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Christopher Vestel bangs on the doors "Medical check-up, line up maggots!" snapping a glove on.
Bianca Bender sits up slowly....in no big hurry...she's been here long enough.....what's a few more minutes.....looks through the bars and shows a glimmer of recognition.
Christopher Vestel snaps his fingers at her "To the bars prisoner, if you want to be released in good health"
Bianca Bender raises an eyebrow and goes to stand....momentarily forgetting about her leg...and ends up half falling to her left side as the GSW on the back of her thigh causes her leg to give out.
Bianca Bender cringes but stands....leaning against the end of the bunk beds for support and takes a stuttering step almost falling against the bars in front of the solider.
Christopher Vestel looks at her "Prisoner, I am entering the cell, don't even get an idea your going to touch my piece" referring to pistol mostly
Bianca Bender curls her lip...and glares through the wire holding herself up while her leg gets some feeling back into it..
Christopher Vestel points to the ground "Sit prisoner..."
Bianca Bender growls...'"make up your fucking mind...." turns around and lets herself fall into a sit on the floor flinching and her face paling as the wound on her thigh screams in pain.
Christopher Vestel smirks, looking at her..."Best way to know how pain your in, is see you perform a simple act of movement, Bianca"
Christopher Vestel kneels down near her, removing a small supplies of gauze, medical tape, and septics, looking at her repeatedly, making sure she doesn't reach for the firearm....
Bianca Bender sneers..."Well pretty boy let me gash the back of your thigh a quarter inch deep and have you sit your handsome ass down here with me." growls low mumbling..."and I felt sorry for your damn offspring last night..."
Christopher Vestel looks to her, not liking that comment, he removes the stim injector from his belt "Do you want to go to sleep, or stay awake, cause this sedative will put your fuzzy ass out"
Bianca Bender rolls her eyes, "Pretty boy scared of some simple words...." curls her lip, "I've got a gash in the back of my thigh and a gash in my left arm as well....I think I'll just sit here and look pretty.....I want to go home."
Christopher Vestel nods, he takes some quick clot foam packets out "I don't have my big kit with me today, but I will patch the holes up until you get back to your Den.." he rips open a packet, dumping it into a gauze square.
Bianca Bender looks up and reaching for the sleeve of the crap shirt she's wearing easily tears the sleeve away revealing an angry looking gash on her L arm...smiles..."Tell me when you're ready and I'll stand up and you can get a good look at my ass....kiss it while your back there if you'd like...." bats her eyes up at him.
Christopher Vestel reaches over the neko, with the Quick clot in hand, he pushes it into the wound, about a whole inch deep into the wound, listening to her comments "I've seen your ass before, Neko"
Bianca Bender snorts but hisses in a breath when the quick clot hits the soar...she'd endure his shit long as he gets her out of here in relatively one piece....looks at him..."Oh really...do tell the moment you laid eyes on my fine piece of ass? I don't seem to remember that...you must not be worth remembering." attempts to stand from her seated position having to pull up on the grating of the cell door do to so faces the door and waits for the "order" from him.
Christopher Vestel waves for her to stand up "Turn around" he orders "The reason you couldn't remember me, was because I was on a roof, looking at your ass through my sniper scope"
Bianca Bender snorts..."So you're a pervy peeping tom? Don't they teach you how to shoot w/ that extension of your cock..." drops her pants as she says the last word....the gash on the back of her left leg has started to bleed again from sitting on the floor....the scab that was forming breaking open...she clenches her free hand around the bars as the rough cloth brushes against the wound...gritting her teeth..."Take a good look....next time will cost you." prays he hurries...she's on the edge...not sure how long she can keep up her facade.
Christopher Vestel takes a can from his pack, he puts a nozzle on it..."I was going to kill anyone of you, if you harmed my child" he injects the nozzle deep into her GSW, thinking of the killing spree he would go on if someone harmed his Jay Jay.
Bianca Bender hisses as the nozzle goes into her wound...."He's a brat....you let him run around like a damn ape...shit father..." had had no intention of harming the boy....he seemed a good kid...white knuckles both hands on the jail cell bars to keep from collapsing...fuck if she put people through half this pain when she worked on them.....bites her lip hard.
Christopher Vestel finishes, giving her ass a slap "Then you babysit him, cause he keeps sneaking out of the bunker" he packs up his medical gear. Standing up, obviously towering over Bianca.
Bianca Bender grips tighter with her right hand as the left is a little weak from the GSW and pulls the bottoms back up her head wanting to drop....but she straightens her spine a fracture more..."Maybe if his father wasn't a shit head...he'd stick around...or if his father's friends weren't a bunch of pedophiles...." turns and stares at the man if he looks close he can see the pain and the hope at having him be the one to show up finally but her body language is pure defiance..."Can I leave now that you're done lookin your fill and gettin your jollys off?"
Christopher Vestel says "A shit head huh? Hmmm, maybe I should leave you in here, when the morning crew comes in, ask Miss Kat about that"
Christopher Vestel grabs her cuffs, he lifts them up high enough for him to see the keyhole, he unlocks the, throwing them to the bed.
Bianca Bender almost collapses but locks her knees...and winces when it shoots up her thigh...taking a deep breath...not flinching back when he grabs the cuffs or back away from him when he comes close enough to unlock them but whispers softly...he may pick it up or not.."thank you."
Christopher Vestel sighs at her saying that, knowing helping her, can get him landed in this cell, again.
Christopher Vestel grabs her arm and tries to pull her out of the cell to the out processing door.
Lazarus Lowenstark walks away from the counter guffawing at some ignorant joke or another he was sharing with the guards. He struts down like he owns the place, and gets closer to Bianca's cell, "BEEEYANCA!" He shouts with a Brooklyn Drawl, "Get yer ASS up. Daddy had to Bail your ASS out and it cost me a pretty Frikkin' penny - and Guess who's ASS that's comin' out of?"
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Stuttering Barred Frog (Mixophyes balbus) [Myobatrachidae; Mixophyinae], from the Timbarra Plateau, east of Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia.
This threatened frog species is comprised of two divergent lineages, one in southern New South Wales and one in northern parts of the state. While the southern lineage has experienced substantial declines, the northern one remains common, even at high altitudes. The Timbarra Plateau is near the northern limit for this species, further north it is replaced by the related Fleay's Barred Frog (Mixophyes fleayi).
When you forget to turn off long exposure noise reduction you get interesting things. Or I should say maddening gaps in trails.
Apparently I didn't read my own "Stacker's Checklist"! In my defense, I've been shooting the Milky Way quite a bit and sometimes do use LENR for that task (see my previous post)
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What's the cause of the stutter? I'm holding a video camera on the monitor. The wiggliness of the handhold shows that the video has halted, then jumps to the current position, freezes again, and so on. How do I determine the cause?
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 11: Tina Brown and Emily Blunt speak onstage at the 2022 Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala at Guastavino's on July 11, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for American Institute for Stuttering)
“You know I like to use that time to prepare for my afternoon classes,” she protested.
“Make an exception, for me?” he wheedled, fastening the pasha’s diamond pendent around her throat so that the lovely jewel nestled just between her breasts.
Her breathing stuttered and the blood drained from her face at the sight of the gem.
“Where did you get this?” She had gone ashen-pale.
“In Armenia-”
“From my Uncle Krikor,” she whispered, fingertips hovering over just over the pendant. “His finest work.”
“He remembered you fondly, mogliettina,” he replied uncomfortably, cursing his stupidity for not realizing that she would recognize her uncle’s necklace.
But you knew she’d recognize it, didn’t you? You knew she would know how I got it and you wanted to make sure I couldn’t hide my sins from her. Clever old devil.
“He said he liked the idea of you wearing a necklace made for a pasha’s wife while you played on the floor with our children.”
A small, shaky laugh, pitched high and nervous, escaped her lips. “That sounds like Uncle Krikor.”
He smiled hesitantly, unsure how to gauge her response, and slid his hands over her upper arms to rub her shoulders. Her body was tense, but she permitted his touch. He pressed gentle kisses against the side of her neck, working his way up to her cheek. This wasn’t the reaction to the necklace he had expected. He thought she’d be delighted to receive such a beautiful and valuable gift, that his gesture would be rewarded with affection, praise, maybe even sex – if she liked it enough – that it would make her happy; he wasn’t prepared for her to react with thinly veiled shock and horror. He hoped he hadn’t made things worse.
“He’s dead then, isn’t he; him and all of my cousins. This wouldn’t have come to me otherwise,” she said softly, unflinchingly meeting his eyes in the mirror.
He looked away first.
- The Garden Season 2
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22 de Outubro Homenageamos o Dia Internacional de Atenção à Gagueira
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All Researches and accompanying photos obtained via the Internet
22 October International Day of Homage Attention to Stuttering
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Toutes les recherches et les photos ci-jointes obtenus via l'Internet
22 Octobre Journée internationale de l'attention Hommage à Bégaiement
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Por Deus, Amigos Queridos assinem por MISERICÓRDIA de nossas FLORESTAS...
Por tudo que já SUPLIQUEI e que posto novamente!!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Amazonia/Pagin...
CONTINUO SUPLICANDO, QUANTAS VEZES FOREM NECESSÁRIAS!!
ASSINEM ESTAS PETIÇÕES, POR FAVOR...
- PARA SALVAR A AMAZÔNIA,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- PARA SALVAR AS FLORESTAS DO BRASIL,
- PARA VETAR AS MUDANÇAS DO CÓDIGO FLORESTAL !
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
VAMOS LUTAR POR NOSSO PLANETA, PELAS NOSSAS FLORESTAS, PELOS INDÍGENAS (NOSSOS IRMÃOS), PELOS NOSSOS FILHOS, NETOS, BISNETOS...PELAS PRÓXIMAS GERAÇÕES...POR UM MUNDO MELHOR...
O PLANETA TERRA PEDE SOCORRO!!
TUDO OU NADA ESTÁ EM NOSSAS MÃOS,... BRASILEIROS!!
Muito obrigada,
Celisa
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By God, Dear Friends sign of our forests for mercy ...
For all that ever I pleaded and put it back!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Am azonia/Pagin...
CONTINUOUS Sulpice, as often as necessary!
Sign these petitions, PLEASE ...
- To save the Amazon,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- TO SAVE THE FORESTS OF BRAZIL
- To veto FOREST CODE CHANGES!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
WE FIGHT FOR OUR PLANET, FOR OUR FORESTS, INDIGENOUS BY (OUR BROTHERS), for our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren for generations to come ... ... ... FOR A BETTER WORLD
ASKS HELP THE PLANET EARTH!
ALL OR NOTHING IS IN OUR HANDS, ... BRAZILIAN!
Thank you so much,
Celisa
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Par Dieu, Chers Amis signe de nos forêts pour la miséricorde ...
Pour tout ce que j'ai plaidé et le remettre!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Am azonia/Pagin...
Sulpice CONTINUE, aussi souvent que nécessaire!
S'il vous plaît signer ...
- Pour sauver l'Amazonie,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- Pour sauver les forêts du Brésil
- De mettre son veto CHANGEMENTS Code forestier!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
Nous luttons pour notre planète, pour nos forêts, AUTOCHTONES PAR (NOS FRÈRES), pour nos enfants, petits-enfants, arrière petits-enfants pour les générations à venir ... ... ... POUR UN MONDE MEILLEUR
DEMANDE AIDE LA PLANETE TERRE!
Tout ou rien est entre nos mains, ... Brésilienne!
Je vous remercie,
Celisa
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Por Dios, queridos amigos: signo de nuestros bosques por la misericordia ...
Por todo lo que he declarado y poner de nuevo!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Am azonia/Pagin...
CONTINUA Sulpice, cuantas veces sea necesario!
Firmar estas peticiones, por favor ...
- Para salvar el Amazonas,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- PARA SALVAR LOS BOSQUES DE BRASIL
- De vetar los cambios Código Forestal!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
LUCHAMOS POR NUESTRO PLANETA, PARA NUESTROS BOSQUES, POR INDÍGENAS (NUESTROS HERMANOS), para nuestros hijos, nietos, bisnietos para las generaciones futuras ... ... ... POR UN MUNDO MEJOR
PIDE AYUDA AL PLANETA TIERRA!
TODO O NADA ESTÁ EN NUESTRAS MANOS ... BRASIL!
Gracias,
Celisa
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Per Dio, cari amici segno delle nostre foreste per pietà ...
Per tutto ciò che mai ho supplicato e rimetterlo!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Am azonia/Pagin...
Sulpice CONTINUO, ogni qualvolta sia necessario!
SIGN queste petizioni, PER FAVORE ...
- Per salvare l'Amazzonia,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- PER SALVARE LE FORESTE DEL BRASILE
- Per veto modifiche al codice FORESTA!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
Lottiamo per IL NOSTRO PIANETA, PER I NOSTRI BOSCHI, indigene da parte (NOSTRI FRATELLI), per i nostri figli, nipoti, pronipoti per le generazioni a venire ... ... ... PER UN MONDO MIGLIORE
CHIEDE AIUTO DEL PIANETA TERRA!
Tutto o niente è nelle nostre mani, ... BRASILIANO!
Grazie,
Celisa
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Dezenas de milhões de câes e gatos são ASSASSINADOS BRUTALMENTE, com INSTINTOS de CRUELDADE na CHINA !!
Amigos Queridos eu suplico, assinem esta PETIÇÃO, é um PEDIDO de Ativistas e Protetores de Animais que estão se mobilizando no MUNDO INTEIRO, em favor das vidas destes MÁRTIRES!!
Em DOIS MINUTOS pode-se assinar!! São seres INDEFESOS, eu ROGO, por Deus!!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Muito obrigada,
Celisa
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Tens of millions of dogs and cats are brutally murdered, with instincts of cruelty in CHINA!
Dear Friends, I beg, sign this petition, it is a request for Activists and Animal Protectors who are mobilizing around the world, in favor of the lives of Martyrs!
In two minutes you can sign up! They are helpless, I pray, by God!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Thank you,
Celisa
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Des dizaines de millions de chiens et de chats sont brutalement assassinés, avec des instincts de cruauté en Chine!
Chers amis, je vous prie, signez cette pétition, et une demande pour les activistes et les protecteurs des animaux qui se mobilisent autour du monde, en faveur de la vie des martyrs!
En deux minutes, vous pouvez vous inscrire! Ils sont impuissants, je prie, par Dieu!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Je vous remercie,
Celisa
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Decenas de millones de perros y gatos son brutalmente asesinados, con los instintos de crueldad en China!
Queridos amigos, os ruego, firmen esta petición, y una petición de activistas y los protectores de animales que se movilizan en todo el mundo, a favor de la vida de los mártires!
En dos minutos se puede firmar para arriba! Están indefensos, te ruego, por Dios!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Gracias,
Celisa
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Decine di milioni di cani e gatti vengono brutalmente assassinati, con istinti di crudeltà in CINA!
Cari amici, vi prego, firmare questa petizione e una richiesta di attivisti e protettori degli animali che si stanno mobilitando in tutto il mondo, a favore della vita dei martiri!
In due minuti puoi iscriverti! Sono impotente, io prego, per Dio!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Grazie,
Celisa
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Que Deus abençoe a todos os Queridos Amigos, principalmente nossas Queridas Amigas @rtbene, Blankita e Mag, e alivie o sofrimento daqueles que tanto necessitam.
Beijos em seus corações,
Celisa
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May God bless all the Dear Friends, mainly our Dear Friends @rtbene, Blankita and Mag, relieve the suffering of those who so desperately need.
Kisses in your hearts,
Celisa
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Que Dieu bénisse tous les chers amis, en particulier notre cher ami @rtbene, Blankita et Mag, et soulager la souffrance de ceux qui ont si désespérément besoin.
Bisous dans ton coeur
Celisa
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Que Dios los bendiga a todos los queridos amigos, en especial nuestro querido amigo @rtbene, Blankita y Mag, y aliviar el sufrimiento de aquellos que tan desesperadamente necesitan.
Besos en tu corazón
Celisa
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Che Dio benedica tutti i cari amici, soprattutto il nostro caro amico @rtbene, Blankita e Mag, e alleviare le sofferenze di coloro che così disperatamente bisogno.
Baci nel tuo cuore
Celisa
from The Prodigal: 10
The ground dove stuttered for a few steps then flew
up from his path to settle in the sun-browned
branches that were now barely twigs; in drought it coos
with its relentless valve, a tiring sound,
not like the sweet exchanges of turtles in the Song
of Solomon, or the flutes of Venus in frescoes
though all the mounds in the dove-calling drought
the hills and gulches all briary and ochre
and the small dervishes that swivelled in the dust
were like an umber study for a fresco
of The Prodigal Son, this scorched, barren acre.
He had the smell of cities in his clothes,
the steam and soot of trains of Fascist stations
and their resounding vaults, he had the memory of rain
carried in his head, the rain on Pescara's beach
with the pastel hotels, and instead of the doves
the air-show with the jets soaring and swooping
over the Fair, the smell off that beach
came back on the rock-road where the turtle lifted
its mating music into the dry acacias,
and mixed with the smell off the galloping sea-flock,
each odour distinct, of sheep trampling their pens
as if their fear had caught the wolf-scent.
The rock-brown dove had fluttered from that fear
that what he loved and knew once as a boy
would panic and forget him from the change
of character that the grunting swine could smell.
A sow and her litter. Acknowledged prodigal.
Grey sunrise through a sky of frosted glass,
the great trees sodden, the paths below them pooled,
the headlands veiled and muslin-thin, no birds,
and pale green combers cresting through the drizzle;
a change of climate, the clouding of the self
in a sudden culture but one more confident
in its glazed equestrian statues in wet parks,
its railway stations echoing like the combers
in the ground-shaken caves under the cliff;
gathering, cresting then dissolving shallows
as light steps quietly into the house.
Light that inaudibly fits in the house
as a book on a bookshelf with its spines of tombs
and names, mouths slightly parted, eager to speak
wherever their station now. Every library
is a cemetery in sunlight. Sometimes, a shaft . . .
Across the dry hillock, leaves chasing dead leaves
in resurrecting gusts, or in the ochre quiet
leaves too many to rake on the road's margins,
too loaded to lift themselves, they lapsed singly
or in a yellow chute from the cedar, burnt branches;
lyres of desiccation choked the dry gutters
everywhere in the country, La Feuillée, Monchy,
by the caked track to Saltibus, over D'ennery.
Drought. Song of the wireless harp of the frangipani
that still makes a tangled music out of silence.
II
Now to cherish the depredations of April
even on the threshold of March, its sunlit eve—
the gommier maudit unshouldering its leaves,
barrow after loaded barrow, the leaves fading, yellow,
burnt grass and the tigerish shadows on the hillside,
and the azure a trowelled blue, and blue hill-smoke,
parched shortcuts and rust, cattle anchored in shadows
and groaning like winches, the didactic drought
against the hot sea that teaches what? Thirst
for the grace that springs in grooves of oblivious dust.
A fine haze screens the headland, the drizzle drifts.
Is every noun: breakwater, headland, haze,
seen through a gauze of English, a bright scrim,
a mesh in which light now defines the wires
and not its natural language? Were your life and work
simply a good translation? Would headland,
haze and the spray-wracked breakwater
pronounce their own names differently?
And have I looked at life, in other words,
through some inoperable cataract?
"What language do you speak in your own country?"
Every noun has its echo, a noun is a noise,
as every stone in the expanding sunlight
finds an exact translation in its shadow,
and it may be that you were halved by language
as definitively as the meridian
of Greenwich or by Pope Alexander's line,
but what makes this, if this is all it is,
more than just bearable, in fact, exultation
is the stone that is looked at, and the manchineels,
bitter, poisonous yellow berries, treacherous apples
that look like Eden's on the tree of knowledge
when the first noun was picked and named and eaten
and the shadow of knowledge defined every edge
originating language and then difference,
and subtlety, the snake and contradiction
and the sudden Babel of the manchineel.
III
The blank page grows a visionary wood.
A parallel section, no, in fact a whole province
of far, of foreign, of self-translating leaves
stands on the place where it has always stood
the right-hand margin of the page
loud, soft but voluble in their original language,
an orchestrating lexicon, veined manuscripts
going far back in time and deep in roots
and echoing in the tunnel of the right ear
with echoes: oak-echo, beech-echo, linden-echo,
and beech and birds a half-ancestral forest
whose metre was an ocean's and whose break,
parting declared the white-lined conjugation
of combers' centuries. This ocean, English and this forest weald,
this clattering natterer "burn," this distance, mist,
kept its high columns marching as my pen moves
towards that gap of light that comes upon
the bright salt arc of a bare unprinted beach
or where the piper leaves a print, its claws,
dim, imperceptible as an ancient rune—
that is the landscape, that, the stand of forest
made up of all these leaves and lines that
still rasp with delight with rhyme and incantation
pages of shade turning into translation.
And my left hand another vegetation
but not their opposite or their enemy,
palms and wild fern and praising them, the sea,
sea-almond, grape and vine and agave
that the wind's finger folded carefully
drawing its thumb to mark the dog-eared wave
across the dry hill, leaves chasing leaves
in a shiny, scurrying wind, and, in the brown quiet,
leaves, unraked, tiling the road's margins,
so loaded they don't lift, they lapse singly, yellow,
or chute from the cedars. Lyres of desiccation
in March's autumn, filling the dry gutters,
everywhere in the country, La Feuillée, Monchy,
except for the wireless harp of the frangipani
that still makes its music out of extreme stillness.
In my own botanic origins, frangere panem
to break bread, flower-flour in its white lilies,
except that in rare blossom I now remember
the flower is pink. It doesn't matter.
Since whatever hue it is, its wafer it serves that need,
petal on the sky's open palate at early mass
every morning but here most on this Sunday
with its Lenten drought, the heart-coloured flowers then
the caterpillars determinedly devour,
on a Sunday when a sadness still eats at the parallel
petals of my beaten heart, and the white pews of the sea,
the waves coming in aisles, my longing
for the communion of breakfast, the leafless,
flower-less but crusted bark of the frangipani,
frangere panem, the pain that I break and eat
flower and flour, pain and pain,
bright Easter coming, like the seas white communion.
IV
In the country of the ochre afternoon
it is always still and hot, the dry leaves stirring
infrequently sometimes with the rattling pods
of what they call "women's tongues," in
the afternoon country the far hills are very quiet
and heat-hazed, but mostly in the middle
of the country of the afternoon I see the brown heat
of the skin of my first love, so still, so perfect,
so unaltered, and I see how she walked
with her sunburnt hands against the still sea-almonds,
to a remembered cove, where she stood on the small dock—
that was when I thought we were immortal
and that love would be folded doves and folded oars
and water lapping against eroding stone
in the ochre country of the afternoon.
Derek Walcott
In the course of some recent home renovations these coins turned up behind the wall panelling. Although not very old, they are of interest because they are no longer part of our monetary system and are not often seen, except in collections. Some Australians, born after 1966, may have had very little exposure to the old "pounds, shillings and pence". I must admit that I remember them very clearly.
Maroon 5 Concert, May 21st 2011. (SOOC)
ADAM IS SEX ON LEGS. Best birthday present ever.
LIFE IS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL <3
I WAS SO CLOSE I COULD HAVE POUNCED ON HIM
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HI GUYS I'M BACK, school's been killing me but it's all good (Y)
I HAVE MISSED FLICKR SO MUCH, HELLO AGAIN :-)
So, I was tagged (a while ago..) by alexa to do this list for...
Five things that make you happy, Four of your favorite foods, Three of your favorite movies, Two places you would love to visit, and One of your favorite memories.
5. Blue skies, sleeping in on rainy mornings, when my ipod plays all the best songs on shuffle, ADAM SEXY LEVINE, hoodies twice the size of me :-)
4. Cookies n' Cream icecream, soup noodles, chicken wings, bubble tea!
3. INCEPTION/IRON MAN, White Chicks, 10 things I hate about you/Lion King? hah
2. Alaska, Greece.
1. MAROON 5 ON A SATURDAY NIGHT
Concerts are a real work-out.
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Ooh and THANKS EVERYONE FOR 4000+ VIEWSSSS! :")
i haven't touched this for agezzzz
[18:32] Cephas Loire gurgles a wet cacophony of chuckles, this time actually standing his ground and allowing the bullets to enter his abdomen. A heavy metallic thud resonates as the rounds bounce off the lieanr frame beneath. "Going to take more then....", he stutters a moment, coughing up a little blood, "...then that, little kitty. Catwalkers don't understand warfare, trying to grasp straws, house of cards. Wait until shipment comes, going to blow your fucking house of cards down." He reaches up, drawing the machette, "Going to give you one more chance to go lay in corner like little kitty...", he inhales, stiffling another cough, "...little song...little dance...big knife jammed down yer pants."
[18:35] Bailey Dazy continues to stand her ground on the ramp of the den. She knows if she backs down now, the den and her own ego will be lost forever. She doesn't have much more protection. She realizes she doesn't have any more bullets in her pistol, not like they were doing much anyway. She holsters it and reverts to the lone weapon she has left.... her hand made metal claws. 8 inches in length and razor blade sharp... She crouches with her claws extended... she'd be ready to pounce directly on top of him. "You may get too much sexual enjoyment from that."
[18:38] Cephas Loire extends his tongue, still dripping with regurgitated blood and bile, "Rather like pussy pussy...", he hisses menacingly, "..count self lucky caught me on good day or would have rippe dyou apart already." He takes a step closer, tilting his head, twirling the machete playfully, "Random shit happens all the time, shiv? SOmetimes it finds you...", he takes another step, "Sometimes foolishly go out looking for it."
[18:44] Bailey Dazy focuses her eyes on the intruder, her mind turning feral, words are hard to come by at this point as all her brain can think is 'kill, kill, kill' "You.... you're foolish... you... you come here. YOU LEAVE!" She roars with the last statement, as she leaps downward aiming directly for his head, should she succeed she may dig deep in with her claws.
[18:44] Bailey Dazy has nothing but revenge on her mind right now
[18:50] Cephas Loire growls loudly, announcing his own intent. He veers back, the claws missing his head but imbeding themselves instead in his chest, stopping short when they riccochete off the frame beneath. He growls again, slamming his head into hers, apparently not at full force or it would've caved in her entire skull. The impact dislodges her claws, he in turn crouching slightly, taunting her to continue with a beckoning hand.
[18:53] Bailey Dazy feels her feral adrenline rushing but the blow to the head takes quite a bit out of her... She stumbles back, and away from the edge of the catwalk. She all but pins her back to the wall... she hears Shadows cheering but it echoes in her ears. She reaches forward with her paw making an attempt to slice her bladed claws across Cephas's face. It's not until she nearly slaps him that she realizes she's unarmed.
[19:03] Cephas Loire leans into the path of her attack, allowing her hand to make contact with his ice cold synth flesh. He chuckles in amusement as he lashes his hand out to grab her wrist in a vice like grip. “See darkness in your eyes…”, he snarls, his voice heavy with intent, malice, “The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do and devise reason later.”, he pulls her towards her, her body whipping at him like a ragdoll, “There is nothing else. Existence is random, has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it too long.”, he brings the machete up, relishing as she wriggles in his grasp, “No meaning save what we choose to impose.” At that he punctuates the remark by bring the blade swiftly down in a shallow arc, gleaming the flesh of her throat open, parting it in a smooth, glistening red line.
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Most of my pictures are moving pictures shot from cabs and auto rickshahs ,,
bald headed
barefeet
with lots of guts
live on a street
in shanty of huts
one stammers
one stutters
one bad words
loves to splurt
word to word
three against
the might
of a herd
three flock
together
like warbling
birds
now going for
hafta wasuli
from roadside
shop keepers
selling iftar fare
fruits jelly falooda
samosas bhajias
dates and custards
their body language
created this poem
three street smart
idiots
I shot these kids from a moving cab, these are kids you will find in any Muslim ghetto or locality,and Ramzan does a lot of good in controlling their bad upbringing in many cases.
I live close to a slum, and the kids almost the same age talk in a lingo laced with abusive words piciked up from the gutters of life or words that the adults use as normal bill of conversational fare , without realizing it is being picked up by the kids,
One of the most common word that begins all conversations in the slums extensively used by kids and I am not making it up, is Aye Loudey which is a dirty slang for the male member ..it is something more abusive in sound and content than dickhead,
And a few days back a person was telling me at least for a month he wont be hearing all this but he was wrong this word and others too reverberate in Muslim pockets and maybe in ghettos were other communities live too,
This was one of the reasons I stopped taking Marziya through the slums to my workplace, but I showed her how kids live for the few months we walked through this gutter of human despair.
Some words like chutiya teri bahen ka , teri ma ka are words that are part of the lexicon of life in every corner or nukkad of slum dwellings ..
You might wonder how I am writing all this, today is my 10 fast I dont keep track, I just fast, this was a subject I had kept in abeyance and the kids pictures without text I posted last night bought out all this ..
There is a marked change in the manner of kids during Ramzan whose parents have bought them up well, you see them rushing for namaz for tarabi and other religious related events.
So in a way it is ones surroundings parentage that makes the kids what they are.
Recently there was an incident that occurred at JJ Colony I did not want to give it much importance but I shall tell you in brief I had come from shooting the Bandra Station Iftar time pictures and cut across the sky walk to enter the Anjuman e Islam lane most of the people know me as thy have seen me shoot pictures and they know I am trying to popularize this lane as a Ramzan food stop.
I was taking a picture of a guy selling nan Muslim flat bread and a guy in his 40s pushed me roughly shouting at me why I was taking the bread sellers picture without permission , I had shot the same bread seller a few days back too, I was about to talk to him when he raised his hand at me, in the meantime a crowd gathered in my support and this local don just slipped away.
In normal situation I would have unleashed my fury too, but Ramzan makes us cool headed and tolerant, tolerance is the Mantra of Peace , we dont hit back fight argue our fast our meditation I am always carrying my prayer beads along with my camera.'
So when I read 60 soldiers killed or some more persons or child killed in Kashmir it breaks my hearts and I know it breaks your heart too, why not show restrain in this cherished noble month that is attributed as Gods own month beats me.
And three kids can in one image unfold so many emotions locked up in silence when I first shot them and now a perpetual text and way of life through a stray thought,
This is a blog it needs no agenda , it maybe purposeless to those who dont understand the street imagery and young urchins on the roads,
So it is not a just picture I shot the criteria of a photographer but I shot an emotional process the only forked path where a blog and photo journalism part ways.
Bloggers are known as failed writers burnt out writers I have no pretensions of becoming a writer and my audience is the man a little more fairer than me I write for him , this is my mind set from the time I became a blogger I wrote for my Buzznet friends Benn Bell and the rest of them , I still write for them but I am lucky some more read me at Facebook and Twitter where I pimp my blogs .
And now it includes the brilliant and witty bloggers from Indi Bloggers too.. and I am mature content in my use of cuss words so use your discretion ,,,
I think we are all grown ups and if you have not grown up wake up and read the Times of India where a child slits his step fathers throat or a ten year old buy rapes a five year old girl..or a twelve year old girl implicates her teacher of rape and molestation for failing her in class and I can go on but I wont..
And I dont know call me a monolithic moron but trusting your pre pubescent daughter or ward with a male tutor without a responsible person in the house is asking for trouble , even tutors carry their libido in gonads that are bigger than a childs school bag that hangs on their back.
You get the gist..
If you start to hear voices you should ask them to sing
And you could start dancing when they get into full swing
Now some people might look and some might stutter
When dancing you appear to be using a feather duster
Now not all voices are real so if you have your doubts
Ask them to speak up or even give out a shout
But be careful not all voices are here to help you
So no running with scissors or making home brew
And never let the voices tell you what to do
There`s enough people to take exception to
If the voices aren`t real why do they have good ideas
Or maybe you only hear them if you`re one of the messiahs
Some voices you hear might try to provoke
While others give good ideas and signs of hope
So when voices speak listen to what they say
But the decision is yours at the end of the day
Don`t listen to voices that might cause some harm
Yet you might learn something from the ones who charm
The rules for the voices require some tact
They consider it rude if you answer back
................. Copyright (c) Rodney Harrison 2014
so it's been a sl-sl-slow and st-st-stuttering start to the groupie culture again... for some reason it's been slightly intimidating this time around.
i mean it's not as simple as in the old days. back then you'd pour your heart out into an anonymous screen in some dingy net cafe in some dingy alleyway in old delhi or somewhere equally smelly, and press send. 3 days later someone would be guilted into writing back, even though they have 'nothing to say, home is home, same old same old.' these days you have to set up a travelblog, then you have to get everyone to bookmark it, and check it, and then leave comments so that you know you're not just writing to the cybergods who never listen anyway, and of course your parents, who don't really count (sorry folks). and to be honest, travelling with two people is, i suppose quite obviously, completely different to going it solo. i mean, someone already knows about the hell 17 hour ferry bus train trip you just did, so the imperitive to inflict, i mean share, the experience with others is just lacking.
but you know what? 3 days in bangkok in 40 degree heat is just the tonic for someone lacking the writing bug. (net cafes being airconditioned and all, and you might as well use one of the computers, as the proprietors tend to look at you funny if you just sit in the mercifully drycoldairflow, naked.)
so, after the somewhat waffly preamble, let's get started. oh, before i do, let me give you a quick "live" style rundown on what's hot and what's not in bangkok.
HOT: sausages on the charcoal braziers. it used to be squid, now they've got wieners. huh; thaksin sinawatra. that's right, the army's done such a bad job of managing the coup, the people want thaksin back to manage it for them; these weird jammalatra (sp?) amulets everyone is wearing. supposed to confer goodluck. at 2000B each and another 10000B upwards to get them blessed at a temple, thai time magazine is dubbing them the marketing miracle of the century. i think apple is releasing something called the "ipod" here soon. be interesting to see how it goes. this is one scam in thailand i'm glad i'm not in any danger of falling prey to!
NOT: thai people. its 40 freaking degrees and they're walking around in jeans and hiking boots. how do they stay so cool?; taksin. half the people love him as i said. the other half hate him. but it's more complicated than that. i can't keep up. the papers are no good either. the other thing about this preamble is that it reminded me of the new constitution the government is drawing up. the buddhist monks and some lay people (and foreigners!) are lobbying to have buddhism declared the state religion. the kingdom has always been a secular state, so it should be interesting watching the standoff...
ok so, what have jo and i actually been doing? good question, with a short answer - not a hell of a lot. leaving melbourne in ablaze of glory - thanks to all those who turned up to the golden monkey and kicked on into the wee hours - we alighted in singapore and crashed with my new boss-to-be. kicking in a couple of wines to his collection as rent for dumping some bags there (i think this could be a liquid appointment, judging by the stock already amassed), we winged it out for krabi the next day on tiger air. a lovely brandspanker of an A320, with about 30 people on board... for about 70 bucks. you people better pray they set up shop in melbourne, and give jetstar the spanking it deserves.
from krabi we hot ferried it to phi phi, and there the wheels started to fall off, to mix a metaphor 3 ways. some of you will know that i spent a lot of time on phi phi in '01,and to put it mildly, the place has changed. with the exception of a cleared piece of landin one corner of the village (which could be an ordinary construction site), some twisted and distorted building materials, and a heartbreaking baby's grave halfway up to the viewpoint, you'd never know there'd been a tsunami. until you speak to some of the locals, who talk about it quite freely - where they were and what they were doing... some of whom have missing or mangled limbs. so, that was different, but not markedly so. what struck me was the rampant development going on. phiphi was always"touristy". i knew that. but this is different. this is a 4 storey mall (!) being built where "charlie's" used to be. it's tour boats from phuket lanta and krabi converging on phi phi ley at 9.30 in the morning, disgorging orange lifejacketed snorkelling japanese tourists from the back of huge vessels, like they decided to return all the whalemeat in a "molecular food" form. we were lucky to get to phi ley bay by 8.30, and have 15 mins of uninterrupted bliss. but still, who wants to get up early on holidays just to enjoy an island cruise in peace??
so, instead of taking to the water, we took to the roads. hiking down to runtee bay, then over to ton ko bay (or trying to - we got lost and ended up on a new road above town, a massive swath cut into the hillside that bodes only ill for the coming years...). tiring of being tired, we alternated with some serious beach time, but really, unless you can escape the main village, the beaches at phi phi aren't all that crash hot.
so, we bailed to ko lanta, south of phi phi, which is only accessible in the dry season.
1961; The Case of the Stuttering Bishop by Erle Stanley Gardner. unknown Artist. Australian edition but printed and made in Utrecht The Netherlands !
Imagen y titulo que refleja el estado animico y laboral por el que estoy pasando....homenaje a mi mismo!!!
BANDA SONORA PARA LEVANTARME EL ANIMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elastica: Stutter
i want every word to leap from my mouth as if it is set aflame.
i want the passion i think in to come out when i vocalize my thoughts.
i'm tired of the way i speak.
i stutter i mumble i sound confused by my own ideas.
and i'm not.
i'm just thinking faster and in an intangible manner.
its frustrating.
i feel like i'm choking on my own thoughts.
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SIXTEENFACTS.
1.I am ridiculously afraid of being diagnosed with a mental disorder. To the point of near obsession.
2. I buy underwear more than any other clothing item.
3. photography is the only thing in my life that consistently doesn't make me feel like i've been "raped in the face" to quote hamlet 2.
4. My boys are the most immature assholes i've ever met and i love them with every fiber of my being.
5. i'm a bibliophile. i have a problem. i've spent over 100 dollars on books in the past week.
6.i'm a civilrights activist and a misanthrope and all i really want is for someone to understand that that's possible.
7.I'm bisexual. And not in the cool post pictures of you kissing girls on your myspace to get that guy you like to like you more kind of way. It's not that big of a deal, so don't make it one. being bi isn't the only thing about me.
8. green and grey are my favorite colors.
9.I don't shower that often. and thats really gross i know but i'm totally okay with it.
10. i hate relationships. i've tried, repeatedly. i can't make it happen right now i'm not bothering anymore. i'm only 18. i've got my whole life to figure my shit out.
11. i swear a lot. i mean a LOT. its horrible and gross and makes me sound unintelligent but man does it get your point across.
12.i make lots of to do lists; usually filled with things i've already done so i look productive.
13.balloons are the best things ever. they make me so uncontrollably giddy its not even funny.
14. i have insomnia and i stay up til the wee hours of the morning doing nothing important. its kinda nice being alone.
15. i drink a lot of water and tea and energy drinks. i always have to pee. i'm mildly addicted to caffeine and i'm sure that doesn' thelp my insomnia.
16. I can't wait for high school to be over and let me just run my life how i need to.
there's a weight on my wrists
the gentle pricks of fingertips
the gravitational friction
feather boa constriction
stuttering tongues with strangulated diction
I'm learning a lot from what I don't do
call me a liar, but I've been believed
by more truthful men than you
I made it through on feelings and false starts
but in the process of climbing, I'm falling apart
shouting out encouraging words
that get pecked on the way
by noise-canceling birds
I'm running out of hate
I love before I land
I feel like a boy
my flight is unmanned
stretched beyond
all coming back
a lone wolf lonely
at the center of the pack
when I stretch my jaw to howl
I feel my spirit crack
I don't think that's a metaphor
but I can't say for sure anymore
I'm raging in this room
in the midnight of the moon
I've forgotten forever
what peace was for
I'm making my treaty with war
© Steve Skafte
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Voigtlander Vito B : a great little camera from the 1950's , quite often the shutter 'stutters' on the slow speeds. Here's how to get to the shutter to service the mechanism and also clean up the optics. Start by setting focus to 'infinity' & taking out the set screws in the focussing ring (4 screws) using a 'jewellers' screwdriver..by the way ; this camera needs a film to be in place to charge the shutter via the movement of the film on a sprocket wheel.
Quite inadequate, awkward, shy and stuttering.
Bitting his lips til they bleed and sitting with tennis shoes on the couch.
This picture of my niece was taken at 5.40 in the evening in the living room.The sunlight was directly on her face from the window and got the grill shadow as well.The pic was clicked on stutter priority.
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, by Erle Stanley Gardner
Pocket Book 6007, 1960
Cover art uncredited
The main reason for purchasing the full Termi system with race chip was to get rid of that annoying stutter when the butterfly valve opens or is opening/closing when you are trying to maintain a particular speed, typically where it's somewhere the police are a concern and you want to maintain speeds within the posted limit. Not sure if stutter is the right technical term to use but it's not a surge, it's a drop off in power before it comes back on. Very annoying when you are riding pillion and helmet smack together! The full Termi system with race chip resolves that problem and the bike is now such a pleasure to ride, with smooth power delivery from low RPM all the way up. And that's with the decibel reducer installed. I tried it removed and it was way too loud, definitely would have drawn unwanted attention and the bike runs great with it installed so it doesn't concern me that I might not be getting maximum power. The engine does have some mild popping sounds on deceleration that was not there before. I brought the bike to an authorized Ducati technician and he said that was normal and not to worry about it. Another bonus you get from switching to the full Termi system is losing that huge catalyser. I should have weighed both sets of components but I know I shed a significant amount of weight by losing that big hunk of metal. Installation was not difficult and all parts fit together pefectly, with no cobbing required as I've seen with other aftermarket systems and bikes over the years. Overall I am very happy with the system and find that it was well worth the US $2300 I paid.
all the lawyers wish they were children or infants and all the infants wish they were drunk or fearless;so please (pretty please), dear admitted junkies and heartbroken caretakers, burn every photograph before todays and unlearn the contract of those to come.
viewing 1080p video on flickr is like looking at it through beer goggles covered in vomit while having an uncontrollable fit of the stutters :) you can at least wipe some of the vomit off with your sleeve by checking out the "HD" version on vimeo. let's just say it looks a wee bit better in true 1080p. if you log in to vimeo you can download it and see for yourself. just make sure your computer is fast enough. it stutters on my MacBook Pro that is only a couple years old (not mentioning the fact that it doesn't fit on the 15" screen).
i find it really, really annoying that you can't control the aperture manually when shooting video. i forgot my little filters for the 50mm to trick it into shooting wide open. yes, i understand that there is a hard limit on the shutter speed to maintain 30fps, but why not just blink at me like it usually does when the exposure isn't right?
A team desperate to erase painful recent memories immediately settled in at their new, adopted venue, with a four-wicket win against a struggling Australian side in Dubai. The devastation caused by Shahid Afridi's career-best 6 for 38 had all but shut Australia out of the match before the halfway stage of their innings. A late recovery pushed them to 168 but it wasn't enough to seriously challenge an unpredictable Pakistan outfit. Pakistan stuttered, rebuilt, stumbled again and a late push by Afridi, contributing an adrenalin-filled yet brief 24, pushed them towards a win.
The ultimate difference between the two sides was spin. While Pakistan's pair of Afridi and Ajmal shared eight wickets, Australia's Nathan Hauritz bowled four overs and failed to pick up a wicket. It wouldn't be fair to blame Australia's lone specialist spinner for the defeat. It was a collective failure of their middle order to read the spinners who mercilessly ran through the batting and effected a top and middle-order crumbling to the tune of 8 for 27.
Australia's rapid demise was a reflection of their ordinary recent one-day form. A collapse of this magnitude exposed a weakness against spin which was also on show in South Africa, even with a number of familiar returning faces in the ranks. With the ball gripping and turning, Afridi's mixture of googlies and topspinners caused most of the problems, but the relatively inexperienced Ajmal offered little respite with his doosras.
At 95 for 1 in the 19th over, Younis Khan's pre-match prediction of chasing a target of 260-270 seemed a reality. That was until Afridi got the ball and the crowd to dance to his tunes. He began by getting rid of the most well-set batsman, Brad Haddin, for a brisk 40, tamely chipping a flighted delivery to short cover. Michael Clarke's struggles against the spin trio of Paul Harris, Roelof van der Merwe and Johan Botha in South Africa were well documented and the nightmare didn't end with the move to another country. He was flummoxed by an Ajmal doosra and edged behind before Afridi worked his magic.
A rusty Andrew Symonds nicked one to a refreshingly sharp Kamran Akmal, before Shane Watson, who had played neatly on his return to the side after injury by adding 54 with Haddin, was beaten by one which turned through the gate. Safe catching helped Pakistan and Misbah-ul-Haq showed his sharp reflexes to cling onto Callum Ferguson's edge to remove one of Australia's few in-form batsmen. Hauritz completely misjudged Ajmal's line, shouldered arms and lost his stumps.
The score suddenly read a shocking 110 for 7 and it brought back bad memories of their collapse at Centurion very recently. It wasn't the kind you would expect of the second best team in the world even in the worst of days. The spinners sensed a weak link and exploited it with clinical efficiency. Afridi's googlies proved too much for the tailenders Stuart Clark and Nathan Bracken as he collected his best ODI figures and Pakistan's best figures against Australia.
James Hopes enjoyed a free swing of the arms in the third Powerplay with an unbeaten 48 to push the score to 168, a big improvement from a hopeless 122 for 9, but the momentum was still with Pakistan.
The Australian seamers failed to get enough early breakthroughs to cause a serious flutter in the Pakistan camp. The dangerous Salman Butt was trapped lbw for 5 in the seven-over period before the dinner break before a fidgety Younis Khan holed out to midwicket.
Spin was introduced in the 13th over but Hauritz couldn't extract the same turn and bite that Afridi and Ajmal managed against his batsmen. He overpitched too often and that allowed Akmal to get forward and drive through the line. He used his feet well and chipped down the track to bisect the gaps in the infield.
Shoaib Malik contributed only 12 in a stand of 48 with Akmal, content to let his partner hog the strike. However, as Akmal motored along, a flashy drive outside off cost him his wicket and Clark had his revenge after being slashed for a four past slip two balls earlier. A loose dab by Malik brought Afridi to the crease, who began by clipping his first ball - a low full toss - past square leg and then pulling the next past midwicket.
He took Pakistan within 31 of the target before mishitting one to mid-on. The chase thereafter was scratchy, with Misbah holding fort as Pakistan got home with 35 balls to spare. It wasn't the most convincing of chases but good enough to prove a point. Moreover, they played with a hunger to win against a team dogged by injuries and knackered after a back-breaking summer.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a sub-editor at Cricinfo
Mayor Bill de Blasio and actress Emily Blunt present Eric Dinallo with an award during the American Institute for Stuttering Award Dinner at Guastavino's in Manhattan on Monday, June 25, 2017. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
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I met Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, my ultimate dream girl. She was entirely sweet and I could barely utter a word without stuttering.
*Sigh*
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 12: <> attends the American Institute For Stuttering 17th Annual Gala hosted by Emily Blunt on June 12, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for American Institute For Stuttering )
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Xi to meet Putin in first trip outside China since COVID began
LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) -Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip this week to Central Asia where he will meet Russia's Vladimir Putin, just a month before he is set to cement his place as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
The trip, Xi's first abroad since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows just how confident he is about his grip on power in China and just how perilous the global situation has become.
Against a backdrop of Russia's confrontation with the West over Ukraine, the crisis over Taiwan and a stuttering global economy, Xi is due on a state visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
China's president will then meet Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's summit in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Kremlin said.
Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters last week that the Russian president was expected to meet Xi at the summit. The Kremlin declined to give details on their talks. China has yet to confirm Xi’s travel plans.
The meeting will give Xi an opportunity to underscore his clout while Putin can demonstrate Russia's tilt towards Asia; both leaders can show their opposition to the United States just as the West seeks to punish Russia for the Ukraine war.
"It is all about Xi in my view: he wants to show just how confident he is domestically and to be seen as the international leader of nations opposed to Western hegemony," said George Magnus, author of "Red Flags", a book about Xi's challenges.
"Privately I imagine Xi will be most anxious about how Putin’s war is going and indeed if Putin or Russia are in play at some point in the near future because China still needs an anti-western leadership in Moscow."
Russia suffered its worst defeat of the war last week, abandoning its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine.
The deepening "no limits" partnership between the rising superpower of China and the natural resources titan of Russia is one of the most intriguing geopolitical developments of recent years - and one the West is watching with anxiety.
Once the senior partner in the global Communist hierarchy, Russia after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union is now considered a junior partner of a resurgent Communist China which is forecast to overtake the United States as the world's biggest economy in the next decade.
Though historical contradictions abound in the partnership, there is no sign that Xi is ready to drop his support for Putin in Russia's most serious confrontation with the West since the height of the Cold War.
Instead, the two 69-year-old leaders are deepening ties. Trade soared by nearly a third between Russia and China in the first 7 months of 2022.
The visit "shows that China is willing to not only continue 'business as usual' with Russia but even show explicit support and accelerate the formation of a stronger China-Russia alignment," said Alexander Korolev, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at UNSW Sydney.
"Beijing is reluctant to distance itself from Moscow even when facing serious reputational costs and the risks of becoming a target of secondary economic sanctions."
XI SUPREME
Xi is widely expected to break with precedent at a Communist Party congress that starts on Oct. 16 and secure a third five-year leadership term.
While Xi has met Putin in person 38 times since becoming China's president in 2013, he has yet to meet Joe Biden in person since the latter became U.S. President in 2021.
Xi last met Putin in February just weeks before the Russian president ordered the invasion of Ukraine which has left tens of thousands of people dead and sown chaos through the global economy.
At that meeting at the opening of the Winter Olympics, Xi and Putin declared a "no limits" partnership, backing each other over standoffs on Ukraine and Taiwan with a promise to collaborate more against the West.
China has refrained from condemning Russia's operation against Ukraine or calling it an "invasion" in line with the Kremlin which casts the war as "a special military operation".
"The bigger message really isn't that Xi is supporting Putin, because it's been pretty clear that Xi supports Putin," said Professor Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
"The bigger signal is that he, Xi Jinping, is going out of China for the first time since the pandemic in the run-up to the party congress. If there were going to be plottings against him this is when the plottings would happen. And he's clearly confident that the plottings are not going to take place because he is out of the country."
Xi, the son of a communist revolutionary, is poised to secure a historical third leadership term at the 20th Communist Party Congress beginning on Oct. 16. He last left China in January 2020, before the world went into COVID lockdown.
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After the West imposed on Moscow the most severe sanctions in modern history due to the war in Ukraine, Putin says Russia is turning towards Asia after centuries of looking to the West as the crucible of economic growth, technology and war.
Casting the West as a declining, U.S.-dominated coalition which aims to shackle - or even destroy - Russia, Putin's worldview chimes with that of Xi, who presents China as an alternative to the U.S.-led, post-World War Two order.
Putin aide Ushakov said the Xi-Putin meeting would be "very important". He did not give further details.
As Europe seeks to turn away from Russian energy imports, Putin will seek to boost energy exports to China and Asia.
Putin said last week that a major gas export route to China via Mongolia had been agreed. Gazprom has for years been studying the possibility for a major new gas pipeline - the Power of Siberia 2 - to travel through Mongolia taking Russian gas to China.
It will carry 50 billion cubic metres of gas per year, around a third of what Russia usually sells Europe – or equivalent to the Nord Stream 1 annual volumes.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China, India, Pakistan and four Central Asian states, is due to admit Iran, one of Moscow's key allies in the Middle East.
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Top Chinese legislator pays official goodwill visit to Russia
Li Zhanshu, chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, paid an official goodwill visit to Russia from Wednesday to Saturday, at the invitation of Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.
During his visit, Li met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the country's far eastern city of Vladivostok, held talks with Volodin and Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko respectively in Moscow, and also met with leaders of the five State Duma factions.
When meeting with the Russian president, Li conveyed cordial greetings and best wishes from Chinese President Xi Jinping to Putin. He said that under the strategic guidance and personal efforts of President Xi and President Putin, the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era has maintained a strong momentum of development.
Political mutual trust, strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation between the two countries have reached an unprecedented level, setting a good example of good-neighborly friendship and win-win cooperation between major countries and neighboring countries, Li said.
Both China and Russia are at a critical historical stage of development and revitalization, enjoying great potential and broad prospects for cooperation, Li said.
China is willing to continue to work with Russia to firmly support each other on issues concerning each other's core interests and major concerns, implement the Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative put forward by President Xi, and turn high-level political mutual trust into more pragmatic cooperation results, Li said.
The top Chinese legislator said he firmly believes that under the leadership of President Xi and President Putin, the two sides will raise the bilateral ties to a new level and will follow the development path in line with their national conditions and achieve the great goals of their respective development and national rejuvenation.
Li also congratulated Russia on successfully hosting the 7th Eastern Economic Forum and briefed on the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Putin asked Li to convey his best wishes to President Xi. He said that the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era is special and important, and that the Russian side is satisfied with bilateral relations and cooperation with China in various fields.
Russia-China trade, especially against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, has shown a sound momentum of growth, Putin said, expressing his belief that the two sides will achieve greater goals of cooperation in this area.
More exchanges between the Russian and Chinese legislatures will play a positive role in promoting the development of bilateral relations, Putin said. He also wished the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China a success.
During his talks with Volodin and Matviyenko, Li said that the important task of cooperation between the legislative bodies of China and Russia is to promote the implementation of the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and provide legal protection for the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations.
The NPC will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation with the Russian State Duma and Federation Council, tap the potential of the mechanism for regular exchanges, maintain a good momentum of high-level exchanges, and promote exchanges among friendship groups and special committees, Li said.
Li said that the NPC is ready to work with the two institutions to create a favorable environment for practical cooperation through legislation as well as examination and approval of treaties and agreements.
He added that the two sides should strengthen exchanges of experience on national governance and legislation regarding fighting against external interference, sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction, among others.
Li thanked the Russian side for firmly supporting China on the Taiwan question.
Both Volodin and Matviyenko once again condemned Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to China's Taiwan region, saying that Russia firmly adheres to the one-China policy and is willing to deepen cooperation with China on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit.
Volodin said that the legislative bodies of Russia and China should further upgrade their cooperation, expand cooperation models, enrich cooperation content, so as to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and contribute to the development of bilateral relations.
Matviyenko extended congratulations on the great achievements made by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. She said that the in-depth development of Russia-China relations has given the legislative bodies a new task of cooperation, and that both sides should actively promote cooperation in such fields as politics, economy, trade, finance and youth, as well as enhance sub-national, people-to-people exchanges and cultural cooperation.
When meeting with leaders of the five State Duma factions, Li said that all the groups have demonstrated their support to enhancing friendly cooperation with China, showing that it is the broad consensus of all parties and people from all walks of life in Russia to develop the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era.
China is ready to maintain close contact and exchanges with all parties in Russia to consolidate the foundation of the friendship and practical cooperation between the two countries, he said.
Leaders of the five State Duma factions expressed their willingness to play an active role in intensifying inter-party exchanges between Russia and China, and make unremitting efforts to deepen the development of Russia-China relations, so as to benefit the two countries and their people.
During his stay in Moscow, Li laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and visited Vladimir Lenin's former residence.