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Upopolis social network expands its team to increase support to Canada’s chronically ill & hospitalized youth/
Kids’ Health Links Foundation is proud to announce and welcome certified child life specialists (CCLS) Krista Naugler and Jessica Miller to its flagship program, Upopolis, Canada’s only therapeutic social support network for kids and teens living with a chronic illness or long-term hospital experience.
“We are very lucky to be adding TWO child life specialists to support Upopolis’ therapeutic programming,” says Basile Papaevangelou, KHLF Chair and Founder. “Both Krista and Jessica bring with them years of experience as health care professionals working directly with children, teens and families to alleviate anxiety during times of medical duress. We’re extremely excited to have them join Upopolis to help drive its therapeutic value for our Upopolis online community.”
For the past 18 years, Naugler has worked at IWK Hospital in Halifax, NS as a certified child life specialist. Her clinical and programming experience is impressive and led her to found Camp Kedooopse at Brigadoon Village (), a grief support camp for children and youth ages 8-17 years. Naugler joins Upopolis in the newly created position of Program Coordinator, where she will serve as the day-to-day familiar “face” and administrator of the platform, welcoming new youth and health care staff to the site, responding to their questions, and posting fresh content.
Miller brings over 10 years of experience as a CCLS at Gilda's Club in Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, as well as experience as an online course instructor with McMaster University’s Child Life program since 2011. Miller joins Upopolis in the newly created position of Uknow Medical Content Coordinator. Uknow is the area where medical content is provided in an interactive and age appropriate format to help users better understand their diagnoses, procedures and experiences. Miller’s primary responsibility will be to review, update and analyze Uknow content so it is engaging and relevant.
With the addition of these two new positions, Upopolis National Program Manager Allison Sohanlal looks forward to working more closely with existing sites and identifying new Upopolis partners.
“We are thrilled that Krista and Jessica are working with us. This is an exciting time for Upopolis as we target not only pediatric hospitals, but expand our reach to include community hospitals, clinics and support groups,” says Sohanlal. “I’m particularly looking forward to strengthening existing relationships and identifying new sites whose patients would benefit by having online access to Upopolis.”
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Twiggy squares up to Sainsbury's in the avocado wars
SURROUNDED by talk of takeovers and embroiled in an intense fight to become the king of the high street, two of Britain's best known retailers have picked an unusual battleground – the avocado.
As both retailers attempt to convince the British public they are at the heart of Britishness, both have launched nostalgia-based campaigns which highlight how long they have been around and what an important role they have played in the fabric of the nation.
Bizarrely, both have picked the avocado pear as a symbol of their impact on Britain, and there's the dispute.
First in was Sainsbury's, who chose the avocado as a symbol of its innovative food practices in their campaign to mark 140 years of trading. It said it introduced the avocado to discerning palates in 1962 when the UK was finally throwing off the rigours of post-war austerity.
Then Marks & Spencer stepped in saying, as part of its new sales push to celebrate 125 years in business, that it was the first UK chain store to sell avocados to shoppers in 1968. In an expensive TV advert, Twiggy, one of the brand's "faces", is shown holding an avocado in her hand as a symbol of M&S's originality.
Richard Bent, senior lecturer in retailing and marketing at Queen Margaret University, said that both stores were trying to appeal to a sense of nostalgia in customers in the hope of picking up sales. "It's all to do with creating a feel-good factor about what the stores offer," Bent said. "Both are harking back to what appear to be happier times, but they forget to mention that kids were still working in factories then."
He added that Sainsbury's had the strongest case to be the first to sell avocados in the 1960s. "When I saw Twiggy with an avocado in her hand, I did wonder what it was doing there," he said. "At that time, Sainsbury's was a food retailer and M&S was more of a clothing shop. It would totally make sense for Sainsbury's to have been the first."
Despite the apparent discrepancy – and a quiet admission that Sainsbury's probably got there first – a spokeswoman for M&S said the company was not trying to mislead the public: "Our claim is that we first started selling them in 1968. In the TV advertisement, Twiggy is seen holding one in her hand as a way of getting across that we are at the forefront of innovation and bringing produce into the country."
But a spokesman for Sainsbury's, after searching company records, countered: "We have documents from our product team in 1962 advising the guys in the shop how to store avocados correctly. That's what we take as proof that we introduced them at that time."
Recent speculation has linked Sainsbury's with M&S in terms of a possible takeover bid. Sainsbury's, which runs more than 500 supermarkets and 300 convenience stores, declared a full-year dividend up 10 per cent to 21 March and an 11.3 per cent rise in underlying annual pre-tax profits to 543 million.
In March, the M&S board, headed by executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose, announced a 4.2 per cent sales drop in the first three months of 2009. Last week the company said dividends to investors would be slashed.
A merger between the two iconic high street brands would create a group with a combined turnover of 25 billion, although this would still be overshadowed by Tesco's 54bn.
The two rival campaigns are aimed at persuading consumers to put their trust in stores that have a long and reliable tradition of serving the public with quality goods from home and abroad.
The M&S advertisement, being aired this month and made by Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe, focuses on the company as an innovator in retail, from selling bras to avocados, and on its penny bazaar heritage. Michael Marks, a Polish immigrant, founded M&S in 1884 as a market stall in a penny bazaar in Kirkgate, Leeds, pairing up with Tom Spencer 10 years later.
In the ad, Twiggy, now a glamorous 59, goes on a journey back through the company's heritage. She goes "shopping" in the Leeds market where it began in 1884, recreated by a team of Hollywood set designers in London's Borough Market.
In the scene with the avocado, a smiling Twiggy holds up the fruit and says: "They brought us a taste of the exotic." Then, in an ironic reference to the fashion trends of the late 1960s and 1970s, the camera cuts to an avocado-coloured bathroom suite. "Did I say taste?" Twiggy asks with the raise of a shapely eyebrow.
The ad was released a week after Sainsbury's launched a similar campaign focusing on its 140-year history, which followed on from Hovis's critically acclaimed relaunch ad, first broadcast last year. Other companies, such as Persil and Heinz, have also launched nostalgia-heavy campaigns.
Sainsbury's lush 60-second advertisement was created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and aims to capture authenticity, even building an exact replica of a Sainsbury's store from 1914.
The retail chain was started in 1869 by a dairyman, John Sainsbury, who opened in Drury Lane, central London, to sell the produce from his herd.
Retail milestones, as well as the avocado claim, include selling butter in 1869, spotting women's potential in the workplace in 1914, and stocking only eggs from cage-free British hens this year.
Avocados in numbers
900 The year (AD) when a water jar shaped like an avocado was found in the pre-Incan city of Chan Chan.
1519 Year of the first European reference to an avocado by a Spanish writer.
1696 Year of first written record in English of the use of the word "avocado", by Hans Sloane in an index of Jamaican plants.
1962 Year Sainsbury's introduced the avocado to the British high street.
66 The height in feet of an avocado tree.
120 The average annual pear yield of an avocado tree.
17 The percentage by which cholesterol levels fall after a seven-day diet rich in avocados. |
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If the airline sold the connection and it fell with in the domestic minimum connect time, then the customer is guaranteed all the way to his final destination. Did the bags make it on to the connecting flight? That would be the most important question….because if they did, the airline has just stated by action that the customers connection was in fact guaranteed. The 15 min rule applies for CHECK-IN at an origin station.
If the plane pulled from the gate prior to official push time, and if the connecting customers bags made the flight I would say regardless of weather that it was a bonafied good connection and the customer would be due DBC I would bet that the flight was filled up with commuting non-rev crews going home, it was the last flight and they wanted to get as many NR PAX as possible. As an insider this very noble, as a traveler this is completely unfair and I see it all the time.
Personally I would file a complaint with the airline as well as the DOT.
My advice to anyone connecting to a flight…if at all possible avoid connecting into the last flight of the day.
“The 15 min rule applies for CHECK-IN at an origin station.”
That’s not true. From the US Airways Contract of Carriage: have another reason that a plane won’t be held for you: passenger discontent.
I was on a USAir DC-9 (this was back in the late-80s) and the pilot came on and said they’d be holding for some connecting passengers as this was at the end of the day. The load factor was uber low (30-40%) but there was a general sound of discontent (and as a preteen I booed pretty loudly, I WANTED TO GET HOME.) and the pilot called up the operations guys and got us sent out.
I hindsight it was a bad thing for the passengers to do, but it happened. I seriously doubt they’d quite take that into account now adays.
I think that’s something they might take into account for longer delays, but this plane pushed early. Had it waited until departure time, they would have made it, just barely. So I don’t think that was the case here.
I experienced something like this once, and it seems like US did offer some compensation when they weren’t required to…. SNA-PHX leg was delayed quite a bit because someone jumped the fence at SNA and was running right down the middle of the runway. When we finally arrive in PHX and were taxiing to the gate, I saw the plane I was hoping to get on to DSM still sitting at its gate. Unfortunately it was one of the longest be-boarding processes I have ever been a part of, especially considering that we were on a CRJ. Once finally off of that plane, I moved as fast as I possibly could to the next “wing” of gates over to the DSM gate. Looking at my watch, I thought I just might make it as the scheduled departure wasn’t for about 12 more minutes. However, as I finally got to the gate, not only was the plane pushed back, but it was gone, still 7 minutes prior to departure (this was the last of 2 daily flights to DSM). The gate agents had no explanation and were not interested in discussing the matter one bit. I asked and was offered a seat on the only other flight yet to depart that night to anywhere even close to DSM (MSP), but decided against that. Now here is the part that makes me curious, US did give me a hotel voucher for the night. Technically, would they not be required to do so given that the delay in SNA was out of their control?
As it was, I came to find out in the next few hours that a hotel voucher on a Thursday night in PHX is worth next to nothing. After a few hours of standing down in baggage claim using every “hotel” phone in sight, calling every hotel listed only to find that this voucher would not be honored, I attempted to find someone with US Airways who could help me. Unfortunately, by this time everything was closed up. In the end, I rented a car and drove right back to SNA, climbing into bed at 0500 and saying to heck with the entire trip. I do sympathize with people who get stranded in a “middle” city, it sucks.
Sorry for the long story. Was US required to provide lodging for the night, or did they do so simply out of goodwill? Or perhaps a better question, did they provide me that voucher just to get rid of me at the gate, knowing full well that it wouldn’t get me very far once I was out of their hair?
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I’ve been stranded by US Airways in Charlotte a few times. The most recent was MEM-CLT-BOS. The flight leaving MEM was delayed but we were told we would make it on time to connect. Flight tracker (on my Iphone) had us getting in with enough time to get from the E gates to the B gates. We were doing fine until the MEM-CLT flight had to abort landing and try again (rain/wind/something). Finally we landed and I had 25 minutes. I finally got my bag (planeside check) and started running-realizing my 5 months pregnant self wasn’t going to make it running I flagged down a cart and he hightailed it to the B-gates. I was at the gate at 10:02pm for a 10:15 departure. Plane was gone-not just pushed back, but GONE. The gate agent was gone too.
I went to special services and they tried to tell me it was weather, blah blah. They rebooked me for the first flight out in the morning. Then I asked for a hotel voucher-they wouldn’t give it to me at first, but I calmly explained that as a Platinum Preferred flyer they OWED me an explanation on my plane pushed well before the 10 gate rule, and if they gave my seat away, just be honest. They did give me a hotel voucher (for an ok hotel I might add), and the three people behind me in line (all on the same flight) also got the vouchers.
The next day I email customer service with a scathing complaint and got a free round trip ticket out of the deal too.
They had given my seat away thinking there was no way I would get from E to B in 25 minutes.).
Dear Cranky, First of let me explain where I coming from. I have spent over thirty years in the pointy end of the aluminum shipping tubes, ie; This is the Captain speaking. Why does this happen? Blame, Lizzy Dole, former Sec of DOT, former Director of the American Red Cross, former Senator from NC. When she instituted the tracking of of departure and arrival times of flights, the days of holding a flight for connections came to an end. From then on pilots, agents, dispatchers, mechanics etc, have had answer for even a one minute delay off the gate. Remember that time is BRAKE release, not door closure. The baggage holds must be closed, the closeout data transmitted to the a/c (ie; weight and balance, which means the fuel load, bag count and passenger count all must have been sent from the various department to load control), the flight attendants must have completed their safety briefings and reported to the Captain “Ready to Taxi” and of course the flight crew must check it for correctness and enter the data into the flight management system. So the gate closeout has to be done before the departure time. Pity the poor someone who contributes to even one minute delay, they will soon be doing a rug dance in front of their manager very soon. My best story about assigning the delay happened in JFK. I was getting my paperwork and was ease dropping on a group discussing a delayed flight. The fueler said how can I fuel a plane that’s not here? The mechanic said I can’t fix a plane till the pilot calls in the problem. The bus driver said I can’t drive the bus to the plane, till the agent says the flight is released! The agent said, I can’t release the flight till maintenance says its released for flight. Then someone said, Lets call it a blame the crew! Everyone agreed and walked away. That is why there is the 15 minute rule. Getting the OK to be late takes an act of God. It means calling someone, who will probably say I’ve got to call my boss first and remember if it’s happening to you it will happening to several others to! So take an off schedule operation and the demand of being on time, include hub and spoke and someone missing a connection will happen. Thanks for the chance to vent.
Donald,
Thank you for your discription of what’s going on behind the scenes. What a great example of the law of untended consequences. Honestly, I don’t know why anyone would care if their plane left ontime, most people only care if they arrive ontime. A smart airline would make appropriate adjustments for this if they didn’t have to report the departure time. E.g. The last flight of the day out of a given hub would have an extra 20 minutes of block time to adjust for late connections. But since we’ve got all these rules the airlines have been micromanaged into a mess.).
It’s the underside of all of the gloating about “having the best on-time record!”. This statistic plays to people’s sense of reliability and minimal inconvenience. What the statistics don’t show is the reality that the depth of inconvenience is of a much higher magnitude for someone who misses a flight by a couple of minutes and ends up waiting for a flight hours later or even the next day (as in the case presented).
One airline seems particularly hung up on this lately and has dispatchers who feel that the trade off of touting “best on-time major airline” outweighs gross inconvenience to pax who miss a connection by a few minutes. This has happened to my spouse and myself due to flights THAT LEFT THE GATE EARLY (same guilty airline). Never mind the fact that the flight can push back a few minutes late and still be considered “on-time”. Thanks for posting this “Ask Cranky” question, as this just happened this week and we are fuming about it. This practice appears to be chronic at this airline.
Even if this flight closed 10 minutes prior to departure… that’s 9:59 for a 10:09. He says he rolled up at 10:03, let’s say his watch is 2 minutes slow from the time used by the carrier. It’s bad weather, people likely have been misconnecting and it’s supposed to be a full flight plus many standbys. I’ve done this before at my mainline carrier in that situation – give the pilot a load sheet for a full boat, they go ahead and can do their weight and balance calculations before boarding ends. At a few minutes before flight close, check your inbound connects. You see somebody isn’t going to make it. Call up the first few standbys. At flight close, remove no-shows, clear that number of standbys. At 8.5 minutes prior to departure, can be going down the jetway with the last few pax. Get them on the plane, pilot already has W&B done, get the All Set, and off they go. Easy with a full flight even to be rolling out of the gate 3-4 minutes before departure time, even closing on time.
Goes to show you……….statistics play an important role in these decisions. The DOT statistics show THE ON-TIME PERFORMANCE of the airlines, but has never shown the AMOUNT OF MISCONNECTS per month.
Which is more important, to be on-time or be late with connectors?
Secondly, on late flights into hubs, I have to tell you. You people board like you’re picking out furniture. NO ONE listens to the announcement to quickly take your seats. Stow your items quickly. We’re late, every minute helps to get going, but to get going, you need to SIT DOWN. You’re beyond, slow.
I flew on Southwest from MSP to PHX via DEN last October. There were many delays due to weather and runway construction at MSP at the time. Our flight was delayed and the Southwest gate crew keep us up to date every 10 to 15 minutes on its status. They also stated that those connecting to LAX and PHX would make their connections, as they would hold those planes for us. The agent didn’t say this once, but he said this every 10 to 15 minutes for 2 hours. When we landed in DEN, about 10 to 15 of us found out that our PHX flight left on time, about 60 minutes before we arrived. As you can guess, we swarmed the gate agent in DEN saying ‘what the heck’ among other things. Luckily, they gave me and others hotel vouchers at the Marriott close to the airport with a departure in the morning.
The LAX flight was held as those on that flight were quickly shuffled to it’s gate.
In MSP, I was amazed at the communication from the gate agents. Too bad the folks in DEN didn’t get hear what they were saying to us – or maybe they did and gave us the nice hotel for compensation. The next day I flew home surrounded by the Northern AZ University Women’s soccer team. I must say, not a bad trip home under the circumstances.
I had a similar situation hapen to me on a trip coming from Houston to Atlanta back on January 11th. I got to the gate at exactly 14 minutes before departure and the plane was GONE.. I had arrived and checked my luggage over an hour earlier but got stuck in the security line for what seemed like eternity. They KNEW I was there, they had already boarded my luggage..
Really inconvenienced me because I then had to call my friend to come BACK to the airport, pick me up and we had hours with nothing to do until I was able to board a flight about 3 hours later. WHich also meant I arrived back home to my children 3 hours later then promised…
I still do not understand why they left so early. The lady never did give me a good explanation. Just that she will get me on the next flight.. I believe airlines do these things because they know they can get away with it :(.
In 2005 I flew EWR/ LAX on Contenental. It was the first flight out at 6:45, wich I intentionally chose. Got to the airport three hours early with my girlfriend figguring we could sail through all the lines. To our surprise & dismay it took over two hours to get through everything & arive at the gate with bearly an hour till departure. We grabbed a quick bite & proceited to the gate. After about half an hour there was an anouncement that the gate was swiched & everyone there moved on mass. Thankfully the new gate was directly across from the old one making it easy to swich. After all that the flightwas ontime.
I don’t know what was more exausting, the 5.5 hour flight or getting through New.
” Just Saying” is absolutly correct. It’s a judgement call on this one but either way you play it someone is unhappy. For those of us who work at an airline who cares, or at least one that used to, two things happen after you take even a one minute delay. First would be you spend the next fifteen minutes of your life coding the dealy in multiple systems and writing paragraphs to explain the situation, second once again working for an airline that gives a shit you get a personal email account which they not only send you up spirited company stories and ceo religious babel with but they also send you personal emails asking about delays when they have questions. So lets put all the cards on the table here, stressful, fast paced gate, either unhappy family or unhappy management, and ten bucks an hour. I feel for the family everytime but I’d bet that flight was oversold to begin with and that those workers really didn’t want to hear it at the end of thier shift. Given enough time, enough pay-cuts, and enough emails, the airlines will make even the softest person jaded.
First of all, let me say that I used to do this job. I worked in the ramp tower of a major airline and it was my job to keep up with late inbound connections and offer advice as to hold for or leave without the connecting passengers. Where I worked, there were no hard and fast rules-save two. First, unless there were no other ways around it, hub to hub trips were not delayed. Secondly, the first flights (or first bank) of the day were not held for late red-eyes. If either one of these type of flights were delayed, the effect would ripple though out the entire system. As for the other flights, all factors were taken into account. Some factors included: are there any unaccompanied minors or special needs passengers on the flight; is there enough turn time available to burn at the terminating station based on a late arrival that won’t effect an on time arrival at the next station; are there other ways of getting the passengers to their destinations in a reasonable amount of time; is it the last flight of the day to that destination; where does the airplane and crew go next and how will a late departure effect other flights to other cities; and finally, how many connections are there to one particular flight. However, as I recall, crew timing out was not one of them. Our mantra, believe it or not, was the Mr. Spock mantra – the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I’m sure you get the picture. Again, as someone who helped play a role in the decision to hold or go, it was not an easy job. Even after I offered advice to the coordinator who ultimately made the decision, I always asked myself did I have all the information available at the time the call was made. While I am not defending or condemning US Airways, I’m sure that they had a very specific reason or reasons to leave without the connection.
“Just sayin” has the right idea here. Three things happen after a delay if you work for an airline that cares, or atleast ones that used to. First off if you happen to be even of lead importance your cell phone goes off in your pocket with the powers that be wondering what the hold up is, second you waste the next fifteen minutes of your life coding delays in multiple systems with far fetched numbers and paragraphs, and if that wasn’t enough the good airlines have this thing called email, not sure if you’ve heard of it, but each person gets their own personal company one, that way they can follow up with an email. All in all you feel for the family everytime but someone will be unhappy either way in these situations and i’m going to go out on a limb and assume in this case the flight was probably oversold to begin with. So let’s recap, stressfull gate, unhappy family or unhappy company, ten dollars an hour, phone in the pocket ready to go off, another night leaving late, email alerts alerting, humm The airlines can make even the softest person jaded, I see it everyday
And a quick response to something Gene wrote up above, I’m sorry buddy but it wouldn’t make a difference if the flight was oversold by 32 people or not, if you’re not at the gate within the allowed time set forth by your airline of travel ( usually found online or in the ticket jacket) then you’re not entitled to a voucher. Same would go if you don’t meet the check in requirements at the ticket counter. Your flight could once again be oversold by 32, but if you try to check in at the ticket counter with 25 minutes left til departure and the requirement is 30 minutes then once again there will be no magical voucher awaiting you. Now if you meet all check in and gate requirements and still cannot get on a plane you were confirmed for, that’s a different story. If you once again met all the requirements and the airline does not first attempt to ask for volunteers or hand you the notice of overbooking flights rules and regulations then once again sure you have a complaint, other than that how about we educate the public with truth next time instead of what you believe might be true. Oh, and I know 32 sounds alittle ridiculous but take a gander at the ATL-LIM Peru route during early and mid summer, not that uncommon let me tell you.
It was a 21-hour nightmare to get from New Haven, CT to Gainesville, FL, thanks to US Air. US Air is the only airline flying to the tiny airport at New Haven and it does so from Philadelphia. I was the first one to check in at the airport. When I did so the weather was great and I asked about Philadelphia weather: no problems. Yet my flight was delayed over one hour. My flight from Philadelphia to Orlando, FL (easier to get there than Gainesville, so I often use that airport) was supposed to leave at 1:40 PM from terminal C. I arrived at terminal F, had to take a shuttle bus from F to C, and still managed to arrive to C well before 1:40 PM. As a matter of fact I saw my US Air airplane at the gate when I was leaving the bus. I run like a madman and totally out of breath reached the gate. The agent there informed me that I was too late and the airplane was pulling out of the gate. I looked at the time and it was 1:33, 7 minutes before scheduled departure time. Quite rudely the agent told me that 1:40 is the time for take off and not for leaving the gate, that she was closing the gate, and that to get help I would have to go to customer service at another gate. I did so. There was a looong line moving very slowly with only two or three (usually two) agents servicing it. It took over an hour to reach an agent. I told her that I was quite flexible, and she could fly me not only to Orlando but also to Gainesville, Jacksonville, or Tampa. When she could find nothing for the same day, I expanded to Tallahassee. Still nothing. I asked for booking at another airline even paying a surcharge (I had to arrive the same day). Supposedly she searched (don’t really believe it) and found nothing. She offered standby in any of the airports I mentioned but told me my chances were not good. Desperately I asked for even further airports. She was finally able to give me a sit to a 6:00 PM flight to Miami. I accepted that as well a standby pass for my best chance which was Jacksonville (I would be 2nd in the standby list). Of course I did not get into the Jacksonville flight. The Miami flight was delayed to 7:30 PM and then even more. We finally boarded the plane about 8:30 PM. When inside the plane, bad weather hit and the airport gets closed. The pilot informs us that this is expected to cause a one-hour delay. Around 9:45 PM the airport opens again, but the pilot informs us that for some reason they were giving priority to the airplanes behind us. It was around 10:30 PM when we finally took off. I arrived at Miami airport around 12:40 AM. The only positive experience in this nightmare was with Avis. They seamlessly changed my initial Orlando airport reservation first to Jacksonville airport and then to Miami airport only with a small increase in price. And their Miami airport office is open 24 hours, so I was able to get a car and drive to Gainesville, arriving at about 6:30 AM (original arrival time would have been 6:00 PM the day before).
I find it interesting that almost everybody sharing a horror story here is talking about US Air. I should also mention that in one of my waits at a gate I overheard two US Air pilots talking. One said with frustration: “The airplane is still not here”. The other responded: “And this is news?”
I will need to travel to New Haven again. As US Air is the only choice, I will be flying to La Guardia or Newark with another airline and driving from there (much shorter drives than Miami to Gainesville). And I will never again fly US Air if I can help it (meaning I will pay more for other airlines). |
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When we discuss this form of car accident liability, we're actually discussing vicarious liability.
Principles of vicarious liability, along with state statutes, make a car owner legally responsible for a car accident in three situations.
In some states, owner liability statutes make car owners liable regardless of who is driving. This is pretty cut and dry.
If the state doesn't have a statute, an owner can be saddled with car accident liability if it is found that he negligently entrusted the driver with the car. This generally means that the owner had reason to know that the friend was a poor driver or in no condition to drive, yet handed over the keys anyway.
The third way that the law imparts car accident liability is when the car's owner permits a third party to use a defective vehicle. When, as an owner, you know your car is not safe for the road, yet allow it to be driven anyway, you may be acting negligently.
The fact is that, even if none of these situations exist, if someone causes an accident in your car, you're going to be sued. To help protect yourself from being in this situation, don't lend your car to a friend unless your insurance covers third party drivers, or if that friend's insurance covers their driving in another car.
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Amid numerous scandals involving Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infidelity and Anthony Weiner’s online sex scandal, one frog stood out among all the rest last week: BENTLEY.
A few weeks ago, millions of women around the country sat cringing in their living rooms as scumbag Bentley broke Ashley’s heart on The Bachelorette. Even though most of us saw it coming, I know it didn’t stop me from yelling at my TV in disgust over this truly horrendous toad. So afterwards naturally I took to the online community to share in my outrage and see what other people were saying about this frog in sheep’s clothing.
Logically I thought I’d see tons of rants fuming over how deceitful and slimy Bentley is, which I did. But what I was most surprised to see were the comments from girls saying how much they were going to miss Bentley’s outrageously rude remarks and sneaky tendencies on the show. Um…. EXCUSE ME?
I couldn’t believe the number of women who not only weren’t offended by Bentley’s trickery, but in fact liked it and found him more attractive because of it! There were numerous comments about how hot Bentley was and how if Ashley didn’t want him then they would gladly take him. There were even comments from women saying that if Bentley was off the show then they weren’t going to watch anymore. Which got me thinking… what gives?
It’s always been a common assumption that women are attracted to bad boys. Whether it’s the confidence or the thrill of a little danger, against their better judgment women have always been drawn to this rebellious type. Even with the warning of danger, women still pursue bad guys knowing full well that they’re going to get burned in the end. Take Ashley for example. Though she wasn’t privy to Bentley’s shocking confessionals that the rest of America got to see, she was still warned by a friend that he was going to be bad news. Yet, she still allowed herself to fall for him knowing full well that he wasn’t the safest bet, which elicited my response of: What the hell were you thinking?!
However, even though I blame Ashley for not seeing it sooner, and ridicule the women who would still choose to date him even after confirming that he is a first rate jackass, I still understand where they are coming from. I too have dated the bad guy knowing full well that he would hurt me in the end. And though I’d like to think that I’ve grown and learned from that experience, I still occasionally catch my eye drifting towards those dangerous Lotharios. Even as I watch the Bachelorette and see Ashley talking to J.P., the sweet andquiet guy who in all likelihood is the best choice, I think to myself… borrrrring!
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A long time ago when we met you were lonely
I helped you forget life was solely only a wish to survive
and blood flows much thicker than wine
friends who give up their time to be near you
sing you a song just to cheer you
you will be rich in the end
brother now you've got a friend
Life hurries by in the wink of an eye
almost without meaning
days speeding past like the wind hard to grasp
no wonder you're bleeding
friendship is needed today
or tomorrow is empty and we need each other please stay
For your only hope is together
we'll live in much calmer weather
and we'll make a beautiful blend
brother now you've got a friend
Friends who give up their time to be near you
sing you their songs just to cheer you
you will be rich in the end
brother now you've got a friend
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Imperial Valley Clinic Helps Mentally Ill With Funds From ‘Millionaire’s Tax’
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One morning in early December, county employee Eddie Sanchez walked me through a suburban office building in El Centro that goes by a very non-descript name: The Resource Center.
SAN DIEGO One morning in early December, county employee Eddie Sanchez walked me through a suburban office building in El Centro that goes by a very non-descript name: The Resource Center.
What's remarkable about the Resource Center is its array of programs aimed at helping people with serious mental illnesses. Among the many classes offered there is quilting, taught by volunteer Maria Duarte, who says the class is very therapeutic for one woman she teaches.
"I can see the change in her,” she said. “Her hands are not shaking. And when she says, ‘Maria I'm tired.’ I say, ‘Oh sweetheart, you can go now.’"
The Resource Center is operated by the Imperial County Department of Behavioral Heath. It was made possible by funds raised through Proposition 63. Called the millionaire’s tax – it’s a surtax on incomes above $1 million – prop 63 was passed six years ago to raise money to treat the mentally ill.
Above: Imperial County Director of Behavioral Health Mike Horn illustrates the budget plan for the Resource Center.
Mike Horn, the county's director of Behavioral Health, says the funding has allowed Imperial County to create a mental health program more comprehensive than anything they had in the past. Along with medication and counseling, the Resource Center offers computer classes, vocational training, art classes and instruction in social skills. Horn adds that the Prop 63 funding has come with a new expectation -- recovery.
"I think in the mental health system, historically, the measure of success has been that somebody didn't go the hospital. In other words, they weren't hospitalized,” he said. “And to a certain extent, that's a pretty good measurement. But I think people who were driving forces behind Proposition 63 said, ‘That's not enough. People need to get better.’"
The Resource Center in Imperial County is not designed for people with mild cases of depression and the like. The 160 people enrolled in the program have disabling psychiatric problems like schizophrenia or severe bipolar disorders.
One part of the center is the injectable drug clinic. Injectable anti-psychotic drugs can last in a person's system for two to four weeks, making it much less likely that patients will go off their medications.
One of the patients who uses injectable drugs is 30-year-old Luis Ceseña. He wears a black stocking cap, indoors and out, and he has a disheveled look. I asked him why he attends the clinic.
"For my voices,” he said.
“Because you hear voices?” I asked.
“Yes."
“Does that prevent you from hearing voices?”
“Yea, I guess,” said Ceseña. “When I drink my pills I feel like the voices go a little bit away."
I asked Ceseña what his goals were. He said he wanted to stay off of illegal drugs. I got a very different response from 45-year-old Antonio Carona, another patient at the Resource Center. Antonio looks neat and organized. His manner is enthusiastic. Corona said he wants to attend San Diego State University, and his goal is to reach for the stars.
"I like astronomy. I like to explore the universe,” he said. “Antimatter. Matter. To explore the galaxies. And work as a painter! As an artist. So I work as an artist and do research as a scientist in astronomy."
If the ultimate goal of the Resource Center is to turn patients into independent, productive people, that's a particular challenge in Imperial County. By some measures, this is the poorest county in California.
The unemployment rate in El Centro, home to the resource center, is 30 percent. The Resource Center's Cindy Coronado said one missing piece in the program is job placement services. As to what constitutes recovery, she said it depends.
"My personal recovery is anything that is contributing and adding meaning to my life,” said Coronado. “One person here said, ‘I have all of these goals. I want to be an astronomer.’ And the second person said, ‘I just want to stay off of drugs. That would be recovery for me.’"
The Resource Center has been operating for about a year. Mike Horn, the head of the department, said he's not yet prepared to measure the program's success. But judging by the old yardstick he mentioned above, things are going great. The Resource Center has only seen one of its patients hospitalized over the past six months.
albertelgen | December 10, 2010 at 4:21 p.m. ― 4 years, 6 months ago
i work at the resource center been working for 10 years now i understand the clients because i am a client to been through what they been through so i try to help them everyday i can. been listening for 10 years and i love my work with bipolar clients and schizophreina clients as well. we learn alot about the systems and how to deal with them.
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A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and spokesman for
terrorist group al-Qaeda pleaded not guilty Friday to one terrorism
charge in a New York City courtroom.
Suleiman Abu Ghaith, who is charged with conspiracy to kill US citizens, appeared in court during a 15-minute hearing. He arrived in the United States on March 1 after being arrested on February 28, reportedly in Turkey.
If found guilty, he could be sentenced to up to life in prison.
During the arraignment on Friday, US District Judge Lewis A Kaplan appointed public defenders for Ghaith and set a date for a conference early April to give the defence enough time to study the unclassified discovery submitted by the prosecution.
The discovery contains a 22-page statement Ghaith made after he was detained and a number of video and audio recordings of him speaking on behalf of al-Qaeda.
Sitting between his defence lawyers, Ghaith seemed resigned as he listened to the translator detail the charge against him.
The White House defended the decision to try him in a civilian court rather than send him to Guantanamo.
Spokesman Josh Earnest pointed to a "broad consensus across the United States government" to use a civilian court and said there was a "strong track record" of using such courts against other terrorism suspects, including the Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad and the so-called "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Obama has vowed to use such courts to achieve justice whenever possible, he said.
Ghaith, who is married to one of bin Laden's daughters, had been part of al-Qaeda since at least May 2001, the Justice Department said in the indictment, which was revealed Thursday.
He urged others to swear allegiance to the terrorist group and acted as the group's spokesman, warning of attacks similar to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, the indictment against him said.
In a video from September 12, 2001, Ghaith appeared along al-Qaeda leaders and told Americans that a "a great army is gathering against you," Kaplan quoted the prosecution Friday.
In the video, he was seated alongside bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda at the time, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of al-Qaeda.
He called for Muslims to battle "the Jews, the Christians and the Americans." He later warned the US that "the storms shall not stop, especially the airplanes storm."
Bin Laden's Son-in-law Pleads Not Guilty in US Court
A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and spokesman for
terrorist group al-Qaeda pleaded not guilty Friday to one terrorism
charge in a New York City courtroom.
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who among all the men the writer knew in his youth was the most familiar with books; and who of all the men the writer has ever known has exemplified best the virtue of open-handedness, this little Book is affectionately inscribed by his son,
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII.
But though these and many more like them were said to have made in a year or two more than Livingstone with all his pains had been able to accumulate in a score of years of earnest toil and assiduous devotion to business; were now invited to the same big houses that Livingstone visited, and were greeted by almost as flattering speeches as Livingstone received, Livingstone knew of discussions as to these men at Boards other than the "festal board," and of "stiffer" notes that had been sent them than those stiff and sealed missives which were left at their front doors by liveried footmen.
Livingstone, however, though he "kept out of the papers," having a rooted and growing prejudice against this form of vulgarity, could at any time, on five minutes' notice, establish the solidity of his foundation by simply unlocking his safe-deposit boxes. His foundation was as solid as gold.
On the mahogany table-desk before him lay now a couple of books: one a long, ledger-like folio in the russet covering sacred to the binding of that particular kind of work which a summer-hearted Writer of books years ago inscribed as "a book of great interest;" the other, a smaller volume, a memorandum book, more richly attired than its sober companion, in Russia leather.
For an hour or two Mr. Livingstone, with closely-drawn, thin lips, and eager eyes, had sat in his seat, silent, immersed, absorbed, and compared the two volumes, from time to time making memoranda in the smaller book, whilst his clerks had sat on their high stools in the large office outside looking impatiently at the white-faced clock on the wall as it slowly marked the passing time, or gazing enviously and grumblingly out of the windows at the dark, hurrying crowds below making their way homeward through the falling snow.
The young men could not have stood it but for the imperturbable patience and sweet temper of the oldest man in the office, a quiet-faced, middle-aged man, who, in a low, cheery, pleasant voice, restrained their impatience and soothed their ruffled spirits.
Even this, however, was only partially successful.
"Go in there, Mr. Clark, and tell him we want to go home," urged fretfully one youth, a tentative dandy, with a sharp nose and blunt chin, who had been diligently arranging his vivid necktie for more than a half-hour at a little mirror on the wall.
"Oh! He'll be out directly now," replied the older man, looking up from the account-book before him.
"You've been saying that for three hours!" complained the other.
"Well, see if it doesn't come true this time," said the older clerk, kindly. "He'll make it up to you."
This view of the case did not seem to appeal very strongly to the young man; he simply grunted.
"I'm going to give him notice. I'll not be put upon this way—" bristled a yet younger clerk, stepping down from his high stool in a corner and squaring his shoulders with martial manifestations.
This.
"But you are already rich—you must be worth half a million? and you are a single man, with no children to leave it to."
"Yes, but I mean to be worth double that."
"Why?"
"Oh!—so that I can tell any man I choose to go to the d—-l," he had said half jestingly, being rather put to it by his friend's earnestness. His friend had laughed too, he remembered, but not heartily.
"Well, that is not much of a satisfaction after all," he had said; "the real satisfaction is in helping him the other way;"—and this Livingstone remembered he had said very earnestly.
Livingstone now had reached this point of his aspiration—he could tell any man he chose "to go to the devil."
His content over this reflection was shadowed only by a momentary recollection that Henry Trelane was since dead. He regretted that his friend could not know of his success.
Another friend suddenly floated into his memory. Catherine Trelane was his college-mate's sister. Once she had been all the world to Livingstone, and he had found out afterwards that she had cared for him too, and would have married him had he spoken at one time. But he had not known this at first, and when he began to grow he could not bring himself to it. He could not afford to burden himself with a family that might interfere with his success. Then later, when he had succeeded and was well off and had asked Catherine Trelane to be his wife, she had declined. She said Livingstone had not offered her himself, but his fortune. It had stung Livingstone deeply, and he had awakened, but too late, to find for a while that he had really loved her. She was well off too, having been left a comfortable sum by a relative.
However, Livingstone was glad now, as he reflected on it, that it had turned out so. Catherine Trelane's refusal had really been the incentive which had spurred him on to greater success. It was to revenge himself that he had plunged deeper into business than ever, and he had bought his fine house to show that he could afford to live in style. He had intended then to marry; but he had not had time to do so; he had always been too busy.
Catherine Trelane, at least, was not dead. He had not heard of her in a long time; she had married, he knew, a man named—Shepherd, he believed, and he had heard that her husband was dead.
He would see that she knew he was worth—the page of figures suddenly flashed in before his eyes like a magic-lantern slide. Yes, he was worth all that! and he could now marry whom and when he pleased.
Livingstone closed his books. He had put everything in such shape that Clark, his confidential clerk, would not have the least trouble this year in transferring everything and starting the new books that would now be necessary.
Last year Clark had been at his house a good many nights writing up these private books; but that was because Clark had been in a sort of muddle last winter,—his wife was sick, or one of his dozen children had met with an accident,—or something,—Livingstone vaguely remembered.
This.!".
"Now,.
Here Santa Claus, the last survivor of the old benefactors, who has outlasted whole hierarchies of outworn myths and, yet firm in the devotion of the heart of childhood, snaps his fingers alike at arid science and blighting stupidity, was driving his reindeer, his teeming sleigh filled with wonders from every region: dolls that walked and talked and sang, fit for princesses; sleds fine enough for princes; drums and trumpets and swords for young heroes; horses that looked as though they were alive and would spring next moment from their rockers; bats and balls that almost started of themselves from their places; little uniforms, and frocks; skates; tennis-racquets; baby caps and rattles; tiny engines and coaches; railway trains; animals that ran about; steamships; books; pictures—everything to delight the soul of childhood and gratify the affection of age.
There Kris Kringle, Santa Claus's other self, with snowy beard, and fur coat hoary with the frost of Arctic travel from the land of unfailing snow and unfailing toys, stood beside his tree glittering with crystal and shining with the fruits of every industry and every clime.
These were but a part of the dazzling display that was ever repeated over and over and filled the windows for squares and squares. Science and Art appeared to have combined to pay tribute to childhood. The very street seemed to have blossomed with Christmas.
But Livingstone saw nothing of it. He was filled with anger that his way should be blocked. The crowds were gay and cheery. Strangers in sheer good-will clapped each other on the shoulder and exchanged views, confidences and good wishes. The truck-drivers, usually so surly, drew out of each others' way and shouted words of cheer after their smiling fellows.
The soul of Christmas was abroad on the air.
Livingstone did not even recall what day it was. All he saw was a crowd of fools that impeded his progress. He tried the middle of the street; but the carriages and delivery-wagons were so thick, that he turned off, growling, and took a less frequented thoroughfare, a back street of mean houses and small shops where a poorer class of people dwelt and dealt.
Here, however, he was perhaps even more incommoded than he had been before. This street was, if anything, more crowded than the other and with a more noisy and hilarious throng. Here, instead of fine shops, there were small ones; but their windows were every bit as attractive to the crowds on the street as those Livingstone had left. People of a much poorer class surged in and out of the doors; small gamins, some in ragged overcoats, more in none, gabbled with and shouldered each other boisterously at the windows and pressed their red noses to the frosty panes, to see through the blurred patches made by their warm breath the wondrous marvels within. The little pastry-shops and corner-groceries vied with the toy-shops and confectionaries, and were packed with a population that hummed like bees, the busy murmur broken every now and then by jests and calls and laughter, as the customers squeezed in empty-handed, or slipped out with carefully-wrapped parcels hugged close to their cheery bosoms or carried in their arms with careful pride., sir."
James had reached the door when he turned.
"Shall you be dining at home to-morrow, sir?" he asked, quietly.
"Yes, of course," said Livingstone, shortly. "And I don't want to see any one to-night, no matter who comes. I am tired." He had forgotten Clark.
"Yes, sir."
The butler withdrew noiselessly, and Livingstone sank back in his chair. But before the butler was out of hearing Livingstone recalled him.
"I don't want any dinner."
"Can have it for you directly, sir," said James, persuasively.
"I say I don't want any."
James came a little closer and gave his master a quick glance.
"Are you feeling bad, sir?" he asked.
"No, I only want to be let alone. I shall go out presently to the club."
This time James withdrew entirely.
What happened when James passed through the door which separated his domain from his master's was not precisely what Livingstone had commanded. What the tall butler did was to gather up in his arms two very plump little tots who at sight of him came running to him with squeals of joy, flinging themselves on him, and choking him with their chubby arms, to the imminent imperiling of his immaculate linen.
Taking them both up together, James bore them off quietly to some remote region where he filled their little mouths full of delightful candy which kept their little jaws working tremendously and their blue eyes opening and shutting in unison, whilst he told them of the dreadful unnamed things that would befall them if they ventured again through that door. He impressed on them the calamity it would be to lose the privilege of holding the evergreens whilst they were being put up in the hall, and the danger of Santa Claus passing by that night without filling their stockings.
The picture he drew of two little stockings hanging limp and empty at the fireplace while Santa Claus went by with bulging sleigh was harrowing.
At mention of it, the tots both looked down at their stockings and were so overcome that they almost stopped working their jaws, so that when they began again they were harder to work than ever. To this James added the terror of their failing to see next day the great plum-pudding suddenly burst into flame in his hands. At this, he threw up both hands and opened them so wide that the little ones had to look first at one of his hands and then at the other to make sure that he was not actually holding the dancing flames now.
When they had promised faithfully and with deep awe, crossing their little hearts with smudgy fingers, the butler entrusted them to some one to see to the due performance of their good intention, and he himself sought the cook, who, next to himself, was Livingstone's oldest servant. She was at the moment, with plump arms akimbo on her stout waist, laying down the law of marriage to a group of merry servants as they sorted Christmas wreaths.
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James's inquiry, "Shall you be dining at home to-morrow?" had recurred to him and now disturbed him. It was a simple question; nothing remarkable in it. It now came to him that to-morrow was Christmas Day, and he had forgotten it. This was remarkable. He had never forgotten it before, but this year he had been working so hard and had been so engrossed he had not thought of it. Even this reflection brought the spectral figures back sharply outlined before his eyes. They stayed longer now. He must think of something else.
He thought of Christmas. This was the first Christmas he had ever been at home by himself. A Christmas dinner alone! Who had ever heard of such a thing! He must go out to dinner, of course. He glanced over at his table where James always put his mail. Everything was in perfect order: the book he had read the night before; the evening paper and the last financial quotation were all there; but not a letter. James must have forgot them.
He turned to rise and ring the bell and glanced across the room towards it. What a dark room it was! What miserable gas!
He turned up the light at his hand. It did not help perceptibly. He sank back. What selfish dogs people were, he reflected. Of all the hosts of people he knew,—people who had entertained him and whom he had entertained,—not one had thought to invite him to the Christmas dinner. A dozen families at whose houses he had often been entertained flashed across his mind. Why, years ago he used to have a half-dozen invitations to Christmas dinner, and now he had not one! Even Mrs. Wright, to whom he had just sent a contribution for—Hello! that lantern-slide again! It would not do to think of figures.—Even she had not thought of him.
There must be some reason? he pondered. Yes, Christmas dinners were always family reunions—that was the reason he was left out and forgotten;—yes, forgotten. A list of the people who he knew would have such reunions came to him; almost every one of his acquaintances had a family;—even Clark had a family and would have a Christmas dinner.
At the thought, a pang almost of envy of Clark smote him.
Suddenly his own house seemed to grow vast and empty and lonely; he felt perfectly desolate,—abandoned—alone—ill! He glanced around at his pictures. They were cold, staring, stony, dead! The reflection of the cross lights made them look ghastly.
As he gazed at them the figures they had cost shot before his eyes. My God! he could not stand this! He sprang to his feet. Even the pain of getting up was a relief. He stared around him. Dead silence and stony faces were all about him. The capacious room seemed a vast, empty cavern, and as he stood he saw stretching before him his whole future life spent in this house, as lonely, silent, and desolate as this. It was unbearable.
He walked through to his drawing-room. The furniture was sheeted, the room colder and lonelier a thousand-fold than the other;—on into the dining-room;—the bare table in the dim light looked like ice; the sideboard with its silver and glass, bore sheets of ice. "Pshaw!" He turned up the lights. He would take a drink of brandy and go to bed. rest was all blaze and light and glow, and his father and mother moving about like shining spirits amid it all.
Then he was a schoolboy, measuring the lagging time by the coming Christmas; counting the weeks, the days, the hours in an ecstasy of impatience until he should be free from the drudgery of books and the slavery of classes, and should be able to start for home with the friends who had leave to go with him. How slowly the time crept by, and how he told the other boys of the joys that would await them! And when it had really gone, and they were free! how delicious it used to be!
As the scene appeared before him Livingstone could almost feel again the thrill that set him quivering with delight; the boundless joy that filled his veins as with an elixir.
The arrival at the station drifted before him and the pride of his introduction of the servants whose faces shone with pleasure; the drive home through the snow, which used somehow to be warming, not chilling, in those days; and then, through the growing dusk, the first sight of the home-light, set, he knew, by the mother in her window as a beacon shining from the home and mother's heart. Then the last, toilsome climb up the home-hill and the outpouring of welcome amid cheers and shouts and laughter.
Oh, the joy of that time! And through all the festivity was felt, like a sort of pervading warmth, the fact that that day Christ came into the world and brought peace and good will and cheer to every one.
The boy Livingstone saw was now installed regularly as the bearer of Christmas presents and good things to the poor, and the pleasure he took then in his office flashed across Livingstone's mind like a sudden light. It lit up the faces of many whom Livingstone had not thought of for years. They were all beaming on him now with a kindliness to which he had long been a stranger; that kindliness which belongs only to our memory of our youth.
Was it possible that he could ever have had so many friends! The man in the chair put his hand to his eyes to try and hold the beautiful vision, but it faded away, shut out from view by another.
The vision that came next was of a college student. The Christmas holidays were come again. They were still as much the event of the year as when he was a schoolboy. Once more he was on his way home accompanied by friends whom he had brought to help him enjoy the holidays, his enjoyment doubled by their enjoyment. Once more, as he touched the soil of his own neighborhood, from a companion he became a host. Once more with his friends he reached his old home and was received with that greeting which he never met with elsewhere. He saw his father and mother standing on the wide portico before the others with outstretched arms, affection and pride beaming in their faces. He witnessed their cordial greeting of his friends. "Our son's friends are our friends," he heard them say. determined to have his portrait painted by the best painter he could find. He would not consider the cost. Why should he? He was worth—at the thought the seven gleaming figures flashed out clear between his eyes and the portrait in his hand.
Livingstone turned suddenly and faced himself in the full length mirror at his side. The light caught him exactly and he stood and looked himself full in the face. What he saw horrified him. He felt his heart sink and saw the pallor settle deeper over his face. His hair was almost white. He was wrinkled. His eyes were small and sharp and cold. His mouth was drawn and hard. His cheeks were seamed and set like flint. He was a hard, wan, ugly old man; and as he gazed, unexpectedly in the mirror before his eyes, flashed those cursed figures.
With almost a cry Livingstone turned and looked at the portraits on the wall. He half feared the sharp figures would appear branded across those faces. But no, thank God! the figures had disappeared. The two faces beamed down on him sweet and serene and comforting as heaven.
Under an impulse of relief Livingstone flung himself face downward on the bed and slipped to his knees. The position and the association it brought fetched to his lips words which he used to utter in that presence long years ago.
It had been long since Livingstone had prayed. He attended church, but if he had any heart it had not been there. Now this prayer came instinctively. It was simple and childish enough: the words that he had been taught at his mother's knee. He hardly knew he had said them; yet they soothed him and gave him comfort; and from some far-off time came the saying, "Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter—" and he went on repeating the words.
Another verse drifted into his mind: "And he took a child and set him in the midst of them, and said, * * * Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is events of the evening rose up before Livingstone—the little girl in her red jacket, with her tear-stained face, darting a look of hate at him; the rosy-cheeked boys shouting with glee on the hillside, stopped in the midst of their fun, and changing suddenly to yell their cries of hate at him; the shivering beggar asking for work,—for but five cents, which he had withheld from him.
Livingstone shuddered. Had he done these things? Could it be possible? Into his memory came from somewhere afar off: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
There flashed through his mind the thought, might he not retrieve himself? Was it too late? Could he not do something for some one?—perhaps, for some little ones?
It was like a flash of light and Livingstone was conscious of a thrill of joy at the idea, but it faded out leaving him in blanker darkness than before. He did not know a single child.—He knew in a vague, impersonal way a number of children whom he had had a momentary glimpse of occasionally at the fashionable houses which he visited; but he knew them only as he would have known handsomely dressed dolls in show windows. He had never thought of them as children, but only as a part of the personal belongings of his acquaintances—much as he thought of their bric-à-brac or their poodles. They were not like the children he had once known. He had never seen them romp and play or heard them laugh or shout.
He was sunk in deep darkness.
In his gloom he glanced up. His father's serene face was beaming down on him. A speech he had heard his father make long, long ago, came back to him: "Always be kind to children. Grown people may forget kindness, but children will remember it. They forgive, but never forget either a kindness or an injury."
Another speech of his father's came floating to Livingstone across the years: "If you have made an enemy of a child, make him your friend if it takes a year! A child's enmity is never incurred except by injustice or meanness."
Livingstone could not but think of Clark's little girl. Might she not help him? She would know children. But would she help him?
If she were like Clark, he reasoned, she would be kind-hearted. Besides, he remembered to have heard his father say that children did not bear malice: that was a growth of older minds. It was strange for Livingstone to find himself recurring to his father for knowledge of human nature—his father whom he had always considered the most ignorant of men as to knowledge of the world.
He sprang to his feet and looked at his watch. Perhaps, it was not yet too late to see the little girl to-night if he hurried? Clark lived not very far off, in a little side street, and they would sit up late Christmas Eve.
As he turned to the mirror it was with trepidation, his last glance at it had been so dreadful; but he was relieved to find a pleasanter expression on his face. He almost saw a slight resemblance to his father.
The next moment he hurried from the room; stole down the stair; slipped on his overcoat, and hastily let himself out of the door.
It was quite clear out now and the moon was riding high in a cloudless heaven. The jingle of sleigh-bells had increased and just as Livingstone turned the corner a sleigh dashed past him. He heard the merry voices of young people, and amid the voices the ringing laughter of a young girl, clear as a silver bell.
Livingstone stopped short in his tracks and listened. He had not heard anything so musical in years—he had not heard a young girl's laughter in years—he had not had time to think of such things. It brought back across the snow-covered fields—across the snow-covered years—a Christmas of long ago when he had heard a young girl's musical laughter like a silvery chime, and, standing there in the snow-covered street, for one moment Livingstone was young again—no longer a gray-haired man in the city; but a young man in the country, somewhere under great arching boughs; face to face with one who was also young;—and, looking out from a hood that surrounded it like a halo, a girlish face flashed on him: cheeks like roses, brilliant with the frosty air; roguish eyes, now dancing, now melting; a laughing mouth from which came such rippling music that there was no simile for it in all the realm of silvery sound, the enchanting music of the joy of youth.
With a cry, Livingstone sprang forward with outstretched, eager hands to catch the vision; but his arms enclosed only vacancy and he stood alone in the empty street.
A large sleigh came by and Livingstone hailed it. It was a livery vehicle and the driver having just put down at their homes a party of pleasure-seekers was on his way back to his stable. He agreed with Livingstone to take him to his destination and wait for him, and Livingstone, giving him a number, sprang in and ordered him to drive rapidly.
The sleigh stopped in front of a little house, in a narrow street filled with little houses, and Livingstone getting out mounted the small flight of steps. Inside, pandemonium seemed to have broken loose somewhere up-stairs, such running and shouting and shrieks of joyous laughter Livingstone heard. Then, as he could not find the bell, Livingstone knocked.
At the sound the noise suddenly ceased, but the next moment it burst forth again louder than before. This time the shouts came rolling down the stairs and towards the door, with a scamper of little feet and shrieks of childish delight. They were interrupted and restrained by a quiet, kindly voice which Livingstone recognized as Clark's. The father was trying to keep the children back.
It might be Santa Claus himself, Livingstone heard him urge, and if they did not go back to bed immediately, or into the back room,—or even if they peeped, Santa Claus might jump into his sleigh and drive away and leave nobody at the door but a grocer's boy with a parcel. This direful threat had its effect. The gleeful squeals were hushed down into subdued and half-awed murmurs and after a little a single footstep came along the passage and the front door was opened cautiously.
At sight of Livingstone, Clark started, and by the light of the lamp the caller could see his face pale a little. He asked Livingstone in with a voice that almost faltered. Leaving Livingstone in the little passage for a moment Clark entered the first room—the front room—and Livingstone could hear him sending the occupants into a rear room. He heard the communicating door close softly. Every sound was suddenly hushed. It was like the sudden hush of birds when a hawk appears. Livingstone thought of it and a pang shot through him. Then the door was opened and Clark somewhat stiffly invited Livingstone in.?"
"Yes."
"How much more?"
"As much as you want. Suppose you pick out the things you like and then we can see about the price," he suggested.
"Some things cost a heap."
She was looking at a doll on whose skirt was pinned a little scrap of card-board marked, "25c."
"Yes, they do," assented Livingstone. "But they are worth it," he thought. "I tell you what!—Suppose you look around and see just what you like, and I'll go off here and talk with Mr. Brown so as not to disturb you."
He was learning and the lesson was already bringing him pleasure.
He took the shopkeeper aside and had a little talk with him, learning from him all he could of Clark's family and circumstances. It was an amazement to him. He had never known what a burden Clark had carried. The shopkeeper spoke of him with great affection and with great respect.
"He is the best man in the world," he said.
He treated Livingstone with familiarity, but he spoke of Clark with respect.
"He ought to be on the Avenue," he asserted; "and if everybody had their rights some would be where Mr. Clark is and Mr. Clark would be in their place."
Livingstone was not prepared just then to gainsay this.
He explained to Mr. Brown his wishes. He wanted to get many things, but did not know how to keep the child from suspecting his plan. The shopkeeper gave him a suggestion. Close association and sympathy with children had given Brown knowledge.
They returned to Kitty. She was busy figuring on a little piece of paper, moistening her little stub of a pencil, every other second, with her tongue. Her little red mouth showed streaks of black. She was evidently in some trouble.
Livingstone drew near.
"How are you coming on?" he asked.
She looked up with a face full of perplexity.
"Oh! I've spent nearly the whole dollar and I haven't but nine presents yet. We must get something cheaper.—But they were so pretty!" she lamented, her eyes glancing longingly towards the articles she had selected.
"Let's see. Maybe, you have made a mistake," said Livingstone. He took the bit of paper and she handed him the pencil.
"I'm not very good at making figures," she observed.
"I'm not either," said Livingstone, glancing at the paper. "I'll tell you what let's do," he said. "Let's get Mr. Brown to open all his cases and boxes, and let's look at everything and just see what we would select if we could have our choice?"
The little girl's eyes opened wide.
"You mean, let's make pretense that we are real sure-enough Santa Claus and just pick out everything we want to give everybody, and pretend that we could get it and give it to them?"
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"To leave some presents for the children."
"What children?"
"All the good children—all the sick children, I mean—all the children," said Kitty.
The matron turned and spoke to the porter, showing to Livingstone, as she did so, a glimpse of a finely cut profile and a comely figure silhouetted against the light within. The bolts were drawn from the gate of the driveway and the doors rolled back.
"Come in," said the matron, and the little figure enveloped in the shaggy cape and hood walked in under the big arch followed by the sleigh, whilst Livingstone withdrew a short distance into the shadow.
It was some time before the doors opened again and Kitty reappeared, but Livingstone did not mind it. It was cold too, but neither did he mind that. He was warm. As he walked up and down in the empty street before the long building his heart was warmed with a glow which had not been there for many and many a long year. He was not alone. Once more the memory of other Christmases passed through his mind in long processional, but now not stamped with irretrievable opportunity, to mock him with vain regret for lost happiness; only tinged with a sadness for lost friends who came trooping about him; yet lightened by his resolve to begin from now on and strive as best he might to retrieve his wasted life, and whilst he bore his punishment do what he could to make atonement for his past.
Just then across the town the clocks began to sound the midnight hour, and as they ceased, from somewhere far-away church bells mellowed by the distance began to chime the old Christmas hymn:—
Livingstone stood still to listen, in a half-dream.
Suddenly before him in the snow stood a little figure muffled in a shaggy cape with hood half thrown back. The childish face was uplifted in the moonlight. With lips half parted she too was listening, and for a moment Livingstone could hardly take in that she was real. She seemed—!
Could she be—?
"The angel of the Lord came down,"—chimed the mellow bells.
The chiming died out.
"Christ is born," said the child. "You heard the bells?"
"Yes," said Livingstone humbly.
"It's all done," she said; "and I prayed so hard that not one of them stirred, and now when they wake they'll think it was real Santa Claus. They say he always comes at twelve and I counted the clocks.—I wonder if he went home?" She was speaking now to herself; but Livingstone answered.
"I'm sure of it," he said.
"The angel of the Lord came down," still chimed in his ears.
Suddenly a little warm hand was slipped into his confidingly.
"I think we'd better go home now." The voice was full of deep content.
Livingstone's hand closed on hers and as he said "Yes," he was conscious of a pang at the thought of giving her up.
He lifted her to put her in the sleigh. As he did so the little arms were put about his neck and warm little lips kissed him. Livingstone pressed her to his breast convulsively and climbed into the sleigh without putting her down.
Neither spoke and when the sleigh stopped in front of Mr. Clark's door the child was still in Livingstone's arms, her head resting on his shoulder, the golden curls falling over his sleeve. Even when he transferred her to her father's arms she did not wake. She only sighed with sweet content and as Livingstone bent over and kissed her softly, muttered a few words about "Santa Claus's partner."
A half-hour later, Livingstone, after another interview with Mr. Brown who was awaiting him patiently, drove back again to Mr. Clark's door with another sleighful of packages which were all duly transferred to the small room where stood the little Christmas-tree.
The handshake Livingstone gave John Clark as he came down the steps of the little house was the warmest he had given any man in twenty years. It was so warm that it seemed to send the blood tingling through Livingstone's heart and warm it anew.
Livingstone drove home through silent streets, but they were not silent for him. In his ears a chime was still ringing and it bore him far across the snow-filled streets and the snow-filled years to a land of warmth and light. The glow was still about his heart and the tingle which the pressure of Kitty Clark's arms about his neck, and John Clark's clasp of his hand had started still kept it warm.
At his door Livingstone dismissed his driver and as he cheerily wished him a merry Christmas the man's cheery reply showed that Livingstone had already found the secret of good cheer.
"The same to you, your honor; the same to you, sir," said the driver heartily, as he buttoned up his pocket with a pat of satisfaction. "We've had a good time to-night, sir, haven't we? And I wish you many more like it, sir. And when Christmas comes along next time I hope you'll remember me, for I'll remember you; I've had a little child in that 'ere same horspital. God took her to Himself twelve years ago. They're good to 'em there, rich and poor all alike;—and 't isn't every night I can drive 'Santa Claus's partner.'"
Livingstone stood and watched the sleigh till it drove out of sight. Even after it had disappeared around a corner, he still listened to the bells. It seemed to him he had a friend in it.
Livingstone let himself in noiselessly at his door, but the softness with which he turned the key this time was to keep from disturbing his servants, not to keep them from seeing him.
He stopped stock still on the threshold. The whole house seemed transformed. The hall was a bower of holly and mistletoe, and the library, as Livingstone entered it, with its bright fire roaring in the hearth and its festoons and wreaths, seemed once more a charming home: a bower where cheer might yet make its abode..
As he entered his room the warmth and home feeling had come back there also. The portraits of his father and mother first caught his eye. Some one had put a wreath around each and they seemed to beam on him with a pleased and tender smile. They opened afresh the flood-gates of memory for him, but the memories were sweet and tender.
He glanced at a mirror almost with trembling. The last time he had looked at himself he had seen only that old, haggard face with the ghostly figures branded across the brow. Thank God! they were gone now, and he could even see in his face some faint resemblance to the portraits on the wall.
He went to bed and slept as he had not slept for months, perhaps for years—not dreamlessly, but the dreams were pleasant.—Now and then lines of vague figures appeared to him, but a little girl with a smiling face came and played bo-peep with him over them, and presently sprang up and threw her arms about his neck and made him take her in a sleigh to a wonderful shop where they could get marvellous presents; among them Youth, and Friendship, and Happiness. The door was just being shut as they arrived, but when he called his father's name it was opened wide—and his father and mother greeted him—and led him smiling into places where he had played as a child.—And Catherine Trelane in a shaggy coat and hood pulled the presents from a forest of Christmas-trees and gave them to Santa Claus's partner to give to others. And suddenly his father, with his old tender smile, picked the little girl up in his arms and she changed into a wonderful child that shone so that it dazzled Livingstone and—he waked to find the bright sun shining in through the window and falling on his face.
He sprang from bed with a cry almost of joy so bright was the day; and as he looked out of the window on the sparkling snow outside it seemed a new world.
All the morning Livingstone "rushed" as he had never "rushed" in the wildest excitement of "the street." He had to find a banker and a lawyer and a policeman. But he found them all. He had to get presents to Sipkins and Hartly and the other clerks; but he managed to do it.
His servants, too, had caught the contagion, and more than once big wagons driven by smiling, cheery-faced men drove up to the door and unloaded their contents. And when the evening fell and a great sleigh with six seats and four horses, and every seat packed full, drove up and emptied its shouting occupants out at Livingstone's door everything was ready.
It was Livingstone himself who met the guests at the door, and the driver, in his shaggy coat, must have been an old friend from the smiling way in which he nodded and waved his fur-gloved hands to him, as he helped Mrs. Clark out tenderly and took Kitty into his arms.
When.
The next moment Kitty discovered a large envelope lying at the foot of the tree. It was addressed,
It was strange that Kitty should have overlooked it before.
With a spring she seized it and handed it to her father with a little shout of joy, for she had not been able to keep from showing disappointment that he had received nothing.
Clark smiled at her pleasure, for he knew that the kisses which she had given him from time to time had been to make amends to him, and not, as others thought, from joy over her own presents.
Clark knew well the hand-writing, and even as he opened the envelope he glanced around to catch Livingstone's eye and thank him. Livingstone, however, had suddenly disappeared; so Clark read the letter.
It was very brief. It said that Livingstone had never known until the night before how much he owed him; that he was not sure even now that he knew the full extent of his indebtedness, but at least he had come to recognize that he owed much of his business success to Mr. Clark's wisdom and fidelity; and he asked as a personal favor to him that Clark would accept the enclosed as a token of his gratitude, and would consider favorably his proposal.
Opening an enclosed envelope, Clark found two papers. One was a full release of the mortgage on Clark's house (Livingstone had spent the morning in securing it), the other was a Memorandum of "Articles of Partnership" between Berryman Livingstone and John Clark, beginning from that very day,—indeed, from the day before,—all ready, signed by Livingstone and wanting only Mr. Clark's signature to make it complete.
Mr. Clark, with his face quite white and looking almost awed, turned and walked into the next room where he found Livingstone standing alone. The old clerk was still holding the papers clutched in his hand and was walking as if in a dream.
"Mr. Livingstone," he began, "I can never—I am overwhelmed!—Your letter—your gifts—" But Livingstone interrupted him. His face was not white but red.
"Nonsense!" he said, as he turned and put his hand on the other's shoulder. "Clark, I am not giving you anything. I am paying.—I mean, I owe you everything, and what I don't owe you, I owe Kitty. Last night you lent me—" He stopped, caught himself, and began again.
"It was more than even you knew, Clark," he said, looking the other kindly in the eyes, "and I'll owe you a debt of gratitude all my life. All I ask is, that you will forget the past and help me in the future and sometimes lend me Kitty. I never knew until now how good it was to have a partner."
Just then he became conscious that someone else was near him. Kitty, with wide-open, happy eyes, was standing beside them looking up inquiringly in their faces. The child seemed to know that something important had happened, for she put up her arms, and pulling her father down to her kissed him, and then turning quickly she caught Livingstone and, drawing him down, kissed him too.
"I love you," she said, in a whisper.
Livingstone caught her in his arms.
"Let's go and have a game of blind-man's buff. I am beginning to feel young again," he said, and linking his arm in Clark's, he dragged him back to the others, where, in a few minutes they were all of one age, and a very riot of fun seemed to have broken loose.
Matters had just reached this delightful point, and Livingstone was down on his hands and knees trying with futile dexterity to avoid the clutch of a pair of little arms that apparently were pursuing him with infallible instinct into an inextricable trap, when he became conscious of a presence he had not observed before. Some one not there before was standing in the doorway.
Livingstone sprang to his feet and faced Mrs. Wright.
He felt very red and foolish as he caught her eyes and found them smiling at him. The idea of being discovered in so ridiculous a situation and posture by the most fashionable and elegant woman of his acquaintance! But Mrs. Wright waved to him to go on with his game and the next moment the little arms had clutched him, and, tearing off her bandage, Kitty, with dancing eyes, declared him "caught."
"Well, this is my final triumph over Will," exclaimed Mrs. Wright, advancing into the room, as Livingstone, drawing the little girl along with him, approached her. And she began to tell Livingstone how they had particularly wanted him to dine with them that day as an old friend of his had promised to come to them, but they had supposed, of course, that he had been overrun with invitations for the day and, as they had not seen him of late, thought that he had probably gone out of town, until her husband saw him at the club the night before where he had gone to find some poor lone bachelor who might have no other invitation.
"You know Will has always been very fond of you," she said; "and he says you have been working too hard of late and have not been looking well. When I didn't get my usual contributions from you this Christmas I didn't know what to make of it, but I think that on my round this morning I have found out the reason?"
Livingstone knew the reason, but he did not tell her. The knowing smile that lit her face, however, mystified him and he flushed a little under her searching eyes.
"Will was sure he saw you in the club last night," she persisted, "and he tried to catch you, but you ran off; and now I have come for you and will take no refusal."
Livingstone expressed his regret that he could not come. A wave of his hand towards the curly heads and beaming faces clustered before them and towards the long table gleaming in the dining-room beyond explained his reason.
"I am having a Christmas dinner myself," he said.
"Then you will come in after they go?" insisted Mrs. Wright, and as Livingstone knew they were going early he assented.
"Who are your friends?" she asked. "What a pleasant-looking man, and what lovely children! That little girl,—I thought it was Cupid when she had the bandage on her eyes and now I am sure of it."
"Let me present them to you," said Livingstone, and he presented Mr. Clark as his partner and Kitty as Santa Claus's partner.
"I did not know you had a partner?" she asked.
"It is my Christmas gift from Santa Claus," he said. "One of them; I have many.",
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If that sounds like a lot of work, it is. Here are five ways to ease the process.
Too often, marketers don’t take the time to give freelancers a rundown of their audience, company goals, or positioning preferences. But it’s imperative to communicate these elements to them. Given how important audience alignment is for content performance, commissioning work without sharing the “who” and “why” behind it amounts to throwing money away.
Some suggestions: Put together a standard deck to send to freelancers during the onboarding process. Provide examples for them to model, but keep it to a single sheet. You can’t expect someone who isn’t a paid employee to spend hours poring over your company’s history. Ensure they read it by asking a few open-ended questions about your positioning or vision.
There’s a lot that off-site content creators need to know before they begin work. A Kapost and Gleanster Research report found that lack of a centralized calendar is the top reason marketing teams miss deadlines. Although you can’t expect freelancers to manage your schedule for you, you should be transparent about when and why you need their content.
Informing freelancers about what else is in the pipeline also enables them to build on it. Infographics are often built to accompany blog content, for example. A freelancer assigned to create a graphic should at least see headlines for the associated articles before starting work.
Despite the best preparation, content can sometimes come in that doesn’t fit the bill. While it might be tempting to have your internal team make the revisions and move on, don’t. Doing so might save you time now, but it won’t in the long run.
After all, external creators won’t know what isn’t working if you don’t tell them. Think of revision requests as target practice. The requests show creators exactly where they missed the mark, and they offer new opportunities to hit the bullseye. If your freelancer contracts don’t allow for revisions, add a clause to future ones. For the rest, screenshare the revised copy, audio, or video with them, talking through what you changed and why.
Whatever the content you’re working on with freelancers, it’s safe to assume everyone wants it to make a splash. A likely side perk for the contractor: A project’s success can help them score future work.
So, leverage the reciprocity principle. Just as the freelancer promotes your content on their own channels, a shout-out or social mention of the contractor from your channels costs you nothing. Your audience is probably multiple orders of magnitude larger than theirs, especially if you’re a major brand. Of note, brand messaging shared by team members on their personal channels earns 561% more reach than those messages shared by brands’ owned channels.
Once you and an outside content creator have successfully collaborated on a few pieces together, ask yourself: Is a long-term relationship in order? If so, move beyond piece-by-piece assignments. Rather, plan out a series to give the creator some scheduling (and financial) certainty. Communicate trust by offering them larger opportunities that you might typically take on in-house.
Remember, too, that content creators are people. Learn a little bit about them. By giving the relationship a personal touch, your last-minute requests are that much more likely to be honored. Best of all, you’re likely to get quality referrals when you need creative reinforcements.
Content creation from afar is tougher than it looks. Take time to explain your company’s goals and audience, be understanding when a submission doesn’t hit the mark, and reward creators for a job well done. Become their favorite partner, and they’re sure to become yours.
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An increase in the global demand for shark meat has prompted government officials to regulate the multi-million-dollar industry for the first time in Bahamian history.
Government officials yesterday signed into law an amendment aimed at protecting sharks that populate the more than 200,000 miles of Bahamian waters.
The Bahamas has long been considered one of the premier shark-watching destinations for divers.
According to statistics compiled by the Bahamas Diving Association, over the past two decades shark-related tourism has contributed more than $800 million to the Bahamian economy.
Yesterday morning an amendment was made to the Fisheries Resources Act that will now prohibit all commercial shark fishing in The Bahamas.
Agriculture and Marine Resources Minister Larry Cartwright said the new provision will permanently protect more than 40 species of shark in Bahamian waters.
“The Bahamas government has determined to enhance the protection extended to sharks found in Bahamian waters,” Cartwright said while speaking at the signing ceremony at the British Colonial Hilton yesterday morning. “This is in keeping with the government’s commitment to pursue appropriate conservation measures and strategies in order to safeguard marine and terrestrial environment. This also responds to concerns expressed by citizens and by local, international and non-governmental organizations to the Government of The Bahamas, calling for strengthened protection of sharks in The Bahamas.
“As we are all aware sharks are heavily fished in many of the world’s oceans and there is concern in many quarters that the current level of fishing including an increased level of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing cannot be sustained and will lead to the collapse of many shark stocks if we permit it.”
Under the 2011 amendment, commercial shark fishing as well as the import, export and sale of shark products are now prohibited.
But the amendment does allow for the recreational catch and release of sharks and the incidental catch and release of sharks by Bahamian citizens, assuming the subsequent sharks or shark products are not sold.
Cartwright said while the amendment took affect yesterday, it still has to be tabled in the House of Assembly.
Since 1993, Department of Fisheries officials have prohibited long line fishing – a move they insist helped maintain the region’s healthy shark will ensure that sharks can continue to thrive for generations in our waters, one of the world’s best places to see sharks.”
The effort to bring about shark regulations started last fall after a local seafood company expressed interest in the catching of sharks to meet the global demand for shark fin soup.
A collaboration between the PEW Environment Group and the BNT produced popular public service announcements and a petition that garnered more than 5,000 supporters.
Jill Hepp, manager of global shark conservation for the PEW Environment Group, said “[Tuesday’s] announcement permanently protects shark species in Bahamian waters. We applaud the people and Government of The Bahamas for being bold leaders in marine conservation.”
With the amendment, The Bahamas now joins Palau, the Maldives and Honduras in banning the commercial fishing of sharks.
It is estimated that commercial shark fishers kill up to 73 million sharks annually, mainly for their fins.
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Considered one of the oldest shopping malls in the world, hosts luxury boutiques of prestigious brands, famous cafés and restaurants, as well as Feltrinelli Records, one of the largest megastores in Italy.
The castle, once military fortress and princely residence of the Sforza family, now houses most of the city’s museums and art collections. Michelangelo’s last masterpiece “Pietá Rondanini” can be found here.
The former seat of the city´s government, is one of the most important exhibition venues in Milan. It hosted many masterpieces like Pablo Picasso’s Guernica.
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How Casey Kasem’s Estate Could Have Avoided the Drama
The drama caused by the combination of a large estate, second marriage, and conflict between the current spouse and children from a prior marriage is not unique to Casey Kasem or his estate. However, when there is a significant age gap between spouses which makes one spouse closer to the children’s ages then the deceased spouse, estate planning considerations are not completly typical. Leaving everything to the spouse can create tension between the younger spouse and the children. Here are some estate planning tools that can help ease the tension and reduce conflict:
- A QTIP trusts that provides for the spouse during their life and then for the children can be useful, unless the age gap between the two is so close that the children outliving the new spouse is unlikely.
- A life insurance policy can be used to either divide inheritance or provide for the spouse and leave the remaining estate to the children.
- Creating a revocable trust can help a complicated situation by keeping it flexible and avoiding the public eye.
- A good old fashion family meeting can help prevent future conflict by making sure all parties have reasonable expectations for what will happen.
See Annika Ferris Cushnie, How Proper Plannign Can Avert a Casey Kasem-Type Drama, Market Watch, July, 23, 2014.
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"The Pole" and "The Palm"
I sail my Scot in the winter cause I am down here in Florida. I love to tinker on my boat to make sailing easier and better. During the early summer I read about these two devices, but I was unable to try them until returning to FLA. I like them both! The work well. The pole and palm can be read about in detail by doing a search here. The pole is used to roll the sail up at the end of the day by one person (or more if available), it works good and you simply bungie it to the boom and put on your cockpit cover. I find it much easier than trying to flake the sail and I think it is much better for the sail too, rolled not folded. The palm is a SS ring on bungie the keeps the main sheet from fouling on the motor or transom corners. It too works well and look better than the traveler line I had previously used. Thanks to bigpapaporsche for bringing these to our attention! Peter Vero Beach, FL
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pic of the palm here.
I just installed the "Palm" on "In The Air", FS381.
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The link to the pictures of the legendary "Palm device" seem to be broken. Any updated pointer? Googling does not seem to help.
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The Chestnuts Park Surgery will be hosting a Health & Wellness Open Day for all members of the public on Wednesday 1st June 2016 between 2.00pm and 4.00pm – all are welcome to attend. See poster below.
The event aims to raise awareness about and allow patients to experience a number of local health and social care service providers accessible through the surgery for patients and residents of Haringey.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet PPG representatives and members of practice staff, particularly newer team members, and will be treated to FREE mini health checks, whilst younger visitors can enjoy FREE face painting.
The programme includes Tottenham Hotspurs Foundation who will be promoting their health programmes which include Shape up with Spurs, Expert Patient Programme and walk and cycle sessions.
One You Haringey, a free service committed to helping patients make simple changes towards better health and happier lives, as well as Tottenham Active, a programme aimed at increasing the number of people accessing sport and physical activity opportunities in the Tottenham area.
Action for Kids will be raising awareness about their work with young people with learning disabilities from the age of 14 to help with their transition to adulthood and to help them prepare for work, and Skills & Training Network, an educational and training charity based in North London will be present to help long-term unemployed or socially disadvantaged young people and adults with free weekly careers advice and CV writing workshops – especially women from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee backgrounds.
We will also be joined by Bubic, an award winning community-based organisation that provides support for drug users, ex-drug users, their family and friends, in addition to the Community Dental Service, on hand to deliver Oral Health advice.
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Triangle Children, Young People and Community Centre is our local Children’s Centre and brings together a range of services for children under five and their families such as family support, health and education, they will be present in addition to Haringey Play Association who are committed to raising awareness and understanding of the fundamental importance of play in a child’s life.
Mind in Haringey work to prevent mental health problems, promote mental well being and ensure those with mental health problems are respected and included in our local community, and they will be present on the day to engage with patients.
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The Demotic Dictionary Project
1998-99 ANNUAL REPORT
Stephen Vinson
In the past year, the Demotic Dictionary Project has made significant progress towards closing our manuscript and preparing for final formatting and publication. The Dictionary staff this year included Professor Janet Johnson and Research Associate Steve Vinson as well as research assistants Thomas Dousa, François Gaudard, Alejandro Botta, and Brett McClain. The letters Y, W, B, F, R, L, Å, Q, H=, K, T, and T= are close to "done," meaning that all entries have been checked, many to most scans have been entered, and black and white facsimiles made. The letters 3, ', ºI, P, M, S, G, Hu, and D have been checked for content but await most of their scans. N and H are currently being revised, with N almost finished; only H remains in rough-draft form. The next step will be to complete the insertion of thousands of remaining scans of photographs and hand-copies of actual Demotic writing, a long and difficult process but one which will provide one of the most useful features of the finished dictionary.
The Dictionary played host to two visiting Demotists this year, Professor Ursula Kaplony-Heckel of Marburg University in Germany and Bryan Muhs, a young American Demotist who now teaches at the University of Leiden. The two were in Chicago to work on the Oriental Institute's collection of Demotic ostraca and to attend the conference of the American Research Center in Egypt, where it was gratifying to see that the number of papers devoted to Demotic was large enough to merit an entire session, and this session was quite well attended and received.
While work on the Demotic Dictionary is of course primarily lexicographical in nature, our in-depth examination of words and their uses not infrequently leads to new insights into the workings of the Egyptian language on the levels of grammar and syntax. One result of this year's work has been substantial clarification of the use of the modest word mn "so-and-so, such-and-such." This word is a quasi-pronoun frequently found in the Hermopolis Legal Manual (a Ptolemaic-era book of instructions for drafting contracts of various types) and in magical texts that give the format for magical spells. In both types of text, the word is a substitute for a specific personal name or other noun that would be inserted by the legal or magical practitioner.
We have identified three different ways in which mn can be used: absolutely, with a following noun, and with a preceding noun. Used absolutely, mn is simply a substitute for a personal name; for example, p3 mn s3 p3 mn = "so-and-so, son of so-and-so" (p3 is the Egyptian masculine singular definite article; s3 is the word for "son"); t3 mn r-ms t3 mn = "(the woman) so-and-so, whom (the woman) so-and-so bore" (t3 is the feminine singular definite article; r-ms is a form of the verb ms meaning "to bear, give birth to," used in a past-tense relative clause).
When a noun follows mn, it means "such-and-such a ..."; for example, p3 mn p3 ìbt means "such-and-such a month"; p3 mn p3 tmy means "such and such a town." Not all scribes put an article in front of mn; for example, in one text mn 3h; is used to mean "such-and-such a field." However, whenever mn does have an article in front of it, it is regularly of the same gender as the noun with which mn is in apposition. A peculiar exception to this rule is seen in a handful of late magical texts, where mn has a feminine article but is in apposition to a masculine noun: t3 mn p3 ntr = "such-and-such a god"; t3 mn n p3 sh-shn = "such-and-such a commission or request." Exactly why this should be is unclear to us; it may be a reflex of the very old Egyptian tendency to regard the feminine gender as also carrying the indefinite and the neuter. That would explain why we have no examples of a masculine mn in apposition to a feminine noun (e.g., no *p3 mn t3 shhm.t "such-and-such a woman"). But at any rate, since this mixing of genders occurs in more than one text, the use of a feminine mn with a masculine noun seems to be a regular and permissible construction, at least at this time and in this text genre.
Finally, mn can also follow a noun. This is only the case when the noun is something that can be quantified or counted; in these cases, mn refers to an indefinite quantity, not the thing itself. For example: ms.t t3 mn = "such-and-such amount of interest" (here the word ms.t "interest," is related to the verb ms "to bear, give birth to" we mentioned above; the idea is that the principle "gives birth to" the interest); nkt mn = "such-and-such amount of property"; hd mn = "such-and-such amount of silver."
An interesting combination of these expressions is found in the Hermopolis Legal Manual, where the author has provided the form for adding the date to a contract. The scribe who drafts a contract is supposed to write: hsb.t mn n p3 mn ìbt "the Nth regnal year in such-and-such a month." This shows that the author of the manual regarded regnal years (hsb.t) and months (ìbt) differently; a hsb.t was part of an infinite countable series, but an ìbt was one of a (limited) group that could be specified.
The peculiar use of feminine mn with masculine nouns we mentioned above, which appears to be limited to a particular text genre and particular time period, is only one example of the numerous regional and temporal variations in Demotic vocabulary, grammar, orthography, and usage. Another interesting example of a temporal and/or geographic variation in usage came to light this year in our work on the word shm.t "woman." Aside from its regular use as a noun, the word sh≥m.t is frequently used attributively, feminizing its antecedent. Normally, the word will follow its antecedent, as in the phrase b3k.t shm.t "female servant" or w3h-mw shm.t "female choachyte" (the Egyptian title w3h-mw literally means "water-pourer" and was the title of a low-ranking class of funerary priests called "choachytes" in Greek documents). However, the title w3h-mw presents a problem. The pattern w3h-mw shm.t is attested only in Persian-era Demotic (that is, Demotic written before the Greeks conquered Egypt in 333-332 BC), and only in the area of Thebes (modern Luxor and environs). In Ptolemaic-era Demotic texts from the Memphite area (just south of modern Cairo), the pattern is reversed: rather than w3h-mw shm.t, the meaning of which is absolutely clear, we get shm.t w3h-mw.
Precisely how this is to be understood is uncertain: Egyptian grammar would permit understanding shm.t w3h-mw either as "woman (and) choachyte" or as "woman (of a) choachyte." General historical and social considerations do not provide us with a definitive answer to our dilemma. The existence of the Theban title w3h-mw shm.t leaves no doubt that, at least in Persian-era Thebes, a woman could be a choachyte in her own right. But we also know that in some types of Ptolemaic-era administrative texts women were referred to with reference to their husbands' occupations (although these references used the word rmt.t "female person" rather than shm.t).
However, a number of lines of argument have led us to suspect that in the case of w3h-mw-titles from Ptolemaic Memphis and environs, the translation "woman (and) choachyte" rather than "woman (of a) choachyte" may be preferable. In the first place, there is a fragmentary Demotic stela in the Cairo Museum, found at Giza (not far from Memphis), in which two men with the title w3h-mw are named, apparently as dedicators of the stela itself. Accompanying these two masculine names is the name of a woman with the title shm.t w3h-mw, who appears on the stela on exactly the same footing as the two men. No husband is mentioned, but the woman's father is named, precisely as are the fathers of the two men. A w3h-mw and a shm.t w3h-mw also appear in parallel and on precisely the same footing in Papyrus Louvre 3266, a Memphite contract having to do with the shares of income flowing from choachytal services. At one point in the contract, there is a reference to the "income and the stipends and everything else that belongs to the w3h-mw Imhotep son of Pamon together with … the income and the stipends and everything else that belongs to the shm.t w.h-mw Tanitna, daughter of Tanimu." The most straightforward interpretation is that on the Giza stela and in P. Louvre 3266, the title shm.t w3h-mw is simply the female equivalent of the masculine title w3h-mw - that is, it is to be taken as "woman (and) choachyte."
If this reasoning is correct, then perhaps the other Ptolemaic documents from Memphis (primarily property conveyance contracts) that employ the pattern shm.t w3h-mw can also be taken as "woman (and) choachyte." And finally, this may indicate that in other instances in which the pattern shm.t plus an occupational title occurs - and again, these are all Ptolemaic and all from the region of Memphis - we may also be entitled to translate "woman (and) title"; for example, shm.t wªb may well mean "woman (and) priest," and shm.t nf may even mean "woman (and) sailor."
Up until now we have discussed only documentary texts, but of course the analysis of religious and literary texts leads to novel insights as well. One interesting discovery this year was of a new, if hardly surprising, epithet of Min, the ithyphallic god who was identified with the Greeks' randy Pan. Both were honored in the Wadi Hammamat, where numerous Demotic and Greek dedications to the god(s) have been found. One common epithet in these graffiti was understood by the original editor of these very difficult texts as Mn p3 ht n p3 tw, or "Min, the foremost of the mountain." However, the sign which was taken by the editor of these graffiti as ht "foremost" occasionally has a diagonal slash through it, which certainly requires a reading of hwt "male." A better translation of the epithet, therefore, is "Min, the male of the mountain," a sobriquet in perfect keeping with Min's most prominent attribute.
Finally, one of the earliest explicit mentions in Egyptian of the dismemberment of Osiris by his brother Seth was discovered by François Gaudard, a research assistant on the dictionary. For his dissertation, Gaudard is working on P. Berlin 8278, a Demotic version of the well-known Egyptian story of the struggles between Horus and Seth, and his work has also borne rich fruit for the dictionary. The story of the destruction of Osiris' body by his brother Seth is well known from Greek sources but is generally only alluded to in Egyptian texts. Aside from P. Berlin 8278, one of the few other texts that makes the incident explicit is the Papyrus Jumilhac, a cursive hieroglyphic papyrus from the Ptolemaic period, which refers to gathering up specific Osirian body parts, including the head, extremities, phallus, and the divine jaw, among others.
In an unfortunately broken passage, Gaudard has read the phrase [...] p3 shw mt.t ªl-h.t. r-gm/w ... [ ... ] [shªt/f]. The word shw is an archaizing variant of the common Demotic verb swh "to gather" here used nominally: "the gathering." mt.t means literally "word," but is used regularly to form abstract compounds. The word ºI is a noun meaning "strip" and appears in the best-known Demotic magical text in the context of a strip of cloth. But here, it is compounded with the word h.t "body, flesh," and so the entire compound mt.t-ªl-h.t, literally means "strip-of-flesh-stuff." This is followed by a relative clause, "which was found [ ... ] [cut him]," as well as mention of Seth's being "cheated" by the embalming of Osiris. All in all, we seem to have an unusually clear reference to the sparagmos - the rending apart - of Osiris' body.
As these examples show, the range and variety of information about late Egyptian society and culture deriving from our lexicographic research has proven to be one of the most interesting and fruitful aspects of our work. We hope to share further results with the interested lay and professional public in the very near future!
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When was your wedding?
21st July 2007
How and when did you meet?
We met at a party in October 1995 (12 years ago!)
How old are you both?
I am 29 (28 when I got married!) and Mark is 30
Where, when and how did he (or you!) propose?
On a balcony on my 27th birthday. It was at breakfast and we were on holiday in Falmouth, Cornwall. It was a complete surprise!
Did you have hen and stag celebrations? If so, what did you do?
I went to Leeds – we did a spa session in the day and then went to Room for a great meal. We then went to the Birdcage – a cabaret style club with live acts and a drag queen DJ, A perfect hen venue!
How did your groom help with the wedding planning?
Mark was very patient throughout – which was very useful! He was responsible for the confetti cones, the wedding card post box and camera post box. He also designed the worlds most elaborate table seating plan with a border made up of an individual photo of all of our wedding guests. It will be something we will keep as a great reminder of the day.
Did you use confetti to plan your wedding? If so, how did the website help you?
I used the shop and suggested ideas for designing our table decorations. The forums are an invaluable source of information and advice.
Did you buy any confetti products for your wedding? If so, did you visit a store, buy online or by mail order?
Yes – I bought chocolate trivia squares which I tied in to bundles of two squares with pink ribbon (fiddly but looked effective) and these were placed on the side plates along with our individual menu cards. We used pink and green feathers in the red wine glasses – they added height and colour to the tables and were unexpectedly used by some of the men to add in their buttonholes! We used pink champagne bottle bubbles in the white wine glasses. These were loved by both the adults and children and everyone blew bubbles as we were announced at the wedding breakfast. We also used confetti tins for all our favours (more later!) We bought tonnes of table confetti which looked great (pink irridescent hearts, hexagonal sparkly stuff etc etc!)
Tell us about your outfit, and where you bought it
I wore an Alan Hannah dress – Francoise. I loved every minute I wore it! It is Thai silk and was very light all day long (and easy to dance in with the train hooked up). It has a rouched bodice, beaded Swarovski neckline and draped skirt. It was worth every penny! My dress was from The White Room in Loughborough – they were brilliant!
Did you have bridesmaids? If so, who did you choose and what did they wear?
We had three adult bridesmaids. They wore pale green (celadon) bodice and skirts by Alfred Sung. The bodice had a floor length bow at the back and the skirt had a small train. They were in a nu-georgette (matt chiffon) fabric as I really didn’t want satin! They went down very well with lots of our guests.
Who did your groom choose for his best man and ushers, and what did they wear?
Mark chose his friend of 13 years Barrie as his best man and he did an excellent job. Mark’s cousins children Daniel and Andrew were ushers. They wore charcoal grey morning suits with sage green cravats from Formal Affair.
Did you have a civil or religious ceremony?
A religious ceremony.
Where did you hold your ceremony?
St John Fisher Roman Catholic Church, Coventry
Where did you hold your reception?
At Brownsover Hall Hotel in Rugby. A stunning gothic building where Sir Frank Whittle designed the jet engine. It has beautiful grounds.
Did you have any special wedding transport?
We had a white Daimler limousine – It was a gift from our Matron of Honour and her family and was a real treat.
How many guests did you invite to your wedding, and did you have a separate evening guest list?
We had 52 for the day and around a 100 in the evening.
Did your reception have a particular theme in terms of colour or style?
Our colour scheme was pale green and pale pink.
How did you incorporate this in to your table settings?
The table centrepieces were vases with pink hydrangeas and tea roses with the vases wrapped in pink and green ribbon. The tables had pink and green and cream fabric petals from ikea on as well as table diamonds (flown in from Australia via ebay!) and sparkly table confetti. The favour tins were lined with pink and green tissue paper and we had pink and green feathers in the glasses (as mentioned above!) Our table names were backed in pink and green card – the names of the tables were photographs of road names in the streets around where we grew up (we lived only half a mile apart when we grew up)
Did you give your guests favours?
Our older male guests received favour tins with sweet pea flower seeds (meaning ‘thanks for a lovely time’) along with planting instructions. Younger male guests received tins with mint imperials. The ladies received tins with mini pewter magnets in the shape of different handbag designs these were from Past Times. Children received tins with chalky alphabet letter sweets. Each tin was labelled with the the recipients name and a message. Guests also had traditional chocolate foil wrapped favour hearts in their place setting. Their place setting was in the shape of a chair (with the chocolates in the seat of the chair) their name was printed on vellum strips and positioned in the chair back. These were from Princess for the day and I loved them the moment I saw them!
Describe your flowers (bouquets and table decorations). Who was your florist?
We had dolce vita roses in cream with pink tips. I had a large hand tied bouquet and bridesmaids had a smaller version. Table centrepieces were hydrangeas and tea roses.
What did you choose to have on your menu? Did you have an outside caterer or did your venue handle the catering?
We had smoked duck and wild mushroom terrine with a mango salad and brioche to start. We had prosciutto wrapped chicken stuffed with pine nuts and spinach on a sweet potato puree with asparagus for our main course and a glazed lemon chiboust with red berries for dessert. Yum!
What did you choose for your wedding cake, and who made it?
We had a three tier stacked cake in pink and white with one vanilla one chocolate and one fruit layer. It was bought from The Cake Shop in Bedworth who were really helpful and terrific value. It was decorated with sparkly butterflies bought from butterfly babes on ebay. We had a personalised cake topper from Artlocke Designs who I can highly recommend. Her toppers are beautiful and ours is now proudly positioned on our mantlepiece.
Did you have any entertainment during the day or evening?
We had my old primary school’s choir singing at the ceremony who were fantastic. We had a live band in the evening called 3AC (3′s A Crowd) they were brilliant and kept everyone dancing all night. We also had a DJ who did a great job too, he came with the band and shared speakers to save space.
Did you have a gift list? If so, who did you have your list with?
We had lists at both John Lewis and Debenhams. We also had alternative gift ideas such as gift experiences and other special items which my sister (and bridesmaid) looked after.
Where did you spend your first night and honeymoon? Who did you book your honeymoon with?
We stayed at Brownsover Hall after the the wedding and went straight on honeymoon to Southampton to board our cruise on P&O’s Oceana. It was our first cruise and a great relaxing experience.
What was your most memorable moment of the day?
Our first dance – we had prepared a routine to Lionel Richie’s My Destiny – we really enjoyed it and so did our guests!
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In Kendrick Lamar’s new video “Poetic Justice” he puts his life on the line for LOVE.
The video for “Poetic Justice” is said to play off the classic 1991 “Boyz In The Hood” movie, but with iPhones.
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The Democratic memo is expected to remain secret while the president reviews it, but its lead author, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), has said it will provide a point-by-point rebuttal to the Republican version. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
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Democrats say Trump’s allies are trying to discredit the FBI to harm special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and whether any of the president’s associates were involved.
The Democratic memo is expected to remain secret while Trump reviews it, but its lead author, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), has said it will provide a point-by-point rebuttal to the Republican version. Trump could attempt to block it from being made public; the White House said Monday it would “entertain” the request to release it.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee said they endorsed the release of the Democratic memo in a nod to transparency, but one lawmaker, Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) said the Schiff memo will only further "muddy the water" surrounding the Russia investigation. He called the claims in the Democratic memo inaccurate "for a million different reasons."
"But I am all for letting the people see it and decide for themselves," he added.
Rooney said he hoped Trump would support the release of the memo as he did for Republicans' and that he didn't see much that would need to be redacted.
Schiff told reporters that Democrats had already provided copies of their memo to the FBI and Justice Department for review, a step he noted Republicans refused to take. He said he wants to ensure that any redactions to the memo are made by professional at those agencise rather than by the White House "for political purposes."
Schiff also complained that Nunes declined, once again, to reveal whether the White House had any role in developing the GOP memo. He said Nunes denied the administration had a role in "drafting" the document but repeatedly declined to answer questions about other possible influence by the White House.
Nunes spokesman Jack Langer rejected the idea that the White House had any influence over the memo.
“The idea that the White House had any input whatsoever in the conception or writing of the memo is a totally false claim perpetuated by the Democrats and, as usual, dutifully reported by Politico,” he said in a statement.
In a transcript of a committee meeting last week, Nunes was asked by Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) whether the White House had any role in the GOP memo and he said "as far as I know, no." He declined to answer further questions when pressed by Quigley. |
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Colin M’s Gunnison Growler Condensed Race Report – “Ow. Yay! No, really I feel lucky to have ridden the 32 miles of Hartman Rocks trails (twice). Beautiful scenery, excellent moto sculpted trails, great volunteers, and a well marked course. The 7am Sunday start was a little drizzly and cold which had us sorting through clothes for warmer gear. Thanks to Dave Weins for the Growler history lesson. Yes there were carcasses out on course and I hope that the mountain lions enjoyed their meal. Thanks for the private land owners for opening up their property for the race.”
64 miles, 1 clif bar, 4 gels, 1/2 banana, 1/4 orange, 6 Brawndo (THE THIRST MUTILATOR) drinks, one rigid singlespeed, and no blisters later I finished with a snot and salt infused smile.
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Apa.org “Overcoming Depression.” apa.org, American Psychological Association, Oct. 2016.
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anyways... here is the long overdue post of that one time we went to Costa Rica. (remember that one time when we went on an awesome vaca with the Blessings in March?) **please avoid looking at your calendars at this point in order to prove me "long overdue" by noting that the month of April is almost over** thanks.
check out the hubs. he was excited to finally be in Costa Rica after a long day of travel.
Chester provided endless entertainment. (don't tell him that's the only reason we brought him.)
One of the pools, complete with a swim up bar. We spent probably 70% of our time by the water... with a book and cold drink in hand. Now that's what I call a vaca!
fun mountain view from the resort.
We went to the top of our resort one night to watch the sunset.
View from one of the restaurants at the resort.
One day we traveled to the National Park and hiked. This was on of my favorite days. Costa Rica is so beautiful and I loved being able to just explore and experience the forest. Jen officially gets the "Most Active Pregnant Lady" award. She was a rockstar! The hike took about 2.5 hours, one way!
Jen and I on a hanging bridge over water. So fun!
We found one patch of monkeys. It was crazy to see them playing with each other and living in their natural habitat.
They also had crazy big trees!
The final destination of our hike. An awesome waterfall!
It was gorgeous!
...and such a treat to swim in after the long, hot hike!
Will and Chester were brave and ventured behind the waterfall!
Will jumping.
and chester.
Things not pictured because we were having too fun (and mostly because I'm really bad about taking pictures)
- Jen and I got massages on the beach
- Will and I did a zip-lining excursion through the jungle and over this crazy gorge-thingy
- We went to another local beach for the day and hung out with all the locals. We even saw a pirate ship!
- We ate lots of yummy coconut ice cream! (couldn't get enough)
- We slept a lot...
- I won the award of "Reading Robot!" Literally- I read all the time! I went through 4 books!
- Nurture
- One Thousand Gifts
- Hiding Place
- Tramp for the Lord
- We enjoyed our time without internet!
- We perfected our ghosting skills.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but you can take my word for it- we had a great time! Definitely a successful vacation/baby-moon. Love ya Blessings!
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say three people were killed and four injured after the minivan they were traveling in turned over on a Los Angeles freeway connector.
City News Service reports that the GMC minivan veered off the northbound connector from the Arroyo Seco Parkway to the Golden State Freeway, hit a concrete wall, turned over and skidded on its side shortly after midnight Saturday.
California Highway Patrol says four people were thrown from the vehicle and three of them died, including a 12-year-old girl.
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Sunday 21 September, 2014
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Please note this is linear style trail, (returning on the same path)
We will use the former Marsh Brook (LOWER) Road following along side or parallel to Marsh Brook.
5k walkers will travel 2.5k and return to the Start Point for a total of 5 k, and 10k will travel along the trail for 5k and return to the Start Point for a total of 10k.
Guided Walk Leader: Rollie Coombes
Driving Directions to the Start Point:
From Sydney follow the Trans Canada 105 West to Exit 8, continue North to Margaree and cross over the Margaree River at Doyle's Bridge continue to East Margaree. Note there are two more bridges further north along the Cabot Trail that may be taken to enter the community of East Margaree if you miss Doyle s Bridge....
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Trail head begins at 1176 Margaree Road, of St Micheal's Church (rear parking lot)
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Earlier this week fans got to see the gorgeous first teaser trailer for “Blade Runner 2049,” Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to Ridley’s Scott 1982 sci-fi flick starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard. To keep the “Blade Runner” momentum going, Entertainment Weekly shared seven new photos, which include the two leads, as well as Ana de Armas riding shotgun next to Gosling.
The new film is set 35 years after the events of the first and follows LAPD Officer K (Gosling), a new blade runner who unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. His new discovery leads him to Rick Deckard (Ford), the former blade runner who’s been missing for 30 years. Check out the images by clicking here.
Exclusive: Check out 7 photos from the long-awaited @BladeRunner sequel: #BladeRunner 🙌 pic.twitter.com/Q7o3pWdzKL
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) December 21, 2016
READ MORE: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Teaser Trailer: Gorgeous First Footage From Denis Villeneuve’s Sequel Debuts
Filming for the film wrapped in late November and the editing process has started in Los Angeles. A new tidbit that fans might also enjoy is that, according to Villeneuve himself, “Blade Runner 2049” is also going to be an R-rated picture.
“My producers are finding it fun to remind me that it will be one of the most expensive R-rated independent feature films ever made,” Villeneuve told ScreenDaily. The director also spoke about how little CGI he used to make the film, saying that he can count on his fingers the amount of time they put a green screen on set.
“Most of the movie was done on camera, me and [cinematographer] Roger Deakins worked very hard to do it that way,” he explained. ” will arrive in theaters on October 6, 2017.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Couldn’t even give it a break on Thanksgiving day could you?
Bozo the Idiot doesn’t have any life other than to copy and paster these inane and usless cartoons. He just recycles a number of them and thinks it shows his intelligence. Just to remind him, he predicted a landslide victory for Romney (he doessn’t tell which dumbass right wing poll he used as a source).
Have a nice 4 MORE YEARS Bozo.
I think he went zero-for-25000 for this election prediction season. He’s probably feeling a little under the weather right now.
Awwwww, OB1! Sad to see this from you…Don’t eat too much turkey and gravy and pumpkin pie!
Awe c’mon Puxy! You know I’m just throwing a couple of Thanksgiving grenades for my lefty friends at The Memo. Would you expect anything else? 🙂
[here’s another pic for you…;-)]
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Puxy.
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” – Mark Twain
I know, OB1…I know…btw, did you ever get that short story I wrote?
You mean The Slavery Clause? If not, which one? I get a ton of responses, as you can imagine, and maybe I missed it. Let me know.
No…it was a piece of fiction from my creative writing class. I sent it as an attachment…
No wonder I did not get it. They do not pass on attachments through Disqus. Only can post images. 🙁
Didn’t know that, but I also didn’t realize until now that what I write in response to DISQUS emails is also published. I didn’t want to have the “world” read my story! Also, I guess you didn’t get the pix I attached some time back….
No… unfortunately… 🙁 ……. and you’re right… not a good idea to publish personal contact info in a public forum. If you think about it, you do know how to reach me already. A little bit of though is all it will take.
I’ll try..with a test message…
keep trying.
Ok. Will send again…
Tried a few minutes ago..not certain of network you use. Last one didn’t bounce back though. Check your Spam.
did you get my last one word response?
Yes…but messages still failing…
it should work fine
Got that…just having snags on the first part.
should be pretty easy…
snail mail wont work…
odd. if you want an O that resembles a turkey, you got the wrong one. try o’reilly.
Good grief OMG! Are you really still that bitter about the election?! It’s time to calm down now. I know you think you are among the few who know that the country is going to Hell in a Handbasket. But for the sake of your health and sanity you need to back off a little and wait a few months and see if there is any indication that all your dire predictions are coming true. Actually, other than moving out of the country, what option do you have?
Be calm, have a happy Thanksgiving, watch football, and be thankful that you are still employed and reasonably prosperous.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, you moronic puke.
Happy Thanksgiving Bozo.. Here’s my gift to you, enjoy the pumpkin pie.
so glad your still here , even if you are so irrelevent , but stay in there pitching bozo, and let me know in four years how that name has worked out for you. sure hope you get with the times ,, , change the name and have a nice day
Perhaps this poor man is mentally ill. Pray for him.
Looks more like someone from Brooklyn, Staten Island or North Jersey.
Is that a Mercedes?
Is a Lada…
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(h/t Jennifer Armstrong)
I support the idea of political debate, political discourse…. however this approach has the ring of the Sadducees, the Pharisees.
Look at what it says..”set up the universites as the center of the information”. Sure has a ring of “holier than thou”. Like them or not, the so-called Tea Party has had a significant impact on recent politics. Do you think the Tea Party would have come out of academia? Would the East Anglia University / Penn State fraud have been exposed under this system? I think not.
It says – “Take advantage of the diverse organizations …. to build an advocacy network that defends public information and knowledge”.
Do you think the numerous frauds, the truths which Andrew Brietbart has exposed would be supported by this advocacy network? Just think of the bunny trail we’d be running down on global warming, climate change, climate disruption, etc. ir we let “real” knowledge come from acadamia or some “central government source” only.
No…I think it’s best we let the free market of knowledge play out vs. applying central planning to information, knowledge and wisdom..
Aaron: Loved these ideas. And, even though they might not be feasible in short term, part of me believes we need radical thinking like this to get more people engaged. People have great ideas–but we need more open forums, public discourse and new and different opportunities for people to get involved.
@arikhanson
@Ranger47 – I don’t think that colleges should have a monopoly on access to civic institutions. Popular movements often come from academia (I’d argue that modern conservatism, in its true original Buckley form, was very much an academic idea). But they can and should come from anywhere else, too.
(We part ways on Breitbart, whose big scoops are often fraudulent).
That said, what Levine is saying here and what I am trying to add, is that our public colleges and universities are uniquely positioned to be civic stations. They shouldn’t lecture to each other from within, rather they should open their doors to their communities and diverse ideas. That’s the model I follow at Hibbing, where our student senate (which I advise) hosts candidate forums open to the community. The issues important to students are raised, but the conversation is shared with everyone. We’d welcome voices from within the community. Indeed, our students reflect the community.
I know there is a tendency to place academia in a box as having a specific agenda. I can promise we don’t have liberal indoctrination training. What’s true is that the nature of an academic lifestyle and thinking attracts more liberals than conservatives. It’s also true that if conservatives spent more time joining and attempting to improve public institutions (instead of tearing them down) we’d all be better off. There is demagoguery on both sides, but an educated discussion tends to strip debate down to its most important components.
Is that happening in the current “free market” of ideas? No. I think we have the illusion of freedom filtered through a oligarchy.
@Arik – Thanks! I have to credit Levine’s paper for the ideas, but it’s an issue I live and work with up here. I agree that some of these aren’t feasible, for many of the reasons Ranger47 points out.
I’m open to the ideal of what you’re saying Aaron…let’s build on it. But help me out. Give me an example or two.
On what topics recently have you truly – “opened your doors to diverse ideas?”
I’m interested. “What issues are important to students” these days?
Politics aside (as much as they can ever be placed aside), I completely love the idea of a Civic Information Corps. The question is where can the idea become more of a reality. Institutions of higher education definitely have a place at the table, but I think this is an ideal fit for libraries (public, academic, special) and information professionals in general.
The values espoused in this idea very much coincide with the ethics and values of the library profession, and within that space I believe you could find many people eager to carry this type of concept forward.
@Ranger47 – Just what I say – welcoming the community to the forum, providing access and information to those who seek it. Students are most interested in rising tuition and the cost of going to college. The debt loads facing even community or tech college students is very prohibitive to starting a career and family. The two-year college concept was supposed to be something students could pay for themselves with a part time job. That’s no longer remotely possible.
@Jennifer – I don’t know, those librarians can be a dark and sinister lot. 🙂 I agree, though it’d be interesting to see if it was adopted as so many librarians are facing job cuts or increased duties. I need to see a working model for some of this.
I agree Aaron, the community college system (formerly junior college), used to be very affordable..and very productive. What’s caused the costs to increase so much?
I don’t have current figures for the Minnesota CC system but Bruininks recently said is budget was dismal. Is the guy crazy? Look at his budget. What’s doing this? And he has the gall to call it dismal??
“Robert Bruininks is unhappy about his final operating budget, which he called “dismal.” Well, if the budget is “dismal” it must be getting cut, right?
How big a decline would it take for you to say that your family’s budget is “dismal” and “disappointing?” Ten percent? Twenty?
If I had to take a 20% cut, that would hurt a lot. So what’s happening to the budget for the University of Minnesota system?
Here are the budget numbers according to the Univeristy’s own web sites:
FY 2000: $1,816,000,000
FY 2001: $1,886,000,000
FY 2002: $2,005,000,000
FY 2003: $2,118,000,000
FY 2004: $2,098,000,000
FY 2005: $2,201,000,000
FY 2006: $2,368,000,000
FY 2007: $2,532,000,000
FY 2008: $2,747,000,000
FY 2009: $2,902,000,000
FY 2010: $2,900,000,000
FY 2011: $3,400,000,000
FY 2012: $3,700,000,000
So the University’s own numbers indicate that the “dismal” and “disappointing” FY 2012 budget represents a $300 million, 8.8% increase over FY 2011. Will your family’s budget rise by 9% next year? Probably not.
Something’s wrong Aaron. The citizens of Minnesota can’t afford to keep paying the educational system these kind of increases. Why is this happening?? Maybe it’s the name change…
I haven’t gotten back to this until now. You’re referencing the U of M — I was talking about MNSCU. The U is a research land grant institution whose purpose also includes projects with different purpose. These are significant increases, but I’d venture that at least some of the increase would be the same rise in health care and commodity prices we see everywhere. That’s a key part of the overall budget increase for the state. The private sector has seen a similar increase. Yes, they’ve cut costs — mostly in layoffs — but they can do that. Public cost cutting means fewer services in areas that the private sector has no financial interest in taking over.
But here we are in another large picture conversation. My original point was related to affordable public college education. The U of M has some connections to that, but the cost figures here are related to more than just that.
Don’t give me fancy words, “land grant”, “commodity prices”, etc. Aaron. If fewer services and fewer public employees are the end result, then so be it. The citizens of St. Louis county, Itasca county, Minnesota and the U.S. are sick and tired of hearing government can’t get by with less when all of us working class have been getting by with less for the past three plus years… |
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- Empire State Building, New York on November 20, 2013
- Toronto International Airport on November 20, 2013
- Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey, Santa Monica on November 19, 2013
- The Getty Centre Exhibition Pavilion, Los Angeles on November 19, 2013
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The majority of respondents said that the country's ecological problems have grown worse over recent years and only 4 percent said that the situation has improved.
Household waste disposal was highlighted as the key ecological problem with more than three-quarters of respondents also saying that it is necessary to eradicate waste dumps and set up a recycling system.
Transport, industrial waste and deforestation were named the next most significant challenges.
The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry plans to approve a bill about household and industrial waste in the first quarter of 2014, Minister Sergei Donskoy said this week. The bill is expected to help create a recycling industry and make manufacturers pay recycling fees.
Other measures that the ministry is considering include increasing fines for excessive industrial emissions, introducing tariffs for cars that use low quality fuel and a law requiring factories to use more efficient technologies.
But while the majority of the survey respondents said that the federal government is the most important source for change, 34 percent attributed responsibility for the ecological situation to themselves.
People are ready to take some measures to improve the environment, but mostly those that don't require a lot of effort, such as keeping streets clean, obeying fire regulations in forests and parks and using water efficiently, the survey showed. Fewer people were ready to conserve energy in their homes and an even lower number of respondents were willing to use ecologically friendly transportation or fuel.
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Singapore and Temasek Polytechnic riding high after 2 rounds of POL-ITE Basketball Championships
Story by REDintern Koh Yizhe aka sCreWS
Republic Polytechnic, July 15 and 17, 2008 – Temasek Polytechnic (TP) and Singapore Polytechnic (SP) are riding high after two consecutive wins each in the Polytechnic-Institute of Technical Education (POL-ITE) Basketball Championships. TP had to labor for their wins. They came back from a 20-point deficit in the first match against Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) to win 54-51 and followed that up with a close 64 -63 win against combined ITE. SP had an easy 59-50 win against Republic Polytechnic (RP), but struggled against Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP), winning a close game 48-47.
TP won a thrilling game against NYP on the first day of competition. NYP took charge of the game in the early stages and built up a 20-point lead by the midpoint of the second quarter. TP focused on multiple quick breaks as they tried to recover from the deficit. TP raised their game in the third and reduced the lead to just five points, setting the stage for the final quarter.
The tempo of the game increased in the fourth as both teams knew they stood a good chance of winning. An amazing comeback was completed as TP took the lead with less than two minutes remaining, and they held on for the 54-51 win.
RP registered their first win against ITE in the next match of the day. RP controlled the early goings with their #7 dictating play. However, a bad fall just after 5 minutes forced him to leave for the rest of the quarter. RP continued to dominate proceedings and eventually won 56-47.
SP won the last match of the day 48-47 against NP.
Match day 2 was just as exciting. NP took the early lead against NYP in the first match of the day, ending the half with a slim 20-17 lead. A fightback was on the cards in the third as NYP took the game to NP, setting the stage with a 29 -29 scoreline by the end of the third. With the crowd clearly behind them, NYP continued the momentum for the third and took the lead. NP just couldn't put away their chances as the game slipped away from them. The final score was 60-49 to NYP.
RP and ITE had disappointing outings as they lost to SP and TP 50-59 and 63-64 respectively.
NYP and RP have a 1-win-1-loss record after two games. ITE and NP are 0-2 while TP and SP have perfect 2-0 records.
RESULTS:
Day 1
TP 54 NYP 51
RP 56 ITE 47
SP 48 NP 47
Day 2
SP 59 RP 50
TP 64 ITE 63
Categoriesbasketball • boys • Youth in Motion
TagsInstitute of Technical Education • Nanyang Polytechnic • Ngee Ann Polytechnic • Republic Polytechnic • Singapore Polytechnic • Temasek Polytechnic |
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Beyond the Fugue State: The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art by Dirk de Bruyn David Ritchie June 2015 Book Reviews Issue 75 In this original and dense cinema study, Dirk de Bruyn redefines the experimental and the avant-garde as “materialist film”, but in a much broader way than Peter Gidal’s anti-illusionist notion, given de Bruyn’s own practice as an avant-garde film artist engaged with the literally handmade, textural manipulation of the film material. Originally a social worker, de Bruyn experimented with creating “sketchbooks” of film material. His feature film Homecomings (1987) was constructed from fragments of film stock, as a diaristic narrative about he and his young family’s visit to his homeland, Holland. His return to sites remembered in a series of photographs taken decades before, seemed to trigger a physically disorienting shock, reconnecting him to the person he’d been as an eight year old in Holland years before. The genesis of this book then, seems to be what de Bruyn himself describes as his own experience of the “traumatic paradox”: an experience of remembering, prompted by the impact of fragments and glimpses. As he notes, film can register an event’s lack of coherence in a dramatic experience, unlike human memory, which cannot replay an incoherent event without either re-narrativising it, or losing it altogether. In trauma, de Bruyn reminds us, story is lost. Marooned episodic events express themselves in fugue states as unconscious fixed ideas. Dissociation is a defence against overwhelming experience. Intense emotional experiences disrupt the integration of perceptual and thinking processes, and memories of overwhelming events are stored as inaccessible fragments. Homecomings (De Bruyn, 1987) In his meticulous and original analysis of the history and nature of psychological trauma, de Bruyn traces the evolution of (experimental) film theory and practice and its overarching parallels in Western industrial culture’s significant shocks of the new: early cinema, train and automobile travel, and newspaper reading, as well as early studies of “hysteria”; “shell shock” and combat neuroses after World War I (later revisited through the anti war movement around the Vietnam conflict); and also the emerging women’s movement raising awareness of sexual and domestic violence. He correlates these with cycles of the appearance, waning and reappearance of avant-garde film, from the dissociation aesthetic of Dada, the 1970s anti-narrative avant-garde, to feminist counter-cinema, and so on. Indeed in his close and detailed analysis and comparison of cinema of the 1920s and the 1970s, de Bruyn exposes what is ultimately revealed as Wollen’s essentialist false dichotomy between the two avant-gardes: one as non-narrative and formalist, the other as political, emphasising the social implications of text and language. De Bruyn proceeds from this discussion to other dual processing models which weave through both the histories of trauma and screen studies. He presents a range, extended over several chapters, of exemplary case-studies of the work of Deren, Breer, Tscherkassky and many others, exploring neurological and trauma research, and preparing the ground for his emerging argument for the retrieval of “materialist film” into the genre of “trauma cinema”. Laying the two avant-gardes dichotomy and dual processing models over one another enables a convincing discussion of memory and recall. Drawing on McLuhan, de Bruyn claims that the contemporary digital media environment has fundamentally affected the way we process information, which, in our age of simultaneous information flow, need not continue to be experienced as traumatic, but perhaps only as an intermediate period of stress, an old ground seen as figure through a new ground. Homecomings (De Bruyn, 1987) It is through its ability to articulate trauma that de Bruyn argues for a role of materialist film in unpacking that “technical image” dominating digital media. The complexity of de Bruyn’s discussion of the therapeutic integration of the verbal and the visual memory systems is a reminder of the many paradoxes suggested by Judith Butler in dealing with the trauma of loss: that “the past is irrecoverable, and the past is not past; the past is a resource for the future and the future is the redemption of the past; loss must be marked and it cannot be represented; loss fractures representation itself, and loss precipitates its own modes of expression.” (1) Indeed Caruth describes trauma as being experienced “as the inability to fully witness the event as it occurs, or the ability to witness the event fully only at the cost of witnessing itself. Central to the very immediacy of this experience that is, is a gap that carries the force of the event and does so precisely at the expense of simple knowledge and memory. The force of this experience would appear to arise precisely, in other words, in the collapse of its understanding.” (2) De Bruyn’s thesis also echoes Michelle Citron’s comments on her film Daughter’s Rite: In representing the incest trauma, experimental and narrative film strategies can have very different meanings and functions for the author than they do for the viewer. For the filmmaker, narrative can integrate experiences for which memory has not always functioned adequately. Narrative renders the incomprehensible understandable. Narrative offers the much needed illusions of coherency and cause and effect where there was none. Narrative puts the author at ease. For the audience, however, narrative reduces a complex fluidity, is a more authentic language for the expression of trauma and its aftermath. (3) Claude Lanzmann noted that the making of Shoah (1985) proceeded precisely from what “one does not understand”: “I did not try to add new things to the knowledge or to the documents we already have. […] Before, my knowledge had no strength, no force. It was an abstract knowledge, an empty one. The whole process of Shoah was to connect, to link up, to accomplish the whole work of rememoration.” (4) In other words, to dispense with conventional linear temporality and very much like psychoanalysis, work through repetition and through ever deepening circles. 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Ref's late call nullifies Miami victory
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TEMPE, Ariz. - As Craig Krenzel's fourth-down pass fell to the ground in the end zone, Miami players charged onto the field in celebration. They were certain they were national champions again with a 24-17 victory over Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl on Friday night.
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Do you like spending a lot of time outdoors with your family? Perhaps you like to do a lot of barbecuing, and prefer to entertain your friends outdoors! Under such conditions you would be better off with a bigger porch or deck than if you were to use it once in awhile.
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Most of the time you are expected to have a porch on the front of the house. But, it may just so happen in your case that it’s too hot around the time when you most like to use it, Or possibly you have a striking view towards the south, or you like to have it facing west if you love watching the sunsets. Visualize the point that would offer most enjoyment beforehand.
- Materials that suit you
It’s very common for people to have wood or metal for their porch and railings. You may already be aware of other available materials and you have to look for something that will go with the style of your house. Some home designs may not go too well with metal railings. For instance, homes with Victorian or country themes look far better with wood railings and show a continuity of design. A modern-day home may look better with metal railings. Some people are not in favor of using wood as it necessitates maintenance, but even metals entail some maintenance. It all depends upon the kind of maintenance you feel comfortable with. One may find it easier to varnish wood than to scrape off rust from iron railings. The selection of railing material is to a good extent also depends upon where you live. If you happen to be in an area close to water that remains humid. wood may not be the ideal choice as it attracts mildew and would rot in the moisture. in such a case it will be worthwhile to use metal as it’s more durable and can resist moisture better than wood. Moreover, you get more options of designs in metal than in wood.
So, these are the major points that need consideration when deciding the railings for your home. But, at the same time, you should compare the cost of different options, as also the features that matter most to you and which of these can you for go to save money. You have to keep in mind the lighting arrangement and other features of the deck railing that may help saving money, yet give it a unique touch. And, last but not the least, the ease of installation and the time you can spare for doing the needful.
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THE SINNERS
Explosive Rockabilly, sweeping’n‘ swinging Rock’n’Roll and three harmonizing voices tuning Doowop, stand for the SINNERS from Hamburg for meanwhile 20 Years and turned this trio to one of the best acts in this genre! The energetic show of the SINNERS took the band round Germany and to Austria and Italy for so far.
The Band
Are they really sinners? This is only known by themselves – but they’re always worth a sin. Spending one night dancing to the rhythm of the band, tires the whole next day and makes wounded feet, but instead of this a nearly never ending smile in the face at work – all this happens by visiting one of the numerous performances of the Sinners. And then you’re sure: more, I want more. The start of a wonderful addiction…
On 3rd September 1994 the band was born. Since that time Tino, Matthias and Andreas are on stage first in their hometown Hamburg and afterwards in many other parts of Germany and Europe. You will find a successful mix of famous hits of former times, wonderful original compositions and songs of the modern age dressed up in a garment of Rock’n’Roll, Doowop and Rockabilly in the rich musical repertoire of this trio.
Their concerts make you feel like being back to the fifties…and although the band-members were not born at this time, the Rock’n’Roll is in their blood.
Just as varied as the show is the audience. In front of the stage there are older fans reminiscing the old days and teenagers who don’t always want the same top ten-tones of the up-to-date charts. Whatever you are: young or old – everyone gets one’s money worth – and always likes to come to the next show.
At least a striking special feature of the band: The three guys handle their instruments virtuoso and they’re using their voices excellently. They are performing wonderful acapella-songs. The variety of the musicians makes every performance different and never arises any boredom.
Tino Mario Nehring
Tino Mario Nehring was born on 30th October 1965 in Hamburg. At the age of 12 he got his first guitar, a “Hopf-Concert-Guitar”. Together with his classmate Martin Wichmann he started playing the guitar in a school-workshop and afterwards he improved his style on his own.
Together with Martin Wichmann, Lutz Vangelista, and Ricardo Quirch, Tino founded the student-band “Johnny & The Skyriders” in 1979. In this formation Tino enjoyed his first 15 years of musician-experiences by having many of performances. By then, having performances with Chubby Checker, Jackie Lee Cochran, Ben Hewit, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, he featured a quite successful musician-career.
Over the years the instrumentation of the drums and bass had been changed and Wilfried Flindt (drums) and Andreas Rüsken (double-bass) became the new members of the Skyriders.
On a temporary job for one performance Matthias Harder played the drums. Shortly after the dissolving of the Skyriders, Andreas and Tino founded together with Matthias Harder the trio SINNERS.
Matthias Harder
He was born on 11th April 1967 at 11:55 p.m. Quick turned out to be, that he couldn’t do anything with teddy-bears and plush-figures. The real pleasure started, as his mum laid a pot and two wooden spoons into his playpen! He didn’t get only on the neighbours nerves with growing enthusiasm, fun and energy.
It beat everything as he got his first drums for kids in the age of 6 (the life of the drums was from today till tomorrow).
At the age of 13 he finally played a real drum-set in a student-band. After that he got ultimately his hotly longed for own drum-set, which he used at once in the Rock’n’Roll-band “Flying Stones” in the drying room (this band never got out of).
A short time later a trio was founded: the “Hipjacks”. In this formation and many other bands he got a name because of his unusual and sympathetic kind of playing drums.
In 1994 after a reorganization of the band “Johnny & The Skyriders” and the dissolving of the “Hipjacks” he got together with the musicians Tino and Andreas and they named this band “SINNERS”.
Tino Nehring: [email protected]
Matthias Harder: [email protected]
Andreas Rüsken: [email protected]
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I believe in angels.
I’ve seen them. I have felt them. And I know that they are there. With us. Always.
There are times when I can feel them immensely.
And the times when I can’t feel them as strong… I long for them.
I have three key angels that are my guardians. My aunt Stacy. My grandpa Guarino. And Mary Magdalene. They are always with me.
I first saw my aunt Stacy in angel form when we lived in Germany. She had passed away in a car accident. I remember being in my moms room and looking into the bathroom and seeing this great light form and I knew it was her. I was so little. 4 or 5 years old. She still visits me often. The last time I felt her and my grandpa immensely was when I gave birth to my son. They visited us in the hospital.
My Grandpa Guarino is a little bit more subtle… but I feel him. When he passed away, he waited for me to get to the hospital before he left his human form. I was by myself. He had been in and out of the hospital and I was the only one that lived nearby. My parents were in Boston and siblings scattered between Florida, West Georgia, and Massachusetts. When he went back into the hospital my mom called and asked me to visit him that day. When I showed up he was non-responsive but his vitals were fine. I said… hey Grandpa I’m here. And within 10 minutes his vitals started to plummet unexpectedly. I had on my student echo scrubs and the male nurse came whipping around the corner to check on him. I don’t know why I didn’t realize what was happening when his telemetry was buzzing off. At first the male nurse thought I was a student and made the comment “don’t you die on me.” And as he was responding to my grandpa deteriorating he realized I was his granddaughter and his demeanor changed. Then a flood of people came running in trying to work on saving my grandpas life. They were giving his chest compressions and I was standing there crying watching it all. Then the doctor came in while they were working on him saying “this wasn’t supposed to happen like this” to me and got some nurses to whisk me across the hall into another room and I could still see them and hear them working on him until he left us. When they called his death they brought me back into the room where his cold body lay. They handed my tissues and placed my hand in his cold, lifeless hand. And all I could do was cry. He waited for me to get there before he left his body. And to this day, I keep his rosaries hanging all over my house and next to my bedside. And I feel him all the time. It’s subtle… because he was always so subtle and quiet. And you know… he wasn’t my “biological” grandpa… or even my Dads “biological” dad…. but he took in my Dad and raised him as his own… and Just like my Dad and Grandpa, they both took me as their own and raised me as theirs. My protectors. And just as I type this… a picture on my wall that is taped up falls down. He’s here. I know.
My life is so at peace these days. And a little facial just makes it even lovelier. And Mary… well Mary knows best. |
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Ask for a to-go bag right away. Delicious food was abundant and the history lesson was enjoyable.
Weather was nice enough that we could be seated outside. What a wonderful experience. I adore their Orange Mousse Rooibus. My friend enjoys their Falling Leaves tea. Food and service are top-notch. We have been there twice. We will definitely be back for a third and fourth and…
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The normal functioning of the adult nervous system relies critically on the proper structure and function of the vascular system. Blood vessels provide neurons with oxygen and nutrients and protect them from toxins and pathogens. Nerves, in turn, control blood vessel dilation and contraction and also heart rate. Key to this functional interdependence is an extraordinarily tight physical association between nervous and vascular systems. In the periphery, nerves and vessels often run parallel to one another and in the central nervous system neural activity and vascular dynamics are tightly coupled. Indeed, emerging evidence shows that some neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis (MS), once thought to be caused by intrinsic neuronal defects, are in fact initiated and perpetuated by vascular abnormalities. Despite these important connections between the nervous and vascular systems, little is known about how the nervous system becomes so closely aligned with the vascular system during development. In this proposal, we have established a simple system using developing mouse somatosensory peripheral target innervation as a model to study this question.
In Aim1, we will dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying the organization of the tight nerve/vessel association, particularly focusing on the role of a recently identified ligand-receptor pair, Sema3E-Pelxin-D1. We will apply both in vitro assays and in vivo mouse genetics approaches to address the function of Sema3E-Pelxin-D1 signaling in establishing the nerve/vessel association.
In Aim 2, we will identify and characterize the intracellular signaling mechanisms downstream of Sema3E-Pelxin-D1 in neurons and endothelial cells. Using a novel image-based RNAi genome-wide screen, we have identified and validated several potential candidates mediate Sema3E-Plexin-D1 signaling. We will characterize their roles in Sema3E-Plexin-D1 signaling and compare whether similar signaling mechanisms are used in Sema3E -mediated axon guidance and endothelial cell migration. Together, these proposed experiments will uncover cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neuro-vascular interactions. These results may also improve our ability to diagnose, treat, and prevent neurological disorders that affect both neurons and vessels, including: peripheral neuropathies, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis (MS).
Understanding the interactions between vascular and nervous systems will advance the diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of several neurological diseases, including diabetic neuropathy and trigeminal neuralgia. Moreover, emerging evidence shows some neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis (MS), that once were thought to be caused primarily by intrinsic neuronal defects, actually may be related to vascular abnormalities. Finally, since mechanisms that control angiogenesis during development are likely to be essential for neovascularization in tumors, this study may have a direct impact on cancer treatment. |
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BOULDER, Colo., May 31, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmion Corporation reported today that data from 18 abstracts of studies investigating the company's marketed and pipeline products will be presented or published at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) 43rd Annual Meeting in Chicago (June 1-5, 2007). These abstracts include summaries of data from studies of each of the six key products in the company's commercial and development portfolio, for multiple indications, including Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS), multiple myeloma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, small cell lung cancer and advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
"ASCO 2007 provides further evidence of Pharmion's progress," said Patrick J. Mahaffy, president and chief executive officer of Pharmion. "Data from six of our products will be presented or published, including Phase III data for Satraplatin and Thalidomide, encouraging Phase II data for Amrubicin, Vidaza and MGCD0103, and human bioavailability data for oral azacitidine. These data demonstrate the strength of the Pharmion business model; we are focused solely on oncology, we have multiple compounds demonstrating clinical benefit, and we have a U.S. and international infrastructure to support those products. Pharmion is well-positioned to take full advantage of the strong portfolio of products in our pipeline."
"The data at ASCO affirm Pharmion's leadership in developing epigenetic therapies as a promising approach to treating cancer," said Andrew R. Allen, Pharmion's chief medical officer. "MGCD0103, our class-selective HDAC inhibitor, is showing meaningful activity as monotherapy in advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma. Furthermore, as we begin to understand the way in which multiple epigen etic mechanisms co-operate to silence key tumor suppressor genes in cancer, we are able to choose epigenetic drugs from within our portfolio to combine and attack these silencing systems simultaneously, with encouraging clinical data emerging in the context of acute myeloid leukemia."
Pharmion has three epigenetic products in its portfolio, including Vidaza(R) (azacitidine for injection), MGCD0103 and oral Azacitidine. Pharmion currently markets Vidaza, its parenteral formulation of Azacitidine, in the U.S. and several additional countries for the treatment of patients with MDS. Abstracts presented at this year's ASCO meeting will address the pharmacokinetics of oral Azacitidine administration, and report data from studies investigating Vidaza's utility in MDS, including alternative dosing schedules and in the treatment of MDS patients with marrow fibrosis.
Additionally, accepted abstracts will investigate the use of Vidaza as part of combination treatment regimens with other epigenetic therapies, including interim results from an ongoing study with MGCD0103, for the treatment of high-risk MDS and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and in combination with valproic acid in advanced solid tumors.
An oral presentation on a study of MGCD0103 in relapsed/refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma will be presented during ASCO, as will a poster on the use of MGCD0103 as a single agent in patients with MDS or leukemias. Pharmion has a licensing and collaboration agreement with MethylGene for MGCD0103, as well as MethylGene's pipeline of second-generation HDAC inhibitor compounds for oncology indications.
Data from a first-line study evaluating the addition of Thalidomide to the standard of care for elderly multiple myeloma patients will be the subject of an oral presentation at the 2007 ASCO meeting, where a total of three oral presentations and six posters on Thalidomide studies will be presented. Data from the oral presentation reinforce the substantial body of evidence that demonstrate that the addition of Thalidomide to front-line melphalan/prednisone therapy represents a safe and effective treatment for even very elderly patients with multiple myeloma in Europe, where melphalan/prednisone (MP) is currently the standard of care.
Satraplatin, will be the subject of an oral presentation at the Conference. The oral presentation will discuss the progression-free survival results of the randomized Phase III SPARC study (Satraplatin and Prednisone Against Refractory Cancer) in hormone-refractory prostate cancer patients. In addition, Pharmion and GPC Biotech will co-sponsor a satellite symposium on the evening of Friday, June 1, titled "Emerging Strategies for the Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer."
Interim data on a Phase II study of Amrubicin appears in the ASCO 2007 conference publication, and will be discussed at Pharmion's Investor and Analyst Event to be held Monday, June 4, from 6:00 to 7:30pm in Chicago. The meeting will be webcast on the company's website.
The following clinical data will be presented in poster sessions (unless otherwise noted) during the ASCO 2007 annual meeting:
Vidaza(R)
Tolerability and hematologic improvement assessed using three alternative dosing schedules of azacitidine (Vidaza) in patients with MDS -- R. Lyons, US Oncology; Abstract #7083; June 2, 2007; 8:00am-12:00pm; McCormick Place Convention Center, S Hall A2
An oral dosage formulation of azacitidine: A pilot pharmacokinetic study -- R. Ward, Pharmion; Abstract #7084; June 2, 2007; 8:00am-12:00pm; McCormick Place Convention Center, S Hall A2
Response to azacitidine in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome with marrow fibrosis -- R. Juvvadi, Western Penn, Pennsylvania; Abstract #7089; June 2, 2007; 8:00am-12:00pm; McCormick Place Convention Center, S Hall A2
The combination of 5-azacytidine and valproic acid is safe and active in advanced solid tumors -- A.O. Soriano, MD Anders on Cancer Center; Abstract #3547; June 2, 2007; 2:00-6:00pm; McCormick Place Convention Center, S102a
MGCD0103
Oral Presentation: A Phase II Study of a Novel Oral Isotype-Selective Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitor in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma -- A. Younes, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Abstract #8000; June 2, 2007; 3:00-3:15pm; McCormick Convention Center, E450bam-12:00pm; McCormick Convention Center, S Hall A2
A Phase I study of MGCD0103 given as a twice weekly oral dose in patients with advanced leukemias or myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) -- J. Lancet, MD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center; Abstract #2516; June 4, 2007; 2:00-6:00pm; McCormick Convention Center, S102a
Thalidomide
Oral Presentation: Long-term responses to thalidomide and rituximab in Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia -- J. Soumera; Abstract #8017; June 3, 2007; 1:00-1:15pm;pm; McCormick Place Convention Center, E354b
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A pharmacogenetic study of docetaxel and thalidomide in patients with androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC) using targeted human DMET genotyping platform -- J. Deeken, MD; Abstract #3580; June 3, 2007; 8:00am-
Satraplatin
Oral Presentation: Satraplatin demonstrates significant clinical benefits for the treatment of patients with HRPC: Results of a randomized phase III trial -- C. Sternberg; Abstract #5019; June 4, 2007; 11:00-11:15am; Arie Crown Theater
Amrubicin
A randomized phase II trial of Amrubicin vs. Topotecan as second-line treatment in extensive disease small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) sensitive to platinum-based first line chemotherapy. -- R.M. Jotte; Abstract #18064, 2007, its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the y ear144 or+1-720-564-9143; or Tara May of Pharmion Corporation, On-site mediacontact, +1-303-646-7832
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"Got Rum?" Magazine- April 2015
April 2015- Rum in the News
Mike Kunetka shares with us in the 2015 April issue of "Got Rum?" magazine the most recent and noteworthy headlines in the rum industry.
April 2015- Rum in the News
-by Mike Kunetka
TWIN VALLEY DISTILLERS
Tucked in behind a body shop in an industrial park in Rockville, Maryland is Montgomery County’s only distillery. Opened less than a year, Twin Valley Distillers is currently producing two rums. Seneca Bay White Rum is Jamaican style rum made from molasses and is bottled at 40% ABV. There is an ‘aged’ version that is currently maturing in barrels and will be bottled at 95% ABV. A former restaurateur, Edgardo Zuniga started three years ago infusing vodka with fruits and herbs. He then searched the local library and Amazon for books on distilling. After two training stints at nearby craft distilleries, Zuniga began the difficult process of licensing. His patience has paid off, and locals can find his products at the county-run liquor stores.
PLANTATION RUMS
The folks at Ferrand have changed the blend and the packaging of their Original Dark Rum. Original Dark starts as Trinidad rum aged in the tropical climate at home in heavily charred American oak barrels. The rums are tasted and the finest marks are sent to Chateau de Bonbonnet in France where they are now blended with small quantities of high ester Jamaican pot-still rums that have also been well matured. The new blend is aged a second time in medium-charred French oak casks. The packaging of the new Original Dark has also changed. It now incorporates the classic look that Plantation uses on their 3-Star White and Stiggins Fancy. Plantation Original Dark recently won a Gold Medal at the 2015 Festival Rum Bahamas Tasting Competition.
HAVANA CLUB
Havana Club’s Maestro Ronero, Asbel Morales, and Cigar Expert, Fernando Fernadez, have joined forces to create the perfect rum/cigar pairing. Fernadez has chosen the Cohiba Siglo VI and Morales has created Havana Club Union. Inspired by the similarities of aging, blending and maturing again the finest ingredients (rums and tobaccos), Morales has combined small batches of rare rums that have been aged and blended again and again. Havana Club Union comes in a classic shaped bottle, similar to Havana Club’s other high end rums, Havana Club Seleccion de Maestros and Havana Club Maximo Extra Añejo. The bottle is packaged in an elegant cedar wooden box.
DOMINICAN RUM SMUGGLING
Fake rum and cigarette smuggling in the Dominican Republic has cost the government over US$45 million in lost tax monies. Jose de Castillo, Industry and Commerce Minister, recently said that these illegal activities have harmful consequences for the government, retailers, manufacturers and citizens. “It’s time to revert it before it becomes uncontrollable” he said.
JUST-DRINKS.COM RUM REPORT
Just-drinks.com, an online news, insight and research portal for the beverage industry, has just released a 122 page report entitled “Global Rum Insights” that predicts that the rum category will be the “next big thing” in the global spirits market. The report forecasts that, between 2014 and 2019, the overall rum market will decline by 1.73%, shedding as many as 12 million cases. This fall will be seen at the value end of the market, but for the other end of the spectrum, the picture is far rosier. Excluding value and low-priced rums, the market will grow by over 5.5 million cases to 64 million by 2019. For more information on their report, go to just-drinks.com.
MONKEY RUM
Zane Lamprey traveled the globe to more than 60 countries tirelessly sampling the world’s finest spirits for his TV shows, Three Sheets and Drinking Made Easy. Upon returning home with his simian companion (Pleepleus the monkey), he created his coconut and spiced rums to capture the spirit of his adventures. MONKEY RUM is made from the finest Caribbean rum, infused with natural toasted coconut and tropical spices. Both rums recently won Triple Gold Awards at the Beverly Hills World Spirits Competition.
GLOBAL RUM MASTERS COMPETITION
The beverage website SpiritBusiness.com recently held their Global Rum Masters Rum Judging. Two teams of London bar managers, and rum experts tasted 76 rums in 15 flights. Only 9 of those rums earned the coveted Master rating. In the Gold Rum Over 12 years Old, La Hechicera won Master. In the Dark 8 – 12 Year Old category, it was Banks’ XM VXO Royal 7 Year. In the Dark over 12 Year category, Master Awards went to Banks XM Supreme and Connoisseur’s Cut Guyanian Cognac Cask. Twin Master Awards were also given in the Super Premium Category to Cruzan’s Single Barrel Rum and Brugal’s 1888. The Rhum Agricole Master Award went to Rhum J.M Tres Vieux Rhum Agricole X.O. The final Master Awards went to Toussaint Coffee Rum Liqueur and Rum-Bar’s White Over-Proof.
GEEK SPIRITS
What do two geeks do when they have reached burn-out in the volatile high-tech world? They start a rum distillery, of course. Greg and Sherial Starr have opened Geek Spirits in Boulder, Colorado. According to Denver.Eater.com, a Colorado fine food and drink website, Greg, who holds a PhD in electrical engineering, “spent two years researching molecular philosophies around creating spirits and attending intensive training about the distillery business”. The couple has experimented extensively with molasses, agave and grain based mashes, developing an “unapologetic enthusiasm and precision to intelligently creating rum.”
KRAUSE FAMILY SPIRITS
This little piggy has gone to market. JP and Monika Krause have just introduced Squeal Go Pig Black Spiced Rum here in Colorado. They have already scored a 91 from the Tasting Panel magazine, with comments like “smooth and lush, with spice and brown sugar.” I will check out both of these neighbors and have more details next issue. |
. Indeed, the government has gone all out to ensure that the three-week sports fest proceeds smoothly as a once-in-a-lifetime treat for sports-crazy Indonesians. The last time that Indonesia hosted the games was in 1962 when the country was just over two decades old and founding president Sukarno was in power. This month, hundreds of athletes from 46 Asian nations have been competing in 59 different sports and 39 other disciplines. Since the first Asiad in New Delhi in 1952, only seven countries—India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Thailand—have competed in all of the regional games.
Indonesians have been particularly happy to see some of Asia’s traditional sports on the schedule, such as sepak takraw, a volleyball-type game played with the feet and not the hands. The history of this sport originates from the time of the 13th century Malacca sultanate and has since spread throughout Southeast Asia. Another traditional sport at the current Games is the pencak silat, which has its roots in Malay culture and is popular in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, the southern Philippines as well as throughout the Indonesian archipelago. Then there’s dragon boat racing, now being contested by 11 nations, which created its own moment in history when unified North and South Korean teams won gold and bronze medals.
Outside of the games, Indonesians regularly compete in pathol, a form of wrestling which traces its origins back to Central Java’s Majapahit era when contests were held to select the best warriors to defend the northern port of Tuban, then vulnerable to pirate attacks. Then there is karapan sapi, in which jockeys compete head to head aboard two cows. Held every October in Madura, the race attracts many tourists to the island and is officially acknowledged as a national sport with a presidential cup rotated among the winners.
While no Lontar publications specifically focus on these traditional sports, we invite you to peruse our website for many of our books, documents and recordings which contain elements of these cultural traditions.
Yuli Ismartono |
in 2002 and has been as responsible as anyone for putting physics and GPGPU centre stage in the evolving graphics market.
As nVidia confirms, Hegde has been on a mission to improve game play and Jen Hsun Huang was so impressed with the physics guru’s talents that, after buying Ageia out, Hegde was given a critical role in leading the development and deployment not only of PhysX, but also CUDA.
Historically, nVidia was recognised as a great company to work for. Hegde has made a fortune and been given a senior position within the organisation, so why has he chosen to leave is the question we most want answered.
Having chosen to leave, why would Hegde choose AMD?
KitGuru has contacted nVidia for a formal comment on the loss of Hegde, but we have not received an official response yet (possibly, the senior execs are heading out to Taiwan for the massive push on GTX465/490 etc). If we hear back, then we will, of course, update you.
Does the loss of Hegde spell major issues for nVidia? KitGuru thinks this is highly unlikely.
Inventor of the GPU, nVidia has pioneered many changes over the years and, like all companies, has had its share of ups and downs. The most remarkable thing we’ve noticed about the charismatic Mr Huang is that no matter how late nVidia is with new products etc, the market hangs on his every word. And nVidia’s share of the GPU market is very strong, despite the 8.2% pick-up by AMD reported by Fudzilla yesterday, following the launch of the Radeon HD 5000 series and the delays to Fermi. In one of the toughest trading environments ever seen, nVidia even managed to increase its share of the notebook space slightly.
So how has nVidia managed to maintain sales in such circumstances?
They plug DEEP into the developer community. The astonishingly well-funded TWIMTBP programme has helped – and nVidia has similar support in place for PhysX and CUDA.
At the same time, AMD has found it consistently difficult to get the community to buy-in to some of its programmes. Notable project here was HDR with AA (high dynamic range rendering with anti-aliasing), where the technology existed in the graphics hardware a full generation ahead of nVidia’s cards, but (we hear) there was not enough resource to push all the triple-A games to use it.
Enter Hegde.
Manju Hegde is a visionary. No two ways about it. The creation of Ageia captured the hearts, minds and imaginations of an entire generation of gamers, designers and, most of all, tech journalists.
We remember the days when Havoc ruled the planet – nearly unopposed in the 3rd party physics engine market until Hegde’s upstart company exploded on the scene.
KitGuru also remembers nVidia’s Chief Scientist, David Kirk telling us that “Moving physics processing to the GPU is a natural progression enabled by the high programmability in today’s GPUs,” and that “By combining expertise with Havok, nVidia has produced a fantastic solution for game developers that will lead to more compelling game-play and more realistic gaming experiences”… but that was before Intel bought Havoc.
KitGuru has always struggled to enthuse about the rolling rock/folding cloth demos – but millions became certain that physics was suddenly ‘cool’ and a ‘must have’ technology. So much so that Intel reacted to nVidia buying Ageia, by purchasing Havoc. So that leaves Intel and nVidia with cool technologies (both of which claim to be ‘open’ ?). Which brings us to the real trick.
The real trick is not to have a really cool technology. Nope. That’s just for ego. The real trick is in getting the world’s developer community to buy-in and use it.
Manju Hegde is THE guru at doing just that. Operating a company that was sold for little more than £10m, Hegde got the whole world speaking his language.
Now he will be at AMD – presumably doing the same thing.
If the nVidia VP in charge of PhysX and CUDA has decided that the future is Fusion, then the battleground has been set for a monster battle to win over the leading developers.
Going forward, if Hegde succeeds, then KitGuru expects AMD to be able to deliver events like these.
KitGuru says: We have positioned our Inada D6 robotic massage chairs, ordered enough popcorn to feed a fanbois army and we’re donning a pair of (non-affiliated) 3D specs to watch this war unfurl in all its high-definition glory. But there is always the chance that we’re wrong and we stand to be corrected. Maybe Hegde will stay put, continue to help the world appreciates CUDA in all its glory and you’ve just spent 5 minutes reading idle speculation. Maybe. Just maybe. |
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