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Is the day-to-day grind getting you down? Treat yourself with tickets to the show of the year: Hamilton at PrivateBank Theatre on Saturday 23rd September 2017! Escape to your happy place with a night of excitement and awe-inspiring entertainment – you're worth it! Get your Hamilton tickets today!!

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Once again, CIBC Theatre brings you the very best in live entertainment as Hamilton comes to wow the audience on Friday 23rd March 2018! A show that will undoubtedly leave you wanting more, come see Hamilton, the highlight of your year! Get your tickets fast, before they go!

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10-13-2006, 04:04 AM
Hey, any people here who live in Hong Kong,,, or have any info of what is going to release soon, I know the shark hoody is releasing but what about after that

p.s Do you HK heads think the shark hoody will be sold out reli fast or be like new york where they still have it like 1 or 2 days later ?:confused:

10-14-2006, 07:04 AM
Hello ? Any1 with any info whatsoever ?? Mayb some1 can take some pics of the release 2moro of the shark hoody


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Friday, August 10, 2007

Windows Live Folders Becomes SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive

The inventor of the web (not Al Gore) envisioned a world where data could be accessed seamlessly by any computer, no matter where that data resided. There would be no sense of having gone from your own local drive to a server anywhere in the world. All that information would be available to you with a minimum of fuss.

It hasn't worked out quite that way, but it's getting there. Windows Live SkyDrive, the newly minted name for Windows Live Folders, gives you 0.5GB of free storage for the files you want to share with the world (or just your trusted colleagues). It has a nice look and feel, although some folks prefer the old version. Sigh. There's always someone with a gripe.

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Malik Zachery Highlights (AC Showcase)

Malik Zachery (Team Swerve)

Malik Zachery came down to the AC Showcase with newly assembled Team Swerve. His squad did a good job in the Blue Division going 2-1 and Zachery had a chance to show off some of his skills. Check out the video below of his experience from the AC Showcase.


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3 Steps To Find Out If Now Is The Best Time To Buy

3 Steps to buy houseYou have heard it said that today it is a buyer’s market.  Because of our current economy, there is an overflow of inventory from which to choose.  This combined with low interest rates makes it an ideal market for a buyer to purchase now.

Before we answer the question “Is not the right time to buy?” you need to do your homework. Yes, there is a surplus of home in the Myrtle Beach market, but buying a home very much depends on the financial situation of you the individual buyer.  Jerry Pinkas Real Estate Experts suggests that you develop a plan of action to make buying a home either now or in the future, a lucrative and positive experience.

First Step – Contact a Trusted Loan Officer

A loan or mortgage person will help you review your financial history, your income, credit reports and other documentation and will advise you on what you will qualify for.  There are a multitude of options available and a good loan officer can steer you in the right direction. Often a solution can be crafted that best suits our situation and a smart loan professional can present more than one option.  If you do not qualify for a loan at this time, you will have a good idea of what you need to plan for in order to qualify in the future.

Second Step – Hire a Buyer’s Agent

A realtor that works on the side of the buyer is referred to as a buyer’s agent.  Their services include:

  • Negotiating for the buyer
  • Consulting with and working for the buyer
  • Listening to the buyers wants, needs and dreams
  • Assist with finding a potential property
  • Showing the house to the buyer
  • Proving market analysis on homes you are interested in
  • Help with determining the fair market value of the property
  • Completion of all necessary documents for the buyer

By meeting with a buyer’s agent, you can determine if this is the person with whom you can work. You may want to interview two or more agents before selecting the one that is right for you.

Third Step – Consult Other Recent Buyers

You will want to talk to friends, family members, co-workers or other contacts that have recently purchased a home.  They will all have different experiences depending on their situation but it is good to become familiar with what to expect when purchasing real estate.  People love to express their opinions about their experiences with purchasing a house and it is your task to listen very closely.

Use social media and ask questions. Ask people on Facebook if they have recently purchased a home and what was their experience.  Ask for tips on what they suggest you look for when buying a home.

Are you still asking “Is now the right time to buy?” The answer is a resounding “Yes!” But first take the time to understand how much if a home you can afford and take the time to understand some of the real estate process.  Consult with the Beach Real Estate Agents who understand what you – the buyer – wants.  Since it is a buyer’s market, there are literally hundreds of options available to you if you have a good plan of action.

Jerry Pinkas Real Estate Experts
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Baby Drink: A Simple Way To Conquer The Waiting Room!

Baby Drink: A Mum’s Solution To The Waiting Room Blues

Waiting rooms — just thinking about them makes me cringe! I have long been of the opinion that almost nothing good can possibly come of a room designed specifically for waiting. If they’re not brimming with screaming children, then they’re often filled with sneezing and sniffling adults — not exactly my idea of a good time. Factor in your own anxious (and possibly sick) child and a visit to the doctor’s office can leave you with a massive headache!

Infant Water DrinkThankfully, I have amassed a few tips and tricks to make the time pass as painlessly as possible. If you want to keep your child occupied while in the waiting room, planning in advance is crucial. Be sure you have plenty of books and toys tucked away in your nappy bag — and always have a convenient, tasty baby drink on hand. Sounds really simple, right? Like one of those solutions that is just too good to be true? That’s what I thought until the day my daughter took her first drink of a Bebi baby drink while very impatiently waiting at her paediatrician’s office.

The sounds of coughing and sneezing filled the air and my daughter was whining incessantly as she uncomfortably squirmed on and off my lap, her impatience growing by the second. That’s when I remembered the Bebi Apple Banana organic infant juice drink I had purchased a few days prior. We hadn’t tried one yet, but since they are ready-to-drink I had tucked one away in the nappy bag for a time when I might need it. That time had come! I retrieved the drink, handed it to my daughter, and watched in amazement as she stopped fidgeting, cuddled up next to me and began drinking it. And when she was done, she had a blast checking out the adorable little monkey character on the bottle — before we knew it, the nurse had finally called her name!

So my advice to all the mums out there braving the waiting room trenches? Don’t leave home without a Bebi baby travel drink! It may not solve all of your waiting room woes, but it can go a long way in calming and soothing your ailing tot. And if you’re the mum of a small infant, you can even buy Bebi infant water drink that is ready to mix with any type of formula for feedings on the spot — now there’s a trick I wish I had known about when my daughter was a newborn!


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, Rezovation, and Webervations Raise Prices, Rezovation, and Webervations have raised prices again.  Upon recently visiting their websites to update our analysis of comparative pricing, we discovered that another wave of price increases have been rolled out in the last 6 months.  But don’t take our word for it, visit their websites for yourself. for example now charges about $433 per year for a “Silver” membership.  This is up about 8.5% from last year’s price.  Apparently, which was bought up by a vacation site holding company called Homeaway in 2010, believes that their hold on the North American B&B industry demands more value.  Their increase in pricing seems to ignore the fact that many specialty bed and breakfast directories ( included) still offer B&B memberships for free.

This is not to say that doesn’t offer value for their price.  For example, the price you pay enables a B&B hotel to participate in’s online reservation system.  This is a system that will charge a B&B an additional 25% commission (on top of the membership price) to publish their availability on the sites, as well as Expedia,, Travelocity, and a selection of others.

So, does offer some value for B&B’s who absolutely want exposure to Expedia,, and other premium sites.  But is 25% too high a price to pay (we didn’t mention that they charge 30% to some properties, depending on the specifics of their arrangement).  Consider’s new IWB Channel Manager service (presented by Instant World Booking).  With  a free membership at, B&B’s have access to join IWB Channel Manager, which offers connections to,,,, and others for a total commission rate of only 18% (compare to’s 25% – 30% commission).  Assuming an average reservation value of $200 and about 60 reservations per year (conservative assumptions), after considering all membership fees, commissions, etc., comes in at savings of about 31% versus a Silver membership, or about $1,260 in the first year.  Quite significant savings indeed.

What about Rezovation and Webervations?  Well, Webervations have now increased their pricing for the smallest B&Bs by 11% – 18% over last year’s prices.  This is really quite a substantial increase in a down economic cycle.  But, let’s consider Rezovation, which now offers a more full service set of options.  Prices for Rezovation GT Basic software increased between 20% – 33% in the range of property sizes between 1 and 19 rooms.  A price increase of 33% represents an increase of a full third of last year’s cost.   The Rezovation GT Online product, and online offering which starts at a higher price than Rezovation GT, now has prices between 13% – 20% higher than last year, also substantial increases.

Rezovation has a rather dominant market position, and perhaps their price increases reflect this.  But, considering that a B&B with 5 rooms may now pay $90 per month for Rezovation GT Online (or a 15 room B&B $130 per month), is this still a positive value proposition.  Sleek alternatives like will cost only $16 per month for the same property ($28 for the 15 room property), a significant savings pocketed.  But, what about Rezovation’s built in service suite, including a website Booking Engine.  Well, can bundle Booking Engine with, essentially the same product set as Rezovation GT Online, and still save up to about 60% of the cost a user would pay for Rezovation GT Online (as much as $1,000 savings per year given the assumptions above, for a 15 room B&B).

When it comes to Channel Management, Rezovation offers connection to the GDS or’s third party website connections (like Expedia).  The GDS connectivity will cost $649 just to get the process started, and then there are ongoing 15% commissions, $15.50 per reservation, and $250 per year after the first year.  If this sounds expensive, it is.  The connection to’s online reservations may be cheaper for some B&Bs.  But, as mentioned above, with commissions of 25% – 30%, this is still quite an expensive undertaking.   This is why can bundle GDS connectivity, or connectivity to,,, (or about a hundred other choices), right into the solution.  So, an end to end solution including property management system, booking engine for your website, and channel management, can save you $1,000 or $2,000 every year versus Rezovation’s and’s new pricing.

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Malaysia Vasudevan who had rendered his voice for superstar Rajnikanth in many of his films with a lively zing in an extraordinary manner is currently indisposed and is undergoing treatment in a city hospital. The song ‘Vetri Kodi Kattu’ in Malaysia Vasudevan’s voice in Padayappa took the film to a higher level. It may also be noted that his daughter Prashanthini’s ‘ayyayyo’ number from Aadukalam with SP Balasubramanian and SPB Charan is already on its way to become a chartbuster. Malaysia Vasudevan is being treated by the best doctors and behindwoods.com wishes the singer a speedy recovery!

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Vijay and Murugadoss get a sprightly new comedian?

May 15, 2013

Young and upcoming comedian Sathish has made a mark for himself in recent movies such as Ethir Neechal and Marina with his realistic portrayal of humor. Now he has got a big break as he has supposedly been signed on for the next Vijay-Murugadoss project which is in the pipeline.

This development was revealed by Ethir Neechal’s hero Siva Karthikeyan during a recent success meet of the film.

It sure is a big break for Sathish and he will be eagerly looking forward to this new movie which will begin in 2014, once Vijay and Murugadoss are free from their current commitments.

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Notes On “The Art of Fiction” (1884) by Henry James (Part 1)

Like Horace, Henry James is more interested in the practical problems of his craft than in theoretical speculation. His essay “The Art of Fiction,” which is the last section of his book Partial Portraits (1888), is in part a response to an article by Walter Besant, who argues that there are certain “rules” to writing good fiction. James vehemently denies this claim, insisting that the only “rule” is that the writer must make his work interesting. Challenging “the old evangelical hostility to the novel”— which he blames for novel’s low status— James calls for a “new novel” that builds upon the groundwork laid by proto-modernist writers like George Eliot (1819-1880), Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), and Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897).

The novel, in order to enter the realm of “high art,” must “begin to take itself seriously" (661). (It might be interesting to compare James’s tract with Tsubouchi Shōyō’s “The Essence of the Novel” (1885-6), which advocates a similar kind of naturalistic realism.) Specifically, James insists that novelists must stop apologizing for being novelists, that they must accept the fact that they describe truths equal to those of the historian, the painter, and the philosopher, and that they are, at the very least, on equal footing with the philosopher, painter and historian, since “their inspiration is the same, their process (allowing for the different quality of the vehicle) is the same, [and] their success is the same” (662). In fact, the novelist may even be superior to his competitors, since he is by default all of them at once. “It seems to give [the novelist] a great character, the fact that he has at once so much in common with the philosopher and the painter; this double analogy is a magnificent heritage” (662).

The novelist, James continues, must assume the semi-omniscient perspective and confident manner of the historian. “To represent and illustrate the past, [and] the actions of men is the task of either writer,” and therefore the novelist must “speak with the assurance, with the tone of the historian” (662). His story—regardless of whether or not it is true— must be delivered as if it were history. (One is reminded here of Mori Ōgai’s 1912 short story “Ka no yō ni” (“As If”), in which Ōgai, borrowing from Hans Vaihinger’s (1855-1932) notion of “als ob,” argues that man, in order to avoid the endless cycle of skepticism and moral relativism, must behave “as if” there were certain objective universal truths, and “as if” subjective noumenal experience actually corresponded to external phenomenal reality.) To admit to your readers that the story you are about to tell is false— as Anthony Trollope and other 19th century writers had done— is “a betrayal of a sacred office . . . a terrible crime” (662). To James, giving the “air of reality” and the “illusion of life” are the supreme virtues of the novel (665).

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Ryan, for the summary of James's positions.

As I recall, he then goes on to provides a radically new definition of novel: “a personal, a direct impression of life” (664). To James, art is no longer artifice, and realism is the new raison d’etre of art. “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life” (662). As for methods: “no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes” (664).

Method cannot be taught, he insists. “His manner is his secret . . . He cannot disclose it as a general thing” (664). On the selection of subject and manner, one must adhere to the rules of decorum, and “straight impressions,” he points out (668).

He then goes on to attack "philistine readers" for a) their insistence on morality, b) their tendency to demand equality and karmic retribution in the stories, and c) their impatience for “the artistic” aspects of the novel (too much art, these philistines claim, “would spoil some of their fun”).

James also foresees the coming of the New Critics: “A novel is a living thing, all one and continuous, like any other organism” (666), as well as the decline of plot in Modernism. Since everything is movement, therefore everything can be considered action and plot, he claims. “It sounds almost puerile to say that some incidents are intrinsically much more important than others.” Examples he gives: Flaubert, Turgenev (667).

Still, the subject of what’s being described by the language still exists, matters: “It matters, to my sense, in the highest degree, and if I might put up a prayer it would be that artists should select none but the richest” (666).

Those are my scattered notes. Hope they help.

-Sandra B.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Sandra B and Ryan.

I was wondering just what these supposed "rules" were, so I looked into it.

Here are some of Mr. Besant’s "mistaken rules":

*Write from experience only!
*Describe only "real" characters!
*Maintain consistency in character
*Maintain consistency in class, *Social rank and behavior;
*Be moral!
*Plot/story is most important element of fiction!

With impressive intelligence James problematizes the terms of these rules:
What is “reality”? What is “experience”? “Reality,” James points out, is subjective, immense: “The reality of Don Quixote or of Mr. Micawber is a very delicate shade; it is a reality so colored by the author’s vision that, vivid as it may be, one would hesitate to propose it as a model . . . Humanity is immense, and reality has a myriad forms” (664).

"Experience," too, he points out, is unlimited, incomplete, immense: “What kind of experience is intended, and where does it begin and end? Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind” (665).

There is also the problem of imagination, which is included in “experience.”Imagination is “the power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in gerenal so completetly that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it” (665).

There are also impressions: “If experience consists of impressions, it may be said that impressions are experience, just as (have we not seen it?) they are the very air we breathe” (665).

Thus, rejecting Besant's argument, James holds that there can be only rule of fiction, namely, “that [the novel] be interesting” (663)

- Kelly K.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Kelly K. There are also the false distinctions that James points out, which I will briefly discuss here.

Critical distinctions, according to James, are usually clumsy, often false, and always obfuscate more than they clarify. One example is the false distinction between "story and novel," or, more broadly, "form and content."

“The story and the novel," James writes, "the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the needle, or the needle without the thread” (668).

Other false distinctions include: novel-romance; incident-character; story-non-story; character- incident (“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”); story-form; description-dialogue; incident-description.

The only distinction that is at all meaningful is the good novel- bad novel distinction. “There are bad novels and good novels, as there are bad pictures and good pictures; but that is the only distinction in which I see any meaning” (666).

Or, in other words, “the only classification of the novel that I can understand is into that which has life and that which has it not” (666). Or, put differently, “The only condition that I can think of attaching to the composition of the novel is . . . that it be sincere” (670; contradicting early statements about Besant’s “rule” of writing from experience?)

That is all for now. Hope you are enjoying the summer.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Stella.

James also discusses the problem of subjectivity with regard to taste-- in the end, subjective “liking” is what matters. He explains: “Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of “liking” a work of art” (666). People’s likes are determined by experience, and you can’t alter that, despite Zola’s attempt to alter the public’s likings. He continues,“That motive is simply experience. As people feel life, so they will feel the art that is most closely related to it” (667).

And, on Walter Benjamin/Roy A. Miller’s notion that everything is “translation”: “Many people speak of it [the effort of the novel] as a factitious, artificial form, a product of ingenuity, the business of which is to alter and arrange the things that surround us, to translate them into conventional, traditional molds. This, however, is a view of the matter which carries us but a very short way, condemns the art to an eternal repletion of a few familiar clichés, cuts short its development, and leads us straight up to a dead wall” (667).

If only he’d been around for Robbes-Grillet! “There is surely no ‘school’," he writes, "which urges that a novel should be all treatment and no subject” (668).

Finally, he presents his own set of questions to Mr. Besant, about the notions of moral fiction (669-670), and, after that, gives some final words of advice to a young novelist: In order to write great literature it is necessary to have the greatest possible freedom of subject and form.

Hope this helps,

Anonymous said...

This was great! And don't forget the sass with which James writes in. He downright told Besant off.


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Conservative rabbis expressed their “dismay” this week over a traditional Good Friday prayer that calls for the conversion of Jews that Pope Benedict XVI revised but left largely intact.
In a last-minute resolution added to the agenda of the Rabbinical Assembly’s annual convention in Washington, the Conservative rabbis voted unanimously Tuesday (Feb. 12) to label the pope’s action a setback in years of improved Jewish-Catholic relations.
The Good Friday prayer — used only in the Latin Mass that was revived by the pope last summer — now includes a plea for God to “enlighten” the hearts of Jews, “that they may acknowledge Jesus Christ as the savior of all men.”
In response, the 1,600-member Rabbinical Assembly’s resolution states that it is “dismayed and deeply disturbed” by the revision and will “seek clarifaction from the Vatican of the meaning and status of the new text for the Latin liturgy.”
At the same time, the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture downplayed tensions with Jewish groups, saying the Good Friday prayer is more an “expression of affection” for Christianity’s roots in the Jewish faith.
“It is not … a missionary strategy of conversion” Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi wrote in a front-page article in Friday’s (Feb. 15) edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper. “…One wishes a reality that one holds precious and salvific for the persons whom one regards as near, dear and significant.”
Jewish groups are particularly concerned the prayer may hamper 40 years of improved Catholic-Jewish relations, ever since the church acknowledged an existing Jewish covenant with God and largely dropped calls for Jewish conversions.
“Our relationship with the church is really very good,” said Rabbi Joel Meyers, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly. “So it is rather disappointing to find there is a theological issue that comes back in to play at this particular time when so much progress has been made, and although various church authorities are saying, well, it is just a minor matter, it really raises certain theological issues again.”
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The Elevator Not Taken

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I think that I shall never see an elevator lovely as a tree.
Hmm. Not a good start, is it?
Elevator intercourse began in nineteen sixty three.
Better. Sex is good, but wait, was it in 61 or 63?
Sing to me, Musak, in that endlessly wandering elevator.
Kind of promising, but a wandering elevator?
Elevator, elevator, burning bright in the something of the night.
Section 8 housing?
The elevator not taken.
Fartman was there?
Poets in their youth ride to the top floor then something happens to the elevator.
Great elevators of fire?
Suddenly I heard a knocking as the elevator was gently rocking, rocking to a lower floor.
C’mon elevator, you drive me crazy.
On the shores of Lake Onota stood a teepee and a grain elevator.
My heart leaps up when the elevator drops.
That’s not bad.
Taking the elevator to a peak in Darien.
Darien CT? Really?
I am his Highness’ elevator at Kew.
Elevator in a garden? Not likely.
Out, out! You’re not allowed on this elevator.
Oh, sorry, I forgot to put Spot on a leash.
When I consider how my elevator days are spent.
Mostly up and down?
And that is why our cousin May fell down the elevator shaft today.
The news is out, all over the elevator.
I can’t get no elevator.
Double negative.
Rising elevator, you do not know how longingly I wait for you.
Nice, but I’m not the Bard of Brooklyn, am I?
Earth, isn’t this what you want, to take the elevator within us?
Too deep and far out, I’m afraid.
But it is our fate to get on the elevator dropping from floor to floor, down through the shaft into eternity.
Sounds OK, but what’s it mean?
To go up or to go down, that is the question.
Elevator, elevator, where art thou?
Stuck between floors?
There is something that doesn’t like an elevator.
The people on the 9nd floor love it.
When I do count the floors the elevator stops at.
Very annoying when trying to get to the top floor in a hurry.
Oft in the night he counted them up, the elevators.
Was one ever missing?
Elevators are boring. Charles does not say so.
Get in, only shut up.
That’s not it, not it at all.
Elevators and poetry,
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Brook and Estienne's The Valley of Astonishment

Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn

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The Valley of Astonishment
Written and Directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Actors: Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni, Jared McNeill
Musicians: Raphael Chambouvet, Toshi Tsuchitori
Lighting Phillipe Vialatte
Theatre for a New Audience
Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Brooklyn, New York
September 17, 2014 through October 5, 2014

Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne stage mesmerizing moments at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. In a program note, Brook makes clear that theatre must both amaze and hit the audience in its gut.

Four unusual characters are presented under examination by neuro-scientists. Influenced by the writing of Oliver Sacks, who was also consulted on this piece, the playwrights find in what to many may seem like odd turns of mind, a heightened sense of the world about these character.  This sense is called synaesthesia, not madness.

Carrie Wells, the detective on Unforgettable who can’t remember the past is a TV drama character dealing with memory.  A painter deals with color in Broadway’s Red. Brook’s take is deeper, funnier and more true than these current popular depictions.

Sammy, a woman of extraordinary memory abilities, conjures pictures from walks along the streets of her childhood to associate with words and their order.   By imposing a word or sequence of words on images she performs miraculous feats of memory.

A man finds color in words and sounds and experiences. Painting like Pollock with a cleaning brush instead of a paintbrush and rendering color like Rothko, the young man dances and paints to jazz performed live on the stage.

A man who has no sense of proprioception, or a sense of his body in space, is able to move by looking and guessing.

A magician with one arm performs remarkable card tricks.

All the while we are in the office of two neuroscientists who are trying to fathom these unusual abilities blanketed under the term synaesthesia, not madness.

The audience connects with the human, with the tender sense that Sachs always brings to people who in another age would have been called mad and locked in asylums.

Kathryn Hunter, in a brilliant turn, is the mnemonic genius who loses her newspaper job, but is sent by a kindly editor to the Swifty Lazar of his day. Although a freak show comes to mind, Sammy becomes a star of the stage, until she is overwhelmed by numbers.

While Marcello Magni’s magician is fun, and his reach out for audience participation charming, it is Sammy’s final retreat to research that shocks. She can’t live in the real world, even on stage as an actress. She is called to study other people like herself, to help them, and finally, after she dies, she is careful to point out, to donate her brain to science.

Anyone who knows Oliver Sacks a bit can guess that this is the arc of his life. You can live a good life outside the asylum.

The live musicians on stage, often performing quiet classical compositions, have the last word or note. Toshio Tsuchitori plays a plain tune on a wooden flute. The sound signifying something.


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Samraat is listed with odds of 10-1 at BetPhoenix Racebook to win the 2014 Kentucky Derby. The horse comes into this race having won five of six starts. He doesn’t have a high profile trainer or a high profile jockey but the horse is getting some action in Kentucky Derby odds.

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The horse is listed with odds of 10-1 to win the Kentucky Derby. He could end up going off with odds of 12-1 or more depending upon how much action the favored California Chrome takes.

Samraat is trained by Rick Violette, Jr. and he is ridden by Irad Ortiz. The horse is owned by My Meadowview Farm. The sire is Noble Causeway and the Dam is Little Indian Girl from Indian Charlie.

Samraat has won five of his six career starts with his only loss coming in the Wood Memorial where he finished second. There are not many horses as consistent as Samraat as he is always right near the lead. The key for Samraat in the Kentucky Derby will not be to get stuck behind a speed horse.

Samraat’s trainer Rick Violette, Jr. said that there are some good horses in this year’s Kentucky Derby. “I think we've got a bunch of really nice horses in this field.” he said, “California Chrome has a target on his back, but some of the other horses, we haven't seen their best days."

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Mainly croquette is a small often rounded mass consisting usually of minced meat, fish, or vegetable coated with egg and bread crumbs and deep-fried.The Maggi-potato Croquett is a unique and sumptuous item to be savoured as either snacks or starter.

Maggi-potato Croquettes is one dish which makes its accompaniments tastier. With the right mix of flavours, Maggi-potato Croquettes has always been everyone's favourite. This recipe by Mousumi Guha Manna is the perfect one to try at home for your family. The Maggi-potato Croquettes recipe is very simple and can be made in restaurant style using these ingredients. The time taken while preparing Maggi-potato Croquettes is 15 minutes and the time taken for cooking is 10 minutes. This is recipe of Maggi-potato Croquettes is perfect to serve 2 people. Maggi-potato Croquettes is just the appropriate option to prepare when you have a get together or party at home. Be it kids or grownups, everyone just absolutely love Maggi-potato Croquettes. So do try it next time and share your experience of cooking Maggi-potato Croquettes by commenting on this page below!

Maggi-potato Croquettes

Ingredients to make Maggi-potato Croquettes

  • Ingredients: Maggi – 1/4 cup,
  • 2.potato – 2,
  • 3.Green chilli – 1 [finely chopped],
  • 4.garlic – 1 tbsp [finely chopped],
  • 5.ginger – ½ tbsp [finely chopped],
  • 6.Corn flour – 2 tbsp,
  • 7.Red chilli powder – ½ tsp,
  • 8.Garam masala powder – ½ tsp,
  • 9.Dry mango powder – 1 tsp,
  • 10.coriander leaves – 1 spring [finely chopped],
  • 11.white sesame-3 tablespoon,
  • 12.salt to taste,
  • 13.sugar a pinch,
  • 14.oil for frying.

How to make Maggi-potato Croquettes

  1. Wash & boil potatoes then peel off the skin & mash well.
  2. In a bowl add mashed potato, salt, ginger, garlic, green chilli, corn flour, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, dry mango powder, coriander leaves, sugar mix well & make soft dough.
  3. Heat water in a pan & let it boil. When boiling add salt, oil, noodles cook till soft. Drain water and keep it aside.
  4. Divide the dough into equal size balls and make long cylindrical shaped roll from the balls.
  5. Coat the rolls with white sesame and then wrap around each cylindrical roll with long sized maggi.
  6. Heat oil in a pan and fry on medium flame till golden brown in colour.
  7. Drain on an absorbent paper & serve hot with red chilli sauce or tomato sauce.

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The croquettes taste better when deep fried.

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Uncompromised care

Healthcare estates and facilities are under greater pressure than ever before, with the need for vital refurbishments often outweighed by a lack of funding. Keith Austin, CEO of EMS Healthcare, discusses how mobile and modular medical units are providing the facility to deliver uncompromised care.

Aging estates

A growing majority of hospital estates across the UK’s health service is rapidly aging and often becoming unfit for purpose. A vast shift in demographics, which has seen life expectancy increase by almost 13 years since the NHS began, is proving to be one step too far for the traditional hospital environment, with greater needs for healthcare services causing footfall to outpace capacity.

The implications of heightened demand and aging estates are felt far and wide across the healthcare sector – most prominently by patient waiting lists. It is no secret that the NHS is experiencing ever-growing patient backlogs, but whilst demand is unlikely to reduce, it is possible for estates to increase capacity and ensure patients are seen in a safe and clinical environment.

Innovative solution

To alleviate capacity pressures, more and more NHS trusts and private providers are enlisting the support of companies, such as EMS Healthcare, that design, deploy and operate fully DDA-compliant mobile medical units. We specialise in units that provide extra space in a safe and welcoming environment for clinical areas including ophthalmology, renal dialysis and infusion, but the mobile unit sector extends to many medical disciplines.

In some cases, such as Frimley Park Hospital, a trust we have been working with for 3 years, these mobile medical units have created up to 250 additional patient slots per week. Prior to this partnership, patients were spending more than an hour and 20 minutes on average in the hospital’s macular department, but due to increased efficiencies established through installing the unit, patients are on board for just 32 minutes, whilst the need for evening and weekend clinics has been totally eliminated.

Due to the rising demand for these services, The NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative created the Mobile Diagnostics, Theatres, Treatment and Therapy Services framework, allowing trusts to access approved mobile unit suppliers through a much quicker procurement process. EMS Healthcare is one of eleven suppliers listed on this framework, meaning we can increase capacity at a hospital site within six to eight weeks of initial enquiry.

Reaction to refurbishments

The benefit of using the framework also extends to other pressing circumstances, with a fast speed of deployment enabling acute trusts and providers to quickly react to vital refurbishments or emergencies. This was the case for St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which is renowned for its kidney patient survival rate with renal services rated ‘outstanding’ in a recent Care Quality Commission review. However, this same review called for the trust to urgently move its renal department from its 120-year-old Knightsbridge Wing.

St George’s faced the prospect of relocating its entire renal department either to other locations within the hospital, nearby hospitals or to satellite dialysis sites in converted buildings away from the original ward. Each option had a drawback, especially for patients receiving regular dialysis, whether it was disruption to routine, an unfamiliar nursing team, overcrowded departments, or a less than ‘outstanding’ service.

A comprehensive solution came in the form of our Liberty Quad unit – a four-trailer solution with seven renal stations for chronic dialysis, including all facilities expected of a modern, fully independent clinic. The unit was deployed within six weeks, meaning regular dialysis appointments continued without disruption directly at the hospital site with the same clinical team patients were familiar with.

Supporting wider targets

As well as providing the space for clinicians to cope with demand, mobile units are being used to provide community-based care, a national target underlined throughout the Five Year Forward View – a set of guidelines for a more sustainable NHS. The mobile and modular sector is constantly innovating with new units that can meet these targets and provide greater support for the most pressing healthcare challenges. An excellent example of this is our most recent development, Quest+, a macular unit that takes just one hour to set up with the ability to be moved on a daily basis, providing NHS trusts the flexibility to reach those requiring regular treatment for impaired vision by delivering care closer to patients’ homes without the need to ender the hospital setting.

Collaboration and implementation

The effects of the rise in demand across NHS services have an impact on all areas of operation, and flexible infrastructure is one of the solutions offering significant value to anyone involved with health services, from estates and facilities teams to clinicians, nurses, and procurement. For this proactive approach to work, it is absolutely vital for decision makers across the board to collaborate effectively in implementing innovative solutions that can help sustain our treasured NHS.

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BGCI is working towards the Red List conservation assessments of all species in the genus Quercus (oaks).

In collaboration with the Global Trees Campaign, BGCI and the IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group, The Morton Arboretum has launched a project to complete threat assessments for all of the world's oak species for the IUCN Red List. It is known that many oak species are under threat from habitat destruction, climate change, invasive pests and pathogens, and competition from invasive plants. However, to date less than half of the world’s oak species have been evaluated for the Red List. Given the great global economic, ecological, and cultural value of oaks, it is important to understand the threats they face.

The genus Quercus contains roughly 430 species of trees and shrubs distributed across the Northern Hemisphere from cool temperate to tropical regions. To complete the Red List assessments, the oak conservation team at The Morton Arboretum is gathering extensive data on oak distributions, threats, population trends, and human uses. The two centers of diversity for oaks are in Mexico/Central America and in China, so developing a network of experts on oaks in these regions is a key initiative of the oak red listing project.

The oak red listing project builds on the report of Red list of Oaks that was published in 2007. It also directly contributes to achieving Target 2 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, which calls for the completion of threat assessments for all known plant species by 2020. The IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group is responsible for developing the Global Tree Conservation Assessment – an up-to-date assessment of the threat status of the world’s trees, which the oak red listing project will contribute to.

In September 2017, the Red List of US Oaks was released, detailing the conservation status of the 91 native species of Oak in the United States. Sixteen species were assessed as threatened.

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Numbers 11:7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
Psalms 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Ezekiel 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Psalms 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Jeremiah 25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Exodus 15:13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
Ezekiel 46:23 And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
Proverbs 23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Acts 27:30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
1 Kings 6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
Proverbs 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
Psalms 123:3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalms 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Revelation 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Ezekiel 1:22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
Exodus 28:33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Romans 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Romans 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Daniel 10:6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Leviticus 13:55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
Ezekiel 40:16 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
Ezekiel 27:11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
Ezekiel 16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
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SCICON Aerocomfort 2.0 TSA – Travelling Simply

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I’d never taken a bike overseas before, so when the opportunity came up to spend two weeks in Italy & France ticking off some bucket list climbs, it was natural to want to take the bike I knew best – mine. This meant working out the best way of getting it there and back safely. Scicon stepped in and suggested the Aerocomfort 2.0 TSA. It’s used by many WorldTour teams, and they even have a World Bike Packing Championship, this year won by Nicolas Coosemans of Etixx-Quickstep, with a time of 3:01 ! I wasn’t that quick, but see what I thought as a 1st time user.

Seeing the bag for the 1st time

“How is that going to fit my bike with removing only the wheels ?” I mused quietly; my first view of the bag was a carton measuring 95 x 39 x 32cm. Fortunately, it all became apparent when I unpacked the bag to do a trial pack. Within the Scicon bag are a pair of Scicon branded skewers, protective pads (for the seat, bars (2 off), and top tube), Scicon branded frame pump, spare castor, rear derailleur (RD) guard and the front fork support with a neat zip bag to stow the parts when not in use, and which I used to stow a whole load of spare parts when packing the bike on the plane.

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Despite never having seen or used this bike bag before, I found it very easy to work out and use during my trial packing. Even with the mudguards fitted on my bike, it was easy to work out what went where and how it all fitted together.

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The finished result with bike and wheels safely stowed

Packing time

Finally, one wet and windy Adelaide winter night, it was time to get the bike ready for the trip and get it packed. Mudguards were put on the shelf, road grime banished, new brake pads fitted, final chain lube applied, and spares assembled. From go to whoa, it took about 15 minutes to pack the bike, and that was taking my time. The only items removed from the bike were the front and rear wheels.

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Ready to pack, quick assembly instructions are printed inside the bag

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A black cage is provided to protect the rear derailleur and hanger

I deliberated whether I should remove the disc brakes from the wheels, but decided against it. I did, however, place them facing the inside of the bag. There was debate and discussion between fellow forum members regarding the removal of the RD. The AeroComfort 2.0 is designed so that this is not required due to the supplied (and very substantial) protector that is fastened with the rear quick release. During my trial packing, I found that if I indexed the RD to the inboard position, there was a large gap between the RD and the support frame. I then ‘manually’ tucked the RD forward (I was using a medium cage RD) so that it sat fully inboard in both planes and I felt that in this position it was well protected by the RD frame, as well as the base frame that the whole bike sat on. Tyres were then deflated, wheels inserted, straps tightened and it was done. Oh, last thing to do was to register the bag with Scicon and set a new code for the supplied TSA padlock.

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The only precaution that I took over and above what was supplied with the bag was to place a length of Ø40mm PVC piping between the shifters to prevent them being misaligned if they got bumped (also a suggestion from fellow forum members).

Off the plane & in the car

We arrived at Milan airport and our bike arrived safe and sound as did the rest of our luggage. There were no obvious marks, rips or tears on the bag, so the confidence was high that all was good. Thanks to the well placed and high quality castors fitted to the bag, it was easy to move through the airport and I was even able to have my carry-on backpack sit on top whilst traversing the seemingly 2 mile trek to the car hire counters. It was certainly easier to move through the airport than my fellow cyclists who had either hard cases or cardboard boxes. Very useful when you have been travelling for close to 24 hours.

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Heavy duty and durable zips and fastensers

Despite being relatively bulky, it easily stood upright in the rear of the van we hired, a Citroen C4 Picasso (and in the back of my wife’s Astra to get to the airport. Due to the width of the handlebars and not being able to turn them, it wouldn’t fit in the boot of my sedan), and presented no problems in fitting in the other bags around it. When we arrived at our destination, unpacking the bike was even easier than packing it. It took less than 5 minutes to get the bike ready to ride (pumping the tyres took the longest); the discs were still straight and true, and the RD was fine and no other damage was detected.

The other major benefit of the Aerocomfort 2.0 bag was that when it was not in use I could easily fold it down into a reasonably compact package, allowing easier handling when moving between accommodation sites. It packed into the supplied cover without fuss and was like an oversized sleeping bag in that respect. Win all around.

Passo Fedaia

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Final pack for return home

Looking back at the photos taken when repacking the bike for the final time, it took 21 minutes from go to whoa, but that involved taking time to photograph each step. I guess if I tried to recreate the WBPC time of Nicolas Coosemans I might easily get between 5 – 8 minutes, but for me that is not what the key advantages are of this bag.

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I found that only having to remove the wheels (as you can see from the pictures, I even left the Garmin, lights and video camera on the bike), is such a bonus when getting the bike ready to ride again. Often, after travelling, the last thing you want to do is to spend 20 – 30 minutes reassembling position sensitive items like seat, seat post, handlebars and pedals, as is often the case with other hard case bags. It also means no need for special tools, reduced risk of stripping or breaking bolts, and less chance of damaging or misplacing components removed from the bike. While in a big English speaking city this may not be a problem, some towns we stayed in do not have an extensive range of parts or suppliers, and opening hours can create hassles depending on when you need something, particularly for road bikes when in the smaller towns.

One potential drama I found with the Scicon was that the rear hub mount is setup only for 130mm quick release, and my bike runs a 135mm quick release rear triangle. This was easily overcome with the natural frame ‘elasticity’, but I would have preferred to have some spacers included so that I didn’t have to rely on this method of securing the frame. Another potential issue is that the AeroComfort would not have been usable if I was running a thru axle, given that many disc road bike are these days  (and my travel partner’s Trek Domane Disc is one such example). I presume that a thru axle version will be released soon.

I also noticed that, at 42cm, my bars are not as wide as some, but the bag would be a tight fit for large frames with 44 or 46cm bars. Additionally, my Volagi Liscio has a rather tall head tube for a 56cm frame (190mm), and there was just enough space to fit this in the bag. A bike with a CX fork or running a higher spacer stack/larger frame combo may be a bit of a tight squeeze as well. Bikes with an integrated seat post and large frame size may require some additional concessions, but I experienced no size issues.

Worth the investment ?

The AeroComfort 2.0 TSA is not a cheap option, but having used it to ensure that I had my own bike with me when riding some of the impressive European peaks, it is something that I would consider a worthwhile investment, along with insurance just in case things go wrong.

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Aside from the minor drawbacks noted above, I couldn’t fault the bag, particularly in terms of quality, ease of use or presentation. It ain’t cheap, but it’s damn good.

The AeroComfort 2.0 TSA bike bag is available for purchase directly from Scicon in Italy ( for €599 (ca. $885) however go to your local bike store where it will be cheaper.

UPDATE 22. August

Image of the PVC pipe bracing used as extra protection for the bars / bar ends to protect against impact.

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About The Author

is a recreational cyclist that with an extensive background in Mechanical/Manufacturing engineering, and hence have a habitual need/desire to embrace "reasoned innovation". He loves being different, hence his bikes; the Volagi Liscio2 and Cinelli Nuovo SuperCorsa.

2 responses to “SCICON Aerocomfort 2.0 TSA – Travelling Simply”

  1. Paul says:

    Have you got any photos of the PVC Pipe setup mentioned?

  2. Michael says:

    Have sent Christopher some pics of the PVC pipe, so he’ll post them shortly.


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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Things Are Getting a Little Hairy

     Hello Company, we need to talk about hair.  Specifically, body hair.  I've got a problem with body hair.  So do you.  We all do.  Because every one of us shaves, waxes, sculpts, or does something to altar the state of our body hair situation.  Except for Grizzly Adams maybe.  But I really do suspect that he did some sort of personal grooming.  I mean, he had that gigantic beard but I am willing to bet that his back was smooth as Robin Williams in Cadillac Man.  Wax city!  Or at least I would guess that he was getting rid of some sort of uni-brow with a disposable Bic.  And it gets old.  You can't tell me that a bikini wax is something that anyone looks forward to.  I don't even look forward to shaving my face, and that pales by comparison.  I haven't shaved for a week because I am growing a beard.  I just made that up.  I'm not growing a beard.  I am just too lazy to shave my face.  Or my head.  That's why I am growing my hair out.  LIES!  I just haven't wanted to take care of it.  See what body hair can do to a person?  It can turn even the most docile person into a hairy, uncomfortable a%$&hole.
     So you can see the problem.  We all have unwanted body hair; and we all don't want to have to deal with it.  As far as I can see there are really two options.  The first is to change social norms to make body hair more appropriate.  We could just have a vast, unprecedented shift in social norms so that moustaches on girls are as sexy as ones on boys.  So that back hair implants are the new Botox.  Believe me, nothing would make me happier than if fat, bald, and hairy was the new tall, dark, and handsome.  But we both know that that is not going to happen anytime soon.  There is always going to be that one numbnuts who is sneakily clipping his moustache hairs with a cuticle scissors in the corporate bathroom after the 10:30 am budget meeting.  So I don't think that changing society is going to be the most fruitful of decisions.  That's why I advocate we turn to the same place we turn to solve all of our problems: technology.
     We live in the most technologically advanced society in the history of the Earth.  We have put a man on the moon.  We have mapped the human genome.  We have places that will deliver Chinese food right to your home.  So how is it that all we have come up with for hair removal is wax and sharp things?  That's just not right.  If there are doctors and clinics that can remove hair follicles from one part of your head and move them to another part of it, why can't they just have an operation that simply takes the follicles away and throws them in the trash?  Or why couldn't we donate them once they are removed?  We can make it part of the Locks for Love program.  Let's get on this.  If Revlon can spend $24.4 million dollars on research and development in 2007 don't you think that they could have come up with something for permanent hair removal?  Researchers at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte received a government grant of $100,384 to research making medicine for weaning piglets from soybeans.  Don't you think that that money would be better spent trying to figure out how to permanently remove my back hair.  I mean other then falling backwards shirtless into a campfire.  Seriously.  The LAPD receives money to improve community relations within the City of Los Angeles.  Why not spend that money on uni-brow prevention?  That will improve a lot of relations.  Just a thought.
     So let's everyone get on it.  Because I am tired of shaving my face.  And the ladies are tired of shaving their legs.  And their armpits.  And bleaching their moustaches.  And pruning their eyebrows.  The other day a friend of mine was complaining about having hair on the top of her feet.  Come on!  No one should have to live like that.  As a society we should have long ago moved past intentionally cutting off parts of our body with sharp thing, or intentionally putting scalding hot substances on ourselves.  Although Nair is pretty cool.  But anyway, we should be beyond that.  And since out eyes and fingertips and fashion magazines won't let hair be hot, let's do some social good and have science fix it for us.  I think that that is more important than figuring out how to make out TV pictures look better.  And it's probably more lucrative

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All New Wireless Network

Fry’s was having a really good sale on wireless gear and so now I’m the proud owner of some Netgear Double 108 hardware. The access point is a lot better than the old one I was using. A single AP is covering the whole house and the back yard where before I needed two. Plus it’s using WPA instead of the much less secure WEP, so the annoying neighbors that keep trying to get into my AP are going to have a much tougher go of it.

And I cheated and bought a router/access point and just disabled the router portion. It’s pretty crazy that the router/access points are cheaper than a standalone access point, but it works just the same.


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3 soldiers killed in Assam militant ambush

Guwahati, Nov 19 : At least three soldiers were killed after armed militants fired at an army convoy in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Saturday morning, defence officials said.

Defence spokesman Lt. Col. Suneet Newton said the armed militants first triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) blast before the vehicle was attacked with indiscriminate firing.

The incident took place in Pengeri around 5.30 a.m.

“Four soldiers were injured during the firing. We rushed them to a local hospital but three of them succumbed to their injuries later,” Newton said.

Tinsukia Superintendent of Police, Mugdhajyoti Mahanta, said the perpetrators of the incident were the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) and an anti-talk faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militant group.

“The militants attacked the convoy with AK-47, RPG, Lethod guns and other sophisticated arms,” the spokesperson added.

On Wednesday, the suspected militants fired upon a garden vehicle in Pengeri killing one person and injuring two others.


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Harvard University to offer GoT themed course

Los Angeles, June 2 : Harvard University will be offering a new folklore and mythology course titled “The Real Game of Thrones: From Modern Myths to Medieval Models”.

According to time.com, the course will look at the way the George R.R. Martin’s series and HBO TV show based on those books “echoes and adapts, as well as distorts the history and culture of the ‘medieval world’ of Eurasia from c. 400 to 1500 CE”.

It will do so by exploring “a set of archetypal characters at the heart of ‘Game of Thrones’ – the king, the good wife, the second son, the adventurer, and so on – with distinct analogues in medieval history, literature, religion, and legend”.

The classes will be taught by Sean Gilsdorf, a medieval historian and Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies, and Racha Kirakosian, an assistant professor of German and the Study of Religion, reports time.com.

“‘Game of Thrones’ does dramatise nicely some fundamental things going on in medieval courts. Tensions between a queen and the younger women who marry their sons are some ‘Real Housewives of 10th-century Germany’ kind of stuff, where you see these women going after each other,” said Gilsdorf.

Kirakosian hopes the course, which is being offered at the introductory 100-level, will be a “recruitment tool” for medieval studies and humanities courses in general, at a time when students are less interested in majoring in those fields.

She said: “When I read medieval verse epics with my students, they’d say, ‘Oh, that’s like in ‘Game of Thrones’. No, if anything at all, it’s the other way around. Isn’t it partly our job (as professors) to use that interest and go deeper?”

Meanwhile, the seventh season of the show will debut on July 16 in the US and will premiere in India on Star World and Star World HD on July 18.


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How should Savannah City Council respond to growing controversy over City Manager’s travel spending?

On Sunday, Lesley Conn reported in the Savannah Morning News: Savannah City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney’s travel reports violate city policy.

I praised and briefly summarized the article for Peach Pundit.

In a nutshell:

A review of City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney’s travel expenses for the last 18 months shows she was reimbursed for expenses supposed to be covered by per diems, has been reimbursed without providing final receipts and, in one case, submitted a handwritten note for a $150 reimbursement four months after a trip.

Those practices and others violate several rules within the city of Savannah’s travel policy, including requirements that receipts be submitted for reimbursement and that travel reports be submitted five days after a trip.

There’s lots more in Lesley’s piece.

So how should Savannah City Council members respond?

First, let me say that I think there has been a legitimately angry public response. At the same time, some seem to have taken that response to an irrational level. That’s entirely predictable, given Small-Toney’s contentious hiring.

An article in today’s Savannah Morning News hints at some steps that council members can take.

I’ll detail a few specific things here:

  • City Council could decide to fire her. If there are other less public concerns about spending and handling of money, then that could be an acceptable move. I do not think, however, that these offenses alone are reason for termination, even if other city employees have been fired for similarly dubious spending in the past.
  • City Council needs to look at specific items and take the blame where necessary. Was it a council member who insisted or signed off on the $150 shuttle in Atlanta? Were there other questionable expenditures made with the prior approval of the mayor and council?
  • All relevant details, no matter how embarrassing, should be made public immediately. They will all come out eventually.
  • Immediately hire an independent auditor to review the books of the City Manager’s office and, while we’re at it, the auditing department itself. Pay for that audit using funds budgeted for the City Manager’s office. Perhaps other cities have systems in place that we could mimic.
  • Establish a regular process of such audits — maybe every six months for the next two years and then annually after that.
  • It’s possible that employees might need more than five days to file for travel expenses. It’s possible that receipts could be lost, requiring sub-standard expense reporting. It’s simply not acceptable to do both of those things. If the filing is late, there’s time to get the paperwork in order. Requests for reimbursement that are both late and incomplete should simply be denied.
  • Council members should direct the City Manager to respond in detail in advance to newspaper articles that are likely to raise controversies like this. It’s inexplicable that Small-Toney would not respond to some of the questions Conn raised repeatedly before the article went to print. The after-the-fact responses in today’s article seem really incomplete to me, but they would have provided a little bit more context if they had been reported on Sunday. This is not the reporter’s fault; it is the city’s. Choosing not to respond in advance to potential controversies calls into question the City Manager’s ability to govern. By extension, it calls into question the mayor and council’s abilities too.
  • Ask Small-Toney for immediate reimbursement of the most obvious violations, such as the apparently relatively small sums for meal reimbursements that should have been covered by per diems.

I hope council members don’t just say how mad they are at the upcoming executive session. They need to clearly spell out conditions to respond to this crisis — ones that can set up better processes for the future.

4 comments for “How should Savannah City Council respond to growing controversy over City Manager’s travel spending?

  1. Sandy Traub
    August 22, 2012 at 9:35 am

    I\’m curious if City of Savannah has on-going procedures in place for on-demand drugs test and on-the-spot audits, rather than calling the auditors in when the City Manager (or department manager) might choose.

    • bill dawers
      August 22, 2012 at 10:04 am

      Personally, I think drug tests in the workplace are generally unconstitutional — always so if employees are getting satisfactory reviews and do not handle dangerous equipment.

      But the idea of on-the-spot, regular auditing of accounts is a good one. I’d be interested to hear if the auditing department ever does such things unannounced or always does departmental audits on a specific schedule.

  2. Jonathan
    August 23, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    I love your second to last point, Bill.

  3. August 23, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    Sep 8, 2011 = Film Services, 5 Petty Cash Missing / Small-Toney had an audit and reviewed petty cash records for SEVEN years. This is what should be done for the last SEVEN years for the current city manager, and two mayors. An audit.

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In the parking lot, this place seems to have a fixed identity recognizable by smell—it’s the Berkeley Hills, in the summer, dry and sagey. Through the garden portal, the pay kiosk, the scene complicates to carnivorous pitcher plants. To the right, into California, stands a sign “Berkeley Hills,” which remasters the context of here, flips visitors into a diorama.

The garden map is not the terrain. We abandoned its folds and set up our studio sensibly near Strawberry Creek, which runs through the middle of the garden, a locatable location—downhill to the bridge and between the men’s and women’s bathrooms, instead of where the Cloud Forest meets Asia. Besides, people always arrive at water eventually and settle there.

Most of the plants are rooted in soil structurally and texturally different from the soil of their native place and fight pathogens foreign to them, by definition of their being examples of plantings from around the globe growing on the site of what was previously a California dairy farm. But only the horticulturists notice their immigrant straining toward survival. We have paid our fee for an eclectic playground of tropical palm trees and supersize rhododendron flowers dripping perfume. We’ll consume this metaphor of the globe as a trouble-free place with absolute access. Here I am, click!, next to the giant whatsit.

This is heaven, to some, in the sense of being a perfectly ordered, autonomous, new world, each bed or frame regulated by the university, the authoritative collector of these culturally valued objects. But I hazard most of us don't care. We want the age-old escapade with place—meet its dangers and survive them. So let’s ask the gardeners to describe the recent deer kills on the boundary, to show us the piles of large scat inside the garden and where rattlers were seen. Place is interactive habitat; it is not backdrop or ever still.

Alert now to an animate geography, we eye the greenhouses behind Keep Out signs. And catch the desire for more hybridity and displacement in ourselves, to be that caterpillar eating its way along the vine in the sunshine. Or we visit the thief in ourselves, decide what we wish to steal, as if to insist on making this place autobiographical.

In keeping with the research on getting lost, we find ourselves progressing centripetally and close now to where we began. At the Oak Knoll in the California section, under the canopies of (uncollected) native oaks, looking west, we see home—across the San Francisco Bay, the place from where we’ve come. Gaining prospect and shelter at once, and able to read this land instinctively if it’s familiar to us, we’ve reached the most survival-advantageous place. All agitation and violence in us dissipates. Physical space cedes to social space, a picnic and encounters with the gardeners or a visitor who’s an expert on native peoples in the Berkeley Hills. Place, finally, sturdily, grounded on multiplicities of human relation, “pincushion of a million stories” (Doreen Massey).

- Hazel White

In this living museum of plants, the dirt and dust that are actants in this ecosystem along Strawberry Creek settle on the signage. The botanical names are in Latin, but part of the name often rings straight through from colonial times: European names in genitive form, denoting “of”: henryi, parkeri. A museum then with a period stigma, an outdoor replica of a room of polished European furniture, say, owned hundreds of years ago by successful capitalists. In moments of recognition here, memory trails of cruelty and control open to the repercussions alive in present time.

Visitors seem more drawn to timelessness. Green light through the foliage of dawn redwoods streaks moss and creek, resurrects primordial time, preconsciousness. It places the sun on our arms, revalorizing direct experience. Here we are. Hic et nunc. Comforted in the deep durée of time. The DNA of the redwoods around us matches fossils from 65 million years ago, an example of morphological stasis. Seemingly forever, their roots access moisture, their tops flourish in the blue sky. We can imagine mortality and disturbance are not on the table.

It’s lunchtime, but Ken Bates, horticulturist at the world crops garden, eats lightly because a heavy meal is uncomfortable when bending over garden beds all afternoon. The deer seen often now in the undeveloped back five acres is probably asleep. We learned about the deer in the same hour as Eric Schulz, horticulturist in the Mexico/Central America section, took us to the 1991 landslide site, where in the wintertime an elderly man had held forth to us about paradise and was drawn away by his partner when he asked her if they should now talk to us about sex. There was that time, and the time the man spoke of long ago, visiting this very place when the trees were young, planted densely after the slide, and there is also the time of telling this to Eric, who later thinned the trees. Eric says he might have met the man one time, and a few minutes later tells us he had thought he might work this section of garden forever, but his body is wearing down. Time is a crumpled handkerchief—Michel Serres.

Our time here, as poets, has been a form of “untime”—marginally related to the prevailing measure of productivity and profit in the Bay Area and mirroring the gardeners’ “decelerated pulse of daily accomplishment” (Emily Apter), as they sweep the paths again and again. As I write this, on July 27, 2016, two months before the project ends, time feels foreshortened. My mother is slipping into dementia, Denise’s mother has cancer. One of our collaborators, Chris Carmichael, associate director of collections, is retiring before he expected to. The future is arriving. Outside the garden, we have been witnessing and protesting social injustice. These are our times. Climate change is occurring. Fascism is on the rise.

- Hazel White

“Have you seen the Puya?” Images of the 8-foot stalks of teal-turquoise flowers are spreading on Facebook and Instagram, and people are showing up at the garden to be part of something. Beauty is a celebrity—“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us” (Iris Murdoch). Beauty can also, obviously, trigger action.

Beauty as a felt experience “seems to incite, even to require, the act of replication,” writes Elaine Scarry, in her book On Beauty and Being Just. Here I am, writing about the Puya. Tate Modern last year printed the Murdoch quote on the wall of the museum. Beauty is distributive, puts little beauty-identified acts in motion. And it distributes our attention outside of ourselves, requires us, says Simone Weil “to give up our imaginary position as the center.”

Might that lead to more generosity and justice? It’s been on our minds here—is this garden an escape from complexity, or could it be nurturing a care for others, increasing our capacity to act on their behalf?

Walking the paths with Denise calmed me last fall after my black teenage son was targeted by police because of a white woman’s terrible error (in thinking him 35, violent, and having a weapon), as he was saying goodbye to a white high-school friend in a white neighborhood at 7 p.m. The police spilled out of squad cars with rifles loaded and cocked and aimed them at my son’s chest. The outcome of the woman’s unrecognized bias depends on . . . ?

Plato insisted that an experience of beauty propels us into caritas, caring for others. I wish for that. And I gather support for the idea of radical change occurring. Andrew Joron writes of the “poetic-revolutionary nature of reality,” whereby complex systems “comprised of a large number of elements far from equilibrium are prone to beautiful convulsions . . . [and then] an unexpected, unprecedented superaddition to reality . . . emerges.” Poetry is a model of this “overflowing of reality,” and the garden is such a model too: tender pink blossom emerging in the sharp spines of cactus, red berries dripping transparent raindrops, an old oak crashing to the floor, a canopy of blossoms filling with syrup and flies.

Maybe Kathleen Marie Higgins is right, in saying that beauty “provides the comforting background against which one can think the uncomfortable . . . assures us that something real is lovable, [gives us] the courage to face what is not.”

The generation of multiple and multiplying experiences of beauty in this garden is perhaps already stirring the public realm, tuning it toward a new alertness, even a spontaneous reorganization. Help stoke that change. Please return to the garden again and again. Nothing would make the gardeners and staff happier.

I’m speaking of an eruption of love that sweeps into action. Hold my hand. “Justice is what love looks like in public” (Cornell West).

- Hazel White

Visitors looking around the entrance garden, designed by the horticultural staff, who know people’s desires here, pick up after and endure the consequences of them—the visitors, I sense they are already alert to what they want to do in this space. The body knows.

The common trajectory is uphill to the highest point, for the view of the kingdom, what is earned in the traverse of it, and then down to the creek and hop over and back over or even into it—the garden administration allows that; let’s call it generosity, assuming geography to be always a geography of power. If you come downhill by way of Mexico/Central America, you’ll also be extended the thrill of feeling miniature among many tall, unfamiliar, thickly planted trees. You may think you have gone too far and blurt out, in your absolute need to know, “Am I still in the garden?” Otherwise, you have entered overgrown, unnamed thickets that would block your will, the inverse of conquering.

Risking being lost is a beginning. When the world shows up as magical and potentially dangerous matter, the body yearns to get into the game, have a say-so. Gardeners do it—Gideon flicks a hose to water a vomit-looking slime, for the kick of it; Meghan points out to the public a bulb’s decision not to flower, thrills in the plant’s control of itself. One visitor, Jo, ditched propriety and told us, “The Puya is fucking stunning. I want to eat its thick meaty beauty.” And most visitors at the very least refuse the incoherence of the Latin names in their mouths, are likely to decide to call the Escallonia viscosa the maple syrup plant, helping it distribute its affectivity.

On our public walks, we encouraged people to note their resistance, in order to double the space of our conversation and dispel the authority that silences us. At the garden boundary, we all called out what the garden couldn’t shelter itself from—a roar went up and evil entered paradise: pollution, weeds, disease, error. There was a freedom to that being named.

In gratitude to our collaborators, Denise and I did not break the rules for nearly two years, though transgression seemed expected of us. (Last winter, a botanical label with the words “Distractingly sexy female” appeared next to the welwitschia in the Arid House—and we were suspected.) Recently, we were given permission to stay after dark, which we had known from our first hour in this garden, long ago, is what we wanted to do. We would cover signage; we would wear animal masks. We would give free rein to a radical “aesthetic-affective openness to material vitality” (Jane Bennett).

That evening, at 9 p.m., we returned to the entrance kiosk as promised, bereft that our trespass was over. Denise mentioned enthusiastically to the gatekeeper we had seen two deer. He translated her words back across the membrane of responsibility to the crisis it was: large animals munching on rare plants. He had to raise the alarm, call the director. We couldn’t shed the sense that we had done it.

- Hazel White


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South Dakota Governor’s Giant Vision Student Business Awards Competition 2011

Applications/business plans due

Competition Organizer

South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development, South Dakota Enterprise Institute

Submission Date

Awards Date

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Competition Category
  • Graduate - Local U.S.
  • Undergraduate - Local U.S.
Who's Eligible

The Giant Vision Awards Competition is open to all South Dakotan college, university, and technical school students.

Important Dates

The application deadline for the Giant Vision Competition is March 4, 2011. Selected finalists will be announced on March 28, 2011. Finalists will present their business plans at the final competition on April 26, 2011, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Competition Prizes

The winner will be awarded $5,000. Second place award of $3,000, third place receiving $2,500, and fourth place receiving $2,000. The remaining four qualifiers will receive $500 each to help with the expense of participation.

Other Info

Those entering the Governor's Giant Vision Student Competition will submit a written business plan outlining the business idea, potential markets, production requirements and other standard items. Selection of winners will be based on a combination of the viability of the business proposal, including considerations of potential competition, likelihood of success, market size and profitability.


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