longer because of yesterday’s incident. I walk to Keith’s room and knock. No answer. I go inside only to find an empty bed, still made as if no one was here since yesterday morning. Did Keith already go to school? He never goes early. I continue down the hall to Lance’s room.
I knock and hear, “Five more minutes.” That’s Lance alright. I open the door and to my surprise it isn’t just Lance there. Keith is sitting on the floor, his head on the bed, holding Lance’s hand. Lance is somehow twisted up in the covers, yet still clutching Keith’s hand tightly. The only thing I guess from that is that Lance had another of his nightmares. I wake both of them up and they grudgingly get up and go downstairs.
I wake Mom and Dad up next. “Hunk, sweetie, just leave some breakfast out on the table. We’ll eat later.” Mom tells me.
“Okay!” I answer.
I go back downstairs where everyone is eating. I sit down too and enjoy my homemade breakfast. And again, no one says a word. I feel like I really messed it up with Pidge but why are Lance and Keith being so distant too. I feel left out.
After breakfast, we all leave to university except for Pidge, she’s still in high school. On my way, with Keith and Lance, no one speaks and I hate it. I try to start up a conversation and talk about the weather. Cliché, huh? That ends horribly. I let it pass, as I had other stuff to attend to. I have to go get Shay from her house. And yes, Shay is my girlfriend but no one knows. And with Pidge’s confession from yesterday, things can only get worse.
Notes:
Hi guys, this ones a bit shorter yes, but next one will be longer promise. We're starting another fic where Lance is going to be stuck in a harem. So all the paladins and other are going to want him for themselves. I'm not going to tell you who he's going to end up with but be sure to check it out too once it's out.
xxxElsa
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Lance’s POV
I’m still shocked from what happened yesterday. But which part exactly? I think all of it. My make out session with Keith, Pidge’s confession. I reach up and brush my lips with my finger, remembering the feeling of Keith’s lips against mine. While we were kissing, I could feel something was off, not just the incest part but something else. As soon as Keith kissed me I couldn’t help but submit to him. It was like a reflex, like an instinct.
I am snapped out of my thoughts by Keith, “Sorry about, well, what happened yesterday. You probably feel the same way as Hunk. It’s weird right? Liking your own brother?”
“No! Well, yes it is weird but I don’t feel the same way as Hunk. I feel like… I don’t know how I feel. Keith, I need some time to figure this out.” I motion to us while saying “this”.
“As much time as you need,” he pauses, “Kitten.”
At that my head whips up and I can literally feel my face heat up. “Keith!” I whine. What did he just call me? Kitten? Is that like a pet name? I can’t believe he just gave me a pet name.
“I won’t call you that anymore if you don’t like it.”
I mumble an answer so softly that I can’t even hear myself.
“What? Speak up I can’t hear you.”
For some reason I got embarrassed and yell, “I don’t don’t like it!” I can’t even make it out what I just said.
“So? You do like it? Okay, I’ll call you that from now on, kitten.” A smug smile set on his face as he called me ‘kitten’. I pout and turn away from him. “Aww! Is Lancey Lance mad?” he teases me. I pout even more.
He stops moving, pulls me back and slams me against a wall in the alleyway. I shriek and bump my head. I don’t have time to complain about the pain because as soon as I spot Keith, I couldn’t move. His eyes are narrowed and he looks at me fiercely. “Don’t make an adorable face like that, because that will only make me want you even more.” He growled as in actually growled.
Again that feeling came rushing over me, my face heats up and I start panting. “Keith.” I whine, at needy whine. It was as if I needed him. I need him to touch me, to hold me, to anything.
He grabs me by hair and pulls my head back. “Lance, if you ever go out with someone else, there will be severe consequences, and they won’t be nice.” I whimper.
We hear laughter from behind us and it’s as if Keith wakes up. He retreats and apologizes. I don’t respond, still shaken up by what happened and to be honest, it felt really good.
Pidge’s POV
Today is going to be just great. Hunk probably thinks I’m crazy. He probably doesn’t even want to see me anymore. I pull out my phone and check the date. It’s monday. Perfect. Even if i wanted to go ask how he feels again I don’t have the time. I walk to my first class, English. It’s the one class I hate. I try to focus on the class but I can’t think of anything but Hunk. What does he really think about me? Maybe he does like me but was shy. Does he love some else. Probably not. He always tells me everything. Sometimes way too much. What if he was lying? He has been spending more time out on the weekends. Maybe he does.
“Katie Holt!”Mr. Fukhoe yells from across the class,”Why are you just staring off in the sky. You should be taking notes.”
“Sorry sir,” I force the words out. Why does he still call me Katie. I told him multiple times to call me Pidge. All my other teachers at least try. Does he just hate me that much. I do correct him all the time.
“You’ve been doing that often recently,” He responds. It’s because my social life is going into a downward spiral. “I'm gonna have to call your parents.” What the fuck. I’m the smartest person in this class and missed some notes from the worst teacher in the school. So what. He walks out of the class. As soon as he leaves the room everyone starts whispering to each other. It’s obviously about me. The youngest and best student is finally getting in trouble. I didn’t have many friends because I make everyone look bad and I’m 2 years younger than everyone. Maybe it’s because I’m a smartass when adults aren't around.
Anyway, the bell rings and everyone starts packing up, while some plan to stay behind. I don’t, since it’s lunch and I’m hungry. I’m thinking of eating take out today. I walk out of the high school gates, towards the nearest McDonalds and I swear I can see Hunk in the distance. I’m hesitant so I try to get closer but it’s hard since there are lots of people out on the streets. I see him walk into the McDonald's restaurant. Lucky me. I run inside and spot him again but with a girl? Hunk never told me he had a friend who was a girl. He only had male friends, that’s what he tells me.
I get closer to hear what they’re saying. “So, Shay, what do you want to order?”
“Hmm, I’ll take the same as you.”
“Okay, well then the usual but twice this time please.”
“The usual?” she asks surprised. Little does she know that me and Hunk come here every week on wednesdays to fridays at lunch.
“Yeah I come here often with my little sister.”
“You two are close huh?”
“I guess you could say that.” he laughs awkwardly.
Their trays with the food arrives and they sit down at a table for two next to the window. I’m so focused on them, that i don’t order anything and just blindly follow them. I sit at a nearby table too and hide my face behind the menu by pretending I’m looking at it but I keep my ears open.
“Hey, Shay, how did that test go? Did you properly answer all questions?”
“Yeah, it was pretty hard though. Well it’s to be expected if I want to become a doctor.” A doctor? Why is Hunk hanging out with someone from that department?
“Haha, yes I know. Do you think you could go on another date with me next saturday? There’s this new movie that came out recently, and I thought we could go watch it together?” A date? WHAT? Is this Hunk’s girlfriend or something? He never told me he has one. No, I probably misheard.
“I’d love to.”
My face cramped up and I could feel tears starting to form in my eyes. I thought Hunk told me everything and he would definitely tell me if he ever got a girlfriend. But no, this is reality. I mean all siblings hide things from each other right? But I thought that was different between me and Hunk. I guess I was wrong.
I could no longer sit there anymore. I got up and left. I ran back to school, hoping my tears would dry because of the wind. But they didn’t, they just kept on flowing while my heart broke in two. After that, I didn’t dare to look at him for another week.
Lance POV
My phone buzzes in my pocket. I take it out to check who it is, but hide it under the table so the professor can’t see. It’s Keith.
Hey Lance, meet me in the bathroom at lunch. The one on the second floor where access is forbidden.
Wait, why the forbidden one? We’re not allowed to go in there. What if he’s in trouble or he got stuck in there? I have to go there immediately.
I raise my hand until the professor calls on me and ask for permission to go to the bathroom. I pack my bag and sneak it out. I’m so lucky my course has lots of students so that it’s harder to notice stuff like that.
I run up the stairs to the second floor, to the forbidden bathroom. Some say it's haunted because sometimes you can hear noises coming from there. That scares me. What if Keith got possessed by a ghost?
I glance around to see if no one spots me going into the bathroom and softly close the door behind me. I see Keith standing against the wall, staring at his phone. As soon as he sees me he smirks and walks towards me.
“Keith, you’re okay! I thought something happened to you since you called me over so suddenly.”
“Why would I be hurt?”
“Well, because some people say the bathroom is haunted,” I whisper the next p-art, “They sometimes hear noises coming from here.”
He looks at me dumbfounded, “Lance, you’re already a second year and you still don’t know.”
“Don't know what?”
He smirks even bigger this time, “In out year it’s known as the ‘fun’ bathroom.” I stare at him in confusion. “Those noises don’t come from a ghost,” he comes closer until his mouth is right next to my ear. “They come from people having sex.” He bites my ear and I yelp, a shiver running down my spine.
I finally realize why Keith called me here. I gulp with fear in my eyes. He pushes me backwards roughly, and I slam against a stall. He pins my arms above my head and attacks my lips. His kisses are rougher than last time as his free hand reaches down and he rubs my dick. I moan as he multi tasks and my knees begin to buckle. He notices and lifts me up so that he is carrying me and using the wall as a support. I wrap my legs around him as his hand reaches under my shirt. He lets me breathe a bit but continues further to kiss down my throat.
“Ow!” I yelp. He looks at me in the eyes and licks his lips. That jerk left a hickey.
He reached back up and continues kissing me and I let myself melt
completely. He rubs my nipple and I moan a weird sound I’ve never let out before. Not even on my own time. He pulls back and stares at me in shock.
His eyes narrow and he frowns, I spot a glint of yellow in his eyes. “I won’t be able to hold back if you’re going to be that adorable.” He throws me over his shoulder and kicks in a stall door. He puts me down on the toilet and removes his shirt. If it were physically possible than I swear I would have a nosebleed cause, damn, this guy is ripped. He helps my remove my shirt and starts licking one nipple and manhandles the other. I cover my mouth and try not to be too loud.
He growls, “Don’t cover up your mouth. I want to hear those beautiful sounds you make.” Upon seeing his face, I obey whether I wanted to or not. I just completely submit to him.
He makes trails of kisses each time going lower and lower until he reaches where he wants to and unbuckles my pants. He pulls it down and throws it away somewhere on the floor. He looks at my dick poking out of my underwear that is already wet at the top.
“Who knew you were this sensitive all I did was kiss you and tease you.” I turn my head embarrassed until he says, “Stand up.” And I do. “Get on your knees.” I do that too.
My face is now directly in front of his pants where a bulge was. He unzips it and pulls it down along with his boxers too. And damn what I see is definitely not regular size or human. What is this dude, A furry?
“Suck.” he says.
I lick the top and he groans. I start licking from the tip down to the base and back up. I open my mouth at take the head in and play with it a little. I’m not sure whether I can fit that whole thing into my mouth. I hear him groaning non stop until I feel a tug at my hair. I raise my eyes and see Keith with an expression that turned me on even more.
He pulls my head back until only the tip remains in my mouth and growls, “Do it properly.”
He bucks his hips forwards and shoves forcefully his dick down my throat. It burns so much and tears start to spill from the pain. His hips move back and then forward again as he uses my mouth. Even Though it hurts, it feels good and I can’t help but moan sending vibrations onto his dick and he moans too.
He speeds up his rhythm, “I’m close.” And so was I. I can’t believe that I’m close while my mouth is being fucked by Keith’s dick. “It’s coming!” he’s able to say before he yells out and spills his load down my throat. At that moment, I come too. He takes his dick out and raises my head with his chin, “Swallow it.” I swallow it down with a lot of effort and open my mouth to show its empty. “Good boy.” he praises me.
After we cleaned each other up, we returned to our classes and continued the day. However, every second I was reminded of what happened in the bathroom and every time, I could feel my dick aching for more.
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THEY FINALLY HAD SOME FUN! Poor pidge really, she finds out hunk has a girlfriend in the most cruel way. Oh well, we will see how that turns out! See ya next time.
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So, this fic is a collab with my bf and we worked hard on it. We're both big fans and will try and complete the entire fic. We don't know how many chapters this will have but we plan to have at least 30000 words in total. Hope you support us til the end. xxxxElsa and Alex
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Group of Rajasthani gypsies seen along the road side in Gurgaon, where large commercial and residential projects are coming up but lacks infrastructure for clean water.
Images for the Global Post's special report - The Great Divide: Global income inequality and its cost
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BART riders should expect 15-minute delays Thursday for trains on the Pittsburg-Bay Point line heading into San Francisco, a BART employee said.
The delays began after an ill passenger had to get off a train at the Rockridge station sometime before 10:45 a.m., the employee said.
The passenger’s medical needs have been taken care of, she said.
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Asked about his gig in The City today, appearing with Scott Nevins for the first time, Wilson Cruz laughs.
“By the time we get there, we will either have something really brilliant, or we’ll have baked cookies for the audience and we can all sit there, eat and have a big love fest,” Cruz said in a recent interview.
Cruz and Nevins share the bill at the Rrazz Room tonight in a unique teaming that could spawn future similar ventures from the two eclectic performers.
Where: Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco
When: 8 p.m. today
Tickets: $30
Contact: (800) 901-7173,
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It may be creeping toward 80, but the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular National Tour” is hardly showing signs of aging. In fact, the wildly popular show is looking more modern than ever, something spunky Rockette Lindsay Howe takes pride in.
“We like to think that today’s Rockette embodies the modern woman — intelligent, ambitious, multitalented,” says the Sacramento-born performer. “She’s also stylish, of course, and has some grace.”
Howe and her graceful dancing clan hit the Bay Area in a number of shows in Oakland and San Jose beginning Thursday.
Directed and choreographed by Linda Haberman, the brainchild responsible for the well-received 75th celebratory show at Radio City Music Hall several years ago, you can expect a modern feel here. Think: bigger, better, bolder.
IF YOU GO
Where: Oracle Arena, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland
When: 4:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday
Where: HP Pavilion, 525 West Santa Clara St., San Jose
When: 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday; noon, 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday
Tickets: $25 to $100
Contact: (800) 745-3000,
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Challenge
To support a growing population, St. John Medical Center needed to modernize and expand their services to accommodate growth and remain the healthcare provider of choice on the west side of Cleveland.
Solution
As part of a campus-wide facility assessment and master planning process, we identified deficiencies in operating suite quantity and configuration as well as prep and recovery accommodations leading to expansion recommendations. Additional master plan suggestions included zoning the facility to support increased outpatient visits and phasing strategies to enable incremental expansion of the diagnostic and treatment platform. Array also suggested that a new “front door” be created to improve wayfinding and enhance the hospital’s image.
Result
After thorough analysis and assessment of cost to address site, facility and infrastructure requirements, a phasing schedule was developed to implement the highest yield spaces first. The operating suite complement was expanded from seven operating suites to nine with the possibility of adding a 10th room in the future. All suggestions are being implemented and the project is tracking on-time and on-budget.
Collaborators
Barber & Hoffman
Donley’s
MCM Company
Osborn Engineering Company
Sandhu & Associates
Thorson Baker & Associates
Van Auken Akin Architects
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Manufacturers, Energy Department Join Forces to Encourage Sustainability
The National Association of Manufacturers is working with the U.S. Department of Energy on a campaign to highlight examples of sustainability in the manufacturing sector. The initiative seeks to build on progress made in energy savings in recent years.
The National Association of Manufacturers is teaming with the federal government on a new partnership to celebrate the sector’s progress in improving energy efficiency, highlight the companies leading the way, and explore ways to continue to make manufacturing more sustainable.
Under the Sustainability in Manufacturing Partnership between NAM and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), “NAM members will have the opportunity to highlight their company’s projects, best practices, and implementation methods, embrace innovation, explore emerging technologies, and evaluate future challenges that need to be addressed,” the association said in a news release this week.
NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons touted progress that manufacturers have already made on the sustainability front.
“Manufacturers accept the responsibility to better the future of our communities, our environment and our children, which is why over the past decade, we have reduced emissions by 10 percent even as our value to the economy has increased 19 percent,” Timmons said, adding that NAM’s partnership with DOE “will take our sustainability efforts to a new level of progress.”
Energy Secretary Rick Perry added that the partnership “will further spotlight industrial leadership and boost awareness of the resources across the DOE enterprise to boost manufacturing competitiveness through energy savings.”
The new partnership is part of the agency’s Better Plants Program, which aims to improve plants’ global competitiveness through energy efficiency. DOE has teamed with nearly 200 manufacturing and industrial groups of different sizes to help them reach voluntary goals in energy and water savings, according to Industry Week. The agency says the program’s partner companies have saved $4.2 billion in energy costs over seven years in facilities that represent around 12 percent of energy use.
NAM said it will meet quarterly with DOE officials to discuss the program and develop future initiatives.
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Disney Daisy Duck Charm
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This stunning sterling silver charm brings Daisy Duck to life. Donald Duck's sweetheart and Minnie Mouse's best friend, this fun-loving and fahion-forward diva will add a sassy dimension to your Disney-themed collection. Available online or in-store.
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Disney Daisy Duck Charm is rated out of 5 by 12.
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Date published: 2017-03-23
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Date published: 2017-03-23
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Miss Wonder Woman from Daisy Portrait Simply a classic! I love it! All charms have different ways they hang off of the bracelet and because I have the Disney bracelet with MM ears on the clasp, the charm grasp and sits so beautifully on my wrist
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Steph81 from Loved I just bought this charm and am very pleased with it
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Every year, Vietnamese students mark their
appreciation and gratitude to their teachers with a celebration on November 20th.
The day was first celebrated in 1958 as the Day of
the International Manifest of Educators and was renamed Vietnamese Educators’
Day in 1982. Students carefully prepare for this occasion and many classes prepare
literature, arts, food or flowers to honor their teachers. Former students also
pay respect to their former teachers on this day.
This year, as the most sincere wishes to all
teachers, Sofitel Plaza Hanoi invites you to a gourmet journey at Brasserie
Westlake and Ming Restaurant with special offers on lunch and dinner.
Treat your beloved teachers and classmates with an
assortment of delicacies in the gracious ambience of our restaurants. While Brasserie
Westlake offers a tantalizing selection of Western and Vietnamese dishes, the
elegant Ming Restaurant provides you with authentic Oriental cuisine. Either
will make perfect settings for a meaningful gathering.
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Austin bicyclists can track trips, rate their rides, and help the City use and improve a “comfort map” of bicycling routes in Austin with the Ride Report app. See the map here and download the free iPhone or Android app.
View live web map to see the ever-evolving, crowdsourced Austin “stress map.” Colored lines indicate the stress level (from red to green) reported by people on over 46,000 rides to date. Cyclists, use this crowdsourced information to select a comfortable route. Image above is detail captured August 2017.
Was your last bike ride great? Or not? Use the Austin Ride Report app on your smart phone to track your trips, rate your ride – and help improve Austin bikeways. After each trip, the app prompts you to rate the route you just took – it’s simple, just click “Great” or “Not Great.” The trip reports and ratings (as anonymized and aggregated by Ride Report) become crowdsourced feedback shown on a map that also helps ATD staff improve biking routes in Austin. Our goal: More “high-comfort, low-stress” bikeways for all.
Both the iPhone app and the Android app for Austin are now new and improved, so please download the latest versions today.
Download the app, turn it on and let Ride Report run in the background. (It turns off temporarily if your battery gets low.) For more information, or to report issues in using the app, visit the app developer’s FAQ page online.
Questions? Email [email protected].
Help spread the word – please post on social media about Ride Report with these tags.
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Columela Extra Virgin Olive Oil From Spain , 17-Ounce Glass Bottles
Columela Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Spain
Pack of 2 – 17oz olive oil bottles
Young and fresh oil, with notes of apple and green almonds.
Goes well with spring vegetables, salads, vinaigrettes.
Production by the Sinolea method. The oil is obtained by gravity. First cold extraction, not even pressed.
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Omaha, NE 68154 - Douglas County
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Supermarkets, Grocery Store .
Bakers Shoes is located at 505 N 155th Plz in Omaha, NE - Douglas County and is a business with Florists on staff and specialized in Funerals & Memorials, Wedding Ceremonies, Social Occasions and Parties. Bakers Shoes is listed in the categories Shoe Store, Florists, Grocery Stores & Supermarkets, Grocery Stores, By Name, Groceries, Grocery Stores and Shoes and offers Baked Goods, Delicatessen, Money Transfers, Prescription Transfers, Health Foods, Generic Drugs etc. After you do business with Bakers Shoes, please leave a review to help other people and improve hubbiz. Also, don't forget to mention Hubbiz to Bakers Shoes.
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Looking for a top-rated leaf blower or leaf vacuum to round up or mulch those pesky leaves? Sun Joe has an incredible selection of top rated electric and cordless leaf blowers and mulching leaf vacuums. Whether you maintain a small urban lot or an acre of land, there’s a top-rated Sun Joe blower or mulching vacuum ready to exceed your expectations. All of Sun Joe’s leaf blowers receive top grades for their power, durability and performance and are backed by a full 2-year warranty. Shop BarnDoor Ag for your next leaf blower! Free Shipping
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Selecting a leaf blower (lawn blower) in 2017 is a little more complicated than homeowners realize. Electric, cordless, or gas-powered? Handheld or backpack?
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Contractor Grade Lawn Blowers: These backpack or walk-behind units are what your local landscapers are using. Unless the homeowner has a massive yard with mountains of leaves, avoid the additional expense. The MPH plus CFM Ratings will be over 800.
There are 3 types of leaf blowers, and they can be broken down by power source and how they are carried.
Corded Electric Leaf BlowersCorded electric blowers are perfect for most homeowners. Whether you need a lightweight leaf blower for cleaning your driveway, or a more powerful unit for fall cleanup, corded leaf blowers should easily get the job done. The CFM MPH competes favorably with gas blowers, and corded leaf blowers are quieter, lighter, greener, don’t require lubricants, and most importantly, are maintenance-free. It is also highly advisable to invest in leaf blowers with brushless motors. Brushless motors are more efficient and last longer than conventional electric motors. The only downside with a corded blower is managing the extension cord, and its limited reach.
Cordless Electric Leaf BlowersCordless electric blowers have come a very long way in the last 5 years. Lithium Ion technology has improved cordless leaf blowers to the point where they can compete in terms of performance with any blowers in their class. The 40 Volt Lithium Ion battery packs a lot of punch in a small package. If you are looking for a Lithium Ion Cordless blower for lawn cleanup, invest in a 40 Volt model. Cordless blowers are every bit as powerful as corded blowers without the hassle of trailing an extension cord. Again, investing in a Litiom Ion cordless blower with a brushless motor is a wise decision. For bigger yards, you may want to invest in a second battery.
Handheld Gas-Powered Leaf BlowersHandheld gas leaf blowers are turning into dinosaurs. Some of the major manufacturers include Husqvarna, Stihl, Troy-Bilt, Ryobi, and Poulan. They are heavier, louder, pollute more, and are less reliable than their electric cousins. Some blowers run at over 80 decibels, and require ear protection when in operation. Gas-powered units also require additional fuel and maintenance costs. And if you’ve ever flooded an engine, you know how frustrating gas-powered equipment can be to operate.
Backpack and Walk-Behind Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers and SweepersIf you’ve got a huge yard with mountains of leaves, these units are the way to go. Favored by professional landscapers, backpack and walk-behind blowers pack a lot of punch that can’t be squeezed into a handheld unit. For most homeowners, lawn sweeper units manufactured by companies like Stihl, Husqvarna, Troy-Bilt, Poulan, Ryobi, Craftsman, and Toro are simply overkill.
For the sake of homeowner grade power equipment, “Leaf vacuums” is actually a misnomer. While there are pure contractor grade leaf vacuums, this guide focuses on handheld leaf blower/vacuums.
Some leaf blowers have additional functionality that turns them into “leaf blower/vacuums”. Blower/Vacuums have a tubular extension that fits onto the air intake on the bottom of the unit. There is also a collector bag that can be attached to the output blower to collect leaves. Most leaf blower/vacs have mulching capability, as well, and grind lawn debris to a ratio of at least 16-1.
The vacuuming capability of leaf blowers is especially handy for removing leaves in difficult areas. Leaves that are stuck inside shrub branches or up against a fence or a wall can be gobbled up by the vacuuming attachment in seconds. Vacuuming is also an excellent method for cleanup in delicate areas like gardens or flower beds where the strong air currents from a blower may damage vegetation.
Always look for brushless motors.Pound for pound, brushless motors deliver more power (CFM and MPH) than brush motors. Brushless motors are also more durable. Because of friction, brush motors wear out more quickly. It is probably best to avoid brushed motors from manufacturers like Worx, Greenworks, Ryobi, Dewalt, Kobalt, and Black & Decker.
Leaf vacuums are also leaf mulchers. Leaves are sucked into the impeller and are ground into mulch. Look for a mulcher rating of at least 17-1 when shopping.
The Bottom LineUnless you’ve got more leaves than you can possibly handle, or if you are a collector of contractor grade tools, Joe says that electric blowers are the way to go. Selecting a handheld gas blower or gas backpack blower is simply overkill.It is absolutely critical to focus on both MPH and CFM to determine the blower that meets your needs.Avoid the gas-powered headaches.If you have leaves tucked into difficult places, consider a leaf blower/vacLeaf Blower Tips & TricksAlways wear protective eyewear.It is advisable to wear gloves, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt to keep from getting scratched by bushes and shrubs.Never point the leaf blower nozzle at anyone. Very dangerous.Be mindful of cars and windows. Leaf blowers can shoot small stones, twigs, and debris at high velocities.Nozzles make a difference. Look for blowers that have a nozzle selection.Hold the leaf blower at your hip and blow leaves at a shallow angle.Leaf blowing is easiest when the leaves are dry and winds are calm.Contractor Tip: Invest a few dollars in a large tarp. Blow or sweep leaf piles onto the tarp, and then drag them to the street for the town to remove if it’s legal.If bagging is required, use the vacuumingmulcher- shredder attachment to grind leaves.Be mindful of neighbors.If using a blower for lightweight cleanup on sidewalks or driveways,dial back the speed setting if there is one.Other uses – blowing light snow, cobwebs, removing lint from clothes dryer vents.Bring a leaf blower to baseball and softball games. Blow puddles off the field and avoid those pesky rainouts.Blow debris towards the middle of the yard. If you have a lot of leaves, make multiple piles.Avoid blowing after fertilizer or pesticides have been applied to your lawn.Contact BarnDoor Ag for further questions.
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In honor of Halloween, el Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead, closely associated with Mexico), and the Catholic Church’s All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, today’s photo tour will take you on a brief trip through Recoleta Cemetery in the heart of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Recoleta Cemetery really is a site to be seen, for several reasons. First, there’s the history. The cemetery, which was the first public cemetery in Buenos Aires, was founded on November 17, 1822. Its grounds, which house between 4,800 and 6,400 vaults, depending on who you talk to, include the sacred burial places of major players in Argentine history: politicians, writers, military leaders, former presidents, sculptors, explorers, priests, athletes, and more.
Among the most famous is María Eva Duarte de Perón, or Evita, considered by many to be the nation’s spiritual leader. (Many Porteños, as Buenos Aires’ natives are called, talked to me, unsolicited, about Eva Perón’s role in helping Argentine women gain the right to vote.) After a 20-year odyssey to make it to this resting point, Evita’s body lies more than five meters under a mausoleum that’s heavily fortified to ensure that she is never disturbed again. Less well-known are the cemetery’s first two “residents”: Juan Benito, a young Black child freed from slavery, and María Dolores Maciel.
Apart from the history, there’s the art of it. Recoleta is rightly considered a world treasure of sculpture and funeral architecture. Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, Greek Doric, Neo-Gothic and who-knows-what-else styles are represented. It’s hard to take it in, especially since the tight streets make it difficult to back far enough away from most of the sculpture to get perspective.
Last but not least, there’s the creep factor. Even on a gorgeously sunny day like the one on which we visited, it’s hard not to feel slightly weird about walking through what is quite literally a city of the dead. The cemetery takes up 54,843 square meters, or more than four city blocks. A map is necessary in order to navigate the labyrinth of narrow streets and avenues on which mausoleums seem to close in from all sides. Some of the mausoleums are meticulously cared for; others have long been abandoned. Among the latter, broken or missing glass in the doors gives an open view to the dusty coffins that are sometimes being slowly overtaken by creeping vines or more quickly by workmen who are using the coffin rooms to store their supplies. Sometimes one can see doors in the floor that lead to additional burial spaces. Views of the cemetery from above show the vents that provide air to these tight rooms. At all points, it’s impossible to deny that you are indeed walking among the dead.
Today, a burial spot in Recoleta will cost you, big time. Honestly, I can’t imagine where there would even be enough space. When I’m dead, you can donate my aged (hopefully) old body to science, thank you.
I cannot wait to get to Buenos Aires. I am planning on heading down next summer… Eeeeee! 🙂
It was sooo great. I’ll send you my research in case it helps you plan your trip. We went to El Calafate too, to see glaciers in Patagonia, which was amazing.
Sounds so exciting. We should do dinner or something soon and chat about it 🙂
Would love to! 🙂
Hi Courtenay, long time. These are amazing photographs. I’m a huge fan of cemeteries and this post really did it for me. Thank you for sharing it. I read you had an amazing trip. Cheers!
Thank you so much, Will! I’m glad you liked the photos. The cemetery really was super interesting. Buenos Aires and El Calafate, the other place we went in Argentina – more on that soon! – were great. So many more places we’d like to go in AR. Hope you have a great week!
An interesting blog, Courtenay. Your photography is excellent.
Nan Durrett
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The Hungarian forint headed for a third week of gains, benefiting from investors' optimism about the government's fiscal reform program and a reduction of its Q1 budget deficit forecast.
Hungary's government, working to lower its budget gap after running up the European Union's widest shortfall last year, said yesterday it expected the deficit to reach Ft 852.7 billion in the first three months of this year, Ft 42 billion less than planned. „Warm sentiment towards the forint continues as the cabinet sticks to its public finance reforms plan,” said Iwona Pugacewicz-Kowalska, regional economist for central European countries at Citigroup Inc. in Warsaw. „The revision of budget forecasts was good news, investors like the government's cautious approach and after last year's falls the forint is still strengthening.” Against the euro, the forint advanced to 252.60 at 2:36 p.m. in Budapest, from 253.36 on February 9, taking its gain in the week to 0.3%. Pugacewicz-Kowalska said the currency may reach 245 against the euro by year-end. Demand for forint assets remains „strong,” as signaled by a continued growth in the stock of Hungarian government bonds held by foreign investors and the forint's gains versus the euro, according to minutes from the latest central bank meeting of policy makers published today on the bank's Web site. Global risk appetite has stabilized at a high level, it added. The yield on the Hungarian 6% benchmark bond due October 2011 fell 7 basis points to 7.43%. (Bloomberg)
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Hello,
yesterday I decided to upgrade my nails, not because I would get bored of the color but because I thought that these two shades are perfect for each other. Initially I wanted to add sparkle only one one or two nails but then I just put it all over. It was nice and sunny outside and holographic shimmer always looks so nice on the sun.
This Essence holographic top coat was part of the limited edition a couple of years ago, the name of it is Just can't get enough. As you can see it has somewhat pinky nude base with tiny holo glitter in it, so great to topped over Misslyn Beauty classique.
This is how this duo looks like and I can tell you that on the sun it was crazy sparkly. I love holographic nail polishes and I'm a bit sad that the trend somehow died. How often do you see holo nail polish in the store?
Thank you for reading and have a nice day
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If you cook long and slow and use Charcoal briquets as I do this is the greatest invention since fireplace matches. Here is a great How To Article
Put your Briquets in a basket
May 31, 2012
Party-Crashing Cows Have a Taste For Beer
May 27, 2012
Via Elan Kesilman
Six party-crashing cows startled a group of women drinking beer in a Boxford, Massachusetts backyard recently. Although the cows left the women alone, they attacked the beer with gusto.
The women who were holding the party weren’t amused, however. One of them frantically called 911, exclaiming, “We thought they were deer, but they’re huge, huge, huge cows. There’s got to be five or six of them.” Huge party-crashing cows must take on a more fearsome appearance on the other side of the fence.
The responding police officer to the disturbance Lt. James Riter said, “They enjoyed it. There’s no doubt about it. They went right for the beer and then when one was done, they’d knock another one over and take care of that beer.” The incident was surely the highlight of the officer’s night.
The police department was fortunately able to get the situation under control. They expertly rounded up the cows and returned them to their farm in healthy, yet possibly intoxicated, condition. Read more..
Tennessee Whiskey and @LustyMonk Barbecue Sauce
May 27, 2012
Ingredients
1 tablespoon canola oil
1/4 cup onion, finely minced
4 garlic cloves, chopped
3/4 cup Jack Daniels or other whiskey
2/3 cup ketchup
1/4 cup tomato paste
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoon Goya Sofrita
2 tablespoon Lusty Monk Hotter than Hell Mustard
1 tablespoon liquid smoke
Directions:
In a large skillet over medium heat, combine the onion, garlic, and whiskey. Simmer for 10 minutes, leave until the onion is translucent.
Mix in ground black pepper, salt, ketchup, tomato paste, vinegar, liquid smoke, Worcestershire sauce, sofrita, brown sugar and mustard. Bring to a simmer, then reduce heat to low and cook for 20 minutes.
Remove from heat, allow to come to room temperature and transfer to a container with a tight lid. Will keep in the refrigerator for up to a week.
Beer Here: Brewing New York’s History
May 26, 2012
New exhibition at the New-York Historical Societys ‘Beer Here’ is on view through Sept. 2 at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, at 77th Street; nyhistory.org.
By MEGHAN BARR, Associated Press.” Read more…
.@LustyMonk Thighs
May 26, 2012
Lusty Monk Thighs
3/4 cup molasses
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup ruby port
2 tablespoons Lusty Monk Alter Boy mustard
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons freshly ground pepper
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 onion, minced
3-4 lbs Chicken Thighs
In a large bowl, stir together the molasses, olive oil, port, mustard, soy sauce, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and shallot. Let stand for 30 minutes. Add the chicken thighs and turn to coat. Refrigerate overnight.
1. Preheat barbecue for medium heat, I use a Weber Kettle grill and spread the briquettes around the outer edges of the grill after they are hot and place tin foil on the bottom to act as a deflector. Keep wood chips soaking in water around for smoke, mesquite, or apple are good.
2. Remove the chicken from the marinade and arrange the pieces on the middle of the grill. Brush the chicken with the Lusty Monk Mustard Sauce and grill over a medium-hot fire turning often and rotating to cook evenly, until cooked through and nicely glazed. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Coconut Shrimp with @LustyMonk Mustard Sauce
May 22, 2012
Coconut Shrimp with Mustard Sauce
1-1/2 pounds peeled jumbo shrimp
2 cups all-purpose baking mix, divided
1 cup beer
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
½ teaspoon cumin seeds
3 cups sweetened flaked coconut
Vegetable oil
Mustard Sauce:
1/2 cup Lusty Monk Alter Boy mustard
3 tablespoons light brown sugar
2 tablespoons beer
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
Peel shrimp, leaving tails intact, devein if desired and set aside.
Stir 1 cup baking mix and beer together until smooth.
Stir remaining baking mix, salt and ground red pepper, cumin.
Whiskey blending operation opens in North Charleston
May 19, 2012
A whiskey blending and bottling operation has opened in North Charleston to support the growing distribution of a new craft brand in the Southeast.
The American Spirit Whiskey label is rolling out in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, along with other cities in South Carolina this week. Already, the brand distributes to more than 250 restaurants and stores in Georgia, where the company was founded.
The company’s founders, Jim Chasteen and Charlie Thompson, two friends who met at the University of Georgia, crafted the “white whiskey” spirit in November 2011 after having careers in real estate and finance.
, was founded with a sense of the South and hopes the label can change the perception of whiskey as a quality drink.
“Southern culture and nostalgia for classic Americana are at the root of our whiskey, which makes it appealing to a broad range of spirits drinkers,” Chasteen said in the news release.
ASW is a mixable white whiskey made in small batches using bourbon-quality, un-aged whiskey, also known as “white dog,” which inspired the company’s label on each bottle. Typically, whiskey is aged to mellow the character of the drink. ASW uses a specialized filtering system that removes the bite of a typical un-aged whiskey and removed the need for the aging process, the company said.
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New Agreement with EU, Reviving Embassies with the US – Belarus Foreign Policy Digest
Encouraged by "non-negative dynamics" in Belarus, the European Union is drafting a new kind of framework agreement with Minsk. It will take into account the realities of their relationship. In the meantime, Minsk and Washington are discussing the practicalities...
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From Thailand to Mexico, chile peppers play an important role in culinary culture. Recognizing the growing interest in the capsicum, as the genus is called, DeWitteditor P.L., AZ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Tulips are my favorite flower. I’ve always dreamed of frolicking through the enormous tulip farms in Holland. When in the middle of Oklahoma City, unexpectedly stumbling upon a planter of the beautiful bulbs does my heart just as well. I’m learning to bask in the glimpses of beauty around me, taking them for what they are without stealing my own wonder with comparison.
This outfit gives me serious Madeline vibes because of the hat and tie. If you did not grow up watching or reading Madeline, you seriously missed out. She is the tiny, fierce, French little girls’ empowerment icon we all deserve. This outfit has a school girl feel but with a little more adventure.
This spring I am fully embracing color. I am going to get as close as humanly possible to dressing like a clown while still feeling cute. A lot of people are scared to wear too much color because it is gaudy or attention grabbing, but it makes me feel vibrant and alive. Life is short; play dress-up as your favorite flower.
My neck tie, previously debuted on this blog as a hair tie, is a vintage piece I bought along with this super unique button down from a thrift store in Springfield, MO. (I just have to brag for a moment that they each only cost me a dollar.) My mother’s impeccable taste strikes again, as she gifted me this sunny yellow beret. The jeans are old news, but the metallic is a lot of fun and makes up for the fact that this outfit is lacking any print. Interesting textures, such as my jeans, and interesting structures, such as this scalloped collar, can add a lot to an outfit that is solely color-blocked.
My spring break was for friends, coffee, exploration of my city, and packing my heart extra full to last the rest of the semester. Once again, I have my talented friend Andrea to thank for taking these pictures and taking me to coffee shops. (This one is Clarity Coffee in OKC.)
Here is to finding our miniature tulip fields all around us.
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With its bold band that covers half the cigar and crate-like boxes, the Alec Bradley Black Market is an iconic cigar. Released in 2011, it has garnered a firm following and has led onto a range or blends such as the Esteli and Vandal.
This review will help you discover the Alec Bradley Black Market by covering the four following themes:
If you want to jump ahead, simply use the links above.
Overview
Brand: Alec Bradley
- Range: Black Market
- Vitolas:
- Filler: Jamastran Valley [Honduras], Panama
- Binder: Ecuadorian Sumatran
- Wrapper: Nicaragua
- Handmade? Yes
- Body: Medium – Full
- Estimated Smoking Time: 80 Minutes
- Pricing: $6 – $9 Single Retail Price
Founded by Alan Rubins in 1997, Alec Bradley is a critically-acclaimed cigar brand. In 2011, the brand launched their new Black Market range at the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers (IPCPR ) Convention.
Aside from its unique branding with large military-style bands and cargo crate boxes, the cigar featured a unique blend. Firstly, it consisted of a myriad of tobacco sourced from four different countries. Honduran and Panamanian fillers are enveloped by a Sumatran binder from Ecuador. Finally, a Nicaraguan wrapper conceals the body with its dark earth hue.
Furthermore, only Viso and Ligero leaf primings were used to make the cigar without either Volado or Seco primings from lower down the plant. As you’ll learn in our guide to cigar anatomy, lower primings are mild in flavour but ensure a good burn. Meanwhile, the higher leaves tend to be more intense with fuller flavours.
Therefore, it should be interesting to see how this particular cigar fares in a review given that it has also received a number of rewards and accolades.
Alec Bradley Black Market Look & Feel
- Wrapper Hue: Dark Cocoa
- Rolling Consistency: Even
- Spring: Firm Spring
- Aromas: Espresso, Dark Chocolate, Leather
Interestingly, the Black Market’s main band acts as a sort of sheath that covers half of the cigar. Whilst it’s surely an aesthetic choice, it likely offers some protection to the wrapper.
Removing this reveals a dark cocoa wrapper that glistens with a rich oily sheen under the sunlight. The body feels even and firm all the way down to the foot with a light spring when pinched. There are some lumps in the wrapper but they’re quite consistent.
The aromas complement the wrapper’s hue quite well and we’re tantalised by immersive notes of dark chocolate, rich espresso and a hint of leather.
Alec Bradley Black Market Review
Our reviews are never based on a single cigar but we instead smoke several before committing to the write-up. Since cigars are hand-made, they can vary in experience. By basing our reviews on more than one, we check for consistency and rule out any anomalies.
Furthermore, this particular review is based on having smoked no less than three Black Market Toros.
Pre-Lighting Experience
- Draw: Mild Resistance
- Aromas: Copper, Espresso, Dark Chocolate
After cutting above the Cuban-style triple cap, a quick dry draw indicated a promisingly mild resistance. There were some very intriguing notes too, which including a coppery espresso and some dark chocolate.
Being a fan of gourmand smokes such as these, I was looking forward to lighting up.
1st Third Smoking Experience
Notes: Charred Cedar, Oak, Patchouli
The Black Market opens with thick plumes of smoke that die down after about half a centimetre of ash. It’s quite mealy and leaves a dry layer across the palate.
After a few draws, the cigar reveals particularly woody aromas that are reminiscent of burnt cedar, charcoal and oak. There’s also a hint of earthy patchouli that borders on labdanum musk.
2nd Third Smoking Experience
- Notes: Black Tea, Cherry Wood, Labdanum
At about the half-way point, I was able to slide the band nearer the cigar’s head so I could still enjoy it. The ash is stacking nicely with only a few flakes.
The overall flavours haven’t evolved to a huge degree but I am beginning to pick out some new notes. The charred cedar has evolved into a more smokey cherry wood whilst the oak is more reminiscent of black tea.
Meanwhile, the earthy patchouli has transitioned into a musky labdanum as I hoped it would during the first third. Nevertheless, the overall is very similar and is very consistent.
Final Third Smoking Experience
- Notes: Cedar, Charcoal, Leather
As I made my way into the final third, I noted just how smooth the thick smoke remained. Even in the final third, the bouquet is still quite dry and leaves a viscous layer over the palate. In terms of aromas, I note that the charred cedar from earlier has returned with much more intensity.
Meanwhile, those woody notes have transitioned into something closer to charcoal whilst I experience leather on the retrohale. However, it doesn’t feel like a huge evolution and the flavours are quite understated. I confess that I was left wondering between draws whether the cigar was manipulatively complex or just bland.
Nevertheless, it was still enjoyable until I made my way to the nub. Suddenly, there’s an overpowering peppery note that had married with the leather. Consequently, the dry flavours have become quite tart. I realised that it was now the end of the journey.
Overall Burn
Ash Backbone: Very Resilient
- Burn Angle: Slightly Wavy
- Temperature: Ambient
- Draw: Mild Resistance
- Final Smoking Time: 100 Minutes
At first, the Black Market’s burn starts off as quite choppy but this evens out nicely after about 3/4 of an inch. Furthermore, the ash’s backbone is quite strong and I was able to enjoy a solid 2″ stack before it dropped off.
As for the burn temperature, it wasn’t cool nor was it hot but rather ambient. However, I could have been misled as it was a very hot day. Otherwise, the draw gave only a mild but palatable resistance whilst the overall smoking time came to over 100 minutes.
Ideal Pairings With An Alec Bradley Black Market
As a particularly dry and woody smoke with hints of leather, there’s a myriad of potential accompaniments. Whilst some may find harmony in smokey or peaty whiskies, I’d be inclined to pair this with a very dark and mature rum. On a drier day, I’d consider my usual beverage of an espresso. However, if possible, I’d actually go for a tighter and more intense ristretto if the opportunity presented itself.
As for soft drinks, Coca-Cola would be a fair choice thanks to its thick caramel flavour as would a herbaceous root beer.
Overall Experience
When Paul handed me a few of these for a review, I got a look at the box, which comes in a very elaborate carte-like box. The style of this box is reminiscent of bootlegging and fits the cigar’s name very well.
As for the bands, I’ll cover this below as they’re certainly worth of note so I’ll jump straight to the value for money.
Although the Black Market isn’t the cheapest stick, it’s usually comfortably under the $10 price point. Therefore, it isn’t a particularly burdensome investment. Given the quality of the smoke, the novelty and enjoyment, I think it’s worth it compared to others on the market.
Black Market Bands
As mentioned earlier, the larger band covers half of the cigar and needs removing before the cigar can be lit. The paper used has a craft-style print with the name stencilled across it. However, it’s made with glossy paper, which makes it easy to remove.
Aesthetically, it’s quite interesting but I’m curious as to its practicality. Although it is more of an inconvenience when it comes to lighting, I imagine that it could help protect the cigar during storage and transport.
Once this has been peeled off, it reveals a smaller band underneath. Personally, I think this was quite ingenious and I like how only half of the smaller band that says “Alec Bradley” can be seen until you remove the larger one.
Once removed, it also reads “Black Market”, which ensures the name stays visible even after removing the larger band yet isn’t redundant when still attached. Unusually, it sits at the half-way point and needs removing earlier unless you can slide it down.
Love them or loathe them, you must admire the originality of these bands and I’ve yet to see another brand do something as original as the Black Market.
When Should You Smoke An Alec Bradley Black Market?
Overall, the Black Market’s aroma profile makes it one of those late-afternoon or evening cigars to enjoy after a hearty meal. Thanks to its tough construction, it’s a cigar that I’d consider outdoors.
For instance, it’s a great cigar for during an afternoon barbecue with the boys or when out fishing or golfing. Alternatively, it’s an enjoyable and lengthy cigar for a winter evening inside whether social or for some me-time alone.
With its larger than life bands, you might consider removing the first one before taking it with you to more formal events. However, it’s something that I’d probably leave to more casual yet equally special occasions with friends.
Closing Thoughts
For those who enjoy heady and musky cigars with thick smoke and tar, you could do far worse than an Alec Bradley Black Market. Whilst it doesn’t show much evolution throughout each third, there is an admirable level of consistency, which some people may indeed prefer.
Some may consider it as intricate and complex whilst others may perceive its very understated aromas as bland. Nevertheless, this may be just a question of preference, palate and perspective. As such, this isn’t something I’d recommend to beginners but rather seasoned enthusiasts unless you’re looking to try fuller-bodied cigars.
Furthermore, it’s novelty value is quite notable and it’s worth taking a closer look at the box and its attention to detail.
"A beefy and musky cigar. With notes of charred wood and leather, this is an enjoyable yet heady cigar for enthusiasts."Rating: 4.0 ★★★★
Nice review CP.
Any other Alec Bradley reviews you are currently thinking of?
Hey Kevin,
Now that CP has done the regular Black Market, I have a box of the Alec Bradley Black Market Esteli version.
So I think I’ll give that a review in the near future, and maybe a compare and contrast on the blends.
Cheers – Paul
Great review. I have these in the humidor at home, may crack one out tonight after reading this.
Nice!
I’ve been doing the same thing myself this evening.
Where are you located?
I am located in Tennessee.
Oh great! We’re based up in Philly, and the author of this post is actually located just outside of Paris, France.
Let us know if you have any other comments, or cigar recommendations.
Cheers – Paul
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Representing Polynomials is a Mars Assessment Task designed to asses how well students can translate between graphs and algebraic representations of polynomials.
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To warm up for the days work and assess what they already know, my students complete the Representing Polynomials Pretest.:
Through this discussion I hope that my students will solidify their understanding of translations of polynomial graphs and the relationship between the verbal and algebraic representations of polynomial functions [MP2, MP7]..
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Inter vs Sassuolo
May 12, 2018
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inter Team News:
Bar Roberto Gagliardini, Inter Milan come in to Saturday's clash at full strength.
sassuolo Team News:
Sassuolo are forced in to a change at the back, having lost Federico Peluso to suspension ahead of their penultimate game of the campaign.
inter vs sassuolo Head to Head:
Sassuolo have found the net eight times in their last six meetings with Inter Milan, following their 1-0 win in the reverse fixture earlier this season.
inter vs sassuolo Statistics:
Inter (four wins) and Sassuolo (five wins) haven’t drawn any of their nine meetings in Serie A to date. Inter have gained 69 points in a single league season for the first time since 2010/11. Sassuolo have conceded 13 goals from outside the box, more than any other team in Serie A this term. Mauro Icardi (99 goals) could become the eighth player to score 100 goals in Serie A for Inter. Marcelo Brozovic could make his 100th Serie A appearance for Inter in this game: the Croatian international has been directly involved in four goals in his last four league games (1 goal and 3 assists). Khouma Babacar has scored four goals against Inter; against no side has he scored more in Serie A (also 4 v Udinese). However, he hasn’t ever scored at San Siro.
Inter vs Sassuolo Betting Prediction:
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Good.
You’ll have to pardon me if I do get some alliances wrong here and there as I missed the first few days of the feed due to my vacation. I am still playing catchup here and don’t quite feel confident about the direction of the house at this point. On a side note – Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone out there. That’s not something I thought I’d ever write on this blog but I’d be happy as a pig in shit if I could write that and Happy Thanksgiving/Halloween every year (man, do I still miss BBOTT)
Updates:
- 7:30 am – The house is up early today and people are still mulling around
- 8:00 am – Brandi, Oma, and Ari are chatting in the bathroom
- They are confused on the direction of the house. Mark apparently made some comment to Brandi about them ‘seeing what it’s like’ which was odd to her, clearly…
- The group breaks up and Brandi has some small talk with Ross in the kitchen about how uncomfortable it is with Shannon not talking to anyone
- 8:05 am – Brandi joins Omarosa talking to Ari.
- Oma is telling Ari how it’s all an act when celebrities say they don’t need the money. They need the money. Everyone has a tax bill to pay, etc
(pst: Oma – Real celebrities actually don’t need the money. You guys are D-Listers at best)
- Oma says she was on a show with Dennis Rodman who had a million dollar child support *feeds cut*
- Feeds back. Brandi said she sat up last night doing the numbers in her head and they’re going to get fucked
- Brandi asks who should go home this week and the girls say Shannon
- Brandi doesn’t like that idea because then the guys will be 4-4 and if he wins HoH, she (Brandi) is going up for sure. Everyone already thinks Shannon is crazy
- Brandi says she and Omarosa are going up. Ari says she will too (she does realize only two noms, right?)
- Breaking News – Omarosa doesn’t want to look stupid…
- Brandi is pushing the “If you’re sitting next to me in the final 2, you’re winning” route.
- Still talking, Omarosa says she had to get up every day at like 5 to get into the WH. Brandi asks if they paid her well, she says ‘No, only One Hundred….’ feeds cut (I assume her salary was 100k range)
- Omarosa got a bunch of death threats
- 8:55 am – Shannon is having a talk with Ross about the situation
- Shannon begins trashing Omarosa by mentioning “Kerry Anne Conway”… Ross corrects her “Kelly Anne” *facepalm*
- Her point was to say that Oma was trained by the WH to deflect points
- Marissa joins the conversation and begins rambling. She really does talk a lot. Holy shit
- 9:15 am – Shannon’s pity party continues and she keeps telling people how awful her game has been and shouldn’t be a target
- 11:55 am – Took a nap. Back.
- Omarosa talking to Ross and Shannon chatting with Ari in the kitchen. No game talk
- Feeds go down for a bit, come back to Mari crying over something with everyone around her trying to cheer her up.
- Meanwhile, James and Mark are in the bedroom talking about how Mari cries 18x a day and how she’s crying wolf.
- They can’t tell if she’s crying over something real or if it’s too cold today.
- 1:30 pm –
- 2:00 pm – James joins the HoH room and works out a deal to stay in the house longer. This deal appears to be completely fluff and I wouldn’t trust anything.
- 2:30 pm – Mari tells the HoH a story about how she and Mark hugged today
- Typically, he gives a weird awkward hug but tried a normal one today and his penis got too close to her. She said she felt it through her tutu
- Brandi asked if it was big, she said ‘well, I felt it through all this and it was flacid’…. ok then. Big Dick Mark
- Fairly slow day, a bunch of boring talk. Waiting for PoV so I’m going to have dinner. I will start a post veto post once we find out who wins
Welcome back Steve, and don’t worry about getting the alliances correct, they change hourly! Even now the women are in the bathroom talking about switching again and getting rid of James instead of Shannon. Stay tuned though it will change over and over!
Hey Raider, they probably changed again by the time you typed that comment.
Shannon needs to get it together and stop crying, she has a POV to play.
Am I the only one who thinks Shannon studied Vanessa’s game of crying poor me as her new strategy ?
I was thinking the same thing, she is a BB fan and I wouldn’t doubt it.
I started thinking of her as Vaudrey. The other night she took to her bed crying with her hood pulled over her head. Looks like she took a page out of both of their playbooks.
Yes I was waiting for her to wrap the blanket with the shades! I get more Tiffany than Vanessa. Vanessa was fighting WHILE she was crying.
Rumor, JUST A RUMOR, black box comp today and feeds may be down for hours.
What is the black box comp Mel?
It’s a fairly new comp and its only been around the past several seasons. They go inside this huge dark container and have to feel around in the dark, trying to find specific items and relocate them to another spot. Sometimes they’re crawling through some pretty gross things while they’re in there too. It’s an easy comp to team up and help people but keep it a secret because no one can see anything.
It’s wierd watching Marissa go on and on telling Shannon how much she likes her. It may have made since yesterday but I think Shannon could care less at this point. Shannon made it too personal yesterday so that’s allowed Ross and Marissa to focus on that but I think at this point, she would rather hear about how they want to work with her in the game. Shannon is so hung up on blaming all of this on Omarosa and it’s starting to get old. In order for me to be friends with Marissa, she’d have to wear a muzzle. Besides using the word “like” every 4th word, she feels the need to make every point and repeat it 5 times. Just SHUT UP please!! Give someone else a turn!
I’m shocked Omarosa hasn’t called Marissa out on her love of the word “like”. I would think it would make her skin crawl.
She mimiced her one night, but Marissa thought it was a joke and laughed it off and O smiled at her but I don’t think she was playing. You know O never does anything without an ulterior motive. She meant it as a shady dig.
Shannon and Omarosa made up (fake real?) Shannon’s done with the pity party and she’s ready to play.
Dammit! I was hoping for a face-off. Oh well, there’s always Brashi and James.. I think O, James and maybe Metta, might be the only ones in the house who aren’t intimidated by Brandi. And Brandi, James and Mettta might be the only ones not intimidated by Omarosa.
It only lasted an hour I think, we can’t even type an update this season because it changes before we hit send
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Shannon and Brandi may be making a deal at the moment which would leave Ross and Marissa out in the cold. Brandi had already started speculating about James leaving first (she was saying it kast night and Ross freaked out) so I’m thinking, she’s wanting to get something out of it if she decides to switch things up. Omarosa may get her woman’s alliance back up and running, minuaMarissa, at least for a little while.
Brandi probably woke up and realized she has to win the next HOH to be safe which is unlikely, especially in the black box haha. She sees how shady Ross and Marissa are, so I hope she flips the house.
I don’t know, the black box might be similar to walking around drunk????
Is Shannon back in with the “in” crowd?
Shannon is talking about a “safe space”….
…meanwhile, Marissa has been crying.
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Here is a screencap of that. They still seem to be a fairly tight group.
They welcome Metta to the confab. He seems to be liked by everyone, I just wonder if he can slip through to the end.
He’d have to turn it up and win his way there because I don’t think any of them would take him. They all love him and they all know it.
Anyone else get the impression that the mental elevator for most of these people does not go all the way to the penthouse?
I only started watching BB about three years ago and I know this is minor celebrity BB but these are some of the weakest challenges I have seen.
Actually all the comps they’ve done so far are BB staples. They haven’t altered anything for them yet.
Cool I’m fairly new to BB they just seem weak to me I mean putt putt golf for HOH even with the fans just seemed lame.
Lol, sometimes they are. I’m glad they’ve been making them do the same ones tho. I was afraid they might not have to.
They also have less time to build the sets for this season so that may be why they seem like off brand versions of the other comps you’ve seen. It’s the same comp but they have looked a little skimpy.
I at least want to see one more endurance comp the good old wall hang or at least one that makes them think the weather comp comes to mind.
I do too
I love the sideways look Ari gave towards Omarosa after she won hoh. Omarosa has tried to act like she’s been a huge part of the plan to backdoor Shannon when she only found out about it right before Keshia’s eviction.
Are you surprised? You know she likes people to think she knows everything about everything…lol
For those of us rooting for Metta, (and got made fun of)we may not be idiots after all! He’s plain the “accidental” Dr. Will game. I said ACCIDENTAL, I like him, I’m not actually comparing him to Will Kirby.
I am totally in the Metta corner. I don’t know if it has been mentioned here before, if so I apologize. Metta is a huge supporter of mental health as he suffers as well. That is what he donated his championship ring for. He also speaks at conferences on mental health, I was lucky enough to hear him and he is very inspirational.
Yes, he’s fantastic. My son met him at an NBA game and he was the most gracious and patient with fans of any player I’ve ever seen. He gets a bad wrap from malice at the palace and maybe some dirty defensive plays. He didn’t hit harder than any other good defensive player and the Detroit fans deserved worse than they got at the palace in 2004 imo.
I like Metta. He’s fun to watch and seems like a genuinely nice guy. The only thing I knew about him was that he was a basketball player (please don’t make me embarrass myself by asking me what team). I did think maybe he had ADD because sometimes he seems so hyper. Now it all makes sense.
He mentioned tonight, that since they wouldn’t send him home, they’ve unleashed “Metta World Beast” and it was time to divide and conquer. I can’t wait to see what he does.
He played for several teams so you wouldn’t have to be embarrassed anyway. I’m just a little NBA crazy, that’s the only reason I knew so much about him and he won his ring with the Lakers, my son’s favorite team, well used to be. The day Kobe Bryant retired, I actually called my son (at his college) to make sure he was ok. Maybe my family needs some of Metta’s mental health connections too.
Maybe Metta can give these houseguests some business cards of his mental health speaker friends.
Omg, hilarious Alda and a very good idea.
I don’t like James because he’s so full of himself and a know it all but he’s wearing me down! His attitude towards the game itself and his never quit optimism is going to make me root for him a little. He’s giving me no choice! Damnit Joshua!!
Have to agree with you again Mel. I’m starting to like him more too. I think what made me start is that he is a direct contrast of Shannon. From the beginning I said I hoped Ross or Shannon would win. I’m starting to lose faith in Ross because he spends so much time with Marissa, he’s almost beginning to sound just like her…and she drives me nutz. I lost faith in Shannon when she went from a fighter to a quitter. Can’t stand that. Things change in that house from day to day. Hell, from hour to hour. And as long as you’re still in the house, you have a chance, no matter how slim. But she’s blowing it…BIG TIME! James never gives up, even when he know they want him out, He’s there to win an not afraid to let them know.
I was a bit disappointed with Keisha too. I understand she has to feed her child. But she knew that when she went to BB. She said the longest she’d ever been away from her was 1 day and she couldn’t stay there for 3 weeks. I’m sure when they signed contracts, it was specific how long they would be in the house, so she accepted the deal when she went in. But, she’s gone now so that’s neither here nor there. *shrug*
I though the same about Keshia. I’m wasn’t knocking the reason but agreed anyone who breastfeed know pumping do 3 or 4 weeks only can cause issues. She’s a single mom trying to bring home the bacon and she isn’t a fan of the show, probably didn’t know how seriously we take this shit. She may have thought she’d five it a try and if it didn’t work, she’d leave with her initial pay and still have a good paycheck for a couple weeks work. I blame CBS for casting her to begin with or at least not running those boobies thru some major tests and obstacle courses before they let her in. I mean, she isn’t the name that Omarosa is, no big loss if they had replaced her with someone else.
CBS wanted her around because of the Cosby scandal, hoping for a #metoo and more publicity…
I just realized, with Steve back doing his blogging and not needing my help anymore, I’ve become the Marissa of the comment section!
Which one is Marissa?
The loud little short one
The one who talks constantly and say “like” all the time.
Ha too funny Mel, as long as my computer doesn’t make that horrible Marrisa screech when I read your comments I’m ok
I’ll mute myself if that happens!
Nope Mel, you’re doing just fine. I missed the last 2 days of BBAD and the boards, so I had to do a cram session this afternoon. Enjoyed reading your’s and everyone else’s updates and comments. You and Steve keep us informed and give us something to laugh at with your insights.
These feeds being down all day is killing my flow. I hope it’s the black box or my personal favorite: the slippery slope. I would love to watch that train wreck.
If anyone is interested Cody and Jessica have made it to the final four on Amazing Race.
Hog, I couldn’t stand Jess and Cody when they were on BB, but I’m loving them on AR. Never thought I’d hear myself say this, but I’m even rooting for them to win. Funny how sometimes when you see someone in a different scenario, you see them in a different light. Cody wasn’t cut out for BB, but he’s right in his element on AR.
I’m that way with Brandi. I never liked her as a housewife and was sooooo glad when they kicked her off. I actually like BB Brandi and never thought I would type that, ever.
Yeah they like having their fate in their own hands a lot more.
I can’t say I like Brandi, but as with Cody, I couldn’t stand her as a housewife, but she’s in her element here. She’s still messy but she owns what she does and makes no apologies for it. I do wish she’d stop using her kids as an excuse for the money though. She needs it for herself. Eddie and Leeann have primary custody of her boys and she gets alimony and child support for the times she has them. But hell, I even like Omarosa better in the BB house than turned loose on the real world.
Reddit source says 3 hg’s done with comp and 3 still in. Also said Omarosa asked for medic during this comp too.
If she’s going to act like she’s on death’s doorstep after every comp, maybe her ass SHOULD go home. *rolling eyes*
Wouldn’t it be funny, bad, wrong and right if they couldn’t get rid of Shannon again because of something like that. Lol
I’m kind of hoping for that. Not that I’d miss Shannon, but just to see her stick around and watch everyone go crazy because she won’t go. I wouldn’t mind if they got rid of that hyena Marissa though. Mark is just another piece of furniture to.
I can’t buy the helpless, I’m so sick act from O. It’s not a good look on her. If they don’t get rid of James or Shannon, I hope they dominate the rest of the HoH and pick them off one by one!
Nk, do you have any idea about what time the feeds went down? I was curious if it might be close to over or if should just give up on the idea of bbad tonight.
After keeping my nosey ass up all night last season, I didn’t get the feeds for this BB. I only have BBAD, here and Jokers to rely on. I haven’t checked Jokers foday so I don’t know what time they went down. I’m hoping BBAD Live comes on within the next hour or I might not make it. I’m getting sleepy…lol
There’s a new thread, and Gerardo’s acting up already…,,LOLOL
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Feb 26 2018 10:30 - 13:00
Town Hall Hotel & Apartments, 8 Patriot Square, E2 9NF London
Mothers Meeting meets Digital Mums: How to make the pixels pay
When: Monday 26 February, 2018
Time: 10.30am - 1pm
Where: The Town Hall, Patriot Square, Bethnal Green, E2 9NF
Transport: Nearest tubes: BETHNAL GREEN TUBE
Have you ever thought ‘I wish I had a £ for every minute I spent on Insta?’ Do you wonder how you can use social for good, or to turn a passion into a paying project? Or do you spend hours lusting over your favourite influencers’ lifestyles?
Well, we can’t promise to turn you into a social superstar overnight but what we can promise is a stellar line-up of women who have made a pretty picture out of social, whether as a social media manager, influencer, small business owner or blogger.
And who better to host an event all about making money on social, than pioneers in social media training and flexible work champions, Digital Mums. Digital Mums specialises in digital education programmes that equip mums with in-demand social media skills so they can find flexible and rewarding work around their family. They’ve trained over 1,250 mums to date and 7 in 10 of those have found flexible work just three months after graduating.
Digital Mums’ co-head of storytelling and journalist, Rachel Mostyn, will be chairing the following panel of social stars to reveal the secret sauce to making the pixels pay:
Steph Douglas (AKA @steph_dontbuyherflowers)
Nicola Washington (AKA @toomuchmotheringinformation)
Nicola is a tea-loving lapsed reader whose love affair with social media started in 2015. Instagram, Twitter and Facebook are now firmly in place as the third, fourth and fifth wheels in her relationship, and as the founder of TM[M]I Social she pretends it's all business whenever her long-suffering Mr casts a sidelong glance her way. Nicola also blogs about stuff she cares about, is Chief Servant to two small people, is the co-founder of Make Motherhood Diverse and a Digital Mums graduate.
Jo Love (AKA @lobellaloves)
Jo Love is the founder of Lobella Loves, an online marketplace packed with beautiful treasures for your little people. But behind the digital shop front there is much more, Jo has successfully used social media to rapidly build a thriving business designed to make a difference and support mums suffering with mental health issues.
Vickie Neave (AKA @inpolife)
Vickie is the fantastically funny @inpolife on Instagram which stands for In No Particular Order. Every day is a different juggle in no particular order with four children, a growing business, two labradoodles and one husband. Please note not in order of preference. That changes daily. As well as keeping her fans entertained with hilarious insights into her world, including her January #inporun where she ran with a different influencer every single day - yes, EVERY day - Vickie also finds time for her beautiful business #justaline prints.
Anna Jones (AKA @foxjonesprandsocial)
Anna is a Birmingham based mum to Martha, 4 and Olive, 2. She’d worked in the field of Communications for around ten years and loved her job. After her first maternity leave, she coped with fitting being a mum into the mix but after her second child, she just couldn’t make it work. She felt she was trying to fit the square peg of her old job into the round hole of her current life. So, in April 2017, she started training with Digital Mums on their Social Media Management Course. Anna graduated in October, adding her up to date social skills to her former PR experience and has now launched a successful freelance career - matching her former pay.
What you’ll get out of it:
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So today is my 12th day on the Velocity diet and I decided to upload a couple pics of maybe the 3rd or 4th day in to have some pics from starting the diet. I will definitely upload more at the end, even in the 3rd or 4th day I had seen some definite changes, so Im excited to see the changes overall in the end. I honestly thought Id struggle, but I am a man of routine so this has been perfect.
I know what each day is going to be like and I know what I am going to eat and when. Very structured which is what I need. You do get hungry, but its nothing a large glass of water does subdue for a period of time. I’ve found drinking black coffee, or even putting black coffee in with my shakes has helped me stay focused and has kept my energy levels up.
The first week I definitely struggled with the lifting sessions. The short rests were a huge change from my 1-1/2 min rest periods that usually go with my strength building style of lifting. The 2nd week was much better and I had much more energy, feel like my body is adapting well and starting to get on board with the program.
NEPA walks have been great, usually do them in the morning on lifting days, since i lift after work, and after work on off days. Burn an extra 350-400, although who knows how accurate those calorie monitors on treadmills are.
My advice so far would be that if youre going to do this you dont to prepare yourself and treat it like some big challenege, but to make sure you are in the right state of mind, that you really want to achieve great results in a short period of time. Its not an everyday struggle, it was small adjustments made to fit my lifestyle to this program.
I truly believe this could work for everyone. You will be more tired, you will feel like you have slightly less energy (depending on how much coffee you supplement with haha) and the lifting sessions will take a week to get used to. In the end its well worth any inconveniences (i find it more convenient to be honest) or struggles you run into. I will update this on weight progress at the end of week 3 and add pics with progress weight st the end of week 4.
Right now I started between 198-200lbs (depending on scale and time of day) and am down to 186-187lbs. I am sure some is water loss, along with glycogen stores in my muscles but I can also certainly see changes in the mirror, and at the end of the day if you like what you see in the mirror thats what counts.
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Cloud application marketplace, Wireline, together with New Lab on November 28th announced that they would host DECENT.org‘s developers’ workshop blockchain developers’ workshop “Intro to Ethereum Programming” on December first in Brooklyn, New York.
Those who attend the workshop can expect to gain an understanding of blockchain concepts, basic smart contract programming skills using Vitalik Buterin’s Solidity coding language, how front-end apps can interact with Ethereum.
“Blockchain technology and smart contracts are enabling developers to experiment with decentralized designs at a new level. We’re thrilled to sponsor this workshop and are looking forward to exchanging knowledge with like-minded creative software engineers.” commented Wireline co-founder Lucas Geiger.
DECENT.org Co-Founder Péter Petrovics said, “Decentralization enables social collaboration on a scale unprecedented in human history. We believe that it will transform the world into a more inclusive and safer place. We feel just as excited about taking an active part in this as we were back in the early days of the Internet.”
The Event will be at New Lab, and if you’re in New York you can sign up here to catch it. Spaces are limited.
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…my bad?
I could write many reasons and excuses for why I’ve forgotten about this blog, but it wouldn’t make up for the 6 + months of no posts. So, let’s try this again.
Spring is supposed to come with March, but since I live near Chicago that means more snow is on its way! Still, Spring cleaning can be done and as I start to throw out the old and integrate the new, I’m thinking some rebranding is in order.
In the last 6 + months I’ve been promoted from news intern at WGN Radio 720 AM to fill-in morning drive news producer, then to fill-in talk show producer, then to talk show producer for Dean Richards Sunday Morning. This may will be a year since I started at WGN and a lot has happened not only to myself but to the station as well! The new FM station 87.7 FM The Game had its debut and there’s talk of more changes as the year progresses…who knows where I’ll be in another 6 + months!?
But…I’m still not satisfied. It might be because I am my own worst enemy and critic, but I never feel like I’m doing ENOUGH in putting myself out there and letting the media community and well, the world community know who Caitlin Fry is: what talents I have, why you want me on your team, and why you should be fighting to have me on your side!
So, any suggestions that the WordPress world has about tweaking this site to be more unique, eye-appealing, and kick ass – please feel free to leave your brilliant ideas in the comments section.
As for now, I’ll do my best to not let another 6+ months go by without a post, and hopefully have some witty, funny, and entertaining things to say in the near future.
Thanks for sticking with me! (I’m assuming your still reading, but I forgive you if you’ve started trolling on Pinterest or Instagram…that shit is addicting!)
Here’s an adorably cute penguin video as a reward for getting to the end:
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Institute of High Energy Physics (IFAE)
The Institute of High Energy Physics (IFAE) was founded in 1991 by a consortium of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). IFAE has two main divisions, experimental and theory, which develop frontier research in Fundamental Physics, and a third division developing Applied Physics. The Institute is placed in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Campus and it is a member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). IFAE is involved in different outreach activities, as well as promotes initiatives such as the education web app “Gamma Ray Hunters”. IFAE is involved in international experiments like the ATLAS project at the LHC, the T2K neutrino experiment in Japan, the MAGIC telescopes in La Palma and the Dark Energy Survey project in Chile, among others. IFAE also work at the cutting edge of detector technology developing new instrumentation like telescope cameras and detectors for medical imaging.
- 2017 – IFAE joins the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)
- Since 2013 – “Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence” seal by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain.
- Since 2013 – “Human Resources Excellence in Research” seal from the European Commission.
- 2012-2016 – H-index value 114.
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We’re reaching the end of the Treat Yo Self project and as I’ve looked back over the year, trying to plan out the end, I wanted to make sure my activities didn’t become redundant in the final months.
Coming up with these adventures is not as easy as it might appear, and as I’ve said before Salt Lake City is not exactly a bottomless well.
But I was talking to someone the other day who told me about having their star chart read. It occurred to me that with the exception of yoga, I’ve had relatively little exposure to new-age, meditative and spiritualistic therapies.
So I looked for a place where I could have my fortune told, and I invited my friend Lia to come along.
I met Lia two years ago through a religious congregation that we were both attending at the time. I had recently moved back to Utah and she, myself and two other friends became a social unit, much like a mixed gender and less-boozy Utah-ized version of Sex and the City.
Lia’s a total Samantha. I don’t actually know what that means.
She’s OK.
We checked in at Crone’s Hollow for our appointment and Lia went first while I perused the shop’s selection of crystal balls, incense, candles and birch bark.
Her reading went well over her allotted 20 minutes, but then it was my turn to pass through the beaded doorway of a makeship velvet tent set up in the shop’s lounge area.
Crone’s Hollow employs a number of readers, with names like Starfyre and Lady Luna, who specialize in various methods of divination.
Our guy was a card reader named Rob.
Rob gave me the choice of the tarot deck, which he said is more emotional and esoteric, or the Lenormand deck, which is more literal and external. I’m a literal guy. I’m certainly not esoteric.
He asked me what I wanted to talk about and I gave him the usual response: work and relationships. Then he proceeded to lay out a square of nine cards (the “Nine Witnesses” he said), which represented my ambitions and aspirations (the top row) and what I have the most control over (the bottom) moving from the past (the left column) to the present (the center column) to the future (right column).
But he also made sure to emphasize that no matter what the cards said I still possess free will. “The cards are not set in stone,” Rob said. “The future is plastic.”
We talked a lot about what I’m looking for in love and in life and Rob advised me to live in the present, be genuine and not worry about things I can’t control.
It was interesting and pleasant but I remain a skeptic. I’m not sure it takes a gift to tell someone to be assertive at the office and sincere in the bedroom.
Properly pampered, Lia and I headed over to Curry Fried Chicken to conduct our interview over some shwarma.
Wood’s Stock: Who are you and what do you do?
Lia Bliss: My name is Lia Bliss. I work as a hairdresser and I work at a women’s gym and I am a mom.
WS: Was today your first tarot reading?
LB: It was absolutely not.
WS: Are you a frequent…reader?
LB: Readette?
WS: Readette.
LB: I have my own tarot deck so I’ve done my own. I’ve gone to the farmer’s market and had some done and I’ve had friends of mine who are fairly clairvoyant do them, but nothing as serious or professional as today was.
WS: So you’re a believer?
LB: Totally. I’m deep in.
WS: Walk me through today, what it was and what you did.
LB: Like when I woke up this morning?
WS: No just the tarot reading.
LB: We went to a wiccan/pagan kind of coffee shop supply center and there’s a little booth that You walk into.
WS: That was a great booth.
LB: It was. It was dark and velvety and you feel all mystical. The guy, a bald man with a fantastic goatee, tells you about himself and there’s two different decks that he does. A tarot deck and another one.
WS: Which one did you pick?
LB: The other one.
WS: Lenormand?
LB: Yeah.
WS: Why did you pick that one?
LB: He could tell that it piqued my interest because I didn’t know anything about it. I knew about tarot and he used the same deck I use. So I did the other one.
WS: So at least that part of the experience was new to you.
LB: Totally new. And he did the 36 card spread, the whole thing. And it was interesting because the first three that he laid down he said “Oh, you’re moving soon” and “Oh, you have a soon, not engagement, but renewal of commitment.” Oh do I? Great news! But the way that the deck works, as it was explained to me, whatever is closest to the card representing you are the things you have the most effect on. The further away the less effect.
WS: He arranged mine in a 3 by 3 square. Is that not how he did yours?
LB: No he did all the cards of the full deck and laid them all out. And he told me it’s usually an hour and a half reading but he thought I needed it.
WS: Without telling us too many intimate details, what was your reading? What did he say?
LB: I don’t have necessarily a career to talk about so I wasn’t worried about that. He knew I was moving soon but knew it was just happening. We talked about how me and my boyfriend are very much in line with our timelines. We’re very synced up that way. But I also take on a lot of emotional burden and he was concerned about my physical health. Right next to my card was the representation of physical health in a negative way so he asked if I was OK. He said that I take on a lot of responsibility for the emotions of people around me.
WS: Do you?
LB: Absolutely. 100 percent. When you’re a parent and when you’re essentially a spouse that’s what you do. You take on responsibility for people’s emotions. You want them to be happy. You try to make a loving household. But he said there was a lot of negativity that it was stressing me out so bad it would start affecting my physical health.
WS: Moving away from the tarot reading, you are a woman in society yes?
LB: Correct. I agree that I exist in this society and I am a woman.
WS: I’m a man in society and can’t really comprehend the female experience. What do you think is different about being a woman?
LB: With women there is no right. Regardless of what you do/are/say/believe, you are wrong. If you were to interview a group of women and ask if they see themselves as an accommodating person, the women who say “yes” would be considered a doormat or a pushover and the women who answer “no” would be seen as a bitch or overly aggressive.
WS: Like the idea of how a man is a boss but a woman is bossy.
LB: Yeah.
WS: Would you consider yourself a feminist?
LB: Yes but not in the bra-burning, I hate men, radical sense.
WS: In what sense, then, are you a feminist?
LB: I obviously think women have a place in society and they shouldn’t be kept at home. I didn’t really consider myself a feminist until I read an article about how women exist in public in a male-controlled space.
WS: Like male gaze?
LB: The article described how a woman can walk down the street and an older man will reach out to her and say “Sweetheart, you’re so beautiful, you should smile more.” It’s so degrading and so disrespectful because fuck you, I should be allowed to not smile whenever I want. Just because I’m a woman doesn’t’ mean I need to smile and be pleasant and attend to your, whatever. I’m allowed to have a personality and bad moods and things like that.
Do I get up in arms about the wage gap? No, it’s not my fight. Do I think the rape culture needs to change? Absolutely. I have five sisters. That should not be a thing. But I’m not a crazy person.
WS: What do people who haven’t thought about gender not realize about gender?
LB: I think there are times when women don’t realize what it’s like to be a woman. And that’s almost worse.
WS: Such as?
LB: When I became a mom I had the biggest internal personality shift, which I thought was supposed to happen. But then I had to have this huge intropersonal, introspective crisis basically where I said I can still be a good mother and raise my child nurturingly without necessarily liking to crochet or quilt. I can still like to twerk on the weekends and also sing lullabies to my baby.
WS: We men often see the pressure that women put on another women and it’s quite strong.
LB: I think men inadvertently compare women to each other because they think all women have the same base level. But people are complex emotional creatures and they’re all going to be different. But I don’t think men are necessarily tough on women, I think often it’s a woman versus woman situation and the men are just around because we need them to procreate.
WS: Are we men caught in the crossfire?
LB: Absolutely. We say that we want attention from men, and attention from men is nice, but it’s like how there’s girl hot versus guy hot. Mila Kunis is guy hot.
WS: Oh yeah.
LB: But Lady Gaga is girl hot.
WS: Gross.
LB: Right. Women like crazy painted acrylic nails and men do not give a shit.
WS: So to wrap up, would you recomend that someone do a tarot reading?
LB: Absolutely. It makes you feel better after.
WS: Anything you want to promote.
LB: Health?
WS: Are you on twitter.
LB: Yes @bestliabliss
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Sword and Soul focuses on African history, mythology and locales to craft stories that are uniquely black.
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This weekend, Foreword Reviews announced their Book of the Year Award winners. Congratulations to our winners!
I Love You—Now Hush, by Melinda Rainey Thompson and Morgan Murphy, received a gold medal winner in Humor.
So You Think You Know Gettysburg? by James and Suzanne Gindlesperger, won a bronze medal in Travel Guides category.
Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered, by Kathleen Koch, received an honorable mention in the Regional category.
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Christmas is almost here! Festive lights adorn store fronts, the smell of roasted Heisse Marroni (hot chestnuts) permeate the air and best of all…little Christmas market stalls selling everything from baked goods and Glühwein (mulled wine) to arts and crafts like knit scarves and wooden toys suddenly pop up all over town. Some markets even have live nativity scenes complete with farm animals displayed for visitors.
December is the most festive time of year in Europe and Christmas markets play a significant role in its transformation. Here are some we’ve visited in Europe and loved! Note that some markets may change locations year to year. Mike and I visited these in 2013 & 2014.
Germany
Cologne
Cologne is one of the most popular destinations for Christmas markets. This city hosts 7 different markets, each of them with a unique atmosphere and theme. If you make it to one German city for the Christmas markets, Cologne is highly recommended. Check here for the full guide and map.
The Cathedral Christmas Market is a main attraction, with over 150 pavilions situated around the city’s stunning landmark.
Frankfurt
The Christmas market in Frankfurt is also a good size and ranks high in popularity.
Wiesbaden
Just 40 kilometers west of Frankfurt is the beautiful city of Wiesbaden. The market here is in the center of town, amidst the impressive cathedral, the Marktkirche and the town hall Hessischer Landtag.
All sorts of goodies and crafts!
Idstein
Just a 20 minute drive north of Wiesbaden is the charming pocket-sized medieval village of Idstein. I was pleasantly surprised by the beautifully vibrant timber-framed houses and the 12th century castle that still dominates the old town. Among my favorite if you get a chance to stop by! This market was only open on one weekend in December so make sure you check the dates in advance as it varies each year.
The Netherlands
Amsterdam
In the city center of Amsterdam, located at either end of the Leidsestraat, both Leidseplein and Koningsplein are home to Christmas markets. The ice skating rink at the Leidseplein makes for a good spot to stop and take a break from the shopping madness 🙂 As a bonus, the Bloemenmarkt or Flower Market sells Christmas trees, a perfect place to pick up your living room addition.
Leiden
Only 40 kilometers southwest of Amsterdam, Leiden is like a little sister to the city that needs no introduction. Though the market here is on a smaller scale, it’s unique because the market is located right on the river Nieuwe Rijn, over temporary scaffolding. Because of this, it’s known as the floating market.
France
Strasbourg
Known for the oldest Christmas market in Europe with a tradition that began in 1570, Strasbourg is sometimes called the capital of Christmas. With over 300 stalls over 11 sites, it is indeed something to marvel at. The best thing about this market is all the French baked goodies – beignets, bundt cakes and an endless selection of Christmas cookies! There is also a Christmas tree at the Place Kléber and a skating rink on Place du Château.
Belgium
Bruges
Bruges is one of my favorite little cities in Europe and the Christmas market is no exception. Though the market here is small compared to the others mentioned on this post, it is located in the main square of the city center, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A gorgeous backdrop for Christmas, even without the markets!
The Bruges Christmas Market, located in the city center by the beautiful Provinciaal Hof (Province Court) building
In addition to the Christmas Market, many of the buildings around the city center are adorned in festive decor.
Switzerland
Zurich
Christmas markets literally scatter every little neighborhood in Zurich. The most impressive one however, is at the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, the main train station. With over 150 stalls, it makes for one of the largest indoor Christmas markets in Europe. Every year, the Swarovski Christmas tree takes center stage in the station, the most festive and glamorous tree in the city. 🙂
Christmas is a magical time of year in Europe for adults and kids alike. Despite the freezing temperatures, it’s a great time to visit and enjoy all the festivities (and eat all the goodies)!
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Triple love this crafty idea from Kimara over at Wee Folk Art (one of my favorite blogs for Waldorf-inspired crafts).
Make your own Soy Crayon Eggs for Easter! Similar to the soy-based Crayon Rocks sold at Bella Luna Toys, a carton of these colorful egg-sized crayons is sure to delight any child on Easter morning.
Be sure to visit for instructions on making this delightful and colorful project.
Thank you, Kimara!
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these are gorgeous, love this!
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Moving Made Easy: Moving Tips Checklist [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Save yourself time, money and avoid any last minute hassles by following our moving made easy checklist!
- Make your checklist. Don’t wait to plan the day of your move. Make it easier on yourself and plan ahead so that when moving day arrives, ll you have to do is move!
- Get covered. Make sure you have the appropriate renters’ insurance or home owner’s insurance before you move in to avoid any unforeseen accidents.
- Lighten your load. Not sure what you can do with that lava lamp or silly yard gnome?
- Host a yard sale and use the extra cash towards your move!
- Box it up. Repurpose any durable boxes you have lying around, suitcases or storage bins to pack your stuff.
- Get packing. Use tissue paper, newspaper or old clothes to wrap around any breakable items.
- Move it! Be sure you wear comfortable clothes, ask your friends or family to help, and as a thank you, offer to chip in for lunch!
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Thankfully, most mind mapping tools are built to eliminate this overhead. There seems to be a clear keyboard-based convention for creating mind map. Hit the [INSERT] button for a new child item; hit [ENTER] for a new sibling; navigate with the arrow keys. On my last project (a web mapping application) I opted to design and plan the entire thing with MindMeister. MindMeister is an amazing mind mapping tool, with a powerful collaborative twist. By the time my project entered the development phase, our work plan consisted of about 1,000 action-items - nearly all of them estimated in hours, and none longer than two days. By the time development was done, the detailed work plan of this year-long project had about 14,000 revisions and 1,700 items. That's a big mind-map. When fully expanded, this tree would require you to scroll the screen 20 times in order to see all of it.
The fact that there were so many revisions illustrates how much of the initial plan had to change as the project progressed. That's another thing that's so great about mind maps - editing is so easy. You can turn an entire plan on its head in seconds with a few drag-n-drops. You can delete and throw away the parts that didn't make much sense. You can re-prioritize at will.
The simple ability to visually rearrange your plan on screen quickly is crucial. Plans that are harder to change often remain unchanged and thus ignored. Ultimately, this makes people not want to plan at all. Why bother, right? If 40% of the plan is going to change after only four weeks then just plan ahead for those four weeks and plan a bit more when you get there. If only that were true. The sad truth is that there is immense value to planning ahead as far as you can think, but people hesitate to do so. The price of redoing your serialized plans is simply too high with existing planning tools. Many people miss out on the value of planning ahead because the process is painful, slow and time-consuming.
In fact, I propose that most work plans nowadays end somewhere I call the "screen horizon". Most people have no problem writing plans that fit into one screen, because that's the limit to ultimate quick editing. You can drag, drop, cut and paste very quickly as long as you don't have to scroll your screen too much. But no serious amount of planning can really fit into one screen. This is a real limitation, if you think about it. Your crappy planning tools dictate how far you allow yourself to think into the future. With a better tool you should be able to push that screen horizon forward and plan comfortably until you decide you've planned enough. With a better tool, you wouldn't mind planning further ahead, knowing very well that your plans are bound to change as your project advances. Changing plans is fine, as long as editing your long-term plan is as easy as dragging around items on a single screen.
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The disadvantage of growing plants indoors is that they still need some amount of sunlight. That means you need to place them next to windows that are facing the proper direction so that enough sunlight is received.
What about being able to place plants anywhere in the house you want to? What this would mean is that your plant need not be anchored to a window.
Here are 11 plants that thrive without sunlight and thus are ideal for placement anywhere in the home. However, be warned that although sunlight is not required, bright indirect lighting is.
Dracaena
Available in about 50 species, Dracaena needs an occasional pruning and regular watering. Be sure to keep the plant from direct sunlight and do not overwater.
Bromeliads
A tropical plant that will grow just about anywhere indoors, most varieties of Bromeliads flourish in containers placed in the shade. In fact, this plant even grows well in the luminescent light.
Maidenhair Fern
Featuring dark, glossy leafstalks, this fern needs to be watered frequently, but not overwatered and performs best in indirect sunlight.
Parlor Palm
Excellent as a houseplant, the Parlor Palm grows well in the dim corners of a home where nothing else grows. Although it can be grown in low light conditions, you do miss out of the clusters of tiny yellow flowers when more sunlight is upon it during the spring.
Umbrella Papyrus
Also known as Umbrella Palm, this plant is an evergreen ornamental that thrives indoors or in shady and boggy areas of an outdoor garden. It is very easy to grow and maintain.
Mother-in-law’s Tongue
Also referred to as a Snake Plant, it is very durable and tolerates darkness.
Creeping Fig
A slow-growing creeper plant with small, leathery dark green foliage, it is a dynamic grower with clinging and dense branches that stick to any surface. Don’t overwater. It is suggested that you let the soil dry out before watering.
Calathea
Also known as a Peacock Plant, it is a tropical plant that flourishes in light shade, but requires a some things including a minimum temperature of 55°F and needs a little more maintenance than the other plants described here.
Sword Fern
A beautiful evergreen, the plant should not be put in direct sunlight. It should be grown in acidic soil that is kept lightly moist and its environment should be humid. So mist regularly to maintain humidity levels.
Peperomia
A plant that grows as tall as 6-inches, Peperomia exhibits thick foliage and grows best in slightly moist soil and in humid surroundings. Watering should be reduced in winter and the plant’s leaves should be sprayed to maintain humid conditions.
Devil’s Ivy
Also known as Golden Pothos or Money Plant, it is commonly grown in homes in Asia. It is a vine that is an excellent climber and can be grown in a bathroom, kitchen or living room. An added benefit to the plant is that it cleans carbon monoxide from the air.
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Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, In The Heights is about Washington Heights in Manhattan. It is a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggle can be deciding which traditions to take with you, and which ones to leave behind. With a Latin and hip-hop score, In The Heights is a.
The London Premiere will be directed by Luke Sheppard and choreographed by Drew McOnie. Casting to be announced.
Tickets for In The Heights
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Deutsch the landscape. The best known among the old volcanic vents is the Roque Agando.
Please watch the video here!!!
A paradise for hikers is the national park Garajonay with its evergreen cloud forests located in the middle of the island. About 50 Barrancos (ravines) are meandering from here to the sea. In the national park you find the largest remaining contiguous laurel forest – Laurisilva. It survived only because the Canary Islands were spared from the Ice Age and is part of the UNESCO world nature inheritance.
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Yoga is a light, which, once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
One question most people ask themselves is ‘Who am I?’ . You too must have asked yourself this. Our quest for the self, many people have discovered over the ages, starts with ourselves.
We know that all of us are part of Nature, biologically. But even more important is understand how we are intimately connected with the world around us. And so people are constantly trying to explore this cosmic connection.
Through Yogic Meditation, Pranayama (breathing exercises), Qi Gong (Chi Kung) and a healthy, holistic diet, we understand the path to a better quality of life. For ourselves and our communities.
Yoga is a way of living that aims to transform body, mind and spirit through physical, mental, and spiritual practices. Of the many schools and practices, the most popular are Hatha yoga and Raja yoga.
Yoga originated from pre-vedic yoga-practices of the Buddhist Nikayas in India. Other developments were recorded around 400 CE in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. This sage, who lived in India over 2,200 years ago, wrote treatises on Sanskrit grammar and medicine, apart from his Yoga Sutras, the first written text on yogic philosophy.
The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit yuj, which means ‘yoke’ or ‘union’ – as in “yoking together” of horses or oxen, now applied to the “yoking” of mind and body. Practising the prescribed, time-tested postures, breathing techniques and focused intentions develops harmony, unifying the mind, body and spirit.
Pure traditional yoga incorporates the’eight limbs’ (astanga) or stages of yoga. This eightfold path is sequential. But practitioners of only the asanas often forget that yoga is for cultivating the head and the heart.
“Yoga … develops a feeling of oneness between man and nature, between man and man, and between man and his Maker, thus permitting the experience of a feeling of identity with the spirit that pervades all creation.”
Yoga practitioner & Guru, B.K.S. Iyengar
To reach this level of peace, one needs to practice Yoga in the ideal place and situation. While you can perform the asanas practically anywhere, it helps to have a controlled space where you can focus your internal energies. In fact, a good tip is to use Aromatherapy oils to help in creating such an environment.
As you can see, yoga is in fact, “meditation in action”. It brings us back into contact with the outside world, awakened by the basic understanding that everything and everyone are interconnected, content and happy.
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The Blueberry FamilyFriday, December 19th, 2014 by Jenny Watts
The Blueberry Family
Blueberries, known botanically as the Vaccinium, are one of relatively few native American fruits. This large family of plants has edible berries, most of them are very tasty and healthy as well. They are known by their common names like cranberries, lingonberries, blueberries, huckleberries and others.
Vaccinium plants can be found in nearly all climate zones, but they all require acidic soil. Our native Huckleberry grows wild in the local redwood forests. Other California natives include California red huckleberry, grouse whortleberry and bilberry.
From the Ohelo berry, native to Hawaii, to the lingonberry, native to the northern states, Canada, Scandanavia and Finland, berries in the Vaccinium family are so acidic themselves that they are easy to preserve. They don’t need added pectin to jell, so it is very easy to make jelly and preserves out of them.
Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines with slender, wiry stems and evergreen leaves. They were first used by Native Americans, who discovered the wild berry’s versatility as a food, fabric dye and healing agent. Today, cranberries are commercially grown throughout the northern part of the United States and are available in both fresh and processed forms.
Blueberries are the most popular of the Vacciniums. They are renowned for their health benefits and delicious fruit. The three general types of blueberries are Northern highbush, Southern highbush, and Southern rabbiteye.
Northern highbush blueberries grow 4 to 6 feet tall and have clusters of white bell-shaped flowers in spring, rich green foliage that turns deep red in the fall, and abundant crops of sweet blue berries in midsummer. They are the best known and the largest, sweetest and juiciest blueberries you can grow. These varieties, however, are native to Canada, Michigan and other northern climes. They prefer cool summers, where they have the best fruit quality, but are worth growing in our area in partial shade.
Southern highbush blueberries have an earlier ripening season and grow 5 to 8 feet tall by 5 feet wide. They are all self-pollinating, although the yields are higher with cross pollination. These varieties are suitable for areas from Florida to California because of their low chill requirement and heat tolerance. They grow in full sun or partial shade, and are grown commercially in the Central Valley.
Rabbiteye blueberries are native to the South. They are large bushes growing 6-12 feet tall. They are very tolerant to heat and drought, but need more than one variety for pollination and fruit set.
Blueberries need mostly sun and rich, acid soil that is high in organic matter. A pH of 4.8 to 5.0 is ideal. When planting, add lots of peat moss, equal to 50% of the planting mix. Dig a wide hole and add a couple of cups of soil sulfur per plant.
Blueberry roots are shallow and should not be disturbed. Mulch the plants with 4 to 6 inches of sawdust or compost, but keep it away from the base of the plant. This will keep down weeds and retain moisture. Keep replenishing the mulch all summer. Plants should be kept moist throughout the growing season.
Berries possess a high proportion of antioxidants and vitamin-packed flavinoids, and are among the healthiest fruits you can eat. Blueberries are a wonderful addition to your diet as well as your garden.
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Super7 and Secret Base’s Zombie the 13th is almost here! Counter the bad luck and dark omens of Friday the 13th with a fiendish creation!
Ghost, Franken and ZombieFighters have been slashed, thrashed, mixed-up and mashed to create Thirteen unique unpainted mixed-parts ZombieFighters, unleashed this Friday the 13th!!
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As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain momentum across every industry, there is much excitement about the tremendous opportunity ahead. Yet, there is also a lot of uncertainty about how to best integrate supporting technology into existing IT architectures and operating models. While many executives are still trying to determine how to accurately assess IoT opportunities, the most important question is how to ensure the current IT infrastructure can support such a venture.
According to McKinsey & Company, almost 40% of the IoT’s economic impact requires interoperable systems – opening the door for investments in hardware, software, and service providers. Elements of the current technology stack may need to be redesigned to securely collect, process, analyze, and store massive volumes of data generated from countless sensors, mobile apps, devices, applications, and products. Seamless connectivity and collaboration are essential to handle customer and system requests around the clock and in real time.
Unfortunately, many businesses are facing limited capabilities in implementing IoT solutions in their already-complex architectures. And there’s a good reason: IoT technology is not a simple plug-and-play solution. Just as every industry and enterprise is unique, so is every company’s IT architecture. What’s needed is agile custom development and delivery.
Custom development: A path to realizing the full potential of the IoT
Chances are you have a business process that is similar to others in your industry – such as standard best practices for production operations or regulatory compliance. But, I also bet that you have an exclusive twist on that process to gain a competitive edge. In this case, you cannot tap your IoT potential by just accessing standard industry solutions. You need something that fits your business needs and specialty.
Through custom development, you can use these standard industry solutions as a starting point and then extend and customize them for quick, cost-effective innovation that addresses your specific business requirements. This approach reduces development effort, minimizes costs, and delivers rapid time to value. And as the business evolves and expands, customized applications can be upgraded to mitigate risk and protect your software investment over time.
Take Trenitalia, for example. Two million passengers and thousands of businesses rely on Italy’s primary train operator every day. Operating one of the fastest trains in the world is quite a challenge when you consider that everything must run quickly, especially the ability of Trenitalia’s maintenance facilities to react rapidly to operational stresses. Through co-innovation with SAP Custom Development, Trenitalia was able to deeply transform their end-to-end maintenance operations from the core and throughout the system – extracting and transmitting endless data daily through onboard concentrators over the ground network and analyzing it all in real time. By raising its technology standards, the company is improving its quality of service, increasing ridership and corporate contracts.
Whether you business is in the middle of its own digital journey or about to start, waiting for the “perfect” solution to arrive will not give you a competitive advantage. Through co-innovation, you can develop the one-of-a-kind solution that differentiates your business from the competition through digital transformation.
What are you waiting for?
Find out how SAP Custom Development services can help by attending the interactive session “Raise Quality and Cut Warranty Costs with IoT-Based Predictive Maintenance.”
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No, I am not writing about Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek… but is this maybe where the future will bring us? New technologies around AI and Machine Learning are developing so fast that maybe in a couple of years things will be possible where we have not dreamt of.
But let’s talk about more tangible things: Data is something all retailers possess already today in large quantities – but how can you use them in the most efficient way? There is an interesting article in Bloomberg titled Here’s a Retail Job That’s Still in High Demand: Retail Scientiest that talks more about it.
There is huge demand for educated people to help retailers getting the right conclusions out of this treasure which many people think of as being the most valuable resource: As Clive Humby, UK Mathemetician and architect of Tesco’s Clubcard, said”.
But how can you start with this? According to the Bloomberg post “‘even with the rise of Amazon.com Inc., U.S. consumers still make about 85 percent of their purchases at physical stores.'” That’s an impressive number which is true even more for other countries.
What this also means is that having efficient replenishment processes is still key to staying competitive, and in stores, there is still huge potential for optimization. Predicting consumer demand and using this information in store replenishment, synchronizing further levels and channels in your supply chain is proven to result in inventory savings as well as higher on-shelf availability. By using advanced forecasting algorithms in solutions such as SAP Forecasting and Replenishment and SAP Unified Demand Forecast that learn from data, this task is not tied to a data scientist but can be used right away. Just try! Let’s be friends…
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Topics: Frank Foti, Audio Processing, ear candy
The Telos Alliance is proud to announce that CEO Frank Foti has been named one of only two recipient of two NewBay Industry Innovator Awards as presented by Radio World and Radio magazine.
Topics: Frank Foti, Audio Processing, Broadcast Engineering
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Topics: Omnia Audio, Audio Processing, Frank Foti
In keeping with a company tradition of technology and innovation, the Telos Alliance was recently named a Cleveland Technology Awards Honoree in the Established Tech Firm category. Presented by Smart Business Magazine, the Cleveland Technology Awards recognize Northeast Ohio organizations that develop and implement impactful technology. CEO Frank Foti accepted the honor at a luncheon on March 23.
Topics: Telos Alliance, Frank Foti, Broadcast Technology
IT’S NOT! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
Topics: cavaliers, cleveland, Frank Foti
Think these two topics don't have anything in common? It's amazing how many broadcast engineers are model railroaders, too!
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BHP Seeks Buyer for Australian Coking Coal Complex
BHP Billiton Ltd. is looking to sell its Gregory Crinum coking coal operations in Australia’s Queensland state, after closing one of the mines at the site last year due to falling commodity prices and high operating costs.
The mining company is also, however, investigating ways in which it can keep the mining complex and further extend its mine life. The complex is owned and operated by BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance, or BMA, a joint venture with Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. and Australia’s largest coking coal miner and exporter.
BHP has struggled in recent years with flooding in Queensland and a long-running labor dispute at several mines it owns jointly with Mitsubishi. Like other Australian mining companies, it has acted to protect its balance sheet against a pullback in commodity prices and the high Australian dollar by tackling costs and postponing capital-intensive projects.
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Associated Press: “The trial, scheduled to begin [today] ‘witch.”
Washington Post: The spectacular rise and fall of Paul Manafort.
The Russian government sold the vast majority of its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities from March to May, in a dramatic move that experts tell the Daily Mail is unprecedented.
The Treasury revealed this info two days after the Helsinki summit.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 30, 2018
“The Russian government has sold off the vast majority of its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities for reasons that remain mysterious, in a dramatic move that experts are calling unprecedented,” the Daily Mail reports.
“A U.S. Treasury report released on July 18 shows that Russian holdings of Treasury securities declined by 84% between March and May, down to just $14.9 billion from March holdings of $96.1 billion.”
First Read: ‘Access Hollywood’ video, the attacks on the Khan family, the attacks on Judge Curiel). And it all worked out for Trump and the GOP.”
“But you always want to be more unified — rather than less unified — heading into an election.”
“For years, presidential campaigns followed relatively predictable lines of trench warfare, with the outcome decided in a handful of battleground states. But the era of the hardened electoral map — 40 of 50 states voted for the same party from 2000 to 2012 — may be coming to an end,” Politico reports.
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As the battleground map comes into focus, it’s becoming increasingly clear that some developments of the last few years have taken a big toll on the GOP structural advantage.
— The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) July 30, 2018
Nate Cohn: .”
So much criticism of liberal policymaking is dressed up as a preference for "equality of opportunity" vs. "equality of outcomes." But as @mattyglesias shows here, that falls apart when you begin looking at the actual ideas.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) July 30, 2018
A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges the National Rifle Association violated U.S. law by using a common vendor to illegally coordinate with Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) 2016 campaign as well as the campaigns of Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) in 2014, the Wisconsin Gazette reports.
The complaint says.”
2018’s most important state legislative elections, explained
— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) July 30, 2018
“Democrats preparing presidential runs in 2020 are waging aggressive fundraising campaigns this year, meeting with wealthy donors over private meals and spending millions of dollars to build up their online donor networks,” the Washington Post reports.
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Trump's latest rage-tweets about Mueller and his wall are a reminder:
This election is going to be about Trump's bigotry and authoritarianism.
A new analysis shows House map includes many pro-Trump districts. So juicing Trump base will be key.
My post:
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 30, 2018
Columbus Dispatch: “The Congressional Leadership Fund is among a half-a-dozen independent organizations spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each in what many political observers originally expected to be a ho-hum contest in a decidedly Republican district.”
“With growing signs that the race is close, money raised outside the 12th District is suddenly showing up inside the district.”
Facing down the new Reactionary International: The ties between #Putin and elements of the right — #Trump, the gun lobby and religious traditionalists — should give pause to all conservatives whose first commitment is to democratic values.
My column
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) July 30, 2018
Steve Bannon “tore into the powerful Koch political network Sunday, accusing it of undermining President Trump ahead of a midterm election that threatens to derail his presidency,” Politico reports. Said Bannon: “What they have to do is shut up and get with the program, OK? And here’s the program: Ground game to support Trump’s presidency and program, and victory on Nov. 6.”
Washington Post: Koch network threatens to turn on Republicans.
The government is secretly monitoring ordinary US citizens when they fly
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 29,.”
Why are so many leftists skeptical of the Mueller investigation? pic.twitter.com/nIaqHrB7YQ
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 30, 2018
“Some of the biggest winners from President Trump’s new tax law are corporate executives who have reaped gains as their companies buy back a record amount of stock, a practice that rewards shareholders by boosting the value of existing shares,” Politico reports.
“A Politico review of data disclosed in SEC filings shows the executives, who often receive most of their compensation in stock, have been profiting handsomely by selling shares since Trump signed the law on Dec. 22 and slashed corporate tax rates to 21 percent. That trend is likely to increase as Wall Street analysts expect buyback activity to accelerate in the coming weeks.”
Hackers probed 21 state systems during the lead-up to the 2016 election and gained access to one. But the federal government and states don’t appear to have made great strides to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) July 30, 2018
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So, that makes 2020 the most important election in all history of sentient intelligent life in this galaxy. If a leftist or a liberal stays home or does not vote Democratic in 2020, they should be exiled to Rigel VII. Or launched into the sun.
Why is President Trump so interested in providing his foes in the FBI with cushier headquarters? One theory is that the building mars the view from the Trump International Hotel
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 30, 2018
This from Shep Smith. The important part is at the 8:30 mark, but the whole thing is worthwhile to watch.
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Plasma levels of surfactant protein D and KL-6 for evaluation of lung injury in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients
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- Received: 18 December 2008
- Accepted: 16 February 2010
- Published: 16 February 2010
Abstract
Background.
Keywords
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Lung Injury
- Alveolar Type
- Conventional Mechanical Ventilation
- Lung Injury Score
Background
Acute.
Methods
Patients.
Mechanical ventilation protocols.-.
Results
Patients
Baseline characteristics
Respiratory parameters).
Baseline plasma protein levels).
Plasma levels of pulmonary proteins with different ventilator settings
In the next step we investigated the relation between mechanical ventilation protocol and plasma protein levels. As mechanical ventilation protocols were different amongst patients with and without ALI/ARDS, this analysis was performed for each group separately.)
Discussion.
Conclusions.
Declarations
Acknowledgements
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Long-term exposure to muscarinic agonists decreases expression of contractile proteins and responsiveness of rabbit tracheal smooth muscle cells
© Stamatiou et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
- Received: 2 July 2013
- Accepted: 25 February 2014
- Published: 10 March 2014
Abstract
Background
Chronic airway diseases, like asthma or COPD, are characterized by excessive acetylcholine release and airway remodeling. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effect of muscarinic agonists on the phenotype and proliferation of rabbit tracheal airway smooth muscle cells (ASMCs).
Methods
ASMCs were serum starved before treatment with muscarinic agonists. Cell phenotype was studied by optical microscopy and indirect immunofluorescence, using smooth muscle α-actin, desmin and SM-Myosin Heavy Chain (SM-MHC) antibodies. [N-methyl-3H]scopolamine binding studies were performed in order to assess M3 muscarinic receptor expression on isolated cell membranes. Contractility studies were performed on isolated ASMCs treated with muscarinic agonists. Proliferation was estimated using methyl-[3H]thymidine incorporation, MTT or cell counting methods. Involvement of PI3K and MAPK signalling pathways was studied by cell incubation with the pathway inhibitors LY294002 and PD98059 respectively.
Results
Prolonged culture of ASMCs with acetylcholine, carbachol or FBS, reduced the expression of α-actin, desmin and SM-MHC compared to cells cultured in serum free medium. Treatment of ASMCs with muscarinic agonists for 3-15 days decreased muscarinic receptor expression and their responsiveness to muscarinic stimulation. Acetylcholine and carbachol induced DNA synthesis and increased cell number, of ASMCs that had acquired a contractile phenotype by 7 day serum starvation. This effect was mediated via a PI3K and MAPK dependent mechanism.
Conclusions
Prolonged exposure of rabbit ASMCs to muscarinic agonists decreases the expression of smooth muscle specific marker proteins, down-regulates muscarinic receptors and decreases ASMC contractile responsiveness. Muscarinic agonists are mitogenic, via the PI3K and MAPK signalling pathways.
Keywords
- Airway smooth muscle
- Acetylcholine
- Carbachol
- Phenotype
- Proliferation
Background
The airway smooth muscle is implicated in the pathological process of chronic airway diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [1]. These diseases exhibit common features like increased parasympathetic activity and acetylcholine release [2], or airway remodeling [3]. Airway remodeling comprises changes in the composition, quantity and organization of airway wall components as consequence of chronic injury and repair of the airway epithelial–mesenchymal trophic unit [1, 4]. The increased thickness of the smooth muscle layer could enhance shortening, leading to increased airway narrowing and airflow obstruction [1].
ASMC cultures are a mixed population of cells exhibiting variability between contractile and synthetic-proliferative phenotypes [5]. The distinction between ASMC phenotypes is based on the different expression of proteins implicated in the contraction mechanism, proliferation ability and protein synthesis. Synthetic-proliferative ASMCs appear to proliferate, while the features of contractile ASMCs are similar to those of the cells normally present in intact airway tissue [4]. Different stimuli drive the transition between the different ASMC phenotypes. Although the mechanism involved is not yet well understood, evidence supports the hypothesis that the p42/p44 MAPK pathway is involved in the shift of ASMCs toward a less contractile phenotype [6–9]. On the other hand, serum deprivation increases the percentage of cells that exhibit the “contractile phenotype” in ASMC culture [10]. The shift of ASMCs from synthetic-proliferative to contractile phenotypes is attended by a decrease in M2 and a parallel increase in M3 expression [11].
ASMCs express abundant Gi coupled muscarinic M2 and Gq coupled M3 muscarinic receptors [12, 13], stimulation of which leads to the activation of the MAPK and the PI3K signalling pathways [14]. M2 and/or M3-receptor stimulation by muscarinic agonists could affect ASMC proliferation, but until now muscarinic receptor agonists have been reported to be mitogenic for ASMCs mainly in combination with growth factors [11, 15], acting through M3 muscarinic receptors [11]. On the other hand, the effect of muscarinic agonists on ASMC phenotype and in consequence their ability to proliferate has not been thus far fully addressed. In the present study we investigate the effect of prolonged cell incubation with muscarinic agonists, acetylcholine or carbachol, on phenotype shifting and cell contractility of ASMC obtained from rabbit trachea. We also studied the mitogenic effect of muscarinic agonists on ASMC in relevance with their proliferative or contractile phenotype.
Methods
Animals
Adult rabbits were maintained in individual cages in a controlled environment and were provided with food and water before use for the study. Animals were treated in compliance with ethical and institutional guidelines. All protocols were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences of University of Thessaly. Rabbits were euthanised by an overdose of intravenously administrated Pentothal (Abbott, Abbott Park, IL, USA).
ASMC isolation and culture
The isolation of ASMC from adult rabbit trachea was done as previously described [16]. Briefly, tracheal smooth muscle was epithelium denuded, dissected from cartilage and washed in low Ca2+ Krebs solution (139 mM NaCl, 5.4 mM KCl, 1.47 mM MgSO4, 11 mM glucose, 1.47 mM KH2PO4, 2.8 mM Na2HPO4, 1.4 mM NaHCO3, 0.2 mM CaCl2). Tracheal smooth muscle was digested in 2 ml of low Ca2+ Krebs solution containing 0.25% bovine serum albumin (BSA), 2 mg/ml collagenase I and 10 U/ml elastase IV, for 30 min at 37°C with vigorous shaking. Then it was washed in low Ca2+ Krebs solution, centrifuged (1000 rpm for 10 min) and incubated for 45 min in low Ca2+ Krebs solution containing 0.25% BSA, 1 mg/ml collagenase I and 20 U/ml elastase IV. Dispersed ASMCs were washed and centrifuged (1000 rpm for 10 min) twice in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium/Ham/F12 (DMEM/F12) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 g/ml streptomycin. The isolated ASMC were placed in culture flasks and grown at 37°C in a humified incubator under 5% CO2.
Study design
Isolated tracheal ASMCs were serum starved by incubation in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium/Ham/F12 (DMEM/F12) containing 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 g/ml streptomycin, as indicated, and treated with the muscarinic agonists, acetylcholine (ACh; 10-7 M-10-3 M), or carbachol (CCh; 10-9 M-10-5 M). The effect of the muscarinic agonists on the ASMC phenotype was studied using optical microscopy, as well as indirect immunofluorescence, and Western blot analysis with anti-smooth muscle α-actin mouse monoclonal antibody, anti-myosin (smooth) clone HSM-V mouse monoclonal antibody and anti-desmin rabbit polyclonal antibody. The density of muscarinic receptors on ASMCs was studied with [N-methyl-3H]scopolamine binding on isolated cell membranes and the effect of acetylcholine and/or carbachol on the contractile ability of individual ASMCs in culture was estimated by counting the cell area before and after muscarinic agonist treatment in the presence or absence of atropine.
Cell proliferation was estimated using the methyl-[3H]thymidine incorporation, the MTT-Cell Titer 96® AQueous One Solution Assay (Promega) and Trypan blue cell counting methods. In the MTT cell proliferation assay, the optical density (OD) of cells incubated in serum-free medium (24 h) was used as control (set at 100%). Results are presented as percentage of OD of the control cells, while the DNA synthesis is presented as cpm of radioactive material incorporated in ASMCs. The possible involvement of PI3K and MAPK signalling pathways was studied using the pathways inhibitors LY294002 and PD98059 respectively.
Cell culture treatment
ASMCs were trypsinised, counted and seeded into appropriate cell culture plates. They were allowed to adhere overnight, washed twice with phosphate buffered saline (1XPBS) and pre-incubated in FBS-free DMEM/F12 medium, containing 100U/ml penicillin and 100 μg/ml streptomycin. ASMCs were incubated in serum free medium for 1 or 7 days, and incubated in 10% FBS-containing medium or serum free medium in the presence or absence of increasing concentrations of the muscarinic agonists; acetylcholine (10-7 M-10-3 M) and carbachol (10-9 M-10-5 M) as indicated. Specifically, cells were incubated with ACh (10-7 M) or CCh (10-9 M) in morphology observation and thymidine incorporation experiments, with ACh (10-5 M) or CCh (3 × 10-7 M) in contractile phenotype marker protein expression, M3 muscarinic receptor expression and cell proliferation experiments and with ACh (10-3 M) or CCh (10-5 M) in responsiveness experiments. The culture medium was replaced every 3 days, during the incubation periods. For the study of the possible involvement of PI3K and/or MAPK signalling pathways, LY294002 (20 μΜ) and PD98059 (100 μΜ) inhibitors were added in cell culture medium 15 or 60 min prior to the addition of the muscarinic agonists, respectively.
Cell morphology
Cell morphology was observed with a reverse microscope Nikon Diaphot 300 (Nikon Inc., Melville, NY, USA).
Indirect immunofluorescence
Cells were plated onto glass slides, which were resided in culture plates and treated as indicated above. After the treatment, cells were fixed with PBS-3% formaldehyde and permeabilized with PBS-1% Triton X-100, blocked in PBS-0.1% Tween 20- 3% BSA and incubated with anti-smooth muscle α-actin mouse monoclonal antibody (1:1000, Sigma), anti-myosin (smooth) clone HSM-V mouse monoclonal antibody (1:1000, Sigma) and anti-desmin rabbit polyclonal antibody (1:1000, Sigma), followed by incubation with an anti-mouse IgG or anti-rabbit IgG antibodies conjugated with CY3. Finally, coverslips were mounted on Vectrashield solution containing DAPI for DNA staining and the percentage of the cells that expressed α-actin, SM-MHC (Smooth muscle-Myosin Heavy Chain) and desmin proteins was estimated.
Western blot analysis
Cells were lysed in 20 mM Tris-Cl pH 8.0, 150 mM NaCl, 1% Triton X-100, 1 mM dithiothreitol, and 100 mg/mL-1 phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride. Total cell extracts were cleared by centrifugation (10000 g for 20 min at 4°C). 40 mg of protein were analysed in 10% sodium dodecyl sulphate–polyacrylamide electrophoresis gel and transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane. Western blot analysis was performed using anti- smooth muscle β-actin mouse monoclonal antibody (1:5000, Cell Signalling), anti-smooth muscle α-actin mouse monoclonal antibody (1:1000, Sigma), anti- myosin (smooth) clone HSM-V mouse monoclonal antibody (1:1000, Sigma) and anti-desmin rabbit polyclonal antibody (1:1000, Sigma). Membranes were then incubated with horseradish peroxidase conjugated anti-rabbit IgG (1:3000, Cell Signalling) or anti-mouse IgG (1:3000, Cell Signalling), and signals visualised by enhanced chemoluminescence (ECL).
[N-methyl-3H]scopolamine binding studies
The binding of [N-methyl-3H]scopolamine ([3H]NMS) was done as previously described [17]. Briefly, ASMCs were serum deprived for 24 h and then incubated for 3, 7 or 15 days with 10% FBS, ACh (10-5 M) or CCh (3 × 10-7 M). Control cells were incubated in serum free medium. Cells were lysed by scraping in buffer (25 mM Tris-HCl, 2.5 mM CaCl2, 1 mM PMSF, 1 mM Pefabloc and 10 μg/ml aprotinin). Cell extracts were homogenized with 5 strokes in a Heidolph Silent Crusher S (Heidolph Instruments GmbH & Co. KG, Germany) and the homogenate was centrifuged at 10000 g for 5 min at 4°C. The supernatant was diluted up to 11 ml in assay buffer (10 mM HEPES, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM MgCl2) and centrifuged at 150000 g for 30 min at 4°C. The pellet was then resuspended in assay buffer and subjected to sonication for 5 sec. 30 μg of protein was added in the reaction, along with 5 nM of [3H]NMS. Nonspecific binding was estimated by the presence of 100 μM atropine. After 80 min of incubation in order to allow radioligand binding only to M3 receptors [17], the samples were filtered through GF/B filters (Millipore) using a Millipore vacuum filtration system (EMD Millipore Corporation, Billerica, MA, USA). Before radiation counting in a Wallac β-counter, filters were dried overnight and incubated in Ultimate gold XR (Perkin Elmer) scintillation fluid for 1 h at RT.
Contractility studies
ASMCs were grown to confluence in culture plates and incubated 3-15 days in serum-free medium, or medium containing 10% FBS, acetylcholine (10-5 M), carbachol (3 × 10-7 M). The cells were washed twice with phosphate buffered saline (1xPBS), and then incubated for 5 min with trypsin-EDTA solution, in order to detach myocytes from the substrata. The detached cells were incubated with acetylcholine (10-3 M) or carbachol (10-5 M) for 5 min. Photographs were taken before and after cell treatment, in a phase-contrast microscopy Nikon Diaphot 300 (Nikon Inc., Melville, NY, USA) with Leica DFC480 Camera (Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany). The ratio of total cell area before and after treatment was measured using the Image J programme. To confirm that contractile shortening responses were the direct result of ACh or CCh stimulation, atropine (10-6 M) was added in control experiments before ACh or CCh exposure.
Cell proliferation studies
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DNA synthesis in airway smooth muscle cells was estimated by measuring methyl-[3H]thymidine incorporation. Methyl-[3H]thymidine was added in the culture medium the last 18 h of incubation. The counts per minute (cpm) of the radioactive DNA were counted using a Wallac scintillation counter. Cells incubated in serum free medium were used as negative control in each experiment. The proliferating capability of cells was evaluated by positive controls, which were cells incubated in 10% FBS.
- (B)
The number of airway smooth muscle cells was estimated using the Cell Titer 96® AQueous One Solution Assay (Promega) method as previously described [18]. The absorbance of the MTT formazan reduction product was measured at 490 nm with a reference at 630 nm in an ELISA plate reader. The measured optical density (OD) is reminiscent of the cell number in the well, since there is a linear response between the measured OD and cell number (data not shown).
- (C)
Cell number was estimated by direct cell counting, using the Trypan blue method. Trypan blue dye was added to ASMCs detached and suspended in 1ΧPBS solution and live cells that did not absorb the dye were counted using a Neubauer slide.
Data analysis
In ASMCs contractility studies each point represents the mean value of 5 cells, while in [3H]NMS binding and cell proliferation experiments each point was performed in triplicate. In immunofluorescence experiments the percentage of cells expressing the contractile proteins was estimated by counting the cells that were fluorescent, as well as the total cell number as indicated by DAPI staining. Image analysis of the images obtained from the Western blotting and the contractility studies was conducted with the use of MacBiotronics Image J programme for Light Microscopy (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA) and results were expressed as intensity values or as percentage of the initial cell area, respectively.
All data are expressed as means ± SEM and N refers to the number of independent experiments. Differences between means were analysed by Unpaired t-test with statistically significant differences between groups being determined by Mann-Whitney test. A comparison was considered significant when P < 0.05. The statistical analysis was performed using Graph Prism.
Results
The effect of muscarinic agonists, acetylcholine (ACh) or carbachol (CCh), on ASMC phenotype
Long-term treatment with muscarinic agonist affects ASMC morphology. ASMCs were incubated for 30 days in serum free medium (control) or medium containing 10% FBS, ACh (10-7 M) or CCh (10-9 M) and their morphology was examined by optical microscopy (magnification × 20). The arrows are pointing at cells exhibiting synthetic phenotype.
Muscarinic agonists reduce the expression of smooth muscle α-actin in ASMCs. A. Western blot analysis with anti-α-actin and anti-β-actin antibodies in total protein extracts from ASMCs incubated for 15 days in serum free medium (control) or in medium containing 10% FBS, ACh (10-5 M) or CCh (3 × 10-7 M). B. Quantification of α-actin expression normalized to the expression of β-actin presented in A. C. Specific α-actin α-actin in C. Ν = 4 independent experiments. *P < 0.05 compared with control.
Muscarinic agonists reduce the expression of contractile phenotype marker desmin in ASMCs. A. Western blot analysis with anti-desmin and anti-β-actin antibodies in total protein extracts from ASMCs incubated for 15 days in serum free medium (control) or in medium containing 10% FBS, ACh (10-5 M) or CCh (3 × 10-7 M). B. Quantification of desmin expression normalized to the expression of β-actin presented in A. C. Specific desmin desmin in C. Ν = 4 independent experiments. *P < 0.05 compared with control.
Muscarinic agonists reduce the expression of contractile phenotype marker smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC) in ASMCs. A. Western blot analysis with anti-SM-MHC and anti-β-actin antibodies in total protein extracts from ASMCs incubated for 15 days in serum free medium (control) or in medium containing 10% FBS, ACh (10-5 M) or CCh (3 × 10-7 M). B. Quantification of SM-MHC expression normalized to the expression of β-actin presented in A. C. Specific SM-MHC SM-MHC in C. Ν = 4 independent experiments. *P < 0.05 compared with control.
The effect of muscarinic agonists on muscarinic receptor expression
The effect of muscarinic agonists ACh and CCh on N-methyl-[ 3 H]scopolamine ([ 3 H]NMS) specific binding. Rabbit tracheal ASMCs were incubated for 3-15 days in serum free medium (control) or medium containing 10% FBS, ACh (10-5 M) or CCh (3 × 10-7 M). Specific binding was calculated using 5 nM of [3H]NMS in triplicate for each condition. #P < 0.05 compared with cells serum starved for 3 days. *P < 0.05 compared with the respective control.
The effect of muscarinic agonists on ASMCs contractility
The effect of 3-15 days of incubation with muscarinic agonists ACh and CCh on ASMC responsiveness. A. Cell responsiveness to ACh (10-3 M) or CCh (10-5 M) in the presence or absence of atropine (10-6 M). B-D. ACh (10-3 M) and CCh (10-5 M)-induced contractions of rabbit tracheal smooth muscle cells cultured as indicated in serum free medium (control), medium containing 10% FBS, ACh (10-5 M) or CCh (3 × 10-7 M) for 3 (B), 7 (C) or 15 (D) days. Cell responsiveness to ACh or CCh was estimated as a percentage of the area of cell measured 5 min after the addition of ACh or CCh in cell medium to the initial area before the addition of muscarinic agonist. *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 compared with the respective control.
The effect of muscarinic agonists on ASMC proliferation
Muscarinic agonists increase the methyl-[ 3 H]thymidine incorporation in ASMCs. Involvement of PI3K and MAPK signalling pathways. Rabbit tracheal ASMCs were serum starved for 24 h and then incubated with ACh (10-7 M) or CCh (10-9 M) alone and in the presence of the PI3K pathway inhibitor LY294002 (20 μΜ) or the MAPK pathway inhibitor PD98059 (100 μΜ). Methyl-[3H]thymidine incorporation was measured after 48 h of incubation with the muscarinic agonist. **P < 0.01 compared with control. #P < 0.05 compared with the effect of muscarinic agonist alone on methyl-[3H]thymidine incorporation.
Muscarinic agonists increase ASMCs number. Rabbit tracheal ASMCs were incubated for 7 days in serum free medium before the addition of the muscarinic agonist in the culture medium for the indicated time. A. The effect of 1-5 days of incubation with 10-5 M ACh or 3 × 10-7 M CCh on rabbit tracheal smooth muscle cell number estimated with the MTT-Cell Titer 96® AQueous One Solution Assay (Promega) method. B. The effect of 3-15 days of incubation with 10-5 M ACh or 3 × 10-7 M CCh on rabbit tracheal smooth muscle cell number estimated with Trypan blue method. *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 compared with the respective control.
The involvement of PI3K and MAPK signalling pathways on the muscarinic agonists induced proliferation of ASMCs. Rabbit tracheal ASMCs were incubated for 7 days in serum free medium before the addition of either FBS (10%), ACh (10-5 M) or CCh (3 × 10-7 M) for 24 h with or without either PD98059 (100 μM) in A or LY294002 (20 μM) in B. **P < 0.01 compared with control. #P < 0.05 and ##P < 0.01 compared with the effect of control, 10% FBS or muscarinic agonist alone on cell number.
Discussion
In airway smooth muscle, muscarinic agonists may activate signalling pathways such as the Rho kinase, PI3K or MAPK pathways [2]. Since the MAPK pathway is involved in modulation of ASMCs toward a less contractile phenotype [6, 7, 10], we hypothesized that muscarinic agonists could affect ASMC phenotype. Indeed, we found that rabbit tracheal ASMCs subjected to prolonged (30 days) incubation with ACh or CCh switched to a proliferative phenotype, i.e. cells appeared flat, similar to that observed in ASMCs cultured in the presence of 10% FBS. Accordingly, indirect immunofluoresence, as well as western blot analysis experiments demonstrated that this “induction” of a proliferative phenotype was accompanied by a significant decrease in the expression of the contractile phenotype markers α-actin, SM-MHC and desmin. To our knowledge, this is the first study reporting that muscarinic agonists induce the shift of ASMCs toward a proliferative phenotype. Our results are in agreement with a previous study by Gosens et al. [20] who showed that prolonged treatment with the muscarinic agonist methacholine of bovine tracheal smooth muscle strips in organ-cultures diminished the expression of myosin and actin.
Furthermore, there are studies indicating that the switch of ASMC phenotype from proliferative to contractile caused by incubation in the absence of FBS is accompanied by an increase in M3 expression [11]. Accordingly, our results demonstrate that the ACh or CCh induced shift of the cell phenotype towards a proliferative one, was followed by a decrease of the M3 receptors density, as shown by decreased [3H]NMS binding in cells incubated with ACh or CCh for 7-15 days. Evidence suggests that agonists may induce phosphorylation and internalization of muscarinic receptors [21]. In our study, the down regulation of M3 receptors of ASMCs was accompanied by decreased responsiveness of isolated cells, incubated for 3-15 days with muscarinic agonists, to ACh or CCh, due probably also by the decrease of smooth muscle protein expression. These results are in agreement with results obtained from contractility studies demonstrated that long-term methacholine pretreatment of bovine tracheal smooth muscle strips decreased maximal contraction and sensitivity to methacholine [20]. In vivo studies revealed increased cholinergic tone in asthma [22] and clinical studies showed that the addition of anti-cholinergic drugs to the corticosteroid or long-acting β2-agonist treatment is beneficial for asthmatic patients [23, 24]. On the other hand in vitro studies performed with bronchial smooth muscle from asthmatic patients showed that the altered airway responsiveness seen in asthmatic patients is not reflected in airway smooth muscle sensitivity in vitro and that the sensitivity to carbachol was significantly reduced in tissue from asthmatic patients [25, 26].
Even though a more proliferative phenotype was induced by muscarinic agonists, this phenotype is not necessarily associated to increased proliferative capacity, since each phenotype has different expression of proteins, as well as receptors that affect the activation of signalling pathways that are involved in the proliferation process. We studied the proliferative effect of muscarinic agonists ACh and CCh on ASMCs that were serum starved for 24 h or 7 days. According to our results and previous studies [5], 24 h serum starved cells express mainly the proliferative ASMC phenotype while 7 days serum starved cells express an increased percentage of ASMCs with contractile phenotype. We found that ACh and CCh increased [3H]thymidine incorporation in rabbit tracheal ASMCs, serum starved for 24 h before muscarinic agonists addition (Figure 7), but did not affect cell number (data not shown). On the other hand when cells grew in serum free medium for 7 days prior to the addition of ACh and CCh, both muscarinic agonists significantly increased cell number (Figures 8 and 9). This effect was transient since no further increase was observed after 24 h (2-15 days incubation with muscarinic agonists). These results suggest that the mitogenic effect of muscarinic agonists depends on the ASMC phenotype. Although, in airways, muscarinic agonists have a proliferative effect on fibroblasts [27, 28] until now available data demonstrate that stimulation of muscarinic receptors is not sufficient to induce ASMC proliferation, but the synergetic muscarinic receptor stimulation with growth factors may cause an induction of mitogenesis [29]. However, our results demonstrate that the mitogenic effect of muscarinic agonists may depend on ASMC phenotype, since it seems reasonable that the decrease of M3 receptor expression in cells cultured in the presence of FBS, ACh or CCh is responsible for the weak mitogenic effect of muscarinic agonists.
It has been reported that the stimulation of muscarinic receptors in ASMCs activates the PI3K or MAPK pathways [3]. However, the PI3K pathway inhibitor LY294002 reduced [3H]thymidine incorporation induced by ACh, while MAPK pathway inhibitor PD98059 reduced [3H]thymidine incorporation induced by CCh. These results suggest that whereas the stimulation of muscarinic receptors may cause the [3H]thymidine incorporation in rabbit tracheal ASMCs via either PI3K or MAPK pathways, these pathways are activated differentially by ACh and CCh. Both ACh and CCh are agonists of all muscarinic and also nicotinic receptors. Although the main difference between ACh and CCh is their resistance to the cholinesterase activity, some data suggest that acetylcholine and carbachol interact with different muscarinic receptors [30, 31]. However both LY294002 and PD98059 abolished the effect of ACh and CCh on ASMC number suggesting that although ACh and CCh may activate PI3K or MAPK pathways differently, the activation of both pathways is required for ASMC proliferation.
Conclusions
In conclusion, muscarinic receptor stimulation may shift ASMC phenotype to “proliferative”, reduce ASMC responsiveness and have a transient mitogenic effect, via MAPK and PI3K pathway signalling, depending on the ASMC phenotype. These results may have clinical significance given that in chronic inflammatory airway diseases increased acetylcholine release is observed in a periodical pattern, for example during asthma attacks [2]. Therefore, the presence of acetylcholine in the airway can lead to alteration in the ASMC phenotype that makes them more prone to be affected by growth or inflammatory factors present in the airway in such diseases, and lead to increased proliferation rate. Both the phenotype shift and the increased proliferation can lead to the ASMC hypertrophy and hyperplasia, which are characteristics of airway remodeling. Furthermore, there are studies that propose that muscarinic agonists have an immediate effect on airway tone, since they can increase the contractility of isolated ovine tracheal strips [2, 32–34]. This acute effect of muscarinic agonists on airways, accompanied by changes in ASMC phenotype and induction of cell proliferation under prolonged incubation, indicates the significance of muscarinic agonists in the physiology and pathophysiology of airway function.
Abbreviations
- ACh:
Acetylcholine
- ASMC:
Airway smooth muscle cell
- BSA:
Bovine serum albumin
- CCh:
Carbachol
- COPD:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- DMEM/F12:
Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium/Ham/F12
- FBS:
Fetal bovine serum
- MAPK:
Mitogen activated protein kinases
- SM-MHC:
Smooth Muscle Myosin heavy chain
- PI3K:
Phosphatidyl inositol kinase.
Declarations
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by a grand from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, Germany.
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High hand flat in the heart of Annecy's old town - Apartments for Rent in Annecy, France
Entire home/apt in Annecy, France. Exceptionnal appartement renovated recently, located in the heart of the old town of Annecy. This accomodation has a private bedroom and a private balcony, orientated south, in a quiet little street. Fully funished, this place is heaven to discov...
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- undercoverjoan
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Ill probably get grilled for this but I HAD to after seeing several cheating posts recently.
An ex of mine moved in with me and I was SURE he was planning on cheating on me on a planned trip away for a 30th that I wasnt invited to.
I was also paying for EVERYTHING (he suddenly became unemployed and didnt contribute to a thing).
Lots of alarm bells were ringing and I kept slagging myself off saying “dont be such a paranoid idiot etc etc”
Rule one, if its nagging you, somethings up. particularly if there are dodgy goings on with phones etc.
BUT!!!
he may be planning something else other than straying so keep your mind open!
That said, if he’s treating you badly and your at the point where theres nothing left but bitterness (as was my case by this point) heres what I did..
I disabled the phone access elsewhere except the bedroom and installed a bug there.
He left for his trip when I was at work, when I got home I heard everything. How his friends had rigged up a girl for him, how big her boobs were, how FUNNY it was that I’d cried and apologised to him for suspecting him of cheating..
My reaction:
Had many drinks and spent the night with close friends, crying, laughing and feeling very much supported YAY!
The next day, I recorded the incriminating comments onto my answering machine and then called where he was supposed to be staying.
surprise surprise, he wasnt there. Had apparently gone down to the er shop. at um 7am..
He called back an hour later and the answering machine was on.
He returned to his car packed full of his belongings and parked out front of his parents home – where he’d moved from.
Now THATS sweet revenge :))))
Edit: added my first poll!! WHOO HOO!!!
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A diverse team of lifelong surfers and passionate paddlers, based in Carlsbad, California.
Since its origins in the early 90’s, Boardworks has continued evolving to become one of the top Stand Up Padde (SUP) and surf companies in the world. In our early days, we partnered with notable shapers in the SUP and surf industry, including Stewart, Ben Aipa, Bruce Jones, Rusty, Infinity Surfboards & Hynson..
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In addition to our numerous award-winning BOARDWORKS-branded products, including recreation, touring, and inflatable SUPS, we also offer ROGUE – a line of high-performance boards used by our professional SUP racing and surf team riders. Rounding out the line are CRNT, our intermediate & performance surfboard-only line, and FROTH, foam-covered surfboards offering fun designs for kids of all ages. With these brands, we boast a collection of watercraft whose diversity is unmatched. Come see for yourself!
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Beyond the horizon.
Every day we challenge ourselves to stay ahead of the curl. Never satisfied in our pursuit of state of the art, our team has focused on reshaping the entire line of boards for 2018 with an eye on innovative design and eco-friendly technical construction.
Inspired by our winning ROGUE race team, we are continually researching and developing board shapes to improve stability, performance and fun across our entire line. At BOARDWORKS, we thrive on creating superior products that make surfing and stand-up paddle enjoyable for everyone, both new and seasoned, in the water-loving community. After all, we live water.
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Pharmacy Mall is one of the earliest drugstores. It started its services in 1997. Since inception, Pharmacy Mall has served over a million customers with the majority of customers leaving a trail of good reports. Pharmacy Mall deal with a mixture of generic and branded name medicines, they also offer both prescribed and over the counter medicines. Pharmacy Mall stores hefty products, in Pharmacy Mall you can get all the drugs that you want or think off. Drugs sold by Pharmacy Mall are from India. Pharmacy Mall gets their medicines from renowned manufacturers such as Sun Pharma, Sunrise Remedies, Fortune Healthcare and Cipla.
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Parallel 49 Brewing in Vancouver BC has released a new juicy IPA called Hazy Train.
Using a malt bill of pilsner, wheat, oat, and victory malts, this IPA supports big hop aromas with a creamy mouthfeel and subtle notes of toasty biscuit. Heavily dry-hopped with Mosaic, Galaxy, Columbus and Centennial, the hop profile is of tropical and citrus fruits, and the additional use of Mosaic Lupulin powder punches up the fruity notes to a even higher level.
Hazy Train 4-pack tall cans are now available only in the P49 beer store, while supplies last!
ABV 7% | IBU 59
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Entry Name: Bell House
Listing Date: 20 December 1960
Last Amended: 24 July 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1285462
English Heritage Legacy ID: 316895
Location: Box, Wiltshire, SN13
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Box
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Box
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
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Just two days after the announcement of Oregon facing Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl, the Ducks football program may have lost their coach as multiple reports have confirmed that coach Willie Taggart will be taking the head coaching position at Florida State University.
BREAKING #Oregon’s Willie Taggart is expected to become the next head coach at #FSU, source tell me.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 5, 2017
Sources: Oregon’s Willie Taggart has agreed to become Florida State’s coach
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) December 5, 2017
I can confirm that Willie Taggart is leaving to be the next coach at Florida State. UO sources confirm.
— John Canzano (@johncanzanobft) December 5, 2017
He will replace former coach Jimbo Fisher who left the Seminoles program to take over the Texas A&M head coaching position.
According to Sports Illustrated, Taggart had a good situation in Eugene but he couldn’t pass up an opportunity to go back to Florida, where he had coached previously at USF for four seasons before heading West to take over the Oregon Football program last year.
He was 7-5 as the head coach of the Ducks.
This leaves in question who will be coaching in the Las Vegas Bowl against Boise State.
We will keep you updated on who that may be leading up to the bowl game on December 16th.
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Other Notes:
- Last season it was reported that Boise State coach Bryan Harsin had interviewed for the Oregon Ducks job opening. Taggart ultimately won the job.
- Boise State will face Taggart (If he keeps his job) and the Seminoles at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, FL on Saturday, August 31st of 2019.
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I might get a little weird about revealing my ever-increasing age to my 20-something coworkers, but one thing I am NOT shy about is my love for 80s music, so I’ve been looking forward to the Lost 80s Live happening at the Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island this Friday night, August 3, basically all summer. The lineup is gonna get any Reagan-era MTV junkies fired up, and features Flock of Seagulls, When In Rome, Wang Chung, Nu Shooz, and more classic musical acts from the decade of excess. Is it worth a ride out to the end of the subway line to see The Promise performed live, followed by fireworks on the boardwalk? To me, it’s a no brainer, but it certainly helps that tickets start at $20. Grab some of your fave valley girls and bodacious dudes and treat yourselves to a dose of some pure nostalgia and high-octane cheesiness. And read our August concert picks for more shows to pencil in this month.
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DH S1E5: Everybody Wants Something
Aired: 1989
So, Erica is still not dressing like her normal self, but she seems to be making it okay. She’s still sticking to greys and such, almost as if she is trying to lay low. But she’s smiling a bit more, and there’s that famous shot of her in her underwear, enjoy, everybody! I am glad she came equipped with pants on the day she was forced to beat Liz’s ass. That scene gets me so pumped. I only wish Erica had gotten a few more shots in. Sorry, I know, violence is not the answer, but I gotta say, that was a really satisfying moment. Idk why I didn’t save any screenshots from it, it was probably too blurry.
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Breakfast
Sometimes eating a balanced meal first thing in the morning can be the difference between a good day and a bad day. At Fraser Residence Budapest we value the health and well-being of our guests and have a special dining area for breakfast.
Our Breakfast room with garden terrace (partly covered and heated) offers a different location to sit and relax in the morning before your day starts. The sumptuous buffet breakfast is something not to miss. Our rich and quality breakfast and freshly squeezed detox juice of the day will give you the energy you need to kick-start your day. With local specialities on offer too, our guests will find something for breakfast they just can’t say no to.
With the impeccable service of our staff and the freshly ground coffee we are definitely a breakfast venue you won’t forget in a hurry.
- Opening hours: Monday to Friday: 07.00 -10.30 / Weekends: 07.00 – 11.00
Whether you’re visiting us for leisure or a business conference, take advantage of our breakfast hall and all the special facilities we have for guests of Fraser Residence Budapest.Close
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U Go Auto Sales located at 1195 E Western Reserve Rd in Youngstown, OH services vehicles for Auto Repair. Call (330) 707-9886 to book an appointment or to hear more about the services of U Go Auto Sales.
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U Go Auto Sales is located at 1195 E Western Reserve Rd, Youngstown, OH. This business specializes in Used Car Dealers.
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The best marketing departments know that adopting new platforms early on could give them a considerable advantage over the competition. Not too long ago, snapchat was that platform, attracting thousands of additional impressions for brands. As a marketing specialist, it’s not too late to start your snapchat marketing efforts. Respectively, the platform is still young and growing. There is plenty of opportunity to grow your brand. Follow this guide to marketing on snapchat and you will be able to earn advertising for free through this social media platform.
Start Sharing Images
In the beginning, you can get started marketing on snapchat by uploading images of your company or brand. If you already have a blog online, you can reuse the licensed images (as long as you have permission to do so) and post them to your snapchat account. Before uploading the image, you can have a virtual employee add text, quotes or headlines to help the image get more attention. This is a simple, quick and easy way to get your snapchat marketing profile started.
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Tell Genuine Stories About The Brand
Once you have a decent following, connect with your customers by telling stories. You probably already know that brand building is all about story telling and getting people to create an emotional connection with your company. Follow this same philosophy when you are marketing on snapchat. In the age of the customer, your posts should be about something that people can relate to rather than a promotional post. In order to get the best engagement, ensure that your snapchat campaigns tell a story.
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Another way to increase your snapchat marketing effectiveness, partner with influencers on the platform. If they are willing to endorse your products or mention your snapchat profile, it could be mean thousands of new followers for your brand. More so, it could lead to direct business and increased cash flow for the company. By tapping into the networks of snapchat influencers, you could grow your following very rapidly.
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While it could take some time to build up a quality profile, snapchat marketing should be a long term investment. You should focus on continuously updating the quality of your content and connection with followers. It is a gradual process that can eventually lead to a large pay off. However, you have to be patient. Once you have put in the upfront work, you will find that your photos and videos receive much more traffic. Then, one day, you will have your first viral post. When it happens, it will have been worth the wait.
It’s a marketers job to leverage platforms to grow brand awareness and identity. If you would like to get started marketing on snapchat, follow this guide. You should start simple, uploading images to your account. Then, start to connect with your current customers and tell a story. After a while, you should be ready to leverage connections with influencers. Eventually, your snapchat marketing will lead to viral content to earn free media attention.
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Trisha Leary
It’s a challenging, tightly regulated world for banks these days, so it’s hard to overestimate the importance of auditors. But let’s hear Tom Senecal, president and CEO of PeoplesBank, tell it.
“I formerly served as the CFO, so I know how important financial audits and risk-mitigation efforts are to our safety and security,” he noted by way of explaining why Trisha Leary was promoted from Risk Oversight officer to vice president of Internal Control. “Trisha is the person our leadership team turns to for information on federal and state banking regulations, risk management, and related reporting.”
Leary started her career in a different corner of the financial-services world, as an accountant with Wolf & Co., primarily focusing on banking. “That’s how I got into banking,” she said. “I started auditing banks from a public perspective, then came to be the internal auditor here. I focus on policy and procedure, and make sure we’re doing what we say we’re doing.”
In doing so, she gets to interact with every department in the bank. “We’re looking at everything from the teller line to financial statements, making sure everything is in line; we get to see how everything operates, and it’s interesting. I get to work with a bunch of great people.”
Like most PeoplesBank employees, Leary also has one foot firmly planted in community service, volunteering for the United Way Day of Caring — her projects have included revitalizing a rec room at the YMCA of Greater Springfield, restoring and painting fences surrounding Wistariahurst Museum, and landscaping and cleaning up Forest Park Zoo — and serving as treasurer for Girls Inc., a cause especially close to her heart.
“I’m honored to be on the board,” she said of the nonprofit, which provides girls with opportunities to reach their full potential through programs in STEM studies, leadership development, and life skills, among others. “I have two girls myself, and I see the impact this organization has on girls’ lives.”
Leary also volunteers for the bank’s social committee, employee appreciation committee, and holiday committee, but finds it most gratifying to reach out to the community.
“As fun as it is being an auditor, it’s more satisfying when you can go out and help others,” she added. “The bank is very good about allowing opportunities for getting involved; it’s something we pride ourselves on. There’s a lot of satisfaction in that.”
—Joseph Bednar
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“This growing trend should be a welcome sight for the NFL,” said Glenn Lovett, president of global strategy at Repucom.
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The NFL’s video distribution has become more sophisticated in recent years where as well as deals with television broadcasters, the league also offers ‘Game Pass’, a subscription online service offering various packages for live games.
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David Tossell, Director of Public Affairs for NFL International, Europe, said the research showed similar trends to the league’s own in-house studies.
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“The Game Pass product means that even in markets without a television deal we are able to promote and expose the sport around the world,” he told Reuters.
Reporting by Simon Evans; Editing by Ken Ferris
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PARIS, (Reuters) - Frenchman Lloyd Mondory has failed an out-of-competition test for the banned blood-booster EPO, the UCI said on Tuesday, the third positive case involving his AG2r-La Mondiale team in recent years.
“The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that it has notified French rider Lloyd Mondory of an Adverse Analytical Finding of EPO in a sample collected in the scope of an out-of-competition control on 17 February 2015,” the UCI said in a statement.
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MPCC regulations state that a team must suspend themselves from racing for eight days in the case of multiple positive tests in the past 12 months.
Mondory, 32, finished seventh in the Clasica de Almeria this season.
The Astana team, who have had multiple positive tests recently, could have their World Tour licence withdrawn this month after the UCI recommended its Licence Commission to do so.
Reporting by Julien Pretot
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