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TNB: House Rules
Be a filthy, vulgar dirtbag all you want, just not in my house.
They say that crude and vulgar behavior corrodes society, but climbers have made a way of life out of being obscene, self-centered and inconsiderate.
Whether it's orgiastic drinking binges on a lonesome desert wash, creating pandemonium on shuttle buses in national parks, or scamming ways to live for
free for as long as possible, climbing, at its core cultural essence, is really a form of rebellion against the fakery, Puritanism and greed underpinning
mainstream society. You only need to look as far back as the 1960s with the Vulgarians to see that this is true.
The Vulgarians, in case you've never heard of them, were the East Coast equivalent to Yosemite's Stonemasters—only they were way badder.
The only reason we don't hear much about the Vulgarians today—while the Stonemasters continue to appear once a year on Rock and Ice covers—is
because in the days of yore, the Vulgarians were too busy soloing naked at the Shawangunks (the Junks, as I call them) to be bothered to take photos
of themselves or write self-congratulatory stories that embellish their exploits. This fuzzy record of their history is proof that if you don't make
your own legacy, no one will.
I wrote to a friend and O.V. (Original Vulgarian) "Clawed" Suhl to see whether his erstwhile gang actually lived up to its name.
"I will cogitate and rake my memory cells and any stray mammary that passes by so as to arrive at some crudessential truths," began Clawed's response.
"Let's see … the vision forms in my mind's eye. A faint darkness punctuated by traffic headlights. Neon bar signs. Gold glows from half-spent
pitchers of beer.
"Lots of beer. Pretty as a pitcher. Certain inhabitants of the Bavarian Inn, aka the 'Barbarian' Inn for its pleasant Third Reichian atmosphere, prove
distressing. Their behavior does not meet the acceptable standards of our gang. Thus a desire for retribution wells up in our minds as something necessary.
"Myself, Dave Craft (the ringleader), Dick Williams and Pete Geiser stagger out the front door, anticipating the upcoming departure of those deemed in
need of sanctions. We ruffle around the corner of the bar, and assault a brick chimney that leads to the roof. Merrily we piss off the roof, over the
front door, as the departing blokes below seem astonished at the sudden onslaught of a mild shower.
"Headlights weave away. Unfinished pitchers meet their end. And a new legend has been born."
When I hear stories such as this, a fierce joy wells up in my heart because I belong—at least in some manner of shared common attitude, if not direct
lineage—to such a playfully offensive and filthy circle. It's the kind of pride that makes your father cringe, which is perhaps the most attractive
reason of all to this man-child still farting around in Freud's middle stages of development.
Those diabolical maniacs lived in a different time, however. People weren't so afraid. Back then, if I may speculate carelessly, it seemed as though more
people could express themselves freely without the fear of being locked up in jail, a reality that new-school climbers with power drills must face
every weekend.
Today, the only pissing that climbers do is the metaphorical kind on sport routes. Professional climbers tell us, via blogs and 8a.nu scorecards,
"I pissed on that route! Yeah! I'm a professional! Woot! Woot!"
Sadly, such cheap tropes indicate that much of the vulgar behavior of today's climber merely comprise of dumb figures of speech for those too illiterate
to read anything longer than a Tweet. They may be professionals, but their image is all amateur.
God forbid if one of these professionals—or any vulgar dirtbag on the climbing circuit, for that matter—wants a place to stay, or specifically,
your place to stay. It's OK by me to be flippantly abusive to most congenital non-climbers. However, we are treating the homes of our fellow
grimpers like the boulders behind Camp 4, a type of self-obsessed thoughtlessness that has turned us against each other. Every Quentin Tarantino movie
I've seen tells me this type of behavior will not end well.
The sacred bond of the rope hasn't just been abandoned by the self-aggrandizing wenchers who suck money out of every corporate orifice they can get their
lips over in order to pursue their vain quest of bagging the Seven Summits. Many regular rock climbers have lost respect for each other as well.
It came up just the other day with my belayer, Jen.
"I sometimes feel like you don't respect me or our relationship," the belayer said.
"What are you talking about?" I countered. "I always go in direct when I'm hangdogging."
The topic of conversation shifted as Jen, whose house had been overrun by five jobless and itinerant climbers, complained about finding rank urine all
over her toilet seat from the festivities of the prior night.
The words "jobless" and "itinerant," I realize, may evoke John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, but I'm not exactly talking about the downtrodden
here. A day in the life of many half-sponsored climbers looks something like this: They wake up around 11 a.m., and spend the next two hours chatting
on Facebook, looking through their library of videos and photos of themselves, slagging other climbers for their latest upgrades on 8a.nu, and otherwise
wanking around on the Internet (e-mailing sponsors, grunt-laughing at YouTube, etc.). This is a period of "work," after which it's time to start entertaining
the idea of going rock climbing. They reach the crag or boulders, do one or two warm-ups, smoke a bunch of weed, and get on the hardest route they
can find. They yell at each other in Spanish, snap photos of each other, and then head back home to consume half a pint of whiskey (each) and make
a giant meal. Dishes pile up in the sink as they ravage their third bottle of red wine. Now sufficiently hot and buttered, they step out onto a porch
to smoke more weed and loudly express their frustrations with the climbing industry until 2 a.m.
Any libertine would find this lifestyle totally fine, but it doesn't jibe with people who wake up at 6 a.m. for a job to make the money needed for a place
to live. We've gone from pissing on bar ruffians, to pissing on routes, to pissing on our friends' homes.
Maybe you know someone like this. Maybe you are someone like this. Either way, it seems appropriate, in this new age of self-centered atavism and vulgarity,
to lay down some house rules. Basic manners, really. Fortunately, the most courteous principles for how to behave in a place that doesn't belong to
you have already been laid out by the tree-huggers in the hippie wilderness credo Leave No Trace (LNT). Let's see how:
One time, I desperately wanted to climb around Las Vegas, so I called up my friend and spiritual mentor Bill Ramsey, who lived there. Of course, he said,
it would be fine if I stayed with him.
Upon sharing my upcoming plans with Mason, a mutual friend, I received some advice that maybe just saved my ass.
"Don't even think about showing up at Ramsey's house without a gift," Mason said. "I know some Canadians who stayed with Ramsey, but never once stocked
the beer fridge. I heard Ramsey beat them like shit-eating dogs!"
Never enter someone's house without a fine bottle of scotch, or in Ramsey's case, Tito's handmade vodka. When I unsheathed the clear bottle of Austin's
finest from my duffle bag, a hopeful and welcoming sparkle emerged in Ramsey's eye, and I knew any unforeseen and unfortunate issues with my presence
would be automatically forgiven … just as long as the bottle was full, of course. As we got blown out, we covered everything from Nietzsche
to Sharma to the tremendous gyrations of Shakira's hips. The swelling weight of our inebriation pulled us deeply into the cushions of our respective
couches, and from that depressed vantage, we enjoyed each other's company. Unbeknownst to him, however, I concealed paranoia, watching aghast as the
bottle of Tito's slowly drained. Like sand in an hourglass, it indicated to me how much time I had till my presence would change and become entirely
If you want to stay up and party till 2 a.m., that's fine. But don't get pissed when the lights come on and coffee-grinding noises go off in the adjacent
kitchen at 6 a.m.
A van or truck outfitted with a bed can be extremely beneficial in helping to minimize your impact on your host's home. No one wants to tiptoe around his
or her own floors every morning, especially climbers, who already stand on their toes too much.
If staying for an extended period of time, consider using the Walmart return policy to make your stay more comfortable. Get a slat of memory foam, sheets
and pillows, and set up your bed in the most inconspicuous corner of the abode. You'll have 90 days to return everything. One climber, in a manic rush
to get to longer, drier rock in Europe, forgot to return his $300 queen-size foam bed. After a period of moral deliberation, his host appropriated
the mattress as "room and board," returning it himself, obtaining full store credit and promptly embarking on a wild shopping spree for groceries.
Did you know Walmart has organic vegetables?
People mix these two concepts up in a fit of dyslexic negligence. It's not leave your waste and dispose of what you find, got it?
Years ago, when I was more dumb, I let a new-school Vulgarian stay on my couch. Before I knew it, 30 days had passed and he was still there, breaking wine
glasses and pissing on my floor and projects. As his presence increased and became more permanent, I began to live in fear of him in the way a grandma
might cower before a gang of Bloods. The balance of power had shifted, and I began buying groceries for my new master. Pretty soon I found myself somehow
evicted from my own bed, banished to the couch! Wrong! Eventually, my landlord regulated the situation, and kicked this most sinister squatter out,
so I, like a Golem, began to worship my landlord instead.
After you bring your host a bottle of scotch or vodka, you'll likely be spending many nights together drinking it. The increased alcohol intake is entirely
symptomatic of the fact that your host doesn't really want you there, but feels obligated to entertain you and is also looking for any way to pass
the awkward hours more quickly.
Try to be considerate of this fact the next morning when your host wakes up with a hangover. A great houseguest who can cure a hangover will be canonized.
Here is a remedy that I guarantee will work: two fried eggs, two bananas and fruit juice for breakfast. Tea (not coffee). Upon waking up, bring your
host one liter of water and two Advils. Stroke his hair, and recite this poem from Robert Frost:
Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
Andrew Bisharat knows in his heart that he is a doomed Vulgarian born in the different era.


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"Total disappointed of no result."
Pygmy. By Chuck Palahniuk. Doubleday, 241 pp., $24.95.
By Janice Harayda
Begins here report of critic me on novel by Fight Club author all in mangled English dorky like this. Combining terrorist high-school exchange students from county like China except some with Hungarian names like Tibor and Magda, plot with bioweapon to murder many Americans at science fair in Washington. In actual, main operative Pygmy co-opted by shallow, corrupt, depraved host country. Want to read you no. Critic me quote line from book, "Total disappointed of no result."
Best line: A quote from the Socialist Eugene V. Debs, "Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."
Worst line: Yes, the entire book consists of lines like: No. 1: "Succulent barrier much thrusting mammary glands shield operative me, swinging lady buttocks further thwart attacks." No. 2: "Tongue of operative me lick, licking, touching back tooth on bottom, molar where planted inside forms cyanide hollow, touching not biting." No. 3: "For official record, effect worst – idiot song flush from head of operative me most irregular verbs Mandarin Chinese. Erode all knowledge Portuguese. Idiot lyric overwhelm understanding advanced field equations calculus. Overpower and devastate to oblivion stored memory to operate Iranian-manufactured Khaybar KH2002 medium-barrel assault rifle. Crowd no longer recall how many rounds per minute capable firing Ukrainian Vepr assault rifle." No. 4: "Edging more close, ranked wall of killer assassins stance ready for execute Cobra One-Strike No-Blood." No. 5: "In greater afraid … within thinking machine operative me, this agent ponder if entire being operative me pitted for destroy American, annihilate homosexual, crackpot Methodist religion, Lutheran and Baptist cult, extinguish all decadent bourgeoise – subsequent successful total such destruction: Render this agent obsolete? Of no worth?"
Furthermore: A review at the Daily Beast has more on Pygmy. An essay in Salon discusses Palahniuk's other books.
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Go Ask Alice: Still cliquing after all these years
So I did it. I shelled out the $40 per person to attend my 20th high school reunion Thanksgiving weekend.
Sparsely attended is the best way to describe the event, which was held in a function facility about 15 minutes from my parents' suburban Philadelphia home.
Although I had mine by my side, spouses of the Abington High School Class of 1987 members were as rare as the trays of pigs in blankets and mini quiche being butlered around the cavernous ballroom. There was a DJ spinning — you guessed it — a variety of 80s tunes, but no one was dancing.
The old high school cliques were still cliquing, forming small groups surrounding the small bar in the room, and when the hors d'oeuvres buffet opened for business, no one really budged from their appointed positions closest to the cocktails.
I had classes with some of the people or knew them from the school newspaper, yearbook staff or other clubs, but I wasn't really close to any of them outside of school. My dearest and oldest friend, Amie, talked me into going to the reunion. And while she was what I would call shy and reserved in high school, she worked the room better than anyone Friday night, whizzing around with old photos we found piled on one of the tables and showing classmates pictures of themselves during their glory days on the playing fields or grooving on the high school gym floor at one of our school dances.
My husband mixed and mingled well, too, chatting with a classmate who I didn't recall, and one of the only other people there who brought their spouse. He and his wife live in Chelmsford, Mass., which gave us some common things to discuss as we now live in the same Commonwealth.
Among the things I noticed: The women in my class have aged better than the men, many of whom were very gray and others surprisingly bald. There were a few classmates who clearly had some "work done" and I found them truly unrecognizable. I was glad to hear so many classmates tell me I looked "exactly the same" as I did 20 years ago. I know they're exaggerating or out-in-out lying, but it made me feel good.
The pictures on the other hand didn't lie; the hair was big, the shorts were short, the sleeves were puffy and the pants were baggy. Amie got us geared up for the reunion Thanksgiving night digging out our old yearbooks from junior and senior high school so we could brush up on names and faces.My 8-year-old son thought it was cool his mom was on the seventh-grade girls basketball team and my husband convinced him that it was I who started the headband trend that Paul Pierce and other NBA stars continue today.
In the end, I was disappointed to see so few of the people I knew best during our high school years at the reunion. And I was surprised by some of the very nice conversations I had with people who never spoke to me in high school.
The highlight of the event was getting two big bear hugs from Larry Waugh, who played football and was well-known and liked in high school. He exudes charisma and charm even 20 years later, and while I didn't really know him very well back in the mid-1980s, I felt like I wish I had, and certainly wanted to last week. We chatted briefly and I felt sincerity, a genuineness from him that was lacking in my reunion with so many others that night.
High school seems -- and really was -- a lifetime ago, but as much as things have changed for us in our lives, the people we knew then haven't changed much at all.
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Indian police search for evidence in bomb attack; 15 dead
- The bombs were attached to two bicycles
- Blasts were first major attack since September 2011
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Indian police investigating a dual bomb attack that killed 15 people outside a movie theater and a bus station in the southern city of Hyderabad were searching for links to a shadowy Islamic militant group with reported ties to Pakistan, an official said Friday.
Officials were examining whether the Indian Mujahideen, which is thought to have a link with militants in neighboring Pakistan, might have carried out the attack, an investigator told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to reveal details of the probe. India's recent execution of an Islamic militant is being examined as a possible motive for the bombings, he said.
Police have not yet detained anyone in connection with the Thursday evening attack, the first major terror bombing in India since 2011.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said there was a general alert about the possibility of an attack somewhere in India for the past three days. "But there was no specific intelligence about a particular place," he said as he toured the site Friday morning.
The bombs were attached to two bicycles about 150 meters (500 feet) apart in Hyderabad's Dilsukh Nagar district, Shinde said. He said in addition to the dead, 119 others were injured.
The bombs exploded minutes apart in a crowded shopping area. The blasts shattered storefronts, scattered food and plates from roadside restaurants and left tangles of dead bodies. Passersby rushed the wounded to hospitals.
"This is a dastardly attack; the guilty will not go unpunished," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. He appealed to the public to remain calm.
Top state police officer V. Dinesh Reddy said improvised explosive devices with nitrogen compound were used in the blasts, which he blamed on a "terrorist network."
On Friday morning, police with cameras, gloves and plastic evidence bags used pointers to gingerly look through the debris. Officials from the National Investigation Agency and commandos of the National Security Guards arrived from New Delhi to help with the investigation.
India has been under a heightened state of alert over the hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri militant nearly two weeks ago. He was executed for his involvement in a 2001 attack on India's Parliament that killed 14 people, including five of the gunmen.
Since the execution, near-daily protests have rocked Indian-ruled Kashmir, where many people believe Guru did not receive a fair trial. Anger in a region where anti-India sentiment runs deep was further fueled by the secrecy with which the execution was carried out.
Mahesh Kumar, a 21-year-old student, was heading home from a tutoring class when one of the bombs went off.
"I heard a huge sound and something hit me, I fell down, and somebody brought me to the hospital," said Kumar, who suffered shrapnel wounds.
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"This (attack) is to disturb the peaceful living of all communities in Andhra Pradesh," said Kiran Kumar Reddy, the state's chief minister.
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The attack was the second bombing in the Hindu-dominated area, following a 2000 blast outside a Hindu temple that killed two people. In 2007, a twin bombing killed 40 people in two other Hyderabad districts.
The United States, whose Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting Thursday in Washington with Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, condemned the attack.
"The United States stands with India in combating the scourge of terrorism and we also prepared to offer any and all assistance Indian authorities may need," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a news briefing.
Rana Banerji, a former security official, said India remains vulnerable to such attacks because there is poor coordination between the national government and the states. Police reforms are also moving very slowly and the quality of intelligence gathering is poor, he said.
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"Time is always a player" in the lives of three adult siblings touched by tragedy
Carry the One. By Carol Anshaw. Simon & Schuster, 253 pp., $25.
By Janice Harayda
You might expect a lot of drama in a novel in which the three main characters have the names of opera figures or variations on them. But Carry the One inverts the structure of the warhorses it invokes – Carmen, Nabucco and Lucia di Lammermoor. The dead bodies in those operas don't arrive until the third or fourth act. A 10-year-old girl dies in the first chapter of Carry the One after being struck by a car full of stoned and drunken guests who have just attended wedding of Carmen Kenney at a farm near Chicago in 1983. That event turns out to be the high point of the dramatic action in a novel that for all its eloquence, has an unsteady forward momentum.
For the next 25 years the post-wedding tragedy will recur like a dark musical motif in the lives of the bride and her adult siblings, Alice and Nick. Each of the Kenneys faces a crisis with a perhaps unintentional operatic counterpart. As her namesake spurns a soldier for a toreador, Carmen finds herself betrayed by her unexciting husband. As Lucia longs for the lord of Ravenswood Castle, Alice pines for an absent lesbian lover. And as Nabucco goes mad, Nick suffers from a mind ravaged by drugs. All of this finds its theme in an idea central to Gounod's Faust: the power of time to lift, add to, or reshape burdens. In affairs of the heart, a character says, "Time is always a player." And "player" has a double meaning: Time affects destiny, and it plays with us.
Carl Anshaw develops her theme with wit and intelligence. She has the literary equivalent of a gift for bel canto, an operatic form marked in part by its elegance of phrasing and purity of tone. Carry the One abounds with writing layered with meaning, beginning in its first sentence: "So Carmen was married, just." Does the "just" mean "recently," "barely," or "only"? The scene can support all of those meanings.
Appealing as it is, Anshaw's bel canto writing style makes an imperfect vehicle for a story with grand opera undertones. Her plot unfolds over so many years that she can't dramatize all of the changes her characters undergo and at times relies on flat exposition such as, "She knew Carmen tortured herself for letting them all leave the farm that night in a car running with just fog lamps." She also distributes weight of her story over so many major and minor characters — with frequent jump cuts from one to the next — that none acquires a poignancy befitting its tragedies. And the self-absorption of the Kenney children's parents tends to cloud the motives of the younger generation: You're never sure whether the heavy shadow over their lives results from their upbringing or the fatal crash in the opening pages.
But you don't to operas for plots that make sense in conventional terms. Would all of Seville really be falling at the feet of an overconfident barber like Figaro? Shouldn't Lucia di Lammermoor know right away that the forged letter is a trick to keep her from marrying Enrico? And why can't a smooth operator like Carmen keep herself out of trouble?
No, you go to operas for beautiful singing. And Carry the One has a through-line of it. When Carmen becomes a single parent, she finds that "she had lost her advantage against daily life": "Weeks, whole months passed beneath her notice, or off to the side while she was on the game show of her life. She ran from pillar to post then on to the next pillar, ringing bells, pressing lighted buttons and buzzers, making wild stabs at answers to questions she wasn't sure she had heard correctly, walking when she should be skipping, speaking when a song was expected. That show was called Single Parenthood." Has any single parent not had moments like that? Carry the One has such descriptions on nearly every page. And that, in operatic terms, is beautiful singing.
Best line: "Olivia's family was an epicenter of credit card frivolity." "Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury …" "Gabe idolized his uncle. He saw Nick's addictions enhanced by rock star lighting. Nick was his private Kurt Cobain."
Worst line: "a tricky rotator cuff." "So many tricky steps." "some tricky bipolar disorder." "success was going to be a little tricky." "Incoming calls were tricky for the Lisowskis" Waiting for an annulment "was apparently a tricky business." "Still, she left the tricky or cumbersome supply runs to Pim."
Reading group guide: A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide with discussion questions for Carry the One appeared on One-Minute Book Reviews on May 8, 2012.
Furthermore: Anshaw is a Chicago writer and painter who wrote Aquamarine and other books. She won the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. The Metropolitan Opera site includes synopses of Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor and Nabucco.
Published: March 2012
Janice Harayda is an award-winning critic and former book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. You can follow Jan (@janiceharayda) on Twitter by clicking on the "Follow" button on this page.
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- One of South Africa's largest infrastructure projects to include 240 BOMBARDIER TRAXX Africa locomotives
- Bombardier will manufacture all the locomotives in South Africa
Johannesburg, 2014-03-17 — /Travel PR News/ — Rail technology leader Bombardier Transportation South Africa (Pty) Ltd has signed a contract with Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) for the delivery of electric locomotives. Bombardier's 240 TRAXX Africa locomotives are set to be part of a complete fleet renewal programme involving four different suppliers. The contract is expected to be effective by end of March 2014, following certain administrative approvals.
TFR will use the dual-voltage electric locomotives for its general freight business in South Africa. The locomotives will be designed for speeds of up to 100 km/h. The TRAXX Africa design benefits from the vast experience of the TRAXX dual voltage locomotives being in operation with many of the leading European rail freight and passenger operators. TRAXX locomotives are well known for their high reliability, excellent traction capabilities, energy efficiency and low maintenance cost.
Bombardier will build all its new locomotives in South Africa and is committed to localizing more than 60% of the contract scope. This implies investments in local manufacturing capacity, training and further improving the skills development of local employees, while working with local partners to achieve the same objectives. In accordance with South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) program, this project will create a significant number of quality jobs and skills to complement overall developmental objectives.
Bombardier has been established in South Africa since 1995, supporting local industry in locomotive and commuter train refurbishment programs. As the lead member of the Bombela Consortium, Bombardier was responsible for the core electrical and mechanical design and equipment for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link. This prestigious turnkey project has provided a new state-of-the-art fleet of commuter trains and signaling systems for passenger services between Johannesburg and Tshwane as well as airport-link trains from Sandton. The majority of the 96 BOMBARDIER ELECTROSTAR vehicles for Gautrain underwent final assembly in South Africa.
As leader of the consortium Bombardier Africa Alliance, Bombardier is also implementing one of the largest conventional mainline re-signalling projects in South Africa. The consortium is delivering the globally-proven BOMBARDIER INTERFLO 200 rail control solution for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). This project constitutes a major multidisciplinary rail modernisation of the Durban main corridors.
About Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation, a global leader in rail technology, offers the broadest portfolio in the rail industry and delivers innovative products and services that set new standards in sustainable mobility. BOMBARDIER ECO4 technologies – built on the four cornerstones of energy, efficiency, economy and ecology – conserve energy, protect the environment and help to improve total train performance for operators and passengers. Bombardier Transportation is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and has a very diverse customer base with products or services in more than 60 countries. It has an installed base of over 100,000 vehicles worldwide.
About Bombardier
Bombardier is the world's only manufacturer of both planes and trains. Looking far ahead while delivering today, Bombardier is evolving mobility worldwide by answering the call for more efficient, sustainable and enjoyable transportation everywhere. Our vehicles, services and, most of all, our employees are what make us a global leader in transportation.
Bombardier is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. Our shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD) and we are listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes. In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, we posted revenues of $18.2 billion. News and information are available at bombardier.com or follow us on Twitter @Bombardier.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas vowed to continue fighting Israel Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Gazans turned out to celebrate the organization"s 25th anniversary.
Khaled Mashaal"s visit to the Palestinian territory — a first in his lifetime of exile — underscores Hamas" rising clout and regional acceptance since its eight-day conflict with Israel last month.
At the main stage in Gaza City, a roaring crowd greeted Mashaal and Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who emerged from a door built into a large model of a rocket fired at Israeli cities during the recent fighting.
Hamas" green dominated the gathering, where some children wore military uniforms and others carried guns. Masked gunmen holding automatic rifles flanked the podium where Mashaal gave a fiery speech.
"We are not giving up any inch of Palestine. It will remain Islamic and Arab for us and nobody else. Jihad and armed resistance is the only way," Mashaal said, referring to holy war. "We cannot recognize Israel"s legitimacy."
Mashaal said he would continue to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails — referring to a swap last year where an abducted Israeli soldier was exchanged for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.
The 56-year-old Mashaal, who left the West Bank as a child and now leads Hamas from the Gulf state of Qatar, entered Gaza on Friday via Egypt.
Hamas has received a boost from the political ascension of its parent movement, the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, in the wake of last year"s Arab Spring revolts — especially in Egypt.
It has also upped its profile as master of the Gaza Strip, leading it through the bloodiest round of fighting with Israel in four years and coming to a cease-fire arrangement in talks brokered by Egypt.
Hamas claimed victory in the conflict after holding its own despite airstrikes and maintaining an almost constant barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli cities.
The Nov. 21 cease-fire stipulated Israel would stop targeting militants. That, along with unprecedented support from Egypt, allowed Mashaal to make the visit without fear of Israeli assassination, which he has narrowly escaped in the past.
Israel, the U.S. and European Union list Hamas as a terrorist organization. Israel is now holding indirect talks with the group as a result of the cease-fire arrangement.


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This week the series premiere of Zero Hour's will offer up cults, conspiracies and evil Nazi Babies. Which coincides perfectly with the season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, in which one pony gets a special Princess Coronation. Could said coronation lead to the discover of an Evil Nazi Baby? It's almost too coincidental. Also, lots and lots of Valentine's Day-centric episodes! Archer seduces an old flame, The Regular Show gets romantic and Big Bang Theory attempts to be cute.
Regular Show (6:45 PM, Cartoon Network)
No new Adventure Time tonight, but as a special treat CN will be debuting a very special Valentine's Day-themed Regular Show.
Continuum (8 PM, Syfy):
This week the gang's future meddling hits close to home when Kellog's grandmother, Maddie, gets involved.
Kagame's return begins with a reset of Liber8's agenda, away from violence and towards blending into the community and fostering their revolution through co-opting existing structures. But they have a vulnerability - the possibility that if their ancestors, living in this time, are murdered, they might cease to exist. Due to Kiera's interference, Liber8 have decided to deal with her, and Kagame has a plan: by killing her grandmother Lily Jones, Kiera will never be born - getting rid of Kiera once and for all (as eliminating her grandmother means Kiera will never exist), and also testing the theory, with Kiera and her grandmother as the guinea pigs. The first woman they kill by the name of Lily turns out to be the wrong woman and when Kiera hears the news she knows exactly what Kagame's up to. She sets out to find her grandmother but isn't quite ready for the pregnant and homeless punk she finds living on the street. Kellog gives her a heads up, but a suspicious Kagame has already taken out insurance against him - Kellog's grandmother, Maddie. The game they are playing soon becomes tit for tat with no possible winner.
Being Human (9 PM, Syfy):
The monster roommates desperately try and set things back to normal and return to work, Aidan as a night nurse and Sally as a ghost-whispering morgue assistant. What could possibly go wrong? Watch the first four minutes of tonight's episode right now at the link.
Lost Girl (10 PM, Syfy):
"Bo and Lauren attempt to find a way to satisfy Bo's needs which means looking for sexual partners at the Dal Riata." We're in.
Also on TV tonight: There's a new Crash & Bernstein at 8:30 PM on Disney XD. Plus The Following at 9 PM on Fox. There's also a brand new Castle on ABC at 10 PM.
Not a lot of new drama this day but there's plenty of great reality TV like Doomsday Preppers on NGC at 9 PM, Dual Survival on Discovery at 9 PM, and a Valentine's Day-centric Total Blackout on Syfy at 10 PM. Nothing says romance like putting your head inside a box of rats in the dark... poor rats. Also on TV tonight: Looney Tunes Show and a new Level Up! as well as The Amazing World of Gumball on Cartoon Network at 7, PM.
Arrow (8 PM, The CW):
Diggle and Felicity have to save The Hood after he's shot. But on the plus side, Oliver's blackout induces a bunch of "back on the island" flashbacks.
MANU BENNETT ("SPARTACUS") GUEST STARS AS SLADE WILSON - After Oliver (Stephen Amell) is shot, he turns to a surprising person for help - Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards). Diggle (David Ramsey) is stunned when he sees Felicity walk through the front door of the lair dragging a dying Oliver behind her, and the two team up to save Oliver's life. As Oliver (Stephen Amell) hovers between life and death, he flashes back to a seminal event on the island - a daring escape attempt with his new friend Slade Wilson (guest star Manu Bennett).
Dragons: Riders of Berk (8 PM, Cartoon Network):
David Faustino (Bud Bundy from Married with Children) guest stars as Hiccup, and the gang struggle to uphold the traditions that keep peace between Berk and the Beserkers.
The Neighbors (8:30 PM, ABC):
Jackie and Debbie GO CLUBBING. Aliens, in da club!
Supernatural (9 PM, The CW):
Sam and Dean learn how to close the gates of hell, which include a series of elaborate tests from God. One step includes killing a hellhound. Good luck with that, boys!
KEVIN DECIPHERS THE TABLET - Kevin (guest star Osric Chau) deciphers the tablet and figures out how to close the gates of Hell. He tells Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) that according to the tablet one person must face a series of three tests designed by God. The first one - kill a hellhound. Sam and Dean argue over who should complete the trials. Kevin Parks directed the episode written by Andrew Dabb
Also on TV tonight: The Americans on FX. And there's a new Nova on PBS at 9 PM, titled "Earth from Space."
The Vampire Diaries (8 PM, The CW):
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a vampire trip! Something something — a three-hour cure. A three-hour cure. The gang is stuck on an island, but probably not for long.
"Down the Rabbit Hole" - On the island, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) has an ugly run-in with a Hunter named Vaughn (guest star Charlie Bewley), and realizes he is one of The Five. Stefan (Paul Wesley) confesses his true feelings about the possibility of becoming human again to Elena (Nina Dobrev). When a stunning new piece of information about the cure is suddenly revealed, it changes the stakes for everyone. Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) helps Bonnie (Kat Graham) recognize what is real and what is an illusion, and Shane (guest star David Alpay) is comforted by a woman from his past, Caitlin (guest star Camille Guaty, "Prison Break"). Back in Mystic Falls, Caroline (Candice Accola) and Tyler (Michael Trevino) find that their attempt to translate the code on the Hunter's Sword is futile without help from Klaus (Joseph Morgan), who has his own reasons for solving the puzzle.
Community (8 PM, NBC):
What was supposed to be Community's Halloween special is now their Valentine's Day spectacular, sigh. Oh well, the one thing that never ceases to amaze are the various costumes the study group dreams up. But can Troy and Abed beat their Alien getup from years past? "Paranormal Parentage" was also penned by the beloved Megan Ganz (who has now quit Community and moved on to Modern Family).
"Paranormal Parentage" - While on their way to Vicki's (Danielle Kaplowitz) Halloween costume party, the study group makes a detour to Pierce's (Chevy Chase) mansion when they learn he accidentally locked himself in his panic room. As Pierce languishes behind locked doors, the group searches the dark and eerie house for the book that holds the code to the door. Along the way they encounter a few of the house's secrets.
Zero Hour (8 PM, ABC)
Series premiere! An editor of a conspiracy theory magazine gets sucked into the granddaddy of all cover-ups when some very bad people kidnap his wife. This particular rabbit hole goes straight to crazytown. There's so much crazy packed into this series, from strange cult gatherings to secret evil Nazi babies the government doesn't want you to know about. But why? And what did the Nazi baby grow up to become?
Beauty and the Beast (9 PM, The CW):
Beauty no longer trusts the Beast! How wiil Vincent win Kat's trust back? Fingers crossed it's by song.
Person of Interest (9 PM, CBS):
Reese and Finch go undercover in a fancypants hotel to save the life of one maid. Mia Maestro (which you may remember from Alias) guest stars as the victim.
"Booked Solid" - Reese and Finch race to save a hotel maid's life but find themselves surrounded by more suspects than they may be able to eliminate when they realize any guest or staff member could be her potential killer. Meanwhile, Detective Carter weighs a major offer from the FBI.
Archer (10 PM, FX):
This is the best episode description ever: "Archer's former fiancée wants him to save her cyborg boyfriend who is trapped in outer space. Archer wants... other things." Fingers crossed Isis gets sent into space again!
Also on TV tonight: Cartoon Network has a very special episode of Annoying Orange starring Glee's Jane Lynch at 7:30 PM. There's a new Big Bang Theory on CBS titled "The Tangible AffectionPproof," so we're assuming it's about nerd love. CBS has a new Elementary at 10 PM.
Touch (8 PM, Fox):
Kiefer Sutherland continues on his conspiracy-revealing trek with his son, and this time the clues lead to Pakistan. Will we ever find out who the 36 Righteous Ones are? And what do they have to do with Kiefer? Anything? Bueller?
"Enemy of My Enemy" - Martin's mission to uncover clues and expose the potentially sinister Aster Corp. has global consequences when an Aster Corps employee crosses the border in Pakistan. Meanwhile, ruthless religious zealot Guillermo continues to track down the "36" Righteous Ones, and Jake leads Lucy to a woman with alarming connections to her missing daughter, Amelia.
Merlin (10 PM, Syfy):
Merlin is closes in towards a very big reveal in which:
Darkness steals into the very heart of Camelot, as Morgana and her puppet Queen hatch a sinister plan to murder the King. But when stable hand Tyr Seward becomes caught in the crossfire, he threatens to ruin everything... As the plot thickens and reaches its deadly climax, can a suspicious Merlin unravel the truth before it's too late?
Also on TV tonight: A new Portlandia will air on IFC at 10 PM.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (9:30 AM, Cartoon Network):
The premise is seemingly simple: "After meeting with Letta Turmond, Letta turns up dead and Ahsoka is arrested." But what does the mysterious title — "The Jedi Who Knew Too Much" — have to do with the 1934 Alfred Hitchcock film? Will they have similar plotlines? One can only hope.
DC Nation (10 AM, Cartoon Network): Green Lantern and Young Justice circle the drain in their last few episodes.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (10:30 AM, The Hub):
Finally, the pony moment you've been waiting the whole season for — the Princess Coronation!
In the special coronation episode "Magical Mystery Cure," Twilight Sparkle accidentally casts a spell that switches the Cutie Marks and destinies of all her friends, and the only way she can reverse the spell is by writing her own magic. Little does she know that by achieving this great accomplishment, she will fulfill her destiny and emerge a princess.
Gravity Falls (9 PM, Disney)
Gravity Falls is back! Gravity Falls is back! Gravity Falls is back! Gravity Falls is back!
When Mabel questions the way Stan runs the Shack, he challenges her to a bet — whoever can make the most money in three days wins the chance to run the Shack however they wish for the rest of the summer. Mabel takes the bet and implements a new bossing method that coddles her employees and gives them the freedom to follow their hopes and dreams. Unfortunately, the results are not as expected and Mabel finds herself just trying to get back some normalcy. Meanwhile, Grunkle Stan sets off to win big money on a television game show.
Also on TV today: The two-part Ben 10: Omniverse episode concludes on Cartoon Network at 9 AM. A new TMNT will premiere at 7 PM CN as well. Power Rangers: Megaforce will air at 1 PM on Nickelodeon, which will be followed by Supah Ninjas on Nickelodeon at 8:30 PM.
Ultimate Spider-Man (11 AM, Disney XD): Featuring a team-up with everybody's favorite superhero archer who isn't named after a 1970s glam-rock supergroup.
Spider-Man and Hawkeye are forced to team up when the armored mercenary The Beetle returns to New York City.
Once Upon a Time (8 PM, ABC):
Fairy tale characters take Manhattan! Finally, the wacky folk of Storybrooke are forced into the real world, and if you thought last week's "Rumpelstiltskin on a plane" hijinks were wacky, wait until you see "Rumpelstiltskin at a Starbucks" or "Rumpelstiltskin buying a Metro Card." Emma, Henry and Rumps head to the big city to find Bae, Rump's baby boy. But does Bae want to be found?
The Walking Dead (9 PM, AMC):
Rick is crazy, Glenn wants revenge and Merle and Daryl are alone in the woods. Slowly, ever so slowly, this series is lurching towards a bigger stand-off between the Governor and the folks back at the prison. But when! WHEN?!
"While the group ponders their next move, Rick sets out to find a missing friend. Later, Merle and Daryl begin to have second thoughts about their choices. "
Also on TV today: Fox rolls out the animated goodies, starting at 7:30 PM. Plus the season finale for Robot Chicken will air on Adult Swim at mignight.
Sources: Futon Critic and various TV studio press releases.


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Part of the fun of watching the Super Bowl lies in the theater-of-the-absurd quality of so much the commentary. How often will we hear today that a team down by 21 points has to "move the football downfield" and "put some points on the board"? At least as often as we hear during the World Series that a team behind by five runs has to "put some wood on the ball" and "score some runs."
It wasn't always so, the former NBC newscaster Edwin Newman says in Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English? (Warner, 1975):
"There is no way to measure the destructive effect of sports broadcasting on ordinary American English, but it must be considerable. In the early days sports broadcasting was done, with occasional exceptions such as Clem McCarthy, by non-experts, announcers. Their knowledge of the sports they described varied, but their English was generally of a high order. If they could not tell you much about the inside of the game they were covering, at any rate what they did tell you you could understand.
"Then came the experts, which is to say the former athletes. They could tell you a great deal about the inside, but — again with some exceptions — not in a comprehensible way. They knew the terms the athletes themselves used, and for a while that added color to the broadcasts. But the inside terms were few, and the nonathlete announcers allowed themselves to be hemmed in by them – 'He got good wood on that on,' 'He got the big jump,' 'He really challenged him on that one,' 'They're high on him,' 'They came to play,' 'He's really got the good hands,' and 'That has to be,' as in 'That has to be the best game Oakland has ever played.'
"The effect is deadening, on the enjoyment to be had from watching sports on television or reading about them, and, since sports make up so large a part of American life and do so much to set its tone, on the language we see and hear around us."
© 2009 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Residential pest problems are one of the hardest pest problems to deal with and this is mainly because of the furniture and appliances within the house that provides cover for the house pests. Unlike pests that can be found outside the house, these residential pests somehow gain a little edge because we can't go all out on them inside our house.
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Genealogy blogger Dee wrote an interesting post in her "Ancestrally Challenged" blog on Tuesday, 17 May 2011, entitled, "How to Rock as a Genealogy Lecturer." This post is written from the perspective of a member of the audience of genealogy lectures, and tells exactly what she wants and expects from lecturers.
I would recommend that all genealogy lecturers read this post fully several times, take it to heart, and adjust your presentations. Dee's post is typical of comments I have heard from other audience members at genealogy meetings and conferences, as well as meetings and conferences in other industries. I worked in the audio-visual field in Washington, D. C., for ten years, specifically in the field of conferences, and have had opportunity to participate behind the scenes in many conferences at the Convention Center, large conference hotels, and the National Press Club. No matter the industry or subject matter, how presenters present is crucial to the success of their mission, whether sales, persuasion, or education.
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I would recommend that all lecturers, myself included, make the conscious effort to heed these suggestions. By doing so, we will provide our audiences with exactly what they want. This will benefit both the lecturer–a good reputation is crucial to being offered more and better-paying speaking jobs–and the audience–who will be better educated by having higher quality lecturers available.
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From Janet Evanovich's novel Finger Lickin' Fifteen (St. Martin's):
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"'Yep,' Grandma said. 'He's got a big one. All them Turleys is hung like horses. … I tell you, for a little guy, he had a real good-sized wanger'."
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The boat is small, just big enough for six passengers and our driver, who doubles as our guide. We're on a lake in the vast, remote Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve in southeastern Zimbabwe. Across the hills, the sun is veiled in the last light of day. Darkness will come soon. All around us, hippos splash, snort and grunt and generally cause an alarming stir in my heart. Two of my three traveling companions are at the front of the boat, in the appetizer seats. If anything should happen, if we bump into a hippo or a log or whatever else lies waiting in the lake, they'll be shrimp cocktail. I'm at the back of the pontoon, in the dessert seat, if you will, listening to the hippos and the other myriad sounds of an African nightfall. In a few moments, elephants come crashing through the bush to the lakeside for their last drink of the day, their stomachs rumbling low like distant thunder. There's no other sound like it on Earth. Against the backdrop of the sun, a gaggle of Egyptian geese serenades the orchestra of elephants and hippos. Tengwe Siambwanda, our guide, has what one of my companions has termed the 'most ridiculous eyes' and can see everything. By now, it's heavy dusk, and I never would have spotted the black rhino standing at the water's edge if Tengwe hadn't pointed him out. At first, the ungulate seems surprised by the boat, but then he becomes agitated. Here's what an agitated rhino does: He kicks up a dust storm, stomps his hooves like a 2-year-old who hasn't gotten his way, knocks over a couple of trees, and then mock-charges. For a moment, I wonder whether he'll leap into the water and sink the boat. If he does, I'll be faced with the split-second decision of whether to face a single grumpy rhino or a bevy of hippopotami. Thankfully, I don't have to make that choice. With little light left except that of a sliver of moon and more stars than anyone could possibly count, Tengwe quietly backs up the pontoon, away from the natural circus of rhino, hippos and elephants, and carefully motors back to the dock, bringing a grand end to our boat safari. I'm on a voyage to Africa, my ninth to this most wondrous continent but my first to Zimbabwe. It's a women-only trip, and we're staying at Singita Pamushana Lodge, about a two-hour bumpity-bump twin-engine plane ride from Johannesburg. At the beginning of the customized group tour, the other women and I don't know one another well, but by the end, we're friends who have shared some truly special moments in a place so far from home. There are usually two themes that run through a women-only trip. The first is forgetting husbands, children, parents, pets, problems and whatever else back home and having fun. The other is that on a trip to an uncertain area, there's safety in numbers. As a group, the four of us are practically fearless, although many people advised against going to Zimbabwe because of the Robert Mugabe regime. 'It's dangerous,' preached one gentleman friend, a big-game hunter who had visited many years before. 'It's not safe. Women don't need to be going there alone.' 'Don't go,' warned another male friend, who had worked with the State Department. 'Mugabe's crazy, and everybody is poor and desperate.' But wanderlust prevailed, as it always does for travel junkies, and we were off to Africa. As we putt-putt across the sky from Johannesburg to Buffalo Range airstrip near Singita, I strike up a conversation with my seatmate, a soft-spoken young woman from Harare, the capital. I ask her whether we need to be afraid. 'Zimbabweans are very passive,' she replies, quelling any uneasiness I may have felt. 'Despite what you might read, we don't like trouble.' When we land at the airstrip, I half- expect our group to be interrogated, hissed at or called stupid Americans. But no, the customs officer is delightful, her face full of kindness, and when I make a corny joke, she laughs with me, heartily and easily. She's my introduction to Zimbabwe, and I know that everything will be just fine. On the almost hour-long drive to Singita from the airstrip, we pass villages, herds of cattle and goats, and miles of dusty woodland honeycombed with acacias. My eyes search for an errant lion, perhaps a leopard, but any critters would blend into the warm, rusty hues of the landscape. In the road ahead of us is a security checkpoint, and for the first time, I'm a little nervous. But all my fears are cast aside as the armed police scowl a bit but then smile broadly at our vanload of ladies. Obviously, we don't look threatening, and with a wave and another smile, we're on our way. Within moments of our arrival inside the boundaries of Singita, in the heart of the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, we pass very close to several giraffes. They stare at us blankly, a sort of 'duh' look on their faces, before lankily bounding off into the bush. We're so close that I can see their long, curled eyelashes shadowing the brownest, sweetest eyes. There are only eight of us at the lodge: our group of four women, a couple from Australia named Dee and Peter, and John and Karen, a couple from Florida who have already been at Singita for a week. Amused that a group of ladies are traveling on their own, the two couples quickly become our pals. The Aussies are friendly, and Peter, the husband, a big bear of a man, immediately takes us under his wing, appointing himself our caretaker. He watches our every move, always the gentleman, but apparently ready to assume his role of The Man should one of us damsels get into distress. Jason and Emily, managers of the lodge, welcome us and explain that the 150,000-acre Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, which abuts Gonarezhou National Park on the border with Mozambique, was established by conservationists in 1994, primarily to protect wildlife from poachers. The lodge, says Jason, is the 'ecotourism arm' of the reserve, and the proceeds from guests go to wildlife conservation and community outreach. On our first game drive, I call shotgun and climb into the front seat of the Land Rover. As we drive over the next few days, we learn that the geography of the reserve runs the gamut from acacia woodlands to plains and that the animals are as stunning as anywhere in Africa. I even manage to spot a sable, an exquisite creature that I've never seen before, its black fur gleaming in the hot African sun. The requisite Big Five – Cape buffaloes, rhinos, elephants, lions and leopards – are all on the reserve. So are a billion birds. Rollers, weavers, hornbills, owls and egrets flit all around, their jewel colors giving away their hiding places in the trees. I can't get enough of the lilac-breasted rollers, their pastel feathers as vivid as an Impressionist painting. As we explore the reserve, I etch in my mind forever the colors and textures and especially the sounds of Zimbabwe, where it's quiet but never really quiet. The wind is always whispering, and the ground is always trembling beneath the hoofbeats and the wing tracks of the most amazing wildlife and bird life. Perhaps one of my companions says it best as we watch giraffes drink from a watering hole: 'You feel as if you're underneath Mother Earth.' On one evening of our three-night stay, Jason and Emily host a wonderful wine dinner, pairing bold South African reds and whites with local game. As a semi-vegetarian, I'm glad that I don't have to face the choice of eating what I've just photographed. The next day, Tengwe takes us to the Kambako Living Museum of Bushcraft just beyond the borders of the reserve. It's a small Shangaan village, the Shangaan being one of 12 or so cultural tribes in Zimbabwe. Together the four of us watch and listen as Julius, patriarch of the village, crouches low to the ground to make fire. 'We are trying to teach others about our old ancestral ways,' he says in excellent English, spinning two sticks together until they spark into flame. 'We are trying to keep the old traditions alive.' Guiding us around the village, Julius and some of the other young men teach us how to forge metal spearheads while the wives and daughters weave baskets from grass and cook on open fires. 'Men's work is men's work, and women's work is women's work,' Julius says matter-of-factly. Agree or not, his old-fashioned views draw no argument from us. You don't squabble with a man holding a spear. When Julius divines for water using a tree branch as a rod, I don't believe that it can really be done and have to try it for myself. As I grab the branch and hold it as Julius instructs, something akin to a mystical force swings the rod downward. I've actually struck water, and I'm practically bouncing with joy. 'There,' says Julius, laughing at my excitement. 'Dig down, and you'll find water.' After watching a boisterous, colorful Shangaan dance, we drive back to the lodge, where later we feast at an outdoor dinner beneath the shadows of an immense baobab tree, our eyes always trained to the bush to keep a watch out for hungry lions. After an early morning game drive the next day, we visit another village to learn about community projects that focus on malnutrition, feeding programs, education and malaria prevention. Shepherd Mawire, the community development coordinator for Malilangwe, explains that 19,000 children, from 6 months to 5 years of age, are fed daily by the largest project in Pamushana. He next takes us to a school a few miles away. It's blazing hot, and there's no air conditioning, only open windows and doors. But no one complains. You can't miss what you've never had. 'Most students want to be teachers, nurses and drivers, because that's what they see,' Mawire tells us as a group of schoolchildren sing and dance for our group. 'Education is a high priority.' On our last game drive, we come upon a herd of elephants in a deeply forested corner of the reserve. After watching them for a while, we begin to drive away, when one breaks away and runs after us. Finally, the big bull gives up the chase and trumpets at full volume, a soulfully soothing sound, that of the grandest beast of Africa. I thought I could stay there forever watching him. As we begin our long sojourn back to the States, the consensus among us is that everyone who warned against the dangers of Zimbabwe was completely wrong. Not once have we felt threatened in any way. I've been to Africa several times, as a journalist, a tourist and a women's tour group leader, and I found Zimbabweans to be among the warmest, kindest people I've ever met. Back at Buffalo Range airstrip, our passports stamped with exit visas, I think of one of Hemingway's most inspiring quotes: 'I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.' And in the heat of the day, we ladies spring together for one last group hug on African soil. I breathe in Zimbabwe one last time, deeply, and then climb aboard the tiny plane for the long journey home.
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