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The Howard Johnson Inn Yuma is a newly converted hotel that offers a pleasant guest experience at an affordable rate. The hotel is guest oriented and provides a Free Hot Breakfast - Everyday from 530 AM to 10AM a Cocktail Hour Everyday 5:30PM to 8PM. The rooms are nicely appointed, including 27in Cable TVs -, Micro Fridges, and Wireless High Speed Internet Access. Conveniently located close to Golf Course and Shopping. 1 Mile to Yuma International Airport and MACS. FAME Approved- number AZO 151 We accept Military per Die All Day, Every DAY Friendly service, excellent product, value, and location will keep you coming back. LETS GO TUBING DOWN THE COLORADO RIVER WITH YUMA RIVER TUBING We are partnering with Yuma River Tubing for our guests to go tubing down the Colorado River. We have tickets for sale at the front desk. Yuma River Tubing provides the deluxe tubes, coolers and even a tube for the dog, also included is life vests and the shuttle to the starting point. 1. We are pet friendly there is a 10.00 UDS pet fee for each night of stay. 2. Fourth Avenue Gym is Yuma longest running fitness center since 1981. They offer racquet ball, basketball, 30,000 pounds of free weights, two circuit rooms, mens and women restroom, swimming pool and seventy cardo machines each of them having a fifteen inch plasma TV for the customer to watch their favorite program. Hours for the gym: Beginning Monday at 5:00 a.m. until closing on Friday at 10:00 p.m. 24 hours during the week, Saturday: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Sunday: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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· American Dollars is the native currency.
· Check in time is 3:00 PM
· Check out time is 11:00 AM
· Opened in 1991
· 120 rooms.
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Poetry & Harper's Win National Magazine Awards
Last night the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) honored both Poetry and Harper's with National Magazine Awards.
Poetry received the General Excellence (Print) category for Literary, Political and Professional Magazines. The April, September, and October issues were singled out in recognition. Harper's won the Reporting category for Scott Horton's "The Guantanamo Suicides." More literary winners follow below…
Here's more from the release: "Known as the Ellies, for the Alexander Calder stabile 'Elephant' given to each winner, the awards were hosted by Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, and were attended by more than 700 magazine editors and publishers. The sold-out event was highlighted by the presentation of the Creative Excellence Award to Tom Wolfe by Jann S. Wenner, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone and member of the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame."

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Indonesia has just celebrated the 65th Independence-day on 17 August 2010. While having better progress in politic and economic growth, many people commented on the national mission of achieving the community with social welfare and justice.
A wave of people actions showed that many people do not have enough understanding about human rights. This is found not necessarily from layman but also from community leaders, politician and public figures in the government. Issues on disagreement to exhibition and art performance for homosexual while giving 'pressures' to women migrant workers/domestic violence victims; and there were also stigma and cynical to people living with HIV/Aids (PLHA).
I believe they have done those actions due to powerless in knowledge, attitude and practice on human rights. The biggest challenge is how to promote this into all levels of society, community and nation, despite the survival of living during financial crisis, social competition and national priorities.
The human rights cover understanding that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. That's why in religion we have learnt to show gratitude in every aspect of live that we have or received although for a small thing day by day. The human rights, including right to health give respect, protect and fulfill people's right to have the enjoyment of highest attainable standard of health. No body wants to have diseases, nor having malnutrition, hunger, obesity, high cholesterol, mal-nutrition even death on delivering baby. Many housewives were contaminated HIV from husbands.
A good human being while celebrating the freedom to choose for own life style through speaking, action and living; is not appreciated if 'annoyed' other people's lifestyle; especially to the sick, poor and hunger people, including stigma to PLHA especially women.
The patriarchy culture implementation, including bureaucracy has directed people to keep silence for 'mistakes' done by the higher level officials/social status. The "boss can do no wrong" is around, even within international organizations. People tend to 'wash their hands', if they saw injustice done by the top to the lower ordinance; they are afraid those might give bad impact to their status. It seems people is started loosing their freedom to give voice, choice nor even forces, due to they scare of loosing something they have.
Power abuse is then become the latent 'bomb' that shall destroy the people welfare and justice. In this life we have to accept payoff process, thus we can not give up.
Nowadays while still using public policy forum (PPF), newspapers communication, cyber facilities, public dialogue/workshop to attract decision makers, public attention and governance; the ICT is noted as the best method regardless time, place and power restriction.
The promotion of human rights for PLHA must be kept being promoted and performed using ICT. The Pulse Wire/VOF may give tremendous impact in the future to change people perception, understanding and positive actions to help more people of the sick, poor and hunger as the best beneficiaries!
Thank you for sharing
HIV -related stigma is still so strong that we need to find it as best we can using the tools that we know work. ICT is one such tool and through it, I think we can reach more people who still harbour those dark beliefs about the disease...
from today i live out of my imagination
i am more than my yesterday
tomorrow i plant a new seed
nothing that lies behind easy
nothing that is ahead real
my within is all i have today
*Napo Masheane*
Dear Erna:
I thank the Lord, God for giving you a sound voice, to speak up for those who are not able to speak for themselves.
Welcome aboard Worldpulse, and keep up the good work.Your are making a difference.
Stay blessed.
Rose Candy @ GrandaRose Foundation
Mothering, Molding and Nurturing children
Dear Erna:
I thank the Lord, God for giving you a sound voice, to speak up for those who are not able to speak for themselves.
Welcome aboard Worldpulse, and keep up the good work.Your are making a difference.
Stay blessed.
Rose Candy @ GrandaRose Foundation
Mothering, Molding and Nurturing children
Great Approach
Dear IndonesiaErna Surjadi
First of all, thank you so much for sharing your experiences and perception on PLWHA issues and human right based on your country.
Your post is very critically and antiseptically viewed on the reality. Of course! Although people are always saying " human right", sometimes, most of us don't have fully understanding and people always neglect human's responsibility. That is why we have to suffer human right violation.
Nowadays, internet and online facilities offer us a lot of opportunities. That's great to utilize those in our social and development works.
Best regards,
Shwe Wutt Hmon
Shwe Wutt Hmon
Dear Erna Surjadi,
Thank you so much for your deep and fruitful discussion on the human right, gender and public health issues from critical and analytical point of view. I am very luck to read your post and I found I can learn a lot from you and your experiences through PulseWire. I am looking forward to read your next posts.
Best regards and thanks,
Shwe Wutt Hmon
Same to you
Dear Drna,
Absolutely! I have to learn a lot from you in terms of your skills and experience and your caring heart. Yes! I am in 24. My compassion is to help poor and needy people and I am just trying myself.
Best regards,
the eldest daughter, the elder of two lovely sisters, trustworthy friend, a single and pre-career lady
Shwe Wutt Hmon
Hello Mrs Surjadi This is an
Hello Mrs Surjadi
This is an impresive piece. While congratulating you for the 65 anniversary, i want to concord with you. you re absolutely right. Bad leadership has become a menace in the decision of issue that affect the poor, the sick and women. Most leader terms to shy away reaction if they found out that speaking will temper with their influence. What amazed me most is the fact that, the common man is the majority, which without his vote, leaders dont get elected. Without the common man, the sick, the poor and women, there will be nobody to govern. Goverance is about people, no matter their class . You know what!, the rich also cry. This HIV thing is not only suffered by the poor or the deprived, and the opressed. A great number of HIV carrries are the rich. they have the money to leave positive, they dont look it. The rich can afford balance diet. the rich can afford the best medical care. Stigma, yes is only visible among the poor, because you can identify the poor HIV carrier, but you cant identify the rich carriers. So to the rich since you cant fish them out, you cant stigma them periord. Women and childrent are at the disadvantage of being infected without justification. The mens large passion accounts for it. They spread it among their wives and the innocent unborn child. In agreement, and to elaborate further the men concelled their status from their wives. The innocent woman only get to know either at point of delivery or after. This is a fact. Its a big problem among the women and children. This is a challenge to the web.2.0 pulse wire family. women need to be elighten, they need to be reached and they also need to reach out. a problem share is a problem solve. web 2.0 has given women voice. they should not die in silence. With web 2.0 the era of concelling information is gone. fish them out and give them voice to reach out to the global women through web 2.0. This should be our collective responsibilities.
appreciate the connection of Hiv/aid
Hello Erna
Impressive, we a connecting. your overview of this subject is brilliant. Advocacy and awareness is the only solution. In every little way we can it important to do and not to at all. It is better to take wrong decision than no taken any at all. It is popularly spoken tha people with ideas rule the world. We in the pulse wire have brilliant ideas to move on so let move on.
I start within my little enviroment to create awareness to the timid house wives, small mothers, who are babies themself, but due to the misplacement of sociaty values this young babies are send to marriage too early to identify themself, only to end un being conterminated by the self centred men in the name of marriage. This men later aboundant these little girls to their faith. This is big trouble. Again this young innocent mothers a the worse hitted by this wrong doing. Leader of the world should rise up to this challange. But we women can spreed up the process through our actions.
Thank you
knowledge is transformation
Hello Erna, you have touch an area that have often be neglected by development actors in some regions of the world, i pledge my support for the promotion of human rights. this is because people have actually been victimise because they lack knowledge to go about the issue or who to report to. ahead ahead, we are together.
Well done Erna for this post.
Well done Erna for this post. Your challenge is really big and this is not percuilar to you alone but to all women. There is really need to help women know and fight for their rights. Stigma on women living with HIV is also a huge challenge even in my country and like you said ICT can be a tool to address some of this societial challenges of women. Thanks to pulsewire which has given women a voice to be heard. I pray that our voice will bring a change in future.
''Every woman have a story at every stage of Life''
You are right madam, we
You are right madam, we really have to be careful with the use of ICT because of false network. This has been one of the reasons I do not join online networks but I think pulsewire is doing fine and have sincere and committed women who have vision for change.
Thank you for this information
''Every woman have a story at every stage of Life''
we are together!
hello there in Jarkata
Erna thats great, and thats what am also fighting for.Promoting human rights for people living with HIV /AIDS.You are an ambassador. Your sharing is reliable we can embark on it.Keep advocating for these people,for your reward is great.
Empowerment is all we want to bring unto mankind to overcome and so that we can achieve social welfare and justice among people.Thank you very much.This is so amazing.
"success will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time " And when confronted conquer with love
Happy to be aware
Dear Erna Surjadi
I am so happy to be aware of the notable remarks from your message. Abuse of power is a really unacceptable and ignorance of human right is a worrying matter. I really appreciate your effort on making awareness of public society . Your are taking the role of powerful women . For me as a teacher I will share your knowledge through my classrooms and find the solutions together to settle the unfair actions.
Best Regards
Congratulations on Very Happy Teachers Day through ten years journey!
You really make me fly
Hi , Erna Surjadi
I am so happy to hear your friendly voice . I am sure you can make people happy with several skills God offers you. I sincerely like you a lot. I am looking forward to your happy return and let's talk more.
May God Always Bless you!
With Love
Congratulations on Very Happy Teachers Day through ten years journey!
Thanks a lot , You are great !
Dear Erna
I believe this is your 3rd assignment and I am afraid that it has to go within your journal not the group journal. You can double check with Rachael about it.
Sahar Nuraddin
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller
Promote Human Rights
The very fact that you have so many people commenting on your journal entry clearly shows how well-thought out it is. Through the effective communication strategies you have learned and are currently practicing, I am sure that your goals will be attained.
Hello, Erna, Congratulations
Hello, Erna,
Congratulations to your country for celebrating an important "anniversary," and congratulations to you for showing the rest of us readers the challenges your country is still facing.
You have a lot of information on the human rights issues in Indonesia, and I found your post very informative. I actually didn't know what ICT meant, so I looked it up on Google and it came up as "Information and communication technology." Is this what you meant? If you use an abbreviation, make sure you always "spell it out" for your readers, even if it seems "obvious."
Are you able to use PulseWire in your work for promoting change and education, Erna?
Keep up the super work, and I'm glad that you did not leave this VOF project. We need to hear your stories! :)
All the best to you,
Judy Schiller


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Sketch the Journalist is a freelance writer living in the thriving country metropolis of Cut-N-Shoot, Texas. Down with gospel rap since Stephen Wiley's "Bible Break" in 1986, he has chewed, reviewed, and interviewed most of Christian hip hop's major players. He authors the Jesus Muzik blog for the Houston Chronicle's Belief website.
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In 2011, corporate information emerged as the most coveted asset in the cybercrime war, the vast amount of digital information in the world grew even more rapidly and the surge in mobile devices in the workplace added another layer of complexity for IT executives.
So what's next? I sat down with Francis deSouza, Symantec's Group President of Enterprise Products and Services, to get a sense of the challenges CIOs will face in their quest to keep their information secure and accessible in 2012. Following is a recap of our discussion including a few key predictions to consider as you plan for the year ahead:
Question 1:Francis, you spend a lot of time with our customers. What challenges do they face in the year ahead?
Francis deSouza: As we enter 2012, there are a number of IT trends - social, local and mobile (SoLoMo), virtualization, public and private clouds – that are both exciting and challenging for companies. One of the most significant is the extreme amount of information that organizations need to protect and manage. Analysts estimate that 1.8 zettabytes of data were created in 2011. To put this number in perspective, that's the equivalent of 200 billion 2-hour HD movies! And that number is expected to double every 2 years. Now, IT budgets are not growing at the same rate. In fact, many CIOs are facing shrinking budgets. So they are focused on finding ways to reduce the cost and complexity associated with managing this "big data."
Question 2: It seems like information is a bit of a double-edged sword for companies these days.
FDS:That's exactly right. This vast amount of information allows organizations to transform how they serve their customers and increase productivity. However, the same information that helps companies improve the way they prescribe medication, set their sales strategies or more effectively price their products can also become a major liability if it is not properly managed.
Question 3:Speaking of proper information management, we recently commissioned a survey that found nearly half of organizations have no information retention plan. Do you see that changing in 2012?
FDS:I do. I think companies are realizing that, while simply storing every byte of data may seem like a simple strategy, it also presents disadvantages beyond rising storage costs. Keeping unnecessary information increases an organization's risk of litigation. A retention plan is critical. Holding on to information that you don't need can be as dangerous as deleting information that you need to keep.
Question 4:On the security side, what do you predict for 2012?
FDS:Targeted attacks will continue to be a serious issue for businesses in 2012. I think we'll see an increasing number of targeted attacks driven at least in part by competitive advantage, as companies exploit digital espionage to acquire proprietary data from their competitors. For example, imagine an organization preparing to invest billions of dollars in a new chemical manufacturing facility using a targeted attack against its competitors to gather intelligence. This information will help to ensure they build a facility that outclasses their competitors.
Question 5:I saw your recent blog post on our Malicious Insider report. What can companies do to ensure their own employees aren't compromising their intellectual property in 2012?
FDS:In my experience, organizations tend to focus their attention to shoring up their defenses against all manner of outside attacks, but they don't focus enough on the threat from the inside. Fifty-two percent of malicious insider attacksare aimed at stealing trade secrets and the theft of such information costs U.S. businesses more than $250 billion per year. Stopping the malicious insider is certainly complex. While it's a great first step to put policies and procedures in place to prevent malicious insiders from stealing intellectual property, it's also crucial for them to form coordinated, cross-functional teams to enforce these policies.
Question 6: You can't read a story about what to expect in 2012 without talking about mobile devices. How are CISOs dealing with the influx of smart devices in the workplace?
FDS: Mobility is clearly changing the game for businesses today. IDC is predicting that mobile devices will surpass PCs in both shipments and spending in 2012 and a recent survey revealed that 91 percent of all U.S. citizens have their mobile device within reach 24/7. The explosion in use of smart mobile devices has certainly captured the attention of cybercriminals. It is easy to understand why the CIOs I talk to are concerned with employees bringing their own mobile devices into their corporate infrastructures. They know that tablets and smart phones increase employee productivity, but at the same time, rapid adoption of tablets can leave organizations vulnerable to data loss from insiders, both malicious and well meaning. The concern has become insiders that fly under the radar of IT to access and send sensitive data, and in the case of the malicious insider, steal highly confidential intellectual property.
Question 7: Final question. Will there be another Stuxnet in 2012?
FDS: It is quite likely that the foundation for the next Stuxnet-like attack has been laid. The attackers behind Duqu were looking for information such as design documents that could help them mount a future attack on an industrial control facility, making it essentially a pre-cursor to a future Stuxnet. At this point in time, there is no reason to assume the attackers behind Duqu were unable to gather the intelligence they were looking for. In addition, it is likely other similar reconnaissance-type threats exist and have simply not yet been discovered.
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I don't know how it happened. One minute I'm saying goodnight to the bride and groom, the next I'm sliding across the dance floor on my back, air-guitarring to AC/DC. We were at my wife's cousin's wedding, and earlier in the day, believe it or not, I had performed the ceremony. It was the second wedding I'd officiated after becoming an official minister last spring. It all began one night when a good friend of the family called and asked if I'd ever considered filling out "one of those online minister things you see in the back of Rolling...Read More
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Burt Reynolds, I Am Not.
It attracts stares and arouses suspicion. Kids snicker and point at it. Mothers clutch their children and run when they see it coming. It's my mustache. And it's not a pretty sight. It started out as an office challenge for "Movember"—a charitable movement promoting prostate and testicular cancer awareness. The other guys in the office were on board, so I figured, what the heck. At first I didn't understand why mustaches were chosen as a way to promote awareness of a disease that affects the opposite end of one's person. But I think I've figured it...Read More
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Back in the old days, extended families would live together under the same roof. Grandparents, grandchildren, sisters, brothers, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins would all shack up in one house, sharing resources and, more important, the adventures and blessings of everyday life. Which explains why the average life expectancy was so much shorter back then. Over the past two weeks, we shared our home with my younger sister, her husband, and their three adorable daughters – ages 3, 18 months, and 6 months – while they were in town for a visit. Add in my two little ones, and that...Read More
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Recently I finished my very first marathon. It was a huge accomplishment for me, considering I retired from competitive running several years ago. But rather than bore you with a bunch of details about how many miles I ran during my training (392) or with some philosophical treatise on the metaphorical journey of the marathon, I thought instead I'd bore you with some of the thoughts I was having that day. For those of you who have never run a marathon before, this is as close as you can get to actually lacing up your...Read More


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Litigation valuation is a fascinating discipline that offers a wide range of opportunities to qualified real property appraisers. Whether you are new to litigation valuation or have experience but want to expand your practice, Applications in Litigation Valuation: A Pragmatist's Guide is for you. The text presents basic instruction on tackling tough valuation assignments and real-world examples of appraisers in action.
The book provides an overview of the fundamentals of litigation appraisal, beginning with a discussion of the appraiser's engagement, execution of the assignment and expert testimony.
These early chapters are followed by a series of case studies based on actual appraisal litigation assignments involving:
The case studies presented explore a broad range of valuation issues and services and provide tangible examples of appraisers at work. By describing disputes that involve real estate valuation or litigation support and demonstrating their resolution, the contributors to this guide, all appraisal litigation experts, share with you their experiences and divulge the secrets they have learned in order to survive and thrive in the courtroom.
"Applications in Litigation Valuation: A Pragmatist's Guide is one of a kind. It's interesting and useful to see how other appraisers deal with the many problems that arise in litigation assignments, inside and outside the courtroom."
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Jeffrey A. Johnson, MAI, is a partner in the Minneapolis office of Integra Realty Resources. Mr. Johnson is a frequent speaker at valuation seminars and has taught many appraisal classes. He codeveloped the Appraisal Practices for Litigation seminar for the Appraisal Institute in 1992. He is a co-recipient of the Appraisal Institute's 2001 George L. Schmutz Award. He holds a master's degree in mathematics and is coauthor of two books: Practical Applications in Appraisal Valuation Modeling: Statistical Methods for Real Estate Practitioners and Shopping Center Appraisal and Analysis, second edition. His real estate appraisal practice focuses on litigation matters.
Stephen J. Matonis, MAI, MRICS, is a principal of Integra Realty Resources-Orlando and has been appraising real property for 35 years. For the past 25 years, Mr. Matonis has limited his personal practice to the specialty of litigation valuation. He has been active in the Appraisal Institute, serving on the national level in the areas of admissions and education resources. Mr. Matonis chaired the General Demo Report Subcommittee, coauthored the grading manual, and served on the development team for the litigation valuation courses.


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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
Louise has posted 10 annotations/comments since 13 December 2013.
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About Wednesday 16 January 1660/61
We in the 20th century are so used to clean clothes and clean bodies that we don't think about what sanitation was like 400 years ago. If we were to go back to Pepys' London we'd be horrified at the lack of cleanliness--by our standards--even among the aristocracy. The smell of dirty bodies would be overpowering. Don't forget, it was the era of the contents of chamber pots being thrown out of windows--the only means of sanitation. Baths were nearly unheard of. It was said of one of the queens that she took a bath once a month whether she needed one or not.
"And so to bed" was like saying, "Day is done."
About Monday 14 January 1660/61
Judy Bailey wrote:
"This is apparently quite eye-opening for him compared to his wife's housekeeping habits and slovenliness that he has previously commented on, in spite of her now having two maids."
Of course, Pepys, being a proper English gentleman, would nevert think to lift a finger himself. Wives were in charge of keeping the house neat and clean. Men were apparently incapable of being slovenly--that took a woman.
About Sunday 13 January 1660/61
" the eldest being his wife's daughter is a very comely black woman."
She might not have been "black" in the sense of African, as most Westerners would today. English people until well into the 20th century had a habit of calling Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, and Indians, among others, "black." Black hair, brown eyes, even slightly olive skin is all it took to qualify as "black".
About Thursday 10 January 1660/61
Kissing his wife. Probably on the hand or cheek. Ladies were unlikely to kiss passionately in public in those days--certainly not the upper classes.
About Tuesday 1 January 1660/61
After supper I sent them home by coach, and I went to my Lord's and there played till 12 at night at cards at Best with J. Goods and N. Osgood, and then to bed with Mr. Shepley.
I take myself now to be worth 300l. clear in money, and all my goods and all manner of debts paid, which are none at all.
In 2012, the relative value of £300 0s 0d from 1661ranges from £35,950.00 to £7,206,000.00.
A simple Purchasing Power Calculator would say the relative value is £35,950.00. This answer is obtained by multiplying £300.00 by the percentage increase in theRPI from 1661 to 2012.
Looks as if he was soung pretty well. Probably closer to the £7,206,000.00 figure.
About Friday 21 December 1660
Sam's Aunt Anne Pepys was not his blood relative. She came into the family when she married Sam's uncle, Robert, so her kidney stone affliction could not have been hereditary from Pepys family, though perhaps from her own.
The Princess Royal was not dead on this day as Sam had heard from the Countess of Sandwich. She died tree days later on Christmas Eve.
About Wednesday 19 December 1660
It was 39 degrees Fahrenheit in Essex on December 19. I'm American, what do I know about Celsius? ;)
About Wednesday 19 December 1660
It was the middle od December. Cold enough to keep meat cool enough to last a few days, or a week if it was cooked. It is 39 degrees in Essex today, December 19, 2013. The temperature was probably similar in 1660. (Josselin did say it was "very wintery cold, wet weather). Meat would keep as well and as long as it would in a refrigerator today.
About Tuesday 18 December 1660
More likely Pepys was overlooking rather than overseeing the workmen. Oh, well, everyone needs a day off once in a while. He probably felt guilty about it and felt he had to appear busy.
About Thursday 6 December 1660
It looks as if his mother and father are living in separate residences. Does anyone know the reason for this? Unlikely they were divorced since it was so rare in those days. Perhaps just living separately. Does he mention this?


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Fred DeMicco
ARAMARK Chaired Professor
|Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management
|Campus Address:
115 Raub Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Website: http://udel.edu/~fdemicco/Welcome.html
Dr. Fred DeMicco is Professor and ARAMARK Chair in the Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management at the University of Delaware. Formerly, he was Associate Director in the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management at Penn State University, where he was Professor-in-Charge of the HRIM undergraduate program (and graduate program for five years), and presently is a Conti Distinguished Professor at the Pennsylvania State University's School of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management.
Dr. DeMicco's interest is international strategic management and innovation. He has worked on projects with ARAMARK for the last four Summer Olympics (Atlanta, Australia, Athens and Beijing).
He completed his Ph.D. in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In 1996, he completed a sabbatical in Hotel Management at Walt Disney World, Florida. Dr DeMicco also obtained a Ducktorate Degree from Disney University.
He is on the Editorial Board of the Hospitality Research Journal, as well as author and co-author of more than 100 publications in the area of hospitality and tourism management. Dr. DeMicco is co-editor along with Dr. Cihan Cobanoglu of the HOSTEUR™ magazine, a unique faculty, student and industry journal. Dr. DeMicco is ranked 12th among the 119 most cited international hospitality faculty, and he is tied for 37th (with Harvard's Michael Porter) as a scholar most cited by hospitality education faculty. He is on the boards of the Delaware Restaurant Association, Delaware Hotel & Lodging Association and I-CHRIE. Dr. DeMicco has taught and conducted research in Europe, Scandinavia, Australia/NZ, China, and the Caribbean (including cruise ships). He has co-authored, with James Keiser, Cihan Cobanoglu with Robert N. Grimes, a textbook published by Prentice-Hall, Contemporary Management Theory: Controlling and Analyzing Costs in Foodservice Operations (5th edition). The book is used at approximately 100 CHRIE-affiliated universities and has been translated into Japanese.
Presently, Dr. DeMicco is co-author with Dr. Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies for the book Hospitality 2015: The Future of Hospitality and Tourism, which looks at trends for the tourism hospitality and travel industry (EI of the AH&LA 2010).
In 2008, Dr DeMicco received the AH&LA Educational Institute's Lamp of Knowledge Award for Outstanding United States Educator.
He was also recognized by LODGING Magazine as the Lodging Industry's Top Education Innovator for 2006.