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Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA)
based in Lagos, NIGERIA
Lagos State Waste Management Authority is an agency of Lagos State Govenment in charge of collection and disposal of Solid Waste in the State. The 1st agency to be so established in the country.
EnvironQuest Nigeria Limited
based in Lagos, NIGERIA
EnvironQuest provides integrated environmental and natural resource management services to address environmental issues and risks associated with your business. We assist you with prompt, qualitative and scientifically-sound services, which improve your environmental performance within overall business objective.
Global Impact Environmental Consulting Ltd
based in Ikeja, NIGERIA
Global Impact Environmental Consulting Ltd is a progressive multi-disciplinary independent consultancy company offering diverse range of consultancy services to industries, government and United Nation`s Agencies for the attainment of sustainable development in our global environment. In addition, Global Impact Environmental Consulting Ltd is served by experienced ...
The Initiates Plc., (TIP)
based in Port Harcourt, NIGERIA
The Initiates PLC (TIP) is a Nigerian company delivering international standard contracting and consultancy services in Waste Management, Industrial Cleaning, and Decontamination to both Private and Public sectors including the Oil & Gas Industry. The company has multi-disciplinary and flexible workforce structure that is functional in a wide range of work environments, ...
Dexcom Solutions Ltd.
based in Port Harcourt, NIGERIA
Dexcom Solutions Ltd. is an environmental, technology and engineering company.Nigeria offering a wide range of services and solutions primarily to the environmental and oil industries. We are committed to the delivery of cutting edge environmental technology and unequalled services to our clients.We provide services in Environmental management, Waste management, Oil spill ...
Maintenance System Consultants
based in Ilupeju, NIGERIA
Maintenance System Consultants (MSC) was incorporated in August 1993 with Corporate Affairs Commission in Federal Republic of Nigeria. The organisation has brought together many experienced professionals from all works of life. The personnel are experienced and qualified professionals with excellent track records in Architectures, Information Technology, Building ...
HyBrid Greenergies Consulting Ltd.
based in Ajah, NIGERIA
HBG Consulting Ltd is a sustainability consulting firm founded on the principle of always doing the right thing for our clients and the environment with a practice dedicated to renewable energy, energy efficiency and waste management. With energy being an essential and integral driver for the technological advancement and infrastructural development of any developing ...
Waste Management Society of Nigeria (WAMASON)
based in Port Harcourt, NIGERIA
(WAMASON) . WAMASON is a non-governmental professional organization, with over 6,000 members cutting across private and public sectors including the academics. The vision of the Society is to develop waste management practice in Nigeria through the development of appropriate human capital targeted at supporting the Nigerian economy. Our aim is to re-align waste management ...
based in Lagos, NIGERIA
Waste Matters Nigeria Limited: is a Nigeria:n owned and registered company, that was incorporated in the year 1998, to conduct multifarious businesses, amongst which include the following- Waste Management:(a) Evacuation and disposal of both solid and liquid waste under existing legislations and procedures.(b) Designing, construction, and installation of waste management ...
African Circle Pollution Management Limited
based in Ikoyi, Lagos, NIGERIA
African Circle Pollution Management Limited is an environmental conscious company applying the Best Available Techniques (BAT) and Best Environmental Practice (BEP) to safely collect all waste in line with MARPOL 73/78 Annexes as listed below; Annex I-Oil / Annex II-Noxious Liquid Substances / Annex III-Harmful Substances carried in Packaged formed / Annex IV-Sewage / ...
Terrestial & Aqua Resources Managers Nigeria Limited
based in Warri, NIGERIA
Terrestial & Aqua Resources Managers Nigeria Limited, is a firm of engineering and environmental consultant and contracting.The firm has it coperate headquarters in Warri, Nigeria. With branch offices at Port-harcourt, yenegoa and Abuja. The company has seasoned Engineers & Scientist. The company`s clients includes Government organizations, coperate bodies as well as ...
Cleanscape Nigeria Limited
based in Abuja Municipality, NIGERIA
Cleanscape Nigeria is a waste management consulting company that specializes in planning, designing, and implementing localized sustainable waste management solutions involving reduction, reuse, and recycle of waste generated in homes, schools, and workplaces in Nigeria.
based in Port Harcourt, NIGERIA
We are engineers and Consultants in building service engineering,waste management engineering and fire protection system consultancy.we are into the services of proposing waste management systems/equipment in domestic, commercial and industrial establishments.
based in NIGERIA
Dewdropsignatures Limited is an Innovative Facility Management and Equipment Supply and Maintenance firm based in Lagos, Nigeria.We offer facility management services, Janitorial services and sale of waste management equipment, including Incinerators.
ChiRho Environmental Services
based in lagos, NIGERIA
Environmental services company, offering services in the following areas, pollution control, environmental investigations, waste management, water supply and treatment, flood studies & alleviation, remedial works for water damage (rising damp), noise control, geotechnical engineering, facility management, industrial waste management and effluent treatment plants
Littermasters Global Concepts Ltd
based in Igbo Efon, Ajah, NIGERIA
Our company is a major supplier of waste management products such as various types of litter bins and waste bins and other products for the internal and external environments. We also carry out waste collection and consultancy service for state governments in Nigeria.
Nohills Environmental Ltd.
based in Alausa Ikeja, NIGERIA
Nohills Environmental Ltd. is a provider of environmental and waste services in Nigeria. We are concerned with the protection of the environment and public health through provision of waste management solutions and consultancy services, including: Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Audit, Environmental Impact Assessment, Waste Analysis, Auditing, Assessment ...
Anglelight Resources Ltd
based in Wuse II, NIGERIA
We are Renewable Energy Company in Nigeria, or we are involves in hydropower, thermal, coal, wind energy, waste management and environmental management.We are interested in partnering with other companies in the areas of renewable energy like hydro power and wind
Delta Environmental Logistics Limited (DEL)
based in Rivers, NIGERIA
Delta Environmental Logistics Limited (DEL) is a Nigerian registered and majority owned company. DEL has been providing specialized waste management services and was the first Company in Nigeria to offer low temperature thermal treatment of drill cuttings with oil recovery. DEL has invested heavily to maintain its innovative approach to waste management and to be able to ...
Solmate Communications
based in Mushin, NIGERIA
Solmate Communication is a major supplier of waste management products such as various types and size of waste bins.Solmate Communications provides refuse collection equipment and sustainable waste solutions to all Government levels.Solmate Communications supplies the commercial and industrial sector with refuse handling equipment, such as steel waste containers, wheelie ...
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The theater has been thoroughly refurbished and will reopen with a show by power-pop group Hanson, of "MMMBop" fame. Other bookings range from comedian Bill Maher to brainy alt-rock group The Decemberists and the Led Zeppelin tribute act, Get the Led Out.
"Something for everybody," said Andy Feltz, when asked to sum up the venue's booking philosophy. A Montclair resident, Feltz is a partner in Montclair Entertainment, the promotion company that is reopening the venue.
Located at 5 Seymour St., off Bloomfield Avenue, the Wellmont originally opened in 1922, as a live theater, and switched to movies in 1929. Later, it became a triplex. In recent months, it has undergone a $3 million renovation. New electrical and plumbing systems, as well as new bars in the orchestra and mezzanine areas, have been installed.
The capacity will be 2,500 (approximately 1,800 for seated shows). This makes it almost as big as the last similar-sized rock theater in the area - Passaic's 3,200-seat Capitol Theatre, which presented concerts from the 1970s to the mid-'90s.
"The Capitol was a good room, and this will be picking up that niche," said Feltz.
Montclair Entertainment is a partnership between Feltz (who operated New York's Beacon Theatre from 1986 to 2006 and is currently presenting shows at the New York's United Palace Theater) and principals of The Bowery Presents, a company that is responsible for the consistently hip bookings at New York nightclubs like The Bowery Ballroom and Terminal 5.
"All the chemistry was right," said Feltz, of the decision to resurrect the Wellmont. "The room was right. The need was right. All the chemistry added up to it being a good situation."
Here are the Wellmont's confirmed shows. All go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. via tickets.com. Visit www.wellmonttheatre.com for information.
1: Hanson with Dave Barnes and Everybody Else. Price TBA
2: Matisyahu with Flobots and Mishka. $25
8: Bill Maher. $45-$65
11: The Decemberists with Loch Lomond. $32
14: Wolf Parade with Listening Party. $20
15: Martin Sexton with Ryan Montbleau. $32.50
17-18: Steely Dan. $85-$150
19: Tony Bennett. $75-$125
22: Al Green. $50-$85
23: Brian Wilson. $55-$85
4: B.B. King. $55-$90
5: John Prine with Chip Taylor. $40-$65
6: Get The Led Out (Led Zeppelin tribute). $25
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On Sunday, June 5, Rayne Police responded to an anonymous caller who reported Mardy Lyons was growing marijuana at his residence at 416 Ann Drive, Rayne. Officers investigated and confirmed Lyons was cultivating marijuana in his backyard garden.
Rayne Police officers arrested Lyons, 53, for cultivation of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Chief Stelly added officers also located an additional 30 grams of marijuana, scales, and other paraphernalia when they searched inside the residence.
Chief Stelly said, "This goes to show you that drugs affect every age and economic class."
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75 years ago- An execution in Charlestown
June 7, 1935- Irving Millen, Murton Millen, and Abraham Faber are executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison a year after their convictions in the Dedham Court for the murder of a Needham police officer during a robbery at The Needham Trust Company. Faber and the Millen Brothers, all in their early twenties, had begun a short but violent crime spree in the fall of 1933 and winter of 1934, robbing banks and other businesses in the Greater Boston area and leaving four men dead.
The Needham robbery on February 2, 1934 was like a scene right out of a gangster movie, with sub-machine guns blazing and a terrified bank employee hanging on to the running board of the getaway car as it raced through town. Needham police officers Forbes McLeod and Frank Haddock were gunned down by the robbers; McLeood when he responded to the bank alarm and Haddock as he stood with a Needham fireman in front of the Needham firehouse.
After finding the burned out wreckage of the getaway car in a wooded area of Norwood, police were able to trace a battery repair job to Irving and Murton Millen and their friend Abraham Faber. Millen, his 19 year old wife and brother Irving manged to escape to New York, but were captured after a wild gun battle in the lobby of a New York City hotel. Faber was apprehended in Boston. While the brothers and Murton's young bride rode the famed Yankee Clipper train back to Dedham to face justice, Abraham Faber began to talk. NEXT: The TRIALHistory/Mystery
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Recently found through a picture of my husband's Grandfather Chief John J. Cahill of Dedham. Ma. his part in this piece of history. A horrific crime. As he was also a part in the Sacco/Vanzetti trial.
Can ypu provide me with any further information regarding Chief Cahill's time as Chief of Police in Dedham. It is a piece of history we would like to document. Chief Cahill's grandson, and son to his daughter, Marie Frances Cahill Fuoco, Maurice J.Fuoco Jr. ( my husband) carried on his Grandfather's footprints and became a police officer in the town of Walpole. As well Maurice's son, and great grandson to Chief Cahill, Kevin Michael Fuoco became a police officer as well serving in the town of Attleboro, Ma. A rproud history for our family. If you can fill me in on an further details regarding Chief John J. Cahill I would greatly appreciate it.
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In the 1950s and 1960s modernist town planning reordered countless cities through urban renewal and freeway-building projects. Applying rational planning expertise generated emotional responses that often lingered long after redevelopment occurred. This article considers the emotional response to urban renewal in two cities advised by the British town planner Gordon Stephenson. In Perth, Australia, Stephenson was amongst a group of experts who planned a freeway that obliterated part of the valued river environment and threatened a historic structure. In Halifax, Stephenson prepared the initial scientific study used to justify dismantling part of the downtown and a historic black community on the urban fringe. While the Perth case generated an explosion of emotional intensity that failed to prevent environmental despoliation but saved some heritage assets, the Halifax example initiated a lingering emotional dispute involving allegations of neglect and racism. Comparing cases resulting from the activities of a noted practitioner illustrates differing emotional trajectories produced in the wake of the modernist planning project.
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Is That All There Is?: An Interview with Stephanie Danler
May 24, 2016 | by Jonathan Lee
The first sentence of Stephanie Danler's riveting debut novel is perhaps more an injunction than an imperative: "You will develop a palate." Over the 355 pages of Sweetbitter, the narrator, twenty-two-year-old Tess, encounters a number of appetites. She arrives in New York City during the heat wave of 2006 and applies for a job at a prestigious Manhattan restaurant. The manager, a man, stares at her just a little too long—the black sundress, the pilled cardigan wet with sweat—and we sense that her education will soon begin. Oysters, Pinot Noir, lines of coke at the bar. "The sour, the salty, the sweet, the bitter." Read More »
Beware the Mean Beach Attendant, and Other News
March 21, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Our basketball columnist, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, has stepped over to The New Yorker to bid farewell to Kobe Bryant. And he's a defender of Bryant's poem-cum-retirement-announcement: " 'Dear Basketball' was mocked by some, but it has more going on in it, from a literary perspective, than may be immediately clear. Not only is the narrative circular, with a changed perspective at the end, it's also both an epistle and an apostrophe—a form of rhetoric in which the speaker addresses an inanimate object as though it's a living thing. As both a basketball player and a personality, Bryant has always put extraordinary emphasis on the importance of craft. He has also always owed a debt to Michael Jordan, and this was the case here as well: Jordan, too, published an open letter to basketball in order to say goodbye to the game. But his was in prose."
- Today in parenting, Ferrante style: next year you can lull your sons and daughters to sleep with The Beach at Night, Ferrante's new book, aimed at readers six to ten. It's a sunny, feel-good story, suffused with light and hope: "The Beach at Night is a spinoff of The Lost Daughter, one of the author's lesser-known early novels, in which a teacher goes on vacation in a coastal town and steals a doll from a child. In The Beach at Night, the doll isn't stolen. Instead, she is abandoned by her young owner to face nighttime terrors such as the Mean Beach Attendant of Sunset and his friend, the Big Rake … 'A Beach Attendant arrives, I don't like his eyes,' the doll says, according to a sample translation … 'He folds up the big beach umbrellas, the chaises. I see the hairs of his mustache moving over his lips like lizards' tails.' "
- Geoffrey H. Hartman, whose Criticism in the Wilderness took criticism perhaps farther afield than anything before it, has died at eighty-six. "In Criticism in the Wilderness, he argued that criticism should not only stand on an equal footing with literature but also be literature … In elevating criticism to the status of literature, Professor Hartman did not mean merely that it should be well written. What he also meant was that criticism should function for criticism's sake alone. 'The spectacle of the critic's mind disoriented, bewildered, caught in some 'wild surmise' about the text and struggling to adjust—is not that one of the interests critical writing has for us?'"
- Reminder: art and commerce don't really "intersect" anymore. They're running parallel toward the horizon, forever. Want to go the other way? You can't. Just ask young artists: "A few years ago … if you were a creatively minded person, you might have become a sculptor or a painter. Now you are equally likely to become the founder of a tech startup, channeling your creative ideas and risk into what is, ultimately, a business … A lot of young startup people are viewing their companies as an artwork … I think the creativity involved in painting, say, and that of tech are getting closer. The incredible risk—with vision and values—that artists once represented is now embodied in these tech companies. That has a real resonance for me. People can make a beautiful business or a beautiful venture."
- What compels a writer to abandon one language for another? Beckett, Conrad, and Nabokov all traded one tongue for another: "Some do it because they are intoxicated by the possibilities offered in a new language—the words and turns of phrase for which their own language doesn't have any equivalents, the strange new rhythms and patterns of sound … Yet the adoption of a foreign language isn't just about looking for a fresh perspective. It can signal a vexed relationship with the original language; the psychological burdens of a writer's previous texts, his literary reputation in that language, the entire tradition in which he is working … Writers rejuvenate themselves by fleeing to foreign tongues. They escape all the psychic associations that gather around a language and a literary tradition. In a sense, it's an extreme cure for writer's block."
Twenty Brutal Years of Tuscan Sun, and Other News
March 14, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Because people are incorrigibly nosy, and because no one seems to find it enjoyable to let an author write her books in peace, an Italian professor has sallied forth with yet another dubious claim as to the true identity of Elena Ferrante. And the professor's guess isn't very creative, either; it's just another professor. "The latest writer forced to deny that she is the creator of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels is Marcella Marmo, a professor of contemporary history at the University of Naples Federico II. 'Truly no, I am not Elena Ferrante,' she told Corriere della Sera, saying she had only read the first novel in the Neapolitan series and the newspaper should give her the other books as an apology."
- Today in super: what a shitty word super is, with its grating long u, its relentless cheer, its strange ties to start-up culture. Teddy Wayne writes "Super followed by an adjective—in other words, in adverbial form—was more than five times as common from 2010 to '12 as from 1990 to '94, with the biggest leaps coming in the last decade … What was once reserved for the best, the most awe-inspiring and the wondrous is now routinely deployed for the mundane, the banal and the taste of fro-yo … It is a prefix for a wealth of hard math and science terms (such as superset or superstring theory). It can imbue a nebulous proposition with what sounds like data-tested objectivity: 'We have implemented a superaccessible user database' comes off as more authoritative or more high-tech than 'We have implemented a very accessible user database.' "
- Eileen Myles has become that strangest of subspecies, the famous poet. Arielle Greenberg wonders why Myles's fame has itself garnered so much attention, and what it might mean for her work: "It is weird for a poet to be famous, and no one feels this weirdness more deeply than poets themselves. It's even more weird for a poet to be newly more famous—genuinely, glossy-magazine famous—in her mid-sixties, after writing nineteen books … Why is the media so obsessed with Myles's ascent into mainstream celebrity? I think a host of reasons are at play: the way Americans try to get 'cultured' by osmosis so that stylish articles about poetry make us feel more intellectual, the 'bootstraps' nature of Myles's story, the novelty of someone who ran for president as a piece of performance art getting photographed for glossy magazines. I find myself thinking about a term used a lot in my circles in the early 1990s: co-opting. Back then, it seemed that everything authentic and revolutionary and vital—the riot grrl movement, grunge music, hip-hop—was quickly gobbled up by the establishment and spat back out in clean, shiny packages for mass consumption. I worry that the hoopla over Myles is an attempt by the media to take everything underground about her and her work and use it to make itself look cool."
- The Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new film Cemetery of Splendor continues his long, oblique, quiet approach to political cinema, in which characters struggle to awake from the bland dream of history: "By far the most nakedly political film of Weerasethakul's career, it is a gentle, open-hearted story of human connection, and it is underlain at every moment by rage and dread. Midway through the film, the two main characters, Jen and Itt, go to the movies. In a slick modern multiplex, they watch a trailer for a schlocky horror flick, a fevered montage of impalements, heaving breasts, and prehensile tongues. This sequence is as close to a direct statement of intent as you'll ever find in a Weerasethakul film. Cemetery of Splendor has no gore, no bug-eyed demons or shrieking victims, and it makes time for flirtatious conversations with the local librarian, a long sales pitch for a miracle skin cream, and several public group workouts (a charmingly inexplicable staple of this filmmaker's work). But it too is a horror movie, all the more unsettling for its poky, daylit geniality."
- It's been twenty years since Under the Tuscan Sun was published, turning Tuscany into an unseemly pastiche of luxury and authentic European living. What have we done since? Jason Wilson explains: "I have sat on Tuscan-brown sofas surrounded by Tuscan-yellow walls, lounged on Tuscan patios made with Tuscan pavers, surrounded by Tuscan landscaping. I have stood barefoot on Tuscan bathroom tiles, washing my hands under Tuscan faucets after having used Tuscan toilets. I have eaten, sometimes on Tuscan dinnerware, a Tuscan Chicken on Ciabatta from Wendy's, a Tuscan Chicken Melt from Subway, the $6.99 Tuscan Duo at Olive Garden, and Tuscan Hummus from California Pizza Kitchen. Recently, I watched my friend fill his dog's bowl with Beneful Tuscan Style Medley dog food. This barely merited a raised eyebrow; I'd already been guilty of feeding my cat Fancy Feast's White Meat Chicken Tuscany. Why deprive our pets of the pleasures of Tuscan living?"
How Repulsive
February 10, 2016 | by Hannah Tennant-Moore
On the merits of disturbing literature.
In a letter to a reader who was disturbed by his novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, "If [Malte] contains bitter reproaches, these are absolutely not directed against life. On the contrary, they are evidences that, for lack of strength, through distraction and inherited errors we lose completely the countless earthly riches that were intended for us."
Faced with a reader like Rilke's, it can be hard for a writer to defend the need for "bitter reproaches"—to uphold the disturbing above the merely distasteful. After all, some "disturbing" books do nothing more than shock. Charlotte Roche's Wetlands, for instance, is a litany of gross and obscene bodily functions that never adds up to more than grossness and obscenity. But good books disturb for good reasons. To disturb is, among other things, to guard against complacency: to make the reader face the underbelly of dark thoughts and actions, see how circumstances can make even good people go astray if they are not vigilant in honoring the best in themselves and in the outside world. Disturbing passages, when skillful, make a vital inquiry into the subtle causes and effects of human behavior. Read More »
Impressive Propaganda, and Other News
February 10, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- If you've been holding off on reading Elena Ferrante's Neopolitan novels because there's, like, four of them, and that's just kind of a lot of books, and you secretly don't even really enjoy reading that often anyway, you're in luck: they're being adapted for television. "FremantleMedia's Wildside and Fandango Productions will adapt the four novels as four eight-episode series, one for each of the books—My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. And just in case you were worried, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Ferrante herself will be involved in the production of the series, and it will be shot in Italy."
- With his Jack Reacher thrillers, Lee Child writes what are certifiably—at least according to Forbes—the most addictive novels in all of commercial fiction. In this, Christopher Tayler writes, Child owes a debt to Donald Westlake, an earlier thriller writer with a formula that varied in intriguing ways: "Westlake was hailed as a master by John Banville and Stephen King, but he never troubled the bestseller lists, and it's part of [his series protagonist] Parker's charm that he's a bit of a cult property, a creature of the drugstore paperback carousel rather than the airport bookstore … Luc Sante—who published one of the first serious appraisals of the Parker books in 1985—argues persuasively that the master theme of professionalism is as much writerly as criminal. Westlake said that he devised the series because he wanted to write about 'a workman at work', and the books offer a double lesson, showing not only, say, each step in the process of breaking though a Sheetrock wall with a claw hammer, but also how to turn the process into mesmerizing fiction."
- In the fifties and sixties, you couldn't step into an East German bookstore (and clearly I speak from experience) without encountering the work of Klaus Wittkugel, one of the GDR's most prominent graphic designers. A new exhibition in New York collects his striking book designs and propaganda posters. If you doubt his significance, just have a look at this unstinting praise from none other than the East German State: "For nearly every important political event in the history of our Workers' and Peasants' State, there exists an artistic statement by Wittkugel, who, through his work, has contributed considerably to the new orientation of our applied graphics."
- The author photo, once the foundation of any decent book-publicity campaign, has seen some changes in the Information Age—some might wonder if there's really any reason for it at all anymore, when you just Google an author and find pictures by the dozen. But when Matthew Shaer saw Sven Birkerts's author photo, he felt something different. "Its anomalousness shook me: If the vast majority of author photos fit into one of a handful of standard poses—the Fist-on-Chin (conveying thoughtfulness), the Stare-Out-Window (inner depth), the Icy Stare (strength), the Hearty Laugh (confidence!), etc.—here was an author photo that threw centuries of literary convention in our face. Here was a man who was not even fully dressed in his author photo."
- In which Alice Gregory ventures to the shadow of Geneva, with a friend and a ten-week-old baby: "Malka is in the other room pumping, 'like a cow.' She returns and tells me about a Scandinavian balloon that you insert into your vagina for ten minutes per day for the last month of pregnancy. If you do this, she promises, you won't need stitches. Malka is full of advice that I don't need but want anyway. We talk about lots of things up there in the mountains: Buchenwald, deviant sex, how Italians sound like roosters when they try to sing lieders. They use too many vocal effects, apparently. Or, as Malka says, 'lots of cream all over.' "
Press Triangle for More Information, and Other News
January 18, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Orson Welles and Hemingway had a vexed friendship, if friendship is even the word—their first encounter came to blows, after all. In interviews, Welles tended to speak respectfully, if not kindly, of the writer. But now, a 1973 screenplay by Welles, Crazy Weather, has come to light. Set in Spain, the story features a Hemingway-esque tourist with a macho, ersatz approach to the Spanish culture: "The protagonist in the script, Jim Foster, is travelling to a bullfight with his Spanish wife, Amparo, when they encounter a nameless youth who taunts Foster about his misogyny, flirts with Amparo and later sabotages their car tires. Despite having a Spanish wife and spending years living in Spain, Foster speaks the language only in 'limited and rather stilted' form, and is continually mocked for his cliched idea of Spain."
- What do women want in a mate? And what do men want? For years, I've looked to late-night phone-sex ads and flimsy self-help books to answer these timeless questions; Adelle Waldman looked to literature instead. "The ideal mate, for Jane Austen's heroines, for Charlotte Brontë's, for George Eliot's, is someone intelligent enough to appreciate fully and respond deeply to their own intelligence, a partner for whom they feel not only desire but a sense of kinship, of intellectual and moral equality," she writes. "Straight male authors devote far less energy to considering the intelligence of their heroes' female love interests; instead, they tend to emphasize visceral attraction and feelings. From Tolstoy, whose psychological acuity helped to redefine what the novel is capable of, to unabashed chroniclers of sex like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth to contemporary, stroller-pushing, egalitarian dad Karl Ove Knausgaard, men have been, in a sense, the real romantics: they are far more likely than women to portray love as something mysterious and irrational, impervious to explanation, tied more to physical qualities and broad personal appeal than to a belief—or hope—in having found an intellectual peer."
- Elena Ferrante's English translator Ann Goldstein talks about her process and being haunted by Ferrante's work: "With The Days of Abandonment, partly because it was the first one and partly because it is so haunting, and it's so concentrated, I was very upset by it. There were things in it that I think everyone recognizes. Like the scene with the key where she thinks she's locked herself in—I have trouble with keys. And with something like that, she's writing your nightmare. Those things really did upset me and haunt me. I identified with the narrator—one naturally identifies to some extent with an 'I' female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not … When I started translating the first Neapolitan novel, My Brilliant Friend, I had not read the other ones, of course, because they weren't written yet. So it wasn't until I got to the end of the last one that I knew the whole story. That was a strange experience: to be reading something, or translating something, that I didn't really know the end of."
- Camille Henrot's latest exhibition featured a series of hotline phones, all designed to show the vagaries and confusions of language. "I picked up and heard a male voice," Michael Barron writes, "who, friendly enough and definitely assertive, had me run a gamut of bizarre questions, such as 'If your dad has fathered more than nine children, press 0 / If your father has eaten any of his children, press 1." "I always felt like language was a way to dominate people," Henrot told him in reference to the hotlines. "You want to go to the end of the options. That's the way we—me and the poet Jacob Bromberg—wrote and structured them. The first one we wrote, 'Hello & Thank You'—the one that was presented at the Lyon Biennial—was so massive, with a maze of multiple choices. Navigating the whole thing from beginning to end would've taken over four hours."
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Badgers prepare to enter Hoosiers' hostile environment
Bloomington, Ind. - Senior Jared Berggren knows about the atmosphere Wisconsin will experience in storied Assembly Hall:
Forty minutes of Hoosiers Hell.
Second-ranked Indiana (15-1, 3-0 Big Ten Conference), which hosts Wisconsin (12-4, 3-0) at 8 p.m. Tuesday on ESPN, has lost 10 consecutive games to UW.
Since Tom Crean took over the Indiana program before the 2008-'09 season, his record against UW coach Bo Ryan is 0-8.
The Hoosiers, 11-0 at home this season, can take over sole possession of first place in the league and end several seasons of frustration against UW with a victory Tuesday.
"We're definitely in for some fun down there," Berggren said with a grin. "We know they're going to be cranked up.
"We're fired up for it too, though. It is going to be fun."
Minnesota coach Tubby Smith and his players didn't enjoy their visit Saturday as they suffered an 88-81 loss to the Hoosiers.
Indiana scored 19 points off 12 Minnesota turnovers and hit 7 of 11 three-pointers - in the first half - en route to a 52-29 lead. Although the Gophers made a remarkable comeback after halftime, the Hoosiers finished with 27 points off turnovers and in three league games have forced a total of 48 turnovers.
"We played very passively and they were much more aggressive," Smith said, "and I thought that was the difference."
UW, which raced to a 39-19 halftime lead Saturday in its 74-51 victory over Illinois, cannot afford to stumble early as the Gophers did.
The Badgers do not possess the firepower to play from behind and Indiana enters the week No. 1 in the Big Ten in all games in scoring (87.1 ppg), scoring margin (+26.6 ppg), field-goal shooting (51.1%), three-point shooting (41.9%) and turnovers forced (16.4 per game).
"We've got to withstand that first four or five minutes," said freshman Sam Dekker, who Monday was named the Big Ten freshman of the week. "The crowd is going to be on us from the start.
"But a sign of a good team is a team that can handle that stuff and handle adversity.
"We can't let them get off to a quick start like we did against Illinois. It is about matching their intensity on both ends of the court."
Indiana outscored Minnesota, 40-17, over the final 14 minutes 13 seconds of the first half. The Gophers had 11 turnovers during that span.
With freshman point guard Yogi Ferrell (5.3 assists per game) running the offense and distributing the ball to Cody Zeller (16.6 ppg), Victor Oladipo (13.8 ppg), Christian Watford (12.9 ppg), Jordan Hulls (11.6 ppg) and Will Sheehey (11.4 ppg), the Hoosiers can generate points in their half-court offense.
"They're playing well, they're deep," UW associate head coach Greg Gard said. "Yogi has added some things. Oladipo has gotten much, much better. Obviously Zeller has gotten better.
"Everybody talks about Cody but they have a lot of weapons. They play 10 or 11 guys that can hurt you."
However, the Hoosiers are at their best in transition, when opponents struggle to find open shooters and Zeller get to the rim or the three-point shooters get uncontested shots.
"They feed off that," Berggren said. "They are like sharks sensing blood in the water."
UW, averaging a league-low 8.9 turnovers per game, must take care of the ball.
That responsibility starts with sophomore guard Traevon Jackson, who has a team-high 26 turnovers. Jackson had four turnovers against the Illini, though only one after halftime.
"Again, he's going to have to take better care of the basketball in situations where we don't want run-outs," Ryan said. "If we can just get five-on-five defensively, we're pretty good . . .
"But, when we get in those scatter situations we have a tough time protecting the rim. That's why valuing the ball is so important."
Jackson and fellow guards George Marshall and Ben Brust will need help from the frontcourt players handling the Hoosiers' half-court pressure.
"You look at the athletes they have and they can get out and defend," Dekker said. "They are long and athletic and they can pressure you and make you feel uncomfortable.
"We have to run our sets and be smart and cognizant of what we're doing out there. It is the age-old saying: The team that makes the fewest mistakes is going to win."
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There is little more annoying than an untouchable touchscreen.
How very tory of you David.
I set a night treasure hunt for the kids - and that led us all out into the woods for a part of the evening, then Lib cooked up a fire outside and we spent some time out there. In the middle of all this we managed to feed folks, and had time for a bit of reflection before the turning of midnight.
Now I'm inspired to do more fancy night time treasure hunts in the woods.
Yes, that is another profile to maintain, but this helps. We can find out who is around us at the Skiff on a day to day basis. Lovely work Tom and Simon and whoever else made it.
How does it know if I'm in the Skiff or not. Do I need do something when I arrive?
Cheers buddy.
* 'Security is of the utmost importance to us' (yawn)
* 'trusted partners' (but not disclosed who they are...)
* 'potential for disclosure of customers' mobile phone numbers to further website owners.' (er, they were exposed, not potentially exposed)
* 'We would like to apologise for the concern we have caused.' (but they don't apologise for getting it wrong).
And they keep saying certain:
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The unanswered question is: Will Mathieu ever play football again for the Tigers?
His family has wisely maintained that his focus is getting his life back together and then his academics.
But it's telling that LSU continues to be non-committal about the possibility of Mathieu playing football again at LSU in 2013. LSU coach Les Miles declined to speculate Tuesday about whether Mathieu has a football future with the Tigers, and that's been the school's official stance ever since the news broke that Mathieu was interested in returning to LSU following his dismissal from the team.
There's a lot that would still have to happen for Mathieu to play football again at LSU. But, clearly, that door has not been closed.
It's worth noting that he would be eligible to enter the NFL draft next April. But going an entire year and not playing football certainly isn't going to help his draft status.
This is more about Mathieu getting his personal life back in order and licking his drug problem once and for all. Sources told ESPN.com that his dismissal from the LSU team back in August came after repeated violations of LSU's drug-testing policy for athletes. He's been receiving treatment from former NBA basketball star John Lucas, who runs a wellness and aftercare program for people battling addiction.
That's what is front and center right now for Mathieu and not whether or not he'll ever put on the No. 7 again for the Tigers.


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A North Charleston man arrested on drug charges again after leading a deputy on a chase Wednesday said he needs to quit selling and get a real job, according to the incident report.
Antonio Jamal Miller, 35, of Crestline Drive is charged with trafficking cocaine and crack cocaine and failure to stop for a blue light.
While sitting at the Charleston County jail after being arrested Wednesday afternoon, Miller told a deputy, "I need to stop selling ... and get a real job, because this is the second time I have got caught with drugs," according to an incident report.
Miller was arrested after a deputy said he tried to pull over a tan Lexus sedan that kept going out of its lane on U.S. Highway 78. Miller sped off, leading the deputy on a chase, according to the report. Miller threw something out the window during the chase and eventually ended up in a ditch on Wayland Drive, where he was arrested without incident, according to the report.
Investigators said the bags Miller threw out the window contained 14 grams of cocaine (about half an ounce) worth $1,400 and 28 grams of cocaine base (almost an ounce) worth $2,800.
Miller was carrying $5,990.61 in cash and had another $4,485 in cash in the car, along with a scale with a white powdery residue on it, according to the report.
At the time of his arrest, Miller was out of jail on $50,000 bail after being arrested on drug charges last June, according to court records. He was arrested on pot, cocaine and firearm charges in 2004, but those charges were dropped.
This time his bail was set at $225,000.
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A BRUTAL killer who used a dumbbell bar to land more than 22 vicious blows on Paul Sullivan, spraying his blood floor-to-ceiling within his Moorooka unit, has been jailed for life.
A jury in the Supreme Court at Brisbane took two days to find speed addict Breck Stewart, 48, guilty of the violent and "savage" murder of Mr Sullivan, 46, after he broke into his victim's home with an Allen key to rob him of drugs and money on September 8, 2012.
Stewart's frenzied attack began in Mr Sullivan's bedroom and ended in the kitchen where his victim was left to die with skull fractures so severe his brain was left exposed.
Mr Sullivan's oldest son, Shannon Harper, 21, said his father wasn't perfect but had a heart of gold.
The former abattoir worker, a father of two, said he had to change jobs because he could no longer stand the sight of blood after his father's violent death.
Mr Harper said a part of him died on the day Mr Sullivan's body was found by younger son Nathan, 19.
"I just want to be happy again. I just want to be the best dad I can be for my children, just like my father was for me," he said.
Rudy Puime, 47, said the attack on his brother had been cowardly.
"He showed no remorse during that trial," he said of Stewart. "He's got no backbone."
Mr Puime thanked detectives Justin Clark and Luke O'Connor for their tireless work on the case.
Justice Alan Wilson said Stewart's crime showed a "sickening and sustained level of violence". He jailed Stewart for life.
Crown prosecutor Vicki Loury said Stewart had been buying speed from Mr Sullivan in the weeks leading up to the killing.
She said Stewart had spent all of his money by September 8, 2012, when he hatched a plan to break into Mr Sullivan's Hansen St unit in the early hours of the morning to steal more speed and a wad of cash he'd seen the dead man with earlier that day.
Stewart used an Allen key to break into the unit, then wielding a metal dumbbell bar, crawled into Mr Sullivan's bedroom to steal the drugs.
When Mr Sullivan suddenly awoke, Stewart began to strike him with the bar, hunting him through different rooms until ultimately he was left to die in the kitchen.
Stewart wiped down the unit but left a fingerprint in blood on the kitchen stove and bloody footprints.
He dumped the metal bar into a creek at a nearby park and returned home to wash his clothes.
Concerned family called police to help them break into Mr Sullivan's unit a few days later, after he failed to return their phone calls.
Detectives quickly caught up with Stewart and he was arrested on September 17, 2012.
He told two officers on the drive to the station: "I didn't mean to kill him, you know. I just want you to know he was breathing when I left."
Later, Stewart told police he had been "pissed off" with Mr Sullivan because he wanted to buy his speed more cheaply.
He said he remembered thinking "why don't you just go down" when Mr Sullivan kept trying to fight him off.
Barrister Simone Bain, for Stewart, said her client had a pre-existing mental health disorder that was exacerbated by a drug-induced psychosis caused by excessive speed use in the days leading up to the killing.
Stewart pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the opening of the trial, but it was not excepted by the Crown.
Justice Wilson took into account 675 days in pre-sentence custody.
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Virginia Beach, VA - A 77 by senior Jessica Carafiello led the way for the Florida Atlantic University women's golf team on Sunday as they finished the first round of the TPC Virginia Beach Women's Invitational with a 320 team total, good enough for second place.
Carafiello's fine round leaves her in a tie for fourth in the individual standings, three shots behind Sara Ann Palmer of Ohio University and Kate O'Sullivan of High Point. Ohio leads the team standings after a opening-round 314.
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Did You Buy the Wrong Case Management System Software?
by Andrew Z. Adkins III
January 2005
Case Management Systems (CMSs), like most any other
software application, come in a variety of flavors.
CMS developers don't like me to say this, but
most tend to agree with me: under the hood, most CMSs
provide the same basic functionality. Here's a
brief description of the main functions found within
most case management systems:
There are more general purpose case management systems
in the market than substantive case management systems.
Most of these systems provide capabilities for the law
firm or law department to customize (or configure) the
system for their particular needs. In other words, these
systems allow the data input screens, document assembly,
calendar, and reports to be configured for the firm.
Oftentimes, law firms with multiple departments may
choose one case management system and customize it to
all (or most) of their different practice areas.
There are specific case management systems for substantive
areas of law, such as Intellectual Property, Immigration
Law, Real Estate Closing, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure,
to name a few. These types of case management systems
are designed specifically for these practice areas and
would be difficult to configure for other practice areas.
In the same sense, these types of CMSs provide functionality
for the particular area of practice that may not be
able to be duplicated by a general purpose CMS.
In short, you may be able to customize a general purpose
CMS for a substantive practice area, but you probably
won't be able to customize a substantive CMS for
another substantive practice area.
First of all, recognize you and your firm know a lot
more about case management systems now than before this
implementation. It's an evolving educational process
– the more you use the system, the more you learn
about its capabilities. Face it, no two law firms practice
law the same way, so how do you get an off-the-shelf
computerized case system to work just the way you want
to? "Finding middle ground" between how
the system works and how your firm practices law is
one key to success. Those firms who have never used
a case management system before often find themselves
in a bind because they know the system can help make
them more efficient, but it's hard to change
the way they practice law. The larger the firm, the
higher the wall to climb. Why? Because there is an ingrained
culture in all law firms; it seems to be more prevalent
in larger firms. But, if you implement the system correctly,
over a period of time and not try to roll it out all
at once, you'll have a higher success rate.
Now, before you decide the case management system is
not working for your firm, let's ponder a few
questions. Keep in mind, I've been working with
hundreds of law firms over my fifteen years of consulting
and have pretty much seen it all. What works in one
firm may not work in another; that's why it's
important to ask these questions of your firm, not someone
else's. I've categorized these questions
into three areas: Ownership, Implementation, and Training.
Who within the firm is in charge of the project?
Do you have an internal project manager or did
you leave the project management entirely up to the
developer? If you're using an internal project
manager, is it someone who has the knowledge of implementation,
the respect of the firm, and the time to do it right?
I've seen law firms who appoint the technology
partner to this task. While that might seem like the
right choice, does this partner have the time to devote
to the project, in addition to other assigned duties?
Keep in mind that the beginning of the project requires
the most time in order to get the project going in the
right direction, making sure the developer follows the
project plan, and ensuring the firm's resources
are devoted to the project. If you don't have
an internal project manager and leave everything up
to the developer, you are only asking for trouble down
the line. While the developer and/or the consultant
get the system installed and working, they are not going
to be living with the system night and day, week in
and week out. There is no ownership on the part of the
developer. They won't be able to spend time with
attorneys and staff understanding their personalities
and work habits and encourage them to embrace this new
Does the firm have a CMS Administrator? Having
an internal person devoted to administering the case
management system is vital in all CMS implementations.
This person will not only help with training (or is
the trainer), but will also help with the customization
of the system, building the document assembly portion,
designing the reports, and, most important, the "go
to" person for any CMS-related issues. Again,
the beginning of the project requires the most time.
After the system is rolled out and all users trained,
there will still be some activities requiring a person
knowledgeable with the inner workings of the CMS, but
it may not require a full-time person.
Was the CMS implemented properly? Was the
project rolled out in phases? Implementing a CMS is
not an overnight project. It takes time and patience,
since it significantly changes the way attorneys and
staff handle data and information. Most CMS developers
utilize a project management checklist. This helps to
determine what happens when, who is responsible for
what, and milestone checks along the way.
Depending upon the size of the firm, the number of
staff as well as the number of offices, most developers
will roll out the CMS to a pilot test group first. The
main purpose of the pilot test is to roll out the system
to a small group, implement the system into the firm,
and determine how the system will work within the firm.
For example, the pilot group may begin by entering Rolodex
and Contact data first. During this initial phase of
the pilot test, the group may determine some of the
data fields may need to be changed in order to accommodate
a more efficient method of creating new cases. The pilot
group is typically made up of a variety of users throughout
the firm.
The pilot group not only works with the software, but
the software works with the pilot group. During this
time, the project will help uncover any nuances in the
use of the software within the firm.
Communication with the firm's members?
It's rare when a law firm rolls out a new software
application and everyone within the firm doesn't
hear about it. The question that everyone in the firm
will ask is, "How will this software effect me?"
There's nothing wrong with that question. In fact,
I encourage everyone to ask the question because the
firm needs to be able to provide the answer. Will the
software make the firm more efficient or save the firm
money? It better, or heads will roll.
You need to communicate to everyone in the firm why
the firm is implementing case
management. It may be more work up front for some people,
but the end result is that the firm begins to standardize
on areas of case management which may mean
efficiencies in other areas of the firm. I've
heard legal assistants talk in low tones, "I certainly
hope this system is making upper level management more
efficient, because it's surely more work for me."
That may be true for a particular function, such as
rolodex entry. But, in some firms, while that legal
assistant doesn't see it, someone else has been
typing up twenty sets of rolodex cards for each attorney
in the firm to have a complete paper rolodex system.
Like I said, efficiencies in other areas.
Communicate these messages to your firm – help
them to understand the reasoning behind these choices.
Equally important is to communicate to your staff when
they may feel the impact. Larger firms will roll out
these systems in phases, typically based on geographic
location or practice area. Let your attorneys and staff
know when it will be implemented in their area. Try
to adjust workloads during the implementation and give
your attorneys and staff time to learn the new system.
Do you have enough horsepower behind the software?
Case management systems require a lot of horsepower
and, depending a lot of other factors, you may not have
the performance you used to have before installing the
CMS. You need to evaluate the total system
requirements of your firm, not just case management.
The more applications your firm uses and the more people
using them, the more horsepower you need. Often, integrators
will "balance" servers, meaning they'll
determine the optimum server configurations for the
number of software applications you may have. For example,
Microsoft Exchange Server may reside on a server of
its own while the case management system may reside
on another server. This helps to increase performance
throughout the firm.
Are all programs totally integrated and working
together? You don't just buy a case
management system and use it by itself; it integrates
with other applications, such as word processing, document
management, calendaring, and email (Microsoft Outlook,
Novell GroupWise). Each of the systems that integrate
with the CMS will also cause a change in the way people
work. Make sure they understand the impact and what
to expect.
Did you try to implement too many applications
at the same time? I've worked with firms
that have insisted on making too many changes at one
time. For example, migrating from
WordPerfect to Word, migrating from GroupWise to Outlook,
and implementing a new case management system –
all at the same time. Besides losing several valuable
employees, the firm lost considerable time and money
with this implementation. They thought they'd
save time and money; what they failed to realize is
that the firm still had to work and bill time during
the conversions.
Phase your implementation over a logical and reasonable
time frame. If you're going to convert from WordPerfect
to Word, do the conversion first. Dedicate the right
amount of resources to the project, use conversion software
if needed, and provide training and hand holding as
necessary. Do this correctly, and the CMS implementation
will be a lot easier with less resistance.
Training is the number one reason for successful case
management system implementations.
Lack of training is the number one reason for failed
case management system implementations. Did you
receive enough of the right training? In my fifteen
years of consulting experience, I've heard more
times than not of the difficulty of getting attorneys
to attend training. Equally dismal I've also heard
attorneys not letting their legal assistants
attend training because there was client work to complete.
Training must be part of the roll out. It must
be a top-down commitment, otherwise, everyone will look
for an excuse not to attend training.
Were you trained in the complete environment (case
management, word processing, document management, email)
or were you only trained in the case management system
environment? Most CMS developers will train you
only on their software. CMS integrators (consulting
and integration companies that implement the software
for the developer) will often provide training in the
complete environment. For example, if your firm is using
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and iManage, the
CMS integrator will most likely provide training in
the total CMS environment, meaning you'll
learn how to use the case management system with Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Outlook, and iManage. This is worth
the extra training and consulting, since it puts the
end users (your firm's attorneys and staff) in
the complete environment.
Admit it, but be positive. You're not
the only firm who's faced this dilemma. Besides,
you're much more educated about what not to do
than before. Also, you'll know what issues the
firm will face with the next implementation.
Do your homework. First and foremost, make
sure you're purchasing the right case management
system. As indicated above, there are two basic types
of CMS: specialized and generalized. Research the Internet,
read the legal technology magazines, contact your state
bar association, or attend a legal technology conference.
Find out what's out there and make the initial
inquiries. You should probably issue a Request for Information
(RFI) or Request for Proposal (RFP), get pricing and
configuration, and talk with the developers. It's
a learning experience, but remember, you've been
through this once and your more CMS savvy than before.
Figure out what went wrong the first time and avoid
these costly mistakes the second time. You should
have a pretty good idea now of what not to do. Make
sure you convey to the CMS developer or integrator your
thoughts and feelings. Take a more active roll in the
planning and project management.
Make sure you communicate to the firm the plan
and stick with it. A good plan will certainly help
with processes and procedures, but what is more important,
it provides a checklist for what needs to get done and
when. Remember, the firm has responsibilities in the
implementation, just as the developer does. Make sure
you stick with the plan.
Andrew Z. Adkins III is the director
of the Legal Technology Institute at the University
of Florida Levin College of Law and author of Computerized
Case Management Systems: Choosing and Implementing
the Right Software for You, published by the
ABA Law Practice Management Section. He also maintains
a comprehensive case management system website with
listings of CMS developers, links to select CMS articles,
and detailed worksheets form CMS implementations.
He can be reached at 352-392-2278, email@example.com,
or www.law.ufl.edu/lti.


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NIK ZHERDEV'S smile, from ear to ear, would have been visible from the moon - let alone from one end of the hallway that connects Peter Laviolette's office to the Flyers' training rooms at the Skate Zone.
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Fresh out of a meeting with general manager Paul Holmgren, Zherdev smiled as he declined to talk with reporters and ducked out of a side door before being whisked away in a waiting limousine.
Destination: unknown. Zherdev became available to all 29 teams yesterday - in reverse standings order - for the prorated portion of his $2 million salary, which is $494,624. He could be heading to another NHL club in desperate need of scoring, to the AHL to play out of the remainder of his contract, or he could be bolting back to Russia.