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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt15 7/19/1

Postby saori_1902 » Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:03 pm

omg, poor Liz :cry: :cry:

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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt15 7/19/1

Postby mela3 » Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:27 pm

WOW!! Your writing...takes my breath away. That was a powerful scene. This is a great plot. I cannot wait to read how it unravels.
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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt15 7/19/1

Postby keepsmiling7 » Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:25 pm

while waiting for an update.......I've just finished reading this again from start to finish. Even though I failed to leave FB on some parts, I can't tell you how amazing this is and the way you have pieced it together, I would never have guess this outcome.

I still feel all of Liz's pain, through and through.

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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt15 7/19/1

Postby sarammlover » Tue Aug 11, 2015 3:40 pm

Whoa.....Liz. So much pain. BUT as hard as that was for her to relive, it is good she did. She has never dealt with the pain of losing Max and now maybe she can. I have to admit, it would be hard to see Zan too....great update. Powerful! Hugs, Sara

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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt15 7/19/1

Postby RoswellOracle » Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:21 pm

Part 16

Liz was aware that time passed, but it had no meaning for her. Days blurred together. Everything around her just seemed dull and muted, unreal. She often wondered if she would just fade away.

Speed stretches fallen rain.
Skin lines on the window pane.
It blurs until I'm blind.
Can't see the other side.

Except the unending pain, that was very real.

Her whole body hurt all the time. Everything she did was painful, every movement torment, even breathing.

I took the long way home,
Through November's undertone.
Sharp eyes sifting through to find
Moments rare and purified.

All she wanted to do was sleep but even that was denied to her because terrible dreams haunted her.

The other thing she was aware of was Zan.

He was a constant presence.

Zan got her out of bed, pushed her into the shower, laid out clothes for her to wear. She only ate because he sat her at the table and put food in front of her. She only left her apartment because he pulled her out the door.

He talked to her, but she didn’t hear most of what he said, and when she did answer it was in a disinterested monotone and using as few words as possible.

He took her for drives and she stared out the window without seeing their surroundings. He took her to his garage while he worked and she sat to the side in a chair where he put her, and she focused on the stains on the floor.

Often he took her for walks around the park, and they stopped to see her angel and it made her feel a little less sad. Sometimes she just sat in the grass looking at him and sometimes she sat and cried.

When she got really bad, Zan’s strong arms held her tight.

I didn't know where I was,
I don't know where I'm running to.
Fear is needless, cease.
Air is fearless, breathe.

Slowly Liz woke and realized that for the first time in a long time that she had actually gotten some sleep. Nightmares hadn’t plagued her in the night, or at least they hadn’t kept her awake.

Gingerly she sat up, expecting every muscle in her body to protest, but it was more of a dull ache and not the strength-stealing agony that had seemed to be in her very bones. Taking a deep breath she waited for the pain to come, but at least for now it had receded.

Looking around her room, she realized that the world around her seemed less blurry. It was like she was coming out of a fog, and wondered how long it had been. She couldn’t seem to focus her brain on the time that had passed, all she could remember was the pain. But it had to have been weeks, didn’t it?

She wasn’t sure how many, but surely more than two or three. At least that was the impression she had. She’d have to ask Zan.

And even though she didn’t see or hear him, she knew he was in the apartment. He must have been staying with her. He’d been there in moments whenever she’d cried out in the night. He’d held her, stroking her hair and rocking her like a child, whispering comforting words until she quieted again and drifted off into a troubled sleep.

A movement made her turn her head and she saw he was standing at her bedroom door. When her eyes met his, he smiled. “Morning, darling”, he greeted.

His sudden appearance surprised her and she sat looking at him for long minutes. The words sounded familiar and she wondered if he’d been saying them to her every morning.

She watched him as his smile started to falter, but for some reason that bothered her and she wanted it back. She spoke softly hoping it would return. “Good morning.”

Instantly his smile was back and he moved into the room, leaning a casual shoulder against her wall as he folded his arms over his chest. “So what are you up for today? A drive? Or you could help me out at the garage with that new Corvette.”

Liz stared at him, blinking occasionally, as his words seemed to take a long time to make sense. When they finally did, her brow creased and she looked down at his hands as she considered. He had large, strong hands, but they were also gentle. She knew that because of the way he’d been taking care of her. She didn’t remember anything specific, it was just a feeling, and she knew it should mean something, but she just couldn’t think of what it was.

There was something she should remember or do, but it wouldn’t come to her. Her usually sharp mind still didn’t seem to be functioning properly.

She didn’t know how long she sat thinking, but her name being spoken broke through and caught her attention.

“Liz,” Zan said again.

She looked up to see that the smile was gone from his face again, and he’d moved closer. He knelt before her, searching her face, and she realized that she’d kept him waiting for his answer.

“I want to go to the park,” she breathed.

He held her gaze, looking solemn, but nodded. “Why don’t you have a shower and get dressed,” he suggested. “I’ll make breakfast, and we can go after we eat.”

She wanted to go now but knew Zan would insist on breakfast, and she had no strength to fight him. It was easier to just give in. “Okay,” she agreed with a sigh.

He stood. “Do you need any help?”

Liz’s first reaction was surprise. Why would he offer to help? She wasn’t an invalid. But she realized that he had been helping her a lot, even though she really didn’t remember many details.

“Liz?” he prompted, making her refocus on him, and she shook her head.

He looked like he might argue, but nodded. “Just yell if you need anything,” as he headed toward the door.

As Liz stood under the steaming water, she tried to concentrate on what had happened in the time since she’d told Zan, but she was missing large chunks of time. She only remembered bits and pieces, moments and snatches of time.

She could remember him talking to her, and even remember that she’d occasionally answered, but she couldn’t think of one thing they’d said. And it seemed to her that today was the most conversation she’d had with Zan the whole time.

She’d gotten up for the first time before he’d dragged her out of bed and they’d talked, even if it was brief. She’d even looked him in the eye, which she couldn’t remember doing since that day she’d told him. Maybe that’s why he’d been surprised.

But she was glad that he hadn’t made a big deal out of it. He’d been casual and as normal as possible and it put her at ease.

The hot water felt good on her skin and she realized it was the first time in a long time that it had. She remembered standing under the water day after day without really feeling it or anything else at all.

Was she coming back to life? And she had to wonder if the worst of her grieving was starting to pass.

It was too soon though, wasn’t it? What was a normal amount of time to grieve? She didn’t know. But it seemed too soon.

How could she just get over the love of her life in a few weeks?

But it hadn’t only been a few weeks, some part of her brain reminded her. It had been more than six months.

What was a normal amount of time to grieve?

She tried to think about it logically, but again her brain didn’t seem to want to function properly. She couldn’t seem to wrap her mind around large or complicated thoughts. Pushing it aside for now, she focused on what she could comprehend; washing her body and hair, turning off the water, patting herself dry with a towel.

Going into her room, she wasn’t surprised to see clothes laid out on her now-made bed. Zan must have done it like he’d done for her all the other mornings, and she put them on, grateful that she didn’t have to tax her brain with wondering what to wear.

She combed her hair, vaguely realizing it was still wet, but drying it just seemed like too much trouble. Even thinking about using her powers to do it practically exhausted her. She didn’t think she had used her powers since that day, it just didn’t seem possible, like it would take away all her energy.

She’d avoided looking in the mirror in the bathroom and she did the same in the bedroom. She didn’t want to know what she looked like, but her eyes were drawn to her reflection as if against her will.

In the mirror she saw her thin, haggard face, pale and drawn like she was the survivor of a terrible accident or tragedy. But she guessed that was exactly what she was.

Without emotion, she took in every detail of her reflection. Her eyes seemed huge and dominated her face, and were filled with a lost and faraway look. Dark smudges underneath almost looked like bruises. Her mouth was thin and straight as if it had never smiled.

She looked tiny, pale and pathetic, but as she stood blinking at the strange girl in the mirror, she just couldn’t summon the energy to care.

Maybe that should bother her, but it didn’t.

A wonderful smell made her turn toward the door and she inhaled deeply. Bacon cooking had to be the best thing she had ever smelled and it made her stomach rumble with hunger.

Zan had been cooking for her, and she thought she even remembered bacon on her plate on more than one occasion, but she couldn’t remember smelling it or even being tempted by it. Perhaps it was just more proof that she was starting to come back to the world of the living, whether she was ready or not.

After breakfast was eaten and the dishes and kitchen cleaned with a swipe of Zan’s hand, they started on their walk through the park.

Liz hadn’t asked Zan to come but he was right beside her the whole way.

Hear the sirens,
Hear the circus so profound.
I hear the sirens
More and more in this here town

She knew they’d gone to see her angels more than once, but she barely even remember those visits. It felt like the first time she’d been to see them in months.

Today as they approached the trees that separated the park from the cemetery, she felt nervous about seeing them. Him.

Let me catch my breath to breathe
And reach across the bed
Just to know we're safe

Would seeing her angel bring it all back? Make it even more real?
Her heart seemed to speed up with each step they took through the trees and closer to the cemetery.

She’d found comfort there for so long and she didn’t want that feeling to change. Her angel had helped her through some of her toughest times.

Even if she hadn’t consciously wanted to admit that Max was gone, she’d visited the angel statue like she would have visited his grave if he’d been on Earth.

I pull you close, so much to lose knowing that nothing lasts forever
I didn't care before you were here.
I danced in laughter with the everafter
But all things change
Let this remain

Hear the sirens
Covering distance in the night.
The sound echoing closer.
Will they come for me next time?

They finally emerged into the cemetery and Liz practically held her breath as they approached the familiar spot.

She was afraid to look, but lifted her eyes quickly to do it before she could talk herself out of it.

A shaft of sunlight broke through the clouds and fell across her angel’s face, illuminating it and practically making it glow, and she caught her breath.

He was so beautiful.

The slightest bit of light
And I can see you clear
Oh, have to take your hand
And feel your breath for fear this someday will be over

But as she studied him, the light also revealed the truth.

The angel was beautiful, but it was only stone, a marble statue, not the magical creature that she had come to regard it as.

Liz realized that tears flowed down her cheeks.

Max was gone. She couldn’t pretend any more. He was gone and nothing would change that.

For a moment she saw Max’s face carved into the stone and wondered what had happened to him after he... After.

She was certain that he wouldn’t have a monument. Would he have been put in an unmarked hole in the ground? Or possibly cremated and his ashes disposed of like he’d never existed.

He deserved better than that. He was a hero. He had sacrificed two lifetimes for his people.

Want you to know that should I go
I always loved you, held you high above, true.
I study your face, and the fear goes away.

It's a fragile thing, this life we lead.
If I think too much I can get overwhelmed by the grace
By which we live our lives with death over our shoulder

But what happened to him was something she would never know. That was why it was easier to pretend that he and the others were here on Earth, where they belonged, buried beneath the angels.

She took a deep breath, but her voice was choked with pain as she whispered, “Goodbye Max.”

After their walk, Zan drove them to the beach and Liz sat in the sand and watched the waves roll into shore. The sounds of the water and the rhythms were soothing and she let her thoughts drift away.

She ate when Zan gave her food, but didn’t have the strength to wonder where it had come from, or even what it was. She didn’t even notice that it was getting dark until Zan spoke.

“We should get you home,” he said softly.

She looked up at him, where he was standing above her and took his outstretched hand, letting him help her to her feet.

He put her in the car and wrapped a blanket around her. “Are you warm enough?”

Nodding, she met his gaze. “Yes, thank you.”

For a moment she thought she saw a spark of something in his eyes, but her foggy brain couldn’t hold onto it long enough to wonder what it was.

He started the car and chatted as they drove. “It was a nice day at the beach,” he said.

“Yes,” she agreed. “I liked watching the waves.”

“It was a beautiful sunset,” he continued.

She shook her head. “I guess I missed it.”

“Well,” he drawled, “we can go another time and I’ll be sure to point it out to you.”

“Okay,” she agreed, and then wondered if he was teasing her. She had to have been really focused not to have noticed the sunset, and he would have realized.

Suddenly she was exhausted. Her head was too heavy to hold up and she leaned it against the window. And then remembered what she’d meant to ask him. “How long?” she breathed.

He didn’t ask her to explain what she meant. “Almost six weeks,” he said softly.

It seemed like a long time, but on the other hand, it didn’t really mean all that much to her, and she heard herself saying, “Oh.”

After a few minutes when she didn’t say anything else, Zan picked up the conversation again, asking for her comments and opinions, and she answered him the best she could with her fuzzy brain.

And sooner than she would have thought, they were at her apartment, and she was almost disappointed. She’d liked Zan talking to her.

Pulling the car into one of the guest parking spots, he came around to help her out.

It seemed like her muscles weren’t obeying her, and she had a hard time even turning to get out. But without a word, Zan swung her into his arms, carrying her into the apartment and to her room.

He used a pulse of power to push the blankets down her bed, and she wondered if he had made it, because she couldn’t remember doing it. Then he gently placed her on the bed.

A strange feeling rushed through her, making her shiver with fear and loneliness and something she couldn’t identify. “I don’t know if I can sleep,” she shakily.

With a wave of his hand, he changed her clothes into soft pajamas. “We had a long day,” he soothed. “You’ll be asleep in no time.”

She was so tired but suddenly she was afraid to be alone. As Zan turned to go, she grabbed his hand, and instantly he turned back to her with a look of concern.

“Can you stay until I fall asleep?” she asked.

A soft smile lifted the edges of his mouth and he nodded as sat down on the bed beside her. He kept her hand in his and stroked her hair with his free hand. Instantly she felt better and the exhaustion started to overcome her, and her eyes drifted shut.

She was just wondering if he was easing her to sleep with his powers as the comforting darkness closed around her. She felt Zan’s lips on her forehead and he whispered, “I missed you, princess. I’m so glad you’re coming back to me.”

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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt16 10/5/1

Postby saori_1902 » Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:05 am

I am glad Liz is moving on slowly.

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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt16 10/5/1

Postby keepsmiling7 » Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:18 pm

There is no normal time to grieve and it would be different for everyone.
But it appears that this past six weeks Liz was completely out of it.
Is she really saying goodbye to Max now?
At least Zan is there taking care of her just like he had been from the start.
If she has a future later with Zan.........this remains to be seen.

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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt16 10/5/1

Postby AlysLuv » Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:44 pm

So glad to see an update. 6 weeks. Wow. That's a long time to miss and to be taken care of. Good thing Zan was there for her. I wonder were Liz goes from here and how she'll learn to take care of herself, the right way.

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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt16 10/5/1

Postby pandas2001 » Wed Oct 07, 2015 2:54 pm

I'm so happy to see an update and that Liz is starting to get better. I love how good Zan is with her and how much he cares. It may take a little time but they can have something special, even more special then what she had with Max. Liz and Max may have been in love but they had issues and problems that stood in the way of them having a relationship, let alone a good one. Now she has that opportunity with Zan.

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Re: Queen of Pain (UC, Liz/multi partner, adult) Pt16 10/5/1

Postby begonia9508 » Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:20 am

Sad part! I am suffering for and with Liz!

It must be awful to live with Zan: His face will always be a remembering of Max and, if she will live again without having him in front of her and thinking he looks like Max, she will have to let him go...
otherwise Max will always be behind him...

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I am raining 3Justin Shoulder, l am raining (iii), 2010, digital print. Photo: Mat Hornby.

Currently in the game of de-personalising and de-humanising himself in the name of universalised representation is the costume-performance artist Justin Shoulder. The title of his most recent exhibition, I Am Raining (Firstdraft Gallery, July 2010), was taken from David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life (1978). In the novella we meet a wild boy who was raised by wolves, and when he sees rain he thinks he is raining. ‘His self is outside him . . . He has no notion of the otherness of things.’[1] In the lead up to the show, Shoulder was mourning the recent loss of two friends and the body of work evolved partially from his thinking about material transience and the ways in which we leave the body. He had also started training in the school of dance known as Bodyweather, which developed partly out of the stylised-grotesque, hyper-controlled Japanese butoh, and he was looking at the discipline’s ideas of emptying the self and dissolving the body, which as we know consists primarily of water.

Blurring the dualisms of self/other and self/world, the exhibition included a series of photographs by Mat Hornby depicting Shoulder under delicate sunlight in the bush, his body shrouded by a translucent, watery costume made from shredded plastic sheets. Also on show was I Love You (2010), a life-size composite portrait of Shoulder and his long-term partner and collaborator Matt Stegh, which continued the interrogation of the possible relationships between nature, culture, the body, the self, the other and the world. Here the artist’s bare and elaborately tattooed torso was shown removed of all its usual costuming and excess, seamlessly melded with the bare and elaborately tattooed torso of another (his other), so it was at once costumed and uncostumed, him and not him (is this the definition of love?).

i love youJustin Shoulder, I love you, 2010, digital print. Photo: Mat Hornby (digital composite by Justin Shoulder).

Expressing his persistent fascination with the phenomenon of masquerade and the ancient mythology of chimeras (Ovid’s Metamorphosis lives on his bedside table), Shoulder’s work is also engaged with the (under-documented) history of queer costumed performance in Sydney, particularly that of the 1980s. His practice is firmly rooted in the communities of local nightclubs and underground live venues, especially the now defunct Lanfranchies and Club Kooky. Despite having recently taken several new directions he has never abandoned what he sees as the collective empathy and energy of these spaces, from where he begot each of the seven individual creatures that form the basis of his practice.

Based on the notion that the devil can spawn without copulation, Shoulder’s most iconic creature is the belching, self-perpetuating Glut Glut (born in 2009). After many performances, Glut Glut’s sickeningly synthetic cough-syrupy-red cloak of cheap wigs now reeks of sweat and dirty nightclubs, not to mention the sour old milk bottles that were arranged around it in a photo shoot by Mat Hornby. Its hair is tangled and matted and the black ink that started around its eyes continues to travel across its face. To my amusement, in a recent conversation I had with the performer he spoke of the creature with contempt: ‘Glut Glut is disgusting, insatiable, filthy, the embodiment of excess … all it can say is “Glut Glut”; it speaks only through its own name and only perpetuates itself.’[2] I was also delighted to detect uncensored paranoia in Shoulder about the perceived threat of identity theft: ‘sometimes I wake up the next day with bits of pink hair on me and I get scared Glut Glut is taking over my existence.’[3]

glutglutJustin Shoulder, Glut Glut, 2008, digital print. Photo: Mat Hornby.

The mild-manners of the unmasked, diurnal Justin Shoulder initially seem incongruous with his ostentatious costumes and the extroverted personalities they induce. But his ever-evolving catalogue of escapist alter egos comes from an explicit drive to tap into something beyond the self. Masks give the wearer psychological seclusion, a constructed outer appearance that contains a private space of anonymity. Like the obscured tower in the centre of the panopticon, masks grant the power of seeing without being seen. They entail pre-designated and fixed fictional personae, but historically they have also been more complexly perceived as a means to move among divine pantheons and bridge separations between animal, human, natural and supernatural realms. Consumed beneath his voluminous structures, Shoulder can often only make out a hazy world of indistinct forms, but this partial blindness has the formal function of aiding concentration by eliminating external distraction—it prompts a turning inward on the self in order to transcend the self, using the body as a means for getting beyond the body.

The earliest masks in world history, some of them up to 10,000 years old, are tied to shamanic shape-shifting. In Mircea Eliade’s enduring Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1951) we learn that shamans are always costumed when incarcerating the souls of the underworld. Even if they are naked, this is a marked break from their ordinary, profane dress and hence their nudity functions as a surrogate costume. In fact, it is through the very act of costuming that the shaman finally enters the spiritual world: the costume is donned after many preliminaries, right before the shamanic trance. Interestingly, one almost universal motif in accounts of shamanic masks and dress around the world is feathers. In the most literal sense ornithomorphic costume is said to facilitate flight to the underworld—and in Shoulder’s urban shape shifting we find a similar appeal to the allure of weightlessness and flying: helium-filled balloons, for example, or his recurring shredded plastic bags that distinctly resemble plumage.

hububJustin Shoulder, Hubub, 2008, digital print. Photo: Mat Hornby.

Echoing Nietzsche’s doctrine of the endless layers of facade behind the mask, let us approach an ending here with the words of the French gender-ambiguous performative photographic artist and writer of the early twentieth century, Claude Cahun: ‘Under this mask, another mask—I will never be finished removing all these faces.’ The etymological roots of the word ‘mask’ are appropriately shrouded in obscurity, though it is assumed to come from the Latin masca meaning ‘nightmare’, ‘witch’ or ‘demon’ and/or massa meaning ‘paste’ (as in ‘mascara’) with influence from the Arabic maskara meaning ‘buffoon’. Its modern usage in everyday language would suggest that masks front a pre-existing essence that maintains itself regardless of the various personae adopted, for example ‘to mask one’s feelings’ or ‘to speak behind a mask’. But, as is made evident by Shoulder’s work, selfhood is more elusive than that and the reality of masks is more complex: they have the dual functions of covering and expressing, concealing and revealing, withholding and presenting.

[1] 1. David Malouf, An Imaginary Life (New York: Vintage, 1996), 95–96
[2] 2. Justin Shoulder, conversation with the author, 2010.
[3] 3. Ibid.

Originally published in Runway, Issue 18 , EXPECTATION, Autumn 2011, pp 9 – 13.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Closing out a wildly unpredictable White House race, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump blitzed through battleground states Monday in a final bid to energize supporters. Clinton, backed by an emotional appeal from Barack Obama, urged voters to embrace a "hopeful, inclusive, bighearted America," while Trump vowed to "beat the corrupt system."

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Chinese Ambassador Wang Xuefeng and his gracious wife Madame Tong Xin have served in Samoa at a compelling stage in both nations’ histories.

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“Australia enduring partner of Samoa”

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Masculinity and men of paradise

White clouds, white birds, blue lining of the horizon sitting on the sea, and a smile from the sun.

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The Samoa sub text to Australia Day 1788

In the race between Britain and France to settle Australia in the late 18th century, Samoa unwittingly played a hand in delaying the French from claiming the prize.

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These shots taken by the Pacific Games Office shows the progress at the site for the brand new MultiSport Complex. Commuters making their way from Aleisa or Vaitele area into Apia will have noticed that the skyline has changed since the Christmas break.

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An article appeared on the front page of Samoa Observer several days ago titled “Chinese Flag Angers MP” together with a picture of three flown flags including a Chinese National Flag captioned “Remove the Chinese Flag.”

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Attendants present to witness the generous handover supported by Tupuola Sione and Sissy Vuki.

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Today we are gathered here in the Faleata Fire Station to witness another milestone for the National Emergency Call Centre, Ministry of Police and the Samoa Fire and Emergency Services Authority.

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Now that the New Year celebration is beginning to get old, we may as well look forward to some real problems.

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Talofa Samoa! In the first week of last year, I was looking for one of METI ‘champions’: someone, who had been following the whole foods, plant based (WFPB) diet that METI promotes and who had been successful in reversing his diabetes condition, which had been crippling him for years.

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We are gathered here today for the Commissioning Ceremony to mark the Completion of the construction and installation of the 200 Kilowatt Vailoa New Hydro Power Plant.

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In Tuesday’s Samoa Observer, 15 January 2019, I read with interest a report by Alexander Rheeney titled “Biomass plant progresses to next stage” referring to the proposed development of a biomass gasification plant at Mulifanua!

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The fisherman is rich…

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Numbers don’t lie. If Samoa’s economy received $503.73 million in remittances from Samoans overseas last year, that is a massive contribution to the economy by any standard. Now let’s quickly take a look at the Government’s revenue collections during the past few years. In 2011, the Ministry of Revenue collected $420 million; it dropped to $377 million in 2012, and went up to $409 million in 2013. In 2014, it further increased to $421 million, $431 million in 2015 and for 2016 it was $485 million.

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Dear Editor, You should embrace the thriving democratic principles now showing in the Samoan political system. The right to dissent is one of the corner stones of democracy.

Street Talk

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The Government’s decision to sack the Nofoali’i village mayor over his comments against the Government’s land law reforms has raised a rather interesting question. Can the Government sack village mayors who are appointed by the villages? What’s more, where does this leave Government employees when it comes to the question of freedom and rights? Talaia Mika and Misiona Simo discussed the issue with members of the public and these are their views:

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A prominent member of the community had his house broken into where the thief ransacked it looking for valuables to take.

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Alpha Cafe and Chemist owners Nataivai Siitia and her husband Junior Siitia.

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The Alpha Café and Chemist is not your everyday kind of pharmacy – it offers a service with a difference and is within the vicinity of the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital at Motootua.

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“Painting the Spectrum 12,” SASOD’s twelfth annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) film festival 2016 opens this Thursday, June 2, for nine ‘edutaining’ evenings of thought-provoking films and post-screening discussions at the Dutch Bottle Café located at 10 North Road, Bourda.

From June 2 to 30, patrons are invited to enjoy screenings every Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The dates to remember are June 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23 and 25. Showtime is 6 pm every evening.

This year’s festival is set to be opened with a “Chilean Night” hosted by Ambassador H.E. Claudio Rojas Rachel, Chile’s Ambassador to Guyana. The evening’s treat will feature tasty empanadas and wine from Chile. The featured film for the evening is a Chilean movie donated by the Embassy titled “My Last Round.” The movie chronicles the intense romantic relationship between Hugo and middle-aged local boxing champion, Octavio. Unfazed by the attention he receives from women, Hugo searches for something meaningful to break up the monotony of his life. He becomes captivated with Octavio who must maintain a hard and gruff image for his fans and fellow fighters. They enter into an intense romance that would never be accepted in their small town in southern Chile. This feature tells a heartfelt story with an assured hand, eliciting complex and naturalistic performances that capture the passionate rise and tragic fall of a couple's relationship.

“Painting the Spectrum 12” will take viewers on an exciting journey into the lives of sexual and gender minorities around the world by illustrating stories of love, acceptance, struggles, human rights and the impact of socio-cultural influences. This year’s selections come from the United Kingdom, France, Cameroon, Sweden, Guyana, Canada, Chile and the United States of America. SASOD is particularly grateful to the Embassy of Chile and the High Commission of Canada to Guyana and for their support in providing films from their countries for this year’s film festival.

The film festival’s goal is edutainment: educating while entertaining viewing audiences and the wider public, by stimulating discussion and debate about LGBT issues in Guyana.

“Spectrum Night”, a special evening featuring splendid performances through poetry, dance, song, music and other forms of performance art is billed for the penultimate night on Tuesday, June 28.

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These days I profusely resonate,

with transition states of chemical reactions;

A stage in a reaction having the highest energy but the lowest stability, akin to my life’s brand new disability;

Although they are quite short-lived, my situation offers a sheer contrast with immense passion.

Within this eternal fleeting moment, my identity is lost, and so is my naive notorious self; lost in searching for hints contained in other people’s minds.

Should I confine myself in my own judgements, should I strive to put on a skin which everyone likes or should I just embrace the continuous entropy bubbling inside my mind. There exists a gnawing person in me, wanting to step in the same river twice, because there is some stability in being unaware of the infinite possibilities of the real world.

Giving empathy is a two way street so why am I stuck on the wrong side?

The unconditional love that reared me, taught me to just be plain nice, but not where to draw the line, for advantages are not always positive especially when suffixed ahead of the many versions of the verb ‘take’.

Who says that mutants are fiction, they should see me shape shifting from secure to vulnerable,

with no certainity of attaining equilibrium.

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the younger me never thought that the older me would learn to love the beard burn followed by my dad’s hugs,

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Mantle Oxidation State and Its Relationship to Tectonic Environment and Fluid Speciation

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The earth's mantle is degassed along mid-ocean ridges, while rehydration and possibly recarbonaton occurs at subduction zones. These processes and the speciation of C-H-O fluids in the mantle are related to the oxidation state of mantle peridotite. Peridotite xenoliths from continental localities exhibit an oxygen fugacity (fo2) range from -1.5 to +1.5 log units relative to the FMQ (fayalite-magnetite-quartz) buffer. The lowest values are from zones of continental extension. Highly oxidized xenoliths (fo2 greater than FMQ) come from regions of recent or acive subduction (for example, Ichinomegata, Japan), are commonly amphibole-bearing, and show trace element and isotopic evidence of fluid-rock interaction. Peridotites from ocean ridges are reduced and have an averae fo2 of about -0.9 log units relative to FMQ, virtually coincident with values obtained from mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) glasses. These data are further evidence of the genetic link between MORB liquids and residual peridotite and indicate that the asthenosphere, although reducing, has CO2 and H2O as its major fluid species. Incorporation of oxidized material from subduction zones into the continental lithosphere produces xenoliths that have both asthenospheric and subduction signatures. Fluids in the lithosphere are also dominated by CO2 and H2O, and native C is generally unstable. Although the occurrence of native C (diamond) in deep-seated garnetiferous xenoliths and kimberlites does not require reducing conditions, calculations indicate that high Fe3+ contents are stabilized in the garnet structure and that fo2 deareases with increasing depth.


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STOKE City legend Mike Pejic has donated a signed football shirt to raise money for community events in the area where he was born.

The 66-year-old – who made more than 270 appearances for the Potters as well as representing England – presented the signed top to Respect Chesterton.
World Cup winners Gordon Banks and George Eastham, fellow members of Stoke’s famous 1972 League Cup winning team and current players have also added their autographs.

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The shirt will be put on auction website eBay on August 22 with bids closing on September 1.

Mike, who now lives in Crackley, said: “I met with the vicar after a service and he said he was wanting to raise money for the Chesterton community.

“I got hold of John Ruggiero at the Stoke City Old Boys Association and asked if he could get me a shirt and get it signed by some of the current players.

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“With Banksy and George you have a couple of the ’66 World Cup winning squad as well. John also got it framed so we are really chuffed.

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    Hello michelle,Im writing to you, I am having a fund raising day due to a young lady who as recently lost her father with cancer he was giving 4 months to live but unfortunately he died 2 weeks after he was a great friend and a great father he got her though the fear of water and now she attends the royal Wolverhampton school where she is now training for the Olympics we are trying raise the money to help and her mother cause she as to fund it we have asked a few football clubs if they would like to donate a signed shirt or any other prize would be very greatful if you could do so,because we are holding a charity football match on the 5th August 2017 and auction all money raised is going to the school many thanks mandy whitmore

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ncis cote de pablo michael weatherly 320 'NCIS': McGee soars on jetpacksMcGee may have gotten to take the lead tonight on the “NCIS” jetpack murder, but it was Tony who brought up James Bond and “Thunderball,” and thus Tony who earned a place in my heart this evening. McGee’s “jetpack conspiracy” video was cool, but there wasn’t enough 007 in it to win me over.

Our body tonight, Brad ‘Hondo’ Sayers, was a naval flyboy who, just like James Bond in “Thunderball,” had a thing for jetpacks (and yes, I had “Thunderball” in mind well before Tony said it). In fact, Hondo had such a thing for jetpacks that he was testing them out for private companies despite the Navy not really wanting him to, what with their having not funded the project.

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Bits and pieces:

  • McDLT – keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool. I remember those and remember them fondly.

  • Poor Palmer, his first solo autopsy was of a squirrel and he was terrified of the task. I was terrified of the story he told about squirrel/shark hunting.

  • Did Gibbs call McGee “elf lord” tonight?

  • How was there no “Rocketeer” reference this week?

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Posted by:Josh Lasser