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1. To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. (pope)
2. Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt. Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. (Macaulay) Rot, poor bachelor, in your club. (Thackeray)
Synonym: To putrefy, corrupt, decay, spoil.
Origin: OE. Rotien, AS. Rotian; akin to D. Rotten, Prov. G. Rotten, OHG. Rozzn, G. Rosten to steep flax, Icel. Rotna to rot, Sw. Ruttna, Dan. Raadne, Icel. Rottin rotten. Cf. Ret, Rotten.
1. Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
2. (Science: botany) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See bitter rot, black rot, etc, below.
3. [Cf. G. Rotz glanders] A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st fluke. His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
(Science: botany) (milton) bitter rot, a disease 498 of grapes, first appearing in whitish pustules on the fruit, caused by the fungus Coniothyrium diplodiella. (biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action.
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Coinstar's 3Q earnings soar, Redbox prices to rise
SAN FRANCISCO Redbox's DVD rental kiosks are attracting movie lovers fed up with Netflix's video subscription service. But now Redbox's owner, Coinstar Inc., is risking its own customer backlash by raising its prices, the same move that triggered Netflix's recent loss of 800,000 U.S. subscribers.
The plot twist emerged Thursday in Coinstar's latest quarterly report. The company's earnings nearly doubled, largely because of robust growth at Redbox's more than 34,000 rental kiosks.
But the strong performance was upstaged by Redbox's decision to raise prices for standard DVDs by 20 percent beginning Monday.
The new rental rate will be $1.20 per day, instead of the current $1 daily rate. Redbox prices will remained unchanged for Blu-ray discs at $1.50 per day and video games at $2 per day.
Redbox's change isn't as jarring as what Netflix did last month, when it hiked prices as much as 60 percent and then irked subscribers even more by announcing a now-aborted plan to split its DVD rentals from its Internet video streaming service.
But it spooked investors, especially because Redbox appears to be picking up customers still stewing over the higher prices at Netflix. Coinstar's shares plunged 10 percent in Thursday's extended trading.
Unlike Netflix, Redbox tested the price increases in several cities during the past year to see how they would change rental patterns. Management concluded there only would be a slight drop-off in DVD rentals.
"We didn't take this lightly," Coinstar CEO Paul Davis said in a Thursday interview with The Associated Press.
Coinstar, which is based in Bellevue, Wash., is charging more to help offset higher expenses for DVDs and processing debit card transactions.
Netflix raised its prices in hopes of generating more revenue to license more movies and TV shows for streaming over high-speed Internet connections. The plan backfired, though, leaving Netflix on track to start losing money next year as it tries to repair a badly damaged brand.
Coinstar Inc. earned $37.1 million, or $1.18 per share, in the three months that ended in September. That compared with $19.5 million, or 60 cents per share, at the same time last year.
The results for the latest quarter blew by the average estimate of 88 cents per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.
The company's revenue rose 22 percent from last year to $466 million, about $3 million above analyst projections. The Redbox kiosks were Coinstar's main attraction; revenue in the rental division climbed 28 percent in the quarter to $390 million.
Although Davis said the company couldn't know for certain, it appeared Netflix's customers losses are turning into Redbox's gains.
As an indication that more people may have been renting from Redbox for the first time, Davis told The Associated Press that the number of unique credit cards used at the kiosks in July through September increased by 8 percent from the previous quarter.
By Coinstar's reckoning, Redbox surpassed the market share of Netflix's DVD-by-mail service for the first time during the third quarter. Coinstar said it ended September with a U.S. market share of nearly 35 percent compared to 33 percent for Netflix and other DVD-by-mail services. A year ago, Coinstar pegged its market share at 24 percent with Netflix and other DVD-by-mail services at nearly 36 percent.


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Ad giants Omnicom, Publicis in talks
NEW YORK — Omnicom and Publicis are close to striking a deal that would combine the two advertising giants into the world's largest advertising firm, according to media reports.
Such a merger would create a firm with a market value of more than $30 billion, surpassing London-based industry leader WPP PLC. A combined firm would allow for more pricing power, though the decrease in competition could present regulatory hurdles in the U.S. and Europe. Client conflicts also could arise.
Omnicom Group Inc., based in New York, owns BBDO Worldwide, DDB Worldwide Communications Group and TBWA Worldwide, among other agencies. Paris-based Publicis Groupe SA runs its namesake agency as well as Leo Burnett Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi and DigitasLBi.
An announcement is expected Sunday at Publicis' headquarters.
The possible merger would bolster both company's relatively weak presence in emerging markets, where they trail WPP, says James Dix, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, in an interview Saturday. It also would give Publicis, which is facing questions about who will succeed 71-year-old CEO Maurice Levy, access to Omnicom's well-regarded senior leadership, he said.
A major concern, though, is whether the two companies can strike a harmonious balance of power — something that can be difficult in mergers of similar-sized companies based in different countries.
"You have these fiefdoms that keep people from playing together. One company is based in Paris, one is in New York. Where is the power center?" Dix said.
Dix expects that top executives are comfortable with the structure of the deal, but the adjustment may be more difficult for the next level of executives who run the firms' units.
"Now they have to fit together into a broader organization," Dix said. "If you lose clients or have defections of senior executives then you have something that looked good on paper but didn't quite play out."
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Arun Fereira's mysterious re-arrest has exposed the state's complete disregard for human rights yet again. His lawyers, who were manhandled by police outside the Nagpur Jail on Tuesday, have alleged this in a complaint to the administrative judge of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court, the chairperson of the State Human Rights Commission and the superintendent of central prison, Nagpur.
They have demanded strict action against what they have called "the police's high-handedness." In 2008, Fereira was implicated in a case where 11 students from Chandrapur were arrested for links with the Maoists. Though Fereira was in jail, his name was added as an accused. Like in the past, on September 23, he was acquitted in this case too. "There were no other cases against him and we were waiting to meet him on Tuesday afternoon outside the Central Prison, when we saw a huge posse taking positions," recounts advocate Anand Gajbhiye. "We asked deputy jailor Yogesh Patil the reason but he began abusing us," he added.
While the lawyers were surprised at what they call 'Patil's unprovoked aggression', he summoned plainclothesmen to clear them.
The reason for the prison authorities 'strange' behaviour became clear when it was time for Fereira to be brought out. "Some plainclothesmen forcibly pulled him from the jail gate, held him by his neck and pushed him into a Tata Sumo with no registration plate, and left the jail premises," said the complaint, adding that distraught family members, who were witness to all this, were not even allowed to meet him. The lawyers then confronted Yogesh Patil and his team members about the re-arrest.
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This paper provides an introduction to IEC 61508, describes an illustrative application example using the MOST SafetyNet System, and offers parameters that should be considered when choosing a safety instrumented system.05/08/2006
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Slumdog Millionaire co-star Anil Kapoor has signed on for a role on the U.S.
The Mumbai-set movie Slumdog Millionaire, which won four Golden Globes and has been nominated for 10 Oscars, had its Indian premiere Thursday night. The BBC said the movie -- directed by British filmmaker Danny Boyle on a budget of just under $10 million -- will be getting as wide a release in India as a major Bollywood film would.
Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor is adding blogging about fashion trends on the Internet to her resume. "It will be fashion-oriented.
By Andrew Buncombe 'Playback singer' who provided vocals for many of the biggest names in Hindi musicals A movie singer who dominated the industry during what is considered the Golden Age of Hindi musical cinema, Mahendra Kapoor enjoyed a career that spanned five decades.
By SUBHASH K JHA Two films old only, and he wants to take up direction already to revive his grandfather's R K Films' flagging banner. And, if newcomer Ranbir Kapoor is to be believed, he would have taken up a home production earlier, only he had already accepted a lot of acting work outside.
In the last ten days of August, nine new films - Phoonk, Mukhbir, Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam, Rock On, Mumbai Meri Jaan, C Kompany, Hijack, Chamku and Wanted-will hit the marquee. Some could be interesting, most are likely to be ridiculous.
By PRIYANKA SEN After being away from the spotlight for quite some time, the actor is back in news, as rumours of his alleged linkup with Sonam Kapoor do the rounds.
By MANDVI SHARMA They are the young bachelor boys of Bollywood. But no, they are not single. A new brigade of youngsters has entered the industry with the 'committed' tag.
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Economy in peril, Obama pushes plan to Congress
WASHINGTON Struggling to fix the sickly economy, President Barack Obama was appealing for support from a divided Congress Thursday night for a battery of ideas to create jobs quickly and keep more cash in the pockets of dispirited Americans. His message to Republican lawmakers: This is your mess to clean up, too.
Obama's furious push on employment, his latest stab at the defining issue of his presidency, aimed to shore up his chances of keeping his own job next year. He must stem eroding confidence in his leadership as the public mood darkens and Republican presidential challengers assail his record.
In a nationally televised address to Congress, Obama was expected to announce a program of tax cuts, construction spending, unemployment aid and money for states. The core elements include extending the current reduction in the amount of Social Security payroll tax that workers pay, and expanding jobless benefits for those who can't find work month after month.
The cost was expected to be at least $300 billion, and perhaps more. Obama was to promise a way to pay for it without sinking the nation deeper in debt.
In the best case, such a package could provide help that people would feel in their daily lives. It would boost consumer and investor confidence and spur hiring.
Yet even that might not help the recovery enough to assuage the millions of unemployed, let alone satisfy voters.
And that's assuming Obama gets what he asks from Capitol Hill. His plan would require approval by a Congress that is deeply divided, with many House Republicans strongly opposed to his efforts.
To pay for his plan, Obama will challenge a new debt panel in Congress to go beyond its charge of identifying $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction, so the extra savings could offset the cost of short-term stimulus ideas. That panel met for a first time Thursday, members expressing determination but facing a demanding assignment.
Obama was expected to propose paying for some of his jobs initiatives by closing corporate tax loopholes and increasing taxes on wealthier Americans, measures he failed to win during summer negotiations over increasing the nation's debt ceiling.
Offsetting some costs of his economic plan with new tax revenue is likely to meet stiff resistance from Republicans. But the White House has argued that the public has supported a mix of spending cuts and revenue as a way to avoid higher deficits. White House Chief of Staff William Daley said before the speech that wealthy Americans "ought to pay a little more."
The American public is weary of talk and wary of promises that help is on the way.
About 14 million people are unemployed. There is just one job opening available for every four job seekers, on average, in the richest nation on earth.
In one striking sign of discontent, nearly 80 percent of people think the country is headed in the wrong direction. That's about the same level of pessimism as when Obama took office. It reflects both persistently high unemployment and disgust with Washington infighting.


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A staggering 85% of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy cases never make it to a confirmed plan of reorganization. In fact, lack of cash causes many companies to liquidate within a few weeks after filing. Many business leaders go into bankruptcy with unrealistic expectations. Through conversations with peers and selective listening with lawyers, they mistakenly believe that a bankruptcy filing will, in effect, give them an infusion of cash. They further believe that in the course of the Chapter 11 case, the normal priority - secured lenders, unsecured trade creditors and equity ownership - will be turned on its head.


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From the November 17, 2003 issue: Howard Dean's agriculture plan.
Nov 17, 2003, Vol. 9, No. 10 • By DAVE JUDAY
Consider: As governor of Vermont, Dean was one of the architects of the North East Interstate Dairy Compact, a complicated and ambitious six-state statutory framework that established a regional board to regulate the minimum price of milk that dairy processors could offer to pay farmers. The compact was a fiasco. Small dairy farms in Vermont, the ones Dean was trying to save, went out of business at a faster rate the first year of the compact than before it existed. Retail milk prices to New England consumers rose by a total of $136 million.
In response to the economic chaos it created, Congress let the compact die. Now, however, Dean is proposing to resuscitate the heart of the dairy compact--micro-regulation of commodity prices and purchasing contracts and even animal ownership--and transplant it to the meat industry nationwide. The results are predictable.
With his ag plan, Dean continues to promote his bona fides as 12-year governor of America's most rural state. But Vermont's rurality (more than 61 percent of the population lives in rural communities) is largely divorced from commercial agriculture--i.e., the kind of agriculture that feeds the more than 98 percent of the U.S. population that does not live on farms and adds an annual $97.3 billion to our nation's gross domestic product. In fact, one of the stated goals of the dairy compact, according to the commission that oversaw it, was to preserve commercially unviable small agricultural scenes as a prop for New England's tourist industry.
This approach, called "multi-functionality" by the Europeans, was at the core of the European Union's ruinously expensive agriculture policy--until this year, when the overwhelming cost forced reforms. Dean's designs on the meat sector--the engine of the U.S. agricultural economy, as it happens--would Europeanize our food and agricultural system.
Agricultural policy doesn't typically get a lot of attention during presidential campaigns, either by candidates or by journalists and pundits. In the case of Howard Dean, however, his heavy-handed agricultural plan--and record--is a window into his political soul and merits closer examination by commentators. Dean's tough meat industry policy should give them a lot to chew on.
Dave Juday is an agricultural commodity market analyst.


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Hunger doesn't take a vacation
The end of the school year is a big deal for students. For the lucky kids, it means warm weather, no alarm clocks and, perhaps, family excursions. For the less fortunate — and there are thousands in Washington state — it means reduced access to food.
During school years, government programs do an admirable job of making sure students don't go through the day with empty stomachs. Financial support for subsidized school meals is well-established, and the schools themselves are efficient feeding sites.
In the summer months, challenges include not just paying for food, but having convenient places and lively programs to attract youngsters.
The national Food Research and Action Center highlights some of the most successful summer programs that manage to reach between 21 and 58 percent of the young people who also qualify for free or reduced-price lunches during the school year. Simple math shows what a daunting task this is: Even in these best programs, up to 79 percent of qualified kids aren't getting summer meals.
Sometimes, the problem is complicated by red tape. In Granite Falls, the school district learned that changes to the U.S. Department of Agriculture reimbursement formula would eliminate its summer meals program. As the Herald reported, school board member Carl Cary decided summer nutrition is too import to ignore and launched a fund-raising effort to cover the $12,000 cost of serving hot lunches five days a week at the middle school's multipurpose room.
Food banks like Food Lifeline in Shoreline and Northwest Harvest in Seattle run campaigns every year to collect food and money in the battle against summertime hunger. As CEO Shelley Rotondo writes in the Northwest Harvest newsletter: "You can't say to a child. 'It's OK, you will have lunch again in September.'"
The importance of private efforts and support from individuals in every community can't be underestimated. In 2013, participation in U.S.D.A.-funded summer programs saw an increase of 5.7 percent, the largest annual jump since 2003. But do those statistics translate into full bellies in our own state? In the summer of 2013, 6,000 fewer Washington state children received government food assistance than in 2012.
We live in a place of great wealth and public sensitivity to issues like wage inequity. We should not accept a ranking of 38th among all the states when it comes to providing summer meals to the same students who qualify for school-lunches the rest of the year.
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Bank Dividends are Rising, so Which is Better: JPMorgan or Wells Fargo?
Now that the Federal Reserve has brought the punch bowl back to the party, the healthier banks are looking to boost dividends and increase share buybacks. If you've sat out the financial industry debacle, which stock do you want to accompany to the party?
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has been an industry standout throughout the crisis, and even scooped the Fed in announcing that it had passed the recent stress test. Compare that with the more unassuming Wells Fargo (WFC).
JPMorgan has a higher payout ratio than Wells, meaning it gives shareholders back more of the money it makes.
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JPMorgan's PE also makes it a cheaper stock than Wells Fargo.
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And before both companies raise their dividends, JPMorgan's dividend yield was superior to Wells Fargo's dividend yield.
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But sometimes, unassuming can mask an inner strength. Firstly, Wells Fargo plans to hike its dividend by 83% to 22 cents a share per quarter, compared with a mere 20% rise for JPMorgan to 30 cents a share.
Secondly, for investors looking to stocks for income, the steadiness of Wells Fargo's business is more comforting than the sometimes-erratic nature of JPMorgan's exposure to investment banking. Both suffered some wackiness during the recession, but remove that period from the chart below and Wells Fargo demonstrates a continuous, steady rise in net income. Kind of looks like a utility, say PPL Corp. (PPL).
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And Wells Fargo has the endorsement of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), which boosted its stake in company last year to 383.7 million shares, which represents 16% of Berkshire's portfolio.
Lastly, Wells Fargo has just done a better job of managing what it's got. Its return on assets over the past decade is superior to JPMorgan's. Plus, you might not get a word in edgewise if you brought JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the party.
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Hardware vectors, like their software counterparts (Software Vectors), contain an address of a routine that will be called in specific situations. Hardware vectors are called when a privileged mode is entered or when a hardware error occurs. These conditions are known as exceptions.
Each vector will usually hold an address of a routine that will deal with the exception. Each vector has a different priority which is used to determine the order in which exceptions should be handled (if there are simultaneous exceptions).
The ARM processor handles exceptions by:
The following table list each of the different hardware vectors.
|Undefined instruction
|Prefetch abort
|Data abort
|Address Exception
The complete list of hardware vectors is also available here. Although named as Processor vectors, they are the same as Hardware vectors.
This vector is used to specify that the computer is reset. The ARM processor can be reset by pulling its RESET pin HIGH. When RESET goes LOW again, the following will occur:
This vector is called when the ARM processor attempts to execute an instruction that is unknown. If a co-processor (software of hardware) is present on the system such as a floating point emulator, the ARM will pass it onto it (when the co-processor is ready). Any instruction still unknown is passed on, and this vector is called.
The ARM processor will:
This vector is called when a SWI instruction is issued. It contains an address of the routine used by RISC OS to decode the SWI number. Due to the importance of this vector it is strongly recommended not to replace it.
The ARM processor will:
This vector is called when an illegal attempt to prefetch an instruction has been detected. The cause of this could be:
The ARM processor will:
This vector is called when an illegal attempt to fetch data has been detected. The cause of this could be:
The ARM processor will:
This vector is deprecated on 32-bit ARM processors, and no longer of any use.
This vector is called when an interrupt request is received by the ARM processor.
The ARM processor will:
The FIQ vector is called when a Fast Interrupt Request is received by the ARM processor. The FIQ vector is entered in FIQ mode.
The ARM processor will:
Each vector has a different priority which is used to determine the order in which exceptions should be handled (if there are simultaneous exceptions). We list the hardware vectors in order of priority.
|1 (highest priority)
|Data abort, Address exception
|Prefetch abort
|Undefined instruction, SWI
|6 (lowest priority)
The original ARM processor could only access 26-bit addresses, but the introduction of the ARM v3 architecture, full 32-bit addressing was made possible. The ARM processor included backwards compatibility by introducing both 26-bit and 32-bit processor modes.
With the introduction of RISC OS 3.5, a method of ensuring the correct processor mode was entered first has introduced. This was enabled by pre-veneers. A pre-veneer is installed on all hardware vectors (with the exception of FIQ and address exception). Every time a hardware vector is called, the pre-veneer is always called first. This ensures backwards compatibility with versions of RISC OS pre 3.5.
RISC OS 5 only supports 32-bit modes, and thus pre-veneers are no longer relevant as the processor is always in 32-bit mode.
To claim a vector, you use OS_ClaimProcessorVector. You pass it the address of the replacement handler routine, which is installed on the vector. Previous methods of writing to the hardware vector directly will now generate a data abort, with the exception of the FIQ vector, where you must still write directly to the FIQ vector.
It must be remembered, that the handler is installed on the vector and is called directly, before the pre-veneers. Handlers are therefore entered in a 32-bit mode.


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Kennedy Space Center, Florida-Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (www.nexxusHghting.coni), of Charlotte, North Carolina, recently announced that its SV Lighting business division successfully completed the solid-state rotunda lighting project for Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's newest attraction, the Shuttle Launch Experience. SV Lighting's SAVI" LED Flood Strips and low-voltage power supplies are being used to illuminate displays that commemorate each NASA space shuttle mission since the program's inception in 1981. The display is situated around a continuous spiraling walkway that patrons use to exit the ride. A railing above the displays houses the SAVI LED Flood Strips that illuminate individual plaques for each mission (which total 123 to date).
The Shuttle Launch Experience is one of the newest attractions at the Kennedy Space Center and provides guests with a chance to experience the thrill of a simulated space shuttle launch. "[But] it's not a thrill ride," said Dan LeBlanc, chief operating officer of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. "You won't be dodging asteroids or battling any aliens. We've worked hard to ensure that it's as close as you can be to simulating the reality of a space shuttle launch within the confines of Earth's gravity."
Nexxus helped contribute to the "dramatic lighting effects," that add ambiance to the rumbling floors and fog that dramatize the overall experience. Guests board the mock-up Space Shuttle and strap in for launch in a unique motion simulator designed to bring the mission alive by replicating the sights, sounds, G-forces, and rattle of lift-off. The sensations of launch continue as they experience Max Q, the zone where enormous forces squeeze the shuttle, solid rocket booster separation, main engine cut-off, and the external tank separation.
"We want people to walk out of this with their mind affected," said Rick Searfoss (who flew three Space Shuttle missions and played a key role in designing the simulator). "After they exit the ride, people will hear a presentation of the benefits the shuttle missions have brought back to Earth," illuminated by Nexxus.
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Look at the lion in the iron cage,
look deep into his eyes:
like two naked steel daggers
they sparkle with anger.
But he never loses his dignity
although his anger
comes and goes
goes and comes.
You couldn't find a place for a collar
round his thick, furry mane.
Although the scars of a whip
still burn on his yellow back
his long legs
stretch and end
in the shape of two copper claws.
The hairs on his mane rise one by one
around his proud head.
His hatred
comes and goes
goes and comes ...
The shadow of my brother on the wall of the dungeon
up and down
up and down.
Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat;
My dress is 1922....
My life is all like that.
as a child he never plucked the wings off flies
he didn't tie tin cans to cats' tails
or lock beetles in matchboxes
or stomp anthills
he grew up
and all those things were done to him
I was at his bedside when he died
he said read me a poem
about the sun and the sea
about nuclear reactors and satellites
about the greatness of humanity
More great poems below...
I have no silver-saddled horse to ride,
no inheritance to live on,
neither riches no real-estate --
a pot of honey is all I own.
A pot of honey
red as fire!
My honey is my everything.
I guard
my riches and my real-estate
-- my honey pot, I mean --
from pests of every species,
Brother, just wait...
As long as I've got
honey in my pot,
bees will come to it
from Timbuktu...
If instead of being hanged by the neck
you're thrown inside
for not giving up hope
in the world, your country, your people,
if you do ten or fifteen years
apart from the time you have left,
you won't say,
"Better I had swung from the end of a rope
like a flag" --
You'll put your foot down and live.
It may not be a pleasure exactly,
but it's your solemn duty
to live one more day
to spite the enemy.
Part of you may live alone inside,
like a tone at the bottom of a well.
But the other part
must be so caught up
in the flurry of the world
that you shiver there inside
when outside, at forty days' distance, a leaf moves.
To wait for letters inside,
to sing sad songs,
or to lie awake all night staring at the ceiling
is sweet but dangerous.
Look at your face from shave to shave,
forget your age,
watch out for lice
and for spring nights,
and always remember
to eat every last piece of bread--
also, don't forget to laugh heartily.
And who knows,
the woman you love may stop loving you.
Don't say it's no big thing:
it's like the snapping of a green branch
to the man inside.
To think of roses and gardens inside is bad,
to think of seas and mountains is good.
Read and write without rest,
and I also advise weaving
and making mirrors.
I mean, it's not that you can't pass
ten or fifteen years inside
and more --
you can,
as long as the jewel
on the left side of your chest doesn't lose it's luster!
May 1949
If half my heart is here, doctor,
the other half is in China
with the army flowing
toward the Yellow River.
And, every morning, doctor,
every morning at sunrise my heart
is shot in Greece.
And every night,c doctor,
when the prisoners are asleep and the infirmary is deserted,
my heart stops at a run-down old house
in Istanbul.
And then after ten years
all i have to offer my poor people
is this apple in my hand, doctor,
one read apple:
my heart.
And that, doctor, that is the reason
for this angina pectoris--
not nicotine, prison, or arteriosclerosis.
I look at the night through the bars,
and despite the weight on my chest
my heart still beats with the most distant stars.
Sometimes, I, too, tell the ah's
of my heart one by one
like the blood-red beads
of a ruby rosary strung
on strands of golden hair!
But my
poetry's muse
takes to the air
on wings made of steel
like the I-beams
of my suspension bridges!
I don't pretend
the nightingale's lament
to the rose isn't easy on the ears...
But the language
that really speaks to me
are Beethoven sonatas played
on copper, iron, wood, bone, and catgut...
You can "have"
galloping off
in a cloud of dust!
Me, I wouldn't trade
for the purest-bred
Arabian steed
the sixth mph
of my iron horse
running on iron tracks!
Sometimes my eye is caught like a big dumb fly
by the masterly spider webs in the corners of my room.
But I really look up
to the seventy-seven-story, reinforced-concrete mountains
my blue-shirted builders create!
Were I to meet
the male beauty
"young Adonis, god of Byblos,"
on a bridge, I'd probably never notice;
but I can't help staring into my philosopher's glassy eyes
or my fireman's square face
red as a sweating sun!
Though I can smoke
third-class cigarettes filled
on my electric workbenches,
I can't roll tobacco - even the finest-
in paper by hand and smoke it!
I didn't --
"wouldn't" -- trade
my wife dressed in her leather cap and jacket
for Eve's nakedness!
Maybe I don't have a "poetic soul"?
What can I do
when I love my own children
than mother Nature's!
Comrades, if I don't live to see the day
-- I mean,if I die before freedom comes --
take me away
and bury me in a village cemetery in Anatolia.
The worker Osman whom Hassan Bey ordered shot
can lie on one side of me, and on the other side
the martyr Aysha, who gave birth in the rye
and died inside of forty days.
Tractors and songs can pass below the cemetery --
in the dawn light, new people, the smell of burnt gasoline,
fields held in common, water in canals,
no drought or fear of the police.
Of course, we won't hear those songs:
the dead lie stretched out underground
and rot like black branches,
deaf, dumb, and blind under the earth.
But, I sang those songs
before they were written,
I smelled the burnt gasoline
before the blueprints for the tractors were drawn.
As for my neighbors,
the worker Osman and the martyr Aysha,
they felt the great longing while alive,
maybe without even knowing it.
Comrades, if I die before that day, I mean
-- and it's looking more and more likely --
bury me in a village cemetery in Anatolia,
and if there's one handy,
a plane tree could stand at my head,
I wouldn't need a stone or anything.
Moscow, Barviha Hospital
You waste the attention of your eyes,
the glittering labour of your hands,
and knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves
of which you'll taste not a morsel;
you are free to slave for others--
you are free to make the rich richer.
The moment you're born
they plant around you
mills that grind lies
lies to last you a lifetime.
You keep thinking in your great freedom
a finger on your temple
free to have a free conscience.
Your head bent as if half-cut from the nape,
your arms long, hanging,
your saunter about in your great freedom:
you're free
with the freedom of being unemployed.
You love your country
as the nearest, most precious thing to you.
But one day, for example,
they may endorse it over to America,
and you, too, with your great freedom--
you have the freedom to become an air-base.
You may proclaim that one must live
not as a tool, a number or a link
but as a human being--
then at once they handcuff your wrists.
You are free to be arrested, imprisoned
and even hanged.
There's neither an iron, wooden
nor a tulle curtain
in your life;
there's no need to choose freedom:
you are free.
But this kind of freedom
is a sad affair under the stars.
Our eyes
are limpid
drops of water.
In each drop exists
a tiny sign
of our genius
which has given life to cold iron.
Our eyes
are limpid
drops of water
merged absolutely in the Ocean
that you could hardly recognize
the drop in a block of ice
in a boiling pan.
The masterpiece of these eyes
the fulfillment of their genius
the living iron.
In these eyes
filled with limpid
pure tears
had failed to emerge
from the infinite Ocean
if the strength
had dispersed,
we could never have mated
the dynamo with the turbine,
never have moved
those steel mountains in water
as if made of hollow wood.
The masterpiece of these eyes
the fulfillment of their genius
of our unified labour
the living iron.
The hair falling on your forehead
suddenly lifted.
Suddenly something stirred on the ground.
The trees are whispering
in the dark.
Your bare arms will be cold.
Far off
where we can't see,
the moon must be rising.
It hasn't reached us yet,
slipping through the leaves
to light up your shoulder.
But I know
a wind comes up with the moon.
The trees are whispering.
Your bare arms will be cold.
From above,
from the branches lost in the dark,
something dropped at your feet.
You moved closer to me.
Under my hand your bare flesh is like the fuzzy skin of a fruit.
Neither a song of the heart nor "common sense"--
before the trees, birds, and insects,
my hand on my wife's flesh
is thinking.
Tonight my hand
can't read or write.
Neither loving nor unloving...
It's the tongue of a leopard at a spring,
a grape leaf,
a wolf's paw.
To move, breathe, eat, drink.
My hand is like a seed
splitting open underground.
Neither a song of the heart nor "common sense,"
neither loving nor unloving.
My hand thinking on my wife's flesh
is the hand of the first man.
Like a root that finds water underground,
it says to me:
"To eat, drink, cold, hot, struggle, smell, color--
not to live in order to die
but to die to live..."
And now
as red female hair blows across my face,
as something stirs on the ground,
as the trees whisper in the dark,
and as the moon rises far off
where we can't see,
my hand on my wife's flesh
before the trees, birds, and insects,
I want the right of life,
of the leopard at the spring, of the seed splitting open--
I want the right of the first man.
Bursa Prison
My one and only!
Your last letter says:
"My head is throbbing,
my heart is stunned!"
You say:
"If they hang you,
if I lose you,
I'll die!"
You'll live, my dear--
my memory will vanish like black smoke in the wind.
Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart:
in the twentieth century
grief lasts
at most a year.
a body swinging from a rope.
My heart
can't accept such a death.
you can bet
if some poor gypsy's hairy black
spidery hand
slips a noose
around my neck,
they'll look in vain for fear
in Nazim's
blue eyes!
In the twilight of my last morning
will see my friends and you,
and I'll go
to my grave
regretting nothing but an unfinished song...
My wife!
eyes sweeter than honey--my bee!
Why did I write you
they want to hang me?
The trial has hardly begun,
and they don't just pluck a man's head
like a turnip.
Look, forget all this.
If you have any money,
buy me some flannel underwear:
my sciatica is acting up again.
And don't forget,
a prisoner's wife
must always think good thoughts.
You're like a scorpion, my brother,
you live in cowardly darkness
like a scorpion.
You're like a sparrow, my brother,
always in a sparrow's flutter.
You're like a clam, my brother,
closed like a clam, content,
And you're frightening, my brother,
like the mouth of an extinct volcano.
Not one,
not five--
unfortunately, you number millions.
You're like a sheep, my brother:
when the cloaked drover raises his stick,
you quickly join the flock
and run, almost proudly, to the slaughterhouse.
I mean you're strangest creature on earth--
even stranger than the fish
that couldn't see the ocean for the water.
And the oppression in this world
is thanks to you.
And if we're hungry, tired, covered with blood,
and still being crushed like grapes for our wine,
the fault is yours--
I can hardly bring myself to say it,
but most of the fault, my dear brother, is yours.
Today is Sunday.
For the first time they took me out into the sun today.
And for the first time in my life I was aghast
that the sky is so far away
and so blue
and so vast
I stood there without a motion.
Then I sat on the ground with respectful devotion
leaning against the white wall.
Who cares about the waves with which I yearn to roll
Or about strife or freedom or my wife right now.
The soil, the sun and me...
I feel joyful and how.
I stand in the advancing light,
my hands hungry, the world beautiful.
My eyes can't get enough of the trees--
they're so hopeful, so green.
A sunny road runs through the mulberries,
I'm at the window of the prison infirmary.
I can't smell the medicines--
carnations must be blooming nearby.
It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.
The knight of immortal youth
at the age of fifty found his mind in his heart
and on July morning went out to capture
the right, the beautiful, the just.
Facing him a world of silly and arrogant giants,
he on his sad but brave Rocinante.
I know what it means to be longing for something,
but if your heart weighs only a pound and sixteen ounces,
there's no sense, my Don, in fighting these senseless windmills.
But you are right, of course, Dulcinea is your woman,
the most beautiful in the world;
I'm sure you'll shout this fact
at the face of street-traders;
but they'll pull you down from your horse
and beat you up.
But you, the unbeatable knight of our curse,
will continue to glow behind the heavy iron visor
and Dulcinea will become even more beautiful.


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NEW YORK, July 27 /PRNewswire/ — Digital comedy network Atom.com, COMEDY CENTRAL's exclusive partner and anchor brand for original digital programming, announced that the second season of "Legend Of Neil" has launched, following a standing-room-only screening and Q&A at Comic-Con this weekend. With nearly one million plays, the hit Web series by creator Sandeep Parikh built one of the Web's most enthusiastic fan bases in 2008. Season two of the "Legend Of Neil" debuts with the official release of episode 7 today at http://legendofNeil.Atom.com.
"Legend Of Neil" chronicles the reluctant adventures of our reluctant hero Neil (Tony Janning), a gas station attendant who gets sucked into "The Legend Of Zelda" after a night of heavy drinking, and is forced to become Link, the game's elfin hero, on a quest to save the princess. The series was a hit among Web users and particularly gamers, who also know Parikh from his work as an actor in Felicia Day's "The Guild," a popular Web series set in the world of massively-multiplayer online games. Day (also seen in "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer") appears in "Legend Of Neil" as Neil's tiny foul-mouthed fairy love interest.
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Seven new episodes will debut during season two of "Legend Of Neil," with new episodes premiering every other Monday (episode 8 will debut August 10, followed by the advance-buzz-laden musical, episode 9, on August 24). MTV2 is helping Atom celebrate the premiere of the second season by playing each episode from season one on-air at 11:00 p.m., beginning today and continuing on July 28, 29, and 30, and August 3 and 4.
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Atom.com, a division of Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks, is a digital comedy network for young men that reaches millions of consumers each month on the Atom.com Web site and millions more through multiplatform distribution on television, mobile phones, and the Internet. Drawing on a strategic partnership with COMEDY CENTRAL and its own 10-year history of online video innovation and leadership (formerly as AtomFilms), Atom.com delivers Web comedy like nobody else.
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HILL v. BEVERLY ENTERPRISES-MISSISSIPPI, INC. No. CIV.A. 3:03CV301LN.
305 F.Supp.2d 644 (2003)
Lawrence HILL, by and Through Letha Kincaid and Eugene Hill, His Next Friends for the Use and Benefit of Lawrence Hill Plaintiffs v. BEVERLY ENTERPRISES-MISSISSIPPI, INC.; Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Services, Inc.; James C. Landers, Alicha D. Lindsay; David Devereaux and John Does 1 Through 10 Defendants
United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.
October 31, 2003.
Robin E. Blackledge Blair, Prentiss Harrell and Associates, Francis McRae Turner, III, Richard E. Circeo, Mary Jane Perry, James B. McHugh, Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., Hattiesburg, for Plaintiff or Petitioner.
Senith C. Tipton, Thomas H. Riley, III, Faye Murphree James, Wilkins, Stephens & Tipton, P.A., Jackson, for Defendant or Respondent.
TOM S. LEE, District Judge.
This cause is before the court on the motion of plaintiff Lawrence Hill, by and through Letha Kincaid and Eugene Hill, to remand pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1447. Defendants Beverly Enterprises-Mississippi, Inc. and Beverly Health and Rehabilitation (collectively, Beverly), along with James C. Landers and David Devereaux, have responded in opposition to the motion and the court, having considered the memoranda of authorities, together with attachments submitted by the parties, concludes that plaintiff's motion is well taken and should be granted.
On September 17, 2002, 81-year old Lawrence Hill, suffering from Alzheimer's dementia and no longer competent to handle his own affairs, was admitted to Beverly Healthcare-Northwest, a nursing home owned and operated by the Beverly defendants in Jackson, Mississippi. Three months later, on December 28, 2002, he brought the present action, through his next friends, in the Circuit Court of Hinds County, Mississippi against the Beverly defendants, against David Devereaux and James C. Landers, licensees of the facility, and against Alicha Lindsay, administrator of the facility, alleging that he had suffered "catastrophic injuries, disfigurement, extreme pain, suffering and mental anguish" while under defendants' care, supervision and treatment during his residency at the nursing home, for which he sought to recover
In their complaint, plaintiffs allege that defendants Lindsay, Landers and Devereaux were responsible for the management and supervision of the facility, that they failed to properly hire, supervise and train nursing personnel, and they failed to ensure that adequate records were prepared and maintained. In their notice of removal and response to plaintiff's motion to remand, defendants submit that Lindsay, the nursing home administrator, and Landers and Dereveaux, as licensees of the nursing home, can have no personal liability to plaintiff because there is no allegation or proof by plaintiff that these defendants had any direct or personal participation in Lawrence Hill's care and because plaintiff's allegations do not attempt to link their alleged negligence in management and supervision to Mr. Hill's injuries.
Obviously, "liability cannot attach where a defendant does not, as a legal matter, owe a duty of care to the one allegedly injured," Box v. Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Servs., Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 3:03CV22-SAA, slip op. at 5 (N.D.Miss. May 30, 2003), and thus, the first question that presents itself is whether it can be said that a reasonable possibility exists under Mississippi law that the nursing home administrator or licensees owed a duty of care to Lawrence Hill. Assuming the answer is yes, the questions
As the court recognized in Box, there is no Mississippi statute or case law specific to the question of whether a nursing home administrator owes a legal duty of care to the residents under his supervision. Box, No. 3:03CV22-SAA, slip op. at 6. However, in the court's opinion, applying general principles of agency law to the allegations of plaintiff's complaint, this issue must be resolved in favor of finding that such a duty does exist.
It is well settled under Mississippi law that an employee, officer or director of a corporate entity incurs liability only when he "directly participates in or authorizes the commission of a tort." Hart v. Bayer Corp., 199 F.3d 239, 247 (5th Cir.2000). Defendants here argue that since plaintiffs do not allege that the defendant administrator or licensees directly participated in the care provided to Lawrence Hill, or that they personally directed or authorized the commission of the torts alleged to have been committed by employees of the facility, it follows that they cannot be held personally liable.
Although Magistrate Judge Allen Alexander, in the Northern District of Mississippi, denied the plaintiff's motion to remand in Box, supra, she did so because the plaintiff, in response to evidence from the defendants, had failed to present his own evidence that his decedent's death was connected to any breach of duty, i.e. "faulty, tortious management," by the nursing home administrator.
Judge Bramlette had implicitly recognized this, as well, in Estate of Willie Belle Barham v. Shady Lawn Nursing Home, Inc., Civil Action No. 5:01CV129BrS (S.D.Miss. Oct. 23, 2001), when he remanded a case brought against a nursing home owner and the nursing home's resident/nondiverse administrator. In determining that there existed a possibility of recovery against the administrator, Judge Bramlette recognized that under Mississippi law, it is "clear that where a corporate agent is centrally involved in the negligent execution of managerial duties that allegedly result in a plaintiff's injury or death, a cause of action lies against the agent, regardless of his or her status within the corporation." Id., slip op. at 6 (citing Mozingo v. Correct, 752 F.2d 168 (5th Cir.1985)). It followed, he observed, that if the plaintiff's complaint included allegations of the administrator's direct participation in any of the acts and omissions alleged to have caused the decedent's injuries and death, then she could be liable under Mississippi law. He noted that the complaint actually did set forth allegations demonstrating that the administrator had directly participated in the commission of a tort, in that it alleged that she had negligently committed certain acts and omissions that were within her areas of responsibility, and that her negligent execution of her responsibilities as administrator had proximately led to the decedent's injuries. That, he concluded, was enough to show that the possibility of a successful claim under Mississippi law exists.
Judge Wingate likewise remanded a case against a nursing home and its administrator on similar reasoning in LaBauve v. The Service Master Co., Civil Action No. 3:00CV785WS (S.D.Miss. Jan. 14, 2002). In LaBauve, as in the case at bar, the plaintiffs alleged that the nursing home administrator breached her duty to provide adequate and appropriate custodial care to the residents of the nursing home, including the plaintiff's decedent, and that she had failed to prevent the mistreatment, abuse and neglect of the decedent. The plaintiff alleged, as here, that the administrator, in dereliction of her common law duty and statutory mandate, had failed to provide the minimum number of staff to care for and protect the decedent from harm and to provide sufficient numbers of qualified nurses, assistants and aides to meet the total needs of her decedent. And she alleged that this failure by the administrator to discharge her common law and statutory duties to the decedent had proximately resulted in serious injury, and ultimately the death of their decedent. Defendants in LaBauve argued, as they did in Barham and as they do here, that the administrator, who never had any contact with the decedent, could not be held liable under Mississippi law for any harm that befell the plaintiff's decedent. Judge Wingate concluded otherwise, finding it "irrelevant that the defendant [administrator] had no personal contact with the decedent" inasmuch as "[t]he plaintiff's cause of action [was] not premised on any personal contact with the defendant had with the decedent." LaBauve, No. 3:00CV785WS, slip op. at 9. "Instead, the plaintiff's cause of action is based on [the] defendant [administrator's] alleged failure to comply with the mandates of Mississippi law, which delegated
Most recently, Judge Pepper in the Northern District has also rejected defense arguments that nursing home administrators were fraudulently joined, specifically declining to hold that the plaintiffs' failure to allege that the administrators "personally participated in the care of [the patients]" warranted a finding of fraudulent joinder. See, e.g., Bradley v. Grancare, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 4:03CV93-P-B (Aug. 15, 2003) (concurring with reasoning in LaBauve, Barham and Box).
The reasoning of these cases is sound.
By statute in Mississippi, nursing home administrators such as Lindsay are required to be licensed by the State Board of Nursing Home Administrators, Miss.Code Ann. § 73-17-3, and are "charged with the general administration of a nursing home," which is defined to mean "the duties of administrative performance and the making of day-to-day decisions involved in the planning, organizing, directing and/or controlling of a nursing home," Miss.Code Ann. § 73-17-5. The Mississippi Legislature has enacted statutes act governing "Institutions for the Aged or Infirm," Miss.Code Ann. § 43-11-3, et seq., with the declared purpose
Rule 403.1(a) of the Rules, Regulations and Minimum Standards for the Aged and Infirm adopted by the Mississippi State Board of Health pursuant to the legislature's statutory directive, see Miss.Code Ann. § 43-11-13(1), mandates that "[t]here shall be a licensed administrator with authority and responsibility for the operation of the [nursing home] facility in
Plaintiff alleges in his complaint that Lindsay breached these duties in that she failed to properly hire, supervise and train nursing personnel, and failed to ensure that adequate records were prepared and maintained.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has never held, and did not hold in Moore, that statutes or regulations cannot establish a legal duty or standard of care or cannot serve as evidence of negligence. Rather, the court in Moore held only that the particular regulations under consideration there, namely the State Pharmacy Board's internal regulations governing the conduct of pharmacies within the State, did not "create a separate cause of action" or "establish a legal duty of care to be applied in a civil action." 825 So.2d at 665. The court's conclusion in Moore that those regulations did not establish a legal duty of care was not based on the fact that they were regulations, but rather on the fact that the substance of those specific regulations was not such as to impose a legal duty on the part of pharmacists. Moreover, the court specifically recognized that "[a] violation of one of [the Pharmacy
While no Mississippi state court has passed on the question whether the nursing home regulations upon which plaintiff's negligence allegations are grounded establish a legal standard of care for nursing home administrators, a review of the regulations certainly does not foreclose a reasonable conclusion that a breach thereof might support a claim for negligence against a nursing home administrator.
What is clear from the foregoing is this: State law places certain duties on nursing home administrators and it is at least reasonably possible that a state court would find that those duties are owed to the residents of nursing homes and that a breach of those duties would constitute evidence of negligence on the part of the nursing home administrator.
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To be eligible for the CPCS exam, candidates either hold a certified professional in medical services management (CPMSM) credential and have current working experience in medical services for at least 1 year, or have a total of 3 years of medical services experience in the past 5 years, with at least 1 year of current experience. Gaining an entry-level job in healthcare is an ideal way to fulfill this requirement while gaining hands-on experience in a medical environment.
Step 3: Prepare for the Certification Test
NAMSS offers a preparation course and an online prep course to help individuals prepare for the certification test. Aspiring CPCS candidates should be familiar with the privileging approval and application process, source verification, the credentialing application process, recredentialing policies and the regulations that apply to all medical environments.
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CPCS candidates are allowed 3 hours to complete the 150 multiple-choice questions on the exam. Before starting the exam, candidates are allowed 15 minutes to complete a short tutorial to allow certification candidates to become familiar with the software. To pass the CPCS exam, individuals must receive a score of 400 or better.
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