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'Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable.'
Now countless members of my worldwide female readership have mounted their war horses attacking me over a very simple statement I made. That is, that the majority of men in this world do not find a pregnant woman attractive. And I gave my theory about why I believe this to be true.
I should say that an equal number of men have written to me, presumably typing whilst their wives were asleep, to agree wholeheartedly with what I said. I understand, for if they voiced their opinions in the open, in their own homes, there could be trouble, at the very least injury from a cast iron pan.
We can say with certainty that males find a pregnant, beach ball stomach equally attractive as females find men's beer bellies. In this case the matter is simple: Beauty has as its first characteristic symmetry — and nothing is more asymmetric than a huge gut. But there's even more that turns off a male.
For almost all men are on the hunt for sex — the driving force here of course is genetic replication. Therefore a pregnant woman, who is not available for conception, is to men unattractive. The only exceptions are men who have a genetic interest in the whole business ie. the fathers.
It is my view that the only people who will publicly announce that such and such, who is pregnant, is 'beautiful,' are lying friends or, again, someone who has a vested interest in the pregnancy. In fact, we can go so far as to say that not only is the sight of a naked, pregnant woman off-putting to many men, but that it excites in them revulsion.
I might add here a rather surprising fact — that a huge number of women, yes women, also agree with what I've said and many of those have had children.
In the popular press we are bombarded daily by photos of pregnant women, and these photos are known by that horrid phrase 'selfies.' In other words pregnant women photographing themselves. What are we to make of this? Do these women believe they look good, that they are 'sexy?'
Pregnant women are under the sway of powerful hormones — hormones equal in strength to cocaine or heroin. So it is possible that they do think they are 'hot.' This is the same as the addict, who after ingesting a drug, believes himself all-powerful, a success story, and a fine fellow. We can say that both are on the corner of Dream Street and RubberLegs Avenue.
Their systems are full of 'feel good' hormones that overwhelm rational thought. How often do we see women describe their baby, even when the baby looks like it's been fed ugly pills, as beautiful? Where is the mother who will openly call her own baby pugugly? Where is the mother that will say: 'My baby has a perfect face for radio?'
I am of the view that pregnant women take photos of themselves, and publicize same, to bolster their self-images — that secretly, in any case, they know they are asymmetric and unattractive to most males. We can say that these photos are a pathetic rear-guard action to allay fears of losing one's looks. And lose one's looks is exactly what happens in almost all cases of child-birthing.
I have been astonished to see, time and time again, just how quickly a woman's looks fall away after one or two child births. And there is a reason for this too, an evolutionary reason — beauty is merely a façade to draw in a male for gene replication. Once this is over and done with beauty is superfluous. And it may even be harmful. A woman who retains her looks after birthing could be a target for other predatory males leading to a possible disruption in the family unit and raising of the child.
And there is no doubt in my mind that this incessant photographing and posting publicly one's own pregnant belly is fishing for compliments. It's another attempt at bolstering one's self-image. There is an untold number of people ready to lie — and often these are other pregnant women — and tell one with 'bun in oven' that she remains gorgeous.
For truth is always a dangerous thing. This is why an ancient Slavic proverb runs:
'Tell the truth and run'
The ancient Romans had it:
Veritas odium parit
'Truth begets hatred'
The reason these proverbs, which have their equivalents in all languages and cultures, are true, is that human life depends upon us not knowing it too well. Realities must at all times remain hidden from view.
I doubt there would be a human species if a great light was shone on existence, a light that revealed all. Imagine that the mass of people suddenly became aware of what they were really doing in this world, the why of being here. Because it is a safe assumption — and this has been noted by great thinkers across the ages — that most humans are really half awake, or half asleep, as you choose. There are many levels of consciousness. We can see which humans are wide awake by the terror in their eyes, for they see existence for what it is. I say, that anyone truly alert in this world will give themselves away through their melancholy. For what can one say about a world where 'everything eats everything else?'
We are here to create new humans for our genes to move over to, each body is just a temporary, disposable tool for the information stored in our genes. That our genes care not a whit for us, that we work for them, and that this life force is blind and without purpose, must never become manifest. All human institutions are designed to keep this reality from becoming palpable.
This is the real, the world, the true.
It is well-known that there is an inverse relationship between birthing and intellect. As intellectual ability drops the rate of children born rises, and as mental powers expand this rate drops. History bears witness to this in that virtually all great geniuses had no children at all.
We must at all times remember that procreation, sex, have their roots in the ancient, reptilian part of the brain and have nothing to do with the more recent frontal lobes — the source of rational thought, philosophy and moral judgements. It is my theory, that in people with superior minds (the number is always small), we have a process whereby this new section of the brain, the frontal lobes, develop so much that they overwhelm the more ancient brain structures — overwhelm the urge to procreate the species. This, in my view, is behind all true spiritual experiences.
The human brain is really a kind of parasite that sits atop the shoulders. Its function is to liaise between the human body and the outside world. In most cases this means surviving, getting food and sex. This is the brain's primary directive.
However, inside these new, frontal lobes we find an incredible thing. If we could unfold these lobes, say, onto a table, they would be about the size of a large place mat. But in this small space there are more potential neuronal connections than particles in the known universe. What does this mean? It means that although the brain's purpose was originally to facilitate the making of more humans, the process does not end there. For the brain is constantly making new connections, forming new neuronal pathways. In other words the brain is capable of outdistancing its former duties — gene replication — and evolving of its own accord. I say, that this evoluting brain could even result in what we might call a 'new mind' that resides above the everyday one, overrules the primitive brain centres that involve replication.
The great Kant showed us that Time and Space are not things 'out there,' but rather part of our own perceiving mechanism. We ourselves bring Time and Space to the equation. Reality, Everything, is without doubt a single unity that we divide into parts through cognition.
It is possible that a highly-evolved mind may bring with it an entirely new reality, a reality inconceivable to us now.
'To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.'
So, it may be the case that development of these higher brain centres overrules the primitive urge to create more human beings through birthing. And in a theory that may border on the prophetic, I say that advanced beings may somewhere exist who were once in human form. That these beings evolved through mind only — as noted above — into non-corporeal forms — a kind of 'spiritual energy' existence if you will.
Consider for a moment how fragile the human body is. This thin layer of skin all we have to keep out the myriad pathogens that are constantly on the attack. We are subject to all kinds of disease and ageing. What better course of evolution to take than to do away with the body all together?
We know that there are worlds hundreds of millions, even billions of years older than our earth. We know that the basic elements of life exist in all parts of the Cosmos and in the same proportions found on earth. I say then that it is highly probable that beings exist in the Cosmos that would, to us, seem as Gods. Beings without bodily form, so in advance of us mentally that we would appear to them as animated puppets.
It is interesting to note that the Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg speaks of such beings in volume after volume of his writings. Beings who inhabit a realm outside our known reality, and that these beings or entities, possess intellectual powers far beyond human comprehension.
Swedenborg tells us that these entities have no conception of Time/Space and communicate by some unknown method that resembles telepathy. And he adds something else that may give us an example of beings who can replicate themselves without recourse to sex; Swedenborg says — and remember even he noted the difficulty of describing things for which no words exist — that two entities, when they want to 'join,' do so by some kind of merging of intellects or spirits. Two of these entities 'become one' without any physical contact as we know it.
Of course to many the above will seem madness. Swedenborg knew it too, so he wrote of his work:
'I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.'
In any event ladies: Cover up those bellies!
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PC Publisher: Intel AppUp Published: 25 Feb 2011 Project Started: 2009
Mac Publisher: Mac App Store Published: 6 Jan 2011 Project Started: 2009
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Description: Ninja Puzzle is an puzzle/action game in which you have to help lead Hunzo in his quest to master the greatest ninja technique in the land by defeating the demons that guard the scroll. He must use his wits and ability to beat over 50 levels of stages of demon invested puzzle themed stages.
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Sustainability isn't an industry
Sustainability isn't an industry, but rather a way to do business.
The argument over the term 'sustainability' has been reignited this week in our focus on The Evolution of Sustainable Business (publishing on Friday). I think the entire philosophical discussion about whether the term is any good might be missing the point. Let's step back a moment.
There is no "green industry," nor are there "sustainability companies." There is, however, a growing subset of companies and industry groups whose lens for business success goes beyond strict bottom-line performance.
Sure, the word sustainability is clunky and doesn't always lend itself to clear communication. It's not the most useful word when speaking about anything specific. It has many varying definitions.
That being said, I think that this ambiguity actually strengthens its importance as a bucket term. I would argue that the word's widely accepted connotation — an ethos that places equal value in social health, natural conservation and economic viability — has only been strengthened in the recent business lexicon, especially among Millennials and emerging leaders who have been exposed to the value proposition that is sustainability in business.
It's an ethos with a lot of business momentum. It appears in seemingly dull ways, through tiny, iterative process improvements in specific industries that reduce energy use, water use and waste. It's also happening in sexy and exciting ways, like the coming-of-age of the electric vehicle, a renewable energy investment boom and the resurgence of local agriculture.
Despite its detractors, sustainability is gaining ground and it's likely that the word isn't going anywhere. But if it dies, I'm willing to guess that the group of businesses that are on board with the sustainability ethos will continue to innovate, grow and prosper, much to the delight of the global economy.


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Works. Ty. But you forgot the Jcba-devcon.txt.
Thanks. Unfortunately I cannot see a conflict and it works here.
Can you get someone else to test please?
Hmm. All installed but no response to entering and executing. Trying to find out what is wrong.
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Latest Ace and devcon using SIX Updater. Modline priority is fine, devcon after all mods. Map and teleport works. I guess its some ACE esc menu issue.
Read the last few posts above yours.
Yeah, I read them more than one time already. DevCon is not ACE compatible, right? Or I'd better make the allInOne config? Ok, I'll make it.


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Understanding Field Placement
Sections on this page include:
- Field Placement Process
- Field Program Sites
- Field Hours within a Concurrent Schedule
- Own Agency Placements (OAP)
- Evening and Weekend Placements
- Placement by Area of Interest
- Anticipated Delays
Barry offers a variety of Field placements across south Florida. These field placements include schools, addiction facilities, medical, health and mental health organizations, public and non-profit organizations serving diverse communities, juvenile justice, child welfare agencies, rehabilitative facilities, and veteran services.
These Field placements offer students an opportunity to examine their professional practice, discover new interests, obtain new insights, and hone existing or further develop their professional and social work skills. Although Field placements vary according to mission, population, services, community and social work practice, they are all extensions of our program in the community; a live classroom with many dynamics taking place at once. Therefore, it is important for students to understand that as they become a part of this live classroom, they become a part of the realities of field placement dynamics. Field Education is here to support them through this very exciting, challenging, sometimes uncertain but fulfilling learning experience. We at Barry believe that Field Education's purpose is to create a sense of preparedness as you move into professional social work practice.
Field Placement Process
Students complete an online Field application and submit the application to Field Education no later than 11:59pm (EST) on the stated deadline. The Assistant Director of Field Education reviews each application and schedules an interview to match students to an approved field agency. Once a match is confirmed, students are provided with a referral and directed to schedule the agency field interview and begin the confirmation of their field placement by the stated deadline.
Field Program Sites
Barry has three Field program sites, Miami Shores (Main Campus) and surrounding counties, and two off-site locations, Palm Beach/Treasure Coast and Ft. Myers and each of their surrounding counties
Field Hours within a Concurrent Schedule
The Field Education course is offered during day time and weekday hours. It is important to note that although Field Education works diligently to identify community agency placements that support our program goals, a limited number of placements offer evening or weekend qualified* learning experiences. Therefore, students must adjust their schedules accordingly to meet the Field course and hour requirements. *Supervision by a qualified Field Educator or Task Supervisor and purposeful learning experiences
Own Agency Placements (OAP)
Own Agency Placement (OAP) is an approved Field placement in a community-based agency where the student is also employed. Students may request an OAP Field placement; however OAP requests must meet a specific set of criteria prior to obtaining final approval from Field Education.
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Field Education will make every effort to seek placements in line with Students' area of interest. Students who are unable to obtain a placement in their area of interest may have to consider other placement sites, populations of interest and preferred geographic locations.
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A trip to the Green Ridge Vineyards tasting room is a treat for those interested in architecture, hospitality and Anderson Valley estate-grown wine.
A single 400-year-old tree provided all of the redwood used to build the winery's octagonal tasting room. The building was designed by Aaron G. Green, father of owner and winemaker Allan Green and associate of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The giant redwood tree had a diameter of almost 13 feet, and had fallen on the winery property after a fierce storm.
The interior includes a tall peaked ceiling and an octagonal tasting bar. Outside, a wrap-around porch provides views of an ornate bridge that leads to a small picnic island in the center of their vineyard pond. An array of solar panels provides all the energy needed to run the tasting room. The winery, some seven miles away, is also solar-powered.
Riesling, Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Rose, a red table wine and a late-harvest Riesling make up the wine menu at Green Ridge Vineyards.
Every year for the last 25+ years, the winery hosts a wine-tasting competition. The contest involves identifying the most common California varietals, with divisions for novices, amateurs and professionals. A chocolate tasting and cheese tasting are also part of the festivities.
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When Ken Sims visits a volcano he's after two things - a whiff of ultra-fresh volcanic gas and samples of brand new lava. That means climbing into craters and getting uncomfortably close to bubbling lava lakes and noxious gases. Sims admits to Stephanie Pain that he loves adventure, but insists it's the data he craves, not the danger
Isn't molten lava too hot to get close to?
You only feel the heat when you're very close or if the wind is blowing over the lava towards you. In some places collecting lava is easy. In Hawaii, for instance, there are breakouts and you can just reach down with your hammer and scoop up one of the little dribbles. In explosive types of volcano like Stromboli and Mount Erebus, it's hard to approach the lava because there can be a big splatter which can kill you if it hits ...
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Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework™, shares the top ten most read blogs. Concept Searching's blog, 'Smart Content Discussions', launched in the spring of last year, has successfully grown, and is reaching thousands of readers monthly.
Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching, commented, "We are a market leading technology company that provides innovative metadata enabled solutions to global industries. Over the past three years we have been well known as a thought leader in our space, and launching our blog was a natural extension of that leadership. Since launch our blog has been well received, tweeted and re-tweeted with significant reader participation. This year we will be incorporating blogs from our partners, as well as from other industry thought leaders."
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Founded in 2002, Concept Searching provides software products that deliver conceptual metadata generation, auto-classification, and powerful taxonomy management from the desktop to the enterprise. Concept Searching, developer of the Smart Content Framework™, provides organizations with a method to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues. This infrastructure framework utilizes a set of technologies that encompasses the entire portfolio of unstructured information assets, resulting in increased organizational performance and agility.
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Typhoon Haiyan
Justin Bieber visits Philippine typhoon victims
Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber visited young victims of Typhoon Haiyan on Tuesday, traveling to the Philippines after launching a worldwide campaign to help those affected by the deadly storm.
Alicia Keys visits typhoon refugees in Philippines
Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys visited a Philippine air force base Monday to bring cheer to hundreds of evacuees from eastern provinces wracked by Typhoon Haiyan.
Retired Archbishop Cardinal Theodore McCarrick provides relief in Philippines
The devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban and elsewhere in the Philippines was witnessed firsthand by Washington's retired Archbishop, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Typhoon Haiyan: How you can help
The Philippines is recovering after Typhoon Haiyan hit the country's islands last week, but there is a tremendous need for aid. We've rounded up some fundraisers around the D.C. area supporting relief efforts.
Typhoon Haiyan: Adventist church in Oxon Hill participates in relief efforts
From well-funded relief organizations with celebrity endorsements to homemade appeals for hygiene packs, the Typhoon Haiyan relief effort is officially worldwide.
Typhoon Haiyan death toll jumps to 4,460
Six days after the disaster, some progress was being made in providing food, water and medical aid to the half-million people displaced in the Philippines.
Jovita and Charles Branscomb evacuated to Manila after Typhoon Haiyan
Jovita and Charles Branscomb, two residents of Tacloban whose family has been trying to track down since Typhoon Haiyan devastated the city, are safe and have been evacuated to Manila.
Typhoon Haiyan: Clinic at airport overwhelmed
At Catholic University in D.C., a solemn mass was held to pray for the people of the Philippines Wednesday night. The Filipino student organization organized the mass, which included prayers in English and Tagalog.
Typhoon Haiyan: Virginia family desperate to help elderly parents in Tacloban
One Alexandria family worries for their elderly parents, currently stuck in Tacloban without food or water.
Typhoon Haiyan: St. Columba's Catholic Church collecting cash donations
St. Columba's in Oxon Hill is the largest Filipino-American Catholic Church in the D.C. area, and the parish is collecting cash donations and relying on generosity and faith to get by.
Typhoon Haiyan victims need medial supplies, but doctors face delays
The day after Typhoon Haiyan struck the eastern Philippine coast, a team of 15 doctors and logistics experts was ready to fly here to the worst-hit city to help. On Tuesday, they were still waiting to leave.
Typhoon Haiyan: Volunteers in NoVa get medical supplies to millions homeless
Entire communities are decimated as more than half a million people are now homeless from Typhoon Haiyan.
Typhoon Haiyan kills eight in southern China, causes $700 million in damage
The storm that devastated the Philippines has killed eight people in southern China and inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to farming and fishing industries, state media reported Tuesday.
Typhoon Haiyan leaves parts of Philippines devastated, 10,000 feared dead
Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced an unimaginably huge recovery effort that has barely begun as of Monday.
Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts spring up in D.C. area
The rescue efforts in the Philippines as the nation begins to pick up the pieces after Typhoon Haiyan, lots of people in the D.C. metro area are waiting and hoping for word on loved ones.
Typhoon Haiyan death toll could be higher than 10,000
Perhaps 10,000 people were killed by Typhoon Haiyan on the island of Leyte alone, with hundreds dead in other areas of the Philippines as well.
Typhoon Haiyan: Red Cross volunteers connect area residents with loved ones
On Sunday, Red Cross volunteers in the nation's capital asked simple but critical questions at a call center, trying to connect people in our region with loved ones unreachable in the Philippines.
Typhoon Haiyan: NBA donates $250,000 in support of UNICEF relief efforts
The NBA and NBA Players Association are donating $250,000 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in support of UNICEF's emergency relief efforts in areas of the Philippines ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan.
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Safe-driving class The American Association of Retired Persons offers a safe-driving class from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 25. Cost is $14, $12 for AARP members.
Oldies concert The Retro Rockets will play rock 'n' roll from the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s at 12:30 p.m. July 17.
Tribute concert Jed Duvall pays a tribute to singer-songwriter Paul McCartney at 12:30 p.m. July 24.
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Cultural Influences of Motown Music with instructor Nat Martin meets from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursdays. Registration and fees required.
Art History: 19th-Century French Painters with instructor Deb Boudra meets from 10 a.m. to noon Thursdays. Registration and fees required.
American Political Perspectives with instructor Joanne Tetlow meets from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays. Registration and fees required.
Origins of Religious Ideas with instructor Clinton Logan meets from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays. Registration and fees required.
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Quilt Club Participants can help one another with projects and learn ideas and techniques at 1 p.m. Fridays at the O'Malley Annex. Machines are available. New members are welcome.
The following activity will be offered at the Pascal Senior Activity Center, 125 Dorsey Road in Glen Burnie. Information: 410-222-6680:
Weight-loss program Dietitian Sheryl Hoehner will offer a seven-session class on weight loss from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursdays. Topics will include pointers on losing weight, decreasing sodium and increasing fiber in your diet. Fee is $25.
The following activities will be offered at the South County Senior Activity Center, 27 Stepneys Lane in Edgewater. Information: 410-222-1927 or 410-798-4802:
Beginning tap dance An introduction to tap will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays. No experience is needed; the instructor is Vicki Smith. Fee is $40.
Jazz dance Vicki Smith leads a class from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Fridays. All levels of experience are welcome. Fee is $40.
Creative Crafts Evelyn Bacon will lead classes from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mondays. Fee is $40.
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The MDC led by Welshman Ncube has blamed 'rabble rousers' for an attack on the party leader in South Africa over the weekend, who have also been blamed for trying to discredit the party.
A group of party members in Soweto pelted Ncube with t-shirts, threw chairs and over turned tables at a meeting in the South African township. The meeting was convened to elect local leadership for the party, but it soon turned to pandemonium when a group of members turned their anger on Ncube.
The group of disgruntled members was led by Diliza Mangoye, the International Relations Youth Secretary, Women's League member Sipho Moyo, and Interim Organising Secretary Gad Mafikizolo Lunga. They accused Ncube and the national leadership of favouritism.
Ncube was accused of filling the leadership spots in South Africa with the friends of his son Wesley, as a thank you for participating at his wedding when he married South Africa President Jacob Zuma's daughter a few years ago.
But the party has denied this, calling the incident the result of 'rabble rousers' who were trying to discredit the congress. Party spokesperson Nhlanhla Dube told SW Radio Africa on Thursday that some of the members are former Zimbabwean police, who were expressing their anger for not being voted into the South African executive.
Dube meanwhile explained that the party is relieved and pleased about this week's court verdict, which once again ruled that the MDC congress that elected Ncube to his leadership position was held in accordance with the party constitution.
This is not the first time Ncube's leadership has been called into question in court, after former party leader Arthur Mutambara was ousted in that congress early last year. Despite court rulings supporting Ncube's position as the leader of the third party in Zimbabwe's coalition government, Mutambara has remained Deputy Prime Minister.
Party spokesperson Dube explained that "we are not holding our breaths" for Ncube to become the Deputy PM, saying ZANU PF and Robert
Mugabe are "happier to close Professor Ncube out of the political space."
"This court verdict validates our argument that the congress was legitimate and therefore Professor Ncube is our legitimate leader. But we won't hold our breaths expecting him to replace Mutambara in the unity government," Dube said.
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
A curvaceous magazine rack for your wall that doesn't look bad when there isn't anything in it. And you can fit alot of magazines in the rack as well, which is good if you take a long time to throw things out like I do. Eriko Sukegawa is the designer. You can find him exhibiting at 100% Design this year.


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Aldar to set up water park at Yas Island
T. Ramavarman / 14 June 2010
ABU DHABI Aldar Properties on Sunday announced the launch of a water park on Yas Island, its major leisure and entertainment destination project, estimated to cost about Dh40 billion.
The 16.4-hectare water park will feature over 40 rides and attractions, including four rides that have never been seen before in a water park, the company said in a Press release.
However, when contacted by Khaleej Times, company officials declined to divulge the estimated cost of the water park.
Aldar has already received the conceptual planning approval from the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council and has appointed UK-based Atkins as lead designer for the project.
The company has also initiated the pre-qualification process for the project's main contractors, and construction will begin next month. It is scheduled for delivery in 2012, the release said.
The water park joins a range of world-class recreational attractions at Yas Island, such as Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the first Ferrari theme park in the world and largest attraction of its kind. It is scheduled to be opened on October 28.
Yas Island is also home to the Yas Marina Circuit, the venue for the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and Yas Links, the region's first true links golf course. It is also home to seven hotels, including The Yas Hotel.
The park's theme will focus on intensifying guests' experience and provide an enjoyable family atmosphere for all ages, the release said.
Aldar has committed to making this facility one of the most environmentally friendly and sustainable water parks in the world. In order to accomplish this goal, Atkins is designing the buildings to meet Estidama guidelines and is engineering ways to dramatically reduce energy and water consumption.
"This facility will provide a unique entertainment opportunity for people of all ages, enabling families and individuals alike to indulge in a thrilling entertainment experience that reflects our rich maritime culture," the release said, quoting Aldar Properties Chief Commercial Officer Mohammed Al Mubarak.
Aldar's diverse property portfolio includes major developments and re-developments within Abu Dhabi including Yas Island, Al Raha Beach, Central Market, Al Falah, Reel Island and Noor Al Ain. The company owns over 50 million square metres of land in strategic locations throughout the emirate.
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After skipping our 2009 winter trip, we decided to make our 2010 vacation a big one. We wanted someplace in the Caribbean. Something a little more exotic and off the beaten path. After a lot of research, we settled on the West Indian island of Nevis.
As part of the Nevis/St Kitts Commonwealth, this little gem is the smallest sovereign nation in the Americas. The island's name is from the Spanish name Nuestra Señora de las Nieves (Our Lady of the Snows) because of the clouds that often cover the peak in the center of the island.
Nevis has a lot going on here for such a little island. The whole history of the Caribbean - Indians, sugar, slaves, rum, pirates, Spanish armadas - all played out here. The weight of the history is amazing. We had a great time and found it to be a charming, relaxed island with friendly people, a lush landscape, fascinating landmarks, and killer rum punches.
Our first view of Nevis from the plane. It's a small, round island dominated by the 3,232 foot Nevis Peak.
We landed in nearby St. Kitts. Here's the city of Basseterre. We took a ferry to Charlestown, Nevis from the little dock next the the hideous cruise ship complex.
When we landed there was a cane field on fire next to the airport. Dramatic, but harmless.
Our first view of the Nevis from the ferry. Wow.
The ferry at the Charlestown dock. We got to ride up front with the cargo and some of the crew.
We stayed at Butler's House. It's gated, but only because they're trying to keep the island's goats out of the gardens.
Butler's House was built in the 1700's as the main house of a large sugar plantation.
|The house sits a ways up the slope of Butler Mountain on the east side of Nevis.
They've done a lot of landscaping and the whole property has wonderful views of the ocean.
The big terrace on the side of the house was a great place for morning coffee.
Here's one of several sea grape trees that provide a lot of shade. Their leaves rattle in the wind.
There are also almond, mango, sour orange, and a huge sandbox tree.
The ruins of the original kitchen
We enjoyed the pool almost as much as the monkeys did.
This is the porch when we had a lot of our meals and spent most of our evenings.
|More of the landscaping with the old chattle house in the background.
The master bedroom had double doors that opened onto the terrace and a wonderful ceiling fan.
The kitchen also opened onto the terrace and was fully equipped.
The dining room was gorgeous, but a little formal for us. We often ate out on the veranda.
The 2nd bedroom was plenty big. There was also a small sun room with a daybed.
The gardens were just full of flowers. No idea what this is, but there was a whole hedge of them.
The hibiscus here grow to be trees.
They have a lot of plants growing wild that we've only seen as house plants in 6-inch pots.
Our second night there was Dave's birthday, and rather than go out, we decided to grill. It was lovely.
Pottery shards that previous guests had found on the grounds.
It sounds like they are always kicking up artifacts.
The view from the pool of Butler Mountain. It's on the back side of Nevis Peak.
The view from the pool of the Atlantic was just incredible.
Primate eyes, they're watching you - one of our first up-close encounters with the local troupe of Green Vervet monkeys.
Since the French brought them to the islands as pets, their population has soared, making growing anything pretty tough.
We'd see these guys hanging around the grounds every afternoon.
They estimate that there are as many monkeys as people on Nevis - about 10,000 each.
The ruins of Cottle Church on the Round Hill Estate. This was one of our first stops when we toured the island.
|John Cottle built it in 1824 as a place for his family and his slaves to worship together.
But because the practice was against the law, the church was never consecrated by the Anglicans.
Between an earthquake in 1974 and Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the church was pretty much destroyed. It is currently under restoration.
A little further south is Oualie Beach. The Hurricane Cove Bungalows are on the hill and St. Kitts is in the distance.
More of St. Kitts in the distance. It's a nice, calm beach for swimming.
Our first rum punch at The Gallipot restaurant. Very tasty.
We also had great fresh fish and amazing lobster there.
Further south on the west side of the island is Sunshine's Beach Bar. They have a great view of Nevis Peak.
The view of Pinney's Beach from Sunshine's. Their very potent rum punches are called Killer Bees - some rum, then some passion fruit juice, then some more rum. Wheeee...
A little further south is Coconut Grove restaurant. We had an excellent lunch there.
The view of Coco Beach from the restaurant. We had a nice swim and hung out on the beach after lunch.
Golden Rock Estates is a great former plantation built way up on Nevis Peak. It's now a hotel and restaurant.
This is what's left of the tower for the windmill they used to crush the sugar cane.
It's been converted into a honeymoon suite.
This is one of the pots used to boil down the sugar cane juice into sugar and molasses.
The view from the new dining area at Golden Rock. We ate here a couple of times - great food, even better rum punch.
We found this little beach off of a side road by the medical school.
We found this sea urchin skeleton there. The sand is mostly volcanic and very rich and fine.
Somebody left their boat there. Looks to still be in okay shape.
Buetiful beach. The medical school at the end of the point in the distance.
Sheep (tails down), goats (tails up), donkeys, cows, pigs, chickens, and monkeys all shared the road with us.
Some local houses. They typically build a small house and add rooms as the family grows.
This place has taken a couple of beatings from hurricanes. Building a stone first story and a wooden second story is common.
Two houses down the road from where we stayed. We liked the pebbled detail on the blue one and all of the little trim on the other.
We stayed just blocks from Jimmy Buffett's infamous Domino College. It's a little market/bar with a reputation for recreational drinking and some serious games of dominos.
We found their sign just lying by the side of the road. The place was pretty quiet when we were there, but the joint across the road was usually busy.
The Caribbeans have no fear of color.
This is the Cafe de Arts restaurant down by the ferry dock.
|Mr. Chicken came by to get a snack while we stopped for a cold drink.
The ferry dock and crane in Charlestown. This port handles mostly people and light cargo. There's small deep-water port on the south end that handles cars and freight.
This old scale was used to weigh cotton and is now part of the park by the dock. Nevis still produces some Sea Island cotton, mostly for export to Japan.
We stopped in at the farmer's market. Most of the produce here comes from the Dominican Republic.
Ginger - it's a key spice in a lot of West Indian cooking. We got some nutmeg and a little pineapple that was very tasty.
This is the birthplace of one of American's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. It's now a museum.
This is the house next to where Hamilton was born. History is a funny thing.
The ruins of the Coconut Walk Estates sugar mill. It operated until the 1950's and was one of the last mills on the island.
The remains of the windmill. What a view. In the early 1800's Nevis produced the best sugar cane in the Caribbean.
The windmill powered this press that crushed the sugar cane to produce the juice.
A wheel from the mill. It was probably hooked up to the windmill with a belt drive and used to power the press.
|The smokestack is part of the boiler. The cane syrup was boiled down to make sugar and molasses that were either exported directly, or fermented into rum.
|These pots were used to make cement putty. The putty mortared together hand-cut stones for many of the building on the island.
From Nevis you can see Redonda (the little island) and Montserrat. A volcano on Montserrat exploded in 1995, destroying a good part of the island. The air is hazy in this photo because the volcano blew more ash up the week before we got there.
A cow taking a break at Nelson Springs. Admiral Horatio Nelson was stationed in Nevis at one time. His job was to stop trade between the British islands and newly-founded America. He used these springs to get fresh water for his ships.
Nevis is where old Brits and their automobiles go to retire.
Here's an old Mini Moke from probably the late '60s. We also saw lots of "Series" Land Rovers still in use.
Paradise - a hammock at the Nisbet Plantation beach bar.
You can see St. Kitts in the background on the other side of all that indescribably blue water.
The ruins at Hamilton Estate. This sugar plantation is way up the hill on Government Road.
Nevis was known as the "Queen of the Caribbees," for the quality of sugar it produced.
A huge gear used in the milling process.
Many of the mills were run by Sephardic Jews who brought their sugar-making skills with them when they got kicked out of Brazil.
Another smokestack.
Nevis gets both hurricanes and earthquakes, so it's always amazing to see old structures like this still intact.
The sugar trade was built on slaves. When slavery was abolished in 1834, the industry pretty much disappeared.
On our last day we took an early ferry to St. Kitts to tour a bit of the island.
Caribelle Batik has a small factory and a beautiful store on the Romney Manor Estate.
THe gardens around the shop are incredible.
The property was originally owned by Thomas Jefferson's grandfather.
This is the old bell tower that called the slaves to work.
Here's a small area when they demonstrate the painstaking process used to create batik.
The Wingfield petroglyphs - art carved into rock by the Carib Indians who originally settled these islands. The one on the right sure looks like a monkey to me.
The Brimstone Hill fortress was built on this hill on St. Kitts to defend the profitable rum and sugar trade.
Kitties always find us on our trips. This guy was the Brimstone Hill welcoming committee.
The view back toward the interior or the island was stunning.
The English built the fortress using slave labor over the course of 100 years.
The fort rises 800 feet over the Caribbean. This is the main stairway.
These are part of the outer battlements. The walls are nearly 7 feet thick.
Firing ports are cut into every wall.
One of the many cannons. This one overlooks the village of Salt Town.
From here the Brits could see and control traffic to Nevis, Montserrat, Saba, St. Martin and St. Barts.
The village of Salt Town with Saba in the distance.
The main courtyard. In 1782, 1,000 British troops defended the fort against a 50-ship French armada.
It took the French a month, but they eventually conquered the fort - blowing 40-foot holes in the walls.
The Treaty of Versailles was signed the next year, returning St. Kitts to the British.
The fortress has been preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was an amazing place to spend our last day of vacation..


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Former Uniontown Man Pleads Guilty To Straw Purchase Of Firearms
PITTSBURGH, Pa. ‑ A resident of Uniontown, Pa., pleaded guilty on March 8, 2011, in federal court to charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
Sermaine P. Darby, 28, pleaded guilty to one count before United States District Judge Joy Flowers Conti.
In connection with the guilty plea, the court was advised that Darby was buying guns for another individual who was precluded from lawfully purchasing or possessing firearms due to his pending Fayette County drug case and his previous felony drug conviction in the District of Columbia. This scenario is commonly referred to as a "straw purchase" of firearms. In this matter, Darby obtained: three pistols from Reese's Store in Smithfield, Pa., on July 3, 2007; three pistols from Woodland's World Store in Uniontown, Pa., on July 3, 3007; one pistol from Woodland's World on July8, 2007; and four pistols from Woodland's World on July14, 2007. The ATF and the Pennsylvania State Police stopped Darby from obtaining two more pistols from Marra's Mountaineer Sports Shop in Uniontown, Pa., on July 20, 2007.
Some of the guns have been located in the greater Washington, D.C. area near the co-defendant's hometown, one had been used in a homicide.
Judge Conti scheduled sentencing for June 30, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. The law provides for a total sentence of up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
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The South African rand declined today as the nation's trade balance deficit widened more than experts have predicted, driving investors away from South African assets.


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Take advantage of on-campus programming during and prior to finals week
o Many colleges help their students to de-stress during finals week by offering school-sponsored events. Check into what EC offers.
o Short exercise breaks can help relieve stress, socialize, and burn off the extra sugary calories you may consume. Take a jog downtown, ride your bike to campus, do yoga, attend a tabata class, play pick-up basketball, or go to the fitness center and get your fitness on. Exercise helps you focus, it gives you additional energy, and it releases endorphins to make you feel better. In order to make deadlines, stick to 15-30 minutes of exercise a day. If you must, bring a book to study while you're on the exercise bike or treadmill.
o If exercising is not your thing, progressive muscle relaxation is a technique many people find helpful. Systematically go through the major muscle groups of your body, tightening, holding and then relaxing each group. Start at the top of your body and move down (face; neck/upper back/shoulders; arms; abdominals; upper legs; lower legs; feet/toes).
Eat Nutritious Meals and Snacks
o Often, students eat even more unhealthily during finals week than they do the rest of the semester. With a time crunch, they go for quick, tasty, on-the-go foods and mindlessly much away until they are left with an empty package. This is a big mistake. Junk food gives you instant energy or a sugar high, but it affects your concentration and memory and will end in a food coma or sugar crash.
o Eating nutritious foods will energize you and increase your concentration and retention. If you're choosing snacks from your kitchen or the Frick Center, fruits and vegetables are best; they have the required vitamins and nutrients to prevent sickness and give you energy. Simply maintaining a healthy diet is an easy way to help manage stress and get good grades during your finals.
Stay Hydrated
o Your brain works best when it's hydrated. Dehydration causes fatigue and headaches, which will distract you from your work. Caffeine dehydrates you more, so for every coffee you have, have a glass or bottle of water; your body and mind will thank you.
o In moments when you feel your stress level is climbing, take a deep breath for four counts, hold it for four counts, and exhale for four counts. Try this a few times. You may be shocked at how much better you feel.
Treat yourself to lunch before your final
o Get away from campus and get your mind off of studying if you have a spark of confidence.
Catch some ZZZ's
o Everyone has different sleep habits, but it is never healthy to pull an all-nighter. If you do, make sure you have time to take a nap so you get the sleep your body needs. Sleep will improve the quality and retention of studying, even though you may have less study time. Less is more.
Take Breaks
o Studying non-stop is actually not helpful. After a long period of studying, your concentration will be broken, and the material that you are trying to learn will not be retained well. Studies show in order to really grasp information the brain needs time to absorb what it has learned. You should use short breaks to exercise, eat a healthy meal, rest, socialize, catch your favorite TV program, enjoy the great outdoors, or do some other activity that takes your mind off the study material. You will absorb information best if you can study before going to sleep. But, the most important thing is that you do something for yourself and reward yourself for getting some work done, no matter when you find time to do it.
Select a good study space
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Prioritize & Plan
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o Many students are afraid to ask for help. If you do not understand what to do or study, ask someone. You could speak to your professor during office hours or talk to your friends and classmates. Not to quote High School Musical, but we're all in this together. The professor wants to see you succeed and so do your friends; they most likely will be glad to help.
Talk to a counselor
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Call friends
o Talking with a trusted friend or family member about how you are feeling helps because most of them have "been there, done that" or are also preparing for finals. Talking things out can have the immediate effect of reducing stress levels. Sharing with someone else helps you feel like you aren't alone, which can be so helpful.
Write research papers and finish projects early
o Most of the time, professors give plenty of advance notice before a final paper or project is due. Don't procrastinate on these when you know you'll need to study during finals week.
Use Study Groups
o Learn the material by yourself, and review it by explaining the subject to the study group. With the right group of people, you can learn more about the topic then you could by yourself. Different perspectives and observations are good to be exposed to. Choose your study group wisely and reserve one of the conference or study rooms in the library.
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What are you telling yourself?
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January 14, 2013 | by Pamela Petro
It came in a box. A big box, with two or three others. Sam had finally cleaned house.
It's not every day you get a box of tennis racquets in the mail. I ripped it open and immediately shook hands with each one.
"Now guys, shake hands with the racquet." If I'd said that once I'd said it, I don't know, maybe twenty-five times. Once for each tennis clinic I'd taught for little kids over high school summers. Kids who'd devised a game called Hit the Ball at the Teacher, which they'd passed on to their younger brothers and sisters, the little buggers.
There was a Yonex in the box that felt cold and distant—the shake of a bureaucrat. There was another I've since given away that felt insubstantial—the absent shake of someone scanning the room for more important hands. And then there was the Prince. I swear to you, the Prince's handle still felt warm.
The grip was slightly sticky—as a good grip should be—and worn where my right index finger curled up the beveled edge of the shaft. It filled my palm easily and comfortably: the racquet's way of looking me straight in the eye as our hands met. This was Emma's racquet.
The frame was a little slick for my tastes. Shiny black, with an aqua-blue and pink blaze up both sides of the head that looked like rain blotches on a Doppler weather map. And it was called ThunderStick. There was a lightning bolt through the diagonal slash of the n "Thunder."
"Lord, did Emma know that?" I wondered. Not her style. And there was another message from the manufacturer along the inside rim: "Sweet Spot Suspension." If that were true, I figured it was okay that it looked a little cheesy and was called ThunderStick.
I fingered the strings and saw they were worn, with little bits of neon-yellow fuzz stuck at the junctions where the vertical and horizontal rows overlapped. Evidence that this racquet was not new. Evidence that Emma had hit with it.
1, Love
September 10, 2012 | by Ross Kenneth Urken
At its best, my slice backhand follows the flamboyant path of a violin virtuoso's bow striking the climactic note of a concerto—from above my right shoulder plucked diagonally down to my left shoestring. The ball's tone is a hollow pok on hard courts and a chalky chh-chh on clay that dies on the second bounce. All these dramatics—mere vestiges of a time when I wanted to impress Angela, my middle school crush.
Angela played number one singles on the undefeated coed spring team at our private school in Princeton, New Jersey. Her long Italian American locks springing along with her high jumping-forehand, her second serve ball tucked in the spandex beneath her pristine tennis skirt—she was a vision of beauty to watch. Her movement around the court traced the Etch A Sketch path of someone fully in control of the game's portrait.
In Lolita, Humbert Humbert describes how Dolores Haze plays singles at least twice a week with a classmate, Linda Hall, employing teasing tactics against her and "toying with [her] (and being beaten by her)." The particular beauty of Dolores's tennis game is, for Humbert, a prerequisite for an amenable afterlife, or so he whimsically hyperbolizes one crisp afternoon as Dolores plays in Colorado: "No hereafter is acceptable if it does not produce her as she was then, in that Colorado resort between Snow and Elphinstone, with everything right …"
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April 9, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Double Fault
March 7, 2012 | by A-J Aronstein
Three months before I was born, my father bought an eight-court outdoor tennis club on three acres of land in New Rochelle, New York. The club sits at the bottom of what amounts to a gully, down the block from a swampy lily pond that overflows during thunderstorms and floods the basements of the handsome Tudor homes in the neighborhood.
The courts themselves are made of a material called Har-Tru, a gray-green clay that smells like a mixture of coffee grounds and fresh-cut grass. It's soft and easy on the knees, perfect for middle-aged investment bankers and ad executives but more difficult to maintain than hard courts.
When it rains, the material softens, expands like a sponge, and turns into a shallow lake. During dry spells, it gets chalky and swirls around on warm breezes. Like lunar dust, Har-Tru sticks to everything. It gunks up sneakers, stains white tennis shorts, and accumulates in socks. As a kid, over the course of a given summer, I'd transfer an entire court's worth of Har-Tru to our living room.
The courts were our family's livelihood; their quality was a matter of pride for my father. Like a farmer who knows the precise chemical composition of the soil in his fields, he could step out on the courts, sniff the air, and know whether to water them or let them bake in the sun. He never read weather reports (he called weathermen "crooks") but developed meteorological instincts. He sensed drops in barometric pressure and intuited the approach of autumnal cold fronts.
"Rain's coming," he'd say, looking out over the courts like an Oklahoman homesteader.
Even when I went south to the University of Virginia, I found Har-Tru waiting for me. The company that manufactures it boasts on their homepage that Har-Tru comes from "billion-year-old Pre-Cambrian metabasalt found in the Blue Ridge Mountains." I could have walked to their corporate headquarters from the center of campus. Charlottesville has brilliant sunsets thanks to the airborne coal dust carried on the wind from mines in West Virginia. I couldn't help but stare at yellow-orange-pink skies over the Blue Ridge in autumn and think, Look at all that Har-Tru.
It Never Gets Old
June 6, 2011 | by Louisa Thomas
When an athlete grows old, when she slips and starts making errors, you say that her body betrays her. What you mean is that she betrays you. A superhuman should not age. So you punish her with your attention, with your nostalgia and condescension, and also with your neglect. You turn your gaze to the young.
For the first two weeks of this year's French Open, that's what happened. Sure, younger players had earned the spotlight. Novak Djokovic was in the middle of one of the longest win streaks in the history of tennis. If he made the French Open final, he would become number one. For his part, Rafa Nadal was looking to equal Björn Borg's record of six French Open titles. No one expected much of Roger Federer. Even Anna Wintour, who sat in Federer's box in Paris, had more or less conceded Djokovic's dominance, featuring the Serb in tiny swimming briefs in the pages of Vogue, where once Roger had been king. Federer is twenty-nine years old.
On the women's side, the favorite was a beautiful blonde Dane, Caroline Wozniacki, twenty years old. She had never won a major, but never mind. The defending champion, Francesca Schiavone, who has hollow cheeks and a habit of kissing the dirt, wasn't given a chance. Some thought her win last year—she had been seeded seventeenth—was a fluke, and besides she is ancient, nearly thirty-one. But Wozniacki lost in the third round, and when the finals arrived Schiavone was there again, and this time playing the twenty-nine-year-old Li Na, best known for being Asian and having a tattoo.
"With a combined age of sixty years seventy-nine days, Li and Schiavone make up the oldest French Open final pairing since 1986," said The New York Times. Li and Schiavone were pressed to explain their advanced ages. "Is like the wine," Schiavone said. "Stay in the bottle more is much, much better."
"I'm not old," Li Na insisted. "Why do you think I'm old?"
A Win is Just a Win. A Loss…
September 11, 2010 | by Louisa Thomas
A win is just a win. But a loss—a loss can be pain. When Vera Zvonareva was defeated by Flavia Pennetta in the fourth round of the Open last year, she suffered, and it was real suffering. She had six match points in the second set and converted none. That's when the fear set in, and the doubt. She cried on the court. She pulled off the tape wrapped around her knees. She begged the chair umpire for scissors to cut the tape and then cursed at him when he denied her. She cursed and screamed, she fell, she beat her bleeding legs. Her grunts were howls. She smashed her racket into the net post. She paced and paced. When she sat in her chair during the changeover, she put a towel over her head. She wanted to disappear. She wanted not to lose. She lost the third set 6-0.
Now, Vera Zvonareva is about to face Kim Clijsters in the final of this year's U.S. Open. So far, Zvonareva has been the picture of poise. The wind? No problem. The no. 1 seed, Caroline Wozniacki? An easy victory, in a quick 85 minutes. While the stars have showed off their florescent hotpants and specially-designed dresses, Zvonareva has been wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, as if the matches were no big deal, only warm ups. She's letting opponents beat themselves, playing high-percentage shots while they rack up errors. "I know I'm not going to play perfect tennis all the time," she said after her win yesterday. She just wants to play well enough to win.
This is admirable maturity. And yet, in my little warped heart, I can't help but hope to see some flicker of fear in her eyes tonight. Not because I want her to lose—I want her to win. And not because she doesn't belong out there, because she does. She was a finalist at Wimbledon; she's a big hitter and an extraordinary physical specimen. I want to see the fear because that fear is honest. She is afraid, no matter what she says in those post-game press conferences. She has to be. She is facing the defending champion. Everyone will be watching her for some sign of cracking. It's human, that fear. One second, everything is going right. The next, you're in tears. And there's nowhere to hide from your failure.
I'll be cheering for her.


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Sumatran rhinoceros
Key Facts
Common Names
Sumatran rhinoceros, lesser two-horned rhino, hairy rhino; Rhinocéros de Sumatra (Fr); Rinoceronte de Sumatra (Sp)
Scientific Name
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
Critically Endangered
Fewer than 200
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
Physical descriptionThe Sumatran (or hairy) rhino is the smallest of the living rhinoceroses.
Characteristics include fringed ears, reddish-brown skin variably covered with long hair, and wrinkles around its eyes. Calves are born with a dense covering of hair which turns reddish brown in young adults and becomes sparse, bristly and almost black in older animals.
The front horn is usually 25-80 cm long, while the posterior horn is usually quite small and often no more than 10 cm.
Size: 2-4m long, 1-1.5m in height, 600-950kg
Colour: Reddish-brown
Living in lowland swamps and forestsSumatran rhinos prefer lower altitudes, especially secondary forests where low-growing plants are more abundant. Their habitat ranges from lowland swamps to montane forests, with the species generally favouring forests with thick vegetation.
Social structure
In the wild, Sumatran rhinos live at low densities and are mostly solitary. Females are thought to be territorial and to avoid one another. Adults of both sexes regularly mark their ranges with scrapes, saplings, faeces, and urine.
Life cycle
Calves gain independence at 16-17 months and may join other juveniles before taking up a solitary lifestyle.
Females are thought to reach sexual maturity at 6-7 years while males reach sexual maturity at 10 years.
Life span is thought to be similar to other rhinos at around 35-40 years.
Sumatran rhinos give birth to one calf at a time, every 3-4 years. Calves are born from October to May, which corresponds to the rainy season in the region.
The Sumatran rhino is a browser and feeds on fruit (especially wild mangoes and figs), leaves, twigs, and bark. Sometimes the animal will venture into cultivated crops to eat.
Dense highland and lowland tropical and sub-tropical forests
Biogeographic realm
Range States
Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei
Geographical Location
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Northern Borneo
Ecological Region
Sumatran Islands Lowland and Montane Forests, Peninsular Malaysian Lowland and Montane Forests, Borneo Lowland and Montane Forests, Sundaland Rivers and Swamps
Population & distributionPrevious population & distribution
The Sumatran rhino once occurred widely from the foothills of the Himalayas in Bhutan and eastern India, through Myanmar, Thailand, possibly to Vietnam and China, and south through the Malay Peninsula, to the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
There are two surviving subspecies:
- Western Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis sumatrensis)
- Borneo (or eastern) Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni)
Current population & distribution
The species is found now in small populations scattered through its former range.
The largest and possibly most viable populations are found in Sumatra. These populations are mainly confined to Gunung Leuser, Kerinci-Seblat and Bukit Barisan Selatan National Parks.
The Borneo subspecies is now possibly extinct in Sarawak (Malaysia) and Kalimantan (Indonesia), with perhaps fewer than 25 surviving in Sabah (Malaysia).
Recent evidence suggests that perhaps a few survive in Thailand along the border with Malaysia, in northern Myanmar, and possibly in India along the border with Myanmar.
Overall, Sumatran rhino numbers are thought to have at least halved between 1985 and 1995, with the total number of individuals now estimated at fewer than 200.
Potentially most endangered rhino
The Sumatran rhino competes with the Javan rhino for the unenviable title of most endangered rhino species. While surviving in greater numbers than the Javan rhino, Sumatran rhinos are more threatened by poaching. There is no indication that the population is stabilizing and just one captive female has reproduced in the last 15 years.
What are the main threats?Habitat loss
Habitat loss due to forest conversion and subsequent disturbance is threatening to push the Sumatran rhino towards extinction. Most populations are very small and in fact may not be viable, and changes in land use destroy dispersion corridors.
Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia - which is now estimated to have the largest single population of Sumatran rhinos - is still losing forest cover due to conversion of forest for coffee and rice by illegal settlers.
Sumatran rhinos are known to use logged areas where there is an abundance of regenerating plants. However, the construction of logging roads makes areas more accessible to poachers. While it is desirable to retain large tracts of undisturbed habitat for rhino conservation, it may not be possible to stop logging in all places (e.g. forest concessions in Sabah).
Thus WWF would like to see such logging taking place in a controlled and sustainable manner.
The 1970s saw increased demand for horn from prosperous Asian communities. Horn is used in traditional Asian medicine for the treatment of a variety of ailments ranging from epilepsy, fevers and strokes to AIDS. Although hunting is now illegal, poaching continues.
Even though the use of rhino horn in traditional medicine is banned in most countries, investigations by TRAFFIC and WWF reveal that use of rhino horn in traditional medicine still persists in many countries.
Genetic loss
No single Sumatran rhino population is estimated to have more than 75 individuals, making them extremely vulnerable to extinction due to natural catastrophes, diseases, poaching, political disturbances, and genetic drift. The biology of the Sumatran rhino is poorly understood and techniques for estimating their numbers are not fully developed.
What is WWF doing?Wild populations of Sumatran rhino are dangerously small. If this small hairy rhino is to survive, urgent measures are needed to both save the forests where it still occurs and halt the trade in rhino horn and other rhino products.
WWF's work to conserve Sumatran rhinos includes:
- protecting rhino habitat
- strengthening anti-poaching efforts
- trade monitoring of rhino horns
- promoting controlled and sustainable logging
- protected area management
- awareness programmes
» WWF Asian Rhino and Elephant Action Strategy
» WWF's work in Sumatra
» WWF's work in Borneo
How you can help
- Don't buy rhino horn products. Illegal trade in rhino horn is a continuing problem, posing one of the greatest threats to rhinos today.
- Use and support sustainable wood, paper and palm oil. By purchasing certified sustainable palm oil and FSC-certified forest products, retailers, traders, and manufacturers help protect Sumatran rhino habitat by limiting illegal logging and forest conversion to oil palm plantations. Consumers can also help by demanding certified products.
- Adopt a Sumatran rhino through WWF-US.
- Donate to WWF to support the Asian Rhino and Elephant Action Strategy.
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