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Comic 52 - Leave the operating room
Posted on 25th Jul 2017, 2:44 PM in
The Hospital
Wake up
Hide in the cabinets
Get towels
Exit cautiously
Inspect meat wall
Scream and draw blood
Check out the desk
Read the cat magazine
Sanitize the hand
Poke the bandages
Clean yourself up
Inject the monster with monster blood
Stab the other eye
Cover it with towels
Give it the chair
Slap face with hand towel
Investigate the middle door
Play with the light switch
Get yo rummage on
Inspect green thing
Check inside the backpack
Snag that loot
Look for the basement
Use screwdriver on closet vent
Go down the vent
Get their attention (carefully)
I am a vent hermit
Ask about green thing
Return to starting room
Venture into the ventilation
Get pesticide, check on Michelle
Ask for super soaker and lighter
Enter the awful hallway
Inspect the operating table
Tend to Michelle
Start looking for supplies
Spray it with pesticide, then RUN
Tell Michelle about the monster
Ask what she means
Patch Michelle up better
Offer painkillers, check room
See if the coast is clear
Pillage on your way back to the vent
Loot the dead
Open the nearby door
Gather supplies
Finagle with the computer
> Devices
> E-mails
> Read E-mails
> Turn off bio printer
Leave the operating room
Stab it
Flip table and run
Stab hand
Treat yourself and Michelle
Get sodas, tell stories
Check mah blood
Head into the dark
Try the door
Talk to Dr. Finch, check lockers
Take stuff, head on out
Hurl hand down the hallway
Quickly enter the room
Check the cabinets, check for vent
Check the room thoroughly
Move the cabinet
Crawl into the vent
Utilize the facilities
Exit the restroom
Loot bodies, check car
Talk to the man
Tell him your name
Move the car, save Michelle
Give Michelle a cigarette
Tell Michelle everything else
Head back for the doctor
Shine a light at the ceiling
Enter the laundry room
Check behind the washers
Get away from the shelf
Look around the room
Read notes, check inside machines
Question Doctor Finch
Check behind machines again
Hide behind Michelle
Get away from the door
Bleed on the door, control the door
Pull Dr. Finch off the bone
Check the monster, check outside
Head to the operating room
Fix Dr. Finch
Use your blood
Check stuff, do arts and crafts
Head to the ground floor
Dr. Finch stays
Make preparations, do tests
Gather first aid, get detergent
Check the cafeteria
Check behind the counter
Inform the others
Head down to the basement
Go through the first door
Basement keycard, Dr. Finch's hand, severed hand
Check the lockers
Take stuff, head through the final door
Take the elevator
Try the elevator... harder
Check where the elevator is
Sabotage elevator, take stairs
Break tubes, burn monster
Defend Michelle
Get out
Feed it the gun
Approach the apartment
Pick the lock
Have a glance
Check out Howler's room
Get crackin' on the computer
Check his browsing history
Check the other door
Burn the curtains
See what's cooking in the kitchen
Start searching
Check the fridge
Check for secret compartments
Climb down the vent... carefully
Figure out what this room is
Check altar, make rat burgers
Light the candles
Head back to the bedroom
Hide in the vents
Get smells, talk to cop
Drop the photo, tell the truth
Tell her about the room downstairs
Grab Michelle's gun, shoot the blonde
Take cleantex
Lie down
Check the thumb drive
Search for that password
Sync with Fuse, hack computer
check the door
i dont know how to get back
where am i please somebody help me
Sweat blood until you die
Get soda, check e-mails
Send thoughts to Dr. Finch
Get out of the apartment
Drive by the house... carefully
Step inside your house
Give a tour of the house
Check your closet
Check for secrets
Go into the secret vent
Go talk to Michelle
Quietly get her attention
Tell Fuse
Constrict, then inject, Michelle
See what's happenin'
Use the sheet to blind the cop
Get affairs in order
Sync with Fuse and Michelle
I know you have an answer, don't be shy
Walk through the door
Light it up
Walk through the first door
Bleed in the mouth
Ask its identity
Tell Red about your parents
Ask about the blood speech
Let Fuse take care of the bodies
Ask about the visions
Give it more blood
Check on the others
Check the last room
Talk to your red
everyone dies
Answer the phone
Tell everyone
Give Michelle a hug
Head to the Rockwell arcade
Check the place out
Get ready
Ask if he's done Queen
Have a beer
Talk to Fuse, ask Grizwald about poster
Push for more details
Ask for more details, syringes
Give Grizwald your blood
Ask for directions
Remember that you own a car
Go get the car
Meet up
Head to Dr. Finch's
Rest, catch up, look into the club
Inject a rat
Ask about your red
Experiment with possession
Practice, and ask about control mechanisms
Practice being a rat
Get the rat to dance
Dye your hair, loot the lab
Ask Dr. Finch about his equipment
Have breakfast
Practice aiding hemostasis
Ask about politics
Head toward the club
Send in the rat
Forward in the vents
Head down the other vent
Upload the thing
Remove the stick and hide
Watch the guard
Finish the upload
Continue looking through the vents
Investigate the torture room
Listen in on the conversation
Thoroughly investigate the torture room
Find out what Macland looks like
Review the map thus far
Head back
Infiltrate Club Elegance
Head to the security room
Take over the guard
Control the guard
Question the guard
Ask about patrols and trap doors
Ask how to get to the VIP area
Find out about the VIP area
Fill everyone in
Get Macland's drink on
Inject Macland
Have Macland lie
Try to find out what Macland knows
Hide Fuse
Go for the undignified grapple
Get out of the club
Instruct the rat
Check on Macland
Discuss with the group
Imitate cleantex
Discuss the list
Spend the day on the down low
Check on your guard
Make the guard pass out
Try some things
Try to find the guard's address
Head to the lower tiers
Make sure your guard is okay
Check Macland
Pass Macland out
You could hear him wheezing
Ask if he's alright
Panic and faint
Double check Macland
Mind drug Macland
Inform Dr. Finch
Speak up, move Fuse into position
Talk to Prophet
Press for more
Get in the vents
Negotiate more aggressively
Assess the situation
Start checking the hall
Venture into the hall
Check the open door
Loot the lockers
Light him on fire
Syringe and/or shoot him
Climb into the vent
Go left
Test the vent cover
Ask the others about the vent
Get Dr. Finch to clarify
Take the other vent path
Figure out where it's coming from
Investigate further
Get out of the vent
Get through the electric door
Start asking questions
Try to intimidate her
Get ready to fight
Defend yourselves
Try to syringe her
Get off the counter
Check on Fuse
Patch up
Turn off the shield generator
Send in Michelle
Talk to them
Get to Michelle
Save Caius
Head back to Dr. Finch's
Catch up with Dr. Finch
Ask about money
Go to sleep
Get up
Go on a trip
Send in the rat
Have the rat explore
Check the front door
Send in Caius
He works for the family
Press for more... nicely
Ask questions
See her out
Catch ravens
Discuss syncing
Force sync Michelle
Get axe, check fountain
Take a closer look
Examine toys, cut barbed wire
Step through the door
Check the lockers and soda machine
Blood the cola machine
Take the lighter into the dark
Check for the device
Exit the toy store
Check out the room
Return to the distorted lockers
Walk into the dark
Defend yourself
Fight Vasquez
Escape the sync
Start syncing
Hug Michelle, check Dr. Finch
Sync with Dr. Finch
Head for Dr. Finch's
Open with a smoke bomb
Ask the agent
Check the bodies
Be prepared to shoot
Hand the phone off
Take the phone
Stall, and leave
Save Dr. Finch
Leave Dr. Finch's
Go to your house
Visit Mom's red
Ask Mom's red
Ask Mom's red more questions
Discuss Queen with Mom's red
Head back upstairs
Find Michelle
Hug Michelle
Prep for bed
Sleep in shifts
Check on everyone
Get breakfast
Force sync Macland Row
Go to hell
Check the computers and desks
Open all three folders
Go to heaven
Check the art
Remove the sheet
Leave the gallery room
Exit the gallery area
Ask Red
Open the other pictures
Check again for a middle door
Push the statue out
Enter purgatory
Check on Red, discuss Nothing
Look for the sound
Respond to Fuse
Explore the sewer
Check debris, and pipe
Approach the roaches
Check the roach corpse
Hustle across the pipe
Crawl, quickly
Talk to Fuse
Establish communication
File through the bars
Flood the sewer
Lure out the giant Macland
Overload the defense
Help Fuse
Apologize to Fuse
Check on things
Take care of Fuse
Ask how
Discuss syncing going forward
Let them in
Patch Fuse up
Take it easy
Catch Dr. Finch up
Set up a signal
Elaborate on the plan
Get back to Dr. Finch
Fool the machine
Report what happened
Check everything
Scout locations
Send the bird to surveillance
Find a way down the elevator shaft
Peek through the glass
Let everyone know
Send Michelle and Caius
Ask about sharing strain
Acquire sheets
Get ready to acquire footage
Head to the hospital
Go to the basement
Ignore him
Glance out the window
Barricade the door
Shut off the surveillance
Distract it and run
Get its attention
Fight through
Attack Prophet
Get Michelle back
Look for Michelle
Lightly hug Michelle
Steal enemy tires
Tell Dr. Finch to check out
Go with Caius
Check for a tracer
Remove the tracker
Fill Dr. Finch in
Have Caius make the call
Ask who she is
Head toward Caius
Find out what she wants
Give her the USB
Meet Jury
Mention the e-mails
Thank Jury
Ask Fuse and Dr. Finch
Buy parts, get truck
Check the truck for tracers
Enter the bunker
Check the left door
Check the footlocker and first aid
Check out the other door
Check the cabinets and shelf
Continue onward
Loot the bathroom
Let Fuse and Dr. Finch in
Start the laundry
Check on everything
Remember the voice
Go get the rat
Ask Mom's red about syncing
Ask a few more questions
Ask about the... odd way
Receive the gift
Check on Caius
Sneak toward the living room
Try to stall
Go for the disarm
Get out of the house
Get Finch's gear... quickly
Make the rounds
Eat and rest
Send the rat to Bunker B
Investigate the thing in the corner
Send rat through the first door
Send rat back into the hall
Check the last door
Have the rat peek in
Bring the rat back
Check on Michelle
Ask about the other bunkers
Shower, check Bunker C
Send the rat to Bunker D
Smell the flowers
Go visit Grizwald
Get information from Lydia
Ask Lydia to join you
Exchange information
Send a raven into Bunker C
Bring the raven back up
Drop something else
Check the ceiling
Prepare for Bunker D
Enter Bunker D
Take the right door
Check tubes and panel
Try the middle door
Check cabinets and vents
See where the vent goes
Look at the computer and machine
Unlock and peek through the door
Check the doors
Head back to the first room
Let the others in
Check the medical room
Loot the medical room
Check the rest of the hall
Loot the barracks
Discuss the manifest more thoroughly
Get Baby Red
Tell the others where you are
Split up
Speak with Fuse
Hug Fuse
Reassure Fuse
Carefully retrieve the glowstick
Talk to Fuse about Baby Red
Meet back up with the group
Eat pizza, drink beer
Use the bio printer
Call Jury
Send a note to Bunker B
Send another note
Look into the list
Consider your options
Get patched up
Send Fuse and Michelle inside
Talk to Caius
Peek at the basement
Get out of the basement
Go to bed
Wake up, check the lab
Get surgery done
Keep the extra ear parts
Finish getting fixed up
Discuss the armored vehicle
Make some calls
Check on Caius and Michelle
Send someone down the ladder
Send Caius to the right
Check the wires
Get Caius and go
Meet back up in Bunker A
Call Jury, eat
Work on wiring
Fix the wiring
Draw blood from the plant
Check on Caius and Dr. Finch
Test the plant blood
Get cameras
Check on Macland Row
Go get Michelle
Talk with Michelle
Investigate Bunker C
Switch with Michelle
Mess with the door more
Attempt further communication
Suggest a different message
Get Michelle out
Check on Fuse and Caius
Bring ice cream to Dr. Finch
Check the news
Talk to Red
Ask about people
Do an inventory check
Track Jury's phone
Send a raven to the school
Poke around outside
Examine the outside
Prepare for the school
Go to school
Enter the school
Look at the plant
Follow the trail
Check around the door
Take the extinguisher
Blood the eyeball
Spray in front of you
Enter the cafeteria
Look at the blood
Inspect the teeth
Take a moment
Push onward
Look at the body
Look closer at the canister
Contact Red
Find tin foil
Put on tin foil hats
Make more hats
Use your phone to see the chalkboard
Kick the trash can
Inspect the phone
Answer Jury's phone
Play with her
Check out the doors
Gather more information
Discuss the terms of the game
Pick Door #3
Switch to door #5
Level Fuse
Plan to trap Edison
Call in Michelle and Caius
Get Michelle
Canister Edison
Collect Jury
Check your phone
Leave the school
Find a parking lot
Discuss the canister
Build a scrambler
Find a tight alley
Set an ambush
Finish off the shooter
Call Shirai
Vent a little
Negotiate the terms
Split into two groups
Check on Michelle and Fuse
Thank the Juries
Find a spot for the canister
Tape up the canister
Look in on Caius and Dr. Finch
Look up the podcast
Attempt to rest
Make a plan
Send Michelle and Fuse
Rethink the strategy
Ask Michelle about the door
Decide on a plan
Find the qualia
Discuss cutting memories
Tamper with memories
Hug Caius
Wake Macland Row
Observe Macland
Continue observing Macland
Call Gesenai
Get info from Gesenai
Catch up with Michelle and Fuse
Increase dreams and sleep
Check on Fuse and Macland
Check on Michelle and Caius
Fix memories
Decide the next step
Make a camera drone
Send in the golem
Poke the plant man
Call to it
Approach the plant
Find out more
Try to save him
Bring in Dr. Finch
End his suffering
Get ice cream
Patch up a space suit
Walk on Mars
Check the cart
Check the cart
Send a raven to the power station
Discuss radiation
Give your drone bandages
Give the drone syringes
Get radiation suits
Investigate the lone mushroom
Check the containers
Check the first door
Try the second door
Look at the room
Open the far door
Take cover
Continue waiting
Throw a syringe
Inform everyone
Try to perceive through him
Make a phone bot
Send in the phone
Call the phone
Talk to him
Interrogate further
Ask about the next pick up
Get out of there
Burn it down
Distract him
Throw him over the side
Do first aid
Climb the steps
Negotiate further
Get more information
Try to pry a little more
Stabilize Caius
Look into the book
Talk about brain surgery
Wait for Michelle
Call Macland
Start a brain transplant
Bring in Fuse
Find the security office
Backdoor the printers
Talk to the attacked nurse
Head to the second floor
Go to the bio printer
Smash the bugs
Remove the bio paste
Head to the fourth floor
Peek through the door
Light it on fire
Sever the tendril
Finish up
Find Fuse and Michelle
Go home
Check up on everyone
Hug Caius and Jury
Check on the interrogation
Send Fuse
Propose recruiting Zene
Follow Caius
Check in on Fuse and Zene
Discuss Brother Hope
Bring in Zene
Get space suit supplies
Head back to the bunker
Discuss Zene's parents
Agree to approach his dad first
Get Fuse's leg replaced
Get the combat model
Head to the place
Try to lure the truck
Grab Zene and his dad, bail
Leave the area
Go get Fuse
Bring a raven over
Climb higher
Discuss an ambush
Bait the blade man
Wait for the blade man
Try to talk to him
Let Fuse take the lead
Cut his head off
Get in the hummer and go
Take a breather
Settle down
Do some checking up
Look for cats
Catch all the cats
Catch a pigeon
Take your pigeon back to base
Bury the dead
Distribute flowers
Discuss robotics
Check behind the Bunker B door
Figure out where you are
Ask the Juries about the door
Figure out where the crate is located
Check your house
Watch movies
Discuss movies
Call it a day
Locate the crate
Make another golem
Send your drone left
Look for more signs of people
Ask about the device
Head the other direction
Hide the drone
Take your exit
Make sure the door is still here
Ask Shirai about the warehouse
Ask about the party
Hug Red
Discuss infiltrating the church
Elect Willard
Send Willard
Look up Brother Hope
Try the left drain
Smell around
Check the restroom
Look around
Prop the door open
Listen in on the argument
Run back to the restroom
Peek through the open door
See what you can, hide
Start bringing him back
Pull back
Try to contact the cult
Get on the phone
Interrupt the ritual
Check on Red
Check Willard and the cat
Release the hostages
Try to get people out of there
Grab level and go
Blood the cultists first
Deploy Michelle
Grab all three
Find a blunt object
Get away from the church
Fight free
Drive away
Boot up the old bioprinter
Talk about what happened
Talk about Pierce
Talk to Michelle
Get cleaned up
Check in with Red
Ask Dr. Finch about your brain
Replace your eye
Get food
Talk to Pierce about flowers
Remember the scriptures
Discuss Bunker E
Portal your optic nerve
Make a flesh golem
Force your way in
Check the desk
Continue rummaging
Move on
Start reading
Continue through Bunker E
Bring your golem back
Check around outside
Talk to ghosts
Try to learn more from ghosts
Dig for more
Search for something hidden
Check the wall panel
Head toward the locked door
Hum the ghost's tune
Note it for later
Take Fuse's advice
Discuss the next step
Pick the teams
Ride to Southden
Search for the library
Check out the underground
Do some shopping
Discuss getting into the dome
Head back to Ilworth
Have dinner
Call a few hospitals
Speculate about the bioprinters
Figure out what to do next
Go to bed (?)
Check the camera
Check on Fuse and Dr. Finch
Check things, try things
Power the camera
Let her know you're listening
Give her a phone number
Have Caius talk to her
Realize the truth
Hug the baby red
Wake up, contact Macland
Go sell some car parts
Find the shady man
Prepare for a fight
Look into the Deck
Get food, head to the bar
Give your names
Help Caius
Head back upstairs
Ask Lovers for info
Head back, talk to Red
Answer the phone
Talk to Ms. Voclain
Start loading stuff
Prepare stink bombs
Blood her and get out
Sever the arm
Blood bandages
Send in reinforcements
Check on Fuse
Send her to bed
Discuss Ms. Voclain
Make an arm
Attach an arm
Take a break
Talk to Jury
Tell Jury what she missed
Ask Jury some things
Suggest a few things
Check your storage unit
Open the small reddish box
Mess with the money box more
Open the stained crate
Take a sample
Open the thin, light box
Open the ! box
Ask Pierce about the runes
Check the gray box
Look for a mechanism
See about Tesla
Take Michelle and Caius
Take Tesla to her room
Hum the song
Introduce yourselves
Ask a few questions
Have a look at the screen
Move a couple boxes to Mars
Ask Mom's red about the gun
Go shopping in Southden
Pretend to lose interest
Bring Dr. Finch into the library
Suggest finding the book, quickly
Grab Caius, blood the motorcycle
Try a few things first
Start climbing
Apologize to the librarian
Go different ways
Talk to the library
Ask the library some questions
Receive the book
Head back home
Deliver Tesla's things
Go fix the screen
Talk to Faraday
Ask Faraday some questions
Take Tesla to the screen
Step out for a moment
Discuss Pierce and the book
Take the book to the error room
Go talk to Fuse
Make further plans
Discuss the ritual
Petition the tradesmen
Ask a few more questions
Ask the tradesmen more questions
Agree to a few trades
Agree to another trade
End the ritual
Relay what happened
Get more blood
Plan for the day
Catch some animals
Check on the ritual
Talk to Dr. Finch
Trade up some items
Make sandwiches
Check on Tesla and Faraday
Talk with Faraday about your experience
Discuss astral projection
Release the rats
Inspect the statue
Leave it alone for now
See how the ritual went
Ask Caius about being a ghost
Ask Caius a few questions
Explore the tunnels
Discuss a counter strategy
Discuss Fuse's plan
Suggest Southden
Trade up flesh golems
Test out the homunculus
Make bone armor
Make more bone armor
Test out the gun
Send a team to Southden
Head to the hospital
Trace the hackers
Scout out a safe exit
Start planning your escape
Take out the robot
Take the tunnels to Howler's
Treat dead tissue
Do some rituals
Attach arms, call tradesmen
Ask about the hackers
Ask more questions
Tell them about Nil
Discuss Ilworth
Become a ghost
Try to be seen
Do ghost things
Strengthen the imprint
Rejoin your body
Invite Jury over
Tell Jury what you heard
Send a raven
Evaluate your tiredness
Nap, astral project
Go hug Tesla
Ask about Experiment Odin
Return to the lab
Ask the girls about Edison
Ask about the canisters
Play with Tesla
Mess with the new toys
Check the range
Call the device
Catch up with Red
Take Fuse to the error room
Be ready to leave
Report the results
Prepare for Bunker X
Head to Bunker X
Begin floor 0 of Bunker X
Light them up
Make Michelle a new helmet
Find a way to the next room
Throw meatballs
Burn the monster
Blood the monster
Avoid getting crushed, or burned
Mess with the devices
Treat wounds
Stab it in the brain
Needle it
Push it into the wall
Blood the giant eye
Mess with the eye
Don't read the cat magazine
Try to pierce the dark
Send in a burning golem
Lead it to the eye
Sever the tongue
Make sure it's dead
Grab the loot
Take the elevator out
Prepare to save Grizwald
Practice more
Make a very small golem
Dirty up the bug
Listen in, head left
Leave an "egg"
Look in the sanctuary
Check on the rat
Discuss how to dislodge the monster
Keep searching for Grizwald
Continue exploring
Explore the right side
Discuss the hummer situation
Plan to retrieve the hummer
Make a big golem
Dress up the golem
Send the bug under the door
Investigate Hope's study
Check on your golem
Try to refill the bug
Find out what's chasing the hummer
Devise a different plan
Discuss what to do about the monster
Continue investigating the church
Grow the bug wings
Guide the bug upstairs
Enter the restroom
Fly through the vent
Listen in
Check the downstairs
Check the body, and the door
Check the shelf
Poison the body
Start making trades
Plan the attack
Practice making meat walls
Plant eggs
Try one more thing
Go to church
Move toward the stage
Cage Hope
Drop Knox in the red
Free Grizwald
Take Grizwald home
Check the arcade
Work on Elizabeth
Prepare for Incident F
Reproduce Incident F
Check "your room"
Face it
Politely decline absolute godhood
Check " "your room" "
Cut open the door
Try to talk to her
Create a distraction
Remove her blindfold
Hug the bad feelings
Greet the other yous
Ask about the other you
Have internal conflict about internal conflict
Stall, try to talk
Group hug, open middle door
Bring everyone upstairs
Return to "your room"
Gather the last of you
Return to your body
Red the electricity
Do some resting
Eat lunch
Check on Knox
Plan for tomorrow
Move the red
Talk to the girls
Get some rest
Finalize spa day plans
Take a spa day
Ask Fuse
Decide the rooms
Take Michelle around Southden
Tell her what you're thinking about
Check on Fuse, Liz, and Lydia
Check on Caius and Dr. Finch
Take a fancy shower, eat breakfast
Drive home
Release Edison
Put on your nurse face
Leave a blood alarm
Safeguard Lydia
Give Liz a hug
Hit it up tonight
Check out the power station
Check the electrical boxes
Return for now
Talk to Mom's red
Check in on Edison
Talk to her anyway
Head back to the lab
Begin conjuring the tradesmen
Continue asking questions
Consult Caius
Trade Knox
Ask one more question
Decide to train
Talk to Pierce
Inspect the webs
Discuss minds
Practice astral things with Red
Work on clothes more
Put the recon on hold
Discuss mutations and electricity
Prepare for the power station
Transform into a magical girl
Practice with the wand
Send a bug
Shoot lightning at the web
Build a cage
Assess the situation
Check the last door
Relay the news
Approach the worm
Talk with the worm
Make an offer
Stand your ground
Defend yourself
Exit the red
Head back home
Ask Liz about Edison
Thank Liz
Answer Edison
Let Edison out
Give Edison some things
Figure out when is now
Check on Dr. Finch, Caius, and the girls
Ask how everyone is
Check on Michelle and Fuse
Call a meeting about mecha
Sustain a portal
Go see the worm
Turn Ilworth's power back on
Check Red
Test the "leak"
Meditate, breakfast, talk to Edison
Ask the girls some questions
Try a few things real quick
Play with possession
Start work on time shenanigans
Ask about time gods
Track the noise
Mess with time more
Mess with auras, listen to CDs
Get Pierce
Ask Pierce more questions
Have Caius ask more questions
Finish asking questions
Try Combat #11
Experiment with the new form
Have Pierce try the ritual
Experiment with Pierce's version
Begin spiritual training
Reach a different conclusion
Agree to the plan
Make connected portals
Admit to what happened
Enter the bookstore
Slyly ask about the candle
Ask her some questions
Exchange phone numbers
Thank them and leave
Discuss blooding Mom's red
Peek at your room
Use the lock downstairs
Blood Mom's red
Perceive through Mom's red
Try some different things
Break off the sync
Get a phone call
The End (Part 1)
The End (Part 2)
The End (Part 3)
The End (Part 4)
The End (Part 5)
Save My Place
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25th Jul 2017, 2:44 PM
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25th Jul 2017, 2:58 PM
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Green Slime
25th Jul 2017, 3:36 PM
20th Aug 2018, 5:28 AM
Funny, that's exactly what I thought when I saw that.
No more, no less.
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When Will Ferrell (apparently) joked last month about permanently replacing Steve Carell on "The Office," fans of the show could have been forgiven for taking him seriously, if only for a moment.
There's a certain logic fueling the wishful thinking: Despite a successful movie career, Ferrell bounces around, turning up on the Internet (his Funny or Die website), TV (a recurring role on HBO's "Eastbound & Down") and even Broadway (his one-man show, "You're Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush").
Ferrell certainly shares a comic sensibility with Carell, his co-star in "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy." Both are adept at playing the goofy, but somehow endearing man-child, even if Ferrell's characters often possess a more manic edge.
It's easy to envision Ferrell playing a larger-than-life clone of Carell's Michael Scott – and we'll get to see his take beginning Thursday night for four episodes that will bridge Carell's departure from the show after seven seasons.
While the identity of the next permanent manager of Dunder Mifflin Sabre remains murky, it's clear, though, that Ferrell is an "Office" temp – albeit one poised to make a memorable mark on the show.
Judging from the previews, Ferrell's would-be office manager DeAngelo Vickers is a character out of the Michael Scott book of clueless bumbling. He's a self-absorbed over-sharer ("I have a peanut allergy, it's something I live with, it's part of me. I've learned to cope with it," he tells the staff while introducing himself) and tends to follow his emotions (we can't get enough of the clip of Vickers' and Scott's reverse hug).
"It's basically one idiot training another," Ferrell notes in a video on "The Office" website.
The meeting of the idiots is a tribute of sorts to the character created by Carell – and a signal that while Michael Scott can be imitated, he can never be replicated. Ditto for the May 19, post-Carell, post-Ferrell season finale, which is set to feature Ray Romano, Will Arnett, James Spader, Catherine Tate and Ricky Gervais, who gave us an unforgettable character of his own in the original UK version of "The Office."
As we head into Carell's final three episodes on the show, we're anticipating a Ferrell performance that will shine while not overshadowing Michael Scott's last stumble into the sunset. The new (interim) boss may seem the same as the old boss, but Michael Scott will never meet his match.
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(Poem #68) Musee des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
I like this poem for the exquisite simplicity of its language; there's something almost Wordsworthian in its phrases and images, straightforward in their construction, yet subtle in their connotations... Sometime free verse rubs me the wrong way because it's *too* free - poets use the lack of constraint as an excuse to turn out shoddy work (I have the opposite complaint about 'structured' (for want of a better word) verse - all too often, the *meaning* of the poem is lost behind the details of its surface construction). But Auden's 'Musee des Beaux Art' is not a victim of either shortcoming - the poem is no less elegant or carefully crafted for its not being a part of any particular metre/rhyme scheme. Indeed, I think that there's a definite (and very well-thought-out) correspondence betweem form and meaning here - see the comments under 'Construction' below. Apart from that... well, Auden is not necessarily a poet with whom I agree (on most matters, at least), but that doesn't in any way detract from the quality of his work. Admitted, his output was uneven at best; nevertheless, there are times (and today's poem is one of them) when he wrote truly magnificent poetry. thomas. [Biography] Auden was born in 1907 and was raised in northern England, the son of a doctor and a nurse. He received his primary education at St. Edmund's School in Surrey and Gresham's School in Kent. Auden's early interest in science and engineering earned him a scholarship to Oxford University; however, his interest in poetry led him to switch his field of study to English. While at Oxford, Auden became familiar with modernist poetry, particularly that of T. S. Eliot, and he became a central member of a group of writers that included Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice, a collective variously labeled the "Oxford Group" or the "Auden Generation." In 1928 Auden's first book, Poems, was privately printed by Spender. During the same year, Eliot accepted Auden's verse play Paid on Both Sides: A Charade for publication in his magazine Criterion. After graduating from Oxford Auden lived for over a year in Berlin before returning to England to become a teacher. During the 1930s Auden traveled to Spain and China, became involved in political causes, and wrote prolifically. In this period he composed The Orators: An English Study (1932), an experimental satire that mixes poetry and prose; three plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood; two travel books one of which was written with Louis MacNeice; and the poetry collection Look, Stranger! (1936; published in the United States as On This Island). Auden left England in 1939 and became a citizen of the United States. His first book as an emigrant, Another Time (1940), contains some of his best-known poems, among them "September 1, 1939," and "Musee des Beaux Arts." His 1945 volume The Collected Poetry, in which he revised, retitled, or excluded many of his earlier poems, helped solidify his reputation as a major poet. Throughout his career Auden won numerous honors and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize forThe Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947) and the National Book Award for The Shield of Achilles (1955). In his later years, Auden continued to teach, to deliver lectures, and to edit and review books. He wrote several more volumes of poetry, including City without Walls and Many Other Poems (1969), Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (1972), and the posthumously published Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974). He died while on a trip to Vienna in 1973. He is buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. [Overview] First published in 1940 in a collected volume of verse entitled, Another Time, "Musee des Beaux Arts" explores the enduring human response to tragedy and challenges the accepted categorization of "ordinary" life experiences. The poem's title refers to the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, an institution Auden visited in 1938. While there he viewed the Brueghel alcove which contains a number of works including Icarus, the canvas the poem refers to in detail. Drawing on this and other paintings, Auden articulates a notion of human nature which the poem indicates transcends time and space. Opening with generalizations and moving to specifics, the poem argues that the image presented by the "Old Masters" of the Renaissance period, that individual human suffering is viewed with apathy by others, is an accurate one. Juxtaposing images of suffering and tragedy with the banal actions of everyday life suggests that individual tragedies are individual burdens as humankind responds with indifference. Auden wrote that "In so far as poetry, or any of the arts, can be said to have an ulterior purpose, it is, by telling the truth, to disenchant and disintoxicate." Auden's poem seeks to disenchant or deromanticize death, martyrdom and suffering and achieves this through the juxtaposition of "ordinary" events with universally recognized "extraordinary" ones. This comparison, however, forces a reconsideration of these accepted categories, and the poem appears to suggest that those events worthy of celebration are the ordinary, everyday occurrences. [Construction] "Musee des Beaux Arts" is written in free verse, meaning that the poem is essentially "free" of meter, regular rhythm, or a rhyme scheme. Unlike a Petrarchan sonnet, for instance, which is written in iambic pentameter (each line contains five divisions or feet, and each foot consists of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable), and is divided into two parts, an octave and a sestet, the octave rhyming abbaabba and the sestet usually rhyming cdecde, free verse employs varying line lengths and an irregular rhyme pattern, often shunning a rhyme scheme altogether.Like the specific structural considerations of the sonnet form, the seeming lack of structure which free verse offers is purposely employed and works to illuminate the poem's meaning. In Auden's lyric, the long irregular lines, subtly enforced by the irregular end rhyme pattern, create a casual, conversational air more prosaic than poetic, and a somewhat blase tone which is reflective of the benign world illustrated in Brueghel's art. The casual, easy-going argument the tone suggests is ironic for the topic of discussion, the human position and its seeming indifference to suffering, is anything but light and easygoing. Appearing to be the antithesis of the sonnet, the poem does reflect the Petrarchan sonnet form in one way: Auden's poem is distinguished by two parts which relate to one another much like the octave and sestet of a sonnet. Thus, like a sonnet, the poem is marked by a definite break or turn in thought. The first thirteen lines of the poem introduce the poem's theme and discuss it in general term, while the second half of the poem develops and illustrates the general idea with a specific example. [Criticism] Another Time is the first book Auden published as an emigrant to the United States, and the collection is viewed by critics as a pivotal one that marks Auden's turn from secular political concerns towards ethical concerns, concerns often addressed by Christianity. "Musée des Beaux Arts" is one poem which captures Auden's increased awareness of Christianity. The poem hints at Auden's involvement in the conflict between meaningful events and an oblivious world. In W. H. Auden Dennis Davidson argues that this involvement is suggested by the use of adjectives that indicate certain values, for instance, a "miraculous birth," or an "important failure." These words hint at an emotional sensitivity which recognizes and feels human suffering within a cold and indifferent world. Davidson calls such a response, as captured in the closing lines of the poem, a "sensitive acceptance." "Sensitive acceptance" means taking a stance midpoint between hardened stoicism and ardent sensibility. While such a response recalls the individual who reads of human tragedy in the newspaper as he/she engages in a mundane activity such as consuming breakfast, this approach, according to Davidson, "points also in the direction of a religious acceptance of suffering." Religious acceptance means coming to terms with the ways of the world. Thus, the poem hints at Auden's increased interest in ethical concerns and his eventual reconversion to Christianity. Richard Johnson, in Man's Place: An Essay on Auden, also states that the poem insinuates a Christian awareness, particularly in its construction of time. Johnson notes that the poem shifts one's perspective of reality. It does this by layering time and events. For instance, the poem places the reader in front of a painting in a museum, challenging the reader to develop the analogy between the world within the painting and the world outside the museum. By leading the reader through various periods of time (through the images in the poem), a continuity of events is implied. Thus, events such as the birth and death of Christ become relevant to the time and place of the reader. Johnson states, "the perspective shifts constantly to put the reader into the position of being able to see," to see things in a way one normally would not see. Such shifts make the reader "aware of his 'human position.'" Addressing one's "human position" means determining one's response to and place in the world, and this is achieved through the individual consideration of issues such as those presented in the poem. For a line-by-line analysis, see http://www.gale.com/gale/poetry/musee.html


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Engineering - The School of Engineering and Technology has a 24 inch plotter available for Engineering and Technology Students. There is a charge per poster that must be paid out of a University Account Number. If your advisor is willing to pay for your poster out of a University Account, email Mike Flaherty or call 274-7393. Please provide 72 hours (three business days) for printing from this resource.
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Repro Graphics - A local company with reasonable costs (24" X 36" poster, laminated, under $50) located near campus at 437 North Illinois St.
FedEx - National Chain store with plotters available in most branches. The closest branch is at 120 Monument Circle, Suite # 107. Plotter and Poster cost is approximately $10 per square foot.


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Sabbatical leaves are a professional benefit accorded to qualified members of the certificated staff by the Board of Trustees for the purpose of study, research, or travel which will benefit the schools and students of the College.
Article 17.L. of the District/AFT 2121 Collective Bargaining Agreement details requirements and regulations regarding sabbatical leave. This page is designed to give basic guidance regarding sabbatical leave. If differences exist between the information contained in this page and the collective bargaining agreement, the collective bargaining agreement will govern.
Information and Application
Applications for the following academic year must be filed by the second Thursday in September. The District shall notify applicants of approval/non-approval by the second Thursday in October.
- Application for Sabbatical Leaves starting in the 2020-2021 academic year
Frequently Asked Questions
Am I eligible for Sabbatical Leave?
To be eligible for Sabbatical Leave, you must meet all of the following requirements:
- Have a minimum of twelve credited semesters of full-time service at the time of application
- All such service required certification qualifications
- All such service shall have been at City College of San Francisco.
Sabbatical leave requests are ranked on the basis of seniority, and only a limited number of persons receive sabbatical leaves each semester/year.
What types of sabbaticals are available?
There are three types of sabbaticals:
- Study sabbaticals involving nine semester units of coursework per semester
- Research sabbaticals involving a special project
- Travel sabbaticals involving travel for at least 80% of the sabbatical term
You can request either a one-year or one-semester sabbatical:
- Faculty on a one-year sabbatical are paid at 60% of their normal pay. It is possible to split the terms of a one-year sabbatical, as long as the two terms are within a three-year period. Faculty are required to complete two years of service at their normal load upon return from a one-year sabbatical.
- Faculty on a one-semester sabbatical are paid at 100% of their normal pay. No more than 25% of the sabbatical awards for any given year are one-semester sabbaticals. Faculty are required to complete one year of service at their normal load upon return from a one-semester sabbatical.
How do I apply for Sabbatical Leave?
Sabbatical Leave applications are made available in late Spring, and are due early in the Fall term. Sabbatical Leave applications are always made for the following academic year (apply in fall for sabbaticals that begin no earlier than the following fall). Completed sabbatical leave applications should be turned in to Human Resources.
The Sabbatical Review Committee reviews the applications for eligibility and strength of the proposal. Notifications of sabbatical leave approval are made by mid-October.
Specific deadlines for sabbatical application submission and award notification are detailed in Article 17.L of the contract.
Who keeps old sabbatical reports?
Sabbatical reports are archived in the Rosenberg Library archives. You can reach out to Oanh Mai, 415.452.5520 or email@example.com, for more information.
I've been approved for a sabbatical, and I'd like to change the nature of my sabbatical proposal. What do I do?
All requests for changing the nature of sabbatical proposals must be approved in advance. Send a letter detailing the nature of the proposed change to Michael Almaguer, Associate Vice Chancellor of Instruction, Mailbox C308.
I'm back from sabbatical -- now what?
You must submit a sabbatical report to Human Resources within 60 days of your return to duty.
- Faculty who have completed a study sabbatical must submit transcripts showing successful completion of coursework
- Faculty who have completed a research or travel sabbatical must submit a report describing and documenting the activities and accomplishments of the employee, how the program of study or travel agreed upon was carried out, and/or how the intent and purposes of the sabbatical were satisfied during the sabbatical leave. In addition, faculty who had completed a travel sabbatical must submit an itinerary.
Faculty who have completed the first term of a split one-year sabbatical must submit an interim report.


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February 19, 1918 - May 30, 2012
Narrowsburg, NY
Ruby Kraus, a longtime resident of Narrowsburg, passed away on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at Community Medical Center, Scranton, PA, following a long illness. She was 94 years of age. She was born on February 19, 1918 in Cochecton, NY to Katherine and Alexander Stephenson. She married Charles Kraus who predeceased her in 1997.
Ruby loved life, especially when she was surrounded by her family. She was a wonderful cook and was happiest when cooking for a crowd. Her green thumb was evident when she displayed her beautiful flower and vegetable gardens. She had a soft spot in her heart for animals and catered to all of them. These fine attributes were surpassed only by her generosity to others, especially to those less fortunate. She was always ready to give a helping hand for any reason. She believed in hard work and her favorite job was at the Concord Hotel where she took care of the indoor flowers and plants. She also was a cook at Kelly's Home for Adults and the Narrowsburg School cafeteria. She enjoyed good times and a good joke. We miss her already.
Ruby is survived by her five children: sons, Charles and his wife, Katherine of Dover, NH, Anthony and his companion Emogene Browskowski of Fort Myers, FL, and Robert and his wife Barbara of Howell, NJ; daughters, Ruby Vannatta of Summerton, SC, and Katherine Vannatta and her husband, Bill of Milford, PA; 11 grandchildren: Charles Kraus, William Kraus, Thomas Kraus, Leona Maree, Karen Roth, Susan Crouch, Linda Reed, Kenneth Kraus, Douglas Kraus, Tammy Wilson, Gregory Vannatta and three step-grandchildren: Robin Humphreys, Mark Grossman, and Dana Grossman. She is also survived by 16 great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband, Ruby was predeceased by her sisters, Cora Stephenson and Bertha Kellam; her brother, Robert Stephenson and her son-in-law, Norman Vannatta.
Visitation will be held on Friday, June 1, 2012 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 9 to 10 a.m. at Rasmussen Funeral Home, 90 Main Street in Narrowsburg, NY. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. on June 2, 2012 at the funeral home. Burial will follow at the St. Francis Cemetery in Narrowsburg, NY.
Memorial donations may be made to: Lava Fire Department, P.O. Box 456, Narrowsburg, NY 12764; Narrowsburg Fire Department, P.O. Box 184, Narrowsburg, NY 12764 or the Tusten Volunteer Ambulance Service. P.O. Box 34, Narrowsburg, NY 12764.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rasmussen Funeral Home, Narrowsburg, NY 845-252-3901.


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Digg.com has become the latest Web 2.0 service to be abused by hackers in order to punt malware.
More than 500,000 bogus comments have reportedly been posted on the site in order to drive traffic to 15 malware-hosting domains that promote a rogue anti-virus (scareware) package. Panda Security compares the attacks, mounted by miscreants through bogus or compromised legitimate accounts, to Rickrolling.
But instead of being redirected to an innocuous copy of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, surfers are induced to download a booby-trapped file disguised as a video codec.
"Malware distributors have been creating false stories with catchy subject lines as an attempt to bait (Rickroll) users into clicking links leading to an infection," explains Panda researcher Sean-Paul Correll. "In some cases the attackers do not create the news story themselves, rather linking to others relevant content."
As well as driving surfers to maliciously constructed domains, the trick also boosts the search engine ranking of hacker-controlled websites. Digg.com's abuse department has been notified of the attack and the malware domains it seeks to promote.
Security blogger Dancho Danchev adds that the practice of "self-recommendation" incorporated within the Digg attack is reminiscent of an eBay bot attack in 2006, when bogus accounts were used to boost the number of recommendations received by hacker-controlled accounts. The ruse was designed to boost the apparent credibility of fraudulent accounts once they were used to run sham auctions designed to fleece bidders while never delivering any goods.
Over recent weeks both LinkedIn and Twitter have been used to distribute malware in a pattern of abuse that now extends to Digg and shows no signs of dying off. ®


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Nets survive Game 5, beating Bulls, 110-91
Just in case the Nets weren't already bothered by how they coughed up that 14-point lead on the very same day a Chicago writer said the Bulls privately had called the Nets "gutless, heartless," P.J. Carlesimo had a plan.
The Nets' interim coach had someone fire up the video machine at the team's practice facility during Monday morning's shootaround in preparation for Game 5 against the Bulls in their Eastern Conference first-round series. Carlesimo had the piercing comment replayed, hoping it would light a spark among his crew.
"We laughed about it," Deron Williams said. "P.J. wanted us to watch it, and we're sitting there after it was over, and we're like, 'That's it?' What are we supposed to do now? Be like, 'Ahhhh, we're mad!' That doesn't mean anything.
"We wanted to win this game for us and for our fans and for a chance to extend our season. We didn't want to go fishing. We don't want to be on TNT with the hats on and going fishing and them talking about us."
That won't happen yet, as the Nets staved off elimination Monday night. They outscored the Bulls by 15 in the fourth quarter, riding some key late-game playmaking to a 110-91 victory at Barclays Center that cut Chicago's series lead to 3-2.
Game 6 is set for Thursday night at the United Center.
Brook Lopez spearheaded the Nets' offensive charge with 28 points and 10 rebounds, marking the fifth straight game he's scored 20-plus points. Williams added 23 points and 10 assists and Andray Blatche had 13 points and five rebounds off the bench.
The reserve center had 10 points and four rebounds in the fourth quarter alone, making Carlesimo look good for sticking with the combo of Blatche and Lopez down the stretch.
"I just wanted to get the ball into the paint and be aggressive, not settle for jump shots," said Blatche, who shot 4-for-6 in the fourth quarter. "So that's what I did. I decided to stay in attack mode."
Even with the Bulls missing Kirk Hinrich, who was in a walking boot Monday after suffering a left calf injury Saturday, the Nets were in a tight one at the outset of the fourth quarter. They had a 77-73 lead and the Bulls cut it to one point on three occasions early in the quarter.
But each time the Bulls closed in, the Nets answered, refusing to go down without a fight. Things didn't really get settled until Gerald Wallace left his imprint on the game in the closing moments.
After burying a huge three-pointer for a 101-91 bulge, he jumped in front of a pass intended for Luol Deng and raced upcourt for an uncontested dunk, propelling the Nets to a 12-point lead.
That proved to be enough this time, unlike the late 14-point lead they gave away in Saturday's triple-overtime loss.
"If you look back at it, we've played them, what, eight times already," Wallace said. "We feel like in all eight games, we've controlled the games for like 40, 45 minutes in every single game, and it seems like in those four or five minutes of the fourth quarter, they kind of take control and they get us out of what we are doing and they make shots, they make a run.
"We feel like we are the better team. We just have to play a 48-minute game, play it completely and stay in attack mode. I think we kind of relax when we are up with four or five minutes left."
For one night at least, they could say they were far from "gutless, heartless." In fact, who knows? They might even break out that footage again, sitting back to enjoy it while munching on some popcorn.
"Maybe," Williams said. "Maybe that's going to be our theme now."


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Transocean in India (PDF, 471 Kb)
January 08, 2013
Sodexo's Quality of Life services cover different facilities of Transocean in India, both offshore and onshore, to improve their performance.
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Reconciliation Action Plan in Australia for 2011-2012 (PDF, 3 Mb)
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June 16, 2011
For many years, BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, has been active at Olympic Dam, Australia's largest underground mine. As is typical for such large remote-site endeavors, one of the biggest challenges for them is to not only attract and retain quality workers, but also to find innovative ways to make sure they stay happy and healthy. That's why BHP Billiton recently decided to raise the bar for their Quality of Life service and to work with Sodexo.
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Today, ConocoPhillips produces one third of Alaska's oil, with a presence in this region going back over 50 years. Sodexo has provided services to ConocoPhillips for over 20 years, and our unique partnership with the Doyon Native Regional Corporation – established by the US Congress – has resulted in an unparalleled powerhouse of expertise and services in the region.
CTSD in Sakhalin (PDF, 301 Kb)
June 16, 2011
In 2004, the Japanese firm Chiyoda, in a joint venture (CTSD), was awarded by Sakhalin Energy Investment Company the contract to build Russia's first ever liquefied natural gas plant in the harsh subarctic environment of Sakhalin Island. CTSD needed a committed, long standing partner that could rise to the challenge (a huge investment, camp commissioning, thousands of employees from many nationalities, strict local government regulations, tight budgets and extreme climatic conditions...) allowing them to concentrate on getting the job done. CTSD chose Sodexo, based on several past experiences between Chiyoda and Sodexo on large projects in Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
QMM in Madagascar (PDF, 356 Kb)
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QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) was given the green light in 2005 to develop an ilmenite (titanium dioxide) mine near Fort-Dauphin in South East Madagascar. In 2006, QMM appointed Sodexo to kick start operations with the island's first large scale Pioneer Village. Achieving this in a country with no existing infrastructure and in one of the most inaccessible areas of the island demonstrates Sodexo's exceptional expertise and dedication in delivering for its clients, solutions that go beyond their expectations.
Asia Pacific leaflet (PDF, 840 Kb)
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Asia-Pacific companies are rapidly evolving into major world players, competing with long-standing international organizations in their quest for growth. As a result, their expectations are rising. That's where Sodexo comes in, to help you match and even surpass these expectations.
Dakar Rally in South America (PDF, 562 Kb)
May 30, 2011
In 2009, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) had to move the Dakar Rally to Chile and Argentina due to geopolitical issues. For the first time ever, the Dakar would embark on a new continent – and, with it, a new world of challenges. A.S.O. needed Sodexo, a reliable partner with the experience, infrastructure and local knowledge necessary to make the transition a success.
Shell in Qatar (PDF, 494 Kb)
February 23, 2011
One of Shell's most extensive endeavors, the Pearl GTL (gas to liquids) Project in Qatar was contracted through JK – a joint venture between JGC and KBR – and in collaboration with Qatar Petroleum. When completed, Pearl GTL will be the largest GTL plant on the planet. But Shell had a particular need: 3,500 new workers had to be housed, and Shell's main accommodation camp was already full. What's more, this wasn't just any location. The activity in Ras Laffan Industrial City is very intense and you can't just go shopping around for new facilities in such a desert environment. Shell would settle for nothing less than an ultra-reactive partner like Sodexo able to mobilize a new camp efficiently, while delivering the highest-quality operation and maintenance services possible.
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Is It Time for a Set of 'Localist Papers'?
In the Federalist Papers, the Founders articulated their goals for a new system of government. Today's local governments need something similar to be ready to deal with the challenges they face.
Williamsburg, Va., was the perfect backdrop for the recent "BIG Ideas" conference sponsored by the Alliance for Innovation. The colonial setting stimulated much interesting discussion among the 100-plus participants--all of them people who spend a great deal of time thinking about local government. We were challenged by the event facilitators to consider the future of local government "as seen through the lens of the ideas which gave birth to the American experiment in republican and democratic self-government."
The perceived need among the Founding Fathers, embodied in the Federalist Papers, for a more effective centralized government, rational political leadership and a set of guiding principles that could bring harmony to a divisive and polarized body politic are as much hallmarks of our governmental environment today as they were in the late 18th century.
Given these similarities, I invited a handful of fellow conference attendees to think about whether we would benefit from development of a set of 21st-century "Localist Papers," modeled on the Federalist Papers, and how such a set of documents might envision the structure, role and responsibilities of today's local government.
There was consensus that the United States could benefit greatly from a set of clear and compelling topical essays that would articulate the role of local government within our modern federal system, focusing more on the purpose and structure of local governance than on its relationship with the federal government. To be successful, these Localist Papers would need to be both descriptive and prescriptive.
The Federalist Papers focused primarily on governmental design and not necessarily on the policies that would emerge as a result. Although the Founding Fathers had great foresight, they could not have contemplated fully the long-term effects that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would have on our day-to-day governance. As a result, we find ourselves hard-pressed to reach consensus on how to address many of the challenges we face today, such as the divisiveness among political party factions (the Founders didn't want any) and the role of the states.
While the Founding Fathers went out of their way--by establishing a series of unique checks and balances--to create through the Constitution a system that would preclude the threat of dictatorship, over the years this system of redundancy has led to governmental inefficiency. Efficient service provision requires an efficient delivery structure, and it is the role of local government to separate out the untidiness of policy development from the provision of services. Our state and federal governments would do well to take a long look at the number of institutions and agencies we have created with an eye toward separating out the why and the how.
The first role of local government is to provide a forum through which a community can decide what is important as a way of agreeing on a desired level of service responsibility. A set of Localist Papers could advocate a vision for our local governments as organizations that could articulate their community vision, innovate and collaborate with other communities to achieve their goals. Rather than dictating the relationship among our federal, state and local governments, these new documents could advocate a set of broad, national concepts or ground rules that then could be tailored to address the varying needs and desires of its constituents.
Another challenge for a set of 21st century Localist Papers would be to match the political and social identities of the thousands of local governments throughout the United States with the scale required to deal with the issues that are most important, including jobs and the economy, safety, education, health care, the environment, infrastructure and quality of life.
Enabling our local governments to succeed in the 21st century may require us to embrace local-government structures that are even more varied in size, scope and complexity than they are today. Given the already politically divisive nature of our governance, we must ask ourselves whether this is a vision that we can realistically achieve. A guiding set of Localist Papers, crafted for our modern age, might help us answer that question.


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Flash: Berkeley Mayor Bates is Running--Again
With no fanfare, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates,73, slipped in under the radar on Monday and filed a form kicking off his campaign to become a candidate for a fourth term--the "Campaign Intention Statement" of the "Re-Elect Mayor Tom Bates Committee."
He's already served one two-year and two four-year terms, so if he wins another four-year term, he'll have been mayor of Berkeley for a total of fourteen years.
His wife Loni Hancock, now running for yet another term as State Senator from the district which includes Berkeley, preceded him in the Berkeley mayor's office. This time the Mayor's race will be decided by ranked choice voting, but as yet no other candidates have appeared to be willing to challenge the formidable power of the well-oiled Bates-Hancock apparatus, which last week knocked Oakland Assemblymember Sandre Swanson out of the race for the Senate seat. -more-


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A lengthy and far-reaching study being bankrolled by the U.S. Department of Treasury will deliver environmentalists and other liberal groups ammunition for their rigorous campaign to curb so-called "global warming," possibly including a new carbon levy weaved into the U.S. tax code. In short, it's an analysis determined to advocate a "green" tax code for American businesses and individual taxpayers.
The $1.5 million study, "Effects of Provisions in the Internal Revenue Code on Greenhouse Gas Emissions," is being administered under the guidance of the National Academy of Science (NAS). Originally projected to take two years, the project targets mechanisms of the U.S. tax code in terms of its impact of its most critical provisions on carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases — a massive and complex campaign in environmental and economic modeling. In the course of the project,
The committee will first determine the most appropriate analytical framework and methodology to use in examining the effects of the tax code on greenhouse gas emissions. It will consider both provisions that may increase emission rates as well as those having the effect of lowering them over specific periods, and both direct (e.g., fuel-related provisions) and indirect measures (e.g., the home mortgage deduction and the investment tax credit). Studying the tax code's impact on GHG emissions the panel will necessarily focus heavily on energy, both the life cycles of different energy sources and their uses in different sectors such as electricity generation, transportation, industrial processes, and consumer uses (including in households). The study may extend to areas beyond energy, such as agriculture, forestry, urban development, and other land uses which can have significant effects on GHG emissions.
The project, allegedly, will not advocate specific new taxes or incentives, nor changes in current provisions of the tax code, but will "outline principles and criteria for formulating climate-sensitive tax policy in the future," according to the NAS website. Originally slated to publish in September, its official release has been delayed until the first quarter of 2013.
The NAS study completely ignores the job creation or economic aspects of the tax code, but instead questions the levels of greenhouse gases that are being released by its provisions. These provisions involve not only deductions and incentives for production of various kinds of energy, but also provisions such as the investment tax credit and the home mortgage deduction — which have an effect on business activity as well as impacting agriculture, urban development, and all aspects of industrial processes.
While the study asserts that it will not advocate for any specific taxes in existing provisions of the tax code, it "may evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of different tax measures in reducing GHG emissions relative to other policy instruments." In short, the project may, according to Fox News, "provide the means to 'comparison shop' tax levels and tax incentives for a wide variety of economic and social activities on the basis of their alleged impact on global warming."
Until the study is officially published, experts will be unable to examine its explicit research efforts, which allegedly comprise four consultants' reports sponsored by the National Academy's committee appointed to manage the study. One of the four reports was produced by a consulting firm managed by Dale Jorgenson, an acclaimed economics professor at Harvard University, and former chairman of the NAS board that was appointed to launch the eco-tax campaign.
Among other research efforts displayed on Jorgenson's Harvard University website, is a recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance titled "Tax Reform: the Impact on U.S. Energy Policy," in which the economist details a reformed system of energy taxes on oil, coal, and natural gas that could "clean up the environment and slow global warming." According to Jorgenson, these new revenue sources could also "close the budget gap and reduce tax rates as part of comprehensive tax reform."
While NAS experts attempt to downplay the political advocacies of its analysis, some critics argue that its explicit intent is to institute a burdensome carbon tax on businesses and individual taxpayers. Ken Green, an environmental analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, says the entire study looks "like another effort aimed at paving the way for weaving carbon taxes into tax reform." Mr. Green contends that such taxes are not only unproductive, but curb economic growth and are actually regressive, as they hurt lower-income earners more than higher-income earners.
According to Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), a former member of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, the NAS study is "a waste of money," whose conclusions, whenever they are released, should be disputed. "They are simply trying to bypass the people's representatives and use technocrats to achieve their agenda."
The eco-tax campaign is bound to escalate in the aftermath of next week's presidential election, as the nation confronts a skyrocketing deficit and a complicated tax code that is ripe for reform. Environmental activists and Democratic lawmakers are likely to pose a myriad of innovative, environmental components, with carbon taxes and major shifts in tax rates as part of this evolutionary phase. Those involved in the eco-tax project are looking to use the impending study as a weapon to advance this cause.
Some critics predict that another four years of Obama would allow the president to let loose on controversial policies that are more polarizing, as he will no longer have to worry about certain political ramifications. A struggling economy, with persistently high unemployment, has placed policies relating to climate change on the back burner. However, if Obama was to secure a second term, critics note, contentious issues like carbon taxes and other potentially unpopular "green" policies may come full force.
As the president told outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in May, referring to missile defense, "This is my last election … After my election I have more flexibility."


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Solid colored swag window Valance. Constructed of perma-press poly/cotton fabric with or without lining. Sold as a pair, includes right and left pieces with total width about 74 inches wide and 36 inches total length. Fits windows up for 40 inches wide. Order extra center for wider windows. Extra Center Piece measures 40 inches wide and about 14 inches long.
Please measure your window correctly. This is a custom sewn product so there is a 30% re-stocking fee plus shipping both ways is your expense in case of a return. Returns in perfect shape only accepted within 30 days of receipt of your curtains.
WASHING: lined or Non-Lined valance can be gentle washed and tumbled low or no heat, touch up with low temp iron. NO BLEACH, gentle detergent.