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Last night, the top six competed on "The Voice," singing two songs apiece: one of their personal picks, and one song selected by their respective coaches. In the latter category, some of the contestants (Terry McDermott, Cassadee Pope) got song selections that made sense, while others (Nicholas David, Melanie Martinez, Trevin Hunte) sadly did not. But luckily, all of them were able to redeem themselves, at least somewhat, when it came time to perform songs of their own choosing. Funny how that works, huh?
But regardless, two more contestants have to go home this evening--and with only six singers left, and all six of them being immensely talented, it's inevitable that my "The Day After" co-host Matt Whitfield and I are going to have to say some sad goodbyes tonight, possibly to our own favorites. Watch us discuss last night's performances and tonight's elimination predictions in the video below. | <urn:uuid:814ab4ac-e5ec-4738-a84d-d2725e9587d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.yahoo.com/music/bp/voice-day-top-6-performances-dish-230443911.html | 2016-10-26T14:31:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720945.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00554-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969159 | 196 | [
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MIAMI — Hush Hush Entertainment has apparently settled copyright infringement claims it brought up last year against adult entertainment conglomerate MindGeek.
The legal feud between the companies got underway last summer, with Hush Hush filing suit against MindGeek in October, alleging it turned a blind eye or encouraged copyright infringement after it found 47 instances of its content on PornHubPremium.com.
On Friday, both parties asked a federal judge in Miami for a voluntary dismissal of the entire complaint in the civil action. A federal judge has yet to sign off on Friday’s voluntary dismissal stipulation.
The filing did not disclose terms of the apparent settlement, but the parties would bear their own attorneys fees.
In its original complaint, Hush Hush, which operates “mega-pass” membership sitesHushPass.com and InterracialPass.com, said it found the separate copyright registered works over 304 separate and distinct URLs on PornHubPremium.com.
Hush Hush noted in the suit that because PornHubPremium.com launched in August, the infringing porn uploads predate the development of the monthly subscription site and weren’t transmitted by members.
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In the suit, Hush Hush further said that MindGeek is “well aware of the massive infringement occurring on PornHubPremium.com.”
Hush Hush’s suit sought statutory damages of $150,000 for each of the 47 acts of alleged infringement, along with an injunction, attorneys fees and a transfer of the domain name PornHubPremium.com.
Hush Hush’s suit named the various MindGeek properties as defendants, as well as executive Feras Antoon.
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I had the honor and pleasure of being interviewed by Lourdes Viado for her Women In Depth podcast. I was very nervous going into the interview. Because I‘ve struggled from anxiety, I wanted to be sure I was doing justice to the topic of women and anxiety and providing helpful, accurate information on the subject. Of course, because of my anxiety, I had TONS of self-doubt about my ability to do this! But Lourdes is an accomplished interviewer, and she made it easy. During the recording session, it felt more like a conversation than an interview. I hope it sounds that way to you, too.
I was relaxed and felt very comfortable during the process, and right after I felt really good about how well it went. But the next day I got cold feet and offered to do the whole thing over again. I was sure I could have done a better job (Oh, anxiety!). My anxiety snuck up on me without much warning. Although, in the moment I attributed my discomfort to the interview it was really about the exposure, and putting myself out to the world in a new and different way that made me uncomfortable. Lourdes reassured me that it was great and that I had no need to worry! And she was right the podcast came out amazingly well. I’m so proud of our conversation!
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In the interview, I share why I was drawn to this work — because of my own personal journey with anxiety. We discuss how anxiety can show up, including the physical and emotional symptoms. We also explore the cultural, familial and environmental factors that make women 50 percent more likely than men to struggle with anxiety. We dive deep into how anxiety can affect women over the course of their lives and how mindfulness, meditation and self-compassion can help reduce anxiety and make it more manageable.
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In a spicy day of action on the Calabrian coast, a feisty Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida) did what he so often does at the Giro. Attacking with guile and panache on the final climb and holding on the run to the line to take a superb solo victory – his fifth win in his home Grand Tour. Giant-Alpecin’s Tom Dumoulin leapt out of an elite group of favourites to finish second on the day and secure his second maglia rosa in four stages. The parcours certainly delivered on its promise of attacking racing with several notable names, Movistar’s Andrey Amador and Ryder Hesjedal (Trek-Segafredo) amongst them, losing 37 seconds on their rivals.
Rider of the RaceEmbed from Getty Images
We saw attacks a-plenty and there are no shortages of candidates for this coveted prize, but I have to go with the stage winner Diego Ulissi. He was on the lookout for a winning move all through the hectic finale, finally getting away with a very select group before launching his move on steepest part of the last climb. As with any victory, the foundation was laid with some clever teamwork. Matej Moheric made the early break of the day which allowed the Lampre guys to sit back a little. When the blue touchpaper was lit with 25 kilometres to go Valerio Conti made the front group and as Ulissi bridged, set a furious pace to keep the break away to the foot of the San Pietro climb giving his leader the perfect launchpad. Diego was not slow in his praise…
“Valerio Conti was exceptional in the way he dragged the attack away. I gave it everything on the climb and was worried I’d be caught on the descent but I hung and got it. When I looked around with 10 metres to go, I realised I’d got it. It’s a special moment.”
Keeping it in the family
There are not many family names so steeped in cycling’s rich history as Moser. Nephew to 1984 Giro winner Francesco and with father, brothers and cousins all professional racers, Cannondale’s Moreno is the latest to fly the family colours in the Giro peloton. After a cracking opening time trial, he started the stage in 5th place only 21 seconds adrift. Spirits must have been high in the Argyle team car as attacked and then made the initial elite break. But it wasn’t to be the 63rd time for a Moser to wear the pink. Moreno was dropped and has slipped out of the top twenty. But we’re hoping that just means he’ll get the freedom to attack again. You can’t keep a Moser down on home turf.
Benvenuto in Italia
As brilliant as the Dutch Grande Partenza was, there is nothing like watching the Giro wend its way through a beautiful Italian landscape. We were certainly treated to some stunning shots of the Calabrian coastline, complete with sparkling deep blue waters.Embed from Getty Images
Oh Italy, so beautiful #sigh
While the scenery provides a feast for they eyes, the food delights the taste buds. One of my favourite Giro twitter accounts is sport’s journalist Jonathan Harris-Bass, who provides a local recipe for every stage of the race. Today is pollo alla Cacciatore… I’m going to need to cycle a few kilometres myself if this carries on. Give him a follow on Twitter.
Here’s another Italian cuisine related post courtesy of The Peloton Brief team. Entitled If Pro’s Were Pasta, it’s not a recipe for a tasty treat, but it will certainly serve up some humour to see us all through some of the ‘less exciting’ stages. Here’s a little antipasto …
COME ON! who doesn’t want to try #OssPastaCurls?
1 Diego Ulissi (Lampre Merida) 4:46:51
2 Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) +0.05
3 Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) same time
4 Alejandro Valverde’s (Movistar) +0.06
5 Gianluca Brambilla (Etixx-Quickstep) +0.06
1 Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) 14.00.09
2 Bob Jungels (Etixx-Quick Step) +0.20
3 Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida) +0.20
4 Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) +0.24
5 Georg Preidler (Giant Alpecin) +0.24
All the jerseys
Leader’s jersey: Tom Dumoulin (Giant Alpecin)
Points jersey: Marcel Kittel (Etixx-QuickStep)
KOM jersey: Damiano Cunego (Nippo-Vini Fantini)
Best young rider: Bob Jungels (Etixx-Quick Step)
For full review of the stage, go to CyclingNews
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Mercedes-Benz is going to launch the special editions of Mercedes A-Class and B-Class in India by the end of this month. The vehicle will be called ‘Edition 1’ fully loaded with extra features. This limited period Edition 1 variants will be available only with A 180 CDI and the B 180 CDI engine.
Mechanically there are no any changes, the both cars will be powered by the same 2,143cc in-line, 4-cylinder CDI diesel engine with 108.7 Ps of power at 3,200-4,400rpm and 250 Nm of torque at 1,400-2,800. But the ground clearance will be increased in new special editions of Mercedes Edition 1.
The included features like a panoramic sunroof, new reverse camera, centre arm-rest, power adjustable front passenger seat, Edition 1 badging with black background. Both cars will get funky new 10-spoke alloy wheels but the wheel and tyre size remains unchanged and the B 180 CDI will additionally a rear seat entertainment system.
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It is suggested that due to the unknown problems involved locating
areas suitable for competition that the Obstacle Course used be
the combined choice of the GLASMC President and Competition Chairman.
Judges needed per Obstacle Course.
1. Judge -Timer
Check data top left of Score Form to be correct.
Record time of each rider/driver.
Record name of Corps member.
Record pylons knocked down and touched.
Unclassified Corps -Record 2-Wheel Class (cc's to cc's)
Unclassified Corps -Record Multi-Wheel Class (lbs. to lbs.)
2. Judge – Course Observers
Reports pylons knocked down.
Reports pylons touched or pushed off location.
Keep personnel off Obstacle Course during competition.
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- No rider/driver may drive the Obstacle Course before the start
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- The same vehicle cannot be ridden/driven by two (2) different
- All Obstacle Course participants must stand Inspection.
- All members of the Inspected Corps are permitted to compete
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- Each rider/driver's time starts as the vehicles front wheel
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- No penalty if foot touches ground.
- Pylons knocked down adds three (3) seconds per pylon to total
- Pylons touched or pushed off location adds one (1) second
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- If rider/driver leaves course pattern as laid out, he must
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- Unclassified Corps may enter all Inspected vehicles, however
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- Max. safety should be stressed at the entrance and exit of
- To save time all member of a Corps should walk the Obstacle
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- To prevent name errors and save time the Corps Captain should
present a list of his members running the Obstacle Course to
the Timing Judge.
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Steele shot the animal backs quickly, while standing in the middle of a cold field with a 3-ton bull and horses, but photographing the armpit was a more considered process. "It’s like treating the body as a still life," he explains. He applied the setup, lighting andlarge format expected for still life to a dancer’s posed body. That was followed by an arduous search. "It’s not like fashion, where you’re shooting lots of different shots. It’s the process of finding one perfect picture, and working toward it. That can take hours."
Steele studied his craft in the U.K. and assisted various photographers, including fellow Monaco Reps shooter David Stewart, from whom he learned an appreciation for simplicity. That’s evident in all his projects, though what goes on backstagees may be another story. For example, Steele says the recent launch of Absolut Vanilia was his most challenging still life project to date. "The bottle was a nightmare," he says. "You’re trying to show it off as best as you can, but it has weird reflective qualities, tiny raised writing on the front, as well as a translucency. Technically, it was very difficult getting the bottle’s qualities to represent on film. We had to come up with some new techniques." Out of the struggle, however, emerged the whimsical images of wafers and ice cream cones in obeisance to the iconic vessel. Steele also shot the new campaign for New Balance, for which he suspended models from wires to capture detailed black and white photographs of their feet and legs rippling with tensed muscles and emblazoned with the shoes’ familiar N logo. Like his other work, the photos home in on body parts. "The microcosmic stuff really fascinates me. I just like to abstract things and make people see something familiar in a different light." Or, as likely in Steele’s case, as something else entirely. | <urn:uuid:a8461849-08cf-4622-a70a-71c7f8936101> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://adage.com/article/creativity/leon-steele/37517/ | 2017-11-21T16:03:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806419.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121151133-20171121171133-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.979806 | 420 | [
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THE NEW ERA OF TESTIMONY
By MICHAEL PERKINS
WHETHER THERE IS CONSENSUS ABOUT THE PRESENT OR FUTURE STATE OF THE NATURAL WORLD, we are certainly in the midst of the most muscular conversation about its fate than many of us have ever known. That means that we are changing and challenging our relationship to the globe almost daily…and, along with that relationship, the way that we see, and visually report upon it. That generates a new emphasis on bearing witness to what the planet is/can be/ might be.
I call it the new era of testimony.
The birth of photography coincided with the first great surge of cross-continental expansion in America, as well as an explosion in invention and mechanization. The new system for making a physical record of the world was immediately placed into service to help quantify the scope of the nation…to measure its mountains, track its rivers, count its standing armies. Photographers like Timothy Sullivan and William Henry Jackson lugged their cameras east-to-west alongside geological surveys, railroad agents, and the emerging naturalist movement. While some shooters chose to capture the creation of new trestle bridges, others helped poets illustrate their Walden-esque reveries. In all cases, photography was tasked with the job of showing the natural world and our interaction with it. Most importantly, the images that survive those times are a visual seismograph on both the grand and grotesque choices we made. They are testimony.
And now is a time of radical re-evaluation of what that interaction should look like. That means that there is a visual story to tell, one of the most compelling and vital that photography has ever told. Regardless of your personal stances or stats, man’s place on the planet will be in a state of fundamental shift over the coming decades. And the images that this change generates will define both photography as an art and ourselves as stewards of an increasingly fragile ecology.
Ansel Adams, for all his gorgeously orchestrated vistas, was, I believe, mistaken in almost deliberately subtracting people from his grand scenes, as if they were irrelevant smudges on nature’s work. It doesn’t have to be that way. We need not make war on our native world. But whatever we do, we need to use the camera to mark the roads down which we have chosen to walk. Whether chronicling wise or foolish decisions, the photograph must be used to testify, to either glorify or condemn our choices going forward. | <urn:uuid:31bce0b1-719f-4d27-ac62-095dc5a930dd> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://thenormaleye.com/2017/04/02/the-new-era-of-testimony/ | 2017-11-21T15:39:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806419.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121151133-20171121171133-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.954221 | 517 | [
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It's disheartening that we live in a world where people are perennially criticized by others — and namely by total strangers, I might add — but nonetheless, it's unfortunately become a "normal" consequence of putting oneself out there on social media. Vloggers, bloggers, influencers (whatever you fancy calling them) are subjected to unwarranted judgements from people they willingly share their lives with, though don't actually know IRL, which sadly sets them up for a slew of unnecessary hate from trolls. In some cases, social media stars opt to ignore their h8rs and "go high," as our mother Michelle Obama would say, but sometimes clapping back is imperative.
Take fitness vlogger Sarah Stage, for instance, who finally took to her Instagram to stand up for herself after being continuously attacked by commenters for exercising while pregnant. The multi-hyphenate and mother of one is due to have her second baby in just a month, and I guess because she made the choice to keep active while carrying her child, her followers felt it was their "right" to chime in with their opinions on the matter... (insert cricket noises here).
Now I'm not a mother nor do I know if I ever will be, but what I do know is you never, ever shade a woman for doing what she wants with her body. In a lengthy Instagram post, Stage addressed the ignorant comments and thanked those who had been supporting her the whole way. She also cleared up people's rude assumptions that she was only working out because she's obsessed with looking good, though TBH, she did it way more gracefully than I would have in her position.
"There are also some people who assume that since I am exercising while pregnant, that I'm obsessed with how I 'look' but in fact I'm obsessed with maintaining a healthy lifestyle that will give my baby and myself the best possible quality of life 😊 ," she wrote.
A soon-to-be-mom working out to keep herself and her baby in the best shape possible? Who woulda' thunk it. Needless to say, it's admirable that Stage stuck up for herself and managed to do it in such a classy way while she was at it. No one should ever shame a pregnant woman — or any woman for that matter — period. Peep her post below to read her full explanation.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.:The National New Play Network has announced its 2015–16 grant recipients, including playwright residencies, producer residencies, collaboration funds, prizes, and commissions totaling more than $125,000.
“The board, staff, and affiliated artists of the National New Play Network are honored once again to expand the impact of our programs with these announcements,” said executive director Nan Barnett in a statement. “These funds will reach the audiences and artists of communities across the U.S. From San Diego to South Florida, from Tucson to Atlanta, and from Minneapolis to Dallas and beyond, these NNPN member theatres and theatremakers will further the network’s vision of revolutionizing the ways theatres collaborate to support new plays.”
Jennifer Fawcett is the recipient of the 2015 Smith Prize for Political Theatre to develop her play about a mother baking a pie for her son on Death Row who has requested his last meal. Fawcett was the NNPN playwright-in-residence at Curious Theatre Company. Her play The Toymaker’s Warwas presented at the NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, and she has developed two projects at the NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop.
The Borderlands Theater and playwright Virginia Grise will receive the 2015 Annual Commission for Grise’s project Their Dogs Came with Them, about four Mexican-Americans in East Los Angeles during the 1960s, based on the novel by Helena Maria Viramontes.
Playwrights Emily Dendinger and Trey Anthony will receive grant support from NNPN and will be hosted by Curious Theatre Company and Horizon Theatre Company for a season-long residencies.
Five theatremakers have been selected to serve as producers in residence at NNPN’s core member theatres: Clifton Guterman at Actor’s Express, Jess Hutchinson at Kitchen Dog Theater, Adrienne Boris atNew Repertory Theatre, Martin Damien Wilkins at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte and Addie Gorlin at Mixed Blood Theatre. The producers-in-residence will educate the new leaders about collaboration, successful models, and alternative networks for supporting new plays.
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In this issue
Fellowship committee report
By Abbie E. Goldberg
Nine new fellows of the division will be announced and recognized at the Div. 18 business meeting, to be held during the APA convention. Among these are three new initial fellows, final action upon whom will be taken at the APA Council of Representatives meeting the day prior to the convention. The other six are current fellows, already fellows in another division who have been elected to fellow status with us. Among the group are a number of true psychology superstars. Let me also disclose that the Lone Star State is a big winner this year so, podnuhs, don't miss this sentinel event.
Special thanks go to Fellowship Committee members Kathy McNamara, PhD, and Jeremy Mills, PhD, for their efforts in reviewing and evaluating the credentials of so many applicants this year. Let me add that we know of many more highly accomplished Div. 18 members who would be qualified for fellow status. The APA Fellows Committee now offers online application through the APA website, greatly streamlining the process. Interested members need no longer be deterred by the paperwork. The deadline for submission of all materials for the upcoming year is Friday, Dec. 5. We are looking forward to reviewing your credentials. | <urn:uuid:89139ece-7298-4460-a858-62d964f64e52> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.apadivisions.org/division-18/publications/newsletters/public-service/2014/07/fellowship.aspx | 2017-11-22T10:56:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806569.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122103526-20171122123526-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.95967 | 260 | [
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Police Chief Art Bodenheimer stated that this award has never been presented during the 30 years he has worked for the Police Department. He then stated, that on July 15, 2016 at approximately 12:29 PM, Lieutenant Gerald Dempsey was on his way to work in his marked patrol unit traveling east on Interstate 4. Lieutenant Dempsey observed a crash which occurred a few vehicles in front of him. A Dodge Caravan left the roadway and entered the grass median before striking the three strand wire cross over median barrier. Lieutenant Dempsey observed a cloud of dirt that instantly rose up in the air approximately 30 feet indicating, from his training and experience, a major impact had occurred.
Lieutenant Dempsey immediately pulled off the shoulder of the roadway and responded to the crashed vehicle within the median. Lieutenant Dempsey observed that the driver and sole occupant in the vehicle had sustained what he believed to be a catastrophic injury. The driver was bleeding profusely from an arterial laceration to his neck that was sustained during the crash. After observing the injury Lieutenant Dempsey was able to give information over the radio for responding rescue units.
Lieutenant Dempsey took immediate action and was able to apply towels to the laceration in an attempt to slow the loss of blood from the driver. During this process the driver was not conscious, exhibiting very shallow breathing and had began to produce a bubbling substance from his mouth. Lieutenant Dempsey was able to apply his medical experience and training, along with calmness to the scene, until other medical professionals arrived on scene and took over advanced medical care.
Contact was made with other fire/medical staff that arrived on scene and it was confirmed, through those individuals, that without the quick actions that Lieutenant Dempsey took, the driver would have most likely succumbed to his injuries, which is not a good sign.
It is with great pleasure that I present Lieutenant Dempsey with the Meritorious Service Award from the Lake Alfred Police Department. It is actions like those of Lieutenant Dempsey that makes me proud to serve as the Police Chief of the Lake Alfred Police Department.
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The time has come, yet again, for the Earth to make its complete circle around the Sun. The meaning of Christmas or “Yule” dates back to modern English referring to the moment when the wheel of the year is at its lowest and ready to rise again for another year. Many people believe that the Romans were the first to influence the winter festival.
The origin of the Christmas tree came from 16th century Western Germany. These trees were known as “Paradeisbaum” or paradise trees and were brought into homes to celebrate the annual Feast of Adam and Eve on December 24th. Germans would hang wafers on the tree and the tradition has been transformed to include ornaments instead.
The Christmas colors red, white and green were taken from the colors of the Holly Tree. In Europe, Pagans did not cut down trees to be displayed in their homes. Instead, they gathered branches of evergreen trees, holly and mistletoe. These would be decorated and use at symbols for the winter season. Mistletoe is a divine plant and symbolized peace and love creating the tradition of kissing underneath it.
But what is this whole thing about there being 12 days of Christmas? The Scandinavians had a festival “Yuletide” which, again, celebrated the re-circulation of the sun. During this festival, people would take a yule log and place it into a fireplace where it burned for twelve days straight.
For whatever reason you celebrate Christmas, we hope it is filled with lots of love.
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After a recent shareholders meeting, a company CEO released a memo to all of its factory workers, numbering more than around the world, that they will be receiving a 5.7% bump in their salaries over the next 20 months. The meeting also solidified the goal of spending $ 80 billion dollars over the next two years to expand their distribution facilities by 10% around the globe, and in 5 years, they aim to be the undeniable leaders of their entire industry. They are already well on their way towards that long-term goal, set back in 2009. The shareholders of this company see some of the highest returns on investment of any other company in the industry; they even saw record profits climb throughout the recession that devastated their competitors.
A few years ago, the company enjoyed a skyrocketing day on the market and for a time, they sat as the highest traded stock in the world, owing to some corporate maneuverings that the financial analysts of the world completely missed. In short, the CEO is feeling confident that his shareholders, employees, and consumers will continue to be some of the happiest in the industry, and even those people in the world that aren’t his customers yet are grateful for the inspiring position the company has taken in terms of increasing global health and protecting the environment.
Yes, life in Wolfsburg, Germany, which should probably be renamed Volkswagen City, seems to revolve around the massive German automaker, commonly shortened to VW. The corporation contains twelve different brands of cars, including Porsche, Lamborghini, Audi, VW, Bugatti, and Ducati, and has 280 different models throughout the world. It also has 100 factories scattered around the globe, making it easy to attract and supply foreign markets with their high-quality vehicles. While the auto industry was floundering from 2008 to 2010, and again in 2012 with the European recession, VW remained profitable and continued to expand. Auto industry analysts were shocked by the company’s ability to remain steadfast among its struggling competitors and stock market wizards were baffled by their consistency. The question arises – how were they able to do it? What secret did they know that everyone else seemed to have missed?
Well, first of all, VW has followed in the infrastructural footsteps of General Motors (GM), which was the dominant name in the auto industry for more than 5 decades, from the ‘20s to the ‘70s, and one of the most powerful brands in the world. They believed in an inclusive approach to business and eliminated their dependence on other companies for parts and services. Outsourcing elements of business has been a popular trend for larger multinational corporations in recent decades and it is often successful. However, by building every part and providing every service within their own factories, VW was able to keep all of their own profits and rely only on them-selves to maximize profit margins and guarantee efficiency.
A great deal of focus is placed on boosting the satisfaction of consumers, employees, and shareholders through means other than profit and oddly enough, the idea of “profit” has become negatively associated with the inherent failings of big business, corporate greed, and decadence. The reputation of large companies has taken a major beating in recent years as the transparency of business dealings and investigative reporting has shifted focus from politics to industry. There are a few fundamental purposes of business and industry; one is to provide a necessary or desired service or product for consumers, but the second, from the standpoint of the company, is to make money in the process to stimulate the economy and to promote personal and corporate wealth.
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To the fans of Bon Iver: the end is just the beginning.When news broke that Justin Vernon was taking an indefinite hiatus from his Bon Iver project, the fact that he had already been working with another band took a backseat to the glory of grief. We get it. It’s more exciting to lament the end of a band than celebrate their next step. I remember when MJ died—people took to the streets screaming, playing “Billie Jean” out of store windows, convulsing on the sidewalks. When Vernon made his announcement, his fans had an excuse to put For Emma, Forever Ago on an endless loop and weep into the “Bon Iver” embroidered drug rug they bought right at the moment “Skinny Love” was peaking in Cleveland back in ’09.
Mr. Vernon, the nation’s go-to source on flannel and feelings, is only molting. He’s shedding one skin in favor of another, removing himself from the spotlight to focus on a collaboration with Collections of Colonies of Bees. Volcano Choir‘s main shortcoming up until this point is that they’re not called Bon Iver. Now that Mr. Vernon has made it his primary musical project, however, Volcano Choir is suddenly the subject of full-concert videos like this one, shot at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. The show is a swirling collage of colors despite the fact the backdrop never moves. The sounds and lights do more than a shifting background ever could, creating an atmosphere that is both intimate and organic. This is helped in no small part by the fact the backdrop was made from recycled materials taken from Vernon’s barn.
But musical theater aside, stepping away from Bon Iver was an unprecedented move by Vernon. When’s the last time we saw someone take a step away from center stage at the height of their fame? He’s still singing and playing a central role in Volcano Choir, but Vernon is actually choosing collaboration over control. We’ve seen the move in reverse hundreds of times (Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Justin Timberlake, Jack White), but finding this sort of cohesion after being the frontman is incredibly rare. It’s also a fantastic message to send to the rest of the industry: you can be a successful creative without prostituting your name and face. By disappearing back into the web of a group, Vernon’s ensuring what he cares about (the music) will stay at the forefront of the discussion rather than the endless flannel jokes these damn music bloggers can’t help but make.
Vernon’s full integration into the band after all the spotlights and Grammys raises an interesting question: could this happen in any other genre?
Vernon gave an interview with two Volcano Choir bandmates (guitarist Chris Rosenau and keyboardist Tom Wincek) soon after the show and talked about live performance and their history together. From the interview’s outset, it’s clear that this is a group formed by way of mutual admiration. Vernon says his Volcano Choir bandmates are people “who continue to be extremely deep sources of inspiration for me, as a living person, artist, whatever. And so when we come into this band, and we get to spend time together, there’s a deep friendship there. There’s a deep sense of respect, and there’s a deep sense of gratitude to just be able to share the gifts that these guys have to give to the band.”
Volcano Choir’s Repave was released last month to general critical acclaim. The band is leaving for a European tour later this year. They are, by all accounts, a success. But Vernon’s full integration into the band after all the spotlights and Grammys raises an interesting question: could this happen in any other genre? Or is the ambiguous form of experimental rock just the right cocktail of sound to embrace and envelop a star and turn him back into one piece of the larger picture? | <urn:uuid:03bc3efd-1c52-4fec-ad79-2cccc2403ecf> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://pigeonsandplanes.com/news/2013/10/volcano-choir-bon-iver-just-watch-full-d-c-concert | 2017-11-24T00:22:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807044.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123233821-20171124013821-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.958684 | 855 | [
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Karma was born on 12 July 1934.
After graduating from high school, she attended
Utah State University, San Diego Business College,
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PUBLIC LAW 96-551—DEC. 19, 1980
94 STAT. 3253
SEC. 6. The right is hereby reserved by the Congress or any of its Disclosure. standing committees to require the disclosure and furnishing of such information and data by or concerning the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as is deemed appropriate by the Congress or such committee. SEC. 7. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved December 19, 1980.
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Granted their data is always poor, but lately, and especially today, it is coming across in spurts with delays every 15 secs or so. Of course to contact them is like talking to a cement wall. Anyone else having problems today? Edit: Once in awhile a phone call helps. Although the website and automated phone service says there are no issues, a live tech guy said they have had problems all day. | <urn:uuid:e795a49c-646c-42d4-a432-45b0f6009b2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/is-your-qchart-data-unusually-slow-today.18423/ | 2017-11-24T18:55:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934808742.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124180349-20171124200349-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.984868 | 85 | [
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In another post, my colleague Mark Sprinkle drew a very helpful analogy between Jesus’ use of parables and the creative expressions of artists. There is one part of that post that I think is particularly important for BioLogos readers to grapple with, and I would like to expand on it below from the point of view of a biblical scholar.
[T]he purpose of Jesus’ “art” was to give verbal, visual, and dramatic forms to those complicated and confounding relationships and symmetries and harmonies between Himself (and the Father and Spirit) and the world, ourselves included in the latter. Such creative expressions did and do not make everything clear, but rather resist simple clarity, forcing their hearers to come at the whole complicated, opaque truth from a position of intellectual and spiritual humility.
Speaking in parables is indeed similar to an artist’s craft. Neither are systematic, logical arguments aimed at intellectual persuasion. Rather, they create impressions, whole new worlds of meaning intended to turn old worlds on their heads. Further, they do not always clarify, but actually can by design obscure a deeper reality. To apprehend that deeper reality, one must—like a patron facing a timeless painting—continue to seek, ponder, and meditate on what is being said.
Parables are radical pieces of communication meant to disorient the hearers and then reorient them to an entirely new way of thinking. The reason Jesus does so much story telling is because stories—not debate or other “proofs”—are best suited for such a whole scale reorientation. Jesus’ preaching, after all, was about the kingdom of heaven (or of God). This kingdom was not about where one goes after death, but a here-and-now transformation of how people thought about God and their relationship to him.
Jesus “explains” this new kingdom in several ways, one of which is the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), where Jesus lays out the types of behaviors that should now characterize the people of God. These new behaviors contrast again and again with the old and are fully at odds with what the religious leaders of the time were teaching the people. Jesus’ kingdom is counter-cultural.
But Jesus more often “shows” the people what this kingdom looks like by telling a good story, which regularly begins, “The kingdom of heaven is like….” Sometimes the best way to get an idea across is to paint a verbal picture, which is precisely what Jesus does in the parables.
Jesus’ stories are not like Aesop’s Fables (as interesting as they are), where there is a moral to the story. The parables are not about playing nice with each other. They actually plant you in a different world where things are running according to a wholly different set of rules of the kingdom of heaven.
We can see this by looking at one of Jesus’ favorite topics in the parables: how Jews related to Gentiles. Jewish identity was an extremely important and touchy issue in Jesus’ day. Even though the Jews had returned to their land after the exile (539 BC), they had been guests in their own land—first of the Persians, then Greeks, and now the Romans. How Jews could maintain their ethnic and religious identity in such a pressure cooker of pagan Greek and Roman ideas, not to mention the embarrassment of pagan rulers telling them what to do, was a sore point.
So, one can understand why Jewish attitudes towards tax collectors, for example, are a repeated concern in the Gospels. Tax collectors were fellow Jews who were traitors to their own people by collecting taxes for the Romans. They were even spoken of in the same breath as prostitutes (e.g., Matthew 21:31-32).
No “good Jew” committed to maintaining his or her identity amid a pagan world would lower themselves to work alongside the Romans. Yet, what does Jesus do? He associates with these (and other) “sinners” on a regular basis, and even calls a tax collector (Matthew) to be among his select group of followers. By his actions Jesus demonstrates that his kingdom operates by different, counter-intuitive, counter-cultural rules.
These types of concrete actions were supported again and again by Jesus’ parables. Such a radical change in how Jews viewed God, the world, and their place in it—where sinners and other outsiders were welcome—required a communication strategy that was up for the task.
Stories are that communication strategy. Parables were Jesus’ canvas for “painting” a new vision for what life in his kingdom should look like. And in Jesus’ kingdom, there was no longer any place for maintaining those fundamentalethnic and religious distinctions by which the Jews had been operating.
We can go to virtually any parable to make this point, but the well-known parable of the Good Samaritan works as well as any (Luke 10:30-37). We recall that what drove Jesus to tell this story was the question asked by the “expert in the law” (v. 25): “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus’ answer was this parable, and it carries a double punch.
First, the Jewish leaders step around the beaten man on the road—certainly a non-Jew—feeling no obligation to come to his aid. The point is that the leaders of Israel, of all people, should know enough of God’s character to stop and help him. They shouldn’t ask whether he is “one of us,” an insider. All one needs to know is that this human being needs help. In Jesus’ kingdom, carefully drawn lines of ethnic and religious separation are a thing of the past.
But second, on a deeper level, Jesus’ point is far more threatening. By calling upon a Samaritan as the “good guy” in this story—with all of the backdrop of cultural hostility—Jesus is making a more pressing point than “be good to everyone” (which is where the Sunday School lesson typically ends). The hated Samaritan sees the man lying there, and without asking questions about who he is—whether Jew, Samaritan, Greek, Roman, or anything else for that matter—helps him. The Samaritan, of all people, acts like a neighbor toward the man who needed help, the very thing the Jewish leaders failed to do.
By telling Jewish leaders that they have something to learn about their own God from, of all people, Samaritans, is not a suggestion to be more open-minded and tolerant. It is nothing less than a rewriting of the Jewish narrative or religious and ethnic identity. Jesus uses a story to paint a vivid mental and emotional picture for his hearers. No other medium would do.
It is sometimes thought that Jesus told stories because he wanted to persuade the masses, the common people who are not used to debating fine points of theology like the scribes and priests. This is partially true, but it is also true that the radical message of the kingdom of heaven required a means of communication that was best suited for it. Like any work of art, stories “create” new ways of seeing the world—and it is, after all, a new world that Jesus means to create.
Let me put this another way: Jesus himself communicated the deep mysteries of a new way of being through the use of such things as vivid imagery, symbolism, metaphors, and other devices common to artistic expression. In fact, the incarnation, God in human flesh, is not a debate or argument about the nature of God that appeals primarily to the intellect. It is a vivid—and true—demonstration, a portrait, of a radically new and mysterious way of thinking about God, the world, and our place in it.
If this is how God chooses to communicate at the incarnation—the very climax and epicenter of his story—we should not be surprised to see God painting vivid portraits elsewhere in Scripture. This is especially true of Genesis and creation. Something so fundamental to God’s story may need to be told in a way that transcends the limitations of purely intellectual engagement. Genesis may be written more to show us—by grabbing us with its images than laying out a timeline of cause and effect events—that God is the central figure on the biblical drama.
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My orff group each had the opportunity to play recorder in one of the songs for our Spring Musical. All of them have shoestring lanyards so their recorder is hands free but that doesn't mean that they don't get in the way. They were asking me what they could do with their recorder so that it didn't get in their way when moving from instrument to instrument. So, I came up with this solution.
There were a couple of microphone stands I didn't need for the performance. Some kids hung their recorders here or on the music stand they were using. This was a great way to keep them out of the way when they had to move quickly. We made sure they didn't get mixed up by using different lanyard colors.
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Bathroom Vanity Tops
Explore your options for bathroom vanity tops, and get ready to add a stylish countertop to the efficient vanity in your bath space.
The range of bathroom vanity tops available can seem overwhelming, but choosing the right material for your vanity countertop is a key aspect of bathroom design.
If you're sticking to a budget for your bathroom install or remodel, understanding the range of materials available for bathroom vanity tops and their pricing tiers will be extremely valuable. Your choice of vanity countertop can be driven by your style preferences, whereas kitchen countertops—which normally require materials with much more efficiency and durability—require a different set of considerations.
Granite is at the top of the price and quality scale for bathroom vanity top materials. This beautiful, incredibly durable stone is easy to clean and highly resistant to damage.
Manufactured quartz is another beautiful, durable, high-end option; it can imitate the look of various stone types, including granite.
Tile can be a great choice for a bathroom vanity countertop, if you're comfortable cleaning the grout lines. Larger tiles are now available that will reduce the amount of scrubbing you'll have to do, and choosing tiles with darker grout lines will help mask staining over time.
Finally, solid-surface materials are another a great budget option; these countertops can also faithfully reproduce the look of stone. Synthetic but extremely durable solid-surface counters are easy to clean, making them among the most popular choices for bathroom vanity tops.
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Discover the particles Gantry 5 created by En Toutes Lettres
Each particle corresponds to a specific need for your site under Gantry 5
The En Toutes Lettres Newsletter - Acymailing particle gives you the ability to quickly display an Acymailing Newsletter subscription module on your website.
The En Toutes Lettres Image Grid particle gives you the ability to quickly set up a clean, organized grid of images. A lot of options are available including usage of RokBox or Lightcase.
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Lloyds’ work is notable for it’s simplicity of form and intensity of hue. This along with a strong sense of composition, has allowed him to develop a personal and recognisable style.
Responding to nearly all and everything that surrounds him, Lloyd often draws inspiration from myth and cross cultural symbolism. Underlying the work thematically is his personal celebration of both the childlike wonder and the often adult folly of being human which sees him revelling in the areas of satire and paradox.
His work appeals and works on varying conceptual levels and has often been described as both ‘affable and sardonic’. Having multiple entry levels allows wide accessibility and perhaps partly accounts for the fact that he is collected by people of varying ages and different walks of life from around the world.
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Marvel Superhero Socks Set
- Set of 3 Marvel superhero socks
- Cotton / polyester / Lycra blend
- Spider-man, Iron Man, Wolverine
We can never get enough awesome socks. We've evolved past the boring black and brown crew socks and even most of our boring white athletic socks. Socks are the perfect vehicle for expression in an office where you have to remain "professional." Your power suit should be paired with equally powerful socks and thanks to ThinkGeek's partnership with Marvel, now you can have them!
This set of Marvel Superhero Costume Socks includes three of our favorites: Spider-man, Iron Man, and Wolverine. They're a soft and comfortable blend of cotton, polyester, and stretchy Lycra and will fit most adult humans. (See the measurements below.) With such super socks, you'll fly through your work day and maybe even save the life of someone cute on the way home.
- Crew socks based on Marvel superheroes
- Set of three includes: Spider-man, Iron Man, and Wolverine
- Length: 7.5" (unstretched) - 11" (stretched)
- Fits women's shoe sizes up to 12+
- Fits men's shoe sizes up to 11
- Cuff Circumference: 6.5" (unstretched) - 15.5" (stretched)
- Materials: Cotton 78%, Polyester 28%, Lycra 2%
- Care: Machine wash cold with like colors
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MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md. - Montgomery County police are asking for help in locating a missing 15-year-old girl from Montgomery Village.
Aryanna Yvonne McDaniel was last seen Tuesday leaving Watkins Mill High School during school hours.
She is described as Hispanic female, 5’7” tall, weighing 140 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair.
Police say she is known to frequent the Wheaton metro area and the Westfield Wheaton Mall. There is a report of a possible sighting of McDaniel near New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park.
Police and family are concerned for her physical and emotional welfare.
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Charcoal grey distressed hooded pull over sweater. Unisex. If you want to wear it as a dress, we suggest going up 2 sizes for a more relaxed look.
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Sea Salt & Red Dirt
D Thornton HIck
Little Creatures Upstairs
40 Mews Road Fremantle Western Australia 6160
A Life's Work by D. Thornton Hick
For those of us who have had the privilege of growing up with the beach at our front door and the Australian bush at our back door we may underestimate the influence this freedom has on shaping and moulding us as we grow. For those with an artistic eye, natures influence becomes a constant visual stimulus to create.
Darrell Thornton Hick (1941-2013) always delighted in scouting about for beach flotsam and finding 'useful things'. He described himself as an artist and traveller, becoming a designer in the 1960's which permitted him to design, create and travel throughout his working life. Sailing and a family history based in shipping out of Southampton in the UK led to history writing and travel throughout Europe and Australia but always, always Thornton painted in his spare time.
Exhibiting his artworks, sculptures and contemporary furniture since 1990, this exhibition, Sea Salt & Red Dirt, is the first exhibition of Thornton's work since his passing. Presented upstairs at Little Creatures, 40 Mews Road, Fremantle from 6 – 28 April, the exhibition is a rare opportunity to glimpse the wondrous influence the Australian landscape had on this creative, inquisitive, gentle man who captured the weather, the tides and the character of our country in gouache, pastel, charcoal, oils or watercolour in every moment he could take.
Open daily 10am-late
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CELEBS ARE HITTING THE TOWN AND MAKING A SCENE!
Yum yum! Fans of Justin Bieber got a tasty treat this week when the pop mega-star went shirtless for an Us Weekly photo shoot, showing off his delicious little boy body!
Justin’s lithe little muscles and smooth, hairless boy chest were on full display last Thursday as he posed for the cameras while talking about his sold-out “Believe” tour with his full, moist mouth. “I’m excited to see all my fans,” said the little filthy tease. “We have a lot of cool things planned for the show.”
The “One Time” singer has recently gotten into trouble for speeding in residential areas like a naughty little dirty boy who needs to be spanked, hard, but refused to comment on the issue. “I’m just focused on my tour and my fans right now,” said Bieber while coyly running his fingers down his lickably tight belly as though he didn’t know exactly goddamn well what he was doing.
Justin Bieber’s smooth little boy cock was not on display during the photo shoot, though fans can vividly imagine how it would feel to fondle it with their sweaty, trembling hands.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by: Emmet G. Sullivan United States District Judge
Plaintiff UMDNJ-University Hospital ("UMDNJ"), a provider of hospital services located in Newark, New Jersey, seeks judicial review of final decisions of the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("Secretary") denying jurisdiction over Plaintiff's appeals of its Medicare reimbursement pertaining to the costs of UMDNJ's "clinical medical education programs" for its 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 fiscal years.*fn1 The Provider Reimbursement Review Board ("PRRB" or "Board") concluded that it did not have jurisdiction over the issue of reimbursement for the clinical medical education programs because plaintiff never sought reimbursement for those programs from its fiscal intermediary. Pl.'s Mot., Ex. 4.
Plaintiff contends that the Supreme Court's decision in Bethesda Hosp. Ass'n. v. Bowen, 485 U.S. 399, 402 (1988) permits the PRRB to assume jurisdiction over claims brought for the first time on appeal, even when the hospital did not seek reimbursement from its fiscal intermediary for the costs in question. Defendant counters that the hospital cannot appeal claims for allowable costs not first considered by the fiscal intermediary. The parties have agreed that there are no material facts in dispute and this controversy can be resolved on cross motions for summary judgment, which have been filed and fully briefed. For the reasons articulated herein, the Court concludes that the plain language of the Medicare statute grants the PRRB jurisdiction to hear claims for reimbursement not previously brought before the fiscal intermediary. Accordingly, defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED and plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED.
A. Statutory and Regulatory Framework
The Medicare statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq., sets forth a federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
A hospital participates in Medicare under a "provider agreement" with the Secretary. 42 U.S.C. § 1395cc. In 1983, Congress enacted a Medicare reimbursement program known as the Prospective Payment System ("PPS") which replaced the prior practice of reimbursing hospitals based on the "reasonable costs" of covered services. County of Los Angeles v. Shalala, 192 F.3d 1005, 1008 (D.C. Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 530 U.S. 1204 (2000). Under the PPS, Medicare pays hospitals for their inpatient operating costs on the basis of prospectively determined flat rates, set according to historic regional costs and patients' diagnoses, rather than on a reasonable-cost basis. Id. The hospital is thus responsible for costs in excess of the flat rates and retains excess funds when its costs are lower. Def.'s Mot. at 4. Approved educational activities are not included in the PPS rates, rather these costs continue to be reimbursed on a "reasonable cost" basis. Id.
The Secretary has delegated much of the responsibility for administering the Medicare Program to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS"). See 42 U.S.C. §§ 1395h, 1395u. The Secretary, through CMS, delegates many of Medicare's audit and payment functions to organizations known as fiscal intermediaries, which are generally private insurance companies. At the close of a fiscal year, a provider of services must submit to its intermediary a "cost report" showing both the costs incurred by it during the fiscal year and the appropriate share of those costs to be apportioned to Medicare. 42 C.F.R. § 413.24(f). The intermediary is required to analyze and audit the cost report and inform the provider of a final determination of the amount of Medicare reimbursement through a notice of program reimbursement ("NPR"). Id. § 405.1803. If a provider is unhappy with the total amount of reimbursement indicated by the NPR, it may appeal to the PRRB. The decision of the PRRB is final unless CMS reverses, affirms, or modifies it within 60 days from the provider's receipt of the decision. 42 U.S.C. § 1395oo (f) (1); 42 C.F.R. §§ 405.1875 (a), 405.1877 (a). If the Administrator declines review, the Board's decision is final and the provider must file a civil action within 60 days from receipt of the Board's decision. Id.
The Court may set aside the Board's decision only if it is "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law, or unsupported by substantial record evidence." HCA Health Services of Oklahoma, Inc. v. Shalala, 27 F.3d 614, 616 (D.C. Cir. 1994) (citing 5 U.S.C. § 706 (2) (A) & (E)). "[T]o the extent [the Board's interpretation is] based ... on the language of the Medicare [Statute] itself," the Court will examine the decision with the appropriate deference due to an agency that has been charged with administering the Statute. Id. (quoting Marymount Hospital Inc. v. Shalala, 19 F.3d 658, 661 (D.C. Cir. 1994)). Unless Congress has spoken to the particular issue at hand, the Court will defer to the agency's interpretation whenever it is a permissible construction of the statute. Id; see Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842-45 (1984).
For fiscal years 2000-2003, UMDNJ submitted cost reports to its fiscal intermediary that did not claim costs related to its clinical medical education programs ("CMEP"). In each instance, after the intermediary issued the NPR for the respective cost year, the hospital filed an appeal of the NPR with the PRRB in accordance with the above regulations. In each appeal, plaintiff contested several issues contained in the NPRs, including whether costs associated with the clinical medical education programs should have been reimbursed for the years in question. The intermediary challenged the jurisdiction of the PRRB to hear the CMEP issue, arguing that because the costs associated with CMEP had not been claimed as allowable costs when the relevant cost reports were filed by the hospital, the PRRB lacked jurisdiction on appeal to determine whether reimbursement was required. The hospital filed this action to challenge the PRRB's jurisdictional rulings. See Pl.'s Mot. 3-4.
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I'd seen a number of watercolor studies of feathers online recently and had a bit of an itch to do one myself. Fortuitously, I stumbled across this bluejay feather and thought it would be the perfect specimen:These little nature studies are really fun to do and much quicker to finish than my usual work. I hope to do more of these in the future. This one's available here in my Etsy Shop.
I didn't find any feathers... but hopefully our most recent excursion outdoors will give some inspiration for further studies. We just came back from our annual trip to St. Louis to visit my family, where we all set out on a short side-trip together. We clambered about on huge rocks at Elephant Rocks State Park:
Visited an abandoned lead mine at the Missouri Mines State Historic Site which was excellent reference for my husband in his video game work:
Took a boat tour through an old flooded mine at Bonne Terre Mine:
And circled back to St. Louis where we got to be kids again at the incredible playgrounds of City Museum:
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Northeastern defeated Notre Dame to win the Shillelagh Tournament in 2013. Photo credit @GoNUmhockey
And so comes the weekend we’ve all been waiting for. Notre Dame, noted eastern team and longtime member of the Hockey East Association, having joined in 2013, comes to Boston and makes the journey to Historic Matthews Arena for the final time before they depart for the much weaker pastures of Big Ten Hockey and hopefully never come back.
The exit of Notre Dame from their long partnership with Hockey East might actually be a negative for the Huskies. While Notre Dame has had success against most other teams in Hockey East, they just can’t seem to get past the Huntington Hounds. Northeastern swept the Fighting Irish in 2011, handing Notre Dame their first ever loss at the Compton Family Ice Arena in a 9-2 blowout and winning again the next night. The Huskies won the season series 2-1 in 2013, becoming champions of Notre Dame’s Shillelagh tournament in the process, a “prestigious” tournament in which Notre Dame annually schedules themselves to play against awful teams such as Alabama-Huntsville, Brown, Holy Cross, and Niagara in a rather embarrassing effort to guarantee victory. Even more embarrassing is that in spite of that scheduling, Northeastern has still won the tournament more recently than the Irish have. Northeastern swept Notre Dame again in 2014-15 in a pair of games at Matthews Arena. The Fighting Irish thought they had finally broken their Northeastern curse by taking three league points against Northeastern last year, but it just wasn’t meant to be, as the Huskies went back to South Bend in the Hockey East Tournament, easily sweeping the Irish back under the rug on their road to the 2016 Hockey East Championship and winning the season series once again with a 2-1-1 record.
This year’s Notre Dame squad has some serious power and might be the best team the Irish have iced during their time in Hockey East. Jeff Jackson’s Irish were projected as the second-best team in the conference in the preseason and are led by junior forward and Bruins draft pick Anders Bjork. Bjork has already tallied 16 points on the young season, although 12 of them came against two rather bad defenses, 7 against Arizona State and 5 against UConn. In four games against quality competition, igork is at a much more reasonable point-per-game pace. The rest of the Fighting Irish offense is led by a few names Hockey East fans should be familiar with, Andrew Ogilvie, Dylan Malmquist, and Connor Hurley, and one new name, freshman Avalanche pick Cam Morrison. On the defensive end of things, the Irish start with the dynamic Jordan Gross anchoring the blue line alongside Blackhawks pick Dennis Gilbert, although some lesser known defensemen including sophomore Bobby Nardella and freshman Tory Dello have quietly been playing extremely well for Notre Dame so far. The tough Irish defense gets even tougher when you get back to their captain, goaltender Cal Petersen, who has underwhelmed slightly with a .912 save percentage through the first month, well below the .920-.940 mark he’s usually capable of.
On the Huskies’ end of things, this is another tough matchup they have to face without junior Nolan Stevens, who will likely miss at least the balance of the fall semester. His brother, Huskies’ captain John Stevens, is close to returning after missing the first three league games, and could make his return to the lineup tonight. Northeastern wll need a full-team effort to take down the Irish, including contributions from all four lines on offense and Ryan Ruck stepping up to at least match Petersen in the crease. The good news for NU is that despite the quality of Notre Dame on paper, they’ve yet to sweep a series against anyone besides Arizona State this season, so the door might be open for some points against a skilled but inconsistent opponent.
Fallon: 4-3 NU; 4-3 ND
Davis: 4-2 NU; 3-1 ND
Downie: 4-2 NU; 3-1 ND
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I finally finished my dress and had a sunny day to take some pictures.
This is made from pattern Vogue Vintage 8789. It was very easy to make, I bought a two layer petticoat for underneath and wow am I pleased with it. I used very soft cotton in blue floral and it really does work well with the dress.
Here is a close up shot of the button detail on the shoulders.
Now to go to a tea party….
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I’ve taken so many images, and have so many different favorites for so many various reasons. Social media, internet, and web-based portfolios are all great; but this online world we live in sometimes leads things to be a bit less personal. I believe that every image has a story to tell, and that’s what I love doing for my clients so much! I don’t always get a chance to tell the story behind every image though–what I love about it, what makes it special to me. So, I thought I would start a weekly blog post that featured one of my favorite images…deconstructed. The story behind it, the reasons I love it (whether they are technical reasons of lighting/composition/etc., or emotional ones about what and why the image makes me feel). So check back every week–some of these shares will be personal ones, and others will come from clients’ sessions past and present…one of your images might be featured here!
Simple. Pure. Beauty. Everything a newborn is :). I love it because of just that. For those who don’t know, the first year of life is my specialty. From the baby bump of pregnancy, to this fleeting Newborn stage that disappears in the blink of an eye, to sitting and smiling, and finally that first year milestone. Even if the days seem long at the time, you will look back and wonder how it went by so quickly.
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When the Winter Olympics are over, let's have a big bonfire, and use the bureaucrats who came up with the "Own the Podium" program as kindling. Or if we can't get a campfire permit, we could always just boil them in oil.
Thanks to an overly ambitious program conceived by a bunch of desk-jockeys with access to the public trough, Canada's performance to date in Vancouver is being widely perceived as disappointing and deficient, which is hugely unfair on a number of levels, not least of which is that Canada's much-publicized "shortcomings" have detracted from what we've accomplished. I've read and heard at least as much about the medals we supposedly should have won but didn't as I have about the Canadian athletes who've actually ascended the podium, of whom there have been nine to date, which is good for fourth place in the standings. That would be more than respectable under ordinary circumstances, but in the existing climate of extraordinary and cringeworthy Canadian presumption, it's a national crisis.
Own the Podium was a recipe for failure that's unfairly burdening athletes with blame that should be directed at the pencil-pushers who saddled them with unrealistic expectations.
-Team Canada goaltender Martin Brodeur played his way out of the starting job in the 5-3 loss to the US last night. Period.
-The most impressive thing about Alex Ovechkin's teeth-rattling bodycheck on Jaromir Jagr in the Russia-Czech Republic game was that Jagr got right back up after the hit.
-Somebody tell Casey Jones at Canada Hockey Place that we only blow the train horn when the home team scores.
-Speaking of Canada Hockey Place, could they possibly have come up with a more mundane and non-descript arena name, or was "Domestic Ice Hockey Facility" already taken?
-As much as it would go against their client's instincts, when Tiger Woods' handlers put together the invitation-only media list for last week's mea culpa news conference, they presumably stacked the deck with old, fat newspaper guys and told the smoking-hot TV babes to stay at the office and plug into the pool feed. | <urn:uuid:f12dfbcd-8234-427b-a43d-c81f60d858b0> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://tedbirddroppings.blogspot.com/2010/02/monday-morning-musings_21.html | 2017-11-24T03:38:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807084.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124031941-20171124051941-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.976514 | 459 | [
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Something that I've been pondering in my head for a few days...
It certainly seems that a lot of people have been generating (or trying to) a lot of interest in themselves by doing something that sets people off. I've decided to call this The Jareo Effect (in tribute to Lori Jareo, who as we recall was the star of the Star Wars fanfic drama that unfolded recently (and whose illegal book was finally yanked off Amazon, I see)).
It seems as if more people are starting to follow this same pattern: Do something shocking and then wait for the notoriety to build.
Courtesy of Bitch, PhD, we find a tale of Dr. Diana Blaine, who apparently posted topless photos of herself on her flickr site (under "Burning Man, Burning Bras" in case you're interested).
From what I understand, some of her students (the claim is they're attempting to attack her) spread news of her activities to news media, and then everything came down the pipe. People come out of the woodwork to attack her, then others come out to support her. It's only a matter of time, I imagine, before further news media jump on the story.
Personally, I didn't see the big deal about the pictures. They weren't really all that much to look at in the first place.
But then, why let that stand in the way of a good scandal?
Back to my post...the second story comes to us by way of Lee Goldberg's blog. Apparently, Lee received an e-mail asking for opinions on a novel which the author had posted (at least a partial of) at his blog. Lee gave his opinion on his own blog, which the author then used to gain attention on various other blogs.
I read part of the excerpt. Although not your typical slush, I didn't think it was quire ready for publication either...and though I don't have a problem with people posting excerpts, I do have an issue with people requesting feedback and then getting in a huff when the feedback isn't what they wanted (I've been through that before).
But then, what do I know?
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Online retail may be getting a facelift in China if legislators have their way.
The government-run China Daily newspaper is reporting this week that the 12th National People's Congress is considering a law that would tackle issues including unfair competitive practices, tax evasion, and the protection of intellectual property rights.
Stateside investors with retailers in their portfolio aren't immune.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is a big player in China. It acquired the country's joyo.com, eventually folding it into Amazon.cn. Even Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) has some skin in this game after acquiring a majority stake in Chinese e-tailer Yihaodian last year.
Regulations concerning competitive practices, taxes, and intellectual property aren't likely to faze Amazon or Wal-Mart. They're global juggernauts, and they're used to being held to higher standards than hometown darlings. It's never perfect. Wal-Mart has had more than a few hiccups overseas. Even the seemingly steady Amazon had to deal with a worker strike in Germany earlier this week.
However, the companies that will be watching legislative matters closely are the local companies that derive the lion's share of their revenue in China.
Shares of Vipshop (NYSE:VIPS) tumbled 13% on Tuesday. It wasn't necessarily the legislative concerns that knocked the online clothing discounter down. There was a Deutsche Bank downgrade on Monday, and Vipshop also responded to a bearish attack that had used data for traffic tracker Alexa.com to suggest bogus financials.
It was an isolated event. E-Commerce China Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) -- the publicly traded company that most stateside investors associate with e-tail in China -- actually moved higher on Tuesday.
Clearly, investors don't see a problem with legislators getting more serious about online retail. If anything, the bearish attack on Vipshop is proof that restoring investor credibility in the niche is important.
You don't see anyone disputing Amazon's sales metrics based on third-party traffic trackers. This could be a good thing for investors because there's plenty of growth to be had in Chinese e-commerce.
Dangdang moved higher two weeks ago after better-than-expected quarterly results prompted two analysts to upgrade the shares. Earlier this month, Vipshop posted quarterly results that saw revenue more than triple.
The growth is there. Market credibility is the problem. Cleaning things up -- the right way -- will help.
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The World Meeting of Families’ (WMF) only session on homosexuality was held Thursday afternoon, drawing more than 750 people to the talk featuring a Catholic celibate gay man, Ron Belgau, and his mother, Beverley.
Their aim, according to an interview in Slate, was to “help Catholic families to be better at loving LGBT people.” In the session, the Belgaus shared their personal stories, this being the first time since WMF began two decades ago that an openly gay person has spoken. Beverley Belgau called Ron’s coming out “the worst day of my life.” They also reiterated current teachings on homosexuality which mandates celibacy, though they admitted church leaders’ response to LGB Catholics could be improved.
The Belgaus’ session was standing room only, due in part to a last minute room change that left hundreds of would-be attendees standing outside, reported Religion News Service. World Meeting of Families officials did not comment on why a session concerning homosexuality was shifted from a plenary hall capable of holding 10,000 to a much smaller room with the capacity for only 1,000. Call To Action’s Ryan Hoffman commented:
” ‘We are just trying to understand and give [World Meeting of Families officials] the benefit of the doubt. . .This just speaks to the fact that people want to talk about LGBT Catholics and their relationship with the Catholic Church.”
Following the lecture, a question and answer period lasted two hours, at which point those still present were asked to leave the room, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer. Some questions were concrete, like whether a Catholic could attend a family member’s same-sex marriage to which Beverley Belgau suggested that whatever the questioner decides to “do it with love.” Others challenged Ron Belgau’s underlying assertions, like Fortunate Families board member Ed Buechel’s criticism of mandatory celibacy:
” ‘That’s fine for somebody who has been given the gift from God of chastity and celibacy. . .I’m the father of a gay son. . .He’s 34 years old. He loves his church and he loves his God. But because of the conflict between the teachings of the church and his wanting to stay a good Catholic, he had a nervous breakdown 12 years ago.’ “
Titled “Always Consider the Person: Homosexuality in the Family,” critics claim it failed to consider the person and focused primarily on enforcing rigid understandings of sexuality. Marianne Duddy-Burke of DignityUSA wrote on Facebook:
“[T]he problems started for me when they spoke of Ron as having ‘same-sex attraction.’ This immediately takes it/us to a place of disorder, illness, defect. That leads to dehumanization, a sense of moral inferiority, and assumption of sinfulness. From there we get to discrimination, exclusion and violence. That whole chain was never addressed. There was no sense of identity as intrinsic to personhood, or of our sexual orientation as blessed gift. The view of ‘Church’ presented was also disempowered and hierarchical.”
delfín bautista, another Equally Blessed pilgrim, said in the session that LGBT Catholics are not struggling with who they are, but “with the rejection and marginalization that exists within society and also within the church.”
The lack of LGBT Catholic perspectives, except for Ron Belgau’s celibate life, was striking. Ronnie Polaneczky, columnist for the Daily News, called it a “wasted opportunity,” writing further:
“Really? This is the best that the church has for LGBT Catholics – the expectation that they be celibate? At this extraordinary meeting of Catholics from around the globe, why is this celibate gay man the only representation of the church’s LGBT members?”
LGBT Catholics Respond
The opportunity was not entirely wasted because LGBT Catholics and their families associated with the Equally Blessed pilgrimage kept the conversation going during a Thursday evening panel.
Featuring Claire Dente, John Freml of Equally Blessed, and Marianne Duddy-Burke of DignityUSA, the conversation became an honest and at times heated dialogue on not only Ron Belgau’s talk but broader questions in the Catholic LGBT movement.
One theme panelists picked up on was the need to positively appraise and present diverse sexual and gender identities.
Freml said homosexuality is “not a disorder, a curse, a birth defect. It’s a gift. It’s cause to celebrate.” Duddy-Burke spoke about coming out as a Resurrection experience, adding LGBT folks need to be more outspoken in celebrating their fabulousness. Dente pointed out that though God’s voice is speaking through same-gender relationships, when LGBT people are excluded from the table that part of God’s voice is stifled.
Those in attendance added to the conversation for more than an hour, respectfully, though honestly, dialoguing about sensitive topics. These included the need to diversify the LGBT movement, incorporating global perspectives as well as centering communities of color in the U.S. Greater solidarity by LGBT communities with those movements for racial, economic, or migration justice was requested by several attendees.
Others highlighted the pain Catholics feel when their priests and religious remain silent in the face of injustice. Sr. Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, spoke movingly about the fear that keeps many from taking prophetic action and emphasized the need to educate church leaders.
Having attended this response period, I witnessed in the church hall an embodiment of precisely the loving dialogue called for repeatedly by Pope Francis during his U.S. visit. As they have for a long time, LGBT Catholics and their families are fostering encounters in the church–a very hope-filled witness. I was also aware of the deep pain all too present for LGBT Catholics and their family members–a pain church leaders are not only inattentive to, but too often inflict. It cannot be forgotten even for those of us who find hope in what has happened this week.
Mustard Seeds Planted
The Eighth World Meeting of Families with all its LGBT-related controversies and failure to welcome all families has concluded at last. Equally Blessed pilgrims generally reported respect from WMF participants in the many one-on-one conversations held, but there were also moments of hostility. Fortunate Families board member Tony Garascia told NBC 10 that some at the WMF asked why Catholic parents of LGBT children even bothered attending and claimed gay children were perverted.
Still, from my perspective, we must focus on the seeds of love and faith planted all over the Philadelphia by Equally Blessed’s pilgrims. Their deep sharing in conversation, challenging questions, and rainbow witness are the mustard seeds by which God’s inclusive grace will expand narrow-minded areas of our church increasingly into a Catholic Church that is, to quote Pope Francis, “home for all.”
To read Bondings 2.0‘s full coverage of and from the World Meeting of Families, click the appropriate category to the right or you can find it here.
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When HomeTeam was launched over 20 years ago, only 30% of homes were inspected. Today, nearly 90% of homes are inspected before the sale closes.
Home inspections cannot be automated or exported, and the need for them is ongoing and most importantly, ever rising. This translates into the opportunity for you to own a growing business—one that offers you freedom to live a full life.
As the only home inspection franchise in North America that operates with a team approach, HomeTeam provides immediate differentiation and potential for rapid growth. Owning a HomeTeam franchise gives you freedom to manage, market and multiply your business—all within a low-cost structure. Team up with over 100 franchise partners across the U.S. and Canada who are defining their own destiny by putting their skills to work for HomeTeam.
What is the HomeTeam difference?
- We're fast because of our team approach and advanced reporting software.
- We're trusted to protect homebuyers, home-sellers and realtors alike, so you can make fully informed decisions with confidence.
- We're accurate with our systematic approach and detailed reports. Each team member focuses on his or her area of expertise so you're better served.
Training and Support
HomeTeam provides exceptional training and support to help get your business up and running. We want you to experience the freedom to manage and market your business and the opportunity to expand it quickly. Here is what you can expect:
- Premium Brand Image | Professionally developed and strategically driven, our brand image reflects excellence and invites confidence. Extensive sales and marketing resources are available for every franchisee, as are marketing tools, such as your own local website, email programs and customer retention systems.
- Fast Start | Our Fast Start program will help you through the steps you need to take before you open, allowing you to open for business in as quickly as five weeks.
- The Academy | For the first year in business, we'll work with you weekly and monthly to help keep you on track. This includes benchmarking and monitoring your performance as well as providing regular guidance.
- Mentoring | Nothing is as helpful as working with someone who's been on the same pathway before. We'll connect you with a successful franchisee who will help you realize your goals. You'll have special access to him/her to ask questions and seek advice.
- Management Tools | We'll supply all the manuals and procedural guides in addition to our state-of-the-art software. HomeTeam is the technology leader in the home inspection industry, offering franchisees up-to-date technology solutions in management, marketing and customer service.
HomeTeam's ideal candidate is a proven self-starter who is searching for a feasible way to begin a new business. Driven and positively impatient, this person seeks out and dominates high-demand and high-performance situations. As a young sales manager or a retired veteran in the prime of his life, the desire to achieve remains a powerful motivator. A strong manager with the ability to build relationships and create a loyal following, this person embraces the opportunity to lead others to greatness. The candidate must have a minimum of $50k in liquid capital and be ready to make a full-time commitment.
"I looked at franchise opportunities for nearly ten years prior to joining HomeTeam. Other home inspection franchises offered similar low overhead and low startup costs, but I found HomeTeam's "team approach" to home inspections was a superior and unique model. It sets us apart from all others and has allowed my company to experience phenomenal growth - even when the housing market was down.
It was also very important to me that the corporate staff and the franchisees have the same team mindset. This has been critical in our success."
"Why did I choose to purchase a HomeTeam franchise? First, I wanted a source of income sooner rather than later. Second, the marketing program was the most comprehensive that I found in my research. And finally, the support structure available to me from the corporate office was diverse. It covered training, software, marketing and ongoing technical support.
My decision turned out to be the best one I could have made. For results, I exceeded my own revenue expectations in my first six months in business and I have experienced exponential growth each year since starting my business. We never experienced the downturn in the real estate industry during the recession."
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- Data Sheet
DetailsMain jet kit available from Motoforce RACING for quick and easy carburettor adjustment. The kit consists of 10 jets stored in a practical plastic box so you'll find the right one directly without searching around. Also quite a bit cheaper than ordering the jets individually.
Sizes: 100, 102, 105, 108, 110, 112, 115, 118, 120 and 122
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The Dimple of Doom (Samantha Lytton)
Publish date: 2013-08-01
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Pages no: 230
Edition language: English
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Summer is coming and we all are thinking “skin”. We all want to flaunt our bodies and especially healthy tanned skin. Kimberly Snyder, a celebrity nutritionist (she’s worked with Drew Barrymore and Kerry Washington) and the author of the just released book, The Beauty Detox Foods, tells us about what foods we should be incorporating in our diets for a brighter, healthier looking complexion.
Pears are packed full of nutrients that promote a healthy glow — copper, potassium, iron, zinc, magnesium, and vitamins C, E, B and K. “Although pears have a high oxygen radical absorbance capacity, which neutralizes aging free radicals quite efficiently, most of pears’ antioxidants are contained in the skin,” says Snyder. So if you plan on adding pears to your anti-aging regimen, she recommends going organic so that you can eat the skins without the pesticides.
“It is not commonly known that cabbages actually contain about 11 percent more vitamin C than oranges by weight, and vitamin C is the super anti-aging nutrient that helps heal damaged tissues and minimize deep lines,” Snyder says. Another plus — the vegetable is packed with vitamin A, which is helpful in smoothing fine lines.
Turmeric increases circulation, helps keep red blood cells from clumping and promotes their formation. But how does this help our complexion? By “increasing circulation via better blood flow, turmeric helps make the skin more glowing, supple and healthy looking. Cleansed blood also helps prevent acne and skin disorders,” Snyder explains.
Did you know that the answer to a blemish-free complexion is adding foods that support the liver? And lemons do just that! “Lemon aids with digestion by increasing the secretion of bile from the liver, while also acting as a strengthening agent for the liver’s enzymes,” says Snyder. “Any support to the liver, which is our primary detoxifying organ, is going to help clear up acne in the long run.” Think of it as a simple cleanse for clearer skin.
This spicy green (part of the mustard family), helps create glowing skin by cleansing and oxygenating tissues. “When your body has an increased oxygen supply, you have better blood flow and more glowing skin,” Snyder says. Watercress’ combo of vitamins A, C and E also helps in reducing and treating acne and eczema. | <urn:uuid:4dd71675-4ba5-4bb3-ae65-77b9a6919a3c> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://fameiva.com/5-foods-for-better-skin/ | 2017-11-18T17:30:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805008.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118171235-20171118191235-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.94083 | 512 | [
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The Brooklyn Night Bazaar is a temporary gathering of local artists, designers, musicians and chefs who are coming together in for three nights at a pop-up space in Williamsburg. They're building on the momentum they picked up with their inaugural event at Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn just a few months ago in October.
Billed as a hub for creative culture that is conspicuously well-timed for the holidays, 149 Kent Avenue will serve as the venue for over 100 local merchants and food vendors, boasting an interior and bespoke furniture by Julien de Smedt architects, art installations and projections by NBNY, live performances by James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem), the Hold Steady, Titus Andronicus and more.
"Bone" chair by Julien de Smedt Architects "Stair" urban amphitheater by Julien de Smedt Architects "Stacked" Shelves by Julien de Smedt Architects
More info on some of the exhibitors we're looking forward to seeing after the jump...
The Bazaar reimagines the market as an immersive environment with the renowned architect Julien De Smedt who transforms the space with custom furnishings and sculptural lighting features as well as a floor plan inspired Lars von Trier's Dogville. Julien De Smedt garnered international acclaim for the Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo and for his designs of public spaces on waterfronts. His firm currently has projects in China, Brazil, Denmark and France.
DoTank:Brooklyn & DSGN AGNC
DoTank:Brooklyn is teaming with DSGN AGNC to create an ad-hoc book shop that barters, sells, and lends books on urbanism. The bookstore will counter the circus capitalism atmosphere of the market by offering a place for reflection, and demonstrating how a Sharing Economy could work.
Fabricators Guild, Brooklyn's newest digital fabrication studio, provides custom services to everyone from artists to hobbyists to architects. They emphasize research and development of innovative techniques, materials and software design tools. Their interactive pop-up shop will feature a preview of their work including a generative lamp shade and slice form chair.
Lamp and screen by FLATCUTLamp and screen by FLATCUT
The stage backdrop and custom lighting elements for the Brooklyn Night Bazaar are digitally designed and fabricated by FLATCUT. The Patterns are inspired by Frei Otto's "wet grid" structural experiments, which were recreated digitally and translated into tool pathing for laser cutting. Digital design techniques were utilized to create a flexible light weight system that could be easily installed. The panels are made of 1/16” aluminum laser cut on an industrial laser cutter.
Tomorrow Lab, a product design and development lab in New York, will be rapid-manufacturing modules onsite that will aggregate into a site-specific sculpture over the course of the three nights. Additionally they will install a set of binoculars that will allow visitors a sense of voyeurism form the mezzanine.
MakerBot prototype by TomorrowLab
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Monday, January 04, 2010
I guess there are more nuts in D.C. besides the ones in Congress. It seems the city is suing AT&T. When people buy those prepaid telephone cards, frequently they don't use all the minutes on the card. The city wants AT&T to turn the value of those minutes over to them, so they can use them for, well, whatever. In the suit, they are calling those minutes "unclaimed property", making them available to the city. What next? Claiming the toothpaste you can't get out of the tube? Leftovers from dinner? Gimme a break.
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Location: Squamish (map)
Description: The Chief (aka Stawamus Chief) is a my favourite day hike. It is easily accessible from Vancouver; the hike is a real workout, but within the range of most fit people; the terrain and scenery change throughout the hike; and it offers the most breath-taking views of Howe Sound and the Coast Mountains.
When you arrive at the parking lot, all you can see is a imposing, 700 m tall granite face. If you look closely, you’ll see small, colourful dots – rock climbers ascending the sheer face. Luckily, the hiking trail takes a more gradual climb up the back of The Chief. Along the hike you’ll climb long staircases, scramble up boulders, and even pull yourself up steel ladders and chains near the top. There are a few small waterfalls near the beginning of the trail, and some impressive giant boulders midway up the hike. But the highlight is the view from the peak – it always instills awe and vertigo in me.
There are a few branches along the trail, but each is well signed. I recommend hiking to 1st (or South) Peak. It’s the most popular and best trail to take. 2nd and 3rd peaks are also interesting hikes and give similar views from slightly higher elevations. Detailed trail descriptions are available here and here.
Hiking Time: 3 hours 45 minutes (return trip, with plenty of time at the peak)
Parking Lot to 1st Peak: 90 minutes
Time to enjoy the view: 1 hour
1st Peak back to the parking lot: 75 minutes
(You can also hike to the 2nd and 3rd peaks in an extra 2 hours).
Transportation: The easiest way to get to Squamish is to drive. The drive takes 1 hour from Vancouver (directions). There are also 3 bus companies that run service between Vancouver and Squamish – Greyhound, Pacific Coach, and Perimeter. The bus will take 1 hour 45 minutes from downtown Vancouver. | <urn:uuid:f6b200fa-9f24-463b-9dcb-ca4286a16a77> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://canadianveggie.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/greater-vancouver-hike-%E2%80%93-the%C2%A0chief/ | 2017-11-21T02:30:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806310.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121021058-20171121041058-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.951396 | 425 | [
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Resort 2013 collections have once again hit the runway with a full-scale fashion moment. The in-between season has become known for its chic go – to items for the summer. This season’s top looks from star designers and veteran design houses evoked all the glamour of jet setting and lounging poolside.
Vivienne Tam has mastered the art of tailoring. For resort 2013, she has created a collection full of fitted lightweight separates and dresses that are truly works of art. With crisp whites, subdued hues of black, gray, and khaki, and a modest touch of orange, Tam confirmed that opposites very much attract.
Many of the dresses featured fabrics and treatments, like intricate geometric symbols and embroidered tribal graphics, that helped serve as a contrast to the otherwise simplistic pieces. Skinny black trousers with obscure mesh cutouts, hooded jackets with explosive prints, and patterned tank dresses reminiscent of ’70s sportswear offer an elegant yet wearable look.
Marchesa’s rendition of resort wear is a breath of fresh air, literally. Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig sent out a chorus of full-skirted party frocks and slim evening gowns, ideal for an elegant garden soiree.
They showed a rainbow of pastel shades, with lace, crystals, and silk. Attention was paid to classic draping, and incorporating asymmetric single-shoulders. Known for slimming dresses that cascade into frothy clouds of tulle, Marchesa has kept its aesthetic of embroidered and shimmering silhouettes while balancing an effortless and simple touch for summer.
Another beautifully conceptualized collection has emerged from Balenciaga. The perfectly styled presentation is light and flowing, evocative of organic and naturalistic imagery. Balenciaga’s ballet-inspired Resort collection is feminine, without being overly ornate. The collection speaks directly to the mood of the moment. Structured cropped tops and wide-leg pants are must haves from the line-up. The elongated, effortlessly chic silhouettes are perfect for the calm of the season.
The Chanel resort collection at Versailles featured couture that was most certainly fit for a queen. Inspired by the paintings of Antoine Watteau, it drew on the seductive and feminine. The pomp and ceremony necessary to create a modern day collection with a touch of the Marie Antoinette included pastel-colored full skirts, pannier dresses with ruffled white lace tiers, eighteenth-century gilded jackets, denim outfits with golden embellishment, and the signature Chanel bouclé.
An experimental color palette of butter yellow, pale peach, and pistachio, was a risk worth taking for Bottega Veneta. The blend was a bold mix of colors, yet still appropriate for the fresh feel of summer. The collection is rife with pure sophistication, with head to toe fitted pieces made to compliment each other, and complete with matching shoes and bags. Characterized by sharp and loose silhouettes, the collection emphasizes sporty and wearable separates. Outerwear was also a strong point, with double-breasted peacoats and tracksuit inspired jackets.
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Not a chance.
The reception, which included a standing ovation from the crowd and everyone in the Cardinals' dugout, was resounding. Berkman doffed his helmet and later waved his hand in appreciation. After grounding out, he jogged into the dugout while fans continued their applause.
"It was a very nice moment for me being out there and really just a chance to tip my hat to the crowd -- a great city, a great group of fans," Berkman said. "Obviously, I've just enjoyed the heck out of my time here. That was one of those mutual thank yous. I really just wanted to thank the crowd and the city of St. Louis. I'm glad I got a chance to put on the Cardinal uniform.
"It's pretty emotional, it definitely is for me. But looking back on it, I'm sure I'll really appreciate it more as I go along."
Unless he makes an unexpected appearance on a postseason roster, Berkman's career in St. Louis is likely over. After being healthy enough to take only 81 at-bats this year, Berkman is set to be a free agent. The Cardinals won't have a spot for him, with Allen Craig and Carlos Beltran slated to return.
Berkman has admitted this season that there is a chance his career may conclude with the close of the 2012 campaign. If that's the case, Wednesday's at-bat would be the 6,235th and final one of Berkman's career. The switch-hitter has a lifetime average of .296, with 412 doubles, 360 home runs and 1,200 RBIs.
"I certainly thought about it maybe being the last time," Berkman said. "You don't have the right perspective to deal with it at that time. I'm sure looking back on it, it will be a lot different than it was in the moment."
Berkman said he will wait until the offseason to come to a more concrete decision. He continues to rehab his right knee -- which he's already had two procedures on this year -- in case the Cardinals advance deep enough into the postseason for him to become a consideration for the roster.
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Former Gamecock Passes The Torch To Alshon Jeffery
Former NFL and South Carolina tight end Willie Scott, who coaches the St. Matthews Saints loves seeing recent former players like Alshon Jeffery return to South Carolina to pay it forward.
Joe Cook, wltx 12:10 AM. EDT July 23, 2017
ST. MATTHEWS, SC - The Saint Matthews high school football team were the hosts for Alshon Jeffery's youth football camp on Saturday.
One of the coaches for the Saints is former Gamecock and NFL pro Willie Scott out of Newberry. Scott is appreciative that Jeffrey had the desire to provide this camp in Calhoun County and for Scott this almost like passing the torch.
"Well you know that's what it's all about us going back and try and so something for the community. This is great for Alshon (Jeffery) to come back to his hometown here and especially for the former guys to come out here and help," Scott said.
Willie admits there maybe be an age gap between him and Alshon but he sees the next generation of Gamecocks doing their part.
"You know I'm been down here two years and I played at the University and in the NFL probably before Alshon was born. So it's fun to see this younger guys come out and do the same things we've been doing for years. "
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Purchased from: Guitar Center
Sound — 8
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Overall Impression — 8
Overall I would give the guitar an 8 for the price, and functionality of it. As I said, it will hang with the best, in my opinion. If it were lost\stolen\broke, I would do everything I could to find another, but this is a limited run, so it would prove to be difficult. It stays in tune at all times, and sounds great. The only thing I would have liked on here would be a "duller" tune-o-matic so I don't have to replace the strings every week. As a guitarist who plays about 6 hours a day, this is the best one I have picked up from ESP.
Reliability & Durability — 8
I have personally gigged with this guitar, and it will definitely withhold playing live, as I said before though, have strings handy. The sharp edge may just be on my guitar however. I am a firm believer that you should always have a back up guitar, just in case, but this one would be able to hang with the rest. As far as the finish, I play with heave picks, and there is no pick guard on here, and I cannot even see a scratch anywhere here. So seems great.
Action, Fit & Finish — 7
This guitar came close to perfect from the factory. Didn't have to change a thing. The action was just above buzz, the pickups sound great (as long as they are not dimed). Only complaint I have on this guitar it the tune-o-matic bridge. The edges on mine are insanely sharp, and when playing power chords to heavy, your string can slip ever so slightly and break on the edge. Other than that, all is well here.
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This is an ESP Zombie Clockwork limited edition guitar. I have had this guitar for about 2 years now, and after playing it on a daily basis have decided to finally write a review of it. Mahogany body, with an awesome graphic on it. As the title suggests, it is the appearance of the inner workings of a clock, with a skull sitting at the bridge. The neck is straight through, which gives the guitar GREAT sustain. Grover tuners here, nothing really special, just the reliability you get from a Grover. Active dual EMG pickups with a three way selector, 2 volume knobs and one tone. 24 Jumbo frets with the Standard "flag" inlays seen on guitars such as J.H Truckster. Tune-O-Matic Bridge with aged look on it. | <urn:uuid:66b39442-aea5-4ce4-8e72-a2c0891fff1d> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/esp/ltd_ec-cz-ii/30723/ | 2017-11-24T06:31:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807089.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124051000-20171124071000-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.977729 | 680 | [
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I love summer because it means I can get my midi skirts and Smoove blouses out from the back of my wardrobe.
Smoove is by far one of my favourite shops in Auckland. It is a shop filled with reworked vintage dresses and blouses and there are also plenty of cool modern clothes there too!
The midi skirt I’m wearing in this photo is a second hand (opshop) find. It is by St James.
It’s blue, soft and surprisingly thick.
My shoes are from Number 1 Shoe Warehouse. I actually saw some actress from the 1940s wearing ones that looked identical. I can’t find that photo to save my life! I’ll keep looking for it and put it up on here if I find it!
The bracelet I wore today is from NYC. My Oma and Opa bought it for me while they were one holiday there.
I hope you like this outfit 🙂 Please comment and follow 🙂
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Sometimes, a particular story comes along and, for whatever reason, really digs right under the mind’s skin to latch on. That’s what Patrick Lacey’s “Critter Marrow” did to a certain editor, who hopes it’ll do the same to you!
From down the hall there was a crash and then his door was opening wide. He was sure it was the faceless ones or the dog-thing coming to shackle his limbs and take their time with his pain. – “Critter Marrow” by Patrick Lacey
* What inspired your piece in The Refossiling?
PL: Junk mail. It’s weird. And kind of creepy. Where’s it come from? How’s it end up in your inbox when it had thousands of other places to go? What about those odd subject lines that usually don’t make any sense? Words and sentences that seem random except they nag at you, like they might have some secret meaning if you just think on them hard enough. But maybe you don’t want to know the meaning. Maybe it’s best the words stay jumbled. Put that all together and you’ve got something that gives me a major case of the heebie-jeebies. Plus I wanted an excuse to open my story with something nasty and I didn’t need to look farther than my junk folder for inspiration.
* Favorite dinosaur-themed entertainment and why?
PL: There’s an old Sega Genesis game called Dinosaurs for Hire in which you play as an upright walking dinosaur, wield a car-sized machine gun, and shoot your way through evil ninjas and robots. If you’re not already sold on the idea, you can’t be helped.
* Where can readers and fans find more of your work?
PL: I’ve had stories published most recently in Widowmakers (the James Newman benefit anthology), Bugs from Great Old Ones Publishing, and Techno-Horror from Dark Hall Press (meaning technology, not techno music, though I’d be fine with that as well). Samhain Publishing is releasing my debut novella, A Debt to be Paid, sometime this year. I have an Amazon author page with everything else I forgot to mention if you’re so inclined to visit. I’m also on Facebook and Twitter and don’t often bite.
* Share your best, or worst, body-of-water-related memory/experience!
PL: When I was a young lad, I was prone to ear infections. Meaning I got at least one per month. My doctors always told me to avoid getting water in them because that only made matters worse. Easiest place to get water in your ears? The shower. Meaning every time I bathed I assumed my ear drum was growing more and more inflamed by the moment. Showers are bodies of water too, right? No? Well, they can still be terrifying.
* Current obsession and why?
PL: House Hunters. There, I said it. What’s more entertaining than watching people complain about things that can easily be fixed or ask such stupid questions you fear for the future of the human race? A great example would be the episode where a woman asked, rather nonchalantly, what an air conditioner was. Classic American television right there.
* What’re you working on, what is your process/routine like?
PL: I’m working on a novel (horrible working title: Slasher Flick) about a seedy director whose newest film looks a bit too realistic. I’m obsessive when it comes to my routine. I have to write six days each week (though it usually ends up being all seven) and I have to reach a minimum of 1,000 words. Once the ball is rolling on a longer project such as a novel, I can’t stop the darn thing. It takes over my life until the first draft is on paper. Then I rinse and repeat with the second draft and so forth.
* What’s the weirdest object you own? Backstory!
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* What kind of question do you always wish these questionnaires would ask, and how would you answer it?
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Trying really fucking hard to not be part of the problem.
What sort of elected official yells "You lie!" during a presidential address? This uber-douche. Update: he called to apologize.
It's moments like this that 4chan should use their powers for good.
posted by Rex at 11:56 PM on September 9, 2009
Rob Miller, Wilson's Democratic challenger, has raised $28,000 on ActBlue tonight off of Wilson's outburst.
posted by Jake at 12:38 AM on September 10, 2009
Miller's up to more than $300K now.
posted by mat honan at 3:13 PM on September 10, 2009
hey, at least the guy apologized.
that's really saying something for a republican these days.
i think outburst was planned-- what made the headlines last time the president spoke in front of a crowd about healthcare? nope, not healthcare. professor gates stole the spotlight for days afterward.
posted by steve at 3:13 PM on September 10, 2009
You have the weirdest, most cordial spammers.
posted by mat honan at 9:52 PM on September 10, 2009
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Private equity company Trive Capital has acquired Huron Inc., a Lexington, Mich.-based maker of tubular assemblies and precision machined products for the automotive industry, from SunTx Capital Partners.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but SunTx received over eight times multiple with the deal. For its part, Dallas-based Trive tends to spend up to $40 million on equity investments, according to its website. This is the third acquisition for Trive since it was launched in October 2012.
The deal comes after several cost-cutting initiatives implemented by SunTx since it acquired Huron in 2005 — just ahead of when many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) went bankrupt due to the high-cost of raw materials.
Major car makers, including Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F), GM Co. (NYSE: GM) and Chrysler started to produce fewer vehicles and spend much less on supplies. “Revenues declined over that period, but margins were increasing,” says Ned Fleming, founder and managing partner of SunTx.
Unlike many other OEMs during that time, Huron avoided bankruptcy. Certain steps taken by management and SunTX, such as reducing overhead, closing one of its two manufacturing plants in Michigan, and taking on another major customer, Toyota Motor Co. (NYSE: TM), helped prepare the company for the industry downturn that followed. Previously, Ford was Huron’s only customer.
Donnelly Penman & Partners served as financial adviser to Trive, while Patton Boggs LLP served as legal counsel. SunTx tapped Donnelly Penman & Partners to be financial adviser and law firm Haynes and Boone LLP to handle legal matters.
For more coverage on the automotive sector, see "Autoparts Consolidation Continues as Trio Merges," “Winners of the Auto Aftermarket," “Ford Auto Parts at Heart of Baird-backed Eckler’s Deal,” and “The Buyside: Fras-le On the Hunt.” | <urn:uuid:55d76b4f-e5a1-44d8-9d50-4ba924e5cd33> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.themiddlemarket.com/news/manufacturing-br-trive-capital-takes-over-auto-parts-maker-huron | 2017-11-20T09:43:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805977.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120090419-20171120110419-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.971956 | 419 | [
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ASA National Youth Forum recruiting for 2014/15
The ASA are looking for proactive young leaders between 16 and 25 years old to join the National Youth Forum.
The Youth Forum support the ASA in encouraging young volunteers to become actively involved in all aspects of aquatic sport.
The Youth Forum, led by the Youth Forum Chair (Alex Harrison) and supported by the ASA Volunteer Co-ordinator, aims to create a network of young people within aquatics. The group meet four times a year; meetings are led by the Youth Forum Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary with support from ASA staff.
The group are consulted on issues that impact young people and provide a youth perspective on specific departmental programmes. Youth Forum members are provided with the necessary training and support to effectively fulfil their role.
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I'll spare you the whys and hows, but I ended up flipping through channels and came across the end of Way Too Early on MSNBC. (See also: Review: "Way Too Early with Willie Geist.")
I liked the little bit that I saw, although I had to immediately turn the channel once Morning Joe started because I can't stand Scarborough. I'm not really planning to continue waking up super-early just to watch this goofball show, though, and watching it online seems a little much. Then again, I don't have a lot going on at the office right now, so why not. | <urn:uuid:8b2d7d6a-2e75-455a-8b1a-bd462e2f9f1c> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://having-no-blog-is-your-blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/waaaay-too-early-indeed.html | 2017-11-21T23:03:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806438.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121223707-20171122003707-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.980524 | 126 | [
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(CNN)The Jeb Bush aide who faced criticism for a series of offensive online postings this week has resigned, according to a spokesperson for Bush's super PAC.
Bush aide resigns in wake of offensive tweets
"The Right to Rise PAC accepted Ethan Czahor's resignation today," said Kristy Campbell, a spokeswoman for the former Florida governor. "While Ethan has apologized for regrettable and insensitive comments, they do not reflect the views of Gov. Bush or his organization and it is appropriate for him to step aside. We wish him the best."
Bush, who is contemplating a presidential bid, knew about the comments prior to hiring Czahor. The young staffer deleted them from his accounts after news broke of his joining Bush's PAC.
Czahor graduated college in 2009 and was the co-founder of Hipster.com, He was brought on to be Bush's chief technology officer.
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On June 12th, 2016, Omar Mateen entered the popular gay night club Pulse in Orlando and opened fire, killing 49 people and injuring 53 more in the worst shooting in United States history. Watching the news last Sunday, I clutched my baby close to me and worried about the kind of world in which she will grow up. Although we may want to shield our children from learning about acts of terrible violence like this, I don’t think we as teachers and parents can in good conscience remain silent. Our kids will likely hear about events like Orlando, and we need to be the safe harbors in which they can express their fears and feelings. There are many ways in which to respond, and everyone has to find what feels right for them and the children in their care, but here are a few ideas that may provide some guidance:
1)Answer their questions: For our youngest children, simple statements are best (e.g. A bad person hurt people.) Elementary students are a bit more worldly and will likely have lots of questions. Be prepared to answer them, but you’ll want to make sure you answer just the question that was asked. Children can certainly be spared the graphic details of the event. It may be helpful to find out what they already know before answering. It’s also perfectly okay to tell kids when you don’t know the answer. I think the most common question will be “Why?” and most adults have trouble comprehending the kind of hatred that leads to mass shootings like the one in Orlando. We don’t have to have all the answers, but we can…
2)Ensure them that they are safe: Children need to know that their homes and schools are safe places. Assure them that their parents, teachers, and other adults are there to protect them. Remind them about safety measures that are in place like emergency drills. Although shootings do happen, people safely gather at thousands of venues across the country every day. We can’t make promises we can’t keep (I remember my mom’s heartache when my sister saw Bambi’s mother die and couldn’t promise her nothing would ever happen to her mommy), but we can communicate to children that we will do our utmost to keep them safe.
3)Validate their feelings: Don’t dismiss children’s fears as unfounded. Kids are egocentric by nature, and feeling like any and every bad thing that happens is coming for them next is quite normal. You don’t have to feed into their fears, but you can reassure them that you understand and that you are someone they can talk to about how they feel. Keep your feelings in check as much as possible. Children respond in kind to the anxiety of their parents and teachers. Let them know that you are sad because of what happened but that you will be all right.
4)”Look for the helpers”: In times of tragedy, Fred Rogers is often quoted as saying, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things on the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” Consider turning off the news (the constant barrage of images can fuel children’s fears) and focusing on stories of hope and heroism like the surgeons who operated on the wounded, the security guard and former Marine who risked his life to unlock a door and saved dozens, and the man who cared for an injured stranger and ushered him to safety.
5)Be an ally: Because the identities of the victims and perpetrator may reflect their own, LGBT, Latino, and Muslim children may feel especially vulnerable and will need support from the adults in their lives. As parents and teachers, we are in a unique position to model for children that we value all human life, that diversity is what makes our country great, and that, to quote Lin Manuel Miranda, “Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love.” Our work in equity and diversity takes on increasing importance as we raise the next generation to be compassionate, kind, and loving.
I feel a deep sadness as well as outrage over the Orlando shooting. It makes me even more grateful for the little one who has been entrusted to me. I want nothing more for her than a world in which she can be her true self without fear of harm, and I’ll do everything in my power to make that a reality. For me, and perhaps for you too, that begins with speaking up. | <urn:uuid:9517ecc0-195a-49c2-ab35-7c07b3f4deeb> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.kimmiefinkconsulting.com/blog/2016/6/14/in-response-to-orlando-how-to-talk-to-young-children-about-the-tragedy | 2017-11-21T23:14:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806438.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121223707-20171122003707-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.978234 | 952 | [
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Two days ago i.e. on Thursday, 6 of us went to Sunway Lagoon. We were Darlene, Meikeng, Jenna, Wai Jee, Wen Xin and me.
It was fun and all that.
Almost exactly the same as it was when I was first there 7 years ago, except slight differences in the attractions. The place seemed smaller than I remembered. But it was essentially the same.
Me am the klutz as usual. Sigh. Nothing but trouble for my friends.
I gatal la, bring along my sunglasses. It was pretty useful actually at first. Especially at the dry park.
Til we reach wet park, jumped into the river when I took it off, put it on top of my head, and then got it knocked off by the cascading water. I dived in to look. My friends dived in to look. We borrowed goggles from a lifeguard. We peered through our clear tubes.
When I dived, I must've hit my feet onto the manmade rocks on the edge or the rough edges where the tiles came loose. I knew I cut my toes a little. But I ignored it. Aiya, don't wanna trouble my friends more, right.
But actually it stings like shit and when we reach the "shore" I lifted my feet out of water and blood start dripping. I hobbled over to the cafe nearby, leaving bloody footprints and asked from the reluctant waitress for tissue paper. I think I freak some of those lifeguards out cos they practically run over when they see blood all over my feet.
I'm a klutz. But first time I ended up in a First Aid Room. =(
And I thank all those Sunway Lagoon staff. They're really, really nice. The medic bandaged my toes well. And okayed me back into the water. Hahah.
Thank you, guys.
And thank you to my friends too.
But. Sigh. I miss my old faithful Virus shades. It's just an ordinary inexpensive RM150 shades, but it's been with me everywhere. Penang, China, Singapore. All those driving and walking in the sun. It hangs about my neck just so when I don't need it. It's tough and withstood many being crushed by my bag and even being sat on. Its reflection is mirror-clear. And 2 years on, barely a scratch, for which I'm very proud of.
But I can't drive without sunglasses so I went ahead and got another one today. My brother commented it looked just like the old one. But it's not quite the same la. Feels different. Looser too, can't use it as a hairband or put around my neck without risking it flying off.
But eh, it's Speedo, cost me RM200 and better be good for me for at least another 2-3 years.
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It’s the end of what was a busy and exciting academic year for Falconry for Schools. The project was delivered to 26 schools combined in Hampshire, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire between January and July 2014. In December, the project recruited three new instructors who attended a training day led by course director Judith Wrighte.
During the training day the instructors, Sharon Bindon, Sandra Johnson and Bob O’Hanlon were taken through the course materials and issued with their comprehensive Falconry for Schools ‘kits’. The course materials have proved to be a big success with the instructors who have been impressed with the kits’ contents and ‘ease of delivery’, and some teachers have also given their positive feedback, finding the project to be ‘Most enjoyable and interesting’, ‘Well structured’ and ‘Full of practical experiences to engage the pupils.’
Sharon Bindon (pictured), the instructor for Cornwall, Somerset and Devon commented, ‘I am keen to get going again in the next year. There hasn’t been one thing in the kit that the children didn’t like. The children have been engaged and interested all the time but I must say that Henry my Little Owl helped.’ ‘In one class there was an autistic child who normally doesn’t manage half an hour in the classroom. He spent all day with us, engaged in the activities, talking and cutting and sticking – it was a heart-warming moment.’
The Falconry for Schools project aims to preserve falconry’s heritage by encouraging young people’s interest and involvement in falconry. The project also aim’s to help in the conservation of birds of prey. Juliet Evan’s, the Science Co-ordinator at Carbeile Junior School in Cornwall wrote, ‘The Children have become more aware of the plight of owls in this country and the children have raised money to buy a Barn Owl Box, that we shall be placing, with guidance, in the school grounds.’ ‘I am very grateful to all those who have made this experience possible for the children at our school, to get up close and study these amazing creatures.’ Many teachers have also commented on how some parents have said that their children have, ‘Really enjoyed their falconry experience.’ | <urn:uuid:f1142b0d-d85f-4c05-898e-e1f23014952b> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.countryside-alliance.org/falconry-for-schools-an-incredible-year/ | 2017-11-22T18:04:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806620.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122175744-20171122195744-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.966323 | 493 | [
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Ladies and gentlemen: Jasmine Golan.
With an already buzzing fanbase built from her open-garage practice sessions in California's Culver City neighborhood, it's easy to see that this vocalist/guitarist/songwriter is on her way into the limelight. Rotating effortlessly between folky singer/songwriter, underground hip hop, and punk, Jasmine brings an air of deep emotion and endless feeling to any record she touches.
As you can see (and hear), this songbird is already chirping on some of the west coast's most underground local musicians, and you can expect to hear her collaborating with a few Peanut Gallery artists in the near future.
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With the WA Day long weekend fast approaching we have put together our trading hours for that weekend.
To avoid disappointment please ensure you order by the Friday 2nd June for Saturday and Tuesday delivery.
Click here to download the schedule
With this long weekend approaching and the temperature getting colder the demand for pies, sausage rolls, quiche and pasties increases as most people are looking for warm comfort food that satisfies the hungry urge. Danish Patisserie has a great range ofpies, sausage rolls, quiche and pasties as well as a savoury bite size products.
Enquire today to find out more. If you already stock these lines then consider your ordering amounts to avoid running out of these great savoury products. | <urn:uuid:9064c0d0-cfeb-4912-9c4b-270cd864ef4d> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.danpat.com.au/wa-day/ | 2017-11-22T18:05:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806620.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122175744-20171122195744-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.934401 | 149 | [
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The Eastern Roman Empire centred on Istanbul, survived for 1000 years, after the destruction of the original Roman Empire based on Rome. Istanbul was the richest and largest City in the Mediterranean. For many years, it thrived in-spite of being the target for all its neighbours. For most of this period, it was on the defensive.
Its enemies had very different approaches
The Franks – full frontal charge of heavy armoured cavalry
The Turks – highly mobile mounted archers
The military approach could best be summed up – “we live another day”. Therefore they used the most effective approach to repulse their enemy. This was a complete contrast to the Chivalry code vaunted by the Franks, and western European knights. The false retreat, hit and run tactics, bribery and treachery were all used, ideally to stop fighting a battle, or if a battle was inevitable, then ensuring the best chance of victory.
With the siege of Nicacea in 1097, the Byzantines supported the 1st Crusaders during the siege, but the night before the Final assault, they agreed to spare the Defenders and entered the City, across a lake. The Crusaders, the next day found the City held by the Byzantines and went on their way empty-handed. The Byzantines had gained a very well defended city for minor losses, (unlike the Crusaders)
With the Turk raids, the local militia would try to slow down the raiders and restrict their option. Once the raiders were heading home, they would be harried to leave behind the booty, but not trying to trap the raiders. The intention was reducing the reward from the raid, increasing the cost with injuries and losses (rear-guard actions are difficult to manage) but keeping their own losses to a minimum.
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Henri Roy and Friends, abt 1928
Winter, around 1928.
Henri Roy and his brother Yvon Roy are two of the kids on the sleighs. But we don't know who the other people are. The mother and father (not shown) were Cecille Gagnon and Gerard Roy.
About the house in the background: It's located on 1st Avenue in Saint Georges de Beauce, Quebec, Canada. I was told that n 1898, Joseph Adelard Gagnon had construction begun on this tall three storey wood-framed house on 1st Ave est. When completed two years later in 1900, he and his wife Marie Jessie Bilodeau, moved in. They had at least five children including Cecile Gagnon (father of Henri).
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Whitny Edwards led ECU with 17 points, but the Pirates were unable to overcome a balanced offense from Southern Miss as the Golden Eagles defeated East Carolina, 75-66, at the Reed Green Coliseum on Thursday night.
In addition to her 17 points, Whitny Edwards added eight rebounds, three steals, one block and one assist. Kristine Mial also scored in double-figures with 11 points, while Britny Edwards led both teams with a game-high 12 rebounds. Ariana Jackson came off the bench and notched nine boards to go along with eight points and three steals. Celeste Stewart dished out a team-best four assists, five points, three steals, and one rebound.
The Pirates (21-8, 11-5 C-USA) got off to a slow start as the Southern Miss (14-15, 6-10) offense shot 61.5-percent from the first in the first half and limited ECU to just one three-point field goal on 10 attempts. The Golden Eagles went on a 12-0 run to take a 20-4 lead on East Carolina. Despite the Pirates' efforts, they were unable to get their offense going and they trailed by 18 points (39-21) at halftime.
Despite entering the second half down 39-21, the Pirates would not go away quietly. ECU was able to come within seven points on several occasions, but could not tie the game or take the lead. The Golden Eagles used 56-percent shooting in the second half and were led by a pair of 20-point performances from Jamierra Faulkner and Tanecka Carey. Southern Miss would go on to defeat the visiting Pirates by a score of 75-66.
Carey finished the contest with a game-high 23 points, three rebounds, two steals and a pair of assists. Faulkner tallied 20 points to go along with five assists, four boards and two steals. Niesha Pierce was the Golden Eagles' third double-figure scorer with 10 points, six assists, five rebounds, four steals and one block.
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Now two specially created designs grace this sterling silver proof £5 coin, the obverse bearing a conjoint portrait of the royal couple by Ian Rank-Broadley, FRBS, while the reverse features a stunning design by Royal Mint engraver, Emma Noble, inspired by the Abbey’s north rose window.
The edge inscription ‘MY STRENGTH AND STAY’ is taken from the Queen’s Golden Wedding anniversary speech, in which she paid tribute to her husband’s continued support. This 2007 crown piece is one of just five British coins to bear a double portrait and is the only one to be issued in the twenty-first century.
Only 35,000 silver crowns, struck in .925 sterling silver to a meticulous Proof quality, will be available to satisfy worldwide demand.
Featuring a new obverse design and a new reverse design specially created for the 2007 commemorative crown, the double portrait is one of only five to appear on British coins
Each gold crown is presented in a display case, accompanied by a fully illustrated Certificate of Authenticity and costs just £39.50 or about 77 USD.
This is an occasion that virtually never ever comes around and this is the first in British history so this coin, and the coin in gold proof, will be the only ones of their kind in history. This official 2007 Diamond Wedding £5 Silver Proof Crown is going to be the perfect lasting memento of this royal occasion. | <urn:uuid:ea020943-04ce-4f6e-a529-d19811042e28> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://buy-silver.goldprice.org/2007/04/2007-diamond-wedding-5-silver-proof.html | 2017-11-25T01:55:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809229.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20171125013040-20171125033040-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.932614 | 298 | [
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Thanks to your enthusiasm and support the Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships: Horses & Horsepower™ have become the most attended polo event in America!
Here’s what is new in 2014!
- Watch America’s top rated polo player Julio Arellano!
- Former Heart Ball Chairman Susie Wesley is leading our Tent Concierges, dedicated to all reserved seating areas, to ensure the finest experience possible with any needed assistance for you nearby.
- Due to an expected attendance of 15,000 in 2014 with our move to Saturday and Sunday, more bleachers will be provided for General Admission tickets in addition to the opportunities for tailgating, shaded picnic tables and blankets near the field.
- Additional prestige is on tap as the United States Polo Association will hold their Annual Meeting in conjunction with the event.
- Brunch with us on Sunday, October 26th in the Rolls-Royce Champagne Lounge. It’s the first time we are doing brunch, backed by M Catering and Chef Michael de Maria.
- Watch the best women’s team in the world, assembled from Argentina, USA, England and France, take on the defending champs from Wales. It will be quite a “Battle of the Sexes.”
- The Arizona Porsche Concours d’Elegance, the state’s most prestigious judging competition for Porsches, will again be back along with hundreds of other Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bentleys and other amazing cars. It’s the biggest car party until Barrett-Jackson.
- Fox Sports Arizona will be back, again broadcasting this unique spectacle across the state and nation.
- And of course the great new teams and players that will make the 2014 the best event yet.
- Stay tuned for more details that will be announced in the coming months. See you in October! Reserve tickets and tables to ensure your best seats now. | <urn:uuid:2c837327-2c31-47ca-9d81-982ac2994fb4> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://thepoloparty.com/whats-new/ | 2017-11-18T02:56:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804518.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118021803-20171118041803-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.897997 | 402 | [
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Last week, Bungie bid a final farewell to the series that they turned into a household name over the past 10 years: Halo. Bungie posted the following letter to their fans on their website to bid farewell:
“Thank you for making our 20th Anniversary, and this year's Bungie Day, kick so much ass. As we prepare to become fans of the universe our studio began creating more than ten years ago, it's nice to know that we'll be counted among such esteemed company. Some might consider the upcoming transition a bittersweet occasion punctuated by a sense of loss and sadness. We feel otherwise. Halo is in great hands…yours.
Halo is yours now. In many ways, it always has been. Its new caretakers will strive, just as we did, to be worthy stewards but you have the package. Hold these characters and stories and worlds to the same unflinching standards you did while we were at the helm, but allow them all to blossom and change and grow in the ways that they must.
We'll be undergoing a metamorphosis of our own. Very soon Bungie.net will change, culminating with the launch of our next universe at some unknown time in the future. The first small steps will be taken soon, with Halo playlist management changing hands on August 2nd, the very same day we plan to deploy our parting thoughts on the last twenty years through a ViDoc titled, "O Brave New Worlds."
Afterwards, we'll be going dark on our studio’s next major endeavor – the creation of a brand new universe. You'll still have a home here should you choose to stay, but our next project demands an unwavering focus. We owe it to ourselves to make something better than we ever have before. We owe it to you, as well.
So, this isn't a goodbye. It isn't The End. Instead, it's the very beginning of a new journey that will stretch the limits of what we are capable of. Ancient engines are now rumbling deep within the heart of our studio, and their energy will power us through the upcoming darkness. Like all dark times ours will be broken first by a single strand of light – a tether reaching out to bind us all together again. One day, we will awaken in a wondrous new place and we will remember just what it was that drew us together at the beginning of it all. We will look up to the heavens, and find hope.
Thank you for everything.
See you starside.”
343 Studios definitely has some big shoes to fill as Bungie has gone above and beyond with each entry into the Halo series that they have produced. The bar has been set extremely high and hopefully fans will not be let down. The group definitely seems up to the task though as they are moving full steam ahead on both Halo 4 and this year’s Halo Anniversary Edition. 343 has released what I hope will only be one of many developer diaries showing players the process behind bringing the original Halo back for this year’s special release. | <urn:uuid:05d61c7b-026f-46a9-8643-52d33adb33e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.gamingnexus.com/FullNews/One-era-ends2c-another-begins-Bungie-signs-off-on-the-Halo-franchise/Item23539.aspx | 2017-11-18T02:43:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804518.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118021803-20171118041803-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.964454 | 627 | [
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We had our first detected fever last week. The kids and I and my parents went to the NC Museum of Life and Science (which is AWESOME - we ended up getting a membership) in the morning. Miles and Vivienne had a great time walking and exploring the dinosaur trail and butterfly house and riding the train. On the way home, both kids fell asleep.
When Miles woke up from his nap, he felt noticeably hot to me. I took his temperature and it was over 102 degrees. We have never got a high temperature reading on Miles or Vivienne. We should consider ourselves lucky, because we got to playdates at least 3-4 times a week and they stay in the nursery at church, so they have ample opportunities to get germs from others. We have had lots of colds and the very rare instance of vomiting and diarrhea (only a couple times), but no fevers yet (at least not fevers that we have caught with the thermometer).
I gave Miles a little Tylenol, and a few hours later, he was back to his normal self. The fever never came back and I only had to give him the Tylenol once.
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In science, impossible does not exist. Inventions and discoveries are the products of constant endeavour by creative minds, envisioning ever-new outcomes. With vivid imagination and consistent effort, the forces of the universe can be made to work for an inspired mind. How do we fire up the minds of India's youth who are the foundation for cutting edge research and usher in a renaissance in Indian science?
We need a new generation of creative scientists. For that, we need an environment for research and challenging missions. Above all, academic institutions must have well-equipped laboratories and professors who have the proven capacity to attract youth to science. I have noticed that Indian universities lack a research culture. I believe where there is good research, good teaching is possible; where there is good teaching, good research emanates. Hence, I visualise our universities transforming into research-cum-teaching hubs. This calls for the presence of a number of renowned research professors on campus to attract bright students. Such a research environment will provide credibility to university departments and, in turn, bring in funding by industry and R&D laboratories for research programmes and projects.
For a conducive environment for research the actions of two Nobel laureates who have facilitated research in their own unique way are instructive. The first is the culture of magnanimity demonstrated by Norman E. Borlaug. When he was given the M.S. Swaminathan Award on March 15, 2005, at the age of 91, in Delhi, he did not stop at just naming the founding fathers of the Green Revolution in India. He recalled with pride the White Revolution. Then came the surprise. He identified scientists in the audience-Sanjay Rajaram, a wheat specialist; S.K. Vasal, a maize specialist; and B.R. Barwale, a seed specialist-asked them to rise, commended their contribution to Indian and Asian agriculture and ensured the audience cheered. Such magnanimity is what motivates the scientific community and it should spread in all our research institutions.
The second is an incident narrated in G. Venkataraman's book The Big and the Small about Sir C.V. Raman. When President Rajendra Prasad invited him to stay at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and receive the first Bharat Ratna award in the last week of January 1954, Raman declined and wrote back in polite terms saying that he was unable to make it to the investiture ceremony. He explained that as the guide of a student in the final stages of submitting a PhD thesis ahead of the January 31 deadline, he felt that he should be with the student until it was completed and signed. He gave up the pomp of a glittering ceremony associated with the highest national honour because he felt his duty required him to be with the student.
Will our experienced scientists inspire research scholars by emulating the standards set by such great masters? That is not all. We need a pragmatic blueprint for a revolution in Indian science research and technological applications that offer challenging missions to attract youth. For this, there are goals and priorities that must address the national need for growth. Here are the top 10:
Ability to spot talent in the young and the inexperienced. He was a unique find for India in the early 20th century-Srinivasa Ramanujan, a hardworking youth who failed in all subjects except mathematics in the intermediate examination. A dockyard officer in then Madras came across a mathematics research paper by the student. He sent this paper to Professor G.H. Hardy at Cambridge University, which led to the discovery of the mathematics legend. Recognition from the Royal Society of London followed. The Srinivasa Ramanujan Museum at Kumbakonam speaks volumes about his genius. Even today, throughout the world, researchers are trying to solve the challenging mathematical problems postulated by Ramanujan. What we need in our country is that both educational and research institutions should have the capacity to spot unique talent wherever it springs up, with or without formal qualifications.
Research in the area of forecasting earthquakes hours before, days before and even weeks before they strike is of paramount importance. This calls for multinational and multidisciplinary research on geology, earthquake science, earth sciences, nuclear science, electromagne-tism as well as a modelling and simulation environment using super computers.
In another 20 years, Earth, Moon and Mars will become an integrated economic entity. It is essential for India to mount a programme in planetary sciences and life sciences related to different planets.
Today, the cost for orbiting one kilogram in space is nearly $20,000. It is essential to work for low-cost access to space, so that orbital costs can be reduced to about $2,000 per kg. This will result in more satellite launches, our communication transponders in orbit would increase and connect India's 600,000 villages in a cost-effective manner. In parallel, fibre optic connectivity must reach all panchayats by 2020.
Malaria is again appearing with a vengeance. It is essential for our life science scientists to work on the development and deployment of a vaccine to combat multiple malaria vectors in a time-bound manner.
The only way to control and finally eliminate HIV AIDS coupled with tuberculosis is by inventing a vaccine. Research and development must be intensified towards this end.
The bulk of India's population lives in its 600,000 villages. Provision of urban amenities in rural areas, which envisages provision of physical connectivity, electronic connectivity and knowledge connectivity, will lead to economic connectivity and employment generation in multiple skills in rural areas. The Government has taken up the Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) programme in nine states in a public-private partnership. India needs 7,000 puras. A mission mode programme has to emerge for completing all 7,000 PURA projects in the next 10 years.
As part of an energy independence programme, every state must frame a policy to become carbon-neutral by 2030. That means all transportation systems-land, air and sea-and static power generation systems must switch to electric, biofuel or solar power, or a combination of all three. Emulsification technology for substituting petrol and diesel in automobiles and static installations has to be developed. With thorium ore available in the country in plenty, we have to design and develop large scale nuclear power plants that run on thorium-fuelled reactors. Intensive research is essential to convert thorium into a fissile material for this application.
The present trend among young people after Class XII is to take up engineering, medicine or management courses because of an assurance of employment. To attract the best minds to science research at the MSc and doctoral programmes, it is essential that an exclusive science cadre is introduced to facilitate a career in well known scientific laboratories and universities.
The nation needs a smart water way grid similar to the Golden Quadrilateral for national highways. This would definitely enable low-cost carbon-efficient transport of people and goods across the length and breadth of the country, provide year-round irrigation, contain floods and droughts, generate much-needed additional power and also serve as an economic asset with provision for fishing and eco-tourism. The water way grid will also serve a strategic purpose in times of war.
This is, at best, a beginning towards becoming a stronger nation, one that is concerned about the progress and welfare of its people. There are many more areas in which scientific research programmes and projects are to be initiated for economic development. This is our national challenge this century.
The writer is former president of India and an eminent scientist. He received the Bharat Ratna in 1997.
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While arranged marriages are still common in India, love marriages have gained in popularity.
However, dating in India is for the purpose of "getting to know" your future husband.
It is especially hard to let this girl out of my life considering she has been with me through some horrible times with my own family.
Her mother has no problem with us, but women really don't have too much authority in an Indian relationship, so she won't be able to help us out at all.
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If you’re enough of a wine geek to know about the Jura, a wine-growing region near the French-Swiss border, then chances are that you know some of the Jura’s trademark wines like vin jaune or macvin, or its signature grape, savagnin. What fewer people know is that there are a surprising number of very good chardonnays from the Jura that could fool many tasters into thinking they were from Burgundy, the benchmark region for chardonnay.
The chardonnays from the Jura that I have tasted range from nervy and tension-filled to richer, more opulent styles, but across the range of styles many of the wines showed a flinty minerality on the nose that lend a lot of fragrant, burgundy-like interest to the wines. Next time you’re looking to have a Chassagne-Montrachet or a Meursault, try a chardonnay from the Jura instead – you might be surprised by what you taste. Here are a few wines I’d recommend:
- 2008 Domaine de Saint Pierre Arbois Les Brûlées – France, Jura, Arbois (7/3/2011)Has pretty, pleasing fruit on the nose and palate, which is given dimension by flinty rock aromas that carry some minerality through to the palate. As good as a lot of premier cru wines from heralded villages of Burgundy like Puligny-Montrachet or Meursault, this is another example of how good some of the chardonnays coming from the Jura really are. 91-92+ (92 points)
- 2008 Domaine Labet Côtes du Jura Fleur de Marne En Chalasse – France, Jura, Côtes du Jura (4/11/2011)Has a savory aspect, hard to articulate- maybe oxidative but in any case there’s something really appealing about this. On the palate; very tasty with an uncommon combination of unctuousness yet very crisp acidity. Smooth, pretty – I really dig this wine, and the whole range really. 90-92+ (92 points)
- 2009 Domaine Tissot (André & Mireille now Stéphane) Arbois Les Corvées Sous Curon – France, Jura, Arbois (4/11/2011)Has a pretty flinty nose; balanced with good tart acidity. Not as rich as the Labet wines, but very nice with a crispness to it. 90-92 (91 points)
- 2007 Domaine Labet Côtes du Jura Fleur de Marne en Billat – France, Jura, Côtes du Jura (4/11/2011)Has an interesting flinty smoke mineral nose. Quite a delicious chardonnay – very Burg-like. Has a crispness that makes one think of Chablis, but there is some oak and butteriness that makes it feel a bit more opulent. 90-92 (91 points)
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COS contributor Niall Sullivan ponders potential regime change at Anfield.
After three years of backlash from fans and a number of disagreements involving the management at the club, the time has finally come for owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett to sell Liverpool FC and in the process marking the start of a potentially uncertain period for the club.
Off the pitch, the instability has been there for all to see since the Americans took over. They have plunged the club into £237 million worth of debt and with part repayment due in the summer, the pair have decided to sell up now in order to get the biggest profit possible.
This was confirmed by Hicks himself, who has boasted that he is set to make four times his money by selling the club.
While the future on the face of it looks a lot brighter for Liverpool fans, it may not be all that it seems. The owners are reported to be demanding £600 million for any potential buyers. This price seems much too high for a club with high level of debt and the added promise that whoever buys the club stumps up the money for the prospective new stadium at Stanley Park.
Any potential owner may also have reservations about spending so much money, on a team which looks set to miss out on a Champions League place for the first time in 5 years. Without the substantial money received from playing in the tournament, (as well as the prestige,) this may leave the club on the market for longer than expected.
The managerial situation has also been a source of irritation to the fans. Rafael Benitez’s has always enjoyed a good rapport with the Liverpool supporters with the success he has brought to the club. However Tom Hicks did the unthinkable and sought out the unpopular Jurgen Klinsmann to possibly replace the Spaniard.
Although the relationship between manager and owner has improved the end of the season could prove crucial. Benitez has been heavily linked with Real Madrid and Juventus, which could lead to the exodus of some of the Reds’ top players.
If a buyer isn’t found the key players at the club could be sold. A huge offer for top scorer Fernando Torres or captain Steven Gerrard could see the owners receive money to pay the £100 million which RBS are looking to retrieve.
Martin Broughton, the British Airways chairman who is trying to find a buyer for the club, has promised that players will not be sold and that he expects the club to find a buyer within six months.
After seemingly winning the battle with the Amercian owners, the Liverpool fans will be looking for a buyer which can take them on to the next level and help them compete regularly with the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United.
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looks fabulous! can't wait to see you in a few weeks. yippie!!
Looks like you had a great trip! How fun to meet up with Timmy-D. Some of your pictures remind me of Grandma and Grandpa's pictures of their road trips out West. Thanks for posting!
so jealous - looks like a great trip!
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UK insurer Aviva is increasingly turning to software vendor Appian in its attempts to rewrite tired and inefficient business processes to help speed up customer service response times.
Appian specialises in low-code app development and business process management (BPM) software that can integrate with on-premise backend systems. The company successfully went public in May.
Speaking to Computerworld UK over the phone, Aviva director of operations Paula Whitwell-Lumsden said: "Appian is right at the heart of what we are trying to achieve now."
Whitwell first brought Appian in during her time within the pensions department at Aviva. "I met them around four years ago as I took over the pensions operations team," she said. "I wanted to simplify the way we work."
Using a technique which she calls 'systems thinking', Aviva is embarking on a project to map all of its business processes and take out any waste. By using Appian the business is able to abstract a lot of complexity away from key processes to deliver simplified applications to frontline staff, without shifting core systems or databases to the cloud.
This relies on more usage of application programming interfaces (APIs) to directly call core systems. "We are building API links or removing some spreadsheets to work around things," Whitwell-Lumsden said.
Appian essentially becomes a piece of middleware to avoid laborious database queries when the enterprise wants to run leaner applications. "So where you don't need to surface all of that data, calling a couple of API services into those boxes together means we can surface things for people far quicker, either via the MyAviva app or through an advisor," Whitwell-Lumsden said.
For example, when a pension advisor wanted to fetch customer information it was previously paper-based. By creating an app to fetch this information with Appian the company was able to give advisors 30 percent of their day back, according to Whitwell-Lumsden.
The priority for Aviva is speed of customer service. "We know that call resolution is our biggest measure and Appian has allowed us to get information request instantaneously, which used to take 45 minutes," she said. These frontline advisors now have one simple Appian interface when engaging with customers, allowing them to react to queries quicker.
After a successful pilot within pensions, Appian is being rolled out to processes within the health insurance department as part of what Whitwell-Lumsden calls a "UK transformation programme for systems thinking across all processes".
In terms of actually building the apps, at first Appian would have staff on site to help map processes and rebuild the application, working with IT to earmark the required infrastructure. Now, however, Whitwell-Lumsden says Aviva is more self-sufficient as developers have trained on Appian.
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my name is monique and i am so scared i have been taking hydrocodone for 1 year now like 10 a day and i have tried to cold turkey and it just felt so awful the runs the sweats my head feels like someone hit me in the head with a hammer..I am still on the drug not for the high but just to not be so sick i dont see anybody in my family anymore i just get on pills and wake up lookin for more ways to get them..I am tired of being tired and i really need some help i am beggin anyone that can help me i have so many issues and im broke about to lose my house and car i dont have enough money to go to rehab i hardly can buy food everyday im begging for help please help me thanks
First of all don't go cold turkey it doesn't work as you found out the hard way already. You are doing the right thing by asking for help and admitting you have a problem. That is always the first step and the hardest. You are going to need some professional help though. I would talk to your primary care doctor and see if he/she will try you on Clonidine and Librium. The Clonidine will help with the physical addiction symptoms and prevent serious withdrawel symptoms and the Librium will help with both the physical and phychological addiction symptoms. I am not a professional just talking from experience that's all. You may need the support of a good NA group if you have one in your area. It also sounds like you could use a good therapist if you don't have one. Do you have any health insurance at all? If you have a good primary care doctor he/she can help you with this if they are comfortable dealing with it so you don't have to worry about rehab expenses. Can you get any kind of state assistance program for food and medical? Some lawyers will help people who can't work get assistance if you can't get anywhere on your own and keep getting denied. Hang in there girl and keep up the fight you are on the right track by admitting there is a problem. Keep me informed on how you are doing and if you ask you doctor about those meds. I will definately be thinking and praying for you.
marjorie is right. Cold turkey isn't going to work for you. Do you have a loved one? Family or friend willing to help you? Set yourself an end date. Count your remaining pills and divide them until you taper off. Give them to the person who can help you. Meanwhile it is a MUST that you stay hydrated. Drink as much water and gatorade as you possibly can. Hot soaks in the tub for body aches, sweat it out and keep over hydrating yourself. ImdiumAD is a must and advil when needed. Stay in a calm, dimly lit area and try to focus on anything positive in your life. Take long walks, excersize, and force yourself (after a few days) to eat small healthy meals. Food is fuel. Boy do I know how you feel. When my turn comes, I hope I can "walk the walk."
The people here are very supportive. You are NOT alone in your addiction or fear. Dig your heals in and get this done!!
My best wishes and you will get there!!
thank you to everyone that responded i need people that care and the comments you all sent gave me alot of hope..i do have a md doctor and i will talk to her on my next appoinment about help to get off this medicine addiction.Yeah the cold turkey is not for me at all i felt so awful and all i could think about was just one or two pills to take away the pain..I went from taking 20 a day to just 5 a day i guess a little better but i just see my life getting shorter and shorter taking all that medication..Opiates are so easy to get addicted to and i wish i knew that a year ago but we all have to learn our lessons... Thankyou again you all have made me smile and made me know that there are people out there that really do care i will keep you all posted thanks again:)
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Coral now non runner no bet on Epsom races
Saturday’s impressive Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Magician is 4-1 with Coral for a quick Classic double in next weekend’s Investec Derby, with the firm going non runner no bet on the Derby, Investec Oaks, Coronation Cup and Dash from midnight tonight.
“An attempt at a remarkable Classic double has not been ruled out by connections of Magician, and he would be a leading rival to Dawn Approach if he does take his chance, but with the non runner no bet safety net, our customers can now back the colt knowing they will not lose out if he does not line up at Epsom just seven days on from his Curragh triumph,” said Coral’s David Stevens.
**Investec Oaks – Coral: Official Betting Partner
5-2 Secret Gesture, 3 Moth, 10-3 Liber Nauticus, 8 Banoffee, 10 Say, 14 Talent, 20 Snow Queen, Madame Defarge, 33 Gertrude Versed, The Lark, 50 Roz, 66 Miss You Too,
**Investec Derby – Coral: Official Betting Partner
4-5 Dawn Approach, 4 Battle Of Marengo, Magician,7 Ocovango, 8 Chopin, Ruler Of The World, 12 Mars, 16 Libertarian, Magician, 25 Festive Cheer, Nevis, 33 Bravodino, Flying The Flag, Galileo Rock, Trading Leather, Zand, 40 Eternal Ray, 50 Qahir, Tinghir, 66 First Cornerstone, Mirsaale, 100 Superplex, 200 Gold Medal, Jammy Guest, 500 Ocean Applause
**Investec Coronation Cup – Coral: Official Betting Partner
4-7 St Nicholas Abbey, 9-2 Dunaden, 6 Imperial Monarch, 10 Dandino, Main Sequence, Very Nice Name, 12 Joshua Tree, 20 Girolamo, 33 Chamonix, 40 El Salvador, 50 Ernest Hemingway, Sir Graham Wade, 66 Chapter Seven,
**Investec Dash – Coral: Official Betting Partner
10 Duke Of Firenze, 12 Captain Dunne, Face The Problem, Masamah, Smoothtalkinrascal, Stone Of Folca, 14 Ajjaadd, Humidor, Judge ‘n Jury, Long Awaited, Normal Equilibrium, 16 Confessional, La Fortunata, Tarooq, Mister Manannan, 20 Ballesteros, Crew Cut, Dinkum Diamond, Fair Value, Fitz Flyer, Swiss Cross, Last Sovereign, Top Cop, 25 Bar
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Gore Vidal loved to be in the spotlight and loved to barge into American politics whenever he could. His death at 86 on Tuesday fitted perfectly into his career planning, giving him a small but noticeable role in one last presidential campaign and grabbing a little attention from the candidates. Vidal, a writer of great but uneven talent, lived on gossip, worked it into his writing as often as he could and generated a great deal of it on his own.
He wrote and talked often about politics and twice ran for election. In 1960 he was the losing Democratic candidate for congressman in an upstate New York district and in 1982 he ran unsuccessfully for U.S. senator from California.
But his most famous entrance onto the political stage was his play, The Best Man, which opened on Broadway in March, 1960, just as the Democrat and Republican parties were sorting out their presidential candidates.
For gossip lovers it was an orgy. Audiences realized we were watching Vidal’s versions of major figures in Washington: a virtuous character represented Adlai Stevenson, a vicious character was a stand-in for Richard Nixon and a dying president was a brilliant parody of Harry Truman.
After running 520 performances, it became a film, with Vidal’s script. Henry Fonda was the Stevenson-like character, Cliff Robertson the Nixon. Margaret Leighton showed up as Fonda’s wife, to remind us of Stevenson’s sexual indiscretions. At the climax the Stevenson stand-in throws his support behind a minor candidate, dashing his own and the Nixon man’s chances.
We are left to think that perhaps another president as good as Truman has been created. A Broadway revival was mounted in 2000 and another this spring, under the title Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Vidal was proud of his private knowledge of political life, acquired first at the knee of his grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, a Democratic senator from Oklahoma. As a boy he read many books to the senator, who was blind, and frequently accompanied him to the senate.
He took even more pride in his connection to the Kennedy family, distant and tenuous though it was. He was a cousin, by marriage, of Jacqueline Kennedy, and he gave every impression that this made him an authority on the entire Kennedy clan, whom he echoed in his novel, Washington, D.C. He socialized with the president and his wife on occasion, though he knew Robert Kennedy disliked him (and the feeling was mutual).
He was the No. 1 anti-American American, a man impossible to love and impossible to ignore. His essays and sometimes his novels about Washington recalled Henry Adams: Vidal was to the 20th century what Adams was to the 19th. They were both natural aristocrats who deplored the democracy that the uncivilized masses had made. Vidal was considered by many an isolationist, like his grandfather, but he could argue that he attacked only those U.S. foreign initiatives of which he disapproved, i.e., all of them.
He disliked the government of Israel and thought it had too much influence among American Jewish intellectuals. He described Norman Podhoretz, the long-time editor of Commentary magazine, and his wife, Midge Decter, as “Israeli Fifth Columnists”. He thought the United States, by its imperialism in the Middle East, brought the 9/11 attack on itself, and anyway, he claimed, George W. Bush knew about it ahead of time and let it happen to make himself a hero.
Vidal viewed television with contempt but lived by writing TV plays in the 1950s and later became a witty, much-valued guest on talk shows, including Johnny Carson’s. He was not only handsome and articulate, he could be relied on to make trouble, particularly if someone like William F. Buckley Jr. came within range. He called Buckley a “cryptofascist” during a 1968 broadcast; Buckley called him a “queer.”
One reason he resented Buckley’s charge was that he believed he should be allowed to define his own sexuality. He was not a homosexual, he said; that was an offensive attempt to label personality. He was a “homosexualist,” meaning that certain practices were activities, not the sum of his life. Besides, he was bisexual (he thought everyone was) and sometimes had sex with women.
Still, he acknowledged that the most passionate love of his life was Jimmie Trimble, who died at Iwo Jima, the “J.T” to whom Vidal in 1948 dedicated his first gay-themed book The City and the Pillar. (He never accepted “gay,” a term he hated.)
His most outlandish novel, Myra Breckenridge, was also (he claimed) his favourite. It appeared in 1968, a few years after Susan Sontag made “camp” a popular word in the media. Vidal, adopting camp mode, took off from an obscure film critic’s theory that the classic Hollywood movies all contain hidden homosexual themes. His protagonist, Myron, is turning into Myra through sexual reassignment surgery and has already developed a taste for female-dominance sex. Myra Breckenridge was a best-seller as a book but the movie (which Vidal hated) was a failure.
He wrote two dozen novels, a pile of screenplays, some popular stage plays and a long series of caustic (but always readable) essays. Although they could be painfully self-regarding and were often dotted with whines about his treatment in the press, they were his most effective and readable work.
Vidal marked himself as a real outsider by writing a specifically anti-Christian novel, Julian, about the 4th century Roman emperor the Christians called Julian the Apostate. Like Edward Gibbon and Voltaire two centuries earlier, Vidal took the side of the Apostate as he tried to save the old gods of Greek and Rome from drowning in the sea of Christianity sweeping Europe.
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Some movies save the best for last. One last quote that just sums up the whole experience like a combination exclamation point/kick in the dick. Today I thought we'd count down the ten best ones that were laid out just before the credits and left an audience strumming with genius.
10. Doom Generation (1995)
You want a Dorito?
How do you sum up an evening that included rape, neo-Nazis, murder, and castration? Greg Araki did it with one of the most bizarre incidences of product placement ever.
9. Back to the Future (1985)
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads
The ending of Back to the Future is one of the most influential endings of all time. How many movies have you seen try and set up enough interest to film a sequel by having you're plot-driver show back up with a mysterious warning and lay out a forced cliffhanger? Happens all the time, but none nail it with the style of Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown.
8. Shock Treatment (1981)
The sun never sets on those that ride into it
As someone that performed in Rocky Horror for a solid decade, let me assure you that the pseudo-sequel where an entire town is trapped in a television studio is a much better film. Our unseen narrator lays down this final gem just as Brad, Janet, and their friends managed to hotwire a care and flee the entertainment madness into an unknown darkness, singing all the way.
7. Chinatown (1974)
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
The thing that separates Roman Polanski's film from other gangster flicks is its terrible, bleak message that bad men sometimes do get away with doing terrible things and sometimes there just isn't much we could do with it. You'll excuse me. I left the irony on.
6. Clue (1985)
Okay, Chief. Take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife.
Why this movie isn't recognized for the comedic genius it is is completely beyond me. A blu ray finally came out, but still no one has bothered to put together a featurette or a commentary. Of the three endings, this one tops off the one where everyone but Mr. Green is the killer, and it's the final fuck-you to the assorted misfits he's spent the evening watching for the FBI.
5. The Usual Suspects (1995)
And like that, he's gone
When it all comes together at the end of the Usual Suspects and Kevin Spacey just sheds his crippled persona to turn back into Keyser Soze in mid-stride is one of the greatest, "Oh shit" moments in all of movie history. Every little detail that pointed or hinted to the revelation comes rushing out at the audience in a cacophony of understanding that stops with one final, inarguable line.
4. Casablanca (1942)
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Obligatory Casablanca reference. Moving on.
3. The Lost Boys (1987)
"One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires."
A classic grizzled line that only a drunken grandfather could say. If there was a zombie outbreak tomorrow you could easily imagine Joe Biden busting out the appropriate variant.
2. Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003)
One last thing, Sophie. Is she aware that her daughter is still alive?
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I am willing to bet that there will never be a cliffhanger ending like the one that David Carradine utters near the end of the first Kill Bill chapter. I can't speak for the rest of you, but I did not see that plot twist coming at all, and as I left the theater all I could think of was, "There is no way I can wait until the next installment. Better freeze myself."
1. The Breakfast Club (1985)
Dear Mr. Vernon,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is that we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms and in the most convenient definitions.... But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain. And an athlete. And a basket case. A princess. And a criminal. Does that answer your question?
The Breakfast Club
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The dark behind his eyelids was warm, comforting - he was conscious only of the music he held in his hands, the way the orchestra pulsed and responded. A tiny flick of his index and there was a flute, and then the clarinet joining it, and the piano underneath, steady triplets that felt like gravity holding it all together. The strings were a warm bath around all of it and he was lifted, cradled in it, soaring -
A hand tapped his shoulder and Hux jerked upright, flailing slightly. Phasma stood in front of him, grinning. He pulled his headphones off and the music fell away, though it still echoed, ghostly and tinny, from around his neck.
“Prep time’s over, Maestro,” she said. She had her violin tucked under her arm and her sheet music folder. “I think our sectional went well, though no-one is thanking you; the violin parts are awful. I passed the brass on the way to find you and they’re sounding good - seems like Thanisson worked the kinks out of that passage the horns were botching.”
Hux nodded. “Good.”
She looked at him expectantly, as though there was more. He gave her back the look that said she was just going to have to ask. After this many years playing together, they hardly even needed to speak to communicate.
“So did the music committee tell you what the board wants for the gala concert? I mean, I assume, since you’re buried in…” She listened for a second. “Is that… Rachmaninoff?”
Hux nodded. “It is. They want a crowd-pleaser. I’m driving - Snoke will still be in Belgium, so they’ve dropped the gala in my lap and I have to make the donors cry tears of money. Which means Rachmaninoff, apparently.”
“Rach 2?” Phasma smiled reminiscently. They’d done that one before, in uni, the year when she had been principal second violin and he had been the first flute. “I like that.”
“2 and 3,” Hux said. “They’ve hired some young hotshot who’s making a career out of Rach, apparently, and we’re doing 3 for the first half, then Romeo and Juliet and 2 for the second half. And then they shower us with enough cash to make up next season’s funding.”
“Who’s the hotshot?” Phasma offered him her free hand and he pulled himself up out of the armchair he’d insisted on keeping in his tiny dressing room slash office slash bolt-hole. It was his favourite score prep armchair.
“Ah, Kylo Ren? Never heard of him, I’m afraid. Juilliard, recentish, apparently got the magic touch? He’ll be turning up in a few weeks.”
They walked out to the stage together, and the orchestra all sat up a little straighter. Phasma patted him on the shoulder, and took the podium to cue Unamo for the tuning A while he dug through his satchel of scores for his baton and the Tchaikovsky.
Phasma was methodical and the orchestra were too, and he ascended the podium as she arranged herself under his left hand.
“Thank you everyone,” he said, loud enough to carry. “I’m told everything went well with your sectionals this morning. The Tchaikovsky, as you would know by now, is for the gala in May. I don’t expect us to have any trouble with it. It’s a big showpiece, we all know the tune, and everyone gets to shine so everyone’s mum can clap at the end, that sort of thing.”
He enjoyed the flutter of chuckles from the musicians and then continued. “The repertoire committee have decided that the rest of the program won’t tax us too badly - they’ve hired a piano soloist by the name of Kylo Ren, who is apparently Juilliard and very good, and we’ll be doing Rachmaninoff 2 and 3. The librarians should have all the music ready by the break so if you would all go and collect your parts that would be much appreciated.”
He steepled his hands on the music stand in front of him and tried to look every single person in the eye. “I’m sure I don’t need to tell you, either, that EOS is looking at a drastic funding shortfall next season if we don’t impress the donors. So please, for the love of Mahler, swot up on this - I know you’re all professionals but we need to sound like the Berlin Philharmonic on the night.”
“Is that why you’re going for Karajan’s haircut, sir?” Mitaka called, from the clarinet riser.
Hux patted his hair down a little bit. The headphones never did him any favours, but their sound quality was unmatched.
“I can find a new first clarinettist in six weeks, Mitaka,” he said pleasantly. “Anyway, Herbert von Karajan was an extremely handsome man.”
Mitaka grinned. At his elbow, so did Phasma, who clearly remembered the long night they’d once spent lying on the floor in Hux’s dorm room, listening to the Philharmonic under Karajan making magic out of Beethoven, while Hux waved his hands along and babbled about how much of a crush he had on the iconic conductor. He’d had a poster of Karajan up next to his desk. Phasma had seen him kiss it. It was a measure of how very good a person she was that to his knowledge, no member of his current orchestra was aware of that.
“Let’s get on with it,” Hux said, and tapped his baton sharply on the edge of the stand. “The Tchaik, please, and we’ll start from B.”
Hux had always known he would be a conductor. His father had been the leader of his regimental band, and some of Hux’s earliest memories were of sitting in the bleachers of the gymnasium where they rehearsed and waving his hands, pretending that they were following him just as much as his father.
When he was old enough, they’d put him into music lessons, and he’d found something of a niche. He was a skinny, pale child without many friends or any particularly obvious athletic ability, so staying inside and practicing was perhaps not as much of an ordeal for him as some. He played piano well enough, and enjoyed the counterpoint of more than one note at a time, but never was it quite as satisfying as the majestic swathe of tone of an orchestra.
The next step, of course, had been a band - there was no youth orchestra in his town, but the regimental band had a junior group, and they needed a flautist, and Hux found himself in the front row, in a natty uniform, increasing his lung capacity one march at a time.
University had beckoned, and off he had gone on a scholarship, with his flute and the old baton he had stolen from his father’s office when he’d bought a new one. He’d thrown himself into his conducting classes like they were the secret to eternal life, and perhaps, in some way, they were. He lived for nothing but the day they’d finally let him up on the podium.
When it came, near the end of his second year, he’d worried for days about it - it was a one-month rehearsal, one-show gig deal with the university orchestra, most of whom knew the awkward, skinny ginger kid from their theory class or maybe as the one who always knew the answers in history. He’d felt like a fraud up there in front of them, with his hair flopping in his eyes, sweating through his shirt.
Right up until he’d given them the downbeat, and there they’d been, hanging on the end of his baton. And there they were, all afternoon, and by the end of rehearsal it was starting to sound like something.
He’d gone back to his dorm, curled up under his blanket and wept with sheer relief. It had been all right. He could do it.
Phasma had met him for dinner that night. The tall blonde violinist had been in his mandatory small-ensemble class during winter term and they had bonded over how much they both hated the Mozart quartets they’d been required to perform.
“It’s a meringue,” Hux had said, leaning on the piano. “Frilly, airy. No real substance.”
“And too many notes besides,” Phasma had agreed. “Let’s do Schubert next term if they’ll let us.”
From that moment on, they had been platonically and musically inseparable. Phasma was a performance major, working her way to what he was sure would be a solid professional orchestral career. She was the best sightreader Hux had ever met, and he bagged her for everything he could. She repaid the favour by hiring him, with actual money (something in fairly short supply at that point in Hux’s life), to accompany her for all her recitals.
But this night, she had had news too.
“I got a job offer,” she said quietly. “The Erste Orden Sinfonie. They want to let me stay, finish my degree - they know I have two years left. I’ll be backstopping in the first violins for now, with a full programme over the summer. But there’s a chance…” She swallowed. “If I do all right and they like me, I could make concertmistress in a couple of years. Their current concertmaster has let them know they’ve got two seasons and he’s retiring.”
Hux had heard of EOS. They’d been around for awhile, in some form or other. They’d been called the Imperial Light Orchestra but that name had not aged very well, and they’d gone under, then resurrected themselves with donor funding and government arts grants as EOS.
“It’s a terrific offer,” he told her sincerely. “I think you’d be mad not to take it.”
“You won’t be jealous?”
“I would be a terrible concertmistress,” he said, and smiled at her. “Far better you.”
“You know what I mean, though.” She patted his wrist. “I know how much you want to get out there and just do it.”
“I will, though,” he said. “There aren’t so many conducting jobs floating around. I’ll get there.”
Phasma had begun putting down roots, knowing where she was staying. But the day after her grad recital, which Hux had accompanied on both flute and piano, he was on a plane to Europe. He’d bounced around there, for a couple of years - done his M.Mus in Germany, thought about a PhD, interned here and there. There had been guesting jobs, one or two months at most, and a somewhat disastrous summer youth orchestra program, during which Hux had decided that teenagers were just as shitty as they had been when he was one and that was that.
He was perennially almost broke, he had one suit that was fit to go on stage, and he’d been living out of a series of suitcases for so long that he had nearly forgotten what it was like to just know where your bed was.
He was on stage, with an audience at his back and an orchestra at his feet, at least two nights a week.
He was the happiest he’d ever been.
But it wasn’t sustainable, and he was starting to put out feelers. Someone, somewhere, had to want a sabbatical.
The offer, when it came, was almost completely unexpected - and yet inevitable, somehow.
“Maestro Hux?” The voice on the other end of the phone was crackly with distance.
“Yes,” he said. “Speaking.”
“My name is Carmen Laguerta,” she said. “I’m representing the board of directors of the Erste Orden Sinfonie, under Bernard Snoke.”
“How can I help you?” He sat back in his chair.
“Maestro Snoke has been offered an opportunity to take a year in charge of the National Orchestra of Belgium, and when we were discussing possible candidates to fill his spot for the year, our concertmistress Jeanne Phasma suggested we might get in touch with you.”
He felt warm. “Oh yes. Phasma and I worked together very frequently at university, when we were doing our B.Mus.”
“So she told us. In fact, she spoke very highly of you. We realise that we are not a high-profile organisation, Maestro, but would you be interested?”
He looked at his suitcase, and the walls of the hotel room, and said, “I think I would be very interested, yes.”
He’d been expecting to have been sent on his way by now. The board was fairly possessive about the gala, given the amount of money they expected to raise, and they’d asked Snoke to come back for it. But he had replied, just barely in time for rehearsals to begin: he was still required in Belgium and was certain Hux was up to the task.
There had been, then, a further offer. Snoke was enjoying Belgium. If, in fact, the board was pleased, and the gala went well, he was quite content to allow Hux to remain for an indeterminate amount of time, possibly for good. If, however, it pleased the board to remove Maestro Hux from his position, Snoke would return.
He supposed the axe had been over his head all along, but it was somehow so much worse to feel it now, hanging a hair’s-breadth off his neck as he revised the scores. The idea that perhaps it wasn’t inevitable that he would leave, after all; the orchestra a dangling prize, held up on the thinnest thread, his for the taking. And the abyss waiting under it if he misjudged.
He spent hours with as many recordings of the concertos as he could find, headphones on and baton in hand, hoping to get a sense of how this mysterious Kylo Ren might play. All the places where he would have to be elastic, all the things he had to prepare the orchestra for - it was so difficult to rehearse a concerto without having ever heard the soloist. He did his best. There was a generally accepted middle ground for tempos, and his piano skills, though perhaps not soloist-calibre, were plenty good enough for him to be able to look at the murderously complicated piano score and imagine where Ren might need more, or less, room.
He’d done most of the shouting he felt he would need to do in the first two weeks of rehearsals. There had been tension, just shy of outright rebellion, in the upper brass for a while; Finn, his first trumpet, was incredibly talented, but unhappy in the straight-laced atmosphere of EOS and vocally displeased with his contract. Things had come to a head, and Finn had told Hux exactly what he thought of him and stormed out before Thanisson the first horn could throw him out. Hux had heard he’d joined up with Poe Dameron’s big band and seemed much happier, but it had been a headache he had not needed and he had worked the rest of his musicians perhaps harder than he had had cause to, until he felt better. There had been extra sectionals every week, with Thanisson leading the trumpets too in the absence of anyone else Hux trusted. On Thanisson’s advice, Rodinon had received a hasty field promotion from 3TP to 1TP and they’d hired a session player for the occasion to fill out the section until they could get a permanent replacement. It would be all right. They were starting to gel.
He’d kept the extra sectionals on the schedule, though. Having established discipline, Hux was not one to let it slide. Even though he had heard Mitaka last week, in the woodwinds’ dressing room, bellowing in his best English accent, “The sectionals will continue until morale improves!”
It was all right. They didn’t have to like him, just so long as they respected his authority.
(The tiny, sneaking suspicion that most of them actually did like him was something he kept to himself, like a delicate filigree piece that might tarnish on too much exposure to air.)
He thought, quietly, when no-one was around to catch him out, that EOS might genuinely have improved under his guidance. Snoke was a fine conductor, but old, and set in his ways, and too fond of them to change. Hux had shaken things up just enough to break up the sediments, bring flavours out that the audiences had not experienced in a while.
If this was to be his last hurrah, it would be a fine one. But perhaps… it was possible that he’d put enough into this to get them all over the line.
Soon he would know.
The orchestra had rented a Steinway, as per Kylo Ren’s rider, and it had been sitting lonely at the back corner of the stage for a couple of days, acclimatizing to the theatre and settling. They’d had it tuned and would have it tuned again before Ren arrived, but in the meantime, it was mostly just something for Datoo the timpanist to duck around. But Hux had been eyeing it for several days, and once it had been tuned, after rehearsal, he bribed the stage manager with a nice bottle of wine to leave him to lock up.
It was a gorgeous piano. He stroked it almost reverently as he slid its padded cover off, put the lid up, pulled the bench out and slid in. He’d been bashing through the Rach 2, on his own, just for fun and because he’d always liked it. Now, in front of this magnificent instrument, it was all he could think of to play that was worthy of it. He started in on the slow, graceful arpeggios of the second movement - the Adagio sostenuto.
The chords rang through the empty theatre, achingly crystallinely beautiful, and he closed his eyes and let the end of a phrase hang in the air.
Perhaps he could have been a concert pianist, he thought, rolling the next chord under his hand, letting it, too, breathe. Could have been the one in the immaculate tails, in front of this Steinway, with someone else watching from the podium -
But that was where it fell apart, and his laugh echoed as the piano did. He took his foot off the sustain pedal and smiled. He knew where he belonged. He’d always known that. There was more to life than one piano.
He put the Steinway to bed, tucking it in like a child. “Never mind,” he said to it. “Ren will be here soon.”
He was backstage, in the warren of corridors that led to the dressing rooms in one direction and the smaller rehearsal rooms in the other, when Mitaka came running.
The little clarinettist was very red in the face. “Maestro, there’s an arsehole at the door who says he’s important and needs to see you. I told him to wait for the stage manager but…” He shrugged tightly. “Apparently I looked like a good enough messenger.”
“Never mind,” Hux said. “Thank you. I’ll go deal with it.” He drew himself up to his full height, which he knew very well was not inconsiderable, and adjusted his jacket. He would look every inch the conductor.
He stalked towards the stage door, where some sort of ruckus was indeed occurring. “There you are,” said a voice - brash, American, deep.
It seemed to belong to some sort of overgrown adolescent with his hair in his face and a half-dozen agitated hangers-on trailing behind him with cases.
“I am Maestro Hux, if that is who you think I am,” Hux said, letting ice form on every syllable.
“Yeah,” said the American. “I saw your picture on the webpage, you’re hard to miss with that hair. I’m Kylo Ren. Where’s my dressing room?”
“You’re early,” Hux said, still icy. “We weren’t expecting you until this afternoon.”
“Whatever.” Ren shrugged, smiled insolently. “I’m here. And we have all our stuff.”
“Who is ‘we’?” Hux asked.
Ren ticked them off on his extraordinarily long fingers - that explained the Rachmaninoff fixation, Hux supposed, though he was almost surprised that with those hands Ren hadn’t gone for Liszt. “This is Jerry, my driver; Lauren, my hairstylist; Jordan, my valet; Simon, my music assistant; Darla, my personal assistant; and Harry, my piano tuner.”
Six of them. “We have piano tuners in this city, you know,” Hux felt compelled to point out.
“Can’t be too careful.” Ren looked down the hallway, past Hux. “Ah. Dressing rooms.” He walked right past Hux as though he wasn’t actually standing there.
Hux had to take one or two very quick steps to catch up with Ren, whose legs were as improbably long as his fingers. “We allocated you a single dressing room,” he said quickly, “there’s not an enormous amount of space back here, and -”
Ren had seen the door which, thankfully, because the stage manager was on top of her job, already had his name on it. He opened the door. “Oh no,” he said, “this won’t work at all.”
Phasma was coming up the hall. “Maestro, hello,” she said; an avenging angel could not have looked more beautiful. “And you must be Kylo Ren. I’m Phasma, the concertmistress.”
Ren grabbed her hand and shook it, hard. “It’s Jeanne, isn’t it? I read your bio, and -”
“It’s Phasma,” she corrected, and she did the ice almost as well as Hux. “I see Maestro has shown you to your dressing room.”
“Well, he’s shown me this closet, which is not going to be big enough for my team to work in, as I’m sure you can see.” Ren tried, God help him, to look winsome. “I don’t suppose there’s a larger one anywhere we could use?”
Phasma and Hux shared a long look. “I suppose,” she said eventually, “that you might have mine, if that would work.”
“That would be really nice,” Ren said, and that face simply wasn’t built for the smile he was trying to put on it. “Where is it?”
“It’s down here,” Phasma said, and led them back the way she had come.
In the end, Hux had to have a very quiet conversation with Thanisson and the rest of the upper brass, out in the hall. A dressing room for eight people was large enough for Ren and his six. The brass would take Phasma’s room, which was admittedly spacious enough, but she needed space to warm up and she had a lot of reach with a bow in her hand.
“You can room with me,” Hux told Phasma, who looked fairly steamed. “It’ll be like old times.”
“It won’t bother you when I’m playing?” She shook her head. “I don’t want to throw you off your game.”
“Phasma, you couldn’t bother me if you tried.” Hux attempted to smile for her, though he didn’t feel much like smiling. “It’s only for six rehearsals. We’ll be fine.”
Not content with talking down to his first clarinet and inconveniencing his concertmistress, Ren then proceeded to alienate Hux’s stage manager and all of the stagehands by insisting that the piano be moved at once so that Harry could tune it, which meant striking half the chairs and stands so there was space. Which, of course, meant that rehearsal was not likely to start on time, and of all of the things that Hux disliked, one of the worst was when rehearsal couldn’t start on time. People had places to be, and there were schedules, and there were reasons for those schedules. But Kylo Ren was above schedules.
When they finally got most of the orchestra on stage, they were already running twenty minutes behind. Hux took the podium and tapped for silence. “This was meant to be a full run-through of the Tchaik, but as you can see, our soloist has arrived this morning instead of this afternoon, so we’ll be running the Rach 2 instead. Would everyone please welcome Kylo Ren to the stage.”
At the piano, Ren stood, and bowed. Up on the clarinet riser, Mitaka was still very red, and the applause from the violins was distinctly lukewarm, but it was enough that Hux didn’t feel he needed to extract more enthusiasm from his people.
“I think, given that there hasn’t been time for any sort of warm-up,” Hux said, “it might be wise to start with the second movement. For everyone’s sake.”
“Do you not think I can do this?” Ren said, from behind the piano. “... Maestro.” He must have looked at Phasma.
“I think,” Hux said, very very carefully, “that we will start with the second movement, Mr. Ren. If you don’t mind.”
His first flautist, Nastia Tarkin, a woman both terrifying and terrifyingly good, smiled her sharp-edged smile. No-one, not even him, had ever managed to intimidate her, and in this moment he was fiercely glad of it. “I’m ready, Maestro.”
Mitaka nodded too, though he had his reed in his mouth and didn’t speak. The two of them, Mitaka especially, had the high-payoff solos in this movement, so if they were up to it then it should be fine. He’d heard Mitaka working on the solo earlier and it had been excellent, buttery smooth and roundly rich.
“From the top, then.” He watched Mitaka slip his reed into place and tighten the ligature before he brought his hands up and felt everyone snap to attention.
Phasma was watching him, and her loyal army of violinists was watching her. He breathed in with the upbeat, a gentle curve, and down.
Lush. Perfect. Everyone precisely where he wanted them. He could feel Ren’s eyes on him, and it didn’t matter, because there were all of the layers of strings like a sweet cushion, and then Ren hit his first chord.
Ren’s eyes slipped closed for a moment, as he leaned into his arpeggios, and Hux let himself, just for a moment, enjoy it. Ren put the perfect amount of weight on each note, let the music carry itself along, and Hux guided the river gently with his right hand, half an eye on Tarkin, who knew her cue.
Her flute soared above Ren’s careful, considered arpeggios, and Hux almost smiled, almost, and gave Mitaka the nod to take the pass and carry it on.
And there he was, and -
His third note, the downbeat of the main theme, cracked into a squeak. Mitaka gulped for breath and hit it on the second try, but Ren was already frowning.
Never mind. Hux nodded reassuringly at Mitaka; they wouldn’t stop.
The motif repeated again, but lower, and this time he was flawless, every note dripping honey, and Hux wanted to grin. This, this was his orchestra, a collection of talented professionals, every bit a match for this giant-handed child.
Back to the original motif, and he nailed it, and Tarkin’s flute section slid smoothly in for the descant, and that was it for the exposed bits now. Some lovely rippling-water arpeggios, Mitaka’s speciality, and Ren looked up at him again -
Ren growled, and mashed several keys, and Hux whirled to stare at him, cutting the orchestra off without thinking.
“Mr. Ren?” Hux asked, in the tone of voice he had used on his summer-camp teenagers. “Would you mind not staring at my clarinettist?”
“I’m sorry, Maestro,” Ren drawled, lazy and dangerous. “I thought this was a professional orchestra.”
Hux saw Mitaka duck his head behind the cover of his stand, furiously undoing his ligature and ripping out the treacherous reed.
“And I thought you were a professional soloist,” Hux snapped back, because he would not have his people insulted and stand by and do nothing. “But from everything I’ve seen from you so far today, that would appear not to be the case, so perhaps you should not be so quick to judge someone on what I’m sure is merely a faulty reed.” Mitaka had not re-emerged from behind his stand, and Mandetat the bassoonist was now whispering something inaudible to him. “Mitaka,” Hux said, much more gently, “if you didn’t bring a spare reed out with you, go get one from the dressing room. We’ll move on and come back to this later.”
“Yes, Maestro,” Mitaka said, his voice muffled, and he made a very hasty dash into the wings, clutching his clarinet like a club, without turning his face back to Kylo Ren.
Hux knew Mitaka had a film canister full of reeds with him nearly all the time. Including now. He was just glad Mitaka was smart enough to take a hint.
“Well.” Hux tapped his baton for order and glared at Ren. “Since you were so certain you wanted to start from the top, let’s do that instead.”
“Fine by me,” Ren said, readjusted himself on the bench and without even waiting for Hux, he started the ponderous, menacing block chords of the first movement, attacking each harder and harder, every one a musical middle finger.
On the podium, Hux seethed, and made very damn sure that as the tumbling boulders of the arpeggiated runs started, he was on the beat and ready with the cue to the strings. Phasma and her violins were always to be relied upon.
The first movement of the Rachmaninoff 2 in anyone’s hands stretched and pulled like taffy. It was meant to; Hux was fairly sure that there was no way that anyone could push that many notes into some of those bars without allowing a little give. But Ren seemed to be waiting for any moment when Hux felt like he had at last seized the tempo, and bucking him off with a sudden rubato. It was like trying to stand on the deck of a small sailboat in a large storm.
Everything sounded sloppy, squishy-edged, and not at all how it had just the day before when they’d run it without Ren. He gritted his teeth and just imagined Ren was a recording that he would understand soon, whose tricks he would catalogue until he knew them all, and hung on.
And then the orchestra fell away from under the piano, and it was just Ren, rocking back and forth on the bench like a man possessed, playing one of the most beautiful pieces of music Hux had ever heard as though it was pouring directly from his soul.
All right. Fine. The overgrown child was good.
Even if he did keep losing the beat.
They careened through it, into the fiery brass and military finery of the middle section, and through that into more glistening arpeggios that slowed, and slowed, and Thanisson was ready for the horn solo, perfect, beautiful, was there anything like a French horn at its lofty best?
And then it was a downhill tumble, faster, now, louder, harder, and everyone was with him as he whipped the baton through the air, and a triumphant tumble into the sudden end.
He caught his breath, along with Kylo Ren and everyone else.
Mitaka was back on the edge of the wings, looking freshly washed. Hux gestured him back in, and he scurried to his seat.
“That… will get better,” Hux said. “Thank you, everyone. Ren, you and I are going to have to work on your rubato until I understand where you intend to put the downbeats.”
“Don’t worry,” Ren said, smirking from behind the lid of the piano. “You’ll get the hang of it eventually.”
Hux narrowed his eyes.
“Maestro,” Ren added, and somehow that was worse, somehow it carried all the weight of you are the guest conductor, you’re not even the real conductor, my name’s the one on the front of the programme and who the fuck do you think you are anyway?
Hux would ignore him. He would ignore this impertinent teenager, and he would get on with doing his job, like an adult, and he would absolutely not throw his entire score squarely at Kylo Ren’s head.
“Do you need me to punch him for you?” Phasma’s hand rested at the base of Hux’s neck. He was slumped in his score prep armchair, with his head in his hands. It was now two days before the concert, and they only had two more runs at Rach 2, including the dress rehearsal, before he would have to give up and admit it all sounded like spaghetti bolognese. This evening would be their last crack at the Tchaikovsky before dress. At least that was shaping up fine, with no interference.
He was frankly surprised she hadn’t already made good on her offer. Ren had lost his temper that morning upon being asked to repeat the same passage a third time, because Hux could not seem to find any rhyme or reason in where he was putting the phrasing in relation to where the winds had to come in, and they always seemed to end on the wrong foot.
The shouting that had followed would have been bad enough, but when he’d decided to punctuate the tantrum by seizing Phasma’s music stand and dumping its contents squarely into her lap and the lap of her stand partner, then flinging the heavy black Manhasset stand out over the front three rows of seats to land with a clang, wedged into the fourth row… well. It was an awfully good thing Ren had then disappeared into the wings in a huff, and Hux had watched Phasma swallow her anger like too large a chunk of bread, and help her stand partner collect the drift of sheet music as one of the other first violins laid down her instrument and went to retrieve the music stand.
“Save your hands,” Hux said, and looked up at her. “Phasma, what have we done to be so punished?”
“These Rens are sent to try us,” she said, surprisingly philosophically. “He’s an arsehole kid, you do know that. He’s all mouth and no trousers. Juilliard or no, you’re worth fifteen of him.”
“But if this concert doesn’t come off, I’m the one who’s going to lose my job,” Hux said, into his hands again.
“That is unfortunately true, yes.” Phasma perched on the arm of his chair. “The way I see it, Maestro Hux: you will have to work with him, for another four rehearsals, and one concert. And you can do that, because I have seen you go all semester without punching someone who really deserved it. And I, also, can do that, although I reserve the right to break both his legs if he puts a scratch on my violin.” She began loosening off her bow. “And then, once that curtain falls, we can get on every message board we know and have him blacklisted.”
Hux gazed up at her admiringly. “You never fail to astonish me.”
“I am quite amazing,” she said, with a grin, as she stood up to slide her bow into her case, secured it and locked the case shut. “I’ll see you at seven - and it’s Tchaik tonight, he won’t be there. Do make sure you get something to eat, though. Difficult people, like antibiotics, will make you sick if taken on an empty stomach.”
She was, of course, right. He should go out. There was a shop not too far away that did very decent sandwiches.
He could get one, and then come back and eat it here, and look at the scores for the Rach 3 one more time, because that one was much harder than the Rach 2 which everyone knew anyhow, and -
His dressing room door burst open.
“Hux,” said Kylo Ren. He looked agitated, and he was waving the draft programme they’d put into his information packet. “There’s been a mistake, with the programme. Do you know if they’ve gone to print yet?”
“I don’t know, Ren.” Hux fought the urge to sigh. At least he didn’t have a music stand with him this time. “Why, what’s wrong with it?”
“Well, everything. They’ve put the music in the wrong fucking order.”
“Give me that,” Hux said, panic spiking sharp in his belly, and he snatched the draft programme from Ren’s hands.
He scanned the programme quickly, and felt the spike settle into annoyance. “No, they haven’t,” he said. “That’s perfectly right. See, Third Piano Concerto, intermission, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, Second Piano Concerto.”
“But it’s not right,” Ren insisted. “What kind of idiot would put 3 before the intermission and 2 after? 3’s the real money shot.”
“For your information, I signed off on that,” Hux said tightly. “Did no-one mention to you that the point of this gala is that it is for the donors to the foundation that sustains us?”
“Doesn’t matter,” Ren said. “The better piece should go last.”
“No, it shouldn’t, and I’ll tell you why.” Hux tapped the programme with his index finger. “You are a very talented pianist, and you see this the way a pianist would. Of course you think 3 is better, it’s positively impossible and it shows you off to great effect. But here is what real, ordinary, and I reiterate very wealthy people who are not concert pianists want: the tune they can sing. The piano concerto so bloody popular it’s actually made the top 40. We play 3 last, and they’ll leave impressed, but bewildered. We play 2 last, and they’ll leave singing it, and on their way out they’ll leave us big fat juicy cheques because they love us so much, and then I have a job next year.”
Ren snorted in disgust. “Anyone who panders to their audience deserves to lose their fucking job. Maestro.”
“You will speak to me with respect, Kylo Ren,” Hux said through gritted teeth.
“All you deserve,” Ren sneered. “And I won’t do it. I have some artistic integrity, and unlike you, I also have a reputation to maintain amongst people who matter. I’ll play 3, and I’ll fucking walk at halftime.”
“You will do no such thing,” Hux roared, but Ren had already shut the door behind him.
Hux stood there, in the middle of his dressing room, breathing through his nose, for ten entire minutes until he felt that he could face the world without screaming.
The evening’s rehearsal had been much better for Ren’s scheduled absence, and Hux had slept well enough after a sneaky glass of vodka to settle himself down. There was one more entire day, and then the dress rehearsal, and Hux was not one to pray, but he hoped very fervently at the universe as he walked into the theatre that maybe by some miracle the stars would align and everything would be all right.
Everyone was cheerful backstage - Mitaka had recovered fully from his attack of first-day nerves, and had turned in a perfect solo, every solo, every time since that first disaster. He was leaning back in his chair, telling horrible viola jokes, as Hux walked past the dressing rooms.
“Some of my best friends are violists,” Hux called in at him.
“I’m sorry for your loss, Maestro,” Mitaka caroled after him, and he almost felt like smiling too. These were his people, at least for two more days, and nobody could take them from him just yet.
This morning they would run the Rach 2. Exhaustively, until Hux was satisfied. Then, in the evening, the Rach 3, the same way. They were going to sort it out once and for all.
He hit the stage, determined and energised, at 9.59 precisely. He’d heard Phasma tuning them from backstage so apparently everyone felt the same way, and that was encouraging.
He was halfway through the first violins when he realised who was missing.
“No-one’s seen him,” Phasma said. “I sent a scout a few minutes ago to make sure he’d be ready to start on time. He’s not in his dressing room and his things aren’t either, and I haven’t seen even one of his ridiculous entourage. Did you know he calls them the Knights? As though he were some sort of King Arthur figure.”
Normally this news would have cheered Hux greatly, but not with rehearsal about to start.
He replayed their argument from the previous afternoon in his head.
I’ll play 3, and I’ll fucking walk at halftime.
His legs suddenly felt rubbery, and he sat down on the piano bench.
Ren wasn’t coming. He wasn’t. Hux knew it.
No. He couldn’t be defeatist. Not yet. Maybe Ren was just caught in traffic, or he’d overslept, like the teenager that he was.
“All right,” Hux said, and swung himself around on the bench. “We have absolutely no time to waste, and as such, I think I’m allowed to get a bit creative. I’m going to do my best imitation of our absent friend, and anyone who laughs at my piano skills will be fired without severance pay, and if you think I don’t mean that I would encourage you not to try me and find out.”
He set his score on the piano, stretched out his fingers, took a very deep breath, and began the first movement.
All things considered, it wasn’t the worst rehearsal. He had simplified the piano score quite considerably, especially during the cadenzas, which given that nobody but Ren needed to know what Ren was playing there until the cues, didn’t seem like such a bad thing.
He had never played the Rach 2 all the way through without stopping, never mind several times over, and at the end of rehearsal he was hideously sweaty and rumpled, his hair falling over his face. But the orchestra had done well, even with his cues being somewhat hidden by the piano, and if he considered what they’d done on its own merits, he was quite proud of them all.
He held onto that just long enough to get himself back to his dressing room.
Then he dropped to his hands and knees, crawled under the bench of the makeup mirror, curled into a ball with his head on his knees, and in the most silent and efficient way he could manage, went entirely to pieces.
Some minutes later, he became aware of Phasma next to him.
“Hey,” she said gently, and reached out to lay her hand on his bicep. “You should have let me punch him.”
It shocked a watery chuckle out of him, and he dragged his forearm across his eyes, which seemed to have become quite damp without any sort of consent from him. “Hindsight,” he said. “Oh, Phasma, what in hell am I going to tell the bloody board? ‘I’m sorry, we’ve lost our soloist, it’s possible our first clarinet shanked him, he probably had it coming.’” He sniffled. “Damn it, I loved this job. I’m not ready to be homeless again. And specifically not because of Kylo fucking Ren.”
“Maestro,” she said, so sad, so kind.
“Don’t,” he choked, and had to put his head back down on his knees.
When he looked up again, she was tucking her violin away in its case, securing the satin and velvet drape over it and smoothing it down.
“Don’t let him get into your head like this,” she said. “You’re not beaten yet. And he’ll probably turn up with some preposterous excuse in time for tonight.”
“I’m sure you’re right about the preposterousness of the excuse,” Hux said. “Everything he bloody does is preposterous.”
“You were terrific this morning.” She leaned on the bench and smiled down at him. “I suppose if he doesn’t turn up for the concert, we’ll just feature you and your case to the board can be all about the added value of having an in-house piano soloist.”
“I would rather die,” he said, with feeling.
He crawled out from under the bench and tried to set himself back in some kind of order. It seemed to be futile.
“Have a shower,” Phasma said. “I’ll see you tonight, all right?”
He surveyed himself bleakly in the mirror. He hated crying, not just because it was antithetical to his image as a ruthless leader, but because even so few tears showed so badly on his face. Nobody would call anyone with magenta splotches all round their eyes Maestro.
One of the few perks of being the conductor was that his dressing room had its own bathroom, with the world’s tiniest shower cubicle. He set it running, colder than he usually liked it, and stood under it for far too long, trying to wash away all of the emotions with the sweat.
He felt better, and more settled, when he got out. He found one of the spare shirts he kept in his cupboard, pushed his wet hair off his face with his fingers, and decided that that would do.
Everyone had packed up, in the break between rehearsals, only a scattering of instrument cases testifying to their owners’ intent to return. He wandered slowly through the backstage, alone in the quiet.
He would miss this. The familiar flicker of the fluorescent bulb at the stage door that management kept saying they would change, and didn’t; the smell of valve oil and rosin and wood and tarnish; the silly cartoon Unamo had clipped out of the local news, saying how the symphony’s main pride was that they played better, and more consistently, than any of the local sports teams. The cartoonist had drawn him into it, all wild hair and tailcoat, with a clipboard saying COACH. He pretended to hate it, but looked at it every time he went past the notice board and felt a tiny flush of pride.
Soon he’d have to leave them all behind, go to another city where they weren’t yet used to him, where he didn’t just know all of his section leaders, where he hadn’t picked out his strongest advocates. And there wouldn’t be Phasma to make the musicians trust him.
Without noticing, his feet on automatic pilot, he’d found his way up to the stage.
The house lights were up and he ambled out, through the empty chairs of the violins, seeing their faces anyway.
That bloody Steinway was looming, a hulking black shape like an elephant at centre stage. It set Hux’s teeth on edge. It was the visual representation of everything that had gone wrong with his orchestra - the way it sat insolently as though it belonged, not caring how it displaced everything around it.
Anxiety fluttered tightly in his chest as he walked up to the piano. He wanted to kick it, punch it, smash it with the fire axe in the wings. Throw it off his stage in shattered pieces and reclaim what was his, damn it, this place was his -
He took a deep breath and forced it all back down.
“It’s not your fault,” he told the piano. “You can’t help it if you’re being played by an arsehole. And neither can I.”
It sat, silent, willing to absorb both his abuse and his contrition.
“Come on, then,” he told it. There was still a knot, under his sternum, a spot like a bruise, and he slid onto the bench and petted the slick white surfaces of the keys with his fingertips.
He didn’t know what he was playing until several bars in, his hands moving more or less of their own accord. It wasn’t the Rach 2. He wasn’t sure he could ever play that again. No, this was the Debussy he’d learned for his own grad recital, Reflets dans l’eau.
It was deep, cool, limpid - the sound of an essentially percussive instrument, this black solidity in front of him, becoming liquid, transparent, notes running off his fingers like rills of spring meltwater down a green hillside. He closed his eyes and let himself disappear into the shimmering pool of the music, let the gentle patter of raindrops collect in the hollow places inside of him; they could pull him and all his worries under the waves, set him free of gravity and keep him safe in the calm, quiet turquoise depths.
The last wide, open chord came too soon, and he eased his foot off the sustain pedal and let out a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding.
From behind him, someone clapped.
He whirled, and there was Kylo Ren, leaning on the wall between backstage and the stairs down to the front row of seats.
“Bravo,” Ren said, and it was impossible to tell if that was sarcasm or simply the way he spoke. “I thought your experience of music was strictly theoretical, but I see it was not.”
“Fuck you, Kylo Ren.” The words were out before he could stop them, that fluttering knot back and threatening to choke him at any moment. “Where the fuck have you been?”
Ren looked wounded. “Excuse me, I don’t think I like your tone, Maestro. I had a press call, this was planned days in advance.”
“Well, my rehearsal was planned months in advance.” Hux stood, scraping the bench back across the floor with an awful noise. “And you were required to be at it.”
“Well, I’m sorry nobody told you I wouldn’t be,” Ren said defensively.
“Not good enough.” He stalked towards Ren. “What makes you so much better than every other musician in this organisation, that you can blithely decide not to attend rehearsal the day before the fucking show?”
“You wouldn’t speak to my grandfather that way,” Ren spat.
“Why should I care who your precious grandfather is? He’s not playing my show tomorrow.”
“Okay, no, fuck you,” Ren said, and that was real anger on his face now. “My grandfather was Anatol Vaderensky, you uncultured hack. You wish he would have played for you.”
That shot found its mark. Hux did know that name. Everyone, in fact, knew that name.
Ani Vaderensky had been a stunningly talented concert pianist, in his youth, and had fought back despite burn injuries from a terrible car accident in his thirties that had been expected to end his career, if not his life. Had he never been in that accident he would have been amongst the best of his generation. Even so, he had still been something spectacular.
Rachmaninoff had been Vaderensky’s specialty too.
“Well, I wish you would bloody play for me,” Hux said, slightly deflated but still certain he was in the right. “I can’t be expected to turn out a quality performance when you’re fighting me at every step!”
“What’s it to you, anyway,” Ren said scornfully. “It’s not even like this audience will know if it’s bad. You said it yourself. They’re ordinary people who just happen to have a lot of money.”
“And for that we should somehow not do our best?” Hux felt his sanity fraying. “I can’t even believe I’m hearing you speak these words. I’m going to stand up in front of the people who quite literally pay my salary, and turn in a high-school level performance, and expect them to fall all over themselves to allow me to continue talking down to them. Yes, of course, why on Earth didn’t I think of that one before! Good God.” He crumpled into the nearest chair. “I’m going to lose my fucking job, Ren, the single best thing that has ever happened to me apart from Phasma somehow being willing to be friends with me still, and I’ll be disgraced and sullied by it, and all because you think this is beneath you.” He shook his head, desperately pressing his lips together, willing them not to tremble, not now, not in front of him.
“I couldn’t give the slightest of fucks for your professional cohort, or whoever you’re so hell-bent on impressing. Your grandfather would never have disrespected his audience that way.” His voice was so hoarse. “And if you would, you’re nothing like him and you never will be.”
Ren went white.
Hux stood up, and turned his back on Ren, heading back to the piano. “Get off my stage,” he said, and he couldn’t help how the last word broke.
He sat at the piano, motionless, for a long moment before he chanced a glance over his shoulder.
Ren was gone.
He slumped forward, crossed his forearms on the top edge of the piano, leaned his forehead on them, and allowed himself exactly one sob, clamping down on the rest before they got any ideas that this was the way he behaved.
He wouldn’t cry. The tears dripping down his nose and onto the gleaming keys of the Steinway were anomalies - and fuck, he was crying on a Steinway, his life was completely ridiculous.
He would just… stay here, for a little while, with his face hidden in the safe cage of his arms.
It was some time later when he heard heavy steps coming up behind him. The tears had dried, but he’d stayed where he was, trying not to think about anything for long enough that it might stop hurting to think about anything.
“Shove over,” Kylo Ren said, from his left.
“Fuck off,” Hux countered, not raising his head.
“Fine.” Ren squeezed himself onto the bench anyway, sideways, with his back pressed against Hux’s shoulder.
“I’m sorry about rehearsal,” he said eventually. He didn’t sound angry anymore. “I did ask Darla to tell you.”
“She didn’t,” Hux said, rather unnecessarily.
Ren made a small noise, neither agreement nor disagreement. Then, after another long pause, “You’re not really going to lose your job, are you?”
“Yes, I am.” Hux tried to keep the anger out of it, leave it safely banked, but all there was to fill its place was hopelessness and resignation. “If the gala fails, our board is at liberty to terminate my contract immediately. They want the former conductor back, anyhow, and I know it. They don’t think I’m prestigious enough, I was just a stopgap. They’ll jump at the excuse to give me the sack. But it’s not just me.” He swallowed. “The whole orchestra could lose their jobs. We have so little money without our donors. I don’t know how they can even afford to pay you.”
“Oh,” Ren said, the sound of an uncomfortable revelation.
“I’m sorry about what I said about your grandfather,” Hux said, because changing the subject seemed safer. “That was very unprofessional of me and I should never have stooped to it.”
Ren huffed out a tiny laugh. “You just told me to fuck off, and that’s what you’re calling unprofessional.”
“Ah, but I’m not sorry for telling you to fuck off,” Hux said.
Ren sounded like he was smiling. “No. You aren’t.”
It was strange, sitting there, with him. Hux found that he didn’t, particularly, want to move. Part of that was inertia, and another part was that he had been here first; but then there was the part that noted that Ren was warm, and he could feel Ren’s voice in his own ribs, when he spoke.
“You play Debussy to calm down?” Ren said.
“Sometimes.” Hux stared at the keys.
“Hm.” Ren shifted on the bench, and Hux felt Ren’s absurdly long arm reach around his back, his right foot nudge Hux’s away from the pedals.
He picked out the first few notes, a simple melody in the right hand with a swell of an arpeggio under it in the left hand.
Hux frowned at the keyboard. He knew it, and after a few moments he’d placed it - En bateau, the first part of Debussy’s Petite Suite.
“This is for four hands,” he said eventually, when Ren kept playing. “You bloody showoff.”
Ren chuckled, navigating the bass figures that should have properly required two hands without any apparent effort.
“So help me,” he said.
Hux bit gently at the insides of his cheeks, and wondered how big a mistake this was.
Then he sat up, put his hands on the keyboard, and came in at the risoluto.
Ren retracted his right arm and settled into the seconda part, their shoulders bumping, the sides of their hands brushing against each other every so often. He reached under Hux’s hands for the top notes of his runs.
Hux wondered if that was intentional - that he was letting Hux stay ascendant, letting him lead this once. But he raised his palms higher, letting Ren have the space he needed.
They played off each other, into the last graceful section.
Without any discussion, they started the Cortège. Ren’s powerful, delicate touch made easy work of the bouncy counterpoint runs while Hux took the triumphant processional of the treble, in close thirds, then mirrored Ren in octaves, each of them anticipating exactly where the other would be.
Hux hated how much he was enjoying this, how nice it was to just play, and to play alongside someone. Piano was not usually a team sport. But Ren was a good duet partner, shockingly so given how much he’d dictated the flow of the concertos in rehearsal.
Halfway through the Cortège, he noticed they were breathing in unison.
Stop this, said a little voice in the back of his head. Stop this now.
But he didn’t.
The end of the Cortège was clashing church bells, ringing out joy in the morning, and there they were, two men on a bench not nearly big enough for both of them, and Hux looked Ren in the eyes and said, very quietly, “What are we doing?”
“Understanding each other,” Ren said, and there was a softness in his gaze that Hux had never seen there, and suddenly wanted to see again. “We’re obviously no good at doing it with words. But this… this is okay, right?”
Hux bit his lower lip.
“Yes,” he said. “It’s okay.”
Ren smiled, and somehow Hux didn’t hate it.
“Come on,” he said, “there’s still two more movements.”
The prima led off the Menuet, and Hux felt as though he had Ren by the hand, guiding him through the intricate steps of the dance.
“I don’t know who you are,” he said, as they dived into the Ballet, “or what you’ve done with Ren, but please, keep him.”
Ren laughed. This was good, Hux thought, so good, where had it all come from?
“I’m trying something new,” Ren said, and leaned into Hux as they hit the waltz section.
It felt like they were racing each other through to the end, the last two big chords, and before Hux quite knew it it was over.
Ren's shoulder was still pressed against his, the feeling of his arm next to Hux's present, warm, companionable. Not a challenge, just… there.
“I like this new thing,” Hux said. “Much better than the old thing.”
Ren looked at his hands. “I was being a dick. You were right about Grandfather.”
Hux ducked his head too. “Well… you were, yes. But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t have said it more nicely.”
“Eh.” Ren waved the statement away. “At a certain point someone needs to tell it like it is. I sometimes get… tunnel vision. I get used to being surrounded with, and judged by, people who operate on my level.”
“I don’t have the luxury of not caring what the common folk want,” Hux said. “Or even thinking myself too far above them. Not when they're buying the tickets.”
“I probably don’t either, but I try not to think about it.” Ren looked rueful. “To be honest, I generally just intimidate most people into seeing things my way. Saves on discussion.”
“Except you will have noticed that doesn't work well on me.”
“I should have had a better back-up plan.” Ren smiled. “I don’t know what I would have done if you didn't play piano.”
“So you don't make a habit of defusing tense situations with Debussy?” Hux looked sideways at him, and let the ghost of a smile show.
“No. That…” Ren looked off to the side, away from Hux. “That was for you.”
Hux was glad Ren wasn’t looking. He was fairly sure his ears had just gone red.
“But I think you should know,” Ren continued, “I also don’t normally put sixty people's jobs at risk just by having an attitude. Even for me, that’s a little high-stakes. I was assuming that the only risk was that I might get myself fired, which is fine, practically standard, almost never happens. I wish I’d known.”
“I could probably have dealt with the attitude, to be honest,” Hux admitted. “It’s awful, but it’s not the worst thing about you.”
Ren looked back at him again, the smile lurking at the corners of his mouth. “Do tell.”
“Your rubato,” said Hux. “It is just appallingly difficult to work around.”
“Oh, yeah.” Ren blushed a little. “I don’t like working with a metronome.”
Hux rolled his eyes. “No-one does. That doesn’t mean you get to play at every single tempo from andante to presto all at once.”
“Is there anything I can do to help you?” Ren was still blushing. “I do, believe it or not, actually feel bad about missing the rehearsal this morning.”
Hux looked at his watch. “We have two hours before rehearsal tonight, and it’s going to be the Rach 3. Would it kill your hands to run through 2 now?”
“Like, right now?” Ren said. “With just me?”
“Yes,” Hux said. “I know what my orchestra is going to do, and I can make them do something different, if need be. That’s what the magic wand is for. But I need to get a better handle on how you want to play it.”
“Okay,” Ren said. “Well, let’s do it. I’m ready if you are.”
His score was still on his stand from the morning’s rehearsal; he retrieved it. His diligent score prep had ensured he was mostly off-book by now, but it couldn't hurt to have it. His baton was in his dressing room, but that didn’t matter if he didn’t have to be seen across the stage.
He sat down in Phasma’s seat, next to Ren’s bench, opened his score across his knees, and gave Ren the nod to start.
It was like a movie score, the Rach 2. Even by himself Ren was a whole orchestra. But Hux sang the major missing parts along with him, filling in enough of the blanks with his clear tenor that it felt all right, and Ren’s hands flew over the keyboard, and Hux counted the beats out loud, and he felt strangely connected to the wildness of Ren at full tilt.
By the second movement, Hux knew he had made a terrible mistake. Possibly a fatal one.
It was just him, and Ren, and the velvet richness of that perfect quiet start to the Adagio sostenuto, which even after the trauma of that morning was still up there on the list of Hux’s favourite pieces of music in the whole world. It had always had an unfortunate tendency to make him fall madly, if temporarily, in love with whatever marvelous human happened to be playing it. Marvelous, by default, because they were playing it.
He sang his way through Mitaka’s solos, and Ren watched his breaths and his hands for cues, and he watched Ren play in a way he couldn't from up on the podium, his eyes far more on Ren than on his score. And all that tendency was bubbling up within him, and it found all the raw places from earlier, and laid him open, in a way Hux did not entirely want to be open to Ren right now.
(But at the same time, wanted so very badly to be; that was what this music did.)
The bouncy, dance-y chase of the beginning of the third movement was a welcome relief, Hux following Ren through the convolutions like a musical game of tag. He loved conducting this part. It was a challenge, dropping everyone in at the right times to take their place in the tableau.
And then the piano, all by itself, led into the big romantic theme, the one that had actually become a pop song at one point in its existence because it was so beloved. Because it made so many people feel the way Hux felt at this moment - like an overfull cup, needing someone’s lips on him to drink off just enough that he could safely move without spilling messily all over them.
The first iteration of that famous theme was all orchestral, and Hux almost couldn’t sing it, so unsure was he of whether he could even push his voice past his feelings. The only saving grace was that Ren took up the horn and bassoon counterpoint underneath him, his own voice propping Hux’s up just enough that he could camouflage the tremors as vibrato.
Then he picked it back up on the piano, and Hux dropped back to the counterpoint as Ren spun out the theme and embroidered it.
What a good thing it was that Hux knew this concerto inside out and backwards, like it was part of him, because otherwise he would have been lost by now; he would have looked up from his score at Ren swaying over the keyboard with his eyes closed, the black of his eyelashes stark and startling against his pale cheekbones, his lips slightly parted, and Hux would have forgotten his place, the key, the time signature, and possibly even his own name.
A slow, spiral shape rose then from the piano, with the woodwinds dotting notes through it, and a hum of building tension in the low strings; and then Ren galloped back up the keyboard, suddenly a wild thing, all crashing octaves and too many notes for one man’s hands to possibly be able to play, but he was doing it.
The fugue section that Hux remembered Phasma jokingly calling “Bachmaninoff” was next, and it was delicate for Ren but an absolute bugger to sing. Then Ren had another solo before the strings came back to the big romantic theme, which was easier this time because at least it wasn’t the fugue and he’d almost given himself the giggles trying to keep up with that. He knew what he looked like, singing it with a smile on his face, but he didn’t care. Ren was laughing too, at the piano, as he took the theme back again and turned it into something much more beautiful.
There were not too many pages left in Hux’s score now, and he was sweating, his throat starting to ache, and he couldn’t recall ever feeling more thoroughly alive than here, on this stage, at this moment, with Ren gleefully pounding at the Steinway.
They both shared the last iteration of the big romantic theme - and how spectacular it would have been had there been anyone else out there but them, the whole orchestra they could both hear in their heads - but it was enough.
The wild musical leaps that led into the ending, then, and yes, yes, yes, Ren, yes, he thought as Ren took off for the stratosphere, and he was right there with him as Ren hit the final four-chord figure and nailed it shut.
Hux was bent over his score, chest heaving along with Ren’s, leaning as close to him as he could get without actually coming out of his seat, close enough to reach out and touch him.
“Hux,” Ren whispered, and there was something in that one syllable that hurt inside Hux’s chest, and Ren lunged, then, caught Hux’s face in both hands and kissed him hard.
Hux shivered, through his whole body, and Ren caught his breath in a little gasp and let go of Hux all at once.
“I’m sorry,” Ren said, pressing his own fingers over his lips as if to put a barrier between them. “I shouldn’t have done that.”
“No,” Hux said slowly, “no, you shouldn’t have. Because now someone is going to walk in on us, onstage, doing this.” And he swept his score off his lap onto the floor, leaned a knee on the piano bench, grabbed a handful of Ren’s ridiculous mane of hair and kissed him back as though his life depended on it.
“Bloody fucking Rachmaninoff,” he said against Ren’s mouth, some minutes later. They had wound up squeezed onto the bench again, Hux balanced on one leg and Ren twisted awkwardly to try to hold him, and it was awkward and difficult and absolutely perfect.
Ren chuckled. “Bloody Rachmaninoff,” he echoed. “Thank you, Sergei, without whom I would never get laid. Hold on, let me -” He tried to twist further, but it was too far, and he had to throw a hand out to steady himself on the piano and caught the keyboard with an awful discordant splank -
- and then they were both laughing, clutching at each other’s shoulders, still inches from toppling to one side or the other but somehow feeling completely secure.
“We shouldn’t do this in front of the piano,” Ren stage-whispered into Hux’s hair. “It might get jealous.”
“Mmm,” Hux agreed. “If only one or both of us had a dressing room backstage with a door that locks.”
“Now there’s an idea,” Ren said, and he sounded hungry, and Hux offered up a brief thanks to the universe for the emotional character of concert pianists -
- and then his watch alarm went off.
“Shit,” he hissed, disentangling himself from Ren for long enough to silence the alarm. “An hour to rehearsal.” He held Ren’s face in his hands, at arm’s length. “We are going to have to bookmark this.”
“No,” Ren whined. “But I don’t want to.”
“Channel it into the music,” Hux said firmly, and made himself stand up and collect his score from the floor. “I have prep to do. You probably do too.”
Ren collapsed over the Steinway, a dramatic drape. “Ughhh,” he said, with deep feeling. “I guess.”
“I’ll make it up to you after rehearsal,” Hux said, and beat a hasty retreat before the slice of pale hip exposed by Ren’s boneless flop onto the piano could solidify any other ideas.
But their relative lack of solidity did not stop the ideas from being there all the same, and if Rachmaninoff had not intended his Third Piano Concerto to be played in quite such a state as Ren did it that night, well, at least they started and ended at the same time, and most of the things in between were all right as well. Hux suspected Ren had never watched a conductor so much in his life as he was doing now.
He also suspected few conductors had been watched in quite that way. (Perhaps Karajan. He really had been terrifically handsome.)
He called time precisely at 9pm, perversely satisfied by the knowledge that he had been able to stand up to Ren’s eyes on him for the entirety of their scheduled rehearsal.
He took a few minutes to have a little chat with the stage manager, just to make sure that the crew was all fine for the show - and to dawdle inconspicuously so as to allow things to clear out backstage, just a bit, before he made an appearance.
He didn't dawdle quite long enough to miss Phasma, though: she caught him at the stage door, on her way out.
“I hope you know what you're doing,” she said, very quietly.
“I’m sure I don’t know what you mean,” he said delicately.
Phasma raised both eyebrows. “He didn't take his eyes off you all night,” she said, “and he was looking at you like a Labrador looks at a steak. And you weren't looking at him any more than you absolutely had to. I don’t know what you did - but I can guess what you're going to do.” She shook her head. “Just… be careful.”
“Don't worry,” Hux said. “I am more than a match for Kylo Ren.”
“Okay,” she said, though she didn't sound convinced. “Sleep well, I guess. Do sleep. And I'll see you at the dress.”
He waited a little longer, saw a few more people off at the door, until he could no longer make excuses as to why he was still standing there.
He was fumbling with his key in the lock of his dressing room door when an unreasonably large hand splayed itself out next to his head, and a deep voice said very softly, the word tickling the soft hairs at the back of his neck, “Maestro.”
Every one of the soft hairs stood on end.
“Ren,” he said. “That was a fine performance tonight.”
“Which one?” Ren purred. “The Rachmaninoff, or the way I did absolutely everything you said?”
With an effort of will, Hux stopped his hands from shaking; the key engaged, and the knob turned smoothly.
“Both,” he said, with a calm he did not feel. “I’d like an encore.”
The unreasonably large hand closed on his shoulder, and he was spun around and pinned to the door.
“I’ll see what I can do,” Ren said, inches from his face.
Hux turned the knob the last fraction and pulled Ren through the doorway after him. “We are not doing this in the corridor,” he said, as he relocked the door behind them.
“Fine by me,” Ren said, and crowded him back against the door again. He tipped Hux's chin up and kissed him, hard enough to bounce the back of Hux's head off the wood of the door.
“Ow,” Hux said, into Ren's mouth, and bit Ren’s lower lip sharply by way of retaliation.
Ren growled at him and pulled free, then wrapped his hand around the back of Hux's head and kissed him again. His free hand found the bottom of Hux's shirt and untucked it, slid inside to spread over the small of Hux's back.
Hux put his arms around Ren’s waist and pulled him tight against his chest, the whole bulk of him pressing Hux back against the door. Hux’s hands roved lower, squeezed Ren’s arse gently - it was a nice arse, he decided, and went along with the rest of Ren, well-muscled and sleek.
He broke the kiss. “Get on your knees.”
Ren licked his lips. “Yes, Maestro,” he said, and that did something to Hux’s knees too, something very nearly ruinous.
“No,” he said, and pushed off the door, pulled Ren with him to the armchair, and tried to convince himself he looked graceful sinking into it.
“We don’t have much time,” he said, and Ren nodded. “They’ll lock us in if we’re not out by 9.45. So you’re going to show me how much you deserve to come back to my flat.”
Ren raised an eyebrow at him. “You know I have a king-size bed at my hotel I could go back to, and a tub big enough to float a freighter.”
Hux smirked. “Ah, but I won’t be in either of those. So… if you’d rather be alone, then by all means. Go now. Spend the night thinking about what you could have been doing instead.”
“You’re mean,” Ren said, grinning, and knelt between Hux’s knees.
“I am effective,” Hux corrected as he undid his belt. “Results-oriented.”
Ren helped him pull his trousers and boxers down, just far enough to spring him free. “That’ll do,” Ren said, “time’s a-wasting -”
And then that smart mouth was on his cock, and Hux liked him so much better like this, so much better with his eyelashes fluttering against his cheeks as he sucked. So much better when Hux could reach out for a handful of his hair and guide him, gently, keep him right there, and stop thinking.
There was nothing for it. It was the Rachmaninoff, in his veins like a drug, and Hux couldn’t let go of Ren, not tonight, not now.
Thought crept back along with consciousness. It was morning, he was in his bed, the clock radio was playing a Bach cantata and the very large, very warm weight of Kylo Ren was pressed up against his back, a heavy arm over his waist.
If the radio had started, he reasoned muzzily, then it was 7am.
Normally, he would get up.
But the Bach, the sweet and soothing aria from BWV 208, had not seeped through to the gently snoring Ren, and Hux was pleasantly sore and happily tired and deeply disinclined to leave the cocoon of the blankets just yet.
He settled deeper into his pillows and let the countertenor sing to him about safety, peace and harmony, and pressed his back into the shelter of Ren's chest, and went back to sleep.
When he woke again, it was somewhat later, by the angle of the sun. The radio had shut itself off, and his back was cold. Ren was gone, and had left the blankets rucked up enough to let the air in under them.
He sighed, and pushed the rest of them off to swing his legs out of bed. There was a trail of clothes across the floor, attesting to how little attention either of them had been devoting to anything other than bed, now when they’d gotten back to Hux’s flat. He noted Ren’s t-shirt amongst them - so wherever he’d gotten to, he wasn’t far, then. (He wasn’t sure why that thought felt reassuring, or exactly when he’d started actually wanting Ren’s continued presence.)
His robe was hung up on the back of the door, where it belonged. It seemed too much work to find any other clothes, especially before coffee, which…
There was coffee in this flat, he was sure of it. Fresh, hot coffee.
He followed the scent out to the flat’s tiny kitchen, where there were two cardboard cups, a paper bag emitting an exciting bacony smell, and Ren, wearing only his jeans, with bird’s-nest hair and a hickey on his collarbone that Hux vaguely remembered giving him. He was working on the sudoku puzzle Hux had started the day before and abandoned.
“How did you manage this?” Hux asked, sliding into the other chair. “Tell me you didn’t go out like that.”
“Good morning to you too,” Ren said, grinned, and pushed one of the cups towards him. “You wake up charming, I must say.”
Hux gulped coffee before he spoke. “That’s… really good, actually. I’m sorry, I’m not used to having… guests. Especially first thing in the morning. Let me try again.” He took another sip of coffee. “Good morning, Kylo. I trust you slept well?”
“I did, thank you,” Ren said. “And then, in answer to your earlier question, I got up, and told Darla where I was so she wouldn’t worry that I hadn’t come back to the hotel, and asked her to bring breakfast. For you, too, because I’m nice like that.”
“You made your assistant bring us breakfast.” Hux leaned his elbow on the table, and drank more coffee. “That’s either really arrogant or really sweet, and I honestly don’t know which.”
Ren considered him for a long moment.
“Do you actually even like me?” he said.
Hux felt suddenly exhausted. “We’ve spent a week at each other’s throats, Ren, an hour or two being very careful friends, and a night setting the sheets on fire. I have been awake for less than twenty minutes and I don’t know how the hell I feel about you. Is that the answer you wanted?”
“I… think I probably should have expected that answer,” Ren said slowly. “I can leave, now, if you want. I can call Jerry, he can be here in ten minutes.”
“No,” Hux said, perhaps too quickly. How was it that he felt like a heel, after all that? “No, don’t. Just. Stay. Eat your breakfast. It’s going to be a big day.”
Ren smiled lopsidedly. “Okay.” He reached into the bag, pulled out a wrapped bacon and egg sandwich, and started in on it, pushing the other one across the table to Hux.
Hux took it; it was still warm, and the roll was crisply toasted, and it tasted the way the blankets had felt that morning. Purely comforting.
Ren was poking at the sudoku puzzle again, tapping the end of the pencil against that plush bottom lip of his in between numbers. He wasn’t looking at Hux, so it probably wasn’t deliberate, but it was dangerously entrancing, and Hux made himself look away.
The roll was gone before Hux was entirely ready to try making conversation again. Instead of distracting Ren from his numbers, which he was murmuring softly over (or much worse, thinking about that soft murmuring, and whether or not he quite liked it), he got up and started the coffee machine. He was going to need at least one more cup, and it was something to do.
He glanced over Ren’s shoulder - he’d taken the lid off his coffee, and there was milk in the inch or so that was left. Excellent.
Carefully, he took two mugs out of his cupboard, filled both, added milk - he was nearly a hundred percent certain that Ren would take sugar, so he pulled out the sugar bowl, and slid one filled mug and the sugar bowl around the side of Ren’s elbow.
Ren looked up in mild surprise, the pencil poised over a square.
“I’m going to have a shower,” Hux said. “That’s a seven, by the way.”
Ren blinked at him, and then at the puzzle, and nodded. “Thanks.”
Hux took his coffee cup into the shower with him. There was a spot on the shelf where he could keep it out of the spray, and he tucked it in there while he got his hair wet. The Bach he had woken up to was percolating gently through his brain, and he sang the middle section of it to himself, as he lathered up his hair: “Wo Regenten wohl regieren,/ Kann man Ruh und Friede spüren/ Und was Länder glücklich macht.” Where rulers govern well, one can experience peace and quiet, and all that makes countries happy. It was a sentiment he had always agreed with, especially with Bach’s delicate modulations underneath it.
He was halfway through both the coffee and the washing, and most of the way through the cantata, when Ren wandered in, his coffee cup clutched loosely in his hand, and leaned up against the sink.
“Can I help you?” Hux said, slightly unsettled by the frank up-and-down assessment Ren was giving him.
“So I have this theory,” Ren said. He tipped his mug up, drained it; Hux stared at the long, pale throat he bared and watched him swallow. Then he set the mug down. “Give me an order.”
Hux narrowed his eyes at Ren, but thought fast. “Take off your jeans.”
“Okay,” Ren said, no hesitation, no baulking. He skinned out of his jeans in an easy, practiced three or four moves and stood naked in front of the shower. “Next.”
“Get in here,” Hux said. “Where I can see you without all this glass in the way.”
Ren nodded, and stepped in. The space was large enough for two, just a tub enclosed most of the way up to the ceiling.
Ren spread his hands out. “Next.”
Hux reached for the conditioner, worked a dollop between his palms and rubbed it into his own hair. “Get yourself wet.”
Ren stepped under the water, ducking his head to let it soak his hair.
Hux put another dollop of conditioner in his hands. “Now get down in front of me so I can see what I’m doing, while you tell me what your theory is.”
Ren knelt obediently, and Hux smoothed the conditioner into the tangled mess of Ren’s hair.
“My theory, which by the way you have just confirmed,” Ren said softly, “is that this is how we work.”
Hux’s fingers caught in a tangle; he teased it out, slowly, watching the tiny flickers of pain on Ren’s face.
“What do you mean?” he said.
Ren reached up and braced himself on Hux’s hip with one big hand.
“As long as I do everything you say,” he murmured, “you’ll do anything I want.”
Hux shivered, involuntary and surprising.
“I can see it, you know,” Ren said. He petted Hux’s hipbone with his thumb. “You don’t have to like me. I think you do, but it doesn’t matter.” That little smile crept across his face. “But I know you want me. And I can work with that.”
Hux pushed Ren back under the water, watched it stream over his face as he rinsed the conditioner out, carding through Ren’s hair with his fingers. Face upturned, eyes closed, mouth very slightly open, Ren looked totally serene, as though he were awaiting some sort of benediction.
Wo Regenten wohl regieren, Hux thought, and leaned down to kiss him.
They regretfully had to admit that they both had things that needed doing, before the dress rehearsal. Hux had to collect his suit, despite Ren’s offer to send Darla for it, and he was accustomed to a bit of meditative silence before everything became very much louder for the rest of the day.
Instead he found his silence somewhat disturbed. Not by any outside forces, just by the persistent notion that he would have been better, somehow, without it.
He pushed the notion aside, got on with things that needed to be gotten on with, and was at the theatre on time for the dress rehearsal.
Everyone had a different energy, on the day of the show. It was still the dress, and they all played their ceremonial wrong notes to get them out of their system, but there was a certain sense of being over the cliff now. There was no time left to fix it, it just had to run as it was.
Ren played lightly, skipping over some of the less important bits and saving himself for that night. It was sensible, of course - even Hux didn’t necessarily give the dress rehearsal his all, having heard spine-chilling tales of conductors leaning into a downbeat too hard, tweaking their back, and winding up nearly in traction when they should have been on stage. But he missed the passion.
Still, when he glanced over the top of the piano, Ren was watching him with that half-smile that Hux had learned meant he’d forgotten what his face was doing, but he was happy.
They found each other backstage, afterwards - Ren fell into step beside him as though it meant nothing, and pulled Hux quickly into his dressing room, blessedly empty of assistants.
“Hi,” Ren said, and leaned in to steal a quick kiss.
“Don’t start what we don’t have time to finish,” Hux said warningly. “Those stunning hands won’t get you out of every kind of trouble they get you into.”
Ren’s smile was a little odd, a little surprised. “You like my hands,” he said.
Hux shrugged. “They are the Vaderensky hands. And I’m not made of stone.” He pulled away, just slightly out of reach. “Why don’t you go by Vaderensky, incidentally? I keep thinking about it, and I just don’t understand. I would have thought, if you were so fired up about finishing what your grandfather started, you would want to make sure everyone knew who you were in relation to him.”
“Well, first of all,” Ren said wryly, “you try going through public school with a name like Mikhail Vaderensky. When you’re already a foot taller than everyone else, and also have ears and a nose that nobody will ever let you forget, and are a huge nerd who plays piano instead of trying to hit on cheerleaders. I minimised what I could. First I was Kylo. Then I was Ren, too, and I guess it stuck.”
He crossed his arms over his chest, suddenly defensive. “Then I hit Juilliard, and I got that question a lot. Like it was somehow better to be my grandfather than to be me, because I wasn’t anyone on my own. Well, fuck them, right? I’m going to be the greatest, right?” He tipped his chin up at the ceiling, the parody hero staring into the distance. “And I was going to do it all by myself. But…” He deflated, shoulders slumping, and gave Hux a sideways smile. “By the time I got that chip off my shoulder I’d introduced myself to a lot of people.”
“So it was easier.”
“Yeah,” Ren said. “Looked damn good on posters, too.” His smile was thinning now. “I do wonder if Grandfather would be disappointed in me, though.”
“Do you really?” Hux said softly. “Then you haven’t been paying attention.”
Ren looked at him, and his eyes were huge, real disbelief warring with a vulnerability Hux had never expected.
It was too much, all at once - too many things Hux didn’t quite feel ready to admit, and Ren was too large next to him and the room was too small and he needed to be out of it, and before Ren had time to say more than “Wait,” he was out in the corridor and heading at a too-brisk walk for the stage.
He didn't stop there. They had three hours before call, four before curtain, and if he didn't get away from the situation and give himself some breathing room he felt he might actually explode. So he headed out, through the lobby and onto the street, head down and hands in his pockets, and just walked.
It took him about an hour of concentrating only on putting one foot in front of the other and not walking into traffic before he felt less like a shaken soda bottle and more like a respected conductor who had a reasonable grip on his emotions. There was nothing to be gained, he told himself sternly, by panicking at this juncture. Either Ren would play well, or he wouldn't; either the donors would love it, or they wouldn't; either the board would sack him, or they wouldn't; none of these things were under his control, no matter how much he wanted them to be.
What was under his control was his orchestra, and he found that he had perfect faith in all of them. They had yet to let him down when it counted, and tonight, of all nights, he knew every one of them knew how much it counted. He could only hope he would prove to have been worthy of all of their trust.
And Ren, he reminded himself, was not staying; was not really more than a variable in the equation. So whatever he and Hux were dancing around, all it really had to do was get them through tonight. It didn't matter what Hux's heart, or any other part of him, had to say about it. The only thing that mattered at all until that curtain fell again was whether or not they could play two concertos and one Fantasy-Overture and not disgrace themselves.
He came back to the theatre in plenty of time to get dressed. Phasma was there already, a calming presence as she did her tai chi warmups, her floor-length gown black and flawless.
They had dressed in front of each other many times before, and she wasn't really even watching him as he laid out the various bits of his suit - his best, the nicest he had ever owned. Many conductors in this day and age no longer wore a tailcoat, but Hux clung to the glamour of it. It made him feel like Bernstein and Karajan and Stokowski and Toscanini all rolled into one. And on days like this, the tight embrace of the buttoned coat against his belly and the white bowtie around his neck was itself steadying, comforting: at least no-one could tell him he didn't look the part. The fabric would hold him together until he could do it for himself.
“You look good,” Phasma said, from the bottom of a deep knee-bend. “Apart from the face, which suggests you're expecting a firing squad instead of an audience.”
He gave her a rather helpless look as he transferred essential things from his pockets - a packet of tissues, the key to his dressing room, a couple of small wrapped mints. His hands were shaking. “I can't stop worrying, Phasma, you know that. Has there ever been a performance in our whole lives where you have known me to be perfectly calm beforehand?”
She chuckled. “Point. Go pace the halls, Maestro. You know I can't stand to watch your whole unquiet spirit routine, it keys me up just looking at you, but you always seem better for it.”
He smiled rather anaemically at her and did as she suggested, leaving her to warm up in peace. It was, after all, his standard practice.
Backstage was humming with energy, burbles of music wafting out of the dressing rooms and the laughter of many people about to embark together on something major. Ren's dressing room was a hive of furious activity, not even the top of his head visible amongst the bustle of assistants. No chance of a look-in there, then. That was faintly disappointing but Hux pushed it from his thoughts and kept moving.
Onstage, the curtains were down; it wouldn't be long before the gala patrons were allowed into the theatre and it was always best to make sure they didn't feel they could stray too far. He found the join at centre stage and peeked carefully out.
It was calm, empty still. But there were the reserved seats for the board of directors, in the absolute best spots, and he remembered their faces as they had informed him of Snoke's decision not to return for the gala; and imagining them there, looking at his back the way they had looked at him then, their sly triumph, made him drop the curtains and turn away with a sudden sourness in his mouth.
His scores were on his stand, his baton laid across them and a bottle of water tucked carefully against the foot of the stand. He snagged it now - he could get the stage manager to put out another - and drank, trying to wash the sour taste away.
There was nothing productive he could do here, either. He kept wandering. Everyone was warming up now: Ren was still buried in assistants, Mitaka grinned at him and shook his container of soaked reeds meaningfully, and he could hear Phasma playing scales from behind his door.
He knew what time it was, but the chimes for twenty minutes to places still took him by surprise, the sixteen-note Westminster figure making his breath catch and his stomach turn over. The sourness welled, a horrible trickle he knew all too well. This, too, was part of the routine, and he scanned the exits hastily and made it all the way out to the alley behind the theatre before his stomach gave up the fight.
At least it was over with quickly. The fresh air helped, and he hadn't managed to vomit on his own shoes, this time, and he was concentrating on breathing and digging out the packet of tissues from his pocket when the fire door banged open. It was Ren, in shirtsleeves and no tie, looking slightly wild-eyed and as green as Hux had felt.
“Are you all right?” Hux asked, rather shakily.
Ren held up a hand for silence, and then turned away, doubled over with a hand against the wall, and made unfortunate noises for a minute or two.
Hux considered his options as he rinsed his mouth with a swig of water, then went over to him and held out the rest of the bottle and the tissues.
“Sorry,” Ren said, still gasping a little. “I’m not - even that nervous, would you believe.”
“I would,” Hux said. “It seems to have very little to do with it.” Though he was that nervous, tonight.
Ren took the bottle and the tissues and straightened up slowly. “I was not expecting to run into you out here,” he said. “But I guess it was too crowded backstage for you, too, huh.”
Hux felt his cheeks go hot. “They probably all know by now,” he admitted, “but I like to think they don't.”
“Plausible deniability.” Ren swished and spat. “We’re totally fine.” He tried a smile; it wasn't terribly convincing, but Hux thought he meant it.
Hux found the mints he’d stashed in his pocket earlier and held one out to Ren. Ren closed his whole hand over Hux's instead of just taking it.
“We will be fine, though,” he said. “Tonight. I promise. It's gonna be fine.”
“You promise,” Hux said drily. “Well, that makes all the difference.”
And yet, he thought, as Ren hugged him, muttering “Asshole,” against his hair, it rather did.
He held onto that promise, as he waited in the wings ten minutes later, with Phasma. Everyone else was onstage, noodling vaguely as was their custom.
Phasma bumped him with her shoulder, and gestured with her chin - are they ready?
Not quite, Hux signalled. Look at the audience.
They were almost all in their seats now. It seemed to be an extremely full house. So they would let the stragglers settle, the better to appreciate what was about to happen.
The last few people wiggled into their rows, and Phasma grinned: Now.
Hux nodded his assent, and Phasma strode onto the stage, stately and totally in control. The orchestra rose to their feet as one, and then she took the podium, bowed deeply to the audience, and turned back to the orchestra as they all sat again.
Phasma gave Unamo her cue to play the tuning A, the strong and carrying oboe note that started every rehearsal and every performance and made some deep subconscious part of Hux sit up straight. That A-440, he knew in his bones, meant showtime.
The rest of the woodwinds tuned to it first, and then the brass; while the strings were adjusting, Hux felt a presence behind his left shoulder.
Ren stared calmly out past him to the stage, with his hair perfectly fluffed, his collar still undone, still without a tie. He was wearing a tailcoat, though, and it fit him beautifully.
He looked suddenly aloof, aristocratic, every inch a Vaderensky.
And then he gave Hux a big, goofy grin that crinkled the corners of his eyes, and mouthed the words It’s gonna be fine, and Hux couldn’t help smiling back.
Phasma had sat down, now, and that was his cue.
He knew, as he walked out into the blinding light of the stage, that Ren was just behind him.
The first half of the concert was a blur, from the moment he’d given the downbeat on the Rach 3 to the waves and waves of applause; there had been nothing but the music, the ebb and the flow of it, and Ren rocking back and forth on his piano bench, weaving the spell that held them all.
It seemed that he had barely started and then the curtains were down again for intermission. Hux gulped water, backstage, and Ren disappeared into his nest of assistants, sweat-drenched and in need of all of their arts. It would be fine, for him; he had all the intermission, as well as the twenty or so minutes of the Tchaikovsky, to reset. But Hux had barely gotten his own shirt swapped out for a fresh one and his tie re-tied before it was time to head back out for the Tchaikovsky.
Romeo and Juliet did, as always, what it was meant to. One of the stagehands had put the lid of the Steinway down, the smallest concession to being able to see the orchestra behind it, and Hux could feel the weight of the audience’s eyes on his back and the orchestra’s eyes on his hands. But he was all right, now. He was where he belonged, and he was doing what he had always been meant to do, and everyone breathed with the rise and fall of his baton.
About three-quarters of the way through, he caught a glimpse of movement in the wings. It was Ren, stunning again in his tailcoat, his brilliantly white shirt gleaming blueish in the wash of the stage lights.
He waved at Hux, with just the tips of his fingers, as the orchestra soared.
Hux smiled, and guided his people home.
More applause, then, and he had made the soloists stand and get their share, and then the audience hushed briefly before Ren reawakened them, striding out of the wings like a conquering hero to the cheers of the people. Ren soaked it all up, as his due, and then gave Hux that smile that meant nothing but trouble, and sat, his fingers ready on the keyboard, waiting.
And everything around him fell away, anything that was not that perfect piano, the intricate dance of conducting, and the glory of the orchestra, and he let himself be completely transported as Kylo Ren began to play.
He didn’t really come back to earth at all until Ren hit those final chords with the orchestra behind him, sliding into home.
There was a moment of absolute pin-drop silence.
And then a roar as the audience was suddenly and entirely on their feet, whistling, whooping.
Hux bowed and bowed, called each section of the orchestra to their feet in turn, pulled Phasma up on the podium and kissed her on the cheek and made her take another bow. Ren came around the piano and took his hand, dragged him out to the front of the stage and they bowed together, hand in hand, as the orchestra clapped and stomped and cheered.
Encore, the audience was yelling, encore, and it seemed that the stage manager knew something Hux didn’t, because the stage lights dimmed, then, all apart from a spotlight trained on the piano.
Hux tried to step back to the podium, but Ren wouldn’t let go of his hand.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” he shouted, his voice pitched to carry to the back of the balcony. He stepped forward to the footlights, and pulled Hux with him.
The audience fell obligingly silent, sitting back down.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Ren repeated, still loud but not quite so booming. “I wanted to thank you all, patrons and members of the board, for inviting me here.” A patter of applause, which he acknowledged with a nod. “But most of all - most of all, I believe I need to thank Maestro Hux, without whose tireless work and surpassing dedication the concert we have just played for you could never have happened. Maestro Hux!”
The orchestra led the applause, this time, their stomping feet making the stage shake. There was a clarinet in the mix, playing a few bars of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”, and Hux had to blink hard; something seemed to be happening to his eyes.
Ren was still holding his hand.
“It is in this spirit,” Ren said, as the chaos died down, “that I’ve chosen tonight’s encore.”
He squeezed Hux’s hand, and glanced at him, his eyes merry.
Oh no. Oh no, this wasn’t the plan, this wasn’t happening.
“Maestro Hux, you see, has hidden talents,” Ren told the audience. “And I believe tonight is the night for us to show you this one.”
Ren pulled him towards the piano bench and made him sit.
“What are we doing,” Hux hissed, around his frozen smile.
“Understanding each other,” Ren said, in his ear, and pressed a quick kiss to his cheek while no-one could see. “Petite Suite, okay? Relax. It’s going to be fine.”
Phasma was smiling at him, shocked and delighted - in fact, the entire orchestra seemed to be grinning.
There was nothing for it, nothing at all.
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From: "Terri Sprague" <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Signature Comparison
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:02:35 -0700
Depending on how I'm feeling, my handwriting looks similar to either my
Mom's or Dad's.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:39 AM, dunna <> wrote:
> I have found this interesting. I have at least two ancestors whose letters
> could be mistaken for
> each other, if I did not know any better. Both the father and son had the
> same handwriting
> styles. One letter got mixed up until clues led to identifying the writer.
> Amy Dunn
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Discussion in 'Parts: For Sale/Trade/Wanted' started by Convoy, Jul 24, 2004.
FS: 2000 GSR Wheels(Blades, Swirles) $350 obo without tires Located in Chicago
would ya take a trade? i trade ya a turbo manifold plus some cash for em if you are interested. my email is [email protected]
wanna trade for some civic si rims ?
I'll take them. I can meet you somewhere in the chicago area whenever you want
sorry no trades,
Baker: yea i'll meet you, PM me for details
ahh well. too bad u cant do the trade. i really want them. if you change your mind, let me know.
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