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The ambitious project has been launched by the David Bellamy Conservation Award scheme in conjunction with the British Beekeepers Association.
Many bee species have seen dramatic declines in recent years with experts blaming the increasing scarcity of food resources and nesting habitats.
Parks will be helping to address this by growing additional flowering plants, and especially those which provide valuable nectar and pollen in the spring and autumn.
According to Rufus Bellamy, son of the world-famous botanist, holiday parks that plant and manage the right flora can provide a vital lifeline for honey bees:
"Holiday parks are in a position to provide a wide variety of forage crops that, if chosen carefully, can provide food for bees for a long period of time," he said.
"Parks can also provide places for bees to nest. In fact, a surprising number of parks are already getting into beekeeping, often in conjunction with their local beekeepers association branch.
"Butterflies and other pollinators will also benefit when a holiday park commits to increasing its stock of bee-friendly flowers and shrubs," added Rufus.
More than 100 holiday parks, all participants in the David Bellamy Conservation Award, have so far taken the "honey bee pledge" and now form a network stretching from Scotland to Cornwall.
Rufus points out that parks making efforts to help the beleaguered bee can also add another fascinating dimension to the experience of their holiday guests:
"The plight of Britain's bee has been well publicised, but many people don't understand the real reasons for their decline, or what they can do to help," said Rufus.
"That's why another important dimension of our work with the British Beekeepers Association is to help parks enlighten guests about the important role they can play.
"Interpreted walks around the park and its bee-friendly planting schemes can be used to explain why foraging is so important for bees.
"Our hope is that many holidaymakers will use the knowledge to make their own gardens more welcoming to bees and other pollinating insects.
"Some parks are even selling bee-friendly seed mixtures to give guests a head start," said Rufus who is a wildlife advisor to parks taking part in the David Bellamy Conservation Award Scheme.
By the end of the year, he added, it's hoped that almost every county in the British Isles will be able to boast at least one honey-bee friendly park.]]>
Holidaymakers staying on the 500-plus winning parks are being invited to spread news about their sightings on a new Twitter account (@BellamyParks).
Professor Bellamy hopes the feedback will provide an "informal audit" of the range of species to which holiday parks are currently playing host.
"Thousands of families will be staying on awarded parks this year," said Rufus Bellamy, son of the world-famous botanist and a wildlife adviser to parks taking part in the scheme.
"We hope that many will act as our unofficial nature wardens in spotting both animals and plants which they come across, and taking a quick photograph.
"Some pictures may be of familiar species, whilst other users of the Twitter account may be able to help put a name to less common flora or fauna.
"We hope park managers and staff will also take part, and it would be great if this helped to create an interactive platform for sharing experiences and making new discoveries.
"At the same time, it will also help us as scheme organisers to get a broad snapshot of park-based wildlife activity to be seen across the country," said Rufus.
The David Bellamy Conservation Award Scheme, deigned to highlight exceptional efforts by parks to protect the natural world, is now in its eighteenth year.
Rufus says he hopes that the new Twitter account will also encourage children to get more closely involved with the natural world by Tweeting their own sightings.]]>
With over 620 parks on board – from all corners of the UK - the Scheme offers a real helping hand when it comes to choosing your next holiday destination. Go to the Find a Park section of this website, where you'll find links to all the parks in the scheme.
Choose any one of the award-winners and you can be sure that you've chosen somewhere that's committed to working for wildlife, to reducing its environmental impact and to being a good neighbour to surrounding communities.
Whichever one you choose you can pat yourself on the back, safe in the knowledge that you've made a greener choice – and that you'll have a holiday full of natural enjoyment.
Remember that you can let us know what you think about any park you visit – please use the form on the contact page to tell us what you love (and if there's anything you're not so happy about). Your voice counts – so we look forward to hearing from you.]]>
Announced this autumn, the 2013/14 winners from across the UK mark the sixteenth anniversary of the award scheme started by Britain's best-known botanist.
The awards highlight parks where successful efforts to protect the natural world produce real gains for both the environment and for holidaymakers.
Wildlife safaris, bird hides, nature trails, butterfly gardens, species-rich woodlands, and beautiful wildflower meadows are just some of the features on winning parks.
According to environmental adviser Rufus Bellamy, who helps his father administer the awards, the scheme was always intended to encourage parks to take bold and imaginative conservation steps:
"Many holiday parks in Britain, particularly those in rural areas, are blessed with abundant wildlife, and their owners are generally mindful of the need to manage their natural surroundings with sensitivity," he said.
"The David Bellamy Conservation Awards encourage them to broaden their existing practices even further by adopting new initiatives to make their parks real havens for wildlife and to help protect the wider environment.
"The opportunities vary from business to business, but even a park in an urban setting can embrace measures which will make a real difference."
"As well as being mini-nature reserves, the best parks are also leaders in terms of the steps they take to be more sustainable. For example, many have installed the latest renewable energy systems, aim for 100% recycling and buy, use and promote sustainably-produced, local food."
Parks wishing to enter for an award must, as part of the evaluation process, allow all environmental aspects of their business to be audited by an assessor. The assessor's brief is extremely wide ranging, and includes judging how well the park works within the community to make local life more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.
The awards, emphasises Rufus, are as far from a box-ticking exercise as it's possible to get, and the evidence of a park's efforts will often be obvious for visitors to see:
"A big benefit of this scheme is that holidaymakers can often enjoy an extra dimension to their stay by choosing a park which offers a chance to get closer to nature.
"There are parks where you can build willow sculptures and put up bird boxes, gather herbs, join a ladybird hunt, or just enjoy an interpreted nature trail.
"David Bellamy has always described parks as important outdoor classrooms, and that's why you will often find a special emphasis on activities which children can enjoy, said Rufus.]]>
At the moment all of the parks are getting ready for the Summer season and our assessors are preparing for their park visits. It's therefore a good time to remind anyone who is thinking of visiting one of our award-winning parks that you too have an important role to play.
Remember that you can let us know what you think about any park you visit – please use the form on the contact page to tell us what you love (and if there's anything you're not so happy about). Your voice counts – so we look forward to hearing from you.]]>
The scheme started off over thirteen years ago when I realised that the best parks out there were doing really great things for the environment. It's not hard to see why – a lot of parks have loads of green space and, if this is managed properly, it can be a real oasis for wildlife. However, what made me go 'Wow' at the time was the fact that this was actually happening all over the place – parks were not just thinking about the bottom line, but were investing in their most important resource: Biodiversity. They where planting trees, re-instating hedges, creating wildlife meadows and wetlands. Indeed a hundred and one other things to put the wild flowers and other wildlife back where they used be when I first went camping. All I had to do was pat them on the back and so the Bellamy awards were born!
You can read more about how it works by exploring this site. Once you've taken a look at what we do, why not think about using the scheme to plan your next holiday? I always find that there is nothing better in the dead of winter than planning a break for when the weather improves, and you can use the search engines at either ukparks.com or at pitchup.com search engines to look at the Gold, Silver and Bronze parks in the scheme. Visit one and you can be guaranteed a great green holiday on a park that is committed to really improving its environmental performance and to being a good green neighbour.
Let me just whet your appetite by pointing out just a few of the highlight projects that the scheme shone a spotlight on this year. Take Ross Park in Devon. Here the park staff have got dug in and created a wonderful walled organic vegetable garden from what was a weedy wilderness area that had limited wildlife value. Or how about Highfields Park in Lincolnshire? This park has turned about 60 acres of poor-quality arable into a wildlife rich grassland area. Its staff have also thinned out a viewing area in its large patch of woodland, put up brash piles to provide cover for animals and installed hanging-log bird feeders and salt blocks for deer – perfect for anyone who wants to go wildlife watching on their hols.
Parks aren't just busy boosting biodiversity, they are also busy saving energy, water and other resources. Some are even hard at work spreading the green message. Take the Earth Day event which has been run for the past three years at Deepdale Backpackers & Camping in North Norfolk. It takes place on the 22nd April and in 2010, the park had about 150 stalls run by a whole range of green groups and businesses. Over 10,000 people came to visit. Deepdale hopes to repeat this success in 2011.
One of the complaints that is often levelled at the caravan industry by environmentalists is that it encourages people to drive their cars. One park that has taken an innovative step to offset such criticism is Clippesby Hall in East Anglia. Here, staff encourage guests to pledge to spend car-free days while staying at the park. Those that do pledge get a native tree planted in their name, or, if they pledge to go 'car-free' for more than one day, they get a bird box put up on the site.
As you can see, parks are up to a lot of really fantastic green work. Why not search them out on pitchup.com and get a bit of 'Wow' yourself on your next holiday?]]>
The variety of work being done by these parks is phenomenal – from the creation of new wildlife meadows and woodlands to the construction of solar-powered shower blocks and energy-efficient lodges made out of recycled plastic, parks are active across the country.
Amongst the award winners you'll find a wide range of parks: From peaceful, hideaway places, where you'll be able to enjoy a real 'back-to-nature' holiday experience; to larger 'leisure parks', where you and your family will be able to enjoy more facilities, along with the knowledge that the park you're visiting is committed to environmental excellence.
Whichever one you choose you can pat yourself on the back, because you can be sure that you've made a greener choice – and that you'll have a holiday full of natural enjoyment.
As you can see a David Bellamy Park is the perfect choice if you are interested in getting closer to Britain's wildlife and in supporting parks that are doing their bit to reduce their environmental impact and boost the biodiversity of their sites.]]>
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, so it is great to see that Award participants are playing their part and doing vital work for Britain's environment.
We've got a lot of new parks in the scheme this year, so it will be interesting to see how they do. New Awards will be made in October, so keep your fingers crossed that your favourite park does well.
Remember we need as many people as possible to get in touch and tell us what they think about the parks they visit – so if you've got something you'd like to report just get in touch.]]>
Numbers Hold Steady
One excellent piece of news is that the number of parks taking part in the scheme have remained strong. Speaking to owners and managers earlier in the year at the BH&HPA conference in Blackpool, it was clear that parks are very happy to stick with the scheme and see it as an important part of their environmental management work.
One of the most exciting developments this year is that we have had over fifty new parks joining the scheme. A good number have come in at the bronze or silver level, while some have leapt straight in a Gold. This spread of achievement amongst new entries is great news as its shows that, while exceptionally 'green' parks see the awards as worthwhile, more and more parks are realizing that they do not have to be Gold to get something from the scheme. Indeed, talking to park owners, it is clear that becoming a 'Bellamy Park' is particularly useful for any enterprise that is just starting out on the environmental improvement route – it offers an assessment of where the park is and helps managers and staff map out a route for improvement. The value of this is shown by many of the parks that have been in the scheme for a while and which have used it to help them move their environmental performance from bronze, to silver and eventually up to Gold over the years.
New Assessors
Not only have we had lots of new parks joining the scheme this year, we've also recruited a number of new assessors, mostly from local wildlife trusts (as has always been the case in the past). This has allowed us to spread the workload amongst those assessors that have had a pretty big patch to cover (Scottish assessors take a bow). It has also allowed us to get a 'new eye' on some parks that have had the same assessor for a number of years – not only does this give us a new perspective on how parks are performing, it also means that we've been able to give the parks a new perspective on how they can improve their performance in each of the three main areas assessed by the scheme: good neighbourliness, sustainability' and ecological management.]]>


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by James Slater - Whilst working in his usual role as expert commentator for ESPN's "Friday Night Fights" this past Friday evening, Teddy Atlas announced on air how he has been hearing WBC heavyweight king Vitali Klitschko could well be facing New York's Shannon Briggs in his next fight. Atlas, also the trainer of unbeaten Russian contender Alexander Povetkin - who, of course, faces Ring magazine, IBF, WBO and IBO ruler Wladimir Klitschko in September - didn't have news of a date or venue, but he said the word is the fight could take place and would probably fill a German stadium if it did happen.
Briggs, the former lineal heavyweight champion as well as being a one-time holder of the WBO belt, has had both Klitschko brothers in his sights a number of times over the years, and at one point it looked like he'd face Wladimir. Now, at age 38 and after having won three in a row over limited opposition, Briggs could be on the verge of receiving one of the biggest opportunities of his long career..
Briggs, 51-5-1(45) has verbally laid into both brothers in recent times, saying they are a bad advert for the heavyweight division, claiming they do not in any way shape or form give the paying fans what they want. Assuring his fans that he was undertaking an arduous running regimen to enhance his often poor stamina (Briggs does, as we know, suffer from asthma), "The Cannon" has returned from the two-and-a-half year hiatus he endured following his disappointing decision loss to Sultan Ibragimov in June of 2007, picking up three 1st-round wins (after engaging in a 1-round NC, a result enforced due to Briggs having taken an "illegal substance").
So, with a shot at the mighty "Dr Iron Fist" now closer than ever before, is there enough left inside the tank of Briggs for him to be able to do something shocking and exciting? For though Vitali is coming towards the end of his own career, with maybe two more bouts planned at the most, the soon-to-be 39-year-old remains a formidable fighter; the second-best in the entire division behind his younger brother. As such, a Briggs win would send shockwaves around the world - X5 if Shannon were to win by a KO.
Briggs certainly has the size and the necessary reach to give Klitschko problems. At 6'4" and with a wingspan of 84," Briggs would have a real chance of getting in on Vitali and reaching his chin with jabs and power shots. And at a solid-looking 260-pounds or so, Briggs would likely have the physical strength needed to stop himself from being out-muscled by the WBC ruler. And speed-wise, of the hand variety, Briggs, in the early rounds when he is chucking combinations before running out of gas, is capable of matching Klitschko - even surpassing him.
All things so far considered, Briggs has to be given at least a small chance of at least giving Klitschko a testing challenge. But now we come to the real bugbear of the Brooklyn man's career; the one thing that has let him down on numerous occasions; his stamina. Would Briggs fade and be capable of tossing a mere three or four shots a round after a bright start against Vitali? This is what has happened before, and at age 38 it's perhaps doubtful Briggs' stamina and workrate will have improved any, despite the hard roadwork he has reportedly been doing. And any fighter, if he gets tired in there with Klitschko, is in real trouble.
Briggs, after all the negative things he's said about both Klitschkos, will come to fight and fight hard if and when he does get a shot at Vitali, and in the early rounds he will be dangerous. Inevitably, though, unless he were to land the punch of a lifetime and send the ageing (but still rock-chinned) champion to sleep, or unless he HAS somehow found the ability to remain fresh for a full 12-rounds, Briggs would surely face the inevitable slow beatdown that has befallen so may of Vitali's opponents.
Atlas mentioned how Briggs' name value could be a factor in making this fight a sellable one, at least in Germany. And to be fair, there aren't too many other available challengers out there for Vitali to box. No, Briggs has not earned a title shot, but this may not stop him from getting one. And, despite what they may say on the forums and in other places, U.S fight fans, should this match-up go ahead, will root for Briggs for all they're worth come fight time; especially if Briggs comes out looking to do damage and enjoys some success. After all, Briggs could well be the last U.S big man capable of bringing a belt back home to America in the foreseeable future! Sure, Briggs is the best of a less than stellar bunch, but he has a puncher's chance at least.
Could the man who fought big names like George Foreman and Lennox Lewis way back in 1997/1998, be on his way towards another world title fight, this time in Germany?
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SOURCE: "The Sweet Dove Died: The Sexual Politics of Narcissism," in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 40-9.
In the following essay, Cooley contends that The Sweet Dove Died is among Pym's most effective literary creations. According to Cooley, "The book is a triumph of artistic consistency and economy, yet it is the coldest and most unforgiving of Barbara Pym's novels."
Considered from a purely aesthetic point of view, The Sweet Dove Died is the most brilliant success of Barbara Pym's career. It lacks the geniality and fun of her earlier work, but it is written with a tense economy that generates greater force than the rather relaxed storytelling of its immediate predecessors, A Glass of Blessings and An Unsuitable Attachment. During the years of silence, Barbara Pym worked on The Sweet Dove Died, cutting, polishing, and recasting with a passion for perfection apparently deepened by her inability to find a publisher. She was never a slack or a casual writer, but after she began publishing in 1950, she wrote quickly and easily enough to bring out a novel every other year for the next decade. When her troubles with publishers began in 1961, she apparently responded in part by adopting a more severe and self-critical artistic standard. The results are The Sweet Dove Died and Quartet in Autumn, both masterpieces of condensation and lucidity—two qualities that do not often go together. Built on a series of love triangles, the plot of The Sweet Dove Died represents tangled and mismatched loves with great conciseness and richness of implication.
The greatest achievement of all in The Sweet Dove Died is its remarkable heroine: cold, elegant Leonora Eyre, incapable of passion but capable of heartbreak, strong-willed but finally miserable and helpless in her self-absorption. The exploration of Leonora's character so dominates the book that it might well have been titled Portrait of a Lady. Indeed, Leonora shares with James's lady, Isabel Archer, a distaste for sexual relations and disruptive emotion, and like Isabel she mistakes a rather decadent interest in collecting for an aesthetic passion. She is perhaps the Hermione of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love as seen by a woman, and she has similarities to the mother in James's Spoils of Poynton, with her invincible love of beautiful possessions, and her subordination of human relations to them.
The book is a triumph of artistic consistency and economy, yet it is also the coldest and most unforgiving of Barbara Pym's novels. The irony is always verging on the sardonic, and the geniality and high spirits of Pym's earlier work are nowhere in evidence. The mood is one of carefully restrained bitterness, and the portrayal of character bites deeper and reveals more ambivalence than ever before. Not one of the characters is truly likable, yet every one of them except Ned, the American, forces the reader to extend a certain sympathy. Their suffering and self-discontent are just as real as their selfishness.
These qualities are particularly evident in the portrayal of the heroine, Leonora Eyre. Despite her last name, Leonora is almost the reverse of the plain, passionate, and adventurous Jane Eyre who shares her surname. Jane Eyre has a commonplace exterior, underneath which is a fiery imagination and a full heart. Leonora, on the other hand, is an aging beauty of exquisite refinement; the exterior is still beautiful, impeccable, a triumph of taste. The interior, however, is one of emotional poverty, tedious self-absorption, and cautious avoidance of experience.
In her age and situation in life, if not in moral quality, Leonora is similar to other Pym heroines. She is a single woman of good education living on her own as she approaches middle age. She has a private income, so that she does not have to work. And in the course of the book she experiences an unrequited passion for a man. Unlike other Pym heroines, though, she has no contact at all with the Church or, for that matter, with any institution. She seems to be tied to the world only by shopping and by the perfect clothes and furniture that are the fruit of that shopping.
Leonora is a recognizable member of the family of Pym heroines, but she is drawn in much darker colors. The earlier heroines are often prim and excessively concerned with propriety, but they are warm-hearted, generous, and gallant. Leonora is a worshiper of perfection in objects and in people—not moral perfection but perfection of style and appearance, the unflawed vase, the unlined face. Other Pym heroines are alone in the world, and their aloneness impairs their happiness, but not their humanity. Leonora's aloneness is the result of her disdainful indifference to the rest of mankind and her distaste for physical lovemaking. She thinks of herself primarily as someone who wins admiration, but even those who admire her scarcely arouse her liking.
Leonora, then, is a chill-hearted narcissist, and this novel is about the sexual politics of narcissism. The theme is chiefly realized through the character of the heroine, but Leonora's lover James and his subsequent lover Ned are also variations on the theme of narcissism. Determined to live without suffering or strong emotion, Leonora keeps experience at a distance. She dines with elderly admirers who have been trained to look but not touch. She spends her days drifting through antique stores and auction rooms. She sends her friend Humphrey flowers of sympathy when his antique shop is robbed of a few valuable objects, as if someone had died.
The portrait of Leonora is sharpened by a group of surrounding minor characters who serve as foils to the heroine—parallels, contrasts, implicit commentaries. Each of the female characters, simply by being what she is, casts a revealing light on Leonora. The dowdy, middle-aged friend Meg has an abiding maternal love for a gay young man named Colin, who comes to her between lovers and disappears when he is involved with someone. When he is there, she is happy, and when he is away she grieves. When he comes back, she has his favorite Riesling waiting in the fridge, and forgives him. She knows that she needs to love someone, and Colin is her choice, so that she imposes no condition of faithfulness on her love. Leonora coolly turns James away when he returns after just such an escapade; she returns to her first love, her own inviolate self, with some regret that she had permitted James to ruffle her life so disagreeably.
James's girlfriend, Phoebe Sharpe, is a vague, badly dressed young woman who lives in a country village and does literary research. Her house is a jumble of cheap objects, her sink is full of dishes, and a cat appears to live on top of her radio. But she feels a quick sexual passion for James, and despite her timidity, finds the courage to act on it at once. Leonora, all self-command and impeccable taste, is amazed that James could take up with such a tawdry young woman, missing, as usual, whatever might be sexual and human rather than tasteful and suitable.
Leonora's neighbor Liz, after a bitter divorce, spends her time (and her love) on her Siamese cats, which she breeds for competition. She is an angry and disappointed woman whose attachment to life has shrunk down to her cats, but they have the advantage over Leonora's objects and furniture of being alive.
After being abandoned by James, Leonora goes to visit her friend Joan in the country. The visit is less than a success. Joan is immersed in her family, in the party she is giving in the evening, in the gossip and jokes of her busy world. Leonora is stiff and contemptuous and overdressed at the party, where she has a miserable time out of her London element and the very special conditions she requires. There is no one there to admire her, only an obnoxious woman named Ba, who tells Leonora that she should do some volunteer work.
Leonora is more intelligent and more self-aware than any of these women characters, but intelligence and self-awareness are of little avail. The other women love something living: a gay boy, a Siamese cat, a pipe-smoking husband and noisy children. All Leonora has is a few memories of youthful flirtations in the great gardens of Europe, flirtations that somehow came to nothing. In large measure by her choice, her inner world is mausoleum-like, though by no means free of waves of anxiety.
Into this unoccupied life comes an elderly antique dealer, Humphrey Boyce, and his sexually ambiguous young nephew James. The opening scene is a book auction. Leonora has been bidding for a pretty Victorian flower book, one made for a love-token. Appropriately, Leonora plans to make it a present to herself. Overcome by the excitement of bidding, the bad air, and the crowded room, Leonora almost faints. The uncle and nephew rescue the distressed lady, and the three go off for lunch at a good restaurant. The pickup has been executed quickly and efficiently, but within the rules of Edwardian gentility. The delicacy of the lady and the gallantry of the gentlemen have made the contact easy rather than difficult, because the players know the rules and how to use them. They have no need to resort to the uncertainties of spontaneous reactions.
The first scene of the novel introduces us to a world where the artifice prevails over nature. The characters speak and act for effect—to project an image, to negotiate some kind of emotional deal. Seldom do any of the central characters do anything merely from impulse or conviction, except when surprised into it by sexual passion. Here are the first paragraphs of the novel:
"The sale room is no place for a woman," declared Humphrey Boyce, as he and his nephew James sat having lunch with the attractive stranger they had picked up at a Bond Street sale room half an hour ago.
"Now you're scolding me," said Leonora, with mock humility. "I know it was stupid of me, but I suppose it was the excitement of bidding—for the first time in my life—and then getting that dear little book. It was just too overwhelming."
"And the room was so hot," James suggested, trying to take his part in the conversation, for after all it was he who had noticed the woman in black sway sideways and almost collapse at her moment of triumph, when she had challenged the auctioneer's rather bored "Twenty pounds at the table?" with a cry of "Twenty-five!" Between them James and Humphrey had supported her out of the sale room and after that it seemed the natural thing for the three of them to be having lunch together.
These three characters have just taken an initiative very much against the conventions of British decorum. They have violated the rule implied by one of an Englishman's proudest remarks, "I keep myself to myself." They have made a public pickup of a stranger. In the subsequent conversation each falls back on a conventional posture that reassuringly obliterates the unconventional nature of what has just taken place. Humphrey says, in a heavy, old-fashioned, masculine way, "The sale room is no place for a woman." Courtly and pompous, kind but more than a little condescending, he is the old-fashioned Edwardian gentleman who knows how to treat a lady.
Leonora's girlish trill responds appropriately to his basso. When she says, "Now you're scolding me," she is playing at submission as he is playing at masterfulness. The two middle-aged people fall into a stylized pattern of flirtation, long sanctioned by tradition. The man plays the rescuer and the mentor; the woman plays the adorable but fragile little woman. This stereotyped erotic play is one of the ironies of the novel: in the ensuing power struggles Leonora has a certain ruthless competence in pursuing her erotic goal of capturing young James, and Humphrey stands by comparatively helpless. By her speech Leonora also gives us a foretaste of her collector's passion for ownership of beautiful objects, her delight in admiration, her physical fragility, her ostentatious "sensibility," and her tough ability to manage situations.
Young James has no period style to fall back on, and no imagination to tell him what to do. All he can contribute to the situation is his extreme good looks and a flat statement of fact, "And the room was so hot." As he is to be the cipher over whom others contend, he is appropriately passive and untalkative.
This first incident sets up a triangle in which none of the attractions match. Humphrey is attracted to Leonora, who cultivates him in order to get at his nephew. Leonora is attracted to James as a flirtatious son whom she can captivate with comforts and attentions. James likes Leonora well enough, but he will also sneak off to his sexual lovers, first a woman, then a man. The erotic merry-go-round of Viennese bedroom farce is adapted to the more restrained conditions of British high comedy; the comedy of opening and closing bedroom and closet doors is replaced by the mental acrobatics of lovers who spend much of their time waiting and watching one another.
None of these attractions is predominantly sexual; the motives have to do more with possession and display than with genital love. Humphrey likes Leonora because she is someone elegant to be seen with at the opera and in fashionable restaurants. Leonora likes James, because he is so handsome and so seemingly easy to manipulate, and because he does not make any of the sexual demands that she dreads. James likes Leonora because she uses all her taste and tact to flatter him and serve him. Of the three, only Leonora feels something close to passion, and even she never comes close to self-abandonment, or even to an active desire for sexual union. Only in one outburst of weeping does she ever venture outside the fortress-prison of her self-control.
Until meeting James, Leonora has never gone beyond mild courtships. She has reached middle age without getting past a virginal playing at love, coquetting in a perfectly ladylike way with decorous suitors. James rouses her as no one ever has. Past forty, she finds his youth magical, and she is enchanted to be a combination of mother and glamorous older woman respectfully adored by a perfect son-lover-friend. James receives her love offerings with detachment and slight surprise, a response he generally accords to the love offerings inspired by his good looks. With the almost innocent egotism of youth, James finds nothing remarkable about Leonora's lavish attentions. Both are relieved that no physical relationship is expected, and they are free to play at "adoring" one another. Leonora is delighted by James's humdrum conversation, and her delight makes him feel, a little uncertainly, that he may indeed be more interesting than he had imagined.
Driven by her desire for secure possession of James, Leonora becomes both less idle and more ruthless. Finding that James plans to move from his present flat, Leonora decides to drive out the elderly tenant from the upstairs flat of her house and redecorate it for James. Miss Foxe, the elderly gentlewoman, was, as it turns out, already planning to move, so that Leonora does not need to put her out. This is a typical Barbara Pym development. In her novels, the worst that happens is that someone forms a wicked intention. But usually events take a turn that prevents the wicked intention from being carried out or, if the plans are carried out, the result is not as bad as might be expected. So there are villainous intentions but few villainous deeds in Barbara Pym. Her morally deficient characters suffer enough from their selfishness and emptiness; the author avoids adding the burden of guilt for real misdeeds. The suffering consequent on being what they are is sufficient for Barbara Pym's comic purposes. Extremes of badness and goodness have no place in her measured and middling world. Thus Leonora is perfectly willing to play the wicked landlady, but circumstances prevent her from acting on her intentions.
When Leonora discovers that James has a girlfriend, Phoebe Sharpe, to whom he has loaned some furniture while he is traveling in Europe, she uses Humphrey to force the return of the furniture. She succeeds in driving James's young woman away, but the job is easy because James's attachment is a feeble one, and vague, uncertain Phoebe is no match for Leonora. Indeed, Phoebe is a perfect foil for Leonora. She is very young, badly dressed, housed in a messy overgrown cottage, eager to make love, undefended against her emotions, too unfocused to scheme or manipulate. She doesn't have a chance in a contest with Leonora, yet the vague, vulnerable way she wanders through life has a certain emotional reality that is lacking in the chill existence of Leonora.
Having driven out her tenant, defeated James's girlfriend, and most important of all, gained possession of the furniture, Leonora turns her upstairs flat into a place of perfect comfort and taste for James. James is again a little surprised, but accepts the tribute with perfect equanimity, as part of the general tendency of life to take care of him. For a time, they play a game of loving housemates, ideal friends, imaginary parent and child.
The flimsy nature of this arrangement promptly becomes evident when James is seduced by a sexually accomplished young American named Ned, on sabbatical leave in England. Leonora is a sentimental narcissist, and James is a passive one. The narcissism of Ned, however, is a cold and clear-eyed drive for power. For him, the chief interest of getting involved with James is to separate him from Leonora, just to show that he can do it. Without much difficulty, Ned persuades James to move out of Leonora's house. Leonora is bereft:
The days seemed long and hopeless and Leonora began to wish she had not given up working, for a routine job would at least have filled the greater part of the day. Yet she lacked the energy and initiative to find herself an occupation; she remembered the dreadful woman she had met at the Murray's party and the impertinent suggestion she had made about the useful voluntary work one could do. But when Leonora came to consider them each had something wrong with it: how could she do church work when she never went near a church, or work for old people when she found them boring and physically repellent, or with handicapped children when the very thought of them was too upsetting.
The solution to her loneliness is her possessions:
She had always cared as much for inanimate objects as for people and now spent hours looking after her possessions, washing the china and cleaning the silver obsessively and rearranging them in her rooms. The shock of finding James had taken the fruitwood mirror upset her quite disproportionately….
The new triangle of Ned, James, and Leonora replaces the triangle of Phoebe, James, and Leonora. In this match it is Leonora who is the losing player. After having defeated Phoebe, she is in turn defeated. Her genteel strategies are no match for the steely expertise of Ned in erotic intrigues. Her only resource is to try to maintain her stoicism so that Ned cannot see, directly at least, the extent of her suffering.
Ned makes others suffer, as he admits with an unconvincing display of regret. If someone is to suffer a narcissistic wound, he will make sure it will not be himself. When he senses a slight restiveness on James's part, Ned determines to reject James before James rejects him. Ned quickly finds a series of other lovers, and then, announcing that his mother needs him, returns to America. Before he leaves, he shamelessly calls on Leonora and offers to send James back. She coolly declines. At this point Ned and Leonora are roughly equal antagonists. James, the prize over whom they have struggled, is so inept even in his efforts to keep his various loves hidden from one another, that he scarcely qualifies as a player.
The Ned-James-Leonora episode of the book has a heartless brilliance, wit, and perversity that suggest Restoration comedy with its rakes and dissolute ladies in their dancelike changes of partners and their delight in deception. Restoration comedy suggests that all these intrigues, though doubtless brutal and immoral, are highly entertaining. The Sweet Dove Died presents this triangle as filled with a fascinating and amusing perversity, but it also renders the suffering and aching feeling of loss beneath the surface of the love intrigue. Comedy usually keeps suffering in the background, but this comedy is shot through with Leonora's anguish. She turns out to be more adept at suffering than at love.
With the departure of Ned, the original triangle of James-Leonora-Humphrey is reestablished. After waiting so patiently for Leonora's infatuation with James to end, Humphrey wins, whatever winning may mean when Leonora is the prize. After an unsatisfactory meeting with James, Leonora finds herself weary of her position as admirer and decides to go back to her old, comfortable, undemanding position as the one who is courted and admired. Here is the last paragraph of the novel:
The sight of Humphrey with the peonies reminded her that he was taking her to the Chelsea Flower Show tomorrow. It was the kind of thing one liked to go to, and the sight of such large and faultless blooms, so exquisite in colour, so absolutely correct in all their finer points, was a comfort and satisfaction to one who loved perfection as she did. Yet, when one came to think of it, the only flowers that were really perfect were those, like the peonies that went so well with one's charming room, that possessed the added grace of having been presented to oneself.
The Sweet Dove Died is the least lovable of Barbara Pym's books, but it is also her most perfect work of art. Like Jane Austen's Emma, it has a heroine whom most people dislike. Leonora is fascinating but unsympathetic; indeed none of the characters offer much of an opening to sympathy. The self-satisfied doltishness of the men makes us keep our distance from them, and even Leonora's courage in her love-sufferings has something repellent about it. Driven back from sympathy, we are forced to deal with this book through our intelligence. Emotion held in check, we contemplate this picture of a skittish, anxious world of attenuated passions and faithless relationships, a world in which no one finally connects with anyone else and no emotion completes itself. The protagonist is left alone at her mirror with an empty heart, and that is the picture of chill unhappiness that stays with the reader.
The Sweet Dove Died may not have lovable characters, but as a whole it has a power and beauty that increase on rereading. The novel itself provides an emblem of its artistic character: the small Japanese toggles called netsuke. Humphrey sells them in his antique shop; James and Leonora admire them. Their dentist collects them. Netsuke are bits of wood, ivory, or metal with realistic, fiercely energetic little figures carved into them. Small as they are, they give an impression of power and completeness, a life that is about to burst out of the confines of these little objects that are attached to kimono sashes. They resemble that "little bit of ivory, two inches wide," on which Jane Austen described herself as working. Barbara Pym powerfully inscribes her unyielding message within the confines of a short comic novel. Compact, intense with life, complete—that is the essence of The Sweet Dove Died.
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Max Biaggi and the blisteringly-fast Aprilia were once again a double winner.
World Superbike
men visited Monza, Italy and its massive long straights for round five of the series and it was homeboy Max Biaggi on the Alitalia Aprilia RSV4 taking the double win, his second double of the young season. After setting pole position yesterday with a new WSB top speed record of 205.5 mph, Biaggi bested Yamaha's James Toseland in Race 1 and Leon Haslam on the Alstare Suzuki in Race 2.
Race 1
Biaggi didn't have things easy in first race as Sterilgarda Yamaha R1-mounted Toseland gave chase the entire race, his teammate Cal Crutchlow and Haslam in tow. Toseland was the best of the English contingent, though he came up ever-so-short at the line, with the entire top three within 0.3 seconds at the line.
Second place matched Toseland's best finish of the season after a sub-par qualifying position of seventh on the grid. "The first race was a good, strong race; I just want to congratulate the team, it's their home race and to get two of us on the podium is great," said James. "Max Biaggi rode a great race, he had a strong bike here and we expected him to go well. He didn't put a foot wrong. I was hoping on the last lap he was going to make a slight mistake, just enough for me to get alongside, but he didn't so fair play to him."
Toseland was right on Biaggi's rear wheel in Race 1, making the Italian work for the win the entire race distance.
Crutchlow's final podium position came after getting off to a slow start that saw him outside the top-five briefly, though he would come through the field along with his teammate to be right on Biaggi's rear wheel quickly. Crutchlow then went on to finish right off the back of Toseland for third at the finish.
Said Crutchlow: "I felt like I put together a really solid first race, we didn't get the best of starts but made up for it and got stuck in. All credit to Yamaha; they've done a good job to give James and I a competitive package so it was great for us both to deliver them the podiums here for their home round. It was a strong result and we rode well so I was looking forward to the second race."
Suzuki's Haslam was able to get to the front for a short time, leading on the fourth lap, which would be the only time that Biaggi and the Aprilia didn't cross the line at the pointy end of the field. The Brit was be relegated to a close fourth in the end. Ten Kate Honda's Jonathan Rea, last round's double winner, also ran in the lead group before falling uninjured in the Parabolica.
Crutchlow was third in the first race and running a close second in Race 2 when a radiator puncture leaked water and put him on the ground.
Biaggi's Alitalia Aprilia teammate Leon Camier ended up fifth, over four seconds off the lead group, while sixth went to BMW's Ruben Xaus, his best finish so far in what has been a very troubled season for the Spanish rider. Michel Fabrizio continued to struggle with a seventh, right behind Xaus, as Troy Corser took the second BMW to eighth. Kawasaki's Tom Sykes was ninth with Haslam's Suzuki teammate Sylvain Guintoli rounding out the top 10. American Roger Lee Hayden on the Pedercini Kawasaki finished 19th.
Race 2
In the second race Biaggi had a much easier time of things, pulling away to victory at the Autodromo di Monza in Italy after his closest rival Crutchlow fell when a damaged oil cooler dumped fluid on his rear tire and brought him to the ground in Turn 2 with a handful of laps remaining. The oil cooler was caused from a rock kicked off the rear wheel of Biaggi's Aprilia. Luckily, Crutchlow was uninjured.
This gave Biaggi a much easier time at the front as the Italian rode off in the distance to beat championship points leader Leon Haslam to the line by 4.5 seconds. This was the second double-win for the Roman this season, having also topped both races in Portimao, Portugal two rounds ago.
Haslam was fourth in Race 1 and second in Race 2, which was enough to keep in the championship lead, though by only 3 points over Biaggi.
"This track is very long and it's very easy to make a little mistake, plus when you have your rhythm you stay with it, and it's difficult to go faster and easier to go slower," said Biaggi. "Anyway, I'm happy with the result, it was a close race. I'm happy for me and my team. It's an unbelievable result; it looks like we are achieving our goal. Here there is also the President of our group and it's been a great weekend for everyone."
Haslam was battling for the lead with Biaggi and Crutchlow until a mistake dropped him out of the lead duos' draft, which at Monza can be fatal.
"We had a few big moments in that race and I'm nursing my wrist because one of them sent me off the back of the bike when I was with Max and Cal at the time," said Haslam. "This weekend's been tough, we've been a little bit down on speed, which is unlike the Suzuki, but the boys have worked fantastic. To get on the podium here in Monza is always special so I'm really happy for that. The battle for the title is definitely closing in, we knew Max was going to be strong here, but hopefully we can get back to our winning ways because each race is getting tougher and tougher."
Pressuring Halsam all the way to the end was BMW's Troy Corser, the Aussie finishing third to take BMW's first-ever World Superbike podium.
"I'm so happy; the team has put a lot of hard work into the project...it's been a long time coming, let's hope it's not going to be the last one!" said Corser of BMW's first-ever podium finish.
"I'm so happy; the team has put a lot of hard work into the project, not just this year but last year, and sometimes it's been difficult and frustrating. But this weekend we've worked really hard and have been progressively getting better and better, just struggling a bit with braking, but we made a change for the second race and it made the bike easier to stop," Corser commented. "We had the speed, our bike was as fast as anything out there, and it just took me a few laps to get used to the brakes in the second race. Thanks to all the boys at BMW, it's been a long time coming, let's hope it's not going to be the last one!"
Fourth place was Biaggi's teammate Leon Camier, over five seconds ahead of a battle that went to the line between Kawasaki's Sykes, Ducati Xerox's Noriyuki Haga and Alstare Suzuki's Guintoli. Sykes edged out Haga, who continues to struggle this season, by 0.255 seconds with Guintoli right on the rear wheel of Haga. The result was Sykes' best of the season thus far.
Rounding out the top 10 were the privateer Ducatis of Jakub Smrz, Shane Byrne and Luca Scassa. American Roger Lee Hayden scored the first World Superbike points of his career with a 14th place finish.
Several front-running riders fell on the first lap, including James Toseland, Jonathan Rea, Ruben Xaus and Michel Fabrizio.
World Superbike Race 1 Results
1. Max Biaggi (Aprilia)
2. James Toseland (Yamaha)
3. Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha)
4. Leon Haslam (Suzuki)
5. Leon Camier (Aprilia)
6. Ruben Xaus (BMW)
7. Michel Fabrizio (Ducati)
8. Troy Corser (BMW)
9. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki)
10. Sylvain Guintoli (Suzuki)
11. Noriyuki Haga (Ducati)
12. Max Neukirchner (Honda)
13. Shane Byrne (Ducati)
14. Carlos Checa (Ducati)
15. Jakub Smrz (Ducati)
16. Luca Scassa (Ducati)
17. Lorenzo Lanzi (Ducati)
18. Chris Vermeulen (Kawasaki)
19. Roger Lee Hayden (Kawasaki)
World Superbike Race 2 Results
1. Max Biaggi (Aprilia)
2. Leon Haslam (Suzuki)
3. Troy Corser (BMW)
4. Leon Camier (Aprilia)
5. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki)
6. Noriyuki Haga (Ducati)
7. Sylvain Guintoli (Suzuki)
8. Jakub Smrz (Ducati)
9. Shane Byrne (Ducati)
10. Luca Scassa (Ducati)
11. Carlos Checa (Ducati)
12. Max Neukirchner (Honda)
13. Chris Vermeulen (Kawasaki)
14. Roger Lee Hayden (Kawasaki)
15. Broc Parkes (Honda)
World Supersport
The World Supersport race was won by a flag-to-flag by Parkalgar Honda rider Eugene Laverty. The British rider won by 2.8 seconds from Ten Kate Honda rider Kenan Sofuoglu. Third, only just behind Sofuoglu after he made a mistake on the penultimate lap, was Joan Lascorz on the Motocard.com Kawasaki. Sofuoglu's teammate Michele Pirro was the first Italian rider home, in fourth place, holding off Kawasaki Motocard.com's Katsuaki Fujiwara in fifth.
World Supersport Race Results
1. Eugene Laverty (Honda)
2. Kenan Sofuoglu (Honda)
3. Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki)
4. Michele Pirro (Honda)
5. Katsuaki Fujiwara (Kawasaki)
6. Matthieu Lagrive (Triumph)
7. Chaz Davies (Triumph)
8. David Salom (Triumph)
9. Gino Rea (Honda)
10. Miguel Praia (Honda)
11. Massimo Roccoli (Honda)
12. Gianluca Vizziello (Honda)
13. Alex Lundh (Honda)
14. Anrea Boscoscuro (Honda)
15. Bastien Chesaux (Honda)
16. Imre Toth (Honda)
DNF: Jason DiSalvo (Triumph)
DNF: Fabien Foret (Kawasaki)
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2010 World Superbike Point Standings
Leon Haslam - 181 points
Max Biaggi - 178 points
Jonathan Rea - 110 points
Carlos Checa - 110 points
James Toseland - 106 points
Noryuki Haga - 100 points
Troy Corser - 92 points
Leon Camier - 72 points
Sylvain Guintoli - 70 points
Cal Crutchlow - 65 points
World Superbike Racer Bios
Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes earned his first World Superbike championship title in 2013 and he returns with Kawasaki in 2014 to try for the top-spot once again. Read more on the Tom Sykes bio page.
Leon Haslam
Son of the legendary Ron Haslam, Leon Haslam is poised to make his own mark on motorcycle racing history as a leading contender for the World Superbike Championship. Read more on the Leon Haslam bio page for career highlights, pictures, and news.
Eugene Laverty
Following a successful stint in World Supersport which included back-to-back runner-up finishes, Eugene Laverty is quickly building a reputation in the premier world championship. Learn more about the Irishman on the Eugene Laverty bio page.
Jonathan Rea
One of the numerous crossovers to World SBK from the British Superbike series, Jonathan Rea will be leading the Pata Honda charge once again in 2014. Learn more about Jonathan Rea on the Jonathan Rea bio page.
Marco Melandri
A multi-GP winner, Marco Melandri is chasing the 2014 World Superbike series title with Aprilia Racing. Read more on the Marco Melandri bio page.
Sylvain Guintoli
A former MotoGP rider and British Superbike competitor, Sylvain Guintoli now has his sights on the World SBK championship with Aprilia Racing. Read more on the Sylvain Guintoli bio page.
Chaz Davies
After making a name for himself in the 250 MotoGP series and winning the 2011 World Supersport Championship, Chaz Davies has become a well-known fixture in World Superbike.
Toni Elias
Fresh off winning the 2010 Moto2 Championship, Toni Elias is making his return to the premier class with LCR Honda for 2011.
Leon Camier
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Michel Fabrizio
Since leaving Ducati Xerox in 2010 Michel Fabrizio has struggled finding results in World Superbike, but the Italian aims to rekindle his former success with Team Grillini in 2014. Learn more on Motorcycle USA's Michel Fabrizio bio page for career highlights, pictures, and news.
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joão daniel, lisboa, portugal -World Supersport Race Results
May 10, 2010 04:31 AM
Why have you published only 8 World Supersport Race Results????? Don't you forget Miguel Praia 10th place, please...!!!!!!!!
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Boy, 16, accused in girlfriend's shooting death
CORPUS CHRISTI - Jurors in the murder trial of a 16-year-old boy accused in the shooting death of his girlfriend started deliberating about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday.
Police found Everett Duran's 14-year-old girlfriend, Tiffani Gonzalez, with a gunshot wound to the head on April 4 inside his mother's Corona Drive apartment.
Duran, who was 15 at the time, is being tried as an adult on first-degree murder. Jurors also can consider the lesser offenses of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Jurors stopped deliberating for the day at 6 p.m. They will resume at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
If convicted of murder, he faces five to 99 years or life in prison and as much as a $10,000 fine.
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Genre :Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Release Date :December 25, 2008
MPAA Rating :PG
Director :Adam Shankman
Starring :Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Lucy Lawless, Richard Griffiths
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The name of the song is Rock Me Amadeus.... this song is played in the radio when hes in the carposted by Ego on Jan 07, 2010 09:21:55
The name of the song is Rock Me Amadeus.... this song is played in the radio when hes in the carposted by Ego on Jan 07, 2010 09:21:32
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hey right before the gum balls start falling and the ferrari pulls up what is the song that he is rocking out to??posted by help on Apr 14, 2009 12:03:19
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sairalinde...google your question and follow the link to the backyard gardener website - that is where I got it from.posted by Bedtime Stories on Jan 19, 2009 04:18:55
can I find the sandlers phone ring!!its so funny loved itposted by sairalinde on Jan 18, 2009 06:52:47
wots the song? when hes driving before the gum balls? something about dancing? lol. I want it?posted by huh? on Jan 18, 2009 01:26:12
Took my 3 children (ages 7 and twins 5) and we absolutely loved it!! Great movie and when I tucked them in tonight-they wanted a bedtime story:)posted by mom2-3 on Jan 17, 2009 01:32:24
this movie was funnnnny ! :) i like his cell ringer ! :)posted by youdontneedtoknow. on Jan 13, 2009 02:49:28
i thought it was a good film, critics are being to critical. its aimed for a younger age, i would recomendd :]posted by dsdsd on Jan 12, 2009 12:42:19
Very funny movie for all ages!posted by Bedtime Stories on Jan 09, 2009 05:05:58
very funny movie :)posted by fürst uranov on Jan 09, 2009 01:04:02
was a great movie, but more aimed at the younger age range, not an old persons movie.posted by bec on Jan 08, 2009 06:25:41
The name of the last song is "dont stop beleiving by journeyposted by ladybird on Jan 03, 2009 01:48:53
great movie!!!adam sandler is the best comedy actor everposted by fLo on Jan 02, 2009 10:09:11
Can anybody tell me the name of the song in the end of the movie ?!posted by M Scofield on Dec 30, 2008 08:21:25
Don't Stop Believin' by the band Journey.posted by laurenn on Dec 30, 2008 02:32:51
absolute rubbish!posted by lillie2step on Dec 29, 2008 11:20:11
While I was watching this movie I kept thinking "This is a bit more for children than I thought". But as the movie levels itself back into reality, Adam Sandler really has a way of touching the heart in every movie =) Incredibly brilliant actor.posted by Daniel on Dec 28, 2008 09:26:29
i watched it yesterday (i work at a theatre) def. steering towards the younger crowd...a little predictable... but not badposted by Tyler on Dec 24, 2008 03:03:52
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As it stands now, the only proven starting pitchers are left-hander Clayton Richard and right-hander Edinson Volquez. They are at the top of the rotation. At the bottom is Eric Stults, who was 8-3 as a Padres starter.
The biggest question among the position players going into spring training could be identifying the shortstop and the second baseman. There are ample candidates in Logan Forsythe, Everth Cabrera, Alexi Amarista and rookie Jedd Gyorko. The question is who plays where.
The Padres would love to have the bats of Gyorko, Forsythe and chase Headley in the lineup at the same time, which is interesting since all were drafted as third basemen. If Gyorko can win the job at second, Forsythe will be given the chance to unseat Cabrera at shortstop. The Padres believe Forsythe has the range to play short and Forsythe says he is better suited to play the left side of the infield.
Having Gyorko and Forsythe in the lineup at the same time would likely improve the Padres offense and strengthen the bench (with Cabrera and Amarista), although there could be a price to pay on defense.
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Third base: Chase Headley _ Developed into the top third baseman in the National League. First base: Yonder Alonso _ Tied for first among all rookies with 150 hits and power and RBI improved in the second half. Catcher: Yasmani Grandal and Nick Hundley – The switch-hitting, 23-year-old rookie Grandal moved into the cleanup slot when Carlos Quentin was unavailable. Defense was better than expected. Hundley had a terrible 2012, but the Padres owe him $7 million over the next two years with no immediate hopes of trading him.
Left: Carlos Quentin _ If his right knee is sound. Center: Cameron Maybin _ He's still only 26 and coming off a strong second half. Right: Will Venable-Chris Denorfia platoon _ Not perfect but better than most right fielders.
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Left-hander Clayton Richard and right-hander Edinson Volquez made every start. Left-hander Eric Stults in the No. 5 slot.
Right-handed closer Huston Street (when healthy). Right-handers Luke Gregerson, Brad Brach, Anthony Bass, Brad Brach, Nick Vincent, Dale Thayer and Miles Mikolas. Left-handers Joe Thatcher and/or Tommy Layne.
Where they need help
Given the injury situation of 2012 and the potential of lingering after-effects, the Padres desperately need to add several starting pitchers.
Both Black and Byrnes say the hope is to add pitching through free agency rather than making trades that could hurt the Padres elsewhere.
But they need at least two new starting pitchers . . . or have some of their injured pitchers of 2012 get very healthy over the winter. The top candidates in that category are:
--Left-hander Cory Luebke, 27, who was emerging as the staff ace, had "Tommy John" elbow reconstruction surgery in May and won't be ready to return at the start of the season. When he does come back, his innings will be limited.
--Right-hander Casey Kelly, 22, missed most of the season with a right elbow strain, but was 2-3 with a 6.21 ERA in six late-season starts with the Padres. Needs to refine his changeup to maximize potential.


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- By Adrienne KlasaAdrienne Klasa is an editorial researcher at Foreign Policy.
As some Americans scramble to purchase more arms to defend themselves and the media combs through every detail following last week's mass shooting at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado, Toronto is also reeling in the aftermath of the city's largest ever mass shooting which left 2 dead and 23 injured on July 18.
Despite having far stricter gun control laws than their Second Amendment-loving southern neighbors, Canada is not immune from gun violence. And while you would be hard pressed to find a Canadian in public office willing to promote concealed carry as a solution, Canada is certainly not immune from the inevitable politicking that follows such events.
In the immediate aftermath of the shootings, Toronto mayor Rob Ford declared his intention to banish gun offenders from the city — effectively pushing the problem outside his jurisdiction. According to the CBC:
Critics said the mayor's comments were confusing, and it wasn't clear why he appeared to be zeroing in on immigration as an issue when it comes to gun crime.
Ford didn't specify how he thought he would be able to move residents out of the city by persuading the federal government to change immigration laws.
"A lot of people just said: 'Rob, why are they living in this city?' No matter who they are, I don't care if you're Canadian born, I don't care if you're a Canadian citizen. I don't care if you're an immigrant, I don't care if you're refugee. It doesn't matter to me," he said.
"If you're convicted of a gun crime, I don't want you living in this city. And the only way I can find out whether that's legal or not or whether we can enforce that is through the [Prime Minister's Office], and that's what I'm doing."
Freedom of movement is enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The federal government quickly signaled that it was not on board.
"Obviously we can't tell people which city [they] can and can't live in," Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said.
Prime Minister Steven Harper, meanwhile, took the shootings as an opportunity to plug for the mandatory jail sentence minimums his government controversially pushed through as part of an omnibus crime bill earlier this year.
"I think these events in Toronto underscore why these penalties are essential," he said. "This is not a theoretical problem."
As recently as July 6, an Ontario court struck down the mandatory minimums for gun crimes included in the bill as unconstitutional. Mandatory minimums have been on the books in the U.S. since the 1980s as part of the country's ailing war on drugs. Critics argue that they result in overcrowded prisons and a loss of judicial independence.
Even before the Toronto shootings, the Harper government's approach to violent crime legislation could be characterized as a "lite" version of the American model which combines tougher penalties with lighter arms control. Harper abolished Canada's long-gun registry in April, amidst howls of protest from the left — particularly out of Quebec.
The registry – which required documenting licensed ownership of all rifles, long-guns and shot guns — was established largely in reaction to the 1989 Polytechnique shootings, an event which horrified the country as a whole and is still vividly remembered in Quebec. A decade before Columbine, a lone gunman entered a Montreal, Quebec, engineering school and, shouting his hatred for "feminists," shot 14 female students before turning the gun on himself.
So far, it appears that the Canadian response to this spate of violence has been a series of backwards steps.
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This is kind of a chicken and egg thing, but a new survey from Accountemps says that over 90 percent of employers are claiming that prior work experience in a related field is either very important or somewhat important when considering which candidate to hire. This survey is geared toward getting the attention of college students, many of whom are, um, about to look for their first job.
The lesson that college (and, for that matter, high school) students are to take from this is that somehow they're supposed to get some work experience in their chosen field before they actually apply for a job in their chosen field. I know how crazy that sounds to many people, but the trick is to get creative. And that's where the grown-ups can help. If you know of a student with a hankering to get into your profession, lend a hand. Summer work and formal internships are great, but there's only so much of that work available. Think of special projects you can dole out to students. Bring in a panel of college students and get their input on a number of issues. Even giving students a chance to shadow you or someone at your workplace can provide resume fodder.
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R12 (New York City Subway car)
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R12 car 5760 on display at the New York Transit Museum
Interior of an R12 car
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|St. Charles, Missouri, USA
|Number built
|Number preserved
|Number scrapped
|Fleet numbers
|44 (seated)
|New York City Subway
|Car body construction
|LAHT Carbon Steel
|Car length
|51 ft (15.54 m)
|8 ft (2,438 mm)
|11 ft (3,353 mm)
|Platform height
|3.76 ft (1.15 m)
|Maximum speed
|55 mph (89 km/h)
|73,100 lb (33,158 kg)
|Traction system
|General Electric 1240A3 or Westinghouse J1447C
|Power output
|100 hp (75 kW)
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The R12 was a New York City Subway car built in 1948 by the American Car and Foundry Company. The R12 was the first post-war city-owned rolling stock for the IRT division. These cars were very similar to the R10s, except that the R12 was smaller due to A Division specifications. In addition, while the R10s had air-operated door engines (and were the last cars ordered as such), the R12s had electric door engines.
They began service on the IRT Flushing Line (7 <7> services) route in Queens and Manhattan on July 14, 1948, and ran there until 1964 with the delivery of the blue R36 World's Fair cars. The R12 cars were then transferred to operate on other IRT division routes originating in Manhattan, the Bronx, or Brooklyn throughout their service lives. One particular assignment included all fifty of the GE cars (5753-5802) being heavily modified to ease up on the shaking of the old elevated structure, by killing the dynamic brakes and cutting out the third (parallel) notch on their controllers, and sent to the (8) Third Avenue elevated line in the Bronx during August 1969 and ran there until that route's closing on April 29, 1973. In addition, four Westinghouse R12 cars (5703-5706) were slightly modified for use on the Bowling Green – South Ferry Shuttle, and were so-equipped so that the center door of each car could be opened at South Ferry, while keeping the others closed. These cars were used until the shuttle was discontinued on February 12, 1977, and were unmodified and reassigned to the 3 train shortly afterwards.
The R12 had a few paint schemes: originally two-tone gray with orange stripes, then a solid bright red, and finally, in the MTA's silver with blue stripe scheme.
Retirement and Preservation[edit]
The last R12 was removed from service in September 1981 and the fleet became work and other non-revenue cars afterward. The majority of the remainder of the fleet has been scrapped, although some R12 cars have been set aside for preservation over the years. These include:
- Car 5760, restored to its original paint scheme and has been part of the New York Transit Museum collection since July 1976.
- Car 5782, at the 207th Street Yard in the MTA blue/silver livery paint scheme.[1][2]
See also[edit]
- R14 (New York City Subway car) - a very similar model also built by American Car & Foundry Company.
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2001 Ford Escape Recalls
Ford Escape models equipped with a V6 are being recalled because inadequate clearance between the engine cover and the speed control cable connector could result in a stuck throttle when the accelerator pedal is fully or almost fully depressed. This risk exists regardless of whether or not the speed control (cruise control) is used.
A stuck throttle may result in very high vehicle speeds and make it difficult to stop or slow the vehicle, which could result in a crash. Dealers will correct this concern by increasing the engine cover clearance. Remedy parts are expected to be available in mid-August. Until then, dealers will disconnect the speed control cable as an interim remedy if parts are not available at the time of an owner's service appointment. The Ford recall number is 12S37.
A brake fluid leak can develop from the cap on the fluid reservoir, which may damage the antilock brake system (ABS) module electrical connector. A damaged connector can develop corrosion, causing the connector to overheat and melt and/or catch on fire. Dealers will replace the brake master cylinder cap and modify the ABS electrical system to correct this concern. Corrective parts may not be readily available. Owners will be advised to park their vehicles outside until repairs can be made. The Ford recall number is 11S24.
2001 Ford Escape Reviews
I bought my 2001 Escape for my wife in New Jersey. It was on an angled ramp waiting for me to by it. The Escape is yellow and black. The truck looks like it would have been on a set for Bay Watch. I maintained it from the start and it now has 138,000 miles. It needed repairs since I had it. I can not complain because my wife and I have never missed a day of work since I bought it. If you take c...
This has been a great vehicle for me, I have had it for about 2.5 years and haven't had any trouble out of it.
Does anyone know why there would be gas leaking out of my gas tank from the bottom... There is no rust on the tank and there are no holes in the tank,... I just filled the tank up and am wondering if I just over filled it... It's been a couple hours and it hasn't leaked since i got gas.... Is there a spot where excess gas would leak from other than coming out of where the gas goes into the tan...