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Now that I’d made my mistakes and realised how to get a manhole card, I was determined to get my first one quickly. A lot of people had given a portion of their life to indulge this new hobby in one way or another, so I wanted to make sure it hadn’t all been in vain. I jumped online and began to search for my first card. Of the Tokyo batch, a certain one caught my eye—a baby pink lid featuring the adorable cartoon monkey “Monchhichi.” When I saw that this card was available in Shibamata—a place I’d been coveting for some time—I made a resolution to go. Minutes later, I’d enlisted my pal Kiki in the day trip and entered the planning phase. Ie. do not stuff this up AGAIN.
Despite what my initial scattergun approach to manhole card collecting may suggest, I can get type-A when I need to. I was once so confused by 10 Airbnb options for a group trip that I made a comparative spreadsheet which detailed the differences and counted votes. In this case, I wanted to make sure we’d get the card, find the manhole and visit the ‘must-sees’ of Shibamata before we had to get back to relieve Kiki’s dogsitter. Sounds easy, right? Well, it would have been, if Shibamata wasn’t so friggin’ amazing.
A little about Shibamata
Shibamata is located in Katsushika Ward, a 25-minute train ride east of Asakusa. It sits on the banks of the Edogawa (Edo River) with Chiba prefecture on the other side; as such, it is literally on the eastern edge of Tokyo. It’s what’s known as a ‘Shitamachi’, or downtown, neighbourhood. As is the case with these neighbourhoods, everything centres around the main shopping street. And in my research, I learned that this one was a good one with plenty of unique snacks and experiences to check out.
The neighbourhood is also widely known as the home of this guy:
Tora-san is the main character in the Guinness World Record-holding film franchise ‘Otoko wa tsurai yo’, or ‘It’s hard being a man.’ This lovelorn travelling salesman graced screens from 1969 to 1995, all the while romanticising his hometown of Shibamata. So much so, that the town has become a household name and even features a statue, merchandise and a museum about old mate.
Arriving in Shibamata
After a slow start, I met Kiki on the train and began the hour-plus journey to Shibamata, filling her in on all the things we were about to see. When we arrived, the bronze statue of Tora-san greeted us and we stopped for a few pictures before continuing our mission.
We were standing in the street, adjusting cameras and checking Google maps, when a lady from a nearby souvenir store wandered over with a map, asking where we wanted to go. “Actually, uh..” I started, “We’re looking for a…manhole card?” Her reaction was quick and intense. She barked with laughter, slapped her thigh and exclaimed “MANHORU KADO?!”. Suddenly we were all laughing. She wiped the tears from her eyes and told us to go to the info centre a few doors up. As we reached the doorway, with no word of a lie, we could still hear her laughing to herself.
Getting our Manhole Cards
We wandered in and the staff member adjusting brochures turned to greet us. “Anou…”, I proceeded, “…manhoru kado ga arimasuka?” (translation: Um, do you have manhole cards?). She looked like she had received a small zap, her eyes widening. It was clearly not what she expected us to say. ‘Oh, yes we do!’ she exclaimed, rushing behind the counter. She reached down to get two cards, placed them on the blue plastic change tray and slid it toward us.
I really can’t remember the last time I got so excited about such a small thing. You know what they say about small minds, I presume? The next minute or so was kind of a blur, but I was sure to let her know it was our first card and that we were so happy. She even let me take a photo of her presenting the card to me.
Monkeying about, Monchhichi style
We had a whole day ahead of us but I already needed to sit down and collect myself. Across from the tourist information centre, we sat down for a celebratory late morning beer and edamame. The old man at the table beside us gave us a knowing nod—we knew how to Saturday. Over our snack, we studied our cards and talked Monchhichi.
This little monkey character was first created by a local Katsushika ward company called Sekiguchi co. It began with the stuffed toys in 1974 and soon grew to global fame when they were picked up by Mattel in the US. They even had TV shows made in the US and France.
As such, it’s no surprise that this local monkey was chosen as the manhole design for Katsushika ward. The Information Center staff also told us to look out for the Monchhichi designed bus, souvenirs and even the Monchhichi Park which was the site of the former factory.
From googling the map coordinates on the front of the card, we saw that the actual colourful manhole lid was kind of far away—at Shin-Koiwa Train Station. That’s 33 minutes by public transport or an hour’s walk, for those playing at home. We’re no strangers to long rambles so thought we’d be fine as long as we kept an eye on the time. The only problem was…we had no idea how much we would want to stay and enjoy Shibamata.
Standing up from our morning beer, we were positively giddy. The large gate signifying the start of the town’s shopping street stood ahead but our eyes were drawn to an old-fashioned lolly shop to its left. Inside was an absolute carnival. Arcade games, floor to ceiling lollies, retro imagery and a shooting gallery. We regressed to children for a spell, and Kiki let her Texas out to play, unfortunately missing every shot at the shooting gallery.
Next, we explored the Taishakuten Sando (帝釋天参道), or approach to Taishakuten Temple. This charming street is something straight out of the Edo period (1603-1868). It’s a short 200m but feels much longer due to the abundance of old fashioned shops selling senbei (rice crackers), soba (noodles), sweets (…candy) and souvenirs (…still going, er..nic nacs). There’s also, supposedly, great unagi (eel) here. As it’s endangered and I feel weird about eating it, I looked elsewhere for my next snack.
My eye happened to land upon an elderly gentleman spinning kusa-dango (mugwort dumplings) on a tiny grill.
These mochi get their colour and flavour from yomogi (Japanese mugwort) which I think tastes similar to shiso or mint. They also feature on the famous tri-coloured sanshoku dango.
Kusa-dango is a popular snack in Shibamata and typically sold topped with anko (red bean paste). Mine, though, came fresh off the grill, rolled in flaked seaweed. Hot, chewy, salty, sea-flavoured…who’s with me?!
We happened to be visiting Shibamata on a Sunday, which meant we could see the candy makers at Matsuya no ame do their thing. The two chefs rhythmically tap their cleavers on the chopping board and eventually feed the length of candy along, snipping it into bite-sized pieces. The rhythm draws a crowd and has earned it (and Shibamata) a place among the 100 soundscapes of Japan—one of only four in Tokyo.
Founded almost 400 years ago in 1629, this Buddhist Temple is the heart of the neighbourhood. At its entrance stands the Zuiryu-no-matsu pine tree, said to be around 500 years old—perhaps the reason the temple was built here. Inside the main hall, we stare in disbelief at the intricate wood carvings seemingly on every surface. A long-haired Japanese guy catches our eye and grins cheekily as he points above our heads. A giant oni (devil) design stares back.
Back outside, we head behind the main hall and pay 400 yen to access Soshido Hall and its Japanese garden. This ticket also gives access to the ‘wood carving gallery’ which we thought we’d seen already. How wrong we were.
The garden is an ‘important cultural asset’—of which there are many in Japan—and makes for a peaceful stroll.
Next on our tour were the famous 3D wood carvings completed between 1922 and 1934. If I wasn’t left so speechless, I would summarise them in a word. Our experience was further elevated by one of the Buddhist monks who chanted along to a rhythmic instrument. By this point, we were pinching ourselves. Where were all the tourists…?
Yamamoto-tei tea house
Our next stop was the Yamamoto-tei tea house, last renovated in 1930, a short walk through some residential backstreets. We paid a tiny 100 yen entrance fee and ordered some tea and snacks at the counter, before snagging a table in a room with a garden view. Our quiet conversation is gently interrupted by the sound of stringed instruments from the next room. I wander over to find a full performance taking place. Another pinch.
Back at our table, we do a little people watching. Ahead of us, a couple on a date sit side by side, kneeling at their low table, both quietly reading. The girl is bolt upright, holding her book with two hands, while her date reads one-handed, the other hovering a millimetre off her waist.
By this point we were already past our deadline but there was so much more we wanted to see. We figured we should just choose the most important thing to us, which happened to be the Yagiri-no-Watashi, a ferry dating back to the Edo Period (1603-1868). The sound of this creaky boat that transports people across the Edo River between Tokyo and Chiba, is another honourable mention in the soundscapes of Tokyo list. We arrive to find we’ve just missed a boat, but can luckily hear the creaky sounds of the captain steering it for a minute or so, until it rows out of earshot.
Completing the mission: finding the manhole
As we no longer had an hour to stroll across town to the manhole, Kiki suggested a taxi. Both decadent and necessary. We zoomed past countless amazing shops and neighbourhoods—all earmarked for a future visit—finally arriving at Shin-Koiwa Station. We hunted around the station’s bus zone until we saw the pink Monchhichi lid on the pavement, right in front of a shop’s entrance.
It was the moment of truth, where I’d take my first card+manhole shot for Instagram. We took turns shooting photos and videos while a stream of pedestrians flowed around us, wondering what the big deal was. Finally, we started our hour long return, to rescue Kiki’s dogsitter from the rescue dog’s separation anxiety.
I was content, not only in finally getting a manhole card but for having found a great new place to recommend to visiting friends and family. As I rode the rails home, all I could think about was where my next manhole hit would come from.
Manhole Card Address: Shibamata Tourist Info Center
Ask: “Manhouru kado ga arimasuka?” (マンホールカードがありますか？)
Manhole Location: In front of this building.
Distance between: Roughly 5.5km (~1 hour walk or 35min walk to Koiwa Station and 3mins/1 stop to Shin Koiwa Station


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- Millions of Consumers Getting a Credit Score Boost August 15, 2018Sweeping changes in how several credit reporting agencies factor negative financial information is prompting millions of consumers’ credit scores to increase.
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Guatemala is one of the top destinations for short-term mission trips, and certainly American Christians who go on those trips to build houses or teach children to read mean well. Those efforts often do help individual people. But they do not bring about the long-lasting and structural changes that are necessary for justice for indigenous Mayans.
A short-term mission project may feel good for the Americans who go to Guatemala, but partially finished efforts and two-week “relationships” actually mean abandoning the very people missions projects set out to “help.” Often the things American Christians bring to give Guatemalans are not the things they need, and many of these things can be bought in Guatemala, so bringing them actually takes money out of the Guatemalan economy. Building churches and hospitals can take jobs away from the Guatemalan citizens who desperately need them. Local people and groups can also usually do these things much less expensively than outsiders.
It’s true that most Christians going on these trips have good intentions, however misinformed they might be, but I also wonder how many of them ignore this kind of information because it robs them of the chance to feel like a savior or deprives them of a photo op.
In what may be the most controversial part of the article, Shaw writes,
Significantly, mission projects can also undermine a cornerstone of Mayan resistance — indigenous religions. As subjects of long histories of colonization under so-called Christian empires, many Maya have held onto their own religious practices and draw strength from them for resistance. The very act of practicing their indigenous religions is an act of resistance against colonialism and racism.
That’s a hard pill for evangelicals to swallow. The very point of missions trips, besides supplying medical care and other necessities, is to create disciples. Which means evangelizing the people who are citizens of these countries.
I remember taking a seminary course on the history of missions trips and being struck by that very fact: Is it “loving” of Christians to leave indigenous peoples in their religious traditions, knowing the eternal consequences? That was the beginning of my deconstruction period, during which I forced myself to confront what I believed about God and figure out what was more important: correct beliefs or righteous living.
I haven’t completely settled that matter for myself yet — but it’s my hope that the Baptists who read this piece will take Shaw’s words seriously and start that thought process themselves.
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Have you created and designed a website for your business, thinking you’re all set? Think again! Time and time again, many common mistakes find their way onto business websites. Even the slightest error or oversight can disrupt the flow and prevent traffic from reaching your website (which you certainly don’t want). Precision and attention to detail are essential for a business website, as every little thing matters! Before you launch your website, here are ten things to consider, as modifying a few things can make a big difference!
Can Your Clients Actually Find You? (SEO)
You’ve likely heard about SEO on the Ambrose Marketing website, and we assure you, it’s something to pay attention to. Writing great content for your website is one thing, but if hardly anyone sees it, that’s a whole different story. SEO improves visibility in search engines through proper keywording, resulting in increased traffic. Rewriting your content specifically for Google traffic can result in a significant increase in customer enquiries. That’s why SEO is absolutely vital. Ignoring it could lead to a treacherous journey to discover your link organically.
No Proof Of Social Media
We hope your business has a social media presence; if so, it is clearly linked and displayed on your website. Clients from a younger demographic interested in your service are more likely to search for you on social media or find your website’s links to review your content. Because this is now the norm, not having proof of a social media presence can be a huge red flag for potential clients.
Not Providing An Alternative Mobile View
When building your website on a laptop interface, it can be easy to forget that you must create an alternate view for those using their phone. Your website may look stunning on a laptop but may appear clunky on a mobile face view. Investing time in building a responsive, mobile-friendly interface extends the usability of your website to even more clients. It’s a win-win!
Website Has Poor Readability
This mistake can take place after sorting out your SEO. You’ve got your keywording and content sorted, but can your clients actually read it? This may seem obvious, but many websites fall into this trap. Colour and font are everything because choosing something visually appealing with a bright colour can be challenging to read. It is not a good idea to prioritise aesthetics over function in your writing because aesthetics and function must be equally balanced. This also goes for the layout and position of your written content. Readability is everything!
You’re Keeping An Old Website
There is much more competition these days than a decade ago, and sticking with an old site with dated images and broken hyperlinks can ruin your brand’s perception. In short, keeping the old website is an enormous, but unfortunately common, mistake. An outdated website isn’t just out of touch with modern advancements; it’s a recipe for bugs and likely a nightmare to navigate on a mobile interface. Patching up an old website opens the door to many problems, so stubbornly sticking to an outdated one isn’t smart. Restarting your website from scratch is the most effective approach!
Your Website Is Inconsistent
The look and feel of your website are expressions of your business, which needs consistent design and content. Each should maintain a distinct vibe from the homepage to service pages and beyond to showcase your business’s unique branding—inconsistencies in colour palettes and fonts across pages can distract users, leading to a disjointed experience. Visual consistency elevates the professionalism of your website, where clients are more trusting to make enquiries.
Oversaturation Of Content
Content is important to have for your website, including links, images, illustrations, animations and more. While these elements add fun, setting limits is a good idea. If there is too much content, your website will look completely overcrowded, and you’ll risk user navigation issues. Oversaturation of content will also detract from your business site’s actual purpose, which is to generate leads! Balancing content with effortless navigation is the golden rule.
Where Are Your Customer Reviews?
Showing off positive testimonials is a great way to earn the trust of new clients. Not showing proof of previous customer satisfaction is an easy oversight, but it makes all the difference when included in your site. You can add reviews to your website by embedding Google reviews, which are typically best positioned at the bottom of a page (make sure to encourage clients to leave a Google review, so you have some handy for display!).
Irregular Content Updates
If your website’s content has yet to be updated since it was built, you’re dealing with outdated information. This applies to videos, reviews, blog entries, etc., because infrequent updates or outdated information may appear lazy to a potential client. You’ll need to add the most recent updates and news to your website to look fresh with relevant content. Visitors will interact more with your website if it contains the most recent content.
Ignoring Data Insights
Data insights are extremely important for tracking the analytics of your website’s audience. You can alter strategies depending on the insights, such as the demographics of your website visitors and the most frequent types of enquiries. Ignoring this data neglects the attention to detail needed to cater to your most frequent visitors.

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Saints finish comeback over Red Devils
NWAACC SOFTBALL - Mt. Hood CC overtakes South rivals in extra innings
A Lower Columbia home run to leadoff the game, and immediately the Mt. Hood CC softball team was in comeback mode. Things stayed that way until the seventh inning when the Saints tied the score to force extra innings.
In the eighth inning, it was finally their time to lead.
A Red Devils error with two outs allowed a run to score, giving the Saints their first lead and a 9-8 win on Tuesday.
'This program does have a lot of fight in it,' Saints coach Meadow McWhorter said. 'There's a lot of belief in each other and playing as one.'
A one-out single gave the Saints their first baserunner of the eighth inning. Lola Ciu followed with another single, putting the winning run in scoring position. Mai Galusha, though, flied out to left field for the second out of the inning.
Look for extended game coverage in the April 11, edition of The Outlook.


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Here is one for DIY enthusiast - a great DIY project showing you how to turn an old wine bottle and some wood into this lovely little bird feeder idea.
DIY ottoman Pom poms and a repurposed tire
DIY pineapple gift: champagne covered with ferrero rocher this is just awesome! My ultimate favorite candy in the whole world!
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KIEV, April 14./TASS/. The Ukrainian parliament has approved the lineup of a new government led by Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman with 239 votes cast in favor, above the 226 votes needed.
"I think this government has a chance to become a government of national confidence," Groysman said prior to the voting, presenting his new team.
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Justice Minister Pavel Petrenko, Minister for Information Policy Yuri Stets and Minister for Youth and Sports Igor Zhdanov have retained their positions.
Petro Poroshenko Bloc deputy Igor Nasalik becomes a new Energy Minister. Alexander Danilyuk replaces Natalie Jaresko as Finance Minister. Stepan Kubiv (former head of the National Bank) becomes First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Trade.
The deputies to the prime minister are Pavel Rozenko, Vyacheslav Kirilenko, Vladimir Kistion, Ivanna Klimpush-Tsitsnadze (in charge of European integration issues) and Gennady Zubko (who will manage regional development, construction and housing sector).
The government of Prime Minister Groysman gets a new agency - Ministry for Forced Migrants, the ATO Zone (zone of a combat operation in Donbass) and Occupied Territories, led by Vadim Chernysh.
The post of Minister of Health remains vacant.


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Informal agreements do not meet the definition of a contract. You may feel comfortable with a simple agreement if you know the other party and trust them. You can also use an agreement instead of a contract if a contract doesn`t seem worth it. It is unlikely that you will need a contract to drive your friend to the airport in exchange for $10 for gas. The main advantage of an agreement that does not meet the criteria of a contract is that it is by nature informal. If contractors have a long-standing relationship and share a considerable degree of trust, the application of a contract can save time and flexibility in fulfilling agreed commitments. Agreements that do not contain all the necessary elements of the contract may also be more feasible in situations where contracting would impose a prohibitive burden on the parties concerned. At the beginning of this article, a question is asked, the answer to which is here, that only legally enforceable agreements are contractually concluded, i.e. they must have a consideration, a legitimate purpose, that the parties give their consent, that they give their consent, that they are in accordance with the treaty and that the agreement is not annulled. If one of the above conditions is not met, the agreement will no longer become a contract.
So it can be said that not all agreements are contracts. Not all agreements are necessarily contractual, as the parties are generally considered to be legally bound. A "gentlemen`s agreement" should not be legally applicable and "compulsory only in honour."   In the case of contractual dispute between parties in different jurisdictions, the law applicable to a contract depends on the court`s analysis of the law conflict law where the breach appeal is brought. In the absence of a choice clause in the law, the court generally applies either the right of jurisdiction or the right of jurisdiction that is most related to the purpose of the contract. A choice clause of the law allows the parties to agree in advance that their contract is interpreted according to the laws of a particular jurisdiction.  An easy-to-settle loan agreement can be used by any lender. Sections with detailed credit conditions, payment scissors and more. However, if your friend gives you a deposit and agrees to pay you $50 per night to stay in your home, it`s a contract because you agreed to exchange a service (use of your home) for a consideration ($50 per night).
Your friends would have reason to complain if you accepted their payment, but they wouldn`t let them stay with you. A judge might imagine you staying in your home, or more likely, they will pay a reasonable fee related to their hotel stay. An agreement cannot be obtained in court through litigation because it does not have the elements of a contract. It has absolutely no legal value, although this is often the beginning of contract negotiations. An agreement is a far-reaching approach that involves any agreement or agreement between two or more parties on their rights and obligations. Such informal agreements often take the form of "gentlemen`s agreements", in which compliance with the terms of the agreement is based on the honour of the parties concerned and not on external means of implementation. A simple DJ contract can be used when DJ services are provided at each event. Sections on payment terms, responsibilities, schedule and more. For example, you offer to let your friends stay in your home while they are in town. It is an agreement because there is no consideration exchange for the use of your home, and there are no conditions that have been written to comply with them.

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Monday, February 9, 2009
Coraline has been brought to the screen by Henry Selick, the man who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach . Once again Selick uses stop motion animation to tell his tale but this time he enhances the look with Real 3D. This choice of 3D here is less about gimmicky tricks like pick axes swinging in My Bloody Valentine 3D . Instead, the 3D is used more as a means of bringing the animation to more vivid life throughout the story and not just for punctuation. It's refreshing to see the technology in service of the story instead of the other way around. I hope that this is where the future of 3D lies and not in having people point at the audience or throw things in the direction of the camera.
Coraline (Focus Features)
The story comes from the vivid imagination of Neil Gaiman (creator of Stardust and Sandman among others) and involves a young girl named Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning). Coraline has just moved into a new house with her parents (Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman), who both work from home on their own catalog business. Consequently, Coraline feels a bit ignored at home and wishes that her parents paid more attention to her and were more fun. But as the posters warn, be careful what you wish for.
Coraline ends up passing through a door to a parallel universe of sorts where she finds another set of parents. They are exactly what she wishes for: more fun and more attentive. But Coraline notices one disturbing difference, they have buttons for eyes. This leads to a series of increasingly unnerving discoveries that will require Coraline to call upon all the courage and cleverness she can muster.
Coraline has all the classic elements of a children's tale: a scrappy heroine who learns to depend on herself and her skills; fantastical places filled with strange creatures; an evil villain; and a journey of self-discovery. But in this case it's wrapped up in a package that combines equal parts Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, and The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland . From Oz we get parallel sets of characters and a new appreciation for the simple pleasures of going back home; from Alice we get the sense of going through the looking glass to a strange world and a series of encounters that test our young heroine.
Coraline (Focus Features)
Author Neil Gaiman has created a story that aims as much at young adults (and smart younger readers) as it is at grown-ups who still enjoy using their imaginations. It may be too dark for some little ones but it's a good film for kids to see with parents so that any questions or fears can be addressed. But a little bit of horror can be good and Coraline spins its tale with clever imagination. Selick captures the impatience and disappointment of his title character as she repeatedly tries to engage her parents in fun and games but with no luck. The way Coraline plays with the door or explores the house is exactly how curious kids behave when bored and desperately trying to entertain themselves.
While the studio may want to attract young audiences, Selick refuses to condescend to them as so many animated films do. The storytelling is simple enough to engage them but sophisticated enough to not bore them. In Coraline we get a heroine who can squash bugs with her hands and not make a big deal about, who can be sulky when ignored by her parents, and resourceful when needs be. She is neither cloyingly cute nor gratingly smart-alecky. She is, despite the bizarre circumstances she encounters, a rather typical kid, and that's refreshing. It's also the least annoying Dakota Fanning has been and maybe that's because we only get her voice. In films like War of the Worlds I was hoping the aliens would kill her but she is slowly maturing into a less mechanical kid star that acts by the numbers. It may also be that Selick works well with her and gets her to perform with less affectations.
Coraline (rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor) may not find the long-lasting cult fandom of The Nightmare Before Christmas but it serves up a more challenging and darker hued tale. The animation is also bold and vivid and filled with carefully rendered details from the insect furniture to the rat circus.
Companion viewing: Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Chicken Run, The Wizard of Oz
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Author of the acclaimed thriller novels 48 Hours to Kill and Heavy Metal, Andrew Bourelle has also coauthored with James Patterson the New York Times best sellers Texas Ranger and Texas Outlaw. His short stories have appeared in a number of literary magazines and in various anthologies. Two have been included in volumes of The Best American Mystery Stories. A professor at the University of New Mexico, Andrew makes his EQMM debut with the story “Blue Sky,” in our current issue (May/June 2022). In this post he discusses revenge as a motive for behavior pivotal to crime fiction. It’s a topic rarely addressed on this blog, and I think you’ll find his observations interesting! —Janet Hutchings
I love revenge stories.
Revenge can be a powerful motivator for either the protagonist or antagonist. Whether you’ve read the thousand-page epic or not, you’re likely aware of Alexandre Dumas’s famous The Count of Monte Cristo, where the wrongly imprisoned Edmond Dantés exacts long-awaited revenge on the men who betrayed him. Dumas also uses revenge to drive the plot in Twenty Years After, the sequel to The Three Musketeers, only this time it’s the antagonist who seeks it.
How do you create a single villain that’s a worthy adversary for not one, not two, not three, but four of the greatest soldiers/swordsmen/adventurers in all of literature? You make the adversary motivated by revenge. The cold-blooded Mordaunt seems almost superhuman as he seeks to avenge his mother, Milady de Winter, executed in the first book as a result of her quarrels with the musketeers (in which, come to think of it, she too was motivated by revenge).
Recall that as much as Frankenstein is a science fiction novel about the dangers of scientific hubris, the plot itself is driven by revenge. First, the creature seeks revenge against Victor and is so motivated by it that he’s willing to kill innocent people to make his creator suffer. Then it’s Victor who seeks revenge, chasing the creature across the frozen ice fields of the arctic. At the end of the novel, neither character wants to go on living except to punish the other. As readers, I think we can empathize—at least at times—with both of them. Which brings me to what I love most about revenge stories: the moral ambiguity revenge stories must confront.
As readers, I think we can relate to the desire for revenge. However, the question looms: can or should characters go through with it? Even though someone else has committed evil, is the answer for the protagonist to commit evil in response? If revenge was easy, Hamlet would be a much shorter play. Instead, the prince of Denmark vacillates for pages and pages (or hours and hours on stage), debating how and why and if he should avenge his father, only for his journey to end with a long trail of bodies in his wake, including his own. Often, it seems, no one wins in a revenge tale.
We want the bad guys punished, yet we don’t want our heroes to lose their souls in doing so. But a good revenge story recognizes that it’s pretty much impossible to do the first without the second.
Plenty of mystery novels, new and old, grapple with elements of revenge in a variety of interesting and thought-provoking ways, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet to Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl to Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay to S.A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears. The list goes on. However, my favorite revenge tale isn’t a novel but a short story: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.” Pretty much everyone I know read this in a high school English class, but if you haven’t read it since, it’s worth revisiting.
You probably know the plot: In an unnamed Italian city, during Carnival, a nobleman named Montresor invites his enemy, Fortunato, into the catacombs beneath his home to sample the wine he’s recently purchased. Once there, however, we discover there is no cask of amontillado. It’s a trap. Montresor chains a drunk and confused Fortunato to a wall and proceeds to use brick and mortar to cover him up, essentially burying him alive.
The story evokes a claustrophobic dread, but what I love most about it are the indeterminacies that leave the reader wondering throughout. We don’t know what Fortunato has done to Montresor. The narrator claims he’s suffered a thousand injuries, but he doesn’t specify what they are. And Fortunato doesn’t seem to know. Or does he? After screaming for help, and then trying to laugh off what is happening as a good joke, he goes quiet. Is the silence indicative of his realization of what is actually happening—and why? We readers are left wondering just how crazy Montresor is. Or is he even remotely justified?
I love also what the point of view does for the story. This isn’t a third-person story where we’re getting the narrative through the lens of an objective, omniscient narrator. Montresor himself tells the story in first-person, narrating it with a double-I perspective a full fifty years after the events of the story. In short: This story is told by a man who got away with murder. And as much as he seems to come across as feeling no guilt for what he’s done, there are hints that the man telling the story did experience—or still does—at least some moral dilemma for his actions. At the end of the story, troubled by Fortunato’s silence, Montresor says his “heart grew sick”—then he quickly qualifies that this was because of the dampness of the catacombs. What a strange, eerie confession he is making. He readily admits to mocking Fortunato’s screams—of screaming back at him with even more zeal—yet his only hint of regret is excused as something else. The narration is made even more frightening by the fact that this is someone who’s had plenty of time to wrestle with the moral implications of what he’s done and this is the way he’s decided to tell his story? If the story was told in third-person, or in first but without the fifty-year remove, I don’t think it would be nearly as creepy.
I find in my writing that I’m often grappling with questions associated with revenge. In my latest book, 48 Hours to Kill, a prison inmate has a forty-eight-hour furlough to find who is responsible for his sister’s murder. What he’s going to do with the person or persons if he finds them (bring them to justice or exact his own personal revenge) looms in the protagonist’s mind during the hunt. Similarly, my short story “Cowboy Justice,” found in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015, is about two brothers who take the law into their own hands to avenge their other brother against drug dealers. They find that revenge comes with a high, horrifying cost. In my latest story, “Blue Sky,” out in the new May/June issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, revenge isn’t a major part of the narrative, but there’s definitely an “I’ll get you for this” moment instrumental to the plot.
I love revenge stories not because—or not just because—of what the revenge can do for the plot, but because of what the revenge says about characters. The lengths a character will go for revenge—and how they feel about what they’ve done or are doing—says a lot about them. For good or bad. Case in point: Montresor. It’s one thing to bury someone alive for insults, real or imagined. It’s another altogether to live with the crime for fifty years and still tell yourself you’re okay with it.
I agree revenge rides high in the list of motives in mystery stories. As I read, I thought resentment is just as revealing in a character & it often fuels the urge for revenge. Resentment also pushes at the story line and causes the reader to ask “why” which is always a page turner.

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Big Time Gaming strikes deal to launch its latest game, exclusively with Leo Vegas
Big Time Gaming, has struck a deal to launch its latest blockbuster game, White Rabbit, exclusively with Leo Vegas. It will become widley available from the 8th of November.
White Rabbit is an adult themed slot with haunting renditions of famous Wonderland characters and makes use of the supplier’s state-of-the-art Megaways™ mechanics. Big Time Gaming’s latest slot takes Megaways to the next level, boasting two brand-new USPs – Feature Drop™ and Extending Reels™. The former has been 18 months in the making, and allows players to buy the bonus feature on entering the game. They can play the game to drop the price by collecting BTG Coins as they land on the reels, or wait for the feature to occur naturally.
Extending Reels™ are featured during Rabbit Hole free spins, which offer the chance of 60 retriggered free spins, once the reels are fully extended. Each reel opens-up to a maximum of 12 symbols, culminating in a massive 248,832 Megaways to win.
Big Time Gaming has created White Rabbit with streamers in mind, players who like to broadcast their play to audiences on platforms such as Twitch and YouTube and now with Feature Drop their audience can ask for the feature at any time! When it launches with LeoVegas on 25th October 2017 at 7pm GMT, Swedish slots superstar Kim Hultman (known on Twitch as LetsGiveItASpin) will spin the reels for the first time. The footage will be streamed live to his growing community of followers.
Following its exclusive launch on LeoVegas, White Rabbit will be made available to the wider market on the 8th November 2017.
Nik Robinson, CEO of Big Time Gaming, said: “White Rabbit is our most sophisticated game to date. It takes our innovative Megaways mechanic to the next level, ramping up the entertainment factor for both low and high rolling players.
“Visually, it is a stunning game with intricate animations and rich graphics. This combines with the mechanics to offer one of the most engaging and immersive experiences players can find when spinning the reels.
“Despite its intricate mechanics, the gameplay is smooth and seamless with incredible visuals and dynamic sound. It is an incredible achievement, and will undoubtedly be an instant hit with our players.”
Robin Ramm, co-founder at LeoVegas, said: “LeoVegas is all about leading the way into the mobile future. With Big Time Gaming sharing this passion we are very much looking forward for the launch of this brand new mobile game.”


Always grabbing the headlines, The County hit the papers six years ago – and if you look at the squad in that photo, you’ll recognise a few that are still part of the family!
If you have any memorable photos, stories or anything that you want the world to know, then just send them into the Club and we’ll get them on here. Let’s dip into the archives and show the young un’s how far back our great Club goes eh?
Up the County!!!


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Client website now live!
I am delighted to announce that the new website for Milton Chiropractic Clinic is now live!
This is a particularly momentous achievement for me, because Milton Chiropractic were in fact my first ever client as a freelance marketing consultant.
Back in April 2012, I circulated a customer satisfaction survey to existing patients to gage their perception of Milton Chiropractic Clinic and their services. The survey highlighted a number of useful insights into patient lifestyles, attributes, demographics and back pain related problems.

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Jeorge II is in no mood to mess around on this latest hard-hitting single called ‘Egomanic Flow‘ (ft. EeDdAaYy).
Dublin, Ireland-based emcee’s Jeorge II and EeDdAaYy pack a powerful punch on this gritty Hip Hop single that speaks about how fake some people are and the frustration behind in. They are both on a mission to get their music out there globally and don’t have time to screw around to appease phony frauds, that do a lot of talking but are absent with actual results.
The big ego can your brain from opening up and so many people have a problem with this issue. Luckily, this is a rapper who has no such issues. He is self-aware and whilst frustrated with certain folks, is smart enough to realize that he needs to stay in his own lane and stay focused on the bigger picture.
‘Egomanic Flow‘ (ft. EeDdAaYy) from Ireland-based Jeorge II is a storming Hip Hop single that is a powerful song with such substance and constant energy. This feels like a cipher and one of the best underground rap tracks from any country so far in 2021. The flow is real and performed hard as they two mean business. They are aware that we all have egos and keeping your own in check, is the way to truly succeed.
Turn up this fresh new track on Spotify and see more on his IG.
Atlanta’s multi-skilled producer and Hip Hop artist One Deuce rips the door open with the truthful new single named ‘Neva Leave Empty Handed‘.
One Deuce is always looking to evolve, innovate, help the youth, and get his music out to as many ears as possible. With this kind of constant self-motivation, its easy to see why he is a well-respected creative, and a strong pillar of hope in his local community.
With the shaker start that reminds you of Christmas, to a rap delivery that is so unlike many of his contemplates these days. His style is old school and reminds us of the 80’s and 90’s era where arguably the genre was at its peak and loved the world over. The smooth rap technique is highly impressive, and the consistency adds a welcome distraction from the gloomy nature of 2020.
This is a musician who feels like he is at the top of the food chain and has so much confidence in his ability. He slings a rhythm that is full of gun shots in the sample and a thumping beat that busts through the speaker, to make a cup full of ear-ringing swag for our hearts.
His Mama told him to never leave without what you came for and this is quality advice. If you set your goals high enough you can certainly achieve them but it won’t be a piece of cake. In a reactionary and ‘want it quick’ world, this is a song that is simple and smart in execution.
‘Neva Leave Empty Handed‘ from Atlanta’s One Deuce is a street banger that is all about taking that one chance. You might not get too many opportunities in this Walking Dead kind of world so getting your cheese when you can, is the key to life’s refrigerator.
Support his music journey on Soundcloud and see more about his story on IG.
The highly motivated Pop/Rap artist, producer, and engineer Imsorryzach from Memphis, Tennessee enters our galaxy on the party song with a regret filled tone added to twist the story on ‘Gemini’.
This is the adventure about having fun and doing what you want with your best friend as the night is still young. It’s been a wack year so keeping the circle small and tight has been necessary. The raps are new school and have the popular Post Malone type of delivery and beat to it. This is a fresh track that shows off the lucid skills of a rapper who has big goals. He wants to be up there with the best and feels like he can get there.
The music picture goes into small detail about knowing that you want to be with that special human but things are up and down for that relationship at the moment. One day they want you and the next they don’t. This is a common theme at the moment unfortunately as social media and dating apps have distorted our brains into the worrying compare mentality syndrome.
With a riveting beat and plenty of swag in the video, Imsorryzach shows us what he is made of on the quality ‘Gemini’. Life is full of ups and downs but he is a rapper on the rise who flows so smoothly and keeps it fresh like his stylish coat. Gemini’s are bright, quick-witted, and the proverbial life of the party after all.
Hear this party track via Spotify, see the music video on YouTube and see his adventures on IG.
With a likable style and a flow that is unmistakably exuberant, we are introduced to a new Hip Hop artist that oozes charm and global appeal. Polo Candana and his chefs drop the debut music video for ‘Macaroni‘ and this track will certainly make you lick your lips in delight.
His lyrics about how he admires her for making money with a real hustle is a refreshing formula in a genre that often comes across as highly misogynistic. Hopefully this signals a change to how Hip Hop is made and portrayed to the world. With femicide and abusive relationships at a seemly all-time high, this is a way to make sure that young men and woman all over the globe know how to treat a woman. With respect and support, not a reckless and disrespectful style that rubs the wrong way and creates a perception that females are second best- a narrative that is completely wrong.
‘Macaroni‘ from Polo Candana shows a rap style that is cutting edge and the music video shows a fresh face in the game, who is keen to make his mark in the music scene real quick. His bars are consistently presented and the chorus with the boys in a smoke-filled room, is a real 2020 anthem of swimming against the wave of this crazy year. This is an excellent debut track and the visuals make this a memorable song.
Hear this catchy new Hip Hop track on YouTube and find out more on Facebook.
When a new rapper hits the scene it can either go three ways. Either they crash and burn early, they have one good song and disappear or there is long-lasting success. ‘Shadows of a Kid‘, the lead single from the self-tilted EP of the same name from new emcee Joseph Milton, seems to fall in the latter category.
With an honest depiction of his life and how things are now in a soul-searching mode, this is a new Hip Hop track with plenty of bite and grit- just what the genre was invented for. To take real stories and make them real to listeners all over the world, is the American dream.
‘Shadows of a Kid‘ from the young and supremely gifted rapper Joseph Milton delves deep into memories from his youth, remembering when life was a lot simpler. This is a Hip Hop track with so much potential, the lyrical ability is quite phenomenally put together and delivered like a real professional who has so much hunger.
With this type of sword-like cutting edge to his arsenal, this is an exciting time for a genre that seems to be losing its previous dominance of music fans worldwide. A new hero has just made his cape and we are here to be saved.
Here is the Spotify link to hear this Hip Hop gemstone.
Gwa-La is US rapper and also a former member of Gwap Boys in Colonial Beach. He is back with a bang on the inspirational ‘One of Them Days‘ which is a true story about real life experiences that hit home.
Gwa-La is now fully focused on his solo career with the support of record label Don’t Lose it Records which was started by his cousin, Miquan Johnson. This family bond has enabled Gwa-La to fully flourish and the results are for all to see.
This is an emcee with substance. He doesn’t want to get wrapped up in pain and suffering anymore. Dealing with petty beef is becoming tiresome, this young musician just want to make music, get rich and live far away from toxic people. This is a fair call and sounds good to this writer.
With a passionate flow, the beat is crisply formulated to bring across such a quality Hip Hop track that is quite steaming hot. This is a debut song that will uplift anyone listening, this is that rare kind of music that is truly felt. The struggle is 2020 is real.
Taken off the new EP from 2020 ‘Cheers to the Past‘, this is a formidable freestyle-type song that is such a bouncy listen.
‘What Now Freestyle‘ from emcee Shabazz Talib is one of the best flows of 2020 without doubt. This is a real story that is portrayed through a man who now knows what he wants. He is done over thinking about the world and just wants to make music and be happy.
The Newark, NJ native is in full form here. His flows are tight and the wordsmith is in an imperious mood here. He is sick and tired of dusting off those cobwebs off the past and doesn’t want to get bitten by those pesky spiders. He wants to be in a clear mind so that he can project his best work now. The past is in the past. The future is here.
‘What Now Freestyle‘ from the Newark emcee Shabazz Talib has one of the best beats and flows of the year on this one. In such a saturated market full of rappers, this is something fresh and real. It’s made for those true fans who appreciate a proper song for once and no mumbling garbage. This is what Hip Hop in 2020 should sound like.
BagDadLean & Slutty Jordie give us a life lesson about ladies and 420 here on their new Hip Hop track called ‘Jackwoods‘.
BagDadLean is a young Midwest artist that is very versatile as he can rap and switch it up to an R&B number all in the same song. This is a rare skill that is often not done well. He does however impress on this new track that is only his 2nd even release on Spotify. With lots of hunger and aspirations to be as massive as Drake, this is an ambitious emcee and singer with big dreams. I love this confidence, going for the top is the way forward.
This is all about being careful with the ladies. You need to find a loyal lady otherwise if you end up with the wrong one, she will suck your bank account dry and then vanish like the cleaning product. The beat is so laid back and stoner style, with the deep voices and you feel the smoke filled energy in the air.
BagDadLean & Slutty Jordie show us their skill set on the new ‘Jackwoods‘ single that is a winner in the Hip Hop playlists all over the world. If they can keep consistent and focus on getting their music out there, there is a chance they could make it massive.
Atlantic City rapper Gotti 100 has just got out of jail and he is keen to send out a message. Tired of selling drugs and getting into trouble this young emcee wants to get in the Hip Hop game and ever get out. This is a clear message of his intent and has already made moves by announcing that he is going to be on New York legend Jadakiss’s next mix-tape. This is a great move and one that will help him reach the next level in the crazy Hip Hop world.
”Hood Credit” is a statement message from Gotti 100. He is tired of jumping in and out of jail. He knows that hood credit is vital but he wants more. He wants the respect of the whole music scene so he can show what he’s got now. A strong move and this is very honest and self-aware. With a raw flow on this track made from home due to corona this track comes off like a freestyle which is very memorable.
Gotti 100 is a name to watch as he raps his way to the top. With a way in now there is no telling what level he rises to.
Stream this new street banger via his Soundcloud page.
New school Hip Hop artist Riff Raff returns with his swaggy and bouncy track called ”Hop Out The Lamb”. Here is a musician in full form here with this summer rap track that is sure to get pulses racing as much as his flashy Lamborghini.
Riff Raff aka Jody Highroller aka Dale Dan Tony is an American rapper who’s family is of Swedish, German, Russian & Israeli heritage. His music is cutting edge and makes its known here that he is feeling in full form. This track is all about the swag and hopping in and out of his Lamborghini, is how he is rolling now. After a tough life, Riff is enjoying the full fruits of his labor. With a sharp flow, he is fully in tune to what the new school Hip Hop fans crave. Quickfire music that makes you dance and slide at the party. This is a high-flying artist who is on the way up the ranks of the world scene.
Check out Riff Raff on his Facebook to find out more about shows.
Click here to hear this new Hip Hop jam on YouTube.


(Updated) Gov. Palin and Eric Bolling will discuss government abuse scandals on ‘Cashin’ In’ Special on Saturday
Posted by Dr. Fay on June 21, 2013
Posted on Governor Palin’s Facebook page last night:
Sarah Palin · 3,553,578 like this———————
———————Check out “Cashin’ In” this Saturday at 11:30am ET (7:30am AK time) on FNC, with replay at 4:30pm ET. Eric Bolling and I will talk about our federal government’s many abuse scandals. What’s needed now is an empowerment of the average American, “the little guy”, who knows that a healthy distrust of our federal government is warranted. Today, the Washington-connected permanent political class are cashing in on the backs of the little guys. I say enough is enough. Are enough of us “little guys” ready for a revolution against government corruption?———————– Sarah Palin———————
Here is a sneak peek video posted today by SarahNET.
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Looking to help the environment and your budget? Then take note: cutting back is the new keeping up.
There's a lot to be gained from a way of life where we generate less trash: cleaner air and oceans, and protected natural resources and habitats, to name a few.
While living a zero-waste lifestyle is an extreme challenge, you can start small and still make an impact, which is why a "low-waste" movement has bloomed. Parents are preparing plastic-free lunches at local schools. Big companies are pledging to reduce their contributions to the waste stream in the years ahead. They may seem small, but these gradual changes can add up to a cleaner Earth — and they can even have a lasting impact on your budget.
To get started, check out these easy tips from change leaders who have discovered inventive ways to cut back on what they toss out.
Sheila Morovati, a mother of two who lives in Los Angeles, CA, is passionate about preventing and reducing waste. The former marketing professional now works within her local community to change how people treat what might be thought of as disposable items in their day-to-day lives — particularly kids.
It all began when she noticed how many crayons were being thrown away while dining with her children in restaurants. As a result, Morovati founded Crayon Collection, which works with restaurants in Los Angeles to bring unused crayons to underserved schools. She also fought to have plastic straws banned in Malibu (and won), and is currently working with food-delivery services to cut out the plastic cutlery.
How to educate your kids — and yourself — to be a low-waste local:
Last year, more than 84 million trips were taken on shared bikes and scooters in the U.S. according to a report from the National Association of City Transportation Officials. Several hundred of them were taken by Jeff Novich, who lives in New York City's Harlem neighborhood and commutes via Citi Bike bicycle around the city.
Novich took his first ride on the bikes in 2016 on a spin through Central Park with his wife. They loved it so much that they signed up for annual memberships. Today he considers himself part of a community of bicycle advocacy in New York and enjoys seeing the city through sharper focus. "You can't zone out on a bike," he says. He also loves that his commute time is accurate, his legs are in great shape and that it's saved him money on public transportation and taxis.
Ed Skylar, Citi's head of public affairs, says the Citi Bike program's success has far exceeded initial expectations when it launched six years ago. "It's been exciting to see the extent to which riders have embraced Citi Bike bicycles, making it a sustainable, new form of public transportation that's become a part of so many New Yorkers' lives." Beyond enjoyment and ease, it is estimated that Citi Bike trips have offset up to 120 million pounds of carbon from entering the atmosphere.
How you can be a low-impact commuter:
With so many perks, a low-waste lifestyle can bring a higher quality of life. And when everyone makes small steps — at home, at work and in their community — it adds up to big changes for the future
The content reflects the view of the author of the article and does not necessarily reflect the views of Citi or its employees, and we do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information presented in the article.

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Sybil Christopher, who died last week in New York at 83, was a noted theater producer and the founder of Arthur, a Manhattan hot spot that attracted a ritzy celebrity clientele during the 1960s. Even if she hadn't become famous as the first wife, and...
| Feb 27, 2013
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After a decade performing for a rabid, nationwide jam-band fan base, particularly enthusiastic in South Florida, Perpetual Groove is down to its final six concerts, and Matt McDonald is feeling a familiar sense of excitement.
“It’s hard to...
| Mar 7, 2013
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I recently had the honor of speaking to the Fellowship of Christians and Jews in Palm Beach, Fla. Fr. Tom Hartman, my former partner on this column, and I spoke before this wonderful organization some years ago when Tommy was well. I lift up their work...
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"HOW DO you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume? Oh, it isn't easy, but I'll try. If you wanted the sky I would write across the sky in letters that would soar a thousand feet high To Sir, with love...."
This is British singer Lulu'...
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DAYTONA BEACH — Dear Danica and Ricky:
Please stop it. There is no making out in NASCAR.
No hugs, no exchanging of Valentine's Day cards, none of this schmoozie-poozie stuff with the nauseating soundtrack of a Michael Bolton/Barry Manilow mix-...
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It was an out-of-town Broadway show that closed in one night, but those in the audience are likely to remember it for a long time because the show was produced just for them.
Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell sang "The Impossible Dream."...
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When cabaret star Karen Mason played here last December, at Davenport's, one song drew the evening's noisiest ovations by far.
If Mason had sung "It's About Time" without introduction, the piece would have unfolded as a charming love song well worth...
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The performing arts scene looked a bit like a Busch Gardens theme ride in 2012, with lots of high points and a couple of strange twists and turns. Overall, the quality of presentations was first-rate with several regional or world premieres and knockout...
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Insane City by Dave Barry (Putnam) The Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist's first solo adult novel in more than a decade is a typically absurdist comic story about everything — and then some — that goes wrong for Seth and his friends en...
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Richard Griffiths, the portly British actor who won acclaim for his stage performances in "The History Boys," "Equus" and many other productions, was one of the most beloved figures in the London theater. His numerous performances ranged from contemporary...
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Multiple Grammy Award-winning producer Phil Ramone died Saturday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He was 79. His son Matt confirmed his father was hospitalized in late February with an aortic aneurysm. Ramone won 14 Grammys and worked...
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Chaz Bono has starred in his own documentary ("Becoming Chaz"), appeared on reality TV (ABC's "Dancing With the Stars") and authored a book ("Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man"). He's now expanded his resume by appearing onstage in a short...


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RIGHT BEHIND YOU
Inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and scripted from tales of real life love and loss, Right Behind You looks how we fall in love and the detrimental things we do to each other in relationships, even though we may know they are not for the best.
This work combines elements of physical theatre, contemporary dance and verbatim theatre, with original music composed by composer Hamish Lane.
Lingua Franca was invited to perform 'Right Behind You at Brisbane Powerhouse for the 2High Festival in November 2012. The work featured in the subscription theatre season at BMEC Bathurst in August 2013.
Devised and performed by Alison Plevey and Adam Deusien
Sound Design by Hamish Lane
Lighting Design and Technical Management by Carla Gates


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Lillian Khallouf, an Australian fashion designer, claims that supermodel Gigi Hadid “stole her look” at the Met Gala 2021 this week.
In a custom-made gown by Prada, Gigi, 26, made best-dressed lists all around the world as she arrived at the star-studded event.
Lillian, who lives in Sydney, posted on Instagram after photographs of Gigi’s gown leaked online, claiming the outfit was a replica of the dress she wore to her own wedding.
Posting a series of photos comparing the two looks, Lillian wrote: “When @gigihadid steals your look at the #METGALA.“
“Thanks @prada @mimicuttrell I’ll take that as a major compliment,” she added.
In April, Lillian married her lover Moei Elayoubi, wearing a strapless white gown with a plunging corset bodice.
A layer of black fabric poked out from beneath the bodice, and at the back, a train of black and white fabric dropped to the floor.
Black opera gloves, pearl earrings, and a massive pearl necklace completed the look.
Gigi’s gown, too, had a strapless white corset bodice with black cloth poking through.
Of course, there were obvious differences between the two looks: Lillian wore her hair in a curled up-do, while Gigi had her hair in a long, wavy ponytail tied with a hair clip.
The backs of the gowns are also noticeably different, with Lillian’s having a dramatic train and Gigi’s having a thigh split.
Despite the obvious contrasts, many of Lillian’s followers wondered if Gigi’s Met Gala outfit was inspired by Lillian’s dress with one commenting: ‘When I saw her dress I thought of your wedding dress instantly! Yours is so much better!”
“I still can’t believe this Lil! Down to the gloves and the necklace! “ another fan wrote, while someone else added: “You definitely wore it better,” another added.
Later on Tuesday, Lillian took to Instagram to express her gratitude to her fans, saying that she was unconcerned about Gigi’s supposed “imitation.”
“To everyone who shared, commented and sent supportive DMs, you guys are the best! I’m so grateful to have such a wonderful community of people who not only back me but creatives in general,”
“The truth is I’m not mad about what happened today. I feel extremely proud and flattered. It’s interesting how… talent echos. I heard it all my life and today is a testament to the saying, ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” [loved-up emoji].
It comes as a shock every time we see a stylist copying someone else’s design in the name of “inspiration”. However, we can’t make any conclusive comments over the matter until we hear from the celebrities and their designers.
Since Daily Mail Australia was the one to originally report this news, let’s wait and see what comments Prada and Gigi’s stylist have to offer over the matter.


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A social media user saw her boyfriend with another lady and he acted like he does not know her.
The heart-broken lady shared her chat with the said boyfriend after she confronted him.
When she sent him a text message about it, he admitted the other woman is his main girlfriend.
Despite being caught, he still proceeded to ask the side chick to meet up with him over the weekend as his main girlfriend will not be around.
"I can’t believe what happened to me today," the woman wrote as she shared the chat.

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Speaking to The Sun newspaper, he said: ''Cheryl spoke to me at one of Simon Cowell's recent parties about doing something together and a future collaboration. I have actually got a song written for her now so we will see what happens.''
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The first exhibition in Ireland by Gary Hume, one of the most sought-after and inventive painters working in Britain today, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 3 April 2003. Entitled simply Gary Hume, the exhibition comprises some 30 works and presents a comprehensive overview of the main developments in Hume’s engaging but powerful oeuvre over the past ten years. In addition, to the paintings in the gallery spaces, a sculpture of a giant bronze snowman is being placed in IMMA’s 17th-century formal gardens. The exhibition is presented in association with THE IRISH TIMES.
Hume’s work is characterised by a distinctive visual vocabulary, combining a bright, colourful palette with severely simplified, childlike forms. He has returned continually to particular subjects including the portrait, the nude and the garden and to images from childhood, such as rabbits, snowmen and polar bears. This seeming innocence can, however, mask a hidden ambiguity or menace. In Puppy Dog, 1994, for example, the tranquillity of the child’s bedroom is threatened by the advent of a masked intruder, while in Polar Bear, 1994, an apparently innocuous green toy spreads out across the surface in a strangely predatory, unsettling way.
Described by art critic Richard Cork as “one of the most adroit, inspiring and resourceful painters around”, Hume first came to public attention as a result of his participation in the seminal Freeze show in 1988, which featured artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin who, like Hume, were soon to acquire celebrity status as yBas (young British artists). His work at this time centred on minimal, high-gloss paintings based on anonymous, hospital swing doors. By 1993 these had given way to more fluid, lyrical style, which, while retaining the same surface quality and economic language, incorporated more figurative elements, including portraits from popular culture such as Patsy Kensit, Kate Moss and, more recently, Michael Jackson, all of which are included in the exhibition.
Hume’s new paintings, such as Three Shades of Grey, 2002, and Green Hat, 2002, are intriguing as they are generally more muted and darker in form and content than before – slightly melancholic and, sometimes, sinister. However, in contrast, Welcome, 2002, is particular cheerful, with echoes of the earlier door paintings, while Yellow Window, 2002 marks a return to Hume’s grid-like hospital doors and is perhaps a tongue in cheek homage to Duchamp’s Fresh Widow.
Born in Kent, England, in 1962, Gary Hume graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1988, one of a generation of artists who have become internationally known as yBas (young British artists). He has exhibited extensively internationally. In 1996 he was the British representative at the São Paulo Biennal and in the same year was nominated for the Turner Prize. In 1999 he represented Britain with a large solo show at the XLVIII Venice Biennale. He has also had solo exhibitions at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastrict, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona.
On Thursday 3 April at 11.30am independent art critic Sacha Craddock, will present a lecture in response to Gary Hume’s painting, Imagery in Painting Today.
On Friday 11 April Rachael Thomas, Curator: Exhibitions at IMMA, will give a guided introductory tour of the exhibition.
Gary Hume continues until 22 June 2003.
Admission is free.
A publication with an essay by Jonathan Jones, who is an art critic and also writes for The Guardian, accompanies the exhibition (price €15.00).
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See You Again
When I return to the lab, the new tanks are the first thing I notice. My colleagues had no details about my daughter’s service, no address to show up at or send a card to, so I think the octopuses might be their version of sending flowers. I flip through the paperwork. They were delivered on the very same day as Kara’s burial—with the kind of spontaneity that has had no precedent in this lab for twenty years. And being the only evolutionary psychologist on staff, let’s say the bouquet is designed for the person meant to receive it.
I feel eyes on me that whole day, but no one says anything or makes any special presentation of the cephalopods. Sometimes people know you better than you think they do. Toward the end of the day, Estelia pours a glug of whiskey from her emergency flask into my coffee cup. Soon after, the others begin to encourage me to go home to rest. But I make the excuse of having loads of work to catch up on and wait impatiently for them, one by one, to leave me alone with the octopuses. Whatever this says about me, I have never been able to enjoy a gift until the person who gave it to me went away.
I turn on the lights installed underneath the lid of the tank. It was designed to look like sunlight filtering down from the surface of the ocean, and the effect is more or less as intended. I turn off the lights in the lab, with the exception of some blue light that emanates from a few of the half-sleeping monitors. There are four octopuses. The one called Pia—yellow and blue for the moment—sits on top of the large rock positioned at the center. She drapes her skirts around it, made of the webbing between her legs. Something glints on the ground a few inches from the rock. I squint and see that it is the gold-tinted lid from a jar of salsa. In this I recognize a familiar experiment designed to measure novel learning. Pia had obviously figured out how to open the jar and then refused to return the lid. In the depth of ocean she’s used to, any glimmer of light is a commodity.
The glass between us is a transparent lie. It allows us to look into each other’s eyes as if we were not looking across universes, across ages. Pia floats up, sinks back down. Her third heart stops pumping when she swims, so she prefers not to. At a certain point, I look at my watch. Fifteen minutes have passed. I consider the parts of my night I’ve yet to prepare for, my husband, our dinner, and I wonder how long our time together has felt to Pia. Her species has a lifespan of one year, and out of that year, perhaps four or five months have already been spent. If she is conscious of her mortality—although implausible, I do believe in the possibility—then I wonder what it feels like to have such an intense burst of short-lived awareness. Maybe it is all relative, maybe different existences take longer to resolve than others, maybe lives always feel over at the precise moment that they are over, all of the open questions and anxieties snapping to at the last moment, dissolving into the backlit beyond. Here’s to hoping, at least. Pia turns black, like the mini-shades of her dermis are pulled shut from the inside, blocking out all light.
She disappears into the backdrop of dark water, until she shoots off the rock and floats softly back down again, strange ghost with the parachuting grief, and I have the distinct feeling that I’m being mocked.
Funerals are full of redactions. I had never noticed before Kara’s, but it’s true. Everyone dressed in black, their whole bodies crossed out, pretending out of sympathy for the grievers that they also don’t exist, stepping softly. I’m not here, they seem to say. They believe they are acting with kindness when tracking lies into my house like dirt on the bottom of their shoes. There are no more clean cups, my sister kept insisting while guests still filled the house. You need to run the dishwasher. She treated me a little roughly, and I understood her meaning. She wanted me to admit to some degree of relief. Kara’s life had been too much trouble anyway, she thought. She couldn’t see around that view, and my husband might have taken her point, I’m not sure. They whispered something behind my back. What I know is that together they tried to get me to close the casket, and when I refused, they wanted me to let the undertaker use some 3D technique to make her head look larger. She was nine. I knew how badly I needed to see her as she was. I had already started to feel the foreign rays of my imagination move like northern lights, like someone making several arms of rope dance at once. Of course, I did not admit this to anyone. But when the undertaker emailed me the preview picture, I replied: HANDS MORE TWISTED.
Developmental regression, the doctors called it. At ten months, Kara abruptly stopped learning new things and forgot, one by one, those she already knew. It was like watching a broken VCR eat the tape of our daughter’s cognitive record, and we had to sit helplessly in front of the monitor to watch the static dance across the screen. Everything Kara had learned—everything I taught her—was snatched back. She had been able to say “cat” and “mama,” to get Cheerios into her mouth, to turn the pages of a book. I knew I could remember these things because I could picture the waxy shine of her little fingernails, the alien wrinkles on her skinny knuckles. But maybe I had imagined them? I brought out the baby book that my sister had given me, regretted the empty lines next to each milestone. Her development had always fallen in the normal range. So meticulous, always, at the lab, yet at home I had apparently found it too mundane to fill in the date that Kara first waved bye-bye, ate with her fingers.
I said nothing to Ed, except that I wanted her out of daycare. I wasn’t ready to involve him, and he did not protest, not even when I took leave from work. During that period, Kara and I would often pass the entire day without leaving the apartment. I remember once, after spending several days inside, we ventured out on the subway. I was dressed in formless clothes, my hair stringy but clean—I always kept us both clean—but I had not wanted to bother with the stroller. I held Kara in my arms, wrapped in a blanket. I remember that I refused to meet the eyes of a young derelict, wanting to avoid the scenario in which he would certainly beg for money. But he had us cornered, so I looked away from him and instead at our reflections in the glass doors of the moving train. But he followed suit and found eye contact with my reflection.
“Excuse me,” he said, “what is today?”
I would have answered him, but I couldn’t. I reached into my mind and found I had lost the whole concept of time. I stared at him dumbfounded, unable not only to tell Tuesday from Wednesday, or the fifteenth from thirteenth, but to get any foothold at all. Month or year. Our train stopped without the doors opening, and another train pulled in from the other direction, then started up again before us, provoking that strange illusion of backward movement.
Through all of this, the derelict and I continued to stare at each other.
“Monday, the seventeenth,” said the person behind me, and it was over.
I looked down and hugged my daughter to my chest, made sure the blanket was covering her face. When we got home, I pulled out my calendar and began to record day by day the things Kara could do (swallow her food, grip my finger in her hand, hold her head up), and then soon those she could no longer do (hold her head up, grip my finger in her hand, swallow her food). It’s difficult to describe the effect of this constant erosion, but maybe I will come close if I say that it felt like time was moving both forward and backward at the same time. A few weeks after the incident on the subway, we got the diagnosis.
When I had been dating my husband for six months, a friend asked me out for a drink for the sole purpose of letting me know on behalf of her entire circle that Ed was a jerk. This woman and I had been friends for several years, and though I felt barely close to her, she kept professing in a bald, and to me, embarrassing, way that she cared for me. She must have said so three or four times in the time it took to get to her point: that I was too blinded by love to see Ed accurately, so she felt obligated to step in. I politely thanked her and made it clear that her conclusion was probably accurate, but at the same time, that I preferred the term asshole, which I considered sexier than jerk.
I finished my drink and left the bar, never speaking to her or any of them again. She must have thought I was offended on behalf of Ed, but in reality I was absolutely furious with myself for having, apparently, presented such a dishonest face to the world. An attractive woman, young, petite. It was obvious that those who looked at me saw someone bookish, quiet, intelligently agreeable, and assumed therefore that I was sensitive and harmless; in fact, easily harmed. They had mistaken my reticence, my unwillingness to share my true feelings—in short, my selfishness—for weakness, and I had facilitated their misperceptions because, of course, it was easier for a woman if you did.
At the lab my colleague, Estelia, brings me a coffee. “Hi, bitch,” she says. We have known each other since before either of us were married. Now Estelia is divorced—her husband wanted children, she did not. After feeling the same for a long time, I changed my mind at the last possible moment and got pregnant. But now, again, I catch pace with her in childlessness. This is Monday, and she asks me about my first weekend since starting back to work. I tell her that Ed was in Chicago, so I spent both days in the lab with Pia. I do not say that my husband’s girlfriend was with him, but she picks it up. That Ed has girlfriends is not something I’ve gone out of my way to hide from Estelia. Though I could do without her ironic eyebrows.
“I admit I would have liked a trip to Chicago,” I say, not giving her a chance to make the joke that she is definitely in the process of devising. “To see the fossils.”
Fewer than ten octopus fossils have been discovered across the world, most of which belong to Lebanon, except for the temporary exhibit set up in Chicago. When I read about it, my hope was that I would get to see Styletoctopus annae


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Systems Engineering and Electronics
Huan Zhou, Hui Zhao, Hanqiao Huang*, and Xin Zhao
A novel integrated guidance and control (IGC) design method is proposed to solve problems of low control accuracy for a suicide unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) in the terminal attack stage. First of all, the IGC system model of the UCAV is built based on the three-channel independent design idea, which reduces the difficulties of designing the controller. Then, IGC control laws are designed using the trajectory linearization control (TLC). A nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) is introduced to the IGC controller to reject various uncertainties, such as the aerodynamic parameter perturbation and the measurement error interference. The stability of the closed-loop system is proven by using the Lyapunov theorem. The performance of the proposed IGC design method is verified in a terminal attack mission of the suicide UCAV. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness in the aspects of guidance accuracy and system robustness.
Huan Zhou, Hui Zhao, Hanqiao Huang, and Xin Zhao. Integrated guidance and control design of the suicide UCAV for terminal attack[J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, doi: 10.21629/JSEE.2017.03.14.
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Objective: The authors investigated the neurobiological basis of poor sleep and daytime fatigue in insomnia.
Method: [(18)F]Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography was used to assess regional cerebral glucose metabolism of seven patients with insomnia and 20 healthy subjects.
Results: Compared with healthy subjects, patients with insomnia showed greater global cerebral glucose metabolism during sleep and while awake, a smaller decline in relative metabolism from waking to sleep states in wake-promoting regions, and reduced relative metabolism in the prefrontal cortex while awake.
Conclusions: Subjectively disturbed sleep in patients with insomnia is associated with greater brain metabolism. The inability to fall asleep may be related to a failure of arousal mechanisms to decline in activity from waking to sleep states. Further, daytime fatigue may reflect decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex resulting from inefficient sleep.

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Arbitrary Borders : Political Boundaries in World History
International in scope and analytical in approach, Arbitrary Borders: Political Boundaries in World History examines political demarcations that have occurred around the world. While borders may reflect and affirm the cultural, ethnic, or linguistic perimeters that define a people or a country, this series explores how the migration of goods, resources, and people works to undermine the separation imposed by such borders.
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Always Hope EP (2017)
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