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Where do her loyalties lie?
With the living. Or the dead.
NOWHERE TO HIDE
Louise Lyndon
Series: Justice Served # 1
Genre: Erotic Romance, Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Loose Id
Forty years ago the Australian rural town of Burrawang Bend was the scene of a brutal murder, and the townspeople are still calling for justice. Marlee Moore, the suspect’s and victim’s granddaughter, is fighting to clear her grandfather’s name. And no one is going to stand in her way. But when things take a dangerous and deadly turn, Marlee must turn to the one man she was determined to run out of town.
Devon Reilly, investigative journalist for his hit TV show, Justice Served, is in Burrawang Bend to solve the forty-year-old cold case murder. But, he didn't bargain on Marlee keeping him from investigating the case and he soon questions where her loyalties lie. With the living? Or with the dead? But when Marlee and her son’s life are put in danger, Devon knows he is the only man who can keep them alive. But what happens when he soon realizes he is the bigger threat to the woman and kid he loves?
As a romantic suspense, [Ms. Lyndon] maintains a simmering tension throughout the novel that builds to a fabulous climax, on the background of Australia's outback and bush. Highly recommend this read from a fab Australian author.
- Kalina Pyra, Amazon Reviewer
Available at Amazon.com
Contest runs from April 5 - 7, 2017.
About Louise Lyndon
Louise grew up in rural Victoria, Australia, before moving to England, where for sixteen years she soaked up the vibrancy of London and the medieval history of England. She has since returned to Australia and now lives in Melbourne.
In 2013, Louise won first prize in the historical romance category of the Crested Butte Sandy Writing Contest for her story, The Promise, which has since been retitled and is now known as, Of Love & Vengeance.
When not writing, Louise can be found covered in mud, crawling under barbed wire and hoisting herself over twelve foot walls! She is also a self confessed nail polish addict and you can check out her nail art designs on her Instagram account.
Books by Louise include: Of Love and Vengeance, Of Love and Betrayal, and Nowhere to Hide.
Official website: https://www.LouiseLyndon.com
Official blog: https://louiselyndon.blogspot.com.au
Connect with Louise Lyndon on social media:
Facebook | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest
Thanks for posting. <3
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Jack Dorsey sets sights on bitcoin mining after exiting Twitter
Bygevoeg deur seleksie op 30 November 2021
Dorsey the crypto king? He was an aspiring fashion designer and dropped out of NYU before co-founding Twitter worth $11B – now Jack Dorsey has set his sights on a bitcoin mining business
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned on Monday after 16 years with the company he co-founded
Dorsey, 45, remains CEO of financial payments company Square Inc
In Julie, Dorsey announced Square was launching new venture to make bitcoin-mining more accessible
Dorsey has been using his public platform to tout cryptocurrency
Dorsey, whose net worth estimated at nearly $12billion, made a commitment to give away a third of his wealth to COVID-related charities
Decades before Jack Dorsey became a titan of the technology industry with not one but two CEO titles to his name and an eye-popping $12billion net worth, he was a young man from St Louis who dabbled in modeling and aspired to become a fashion designer, or a massage therapist.
Now that Dorsey, 45, resigned as Twitter‘s chief executive officer, the bearded billionaire with a penchant for nose rings, tie-dye shirts, long walks and fasting will have plenty of time to pursue his new passion: bitcoin-mining.
Dorsey still remains the CEO of Square Inc, the hugely successful financial payments company that he co-founded in 2010.
In onlangse jare, Dorsey has been using his considerable public platform to proselytize about the merits of cryptocurrency, veral bitcoin.
Next chapter: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned on Monday after 16 years with the company he co-founded. He is currently working on a new bitcoin-mining venture
Dorsey got his start as a model before turning his attention to computer programming. He dropped out of NYU a month shy of graduating
In Julie, he announced that Square was launching a new bitcoin-based venture ‘with the sole goal of making it easy to create non-custodial, permissionless and decentralized financial services,’ he tweeted at the time to his 5.9million followers.
Vierkantig, which is headquartered in San Francisco, has three business lines: Cash App, Square Seller products and the music-streaming service Tidal, which it acquired from Jay-Z in April.
Square’s newest project, known as tbDEX, revolves around the idea of helping people seamlessly convert fiat currency – government-issued currency that is not backed by a commodity such as gold or silver – into bitcoin without having to go through multiple platforms.
‘We propose a solution that does not rely on a federation to control permission or access to the network; nor does it dictate the level of trust required between counterparties,’ the company wrote in a statement issued last week.
Square’s new bitcoin venture seeks to ‘build bridges between the fiat and cryptocurrency worlds,’ berig Die Indian Express.
Speaking at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, Dorsey said he hopes bitcoin can help bring about ‘world peace.’
Dorsey was born and raised in St Louis in a Catholic family, the son of a Midwestern businessman working for a company selling scientific instruments and a homemaker.
In his youth, Dorsey dabbled in vintage clothing modeling and created dispatch routing software used by taxi companies before enrolling in University of Missouri-Rolla. After more than two years, he transferred to New York University, but dropped out just one semester shy of graduating in 1997.
Dorsey conceived of the idea that would later turn into Twitter while still at NYU.
He moved to California to pursue a career as a programmer and launched his own company providing web-based dispatch services in 2000.
Around that time, Dorsey began exploring the idea of sending instant messages in real time to a small group of people, and approached a podcasting company called Odeo, where he met his future Twitter co-founders, Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
Dorsey and Stone build a prototype of Twitter in about two weeks, and the new service drew many users at Odeo before the company folded.
Twitter, initially known as twttr, was launched on March 21, 2006. Dorsey’s first-ever tweet simply read: just setting up my twttr,’
Sewe maande later, the burgeoning social media company’s co-founders purchased the domain name twitter.com for $7,000.
Dorsey (vêr regs) co-founded Twitter in 2006 after meeting his partners at the podcasting company Odeo
Op Maart 21, 2006, Dorsey sent out his very first tweet, wat gelees het: ‘just setting up my twttr’
Dorsey took the reins of the company as CEO but continued pursuing his other passions, including fashion design and yoga.
In sy 2013 book Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Krag, Friendship, and Betrayal, author Nick Bilton quoted Dorsey as telling his business partner Noah Glass: ‘I’m going to quit tech and become a fashion designer.’
Dorsey would leave work to take fashion design classes at Apparel Arts, a design school in San Francisco. His other hobbies included drawing and hot yoga.
Op 'n punt, Twitter co-founder Williams told Dorsey: ‘you can either be a dressmaker or the CEO of Twitter. But you can’t be both,’ according to Bilton’s book.
In 2008, Dorsey was replaced by Williams as CEO but returned to the role in 2015.
In his goodbye letter addressed to Twitter employees on Monday, Dorsey said he has ‘worked hard to ensure this company can break away from its founding and founders’ and that to focus too much on whether companies are led by their founders is ‘severely limiting.’
Dorsey wrote that he also will be leaving the company’s board around May 2022, saying that he wants to ‘give space’ to new CEO Parag Agrawal to lead.
‘I’m really sad… yet really happy,’ Dorsey wrote in the note addressed to his ‘team.’ ‘There aren’t many companies that get to this level. And there aren’t many founders that choose their company over their own ego. I know we’ll prove this was the right move.’
na, Dorseysightsbitcoin, exiting, mining, Twitter
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'Trusted' barrister, 57, who stole more than £98K in tax after lying about his earnings is jailed for nearly two yearsChristopher Wilkins, of Chichester, Wes-Sussex, got into large amounts of debt His outgoings incl...
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2:00 pm on Wednesday September 30, 2009 | Posted by Amanda Click
Filming to begin soon for Indie film in Charleston
Image by Flickr user bigdrumthump.comImage by 20090930-dilana.jpg Dilana, the star of the film 'Angel Camouflaged' soon to begin shooting in Charleston.
According to a press release from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, filming will begin soon in Charleston for a new project by an independent filmmaker Michael Givens from Beaufort.
Here's what the release had to say:
“Angel Camouflaged” will star Dilana Robichaux as a disillusioned singer who inherits a bar and re-discovers her passion for music while working to revive the run-down tavern business.
Robichaux is a South Africa native who established her singing and music video career in the Netherlands before moving to the United States, where she has appeared in CBS’ “Rock Star: Supernova” reality show.
Director/producer Michael Givens of Beaufort said shooting will begin in October and that the project office will open soon. Givens has been director of photography for the feature film “The Celestine Prophecy” and executive producer for a movie of the week on the Lifetime Channel.
“This project is a great example of how our film incentives can help South Carolina-based film producers get their projects off the ground while keeping the production and talent base here in South Carolina,” said S.C. Film Commissioner Jeff Monks.
You can follow along with the movie's progress on Dilana's Myspace blog and perhaps she'll continue to update her Twitter account once filming commences.
News, Features
charleston, filming, Angel Camouflaged, Michael Givens, Dilana Robichaux
Sick of Charleston rainstorm flooding?
Big John's and those bars that were
McRib was born thanks to a Charleston trip
Birthplace of sweet tea is officially Summerville
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This album is unique in that the song titles are in a different order on the LP than on the jacket. I found this pretty interesting!
This is also the first LP released under the new distributorship of Buddah Records.
Kirks Best
CHS-2054 - (1973)
Serious Drinking (Carmon Holland)
I’ll Be There (Vance Bulla-Cliff Williamson)
The Road (Ted Harris)
If This Ain’t Heaven (Kirk Hansard)
Through This World Of Mine (Vic Alpine)
Nudist Colony (Fred Leinweber)
Adults Only (R. Martin )
Make It Short Make It Sweet (Joe Gibson)
What Have You Done (Jimmy Hinson)
A Thousand Honky Tonks Ago (Joe Gibson)
Slim Williamson - Joe Gibson - Bill Walker
Album Design by Dan Quest & Associates, Inc
There's a certain magnetism about a real artist - and you don't have to be told it's there, you can feel it. -- such an artist is Kirk Hansard.
When Kirk sings, the song has an entirely new meaning. He pours out the secrets of his heart and reveals his innermost thoughts and brings home to you all the things he sings about.
With all his abilities and talents, Kirk is a real down-to-earth person. He is still that someone you can enjoy just talking to an individual with love, feeling and understanding as big as the sky. He is always willing to lend a helping hand to the struggling artists and encourages them to stay in country music until they achieve their goal.
Kirk's love for country music and its people is genuine. It's people like Kirk that makes country music the greatest business on earth.
Kirk is an outstanding entertainer as well as a gifted musician. - - listen to this album and you'll realize that it's the greatness and magnitude combined that makes him one of the "greats".
Ronnie Campbell -- WTLK Radio, Taylorsville, N. C.
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Tom Cotton blasts Biden admin on Afghan refugee vetting process
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) explained the Biden administration evacuated Afghan refugees with ‘no particular attachment to the United States’ during the U.S. withdrawal. #FoxNews
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Category: Accelerate Page 1 of 2
By bergmoe
In Accelerate, Invest
King Crab Legs Cooked on wooden cutting board with lemon parsley / red crab hokkaido seafood served table. Foto; Adobe Stock
💥Congratulations Bryggefisk, you have been accepted to the Food Ecosystems Virtual 2021 Founder Institute!
What a start of the weekend🌟🌟🌟
👉The Founder Institute (https://fi.co/join/food), the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator, is launching its first-ever global food and agriculture program, and Bryggefisk is a part of that batch.
Soon we will start up in Berlevåg with King grab, but the primary focus in the FI-program will be a development of the application we are working on.
👉 For more information, contact me.
NB. We are also taking onboard a few additional investors to match some public funding.
I am addicted to Blinkist
In Accelerate
The Blinkist app gives you the key ideas from a bestselling nonfiction book in just 15 minutes. Available in bitesize text and audio, the app makes it easier than ever to find time to read.
Test it for free her.
Founder Institute – Admissions Deadline on January 19th
Berg Moe at the GK=25K Jubilee celebrating that Gründerklubben – The Norwegian Entrepreneursclub reaches 25 000 members.
I am mentoring at a pre-seed accelerator, the Founder Institute, and they have an Admissions Deadline on January 19th. I think that this three-month startup launch program could really help you build your business.
You can learn more here. If you use the link below to apply, the admissions team will know that you have been referred, which further improves your odds of being accepted. Let me know if you have questions about my experience mentoring for the program, keep me in the loop, and good luck!
Be referred, use this link https://lnkd.in/eZEP49i
The Give First Podcast
In the startup world, Give First means simply trying to help anyone – especially entrepreneurs – with no expectation of getting anything back.
It’s the pay-it-forward principle that builds strong startup networks.
Hosts David Cohen and Brad Feld – Techstars cofounders, lifelong entrepreneurs, and startup investors—talk with mentors and founders about what giving first looks like in action, and how it makes great entrepreneurship possible.
Listen for stories and actionable advice in every episode.
Subscribe now to get every episode delivered to your favorite podcast listening platform https://bit.ly/2KjQGpz.
Don’t forget to subscribe to Berg Moe Puls at the same time – A global approach to entrepreneurship and funding of startups.
Entrepreneurs without borders
Oslo is a great city to be an entrepreneur on a sunny day, but the Norwegian market is small.
I have been involved in the internationalization of companies before (Seed Forum Global, First Tuesday, Global Direct, etc.) and have after 2003, systematically been developing an extensive network of entrepreneurs and investors.
Based on the platform Gründerklubben – The Norwegian Entrepreneurs Club, we aim to do to it again are now looking for international partners (accelerators, technology vendors, global consulting companies, early-stage funds, etc.) that want to team up with us.
Please contact me at berg@grunderklubben.com for more information.
We are currently creating a new international brand that will be the powerhouse in this endeavor.
Now, we have a technology platform under development that will transform how companies communicate with the market, find investors for their projects, and great partners.
Gründerklubben already has more than 23 000 members in Norway, and last month we also acquired the biggest entrepreneurs network in Bangkok, Thailand. We now have 147 502 people in our system and are planning to grow fast.
Vision; We are creating the worlds most significant global network of entrepreneurs. Startups are the real job creators and problem solvers of this century. We want to inspire even more companies to have a comprehensive approach to their rollout and will develop a platform to make it easier to reach out to potential customers, partners, and investors to succeed.
Mission; We develop a member club and support forum for entrepreneurs. We help startups to grow and prosper using the power of sharing is caring, best practice and a world-class application linked with social media tools.
Goal; To build the world’s biggest global entrepreneurs club and support forum.
Scaling Your Startup E3 “Business Model & Turning on Revenue”
Accelerating startups from Eastern Europe to NYC
Two years ago I was in Moscow for a week attending GEC 2014 at the same time as Putin, and a group of senior followers was celebration the takeover of Crimea at the square outside Kremlin. After many trips to Russia over many years, I could feel that there was a dramatic change in the air, and the rest is history. When I the stumbled over Starta Accelerator on LinkedIn it created an interest and an urge to learn more. Many of my investor’s friends and entrepreneurs in Russia have been escaping the country the last years.
Starta Accelerator (www.StartaAccelerator.com) was initiated by Starta Capital VC fund and its founder Alexey Girin. Starta Capital is one of the leading VC funds in Russia. It has received prestigious awards granted by Russian Venture Capital Association, National Venture Industry Award, and National Association of Business Angels award, so they have a quite a reputation to bring to the table.
The Accelerator’s main mission is to introduce startups with East European R&D roots to best practices, trusted advisers and mentors, and overcome cultural differences through a customized educational program that help startups to gain traction in U.S. and become part of the local startup and investing ecosystem.
I have been a coach for several companies from Russia through Seed Forum International and have observed that there can be serious cultural challenges involved. Just to be clear, it is the same challenge for us heading eastbound and maybe even harder.
My chat with Ekaterina (Katya) Dorozhkina;
Katya is the Managing Partner at Starta Capital & Accelerator. The author of Zero Budget Marketing and Making ArtWork, A ROI-Based Marketing Guide for Entrepreneurs and Startups. Co-founder of @DenArtStudio.With over ten years of experience in the field, she has been on both sides of the brief, helping large corporations and small start-ups with marketing, business and product management. Past clients include Samsung, Casio, American Express, American Airlines, and others.
Katya received her Master’s in International Economics and currently finishing up her Ph.D. She lives in NYC, where she spoils her adopted dog, Bucks and her goldfish, Cash. Katya donates all of the income from her books to a charity fund called Change One Life, which helps connect orphans with families.
I have a strong hypothesis that the entrepreneurial environment in Russia is a little bit difficult right now. Are there many Russian entrepreneurs fleeing the country?
-Indeed, the economic situation has recently declined dramatically. The market liquidity along with the prospect for the future is questionable for many startups and entrepreneurs in general. This pushes entrepreneurs to get out of their comfort zone. They are forced to consider new strategies for their businesses, or they try to move towards more attractive markets that can provide a better future for their businesses and products.
I imagine cultural barriers are an important consideration for these entrepreneurs. What are the main challenges?
-As with any cross-cultural exchange, it takes a time to get used to the new cultural rules. For businesses, cultural differences can present an obstacle to developing and growing business. The challenge that we face at Starta Accelerator is to help Eastern-European founders adapt to a U.S.-oriented mindset within a short time. In general, it takes years to adjust culturally to a new place, but adapting to U.S.-business culture is our focus for the first month of the program.
-One of the main cultural differences between U.S. and Eastern European founders is how the path to success is imagined. European founders are more careful and cautious. They still live in the “waterfall product development” process—they’ve been taught to create the product first, then sell it. However, in the U.S., startups are all about being lean and agile. U.S. founders market and test ideas first, and then create products and raise money. In both scenarios, making mistakes is unavoidable, but it should not prevent you from trying.
There are many accelerators in NYC. What make your initiative unique?
-For startups, our business model is narrowed down to the particular challenge of Eastern-European companies entering the U.S. market. There simply is no other accelerator with this focus. The accelerators in NYC do a fabulous job, but they are only accessible to local startups or companies with sufficient local experience. These startups already participate in the U.S. startup ecosystem, and they are familiar with the local rules. Other accelerators just cannot predict or assist with the challenges facing Eastern-European companies that are trying to join the U.S. startup ecosystem.
-Our one-on-one coaching program also sets us apart from other accelerators. In addition to mentoring by industry leaders, our founders receive individual coaching on Business Communications, Marketing, Business Development & Sales, Product & UX, and Investment Relationship.
-We also provide more value to investors as we select more mature startups with MVP, traction and powerful R&D teams that operate from Eastern Europe usually at a much lower cost than in U.S.
You have a demo day coming up. What kind of startups will we meet?
-At our demo day, you will meet startups from various industries in multiple stages of growth. As I mentioned, we have companies with proven traction in Europe. Some have already raised sufficient money, and some are in the early stages of looking for seed and pre-seed funding. These companies span various tech products and services—from deep techs like VR or navigation technologies to fintech apps and much more. You will have to check it out to see them all!
-Our Demo Day is planned for April 27th at Microsoft on Times Square. We are happy to invite more Angel and VC investors.
Working closely with startups on a daily basis can be a challenge. Where do you get the energy?
-Good question. Sex, drugs and rock-n-roll?
-Joking aside, I just love what I do—and in a way, my passion for startups is a kind of drug. Working with startups comes with a whole slew of emotions—from frustration to excitement—but ultimately it is rewarding. Seeing the determination and hard work of these startup founders is inspiring. It keeps me going and makes me do my best to help these guys succeed.
-Plus, I get some kind of peer-to-peer auto-recharge. Our accelerator is like a solar panel, when our group of energetic, smart and determined founders work side-by-side on a daily basis, they give each other—and me—a special natural energy and support. They are not competing against each other. Rather, they are all united by the same goal, and that lifts everybody up.
Where do you see yourself in three years? What are your personal goals for Starta?
-My personal goal is to create a new form of accelerators that will create a new player in the market or change the VC/Startup world completely.
-Right now, it looks like a zoo: unicorns, cash cows, “foxes” and “hedgehogs.” (A study from Columbia University placed VCs and angel investors into two categories, “foxes” and “hedgehogs.”)
-Instead of breeding a new animal, I would like to create a feeder for all. Or, better yet, convert the zoo into an amusement park with positive experiences for each of the players, not just a rollercoaster for startups.
-My professional goal is to finish fundraising for Starta Accelerator Fund for the upcoming four classes over the next two years, which will help to support about eight startups per class and increase the chance of creating an Eastern-European unicorn success story.
More info on the companies presenting and registration for the Starta Demo day at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/starta-accelerator-demo-day-tickets-22171956920
Some of the entrepreneurs we will meet at Demo Day. I like the exit sign:)
By Berg Moe. You can reach me at LinkedIn, or simply sign up for my personal newsletter and the Angel Investor Startup Digest.
Create the perfect storm before you launch
First book project – Launching March 31st at “Kickstarter” is “Artic Recipes”. I have several hundred recipes from my late mother, Borgunn. Many of them are handwritten and represent wild arctic cousin at its best. I will make the food myself, take beautiful pictures and finance the work at “Kickstarter”. Goal: To make people aware of the fantastic food that we have in the North of Norway.
My challenge, as for all the projects that are launched from different crowdfunding platforms every day is to get a critical mass of people showing up with their credit card. To get influential people or just friends on Twitter and Facebook post automatically the same day as you go live is what Thunderclap offers. Under the hood, there are interesting features I am testing out right now. You will have more details and how this launch went in a new post first week of April.
How Thunderclap defines themselves;
If you want to see how a campaign page looks like, you can have a look at my Thunderclap site at https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/38850-artic-recipes-kickstarter?locale=en
19 year old Aurora Aksnes from Os, Norway, gets millions of shares on YouTube
There are many interesting things happening in the Norwegian music industry, but I was shocked when I learned that totally unknown Aurora Aksnes was the voice behind this year’s John Lewis Christmas Advert. I song is also rising on iTunes and are as we speak at sixth place. Where will this end for young and for sure talented Aurora?
John Lewis Christmas Advert 2015 – #ManOnTheMoon
Are Norwegians fat, lazy and beautiful?
In Accelerate, Invest, Startup
This talk I gave at a local TEDx event, in Bergen produced independently of the TED Conferences. I am talking about the present and future of entrepreneurship in Norway and try to examine the challenges of Norwegian startup companies on the entrepreneurial scene. Why is it so hard for startups to survive and grow is such a rich and prosperous Scandinavian country?
I am working on refining this lecture and on a book focusing on challenges Norway have ahead, so all feedback and comments are of high value for me.
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Referee in Cup; Linesmen in League Games
In the schedule of games submitted by the American Soccer League it is interesting to note that A. Lawrie, the individual who officiated the New Bedford-Bethlehem Steel game at New Bedford last week, is listed as a neutral linesman in two of the contests over the weekend. Also pleasing to note is the fact that Danny Oates has been named to handle the game as referee between Bethlehem Steel and Fall River to be played here on Saturday afternoon. The inefficiencies of Lawrie, whose honesty, however, is not in the least questioned, are the basis of the protest of the Bethlehem Steel team. It does seem as though discretion was misplaced when with no other games on the date in question Lawrie drew the assignment to referee the important cup tilt and for league games is set down, to the task of a neutral linesman. Particularly so when a raft of referees recognized as topnotchers in their profession were allowed to run loose. The opinion that the game today is too fast for Lawrie is not only entertained her but would most certainly be voiced by clubs in his own district.
Irish Internationalist With Fall River
When Bethlehem Steel and Fall River square off in their league game fans will center their interest on the playing of Dave Croft, an Irish Internationalist, who up Fall River way is touted a sensationally clever and accurate goal-shooting front liner. Croft was a mid-season acquisition to Fall River, making his debut shortly after Manager Marks took a brief journey abroad. At the time of the trip it was presumed that the purpose was to secure a player or players to bolster up the team and the object became more or less convincing when shortly afterward Croft donned a Fall River uniform. Fall River fans were somewhat disgruntled with the display of the team in early season although Fall River continued to win or draw its games. With Croft in the lineup they seem perfectly in accord with the management and the speedy forward is already a popular idol with the home crowd.
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As of March 1, 2009, The MTTLR Blog is migrating to http://www.mttlrblog.org. All new updates will be posted at the new location.
Terminating Early Termination Fees
by: Brian Savage, Associate Editor, MTTLR
Two former Qwest customers have filed a putative class action lawsuit against Qwest seeking to end termination fees for broadband Internet subscribers. This is one of the first challenges to broadband service termination fees. Both former customers were charged 200 dollars when they canceled their broadband service. One customer, Rory Durkin, intended to cancel service but decided to continue paying for monthly broadband service when he learned of the termination fee - even though he did not have a working computer.
The other customer, Robin Vernon, allegedly called to cancel service, was told on the phone by a Qwest customer service representative that there was no fee to cancel, but later received a bill for a 200 dollar early termination fee (ETF). When Vernon demanded to see a contract, Qwest informed her that the contract was made orally on the telephone by Mrs. Vernon's husband and that neither a written copy of a contract nor a recording of the telephone conversation was available. Shortly thereafter, she started receiving calls from a collection agency.
Qwest markets its broadband services as requiring a two-year commitment, but customers do not agree to this in a contract. Customers typically order the broadband service over the telephone. After becoming a subscriber, Qwest mails a "Subscriber Agreement" to the new customer that is not signed by Qwest or the customer. The Subscriber Agreement states "IF YOU ORDER SERVICE WITH A TERM COMMITMENT, YOU AGREE TO MAINTAIN THAT SERVICE FOR THE ENTIRE TERM COMMITMENT PERIOD." The Subscriber Agreement, however, does not mention an ETF and the only term of service mentioned is a month-to-month commitment.
The complaint alleges that the ETF is an unlawful penalty under common law contract principles because "(a) it is wholly disproportionate to the harm, if any, that early cancellation may cause Qwest; (b) it is not based on a bona fide reasonable estimate of the damages, if any, that Qwest incurs from an early cancellation; and (c) the actual damage, if any, Qwest may suffer as a result of early termination is not difficult to ascertain." The complaint also asserts an unjust enrichment claim and other state law claims.
So, what is the likelihood of success in this action and what could this mean for you as a broadband subscriber? Other recent challenges to termination fees in a cellular phone context suggest that if this action against Qwest is successful, customers will likely be able to choose monthly plans without ETFs.
Verizon Wireless agreed to a 21 million dollar settlement in a California class action suit regarding ETFs and now offers plans with month-to-month commitments. Customers can still choose to pay a lower price for the phone and enter into a long-term contract, or the customer can choose to pay full price for the phone without a long-term contract and its accompanying ETF. A California judge also ordered Sprint Communications to pay back 18 million to customers who had paid ETFs. Many phone companies (Sprint, AT&T) are now adjusting their plans by either offering prorated termination fees, so that customers pay less if they cancel later in their agreement, or offering monthly plans like Verizon.
The plaintiffs' successes in the cell phone cases suggests that the broadband case will be successful as well. Cell phone carriers, because they offer cheaper handsets when customers enter into a long-term contract, can argue that the ETF is appropriate since customers keep their phones after cancelling service. The argument for overturning broadband termination fees is arguably stronger because former broadband customers do not keep anything from the company. The end of broadband termination fees, therefore, may be near.
Allowing customers to cancel their service at any time without an ETF and to switch providers may allow for smaller companies with competitively priced plans to more easily build a customer base and compete with the larger companies. This could result in lower prices for everyone.
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Dahua Cameras Unauthorized Access Vulnerability Technical Analysis and Solution
2017-03-17 蒋红梅Dahua Cameras Unauthorized, EnglishVersion, Technical Analysis and Solution, Unauthorized Access Vulnerability, Vendor Solutions, Vulnerability Analysis
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Recently, Dahua Technology, a well-known security camera and digital video recorder (DVR) vendor in China, released firmware updates to address a serious security issue in certain products. Before the vendor made an official statement on this issue, however, a security researcher named Bashis said that this vulnerability seemed to be a backdoor intentionally left by the vendor and so made his findings public without notifying Dahua in advance.
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can access the user database of a Dahua camera without needing administrative privileges and extract the user name and password hash. Then the attacker can directly use this user name and password hash to log in to the device and obtain related privileges.
For details, visit the following links:
https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-backdoor?code=bash
http://us.dahuasecurity.com/en/us/Security-Bulletin_030617.php#none
According to Dahua Technology’s official statement, the following models are affected:
DH-IPC-HDW23A0RN-ZS
DH-IPC-HDBW23A0RN-ZS
DH-IPC-HDBW13A0SN
DH-IPC-HDW13A0SN
DH-IPC-HFW13A0SN-W
DHI-HCVR51A04HE-S3
DHI-HCVR58A32S-S2
NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence’s Analysis on the Global Impact of This Vulnerability
Global Distribution of Vulnerable Devices
According to our statistics, the number of worldwide devices with this vulnerability reaches 1,140,446, which are distributed as follows:
Top 20 countries with the most vulnerable devices are shown as follows:
Nationwide Distribution of Vulnerable Devices in China
Our statistics reveal that there are 108,205 devices in total affected by this vulnerability in China. The following figure shows the distribution of these vulnerable devices in different provinces.
The following figure shows the distribution of these vulnerable devices in major cities.
The following figure shows top 10 provinces and municipalities with the most vulnerable devices.
Prerequisites for Vulnerability Exploitation
As shown in the following figure, after accessing a specific device by typing its IP address in the address bar, the attacker can obtain all data of the user database, including such sensitive information as user names and hashed passwords for access to the device. For the sake of security, sensitive information is obfuscated.
Vulnerability Exploitation
The hashed passwords do not need to be cracked before being used to log in to the device and obtain related privileges, as shown in the following figure.
After login to the device, the attacker can view and modify its configurations such as the admin password.
Moreover, after such remote login, the attacker can directly obtain sensitive information, such as images, stored on the device, posing a serious threat to users’ privacy.
Vendor Solutions
Dahua Technology has identified 11 models affected by this vulnerability and released firmware updates. Users should check their models against the following table and upgrade their devices as soon as possible.
DH-IPC-HDW23A0RN-ZS Download
DH-IPC-HDBW13A0SN Download
DHI-HCVR51A04HE-S3 Download
DHI-HCVR58A32S-S2 Download
If you are not sure whether your devices are affected by this vulnerability, you can use NSFOCUS Remote Security Assessment System (RSAS V5 or V6), Web Vulnerability Scanning System (WVSS), or ICS Scanning System (ICSScan V6.0) to detect this vulnerability.
Remote Security Assessment System (RSAS V5):
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/listAurora/v/5
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/listRsasDetail/v/vulweb
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/listRsasDetail/v/vulsys
Web Vulnerability Scanning System (WVSS):
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/listWvssDetail/v/6/t/plg
ICS Scanning System (ICSScan V6.0):
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/listICSScanDetail/v/vulsys
You should upgrade your devices to the latest version by downloading upgrade packages from the preceding links before using them to detect vulnerabilities.
Use NSFOCUS’s protection product (NIPS, NIDS, NF, or WAF) to protect against the exploitation of the vulnerability.
Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS):
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/listIps
Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS):
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/listIds
Next-Generation Firewall (NF):
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/listNf
Web Application Firewall (WAF):
http://update.nsfocus.com/update/wafIndex
You should upgrade your devices to the latest version by downloading upgrade packages from the preceding links before using them for protection.
Sum-Up
This vulnerability exists because of Dahua Technology’s negligence and mistake in engineering management. It allows access to and download of the user database of a specified device without requiring administrative privileges. After obtaining sensitive information such as user names and passwords, an attacker can remotely log in to the device, thus posing a serious threat to users’ privacy. After this vulnerability was disclosed, NSFOCUS determined that it is easy to exploit, with an extensive impact, and so engaged in prompt response activities, including analyzing its cause and working principle and providing customers with secure and reliable detection and protection solutions.
This advisory is only used to describe a potential risk. NSFOCUS does not provide any commitment or promise on this advisory. NSFOCUS and the author will not bear any liability for any direct and/or indirect consequences and losses caused by transmitting and/or using this advisory. NSFOCUS reserves all the rights to modify and interpret this advisory. Please include this statement paragraph when reproducing or transferring this advisory. Do not modify this advisory, add/delete any information to/from it, or use this advisory for commercial purposes without permission from NSFOCUS.
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Hell’s Kitchen TV Recap For June 27, 2013: 5 Chefs Compete
Noah Johnson | June 27, 2013 | TV | No Comments
Tonight on FOX is a brand new episode of the hit cooking competition Hell’s Kitchen. On tonight’s show, the five remaining chefs compete for the chance to be the top chef in one of Chef Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants. On last week’s show, the chef passed out the coveted black jackets and no one was eliminated from the competition. Have you been keeping up with the show? If not, you can read the recap here.
Left in the competition are Jon, Cyndi, Ja’nel, Mary and Susan. From the official synopsis:
The challenges don’t stop now that the chefs have received their black jackets, as Chef Ramsay surprises them by bringing back a team of previous HELL’S KITCHEN winners to challenge them at dinner service. Ramsay lets the teams design their own menus for dinner service and the finalists will go head-to-head with the returning champs. Tune in to see if this season’s competitors can take the heat.
Stay tuned for our live recap of the show at 8PM. Until then, tell us who you’re rooting for to win this season of Hell’s Kitchen!
Rock from season three is coming back to compete against this season’s chefs. Also joining him is Christina from season four. Dave from season six is also returning to compete. Nona and Paul are also competing tonight.
Gordon wants them to add an appetizer and an entree to the menu. The group is a bit frazzled over competing against the “dream team”.
Susan wants to be on the meat station, but Cyndi disagrees. We’re of the mind that Susan isn’t exactly the best person on meat and should probably float instead.
The competitors have prepared steak tar tar, chalits with a vinaigrette sauce and the entree is missing the main portion. The champions have prepared rendered duck breast and toasted pistachios and the main dish is meat with collared greens.
On the side with the competitors, Susan seemed to drop the ball on making everyone wait for the capellini. The black jacket team finished before the champions with the exception of one lamb that was undercooked. Cyndi messed up the lamb again.
Ninety-five percent of the diners who ate in the champion’s section said that they would return to the restaurant based on this dining experience, while the current chefs had 93 percent. Chef Ramsay asked the current chefs to nominate two chefs for elimination. They nominated Susan and Cyndi as their two weakest chefs. Gordon’s decision is for Susan and Cyndi to get back in line with their black jackets. What?!?
What did you think of the show tonight? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.
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2016 | Greek Film Festival Schedule
EDINBURGH GREEK FILM FESTIVAL
AT EDINBURGH FILMHOUSE WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM
Friday 2 December AT 8.45
Argyris Papadimitropoulos • Greece 2016 •1h 44m
DCP • Greek with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou
A Greek island. The winters are cold, it rains, very few people live there. Summer comes and everybody seems to be there. Kostis, the new doctor, is good with colds and chills in winter but can’t cope with summer or with young women who wear clothes only when they really have to, seem to send out mixed messages and have occasional meaningless sex with amusing older men who do not realize they are older, amusing or meaningless. This is Kostis’s story. You may meet someone like him on your next Greek island. You will probably like him.
Followed by a Q&A with director Argyris Papadimitropoulos.
Saturday 3 December at 8.45
Short Fuse
Kostas Skiftas, Andreas Lampropoulos • Greece 2016 • 1h 26m
Cast: Apostolis Totsikas, Evgenia Dimitropoulou, Tasos Nousias, Konstantinos Markoulakis, Thodoris Atheridis.
A young lawyer loses his temper with several people, who lose their tempers with him. He’s given some do-or-die tasks. There are adventures, various cars suffer, many Greek policemen look threateningly baffled, fights are arranged. There is action – lots and lots of it. Could this is the very first Greek action movie ever? There’s a girl, of course, who needs to be rescued. The plot forgets about her for a bit so she has to be rescued again. Will the guy remember who she is? Will they live happily ever after? Will they ever manage to sit down?
Followed by a Q&A with director, co-screenwriter Kostas Skiftas and Producer/co-screenwriter Konstantinos Moutsinas.
Sunday 4 December at 8.45
Cloudy Sunday Ouzeri Tsitsanis
Manousos Manousakis • Greece 2015 • 1h 52m
Cast: Andreas Konstantinou, Christina Hilla Fameli, Yannis Stankoglou, Gerasimos Skiadaressis
Salonica, 1942, under German occupation. Vasilis Tsitsanis, the great Rebetika musician, is running an Ouzo joint, a crossroads where collaborators, blackmarketeers, resistance fighters and musicians meet. Salonica’s Jews – about a third of the population - cannot comprehend the evil they face. Through the eyes of a Jewish girl and her Christian lover we watch their tragedy take its course. This is a lament for a city still beautiful but horribly wounded and a monument to Tsitsanis and his masterpiece of implied resistance, the song ‘Cloudy Sunday’.
Monday 5th December at 8.45
A Family Affair Mia Oikogeneiaki Ypothesi
Angeliki Aristomenopolou • Greece • 2015 • 1h 27m
DCP • English and Greek with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Andonis Xylouris (Psarandonis), Yorgos Xylouris (Psarogiorgis), Apollonia Xylouris.
The Xylouris family are a bunch of crazy Cretan musicians. Of course we are all crazy, but Cretans are crazy in their very own way. Nikos was maybe the voice that destroyed the Colonels artistically. This is about his remaining family - Yorgos, who talks, teaches and explains; and Andonis, who hardly talks at all but plays stubborn Cretan, unreformed, uncompromising music and hypnotises audiences as he travels the festival circuit. This is an intimate portrait of a very old, living tradition. Dancing may be inevitable, but only on Lothian Road.
Tuesday 6 December at 8.45
Athina Rachel Tsangari • Greece 2015 • 1h 45m
Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Sakis Rouvas, Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orphanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Panos Koronis.
Tsangari (Attenberg) turns her steely eye on Men - six of them on a boat with nothing better to do than try to work out who is the best. What ‘best’ means turns out to be uncertain when applied to men, so more or less everything they can think of is tested. Measurements are taken, IKEA units competitively assembled – the dafter it is the more competitive it gets. The men reveal themselves to themselves and leave us with all the usual questions about humanity and masculinity but fashioned into something new and tantalising. Tsangari has added something very human to her usual philosophical concerns.
Wednesday 7 December at 8.45
OXI: An Act of Resistance
Ken McMullan • UK/Greece • 1h40m
DCP • English, French and Greek with English subtitles • 15
Cast: John Shrapnel, Dominique Pinon, Hélène Cixous, Étienne Balibar, Antonio Negri, Julia Faure, Alexis Georgopoulou, Eleni Kallia.
A meditation on Greekness, what it is, how it behaves, the persistence of Ancient Greece in Modern Greeks, the magnificent history of Greek resistance, how Sophocles’s Antigone might resist now, how the laughter of Aristophanes might dissolve the absurdities of Austerity, how Cavafy’s poems speak of the ancient but enlighten the modern. OXI (the Greek for ‘No’) dramatizes and documents the crisis we all live in and which we all must understand and solve and helps us both to understand Greece and to ask questions of ourselves.
Followed by a Q&A with Ken McMullan and producer Martin McQuillan.
EXHIBITION: IMAGINE THE SOUNDS
SYN presents, in the framework of this year’s Edinburgh Greek Film Festival, the group exhibition Imagine the Sounds. The exhibition takes as its starting point the relationship between moving image and sound, which has been portrayed in cinema since its very first incarnation. Beginning from the festival’s films, the exhibition examines sound, and ultimately music, as a code of communication. It performs a role as an element which both leads and complements the "story” and also as an expression of cultural, political and social life. http://www.synfestivaledinburgh.co.uk/
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CAMILLE & ULYSSE
DCP 2K Dolby 5.1 / 46min / English & French / Spain & France 2021
The philosophers Vinciane Despret and Donna Haraway combine their voices in this audio-visual piece by the filmmaker Diana Toucedo, based on two of their fabulations: Haraway’s The Camille Stories, and Autobiographie d’un poulpe, by Despret.
In an indefinite future, Camille and Ulysses tell the interwoven stories of the first generation of their communities of humans and non-humans: the communities of compost. Camille is associated symbolically with monarch butterflies, whose migration routes and habitats in the US, Mexico and Canada are under threat. Ulysses, like all Ulysses in the community, experiments with the possibility of living in the presence of the extinct octopus by learning the animals’ highly unique gestures, language and forms of sensitivity.
Filmed like an oral tale and a correspondence between the two narrators and their stories, the film follows the ways of living and dying among communities on a damaged planet and their growing proficiency in a new field of scientific knowledge: terolinguistics, or the study of animal languages. The narrators, in harmony with their partners in symbiosis, become increasingly aware of the growth possibilities of the tentacular and metamorphic beings.
This encounter was captured by the filmmaker Diana Toucedo, whose work includes Trinta lumes (2018). With a perspective attuned to the mysteries of the natural world, the blurred limits between what we know and what we intuit, Toucedo joins Haraway and Despret in the construction of this narrative voyage made up of multiple intersecting lines – a string game where speculative fiction and experimental essay merge as symbionts.
The piece, 46 minutes long and co-produced by the CCCB and the Pompidou Centre, with collaboration from Fabbula, was commissioned especially for the exhibition “Science Friction”. It will be screened outside the exhibition hall, during two special sessions, to coincide with the conversation between Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret that will take place the same day, 12 June, at the CCCB.
https://www.cccb.org/en/activities/file/screening-of-camille-ulysse-by-diana-toucedo/236130
Diana Toucedo
CCCB & Centre Pompidou
Fabbula
Texts and readings
Donna J. Haraway & Vinciane Despret
Jean-Max Colard, Nicolas Gendrault, Joséphine Huppert, Angela Martínez & Neus Moyano
Nico Pereda & Claudio Napoli
Andrea Bussmann & Leo Dolgan
Contect Coordination
Fabien Siouffi
BFlecha
3D artists & animation
Sam Twidale & Marija Avramovic
Visuals & color & sound atmospheres
Aleix Fernández
Ivan Gariel
Aleix Fernández & Hector Moreno
Silvia Míguez
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belitt, ben, 1911-2003 (1)
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gillett, brendan (1)
hiebert, helen,1965- (1)
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artists' books -- specimens (7)
toy and movable books -- specimens (2)
animals in art (1)
art -- terminology -- humor (1)
artists' books -- california (1)
bereavement -- poetry (1)
cut-out craft (1)
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4 and 20.
Artists' books--Specimens; Pop-up books--Specimens; Nursery rhymes in art
Title from 23 Sandy Gallery website, viewed Feb. 25, 2014. / Cover illustrated with blackbird cut-outs. / "Pop-up-[book]- ink, markers, colour pencil, acetate, paper, solid core matt board. 2 pages. 12 x 18 inches open"--23 Sandy Gallery website. /...
Graffiti.
Artists' books--Specimens; Toy and movable books--Specimens
Poems. / Title page on 2 successive leaves. / Limited ed. of 64 copies. / LC has copy no. 16, signed in 1990 by the author and the artist. DLC / Source: Purchase, June 8, 1990.DLC / By Ben Belitt - designed and illustrated by Debra Weier.
Hand book.
Artists' books--Specimens; Hand in art
Title supplied by cataloger. / One of a kind artists' book, shaped like an open hand, with outline of hand on covers. Inside pages made of collages.
How to talk about art.
Art--Terminology--Humor; Toy and movable books--Specimens; Artists' books--Specimens
A pop-up book.
Rock, paper, book.
Type and type-founding--Specimens; Graphic design (Typography); Artists' books--California; Artists' books--Specimens
"Fourteen students developed the ideas for this book on the subject of paper. The texts and images were printed on Rives Heavyweight using four Vandercook presses. Each section was wrapped with Rives BFK gray, on which meaningful pieces of their...
The pop-up hand shadow book.
Animals in art; Cut-out craft; Shadow puppets; Pop-up books; Artists' books--Specimens
"Poems by Nora Robertson"--Colophon. / Limited ed. of 50 copies, signed by the artist and poet. / "First designed at a workshop at the Penland School in the summer of 1996 and was editioned in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 2012"--Colophon.
Vita defuncta.
Artists' books--Specimens; Bereavement--Poetry; Death in art; War in art; Pisano, Maria G. (autograph)
Limited ed. of 25 numbered copies, signed by the artist. / "The poem speaks of loss in war vs natural death as seen in nature. War is a recurring cycle, but unlike nature, which brings change and growth through the seasons, war only brings death...
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Power of Gold 04
Authors Note,
This story was inspired by the London 2012 Olympics. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. All characters in the story are created by myself and any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
This story is the fourth part however it should be able to be read as a stand alone story.
Big thanks go out to Sanidia for editing this story for me. Your kind efforts will be rewarded I’m sure.
I’d love to hear your feedback
Chapter 15 — The Hunt
“Deen James, he’s one of the masseur’s here,” Demi said to the woman behind the Aquatic Centre help desk.
“I’m sorry Miss, but we have no record of anyone by that name, are you sure that you have his name right?” the woman replied trying to be helpful.
“Yes, Deen James.”
“How are you spelling Deen?” the woman asked.
“On his Access pass it was written D. E. E. N,” Demi replied slightly impatiently.
“Well I’m sorry Demi, but I can’t find anyone by that name,” the woman said before adding, “Good luck for tonight, we’re all rooting for you.”
Demi smiled instinctively, it always stunned her when complete strangers wished her well. It was something she still hadn’t gotten used to yet.
“Thank you,” Demi replied graciously before walking away from the desk wondering why there was no record of Deen on their list. She should have got a number for him, but she’d never needed one, he had always been there, whenever she’d needed him he’d been there. She had no idea how to find him, if the reception desk couldn’t locate him then how on earth was she going to.
Tara, her trainer, would know what to do. She’d be able to offer some advice. That’s if she’d managed to get away from her mother. Her mother liked to talk, and one of Tara’s unadvertised roles had always been to keep her mother and her apart at important times.
“Demi, are you ok?” Tara asked her voice full of concern as she saw Demi approaching.
“Tara, I can’t find Deen anywhere!” Demi said nearly breaking down, the stress and the worry suddenly becoming too much.
“Deen? Why are you trying to find Deen, and what happened with Chris?” Tara asked.
“I just broke up with Chris, I’m sick of him, and well, he isn’t Deen,” Demi said as Tara pulled her into the hug. Demi knew how difficult physical contact was for Tara. Demi felt Tara pull her harder ands she couldn’t stop a sob escaping her lips.
“You did what?” Tara said with surprise in her voice, smiling she pulled back to look at Demi, “Good for you Demi, I’m glad you’ve got rid of him!”
Demi looked at Tara surprised.
“Don’t look so shocked, why do you think that I sent you off with Deen?” Tara said. “You were worth more than Chris.”
“But Tara, I can’t find Deen anywhere, and reception doesn’t know anything about him. I think I’ve messed it up with Deen, he saw Chris kissing me and he stormed off,”
“But he knew about Chris right?”
Demi had to look away from Tara at that moment the guilt building up even more, sighing she decided it was best to come clean.
“No, I didn’t tell him, I didn’t want to spoil it, but I really really like Deen, I think I’m in love with him”
“Hang on Demi.” Tara took a step back looking at her friend, she ran a hand through her hair she look like she couldn’t believe what she was hearing, “You’ve only known him two days, and knowing you the way I do I know you won’t have done more than kiss him, I think it’s a bit early to say you love him.”
“We may have done a bit more than kissing,” Demi said nervously, looking down at her hands she couldn’t help but blush a little as images of their past encounters flashed through her mind.
“Wow,” she said. After a pause she continued, “Don’t worry, if Deen likes you as much as you like him I’m sure he’ll be able to get past this Chris thing, after all if he’s hurt it means he cares. Just think if the shoe was on the other foot, would you be able to forgive him?” Tara asked.
Demi smiled, “I think I could forgive him anything.”
“Ok so don’t you worry, you have a big swim in less than an hour, you go to the pool and start your warm up and I’ll go and find Deen.”
“Thank you Tara, you are so good to me.” Demi gushed.
“Don’t push it Demi, now go to that pool and aim for the best you can.”
Deen scowled into his coffee, he knew it didn’t make any sense. Why did he feel so hurt that Demi had been lying to him? After all, he’d been lying to her. What right did he have to be hurt?
Maybe it was his pride? When Amber had told him that Demi had a boyfriend he’d been so sure that she was lying. But it turned out she was telling the truth. He looked like an idiot.
Demi had a boyfriend and she’d even had the gall to kiss him in his face. Did she have no shame? “Well stuff her,” he thought to himself wishing he meant it. He felt sick right to his stomach. At least his secret was safe, he could just slip out of the Olympic park and get on a plane home. That would be funny, Amber’s newspaper reporters would be erotik film izle waiting to get a picture of Demi and him together and he’d be high in the sky above them.
He chuckled to himself and was about to sip his coffee when the chair opposite was pulled out. Tara, Demi’s trainer sat down opposite him.
“You aren’t very good at hiding,” Tara said with a satisfied smile.
“Who said I was hiding?” Deen retorted, “You’ve only just caught me, I was about to be head to the airport.”
“Running away that easily Mr James? I’m surprised you would let your prize slip away so easily,” Tara said leaning forward taunting him.
“Well it would seem my prize already belongs to another,” Deen said sitting back with a scowl, “Whatever I may be, I am not a thief.”
“Don’t be so sure of that Mr James, things move fast in the world of Olympic Swimming. It could just be that your prize is more available to you now than ever.” Tara said.
“Surprise me.” Deen could feel his temper rising, he had played enough games in this god forsaken place.
“I don’t see how, surely you can’t be blind to how she feels about you? I’ve never seen her like this about anyone before.” Tara said. “Chris has been a disaster for her since she met him, he’s like a leach on her, just like her mother. In fact it was her mother that set the two of them up. I am pleased that he’s gone.”
“He’s gone? For good? Well none of that explains why she didn’t tell me about him before,” Deen said.
“Well you’d have to ask her about that, but I would suspect it was a reality she didn’t want to face up to,” Tara explained. “Anyway, I get the feeling that you have secrets of your own Mr James.”
Deen shifted uneasily. How much did she know? There is no way she could know about his deal with Amber.
“Don’t worry, the only thing that matters to me is how you feel about her, I don’t care about your secrets,” Tara said.
Deen smiled, he was relieved, but his heart was pumping, Demi had still kept her boyfriend Chris a secret, but at the same time she had obviously just made a decision. More importantly she’d chosen him.
“I’m still hurt, but that tells me I feel more strongly about her than anyone I’ve ever met before. She is really amazing,” Deen said.
“That is good to hear Mr James,” Tara said. “So I would suggest you go and see her as soon as possible.
As she stood on the starting blocks, her body bent almost double, Demi felt more alone than she had at any point in her life. She was about to swim in the four hundred metre freestyle finals. In the back of her mind she knew that she was the fastest swimmer in the group. But her drive was gone. The reason for her success had left and abandoned her. With good reason as well. She couldn’t believe she’d been so stupid, why hadn’t she told Deen about her boyfriend? It would have been an easy conversation but now she had destroyed their relationship before they’d really begun.
The electrical noise sounded and Demi dove into the pool. She swam, but she knew she wasn’t swimming fast. She was going through the motions but she had no drive to win. If anything she thought maybe she should come last, that would hurt her mother.
It was her mother who had set her up with Chris, her mother who had provided Chris with her box of toys, her mother who had no doubt put the idea into Chris’ head that he could have some fun with her in the changing room. She tried to wipe the image of Chris making her cum with the pink rabbit vibrator from her mind but she couldn’t.
On her fourth length of the pool, half way into the race, Demi looked up to where she knew Tara would be standing. It was agreed that she would look at Tara at this point to find out how she was doing. She only looked out of habit, she knew she was already well off the necessary pace.
In that brief glimpse she was shocked to see Deen standing next to Tara, he looked straight at her and smiled.
Her heart leapt, whatever Tara had done or said, she’d managed to bring Deen back, she’d get a chance to explain to him what had happened. There was suddenly hope.
This changed everything. Demi suddenly felt her drive return to her. The images of Chris left her. She felt the desire to once more to do the best that she could.
Powerful stroke followed powerful stroke, she started to feel her muscles protesting. She didn’t glance at Tara or Deen again and she didn’t look to see where the rest of the field were. She’d entered her swimming space, the zone where nothing else mattered apart from stroke after stroke.
Demi’s hand touched the side of the pool, she had no idea how she’d done, she looked left and right to see how many others were at the pool side, at least five were at the wall looking up to the screen to see how they’d done.
Fourth.
Just out of the medals, but quite an achievement to have made up that many places. That didn’t matter though. All she wanted to do was speak to Deen. She knew she’d have to wait until after her warm down. Then she could explain herself. It was going film izle to feel like a long warm down session.
Chapter 14 – Explanations
“Oh Deen I’m so sorry,” were Demi’s first words to Deen as he approached alone. There was no sign of Tara, this was one thing she’d have to do on her own.
“Why didn’t you tell me about him?” Deen asked bluntly.
Demi was taken aback by the question being asked to openly, but he deserved an answer she thought, “I know it was stupid, but when I was with you I didn’t even think about him once. He and I haven’t been close for a long time. Things just haven’t been right but I didn’t know what was missing until I met you. You’ve shown me what a relationship can be like. You’ve shown me how good it can be. I know I’ve messed up. I know I should have told you about him from the very beginning. I just couldn’t face it. I didn’t want you to think badly of me.” Demi looked down. “What a mess I made of that!”
Deen put his hand gently on her cheek. Demi looked up at him wondering what he was going to say or do, she’d just laid herself bare for him in the hope that he could forgive her, in the hope that he wanted to take her back. She looked into his eyes, they were gleaming.
“It’s ok Demi, I understand. It’s like a separate world down here in the Olympic village,” Deen said.
Demi felt her heart flutter and her stomach lurch with excitement.
“You are the most amazing girl I’ve ever met. I’ve really fallen for you Demi. I understand why you wanted to pretend Chris didn’t exist. I’m kind of flattered. Besides I’ve my own confession too,” he began.
Demi was amazed, Deen had forgiven her, he’d understood. She reached up and put a finger on his lips.
“Enough confessions for one day,” she said with a smile, “Whatever it is it can wait, for another time. I want to tell you how I can make all of this up to you.”
Deen smiled at her as she removed her finger.
“You don’t need to make it up to me,” he said.
“I want to make it up to you, I want to give you what you’ve never been given before, I want you to be able to do whatever you want to me, and I’ll give you complete control and obedience. Whatever you want, I’ll do it.” Demi said her heart racing. She’d been trying to suggest this before Chris had arrived now was her chance and at the same time she could make things up to him.
“You know that won’t work Demi, I have too much respect to be able to do that to you. I can’t let myself go. I love you.”
Demi’s heart started racing in her chest, he’d just said the big L word. He’d let it slip. She felt amazing.
“But this is where my amazing plan comes in. I have a full metallic gold cat suit with a hood it’s left over from a photo shoot. You can’t tell it’s me. If we were to combine that with a ball gag then maybe you can get over your little problem, maybe you would see me as your fuck toy.” Demi whispered the last bit.
Demi watched Deen for a response. his eyes were giving nothing away. Would he agree to this? Would he think that she was mad or stupid, or would he love the idea? She waited.
All of a sudden a smile spread across Deen’s face.
“That just might work,” Deen said calmly.
Demi squealed and pulled Deen into a big hug.
“Come on, let’s go back to the Village and see if we can get things started.” Demi said.
She grabbed hold of Deen’s hand and pulled him towards the main exit. He followed easily for a moment and then seemed to resist. She pulled a bit harder, wondering why Deen might have changed his mind.
“Hang on Demi lets go out another way,” he said as she pushed open the exit door. As she turned and looked at him she realised she’d managed to walk into the sights of the press photographers. She hadn’t expected that. They shouldn’t have been there. She forced a smile and walked through them with Deen following behind.
She grinned thinking that maybe there would be some nice pictures in the paper of Deen and her.
Chapter 15 — Making up.
“Wow, look at me,” Demi said in awe as she stood in front of the long mirror in her room.
She was clad head to toe in a gold metallic cat suit. The material was smooth and clung to her every contour. Her figure looked spectacular, her broad shoulders tapered down to her slender waist before her hips swelled out and her long legs began. She towered over Deen as he’d insisted she wear the gold high heels that she’d worn on their first date.
She ran her hands, covered in gold metallic gloves, up the sides of her waist. She then slid them round her front and over her unsupported breasts. They felt large and vulnerable even though they were clad in the tight material. They weren’t squashed flat the way her swimsuits squashed them, but years of being flattened seemed to have left its toll as her breasts hung low on her chest.
The hood had a zip up the back which secured it in place, there were three big openings in it. Two for her eyes and one for her nose and mouth. It was hard for even her to recognise herself. She seks filmi izle hadn’t worn this before. She hadn’t had the confidence to go through with the shoot it had been bought for.
“Yes, you look amazing,” Deen said with a grin running his hand across her bottom. “And check out your camel toe,” he said hungrily. He’d cheered up now, for the whole walk back to the Olympic Village he’d seemed moody and distracted. That all seemed to vanish when he’d seen her in the gold cat suit.
Demi looked down at her crotch in the mirror and sure enough her gold cat suit was pulling up into pussy.
“Wow Deen, look at that, you can see almost everything,” she squealed.
“I know, how sexy is that,” he said as he slid a finger down to trace the outlines of her lips through her cat suit.
“You think it’s sexy?”
“You showing your pussy off in this cat suit? Yeah, I think that’s sexy!”
“Imagine I went out like this,” she grinned. “Imagine what people would think!”
“You like that idea don’t you?” Deen whispered in her ear, his lips brushing against her ear lobe. “You like imagining a whole room of people looking at the outline of your pussy lips and none of them saying a word.”
Demi nodded and groaned loving the feel of him pressing up against her back. She could feel his hardness against her thigh.
“Maybe something for the future,” he grinned and held up her ball gag.
Demi was happy and nervous, she was fulfilling her wish but she was also about to give up complete control to this man. She knew that once he started and once that gag was in her mouth there would be no way to stop him. That thought thrilled and terrified her at the same time. Now that she owed him an apology it made it extra special. He could take her and do what he wanted with her in exchange for forgiveness.
Deen looked at his gold Olympic athlete in front of him. She was so powerful, so strong, and successful and yet she was making herself weak and submissive for him. He smiled. He had to stop thinking of her as Demi if he wanted this to work. Maybe he should just think of her as his golden fuck toy.
“Ok, Fuck Toy,” he said. In response Demi ground her hips back on him rubbing her thighs against his hard cock. “I need you to bend over your desk, with your hands on your back. Can you do that for me?”
Demi nodded and moved across to her desk and held herself as he’d instructed.
“This will be amazing,” Deen thought to himself as he reached up between her legs and undid her zipper. The zipper was two way, and it ran from her lower belly right the way around to the top of her hood.
He started pulling the lower zipper round. He was careful and made sure he didn’t catch any of her delicate skin in it. He could feel her tense up as the zipper passed over her pussy, but she soon relaxed. She said nothing to him, no questions about what he had planned, he was sure she was trembling, he didn’t know if it was nerves or anticipation.
He brought the ball gag up to his own mouth and licked it, he made sure to get it coated so it was slippery. Then he moved it down and pressed it against her pussy lips.
Her puffy pussy still hadn’t recovered and was gaping erotically for him. It was such a sexy flaw for her to have, and a secret only he would know. The ball gag easily popped in, his Gold Sex Toy was trying to peer behind herself trying to work out what he was doing. He wasn’t going to give let her see, and he wasn’t going to tell her. He wasn’t going to spoil the surprise. He worked the gag around making sure to get it slick with her pussy juices. After a moment satisfied that it was completely coated he pulled it out.
Once again he felt his Gold Sex Toy struggling to look behind her, her eyes wide, but he didn’t give any hint of what was to come. He pressed the ball gag against her tight little asshole. She tensed up. “Not a good start,” he thought, but she was his sex toy to do with as he wanted so he just pressed harder. Maybe it was too wide? The gag was just pressing against her tight little anus, threatening not to enter.
Deen grinned, he liked a challenge. He pressed his thumb against it and pushed hard. He was rewarded by a squeal from his Gold Sex Toy, and then the ball gag entered her. He left it in there for only a few moments, letting her get used to the feeling of something big in her ass. Then he ripped the ball gag out. Her anus hung open for a tantalising second before closing back up. He wondered what her ass would be like when he was finished. He checked to see if the gag was how he wanted it. It was, “This is going to get messy later,” he thought.
“Stand up for me,” he ordered and his Gold Sex Toy did as she was told. He then leant in and whispered in her ear. “You probably have about ten seconds before you are gagged and unable to speak, now would be a good time to say something if you have any doubts at all, you won’t be able to stop once this gag is in.”
Demi didn’t respond to him. She just stood there staring forward.
He pushed the ball gag towards her mouth careful to only hold it by the straps, he didn’t fancy touching the ball part now. His Gold sex toy opened her mouth and the dirty ball gag slid in. He moved behind her and fastened the leather straps as tightly as he could.
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December is a month of turns and switches, ups and downs with extreme movements thrown in to continue the volatility of these times.
December begins with three planets in Fire Signs, two planets in Earth Signs, three planets in Air Signs, and two planets in Water Signs. There are two planets in Cardinal Signs, five planets in Fixed Signs and three planets in Mutable Signs. Six planets are in Positive Signs, four planets in Receptive Signs.
December starts with a Grand Cross by Sign in the Fixed Signs with the Taurus Moon opposed Venus in Scorpio and square Mars in Leo and square both Jupiter and Neptune in Aquarius. We may want to move forward, look to investing in our future, present ourselves in a regal manner, all the while concerned about our resources and whether we have the time, energy and monies to afford a personal makeover, whether the personal makeover is to our person, our wardrobe, our home or our planned intentions.
The Mars opposition Jupiter Neptune influence this month could have us buying into the irrational exuberance and acting in ways that might appeal to our vanity but may disregard due diligence. Jupiter conjuncts Neptune exact on the 21st and everyone is likely to be looking more at the possibilities than the true reality with some of its prickly issues and minor infractions that could trigger collateral damage like a domino theory effect whereby one stumble could set off a series of problems. But why worry about such liabilities? We are far more interested in looking at the world through rose-colored glasses and accepting the media spin akin to Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions’ 1963 song ‘it’s all right’:
“Say it’s all right (it’s all right)
It’s all right, have a good time
‘Cause it’s all right, whoa, it’s all right”
This Jupiter Neptune conjunction has gone on for much of this year, its influence felt initially at the end of March, exact on May 27th, exact again on July 10th and exact this third time on December 21st. Although the Jupiter Neptune influence will be on the wane as we come into the New Year, we can still convince ourselves during this month of December to say ‘it’s all right’.
December also begins with Mercury sextile Neptune exact on the 1st but still feeling the impact of the Mercury square Uranus, exact on the 30th of November. We can easily believe what we want to believe and assume that unexpected surprises [e.g. Dubai threatened default] are but mere blips on the screen that have no significant impact on the larger picture. Got to love those rose-colored glasses.
The month starts with Uranus turning direct, ending its five-month retrograde cycle. Synchronicity and serendipity are back in the picture and we may be far more amenable to radical changes to our daily routine and even to the ways we do things and the things we intend to do in the future. Uranus will continue its transit of Pisces, briefly entering Aries at the end of May 2010 into early August, before moving back into Pisces, eventually ending its transit of the Mutable Water Sign in 2011. Health reform is in the picture with a greater use of technology to streamline medical recording and of biotechnology to address medical issues.
There is an increase in spirituality and a compassionate sense that we are all in this together and that the brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity had better get its act together. Where a problem arises is the information and disinformation about important situations that are being presented from the subjective and biased viewpoint rather than an objective and solution-oriented perspective.
Venus exits Scorpio on the 1st and enters Sagittarius, creating a Stellium of three or more planets in the Mutable Fire Sign as Venus joins the Sun and Mercury in Sagittarius. Foreign affairs and concerns foreign to our daily life experience could impact us and demand our attention. We might want to broaden our reach, expand our parameters and widen our scope, all the while realizing that some things are out of our control and that surprising situations are likely to arise unexpectedly without a moment’s notice. If we could only stop the world, get off, and figure things out in a calm and collected manner. But that’s not the way it is during these times. So much is coming at us, things changing dramatically, forcing us to be on our toes and make decisions based upon our perceived understanding of what is going on, all the while that startling and significant shifts are happening; that the idea of being able to take time, use reasoned judgment and have all the important particulars in mind is far beyond present reality.
Go with the flow, be flexible and adaptable to circumstances as they shift and change to maintain balance and continue to progress through these dodgy times.
The Gemini Full Moon on the 2nd could throw some monkey wrenches into the spokes of our wheels. We might feel as if we have to continue our juggling act non-stop, as if there is not enough time in the day to complete everything we wish to accomplish. The more we can streamline our operations, utilize time management skills and not feel overwhelmed by our lives, the better able we shall be to keep up the pace, even when that pace demands different steps and different rhythms at different times.
Mercury moves into Capricorn on the 5th ending the Sagittarius Stellium. Our thoughts are far more focused, structured and concerned about practical reality rather than wish fulfillment with a blank canvas as a backdrop.
Around the 7th, things could get a little dicey. Mercury conjuncts Pluto and also squares Saturn. While our ability to concentrate and focus is laser-like, we might not like what we see or come up with. Some of the hype, even the frosting, regarding mundane reality and geo-economic conditions that has been rallying to the sounds of ‘happy days are here again’ suddenly may become transparent and we might realize that there are still some major economic and financial problems that have not been addressed, much less resolved. Whatever is occurring during this timeframe, it is essential that we not fall into depression or feel that our backs are against the wall with no way out. It is essential that we keep in mind the saying from the wisdom teachings that we never get more than we can handle.
Within every problem or issue is an answer and a solution.
The 7th through the 9th could be somewhat difficult, but the difficulty aggravated only if we see the immediate and not consider the long-term.
Let’s keep in mind the idea of karma — that every action has a reaction and that whatever we set into motion has to work itself out.
And yet we might also realize the power of choice. That when the going gets tough, people can fold and capitulate becoming victim to circumstances, or the tough can go shopping as bumper stickers sometimes express, or we can use tough situations as an instigation to get up, resolve to deal with the situation, address the situation by considering the best practices approach and then effect a successful conclusion to the situation. Our choice. Always our choice.
The mid-part of December can have us navigating unexpected matters arising, all with an eye on what we want to do in the future. Holiday gatherings can be great fun and there can be a realization that fun does not have to come with a high financial cost. On the contrary, we might realize that we can do more with less, that our holiday parties are enjoyable primarily for the social interactions rather than the food, drink and excesses.
The Sagittarius New Moon on the 16th accentuates this time of holiday spirit. People seem far more creative, willing to put aside their daily concerns, and enjoy the possibilities that this time of year speaks to.
An upbeat attitude continues on to right before Christmas. Mars does turn retrograde on the 20th and will continue to retrograde through much of the winter season. Our energy may not be as strong as we might like it to be. We could also find that leaders and authority figures are having a difficult time asserting their power and impressing their right actions.
The 21st offers us the Winter Solstice and the beginning of the Winter season as the Sun moves out of Sagittarius and enters Capricorn creating a Stellium of three or more planets in Capricorn as the Sun joins Mercury and Pluto in the Saturn-ruled Cardinal Earth Sign.
The Winter Solstice can be especially pleasant, even though a little unrealistic. Venus sextiles Neptune and Jupiter conjuncts Neptune at this time. We might feel as though our lives are becoming far more idyllic, a case of irrational exuberance setting in, as we focus on what could be and possibly negating what actually is. Certainly our sense of better days is enlisted and we may find ourselves enjoying the best in our friends and social interactions. If ever there were a time of sugar plums dancing in our heads, this period would certainly be one of those times.
Let’s enjoy ourselves, focus on what we can do with our lives but while we might have our head in the clouds, let’s also keep our feet firmly planted on the ground.
Christmas Eve, the 24th, and Christmas Day, the 25th, reinforces the Saturn Pluto square operational into 2012, as the Sun conjuncts Pluto on the 24th followed by the Sun square Saturn on the 25th.
While Christmas Day and the Winter Solstice speak of the birth of the light in the midst of greatest darkness, we too can embrace the energies of these times as being indicative of a stripping away of the non-essentials, the superfluous and extraneous. Releases and eliminations, ghosts of the past and outstanding issues may all surface during this period. We might feel a little raw, but it would be important to keep in mind that the stripping away may be a deathing to the old but also prepares for the birthing of the new.
In Carlos Castaneda’s last book, The Active Side of Infinity, he talks of the importance of recapitulation — going back over events and situations in the past in order to clear ourselves of their influence for our present and more importantly for our future.
This latter part of December provides us a similar recapitulation, a recapitulation that will continue on for us, both as individuals and as a collective society, into 2012 with the Saturn square Pluto operational and Uranus thrown in the mix to shake things up and make us aware of the paradigm shift in which we are engaged.
Also on the 25th, Venus enters Capricorn reinforcing the Stellium in the Saturn-ruled Cardinal Earth Sign as Venus joins the Sun, Mercury and Pluto in Capricorn. The structure of our lives, the format by which we live, are areas that may be highlighted as we all breathe a sigh of relief with the upcoming closure of 2009.
On the 26th, Mercury turns retrograde, a rare fourth Mercury retrograde cycle in its annual transits more commonly associated with three Mercury retrograde cycles. This Mercury retrograde ends the year, begins the new year and continues on into mid-January of 2010.
The Saturn Pluto square is engaged again on the 28th and 29th as Venus conjuncts Pluto on the 28th and squares Saturn on the 29th.
Reconnections and reunions or thoughts of people from our past may have us considering those contacts we wish to maintain and those people we wish to jettison into the dustbin of our memory banks.
The Cancer Full Moon on the 31st, the second Full Moon, another rarity that gives rise to the saying ‘once in a blue moon’, is also a Lunar Eclipse. This Full Moon accentuates the Saturn Pluto square configuration and asks, even demands, that we consider what is really meaningful to us and what is merely the dross of our past.
We might wish to see 2009 behind us but our resolutions for the new year should take into account the Saturn Pluto square and later the T-Square of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto that goes on into 2012. With the power of these energy configurations in mind, we should stay aware that the paradigm shift between life as we have known it and the uncharted waters of our future has only just begun.
December… joyous celebrations amidst the paradigm shift…
November 30, 2009 Frank Don Posted in: This month
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Dissatisfaction with mode of practice
Letter to Hufeland
Hufeland on homoeopathy
Medical anarchy of the time
Hahnemann remained at Gommern for two years and nine months. During this time his practice was not large nor did he seem to make much effort to increase it, preferring to devote himself to his translations and studies.
His position as parish doctor, with his translations, supported him and his increasing family. But he was a sincere man and was greatly dissatisfied with the vague and unsatisfactory medical knowledge of the day.
Perhaps in no better way can his feelings on the subject be described than by presenting a letter written to Hufeland regarding this period. This letter is published in Lesser Writings under the title :
"Letter to a Physician of High Standing on the Great Necessity of a Regeneration in Medicine." (Brit. Jour. of Hom., Vol. 1, p. 105. Lesser Writings, New York, Allg. Anzeiger, july 14, 1808.)
"It was agony for me to walk always in darkness, with no other light than that which could be derived from books, when I had to heal the sick, and to prescribe, according to such or such an hypothesis concerning diseases, substances which owed their place in the Materia Medica to an arbitrary decision.
I could not conscientiously treat the unknown morbid conditions of my suffering brethren by these unknown medicines, which being very active substances, may (unless applied with the most rigorous exactness, which the physician cannot exercise, because their peculiar effects have not yet been examined) so easily occasion death, or produce new affections and chronic maladies, often more difficult to remove than the original disease.
To become, thus the murderer or the tormentor of my brethren was to me an idea so frightful and overwhelming, that soon after my marriage, I renounced the practice of medicine, that I might no longer incur the risk of doing injury, and I engaged exclusively in chemistry, and in literary occupations.
But I became a father, serious diseases threatened my beloved children, my flesh and blood. My scruples redoubled when I saw that I could afford them no certain relief."
He continues in telling Hufeland his feelings regarding the uncertainty of medical practice, and says that he felt sure that God must have ordained some certain method of healing the sick.
The Rev. Thos. Everest, in a letter to Dr. Rose Cormack, says : (Russell's Homoeopathy in 1851," p. 305.)
" After passing through the usual studies with great credit to himself he took his degree and began to practice as a medical man. It soon struck me, he said to me, that I was called upon to admit in the practice of medicine a great deal that was not proved.
If I was called to attend a patient I was to collect his symptoms, and next to infer from these symptoms that a certain internal condition of the organs existed, and then to select such a remedy as the medical authorities asserted would be useful under such circumstances.
But it is very evident, that the argument is most inconclusive and that room was thus left for many curious errors, and so I determined to investigate the whole matter for myself from the very beginning."
Hufeland, whom Hahnemann calls the Nestor of Medicine, was always a friend to Hahnemann. He allowed him to publish his new opinions in his Medical journal. When, in 1826 and in 1830, Hufeland himself wrote an essay on Homoeopathy, which he published in his journal, he was honest and fair to Hahnemann in his deductions. He says : (British Journal of Homoeopathy. Vol. 16, p. 179.)
"I was first induced to notice Homoeopathy, because I deemed it undignified to treat the new system with ridicule and contempt.
Besides I had a long time esteemed the author for his earlier productions, and for his sterling contributions to the science of medicine ; and I had also observed the names of several respectable men, who, in no way blinded by prejudice, had recognized the facts of the science as true.
I need only enumerate President Von Wolf, of Warsaw ; MedicaI Councillor Rau, of Giessen, and Medical Councillor Widmann of Munich.
I then made several successful experiments with Homoeopathic medicine, which necessarily still further excited my attention to the subject, and favorably convinced me, that Homoeopathia could not be thrown aside with contempt, but was worthy of a rigid investigation."
Hufeland then in a dispassionate and careful manner discusses the question at length ; predicts the gradual amalgamation of the more liberal members of the two schools ; and says in closing, that :
" The peculiar and important problem for Homoeopathy is to search for and find new specific medicines."
" At this period, says Rapou, (Histoire de la doctrine médicale Homéopathique, Paris, 1847. Vol. 2, p. 295.)
" there was a complete anarchy in the domain of therapeutics.
Theories Hippocratico-vitalistic, Galenic, Mathematical, Chemical, Humoral, Electro-Galvanic, formed an inextricable tissue of variable opinions.
Hahnemann had abstained from a search for therapeutical indications in this mass of hazardous theories. He had adopted a simple medication partly expectant, that corresponded more fully with his ideal of the art of healing.
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Can I Be a Cop With PTSD?. Any more then that and I'm fine because I feel like everyone else is occupied. If he doesn't see it, but thinks someone did it, then they can arrest them. From the day you have to testify for the first time in traffic Court, you will constantly be expected to speak in public. Shields, the second female and first openly gay police chief in Atlanta's history, steadily worked her way up the department ladder, serving as a patrol officer, sergeant, lieutenant and major prior to her appointment to deputy chief. Shy people are usually quiet, and they don’t really like attention. A 24 ... Wash. Any more then that and I'm fine because I feel like everyone else is occupied. But going to court can be expensive and take a lot of time. Yet the videos from the Capitol show American flags being used to beat police officers as protestors break into the Capitol, show Black police officers being subjected to humiliating abuse by the mob because of the color of their skin, show people overrunning the Capitol and searching for the Speaker of the House and the Vice President with zip ties in hand. Of the many images and videos of the insurrection that went viral, one showed a Washington, D.C., police officer pinned against a door by a flood of people. Happened 3:40 am. Happened 3:40 am. “The last time a police officer was successfully prosecuted in the UK concerning the death of somebody in custody was in 1969.” The Guardian, 4 June 2020 We’ve found no evidence that any serving police officer has been successfully prosecuted for manslaughter, homicide or assault, relating to the death of a person in their custody since 1969. Perception's effect on the communication process is all about how the same message can be interpreted differently by different people. Can anybody 'force' me to wear a face mask outside in public ? So I'm a really shy person when it comes to socializing, I realized this is a problem because I want to become a cop one day. But as Klinger says, "They basically say that the job of a cop is to protect people from violence, and if you've got a violent person who's fleeing, you can … But only a police officer can arrest someone on reasonable suspicion of an arrestable offence. The suspect was a teenager, tatted up and muscular. I'm 15 and I really want to become a police officer in the future but, the problem is that I am kind of a quiet and shy type of person. How Can I Become a Detective Without Being a Police Officer?. Police training might help, but you will have to put in extra effort to break out of your shell. No one will get through the pre-emplyment interview process if they can't verbally communicate clearly, intelligently and confidently. Law enforcement officers in Florida must treat everyone fairly, regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin or religion. The 16-year veteran of the Davenport Police Department isn’t a shy person. But don’t strap on a gun and badge. Being a police officer is a tough job, where you deal with stress every day and put your life on the line. Edit: Being an introvert is fine, but you've got to be able to talk to people. Mount Holly Police officers filed out of the courtroom one by one after Funk’s appearance. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. I'm like /u/fidelis_ad_mortem - it's just a role you play at work, and there's a a structured, transactional nature to it. Police are permitted to pat you down to ensure that you are not carrying a dangerous weapon. In my days in Homicide, I worked on a couple complex, high profile cases that required me to spend two days on the witness stand. I received death threats by criminals who told me I am on a death list .I went to the police and judges and they call ME crazy.If these? They package, store and retrieve evidence.. A typical day for a Police Identification and Records Officer will also include: Maintain records … I am going to become a cop too and I learned as I got older I became more wise and more confident, and because I started not caring about my excuses and just did it (I'm 21). I can talk one on one easily, but my eye contact is not very strong. The person had a toy gun, why did the officer shoot? I really want to become one for these past few years and I'm scared I can't become it because of my personality. “It was just instincts, honestly,” Police Officer Jason Maharaj said By Thomas Tracy New York Daily News NEW YORK — The young off-duty cop who heroically tackled an enraged homeless man that shot and killed a Queens smoke shop worker said he jumped into … Becoming a police officer invariably involves attending the police academy, and you don't get paid for your attendance. He was not shy about his cover. | 11 Perception Checking Perception checking is a cooperative approach to communication that provides accuracy instead of assuming our first interpretation is correct. Rep. Civilian workers, support officers and others including non-commissioned positions accounted for the rest. She was named chief in 2016, promising reform and vowing not to shy away from tough decisions. And when you practice you become a much better speaker. You need to be able to speak in public for a lot of professions, and being a police officer is one of them. Police officers work around the clock and wages vary by city and state. My partner was driving, and was silent as we headed toward Homicide Division. At the same time, some of the best cops are the ones that actually have an ounce of humility. I think that eye contacts are too personal.. When something as stupid as stopping people from possessing marijuana came to be considered a critical law enforcement function, innocence ceased to protect people against police harassment. Moreover, anyone is able to check to see if a police officer has a criminal record by running a background check on them or by filing a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request. Still have questions? Arguing with a police officer or resisting arrest can give an officer probable cause for the arrest. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. Dashcam Footage Captures Moment Calif. Police Officer Saves Man from Burning Car After Crash this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. It's best to talk to a lawyer who practises civil litigation if you're thinking about suing the police. Get your answers by asking now. For example, the visible presence of someone recording an interaction may encourage a person talking with the police to become more confrontational or resist an arrest. WHY I WANT TO BE A POLICE OFFICER Why I Want To Be a Police Officer Career Choices in Criminal Justice Dr. Darwin L. Driggers, Ybor Campus October 11, 2011 Why I Want To Be a Police Officer For as long as I can remember I have wanted to be a police officer.I’m sure, as a little boy, what first caught my attention were the flashing lights and sirens on the police cars. (Kara, 1999) When becoming a Police Officer, you are making a commitment to protect your community even if it means giving your life to do it. I'm in my 1st year of college already. A Reading man will appear in court on Tuesday after the 28-year-old police officer's death in Berkshire last week. Reasons People Become a Police Officer. You can sign in to vote the answer. Maybe you’d be better suited being a clown for children’s birthday parties. How do you think about the answers? In Fairfax County, Virginia a local ordinance proclaims that “if any person profanely curse or swear or be drunk in public, he shall be deemed guilty … A 24-year-old Mount Holly man was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of a police officer during a ... shy of 26th birthday. A nearby police officer sees the firearm, draws his weapon, and orders Jack to stop, ... North Carolina, illustrates what can happen when a person displays a firearm to police. Everyone's going to judge you (who cares) and when you do speeches more than half of them aren't even listening to you. If a state has a waiting period for handgun purchases, is this a guaranteed way for a gun shop to get around that and make sales on the spot? Be prepared and say it with confidence. A police officer is like my 3rd or 4th choice for my career, the other choices require a speech class during the college program-so I'm not doing it. At least 68 people have been arrested, 41 of them on Capitol grounds, according to reports. WASHINGTON — A former neighbor of a man accused of beating a police officer with an American flag pole ... was hitting was an officer and that “he thought the person he was ... a shy … What are qualities that you need? Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. What would happen if I called Pizza Hut and had 50 pepperoni and mushroom pizzas sent to a cops house? I'm 19, I want to join the police academy for 2 years, and go from there. And I was somewhat too shy to speak in the class or answer questions because I would feel stupid if I got the question wrong. The Chief of Police is in charge of the department and everyone below him or her. Three Mount Holly Police officers, including Herndon, and a Gaston County Police officer were involved in a shootout at Mount Holly Car Wash and Arcade with break-in suspect Joshua Tyler Funk, according to police. Thus, a police officer with a criminal record can interfere with a criminal prosecution since the jury may find it difficult to accept the testimony of a police officer with a criminal record. If you don't think you are up to the challenge, try being something other than an officer. And I freak out when a teacher tells me "we are presenting this assignment". A police officer who finds a disabled person without identification still must make a diligent effort of finding out what caused the disabled condition. This page gives information in case you have contact with the police, immigration agents, or the FBI, and helps you understand your rights. Because it’s not against the law to fuss. Also, just having a gun will not give it to you, it needs to come from within. OIL CITY, La. I'm 16 and I want to become a police officer for the NYPD in the future but I'm kind of quiet and shy. From the streets of the Bronx to the suburbs of the Nation's Capital , you never have to look hard to find victims of the bias , incompetence , and corruption that the drug war delivers on a daily basis. ... “There are more people in their families who’ve been police officers, so they have a better idea of what that life is like. Still can't do small talk though. Five people have died because of the rampage, including a police officer, according to The Associated Press. I'm also bad at holding conversations. How to Decide if Being a Police Officer Is Right for You. “You never expect this to happen when you go to work,” she said. The white paranoiac gaze is able to twist reality to such a degree that a black man being choked to death is somehow guilty for his own murder, and a police officer shooting an unarmed person … Police, anti-piracy groups, and sports companies are fighting a battle, not only to prevent pirate IPTV services from operating but also to stop fans from becoming illegal streaming customers. The only way to become a police detective is to work as a police officer, pass a test, and earn promotion to detective through the department. Forensic studies have established that a suspect with a gun in his waistband can draw and fire his weapon in 0.8 of a second, faster than the time it takes for an officer to respond. I'm 19, I want to join the police academy for 2 years, and go from there. If someone breaks into your house late at night and you shoot them, does it make a difference if they were armed or not? That was the case for a Virginia police officer – assigned to a high school – who was revealed to be a longtime white nationalist and served as a recruiter for Identity Evropa, one of the groups behind the Charlottesville hate rallies and violence. I have nearly 40 years on the job, and a person who is as shy as you describe yourself cannot make it in police work. Wife's tribute to 'hero' PC Andrew Harper as man, 20, is charged with his murder. If you see a police officer do something illegal, you can arrest them. The person in command right above officers is usually a sergeant or lieutenant and this is the officers direct boss. Let's take a look at how perception plays a role in communicating in business. Don't even waste your time. (KTAL/KMSS) – Oil City’s new police chief is breaking barriers, becoming the first female and Black person to hold the job in the town’s history. He said his favorite thing about being a police officer is talking to strangers and finding ways to help. What would happen if I let out a very smelly fart at Gamestop, causing all the customers to leave the store and Gamestop loses those sales. will my probation officer know if I prank call him from my friends phone ? Be a good person, and be honest. A desire to help those in need is something most police officers share. I have taken a lot of speech classes (with extra help) and enjoy it, my teacher was really good. The following information is for educational purposes only, and is not intended as, nor is a substitute for, legal A 24-year-old Mount Holly man was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of a police officer during a ... shy of 26th birthday. Roper and the officers came to court for Herndon and Herndon’s family, Roper said. What punishment does someone guilty of draft evasion deserve in your opinion? The loud and arrogant ones do not get respect from the public and are probably more likely to be corrupt. 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>> What do Man of La Mancha, A Little Night Music, Ragtime, and Urinetown have in common? All won Tonys for best musical score. The one with the most unlikely title is - you guessed it - the one composed by Chicago grads.
Greg Kotis, AB'88, and Mark Hollmann, AB'85, didn't worry much about their show's crowd-pleasing potential when they wrote Urinetown The Musical. Instead, they wrote a story in which the downtrodden do not triumph, the handsome hero is thrown from a rooftop, and much of the action takes place outside a public toilet.
Mark Hollmann (left) and Greg Kotis share a perch in the church where their show got its start.
"What you have to understand," says Kotis, "is that we didn't expect anyone to see it. We had total freedom to write exactly what we wanted, because we fully expected to be performing to audiences of two or three."
Hollmann and Kotis-veterans of Chicago's improv and experimental theater scene-even poke fun at their low expectations in the Urinetown script, when a wise waif named Little Sally tells the cop-narrator Officer Lockstock: "I don't think too many people are going to come see this musical."
Little Sally's prediction proved wrong. Urinetown is a Broadway hit, often filling the house at the Henry Miller Theatre a half block from Times Square. Audiences of two or three? Make that millions watching excerpts of Urinetown televised during the Tony Awards ceremony June 2 on PBS. On that night Kotis and Hollmann shared the Tony for best score of a musical, Kotis received the Tony for best book (that is, script), and director John Rando won the Tony for best direction of a musical.
A touring company will take Urinetown on the road next summer, starting in San Francisco and visiting Los Angeles, Denver, Boston, and other cities not yet confirmed. A production opened this summer in Seoul, South Korea, and others are planned for London next spring and for Tokyo in summer 2004.
New York Times critic Bruce Weber called the show "a sensational piece of performance art, one that acknowledges theater tradition and pushes it forward as well…. Simply the most gripping and galvanizing theater experience in town.… And did I mention that Urinetown is hilarious?"
Kotis conceived the heart of the story on a drizzly afternoon in Paris in 1995, when the 29-year-old struggling actor found himself short of cash at the end of a solo backpacking trip. That day, he was wandering near the Luxembourg Gardens, ruminating about the story of Hemingway trapping pigeons in the park for food. "Off in the distance, shrouded in the mist, I saw one of these pay toilets. I had been thinking very seriously of going to the bathroom."
Then again, Kotis thought, maybe he could hold off and save the 2 1/2 francs for dinner. As he considered his choice, he got the idea for a musical in which private toilets are banned, and rich and poor alike must pay to answer nature's call. Kotis "saw the show in a flash. I knew it had to be a musical. I knew it had to be dark and ridiculous and absurd." The title came in a similar flash.
For a decade, Kotis had been turning story ideas into theater, first for the University's comedy group Off Off Campus, while studying political science; next as a member of Chicago's storefront improvisational group, Cardiff Giant Theater Company, where he met Hollmann; and then as a founder of the Neo-Futurists-a collective that creates interactive, "non-illusory theater"-where he met his wife, Ayun Halliday, as well as Spencer Kayden, who plays Little Sally in Urinetown.
That rainy afternoon in Paris, Kotis was weeks away from leaving Chicago to start a New York branch of the Neo-Futurists company, and he immediately thought of Hollmann as a collaborator. He'd teamed up with Hollmann before on six shows with the Cardiff Giant ensemble, beginning when Kotis was a fourth-year and Hollmann was two years out of college. Hollmann not only knew acting, having won the College's Louis Sudler Prize in the arts at graduation, but he was also trained in composition and orchestration. Watching musicals as a regular at Doc Films had emboldened Hollmann to switch his major from political science to music, and he staged his first musical, Kabooooom!, at Black Friars. After college, he played trombone in a rock band Maestro Subgum and the Whole and piano for Second City's touring company, and in 1993 he moved to New York to work as a composer, lyricist, and word processor.
When he and Kotis tackled the Urinetown project in earnest in 1997, they created a drought-stricken city. To conserve water (and generate cash flow), an evil tycoon aided by corrupt politicians controls "public amenities." It costs money to pee, and it's even more costly not to pay. Anyone peeing en plein air is "disappeared" to the mysterious Urinetown. Although the musical incorporates stock plot elements (good vs. evil, star-crossed lovers), Kotis and Hollmann don't allow the audience to lose itself in the fantasy: the characters repeatedly mention that they're staging a show. When Little Sally suggests to Officer Lockstock that a musical about a drought should touch on hydraulics, Lockstock replies, "Sometimes-in a musical-it's better to focus on one big thing rather than a lot of little things. The audience tends to be much happier that way. And it's easier to write." The aim of this self-referential style, Kotis says, is to break down the wall between audience and actors, to convey that "we know that you know that we know that you know that this is a show."
Intense and articulate, Kotis is both confident in his gifts and pessimistic about the fate of the world. Hollmann's personality provides a counterpoint: he is calm and understated, a craftsman with an old-fashioned willingness to believe in happy endings. As they worked, the two played off each others' strengths; Hollmann's affection for the conventions of musical theater served as a foil for Kotis's mordant wit.
Hollmann wrote a score that ranges from sweet to rousing to menacing, with allusions to Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera and Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. While Hollmann's music pays homage to the musical's potential to transport its audience, Urinetown's lyrics and plot puncture those expectations. For instance, in a scene between the doomed hero and his new love, Hollmann and Kotis yoke a soaring melody with the lyrics: "Someday I'll meet someone whose heart joins with mine/aortas and arteries all intertwined." The scene ends as the hero offers a farewell salute with his toilet brush.
Working together on the show Sunday afternoons in the Christ Lutheran Church in Manhattan, where Hollmann was organist, the two men focused on constructing the musical, not on how far it would go.
"Mark and I come from a tradition in which you come up with a show and you do it," explains Kotis. "Doing it means getting your friends together and renting a space, usually a black box, a storefront. You send out press releases, you try to get listed, and you have a mailing party. Hopefully you don't lose too much money. And you hope you get a review and that someone says something nice about you, and you're one step closer to making a living in theater full time."
Kotis and Hollmann were New Yorkers by then, but they created Urinetown with a spirit owing more to the communal culture of Second City than to the ethos of New York City-there, Kotis says "it's about talent making its way on its own." Their years of improvisational theater played a role as they bounced ideas off one another. "It really did draw on our experiences up on our feet at Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap," says Hollmann.
Even the signage for Urinetown sports an ad hoc air.
While working their day jobs (Kotis as a location scout for TV and films, Hollmann still processing words), they finished the show, and early in 1998 found singers to record a demo in the church. Compensation was a copy of the tape. Because renting a storefront costs too much in New York, Hollmann and Kotis sent inquiries to more than 100 agents, theaters, and development organizations-enclosing the script, or the tape, or a synopsis, sometimes just a pitch letter. No one bit.
Then one summer day in 1998 Kotis described the show to John Clancy, artistic director of the New York International Fringe Festival. Captive atop a ladder while painting a theater lobby ceiling, Clancy heard out Kotis's spiel. What Kotis describes as the team's "incredible luck" kicked in: Clancy liked the concept and encouraged them to apply to the festival. The next spring, Hollmann and Kotis found a cadre of good actors stuck in the city without summer stock jobs who agreed to do 12 performances at the festival for a flat fee of $50 apiece. More good luck ensued. A Canadian troupe slated to do the festival's centerpiece show was blocked by immigration at the border and had to cancel. Then, of 150 shows at the Fringe, Urinetown snagged the theater most convenient to the ticket booth. The musical was the festival's sold-out hit.
The biggest break came when the playwright David Auburn, AB'91, saw the show there. Auburn, whom Kotis had auditioned for Off Off Campus a decade earlier-and who in 2001 would win a Pulitzer Prize for his drama Proof-waited only until intermission to phone a potential backer for Urinetown. By winter that producer had joined with three other backers, but the show was delayed for a year while they searched for a theater with the same grungy feel of the former auto repair shop that had housed the show at the Fringe. In spring 2001 Urinetown opened off Broadway in a former courtroom. By then the producers had found John Rando to direct and landed musical-theater warhorse, Tony winner, and TV actor John Cullum to play the pay-toilet magnate. During its two-month run the show created buzz and drew crowds, justifying a move to Broadway. Opening night was slated for September 13.
Their luck seemed to have run out: after the World Trade Center attacks, New York was not likely to embrace what Kotis calls "a doomsday musical." Hollmann recalls, "It looked really bleak at that point, because we weren't a show with a happy ending." But Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's insistence that New York shows go on, and his handout of tickets to public safety workers and people grounded after September 11, proved effective. Urinetown opened September 20. "It was a wonderful thing to be a part of," says Kotis. "To feel like you were being rescued by your fellow citizens and also offering them a place to come together."
Kotis, father of two, has quit his day job and is living on royalties. Hollmann still works at word processing, 10-6 daily, but he has left his post as church organist and feels established enough to marry artist Jilly Perlberger in October. He and Kotis are working on their next musical, which takes place under water.
Success is bittersweet for Hollmann. "We can never go back to a storefront. Part of that is sad. I think of all the people we've known, we've struggled with. It's amazing to me that we've had a different magnitude of experience than they have." He frets that winning a Tony will "make people say 'yes' to me all the time," but he expects that his partnership with Kotis will provide the antidote. "We still have each other to differ with." Kotis views the very fact of Urinetown's Broadway production as a gift. "We won the lottery," he says.
There's yet more proof in the script that the writers didn't expect success. Early in the show, Officer Lockstock interrupts Little Sally's attempt to explain the plot to the audience.
Officer Lockstock: You're too young to understand it now, but nothing can kill a show like too much exposition.
Llittle Sally: How about bad subject matter? Or a bad title, even. That could kill a show pretty good.
As it turned out, the joke is on Kotis and Hollmann: Urinetown is alive and well.
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Contributor Update: Ashley Hutson published in Split Lip Magazine
Ashley Hutson has new work in Split Lip Magazine. Read her story, “The Bridge,” here.
Ashley’s story, “The Hen of God,” was a finalist in our 2015 Flash Fiction Contest, and it is available to read here. More of her work can be found on her website: http://aahutson.com/
Contributor Update: Ashley Hutson’s recent and forthcoming publications
Ashley Hutson’s story, “Soft Bodies,” was recently selected as a finalist for the Indianola Review‘s 2016 Leap Day Flash Fiction Prize (judged by David James Poissant) and will be published in the March issue. In February her nonfiction piece, “Back Aisles,” appeared in River Teeth. She also has forthcoming publications in Spelk, Calliope, Split Lip Magazine, Threadcount, and Fiction International. Read more at www.aahutson.com.
Contributor Update: Ashley Hutson published in r.kv.r.y.
Ashley Hutson (recent contributor with her story “The Hen of God“) was recently published at r.kv.r.y., a quarterly literary journal dedicated to the theme of recovery. Read Ashley’s poem, “Hot Bones,” and check out her interview with r.kv.r.y. where she discusses the piece.
“The Hen of God,” by Ashley Hutson
Sister Catherine began holding an egg in her mouth during Mass to feel closer to God. Her tongue smoothed over its cool roundness before the Lord’s Prayer; she pressed it against the roof of her mouth during benediction. After two weeks of this, in a fit of faith and daring, she began using her teeth to maneuver it in and out of her cheek.
At the end of the third week, she felt the Holy Trinity enter her. A back molar, cracked in childhood and jagged as a pysanky needle, slit open the egg’s hard shell on a Sunday morning. God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit oozed down her throat, warmed by the heat of her mouth.
When she returned to the abbey after the service, she plucked the pierced shell from between her lips and placed it under her bed. At lunchtime, she walked through the kitchen and picked up another egg, concealing it in the folds of her sleeve.
After entering the nearest restroom and locking the door, she pulled up her underskirts, pulled out a tampon, and slipped the fresh egg inside her. All the nuns bled together, but her blood would mingle with Christ’s. The thought filled her with a swoony kind of love, the kind of love she felt when swallowed wafers became the fingers of God. She dreamed the egg would be subsumed by her body, traveling inward, upward, until it reached the heart.
At evening Mass, she sat carefully. There was talk of Jesus sucking a sponge of vinegar, of bleeding, dying, resurrecting. When it came time to genuflect, she bowed on one knee.
Sister Catherine heard the muffled crack before her body felt it. As she knelt by the pew, she felt the egg crumble inside her, releasing its thick, yellow yolk in a slow, searing gush.
She did not move. She wept. This was God’s rebuke, she was sure. There was no way she could keep him carefully enough: her body would not hold him.
She prayed with shut eyes, but God did not answer. He only touched her blood and slid out, wetting her thighs, staining her tunic, leaving her empty.
Ashley Hutson lives in rural Western Maryland. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, DOGZPLOT, theEEEL, and elsewhere. Find her on the web at www.aahutson.com.
This story was a finalist in The Conium Review‘s 2015 Flash Fiction Contest, judged by Laura Ellen Joyce.
This story was selected by Ross McMeekin for the Ploughshares feature “Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week.”
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Loyalty, deals and rewards services are a rarity in most African markets. The unit economics and other factors such as currency instability make such businesses hard to pull off in the region.
Yet, ThankUCash, a platform launched in 2018 by Connected Analytics, has managed to thrive, proving that not all is gloom in the deals, coupon and rewards business. And to that end, the startup, which announced an undisclosed seven-figure seed last year, has finally closed the round at $5.3 million.
VC firms 500 Global and Unicorn Growth Capital co-led the Lagos-based company’s seed round. It saw participation from U.S.-based accelerator Expert Dojo, Predictive VC, SaaS Growth Ventures, Betatron Venture Group, Accelerex Holdings. Individual investors like Andrew Dell, former CEO of HSBC and Craig Fenton of Google UK also took part.
The company plans to use the investment to expand within its home market Nigeria — where it operates in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja — and outside to Ghana and Kenya. It also wants to improve its product offerings and add more staff.
For years, store-like businesses in Nigeria such as supermarkets and restaurants have operated offline, relying on bookkeeping and head knowledge to record their customers’ activities in their shops. This made it difficult to offer cash back and loyalty points to customers.
Online platforms like ThankUCash present these merchants with an opportunity to delve into rewards and help them retain loyalty and increase revenue.
CEO Simeon Ononobi started ThankUCash with Suraj Supekar, Madonna Ononobi and Harshal Gandole, who act as a chief technical officer, chief operating officer and senior vice president of engineering, respectively.
The multi-merchant rewards platform (which means customers can hop on from one merchant to another to earn loyalty points in another) allows customers to earn rewards anytime they shop with thousands of merchants listed on its app.
The business raised a $320,000 pre-seed after grabbing the attention of accelerators such as 500 Startups, Google Launchpad and other local investors like Microtraction and Ventures Platform.
Up until this point, ThankUCash said it has recorded over 600,000 users and onboarded over 1,000 stores on its platform. Also, it claims to have processed over $80 million in transaction volume.
Having matured as a business, Ononobi and his team want to take on a more complicated task: building infrastructure for companies that want to offer akin services.
“We are creating solutions that help SMEs succeed while increasing consumer buying power and opportunities. We want to build an infrastructure for rewards, loyalty, deals, buy now, pay later, cashback,” he said to TechCrunch on a call.
“Cashback was our low hanging fruit and an entry point. We’re still going to go into deals, couponing, gift cards, buy now, pay later, anything that will help the business grow, but at the same time, allowing the consumer increase in opportunities of buying.”
Ononobi, a serial entrepreneur who previously built a payments company and also apps for Nigerian banks and the government, reckons that ThankUCash will do to rewards the same thing Flutterwave and Paystack did to payments in Africa.
Some companies such as banks have launched cashback programs via debit cards to users in the past. But most of them have been generally inefficient, from setup down to collections and redeeming of points, and Ononobi argues that their inefficiencies boil down to no technical support. ThankUCash sees a gold mine to provide plugins banks and fintechs can tap into to offer cashback and rewards.
ThankUCash cofounders
The bit about buy now, pay later is fuzzy now since only a handful of prominent BNPL services in Africa. However, the company seems to be positioning itself for the imminent proliferation of such services buoyed by similar happenings globally where buy now, pay later services have seen an uptake as a result of pandemic-induced consumer behaviour.
“The technology is such that we have our machines in stores. So as customers request loans, we generate a code for it, customers input it into the POS machine and the merchant gets credited directly. The code can only be used in the store chosen and only for the loan amount requested, such that at the end of the day the customer is buying straight from the merchants,” explained the founder, who also mentioned that his startup might venture into offering buy now, pay later services itself in the future.
ThankUCash’s consumer-facing platform will remain operational. But to set the infrastructure play in motion, it has signed a partnership with payments company Interswitch to onboard its merchants.
The company, which is also in the process of making integrations with payments gateways, said a couple of bank partnerships are in its pipeline.
In terms of how ThankUCash makes money, merchants pay the company a fee on every purchase made in their stores. For instance, ThankUCash gets a 1.5% commission for every customer it brings into the store to redeem a 5% cashback item. The Lagos-based company also takes commissions for deals and plans to charge a “heavy onboarding fee” for businesses that want to use its APIs for its services, including buy now, pay later.
ThankUCash has perfected one offering: the cashback product where merchants can get more walk-in customers. It’s improving the deals category, allowing merchants to sell products fast (by hiring ex-managers of DealDey, a Nigerian defunct deals company). And while currently building out its buy now pay later infrastructure (which gives businesses a chance to sell products regardless of whether customers have money or not), ThankUCash plans to add a fourth offering soon: a remittance product where merchants can sell directly to the diaspora.
The chief executive doesn’t give details about this product. Meanwhile, its investors, who have doubled down while privy to information like this, are enthused about “the continued evolution of the company”, a remark made by Amit Bhatti, the principal at co-lead investor 500 Global.
“Since going through 500 Global’s accelerator in 2019, we’ve been impressed by Simeon and the ThankUCash team’s progress in implementing a rewards system that works for Nigerian consumers, regardless of cash or credit or online or offline payment,” said the principal. “It’s a win-win for businesses and banks, too, as TUC gives them the tools and data they need to grow.”
The 45-man team has hired Aaron Tindiseega to lead its expansion into Kenya and the eastern Africa region. The Ugandan professional has experience working for banks and tech companies like Uber, Standard Chartered Bank and Stanbic IBTC. For its expansion into Ghana, Kiki Anku, who has worked at Apple and a couple of startups, will spearhead the task.
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Craft Platforms: Case studies Individual Maker- Bridget Bailey
June 22, 2020 2020-11-15 9:05
Bridget Bailey - a textile artist
Uses social media: Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to promote her craft activities
Shares aspects of her life as a maker with Instagram followers to draw their attention
iPad plays an important role in her craft such as recording inspirations
The internet is very helpful to attract students from abroad to attend her craft courses
Figure 1: Bridget Bailey in her studio(left) and one piece of her work (right) (photo credit to Bridget)
Bridget Bailey is a conceptual milliner and textile artist, specialising in millinery, jewellery and artworks. Bridget has designed collections for labels such as Mulberry, Saks Fifth Avenue and the V&A and shown at recent high-profile exhibitions, including Mad for Tea at Fortnum and Mason, and ‘Crafted’ Makers of the Exceptional at the Royal Academy. She teaches masterclasses in millinery and textile techniques both at the studio in London and at selected venues abroad. She uses iPad, the Internet, and social media in her daily craft activities.
DIGITAL ‘TOUCH POINTS’
Use of Digital Equipment
Bridget Bailey has an iPad, a mobile phone and a radio in her studio. She had her first iPad in 2014 and bought a second one that could use a sim card to connect with the Internet. During exhibitions, Bridget will use the iPad to arrange payment from customers (an application: sumup, which can use credit cards for payment). She tried to use her phone, but the larger size of the iPad reduces spelling mistakes made when using her phone. She also uses her iPad to write proposals and take pictures. She sends the documents through email to her iPad so that she can edit the contents on the bus. “I love my iPad, it is great, it is big and cheerful. And I like it as it a bit like my desk,” said Bridget.
She has a computer at home which she deals with computer-related activities in the evening.
Figure 2: iPad linked with an application (sumup) which can insert credit card to make payments
Use of Social Media
Amongst Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, Bridget Bailey likes Instagram the most due to the photography in it. Both Facebook and Instagram are good for her teaching, because they enable people to see what she does and to get inspiration, and thus selling and promoting her work. In terms of Twitter, Bridget does re-tweet, which is suitable for sharing, however, she has no time to manage Twitter properly and feels that pictures on Twitter do not look as good as pictures on Instagram. Moreover, it takes time to think about what to say on Twitter compared to Instagram which does not rely on text messages.
She not only wants to share her making process on Instagram, but also the research and experiments she conducts for her making. Below are some of her posts on Instagram, and her reflection on those posts which illustrates how Instagram supports makers connecting with their audience:
i) A post about press
She posts “A magazine writes an article about her work”, and although it does not get so many “likes” it is an endorsement, and people see that. She mentioned that her followers increased because some famous magazines reposted her work.
(Source: https://www.creativewithworkbox.com/product/issue-177/)
ii) A Post about Exhibition
In the summer of 2019, she posted about a group exhibition with other makers in the Clockwork Studio in which maker made their craftwork and put it on a ‘mad’ dinner table. She thought, “It is a lovely collaboration with all makers in the Clockwork Studios. It is a group exhibition, and it was good to post something about the studio.” She made a red wine spear for the show, and someone bought it. She was very proud that people bought her work and said, “it is not about money, and it is a fulfilment.” In this way, sharing her recent activities is a good way to keep in touch with her followers.
iii) A post about an invited taught-course in Cotswold School of Arts and Crafts
This post is about when Bridget was invited to give a two-day masterclass in Cotswold School of Arts and Crafts. “I do not want every photo looks the same, so I just photograph someone colouring their sinamay (an ideal material for hat making) during the course,” said Bridget.
“The strategy of this post is I want to share that Cotswold employed me to teach there, and I would like to do a post about them.”, and it would be useful to add people’s names to the post to connect with them said Bridget.
iv) A post about advertising talks
She uses Instagram to advertise her talks, but she sometimes felt it was quite hard to actually get people to attend talks.
For example, she promoted a special talk with another hat-maker Edwina Ibbotson in which they each gave a 10 mins talk and shared their making process.
v) A post about an interview (a podcast with a professor)
Bridget Bailey in conversation with Roger Kneebone – An interface between medicine to craft people.
Bridget Bailey did a podcast with Professor Roger Kneebone who has undertaken some wonderful projects with other textile artists. She greatly admires Professor Roger Kneebone’s work comparing the skills of medicine with those of artists and craftsmen.
She felt very proud of the interview on podcast as she had an opportunity to share her ideas about making. However, despite her personal interest in the podcast and the prominence of Prof. Roger Kneebone, people did not seem interested in the post, and it did not get many “likes”, illustrating the difficulty of generating responses in Instagram and social media in general.
She also posts about her daily life on Instagram. She really wants to try to be an all-round person on Instagram, not someone only showing their work and products for sale.
She knows if she only shows her work it will get lots of likes. However, she thought if a gallery would like to offer her an exhibition, they might like to know what kind of person she is. She wants to be a real person, but not expose herself too much.
She needs to think twice and make a balance about what she does on Instagram.
vii) A post about support from her friends (a making story)
She also shares the stories behind the work with followers on the Instagram. For example, her friend rescued a dead parakeet (parrot) from a dustbin so she could have the feathers. She loves collecting and finding things but when someone else makes such an effort for her that is the most special.
She said that she might start her making story based on the feathers, but she doesn’t what to tell people about her secret as she needs to keep some mystery.
Use of Website Presence
Bridget has a website, but she thinks her Instagram is more alive than her website as she does not change her website so frequently. Currently, she uses Instagram for teaching and buying rather than her website. She would like to start blog, which she thinks can help her to tell a story about something. However, it takes time to fill the contents which is a barrier to starting it.
Figure 3: The screenshot of Bridget Bailey’s website
Use of Digital Software
Bridget Bailey is concerned that images do not say all the things she would like to say, so she uses an application, i-Movie to make tiny films on her iPad. She learned the software by herself. She said, “it is really hard for me; I take tutorial courses on YouTube. Sometimes it makes me cry as it is so hard, and I got mad and wished someone could teach me. But it is very difficult to take a course because I want to know what exactly I want to know.” She gave an example of using google to search for answers, which has lots of questions and not sure which one is better. She said, “although I was not great, I managed to learn it without anyone helping me, so proud.” She has a positive attitude toward learning. She made two short films by herself and felt happy about the results. She also realised that people might be too impatient to watch videos, but she thought it still could catch a few people’s interest.
Overall, Bridget has applied digital platforms in her craft activities. She uses the iPad to take photos when she seeks inspirations from nature. Social media such as Instagram and Facebook help her promote and sell her craftwork. She also uses digital software, iMovie to make videos to better present her work.
Figure 4: The digital platforms involved in Bridget’s craft activity
MORE DESCRIPTIONS ABOUT BRIDGET BAILEY
Figure 5: Bridget’s presentative work in different stages
Bridget has been a maker about 35 years. She started her career in textiles, doing specialised fabric. Gradually, she was invited to make hats for the fashion industry. About 20 years ago she was more of a commercial hat maker and had a factory, a business partner, and hired full-time staff, making 2,000 hats a year. She called herself an “overgrown” craft person in the manufacturing world rather a natural business person. In 2005, Bridget decided to rethink her craft career and focus on making her work unique and suitable for galleries and not wholesaling any more. It took years for her to explore craft making perfectly. In the last five years she started to deliver specialised teaching to other milliners, special making, a completely different model which only she herself does the business.
She knows that her market is a niche market. She is not panicked about money, and knows that she can earn more, but she does not want to. She said, “I feel like I really want to my life, making really special amazing work, that takes a lot of time standing and staring, you almost put a lot of time in a bin, like I make this but I do not like this, I hate it, so I do not use it and throw it away. That goes on so much with me.” She makes a balance between teaching and making as she would like to have more time to make things.
“I am very lucky because people would like to come and learn. I do not sell my work. It is I really to choose my work, not the same and involve my marketplace to that. I can sell a lot of them (her work) and do a lot more shows. But If I did that, I won’t be able to do the big project that I want to do, although it is quite hard to decide what you really want”. “I suppose if you think of my other life, nearly 20 years [ago], employing people and making the work the same, I was really proud, I sold everywhere, all sorts of departments and store, I really proud but my work was very commercial and not so special. Because I have already done that, so I would like to have my work this way”.
Bridget Bailey is familiar with social media especially Instagram and she has over 4,000 Instagram followers. She has different strategies regarding posting on Instagram, where she shares her craftwork, her making the process, and even her daily life such as a picture of her breakfast with her followers. It helps her to promote her work and attract more students. She uses the iPad to take photos quite often. So far, no digital technology has been directly involved in her making production, but she would like to try laser cutting when required. She calls herself a maker and an educator.
She has a huge passion for making and gets her inspiration from nature.
Please visit the following site to know more about Bridget Bailey:
Website: https://bridgetbailey.co.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bridgetbailey.textile.milliner/
https://www.facebook.com/Bridget-Bailey-Artist-Working-in-Textiles-and-Millinery-128961447203670/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bridgetbailey3
Craftplatforms.org has been produced by the project research team at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Hunan University, China.
Contact E-mail: contact@craftplatforms.org
For more information or to speak to the craft research team, please contact:
Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns
n.bryan-kinns@qmul.ac.uk
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Prof. Hao Tan
htan@hnu.edu.cn
School of Design, Hunan University
Yuelu Mountain, Changsha
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Team PixelPerfect's submission for Milestone 1.
1 Experience the life of a Worker on Mechanical Turk
2 Experience the life of a Requester on Mechanical Turk
3 Explore alternative crowd-labor markets
4 Readings
4.1 MobileWorks
4.2 mClerk
4.3 Flash Teams
Experience the life of a Worker on Mechanical Turk
The experience as a worker on these various Crowd-worker sites was an unpleasant one.
Amazon Mechanical Turk did not allow us to register as Indian workers. The review process took 2 days after which we were informed that the account cannot be activated.
There seemed to be some glitches with the Microworkers platform, their policy dictates the registration of one user per IP. We made several attempts at creating an account, from different workstations - however we always received a message that our IP's were already connected to some account. Hence we could not register here as well.
The experience on CrowdFlower/Clickworker was slightly better since we were able to register and activate our worker accounts.
Though we had active accounts, available work was scarce and we were only able to generate 0.1 Euro per member on Clickworker.
There were also no available tasks on CrowdFlower due to a high level (i.e level 1, level 2 or level 3) of contribution required. There did not seem to be any entry-level tasks available.
Around 0.0125 USD was generated by completing surveys on various CrowdFlower Contribution Channel partners like InboxDollar, SwagBucks and ClixSense which hosted CrowdFlower microtasks (also not available).
What we liked from this experience is that people can do work from home and try to earn a living from themselves, and maybe do something that they like. The thing that we disliked was that it clearly showed that despite a decent internet connection, competence and willingness to work, entry-level opportunities on Crowdworking platforms are rare, especially for people living outside the United States.
Experience the life of a Requester on Mechanical Turk
We weren't able to register as a Requester on Mechanical Turk as only people who were citizens of the United States could register as a requester.
We really liked the concept of people giving mundane tasks they might not want to do, or might not have time to do, to the community of crowdworkers and allotting some money to pay these workers for accurate and acceptable work. Something that I disliked during this experience is that workers are not respected for the work they have done, and the work-pay ratio hasn't been standardized by any of the crowdworking platforms.
Explore alternative crowd-labor markets
Being denied access to Amazon Mechanical Turk as CrowdSource workers, we can only compare it with various other crowdsourcing websites based on the fair idea we have from forums and discussion pages.
We have chosen oDesk for comparison since ... oDesk is a..
Comparing Mechanical Turk with oDesk :
Mechanical Turk is basically meant for short-term tasks, while on the other hand oDesk is chiefly meant for long-term tasks.
Mechanical Turk has the upper hand over oDesk in terms of cost.
oDesk consists mostly of human-to-human interaction. Workers don’t expect to interact with an automated process for being hired, assigned a task and evaluated.
As far as Crowdsourcing is concerned, Mechanical Turk is a far better option as it involves tasks being done by interested contributors while in the case of oDesk, it largely deals between humans where oDesk acts as a platform to interact.
MobileWorks
MobileWorks is a mobile phone-based crowdsourcing platform intended to provide employment to developing world users. It provides OCR tasks which can be completed by workers on a web browser on a low-end phone. Scanned documents are segmented into small pieces (OCR tasks) and sent to users to digitize and send back. A multiple entry system is used to ensure quality of digitization.
Simple mobile interface, accessible to workers at bottom of economic pyramid
Takes advantage of high mobile phone penetration in India, low cost of mobile Internet
Cost-effective method of sending microtasks as opposed to SMS/desktop-based outsourcing centres etc.
Offers a convenient way to earn and be productive during free-time
Improve user interface to group multiple tasks together, saves time in navigation and reduces idle time while fetching next task.
More financial motivation strategies to get work done - bonuses, referral benefits etc
Additional tasks such as local product/place description, audio transcription, language subtitling and translation could be taken up.
For requesters, a priority queue system can be made available for completion of urgent tasks.
mClerk
mClerk is yet another mobile phone-based crowdsourcing platform for developing regions. However, it uses an SMS-based system to send OCR microtasks. Binary pictures are sent via Nokia's Smart Messaging (SM) and Ericsson's EMS protocols. It has found its call in the digitization of local-language documents.
Simple SMS based system makes it accessible and affordable.
Smart handling of local-language fonts.
Takes advantage of high mobile penetration in India and cheap SMS plans.
Good motivation system - reminders and feedback, top-up amounts, referral benefits, leaderboard etc
System was not interpreted as a part-time job, rather a service. Viral propagation provides testimony to its success.
Eliminates most overhead costs to offer more benefits to worker.
Productive use of free-time.
Longer words can be sent as a set of 2-3 images to increase accuracy instead of compressing and reducing quality.
Develop a Quiz-Up type social application which encourages users to compete. Competition element is of benefit to both users and requesters.
Additional tasks through this medium could be explored - such as describing images, songs and issues requiring local knowledge.
Partnerships with carriers to reduce service fee and increase worker payment.
Flash Teams
Flash team is a framework for the management and assembly of expert crowd-sourcing. The usual crowd-sourcing tasks are effective for tasks that could be accomplished with minimal skill sets, whereas tasks like software development and design, that require certain expertise, remain largely out of reach. The paper focuses on a platform called Foundry to accomplish such a goal of trying to solve complex, interdependent problems with sufficient feasibility, by structuring the collaborations and assembling the expert crowd. Each task is divided into micro-tasks or modules with a team responsible for each task. To avoid diffusion of responsibility, there is a Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) who can make sure the modules are fulfilled in the given time.
Foundry takes on managerial responsibilities, minimizing the responsibilities of the end user (requester) who might not be a natural manager. But he has a complete control over the progress of the task. He can pause, tweak the team structure and resume. The modules are visualized as “blocks” that have input and output tags. The end user just has to follow the arrows to track the flow of responsibilities.
Despite being a sequential flow, the tasks are also pipe-lined to minimize the time taken to complete the task. Some processes can run parallel too.
Team structure and modular design simplify the management of the expert crowd.
Updating of schedules and elasticity in the crowd size are a plus.
Path search support enables the user to assign tasks to new combinations of teams based on their previous experiences without having to spend time scouting for individual experts to form a team.
New workers with little or no experience in crowd sourcing but sufficient expertise are ignored in the path search since previously used teams are used again. Our suggestion: there should be an initial task given to test and rate a new worker.
Miscommunication and arguments in a flash team leads to a delay in the completion of the task, the workers are fired or they just quit. Such disputes should be settled be settled with one person, the user or the DRI. The user can keep a track of the workflow and give continuous feedback about the direction headed by the flash team.
Team motivation can be strengthened by enabling workers to form loose clusters that can be hired together (or not, depending on the user's will). This can also reduce the conflicts faced within a flash team.
The DRI can evaluate the workers he is responsible for, and the user can in turn evaluate the DRI to estimate the efficiency of a particular team. New combinations of team sets comprising of the same workers can be compared and efficiency can be maximized.
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Last Updated: Thursday, 26 April 2007, 23:03 GMT 00:03 UK
Health gap 'widest in retirement'
Socialising may make for a happier retirement
The health gap between the lowest and highest paid occupational groups widens in retirement, a study has suggested.
A lifetime on a low wage physically ages a person eight years earlier than high earners, researchers found.
They followed more than 10,000 British civil servants aged 35 to 55, over a period of 20 years.
Physical health declined with age in all groups but most rapidly among those in the lowest occupational grades, the British Medical Journal reported.
The employees, working in 20 different departments and from all occupational grades, were surveyed five times between 1985 and 2004.
At retirement, despite leaving the civil service, the health gap not only continued but widened.
Retirement does not level the playing field. These health inequalities actually increase
Lead researcher Tarani Chandola
For example, the average physical health of a 70-year-old high earner was similar to the physical health of a low earner around eight years younger.
In mid-life, this gap was only 4.5 years.
Among high earners, retirement appeared to improve their mental health and wellbeing. But no similar improvement was seen in the lower occupational groups.
Although the researchers studied mainly white collar office workers, they believe the findings would be the same across other occupations.
And given the UK's ageing population, they say their findings have important implications for government policies to tackle health inequalities.
Currently, people reaching state pension age in the UK have, on average, a life expectancy of a further 20 years for women and around 10 years for men.
In recent years, huge progress has been made in extending life expectancy, but there is debate about whether people are spending a larger part of their lives in self-perceived poor health.
Lead researcher Tarani Chandola, from University College London, said: "There has always been an assumption that the health gap gets narrower with age as people retire.
"But retirement does not level the playing field. These health inequalities actually increase. This is not a time to get complacent."
He suggested a number of factors could explain the differences they found - including lifestyle habits and income.
For example, a higher income might enable a pensioner to lead a more active social life and eat a healthier diet.
He said it would be interesting do to more work to find out why some people thrive in retirement.
Kate Jopling of Help the Aged said: "This shows very clearly that health inequalities are not something that happen only early life or childhood.
"We need to improve older people's lives and make sure they have a good income in retirement, but also ensure they have good access to improve their health - a good diet and social activities."
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