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Post by Trigger Mason on Oct 15, 2014 14:40:29 GMT
Trigger easily melted under her lips, the simple peck to his cheek just what he needed to calm. Sighing as his son leaped out of the room, all he could do was pray. Hopefully the little boy would take him leaving well. In the mean time, the man leaned into his wife, cringing at her words.
"I will be," he promised, "I wouldn't miss it for the world."
He wasn't Jewel, he'd be there for his kids when he was needed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 19:11:43 GMT
Adalyn knew Trigger better than she knew herself, she could tell that if anything happened to her or the baby while he was gone he would be crushed. She made a silent promise to herself that she would be completely careful, and not do anything that could endanger her or her family.
"We will be fine you know? Of course I'll miss you but everything will be okay." She assures him, her lips finding his before he could protest or say anything. Their lips always moved in sync, they were simply one person in two very opposite bodies.
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Post by Trigger Mason on Nov 3, 2014 7:27:15 GMT
Of course Trigger made a move to continue the conversation, but who could argue with a pair of lips pressed to their own? Surely not him, especially when they were his wife's. What a word, eh? Wife. Adalyn was finally married to him, after everything they'd been through and boy was that a lot.
It was a miracle really.
As much as he hated to do it, he was the bearer of bad news- and thus, he leaned back some, breaking the kiss but not the distance. He chose to tease to lighten the mood rather than drag out the sadness, "Haven't I heard that before?"
It was sarcastic, but he knew she'd go along with it. They worked as one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2014 2:16:18 GMT
Adalyn leaned back, her chocolate eyes gazing at him. Her lips forming a smirk at his comment, of course they'd be fine. Though he did have reason to worry, past Adalyn was a bit reckless. With Tatum though, she would never be able to put him or herself in danger.
"You think your parents are gonna let me do anything that doesn't involve a body guard. Or Rhett?" She teases, her fingers trailing up and down his arms.
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Post by Trigger Mason on Nov 28, 2014 8:54:53 GMT
"Not a single thing," Trigger teased, trying to make the situation easier than it was. Laughing made things better, didn't it? Though, his words had a serious ring to them. His parents knew all too well what Adalyn had done in the past, and they would be sure she didn't do it again for the sake of the family. Even if she was stable and wouldn't dare do anything to endanger herself or the babies, they'd still keep an eye on her.
Nuzzling his nose up against hers, he smiled, knowing he'd miss this bliss all too much. Sighing, his breath fell warm on her face- fresh and minty. "I don't want to go," he murmured, knowing she'd think he meant just leaving his family, but there was oh so much more to the story than that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2014 7:31:39 GMT
Adalyn leaned closer to her husband, her lips trailing up and down his neck. His warm breath washed over her skin, chills sent up her spine. His words breaking her heart, she knew he didn't want to leave. Though she knew he had to, no matter how hard it would be she'd be strong though.
"You'll be back before you know it." She tells him, fingers running up and down his chest. "Or you could just stay home." She adds, giving him a teasing grin. She wished he'd just say okay and stay, but that was unlikely.
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Cinco de Mayo is incredibly popular in the US, though many Americans have some pretty serious misconceptions about its origins and meaning. No, it doesn't commemorate when Mexico gained its independence from Spain. (That's marked on Sept. 16.)
It's not even a major event in Mexico.
The May 5 holiday honors the Battle of Puebla, when vastly outnumbered Mexican forces repelled French Emperor Napoleon III's troops in 1862 during the Second Franco-Mexican War.
How did a clash south of the border come to be such a huge day of partying in the US? Read on to find out.
What does Cinco de Mayo represent? Mexico declared its independence in 1821. By 1861, though, the financially struggling country had defaulted on debt payments to several European nations. France's Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, decided to use the outstanding debt as a pretense to invade and extend his overseas empire.
A portrait of Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) by painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
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Napoleon's troops stormed Veracruz and drove Benito Juárez, Mexico's first indigenous president, into exile. Emboldened by their early victory, French forces under General Charles de Lorencez attacked Puebla de Los Angeles, about 80 miles outside Mexico City, on May 5, 1862.
Juarez sent a ragtag army of Mexicans and Zapotec Indians to defend the town under the banner of General Ignacio Zaragoza. The battle lasted from dawn to sunset and, though they were outmanned nearly 2-to-1, Zaragoza's troops repelled Lorencez's troops.
The battle wasn't a decisive victory -- in fact, the French recaptured Puebla a year later -- but many Mexicans saw it as a symbol of throwing off the shackles of colonialism and oppression. Four days later, on May 9, 1862, Juárez declared Cinco de Mayo a national holiday.
Emperor Maximillian of Mexico was executed in 1867.
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French troops fully withdrew from Mexico in 1867, and Maximilian I, the Austrian archduke Napoleon installed as the country's emperor, was eventually captured and executed.
In honor of the Mexican victory, Puebla de Los Angeles was renamed Puebla de Zaragoza, and Cinco de Mayo was made a national holiday.
Why is Cinco de Mayo celebrated in the US? As the French and Mexicans were battling, the US was embroiled in the American Civil War. Napoleon III had aligned with the Confederacy and planned to supply Southern states with weapons in return for cotton, which was being blockaded by the Union.
The loss at Puebla and the resources Napoleon expended in Mexico helped derail his strategy to continue northward and bolster the Confederacy.
US citizens of Mexican descent overwhelmingly supported the Union, according to David E. Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the UCLA School of Medicine. They voted for Abraham Lincoln, and many served in the Union army, navy and cavalry.
A monument to Ignacio Zaragoza, hero of the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico.
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News of the decisive victory in Puebla "electrified Latinos in California, Nevada and Oregon into redoubling their efforts to defend freedom, equality and democracy in both the United States and Mexico," Hayes-Bautista told CNET.
For his book El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition, he traced period newspapers showing that Cinco de Mayo celebrations were held in Los Angeles and other parts of the West almost as soon as the battle in Puebla was over.
"Every Cinco de Mayo, Latinos marched through the streets of cities, towns and mining camps to let the world know where they stood on the issues of the American Civil War and the French Intervention in Mexico," Hayes-Bautista said.
By 1910, the Mexican-American veterans of the American Civil War were dying off, and a new wave of immigration was coming to California amid the Mexican Revolution.
Two men ride on the hood of a car during a National Chicano Moratorium Committee march in Los Angeles in 1970.
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"These new arrivals noticed the Cinco de Mayo celebrations here in California, and began to join them," Hayes-Bautista said. But they repurposed the celebrations with songs, music and images of the Mexican Revolution, he said.
In the 1960s, leaders in the Chicano movement repurposed Cinco de Mayo again, as a symbol of cultural pride and resilience as they advocated for farm workers' rights, educational and economic opportunities and other social and political causes.
"The David versus Goliath story fittingly mirrored the struggle for civil rights," Kirby Farah, an anthropologist at the University of Southern California, wrote for The Conversation.
The commercialization of Cinco de Mayo For generations, Cinco de Mayo wasn't widely known in the US outside of Mexican American and Central American immigrant communities. Then, in the 1980s, as Latinos became a larger economic force in the country, beer companies saw an opportunity. In 1989, the Gambrinus Group, the Texas importers of Corona and Negra Modelo, launched an ad campaign encouraging Mexican Americans to drink Mexican beer on the holiday.
The marketing was soon broadened to reach Americans of all backgrounds, and, in 1993, Gambrinus marketing director Ron Christesson told Modern Brewery Age magazine that Cinco de Mayo was "becoming one of the beer industry's biggest promotions."
It was in this era, Hayes-Bautista said, that Cinco de Mayo "became highly commercialized into 'Drinko de Mayo.'"
In the US, beverage companies have zeroed in on Cinco de Mayo as a day of drinking Mexican beer and margaritas.
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Americans spent more than $600 million on beer on Cinco de Mayo in 2013, according to market research company Nielsen. That's more than they did during the Super Bowl, the Fourth of July or St. Patrick's Day that year.
"Corona is the first thing that comes to mind when customers think Cinco de Mayo," Gambrinus marketing director Don Mann said in 2006.
This year, Corona is sponsoring a "Corona de Cinco" campaign on its website that included Old El Paso recipes and a chance to win $25 Uber gift cards.
The liquor delivery app Drizly is pushing tequila on its home page, encouraging customers to "make your Cinco succulent" with top-shelf tequilas and mezcals. (Americans also consume roughly 8.7 million gallons of tequila on May 5, Loop Insights reported.)
How to celebrate Cinco de Mayo the right away Hayes-Bautista would like to shift Cinco de Mayo away from liquor companies and restaurant chains and back in the hands of the community.
"A fiesta is fine, but we should remember why we are celebrating," he said. "While the Fourth of July has been highly commercialized, beneath it all we do remember that the day has something to do with the founding of the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence."
Gustavo Rivas-Solis is vice president at Enroute Communications and has represented the Mexican tourism industry for more than 20 years.
Cinco de Mayo "took off in the US as a way for a minority to show its pride -- like St. Patrick's Day," he told CNET. "And like St. Patrick's Day, it started to be promoted by marketing companies. I guess they did their job well."
Mexican dancers in the Rose Garden of the White House for a Cinco de Mayo celebration on May 5, 2010.
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Rivas-Solis said he believes there's nothing wrong with embracing the revelry of the day, so long as it "comes from the heart and isn't just making fun."
"Mexicans love to have parties," he said. "There is a way to make the day more cultural and political, but we always love to celebrate."
He suggests Americans who want to honor the Battle of Cinco de Mayo learn about its origins and other aspects of Mexican culture.
"If you're going to drink tequila, learn about the centuries of culture behind it, learn about Jalisco. If you're going to wear a sombrero, learn where it comes from."
A 2001 reenactment of the May 5, 1862, battle between the French and Mexicans in Puebla.
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Rivas-Solis also makes a bid for visiting Mexico and exploring its history and culture firsthand.
"San Miguel de Allende is the cradle of Mexican independence and has an incredible Day of the Dead celebration," Rivas-Solis said. "In Mexico City, you have Chapultepec Castle, which Emperor Maximilian had constructed."
Mole poblano was invented in Puebla.
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Puebla itself is beautiful, he added, with many sites from the colonial era still preserved. And of course, Puebla still honors Cinco de Mayo -- with historical reenactments, mariachi music and a festival devoted to mole poblano, a savory chile and chocolate sauce that's become synonymous with the region.
"It's where mole is from," Rivas-Solis said. "The gastronomy is amazing. And there are these incredible fields of flowers -- the flowers you see used in the Day of the Dead come from Puebla."
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Post by Williemae on Oct 1, 2022 22:02:06 GMT
England captain Emily Rudge says World Cup success this year should pave the way for a bright new professional era in domestic women's rugby league.
The St Helens forward will lead a 24-player squad into the tournament that also includes 10 of her Saints team-mates plus a seven-strong contingent from Grand Final winners Leeds Rhinos.
All have had to balance preparations for the tournament with full-time jobs, putting them at a distinct disadvantage to clear favourites Australia, whose players compete in the fully-professional NRL women's competition.
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But Rudge, a PE teacher who has captained the national side since 2018, believes that could be a thing of the past if England can emulate football's Lionesses and claim a major title on home soil.
"It's really difficult - it's like having two full-time jobs and there's not enough hours in the day to do everything to the best of your ability," said Rudge.
"It's a massive challenge but hopefully it won't be forever, and this will be the last World Cup where women are working full-time and still trying to be top international athletes.
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"If we can win the World Cup, I think asking the women to go back to their full-time jobs would be difficult.
We've got a massive part to play, and having success in this tournament will push things to change sooner than it's possibly planned."
A crowd of over 16,000 is anticipated for England's opener against Brazil at Leeds on November 1, a mark that would set a new record for an England women's rugby match in either code in this country.
England then take on Canada at Wigan on November 5 before completing their group stage against Papua New Guinea, who beat England in Port Moresby three years ago, on November 9.
The 2022 Woman of Steel Tara-Jane Stanley is one of four York City Knights players in the squad, whilst the solitary uncapped representative is Leeds' Zoe Hornby.
We are 100 per cent sure we can win it. There are a couple of nations where we will need to be at our best and we need some things to go our way, but we are really confident
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Like Rudge, England head coach Craig Richards sees no reason why his side cannot upset the odds and overhaul the Australians, who blanked them 38-0 in their last meeting in Sydney in 2017.
"We are 100 per cent sure we can win it," Richards insisted.
"There are a couple of nations where we will need to be at our best and we need some things to go our way, but we are really confident.
"We are limited in how hard we can push them as what we can't do is suddenly start training part-time athletes who are still working like full-time athletes.
"But we will do everything we possibly can to get them ready. I wouldn't have done five years here, and the girls wouldn't have worked as hard as they have, if we thought otherwise."
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Seven elephants including two calves killed after passenger train ploughs into a herd of 40 in India The crash in eastern India was the worst of its kind in living memory The train was travelling at 50mph when it struck the animals A government minister warned that the death toll from the crash could rise By Ted Thornhill Published: 10:31 BST, 14 November 2013 | Updated: 16:44 BST, 15 November 2013 e-mail 270 View comments A passenger train ploughed into a herd of elephants in eastern India, killing seven, including two calves, as they lumbered across the tracks in a forest, authorities said. The crash was the worst of its kind in recent memory, said Hiten Burman, forestry minister in West Bengal. Ten other elephants were seriously injured and the death toll could rise, he said. The train was traveling at 80 kilometers (50 miles) an hour through the Chapramari Forest, near Gorumara National Park, when it struck the herd of 40 elephants crossing the tracks on Wednesday at dusk, Burman said. Horrifying: People walk past the hanging carcass of one of the elephants killed by a train on a railway bridge in Khunia range in Jalpaiguri district ‘The herd scattered, but returned to the railway tracks and stood there for quite some time before they were driven away by forest guards and railroad workers who rushed to the spot after the accident,' he said. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next A new life and a second chance for gorilla mother who gently... Angry elephant flips mother hippopotamus into the air with... Share this article Share Burman said railway authorities have ignored requests from his department to have trains reduce their speeds inside the elephant corridor in Jalpaiguri district, about 670 kilometers (415 miles) from Kolkata, the state capital. Dozens of elephants have died in recent years after being struck while crossing railroad tracks that run through India's national parks and forests. In December, a train killed five elephants in neighboring Orissa state. Constant danger: The unrestricted movement of trains has been blamed for the accident The collision occurred in Chapramari Forest, which is near Gorumara National Park in eastern India ‘It is an irony that elephants are being killed by speeding trains in north Bengal on regular intervals, even though it has been declared as the heritage animal in India and an elephant cub is the mascot of Indian Railways,' said Animesh Basu, a wildlife activist and coordinator of the Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation. Basu, who blamed unrestricted movement of trains for the accident, said at least 50 elephants have been killed by trains since 2004 in West Bengal state. India's wild elephant population was recently estimated at about 26,000. lynx.lib.usm.edu lynx.lib.usm.edu/login%3Furl=https://asiaporntube.pro
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Post by Keith on Oct 3, 2022 21:19:32 GMT
JAKARTA, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Indonesian rescuers searched on Friday for 30 people missing from the blazing wreckage of a ferry off the coast of Java island.
The KM Santika Nusantara was traveling between the country's second-largest city of Surabaya and the town of Balikpapan on Borneo island with 277 people on board, when it caught fire on Thursday evening, government official Syahrul Nugroho told TV channel TV One.
"About 245 people have been evacuated using small boats, while 30 passengers are still missing," he said.
Officials have given no details on the cause of the fire.
Rescue efforts were complicated by the boat's manifest listing only 111 passengers, officials said.
Ferries are an important means of transport in Indonesia, which is made up of some 17,000 islands, and sea connections are cheaper and more extensive than air links.
But safety standards are not always strictly enforced and accidents occur fairly often.
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