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Lewis Packwood 6 January 2016 Best-of Lists
Lucius Merriweather's Most Agreeable Games of 2015
Better late than never. Following Sir Gaulian's rundown in the middle of December, here's my list of the creme de la creme of 2015 – a year in which I found myself playing my 3DS and Wii U more than anything else, despite all of the exciting goings on elsewhere. Indeed, 2015 felt like the year that the 'next-gen' consoles really got going, with games like Fallout 4 and Arkham Knight finally providing bona fide reasons to invest in a PS4 or Xbox One.
But having said that, I'm still working my way through tons of brilliant games from yesteryear, and if any game defined my 2015, it was Xenoblade Chronicles, a Wii game from 2011. I reviewed it back in September after spending well over 100 hours playing through its enormous campaign, and it's easily the game I played the most last year. Other notable games I finally got around to playing included Alien: Isolation and Heavy Rain, along with the brilliant Remember Me (which I'm currently playing through and loving every minute). But in terms of games that actually came out this year, this little lot have been keeping me busy…
The Best Games of 2015 That I Actually Played
After being introduced to the series with Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the fourth game, and I even got a snazzy limited edition New Nintendo 3DS XL to play it on. The latest entry is a big improvement on its predecessor in terms of the single-player campaign, and I love the new verticality to the levels. Basically, when I wasn't playing Xenoblade in 2015, I was playing this.
Affordable Space Adventures
Few games have really taken full advantage of the Wii U's idiosyncratic control system, but this game used every facet of the console's quirky controls to brilliant effect. As a single-player game it's fine, but with two or three people it becomes an absolute riot. Who'd have thought that being an engineer could be so much fun? Don't answer that if you're an engineer.
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.
I'm a sucker for turn-based strategy games, and the 3DS is perfect for them – Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is still one of my favourite games on the system, and I loved Fire Emblem: Awakening. So I couldn't wait to get my hands on this: a strategy game based on H.P. Lovecraft's monsters along with various heroes from American literature. The lack of a map was initially jarring, but it quickly proved to be an inspired decision that really encouraged careful exploration, and Eurogamer rightfully highlighted Code Name STEAM as one of the great 'Unsung Games of 2015'. Yes it's a little unbalanced, and those chunky visuals are an acquired taste, but it's still a true gem.
Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water
I was tempted to put Splatoon in this slot, but to be honest I played Project Zero far more, even though on the surface it's a 'weaker' game. It's repetitive, yes, and it's hardly revolutionary – but it rekindled my love for a genre that's almost been forgotten, and now I can't wait to seek out a few more survival horror games that I missed along the way. Dino Crisis 2? Parasite Eve II? I reckon they might still be worth a punt after all these years… and imagine if they remade them.
BUBBLING UNDER: Splatoon, Yoshi's Woolly World, Box Boy!.
The Best Games of 2015 That I Would Have Played If I'd Had The Time
I tramped around Fallout 3 for what seemed like years. I laid waste to Megaton, discovered creepy skeletons in an abandoned bunker, put a tree man out of his misery and got up to all sorts of larks on a battleship. Fallout 4 looks just as bizarre and wonderful, even if it's as buggy and clunky as ever. But then again, the bugginess and clunkiness is almost part of the charm. Almost.
I came this close to buying Xenoblade Chronicles X on day one, having spent a good chunk of my year playing through the prequel. In the end though there are still far too many games on my backlog that I want to get through, and I know this game will be another 100-hour-plus adventure. It does look brilliant though – I'm scheduling it in for sometime in 2016, for definite.
The emerging consensus seemed to be that this game wasn't quite as good as the first two – but it still looks bloody amazing. I can't wait to step into the shoes of the caped crusader once again, but I also feel like I should play through Origins first, if only for completeness. That there old Batmobile looks fun though, don't it?
Guitar Hero: Live
At one point you couldn't move in my front room for plastic musical instruments: I played my way through about five Guitar Hero and Rock Band games before the genre seemed to fizzle out. It's been a good long while since that happened, however, and guitar games feel like they're ripe for a return. Rock Band 4 looked fun, but Guitar Hero: Live had the killer idea of using live concert footage to make you feel like you're noodling away on an actual stage. I'm looking forward to making a proper tit of myself as I thrash away on this in my living room.
Dontnod Entertainment is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the hottest game studios in the business. After Remember Me was released to generally great reviews but reportedly poor sales (I can't find any official figures, but one thread claims it sold just 140,000 copies), it was great to see Dontnod getting a well-deserved hit with Life is Strange – and it also vindicates the developer's decision to press on with using female lead characters after their previous game was rejected by publishers who whined that "You can't have a female character in games" (seriously). Life is Strange sounds genuinely different and innovative, and the only thing that stopped me buying it is the nagging guilt that I'm still only halfway through the equally wonderful The Wolf Among Us – a game I'm determined to see through before I start any more episodic adventures.
BUBBLING UNDER: Steins;Gate, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam Bros., Resident Evil Revelations 2, Her Story, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Soma, The Talos Principle, Just Cause 3, Sunless Sea, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
[As written by Lucius Merriweather in the miasma of the New Year back-to-work week.]
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Sir Gaulian	 on 6 January 2016 at 9:38 am
I've just started playing Codename: S.T.E.A.M and I hadn't even noticed the lack of map until you mentioned it! Well there you go! Great little game that I think has a hidden layer of strategy in it that makes it more compelling than it seems on face value. I bought both Project Zero and Xenoblade Chronicles X but haven't played either yet.
It's a funny old year, and from my own experience, a year where the games that didn't make my list are perhaps a bigger deal than the ones that did. While I enjoyed watching my wife play Fallout 4 and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (enough to know that if I had played them, they'd have made my list), it was games that didn't make it – The Witcher 3, Arkham Knight, Bloodborne and Project Cars in particular – that is perhaps more noteworthy. They are all games I thought I was destined to love, but in almost, left me not just wanting but genuinely disappointed.
lewispackwood	 on 6 January 2016 at 9:42 am
Interesting! I wonder if we're just getting older and looking more to games outside the mainstream? Perhaps if I'd played Fallout 4 and Arkham Knight I'd have felt the same. I can't help but think my taste in games is getting more and more idiosyncratic as I get older – probably because it's starting to feel like I've seen it all before when it comes to the blockbusters.
Matt	 on 6 January 2016 at 10:09 pm
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. has its flaws, but it is a very good game overall.
And Xenoblade Chronicles X is awesome, but it does demand a lot from the player.
lewispackwood	 on 6 January 2016 at 10:26 pm
I'd love to see a sequel to Code Name STEAM, but it seems like it was a bit of a flop, so I doubt one is forthcoming. Shame, the idea had plenty of legs.
Can't wait to get stuck into Xenoblade Chronicles X later this year!
Paul	 on 7 January 2016 at 12:52 am
Hi, fellow Remember Me enthusiast here! The combat gets punishing, but that world and story is something to drink in heavily.
I suspect I'll get around to Codename STEAM sometime in 2016. Heard a lot of good things.
Yep, it's good fun! It's unlike any turn-based game I've played before in that you control the characters directly, so really it's a mixture of real-time and turn-based elements. I loved all the characters from American literature, there are some interesting surprise faces…
Red Metal	 on 13 January 2016 at 5:59 am
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is a game I'll definitely have to check out at some point. I've heard many great things about it.
Review: Remember Me | A Most Agreeable Pastime	 on 26 January 2016 at 5:41 am
[…] is clearly a developer to watch. They scored a well-deserved hit with 2015's Life is Strange, as noted in my end of year list, but it's worth looking out 2013's Remember Me to get a glimpse of the studio's […]
DavidTheEntertainer	 on 18 September 2016 at 10:32 am
Dude, did you get to Life is Strange? And did you enjoy A Wolf Among Us? I loved them both.
lewispackwood	 on 19 September 2016 at 6:19 pm
I loved A Wolf Among Us! (Review here: https://amostagreeablepastime.com/2016/04/07/review-the-wolf-among-us/) Still haven't got around to playing Life is Strange yer, but it's on my radar!
[…] out in December 2015, but I'm including it here because I didn't play it in time for last year's list – and because it's bloody fantastic. The universe of SteamWorld Dig is reimagined in […]
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Optical and Electrical Properties
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Part of the Physics and Chemistry of Materials with Layered Structures book series (PCMA, volume 4)
Optical Properties of Layer Compounds
B. L. Evans
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Some Aspects of Modulation Spectroscopy in Layer Materials
J. Bordas
The Optical Properties, Electronic Structure, and Photoconductivity of Arsenic Chalcogenide Layer Crystals
Richard Zallen, Daniel F. Blossey
Photo Emission Studies of Materials with Layered Structures
P. M. Williams
Transport Properties of Layered Semiconductors
R. C. Fivaz, Ph. E. Schmid
Transport Properties of Layered Structure Metals
D. J. Huntley, R. F. Frindt
Experimental Aspects of Superconductivity in Layered Structures
R. F. Frindt, D. J. Huntley
Structural and Magnetic Properties of Layered Chalcogenides of the Transition Elements
J. M. Vandenberg-Voorhoeve
This fourth volume in the series 'Physics and Chemistry of Materials with Layered Structures' is concerned with providing a critical review of the significant optical and electrical properties by established authors who have themselves made many significant contributions to these fields. Research into these materials has recently gained a new impetus and their fascinating properties have attracted many new research workers. These people should find much of value in the reviews contained in this volume and the editor is very much indebted for the painstaking and hard work put into the preparation of the various chapters by the authors. The optical properties provide useful information for deriving the band struc tures, a knowledge of which is required for an interpretation of measurements on the electronic properties. The chapters by Dr Evans, Dr Williams and Dr Bordas describe different techniques which have provided much detailed data on this subject. An interesting property of these materials is the comparative ease with which thin specimens may be prepared for these measurements and this is highlighted in the super conducting experiments outlined by Professor Frindt and Dr Huntley. These authors together with Dr Vandenberg's chapter on the magnetic properties also describe the interesting and significant intercalation mechanisms whereby a wide range of organic compounds and alkali metals may be incorporated in the lattice. This provides an additional parameter for varying the properties of these materials and may yet be seen to provide eventual possible applications of layer compounds.
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In the far future, a research station on Saturn 3 is home to Adam and Alex, two lovers working on a way to feed the teeming masses of Earth . Their life together is interrupted by Captain James and his helper robot, Hector, who arrive just before Saturn 3 goes into eclipse. With all communications to the outside cut off for the next 23 days, it is lucky that the captain is in no way insane and his robot has been programmed to resist the urge to go on a murderous rampage.
This movie has an awful reputation, but its actually not that bad, given the synopsis in the previous paragraph. The plot contains some interesting ideas and the characters are surprisingly well drawn. Farrah Fawcett is not much of an actor. but Alex is a stronger character than might be expected in a film where she is the main source of rivalry between the two males. The script is a bit of a mixed bag, but the story is strong enough to smooth over some of the more ropey dialog. The real star of the show is the production design, the sets in particular look fantastic, and the robot is suitably sinister even if some of the special effects are a little non-special.


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Part 2 • 2021 • episode "S1E2" • Bin Laden: The Road to 9.11
Bin Laden's on the run and plotting an audacious plan to strike at the US. Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia from Afghanistan, where he is hailed as a war hero after the Soviets left because he believes he made a significant contribution to the military victory. 18 months later, Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, prompting worried Saudi authorities to turn to the US for protection. Horrified by what he perceives as an invasion of the holy places by the American army, bin Laden publicly opposes the Saudi royal family declaring Jihad against the US and is eventually forced to flee to Sudan. There he reinvents himself as a major agricultural producer of sunflowers and watermelons, while expanding al-Qaeda's work and setting up training camps that attract recruits from across the region. Under pressure from Saudi Arabia and the United States, bin Laden finally has to give up his refuge in Sudan. Stateless and without much prospect of alternative quarters, he returns to Afghanistan in 1996. Just a few months later, he issued a 30-page fatwa declaring holy war against the Americans who occupied the Arabian Peninsula. He surrounded himself with increasingly radical extremists, and in the summer of 1996 finally suggested piloting planes to American targets. The plan to attack the Twin Towers is born. This compelling history documentary looks at the factors that transformed Bin Laden from a renowned freedom fighter to a devoted enemy of America and the West. What drove him to plot his most audacious attack?
Bin Laden: The Road to 9.11 • 2021 • 3 episodes •
The early years of Bin Laden, from timid Saudi schoolboy to revered freedom fighter. The first episode begins with Osama Bin Laden's schooldays in Saudi Arabia. He grew up in a wealthy family, loved westerns and soccer, and avoided fights in the schoolyard. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980, like many Arab men, he joined the resistance to liberate the country from the occupying forces. In Peshawar, Pakistan, just across the Afghan border, he sets up a "service bureau" and uses his connections to organize money for the fight. He keeps promising his mother not to go into battle himself, but then joins the mujahideen commander Sayed Wahidyar, who is only called "Fearless". According to Wahidyar, bin Laden is initially a burden because he has no idea about fighting. The wealth he inherited and the family's connections to the construction industry come in handy when he begins to build much-needed infrastructure such as roads, warehouses and clinics on his own. In the Battle of Jaji, the Soviet troops were finally repulsed with the help of the experienced Afghan mujahideen - a decisive victory for bin Laden, which resulted in the superpower's final withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. It is the beginning of a myth fueled in part by Bin Laden himself. His supposed military success gives him enormous prestige. In the same year, Bin Laden founded Al-Qaeda. The die is cast.
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After 9/11, Osama goes into hiding. But US Navy Seals are on his tail. In 1997, bin Laden's al-Qaida expanded its operations in Afghanistan. With the United States as his target, he occasionally gives interviews to US networks from his base in the mountains to take his threats straight into the enemy's living room. In 1998, bin Laden followed with his infamous fatwa, in which he declared the killing of civilians and soldiers of the United States and its allies everywhere as the duty of every Muslim. Just months later, the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya are bombed, followed by a missile attack on Bin Laden's training camp and placing him on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. That doesn't deter him, however: in 2000, the secret services already suspected that "something was up" when al-Qaeda activists attacked a US warship and killed 17 people. In 2001, the first plans for an attack on the twin towers were already five years old. One of bin Laden's closest associates, Abu Hafs, disagrees with the strategy and leaves al-Qaeda before the operation goes ahead. On September 11, when the only TV station authorized by the Taliban broadcast the attack, a revolt broke out among the mujahideen. When George W. Bush declared the war on terror, bin Laden withdrew to the Tora Bora mountains. He never stays in the same place and always stays out of reach of American forces. In 2005, he and his family moved into a large house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. There he lived unnoticed by the public until he was shot dead during an intelligence operation by US Navy SEALs in 2011.
S1E1 • Bin Laden: The Road to 9.11 • 2021 • People
The Babushkas of Chernobyl
An affectionate portrait of a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there - semi-officially, for years.
"A Nuclear Family" begins as the Cold War ends — and North Korea has lost Soviet patronage, and with it, the security it guarantees and the economic support that has sustained the country for nearly half a century
3/4 • Inside North Korea's Dynasty • 2018 • People
From a painter who changed the face of modern art to the most recognised figure of WWII, this episode spans the century, highlighting people of such profound influence that they can reasonably be termed "iconic". Whether they're reshaping a nation or reinventing the tools that will forever change the way we live, no one could argue that the Top Twenty are all people who made the twentieth century.
7/8 • The 101 People who Made the 20th Century • 2016 • People
Garage People
In the Russian Arctic, there is a phenomenon beyond ice fishing, matryoshkas and vodka. It's the garage. Rows of tin sheds, inhospitable from the outside, where everything can be found except cars. They are the refuge of the Russian man. A few square metres to dream and escape the pressures of life. This is where illegal fish shops operate, where saints are carved, where booze is distilled and where quails are bred. In this film, the 'Garage People' speak for themselves, and with each other, sharing their concerns, fears and joys, and giving an insight into a secret world of everyday Russians.
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Plato was one of the world's earliest and possibly greatest philosophers. He matters because of his devotion to making humanity more fulfilled.
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A hidden agenda, beyond his craving for me.
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But running from the hunter means I've now become the prey.
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Graceful, the word itself was instilled into Tegan Carter's head at an early age, but anymore she feels far from graceful. When her world is turned upside down she finds herself spiraling into the darkness without any light in sight, until Talon Fisher walks into her life.
Trying to find herself again, Tegan is faced with a dilemma she doesn't want to encounter. But will her scars keep her from allowing herself a second chance at a normal life, or will she continue to free fall into the darkness?
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After five years of solitude, Drew Tucker, the grieving, sadistic president of The Hounds of Babylon MC is finally out of prison with only one thing on his mind: revenge for the death of his brother.
But everything has changed since he left the small town of Babylon, Texas, and where he once owned the world around him, he now feels misguided, misplaced, and misunderstood.
That only gets worse when he crosses paths with Ayda Hanagan, legal guardian to her teenage brother. Over worked and underpaid, she's clinging to her sanity by the skin of her teeth. She should be easy for Drew to beat down and manipulate.
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When I won a student place Ivy College, I couldn't believe my luck.
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Alannah Ryan had always suffered in silence, until that silence became so deafening she spilled secrets that she never intended to. At one point in her life, she yearned for adventure, a nail biting journey … something other than the mundane life she led. Her pleas were answered in the form of a tall, handsome heart breaker with a mop of white hair.
Alannah's dreams for an exciting twist in her life were shattered because of a teenage mistake. One that has haunted her for over five years, and left her in pieces.
Damien Slater was the reason for every bad thing in the lives of those he loved most.
A decision he made when he was just fifteen destroyed his brothers' lives, and there was nothing he could do to change the things they had endured. Ruining them hurt, but ruining the only woman who wanted him for more than one night hurt a hell of a lot more.
Running away helped Damien heal, and returning to Ireland only caused Alannah more pain. Pain he intended to eradicate and replace with the passion he knew they both shared. Breaking down her walls was not the only challenge Damien faced. Another had plans of his own, and his intentions weren't for physical vengeance, but something far worse.
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This free-spirit might look like hot sunshine and lickable rainbows, but she negotiates like a pitbull. Before Sawyer knows what hit him, he's agreed to give up Friday nights for reality tv, his Saturdays for flea markets (why buy junk still baffles him), his Tuesdays and Thursdays for date nights (aka panty-losing opportunities if he plays his cards right). And now she wants lavender bath salts and tulips delivered every Monday?
Yup, she's just screwing with him. Good thing she's got this non-negotiatable six-weeks-and-she's-gone rule or Sawyer may have just met this match..
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At age twenty-nine, Piper Daniels is having the longest dry spell of her life. When she agrees to be set up on a blind date, she never expects it to end with the hottest sex of her life.
But when she discovers that her very well-endowed secret lover is also her new boss, heartless womanizer and cutthroat CEO Jackson Dane, she chalks it up to a one-time mistake and puts up her best professional front. But Jackson isn't used to rejection, and if Piper thinks it's going to be easy to move on from their tryst, she's underestimated his determination.
As their work brings them together, temptation becomes too much, and Piper loses herself in all the wicked pleasure Jackson has to offer. But his conquest comes at a steep price. Piper has a secret. A secret big enough to rip Jackson's carefully ordered world to shreds.
Misadventures is a romantic series of spicy standalone novels, each written or co-written by some of the best names in romance. The stories are scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy. They're the perfect bedside read, a 'quick blush' for the reader who loves a page-turning romance.
OVER EASY
Two eggs, over easy…
…with a side of disaster.
I always said I wouldn't waitress again unless I hit rock bottom.
Well, I can't possibly fall any farther. Or harder.
Dumped by my ex? Check. Back in my charming hometown, Lakewood? Double check. Making a fool of myself in front of the sexiest stranger I've ever seen? Nailed it.
My newest customer at the diner is sinfully delicious…and a single dad. There's no room for a walking catastrophe like me in a life like his.
But when he smiles at me, I swoon hard enough to spray his face with whipped cream. Again.
Nope. I have no chance.
Unless I can serve him up the one thing he really needs.
One single dad. One waitress. It's a recipe for...well, you know!
DEEP UNDER
Kyle, one of the alpha men of Walker Security, is hot, bothered, and intense, and when Myla lands in his line of fire, she'll soon learn her secrets, and her passion, belong to him, from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.
Myla is beautiful, a dove with clipped wings, captive by the wolf, a vicious and powerful man. One look into her eyes and Kyle could see the pain, the fear...the desperation. Or so it seems. He's been fooled before by a woman and it cost him everything and everyone he loved. He won't be fooled again.
THEN CAME YOU
You met them in DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME. Now prepare to fall in love with THE YOUNGERS, a brand-new series from Iris Morland, full of sexy men, passionate women, and the love stories you can't get enough of.
After witnessing his parents' doomed love affair, serial playboy Ash Younger decided long ago that love was not meant for him. With his charm and good looks, he's never lacked for beautiful women. He may push numbers as an accountant by day, but by night, he's only interested in having a woman in his bed.
Yet the night he encounters a mysterious—and gorgeous—widow who doesn't immediately fall under his seductive spell, Ash realizes he wants her more than he's ever wanted another woman.
Following the loss of her husband two years ago, Violet Fielding wants to focus on two things: her jewelry business and beginning her life anew in the small town of Fair Haven, Washington. She doesn't have time for men or romance, and she certainly doesn't have time for a man who's a well-known playboy and younger than her.
Violet already found the love of her life in her husband, and after his death, she knew she could never love anyone again.
But when Ash kisses her, all of her plans and promises are turned upside down. A passion stronger than either Ash or Violet could imagine envelops them both one night—and that night changes everything.
As old heartbreaks threaten to tear the couple apart, both must find the courage to see that, of all things, love is worth a second chance.
This book is a part of the LOVE EVERLASTING series, which is one large series following multiple families and friends. Each book can be read as a standalone
A LOVE SO DANGEROUS
Warning: This is one dark, dangerous, dirty-talking, adrenaline-fueled thrill ride. Are you ready?
I've got a big c*ck, a bigger bank account, and zero interest in Happily Ever After. I just want to feel alive, to look into a woman's eyes and see something that's going to keep my mind off all the shit I refuse to think about for an hour or two.
And then I meet her, a good girl with a body made for sin and ugly problems only a bad man can fix.
A bad man like me...
Gabe Alexander is the devil. Or an angel.
He's a criminal hiding behind a million dollar pedigree, but he also saved my life and my family. He's the worst kind of bad news, but every time he touches me, and whispers filthy, beautiful things in my ear, all I want is more.
More of his kiss, his touch, and the dangerous, seductive things he makes me feel.
I don't want to go bad, but the man makes it feel so damned good...
Warning Part the Second: A Love So Dangerous is the first in a three part series. It is a full-length novel that ends in a cliffhanger. Gabe and Caitlin's wild ride isn't for the faint of heart, but does end with an HEA.
MADE OF STEEL
The witness protection program has given me the fresh start I've always dreamed of. A new home. A new name. A new life. For the first time in ten years it feels like I can breathe again.
But the cost of freedom is more than I bargained for. I put my foster father behind bars. It doesn't matter that he deserved it. What matters is that he's powerful, manipulative, and now he wants me dead.
I can feel someone watching me. I know my time is running out. And the only other person who cares if I live or die is a masked stranger. So I'm putting my life in the vigilante's hands. And maybe a piece of my heart along with it. Even though I'm worried that he's just as dangerous as the man I sent to prison.
ONCE BURNED
USA Today Bestselling Author Lisa B. Kamps makes sparks fly with a series about hot and heroic firefighters who put more than their lives on the line...
Will their second chance at love be snuffed out?
Nick Lansing was a bad boy. He didn't need anything except his fast car, his guitar, his never-ending partying, and his long-time girlfriend...until one bad decision changed their lives forever. Now he's a respected teacher, living his life on the straight-and-narrow and proud of his accomplishments. But he still can't help but think about the one woman who always made him burn...
Michaela Donaldson had her whole life planned out: college, music, and a happy-ever-after with her first true love. One reckless night changed all that. She's a firefighter now, getting down and dirty while doing her job. So what if she's a little rough around the edges, a little too careless, a little too detached? She's happy, living life on her own terms--until Nicky Lansing shows back up.
Is ten years long enough to heal the physical and emotional wounds from the past? Can they reconcile who they were with who they've become--or will it be a case of Once Burned is enough?
MELTING STEEL
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Emotionally crippled, smart-mouthed, and sexy as sin, the woman is nothing I need and everything I want.
Despite her hard edges, tattoos, and reckless spirit, I know she craves more. More from life, more from love, more from me.
She thinks I'm just a trust fund brat and maybe she's right. But I've got secrets of my own. I know what darkness is. I've lived it - faced the pit of hell and barely survived.
The question is, am I strong enough to face it again? Because if I'm ever going to break through the steel wall she's placed around her heart, it'll mean facing demons we both thought were long dead and buried.
CHARMED BY THE BARTENDER
From a secret duo of USA Today Bestselling Authors, comes an ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS SEXY ROMCOM STANDALONE in the Modern Love Series.
Who knew sleeping with the enemy could be this fun?
Was the one night stand a good idea?
Well, no. Probably not in retrospect.
In my defense I had just moved back into my grandparent's house, I'd lost my dream job, and a guy on Tinder had stood me up. It was like life had suddenly stamped 'LOSER' on my forehead.
So when the guy behind the bar started giving me THE look…you know, the one that promised I'd be screaming his name into the wee hours of the morning? When that guy also has the perfect amount of scruff on his chiseled chin, biceps bulging out of his t-shirt, and a cocky grin you knew he'd earned in the sack…when he gives you that look, you don't bother to figure out what your six degrees of separation are. You jump on that horse and ride it!
Pun fully and completely intended. And accurate by the way.
I fully admit to feeling sorry for myself and acting impulsively, but by the time I'd figured out WHO the bartender was, I was already falling for him.
** Note: This book was previous titled "The Bartender". Same great story with a fresh new look.**
DRIVE ME CRAZY
It isn't the next wreck that'll kill him… it's her.
Carter Ambrose is known for two things—racing cars, and his loyalty. So when a nasty wreck cuts his career short and sends him home to Holland Springs, he's excited to reconnect with friends and family.
Melanie Ann Smith, his little sister's best friend, and new assistant, is the wrench in his plans.
She's hotter than a V-8 at the end of a race, and seems to enjoy revving him up.
It's getting hard to remember that she's off-limits.
WORTH THE SCANDAL
From USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson comes the first sexy standalone in her WORTH IT series!
All's fair in love and business…
Alexander Worth has two great passions—his family business, and his control. Being president and CEO of Worth Luxury Goods allows him to exercise both. No one crosses him.
But then Tessa Crawford crosses his path. She's professional, shy, voluptuous—and his employee. His legendary control is all that's holding him back from his desire for her. Risking the business is the one thing he can't do.
After rising above her disadvantaged childhood, Tessa knows the last thing she should do is risk throwing it all away by falling into bed with her sexy boss. But on an extended European business trip, all self-imposed barriers burn away in the heat of their sizzling chemistry.
That's not the only fire burning when they return home—whispers of corporate espionage have become a full-blown scandal. Alex's loyalties lie with his company, and Tessa is left to smolder alone. She's determined to move on, to get over her fling--
Only she's carrying a souvenir in her belly.
**Worth The Scandal was originally published by Samhain Publishing. This edition is a reissue, reedited but without any substantial additions or changes to the story.**
THE SWEET TASTE OF SIN
A sizzling standalone romance by USA Today bestseller Ember Casey.
Never trust a bad boy with your heart. Especially when that bad boy is one of Hollywood's notorious Fontaine brothers...
Ashlyn just wants to move on with her life. Run her bakery. Heal her broken heart. She's had three years to try and forget Dante Fontaine.
To the rest of the world, Dante is Hollywood royalty, the ridiculously attractive oldest son of the notorious Fontaine family.
To Ashlyn? He's the guy who made her swear off men forever.
But when an accidental--and humiliating--encounter brings him back into her life, Ashlyn realizes that no matter how hard she's tried to forget him, Dante definitely hasn't forgotten her.
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Siddharth: Indian actor apologises to Saina Nehwal for sexist tweet
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Tagged: Chinmayi Sripada, India, Siddharth, Swara Bhasker
An Indian actor has apologised to badminton star Saina Nehwal after his "sexist" tweet to her kicked up a social media storm.
Siddharth, who uses only one name, said he was trying to make a "rude joke" in response to a tweet by Nehwal.
But his "tone and words" couldn't be justified, he added in an apology tweeted on Tuesday night.
Siddharth's tweet had drawn outrage for an alleged sexual slur, a charge the actor denies.
The controversy began when Siddharth responded to a tweet by Nehwal on a security breach faced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week.
Mr Modi was briefly trapped on a flyover in the north Indian state of Punjab on his way to a rally as a group of protesting farmers blocked the roads.
He later returned to Delhi without attending the programme.
The incident, described as a "serious lapse" by the home ministry, set off a political firestorm over who was responsible for the breach.
Members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the government of Punjab, ruled by the opposition Congress party, of deliberately trying to undermine the prime minister's security.
The controversy spilled over into social media as well, as supporters and critics of the BJP weighed in.
Saina Nehwal is one of India's most celebrated sports stars
Nehwal, who joined the BJP in 2020, tweeted that she strongly condemned the "cowardly attack on PM Modi by anarchists", without naming anybody in particular.
Siddharth, a critic of Mr Modi, then quote-tweeted her comment with: "Subtle cock champion of the world… Thank God we have protectors of India."
The 6 January tweet began gaining attention over the weekend and soon drew outrage from all sides of the political spectrum for the alleged sexual wordplay on Nehwal's sport (badminton players use a shuttlecock).
Singer Chinmayi Sripada, who has often spoken about harassment faced by women, told Siddharth the comment was "crass".
"You just contributed to what a lot of us women are fighting against," she said.
India's National Commission for Women (NCW) even wrote to Twitter, asking them to block Siddharth's account.
It also wrote to police in Maharashtra state, where the actor is based, asking them to take action against him.
Siddharth then attempted to clarify his tweet, saying he was referring to the idiom "cock and bull".
"Reading otherwise is unfair and leading! Nothing disrespectful was intended, said or insinuated. Period," he tweeted on 10 January.
But not many bought that explanation.
Several TV channels invited political leaders to weigh in on the comments – some BJP leaders alleged that the actor had allowed his "hatred for the PM" to get the best of him.
Others continued tweeting about the controversy, using hashtags such as #NarendraModiPunjabvisit, ensuring it remained a Twitter trend.
Some right-wingers even tagged Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker – another critic of Mr Modi – asking her to weigh in on the comments.
Nehwal told news agency PTI that the comments were "not nice".
"He can express himself with better words but I guess it's Twitter and you remain noticed with such words and comments," she said.
Siddharth deleted both tweets – the one that kicked off the controversy and his explanation – later.
Late on Tuesday night, he tweeted a letter apologising to Nehwal.
Siddharth has acted in several movies since his debut in a Tamil film almost two decades ago. While he is more popular in the southern film industry, his character in a 2006 Bollywood hit, Rang De Basanti, has made him recognisable to Hindi movie-watchers as well.
Nehwal, the first Indian badminton player to have won an Olympic medal, is one of the country's most celebrated sports stars. She is often credited with inspiring many young women to play badminton in a cricket-obsessed country.
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Independence Day or Thug Holiday: Should Black People Celebrate July 4th?
By: seandrasimsCategory: MOBILE July 2, 2012
THE FOURTH OF JULY IS ALMOST HERE – BUT WAIT, WHAT ARE BLACK PEOPLE CELEBRATING ABOUT?
"Our country 'tis of thee/land of liberty/But that'll never be/not in America" – "Amerika" – Trick Daddy
It was the annual Independence Day party and Club US was packed wall to wall with Black folks dressed in red, white, and blue, looking like thugged-out Uncle Sams. Everybody was enjoying the holiday to the fullest. But suddenly, DJ Freddie D stopped the music and yelled, "Y'all do know that we weren't free in 1776, right?" That's when the crowd turned ugly and started throwin' chairs and champagne bottles at the DJ booth. Order wasn't restored until the cops showed up and arrested Freddie D for starting a riot…
Every year, African Americans spend millions of dollars on hot dogs, booze, and fireworks to celebrate this country's Independence Day. Problem is, while the "bombs were burstin' in air," my ancestors were still pickin' tobacco in the hot Carolina sun.
Despite how many times you tell some people, they just can't seem to get it through their thick skulls that Black folks were not free in 1776!
Although the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass posed the question back in 1876, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?", more than a hundred years later, we still have not gotten a good answer.
At most, some outraged, overly patriot dude dismisses the question by saying, "Well, Buddy, we are all Americans now." Or the classic line, "This here's America, and if you don't love it, you can take the first boat back to Africa."
Good answers. But that wasn't the question.
No matter how drunk you get at Uncle Rudy's July 4th pig pickin', and how many firecrackers you set off, that still won't change the fact that chattel slavery in this country did not end until almost 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Matter of fact, it must be noted that Black folks gained nothing from America's victory over the British. Lerone Bennet wrote in his book, Before the Mayflower, that Lord Dunmore, former governor of colonial Virginia, issued a proclamation on November 5, 1775, promising freedom to all male slaves willing to fight for England. This was more than 80 years before Lincoln "freed" the slaves in states that were rebelling against the Union.
Also, Britain abolished slavery in 1833, and it was not until three decades later, that slavery was abolished in America.
Dr. WEB Dubois once wrote about the "the double consciousness" of being both African and American. This contradiction was not lost on the Hip-Hop generation.
Since its early days, Hip-Hop has tackled the issue of Black patriotism. During the height of Reaganomics, in the mid-'80s, pioneer rapper, Kurtis Blow, proudly rapped that America was his favorite country. Decades later, during the Era of Terror, Petey Pablo told the USA not only to "raise up," but to "take the flag/put it in the air/and spin it like a helicopter."
However, most rappers have been more critical.
Back in 1988, Public Enemy said on "Louder than a Bomb", "Picture us coolin' out / On the 4th of July/ And if you heard we were celebrating/ That's a world wide lie!"
On his 2001 song, "My Country," Nas claimed that America wanted to get rid of him because he knew too much.
The criticisms did not only come from New York rappers, but the West Coast had beef with Uncle Sam, as well. Right after leaving N.W.A., Ice Cube released the anti-patriotic 1990 CD, Amerikkka's Most Wanted, and also West Coast artist Paris released scathing CDs like The Devil Made Me Do It.
Although not known for political awareness, Southern rappers have also challenged America's past and present atrocities. On 2002's, "Thug Holiday," Trick Daddy challenged the mis-educational system by questioning why when authors write history books about America's wars, the only people that die are the Americans? As if no one else on the planet counts.
And, while some may argue that America electing her first Black Commander-in- Chief as a reason to fight for your right to party on the 4th, Plies said on "Why U Hate Me," "They say our president's Black/But we can't tell, though."
Let's be clear. This is not a matter of hatin' on people eatin' hot dogs, but challenging historical falsehoods. Nor does it have anything to do with "Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," but everything to do with lies and the pursuit of truth.
The big question is, if we accept the historical inaccuracies as fact, can we really criticize the youth for following rappers who glamorize the false notion that if you sell drugs and go to jail, eventually you will emerge from prison as a millionaire entertainer?
If America can celebrate a fake holiday based on a Freedom denied to those who built this country, then the gangstas have the right to create their own Thug Holiday, celebrating the many contributions that gangsta rap has made to American society.
While patriotic Americans preach the virtues of Freedom, this does not apply to Freedom of Thought. They prefer you to repeat dogma, instead of giving a critical analysis of historical facts. And this goes way beyond the 4th of July.
Why should Native Americans feel compelled to celebrate Columbus Day and Thanksgiving, or should the Japanese Americans really be expected to rejoice on V-J Day?
At its best, Hip-Hop has been iconoclastic by nature, boldly smashing the false idols of the past and bringing forth new ideas. But the question in 2012 is, in an era when rap artists are being rewarded for being carbon copies of each other and not challenging the status quo, does Hip-Hop still have the heart to challenge historical hype?
Are there still Hip-Hop artists who are willing to buck popular opinion and challenge the fallacy of Independence Day, even if it means standing alone in the face of bitter opposition?
Like Immortal Technique said on "Point of No Return":
"Universal Truth is not measured in mass appeal."
TRUTH Minista Paul Scott's weekly column is "This Ain't Hip Hop," a column for intelligent Hip Hop headz. He can be reached at info@nowarningshotsfired.com, on his website, or on Twitter (@truthminista).
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Marge Simpson and Wonder Woman are also seen in shocking pictures.
From Cinderella and Snow White to Wonder Woman and Marge Simpson, one artist has taken some of pop culture's most famous romances and turned them on their head, in a bid to raise awareness for domestic violence.
Italian artist and activist AleXsandro Palombo has created shocking images showing characters from shows like Family Guy and The Flintstones, with their female leads battered and bruised.
"I wanted to give visibility to a problem that affects a great amount of women all over the world," he told Mail Online. "Domestic violence is a problem so widespread that its victims and perpetrators could be anyone."
Domestic violence convictions are currently at their highest ever level in the UK, up from 58% in 2007/8 to 63% in 2012/13, according to the CPS Violence Against Women and Girls Crime Report.
Domestic violence cases now account for more than 10% of all work done by the Crown Prosecution Service and according to DomesticViolence.org, in the US one woman in the U.S. is beaten or assaulted every nine seconds.
What do you think of the pictures? Powerful message or leave Disney alone? Tweet us @CosmopolitanUK.


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Mongabay's top Amazon stories from 2022
by Alexandra Popescu on 29 December 2022
Violence against activists and Indigenous people in the Amazon has made world headlines, with little progress on tackling impunity.
The victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil's presidential race and a more prominent role in the government for Indigenous representatives have brought more hope around slashing deforestation and preventing the Amazon from reaching a point of no return.
Infrastructure and mining projects have continued sprouting across the Amazon basin, threatening the livelihoods of Indigenous people and driving more forest loss.
Deforestation rates in Brazil dropped by about 11% in 2022, but an overview of President Jair Bolsonaro's term shows the worst forest loss in decades.
The fight to save the Amazon has continued in 2022, as tragedy and political hope are shaping the region.
Violence against environmental defenders ran rampant
Indigenous people have continued to face threats, violence and killings across the Amazon region, as they risk displacement and suffer the impacts of illegal logging, mining and agricultural expansion.
Vigil for Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira at the Brazilian Embassy in London. Image courtesy of Chris J. Ratcliffe/Greenpeace.
The murders of activist Bruno Perreira and journalist Dom Phillips shook Brazil and the world, shedding light on the dangers faced by environmental defenders in the Amazon, increasingly targeted during President Jair Bolsonaro's leadership. Crimes against Indigenous people remained largely unpunished, with authorities even not investigating some cases. However, for the first time, the killing of an Indigenous defender, Paolo Guajarara, murdered in 2019 by illegal loggers, has been sent to trial in front of a judge, raising hopes about fighting impunity in Brazil.
Deforestation kept strong
Although overall, annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in 2022 dropped by about 11% compared with 2021, in the wake of presidential elections and during the COP27 climate conference, clear-cutting soared. November deforestation rates were 60% above the month's average for the last seven years, in line with forest loss during Bolsonaro's term, when deforestation rates increased overall by 59.5%, for the worst destruction of the Amazon in the last 34 years.
Harvested Amazon trees on their way to market, either for final sale in Brazilian cities or for shipment overseas to the EU, the U.S. and elsewhere. After valuable Amazon trees are cleared on a property, land-grabbers burn off the remaining forest before selling the land, usually to ranchers and soy producers. Image by Fábio Nascimento.
One report showed that several protected areas occupied by Indigenous people continue to be at risk from deforestation from land-grabbers, while further data showed deforestation rose by 3% in the Legal Amazon between August 2021 and July 2022, resulting in the biggest annual deforested area in the past 15 years. The Legal Amazon, an officially recognized area, covers the nine Brazilian states within the Amazon Basin and is critically important for biodiversity and regulating climate in the region and globally.
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to data from INPE, Brazil's national space research agency.
In the Peruvian Amazon, Mennonite colonies have become the largest driver of deforestation, according to satellite data. The religious group converting pristine forests into agricultural land is currently causing more damage than agribusinesses and palm oil plantations, while also invading Indigenous territories. In Bolivia, the group has also been driving forest loss across protected areas.
Illegal mining, agriculture and fires have also driven an increase in deforestation in the Venezuelan Amazon, including in major national parks.
Encroaching development and illegal deals
Legal and illegal gold mining have been expanding in Ecuador's rivers, contaminating fresh water with toxic waste, violating the rights of Indigenous communities in two of the country's river basins, affecting a total of 1,500 communities. Mining impacts have also been reported in one of the last well-preserved forest links between the Andes and Ecuadorian Amazon, as miners encroached the area to extract from rivers, using harmful materials.
Two children play in the upper basin of the Nangaritza River while a group of miners extract gold in the Shaime community. Photo taken in 2018 by Carlos Medina.
Oil blocks auctioned by the Bolivian government were proven to overlap with protected areas in the country's Amazon region, sometimes up to 100%, an investigation from the journalism alliance ManchadosXelPetroleo has shown. Another report revealed that in the northern department of La Paz, illegal gold mining is causing deforestation and mercury pollution, as miners leverage the state's inability to regulate the industry and make shady agreements with rich foreign investors to boost production. Oil lots in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru are encroaching on a total of 1,647 Indigenous territories and 52 protected areas.
A highway running through one of the best preserved areas of the Brazilian Amazon could boost deforestation, land-grabbing and burning, conservation experts have warned, as works have begun. An expanding network of unofficial roads is already leading to increased forest loss across the same region, according to a new study, with 5% of that road network inside conservation units and 3% within Indigenous territories.
BR-230, also known as the Trans-Amazonian Highway; the BR-163 Cuiába-Santarém road; and the BR-319 Manaus-Porto Velho road, shown here, are official roads that cut across the Amazon and have spawned a network of illegal offshoots. Image courtesy of the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT).
Brazil's largest flooring exporter, Indusparquet was revealed to have made corrupt deals to secure a threatened tree species from the country's Atlantic forest, according to a Mongabay investigation. Mongabay's Brazil team has also revealed that Agropalma has fraudulently obtained land titles in the state of Pará, while encroaching on ancestral Quilombola land, including community cemeteries.
Elections brought new hopes for Brazil's environmental agenda, but the way is not yet smooth
President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who won the election this October, has pledged to fight deforestation and protect the Amazon. Lula, who in his previous two terms oversaw a steep drop in tropical forest loss, won a tight race against Jair Bolsonaro, but pro-development conservatives have kept a strong grip on the country's Congress and could continue to block beneficial environmental policies.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks at a São Paulo hotel after the presidential election results are announced Oct. 30. Image courtesy of Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil.
General elections also saw historical results for Brazil's Indigenous peoples' representation in Congress, as five self-declared Indigenous candidates were elected as federal deputies, including Sônia Guajajara and Célia Xakriabá, and two as senators.
And some good news
Alex Lucitante, 29, and Alexandra Narvaez, 30, were among the winners of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. The two led an Indigenous movement to protect from gold mining the ancestral territory of the Cofán of Sinangoe in Ecuador. The territory contains rainforests, wetlands, mountains the headwaters of the Aguarico River (a tributary of the Amazon River) and the Cayambe volcano.
Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez, Goldman Prize winners for South and Central America in 2022. Image by Goldman Environmental Prize.
Scientists have been listening to the sounds of species in order to boost conservation. One study has been using recording devices in trees in 14 separate locations in protected areas and captured about 16,000 minutes of sound. According to the researchers, wildlife sounds could help spot behavioral changes because of climate change, assess its effects on ecosystem services and create a basis for conservation programs.
A photo database of more than 154,000 records of images from the Amazon Rainforest featured more than 300 species of mammals, birds and reptiles, in the first study to put together and standardize camera trap images from across the Amazon, covering Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear. Image by WCS.
In Brazil, the RECA (Consortium and Densified Economic Reforestation Project) cooperative made up of more than 300 families, is a pioneer agroforestry system in the Brazilian Amazon. Agroforestry could help restore about 30 million hectares (74 million acres) of degraded pastures in the Amazon by providing an alternative to soy and cattle ranching.
Drone image of the agroforestry farmlands of one of the RECA members. Agroforestry offers a successful method to restore degraded land and generate income for small landowners. Image by Avener Prado for Mongabay.
But soy could also help tackle deforestation, if planted in the right places, research has shown. Cropping soybean on underused cattle pastures would prevent deforestation and carbon emissions compared with current soy farming practices but could still boost domestic soy production by a more than a third.
Banner image: Gold mining in Rondônia. Almost 30% of the local forests have been cut down in Rondônia since it became a state in the 1980s. Image © Fabio Nascimento for Mongabay.
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The Jets' running game, after a pitiful start to the season, appears to be on the rise. In the previous three games, Curtis Martin has rushed for 77, 88 and 110 yards.
The Giants, meanwhile, have gone 14 games, dating back to last season, without allowing a running back to rush for 100 yards.
Something, of course, will have to give tomorrow when the Jets and Giants meet for real at Giants Stadium with their seasons on the line.
Center Kevin Mawae said of the Giants' streak, "It gives you something to shoot for. It's a goal that you set. We don't want to be that 15th team [not to have a 100-yard runner]. We want to be the ones to break that streak.
Giants DE Michael Strahan isn't about to close the curtain on Martin's career, as so many people seemed ready to do when he and the Jets' offensive line were struggling earlier this season.
"He looks great," Strahan said of Martin. "The great, funny thing about it is everybody was talking about the demise of Curtis Martin, and as players you realize that Curtis Martin is so far away from going downhill. To watch him the last few weeks, he looks like the Curtis of old, making a lot of people miss, making a lot of good runs.
* LB Mo Lewis didn't practice yesterday and remains listed as questionable. There's only a slight chance he'll play tomorrow even though he didn't practice all week because of hip and back ailments. Rookie Victor Hobson will start at strongside LB, where Lewis has started 103 consecutive games . . . WR Wayne Chrebet, nursing a sore back, will play, but he'll be the third WR and likely will be limited, as he was last week . . . DE Bryan Thomas will start in place of injured John Abraham (groin). CB Jamie Henderson will return to the lineup and play in the nickel, likely sending emergency signee Ray Green to the bench.


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Welcome to Classic Lightweights, the most comprehensive online repository on the history of British bespoke bicycle and component manufacture. This site contains a bounty of resources for anyone interested in the finest bicycles and components ever made, and the individual artisans and makers who produced them.
The site was created by Peter Underwood in 2006 as a resource for a few friends to share stories, memories and photos. Nobody imagined how the site would grow to become the definitive resource for classic lightweight British bicycles and their history. Peter and his wife Patricia's stewardship of the site has been remarkable and highly valued by its large global readership. In recent years they had become concerned about the future of the site and were keen to secure it for future generations.
Starting in early 2020 we (the team behind the revival of Chater-Lea) took over the day-to-day management of the site. We are committed to ensuring the site will remain non-commercial and free to all who wish to use it. Work is underway to make the site easier to navigate, enhance the search capabilities and upgrade technology to accommodate additional content. This will ensure that existing and new audiences can continue to enjoy the site.
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We will shortly launch a newly designed and rebuilt site but this is just step one as we plan to further develop the site including: expanding the content; improving the curation of content on the site including adding indexing and tagging for better cross-referencing; and developing new original content to share the wonderful stories from this golden age of British bicycle and component manufacturing. The site is already large (thousands of pages and tens of thousands of images) but the potential is so much bigger.
It has been a herculean task this last several months to get it to the point where the site is well designed, functions well and is secured for the future. But now the hard work really begins which is to enhance the site and allow enthusiasts from around the world to enjoy it today and everyday and to ensure the site continues to evolve. Every week we get emails from people wanting to share reminiscences, share information and share photos. We have a backlog to now bring onto the site and wish to continue to take contributions. This means we need support from both volunteers and paid professionals such as archivists, writers and designers. Your money will be used for such developments. If you cannot support in a monetary sense we would still appreciate your help either in spreading the word or if you have the time in helping us with the types of tasks outlined above.
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Queens Chronicle Editorial: MLS Stadium Doesn't Belong In Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
"It's time you and your league go back to a map and find another location." - Queens Chronicle Editorial - December 7, 2012
Soccer coaches often say controlling the ball and dictating the pace of play are integral to winning games. It appears Major League Soccer has adopted the same tactics when it comes to its proposed 25,000-seat stadium in the heart of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. This paper took a look at the league's initial proposal and gave it casual backing. No more, according to an editorial in the Queens Chronicle.
Simply put, we cannot understand why the league insists on setting up shop on public property, in a park utilized on any given weekend by thousands of borough residents. This atop a whole litany of lingering concerns
We are dismayed by a largely muddled outreach process embodied most recently by allegations of muted dissent at a "town hall meeting" on Tuesday. Our editor found troubling evidence the event was something more akin to a pep rally than an airing of ideas. A sign-in sheet was allegedly used to filter out the rabble. Pro-stadium groups were given an early invite and priority seating. And the theatrics of a crowd draped in MLS regalia and holding up pro-stadium poster boards was largely fabricated.
Questions about the feasibility of building a stadium on a swamp will remain until MLS explains in detail how it will manage to build a stadium in an area where the water table is three feet below the surface at most, according to the 2006 U.S. Geological Survey map. Those concerns are only magnified by the proposed parking facility — not for public use — below the stadium, which we presume will be a wonder of water-repellent engineering.
The league is also ignoring the lack of parking for fans, a problem anyone who frequents the park during the U.S. Open can attest to. While we respect MLS's traffic advisor, our own contributor Sam Schwartz, his projections that 50 percent of fans will take mass transit still leaves thousands of people driving to games. Where will they park?
Most troubling is the still-unspecified replacement parkland, a major sticking point for many. Yes, the league is required to replace every inch of parkland, but there are no rules mandating it be in our borough. MLS is in the throes of a search, though that process has been closed to public input.
We're assuming the parkland it ultimately chooses will be safe, clean, close to a populace that will utilize it and accessible. So … why not build the darn stadium there?
The league's argument that the world's sport needs a home in the heart of our borough simply doesn't score many goals with us. We still don't have a complete list of other sites MLS was considering before it chose our park. Why not consider the myriad of pesky, unused sites around our borough, places that need an infusion of life and vitality? Something like the old Flushing Airport, Aqueduct Racetrack or the old home of the U.S. Open in Forest Hills?
We're left wondering how serious the league is about its repeated odes to collaboration and community input.
This is not a call to end all discussions of an MLS stadium in our borough. Far from it.
The stadium's estimated $60 million in annual economic activity, 150 permanent jobs and host of other economic benefits are nothing to overlook, in any economic climate.
But the cost is too much. It's a price that rejuvenated soccer fields, fixed fountains and an updated water management infrastructure cannot cover. Besides, don't we pay taxes so the Parks Department can handle those improvements? The city's silence on this issue is deafening.
Commissioner, you're a Queens guy. C'mon. It's our park. It's yours too. You're welcome to use it — like the rest of us.
It's time you and your league go back to a map and find another location.
MLS Stadium Doesn't Belong in Our Park
Queens Chronicle Editorial - December 7, 2012
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Yemeni Army to attack UAE ports, airports if aggression continues: Vice-minister
TEHRAN, Jun. 18 (MNA) – Vice-minister of information of Yemen Nasr Eddin Amer has warned United Arab Emirates that Yemeni forces will attack Emirati ports and airports if the hostile country does not stop its aggression on Yemeni people.
Speaking to the Iranian Fars news agency, Vice-minister of information of Yemen Nasr Eddin Amer referred to the recent drone attacks against Saudi airports in response to aggression and killing of innocent Yemeni people by Saudi-led coalition.
The Yemeni official said that the Yemeni army's operations are taking place in accordance with the right to respond to the aggression to force the hostile countries to stop the attacks on the people and end the embargo.
He further warned that all the airports of the aggressive countries of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia can be targeted by the drones and missile units of the Yemeni Army.
"The UAE has played an active role in the aggression against Yemen and has occupied some Yemeni islands and ports, and has been flaring up the conflicts inside the country and supporting the terrorist groups in Yemen. Therefore, the UAE will not be immune from the reaction of the Yemeni army, and if it does not stop its aggression, it will witness a reaction sooner or later," Nasr Eddin Amer further pointed out.
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Iran is wisest not to damage burgeoning favorable opinion


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will escape us. But if we do not strive for happiness we will become happy, if we strive for something higher. Happiness is just a reward or just an indication from God that we are doing something right. So again of course if it is the happiness..anyway.. Let's not talk about this. Our main topic is the law of karma, and how to counteract it and what dharma means. Again coming back to this point ultimately, when we perform our dharma or our duty, the end result is that we become more united with the whole world. We become more united with the living beings or human beings around us and we will become closer to God and we become more united to God. We will feel more expressly and more vividly the presence of God in our life when we perform our duties and when we live righteous life. How it works? Everyone can experience this. For example, if man and woman live together, and they try to perform their own duty, the wife performs her own duty and tries to do it at her best and the man tries to perform his duty and they appreciate each other and they appreciate each other's endeavours to perform their duty. Ultimately, they develop a very strong bond. And this bond is called love. Love is not this romantic feeling which we experience in the beginning, which evaporates after two, three weeks of our close contact with each other. Love is a feeling of respect and understanding, mutual understanding of each other when we really become one mind, one heart within two bodies when we really understand each other. But the basis of it is performing of the duties. When we perform our duties we develop our nature and this development of our nature helps us to enter into very deep and productive relationship with other people and brings us side product: happiness. But the greatest result is that we become closer to God, because this is the design of God. God wants us to become happy. God is not a cruel person. He did not create this world, because He wants us to suffer. He wants us to enjoy. He wants us to become completely happy. He is happy Himself. But, unfortunately we are stupid. And we are creating these activities which are against the intelligence given to us by God. We are disturbing the balance in the environment, and in other people's life, in our own life and therefore we are suffering. The sufferings are always self-inflicted. Nobody else is inflicting us sufferings. Of course, some other people can inflict us sufferings. But ultimately even this is the result of our own stupidity which we have to understand very clearly and God created this world for us to understand how to act to become completely happy and to feel the happiness which He experiences Himself. Ultimately, this is what God wants. He wants us to experience His happiness. But He teaches us at the same time how to come to this point. And to come to this point, we have to understand the law of karma, we have to respect the law of karma and not to destroy the balance around us. We have to understand our own nature, act strictly in according to our own nature, without depending on the fruits, completely depending on God and on God's arrangements, because if we act according to our nature God will arrange, God will provide us what we need. There are many many stories in the history of humanity, when people initially would undergo some sufferings or some lack in their lives because they were very devoted and determined to act according to their nature, but ultimately the result would completely supersede all their expectations, the result would be much much greater. And, yes of course, the results are not coming so quickly, but they are coming. There is no doubt about it. We do not have to be concerned with the results, we have to be very dutifully concerned with following our own nature and of course we should know for this not only our nature but what are the scriptural injunctions which help us to develop this nature and to act properly according to our nature. And for that, there is different sort of dharmas which is there as I said men's dharma, women's dharma, parents' dharma children's dharma, social dharma, dharma according to our status in life, whether is brahmachari, grihastha, vanaprastha or sannyasa or dharma according to our nature, whether we are intellectual or we are managerial type of person, we like to manage or we are enterprising, we are merchantile type of person, or we are just workers. These all different natures which are there and the scriptures say how you should act according to this to maximize the positive results of your karma and ultimately to feel more directly the satisfaction of God. In Vishnu Purana there is this famous verse: varnasramacara-vata... (Vishnu Purana 3.8.9) that when you act according to your duties in life it means act according to your nature, strictly according to your nature, this is the way to worship the Supreme Lord. The Supreme Lord will become pleased with you and by being pleased with you, He will bestow upon you what you need. But of course this is not yet the highest result, because it is a very preliminary result on the spiritual path. We have to be again very clear that we are performing different spiritual duties and spiritual practices not to counteract karma. This is a by-product. And not even to perform our dharma, not even to become happy. These are all by-products of it. Ultimately, when we perform our dharma or our duty in life, our heart will become very pure. And this pure heart is a prerequisite for us to understand our nature. This time I am talking about spiritual nature, not about conditioned nature. Because when we perform our duties according to our conditioned nature, the result with this is that we will start to understand that I am eternal spirit soul and I have eternal nature. And I have sanatana dharma, eternal duties in my life. And then I will start performing my eternal duties, which is called service, service to God, or worship God. This is the next point. Purification of the heart definitely makes us happy, and balanced and free of all disease, and gives us so many other good results. But the main result of it is that to understand who I am. I am spirit soul, I am servant of God and what are my duties in relationship to Him. And this is the highest dharma. When we understand our highest nature, spiritual nature, innate spiritual nature, then we will understand with this nature our highest dharma or highest duty. That is love God. And that is of course the first commandment of the Bible as well. We should love God. Why is it the first commandment? Why is it the first duty? Because this duty reflects your deepest, most basic, most fundamental nature as a living spark. Spark of spirit emanated by God. And to love Him, to love our source is our main duty and for that we perform bhakti yoga. Karma yoga is the beginning of our spiritual journey. And it is necessary and the elements of karma yoga are the foundation of our human existence but it is not the ultimate. The ultimate is the yoga of love, because the very word "yoga" means unity. And unity is the description of love. So by performing our duties, we counteract our karma, by performing our duties we become more united with this world, we become more united with people around us we become more united with God but then the real spiritual understanding comes to us very clearly and we understand what is our function in this most important relationship between us as spirit souls and God as the original spirit, our original source of all existence. And this God, Absolute, the original source of all existence of this world and us is called by many names but we call Him Krishna because the word Krishna means the most attractive existence. "krisir bu-vacakah sabdo, nas ca nivriti-vacakah" Mahabharata (Udyoga-parva 71.4) this word Krishna means existence and bliss merged together. "Krish" means existence and "na" means bliss. When existence becomes blissful it is God. And when we approach Him and come closer to Him our existence as well becomes very blissful. And that is what we are all seeking for. We want bliss but for that we have to understand very basic principles of karma how karma works, what we should not do under any circumstances and what we shoud do in our life. Thank you very much. This was my short presentation of the science of Krishna Consciousness, philosophy of Krishna Consciousness. It is a great science, it is a very universal science. It is applicable to anyone and everyone. And I hope that you will be able to find something useful in what I had to say This all is given by His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Praphupada in his books and the main purpose of this lecture is to instill some desire in yourself to go deeper into this topic by reading and studying His books on a daily basis. Again, thank you very much. Hare Krishna.


Nowadays, many males lead a lifestyle that is active. Work, constant company conferences, and lots of smaller chores usually takes a great deal of the time. Nonetheless they nevertheless need to find time and energy to consume appropriate and keep by themselves who is fit. As an outcome, picking right on up girls during the fitness center actually is the best way to begin any relationships.
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