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TC TO JANE WELSH CARLYLE; 19 October 1835; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18351019-TC-JWC-01; CL 8:227-232.
Scotsbrig, 19th October, 1835—
My Dear Goody,
It will perhaps most readily of all express the confusion I am in to say that writing even to thee I have this moment seen best to tear up one half-finished sheet and fling it in the fire! My head is all tumbled and my heart: deep, deep Silence were of all earthly things the thing I should like most today. However, it is very clear to me what thy impatience must naturally be; the main matters too are all settled; a letter conveying never so indistinctly even that fact must be welcome: I take a new sheet therefore; and will send that, by Heaven's blessing, be as it may. O Goody!— Understand, however, if the little vein of satiric humour have again come into play, that this is literally the first post, by which any letter could have come that was worth sending. There have been delays, errors, perversities: how erroneous are all men and things; oblique, oblique, not a right-angle accurately right anywhere; but ever the cursedest bevel and discrepancy,—to the waste of time and effort, which should be spent not wasted!
The estimable Marion Hay kept me trotting and inquiring, learning nothing much except that she "could not be recommended as a Cook"; in spite of which I was determined, and so was she: but alas, her Mother and friends &c &c, whereby ten good days were lost, and the outcome zero after all! Then were journeyings to Dumfries; talking, talking* no fixed prospect; great cry and little wool.1 Mrs M'Diarmid, on my first call, promised and languished; on my second call, had been able to do nothing, but "speak to Mrs Wilson of the Commercial";2 who again, when I waited on her, had been in like manner "able to do nothing": the result was still good words plus nothing. At Annan meanwhile by my own and Mary's industry I had got choice of two: the one a forward would-be beauty, and universal artist in the servant line; full of Dock English (for she had been as far as Manchester), of self-possession, taproom ceremony; vulgarity exchanged for natural unbreeding: the other a young unfortunate (only twenty-one, yet with a walking "Misfortune"), whose account of herself was modesty itself; whose air and physiognomy seemed promising to me. On Saturday Night late, returning for the second time from Dumfries and good words plus nothing, I hired this Misfortunate; and think, on the whole, she may do quite tolerably well; far better than the Dock-English; perhaps better than Hay herself would have done, who I found "could not be recommended as a Cook," which was the name she gave herself; and also was occasionally unhealthy. Thou must take her, as thou gettest her, Bairn; for I could do no other better. A shifty healthy little lass; of small stature, but hardy and sharp; submissive, anxious to learn and do the best; rude native Annandale, who says "uz" instead of "me"; if without manners, at least with no ill manners. She spoke of her "misfortune" without hysterics; but really in a candid natural way which pleased me more. Conceive her as almost certainly ABLE to wash and dress, possessed of "eminent" skill in sewing and even shaping (having studied it), "not a cook at all," except of her Father's and Mother's rustic victuals (which she does well, as would seem); who has swept rooms, and the rest of it; who actually keeps her Father's Cottage next door to Mary's, all clean as a pin: this I do believe is a fair total of her acquired talent. For the rest, my decided guess is that she will prove an orderly methodic creature; thrifty, honest (more than hand-honest; there is no cant visible in the body), with the truest wish to do well. I judged "by the physiognomy alone"; it was her face passing Mary's window that first put the thought in me. Not a beautiful face; on the contrary a tawnyish, small coarse face; but the black eyes look out on you with a humble painstaking expression, of sincerity, industry, endurance: it was (bating the Misfortune) a better face for service, if a worse for friendship, than the estimable Hay's seemed to me: a stronger face, and a healthier quieter one. She comes with me; on the same terms as Hay would have done; and I hope and believe thou wilt make her a kind of blessing to us. This matter, then, is settled, the best way I could: with unspeakable relief I wash my hands of it for year and day; the girl being likely to stay with us so long at least. She is of the size of Mary, more slenderly built, not ugly at all to look upon: her name, tho' she is "no Cook at all," is Anne Cook; and Mary will try her in porridge-making! Here I leave her till sight.
For the rest, the ancient Smith has taken possession of Harry, yesterday morning, at the charge of £4..15 (the Crown-piece was luckpenny);3 with whom I have good reason to hope the poor beast, on beat-potatoes and meal, with kindness and next to no work will fare handsomely in his old days; and engrush[ingratiate]4 himself as he is well able to do: nay on the contrary supposition of his selling him again, there was also some kind of arrangement made. Two bacon hams of unquestionable quality, and forty pounds weight, are also in the way of being provided; the eight others can be ordered, or any portion of them, if the Coagitor speak. The like is to be said of meal: also a way for it to travel in; by Whitehaven, namely; the road to which is a certain shop in Dumfries. Two sock-boards are a-making; finally on Saturday my last transactions in Dumfries was having my foot for an hour in stucco [plaster of paris], and discoursing to the proper artificer on the nature of lasts: there is to be a pair out here and a pair of shoes made on them in few days hence.5 I studied sore to go up to Templand, were it only for an hour; but Mother and Alick were with me, their plans and engagements lying elsewhither: if your Mother would wish me for any purpose to go up, let her speak and I will still go. Our conveyance on that occasion was a light—cart, and one of Alick's trotting galloways. Harry's riding had grown intolerable, or next to that: travel of all sorts has hitherto suited me ill; or rather I should say the lodging and miscellaneous treatment I meet with on travel. Thus is the business all settled; except my getting back to Chelsea; of which more anon. Rest is not for the wicked,6 and I have had little rest: this very day, for example, when I had entered on the second paragraph (where the asterisk is),7 did not Andrew Beattie8 (of America and the water of Milk) come stumbling in, and sit talking till Dinner and after it, and need then to be dismissed; and so I write all this by candle-light after tea!
I am to go tomorrow to Graham, who has been here, and saw me also at Annan. He [is] very friendly, but very wearisome; talks unceasingly about a "Mr Menzies" (pronouncing him Menzies, as he is spelt),9 a man to me heartily indifferent; whom I had flatly to refuse going to "call on." They are dining this day, Graham and he with David Aitken: Heaven grant he bring none of them about me tomorrow! I avoid gigmanism here as the pestilence; work-cartism is no less an offence to me: what I pray of men is to leave me alone in my glory—till the liver get a little better. It is the strangest mood I live in amid these autumn leaves; all things are so full of golden interest, yet with an inexpressible sadness; my soul is exceeding lonely; sparrowlike,10 companionless, worst of all when I have "company." Were a ghost to revisit the glimpses of the moon,11 I fancy its humour would be such: but for a man—!—The only creature I have seen of the friend sort that has given me the smallest pleasure was poor Aird12 at Dumfries, with whom I passed a night: he is in quiet lodgings in Irish Street; doing literally the impossible with that Newspaper of his; a poor simple man, shying about, in a bent twisted attitude, with the under lip set awry; the very image of innocence, simple-heartedness, and confused effort that cannot prosper. Many loves he sent to you and Mother; also one Newspaper, which went off only today. M'Diarmid paid me your £10; and did nothing else of significance: indeed the second time he was not at home; I ate not, or drank not, or tarried in his house. Douglas13 I also forced myself to see: loquacious, radical-logical, healthy, prompt; not likely to continue in Dumfries, but ready to go elsewhither and anywhither. At Annan I saw Tom Grahame and his Sister: "affectations!" as Parson Evans14 has it: the very kindness of the wicked is like his unkindness a sort of offence to me. Other men and gigmen, in great numbers, I have as good as cut; really without malice, but from weakness of digestion. Clow of Land,15 my declared admirer, is a sensible man; yet I had much rather miss his tea. Not even Wull Brown of Linbrigford16 but will invite me to tea: alas, I must "decline from eet."17 The old hills, these clear-gushing burns, and what of solacement, of Affection I can still lean on, they may hold for me,—are my best company at present. I feel careless of all issues of Destiny; with little hope that is not beyond the stars: a mood of sunny splendour and Erebus gloom; really not unpleasant; in which beyond all things I feel perfectly quiet. O Jeannie dear, do the best thou canst with me! It is actually no easy task thou hast. God will order it; His Will and our (we hope, honest) wills.— As for returning, I have sent to Newcastle about "the Boat that sails last this month, or first next month": after all, probably Liverpool and the Umpire will prove best, tho' I shudder at both. My travel however now is about ended till that; and I shall then be stronger; for at bottom (were I not jaded with so much trotting and jolting; three days of it last week) I am considerably mended. I sometimes sleep now till 7.
I am very happy, Dear, that all goes well at Chelsea; that even Sereetha the Peesweep proves tolerable. Thou wilt write almost directly; my next Letter will probably predict on what day I am to be looked for. Hundred thanks for the "beverage"— O dear me! My Mother is full of thanks for the shawl, quite "ashamed" &c; she sends her kindest love to you and your Mother: there is a dressing-gown bought for you also; which Anne Cook is to make! It is flaming black and red tartan; but of soft texture, and I expect to get the beverage18 of it too, and see you in it with satisfaction, a warm Goody on cold mornings at coffee.— At this instant Jamie returns from Ecclefechan with a frank from Mill: absolutely nothing in it at all. Yesterday there was waiting me (on return from these joltings and trottings) a Munich Letter from John.19 He is well, and all is well; written remembrances for you and Mother. It seems likely, as we guessed, that he will stay there all winter: the ulterior future is at sea. They are gathered in round me; I will close till tomorrow. Thousand good-nights!— T. Carlyle.
Tuesday morning.—I feel somewhat better today; I give Jeannie the top of the morning. Mill says you have still bad weather; ours has mended, for a week and more, into a very tolerable St Martin's Summer:20 men have thatched their stuff, and now dig potatoes with composure.— You spoke of penknives. Who has stolen all your penknives? Mine too you recollect was lost: I had no folder-knife with me, or any; far from it: could not get my nails pared till I bought a new one! Has the Peesweep any turn for cutting-tools? The lost implement may perhaps be lying in some Book; tho' I do not recollect it.— Tom Grahame saw Tiger Wull21 in his loghouse by the shore of the Canadian lakes. The Tiger was in "red Kilmarnock Nightcap, with sailor's jacket and trowsers"; a man wondrous to behold; had plenty of whisky and accommodations. Tom could tell me nothing or very little more that was interesting about America. Andrew Beattie, tho' half-distracted, told me much more of it: next time, however, if he come again at all, he is to come with his fiddle, and fiddle,—as he can well do, one whole day for me. Music has charms! Willm Grey22 is again in Nithsdale: his Wife home to her father's. Grey came (in a cart) before his Mother's death or illness; did not drink much, for a time; but "fell down dead drunk on the floor the night of her funeral": there my information leaves him lying.— The fourth part of Dumfries seems vacant: "To let," "To let."
Andrew Anderson,23 I am positively assured, came as a vagrant seeking quarters to "the Todholes," a farm near Annan, occupied by a Brother-in-law of Jamie's: this was about two years ago or more (very shortly after his Birmingham dinner to John): he then and there hired himself for six months as farm-servant; and worked it out (very indifferently) under the name of Andrew Allan! Then married the woman whose brains were not blown out. Did mortal ever hear such a story? I rather think it is actually true; but mean always to inquire farther before believing.— Did some Books (of John's) come from Fraser? With a Note? Let them be: some pictures there are for Mrs Jamieson.24
Go out to the Garden the first clear night, and see the Comet.25 very strange! To the left of the Great Bear; fast going abt its business[.]
It will hold no more, dear Goody! Jenny rides with it to the Post Office; last post (thanks to Andrew Beattie) was lost. God bless thee my dearest! Thine ever— T.C.


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Students' experience at home is the largest single factor in whether or not they will have a drug or alcohol problem early in life. The stress and pain from living in an alcohol- or drug-affected family can lead to the use of other substances.
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Students spot hypocrisy faster than adults can speak it. We must talk clearly to our children about our expectations that they not drink, smoke, or take drugs – but our own behavior is must more influential than our words. Adults must model what they want youth to become.
All youth are at risk of developing substance abuse problems if they are exposed to addictive substances and use them repeatedly. But a number of risk factors increase the chances that they will become drug-involved, including:
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Do a family history to determine whether your family has shown signs of alcoholism or other addiction.
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Know where your children are. Require them to inform you about where they are and to get home on time. Rules and consequences, limits and freedom, teach children to be responsible.
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On Saturday, January 25 The Hollywood Reporter posted an interview with actress Amanda Abbington about "The Sign of Three," the second episode of the third season of the popular BBC drama "Sherlock," which follows the adventures of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. The episode will feature the highly anticipated wedding between John Watson and Mary Morstan.
Abbington, who is playing the role of Mary, talks about the character being "sassy" and how much fun everyone had filming the episode. Abbington is the real life partner of actor Martin Freeman, who plays John Watson, and she was chosen for the part of Mary based on the "good chemistry" between the pair. She mentions how interesting it is to watch Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock, because they work so well together.
Mary is a very "strong and independent" character with a great depth to her and she is excited for fans to get to experience the new stories. She plays a much larger role in the third episode of the season called "His Last Vow", but fans should be ready for plot twist after plot twist. The wedding will include a speech from Sherlock which is both fascinating and awkward for everyone in the room.
"The Sign of Three" will air in the United States on Sunday, January 26 at 10 p.m. on BBC. Tune in to find out how Mary and John's wedding plays out and what mysteries Sherlock manages to uncover on their big day. The episode will also set up the new villain for the final episode after he leaves a trail for clues for both John and Sherlock.
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The Treatment were formed in 2008, when founder member drummer Dhani Mansworth was still at school in Cambridge. Although only 15 at the time he already had a clear vision of the kind of band he wanted to form. Having grown up on a diet of ACDC, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith he began to put the band together under the watchful eye of his father guitarist and manager Laurie Mansworth (More, Airrace, Roadstar).
The fresh-faced guitarist, Ben Brookland kindly took timeout to answer our questions.
Q: Describe The Treatment's sound?
BB: We take our motivation from a complete cross section of bands and try and mould them into a high energy rock sound, a mix of old and new.
Q: How did you all meet?
BB: We all met through Dhani who formed the band. They are all cool guys and we all share similar music taste
Q: What's your current favourite song you like to perform live?
BB: Shake The Mountain has a great groove, and usually the audience is singing it back by the second chorus - I like that
Q: What on stage antics will the audience experience from you guys at this year's Sonisphere Festival?
BB: They will experience a high energy, no-nonsense rock show
Q: Tell me about your fans, what are they like?
BB: Our fans are great and very dedicated. We have a real one-to-one relationship with them.
Q: Do you have any bizarre fan moments?
BB: Yeah, one guy got our old band's name tattooed on his leg... a week later we changed it to The Treatment.
Q: Is there a musician who inspired you to become a musician?
BB: Keef Richards made me want to pick up the guitar
Q: What inspires your music?
BB: Woman, beer, cars and sex. Our favourite combinations.
Q: How do you write your songs?
BB: It's like any band, ideas seem to come out of thin air. Someone will have a spark of an idea and then it becomes a song
Q: What do you think about the state of metal music at the moment?
BB: I think it's a healthy time for music across the board
Q: What have you learnt most about being a musician?
BB: Expect anything at anytime
Q: When you were starting out what kind of job did you have to do to make ends meet?
BB: I worked as a van driver for a while - yes that was me in that white van, (sorry!!)/p> Q: What's your hometown like that you grew up in?
BB: I grew up in Tadley, just outside Ready. It's a very quiet place
Q: Where do you like to "hang out"?
BB: We all hang out together mainly in Sheesha Bar
Q: How old are you and the rest of the band members?
BB: I am the oldest at 20, the other guys are 17 and 18
Q: What music did your parents listen to when you were growing up?
BB: to be honest I picked up my own music taste, although my dad did play me The Stones at an early age
Q: Did play any musical instruments growing up?
BB: No the guitar was my first instrument
Q: Who were your music teachers and did they have any influence on your style?
BB: I am self taught, I developed my playing from listening to music.
Q: What was the first metal album you ever bought?
BB: Appetite For Destruction was the first album I ever bought, not sure if you could call that metal though
Q: Who's got the worst habit in the band?
BB: Smoking
Q: What's on The Treatment's rider for Sonisphere Festival?
BB: Hopefully Jagermeister
Q: What's your favourite drink
BB: Jagermeister
Q: What is the most rock and roll thing you'd like to buy or do?
BB: I'd like to be in a room full of incredible looking women
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MEDINA — An appellate court on Monday affirmed the conviction of a 20-year-old Fairlawn woman who said police improperly arrested her for manufacturing methamphetamine.
Sarah B. Buchanan appealed her case to the 9th District Court of Appeals after her May 2013 conviction.
She had pleaded no contest to illegal assembly of methamphetamine, aggravated drug possession and cocaine possession, a third- and two fifth-degree felonies. She faced up to three or more years in prison.
Medina County Common Pleas Judge James Kimbler sentenced her to 1½ years in prison. She is serving her time for the drug charges along with a burglary conviction from Summit County at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville and is due to be released soon.
In her appeal, Buchanan argued her arrest was improper because Highway Patrol Trooper Harley Steppenbrecker did not have reasonable suspicion to detain her.
According to the appellate court's ruling, friends of Buchanan — Shaun Roland and Sharice Lemon — were pulled over in Wadsworth in the early morning hours of March 18, 2012, while driving a vehicle owned by Buchanan's mother. Buchanan had loaned the vehicle, which she often drove, to her friends.
When the vehicle was pulled over, police reported Lemon was on the phone with Buchanan.
Police conducted a search after spotting a syringe filled with methamphetamine and discovered a portable meth lab in the trunk of the vehicle.
Shortly afterward, Buchanan arrived in another vehicle and told officers she was there to collect her mother's car. Steppenbrecker said Buchanan was frantic and had a lot of scratches around her face and neck.
Steppenbrecker said he recognized Buchanan's appearance as someone who might use methamphetamine.
Wadsworth K-9 Officer Phillip Cantora and his dog, Ozzie, were on scene and initiated a sniff test on the car Buchanan used to arrive on scene. The dog reacted to three areas of the vehicle and a search was conducted.
After police reported finding several drug-related items, Buchanan was arrested.
The appellate judges wrote that Steppenbrecker had reasonable suspicion to detain Buchanan.
"We conclude that detention of Ms. Buchanan when the drug dog walked around the vehicle occurred at a point in time when police investigation of Ms. Buchanan was underway and based on reasonable suspicion that Ms. Buchanan was involved in criminal activity," the judges wrote.
Contact reporter Nick Glunt at (330) 721-4048 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ngfalcon.


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Former Wildcat All-American Alicia Hollowell was named assistant coach in June 2012 after serving as the team's director of operations for the 2012 season. Hollowell served as an interim assistant coach for the final three weeks of 2012 before being elevated to full-time status.
"I have always been impressed with the competitiveness and passion with which Alicia played the game, and now she brings that same approach to our coaching staff. She always has been a student of the game and brings great knowledge, positive energy, and bleeds red and blue," he said.
Candrea said Hollowell's duties would include close work with Arizona's pitchers. "She's been in the circle, pitched Arizona to a national championship in 2006, represented the USA and played the game at the highest levels possible. Alicia knows what it takes to play this game at the highest levels," Candrea said.
"I'm just thrilled to be back with Coach Candrea in such a role," Hollowell said. "It feels like home and is just awesome to be able to contribute on the field. I've been there, done some good things and will do everything possible to keep Arizona Softball at the top of the game," she said.
Hollowell, a Wildcat letterwinner from 2003-06, was a four time All-American who is the school's career leader in victories (134), innings pitched (1,122.0) and strikeouts (1,768).
She finished her career with the top three single-season strikeout totals in school history and the top two single-season tallies for victories. In her career, Hollowell was named Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week 14 times and threw 17 no-hitters, capping her career by leading Arizona to the 2006 national championship and earning Women's College World Series Most-Outstanding-Player honors.
She earned Pac-10 Pitcher-of-the-Year honors in 2004 and Newcomer-of-the-Year kudos in 2003.
Hollowell was named Arizona's top female student-athlete in 2006.
A native of Suisun, Calif., Hollowell was a member of the U.S. national team from 2005-08, winning two World Cup titles, the 2007 Pan American Games gold medal and serving as an alternate on the 2008 Olympic squad.
Hollowell served as an assitant coach at UC Davis from 2010-2011.
She earned her undergraduate degree at Arizona in 2007 while serving as a graduate assistant to Candrea.


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Peter Bernstein: Work
Peter Bernstein (guitar)
Monk (Xanadu 500)
Peter Bernstein (guitar), Doug Weiss (bass), Bill Stewart (drums).
Composed by Thelonious Monk.
Recorded: New York, 2008
Rating: 87/100 (learn more)
Peter Bernstein has been one of the most in-demand New York guitarists over the past two decades, although you wouldn't necessarily know it due to his under-the-radar, "musician's musician" reputation. Since Jim Hall discovered him studying at the New School in the early 1990s, Bernstein has played with Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Cobb, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Lee Konitz, and Tom Harrell, and has also flourished as a jazz educator, teaching at the New School, North Texas State University, Julliard, the Berklee College of Music, and the Jazz Conservatory in Amsterdam. And when it has come time for Bernstein to record as a leader, he has assembled only the finest players to accompany him: pianists Brad Mehldau or Larry Goldings, bassists Christian McBride or Larry Grenadier, and drummers Bill Stewart or Greg Hutchinson.
Bernstein's newest collection, an all-Monk, guitar trio date, is a bold mid-career choice. While many albums dedicated to the tunes of a single artist (especially Monk) can turn into an imitation-fest, Bernstein is too good for that – his interpretations are toned-down, soul-infused, and feature cerebral yet reachable improvisations. He sounds best on some of Monk's less-covered tunes, such as "Work," perhaps because there's a bit more room for invention there. On this track he recalls Bill Frisell during his presentation of the melody, a testament to Bernstein's success being that Frisell is perhaps the foremost purveyor of Monk's vocabulary on the guitar. During the improvisation, though, Bernstein is all Bernstein, complete with super-clean octave/chordal work and quick bursts of satisfying linear movement.
Reviewer: Eric Novod
Tags: 2000s jazz · guitar · monk covers · work
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Monday, May 2
Ward Oyster Company
6578 Jarvis Rd.
Gloucester, VA 23601
Saturday, May 28
VCA Apprentices at the Williamsburg Farmers Market in Merchants Square
Monday, June 13
Waypoint Seafood & Grill
Focus: Social Media and Photography for Restaurants
Virginia Chefs Association
The American Culinary Federation apprenticeship training program has been designed to provide future culinarians entering the workplace with comprehensive training in the practical and theoretical aspects of work required in a highly skilled profession.
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For members interested in having the official VCA logo embroidered on jackets, aprons, hats,
t-shirts etc. we have had our logo digitally loaded at "A Logo For You" located 100 Stafford Court, Williamsburg, VA 23188. They can also be reached at 757-220-9259. This way you don't have to pay the set up fee, only the embroidery fee. Just tell them you're a VCA member.


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We asked participants of Mayor Murray's Neighborhood Summit what brought them to the event, what they got out of it, and what we can do better next time. Here's what they had to say:
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We asked participants of Mayor Murray's Neighborhood Summit what brought them to the event, what they got out of it, and what we can do better next time. Here's what they had to say:
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Welcome from Mayor Murray:
How We Engage — Seattle Civic Health Index Report by Diane Douglas, Executive Director of CityClub:
How We Organize — Resolution #27709 by Jim Street, Former Seattle City Councilmember:
Public Input — The Search for a New Transportation Director:
How We Communicate — A Demonstration of Consider.It, a new online engagement technology
Closing Remarks from Mayor Murray:
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Updated 4:09 p.m.
On Saturday, Mayor Murray hosted the Seattle Neighborhood Summit at Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall where hundreds of Seattle residents participated in community engagement sessions, talked with City department representatives, and learned from one another during peer networking sessions.
The Mayor saw this summit as a way to work on building a healthier relationship between City government and Seattle neighborhoods. "This Summit is meant to be the beginning of a conversation and resetting of tone," he said. "The idea of community is working together. That's what we have to remember as we move forward. That's what we have to renew."
The Mayor asked the crowd to, no matter what, stay engaged. He also encouraged everyone in the room to rethink the way they approach controversial, and sometimes frustrating, policy conversations. "You might think that microhousing is the worst idea in the world, but the important thing is that we respect each other, listen to each other, and try and solve our differences."
The event included a presentation from Diane Douglas of CityClub on Seattle's "Civic Health," a look back at how the City's relationship with neighborhoods was originally structured by former City Councilmember Jim Street, a public comment period about what attendees were looking for in the next Department of Transportation Director, and a technology demo of a new online civic engagement tool called Consider.It.
Seattle Channel has full video of the day's events, you can view lots of photos on our Flickr page and take a look back at the live event blog to get a good sense of the day.
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We have a dedicated page here with a live stream of the event, a curated Twitter conversation, and a live blog, but we'll keep you updated here too!
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The final agenda for this Saturday's Neighborhood Summit is now available! The event will be held at Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall which is located at Mercer Street and 3rd Avenue N., next to McCaw Hall. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Child care and light refreshments will be provided.
Learn more about the event or RSVP for free today!
Welcome and opening remarks by Mayor Ed Murray
Session 1 (Theater)
How We Engage: Seattle Civic Health Index Report
Moderator Diane Douglas, Executive Director of CityClub
Highly attached residents are more likely to actively contribute to a community's growth. This presentation touches upon, trust, technology, and enfranchising communities. What does Seattle do well and where we can improve? A Q&A will follow.
Session 2 (Theater)
How We Organize: Resolution #27709
Moderator Jim Street, Former Seattle City Councilmember
In 1987, the city passed Resolution 27709 creating what we now know as the City Neighborhood Council and the District Council system. The District Council system is 27 years old. Learn the intent behind the resolution. A Q&A will follow.
Session 3
Peer Networking
Moderators: Community Members
Connect with your neighbors. We are fortunate enough to be joined by some innovative Seattle residents who are doing amazing work, many of whom were noted by you in an online survey as valuable community resources. We couldn't agree more. Listen to their stories and learn from their experience.
Resources for networking:
Session 4
The Search for a New Transportation Director
Facilitator Susan Coskey, Director of Personnel at the City of Seattle
The City of Seattle is conducting a national search to find an experienced, well-respected, and accountable executive to effectively lead the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) The Mayor is committed to a transparent process, and is engaging the people of Seattle in a conversation about the qualities they would like to see in an SDOT Director which is why we are devoting a portion of the Seattle Neighborhood Summit to this very topic. A Q&A will follow.
Session 5
How We Communicate
Presenter Travis Kriplean
Travis will do a demonstration of Consider.It, a social technology that lets hundreds of people deliberate an issue together online. A Q&A will follow.
Closing Remarks
Peer Networking
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Mayor Murray was interviewed this week for Seattle Channel's Emmy-winning feature magazine show CityStream by host Angela King. The Mayor discussed his administration's priorities, the upcoming Neighborhood Summit, and what he's looking forward to the most in the next four years.
Listing police reform as his top priority, the Mayor also highlighted his goal of working more closely with neighborhood groups.
"We're going to begin with a Neighborhood Summit in April. We're going to invite people who live in the city to help us develop the methods they can be more involved in in making decisions about the character in their neighborhoods," Mayor Murray said. "I think we've grown distant in City Hall from the decision making in neighborhoods."
The Mayor also shared what was most surprising about his first few weeks in office (everyone in Seattle knows who their Mayor is and they are eager to chat!) and the aspect he enjoys most.
"The thing I look forward to is that contact with people, that chance to get out in different communities and work on very different issues. It's the part that I find most exciting," the Mayor said. "I just love to get out there, get in a crowd and mix it up. I realize it's not always going to be positive, but it's very exciting."
You can see the show in its entirety here, which also features segments on the Office of Civil Rights' Racial Equity program, an update on the Families and Ed Levy program, and a story about safety with City Light. The Mayor's segment begins at the 7:58 mark.


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Benfleet on the up
The transformation of Benfleet Cricket Club over the past four NatWest CricketForce events has been underpinned by a series of ground-breaking partnerships, most recently with giant car company Ford.
Under the Dagenham-based manufacturer's community service programme, which is typical of many UK corporate schemes, each employee is allowed to spend up to 16 hours a year helping out with a community project.
This year five Ford workers opted to spend two days - in torrential rain - at Benfleet, fencing off a compound for the club's sightscreens.
"This was the first project of its type for Ford," said volunteer Stuart Scott, a Ford manager and former Benfleet player who approached the club with the offer of community help.
"But it was tremendous. We had two days in appalling weather but we had a good laugh and shared a few mugs of tea with some terrific people," he told ecb.co.uk.
By the end of the two days, the volunteers had put up 34 four-metre fencing panels, bought with a discount from official NatWest CricketForce suppliers Jackson Fencing, plus 34 cement posts and two gates.
"A lot of big companies encourage their workforce to go out into the community and this provided an excellent solution to the labour problem," said Jon Wright, Benfleet member and NatWest CricketForce regional support officer.
"Our membership is full of useful resources - these days we always try and find out from our new young members what their parents do because you never know what partnerships we can strike."
This is not the first time Benfleet has benefited from forging strong relations with commercial partners. In 2005, their first year of NatWest CricketForce, 1st XI captain Mike Tremain persuaded his employer - shopping channel QVC, where he is a producer - to host a DIY show from Benfleet, filming the makeover and selling off brushes, ladders and a range of DIY tools.
It was a huge success: around 80 volunteers took part, sales went through the roof and by the end of the weekend, the first floor of the clubhouse had been completely refurbished.
Year two saw a bigger team of volunteers tackle the downstairs - six changing rooms, the umpires room, showers, toilets and kitchen were all transformed - and this year there are plans to carry out a substantial coppicing project while the changing rooms and kitchen will once more be the subject of major improvements.
As a result, the club has changed beyond recognition, according to Wright.
"It has completely changed. In terms of appearance, it has gone from looking run down to looking very smart. We have gained Clubmark and become a Focus Club," he said.
"It is a self-help thing. Once you start, there is a snowball effect. We are now a much more vibrant club.
"Our senior side is more successful and we have three more youth sides, more parents involved and a waiting list of people who want to become coaching assistants - eight at the last count.
"We have become more outward looking and I am going round all the time talking to clubs and trying to energise them and many of our members are actively involved.
"We have one woman at the club, Pat Tremain, who is a star at organising projects and getting companies to donate. In my experience, it is mostly the ladies who have been best at galvanising people into action. They seem to be better at getting people to do things."
NatWest CricketForce 2008, which takes place on April 4-6 2008, will have a heavy emphasis on energy efficiency and conservation and Benfleet will be one of more than 1,000 clubs who will participate.
NatWest CricketForce 2007 was another huge success with more than 80,000 volunteers turning out on a bright sunny weekend at more than 1,150 clubs around the UK, bringing the total number of volunteers over the past three years to 200,000.


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Location & directions
Our location in the center of Graz
Our establishment is located in the center of Graz, the most tradition-rich hotel in the city. With the unique location of the hotel in the heart of Graz, you can easily reach the most important sights and attractions of the city on foot.
Your arrival to Palais-Hotel Erzherzog Johann
Arrival by car
Arrival by car: Motorway A2 or A9, exit "Graz-Zentrum". Follow the signs "Erzherzog Johann Hotel". Park your car comfortably directly in front of the hotel or in the underground garage of "Kastner&Öhler" to a parking fee of € 15,00 per day.
Arrival by train
Main train station in Graz, afterwards by taxi or tram (line 3,6 or 7) until station Hauptplatz - Congress Graz. Turn right into Sackstrasse until you reach Palais-Hotel Erzherzog Johann (approximately 50m). http://www.oebb.at/
Arrival by plane
By bus directly from the airport to Jakominiplatz. Or comfortably by taxi from the airport Graz to Palais-Hotel Erzherzog Johann.
Maps (garage entrance and Hotel Erzherzog Johann)
Here, you will find directions in the form of a map to the K&Ö underground garage and to Hotel Erzherzog Johann, available as a .pdf and .jpg file.
Directions to the K&Ö underground garage (pdf file)


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These little trees can bring you a big sense of tranquility.
The ancient art of Bonsai has a history stretching back to 4000 BC. The word "Bonsai" comes from the Chinese "Penzai". They are container-held plants that are cultivated for their small size and aesthetic appearance. Unlike other gardening techniques, Bonsai is not grown for food or medicine but rather for the contemplation of the grower and as an exercise in ingenuity and effort.
Cultivating a Bonsai tree requires regular attention, tools and knowledge. The art can be well worth the time as you develop a sense of well-being and calm by caring for a living piece of art.
Bonsai can be called an artform because one of the primary reasons for the practice is decorative. There are many techniques to change, enhance and develop the appearance; then the tree is often placed in an appropriate outside or inside landscape as the centerpiece.
Since 1993, the Bonsai Club of Lafayette has been working to further the practice of and the interest in the art of creating Bonsai. They hold workshops, go on tree collecting field trips, cookouts; Christmas parties and they participate in Lafayette's famed Global Fest.
Members learn to grow Bonsai tree indoors and outdoors, soil-care and keeping trees alive and healthy in the winter. (That's important in Indiana!) In their meetings, club participants share cuttings from their own collections to increase and perfect the collections of other members.
Feeling stressed? Looking for a cool and green hobby in Lafayette? Try the Bonsai Club because everyone could use more serenity in their lives.
The club meets every third Thursday of the month at Bennett's Greenhouse, 3651 McCarthy Lane. Membership costs only $24 a year and if you're interested the mailing address for the club is:
Bonsai Club of Lafayette
4577 E. County Road 50 N.
Kokomo, IN 46901


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Trombonist Tim Albright enjoys a diverse freelance career as a performer and teacher in New York City. He can be heard frequently as a member of Steve Coleman's band, Five Elements. He is trombonist for the Atlantic Brass Quintet, Riverside Symphony and Argento New Music Project, and is currently a member of the orchestra of the acclaimed Broadway revival of West Side Story. Tim has played with the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, The Knights, with jazz trumpeter Ralph Alessi, jazz clarinetist Don Byron, and with such popular artists as Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright, The National, Antony and the Johnsons, Martha Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Last Shadow Puppets. He has been heard in numerous Broadway productions, including Spamalot, The Producers, A Chorus Line, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde and Fosse.
Besides a busy live performing schedule, Tim spends a fair amount of time in the recording studio. He has recorded music for television and film, as well as for artists such as International Contemporary Ensemble, Riverside Symphony, Gary Morgan and Panamericana, jazz saxophonist, Steve Lehman, Steve Coleman, Ralph Alessi, and Don Byron, among others. Tim is on faculty at the Juilliard Pre-College, and teaches annually with the Atlantic Brass Quintet as part of their summer seminars in Sonoma, CA and Boston, MA.
As evidenced from his variety of performance styles, Tim enjoys a wide array of musical interests and influences. Counted among his favorites are: Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, J.J. Johnson, Charlie Parker, Bach, Bartok, Joni Mitchell, My Brightest Diamond, Kneebody, Caetano Veloso, Radiohead, the Beatles, and the Alan Ferber nonet.
Tim was born and raised in St. Helena, CA. He began studying the piano at age 5, the cornet at age 8, and discovered his real love, the trombone, at age 9. He received a Bachelor of Music in trombone performance from the Eastman School of Music and has lived and worked in New York City since 1999. When not busy with his trombone, Tim loves running, kayaking, and basically anything involving the great outdoors. He also loves exploring new and delicious food around New York City and cooking at home. He lives in Brooklyn with his beautiful wife, Corrina.


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On July 30, 2014, Timberland put out a call for entries for its Serv-a-palooza Challenge. This new program is "an innovative sponsored volunteerism competition" in partnership with CrowdRise, the digital fundraising platform created by actor and philanthropist Edward Norton that encourages consumers to volunteer for the cause of their choosing for chances to win awesome prizes for themselves as well as hefty donations for the non-profit they choose to support. Good causes need good people, and Timberland and CrowdRise are working to make that happen.
Serv-a-palooza, originally created as a way to support Timberland employees in using their 40 paid volunteer hours on a large scale, has been a huge success, logging one million hours served as of April 2014. As a way to get started on its next million hours, Timberland and CrowdRise have teamed up to help motivate the public and employees, alike, to get out and volunteer, recruit donors and raise money. Those interested in participating are encouraged to visit crowdrise.com/timberland where eligible individuals will prepare their fundraising pages on the CrowdRise site. From there, the Timberland Serv-a-palooza Challenge – and prize rewards – will begin Monday, August 11th at 12:00 p.m. ET and continue through Thursday, September 18th at 11:59:59 a.m. ET.
This partnership seems to be a natural fit for Norton: "I'm a big fan of Timberland. I wear their shoes all the time and I also admire their longstanding commitment to environmental sustainability and community service," said Norton. "We couldn't be more thrilled to work with a company that's got such great priorities to leverage their volunteer efforts in exciting new ways."
Timberland's Senior Manager of Community Engagement, Atlanta McIlwraith, adds "Partnering with a socially innovative platform like CrowdRise gives us the opportunity to engage with our consumers in an exciting way; and it reinvigorates our own commitment to giving back. It's inspiring to imagine the impact this partnership could have in communities around the country."
To participate, all you have to do is click on the "Sign Up" button on the Timberland Serv-a-palooza Challenge homepage, submit their name, location, and designate a service partner. Approved volunteers will be sent a link to create a unique fundraising page where they can track their volunteer hours and invite others to sponsor their efforts with monetary donations. Donors will also be encouraged to sign up to volunteer for a cause of their own.
At the end of the Challenge, Timberland will award grand prizes to the Top Recruiter, Top Volunteer, and Top Fundraiser. Winners will receive a $10,000 grant to give to the cause he/she chose to support. They will also receive a $5,000 Timberland shopping spree (or an all-expense-paid trip to the Horqin Desert to help plant Timberland's two-millionth tree in China), a custom pair of Timberland boots, and have their "Impact Maker" story shared in an online Timberland campaign. Additionally, the top volunteer will have his/her volunteer hours matched by Timberland employees in New England.
For more information, including full rules, visit crowdrise.com/timberland. Volunteers who set up their fundraising page by August 10 at 11:59 p.m. ET will be entered to win one of 50 pairs of Timberland boots to wear while they complete their service hours.


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About UX Mastery
At UX Mastery, we believe that people are more important than technology.
That's why we started this business in the first place—to rid the world of confusing, hard-to-use interactions and interfaces through quality design education. We write articles, ebooks, newsletters, host podcasts, and teach in-person workshops that are fun, practical, and highly regarded by industry.
Stay up to date by following us on Twitter or Facebook, or by subscribing to our regular email newsletter.
About Luke
General tinkerer, web tailor, user-centred design soldier and tall-ship sailor, Luke Chambers is one half of the founding partnership behind UX Mastery. He learned his collaborative, visual thinking and storytelling skills while studying filmmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts.
He has worked in the web industry since his first startup in 1999, and came across user-centred design while himself participating in a user testing session for a client. He has since championed user experience design for both small guerilla projects and for large organisations like Clemenger BBDO, Penguin Books, Pearson, Diageo and Parks Victoria, and consults through his agency Experia Digital. He also enjoys sailing tall ships, writing retro detective fiction and creating lists (lots of lists).
Throughout his day he listens, sketches, tells stories and explains to people the "why" of the design that happens behind the visuals. He lives in a tumbledown farmhouse in Melbourne with his wife, and has three chooks.
You can follow Luke on Twitter at @lukcha.
About Matt
After completing a Masters degree in Engineering, Matt began his web career in the corporate world, evangelising web standards and accessibility at companies like IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers long before it was trendy to do so. He began embracing user-centred design techniques during his time at SitePoint after editing The Usability Kit, and went on to apply them to spin-off companies such as 99designs and Learnable.
In 2010, Matt founded Useractive, a boutique user experience design agency that helps create exceptional digital experiences for brands such as Australia Post, IMA Management & Technology, and MYOB. He has presented at a range of conferences including Microsoft REMIX, Tech•Ed, UX Australia, Webstock, Web Directions and Intranets2013.
Matt lives with his wife and two daughters, and spends his evenings pretending he's a cartoonist. He recently wrote, illustrated and self-published a children's book.
You can follow Matt on Twitter at @mattymcg.
About Hawk
Formerly a developer in the corporate world, our Community Manager Hawk (who is actually a Kiwi and is called Sarah by her mother) said goodbye to the code and succumbed to the lure of all things social. A freelance enterprise Community Manager these days, Hawk cut her teeth at the SitePoint group and has a decade of experience wrangling forum communities.
Hawk lives in Auckland, NZ with her boyfriend, young twins and two burmese cats and spends her off-the-internet time in the gym or drinking wine.
You can follow Hawk on Twitter at @ilovethehawk.


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On campus, students also can access the Cal Maritime network and Internet on computers located in the two main computer labs, computers in the Center for Engagement, Teaching & Learning (CETL) , Student Center as well as computers located in the Library. Upon arrival, students will be given specific instructions on how to connect to the Cal Maritime network.
Wi-Fi is available in all the dorms and throught the campus. Click here to see how to connect to Wi-Fi on campus
Buying guides and suggestions for purchasing a new computer.
Protecting your computer:
Chosing and downloading anti-virus and anti-malware software.
Getting Software:
Student discounted software. Free software for Cal Maritime students. Free alternatives to standard productivity software.
Be sure to also checkout Dell and Gateway


text: Who says dogs and kids can't live in harmony? Posted on Feb 26 , 2013 by Melissa, shelter outreach specialist Print Home > Blog > Adorable adoptables > Who says dogs and kids can't live in harmony? Tags: adopt a dog, children, French bulldog Recently I came across this story that made me smile. It also got me to thinking . . . why do some people have the impression that kids and dogs can't live in the same household harmoniously? Bill is an adoptable French Bulldog in Chester Springs, PA I think that there are definitely some extra steps parents need to take to ensure both their pets and children are safe, but that doesn't mean it can never be a good match. Be sure to talk to the shelter or rescue before adopting a pet to see if they know how the dog is with children. And of course, dogs and kids playing together should always be supervised by an adult. Happy adopting! Share this Article: Print


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Shenzhen Sichuan Hotel
- Location:
- Address: No.2001 Hongli Road, Futian District, Shenzhen
- Tel: 0755-83673333 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: 深圳四川宾馆
- Lowest Price: $50
Opened in 1989 and renovated in 2008, Shenzhen Sichuan Hotel is located at the crossing of Hongli road and Shangbu road, adjacent to the bustling Huaqiang North Commercial Street and CITIC Plaza. The hotel is 4km away from the city center, 5km away from the Shenzhen Railway Station and 38km away from the Baoan International Airport.
The Shenzhen Sichuan Hotel offers a total of 153 guest rooms of various types. All rooms are provided with free broadband internet access and IDD/DDD phone and other service amenities. As for dining service, there is a Chinese restaurant in the hotel which provides guests mainly with Sichuan and Cantonese cuisines. Other facilities in the hotel include business center, meeting room, parking lot, beauty room and store, etc. Apart from these, the Shenzhen Sichuan Hotel also provides service such as laundry service and luggage service and so on.
- Payment Method: pay using our secure online payment service or pay at the hotel at some hotels.
- Triple/quad occupancy may require an extra bed at extra cost.
Hotel Amenities
|Hotel Services
|Luggage service, Laundry service, Room service, Wake Up Call, 24hr Reception, Business Centre, Copy Service, E-mail, Fax Service
|Room Amenities
|Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Color Television, Coffee/tea maker, Telephone, In-room safe, Electronic Lock, Mini Bar, Bath and Shower, Free for Internet
Hotel Amenities: Elevator, Parking, Air-Conditioned Facilities, Business Center, Gift Shop, Meeting Room, Deposit Box at Front Desk, Fire Detector
Dining Facilities: Chinese Restaurant
Print the Taxi Directions
- Please drive me to Shenzhen Sichuan Hotel, thank you!
- 请送我到深圳四川宾馆,谢谢
- Address: No.2001 Hongli Road, Futian District, Shenzhen
- 地址: 深圳 福田区 红荔路2001号(上步路口四川大厦)
- Tel: 0755-83673333
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Baseball Drops Opener, 7-5
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NORMAN -- The University of Oklahoma baseball team fell to Seton Hall, 7-5, in the 2014 season opener in front of 1,207 fans at L. Dale Mitchell Park on Friday afternoon. The loss was the first game under new head coach Pete Hughes. Tied at 4-4 in the top of the sixth inning...Read more


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Crystal Palace 3 Sunderland 1
by Ashley Houghton
No joy for Black Cats in South London.
Steven Fletcher made a goalscoring return to action for Sunderland but Crystal Palace took all three points in South London.
Danny Gabbidon, Dwight Gayle and Stuart O'Keefe scored for the hosts as Paolo Di Canio's side suffered their first away defeat of the campaign.
Fletcher had made it 1-1 with a fine header on his return to the Sunderland side after five months out with an ankle injury but Palace hit back twice to take the points.
Gayle scored from the penalty spot after John O'Shea was sent off before O'Keefe struck a third goal late on.
Di Canio made five changes to the team that beat MK Dons 4-2 on Tuesday night with two-goal striker Connor Wickham returning to the side in place of the injured Jozy Altidore.
Keiren Westwood, Modibo Diakite, Seb Larsson and Emanuele Giaccherini also returned to the starting line-up for the clash at Selhurst Park.
The hosts took the lead after just eight minutes as Jose Campana's corner was bundled over the line by Gabbidon after a deflection off Ondrej Celustka.
The Black Cats looked to reply immediately but both Wickham and Larsson saw their shots blocked by the Palace defence.
Sunderland then went close after Celustka fired a fine ball across the six-yard box, but Ji couldn't connect for the visitors.
Diakite was the next Black Cats player to go close but he headed Johnson's deep corner over at the back post.
Jason Puncheon, making his home debut, was effective throughout for the Eagles with his pace and power pivotal to their counter-attacks and he dragged wide from 25 yards on the half-hour.
Johnson, who created most of Sunderland's chances in the first half, made good progress down the right before pulling back for Wickham who saw his shot blocked by Gabbidon.
Giaccherini went close to equalising with the Black Cats' best chance of the half but the Italian international's curling effort was well blocked.
Mile Jedinak nearly doubled the hosts' advantage just before half-time; the Australian international led a counter attack before curling a 30-yard strike just wide.
Fletcher replaced Ji at half time and the Scottish international was a menace to the Palace defence on his return from a five-month layoff.
Gayle went close to making it 2-0 after just five second-half minutes but his shot was deflected wide by Diakite.
Fletcher grabbed the equaliser just after the hour mark - sub Charis Mavrias fed Jack Colback who crossed perfectly for the Scottish international to nod home.
The travelling contingent of 2,216 Black Cats fans were sent into raptures by Fletcher's strike and they were nearly cheering a second goal for the former Wolves man minutes later, but Gabbidon managed to clear for a corner as Fletcher looked to get in behind.
Jonny Williams and Puncheon both went close before Palace gained the advantage when Gayle was brought down in the area by O'Shea when through on goal. The former Peterborough man stepped up to convert the spot-kick himself after O'Shea was shown a straight red card.
The Black Cats couldn't muster many chances to equalise with the numerical deficit proving difficult to overcome – Johnson's 20-yard saved drive was about as close as the visitors came.
Westwood made two fine saves to deny Williams and then Kagisho Dikgacoi before the hosts eventually grabbed their third through substitute O'Keefe; the 22-year-old former Southend man curled home in stoppage time, leaving the Irish stopper with no chance.
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- 1
- Ward
- 2
- Moxey
- 21
- Gabbidon
- 19
- Yellow Delaney
- 27
- Puncheon
- 13
- Campaña (Williams)
- 6
- Jedinak
- 15
- Dikgacoi
- 8
- Gayle (Wilbraham)
- 16
- Chamakh (O'Keefe)
- 29
- Westwood
- 20
- Celustka
- 12
- O'Shea Red
- 16
- Diakité
- 21
- Colback
- 14
- Vaughan
- 15
- Larsson
- 7
- Johnson
- 11
- Giaccherini (Mavrias)
- 23
- Ji (Fletcher)
- 27
- Wickham
- 10
- Alexander
- 25
- Ramage
- 28
- Williams
- 20
- Phillips
- 9
- Wilbraham
- 18
- O'Keefe
- 12
- Dobbie
- 11
- Moberg-Karlsson
- 19
- Mannone
- 25
- Adilson Cabral
- 6
- Mavrias
- 35
- Cuéllar
- 24
- Roberge
- 29
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Khazad-dûm Report: October 1986
Khazad-dûm Discussion Group Report
October 1986
Topic: Tam Lin in Literature
Reported by David Bratman
First published in the November 1986 issue of Mythprint.
Khazad-dûm gathered one sunny Sunday afternoon, as far away from Halloween as we could get and still be in October, to discuss two fantasy novels inspired by the Tam Lin story: The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope and Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones. We began by listening to a tape of the original ballad of Tam Lin as performed by the electric folk group Fairport Convention. Copies of both a transcription of Fairport's version, and of their source, Francis Child's collection of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, were floating around the table. We noticed that Fairport condensed the ballad to a mere 21 verses from Child's 42, as well as translating it into English from the original Scottish dialect. However, Child's "original" isn't complete either — there's a row of asterisks, indicating missing material, between the section where Janet meets Tam Lin and the verse in which she returns home pregnant.
Turning to the two books, we found that despite some fundamental similarities, they are trying to do quite different things. The basic similarity is that neither attempts a retelling of the actual ballad, a la Evangeline Walton; instead, both are stories taking place in later times (The Perilous Gard in 1558; Fire and Hemlock in contemporary England) whose basic plots are the same as Tam Lin's: that is, a man is captured by the elves, and a young woman befriends him and attempts to free him. In both books, the ballad itself plays a role in helping to guide the heroine's actions. In both books, also, she is quite young — early adolescent if that far — and the sexual element is almost entirely absent. The differences lie in how the books work as novels, and in the authors' use of magic.
The Perilous Gard did not make a big hit with our group. Jo disliked it for its mixing of historical and invented characters, which she found grating, and for its portrayal of faerie. Jeff and I described it as a science fantasy, a book in which the magic is rationalized in scientific terms (Jeff compared it to Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away). Jo replied that that's exactly what she didn't like — there is no magic here, only pharmaceutics and ballet. Everything that the fairies do they can teach to Katherine, the mortal heroine, and for this reason doesn't have the air of magic.
Randolph suggested that the unfamiliar style of Pope's fairies could partly be due to their being very English, rather than Celtic as are most of the fairies we're used to, and we then turned to the religious aspects of the book. In the ballad of Tam Lin, the fairies served the devil, and we disputed over whether the devil's existence is implied in The Perilous Gard. Randolph felt that the fairies are corrupted by the devil, but they don't necessarily serve him. Only the mysterious grey man is clearly diabolical, and Randolph noted that it's God who plays no role, and is hence not "necessary", in this world.
Fire and Hemlock was warmly approved. Chris described it as "enthralling", and Pat attempted to define its appeal. It's a familiar, everyday world, but there is definitely an air of magic to it. Even though all of the supernatural events could be explained away, it has that distinctive uncanny quality. I agreed, and suggested that Jones has a firm grasp of how magic ought to work in a contemporary fantasy. Rather than pushing things around in a heavy-handed fashion, magic should simply load the dice, weighting probability in favor of the desired outcome. In this respect we compared Fire and Hemlock favorably to Charles de Lint's Moonheart, which we discussed the previous month. In both books the magic events are a private matter which nobody outside the stories' characters learns the truth about, but in Moonheart there was simply too much physical evidence (bodies of tragg'a lying around, etc.), and we didn't feel that its events could be swept under the rug that way. Fire and Hemlock, though, is sufficiently ethereal. Even at the end, there is nothing to prove to an outsider that magic was at work, although the readers and the characters know what really happened.
We then turned to the characters and their psychology. We admired Jones' ability to so believably portray Polly's personality changes over the very difficult age span of 8 to 12. Jo raised the question of whether Tom, in enlisting Polly to help him, is in a sense "seducing" her, but we felt that the stories she writes with him are a good employment for her imagination, a quality which Tom himself lacks. Pat was interested that nobody felt Tom was too passive a character. We agreed, though, that Christopher, his equivalent in The Perilous Gard, is definitely too passive. (Actually, the word we were using was "wimp".) This got us onto the psychology of The Perilous Gard. Randolph was impressed by the description of the claustrophobia that the characters suffer when underground, but Pat objected to the implication that everyone who goes into the fairy caves suffers from it.
Both books, in summary, are young adult fantasies, but Fire and Hemlock is both more realistic and more magical. Having reached this conclusion after one of our best discussions in some time, we said our farewells for another month.


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The Financial Crisis: Does Good Corporate Governance Matter and How to Achieve it?
Jaap W. Winter
University of Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
December 14, 2011
DSF Policy Paper No. 14
After the governance crisis of 2001-2003 and the regulatory response through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the European corporate governance codes, the financial crisis has revealed persistent governance problems in financial institutions relating to executives, non-executives and shareholders. For executives these problems lie in the areas of risk and remuneration. Non-executives may have been insufficiently involved in key decisions and underlying direction of the institutions, despite the strong push to increased monitoring by non-executives through Sarbanes-Oxley and European governance codes. Institutional investors have shown a general lack of engagement with investee companies. The paper continues to critically review the governance provisions for financial institutions set forth in the recent proposals for a European Capital Requirements Directive IV and related Regulation. It concludes that regulation often is not the best way to deal with the persistent governance problems, either because it cannot deal with the intricacies of corporate and human reality, as is the case of board and non-executive director performance, or because it will be ineffective as long as underlying generally held beliefs, world views, assumptions and paradigms remain unaffected, for example in the case of risk culture, remuneration and institutional investor lack of engagement. Regulation may actually worsen the situation in some cases, like remuneration and board performance. It takes courage not to regulate and seek alternative avenues to address such problems.
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Keywords: corprate governance, non-executives, institutional investors, regulation
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Rob Lowe and Jack Black give excellent supporting performances as does Harrison Holzer, a young actor, who steals every scene that he's in.
The story is pretty straightforward, but some of the developments are unexpected and have the audience laughing. However, nothing is enough (for a single guy with no kids anyway) to make me want to see it again. But, like I said at the opening, if you have experienced those things, you could very well find yourself admonishing me for not swearing by it.
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