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Legionários: Episódio Piloto

by 7SofiaPisciana28 10 de Agosto de 2003. Las Vegas, Nevada. 19:00. Mais uma noite normal na cidade, principalmente para a equipe do Turno da Noite, do laboratório de Criminalística de Las Vegas.. A equipe formada por Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Sara Sidle, Holly Gribbs, Nick Stokes e Warrick Braun, relembravam de suas vidas antes de chegaram até ali e, principalmente da fatídica noite em que Holly foi baleada.   Eu juro que não fumei e nem cherei nada. Muito antes de anunciarem a série CSI: Vegas, eu já estava criando essa fic unindo as três franquias. num universo estilo Marvel, com super espiões, super soldados e etc, e tendo como personagem principal o Greg, que é meu xuxu. Com o tempo fui conhecendo Criminal Minds e as franquias de NCIS, e senti uma necessidade de introduzi-los na trama. Essa é primeira saga que eu tive coragem de posta e tenho me dedicado muito a essa saga, por isso espero que gostem. Words: 7473, Chapters: 7/7, Language: Português brasileiro Series: Part 1 of Legionários Fandoms: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Criminal Minds (US TV), NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death, Underage Categories: F/M Characters: Greg Sanders (CSI), Holly Gribbs, Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, Jim Brass, Mac Taylor, Horatio Caine, Stella Bonasera, Calleigh Duquesne, D. B. Russell, Julie "Finn" Finlay, Original Characters, Raymond Langston, Alden Parker, Jethro Gibbs, Dwayne "King" Pride, Henrietta Lange, David Rossi, Erin Strauss, Raymond C. Caine Sr., Bob Keaton, Danny Messer, Louie Messer, Marisol Delko, Eric Delko, Don Flack, Samantha Flack, Jessica Angell, Maxine Valera, Alexx Woods (CSI), Frank Tripp, Aiden Burn, Lindsay Monroe, Sheldon Hawkes, Tim Speedle, Jake Berkeley, Ryan Wolfe, Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds), Morgan Brody, Wendy Simms, Archie Johnson, Sonny Sassone, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Betty Grissom (CSI), Leon Vance Additional Tags: Family, Father-Son Relationship, Action/Adventure, Espionage, Super Soldier, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Mother-Son Relationship, Friendship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction via https://ift.tt/xPhWsBd

[many-voices]

Daphne: We Regret to Inform You

The letter was brief, perfunctory.  She’d written enough of them herself to recognize the tone.  “...Corporal Gibbs named you as his beneficiary...” was a surprise, though, and she set the paper down and stepped outside into the fragrant Amnoon night for a few gasping breaths under the moon.

Almost immediately she noticed a strange shimmer in the air, a patch of translucent oddness that turned the regular stone courses of the pyramid behind it to indistinct waves.  The scent of Ascalon filled the air in a rush: scrubby trees, hard clay, fire.  Gibbs’s pipe-smoke.  And just like that, she knew.

She pivoted to face the shimmer, the man-sized form.  “The letter wasn’t enough?” she said.  “You had to visit too, on your way Mistward?”  Smoke wreathed around her, drawing her skin into hard gooseflesh.  She let out a long sigh.  “I’m sorry, Finlay.  You came closest, so you know.  Out of all of them,  you came closest to making me stay.”

But the past was done, and with it, all regret, all remembrance.  Daphne lifted a hand to brush through the shimmer, to see it wrap briefly around her fingers.  “Go on,” she said quietly.  A year ago, she would have told him to go to his Gods, but where would that have taken him?  “The Mists need some cheering up,” she said instead.  “Go tell a few jokes.  Lighten the mood.”  

A breeze teased her black curls before the shimmer faded.  She pressed the heels of her hands against her eyes until she saw stars in the blackness.  When she dropped her arms, it was in the service of moving back toward her desk, to the orders beneath the letter.  Living beings had need of her, more than the dead ones.  The past was done.  Let it lie.

(( Daphne Ironstar was a character I only wrote about before my long hiatus, and I think she’s going to come out to play.  She’s bidding farewell to @finlaygibbs. ))

[jencsi]

My brain concocting a better, clearer more vivid dream regarding Sloane and Gibbs than it ever did for Finn and Russell. I am oddly happy yet disappointed somehow.

[garadinervi]

Other Books and So, Catalogue no. 4, Amsterdam, Summer 1977 [The Idea of the Book, Portland, OR].  Contributions by Stephen Bann, Ugo Carrega, Bob Cobbing, Simon Cutts, Wladimir Dias-Pino, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Gibbs, Sten Hanson, Bernard Heidsieck, Dick Higgins, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Eugenio Miccini, Stuart Mills, Franz Mon, Herman de Vries, Emmett Williams, Peter Downsbrough, Felipe Ehrenberg, Ad Gerritsen, Paul-Armand Gette, Davi Det Hompson, Alison Knowles, Sol Lewitt, George Maciunas, Jackson Mac Low, Carolee Schneemann, Jan Voss, Ben Vautier, Dan Graham, Wolf Vostell, Allen Ginsberg, Adriano Spatola, Claude Peliue, Gertrude Stein, and Eduard Bal among others

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Makers’ names: Lynette Kleiven (born Wright), Judy Wright, Joan Adam, William Wright, Tim Wright, Robyn Tyler, Ben Wright, Jess Ashley

Petition sheet number: 297

Person honouring: Rachel Wright

Relationship to makers: Great-great-grandmother of William Wright and Lynette Kleiven

Rachel Gibb was born in Carnbroe, Lanarkshire, Scotland about 1848.

 She was a milliner and dress maker and in 1870 she married John Wright, a miner.  The couple lived in the coal and ironstone mining villages in the hills near Dalmellington in Ayrshire, Scotland. 

In 1870 their son Robert was born and daughter Jessie was born in 1873. Sadly Jessie died as a young infant; another daughter, also named Jessie, was born in 1875.



In August 1876 the family sailed from Glasgow to Dunedin on the sailing ship Dunedin. The voyage took 83 days. Unfortunately Jessie died of meningitis during the long journey. 

In 1878 the family settled in the South Oamaru area where husband John was employed on the railways. They had five more children: Christina Rachel (1879)
, Esther (1882), Mary Brydone (1883)
, Margaret Finlay (1887)
, and John (1892). 

Initially they lived in Waiareka, then Toka-rahi and Totara (south of Oamaru).  

In 1899 Rachel was employed by the Post Office as postmistress and telephonist at nearby Toka-rahi.

 At a presentation at Totara in April 1908 to farewell the Wright family, the Oamaru Mail reported the following words spoken by John Macpherson (Manager of Totara Estate):


“Speaking of Mrs Wright, words failed him to convey all he should say of the many good qualities of that lady. Were it a time of sickness or trouble, she was ever ready day or night to do what she could for any one in the district, and all were sure of a cheery welcome at her house. Her connection with the post office and telephone bureau at Totara entailed a good deal of worry, but the speaker had to compliment her for the way she had conducted her duties.”



In September 1908 Rachel sold their six-bedroom house at South Oamaru; in October 1908 she and John retired to Christchurch. Rachel died in Christchurch in May 1933.

Panel materials: Lynette supplied cotton quilting fabrics for the background, Joan supplied pieces of lace, beads, fabric flowers (except the pohutukawa), and ribbon. Ben supplied photo fabric for Rachel's photo. Judy supplied embroidery threads, felt, and some cotton fabric. Map fabric was from an old shirt of William's. All materials were supplies we had to hand.

Unique ID number: VRS.2019.177

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[Horror News] OLD MAN, WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, SPIRIT HALLOWEEN, And More

Welcome to HORROR NEWS RADIO for SEPTEMBER 12, 2022.

JOIN US FOR casting news for SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL and HAUNTED MANSION, along with trailer news for OLD MAN and WEREWOLF BY NIGHT. All this, and more, coming up next…

I am your host Doc Rotten and this is HNR, the official GRUESOME MAGAZINE HORROR NEWS podcast. Back with me again are the scariest, goriest, bloodiest co-hosts on the 'Net.

Dave Dreher, the lead news writer at Gruesome Magazine

Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6dead6irl

OBITS

RIP Peter Straub, novelist, writer of Ghost Story and frequent collaborator with Stephen King

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/09/06/peter-straub-talisman-author-stephen-king-collaborator-dies-79/8004169001/

UPCOMING FILMS

THE LAST BREATH brings more shark-horror Director Joachim Hedén (Breaking Surface) and Writer Nick Saltrese (Prayer Before Dawn) Synopsis: The survival thriller follows five college friends who go scuba diving into a recently uncovered WWII shipwreck in the British Virgin Islands, where they find themselves trapped by great white sharks. Above is a first look image from the movie. Cast: Jack Parr (Peaky Blinders), Kim Spearman (As I Am) and Erin Mullen with Julian Sands (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

https://deadline.com/2022/09/shark-great-white-attack-thriller-last-breath-begins-belgium-british-virgin-islands-1235111014/

Vertical Entertainment will bring Brad Anderson's BLOOD to the US Director: Brad Anderson Writer: Will Honley Cast: Michell Monaghan, Skeet Ulrich, Skylar Morgan Jones, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, June B. Wilde, Rodrigo Beilfuss, Erik Athavale The film follows Jess, a nurse and mother recently separated from her husband, who moves with her daughter Tyler and young son Owen back into her old farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen’s dog escapes into the woods and returns days later, blood-soaked and rabid. When he attacks and bites Owen, the resulting infection from the bite grows more alarming by the day as Owen’s behavior becomes frightening and deadly. As he spirals deeper into the depths of the illness, Jess discovers a disturbing cure, which makes her question how far she is willing to go to keep her child alive.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/michelle-monaghan-skeet-ulrich-horror-blood-acquired-by-vertical-ent-1235111979/

Marcus Dunstan set to direct ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD Director: Marcus Dunstan Written By: Josh Sims and Jessica Sarah Flaum Jade Pettyjohn whose list of credits includes Destroyer, Little Fires Everywhere, Trial By Fire, School of Rock, United States of Tara, and The Mentalist is in negotiations to star.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/marcus-dunstan-to-direct-all-my-friends-are-dead-1235115444/

CASTING NEWS

Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinnaman join SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Director Yuval Adler Written by Luke Paradise

https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/nicolas-cage-joel-kinnaman-movie-sympathy-for-the-devil-toronto-film-festival-1235360751/

Samara Weaving top-lines comedy-thriller BORDERLINE Director: Jimmy Warden Samara Weaving, Eric Dane and Ray Nicholson

https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/samara-weaving-eric-dane-ray-nicholson-starring-borderline-cocaine-bear-1235362768/

HAUNTED MANSION adds Winona Ryder, Dan Levy Joining previously announced stars Rosario Dawson, LaKeith Stanfield, and Owen Wilson are a number of veteran actors, including Dan Levy, Danny DeVito, Winona Ryder, Hasan Minhaj, Jared Leto, and the iconic final girl herself, Jamie Lee Curtis, as Madame Leota.

https://collider.com/haunted-mansion-movie-cast-winona-ryder-dan-levy-hasan-minhaj/

TRAILERS

OLD MAN coming October 14, 2022 Director: Lucky McKee Writer: Joel Veach Cast: Stephen Lang, Marc Senter, Patch Darragh, Liana Wright-Mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdhxdt6scTU

SPIRIT HALLOWEEN: THE MOVIE second trailer coming September 30, 2022 Director: David Poag Writer: Billie Bates Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Christopher Lloyd, Marla Gibbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9yIt_7D1d0

WEREWOLF BY NIGHT arriving on Disney+ on October 7, 2022 Director: Michael Giacchino Writer: Peter Cameron(teleplay), Heather Quinn(story by) Cast: Gael García Bernal, Laura Donnelly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLEFqhS5WmI

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Reflective essays in nursing practice Nursing Reflection - Essay Samples

The approach involves the use of a model of structure reflection, one-on-one group supervision and the keeping of a reflective diary (Quinn, 572). Nursing Reflection. Going back through previous experiences and tracing back the footsteps we have made allows us to reminisce about the good things that have happened in our lives. Somehow the undesirable memories would also seep in as they are part and parcel of our existence that we cannot do away with. This process gives us an opportunity to encounter past events that can necessarily aid us in the future. In the Nursing practice, reflection is a retrospective approach that evaluates historical processing of experiences that takes place in a structured form and is deemed highly essential (Eliis, Kenworthy and Gates, 2003, 156). In the clinical practice, this retrospective activity facilitates in the promotion of quality care. The art of reflection however in the nursing practice focus on self rather than on the situation as the care provider (Quinn, 2000, 252). The process is a reflective practice that is a cognitive act by which we are allowed to make sense of our thoughts and memories (Taylor, 2000, 43). This method therefore allows a practitioner to generate a complementary or alternative form of knowledge and a set of choices in the evaluation of the best course of action. It is a “deep learning” experience that reflects on our knowledge and theories and go beyond merely thinking about what we do but involves recalling what had occurred and analyzing the situation by interpreting important information recalled (Taylor, 2000, 4). In Nursing, the reflective process is aimed about our own practice (Taylor, 20000, 3); that nursing education and research cannot do without as a common practice in the learning mechanism in which we all engage in a regular basis (Slevin and Basford, 2000, 483). With a main purpose of enabling the practitioner to learn from experiences and increase clinical effectiveness, reflection is highly essential to the nursing practice. For this process to be effective, Johns has provided a guided reflection which employs different models of self-inquiry to enable a practitioner to realize desirable and effective practice (2002:3). Considering that this involves a cognitive and emotional component that is expressed through analysis, different models would aid us feel comfortable about the activity. John’s model can be used in preparation for or during clinical supervision and applicable to specific incidents rather than more general day to day issues and particularly applicable to those who prefer a structure approach (Ellis, Kenworthy and Gates, 155). Gibbs Model use term description rather than “a return to the entire experience” as a form of reflection is considered as a simpler method but one where a mentor or facilitator is likely needed(Davies, Bullman and Finlay, 2000, 84). Both models however in supervision practice can be used to facilitate clinical governance through the promotion of quality care where an exchange between two professionals employing this technique seeks to improve their practice (Watkins, Edwards and Gastrell, 2003, 266).... View more ...

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UQ To Open New CBD Campus

The University of Queensland has submitted a development application at 295 and 299 Queen Street to occupy levels 6 and 7 of the Custom Credit House building.

The site is rectangular in shape having an area of 834 sqm with frontages to Queen Street and Edison Lane (to the rear). The faculty of Business,  Economics and Law seeks to occupy the premises with floor plans designed by Woods Bagot.

Level 6 is targeted to be a teaching facility for MBA & Exec Ed programs/office space. Level 7 is targeted to be used for alumni & advancement related activities. The Chancellor’s Office and exec support staff would be located on this floor to be able to engage with alumni and VIP guests. The proposal is for occupation of part of the premises only (levels 6 & 7) and no new or additional gross floor area is proposed and no other floors within the building will be impacted by the proposal.

A UQ spokeswoman confirmed to BrisbaneTimes.com.au that the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law had leased the site, but said she was unable to provide further information about the plans.

According to the news site, the seven-storey interwar building, which was constructed in 1926 from a design by Melbourne architects Gibbs, Finlay and Morsby and Brisbane-based Thomas BM Wightman, originally served as the base for National Mutual Life. Suncorp Insurance bought the property in 1988.

The Queensland Heritage Register recognises the building as “a fine example of an interwar commercial building reflecting the dignity and solidity of a financial institution”.

Extract from The Urban Developer 1 February 2017

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[finlaygibbs]

Letter to the Old Regiment

Captain Ironstar Eighth Regiment, Ebon Vanguard Foewatch Encampment

Sir -- 

I’m well aware that you and I parted badly, and I’m well aware that I’m about to bring up the subject that got me kicked from my regiment and busted back to the First and the city.  I don’t give a damn.

Did Daphne go back to the Vigil after her leave?  She told me after your tantrum that she was done with you and me, and heading right back to Trinity to rejoin her Vigil unit.  Did she go?

I’m sure you know full well that the First is heading right into the crash zone. If I need to be looking for your daughter, I will, gladly.  If I need to be looking for her and you don’t tell me so, then Dwayna protect you.

Gibbs

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Transfer

( Because more people read over here, rather than Finlay’s own tumblr! )

Capt. Harlow,

With my compliments, receive this shipment of herbs from past Foewatch.  I understand from my healers that this whatever-bush isn’t found near Ebonhawke, so they’re graciously sharing with the rest of you in the city.  

The rest of the cargo is one necromantically-inclined corporal, Gibbs, who I’ve already had transferred out of Foewatch and into Ebonhawke, and it seems like you’re the lucky regiment to get him.  You enjoy.

That said, the Eighth and Foewatch owe you now, and I’ll remember it.  

Capt. Ironstar Eighth Regiment, Ebon Vanguard Foewatch Encampment

( finlaygibbs )

[jencsi]

Same energy though.

[garadinervi]

Other Books and So, Catalogue no. 3, Amsterdam, Winter 1976/1977 [The Idea of the Book, Portland, OR]. Contributions by Mirella Bentivoglio, Herman Damen, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sten Hanson, Dick Higgins, Claes Oldenburg, Bern Porter, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Herman de Vries, George Brecht, Marcel Broodthaers, Robin Crozier, Alison Knowles, Dieter Roth, Endre Tót, Jirí Valoch, Lawrence Weiner, Gertrude Stein, Robert Filliou, Michael Gibbs, G. J. de Rook, Guy Schraenen, Joseph Beuys, Christo, Bernard Heidsieck, Dorothy Iannone, Nam June Paik, Daniel Spoerri, Ben Vautier, Hans Clavin, and Ladislav Novak among others

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Expo / Internacional de Novísima Poesía / 69Brest, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 1969. Cover: Man Ray, Lautgedicht, from 1924. Catalog issued on the occasion of ‘Expo / Internacional de Novísima Poesía / 69’, March 18 – April 13, 1969, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. w/ Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Luiz Pazos, Max Bense, Franz Mon, Gerhard Rühm, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Lara Lemos, Décio Pignatari, Pedro Xisto, Jiří Valoch, John Giorno, Jackson Mac Low, Thomas Ockerse, Mary Ellen Solt, Emmett Williams, Julien Blaine, Jean-François Bory, Henri Chopin, Pierre Garnier, Jochen Gerz, Jean-Claude Moineau, Herman Damen, Bob Cobbing, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Gibbs, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Ugo Carrega, Michele Perfetti, Sarenco, Carlo A. Sitta, Liliana Landi, Liliane Lijn, Eugen Gomringer, and Timm Ulrichs among others

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Teksty Wizualne – Visual Texts, Edited by Jiří Valoch, Wystawa Kolokwium Galeria, Dom Srodowisk Twórczych, Łódź, 1978. With Accame, Arakawa, Baruchello, Bakker, Bentivoglio, Blaine, Blank, Bremer, Burkhardt, Carrega, Chopin, Cobbing, Crozier, Deisler, Dencker, Denes, Ferrari, Finlay, Furnival, Gappmayr, Gerz, Gibbs, Gomringer, Heidsieck, Higgins, Houedard, Jandl Jochims, Kienholz, Kolar, Kriwet, Landl, Lax, Miccini, Nannucci, Padin, Partum, Perfetti, Pignotti, Shiomi, Spatola, Toth, Totino, Tress, Ulrichs, Valoch, de Vries, Wezel, among others

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[many-voices]

[Finlay] Dead Man

The Pact pilot flipped onto her stomach and wiggled her bare backside, but after Finlay gave it the smack she so obviously wanted, she laughed and curled away.  Naked, she displayed a whole range of spring colors:  carrot-orange hair, dusty freckles, warm skin.  “So I heard a rumor,” she said while trailing her toes up his shin.  

He propped himself on his elbow just to see her better, languid now with exercise and some blessed relief.  Some squiggling bit of conscience told him he couldn’t both pine for Daphne and pound Marie, but other bits of him were perfectly happy with the arrangement.  After all, Daphne was the one who’d told him he was an fool when he’d said soft words.

“What rumor’s that, strawberry?” he asked.  Gods, it felt good when the woman knew what she was doing and didn’t attach sentiment to it.  A series of friendly, acrobatic fucks, and all the world looked better.  

Marie smiled.  “You’re Grenth-promised, I know that.  Not a priest, but the magic, right?”

“Right,” he answered.  “I can’t think of any other quip that doesn’t involve ‘bone’ in it, and that’s just lacking in class.”

Her laugh almost inspired him to a second rising in one encounter, and at forty, those were as rare as pigs flying down Kestrel Street.  “I heard you died.  When you were little.”

Well, that took care of the second rising.  He flopped back down on the camp cot, the left one of the two they’d shoved together.  “I did,” he said simply. “Before that, normal as any dumbass boy.  After, magicked well and good.”

“What was it like?”  Her voice was breathy now, and he kept his smile friendly while his good mood evaporated to ash.  It’s not like he hadn’t been asked the question before, and in the same situation.  Death and fucking seemed to go together in some odd way that turned people curious and stupid and regretting their questions in the morning.

Still, Marie had turned out to be a decent friend, and one he could talk to when Keser was out in the jungles killing the Dragon’s remnants.  So he answered with a sliver of the truth.  “Cold.  Wintry.  But not terrible.”  He shrugged. “Cold.”

She slid forward and set a hand on his belly, then laughed when muscles twitched.  “You warmed up.”  But he was done now, caught more in memories of mist and ice than in her good hands.  “Outside I did,” he answered, nodding, and after a while she stood to dress and go.