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My heart sinks.
He’s been drinking again.
This I know from the flash of anger in his eyes, the purposeful way he strides towards me. My knees tremble as I stand my ground. Last time he threw my favourite ornament at me and it shattered as it hit my head. It left a scar.
I still love him.
He never drinks at home.
He’s been with her.
She enables him.
She loves him too.
But I wish my mother would stop giving my two-year-old orange squash.
He can’t cope with the additives.
I can’t cope with his personality change.
It’s been months since I last took part in Friday Fictioneers. I’ve been so busy launching my 5th psychological thriller ‘The Family‘ but thought I’d join in the fun again today before I get stuck into the structural edit for next year’s release ‘The Stolen Sisters.’
Friday Fictioneers is a weekly 100-word flash fiction challenge inspired by a photo prompt and hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Read the other entries and/or submit your own story here.
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The claw lowered, closed its metal fingers. Slow jerky movements until the bear tumbled out of the machine, into my arms.
‘Hey gorgeous.’ He winked. I’d been called fat, ugly, stupid. Never gorgeous!
‘Can I buy you some chips?’
‘I should tell my parents.’ My eyes darted around the arcade.
‘You’re a big girl now.’
It was my lucky day.
Outside in the alley, drizzle hit my face moments before his fist. The bear wrenched from my arms. His stomach knifed open. A plastic bag removed. I curled into a ball on the hard stone floor.
I didn’t feel so lucky anymore.
This week I’m reading through the final typeset files for The Date – I can’t believe it will be published in a few weeks! If you missed the gorgeous cover you can check it out here.
‘The Claw’ was written for Friday Fictioneers. A weekly 100 word story challenge inspired by a photo prompt and led by the marvellous Rochelle.
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‘What is it?’ Disappointment drips through every word and my heart cracks a little more. I’ve got it wrong. Again.
She reaches for her phone to plaster my failure over Facebook no doubt.
‘It’s a symbol of love.’ I take her hand in mine. ‘The circle represents something that has no end. The gold emblem because you’re precious and the point is…’ My eyes sweep the room, settling on the book of Everest in the bookcase. ‘A promise there’s no mountain we can’t overcome,’ I kiss her palm. ‘Together.’
‘Oh I LOVE it.’ Her fingertips slip into the waistband of my jeans while I desperately hope she never finds the packaging for the revolutionary new cleaning appliance designed to make her life easier.
It’s the thought that counts.
For those of you who missed it on my blog last week I was chatting to Harper Collins author Darren O’Sullivan about positivity, gratitude and whether you really can visualise your way onto the bestsellers list. I believe so. You can catch up with that here.
I make no apologies for going a tad over the word count this week because it’s Christmas! ‘It’s the thought’ was written for Friday Fictioneers. A weekly 100 word story challenge inspired by a photo prompt hosted by the fabulous Rochelle. Wishing everyone a very happy festive season and huge thanks to Rochelle for all her hard work this year keeping us going!
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The camera flashes are as dazzling as my smile. Angling my body, I suck in my stomach. All I ever wanted was to be famous.
‘Silly cow.’ You slammed your fist into my face. ‘Ain’t nobody never gonna wanna look at you.’
But you were wrong, weren’t you?
‘How are you going to plead?’ I am asked again. Already the papers are calling me Sleeping Beauty. I’d stabbed you while sleepwalking – allegedly anyhow. Now everyone knows my name. My solicitor says he’ll line up talk shows once I’m acquitted.
I push out my chest as I’m led into the court. It’s my time to shine.
I am ridiculously excited that tomorrow is paperback publication day for The Gift in the UK! I can’t wait to visit the bookshops & supermarkets & see my second psychological thriller on a shelf. Tesco have an exclusive edition with a short story in I’ve written especially for their customers. Don’t think I’ll be getting much sleep tonight!
’15 minutes’ was written for Friday Fictioneers. A weekly 100 word story challenge inspired by a photo prompt. Hop over to host Rochelle’s blog to join in.
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Shadows loom from all corners of my room as daylight fades like hope. Insects scratch-scratch-scratch, scuttling under my creaky metal bed frame. I’m trapped in a spider web of shattered memories.
Fluttering. A moth. Gossamer wings translucent in the moonlight. Fragile. We’re all so fragile. Easily broken. I should know.
Footsteps thud outside my door.
‘This place is so cool.’ The excitement in the boy’s voice is palpable. ‘Are you sure it’s deserted?’
‘No-one’s lived here for years.’
‘I’m here,’ I scream. But they don’t hear me. No-one ever does.
Oh that scratching. The endless scratching.
Help me. Please.
I had SUCH a great publication day yesterday for my third novel, The Surrogate which you can find over on Amazon here. Yesterday evening I took part in a live Facebook chat with Kim Nash, the publicist of Bookouture, which you can now view here if you missed it. We chatted about the writing process, how I approach novel writing, editing and getting published. Of course I gave Friday Fictioneers a plug as it’s often the highlight of my week.
‘Daylight Fading’ was written for Friday Fictioneers. A weekly 100 word flash fiction challenge inspired by a photo prompt. Do join in over at Rochelle’s blog here.
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Sometimes I wonder if it would have made a difference if you’d told me somewhere else. Somewhere beautiful. Whether sitting cross legged next to the bubbling stream, sunlight dappling the water would have softened the blow. Do you remember our picnic there? Warm breeze kissing our skin, your lips kissing my neck? It was perfect until we opened the picnic hamper. Wasps buzzing around our sandwiches, ants marching towards the jam jar.
Sorry, I’m drifting. That always did annoy you, didn’t it? But did the ugliness of our surroundings coax those ugly words out of your mouth? I still wonder. Sometimes.
It’s been a week for celebrating! The Gift was listed in Amazon’s half yearly trends report as the third biggest selling ebook of 2017 so far and Sphere (Little, Brown Book Group) shared the exciting news they will be republishing The Sister on August 24th and it will be available in retailers for the first time. You can read my post about that here. It’s been an incredible year and I’m so grateful. I wouldn’t have honed my writing without Friday Fictioneers.
‘Sometimes’ was written For Friday Fictioneers. A weekly 100 word story challenge inspired by a photo prompt. You can join in over at host Rochelle’s blog here.
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My feet crunch on broken glass, tears rising quickly.
‘Why…’ I begin, but the choke in my throat holds back the rest of my words.
Afternoon sunshine streams through the window, the upended tables and chairs brushed bronze, shards of glass glint gold.
The air is heavy with dust. With loss. But underneath there is something else. Love. We fall silently into our roles, a human chain, stronger together, clearing out the rubble. At first I think nothing is salvageable but then I realise there is. Amongst the splinters of wood, the twisted metal, it is there. A tiny kernel of hope.
We stand together.
‘We stand together’ was written for Friday Fictioneers. A weekly 100 word story challenge inspired by a photo prompt. This week’s prompt is topical as we all try to make sense of the senseless. My heartfelt condolences for everyone affected by the atrocities in Manchester.
Join in with the challenge over at host Rochelle’s blog here.


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October 31, 2008 |
The bane of documentaries on creative people is that they're often little more than a fan's note, of interest only to those who already know and love the work in question. "The Universe of Keith Haring" starts out that way but the force of the late artist's energy and personality is strong enough to win over the skeptics.
September 28, 2011 |
The new West Hollywood Library, set to open to the public Saturday on a curving stretch of San Vicente Boulevard across from the Pacific Design Center, is a building that offers a freewheeling tour through centuries of architectural history. Explicitly or implicitly, it points back to the work of Charles Moore, Pierre Koenig, Frank Gehry and even Michelangelo. The library includes long expanses of floor-to-ceiling glass, in the great California midcentury tradition, as well as bands of marble and generous helpings of architectural ornament.
November 29, 2001 |
Good free family entertainment is hard to come by, so there's glad news in "Seeing" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Boone Children's Gallery. The exhibition features work by 10 Los Angeles-based artists and architects who were given simple instructions: Choose any piece from LACMA's permanent collection and build an installation around it that will appeal to children and adults alike.
October 23, 2013 |
Building on the success of its YouTube channel, MOCAtv -- which features original documentaries, interviews with artists and an animated series and has more than 150,000 subscribers internationally -- the Museum of Contemporary Art is broadening its digital reach. On Wednesday, MOCA launched a new membership campaign, “Art is for You,” aimed at a digitally savvy audience. The campaign “is designed to appeal directly to a broad local and international audience actively participating in contemporary visual culture through social media channels,” the museum said in a statement.
May 22, 1992 |
Tuesday night at the Hollywood Athletic Club was quite a scene according to manager Ian Gray. It all started when Demi Moore arrived, more than seven hours late, to meet mega photographer Annie Leibovitz for a Vanity Fair magazine photo session. Moore, by the way, was covered in head-to-toe body paint--and little else. Husband Bruce Willis and baby were on hand to watch. Only seconds after that entrance, Grammy guy Michael Bolton waltzed in with professional arm piece, Brooke Shields.
January 30, 2003 |
THE president's face seems to be everywhere these days, and while the red states may be pleased as punch, his image is not a source of mirth to some in the Los Angeles arts community. Around here, George W. Bush's smile seems to hang in the air like one of Warhol's Brillo Pad boxes circa 1978 -- abrasive to some but ubiquitous as well.
November 21, 1999 |
What do surfwear maker Quiksilver, AIDS, laptops and hip-hop have in common? All have had an enormous impact on the way we live today, say Paper magazine founders Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits. A New York-based glossy magazine that began life as a black-and-white fold-out poster, Paper has defined what is hip before it gets trendy.
February 4, 2005 |
Twenty years after the term New Wave was used to describe the iconoclastic French cinema of the late 1950s and early '60s but before the name became a commercially viable radio format in the '80s, it described the avant-garde hipsters of Lower Manhattan.
May 18, 1986 |
Spring in the city was as capricious as a courtesan by Colette, warm and seductive, biting as sarcasm, drenching as angry tears. A radiant afternoon snapped into a night that made a California visitor feel like a naked baby. The idea of venturing down into the blight of East 14th Street was as attractive as an Arctic swim, especially since the target establishment is the sort of place that keeps its patrons waiting on line for hours unless they are named Mick or Bianca or Andy.
October 29, 1989 |
Since the searchlights started snapping on all over the environment, no issue has become more visible than the destruction of the world's tropical rain forests. In the last four decades, more than half the forests in Amazonia, West Africa and Southeast Asia have quietly been eradicated, making room for cattle ranching, logging, hydroelectric projects, and, most recently, a Wild West-style rampage of gold miners, bringing mercury contamination to the jungle's rivers and food chain.

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named to the dial and detailed Foncine-le-bas', centre seconds and alarm offering a choice of Grande and Petite Sonnerie striking or silence, selected by a lever at the bottom of the dial, the external striking work is arranged on the back movement plate as is the spring barrel for the pull-wound alarm. Concealed beneath the base are the hammers and bells. The cylinder platform escapement is signed 'Fumey'. C.1835-40. Note: This clock illustrated and detailed in 'Carriage Clocks Their History and Development' by Charles Allix 1974, pg.151.


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Seth's first published comics work was as an illustrator on the short-lived series Mister X, but he soon moved to his own series, Palookaville (published by Drawn and Quarterly), which was part of a miniature boom in non-genre alternative comics from Canada in the 1990s. Seth, Chester Brown, and Joe Matt not only also began their own semi-autobiographical series at the same time, but were friends and sometimes depicted each other in their stories. Palookaville began as a low-key chronicle of the artist's daily life, but moved on to longer and more ambitious stories, including what was later collected as the graphic novel It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken—an apparently autobiographical tale which was actually fiction.
Seth is also a popular magazine illustrator and book designer.
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A suspected female drug peddler was killed in a gunfight between two groups of drug dealers at Kharangkhali area in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early Sunday.
The deceased was Somuda Begum, 40, hailed from Satghoriapara of the upazila.
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The OC also said, "We assume the killing was a result of internal conflict between drug peddlers. A case will be lodged in this regard."
Police seized 10,000 yaba pills from her possession, he added.
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Police sources said the victim was the accused in two cases under the Narcotics Control Act.

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After what has been an unusually mild and rainy winter for Eastern Massachusetts, the Boston area saw a significant amount of snow on Monday.
On Monday, a strong snowstorm made its way through New England and is producing heavy snowfall over Boston going into the evening.
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Structural Change, Productivity and Employment in the New EU Member States
No 313, wiiw Research Reports from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw
This paper provides an overview of longer-term structural developments in the new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at macro level and within the individual industries. With the transformational recession of the early 1990s left behind, the majority of the NMS embarked on a path of rapid economic growth during the past decade. They have experienced an impressive productivity catching-up, both at the macroeconomic level and in the manufacturing industry in particular. Yet in most NMS the growth of labour productivity went hand in hand with declining employment, and even with considerable job losses in the manufacturing industry. The structural changes observed during the past decade brought the NMS' economies nearer to the economic structure observed in the EU-15, but the shifts of labour among individual sectors or industries themselves did not have any marked impact on aggregate productivity growth. Similar to the EU-15, the recent productivity catching-up observed in the NMS resulted overwhelmingly from across-the-board productivity improvements in individual sectors of the economy while employment shifts among sectors had only a negligible effect on aggregate productivity growth. Notwithstanding fast productivity catching-up, the estimated productivity levels indicate that NMS are in this respect still lagging considerably behind the EU 15 economies, implying a huge catching-up potential. The estimated elasticity of employment to production growth is low in all NMS; the recently observed and expected rates of economic growth will in all likelihood not be sufficient for the creation of additional jobs. The required further productivity convergence with the EU-15 may thus be in conflict with the urgently needed employment growth in the NMS; net job creation occurred in just a few services sectors and could not offset the job losses in agriculture and industry. Countries covered Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania Topics Labour and Migration; International Trade and Competitiveness; Industry
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With 19 New England Patriots on the this week’s injury report, the team made a few roster moves yesterday. The Patriots activated CB Jack Jones and ST Cody Davis to the 53-man roster. New England also elevated two practice squad players to the active roster. WR Jalen Reagor and DT Trysten Hill received promotions in advance of today’s game against the Buffalo Bills.
Jones and Davis began the season on IR and PUP respectively. If they are active for today’s game, it will be their first action of the season. Three is the maximum number of times a player is allowed to be elevated to the active roster. After three, the player needs to be signed to a regular roster spot in order to play in a game. Sunday marks Raegor’s third elevation this season. This is Hill’s first time being elevated from the practice squad since signing.
Plus AJ Epenesa, Mike McDaniel, Zach Wilson and more in today’s edition of Patriots Daily…
New England Patriots
Patriots Football Now – Mike Vrabel and Dante Scarnecchia join the Patriots Hall of Fame
Patriots Football Now – Legendary sportswriter Bob Ryan joins the negative sports media movement
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ESPN – AJ Epenesa‘s breakout comes at opportune time for Buffalo Bills defense
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— Dan Kelley (@DanKelley66) April 26, 2020
The Sporting News – How Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel getting sober helped him achieve his dreams
The Jets Press – Former NFL stars praise New York Jets QB Zach Wilson on Inside the NFL
ESPN – Inside the complicated rivalry of Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa and Eagles QB Jalen Hurts
NFL.com – Eagles activate Julio Jones to roster for Sunday Night Football
CBS Sports – Ten players who need to be traded soon (NFL Trade Deadline)
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Fun Fact of the Day
There are 1,339 players who have played in an NFL game for the Buffalo Bills. But how many Bills have played for the Buffalo Bills? The 16 ‘Buffalo Bills’ listed by games played:
68 Bill Conaty (1997-2002)
53 Bill Brooks (1993-1995)
47 Bill Adams (1972-1978)
39 Bill Simpson (1980-1982)
27 Bill Envart (1969-1970)
26 Bill Acker (1983-1984)
20 Bill Cahill (1973-1974)
14 Bill Dunstan (1977)
14 Bill Miller (1964)
10 Bill Hurley (1983)
7 Bill McKinley (1971)
7 Bill Munson (1978-1979)
3 Bill Groman (1964-1965)
2 Bill Shockley (1961)
1 Bill Callahan (1987)
1 Bill Laskey (1965)
Apologies to any Buffalo players named Billy, Billy Joe, William, Will or Guillermo. Only Bills qualified for this list; they are the Bills, not the Billys).
Tweet of the Day
Today’s PFN Tweet of the Day comes from Boston Sports Burners (@Logan_Pats) showing Bill Belichick’s impersonation of Dante Scarnecchia during yesterday’s New England Patriots Hal of Fame ceremony. Nice to remind people that Belichick is still a human being who actually has a good sense of humor…
Bill Belichick for once actually showing emotion for once is a weird sight. pic.twitter.com/zJnzVAjJlb
— Boston Sports Burners (@Logan_Pats) October 21, 2023


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This week's message is from the realm of Unicorns. It is ~ Creative.
Draw, paint, think, and act in creative ways.
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Electronic signature platform DocuSign has raised $47.5 million in Series D funding. The round was first revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the company just sent me a few details.
DocuSign has also confirmed that Mary Meeker, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner (and former Morgan Stanley analyst) who’s most famous for her reports on the mobile industry, is joining the DocuSign board. It looks likely that Kleiner led the new round, but neither DocuSign nor Kleiner has confirmed that. (For now, the company will only say that the funding comes from “premier investors, public funds, and strategic tech-industry leaders.”)
Founded in 2004, DocuSign describes itself as “the industry standard in electronic signature” — and that’s probably a fair description. The company says 18 million people have used its products to sign 120 million documents, and that more than 150,000 documents are “DocuSigned” every day.
DocuSign previously raised a total of $56.4 million from Frazier Technology Ventures, Ignition Partners, Sigma Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Salesforce.com, and others, with its Series C announced in December 2010.
I’ll be speaking to CEO Keith Krach later today and will update this post with his comments.
Update: Krach confirms that Kleiner led the round. Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, SAP Ventures, and “a large global institutional investor” also participated.
DocuSign will use the new funding to invest in three main areas, Krach says — research and development, expanding into new industries, and expanding internationally.
Apparently Krach and Meeker have known each other since Ariba (where he was CEO) went public more than a decade ago, when she was at Morgan Stanley. Asked whether Meeker is approaching this as a mobile investment primarily, Krach says the company’s mobile apps are “absolutely taking off.” At the same time, he says Meeker’s also just looking for disruptive technologies.
“By the second half of this decade, the vast majority of signatures are going to be electronic,” Krach says. “Every person is a potential customer.”
(Also, an earlier version of the story said the amount raised was $50 million, because that’s what DocuSign said initially, but the press release says $47.5 million, which was also the amount included in the SEC filing.)

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Above is a photograph of purple spiny flowers. It can inspire poetry. Here are some ideas:
- This plant is a weed, yet still looks nice. A poet could notice that, and see symbolism for a poem.
- The flowers have what seem to be spiny petals, but they don’t look firm or sharp. This idea of something looking potential damaging, and yet possibly not being damaging, could be used in poetry.
- A poet could write about someone receiving or giving purple flowers.
- The look of the flowers must serve some purpose. For example, they might attract a certain kind of insect or catch pollen in the wind. A poet could write about the structure of something having a purpose. “Structure” could be thought of broadly and applied to many things.
Above is a photograph of cone shaped flowers (their name is unknown to M. Sakran). It can inspire poetry. For example, a poet could write about:
- Three people, one an adult and two children.
- The idea of going from muted to bright, as inspired by the color change of the central flower.
- The idea of being different, inspired by the idea that these three flowers don’t have a “typical” flower shape.
- Something to do with cones, for example ice cream cones or traffic cones.
As an example, here is a poem inspired by this photograph:
Is standing out,
or something bad?
have been heard.
things are not adages,
To stand out,
amongst the others,
is something whose effect,
One will know,
when they find themselves,
standing in the rain,
or in the sun.
This is a photograph of light pink flowers. Here is a poem inspired by it:
She smelled the flowers,
and her eyes turned pink,
This is a photograph of West Indian Lantana. It can inspire poetry. Here is a poem inspired by it:
He brought her the bouquet,
of pink and yellow flowers,
Dragonfly is a three syllable word with a stress pattern of: high, low, medium. This idea is used here to make an experimental poetry form.
The form is ten lines. Each line has three syllables. Those syllables follow the same stress pattern as dragonfly. Ideally the poem should make sense as it flows.
Here is an example poem:
This artwork is of black and white flowers. Originally, it was made using multiple colored pencils. It was then scanned and computer altered to give the affect shown. There are some interesting ideas in this artwork that can inspire poetry.
One idea is the idea of incompleteness. This artwork has an incomplete quality to it. There are no colors besides black and white. It is missing those other colors. Also, parts of it are grainy. They are not complete. This idea could inspire poetry that includes this idea. Using the idea of black and white flowers a poet could, for example, write a poem that shows incomplete scenes of a funeral. Giving only so much information, could add to the effect.
Another idea is the idea of being black and white. Only two contrasting colors are shown. There is a certain minimalism to it. This idea could transfer to poetry. A poet could take something complex, but only focus on two contrasting ideas about it, while leaving other details out. For example, a poet could write about a baby being born. They could focus on the two contrasting ideas of before and after birth. The poem could look at those ideas singularly. It could view them in a minimal way.
A third idea, is obviously the idea of flowers. There are many poem ideas that can come from flowers.
A fourth idea is the idea that these flowers are weeds. They are not cultivated flowers. This is possibly different from other artworks of flowers. This idea of focusing on something that is considered by some to be less or bad could be used in poetry.
all the side effects
is this feeling one of them?
flower petals fall
todo el efecto secundarios
¿es este sentimiento uno de los?
pétalos de flor caen
The wildflowers are back,
little white ones,
that look like pea flowers,
that look like trumpets,
pale yellow ones,
that are growing on the ground,
and bright yellow ones,
growing on trees.
There have been some orange ones,
and little dandelions,
and maybe soon,
some blue ones.
The wildflowers are back.
Above is a photograph of two white flowers. It can inspire poetry. Here is a poem inspired by it:
Standing at the door,
ringing the bell,
bouquet in hand
This is a photograph of pea flowers. When thinking of a pea plant, a person may not focus on the flowers. It may be more usual to focus on the plants as a whole or the peas. The flowers could possibly be seen as just a stage before the peas and not be seen as having any significance themselves. This photograph however, focuses on the flowers.
One way this photograph can inspire poetry, is by inspiring a poet to look for the overlooked in something. For example, a poet might see a photograph of a wedding party. Rather than focusing on the bride or groom, their family or guests, a poet might choose to focus on one of the wait staff in the background. This might provide a new perspective. This same idea could apply to many situations.


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Doug Barrett | Jun 29, 2020 AT 8:08 am
Outdoor visitation and limited indoor communal activities for residents in long-term care facilities are rapidly being allowed at most North Dakota facilities. Of the state's 212 of the 218 long-term care facilities in the state have been approved to move into Phase 1, and 35 facilities have entered Phase 2. Advocates are still pushing for some changes regarding the state's reopening plan to allow for more indoor family visitation, including indoor visits with nursing home residents who are not in end-of-life situations but whose conditions are clinically deteriorating due to coronavirus-related isolation or depression.


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Beautiful base in mahogany wood for poletops or trophies, with velvet in the lower part.Entirely made in Italy.
Beautiful bracelet of the Ettore Muti Black Brigade, consisting of a plate and 10 side links.Perfect reproduction of the original.
Beautiful Fascist Beam reproduced from an original. Screw included. Suitable for the handles of the "Becco d'Aquila" dagger.
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Letter opener of a Bayonet of the 183rd "Nembo" paratroopers regiment
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The pendant was made in 1944, as a commemorative medal for the cadets who participated to the 1st course at the Vicenza School of G.N.R.It was worn attached to a leather strap on the pocket button or as a key ring.

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Wooden garden furniture are tough and sturdy and can definitely accommodate your family’s outdoor activities for many years. If you know how to properly look after your furniture, you can expect them to last for years and perhaps even pass them onto the next generation.
Another type of personality prefers to include ergonomic chairs which are designed to be comfortable to the body when resting in it. It is easy and relaxing to the contour and movement of the body. This style is usually favored by people who are in their old ages and who wish to lavish and enjoy the greeneries that surround them as well as the moderate warmth of the sun touching their skin. A footrest is usually included to allow the feet to stretch and rest along with the body. Loveseats are definitely a couple’s choice. These are for the romantic personality especially for newly-weds. They furnish their garden with furniture and other outdoor chairs and arrange to achieve a romantic setting. The above examples of outdoor chairs are usually made of wood such as rattan, wicker or cypress because of their resistance to weather changes, dampness and heat, as well as durability to last for a long period of time depending on how they are taken care of and maintained.
The most common materials that these chairs can be found in are plastic, wood, and steel or iron. The plastic variety is much for affordable than the other options, but it is far less durable. Wooden chairs have a nice look to them and are hardy, but wood rot can happen over time. Steel or iron chairs can rust if they are not stainless, though the wrought iron styles are very attractive and work perfectly for most contemporary designed homes.
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|Part of the Eastern Front of World War II|
Soviet prisoners of war in the Crimea, 6 November 1941
|Commanders and leaders|
| 11th Army |
Romanian 3rd Army
| 51st Army |
Separate Coastal Army
|Casualties and losses|
|30,000 dead, wounded or missing|| 65,000 captured|
212 Vehicles destroyed
1 cargo ship sunk
The Crimea Campaign was an eight-month-long campaign by Axis forces to conquer the Crimea peninsula, and was the scene of some of the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front during World War II. The German, Romanian, and defending Soviet troops suffered heavy casualties as the Axis forces tried to advance through the Isthmus of Perekop linking the Crimean peninsula to the mainland at Perekop, from summer of 1941 through to the first half of 1942.
Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast. It is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson, to which it is connected by the Isthmus of Perekop, and west of the Russian region of Kuban, from which it is separated by the Strait of Kerch though linked by the Crimean Bridge. The Arabat Spit is located to the northeast, a narrow strip of land that separates a system of lagoons named Sivash from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to its west is Romania and to its south Turkey.
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It has been known as the Great Patriotic War in the former Soviet Union and modern Russia, while in Germany it was called the Eastern Front, or the German-Soviet War by outside parties.
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
From 26 September 1941 the German 11th Army and troops from the Romanian Third Army and Fourth Army were involved in the fighting, opposed by the Red Army's 51st Army and elements of the Black Sea Fleet. After the campaign, the peninsula was occupied by Army Group A with the 17th Army as its major subordinate formation.
The 11th Army was a World War II field army.
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the southeast, Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi), Romania is the 12th largest country and also the 7th most populous member state of the European Union, having almost 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, and Brașov.
The 3rd Army was a field army of the Romanian Land Forces active from the 19th century to the 1990s. It fought as part of the German Army Group B during World War II, in Ukraine, the Crimea, and the Caucasus. General Petre Dumitrescu commanded 3rd Army for a period.
Once the Axis (German and Romanian troops) broke through, they occupied most of Crimea, with the exception of the city of Sevastopol, which was given the title of Hero City for its resistance, and Kerch, which was recaptured by the Soviets during an amphibious operation near the end of 1941 and then taken once again by the Germans during Operation Bustard Hunt on 8 May. The Siege of Sevastopol lasted 250 days from 30 October 1941 until 4 July 1942, when the Axis finally captured the city.
Sevastopol is the largest city on the Crimean Peninsula and a major Black Sea port. The city is administered as a federal city of the Russian Federation following Crimea's annexation by Russia in 2014, though Ukraine and most of the UN member countries continue to regard Sevastopol as a city with special status within Ukraine.
Hero City is a Soviet honorary title awarded for outstanding heroism during World War II. It was awarded to twelve cities of the Soviet Union. In addition, the Brest Fortress was awarded an equivalent title of Hero Fortress. This symbolic distinction for a city corresponds to the individual distinction Hero of the Soviet Union.
Kerch is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of the Crimea. Population: 147,033 .
In the early hours of 6 November, the Romanian submarine Delfinul torpedoed and sank the Soviet 1,975-ton cargo ship Uralets four miles South of Yalta. The submarine was subsequently attacked by Soviet forces but she followed a route along the Turkish coast and managed to evade up to 80 depth charges, before safely arriving in the port of Constanța on 7 November.
NMS Delfinul was a Romanian submarine that served in the Black Sea during the Second World War. It was the first submarine of the Romanian Navy, built in Italy under Romanian supervision.
Yalta is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Yalta Municipality, one of the regions within Crimea. Population: 76,746 .
Constanța, historically known as Tomis, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Romania. It was founded around 600 BC. The city is located in the Northern Dobruja region of Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of Constanța County and the largest city in the region of Dobruja.
Sevastapol, the main object of the campaign, was surrounded by German forces and assaulted on 30 October 1941. German troops were repulsed by a Soviet counterattack. Later, many troops who had been evacuated from Odessa contributed to the defence of Sevastopol. The Germans then began an encirclement of the city. Other attacks on 11 November and 30 November, in the eastern and southern sections of the city, failed. German forces were then reinforced by several artillery regiments, one of which included the railway gun Schwerer Gustav . Another attack on 17 December was repulsed at the last moment with the help of reinforcements and Soviet troops landed on the Kerch peninsula the day after Christmas, to relieve Sevastopol. The Soviet forces remained on the peninsula until a 9 April German counterattack. They held on for another month before being eliminated on 18 May. With the distraction removed, German forces renewed their assault on Sevastopol, penetrating the inner defensive lines on 29 June. Soviet commanders had been flown out or evacuated by submarine towards the end of the siege and the city surrendered on 4 July 1942, although some Soviet troops held out in caves outside of the city until 9 July.
Odessa is the third most populous city of Ukraine and a major tourism center, seaport and transportation hub located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. It is also the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast and a multiethnic cultural center. Odessa is sometimes called the "pearl of the Black Sea", the "South Capital", and "Southern Palmyra". Before the Tsarist establishment of Odessa, an ancient Greek settlement existed at its location as elsewhere along the northwestern Black Sea coast. A more recent Tatar settlement was also founded at the location by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea in 1440 that was named after him as "Hacıbey". After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, Hacibey and surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529 and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792.
Schwerer Gustav was a German 80-centimetre (31.5 in) railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Darłowo as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications in existence at the time. The fully assembled gun weighed nearly 1,350 tonnes, and could fire shells weighing 7 t to a range of 47 km (29 mi). The gun was designed in preparation for the Battle of France, but was not ready for action when the battle began, and in any case the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg offensive through Belgium rapidly outflanked and isolated the Maginot Line's static defenses, eventually forcing the French to surrender and making their destruction unnecessary. Gustav was later deployed in the Soviet Union during the Battle of Sevastopol, part of Operation Barbarossa, where, among other things, it destroyed a munitions depot located roughly 30 m (98 ft) below ground level. The gun was moved to Leningrad, and may have been intended to be used in the Warsaw Uprising like other German heavy siege pieces, but the rebellion was crushed before it could be prepared to fire. Gustav was destroyed by the Germans near the end of the war in 1945 to avoid capture by the Soviet Red Army.
Christmas is an annual festival, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is preceded by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an octave. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season centered around it.
In 1944, the Crimea was recaptured by troops of the 4th Ukrainian Front during the Crimean Offensive (8 April 1944 – 12 May 1944) and its three sub-operations:
The 4th Ukrainian Front was the name of two distinct Red Army strategic army groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.
The Crimean Offensive, known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, was a series of offensives by the Red Army directed at the German-held Crimea. The Red Army's 4th Ukrainian Front engaged the German 17th Army of Army Group A, which consisted of Wehrmacht and Romanian formations. The battles ended with the evacuation of the Crimea by the Germans. German and Romanian forces suffered considerable losses during the evacuation.
The Isthmus of Perekop is the narrow, 5–7 kilometres (3.1–4.3 mi) wide strip of land that connects the Crimean Peninsula to the mainland of Ukraine. The isthmus is located between the Black Sea to the west and the Sivash to the east. The isthmus takes its name of Perekop from the Tatar fortress of Or Qapi.
The Siege of Sevastopol also known as the Defence of Sevastopol or the Battle of Sevastopol was a military battle that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. The campaign was fought by the Axis powers of Germany, Romania, and Italy against the Soviet Union for control of Sevastopol, a port in the Crimea on the Black Sea. On 22 June 1941 the Axis invaded the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. Axis land forces reached the Crimea in the autumn of 1941 and overran most of the area. The only objective not in Axis hands was Sevastopol. Several attempts were made to secure the city in October and November 1941. A major attack was planned for late November, but heavy rains delayed it until 17 December 1941. Under the command of Erich von Manstein, Axis forces were unable to capture Sevastopol during this first operation. Soviet forces launched an amphibious landing on the Crimean peninsula at Kerch in December 1941 to relieve the siege and force the Axis to divert forces to defend their gains. The operation saved Sevastopol for the time being, but the bridgehead in the eastern Crimea was eliminated in May 1942.
Below is the timeline of the events of the Eastern Front of World War II, the conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945.
The Battle of Rostov (1941) was a battle of the Eastern Front of World War II, fought around Rostov-on-Don between the Army Group South of Nazi Germany and the Southern Front of the Soviet Union.
The Battle of the Caucasus is a name given to a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus area on the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, Russia, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union, and the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku, to the Germans. Two days prior, Adolf Hitler issued a directive to launch such an operation into the Caucasus region, to be named Operation Edelweiß. German forces were compelled to withdraw from the area that winter as Operation Little Saturn threatened to cut them off.
The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, which commenced with the Soviet Kerch-Feodosia landing operation and ended with the German Operation Bustard Hunt, was a World War II battle between Erich von Manstein's German and Romanian 11th Army and the Soviet Crimean Front forces in the Kerch Peninsula, in the eastern part of the Crimea. It began on 26 December 1941 with an amphibious landing operation by two Soviet armies intended to break the Siege of Sevastopol. Axis forces first contained the Soviet beachhead throughout the winter and interdicted its naval supply lines through aerial bombing. From January through April, the Crimean Front launched repeated offensives against the 11th Army, all of which failed with heavy losses. The Red Army lost 352,000 men in the attacks, while the Axis suffered 24,120 casualties. Superior German artillery firepower was largely responsible for the Soviet debacle.
The German Seventeenth Army was a World War II field army.
The Battle of the Sea of Azov, also known as the Chernigovka pocket was an Axis military campaign fought between 26 September 1941 and 11 October 1941 on the northern shores of the Sea of Azov on the Eastern Front of World War II during Operation Barbarossa. It resulted in a complete Axis victory over the Red Army.
The Kerch–Eltigen Operation was a World War II amphibious offensive made in November 1943 by the Red Army as a precursor to the Crimean Offensive, with the object of defeating and forcing the withdrawal of the German forces from the Crimea. Landing at two locations on the Crimea's eastern coast, the Red Army successfully reinforced the northern beachhead of Yenikale but was unable to prevent an Axis counterattack that collapsed the southern beachhead at Eltigen. Subsequently, the Red Army used the beachhead at Yenikale to launch further offensive operations into the Crimea in May 1944.
The Crimea Shield was a World War II German military decoration awarded to military personnel under the command of Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein who fought against Soviet Red Army forces and captured the Crimea region between 21 September 1941 and 4 July 1942. It was instituted on 25 July 1942. It was the most widely distributed of the various German shields with approximately 250,000 being awarded.
The Black Sea Campaigns were the operations of the Axis and Soviet naval forces in the Black Sea and its coastal regions during World War II between 1941 and 1944, including in support of the land forces.
In Soviet historiography, Stalin's ten blows were the ten successful strategic offensives conducted by the Red Army in 1944 during World War II. The Soviet offensives drove the Axis forces from Soviet territory and precipitated Nazi Germany's collapse.
The Separate Coastal Army was an army-level unit in the Red Army that fought in World War II. It was ordered to be established on July 18, 1941 by the order of the Southern Front from the forces of 9th Army’s Coastal Group and was stood up on July 20, 1941.
Mount Sapun or Sapun Ridge is a 240 m high ridge to the southeast of Sevastopol, situated on the disputed Crimean peninsula.
The Crimean Front was one of the Red Army fronts of World War II. It was commanded throughout its existence by Dmitr Timofeyevich Kozlov, and was made up of the Soviet 44th, 47th, and 51st Armies. It also had operational control over the North Caucasus Military District, the Black Sea Fleet, the Sevastopol Defence Region, the Azov Flotilla, and Kerch Naval Base.
The 87th Guards Rifle Division was created on April 16, 1943, from the veterans of the 300th Rifle Division, in recognition of that division's leading role in the penetration of the German/Romanian defenses south of Stalingrad in the opening stages of Operation Uranus, its subsequent defense against Army Group Don's attempt to relieve the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, and later for its pursuit of the defeated German forces along the Don River to Rostov-na-Donu as far as the Mius River. The 87th Guards continued a record of distinguished service through the rest of the Great Patriotic War, first in the southern sector of the front, where it participated in the liberation of the Donbass region and the Crimea, and then, after a major redeployment, in the north-central sector, advancing through the Baltic states and into East Germany. After the war it was restructured into a rifle brigade, before being reestablished as 87th Guards Rifle Division in October, 1953. In June, 1957, it was reorganized as a motor rifle division, but appears to have been disbanded in 1959.
The 390th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. It was formed twice, first in August 1941, and after its destruction in 1942, re-formed in 1944.
The Romanian Navy during World War II was the main Axis naval force in the Black Sea and fought against the Soviet Union's Black Sea Fleet from 1941 to 1944. Operations consisted mainly in mine warfare, but also escort missions and localized naval engagements. The largest naval action fought by the Romanian Navy was the 26 June 1941 Raid on Constanța, and its most extensive operation was the 1944 evacuation of the Crimea.
The Evacuation of the Crimea was an event in the Russian Civil War in November 1920, in which White forces evacuated over sea the Crimean Peninsula, their last stronghold on the Southern Front, bringing an end to the fighting on that Front.