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We tailor your holiday itinerary according to your personal preferences
Each holiday is individually planned - we do not have off the shelf packages.
We ask you to tell us what you would like included in your holiday.
Using our local knowledge we prepare a holiday that suits you - at the best price.
We visit the islands regularly, gaining experience and local knowledge, to enable you to make "informed" choices about your all-important holiday. We offer a wide choice of accommodation and services and, with our local knowledge, we are able to tailor-make each and every holiday. Companies with limited choice and no local knowledge are not able to do this. We are based in the UK, you can have a conversation with us about what you want in your holiday itinerary - a conversation you can't have with a booking website or a travel company with no local knowledge. We "build" the holiday that you want - and our exclusive rates give you the best price. Our customers value that expertise when deciding on their holiday.
* We are a UK registered, ATOL bonded, tour operator.
As "preferred tour operator" for many resorts we have lower prices than other travel companies. We often beat the "guaranteed best price" websites ! We have better payment terms than the online booking machines. We set our prices lower than the websites of suppliers in the Caribbean you are guaranteed a better price from the very start. We include all applicable taxes and charges in our prices. UK Travel companies and Caribbean suppliers often quote without taxes and surcharges.
We have a contract price with the airlines. Regardless of where or how you book your flight we'll give you the best price and we have easier payment terms. As a condition of this tour operator fare we cannot sell "flight only" tickets.
We have lots of our own special offers and any special offers you see on resorts' websites we can include in our holiday quotes. Our famous Diamond Diving Deals are complete packages for a diving holiday - at a discounted price.
Although our service, knowledge and legal protection are essential for our clients - we know price is important. We are happy to provide a detailed and definite price quotation for you. All we ask, when comparing prices, is that you compare "like with like".
. . . . . for your consideration. Our holiday itineraries can include: flights - accommodation - vehicle hire - meals diving - adventure packages - boat trips - weddings - and much more. The itinerary is always fine-tuned to suit you and we need as much information as you would like to give us, to prepare your ideal holiday itinerary. All quotes for holidays are given with no obligation. We work on the basis that although you might not travel with us this time, the world is a big place, we will hopefully hear from you again in the future
We personally recommend the accommodation we offer. We do not offer accommodation we have not visited. We are legally responsible for our information and service to you and we do not sell accommodation that we cannot fully recommend.
We can book all aspect of your holiday including all your diving requirements - including tech. diving, courses, excursions etc. Click on an island page above to see more detailed information about the diving available for each island.
We can add meals to your itinerary. We will also send a list of the best restaurants. We can arrange for a grocery pack if you are renting a private house or villa. If you self-cater we have information on local supermarkets.
Vehicle Hire / Transfers
We can reserve supply a vehicle for you to explore, enjoy shore diving and other activities on the islands. Hiring is not expensive. Our vehicle hire prices always include CDW cover. Prices on websites do not include insurance. We will book transfers if you do not hire a vehicle. In some cases you may want both - just let us know.
We agree the most convenient UK airport with you (15 in the UK) and check all flights/routes for the dates you have in mind. It is important to know if you have any flexibility in your holiday dates. We will book inter-island flights if you intend to visit more than one island. We will find the best fare and schedule for you - taking into consideration all factors - fares, accommodation prices, special offers etc. We will give all the options - so that you can decide what is best for you. There are flights most days and you can choose the length of your holiday.
Taking Flight Options
We have a contract with the airlines. We are able to take flight options for you - unlike other travel companies. There is no obligation in taking flight options. There is no penalty for cancelling options. Taking options is a very valuable service to you. You get the best fare - and it is fixed so have an accurate price for your holiday. In addition it takes any time pressure off making important decisions - giving you time to consider your holiday in your own time. In unusual circumstances a fare may go down. If this happens we will re-book to the lower fare.
No matter how or where you book your flight we have the best price and better payment conditions. Many companies don't quote with the air fare or you must pay immediately - as you do if you book directly with the airline. We give you as much time as possible to make sure all the details of your holiday are exactly as you wish.
Please click "booking flights" under the flights tab in the banner above.
If you wish to book a holiday - we ask for a 15% deposit to secure the booking - but only after we have confirmed each and every item on your itinerary. You may still revise the itinerary, but changes to flights may alter the holiday price. Holiday itineraries are always subject to availability. The final payment is due at least 10 weeks prior to your departure. Your payment is to a UK based - ATOL bonded - company. Payments can be by cheque, online transfer, debit or credit card. All payments are within the UK banking system. There is a charge made by the credit card companies - 2%. This is NOT a charge that we make. We make no charge for using a debit card.
There is a misconception that booking directly with suppliers is cheaper it is not.
Our prices are lower than those on Caribbean suppliers, websites.
Typical small print on a Caribbean Hotel website :
Prices are excluded 15% service charge over the basic rate.
Prices do not include $6:50 per person per night tourist tax.
There is a 6% charge to the amount if you pay with your credit card.
Credit cards use a poor rate of exchange to convert your pounds into dollars.
This adds 26% or more to the price you see displayed on a "Caribbean suppliers'" website.
There are also "hidden" extras some people do take into account when comparing prices. The 6% credit card charge and poor rate of exchange will only appear weeks later - on the card statement. We use a commercial rate of exchange which makes our price lower when converting dollars to pounds. For our transactions the card companies charge 2% - one the lowest in the UK travel industry. This makes our prices lower still. Some card companies are now charging a 2.99% premium for non sterling transactions. All these things - not apparent when comparing prices - all add a huge amount to the final total.
We are around 10% cheaper like for like on holidays booked direct. It is not easy to shake the illusion that booking direct is cheaper but the numbers tell the truth. Buying "direct" from the Caribbean is complicated, more expensive and has no safeguards or guarantees.
The CAA specifically warns against what they call D-I-Y holidays click the atol logo on the right for more information.
The Online Booking Machines.
Booking websites have no experience of the islands and it is not possible to have a "conversation with them! They demand that you pay now or take a gamble on the exchange rate and pay the resort on island. They are unclear about taxes and surcharges in their quotes. Booking websites many based outside the UK ask you to make decisions on little or no information with little or no support and with prices and payment terms that are either unworkable or more expensive in the long run. The lack of clarity it their quotes means a great deal of uncertainty. Not a good way to start a holiday.
But thankfully the robots haven't taken over entirely !
We are a UK registered company, an ATOL bonded tour operator. Your payments are safeguarded by this bond underwritten by the Civil Aviation Authority. Websites without an ATOL licence have no such guarantee. We are bound by European consumer protection laws. Websites/suppliers outside the UK are not bound by European or UK law.
We send you LOTS of advice on everything and anything that will help you to enjoy your holiday - weather, health, currency, restaurants, sights to see, things to do etc. We can answer your questions from personal experience, having visited the islands many times and we'd be happy to discuss your holiday plans. Our policy is to be honest, open and fair. We never hide behind the small print we don't have any small print ! We enjoy talking about the islands, so please feel free to contact us. The advice and information we offer you is entirely without obligation. Our reputation our future - depends on personal recommendation, and so we are dedicated to giving the very best service at the best price.


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Here it is ... the very first photo of Paul Ryan's mysterious athletic physique ... REVEALED!!!
TMZ has (finally) obtained a photo of Mitt Romney's running mate -- sans shirt -- taken roughly 6 years ago ... right before Ryan got hooked on the P90X workout.
We're told the pic was taken in Oklahoma during a family vacation -- the woman on the left is Paul's wife Janna.
While Ryan's bod ain't bad in the pic ... sources close to Paul's abs tell us Ryan has totally transformed his midsection in the past couple of years ... and now he's totally shredded with a killer 6-pack.
We spoke with someone close to Ryan's family who tells us Paul has "always led a healthy lifestyle" ... adding, "He's the nicest guy and has always been fit."


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Every year the Vancouver Public Library is asked by members of the public to remove some books from its shelves, books that have upset someone's sensibilities, and in 2013 a children's book by Dr. Seuss was among them.
There aren't a lot of formal requests for removal and they are almost always denied, but not before VPL takes a long, serious look at the book involved.
Take the Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo, for instance.
It seems laughable that a Seuss book, loved by parents and children alike, could offend anyone.
What are we, China? (Green Eggs and Ham was once banned there as being subversive.)
But it turns out there is a legitimate concern with If I Ran the Zoo.
For one, there is a line in the poem about helpers who "all wear their eyes at a slant," accompanied by illustrations that are racial stereotypes of Asians.
There are also drawings of Africans that wouldn't be acceptable to publish today.
But If I Ran the Zoo was published in 1950.
Janet Tomkins, head of children's library at VPL, looked into it, checking out what the policies are at other libraries (one library has 101 copies of the book) and how parents and teachers deal with the book.
"Books such as If I Ran the Zoo create a dilemma for libraries," Tomkins wrote.
But not one that necessitated censorship.
The VPL will keep its copies of the Seuss book, but will no longer read it at storytime or promote it other than as resource material in a study of how the portrayal of other cultures has changed over time.
"A library's collection has to reflect the wide range of ideas in the world, has to reflect the broad interests of the community," said VPL chief librarian Sandra Singh. "In a community like Vancouver, which is really diverse, we have diverse items in the collection.
"This is why we take (complaints) so seriously; we view the collection we're curating as the community's collection."
As for the other two books that came up for examination in 2013, one was about raw milk, one about serial killers.
The library sent the book on serial killing — Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder, by Lee Mellor — to the hate-speech squad at the Vancouver Police Department for guidance.
The police said there was nothing illegal about the book.
Checking with the VPL or lawyers is common when a reader believes a book breaches the Criminal Code or the B.C. Human Rights Act.
"When we're in doubt," Singh said, "we'll seek an opinion."
Cold North Killers, according to the complainant, contains descriptions of rape, sodomy and murder of adolescent teens.
"There is no educational benefit in introducing a 10-year-old child who might pick this book up ... to the ideas contained in it," said the person asking it be removed.
To which the library responded: "This work is disturbing to read, (but) this does not affect the library's obligation to protect the right of a citizen to read this book."
Criminal code aside, if Mein Kampf were published today, would it be put on library shelves?
Given its historical significance — it's hard to study Nazi Germany without reading Hitler's first-hand account of his "struggle" — no serious library goes without.
"You look at works written 50 or 60 years ago, they were written in a whole different context," Singh said.
That's why classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have their merits discussed so often: They contain anachronisms.
But instead of censoring them, the library suggests using them as an educational tool.
"We suggest to parents that they read books critically to their children," Singh said.


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The timing of Mark Niznik's move to Artemis in 2007 was unfortunate.
The small cap manager had brought a stellar track record with him from a 10-year period split between Invesco Perpetual and Standard Life Investments.
In October 2007 he was named lead manager of the Artemis UK Smaller Companies fund, replacing John Dodd, who had built an enviable long-term track record on the fund.
As Niznik set about stamping his authority, the Lehmans disaster struck, and a quartet of holdings in unquoted energy companies – Vostok, Hurricane Energy, Central Asia and Ophir - became a problem. At their peak exposure, these stocks accounted for 18% of the fund and according to Niznik they wiped around 30% from performance.
'The fund was doing really well under John Dodd and was the best performer in its sector over 10 years,' Niznik told Citywire Scotland. 'We didn't see the credit crunch coming and during the transition to my way we got hammered.'
No regrets
Thanks to the recent rally in small caps, investors who stuck with the fund have seen returns of 148.9% over the last five years, although this is below the peer group average of 166.5%. Niznik, who was rated by Citywire for 25 consecutive months from June 2005, has not regained his rating since losing it in August 2012.
He does not regret taking the challenge and with only a small holding in Hurricane remaining of the four he is far more comfortable with the portfolio's construction. 'Artemis is the best place I have worked at and I wouldn't swap it for any other job. John [Dodd] has been brilliant and I believe the struggle is now behind us.'
As someone who likes to keep risk low, Niznik was also hit by the rally in small caps. 'When markets are zooming, it doesn't fit my style. I'm one of the most cautious managers in my sector and am likely to struggle when markets are rampant,' he said.
Niznik believes what distinguishes him from his peers is his extensive qualitative research in the hunt for firms with strong franchises and free cash flow yields.
'I've been doing this job for 30 years and believe my edge is being able to interlace my connections to find the best opportunities,' he said. 'I'm not necessarily super-bright, just super-diligent.' By way of demonstration, Niznik opened an iPad holding notes on some 4,500 meetings he has conducted while at Artemis.
Screaming Brooks buy
One company featuring heavily in this archive is Brooks Macdonald, which at 2.8% is the £379 million fund's second biggest holding. After his last meeting with the firm in March and the subsequent decline in its share price, Niznik believes Brooks offers an excellent opportunity relative to its sector.
'Brooks shares are down 10% over the last month and If I didn't own them already I'd buy them. It's a screaming buy. Rathbones and Brewin Dolphin have a higher rating, yet Brooks' organic growth of more than 15% is more than double [its competitors],' he said.
'When I saw Brooks in March, the funds linked to clients they are signing up is at the highest ever. People were worried that post-retail distribution review, Brooks' money flows would decrease, but they have increased. While I have holdings in both Rathbones and Brewin, which are also cracking businesses, I think there is better relative value in Brooks.'
Niznik's top holding is vet firm CVS, which accounts for around 3%.
'CVS owns between 10-12% of the share of a fragmented market, 70% of which is dominated by family businesses. This share could rise to 20% rapidly,' he said.
'It has also got big enough to do its own branded stuff rather than buy stock from the big pharmas. This allows CVS to offer its products cheaper, while taking a bigger margin for itself.'
So after the small cap rally, does the inherently cautious Niznik believe things are going to be much tougher for his asset class?
'My gut says after a strong run you should cut back. However, valuations remain attractive based on higher earnings growth and small caps are only on a small premium to large caps – they are not pre-Lehmans levels,' he said.
'My gut is saying bank profits but the stats are saying there is no valuation bubble. Now may not be the best time to buy small caps but I still have all of my own money in the fund. Over the long term I remain happy with my exposure.'


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Asus launched the anticipated PadFone and Transformer Pad tablet line-up at Mobile World Congress on Monday.
The PadFone transforms into a 3-in-1 combo of a smartphone, tablet and notebook with the PadFone Station and PadFone Station Dock, said Asus Chairman Jonney Shih at an announcement here.
The PadFone has a 4.3-in. Super Amoled HD touchscreen and a dual-core Snapdragon S processor. The PadFone includes an 8-megapixel digital camera and runs Android 4.0.
It is slated to ship in April, although Asus hasn't yet announced pricing.
The PadFone isn't the only device with a Station Dock. Motorola also makes a LapDock product that works with the Atrix smartphone.
The new Asus Transformer Pad line has three models: the Transfomer Pad Prime, Transformer Pad Infinity series and Transformer Pad 300 series. Asus didn't list all the specifications for all the devices, but did reveal some hardware details.
The 300 Series will run the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor and use a 10.1-in. display with 1280-by-800-pixel resolution. It will run over 4G LTE or Wi-Fi. The Transformer Pad 300 has a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat and an 8-megapixel rear camera that allows HD video recording. Battery life is expected to last 10 hours on a charge.
The Infinity Series focuses on entertainment with a 1920-by-1200-pixel, full HD Super IPS + display. It has support for 4G LTE with the Qualcomm MSM 8960 Snapdragon S4 Krait dual-core 1.5Ghz processor. The Wi-Fi version will also feature the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor. It has a 2-megapixel front camera for video chats and an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera.


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|Liuixalus feii
Yang, Rao & Wang, 2015
A new tree frog species of the genus Liuixalus was described from Heishiding Nature Reserve, Guangdong Province, China based on a combination of morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Liuixalus feii sp. nov. is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of following characters: small size (SVL 16.2–17.6 mm in adult males and 18.0–18.7 mm in adult females); snout obtusely pointed; tympanum distinct, about half size of eye diameter; nostril closer to eye than to the tip of snout; fingers free of webbing; toe III longer than toe V; toes weakly webbed; tibiotarsal articulation reaching the naris or loreal; dorsal skin smooth and scattered with fine granulars; a subtle longitudinal median ridge present on dorsum; weak skin folds present on dorsal surface of body and thighs; supratympanic fold distinct and curved; ventral surface dull white with more or less irregular dark spots; iris bicolored. The new species appears to be forest-dependent and to date has only been found on the forest floor in primary forests at elevations between 350–800 m. Based on our molecular analyses, we consider Liuixalus catbaensis as a junior synonym of L. calcarius. Thus, with the description of the new species, the genus Liuixalus hitherto contains five recognized species, four of which are endemic to China.
Keywords: Amphibia, Rhacophoridae, Liuixalus, new species, taxonomy, China
Keywords: Amphibia, Rhacophoridae, Liuixalus, new species, taxonomy, China
Etymology. The specific epithet "feii" is a patronymic noun in the genitive singular; derived from the name of Professor Liang Fei of the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in recognition of his long-term great contribution to the advancement of amphibian research in China. For the common name, we suggest "Fei's Small Tree Frog" in English, "Fei Shi Xiao Shu Wa" in Chinese.
Jian-Huan Yang, Ding-Qi Rao and Ying-Yong Wang. 2015. A New Species of the Genus Liuixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern China. ZOOTAXA. 3990(2); 247–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.2.5


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National Geographic Classics: Natural Disasters DVD Collection
National Geographic Classics: Natural Disasters DVD Collection
National Geographic Classics: Natural Disasters DVD Collection
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In six classic programs, National Geographic reveals the sheer power and strength of nature's greatest forces. Experience the devastation and tragedy caused by deadly tsunamis and hurricanes, see what happens inside the heart of a whirling tornado, witness incredible up-close shots of the powerful white wall of a rolling avalanche, and hear chilling first-hand accounts from survivors of some of the worst natural disasters.
Programs include Storm of the Century, Tornado Intercept, Drowning New Orleans, Avalanche: The White Death, Tsunami: Killer Wave, and Violent Earth.
Not available for shipment outside of the U.S. and Canada.
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Storm of the Century
Power lines down, amazingly high speed winds, and deadly cold temperatures raged through the eastern United States with one violent bang. Storm of the Century presents an up close and personal look into the terrifying effects of these acts of nature. National Geographic has compiled shattering footage of some of the worst catastrophe's to hit the Florida's Gulf Coast and all the way to Canada. Witness one family's horrible ordeal to survive a 12-foot-high storm surge that wipes away what was supposed to be a happy weekend.
56 minutes. © 1998
Tornado Intercept
Witness the construction and first deployment of the revolutionary Tornado Intercept Vehicle -- 8,000 pounds of 1/4'' armor plating, bullet-proof windows, state-of-the-art IMAX camera, and a crew of hardcore, thrill-seeking filmmakers.Plunge into the killing zone of tornadoes capable of generating 300-mph-plus winds as researchers risk life and limb to shoot never-before-seen footage from within these monster storms.
60 minutes. © 2005
Drowning New Orleans
On August 28, 2005, an early Sunday morning, America woke up to a shocking surprise. Katrina, a moderate "category one" hurricane that recently skirted Florida, had blown up and had become into a "category five" killer and it was headed straight for New Orleans. Join National Geographic as we survey the vast devastation after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans..
52 minutes. © 2006
Tsunami: Killer Wave
The globe learned on December 26, 2004, that tsunamis can bring death and devastation to the world's coastlines. The product of undersea earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, tsunamis can race across oceans at more than 500 miles an hour, leaving a huge wake of destruction when they hit shore. Because it is difficult for scientists to predict how large these massive waves can be, tsunamis are one of the least understood of nature's forces, and one of the most dangerous.e.
50 minutes. © 2011
Avalanche: The White Death and Violent Earth
Avalanche! This fierce force of nature can snap trees as if they were twigs, reduce houses to rubble, and kill anyone unlucky enough to stand in the way. Hear terrifying stories of being buried alive. Watch as a wall of white roars forward then stops short just feet from the cameraman. Learn the danger signs of an avalanche, and find out what to do if you're caught in one. Fly with the experts who drop explosives on snow-laden mountains to study made-to-order avalanches. Relive some of history's worst avalanches, including a deadly American tragedy -- 96 people, some crushed beyond recognition in Washington State.
57 minutes. © 1999


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AMD readies answer to Intel's Ultrabook
'Ultrathin' PC, anyone?
How powerful is the Ultrabook brand? AMD is betting it is less important to punters - and laptop vendors - than price. The chip maker is to launch a platform for skinny machines in Q2.
According to moles, AMD's "Ultrathin" platform will debut in June with a view to costing computer makers 10-20 per cent less than Intel's upcoming 'Ivy Bridge' platform is expected to, DigiTimes reports.
Ivy Bridge will power Intel's Ultrabook promotion during the latter part of 2012 and is expected to debut in the March/April timeframe.
Laptops based on Intel's second-gen Ultrabook platform are still expected to retail for around $999, but AMD hopes to undercut its arch-rival. But don't expect Ultrathin to deliver the performance and battery life advantages provided by Ivy Bridge, pundits warn.
Ultrathin is based on AMD's Trinity chips which integrate graphics into the CPU die. Unlike Intel, AMD doesn't push its own Wi-Fi chips too, so Ultrathin sellers will be able to add in whichever wireless chip they prefer.
Still, getting $100-200 off the price of an Ultrabook-type PC may be enough to get consumers buying into the platform, especially in these straitened economic times. ®


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The American love/hate relationship with socialism
A couple weeks ago, President Barack Obama gave a now-infamous interview to CBS, in which he said that, if the debt ceiling is not raised by Aug. 2, government checks might not be mailed: Well, this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans' checks; these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out… I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd, if we haven't resolved this issue. A few days after that statement, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said the number was closer to 80 million.
The debate over the national deficit and debt limit has brought to the forefront a fundamental split in American political ideologies: What is the proper role of the Federal government in the lives of citizens? Regardless of where you stand on this issue, the fact remains that millions of people depend on the Federal government for some or all of their income.
And very few citizens are aware of exactly how far the reach of government stretches these days.
The figures used by Obama and Geithner were, if anything, too low. They relied on Treasury Department figures from June that include Social Security (56 million checks that month), veterans benefits (4.5 million checks), and spending on non-defense contractors and vendors (1.8 million checks), read an article in The Washington Post.
But those numbers do not include reimbursements to Medicare providers and vendors (100*million claims in June), and electronic transfers to the 21 million households receiving food stamps, the article read. Nor do they include most spending by the Defense Department, which has a payroll of 6.4*million active and retired employees and, on average, pays nearly 1 million invoices and 660,000 travel expense claims per month.
The article referred to a column written for conservative website American Thinker, which lamented the subtle spread of government: I have bad news for conservatives who think Obama is leading the nation down the path to socialism: the barn door is open and the cows are long gone. Obama is not leading the nation to socialism; we are a socialist nation and have been for some time.
However, Bill Frenzel, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota, explained in an interview with The Washington Post the complicated duality of American*thinking on this issue: If youre a compassionate liberal, you say, Isnt it wonderful were helping everybody, and if youre a constitutional conservative, you say: How did the government get into all these things? I dont see these things in the Constitution; its bewildering, get rid of it.
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Were you a student volunteer in the past couple of years and still have that burning need to volunteer? Do you no longer qualify for the Student Volunteer Program but wish you could continue building and supporting the unique world of SIGGRAPH?
The SIGGRAPH Ex-Student Volunteer (XSV) Program is your answer. We are offering a unique opportunity to recent undergraduate and graduate students, who provided outstanding performance as a Student Volunteer, to mentor/volunteer within the ranks of SIGGRAPH's extensive fields. Former Student Volunteer candidates, who have recently started their careers in the computer graphics industry and have a passion for the ACM SIGGRAPH organization, will be selected with the opportunity to apprentice in a SIGGRAPH 2009 committee or co-located event.
As of 2009, we are also extending this opportunity for former Team Leaders who have volunteered in the Student Volunteer program for over 3 years and are still students. This opportunity allows for those very experienced Team Leaders to continue their path into the SIGGRAPH realm as part of the XSV program.
As an XSV, you will be assigned to a specific committee and mentored directly by the committee's chair and team. With the support of this amazing team, you will take on appropriate responsibilities that will have a large effect on the success of the venue or event. If selected, responsibilities may begin as early as December 2008 and will continue until the conclusion of SIGGRAPH 2009 in August 2009.
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ROCHESTER — Spaulding High School junior Ashley Mooney said in all, students in Rochester worked ardently to send off 200 large decorative snowflakes to benefit survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., this past month.
As part of the national "Snowflakes for Sandy Hook Project," Mooney pulled her peers together to assist the surviving elementary school students — who lost 20 fellow students and six staff members in a school shooting tragedy in December — by piecing together white paper decorations. Mooney is also working to raise funds for the Sandy Hook Parent Teacher and Student Association (PTSA), by collecting donations at Rochester youth sports games. She told Foster's earlier this week she has raised $45 so far at three local games.
Jim Accomando, president of the Connecticut PTSA, thanked communities all over the world who participated in the snowflakes project in a released memo. Local volunteers in Newtown used the snowflakes to build a winter wonderland for returning Sandy Hook students who were relocated to another school in nearby Monroe, Conn., after the shooting incident. Officials continued to investigate the site as a crime scene and The New York Times reported the Newtown community recently held a public forum to debate what the structure should be used for in the future. Some have even requested a demolition to destroy the horrific memories created by the shooting.
Accomando reported his volunteer staff was so inundated with donations and supplies from all 50 states in the U.S., every province in Canada and 40 countries worldwide, the PTSA will use the supply to decorate all other local schools in the area, as well as their municipal buildings. They ask those still planning to send snowflakes to place them instead in their own communities, to "display a winter wonderland in solidarity" with the Sandy Hook community while donations, like Mooney's are still being accepted.
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During ASLA's Annual Advocacy Day on April 30th, ASLA advocates will travel from across the country to Washington, D.C. to meet with their federal legislators to discuss policy issues important to the landscape architecture profession. During their congressional visits, landscape architects strive to raise the visibility of the profession with Members of Congress and to educate them on the many ways that landscape architects provide solutions to a myriad of problems facing our nation.
This year, ASLA advocates will discuss the role of landscape architects in planning sound, efficient, and sustainable transportation corridors. As Congress begins to consider reauthorizing an omnibus surface transportation bill and important climate change legislation, it is imperative that Congress utilize the skills and techniques of landscape architects in rebuilding our nation's transportation system and to assist in reducing harmful carbon emissions.
ASLA is pleased to announce that Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Hon. ASLA from Oregon will address our Advocacy Day participants during the Advocacy Day legislative briefing on Thursday morning April 30th. Congressman Blumenauer is a leader in initiating and supporting sustainable policies and because of his diligent efforts in promoting polices important to the landscape architecture community was made an honorary member of ASLA. Congressman Blumenauer will share his experiences on working on these issues with Advocacy Day participants, as well as enlightening us on how to become effective advocates throughout the year.
ASLA advocates are preparing for their critical meetings with legislators by participating in two 1-hour webinar advocacy training sessions. The first webinar held on Tuesday, April 14th focused on advocacy tools, tips, and strategies for effective legislative meetings. This webinar is now posted on the ASLA Advocacy Day website for members to review at their leisure. The second webinar will be held on Thursday, April 23rd and will focus on the policy issues important to ASLA advocates.
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In a move that simultaneously reaffirms the marketing genius of Kiss while illustrating the bottomless depths of Wayne Coyne's weirdness, the Flaming Lips frontman has revealed that the band plans to include the blood of its collaborators in its upcoming 2-LP Record Store Day exclusive release.
The album in question, titled 'The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwiends' (no, that isn't a typo), finds the band working with an eclectic array of special guests that includes Bon Iver, Ke$ha, Neon Indian, Nick Cave and Erykah Badu. And in order to make things a little more interesting — or perhaps to appeal to the elusive phlebotomist/vinyl enthusiast demographic — Coyne's trying to have a few copies pressed with literal blood in the literal tracks.
"I don't have everybody's blood just yet, but I collected quite a few vials of blood and it's actually sitting in my refrigerator as we speak," Coyne said during a recent interview, presumably while eating spaghetti on a unicycle and having laser beams implanted in his teeth. "I'm going to try to take that same concept and put little bits of everybody's blood in the middle of this record. Like a glass specimen thing."
So far, Coyne's blood drive has yielded donations from Neon Indian, Prefuse 73 and Ke$ha — none of whom were alive when the members of Kiss essentially invented the pop culture blood implant by contributing their own hemoglobin to the first 'Super Special Kiss' comic book in 1977. But in Coyne's defense, not all of his ideas were taken from the Kiss playbook; in fact, the Flaming Lips remain the only band ever to put an EP on a flash drive and have it embedded in a life-size candy skull. So far, anyway.


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Manassas Park Elementary School is fundamentally designed around the premise that people, especially children, cannot be expected to preserve or protect something they do not understand. As such, the school is conceived throughout as a teaching tool that shepherds children along a path of environmental stewardship. All elementary "houses" take advantage of direct and diffuse daylight in the classrooms, break-out areas, and stair towers. Sunlight on southern exposures is controlled by projecting shade devices above viewing windows and reflecting light louvers within the higher daylighting window panes. Classroom ceilings are sloped to optimize penetration of natural light entering through the light louvers. A primary consideration of lighting studies was the ability to provide a glare-free teaching wall. North–facing roof monitors provide daylight to pre-K classrooms, while nearly 100 tubular skylights illuminate many other areas of the building. Small windows in the pre-K classrooms were designed as reading nooks and canted north of west, away from the setting sun and towards the wooded camp. Generally, lights in all rooms with exterior windows are automatically dimmed using daylighting sensors. In classrooms, lights are controlled in three zones—each zone parallel to the window wall. Interior and exterior lighting is designed to minimize over-illumination of non-task areas.
Inside and out, sustainable design is integrated with the elementary curriculum. Design decisions were made with the expressed goal of showcasing as many teachable moments as possible. Interior extended learning spaces offer dramatic and surprisingly intimate views of the neighboring mixed oak forest, while elementary classrooms face shady moss- and fern-covered learning courtyards featuring "fallen" trees and other particularities of an eastern deciduous forest floor. Students are offered exceptional views of the forest, and are invited to use the numerous exterior break-out spaces and to explore the piedmont landscape directly. The principal bio-retention area, for example, is detailed to serve as outdoor classroom, performance stage, and parent pick-up queue. In addition, this area has quickly become a popular location for informal gathering. A comprehensive signage program reinforces each teachable moment by highlighting green building facts, demystifying sustainable building systems, and describing flora and fauna found in the adjacent forest.
Manassas Park, Virginia
Manassas Park, Virginia, is a small, independent city surrounded by the affluent northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Incorporated in 1975, the city cobbled together a series of pre-manufactured mobile buildings to create its first generation of school facilities from scratch. Ten years ago, the city began rebuilding all of its public schools—an enormous challenge in a city with an extremely low tax base.
The new Manassas Park Elementary School and Pre-Kindergarten (MPES) are the fourth and fifth new schools, and they join the earlier Cougar Elementary School to complete the city's elementary campus. The campus sits tightly surrounded by tract housing, private forest, and the historic landmark Camp Carondelet—forested winter quarters of the Confederacy's Louisiana Brigade between the first and second Manassas campaigns.
MPES serves a diverse population of students—many from immigrant families. The 2009-2010 enrollment includes sixty-eight percent non-white and twenty-six percent Limited-English-Proficient children. Forty-four percent receive free or reduced cost lunches. In the context of this rich diversity, the successful transformation of the school culture testifies to the vision and leadership of the Manassas Park City Schools administration.
Site Description
The three-story school was built on an existing parking lot, and pushed tightly against the camp forest to preserve existing open space and create a suburban "school in the woods." All existing trees were protected and moved with tree spades to the perimeter of the playfields, extending the benefits of the urban tree canopy to neighboring homes.
Ecological diversity is enhanced by a broad planting palette of native species, which shapes low-impact educational spaces. Hydric landscapes, previously absent, are featured in a manner giving children a new appreciation for water's vital role in their lives. Broader disturbed areas were re-vegetated with native warm season grasses and wildflowers, echoing the savanna landscapes created by eastern woodland Native Americans.
The design team used the local ecosystem in a didactic manner whenever possible, and the site ecology is therefore brought inside of the building, as well. The school is organized into three "houses"—each house extensively themed around a season and each floor representing a corresponding level of the forest. Each classroom is named after a species commonly found in that season and place. In this way, children associate their homerooms with plants and animals rather than numbers.
• Lot size: 10.57 acres
• Previously developed land
Water Conservation and Use
Prior to development of MPES, rainwater was managed through the neighborhood stormwater management system. In order to avoid overwhelming this system, 100% of a two-year storm event is now collected for reuse or infiltration on site. Post-development run-off is significantly less than that from pre-development conditions.
All rainwater falling on building roofs is filtered and collected in a 79,000-gallon concrete cistern, yielding an estimated 1.3 million gallons per year. A portion of the harvested rainwater is further filtered and treated for delivery to the building flushing fixtures. The remainder is used for irrigating small portions of the landscape. The top of the cistern, and associated controls house, functions as an outdoor classroom, featuring a 22-foot tank gage. Mounted on the outside of the cistern pump house, a 96-square-foot mural illustrates the system layout and the natural water cycle. Educational maps teach children how rainwater falling at their school flows through Bull Run, the Occoquan and Potomac Rivers, and on to the Chesapeake Bay.
Low-flow and automatic faucets minimize municipal potable water use for flow fixtures – a 62% reduction from EPACT 2005 quantities.
Numerous high-performance design elements are incorporated into the building. Envelope features include solar-selective glazing, tubular skylights, a high-albedo white roof, and spray polyurethane foam insulation.
Efficient mechanical systems include ground-source heat pumps, variable-speed pumping, pre-treatment and total energy recovery for ventilation air, BAS-optimized system operation (building automation system), natural ventilation mode, and high-volume low-speed fans in double-height spaces.
Domestic water heating energy is minimized by the use of low-consumption fixtures and kitchen equipment. The kitchen utilizes a gas water heater with 98% combustion efficiency. Elsewhere, mini-tank water heaters are located close to the fixtures served. Energy Star appliances are used throughout.
Interior and exterior installed lighting power falls below ASHRAE 90.1 energy standard requirements (38% and 54% less, respectively). Savings are achieved through efficient fixture and lamp selections, occupancy- and BAS-controlled light switching, and continuously dimmable daylighting controls for 41% of the connected interior lighting power.
Energy modeling revealed cooling, ventilation and lighting to be the largest baseline energy loads. Overall, the building is expected to consume 52.7% less energy than the baseline design and meet the 2030 Challenge.
Educational signage and "truth" windows in mechanical room walls teach students and visitors about the building systems and their environmental benefits.
The school has been open eleven months (May 2010). Utility data is currently available for nine of those months. Only two of the nine months' actual utility data reflect complete commissioning of the building because the final commissioning report was delayed until well after occupancy. A full year's comparison of measured energy use and cost cannot be evaluated. At this date, the team has a plan; however, measurement and verification has not been implemented and the energy model has not been recalibrated.
As an update to the process and results paragraph, the nine-month data has improved slightly over the previously submitted data. MPES total actual energy use (calculated in kBTU/gsf) shows a 32% improvement compared to the adjacent school built ten years ago over the same time period. MPES total actual energy use (calculated in kBTU/gsf) shows a 31% improvement over the ASHRAE baseline for the same time period. Actual nine-month utility data can be made available. The data requested in the COTE submission template has been provided, although it may not be values that accurately represent what is desired by COTE. There are limitations in the data that is reported by the energy modeling software (eQUEST).
The annual heating and cooling energy uses provided in the COTE submission include only gas furnace and compressor energy consumption, respectively, for the base and proposed building simulations. Other HVAC related energy consumption, such as fans and pumps, is not included in the individual heating and cooling values because eQUEST does not calculate energy associated with fans and pumps separately by cooling and heating subcategories. The total HVAC system energy usage – for heating and cooling, including but not limited to compressors, gas furnaces, fans, and pumps – for the base and proposed case is 5,556 and 2,023 MBtu/yr, respectively. The ratio of total heating and cooling energy consumption for baseline versus proposed is 2.75:1.
In addition to the ground-source heat pump system, the project incorporates numerous other technologies and strategies that minimize the cooling and heating loads in comparison to the base case building. These include daylighting controls with dimming ballasts, daylight reflecting louvers and light shelves, and Solatubes (reduction of interior lighting heat load to the space); natural ventilation mode (windows are opened and cooling systems shut down during favorable outdoor conditions); window overhangs (solar heat gain reduction during the cooling season), high performance glazing and envelope, building automation and dedicated outside air systems with both sensible and total heat recovery wheels.
Bioclimatic Design
The building form and height are greatly influenced by the site constraints, which offered only a narrow area (stretching southwest to northeast) for building. In order to optimize daylighting in the principal learning spaces, classrooms are organized into three "houses"—with each classroom facing approximately north or south. The three-story educational houses (nearly cubic in volume) minimize building envelope exposure to the climate. The houses are organized around courtyards that maximize the connectivity between indoors and out while providing plenty of controlled daylight and fresh air. Mature deciduous trees, on rising ground to the west, shade the buildings from the setting sun.
The relatively exposed east side of the building is programmed with "closed" spaces (gym, loading dock, mechanical rooms) to minimize unwanted solar heat gain. Although the temperate seasonal climate is humid with light and variable winds, natural ventilation is used for cooling when conditions are favorable. An induced stack effect, established by vertical ventilation ducts, draws fresh air in through manually operable windows and exhausts air through the penthouses. Favorable conditions are signaled by "green lights" which are tied to a weather-predictive mode in the building automation system. The signal lights ensure the children are active participants in energy conservation.
Students and faculty are able to monitor real-time building performance data via a building dashboard or "green screen" in the school's main lobby. All content is also available online and can therefore be accessed from each classroom. The green screen not only includes energy and water data, it also explains the school's many green features. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the building and building systems are functioning well. Innovative strategies that are already being re-used by the design team include the "green light mode" and the comprehensive school-as-an-educational-tool approach. Manassas Park Elementary School was recently selected by the American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment as one of the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment.
Green Schools Checklist EPA (368 kb)
Building Minds, Minding Buildings Roadmap for Green Schools (1,601 kb)
Manassas Park Elementary School Video Link
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- The Accounting Bureau studies accounting systems, methods and procedures, maintains the centralized accounts of the City and coordinates their departmental maintenance by other agencies, and prepares the City payroll. The Bureau's major objectives include recording all financial activity on the city's general and subsidiary ledgers and report upon that activity through the publication of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the Supplemental Report of Revenues and Obligations, the Annual Report of Bonded Indebtedness, the Schedules of Financial Assistance and other interim financial reports; processing payments to vendors providing goods and services to all city departments and agencies; processing biweekly payrolls and associated fringe benefit payments; providing all city departments, agencies, boards and commissions with daily and monthly status reports of their budgetary activity; and centrally accounting for all grant related activity in accordance with single audit requirements of the United Stated government and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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62-5.3 Philadelphia Financial Report (1953-1954, 1957-1962, 1964)
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Nearby residents hope to learn more about changes to the New Albany Links Golf Course when they meet with the course's new owners Monday, Feb. 10.
Nearby residents hope to learn more about changes to the New Albany Links Golf Course when they meet with the course's new owners Monday, Feb. 10.
Chip Fellows, chairman of the residents' advisory committee, said a couple of weeks ago he met with Ray Finnerty, general manager of the new owner, New Era Golf Ohio, and Joe Ciminello, who developed the New Albany Links and is the former owner, to talk about proposed changes.
Fellows said the course might be changed to make it easier to play and New Era is looking to increase the number of golf memberships at the Links.
New Albany Links is a semi-private golf course on New Albany Links Drive and it is surrounded by 600 homes. Fellows said it always has been open to the public.
New Era Golf Ohio already is managing the facility, Fellows said.
The course has been added to New Era Golf's website, which includes three other courses it owns and operates in central Ohio: Glenross Golf Club in Delaware, Royal American Golf Club in Galena and Bent Tree Golf Club in Sunbury.
Ciminello confirmed the sale last week.
"We determined it was the appropriate time to divest of our financial interest in the New Albany Links golf course," Ciminello said. "The course is now performing the best it ever has, thanks in large part to the support of the New Albany Links community.
"The plan is also to turn over the homeowners association to the home owners this year," he said. "We believe we have set good framework for the New Albany Links community and golf course to complement and enhance each other. Even though we divested of our financial interest, we will always have interest in how New Albany Links is doing as a whole."
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[This a review of the 2012 touring production of "Jersey Boys." The current tour (through May 24, 2015) at the Cadillac Palace Theatre stars Hayden Milanes as Frankie Valli, Matthew Dailey as Tommy DeVito, Keith Hines as Nick Massi and Drew Seeley as Bob Gaudio.]
You may feel like they never went away, but the lively, young, blue-collar gentlemen of the Garden State, ever working their way back to you, have returned to Chicago's Bank of America Theatre for a nine-week stand.
That's a healthy reprise for "Jersey Boys," coming on top of the initial Chicago run of a mere two-and-half years. And when you're running that long in Chicago, where international tourists are thinner on the ground, you're reaching a pretty hefty percentage of the local population.
So if you were one of the 1.3 million people who saw the theatrical story of Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi during that 2007-10 engagement, and I bet you are, and you are contemplating another go-around with the sweetie who loves you, a big juicy steak on the town and some bonding time with the big-ticket "Bye Bye Baby" boys, you'll want to know if the national tour compares sufficiently favorably with the dedicated Chicago company, so as not to let you and yours down.
Absolutely it does. Guaranteed. There are no non-Equity ringers nor fake computerized pap; Valli and Gaudio would not stand for that. Sure, the physical production of the tour, designed for a variety of spaces, is slightly smaller (and, alas, the boys no longer rise up through the floor, which is a shame), but let's face it, nobody is going to "Jersey Boys" to look at director Des McAnuff's trademark platforms, trusses and trestles.
You're going to hear the music, which the famously meticulous Gaudio has always demanded sound exactly like it sounded in the recordings of the Four Seasons, and thus exactly like it sounds in the soundtrack of people's memories. That's still the case.
Joseph Leo Bwarie, the current Frankie, is one of the premiere Frankies of the franchise, for this show, soon to also be a movie, is most certainly now a franchise. Especially when you see Bwarie alongside the apple-cheeked Preston Truman Boyd, who plays Gaudio, you think at first that you're suddenly watching "Sons of Jersey Boys," but baby-faced Bwarie is deceptive in the early scenes, because he knows how to show some steel and take command of the show. Bwarie, whose fine performance is enough to merit a return for fans of this show (note that he does not perform matinees), doesn't rely on tricks so much as, simply put, a beautifully clear and pure voice. I was struck by how many people around me were closing their eyes when he sung, even though he is very easy on the eyes. Not all Frankies have provoked that desire to lose oneself in the vocals.
Other notable performances here include John Gardiner as an especially irritating DeVito, which I intend as a compliment, and Michael Lomenda as an especially strange Massi, ditto. The tempestuous scenes between Valli and his first wife, Mary Delgado pop better here than I've ever seen them, thanks to a very shrewd and concise performance from Kara Tremel, a Jersey girl of distinction, even though it's tough for a girl to get a look-in with this gig.
"Jersey Boys" does not show any ravages of time, partly because it makes enough money that no one is tempted to get greedy and cut costs, but mostly because its structure is rock-solid. Its premiere asset is its arrangements, but Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice's book is a very clever piece of writing. Hit songs are dangled like carrots for as long as the writers dare; the structure is complex enough not to feel like VH-1 but populist enough that everyone and anyone gets that The Four Seasons matter because this was a group that gave voice to the lives of ordinary Americans, who love, fear, hope and fail.
And whatever else McAnuff may or may not do in his career, no reasonable person could have anything but admiration for his staging here.
He somehow turns a series of similar live performances into a varied series of exciting and involving vignettes, toned to the feeling of the time and place and capturing the way we look up to our flawed celebrities, even as he seems to expose their most intimate secrets. This is a production filled with great American music and one that paints an accessible picture of some of the costs of being a famous singer, out on the road. I suspect you have to do a long tour to really understand boys who came to define themselves by their restless movements, constantly running away and trying to get home.
When: Through June 3, 2012
Where: Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe St.
Tickets: $35-$100 at 800-775-2000 and broadwayinchicago.com


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As the Family Secrets trial was put into the hands of the jury, City Hall offered up poetic symmetry in choosing a book for all Chicagoans to read as part of its One-Book-One-Chicago program:
"The Crucible" by Arthur Miller, a social commentary about witch hunts and innocent people caught up by the mob.
No, not the mob on trial in Family Secrets, the other mob, the mob as in the commoners, the ignorant, uninformed, superstitious peasants easily manipulated into burning the innocent politicians -- um, ah, I meant those innocent witches -- at the stake.
If city fathers truly want something Chicago should read, how about the transcript of Assistant U.S. Atty. Mitchell Mars' closing argument in the Family Secrets trial on Thursday?
It has been a trial of Outfit history, 18 unsolved murders, fear and betrayal, with hit man Nick Calabrese testifying about the murders he committed with three of the five defendants.
Think of a pitcher tossing a perfect game and you'll see Mars delivering that closing argument, throwing heat, following through with near-perfect mechanics, fitting all the defendants into the conspiracy.
Mars doesn't look like a Major League ballplayer. He's a bit below average in height, a graying guy in a gray suit, like a million other guys you see on the train. He doesn't seek publicity, and doesn't go out of his way to schmooze reporters. But he's clearly big league. And after what he accomplished, if the jury acquits any of the federal primates, we might as well change the name of this city to something more fitting, like Andriachiville or Tootsie-Town.
"Our system works only when those who should be held accountable are held accountable," Mars told the jury.
He named those charged with racketeering and murder conspiracy: Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo, Frank Calabrese Sr., James Marcello and Paul "the Indian" Schiro.
For weeks, Schiro was the scariest man in the courtroom, hardly moving an eyelid, still as a lizard, the iceman. Schiro is serving another federal prison term, having pleaded guilty for being part of the Outfit-sanctioned jewelry heist crew led by former Chicago Police Chief of Detectives William Hanhardt.
Mars had special contempt for the fifth defendant, accused Outfit debt collector and former Chicago Police Officer Anthony "Twan" (Passafiume) Doyle.
Doyle is not accused of murdering gangsters, but of leaking police secrets about key murder evidence to his Chinatown confederate, Frank Calabrese Sr., in taped prison visits in which electric shocks, cattle prods and physical examinations for Calabrese's brother Nick were discussed. That famous tape involved Outfit code, talk of "purses," defined by the feds as evidence, and a "doctor," defined by the feds as reputed Outfit street boss Frank "Toots" Caruso, who is not charged in this case.
"And one corrupt cop who tried to help the organization and be the inside man. He knows exactly what the purse is. He knows exactly who the doctor is. ... Let's give the guy a physical, let's give him a prod," Mars mocked, reminding the jury of what Doyle said on that tape.
The others on trial put on a defense because they had no choice. But Doyle could have taken a plea deal and served five years or so. He didn't take the deal, though I presume his lawyer will still receive a nice fee and Doyle will have time to ponder what it means to be, in his words, a chumbalone.
A few days ago, Marcello's lawyer, Marc Martin, joined the other defense lawyers in ripping into Nicholas Calabrese, calling him a liar and questioning his testimony, particularly about Marcello's involvement in the sensational 1986 murders of Outfit brothers Anthony and Michael Spilotro. Nick testified that the men waiting for the Spilotros in a suburban home wore gloves. Martin argued the Spilotros would have fled after seeing one gloved hand.
"They weren't going to get out of the house no matter what they thought," said Mars, adding that Marcello and his accomplices "could have worn T-shirts that said, 'We're Here To Kill the Spilotros.' It didn't matter. They weren't getting out of there."
Marcello sat without expression, offering his profile to the jury, looking at himself on the courtroom screen. It was an FBI surveillance photo taken at a Venture parking lot, Marcello with Outfit bosses Joe Ferriola, Sam Carlisi and Rocky Infelice next to some shopping carts.
They weren't in a restaurant with checkered tablecloths. And I thought of those who say there is no Chicago Outfit; and of inside men placed in inside spots, in the police evidence storage section or as lords of the detective squads, while honest cops get passed over for promotions, or are squashed like bugs for the slightest infractions.
I'm still waiting for City Hall to choose an appropriate book for official city reading, perhaps "CAPTIVE CITY: Chicago in Chains." by Ovid DeMaris, "The Outfit" by Gus Russo or "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren.
Or, better yet, that closing argument by Mitch Mars in a crucible of a case, in which the Chicago Way was boiled down, reduced to its base elements.
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It's a terrible feeling when you can't find a job, and it's terrible for your health, too.
The polling firm Gallup on Wednesday said it's found that people who remain unemployed for a year or more suffer from higher rates of obesity. High blood pressure and excessive levels of cholesterol are also more common. See Gallup study on obesity and unemployed.
The survey, based on 18,000 interviews, found the long-term jobless have an obesity rate of 32.7%, compared to just 22.8% for people who've been unemployed two weeks or less.
These results shouldn't be surprising. Many health studies have found a link between excessive eating and higher levels of stress – what experts call emotional eating. And not being able to find work is obviously a very stressful situation.
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"For many individuals, both dynamics may be at work, perpetuating a negative cycle of declining job prospects and worsening health," Gallup said. "As a result, candidates who are obese and who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more may have two strikes against them even before they sit down for an interview."
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|2012-04-21, 22:33
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 33
Regards Eru's neesan, she views Faaru as a surrogate nee-sama.
This is because the Faaru is stated to be the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle variant, which was the issue rifle of the British Army and most Commonwealth nations during the Cold War; the difference between the British-made L1A1 (aka Inch FAL) and Belgian-made FAL is the former was semiauto only, while the latter had semiauto and full auto firing modes. (Which makes Faaru's long burst at Funko in Episode 2 a bit of forgotten research - the manga gets it right, and Ichiyon complains to Jisuri that Faaru, being semiauto only, doesn't know the pain of a full auto battle rifle).
That said, Australian SAS troopers found that with careful modifications to the firing pin, one could turn the L1A1 into a full auto rifle, so maybe Faaru in this verse has made some changes there? Now what would those changes be, given that she's got a human body... would probably involve a lot of touching down there and lo-
*Goose is shot*
Anyway, tl;dr, Funko is Faaru's imouto because she's a subsequent design derived from the FAL, while Eru thinks of Faaru as her onee-sama because the FAL L1A1 was the previous issue rifle of the British Army before being replaced by the L85A1 around 1985. Also, the problems with Eru's firing pin and other issues are well documented. She needs upgrade to A2 model ASAP.
Also, small brick joke: remember when Modern Lit was reading the manual, how the handguard corresponds to the bust? Note that FNC, M16A4 and SIG SG550 have relatively small handguards when compared to the L85A1. Now consider that Eru has the largest bust among her friends. (Also, she's heavier than most battle rifles.)
Incidentally, if I'm not mistaken, the FAL has been the only rifle to have been used by both sides in a war: the Argentine Army used the FN FAL while the Royal Marines and British Army used the L1A1 in the Falklands War.
Also, after thinking abit, I think the reason Faaru calls Jisuri's shooting position indecent is because with a knee-length skirt, like what Ichiyon's wearing, the hem will ride up, causing the user to flash whoever they're sniping against, if said target would to see them through the scope. Which is probably why Jisuri is sticking with her old uniform, with its longer skirt.
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|2012-04-22, 08:52
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I kinda surprised how quick we got to the whole team battle arc. We might even get into the whole urban warfare battle before this ends maybe.
|2012-04-22, 09:09
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Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Lol this anime is like watching a weapon's documentary.
The L85 story was interesting. This line was hilarious :
"A feat only made possible by the dogged determination and stubbornness of the british people"
|2012-04-22, 09:45
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I feel your pain Ell....
But I still hate bullpup configuration....
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Location: Armacham Replica Training center
wait... in EP 3... don't all of them (the AR's) fire 5.56x45 Ball ammunition... right? what's with the 'balls' thing? something about their parts?
also, Cosmic... bullpups aren't all that bad... except for that really awkward FAMAS with it's hueg ass carrying handle.
Japan... HK will be proud knowing that their guns are pretty cute here....
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|2012-04-22, 20:11
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But wasn't the AR-18 a marketing failure? That would go a ways to explain why no one knows who she is...
Anyway, was I imagining things, or did the quality (or at least the frame rate) jump during two instances during this episode? The first one was obviously the iai sequence with SIG, but the other one was where the five girls were walking home, with the latter one really surprising me.
|2012-04-22, 20:12
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|2012-04-23, 09:46
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The fanservice just spiked up in episode 3. Got to agree with other users here: I'm learning! did not know that some guns have poor rep history but is still being used.
After this EP I end up reading on wiki about types of gun malfunctions.
|2012-04-23, 11:34
|Link #220
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 33
Myssa's watching this too? What.
Anyway, managed to watch part of Episode 3 - first, my inner pervert is quite intrigued by Funko's speculation that AR-18 is going commando.
Secondly, looking at the high school, it very strongly reminds me of Brécourt Manor, from what I've seen in Band of Brothers and played in Call of Duty.
Third, after getting to the jungle wargames in the manga, I'm of the opinion that I prefer Episode 2's resolution to the mock battle with the Elder Sisters, simply because instead of Sensei barging in and knocking heads, you have a meeting of minds, reconciliation, and aw, Faaru-neechan does love Funco~ XD
Also, 16 is well on her way to become the memetic molester of this series. And lol at how Gun Mag Cover = Idol Photoshoot.
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If you're in the alcohol business, you should be in the bourbon business.
After flat-lining in previous decades relative to vodka and other spirits, sales of bourbon, a whiskey distilled from corn and aged in charred-oak barrels, are soaring. Distillers are exporting $1 billion worth of American whiskey abroad, triple the amount exported in 2002, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. And domestic sales of bourbon are up 40 percent since 2008 -- a sudden growth spurt that has distillers racing to meet demand and others trying to differentiate themselves.
Among the latter is Trey Zoeller, the Louisville, Kentucky-based founder of Jefferson's Bourbon, who made waves by placing a batch of barreled bourbon on top of waves -- or rather, aboard a large ocean trawler that roamed the seas for three years.
Bourbon, says Zoeller, derives 70 to 80 percent of its taste from the maturation period inside a charred-oak barrel over several Kentucky summers and winters. Time is crucial. And short of inventing a time machine, you can't speed up that aging process. Or can you?
Zoeller may have found a shortcut. On his 40th birthday, he was sitting aboard the Ocearch, a shark-tagging research vessel, drinking bourbon with the Ocearch's captain, Chris Fischer, whom he has known since childhood. At one point, Zoeller looked at the bourbon rolling inside his glass. A life-long bourbon enthusiast and son of a bourbon historian, Zoeller knew that distilled bourbon extracted more flavor the longer it sloshed against wood. He wondered: could the ocean, with its constant seesawing motion, mature bourbon faster?
He started an experiment. In 2009, he placed a five barrels aboard the Ocearch, which zig-zagged all over the world, exchanging hemispheres and various climates. Three years later, Zoeller extracted a sample; the bourbon was thick and black.
"It was much thicker than a typical bourbon," Zoeller said. "We tasted it, and the caramel just shot out right away."
And then there was the brininess. Zoeller believes the ocean air imparted a salty aftertaste -- or "finish" -- to the bourbon. "Certainly salt or a briny component is not typically found in bourbon. So it gave it a completely different feel," he said.
Convinced he had innovated a distilling process that remained intact for more than 150 years, Zoeller placed 62 barrels containing 7-year-old and 8-year-old bourbon on several different ships. Zoeller said he's still experimenting with the process; whenever one of these ships reaches port, the crew sends him samples so that he can taste how its aging.
But with demand for bourbon booming worldwide, Zoeller's experiment is already proving lucrative. His second batch of ocean bourbon -- labelled Jefferson's Ocean -- retails for $79.99, but supply is limited. Original batch bottles have sold for more than $1,250 online, Zoeller said.
Curious about whether Jefferson's Ocean tasted years beyond its age, we blind-tested it on Jason Brauner, the owner of Bourbon's Bistro, a bourbon hotspot just off the Bourbon Trail in Louisville, Kentucky. Watch the video above to see how the Ocean fared against an older bourbon.