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12:35 AM. She took a long drag from her cigarette, Sinatra’s smooth timbre crooning about love in the background, as thunder rumbled heartily outside, accompanied by jagged flashes of sharp lightning that streaked the rainy midnight skies.
Sitting alone on a tall creaky barstool and leaning by the countertop almost choreographically, cigarette held quaintly on one hand and poised with a radiating air of regality, the intriguing charm and the allure of the mysterious woman had an effect that made heads turn, eyes pop, and hearts beat out of their chambers. She had a stunning slim figure, the short black silk dress that she wore flattering her form breathtakingly, fabric glistening with water droplets that shimmered under the low sodium lights. Her usually cascading honey-blonde hair, now pulled back in a tight bun, dripped water onto the dirty black-and-white checkered linoleum floor; the occasional stray strands she blew away from her porcelain-smooth face. Her delicate hands were quaint and slender, her glinting sharp nails painted a perfect cherry-red. Her flawless lissome legs were crossed quite exquisitely, bright five-inch scarlet stilettos almost—but not quite—touching the floor.
With smoky grey eyelids, thin streaks of perfectly applied eyeliner that ended in a slight curl, and pencilled eyebrows arched ever so slightly in a manner of allusion, she observed with drooped caramel-coloured eyes, scanning heedlessly in a state of curious ennui, her sophisticatedly jaded gaze passing all throughout the small room, before returning to pay attention only to her cigarette and ignoring the simmering brewed coffee that sat on the marble countertop, waiting patiently in front of her.
The old dingy 24-hour diner, as the woman noted, was virtually empty, some worn-down plush red chairs and neon decorated vinyl booths that have already lost their colour occupied by a small motley crew of shady figures, nocturnal regulars, and one or two lost souls that got caught in the unpleasant weather and found no other roof to huddle under, simply waiting for the rain to pass. A green and yellow broken fluorescent sign flickered tepidly by the glass door, inviting everyone that might pass by the diner that the said establishment was “_PEN”.
The barkeep, a hairy overweight man in his late 50’s, with thin wispy hair and several balding spots, a gruff military demeanour, and a permanently stained white apron, was sitting hunched in a dimmer corner of the place, scratching his liver spots while absentmindedly flicking through a day-old newspaper. Occasionally, he would also chance to shoot the mysterious woman quick furtive glances, then he would resound a guttural harrumph from the back of his gravelly throat and resume turning the pages, as if she wouldn’t have noticed.
She merely disregarded the barkeep’s lewd pervading eyes, very much accustomed to the uncalled-for attention, and continued occupying herself with her cigarette, taking a prolonged drag, breathing in the fumes deeply, and, upon exhaling, blowing plumes of smoke out of her puckered ruby lips, the grey tendrils curling up and creating intricate abstract patterns before dissipating into thin air. She peered at them with daydream-gloss eyes, as if lost in a train of thoughts.
“Got caught in the rain, dintcha, hun?” A voice suddenly interrupted her convoluted reverie, a silky baritone voice, almost purring and sounding ever so close to her right ear. Alarmingly close.
Startled by the intrusion, she snapped out of her slight trance and swiveled her head towards the distraction, gossamer flaxen tresses fanning softly with loose strands of hair, chin tilting up haughtily in slow motion, welcoming the intruder with her finest chatoyant glare. What greeted her sight was a lanky and weather-beaten man with a comical wolfish grin, possibly in his mid-40’s, donning a grey flannel suit that was even more so drenched than she.
Strange, she thought warily. This man snuck up on me. She hadn’t noticed that he positioned himself next to her. Matter of fact, she didn’t even hear the rusty wind chime by the door tinkle to signify his entrance. She shook her head infinitesimally to clear her mind, and glanced at the man unsurely. He looked back at her with one brow raised and a half smile, as if expecting an answer.
“You did, dintcha? Caught in the rain, I mean?” He repeated.
“And so were you, my dear gentleman.” She pointedly replied, speaking for the first time since she entered that diner, her voice husky and sweet, like soft cream dissolving in hot coffee.
He simply laughed heartily, either failing to catch, or choosing not to notice, her indignant tone. “That obvious, huh?”
Setting his wet trilby hat on the countertop, the man ran a rough hand through his slicked-back salt-and-pepper hair, drops of water mixed with greasy hair product falling from the tips, and shook himself off like a newly-bathed dog. With that, he sat next to the woman, the barstool making a groan of protest under his heavy weight, and began telling a story that frankly, no one asked to hear.
“Yeah, we got some real nasty weather outside. Been livin’ round these parts for what, a year now?, and I haven’t this dammed town pour down like this in ages. And I was just coming home from business. Usually don’t stay out this long, god knows how terrible overtime can get, but that damn Andriacchi, ballsy as ever, took long strides that w’aint even in the contract, making it take far too long to seal the deal. Had to wait the entire thing out, nearly whacked Andre, as we called him in the office, several times, but he thank his God I didn’t, and by luck of all bad lucks, damn rain had caught me before I could even attempt to catch a bus.”
The woman smiled politely at his lengthy narration but said nothing in reply, looking down and pretending to be engrossed in her cherry-red nails.
But despite her blatantly-obvious disinterest to carry on the conversation, the man still persisted. “And how about you, my dear lady? What were you doing before this raging storm came to claim the land?”
The woman sighed inwardly. This man is becoming a bit too nosy for comfort, she thought. But she didn’t wish to come off as rude, so she decided to play along.
“Oh, I was waiting for someone. Nothing much in need of attention.” She replied, waving her hand with the cigar airily, fingers passing through silver smoke, her sultry voice slightly accentuated now. “My, I don’t have to tell the whole thing, do I?” She asked, placing a hand softly on her bosom and feigning slight horror at the discourse.
The man laughed his booming laugh once more, clearly amused with her little playact. “Not if you don’t want to, of course.”
The barkeep, who had been sneakily eavesdropping in their near one-sided conversation for a while now, set down his dogeared newspaper and decided to intervene. He set a meaty hand down forcefully on the countertop, rattling the cups and coasters placed on top of it, and brashly interrupted their chat. “Ey, look ‘ere man. Ye come ‘ere lookin’ fer pur’ty ladies te bother er ye gon’ order sometin’? If ya ain’t, then imma ‘ave ‘te kick ye out. I needa make ‘e livin’ here, an’ not simpl’y serve ‘es people’s glor’fied ‘mbrellas.”
The man raised his hands up in a sign of good faith and apologised in surrender. “Oh, I’m so sorry, my good man. I meant no harm, after all. I suppose I’ll have a cup of Joe, make that black. And nothing else at the moment, thanks very much.”
The disgruntled barkeep grumbled an undecipherable snarky retort in annoyance, mumbling profanities all the while, but grabbed a dusty chipped cup off the shelf and poured man some stale coffee anyways. Taking a brown-tinted towel that was hanging limply from his hulking shoulder, he started wiping the puddles of water off the countertop, very much tempted to knock off the man’s sodding hat onto the floor in the process, but he didn’t.
After pausing shortly to take a careful sip at the scalding black liquid, the man piped up once again, restarting his and the woman’s hanging small talk. “So…who’s this guy you’re waiting for? Someone special?” He smirked cheekily, as if thinking of insalubrious entendres, and teasingly suggested with a playful glint in his cold sapphire eyes, “Ah, your lover, perhaps?”
The woman nearly choked on the cigarette smoke at his brash rhetoric, but she managed to return to her insouciant composure. Exhaling trails of steam, she scornfully shook her head, perhaps a little too defensive in her denial, and blots of water flicked from her hair and dotted the recently-wiped countertop. The barkeep snorted disdainfully at this and roughly wiped off the quivering drams with a flick of the wrist, making his action prominent and loud and accompanied by more cussing under the breath and obnoxious muttering.
The woman ignored the irked barkeep and finally replied, “Oh no, no. Heavens, no. Nothing of that sort, thanks very much. Just an old relative who came to town, and I simply wanted to say hi. He wasn’t all too pleased with the prospect of seeing me though, and after a bit of bickering between us about petty things, we got into some exaggerated quarrel and a disagreement, and he hurried away to god knows where, leaving me to catch pneumonia in the rain.”
She said those last words lightly in jest, yet still with noticeable spite and suggestive bitter undertones between her gritted teeth.
″Bindle stiff didn’t even give you a ride home. Pigheaded uncultured prick.” The man only replied, his tone surprisingly dark now, his reddened hands slowly clenching tightly, the initial cheery ebullience in his personality gone and replaced with a furious seething vendetta. “What gives him the nerve to be abandoning such a beautiful lady such as you to get caught in such a harsh rain? If I ever see that guy’s face here, hell, he better run for his life ‘fore I go give him a good taste of this.” And he punctuated his sentence with a strained fist slammed loudly on the counter.
The plangent bang of his terse hand, accompanied by the clangorous rattling of their disturbed coffee cups, rang clear and sharp throughout the small space of the diner, throwing the midnight’s peace off its momentum, making everyone stop with their static chatter and grow suddenly quiet.
“Oi! Watch ‘de mahog’ny!” The barkeep scowled, waving the besmirched towel at the man threateningly. “Unless ye plan ‘te pay fer it, dun’ break it, ye snot-faced bast’erd.″ Some off-put onlookers glared at the man disdainfully and huffed rather condescendingly before going back to their meals and drinks.
The woman snuffed out her cigarette, faint traces of ashes adhering to her exquisite fingertips, and stared at the angry man almost frightfully. “Oh, dear me. I didn’t mean to upset you. I’m quite fine, really.” She said softly, her sultry voice dropping an octave, barely above an audible whisper.
The sound of her hushed tone immediately relaxed the man’s rage and pounding heart, and his sudden burst of anger died down. Removing his agitated fist from the countertop, he shot a sincere apologetic glance at the glaring barkeep, who was wiping some crystal glasses and muttering spitefully about the man (“Bad enuf’ ye’ swagger ‘ere an’ only order coffe’, naw, but ye gotta break sumthin’ too…”), before turning to look at the woman.
″I guess I should explain.″ The man said in an equally quiet voice. He sighed heavily, cleared his throat, and began to relay another tale again. And this time around, she decided to listen.
“I didn’t mean to—I, um, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have lost control. It’s just, my wife, she, uh, she recently…um, how’d you say this politely…right, she just recently passed away. And I was a wild man back then, I’d left her alone until the dawn breaks, but she’d keep waiting for me, waiting while I went on drinkin’ and having the time of my life with my buddies and messing around with chicks and all that. She was persistent, Katherine was. Waiting, waiting outside, peerin’ and lookin’ and starin’ out the windows hopefully to see me return, until one day, well, hah, one day, she were home alone, and some damn burglars burst in. Those thieving sons of bitches took everything. Even her life. And the bastards didn’t even leave her untouched.”
The man swallowed hard at the final word, his steady booming voice finally cracking and choking him up. The dark implications quickly dawned on the woman, the staggering impact of his story rendering her dumbfounded for once. He merely looked down at his coffee in shame, trying to hide his pained tears unsuccessfully, as she stared at him in surprise upon the revelation, her scarlet mouth slightly gaped, her almond-shaped eyes now rounder than an orange.
“And at the very end of it all, I was the one that was left waitin’.” He scoffed hollowly, sneering at his own morbid joke. “Karma, huh.”
“But it wasn’t…it wasn’t your fault.” The shocked woman tried vainly to console him, but he only buried his etched stone face deeper in the shadows and shook his head stubbornly, refusing to look at the woman’s glistening umber eyes.
“No. No matter how hard you try’n to spin it, it’s still all my fault, miss. I left her alone. I let her die. I let her wait forever. I let her be desecrated and killed by some filthy ten-cent thieves.”
The woman fell silent as he recovered from his despair and slowly straightened up, looking outside the windows, into the clashing darkness and water of the distant fallen night, remorseful regret replaced with newfound determination. “And now I swore to myself that I would protect any lady that I could, no matter what it takes. And I ain’t leaving no one waitin’ anymore.”
The woman finally managed to purse her hanging mouth closed, and she bit on her lower lip as she gazed at him with pitying yet understanding eyes. “That’s…tragic. It’s not much, but I’m very touched. Really, I am. I’m very sorry for your loss.” She didn’t know what quite to do, so she reached out a hesitant porcelain hand and patted his back comfortingly.
“I’m afraid to say though, that you can’t protect me anymore. It’s quite a bit too late for that, now. And you can’t be everyone’s avenging angel, you know. But that’s okay. You’re a noble man with a noble cause, that’s for sure.” She sincerely assured, then paused to consider. “If not coming off as a little nosy at times, that is.″
The man burst into a warm chuckle at her little chide, and the woman, glad to have lightened his spirits, smiled brightly in return, her ruby lips splitting open, showing him her perfect row of gleaming white teeth, smoky eyelined lids softly winking in assurance.
With that, the high-strung tension that initially enveloped the atmosphere was instantly broken, the casual background ambiance of the diner quickly returning again, with the pattering rain, amicably chattering costumers, and the hissing sizzle of the greasy grill accompanied by the starting drumbeats of Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon.
“Oh, I absolutely adore this song.” The woman gushed sultrily in awe, as she closed her eyes and started humming and swaying her head along to the jazzy tune, her comely countenance wistful as she listened intently, lost in the haze of the blaring trumpet notes.
The man smirked in affirmation. “I agree. Lemme tell you something, this Frank guy, everyone thought he wasn’t gonna be nothing, but now he definitely got his steppin’ stones on stardom out there. And he deserves it too, oh yes. Ol’ blue eyes’ voice is simply absolutely great, and what’s even better is that all the ladies love him.″ He stopped his tirade momentarily, derailed by an amusing thought. ″Y’know, tell you what, I could actually sing too.”
The woman only looked at him with coalescing disbelief and challenging eyes, a hint of a smile playing on her carmine lips. Without a moment’s hesitation, the man stood up and cleared his throat grandiosely to get the small crowd’s attention. Heads turned and watched as modulated his voice in faux preparation, placed his soaked trilby hat back on his head and tipped it angularly for an added jaunt and flair, and he gently took her elegant hands in his, suave as he gazed at her meaningfully and winked. The flustered woman couldn’t help but blush, her usually pale cheeks now a pleasant shade of tickled pink.
And with that buildup, the man opened his mouth and finally began to sing along.
“Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars…let me see what spring is like, on Jupiter and Mars…in other words, hold my hand…in other words, baby, kiss me…”
And indeed the man sang. Horribly off-key. Trying absurdly hard to imitate Sinatra’s sonorous smooth melodies, but utterly failing to do so, and instead ending up wailing like an insufferable beached whale, and once again causing a slight disturbance among the diner, not for the first and the last time in that rainy night.
The quick-tempered barkeep, vexingly exasperated and finally done in with the man’s bamboozling antics, heaved the dirty towel directly at the man’s face and, shaking a threatening meaty fist, hissed indignantly at him to “Pipe ‘de ‘ell down, will ya?!”. Several straying onlookers laughed under their breaths at the comical scene, welcome at the break from monotony, and more amused than annoyed.
The woman could only giggle at the man’s poor attempts to sing, and she laughed even harder at his slapstick attempts at removing the disgusting towel from his face. She pulled her hand away from his grasp to nudge him scoldingly as he stumbled backwards and nearly tripped, still partially blinded by the foul-smelling cloth.
“It was absolutely perfect until you opened your mouth. How could you do such a terrible thing to such a good song?” She chastised playfully, tutting disappointedly and wagging one painted finger at the man.
He joined in with her mirth and let out a small cheer as he finally managed to remove the antagonising towel from his visage, the woman clapping jestingly at his mini success. He tossed it away onto the counter, accepted her offer of a crumpled tissue, and wiped his face thoroughly with it, before returning to his seat and finally settling down. “Hey, I did say I could sing. I didn’t say could sing great.” He quipped.
With nothing else left to say, and lulled by the song’s instrumental interlude, they sat taciturn for several minutes, letting the song continue to play in peace, her eyes closed in contemplation and tapping her long cherry nails on the counter, him whistling along to the tune merrily as he drained his coffee cup to the very last drop and asked for a refill from the disgruntled barkeep. Finally, the woman decided to break the comfortable silence, and grazed the man on the shoulder.
“Here. Keep this for me, would you?” She requested, removing a simple golden ring from her hand and dropping it on his palm. “It was my grandma’s. I inherited it from her, and I was very dear with her, so this quite special to me. But well…call me absolutely mad for giving it away so easily, and to a complete stranger too, but somehow…I just really want you to have it.”
The man gaped blankly at the ring flashing back at him on his palm, unable to digest the news. “But…I can’t…I can’t accept this. What—what’s it for?” He blanched, trying to return the ring to her. She simply waved away his futile endeavour and took his calloused hand with the ring, balling it into a tight fist and patting it in finality.
“Oh no, don’t worry too much about it. I have no more use for this ring, honestly. And it’s highly possible that we never cross paths again, so I give to you as a present, as a memento, from the girl that you saved, to my avenging angel.” She said with a curious wink of her mocha eye. “Just trust me on this one, okay?”
Before the confused man could muster out a reply of thanks, the door of the diner suddenly opened with a prominent tinkling sound, interrupting their conversation.
Both heads turned to look as a stern-looking elderly man wearing a brown suit stepped in, tossing his soaked tweed jacket on the coat rack carelessly and placing his wet umbrella by the side of the doorway. His brown oak walking cane, lined with a streak of affluent gold at the side, made a rough tap-tap-tap sound as he walked briskly, impatiently making his way towards a nearby formica table, as if even the tiniest milliseconds of time was something he did not wish to waste.
But as soon as the old man spotted the woman staring at him very intently, he immediately stopped walking, his black beady eyes widening and threatening to pop out of their sockets, his wrinkled face turning deathly white, his austere personality morphing and revealing his vulnerability, as if he had seen a ghost.
The man noticed his startling expression in contrast the woman’s equally-terrified one, and his breath hitched at his windpipe at the realisation. He cleared his throat quietly, as if wishing to dislodge the growing hard lump in his throat, and leaned in closer to the riveted woman.
“…Is that him? The man who stood you up?” He asked cautiously, his voice low and urgent. The woman could only nod stiffly in reply, skin quivering faintly as her worried eyes were still locked upon the old man’s glare.
The old man’s cane made a startling clattering noise as it fell on the floor, resonating hollowly and juddering every patron’s soul. This sound seemed to give the old man a start, as he mustered up enough courage—or foolishness—to make use of his voice. “You…! But-but how could this possibly be—?!” The old man stuttered out. He pointed an accusing tremulous finger at the woman. “You’re supposed to be dead!”
The barkeep, whose mind was on automatic and had been rather engrossed in carrying on with his torpid tasks, finally took notice of the disturbance and stopped rearranging the newly-washed plates. He glowered in irritation at the old man. “Wossa big idea’r, eh?!” He snapped angrily. “Get de’ ‘ell outta ‘ere an’ bother some’un else, ya nasty geezer!”
Ignoring the frazzled barkeep’s immediate demands, the old man hastily reached for his back pocket, pulled out a .45 calibre gun, and pointed it directly towards the woman, trembling and continuously babbling some undecipherable chants, occasionally mumbling a more coherent death threat like “Dead!!! The dead should stay dead…” in a fit of insanity.
The usually-tough barkeep stepped back in alarming surprise at the procurement of the weapon, accidentally dropping a newly-washed plate, which shattered loudly on the linoleum floor.
The sound jolted the entire diner into action. Commotion and panic immediately arose. A morbidly obese woman wearing fake jewelry pearls clutched her purse and shrieked in fear. A worn-looking businessman snatched his briefcase from the floor and held it defensively. Someone, in their haste to try escaping from the madman, accidentally bumped into the still-playing jukebox, ceasing Sinatra’s croons at “Fill my heart with—”.
As the delirious shivering old man cocked the gun and fumbled with one unsteady hand to clutch the trigger, something in the man’s mind instantly snapped, and he stood up and fearlessly faced the armed old man with his chest puffed out, filled with a mélange of sheer bravado and unadulterated rage.
“Dead?! I’ll show you dead, you disgusting old creep!” He yelled out boldly, advancing aggressively towards the old man. With a strength he didn’t know he possessed, the man harshly pushed the gun’s muzzle away from his face, which, fortunately, was quite easy enough, for the old man was so severely shaken that he had trouble gripping it tightly. The man then pulled for the gun and yanked it out of the old man’s hands, dropped it cautiously on the floor, and kicked it away. He grabbed the insensible old man by his collar forcefully, lifted him a couple inches off the ground with one hand, and with a final burst of power, knocked him down to the ground with one swift powerful punch straight to the jaw using the other.
The old man lay there unconscious, and didn’t stir for quite some time.
The man, rubbing his sore knuckles gingerly, turned away from the knocked-out fellow and saw that the woman was already gone. Hearing the backdoor slam open, he impulsively grabbed at his pocket and threw a couple dimes at the countertop, grabbed for his still heavily-soaked tan trenchcoat—which made the coat rack fall loudly and spill its contents, and ran towards the sound to find her, ignoring the other fleeing customers’ frantic discordant shouts and pushing past the shocked barkeep, who was reaching with a visible shaky hand for the telephone to call the police.
His boiling blood was rushing wildly, his panicked heart was pounding deafeningly in his ears, his coursing adrenaline working its way to his body and legs as he ran against the frigid hurricane winds and the stinging blades of the raindrops, resolutely fighting against the chasm of the hysterical storm. He wanted to shout out to her, to call out her name, but much to his deep chagrin, he realised that he never asked her for it, nor was it given to him.
“Where are you?!” He bellowed in a fit of desperation, rain blurring and impairing his vision and seeing only occasional flashes and glimpses of the woman’s black dress, or her blonde hair, or her red shoes, teasing him, tossing him, taunting him to deliria, as he twisted left and right, darted down the abandoned streets, and crossed through dirty suspicious alleyways relentlessly.
After what seemed like hours of chasing mere spectres and thin air, the man finally came to a literal screeching stop, nearly slamming headfirst upon a tall graffiti-infested wall, and found himself standing in front of a dead end, quite literally. Mottled hairy rats scuttled about the blind alley harriedly, bits of trash and dust blew everywhere as they were caught in precipitous winds and torrents of flooding water alike, and a conglomeration of filthy skittering cockroaches were congregating by a soggy pizza box.
Panting, frustrated, drenched, worn-out, and severely tired, the man can only groan disappointedly in defeat, carelessly leaning his hand against the grimy wall to catch his breath and rest. But in doing so, he accidentally kicked aside a pile of waterlogged newspapers, and something that was just a little harder than paper.
Looking down at his ruined muddy pennyloafers, he saw shreds of torn paper, an empty plastic bag from a local grocery store…and a withering slender hand with a pale circular ring mark on one finger, long nails painted a perfect cherry-red, and fingers clutching a snuffed-out cigarette, sticking gracelessly out of yesterday’s headlines.
He threw his head back and screamed in consternation. The rats squealed. The cockroaches scattered. Thunder boomed angrily overhead. Shrill police sirens abruptly pierced through the soft pattering of the dripping water, as the dying rain slowly came to a tranquil stop, leaving only the echoing howls of both man and shearing wind.
And indeed, the dead woman who had been found under day-old headlines had become the new headline for the newspapers the very next day. WOMAN FOUND MURDERED IN AN ALLEYWAY, they all announced in bold and bright red uppercase letters, baiting for curious attention from the rushing passersby, tabloids and reliable sources alike propped up on newsstands and magazine stalls on every busy street that morning.
Supplying the specifics, the tawdry detail for detail articles mentioned that the victim’s name was Christine Emica Evans, 30 years old, an out-of-work actress from lower downtown. She was brutally raped before being finally murdered by her own uncle from her father’s side, Thomas Elcott. Elcott, 67 years old, was a ruthless and renowned businessman, infamous around the city and, according to several unaccounted rumours, a suspected honorary member of the Mafia. The dry monotone narration included snippets of quotes from the police, including one that stated the assumed reason for the crime was that Christine’s deceased father supposedly owed Thomas a huge sum of debt and she was not able to pay it under the given deadline, and they failed to talk it out and settle on a peaceful negotiation, instead getting on each others’ nerves and having a fallout.
Forensics estimated that she had been dead for about five hours before she was found. She was instantly killed by a bullet that entered her frontal cranium, passed through her brain, and exited the back of her head, at about 11:30 PM on Sunday. The suspect was found also dead inside Good Joe’s Diner in 6th Avenue, leaning against a wall, with a broken jaw, a .45 gun clutched limply in his left hand, and a bullet in his head. Several reliable witnesses attested that it was suicide, carried out by Thomas in a fit of madness after rousing into consciousness, only several moments after the anonymous man who broke his jaw fled from the scene.
Detectives interviewed all the scant customers and the shaken barkeep thoroughly. The barkeep, who was brought in for further questioning, recalled an unknown grey-suited man coming inside for some coffee, slamming his fist on his “preshu’s mahog’ny an’ marble count’er”, and singing rather horribly. He also gave the whole story of the incident, starting with Thomas entering the premises, pulling out a gun, the anonymous man punching Thomas in the face, Thomas falling unconscious, and the man paying for his drink before running away. He also conjured up some other distorted hazy recollections of “sumthin’ ’bout ‘e cigarette ‘er ‘e black dress, I t’ink, I ain’t sher”, and nothing more.
6:00 AM. A lone unnoticed figure was lingering around the recently-discovered crime scene, hunched behind a corner, a burning cigarette dangling loosely from the side of his cracked lips, peeking out by the side of the wall occasionally.
He silently watched and smoked from afar as the police worked at the cul-de-sac, taking notes, searching for further evidence, poking and prodding and taking photos of Christine’s cold lifeless body before carrying her away in a gurney unceremoniously. After several minutes of staring blankly, he finally managed to tear his eyes away from the grotesque scene, and, blowing smoke from out his nostrils, gazed down melancholically at the muddy tarnished golden ring that he was clutching in his hand.
Words failed to find themselves in his tongue, and he stood there silently, contemplating, assessing the ring with utmost concentration like a pawnbroker, until he managed to conjure up what he thought was a decent farewell.
“Well, I may not have saved your life…but I sure damn well avenged you. I reckon that’s enough.”
“Don’t you come waitin’ for me now.” He said, and with those final parting words, he dropped the cigarette and stepped on it, stuffed the ring carefully into his trenchcoat pocket, tipped back his trilby hat ever so slightly, and slowly walked onto the taut horizon’s languidly rising sunlight, peeking out from under the gloom, the faint intrusive police lights dissipating into the cool wind, a faint giggling voice—husky and sweet like soft cream dissolving in hot coffee—echoing at the back of his mind, and his quiet voice mournfully whistling out the last coda of Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon.
“In other words, please be true—In other words…I love you.”


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Information About Mazda3 Commercial Dream Bigger Advert Song by Haley Reinhart 2019
Mazda3 Dream Bigger commercial is the new TV commercial ad of auto maker company Mazda. Mazda try to promote their products ‘Mazda Mazda3 Hatchback AWD, 2019 Mazda Mazda3’ through Mazda3 Dream Bigger Song by Haley Reinhart advertisement.
As a woman unlocks her vehicle, her key turns into a red balloon that takes her on an aerial journey as Haley Reinhart’s cover of “Dreams” by The Cranberries plays. She passes cowboys rounding up wild horses, dips down to touch her toes in a river and experiences snowy mountaintops before being brought back to reality to find herself making these trips in a Mazda3 Hatchback. Mazda offers special financing on the 2019 Mazda3 for a limited time.
Song in Mazda3 Dream Bigger Advert 2019
Song in Mazda3 Dream Bigger TVC ad is Dreams by Haley Reinhart.
This song is available on iTunes you can listen and download it form iTunes store.
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About Haley Reinhart
With a vocal style that landed somewhere between a jazzy croon and a throaty, soulful belt, Haley Reinhart became an American Idol finalist in 2011. She began singing as an eight-year-old, eventually earning a spot in her parents’ cover band while attending high school in Wheeling, Illinois. After graduating in 2009, Reinhart began studying jazz at nearby Harper College. Her first audition for American Idol arrived the following year, but it wasn’t until the summer of 2010, when Reinhart returned to auditions for a second time, that she advanced to the semifinals.
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Alt Emporda Marshlands
(Parc Natural dels Aiguamolls de l’Emporda)
Parc Natural dels Aiguamolls de l’Emporda in the Alt Emporda region of Catalonia, is a wetland area of meadows, coastal lagoons and irrigation channels.
The park is a great place for birdwatching and there are several hides dotted around the park to allow quiet observation of the lagoons and meadows.
We come here quite often for peaceful relaxed walks.
There are four walks (that link up to make one long walk) that can be done within the park.
The itineraries of which can be picked up from the park information centre (at El Cortalet)...
ROUTE 1 - (roughly 2 km one way) covers part of the GR92 walking trail. It takes you from the information centre along a path that passes the meadows with the stork nests and several lagoons with hides.
The walk ends at the former rice silo observation tower.
There are cracking views of the Alt Emporda area from the top of the silo.
This walk is flat and can be done by pushchair or wheelchair (we took Jonnie’s Grandmother on this walk in her wheelchair).
ROUTE 2 - (roughly 2 km one way) covers part of the GR92. It starts from where Route 1 ends, passing shallow fresh water pools, coastal lagoons and ending at Les Llaunes beach (one of the quietest beaches on the Costa Brava) where there is another observation tower.
ROUTE 3 - (roughly 6 km one way). It starts from where Route 2 ends, but is closed from 1 April to 15 June for bird breeding. This route takes you back to El Cortalet along the beach and past salt marshes.
ROUTE 4 - Starts from El Cortalet and takes you to Empuriabrava.
The Alt Emporda Marshlands change with the seasons
The flowers bloom (whitethorn, yellow lily), storks sit on their nests, the birds migrating north arrive, the marshlands are bursting with life, the fallow deer take on a reddish colour.
It is best to visit early or late in the day in the summer as the heat makes the animals go to ground. In early summer the young of the birds and the deer can be seen, the first migrating birds from the north arrive.
The remaining migrating birds from the north arrive, the rains swell the lagoons, the fallow deer are in season, the leaves of the trees turn gold and orange.
The trees lose their leaves, the winter residents arrive, other than the birds, the park is very quiet in the winter.
What nature might you find in Aiguamolls Alt Emporda?
- flamingoes (may be found all year round)
- storks (who nest on high rise platforms from February to July)
- snipes (found in winter)
- gulls (found in winter)
- greylag geese (found in winter)
- many species of ducks (found all year round)
- purple swamp hen
- many species of waders (found in spring, summer and early autumn)
- marsh harrier
- fallow deer
- yellow lilly (flowers in April)
- sea lavender (flowers in Autumn)
- black winged stilts (found in spring)
- white storks
- little grebe
- purple heron
- cattle egrets
- cetti’s warbler
- la camarga horses
- iberian green frogs
- green lizard
- snakes (we’ve seen a grass snake and a ladder snake here)
El Cortalet, Ctra. De Sant Pere Pescador km 13,6, 17486, Castelló d'Empúries (Alt Empordà)
Tel. 972 45 42 22
There is a car park at the centre.
There is an information centre, toilets (at the information centre and at Mas del Mata farm), bird hides, boardwalks and paths, bar service in the car park in the summer months, drinks machine in the information centre.
Aiguamolls is open all the time. But the information office has set opening hours:
1st April to 30th September - everyday 9.30h to 14h / 16.30 to 19h
1st October to 30th March - everyday 9.30h to 14h / 15.30 to 18h
Free (although, they do ask for a contribution of 1€ for the car park, but sometimes no one is manning the entrance booth to the car park and so it is then free)
UPDATE: it now costs 5€ for the car park (see the Visitor Comment below for full details)
How to get to Aiguamolls Alt Emporda
Zoom in on Sant Pere Pescador on the map below to see the numbers and names of the roads on the headland. The nearest motorway is the AP7.
If you need car hire in the Costa Brava please click on this link.
View Costa Brava Spain in a larger map
From Sant Pere Pescador take the GIV-6216 (Carretera de Castello d’Empuries a Sant Pere Pescador) Turn right on to Carrer de la Carretera Fonda (Yeguada Claudio Pot - Equestrian Centre is on the corner of this road). C/ Fonda takes you to the car park.
To get to here by public transport is difficult. Your best bet is to get to Sant Pere Pescador
and take a taxi from there.
Visitor Questions, Feedback and Ideas...
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Cryptocurrency is having one of its worst weeks in recent years. The markets crashed over 70% in just 8 months, with investors losing over $2 trillion. Bitcoin plunged to nearly $21,000 on June 15th, 2022, marking an 18-month low for the world's largest cryptocurrency. Ethereum, the second most valuable cryptocurrency, lost almost a third of its value in the same period.
When the market is confident and liquidity is abundant, people are more likely to invest in risky assets, where they can make or lose money overnight. Cryptocurrencies certainly fit this description. During the time of the pandemic, interest rates were low, liquidity was abundant, and a stimulus check enticed investors to invest in risky assets.
So, the concern is, why is the crypto market facing a bear run? The answer is the soaring inflation, the hike in interest rates, the increase in the cost of living and recession knocking on the door. In addition to the crypto market, several risky assets are experiencing a liquidity crisis.
A major contributor to the deterioration is crypto traders' heavy reliance on borrowing to increase the upper limits of their market bets. A falling market forces traders to ask for more funds to sustain their positions.
For a few hours on Monday, Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, paused withdrawals. Meanwhile, Celsius, which had almost $12 billion under its management as of May, halted withdrawals, swaps, and transfers between accounts due to extreme market volatility. "Celsius’s move is a classic example of lacking liquid assets,” Kavita Gupta said on Yahoo Finance Live. Celsius is a dominant player in the decentralized finance space, which strives to copy traditional financial products like loans without the need for intermediaries. The company has several popular assets in the Defi world, including staked Ether, a version of the Ether cryptocurrency that offers rewards for deposits.
The announcement made by Coinbase, however, came as yet another shock. In a statement, the platform said it would lay off 18% of its workforce.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Three Arrows Capital, a crypto hedge fund and active backer of Web3 startups, is considering a bailout.
The price of Bitcoin is rooted in its demand and supply factors. Due to the adverse economic conditions, investors are sceptical about the crypto market, resulting in sluggish sales and the downfall of Bitcoin.
That bubble is showing cracks now, especially after the collapse of the Defi ecosystem.
As the "crypto winter" eats away the income of "miners," electricity consumption by the largest cryptocurrency networks has decreased by up to 50%.
According to estimates from crypto analyst Digiconomist, Bitcoin's electricity consumption has fallen by a third from its peak on June 11 to 131 terawatt-hours a year, The Guardian reported.
All stakeholders are adjusting to the new reality, from founders to venture capitalists to retail investors. A cascading effect occurred with the collapse of Terra's native cryptocurrency, Luna, which devoured more than $40 billion from the crypto market.
"There is a snowball effect. Whenever the bitcoin goes down in price, more people are obliged to sell bitcoin, exaggerating the sales", Yves Choueifaty, chief investment officer at Tobam Asset Management, said.
At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin was created as a financial alternative, frequently acclaimed as immune from the effects of inflation and politically skewed monetary policy. Executives are now concluding that the crypto industry can undergo booms and busts similar to other markets.
Many executives question whether crypto has already experienced its own "Lehman" moment, with Celsius being the biggest faller. They hope the sentiment is shifting towards action to stabilize the market.
More interestingly, what will happen if governments begin to regulate bitcoin and digital currencies like it seriously? China and India are the only major economies that have so far taken this step. Most policymakers have instead shifted the discussion to talking about central bank-issued digital currencies (CBDCs).
Irrespective of what happens next, it's clear that Bitcoin conversations and perspectives are evolving with inflation. Investors are exploring crypto as a store of value, international banks and governments are using it for trading, or citizens are trying to protect their purchasing power, and the adoption of crypto has reached a new level.

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We forecast where and when pathogens are most likely to be found in the Chesapeake Bay, based on the salinity and temperature of the water. Public health officials use our forecasts to target public safety messages and monitoring. When pathogens are present, cooking shellfish and washing open wounds after contact with coastal waters will reduce the risk of infection and illness.
Why We Care
Pathogens in coastal waters can cause human illnesses ranging from infected cuts to severe gastrointestinal disease and, in worst cases, death. Vibrio infection is relatively rare in Maryland—about 30 cases are reported each year. However, the mortality rate for septic cases can be up to 50 percent, and Vibrio vulnificus is responsible for 95 percent of all seafood related deaths in the United States. Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium that normally lives in warm seawater and can cause disease in people who eat contaminated seafood or have an open wound that is exposed to seawater.
The fear of Vibrios and other pathogens can harm local economies if people stay away from coastal waters and avoid seafood out of concern for getting sick. Our pathogen forecast can help reduce these fears. If people know when they are most likely to find pathogens in the water, they can reduce their risk of infection by taking appropriate measures, such as thoroughly cooking seafood and washing open wounds.
What We Do
Since 2005, we have worked with federal, state, and academic partners to:
- Monitor potentially pathogenic species of bacteria in the Chesapeake region,
- Determine environmental factors that govern their distribution,
- Forecast Vibrio pathogen distribution, and
- Understand the implications for human and living resource health.
We discovered the bacteria like warm (> 15°C, > 59°F) and relatively salty waters (~10–15 ppt), and that 93 percent of the time, we can use water temperature and salinity to correctly predict where we will find V. vulnificus.
To predict where we will have warm, salty waters, we use the ChesROMS model, developed with NCCOS funding. Using ChesRoms, we generate three-day forecasts for state and county health officials. They, in turn, use these forecasts to target water quality monitoring, and to put out public health messages at high risk times. Not only is this partnership reducing the number of people getting sick from pathogens, but it is saving these offices money, because they can limit their monitoring to the places and times that are most problematic.
The model does not predict the abundance of pathogens or the susceptibility of people to illness. The Center for Disease Control is responsible for research on susceptibility.

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Felix Mirbt was born in 1931 in Breslau, Germany, currently Poland. He got to Quebec in the decade of 1950s and died in Sutton, near to Montréal, in 2002. His extensive artistic production evolved from a classical type of marionettes to a sort of abstract theatre —a powerful career recognized all over. Now, in the 10th anniversary of his death, the company Théâtre de la Pire Espèce and Marcelle Hudon opened ManiganSes – Festival International des Art de la Marionnette à Saguenay, in Quebec, Canada, with a wide look on their master’s work.
The show ‘Die Reise, ou les visages variables de Felix Mirbt’ is a staging of some of Mirbt’s highlights —or a documentary play, as Pire Espèce members define it. Having created a big number of puppets, masks and texts, Mirbt left his inheritance to his wife, but ceded it all to continue performing to his colleagues and Marcelle Hudon, Olivier Ducas and Francis Monty.
‘Die Reise’ (‘The Journey’) follows the way Mirbt and his father rode by bike from Germany to Austria, crossing Prague and other cities, getting closer and closer to the raging end of World War II. Taking this biographical fact, the storyline jumps continuously back and forth in time to the present, where Olivier Ducas, Francis Monty and Marcelle Hudon offer a panoramic view over Felix Mirbt’s work. The premiere of the show was in 2011, after an intense research on all the documents of Mirbt’s legacy.
Although the show can be considered a master piece by itself, the exhibition ‘I perform, I build / L’atelier, la scène – Memoires et marionettes de Maître Mirbt’ was a necessary complement to it. It is not very big, divided in two sections. In the first one, there are the elements that witness the builder’s work, some of his pieces and thoughts: “The more I work on theatre, the more I get interested in its totemic figures, first with puppets and lately with masks. Gods, Devils and all you can find in between is of my concern.” Or simply: “My marionettes have always black and thick strings, as if I make them invisible, people will try to understand how they move instead of trying to understand their story.”
On the second part of the room, there is his work on scene, the creation of the space and the movement. Between all pieces, there is one very little and very important: his father’s red notebook, where he wrote down the details of their tour from theatre to theatre. “We do not know exactly what he learned in Germany during his childhood”, says Julie Vallée-Léger, the person in charge and designer of the exhibition. “What we know is how his first marionettes are, how he tried different techniques as he knew more artists and builders and approached different characters. This was very characteristic in Felix Mirbt: he built one type of puppet according to its inner story.”
Some characters of his main plays are distributed along the tour, showing the evolution of his aesthetics. Absolutely everything about puppets was of his concern: there are glove puppets, pupi, marionette, table puppets, shadows, traditional characters and avant-garde masks… And at the entrance, Woyzek’s head and one hand welcome visitors. ‘Woyzek’ was possibly the most famous of Felix Mirbt’s plays, and it is also present in the play ‘Die Reise’.
The red notebook
The notes taken by Mirbt’s father in his tiny red notebook are used by the company Théâtre de la Pire Espèce and Marcelle Hudon to set the plot of their documentary play. It is indeed a remarkable show: an almost 2 hour long summary of a master of contemporary theatre’s life, putting his work back to stage and creating something new.
As Felix Mirbt’s pieces are made to be manipulated with different techniques, in ‘Die Reise’ the three puppeteers perform a real demonstration of acting ability. And they get to return them their real value. Music starts and some photos are projected in a screen. After that, the show has a dynamic and fun beginning, a sort of parade leaded by a Judy’s head that Marcelle Hudon puts in front of his own face, half mask half puppet. Punch and Judy will follow the whole journey of Felix Mirbt, being figures or shadows, as what they really are: the presence of a capricious destiny. As the show goes on, and the war gets rougher, it slows down and gets darker. Then they appear on stage his later works.
After Woyzek plays his solo manipulated by the three puppeteers, abstract forms start taking the space. It is quite impressive to see the effects Felix Mirbt got with geometric figures and heads or face masks sort of snail-shell-shaped. The dissociation between the different parts of the body and the movement tell the audience a silent message through uncommon perception. Making emotions explode was not one of Mirbt’s purposes, but some parts of the show, like the one of Woyzek, have a dense concentration of them.
The musicians, Nicolas Letarte, Marie-Soleil Bélanger and Simon Lapointe, are also remarkable. They play live on the stage and make part of the show. They perform worthy scenes as the musical interpretation of poker cards. Overall, it is a show full of great images that does not let consume itself during its performing. You have to take it with you at home after the end.
and Marcelle Hudon


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Peppermint Potato Candy Recipe
No one will suspect that these quick minty candies started with yesterday's mashed potatoes. Our taste-testing panelists couldn't get enough of the chocolate-covered sweets that were submitted by Cindy Reams from Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.
- 3/4 cup mashed potatoes (prepared without milk and butter)
- 2 teaspoons butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 7-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon shortening
- 1. In a large bowl, beat the mashed potatoes, butter and extract until blended. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Press into a foil-lined 13-in. x 9-in. pan.
- 2. In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Spread over potato mixture. Cover and refrigerate until set. Using foil, lift candy out of pan. Discard foil; cut candy into 1-in. squares. Store in an airtight container. Yield: about 2-3/4 pounds.
1 serving (2 each) equals 271 calories, 6 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 1 mg cholesterol, 8 mg sodium, 56 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 1 g protein.
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Lagos State Government To Relocate Traders At Computer Village
The Lagos State Government has revealed that, efforts are ongoing to
relocate traders in Computer Village, Ikeja to Katangwa in
Agbado/Oke-Odo and then convert the area into a world-class ICT Park.
This was disclosed by the State Commissioner for
Physical Planning and Urban Development, Wasiu Anifowose, at the 2017
Ministerial Press briefing in Alausa Tuesday as part of activities
marking the second year anniversary of Governor Ambode’s administration.
The relocation will, according to the government, curb environmental
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These humble plastic discs are a fast track to trembling muscles and a stronger core.
Bad news first: You will have a hard time bragging about banging out a slider workout. In the era of at-home pandemic fitness, if you’ve got a Peloton bike or somehow got ahead of the great kettlebell shortage, everyone will be jealous. If you’ve taken up outdoor running, you at least get to humblebrag about how much it sucks to sweat while wearing a mask.
Sliders—also often called gliders—are extremely low-key in comparison. They're unassuming plastic disks the size of a dinner plate. They are super cheap. They take up almost no space—perfect for travel or tiny apartments. And they deliver some of the most punishing workouts around. They add an element of instability to all kinds of moves, demanding your muscles work harder to find balance—your core will be screaming, in a good way, almost instantly.
“Lately, I like to focus on what I have available to me rather than thinking about all the traditional gym equipment that I’m missing,” says Nike Master trainer Kirsty Godso, who created a stronger-core-guaranteed slider workout for GQ. “You should expect to know that you’ve done a workout with them the next day, and maybe the day after.”
Do each exercise below for 10 reps in order, resting for 90 seconds between each. Repeat the circuit two to three times. If the exercise says “repeat on opposite side,” do that after you’ve finished all 10 reps on side one.
Reverse slider lunge: Stand with your feet together and your right foot on top of a slider. Push about 90 percent of your weight into your left foot and set your right toes at the center of the slider with your heel up. Place your hands on your hips and hinge forward slightly with a long flat back. (This will also be your starting position for the next two drills.)
Pushing weight into your left foot, glide the right leg back straight behind you until your left knee is stacked over the left ankle, then drive weight down through your left foot to come back to the starting position.
“Keep the weight that you're pushing into the slider light, Godso days. "Whichever foot is grounded, that’s the side you are working.”
Lateral slider lunge: Go back to that starting position. Extend your right leg directly to the side into a lateral lunge, keeping the leg straight as you extend and simultaneously lower your hips down and back into a squat position on the left. At the bottom position of the move, push your weight down through your left foot to come back to start position, gliding the right leg back in.
Wide glider sweep: Go back to that starting position. Anchor your weight through the left foot, and drop your hips slightly to sweep your right leg in a wide arc from that starting position to roughly 7 o’clock, keeping your leg straight as it sweeps all the way around. Reverse through the arc to the starting position. Repeat on the opposite side.
Modified archer push-ups: Get into a modified push-up position with your knees on the ground, hands just wider than the shoulders, and a slider under your left hand. As you lower down with control into your push-up, extend your left arm out straight in front of you, only lowering as far as you can control the exercise with good form. Use a strong exhale to get you out of the bottom of the move. Repeat on the opposite side.
Alternating hamstring curl: Start lying on your back with your head on the ground, arms braced by your side, feet hip distance apart, and one slider under each foot. Digging your heels into the sliders, lift your hips into a glute bridge position. Extend one leg at a time, digging the heel strongly into the slider as you extend the leg to straight while keeping your hips up and square. Draw back to starting position then alternate to the other side for one rep.
Slider pike: Start in a high plank position with a slider under each foot. Keeping your weight in your toes, draw your lower abs in towards your spine while you transition your weight forward into your hands into a pike position. There should be barely any weight pushing into the slider. Then glide back to starting plank position.
Modified 90 degree abs: Start in a high plank position with one slider under your right foot. Draw your right knee toward right elbow, then slide your right foot out from under your body to the left, trying to get the leg as straight as possible. Drop your right shoulder and right hip to facilitate more rotation and let your gaze follow your foot. Return to starting in a high plank position.
Written by Emily Abbate.
This article originally appeared on GQ UK.

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A recent study predicts that global warming may reduce the nutrient density in many foods worldwide.  Atmospheric CO2 is estimated to surpass 550 ppm in the next 30-80 years, leading to larger crops with lower content of protein, iron and zinc per energy unit. Assuming that diets remain constant, while excluding other climate impacts on food production, the researchers estimated that elevated CO2 could cause an additional 175 million people to be zinc deficient and an additional 122 million people to be protein deficient in 2050. Anemia would increase significantly if crops lose even a small amount of iron. The highest risk regions - South and Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East - are especially vulnerable, since they do not have the means and access to compensate using nutritional supplements.
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for the neurological and early visual development of your baby and for making breast milk after birth. Aim for two weekly servings of cold water fish such as salmon, tuna, sardines, herring, or anchovies. Sardines are widely considered the safest and most sustainable fish to eat, while seaweed is a rich vegetarian source of Omega-3s.
Try the “Outer Ring” technique while buying food. Author James Clear suggests using this smart strategy while grocery shopping. “Only shop on the outer perimeter of the store. This is usually where the healthy food lives: fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fish, eggs, and nuts. If you only shop on the outer ring, then you’re more likely to buy healthy foods,” he explains.
It is possible to ingest too much of certain vitamins and minerals (vitamin A, calcium, iron, copper, selenium) which may exacerbate an existing imbalance or lack of another mineral (magnesium, zinc). It is also important to balance intake of fatty acids in the omega-6 and omega-3 series, as most people get too much omega-6 and not enough omega-3. Small children can be overdosed with adult doses of for example vitamin A or iron, and pills may be dangerous for babies or young children because they can get stuck in the throat. Therefore, I recommend consulting a doctor or nutritionist educated in orthomolecular medicine. Most people are likely to benefit from taking a broad-spectrum multivitamin/mineral supplement as a basic insurance against deficiencies.
Calorie density. Junk foods are designed to convince your brain that it is getting nutrition, but to not fill you up. Receptors in your mouth and stomach tell your brain about the mixture of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in a particular food, and how filling that food is for your body. Junk food provides just enough calories that your brain says, “Yes, this will give you some energy” but not so many calories that you think “That’s enough, I’m full.” The result is that you crave the food to begin with, but it takes quite some time to feel full from it.
Also, once a dietary supplement is on the market, the FDA monitors information on the product's label and package insert to make sure that information about the supplement's content is accurate and that any claims made for the product are truthful and not misleading. The Federal Trade Commission, which polices product advertising, also requires all information about a dietary supplement product to be truthful and not misleading.
To make it easy to find reliable information, NIH has fact sheets on dietary supplements at ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/list-all/. NIH also recently launched an online Dietary Supplement Label Database at www.dsld.nlm.nih.gov. This free database lets you look up the ingredients of thousands of dietary supplements. It includes information from the label on dosage, health claims and cautions.
Something else to remember: an estimated 90 to 95 percent of dieters who lose weight regain all or part of it within five years, and the consequences can be even worse than simply being overweight. Those who exercise regularly as part of a weight loss diet and maintenance program are more likely to keep the weight off. Also note that an overly restrictive diet can lead to more overeating, a natural reaction to food deprivation.
Trying to balance the demands of family and work or school—and coping with media pressure to look and eat a certain way—can make it difficult for any woman to maintain a healthy diet. But the right food can not only support your mood, boost your energy, and help you maintain a healthy weight, it can also be a huge support through the different stages in a woman’s life. Healthy food can help reduce PMS, boost fertility, make pregnancy and nursing easier, ease symptoms of menopause, and keep your bones strong. Whatever your age or situation, committing to a healthy, nutritious diet will help you look and feel your best and get the most out of life.
Vitamin C protects the brain and nervous system from damage caused by stress because the synthesis and maintenance of chemical neurotransmitters such as adrenaline and noradrenaline requires adequate levels of vitamin C.  Vitamin C is also needed to repair collagen which is essential for skin, blood vessels, bones and joints, and muscles. When these are damaged by physical stress, extra vitamin C is necessary. A controlled trial of 91 adults who experienced increased anxiety and stress 2-3 months after an earthquake in New Zealand in 2011 was divided into three groups, two were given a broad spectrum supplement of micronutrients in low or higher doses.  The supplements were found to alleviate the experience of stress, with the biggest dose having the biggest effect.
The guidelines also establish ranges (called acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges or AMDR) for fat, carbohydrates and protein, instead of exact percentages of calories or numbers of grams. The report maintains that since all three categories serve as sources of energy, they can, to some extent, substitute for one another in providing calories.
Before you take any supplements for disease prevention, it's important to know whether the potential benefits outweigh the risks. To make that conclusion, you need to look at the results of well-designed studies. A recent randomized trial in men suggested multivitamins have possible benefits for cancer prevention. For many of the other popular supplements, including vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, results from randomized controlled trials should be available within the next five years, according to Dr. Manson.
In 2015, the Australian Government's Department of Health published the results of a review of herbal supplements to determine if any were suitable for coverage by health insurance. Establishing guidelines to assess safety and efficacy of botanical supplement products, the European Medicines Agency provided criteria for evaluating and grading the quality of clinical research in preparing monographs about herbal supplements. In the United States, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health of the National Institutes of Health provides fact sheets evaluating the safety, potential effectiveness and side effects of many botanical products.
2. Eat a variety of foods. As we covered earlier, the brain craves novelty. While you may not be able to replicate the crunchy/creamy contrast of an Oreo, you can vary your diet enough to keep things interesting. For example, you could dip a carrot (crunchy) in some hummus (creamy) and get a novel sensation. Similarly, finding ways to add new spices and flavors to your dishes can make eating healthy foods a more desirable experience.
As with all dietary supplements, in the United States inappropriate label health claims such as preventing or treating disease are opposed by the FDA and deceptive advertisements by the Federal Trade Commission. Probiotic foods and dietary supplements are allowed to make claims using Structure:Function vocabulary as long as human trial evidence is adequate. In 2005, the FDA issued a Warning Letter to UAS Laboratories for disease treatment claims (colds, flu, ulcers, elevated blood cholesterol, colon cancer...). The company revised label and website content and continued to sell the product. In 2011 the company was found to have resumed the label and website claims, and the FDA seized product and stopped production. In 2010 a FTC action was brought against a probiotic food company for exaggerated health claims, resulting in a multimillion-dollar fine and revisions to future advertising. In the European Union a more restrictive approach has been taken by the EFSA. All proposed health claims were rejected on the grounds that the science was not sufficient, and no health claims are permitted. Foods with live microorganisms (yogurt, kefir) can be sold, but without claims.
Carbohydrates should provide 45%–65% of your daily calories. Most of those calories should come from the complex carbohydrates in high-fiber and unrefined foods, such as bran cereal and other whole-grain products, brown rice, beans and other legumes, and many fruits and vegetables. These carbohydrates are digested and absorbed slowly, so they raise the blood sugar gradually and don't trigger a large release of insulin. People who eat lots of these foods have higher HDL ("good") cholesterol levels and a lower risk of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. A good amount of soluble fiber in the diet lowers LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and high-fiber diets reduce the risk of intestinal disorders ranging from constipation and diverticulosis to hemorrhoids. Some studies have shown that fiber may help reduce the risk of colon cancer. Men need more fiber than women: 38 vs. 25 grams a day before the age of 50 and 30 vs. 21 grams a day thereafter.


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Following the release of data exploring the significant impact that the Covid-19 pandemic is having on the mental health of the public, and calls from experts and charities to research the long-term impact of the crisis, CEDA’s mental health charity partner Mates in Mind is calling on employers to act now to support long-term mental wellbeing.
MD James Rudoni said: “Mates in Mind supports recent calls for research to be undertaken around the particular and undoubtedly resonating impacts of this pandemic. However, we emphasise the sentiment expressed by Mind CEO Paul Farmer, who noted that people are already struggling to access the support they need in these uncertain times.
“In this crucial period, when our mental health as a nation is under strain and the mental wellbeing of our colleagues and employees may have slipped beneath other business priorities, we urge industry leaders to recognise that never has there been a more essential period for us all to invest in the mental health of our people. Supporting our workforces now, letting them know that there is someone there to support them, and how, when and where they can get help is vital if we want our people to be mentally fit for work during and post this pandemic.
“Mates in Mind is committed to supporting workforces in accessing the support they need. We know that in creating a long-lasting culture of openness and prevention, enabling individuals to recognise the signs of mental ill-health early, as well as knowing where they can go to for help, will help to tackle issues of isolation, anxiety and uncertainty around the topic.
“Working alongside our partners from across UK industries, we remain committed to supporting the mental health of the Nation’s workforces through these uncertain times.”
Mates in Mind has evolved its current programme, tools and resources to specifically provide the clarity and confidence around managing mental health during Covid-19. As part of this work, the charity partnered with the Civil Engineering Contractors Association to provide deliver a series of webinars that are accessible to all, including those who are currently furloughed.
Rudoni added: “As the scale and impact of this pandemic unfurls, we emphasise the need to remember that this is a marathon and not a sprint. Therefore, investing in the resilience of our workers so we can continue to tackle the ongoing challenges, is essential to ensuring the overall health of both workforces and organisations themselves, not only during the outbreak but also in the re-adjustment to the ‘new normal’ which will follow.”

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By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The final chapter in the legendary filmmaker’s saga is finally stalking its way to the screen.
Multimedia company Roundtable Entertainment has announced that it has partnered with the estate of the late George A. Romero to produce TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD, based on a treatment by Romero and Paolo Zelati. Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas and Zelati wrote the final screenplay; story details aren’t being revealed at this point, but the movie will be set on a tropical island and filmed in Puerto Rico later this year. Suzanne Romero, Roundtable’s John Baldecchi, Sarah Donnelly, Zelati and Ardvella Entertainment’s Stephanie Caleb are producing; a director has yet to be named. TWILIGHT is intended to launch a new zombie franchise of its own. In RUE MORGUE #201, Lucas told this writer, “It definitely supports the whole evolution of zombies from LAND OF THE DEAD. It gets more extreme than before, in the sense of George having Big Daddy getting smarter, and trying to create clans and rebuild society with them. TWILIGHT kind of jumps into and elaborates on that, and there are some twists and turns that make you think it might be the end of mankind. It’s a little like PLANET OF THE APES in that sense. How humans can exist is definitely in question in this one, if they will exist at all.”
“I’m delighted to be joining forces with Roundtable to bring the eerie evolution of Romero’s universe to the screen,” Suzanne Romero says. “Roundtable impressed me with their long-term and deep love of George’s work. I believe they have the vision to produce the best version of this movie that honors the Romero legacy. I can’t wait to start filming!”
“We’re thrilled to be working alongside Suzanne, Paolo, and Stephanie to bring the final installment of this epic series,” says Baldecchi. “It is the perfect ending to one of the greatest horror legacies of all time, with a powerful and timely message about how humanity is the cause of its own destruction, over and over and over again. There is a lot of excitement in the creative community to be involved and we’ll be making decisions on that shortly.”


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Sibelius - Finlandia Symphony No 1 The Swan Of Tuonela FLAC album
Jean Sibelius 'The Swan of Tuonela' played by NHK Symphony Orchestra Conductor Tadaaki Otaka.
Complete your Sibelius collection.
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Album · 2006 · 6 Songs. Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39: Andante ma non troppo - Allegro energico. Helsinski Philharmonic. 2. 39: Andante (ma non troppo lento).
Sibelius: Finlandia; En Saga; Karelia Suite; Pohjola's Daughter; Swan of Tuonela. Symphony N. In E Minor, O. 9: I. Andante Ma Non Troppo - Allegro Energico by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Alexander Gibson. 30. 9: II. Andante Ma Non Troppo Lento. by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Alexander Gibson. Andante Ma Non Troppo Lento by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Alexander Gibson. 3. 9: III. Scherzo (Allegro) - Lento Ma Non Troppo - Tempo I.
Symphony N. in E-, O. 9 Work. Jaako Pilnone Conductor, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra. ndante ma non troppo lento.
Symphony No. 39: Andante Ma Non Troppo - Energy Allegro - Alternate Mix. 10:310:30. 39: Lento - Alternate Mix. 8:150:30. 39: Scherzo (Allegro - Alternate Mix. 4:530:30. 4. 39: Finale Quasi Una Fantasia - Alternate Mix. 11:050:30. 5. The Swan Of Tuonela - Alternate Mix. 9:020:30. 6. Finlandia, Op. 26 - Alternate Mix. 9:260:30.
His First Symphony, one of the two most commonly heard on the concert stage, shows an already fully developed 34-year-old composer burst onto the musical scene with a powerful, innovative, sometimes tragic, and sometimes mournful offering. Written about the same time as the First Symphony is the famous tone poem Finlandia, which came to be the musical trademark of the Finnish resistance to their Swedish and Russian oppressors. Both are works of intense passion and conviction that need little from conductors but to maintain the energy of the orchestra and be true to the score. This Alto disc also includes the less intense but equally beautiful Op. 11 Karelia Suite and the Op. 22 "Swan of Tuonela" from "Four Legends. Here again, Gibson's vision of Sibelius is one of focus and drive coupled sensitivity and warmth. Alto's remastered sound is clear, focused, and dynamic.
The Sibelius swan is guarding Tuonela, more or less the Finnish version of Hades, which is surrounded by a dark, wide river. Listen out for the cor anglais representing the swan's elegant voice. When it came to composing this piece, the ever diligent Sibelius entered new realms of self-revision, preferring, once he had finished writing the work, not to publish it but to leave it to one side.
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43, Pohjola's Daughter, The Swan of Tuonela & Finlandia, 2017. Sibelius: Symphony No.
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|6||Finale: Quasi Una Fantasia||13:39|
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- Manufactured By – Disctronics Group, United Kingdom
- Conductor – Erik Tveitt
- Orchestra – Finland National Orchestra
- Soloist, English Horn – Norman Finck
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- Barcode: 5014797170681
- Matrix / Runout: SOQ 0068 02 DISCTRONICS
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Whatever fans or critics might say, the group that seems most passionately committed to filmmaker Zack Snyder is the people who have worked with him. The Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice filmmaker appears to cultivate a great working environment, so much so that even two years after the failure of Justice League, many of his collaborators still talk about his cut of the movie, praise his contributions to their careers, and argue with fans and the press on social media about the Snyder/DC legacy. You can add cinematographer Fabian Wagner, who worked on Justice League, to that list.
Talking with Comic Book Debate, Wagner -- who has also worked on Game of Thrones -- dropped a number of minor spoilers about the original plans for the movie, which amount to the much-debated "Snyder Cut" of the film. As far as anybody knows, Snyder's cut of the movie does exist, but in a pre-VFX workprint that the studio was not satisfied with during early screenings. In the time since the movie was completed by Joss Whedon and released to lukewarm box office and critical reception, DC's box office fortunes have turned around, with massive commercial success for Aquaman and critical acclaim for Shazam!. Snyder, meanwhile, remains outside of the DC/WB world.
"As a fan, and the guy who worked with Zack on Justice League, and who shot it, yeah," Wagner said when asked whether he wanted to see Snyder's cut of Justice League commercially released. "I mean, f--k, I would love to see Zack’s film."
Snyder is the credited director on Justice League, but there is no doubt that the final product did not reflect much of his original vision, which was for a longer, darker, and more complex film that teased Darkseid and teed up a sequel. The filmmaker was already reportedly embroiled in disagreements with Warner when his daughter passed away, and he stepped away from the movie, leaving it in the hands of Marvel's The Avengers director Joss Whedon, who oversaw extensive reshoots as well as re-editing the movie to studio specifications.
Much like Snyder's wife and producer, Deborah Snyder, Wagner used the interview to encourage fans who are demanding the Snyder Cut and thank the audience for its support.
Upcoming DC movies include Joker on October 10th, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) on February 7, 2020, Wonder Woman 1984 on June 5, 2020, The Batman on June 25, 2021, The Suicide Squad on August 6, 2021, and Aquaman 2 on December 16, 2022.


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