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History of the Old West Train Station and Reliving It Through Miniature
April 29, 2020 Philip Gray
An Old West train station infers an exceptionally emotional period in American and Canadian history. A railroad station was in some cases the main island of innovation in the huge fields of the west and right up ’til today the picture of a log lodge Old West train station is illustrative of the days when the West was won. These log lodge structures are a piece of the recorded and social legacy of the United States and Canada and some of them have been saved right up ’til today so as to monitor this legacy.
The commonplace Old West train station was made of log lodges as a result of the simple accessibility of timber in those zones. For all intents and purposes the whole structure was made of timber, including the dividers, floor and even the shingles on the rooftop. Regardless, there was almost no other structure material accessible there in the days when the train stations were manufactured. Also, for all intents and purposes each Old West train station was made by hand because of the absence of apparatus. It was simply after the railroad lines were fully operational that apparatus and hardware made of metal began showing up in the West.
It was an extremely basic sight to see a train station everywhere throughout the West on the grounds that these stations were constructed each eight to ten miles along the railroad line so as to give progression of administration to travelers just as to the pilgrims of the western zones. An Old West railroad station was typically the focal point of the network since it regularly had a store, and it was basic for settlements to create around it because of the exchanging openings and security that it offered them in those uncertain occasions.
Nowadays, you can see more than one case of an Old West train station in light of the fact that a large number of them have been held for nostalgic reasons and have in this way been changed over into historical centers. They contain a ton of antiques and photos from those energizing days. Whole families or gatherings from school can find out about the nation’s history in a situation loaded up with amusement.
In the event that you are truly intrigued by those occasions you could get an Old West train station gathering unit that is something beyond a toy. These units can likewise be a wellspring of instruction for kids today so they can all the more likely welcome the relentless pioneer soul that made these two nations what they are today. Aside from being a beautiful souvenir, these Wild West models can likewise be utilized in schools so as to teach youngsters in an additionally fascinating way.
London Train Stations
April 29, 2020 April 29, 2020 Philip Gray
Paddington Railway Station authoritatively called Paddington Station is a railroad end and underground intricate. Paddington is a noteworthy station filling in as end since 1838 and underground since 1863. It is overseen by Network Rail and has 14 stages. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1 and fills in as London end for First Great Western, Heathrow Express, Heathrow Connect and Chiltern Railways. The station is served by four underground lines including the Bakerloo, Circle and District lines toward the south of the station and the Hammersmith and City and Circle Lines toward the North of the station. Right now, a cross rail station is being manufactured interfacing the National Rail and Underground administrations.
Tram Gallery, Art Work Space and Mark Jason Gallery are some the best sights and attractions near the station. Shop at the Whiteleys or The Dresser and appreciate boundless taste at the Pearl Liang, The Frontline Club and Cupcake Emporium. For a bar break, go to Victoria or The Windsor Castle.
Victoria Station, for the most part called London Victoria is a railroad end and underground perplexing. It is overseen by Network Rail and has 19 stages. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1 and fills in as London end for Southeastern, Southern and Venice – Simplon Orient Express. The station is served by two underground lines including the District and Circle lines toward the north of the station and the Victoria Line toward the North of the station. Victoria Station is probably the busiest station and serves in excess of 80 million travelers consistently.
Westminster Cathedral and St Peter’s Church are some the best sights and attractions near the station. Shop at the Cornucopia, Cardinal Place or Erickson Beamon and appreciate extraordinary taste at Giraffe, Santini or Chez Gerard. For a bar break, go to The Ebury or Albert Tavern.
St Pancras Station
St Pancras Railway Station, likewise called as London St Pancras or St Pancras International is a railroad end. This station is notable for its Victorian design with 15 stages and oversaw by Network Rail and Eurostar. The station serves East Midlands trains, First Capital Connect, Eurostar and Southeastern. Eurostar serves global goals including Lille, Paris and Brussels. The station is served by underground lines including Circle line, Hammersmith and City line, Metropolitan line, Northern line, Piccadilly line and Victoria Line.
English Library, John Ritblat Gallery and St Pancras Church are some the best sights and attractions near the station. Shop at the Foyles, Drink Shop and Do or Sourced Market and appreciate incredible taste at Carluccio’s, The Gilbert Scott or Megaro Restaurant. For a bar break, go toward The Easton or the Duke.
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Outstanding Achievement in a Chosen Profession
The Outstanding Achievement in a Chosen Profession award is presented annually to a member of the alumni community whose professional accomplishments and achievements are exceptionally noteworthy and distinctive in his or her profession.
Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award
Loyalty to Bucknell
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Daniel E. Atkins III ’65
Growing up in Wheaton, Md., Daniel Atkins '65 knew early on that he wanted to become an electrical engineer and a professor. Bucknell was a perfect fit to begin his journey, and he arrived just as digital computers were entering the engineering curriculum, though slide rules and pocket protectors were still common. Professors John Hale and Ed Staiano were early in bringing computing to Bucknell in the form of an IBM 1620, and this freshman course was instrumental in changing Atkins' life. He quickly realized that mastering the computer would open enormous opportunities for the future.
During his sophomore year, Atkins designed and constructed an online digital clock that enabled the IBM machine to keep track of usage. He also created an electronic circulation system for the Bertrand Library, one of the first of its kind. He was editor of the Bucknell Engineer, played guitar in the TekeWoods fraternity band and served as an ROTC cadet colonel and brigade commander.
After graduating from Bucknell, Atkins went on to earn his master's and doctorate degrees in computer science at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. As part of his studies he served on the design team for two of the first super computers, and his doctoral research produced computer arithmetic methods widely used in computers today. After completion of his Ph.D., he served in active duty as an Army captain and moved to reserve status as the Vietnam War came to an end. Atkins, his wife, Monica Meyer '66, and young son Thomas returned to Bucknell as he shifted to academia, teaching computer science courses while Monica taught Spanish. Their teaching careers then took them to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where their daughter Susan was born.
The first decade of Atkins' Michigan career focused on building application-specific computers including joint work with the Mayo Clinic on an early CAT scan system. His research focus later changed to the technical and social aspects of distributed research and learning in which his group pioneered the concept of a research "collaboratory" — a laboratory without walls living on the internet. After serving as the dean of engineering, Atkins became the founding dean of the School of Information, the first in the nation and a model adopted in at least 40 other universities. He also served as an assistant director of the National Science Foundation and an associate vice president for research at the University of Michigan, leading the next generation of research computing.
Atkins has chaired or served on many advisory boards for government, academia, philanthropy and industry. He is currently chairing a major study for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine about the future of automated and AI-assisted research workflow.
Atkins is a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of the University of Illinois, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award for information resource innovation. His career has been blessed by nurturing parents, a supportive loving wife, two children, five grandchildren and life-long friends.
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2019 Norman Kiken ’64
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2017 Lori H. Greeley '82
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2014 Ronald Liebowitz '79
2013 William Woods '68
2012 Nancy Kolb '62
2011 David Kahn '51
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2009 Ronald Billings '69
2008 Takeo Shiina '53
2007 Bruce G. Lundvall '57
2006 Brenda Earl De Paola '81
2005 Kunitake Ando '65
2004 William L. Wolfe, Jr. '53
2003 Dr. Peter B. Manning '78
2001 John S. Kennerdell '57
2000 Edward K. Herrmann '65
1999 Edward F. Staiano '58
1998 Doris Gorka Bartuska '49
1997 Ronald J. Jensh '60
1996 George L. Kenyon '61
1995 Ann M. Morrison '70
1994 Kenneth Langone '57
1993 Amos B. Smith III '66
1992 William M. Hoeveler '47
1991 Robert A. Scott '61
1990 Robert C. Miller '65
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1986 Dr. Bartley P. Griffith '70
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1984 Alexis Woolman Keen '13
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For Land and Wages: Half a Century of Peasant Struggle in Hacienda Luisita
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BULATLAT INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
The Versolas continue to support the strike, visiting the picket line to watch documentaries on the massacre, help in the kitchen chores or just exchange views with anyone. Mang Pering says that their forefathers’ struggle to finally own the land that is rightfully theirs rages on.
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
(First of two parts / Read the second part)
HACIENDA LUISITA, Tarlac City – Perfecto Versola was holding a multi-colored bayong (plastic market bag) when Bulatlat first met him in Barangay Balete, Hacienda Luisita early March this year.
Stepping out of his home that could only fit a 2m x 3m flooring made of old tabla (wood) and a small antique closet, 68-year-old Perfecto – Mang Pering to relatives and neighbors – was on his way to a nearby river to catch some fish and shells.
The daily trek to the river is the only way by which his wife, Aling Maria, their polio-stricken daughter and a three-year grandchild survive since he retired as a casual sugar farm worker in the hacienda in 1998. But like planting vegetables on vacant lots, catching fish from the river is also prohibited. So Mang Pering had to be careful lest the hacienda guards caught him instead.
On Nov. 7, one day after about 2,000 sugar farm workers from the United Luisita Workers Union (ULWU) staged a plantation-wide strike, Mang Pering saw himself manning the picket line in front of Gate 1 of the Central Azucarrera de Tarlac (CAT) sugar mill compound. The compound is at the center of the 6,443-hectare hacienda.
Mang Pering Versola, 68, mans the picketline. (Photo by Jun Resurreccion/Tudla Productions)
Wearing a green-and-white striped polo shirt, old maong pants, rubber slippers and a cap, Mang Pering was carrying this time not a bayong but a placard that screamed: “Tama na, sobra na. Gutom na kami!” (Enough, it’s unbearable, we’re hungry already!)
After four initial Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiations that begun in July, management terminated 150 permanent and 176 seasonal workers – all union members including their president, vice-president and seven directors. Their termination took effect Oct. 1.
Union counsel Nenita Mahinay called the mass lay-off an unfair labor practice and a form of union busting. “Why retrench the permanent employees who are union leaders if the intention is not as malicious as busting the union?” she told Bulatlat.
In response, the ULWU sent its first notice of strike on Sept. 30 in protest against the retrenchment of its 326 members. It sent a second notice on Oct. 22, this time citing management’s refusal to bargain that resulted in a CBA deadlock.
After a series of union consultations, ULWU members decided to stage a strike on Nov. 6 to demand, in particular, the reinstatement of 73 sugar plantation workers who have not received their separation pay and the confirmation of their CBA demands that include wage increases and hospital benefits.
The sugar farm workers also demanded the revocation of the Stock Distribution Option (SDO), a scheme adopted in 1989 by the Hacienda Luisita owners Cojuangcos as a mode of agrarian reform. They want the hacienda subjected to land reform.
Striking workers (top photo) lock arms together as they brace of an attack by police and Swat teams. An IFI seminarian approaches the helmeted police to ease tension (lower photo). Photos by Budo de Guzman/Tudla
Eleven days into the strike and fighting off three dispersal attempts by the police, the striking workers whose number had by this time swelled to about 15,000 – including their families, neighbors and supporters – stood their ground at the picket line that fateful day of Nov. 16. For several minutes, they were pushed back, soaked and dazed by water cannons and tear gas.
Undaunted, the workers tried to regroup and maintain their picketline but a hail of bullets sent them scampering for safety. At about this time, the police – many of them coming all the way from other Central Luzon towns – were reinforced by hundreds of soldiers from the nearby Camp Aquino, headquarters of the Northern Luzon command. The shooting went silent after two minutes. Seven persons lay dead and at least 181 were wounded.
In an inquiry held by the House Committee on Human Rights on Dec. 14, Efren Reyes, a sugar farm worker, testified that he, together with 110 other hacienda workers, were arrested and detained at Camp Macabulos in Tarlac on the day of the massacre. Of those arrested, he said, only 20 were ULWU members. The rest were sacadas (seasonal cane cutters) from Negros in the Visayas and Central Luzon. The sacadas were apparently seized by soldiers at gunpoint from their temporary bunkhouses near the picket line.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) meanwhile has been dragged into the controversy. Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas came under fire from senators, labor leaders and human rights groups for asking the AFP to intervene in the labor dispute at the Hacienda Luisita. Denounced as unconstitutional, Sto. Tomas’ directive resulted in the hacienda massacre.
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Building on the success of its first fund, supporting a portfolio of start-ups, five of which went on to become unicorns, C4 Ventures II will continue to support fast-growing companies in three major themes: Smart Hardware, Future of Commerce, and Digital Media. With an initial closing of more than €40 million taking place during lockdown, the fund is forecast to reach €80 million by the end of the year.
According to Hazel Naik, CFO of C4 Ventures: “We want to ensure quality servicing and maximum operational efficiency for investors in C4 Ventures II, and selecting CACEIS will help us achieve this. The group’s position as a key player on the European market, together with their fully-integrated front-to-back servicing offer, convinced us to make the decision. We will be able to rely on CACEIS’ expertise at local and international level, especially in terms of regulatory developments, which is a real bonus for our rapidly growing company.”
Arnaud Garel-Galais, Group Head of PERES* Coverage and Business development at CACEIS, added: “We are delighted to be involved in Europe’s growing venture capital market by supporting C4 Ventures. This fund management company recently established in France has burst onto the scene with an experienced management team and ambitious business development objectives. The support needs of clients are central to our work, and the success of our integrated front-to-back servicing offer is clearly reflected in the positive client feedback we receive”.
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Strong quarterly results for Royal Caribbean as cruise demand booms
Royal Caribbean reported a new profit of $399 million for the third quarter, up from $350.2 million for the same period of 2010.
Strength in Caribbean and Alaskan itineraries were the main drivers of growth, but high fuel costs and a strengthening dollar hit results.
Shares in Royal Caribbean rose $1.61, or 5.6 per cent, to $30.52 following the release of the results.
Revenue rose 13 per cent to $2.32 billion from $2.06 billion.
Net yields, which measures the amount a cruise company makes from its passengers after removing expenses, also climbed 5.3 per cent.
Passenger ticket revenues rose to $1.73 billion from $1.52 billion, while onboard and other revenue increased to $587.7 million from $540.1 million.
Royal Caribbean said its Eastern Mediterranean cruises – which were hit by political unrest in the Middle East - were less popular during the quarter.
“It was gratifying to beat both our revenue and cost forecasts in the third quarter despite the turmoil in the worldwide financial markets,” said Richard Fain, chairman and chief executive officer.
He added: “The strength of our brands, combined with the value of our product, provides us with a high degree of economic resilience, and both our 2011 results and our 2012 booking patterns validate this.”
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Giving Away the Bride: Everything You Need to Know About the Tradition
Alyson Krueger
Alyson Krueger has been a lifestyle writer for eight years. She completed her M.A. in Magazine Writing at New York University's School of Journalism.
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The History and Meaning of Giving Away the Bride Giving Away the Bride FAQs
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In traditional weddings, the father of the bride walks her down the aisle and hands her off to the groom. If this seems old-fashioned, that is because it is. The practice dates back to the days when women were the property of their father, and he gave her away in exchange for a dowry. This antiquated practice has evolved, and many modern brides now derive great meaning from it.
What Is Giving Away the Bride?
Giving away the bride is the moment at the wedding where the bride leaves the hands of her father or parents and joins her groom. The antiquated tradition has evolved and is seen by modern-day couples as a symbol of love and unity.
At some weddings, the father still gives away his daughter as a show of love and support. In more progressive affairs both parents walk the bride down the aisle or the bride walks herself. Many couples think carefully about how they want to execute the tradition. For many, the act now signifies a seamless joining of two families. For others, the moment forms a bridge between an old life and a new life.
There are many ways to spice up the tradition and make it a meaningful exercise for the couple and their loved ones. We spoke with expert Lara Mahler for her insight into this long-standing tradition.
Lara Mahler is the owner and chief planner of THE PRIVILEGE IS MINE, a wedding planning company in New York City that helps couples have alternative, out-of-the-box weddings.
The History and Meaning of Giving Away the Bride
According to Mahler, the history behind the tradition is a little hard to swallow. “Well, the tradition comes from an era where women were the property of men,” she says. “Fathers walking their daughter down the aisle and giving their daughter, the bride, away represented a transfer of ownership from her father to her new husband.”
But that doesn’t necessarily mean we should throw it all away. “The beauty of weddings these days is that now couples can reinvent the tradition,” says Mahler. “The tradition of the father walking the bride down the aisle has evolved from what it was to it being a gesture of uniting families and showing love and respect for the new marriage.”
There are now many variations: Brides can still opt to walk down the aisle with their father, or they can have both parents join them. Sometimes the bride walks solo demonstrating that marrying her partner is her choice. Some partners walk down the aisle together, showing their solidarity and commitment.
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“We also shouldn't forget that we are at a beautiful point where we get to watch all love be celebrated,” says Mahler. “It's amazing to see LGBTQ couples reinvent the wedding tradition, as well as different cultures and faiths coming together to create a celebration that works for each couple and family.”
Giving Away the Bride FAQs
Who should give away the bride?
In many traditional weddings, the father still gives away the bride. In modern weddings, however, it can be anybody. The most important consideration is that the person is someone with whom the couple trusts and feels comfortable. “I think couples should ultimately do what works for them and their family,” said Mahler. “What the couple believes plays a huge role (in the choice) and the message they want to give to their guests.”
After you’ve chosen your venue and appointed your wedding party, the next questions should be, ‘Who is going to be part of our ceremony and what roles will they have?” says Mahler.
Can more than one person give the bride away?
Absolutely. Some brides have both their parents or their entire immediate family walk them down the aisle. On some occasions, brides and grooms walk into the ceremony at the same time as all their guests and take their positions at the altar.
When does the giving away the bride tradition take place?
This tradition is usually performed at the beginning of the ceremony during the processional.
Do I have to participate in this tradition?
“Some couples don't know that they have alternatives to ‘dad walking the bride down the aisle,’ because they see it all the time, in movies or their friend's weddings,” Mahler explains. “The beauty of getting married today is that there are no rules, and couples can make the decision that works for their partnership as well as their family dynamic.”
If the long-established giving away the bride tradition is too archaic for you, here are some meaningful alternatives:
Skip the walking down the aisle part altogether. “I’ve seen couples mingle with their guests at the beginning of the night, and then together with their guests, they walk over to where the ceremony will begin,” said Mahler.
Walk down the aisle alone or with your partner. “I’ve seen brides walk down the aisle alone or with their partner as a symbol that together they are choosing to be there and come together as a family,” said Mahler.
Have the groom walk down the aisle towards the bride. There is no reason the groom can’t be the one to meet the bride at the altar if that is what the couple wants.
Meet in the middle. Many couples are choosing to meet in the middle of the aisle. One partner walks halfway, and then the other meets him or her to walk the rest of the path together.
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Erin E. Robinson received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University at Buffalo where she researched social movement mobilization patterns in communities facing environmental hazards. Her research has involved ethnographic field methods and the use of frame analysis as both a research tool and mode of analysis in social movement research. Inspired by growing up in the neighboring shadows of Love Canal, she took these experiences and began to address environmental issues through community organizing as early as high school and pursued this through several academic publications involving community based participatory research models. Her primary research interests are environmental sociology, community mobilization, grassroots networking and collaboration, and social construction of risk. She has also studied semiotics and the transformation of meaning in urban space surrounding the development of community gardens. Currently she is involved in a number of research collaborations with local community groups studying community mobilization, engagement, and empowerment in connection to environmental justice concerns of water, air, and soil pollution.
She teaches classes in foundational sociology such as Introduction to Sociology and Ethnographic field methods; as well as electives in Social Movements and Social Change, Environmental Sociology, and Visual Sociology. Dr. Robinson also advises and directs programs in Environmental Studies and the interdisciplinary minor in Peace and Justice studies. These programs support collaborative experiences in research and community outreach with undergraduate students.
2013: National Science Foundation INSPIRE award: $976,000. Four Year Award. Project title: Advancing Groundwater Restoration Through Analysis: What Practitioners and Stakeholders Care About and Why It Matters
2011: Western New York Service Learning Coalition, Grant Awarded: $1500.00 for Photovoice community based participatory research support.
2010-2015: Elected to serve on Board of Directors for the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York. 2010 Board Secretary; 2011, Treasurer; 2012, Vice President2013, President, 2014, 2015.
2009: November. Article of the Year, Sociological Spectrum, Award given to honor the most outstanding article published during the year.
Robinson, Erin 2016. “Sharing Stories: The Role of Personal Narratives in Community Mobilization.” Humanity and Society, Volume 40(4).
Robinson, Erin. 2013. Community Mobilization for Environmental Problems: How a Grassroots Organization Forms and Works. Cambria Press: UK.
Robinson, Erin. 2010. “Environmental Issues,” 21st Century Anthropology, pp.977-986. H. James Birx, Editor. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Robinson, Erin. 2009. “Mobilizing Voices: A Discussion of Leadership In An Environmental Contaminated Community.” Qualitative Sociology Review, Volume V:1 (70-97).
Robinson, Erin. 2009. “Competing Frames of Environmental Contamination: Influences on Grassroots Community Mobilization.” Sociological Spectrum. Volume 29 (3-27).
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Heritability of haemodynamics in the ascending aorta.
McGurk KA., Owen B., Watson WD., Nethononda RM., Cordell HJ., Farrall M., Rider OJ., Watkins H., Revell A., Keavney BD.
Blood flow in the vasculature can be characterised by dimensionless numbers commonly used to define the level of instabilities in the flow, for example the Reynolds number, Re. Haemodynamics play a key role in cardiovascular disease (CVD) progression. Genetic studies have identified mechanosensitive genes with causal roles in CVD. Given that CVD is highly heritable and abnormal blood flow may increase risk, we investigated the heritability of fluid metrics in the ascending aorta calculated using patient-specific data from cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. 341 participants from 108 British Caucasian families were phenotyped by CMR and genotyped for 557,124 SNPs. Flow metrics were derived from the CMR images to provide some local information about blood flow in the ascending aorta, based on maximum values at systole at a single location, denoted max, and a 'peak mean' value averaged over the area of the cross section, denoted pm. Heritability was estimated using pedigree-based (QTDT) and SNP-based (GCTA-GREML) methods. Estimates of Reynolds number based on spatially averaged local flow during systole showed substantial heritability ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]), while the estimated heritability for Reynolds number calculated using the absolute local maximum velocity was not statistically significant (12-13%; [Formula: see text]). Heritability estimates of the geometric quantities alone; e.g. aortic diameter ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]), were also substantially heritable, as described previously. These findings indicate the potential for the discovery of genetic factors influencing haemodynamic traits in large-scale genotyped and phenotyped cohorts where local spatial averaging is used, rather than instantaneous values. Future Mendelian randomisation studies of aortic haemodynamic estimates, which are swift to derive in a clinical setting, will allow for the investigation of causality of abnormal blood flow in CVD.
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. K.McGurk@imperial.ac.uk.
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Say’s Law of Markets: Louis Kelso vs. Henry George
[“Say’s Law of Markets” by Norman Kurland, President of the Center for Economic and Social Justice, is commented on by School of Cooperative Individualism Director, Ed J. Dodson, during 2006. An ongoing exchange of views on the subject occurred over several months on-line, the transcript of which is available though the “Capital Ownership Group.”]
This paper will show that Say’s Law of Markets — that supply can create its own demand and demand its own supply — can be made to work. Higher rates of sustainable growth could be achieved, assuming: (1) capital credit is universally accessible and (2) profits are fully distributed to raise overall consumption, savings and investment levels. Reforms based on this new economic paradigm, first developed by Louis O. Kelso and later refined by Robert Ashford and Rodney Shakespeare, would result in an asset-backed money supply that would provide sufficient liquidity to banks and other financial institutions for financing an expanding portion of the new productive assets which are added each year to grow the economy.
EJD: The neo-classical assertion that price is always a reliable market clearing mechanism would seem to support Say’s Law; yet, we do produce “things” no one wants at any price. Producers may actually have to pay to have these “things” disposed of. This does not occur very often, of course, but it does occur in a limited way when producers guess wrong about consumer demand and the what consumers are willing to pay is less than the cost of production.
NK: The market system has several ways of dealing with excess inventories or goods and services that no one wants. First, the market will force a reduction in prices until whatever is produced will become attractive to potential buyers at the lower prices. Second, some things may end up in the waste and recycling system at some cost to the public paid for by taxes or by the producer disposing of the waste. Third, to the extent that the producer does not recover the costs of production, to that extent profits and dividend incomes will be less and to the extent the miscalculations are too significant the company in a binary world would either go out of business or be reorganized in the US under chapter XI proceedings, possibly under better management whose business judgment is sounder on meeting the market’s demands. In these and other cases, real costs are added to prices, and overall prices in a binary economy would be automatically matched with overall labor incomes and/or property incomes necessary to clear from the market all consumer goods and capital goods financed through interest-free, ownership-expanding capital credit. In other words, Binary economics does not repeal the laws of supply and demand, or the double-entry bookkeeping systems logic of Says Law of Markets. Pure credit reinforced by increased consumption incomes from expanded ownership would result in faster rates of sustainable, environmentally sound growth, which continued need for government income redistribution programs, reducing the overall rate of corruption, waste and abuse in society.
EJD: We are not in disagreement, I think. My initial comment was basic as a confirmation that Say’s Law does not describe the real world. Supply does not create its own demand in all cases. Thus, I think we share the same observation that when there are no public subsidies (i.e., cost shifting to others) some production will not occur because market prices do not warrant the investment.
Unutilized productive capacity, concentrated capital ownership and widespread unmet needs and wants characterize, in different degrees, every economy in the world. In this context, the potential for substantial ownership-linked “binary growth” calls for a fundamental reconsideration of monetary policy and its relevance to Say’s Law.
The term “binary”, when used by Kelso and those embracing his theories, refers to two all-embracing categories — people (or “labor”) and things (or “capital”) — to describe every kind of physical and intangible input to the productive process. Binary economics involves the study of how technological change impacts the relationship between labor and capital. As a socio-economic paradigm, it reveals the impact on income and asset distribution, as well as the moral, political and social implications, of universal access to capital ownership under theoretically free market conditions.
EJD: As you know, my observation is that nature is not a “thing” but the source of “things” with very peculiar characteristics causing analytical problems when confused with the goods produced by labor (with or without the assistance of goods utilized as capital).
NK: I think that you would agree that nature is not a person and, since the abolition of slavery, a person is not a thing. If nature is a non-person, I see no clear reason it cannot be classified as a thing, as Kelso and the laws of property have classified land for centuries. If there is some validity in Occam’s Razor and the KISS principle, dealing with two sweeping categories or factors of production (both of which can generate one form of income or another) may be easier to understand and apply in balancing the two sides of the economic equation (production or supply, and consumption or demand), than dealing with three categories.
EJD: The Georgist reasoning reasons (my reasons) are two-fold. One is moral principle (i.e., people require access to nature for survival; justice, therefore, requires equal access) and to establish a definition of wealth that conforms with the first principle: that wealth must be produced by labor (with or without the assistance of capital goods) from land. Yes, nature has a material character, but agents of entrenched privilege have for the millennia relied on the reasoning that nature is just another “thing” to prevent just laws being implemented with regard to what is and what is not legitimate private versus public property. A Georgist definition of wealth leads to a very specific — and different — calculation of what constitutes total wealth in existence and how that wealth is distributed between the traditional returns to land, labor and capital. Rent, in the Georgist sense, is a claim on wealth — legitimate from the community and unjust when orchestrated by private individuals or interests.
NK: I concede that land and nature’s resources were not created by human beings but by Nature’s Creator. Still, land and natural resources have no economic value until they are discovered and put to use in the economic process through human contributions aided increasingly by technology and other human artifacts and systems created by humans to improve the man-machine-nature combination.
EJD: Some land has no current exchange value, or very little exchange value because there are no known natural resources to extract, the land is not fertile or lacks water, or is remote and/or located in a very hostile climate. Political economists referred to this land as being the “margin of production.” As population increases, however, even marginal locations start to yield rent, capitalized into selling price. Often, this is because of huge public expenditure to change the functional utility of an area. Take Las Vegas, for example. It would still be desert if it were not for the huge expenditure on Hoover Dam, the development of air-conditioning, and the state-sanctioned economic license permitting a near-monopoly privilege of gambling. Las Vegas is a very good example of land value rising because of aggregate public and private investment. The Georgist argues, simply, that such value should be captured by taxation so that public goods and services can be paid for instead of confiscating wealth that legitimately belongs to individuals.
NK: What binary economics does is create a way for interest-free credit to be created in ways that promote higher levels of productiveness in the man-machine-nature combination and spread more equitably distribution of consumption incomes to match overall production and consumption levels at faster rates of development and more direct citizen empowerment. Any system that puts the rights of direct access to governance and profit distributions in unnecessary intermediary entities, disconnected by private property rights in individual citizens, invites elitist concentrations of economic power, higher levels of waste and corruption and reduced incomes among the citizens. Private property is the direct personal link to power in the economic process, just as the political ballot is the direct personal link to power in the economic process. Putting ownership in the state or any other entity “in the name of the people” is not the same as putting direct ownership stakes in the hands of every citizen.
EJD: We have a system of private ownership of land that is in place and accepted by most people. Georgists see no reason to nationalize land and natural resources. Requiring “owners” of land to compensate the community or society for the privilege enjoyed — by paying the market-determined annual rental value of the land controlled — is our proposed remedy. We call for this payment regardless of the form of ownership: individual, corporate, cooperative, land trust, whatever. Many of us argue that the land held by the Federal and State government within a community should also be subject to the payment of rent to the local community. In the other direction, communities benefit by public goods and services provided by state and federal governments. Rent, in some part, exists because of the security of possession provided by the higher levels of government. We do need a much more participatory democracy so that we achieve governance rather than government. I see no conflict between doing everything possible to see that individuals come to have a “direct ownership stake” in capital goods, while requiring that rent go into the community fund (a portion of which can be voted by citizens as an annual dividend to each person).
NK: A Kibbutz, for example, is an ownership tool that eliminates private property rights in its members and owns “collectively” all the land and productive assets of “the community”assets, and decides by majority vote how to control Kibbutz enterprises and distribute Kibbutz profits; if a member leaves the Kibbutz, he takes nothing with him but the shirt on his back. In a corporation (including a natural resources bank or community investment corporation that owns and plans the development of land), the corporation owns “collectively” all the technologies, structures, land and other income-generating assets, but the corporation is in turn owned “jointly” through direct private property rights held by individual owners; thus a corporate shareholder within a binary economy would have a share of direct governance power and the right to receive his full undiluted share of profits, and would be able to assert private property rights in a shareholder derivative suit in the event his rights are abused by management, the board of directors or even a majority of other shareholders. Clearly, the binary economy would raise the level of economic justice and empowerment to the individual citizen much higher than any so-called indirect “ownership” through government or any other form of collective. Daniel Webster was right, “Power naturally and necessarily follows property.”
EJD: As you surely know, the socialism of the Kibbutz largely failed. Few people are able to live by the Marxist idea of “from each according to one’s ability to each according to one’s need.” I certainly could not. The more limited application of the community-ownership principle is the community land trust. In CLTs land is owned by the CLT and held under lease. The house or other building constructed is owned individually, and its market value belongs to the individual. Unfortunately, few CLTs adjust the annual ground rent charges based on the increases in land value that occur as the community develops and grows. The reason is understandable, as most CLTs are established to take land out of the market and keep it affordable to lower income households, so ground rents are heavily subsidized. To keep the net imputed rental income from being capitalized into a selling price for the leasehold interest, most CLTs establish a cap on the selling price of the home (e.g., restricting resale to households with incomes up to some maximum of area median). In effect, this ground rent subsidy is an unrecorded distribution of rent to each property owner within the CLT. A community that collects the full market -determined ground rent comes very close to a CLT but without the limitations on economic synergy. I see no conflict with this model and the ownership society.
While this author recognizes that both Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, and their many followers in academia, have rejected Say’s Law of Markets, this paper will point out how the binary economic model originally conceived by Louis Kelso refutes the criticisms of Marx and Keynes and offers a more sound moral and economic framework for promoting sustainable development within a market system. The Kelso model — recognizing both labor and capital as direct and interdependent sources of mass purchasing power — would be structured to create a more just and more productive system than any market system in the history of modern civilization.
EJD: And, I do not dispute that the policies advanced will result in “a more sound moral and economic framework” than systems now in place. What I argue is that the outcomes would be far easier to achieve and in full accord with moral principles if the rental value of nature (i.e., of land, as the original and passive factor of production) were fully captured for public goods and services and/or fully distributed pro rata to all members of society.
NK: You seem to be arguing that top-down distribution of nature’s rental values to pay for “public goods and services” for all citizens is better than a system that gives every citizen an equal private property stake in a private sector entity that distributes 100% of all profits equally to each citizen-owner. Under a binary model of land ownership the rental incomes in the form of a regular dividend would enable the citizen to exercise choice in buying or not buying public goods, probably resulting in higher quality and lower costs of public goods than the top-down, highly politicized, monopoly alternative you seem to propose. Choice is the best way to ensure the highest value in the delivery of most public services and to maximize the power of the citizens.
EJD: Not at all, Norm. I have confidence that an educated citizenry would make good decisions on what expenditures are appropriate by the public sector and how much of a citizens dividend ought to be distributed. Ross Perot’s idea of an electronic town meeting is one I applaud as a basis for increasing citizen participation. The historical problem is that many people have not had the time to participate in civic affairs (one of Adler’s “goods” of a decent human existence).
Wealth distribution assumes wealth creation. According to recent studies, productive capital (i.e., technological and systems advances and improved land uses) accounts for almost 90% of productivity growth in the modern world.6 Thus, balanced growth in a market economy depends on incomes distributed through widespread individual ownership of productive capital, i.e., all nonhuman means of production. The technological sources of production growth would then be automatically linked by free market forces to the ownership-based consumption incomes needed to purchase new products from the market. Thus, Say’s Law of Markets — which both Marx and Keynes attempted to refute — would become a practical reality for the first time since the Industrial Revolution began.
EJD: Your own statement is crucial: “Wealth distribution assumes wealth creation.” If this is what you believe, then you are excluding nature from your definition of wealth. Labor does not create nature; nature is here for use by nature. Productivity is, by definition, more output from some combination of less input of labor and the use of less capital applied to less nature.
NK: There is nothing in my statement that suggests that labor creates nature. The concept of wealth for economic purposes presupposes that wealth is something that provides a material benefit to human beings to which an economic value can be attached. If it does not provide an economic value to human beings, it is not properly called “wealth.” Some things are free, like sunlight and the magnetic forces of the earth. By my definition these are not wealth until a man-technology-nature mix is established that generates useful goods and services that people produce and consume for their material satisfactions, most efficiently within a free and just market system that maximizes human choices.
EJD: We agree, for the most part. Sunlight is free only because “rent-seekers” have not figured out a way to charge for access to the sun. The real battles today are over water and right of access to water and over minerals and rights of access to minerals. Our laws have allowed individuals to claim exclusive control over these natural resources without requiring full compensation to society. This allows individuals holding deeds to charge the rest of us for what nature provides freely. This is what Georgists oppose.
As Ashford and Shakespeare have explained, binary economics reconciles Say’s Law to the persistent coexistence of unutilized productive capacity and unmet needs and wants. This new perspective recognizes that “supply (in the form of increasing capital productiveness) will generate demand in proportion to its distribution.”
EJD: There is inherent or latent demand for many goods and many services. What is too often lacking is purchasing power. This absence of purchasing power is caused by the private confiscation of the actual production from producers by non-producers. Taxation of income acquired by production of goods or offering of services represents, in my world view, the public confiscation of private property.
NK: There would be no confiscation by non-producers or by civilization’s only legitimate monopoly — the state – in a binary economy where every citizen was provided equal ownership opportunities. In that case everyone would be a producer by virtue of the value of his labor contributions and the value of the contributions of all his productive capital. Then everyone, except for those who fall between the economic cracks, would produce enough marketable wealth that he would have enough purchasing power to satisfy his economic demands.
EJD: You make an assertion that needs to be tested under real conditions. Georgists have, at least, come up with a way to put our theories to the test by working with communities to change the form of property taxation so that property improvements are taxed at a much lower rate than land values. These tests are generating data that support our policy proposals – not without controversy, but we can point to cases where the results are as predicted and there are no other variables to explain the outcomes. Binary economics needs similar limited applications to demonstrate incremental results consistent with the theory. Certainly, this is what Louis Kelso had in mind by concentrating so much of his energy on getting legislation adopted to permit ESOPs.
The challenge this paper will present, especially to academic economists, is in its mathematical demonstration of how Say’s Law of Markets can be reconciled both with the classical quantity theory of money and various measures of net national product (NNP) to permit accelerated rates of growth without inflation, as predicted by binary economic theory. A side-effect of this proof is to relegate the Phillips’ curve — asserting that inflation and unemployment are inextricably linked — to the dustbin of economic history.
EJD: Reality has done a pretty job of discrediting the policy-related conclusions of the very tenuous relationship Phillips reached concerning the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. The stagflation of the 1970s revealed the power of monopoly rent-seeking even in a global economy. In the short-run, OPEC orchestrated one of history’s largest transfers of purchasing power; however, in the process the “shock” added the one more degree of stress that broke the global economy’s economic back.
NK: As you know, binary economists have a comprehensive plan for transforming the economic system, (See https://www.cesj.org/learn/capital-homesteading/capital-homestead-act-summary/). So we agree with you that the present system is flawed. If Georgists and Kelsonians joined forces and reached out together to make the system work more justly and efficiently poverty in America could be eliminated and the rest of the world would follow our example.
The ultimate aim of this paper is to present a logical and unified market system that is structured to combine economic efficiency with fundamental principles of economic justice. Implicit in this position is that no known economy in the history of civilization, particularly since the advent of modern technology, has offered both genuine justice for all, and optimum rates of productive efficiency. If this author is correct, those frustrated by today’s unfree and unjust market economies are urged to come together for serious study and discussion of an alternative model of development – the new paradigm of binary economics.
Problems Not Effectively Addressed by Conventional Economics
How will the U.S. economy finance the $2 trillion required each year (at 2000 rates of growth)9 to meet the nondefense capital requirements of the U.S. private and public sectors in the form of new plant and equipment, new hardware and software technologies, new rentable space and new physical infrastructure?
Assuming we can solve this problem, who will own the massive amounts of new capital brought into existence to meet our needs for energy self-sufficiency, new communities, and new housing, mass transit, new communications systems, resource recycling and conservation, expanded food and fiber production, etc.? Will those assets be owned by the same top 10% of U.S. families who own and control 90% of directly owned U.S. corporate stock? Will those assets be owned by government and quasi-government agencies? Will those assets, in the words of Peter Drucker, be “socialized” in the hands of money managers, pension funds or foundation bureaucrats? Or will that new capital become owned by many people whose incomes today depend almost exclusively on their (often subsidized) jobs, paternalistic government welfare and subsidy handouts, and private charity?
EJD: Just a few observations of a historical nature. One is that the wealthy have rarely allowed themselves to be taxed to pay for government. Rather, governments issue bonds at interest that only those with excess disposable income can invest in. Then, the funds to service the debt must be raised by taxing those who actually produce goods and provide services. In the U.S., one problem has been the gradual erosion of distinction between “earned” and “unearned” income flows for tax purposes. Inheritance taxes on large individual fortunes and taxes on capital gains – while they confiscated some level of earned income, were the only reasonably effective checks on rent-seeking gains. We only need to look at the acceleration in wealth and income concentration that has occurred in the last 25 years to confirm that government actions have benefited rent-seeking to the detriment of actually working for a living.
NK: I agree generally with your criticisms of the present system. Here’s a power point presentation of my testimony before the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform (https://www.cesj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NK-TaxRefPanel05-2005.pdf)
Can such massive investments be made without foreign oil dollars, or, for that matter, without exclusive dependency on the past savings accumulated by the rich or the reservoirs of accumulated small savings of the middle class and the poor? Can capital be acquired on expanded bank credit (“pure credit”) secured by the future income (or future savings) derived from such new investments?
Can the Federal Reserve System become the “lender of last resort” so that the “full faith and credit” of “We, the People” can pump newly issued money into the banking system on a self-liquidating and asset-backed basis? And can this newly created credit be channeled under the supervision of local banks into unsubsidized, self-liquidating, commercially insured loans at 2-4% borrowing costs to fund feasible projects of enterprises that voluntarily want to acquire their future capital needs in ways that broaden the base of U.S. capital ownership in the process?
Why is the Asset Gap Growing Between A Wealthy Elite and Other Citizens?
What explains the growing maldistribution of capital ownership in America and throughout the global economy? Why is there a massive and growing capital gap between the already wealthy and those who have little or no capital assets and generally live from paycheck to paycheck, or even from hand to mouth? Why is it easier for a Bill Gates to increase his capital from $10 billion to over $90 billion in a few years than for the average American to accumulate in net worth enough to live on for two or three months?
EJD: These are, of course, the right questions.
Let us examine some of the structural root causes that enable the rich to get richer and the poor to become increasingly vulnerable to the forces of global change. Wealthy people can attract capital credit (i.e., other people’s money) to add new and more powerful productive assets to their existing ownership stakes, because wealthy people can pledge their previous accumulations as collateral, thus eliminating the potential risk to lenders in the event that the loan cannot be repaid. Most citizens, especially the poor, have no assets to pledge as collateral. Therefore, most people cannot qualify for capital credit to purchase, on the same terms as the already wealthy, newly added self-liquidating productive assets. Once feasibility standards are met, such assets, in the hands of reasonably competent management, will pay for themselves out of future profits or savings and then become a source of additional capital incomes for those with access to capital credit. Thus, those without assets (and therefore by definition people who cannot overcome the traditional collateralization hurdle) remain with little or no hope to share profits from their own assets and gain an independent source for their future consumption incomes.
EJD: Historian Jackson Turner Main observed that as early as the mid-1700s most of those who held wealth in British North America had acquired this wealth by inheritance, and that most of that wealth was in the form of large landed estates and land held in the handful of growing port cities. That process only accelerated over time as immigrants poured into the United States. Because land that was accessible was already monopolized, the new arrivals had two choices: move to the undeveloped interior (and face the risks associated with the frontier) or accept lower and lower wages as competition for limited employment became the norm. Those who control the land do not often take the risks of investment in capital goods; they lease land to the highest bidder, who must then try to achieve acceptable returns on investment by whatever means are available (i.e., some combination of better than average productivity, lower wages to employees, reducing costs by non-compliance with environmental regulations, seeking protections from foreign and domestic competition, etc.). Rather than make credit accessible to allow the “have nots” to participate in the game, the Georgist proposal is to prevent the capitalization of rent into a selling price for land by ensuring that rent is treated as a societal fund. Land will, then, no longer have a selling (i.e., entry) price for producers. Someone who wants to establish a business requiring the use of capital goods will , then, require far less start-up capital to begin operation and have far less debt to retire before establishing solvency.
NK: What’s wrong with this twist on getting land rentals, the power of eminent domain and governance over planning and land regulation directly in the hands of citizens? (See https://www.cesj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CLB-link-notes2010.pdf)
The Logic of Corporate Finance: A Key Tool for Creating New Owners Simultaneously with New Capital Creation Within a Market Economy
The guiding logic of all corporate finance is that all projects must be self-liquidating. Newly formed capital, such as improved land, new structures and new tools, are never brought into existence by a well-managed enterprise unless the new investments will pay for themselves. Under ordinary circumstances, “payback” for new equipment is generally expected within three to five years. In the corporate sector, it is interesting to note, the corporate umbrella insulates the eventual owners of this new capital, generally the already wealthy, from personal risk in the event the corporation defaults on its loans or goes bankrupt.
EJD: One way to begin to create a more level playing field is to treat the cooperative form of ownership as a non-profit exempt from income taxation, provided the profits are fully distributed to owners (whose incomes would then be taxable).
NK: For profit-cooperatives are very good vehicles for producing wealth within a binary economy, provided the vote is distributed pro-rata according to what each cooperative member has invested and stands to lose. A person should always have the power to protect that which he owns. In the political arena everyone has one body to lose. In the economic arena one owner may have much more assets to lose than another.
EJD: The difference may be one without a real distinction, so long as the compensation packages to management are voted on by all members of the cooperative rather than by a board beholden to those in management.
Using conventional methods of finance, over $2 trillion of new productive assets (or about $7,500 worth for every man, woman and child) are added annually to both the private sector and public sector of the U.S. economy. Virtually none of this newly created capital is financed in ways that create any new owners when it is formed. Theoretically, all or at least most of these assets could be financed in ways that they could be broadly and privately owned, as suggested by Louis Kelso and other binary economists since the 1950s.
Binary economics would require that inclusionary self-liquidating capital credit be made accessible to corporate employees and other current non-owners of productive capital in order to turn them into economically independent capital owners. And, in the same way that the currently wealthy use credit to increase their wealth, and thus their incomes, this would be done without unreasonable self-deprivation during the working lives of people economically enfranchised under a comprehensive national expanded ownership strategy.
EJD: Do the statistics support the assertion that “the currently wealthy use credit to increase their wealth”? Some certainly do, but my experience in banking was that those with financial assets hired managers to invest in equity funds, bonds, precious metals, and real estate (the later to take advantage of rising land values). These are largely passive methods of wealth accumulation. The profits of major corporations often have more to do with how they manage their real estate holdings than from the expenditures on capital equipment and sales of goods or services. The history of the railroads is just the most visible example of land ownership as the key to long-term wealth accumulation.
NK: True, land ownership is important. But an owner cannot take his private property in land with him when he dies. Hence, if the inheritance law changes and the community investment corporation reforms proposed in the Capital Homestead Act became law, just as when America’s founders abandoned primogeniture laws, there would be a major redistribution of land ownership in one or two generations.
EJD: That sounds reasonable, Norm. I have no reason to challenge your view of what would occur. Combine your proposals with the full payment of rent to the community as Georgists propose, and I have no doubt the outcome would be as expected.
As the logic and techniques of binary corporate finance are extended throughout the economy, all new incremental productive power can automatically be built into individuals who have unsatisfied needs and wants — without diminishing their take-home pay or past accumulation of savings. This will break the monopoly of capital ownership held by the currently wealthy — those with functionally excessive productive power in terms of their consumer needs and wants. The savings of the currently wealthy would then flow into the most risky and speculative ventures, or for insuring capital credit for the non-rich, or for supplying consumer credit and other nonproductive forms of credit.
EJD: Absent a high, effective tax on “rent,” the financial reserves of the wealthy will continue to flow into land speculation and other forms of “rent-seeking” investments (e.g., any government-sanctioned monopoly license that comes to have a market price, examples of which are taxi medallions, liquor licenses, broadcast frequencies, leases for cattle grazing, mining, timber harvesting).
NK: Let the wealthy gamble with their money, give it away, build monuments or provide reserves for capital credit insurance and reinsurance to support the equal allocation of pure credit (interest-free money) to all citizens. If the wealthy paid the same proportion of their rental incomes as the non-rich, with no exemptions, deductions, tax credits or other subsidies, we could eliminate Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes to cover the promises made to workers.
EJD: You may be right. I do not have a clear enough picture in my mind to comment with any certainly. My own proposal (one that few of my Georgist friends and colleagues have embraced) is to work for the restructuring of the Federal and state income taxes to a graduated flat tax under which all individual incomes up to the national (or state) median would be exempt from taxation. No other exemptions or deductions. The increased rates of taxation would be applied to ranges of income above the national median to meet a balanced budget requirement. As a corollary, I also propose that as government bonds mature they be replaced by fully amortizing bonds that repay to bondholders both interest and principal. The amount required to service and pay down the debt would be factored into the calculation of revenue needed to balance the budget, and thereby determine what the tax rates would be. The effective result, I argue, is this restructuring would essentially shift the burden of taxation from “earned” to “unearned” income flows. At the highest levels of income, income from “rent-seeking”represents a much higher proportion of income received and is, therefore, a more appropriate source of income to be taxed.
“Pure credit” can be defined as productive credit extended by a commercial bank, other financial institutions or a central bank in a manner independent of past savings, so that the amount borrowed plus all transaction costs are secured and repayable with future savings from the capital assets acquired with such credit. Limiting the extension of “pure credit” by the central bank to current non-owners and leaving the pool of past savings open for use by the currently wealthy and for nonproductive government and consumer borrowing would result in a noninflationary expansion of the ownership of capital assets. Such high-powered credit would enable private lenders to expand the money supply for feasible private sector projects by discounting their “eligible” asset acquisition loan paper with the central bank. This expansion of the money supply could continue as long as underutilized resources, people and technology are available for supplying more marketable goods and services to the economy. “Pure credit” would thus free the economy to grow to the full physical limits of its workforce, available resources, technology, and the projected additional buying power of new domestic and foreign consumers.
EJD: Again, the land market will not respond to this change in the way hoped. For most of us, working is not an option; it is a necessity because we do not have enough savings to live very long without bringing our labor to the market. The Kelsonian proposal mitigates the problem but does not prevent the greater savings accruing to working people from being taken by landowners in the form of higher land prices. The supply curve for land is essentially vertical (i.e., inelastic). As demand for land increases, the curve actually leans to the left; the market response is exactly opposite as the response when prices increase for labor, capital goods and credit. Owners of land subject to very low effective rates of taxation are rewarded by the market for hoarding land and for speculating, reducing the supply available for productive activities and driving up prices. Only the public collection of location rental values can remove this dynamic from the market, creating a competitive land market in the same way the markets for labor, capital goods and credit are competitive.
NK: Our community investment corporation, inheritance tax and other Capital Homesteading reforms are designed to redistribute more equitably land ownership and land rentals over a generation or two, without violating fundamental rights of property.
EJD: These measures need to be fully analyzed by independent policy analysts, by critics even. You may be right, but I am not qualified to say one way or the other.
After each increment of new capital has paid for itself from the future earnings (future savings) that it produces, effective demand and effective supply would be synchronized by normal market forces – and this would continue to do so as long as the new capital became a source of an expanded income for the poor and those in the middle-class who today do not have adequate and secure incomes to meet their needs. Binary economics would enable them to produce and earn more as owners of “procreative” capital in order to meet these needs.
From the standpoint of corporate productiveness, the binary economics approach would build all increases in capital productiveness (i.e., value added by capital assets) into workers and other non-owners. New owners would then be entitled to all the income increases attributable to their growing shares of corporate ownership. Artificial pressures for increases in labor and welfare incomes that add to costs and therefore go into the price of products sold (e.g., more pay for less work) would tend to diminish. Removing artificial restraints on capital creation would enable output to soar.
EJD: The next sections of Norm’s paper do not appear, as I view the text as descriptive of the predicted outcomes of the Kelsonian proposals and of the credit-funded Capital Homesteading plan. My observation is that the mathematical model fails to predict the actual outcome because the treatment of land as just another “good” available to producers. Land markets, as noted above, do not react as do the markets for labor, capital goods and credit.
NK: I hope that my earlier comments on how to achieve direct equal citizen ownership stakes in land and land rentals will help Ed see that our goals are the same, but I think our means for democratizing land ownership have decided empowerment, accountability and anti-corruption advantages over the standard Georgist approach.
EJD: We have to agree to disagree, until one of our perspectives proves to be the more viable — that they work in tandem or counter-productively. As I indicated above, we Georgists at least have some real world data to suggest we are on the right track (i.e., that based on our theoretical construct we can accurately forecast outcomes).
More enlightened national fiscal and monetary policies, geared to “full ownership” and “full and sustainable production” (instead of artificial and dehumanizing expedients to achieve “full employment”) could easily adjust for this minor problem. In no way, however, does it justify any further delays in restoring health to the U.S. economy and greater efficiencies and fairness in how we distribute capital ownership and mass purchasing power.
Kelso’s binary economic system and the social technologies that would become available under the Capital Homestead Act offer a new route to accelerated, quality growth without inflation in the U.S. economy. The logic and justice of binary economics offer an improved framework to move America ahead in accordance with its original founding principles, guided by customs, legal principles, institutions and traditions that are embedded in the fabric of this nation. The American Dream offered a revolutionary vision to all citizens to encourage each person and family to gain income self-sufficiency through ownership of productive assets. Binary economics offers a new paradigm to restore that vision, voluntarily and at no one’s expense.
EJD: Everyone I know who looks to Henry George’s works for strong guidance on how to achieve the just society incorporating a just distribution of wealth would concur that the objective is for people to derive much more of their income from the ownership of capital goods than from labor. My argument is that the public collection of all rents — keeping them from being privatized — would materially strengthen the effort to achieve what Kelso and Adler called “universal capitalism”.
NK: I would label the Kelso-Adler system “the Just Third Way” (a more morally appropriate term than a term that would universalize a system that much of the world see as excessively materialistic, inherently unjust and exploitative.) But Ed and I are not too far apart. But I don’t see a problem (and see many advantages) in privatizing rents if all rents were distributed equally to each citizen as a co-owner of land and as a fundamental right of citizenship.
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Posted on : January 12, 2021 By TEAM
LG launched its first rollable smartphone, giving a brief glimpse of the new format during the company’s big CES 2021 talk today. While the phone manufacturer is flirting with some more unusual device designs in response to devices like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2, it is also working on an even more attractive design.
This is rollable, rather than foldable. The smartphone presented by LG – scheduled to launch for LG Rollable – will look like a regular rectangular smartphone at first glance. However, it will also slide out, a larger flexible OLED panel being revealed as it converts to a small tablet.
It is a different approach than the one Samsung and Huawei used for their folding devices that have so far focused on a shell design. The advantage of the LG Rollable is that it means that no secondary external monitor is required, unlike the Galaxy Z Fold 2. Instead, the interface – which is almost certain to be Android – can adapt to suit how much of the screen you have to show, extend or contract the UI and any applications accordingly.
We’ve seen something like this before, of course. TCL caught the eye last year with a bunch of folding prototypes, but it was the idea of a roll-up that caught the most attention. As with the LG phone, it initially looks like a normal smartphone, but rolls out its panel in a format similar to that of a tablet.
At the time, although TCL said it had working prototypes, the design it displayed was a non-functional model. LG did not give us much more than that, with its provocation of the device far from being a complete demonstration.
It is fair to say that LG’s current next generation responses to the foldable phone world have not been common. Its dual-screen models, using a secondary screen that is attached to make a shell, are relatively affordable, but lack the flexibility – or the technological wow factor – of what Samsung has been doing with the Galaxy Fold. Meanwhile, the LG Wing – with a swivel design that reveals a second touchscreen underneath – is attractive, but not entirely practical.
In contrast, the LG Rollable could be much more attractive – assuming, that is, that LG has all the right details. The smartphone will have some complex mechanical parts to make this mechanism work; it is unclear whether the slider LG intends to use is motorized or manually operated, for example, each bringing its own set of challenges. The long-term durability of the scrollable OLED is also a significant issue. Samsung has found no shortage of problems with the first generation Galaxy Fold, and LG will try to escape as much of them as possible with its rollable.
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Wide Variation in ICU Admits in VA System
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Intensive care admission practices varied widely at Veterans Affairs hospitals, suggesting a lack of consensus about high- and low-risk patients, investigators concluded.
Out of 31,555 patients admitted directly to 118 acute-care hospitals included in the analysis, more than 50% had a 30-day predicted mortality of 2% or less, reported Lena Chen, MD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues in Archives of Internal Medicine online.
The rate of admission for low-risk patients ranged from 1.2% to 38.9% and similar variation was observed in ICU admission practices for high-risk patients with a predicted mortality of more than 30%, the authors wrote.
In total, 66.1% of the hospitals in the study were in different quartiles of ICU use for low- versus high-risk patients.
“Hospital admitting patterns varied widely for patients at every level of severity,” they said. “These findings suggest that there may be considerable lack of consensus about when to use the ICU.”
Studies aimed at identifying factors associated with ICU admission could aid in the development of admission standards tailored to different levels of clinical risk, they added.
Critical care resources account for 15% of all hospital costs (Crit Care Med 2010; 38: 65-71). Variation in use of critical care resources has implications for both the quality and cost of inpatient care, the authors noted.
Several studies have examined patient characteristics and illness severity associated with ICU admissions, but no published data have documented the proportion of new inpatients admitted directly to the ICU across a broad sample of hospitals within a national healthcare system. Even less is known about how the proportion might vary from hospital to hospital, the authors added.
To examine patterns of ICU admission within the VA health system, Chen and colleagues analyzed data associated with the first nonsurgical admission from an emergency department or outpatient clinic at 118 acute-care hospitals within the system. They limited their review to a 12-month period during 2009 and 2010.
The authors sought to address three questions:
What is the 30-day predicted mortality of patients admitted directly to the ICU?
For patients with the same predicted mortality, to what extent does direct ICU admission vary?
Does patient severity influence admission patterns?
The final analysis included 31,555 patients, or 10.9% of all admissions (289,310) during the study period. The most common diagnoses associated with direct admission to the ICU were sepsis (12.8%), acute myocardial infarction (8%), coronary artery disease (7.9%), and dysrhythmia (7.2%). Almost half (49.2%) of the patients had diagnoses classified as “other.”
The authors found that 53.2% of the patients had a 30-day predicted mortality of 2% or less, followed by 18.7% with a predicted mortality of 2% to 5%. A little over 10% had a predicted mortality of 5% to 10%, while 10.9% had a predicted mortality of 10% to 30%. Those with a predicted mortality in excess of 30% came in at 7.1%.
ICU occupancy was ≤75% at the time of admission in 80% of cases. Overall, the ICU admission rates across the 118 hospitals ranged from 1.6% to 29.5%.
The median rate of direct admission to the ICU was 7.3%. Almost 10% of total variability was explained by patient severity and diagnosis, whereas 0.4% could be explained by ICU occupancy and the facility’s complexity level.
For every one standard-deviation increase in illness severity, the odds ratio for ICU admission increased to 1.50. However, the odds varied widely across hospitals, from 0.85 to 2.22.
As a result of the hospital admitting patterns’ lack of sensitivity to predicted mortality, two-thirds of the facilities (66.1%) fell into different quartiles of ICU admission for patients with the lowest versus highest 30-day predicted mortality.
After adjusting for severity at admission, the authors found that patients admitted directly to the ICU had a higher mortality risk at 30 days but not at 90 days. When treatment effect was estimated as a function of patient severity, admission to an ICU was associated with a reduced risk of death at 30 days among patients with a 30-day predicted mortality >18.4% at admission.
The study adds to evidence of the uncertain role that ICU admission has in the U.S. healthcare system, according to the authors of an invited commentary.
“The wide variation in ICU use observed in this study should prompt us to consider the drivers of this variation and which patients truly need intensive care,” wrote Christopher W. Seymour, MD, and Jeremy M. Kahn, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh.
Low-risk patients in ICU beds might reflect poor triage decisions, inability to assess illness severity at the point of care, or an “institutional culture of ICU overuse.” Low admission rates for high-risk patients might also reflect poor triage or, alternatively, “successful solicitation of end-of-life treatment preferences among patients likely to die.”
Primary source: Archives of Internal Medicine
Source reference: Chen LM, et al “Intensive care unit admitting patterns in the Veterans Affairs health care system” Arch Intern Med 2012; DOI:10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2606.
Additional source: Archives of Internal Medicine
Source reference: Seymour CW, Kahn JM “Addressing the growth of intensive care” Arch Intern Med 2012; DOI:10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3773.
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Farm: Fazenda Rio Verde
Varietal: Yellow Catuia
Processing: Natural Cherry
Altitude: 800 to 1,350 meters above sea level
Owner: Ipanema Agricola
Town / City: Alfenas & Machado
Region: Sul de Minas, Minas Gerais
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Ipanema Aura Matina C39 Winey Gold - Brazil
Ipanema Gourmet has been producing coffee since the 1870s and is one of the largest farms with which we work. Their approach to coffee is innovative and creative.
Beginning in 2018, Ipanema began their ‘Premier Cru’ range: a selection of very small batch, handcrafted lots from the highest altitudes of the Estate’s oldest farm, Rio Verde. This range of Premier Cru coffees is packed in cutting edge nitrogen-flushed vacuum-packed 20kg cartons. The method of nitrogen flushing, common with roasted coffee, stabilises the product by removing all traces of oxygen. Taking such care with green coffee is practically unheard of, even in specialty. The method speaks to the exceptional quality of these lots, which push the boundaries of what specialty coffee in Brazil can offer.
Rio Verde is a large farm of 1,566 hectares. Much of the farm lies between 700 and 1,000 metres above sea level. However, just over 260 hectares of the farm rise above 1,000 metres. This part of the farm, which rides several peaks, is separated into 32 ‘glebes’ (plots), all of which have different altitudes and sun faces, soil composition and a single varietal each (A=Acacia; B=Yellow Bourbon; C=Yellow Catuai). It is from these ‘glebes’ (ranging from .65 to 20.13 hectares in size) that the Premier Cru range is carefully harvested.
The project began development in 2014, and 2018 marked the first harvest marketed under the Premier Cru name.
Every year a new collection will be released with a unique ‘brand’ name. 2019 brings the Aura Matina (Morning Aura) collection, with Aura Magna already set to follow in 2020.
Every micro lot is categorised into one of the three edition groups, revealing the complexity of the taste and its rarity. Ipanema’s coffee specialist team scores the lots into Black, Gold and Blue Edition grades (similar to whiskey). The coffee’s final name reflects the year’s ‘brand’, the ‘glebe’ from which it was harvested, and the dominant cupping note identified by the quality control team.
Aura Matina C39 Winey
All of these special coffees are selectively hand harvested and processed using one of five processing methods, selected on a lot-by-lot basis, and based on a variety of factors and designed to highlight the maximum quality of the cherries.
This 100% Yellow Catuai lot was harvested on July 9th 2019 from Glebe C39. The coffee was selectively hand harvested and then processed using the traditional Natural method. After harvest, the cherry was dried on patios for 41 hours, before being finished in a mechanical dryer for 75 hours.
Development of Premier Cru:
2014: HARVEST
Ipanema began testing several different harvest methods, such as mechanical, manual and selective hand picking. Each was tested to evaluate the impact on the cup quality. Selective hand picking yielded the best results across the board.
2015: VARIETIES AND MATURATION CURVE
Ipanema harvested all glebes of the farm, every single week, picking only the ripest cherry beans and tasting them to identify what would be the best harvest moment for each location.
Each coffee glebe, according to its location, altitude, sun face, rainfall regime and variety, presents an optimum maturation curve that guarantees high quality scores.
Findings were that coffee trees above 1,000 meters of altitude consistently presented the best quality scores and that the optimal harvest period lasts for approximately 20 days.
2016: DRYING METHODS
Throughout 2016 crop, Ipanema developed hundreds of tests over months to evaluate the best drying methods to ensure higher quality scores.
Several techniques and methods of natural sun drying were tested. To do so, 2,000 square meters of suspended terraces (known as raised beds) were built as well as a covered patio of 800 square meters. The test also used a 3,000 square meters patio made of concrete.
Two new models of mechanical dryers were tested: a horizontal dryer with capacity of 7,000 litres and a vertical dryer with three layers, each one with capacity of 5,000 litres.
2017: REFINEMENT
During the 2017 crop, Ipanema dedicated its efforts to refining and validating the methodology of harvest and processing to be implemented from 2018 onwards.The cupping results of more than 180 different micro-lot samples were analyzed by the Estate’s team of Q-Graders and a group of coffee specialists.
2018: FIRST HARVEST
Fazenda Rio Verde was already established before the newly married Antonio Fachardo Junqueira and Gabriella Augusta inherited the farm as a dowry. However, it was the couple who first established coffee here in 1887. In 1920, their grandson, Antenor, took over management of the farm and began implementing incredibly innovative processes for the time, separating lots by quality and colour and constructing brick patios to improve the drying process.
During the period between World War I and the Economic Crisis of 1929, the farm went through great difficulties and to deal with them, Antenor made great efforts to become self-sufficient in the production of flour, cachaça, sweets and jams, beef, chicken, pork, wool, and various herbs and vegetables. In 1964, Antenor’s son-in-law, Luiz Cyrillo Fernandes assumed control of the farm and continued innovations and sustainability efforts, building new infrastructure for wet and dry processing and milling of the coffees. He also invested in an intense soil fertilisation program. 81 separate chicken sheds were filled with 136,000 hens solely with the aim of generating 800 tonnes of organic fertilizer a year. This program ran from 1964 through to 1992.
Luiz Cyrillo Fernandes himself continued to lead the business and was involved in all decision making up until 2002. Always aiming for the most innovative techniques and equipment, he travelled widely to find ways to improve coffee production. Through his work during this time, Ipanema Coffees was a pioneer in introducing procedures that are now standard practice in Brazil, such as pruning techniques and mechanical harvesting. After the liberalisation of trade in 1991, Ipanema Coffees was one of the first companies to begin exporting products abroad. In the same year the first coffee bags were shipped to Europe, and thousands of other shipments followed.
In 2002, engineer and current CEO, Washington Rodrigues, stepped into the founding family’s footsteps. He was responsible for various innovations and solutions which allowed the company to enter into new markets and build up long-lasting relationships with buyers.
Under his leadership some of the company`s achievements became milestones in the history of coffee in Brazil. For example, Ipanema Coffees was one of the first companies to construct infrastructure for wet milling and was the first to be certified by Utz and Rain Forest certification programs. Specialty coffees became the company`s flagship. Until now Ipanema Coffees is a permanent participant at International specialty coffee fairs and is also a founder of the Brazil Specialty Coffee Association (BSCA).
Their Premier Cru project, initiated in 2014, has taken specialty coffee to new heights in the country and is a natural extension of the farm’s approach to quality and innovation.
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When missionaries are hungry
Marianna Bartholomew
Fr. S. opens his packet of iddly.
A young pastor just collapsed at his Third-World mission altar. I heard the news from a dear friend of this priest’s, also a missionary and pastor of another mission on the Bay of Bengal. Not to embarrass anyone, we’ll keep names anonymous. But this story bears telling.
The ailing Fr. S. is in his mid-30’s and lacks a proper priest residence. At night, he opens a cot and sleeps in his church, near the tabernacle. That puts him in awesome company, but conditions can be either sweltering in summer, reaching beyond 115-degrees F., or cold and drafty during seasonal lows of 50-degrees F. Living a solitary life with no cook or assistant to help keep meals regular and mission grounds tidy, Fr. S. gets behind on some basics…like eating.
Imagine covering five scattered missions, responding to emergency calls from the sick and dying at any hour, in all weather. Fr. S. lacks transportation, so takes public buses or begs rides on the backs of others’ scooters. In monsoon season, that’s especially messy and inconvenient.
After a day of service and travel in extreme tropical conditions, Fr. S. often tumbles through his door half dead with fatigue. He lacks a refrigerator, so can’t stow leftovers there when his people bring meals. So if he doesn’t have energy to cook rice and lentils from scratch, he goes without.
Yesterday, two of his dear priest friends (including my friend) left their missions and traveled by bus to bring pocket-sized packets of iddly to Fr. S., newly released from the hospital. They handed this newspaper-wrapped comfort food (a little savory cake of rice and lentil) to their undernourished friend. They found him painfully thin and needing loving care, so they stayed for hours, cleaning his compound, and uplifting him by their company.
But the two good Samaritans live hours away and needed to tend to their own missions. At the end of the day, they headed home, wracking their brains as to how to help their fellow-missionary heal.
Who would think the young pastor of a parish would be run so ragged as to collapse at the altar? But missed meals here and there mounted into a crisis. Now the missionary is on pills for high blood pressure. Let’s pray his faithful put aside their own struggles and busy-ness, adopt him as their own, and ensure he is fed.
You may actually belong to a mission church, either in the U.S. or abroad. But even in a more affluent parish, priests, religious, or lay missionaries need loving care. They are so focused on service, they sometimes struggle to meet their own needs. Many are far from home and any loved ones to coddle them.
I know of one missionary sister who developed skin cancer after working in a sunny desert mission, and another who became ill with a lung condition after moving into an abandoned residence infested by bats. At the very least, we can be humbled and inspired by the depth of love and the calling that propels our missionaries forth in spite of personal discomforts and dangers.
When missionaries visit our churches to tell their stories, let’s listen, learn, introduce ourselves to them personally, keep them in our daily prayers, and respond to financial needs generously. Let’s befriend our local pastors, associates, sisters, and lay workers. Many have a hidden burden or suffering we can help bear. We can adopt them into our families, invite them for dinner, and help keep them active and whole in leading us all to greater holiness.
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Marianna Bartholomew is winner of six national Catholic Press Association Journalism Awards and Chicago’s 1993 Cardinal’s Communications Award for Professional Excellence. Her articles have appeared in EXTENSION Magazine, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic Digest and in Chicago’s Catholic New World and other diocesan newspapers across the nation. Former Managing Editor of Catholic home mission EXTENSION Magazine, Bartholomew has traveled to and reported on conditions in the poorest, most isolated pockets of our nation, from Louisiana’s Cajun communities and Appalachia’s hollows to Montana’s remote Indian missions. Blessed to be a wife and homeschooling mother of three, she now teaches in a homeschool cooperative, freelance writes from her Chicago area home, and is completing her first novel for young adults. She blogs at finerfields.blogspot.com.
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Andre Hal: Opts for retirement
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Hal announced Tuesday that he is retiring from the NFL, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports.
Hal was limited to eight games in 2018 as he recovered from a battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, though he indicated his decision to retire is not related to his health. The 26-year-old played in 69 games over his five years with the Texans and had 189 tackles (130 solo) with 12 interceptions, two forced fumbles and one touchdown.
Texans' Andre Hal: Good to go Saturday
Hal (ankle) is active for Saturday's game against the Jets.
Hal was listed as questionable after suffering the ankle injury last week against the Colts, but is set to play Saturday. The 26-year-old should serve his usual role as a rotational safety for the Texans this week.
Texans' Andre Hal: Listed as questionable
Hal (ankle) is considered questionable for Saturday's game against the Jets.
Hal appears to have picked up an ankle injury during Sunday's loss to the Colts, which ultimately kept him limited in practice this week. A potential absence for Hal on Saturday could result in additional snaps for A.J. Moore at strong safety behind starter Justin Reid.
Texans' Andre Hal: Interception in back-to-back weeks
Hal recorded his second interception of the season during Sunday's 24-21 loss to the Colts.
Hal was only on the field for 25 percent of Houston's defensive snaps, yet he still managed to make his mark on the game when he picked off Andrew Luck on a tipped ball in the second quarter. This was Hal's second-consecutive game with an interception.
Texans' Andre Hal: Clear of injury designation
Hal (shoulder) won't carry an injury designation into Sunday's game against the Redskins.
Hal suffered the shoulder injury Week 7 against the Jaguars in his first game back after beating Hodgkin's Lymphona and is now poised for another return. The 26-year-old should serve a depth role in the Texans' secondary.
Texans' Andre Hal: Inactive for Sunday's contest
Hal (shoulder) is inactive for Sunday's game versus the Broncos.
Hal will miss his second straight game and his eighth of the year. He worked as a starter last year but the fifth-year pro won't get the same luxury when he returns since Tyrann Mathieu is in the fold.
Texans' Andre Hal: Listed as questionable for Sunday
Hal (shoulder) carries the questionable tag for Sunday's matchup with the Broncos.
Hal has played in one game so far this season since beating Hodgkin's Lymphoma -- Week 7 against the Jaguars -- which is when he sustained the shoulder injury. The 26-year-old practiced in a limited capacity all three days this week. If Hal misses time on the field Sunday, Natrell Jamerson or Mike Tyson could fill in once again.
Texans' Andre Hal: Ruled out
Hal (shoulder) won't play against the Dolphins on Thursday.
After beating Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Hal made his season debut last week against the Jaguars. He played 43 percent of the team's defensive snaps, but seemingly injured his shoulder during the contest, causing him to miss practice this week. Justin Reid will likely get extended time on the field in Hal's absence.
Texans' Andre Hal: Activated off NFI list
The Texans activated Hal (illness) off the Non-Football Illness list on Saturday, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. The safety will be available for Sunday's game against the Jaguars.
Hal missed the Texans' first six games while recovering from Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a condition he was diagnosed with in June. After a long recovery from the illness, Hal feels ready to play again, though the Texans could prefer to ease him into the mix. That said, there's a need for help at safety with the Texans set to move Kareem Jackson over to cornerback in Week 7 to compensate for the absences of Shareece Wright (shoulder) and Aaron Colvin (ankle).
Texans' Andre Hal: Removed from NFI list
Hal (illness) has been removed from the Non-Football Illness list and can now return to practice, Deepi Sidhu of the Texans' official site reports.
After a battle with Hodgkin's Lymphoma that lasted a few months, it appears Hal is on the cusp of making his return to the practice field for the Texans. He played 943 defensive snaps for the Texans last year, though it's unclear how his playing time will be impacted this season by the team's signing of Tyrann Mathieu once he's ready to return to game action.
Texans' Andre Hal: Lymphoma in remission
The Texans announced Wednesday that Hal's Hodgkin's Lymphoma is presently in remission.
This is great news for the safety, whose long-term health at one point seemed in serious jeopardy. Houston will continue to monitor Hal's recovery closely, but the progress he's made thus far gives him a shot at making an on-field impact in 2018. He'll be eligible to return to action as soon as Week 7 and could vie for snaps alongside Tyrann Mathieu with fellow safeties Kareem Jackson and Justin Reid having struggled early on.
Texans' Andre Hal: Hits NFI list to open camp
Hal (illness) was placed on the Texans' Non-Football Illness list Wednesday, Sarah Barshop of ESPN.com reports.
The designation comes as no surprise after Hal was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in June. The Texans will prioritize Hal's long-term health rather than rushing him back to the field, leaving his timetable for a return up in the air. Hal tallied 71 tackles and three interceptions in 16 games a season ago, but was likely to see his role decline during the upcoming campaign after the Texans brought in Tyrann Mathieu and shifted Kareem Jackson to safety.
Texans' Andre Hal: Diagnosed with cancer
Hal was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma on Friday.
What kind of timetable Hal is looking at is still unknown, as the defensive back is still undergoing tests and sifting through potential treatments. However, it's safe to say that Hal will be away from the team for the foreseeable future while he goes through the recovery process. Hal posted three interceptions and two forced fumbles last season while starting all 16 games in the Texans' secondary.
Texans' Andre Hal: Records pick in win
Hal finished Sunday's 31-21 victory over the Cardinals with four tackles (three solo) and an interception.
Hal's interception marked his third on the season. Also, it was his fourth consecutive game with at least four tackles. The 25-year-old did his work across 55 defensive snaps (95.0 percent), which was the second highest on the team.
Texans' Andre Hal: Tallies two picks in victory
Hal hauled in his first two interceptions of the season in Sunday's 57-14 win over the Titans to go along with four tackles (one solo).
Hal picked off Marcus Mariota on the first drive of the game and then once again shortly before halftime. He made the most of just 31 snaps (76.0 percent), as the the blowout win did not require a heavy workload. Hal will look to carry his momentum into Sunday night's Week 5 clash with the Chiefs.
Texans' Andre Hal: Full participant in practice
Hal was a full participant in Tuesday's practice, the Texans' official site reports.
Hal was limited in Monday's practice due to a hip injury, but his full participation Tuesday bodes well for his status this Thursday in a Week 2 matchup with the Bengals. However, if he suffers a setback, expect Marcus Gilchrist to see extended reps on the field.
Texans' Andre Hal: Inks three-year extension
Hal signed a three-year, $15 million contract extension with the Texans on Thursday, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports.
A seventh-round draft pick in 2014, Hal is another example of a late-round success story. He appeared in 15 games (11 starts) for the Texans last season, supplying 48 tackles, one sack and two interceptions in his third professional campaign. The 25-year-old's new deal will keep him in Houston through at least 2020, locking him in as the team's starting free safety.
Texans' Andre Hal: Will play Sunday
Hal (illness) is listed as active for Sunday's game against the Packers.
Hal's illness apparently isn't serious enough to keep him sidelined, so he's slated to start at free safety per usual.
Texans' Andre Hal: Questionable with illness
Hal (illness) is considered questionable for Sunday's matchup against the Packers.
Hal figures to be able to play through the illness, but if he's unable to give it a go, Corey Moore would likely be in line to start at free safety.
November 2, 2015 07:07 AM
Texans' Andre Hal: Starts at safety
Hal started at safety in place of Rahim Moore in Sunday's 20-6 win over the Titans.
The Texans were not pleased with Moore's tackling and pursuit angles in last week's embarrassing loss to the Dolphins, and he not only lost his job, but was made inactive. Hal had two tackles in Sunday's win.
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Family Corner: Finding Joy in a Different Bloom
Published on Mar 01, 2018 in Trisomy 21 Update
Trisomy 21 Program
“Bloom where you’re planted.” The catchy saying often seen on inspirational posters has become my life’s mantra. As the mother of four children — two of whom have Down syndrome — I find myself uttering these words on a daily basis.
We all walk through our lives not fully knowing what the road ahead will bring. My husband and I were thrown a curve ball when our son Nate was born in 1996. His Down syndrome diagnosis was totally unexpected and we had very little knowledge of the developmental disorder. We were devastated, to say the least. But, even then, I could feel that a small seed had been planted in a garden called Down syndrome.
Fast forward seven years and we found ourselves once again with a diagnosis of Down syndrome — this time for our daughter Lily, who was born in 2003. As we shook our heads in disbelief, wondering how this happened again to our family, the seed that began seven years ago had become a small tree. And no matter how rocky the soil was, the possibility of a bloom existed.
Nate and Lily have succeeded in ways I never thought possible. Physical accomplishments that my older two children, Annie and Dylan, mastered with ease took Nate and Lily much longer. I learned to find joy in smaller achievements. I learned to embrace this new world and find ways to help Nate and Lily thrive.
In the past 22 years, my husband and I have joined Down syndrome support groups and become Special Olympics fans and coaches. We’ve spent numerous hours at doctor offices and hospitals and we have enough IEP reports to wallpaper the Taj Mahal! All of these represent areas where we had no prior knowledge and never thought we’d need to become educated about. But these were our kids. We were committed to doing all we could to help them. As we stretched our roots out deep into this soil, we found that we could grow and bloom.
Life with a child with special needs is not an easy path, and life with two can be doubly trying. Embracing this life and accepting its challenges has opened up a world filled with tremendous support, love and acceptance.
Therapists and teachers have become family friends. Strangers have warmed our hearts with words of encouragement and praise for our children’s accomplishments. It is these relationships and chance meetings that continually remind me how truly blessed my life is.
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Here is the feedback that we received to the survey of owners and residents regarding the:
September 2020 Annual General Meetings and
Management of the estate
Note we have avoided repetition of similar issues.
“The Board has - without explanation - taken the most extraordinary approach to the AGM. It maintains that the AGM is an appropriate time to adopt revised Articles but not an appropriate time to appoint new directors. I see no relevant difference for the different treatment of the two topics”.
“New Articles are offered but with no description of the changes being proposed or the advantages to be gained by adopting them. If learned counsel, the company's solicitors and a sub-group of directors have all come to the conclusion that we would be better off by adopting these proposed Articles, they should have given us their reasons. This is a board which should know that its reputation for PR is abysmally low and that this stems from its consistent failure to explain its actions”.
“I am disappointed about the way the AGM is being handled, particularly the appointment of directors and changes to the constitution”.
“The Board have missed a trick. It would have been a good idea to circulate the proposed Articles and invite comments/observations. Presenting new Articles to owners for the first time at an AGM without consultation runs the risk that if there is just one sentence that an owner thinks not to be correct, they will vote against the resolution”.
I am not happy about the arrangements for the AGM and I have voted against the proposed amendments because I do not think that has been enough discussion”.
“I am deeply uncomfortable about the AGM. I do not understand why new directors are not being elected nor why the existing directors are not retiring by rotation”.
“They can hold informal Zoom meetings, so they could have organised virtual AGMs with shareholders attending. That the directors are not retiring by rotation is a breach of our Articles which incorporate Table A”.
“Why is it proposed that only two directors take part in the AGM? Why is an updated Memorandum not shared? Why is a list of changes to the Articles not circulated? Why is it not proposed that one third of directors retire by rotation, whose provision is clearly set out? What precisely are the Board’s clear selection criteria (penultimate paragraph of their letter) for short-listing candidates for Board membership? Where are these written down?”
“I am disappointed that the board has not planned a live AGM with members attending by videoconference and that they have missed an opportunity to build bridges and mend fences after the EGM late last year, where the majority of members voted against them”.
“The board have not sought candidates for director positions in advance of the AGM and allowed a free vote of members to elect new directors”. The board have proposed new Articles of Association and have not provided members with a forum to highlight errors or propose amendments”.
“I cannot understand why the beautiful previous design of the N block foyer, with brass, mirrors and marble/travertine floors, were not simply copied and refurbished in keeping with the original designs by the original architect George Gilbert Scott“.
“The failure to renovate the gym - characterised by smothering the area in black”.
“The Estate under the ’new’ regime has been grossly inferior to that which went before and has been disastrously amateurish”.
“Communications from the board always seem so muddled that for the most part I'm not sure what they are saying”.
“The diminution in the value and saleability of the flats is directly attributable to the bad decisions of this poor and inadequate board and management”.
“The general upkeep is not of the standard required although I do have a certain amount of sympathy given current circumstances”.
“Management (and cleaning staff) have done an excellent job with improved hygiene and cleaning around the estate and I think that their approach to COVID has surpassed that of other developments (e.g. hand sanitisers in communal areas). The outdoor gym has also put other developments to shame (who blanket closed facilities) and the table tennis, deckchairs etc have been a wonderful addition. It has been splendid to see so many residents and their children enjoying the gardens that we're so lucky to have”.
“The Porters Lodge is thankfully finding its feet again after a turbulent 12 months of attrition”.
“It is great to have an expanded maintenance team and it feels like having them available to investigate leaks promptly”’.
“The Development and common areas particularly in North and South are generally looking tired and dated.
- Communal fire doors are battered, chipped and dented. Hinges need servicing and the doors generally need a good refresh.
- We're still seeing light bulbs out in corridors which is disappointing
- We are completely behind on Project 2020. The gym could have been refurbished during the 6 months it was closed as (many restaurants and pubs etc have done).
"Refurbishment to Gym has not taken place during the COVID closure period even though this was in my opinion the right time to do so. I will be very disappointed if the gym is closed further to do renovations at another point".
"I would like to know when corridors leading to the apartments are going to be decorated?"
"Ceilings in the corridors leading to each apartment look dreadful and are in desperate need of painting".
"The whole estate is in decline. This needs to be remedied as a matter of urgency to avoid costs escalating. Scrimping on maintenance is a false economy as it only becomes more expensive in the long run. An external, professional managing agent should be appointed to provide oversight".
"The board should communicate clearly with owners and whilst CHORA represent the interests of the residents and owners, on both internal and external matters. We have over the past couple of years found communication with the board to have basically collapsed, which is very concerning".
"Decisions when made have been so poorly carried out that major problems still remain. A great deal of money is paid into County Hall, but where does it go. There is nothing left here to indicate any positive sign of care and attention. Just miserable lifts, still unfinished, plenty of damp, water damage, the answer to that simply a completely new roof".
"We flagged up issues relating to misuse of the courtyard....but nothing was done and ______ doesn’t even bother to acknowledge our communications. Water damage to the ceiling of our floor corridor remained unpainted, a large and unsightly scratch on the new door of the recently installed lift remains unrepaired... We also note regular security risks such as unattended luggage in lobbies".
"Security -> I note that there have been many instances now where I have had delivery drivers, guests etc. who have managed to tail-gate other visitors/owners into the apartment block and come straight to my door. This makes me feel very uneasy and given I travel for work makes me question the security when I am away".
"Cleaning -> I note that the windows for South Block (facing York Road) have not been cleaned for over a year. I have mentioned this previously in writing to the board and to the Porters and yet this has not improved. (Editors note: this is the same in North Block)".
"Water Pressure in South block is still low. We have been told the tank has been changed but there has been no personal change to my water pressure before and after this change".
"The upkeep and management of the estate seem reasonable in East Block".
"Really concerned. The lifts in South Block are far from a success as yet, a water stain in the corridor across from my apartment has been there, unpainted for over 2 years, despite being reported on numerous occasions. Standards do seem to be slipping, which whilst I understand is partly due to the building age, but does seem to be as a result of ’quick wins’ not being pursued (bits of painting here and there, door repairs etc). Prices of apartments in County Hall seem to be slipping in relation to similar blocks, which is very worrying".
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Contractor denied additional payment
Contracts • Wards Island, Manhattan
DEP required Jett Industries to clean channels at the Wards Island Wastewater Treatment Plant; Jett claimed that cleaning was extra work and sought an additional payment. Jett Industries, Inc. entered into an $116,969,000 contract with the Department of Environmental Protection to rehabilitate the settling system at the Wards Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. During the bidding process DEP, in response to bidders’ questions regarding the cleaning of tanks and channels, notified bidders that contractors were advised that “they are responsible for cleaning the tanks to a level that will allow for safe entry of their workers and for the performance of the work.” Jett thereafter submitted a bid and won the contract. (read more…)
Tags : CityLaw, contracts
Category : CityLaw
Bridge delay claim denied
Contracts • City Island, Bronx
City Island Bridge, Bronx. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Jim Henderson
Tutor Perini sought §22,941,971.68 for a two-year delay caused by a court injunction. In 2013, Tutor Perini Corporation entered into a $102 million contract with the Department of Transportation to replace the City Island Road bridge that spans Eastchester Bay between the Bronx and City Island. A state court injunction delayed the construction of the bridge for two years and forced the redesigning of the bridge. (read more…)
Tags : bridges, city island, City Island Bridge, contracts
Extra Payment for Repair Work Denied
North Shore Marine Transfer Station in Queens. Image credit: Google Maps.
Contractor sought compensation for repairing damages caused during an additional work contract. In 2009, Sanitation entered into a $161 million contract with Prismatic Development Corporation to improve the North Shore Marine Transfer Station in Queens. Prismatic, following Sanitation’s plans and specifications, installed a new deck and concrete overlay on the Transfer Station’s exterior ramp. The concrete overlay later developed extensive cracking. Sanitation conceded that an error in the design documents provided by Sanitation to Prismatic had caused the concrete to crack, and issued a change order to Prismatic to demolish and replace the topping of the damaged ramp on a time and material basis. Sanitation’s specifications for the remedial work emphasized that Prismatic must exercise care not to damage the underlying deck surface while conducting the additional work. (read more…)
Tags : Additional work, contracts, Prismatic, Sanitation
Subcontractor’s Claim Against Prime Contractor Upheld
161 Varick Street in Brooklyn. Image credit: Google Maps.
Prime contractor agreed to process subcontractor’s extra work claim, but failed to file a timely claim. The Department of Sanitation in 200 awarded a contract to Arnell Construction Corp. to build two new sanitation garages for Districts 1 and 4 located at 161 Varick Street in Brooklyn. Arnell then signed a $3 million subcontract with Rad & D’Aprile, Inc. to perform masonry work on the project. (read more…)
Tags : contracts, extra work, prime contractor, Sub contractor
Homeowner’s Cash Award Remanded
Image credit: Scott Lewis.
Homeowner claimed home improvement contractor did incompetent work. Favors and Company Inc., a home improvement contractor, and Edmina Lee, a homeowner, entered into a series of home improvement contracts to make repairs for her two properties located at 112-28 199th Street and at 186-21 Hilburn Avenue, Queens. Work related to the 199th Street property occurred between April 28, 2014 and May 23, 2014. Work related to the Hilburn Avenue property occurred between May 15, 2014 and June 26, 2014. (read more…)
Tags : cash award, contractor, contracts, gutters, home improvement, homeowner, leaders
Audit Faults Shelter Contracts
• Citywide
State Comptroller’s audit criticized the high costs of past homeless shelters leases; the agency responded that it is in the process of tightening its leasing procedures. In October of 2017, the New York State Comptroller’s office released an audit regarding contracts signed over the past four years between the City and landlords providing homeless shelters. The audit found that the Department of Homeless Services does not have written policies and standard operating procedures for key aspects of shelter contract procurements and rate-setting processes and that such documentation is neither readily available nor maintained, as required the City. (read more…)
Tags : contracts, Department of Homeless Services, Homeless shelter, shelters
Category : CityLaw, Department of Homelss Services
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Health: Public health campaigns on alcohol don’t work
By Michael Fitzpatrick on May 1, 2009 in Community Care
If alcohol experts accept that public health campaigns are not working, then surely it is time to abandon them, writes GP Michael Fitzpatrick
One finding in a recent survey of more than 200 gastroenterologists, hepatologists, acute physicians and nurses engaged in treating alcohol-related harm has been widely reported. About 81% of these experts believe that, if alcohol was more expensive, consumption would decrease. Earlier this year the chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, proposed a minimum duty of 50p a unit alcohol in off-licences and supermarkets.
The other main finding of this survey, carried out by the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Nursing, was generally ignored. But an even greater majority of the alcohol experts – 84% – believe that public health campaigns have been ineffective.
Yet medical authorities, politicians and commentators alike are reluctant to draw the obvious conclusion: if these campaigns, in which enormous resources have been invested over two decades, are not working, then they should be scrapped.
Instead, so powerful is the influence of wishful thinking in alcohol policy, the evidence of failure is always greeted with pious expressions of the need to try harder and the commitment of even more resources to the pursuit of the same failed policies.
“Sensible drinking”
Two key aspects of the policy of preventing alcohol-related ill-health are education in “sensible drinking” and “brief interventions” by GPs.
Since the 1980s, children in schools and adults in public places have been targeted with information about how to calculate units of alcohol in particular beverages and safe limits for men and women. Health promotion activists have sought to inform people about the damage alcohol can cause to their livers, their brains and their hearts. Yet the experts now acknowledge that all this has done little to deter an apparently inexorable rise in alcohol-related illness.
In fact, the failure of alcohol education policies should not be so surprising. For most people, whether they are teetotallers or drunks, or at some point on the wide spectrum in between, concerns about health are not a significant factor in their drinking behaviour. Heavy drinkers are well aware that alcohol does not have a beneficial effect on their health, but reminding them of this does not inhibit their consumption.
Turning to GPs
In recent years, drinkers have been encouraged to turn to their GPs and GPs have been encouraged to undertake “brief interventions” to discourage harmful drinking. This means interrogating patients about their alcohol intake and providing them with ‘information, advice and motivation” to reduce their consumption. By excluding serious drinkers, defining limited goals and providing only short-term follow-up, studies have been able to claim dramatic benefits. More sober assessments – such as those made by the experts surveyed above – suggest that benefits are modest and short-lived.
Raising prices may deter drinking – though it may also encourage illicit supplies. More importantly, shifting the discussion on to price may move the discussion of alcohol from the medical to the political realm, where it belongs. This would allow doctors to retreat from moralising propaganda (at which they are conspicuously inept) and return to treating their patients.
As political commentator HL Mencken wisely put it: “The role of doctors is not to make people virtuous but to save them from the consequences of their vices. The true physician does not preach repentance, he offers absolution.”
Michael Fitzpatrick is a GP practising in east London
This article is published in the 7 May issue of Community Care magazine under the heading It is no wonder that alcohol education programmes fail
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Is Hillary Clinton ‘Likable Enough’?
Barack Obama said before the New Hampshire primary during his contentious primary with Hillary Clinton in 2008 that she was “likable enough.” The quip got him in trouble with Clinton supporters, but Clinton’s likability is at the heart of her candidacy in 2016.
Clinton has a massive lead among Democratic candidates, but polls out in key swing states Wednesday are throwing up warning signs for her candidacy.
The latest numbers from Quinnipiac show that the majority of voters in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia have a negative impression of her. A whopping 56 percent of Colorado voters have an unfavorable view of her, compared to only 35 who have a favorable one. That gap is similar in Iowa (56 to 33 percent negative to positive) and only somewhat diminished in Virginia (50 percent favorable to 41 percent negative). (The poll had a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points in all three states.)
Is that bad? Some perspective: in Colorado and Iowa, her unfavorable scores are close to those of Donald Trump, perhaps the most polarizing candidate on the trail and the Republican with the worst favorability numbers in the poll. By comparison, more voters rated Scott Walker and Marco Rubio favorably than unfavorably in all three states. Jeb Bush, meanwhile, was viewed more unfavorably in Colorado and Iowa, but didn’t have any gaps the size of Clinton’s.
To be clear, these are early polls. Many voters just aren’t paying close attention to the campaign yet. Democrats are pushing back.
“I don’t think the poll is accurate,” Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, who was a top strategist on Clinton’s 2008 campaign, wrote in an email to NPR. He added, “Her standing is better than the [Quinnipiac] polls suggest,” adding that these numbers are “inconsistent with other polling.”
Still, other polls do reinforce that Clinton may have a perception problem.
In several swing states, voters think she’s not honest or trustworthy — Coloradans, Iowans, and Virginians all said by wide margins that they don’t consider her honest and trustworthy.
In a Quinnipiac poll from June, voters in three other states — Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania — were also more likely to find her untrustworthy than trustworthy. This sentiment extends beyond swing states, as well. In a June nationwide CNN poll, 57 percent of voters said they didn’t find Clinton trustworthy.
A barrage of news stories generated since the start of the campaign haven’t helped — her use of a private email server during her time at State, questions about whether Clinton foundation donors were seeking political clout, and her evasion of the press (including a notorious moment when the campaign literally roped the press away from the candidate) all could contribute to a narrative of a candidate who’s being less than transparent.
For her part, Clinton has said she believes voters can see through these sorts of narratives and still lend her their support.
“[A]t the end of the day, I think voters sort it all out,” she told CNN in June. “I have great confidence. I trust the American voter. So I trust the American voter 100 percent, because I think the American voter will weigh these kinds of accusations.”
It’s not just a trustworthiness problem: Quinnipiac has found that in six swing states, voters are either split or negative on whether they believe Clinton cares about their needs and problems.
So what’s a candidate to do? For one thing, have realistic expectations about changing people’s minds, one pollster said.
“At this point, for somebody like Hillary Clinton, who’s been in the public eye for so long, you’re just not going to change some of these perceptions,” said G. Evans Witt, principal and CEO at Princeton Survey Research Associates. “You’re not going to move the Republican numbers on Hillary Clinton as trustworthy. That means there’s only a limited range for improvement, no matter what she does.”
One other step — focus on her strengths. Clinton has one bright spot that pops up in state after state in these polls — her leadership skills. Even when voters view her unfavorably, think she doesn’t understand their problems, or say she’s untrustworthy, they also view her as a strong leader.
And if she does need to clear a likability (or trustworthiness) hurdle — and, importantly, those are two very different things — focusing on her leadership strength could be how she does it.
“Honest and trustworthiness are virtues that we all aspire to, but we are not talking about, ‘Are we going to marry somebody?’ We’re talking about electing a person to president of the United States,” Witt said. “You want to feel that the person you’re supporting for the president is competent. And that is, I think, the emphasis that you’re going to hear from the Clinton campaign.”
In fact, simply emphasizing her leadership credentials and skills could be a way to make people feel that Clinton is more trustworthy and authentic.
“[The campaign] should use that leadership as an opportunity to speak bluntly and authentically about the issues that actually matter to people in the country,” Democratic strategist Craig Varoga said. “If she speaks — not demagogically, but speaks bluntly — I think there will be a very positive reaction to that.”
Varoga adds that there is one other important thing to remember when looking at any poll about how voters feel about 2016 candidates.
“This is in many ways a completely lousy time to run for president,” he said.
Frustration with politicians is off the charts, he added, and that means well-established candidates like Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush are facing a testier electorate than candidates have in previous races.
“There’s a very high level of dissatisfaction with the status quo,” Varoga noted, “and there’s a very large minority inside each party that wants something completely different.”
This has helped candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump post high numbers in polls, Varoga says. And that support itself hints that, for Clinton or any number of mainstream Republican candidates, making voters like them could just be tougher this time around.
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Strike: Lethal White Episode 1 Review – the Wedding Fallout and a Westminster Scandal
Cormoran Strike is back in a new four-part detective story set in the murky world of Westminster politics. Spoilers in our episode one review…
By Louisa Mellor | August 30, 2020 |
Photo: BBC Pictures
Contains spoilers for Strike: Lethal White Episode 1
The last time we saw Cormoran Strike, he was barrelling up the M1 on a traditional rom-com mission, but with a certain vagueness of purpose. Was he rushing to Robin’s wedding to give her back her old job, or to declare his love and stop her from saying ‘I do’? Whichever it was, she tied the knot and we didn’t see what followed. Two years later, our invitation to the reception has arrived.
What followed was pretty flagrant on Robin’s part. Dancing the first dance at her wedding to the lyrics ‘If I could, then I would’ while locking eyes over her new husband’s shoulder with the man who really gets her, then abandoning that dance to run after the retreating figure of said man is almost enough to make you feel sorry for Matthew.
Except, it’s impossible to feel sorry for Matthew. He’s the All Bar One of people. He’s Fizz Friday and cash ISAs and European stag dos. He grades women like homework, makes fun of disabilities, cheated on Robin at her lowest point and almost certainly is the specific kind of prong who thinks you can’t spend less than two month’s salary on a new watch. Compared to Cormoran Strike, Matthew is… well, Matthew. What was Robin thinking?
Being a clever, practical sort, she was probably thinking that the throbbing will-they-won’t-they magnet-pull at the heart of Strike would stop dead if she and Cormoran were ever to actually get it on. Wedded to Matthew, this show’s an ongoing concern. If Robin had done what we all wanted and stopped that insipid first dance dead, torn off her veil and leapt into Strike’s strong Cornish arms, what would be left to watch? Yes, there are still the murders, but by this point they’re a secondary consideration – gruesome icing on the delicious cake that is Robin and Cormoran’s lip-gnawing rightness for each other. As long as these two are trying to tease out other people’s secrets while steadfastly ignoring their own, there’s a future for Strike.
Episode one of Lethal White divided its attention satisfyingly between the professional and the personal. The first hour established the new case while tracking the emotional aftermath of Robin’s wedding. In summary: Cormoran’s heart-broken, Robin’s in a bad way, and both are refusing to admit anything’s wrong.
Things are decidedly wrong. Robin’s having panic attacks and being forced to serve housewarming party chorizo to the braying, diamond-wearing Sloane Matthew cheated on her with. Cormoran rebounded straight from that wedding hug into a relationship with vintage dress shop owner Lorelei (Natalie Gumede) who seems great other than the major flaw of Not Being Robin.
Cormoran Strike: Why Now is the Right Time for the TV Detective’s Return
By Louisa Mellor
Strike Recap: Cormoran, Robin and the Story So Far
(It’s little wonder Robin’s anxiety has spiked, by the way – that new place must come with a mortgage the size of Sweden. Given this show’s lurid stories about dismembered limbs arriving in the post and ritualistic entrails-removal, Strike’s most far-fetched event thus far was Robin’s mother kindly offering her £500 for a rental deposit on a London flat. And the rest, mum.)
Putting the interpersonal drama to one side, the new case comes with a brand new context for Strike. Previous series have taken the investigators to the worlds of high-fashion celebrity and literary publishing, this one’s set against the backdrop of Westminster politics and counter-culture activism. All the expected caricatures were present and correct, from the nose-ring Marxists to snobbish, sneering Tories named Arabella Cruelty and Jasper Chisel. That last one’s real, by the way, spelled ‘Chiswell’ but pronounced ‘Defund public services. Austerity was caused by Labour overspending’. Subtlety has never been Strike’s bag. When this show has a point to make, it does so with a sledge hammer rather than a scalpel, which is all part of the fun. This series’ point appears to be the cynical but not unpopular perspective that when it comes to politics, they’re all as bad as each other.
Cue some Mr Ben undercover work and another new accent for Robin (Holliday Grainger’s glorious regional repertoire now extends to a Pony Club RP as goddaughter to a Tory MP). She’s infiltrated the Houses of Parliament to dig up dirt on the Labour MP blackmailing the Right Hon. Chiswell about an unspecified matter, while Cormoran’s on the trail of an unhinged man who as a child says he witnessed a girl being strangled on the Uffington White Horse. Both are connected, as the next three episodes will untangle.
The new case is technically an old one – the decades-old murder of a young girl, as reported by a man who claims to have witnessed it aged six. The end-of-episode cliffhanger left us on the point of learning whether his account was reliable. Having followed his info to the purported location of the girl’s grave, Robin discovered bones. Who they belong to is for tomorrow night’s instalment to tell.
The mystery’s off to a promising start, with the show at a point where our investment in the characters’ personal drama is paying dramatic dividends.
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Metolius Preserve Hunting Update
This summer the Land Trust began the process of closing the Metolius Preserve to hunting. Learn more about this decision and its impacts on hikers and bikers.
A view of Black Butte and the pine forests of the Metolius Preserve. Photo: Tim Cotter.
This summer the Land Trust has been busy updating signs and facilities at the South Trailhead of the Metolius Preserve. In conjunction with these updates, we are also closing the Preserve to hunting.
The Land Trust has allowed walk-in hunting at the Metolius Preserve since 2003. When we established the Preserve, visitor use was fairly limited and adjacent Forest Service lands were open to hunting. Over the years, Preserve use has increased dramatically, especially with the introduction of regional trails like the Lake Creek Trail. Today hikers and bikers use the Preserve regularly and hunting is no longer compatible with these uses. This is why we are closing the Preserve to hunting.
The process of closing the Preserve to hunting will take some time. We will be marking boundaries with new no hunting signs and reaching out to notify hunters via agency and regional partners. We hope to complete outreach by spring of 2020. This means, however, that for the current hunting season boundaries will not be marked.
It is extremely important that Metolius Preserve users remember that hunting will likely still occur at the Preserve this year and in future years. It will take time to notify hunters and there will continue to be hunters on all of the public land around the Metolius Preserve. The Preserve is essentially an island of private property surrounded by Deschutes National Forest land. The National Forest allows hunting and therefore hunters or their marks may stray into the Preserve. Visitors who use the Preserve during the various hunting seasons should keep this in mind and always hike or bike with caution.
Let us know if you have questions or concerns!
See our tips for hiking during hunting season.
Hike with a group! Join the Land Trust for a guided hike.
Learn about the different hunting seasons in Oregon.
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Music for Orchestra
More challenging arrangements for larger groups
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The following titles are from the Genevox Celebration Series:
Clicking the Purchase Now button next to a selection will take you to its page on the publisher's website, where you can buy the arrangement.
Above All (0-6330-9890-6). A powerful arrangement of the popular worship song by Paul Baloche and Lenny LeBlanc. Includes parts of two hymns: "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded," and "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross."
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Beautiful Savior (0-6330-1560-1). Written originally for my wedding, this has been a best-seller. Organ is required on the ending. For a version without organ, please click here.
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Beautiful Savior (Handbells). Optional parts for handbell choir.
View sample handbells score
Buy handbells score and parts now $12.00
Children of the Lord (0-6330-2326-4). A fun and upbeat piece based on several children's songs -- "Deep and Wide," "Praise Him All Ye Little Children," and "Rise and Shine (Arky Arky)". Utilizes several novelty elements, including an optional kazoo choir (played by the orchestra members or by a separate group).
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View a video of a very fun performance of this arrangement by a Brazilian church orchestra, conducted by Camp Kirkland:
To order this title as a digital download, please go to lifewayworship.com and type the title into the Search box (please note that Search results may list other arrangements with the same title).
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (0-7673-9758-4). For flute or clarinet solo, with orchestra.
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To order this title as a digital download, please go to lifewayworship.com and type the title into the Search box (several arrangements will come up in the search – choose the one that says "Solo Celebration Series").
This arrangement is also available for solo instrument with piano accompaniment. Click here for more information.
Holy, Holy, Holy (0-6330-9872-8). As the chime strikes five o'clock, a lonely trumpet is heard – "early in the morning, my song shall rise to Thee." Little by little, the music grows and builds to a glorious conclusion as we enter His presence where "all the saints adore Thee." An optional dramatic reading (not heard on the demo recording) is included.
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Download the optional dramatic reading with organ underscore (not heard on the demo recording). Free MP3.
View a video of the Orquestra Filarmonica Messiah in Campinas, Brazil performing this piece.
Buy the digital download from LifeWay.
Morning Praise (0-6330-9231-2). Based on the hymn "When Morning Gilds the Skies," this piece is loosely constructed after the famous "Sunrise" from Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite, starting softly and building to a grand conclusion with full pipe organ.
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Silent Night (0-6330-2327-2). A warm and sensitive setting, somewhat reminiscent of the well-known arrangement by Mannheim Steamroller. Includes some nice passages for solo flute.
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Wherever He Leads, I'll Go (0-6330-1559-8). Solo for euphonium with orchestra, would also work well with trombone or cello. Written in memory of Gerald Armstrong, a great friend of church instrumental music.
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News: S&P 500 profit recession may end
The dozen companies that have reported earnings have already trounced estimates
Newsfeed14 Jan 2021
Photo credit: AFP Photo
For bulls anxious that stretched valuations in US stocks could imperil the current rally, the earnings season that picks up in earnest on Friday (15 January) may offer a tonic.
While profits from S&P 500 Index companies are projected to drop for a fourth straight quarter in the final period of 2020, the dozen companies that have already reported have trounced estimates to such an extent that the fourth quarter tally is on track to exceed the per-share figure from the same period in 2019.
That would halt a streak of contracting profits that reached two quarters as pandemic-fuelled restrictions devastated large parts of Corporate America. Big companies rushed to cut costs and cater to stay-at-home demand amid the virus outbreak, increasing online business.
A swift recovery in profits would validate bulls who have looked past surging virus cases to bet on an economic rebound amid vaccine rollout and government stimulus. Up 70% from the bear market trough in March, the S&P 500 is trading at 23 times forecast earnings, close to the highest multiples since the dot-com era.
S&P 500 companies managed to exceed analysts’ estimates by an average 21% in the previous two quarters but still saw profits trail the year-earlier period. So far, those that have released results this season have topped expectations by 14%.
Should the pace of positive surprises continue, the S&P 500’s per-share profits – which according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence fell by 8.5% to USD37.13 – would end up between USD42.33 and USD44.92. That would eclipse the USD42.01 that companies earned in the final quarter of 2019.
Better-than-estimated results are likely to set the stage for expectations to improve for this year and next, potentially making the S&P 500 look less expensive. Right now, analysts forecast the index’s profits to jump 23% this year, followed by another 17% increase in 2022. – Bloomberg News.
US stocks rose a second day Thursday amid optimism the economy will continue to benefit from government support. The S&P 500 Index added 0.23% to 3,809.84 and the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.43% to 13,128.95, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.03% to 31,060.47.
Europe equities rose for a second day as deal activity boosted some shares and investors prepared for the earnings season.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index added 0.11% to 409.07 at the close. Spain’s Telefonica SA jumped after it sold its towers division, boosting telecoms, while French grocer Carrefour SA soared 13% following an approach from Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. Banks and travel shares underperformed.
In Europe, as investors await a vaccine-led recovery, more restrictions could be imposed, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel warning that the country may need to extend its lockdown until Easter because of the risks posed by the fast-spreading UK strain. However, The European Central Bank (ECB) will maintain favourable monetary conditions for as long as needed, governing council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said Wednesday (13 January).
The ECB’s latest projections for economic growth in the Euro Area are still “very clearly plausible” despite the resurgent coronavirus and latest lockdowns, President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday. – Bloomberg News.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is likely to consider downgrading its economic assessment at a policy meeting next week (ending 22 January) following the declaration of a partial state of emergency to combat the latest virus wave, according to people familiar with the matter.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced an expansion of the state of emergency Wednesday (13 January) which put more than half the economy under voluntary restrictions. The economic impact of the moves will be a key topic at the two-day policy meeting ending on 21 January, the people said.
BOJ officials also see a possibility of the bank lowering its economic projection for the year ending in March because of the emergency, the people said. The BOJ’s current forecast is for a 5.5% contraction of gross domestic product. The Nikkei reported earlier Wednesday that the central bank was considering a lower projection. – Bloomberg News.
The Nikkei 225 Index shed 0.04% to 28,445.00 at the open on Thursday. It climbed 1.04% to 28,456.59 on Wednesday.
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‘Orphan Black’ fans respond to Emmy snub with their own crowdfunded award
A new Indiegogo campaign urges fans to give Tatiana Maslany all the awards.
On the BBC America series Orphan Black, actress Tatiana Maslany deftly plays a handful of female characters, all with very different personalities and shared genetic material. It’s her embodiment of these archetypes — the “Clone Club,” as it’s known — that makes Orphan Black such an engaging watch, and gives “I’m Every Woman” a whole new level of meaning.
But some fans weren’t happy with Maslany’s Emmy snub, and think she deserves her own special award. An Indiegogo campaign now exists to fund and create one just for her. A Clone Club Award.
A Mississippi-based fan by the name of Sarah Evans spearheaded the effort, which will cost $2,000. She acknowledges Maslany’s Golden Globe nomination and Critics Choice Award, but stresses the importance of an award produced by those promoting the fandom on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook:
“I want Maslany to have an award specifically from her fans. I think this is a perfect way as fans that we could show her how much her performance has rocked! I am commissioning an artist to create a unique awards statue specifically for the fans of Orphan Black to give to her. Contributions are necessary for this to happen plus I wanted to get as many fans involved as possible.”
The show has sci-fi roots, but there are underlying themes of sisterhood and feminism; its fandom has grown in the last year, especially with women. That Maslany’s fans want to bestow upon her a crowdfunded award speaks to those themes.
Of course, the “perks” of donating are named after Maslany’s characters: The Beth ($1), the Alison ($5), the Cosima ($25), the Sarah ($100), and the Helena ($500). The “Helena” donation earns the funder a replica statue of Maslany’s award. The “Sarah” is already sold out.
Funding ends on March 14, about a month before season two of Orphan Black debuts on April 19. In the meantime, read through our Orphan Black primer. Then give Tatiana Maslany all the awards.
Photo via BBC America
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Dow surges past 21,000 for first time in early trading
U.S. stocks jumped in early trading Wednesday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average above 21,000 points for the first time. Banks and other financial stocks led the gainers amid fresh expectations that interest rates will rise. Energy companies also...
01 March 2017 Wednesday 10:48
U.S. stocks jumped in early trading Wednesday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average above 21,000 points for the first time.
Banks and other financial stocks led the gainers amid fresh expectations that interest rates will rise. Energy companies also rose as oil prices headed higher. The rally came a day after President Donald Trump addressed Congress, reiterating plans to cut taxes and push for other business-friendly policies.
Keeping score: The Dow jumped 242 points, or 1.2 percent, to 21,055 as of 10:07 a.m. Eastern Time. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 24 points, or 1 percent, to 2,387. The Nasdaq composite index added 59 points, or 1 percent, to 5,885. Small-company stocks continued to outpace the rest of the market, a bullish signal on the economy. The Russell 2000 index rose 24 points, or 1.7 percent, to 1,410.
Trump: In his speech, Trump struck a less confrontational tone than usual and steered away from dramatically negative descriptions of the state of the U.S. economy. He also reiterated his pledges to reform taxes, slash red tape and ramp up spending on defense and infrastructure projects. The promises have helped send U.S. stock benchmarks to records, but Trump offered little by way of detail.
Bank boost: Investors bid up bank shares in anticipation that interest rates will rise. JPMorgan Chase climbed $2.61, or 2.9 percent, to $93.24. Goldman Sachs rose $6.81, or 2.8 percent, to $254.90.
Lumber jacked: Builders FirstSource, a maker of building materials, jumped 10.1 percent, getting a boost from rising lumber prices. The stock gained $1.32 to $14.25.
Build it: Lowe's climbed 8.5 percent after the home-improvement retailer's latest quarterly earnings and outlook beat Wall Street's forecasts. The stock added $6.33 to $80.73.
Pumped: Big 5 Sporting Goods gained 9 percent after the athletic gear retailer delivered strong quarterly results. Its shares rose $1.21 to $14.66.
Sales slump: Best Buy fell 4.9 percent after the consumer electronics chain reported weak sales and issued an outlook that failed to impress financial analysts. The stock slid $2.17 to $41.96.
Markets overseas: In Europe, Germany's DAX was up 1.4 percent, while France's CAC 40 was 1.6 percent higher. Britain's FTSE 100 was up 1.1 percent. Earlier in Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 1.4 percent, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.1 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.2 percent. South Korea's markets were closed for a holiday.
Oil: Benchmark U.S. crude was up 29 cents, or 0.5 percent, at $54.30 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price international oils, was up 26 cents, or 0.5 percent, at $56.77 a barrel in London.
Treasury yields: Bond prices fell and yields rose after a key Federal Reserve official, New York Fed President William Dudley, said the case for raising interest rates had gotten stronger. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 2.46 percent from 2.40 percent late Tuesday.
Currencies: The dollar rose to 113.92 yen from Tuesday's 112.17 yen. The euro slipped to $1.0533 from $1.0597.
-- The Associated Press
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Senate Reconciliation Bill Will Remove the Budgetary Core of Obamacare
Paul Winfree / @paulwinfree / Nina Owcharenko Schaefer / Sarah Torre / @sarahtorre / December 02, 2015
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Paul Winfree / @paulwinfree
Paul Winfree is the director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Studies and the Richard F. Aster fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
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As a senior fellow in health policy, Nina Owcharenko Schaefer helps develop The Heritage Foundation’s research and policy prescriptions on such issues as health care reform on the federal and state levels, Medicare and Medicaid, children’s health and prescription drugs. Read her research.
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The Senate will vote this week on a reconciliation bill (a fast-track budget process) that repeals the budgetary heart of Obamacare and restricts funding for Planned Parenthood. This is a vast improvement over the House-passed bill.
The Senate bill repeals most of the new spending programs of Obamacare, including the premium subsidies and Medicaid expansion, and most of the taxes.
The bill also eliminates the individual and employer mandate penalties, repeals the Obamacare risk corridor (a program designed to collect payments from insurers who made excess profits) and reinsurance programs that can be used to bailout private insurers, and sets up transition period for Congress and the next president to replace the health care law with a proposal that reduces costs for families and the federal government.
Finally, the bill restricts Medicaid funding for abortion providers affiliated with Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The Costly Market Regulations That Are Left
While this Senate bill reduces spending by $1.5 trillion and taxes by $1.2 trillion, it does leave in place many harmful market regulations that increase the price of health insurance. Heritage research has shown that eliminating those mandates can reduce premiums for younger people by up to 44 percent and premiums for those nearly into their retirement years by 7 percent. Paul Winfree (an author of this piece) and Michael Cannon have argued that many of these regulations could be considered under reconciliation.
It also leaves in place the draconian Medicare cuts, overlooks the problematic Independent Payment Advisory Board (which cannot be repealed through reconciliation), and eliminates the Cadillac tax rather than replacing it.
Likewise, the Senate reconciliation bill takes a good step on policy in excluding Planned Parenthood affiliates from receiving Medicaid reimbursements—a significant portion of the roughly $500 million in government funds sent to the nation’s largest abortion provider each year. Recent videos suggesting that Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates are harvesting and selling the body parts of aborted unborn children have led to renewed calls for Congress to end the flow of federal tax dollars to Planned Parenthood affiliates.
In order to completely end federal funding to the organization, Congress must disqualify Planned Parenthood affiliates from receiving any federal Medicaid reimbursements (as the Senate bill does) as well as disqualify Planned Parenthood from receiving grants under specific discretionary programs, like Title X family planning grants. Congress can address both funding sources during the appropriations process. Both Title X grants and federal Medicaid funding could still flow to the many other qualified health care providers that offer the same services as Planned Parenthood affiliates, plus additional ones, without entanglement in abortion.
The Senate bill also represents a significant improvement over the reconciliation bill passed by the House in October, which restricts Medicaid funding for abortion providers but neglects to repeal the core provisions in Obamacare. The House’s partial repeal approach fell far short in a number of important ways, including leaving most of the law’s taxes in place as well as $1.5 trillion of the $1.7 trillion in spending that it cost to finance the coverage expansion.
The House’s anemic opening bid was blamed on a procedural hurdle unique to the Senate known as the “Byrd rule,” which prohibits provisions that are extraneous to the budget process from being included in reconciliation bills. Before the House passed their bill, we warned that their assumptions about what can be accomplished using reconciliation in the Senate were incorrect.
While we know that the Senate can go farther on repeal, this bill is a strong down payment toward that goal and toward stopping funding for Planned Parenthood.
This piece has been updated by the authors.
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Cold War espionage thriller follows the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby (Dominic West), through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis). The six episode limited series will be available to stream on BritBox. Damian's Rookery Productions to executive produce.
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Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
"Playing possum" is an involuntary physiological response (like fainting), rather than a conscious act! Read more about Virginia opossums in Wikipedia.
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Download the dv-2k.fasta.gz file containing the chromosome-length (2n=22) assembly of the Virginia opossum genome. All modifications with respect to the draft (see below) are annotated in the dv-2k.assembly file. Some basic stats associated with the new reference, dv-2k, are listed below. The full data release can be explored here. Note that chromosome-length genome assembly based on another draft is available for this species, here.
The chromosome-length genome assembly is based on the draft assembly dv-2k-w2rap, credited below.
Dudchenko, Olga, Muhammad S. Shamim, Sanjit Batra, Neva C. Durand, Nathaniel T. Musial, Ragib Mostofa, Melanie Pham, et al. 2018. "The Juicebox Assembly Tools Module Facilitates de Novo Assembly of Mammalian Genomes with Chromosome-Length Scaffolds for under $1000." bioRxiv, January, 254797. https://doi.org/10.1101/254797.
The blood sample for in situ Hi-C preparation was donated by a female individual named Luna, and provided to us by Houston Zoo. We thank OKC Zoo for additional samples for this species.
Hi-C data was aligned to the draft reference using Juicer (Durand, Shamim et al., Cell Systems, 2016), and contact maps visualizing the alignments with respect to the draft and the new reference were built using 3D-DNA (Dudchenko et al., Science, 2017). The contact maps can be explored below via Juicebox.js interactive tool (Robinson et al., Cell Systems, 2018). (Please note that the interactive figures are scaled 1:2.) To explore the assembly in greater detail, please download the .hic and .assembly files from the data release folder and use Juicebox Assembly Tools (Dudchenko et al., bioRxiv, 2018).
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Education Index Grease
"Grease" is the word when it comes to my favorite musical past-time. But the question is, what was it about the rock and roll era in the 50s that influenced the writers of this stage musical turned movie? Also, how did this type of film affect the popular culture of the past and of today? That is the basis of this paper
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Grease began as a five-hour long amateur show presented in a Chicago trolley barn in the summer of 1971 and eventually made Broadway. The film version of "Grease" began almost immediately. It debuted in 1978, becoming the biggest grossing movie musical in film history. Its eight-year run made Broadway history and put it among today's most popular musicals.
Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey wrote the book, music and …show more content…
Where the principals and teachers are inept and students rebel with little or no consequence. A pep rally and a school bonfire provide the scene for school spirit. Fake I.D.'s, sleepovers and making out in the backseat of cars bring the whole high school scene to life. The last day of school is a celebration with a carnival. We have all had that fantasy.
"Grease" takes us to a simpler time in history
a more innocent time, when kids didn't have to wear bullet-proof vests to school It reminds us of an innocence lost, even with sex and cigarettes, it ignites a desire in viewers to return to days when life was easier and dances settled the score. "Grease" has influenced us as a modern day era to respect the times of the past...Grasp their entertainment, realize that these times are still alive. If we still believe in our musical and moral past, we can move forward as a culture, realizing that our roots are still strong and that life with music and a down to earth story can live to entertain and influence generations to come.
Citings:
Diggs, Barbara. "America's First Teenagers: Youth in the Fifties.", September, 2005, 26 July, 2007
Ernest, Phillip H.: "The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rock n Roll in American Popular Music", University Press of New England.
Freiman, Barry. "Grease is the Word", 1999 27 July, 2007
Green, Stanley: "The World
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Procter & Gamble (P&G), the large US consumer products company, has a well-earned reputation as one of the world's best marketers. One of P&G well-known product is Joy Liquid Dishwasher. Joy was re-introduced in Malaysia in September 2013. As the price is slightly higher than the competitors, the demand for Joy Liquid Dishwasher is defeated with the competitors brand such as Axion and Glo. Therefore, this report was commissioned to examine the situation. The research draws….
Restaurant Observation Project
Restaurant Observation Project When given the task of finding a restaurant that has an open kitchen a restaurant that came immediately to my mind was the Roberto's taco restaurant just down the street from my house, on the corner of Maryland Parkway and Harmon Avenue. I had previously dined at this establishment on numerous occasions after long nights out at our local Las Vegas watering holes, until learning in my food purchasing class in the fall that Roberto's had received various demerits….
Wgu Int1 Task 3
that dark sodas such as Coca Cola or Pepsi can be used as a cleaning agent and cut through dirt and grease effectively as a cleaner. For the experiment, the researcher/writer has purchased Pepsi products, Pepsi specifically to use as the cleaning product to test. The researcher/writer will clean six different types of messes (Food stains of ketchup and mustard on a shirt, kitchen counter grime/grease, bathroom counter soap scum, car windshield and battery corrosion on a car battery and bathroom counter/sink)….
MGT 320 Mastery Exercises
MGT 320 Mastery Exercises Week 1 1. It is normally wise to represent yourself in court if you have some form of legal background. a. False 2. Standing is a statutory requirement that Congress can eliminate a. False 3. Requiring a defendant to pay a portion of his or her wages to satisfy a judgment is called _________. a. Garnishment 4. A peremptory challenge can be used to remove a juror based on gender a. False 5. The only unelected branch of government is which is the following? a. Judiciary 6….
Quality Assurance Case Study
2. Quality should be of utmost importance. 3. Start collecting data on why and how the machine breaks down... * Mandatory formal training regarding operation of all factory machinery * Flow chart completed of the Grease-X manufacturing processes done by multi-functional team of quality, maintenance, purchasing, design engineering, packaging, &manufacturing * Look into ordering equipment to produce the product properly, try and get used equipment first and….
Speech Outline
Danny Mendoza 3/5/13 English 14 Prof. Mareneck Informative Speech Joaquín Guzmán Loera Thesis Statement: How Joaquín Guzmán Loera became a mythical figure in Mexico, both a narco folk hero and a villain Main Points: His beginnings/ Birth Rise to Power/ Control of the Sinaloa Cartel Legend of “El Chapo” • Born on April 4, 1957, to a poor family in the rural town of La Tuna Badiraguato, his abusive father kicked him….
Outsiders Book and Movie Comparison
the toughest hood in Ponyboy’s group of greasers. Dallas, known as “Dally,” is a big bad teen who used to run with gangs in New York shown both in the book and the movie. He has an elfin face and icy blue eyes and, unlike the others he do not put grease in his white-blond hair. Dally’s violent tendencies make him more dangerous than the other greasers in both the book and the movie, and he takes pride in his criminal record more so in the book then the movie. Sandy is Sodapop’s girlfriend….
Sustainability and Organic Foods
Sustainability and Organic Foods People nowadays are getting into the “go green” lifestyle while others continue to live without thinking about the effects they have on the environment. Why do people go green? It can save you money, it is the right thing to do, it is healthier because there are less toxins and less illness, it is helping future generations, and it is a chance to connect with the local community and spread the word. To go along with this lifestyle and its benefits, catering companies….
Elizabeth Bishop - Language essay
“Bishop’s carefully judged use of language aids the reader to uncover the intensity of feeling in her poetry.” To what extent do you agree or disagree with the above statement? Support your answer with reference to the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop on your course. Elizabeth Bishop’s use of language in her poems has allowed readers to grasp a better understanding of feeling in her poetry. During the beginning of Bishop’s career, she was often referred to as a ‘miniaturist’. Her concentration….
Consumer Behavior Jnd
in this case would be the food itself and restaurant aesthetics. A restaurant that is furnished in a very modern style may be considered of a higher quality as supposed to a restaurant with plain looking furniture. A restaurant that smells like grease when you walk in would be considered of lower quality than a restaurant that smells like flowers, or a more light feeling aroma. c. Extrinsic cues for Plasma TV monitors are actually much stronger than its intrinsic cues. Even though the technology….
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Expectations - to Kill a Mockingbird
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ASU students who learn online connect with the full university experience: interaction with internationally recognized faculty, access to collections from ASU's eight award-winning libraries, an alumni network tens of thousands of members strong, and membership in a community of thousands of students pursuing their degrees.
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Arizona State University is regionally accredited by North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (30 North LaSalle, Suite 2400 Chicago, IL 60602-2504; 800-621-7440; http://www.ncahlc.org/).
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Centerfield
Centerfield Electricity Rates
Commercial Electricity in Centerfield
^ The average commercial electricity rate in Centerfield, UT is 8.03¢/kWh.[1]
Residential Electricity in Centerfield
^ The average residential electricity rate in Centerfield, UT is 10.31¢/kWh.[1]
Industrial Electricity in Centerfield
^ The average industrial electricity rate in Centerfield, UT is 5.48¢/kWh.[1]
Centerfield, UT Electricity Statistics
Commercial electricity rates in Centerfield
The average commercial electricity rate in Centerfield is 8.03¢/kWh.[1]
This average (commercial) electricity rate in Centerfield is 0.37% less than the Utah average rate of 8.06¢/kWh.[2]
The average (commercial) electricity rate in Centerfield is 20.42% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh. Commercial rates in the U.S. range from 6.86¢/kWh to 34.88¢/kWh.[2]
Residential electricity rates in Centerfield
The average residential electricity rate in Centerfield is 10.31¢/kWh.[1]
This average (residential) electricity rate in Centerfield is 3.83% greater than the Utah average rate of 9.93¢/kWh.[2]
The average (residential) electricity rate in Centerfield is 13.22% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh. Residential rates in the U.S. range from 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh.[2]
Industrial electricity rates in Centerfield
The average industrial electricity rate in Centerfield is 5.48¢/kWh.[1]
This average (industrial) electricity rate in Centerfield is 2.49% less than the Utah average rate of 5.62¢/kWh.[2]
The average (industrial) electricity rate in Centerfield is 17.84% less than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh. Industrial rates in the U.S. range from 4.13¢/kWh to 30.82¢/kWh.[2]
Utah Electricity Rates & Consumption
Commercial electricity in Utah
Commercial electricity rates in UT [3]
The average commercial electricity rate in Utah is 8.06¢/kWh, which ranks 43rd in the nation and is 20.12% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh.[3]
Commercial electricity consumption in UT [3]
Commercial electricity consumption in Utah averages 7,769 kWh/month, which ranks 6th in the nation and is 24.54% greater than the national average of 6,238 kWh/month.
Commercial electricity bills in UT [3]
The average monthly commercial electricity bill in Utah is $626, which ranks 16th in the nation and is 0.48% less than the national average of $629.
Learn more about commercial electricity in Utah
Residential electricity in Utah
Residential electricity rates in Utah [3]
The average residential electricity rate in Utah is 9.93¢/kWh, which ranks 41st in the nation and is 16.41% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
Residential electricity consumption in UT [3]
Residential electricity consumption in Utah averages 793 kWh/month, which ranks 34th in the nation and is
Residential electricity bills in UT [3]
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Utah is $79, which ranks 49th in the nation and is 26.17% less than the national average of $107 per month.
Learn more about residential electricity in Utah
Industrial electricity in Utah
Industrial electricity rates in Utah [3]
The average industrial electricity rate in Utah is 5.62¢/kWh, which ranks 41st in the nation and is 15.74% less than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh.
Industrial electricity consumption in UT [3]
Industrial electricity consumption in Utah averages 85,786 kWh/month, which ranks 30th in the nation and is 23.51% less than the national average of 112,158 kWh/month.
Industrial electricity bills in UT [3]
The average monthly industrial electricity bill in Utah is $4,822, which ranks 39th in the nation and is 35.56% less than the national average of $7,483.
Learn more about industrial electricity in Utah
Household Income in Centerfield, UT
Centerfield, UT Income Breakdown [4]
Income Summary for Centerfield, UT
Electric bills: The average residential electricity bill in Utah is about $79/month, ranking 49th in the U.S. and 26.17% less than the national average of $107.[5]
Income: Centerfield vs. Nation [4]
Additional information about Centerfield
About Centerfield
Centerfield is a town located in Sanpete County in the state of Utah, and has a population of approximately 1,367.[6]
More about Centerfield utilities
For more information about Centerfield electricity, or for additional resources regarding electricity & utilities in your state, visit the Energy Information Administration.
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Arie & Lauren B.'s Zodiac Compatibility May Actually Surprise You
By Cosmo Luce
The plot twist on the finale episode of The Bachelor comes as no surprise with a little bit of astrological evidence. I say that because runner-up Lauren B., who Bachelor Arie left Becca K. for two months after proposing, is a Scorpio. Scorpios are known for their underworld charm and long-term scheming. Scorpios rarely come in second place, and once they set their sights on something, they usually get it by any means necessary. As Arie is a Virgo, Bachelor Arie and Lauren B.'s zodiac compatibility looks like they have a solid foundation for marriage. In fact, this duo might even have a karmic bond.
Like Scorpios, Virgos are somewhat slow moving and deliberate in a relationship. They don't take any commitment on without thinking it through quite thoroughly. And while Lauren's more secretive, initially closed-off nature might have made Arie skeptical at first, he probably just needed a little time to develop more trust in their bond and for Lauren to open up.
Scorpios like Lauren have a deep well of emotion, but at the bottom of that well, all they really want is support and security. There's a reason why Lauren only spoke 94 lines of dialogue throughout this entire season, according to Vulture (at least, on camera). Scorpios are an extremely sensitive sign that revels in secrets and gets their power from keeping others in the dark.
As an earth sign, Virgos like Arie are very grounded, logical, and rooted in the material. They are so insightful that they can see through the veil of mysteries that Scorpios use to disguise themselves, and instead, perceive the truth of a person's heart.
Although Scorpios are normally talked about as the most sexual sign of the zodiac, the truth is that they are a deeply loyal sign with extreme trust issues. Since Lauren was able to get past her insecurities about attaching to Arie, we can be sure that her commitment to Arie is on a deep, soulful level.
In a relationship between a Virgo and a Scorpio, that level of loyalty and commitment translates into a deep sense of protection on the part of the Scorpio. Lauren will defend Arie against anyone who might threaten the sanctity of the relationship. In turn, Arie will be continually drawn to her simultaneous charisma and mystery. He might feel like he can never know Lauren fully, but rather than scaring away the sensitive Virgo, this will only keep him coming back to the relationship time and time again.
As Virgo is a natural communicator, and Scorpio is extremely passionate, even though she didn't say that much during this season, Lauren and Arie are likely to have their share of debates over the course of their relationship. To outsiders, it might look like these debates are intense arguments. Both signs want to have control over their lives, and will always find a way forward — with or without each other.
Arie and Lauren will face some rockiness when their relationship goes to the extremes. There's a risk that, as a Scorpio, Lauren B. will dominate Arie. He might feel compelled to appease her, even at the cost of his own happiness. As Virgo often feels compelled to serve their partner, and Scorpio can sometimes revel in control over their partners, there is a risk that Lauren B. could take advantage of Arie's unswerving kindness and dedication to her.
Fortunately, most Scorpios are willing to engage in the deep levels of introspection and self-discovery that will prevent them from going into the deepest darkest depths of their sign. As long as Lauren and Arie continue to invest in their home life, they have nothing to fear. The home will be a source of stability for both the Virgo and the Scorpio, as it has the security that helps Scorpio feel safe within their own heads, and can have the order and cleanliness that Virgo needs in order to feel like they are being nourished.
If this couple's horoscope is any indication, the relationship between Lauren and Arie is a karmic relationship that was maybe even destined from the start. The stars wish them the very best.
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Park Sung Hoon talked about why he chose to star in the upcoming KBS drama “Memorials,” working with his co-star Nana, and more!
“Memorials” is an office rom-com about a woman named Goo Se Ra (Nana) who gets involved in people’s problems, files complaints, comes up with solutions, and finds love at her local district office. Park Sung Hoon plays Seo Gong Myung, a civil servant who always plays by the rules.
The title “Memorials” is a reference to the historical definition of the word “memorial” as a “statement of facts,” usually as the basis of a petition to the government or other authority figure.
When asked about why he chose this drama as his next project, Park Sung Hoon said, “I had faith in director Hwang Seung Gi and I was attracted to the humor and thematic messages in writer Moon Hyun Kyung’s script. I was also excited to work with Nana again.” Nana and Park Sung Hoon previously worked together in the drama “Justice.”
He continued, “Seo Gong Myung is righteous to the point of prickliness, bluntness, and clumsiness. He developed a by-the-books personality when he was young as a defence mechanism, so he seems prickly on the outside, but he’s still tender and human on the inside.”
He added, “[To film a rom-com], I focused on relying on the script and direction as my foundation and creating good chemistry with my co-stars, especially with Nana.”
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Is the "inequality" issue a cover for something else?
Consider the following thought experiment. The Democrats take control of Congress and the Presidency. With more than 60 seats in the Senate, they can do as they like. Do they go after the root cause of inequality in income?
Let’s make it more specific. Lots of the growing inequality is due to the winner-take-all nature of the modern economy, where marginal costs are extremely low and markets are protected by intellectual property laws. Huge profits go to the knowledge-based industries, and the financiers who finance them. We used to need armies of workers to produce GM cars, but we obviously don’t need many workers to produce the “products” of Google, Facebook, etc.
You can find lots of economists on both the left and the right who favor weakening the IP laws. They argue that the protections have gone far beyond what could be justified by the need to encourage innovation. Companies like Disney rake in billions in rents from trivial creative innovations like Mickey Mouse, invented many decades in the past. So it would seem like a no brainer that a future Democratic administration would want to weaken these laws. And yet I don’t think any reasonable person would expect them to do so. Why not?
One answer is that a weaker set of IP laws would benefit relatively poor Asian consumers in places like China against rich US companies. And while Democrats may care a little bit about inequality, they care far more about national self-interest. Because the US dominates the global market for high tech/biotech/movies and lots of other IT intensive industries, cracking down in IP abuses would hurt the US.
But why should Democratic politicians care about the welfare of big US corporations? Because they pay lots of taxes. And big government is an issue that Democrats care about even more than inequality.
Even formerly moderate Democrats like Larry Summers are now calling for much higher levels of government spending. But that takes money, and if we reduce inequality in such a way that US businesses make less money and Chinese consumers pay lower prices, then there will be fewer geese to lay the golden eggs needed to finance big government.
And it’s not just about the potential loss of wealth to foreigners. Even within the US, inequality helps foster big government. More and more Americans make too little to pay income taxes, and an increasing proportion of total tax revenue is paid by the wealthy. This is also true in big spending states like California and New York, where tax revenues are highly dependent on fat profits in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It’s easier to raise revenue when there are fewer taxpayers to squawk.
I suppose you could argue that just as much revenue could be raised from a country with the same GDP, but more equal income. But in practice this won’t work in the US. When income was much more equal in the 1970s, tax revolts broke out in states like California and Massachusetts. Recently the Democrats have made a big deal about helping the middle class. You obviously cannot help the middle class by instituting the sort of 20% VAT that you see in Europe. If you combine their preference for a progressive income tax, with the need to raise huge sums of money for their wish list of big government programs, then perhaps inequality isn’t really the problem the Democrats claim it is, but rather the hidden key to achieving their real agenda, big government.
A few years back London elected a socialist mayor, who governed as a moderate. The reason is obvious; the success of London depends on the success of a set of highly inegalitarian knowledge-based industries. The same is true of places like New York, Chicago, Boston and California. That’s why any left-winger elected in those places will eventually start to look more like a neoliberal.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying the Democrats don’t care at all about inequality. I’m saying there are other things they care about much more than inequality, including the national interest and big government. When the goals conflict, look for the inequality agenda to be tossed aside.
Michael Byrnes
Mar 7 2015 at 12:35pm
Unfortunately, both sides know where their bread is buttered.
Edogg
Mar 7 2015 at 3:18pm
Doesn’t “big government” mean Medicaid, food stamps, and tax credits for people with lower income (not the largest portions of government spending, but major things that the Democrats favor relative to Republicans)? And isn’t that stuff aimed at inequality?
Anyway, what about direct lobbying and campaign contributions by the IP-reliant companies? And most Democrats just not being aware enough of the impact of IP?
I don’t disagree with your above analysis. I would also add that preaching personal responsibility to the poor (live frugally, don’t have kids out of wedlock, save a portion of your earnings, etc.) is also verboten for the Dems. We all know this stuff works (just ask all the upper middle-class Democrats). But it is a way of helping the poor without using the government, hence it is ignored.
One of the biggest coups for the American Left over the past 30 years is selling the idea that most people are helpless. Not saving for retirement, as if it was a surprise event, is normal both because of SS but also because it’s not socially shameful to be irresponsible when it comes to retirement saving.
Mark V Anderson
I would agree that our IP laws give far too much benefit to the IP owner, especially the absurdly long copyright rules. But I am skeptical that this has a significant effect on inequality. I think GU’s post indicates items with a much larger effect. But I don’t know of any objective evidence either way.
I think you’ve got the direction of causation wrong. I can’t imagine big government qua big government as anyone’s goal. I can imagine it as a means to reduce inequality, though. Or more likely, as a means to keep their pockets full
Actually “big government qua big government” has been the express Progressive goal for over a century. The desired policies of that big government have changed over time and some of what many first generation Progressives favored such as assimilation for immigrants and eugenics along with a belief in American exceptionalism would horrify today’s Progressives. However, the goal for both is the same; a country and economy under the direction of the best and brightest bureaucrats who can decide on the best policy “for any purposes necessary” (to paraphrase Malcolm X). As FDR put it, we are in the day of “enlightened administration” and Progressives have steadily worked to expand the scope of that administration. Scott has it precisely correct.
Edogg, I doubt that very much government spending is aimed at the poor, it’s mostly for special interest groups. The military industrial complex, the medical industrial complex, the education industrial complex, big agriculture, etc.
GU, I agree with your criticism of the left. Rather than preaching to the poor, I’d rather change the incentives they face.
Mar 8 2015 at 1:22am
I agree, I’m not the preaching type (though I’ll give advice if asked). And I’m not sure how much preaching actually changes behavior. Incentives really do matter.
Yes, but this same dynamic is true of so many issues, for both parties.
E.g., Peter Orszag notably complained after leaving the Obama Administration’s employ that with their filibuster-proof majority the Democrats could have resolved the $20+ trillion present value funding shortfall of Social Security any way they wanted, knowing that in the future they (very most probably) would never have that chance again. Yet no Democrat anywhere showed any interest whatsoever in doing so, preferring to keep a contentious issue (admitting to their own left side that there was a problem to fix) off the table, while preserving an issue with which to successfully bash Republicans in the future in the inevitable big SS-funding fights to come. Don’t the Democrats care about Social Security? Sure they do, at a secondary level — but they care about their political convenience and well-being more.
You can multiply this by 1,000 issues and apply it to both parties. One remembers how back in 2001 the Republicans repealed the estate tax starting *ten years later*, thus taking great political credit from their base then for something they hadn’t done which thus had no cost to them (fiscal or otherwise). They could have *actually repealed* the estate tax then (don’t believe the nonsense stories they spun about how technical budget rules kept them from doing it for a decade) but why inconvenience themselves when they could get such political reward from their base without doing so? (Actually both parties loved this set-up as the great/awful ‘pending repeal of the estate tax’ became a big partisan fund-raising issue for both sides for a decade, even as the tax just sat there.)
I had lunch this week with a former law school buddy who is now a big power-player in Albany. He tells some great stories about how Republicans keep control of the Senate in a state that Democratic voters dominate. The Democratic political leadership (notably and visibly from Cuomo down) works to keep the Repubs in power so the Dem leaders can pose as supporting the popular proposals of their left side and blame the Repubs for blocking them, instead of taking full control of the legislature and responsibility for what their own party proposes. You can imagine the quid-pro-quos traded between the party leaders behind the scenes to keep this state of affairs in place. But don’t the NY Democrats care about their popular issues that they pose as supporting? Sure they do, as a secondary matter — political self-interest comes first.
This is politics, time immemorial, it affects war and peace and the fate of nations. William Jennings Bryan famously manipulated his Democratic party into giving enough support to the Philippines Annexation treaty for it to pass by one vote — so he could run for President as an Anti-Imperialist damning the annexation, which he thought would be a big winning issue for him. Wasn’t he genuinely anti-Imperialist? Sure he was, but you have to win the election first…
None of this has anything to do with love of big govt or of big corporations per se, it is the dynamic of politics. Libertarians are every bit as guilty of this as everyone else (when they get a chance to be), think about it for a moment.
As to “inequality” as an issue, first, it is far more internal Democratic politics of this sort than substance. The Democrats have been running on it for 100 years and it’s never won them a dog-catcher office in a general election — but it is a *great* internal base motivator and fund-raising issue so they keep using it.
Count Google searches on “Piketty” and “income inequality” and such, you’ll see they are trivially low across 48 states but with massive spikes in Washington DC and New York City, and a good-sized one in Cambridge/Boston, and lesser so through that corridor — the centers of left-side wealthy true believers. (And even they appeared only with all the election marketing.) When your message targets true believers you are fund-raising and base-motivating, not going after the median voter.
Secondly, I’m old enough to have watched it evolve and see the Dems change their spin on it. A good 20 years ago the Dems (Krugman in particular in my clip file) were having the same rants about the evils of income inequality as now — only then it was all about between *quintiles*. Well, since then the top quintile has shot up higher than ever, but evil quintile inquality has disappeared from Democratic rhetoric. How come?
Probably because 20 years of research has shown the rise of top-quintile income is due to higher education, longer work hours, two-earner intact families, etc. And these are the very people in the wealthy New York thru Cambridge/Boston base that the Dems are playing to with the issue. It does not play well to look at your audience and say *YOU are the incarnation of this evil income inequality, *you* are causing it…”
So it has to become someone else. Not you, *them*, the top 1%! The evil, richest, top-income 1% are destroying our society, *them*, Lebron James, Jennifer Anniston, Katy Couric, Warren Buffett, er, the Koch brothers, anonymous ‘rich bankers’, ‘CEOs’…
It’s politics, and political group affiliation and political expedience for the leaderships always comes first. Actual policy on the merits is always a distant secondary consideration — as to income inequality, Social Security, annexing foreign lands, war and peace, taxes, IP, you name it.
@Jim Glass,
Great comment! It rings all too true…
You comment on the top quintile vs the top 1% reminds me of the most interesting take on inequality I have seen recently (by Reihan Salaam, in Slate):
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/the_upper_middle_class_is_ruining_all_that_is_great_about_america.html
GU, That’s good.
Jim, Lots of good points—but your making me even more cynical!
Mar 9 2015 at 10:00am
This issue reminds me of a criticism of the criticism of the Ferguson policy department. Basically, one of the problems in Missouri as well as in New York is that the government uses the police departments to generate revenue. Even though it is illegal for the departments to issue quotas, there is implicit pressure on the departments to issue tickets and arrests. This primary goal, which should be a secondary goal at best, creates tension in the community and exacerbates problems.
It does not seem that this is an issue that will be addresses, and it does not seem like an issue the government would like to discuss.
Bruce Kettelle
Jim Glass writes: “The Democratic political leadership (notably and visibly from Cuomo down) works to keep the Repubs in power so the Dem leaders can pose as supporting the popular proposals of their left side and blame the Repubs for blocking them, instead of taking full control of the legislature and responsibility for what their own party proposes.”
With the greatest respect, this is not believable. Nor is it visible in the antics/efforts of New York D candidates in election periods. They are great actors if they are trying NOT to win.
But more important, wealth must be the focus when economic inequality is discussed. Income is a poor subject in this context since decision power and taxation have redefined ‘income’ segments in so many ways…and reduced the tax rate for the redefined segments in every case.
If wealth is defined as retained income utilized to produce income, wealth accumulation is a difficult task for most of the 90 per cent. For the bottom 50 percent it is impossible.
And yet, it is wealth that provides the cushion during down periods…and especially in recessionary periods when income-producing wealth is sufficient to protect the living standard of the top 10 percent.
Meanwhile, when those among the rest lose their jobs, they are forced to convert savings and home equity to income…the exact opposite action available to the top 10 percent.
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I Am NOT Charlie Hebdo
By David Henderson
After the horrible murders of workers at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January, it became chic for a few weeks to wear buttons saying “I am Charlie Hebdo.” I thought that was a mistake then and I almost wrote a blog post on it. The discussion on my recent defense of freedom of association has convinced me that I was remiss in not writing a post. The reason: in the discussion of freedom of association, many people have failed to understand the distinction between favoring someone’s freedom and favoring someone’s use of that freedom. I saw that same blunting of distinctions with the Charlie Hebdo button.
Consider an extreme case: the desire of the National Socialist Party of America to march through Skokie, Illinois in 1977. The background is that this seemed to be intended as an in-your-face rally because a large number of residents of Skokie were Holocaust survivors. The American Civil Liberties Union defended the right of the Nazis to have their march. The ACLU saw it as a free speech issue. So did I.
Imagine that someone had fashioned a badge then that said “I am the National Socialist Party.” Do you see the problem? The ACLU could, in good conscience, defend the National Socialists’ right to march and one reason it could do so is that it was NOT the National Socialist Party and–call it a hunch–the vast majority of members of the ACLU (I was one*) detested what the National Socialist Party stood for. The ACLU understood then that to defend someone’s freedom of speech is not to defend someone’s speech.
Ditto with freedom of association. Defending someone’s freedom of association is not at all the same thing as defending someone’s choice about whom to associate or not associate with.
One other comment: One thing I find interesting–and discouraging–is libertarians who use language they know to be wrong and language that they have, countless times, objected to when used by critics of freedom. Libertarian Penn Jillette did that here. He stated:
We’re asking that maybe they can treat people the same as other people and that does not seem unreasonable.
No one is asking. If that’s all people were doing, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
*I became a permanent resident of the United States in October 1977. I was so concerned about something gumming up the works that I didn’t dare join the ACLU before getting my green card. The ACLU was the first organization I joined after I got the green card.
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Thomas Nagle
Apr 7 2015 at 2:30pm
Thank you David. A well-reasoned post about a point that needed to be made.
ThomasH
I do not think that in context, “I am Charlie” was interpreted to mean “I just love to offend people with a ideology different from mine and think everyone should do it.”
Pedro Albuquerque
The “Je suis Charlie” motto was understood by most people I know as “your attack on freedom of expression is an attack on me as an individual.” Its meaning is evident in a Voltarian heritage context – could it be too foreign to people outside of continental Europe?
David R. Henderson
@Thomas Nagle,
@ThomasH,
That’s the problem with your use of the passive tense. “Interpreted” by whom? I bet many people, especially many Muslims, did interpret it that way.
@Pedro Albuguerque,
Its meaning is evident in a Voltarian heritage context – could it be too foreign to people outside of continental Europe?
No, it’s not too foreign to people outside continental Europe. We great unwashed in the United States understand it. Indeed, Voltaire, as you well know, was the one who is often given credit (possibly mistakenly) for making the strong distinction that I’m discussing here: between approving of what someone says and defending that person’s right to say it.
Henry Stork
Your analogy to the nazi march is not relevant. There’s a difference between the appropriate strategy to protect freedom of speech when someone gets a fine or has to spend a night at the police station for expressing an unpopular idea and when vigilantees kill someone for expressing that opinion. The lawyers of the ACLU can’t protect you against a fanatic with an AK-47.
I’m a bit confused about the Penn quote. He’s said, multiple times, on his podcast that he has no problem with allowing businesses to discriminate against whomever they wish. In fact, he’s said that he would love it if people advertised their bigotry so that the rest of us know whether to use their services at all. I’m not sure if he’s being inconsistent or too subtle in his stance. Probably the former, which is a bummer.
@Henry Stork,
Analogies are rarely perfect and you have put your finger on an imperfection. I don’t think that makes my analogy “not relevant” though. Let’s try to improve the analogy as follows: Some citizens of Skokie announce that if the march proceeds, they will murder some of the participants. Let’s stipulate that they’re credible. I’m assuming you’re a defender of free speech, or else you wouldn’t be making the point you’re making. In that case, would you feel comfortable defending the Nazis’ free speech by wearing a button that said, “Je suis un Nazi”?
Excellent post David. But I think the question in front of the public right now is not whether we should have anti-discrimination laws. It is clear that we have anti-discrimination laws and will so for the forseeable future.
The question now is should we include LGBT as a protected class? And if so, should we allow religious beliefs to serve as an “opt-out” of those laws? Answering yes to the second question makes the first one kind of moot since any anti-gay animus can simple be explained as an expression of religious belief.
My opinion is that as long as we have anti-discrimination laws, we ought to include LGBT. And you’re right to criticize Penn’s language. But even more accurate language doesn’t sound so awful, the government is forcing bakers to bake cakes and florists to deliver flowers.
Joshua Katz
Adam, I took the issue with the Penn quote to be the use of the word ‘ask.’ The context was that he supports anti-discrimination laws (but thinks the market will do a better job – so why support them – but that’s his problem.) It’s like saying “All we’re asking is that you contribute to Social Security.” Nope, you’re not asking, you’re telling.
in the discussion of freedom of association, many people have failed to understand the distinction between favoring someone’s freedom and favoring someone’s use of that freedom.
And I reiterate my point in the last post: the converse holds true. Many (most) people are unable to differentiate between the freedom to discriminate and the government (and society as a whole) favoring the use of that freedom to discriminate.
Not that that that’s the final word about freedom of association, but it’s certainly a factor in my calculus.
Yancey Ward
Doesn’t matter, the “I am Charlie” campaign was empty rhetoric in any case- most of them really didn’t mean it.
vikingvista
The issue comes down to, what do you think should happen to a person who offends in such a manner (e.g., by employing racial discrimination in personal trade preferences)? Sadly, most people seem to think, and the state has long agreed, that such an offense merits violent retribution against a disobeying offender.
Most people’s threshold for introducing violence into peaceful, if offensive, situations is frighteningly low. And that low threshold has been formally institutionalized.
RogC
Apr 7 2015 at 10:57pm
What Orwell called Herd-Poisoning has again become common in the west. Many people are so tied to their tribal identities that any affront to the tribe results in calling for blood either figuratively or sadly even literally. Those old enough have seen this process before where people stop identifying as individuals and become almost a hive mind full of hate for anyone outside the hive. It does not end well.
vikingvista you do have to admit that, historically speaking, the willingness to accept discrimination has far more often been accompanied with violence against the discriminated.
While Libertarians see a huge gap between physical violence and everything else, much of the rest of the world sees violence/coercion as a spectrum rather than binary, and thus defines the cut-off for acceptable government intervention relatively arbitrarily.
Apr 8 2015 at 2:27am
You have to admit, that notions of collective guilt (such as guilt by association) have historically been used extensively to punish the innocent for the crimes of others. Let’s keep a firm moral footing, shall we, and not forget that what matters in judging an individual, is how that one particular individual decision maker treats another individual, regardless of the offenses of others (and regardless of the uniformity of his dress or officiousness of his title).
Most everyone recognizes an easy division between violence and non-violence, at least when it involves those not presumed to be authorities. It isn’t that the rest of the world sees more gradations, it is that the rest of the world holds a double standard for violence committed by presumed authorities versus violence committed by anyone else, as though the exact same human action is transformed by a shiny metal badge or well-pressed uniform or grandiose proclamation.
When such an authority commits what would widely be agreed to be an egregious offense by a non-authority, most people think as though such an act never even occurred. This is how, e.g., millions of people find it perfectly acceptable that a man be maliciously killed for peacefully trading his property with willing customers; or even advocate for the kidnapping at gunpoint and forced relocation of immigrants or migrant workers and their families.
Mankind has become very adept at constructing specious arguments for sanctimoniously terrorizing the innocent. And almost all of it involves diversion away from the particular acts and/or the particular individuals.
It seems to me that the core dispute here is not freedom of association or gay rights. It is, “who holds society’s moral high ground – my group, or yours?”
The disapproved-of group pleads for tolerance. The approved-of group demands intolerance.
Gays, once disapproved of, formerly pleaded for tolerance. Now, suddenly… not so much. And vice versa for fundamentalist Christians.
I propose “Sense of Society” laws: resolutions with no penalties, that communicate society’s judgment, that is, its moral position on social positions, one way or the other. They would apply to virtually any socially divisive issue. The beauty would be that the victorious group could be completely intolerant (the resolution could mercilessly express disdain for the immorality of the disapproved-of group’s practices), even at the same time as the disapproved-of could receive tolerance. Pipe dream? Maybe. But Congress routinely passes “sense of Congress” resolutions, so I’m not so sure. Courts could nudge things along by applying stricter scrutiny to enforceable laws than to “sense of society” resolutions.
How to recognize a “sense of society” issue? Easy: a real, enforceable law should have overwhelming support. The fraction of society that favors murder, rape, or Ponzi schemes must be well under 1% (setting aside the debate about Social Security). The fraction that favors freedom of association even when it’s used for arbitrary discrimination must be well above 10%. It’s fairly easy to see the differences, most of the time. Notice, too, where some divisive social issues land – abortion, for example, or the drug war…
Finally, I’m a bit puzzled by something. A person who wants the cake, or the photography, provided by someone who opposes their wedding… What kind of person would want that? Either for themselves, or for the baker/photographer? And what kind of person does it take, to want it badly enough to go to court over it?
Let’s say they actually did kill several neo nazis, after breaking into the place they held their meetings. Which is more compareable to what happened in Paris.
As with Charlie Hebdo it would probably have disincentivized further attacks like this if the victims were showered with money, attention and sympathy. And if whatever was found offensive in the first place was repeated in solidarity with the victims the risk of new attacks would be divided between them.
However, there’s a difference with doing this when the victims are ireverrent leftists who dislike all religions but don’t really want to physically harm anyone and when the victims are neo nazis who would be very interested in killing the people who killed them first.
Apr 8 2015 at 10:11am
Most everyone recognizes an easy division between violence and non-violence
I’d strongly disagree with that. Sure, the ends of the spectrum are obvious (random violence / shaking hands), but there’d be tons of people that would consider strong social pressure, demeaning comments, or discrimination in business violence.
And it’s not just the victims. In my youth when discrimination was far more acceptable, there was a smooth continuum between sneers, whispered comments, clearly spoken taunts, ‘accidental’ shoving, tripping down the stairs, beating the minority up in the parking lot.
No easy division between being told “you really should move out of this neighborhood” and a brick through the window at midnight.
To politicians, war was simply an instrument of policy, and to most people, violence is simply an instrument of beliefs.
it is that the rest of the world holds a double standard for violence committed by presumed authorities versus violence committed by anyone else
Of course. For most, government (more or less) reflects themselves. And if they (or their proxy, the government) are doing the coercion, then it’s not really coercion (or it if it was coercion, it was necessary).
Moreover, since humans are social creatures, in the absence of strong government enforcement, it seems pretty clear that smaller groups essentially re-invent government, except without the legal barriers, and enforce their social norms using coercion and violence.
Its one reason that I’d say that more government has, over centuries, brought less violence overall (although perhaps more coercion, as it suppresses the natural tendency of the powerful to prey on the weak).
And yes, I acknowledge that if you manage to flip the government, then things are *really* bad. But on the whole, I’d say that with notable exceptions governments tend to trail the worst impulses of the populace, not lead them.
Roger X
Penn agrees with you completely. Listen to last week’s Penn’s Sunday School podcast. He says he holds two completely contradictory positions on this at once. He said if the ACLU woman had spoken first, his entire rant would have been against using law and government force to make businesses enforce equality. It happened that the woman who spoke first hit a nerve he could go with, so he did.
Henry Stork nailed it: the comparison is charged so it’s a misleading analogy. A better analogy would be to imagine an attack on the staff of South Park. Modern progressives and conservatives may have reasons to not enjoy Trey Parker’s and Matt Stone’s rowdy jokes, but I’m sure that, if it had been an attack on South Park Studios (“Super Best Friends” anyone?), lots of people would be carrying a “I’m South Park” badge around the world, independently of their real interest in the show.
Hazel Meade
Trevor H:
It bears repeating for the umteenth time that the florists and bakers in question aren’t advancing a right to discriminate against gays generally, just to not participate in their marriages. Wedding cakes are a small percentage of the bakers business, and wedding flower arrangements are a small percentage of the florists. In all of these instances, the people in question have always insisted that they have no problem selling to gays. They only object to providing these services for a marriage ceremony they believe is morally wrong.
Tom West,
ME: Most everyone recognizes an easy division between violence and non-violence
DU: I’d strongly disagree with that. Sure, the ends of the spectrum are obvious (random violence / shaking hands),
Shaking hands? So by “random violence” do you include the random shaking of hands?
When I say “most everyone”, I don’t mean “everyone”. One must always have exclusions for the deluded. You may very well feel so physically threatened at the sight of a 2-year-old eating a marshmallow that you run home, gather your family, load your shot gun, and stand guard at your door. But your unique and pathological perception in such a regard would not cause the general use of the word “violence” to expand to include toddler marshamallow eaters.
Likewise, when a business associate offers you his hand and you choose to accept it. You may uniquely feel physically threatened by it (I can’t get into your mind), but that doesn’t make such an agreement violent.
And by saying “most everyone” recognizes an easy division doesn’t mean there is no such thing as an ambiguous threat of violence. It does mean that such ambiguous threats are relatively very uncommon. The reason they are uncommon, is that ambiguity undermines the entire purpose of a threat. For a threat to work, a person must feel threatened.
“but there’d be tons of people that would consider strong social pressure, demeaning comments, or discrimination in business violence.”
No, there are not tons of people. No more than there are tons of people who think bananas are airplanes or justice is Red Bull. “Violence” exists as a word because it already has useful meaning, not whatever meaning any individual wants to give it. Can violence be used for social pressure? Of course, such social pressure is how all governments function always. Can demeaning comments employ violence? Sure, if the demeaning comment comes from a thug with a history of issuing demeaning comments prior to assaulting his target (but you likely will know, as ambiguity would undermine his purpose). Can discrimination in business employ violence? Sure, if the business employs thugs to assault unsuspecting patrons. Violence can be a tool for all kinds of ends. But it isn’t the only tool, and so is distinct from those ends.
In that list, there is rather a sharp division between spoken taunts and ‘accidental’ (quotes meaning that you know it isn’t accidental) shoving. That is a sharp division clear in the minds of most people (not to mention common law around the world).
Uh, yes. That is a pretty easy division. Unless, “you really should move out of this neighborhood” comes from someone you know has a history of throwing bricks through windows. But if the latter, the perpetrator will want you to know.
Not “simply”, and not in a way that redefines “violence”. To politicians, *violence* as most people understand it is an instrument of policy. To some people, *violence* as most people understand it is an instrument of beliefs. That doesn’t change the fact that most people see an easy division between violence and nonviolence. “Violence” isn’t that useless of a word.
ME: it is that the rest of the world holds a double standard for violence committed by presumed authorities versus violence committed by anyone else
DU: Of course. For most, government (more or less) reflects themselves. And if they (or their proxy, the government) are doing the coercion, then it’s not really coercion (or it if it was coercion, it was necessary).
Your collective fallacy is again failing you. Please try to understand that I am not you, you are not Joe, and Joe is not everyone else. If 100 strangers tar and feather me, that does not mean that I am tarring and feathering myself, I am being assaulted, and the numbers of assailants don’t make the assault necessary.
Being social creatures does not entail forming a violent monopoly authority, as seen by the fact that most social interactions are instead voluntary. And if you are attempting to defend government violence by asserting government is almost always a part of societies, then I hope you are ready to give the same defense to other things that are almost always a part of societies–like murder, rape, arson, war, child molestation, etc.
Except that there are few historical observations more obviously and dramatically opposite to what you claim. Where there has been more government, there has been greater violence. Unless of course you choose to arbitrarily ignore government violence. That would be like claiming state genocide is the most peaceful policy because of all the non-offending corpses it creates.
I don’t know what you mean by “flip”, but please try to restrain your collectivizations. Governments don’t trail the impulses of the whole populace, they are the tool and lubricant for the impulses of the most overbearing and malicious within a populace.
Shane L
My trouble with the “je suis” trend was that it was not applied to countless other infringements on freedom of speech in France and other “Western” countries. I think many people vaguely believe that “in the West, we have freedom of speech” and are unaware or indifferent to a great many intrusions on this liberty by Western governments. Days after the French attacks the silly comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala was arrested for a Facebook post reading “Je suis Charlie Coulibaly” (where Coulibaly is the name of the criminal who attacked a French kosher supermarket).
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/14/377201227/controversial-french-comedian-arrested-over-facebook-post-on-paris-attacks
Je suis Dieudonne? Defences of free speech look flimsy when they are not universal. The French state itself suppresses free speech with little controversy; if we want more general liberty it would be good to decriminalise such strange things as Holocaust denial in France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#France
@Pedro Albuquerque,
A better analogy would be to imagine an attack on the staff of South Park. Modern progressives and conservatives may have reasons to not enjoy Trey Parker’s and Matt Stone’s rowdy jokes, but I’m sure that, if it had been an attack on South Park Studios (“Super Best Friends” anyone?), lots of people would be carrying a “I’m South Park” badge around the world, independently of their real interest in the show.
It’s certainly a closer analogy.
So let’s consider it. I agree with you that lots of people would be wearing such a badge. And I would not be one of them. The reason is as I have stated in my post: it’s important, when people have trouble distinguishing between favoring freedom and favoring a particular use of that freedom, to do everything one can within reason to remind them of that distinction.
@Shane L,
I’ve think we’ve stated our points, so I’ll only clarify that I was defining the *ends* of the spectrum (random violence at one end, and handshake at the other).
violence = random attack
non-violence = handshake
Sorry I wasn’t clear.
@David, I think our disagreement comes from the fact that you associate “Je suis X” with “I support X” while I associate “Je suis X” with “I was attacked as X”. Logically, to say that “I was attacked as X” does not mean that “I support X,” it means only that an attack on X is taken as an attack on me. Some people carrying the badges did it probably for both reasons (support and attacked), but it’s my view that the “I was attacked as X” was the driving force behind the surprising success of the viral campaign.
@Shane, the cases of Dieudonné and of holocaust denial were, in the worst case, examples of hypocrisy not of the “Je suis X” crowds but of people in positions of power. As pointed by many that I know in the “Je suis X” crowds, the behavior of those people in power was hypocritical but not surprising. In reality, the “Je suis X” crowds, according to my observations, used the opportunity sometimes to denounce possible acts of censorship such as represented by the case of Dieudonné, which by the way is not clear cut (he got in legal trouble mostly due to toying with incitement to violence). It’s evident however that people will feel much more comfortable carrying a “Je suis X” badge if X is South Park or Charlie Hebdo than if X is the Ku Klux Klan or Dieudonné, simply because the first two clearly use satire to mock their opponents while the latter two use violence or have toyed (in the best hypothesis) the idea. This is why a viral campaign defending freedom of expression based on “I am South Park” may work while a campaign based on “I am the Ku Klux Klan” has very little chance of working.
jeppen
The post does not answer why you are not Charlie Hebdo, just says that obviously, you’d not “be” nazi even if you don’t approve of physical attacks on nazis. However, the nazi comparison too strong to be very useful, but hints that you might share some misconceptions about CH. The commenter that mentioned South Park, however, has a valid comparison. Would you be South Park?
A lot of people have been mislead to think that CH is racist. It is not. It is an anti-racist liberal satire publication. A few of the cartoons can, if read by or translated to an audience not familiar with the layered French satire nor the phenomena it targets, be seen as racist when they are in fact mocking racists.
Apr 10 2015 at 6:02am
Pedro, that’s cool, I didn’t know that. I judged only by Facebook comments of my own friends, where I didn’t see such a response. If it leads to a wider appreciation of freedom of speech it could be a good thing.
David, thanks!
Apr 10 2015 at 10:40am
@jeppen,
Would you be South Park?
I answered that above. See my answer and see why.
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WO1996038594A1 1996-12-05 MEDICAL, DENTAL AND ORTHODONTIC ARTICLES OF Ni-Ti-Nb ALLOYS
LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D
Additon, Higgins & Pendleton, P.A. (Charlotte, NC, US)
That which is claimed is:
1. An endodontic instrument adapted for use in performing root canal therapy on a tooth and that is particularly useful for irrigating a root canal possessing a non-linear central axis, the instrument comprising: an elongate shank having a first end and an opposite second end wherein said shank is a metallic alloy comprising at least about 30% titanium and at least about 50% nickel; an enclosed axial channel extending the length of the shank for providing fluid communication between said first end and said second end for delivering fluids to areas external to said second end of said shank; and at least one radial orifice positioned adjacent said second end for providing radial dispersion of fluid from said orifice; said shank being sufficiently flexible to substantially traverse the entire length of a root canal having a non-linear central axis and position said second end of said shank adjacent the distal end of the curved root canal and the apical foramina.
2. The endodontic instrument of claim 1 wherein said second end of the shank comprises a blunt end surface.
3. The endodontic instrument of claim 1 wherein said orifice comprises at least one hole situated along the perimeter of said shank.
4. The endodontic instrument of claim 1 wherein said orifice comprises a semi-cylindrical structure at the terminus of said second end of said shank.
5. The endodontic instrument of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of axially spaced apart depth calibration markings positioned along the shank.
6. The endodontic instrument of claim 1 wherein the shank of said instrument is tapered at an included angle of between about ½ and about 5 degrees.
7. The endodontic instrument of claim 1 further comprising a fitting mounted at said first end of the shank, said fitting for establishing fluid communication between said enclosed axial channel and a fluid reservoir.
8. The endodontic instrument of claim 7 further comprising a fluid reservoir in fluid communication with said enclosed axial channel.
9. An endodontic irrigation syringe comprising: a reservoir for retaining a fluid; a needle in fluid communication with said reservoir, said needle comprising an elongate shank having a first end and an opposite second end and an enclosed axial channel extending the length of the shank for providing fluid communication between said reservoir and said second end and for delivering fluids to areas external to said second end of said shank, said shank being sufficiently flexible to substantially traverse the entire length of a root canal having a non-linear central axis and position said second end of said shank adjacent the distal end of the curved root canal and the apical foramina, and wherein said shank is a metallic alloy comprising at least about 30% titanium and at least about 50% nickel; at least one radial orifice positioned adjacent said second end for providing radial dispersion of fluid from said orifice; and means for dispensing a fluid from said reservoir to said channel of said needle.
10. The endodontic irrigation syringe of claim 9 wherein said second end of the shank comprises a blunt end surface.
11. The endodontic irrigation syringe of claim 9 wherein said orifice comprises at least one hole situated along the perimeter of said shank.
12. The endodontic irrigation syringe of claim 9 wherein said orifice comprises a semi-cylindrical structure at the terminus of said second end of said shank positioned along the shank.
13. The endodontic irrigation syringe of claim 9 wherein the shank of said needle is tapered at an included angle of between about ½ and about 5 degrees.
14. A method for irrigating a root canal possessing a non-linear central axis, the method comprising: transferring a fluid by way of a needle comprising at least about 30% titanium and at least about 50% nickel and extending from the crown of the tooth along the non-linear central axis of the root canal to a discharge point adjacent the apical foramina and thereafter discharging the fluid from an orifice at the distal end of the needle such that a portion of the fluid is discharged substantially perpendicularly to the openings of the side canals and tubules extending from the main root canal and adjacent the apical foramina.
15. A method according to claim 14 in which the fluid comprises at least one fluid selected from the group consisting of disinfecting agents and chelating agents.
16. A method according to claim 15 wherein the disinfecting agent is sodium hypochlorite and the chelating agent is EDTA.
17. A method according to claim 14 wherein said orifice comprises a semi-cylindrical structure at the terminus of the distal end of the needle.
18. A method according to claim 14 further comprising adjusting the depth of insertion by measuring a plurality of axially spaced apart depth calibration markings positioned along the needle.
19. A method according to claim 14 wherein the needle is tapered at an included angle of between about ½ and about 5 degrees.
20. A method for irrigating the distal end of a root canal possessing a non-linear central axis, the method comprising: inserting an elongate, hollow and flexible shank, comprising at least about 30% titanium and at least about 50% nickel and having a first end and an opposite second end, into a root canal along a path that generally follows the non-linear central axis of the root canal and positioning the second end of the shank adjacent the distal end of the root canal and the apical foramina; and injecting an irrigation fluid into the distal end of the root canal through an orifice adjacent the second end of the shank whereby at least a portion of the irrigation fluid impacts the sideway of the root canal at an angle that is substantially perpendicular to the central axis of the root canal.
21. A method according to claim 20 in which the irrigating fluid is selected from the group comprising disinfecting agents and chelating agents.
22. A method according to claim 20 wherein said second end of the shank comprises a blunt end surface.
23. A method according to claim 20 wherein said orifice comprises at least one hole situated along the perimeter of the shank.
24. A method according to claim 20 wherein said orifice comprises a semi-cylindrical structure at the terminus of the second end of the shank.
25. A method according to claim 20 further comprising adjusting the depth of insertion by measuring a plurality of axially spaced apart depth calibration markings positioned along the shank.
26. A method according to claim 20 wherein the shank is tapered at an included angle of between about ½ and about 5 degrees.
27. A syringe comprising: a hollow, axially elongated barrel; a needle; a removable connector attached to said barrel adjacent a distal end thereof said connector comprising a first end removably attached to said distal end of said barrel and a second end attached to said needle, said first and second ends being separated by an intermediate portion, said intermediate portion being non-linear and forming an angle between said first end and said second end, said connector further comprising a lumen extending the length and thereof and providing fluid communication between said barrel and said needle; said needle comprising an elongate shank comprising at least about 30% titanium and at least about 50% nickel and having a first end and an opposite second end and an enclosed axial channel extending the length of the shank for providing fluid communication between said barrel and said second end of said shank and for delivering fluids to areas external to said second end of said shank, said shank being sufficiently flexible to substantially traverse the entire length of a root canal having a non-linear central axis and position said second end of said shank adjacent the distal end of the curved root canal and the apical foramina; at least one radial orifice positioned adjacent said second end of said shank for providing radial dispersion of fluid from said orifice; and means for dispensing a fluid from said barrel to said channel of said needle.
28. The syringe of claim 27 wherein said second end of said shank comprises a blunt end surface.
29. The syringe of claim 27 wherein said connector is removable from said barrel in response to the application of a torque.
30. The syringe of claim 27 wherein said connector is removable from said barrel in response to the application of a linear force.
31. The syringe of claim 27 wherein said angle is selected from the group consisting of obtuse and right angles.
The invention is an apparatus and method for use in dental applications. In particular, the invention is an apparatus and method for use in endodontic or root canal procedures.
Endodontics or root canal therapy is a well-known dental procedure wherein the crown of a diseased tooth is opened to permit the canal (or canals) of the tooth to be cleaned and filled. In general terms, a root canal proceeds as follows. The crown of the tooth is opened to expose the root canal. Typical root canals have a non-linear central axis, i.e., they are curved, and the curve of the canal can be quite severe. During an endodontic procedure, a series of very delicate, flexible, rotary driven or finger-held instruments or files are used to extirpate or clean out and shape the root canal. These files typically possess contoured or rough outer surfaces to enable the endodontist to break up and loosen tissue as well as remove infected dentin from the canal walls within the root canal. Examples of such files are discussed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,713,736 to Heath et al. The endodontist usually rotates and reciprocates the file to bring loose tissue and debris out of the root canal.
The files, however, are incapable of removing all of the necessary tissue and debris, especially tissue and debris trapped in the smaller lateral canals extending off the main canal. Thus, Endodontists remove this tissue and debris by injecting a fluid (typically a disinfecting agent or chelating agent) into the canal to irrigate the canal. The typical disinfecting fluid is a dilute solution of sodium hypochlorite. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is a typical chelating agent.
Fluid injection is accomplished by means of a hollow needle or syringe. As used herein, the term needle will generally refer to the elongate, typically metal shank traditionally associated with medical injections. The term needle and shank may be used interchangeably herein unless the context of the description or claims requires otherwise. The term syringe is used to encompass both a needle and other elements necessary to discharge a fluid from a needle such as a fluid reservoir and plunger. The injection and removal of the solution is referred to as “irrigating” or “aspirating” the canal.
After irrigation, the cleaned, disinfected and vacant root canal is then obturated or filled, typically with a waxy, rubbery compound known as gutta percha. A set of rod-like pluggers similar to the files used to extirpate the canal force the gutta percha down into the canal. After the canal is filled, the crown of the tooth is repaired thereby completing the procedure.
The non-linear structure of root canals presents several problems for endodontists. The canal must be cleaned and disinfected but the integrity of the canal must be maintained. If a stiff file or plugger is used, the distal end of the tool may pierce the sidewall of the canal and destroy the tooth. If a flexible file or plugger is used, it must maintain enough rigidity to accomplish the task of removing or inserting material. For many years, a suitable material for making files and pluggers did not exist and endodontists compensated by creating larger entry holes in crowns and using the best materials at hand.
In the late 1980's and early 1990's, nickel-titanium alloys possessing superelastic and suitable shape memory properties became available. Instrument companies began manufacturing files and pluggers made from these alloys. The nickel-titanium files and pluggers allowed the endodontist to reach the bottom of the root canal without excessive risk of puncturing the side of the canal.
Although nickel-titanium files and pluggers improved portions of the root canal procedure, problems remain with respect to the irrigation, aspiration and disinfection of the canal. Presently, the irrigation solutions used to clean, disinfect, and remove debris in the canal are delivered using rigid irrigation needles. These needles are typically made of stainless steel and possess blunt ends. The distal end of the needle typically possesses slits or other structural components to ensure that the solution is distributed both axially and radially within the canal.
The rigid nature of a stainless steel irrigation syringe prevents an endodontist from reaching the bottom of a root canal with a syringe. Accordingly, an endodontist cannot directly irrigate the distal end of the root canal adjacent the apical foramina or a large portion of the complex network of fine lateral fissures, tubules and canals that extend from the main canal. The bottom of the root canal and the fine web of fissures may act as a breeding ground for bacteria that may later lead to a serious infection resulting in failure of the endodontic treatment and loss of the tooth. Using current syringes, the endodontist must try to force the solution, through exertion of hydraulic pressure, to the bottom of the canal and into the fine fissures and canals or make geometric adjustments to the insertion angle. If too much pressure is exerted, the solution may exit the root canal seriously damaging underlying tissue. Geometric adjustments to the insertion angle to extend the insertion distance may damage the crown. In short, complete irrigation and proper disinfection of the canal cannot be ensured using known instruments.
Accordingly, a need exists for an endodontic instrument that allows an endodontist to inject irrigation, disinfecting, and debris removal solutions adjacent the distal end of a root canal. Such an instrument must also be compatible with the physical and geometric constraints imposed by structure of the root canal.
OBJECT AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide an improved endodontic instrument and method for use in root canal therapy. A further object of the invention is to provide an improved endodontic instrument and method for irrigating and disinfecting root canals during endodontic procedures. A still further object of the invention is to provide an improved endodontic instrument and method that allows for the injection of irrigating and disinfecting solutions at the distal end of a root canal adjacent the apical foramina.
The above and other objects and advantages of the present invention are achieved in the embodiments illustrated herein by the provision of an endodontic instrument adapted for use in performing root canal therapy on a tooth. The endodontic instrument according to the invention is particularly useful for irrigating a root canal possessing a non-linear central axis. In one embodiment, the endodontic instrument according to the invention comprises an elongate shank having a first end and an opposite second end and an enclosed axial channel extending the length of the shank for providing fluid communication between the first end and the second end. The enclosed axial channel delivers fluids to areas external to the second end of the shank (i.e., the wall of a root canal). The instrument also comprises at least one radial orifice positioned adjacent the second end for providing radial dispersion of fluid from the orifice. The instrument is further defined as possessing a shank having a flexibility sufficient to substantially traverse the entire length of a root canal having a non-linear central axis and position the second end of the shank adjacent the distal end of the curved root canal and the apical foramina.
In a further embodiment, the invention is a method for irrigating a root canal possessing a non-linear central axis. The method according to the invention comprises transferring a fluid by way of a needle from the crown of the tooth along the non-linear central axis of a root canal to a discharge point adjacent the apical foramina. Thereafter, the method comprises discharging a fluid from an orifice at the distal end of the needle such that a portion of the fluid is discharged along a vector that is substantially perpendicular to the openings of the side canals and tubules extending from the main root canal and adjacent the apical foramina.
This invention may be better understood and its numerous objects and advantages will become apparent to those skilled in the art by reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an endodontic irrigation needle in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of the irrigation of a root canal in accordance with one embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of one end of a needle.
FIG.4 is a cross-sectional view of a needle.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a distal end of a needle.
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a needle.
FIG. 10 is a side view of a syringe according to the invention.
One embodiment of the claimed invention is an endodontic instrument adapted for use in performing root canal therapy on a tooth. The claimed invention is particularly useful in irrigating a root canal possessing a non-linear central axis. Referring now to FIG. 1, the endodontic instrument comprises an elongate shank 10 having a first end 12 and an opposite second end 14. As shown in FIG. 3, the second end of the shank 14 is preferably rounded or blunt to prevent unwanted breaches of the wall of the root canal. The shape of the second end of the shank, however, may be angled or pointed if desired or needed for a particular application.
An enclosed axial channel or lumen 16, such as those utilized in hypodermic needles, extends the length of the shank. An enclosed axial channel or lumen 16 is shown schematically by dotted lines in FIG. 4 and in cross-section in FIGS. 5 and 7. The enclosed axial channel 16 provides fluid communication (i.e., a pathway for fluid transfer) between the first end 12 of the shank and the second end 14 of the shank and to areas external to the second end of the shank (i.e., the root canal).
At least one radial orifice 18 is positioned adjacent the second end 14 of the shank. As used herein, the term “radial orifice” is utilized to convey the fact that the instrument according to the invention delivers fluid in a manner distinctly different from traditional needles or syringes used in other medical procedures. Whereas most needles eject fluid along a path aligned with the needle's elongate axis, the instrument according to the invention is designed to eject fluid or cause fluid to eject at an angle oblique from or perpendicular to the shank's elongate axis as shown in FIG. 3. The radial dispersion of the fluid is accomplished by creating at least one orifice having at least one cross-sectional plane that is oblique or parallel to the elongate axis of the shank. Such orifices are familiar to those skilled in the art. Further, it is to be understood that the orifices shown in the figures are representative and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
Referring now to FIGS. 3-7, the shank 10 possesses several orifices 18 adjacent the second end 14 of the shank. Each orifice 18 is a hole situated along the perimeter of the shank 10. Each orifice 18 or hole possesses at least one cross-sectional plane that is oblique or parallel to the elongate axis of the shank.
Alternatively, radial dispersion is accomplished by removing a portion of the shank's wall at the terminus of the second end 14 of the shank as shown in FIG. 8. The removal of the wall creates a semi-cylindrical opening 20 at the terminus of the second end 14. The semi-cylindrical opening allows at least a portion of the exiting fluid to exit at an angle oblique to the shank's elongate axis.
The dispersion of the fluid at an angle oblique or perpendicular to the shank's elongate axis is important for a number of reasons. For example, a fine web of small canals and tubules extends in all directions from the main root canal. Known needles are incapable of ejecting irrigating or disinfecting fluid directly at the wall of the root canal at all points along the curve of the canal. Currently, endodontists must create a hydraulic head in the root canal to force the fluid to the bottom of the canal and into the smaller branch canals. As discussed previously, creating excessive pressures inside the root canal risks damaging the root canal and should be avoided.
Referring again to FIG. 4, the shank 10 preferably possesses spaced apart depth calibration markings 22 positioned at intervals along the length of the shank. Such depth calibration markings enable the endodontist to determine the depth reached during the procedure. Such markings are well known in the art and may vary in size or spacing.
Referring now to FIG. 2, the shank 10 substantially traverses the entire length of a root canal having a non-linear central axis to a point adjacent the distal end of the canal and the apical foramina 11. The shank 10 should be flexible and possess shape memory sufficient to return to its original position after bending. Presently, alloys of nickel and titanium are best suited for the invention's purposes. In particular, alloys comprising at least about 30% titanium and at least about 50% nickel are preferred. Polymer chemistry may soon provide materials suitable for use as a shank as described by the invention and accordingly are within the scope of the invention.
The majority of the shanks utilized in accordance with the invention will have a uniform diameter from the first end 12 to the second end 14. Certain applications, however, may require a tapered shank. Accordingly, the invention encompasses instruments utilizing a shank that is tapered at an included angle of between about ½ and about 5 degrees. In other words, the shank tapers from a thicker first end 12 to a thinner second end 14.
The instrument according to the invention further comprises a coupling for establishing fluid communication between the needle and a fluid reservoir. Couplings for attaching needles to syringes are well known to those skilled in the art.
Most medical syringes may be used with a variety of interchangeable needles of varying diameter and length, as envisioned by the apparatus according to the invention. In most instances, needles are attached to syringes using a Luer coupling or connector. Luer couplings typically come in two forms, both of which are attached and detached by application of a simple mechanical force. One form is a simple conical device which accepts the needle base. This version is often described as a Luer tip. To detach the needle, one simply pulls it off by applying a linear force.
The other type is often described as a Luer lock. The Luer lock has a simple screw thread locking mechanism that permits the base of the needle to be screwed onto the syringe upon the application of a torque so that it cannot be pulled without unscrewing. Such connectors are well known to those skilled in the art and are the subject of numerous patents such as U.S. Pat. No. 6,033,386 to Novacek et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 5,984,373 to Fitoussi et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 5,047,021 to Utterbery; and U.S. Pat. No. 4,452,473 to Ruschlee.
Although traditional syringe needle couplings may be utilized in the practice of the invention, in many instances such couplings are not practical or even suitable. For example, a patient's mouth opening is limited and it may be impossible for an endodontist to reach a tooth, such as a molar, with a needle attached to a syringe using a traditional linear coupling.
Currently, endodontists address this problem by bending the tips of the stainless steel needles used for irrigation. Typically, a 45°-90° bend is utilized. This functionally transforms the upper portion of the needle into an extension that allows the lower portion of the needle to reach a tooth and enter it through the crown. The flexible nature of the needle utilized in the practice of the invention makes this option impracticable. Accordingly, the invention may utilize an extended and angled coupling that creates a suitable angle between the fluid reservoir and the needle. An example of such a coupling is shown in FIGS. 2 and 10.
Referring now to FIG. 10, a connector 40, preferably a Luer type connector, is shown. Typically, these connectors are formed of polymers. The connector 40 possesses a first end 42 and a second end 44 and an intermediate portion 46 positioned between the first end 42 and the second end 44. The intermediate portion 46 is elongate and forms an angle, identified generally at A in FIG. 10, between the first end 42 and the second end 44. The connector also possesses a lumen (not shown) extending its length providing fluid communication between the first end 42 and the second end 44.
The embodiment shown in FIG. 10 is designed such that the needle is fixably attached at the second end 44 while the first end 42 is removably attached to the distal end of a syringe or fluid reservoir as shown in FIGS. 2 and 10 and discussed below. In this design, the distance between the angle A and the first end 42 functions as an extension allowing the endodontist to reach and enter teeth easily and comfortably both for the endodontist and patient.
A further embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention encompasses an endodontic irrigation syringe of the type shown in FIG. 10. The syringe 30 according to the invention comprises a reservoir for retaining irrigation or disinfecting fluid and means for dispensing a fluid from the reservoir. Typically, the function of the reservoir and means for dispensing are provided by a hollow, axially elongated barrel or tube 32 and plunger 34 combination commonly associated with hypodermic needles and other such medical devices. The syringe 30 further comprises a shank 10 of the type previously discussed that is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir, fluid communication is accomplished by means of the connector 40 that is removably attached to the distal end of the barrel 32. The connector 40 is of the type previously described.
A still further embodiment of the invention encompasses a method for irrigating a root canal possessing a non-linear central axis. The method comprises inserting an elongate, hollow and flexible shank or needle of the type previously discussed into a root canal along a path that generally follows the non-linear central axis of the root canal. In this manner the distal end of the needle and its orifices are positioned adjacent the distal end of the root canal and the apical foramina.
The insertion of the shank is followed by transferring a fluid, by way of the needle, from the crown of the tooth along the non-linear central axis of the root canal to a discharge point adjacent the apical foramina. Thereafter, the fluid is discharged from an orifice at the distal end of the needle such that a portion of the fluid is discharged along a vector that is substantially perpendicular to the openings of the side canals and tubules extending from the main root canal and adjacent the apical foramina. This manner of irrigating and disinfecting provides a more direct application of fluid to the bottom of the root canal and the smaller accessory canals that branch from the main canal thus improving the effectiveness of the overall procedure.
The invention has been described in detail, with reference to certain preferred embodiments, in order to enable the reader to practice the invention without undue experimentation. However, a person having ordinary skill in the art will readily recognize that many of the components and parameters may be varied or modified to a certain extent without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Furthermore, titles, headings, or the like are provided to enhance the reader's comprehension of this document, and should not be read as limiting the scope of the present invention. Accordingly, only the following claims and reasonable extensions and equivalents define the intellectual property rights to the invention.
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Traffic shift on Halsted Street Bridge over Eisenhower set for Friday
Traffic will be shifted onto the newly constructed Halsted Street bridge over the Eisenhower Expressway starting Friday.
Work began March 10, 2014, on the bridge as part of the larger Jane Byrne Interchange reconstruction, according to transit officials.
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Halsted Street will still be limited to one lane in each direction between Harrison and Van Buren until the entire bridge is done this fall, IDOT said.
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Today, the boy who loved me and left me literally became the poster boy for my college. His picture is on the home page of the college website and on a banner in the cafeteria where I eat every day. FML
By Evelyn - United States
Today, I was at the park with my friends. We were all having fun on the swings, when out of nowhere I heard a thud, followed by a child crying. Turns out I accidentally kicked him in the head. FML
By bluesox4 - United States
Today, I found out that the only thing worse than a psycho, overbearing, controlling girlfriend is a psycho, overbearing and controlling ex-girlfriend. FML
By ABD
The system is broke!
Today, I found out that when I go on Medicare in January, one of my medicines will go from $45 per month to $3000 for the first month, then $425 per month for the rest of the year. I need this medicine to stay alive. FML
By Anonymous - Australia
Today, I went on a date. After we finished our meal, I had to use the bathroom really bad. When I said so, my date totally lost it and accused me of planning on climbing out a window and ditching her. "Fuck that and fuck you!" she said, then stormed out, leaving me with the bill. FML
By Anonymous - United Kingdom
Today, I got trapped in an elevator with a chicken. FML
Today, I called my daughter a wimp and insisted her pain can't be that bad. She left in tears. Later, I got a call from her doctor informing me that she has trigeminal neuralgia, one of the most painful diseases known to man. I'm an asshole. FML
By Tristan Brantley - United States
Today, I called my wife from work to check in on her because she's eight months pregnant. She didn't answer. Instead she showed up at my work hysterically crying and screaming, "You don't love me because I'm a fat whale!" She then knocked everything off my desk. FML
By Cpt Colin - United States
Today, my girlfriend hated the idea of sex so much she was willing to give me money for a stripper. FML
By moudly - United States
Today, my mom finally believed me when I said I smelled mold. I lifted up the couch, and it was covered in mold. So were the bottoms of all our furniture, our beds, and my grandma's vintage chair. We've been living in mold for the past 4 months. FML
Today, I found out my fiancé is in the market for a new girlfriend. How? He used my credit card to sign up for 3 dating sites. FML
By DeeDee - Austria - Vienna
Today, my brother came to my first standup comedy act. He'd apparently read my material beforehand, and kept finishing my jokes for me. FML
By ThisChick - United States - New Orleans
Today, I cringed at a memory of 5-year-old me going to restaurants I was brought to and stealing tip money because I thought it was free. I got to watch a kid do the same thing to me. Oh, sweet karma. FML
Today, I sent a picture to my girlfriend of my erect penis with a quote saying "It's waiting for you." She responded with a picture of her left hand showing her left ring finger with a quote saying "It's waiting for you too." FML
By eyeleanify - United States
Today, I hit a car while trying to park. Assuming that no one saw, I moved my car and parked somewhere else. Hours later I get a call from the university police. While backing up to go to the police station I hit another car. FML
By ginny - United States
Today, my boyfriend came in my room dressed as Harry Potter and declared that he was going to put his basilisk into my chamber of secrets. And yes, that was my first time. FML
By ididlookgood - United States
Today, I went to the gym that I just became a member of, making an extra effort to look good because I've heard there are hot guys there. The lady at the front desk said they need to take my picture, then took a second look and said, "Don't worry hun, we'll take it when you're more prepared." FML
By AzariusStar01 | 26
#7388937 - Sunday 15 January 2017 9:14
Everyone has accidents and clumsy moments like that, no biggie. They'll forget about it eventually, and it won't feel so embarrassing after a while
By xica_sp4ever | 18
#7820346 - Friday 12 July 2019 8:54
Probably why they make chairs because tables aren’t for sitting on.
#7820202 - Thursday 11 July 2019 16:42
So much for getting a degree! The world needs ditch-diggers, too.
By WeirdUS | 29
#7820415 - Friday 12 July 2019 13:28
Depending on the table but most aren’t going to hold someone’s weight at one end
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Best Xbox Cyber Monday Deals: Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Gears Tactics, And More
By Mat Paget on November 30, 2020 at 11:07AM PST
The products discussed here were independently chosen by our editors. GameSpot may get a share of the revenue if you buy anything featured on our site.
Cyber Monday is the last major deals event of the year, and if you recently picked up an Xbox Series X|S, you'll definitely want to check out the wide range of discounts on games, accessories, and Game Pass Ultimate. Regardless of whether you're shopping for someone else or yourself, there are plenty of stellar deals to take advantage of on Cyber Monday. Major retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target have all launched Cyber Monday sales, and each one features some worthy Xbox deals.
The best part of the Xbox deals is the level of compatibility between generations. Unlike with PS5 and PS4, you can actually use the newer Xbox Series X|S controllers on Xbox One and vice versa for all your games.
For more deals, take a look at our roundup of the best Cyber Monday gaming deals. You'll find deals there for everything from PS5 to Nintendo Switch.
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The new Xbox wireless controller
$20 off on all Xbox wireless controllers
Xbox wireless controllers are $20 off at Best Buy during its Cyber Monday sale. This includes the latest model, which released alongside the new Xbox Series X and S consoles. In addition to the next-gen consoles, all of these controllers also work on Xbox One and PC. Their new share button lets you capture screenshots and footage on the fly.
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership card
3 months of Game Pass Ultimate for $20 (was $45)
Target has three-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate codes for $20 (down from $45) during Cyber Monday, so it's a good time to stock up for cheap. Walmart, on the other hand, has three-month Game Pass Ultimate memberships for $22.88
If you're a new subscriber, you'll want to claim your first month of Game Pass Ultimate for $1 and then redeem your three-month membership codes. For current subscribers, you can stack on multiple three-month memberships to extend your current subscription.
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10% off Xbox Store gift cards
This deal is essentially free money. You can grab Xbox Store gift cards at Best Buy for 10% off for Cyber Monday.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla for $50 (was $60)
GameStop has the first major discount on Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the latest open-world game from Ubisoft that just released this month.
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Razer Wolverine Ultimate controller
Razer Wolverine Ultimate controller for $140 (was $160)
The Razer Wolverine Ultimate is a great alternative to Microsoft's Xbox Elite series 2 controller, thanks to its extra back buttons, remappable functions, and RGB lighting. It's down to $140 at GameStop during Cyber Monday.
Astro A40 TR wired gaming headset
Astro A40 TR wired gaming headset for $120 (was $150)
The Astro A40 TR wired gaming headset connects to any Xbox controller via its 3.5mm cable, and during Cyber Monday it's $120 at Amazon. Astro makes some of the better, higher-end gaming headsets, so this is quite the deal for the build and audio quality you're getting.
Astro MixAmp Pro TR
Astro MixAmp Pro TR for $100 (was $130)
You can use the Astro A40 TR gaming headset on its own, but if you'd like greater control over your volume and audio mix, then the MixAmp Pro TR is definitely worth getting. You plug it into your console via USB and then plug your headset's 3.5mm cable into the MixAmp. It's discounted to $100 during Cyber Monday.
Watch Dogs: Legion for $30 (was $60)
Watch Dogs: Legion isn't even a month old, but it's already discounted to $30 at multiple retailers. It's one of the best deals we've seen so far, and no matter what console you play on--Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S--you'll be able to play the best version your console can, thanks to Microsoft's Smart Delivery service.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time for $30 (was $60)
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time ignores everything released after the classic PlayStation titles and sets out on another platforming adventure. Fans of the originals will love Crash's excellent level design. You can pick it up for only $30 during Cyber Monday.
Gears 5 for $5 (was $30)
Gears 5 is one of the Xbox One's best games, but its Xbox Series X|S versions are far superior. You can play up to 120Hz in multiplayer on the new consoles, not to mention 4K and 60Hz in the campaign. There's even a mode that lets you switch Marcus Fenix with Dave Bautista, WWE wrestler and star of Guardians of the Galaxy.
Gears Tactics for $30 (was $60)
Gears Tactics released on PC earlier this year, but now it's available on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. Like Watch Dogs: Legion, Gears Tactics is a brand-new release, so the fact that it's getting such a great deal is quite the surprise. You can snag this tactical-action game for only $30 at Best Buy during Cyber Monday.
Forza Horizon 4 for $20 (was $50)
Forza Horizon 4 is one of the best racing games you can play right now, and its Xbox Series X and S versions are excellent. The visuals are beautiful, and the racing is fast. There are also a lot of different vehicles you can unlock and drive, making this an excellent game for car enthusiasts. During Cyber Monday, GameStop is discounting it to $20.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps for $13 (was $30)
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a beautiful platformer that will definitely pull at your heartstrings. It's playable on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, but the next-gen consoles have some special modes that let you play in 120Hz or even a downsampled 6K resolution on the Series X. It's a gorgeous game that looks even better on the new consoles, and you can buy it for only $13 during Cyber Monday.
Star Wars Squadrons for $17 (was $40)
For those who've always wanted to pilot an X-Wing or TIE Fighter, Star Wars Squadrons is for you. The action game lets you fly some of Star Wars' most iconic ships in the middle of galactic dogfights. It features a single-player campaign and online multiplayer, and you can jump in for only $17 during GameStop's Cyber Monday sale.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 for $25 (was $40)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 released back in September, effectively reviving a classic series. It's a great throwback to the original two games, featuring all of the skaters and levels. It sees its first big discount during Cyber Monday, bringing the game down to $25 at Target.
Doom Eternal for $20 (was $60)
Doom Eternal continues the fast-paced action and bloodshed that was started in Doom (2016). It adds a number of new tools to the Doom Slayer's arsenal, including shoulder-mounted weapons and the Crucible sword. These new weapons add even more ways to kill demons, but there's also quite a bit of platforming and secrets, both of which are fun to engage with. For Cyber Monday, GameStop is discounting it to $20.
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot for $17 (was $40)
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot puts you in the shoes of the series' lovable protagonist, Goku. You'll play through all of Dragon Ball Z's sagas from the Saiyan Saga right through the Buu Saga. Once you're done with that, there's DLC that'll let you play through the first two sagas of Dragon Ball Super. Dragon Ball fans will get a huge kick out of this action-RPG, especially at $17 during Cyber Monday.
Borderlands 3 for $10 (was $30)
Borderlands 3 released last year and proved to be a fun, content-filled RPG shooter. It's going to get a free next-gen upgrade in the near future, so if you want to get in on all of the looting and shooting, Cyber Monday is a great chance to pick it up for only $10 at GameStop. It also features a free next-gen upgrade on PS5 and Xbox Series X.
Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection
Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection for $25 (was $50)
Mortal Kombat 11 is one of the best fighting games out there right now, and developer NetherRealm Studios has done a great job of supporting it. Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection compiles all of the DLC fighters except Kombat Pack 3, which releases November 17. You can pick this up for only $25 during Cyber Monday and then buy the DLC to complete the package. Mortal Kombat 11 also comes with a free next-gen upgrade for Xbox Series X and S.
FIFA 21 for $27 (was $60)
The FIFA series rarely falters, and FIFA 21 is no different. This year's entry makes meaningful changes to passing and player responsiveness as well as adding more modes to the FIFA Street-like Volta Football. GameStop is selling FIFA 21 for only $27 during Cyber Monday.
NBA 2K21 for $27 (was $60)
NBA 2K21 is the same game basketball fans know and love, but this time, it adds a WNBA MyPlayer mode as well as tweaks to the Pro Stick and The Neighborhood. For Cyber Monday, it's $27 at GameStop.
PGA Tour 2K21 for $27 (was $60)
PGA Tour 2K21 is the first game 2K has branded as part of 2K Sports, and thankfully, it's a great first outing. Following several titles from The Golf Club series, PGA Tour 2K21 brings an excellent game of golf with 15 real PGA Tour courses and tournaments. It's $27 during Cyber Monday at GameStop.
Madden NFL 21 for $27 (was $60)
This year's football game adds The Yard, a new arcade-y mode that's great in short bursts. It's one of the best additions in recent years, and if you want to snag Madden NFL 21 on the cheap, then you can do so for $27 at GameStop.
Yakuza: Like A Dragon for $40 (was $60)
Just released, Yakuza: Like A Dragon is the strangest entry in the long-running series, turning the brawling combat into a turn-based role-playing system. It retains that classic Yakuza charm and features a new protagonist.
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Home » A Report Suggests ‘No Man’s Sky’ Has Been Delayed
A Report Suggests ‘No Man’s Sky’ Has Been Delayed
May 26, 2016 May 26, 2016 Brianna Reeves
Since its late 2013 reveal, No Man’s Sky has benefited from great press and previews at nearly every major gaming show. The release date seemed as if it would never be announced, but once it was the hype train pressed forward with the speed to rival any futuristic spaceship’s hyperdrive. While the open-universe game that no one player will ever fully experience is on the radars of many, especially Stephen Colbert’s, the wait may take a bit longer than anticipated. Kotaku reports they have heard from two reliable sources alleging the game won’t meet its scheduled June 21 launch.
The site heard from a source that informed them of the delay first. Their second source came from a GameStop employee who relayed that their store received marketing materials for the title with the June 21 date still intact. However, stores have been told of the game’s delay and are instructed to place a “Coming Soon” label over the seemingly now changed release date.
Courtesy of Kotaku
There’s no indication of what the release date will be, if these sources are correct, but Kotaku says they’ve been told it’s likely the game will be bumped to July or August. It wouldn’t be that much longer of a wait, and developer Hello Games should take all the time necessary to complete the job. To say they are crafting something ambitious would be a massive understatement. A game the size and scope of No Man’s Sky has never been developed, and with a team as small as theirs, the undertaking involved must be exhausting. As always, a polished and delayed game is better than a game launched as scheduled, but broken beyond playability.
Neither Sony or Hello Games have addressed the report, but with E3 around the corner, news confirming or denouncing the claims is expected any day.
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Speak Out, Because Violence Against Women is #NOTokay
by Jarrah Hodge | November 25, 2014
filed under Can-Con, Feminism
In honour of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, which kicks off today, and our National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on December 6, YWCA Canada is urging all of us to call out things we see that are #NOTokay because they promote violence against women.
#NOTokay (or #PAScorrect for Francophones) is a hashtag tool that can be used to point out anything from a misogynist comment from a public figure to the everyday sexism we encounter in ads, media, on the street, and elsewhere in our lives.
At a media conference on Parliament Hill this morning, YWCA representatives and spokespeople from partner organizations talked about why this campaign is so necessary.
“Women and girls face brutal violence in our country,” says YWCA Canada CEO Paulette Senior. “For months we’ve heard one horrific story after another on the news. Twenty-five years ago fourteen women were murdered in Montreal for being women. Now, on average, a woman is murdered by her partner or ex-partner every week. We hear women of courage speaking out every day about the violence in their lives. Every one of us needs to listen and act. When you think something is not okay, don’t let it ride. Call it out. Say it’s not okay.”
“Children and youth in school today weren’t born when the Montreal Massacre happened in 1989, but 25 years later they are surrounded by images, videos, music lyrics and social media that foster a culture of violence against women and girls,” says Canadian Teachers’ Federation President, Dianne Woloschuk. “Violence prevention begins with young people learning what’s healthy and what’s not. YWCA Canada’s new campaign, #NOTokay, provides accessible tools. When kids feel something is upsetting or demeaning, they have a simple way to say it’s not okay.”
Visit www.notokay.ca to see what others are calling out and add your voice.
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My Reality: At the Intersection of Race and Gender Watching the Ghomeshi Trial
I know that Jian never became a CBC host to give hope to the Iranian diaspora; we only idolized him because racism in this society was so rampant. But when the allegations surfaced, I still felt betrayed.
Update: Dr. Bortnick Still Practicing After Three More Sexual Assault Charges
In total, Dr. Allan Bortnick has been charged with sexually assaulting five separate patients with the allegations spanning over a decade, and yet he is still allowed to practice.
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Pru move may spark exodus
CONCERNS - Prudential is shedding 850 jobs in Reading as it moves its call centre to India. Unions worry that other firms will follow suit
HUNDREDS of workers in Reading could lose their jobs if other big businesses follow Prudential's lead and move their call centres out of town.
Amicus, the manufacturing, science and finance union, claims yesterday's announcement could open the floodgates for other firms to quit the UK to reduce wage bills.
Chris Grey, spokesman for Amicus, said: "As a union representing a large number of call centre staff one thing we are concerned about is it could become a watershed.
"If a company like Prudential decides to move others could do the same. Nationally there are about 110,000 jobs in the industry and a large number of those work in Reading. You can do the maths.
"From an Amicus point of view we would like to see Government legislation to stop jobs going abroad.
"It's difficult. There does not seem to be any way of stopping it. We will never compete with countries like India in terms of costs."
The Pru announced it was going to axe 850 staff from its Reading HQ in a bid to save £16 million a year.
The move would see its call centres here, in Belfast and Craigforth, near Stirling, move to Bombay with other work done in Reading shipped up to Ireland and Scotland.
But the company's £20 million decision to set up in India follows similar moves by other major firms.
Lloyds TSB has announced its call centre at Sutton Business Park will close at the end of the year with 60 jobs going to Sunderland.
And today recruitment firms in the town confirmed that NatWest Bank, in Theale, Energis on Kings Road, Barclays Bank in Queens Road, and Oracle at Thames Valley Business Park all recruit call centre staff.
This morning none of those contacted said they had plans to move out at this time.
The news from Prudential has devastated staff at its plush Kings Road premises.
Mr Grey said: "With WorldCom announcing 750 redundancies recently, The Oracle Corporation nearly 300, Engergis making cuts and nearly 2,500 from the Prudential in the next three years - that's a hell of a lot of people for the job market to soak up."
Mr Grey said: "Two to three years ago there were about 5,000 Prudential staff in Reading and at the end of the next year they are talking about having about 1,200."
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Binky Felstead reveals she suffered tragic miscarriage at 12 weeks of pregnancy
Hayley Minn October 13, 2020 11:20 am
Made In Chelsea star Binky Felstead has revealed she suffered a miscarriage six weeks ago.
Binky – whose real name is Alexandra – took to Instagram to open up on her heartbreaking news, revealing she should’ve been 18 weeks pregnant by now.
Sharing a picture of a sunset on Instagram, Binky opened up on her pregnancy loss, penning, ‘I’ve thought long and hard about doing this post, but I felt that if I can pass on any warmth, comfort or help to anybody in the same position – well that would be great.
I’ve thought long and hard about doing this post, but I felt that if I can pass on any warmth, comfort or help to anybody in the same position – well that would be great. It’s only fair that I share some of my “downs” as well as my “up” moments. Today would have been my 18 week mark, but sadly we had an early miscarriage just before 12 weeks. Not only was this heartbreaking for us, but it also came as such a shock to me. I hadn’t realised until then how blessed I was with having such a relatively straight forward pregnancy with India – I’ll admit I was naive enough to assume the next one would be as straightforward, but I had two early scans as I was concerned I was bleeding. They found a ‘very strong’ heartbeat. However, on the third scan I was told ‘I’m afraid there’s no heartbeat’. I was told by my doctor that 1 in 4 pregnancies miscarry (not that statistics make it any easier!) With 82% of my following being women – that means roughly 237,800 women “following” me could (or have) experienced the same, which is just so sad. When speaking to a few close friends about our situation, we learned that some of them too have had miscarriages in the past. I asked them why they’ve never said anything, and they just said they felt they couldn't, or shouldn’t talk about it. Almost like it’s a taboo subject, which is heartbreaking. If you have been through this, I hope you are giving yourself time to mentally and physically heal and do what you need. I keep reminding myself that there was nothing I could have done, and perhaps this was nature’s way of saying that for whatever reason, this little soul wasn’t ready for the world. Sending so so much love 🤍🙏🏼 I later learned that @miscarriageassociation is available to help anyone who has/is experiencing this. It’s a national charity that provides support and information for anyone who’s affected by miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, this includes both women and men. You can call their helpline or talk to them on live chat or even message them on Instagram, and they will do whatever they can to help you through. See www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk #babylossawarenessweek
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‘It’s only fair that I share some of my “downs” as well as my “up” moments. Today would have been my 18 week mark, but sadly we had an early miscarriage just before 12 weeks.’
The reality star – who recently got engaged to Max Darnton – is already mum to three-year-old daughter India, and she confessed that having a miscarriage came as a surprise to her, as she’d had such an easy pregnancy with her.
Binky continued:, ‘Not only was this heartbreaking for us, but it also came as such a shock to me.
‘I hadn’t realised until then how blessed I was with having such a relatively straight forward pregnancy with India – I’ll admit I was naive enough to assume the next one would be as straightforward, but I had two early scans as I was concerned I was bleeding.
My hand = the human dog bone. 🦴 🧡 🍁🍂 #tones #coordination #autumn
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‘They found a “very strong” heartbeat. However, on the third scan I was told “I’m afraid there’s no heartbeat“.’
Binky went on to speak about the fact that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, and she’s since found out some of her friends have gone through the same thing.
She said, ‘When speaking to a few close friends about our situation, we learned that some of them too have had miscarriages in the past.
‘I asked them why they’ve never said anything, and they just said they felt they couldn’t, or shouldn’t talk about it. Almost like it’s a taboo subject, which is heartbreaking.
•HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FIANCÉ• …. as I’ve now said ‘yes’, it’s going to be very difficult to find you a birthday present as wonderful ! 😉 I am beyond lucky to have found someone as caring, protective & loving as you to India and I. I adore the fact you’ve known her over half her life & have been the most incredible step daddy any little girl could ask for. I know it’s hard having us two little Gemini’s occasionally …. and secretly we don’t know know how you stay so tolerant! We both love you to bits …. and we hope you know how lucky you are! 😊🤍 @max_fd #birthdayboy #bax
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‘If you have been through this, I hope you are giving yourself time to mentally and physically heal and do what you need.’
She finished, ‘I keep reminding myself that there was nothing I could have done, and perhaps this was nature’s way of saying that for whatever reason, this little soul wasn’t ready for the world. Sending so so much love.’
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How JBS became collateral damage in a war between billionaires
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Sao Paulo | Reuters — A business dispute between the disgraced billionaire Batista brothers in Brazil and the heir to an Indonesian pulp and paper fortune is throwing a wrench in meatpacker JBS SA’s plans to for a U.S. listing of its international operations, such as its Canadian beef plant.
The dispute stems from a 15 billion-real (C$4.6 billion) deal in 2017 for Jackson Widjaja, a member of the second-richest family in Indonesia, which Forbes estimates is worth US$9.6 billion, to take over Brazilian pulp maker Eldorado Brasil Celulose SA.
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Widjaja’s pulp business Paper Excellence agreed to buy Eldorado from J+F Investimentos, the Batistas’ holding company which also controls JBS. The deal in now in arbitration in Brazil after the two groups could not complete the second stage of the acquisition.
On Monday, JBS accused Paper Excellence of unleashing a lobbying campaign in the United States against its interests, according to a Brazilian court filing.
JBS said in the filing, made in a civil case in Brazil, that Paper Excellence hired lobbyists to argue against it getting U.S. subsidies meant for farmers suffering from the fallout of the trade war with China, and successfully persuaded some members of Congress to send letters to the Department of Agriculture to withhold payments to it.
The lobbyists also urged investigations into JBS, given the Batista brothers’ confession to bribing almost 2,000 politicians in a Brazilian corruption case, and sought to prevent a U.S. listing by the meatpacker, according to the filing.
In a statement to Reuters, Paper Excellence denied the accusations, and said these are bad faith allegations to “attack the company, its shareholders and workers.”
The company said it is focused on completing the Eldorado deal.
Even so, court documents, lobbying records and interviews with people on both sides of the dispute show Widjaja’s Paper Excellence lobbied against JBS in the U.S. following their dispute over the Eldorado deal.
The lobbying has raised pressure on the Batista brothers, who are still waiting for a final decision of Brazil’s Supreme Court expected in June on whether their plea deal and immunity from prosecution should be annulled or maintained.
Over the past few months, some lawmakers have written letters to the Trump administration asking for an investigation into JBS and subsidy payments to it. Reuters could not determine whether those letters were a result of lobbying by Paper Excellence.
A JBS executive told Reuters the company is proceeding with its plans to list its international operations in the United States, but without raising new money from investors.
JBS’s Brooks, Alta. beef packing plant, one of Canada’s largest, is among the JBS operations that have been expected to be included in such an IPO.
The initial IPO plans, drafted four years ago, have failed because of a veto from Brazil’s development bank BNDES, and difficult market conditions. BNDES is a shareholder in JBS.
The executive denied that the changes in the listing plans were a result of the lobbying pressure, and said the company expects the transaction in the first half of the year.
JBS declined to comment on the IPO and the U.S. lobbying.
Deal turns south at the Ritz
A turning point in the relationship between Widjaja and the Batistas was an August 2018 meeting. By then, Widjaja had bought 49 per cent of Eldorado and the two sides were meeting at the urging of a Brazilian judge to negotiate terms for the remainder of the business.
At the meeting at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Los Angeles, the Batistas’ representatives said the company’s value had changed since they first signed the deal and the price should be higher, if six more months were required to close the deal, according to an audio recording of the meeting reviewed by Reuters. Widjaja can be heard saying the new valuation numbers were “shocking.”
After the meeting Widjaja told Claudio Cotrim, his top Brazil executive, he would rather “spend millions on lawyers than give them (Batistas) another cent,” Cotrim said.
In a statement to Reuters, J+F said it did not ask for additional money within the original contract.
Paper Excellence designed a strategy with three pillars to counter the Batistas once it was clear that there would be litigation, Cotrim said. The first was the arbitration, which should have a decision by August. The second was appointing executives to the board of Eldorado during the arbitration period. The third involved a public relations campaign, with the hiring of PR firms.
Last year, Paper Excellence hired Jeff Miller, a former Republican Florida Congressman, as a lobbyist, according to lobbying reports to Congress filed in 2019.
Although Paper Excellence has no farming activities in the U.S., Miller’s firm worked in “efforts related to subsidies in 2018 farm bill benefiting foreign companies” and “USDA trade mitigation benefiting foreign companies,” according to lobbying records.
Paper Excellence declined to comment on why it hired Miller.
Last month, Miller joined another Washington lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs, known for lobbying for companies such as China’s ZTE and firms owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Mercury said Miller did not bring his contract with Paper Excellence to his new employer.
But since last December, Mercury’s co-chairman and former Louisiana senator David Vitter, has been lobbying House congressional aides asking for an investigation of the JBS listing in the United States, alleging potential risk to investors, according to emails reviewed by Reuters and confirmed by Mercury.
In Monday’s court filing, JBS alleged that Mercury was hired indirectly by Paper Excellence but did not offer proof.
Paper Excellence and Mercury deny the allegation.
— Tatiana Bautzer reports on Brazil’s financial sector for Reuters from Sao Paulo.
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Lisa Byrne on enjoying a fun-filled Yorkshire Christmas
Published: 12:00 AM December 1, 2016 Updated: 4:24 PM December 17, 2020
Lisa Byrne - Credit: Archant
Columnist Lisa Byrne is hoping to exorcise the ghosts of Christmasses past with a wholesome festive season – and no drunken reality TV ‘stars’
Carolling under the Christmas tree at the Castle Museum in York - Credit: Archant
Last December was the first Christmas I’d spent in Yorkshire for over 15 years. Our previous family festive celebrations had taken place in Highgate Village, London, a gorgeous part of the capital, rather like a miniature York with its imposing Georgian houses, timber pubs and Dickensian-style shops. While I always loved the build up to the season in the village – collecting the turkey from our local butcher, watching the moving nativity scene heading through the narrow passageways twinkling with fairy lights and post Christmas Day Mass drinks in our local, the part I wasn’t crazy about was the huge number of events I had to attend in my capacity as editor-in-chief of OK! I know I sound spoilt but I will explain.
When I first joined the magazine, I relished every embossed invitation I received, especially enjoying the charitable pre-Christmas soirees taking place across the city. However, towards the end of my tenure I saw a huge change in the focus and feel of these drinks parties. Gone were the great and good of London society, including writers, actors and artists, to be replaced by a host of botox obsessed reality TV stars, whose sole ambition was to get featured in The Mail Online’s sidebar of shame.
My last ‘celebrity’ Christmas party ended with an inebriated female TV personality falling head first into the chocolate fountain and a Big Brother contestant throwing her top off and placing a couple of cupcakes on her ample bosoms. There were certainly many spirits present that night but not of the Christmas cheer variety. No wonder poor Mary Berry looked shell shocked while attending the recent National Reality TV Awards where semi-clad guests appeared to be paralytic.
Thankfully, my celebrations this year are going to be much more sedate than seedy. I was lucky enough to be among a select few invited to sample a number of Christmas afternoon teas in the county (yes, it’s a woeful life!). As I always do, I begun humming the theme tune to Brideshead Revisited as I drove up the magnificent sweeping driveway to Castle Howard in Yorkshire’s Howardian Hills. Head chef David Haynes produced an array of delicious treats beside a crackling fire, including roast turkey with sage, cranberry and chestnut sandwiches.
Christmas at Castle Howard - Credit: Archant
More recently, I enjoyed the perfect ending to a frantic day’s Christmas shopping with my eight-year-old daughter in tow by visiting the Royal York Hotel, now called The Principal York. We went to its baroque-style Garden Room for a restorative afternoon tea created by the talented pastry chef Martyn Edmonds (oh my goodness, his chocolate orange eclair is heavenly).
This Christmas, I’m determined to only buy produce from local Yorkshire businesses. Last year, I spotted a recommendation for Leeds based Swillington Organic Farm in Yorkshire Life, and all I can say is that it was a nightmare trying to get our Irish relations to stop picking at the poor bird’s carcass. It was the most delicious turkey we’ve ever eaten. Being back in the north means it will also be a joy not to battle with other Christmas shoppers in Regent or Oxford Street. Instead we will be sipping mulled wine while perusing unique gifts in the snug chalets of St Nicholas Fayre in York as well as making a visit to Leeds’ famous Christkindlmarkt. I’m also planning to invest in a new winter coat (any excuse) to keep me cosy while singing Christmas carols in the spectacular ruins of Rievaulx Abbey.
We are also going to immerse ourselves in the annual traditions of seeing the Vienna Festival Ballet perform The Nutcracker at York Grand Opera House and, of course, watching the most recognised panto dame in the world, Berwick Kaler in Cinderella at the newly restored York Theatre Royal. We might even repeat one of our greatest experiences from last year, Victorian Christmas at the Castle, where we strolled around the cobbled streets of Kirkgate in York’s Castle Museum, immersed in the sights and sounds of days gone by.
But for us, and many Yorkshire Life readers, the highlight of the season will be the Christmas Carol Concert at York Minster. Singing carols in full voice, helped along by the Minster Choir, is such a joyful experience and just what Christmas is all about.
For many it’s just an excuse to drink too much, spend a fortune on presents and make holy shows of themselves at the office Christmas party. But at least this year my Yorkshire Christmas will be a far more charming, soulful and cosy family affair, devoid of strategically placed cupcakes, chocolate fountains and, most importantly, reality TV stars.
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April is Earth Month in Greenwich!
A First for Greenwich: All Schools Earth Week
Written by: Sarah Coccaro, Conservation Commission and Laura diBonaventura, Greenwich Country Day School Director of Sustainability and Conservation Commissioner
ALL of Greenwich’s schoolchildren - every school and every grade - along with their teachers and families celebrated the first ever, Town-wide Earth Week of Action this April 20-24. Greenwich’s houses of worship joined in the celebration with a town-wide bell ringing on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
Our Conservation Commission, Greenwich Country Day School (GCDS), and Green Schools developed the all schools Earth Week of Action. They were inspired by the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and Greenwich’s own sustainability goals as set out in the Plan for Conservation & Development, and the Sustainable CT certification program.
Shifting, Not Shutting Down
The Earth Week of Action in-school program was firmly in place by January, 2020. Face to face meetings between the Development Team (made up of faculty and staff from public and private schools and Town staff) and every school’s leadership had shared ideas and built personal connections. In March, as the reality of the coronavirus pandemic set in, the Development Team was able to shift to a synchronous at-home program. “The personal connections across schools made it possible to shift to an at-home program, and the at-home program engaged families, students and teachers in shared activities beyond what we had originally envisioned. The ‘problem’ became a terrific opportunity,” explained Laura di Bonaventura, GCDS’ Sustainability Director.
Earth Week of Action
“We all learn by doing. The simple, daily activities engaged students, families, and faculty so they could experience the satisfaction of personal action, be a part of action on a school level, and see the power of collective, community-wide action” said Patricia Sesto, director of Environmental Affairs. “That’s why we called it the Earth Week of Action.” Each of the five school days had a theme and suggested activity, and people could create new activities consistent with the daily themes. "Participation was perfection,” explained Greenwich Academy’s and Brunswick’s Sustainability reps Natalie Tallis and Kate Tabner.
Connections Across Town
Earth Week kicked off with Monday’s Artists for the Earth. Greenwich students made upcycled garden flowers, bees, etc. In a sense all ~14,560 Greenwich students were flowers in Greenwich’s garden. “Children have such a strong connection to nature and the world around them. Their artwork reflects their innate curiosity and empathy for the environment,” says Le Ann Hinkle, Julian Curtiss and North Mianus Schools’ art teacher.
Plant-based meals fueled Tuesday’s conversations. One of the biggest ways to lower your personal carbon footprint is to eat more plant-based foods. Dubbed, “Foodprints for the Future”, students and families cooked and estimated their ‘foodprint savings.’ Families shared mouth-watering photos and calculations, such as from this 4th grader: “we made lentil salad. Last night’s meatloaf could have charged 3008 cell phones, saved 3680 gallons of water, and grown 14 pounds of soybeans! Wow!”
On Wednesday’s Earth Day, Churches, businesses, residents, and organizations across town joined a ‘one minute, one action, one town, one planet’ bell ringing as a sign of unity and stewardship for the Earth. First Selectman Fred Camillo read the Earth Day proclamation alongside selectwomen Jill Oberlander and Lauren Rabin, and Director of Environmental Affairs Patricia Sesto.
On Thursday, district and independent school citizen scientists identified over 330 unique plants and animals! Using the app iNaturalist in our own backyards families answered ‘what IS that?’ Sacred Heart science teacher Katie Donahue explained: “The app allows people to learn more about their surroundings. Once people learn about something, they’re more inclined to take care of it.”
On Friday the Parks and Recreation department in collaboration with the Greenwich Tree Conservancy planted trees in honor of Arbor Day. “This year was special,” explained JoAnn Messina, Executive Director of Greenwich Tree Conservancy, “we were able to plant not just one tree at one school, but 9 trees at 9 public schools. A tree is a wonderful lasting legacy for future generations.”
In 2018, Greenwich was certified a ‘sustainable community’ through the Sustainable Connecticut program. The application process provided Greenwich a closer look at itself through a “sustainability lens” and spawned a number of initiatives and committees. Soon, Greenwich residents will be able to participate in a new voluntary food scrap recycling program.
Greenwich remains committed as ever to celebrating Earth Day everyday. Among them is a commitment to make Earth Week an annual success. In the Development team’s debrief meeting Sarah Coccaro, Town Conservation Resource Manager and Earth Week program leader looked ahead: “Earth Week 2020 raised awareness, got people doing new things and created a ‘one Town, all together’ experience. It’s a great foundation to build on every year.”
When is Earth Day 2020?
It's the 50th! What's the history?
What is 'Earth Week of Action' in Greenwich?
How can my family get involved at home?
Earth Day is April 22nd each year. This year, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 will mark 50 years of Earth Day!
The 1st Earth Day was a unified response to an environment in crisis — oil spills, smog, rivers so polluted they literally caught fire.
On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet.
The first Earth Day is credited with launching the modern environmental movement, and is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event.
For more information, check out the Earth Day Network's history of Earth Day.
Join in the Town of Greenwich’s Earth Week of Action! It’s EASY and fun for the whole family! Each day has a theme - see the top left of this page for the daily links.
But you don't have to stop there! There's no limit to what you could do to help protect and restore our planet. Organize a 'social distance' neighborhood clean up, go through things and donate goods to help others and avoid new consumption, program your thermostat, research your next electric vehicle!
SPECIAL NEWS! On Earth Day itself at exactly 12pm noon our voices will 'ring out' with an all Town ringing of church bells, and any bells from home. Check out the link for Earth Day on how to share your 'earth word' and bell ringing snapshot!
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Erie hospitals prepare for COVID-19
David Bruce @etnbruce
Outdoor triage tents and makeshift ICU beds are just two ways local hospitals are getting ready.
A yellow tent has been installed outside Saint Vincent Hospital, between the entrances of its emergency department and Hardner Building.
The tent would serve as a temporary triage area for Saint Vincent’s emergency department, if the COVID-19 outbreak causes a surge in patients.
“We have been instructed that we should try to separate possible COVID-19 patients from the general patient population,” said Saint Vincent President Christopher Clark, D.O. “The best practice is to move your triage outside the emergency department.”
No COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in northwestern Pennsylvania as of Tuesday afternoon. However, Erie County health officials and County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper both said Monday that they believe the virus has already infected people in the Erie area.
A triage tent is just one way Erie hospitals are preparing for the outbreak and a possible influx of seriously ill patients.
They are also determining where additional intensive care unit beds can be placed to treat the sickest people.
“We have several step-down units plus two overflow surge areas where we can house patients,” said UPMC Hamot President David Gibbons. “I don’t want to get into numbers, but I want to assure the public that we have a well-vetted plan.”
Hamot had 42 ICU beds in 2018, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Saint Vincent had 40, and LECOM Health had six at Millcreek Community Hospital and none at Corry Memorial Hospital.
Erie Veterans Affairs Medical Center does not have any ICU beds. It also converted its emergency department into an urgent-care center in 2012.
None of the hospitals would disclose how many ventilators they have, except for Erie VAMC, which has three of them.
Ventilators are used to help move air in and out of the lungs for patients who can’t breathe on their own. Some seriously ill COVID-19 patients require ventilators.
At least one Erie-area health system is concerned about the number of nasal swab kits available to test patients who might have COVID-19 or the flu.
LECOM Health’s supply of these kits, which include a sterile swab and the test tube in which it is transported, is “day to day.”
“It’s a federal allocation that we receive through third-party laboratories,” said Marcus Babiak, Millcreek Community’s patient safety officer. “It is difficult to get them, though we do have enough to meet demand.”
Hamot and Saint Vincent, which reported no shortages of the kits, have been helping LECOM Health with its supply, Babiak said.
“We are still able to test anyone who needs it,” Babiak said.
Erie hospitals have implemented stricter visitation policies to prevent additional spread of COVID-19.
Patients may only have one visitor at a time in most units at Hamot and Saint Vincent and Erie Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Other visitors must remain outside of the facility.
No visitors are permitted at LECOM Health’s Millcreek Community or Corry Memorial hospitals.
“Any visitors who come to Saint Vincent will undergo a verbal screening for COVID-19,” Clark said. “They will be asked about their recent travels and any symptoms they might have. Screenings are happening at the main entrance of the hospital, our cancer center and our surgery center.”
Larger hospitals like Hamot and Saint Vincent have been communicating with smaller, rural hospitals that don’t have many, or any, ICU beds.
Though UPMC Northwest in Venango County has its own emergency preparedness plan, there is a protocol in effect where it can reach out to other UPMC hospitals, Gibbons said.
“If they reach capacity, we would work with our MedCall system to help them triage patients appropriately,” Gibbons said.
Contact David Bruce at dbruce@timesnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @ETNBruce.
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Help send Pioneer HOSA to States!
$30 raised of $490 goal
Phillip DiSanto
Hannah Wang
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Pioneer Hosa and 4 others are organizing this fundraiser.
This year, a HOSA chapter was formed by a group of bright and inspired high school students at Pioneer High School. HOSA is an international organization that cultivates and brings together a diverse group of students across the world who share a common interest in pursuing futures in health and medical-related professions.
For our first year as a club during online school, we garnered an impressive number of participants. Currently, we have 32 members! The drive and potential of our club members were exemplified by our incredible performance at the HOSA Regionals Conference a couple of months ago: 14 out of 18 of our members that participated placed Top 10 in their events and made it to States! Furthermore, those that place Top 3 at States are able to compete in the prestigious International HOSA Competition!
Starting our club this year has been particularly challenging as we are unable to host in-person meetings and fundraisers as a club due to Covid-19 and our current online school policy. Without crucial financial support from regular fundraisers, it’s been difficult as a club to support our members as they pursue opportunities (including big competitions like Regionals and States) to learn and develop skills and experience in careers they are passionate about. Each and every one of our members is an extremely inspired and driven individuals that want to make an impact in the health-science field.
It would mean the world to us if you helped us cover the hefty competition fee ($35 per person) for all 14 of our participants. We are excited and ready to show Michigan the power of Pioneer High School at States, and your donation would help us reach our goals!
Thank you so much for your time and consideration,
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Keeping You Informed: Our Strategy to Return to Office Gradually
The following email was sent today to all Goldman Sachs employees globally.
Since we shared with you our global return to office framework, many cities around the world have started a gradual reopening, giving us reasons to be hopeful. We all want the vibrant communities in which we live and work to thrive once again, and to see businesses large and small open their doors to customers. As each community improves, and where it is safe to do so, we have prepared our facilities and started welcoming more colleagues back, while remaining cautious in protecting the health and safety of our people.
We are sharing today the latest on our strategy to return gradually. Consistent with the status of the communities in which we operate, the timing for fully reopening some of our offices remains uncertain. In all cases, we remain guided by our people-first principle:
We are welcoming back more colleagues across most of our offices in Asia Pacific and continental Europe. In London, more colleagues will begin returning to the office as of Monday, June 15, and in Bengaluru, we expect to review our return to office process toward the end of June.
In the Americas, we plan to welcome an initial group of colleagues back in New York, Jersey City, Dallas and Salt Lake City beginning Monday, June 22. As we look ahead, we continue to assess external conditions and community readiness for other locations.
Across regions, if, based on your role, you are invited to return to the office in the early stages, you would have been or will be notified accordingly by your regional and divisional leadership with the appropriate steps to be taken as you plan your return, including consulting key resources and completing a health questionnaire. Rest assured, returning is entirely voluntary and everyone is encouraged to adopt an approach that works for them and their own personal circumstances which might make a return to office challenging at this time.
In addition, if returning to the office in the near-term is a preferred option for you but you have not been contacted about doing so, please discuss with your manager. As we have said before, flexibility has been and will remain paramount, and we are focused on accommodating our people’s different circumstances.
If you have any questions on your office’s return to office strategy, please consult your regional and divisional leadership.
Whether you are working in the office or at home, it is important to remember that we all need to take time to rest, particularly as we and our families all seek to stay healthy and well, and we encourage you to take your vacation throughout the year.
More broadly, we remain focused on listening to you, and on ensuring we continue to do our part in supporting businesses in our communities as they embark on the path to recovery. We are encouraged by the positive feedback we have received so far as we implement our return to office strategy around the world, and will continue to calibrate our approach as we learn more.
We could not be prouder of how our teams are rallying and adapting in this incredibly dynamic and challenging environment, and thank each and every one of you for your outstanding dedication to the firm and to each other.
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Quarter Life Crisis: Exploring the Anxiety of Losing Control Through SZA’s ‘Ctrl’ Companion
Colliding with a tree a few feet from the road is what caused the spiraling machine to cease all movement. All was frozen, still. No injuries, no fatalities. Yet, in the midst the calm madness, there was a sensation clawing beneath my skin as if to permanently bury a specific feeling within my jackhammer heartbeat.
Control could be lost. Even for a brief moment, losing control had consequences.
My first car accident started as a tickle panic, the familiar nervousness a car accelerating too quickly. Slowing down is the answer to allete the worry, slow down is what I told myself. But as my Ford Focus blitzed down the sloping hill and the tires rumbled f the road, it was too late. My first car was totaled that day―a casualty carelessness, the sacrifice exchanged for a life lesson.
I think back to the collision each time SZA’s “Supermodel” is played, the intro to her debut album, Ctrl. Before she begins to sing, her mother speaks:
Fatal is an intense description control and the concept losing it. These are words realized through experience, soaked into the bones and tattooed upon the torso. Death has no presence on SZA’s acclaimed opus―the album is too much a reflection life to explore fatality―but the powerful fear and the desire to maintain control exist as an overarching theme. SZA, as a black woman in her mid-20s, is able to examine conventional circumstances juxtaposed by the ongoing struggle to sustain a sense authority over one’s life because it has become such a big part life itself.
Listening to “The Weekend” is hearing how one man has manipulated the weekly schedules two women vying for his attention. He is dominant, the center pleasure and manager time. Though SZA’s character describes their circumstances with confidence―sure he’ll be there no later than 10:30 for a weekend love―her deeper desire for more has no influence over what has been decided. The Kendrick Lamar-assisted “Dove In the Wind” gives all sovereignty to the women, providers pleasure, and the sacredness resting between their inner thighs. She holds the key to who enters and who doesn’t―all-powerful and unwavering to the undeserving.
During the Ctrl rollout, SZA arrived on Everyday Struggle and further explained the album's concept: “Control is a concept. You think about getting away from analog; control is an illusion, you try and force it.” M Kash, a contributing writer to Spotlightfirst, took the quote and analyzed how the album could be divided into three sections illusory control types: Mind, Ego, and Heart. She touched on how love, hate, and fear are extensions the control type foundation and how their influences manifest into how situations are handled in relationships. It’s a short but great look into the internal ramifications created by the concept and illusion control:
What will give Ctrl longevity and future significance is how its eternal theme connects with listeners who are too young to fully understand it, but who will encounter the varying degrees control later in life; listeners who are living out the lyrics in their present, and those who remember when they were praying to survive their 20s, able to look back with new appreciation for the trials that lead to growth. The theme is a universal one, not tamed by time or constrained by age.
Living out your 20s ten feels like gripping the steering wheel, attempting to stay on the intended course. You can know the direction and follow the map, but the road is filled with variables that can remove the command from your fingertips. Illusory control is internal, while there’s an external control that’s also a large part growing up and growing old. This is why Quarter Life Crisis, the sophomore album by Marietta, Georgia's Kelechi, is a great companion project to SZA’s Ctrl. Throughout Ctrl, there’s a sense crisis very specific to once you mature beyond adolescence but before you reach full adulthood. Quarter Life Crisis gives a voice to that sweet middle period, where you know the world but truly begin to meet it in the raw. This meeting tends to bring both joy and disaster, thrills and pain, uncertainty and self-assurance all at once.
We aren’t in control who we are, and who we are born to. Kelechi understands this. He doesn’t curse his Nigerian black skin, but glorifies his heritage over a sample Michael Kiwanuka’s “Black Man In A White World.” We don’t decide the world we come into, or how this world will treat us. When he raps the police on “Bang With Us” he illustrates them as gang members. The lyric “My gang can turn fitteds to snapbacks, turn truth into lies, and kids into threats / My bullets turn niggas into hashtags” brings a haunting reality what is well-known―there are people who h the ve power to control if you live or die and have done so with minimal repercussion. Videos murders have made the images black men and women being gunned down by police ficers commonplace occurrences.
Irony can be heard on the album's first song, “Flowers”: while singing “I'm going to live forever” with the backing a choir, a gunshot suddenly turns the soulful tune to silence broken only by a falling body. Immortality is the hope children, death is the truth for the adult.
Morality and how little we control the end our lives isn’t the only theme Quarter Life Crisis, though. In a similar fashion as Ctrl, the album is wide-ranging and full expansive themes told through various accounts that intertwine. Skits give QLC a linear story, one where Kelechi's phone calls and conversations with his brother, mother, and girlfriend bring familiarity to his world. He feels the pressure the weight to either chase his dream or follow a more conventional path.
One my favorite moments on the album is an awkward conversation with his mother, who is listening to her son explain why he’s dropping out college to pursue music. “You are putting your life, your faith, in the hands people,” she says once he explains how being a finalist in a contest could be his big break. It shows a shaky reluctance not to allow her influence to control his life while betting on uncertain variables not within his power to sway. All he has control over is the belief that it’ll all work out and the passion to follow it through to the end. The shadow belief is doubt, to have one is to intimately know the other.
Ctrl and Quarter Life Crisis both serve as a reminder that I’m not alone. The anxiousness and anxiety that has become second nature are shared by many, those other swirling cars are being stopped by trees. Both albums carry a similar sense feeling young yet old, unfinished but evolving, still in search self but recognizing who I am becoming. We want control, in love and in life; our bodies and our art. Albums for the hopeless romantics and dream chasers hoping to be the masters their universes. We are in control, yet, we aren’t.
Control is something we fight hardest for once we know the hopeless emptiness that comes with losing it. You will lose it. Maybe it will come early, maybe it will come late, but we all lose control. There are lessons awaiting in the loss.
By Yoh, aka Ford Yohcus, aka @Yoh31
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Home entertainment Despite the negative reviews of Rolling Stone, George Clooney’s new movie was highly watched on Netflix during its opening week.
Despite the negative reviews of Rolling Stone, George Clooney’s new movie was highly watched on Netflix during its opening week.
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Midnight Sky, New movie Netflix Acting and directing George Clooney, Does not accumulate positive reviews, on the contrary. However, this did not stop production from topping the streaming site’s most viewed products list since the feature was introduced on December 23rd. From the information website Metropolitan areas.
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For a week, the film was highly watched on Netflix – and even topped the movie rankings when considering the streaming platform series. The numbers accurately attract attention due to the negative reception of the film by critics and comments in special forums.
No site Rotten tomatoesFor example, out of 180 reviews, 46% were negative – and the reception from fans who registered on stage was poor. Among the audience, only 25% voted in favor of the film. George Clooney.
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Nevertheless, according to the survey conducted Flix Patrol, Midnight Sky It tops the list of most viewed products Netflix In many countries such as Brazil, USA, United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Germany and Russia.
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Home Top News Pedro Sousa prepares an odyssey: “It seems a bit confusing situation …”
Pedro Sousa prepares an odyssey: “It seems a bit confusing situation …”
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Pedro Sousa, Portuguese tennis player
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At the end of the pre-season, many doubts remain as to where he will compete again.
Until January 9, Pedro Sousa will still not know which tournament will start the 2021 season. The Portuguese number two and the 105th world championship have an ocean of uncertainties to come and next Monday the first successes will be known in the council list main Australian Open – if a withdrawal occurs, enter immediately, being exempt from qualifying.
A new opportunity presents itself five days later (January 9), in the announcement of the second and final cast review – if there is at least one name crossed out, he is also exempt from qualifying, but will not experience the admission to the best grid only when already in Doha, where qualifying begins the next day. In this case, the trip to the capital of Qatar would be a round trip, but for a good cause …
Bottom line: If you enter Melbourne directly, you’ll first head to the United States or Turkey, where the ATP250s from Delray Beach and Antalya compete against each other (January 5-13). If you are due to compete in the Australian Open qualifiers between January 10 and 13, cancel everything and attend Doha. “That’s what it is …”, responded Pedro Sousa, well to his (relaxed) style, when O GOGO approached him to understand what kind of odyssey he will live in the first month of the new Year. “It seems like a somewhat confusing situation, but above all it’s a set of doubts that exist as to whether or not I will go straight into the Australian Open,” explained the Lisbon player, who already knows he has no fees. , not only to travel on a chartered plane, but to fill the forty after arriving in Melbourne.
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Hacklewood Hill Country House
The perfect stop at the end of the Garden Route
Dating back to 1898, Hacklewood Hill Country House is one of the oldest properties in Port Elizabeth and still retains all of its Victorian Charm. Highly sophisticated and full of character, a stay here will take you back to an era gone by.
All the furniture and furnishings inside this Manor House are handmade and truly authentic and you can look forward to a fine dining experience where world class cuisine is served on the best china.
Want to find out more about Hacklewood Hill Country House? Speak to our Port Elizabeth experts.
10 minutes from Port Elizabeth airport
Hacklewood has eight luxury bedrooms.
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Each of the eight spacious bedrooms comes with a/c, en suite bathroom with seperate shower and retain their elegant Victorian country house tradition.
Hacklewood has ana ward winning restaurant on site.
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The restaurant is the proud owner of 9 American Express Fine Dining Awards and recently won the Platinum award from Diners Club International for its wine list.
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2008-09: Eddie Lack appeared in 32 of 45 games for first-place Leksands in Sweden's Allsvenskan (second league). His 2.02 GAA was the league's second-best and he finished with a .930 save percentage and 4 shutouts. Leksands competed in the six-team playoffs to qualify for the Elitserien, finishing fourth with a record of 4-5-1. Lack played six of the ten playoff games and was 4-2 with a 2.36 GAA and .903 save percentage.
2009-10: Lack made his debut in Sweden's Elitserien as a 21-year-old and skated in 14 games as a backup to Florida Panthers' prospect Jacob Markstrom for Brynas. Lack had a 2.67 GAA and .911 save percentage as Brynas finished sixth in the 12-team league. Lack skated in two playoff games during Brynas' five-game first round series with Djurgardens and was 0-1 with a 1.53 GAA and .946 save percentage. In six games with Brynas' U20 team he had a 3.51 GAA and .884 save percentage. Lack signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Vancouver in April 2010.
2010-11: Lack appeared in 53 games for the Manitoba Moose and was named to the AHL's All-Rookie Team in his first pro season in North America. Lack was 28-25 with four of those losses coming in overtime and had 5 shutouts with a 2.26 GAA and .926 save percentage. Lack skated in 12 of 14 playoff games for the Moose and was 6-5 with 2 shutouts and a 1.99 GAA and .932 save percentage.
2011-12: In his second season in North America, Lack shared the goaltending duties for Vancouver AHL affiliate Chicago with free agent veteran signee Matt Climie. He was 21-23, with three losses in overtime, and had 4 shutouts in 46 games. Lack finished with a 2.31 goals against and .925 save percentage. The Wolves finished first in the Midwest Division and lost to San Antonio in overtime of the decisive fifth game in their first round series with the Rampage. Lack appeared in all five playoff games, starting four of them, and was 2-2 with a 2.17 goals against and .917 save percentage. He was re-signed by Vancouver to a two-year contract in August 2012.
With the trade of Roberto Luongo to the Florida Panthers, Lack finds himself as the starter for the Canucks. He is likely to receive stiff competition from former Panthers prospect Jacob Markstrom, who was acquired in the Luongo deal.
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The Vancouver Canucks' prospect pool may not be considered deep, but the organization has a number of players that project well within the team's puck-possession system. The current roster, laden with veterans drafted by the club, has been carefully chosen out of necessity. The team's regular season success in recent years has forced the organization to pick near the end of each draft round but the system has been improved with shrewd scouting and astute free-agent signings.
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Hands-On The Bremont ALT1-C/PB, A Dress Chronograph With A Difference
From the watch company that specializes in flying instruments, yacht racing instruments, and race driving instruments, comes a timepiece that has all the hallmarks of a classic dress chronograph. The English brothers (that’s right, Bart and Tim Grönefeld aren’t the only fraternity in the watch industry) have unveiled three new models ahead of Baselworld 2016, including their latest chronometer, the ALT1-C/PB. We went hands-on with the watch this week.
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From the watch company that specializes in flying instruments, yacht racing instruments, and race driving instruments, comes a timepiece that has all the hallmarks of a classic dress chronograph. The English brothers (that’s right, Bart and Tim Grönefeld aren’t the only fraternity in the watch industry) have unveiled three new models ahead of Baselworld 2016, including their latest chronometer, the Bremont ALT1-C/PB. We went hands-on with the watch this week.
Part dress watch, part timekeeping instrument, it strikes an interesting balance between the brawn of the original ALT1-C chronograph, and the elegance of the ALT1-C Rose Gold Classic Chronograph. It is to dress watches what the Range Rover is to SUVs – a large piece of kit with a very powerful engine, all packed under a rather luxurious hood. It certainly fits the bill as a dress chronograph, but only if you consider there are no limits to the size of a dress watch – more about this in a minute.
The ALT1-C/PB does feature some of the hallmarks of the dress chronograph genre, such as delicate feuille hands, which stretch gracefully to the hour markers and the inner edge of the railroad chapter ring. Nickle-plated, polished, and integrated with Super-LumiNova for legibility at night, they were present in previous editions of the ALT1-C line, but never in such refined form.
One of the distinguishing features of the new watch is the contrast between its polished stainless-steel case and the golden tinge of the Arabic numerals. Also nickel-plated, they have been polished to achieve a cabochon affect. This is quite an uncommon sight, particularly in modern watches. However, it works really well, adding both style and practicality. Applied onto a brooding black dial, they stand out instantly and add depth to the design.
Two dark grey sub-registers, displaying running seconds at 9 o’clock and a 30-minute totalizer a 3 o’clock, sit opposite each other on the inside of the dial in order not to trouble the hour markers. Slightly recessed, they are finely circular-grained and add great texture.
Given how well balanced the dial is, I find the placement of the date window, a few millimeters above a missing 6, rather intriguing. It’s consistent with previous ALT1-C chronographs, but could it sit closer to the chapter ring given the extra space? And then there’s the design of the window itself.
While the use of finely beveled edges to delineate its contours is really clever, it feels rather narrow, especially when the dates go into double digits, at which point they’re so close they almost touch – which is all the more surprising considering the size of the watch.
Sitting 43 mm across the wrist at a height of 16 mm, it’s not exactly an under-the-cuff dress watch. Despite its highly polished case, it preserves the rugged edge of all ALT1-C chronographs due to the signature Trip-Tick design and scratch-resistant, DLC-treated case barrel.
Whenever a watch straddles two genres, it inevitably ends up leaning toward one side. In this case, I found the ALT1-C/PB worked much better as a casual watch with an air of elegance (few do, and I’m impressed by this achievement), than a dress watch that can be worn casually. But that's exactly what you'd expect from, and why you would turn to, Bremont. Either way, it wears very comfortably thanks to a large alligator strap and a polished stainless-steel pin buckle. It is water-resistant to 100 meters.
You’ll have guessed it by now – the height of the watch is largely due to the movement that powers it. Based on the chronometer-rated Valjoux 7750, the self-winding Calibre 13¼''' BE-50AE is a heavily modified chronograph beating at 28,800 bph, with a twin-register (the hour counter found in the original movement has been dropped), and a 42-hour power reserve.
It’s also one of few calibers that can be felt operating – quite aggressively – when it’s worn, such is the force with which its rotor spins. Those who know it well – and the Valjoux 7750 is used so ubiquitously that many do – enjoy the unmistakable feeling of its spin quite a lot. Others, be warned, may not enjoy it as much, as it doesn't go unnoticed.
Chosen for its heft, the movement happens to offer stunning architecture, and Bremont has taken full advantage of it, making use of its layered construction by applying a perlage finish throughout and adding blued screws for good measure. And that infamous rotor? Bremont presents its own version, molded and engraved with the name of the company.
Bremont’s new entry-level dress chronometer is priced at $6,695 and will be available in April. That's a massive reduction in price from previous iteration, the ALT1-C Rose Gold Classic Chronograph ($18,250), and one that won’t go unnoticed.
For more hands on reviews with Bremont, make sure to catch up on our coverage of the Bremont Boeing Model 247, the MKI and MKII, the Codebreaker, the special Kingsman Collection and the Bremont Supermarine 2000. Visit Bremont online right here.
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Being a Johns Hopkins physician allows me to have the best of all possible worlds. I get to provide excellent patient care alongside world-class colleagues, all of whom are remarkably collegial. I am able to think about the “big picture” — where medical education should go — and then help lead our journey to that future. Hopkins takes good physicians and, by putting us within excellent teams, allows us to accomplish great things. We push the boundaries of medicine and improve the health of the patients we care for ourselves and that of the patients our learners will care for in the future.
Remember that the distance between you and someone who is in leadership always looks longer when you are “looking up” than it does to the leader with whom you are talking.
Please tell us about how you reached your leadership position.
I first found a love of leadership when I was an administrative chief resident. I really liked looking at “big picture” solutions that could reach across silos and solve problems for many different stakeholders. Early in my career I became the Ob/Gyn medical student clerkship director because I really enjoyed teaching. Residency program director was the next logical step in education leadership. I also really enjoy looking at challenges on an institutional and national level. Many programs and institutions have the same issues, and helping others improve their own programs is very gratifying.
Which of your accomplishments are you most proud of at Johns Hopkins Medicine?
When I came to Johns Hopkins I never imagined that I would become an education leader here and nationally. I am very proud of the excellent residency programs we have built and continue to improve. I am excited that our training programs produce great physicians who truly do become leaders in their fields. I am also proud of the national recognition our program directors and faculty have gained as leaders in education in their specialties and at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (our accrediting body).
What advice would you give a woman who is aspiring to grow in her leadership responsibilities?
Sit at the table! You may think you are junior and don’t belong with “the big boys,” but you do. People at Johns Hopkins are very welcoming. They want to hear your voice and learn from your ideas. Remember that the distance between you and someone who is in leadership always looks longer when you are “looking up” than it does to the leader with whom you are talking. Also, if you can write about and publish the innovative things you are doing, you should. This will disseminate your ideas and help get you promoted.
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The classic romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally...” celebrates a milestone
Billy Crystal stars as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The best friends finally sleep together after Harry helps Sally through a rough patch when she learns her ex is getting married. This is Harry’s reaction after the deed. (Frame shots courtesy of Shout! Factory)
“WHEN HARRY MET SALLY…”: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Blu-ray and DVD; 1989; R for adult material including sexual situations and innuendos, and profanity
Best extra: A new featurette “In Conversation with Rob Reiner and Billy Crystal”
IF YOU haven’t seen “When Harry Met Sally…” you’ve probably been holed up in a cave with no contact from the outside world since roughly 1989. That's when this flick was the sleeper hit of the year.
So ditto if you’ve never laughed about or recreated the scene in which Sally (Meg Ryan) acts like she’s having an orgasm at New York City’s famous Katz’s Delicatessen in front of a vanquished Harry (Billy Crystal).
This is a Rob Reiner (director) flick that keeps reaching generation after generation. Even many millennials know “When Harry Met Sally…”.
Thanks to Shout! Factory and its Shout Select release of this upgraded version - a 4K scan from the original camera negative, which was used to down-convert to Blu-ray quality – today's viewers can revel in this classic.
The new transfer is pleasingly clear with evident natural film grain throughout. Colors are balanced and details pop, like Ryan’s bouncy, blonde curls and Crystal’s not-so-meticulous wig in the beginning of the film when the two meet post-college. The cinematography is gorgeous, with scenes shot in New York City during different seasons. Leaves on the trees in Central Park in the fall look almost too good to be true and the snow almost glistens in the bright, winter sun.
The movie opens up with couples telling their stories about how they met. Although the stories are real, actors recreated the tales.
Sally arrives to pick up Harry for a trip from Chicago to New York City, as the two separately start their post-college lives. She tries to patiently wait for Harry as he makes out with his girlfriend, who is staying behind.
Harry notices that Sally is attractive and tries to hit on her during the trip. Sally balks, prompting Harry to put forth his famous, “men and women can never be friends” theory.
In addition, viewers get one new bonus feature that’s worth the 44-minute run time: “Scenes from a Friendship - An Interview with Rob Reiner and Billy Crystal.” “When Harry Met Sally…” is universally thought to be one of the best romantic comedies of all times, dealing with the age-old questions, can men and women ever really just be friends.
Harry posits that it can’t be done to a very skeptical yet ever-optimistic Sally as the pair drive to New York to start their lives after graduating college. Their relationship is the focal point of the film, even though both find themselves with other people until they run into each other several years after the initial meeting, and the two become friends.
They’re both honest and supportive of each other. They try to set up their best friends (played perfectly by the late Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher) with each of them, but the best friends fall for each other, leading to marriage. Harry and Sally deal with exes and holidays alone, providing the audience with musings about life and getting older. It truly is delightful.
Of course, the best-remembered scene is when Harry and Sally share lunch at Katz’s Deli. The conversation turns to women faking the big “O,” and Harry is incredulous it could happen. Sally proves him wrong while faking it in the middle of the diner, with her pastrami on rye sitting right in front of her. Crystal came up with the line so perfectly delivered by Reiner’s mother just after the faux “O” to a waiter: “I’ll have what she’s having.”
Five years later, the pair runs into each other at the airport, this time Sally is making out with her boyfriend. The two share the same destination and awkwardly reconnect.
Fast-forward another four or five years, and Sally runs into Harry again at a NYC bookstore, this time with her best friend, Marie played by Carrie Fisher.
After the book-store meeting, Harry and Sally do become friends. Here both share tragic lonely-life stories as they walk in Central Park.
While many extras are ported over from previous Blu-ray/DVD releases, the new bonus with Reiner and Crystal waltzing down memory lane about the flick is grand. Why? These two men, now in their early 70’s, reminisce about their friendship, which started in the mid-1970’s on the set of “All in the Family.” That's where Crystal was hired by Norman Lear to pay Reiner’s (Meathead) best friend. Lear had a sense the two would hit it off in real life because they quickly became best friends while filming the sitcom. You can tell the two are kindred spirits, as close as brothers without the actual relation.
They also both remember clearly how that now-famous scene came about. Reiner scoffed when film screenwriter Nora Ephron told him women fake orgasms. Crystal and Ryan got involved and talked about adding a scene in the movie that had Ryan faking one in a public place. One thing led to another, and Crystal offered up the famous one-liner. Crystal and Reiner also talk about how Ryan’s first few "orgasms" during filming weren’t that spectacular, so Reiner stepped in to act out an example – in front of his mother. The two laugh about the memory.
Their rapport is magnetic and just plain real.
For the true fans of the movie, and for those who haven’t watched it in years, this movie is worth revisiting. And, it’s so worth introducing others to. Plus, the new bonus feature in many ways covers the same ground that five or six old ones did.
Old bonus features include: Commentary with Reiner; commentary with Reiner, Ephron and Crystal; an extended look at the making of the film released in 2000; vintage featurettes including “Creating Harry” and “Stories of Love” plus other vintage featurettes; deleted scenes; a Harry Connick Jr. music video; and the theatrical trailer.
Sit back and enjoy some movie making history. It’s one of those rare moments where we can have a serving of nonstop laughs – and we don’t have to fake it.
- Toni Guagenti
Harry and Sally move a rug around in Harry’s apartment while Sally tells him he needs to start dating again after his marriage has broken up.
Sally fakes an orgasm in front of everyone at Katz’s Delicatessan after Harry doesn’t believe that women fake them.
New Year’s Eve and Sally and Harry are as close as friends as ever. The tension builds between the two sexually, but both bury their feelings.
Best friends Jess (Bruno Kirby) and Marie try to talk their respective friends down after both call them to confess they’ve slept with each other. This now-famous scene was actually shot using working phones so each could say their lines as written. The number of takes is staggering.
Jess and Marie get married with their best friends standing up for them – but Harry and Sally aren’t talking anymore. Back to awkward for the two. BELOW: Harry finally realizes he has messed up and runs to tell Sally at a New Year’s Eve party. Sally is irate.
A CONVERSATION WITH ROB REINER AND BILLY CRYSTAL
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Elderly residents enjoy a singalong for Care Home Open Day
Home Press Releases Elderly residents enjoy a singalong for Care Home Open Day
By sam 24th April, 2018 Press Releases No Comments
DANCING, singing and a party for the Queen marked National Care Home Open Day in the North East.
Hill Care Group homes across the region opened their doors and threw special activities and events for visitors and residents.
At Mandale House Care Home, on Acklam Road, Thornaby, Dementia Friends entertainer Trish McLean held a session with violinist and guitarist Beth Ramsay.
Residents played instruments to accompany Trish’s singing, with specially written songs to take residents on a musical journey.
Resident Irene Fleming said: “It was a lovely experience. Trish made the music come alive. She’s such a clever lady.”
At Bannatyne Lodge Care Home, on Manor Way, Peterlee, residents took to the dance floor for classics from Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison as well as modern hits from One Direction and Olly Murs.
Entertainer Jilli Allen had everyone up and out of their chairs for the party, followed by home baked cream scones and cupcakes.
Resident Brian Naisbett was one of those showing off his dance moves and singing along to his favourite songs. He said: “I had a great time.”
At Stockton on Tees Care Home, on Stockton Road, Hartlepool, families and friends joined an afternoon tea in the garden to mark the occasion and celebrate the Queen’s 92nd birthday.
Karaoke also kept everyone entertained as residents and visitors performed their favourite songs.
Resident Brian Williams said: “It was a great day singing songs and seeing the smiles on everyone’s faces. Even the sun was shining.”
At The Gables Care Home, on Highfield Road, in Middlesbrough, the residents were also testing their vocal chords with a singalong to classic movie musical the Wizard of Oz.
Staff and residents dressed as characters including the Tin Man, Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz and the Lion, played by resident Harriet Kidd.
She said: “I’ve never been a lion before. It was lots of fun.”
At Hazelgrove Court Care Home, on Randolph Street, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, residents were taken on a culinary trip across the Commonwealth throughout the week, tasting dishes from St Lucia, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Seychelles, Zambia, Australia and Britain.
Other care homes across the region also opened their doors to visitors, including Ingleby Care Home, on Lamb Lane, Ingleby Barwick, and The Beeches Care Home, on Green Lane, Newtown.
Wendy Waddicor, managing director of the Hill Care Group, said: “All our care homes came up with brilliant, unique and interesting activities for National Care Home Open Day.
“The theme of this year’s event was Linking Communities and we were delighted to welcome so many visitors to our homes, as community is so important to our residents and staff.”
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Another Hindu Activist Hacked to Death by CPM In Kerala
TOPICS:Communist ViolenceKeralaMedia Bias
BY: HinduPost Desk February 16, 2016
In yet another brutal murder of a Hindu activist in Kerala, 27 year old PV Sujith, was hacked to death by CPI-M (Communist Party of India – Marxist) workers in front of his parents in Papinisseri, Kannur district Kerala.
PV Sujith (Courtesy haindavakeralam.com)
According to a report on Haindavakeralam, Sujith, an RSS and BJP activist, was at his home when around 10 men barged into his house around midnight. They thrashed Sujith, his parents and his brother. Sujith was attacked by one of the attackers with a sword injuring him seriously. Even though Sujith was rushed to AKG Hospital, his life could not be saved. His parents and brother have been badly wounded in the attack.
Murderous Assault on Hindu actvist Sujith by CPI-M (Courtesy haindavakeralam.com)
According to this report, the police have arrested eight CPM activists in connection with the murder.
Kannur, a district in north Kerala, has been reeling under Marxist terror for a long time. This is not the first incidence of violent attack on Hindu activists; below is a partial list of brutal CPM attacks over the years –
• April, 1996 – BJP Kannur district general secretary Panniyanoor Chandran was killed while he was riding a motorbike along with his wife; the CPM killers did not betray any mercy in killing the BJP leader brutally in front of his wife.
• Dec, 1999 – BJP youth wing state vice president KT Jayakrishnan was hacked to death in a East Mokeri (Kannur) Upper Primary School classroom where he was teaching children. Before departing, the assailants left a threat on the blackboard warning the terrified children not to give evidence against them.
• March 2008 – 5 RSS workers killed over 2 days in various locations in Kannur district by CPM workers
• Dec, 2013 – Vinod Kumar, 35, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, was stabbed to death by Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M] workers at Payyannur, Kannur
• Sep 2014 – Elamthottathil Manoj (42) of the RSS was hacked to death and his friend Pramod injured when the duo was attacked by CPM goons after hurling bombs on the car they were travelling.
BJP has called for a hartal in Kannur, Pappinessery and Azhikode areas to protest against the killing. But for our national media, this brutal killing in far-away Kerala is much less important than hyping up the legal proceedings (which by the way, are exactly as per provisions in our Constitution) against JNU students as an attack on ‘Freedom Of Expression’.
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Review: ‘Crystal Fairy’ Starring Michael Cera & Gaby Hoffmann
Review: 'Crystal Fairy' Starring Michael Cera & Gaby Hoffmann
Cory Everett
@modage
“Guess if Michael Cera‘s dead, it’s not a total loss right?” Danny McBride says in probably the funniest moment in the teaser for “This Is The End,” a new apocalyptic comedy starring Cera and McBride along with an all-star roster of mostly Apatow-bred comedians all playing distorted versions of themselves. Though nobody actually wants to see Cera dead, McBride’s sentiment nevertheless registers with a large section of the public who decided a few years ago that they’d had enough of Cera. Despite appearing in just five films from 2008-2010, audiences seemed burned out on his persona – despite changing it up in underseen films like “Youth In Revolt” – and so the damage was done. After a meteoric rise, he seemed to take the hint that he wasn’t necessarily being appreciated in these roles and so he’s been largely absent from screens for the past three years. But between the return of his epochal series “Arrested Development” this spring on Netflix and roles in two films by “The Maid” filmmaker Sebastian Silva, 2013 is the year we must welcome Cera back into our hearts.
“Crystal Fairy” opens with hand drawn, hallucinatory opening credits that set the stage for the drug-fueled road trip to follow. Cera stars as Jamie, an American living in Chile who appears to be down there just to party, hang out and take cool drugs. He goes to a house party with his three buddies, Chilean brothers Champa (Juan Andres Silva), Lel (Jose Miguel Silva) and Pilo (Agustin Silva), and ends up doing a fair amount of coke. The party rages on for a while and Jamie ends up dancing with a equally shaggy looking American who goes by the name of Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffmann, where have you been!). Crystal is a hippie with a long tangle of hair and hopeless dance moves that leads the inebriated Jamie to dub her “a lonely tornado” before striking up a conversation and inviting her to meet up with him and the brothers on their road trip. On the way home Jamie runs into some transvestite prostitutes on the street and invites them back to his apartment to eat breakfast. As Jamie, Cera is as shaggy looking as he’s ever been, as if he let his Scott Pilgrim haircut just grow wild for another few months, but his character isn’t quite as free spirited as his appearance.
In the cold light of day, the next morning Jamie and the brothers set off on their road trip and he’s horrified to learn from the brothers that he invited Crystal along. For months Jamie has been planning the perfect drug weekend: drive up to find a San Pedro cactus, make mescaline with it, and take it at the beach. And now he doesn’t want an unexpected visitor messing things up (even if he was technically the one who invited her). But it’s too late to turn back and sure enough, Crystal does show up to meet the boys, and her bohemian principles start to cause immediate friction. Champa, Lel and Pilo are largely laid back but Jamie becomes increasingly uptight the more that Crystal tries to derail him. “This is the perfect thing to do right now…is to do mescaline,” he insists after their search to find the cactus proves initially fruitless.
With her eyebrows grown in thick and character largely ungroomed, Hoffmann’s performance is completely without vanity and she spends several long sequences parading around completely nude (which leads Jamie to dub her character Crystal Hairy). But her character isn’t simply the butt of the jokes (though she is that too). As the film goes, on we learn that Crystal might not be quite as committed to her ideals as she may seem, which leads to some unexpectedly poignant turns in the third act. The film is full of oddball touches like swelling dramatic strings accompanying an unwanted phone call, the camera lingering on two dogs fucking in the foreground of a shot (never not funny), and moments of sadness scattered throughout that lend emotional heft to the comedy. One of the most satisfying things about “Crystal Fairy” is that even though the lead character prefers to keep an ironic distance from things, the film itself is completely sincere. It’s about being good to people even when they’re kind of ridiculous.
Based on a real road trip taken by Silva and his brothers, this writer was surprised to learn that the dialogue was 100% improvised from an 11-page outline. Generally, unless you’re a master like Christopher Guest, films without scripts tend to feel like it. While the film is loose, there’s never a moment where you’re taken out of the picture by realizing the actors might not know where they’re heading next. Cera may not have worked as the star of big-budget fare like “Year One” (frankly, would anyone have?), but he’s terrific here, reminding you why he shot up so quickly after “Superbad” and “Arrested Development.” He is an excellent and completely distinctive actor. Part of the reason people seem to turn on any comedian or actor is that what they do becomes too familiar. By bringing his ace comic timing to a slightly darker role, Cera’s talents feel completely fresh again. By the end of this trip, you’ll realize that you’ve missed him, and luckily you won’t have to wait long to see him again. [B]
This is an edited reprint of our review from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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Watch: New Instagram Trailer (Yes, That’s A Thing Now) For ‘Jobs’ Biopic Plus New Pics
Watch: New Instagram Trailer (Yes, That's A Thing Now) For 'Jobs' Biopic Plus New Pics
Kevin Jagernauth
WWSJD? It’s coming on two years since the passing of Apple founder, innovator, guru and game-changer Steve Jobs, and it’s still difficult to imagine the tech landscape without him. Blessed with a vision and creativity few in the industry possess with a drive that made him as many friends as enemies, his story is a fascinating one and it’s getting told…by Ashton Kutcher… And a new trailer (sort of) is here.
We still don’t know what the allure of Vine is (six second videos? who cares?), but Instagram is one-upping them with 15 seconds worth of space, and Open Road is using it for a quick little promo for “Jobs.” Kutcher plays The Man With The Black Turtleneck, with the movie tracking his life from the garages of California and home-brew computing clubs to knocking the world on its ass with the iPod. We’re still not sold on Kutcher in the lead, but hopefully combined with the supporting cast of Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, Lukas Haas, J.K. Simmons, Matthew Modine and James Woods, this will at least be something approaching respectable.
“Jobs” shuffles into theaters on August 16th. Trailer and a couple new pics below.
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Cartoon Saloon Gives A Peek At “Song Of The Sea”
Cartoon Saloon Gives A Peek At "Song Of The Sea"
Fred Patten
The Kilkenny, Ireland-based Cartoon Saloon animation studio gave a presentation on Tuesday night at Woodbury University in Burbank, California. This was the same presentation that Cartoon Saloon gave at the 2014
Comic-Con International in San Diego the previous week, repeated for
ASIFA-Hollywood members before Cartoon Saloon went back to Ireland.
The presentation was on Cartoon
Saloon’s second theatrical animated feature, Song of the Sea, due to be finished and released in America later
this year by GKIDS. The presenters were
Tomm Moore, Cartoon Saloon’s co-founder and the director of the two features,
and Paul Young, another studio co-founder, the producer of the two features and
one of the character voices in The Secret
of Kells. They also sold and signed
the just-published “making of” coffee-table art book of Cartoon Saloon’s first
theatrical feature, the March 2009 The
Secret of Kells. The July 2014 book
is Designing The Secret of Kells, written
by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, the Kells
art director.
Cartoon Saloon’s synopsis of the in-progress
Song of the Sea is: “Song of the Sea tells
the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse — the last Seal-child — who
embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient legend and magic
in an attempt to return to their home by the sea. The film takes inspiration
from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea
but become humans on land. Song of the Sea features
the voices of Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Lisa Hannigan,
Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Lucy O’Connell, Liam Hourican and Kevin Swierszsz. Music
is by composer Bruno Coulais and Irish band Kíla, both of whom previously
collaborated on The Secret of Kells.”
and early 20th century collections of international folk tales
contain many of the original tales of Selkies – roughly Celtic equivalents of
mermaid legends, about women who dress in sealskins to become real seals. Most are very depressing, about
poor fisherman on bleak and freezing Irish, Scottish, Cornish or Welsh seacoasts,
and the loss of their wives and their children’s mothers. Since Song
of the Sea is designed to be family-friendly, it has a more upbeat plot,
making Saoirse, the little girl, the Selkie who turns into a seal when she dons
her mother’s sealskin, and showing the marvels of the sea through her eyes;
while Ben, her slightly older brother, tries to save her for humanity rather
than losing her to the seal-folk. Song of the Sea has basically the same
“Celtic” art design seen in The Secret of
Kells.
The presentation only
touched on Moore’s and Young’s Cartoon Saloon animation studio. According to online sources, Cartoon Saloon was
founded in 1999 by Moore, Young, Stewart, and several young friends in Dublin’s
Ballyfermot Senior College’s animation course.
Moore (born in 1977) had been inspired in his adolescence in Kilkenny by
American super-hero comic books and the animation studio that Don Bluth had set
up in Dublin. But by the time he was old
enough to apply for professional work, Bluth had moved back to the U.S. Moore entered Ballyfermot’s animation course
(originally set up by Bluth to train animators for his studio), where he met the
other students who became inspired to create Cartoon Saloon and become its
first staff. Their major influences were
Richard Williams’ unfinished The Thief
and the Cobbler, Disney’s Mulan
with its Chinese motifs, and the films of Hayao Miyazaki; but they wanted to do
something with Celtic design. Moore
returned to Kilkenny, where he was already familiar with the city’s live-action
Young Irish Film Makers group, and established the first Cartoon Saloon studio
with their help. Later the Irish Film
Board helped the studio to move to its present larger premises.
Cartoon Saloon today, according to Wikipedia, “provides
animation, illustration and design services for clients ranging from the BBC to
Walker books and advertising agencies.” The Secret of Kells, its first
theatrical feature, won or was nominated for numerous international awards
including the 2009 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Its other works include the 2007-2008 Flash
animation TV series Skunk Fu! (26
episodes; shown in 29 countries; reportedly a feature film is in production), other
TV series in production, fine-art short films, TV commercials, and currently an
exhibit at Trinity College, Dublin, on the 1,000th anniversary of
the death of High King Brian Boru at the Battle of Clontarf.
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SPRG Achieves Progress On Various Fronts Despite Toughest Year In Decades
Adit 04/01/2021
HONG KONG, Jan 4, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Strategic Public Relations Group (“SPRG” or the “Group”) has finished 2020 in fine shape despite the many challenges the pandemic posed during the past year. This was largely attributable to the SPRGers, who have continued to provide professional and exceptional quality services to clients during these difficult times, along with its commitment to acting as a good corporate citizen and giving back to the community. These values form the most fundamental part of the Group’s DNA, enabling its success over the past 25 years.
Richard Tsang, Chairman of SPRG said, “Talent has always been our most important asset since our establishment in 1995. As a result, we have chosen to act in defiance of the poor market conditions, never considering cutting our talent investment. As was announced in early February, following discussion with all the regional heads, we made the decision that no layoffs or salary cuts would result from COVID-19. This is because we are determined to be a responsible employer and will therefore try our very best to protect everyone’s job, particularly during the most trying and unpredictable time in decades.”
The Group’s success is well earned, as evidenced by 29 awards won last year. SPRG is particularly proud to have received the Public Relations Agency of the Year Gold award in Asia, Australia and New Zealand at the 17th Annual International Business Awards for the seventh consecutive year. In addition to the financial campaign category in which SPRG is a regular winner, the Group’s most awarded marketing case of late – “Colour of Europe” has amassed a total of six awards in 2020! Moreover, SPRG devised a successful promotion strategy for Enabling Festival 2019, which also earned three prestigious accolades in the region. These campaigns perfectly illustrate the forward-thinking and adaptable nature of SPRG’s communication strategy under the digital era.
At the forefront of the Group’s expansion of professional practices is the launch of SPRG’s new joint-venture company – Montieth SPRG, located in Hong Kong. The new joint venture will serve the financial and professional services, fintech and renewable energy sectors, amongst others. Montieth SPRG will benefit greatly from the co-owner, Montieth & Company, and its broad base of U.S., Canadian and European clients that are eager to enter or expand their market share in the Asia-Pacific market, as well as the local networks and resources which SPRG can provide.
SPRG has been giving back to society via its own NGO over the past five years, in addition to the pro bono services it provides to local communities and various industries and associations. During the COVID-19 outbreak, the Group has fully utilised its connections and resources to contribute to the battle against the virus, having raised nearly US$80,000 worth of in-kind donations. This included giving away masks, sanitisers, food and necessities to over 7,950 people in need.
About Strategic Public Relations Group (“SPRG”)
SPRG is one of the largest public relations networks in Asia Pacific and the largest public relations consultancy in Hong Kong.
It has more than 290 professionals working from 15 wholly-owned offices, as well as an associate company in Australia, all providing clients with integrated communication services. With affiliates around the world and PROI Worldwide partners, SPRG can help clients access over 165 cities globally.
Since its founding in 1995, SPRG has proved to be an investor relations and financial communications specialist. It has also become a leader in IPO communications in Hong Kong, having completed 477 new listing campaigns to date. Furthermore, SPRG has more than 170 listed company retainer clients and maintains a highly diversified portfolio of multinational and local financial institution clients. Indicative of SPRG’s diverse yet exceptional corporate communications capabilities, it advises clients on public, investor, media and government relations, corporate and marketing communications, issues and crisis communication management, event management and digital marketing, as well as provides media and presentation skills training, design and content creation, and editorial support.
SPRG has garnered over 420 prominent awards in the client campaign and agency categories, including “Network/Agency of the Year” titles from The Holmes Report, Campaign/PRWeek, Marketing magazine, The Stevie and Communication Director; all serve as testament to SPRG’s dedication to excellence.
For more information on SPRG and its services visit: www.sprg.asia
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Global warming will happen faster than we think
international | environment | news report Monday December 10, 2018 00:08 by Climate Case Ireland
This paper appeared in the scientific journal Nature
Climate change has been completely underestimated thanks to the pressure from the Coal & Oil backed deniers that have put such pressure on scientists that they have been afraid to tell the truth and what their gut feelings are about the state of play. The reality is we are past the point of no return and the root problem is capitalism need for endless growth, although that is not addressed here -Indy Editor
Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor.
Prepare for the “new abnormal”. That was what California Governor Jerry Brown told reporters last month, commenting on the deadly wildfires that have plagued the state this year. He’s right. California’s latest crisis builds on years of record-breaking droughts and heatwaves. The rest of the world, too, has had more than its fair share of extreme weather in 2018. The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change announced last week that 157 million more people were exposed to heatwave events in 2017, compared with 2000.
Such environmental disasters will only intensify. Governments, rightly, want to know what to do. Yet the climate-science community is struggling to offer useful answers.
In October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report setting out why we must stop global warming at 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, and how to do so1. It is grim reading. If the planet warms by 2 °C — the widely touted temperature limit in the 2015 Paris climate agreement — twice as many people will face water scarcity than if warming is limited to 1.5 °C. That extra warming will also expose more than 1.5 billion people to deadly heat extremes, and hundreds of millions of individuals to vector-borne diseases such as malaria, among other harms.
But the latest IPCC special report underplays another alarming fact: global warming is accelerating. Three trends — rising emissions, declining air pollution and natural climate cycles — will combine over the next 20 years to make climate change faster and more furious than anticipated. In our view, there’s a good chance that we could breach the 1.5 °C level by 2030, not by 2040 as projected in the special report (see ‘Accelerated warming’). The climate-modelling community has not grappled enough with the rapid changes that policymakers care most about, preferring to focus on longer-term trends and equilibria.
Policymakers have less time to respond than they thought. Governments need to invest even more urgently in schemes that protect homes from floods and fires and help people to manage heat stress (especially older individuals and those living in poverty). Nations need to make their forests and farms more resilient to droughts, and prepare coasts for inundation. Rapid warming will create a greater need for emissions policies that yield the quickest changes in climate, such as controls on soot, methane and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases. There might even be a case for solar geoengineering — cooling the planet by, for instance, seeding reflective particles in the stratosphere to act as a sunshade.
Climate scientists must supply the evidence policymakers will need and provide assessments for the next 25 years. They should advise policymakers on which climate-warming pollutants to limit first to gain the most climate benefit. They should assess which policies can be enacted most swiftly and successfully in the real world, where political, administrative and economic constraints often make abstract, ‘ideal’ policies impractical.
Speeding freight train
Three lines of evidence suggest that global warming will be faster than projected in the recent IPCC special report.
First, greenhouse-gas emissions are still rising. In 2017, industrial carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to have reached about 37 gigatonnes2. This puts them on track with the highest emissions trajectory the IPCC has modelled so far. This dark news means that the next 25 years are poised to warm at a rate of 0.25–0.32 °C per decade3. That is faster than the 0.2 °C per decade that we have experienced since the 2000s, and which the IPCC used in its special report.
Second, governments are cleaning up air pollution faster than the IPCC and most climate modellers have assumed. For example, China reduced sulfur dioxide emissions from its power plants by 7–14% between 2014 and 2016 (ref. 4). Mainstream climate models had expected them to rise. Lower pollution is better for crops and public health5. But aerosols, including sulfates, nitrates and organic compounds, reflect sunlight. This shield of aerosols has kept the planet cooler, possibly by as much as 0.7 °C globally6.
Third, there are signs that the planet might be entering a natural warm phase that could last for a couple of decades. The Pacific Ocean seems to be warming up, in accord with a slow climate cycle known as the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation7. This cycle modulates temperatures over the equatorial Pacific and over North America. Similarly, the mixing of deep and surface waters in the Atlantic Ocean (the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation) looks to have weakened since 2004, on the basis of data from drifting floats that probe the deep ocean8. Without this mixing, more heat will stay in the atmosphere rather than going into the deep oceans, as it has in the past.
These three forces reinforce each other. We estimate that rising greenhouse-gas emissions, along with declines in air pollution, bring forward the estimated date of 1.5 °C of warming to around 2030, with the 2 °C boundary reached by 2045. These could happen sooner with quicker shedding of air pollutants. Adding in natural decadal fluctuations raises the odds of blasting through 1.5 °C by 2025 to at least 10% (ref. 9). By comparison, the IPCC assigned probabilities of 17% and 83% for crossing the 1.5 °C mark by 2030 and 2052, respectively.
Four fronts
Scientists and policymakers must rethink their roles, objectives and approaches on four fronts.
Assess science in the near term. Policymakers should ask the IPCC for another special report, this time on the rates of climate change over the next 25 years. The panel should also look beyond the physical science itself and assess the speed at which political systems can respond, taking into account pressures to maintain the status quo from interest groups and bureaucrats. Researchers should improve climate models to describe the next 25 years in more detail, including the latest data on the state of the oceans and atmosphere, as well as natural cycles. They should do more to quantify the odds and impacts of extreme events. The evidence will be hard to muster, but it will be more useful in assessing real climate dangers and responses.
Rethink policy goals. Warming limits, such as the 1.5 °C goal, should be recognized as broad planning tools. Too often they are misconstrued as physical thresholds around which to design policies. The excessive reliance on ‘negative emissions technologies’ (that take up CO2) in the IPCC special report shows that it becomes harder to envision realistic policies the closer the world gets to such limits. It’s easy to bend models on paper, but much harder to implement real policies that work.
Realistic goals should be set based on political and social trade-offs, not just on geophysical parameters. They should come out of analyses of costs, benefits and feasibility. Assessments of these trade-offs must be embedded in the Paris climate process, which needs a stronger compass to guide its evaluations of how realistic policies affect emissions. Better assessment can motivate action but will also be politically controversial: it will highlight gaps between what countries say they will do to control emissions, and what needs to be achieved collectively to limit warming. Information about trade-offs must therefore come from outside the formal intergovernmental process — from national academies of sciences, subnational partnerships and non-governmental organizations.
Design strategies for adaptation. The time for rapid adaptation has arrived. Policymakers need two types of information from scientists to guide their responses. First, they need to know what the potential local impacts will be at the scales of counties to cities. Some of this information could be gleaned by combining fine-resolution climate impact assessments with artificial intelligence for ‘big data’ analyses of weather extremes, health, property damage and other variables. Second, policymakers need to understand uncertainties in the ranges of probable climate impacts and responses. Even regions that are proactive in setting adaptation policies, such as California, lack information about the ever-changing risks of extreme warming, fires and rising seas. Research must be integrated across fields and stakeholders — urban planners, public-health management, agriculture and ecosystem services. Adaptation strategies should be adjustable if impacts unfold differently. More planning and costing is needed around the worst-case outcomes.
Understand options for rapid response. Climate assessments must evaluate quick ways of lessening climate impacts, such as through reducing emissions of methane, soot (or black carbon) and HFCs. Per tonne, these three ‘super pollutants’ have 25 to thousands of times the impact of CO2. Their atmospheric lifetimes are short — in the range of weeks (for soot) to about a decade (for methane and HFCs). Slashing these pollutants would potentially halve the warming trend over the next 25 years10.
There has been progress on this front. At the Global Climate Action summit held in September in San Francisco, California, the United States Climate Alliance — a coalition of state governors representing 40% of the US population — issued a road map to reduce emissions of methane, HFCs and soot by 40–50% by 2030. The 2016 Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which will go into force by January 2019, is set to slash HFC emissions by 80% over the next 30 years.
Various climate engineering options should be on the table as an emergency response. If global conditions really deteriorate, we might be forced to extract large volumes of excess CO2 directly from the atmosphere. An even faster emergency response could be to inject aerosols into the atmosphere to lower the amount of solar radiation heating the planet, as air pollution does. This option is hugely controversial, and might have unintended consequences, such as altering rainfall patterns that lead to drying of the tropics. So research and planning are crucial, in case this option is needed. Until there is investment in testing and technical preparedness — today, there is almost none — the chances are high that the wrong kinds of climate-engineering scheme will be deployed by irresponsible parties who are uninformed by research11.
For decades, scientists and policymakers have framed the climate-policy debate in a simple way: scientists analyse long-term goals, and policymakers pretend to honour them. Those days are over. Serious climate policy must focus more on the near-term and on feasibility. It must consider the full range of options, even though some are uncomfortable and freighted with risk.
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Arctic Report Card
by Crazy Cat Wed Dec 12, 2018 09:41
NOAA has just published its Arctic Report Card:
https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2018
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Vandy's athletic successes fuel facilities upgrades
Renovation follows athletic success at Vanderbilt
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Now Vanderbilt might be making some of its biggest moves in the offseason.
At the football stadium, new artificial turf is being laid to go along with new lighting. The new Jumbotron that Franklin put at the top of his wish list soon will be going in, and the open end zone at the end of the horseshoe-shaped stadium is being turned into a new grassy berm for fans. Vanderbilt officials got the idea for the berm after a win at Wake Forest last season, and installing the berm using the grass from the field made it a cost-saving move.
Williams said the original plan was to install the upgraded lighting with the Jumbotron. Officials found enough money in reserves to proceed with changing the grass to turf, a move that will allow Vanderbilt to team with the Nashville Sports Council and bid to host Tennessee's high school football championships.
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Nokia 2.4 first impressions: No more nostalgia play
Nokia 2.4 is targetting the masses with the goodness of stock Android and a durable design. Here are our first impressions of the device.
By Sami Khan @samikhan021
December 1, 2020 07:19 IST
Top phones 2020
No lockdown or pandemic can stop the flow of new smartphones. 2020, as tough as it might have been, has witnessed some incredible phones in all budgets. Nokia has also been an active participant in launching new phones and the latest entrant is targeted towards the masses. HMD Global introduced Nokia 2.4 with all of its stock Android glory and a few other tidbits.
Nokia 2.4 is priced at Rs 10,399 and competes against some strong contenders in the budget space. Nokia is using its legacy, brand presence and customer loyalty to win over buyers. We aren't using nostalgia as a reason here for a reason.
Nokia 2.4's design is an adamant follower of go big or go home. It's a generously large phone, best suited for multimedia consumption, playing games, browsing social media. The handset comes with a polycarbonate body with a nice textured back, which offered additional grip and keeps fingerprint smudges at bay. There is also a subtle gradient shifting from a lighter shade to a darker shade.
Nokia 2.4 reviewIBTimes
Nokia 2.4 has the regular volume and power controls on the right and a dedicated Google Assistant button on the left, which sadly cannot be remapped but there's an option to disable it completely. At the bottom, we find a microUSB port along with speaker and a 3.5mm headphone jack can be found at the top. There's a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner right below the dual camera capsule. The Nokia branding is in the same linear, giving a uniform look.
Overall, Nokia 2.4 has a standard design, which is not a bad thing. The textured rear panel gives a sense of rich feel, which doesn't feel like cheap plastic.
Nokia 2.4 has a 6.7-inch HD+ LCD display with thin bezels on the sides and a slightly enlarged bezel at the bottom, which also has the Nokia branding. On most days, you will find the display to be good enough to meet all your needs, from social media browsing to multimedia consumption.
However, using the phone outdoors on a bright sunny day would require you to adjust the brightness levels to maximum. By industry standards, the HD+ resolution is a tad disappointing and you'll feel the downgrade if you've used a Full HD+ phone, which is easily available in competition phones even in similar price range. The display is not something you'll be stunned by, but it gets the job done.
This is where Nokia phones always win. By going with stock Android, Nokia 2.4 brings the goodness of Google's best mobile OS in its raw form. Regular software updates and a familiar interface will be liked by may. There's no bloatware, which is a relief as other phones in this range go overboard with excessive pre-loaded apps. Since we regularly use Netflix, it was nice to have the app pre-installed.
Nokia 2.4 is a part of Android One program, which guarantees two years of major software updates and 3 years of security updates. The phone runs Android 10 out-of-the-box, and eligible to receive Android 11 in the coming days and even receive Android 12 whenever it's out.
The dual-camera setup on the back has a 13MP primary sensor with 2MP depth sensor. The UI itself is nothing new, with all the modes like Photo, Portrait, Night, Video within easy reach on the viewfinder. There's no wide-angle lens, but we have no complaints as it would challenge the clarity, which is pretty average already. We will be sharing camera samples in our full review to give a fair understanding of Nokia 2.4's camera performance. But early indicators show the phone to be equipped with a decent setup if not an extraordinary one - even by the sub-Rs 10k standards.
Performance and battery
Nokia 2.4 is powered by an Helio P22 processor paired with 3GB RAM and 64GB storage. We can count on the phone's capability to handle day-to-day tasks, but that's about it. A good choice for your parents, who really don't demand much out of a phone and has that brand trust. But it's worth noting that there are far better-performing phones out there in the same price range.
Under the hood, the Nokia 2.4 packs a 4,500mAh battery, which we feel is a boon for users. We expect it to easily last two days with 4G connectivity and using the phone to its given capabilities. But the 5W charger in the box and the lack of USB Type-C instantly takes us back to stone-age.
Nokia 2.4 has a few things going for it. It has got a likable design, a lasting battery, a stock Android experience, and a large display. Performance-hungry users are better off looking elsewhere, probably Redmi 9 or even Poco M2. But Nokia has a name that's trusted by many and if you're looking to gift your parent a smartphone so they finally give up their feature phone, Nokia 2.4 is a safe bet. Stay tuned for a full review.
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Photo by Dave Caliebe
To show our appreciation and recognize the incredible work of hundreds of volunteers and other friends of the Trail, we give out a series of awards.
View the list of 2020 award winners here [PDF].
Dedication and Inspiration
Without the support of our public partners and the on-going dedication and effort by our volunteers, the Ice Age National Scenic Trail would be little more than a line on a map.
If you know someone who deserves to be recognized for what they do on behalf of the Ice Age Trail, then nominate them today!
Our Most Esteemed Volunteer Awards
Spirit Stick Award
Trail Steward of the Year Award
Partnership Award Categories
Ray Zillmer Award
This award recognizes those whose work exemplifies the long-range, big-picture ideals that inspired the establishment of the Ice Age Trail and continue to inspire its development.
View Award Winners
Henry S. Reuss Award
This award is given to individuals whose work through government channels at multiple levels has made a significant impact on the Ice Age Trail. It emphasizes the recipient’s ability to move influential parties to take an active role in our mission.
Public Partner Award
This award recognizes individuals whose work in the public sector has provided dedicated, ongoing service for the Ice Age Trail, above and beyond regular duties.
Friend of the Ice Age Trail Award
This award recognizes foundations, businesses and other organizations for their strong support of the Ice Age Trail. These recipients have enabled new capacity within our organization through financial contribution or partnered with us in another significant way.
Trailbuilding Award Categories
Trail Steward of the Year
This award recognizes volunteers whose work in any phase of Trail management contributes in an extraordinary manner to the development of new trail, land improvements, or facilities such as:
Trail planning
Landowner and/or partner relations
Trail layout and design
Trail construction
Trail maintenance
Stewardship work
"In The Mud" Award
This award is given to member volunteers who display a willingness to roll up their sleeves on behalf of the Ice Age Trail and a dedication to our organization’s mission. They consistently show up at workdays, dive into the dirty work, and make significant efforts to establish the Ice Age Trail. These volunteers epitomize the bedrock volunteer spirit responsible for building trail.
Download List of Award Recipients [PDF]
Crew Leader Award
This award recognizes crew leaders who meet and maintain “in Good Standing” requirements and demonstrate advanced leadership qualities, safe working practices, effectively lead volunteer crews on or off trail, maintain skill-based certifications, and serve in a Project Team role at one or more Mobile Skills Crew events within a 15-month time frame.
Crew Leader Emeritus Award
This award recognizes individuals who have provided a minimum 6 years of exemplary and consistently dedicated service as an IATA Crew Leader who choose to retire from actively leading crews.
Dedicated Service Award Categories
This award symbolizes long-term dedication and service to the Ice Age Trail. Nominees for this award exhibit a passion for the Trail that has become a way of life. They lead by example, inspire those around them, and carry out their service with a spirit of optimism, cooperation and enthusiasm. We present this award to only one recipient each year.
Years of Service Award
We recognize individuals who have shown true dedication to the Ice Age Trail through their years of active volunteering. Volunteers receive this award at 10-, 20-, 30-, and 40- (yes, 40!) year milestones.
Excellence in Staff Service Award
From time to time, our Board of Directors may recognize staff members who have exhibited exceptional and long-term dedication to our mission. This award recognizes staff who have fostered positive working relationships between staff, volunteers, partners and communities and have served as an exemplary face of the Ice Age Trail.
National Park Service Volunteers in Parks Awards Program
All Alliance volunteers are eligible for the National Park Service Volunteers In Parks (VIP) awards program. Every volunteer in our database has a “career hours count” that began January 1, 2007. The Park Service awards volunteers as they log hours in increments of 100, 250, 500, 1,000 and beyond.
Each time a volunteer passes a 250-hour increment, he or she also receives a federal Interagency Volunteer Pass that waives entrance fees at all federally administered recreation sites (national parks, national forests, etc.) for one year.
Note: Open the NPS Volunteers In Parks (VIP) awards presentation here [PDF].
Watch the 2020 NPS Volunteers In Parks (VIP) awards video here.
Leadership Memorial Award
This award honors longtime Trail leaders who have passed away, recognizing the contributions of dedicated supporters. The award is given to a member of the recipient’s family at a Trail event or private gathering in collaboration with the family.
(The recipient’s name will be added to the list that appears in each issue of Mammoth Tales.)
Mammoth Society (Retired)
The Mammoth Society is considered the most prestigious level of membership to the Ice Age Trail Alliance. The award recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to our organization, for example, through the facilitation of significant land access, 30 years or more of active membership to the IATA, service as a board member for at least two full terms, or a substantial planned gift to the Alliance. This award grants lifetime membership.
Scholarship Award Categories
Douglas "Stickman" Sherman Scholarship Award
This $500 scholarship was originally funded by the Sherman family after Douglas’s passing and continues to be funded by other interested parties. The one-time award is presented annually to a high school or first year college student who has made significant contributions to the mission of the IATA and whose dedication to the Trail sets an example for other youth and shows exceptional promise.
History of volunteering with the IATA;
Love of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail and a desire to create, support and protect the trail for future generations;
Future goals including a degree in environmental, educational or related fields.
Payment is made upon submission of college transcript with a GPA of 2.5, or the equivalent, for the first semester of study.
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NCRIT - 2016 (Volume 4 - Issue 27)
Retaining Women Workforce
Priyadarshini B A, 2016, Retaining Women Workforce, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (IJERT) NCRIT – 2016 (Volume 4 – Issue 27),
Authors : Priyadarshini B A
Volume & Issue : NCRIT – 2016 (Volume 4 – Issue 27)
Priyadarshini B A
Assistant Professor, MBA Department Global Institute of Management Sciences, RR Nagar
Abstract:- The purpose of this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of why women choose to take a career break for various reasons and provide an analysis of all those women-friendly initiatives that are being taken up by various organizations in order to retain efficient women workforce.
The representation of women in the country's workforce has rapidly increased. The immense growth has attributed to socioeconomic and cultural shifts taking place in India. Improved employment access, education, fall in fertility rates and delayed fertility are all feeding into the structural change and increasing the number of women entering the workforce. There is also a big push amongst urban families to have two incomes, and cultural changes are reflecting this because there is now more acceptances towards women working.
Despite all this, the number of women leaving work to be home with their family, children is on the rise.
Women earn a degree, enter into a profession at a very early age and begin to prove themselves in the job. But few years later they come across those important stages in life where they are forced to take the decision of quitting the job for personal reasons. This decision is taken especially on three occasions When she gets relocated, when she gets married, or when she gives birth to a child. Quitting a job cannot be an impulsive decision as it affects her family security, independence and most importantly her future career and prospects. But most of the times it is becoming inevitable for a women to take the painful decision of quitting the job. She is forced to have few career breaks. Many women rejoin work. However, women who have taken a mid-career sabbatical struggle to get it right the second time.
This work tries to analyze the various measures and steps which can be taken to address such situations.
Keywords: Retention, women workforce, glass ceiling, gender bias, flexible hours, crèche, organizational culture, women empowerment, family, diversity, professional, education
Life is about everything, not just a certain aspect of it
not just the work.
The world witnessed a boom in the engagement of women in the labor market in the last two decades. The increasing rates of women contributing in the work force has led to a more equal disbursement of hours worked across the regions of the world.
However, higher rate of attrition can be seen in women workforce. Restrictions on women's access to and participation in the workforce include the wage gap and the glass ceiling, inequities most identified with industrialized nations with nominal equal opportunity laws; legal and cultural restrictions on access to education and jobs, inequities most identified with developing nations; and unequal access to capital, variable but identified as a
difficulty in both industrialized and developing nations. Women are prevented from achieving complete gender equality in the workplace because of the ideal-worker norm, which defines the committed worker as someone who works full time and full force for forty years straight, a situation designed for the male sex (Williams 100). Women, in contrast, are still expected to fulfill the caretaker role and take time off for domestic needs such as pregnancy and ill family members, preventing them from conforming to the ideal-worker norm. With the current norm in place, women are forced to juggle full-time jobs and family care at home.
It is important to retain women workforce in order to promote ethnic and gender diversity, for better decision making, to enlarge and enrich the talent pool, empower women.
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This paper is aimed at providing an insight into the challenges faced by women to participate in labor employment, the various factors responsible for the high attrition in women. It also highlights the women friendly initiative taken by the organizations to retain the efficient women workforce.
Retention of women workforce is beneficial to both the employees and the employers. For this purpose, this paper has been chosen to analyze the ways the retain the potential women talent.
To study the importance of retention of women workforce
To find out the difficulties faced by the women employees in career growth
To identify the unique measures taken by various companies to retain its women workforce
To offer suitable suggestions to improve the retention policies of the organization
Over the last two decades rates of womens participation in paid labor market has greatly increased. There are a lot of women who are extremely career driven and many who manage to build both their career and raise a family, but they fail to get the right support to go higher up the ladder to make a successful career.
Debbie Salas-Lopez (in 2011) has mentioned the article Women leaders Challenges, Successes and other insights from the top that Attrition in women is an issue for many reasons, including traditional gender roles that may affect how women are perceived and the choices they
have available (or they make), a lack of role models, the undervaluing of womens traditional communication and leadership styles, and organizational culture.
A study, (Towers 2008) on gender bias and discrimination, found that women have to develop more socialization than men in order to be equally successful.
Becky Barrow(2007) in the article Women high- flyers quit to see more of the children has opined that The pressures of combining family life with a demanding job are forcing increasing number of women to abandon successful careers. More and more women workforce are considering not returning to work from maternity leave not through choice, but because of inflexible working and corporate culture issues. Flexibility matters to women. They want flexibility in those arrangements the chance to make choices that enable them to be successful throughout their career and their personal lives. Few others are changing direction because their earning even as senior managers leave them unable to afford childcare. The increase in the cost of child-care is forcing more mothers to quit jobs. To see so many women withdraw from the job market is a woeful waste of potential. Many are choosing to set up their own businesses where they can dictate their working hours.
McPherson, John R (2008) – The challenge of hiring and retaining women. In this article its mentioned Beth Axelrod (Head HR eBay) opines that Its important for a companys workforce to not only reflect the diversity of talent available in the world today but also mirror the diversity of its customer base. A family-friendly working environment and an optimal work-life balance are crucial to retaining women in the workforce.
To effectively retain women, a company has to put in place certain foundational processes or systems. Some of them are ensuring that the basic conditions of a meritocracy are in place, ensuring there is no gender bias, employee engagement, promote the presence of women in higher positions to build a more supportive environment.
Lisa J.Servon and M. Anne Visser (2011) The other important measures to motivate and retain women include providing flexible hours of work, provide crèche facilities, adopt family friendly policies, people systems and processes must be fair.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
SocialIssues Secondary Careers Sex Discrimination
Male Dominated environment
Pay Inequity Relocation of spouse Sexual Harassment Long work hours
Lack of training, development and advancement opportunities
Glass Ceiling Organizational culture Marriage
Work-Family conflict
Unsupportive supervisors and/or coworkers
Unsupportive company policies and benefits
Employable Women Workforce
New Entries -->Freshers
Mid-Level Positions
Management Professional
Board Seats
Through the study it was possible to understand the fact that the women are an underrepresented community in all fields of work and profession. In an organization this underrepresentation is very evident as the gender diversity statistics show. There have been a lot of attempts to address the issue of under representation of women and the solutions that few organizations have come up with and implemented have not yielded the desired result for both, the organization as well as the women workers. Policies like flexi timings and work from home, though seemed promising, did not counter the problem of women workforce leaving the organizations or work.
The recent developments in this arena seems a little more promising than any other schemes that have been earlier formulated. The fact that the drivers of the change are women themselves makes us believe in the promise. This was evident when Ms. Arundathi Bhattacharya became the first women chief of SBI. In one of her press release she said, Being a women myself, I think women employees have special problems. I will try to be more sensitive to that.
The organizations, should now concentrate more on identifying and understanding those policies, which are acting as impediments for advancement of women at the profession and work place and identify and share the best practices and policies that can lead toward sustainability of successful interventions.
Entrepreneurship is the new buzz word amongst women who are looking for a second employment. There are a lot of initiatives taken up by a lot of women leaders to help women who are looking for a second employment or aspiring to be entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs swim against the tide in a male dominated workplace. But now a new wave of initiatives is helping them forge ahead. Ms Kanchana Banerjee writes thus in The Hindu, under the column Boardroom blues. Initiatives like FITE (financial independence through entrepreneurship), which provides microfinance loans for women who want to be entrepreneurs has helped more than 30000 women across
68 countries. Ruche Mittal, who is a designer entrepreneur, has started a network by name HEN (her entrepreneurial network), for women to collaborate on projects and help each other with contacts, share knowledge and inputs. An initiative by Pearl Uppal, with the name Founders in Heels, acts as a networking and
mentoring platform for women to support them primarily in tech based industries. Companies are leveraging networks for high potential women executives as well as in house programmes to nurture women within organization for leadership positions writes Ms Kanchana. Cadbury recently introduce the My Mentor programme to encourage women to aspire to senior leadership roles. Other companies like Accenture, Boston Consulting Group and Coca Cola are recognizing formal women networks as a critical retention tool for women leaders at mid career levels. Arun Duggal of ShriRam has roped in 24 senior leaders to mentor competent women to go on to become independent directors. A good sign is that organizations are facing a lot of public demand in the AGMs demanding better representation of women.
With such schemes and programmes in place we can hope to see the change in numbers of gender diversity at work place.
Van Breems, Arlene Women in the Money Trades May69, Vol. 58 Issue 5, p56. 2p
Christen, Susan R Helping Women To Move Up: A Successful First Step Oct76, Vol. 30 Issue 10, p42. 4p
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Ashburner, L. British Journal of Management Men Managers and Women Workers: Women Employees as an Under-used Resource Apr91, Vol. 2 Issue 1, p3. 13p
ZSA-ZSA BOWIE WILSON Women still ignored for senior roles
McPherson, John R.; Mendonca, Lenny T. McKinsey Quarterly. 2008, Issue 4, p59-65 The challenge of hiring and retaining women: An interview with the head of HR at eBay.
Debbie Salas-Lopes Women Leaders Challenges, Successes,
And Other Insights From the Top 2011, Number 2, Volume 5
Institute of Physics and The Daphne Jackson Trust The 3Rs Recruitment Retention Returning
Marshall University The Best Practices: Welcoming New Faculty
ACAS Flexible working and work-life balance
Katie Taylor Maternity misery forces women bosses to quit
Professor Kate Hutchings and Professor Helen De Cieri
Employee attraction and retention in the Australian Resources Sector
Denise McLean Workplaces that work
Jov C. Child A womens perspective on the profession April 1992, Journal of Accountancy
Lisa J. Servon and M. Anne Visser Progress hindered: the retention and advancement of women in science, engineering and technology careers 2011, Vol 21 No3. HRM Journal.
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Year : 2019 | Volume : 8 | Issue : 1 | Page : 1-6
Clinicohematological profile of patients with peripheral blood cytopenias in clinical practice
Rajneesh Thakur, Navjyot Kaur, Malhotra Arjun, Sharma Sanjeevan, Puri Pankaj, Nair Velu
Department of Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Date of Submission 09-Mar-2018
Date of Acceptance 30-Mar-2018
Dr. Rajneesh Thakur
Department of Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune - 411 040, Maharashtra
DOI: 10.4103/ijh.ijh_5_18
BACKGROUND: In clinical practice, the cytopenias may result from relatively benign causes such as viral infections and Vitamin B12/folic acid deficiency to more sinister causes such as bone marrow failure. In this study, we looked into the clinicohematological profile and etiological factors of bicytopenia and pancytopenia.
OBJECTIVES: To study the etiology and clinicohematological profile in patients of peripheral blood cytopenias.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at a tertiary care hospital over a period of 1 year. Cytopenias were defined as pancytopenia when there was simultaneous presence of hemoglobin <10 g/dL, total leukocyte count <4000/dL, and platelets < 100000/dL or as bicytopenia when two of the three blood cell lines were depressed. All patients who presented with pancytopenia and bicytopenia were included, and their clinicohematological profile was recorded.
RESULTS: A total of 204 patients (103 males and 101 females) were diagnosed to have cytopenias. Pancytopenia was observed in 69/204 and bicytopenia was seen in 135/204 cases. The various causes of cytopenias included infections (n = 126 [61.76%]), megaloblastic anemia (MA) (n = 48 [23.52%]), drugs (n = 12 [5.8%]), hypersplenism (n = 8 [3.9%]), bone marrow failure syndromes such as aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome (n = 7 [3.4%]) and leukemias (n = 3 [1.4%]). We found a significant association between MA and pancytopenia (odds ratio [OR] = 2.47, P < 0.05) and also between infections and bicytopenia (OR = 5.8, P < 0.05).
CONCLUSION: The present study concluded that infections and MA are the most common cause of bicytopenia and pancytopenia, respectively. The more serious disorders affecting the bone marrow constitute only <5% of all cases of cytopenias.
Keywords: Bicytopenia, bone marrow failure syndromes, cytopenias, infections, megaloblastic anemia, pancytopenia
Thakur R, Kaur N, Arjun M, Sanjeevan S, Pankaj P, Velu N. Clinicohematological profile of patients with peripheral blood cytopenias in clinical practice. Iraqi J Hematol 2019;8:1-6
Thakur R, Kaur N, Arjun M, Sanjeevan S, Pankaj P, Velu N. Clinicohematological profile of patients with peripheral blood cytopenias in clinical practice. Iraqi J Hematol [serial online] 2019 [cited 2021 Jan 16];8:1-6. Available from: https://www.ijhonline.org/text.asp?2019/8/1/1/252137
Cytopenias are relatively common hematological picture encountered in daily clinical practice. The causes can be many ranging from viral fevers, megaloblastic anemia (MA), autoimmune disorders, congenital and acquired bone marrow failure syndromes and hematological malignancies.[1],[2] The clinical pattern and the outcome depend on the etiology.[3],[4] Bicytopenia is defined as a condition in which two out of three cell lines (red blood cells [RBCs], white blood cells, and platelets) are depressed, and in pancytopenia, all three formed elements of blood are decreased in number.[3],[5] Bicytopenia may represent a separate entity or it could be the initial manifestation of development of pancytopenia.[2],[5] Most of the studies on cytopenias have been done in western population or in children. The clinicohematological profile and etiology of cytopenias, especially bicytopenia are not well defined in adult Indian population.[5],[6] Hence, the present study was undertaken to study the profile of adult patients presenting with bicytopenia and pancytopenia.
It was a cross-sectional study conducted over a period of 1 year, from June 2014 to June 2015, at a tertiary care hospital of Maharashtra. All patients with cytopenias (bicytopenia or pancytopenia) were included. Cytopenia was defined as pancytopenia when there was simultaneous presence of Hb <10 g/dL, total leukocyte count (TLC) <4000/dL, and platelets platelets < 100000/dL or as bicytopenia when two of the three blood cell lines were depressed.[4],[5],[6] The patients <12 years of age, pregnant and lactating women, and the patients who are already diagnosed to have aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), hematological malignancy, or those on myelotoxic therapy for malignancies were excluded. Written informed consent was taken from all individuals, and the institutional ethical committee clearance was obtained.
A detailed clinical history and examination was done for all the individuals. Two milliliters of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid anticoagulated blood was subjected to automated Beckman Coulter 500 FC series analyzer. Complete hemogram including Hb, RBC count, total leukocyte count (TLC), differential leukocyte count, platelet count, mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), MCH concentration (MCHC), packed cell volume, and peripheral blood smear (PBS) examination was recorded. Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy was done in all patients of bone marrow failure, leukemia, and most of the patients of MA; after obtaining written consent. Additional tests to find the etiology such as dengue, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), other viral infections, and malaria were done as indicated. Serum B12 and folate levels were done when the PBS was suggestive of MA. In case the results of diagnostic tests for specific etiology were negative and the patient had a clinical profile of viral illness with activated lymphocytes on PBS, he/she was labeled to have presumed viral infection. Bleeding manifestations and transfusion requirements if any were recorded in various etiologies.
IBM SPSS Statistic version 20.0 (Chicago, IL) was used for statistical analysis. P ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.
A total of 204 patients (103 females and 101 males) were diagnosed to have bicytopenia (n = 135 [66.17%]) and pancytopenia (n = 69 [33.83%]). The mean age of the patients was 38.8 years (range: 18–87 years). Pancytopenia was observed in 69/204 (33.83%) and bicytopenia was seen in 135/204 (66.17%) patients. Various causes of cytopenias were infections (n = 126 [61.76%]), MA (n = 48 [23.52%]), drugs (n = 12 [5.88%]), hypersplenism (n = 8 [3.92%]), bone marrow failure syndromes – aplastic anemia and MDS (n = 7 [3.43%]) and leukemia (n = 3 [1.47%]). [Table 1] depicts the various etiologies of cytopenias in our study.
Table 1: Etiology of cytopenias
Infections were the most common cause of peripheral blood cytopenias (126/204 [61.76%]). In the subgroup of bicytopenias, infections were the most common etiology (105/135 [77.77%]) whereas they were the second most common cause of pancytopenia (21/69 [30.43%]). A significant association was found between bicytopenia and infections (odds ratio [OR] = 5.8 [3.08–10.90], P < 0.05). Among the infections, dengue fever was the most common (94/126 cases) followed by presumed viral infections (25/126).
MA accounted for 48/204 (23.52%) cases of cytopenias. MA was found to be the most common cause of pancytopenia (26/69 [37.68%]) and the second most common cause of bicytopenia (22/135 [16.29%]). A significant association was observed between pancytopenia and MA (OR = 2.47 [1.27–4.79], P < 0.05). Vitamin B12 deficiency (B12 levels <211 ng/dL) was found in 33/48 (68.75%) patients of MA whereas folic acid deficiency (serum folate level <5.38 ug/dL) was noted in 24/48 (50%) patients. Bone marrow studies were done in 44/48 patients which showed megaloblastoid changes. All 48 patients were treated with B12 and/or folic acid, and there was correction of cytopenias in all these patients after replacement therapy.
Drugs accounted for 12/204 (5.88%) cases of cytopenias. The cause-effect relationship was established in these cases as the cytopenias in all these patients improved after stopping the offending drug. There were five patients of HIV, two of them were on cotrimoxazole prophylaxis and remaining were on zidovudine-based regimen. The other drugs implicated were methotrexate (in 3 patients of rheumatoid arthritis), sulfasalazine (in 2 patients of ankylosing spondylitis), ganciclovir (in a postrenal transplant recipient), and azathioprine (in 1 patient of ulcerative colitis). Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy was done in 4/12 patients (all HIV-positive patients), which was normocellular in three patients and hypocellular in one patient.
Hypersplenism was noted in 8/204 cases. Four patients had underlying noncirrhotic portal fibrosis and two patients had postmalarial splenomegaly. Pancytopenia was observed in 7/8 patients with splenomegaly. Seven patients (7/204) were diagnosed to have bone marrow failure (aplastic anemia: 4 and MDS: 3). All patients of aplastic anemia and 2/3 patients of MDS had pancytopenia. We encountered three (3/204) patients of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
The common presentation included fever (152/204 [74.50%]), generalized weakness (98/204 [48.03%]), petechiae and purpura (43/204 [21.07%]), dyspnea on exertion [34/204 (16.66)], arthalgia (31/204 [15.19%]), and skin rashes (25/204 [12.25%]). Petechiae and purpura were noted in 43 patients with infections and 5 patients with aplastic anemia and MDS. One patient of aplastic anemia had serious bleeding manifestation in the form of subdural hemorrhage. Hepatomegaly was noticed in 27/69 and 20/135 patients of pancytopenia and bicytopenia (z-score: 3.90, P = 0.0001), splenomegaly in 22/69 and 13/135 patients of pancytopenia and bicytopenia (z-score: 3.98, P < 0.05), and lymphadenopathy was found in 17/65 and 12/135 patients of pancytopenia and bicytopenia (z-score: 3.05, P = 0.0023). [Figure 1] illustrates the presenting complaints in our patients of cytopenias.
Figure 1: Clinical Presentation of study subjects. #SDH – Subdural Hemorrhage
The hematological profile highlighted that the mean Hb was lowest in MA (6.322 gm% ± 1.78 gm%), mean TLC was lowest in bone marrow failure group (2828.57/μL ± 647.34), and mean platelets were lowest in leukemia group (44000/μL ± 40583.24). Mean MCV in MA (113.20fL ± 12.34) was significantly higher than MCV of other etiologies causing cytopenias (80.07 ± 8.64, P < 0.05). Severe anemia (Hb <8 g/dL) was noted in 59 patients (28.92%) and MA was the most common cause of severe anemia (37/59; 62.71%). The mean MCV, MCH, and MCHC were 90.94 ± 18.93 fL, 30.08 ± 4.48 pg/cell, and 30.58 ± 2.62 g/dL in pancytopenia and were 86.30 ± 15.86 fL, 30.75 ± 4.13 pg/cell, and 30.48 ± 2.54 g/dL in bicytopenia. The difference was not statistically significant in the parameters between pancytopenias and bicytopenias. The hematological profile of the patients with cytopenias is depicted in [Table 2].
Table 2: Hematological Profile of Patients with Cytopenias
Blood transfusion was required in all three patients of leukemia, 4/7 (57.14%) patients of bone marrow failure, 26/48 (54.2%) patients of MA, and 3/135 (2.22%) patients of infections. There was no statistical difference between the proportion of MA patients and proportion of patients with bone marrow failure and leukemias requiring blood transfusion (54.16% vs. 70%; P = 0.358; [Table 3]). However, there was a significant difference in number of units transfused per patient in MA versus more sinister causes such as aplastic anemia/MDS and leukemias (2 vs. 8.57, P < 0.05). Platelet transfusion was required in three patients of aplastic anemia, two patients of MDS, and one patient of leukemia.
Table 3: Blood Transfusion requirements in study subjects
We studied a total of 204 cases of cytopenias (bicytopenias and pancytopenias). While studies are available on clinicohematological profile of pancytopenia, the data on patients presenting with bicytopenia are scarce.[3],[4],[6],[7] Bicytopenia was observed in 135/204 (66.17%) cases and pancytopenia in 48/204 (33.83%) cases. A study done in pediatric age group in Pakistan by Sharif et al.[8] had shown that bicytopenia and pancytopenia constitute 62.9% and 37.1% of total cases of peripheral blood cytopenias. The age of our patients ranged from 18 to 87 years, with a mean age of 38.8 years. Cytopenias common in 3rd and 4th decade have been observed in other studies also.[6],[7],[9] While few studies have reported a higher male preponderance,[4],[6],[7] we found no gender predilection.
Various causes of peripheral blood cytopenias as compared to other studies are shown in [Table 4].
Table 4: Comparison of causes of cytopenia in various studies
The most common cause of peripheral cytopenias in our study was infections (61.7%); majority of these patients (105/135 [83.33%]) had bicytopenia. However, most of other studies had shown MA to be the most common cause.[5],[6],[7] The reason for this difference is that all other studies have studied only pancytopenia and have not taken patients with bicytopenia into consideration whereas in this study, we included both bicytopenia and pancytopenia. Dengue fever was the most common infection encountered. No serious bleed was noted in this group of patients, and none of them required platelet transfusion. We had only one case of HIV who presented with pancytopenia due to HIV per se; the cytopenias in rest of HIV cases were due to drugs such as zidovudine and cotrimoxazole. This was in contrast to the other studies where HIV was documented to be the most common infectious cause of pancytopenia.[9],[10],[11],[12] These results could have been because of the geographical location of the center and its catchment area where there are frequent outbreaks of arboviral infection. Furthermore, with better medical care for HIV patients, cytopenias are more likely to be due to drugs rather than uncontrolled HIV infection. We had five cases of malaria presenting with cytopenias (2 as pancytopenia and 3 as bicytopenia). Hamid and Shukry[13] also found malaria to be a common cause of pancytopenia. We had 25 cases of presumed viral infections which were self-limiting and we did not do extensive diagnostic evaluation. The viral infections, other than dengue, which could cause peripheral cytopenias are parvovirus B19, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus, and Epstein–Barr virus.[14],[15],[16]
The most common cause of pancytopenia in the current study was MA (37.68%). MA has been documented as the most common cause of pancytopenia in previous studies also.[3],[4],[6],[7],[8],[17] The second most common cause of pancytopenia was infections (21/69 [30.43%]) similar to the study by Jain and Naniwadekar.[9] Out of 48 patients of MA, Vitamin B12 deficiency was documented in 68.75% cases of MA. Early Indian series in 1960s documented folate deficiency to be more common cause of MA.[18],[19] Subsequent studies done in 1980s and 1990s highlighted that B12 deficiency is far more common than folate deficiency.[20],[21],[22],[23],[24] Increased prevalence of B12 deficiency as compared to folic acid deficiency has been reported from countries outside India also.[25],[26],[27],[28]
In our study, we had only 10/204 (4.9%) cases of bone marrow failure syndromes and AML (aplastic anemia-4, MDS-3, AML-3) which is lower than that observed in other studies.[6],[7],[17],[29],[30] This is because we had picked up the cases of cytopenias from general medicine out-patients department (OPD) and general medicine wards and had consciously excluded the already diagnosed cases of bone marrow failure, hematological malignancies, and those on myelosuppressive drugs. This has been done to evaluate the causes of cytopenias in general clinical practice.
The etiology of cytopenias can be diverse; with reversible and benign causes being the most common. In our study, the most common cause of cytopenias was infections and the counts recovered in most cases on recovery from the disease. MA remains the most common cause of pancytopenia with Vitamin B 12 deficiency being more common than folic acid deficiency. More serious etiologies such as aplastic anemia, MDS, and leukemia form only a small fraction of all causes of cytopenias in general practice even in a tertiary care center. The requirement of multiple transfusions points toward a more serious etiology like bone marrow failure syndromes and leukemia. Drugs should always be considered a potential cause of cytopenias even in the presence of autoimmune diseases and HIV.
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By Kevin Newcomb | November 16, 2000
Avolo, an aviation technology company conducting online transactions, Tuesday (Nov 14) announced that it has closed on a $9 million second round of financing led by East River Ventures with Citicorp, KIRNAF Ltd., Riverside Management Group and Cedar Grove Investments joining in.
"Avolo's strategic business model and its management team's aviation industry expertise, along with Avolo's strong ability to simplify complex aerospace procurement processes, were important in East River Ventures' decision to fund this pioneering company," said Andy Russell and Alex Paluch of East River Ventures. "We look forward to a long and rewarding relationship with Avolo."
Avolo is an independent online marketplace and a provider of a suite of aerospace applications. Avolo enables people to facilitate, manage and track the buying and selling of aircraft parts and services through the use of a secure and reliable Internet technology. Founded by industry professionals with a clear vision of the aviation marketplace, Avolo takes advantage of the benefits of the Internet to help buyers and sellers improve efficiencies, increase profitability and grow their business.
"Our customers are leveraging Avolo's services to deliver strong business benefits to their organizations," said Andrew Fedak, CEO of Avolo. "Avolo was one of the first companies to anticipate the shift in aerospace procurement toward e-commerce applications."
As Avolo continues to expand and develop its strategic offerings to the aerospace industry, its customers enjoy the most comprehensive online tools to acquire, process, integrate and exchange information available today. Using Avolo solutions, parts suppliers and resellers also benefit from an expanded worldwide customer base without incurring significant business development costs.
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By Sean Michael Kerner | December 17, 2012
Over the course of the last two years, OpenStack has expanded beyond NASA and Rackspace and has been embraced by many large tech vendors, including IBM, HP, Dell, AT&T, Cisco and Intel among others. As OpenStack participation has grown, new capabilities have been added, including most recently the Cinder block storage project and the Quantum networking project. Cinder and Quantum both debuted in the recent Folsom release.
For the next major release of OpenStack, codenamed Grizzly, Federated Authentication is likely to be the next key component that will come to the open source cloud platform.
Why Will OpenStack Succeed?
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Armed groups in Central African Republic issue threat over upcoming elections
Several powerful armed groups in the Central African Republic have accused President Faustin-Archange Touadera’s government of seeking to fix upcoming elections and warned of a violent response.
The warning stokes tensions in the troubled country ahead of the December 27 presidential and legislative vote.
It came in a communique issued late Thursday by militias who had joined a February 2019 peace accord between Touadera and armed groups which control most of the country.
The statement lashed the agreement as a “patent failure.”
The signatories, it said, vowed to “restore security across the national territory… by any means” if the government “insists on manipulating the organizing of the vote in order to carry out an electoral holdup.”
Three of the six groups confirmed early Friday that they had signed the statement, while a fourth denied it.
Touadera is seeking a second term in the ballot, which is a crucial test for one of Africa’s most volatile countries.
The country spiraled into conflict in 2013, when the then-president, Francoise Bozize, was ousted by the Seleka, a rebel coalition drawn largely from the Muslim minority.
The coup triggered a bloodbath between the Seleka and so-called “anti-Balaka” self-defense forces, mainly Christian and animist.
France intervened militarily in its former colony and after a transitional period, elections were staged in 2016 and won by Touadera.
Inter-communal fighting has receded in intensity in the last two years, but militia groups hold sway over two-thirds of the country, often fighting over resources.
The groups who confirmed their signature on Friday were the Patriotic Movement for Central Africa (MPC), the 3R and the Popular Front for the Rebirth of Central Africa.
Bozize factor
Touadera, 63, is front runner in the 17-strong field for the presidency, but much uncertainty has been stoked by the return of Bozize.
He slipped back into the country in December 2019 after years in exile and is being accused by the government of trying to undermine the country.
Bozize, 74, retains a large following in the northwest, especially among the Gbaya ethnic group, the country’s largest, and has many supporters in the army.
Judicial sources say that several candidates for the governing MCU party have been attacked by armed men and others have been carjacked.
Bozize’s presidential bid was barred by the country’s top court on December 3 as he had been sought in a 2014 international arrest warrant filed by the CAR on charges including murder, arbitrary arrest and torture.
Bozize says he accepts the court’s decision and has since thrown his weight behind former Prime Minister Anicet-Georges Dologuele.
On Wednesday, the UN mission in the CAR, which has 11,500 peacekeeping troops, called on armed groups to stop attacking candidates and urged Bozize to “work sincerely for a genuine restoration of peace… rather than forge alliances with the leaders of armed groups to destabilize the country.”
Hans de Marie Heungoup, a researcher at the International Crisis Group (ICG) think tank, said that any violent flareup was likely to be held after the results are announced in early January, rather than before.
(Source: AFP)
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December 16, 2020 A step by step guide to getting started with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. Schematron and Schematron QuickFix (SQF) languages can be used to improve efficiency and quality when editing DITA documents. You can define actions that will add complex structure in your documents, or make modifications in multiple places or actions that will convert a structure into another. These changes are made by keeping the document structure valid and conforming to your project specification and will help the content writer add content more easily and without making mistakes. Join us to see:
How to create business rules with Schematron
How Schematron rules are applied
How to apply specific Schematron rules on all DITA files
How to develop Schematron Quick Fixes to make it very easy to solve the reported problems
Presented by: Octavian is a software architect at Syncro Soft Ltd, the company that produces Oxygen XML Editor. With more than 15 years of experience in working with XML technologies, he contributes to a number of XML-related open source projects. He also acts as co-editor of the Schematron QuickFix specification developed by a W3C community group.
November 18, 2020 Learn how HubSpot Academy, the world’s leader in providing inbound sales, marketing and customer service education, adopted DITA to help solve their content creation, conversion and output needs. HubSpot’s use case is exciting and unique as it pushes the boundaries of what we typically associate with DITA. Rather than producing typical technical documentation, HubSpot is using DITA to produce:
Complete lessons, courses, and certifications
Learning assessments
Powerpoint outputs
And localizing that content in five languages
Think you know DITA? Just wait till you see the level of flexibility and scalability that HubSpot was able to bring to their content operations through the implementation of the DITA standard. This presentation will describe the implementation as it relates to changes in processes, tools, and employee behavior and skills. Presented by: Maria McCarthy started her career as an electrical engineer, with a B.S.in Electrical Engineering and Physics. She worked in the nuclear industry, and transitioned to project management in networks and communications. While raising 4 children, she saw the great need for STEM education, and wanted to help drive equity in education. Maria completed her M.Ed in curriculum and instruction and changed my career path to STEM education, curriculum development and instructional design. She spent time in the secondary and post-secondary classroom. Maria loves delivering professional development to adult learners, developing eLearning, and managing learning content management systems. She is passionate about eLearning and thrives on learning about new technologies and innovating together with others. At HubSpot, she manages the Academy Operations teams, which includes learning and development, content editing, localization processes, and the content management system. Jarod Sickler is the Documentation Manager and a Customer Success Manager at Jorsek Inc., makers of easyDITA, where he oversees the Jorsek documentation site and is involved in managing complex customer implementations of easyDITA. Simultaneously, he’s a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Rochester, specializing in metaphysics and epistemology. His dissertation focuses on the role and importance of the grounding relation in the overall metaphysical structure of epistemic justification. Slowly but surely, he’s making progress on his thesis. If you’re in the market for an effective sleep aid, he’ll happily share his research with you. Whether it’s in his research, documentation, or customer implementations, Jarod enjoys thinking through complex problems and finding the simplest and yet most powerful solution. In his spare time, Jarod tries to convince his kids that he’s still cool. They aren’t buying it.
October 21, 2020 Thinking of automating your entire conversion process to DITA? Wanting to handle conversion work manually, in-house? Before you proceed, think about how the conversion could help you derive the benefits of DITA that you expect. A simplistic approach may allow you to publish something that looks just like what you have now. But a really good quality conversion will help you to leverage content reuse, personalization and multi-channel publishing, as well as making it easier to maintain and update your content. For example, will your conversion generate keys and keyrefs for variables? How about a relationship table, to prevent broken links? Will menu cascades be correctly marked up, for localization purposes? Presented by: Helen joined Stilo as a technical editor. She now works closely with Stilo Migrate customers, helping them to analyze their legacy content and configure appropriate mapping rules. She also provides Migrate customer training and support. Helen has helped Migrate customers to convert tens of thousands of pages of content to DITA and custom XML. Helen holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and has pursued graduate studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
September 16, 2020 Tools and techniques used in software development can also be applied for documentation management:
Storage and issue management using GitHub
Automated quality checks and continuous publishing using Netlify
Editing and collaboration support
Release strategies
We will analyze a working Docs as Code setup that will be freely available on GitHub afterward so attendees will be able to fork it, work with it, gain a deeper understanding and apply these concepts into their own documentation projects. Although any text-based document format works, we will use a mixed DITA and Markdown project in the demo setup. Presented by: Alex Jitianu has been working for more than 10 years as a software architect for Syncro Soft Ltd., the producer of the popular Oxygen XML Editor. During this period, his main focus has been in the development of technical documentation tools and DITA specific support.
September 9, 2020 This is a presentation that provides an intersection between content and design. It is a high-level practical guide to analyzing your content, deciding what you want to do with it, developing style naming conventions, and developing editorial style guides, design style guides, and style templates. Once you get to that stage, you can then consider how content management systems, automation, and xml might fit into your publishing processes. Presented by: Marie Gollentz is a Senior Solutions Consultant focusing on the European market. Prior to joining Typefi, she held a number of positions in the publishing industry in London, including at the publisher of Research Fortnight and the London School of Business and Finance. Marie holds a Masters degree in European Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Strasbourg. She is trilingual in English, French and Spanish.
Date: August 12, 2020 Squatches, yeti, and kraken: oh, my! Learn about cryptozoology, cryptids, and… oh yes: the future of content strategy and digital experiences. Chad Dybdahl, Adobe Solutions Consultant, walks you through importing content from Microsoft Word, creating intelligent, structured content that can then be used across a wide range of delivery channels and platforms. In this session, we’ll see both traditional and headless delivery strategies that will inspire you to think about content in new and exciting ways.
Strategies to repurpose your technical content in new ways
Headless content delivery: what is it and why you need it
Creating structure from (MS Word) chaos
Presented by: Chad Dybdahl is a Solutions Consultant for Technical Communication at Adobe. Chad helps organizations around the world craft a vision for their content strategy with an eye towards future delivery platforms. Chad lives in Wisconsin with his wife, daughter, and two dogs. In his spare time, he enjoys tinkering with home automation, restoring vintage hi-fi equipment, and gardening.
August 10, 2020 Content developers and managers worldwide are coming together to share ideas and inspire each other at ConVEx in September. When first announced, we said ConVEx is not an online simulation of an in-person conference, but an immersive experience designed from the ground up to use our e-resources in the best possible way to bring you a wealth of ideas and information to support your efforts in defining and executing a comprehensive content strategy. During this Webinar, Dawn Stevens explains what we mean by this statement and what you can expect and gain from this new event format. We'll discuss the event format, the technology we'll use, and highlight the many networking activities provided. By the end of the Webinar, you'll know why you should attend ConVEx — it's an opportunity to have a positive experience, converge with others in the industry, focus your attention on industry issues, and magnify your value to your organization. Presented by: Dawn Stevens, President, Comtech Services and Director of CIDM has 28 years of practical experience in virtually every role within a documentation and training department, including project management, instructional design, writing, editing, and multimedia programming. Dawn is the perfect advisor to identify and remove the challenges you face in producing usable, technical information and training content. With both engineering and technical communication degrees, Dawn combines her solid technical foundation with strong writing and design skills to lead our team of consultants and specialists in providing the expertise you need.
Reimagining Your Omnichannel Content Strategy for Exponential Growth
August 5, 2020 Abstract Business leaders around the globe are looking for ways to replicate the successes of innovative and disruptive organizations like Uber, Amazon, and Spotify that grow exponentially. Rather than adding 10%, they’re looking for 1000%. Exponential growth is deliberate and involves organizations developing capabilities that dramatically outperform the competition. Rob Hanna explores how information-enablement across the enterprise is key to this type of performance and why we need to rethink how we create content to become Exponential Organizations. What you’ll learn
The definition of “information enablement”
How your content is tied to your brand’s ability to grow exponentially
How the 4th Industrial Revolution will impact global businesses, including yours
Presented by: Rob Hanna co-founded Precision Content in 2013 to change the way writers approach structured authoring. Having spent more than decades helping organizations move to component content management he realized that organizations need to take a step beyond technology and expert consultants. Without fostering the necessary standards and skills to work in these new media, organizations would continue to stall in their attempt to move to structured authoring. With this knowledge, he developed the Precision Content® methods, tools, and training. Today, Rob and his team of experts help Precision Content clients make the move to structured authoring as seamless as possible.
Is Your Content Ready for the 4th Industrial Revolution?
July 15, 2020 The Fourth Industrial Revolution, sometimes described as the perfect storm of new technologies combined with the asteroid of digital information, has forced companies to adopt new organizational structures to create and distribute content. This presentation will define the new exponential organizations, companies that grow often at 10 times faster than comparable companies, and are guided by a massive transformational purpose to deliver Information Enablement through innovations such as “Content as A Service” – CAAS. Presented by: Michael Rosinski has lead a successful career as a technology executive in the enterprise software industry. Presently, Michael is President of Astoria Software which is the premier CCMS – Component Content Management System in the Technical Product Documentation Vertical. At Astoria, he was first to market to launch the Enterprise SaaS Model and Mobility Platforms. Michael merged the Goldman Sachs venture to TransPerfect, the largest private translation company in the world. Prior to Astoria, Michael was a founding member of American Software’s management team, grew revenues to $ 100M+ and made it to the Forbes Best 200 Small Companies in America list. At American, Michael completed one of the first IPO’s in the ERP market, and later contributed to the successful spin off IPO of Logility in the Supply Chain Management Space. Michael leveraged his international experience as President of Augeo Software, a French/Dutch company in the PSA Professional Automation Space where Computerworld designated them as one of “The Top 100 Companies to Watch” Michael also held Management positions at Johnson & Johnson and Nestle.. Michael holds a Bachelors Degree in Management and Organizational Behavior at Rider University, and has completed MBA study at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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June 16, 2020 Unlike a decade ago, organizations face few barriers to entry if they want to develop structured content in a DITA-based ecosystem. The increasing adoption of Git as a content platform, and the maturing of DITA-focused products like oXygen have removed many of the cost barriers to implementing DITA in an elegant and scalable way. Whether a stop on a longer-term transition to a CCMS or the final destination, a mostly open-source DITA tool chain can be a valuable proving ground for a sophisticated content strategy. In this presentation, you’ll learn how process, information design, scalable repository design, and smart use of oXygen and Git can be more than a short-term solution. You will also learn where Git falls short and when you should be using a DITA CCMS. Presented by: Frank Miller president/ founder of Ryffine is an industry thought-leader whose career has focused on leading enterprise client engagements and building an information development community, Frank has been involved in dozens of successful DITA implementations. In addition to partnering with many leading names in the information development and content management spaces, Frank enjoys sharing his insights on trends and facilitating the adoption of best practices throughout the community. Presented by: Rik Page is EMEA Sales and Marketing Director at Bluestream Software and has been working with both component content and document management solutions since 200. During this time, he has worked with custom DTDs and Schemas, S1000D, iSpec2200 and since 2005 DITA. Rik's practical experience ranges from data capture/content creation through to dynamic multichannel delivery. This has been achieved in a wide range of industries including banking and finance, manufacturing, central government, and education. A keen advocate of technology and innovation Rik has taken part in multiple consultancy projects and helped formulate solutions all over the world.
Online Collaboration and Review: Put Your Productivity Where Your Content Is
June 10, 2020 Abstract World has seen a very different modus operandi in the last couple of months. This only emphasizes the fact that collaborating without physically being in the same space is fast becoming the norm where team members are either located in different geographical locations or are working from home. At this time, a smooth review and collaboration process for technical content can be a real boon to your organization. In this session, Ayush Gupta, Product Manager at Adobe, will discuss how organizations can transform their mundane, time consuming and cyclic review process into a more meaningful, error-free and productive collaboration experience for Content Creators and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Key takeaways:
Why rethink about current review processes
What are the benefits of adopting online review process for DITA content
What are the basic tenets and features of an online review process
A walkthrough of a typical collaborative review workflow and how to make it an experience for business users
Presented by: Ayush Gupta is a Product Manager for XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager at Adobe. He is responsible for the product roadmap, prioritization, customer success, partner relationships, and go-to-market strategy. Ayush has 10+ years of experience working in the technology industry and extensive experience in building and scaling enterprise products. Ayush Gupta on LinkedIn
Step up Your Writing Game: Create Content With Real Business Impact
June 3, 2020 In these difficult times, it’s absolutely critical to demonstrate your value to your organization. As a technical communicator, your mission is to make sure you’re getting the right information to the right people. Part of the solution is to find the right tools – but they will only take you so far. Good content is crucial. You must write content in a way that best suits your audience and best matches their search patterns, so they can organically surface the information they need. Join Lawrence Orin, Product Evangelist and Customer Implementation Expert at Zoomin, as he takes an intriguing look at content strategy, and reveals a down-to-earth, practical approach that will ensure your writing is making a visible impact on your company. In it this webinar, you’ll learn:
Practical steps to improving your writing skills
Best practices for structuring content
How to tailor your writing to your audience
Presented by: Lawrence Orin is Product Evangelist and Customer Implementation Expert at Zoomin, where he leverages his experience as a past customer to help new customers with their implementation and content strategy. He previously led documentation teams at Radvision and Riverbed, as well as other teams in technical support and customer services. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science with Cognitive Science from University College London.
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Cut Up (2015) Forensic Nightmares
Band: Cut Up
Type: Full length
Length Approx.: 41:00 min.
Current label: Metal Blade Records
Release label: Metal Blade Records
IR Classification: Good (3.9 / 5)
A violent, groovy and grinding death metal
Swedish metal band Cut Up, we could say that they are a new band under the label Metal Blade Records, and they are proudly releasing their album debut "Forensic Nightmares" but before delving into this topic, let's learn a little more about this band, they come from Karlstad, Sweden and they formed at the beginning of 2014 by Tobias Gustafsson on drums , Anders Bertilsson on guitar, Erik Rundqvist on vocals/bass, Yes! you got it, all of them were part of the extinct Vomitory, to complete the line-up is Andreas Björnson plays guitar/vocals and plays also for Fetus Stench, if these bands are well known by you then, I think that you can get a clear idea of the content of this album, if not; then get ready for what is coming to you, certainly this is a Death metal simple, pure, aiming at nothing other than dwell in Death metal roots to overcome adversities and gain respect.
Not bad! Having said all that, is time to immerse yourself in this refreshing, bloody and ruthless production, which was recorded at Big Balls Production Studios in Sweden/Karlstad engineered by Mats Lindström assisted by Fredrik Färninger and Tobias Olausson, it was mixed and mastered by Ronnie Björnström in Garageland Studios, Umea/Sweden, Artwork & Layout by Łukasz Jaszak, photos by Soile Siirtola.
"Forensic Nightmares" contains eleven tracks, two of them already have been shed as singles: "Burial Time" and "A Butchery Improved" both with a brutal force to be reckoned with, "Enter Hell" is the opening track of this album and the guitars sounds blazing, sharp, Gustafsson does a bestial exhibition of his skills behind the drums, lovely guitar solo that remind me bands like Dismember or Hypocrisy, right after this cut comes "Burial Time" in the same vein as the previous one, "Remember the Flesh" come to fuse cohesive groove riff, fiercely fast pace to drive you to mid pace, vocals are powerful grunts that drills through your ears, "Brain Cell Holocaust" display a versatile band at songwriting, "Forensic Nightmare" it's brutal relentless shredding guitars follow by strong blast beats a fast pace track, "Order of the Chainsaw" is a deeper cut, a little slower than the rest of the album, but blends perfect and does not disturb the flow, here they gave us crushing riff that feels dense, thick and obscure, "Dead and Impaled" is the closing track and even at this point they handle to keep it interesting, heavy and burning as hell.
Cut Up were capable to create an extremely malicious mixture of violent, groovy and grinding death metal splattered with merciless, fierceness and vile instincts that put them as one of the most enjoyable acts to listen for, so... what are you waiting for? go grab their album and add it to your playlist.
Stay True... Stay Metal… Stay Brutal…
1. Enter Hell
2. Burial Time
3. Remember the Flesh
4. A Butchery Improved
5. Brain Cell Holocaust
6. Forensic Nightmare
7. Camouflesh
8. Order of the Chainsaw
9. Stab and Stab Again
10. Bunker Z16
11. Dead and Impaled
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Posted by Fernando Quiroz
Labels: 2015, Cut Up, Death metal, Full Length, Good, Metal Blade Records, Sweden
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Around 200,000 Japanese fishing boats suspended operations yesterday (July 16th) after fishermen protested against the effect of rising fuel costs on their livelihoods.
The National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations claims that the cost of fuel accounts for up 40 per cent of the operating costs faced by fishermen, reports the Daily Yomiuri Online.
Fishermen are often handicapped when selling their produce at auction by the need to ensure the freshness of the fish.
Forbes reports that fish trading in Tokyo -the world's largest fish market - fell by a quarter as a result of the industrial action.
An official from Kappa Create said that the demand for seafood was rising all over the world.
"From this point on, the procurement of fish products is going to become more difficult all over the world," he said.
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Climbing is extremely rewarding for me says Azadi
Azadi Somashekar has always enjoyed climbing, not just rocks, but trees, buildings, people as well. She (laughs), "I’ve had lots of opportunities and my parents have a very positive attitude towards climbing," says Azadi who is a novice climber and an ultimate frisbee player from Bangalore.
She got introduced to climbing by an ex-student of Centre for Learning (CFL) Gowri Varanashi. She says, "my old school which is based outside of Bangalore and is surrounded by farms and scrub forests. The entire area is covered in rocks and boulders, and we would have weekly walks where everyone would be scrambling up everything in sight"
Picture Credit: Praveen Jayakaran
"There’s that extreme thrill of finally sending a route after consistently working on it, and knowing that I put in the effort to get here, I’m the one who made this work.”
Azadi reminds one-day Gowri came and did a one day workshop at my school with some of her climbing friends. They showed us a couple of techniques and put us on some routes and that’s what really got me interested in rock climbing. I had so much fun and my takeaway was so overwhelmingly positive and I decided that this was something I wanted to work on and put effort into.
Photo Credit: Praveen Jayakaran
Azadi says I climb for a couple of reasons, but they all boil down to the fact that I am extremely happy while climbing. One of my favorite things is how utterly focused I become when I’m on a route. It’s easy for me to completely tune in to what I’m doing right at that moment. The rest of the route can fade away. I don’t look ahead and I don’t look at how much I have already accomplished, it’s just where I am on the rock and my body. The rock can also fade away sometimes and it becomes just a battle between my mental game and my body’s weaknesses.
Also, I guess part of the reason why I love climbing so much, is that I don’t have that focus for the rest of my life, and I don’t otherwise have that drive to push myself beyond what I think my limits are. It’s always very peaceful for me, even if my body is struggling, even if my fingers have gone numb and I’m shivering, my mind is completely focused, completely at the moment.
Sometimes my interest drops and I don’t climb or think about climbing very much, I become frustrated, and sometimes nothing I’m doing works, but even then my feelings have always been consistently positive. Just because I come away from a session feeling dissatisfied doesn’t mean that I feel dissatisfied about climbing.
Photo Credit: Azadi
When talking about challenges, she says, "my main concern would be losing interest I guess. This happens for a couple of reasons, mostly if at the moment I’m focusing on something else, like a frisbee. Usually, I don’t fight it, I let myself drop it for a bit because I’m confident that I’ll get back to climbing.
However, I also think that if I didn’t have strong female climbers like Gowri that I could look up to, I would probably face a lot more challenges in terms of my motivation. It’s very easy to compare yourself to all these strong male climbers and thing, I’m never going to get there, and that is definitely demotivating. And when I catch myself doing that, I look to Gowri and other female climbers who are doing good. And then it becomes very easy to stop comparing myself to male climbers and instead just focus on climbing.
Climbing is a very solo sport, and my performance is mine and mine alone, so any comparison at all is rather pointless."
"I have a very strong mindset of ‘if I didn’t put in the work to get here, then I don’t deserve it,’ and so that way climbing is extremely rewarding for me".
Azadi says, "I’m not a very consistent climber, sometimes I’ll be climbing every day, and sometimes I’ll drop it completely for a couple of months. Recently, as I’ve mostly been focusing on the frisbee, I’ve only been climbing maybe once a week, but I plan to start regular climbing at least 3-4 times a week. How satisfied I am after a session usually depends on how strong my mental game was. If I was really distracted I’ll usually come away feeling frustrated, even if I performed well. The opposite is also equally true."
Picture Credit: Azadi
Other than frisbee and climbing I really enjoy music. I play the guitar and I fool around with the drums and keyboard. Mostly jazz, blues, soft rock. I also like just being outdoors in nature, and I’m into birdwatching. Climbing is awesome because I get to go out, explore new places and generally hang out outdoors, which I really love.
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This International women's day Inspire Crew wants to tell everyone that every day could be a women's day. Society should be encouraged to listen to what women and girls had to say. We should make everyone comfortable with their strength and weaknesses. Women were never weak but their upbringing made them weak. In today's world, those who have managed to overcome and fight stigmas are known to be great but we should know that we don't need to dress up to bring a change but to focus on how to encourage more women to be who they are and work on it to make a better version of themselves.
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This election cycle, there are two radically different candidates: the magnanimous tycoon Donald Trump representing the Republicans and the experienced former First Lady, former Senator, and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton representing the Democrats.
After each party’s respective national convention, the candidates released their full political platforms for this race. How do the candidates line up on pharmaceuticals and healthcare?
Donald Trump (We’ve written about Trump’s plans for pharma before)
Trump has set his focus on restructuring the so-called “Obamacare” (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), but not in all the ways people assume. While other Republicans talked about repealing Obamacare, Trump wants to focus on reducing the costs of prescription drugs for the American people through allowing drug reimportation and increasing the amount of generics available.
Presently, drugs manufactured abroad are not permitted to be offered for sale in the United States. US citizens have been organising bus trips and shopping online for drugs in Canada and Mexico, and whereas it is technically illegal, officials “look the other way” for those with less than 3 month supplies of most drugs. Trump seeks to remove entry barriers for drugs produced internationally and would charge the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with setting up an approvals process.
The FDA would also be directed to focus on clearing out the backlog of unapproved generic drugs so they can be approved for sale to the public. The thought is that citizens would closely pay attention to the quality of the drug for the price. As a result, drug companies will have to focus on efficacy and innovation to survive in the free-market.
Hillary Clinton (More about Clinton’s plans for pharma)
Clinton has made healthcare and reining in on the cost of prescription drugs the heart of her campaigns for decades. She made her first platform appearance in 1993 with the Clinton Health Care Plan of 1993 during President Bill Clinton’s first term in office. While the plan was widely criticised and failed, it encouraged Clinton to hone in her focus.
Like Trump, she plans to place more drugs on the market to increase competition, drive down prices and allow for Americans to shop around. Her plan differs in that Clinton cites the lack of oversight on pharmaceutical companies as the major cause of the inflated price of drugs.
Her plan would require manufacturers to reinvest a percentage of their revenues into additional research and development or else they will be ineligible to receive future federal funding.
The most interesting aspect of her platform is her plan to regulate direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing and advertising by pharma companies. A practice that is banned in many countries, Americans have seen a 60 percent increase in the frequency of drug commercials on television between 2012-2015. It is not uncommon to see a commercial for Cialis or Humira during daily watching, especially with sporting events. In 2015, drug companies spent $5.2 billion dollars in ads.
Clinton would charge the FDA with regulating these ads and requiring companies to pre-clear them before releasing them to the public to ensure that the risks and side-effects are clearly communicated.
Finally, she would decrease a drug’s exclusivity period from 12 years to 7 years; prioritise approvals for drugs and biologics with little-to-no competition; and allow drug reimportation for individuals.
Both candidates also agree that Medicare should be allowed to negotiate special prices and foster cost-savings for the struggling social program.
Medicare Part D (also known as the Medicare prescription drug benefit) is a federal program that subsidises the costs of prescriptions and insurance premiums for Americans that receive Medicare benefits. Medicare Part D’s mission is to get necessary prescription drugs into the hands of those who are low-income, disabled, and/or senior citizens.
Since Medicare was overhauled by the Medicare Modernisation Act of 2003 (MMA), candidates and legislators alike have attempted to require drug companies to offer different pricing to the program than what is offered the general public and average insurance companies.
Three provisions of legislation have been brought before Congress and all three provisions have either failed in receiving a majority or were unilaterally struck down.
Despite the media portrayal of a fiercely partisan election, both candidates want to focus on similar topics in the pharma industry. Both Clinton and Trump understand Americans’ struggles with affording medication and treatments that are necessary for survival or make a world of difference for patients.
They also understand that in allowing for Medicare to negotiate drug prices, there are significant savings that can, in turn, be invested into other social programs or the expansion of Medicare itself. Both want to see healthcare providers be more transparent about actual costs and want to empower citizens to have more choices with more competitive options available on the market.
Where they differ lies with their plans to achieve these goals for the American public. Trump will enact reimportation with safety standards and Clinton will focus her attention on overhauling the drug industry as a whole by implementing a revenue-to-innovation ratio for companies that want to continue to receive subsidies, funding, and tax breaks.
This election will certainly have a major impact on the future of healthcare and pharma, perhaps to an extent that the United States and the world haven’t seen in a very long time.
Kelly L. Waters is Marketing Manager at InstantGMP. InstantGMP PRO is an electronic batch record software designed for Pharmaceuticals and Biotech that reinforces Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) required for regulatory compliance and the brain-child of Dr. Richard Soltero, former Director of Research and Development at GlaxoSmithBeecham.
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Unified National Testing (UNT)
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Applications submission for participation in the UNT from March 10 to April 25. The completion of application forms is done by the graduates in those schools in which they study.
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Elton John honoured with his own commemorative coin from The Royal Mint
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Home Risorse Opere inedite The inverted forest
Opere inedite
26 Aprile 2018 20 Maggio 2018
by J.D. Salinger
Cosmopolitan December 1947
THE following diary extract is dated December 31, 1917. It was written in Shoreview, Long Island, by a little girl named Corinne von Nordhoffen. She was the daughter of Saray Keyes Montross von Nordhoffen, the Montross Orthopedic Appliances heiress, who had committed suicide in 1915, and Baron Otho von Nordhoffen, who was still alive, or at least, under his gray mask of expatriation, was still breathing. Corinne entered this chapter in her diary on the night before her eleventh birthday.
Tomorrow is my birthday party and I am going to have a party. I have invited Raymond Ford and Miss Aigletinger and Lorraine Pederson and Dorothy Wood and Marjorie Pheleps and Lawrence Pheleps and Mr. Miller. Miss Aigletinger said I had to invite Lawrence Pheleps on account of Marjorie is coming. I have to invite Mr. Miller on account of he works for Father now. Father said Mr. Miller will drive to New York in the morning and bring back 2 cowboy movies and shoe them in the library after dinner. I got Raymond a real cow boy hat to wear just like that cowboy he likes wears. I got everybody else hats also only paper ones. Miss Aigletinger is going to give me Parade Prejudice by Jane Orsten she said. She is also going to give me the elsie I don’t have. She is the most adorable teacher I have had since Miss Calahan. Father is also going to give me more room in the kennles for Sandys puppys and I already saw the doll house from Wanamakers. Dorothy Wood is going to give me an autograph album and gave it to me already 3 weeks ago. She wrote in the front of it In your golden chain of friendship consider me a link. I nearly cried. Dorothy is so adorable. I don’t know what Lorraine and Marjorie are going to give me. I wish that mean Lawrence Pheleps did not have to come to my party. I don’t want Raymond Ford to give me anything for my birthday just as long as he comes is all. He is so poor and not rich at all and you can tell by his cloths. I wish Dorothy had not written on the first page of the album because I wanted Raymond. Mr. Miller is going to give me an alligator. He had this brother in Florida that has alligators and T.B. like Miss Calahan had. I love Raymond Ford. I love him better than my father. Anybody that opens this diary and reads this page will drop dead in 24 hours. Tomorrow night!!! Please dear lord don’t let Lawrence Pheleps be mean at my party and don’t let Father and Mr. Miller talk German at the table or anything because I just know they would all go home and tell their parents about it except Raymond and Dorothy. I love you Raymond because you are the nicest boy in the world and I am going to marry you. Anybody that reads this without my permission will drop dead in 24 hours or get sick.
Close to nine o’clock on the night of Corinne’s birthday party, Mr. Miller, the Baron’s new secretary, leaned forward and volunteered down-table straight at Corinne, “Well, let’s go get this boy. No use sittin’ around moping’ about it all night. Where’s he live, birthday girl?”
Corinne, at the end of the table, shook her head and blinked violently. Under the table her hands were caught hard between her knees.
“He lives right on Winona,” spoke up Marjorie. “His mother’s a waiter at the Lobster Palace. They live over the restaurant.” She looked around, pleased.
“Waitress,” corrected her brother Lawrence, with contempt.
Little Dorothy Wood, at Corinne’s right, shot one of her high-strung glances up-table toward the baron. But the old gentleman was busy examining, somewhat morosely, the cuff of his dinner jacket—he had just brushed his sleeve into his ice cream—the sort of thing that often happened to him. Dorothy’s high-strung glances in his direction were unnecessary, any way. The baron’s hearing device was seldom aimed at table talk, birthday parties not excepted, and all evening he had been missing Lawrence Phelp’s smart-boy alto.
“Well, waitress,” conceded Marjorie Phelps. “Anyways, he lives where I said, because Hermine Jackson’s cousin followed him home once.”
“Winona Avenue.” Mr. Miller stood up confidently. He dropped his napkin of the table and removed his pale green, unfestive-looking paper hat. He was a bald-headed man with a jolly, humorless face. “Let’s go, birthday kiddo,” he said.
Again the hostess shook her head and blinked—wildly, this time.
Miss Aigletinger leaned forward, a committee-of-one for smooth-running birthday parties. “Corinne, dear. Go with Mr. Mueller, why don’t you, honey?”
“Miller,” corrected Miller.
“Miller, excuse me. . . Go with Mr. Miller, dear, why don’t you? It’ll only take a teensy minute. And we’ll all be right here when you get back.” Miss Aigletinger turned rather coyly to the baron, on whose left she was sitting. “Won’t we, Baron?” she asked.
“He isn’t a baron anymore. He’s an American citizen. Corinne said so.” Dorothy Wood stated firmly—and immediately blushed.
“What is it, please?” inquired the baron, aiming his hearing apparatus at Miss Aigltinger.
To the never-stale of all the children present—except Corinne—Miss Aigletinger picked up the baron’s speaking tube and shouted thinly into it, “I say we’ll all be right here when they get back, won’t we? They’re going into town to look for the Ford boy.” She started to relinquish the tube but instead took a firmer hold on it. “Very strange child. Came to us in October,” she shouted elaboratedly. “Not a good mixer.”
Though he hadn’t understood a word, the baron nodded pleasantly.
Dispirited, Miss Aigletinger placed a protective hand to her throat where all he volume had passed through, and willingly gave over to Mr. Miller, who was standing ready beside his chair. Miller picked up the tube and shouted into it, “Wir werden sofort zurück—”
“Kindly speak English,” interrupted the baron.
Miller flushed slightly but shouted, “We’ll be right back. We’re going to look for the youngster who didn’t come to the party.”
The baron understood Miller and nodded; then he glared down-table at Dorothy Wood, a favorite of his, whom he regularly frightened to death. “You didn’t eat anything,” he accused her. “Eat.”
Dorothy was too rattled to do anything but blush.
“She doesn’t eat anything,” the baron complained to no one in particular.
“Get your coat, birthday girl,” Miller said to Corinne, standing over her.
“No,” said Corinne. “Please.”
“Corinne, dear,” intervened Miss Aigletinger, “it’s just possible that Raymond Ford forgot your party. Those things happen in the best of families. There’s no harm, surely, if you don’t just remind—”
“I reminded him this morning. I told him at recess.” It was the longest remark Corinne had made all evening.
“Yes, dear, but he may not be well. He may be ill. He might just be in bed. You could—you could take him a lovely piece of birthday cake—couldn’t she, Mr. Miller?”
“Sure.” Miller placed a hand on the back of Miss Aigletinger’s chair. “Must be quite a youngster,” he mused, sucking his tooth. “What is he, the Frank Merriwell of his class or something?”
“The who?” coolly inquired Miss Aigletinger, addressing the hand on the back of her chair.
“The school athlete. You know. All the gals after him. The demon of the cinder path, the—”
“Him an athlete?” interrupted Lawrence Phelps. “He can’t even catch a football. You know what? Robert Selridge saw Ford coming across the playground and yelled at him and chucked a football at him, not even fast, and you know what Ford did?”
Mr. Miller, inserting the nail of his little finger between two molars, shook his head.
“He jumped out of the way. Honest! He wouldn’t even chase it afterwards. Boy, Robert Selridge nearly socked him one.” Lawrence Phelps turned his burly little face toward his hostess. “Where’d Ford come from anyways, Corinne? He didn’t come from around here anywheres.”
“Mmm,” Corinne replied inaudibly.
“What?” said Lawrence.
“She said none of your beeswax,” Dorothy Wood translated loyally.
“Corinne,” rebuked Mr. Miller, removing his finger from his mouth. “Is ‘at nice?”
“Tell ’em about his back,” Marjorie Phelps suggested to her brother. She turned brightly to the others, informing them, “Lawrence saw his back at Doctor’s Hour. It’s got all things over it. Big awful marks, like.”
“Oh, that. Yeah,” said her brother. “His mother beats him up.”
The hostess stood up. “You’re a liar,” she accused, trembling. “He hurt himself. He fell and hurt himself.”
“Children, children!” This from Miss Aigletinger, with a nervous glance at the baron, who, undisturbed, went on staring profoundly at an embroidered pattern in the tablecloth.
“All right, all right, he fell and hurt himself,” Lawrence Phelps said.
Corinne sat down, still trembling.
“Lawrence, I don’t ever want to hear you say anything like that again,” Miss Aigletinger said. “It does not happen to be true, in the first place. The school board investigates those things—all those things. If that boy’s mother—”
“Oh, I know why she likes Ford,” Lawrence interrupted ambiguously. “I don’t wanna tell, though.” He glanced over at his hostess’s suddenly upjerked, burning little face. Then, efficiently, as though he were dealing with butterfly wings, he tore his hostess’s horror apart on the spot. “Because Louise Selridge was sore Corinne won the elocution and—right in front of everybody in the wardrobe closet— Louise called Corinne a Heinie spy. And Louise said even her father said why don’t Corinne and her father go to Germany where all the Heinies are—the Kaiser and all. And Corinne started to cry. And Raymond Ford was wardrobe monitor that day, and he chucked Louise Selridge’s coat out in the aisle,” Lawrence said, taking a breath, but not quite finished. “And last week Corinne brought her dog after school to show Ford. And she wrote his name on the blackboard at recess and tried to erase it, but everybody saw it.” No more butterfly wings on hand, Lawrence looked vaguely in the direction of the footman behind him. “Can’t we please have another spoon? Mine fell.”
“Lawrence! We don’t repeat those things.”
“Honest!” said Lawrence, as though his integrity were in jeopardy. “You can ask my sister. Ask anybody. Ford was giving Louise Selridge her coat when she said it. Only he didn’t give it to her. He chucked it right out in the aisle. Everybody—”
“What time is it, Miller?” the baron asked suddenly.
“Twenty past nine, baron.” Miller turned to Corinne. “What’s it gonna be, kiddo? You wanna look for this boy or not?”
“Yes,” said Corinne, and walked with adult dignity out of the dining room.
The dark road was icy and there were no skid chains on Mr. Miller’s automobile—he didn’t believe in ’em.
“Yours’ll be here tomorrow,” he promised Corinne in the unfraternal darkness. He was speaking incessantly of his brother’s alligators. “Little bit of a fella. But he’ll grow. He’ll grow all right.” He chuckled, tobacco- breathily, toward Corinne.
“Please don’t go so fast.”
“What’s ‘at? Somebody scared?”
“It’s this street,” Corinne said excitedly. “Right here, please—”
“Where?” said Miller.
“You passed it!”
“Well, we can fix that,” said Miller.
The car skidded, selected its own direction, and came to a stop with its forewheels on the sidewalk.
Corinne, shivering, let herself out of the car and ran the slippery quarter of a block to the place where the Lobster Palace should have been shining yellowly.
Something was wrong. The Lobster Palace wasn’t shining at all. Both the front show window and the electric sign were as black as the night itself.
“Closed, ‘eh?” Miller said, reaching Corinne. His breath in the sub-zero air was almost more visible than he was.
“The house can’t be closed. The restaurant maybe, but the house can’t be. People live upstairs. Raymond Ford lives upstairs.”
Instantly, as though in proof of part of Corinne’s remark, a woman carrying two suitcases charged out of the black doorway, brushing past Corinne. No kind of hall light preceded or followed her. She snorted visibly over to the curb, dropped her tow suitcases on the icy walk, and faced the doorway from which she had emerged. Then, just as Corinne felt Mr. Miller pull her neutrally out of the way, another, that of a small boy, came out of the building. Corinne excitedly called his name, but the boy didn’t seem to hear her. He went directly to the woman with the suitcases, stood beside her, and faced as she was facing. He took something out of his pocked, unfolded it, put it on his head, and pulled it down over his ears. Corinne knew that it was his aviator’s cap.
“Listen,” said the lady with Raymond Ford harshly. “I’m entitled to my galoshes.”
Corinne saw with a start that the lady was not addressing Raymond Ford, but something in the doorway—a glowing cigar.
“I toldya,” said the cigar. “The restront’s locked. And it’s gonna stay locked the whole time the boss is at his brudda’s funeral. Listen. You had all afternoona pick up ya galoshes.”
“Yeah?” said the lady with Raymond Ford.
“Yeah,” said the cigar, and got even redder. “You ain’t supposa leave no galoshes in no kitchen. You know that.”
“Listen,” said the lady with Raymond Ford. “I’m gonna stop at the damn pleece station on my way to the station, hear me? A person’s entitleda their property.”
“Let’s go. Please,” Raymond Ford said, taking the lady’s arm. “Please. He’s not gonna give ya the galoshes; can’tcha see?”
“Leggo, you. Don’t rush me,” the lady said. “I’m not leavin’ the vicinity without them galoshes.”
Something like laughter came from the doorway.
“If ya feet get cold, break open one of them bagsa yours,” suggested the cigar. “You got plenty t’keep ya warm. You got plenty to keep you warm.”
“Mother, c’mon. Please,” Raymond Ford said. “Can’tcha see he’s not gonna give ’em to ya.”
“I want them galoshes.”
A door banged. Frightened, Corinne looked and saw that the cigar was gone.
Raymond Ford’s mother ran a few wild steps on the ice, stopped perilously short, recovered her balance, and began to pound with her fist against the dark show window of the restaurant—at the place where normally the lobsters could be seen winking on cracked ice. She screamed as she pounded, articulating words that Corinne had nervously read from walls and fences. Corinne felt Mr. Miller’s grip tighten on her arm, but Corinne stayed where she was, because Raymond Ford was now standing before her.
He spoke to Corinne just loud enough to be heard over his mother’s activities directly behind her.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t come to your party.”
“That’s all right.”
“How’s your dog?” said Raymond Ford.
“He’s fine.”
“That’s good,” said Raymond Ford, and went over to his mother and began to pull her by the arm. But she wrenched successfully away from him, scarcely losing the rhythm of her violence.
Mr. Miller came forward, cupping his cold ears with his hands. “I’d be glad to drive you people to the station if that’s where you’re going,” he shouted.
Raymond Ford’s mother stopped pounding and shouting. She turned away from the show window, glanced briefly at Miller in the darkness, then at Corinne, then back at Miller. Raymond Ford indicated Corinne with his thumb. “She’s a friend of mine,” he said.
“You got a car?” Mrs. Ford asked Miller.
“How could I take you to the station if I didn’t?”
Miller pointed. “Right there.”
Mrs. Ford nodded, absently. She then turned around and, using an Anglo-Saxon verb, gave the dark show window a snort, obscene command. She turned back to Miller. “Let’s get otta here before I go mad,” she told him. She sat beside Miller in the front seat, andthe two children sat in the back with the suitcases. The car moved off on a slippery tangent, straightened out, and went on.
“He wasn’t the guy that engaged me for the position,” Mrs. Ford announced suddenly. “The guy that engaged me was a gentleman.” She was addressing Miller’s profile. “Hey, haven’t I seen you in the restront?”
“I don’t believe so,” Miller said stiffly.
“Live in this lousy burg?”
“No, I do not.”
“Just work here, ah?”
“Mother, don’t ask the man so many questions. Why do you wanna ask the man so many questions?”
She turned savagely around in her seat. “Listen, you. Stay otta the discussion,” she ordered. “When I’m innarested in your two cents I’ll letcha—”
“I’m Baron von Nordhoffen’s secretary,” Miller said quickly, to keep peace in the automobile.
“Yeah? The Heinie on the hill?” She sounded suspicious. “How come you’re ridin’ around in this lizzy tin? Where’s all the lemazeens?”
“This happens to my own car,” Miller said coldly.
“That’s different. I wondered,” Mrs. Ford seemed to reflect for a moment, then sharply and hostilely spoke to Miller’s profile. “Don’t you high-hat me, Charlie. I don’t feel like bein’ high-hatted, the mood I’m in.”
Miller, a little frightened, cleared his throat. “I can assure you,” he said, “nobody’s high-hatting anybody.”
Mrs. Ford abruptly lowered her window, removed something from her mouth, and flicked it into the night. Closing the window, she said, “I come from a damn good family. I had everything. Money. Social position. Class.” She looked at Miller. “You happen to have any cigarettes with ya, by any chance?”
“I’m afraid not.”
She shrugged. “Listen, I could go home right now and say to Dad, ‘Dad, I’m tired of bein’ an adventuress. I wanna settle down and take it easy for a while.’ He’s be tickleda death. I’d make him the happiest dad in the world.”
Raymond Ford’s mother was silent for a moment. When she spoke again her voice sounded more glum than inflamed.
“My trouble is, I married beneath me, I married a chap that was way beneath me, was my trouble. Every way you look at it.”
Miller’s curiosity got the better of him. “Your husband dead?” he asked coldly.
“It was just a beautiful, dumb kid,” Raymond Ford’s mother mused with affection.
Miller repeated his question.
“I don’t know what the hell he is, dead or what,” she said. Then, abruptly, she sat up straight in her seat and began to clear away frost from her window, using the heel of her hand. “We’re here,” she announced dispassionately, and turned in her seat to address her son. “Now listen,” she said to him. “I mean what I toleya. You let that bag flop open like last time, and I’ll break your back.”
“The straps broke,” Raymond Ford said.
“You heard me. I’ll break your back,” said his mother, working the handle of the door. She turned to Miller, saying, “Thanks for the ride, snob,” and got out of the car. Without another glance toward the car or her son or her luggage she began to walk toward the glowing station waiting room.
Raymond Ford opened his door and got out. He then lifted out the two suitcases, one at a time.
Corinne let down her window. “You want me to tell Miss Aigletinger you won’t be in school tomorrow?”
“You can if you want to, I guess.”
“I don’t know,” Raymond Ford said. “Good-by.”
He picked up the tow suitcases and began to walk after his mother, who had already disappeared. The suitcases were huge and looked dead weight. Corinne saw him fall once on the snow. Then he disappeared.
Corinne’s father died, with equal parts of courage and an alien’s confusion, when she was sixteen. When she was seventeen the Shoreview estate was sold, and Eric, the chauffeur, performed his last duty for the von Nordhoffen menage by driving Corinne to Wellesley.
At seventeen Corinne was nearly six feet tall with low heels. She walked rather like an umpire measuring out yards on a football field. You had to get right up close to her to see that she was a beauty. Actually, her long legs were very interesting-looking. But not only her legs; all of her.
Although her fair hair was just a little anemic—it would later call for tact on the part of her hairdresser, if Madame’s suggestions were a little too fashionable it didn’t really matter. It was the kind of hair that lets the ears be visible now and then, and Corinne’s ears happened to be extraordinary: delicate, almost sweet, in formation and position, with bladethin edges. Her nose was long, but very slender and very high-bridged, it looked lovely even on the coldest day. Her eyes were hazel and, though not enormous, enormously kind. When her lips were ajar—which was seldom, as her face was nearly always caught tight in some private insecurity—but when they were ajar you saw that they were not thin at all; you saw that the middle of her lower lip was full and round. She was a wonderful- looking girl.
When she was seventeen, though, most boys she knew found her anything but wonderful. For one reason, her speech was rapid and uncloying to the point of being brusque, and to go with it, unfortunately, her conversation stuck very close to the facts. While some boy, for example, was giving her the exact figures on the number of highballs he had consumed just the other night, Corinne was entirely apt to break in with some terrible remark, like “If we hurry we can catch the twelve thirty-one instead of the twelve forty. Do you feel like running?”
There was something else. Young men sensed, or actually found out, that
Corinne did not like to be touched unnecessarily. When she was, she either jumped or apologized. It was the sort of thing that can play hell with a man-going-to-Yale-next- year’s Saturday night. So Corinne went right on jumping or apologizing for a long time. Perhaps none of her young men could have helped her anyway. It takes a certain amount of genius to touch anybody properly, let alone a mixed-up young girl.
In college Corinne came out of herself a little bit. Not much, but a little bit. The girls discovered behind her diffidence a sense of humor, and they made her use it; but that wasn’t all. It gradually leaked out all over the dormitory that Corinne could keep a secret, and very early in her freshman year she was unofficially elected Dormitory Kid. On many a cold Massachusetts night, consequently, she was obliged to get out of a warm bed to put out somebody else’s cat of guilt or innocence. To some extent the functions of her office were good for her own well-being. Giving out midnight advice can be highly instructive after it comes poisonously home a few times. But if you’re kept at the job too long—straight through your senior year, say— all the knowledge you pick up finally turns academic and useless.
After graduating from Wellesley she went to Europe. She preferred doing that to going straight to Philadelphia to live with her maternal second cousin. Besides, she had an old, undisciplined urge to visit her dead father’s estate in Germany. She had a feeling that on arriving there she would respond more poignantly to the memory of things long over and ungracefully done with.
Although nothing daughter-sized turned up for her when she did finally see her father’s estate, she stayed on in Europe for three years. She studied and played, more or less after a fashion, in Paris, in Vienna, Rome, Berlin, St. Anton, Cannes, Lausanne. She prescribed for herself some of the usual American-in-Europe neurotic fun, plus some accessible exclusively to girls who happen to be millionairesses. Over a period of thirty-odd months she bought herself nine cars. Not all of them bored her. Some she gave away. Nobody, of course, can make the American rich feel quite as filthy as can a poor-but-clean European.
Corinne knew a great number of men and boys during her three years in Europe, but her only real friend was a young man from Detroit. His name was Pat, but I don’t know whether it stood for Patrick or Patterson. Anyway he was very probably the first young man who had ever successfully ordered Corinne to close her eyes while she was being kissed. He most certainly was the first person whom Corinne had ever allowed to pass vicariously along the streets of her childhood to see a small boy in a woolen aviator’s cap.
The young man from Detroit was no fool. When he found out just how regularly Corinne was making private trips back to her childhood, he tried to do something about it. With the best intentions he tried to set up some kind of detour in Corinne’s mind. But he never really got a chance. He fell off the running board of Corinne’s ninth car, in his swimming trunks, and was killed.
Corinne went back to America after his death. She went to Philadelphia, to her cousin’s house, where she had spent all her college vacations. But she stayed only a month. A girl from Wellesley told her over the telephone about a darling, oversized, overpriced apartment in the East Sixties in New York. The girl said it was just perfect for Corinne.
Corinne took the apartment in New York and sat in it for nearly six months. She read a great deal. The young man from Detroit had first approached her on a like-me-like- the-books-I-read basis, and she was now a heavy reader. She met-a few ex-Wellesley girls for lunch or theater. She signed a few papers when her late father’s lawyer asked her to. But she had been a New Yorker almost seven months before anything significant happened to her.
She was having a few dates with the brother of her last roommate in college. The young man was one of the most successful tomcats in town, and Corinne was young enough to inform him one evening that he had a simply terrible Oedipus complex. Displeased with the information, the young gentleman threw his highball at her, catching her in the right eye with a fresh ice cube. The shiner that developed started Corinne off as a career girl,because when it disappeared she felt she ought to do something constructive by way of celebration. So she telephoned Robert Waner, had lunch with him, and asked him if he could get her a job on the newsmagazine he was working for.
I think I’ll say here, and then let it go, that I am Robert Waner. I don’t really have a good reason for taking myself out of the third person.
Corinne had not seen Waner in nearly four years. During her college years she had seen more of him than any other boy. She had thought he was funny. When Waner had finally found that out, of course, he had begun to get even funnier. He’d got so funny at Senior Prom at Wellesley that Corinne had broken into tears and asked him to please go back to his own college. Waner, in love with Corinne, had left Wellesley immediately. He had written to her while she had been in Europe, sending her as many letters as he could salvage from his wastebasket.
Waner’s boss at the magazine liked Corinne immediately and gave her a job pinning news items together for a rewrite man. Corinne did that for about a year. Then, when the rewrite man wrote a hot novel and went to Hollywood, she took over his job stringing adjectives: tall, gaunt, left- handed Anthony Creep, accompanied by his wife-ninety-three- year-old, web-footed, ex-manicurist, etc. Thereafter, Corinne’s name began to move up the masthead quite steadily until, in another four years, it was on a line with only four other names. Which meant, roughly, that less than forty people on the magazine had a right to push her copy around.
Her career was entirely remarkable. She had started out on it unable to understand just what she had to lose were she to fail as a career girl. In consequence, she was so cool about the whole setup that, in an office full of tense, ambitious people, she was taken at face value for efficient. It wasn’t hard for her later to live up to her own reputation. She happened to be a really good magazine woman. She was not only a competent all-round reporter and editor, but she developed also into a good, if not brilliant, drama critic.
As for Corinne’s personal life during the first five years she worked for the magazine, I guess it could be recorded on a single sheet of any interoffice memo pad:
Her wire-haired terrier, Malcolm, isn’t properly housebroken and probably never will be.
She is an easy, anonymous touch for any institution or individual depending upon charity.
She likes cherrystone clams and usually takes a double order.
She does not lie.
She is very likely to turn around in a taxicab to watch a child cross a street. She will not discuss the idiosyncrasy.
She regularly renews her subscription to Psychoanalytic Quarterly, a publication she barely glances through. She herself has never been psychoanalyzed.
Her legs grow lovelier each year.
Robert Waner bought two things to give to Corinne on her thirtieth birthday. One of them, an engagement ring, Corinne retreated from, and Waner (still the funnyman) tried to drop it into the fare box of a Madison Avenue bus. The other gift—a book of poems, called, The Cowardly Morning—Waner put on Corinne’s desk at the office, with a note saying, “This man is Coleridge and Blake and Rilke all in one, and more.” Corinne took the book home with her in a taxi and tossed it on her bedspread.
She didn’t pick up the book again until she was in bed, late that night. Then she glanced at the cover and opened the book with a dim impression that she was about to read some poems by someone who was not T. S. Eliot or Marianne Moore; someone named Fane or Flood or Wilson.
She raced through the first two poems in the book, both of which happened to be cerebral enough to require the reader’s co-operation, and started emptily on the third poem. But she suddenly felt sorry for the poet for having her as a reader, and she politely turned back to the first poem. She had once done the same thing to Marianne Moore.
The first poem was the title poem. This time Corinne read it through aloud. But still she didn’t hear it. She read it through a third time, and heard some of it. She read it through a fourth time, and heard all of it. It was the poem containing the lines:
Not wasteland, but a great inverted forest /
with all foliage underground.
As though it might be best to look immediately for shelter, Corinne had to put the book down. At any moment the apartment building seemed liable to lose its balance and topple across Fifth Avenue into Central Park. She waited. Gradually the deluge of truth and beauty abated. Then she glanced at the cover of the book. She began to stare at it. Then suddenly she got out of bed and dialed Robert Waner’s number on the telephone.
“Bobby?” she said. “Corinne.”
“It’s all right. I wasn’t asleep. It isn’t even four o’clock.”
“Bobby, who is this Ray Ford?”
“Ray Ford. The man who wrote the poems you gave me.”
“Lemme sleep over it awhile. I’ll see ya at the office.”
“Bobby, please. I think I know him. I may know him. I knew someone named Ray Ford—Raymond Ford. Really.”
“Good. I’ll wait for you at the office. Good ni—”
“Bobby, wake up. Please. This is terribly important. Don’t you know anything about him?”
“I only read the blurb on the back flap. That’s all I—”
Corinne hung up. In her excitement she hadn’t thought of looking at the back flap of the dust jacket. She rushed back to her bed and read the few notes on Ray Ford.
She read that this Ray Ford was twice the winner of the Rice Fellowship for Poetry and three times the winner of the Annual Strauss and that he now divided his time “between his creative work and his duties as an instructor at Columbia University in New York.” He was born in Boise, Idaho—an upsetting fact, as it should have been a decisive one, but Corinne had no idea where “her” Ray Ford had been born.
But the notes said that he was thirty years old. Which was exactly, electrically, right.
Corinne looked to see if there were a dedication. There was. The book was dedicated to the memory of a Mrs. Rizzio. This piece of information might have been a little puncturing, but Corinne’s imagination was already off the ground. It was very simple. Mrs. Rizzio was Raymond Ford’s mother remarried. Corinne didn’t even bother to consider, much less get around, the unlikelihood of an author (or anybody else), referring to his mother in the third person. She didn’t need logic. She needed more excitement. She jumped back into bed with her book.
Sitting erectly in bed, without lighting cigarettes, Corinne read The Cowardly Morning until the maid came in to wake her for breakfast. And even all the while she was getting dressed she felt Ray Ford’s poems standing upright all over her room. She even kept an eye on them in her dressing-table mirror, lest they escape into their natural vertical ascent. And when she left for her office, she closed her door securely.
From her office, later that morning, she twice telephoned Columbia, but didn’t get to speak to the author of The Cowardly Morning. He was either in class or “not in the building just now.”
At noon she quit work and went home and slept until four o’clock. Then she called the Columbia number again. This time she spoke to Ray Ford.
Corrine began with a good strong apology. “I hope I’m not taking you away from something,” she said rapidly, “but my name is Corinne von Nordhoffen and I used to know someone—”
“Who?” interrupted the voice on the other end.
She said her name again.
“Oh! How are you, Corinne?”
Corinne said she was fine and then supplied quite a gap in the conversation. She was much less taken aback by the fact that this was actually “her” Ray Ford than she was by the fact that her Ray Ford remembered her at all. After all, he was not salvaging her name out of an old cocktail party, but out of a childhood partitioned off by nineteen years.
She became very nervous. “I never expected you to remember me,” she said. She began to think and talk in jumps. “I read your book of poems last night. I’d like to tell you how—beautiful—I thought they were. I know that isn’t the right word. I mean, the right word.”
“It’s very nice,” said Ford evenly. “Thank you, Corinne.”
“I live in New York,” Corinne said.
“I was just wondering about that. You don’t live in Bayonne anymore?”
“Shoreview, Long Island,” she quickly corrected.
“Shoreview—of course! Don’t you live there anymore?”
“No. My father died and I sold the house,” Corinne said, finding her own voice dissonant. “How’s your mother?”
“She died a long time ago, Corinne.”
“I’m not keeping you from a class or something, am I?” Corinne demanded abruptly.
“No, no.”
Corinne stood up, as though someone wanted her seat. “Well, I just wanted to tell you how much I loved them—your poems”
“It’s very nice of you, Corinne. Really.”
She sat down again. She laughed. “It certainly is remarkable that you’re the same Ray Ford. I mean who wrote those poems. It isn’t an extraordinary name.”
“Where—where did you go after you left Shoreview?” Without wanting a cigarette she reached for a cigarette box.
“I don’t remember, Corinne. It’s such a long time ago.”
“It certainly is,” she agreed and stood up. “I’m probably taking your time. I just wanted to tell you how—”
“Will you have lunch with me one day next week, Corinne?” Ford asked her.
Corinne fumbled with a cigarette lighter. “I’d love to,” she said.
Ford said, “There’s a little Chinese restaurant very near here. Do you like Chinese food?”
“I love it.” The lighter slipped out of her hand and fell on the telephone table.
They arranged for lunch the following Tuesday at one o’clock. Then Corinne had a chance to run to her photograph, flick it on, and turn the volume knob all the way to the right.
She listened ecstatically as the music—the Moldau—flowed into the room, very sensibly drawing everything in sight.
January 9, 1937 was a sharp, raw day. The Chinese restaurant was four blocks from Columbia—not, as Corinne had imagined, around the corner from it. Her cab driver had trouble finding it. It was off Broadway and squeezed between a delicatessen and a hardware store. The driver, sounding tricked and annoyed, kept saying that he didn’t know the neighborhood. Finally Corinne told him to pull over to the curb. She got out and, on foot, found the restaurant herself.
Inside the restaurant Corinne selected a boothed-in table opposite the door. She sat down, aware that she was probably the only person in the place who hadn’t either a textbook or a notebook within reach. She felt conspicuous, mink-coatish. Her face ached from the January weather. Her table, just vacated by a couple of beefy students, was wet with spilled tea.
Although she was ten minutes early she began at once to watch the door. She and Ford had not described themselves over the telephone, and all she had to go on was Robert Waner’s melba-toast remark about poets almost never looking like poets because they would be infringing on the rights of all chiropodists who are dead ringers for Byron—this and a badly lighted image in her mind of a small-featured, light-haired little boy. She nervously began unsnapping and snapping the silver catch on her wristwatch band. Finally she broke the thing. While she was trying to fix it, a man’s voice spoke over her head. “Corinne?”
She pushed her disabled wristwatch into her handbag and quickly extended her hand to a man in a gray overcoat.
Ford was suddenly seated and smiling directly at her. She had to look at him squarely now. There wasn’t even a glass for her to reach for.
Even if Ford had been a cyclops, Corinne probably would have flinched a kind of happy, integrating flinch. Actually, the other extremity was the case. Ford was a man. Only the glassed he wore saved him from gorgeousness. I won’t attempt to estimate the head-on effect of his looks on Corinne’s unused secret equipment. She was badly rattled, certainly, and immediately had to use her social wits. “I almost thought I’d better wear my middie blouse,” she said.
Ford started to make some comment, but he didn’t get a chance. The Chinese waiter, clinging to some greasy mimeographed menus, was suddenly hanging over him. The waiter knew Ford and immediately mad some report to him about a book that had been left at the table the day before. Ford spoke to the waiter at some length, explaining that the book was not his, that it belonged to the other man and that the other man would be in later. Before the waiter could pass this bit of information along to the boss, Ford ordered lunch for Corinne and himself. Then Ford turned to Corinne, smiling kindly and with real warmth. “That certainly was quite right,” he said to Corinne—as though resuming an interrupted discussion of last Saturday night at the Smiths’. “What ever happened to that man? Your father’s secretary. Or whatever he was.”
“Mr. Miller? He stole a lot of money from Father and went to Mexico. I guess his case is outlawed by now.”
Ford nodded. “And your dog?” he asked.
“He died when I was in college.”
“He was a nice dog. Are you doing anything now, Corinne? Some kind of work, I mean? You were a very rich little girl, weren’t you?”
They began to talk—that is, Corinne began to talk. She told Ford about her job, about Europe, about college, about her father. She suddenly told him all she knew about her lovely, wild mother, who had, in 1912, in full evening dress, climbed over the promenade deck railing of the S.S. Majestic. She told him about the Detroit boy who had fallen off the running board of her car in Cannes. She told him about her sinus operation. She told him—just about everything. Ordinarily Corinne was not a talker but nothing could have stopped her that afternoon. She had whole years and even days full of information which suddenly seemed transferable. Apropos, Ford happened to have a high talent for listening.
“You’re not eating,” Corinne observed suddenly. “You haven’t touched your food at all!”
“Yes, I have. I’m listening to you.”
Corinne’s mind jumped happily to something else.
“A friend of mine, Bobby Waner—he’s my boss at the magazine—told me something yesterday. He said there are two lines in American poetry which regularly blow off the top of his head. That’s the way Bobby talks.”
“What are the lines?”
“Uh—Whitman’s I am the man, I suffered, I was there and one of yours, but I won’t say it in front of—I don’t know—the chow mein and stuff. But the one about the man on the island inside the other island.”
Ford nodded. He was quite a nodder as a matter of fact. It was a defense mechanism, surely, but a nice one.
“How—how did you become a poet?” Corinne asked—and stopped to qualify her excited question. “I don’t mean that. How did you get an education? You were—you weren’t exactly on the right track when I last saw you.”
Ford removed his glasses, and, squinting, cleaned them with his pocket handkerchief. “No, I wasn’t,” he agreed.
“You went to college. What did you do, work your way through?” Corinne pressed innocently.
“No, no. I’d already made enough money to go, before that. When I was in high school, in Florida, I worked for a bookmaker.”
“A bookie? Really? Horse races and all?”
“Dog races. They were at night, and I could go to school during the day.”
“But isn’t there a law preventing minors from working for bookies?”
Ford smiled. “I wasn’t a minor, Corinne. I didn’t go to high school until I was nineteen. I’m thirty now and I’m only of college three years.”
“Do you like teaching?”
He took his time answering.
“I can’t write poetry all day long. When I’m not writing it, I suppose I like to talk about it.”
“Don’t you have any other interests? I mean—don’t you have any other interests?”
This time he took even more time answering.
“I don’t think so,” he said carefully. “I used to. But I’ve lost them. Or used them up. Or just got rid of them. I don’t know anymore. Not exactly anyway.”
Corinne thought she understood and nodded appreciatively, but her mind was still clicking like a lover’s. Her next question was entirely uncharacteristic of her—but it was that kind of afternoon.
“Have you ever been in love or anything?” she asked him, suddenly wanting to know about the women he had known, how many and what kinds.
One can guess, however, that she put the question to Ford less inexcusably than it records. Some of her lovely lopsided charm must have come through with it, because Ford responded to the question with a real laugh.
He shifted a little in his seat—the booth was narrow and hard—and replied, “No, I’ve never been in love.” But he frowned over his own statement, as though his craftsman’s mind suspected itself of oversimplifying—or of having bad material to work with. He looked up at Corinne, as though he hoped she was already losing interest in her question. She wasn’t. His handsome face frowned again. Then, he undoubtedly took a guess at what Corinne really wanted to know—or what she ought to have wanted to know. At any rate, his mind began to select and juxtapose its own facts. At last, perhaps solely for Corinne’s benefit, he began to talk. Ford’s voice was not very good. It was overly husky and just missed being monotonous.
“Corinne, until I was eighteen I had never even had a date with a girl—except when I was a child and you invited me to your party. And that time you brought your dog to show me— you remember that?”
Corinne nodded. She was very excited. But Ford frowned again. He seemed dissatisfied with the way he was beginning. For a moment he seemed likely to chuck the whole idea…. Probably, Corinne’s immodestly responsive face helped lead him through his own strange story.
“Until I was almost twenty-three,” he said abruptly, “the only books I had read—outside school—were the Rover Boys and Tom Swift series.” The sound of italics was in this sentence, but he was speaking with a subsurface equanimity now, as though things were going in the right direction. “The only poems I knew,” he told Corinne, “were the chanting little ballads I’d had to memorize in grade school. When I was in high school, somehow Milton and Shakespeare never quite got over the teacher’s desk.” He smiled. “Anyway, they never got to my aisle.”
The waiter came and picked up their half-full bowls and plates of chow mein and fried rice. Corinne asked him to leave the tea.
I was a grown man a long time before I knew that real poetry even exists.” Ford said, when the waiter had left. “I’d nearly died looking for it. It’s—It’s a legitimate enough death, incidentally. It’ll get you into some kind of cemetery.” He smiled at Corinne—not self-consciously—and added, “They may write on your tombstone that you fell off a girl’s running board in Cannes, for example. Or that you climbed over the railing of a transatlantic liner. I’m sure, though, the real cause of death is accurately recorded in more intelligent circles.” He interrupted himself. “You feel cold, Corinne?” he asked solicitously.
“Do you want to hear all this? It’s long”
“Yes,” she said.
Ford nodded. He blew into his hands and then set them on the table.
“There was a woman,” he told Corinne. “who used to come to the track every evening, in Florida. Woman in her late sixties. She had bright henna hair and wore a lot of make- up. Her face was pretty jaded and all that, but you could tell that she had once been very wonderful-looking.” He blew into his hands again. “Her name was Mrs. Rizzio. She was a widow. She always wore silver foxes, no matter how hot it was. I saved her a lot of money at the track one evening—several thousand dollars. She was a heavy, crazy better. She was very grateful to me and wanted to do something about it. First she wanted to send me to her dentist. (My mouth was full of gaps in those days. I’d had some dental work done, but not much. When I was fourteen some two-dollar dentist in Racine had pulled nearly all my teeth.) But I just thanked her and told her I went to high school during the day and that I didn’t have the time to go to the dentist. She seemed very disappointed. She sort of wanted me to become a movie actor. I think. I thought that was the end of it. But it wasn’t. She had another way of showing her gratitude.” Ford said. “Are you sure you’re not cold, Corinne?”
Corinne shook her head.
He nodded, and took what seemed to be an extraordinarily deep breath. Exhaling, he said, “She began to push little white slips of paper into my hand every evening when she saw me at the track. She always wrote me in green ink, and in a small but very legible handwriting. She printed. The first slip of paper she gave me had “William Butler Yeats” written at the top of it, and under Yeats’ name the title, The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Under the title, the complete poem was written out for me. I didn’t think it was a gag. I just thought she was nuts. But I read the poem,” he told Corinne, looking at her. “I read it under the arc lights. And then, just for the hell of it, I memorized it. I started reciting it to myself under my breath while I waited for the first race to start. And suddenly the beauty of it caught on. I got very excited. I had to leave the track after the first race. I went straight to the drugstore where I knew they had dictionaries. I wanted to find out what “wattles” were and what a “glide” was and what a “linnet” was. I couldn’t wait to know.
For the third time Ford blew into his long hands.
“Mrs. Rizzio gave me a poem every evening,” he said. “I memorized, and learned, all of them. Everything she gave me was fine. I’ve never really reconciled her taste in poetry with her idea about my going into the movies. Maybe she just approved of money. Anyway, she gave me the best of Coleridge, Yeats, Keats, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley. Some Whitman. A little Eliot.
“I never once thanked her for the poems. Or even told her what they were meaning to me. I was afraid of breaking the spell—the whole thing seemed magic to me. I knew I’d have to take some kind of action before the season was over. I didn’t want the poems to stop reaching me because the season was over. I didn’t have sense enough to do any investigating at a public library on my own. I could very well have used our high school library, for that matter, but somehow I didn’t connect our high school library with poetry.
“I waited till the last evening of the season. Then I asked her where she was getting the poems. She was very kind. She invited me to her house to see her library. I went along with her that same night. My heart nearly pounded me out of the cab.
“The day after she showed me her library I was supposed to tell my boss whether I’d join him in Miami after my graduation from high school. Graduation was only a week away. I made up my mind not to go to Miami. Mrs. Rizzio had told me I could use her library whenever I wanted. She lived in Tallahassee, and I figured I could hitchhike there in less than an hour, any time of the day. So I quit my job.
“As soon as I got my high school diploma, I started spending eighteen, nineteen hours a day in Mrs. Rizzio’s library. Never less. I did that for two months, until my eyes finally gave out under the strain. I didn’t wear glasses in those days, and my eyes were very bad. The left eye, particularly; I don’t see much of anything out of it.
“But I kept coming to her library anyway. I was afraid she’d stop letting me use it if she knew I could no longer read the print in her books. So I didn’t say anything to her at all about my eyes. For about three weeks I sat in her library from early morning until late at night, with a book in front of me, pretending to be reading, in case anyone came into the room.
“That was how I began to write poetry myself.
“I began writing eight or ten words of my own on a sheet of paper, in very large letters that I could read without any trouble. I did that for over a month, filling a couple of small, dime-store writing tablets. Then suddenly I quit. For no particular reason. Chiefly, I was saddened by my own ignorance, I think. Then, too, I was a little afraid I was going blind. There’s never just one reason for anything. But anyway I quit. It happened to be October. So I went to college.”
His voice now clearly implied that he was either coming to an end or had already reached it. He smiled at Corinne.
“You look as though you’re still in school, Corinne. Look at your hands.”
Corinne’s hands were folded on the table, classroom style.
“The point is—” he said suddenly—and broke off.
Corinne didn’t prompt him. He began again at his own convenience.
“The point is,” he said, looking at Corinne’s folded hands, “that for seven and a half years I’ve had nothing in my life except poetry. And the years before that I had nothing but,”—he hesitated—”well, discord. And malnutrition. And— well, the Rover Boys.” He stopped dead again and Corinne thought he was going to tell her point-blank how his equipment for survived differed from that of other men. But when he spoke again there still was mostly organized information in his voice. He still was not really using his own poetry for the occasion.
“I’ve never taken a drink in my life,” he said very quietly, as though to take the edge of confession off his statement. “And not because my mother was an alcoholic. I’ve never smoked either. It’s just that somebody told me when I was a small boy that drinking and smoking would dull my sense of taste. I still think that, in a way, I can’t get past half my childhood dogmas.” At this point Ford sat back rather stiffly in his seat. The little movement was quite unobtrusive. But Corinne caught it. It was the first time he had shown ever the very slightest need for self- control of any kind. But he continued—easily enough it seemed. “Every time I but a ticket on a train I wonder that I have to pay full price. I feel momentarily cheated— gypped—when I see an ordinary, adult’s ticket in my hand. Until I was fifteen my mother used to tell conductors I was under twelve.”
Casually, Ford looked at his wristwatch, saying, “I really have to get back, Corinne. It’s been nice seeing you.”
Corinne cleared her throat. “Will you—can you come up to my apartment Friday night?” she asked rapidly, “I’m having a few very good friends,” she said.
If he hadn’t already seen, Ford saw now that Corinne was in love with him and he gave her a brief look that is fairly difficult to describe yet extremely easy to overanalyze. It had in it nothing quite so melodramatic as a naked warning, but surely a strong suggestion of, “Why don’t you try to be very careful? That is, about me and all.” The admonition of a man who either is in love with someone or something he doesn’t happen to be regarding at the moment or who suspects himself of having, at some time in his life, either lost or forfeited some natural interior dimension of mysterious importance.
Corinne pushed the book away and fumbled in her handbag. “I’ll give you my address,” she said. “Please try to come. I mean, if you can.”
“I certainly will,” he said.
The week Corinne looked forward to seeing Ford again was an unfamiliar, rather awful week in which she—nervously, willfully—reclassified her whole person, calling her beautiful, high-bridged nose too big and her symmetrical, tall body big-boned and hideous. She read Ford’s poetry constantly. In her lunch hours she wandered intensely through Brentano’s basement, searching literary magazines for poems by, or articles about, her love. Evenings, she went so far as to get out her dictionary to translate Gide’s now well-known essay on Ford, “Chanson…enfin” (which first appeared, rather incongrously, in a Harper’s Bazaar- ish French magazine called Madam Chic.)
At ten o’clock on the evening Ford was expected, Corinne’s telephone rang. She had somebody turn down the volume of her phonograph while she was listened to Ford apologize for not having arrived. He explained he was working.
“I understand,” Corinne said. Then, immediately, “How long do you think you’ll be working?”
“I don’t know, Corinne. I’m just in the middle of something.”
“Oh,” she said.
Ford said, “How long do you think your party will keep going?”
“It isn’t a party,” she denied.
“Well, your friends. How long will they be there?”
She made her friends stay until four in the morning, but Ford didn’t show up.
He did telephone her again, though, at noon the next day. He tried her apartment first, where the maid gave him her office number.
“Corinne, I’m terribly sorry about last night. I worked all night.”
“Can you have dinner with me tonight, Corinne?”
At this point I could very nicely use two old Hollywood characters. The calendar that gets its days blown off by an unseen electric fan. And the glorious studio tree that bursts, in about two seconds, out of the bitterest winter into the lushest early spring.
During the next four months Corinne saw Ford at least three times a week. Always uptown. Always surrounded by the marquees of third-run movie houses, and nearly always over bowls of Chinese food. But she didn’t mind. Neither did she especially mind that her evenings with him seldom—if at all—lasted until later than eleven, at which hour Ford, who imposed deadlines on himself, felt that he had to go back to work.
Sometimes they went to a movie, but usually they stayed in the Chinese restaurant until it closed.
She did almost all the talking. If he talked at any length at all he talked about poetry or poets. On a couple of rare evenings he talked whole essays away. One on Rilke, one on Eliot. But nearly all of the time he listened to Corinne, who had her life to talk away.
He took her home every evening—via subway and crosstown bus—but he came up to her apartment only once. He looked at Corinne’s Rodin (which had once belonged to Clara Rilke), and he looked at her books. She played two records for him on the phonograph. Then he went home.
Although Corinne was accustomed to moderate drinking—most of her friends were either middling-heavy or downright heavy drinkers—she never ordered even one cocktail in Ford’s company. Or near it, for that matter. She was afraid he might have a sudden, untimely impulse to take her in his arms—perhaps in the shadow of some familiar uptown landmark: a haberdashery or an optometrist’s shop, for example—and find her breath repulsive to some degree.
When he finally did kiss she had, inevitably, just arrived from a cocktail party at the office.
The kiss happened in the Chinese restaurant. About ten weeks after they had first met there. Corinne was reading proof on some of her own copy for the magazine—waiting for Ford. He came up to her, kissed her, took off his overcoat, and sat down. It was the average, disenchanted kiss of the average disenchanted husband just checked into the living room straight from the office. Corinne, however, was much too happy with it to wonder just when he passed through a period of enchantment. Later, when she gave the incident a little thought, she arrived at the satisfactory conclusion that the evolution of their kisses was going to take place backwards.
The same evening he kissed her, she asked him whether he couldn’t find time to meet some of her friends.
“I have such nice friends,” she told him enthusiastically. “They all know your poetry. Some even live on it.”
“Corinne, I don’t mix too well—”
Corinne leaned forward joyfully, remembering something.
“That’s what Miss Aigletinger once yelled about you into my father’s thing. Do you remember Miss Aigletinger?”
Ford nodded unnostagically. “What would I have to do if I met them?” he asked.
“My friends?” said Corinne. But she saw that he was serious. So she wasn’t. “Oh, just juggle a couple of Indian clubs, tell ’em who your favorite movie stars are.”
But her jokes around Ford never had any follow-through. She reached for his hand across the table. “Darling, you wouldn’t have to do anything. These people just want to see you.”
A thought struck her—fell across her. “You don’t realize, do you, what your poetry means to people?”
“Yes, I guess I do.” But he had hesitated. Anyway, it wasn’t Corinne’s idea of a good answer.
She began rather intensely. “Darling, you can’t pick up a literary magazine in Brentano’s without seeing your name. And that man you introduced me to? The trustee or something? He said he knows three people who are writing books about The Cowardly Morning. One man in England.” She ran her fingers through the knuckle-grooves of Ford’s hand. “Thousands of people are waiting for Wednesday,” she said tenderly. (Ford’s second book of poems was due to come out, she meant by that.)
He nodded. Something else was on his mind, however. “There won’t be any dancing at your party, will there? I can’t dance.”
A week or so later a tableful of Corinne’s best friends met Ford at Corinne’s apartment. Robert Wager arrived first. Then came Louise and Elliot Seermeyer. Corinne’s sensible Tuckahoe friends. Then came Alice Hepburn, who taught something at Wellesly—or had. Seymour and Frances Hertz. Corinne’s intellectual friends, arrived next, in the same elevatorload with Ginnie and Wesley, Corinne’s badminton friends. At least five of these people had read both of Ford’s books. (The brand-new one, Man on a Carousel, had just come out.) And at least three of the five were honestly and permanently excited by Ford’s genius.
Ford arrived nearly an hour late, and his shyness lasted almost to the dessert course. Then all of a sudden his guest-of-honor behavior turned gently perfect.
For a full hour he spoke to—and with—Robert Waner and Elliot Seermeyer on Hopkins’ poetry.
He gave Sy Hertz not only the right attitude for Sy’s book (then in preparation) on the Wordworths, but the title and the first three chapters, too.
He took on without batting an eyelash all of Alice Hepburn’s strident, suffragette-ish interruptions.
He very kindly and uselessly explained to Wesley Fowler why Walt Whitman isn’t “dirty.”
Nothing he said or did during the evening even faintly smacked of performance. He simply was a great man whose greatness had been cornered at a dinner party, and who fought his way out not with theatrical aphorisms or with boorish taciturnity, but—generously, laboriously—with himself. It was a great evening. If not everyone actually knew it, everyone at least felt it.
The next day, at the magazine office, Corinne had an interoffice telephone call from Robert Waner.
As generally happens to people who overload themselves with any one virtue, Waner’s voice over the phone was so full of control that some of it could not help but leak out.
“It was a very nice party,” he began.
“Bobby, you were wonderful!” Corinne responded ecstatically. “Everybody was wonderful. Listen. Speak to the operator. Find out if I can kiss you.”
“Nothing doing.” Waner cleared his throat. “Here on a mission for my government.”
“No kidding!” Corinne felt almost sick with affection for Bobby. He was really wonderful. “What government?” she demanded happily.
“He doesn’t love you, Corinne.”
“What?” Corinne said. She had heard Waner perfectly.
“He doesn’t love you,” Waner courageously repeated. “He isn’t even considering loving you.”
“Shut up.” Corinne said.
There was a long pause. But Waner’s voice came in again. It sounded quite far off.
“Corinne, I remember, a long time ago, kissing you in a cab. When you first got back from Europe. It was sort of an unfair, Scotch-and-soda kiss—maybe you remember. I bumped your hat.” Waner cleared his throat again. But he put the whole thing through. “There was something about the way you raised your arms to straighten your hat, and the way your face looked in the mirror over the driver’s photograph. I don’t know. The way you looked and all. You’re the greatest hat-straightener that ever lived.”
Corinne broke in coldly. “What’s the point?” Nevertheless, Waner had touched her, probably deeply.
“None, I guess.” Then: “Yes, there is a point. Of course there’s a point. I’m trying to tell you that Ford’s long past noticing that you’re the greatest hat-straightener that ever lived. I mean a man just can’t reach the kind of poetry Ford’s reaching and still keep intact the normal male ability to spot a fine hat-straightener—”
“You sound rehearsed,” Corinne interrupted cruelly.
“Maybe I am.”
“What makes you think—” She broke off; started over. “I thought poets were supposed to know more about those things than anyone else”—defiantly.
“They do if they feel like writing verse. They don’t if they stick to poetry,” Waner said. “Listen, Corinne. In both of Ford’s books there’s hardly a line of verse. It’s nearly all poetry. Do you have any idea what that means?”
“You tell me,” Corinne said coldly.
“All right. It means that he writes under pressure of dead- weight beauty. The only kind of men who write that way—”
“You are rehearsed,” Corinne cut in.
“I wasn’t going to phone you without having something to say. If I were—”
“Listen,” Corinne said. “You’re implying that he’s some kind of psychotic. I won’t have it, Bobby. In the first place it isn’t true. He’s—he’s serene. He’s kind, he’s gentle, he’s—”
“Don’t be a fool, Corinne. He’s the most gigantic psychotic you’ll ever know. He has to be. Don’t be a fool. He’s standing up to his eyes in psychosis.”
“What makes you think he doesn’t like me?” Corinne demanded ambiguously. “He likes me very much.”
“Sure he does. But he doesn’t love you.”
“You said that. Please shut up.”
But Waner distinctly ordered, “Corinne, don’t marry him.”
“Now, listen.” She was very angry. “If he doesn’t love me— as you’ve so gallantly pointed out—my chances of marrying him aren’t very hot, are they?”
Waner tried to avoid sounding smug, but his text was against him. “He’ll marry you,” he said.
“Really. Why?”
“Because he just will, that’s all. He likes you and he’s cold, and he won’t be able to think of any reason why he shouldn’t—or he’ll refuse to think of a reason why he shouldn’t. At any rate—”
“He’s not cold,” Corinne interrupted angrily.
“Of course he’s cold. I don’t care how tender you find him. Or how kind. He’s cold. He’s cold as ice.”
“That doesn’t make any sense.”
“Corinne. Please. Stay out of it. Don’t try to find out if it makes sense.”
Corinne and Ford were married on April 20, 1937 (about four months after they had met as adults), in the chapel at Columbia. Corinne’s matron-of-honor was Ginnie Fowler, and Dr. Funk, of the English Department, stood up for Ford. About sixty of Corinne’s friends came to the wedding. Only two people besides Funk came expressly to watch Ford get married: his publisher, Rayburn Clapp, and a very tall, very pale man, an instructor of Elizabethan Literature of Columbia, who remarked at least three times that the flowers bothered his “nasal passages.”
Dr. Funk cancelled Ford’s lectures for ten days, insisting that Ford and Corinne take a short honeymoon.
They drove to Canada, in Corinne’s car. They returned to New York, to Corinne’s apartment, on the first Sunday in May.
I know nothing at all about their honeymoon.
That’s a statement, not an apology, I’d like to point out. If I had really needed the facts, I probably would have been able to get them.
The Monday morning following their return to New York, Corinne got a letter in the first mail, which she considered rather touching. It read as follows:
32 MacReady Road
Harkins, Vermont
Dear Mrs. Ford,
I saw last week in the Sunday edition of the New York Times that you and Mr. Ford were married, and I am taking the liberty of writing to you, hoping that Columbia will know your home address and forward this letter accordingly.
I have read Mr. Ford’s new book of poems, Man on a Carousel, and feel that I must somehow ask him for advice. But rather than risk disturbing him at his work I am writing first to you.
I am twenty and a junior at Creedmore College here in Harkins. My parents are dead, and since early childhood I have lived with my aunt in what is probably the oldest, largest, and ugliest house in America.
To be brief as possible, I have written some poems that I would very much like Mr. Ford to see, and I am enclosing them. I beg you to show them to him, as I feel I need his advice so badly. I know I haven’t the right to ask Mr. Ford to sit down and write me a letter of detailed criticism, but if he could possibly just read of even look through my poems, that would be enough. You see, our spring vacation begins next Friday, and my aunt and I are coming to New York City next Saturday, May eighth, on the way to attend my cousin’s wedding in Newport. I could very easily speak to you on the telephone about the poems.
I shall be everlastingly grateful to you both for any kind of guidance, and may I, at this time, wish you both all happiness for you married life?
Mary Gates Croft
If it were said now that Corinne pushed the verses over to Ford because she had been touched by the young-sounding appeal of the letter and because she wanted her qualified, brand-new husband to meet the appeal, the greatest part of the truth would be told. But the truth in its entirety seldom comes in one big neat piece. She had another reason. Ford was eating his corn flakes without cream or sugar. Absolutely dry and unsweetened. Corinne wanted a legitimate excuse to make him look up so that she could suggest, preferably in a casual voice, that he try eating his corn flakes with cream and sugar.
“Darling,” she said.
The groom looked up politely from his dry corn flakes and his lecture notes.
“If you have any time today, would you read this?”
Corinne felt like hearing her own voice in the quiet breakfast room. She went into details: “It’s a letter and some poems from a college girl in Vermont. The letter’s sweet. You can see she spent hours and hours writing it. Anyway, if you can possibly decipher her handwriting and can read the verses, you’re to make some comment to me…” As she looked at her new husband’s handsome, Monday-morning- go-to-work-for-the-first-time face, her trend of thought drifted away from her. She reached across the table, stroked his hand, and finished weakly, “She’s coming to New York and plans to phone me for your criticism. All very complicated.”
Ford nodded. “Be glad to,” he said, and stuffed the letter and verses into his jacket pocket.
But it was a much too simple and final reply. Corinne wanted to draw him closer, physically and otherwise, to her. She wanted the oblique shafts of breakfast-table sunshine to fall on them together, not singly, not one at a time.
“Wait a minute, darling. Just give me her address for a second. I’ll drop her a line and ask her to tea Sunday.”
“All right. Fine.” Ford handed over the envelope, smiled, and finished his corn flakes.
But as late as the following Sunday noon Ford still hadn’t read the verses. Corinne finally rapped on his door.
“Ray. Darling. That girl I wrote to is coming here in a couple of hours,” she said gently. “Do you think you could just glance through her verses? Just so you can say a few words to her?”
“Sure! I was just looking at some things here. Where are they?”
“You have them, darling. They’re probably still in the coat of your blue suit.”
“I’ll get dressed and look at them right away,” he said efficiently.
But he stayed at his desk, working, until at three o’clock the front doorbell rang.
Corinne rushed back to his study, “Darling, have you read the poems yet?”
“Is she here already?” Ford asked incredulously.
“I’ll entertain her. You read. Come out when you’re finished,” Corinne closed the door hurriedly. Rita, the maid, had already answered the doorbell.
“How do you do, Miss Croft,” Corinne said—all hostess— moving forward toward her guest in the living room.
She was addressing a slight, fair-haired girl with a receding chin, who might almost have passed for eighteen instead of twenty. She was hatless and wearing a good gray flannel suit—very new.
“It’s awfully nice of you to let me come, Mrs. Ford.”
“Won’t you sit down? I’m afraid my husband will be a little late.”
Both women sat down, Miss Croft saying, “I think I’ll recognize him. I saw his picture in Poetry Survey. Wasn’t it a wonderful picture? I never say anyone so handsome.” Her voice wasn’t giddy, but it had in it all the reputed frankness of youth. She looked at her hostess enthusiastically.
Corinne laughed. “I never did either,” she said. “How do you like New York, Miss Croft?”
Corinne sat with her guest for an hour and a half without any appearance by Ford.
Conversation was not difficult, however. On the contrary, Miss Croft seemed to have arrived forewarned of the deadly platitudes usually exchanged between out-of-towners and resident New Yorkers. It seemed she had brought her own fresh dialogue. She confessed to Corinne, to begin with, that she liked New York, but only to live here, not to visit. Corinne was genuinely amused—as had been intended— and began to feel sorry for her guest’s little receding chin and to notice that her calves and ankles were really quite nice.
“I’m trying,” Miss Croft suddenly confided, a little glumly, “to persuade my aunt to let me stay in New York to study. I don’t have much hope, though. Especially after last night. A drunken man came into the dining room at the hotel.” She grinned. “I’m not even allowed to wear lipstick.”
Corinne leaned forward on an impulse. “Look. Would you really like to stay and study?”
“More than anything else in the world, I guess.”
“What about Creedmore? You’d want to finish there, wouldn’t you?”
“I could go to Barnard. Then I could study at Columbia in the evening,” Miss Croft said readily.
“Do you think it would help if I spoke with your aunt? I mean, an older woman? I’d be very glad to, if it’s what you really want,” Corinne offered with characteristic kindness.
“Oh, golly, that’s awful nice!” said Miss Croft. But she shook her head immediately. “But, thanks. I think I’d better fight it out alone for the few more days we’re here. You couldn’t help anyway. I’m afraid. You don’t know Aunt Cornelia.” She looked down self-consciously at her hands. “I’ve never really been away from home. I live in a way that—” She broke off with a smile Corinne found extremely winning. “What’s the difference? I’m really very grateful to be here at all.”
Corinne asked quietly, “Where are you staying, dear?”
“At the Waldorf. I think we’re going back next Sunday.” Miss Croft giggled. “Aunt Cornelia doesn’t trust the servants with the silver. Especially the ‘new’ cook—she’s only been with us nine years and hasn’t really proved herself.”
Corinne laughed—really laughed. She suddenly disapproved the possibility of this bright small person going back to Vermont with all or surely most of her challenges unmet.
“Mary—may I call you Mary?” Corinne began.
“Bunny. Nobody calls me Mary.”
“Bunny, you’re perfectly welcome to stay here for a while after your aunt leaves. If she’ll let you. Really. We have a lovely room that we don’t even—”
Emotionally, Bunny Croft pressed Corinne’s hand. Then she placed both her hands into the side pockets of her suit. Her fingernails were bitten down to the quick.
“I’ll work out something,” she said with confidence, and smiled.
Apparently it was not her nature to be hopelessly depressed by adverse circumstances. With considerable tea-table enterprise she began, verbally, to conduct Corinne around her home in Vermont, pointing out with mixed affection and abhorrence things that had stood of greenly stretched or lay unrepaired all through her childhood. Aunt Cornelia came into focus: a funny, humorless spinster who evidently was carrying on a private war on may fronts, chiefly against progress and dust and fun. Corinne listened attentively, sometimes laughing out loud, sometimes vicariously oppressed, shaking her head.
But it was when the servants began to move through the house that Corinne was most personally moved. As Bunny began to speak tenderly and inclusively of an old butler named Harry, whom she had unqualifiedly loved and depended upon, Corinne was acutely, almost painfully reminded of Eric, her father’s old chauffeur, so long dead.
“And Ernestine!” Bunny exclaimed with great warmth. “Golly, I wish you could meet Ernestine. She’s Aunt Cornelia’s maid. She’s a terrible kleptomaniac,” she fondly classified. “Has been ever since I can remember. But when I first came to Aunt Cornelia’s. Ernestine was the only one in the house—except Harry—who had any idea that a little girl wasn’t just a young, short adult.” She giggled. A gleam of real mischief cam into her eyes—her eyes were very pretty: gray-green, and quite large. “For years I confessed to all kinds of petty thefts around the house. I still do. Golly. Aunt Cornelia would discharge Ernestine in a minute if she knew about her—her ‘trouble’.” She grinned.
“What did your aunt do—I mean when you were a child—when you took the blame for Ernestine?” Corinne asked, amused and interested. Interested in, and somewhat envious of, the apparent resourcefulness by which her guest (apparently unscathed) had passed through childhood.
“What would she do?” Bunny shrugged her shoulders—a gesture curiously immature for her age, Corinne thought. Bunny grinned. “She wouldn’t do much about it. Forbid me the use of the library. Ernestine would get the key for me anyway. Or tell me I couldn’t ride in the horse show. Something like that.”
Corinne looked at her wristwatch suddenly. “Ray should be here,” she apologized. “I’m awful sorry he’s so late.”
“Sorry!” Bunny looked shocked. “Golly, Mrs. Ford. To think that he’d—I mean, that he’d find the time to see me at all . . .” Self-consciously she scratched her frail wrist, but asked, “Has he had a chance at all to look at my poems? I mean, had he had the time at all?”
“Well, so far as I know—” Corinne started to stall, but turned in her chair gratefully, as she heard the double doors to the living room open. “Ray! Finally. Come in, darling.”
Corinne attended to the introductions. Bunny Croft was visibly flustered.
“Sit down, darling,” the bride addressed the groom. “You look a little dragged. Have some tea.”
Ford sat down on the chair between the two women, pushed it back a little, and immediately asked, “Have you tried to have published any of these poems you have written, Miss Croft?”
Involuntarily Corinne arched her back a little. Her husband’s question was ice-cold.
“Well, no, Mr. Ford—I don’t know. I just thought—well, I thought I ought to find out whether I’m any good or not. . . I don’t know.” Bunny’s eyes flashed Corinne an appeal for help.
“Darling, have some tea,” Corinne suggested, confused. Her husband had not come into the room altogether intact. He had brought his handsome head. And probably all of his genius. But where was his kindness?
“No tea, Corinne, thank you,” Ford declined, looking a little naked without his kindness.
Corinne handed Bunny Croft a fresh cup of tea, and looked at her husband evenly. “Are the poems interesting, darling?” she asked.
“How do you mean, interesting?”
Corinne carefully put cream in her own cup of tea. “Well, I mean are they lovely?”
“Are your poems lovely, Miss Croft?” Ford asked.
“Well—I—I hope so, Mr. Ford.”
“No, you don’t,” Ford contradicted quietly. “Don’t say that.”
“Ray,” Corinne said, upset. “What’s the matter darling?”
But Ford was looking at Bunny Croft. “Don’t say that,” he said to her again.
“Gol-lee, Mr. Ford, if my poems aren’t—well, at all lovely— I don’t know what they are. I mean—golly!” Bunny Croft flushed and put her hands into her jacket pockets, out of sight.
Ford abruptly stood up. He looked down at Corinne. “I have to go, Corinne. I’ll be back in an hour.”
“Go?” Corinne said.
“I promised Dr. Funk I’d drop by if we got back today.”
It was a lie, however unelaborate. It waylaid deftly any oral response from Corinne. She looked up at her husband and just nodded. Ford turned to Bunny Croft, saying, “Good- by” and sounded curiously logical.
The groom bent over and kissed the bride, who immediately got her voice back. “Darling. If you could just give Miss Croft a little constructive criticism that might…”
“Oh, no!” Bunny Croft protested. “Please. It isn’t—I mean it isn’t at all necessary—really!”
Ford, who had caught a head cold during the drive back from Canada, used his handkerchief. He replaced it, saying slowly, “Miss Croft, I’ve read every one of the poems you sent to me. I can’t tell you you’re a poet. Because you’re not. And I’m not saying that because your language is dissonant, or because your metaphors are either hackneyed or false, or because your few attempts to write are so flashy that I have a splitting headache. Those things can happen sometimes.”
He sat down suddenly—as though he had been waiting for hours for a chance to sit down.
“But you’re inventive,” he informed his guest—without a perceptible note of accusation in his voice.
He looked at the carpet, concentrating, and pushed back the hair at his temples with his finger tips.
“A poet doesn’t invent his poetry—he finds it,” he said, to no one in particular. “The place,” he added slowly, “where Alph, the sacred river ran—was found out, not invented.”
He looked out the window from where he sat. He seemed to look as far out of the room as he could. “I can’t stand any kind of inventiveness,” he said.
Nothing led away from this statement.
He sat still for a moment. Then, as abruptly as he had sat down, he stood up. He took Miss Croft’s sheaf of poems out of his jacket pocket and rather anonymously placed them on the tea table, not directly in front of anyone. He then removed his reading glasses, narrowing his eyes as people with extremely bad eyesight usually do when they undress their eyes. He put on his other pair of glasses, his street glasses. Then one more he bent owver and kissed his bride good-by.
“Ray, darling. Miss Croft is terribly young. Isn’t it possible that—”
“Corinne, I’m late now,” Ford said, and stood up straight. “Good-by,” he said inclusively. He left the room, looking pressed for time.
Corinne’s right-and-wrong reflexes had been uncomfortablly overactive most of her life, and at four-thirty in the afternoon her husband’s walkout, his general behavior toward his guest, his unelaborate but obvious lie—all had, to her, a very high unacceptableness, whether taken singly or collectively. But around six in the evening, one of those connubial accidents happened to her which disable a wife—sometimes for months—from speaking up. She happened to open a closet door and one of Ford’s suit jackets—one she had never seen—fell across her face. Besides having a certain natural olfactory value to her, the jacket had two great holes at the elbows. Either hole alone could have pledged her to loving silence. At any rate, when at seven Ford came home, she had been ready for at least an hour to be the last person in the world to ask him for an explanation.
Not once all evening did Ford himself allude to the afternoon in any way. He was quiet at dinner but, as he was often reflectively quiet, he quietness at dinner wasn’t obstrusive, didn’t necessarily imply that he was carrying around some new X-quantity.
After dinner the Fowlers dropped by—unannounced and disconcertingly tight—to see the returned newlyweds. They stayed until after midnight, Wesley Fowler incessantly one- fingering the keyboard of the piano, and Ginnie Fowler, obviously postponing a crying jag by smoking handfuls of cigarettes. By the time the Fowlers had pulled out Corinne had half forgotten the afternoon, or had informally convinced herself that there is nothing real about a Sunday afternoon, anyway.
Monday noon, when Bunny Croft telephoned Corinne at the magazine, the call came almost as a surprise. But her second reaction was annoyance. Annoyance with herself for having asked Bunny Croft to meet her. “Look, why don’t you call me at the magazine tomorrow, and let’s have lunch together,” and annoyance with Bunny Croft not only for taking advantage of yesterday’s invitation, but for still being in New York. Trying people’s loyalty to their husbands, keeping people from running over to Saks’ Fifth Avenue in their lunch hours.
“Do you know where the Colony is?” Corinne asked Bunny over the telephone—aware that there was something unkind about the question.
“No, I don’t. I can find it though.”
Corinne gave directions. But she suddenly didn’t like the way her own voice was sounding, and broke in with, “Do you think your Aunt Cornelia would like to join us? I’d love to meet her.”
“She would I know, but she’s in Poughkeepsie. She’s visiting somebody she used to go to Vassar with, that has to be fed through tubs or something.”
“Oh—well . . .”
“Mrs. Ford, are you sure I’m not inconveniencing you? I mean I don’t want—”
“No, no! Not at all. One o’clock then?”
In the taxi, on the way to the Colony, Corinne planned to be perfectly pleasant at lunch, but at the same time to let it be known that once dessert was over her term of hospitality would naturally expire.
Lunch, however, was different from what Corinne had vaguely expected of allowed for. Lunch was nice. Lunch was really quite nice, Corinne had to admit. Lunch was gay—lunch was really quite gay. On the first Martini, Bunny Croft began describing with mixed indifference and penetration, two of her young men callers in Harkins, Vermont, one of them a medical student, the other a dramatics student. Both young men sounded extremely young and serious and funny to Corinne and several times she laughed out loud. And as Bunny’s casual, superior dormitory talk kept coming across the table, and as the waiter brought a third round of Martinis, Corinne herself began to feel distinctly collegiate. Characteristically, she looked around for something generous to say in repayment.
“Let me get you a date while you’re here,” she offered abruptly. “The magazine staff is full of young men. Some of them quite nice and bright. . . I’m getting tight.”
Bunny looked on the verge of showing interest in Corinne’s offer. But she shook her head. “I don’t think so,” she said thoughtfully. “I want to go to some lectures while I’m here. And—well, I write a little when I don’t have to chase around looking at lamps or something with Aunt Cornelia. Thank you, though.” She looked down at her Martini glass, then up at the table. “I suppose if I had any sense,” she said uncomfortably, “I’d quit writing altogether. I mean— well, golly. After what Mr. Ford said.”
Corinne sat up straighter, in her seat. “You mustn’t feel that way,” she ordered uneasily. “Ray has a nasty cold he caught on the drive back to Canada. He’s not at all himself. It’s all in his chest. He really feels quite horrible.”
“Oh, I guess I won’t really quit. I mean, not really.” Bunny smiled, but averted her eyes self-consciously.
Corinne gave in to the nearest impulse.
“Come to the theatre with us tonight. I have to see this play, for the magazine. I have a ticket for my husband, and I’m sure I can get another. The show’s lovely in places.”
She saw that Bunny, though attracted to the idea, was going to make the proper gesture under the circumstances.
“Do you think Mr. Ford would—” Bunny broke off awkwardly. “Since yesterday I’ve been feeling like—golly, I don’t know. Like an old crone that goes around with a sack of poisoned apples.”
Corinne laughed. “Now stop that. You just come along with us. We’ll pick you up at the Waldorf?”
“Are you sure it’s all right?” Bunny asked anxiously. “I mean I don’t have to go.”
“Of course you have to go.” Corinne’s voice lowered itself to fill up with love. “Really,” she said. “You’re very mistaken. My husband is the kindest man in the world.”
“I’d love to come,” Bunny responded simply.
“Good. We’ll pick you up at the Waldorf. Let’s eat. I’m getting tight as a coat. I must say you seem to able to hold your liquor like an old trooper.”
“Could I meet you at the theatre? I have to see somebody with my aunt at six.”
“Certainly, if you like.”
Here is a note Corinne sent to me:
Bobby,
I didn’t mean to hold out on you when I came to the Big Business. It was just that I didn’t feel up to talking about it. I’ve written it down for you, though. I’ve written it down in the form of a private detective’s log, a technique straight out of a Freshman English Comp I wrote at Wellesley when I thought it might be nice to become a lady detective later on. I got a C-plus for the comp along with an infuriating note from the instructor saying I was quite original, but a little precious, and that we don’t really “tail” a scarlet tanager, do we, Miss von Nordhoffen. . . I’ll take the same grade and a similar remark from you, and gladly, in exchange for the comfortable delusion that I couldn’t possibly have known—in person, I mean—any of the ladies mentioned in the report. Anyway, here it is. Sleep no more.
On Monday evening, May 10, 1937, Mr. and Mrs. Ford—who had been married three weeks to the day—met Miss Croft outside the Alvin Theatre and the three went inside together to attend the performance of Hiya, Broadway, Hiya. After the theatre the three went to the bar of the Weylin Hotel, where just after the midnight performance of some singers known as The Rancheros, Mr. Ford leaned across the table and in a very cordial manner invited Miss Croft to attend his lecture at the institute the following morning. Mrs. Ford impulsively reached forward and pressed her husband’s hand. The three people remained at the Weylin bar until approximately one A.M., speaking together in a most friendly manner and watching the entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. Ford dropped Miss Croft off at The Waldorf-Astoria at approximately one-ten A.M. Emotionally, almost at the point of tears, Miss Croft thanked both Mr. and Mrs. Ford for “the loveliest evening of my life.”
Mrs. Ford held her husband’s hand as the taxi continued on its way to their apartment house. Mr. Ford remarked, as they ascended in the elevator to their apartment, that he had a splitting headache. Once they were inside their apartment Mrs. Ford insisted that Mr. Ford take two asprins: one for being the “best boy in the world” and one to make him eligible to kiss his wife.
On Tuesday morning, May eleventh, Miss Croft attended Mr. Ford’s eleven-o’clock lecture, sitting in the rearmost seat in the lecture hall. She then accompanied Mr. Ford to lunch at a Chinese-type restaurant located three blocks south of the university. Mr. Ford quietly mentioned this fact to Mrs. Ford at dinner. Mrs. Ford asked Mr. Ford which table he and Miss Croft had sat at. Mr. Ford said he didn’t remember; near the door he believed. Mrs. Ford asked Mr. Ford what he and Miss Croft had talked about at lunch. Mr. Ford replied quietly that he was sorry, but that he really hadn’t brought along a Dictaphone for lunch.
After dinner Mrs. Ford informed her husband that she was going to take the dog for a walk. She asked Mr. Ford if he would like to join her, but he declined, saying that he had a great deal of work to look over.
When Mrs. Ford returned to the apartment two hours later— from a walk up Park Avenue almost as far as the Spanish Quarter—the lights were out both in Mr. Ford’s study and in his bedroom.
Mrs. Ford sat alone in the living room until shortly after two A.M., at which time she heard Mr. Ford screaming in his bedroom. She then burst into Mr. Ford’s bedroom, where she found Mr. Ford apparently asleep in his bed. He continued to scream although Mrs. Ford shook him as violently as she was able. His pajamas and sheets were wringing wet with perspiration.
When Mr. Ford came to, he reached at once for his glasses on the night table. Even with his glasses on he seemed unable for several seconds to recognize his wife, although Mrs. Ford frantically continued to identify herself. At last, staring at her evenly, he spoke her name; but with great difficulty, like a man physically and emotionally exhausted.
Mrs. Ford, stammering badly, told Mr. Ford that she was going to get him a cup of hot milk. She then moved unsteadily out to the kitchen, poured some milk into a pot, searched rather wildly for the Magic Ignition Light, finally found it. She heated the mild and returned with a cup of it to her husband’s room. Mr. Ford was now asleep again, with his hands clenched at his sides. Mrs. Ford set the cup of milk of the night table and climbed into bed beside Mr. Ford. She lay awake the rest of the night. Mr. Ford did not scream again in his sleep, but between the hours of four and five A.M., he wept. Mrs. Ford maneuvered her whole body as close as possible to Mr. Ford’s, but there seemed to be no way of relieving him of his sorrow or even reaching it.
Wednesday morning, May twelfth, at breakfast, Mrs. Ford casually (so she thought) asked Mr. Ford what he had dreamed during the night. Mr. Ford looked up from his dry corn flakes and replied unelaborately that last night he had dreamed his first “unpleasant dream” in a long time. Mrs. Ford asked him again what he had dreamed. Mr. Ford replied quietly that nightmares are nightmares and that he could get along without a Freudian analysis. Mrs. Ford said equally quietly (so she thought) that she didn’t want to give Mr. Ford a Freudian analysis even were she qualified to do so. She said she was merely Mr. Ford’s wife and that she wanted to make Mr. Ford happy. She began to cry. Mr. Ford placed his face between his hands, but after a moment he stood up and left the room. Mrs. Ford rushed after him and found him standing in the outer hall, holding his briefcase, but without a hat. He was waiting for the elevator. Mrs. Ford asked Mr. Ford whether he loved her. But at that instant the elevator doors opened, and Mr. Ford, entering the car without his hat, said he would see Mrs. Ford at dinner.
Mrs. Ford dressed and went to her office. Her behavior at the magazine offices, that Wednesday afternoon, might be called “erratic.” She was observed to slap the face of Mr. Robert Waner, when the latter lightly addressed her, at an editor’s meeting, as “Mary Sunshine.” After the said act, Mrs. Ford apologized to Mr. Waner, but she did not accept his invitation to accompany him to Maxie’s Bar for a drink.
At seven P.M. Mr. Ford telephoned his apartment and told Mrs. Ford that he would not be home to dine as he was obliged to attend a faculty meeting at the university.
Mr. Ford did not come home until eleven-fifteen P.M. at which time Mrs. Ford, who was out walking her wire-haired terrier, encountered him on the street. Mr. Ford objected when the dog attempted to greet him by jumping on his person. Mrs. Ford pointed out that Mr. Ford ought to be flattered that Malcolm (the dog) had learned to love him in such a short time. Mr. Ford said he could get along without having Malcolm jump all over him with his filthy paws. They then went up in the elevator together. Mr. Ford remarked that he had a great deal of work to look over and went into his study. Mrs. Ford went into her own room and closed the door.
At breakfast Thursday morning, May thirteenth, Mrs. Ford remarked to her husband that she wished she hadn’t made a theatre date with the little Croft girl for that night. Mrs. Ford said she was tired and didn’t care to see the play a second time, but that Miss Croft ought to see Bankhead if she had never seen her. Mr. Ford nodded. Then Mrs. Ford asked him if by chance he had seen Bunny Croft again. Mr. Ford asked, in reply, how in the world could he possibly have seen Miss Croft. Mrs. Ford said she didn’t know; she said she just thought Miss Croft might have attended his lecture again. Mr. Ford finished his breakfast, kissed Mrs. Ford good-by, and left.
Thursday evening Mrs. Ford waited outside the Morosco Theatre until eight-fifty P.M., at which time she went to the box office, left a ticket in Miss Croft’s name, and entered the theatre all alone.
At the end of the first act of the play she went directly home, arriving there at approximately nine-forty P.M. She learned at the door from Rita, the maid, that Mr. Ford had not yet come home form his Thursday-evening class and that his dinner was getting “ice-cold.” She instructed Rita to clear the table.
Mrs. Ford stayed in a hot bath until she felt a little faint. Then she dressed herself for the street, leashed Malcolm, and took him out for a walk.
Mrs. Ford and Malcolm walked five blocks north and one block west, and entered a popular restaurant. Mrs. Ford left Malcolm in the checkroom; then she sat down at the bar and, in the course of an hour, drank three Scotch old- fashioneds. Then she and the dog returned to the apartment, arriving there approximately eleven forty-five P.M. Mr. Ford still had not arrived home.
Mrs. Ford immediately left her apartment again—leaving Malcolm behind.
She went down in the elevator and the apartment-house doorman got her a taxi. She ordered the driver to stop at Forty-second Street and Broadway. There she got out of the taxi and proceeded west on foot. She entered the De Luxe Theatre, and all-night movie house, and stayed there throughout one complete performance, seeing two full-length films, four short subjects, and a newsreel.
She then left the De Luxe Theatre and went by taxi directly home, arriving there at three-forty A.M. Mr. Ford still had not arrived home.
Mrs. Ford immediately went down in the elevator again with Malcolm. At approximately four A.M., having twice walked completely around the block, Mrs. Ford encountered Mr. Ford under the canopy of their apartment-house as he was getting out of a taxi. He was wearing a new hat. Mrs. Ford said hello to Mr. Ford and asked him where did he get the hat. Mr. Ford did not seem to hear the question.
As Mr. and Mrs. Ford ascended in the elevator together, Mrs. Ford’s knees suddenly buckled. Mr. Ford tried to draw Mrs. Ford up to a normal standing position, but his attempt was strangely incompetent, and it was the elevator operator who lent Mrs. Ford real assistance.
Mr. Ford seemed to have a great difficulty inserting his key into the lock of his apartment door. He suddenly turned and asked Mrs. Ford if she thought he was drunk. Somewhat inarticulately, Mrs. Ford replied that she did think Mr. Ford had been drinking. Mr. Ford asked her to speak more distinctly. Mrs. Ford said again that she thought Mr. Ford had been drinking. Mr. Ford, successfully unlocking his front door, stated in a loud voice that he had eaten an olive from “her” Martini. Mrs. Ford, trembling, asked from whose Martini. “From her Martini,” Mr. Ford repeated.
As the two entered their apartment together, Mrs. Ford, still trembling, asked her husband whether he knew that Miss Croft had left her standing at the Morosco Theatre. Mr. Ford’s reply was unintelligible. He walked, swayed perceptibly, toward his bedroom.
At approximately five A.M. Mrs. Ford heard Mr. Ford get out of his bed, and apparently ill, go into his bathroom.
With the use of sedatives Mrs. Ford managed to fall asleep at approximately seven A.M.
She awoke at approximately eleven-ten A.M., at which time she rang for her maid, who informed her that Mr. Ford had left the apartment more than an hour ago.
Mrs. Ford immediately dressed and without eating breakfast went by taxi to her office.
At approximately one-ten P.M. Mr. Ford telephoned Mrs. Ford at her office to say that he was at Pennsylvania Station and that he was leaving New York with Miss Croft. He said that he was very sorry and then hung up.
Mrs. Ford carefully replaced her phone and then fainted, loosening one of her front teeth against a filing cabinet.
As she was alone in her office and no one had heard her fall she remained unconscious for several minutes.
She regained consciousness by herself. She then drank a quarter of a glass of brandy and went home.
At home she found Mr. Ford’s bedroom and closets completely empty of his few personal effects. She then rushed into Mr. Ford’s study—followed by Rita, the maid, who explained rather laconically that Mr. Ford himself had pushed the desk back against the wall. Mrs. Ford looked slowly around the freshly reconverted playroom, then again fainted.
On May twenty-third—another Sunday—Rita, the maid, rapped imperiously on the door of Corinne’s bedroom. Corinne told her to come in.
It was about two o’clock in the afternoon. Corinne was lying on her bed, fully dressed. Her window blinds were drawn down. She knew, vaguely, that she was a fool not to let the sunshine into the room, but in nine days she had grown to hate the sight of it.
“I can’t hear you,” she said, without turning over to face Rita’s unattractive voice.
“I said, Chick the doorman’s on the house-phone,” Rita said. “He says there’s a gentleman in the lobby wansta see you.”
“I don’t want to see anybody, Rita. Find out who it is.”
“Yes, ma’am.” Rita went out and came in again. “You know a Miss Craft or somebody?” she demanded.
Corinne’s body jumped under the bedspread she had drawn over her. “Tell whoever it is to come up.”
“Yes, Rita. Now.” Corinne stood up unsteadily. “And will you please show him into the living room?”
“I was just gonna clean in there. I haven’t cleaned in there yet.”
“Show him into the living room, Rita, please.”
Rita walked sullenly out of the room.
As people do who have chosen to live in a supine position, once she was on her feet Corinne went into action a little crazily. It seemed of prime importance to her to take out from under her night table Ford’s two books of poems and walk up and down the room with them for a little while.
She suddenly replaced the books under her night table. Then she combed her hair and put on lipstick. Her dress was badly wrinkled, but she didn’t change it.
As she walked carefully into the living room, a man with wavy blond hair stood up. The man was in his early thirties, with a physique that was turning fat, but which had a look of tremendous animal power. He was wearing a pale green sports coat and a yellow polo shirt open at the collar. Several inches of white handkerchief drooped out of his breast pocket.
“Mrs. Ford?”
“My card.” He pushed something into Corinne’s hand.
Corinne slanted the card toward the daylight:
I’M HOWIE CROFT
Who the Hell
Are you, Bud?
She started to return the card, but Mr. Howie Croft sank away from her into the upholstery of the couch, waving a hand. “Keep it,” he said generously.
Framing the card in her hand, Corinne herself sat down in the red damask chair opposite her visitor.
She asked a little stiffly, “Are you closely related to Miss Croft?”
Corinne’s reply was delivered down her handsome nose: “Mr. Croft, I’m not especially in the habit of—”
“Look, hey. I’m Howie Croft. I’m Bunny’s husband.”
Impressed, Corinne immediately fainted.
When she came to, she had a choice of looking into either or both of the alarmed, faintly inconvenienced faces of Howie Croft and Rita. She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them. Howie Croft and Rita placed her feet up on the couch. She swung then now, a trifle arrogantly, to the floor. “I’m all right, Rita,” she said. “I’ll take some of that, thought.” She drank half a pony of brandy. “You can go, Rita. I’m all right. I’m damned sick and tired of fainting…”
As Rita left the room, Howie Croft moved uneasily over to the red damask chair Corinne had vacated. He sat down and crossed his legs—which were huge; each thigh a whole athlete in itself.
“I’m sure sorry to of scared you that way, Mrs. Field.”
“I meant Ford—I know a coupla people named Field.” Howie Croft uncrossed his legs. “Uh—so you didn’t know I and Bunny were married?”
“No. No. I did not.”
Howie Croft laughed. “Sure. We been married eleven years,” he said. “Cigarette?” He snapped the bottom of a fresh pack to cigarettes with his finger, then sociably, without getting up, extended the pack to Corinne.
“What do you mean you’ve been married eleven years?” Corinne demanded coldly.
For a split second Howie Croft looked like a schoolboy unjustly accused of chewing gum in class, but whose involuntary reaction is to swallow when challenged.
“Well, ten years and eight months, if you wanna be so eggzact,” he said. “Cigarette?”
Something in Corinne’s face told him to stop offering her a cigarette. He shrugged his forehead, lighted his own cigarette, put the pack back in his breast pocket, and carefully rearranged his handkerchief.
Corinne spoke to him.
“I beg your pardon?” Howie Croft said politely.
Corinne repeated her question, in a harsh voice.
“What girl’s twenty years old?” Howie Croft inquired.
“Your wife.”
“Bunny?” Howie Croft snorted. “You’re nuts. She’s older’n me and I’m thirty-one.”
Swiftly Corinne wondered whether doormen and people had sense enough to cover up immediately the bodies of people who jumped out of apartment-house windows. She didn’t want to jump without a guarantee that somebody would cover her up immediately. . . She forced herself to pick up Howie Croft’s voice.
“She looks a lot younger,” Howie Croft was analyzing, “because she’s got small bones. People with small bones don’t get old the way people like you and I. Know what I mean?”
Corinne didn’t reply to this question, but asked a question of her own.
Howie Croft didn’t hear her. “I don’t getcha,” he said, and cupped his ear. “Say that again.”
She repeated her question—louder.
Before replying, Howie Croft got rid of a troublesome bit of tobacco on his tongue. Then he said, not impatiently, “Look, hey. She can’t be twenty. We got a kid eleven years old.”
“Mr. Croft—”
“Call me Howie,” he suggested. “Unless you wanna stand on this ceremonies stuff.”
With a shiver Corinne asked him if he were telling her the complete truth.
“Look, hey. What would I lie for? I mean what would I lie for? How old did she tell you she was?” But he waved away his interest in a reply. “She’s nuts,” he pronounced rather cheerfully. “She was always nuts.”
He settled back comfortably on the lower part of his spine and assumed the kind of philosophical countenance available to him.
“Look, hey. I come home on Thursday. From this special trip I hadda make for the firm. I look around the house. No Bunny anywheres. Even though she was supposta be back at least a week awreddy. So I call up my mom. My mom tells me Bunny hasn’t got back yet. She starts yellin’ her head off on the phone. She tells me the kid’s broken—broken—his leg climbin’ on some roof. She keeps yellin’ over the phone about how she hasn’t strength enough to take care of the kid and where’s his mother anyways, and so finly I hang up. I can’t stand somebody yellin’ in my ear over the phone.
“So I spend around an hour tryin’ to put two-in-two together, like. So I knew where I’m at, at least. And so finly I look in the mailbox and I see a letter from Bunny. She tells me her and this Ford guy are goin’ away somewheres together. What a screwball!” He shook his head.
Corinne took a cigarette from the box on the table beside her and lighted it. She then cleared her throat, as though to make sure her voice still functioned.
“Thursday. This is Sunday. It took you a long time to get here.”
Howie Croft finished what he was doing—he was blowing a smoke ring at the ceiling—then he answered. “Look, I don’t live on Park Avenue or somewheres. I work for a living. I go where the firm sends me.”
Corinne took her time. “You mean you’re here on business?”
“Certainly I’m here on business!” Howie Croft said indignantly.
“You let her come to New York? You knew she was coming here?” Corinne asked dizzily.
“Certainly I knew she was comin’ here. You don’t think I’d let her come all the ways to New York without knowin’ what’s what, do ya?”
It took him a moment to smooth out his feathers.
“She told me she wanted to meet this Ford guy—this Ford chap—your husband. So I figure: Let her get it out of her system. She’s drivin’ me nuts; he’s drivin’ me nuts—” He interrupted himself. “Your husband makes a lot of dough writin’ books, don’t he?”
“He’s only written two books of poems, Mr. Croft.”
“I don’t know about that, but . . . he makes a lot of dough on what he writes, don’t he?”
“No?”—incredulousy.
“There is no money in poetry, Mr. Croft.”
Howie Croft looked suspiciously around him.
“Who pays the rent here?” he demanded.
“I do,”—shortly. “Mr. Croft, must we—”
“I don’t get it.” He turned to Corinne, a real appeal in his rather sizeless eyes. “He’s a big shot, isn’t he?”
“He’s probably the finest poet in America.”
But her shook his head. “If I’d known this I wouldn’ta let her come,” he said bitterly. He looked at Corinne accusingly, as though she were personally responsible for his private dilemma. “I thought your husband could kinda show her the ropes.”
“What ropes?”
“The ropes, the ropes!” Howie Croft said impatiently. “She keeps writin’ these books. . . You know how many books she’s wrote since we been married? Twelve. I read ’em all. The last one she wrote for Gary Cooper. For a picture with Gary Cooper in it. She sent it out to the movies, and they didn’t even send it back. She’s had some tough breaks.”
“What?” Corinne asked sharply.
“I said she’s had some tough breaks.”
Corinne felt her cigarette burning hotly close to her finger. She unloosened the cigarette over an ashtray.
“Mr. Croft. How did your wife hear of my husband?”
“From Miss Durant,” was the brief answer. Howie Croft was deep in thought.
“Who,” Corinne said, “is Miss Durant?”
“Her drinkin’ buddy. Teaches at the high school. Durant and Bunny talk about all that kinda stuff.”
“Would you like a drink?” Corinne asked abruptly.
Howie Croft looked up. “You’re not kiddin’,” he said. “Say. What’s your first name anyways?”
Corinne stood up and rang for Rita. By the time she sat down, his question had sufficiently cleared the room.
With a drink in his hand, Howie Croft suddenly asked a question. “What’d she do here in New York, anyways?”
Corinne drank part of her drink. Then she told him what she knew—or what she was able to bring herself to relate. He listened to her in a way that, at first, she thought was disconcertingly alert. Then, abruptly, it occurred to her that he was examining her legs. She crossed her legs and tried to bring her account to a rapid close, but he interrupted her.
“Who’s this ‘Aunt Cornelia’ you’re talking about?”
Corinne stared at him. Her hands began to tremble, and she wonder-ed if it might not be best to sit on them.
She managed to ask the obvious question.
Howie Croft concentrated briefly, but shook his head.
“She’s got an Aunt Agnes,” he suggested constructively. “Got a lotta dough, too. Runs the movie house over at Cross Point.”
As though there were some manual way to stop the horrible ceremony beginning to take place inside her head, Corinne put her hand to her forehead. But it was too late. Already a gallant single file of people was approaching the precipice of her brain. One by one—she couldn’t stop them— they dived off. First came lovable but eccentric, faintly mustached Aunt Cornelia. Then came Harry, the sweet old kite-building butler. Then came dear old kleptomaniacal Ernestine. Then came the funny medical student and the funny drama-tics student. Then came to Poughkeepsie friend of Aunt Cornelia’s who was being fed through tubes. Then at last The Waldorf-Astoria itself was moved into position, given a competent push and sent hurtling after the others . . . “I think I’m going to faint again,” she informed Howie Croft. “Would you hand me that glass of Brandy?”
Howie Croft rushed forward, semi-alarmed again, and Corinne drank what was left in the pony of brandy.
When things looked all right, Howie Croft backed off toward the couch and re-ensconced himself. He gulped down the last of his high-ball. Then, with an ice cube clicking in the side of his mouth, inquired, “Wuss you firs’ ‘ame, anyways?”
Corinne lighted another cigarette without answering. Her guest watched her, unaffronted.
“Mr. Croft, had your wife ever gone off like this before?”
“Hoddaya mean?” he asked, beginning to chew the ice cube in his mouth.
“I mean,” Corinne said with control, “has she ever gone on trips with men?”
“Lis-sen. Wuddaya think I am—a fool?”
“Of course not,” Corinne said quickly, politely.
“I let her go on trips once in a while. Just to break up the monotony, like. But if you’re inferring-like that I let her chase around—”
“I didn’t really mean that,” Corinne hastily lied, in spite of herself.
Howie Croft started to work on the other ice cud in his glass.
“Mr. Croft, what do you intend to do about all this?”
“About all what?”—sociably.
Corinne took a deep breath. “About your wife and my husband going away together.”
Howie Croft held up his reply until he had finished crunching his second ice cube into liquid. When he finished he looked at Corinne, oozing with confidential confidence. “Well, I tellya—what’s your first name anyways?”
“Corinne,” Corinne said dully.
“Corinne. Well, I tellya, Corinne. Strickly between you and I and the lamppost, I and Bunny haven’t been getting’ along so good. We haven’t been getting along so good in the last coupla years. Know what I mean? . . . I don’t know. Maybe she’s had a little too much dough to spend. I’m makin’ one- ten a week now—plus expenses, plus a darn good bonus every Christmas. It’s maybe gone to her head, kinda. Know what I mean?”
Corinne nodded intelligently.
“And that year she went to college didn’t do her no good— any good,” Howie Croft pointed out. “Her Aunt Agnes never shoulda let her go. It warped her mind, like.”
Then something strange happened. Howie Croft suddenly took off the fullback’s shoulder pads he was wearing under his sports jacket. Without them he looked like a different man and required fresh observation.
“Somethin’ else, too,” the new man said, uneasily. “She kinda drove me nuts.”
“What?” said Corinne with respect.
“She kinda drove me nuts,” he repeated. “Know what I mean?”
Corinne shook her head and said, “No.”
“Say ‘Howie’.”
“Howie,” Corinne said.
“Atta girl. Yeah. She kinda drove me nuts sometimes.” He shifted uncomfortably in his seat. “It wasn’t too bad when we first got married. But—I don’t know. She got funny pretty quick. Mean. Mean with me. Mean with the kid, even. I don’t know.” He suddenly blushed. “Once she—” But he broke off. He shook his head.
“Once she what?” Corinne demanded.
“I don’t know. It don’t matter anymore, anyways. I’ve forgot about it already. She just changed a lot. I mean she just changed a lot. Boy! I can remember how she used to come to all the games when I was playin’. Football. Basketball. Baseball. She never missed a one.” His mouth tightened; he was almost finished. “I don’t know. She just changed a lot.”
He was finished. He could look over at Corinne easily now. Some trusty interior whistle had blown just in time. The molly-coddle, for some reason, had been taken off the scrimmage line and Good old Hammerhead Dukes was back in his old position. “This is darn good bourbon ya got, Corinne,” he said brandishing his empty glass.
But Corinne stood up. She said something about a previous appointment. She thanked him for dropping by.
Howie Croft looked disappointed by the abrupt termination of his visit. But he obediently stood up and allowed Corinne to lead him to the front door. On the way he turned to address her.
“I’m gonna be in town a coupla days. Okay if I give ya a ring? How ’bout us doin’ the town?”
“I’m sorry. I’m afraid not.”
He shrugged, undeflated. He put on a light gray hat in front of the hall mirror and creased it tenderly.
“Maybe you could tell me a coupla shows I oughta see while I’m in town. Stage shows. This Hiya, Broadway, Hiya! any good?”
Howie Croft, his hat finally set satisfactorily on his head, turned in the doorway. He grinned at Corinne. “Don’t look so worried-like,” he recommended. “You’re better off. You’re better off, in the long run. If your husband’s as nuts as my wife is.”
At that point Corinne let go of the doorknob—and everything else. She informed Howie Croft at the top of her voice that she wanted her husband back.
Howie Croft fled into the elevator when it arrived, and Corinne went inside her apartment and closed the door. Her legs then dissolved and she slipped to the floor, sobbing. Later, she went to her bedroom and at once took some sedative capsules.
When she awoke—at one of timeless hours people awake from strong sedatives—she felt something crushed damply in her hand. She pressed the object into shape, then turned on her bed lamp. Howie Croft’s personal card was in her hand. She stared at it. Then she lay still for several minutes, looking at her dim reflection in her dressing-table mirror across the room. Suddenly she asked herself aloud: “Who the hell are you, Bud?” The question struck her as very funny and she laughed for a quarter of an hour.
Corinne never stopped trying to find out where Ford had run off to. Neither did Ford’s publishers stop trying. Neither did Columbia.
Often they all thought they had a lead, but invariably it faded way over a long-distance telephone call, or died between the simple declarative sentences of some hotel manager’s letter.
At one time Corinne even considered hiring a private detective. She even had one report to her apartment for instructions. But she sent him back to his office unused. She was afraid he would give her a lot of dirt and no husband . . . Corinne’s search for Ford was an intense one, but a curiously legitimate one.
We know now that the itinerary of Ford and Bunny Croft, once they had left New York together, was rather like that of two quarter-blooded gypsies. We know that they turned back North when they reached Charleston, West Virginia, and back East when they reached Chicago, and that after only ten weeks of wandering they settled down in a Middle Western city. A city that obscured their liaison under a natural screen of smoke and grit.
It was Robert Waner who found out where they were living. It took him about eighteen months to find out. When he did he phoned Corinne’s apartment, and by the way he began, “Corinne? . . . Now Listen. Don’t get excited—” Corinne knew what was coming.
Waner knew that Corinne would want to go to see Ford. It was his intention to go along with her. But it didn’t work out that way. She lifted the facts from him over the phone, then packed a bag and an hour later boarded a train alone.
Her train got into the city Waner had named at six in the morning. It was November, as as she walked down the gray empty platform toward the taxi stand she felt sleet on her face and down her neck. Monday sleet, at that.
She checked into a hotel, took a hot bath, dressed herself again, and proceeded to sit in her room for the next seventeen hours. She looked at five magazines. She counted bricks in the office building across the street; vertical patterns, horizontal and diagonal patterns. When it got dark outside she put three coats of polish on her nails.
While she was waiting for her third coat of polish to dry she suddenly stood up from her chair, walked over to the telephone, and placed a hand on it. But there was an electric shock on the same table with the phone. She saw almost with delight that it was eleven o’clock at night. She felt saved. It was much too late to do any phoning. It was much too late to tell her husband all she had learned about Bunny from Howie Croft. It was much too late to find out if her husband needed any money. It was exactly the right time to take another hot bath.
She did so. But with the bath towel still wrapped around her she suddenly walked straight to the telephone and asked the operator for the number she knew by heart.
This is the extraordinary conversation that followed:
“Hello.” Bunny’s voice.
“Hello. I know it’s late. This is Corinne Ford.”
“Corinne For—”
“Corinne! Well, golly! I can’t believe it!” A voice full of rich, creamy delight. “Are you in town?”
“Yes. I’m in town,” Corinne said. Her own voice didn’t sound like her voice; it sounded like a man’s—as though all her glands were through with her.
“Well, golly, Corinne! I don’t know what to say! This is wonderful. We’ve been meaning to get in touch with you for ages and ages. This is wonderful.” Then, a little shyly, a little ashamedly: “Corinne, I feel just awful about what’s happened and stuff.”
“Yes.” Corinne said.
It was any apology. A rather wonderful one, in a way. It wasn’t delivered like any apology at all that a woman of thirty-three might essay while standing up to her ears in richly assorted, connubial garbage. It was the apology of a very young salesgirl who has buttonheadedly sent the blue curtains instead of the red.
“Yes,” Corinne said.
“Golly, where are you anyway, Corinne?”
“I’m at the Hotel King Cole.”
“Well, look, now.” Warm, chocolate plans on the way. “It’s not at all late. You’ve got to come over here this minute. You’re not in bed or anything.”
“Good. Ray’s in the other room, working. But listen. You hop in a cab—you know our address, Corinne?”
“Swell . . . Well, we’re dying to see you. You hurry up, now.”
For a few seconds Corinne didn’t talk at all.
“Corinne? You there?”
“Well, you hurry up, now. We’ll be waiting. G’by!”
Corinne replaced the phone on its hook.
She then went into the bathroom and got back into the tub for a few minutes to get warm. But all the hot water in the hotels in the world couldn’t have warmed her. She got out of the tub and dried and dressed herself.
She put on her hat and coat and looked around the room to see whether she had left several cigarettes burning. Then she left her room and rang the elevator bell. She could feel her pulse beating close to her ear, the way it does when the face is pressed against the pillow in a certain way.
The sleet had turned to snow during the seventeen hours she had spent in her room, probably since darkness, and part of an inch of slush covered the walk outside the hotel. A neon sign across the un-New York-looking street cast its ugly blue reflection on the black wet street. The hotel doorman who got her a cab needed to use his handkerchief.
Corinne rode for nearly fifteen minutes; then the cab stopped and she asked animatedly, “Is this the place?” and got out and paid her fare.
She found herself standing on an empty, dark, slushy street of rebuilt tenements.
But she walked up the stone steps and went through the first double door. She searched in her handbag, found her cigarette lighter, and flicked it on. A panel of names and buttons were before her. She found the name FORD, written in green ink, and she pushed the correspond-ing button casually, like a salesman or a friend.
A buzzing sound followed, and the inner door opened. Almost at once Corinne heard her own name, with a gay question mark trailing from it, ring down a dark spiral staircase. And Bunny Croft scampered down to meet her.
Bunny slipped her arm through Corinne’s and said things to her and continued to say things to her as they climbed the stairs together. Corinne heard nothing. Suddenly Corinne’s coat was being taken from her and she was being seated in a room and she was being asked by Bunny Croft which she’d rather have: rye or bourbon. But Corinne just looked down at her own legs. She saw that her stockings didn’t match. This seemed a very strange and highly provocative fact to her, and she resisted a strong temptation to lift her legs hip-high, knees together, and remark to anyone within hearing distance, “Look. My stockings don’t match.” But she only said, “What?”
“I said, you look cold, Corinne. Brrr! I’m going to make you a drink whether you want it or not. No arguments. Go in and see Ray while I’m doing stuff. He’s working, but he won’t care. Right through that door.” Bunny disappeared on the run, through a kitchen push door.
Corinne stood up and walked over to and through the door that Bunny pointed to.
Ford was sitting at a small bridge table, with his back to the door. He was in his short sleeves. An undressed watty little bulb burned over his head. Corinne neither touched him nor even walked directly toward him, but she said his name. Without perceptibly staring, Ford turned around in the wooden restaurant chair he was sitting on an looked at his visitor. He looked confused.
Corinne went over and sat down on the chair close to his table, within touching distance of him. She already knew that everything was wrong with him. The wrongness was so heavy in the room she could hardly breath.
“How are you, Ray?” she asked, without crying.
“I’m fine. How are you, Corinne?”
Corinne touched his hand with hers. Then she withdrew her hand and placed it on her lap. “I see you’re working,” she said.
“Oh, yes. How’ve you been, Corinne?”
“I’ve been fine,” Corinne said. “Where are your glasses?”
“My glasses?” Ford said. “I’m not allowed to use them. I’m taking eye exercises. I’m not allowed to use them.” He turned around in his seat and looked at the door Corinne had entered through. “From her cousin,” he said.
“Her cousin? Is he a doctor?”
“I don’t know what he is. He lives on the other side of town. He gave her some eye exercises to give me.”
Ford cupped his eyes with his right hand, then put down his hand and looked at Corinne. For the first time since she had entered the room, he looked at her with some kind of real interest.
“You in town, Corinne?”
“Yes. I’m at the Hotel King Cole. Didn’t she tell you I phoned?”
Ford shook his head. He pushed some papers around on his bridge table. “You in town, eh?”
Corinne saw now that he was drunk. Under his awareness, her knees began to knock together uncontrollably.
“I’m just going to stay overnight.”
Ford seemed to give this remark a great deal of concentration. “Just overnight?”
Narrowing his eyes painfully, Ford looked down at the papers strewn messily all over the bridge table. “I have a lot of work here, Corinne,” he said confidentially.
“I see, I see you have,” Corinne said, without crying.
Ford again turned around to glance at the door to the room— this time almost falling off his chair. Then he leaned forward toward Corinne, warily, like a man in a crowded, decorous room who is about to risk telling someone at his table a bit of choice gossip or an off-color joke.
“She doesn’t like my work,” he said, in a surreptitious voice. “Can you imagine that?”
Corinne shook her head. She was now half-blinded with tears.
“She didn’t like it when she first came to New York. She thinks I’m not meaty enough.”
Corinne was now crying without making any attempt to control herself.
“She’s writing a novel.”
He drew himself back from his confidential position and began again to push papers around on his bridge table. His hands stopped suddenly. He spoke to Corinne in a stage whisper. “She saw my picture in the Times book section before she came to New York. She thinks I look like somebody in the movies. When I don’t wear my glasses.”
Then, fairly quietly, Corinne lost her head. She begged him to come home with her. She wildly touched his face with her hand.
But he suddenly interrupted her, blinking painfully, but sounding like the soberest, most rational man in the world. “Corinne, you know I can’t get away.”
“I’m with the Brain again,” Ford explained briefly.
Corinne shook her head, choked with despair and incomprehension.
“The Brain, the Brain,” he said rather impatiently. “You saw the original. Think back. Think of somebody pounding on the window of a restaurant on a dark street. You know the one I mean.”
Corinne’s mind traveled anfractuously back, reached the place, then partially blacked out. When she looked at her husband again he had picked up a movie magazine, and was squinting at its cover. She turned away.
“Staying in town, Corinne?” he asked politely, putting down the magazine.
Corinne didn’t have to answer, because her hostess’s voice suddenly called—hollered—from the other side of the door. “Hey, open up, you two! My hands are full.”
Ford rushed awkwardly to open the door. A highball was suddenly deposited in Corinne’s boneless hand.
The other two people, with glasses of their own, sat down— Ford at his messy little bridge table, Bunny Croft on the bare floor on the other side of the table.
She was wearing blue jeans, a man’s t-shirt and a red handkerchief knotted cowboy-style around her throat.
She stretched out her legs pleasurably, as though a good bull-session were about to begin.
“You’re terrific to come and see us, Corinne. It’s marvelous. We were going to go to New York last spring, but somehow we never did.” She pointed a moccasined foot at Corinne’s husband. “If this big lug would stoop to writing for money once in a while we might be able to do a couple of ambitious things.” She broke off. “I love your suit. You didn’t have that when I saw you in New York, did you?”
Corinne wet her lips with her highball. The glass was filthy.
“Well, you didn’t wear it. At least I didn’t see it.” Bunny crossed her legs lithely. “How do you like our dive? I call it the Rat’s Nest. I may have to sublet one room. Then Ray’ll have to sleep in the medicine cabinet—won’t you darling?”
“What?” Ford said, looking up from his drink.
“If we sublet this room, you’ll have to sleep in the medicine cabinet.”
Ford nodded.
Bunny turned to Corinne, asking, “Where are you staying in town, anyway, Corinne?”
“At the Hotel King Cole.”
“Oh, you told me. I love that little bar downstairs. With all the swords and stuff on the wall? Have you been in it?”
“The barkeep there looks exactly like some guy who’s in the movies. Some new guy. But exactly. I never can think of his name.”
Ford stirred in his chair, and looked over at Bunny Croft. “Let’s have another drink,” he said. His glass was empty.
Bunny looked back at him. “What am I supposed to do? Jump?” she inquired. “You have the combination to the bottle.”
Ford stood up, holding onto the back of his chair, and left the room.
He was gone about five minutes—or five days, so far as Corinne knew. Bunny spoke to her steadily in his absence, but she missed nearly all of it except about the novel. Bunny said she hoped Corinne would have time while she was in town to at least take a look at her novel.
Ford came back into the room with about four fingers of undiluted whisky in his glass. Then Corinne stood up and said she had to go.
“Right now?” Bunny wailed. “Well, look. What about having lunch with us tomorrow or something?”
“I’m leaving on an early train,” Corinne said, starting to walk out of the room unescorted. She heard her hostess spring to her moccasined feet, heard her say, “Well, golly . . .”
All of them—Ford, too—filed toward the front door of the apartment. Corinne first, Bunny at her heels, Ford in the rear.
At the door, Corinne abruptly turned around—in such a way that her shoulder was adjacent to Bunny’s face, partially blocking off Bunny’s view.
“Ray. Will you come home with me?”
Ford did not hear her. “I beg your pardon?” he said politely, unforgivably.
“Will you come home with me?”
Ford shook his head.
The action over, Bunny came briskly out from behind Corinne’s shoulder, and as though no entreaty of real significance had just been made and rejected, took Corinne’s hand. “Corinne. It’s really been terrific seeing you. I wish we could all write to each other or something. I mean, you know. Are you still at the same place in New York?”
Corinne took back her hand and extended it to her husband. He half pressed it; then she took it away from him.
“Golly, I hope you get a cab all right, Corinne. In this weather. Oh, you’ll get one . . . Turn on the hall light for Corinne, stupid.”
Without looking back Corinne went as quickly as she could down the stairs, and broke into an awkward, knock-kneed kind of run when she reached the street.
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Nickelodeon strikes new deal to bring original animation and film to Netflix
Robert Hutchins 13th November 2019 Entertainment, Highlight, Media & PR 795 Views
Nickelodeon has expanded upon its relationship with Netflix with a new, multi-year deal that will see the network create and produce original animated feature films and TV series based on new and existing IP.
It’s a deal that patches a relationship that came to an end a few years ago, when Nickelodeon pulled its licensing deals from the streaming giant. The new partnership extension was detailed this week.
The partnership was revived a couple of years ago with a few deals for live action Avatar: The Last Airbender series and deals for Rocko’s Modern Life, Invader Zim, The Loud House and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
“Nickelodeon has generated scores of characters that kids love, and we look forward to telling wholly original stories that re-imagine and expand on the worlds they inhabit,” said Netflix VP original animation, Melissa Cobb.
“We’re thrilled to continue collaborating with Brian Robbins, Ramsey Naito, and the creative team at Nickelodeon in new ways as we look to find fresh voices and bring bold stories to our global audience on Netflix.”
The deal arrives as a swathe of new subscription streaming services land on the scene in Disney+, Apple TV+and soon HBO Max.
“Nickelodeon’s next step forward is to keep expanding beyond linear platforms and our broader content partnership with Netflix is a key path toward that goal,” said Nickelodeon’s president, Brian Robbins.
“The Nickelodeon Animation Studio is home to the world class artists and storytellers behind some of the most iconic characters and shows ever made, and our head of animation, Ramsey Naito, has been building on that legacy over the past year by ramping up development and production exponentially.
“The ideas and work at our studio are flowing, and we can’t wait to work with Melissa and the Netflix team on a premium slate of original animated content for kids and families around the world.”
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