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Have your say on the future of pharmaceutical services

19 May 2017

Essex County Council is carrying out a countywide consultation about the future of pharmaceutical services in Essex, and now is your chance to have your say.

Essex residents are invited to take part in a short online survey about these services that are provided by pharmacies, dispensing doctors, internet pharmacies and dispensing appliance contractors, in the Essex area.

Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, Cllr John Spence said: “Our aim is to understand what services the people of Essex want in the future, and how that compares to the services they receive today.

“The online questionnaire should only take 15 minutes, and I hope that as many as possible will consider this a good investment of their time.”

The results of the survey will help in determining what services are required to meet the needs of local people going forward.

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Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship ($11.25M, 51,000 sq. ft.)
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Phase I of the ESU Research and Business Park being developed on 15-acres of property owned by East Stroudsburg University in Smithfield Township. The building is located on the corner of Brown Street and Route 447 in Smithfield Township.

The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship includes:

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  • Wet Labs for life sciences companies
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  • Computer Training Labs and Conference Rooms

The economic impact of Phase I, the construction of a 51,000 sq. ft. Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship as prepared by the Northeast Pennsylvania Alliance (NEPA) using its IMPLAN model, is expected to result in:

  • 595 jobs; and $57M into the Monroe County economy
  • 630 jobs and $59.4M in northeastern Pennsylvania; and
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The project partners included the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Monroe and the Pocono Mountains Economic Development Corporation. The building was constructed by Sordoni Construction Services, Inc., designed by hemmler+camayd architects, and engineered by Boucher and James, Inc. The building is funded in part by a $2.5M Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; $1.2M Economic Development Administration (EDA); $75,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC); $1M Local Share Account Gaming â€“ Monroe County; $281,000 PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE); $60,000 legislative funding; and $25,000 from the Sordoni Foundation. The construction loan is in collaboration with Luzerne Bank (lead bank), Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank and Penn Security Bank.

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Popular property highlights

Free self parking
Free WiFi
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Situated in Chiang Rai, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of King Meng Rai the Great Monument, Wat Pra Singh, and Wat Phra Kaew. Wat Mung Muang and Khun Korn Waterfall are also within 1 mile (2 km).

Hotel features

Along with a restaurant, this hotel has an outdoor pool and a fitness centre. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a sauna and a rooftop terrace are on-site.

Room amenities

All 78 properties provide conveniences such as refrigerators and coffee makers, plus complimentary wireless Internet access and LCD TVs with satellite channels. Minibars, room service and free newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.

The Legend Chiang Rai Boutique River Resort and Spa

Hotel Amenities

Hotel Amenities

In addition to an outdoor pool, The Legend Chiang Rai Boutique River Resort and Spa provides a sauna and a fitness centre. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.

Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of A business centre and a meeting room. This business-friendly hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, spa services and tour or ticket assistance. On-site self parking is complimentary.

  • Spa services on site
  • Bar/lounge
  • Luggage storage
  • Rooftop terrace
  • Hair salon
  • Breakfast available (surcharge)
  • Fitness facilities
  • Gift shops or newsstand
  • Shopping on site
  • 24-hour front desk
  • Business center
  • Airport transportation
  • Tours/ticket assistance
  • Restaurant
  • Total number of rooms - 78
  • One meeting room
  • Free self parking
  • Free WiFi
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Sauna
  • Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
  • Outdoor pool
  • Garden

Family Friendly Amenities

  • Family Hotel
  • Outdoor pool
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
  • Refrigerator

Available in all rooms: Free WiFi

Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Free self parking

Room Amenities

  • Premium TV channels
  • Air conditioning
  • Free bottled water
  • Refrigerator
  • Minibar
  • Private bathroom
  • Free toiletries
  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Free WiFi
  • Room service
  • In-room massage available
  • Free newspaper
  • Bathrobes
  • Hair dryer
  • LCD TV
  • Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
  • In-room safe
  • Satellite TV service

Where to Eat

Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.

The Legend Chiang Rai Boutique River Resort and Spa has a restaurant on-site.

Room service is available.

Nearby Things to Do

Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool, a sauna and a fitness centre.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on-site or nearby; fees may apply.

  • Bicycle rentals nearby

Spa Services

  • Massages

Hotel Policies

Check-in time starts at 1200

Special check-in instructions:

24-hour airport shuttle service is available. Contact the property in advance for details.

Check-out time is 1200

Payment types

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are available for THB 1000.00 per night.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are not available.

  • Pets not allowed

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No cribs (infant beds) available

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
  • Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: THB 1900.00
  • Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: THB 950.00 (from 4 to 12 years old)
  • New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: THB 2500.00
  • New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: THB 1250.00 (from 4 to 12 years old)
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.

Optional extras

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at the time of service, check-in or check-out.
  • Fee for buffet breakfast: THB400 per person (approximately)
  • Rollaway bed fee: THB1000.00 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

Hotel Name

  • Legend Chiang Rai Boutique River Resort
  • Legend Boutique River Resort
  • Legend Chiang Rai Boutique River
  • Legend Boutique River

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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Donzy with free parking

Popular property highlights

Free self parking
Free WiFi

Situated in Donzy, this hotel is 0.1 mi (0.2 km) from House Mill of the Island and 11.2 mi (18 km) from Domaine de Bel-Air. Chateau de Tracy and Chateau de Ratilly are also within 20 mi (32 km).

Hotel Features

Along with a restaurant, this hotel has tour/ticket assistance and free self parking. WiFi in public areas is free.

Room Amenities

All 11 rooms offer free WiFi and satellite TV.

Hotel Amenities

Hotel Amenities

The hotel offers a restaurant. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Donzy hotel also offers a terrace and tour/ticket assistance. Complimentary self parking is available on site.

  • Terrace
  • Restaurant
  • Tours/ticket assistance
  • Total number of rooms - 11
  • Free self parking
  • Free WiFi
  • Breakfast available (surcharge)

Available in all rooms: Free WiFi

Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Free self parking

Room Amenities

  • Private bathroom (not in room)
  • Satellite TV service
  • Free WiFi
  • Individually decorated
  • Connecting/adjoining rooms available
  • Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)

Where to Eat

Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.

Le Grand Monarque - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine.

Nearby Things to Do

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

  • Hiking/biking trails nearby

Hotel Policies

Check-in time starts at 5 PM

Check-out time is 11 AM

Payment types

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 15.00 per night.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are not available.

  • Pets not allowed

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No cribs (infant beds) available

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
  • A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.70 per person, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.

Optional extras

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
  • Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 9.90 for adults and EUR 9.90 for children (approximately)
  • Rollaway bed fee: EUR 15.00 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

Hotel Name

  • Grand Monarque Donzy
  • Grand Monarque Hotel Donzy
  • Le Grand Monarque Donzy

We should mention

The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.

National Rating

This property has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.

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At CES 2014 in January, Intel and Asus demonstrated an unusual new twist on mobile computing: the dual-OS Transformer Book Duet. The Duet was designed to run a full version of Android side-by-side with a full version of Windows, with a hardware button to switch between the two modes. Applications and data were separated between the two operating systems, unless you saved data to a specific shared partition.

From the beginning, it was rumored that Google and Microsoft weren’t happy with Intel and Asus’ efforts — Microsoft wants devices to run Windows 8, while Google apparently wanted tablets to be Android-only — at least as far as the full operating system is concerned. AMD’s efforts to partner with Android emulator BlueStacks haven’t kicked up any of the same problems.

What’s strange about all this is that reports indicate Microsoft has actually been encouraging phone manufacturers to build dual-boot Windows Phone/Android devices — with Huawei, at least, signing up to be part of the dubious experiment. So in one realm you have two OS companies both throwing their weight around to block products, while in the other space you’ve got Microsoft reportedly giving tacit permission for a device no one actually seems to want to buy.

Google and Microsoft may have done Asus a favor

There’s an incredibly limited subset of buyers who might be interested in dual boot — mostly developers who are stuck developing for multiple operating systems. Sure, if you’re one of this limited number of people, maybe a dual-boot tablet or phone makes sense.

For everyone else? It’s a ludicrous idea. I don’t want to boot to Android so I can play Android games, only to boot to Windows so I can use Windows software — I want to have access to Android software on the Windows platform. The Asus Transformer Book didn’t actually share data across the two operating systems and the “Shared Disk” partition was just 4GB by default. That means either resizing the disk partitions by default to dump more things in that area, or constantly switching back and forth between the two schemes.

Furthermore, it’s by no means clear that perfect file-level compatibility between the variety of applications available in the two spaces would have been achievable. For the overwhelming majority of people, the ability to use Android on a Windows tablet would’ve boiled down to compatibility for some games that Windows hasn’t gotten and may never get. If you really love your Candy Crush, but also needed a Windows device, maybe that’s appealing. Everyone else would settle for keeping a Windows desktop or laptop and owning an Android smartphone.

So what’s Microsoft afraid of? The future. In phones, WP8 is an operating system struggling for incremental share, where any boost might help. But in desktops, Microsoft is a titan with huge market share facing an upstart competitor with a huge ecosystem growing up behind it. Sound familiar? It should.

Shades of OS/2

The situations are far from identical, but Microsoft has seen how this type of scenario plays out for a company that’s forced to offer its software based primarily on compatibility with another company’s product. OS/2 2.0’s tagline when it finally launched was “A better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows.” While arguably true, at least in some respects, this kind of competitive positioning hurt OS/2 in the long run.

When one of the greatest features of your platform is its support for the competition, then developers who want to program software for both have no impetus to switch to your solution. Why bother with Metro-style applications or W8.1 support if you know that tablets will be running Android anyway? Every application that the user wants to run in Android is another reason to avoid Windows altogether. The more people avoid Windows, the less valuable Windows is on the device.

Run that trend out far enough, and the need for Windows vanishes altogether. That’s something MS is going to be desperate to avoid, though the split between itself and Huawei over dual-boot Android phones is still an oddity. Either Microsoft thinks it can take a risk in a new market that the old market won’t bear, or it’s a translation error.

In the long run, I’m not convinced anyone wants clunky awful dual-boot devices with minimally shared data, required reboots, and two sets of software to juggle — so I’m not sure this is a change that hurts anyone. Asus’ earlier OS hybrid, the Transformer Book Trio, remains on the market — but that system has a separate CPU and storage partition for each operating system.


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Universität KonstanzExzellenzcluster: Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration

A Identification and the Politics of Identity

The intention of this research area is to study processes and circumstances through which identity becomes a socially relevant and integration-relevant quantity.

In its contrast to the area’s original title, “Cultures of Identity,” the new title signals a move away from self-evident identity-models and towards a form of active and passive identification that is non-completed and often improvised or controversial. Through this shift, we gain a better view of aspects of both performance and choice of membership. Focusing more intensively on self-localization, social interconnection, and the sense of affiliation of individual actors will allow a deeper understanding of the basic openness of processes of identity formation.

Recent social-scientific, historical, and literary research and publications have strongly pointed to personal and collective identity as anything but a stable reference-point for social action, and this for two reasons. In the first place, each person and group is bound up with numerous, often incohesive and even incompatible social relationships; these do not offer a unified, immutable identity-profile. In order to do justice to alternating forms of address—whether determined situatively or through roles—to a certain degree social actors have to behave incoherently, usually spontaneously and without being aware of it. Such behavior is possible to the degree their identity is not rigid but rather fluid and versatile. By contrast, we can use the term “politics of identity” to denote the strategic exploitation of this maneuvering room by collective subjects—a dimension of the theme often discussed in recent literature on social movements and collective constructions of memory.

In the second place, “identity” is consistently being approached not as a quasi-natural condition of the self-consciousness of the person in society, but as the effect of a dramatization of difference. Identity questions are only posed with full acuity in critical phases of transition or conflict; in peaceful situations they tend to remain latent and can become fully irrelevant. For this reason as well, in a counterintuitive manner identity is a situationdependent category. It emerges to the forefront when affiliations come under pressure through a polarization requiring everyone to openly avow their positions.

“Identity” here emerges as something other than a solitary category—as comprised of a range of partial commonalities, similarities, or differences, depending on perspective. It is strongly dependent on where the accent of identification is placed. This opens both subjective and institutional leeway for action, further strengthened by strong parallel semantic elements centered on both equality (all human beings, all believers, all citizens) and difference (between men and women, rich and poor, etc.) being available in many cases, to be mutually balanced off in different ways depending on the situation.

Research Questions

The projects covered by research area A are less centered on the result of fixed identities than on a process of mutable identifications, with the following questions serving as main guidelines:

  • In which social situations do people make use of “identity cards”? Which actors and procedures play a decisive role in creating a collectively recognized “we”- position? How are models of identification appropriated and made useful, and how are they subverted?
  • What are the paramount references for defining identity? (Among the range of possibilities: ecopolitical affiliation, formal and participatory rights, linguistic, ethnic, cultural, and religious characteristics, and affiliation prompted by a shared cultural memory or by the projection of a shared future.) What are the possible reasons for a change of reference?
  • What juridical, administrative, infrastructural, and medial factors play a role in the orientation of collective identities? To what extent do the latter emerge as (often delayed and non-intentional) administrative effects, blueprints for political demarcation and its underlying taxonomies (religious/confessional, territorial, national, ethnic, etc.)? What requirements do they have in respect to transportation and communication technology (Research of Jurij Murašov)?
  • How transparent are the borders between identity-based inclusion and exclusion? How are affiliative gains and losses weighed against each other on their various social and operative levels? How does collective identity take shape as a “cultural compromise” (A. Wimmer)?
  • What concepts are at our disposal to move past a rigid dichotomy of the self and the other? How can non-exclusionary concepts such as similarity and commonality be developed into a potential basis for a new grammar of social relations?


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BukkakeNoJutsu chapter 22 . 3/10/2008
This is some hot s-h-i-t. One of the best street fighter stories I've seen. This wins. You are a great writer.
Shisoukengo chapter 22 . 3/10/2008
AW dude! Giving us such a juicy chapter, and then leaving us hanging at the climax of it? So not cool, LOL. Excellent job on it otherwise though. It was very punctual and grammatically correct. I couldn't find one mistake, not that I was really looking for any. And your fight scenes are without a doubt some of the best I've ever seen in a fanfic. Encore my friend, encore!
KC Ann chapter 22 . 3/9/2008
You updated! Nice

Really good chapter.
vedmid chapter 22 . 3/7/2008
Very nice

Rose's appearance was a clever surprise, and Ryu's explanation worked perfectly for his mentality in this.

The fight description itself, brief as it was worked well.

As usual I'm looking forward to seeing more of this unfold.
Steamrollers Solve All chapter 22 . 3/7/2008
Good ol' Ryu. Able to follow the laws of Shonen heroes and getting up no matter how hard he gets beat down. :)
MI chapter 21 . 11/25/2007
Oh my lord! It's back! I've been anticipating for this chapter for so long! I'm happy that chapter 21 is finally posted and your story still maintains that raw feeling of...well I can't really put it into words because it's just "that" awesome! I love the fact that Chun li is unsure with her feelings, because it would so kill that independent thing she's got going for her. Though, I do hope the ending will be a happy one for both Ryu and her.

The suspense is killing me... can't wait for the next update!
Kikoken chapter 21 . 11/3/2007
Dammit, don't tak a century to update next time! xP

I kid, I kid.

But this is awesome. I can't wait for the final chapters.
JJones chapter 21 . 10/30/2007
This story has been amazing, i 've read the whole thing so far and this is just fantastic. It's so intense, suspenseful and compelling. I can't get enough of it. But I do have one question though.. Is my main man (and ryu's) Ken gonna make an appearance? Looks doubtful right now cuz Ryu's about to make Bison his bitch but just curious. Thanks for providing such a great story so far and keep up the great work
Shisoukengo chapter 21 . 10/28/2007
OH Suki suki now! Lol not that I've ever been a big fan of "Dark Ryu" as opposed to the normal Ryu, I can't deny that I am very much interested to see how this "clash of titans" scenario plays out. Chun-Li's adament belief that Ryu could not possibly care for her enough to risk putting himself in jeopordy was a surprise.

Although they haven't really known each other that long in the story, she has gone out of her way to help him (although this could be more due to her job than anything else) since she met him, but also because they both seem to understand each other's pains the best. A fact that I've long noticed since becoming a fan of the series, yet many fan fiction authors and other fans have yet to take notice of. I also have to say you've captured Bison perfectly, a madman with both the brilliance and obsession that it takes to not only rule an evil empire, but also to develop such high aspirations as world domination and even godly-hood.

But you've left us, the readers in such suspense, and thus we have no choice but to await the next chapter with great anticipation. I can only assume that the whole matter between Bison and Ryu will not be settled entirely with simply a one on one confrontation. And I still do hope to see an appearance or two from Ken and/or Guile sometime soon as well. Keep up the goodwork Claymade, for with writing so detailed and plots this good I have no doubt you will be left short on readers anytime soon.
Steamrollers Solve All chapter 21 . 10/27/2007
Silly Bison... you are now condemned to failing spectacularly. "Why?" you ask, no doubt. Simple.

You monologued. You explained your evil scheme rather than keep it under wraps. You subconsciously know you will lose, and therefor explained your plan so people will say "Hey, remember that Bison guy who had that great plan only to be shot down in its prime? What a loser." Instead of "Hey, remember that Bison guy who never told us his plan? What was he all about... yeah, he failed, but at least if we knew his goals, he'd just be a loser rather than a complete dumbass."
Shisoukengo chapter 20 . 9/24/2007
Wow! That's all I have to say about this story! I've read only a handful of street fighter fics out there, but this one by far has to be the most detailed and inspiring of them all. The thing I like most about this fic is the way it completely follows canon storyline. Even down to the techniques used by the combatants, which brings me to the next thing I like about this, the fight scenes.

They're so...descriptive, so easy to play the fights out in your mind's eye. These are the characteristics of a truly amazing story. You even got the characters down pat, though I must admit I thought you had made Ryu into a whiny and spineless man at first. A striking difference from the disciplined warrior described in the comics and video games.

But I could understand his predicament as the story progressed, as the temptation to use the Satsui no Hado would haunt him at every turn. But there are two people I haven't seen involved in the story yet, and that's Guile and Ken. I would assume that Guile will be making his appearance soon, in order to hunt down Bison for the death of his teammate Charlie (unless you plan to have Charlie alive and helping him in this story). And I would assume Ken would show up sometime soon to offer his adopted brother and best friend some help in his darkest moment.

But the rate at which you've updated the story has me a little worried. I mean you started it over 3 years ago, and by the last update back in June you're only 20 chapters into it. I just hope the next update isn't too far coming, this story is far too good to be waiting every 3 or 4 months for updates. It certainly gives me inspiration for the day when I begin posting my own Street Fighter fic.
Nihongi chapter 20 . 8/4/2007
I gave this story a read after seeing how well written the summary was, I am glad to say that i was quite impressed. The descriptions of the fights were amazing, and everything was just so superbly written. Excellent job )
vedmid chapter 20 . 6/22/2007
nice, chapter, I enjoyed the internal dialog and really liked the ending to this chapter
Nathan chapter 20 . 6/18/2007
Wow... a nicely written story, with a well-thought-out plot. Hope you update soon!
Gone Away 2345 chapter 20 . 6/14/2007
I nearly cried claymade...I nearly did. This chapter was full of emotion. Your writing amazes me every time you update. You are pushing me to finally update my story.

This was an awesome chapter. I'm waiting for Ryu to fight that Satsui no Hadou and to kick Bison's ass dammit.

Rock on Ryu, rock on.
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Reviews for Inamorata
sandraev1 chapter 16 . 6/19/2011
Bella likes to dance for Edward. Aww he wrote whatever you want it's yours. Thanks
sandraev1 chapter 15 . 6/19/2011
Kinda of cute and funny their first kiss. Bella knocking out Edward definently funny. Thanks
sandraev1 chapter 14 . 6/19/2011
Aww Edward taking care of the puppy. Happy times ahead. Thanks
BellaCullenObsessed chapter 30 . 5/31/2011
i absolutely love this story well done :)
abbie.loves.twilight chapter 30 . 5/25/2011
Can't believe its over. Well not totally over, but still...

Loved this story, some super hilarious moments.

NewEngland2912 chapter 30 . 5/22/2011
cant wait for the future takes!
mysinger chapter 30 . 5/21/2011
Wonderful! I don't want to let them go either.
xomessymutt17 chapter 30 . 5/21/2011
yes write more i missed this story!
colourfulchatterbox chapter 29 . 5/5/2011
So I LOVE this story...and I cannot wait for the epi thingy...:P

This Edward is so sweet and this Bella kicks ass. XD

So yeah...;)

Thank you for writing this and sharing it with us AND giving some AWESOME fic recs. :D
jojobear33 chapter 29 . 4/7/2011
great! loved it!
Fatal.Attractions chapter 29 . 4/5/2011
So sad this story is over! It was really awesome and I loved it. I'm really looking forward to the Epilogue so I hope you update soon! :)
zeeber chapter 29 . 4/3/2011
cute story, had fun reading it.

Thank you for your words...Brenda
xtothey chapter 4 . 4/1/2011
Sassy Bella!
xtothey chapter 3 . 4/1/2011
These are my favorite kinds of Edward and Bellas - no one is a douche. Loved this part:

I realize I'm just standing there gaping at Bella like a fat kid looking at cake.

Really hot cake.
xtothey chapter 2 . 4/1/2011
I saw you talk about completing this over on ADF, so I came to check it out. I love Bella's observations of Edward. I also have never heard that Flogging Molly song and I really liked it!
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I almost forgot Gaara-chan's birthday :( I would have forgot if I didn't see the birthday stories for him. To make up for forgetting, I'll write a nice birthday one shot for him. YAY!

Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto\

Banana Nut Muffin

Gaara eyes slowly opened as he heard his name being called. He sat up, stretched and went to find the source of the noise. Gaara found the source of the noise in the kitchen where bags of grocery were scattered all over the floor.

Naruto grinned. "About time! God Gaara you sleep too much." Gaara smiled softy "Just making up for lost time." Its true, Gaara after moving in with his lover, Naruto was starting to sleep more and more. Maybe all those nights of sleeping a mere three hours where catching up to him or maybe he could sleep because he knew Naruto could stop Shukaku if he ever decided to come out for visit while Gaara slept.

"Oie Gaara. Don't space out on me!" Naruto yelled at him and threw something at him. Gaara caught it with ease "What's this?" Naruto grinned. Gaara looked at the item which was a box of banana nut muffins. "I know you don't like sweets but for some reason I think you'll like these."Naruto said while a small blush came to his cheeks. Gaara's non existent eyebrow arched up "Why?" Gaara asked suspiciously.

Naruto grinned pervertedly "Well before you told me that I taste like banana ...and so if I am not home one day you could eat one till I came back... and think of me..." Gaara smirked "and the nuts in it are for what...?" Naruto and Gaara eyes met, a perverted grins stuck on both their faces. "You tell me what the nuts are for?" Gaara smirked "You bought the nuts." Naruto pouted and tried to think of something " It has nuts because...were...umm nutty in love." Gaara smiled at his lover lame excuse and put the muffins on the counter.

He drew Naruto into a hug and started nibbling on his neck. Then Gaara whispered to Naruto "Mmmm Banana... I prefer this to any muffin" and started trailing kisses down Naruto's neck, Naruto whimpered as a response and then they disappeared into the room.

Gaara got out of bed and put his boxers on and started to walk out of the room but not before stealing a glance at his lover, who slept soundly. Gaara walked into the living room and just sat there. Gaara liked the quiet and used it as time to reflex, he sat there for about 10 minutes and then he realized something, it was January...January 19th...his birthday. Gaara mentally smacked himself in the head. He didn't celebrate his birthday but he'd still like to remember when it was.

He realized something. Naruto hadn't given him a gift. Then he realized something else...he never told Naruto his birthday. He sighed, it would have been nice just to get a happy birthday from him but Gaara didn't to want to sound like "Hey say Happy Birthday to me! NOW!". Gaara sat up and went towards the kitchen, seeing the banana nut muffins on the counter he got an idea.

He got a yellow candle for a cupboard and lit it. Then he got a banana nut muffin and placed the candle in it. Even though he didn't celebrate his birthday Gaara still wanted his wish. He already knew what he wanted, he gently smiled before he blew the candle out. He took the candle out of the muffin and placed it on the table. Then he took a bite of the muffin and savored the taste in his mouth.

Naruto suddenly came into the kitchen wearing boxers and hugged Gaara from behind. Naruto mumbled "I love you." into Gaara's back Gaara smiled to himself.

He didn't need to wish for Naruto to love him and stay with him because he knew Naruto won't leave him or stop loving him.

He took another bite of the muffin.

Hehe I used a Banana nut muffin because I'm currently obsessed with them now. Yum.


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A/N: I know, I know, it's been more than forever since I've posted. Sorry this is so short. But in my defense, this wasn't for lack of interest in the story. I went a little poor, luxuries were sacrificed (i.e. my internet access and phone), but it's all good now. And I apologize, I was really hoping to write some lyrics for Ashley to actually sing to Spencer, but I suck. Poems, I can do. Lyrics? Not so much. But, the show goes on. I thank all who have remained interested, your loyalty means the world. It's winding down, folks. Enjoy.

It's a miracle, Spencer thinks, that she hears as well as she does. A million scenarios play out in her head (none of them good) about what could've happened if she hadn't heard the car pull up, the doors slam shut, footsteps in the foyer. It would've been so very, very bad if Spencer hadn't heard her mother coming in time to pull her clothes on, to kick Ashley's under the bed, to push Ashley into the closet (no, the irony was not lost on her). Spencer can just imagine her mother walking in: Spencer and Ashley in just their bras and panties, lips connected, hands everywhere. Paula would look near tears, would likely drag Ashley out by her hair and throw her out the front door. The truth would settle on the house like lead, crushing everyone with the weight of it. No. Spencer couldn't have that.

So it's a good thing Spencer heard them coming, hid the evidence, and managed a convincing fib about needing a shower after the game (the one she didn't actually go to). Spencer is able to sneak Ashley out of her bedroom window while the water runs in the bathroom. Ashley climbed down the ladder that was left propped against gutters that had yet to be cleaned. She thanks God for small favors.

Spencer steps under the spray and lets the hot water wash away the fear and the guilt and the excitement of the day. Spencer knows that no matter how "progressive" her family is (one brother adopted and black, the other hopelessly addicted to drugs and all of them trying to hide it), they are not ready for SpencerandAshley.

Ashley can't sleep. She tosses and turns for awhile before giving up entirely. This is the first time that Ashley has hoped for Spencer and she didn't come. Ashley reaches for the next best thing. Her guitar lies lonely (but never forgotten) in a corner of the room, like a lover spurned. Ashley pulls it into her lap and it fits under her hands like Spencer does; like it's meant to be there. She's just strumming at first, nothing serious, she's lets her fingers fret what they may. Slowly, the notes take shape, they string themselves together and pretty soon Ashley's got a melody. The lyrics come soon after that, most of them from the draft she'd turned in to Mr. Reinhart. Remember, Ashley's not stupid. She has enough sense to recognize her own talent. So when she can't find her notebook, she draws a couple staffs on the back of her biology syllabus and fills them with notes that are too important to be lost.

Ashley is pretty proud of herself when she climbs back into her bed (regrettably alone) and she thinks she doesn't miss Spencer any less. But at least she's accomplished and her eyelids are heavy enough to pull her into sleep, the song still stuck in her head.

Spencer wakes up in an empty bed and the last thing she wants is to go to school. When she joins her family at the breakfast table, she gets lost in the conversation and for once she is grateful that Glen never shuts up. It is easy for her to be alone with her thoughts when everyone is listening to him recount (for the millionth time) the three-point jumpshot he scored at the buzzer. She feigns as much interest as she can muster and nods when appropriate. She's unprepared when Glen makes a point of asking Spencer where she disappeared to at half-time. Spencer feels eight eyes land on her like bombs and she prays that her racing heart isn't forcing blood to her face, nonchalance is her only hope.

"I told you I wasn't feeling well," she tries to sound annoyed. "That's why I went home early, to shower and lie down."

"You didn't tell me that," but she sees the doubt coloring his face.

"Yes, I did. You just weren't listening, as usual."

Glen mutters a "whatever" and goes back to talking with his mouthful. It sounds like something Glen would do (the not-listening), is something he has done, and they accept it without further interrogation. The eyes leave Spencer and take with them the panic and the guilt and the (sometimes) nausea that come when Ashley comes up like this. The panic and nausea and guilt are not about Ashley per se, it's more about Spencer. Panic because she knows how close she is to just telling everyone about Ashley then guilt because she never does. The nausea is probably because she is just sick of all the lying.

Ashley is silent on the way to school. Kyla's going on about something and Aiden's pretending he cares. He keeps looking back at Ashley in the rear view mirror. Ashley can see him out of the corner of her eye. It's taking all of her energy to keep her mouth shut. She knows how much Kyla loves him and she tries so hard to respect that, but he makes it really difficult when he's always at her house without a shirt making doe-eyes at her. Despite the fact that he has a penis and is therefore ineligible to receive any romantic attention from Ashley, those looks and those smiles are impossible to ignore. It would be so easy... but where's the fun in that?

Spencer is having trouble paying attention in class. They're discussing the flaws and merits of characters in this month's literature selection, but Spencer doesn't care about Holden Caulfield or his one-legged prostitute. All she can focus on is the fact that she can see through Ashley's shirt and not turning around to look (again). The last time Spencer looks she sees Adam-Alex or whoever in front of Ashley turned around and talking to her. Apparently, he's noticed the transparency of Ashley's top too. Spencer raises her hand and gets a hall pass; she needs air.

Ashley follows Spencer to an empty restroom where she's standing at a sink. She watches Spencer's reflection until she looks up. "What was that?"

"You ran out of class pretty fast--"

"What was with that guy, Ashley?"

"What guy?"

"You know what guy, your friend. The one who sits in front of you? He was totally looking at your chest, which you can see through your shirt, by the way."

Ashley crossed her arms and peered at Spencer with raised eyebrows and a half-smile. "Spencer, are you... jealous?"

Ashley watches Spencer's eyes drop as she takes a step back. "No, I'm not jealous. No."

Ashley waits and says nothing, smile intact she moves her hand to her hips. "No?"

"I'm not."

"Fine," Ashley says, hands up in concession. She counts to herself, 3...2...1...

"He shouldn't be looking at you like that! I mean, isn't he your sister's boyfriend?"

"Yeah, so why do you care?"

"Why don't you?"

"Because I don't like him."

"He likes you!"

"Oh my God, you are jealous."

"Of course I'm jealous, you're my―" the sentence died on Spencer's lips and her face turns red, she says nothing after that.

Ashley closes the distance between them until she's within arm's length of Spencer. She keeps her hands in her pockets for fear she might reach out. "I'm your what?"

Spencer's eyes are on her feet and Ashley thinks it may be a little absurd for her to be embarrassed, after all, she is only saying what the both already know (but it's cute anyway). "Just... mine."

Ashley takes Spencer's hands in her own, strokes Spencer's skin with her thumb. "I am yours, so quit worrying about Aiden. Besides the fact that he's Kyla's boyfriend and a guy, I'm only interested in you. Okay? I love you."

At this, Ashley half-expects Spencer to tear her hands away or tell her to be quiet. She doesn't expect Spencer to pull her into a hug in the middle of a dirty bathroom. "Me, too."

"Listen," Ashley starts, arms around Spencer's waist. "The Dive's having an open-mic night and I was thinking about playing. Would you come?"

"Come watch you play?"

Ashley sees the hesitation in Spencer's eyes and back-peddles. She drops her hands again and steps back. "Hey, don't worry about it."

"No, no, I want to, really, I just―you know what? Never mind. I'll come."

"Good," Ashley says, "because I won't bother if you're not going to be there."

Spencer smiles before turning back towards the mirror and tosses her hair quickly. "We should get back to class."

"After you."


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Cream of the Pedigree Calf Fair Beef NI Expo 2015

Junior Champion WD & JA Connolly - Brigadoon Lolly
Junior Champion WD & JA Connolly - Brigadoon Lolly

The inaugural Northern Ireland Pedigree Calf Fair & Beef NI Expo event took place on 14th November in Balmoral, Belfast, bringing together the very best on offer for Northern Ireland beef producers.

Key suppliers across all sectors were in attendance; with leading producers from UK and Ireland judging this new NI event.

The theme was “Beef Strategy 2020” with input from across all sectors of the beef industry.

There was a strong show of Charolais cattle and breeders commented “that it was a great opportunity to showcase young Charolais stock”. The event was spearheaded by the NI Charolais Club along with stakeholders from nine other beef clubs and organised with partners NBA and LMC.

It provided an opportunity to see what will be on offer at the club’s sales and shows next spring and summer across ten pedigree breeds. The event was hailed a great success with 303 calves under 15 months exhibited stalled in the Londonderry hall. The showing took place in two show rings with 10 breed judges; the breeds were alternated to keep interest around the show ring all day.

It was a fine spectacle in late afternoon with 10 junior breed champions and ten senior breed champions lined up to receive their plaques from event chairman David Connolly and secretary Ann Orr.

There was a great buzz and sponsors and traders were very happy to have the opportunity to showcase their products and services and meet new and potential customers.

Judges came from across the UK and Ireland travelling into Belfast the previous day to join their hosts for a meal and get together before the event. Some of the judges have commented that ‘they were privileged to be involved in such a well organised and successful showcase for the pedigree beef breeds in NI’.

The four classes for the Young Stockmanship competition were very popular with many young people trying their hand at preparation and handling for the first time. This section was judged by Alison Connolly with Philip Johnston gaining the highest marks as the top Charolais handler and retaining the Animax Cup.

Leading suppliers for the beef industry recognised the importance of the event and pledged their financial support; with leading retailer Tesco, suppliers Isuzu Gormley Motors, Crystalx, Bovipast RSP, HVS Animal Health and Farm Wardrobe reflecting the strong commitment to the beef and indeed the wider agri-food industry in Northern Ireland. With trade space for 70 exhibitors full to capacity, showcasing a broad range of products and services; suppliers provided information and advice and showed some new and interesting concepts for the visitors attending.

The stakeholders feel it is essential to work together as a group to showcase the whole beef industry in the province, and they expect to build on the success of the event. The date for next year is set as Saturday 19th November 2016 in Balmoral Belfast.

Junior champion: Brigadoon Lolly owned by WD & JA Connolly

Reserve Junior Champion: Fury Leader owned by Pat Hackett

Senior Champion: Coolnaslee Jillie owned by G J Crawford

Res. Senior Champion: Ratoary Justrite ET owned by Sean McGovern

Senior Champion: 147 Gilbert J Crawford, Coolnaslee Jillie, Barnsford Ferny, Coolnaslee Danielle

Reserve Senior Champion: 135 Sean McGovern, Ratoary Justrite ET, Lochend Apache, Clooncullane Chloe

Junior Champion: 188 WD & JA Connolly, Brigadoon Lolly, Brigadoon Himself, Brigadoon Dolly

Reserve Junior Champion: 154 Pat Hackett, Fury Leader, Crossmolina Euro, Fury Cara.


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“Pirate Wi-Fi” On NYC’s Subway Not Just For Hooking Up With Hot Strangers

The “L Train Notwork,” a digital experiment/stunt/art project from the creative agency, launched on NYC subways Monday, allowing commuters to chat and flirt via their devices. Have they invented a whole new marketing channel?

There’s a secret mobile network being tested on New York City subway cars this week that could pave the way for far more than anonymous hot straphanger hookups.

It’s happening on certain cars on the L Train, the favored line of models, style aficionados, musicians, artists, and others zipping between some of the city’s hippest neighborhoods (and other stops not cool enough to get into in this context). “The L Train Notwork” doesn’t actually connect them to the World Wide Web, but it seems that way at first. Instead, users are linked to fellow riders in a chat room, plus webby-looking visual and literary content curated by the digital agency Maybe one day soon, they’ll get exposed to an ad or two, too.

The pirate Wi-Fi stunt comes as city officials probe a last bastion of Big Apple downtime: the subway. Despite recent efforts of the Metro Transit Authority to bring Wi-Fi and cell service to subway platforms in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York’s trains remain an unconnected space.

Every morning during the week of November 14, Matt McGregor-Mento and Mark Krawczuk (pictured here), the founders of the seven-month-old shop, plan to hand out laminated iPhone-shaped flyers outside of subway stops in Manhattan alerting riders to their “Notwork.”

On Saturday, I joined McGregor-Mento, Krawczuk, and a group of about 10 friends and collaborators as they beta-tested their project, which the team has been working on for several months. Krawczuk arrived at around 11:30 a.m., dangling a green canvas grocery bag that held a small white box containing the apparatus–a plug computer, battery, and car inverter–that would fuel the Wi-Fi and serve the content. We boarded the train, and the members of the group whipped out their phones to try this novel experience: connectivity on the subway.

“When [McGregor-Mento] first told me about it, I exploded with excitement,” said Dolan Morgan, one of the beta testers. “The idea of homebrew Internet is something really exciting.” The group wasn’t connecting to the World Wide Web, but rather to the web server in Krawczuk’s bag, and to each other. The “Notwork” had two main components: a selection of visual and literary content curated by and their friends–poems and drawings by local writers and artists, for example, as well as a few newsfeeds refreshed daily–plus a decidedly old-school chatroom that was called “Missed Connections.” The whole experience is closed-circuit and site-specific, something more like a local area network than the Internet proper. If the World Wide Web is a Borgesian, universal library, then the L Train Notwork is an intimate art gallery. “We’ve been calling it social art,” McGregor-Mento said.

There were a few kinks to iron out. I had trouble joining on my phone, so I borrowed Krawczuk’s. I logged into Missed Connections, choosing a handle and an 8-bit avatar (the team wanted a Web 1.0 aesthetic to communicate that this was not the Internet we use today), and answering a few geeky questions, like what “red” means to me (wine? meat? 630-740 nm?) and what my favorite kind of cake was (wedding? chocolate? the cake is a lie?). Some of the beta testers were making a game of it, trying to figure out just who they were chatting with. “I’m talking with JiggaJigga,” said Daeha Ko, a freelance stage electrician. He had identified JiggaJigga fairly quickly as a guy in a yellow raincoat a few seats down, he said, “but it took him a while to figure out me.”

A man who had been on the train before we boarded began to wonder what all the fuss is about. McGregor-Mento handed him a flyer. The man puzzled over it a moment. “How are you making it?” he asked Krawczuk.

“See that little green bag?” said Krawczuk. “That’s the answer.”

Signs all over the New York subway system famously urge commuters to “say something” when they see suspicious packages. has hired 15 people to accompany the bags that will be running on 15 different L trains at any given moment during the morning rush this week, but still, was Krawczuk worried someone would nonetheless “say something”? “It just looks like any other box,” he said. “We did as much as we could to make it look as innocuous as possible. There’s no wires sticking out, no glowing switches.” To the best of their knowledge, is not in any violation of MTA rules. They even reached out informally to one employee about it. “They didn’t say it wasn’t fine,” is how McGregor-Mento phrases it. He adds that the team chose the term “pirate radio” in homage to the old British pirate radio stations that had a similar DIY, under-the-radar vibe.

At Eighth Avenue, the Manhattan endpoint of the L, the group transferred and shot back to Morgan Avenue, where they reconvened in Krawczuk’s Bushwick loft, which doubles as one of’s workspaces. Krawczuk (shown here with all the team’s hardware unpacked), stood in front of the group, writing down their comments on a whiteboard hung from a set of modular bookshelves. The xckd comics were hard to read, said one person. It was annoying that you had to re-fill out your chat profile each time you connected, said another. “Missed Connections” seemed a misnomer, leading you to expect static, Craigslist-style content, said a third. “What about, like, ‘I Saw You’–or ‘I See You’?” asked Ko. (The team eventually settled on “Train Connections.”)

The beta test was a success, but a question remained: What exactly is the L Train Notwork? “Social art,” as McGregor-Mento said? “Situated net art,” in the phrase offered by another tester? Or simply another piece of “cool,” and a nice way for a fledgling agency to promote itself? All those things, maybe–but it also could be something else entirely.

“We’re building a marketing channel from scratch,” McGregor-Mento says. Once you’re captured in a notwork, “you can’t go anywhere,” he says. “You’re in our gated universe of content. From a marketing perspective, it’s kind of gold.” McGregor-Mento and Krawczuk have a passion for art projects. But they also do work for major brands through their agency and they have rent to pay–the partners have just put up about $15,000 to finance the L Train experiment. “Why shouldn’t every store in the world have its own closed Internet?” asks McGregor-Mento, dreaming up ways to monetize a “notwork.” A customer might walk into a Macy’s or a small boutique, get a prompt on his phone inviting him to the store’s own notwork, and suddenly he’s a rat in their virtual maze–with no banner ads or stray links to steal his attention. “That’s the most grossly commercial application of this technology,” says McGregor-Mento. “I could so easily see that.” has no plans to license the technology; at any rate, they say, they’ve only brought a novel application to existing tech. They’re even open sourcing the code they used on Github.

“It was just an idea,” says McGregor-Mento. “We’ll be onto something new next week.”

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Buttermilk is a staple in many Southern recipes because it adds a special touch of Southern flair to recipes. If you have ever wondered what buttermilk is and what it is used for, our helpful guide for How to Make a Substitute for Buttermilk will tell you everything you wanted to know about buttermilk!

This special dairy product adds a tanginess to recipes and is a wonderful addition to salad dressings and dips. Buttermilk is also used in Southern cooking for its ability to tenderize meats and vegetables, especially in fried foods. In addition to adding rich flavor to recipes and tenderizing meat, buttermilk also creates a fluffy texture in baked goods because of the way it reacts with the other ingredients.

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On his appointment, Whaley said: “I’m delighted to have the opportunity to manage such a big club at this level.

“To be approached for the role has been a massive compliment and I can’t wait to get started.

“We have two months hard work now before the season starts and I’ll be doing everything I can to hit the ground running from the start of the season.”

Wisbech chairman Malcolm Clements said: “I’m really pleased to be welcoming Brett to the club, you only have to speak to the guy to know how approachable, passionate and enthusiastic he is.

“I really look forward to working with him as we prepare for next season.”

Today, a long statement issued by the Fenmen said: “Wisbech Town FC are pleased to announce that Brett Whaley has accepted the position of first team manager.

“We feel this is a very important appointment for the development and growth of the club as a whole.

“The board are committed to the long term development and integration of players youths/reserves/first team and feel that Brett is the right manager to help us deliver this.

“We have ambition, drive and determination to compete and progress and if the opportunity presents itself the Club will do everything it possibly can to push on.

“He has spent the last three years as first team manager of Yaxley FC in the UCL Prem, where league positions have improved year on year finishing 12th, 6th and last season 4th.

“Brett has had management roles with Ramsey Town (first team manager), Deeping Rangers (first team assistant manager) and two stints at March Town (first team manager).”

The statement continued: “Brett’s involvement extends with clubs such as Boston Utd and Peterborough Utd where he coached development centres in Peterborough and the surrounding area.

“Brett has also worked alongside several professional managers and coaches including Steve Welsh, Steve Evans and Daral Pugh, all of whom he says helped and inspired him in his personal UEFA coaching development.”

“The last few days have been extremely hard for everyone involved at the club with recent events involving the first team, especially with the amount of work that was put in at the end of the season to stabilise the clubs finances and secure a reduced, but reasonable, budget for 2015/16.

“Upon joining the board in March 2015 the new members were quickly alerted to the fact that the club was suffering losses and were in financial trouble.

“We were very fortunate to be offered a secured loan to clear the debt from an anonymous benefactor outside of the board for which we are extremely grateful, we are in the process of setting up a payment plan to ensure it is paid back.

“The club was unable to maintain the budget of the previous season and after calculating the shortfall in income and outgoing the budget was reduced by 20 per cent but with FA Vase/Cup win bonus added in.

“This statement is published with the intent to reassure our supporters, players, volunteers, staff and shareholders that we are fully committed and doing what is absolutely necessary to ensure the club can move forward.

“We are working on initiatives along with other club members to improve finances which would in turn enable us to do more, however we remain firmly grounded and will not promise money that isn’t there.

“The board are very grateful for the work that has been put in by Dick, Melly, Spaff and all the players.

“Last season was very good on the pitch, a massive unbeaten run and only just missed out on a top-two finish.

“Football is football, people have a change of heart and opportunities will come and go however we do wish everyone moving on very best wishes for the future and thank them for their time at the club.

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contacted us with well wishes, offers of support and help over the past couple of days.”


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So many times it happens that the promos of a film are quite crazy but the film in entirety turns out to a damp squib. One hopes One Two Three doesn't follow the same route considering the fact that the promos have turned out to be quite delightful and met with a fantastic response.

"I know, I won't deny that this happens. In fact so many of our recent comedies are also a living example of such a scenario. However, I can assure that it isn't the case with One Two Three. In fact I can state that what you see in the promos is not just an iota of what you are going to see in the film. If not more, the film in entirety is as humorous throughout as you see in the promos", declares Tusshar whose last comic outing was Priyadarshan's Dhol.

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Anglo CEO Cynthia Carroll to step down

2012-10-26 08:20

London - Anglo American [JSE:AGL] CEO Cynthia Carroll stepped down on Friday, after more than five years at the helm but also after months of pressure from some shareholders over the share performance and the miner’s continued dependence on troubled South Africa.

A geologist by training, Carroll became the first non-South African, the first woman and the first outsider to take the top job at Anglo when she became CEO in 2007.

She said in a statement she felt the time was right to hand over to a successor as she entered her seventh year at the helm.

Her departure was not unexpected.

Recent labour woes - compounded by nagging concerns over its Minas Rio iron ore project in Brazil and operational trouble in Chilean copper - have revived long-standing worries among some investors over Anglo’s exposure to Southern Africa, the success of its acquisitions and, ultimately, a share price that has lagged peers.

Despite billions in cost cuts and efforts to streamline what was still in 2007 a sprawling consortium, analysts at Macquarie said this week that on a US dollar market capitalisation basis, Anglo has lost one-third of its value since Carroll became CEO. It is now worth some $25bn less.

The rest of the peer group are worth at least the same as they were at the start of 2007, when she took over.

Violent strikes and labour troubles across the South African mining sector spread to Anglo Platinum [JSE:AMS], the world’s top producer of the precious metal, last month, just before the end of the current reporting period.

Weeks later, they hit Anglo’s Kumba Iron Ore [JSE:KIO] unit, which alone accounted for almost half the group’s operating profit in the first half.

Kumba’s Sishen mine has since begun to ramp up operations, but Amplats workers have not yet returned to Amplats’ Rustenburg, Union and Amandelbult mining operations, which include some of Amplats’ most labour intensive shafts, and those that have suffered deepest compression in margins since 2008.

  • andre.barendse.7 - 2012-10-26 09:04

    Hmmm... will the next CEO be black?

      wwrer.ww - 2012-10-27 01:49

      Just as long as she is disabled and has some struggle credentials.

  • corne.dunn - 2012-10-26 09:15 - This article was posted less than a week ago. Irony, much?

  • ftakalani - 2012-10-26 09:30

    I thnk she did th ryt thng, who could stand tht pressure?

  • FUNKMASTERFLEX.AKA.BAIN - 2012-10-26 09:33

    Not the best ceo the world has ever seen.She was unpopular(fellow top directors left other business units cause of her) and her performance shows this

  • anton.plessis - 2012-10-26 09:42

    Good for her - move on to something less volatile, less politicised.

  • janis.moolman - 2012-10-26 09:47

    It is not about sa it is about Brazilia. That is why they ask het to leave.

  • SarelJBotha - 2012-10-26 10:06

    So she believes in RSA's future, but just do not want to be part of Anglo while this futures unfolds. I cannot blame her.

  • janis.moolman - 2012-10-26 10:24

    Luckily it is an un company and the Ceo will be appointed by the un board.

      deon.louw.7505 - 2012-10-26 11:56

      She seems to be the his boss as it is a London based company?

  • janis.moolman - 2012-10-26 10:54

    Khanyisile Kweyama is the Ceo of Anglo south africa

  • mick.puzone - 2012-10-26 14:51

    south african have made anglo a great company in the past. from the driller to the CEO, they where all persons will mining in their blood. why appoint a candian, its a pity that the opperheimers have virtually disapperaed from South africa, it would have been a good time for a next generation opperheimer to take charge

  • adolph.vanhuyssteen - 2012-10-27 09:19

    It truely is a pity that this had to happen. During Cynthia's tenure she started focussing on all the pressing issues in the south african platinum industry. Yes, I agree that she may have made a few wrong decisions in the base metals industry to date. I have had the opportunity to work with most of the large mining houses and I can therefore bear testimony that the work she did to raise the bar w.r.t social responsibility and health and safety performance is exemplary. Having spend time on the platinum operations, I witnessed the improvements coming to fruition. At times the operational management had a difficult time adjusting to her vision, but her continued focus kept them in line. Its sad to see her leave but I wish her success with the work to be done at De Beers.

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As doctors today face ballooning medical school debt, falling incomes and changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, it is particularly critical that they make prudent financial decisions.

The days when physicians were able to wait until age 50 to get their financial ducks in a row have long passed.  Few surgeons want to operate at age 79, or feel forced out on someone else's schedule. Yet often these situations arrive for those who did not implement habits of wealth.

As the son and grandson of general surgeons, the brother of a sports orthopedic surgeon and cousin of multiple physicians, I have felt a draw to help doctors with their finances since starting my practice in 1997. Over these past 18 years it has become clear to me that many doctors, even those with extraordinary levels of intelligence, are relatively ignorant in the areas of investing and financial planning.

After giving a talk to a group of Harvard orthopedic surgery residents a few years ago, and hearing feedback from many physician clients who wish they had been educated about money earlier in their careers, our team launched a financial literacy program for medical residents.

The objective of this program is to educate doctors beforethey start receiving large paychecks (the average medical resident earns $55,300 vs. $285,984 for a practicing radiologist, according to and so they can make informed financial decisions as their incomes climb.

The program lays out the typical financial challenges doctors face during their lives, and provides actionable and effective strategies for addressing these obstacles, in a chronological format. The curriculum addresses many topics, such as student loans, purchasing a residence and Roth IRAs, to name just a few.

Student loan debt is a concern for the majority of young physicians.  Fifty years ago a four-year private accredited medical school education cost about $15,000. Today the average for tuition and fees is $204,166, according to U.S. News & World Report. And 79% of students graduate with over $100,000 in debt, according to the Association of American Medical College.

Generally, we recommend paying off these loans within 10 years. The one exception is if the doctor plans to work in public service, where remaining student loans will be forgiven after 10 years of repayments.

A common question posed by residents is: What is a reasonable amount of money to pay for housing once they become an attending physician?  While real estate in San Francisco obviously is more expensive than housing in Memphis, typically we advise keeping total residence costs (mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance and utilities) below 20% of pre-tax income.

This rule of thumb helps doctors avoid the "keeping up with the Joneses" trap while also keeping post-residency lifestyle creep at bay.

Few things are more remarkable than the growth that can occur when investments have decades to compound without a tax drag. The financial literacy program covers Roth IRAs in detail, including backdoor Roth IRAs to be used when a physician's modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) is too high to qualify for Roth IRA contributions (2015 phase outs begin at $116,000 for those filing single and $183,000 for those married filing jointly). For this method, they can fund a non-deductible traditional IRA and immediately convert it to a Roth.

It is essential for America's doctors to have sound financial strategies in place so they may focus on healing their patients.  The goal of our financial literacy program is to educate physicians so they may protect the personal, professional and financial dreams that drew them to a career in medicine.

Evan Welch is a managing partner for Antaeus Wealth Advisors.

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Additional Services

  • Endowment Management

    First Republic’s Endowment Committee has significant experience working with nonprofit organizations. We work together with your team to meet the organization’s investment goals while navigating the regulatory environment unique to nonprofit organizations.

  • Financial Planning

    First Republic can conduct a personal financial review to help you evaluate and determine how much you will need to save to achieve your goals.

  • Foreign Exchange

    The experienced team at First Republic helps clients navigate currency markets and designs strategies to manage exchange rate risk, offering complete foreign exchange capabilities as well as customized solutions tailored to meet your specific objectives.

  • 401k Plan Management

    First Republic’s 401(k) plan management for businesses is a customizable, cost-effective option to manage the retirement needs of your employees.

  • Active Asset Allocation

    An active asset allocation strategy allows for adjustment in your portfolio based on current conditions, helping to lessen your exposure to market declines and better protect your capital.

  • Alternative Investments

    Alternative investments provide added diversification to your portfolio of traditional investments.

  • Socially Responsible Investing

    What matters to you, matters to us. At First Republic we can help you design a portfolio to align your investments with your values.

  • Tax Sensitivity

    Tax-sensitive management of portfolios includes tax reviews for capital gain/loss optimization, detailed capital gain/loss reporting, tax-deferred or taxable account investment placement, and withdrawal optimization.

Investment Advisory services are provided by First Republic Investment Management, Inc.