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Vietnam Wishlist 12 Days
- Itinerary
Day 1 – Australia to Hanoi
Fly with Vietnam Airlines to Hanoi. You will be met by your guide on arrival at Hanoi airport and transferred to your hotel.
Stay two nights at the Hong Ngoc Dynasty Hotel (superior room) or Hanoi Elegance Ruby Hotel (superior room) in Hanoi.
Day 2 – Hanoi
Morning tour of Hanoi, visiting the One Pillar Pagoda, the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Compound viewed from outside, the Museum of Ethnology (or the Temple of Literature), and a local market. Afternoon at leisure. (B)
Day 3 – Hanoi – Halong
Halong Bay, a World Heritage Site, is comprised of over 3000 limestone islands soaring out of emerald green waters. In the morning take the cruise company's 4 hour group transfer, without guide, to Halong and board your cruise boat for an unforgettable overnight cruise on the bay.
Stay overnight on the Huong Hai cruise boat (deluxe en-suite cabin) in Halong.
Day 4 – Halong – Hanoi
Further cruising on the bay before taking the cruise company's group transfer, without guide, back to Hanoi and your hotel.
Stay overnight at the Hong Ngoc Dynasty Hotel (superior room) or the Hanoi Elegance Ruby Hotel (superior room) in Hanoi.
Day 5 – Hanoi – Hue
Private transfer, without guide, to Hanoi airport for your morning flight south to Hue. On arrival private transfer, with a guide, to your hotel. In the afternoon visit the Tu Duc Mausoleum and the Citadel.
Stay overnight at the Cherish Hotel (deluxe room), or the Romance Hotel (deluxe mountain & stadium view room) in Hue. (B)
Day 6 – Hue – Hoi An
Leave the hotel in the morning for a guided transfer to Hoi An, visiting Non Nuoc Beach (Eastern Sea) and Marble Mountains en route. In Hoi An take a short guided walking tour of the ancient town centre to visit the local market, the former merchant's houses and the 400 year old Japanese Covered Bridge.
Spend two nights at the Green Heaven Resort & Spa (run-of-house room) or Van Loi Hotel (deluxe room). (B)
Day 7 – Red Bridge cooking class
Make your own way to nearby Hai Café in the Old Quarter (98 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Tel: 3863210) to arrive no later than 0815 this morning to join the Red Bridge Cooking School, selecting fresh produce from the market then preparing Vietnamese dishes for your lunch. Balance of the day is free to explore the old town. (B,L)
Day 8 – Hoi An – Saigon – Cu Chi Tunnels
Private transfer, without guide, to Danang airport for a flight to Saigon. On arrival there is a direct guided transfer to Cu Chi to explore the amazing underground tunnel system built by Vietnamese guerilla fighters during the war. Return to Saigon in the afternoon.
Stay three nights at the Lavender Hotel (deluxe room) in downtown Saigon. (B)
Day 9 – Saigon
Begin your exploration of bustling Saigon with visits to the Presidential Palace, the Old Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral and Ben Thanh Market. Balance of the day at leisure. (B)
Day 10 – Mekong Delta excursion
Full day visit to the watery world of Ben Tre in the Mekong Delta. Take a boat trip to see stilt houses and fish farms and try exotic fruits in one of many orchards. Visit a local farmer on Turtle Island then board a sampan to glide along the narrow canals overhung with dense vegetation, stopping for a cup of honey tea and a folk song performance. A lunch of local delicacies is served in My Tho. (B,L)
Day 11 – Depart Saigon
Leisure time until the departure transfer, without guide, for your overnight flight to Australia. (B)
Day 12 – Arrive Australia
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- Tour prices
Depart any day Twin Share ex MEL/SYD Twin Share ex ADL, BNE, CBR or HBA Twin Share Land Only Single Supp. Jan 2016 – Oct 2017 $2230 $2550 $2000 $540
Prices are per person, in Australian dollars, and are valid to 31 October, 2017. Please confirm prices when booking. Sole traveller prices available on request.
- Price Includes:
Price Includes:
- International economy class flights ex Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra or Hobart with Vietnam Airlines (based on T class)
- 3* hotels and 3* Halong Bay cruise boat as listed, or similar
- Domestic economy class flights in Vietnam including taxes and fuel surcharges
- All transfers and sightseeing as listed, including entrance fees
- Quality air-conditioned vehicles, experienced drivers and English speaking guides
- Meals as listed (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner)
Price Excludes:
- International air taxes and fuel surcharges of approximately $590 pp ex MEL/SYD and $615 pp ex ADL/BNE/CBR/HBA and subject to change – actual amount at time of ticket issue will apply
- Visa fees
- Gratuities
Sole traveller prices available on request.
Surcharges apply for travel 8Dec15-15Jan16, 6-14Feb16, 20Apr16-02May16 and 31Aug16-03Sep16, 8Dec16-15Jan17, 26Jan17-2Feb17, 20Apr17-02May17 and 31Aug17-03Sep17.
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- Traditional water puppet show in Hanoi
- Idling around beautiful Halong Bay on an overnight cruise
- Trying your hand at preparing Vietnamese cuisine at a cooking school in Hoi An
- Sampling exotic fruits from the Mekong Delta orchards


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Cloudboy, Meikeminne Clinckspoor's feature debut, is to receive its international première at this year's TIFF Kids (7-23 April). The programme also contains Emiel Sandtke's short Flying Rats, as well as two co-productions: The Day My Father Became a Bush and the animated feature Richard the Stork.
In Cloudboy, 12-year-old city boy Niilas has to travel - much against his will - to Lapland where his mother and her new family live amongst the Sami, an indigenous reindeer-herding people. Despite a warm welcome, Niilas retreats inwards. The only one who can get through to him is his half-sister Sunnà. The reindeer migration is in full swing and Niilas has to lend a helping hand. When a reindeer goes missing, Niilas joins in the search, but a huge moose keeps crossing his path at the most unexpected moments. Gradually he discovers his roots, which prove to be stronger than he ever could have imagined. Against all the odds, Niilas experiences the most adventurous summer of his life.
The film stars Daan Roofthooft as Niilas, together with Geert Van Rampelberg, Sara Sommerfeld, Joakim Nils Tomas Trägårdh and Mikkel Gaup. Meikeminne Clinckspoor also wrote the script.
A Belgian-Swedish-Norwegian-Dutch co-production, Cloudboy won last year's Work-in-Progress Award at the inaugural edition of NeXT in Ghent. Katleen Goossens of Antwerp-based Bulletproof Cupid is attached as main producer. Jekino will release the film theatrically in Belgium on 5 April.
In addition to Cloudboy, TIFF Kids also presents Emiel Sandtke's short Flying Rats, a coming-of-age story in which 11-year-old Kian and Nadir see the latter's family being arrested by the immigration police. To prevent Nadir from being taken as well, the friends decide to run away. But leaving seems to be more difficult than they expected, especially as it appears that Kian's motive is different from his friend's...
Co-productions selected for TIFF Kids are The Day My Father Became a Bush, directed by Nicole van Kilsdonk and co-produced by A Private View and Minds Meet. Walking The Dog is the co-producer of Richard the Stork, which had its première at last month's Generation K+ at the Berlinale.

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An accomplished director of photography died in a freak accident while cycling with his dog, an inquest has heard.
Lawrence James Gardner, of Lauderdale Road in Hunton Bridge, near Abbots Langley, suffered an acute traumatic haemorrhagic brain injury when he fell off his bike during a regular cycle with his pet Belgian Shepherd in August last year.
You stopped, you did what you could. The injuries were unsurvivable – but I want to thank you and your wife for stopping.Coroner Edward Thomas
The 49 year old had been busy filming during the day on Sunday, August 17 and had reportedly been relaxed and happy as he enjoyed supper and a drink at home before heading out with the dog, who was around nine months old.
The animal's lead had been tied to Mr Gardner's handlebars as per his usual routine, though this time something caused him to come off his bike and hit his head on the pavement, with devastating consequences.
Police who attended the scene found no debris or holes in the pavement to have caused the bike to veer off course, and it was ruled no other bicycle or vehicle had hit Mr Gardner as he rode.
Senior coroner for Herts Edward Thomas suggested the young dog may have become startled, run in front of the bike or been clipped by the front wheel, causing Mr Gardner to lose control and fall.
Good Samaritan Keith Brown had been passing in his car at the time of the accident and, although he didn't witness the cause of the fall itself, he described seeing a 'dark mass' in the corner of his eye.
Mr Brown, who had been driving home to Bushey Heath after visiting his son in Hemel Hempstead, reversed back in the quiet road near Leavesden and attended to the victim with his wife, who found his breathing to be shallow and called an ambulance.
While emergency services rushed to the scene, an off-duty police officer and a motorcyclist also stopped to offer assistance, before the critically injured Mr Gardner was taken to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington by land ambulance.
No post-mortem examination was held on Mr Gardner's body as there was clear medical evidence for the cause of his death, but a CT scan performed on him at the London hospital confirmed extensive head injuries which were unsurvivable.
He died the next morning.
Coroner Mr Thomas told Mr Brown, who gave evidence at Hertfordshire Coroner's Court in Hatfield on Wednesday: "I would just like to thank you for stopping. You had to pass and reverse, and in many accidents people just go past.
"You stopped, you did what you could. The injuries were unsurvivable – but I want to thank you and your wife for stopping."
While Mr Gardner was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, the court was told this would not necessarily have prevented his injuries.
Mr Thomas recorded a verdict of accidental death, saying: "What actually caused him to fall at that particular stage is just supposition.
"The tragedy is that this was unrestrained fall and his head went straight onto a very hard surface. It was a very tragic situation."


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All students applying for loans must complete a new Loan Application even if a loan application was completed in the past. If entrance counseling was completed for past student loans, students must complete the requirement again. In order for your loan to be processed, the college financial aid office must have your completed Loan Amount Request Form.
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Step 1 - Loan Amount Request Form:2019-20 Student Loans - Click Here
(Print this form, complete it, and submit it to the ACC Financial Aid Office, 107 Van Lare Hall.)
Step 2:Begin Online Loan Application Here
Step 3:Exit Counseling
Exit Counseling is required to be done before you withdraw, graduate, or drop below half-time attendance (even if you plan to transfer to another school). Please go to https://studentloans.gov to complete the Exit Counseling.
The customer service number to call of there are any questions concerning new or existing loans is 1-800-433-3243.
If you have any questions as you complete the counseling requirements, you may contact the financial aid office at 989-358-7286.


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Bryan Smith 2009 By Driver Chris.
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Wednesday, 8 December 2010
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Before this academic year is over, we will be celebrating the launch of our third site. As you can see in the photo above, construction of New York Junior Tennis & Learning's (NYJTL) new Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning is moving briskly ahead.
The Cary Leeds Center, located in the 127-acre parkland setting of Crotona Park, will offer a dynamic, new venue for Breakthrough New York's Bronx students. Earlier classes have had to commute to The Town School for summer and after school programming.
Constructed in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, the Center is set to open in Spring 2015 and will house a two-story, 12,000 s.f. clubhouse and an educational facility with classrooms, study centers and a library.
We will keep you posted as we move ahead!


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As a Porsche owner and driver it greatly pains me to name
(RACE) as the
Chart of the Day
. I found the performance automotive stock by using Barchart to sort today's
Top Stocks to Own
list first by the highest Weighted Alpha, then again by technical buy signals of 80% or more. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 7/15 the stock gained 15.15%.
Ferrari N.V. is engaged in designing, manufacturing and selling sports cars. Its products include sports car models consists of 458 Italia, 488 GTB, 458 Spider, 488 Spider, F12 Berlinetta, 458 Speciale and 458 Speciale A as well as two grand tourer (GT) cars: California T and FF. The Company also produces a limited edition supercar, LaFerrari and limited series and one-off cars. It operates primarily in Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa, Americas, Greater China and Rest of Asia-Pacific region. Ferrari N.V. is headquartered in Maranello, Italy.
The status of Barchart's Opinion trading systems are listed below. Please note that the Barchart Opinion indicators are updated live during the session every 10 minutes and can therefore change during the day as the market fluctuates. The indicator numbers shown below therefore may not match what you see live on the
web site when you read this report.
Barchart technical indicators:
96% technical buy signals
Trend Spotter buy signal
Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
15 new highs and up 21.63% in the last month
Relative Strength Index 82.50%
Technical support level at 102.79
Recently traded at 106.48 with a 50 day moving average of 90.55
Fundamental factors:
Market Cap $19.66 billion
Dividend yield .65%
Revenue expected to grow 9.40% this year and another 3.50% next year
Earnings estimated to increase 23.70% this year, an additional 6.60% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 12.21% for the next 5 years
Wall Street analysts issued 3 strong buy and 1 buy recommendation on the stock


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ersonnel of Coast Guard District Southeastern Mindanao successfully evacuated the master of M/V Ten Jo Maru who suffered from stroke while onboard the said vessel on May 25.
Reports revealed that CGDSEM personnel received a directive to conduct from Coast Guard Action Center in Manila a medical evacuation to a Filipino master of M/V Ten Jo Maru Captain Crisencio Galera, 53 years old and a resident of Manapla, Negros Occidental.
Immediately, CGDSEM dispatched personnel of Coast Guard Station GenSan together with City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) Medical Team onboard BFAR MCS-3003. The team departed from Fishport Complex, Brgy Tambler, General Santos enroute to the designated rendezvous point of M/V Ten Jo Maru at vicinity 10 nautical miles South off Manamil, Balut Island, Davao Occidental to conduct medevac operations.
The team boarded said vessel and immediately conducted assessment to the patient prior the evacuation. After the assessment, Capt. Galera was transferred onboard BFAR MCS-3003 using a spine board and was brought to GenSan Doctors Hospital for necessary medical attention.
Furthermore, information revealed that on May 24 at 4:20AM, Capt. Galera suffered from hypertension attack and possible mild stroke while the vessel was transiting enroute to Longkou, China from Weipa, Australia.
Coast Guard is also coordinating with the vessel's company Neon Maritime which is based in Singapore the present status of the ship's captain.


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Sponsored by Makino, EDM Matters is an open forum for die/mold shops and manufacturers in the EDM community. The purpose of this forum is to help participants share insights and stay current on the latest technologies and processes in the field of wire and Ram EDM.
EDM Matters is your blog. Feel free to ask questions and post comments. Together, your industry experiences and solutions provide invaluable guidance for future success in this exciting and expanding field.


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Several years before Live Aid, Sir Bob Geldof and his Boomtown Rats were tearing up the charts with their new wave sound. One of their biggest hits, titled "I Don't Like Mondays" was inspired by a 1979 incident involving a 16-year old elementary school student, who opened fire on her classmates and teachers one unremarkable Monday morning. When asked why she committed the crime she responded "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."
This tragic event and the lead up to it has so many contributing factors and its impact was and is felt by a great many people. Indeed the troubled young perpetrator remains behind bars to this very day. This post isn't intended to dissect all of the whys and wherefores' of that terrible incident. But I do want to use it to draw your attention to an issue that's causing so many of us to not only dislike Mondays, but every single day of the week.
It's a very sad indictment of today's workplace that so few of us are "engaged" by what we do in our jobs. According to Gallup, who has been tracking employee engagement since 2000, only 13% of the global workforce in engaged. They even go so far as to refer to this is issue as "The Worldwide Employee Engagement Crisis".
Although that sounds pretty bad, it's been like this for so long I think we've all become immune to these facts and figures. Leaders know that we're not engaged in our work. We know that we're effectively sleepwalking through our days. But that's just the way it is right? Well, the answer is both Yes and No! Yes it is, but No it doesn't have to be,
There are some really exciting developments that should give us all great hope that our life at work can mean much, much more. And for me the most exciting discovery is that we have the power, in fact we always have! But before we take a step forward let's take a step back.
In 1946 Austrian Neurologist and Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote a book titled "Man's Search for Meaning". This immensely powerful book shares his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. It's almost impossible for many of us to truly relate to the shear horror he and his fellow prisoners had to contend with. But we can all take great heart in the knowledge that even in such a dehumanising environment as Auschwitz, purpose remained a choice their captors had no ability to lock away.
Our collective search for greater meaning and purpose is certainly nothing new. Long before Viktor Frankl's work, ancient Greek Philosopher's like Aristotle were sharing their perspectives on purpose. But despite the fact that it has been discussed, explored, debated and written about for a very, very, very long time. For some reason, grasping purpose has been mysteriously out of reach for us mere mortals. Until now.
The really great news is that the very latest work on this subject is placing purpose within our collective reach, maybe for the first time. In his book "The Purpose Economy" Aaron Hurst tells us that, despite what many of us may think:
Purpose is not a cause - Many people feel that they must "uncover" the cause they were destined to contribute to before they can find meaning. Purpose is about understanding what makes you feel fulfilled and making decisions to expand that experience in your life.
Purpose is not a revelation - People tend to believe that purpose is a life's calling and that it hits us like a bolt of lightning. This is connected to the myth that purpose is a cause. Purpose is a journey. It is something you generate through being aware and seeking new experiences.
Purpose is not a luxury - Some believe that finding purpose in life is a luxury that only some can afford. Victor Frankl breaks this misconception in his book Man's Search for Meaning. Frankl was able to survive a Nazi concentration camp by finding purpose through his interval world. He was able to cope with his suffering, find meaning in it and move forward.
Purpose is in fact a choice we can all make.
He goes on to explain that purpose comes from three things:
Relationships – we get purpose from connecting to each other
Doing something greater than yourself – we get purpose from touching lives by being of service to others
Personal growth and challenge – we get purpose when we take risks and learn new things
Although the three common themes above relate to us all, of course we don't all get purpose from the same things. As it turns out the very talented people at Imperative have discovered there are actually twenty four different purpose patterns that determine what brings purpose to you versus someone else. They've also developed a powerful set of assessments and learning resources to help us all discover and understand our own unique purpose patterns and to develop strategies that will allow us to bring purpose to our work.
This is a hugely important thing for everyone to do, but I'm going to end this post by relating it back to the world of sales. I want to do that because more than just about any other profession salespeople are in a unique position to make a massive contribution to the purpose movement.
As sales professionals our jobs require us to speak to or meet with people every single day, and that means we have the opportunity to bring an experience of purpose to each and every one of those interactions, whatever the outcome. Imagine that. Millions of salespeople worldwide shifting their focus from simply making the sale, to touching lives. Now that would be a powerful force for positive change in the world.
That's all well and good, but what about the sales part? No sales no business right! Good question. In a recent post on the subject of happiness I shared that Harvard Psychologist, Happiness Researcher and Author of The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor found that greater levels of happiness resulted in a 37% increase in sales.
This isn't an outlier. Whatever metric you choose to measure purpose driven people are happier, more creative, more innovative, more engaged, more productive, higher performing, more collaborative and the list goes on. Here are a selection of results from various research studies on this subject:
For Organisations
600% Higher performance over 10 years
68% More likely to experience revenue growth
50% Larger leadership pipeline
36% Higher employee net promoters
20% Higher retention
For Individuals
64% More likely fulfilled at work
54% More likely to have an impact at work
51% More likely to have strong relationships
For Teams
Higher Psychological Safety
Greater Dependability, Stability, Meaning and Impact
The bottom line here is that learning how to sell and do business on purpose will have a more positive impact on your individual, team and organisational performance than just about anything else you can choose to do. The choice is yours, literally. So choose wisely!
Ian J Lowe is the Founder & CEO of eccoh, a sales transformation, coaching and consulting organisation pioneering a movement to change the way the world thinks about sales. The selling environment has radically changed and yesterday's attitudes, mindsets and cultures are no longer relevant. To succeed we need to be much more than in the past. Our mission is to harness the collective energies of every salesperson on the planet as a force for good in the world. That's the open effect.
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Wave Home Phone service is compatible with Nomorobo, a free service that blocks or hangs up on illegal robocalls and telemarketers.
Here's how to set up Nomorobo:
- Go to nomorobo.com and click on the Get Started Now button.
- Select Landline/VoIP as the Type of service and Wave Broadband as your carrier. Enter your email address and click Next.
- Check your email for an email from Nomorobo. Click on the link provided to activate your account. You will need to create a username and password.
- In the Your Phones tab in your new account, enter your phone number(s)
- Call Wave customer support at the number provided to add the SIMRING (simultaneous ring) feature to your account and enable the Nomorobo service.
- Go back into your Nomorobo account and click next. Nomorobo will call your number. Pick up the call only when the status bar changes color. When the set up process is complete, the status bar will be green and your phone number(s) will be listed as "protected."


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Whitefriars Bees
About 1,000 years ago, the 'white' friars that lived on the site kept bees. They ate honey, used it to brew honey wine (mead) and made candles for their church with the beeswax.
Now, 700 hundred years later, bees have returned to Whitefriars. Canterbury Beekeepers, in association with Whitefriars, have installed three hives on the roofs of shops in Whitefriars to help pollinate the city centre's flowers and provide an education facility for new beekeepers. The Whitefriars bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers, shrubs and trees over a mile away, covering the whole of the city. Our hives each accommodate around 50,000 bees in the summer months and 10,000 in the winter. In the summer of 2012 we harvested our first batch of Whitefriars honey.
Young Person's Guides
Whitefriars has been pleased to sponsor a number of guides targeted at young people produced by award-winning author Martyn Barr. Copies of these beautifully illustrated books have been distributed free of charge to schools across the district, along with accompanying teachers' resource guides.
'Garden Science' – part of our contribution towards Canterbury in Bloom 2013 – looks at the science behind a garden, supporting the KS2 science national curriculum. 'To Be A Bee' was developed to support our bee project and is full of fascinating facts and insights into the amazing world of the honeybee. The best-selling 'Young Person's History Guide to Canterbury' charts the city's fascinating history from the Iron Age to the present day, including the construction of Whitefriars and the associated archaeological dig.
All Martyn's books are available to purchase online at www.OOTBShop.co.uk.
Wise Words Festival
Whitefriars has been a supporter of the Wise Words Festival since its inception. The Festival comprises a series of workshops, masterclasses and gatherings, with talks, performances, installations, storytelling, poetry and street entertainment.
Words fly as poets on apple boxes compete in a battle of verse to become the king or queen of the streets slam; poets, authors, philosophers, ecologists and other interesting people perform in the gardens, in tents and even on punts along the river. Musicians and performers pop up on the streets and in coffeehouses across the town. This is an event full of unexpected encounters with poetry and storytelling.
Green Initiatives
Whitefriars has been pleased to lend its support to the Abbot's Mill project in the city. This community interest initiative aims to develop an urban hub of environmental and social excellence in the heart of Canterbury. When completed, it will incorporate a renewable energy centre, museum, vegan café and an organic community garden. The centre will be powered by clean electricity generated from renewable, sustainable sources – water and solar.
Closer to home, all of Whitefriars waste is either recycled or used to generate energy. No waste goes to landfill. Other recent environmental initiatives include the installation of low energy lighting systems in service corridors and the siting of a clothes recycling facility in the car park. Whitefriars has also installed over 200 solar panels on the shop roofs to generate electricity.


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On Friday, October 14, The Shop at Polk Museum of Art will be hosting a Trunk Show with jewelry artist Claudia Pandolfi Nodarse in conjunction with the public lecture by Humberto Castro.
Complimentary reception to follow thanks to The Art Project/Club Hispano de Lakeland.
Cash bar available.
About Claudia
In the early 80's, Claudia attended the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paul, Brazil, to study Business Administration, but soon followed her passion, enrolling in a series of Art and Fashion Design classes at the Panamerican School of the Arts, SENAC Escola Tecnica de Sao Paulo and Escola Paulista de Artes.
During the next decade, Claudia successfully designed her own line of clothing and ran her own business called "The Museum", an eclectic boutique with clients ranging from upscale business women to rock bands, in the urban metropolis of Sao Paulo.
After moving back to the US in the mid-nineties, she shifted her focus to creating intricate mosaics inlaid in hand carved wood paintings, which became her passion for the next fifteen years. She has displayed her work in galleries and participated in shows throughout central & south Florida, also catering to her architectural clientele.
Beginning in 2010, Claudia reached back to her roots in fashion, and since then has been focused on designing and metalsmithing her own line of jewelry.
She recently launched her Alchemical Line, which is being carried at the Orlando Museum of Art store, The White Wall Gallery in Altamonte Springs, and The Shop at the Polk Museum of Art. Her full spectrum of recent and prior collections are also displayed at her FAVO studio in downtown Orlando.


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Kean Finnegan via Crowdrise
June 10, 2010
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BENEFITING: OmPrakash Foundation
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Depending on the amount of money raised, purchase a small drill rig or fabricate another less-conventional method (i.e,, water-pump and tremmie approach). Mobilize equipment and crew, drill holes and hit water. Depending on the method and sites selected, this project could hopefully squeeze out a few water wells with a conventional rig, but conventional rigs need parts and diesel. An unconventional system may be the better option especially if fund levels are not reached. Regardless, all equipment would be turned over and donated to the GrassRootsUnited efforts for continued use in there ongoing tool loan program.
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Social media is filled with predators and these days, parents are utilizing extreme measures to ensure their kids understand it's dangers.
Some parents have even sought to publicly humiliate their child by 'teaching them a lesson' online.
[FLASHBACK: Mom's Quest to Publicly Shame Daughter Backfires… ]
Well… once again, a mother?s Facebook rant has gone viral, with over a million views and counting.
Valerie Sparks posted a 5-minute video online last Sunday of her confrontation with her 13 year old daughter. When the Colorado mother discovered that her teen had been pretending to be 19 on Facebook and posing for pictures in lacy lingerie, she shot the video to publicly shame the girl for her actions.
In the 5+ minute video, Sparks makes the girls admit that she doesn't own any lacy underwear, has a 10pm bedtime and still watches children's shows.
I'm not quite sure how or why the video would necessarily stop the teen from doing it all again, but I guess anything is worth a try.
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The Faculty of Medicine considers Bioethics as fundamental in the training of health career students. As such, this discipline has been defined as a core element in undergraduate curricula, broadening its outreach to research and extension work. This Centre is currently working on theoretical research in the areas of clinical ethics and in the teaching of bioethics. Specific studies comprise:
- Judaism and organ transplant.
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Ben M. Rose
A native of Seymour, Tennessee, Ben attended The American University in Washington, D.C., where he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Communications, cum laude. Ben was the first member of his family to graduate from college. Ben attended law school at the University of Tennessee, where he graduated with an Advocacy Concentration. Later, he served as an adjunct professor at the College of Law.
Ben's first law firm job was for Robertson, Ingram & Overbey in Knoxville. He worked there as an associate until he married his wife, who is also a lawyer, and moved to her hometown, Brentwood, to continue his law practice. Then, Ben worked with Cornelius & Collins, LLP, where his practice varied from general litigation to government relations. Among other things, Ben represented clients in jury trials both in federal and state courts where millions of dollars were at stake.
In a case of first impression, Ben enforced Tennessee's any willing pharmacy provider law against Memphis's healthcare plan. For the first time in Tennessee, he helped obtain a law creating residential homes for individuals suffering with traumatic brain injuries, the Traumatic Brain Injury Residential Home Act, P.C. 1086. Ben obtained a decision from the Tennessee Court of Appeals upholding the right of insurers to recover premiums in the assigned risk program. It was one of two such decisions from any court throughout the United States. Finally, he prosecuted an appeal that reversed Tennessee law with regard to a minor's ability to obtain their medical expenses.
Ben's Education, Memberships, Honors & Publications
Joshua D. Arters
A Colorado native, Josh moved to Nashville to attend Belmont University, from which he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Josh later attended the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, in 2012. There, Josh served as a member of the executive board for the Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, as vice chair of Tennessee Law's Moot Court Program, and he was elected as 3L Class Representative for the Student Bar Association. He earned Dean's List honors and awards for outstanding academic achievement in legal writing and business torts.
Josh clerked with the Hon. Joseph M. Tipton, presiding judge of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and completed externships with both the District Attorney's Office for the 6th Judicial District and the Knoxville Public Defender's Office.


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With massive improvements to Engine , Electronics and Suspension the incredible RSV4 RF abd Tuono 1100 might look very similar but underneath are brand new bikes for 2017. Gone are the days when Italian bikes had poor electronics and poor quality and finish. Today and for the last decade or more Aprilia and Moto Guzzi and Piaggio as a group have invested heavily in improvements to both quality of component and overall finishand use only the best components. I would say these bikes are some of the best finished quality motorcycles available in the UK.You only have to take a close look at the new RSV4 and see top quality components that do not corrode or degrade like a lot of so called high image manufacturers. Yes they are close to top end prices but are most definitely TOP END Products. Look closely at what you get for your money.
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Aprilia has made research and development on electronics systems applied to motorcycles its banner, moving ahead of its time and offering technologies to the general public which were once reserved for the racing world. Patented electronics systems which are still benchmarks of efficiency and performance: Aprilia was the first manufacturer in the world to equip a wide scale production bike with a Ride-by-Wire electronic throttle (Shiver 750 in 2006), to develop the most complete, advanced, and as yet unrivalled dynamic electronics control platform (APRC in 2010) and a semi-active suspension system (with the possibility of making the rear suspension entirely active) covered by 4 patents capable of adjusting the setup moment by moment based on road surface conditions and the rider's driving style (ADD in 2013).These are just a few of the firsts achieved by Aprilia, which are now joined by the V4-MP multimedia platform.
With V4-MP communication between the vehicle and your smartphone becomes active.
In the rich accessories catalogue dedicated to the Aprilia RSV4 and Tuono V4 you can now find a highly advanced version of the Piaggio Multimedia Platform which transforms your smartphone into a semi-professional tool with exceptional information capacity. Everyone knows that the Piaggio Multimedia Platform is the innovative multimedia platform offered exclusively by the Piaggio Group which allows you to connect your vehicle to your smartphone and consequently to the web. With this exceptional application your smartphone becomes an actual sophisticated on board multifunctional computer and the link between the vehicle and the Internet. This is a window to the future which lays the foundation for a new way of looking at communication on two wheels. Thanks to further development of this fascinating system that Aprilia has fine tuned, communication between vehicle and smartphone becomes active: you can change the settings on your RSV4 and Tuono V4 1100 directly from your smartphone and you can also receive tips in real time on how to improve performance on the track in complete safety.
Some of the more prominent features of V4-MP are:
- Active electronic setup: this is as close as you can get to the "corner-by-corner" electronic management used in world speed championships. Using the GPS feature of your smartphone, the system recognises the position of the bike at any given time on the track and automatically changes the electronic adjustments (traction control and anti-wheelie), corner by corner. This allows you to increase safety and effectiveness on the track, adjusting the control parameters at every point on the circuit and without distractions.
- Adaptive Race Assistant provides tips in real time to safely take the best advantage of your Aprilia. The application compares rider performance to the best lap on the track in real time and assists by immediately indicating how to gradually improve performance.
- Advanced telemetry dashboard: this is a "virtual" dashboard that lets you use your smartphone's display to see, not only all the information on the standard instrument cluster, but also numerous other parameters acquired by the bike's telemetry such as, for example:
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o longitudinal and lateral acceleration (G-G diagram)
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A year ago, I traveled to several cities in Italy and Germany with my family, and while in Milan, we came upon this vendor selling a huge array of colorful and unique sunglasses. After browsing for awhile and trying on what had to be about 15-20 pairs, my mom and I settled on the same pair of sunglasses — dark shades with multicolored, floral frames. I had never seen sunglasses like this before and loved that they were funky without being gaudy (just how I like many things in life).
These sunglasses quickly became my favorite pair, and over the last year, I took them with me to many destinations around the world. They didn't go everywhere I went, but they accompanied me on most of my trips. And I'm not sure why I started doing this but somewhere along the way I started to hold up the sunglasses and take photos with them. It's something that I figured I would be doing for a long time until I got tired of the idea. Buuut then they broke (insert sad face).
I know it sounds silly, and it's just a material thing, but I was pretty upset that these sunglasses broke. I'm sure I can't fix them (though, if anyone has any tips for fixing a broken arm/hinge that do not include tape or superglue, let a sista know), so I decided to instead write about them. In honor of those funky but not gaudy sunglasses that I bought in Milan, I'm sharing a few of the photos we (we being an inanimate object and myself) took around the world:
Isle of Palms, South Carolina
This photo was taken on the beach in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, a beach town in Charleston County located not too far outside of Downtown Charleston. My mom and I spent a few days in the area attending the wine and food festival, touring the city and learning how to make the perfect fried chicken.
Edinburgh, Scotland
After traveling to Ireland for work, I decided to pass through Scotland before heading back to New York, and I'm so glad I did! I immediately loved Edinburgh and thought it was a gorgeous city. This photo was taken during one of my favorite moments – I had climbed up to Calton Hill and had decided to hang out on the National Monument of Scotland, enjoying the uncharacteristically warm and sunny weather with a view of Holyrood Park.
Scottish Highlands, Scotland
During my time in Scotland, I did a great day trip with Timberbush Tours and chose my specific tour, in large part, because of this view. This specific stop in the West Highlands is called Rest and Be Thankful, and it was certainly a place to do both. We also lucked out and arrived at this stop soon after the sun came out and the clouds from the gloomy morning drifted away.
Chicago, Illinois
I realize this view doesn't look like Chicago, but that's part of what makes Chi-Town such a great city. It's got the urban feel but is also situated alongside beautiful Lake Michigan. During the summer, the area is packed with boaters, runners, cyclists and sun worshippers who frequent the lake's beaches. It's a tranquil part of Chicago that's not too far from the hustle and bustle of the Loop.
Polignano a Mare, Italy
Ah, beautiful Polignano a Mare! This is one of my new favorite parts of Italy. I spent some time in this area after attending a friend's wedding in northern Puglia (one of my favorite travel moments of the summer) and found Polignano a Mare, in particular, to be stunning and somewhat of a hidden gem. I think many Italians know about this place, but not as many tourists, who instead head to the Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre and other coastal parts of Italy.
Lake Iseo, Italy
After my friend's wedding in Puglia, another friend and I hopped on a plane and headed up to Milan, where we rented a car and drove to Franciacorta, Italy. While there, we went to Lake Iseo to try and get a last glimpse of the Floating Piers installation before it was taken down. I took this photo on the ferry as we were heading to Monte Isola, the largest lake island in Europe.
Lisbon, Portugal
I loved Lisbon immensely and tried to do as much as I could during my way-too-brief time there. One morning, I got up early (note: I'm a big fan of getting up early to explore cities) and decided to walk around as much of Lisbon as possible. This was taken as the city was just starting to come to life and before the weather got too hot (July in Lisbon is a scorcher).
Port Antonio, Jamaica
One of my most recent trips was to Port Antonio, Jamaica for my cousin's wedding. It was in a part of the island that's my personal favorite, and we lucked out with what was absolutely perfect weather all weekend. This was the unbelievable view from where I stayed with family during my time in what many affectionately call "Portie."
Thanks for the good times, funky sunglasses. I had fun. Luckily, I found the same vendor during my recent return to Milan and bought another pair of sunglasses; they're not as funky but I think they'll do.


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In spite of big efforts of many researchers in the world, the causes of cancer and the mechanism of carcinogenesis have not been solved completely. The changing feachers in cancer with the passage of time may play some role these delay of the solution. It is one of the basic methods in epidemiologic research for getting the causes of a disease to do a comparative studies both in endemic area and in not endemic area of the disease. In the northern-east part of People Republic of China shows and interesting feature of the cancer occurrence, i. e. the frequency of stomach cancer is high in rural area and that of lung cancer in urbern area. These peculiar characteristics provide us for good field of cancer epidemiology.To solve some remained questions of stomach cancer and lung cencer, two case-control studies were conducted in this area ; one is for lung cancer in urbern area and the other for stomach cancer in rural area. Main results from these two studies are followed ;To clarify the c
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-- The First Time EVER… --
For the first time ever in the Greek First Division, the "Big 4" did not score a single goal, in separate matches, on the same matchday. Additionally, it is only the third time that all four dropped points, in separate matches, on the same matchday. AGONAsport.com takes you back…
The 5th matchday (or 3rd) of this year's Greek SuperLeague was a historic one as the "Big 4" Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, AEK, and PAOK each failed to score in their respective matches. It was the FIRST TIME in the Greek First Division's history that all four went goalless, in separate matches, on the same matchday. Over the weekend, Olympiacos fell to Larissa 1-0 while AEK, PAOK, and Panathinaikos played to goalless draws against Iraklis, Xanthi, and Panetolikos. In 2013, the four teams all went goalless in Matchday 27, but there was a derby between Olympiacos and PAOK. Panathinaikos lost 1-0 to Platanias and AEK dew Levadiakos 0-0. The same occurred in 1976 when AEK and PAOK played to a goalless draw in their derby, while both Olympiacos (Panserraikos 0-0) and Panathinaikos (Ethnikos 2-0) failed to find the back of the net.
Additionally, it is the third time in the First Division's history where all four teams dropped points, in separate matches, on the same matchday. The first occurrence was in 2000 on the 3rd Matchday of the season. Olympiacos drew Ionikos 3-3, Panathinaikos drew Aris 2-2, AEK drew Ethnikos Asteras 2-2, and PAOK played to a 1-1 draw against Panionios. The last time all four teams dropped points on the same weekend was in Matchday 29 of the 2006-2007 SuperLeague season. That year, Olympiacos drew Aigaleo 1-1, Panathinaikos drew Larissa 1-1, AEK and Xanthi finished goalless, and PAOK lost to Atromitos 2-1.


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Do you run a pilot of your next change effort? It all depends on the scale of the pilot. And on the network in which the pilot operates.
Andrew McAfee had a post a couple weeks ago that suggests Enterprise 2.0 implementers should Drop The Pilot. I have heard this in Theory of Constraints circles too. If the project is worth doing, shouldn't it be worth doing everywhere?
McAfee suggests the main problem with E2.0 pilots is that they can't work due to the necessary scale:
I believe these kinds of pilots are unintentionally set up to fail, or at least underwhelm. This is essentially because they contain too few people, most of whom know each other too well.
His discussion (and the excellent comments) makes me think of network effects. And that network could be people, or parts flowing through a manufacturing facility, or inter-related projects. If you attempt to carve out a subset of this type of network for a pilot, you are guaranteed two problems. First, the pilot network is going to require inputs from outside the network. Since they aren't participating in the pilot, the pilot is automatically hamstrung by forcing those participating to operate under (at least) two regimes: the pilot, and the old way. Second, the outside network takes actions that impinge on the participants in the network. Department X makes a decision for the whole company that runs counter to the new way of operating in the pilot group. Or more simply, another project in the organization requires the time and energy of the people in the pilot. In either case, the expected benefits and value of the project are going to be significantly reduced due to these effects.
For these projects to work, they need to have a fairly self-contained segment of the organization. In some cases, that means the entire organization, such as what McAfee suggests. In other cases, this is a full business unit or operating division, where the outside interactions are minimal and can be limited to a few key nodes in the network (where the interface effects can be minimized).
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U.S. Seeks to Silence Tax Evasion Prophet
In a blatant maneuver to put the "scur" into tax evaders, the Justice Department is seeking a court order against a Michigan couple promoting what the government says is the number one tax dodge scheme in America.
In his book "Cracking the Code" and on his website, Peter Eric Hendrickson, pictured in a polo shirt bearing the patch he designed, posits that just a twiddle bit of your income is taxable.
"The government has no claim against those dollars unless the government obtains a sworn statement from us that we have income as defined in the law," said Hendrickson. The federal courts have rejected these arguments. Typical.
Five followers of Hendrickson's teachings are being sued by the Justice Department for tax evasion. "Mr. Golson and his wife, Debra, wrote on their 2003 tax return that "for fear of I.R.S. retaliation," Cisco Systems, his employer, "refuses to issue forms correctly listing" his $241,840 Cisco salary as not subject to tax," reports the NYT.
The couple has a history of tax hatin'. In 1990 they mailed a bomb filled with tea, referencing the Boston Tea Party, to the IRS. It went kaboom and gave a postal worker a big booboo.
"U.S. Seeks Order to End What It Calls a Tax Scheme" [NYT]
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I thought it might be of interest to link the esteemed Professor Jonathan Turley's Affidavit filing in the Canadian Reference Case. To call it simply a brilliant display of understanding Constitutional Law, would be an understatement indeed. In our view, Turley obliterates Marci Hamilton's arguments, which are simply a replay of her worn out dissertations on Findlaw and other legal blogs.
We are most fortunate to have the best of the best regarding Constitutional Law working for our civil rights…
Here is the affidavit: Turley Affidavit


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Norman Mailer -- the "presumptive general" of American letters, bibulous provocateur, showman, existentialist, misogynist, wannabe mayor, and lover of women, essayist, journalist, novelist, playwright, director, six times a husband and nine times a father, author of more than 30 books and burr under many complacent saddles of American life, died Nov. 10, of renal failure at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, at the age of 84.
With his passing, American literature has lost perhaps the greatest literary exponent of that "greatest generation" Tom Brokaw has championed – and every generation since. His was the life of our time.
In a career that spanned just short of sixty years, he threw light – often raw and interrogation-brilliant, sometimes refracted through the prism of a formidable ego – into a multitude of America's hidden corners.
The phrase "presumptive general" fit its subject perfectly. All we ever really knew about him was a consequence of conflict. It informed our first understanding of who Mailer was. His debut novel, "The Naked and the Dead," a fictionalization of a patrol experience in the Pacific theater of the war, was published in 1948, and remained No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list for 11 straight weeks.
He constantly harangued with the press as his prodigious output continued. Works that followed were variously attempts to reveal some deeper, inner precincts of the human experience, including sex, power, and the third-rail issue for our American time, race -- or attempts to extrapolate the turmoil and chaos of his own life to the tumult of his times.
He stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, with a penknife in 1960. He arm-wrestled with Muhammad Ali in 1965. While filming "Maidstone" in 1968, he bit off part of Rip Torn's ear after Torn reportedly attacked him with a hammer.
Mailer was on point for some of the pivotal protest events of the Vietnam War era, including the 1967 march on the Pentagon (resulting in "The Armies of the Night" and his first Pulitzer Prize) and the 1968 Republican convention, an assignment for Esquire that led to "Miami and the Siege of Chicago." His style had evolved amid the battles of the day -- the Times' Charles McGrath described it as "bold, poetic, metaphysical, even shamanistic."
If his delivery was evolving, so too were his interests. "Of a Fire on the Moon," initially an assignment for Life magazine, became a book on the 1969 U.S. moon landing. "King of the Hill" was a short but arresting reportage of the second Ali-Joe Frazier fight.
His writings would come over the years to ricochet around history, from "Ancient Evenings," his ambitious novel on ancient Egypt, to "Tough Guys Don't Dance," a hard-boiled detective story, from "Marilyn," a coffeetable appreciation of Marilyn Monroe as pop-culture archetype to the book generally regarded as his best – "The Executioner's Song," his deeply-felt, passionately-drawn study of the life of murderer Gary Gilmore, for which Mailer won his second Pulitzer Prize.
In 1991 the novel "Harlot's Ghost" ventured the Central Intelligence Agency as a kind of postwar government secret society, a clandestine cross of MI6 and the Vatican. A biography of Picasso was issued in 1995; in 1997 he published "The Gospel According to the Son," a first-person novel about Jesus.
There was vast sweep and unquenchable interest. But Michiko Kakutani, a frequent antagonist and writing Nov. 10 in the International Herald Tribune, regretted Mailer's inability to write some hypothetical Big One, doing so in language that let death awaken no sympathy.
"Instead of writing a great Tolstoyan novel about America that would "speak to one's time" and capture the social and political pulse of the nation, he increasingly produced tendentious novels that were scaffolds for his eccentric, sometimes perverse ideas about violence and sex and power, what he once called "the mysteries of murder, suicide, incest, orgy, orgasm and Time."
Mailer has been accused of literary prostitution, of cranking out books more motivated by compensation than by inspiration. But the accusations seem mean-spirited and out of character with people who would truly understand the process of literature. Never mind that he needed the money, most writers can relate to that. But Mailer's diversity of topic, of the focus on his creative and emotional lens at any given time, must eventually reflect a diversity of mind, if a thematically scattered one.
To accuse him of enduring hubris and self-importance about his writing and his role in the wider national life is to finally accuse every writer of having nothing more or less than ambition. What major leaguer with any self-respect doesn't want to swing for the fences every time he steps to the plate? What heavyweight champion in mothballs doesn't harbor the dream of one more fight?
Somehow, in his embrace of combat was our own. Charles McGrath, writing in the Times, described him, fairly, it must be said, as "an all-purpose feuder and short-fused brawler, who with the slightest provocation would happily engage in head-butting, arm-wrestling and random punch-throwing. Boxing obsessed him and inspired some of his best writing. Any time he met a critic or a reviewer, even a friendly one, he would put up his fists and drop into a crouch."
In the 1970s it was combat with feminists and proponents of women's liberation. In the celebrated raucous April 1971 debate with "The Female Eunuch" author Germain Greer, he declared himself an "enemy of birth control."
At times his provocations seemed less based in any serious differences on feminine issues, and more the willful exercise, like the child who pulls the wing off a fly just to see what happens. Sometimes to riotous result:
At the University of Colorado, just after beginning a speaking engagement in 1973, he called on the women in the audience – angry proponents of women's liberation, then in its heyday as a social movement -- to "hiss me resoundingly." When the women complied, Mailer replied with a perfect timing. "Thank you, obedient little bitches," he said.
Maybe, Gore Vidal once seemed to suggest, it was showmanship for its own sake. Vidal, one of Mailer's more storied and frequent antagonists, once wrote: "Mailer is forever shouting at us that he is about to tell us something we must know or has just told us something revelatory and we failed to hear him or that he will, God grant his poor abused brain and body just one more chance, get through to us so that we will know. Each time he speaks he must become more bold, more loud, put on brighter motley and shake more foolish bells. Yet of all my contemporaries I retain the greatest affection for Norman as a force and as an artist. He is a man whose faults, though many, add to rather than subtract from the sum of his natural achievements."
For all his eccentricities, he seemed to remain hard-wired to shifts not of the public mood, but of the public psyche. In 1984 Mailer was the main force in bringing together writers for a conference, "The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State," perhaps sensing even then (two years into Reagan America) the value in discussing the divergence of imagination in the two vast spheres of public life.
Speaking in an interview with Andrew O'Hagan at the New York Public Library in June 2007 -- well into the era of 9/11, this time that has rattled America's sense of its own existence -- Mailer expressed what far too many Americans seem to feel these days: a sense of loving but almost fatalistic resignation to the quirks and volatilities of the one you can never leave. "In a certain sense, I've been angry at America most of the years of my life, but I've always been in love with America in the oddest fashion. … In other words, one's country is one's mate."
And for writers, the practitioners of a solitary craft, one of his valedictory comments, shortly before his passing, is troubling – or damn well should be.
"I think the novel is on the way out," Mailer said. "I also believe, because it's natural to take one's own occupation more seriously than others, that the world may be the less for that."
Setting aside the possibility of that comment as his outsize ego's parting shot – "When I'm gone, it's all over" – it's perhaps better to reach for the deeper point he made, one consistent with his philosophy as well as his observations: that in a relentless 24/7 age of instant communication – witness the blogs and message board we speak through at this moment – the novel may call on powers of rumination and reflection that are rapidly dissipating; nuance, shading and personality are flattened to accommodate a growing impatience; the subtleties of the tale are subject to abbreviation based not on its own substance but on our quickly vanishing time in which to absorb it.
Today, the story is too easily storyboarded. For the way we would communicate the texture and nuance of our traditions, our cultures, our values and dreams, there can be no clearer warning than that.
He did not go quietly. Mailer was a bitter foe of the Bush White House, condemning the weaponized misnomers of the administration in the furtherance of various Bush initiatives, particularly the war in Iraq.
He took on the Bush administration with the same brio as in his heyday, when he sparred with Johnson and Nixon for the inanities of their respective White House tenures. In 2007 he called George Bush "[t]he worst president in America's history. He's ignorant, he's arrogant, he's stupid in all ways but one, which is he's immensely shrewd about the American people, particularly the less intelligent half of America."
But for the most part, in his later years he was less a brawler than a champion in his winter, weighing in with pronouncements justifiably but reliably more mandarin in sparsity and style with every passing year.
The Times' Charles McGrath captured perfectly the bearded, emeritus Mailer, recalling "something he had said at the National Book Award ceremony in 2005, when he was given a lifetime achievement award: that he felt like an old coachmaker who looks with horror at the turn of the 20th century, watching automobiles roar by with their fumes."
In "The Spooky Art," his 2003 cut-and-paste catalog of mea culpas, and a reckoning of the literal performance of his art and his craft, Mailer offers another telling aspect of his philosophy, a gauntlet throwdown, a valedictory and a summation of his life as durable for a headstone as for history itself.
"[H]e has had the courage to be bold where others might cry insanity."
That our epitaphs should be the same.
So long Norman. Requiscat in pace, Nachem Malek.
Photograph by Carl Van Vechten
Monday, November 12, 2007
The life of our time
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What is this page?
This is a collection guide. It is a description of archival material held in the Special Collections Division,
J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. The materials described here are physically available in our
reading room. To see what's been digitized in this collection, click on the thumbnail at the top right of this page
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Captain Bennett recounts his early background in Ohio, his experiences at the U.S. Naval Academy, and his service during World War II. Of particular importance is his description of duty on the USS
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Published Photographs: Hollywood Edition
These photographs have appeared in a variety of travel guidebooks, magazines and newspapers.
13 comments:
- jen laceda said...
Cool! What kind of camera / lens did you use? How come your photographs all come out crisp and clear, while mine are always blurry on the edges, etc. Is there a secret?
- February 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM
- Catherine said...
some cool photos here!! can you tell me what time the actual ceremony starts here in mexico time?? as I want to be back from the wknd to watch it!!
- February 19, 2009 at 9:21 AM
I'm with Catherine: Very cool photos!
- February 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Wendy said...
I have a Canon 5D and a variety of the L lenses. For quality the lens is even more important than the body. Better to buy a good used lens and body than a brand new body with a not so great lens.
Catherine, I've e-mailed you.
Paz, Thank you!
- February 19, 2009 at 7:06 PM
- Cuckoo said...
Congrats !!
The pictures are cool. And I don't have any questions now. :-)
- February 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Claps ! Claps ! Claps !
Party ???
- February 20, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- Debo Hobo said...
And when I think of Hollywood, having never been there, these are the exact images that come to mind.
- February 20, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Wendy said...
Cuckoo, ask questions anytime :^)
Hobo,Only if you are cooking...
Debo Hobo, these are very classic iconic images of Hollywood Boulevard, ironically a place where people who live in LA never go.
- February 22, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Erica said...
Yes, truly classic pictures. Hollywood Blvd will definitely be one of my first stops during my first stay in L.A. - whenever that may be.
- February 22, 2009 at 1:24 PM
- Gennaro said...
An thank you for including Sophie Loren. That's a blast from the past. She was born, not too far, from the area of Italy where my parent grew up.
- February 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Fly Girl said...
What iconic images! I'm with Genaro, the Sophia Loren star made my day. I'm ready for the Oscars now!
- February 22, 2009 at 6:57 PM
I love making Egg-Curry.
- February 23, 2009 at 2:51 AM
- Wendy said...
Erica, I hope you make it to LA one day soon.
Gennaro and Fly Girl, If I could be a movie star Sophia Loren would be at the top of my list.
- February 24, 2009 at 4:36 PM


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Ann is the author of the successful tv detective series Vera with over 21 books to her name. Our event will be to celebrate Ann's new book The Seagull from the Vera Stanhope Series £16.99
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The Seagull is Ann Cleeves' searing eighth novel in the bestselling Vera Stanhope series, about corruption deep in the heart of a community, and about fragile, and fracturing, family relationships. A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper – and Vera played a part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera information about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Marshall is dead, his body buried close to St Mary's Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two. This cold case takes Vera back in time, and very close to home, as Brace and Marshall, along with a mysterious stranger known only as 'the Prof', were close friends of Hector, her father. Together, they were 'the Gang of Four', and Hector had been one of the last people to see Marshall alive. Vera must confront her prejudices and unwanted memories to dig out the truth, as the past begins to collide dangerously with the present . . .


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I'd like to thank, My teachers — without them I wouldn't ever have kept on down this path and they made me want to do this for a living: Fabien Collinet & Luc Delsaut.
The person who trusted me to teach at CREA Geneva: Dimitri Ganevat.
My managers who trust me by allowing me to give lessons in everyday life: Mathieu Collet & Julien Ramel.
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|Gasland Benefit: Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Josh FoxNew York, October 18, 2012 -- As the hydrofracking issue becomes increasingly contentious, with deadlines approaching on every front, opponents are mounting efforts to alert residents both Upstate and in New York City to the hotly debated drilling technique's dangers. Residents of the Southern Tier, which sits on top of the Marcellus Shale, are concerned about known carcinogens in the water used in the drilling process, waste water and air pollution from methane gas, as well as the loss of their homes' real estate value once the land has been contaminated. Clean-water advocates in New York City share their concern about pollution of the aquifer which, they fear, could affect the city's watershed due to seepage of chemicals used in fracking. Also, local environmentalists and residents are worried about potentially dangerous levels of radon in Marcellus Shale natural gas. And there is also fear over the risk of pipeline explosions in a dense urban area, such as the West Village, where the Gansevoort Peninsula is the endpoint for a 16-mile, 30-inch, high-pressure pipeline that Spectra is constructing from New Jersey under the Hudson River. On Oct. 18 there was a special screening of the Academy Award-nominated film "Gasland" at the IFC Center on Sixth Ave. at W. Third St.
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YouTube recently made changes to the algorithm which controls which videos show up in the related video section. This was a direct response to users' outrage that the old algorithm could be so easily manipulated in order for certain individuals to make money on the success of other videos.
Known as 'reply girls', these users discovered that by posting reply videos to popular YouTube videos, they could pull traffic from these videos using a certain amount of cleavage. They very rarely have anything of value to say, and usually merely point out the obvious for around 3 minutes. What would be the point of that, you may be wondering? They make a whole lot of money from the ads, as they usually bring in a similar number of hits as their target video.
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Another full couple of weeks of reading!
STARFALL by Melissa Landers is the sequel to STARFLIGHT. Melissa Landers always does these sweeping and epic sci-fi stories with tons of romance, which I love. STARFALL was pretty good, although I liked STARFLIGHT better.
EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING by Nicola Yoon. Oh this book. So excellent. Great voice. Loved the little extras in the book... I don't know what else to call them but if you've read it you'll know what I mean. And the romance. I know some felt gypped by the ending- or that the author took the easy way out- but I didn't. Really, it could either go one way or the other and I for one liked the end the author chose. I can't wait to see the movie!
THE DASHWOOD SISTERS TELL ALL by Beth Patillo. This was a third book in a sort of trilogy. Not the kind that you have to read in order, but I did. I liked this one a lot better than book 2, and I think maybe better than book 1, although it's hard to remember. There's always a hint of mystery in these books, and of course, some romance. The author tends to take endings that I don't enjoy, but this one was not disappointing.
WHAT IS HIDDEN? by Lauren Skidmore. This book started out rough for me. I wasn't that into it, and the writing felt a bit amateurish. However, the premise was good so I gave it a chance, and I'm glad I did. The twist on Cinderella really was different than anything I'd read before, and I liked the world the author built. I was disappointed to find out it's the start of a series, so things didn't get wrapped up neatly. Not sure if I'll pick up the next book but the romance was definitely enjoyable and at times it had some really excellent dialogue.
BY YOUR SIDE by Kasie West. Speaking of dialogue, Kasie West is a queen! This is the second book I've read by this author and as soon as I was done, I went to my local bookstore and bought two more by her. That's how certain I am that I will love everything she writes. Her YA contemporary is perfect. It's everything I want it to be. I liked how this story delved into some deep issues without going really dark. I don't mind a dark book, but this book shows you can talk about serious stuff while still keeping things on the lighter side. I LOVED it.
THE ALCHEMISTS by Craig DiLouie. I went to an author evening where a bunch of authors did readings, Craig DiLouie being one of them. Out of all of them, his reading inspired me to buy the book. This book ended up being hit or miss with me. The dialogue was excellent, and often very funny, which was the best part. The miss was that oftentimes it felt like a history lesson. I love historicals but there were so many parts where the author told the backstory of some war or some king, and in a way where it was like, okay, settle in, it's time for backstory right now. With all of that, the love story thread in the book ended up feeling rushed, and therefore not all that believable. So three stars, because I liked it, but didn't love it.
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Guitarist speaks in new magazine from makers of Uncut
The Who's Pete Townshend has declared that he wishes he had never joined a band.
The guitarist was speaking in the new one-off magazine The Who: The Ultimate Music Guide, made by the makers of Uncut.
Townshend said that he thinks that despite the band's legacy he thinks he'd have done even better as a solo performer. He also said would be in better health now if he'd gone down that route.
"What would I have done differently? I would never have joined a band," he said. "Even though I am quite a good gang member and a good trooper on the road, I am bad at creative collaboration."
He added: "I would have made a much more effective solo performer and producer working the way Brian Eno has worked. I would be less physically damaged today.
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