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Assembly of the new Benton Hall Academy playground equipment began Tuesday morning, after the equipment had arrived at the school on Monday.
Little Falls City School District Business Manager Clete McLaughlin said he expects the installation will be completed within three to four days. Once the installation of the playground equipment is finished, he said the district, with the assistance of the city's Department of Public Works, will put the new wood chip safety surface in place in time for the opening of school on Wednesday, Sept. 5.
In April 2011, after a routine safety inspection, the wooden playground structure at Benton Hall was found to have serious safety issues. Consequently, in order to prevent the possibility of an injury, school district officials decided the prudent action to follow would be to take the playground down.
After the removal of the old playground, which was built in 1997, the district set out on a fundraising campaign as it did not have the necessary financial resources readily available to do the project otherwise. With the community's support, the district was able to raise the necessary $125,000 to purchase the equipment, have it professional installed and complete the site work.
The new playground will incorporate multiple platforms of varying heights, five slides, eight distinctive climbing opportunities, nine interactive play panels, a separate free standing track glide and a two bay swing set with four seat swings. The posts supporting the new play structure will be made of fiberglass reinforced polymer, which McLaughlin said comes with a lifetime guarantee.
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In Jordan's view, the creation of an independent and viable Palestinian state, resulting from a serious peace process and intense meaningful negotiations, is a strategic Jordanian interest as well as a step representing the fulfillment of the Palestinians' legitimate national rights. It might even be said that Jordan – after the Palestinian Authority – is the party most eager for the survival of the peace process and the "two-state solution."
The source of Jordan's interest lies in the deep conviction of its decision-makers that stymied horizons for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders will keep the door perpetually open for solutions to the Palestinian cause that are undesirable and come at Jordan's expense. This is visible through agitation by wide swathes of Jordanians, including its "East Bankers," who are raising fears of "resettlement" and an "alternative homeland" for Palestinians, while advocating for the "national identity of Jordan." These angry voices include those loyal to the regime and those within the system itself.
As such, Jordan was among those most alarmed by the 15-month freeze in negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis (from September 2010 to the beginning of February 2012). It was dismayed by the lack of international attention to the process, and lack of attention from the actors, including the United States and the European Union, who have been distracted by domestic and regional issues (various elections, economic and financial crises, the crises of Iran and Syria, and the intifadas sweeping the Arab world).
Those who monitor official political discourse in Jordan observe that it has no reliable alternatives in case of a failure in the "negotiations option" and the two-state solution. As such, the Jordanian leadership is bound to its support of this process, as the only way out of the now seemingly intractable negotiations and peace process.
Jordan's leadership is under increasing pressure from the Jordanian public to answer difficult and sensitive questions related to the "equation of reform and change" in Jordan. Who is Jordanian? Who is Palestinian? How do we deal with those with Palestinian roots – whether descendants of the 1948 refugees, the 1967 displaced, or the children of those from Gaza? How can we achieve the "disengagement" of the two banks of the Jordan River?
These are only some of the questions and challenges related to "identity" and "integration" and "citizenship" in Jordanian society. It is no wonder that Jordan's leadership is hastening to achieve a final settlement to the Palestinian question.
For all these reasons, Jordan worked for a resumption of negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis in Amman, paving the way for the unprecedented visit by King Abdullah of Jordan to Ramallah last Nov. 21. The king used all his weight to convince Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to send a representative to the Amman talks, under the rubric of "exploratory talks." The king succeeded where others had failed, taking advantage of the Palestinian leadership's keenness to maintain the best relations possible with Jordan (the West Bank's lung and lifeline) and its desire not to appear to be the spoiler in a last-ditch effort to save the peace process.
But even as Jordan launched the initiative, it was not completely confident of its chances for success. It understands the size of the rift in positions that separates the Palestinian and Israeli sides from each other. This explains the fact that Jordan's Foreign Ministry assumed responsibility for managing the negotiations, so as not to attribute a potential failure to the royal palace, which has an ongoing and important historic role to fill in the negotiations, the peace process and the relationship between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
In fact, decision-makers in Jordan wanted their initiative to strike several birds with one stone. Whatever the outcome, Jordan was to come out as the first- or (after the Palestinian Authority) second-place winner in this breakthrough on the road to a "two-state solution." Indeed, this is what happened: Jordan was hailed with appreciation and praise for its role as sponsor and "facilitator."
Another objective, inherent or implied, was behind the launch of the initiative at this particular time. This was to reconstitute the image of Jordan on the international scene as a pioneer in peacemaking, even as the Palestinian issue becomes more pressing and urgent with the outbreak of the uprisings and revolutions of the Arab Spring.
It is likely that Jordanian diplomacy will continue in its efforts in the near future, with the encouragement of the United Nations, the United States, and the European states, which are keen not to leave a vacuum and to avoid the parties' turning to unilateral measures. This is true especially due to the Palestinian leadership's stated intention to pursue strategic alternatives in light of the continued occupation and settlement of the West Bank and siege of Gaza, and the Israeli leadership partnership, which has turned its back on the peace process and the benefits of a two-state solution.
Still, Jordan's role depends greatly on its ability to break Israeli intransigence and extract positions and measures capable of persuading Abbas to stay at the negotiating table. This capacity is very limited. Abbas, who participated in the Amman negotiations as a courtesy to the king of Jordan, knows that there are limits and ceilings to this courtesy and to the complex political calculations of convincing the Palestinians to continue the negotiations option, after which time he will find himself under intense pressure to stop moving on this path.
Instead, Abbas will be pushed to speed up the pace of national reconciliation, the restoration of popular resistance, the rebuilding and activation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the option of pursuing Israel in all international forums, whether they be legal, political, media or diplomatic.
Oraib Al-Rantawi is director of the Al-Quds Center for Political Studies in Amman. This commentary first appeared at bitterlemons-international.org, an online newsletter.
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Ha, know Joyce D. & Mary are awaiting the cooler climes.
We have enjoyed these sunny days here.
Have a great Sunday all.
47 here now going up to 76 today. Going to have a nice early fall day. Leaves starting to change in the woods out back. I just live for the fall season !! Old folks coming over for lunch today, my mom (86), Ed's dad (89), and my sister (63). Spaghetti w/ sausage on the menu, come on over everybody !
Betty good to see you made it to the forum.
Mary it's cooler in Pa than in NJ, it's 51° right now.
I am so excited with this cooler weather. Fall and Winter are my seasons, I live for them! ;)
I'm not through with Summer yet!!!
Today it was 92 F,
It was the HOTTEST DAY THIS YEAR.
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2 days ago we had a frost!!
Finally we are getting Summer.
Get over it YB, fall is here - YEAH !!!
84º down here. Probably won't feel like fall for another month, but I'll take 84 over 94 anyday.
Georgia has been dealing with a major drought the last few years. Now it has rained all week. Some school systems west of Atlanta are closed due to flooded roads.
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Pursuant to A.R.S. §15-704(A), the State Board of Education defines the selection and administration of reading assessments as follows:
I. Definition of Terms
A. Screening assessment: Brief assessment that focuses on critical reading skills strongly predictive of future reading growth and development and conducted at the beginning of the school year with all children in grades K-3 to identify children likely to need extra or alternative forms of instruction.
B. "Ongoing diagnostic" or "diagnostic" assessment: An assessment conducted at any time during the school year when more in-depth analysis of a student's reading skills, strengths and weaknesses is needed to guide instruction.
C. "Classroom based instructional reading assessment" or "Progress monitoring assessment": Assessment conducted a minimum of three times per year or on a routine basis (i.e. weekly, monthly or quarterly) using comparable and multiple test forms to (a) estimate rates of reading improvement, (b) identify children who are not demonstrating adequate progress and therefore require additional or different instructional practices, and/or (c) compare the efficacy of different instructional practices to design more effective, individualized instruction for at-risk learners.
D. Outcome assessment: Assessment for the purpose of determining whether students have met grade-level achievement expectations or have improved toward meeting those expectations and provides a bottom-line evaluation of the effectiveness of the reading program/instruction.
E. Motivational assessment: Assessments that are used to measure student interest in reading, value placed on reading, and perceptions of self as a reader to inform instruction.
II. Assessment Criteria
A. School districts and charter schools shall select and administer screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring and motivational assessments. Motivational assessments may be selected by districts and charter schools based on the definition provided in Section I. above. The remaining assessments shall be selected as a comprehensive system of reading assessments and shall meet the following criteria:
1. Assessments shall be valid and reliable. Validity and reliability shall be demonstrated by assessments that:
(a) possess the technical merits defined by the National Reading First Assessment Committee in the most current version of their report, An Analysis of K-3 Reading Assessments, or
(b) have been accepted by the National Reading First Review Panel for approved State Reading First plans.
2. Assessments shall measure all five components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension);
3. Assessments shall be aligned with Arizona's Articulated Reading Standard;
4. Assessments shall be provided by vendors who offer adequate training or training materials for administration and use of these assessments.
1. Assessments shall include a data management system that will provide data in a timely manner to allow classroom teachers to make instructional decisions about the student in the classroom.
III. Selection of Assessments
A. Each school district or charter school shall select an assessment system that meets one of the following:
1. Has been determined by the Arizona Department of Education to meet the above listed criteria in accordance with a State-conducted procurement and has been approved by the State Board of Education; or
2. Arizona Reading First Program assessment system, the Dynamic Indicators of Early Reading Skills (DIBELS); or
3. Otherwise meets the assessment criteria listed in Section II above, as determined by the school district or charter school in accordance with competitive purchasing requirements.
IV. Use of Assessment Data
A. Pursuant to A.R.S. §15-704(A), each school shall use the diagnostic information obtained from these assessments in order to plan appropriate and effective intervention.
V. Effect on Special Education Requirements
A. Nothing in this policy or these definitions affects the requirements of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or Arizona state laws concerning the provision of special education to students with disabilities. The obligations imposed by A.R.S. §15-704 are in addition to, and not a substitute for, special education laws and requirements.
Pursuant to A.R.S. §15-704(D), the State Board defines the provision of intensive reading instruction as follows:
I. Definition of Terms test
A. "Accelerated intensive instructional plan" is a document that shall be written by teachers and implemented for each student not meeting the Arizona Articulated Reading Standards as measured by the third grade AIMS test.
II. Accelerated Intensive Instructional Plan Criteria
A. An accelerated intensive instructional plan shall meet all of the following:
1. be based on ongoing progress monitoring data obtained from valid and reliable assessments; and
2. address the skills not met within the five essential components of reading(phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension); and
3. provide coordinated program/material/strategies; and
4. include the frequency of assessment.
III. Effect on Special Education Requirements
A. Nothing in this policy or these definitions affects the requirements of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or Arizona state laws concerning the provision of special education to students with disabilities. The obligations imposed by A.R.S. §15-704 are in addition to, and not a substitute for, special education laws and requirements.
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Together with Requiem, Mozart's C minor mass is one of the brilliant composer's great unfinished sacred works. The work combines monumental power, solemn spirituality and moving solo passages. This recording under the baton of Baroque and Classical expert Raymond Leppard has great expressive depth, and offers a truly legendary vocal ensemble featuring stars like Kiri Te Kanawa and Ileana Cotrubas.
EMI Classics continues its Red Line series with another collection of timeless classical pieces. This series features a wide variety of the most talented classical pieces of all time, written by such legendary artists as Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Mozart. In addition, each CD features some of the most popular classical performers such as the Placido Domingo, Mikhail Pletnev and Kiri Te Kanawa. Every CD in the Red Line series features some of the most defining pieces in musical history.Notes & Reviews:
Recording information: All Saint's Church, Tooting (02/13/1973-02/15/1973).
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- Performers: Kiri Te Kanawa; Hans Sotin (Bass); Werner Krenn (Tenor); Ileana Cotrubas (Soprano)
- Conductor: Raymond Leppard
- Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Notes: All Saint's Church, Tooting (02/13/1973-02/15/1973)
- Running Time: 52 min. 14 sec.
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THE ice plumes that bloom above Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are almost certainly rooted in a subsurface sea of liquid water.
The Cassini spacecraft flew through a plume on 9 October 2008 and measured the molecular weight of chemicals in the ice. Frank Postberg of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues, found traces of sodium in the form of salt and sodium bicarbonate. The chemicals would have originated in the rocky core of Enceladus, so to reach a plume they must have leached from the core via liquid water. Observations from Earth in 2007 spotted no sign of sodium, casting doubt on such a subsurface sea.
Although the salt could have been leached out by an ancient ocean which since froze solid, that freezing process would concentrate most of the salt very far from the surface of the moon's ice, ...
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Alyssa Nicole Randles, 22, was killed in a San Bernardino car accident early morning on August 16, 2009 after a suspected drunk driver made a left turn in front of her car at an intersection in Ontario, California. According to a news report in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, police have not yet recommended any criminal charges against 23-year-old Jeffrey Gonzalez because they have not completed the investigation. Gonzalez had fled the scene of the accident and was arrested when officers found him hiding nearby. Police suspect Gonzalez was under the influence of alcohol when he turned his pickup truck left at the intersection of Euclid and Schaefer avenues and struck Randles' Volkswagen.
Police booked him on suspicion of felony drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter. However, Gonzalez was released from jail because prosecutors had to charge him with a crime or release him. Ontario police say a team of eight officers has worked this investigation, but too many "loose ends remained" for them to submit their conclusions to prosecutors. The focus of this investigation, officials say, is which driver had the right-of-way through the intersection at the time of the car collision. Officials are asking that witnesses who saw the crash call them at 909-395-2001.
My heart goes out to the family and friends of Alyssa Nicole Randles for their tragic, heartbreaking and untimely loss. I offer my deepest condolences to everyone who knew and loved Randles. Please keep them in your prayers.
San Bernardino DUI Accident Statistics
According to California Highway Patrol's 2007 Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS), there were eight fatalities and 130 injuries in Ontario involving alcohol-related car accidents. In San Bernardino County as a whole, 105 deaths and 1,174 injuries were reported as a result of alcohol-related car accidents in 2007.
Driving under the influence is a serious violation of California law. California Vehicle Code Section 23152 (a) states: "It is unlawful for any person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, to drive a vehicle." The same code section also states that it is illegal for any person with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 percent or more to drive a vehicle.
California Car Accident Lawyer
Alyssa Nicole Randles' family would be well advised to consult an experienced California personal injury lawyer, who will stay on top of the accident investigation and make sure justice is done here. If there was negligence or wrongdoing involved, Randles' family may be able to file a wrongful death claim seeking compensation for medical/funeral expenses, loss of wages and other related damages. If there was a dangerous condition at the intersection, the city could also be held liable for the accident and resulting injuries. Any claim against a governmental entity in California must be filed within 180 days of the accident or injury.


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BlackBerry manufacturers Research in Motion revealed their plan of launching the new versions of its BlackBerry series and to introduce two more advanced and updated models of BlackBerry Torch, which are based on the new BlackBerry 7 software.
According to a report, RIM had a big launch of its five new versions of smartphones earlier this week. The updated models of BlackBerry Torch were a part of that launch along with the new powerful release of BlackBerry Bold series.
The co-chief executive and President of RIM, Mike Lazaridis claimed in his statement that it has happened for the first in RIM's history that the company will release five advanced series of its Smartphone at a time in a single global launch.
Adding more, he said that RIM has strong competitors in the market so this launch is important for the company to stay in the competition as new iPhones and devices from Apple and Android are capturing RIM's market share.
As a result of fierce competition, RIM was facing the bend in its stock prices, but the new BlackBerry Torch and Bold series will definitely help RIM to hit back strongly in the market and to grab its share again.
RIM stated that the Company's last phone was introduced a year before and now, the fresh release of new models of Torch will be more advanced.
The latest versions of touch screen BlackBerry Smartphones are operating on advance software of BlackBerry 7 OS and have the enhanced features including better display, Qualcomm 1.2 GHz processor. All devices are expected to be launch in August end.
The vice president of RIM, John Jackson said that the launch is very important for the company. RIM has put hard effort to bring a more advanced and better product for the users.
Company's global sales head, Patrick Spence also commented and said that BlackBerry has a fixed share in the market and is famous as a top communication device. RIM has tried hard for its release of the new phones and have enhanced all version to fulfill users expectation.
However, the new Torch version is somehow similar to the original device with a QWERTY keyboard but it has upgraded version and software. The bold series will be updated with NFC chip through which the phone can be converted into a wallet mobile.


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Creating an accurate map of the brain's connections is certainly a monumental undertaking (5 February, p 32) and Douglas Fox rightly compares it to the early days of genome research. Like the sequencing of the human genome, which was long believed to be impossible, mapping the entire human brain will be greatly aided by advances in technology.
There is, however, another parallel between these two fields. While obtaining the complete sequence of the human genome undoubtedly represented a major milestone in biomedical research, it could not explain the full complexity of how we develop, age or become ill. Only now are we beginning to understand the many roles our genes play.
The same is likely to happen with the connections of the brain. The mere presence of a synapse between neurons is only part of what is needed to understand how these cells communicate with each other. There are ...
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Ocho Rios Dolphin Swim
This is a great Ocho Rios intermediate package where you swim in the deep for half an hour with one dolphin after an introduction and briefing from resident expert trainers. Experience for yourself the unique feeling of awe which dolphins inspire by their profound intelligence and beauty!
- Dolphin swim in Ocho Rios
- Presentation and narration about dolphins
- Swim, dance and play with dolphins
- Wide variety of animals including reptiles, birds and fish
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Your dolphin swim begins with an interesting and informative presentation. You'll get to swim, dance and play with a dolphin all while witnessing the creature's immense intelligence and skill.
Other highlights of your dolphin encounter include:
- Walk along Dolphin Cove Jungle trails through dense tropical foliage inhabited by animals and birds
- See native reptiles being fed
- Hear intriguing stories narrated by your guide
- Be photographed with the local macaws and parrots
- See stingrays, eels, fish, turtles and other fascinating sea creatures from the trail as you pass the seaside lagoon
- Hear the beat of Caribbean jungle drums
- Enjoy a taste of Jamaica from a fruit-lady's cart, including fresh pineapple, coconut, citrus or other tasty Jamaican fruits!
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- Participants MUST be able to swim
- Children aged 10-17 years must have an adult sign the waiver in order for them to participate
- Children aged 8-10 years must be accompanied by a paying adult in the same swim session who will be required to sign a liability waiver
- Children aged 6-7 may participate if they are able swimmers and accompanied by a paying adult
- For their safety, children under six years of age are not allowed to participate in this program
- For safety reasons, pregnant women are not allowed to participate in this program
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It's always challenging to maintain employee retention and productivity, but that pursuit can be especially difficult as the holiday season approaches. Christmas can be stressful for everyone – people are often consumed by shopping and other holiday responsibilities, not to mention arranging family get-togethers, and at the same time, they also have to handle their usual workloads around the office.
This can make for a difficult December at many workplaces. It's tough for workers to keep making it through their daily grinds, and it's not easy on managers, either. They want to keep the labor force chugging along at a good pace, but they also don't want to push their employees too hard, causing burnout or office conflicts.
According to Inc. Magazine, the end of the year is stressful enough without throwing in additional concerns because of the holidays. Every time you close the book on December and enter a new year, there's a massive pile of administrative tasks to deal with first. Rene Shimada Siegel, founder and president of tech consulting firm High Tech Connect, notes that the holidays only make it worse.
"Planning budgets," Siegel stated. "Conducting employee reviews. Thanking customers. Scrutinizing expenses. Renewing and canceling contracts. Preparing for taxes. Setting annual goals. All of that, plus the regular hustle and bustle of gifts, festivities, and family commitments. The end of the year is stressful for everyone. It's downright nutty for business owners."
How will your company deal with the nuttiness? It's not easy, but these five tips should certainly help.
Embrace the chaos
Let's face it – the holiday season is never going to be easy around the office. Responsibilities are going to pile up, and there's no way around it. The best approach is just to embrace your predicament. Be ready for the hectic climate and the long hours.
Gifts go a long way
The holidays may be stressful, but even minor gestures can go a long way toward helping people cope. Something small like a glass of eggnog or a free gift card can raise employee morale and help the workforce get through the December grind.
Tag-team responsibilities
It's important to delegate tasks effectively among team members so that no individual begins feeling overworked. The best approach is to tag-team jobs. If one employee is busy with holiday shopping or hosting relatives, a co-worker can help out today in exchange for some help tomorrow. Workers should have each other's backs.
Show some restraint
People need to have limits to the number of holiday stressors they pile up. Remember, you don't have to say yes to every Christmas party invitation. Time is a valuable resource, and you can't let too much of it slip away during a busy holiday season.
Make it easy on yourself
The holiday season is a time for good cheer, not massive amounts of stress. Sometimes, it's OK to go a little bit easy on yourself, if only for a couple of days. Set the email inbox aside for a bit and give yourself a break. After the holiday fervor has subsided, you can return to work.


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Walker And Falk Both Meet Voters In Lax Over Weekend
In the space of two hours on Saturday, you could have seen both Wisconsin's governor and one of his main Democratic challengers campaigning in La Crosse, ahead of Tuesday's recall primary.
Democrat Kathleen Falk was first in town, speaking at the Cowley Science Hall on the U-W-L campus. About an hour later, Governor Scott Walker greeted volunteers at the Republican party office on the Causeway. Falk believes a coalition of many groups will give her an edge in the Democratic voting on Tuesday. Falk says the state would be better off if Walker were to spend less time traveling outside Wisconsin, raising money to offset the massive fund-raising he says Democrats are doing against him.
Walker says he's picking up support from voters in both parties, for standing up for what he believes.
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"Where have you three been?!" said Drake's mom. "I can't believe you told your sister and then told her not to tell!"
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Rockfish, a digital innovation partner that drives business for some of the world's largest brands, has created a formalized digital customer relationship management (CRM) practice that aims to work with brands to monetize big data into actionable, engaging experiences for consumers.
As digital, social and mobile have evolved CRM practices, the goal is no longer simply to capture more data. Marketers must now leverage digital CRM strategies to use the right data to respond to customers in real-time via the right device with relevant content that implies a company values their business.
"Traditional CRM systems focus on targeting the right customer with the right message at the right time," says Dawn Maire, Chief Strategy Officer for Rockfish. "But in the era of digital and mobile marketing, CRM needs to do more than that in order to keep up with the multichannel experiences available to consumers. At Rockfish, our CRM practice builds holistic solutions for communicating to the right customer with the right message in real time on the right device."
Rockfish has built on its award-winning mobile and digital practices to offer clients a cutting-edge solution for connecting with customers in the digital landscape. The holistic practice already counts a dozen major brands as clients; they turn to Rockfish for database design and management, CRM strategies, customer analytics and choosing service providers.
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This book is an unique and wonderful collection of papers presented at a conference honoring one of the most productive, influential and still young mathematicians of the 20th century, I. M. Gelfand. As the title suggests, the articles refer to the connections between several fields: geometry, physics, representation theory, algebraic geometry. It was published as number 244 in the Progress in Mathematics series.
The authors of the papers includes are some of the best mathematicians of present day: Michael Atiyah, Haim Brezis, and Alan Connes — just to name a few. Most of them emphasize the crucial contribution that Gelfand's work had in many different ways. For example, A. Connes writes: "Israel Gelfand is one of the handful of mathematicians who really shaped the mathematics of the twentieth century. Even among them he stands out by the fecundity of the concepts he created and the astonishing number of new fields he originated."
Of course, Gelfand himself gave a couple of talks on this occasion and said, among other things: "From my point of view, mathematics is a part of our culture, like music, poetry and philosophy… I was happy to find the following four common features: first, beauty; second, simplicity; third, exactness; fourth, crazy ideas." Later he expresses his gratitude to his teachers and answers the question "How can I work at my age?" by saying: "The answer is very simple. I am not a great mathematician. I speak seriously. I am just a student all my life. From the very beginning of my life I was trying to learn. And for example now, when listening to the talks and reading notes of this conference, I discover how much I still do not know and have to learn. Therefore, I am always learning."
The few quotes included here are attractive, but the papers are unique, very deep and very well written. Mathematicians and graduate students will find lots of connections, ideas and inspiration in this wonderful collection of papers.
Mihaela Poplicher is an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include functional analysis, harmonic analysis, and complex analysis. She is also interested in the teaching of mathematics. Her email address is email@example.com.
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In the past, Ms. Baeza served as the Director of State Initiatives for the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation and as a Program Manager at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Earlier in her career, she was an active member of the Unites States Army, and achieved the rank of Sergeant (E-5), before going on to serve as a Maryland State Trooper.
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London – Bank Holiday Monday – RiD
Apologies to people outside Reading/London.
Is anyone gonna be in London on Monday night? I REALLY want to go & see Robots in Disguise at Nambucca on Monday night. BUT, no-one I know will go with me and I can't take the next day off work so I have to get back to Reading. While going to the gig alone isn't too bad, I don't really fancy getting back to Paddington from Holloway Road alone.
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When Ghost received the call from Neenah for the Beauty of Letterpress project the team was eager to participate and wanted to create something special. In our local design community, we all felt this need to do something. There has been an incredible outpouring of designers donating their time and talents to help with the relief efforts. This tragedy is an event that reminds us of how closely we're all connected. This project was our opportunity to help.
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Why Your #ThrowBackThursday Pictures Aren't That Cute
There's nothing more uncomfortable than looking at your news feed or Instagram feed, just to find pictures upon pictures of babies. Every Thursday I feel like a god damn pedophile!
I personally find some of the pictures to be depressing too. Some of your friends are clearly no longer in their prime. There's nothing worse than watching the week-by-week evolution of your friend go from an adorable child to an awkward young adult.
This is why unattractive people love #TBT so much.
How many years is considered "throwback" anyway? I've seen people post pictures from a few months prior and pretend like they're somehow retro. Who are you trying to fool!? I say a picture needs to be at least five years old for it to truly be from "back in the day". I mean come on, it's not #JustAFewWeeksAgoThursday.
All I'm trying to say is, I don't need to be reminded of your childhood once a week. Sure, once a month is tolerable if you want to show the world what a cute and chubby baby used to be, fine. Go for it. Have a blast. But when you are posting pictures of your childhood on a weekly basis, it's really just not that cute.


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Calculating Benefit Amounts - State Plan
Your weekly benefit rate is calculated using your average weekly wage. The average weekly wage is generally based on the earnings in the eight calendar weeks immediately before the week in which the disability begins. The total wages earned during all base weeks worked in the eight week period are divided by the number of such base weeks to obtain the average weekly wage. Each claimant is paid two-thirds (2/3) of his/her average weekly wage up to the maximum amount payable set for that calendar year.
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Week 4 -- $300
Week 8 -- $350
Total wages for those eight weeks = $2400
$2400 divided by 8 = $300
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BEAUMONT - William Henderson drove in the game-winning run with a fielder's choice in the bottom of the ninth as Lamar pulled out a 4-3 win over Texas State Thursday night in Southland Conference baseball action at Vincent-Beck Stadium.
Lamar improved to 34-20 overall and 15-10 in SLC play. Texas State dropped to 31-23 overall and 14-11 in SLC play. The Cardinals and Bobcats will play game two of the series tonight at 7 p.m.
The Cardinals moved into sole possession of second place in the SLC standings as Texas-Arlington (14-11) lost 6-0 at Northwestern State (20-5). Southeastern Louisiana (12-13) kept its hold on sixth place with a 7-3 win over Louisiana-Monroe. Sam Houston State (11-14) and McNeese State (11-14) kept its hopes alive with wins over Nicholls State and Texas-San Antonio, respectively.
The top six teams in the conference standings qualify for the SLC Tournament May 25-28 at Brown-Stroud Field in Natchitoches, La. Northwestern State has already clinched the regular season title and No. 1-seed in the tournament.
With the game tied at 3-3 entering the bottom of the ninth inning, Lamar loaded the bases with no outs. Jeremy Gray drew a lead-off walk. Both Collin Delome and Chase Richards, trying to put down sacrifice bunts, reached on bunt singles. C.J. Ebarb hit into a fielder's choice with Gray being forced out at home plate.
Henderson followed with a little dribbler that trickled about 10 feet in front of home plate. Texas State catcher Dawid Bednarek fielded the ball, but DeLome's slide beat his dive back to home plate to give Lamar a 4-3 win.
Lamar started the scoring with a run in the bottom of the first inning. Matt Lambeth walked to lead off the inning and advanced to third on consecutive groundouts by Colt Crawford and Michael Ambort. Adrian Cantu singled to left field to drive in Lambeth with the game's first run.
The Cardinals scored single runs in the third and fifth innings to take a 3-1 lead. In the third, Lambeth singled to center field and Crawford walked. Cantu, who was 2-for-4 with two RBI, drove in Lambeth with a single to right field.
Lambeth, who was 2-for-3 with three runs scored, was the catalyst again in the fifth inning. He singled to center, stole second and scored on Crawford's singled to right field.
Texas State used a two-out rally to tie the game with a pair of runs in the top of the eighth inning. Dominic Ramos walked and Nolan Mast singled. After engineering a double steal, Kyle Anson doubled to left center to drive in both runners and tie the game at 3-3.
Steve MacFarland (7-2) picked up the win in relief of starter William Delage. MacFarland pitched the final one and one-third innings, allowing no runs or hits with two strikeouts. Delage pitched seven and two-third innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on six hits with four strikeouts and two walks.
B.J. Boening (1-2) took the loss for the Bobcats. He allowed one run on two hits with one walk in two-thirds of an inning pitched. Starter Chris Jean pitched seven and two-third innings, allowing three runs on eight hits with four strikeouts and two walks.


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'Ron?' he asked. 'Ronnie Rosenberg?' Rosenberg hadn't a clue who was asking, and the man who had must have sensed this, for he quickly added, 'Nathan, Nathan Klein.' Rosenberg still didn't remember. 'Camp Ojibwa,' the man said. 'Eagle River, Wisconsin, 1956.' Natey Klein, of course. Skinny kid, talked with a lisp, wet his bed, the cabin goat. Everyone in the cabin was ten years old. Ojibwa was a sports camp, all Jewish, with a bit of arts and crafts added: lanyard-making, wood-carving, that sort of thing. But athletics was at the center of things—softball, basketball, tennis, boxing, ping-pong, canoeing, swimming—and Natey had been a lousy athlete, uncoordinated, a slow runner, couldn't catch, terrified of the water, really awful.
With nothing to do but play games all day, eat good food, and learn about the world from the older campers and junior counselors, Rosenberg had been in heaven. Natey Klein had gotten nowhere near so much out of Ojibwa. Small, scrawny, pale, his curly-kinky hair always unruly, he had sometimes sobbed at night in his bed, Rosenberg recalled. Every so often the junior counselors had to hang out his wet sheets in the morning. Natey's parents, Rosenberg had heard, were wealthy. His father was something called a liquor distributor, which, Rosenberg later came to understand, probably meant that he or his family had been bootleggers during Prohibition. Natey was an only child, and had to have been a disappointment to his old man, Morrie Klein, who in the 1960s made the Chicago papers because of his connection with the Boys, as they called the Mafia in those days. Mr. Klein must have sent Natey to Ojibwa in the hope of toughening him up. It hadn't worked.
"Of course I remember you," Rosenberg said. "You look nothing like you did when you were a kid." Natey was still short, but now portly, wore rectangular black-framed glasses, had a comb-over hairdo, with hair of a suspicious darkness, resembling a little the tint of oxblood shoe polish. When Rosenberg asked him what he did for a living, Natey replied that for much of his working life he had been a stock-broker but in recent years had been running a hedge fund. He looked prosperous.
They were at the bar mitzvah party for Lou Roth's grandson, Tyler, at a hotel called The Public that used to be the Ambassador East. Lou had gone into the family business, Roth Textiles, supplying linen to Chicago hotels and restaurants. Rosenberg and his wife, Arlene, Natey and his wife, Rochelle (very high-maintenance, from the look of her), and two other couples were at the same table. Lou Roth and Rosenberg had played basketball together at Senn High School. Natey Klein mentioned that he had been Lou's stockbroker and, as he added with a confident smile, had done well for him.
For the party Lou and Sheila Roth had hired a disc jockey. "Six grand, he charges just to plug in CDs," Lou told Rosenberg, "and his schedule's so crowded we were lucky to get the son-of-a-bitch at all." The four-piece band Rosenberg's parents had hired for his bar mitzvah party had been led by a man named Phil Lind. Held at the Ridgeview, a residential hotel in Evanston, Rosenberg's dinner had been catered by a heavyset middle-aged woman calling herself the Duchess, who also served as mistress of ceremonies. The Ridgeview is today a halfway house for the mentally ill, but in those days, under the direction of the Duchess, it might to a stranger from another country have seemed a full-out madhouse. The Duchess led the room in singing "The Old Gray Mare," and forced everyone out of his and her seats to do the Mexican Hat Dance. Everyone, that is, but Rosenberg's very formal grandfather, who spoke very little English and was a leading figure in Hebrew education in Montreal.
Still, it had been a party for adults. Not this one. All the music played by the DJ at Tyler Roth's party was for kids, and noisy and obtrusive it was. No real chance for dancing, not to the music the six-grand DJ was playing, not for grown-ups, that is. Not much chance for talking either, at least not in a normal voice.
"So what've you been doing for a living, Ron?" Natey asked.
"I went into my father's business," Rosenberg said. "Office furniture. We're on Lake Street, near Wabash."
"Interesting," Klein said, though he didn't look in the least interested.
As the evening progressed, Natey revealed he was a member of Bryn Mawr Country Club, had a winter home in Palm Springs, drove a Bentley, had a son who had gone to the Wharton School of Business and was running a software company in Silicon Valley, and a daughter who had married a cardiologist and was living in Los Angeles. He and his wife had sold their house in Glencoe five years ago and moved into a co-op at 219 E. Lake Shore Drive, a very expensive address.
"You golf, Ronnie?" Natey asked.
"No," Rosenberg said. "I assume you do from your mention earlier of Bryn Mawr." Never having taken up golf, Rosenberg felt, was one of the few completely sound decisions he had made in his life.
"Love the game," Natey said. "Not that I'm so hot at it. Rochelle, in fact, frequently beats me." Here he patted the back of his wife's bejewelled hand. "We're thinking of buying a condo on a golf course in Scottsdale."
"Sounds lovely," Arlene, Rosenberg's wife, said, looking at her watch.
"Shame you don't golf, Ron," Natey said. "I'd like to have taken you out for a round at Bryn Mawr."
"Maybe we can meet one day for lunch," Rosenberg said. Why did he say that, he thought, for the fact was that Rosenberg had heard all the bragging about his wealth from Natey Klein he needed.
Before they left, Natey and Rosenberg exchanged business cards, and Natey promised to call sometime the following week.
"What a dreary, boring little man!" Arlene said on the drive back to Wilmette.
As promised, Natey Klein called to invite Rosenberg to join him for lunch at the Standard Club the following Friday. Rosenberg said yes, sure, glad to, looked forward to it, then wondered what the hell they would find to talk about.
When Rosenberg was a kid, the Standard Club might as well have been the Union League Club in New York, or White's in England, or the Jockey Club in Paris, so remote had it been from him and his family and most of the people he grew up with. In those days the Standard Club's membership was purely German-Jewish, and the Rosenbergs and almost everyone else who lived in West Rogers Park were Jews from Eastern Europe. In Chicago, the Jews of Rosenberg's caste had had the Covenant Club, which his father, Sam, joined in the early 1960s when his business became more profitable. In a small room off one of the dining rooms, Sid Luckman, the legendary Bears quarterback, long retired from football and by that point in the cardboard-box business, used to play high-stakes gin rummy. Later in the evening you could hear Luckman swearing in his strong New York accent.
Most unlikely that you would ever hear anyone swear at the Standard Club. Rosenberg had been there once for a fundraising event for Soviet Jews, and was impressed with the general feel of the place, its vast rooms, solid furniture, heavy draperies. He imagined its regular membership as dark-suited, solemn, solidly wealthy, humorless, not likely to be impressed by the accomplishments of Sid Luckman.
But when Rosenberg entered the Standard Club on Friday and told the young woman at the reception desk that he was a guest of Mr. Nathan Klein, he was struck by the view in the lobby of the large number of men in sport shirts, sweaters, chino pants, and even jeans. Several members were wearing those five-day growths of beard called, Rosenberg recently learned, double-stubble or perma-stubble.
When Natey entered the club lobby on the Plymouth Court side, ten minutes late, he was wearing a dark blue suit, a gray silken necktie, and highly polished black shoes with a single line across the toes. He gave off a strong whiff of men's cologne.
"Ron, good to see you," he said. "You know this joint."
"I know only that fifty years ago neither of us would have been able to meet here for lunch."
"Yeah," Natey said. "The old joke was that the only Jewish event ever celebrated at this club was Kristallnacht. The place always had a great kitchen, though. Still does."
When they were seated, Rosenberg asked Natey where he had gone to high school.
"Same place you did: Senn," he said. "I was a semester behind you, but you obviously never noticed me. You were at the center of things—on the basketball team, in the best clubs, and all that—and I was out on the periphery, a nebbish. I didn't have very happy high school years, or for that matter a very good adolescence."
"I sometimes think I peaked back then," Rosenberg said, "and it has been pretty much downhill since I was eighteen."
"You were all-city in basketball, no?"
"Actually, all-north section. I had a ride to play at Bradley, but decided I had got all I could out of basketball. I went to Illinois. What about you?"
"Michigan. Started out as pre-med. My old man's idea, my becoming a doctor. But he died my sophomore year, heart attack, so I switched to economics before organic chemistry, and boredom completely crushed me."
"Looks like it was the right move."
"I've had my share of good luck. How about you, on the money front, I mean?"
"I guess I do all right," Rosenberg said. "My daughter has an autistic child, and a husband who deserted her, so I'm pretty much supporting two households, which wasn't in what is nowadays called 'retirement planning.'"
Rosenberg rarely told anyone, even friends, about the condition of his grandson, Zachary, or about his daughter Sarah's loathsome ex-husband. Why was he telling all this to Natey Klein, whom he scarcely knew?
"Sorry to hear it," Natey said. "If there's any way I can help out, don't hesitate to ask."
Rosenberg thought to say that, since you asked Natey, how about letting me have half a million or so. "Nice of you to ask," he said instead.
"I wasn't trying to be nice," Natey said. "I have something in mind. Let me ask, Ron: How liquid are you?"
"By liquid you mean…?" Rosenberg was one of those men who, even though he ran a small business, could never bring himself to think for long about money outside the confines of the office-furniture business. Debentures, leveraging, buying on margin, selling short, capital appreciation—it was all Hungarian to him. Not that he thought he was too good for it. On the contrary. When Rosenberg saw some of the dopes he grew up with having made fortunes in the stock market, or through investing in real-estate development, putting them safely out of the financial wars, he felt woefully inadequate.
"I mean how much money do you have that's not otherwise tied up in long-term investments?"
"If I scrape a few things together, maybe a hundred grand or so," Rosenberg said. "Why?"
"Because I think I can put you onto a good thing. I can turn it into a lot more than that for you, and fairly quickly. That is, if you're interested."
"Really?" Rosenberg said. "Let me think about it and get back to you, Nathan."
"Natey, please, like in the old days, Natey, will do fine."
"Onto a good thing." Rosenberg remembered some years ago, asking his friend Norm Brodsky about the sudden wealth of a guy they had known in the Sammy house at Illinois named Earle Pollock. He was no genius, Pollock. In fact, he flunked out his freshman year; couldn't do accounting. Norm told him that someone Pollock knew who worked in the commodities market had put him "onto a few good things," which made him a rich man.
What did Natey Klein have in mind by his "good thing?" He assumed a killing on some fast-rising stock? How much of a killing? How quick a turnover was involved? When Rosenberg said that he could scrape together a hundred thousand, he was lying. The only way just now that he could get together a hundred grand was to borrow on his 401(k). And why trust Natey Klein, with his bragging and his oxblood comb-over, with the money?
Rosenberg decided not to talk it over with Arlene. She was even more cautious about money than he. Besides, he knew what she would say. "Put a hundred thousand dollars in the hands of that drip! You must be crazy!" is what she would say. So often the little decisions in life get lots of attention, and the big ones are made on impulse and instinct. It was purely on instinct that Rosenberg decided to trust Natey with his money.
When Rosenberg called Klein at his office the following Monday, Natey said that a certified check, either sent by FedEx or delivered in person, would be best. Rosenberg decided to bring the money himself, just to make sure that Natey wasn't operating out of a boiler room.
The Hawthorne Fund, Natey's firm was called, and his office at 110 N. LaSalle was impressive. The layout was similar to that of a successful law firm: comfortable reception room, long corridor, expensive-looking art all along it. In an office with large windows on three sides sat Natey, behind a large uncluttered desk, on which was a laptop and two pictures of his family in silver frames. On a credenza behind him, three large computers were flickering with lit-up numbers. His suit jacket off, his rounded shoulders, the softness of his chest and potbelly evident, Natey seemed even less impressive.
"Ronnie," he said, "good to see you." He got up to shake Rosenberg's hand and motioned him to one of two chairs in front of his desk. "I think we've found something for you that will produce a substantial profit in a fairly short time. We're going into it in a big way here at Hawthorne, and I thought maybe you could pick up a few shekels going into it in a smaller way. I have to tell you that we usually don't deal with accounts of less than five million dollars. I'm doing this for old times' sake."
"I'm grateful," Rosenberg said, though the truth was, with the certified check for $100,000 in his coat pocket, he was a lot less grateful than nervous. A hundred grand may have been petty cash for Natey Klein, but for Rosenberg it was a serious sum.
"Don't mention," Nate said. "And speaking of old times, I was thinking about our days at Camp Ojibwa. I spent only that one horrible summer there. Did you keep going?"
"I went for three more years," Rosenberg said, "and then I went to Ray Meyer's basketball camp."
"Ray Meyer? Coach at DePaul, no? When they produced winning teams."
"The last time they did, in fact."
"Getting back to Ojibwa, that summer, 1956, I was friendless, with tormentors everywhere. I've never felt so lost and lonely."
"I hope I wasn't one of those tormenters," Rosenberg said.
"You weren't. On the other hand, you weren't a protector, either. No one was. It would have been a help to have the best athlete in the cabin on my side. But then I suppose it would have been unnatural if you had been."
"My memory is that I was having too good a time to worry about your or anyone else's troubles. Kids, I guess, are pretty thoughtless."
"I wonder at what age a child develops a moral sense," Natey said. "Eight? Ten? Twelve? I suppose it differs from kid to kid. I came to mine early because I had a tough father, who didn't hesitate to show his disappointment in me. I craved justice, especially at home, where I didn't very often find it. But back to business."
With a tremulous hand, Rosenberg reached into his suit jacket and took out and handed Natey his certified check for a hundred thousand dollars. Nate picked up the phone—"Malcolm, need your help," he said—and ten seconds later a young man, very well turned out, came in to take Rosenberg's check.
"See that Mrs. Lindstrom prepares a receipt for Mr. Rosenberg to pick up on his way out," Natey said.
When the young man left the room, Natey returned to Ojibwa days: "You remember a kid named Barry Dobrin? He taunted me without letup. He used to come over every morning to check my sheets. He once nailed a blue ribbon to my bed with a sign attached to it that read, 'Congratulations to Natey for not wetting his bed six days in a row.' I begged my father to let me come home, but it was no-go. 'Be a man, Nathan,' he told me. 'Stick it out. Don't let them push you around.'"
"Do you think about this stuff a lot?" Rosenberg asked.
"When I saw you," Natey said, "it all came back to me. But I've more important things to think about, like earning a few bucks for you and my other clients."
Back on the street, Rosenberg realized that he hadn't even bothered to ask Natey Klein what, precisely, the "good thing" was that he was putting him onto? He supposed he could call Natey when he got back to his own office, but then thought doing so might reveal him for the financial idiot he was. He'd just have to wait it out.
Rosenberg gave Natey the hundred grand out of a simple enough motive: He had a strong hunch that he could make some easy money that way. The fact was that Rosenberg had never made any easy money in his life. Everything he'd earned he had to work for, to grind it out. His father had been no different. Rosenberg remembered when he was a kid his father had a fairly large chunk of AT&T stock, blue chip it was called in those days, when AT&T had the monopoly on the phone business. Then in 1969 the stock market took a serious dip, and every night his father would come home, open the Daily News to the stock-market pages, and note that he had lost another five or six grand. It made him almost sick with worry. After less than two weeks Sam Rosenberg sold off all his AT&T stock, put the money in CDs, and never went back into the market.
Rosenberg recalled his father explaining at the dinner table that the stock market wasn't for little guys, small-time investors. It chewed them up and spat them out. What he most disliked about having his money in stocks, his father said, was that it wasn't in his control. His inventory of desks, file cabinets, chairs, lamps, and the rest, he could change the prices on; hustle around to find outlets for them; lay them off on another supplier. He had the whip hand.
His father wouldn't have been proud of him, Rosenberg thought, turning over so large a sum to a stranger. As he walked back to his office, he wished he had the nerve to call Natey and tell him that he had had a change of mind, and would like to have his money back, though he guessed that by now Natey had already put it into play in some investment or other.
Over the next weeks, Rosenberg scarcely thought about anything else. The worry became so intense that life before Natey Klein suddenly seemed wonderfully simple and placid and manageable—sad daughter, autistic grandson, and all. What the hell was I thinking? Rosenberg asked himself. Ten or twelve times he picked up the phone to call Natey to ask how the "good thing" was going, but each time he hung up. To show nervousness about his money would seem unmanly.
Rosenberg also began to wonder why Natey Klein was doing Rosenberg this grand favor. What was in it for him, apart from showing what a powerful operator he was? And then a frightening idea occurred to Rosenberg. What might have been in it for Natey was, just possibly, revenge. Nathan Klein was going to take Ronald Rosenberg for a hundred grand for not coming to his aid during his summer of torment at Camp Ojibwa.
Hadn't he all but told Rosenberg that this was what he was doing—with his rehearsal of his misery of those awful days, mentioning that he didn't usually take on small-potatoes clients like him, not bothering to fill him in on the good thing he had lined up for him? A hundred grand down the crapper! God! How was Rosenberg going to explain this to Arlene?
The more Rosenberg thought about it, the more certain he became that Natey had decided to bilk him out of his money. In bed, sleepless, he imagined different scenes in which Natey told him that things hadn't worked out, that the good thing turned out to be a rotten thing. He imagined Natey, behind his desk, with a sly smile, saying, "Way it goes, Ronnie. Sorry. Better luck next time, pal."
Roughly five weeks after he had handed over his certified check to Natey, on a Tuesday morning, a little after ten o'clock, a woman's voice asked him to please hold for Mr. Nathan Klein.
"Ron," Natey said, "some disappointing news. Can you drop over later this morning? I'll explain."
Well, thought Rosenberg, the shoe had fallen; hell, make that the guillotine blade. He hailed a cab, and on the way over to Natey Klein's office wondered just how much of his money had been blown away: a third, half, all of it?
Natey didn't get up from his desk this time when Rosenberg entered his office. He had his suit jacket on. Behind his black-frame glasses he had a dour look.
"Sit, Ron. I'll explain," he said.
"How much did I lose?" Rosenberg asked.
Natey didn't answer but took an envelope from the top of his desk and handed it to Rosenberg.
"Open," he said.
The envelope contained a check. Rosenberg put on his own glasses to read the sum. The check was made out for $100,287.26. He exhaled.
"Pathetic, I know," Natey said. "I was hoping it would be a check for at least a hundred and fifty grand, maybe two hundred. The action we had figured on for the stock never turned up. It was a fizzle, a wash. Sometimes happens."
Rosenberg was trying to hide his relief. Everything ventured, at least nothing lost, he thought. After the anxiety of the past weeks, nothing lost felt like pure triumph.
"I was hoping to make a nice little score for you, Ron," Natey said. "First because I sensed you could use the dough. And second I guess because I wanted to impress you, to show you that the pisher from Cabin Three at Camp Ojibwa was now a serious player."
"Don't worry about it, Natey," Rosenberg said. "I appreciate your effort on my behalf."
"If another good thing turns up, I'll get back to you pronto. Promise."
"Sure," said Rosenberg, "that'll be great."
Natey stood up, leaned over his desk, and held out his hand. Rosenberg shook Natey's small soft hand, noting the clunky Rolex on his wrist.
Out on LaSalle Street, Rosenberg felt himself grinning. He touched the left breast of his suit jacket, the inside pocket of which held his check from the Hawthorne Fund. $287.26 profit for five of the worst weeks of his life: For all his anguish that came to a little more than fifty bucks a week. Easy money! Back at the office, he instructed his secretary that if a man named Nathan Klein should ever call, she was to tell him that Mr. Ronald Rosenberg had died.


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