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Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Bengaluru Whitefield
The 118 rooms and suites Holiday Inn Bengaluru Whitefield hotel comes with modern décor and elegant dark wood furnishings. Guests can indulge in a relaxing massage, or enjoy aromatherapy baths at the spa. The restaurant serves a wide spread of Indian and international dishes. Other dining options include the poolside bar, which offers light snacks and refreshing beverages.
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SRK, Akshay Avoid EID Clash
The much anticipated Eid clash at the box-office has been averted.
According to media reports, Ekta Kapoor and the makers of Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again have decided to postpone the release of their underworld saga. The Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha starrer was slated to take-on Shah Rukh Khan and Rohit Shetty's Chennai Express on Eid.
However OUATIMA will now open a week later on August 15. Since Independence Day is an equally lucrative time to release films this smart move will give both films enough space to make the most of the holiday period.
Here's what the CEO of Balaji tweeted:
Smart decisions lead to smart moves lead to smart business results.— Tanuj Garg (@tanuj_garg) June 11, 2013
Post Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani there is tremendous pressure on all biggies of the year to deliver big numbers in the shortest time span. Also both Chennai Express and OUATIMA are targeting the masses with their action-packed themes.
Last year on Diwali, Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Son Of Sardar witnessed an ugly box-office clash that did not benefit either camps.
Both movies lost close to 25% of their potential business, despite the wide release and massive publicity drive.
Unlike the past when two films could comfortably co-exist on a public holiday, today a film gets only the first weekend to make the major chunk of its revenue, so a clash ends up eating into the business of all the releases.

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Every draft in the NFL has steals. Guys passed over countless times by every team before finally being selected.
Some steals happen in the sixth round, like future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady. Some steals become solid players for years.
Some steals happen because the players have character issues, while others happen because teams are looking to fill needs in other areas first.
The first picture is of Ndamukong Suh, who might be the biggest steal this year. He has Hall of Fame written all over him, and the Detroit Lions should be sending the Saint Louis Rams a "Thank You" card for passing on him.
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Ariana Grande was a presenter at the 2013 Radio Disney Awards on Saturday (April 27). Shake It Up's Bella Thorne tweeted out a photo of the two of them. She wrote: "My lil darling! RDMA's"
The Sam & Cat star also posted a photo of herself on the way to the event – held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, Calif. She wrote via Instagram: "Shameless car selfie. On my way to present at the RDMAs. Thanks Disney for having me. I believe I'm the first Nick girl to do this. Honored and proud."
Later on she shared a snapshot of herself with Fifth Harmony.
"6th harmony? ☺ These girls are the sweetest. Nice meeting you. Lets have a slumber party. @fifthharmony"
Ariana's mom also came to the show as read by the caption: "Backstage w Mom #RDMAs"
Grande recently told OMG that she was surprised her song The Way reached the top of the iTunes chart after just seven hours of it being available to download.
She said, "It was really crazy, honesty my label and I were expecting to get like top 20, top 15 and really celebrate – that would have been a great, great debut. But it definitely did ridiculous, ridiculous things and none of us were expecting it. It was such a happy thing and we're all grateful for it."I knew it was a good song but I didn't think that would happen.
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Platinum Lacrosse is a new company based in New Westminster, British Columbia, and founded by Jordan McBride, the former Stony Brook standout and a current member of the NLL's Colorado Mammoth and MLL's Denver Outlaws. Offering a unique line of shafts and mesh, Platinum Lacrosse sent us a sample pack, which was one of the first boxes we opened in the New Year.
What we saw inside was a bit of a surprise, not knowing the company was giving us a look at its Platinum Flight lacrosse shafts. Featuring an excellent strength-to-weight ratio, a sleek matte finish, and a slight flex, McBride says Platinum Lacrosse "put the time and effort into making this product our baby."
McBride says the Flight is designed for the attack or offense-oriented. The shaft comes in a range of colors, including orange, black, red, pink, purple, "volt," white and navy blue. "Platinum Lacrosse believes in quality and that is what we have created in the Platinum Flight," McBride says.
For more information on Platinum Lacrosse and its products, visit the company's website, where you can also see the box-specific shaft the company makes, known as the Platinum Box shaft. Stay tuned this week to ILGear.com for more from Platinum.
Platinum Lacrosse's Platinum Flight shaft, shown here in orange and "volt" colors.
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Barbara M. Raudonis began her professional nursing career in 1978 as an Officer in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service at Fort Defiance Indian Hospital on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Her passion for gerontological nursing and care of the dying grew from "seeds planted" during that time of service.Dr. Raudonis joined the faculty of the College of Nursing in 1997. She taught gerontological nursing courses in both the BSN and RN-BSN programs. Her primary teaching responsibilities are now in the MSN and PhD programs. Dr. Raudonis holds the Myrna R. Pickard Professorship. She also holds fellowship status in the National Gerontological Nurses Association and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. She serves on the Editorial Board of the journal, Geriatric Nursing. Dr. Raudonis was inducted into the Universtiy of Texas at Arlington Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2012.The focus of her program of research is symptom science in gero-palliative care. After completing the Summer Genetics Institute on the NIH Campus she is integrating genomics into her program of research.
University of Texas Arlington
Study Title: "Evaluation of the Reliability of the Nurse's Self-Assessment of Genetics in Practice Inventory (NSGPI) in Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses in the United States". Funding source:Texas Organization of Baccalaureate and Graduate Education. (2012-2013).
All nurses including hospice and palliative care nurses must recognize genomic components underlie almost all diseases. A British survey of 400 hospice nurses found that although the majority of respondents believed genetic-related activities were important to hospice care, they lacked confidence in their ability to carry out those activities. To date there are no published studies exploring genetics-related activities in palliative care with American hospice nurses.
We conducted a national randomized survey of members of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) to explore the current state of genetic and genomic related activities in palliative care in the United States. Seventy-one members of HPNA completed a computerized version of the Nurse's Self-Assessment of Genetics in Practice Inventory (NGSPI). Participants believed the clinical and biological categories of genetic-related activities were important but they lacked confidence in carrying out those activities. Respondents rated psychosocial related genetic activities, more important and were more confident in carrying them out. Genetics education is needed for nurses at all levels of academic preparation and specialities so all nurses meet patient and family needs experiencing inherited genetic and complex conditions.
Overall interest: symptom science in geriatric oncology and palliative care. Also interested in gerontological nursing, hospice and palliative care nursing and end of life issues. Currently exploring 1) symptoms (ex.fatigue) experienced by older women with breast cancer and multiple comorbidities; 2) community-based exercise intervention for cancer patients; and survivorship issues of older adult cancer patients with multiple comorbidities.
Podium presentation by Sandra A. Laird; Barbara M. Raudonis was second author.
Virtual poster presentation available online.
Podium Presentation
Newcomb, P., Golden, P., Canclini, S., Cauble, D., & Raudonis, B. Poster presentation at the Texas Health Fort Worth Annual Poster Reception
Authors: Raudonis, B.M., & Cauble, D. Poster presentation
Authors: Raudonis, B.M., & Cauble, D. Podium presentation by B. Raudonis at the 42nd Biennial Convention of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau Internation, November 16-20, 2013
Authors: Raudonis, B.M., & Cauble, D. Poster presentation at the International Society of Nurses in Genetics Conference, October 4-6, 2013, Bethesda, MD
Using Virtual Reality to Communicate about Genomics in the Healthcare Community
Authors were: Newcomb, P., Jones, S., Baker, J.D., Cauble,D., & Raudonis, B. Podium presentation was by Cauble and Raudonis
Older Adults and FamilyHealth History Now or Never: Using the Surgeon General's Family Health Portrait.
Poster presentation by Raudonis, B., & Cauble, C.
Virtual poster presentation
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Geriatric Nursing
Chairperson of the UTCON Graduate Studeis Commitee and the Graduate Education Program Committee
Elected as one of four Senators from CON to the UTA Facutly Senate
Elected as a representative from the College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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Trains and subways ground to a halt as more than 600 million people in India faced a blackout after half the national power grid shut down. Experts say the outdated grid cannot keep up with the country's energy needs. NBC's Jim Maceda reports.
Updated at 11:10 a.m. ET: NEW DELHI -- Half of India's 1.2 billion people were without power Tuesday as the grids covering 19 states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days.
Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the northwestern deserts of Rajasthan, the outage was the worst to hit India in more than a decade and embarrassed the government, which has failed to build up enough power capacity to meet soaring demand.
The power loss includes grid failures in northern, eastern and northeastern India.
A power outage in India has left more than 600 million people without electricity in one of the world's biggest-ever blackouts. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
"Even before we could figure out the reason for yesterday's failure, we had more grid failures today," said R. N. Nayak, chairman of the state-run Power Grid Corporation.
By the afternoon rush hour, only about 40 percent of power was back up. Electricity had not been restored to all of the sweltering capital, New Delhi, and streets were clogged with commuters trying to get home.
"It's certainly shameful. Power is a very basic amenity and situations like these should not occur," said Unnayan Amitabh, 19, an intern with HSBC bank in New Delhi, as he was giving up on the underground train system and flagging down an auto-rickshaw to get home.
"They (politicians) talk about big ticket reforms but can't get something as essential as power supply right," Amitabh said.
Temperatures in New Delhi have been about average for this time of year, hovering in the 90s with some rain. But the rains from the June-September monsoon season, which is the primary source of irrigation for most of India's farmlands, have been about 20 percent below average up to this point, according to The Economic Times, India's top financial paper.
Among the states hit hard are agricultural areas such as wheat-belt Punjab and Uttar Pradesh in the Ganges plains, which has a larger population than Brazil. With less rain to irrigate crops, more farmers resort to electric pumps to draw water from wells.
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Heavy traffic clogged streets in central New Delhi, India, on Tuesday following power outages and rain.
Dozens die as blaze engulfs overnight train in India
Miners trapped
Two hundred miners were stranded in three deep coal shafts in the state of West Bengal when their electric elevators stopped working. Eastern Coalfields Limited official Niladri Roy said workers at the mines, one of which is 3,000 feet deep, were not in danger and were being taken out.
Train stations in Kolkata were swamped and traffic jammed the streets after government offices closed early in the dilapidated coastal city of 5 million people.
The power failed in some major city hospitals and office buildings had to fire up diesel generators.
By mid-evening, services had been restored on the New Delhi metro system.
"At one level it is not all that dramatic because most people do have backups because our power system is prone to breakdowns. What is dramatic today is that it has happened across the country," Himangshu Watts, the energy editor for The Economic Times told NBC News.
"In big cities like Delhi all the hospitals will have backup generation. ... What I'm concerned about (is) what would happen in ... surgery in a small town," he said.
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Power cuts at major hospitals
Nineteen of India's 28 states with a total population of more than 600 million people suffered outages on Tuesday, India's NDTV said, with the lights out even at major hospitals in Kolkata.
Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde blamed the system collapse on some states drawing more than their share of electricity from the overstretched grid. Asia's third-largest economy suffers a peak-hour power deficit of about 10 percent, dragging on economic growth.
"This is the second day that something like this has happened. I've given instructions that whoever overdraws power will be punished," Shinde said.
A staffer at the Indian Ministry of Power told NBC News that Tuesday's outage, which occurred just after 2 p.m. (4:30 a.m. ET), was still being repaired.
Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP
Commuters wait for buses outside a subway station in New Delhi on Tuesday after the second major power outage in two days disrupted services in India's capital.
On Monday, India was forced to buy extra power from the tiny neighboring kingdom of Bhutan to help it recover from that blackout, which hit more than 300 million people.
Creaky infrastructure
Power shortages and a creaky road and rail network have also weighed heavily on the country's efforts to industrialize. Grappling with the slowest economic growth in nine years, India recently scaled back a target to pump $1 trillion into infrastructure over the next five years.
Full coverage of international news on NBCNews.com
Major industries have dedicated power plants or large diesel generators and are shielded from outages -- but the inconsistent supply hits investment and disrupts small businesses.
High consumption of heavily subsidized diesel by farmers and businesses has fueled a gaping fiscal deficit that the government has vowed to tackle to restore confidence in the economy. But the poor monsoon season means a subsidy cut is politically difficult.
NBC staff, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
More world stories from NBC News:
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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media
The joint venture between WPXI-TV and Trib Total Media continues Sunday night at 11:35 p.m. — right after the Channel 11 News — with a live edition of The Subway Final Word.
>> Who's on the panel: I'll join Rob Biertempfel, the Trib's baseball beat man, and Mark Madden, top-rated radio host of 105.9 the X. The host will be WPXI-TV's Bill Philllips.
>> What we're talking about: The Pirates open Monday with mixed expectations. Barry Bonds, you might have heard, will be part of it. We'll also talk Penguins-Blackhawks (which is why we're going live, to wait for the game to end), and the Steelers' recent signings.
>> How to participate: Each week, we also take comments that viewers submit The Final Word's Facebook page and Twitter account
>> Where to watch: In addition to the broadcast on WPXI-TV (811 on Comcast), we have WPXI's live online stream for Pittsburgh's many out-of-town sports fans, as well as video podcasts available on both outlets' Web sites.
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Aug. 31, 2010 - Having to leave home unexpectedly can rattle anyone's cool, especially if the house you're leaving is pummeled by wind, water or fire. But, by practicing a home evacuation, you and your family can understand what needs to be done in case of catastrophe — making the real thing a little easier to handle.
"In the event of a sudden emergency, you may have just minutes to gather your family and important papers and get out of your house, possibly for good," says Jeanne Salvatore, senior vice president and consumer spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). "With preparation and practice, you stand the best chance of getting out with what you and your family need and ending up in a safe place."
But how do you prepare for the unexpected? The Insurance Information Institute explains how.
According to the I.I.I., the best first step is to create a home inventory. It will help ensure that you have purchased enough insurance to replace your possessions. The I.I.I. updated their free software to make this step even easier. Erie Insurance also has a home inventory form that you can print out and fill in.
You may be forced from your home for several days or even weeks. Be sure to take essential items such as medicines as well as "comfort items" like your children's favorite toys or books. The I.I.I. suggests having these items ready and packed beforehand, in case of emergency:
Keep important documents in a safe place that you can access easily. In the event of an evacuation take the following documents with you:
Think about the best place your family can head in case of an evacuation. Try to have more than one option: the home of a friend or family member in another town, a hotel or a shelter. Keep the phone numbers and addresses of these locations handy.
Also, identify a specific place to meet in case your family members are separated before or during the evacuation. Ask an out-of-town friend or family member to act as a contact person that everyone in the family could call if needed.
For a video on what it's like to leave quickly, see Ten-Minute Challenge. Or, listen to the audio file Everyone Should Have an Evacuation Plan.
For questions about your insurance policy and coverage, contact an ERIE Agent.


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This table identifies the types of sensors used on TAO moorings and lists their accuracies. Most instrumental accuracies listed are based on pre-deployment and post-recovery calibrations and are the root mean square drift of a group of sensors. Mechanical current meters and current profilers accuracies are based on intercomparisons between co-located instruments. References where available are indicated by [#] in the comments column and listed at the end of the tables. Accuracies of sensors which are new to TAO moorings (longwave radiation, barometric pressure) or which have not yet been evaluated by TAO (water pressure) are those specified by the manufacturer and are indicated by [M].
In cases where sensors
are paired with PMEL supplied electronics (e.g., analog to digital boards)
calibrations include both the sensor and PMEL electronics. Accuracies
listed here (with the exception of currents) do not include environmental
factors such as wind (on rainfall) or buoy motion(on radiation). Measurement
ranges listed are generally those over which the sensors are calibrated.
The ranges over which a sensor will operate (determined by the sensor
and/or PMEL electronics) are listed in parenthesis if they significantly
exceed the calibration range.
A comparison of ATLAS,
TRITON, and IMET mooring meteorological sensors from a land-based intercomparison
study at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in May-June 2000 shows
that in general the three systems measure to equivalent standards of accuracy.
The full report of this intercomparison is contained in footnote [13]
[1] Fairall, C. W.,
P. O. G. Persson, E.F. Bradley, R. E. Payne and S. P. Anderson, 1998:
A new look at calibration and use of Eppley Precision Radiometers. Part
I: Theory and Application. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 15, 1229-1242.
Freitag, H.P., Y. Feng, L.J. Mangum, M.P. McPhaden, J. Neander, and L.D.
Stratton, 1994: Calibration procedures and instrumental accuracy estimates
of TAO temperature, relative humidity and radiation measurements. NOAA
Tech. Memo. ERL PMEL-104, 32 pp.
Freitag, H.P., M.E. McCarty, C. Nosse, R. Lukas, M.J. McPhaden, and
M.F. Cronin, 1999: COARE Seacat data: Calibrations and quality control
procedures. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL PMEL-115, 89 pp.
[4] Halpern, D., 1987:
Comparison of upper ocean VACM and VMCM observations in the equatorial
Pacific. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 4, 84-93.
[5] Plimpton, P.E., H.P. Freitag, and M.J. McPhaden, 1995: Correcting moored ADCP data for fish-bias errors at 0°,110°W and 0°,140°W from 1990 to 1993. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL PMEL-107, 49 pp.
[6] Serra, Y.L., P.A'Hearn, H.P. Freitag, and M.J. McPhaden, 2001: ATLAS self-siphoning rain gauge error estimates. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech.,18, 1989-2002.
Freitag, H.P., M. O'Haleck, G.C. Thomas, and M.J. McPhaden, 2001: Calibration
procedures and instrumental accuracies for ATLAS wind measurements. NOAA.
Tech. Memo. OAR PMEL-119, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory,
Seattle, Washington, 20 pp.
[8] McCarty, M.E., and M.J. McPhaden, 1993: Mean seasonal cycles and interannual variations at 0, 165E during 1986-1992. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL PMEL-98, 64pp.
[9] A'Hearn, P.N., H.P. Freitag, and M.J. McPhaden, 2002: ATLAS module temperature bias due to solar heating. NOAA Tech. Memo OAR PMEL-121, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 24 pp.
[10] Freitag, H.P., M.J. McPhaden, C.Meinig, and P.Plimpton, 2003: Mooring motion bias of point Doppler current meter measurements. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Seventh Working Conference on Current Measurement Technology, San Diego, CA, 13-15 March 2003, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 155-160.
[11] Plimpton, P.E., H.P. Freitag, and M.J. McPhaden, 2004: Processing of subsurface ADCP data in the equatorial Pacific. NOAA Tech. Memo OAR PMEL-125, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA. 41pp.
[12] Lake, B.J., S.M. Noor, H.P. Freitag, and M.J. McPhaden, 2003: Calibration procedures and instrumental accuracy estimates of ATLAS air temperature and relative humidity measurements. NOAA Tech. Memo. OAR PMEL-123, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 23 pp.
Payne, R.E., K. Huang, R.A. Weller, H.P. Freitag, M.F. Cronin, M.J. McPhaden,
C. Meinig, Y. Kuroda, N. Ushijima, R.M. Reynolds, 2002: A comparison of
buoy meteorological systems. WHOI Technical Report
[14] Freitag, H.P., T.A. Sawatzky, K.B. Ronnholm, and M.J. McPhaden, 2005: Calibration procedures and instrumental accuracy estimates of next generation ATLAS water temperature and pressure measurements. NOAA Tech. Memo. OAR PMEL-128, NTIS: PB2008-101764, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 22 pp.
[15] Cronin, M.F. and M.J. McPhaden, 1997: The upper ocean heat balance in the western equatorial Pacific warm pool during September-December 1992. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 8533-8553.McCarty, M.E., L.J. Mangum, and M.J. McPhaden, 1997: Temperature errors in TAO data induced by mooring motion. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL PMEL-108, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 68 pp.
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Vol. 5, No. 2 October 2001
Zemeckis's Contact
By Gregory M. Sadlek
quant'io del regno santo
They should have sent
a poet.
[1] In the third canticle of the Divine Comedy, the Paradiso, Dante's narrator/pilgrim takes leave of earth to travel to heaven in the company of his beloved guide, Beatrice1. Contrary to the impression given by the title, however, the pilgrim spends most of his time traveling up through the geocentric cosmos and reaches a vision of the "heavenly rose" of paradise only in the last few cantos. The Paradiso, in fact, presents a series of "shadowy prefaces," in which blessed souls appear in the various celestial spheres in order to instruct the pilgrim on the wonders of the universe, the corruption of earth, and the nature of their blessedness (Jacoff 210). Although it ends with a glorious attempt to describe the mystical vision of God himself, much of the canticle consists of a journey of desire through a warm, welcoming, and breath-takingly beautiful cosmos (Pertile). Dante the author continuously bemoans the inability of his memory to hold and his language to convey the beauty and mystery of what he saw. In the end, as he recalls gazing on the beauty of paradise, Dante admits to being completely incapable of transmitting the glory of what he saw,
[2] While some of the Paradiso presents a dazzling picture of what Dante imagined the physical cosmos to look like, an even greater portion of the work is given to somewhat abstract but important discussions of the fine points of medieval Christian theology. Indeed, Dante was a philosophical poet. Such a heavy load of speculative theology, however, may be the reason that the Paradiso has sometimes not been as personally moving for Dante's readers as his two other canticles, the Inferno and the Purgatorio, have been. The first two canticles offer dramatic scenes in which the pilgrim witnesses vignettes of some of the most memorable characters and stories in Western literature. One thinks of Dante's encounters with Francesca, Ulysses, and Count Ugolino, for example. In the Paradiso, however, the saints are idealized or "transhumanized," and conflict is, by definition, confined to the mind of the Pilgrim. All is orderly, for the wills of all the blessed are in accord with the Divine Will. Encountered in the sphere of Mercury, Picarda, for example, proclaims, "E'n la sua volontade è nostra pace" [in His will is our peace] (3.85). As a result, judged solely as literature, the Paradiso is less exciting and its characters less engaging than the (sometimes magnificently) flawed characters and personal histories of the other two canticles. Over the centuries the Paradiso has even attracted less critical attention than the other two canticles. One critic, Ricardo Quinones, has, for example, called the Paradiso "that true undiscovered country of Dante studies" (163).
[3] In fact, Quinones goes even further. He speculates that it is unlikely that late twentieth-century readers of the Paradiso will ever move beyond "poetic admiration to the genuine level of personal appropriation" (166). The reasons he cites include the poem's portrayal of the "the (patriarchal) father" as the deepest reality of the cosmos rather than the brotherhood of men and women. In addition, he notes the poem's acceptance of the inherent inequality of people, even in heaven, rather than its insistence on their equality. These are positions, he argues, that are not tenable after the French Revolution (165-66). To these reasons might be added the poem's strong grounding in identifiably medieval culture: its medieval Catholic theology, which may still appeal to many but not to the majority of our contemporaries, and its outdated conception of the nature of the physical universe. I believe, then, that Quinones's point is worth considering even though I continue to enjoy reading the Paradiso and believe it is one of the great works of Western literature.
[4] In this essay, however, I would like to consider a possible inference of Quinones's argument. If the Paradiso is unlikely to move most contemporary Americans to "the genuine level of personal appropriation," does it follow that contemporary readers or viewers are incapable of being deeply moved by works of literature or film that attempt similar kinds of projects? In fact, I contend that just the opposite may be true at the beginning of the twenty-first century. On one hand, films that attempt to update the Inferno or Purgatorio, such as Vincent Ward's What Dreams May Come, may be entertaining, but they are unlikely to touch us at our deepest levels because we are unlikely to believe their visions of the afterlife actually accord with reality. On the other hand, films like Robert Zemeckis's Contact, which attempt to reconcile contemporary science with some of our deepest religious longings, can indeed move us deeply. Since, at least at first glance, the story line of Contact is so different from that of the Paradiso, viewers may not even recognize that the work of the film is parallel in many key respects to the work of Dante's poem.3 It is one task of this essay to demonstrate these parallels.
[5] Contact is the story of a young radio astronomer named Ellie Arroway, a character loosely based on the life of the astronomer Jill Tarter (Poundstone 325). Ellie rebels against the scientific establishment and spends her time listening for possible radio messages from alien civilizations. Her independence and perseverance are rewarded when one day her listening station picks up a radio signal from the vicinity of the star Vega. This leads Ellie to an intellectual and physical "pilgrimage" in which she must unlock the message of her heavenly guides. The message turns out to be plans for a giant space/time travel machine. She is then chosen as earth's representative to travel to the Vega system. She meets a representative of the alien civilization and returns to earth to attempt to convey his message of consolation to a skeptical world.
[6] Although both the film and the novel relate essentially the same basic story line, they differ in several key ways. For my purposes, the most significant of these differences is that Ellie's love interest in the novel, the scientist Ken der Heer, and the independent minded religious thinker, Palmer Joss, are in the film collapsed into a single character. In the film, Palmer Joss is both the religious thinker and Ellie's lover.
[7] Another important change is that in the film Ellie journeys to Vega alone, not in the company of four other astronauts. This focuses the attention more clearly on Ellie's own psychological, religious, and social difficulties, particularly those she encounters when few believe that she actually made a trip at all. In the film, she has no community of fellow pilgrims to affirm her beliefs and to offer emotional support; Palmer Joss must do this instead.
[8] Finally, in the film Ellie's family history is significantly different. In the novel, the young Ellie loses the man who she believes is her biological father and establishes an antagonistic relationship with the man she believes is "merely" her mother's second husband, John Staughton. Ironically, after her mother's death, she learns that Staughton is indeed her biological father. In the film, however, Ellie is an orphan. She never knows her mother and loses her biological father when she is nine years old. In both novel and film, Ellie must work through emotions related to the loss of "the father." In both, there is a (Virgilian and) Dantean "return to the (patriarchal) father" at the climax of the inter-stellar voyage. But in the film, this reunion is one degree more genuine in that the alien takes on the appearance of Ellie's real father, not the appearance of a man who she mistakenly believed was her father. My remarks henceforth will refer primarily to the film version of Contact, for, although the novel has strengths not found in the film, I believe that the particularly Dantean themes I detect in the work are more clearly presented in the film.
[9] There is one key difference between both versions of Contact and Dante's Comedia, however, that must be recognized from the start. If the Comedia's greatest fiction is that it is not fiction (Cherchi), Contact clearly presents itself as a work of fantasy fiction. While in the Paradiso Dante begins to call the Comedia "sacrato" (23.61) or "sacro" (25.1), as if his verses do record an actual journey into the hereafter, Contact makes no such claims. No one is tempted to believe, as some did with Dante, that a person named Ellie Arroway actually made an incredible journey to the stars.
[10] Yet Contact is, just as significantly as the Paradiso, concerned with serious religious and philosophical questions worked out in the context of contemporary knowledge of the cosmos. A professor of astronomy at Cornell University, Carl Sagan criticized works of science fiction that flout known principles of physical science (Sagan, "Preface," 3-4), and he attempted to construct the plot of Contact in a way that it did not violate any. For example, after sending an early draft of his manuscript to a well-respected relativity physicist, Kip Thorne, Sagan changed the pathways of space/time travel in the novel from black holes to worm holes. Although evidence for the existence of black holes is solid, physicists believe that entrance into a black hole could result only in destruction, not travel. While it is not known that wormholes actually exist, they are permitted by Einstein's equations, and if they exist, according to (the then) current scientific understanding, it was not impossible to believe that one could travel through them (Poundstone 325-26).
[11] If viewers can accept the science in Contact, they can also be moved by its religious dimensions. When I call Contact "religious," I do not mean that it attempts to convey the major beliefs of any orthodox religion. From the perspective of orthodox believers, the film could well be considered anti-religious.4 I mean, rather, that it attempts to convey humankind's religious sense of awe and wonder when placed in the presence of what Rudolf Otto called the numinous, the mysterium tremendum.5 Sagan himself refers to Otto's definition of religious feeling in Contact when in the novel Ellie explains to Ken der Heer that science should elicit religious feelings. "In the presence of the mysterium tremendum," Ellie explains,
[12] Just as the Paradiso leads the pilgrim and the reader through a series of "shadowy prefaces" to a direct and immediate encounter with the mysterium tremendum, so too do the film and novel versions of Contact. In Contact, however, the mysterium tremendum is not the "God" of any sort of traditional belief. It is certainly not Dante's God. It is the mystery and grandeur of the cosmos, of its (potential) inhabitants, and of man's place within it.6
[13] Like the Comedia, Contact is a philosophical work of art, and in both works one of the major concerns of the film is the relationship of faith and reason. In both works, the relationship between the two is handled allegorically. In the Comedia, the pilgrim/narrator needs two guides for his journey. Virgil, who represents reason as well as the heritage of the ancient world, can lead the pilgrim only up from Hell through Purgatory. Because he is incapable of continuing further, he is replaced as guide by Beatice, who represents a range of abstractions, including theology and grace. Dante does not, then, reject the importance of reason as a guide, but he clearly subordinates reason to religious belief. As in all of Dante's world, there is a clear hierarchy, and religious belief is superior to reason.
[14] In the film Contact, however, reason and faith are put on equal footing. On one level, Ellie is a personification of scientific reason and skepticism and Palmer Joss a personification of religious belief.7 (The gender switch, with "reason" being female and "faith," male, suggests that Contact is a feminist Paradiso.)8 They might even be seen as two aspects of a single person, with Ellie representing a person's rational aspects and Palmer representing the creative and mystical aspects. One of the clearest arguments of the film is that neither reason nor faith is, by itself, sufficient - that a whole, healthy person must be grounded in each. Faith and scientific reason are incomplete without the other. Hence, minor characters who represent faith not anchored in scientific reason (such as Billy Jo Rankin or the apocalyptic cult leader who blows up the first space/time machine) are unsympathetic or even insane. The same is true for cynical characters, like David Drumlin, who mouth religious discourse when it suits their purpose but, in the end, seem to have no religious beliefs whatsoever.
[15] Unlike Drumlin, Palmer Joss is clearly a sincere believer. In the novel, Palmer is called a fundamentalist (137), but the film is fuzzy about the nature of his religious beliefs. We are told that he is a former Catholic seminarian, and he clearly opposes the rigid fundamentalism of Rankin. Apart from his firm belief in a personal God and the necessity of faith to give meaning to life, the specific tenets of his faith are left vague. While Joss strongly rejects those who are anti-religious, he is also completely open to the discoveries of modern science. Ellie, on the other hand, is an agnostic on the question of God and uses Ockham's Razor to try to convince Palmer to abandon his faith in God. Of the two, she is the less open-minded. However, one of the results of her trip and the subsequent rejection of her account of it is a new appreciation of the truth of human experiences that cannot be proven scientifically. Just as believers claim to have had experiences with God that are not subject to scientific validation, Ellie is convinced that she made her trip to Vega, but she can offer no scientific evidence. At the end of the film, Ellie receives her strongest support from Palmer, who, as a man of faith, can accept Ellie's account at face value without requiring scientific verification. The message, then, is clear. Scientific reason and religious faith are both absolutely essential for wholeness; neither is complete in itself. The sexual union of Ellie and Palmer represents the union of faith and reason on equal footing. In Contact Virgil/Reason is not discarded in favor of Beatrice/faith; rather, they are united in a "sacred marriage."
[16] Besides wrestling with the problem of faith's relationship to reason, Contact, like the Comedia, is structured around a motif of a journey to the "other world." Although the Middle English word "palmer" was a synonym for "pilgrim," it is Ellie Arroway, not Palmer Joss, who journeys to the stars. Both works of literature reflect the basic structure of what Joseph Campbell has labeled the universal "monomyth" (3-48, 245-51). The hero receives a "call to adventure" from a messenger from the "other world." With the aid of various "helpers," he sets off into the other world and undergoes a series of tests. After defeating various inhabitants of the other world, he wins a "boon," a gift that can be carried back over the boarder to the "everyday world" for the benefit of mankind.
[17] The pilgrim Dante's call comes from Virgil, who is sent by Beatrice, St. Lucy, and the Virgin Mary.9 At the time of his call, he is in the midst of a mid-life crisis, lost in a "una selva oscura" [a dark wood] and unsure of how to proceed (Inferno, 1.1-21). After some hesitation, Dante follows Virgil, who is both guide and helper, across the border into the world of the dead. Ellie, too, is lost. She is an outcast from the respectable scientific community, and she has never worked through her grief over the loss of her father. Finally, on the verge of having all her funding terminated, she receives a "call to adventure" from outer space in the form of a radio message from Vega. Her major helpers are a blind scientist, Ken Clark, the mysterious tycoon S.R. Haddon, and, of course, Palmer Joss.
[18] One could argue that the period of time between the discovery of the radio signal and Ellie's journey into space forms a modern kind of Inferno and Purgatorio. During this time, Ellie must journey through the chaos and cacophony of contemporary American life and be tormented by such "demons" as the National Security Advisor, Michael Kitz. The parallels between the plot of Contact and that of the Comedia become most convincing, however, when Ellie, like Dante's pilgrim, begins her voyage up into the cosmos. While Dante does not know for sure whether he traveled through the celestial spheres in body or just in spirit (Paradiso 2.37-42), it is clear in Contact that Ellie physically travels through mysterious wormholes to Vega in a transparent capsule, constructed by human hands but fashioned according to the instructions sent from the heavens.
[19] For both pilgrims, the heavenly journey provides a moving representation of the current understanding of the physical universe. Dante invites his reader to look up to the stars
[20] He notes how each sphere is placed exactly right and that just the slightest divergence from their paths would have meant that the Earth's potentialities would never have come to fruition (Paradiso 10.16-18). What he concludes from his fantastic voyage is:
[21] These words would also be a fitting epigraph for Contact. Although a representative of reason and analysis, Ellie is moved almost to incoherence as she travels through the beauties of inter-stellar space. She can only murmur "How beautiful how beautiful," and her last words before she descends to meet with the alien are "They should have sent a poet." She, thus, experiences an epiphany, a moment when she realizes that certain truths of the universe simply cannot be conveyed by means of normal scientific rhetoric. Her communicative powers, like those of the poet Dante, are defeated by the majesty of the heavens.
[22] For both pilgrims, the journey also provides an opportunity to achieve the heavenly perspective on the smallness of earth, "L'aiuola che ci fa tanto feroci" [the little threshing-floor which makes us so fierce] (Paradiso, 22.151). In addition, both pilgrims receive a kind of existential consolation by means of a reunion with "the father." In Dante's case, "the father" is actually his great grandfather, the crusader Cacciaguida, who welcomes Dante as "his own blood" (Paradiso, 15.28). The meeting with Cacciaguida renews Dante's pride in his own family line. He is an awesome figure, as full of authority as of moral indignation over the feebleness of the current Italian society. He prophesies Dante's future and gives him the commission to speak boldly of what he (Dante) saw in heaven. His approval lifts Dante's spirits.
[23] Although I have called Contact a feminist Paradiso, it is ironic that pilgrim Ellie, like Dante, is also healed by a "return to the father." But Ellie's "father" is not the father of the patriarchy. Deposited on an unknown planet, Ellie meets with an alien who takes the shape of her beloved dead father. Although she soon realizes that the being whom she embraces is not, in fact, her dead father, the effect of this encounter is profoundly healing. Ellie's alien is not a daunting, authoritarian father like Cacciaguida but a loving, affirming father. His embrace heals Ellie's profound sense of loneliness and seems to allow her to move beyond her grief over her father's death.10 He also comments on her hands, which, he says, are her mother's. Since the film shows that one of her hands bears a ring with a beautiful, round blue stone, I take "mother" here to be a reference to "mother earth," and the alien's comment to be a reflection of his admiration in humankind's abilities to use their hands to construct. It is an affirmation of the basic goodness of human technology.
[24] In addition, the alien instructs Ellie, to the extent she is capable of learning, on the nature of the universe. The cosmos in Contact is full of the numinous. The travel through the cosmos fills Ellie with awe of the "wholly other," the mysterium tremendum, which, on one level, is the cosmos itself. In addition, when the father/alien reveals that his own civilization did not build the wormhole travel system, Ellie learns of a mysterious presence/absence of an even greater intelligence. The transport system was left by an earlier, more powerful civilization that had mysteriously disappeared. No explanation about who these creatures were or how they built the space/time travel system is given. Another mysterium tremendum.
[25] The Paradiso ends with Dante's experience of his own mysterium tremendum, the beatific vision of God. Although embedded prophesies of what will happen to Dante when he returns to earth exist in the Paradiso, the canticle ends with the pilgrim, rapt in wonder, staring at the vision of the godhead. In Contact, however, pilgrim Ellie returns to earth. Although her voyage has taken eighteen hours of travel time, due to space/time relativity near the speed of light, the voyage takes place within a split second of earth time. To earth observers, Ellie's capsule simply drops through the travel machine, and there is no physical evidence (at least evidence that is made public) that Ellie made the trip at all. Ellie is accused of hallucinating her meeting with the father/alien and, worse, being a dupe for the evil machinations of S. R. Haddon.
[26] In a moment filled with dramatic irony, Kitz, demanding an explanation for Ellie's claims in light of the lack of scientific evidence, challenges her with Ockham's Razor. Which explanation, he asks, a split-second trip to the stars or an elaborate hoax, is the simpler, more elegant? As a scientist, Ellie admits that she has no verifiable proof of her experience and that, indeed, the whole experience could have been a hallucination. Yet, Ellie, the confirmed skeptic, paradoxically finds herself in the position of a theist. While she cannot prove that her experience happened, she has "blessed assurance" that it actually did. And she "bears witness" to its reality. The skeptic becomes a believer. Like Dante, she can only offer to the investigative panel "quant'io del regno santo / ne la mia mente potei far tesoro" [ so much of the holy kingdom as I could treasure up in my mind] (Paradiso, 1.10-11). While it is true that Ellie actually does bring back scientific proof of her journey in the eighteen hours of static recorded by her camera, Ellie is never made aware of this proof and, thus, her belief in the reality of her voyage rests on faith alone.
[27] The boon that Dante carries back from the other world is many-faceted. It is both a prophetic call to repentance and a consoling vision of reward in the afterlife for those who do good. It is an affirmation that humans are not alone and that, despite the harshness of earthly life, they live in a reality that is, at its most essential, warm, beautiful, and caring. Dante's boon is a call for individuals to join the communion of saints. Ellie's boon both differs and agrees with Dante's in significant ways. On the one hand, Ellie finds that there is no God to judge humans, no call to individual repentance, no condemnation of human sin. When Ellie asks the alien if her meeting with him involves a test, he replies "no tests."11 On the other hand, Ellie brings back a message that humankind can find meaning in life by seeing itself as a part of the inter-stellar community of intelligent life. While the God of orthodox western religions does not exist in Sagan's universe, his universe is not the absurd, meaningless cosmos of the existentialists. The existence of a welcoming community of intelligent life means that the universe, although physically vast and indifferent, offers a message of warmth, comfort, and meaning--different in its details but similar in its effect to that of Dante. Humankind finds meaning in life by trying to become a part of something larger than itself, not the communion of saints, to be sure, but the cosmic community of intelligent life.
[28] Critics of both of Sagan's novel and the film have been split on the question of its intellectual and artistic heft. On the one hand, some critics see them as challenging philosophical works. On the other hand, other critics report that Sagan's ideas are thin or clichéd. Richard Schickel sarcastically likens the film to an asteroid, "a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance."12 After readings all the reviews, one wonders if the critics were actually reading the same novel or viewing the same film. One of the reasons for this disparity may be that some critics confuse religion with orthodox belief. They do not see that scientific longings can be religious at their very core. From the distance of seven hundred years, it is easy to forget that Dante's Paradiso, although constructed to convey a religious experience, was grounded not only in the religious beliefs but also in the science and cosmology of his own day.13 Contact's heft comes from the fact that it seeks to convey a similar religious experience and to offer a similar consolation, even though it is grounded in a vision of the numinous that is congruent with the late twentieth-century science and cosmology.
[29] Contact is a Dantean film that will indeed be personally appropriated by large numbers of its audience. That Dantean Contact moves many of its viewers quite deeply suggests that the basic elements of Dante's masterpiece, which lie just beneath its medieval surface elements, will continue to exercise a strong attraction for readers who see their religious longings somehow reflected in the stars.
1. This article is based on a paper given at the International congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 3 May 2001. I would also like to acknowledge the aid of research assistants Christopher Lantz and Maria Isabelle Barros.
2. Paradiso, The Divine Comedy, ed, and trans. Charles S. Singleton, Bollingen Series 80 (Princeton: Princeton, 1977), 30.22-24 [336-37]. All further citations from the Paradiso as well as the English translations will be taken from this edition and cited in the text by canto and line numbers.
3. To the best of my knowledge, no one has yet made this comparison although Bette Chambers has remarked that Dante would have been pleased with the proof of God's existence in the novel (43).
Critics have noticed that both the novel and the film treat the conflict of science and religion, but, to the best of my knowledge, no one has made much of the fact that science and religion are reconciled in them. Gregory Benford, for example, has written that in the novel "Conflicts between science and religion emerge early and play intellectual counter-point" (12). James Kendrick notes that the film concerns "the conflict between science and religion." John Simon notes that the film presents "a running debate between science and religion"(52).
4. E.g., see Silver 52-54.
5. Otto 12-40.
6. The religious nature of Ellie's journey is noted by both Colin Greenland (1224) and Raphael Shargel (18-19). Peter Lawler notes that the film Contact "appeals...to the religious dimension of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence" (131). Lawler, however, finds that Sagan's aliens, particularly due to their lack of aggression, are not believable (131-35).
Contact is not the only work in which Sagan approaches science "religiously," Thomas M. Lessl argues that Sagan uses "a rhetoric often more characteristic of religious than scientific discourse" in his television series Cosmos. The effect of this religious discourse, argues Lessl, is twofold. It helps maintain "the privileged status of science in society" and it grounds faith "in an unimpeachable body of knowledge" (176). I believe that these two goals are operative in Contact as well, but my argument about the religious discourse in Contact goes a step further. Neither of Lessl's goals touch religious feeling. I believe that there is an attempt in the novel and the film to convey a feeling of the numinous.
A more abstract attempt to convey the wonders of science and to contract it with various kinds of false belief occurs in the essays of Sagan's wonderful book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
7. Kendrick notes that "Contact balances science and religion by making the two central characters philosophical polar opposites," but he does not treat them as allegorical representations of science and religion.
8. In a review appearing in Booklist, "P.K." notes that the novel has "feminist twists" (290). The feminist ideology in Contact is also noted in the Antioch Review, where the anonymous reviewer notes that Sagan "spends time and effort frying theological and feminist fish" (251).
9. Inferno, The Divine Comedy, ed, and trans. Charles S. singleton, Bollingen Series 80 (Princeton: Princeton, 1970), 2.52-117 [16-21]. All further citations from the Inferno will be taken from this edition and cited in the text by canto and line numbers.
10. The healing aspect of this encounter is made explicit in the novel. After returning to earth, Ellie thinks of the alien and realizes that "Whatever happened next, a wound deep within her was being healed. She could feel the scar tissue knitting. It had been the most expensive psychotherapy session in the history of the world" (378).
11. In this aspect, the novel differs from the film to the extent that the astronauts receive an implied threat that, if humans do not find a way to cooperate with each other, they will be left to themselves or even destroyed. This point becomes clear in Ellie's reflections on what the alien shows her. She thinks:
12. Schickel 150. Among those who find the film challenging are Edd Doerr and Frederick Edwards, who call the film "a feast of intellectual entertainment" (46). Other critics who are impressed by the film's ideas are John Simon and James Kendrick. Critics who find the novel's ideas challenging include Gregory Benford, Jeff Clark, and Sam Cornish. Critics who find either the novel or the film trite or cliched include Thomas Bray, Marcus Chown, Peter Nicholls, Libby Gelman-Waxner, Raphael Shargel, and J. M. Wall.
13. In canto two, Dante even describes a primitive physics experiment that the reader could try to "prove" the pilgrim's "observations" on the intensity of the reflection of light in various parts of the cosmos (Paradiso, 2.94-105).
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Band of Horses - "The Great Salt Lake"
Charlie Drown - "Crazy X"
Evile - "Genocide"
The Guild feat. Felicia Day - "(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar"
Lightwires - "Magician"
Loren Dircks - "I Hope You're Happy"
Robotmakers - "Building a Robot"
Sleater-Kinney - "Entertain"
Social Code - "Satisfied"
Price: $1.99/160 MSP/200 WP per track (Rock Band Network prices vary by track)
ABC - ""The Look Of Love""
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Chicago - "Hard To Say I'm Sorry"
Iyaz - "Replay"
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Hotel Caprice des Neiges Combloux: Find photos, reviews, information, amenities and compare prices for 2 stars hotels in Combloux, France.
Hotel Caprice des Neiges Combloux is situated in Combloux and offers a free shuttle service. Located close to popular attractions, the hotel also provides views of Sallanches.
Hotel description
There are a range of facilities on offer to guests of Chalet Caprice, such as snow sports, on-site parking and a playground. Guests can also enjoy hiking and a table tennis table.
There are 20 rooms at Hotel Caprice, each offering all the essentials to ensure a comfortable stay.
Hotel Caprice des Neiges Combloux houses both a restaurant and a bar where guests can unwind at the end of the day. Alternatively, the local area features many bars and restaurants serving a choice of varied cuisines.
Annecy - Haute-Savoie - Mont Blanc Airport is a 65-minute drive from Chalet Caprice. Chamonix Valley is within an easy drive from the hotel.
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The Houston Rockets traveled to Memphis to take on the Grizzlies Friday night, and they fell to the Grizzlies, 93-85, for their first home loss of the season, as well as their third consecutive loss overall after their surprising 2-0 start.
It was a frustrating loss for the Rockets mostly because all three losses have had the same formula, double Harden and/or Lin on the pick-and-roll and let James Harden and Jeremy Lin beat you by passing the ball.
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It is hard now to remember the fears and passion aroused by the first major Bill passed in the Scottish Parliament — its land reform legislation. For some, including Scotland's first First Minister, Donald Dewar, it was totemic: a way of taking the land out of the hands of the few and distributing it to the many. To critics it was simply a land grab.
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This letter is a response to Carlos Perez's letter to the editor referencing "Expo bylaws."
First, I want to commend Perez for taking interest in county government. I concur that it should be the commissioners court that should write and approve the Expo Center board bylaws. The court is currently waiting on the final approval from our county attorney, in reference to legal issues before the commissioners court can approve said bylaws. I also agree with Perez that an audit should be conducted. The current contract between the county and the Expo Center board allows the county auditor to conduct audits on the finances of that entity. I have recommended to the county auditor to consider such audit.
Perez says that I was mistaken when I stated: "No taxpayers' money is involved in what the Expo Center does." Perez was referring to the $143,331 that the county budgeted for the Expo Center this fiscal year.
Perez, for whatever reason, added the words "is" and "center" to my statement. He also chose to leave off the most important word, "board," from my statement.
What I said was "no taxpayers' money involved in what the Expo board does." This statement can be found and read on Page 6A in the Bee-Picayune dated March 2, 2011, under the title "Commissioners argue over possible conflicts of interest with Expo board." The county budget for the Expo Center of $143,331 does reflect $25,000 for utilities. The usage cost of utilities at the Expo Center during any fiscal year is much more than the revenues generated by the Expo Center to cover those costs. Because of that, the court budgets funds to meet those expenses every fiscal year. Those are taxpayers' monies, but they are managed and controlled by the commissioners court and only allocated by court approval, not the Expo board. Thus, I stand by my statement... "No taxpayers' money is involved in what the Expo board does."
The only funds the Expo Center board oversees are those revenues that are generated by the activities that are held at the facility. I challenge Perez to check with the auditor's office to verify these facts, as I have.
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How's this for inducing "a weeping and a moaning and a gnashing of teeth": you got lucky or paid out the wazoo and got that elusive pair of Nike Air Yeezy 2s, but then you've gotta subject them to a hardcore skateboarding wear test! Most sneakerheads would beg for mercy but Minneapolis' A. Hart grinded to Kanye West's beat by the same name in a recent examination of the Yeezy 2's skate credentials. Judging from the grinds, slides and flips on and around the Yeezy-2-fied funbox, Ye's second Nike Sportswear collabo can indeed be appropriated for purposes other than 'lifestyle'. On the other hand, we don't have any feedback on the durability, and a mesh toebox isn't exactly the kind of thing you'd typically associate with repeated griptape abrasions. So yes, you can most definitely turn heads and even successfully land some tricks in the Nike Air Yeezy 2, but the real question here is: how does that decision look over the long term? Let us know what you think when you're on the other side watching the video and stick with Sneaker News for more of the rarest and most desired kicks in the world in unique situations.
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Levi Maestro did this better in Blk Yeezy 1's.. And scuffed em.. Nothing new
http://vimeo.com/m/4373571 it's been done and done before...
F*ck it they're his. greedom1@twitter greedomworldwide@instagram greedom.tumblr.com
As a person who tried so hard to get a pair of these and struck out on every avenue, it pains me to watch this. At least he's wearing them
air yeezy 3 x nike sb???? one can only dream and save 3 grand for them
Now dissect them shits i want to see how it was all put together and if i had a pair id skate em to fuck it they are just shoe.
I would have rather sold them on ebay and went on vacation or buy about 10 pairs of other kicks.
THIS IS RAD. what a sick video. SO WELL DONE.
i'm not a yeezy head, but rather this than dissecting them
haha, awesome way to use them respect.
Ha.. wowwwww are they serious!?!?! They have nothing else to write about these f**kin yeezys...... give it a rest already! SH*T. Who they got the idea from,.... the skateboard wannabe Lil Wayne????? pleaseeeeee....
At least he's using them, and not reselling them! To each his own!!
You know black people skated before Lil Wayne bro? I understand what you mean but he is pretty late to the party and he knows that. So out of respect to others who been doing it for a minuet why think everything started with dude? ..
^what language are you speaking...because it's definitely not English...
the end shot with the glow is sickness.
he is absolutely right, they did get it from wayne. no he is not the first, but he is the most popular one. Everyone has opinions and views different from others, why are people so quick to attack others. Let them speak freely as you would want your voice to be heard
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Sydney - Ricky Ponting hit his first Test century in two years and Michael Clarke reached his highest Test score as Australia took an iron grip on the second Sydney Test against India on Wednesday.
Ponting, 37, gave the perfect riposte to those calling for his retirement with a dogged 134 in a partnership of 288 runs for a burgeoning 158-run lead over the dispirited tourists at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
At tea on the second day, Australia were 349 for four with Clarke unconquered on 170 and Mike Hussey not out on eight.
Ponting took off for a single on 99 to mid-on and dived full length to make his ground as Zaheer Khan's throw narrowly whistled past the stumps at the bowler's end 20 minutes after lunch.
The former skipper climbed off the ground, his shirt covered in dirt, smiling broadly and with his bat raised to mark his first hundred in 34 Test innings – his last being 209 against Pakistan in Hobart in January 2010.
It was his 40th Test century, his seventh against India and sixth at the SCG where he is also the leading all-time Test run-getter with 1 480.
Ponting was finally out shortly before tea when he sliced to Sachin Tendulkar in the gully off Ishant Sharma. He batted for 335 minutes, faced 225 balls and hit 14 fours.
Clarke brought up his 18th Test century and fourth against India with a glorious cover drive off Sharma in the last over before lunch.
It was Clarke's second Test century of the Australian summer season after scoring 139 against New Zealand in Brisbane last month.
The Australian skipper went on to pass his highest Test score of 168, scored against New Zealand in Wellington in March 2010.
It was the only wicket to fall on a dominant day for Australia, building a huge lead over India, who were paying for their mediocre 191 first innings on Tuesday's opening day.
Clarke and Ponting came together with Australia at a shaky 37 for three and have put the home team in a strong position to force a result.
India have never won a Test series in Australia and trail the home side in the four-Test series after a comprehensive 122-run defeat in last week's opening Melbourne Test.
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Hotel Stars Dijon: Find photos, reviews, information, amenities and compare prices for 2 stars hotels in Chenove, France.
Featuring free Wi-Fi, Hotel Stars Dijon is located in Chenove and offers cosy accommodation. This charming hotel is an ideal base for exploring local vineyards as it is set in the Burgundy Wine Region.
Hotel description
There are a variety of facilities on offer to those staying at Hotel Stars Dijon Chenove, such as conference rooms, a wake-up service and meeting rooms. Parking is also available.
All the rooms at Stars Dijon provide a private bathroom, a flat-screen TV and heating. A shower, cable/satellite channels and a telephone are also provided.
Hotel Stars Dijon provides breakfast each morning that guests can enjoy before venturing out to explore the local region.
Dijon Bourgogne - Longvic Airport is under a 25-minute drive from Hotel Stars Dijon Chenove. Domaine Ponsot and Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy are just a short drive from the hotel.
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Goodale Park has officially recovered from ComFest, and it's ready to play hostess to a fun night out once more.
Set your time travel dial to dusk this Friday for the first of this year's Screen on the Green, a series during which classic movies are shown on a 30-foot movie screen at Goodale's softball diamond. This year's inaugural movie is the first (and best) "Back to the Future."
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Dieulefit Les Flacheres - Villa Feel Home
Detached house 3 bedrooms.
Accomodation: 4 to 6 persons with 6 sleeping capacity
A villa of a 110 môý located in a private park that is completely fenced.
The house has 5 main rooms.
Living room, dining, family room with extra bedding, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, bathroom, shower, toilets, garage.
Bedding: 2 beds 90x190, 1 bed 140x200, 2 beds 90x190.
Terrace 40 môý private.
Private domain 5000 môý fully landscaped.
1 garage and 2 Parking lot(s).
Commmon services to the 3 rented houses at Flachû´res.
A 12x6m salt swimming pool (High Season).
Terrace over 100 môý surrounding the swimming pool.
Sun bath.
Outside shower (solar).
Tennis court.
Kiosks, BBQ/Plancha.
Aromatic garden.
Laundry room (washing machine and dryer).
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Villa fully renovated in 2011 with a vast living area leading onto a 40 môý terrace, it is located in a 5000 môý landscaped park that is well maintained. A calm environment as this villa is independent and has a view on the surrounding mountains. It has very high qualities. Located less than 2 km (s) from the centre of Dieulefit (DrûÇme ProvenûÏale) and its shops, our residence is private and accomodate 3 holiday homes on a 5000 môý land with a tennis court and swimming pool.
Internet Access available (Wifi)
Plancha available in summer
Television (TNT/SAT/HiFi/Home Cinema/Blueray)
Stay Weekends, Weeks or on demand
Fully equipped (kitchen, bath and shower, furniture, decoration)
Linens and towels available
Crockery / Kitchen provided for the stay
Cleaning service available (contact us if required)
Electricity, water and heating included in rental price
Pets not allowed
Tourist tax 0,35€ per day and tenant
Payment of 30% to confirm booking
Nearby Leasure.
Trout fishing, swimming, horse riding, hiking, mountain biking, paragliding, golf, cinema, discotheques, potters, pottery classes, glassworks, climbing, crocodile farm etcãÎ.
All shops are less than 2km(s) from the villa
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|Grau du Roi 150 km
|Car advised
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|Nearest airport: Lyon 150 km, Nearest railway: Montûˋlimar 26 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
|Private indoor pool, Internet access, DVD player
|Private indoor pool
|Central heating, TV, Safe, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|Double Beds (1), Single Beds (4), Dining seats for 6, Lounge seats for 2
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair available
|Private indoor pool, Balcony or terrace, Private garden, Private tennis court, BBQ, Bicycles available
|Secure parking, Not suitable for wheelchair users
At the heart of the Dr¶me ProvenÓale, Dieulefit is a village that became famous for its many qualities: it is ranked best tourism resort since 1928. Historically, its very unique climate has been developed for the care of heart and respiratory diseases. Also Dieulefit is known for a very old tradition related to ceramics and pottery art.
Thanks to the many craftsmen who settled in Dieulefit can now claim a label "cities of crafts trade." The village has always been home to many artists and craftsmen, as Jacques Pouchain, ceramist and painter, whose works can be found at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, who still resides in Dieulefit or Stephen Christmas.
You can't travel to Dieulefit without taking time to visit the potters workshops, art galleries or the House of Ceramics, cultural and heritage center, not to mention the cultural events that you should be attending such as festivals, in and outdoors or in small Romanesque churches full of charm.
Dieulefit is also very famous and known for exceptional spots of hiking and outdoor sports (biking, paragliding, quad ...). Many laps are designed for beginners or more experienced bikers to discover amazing landscapes, for example on the trails of the GR "Dieulefit Country."
Dieulefit is also a way of life, where conviviality is written around selected local products: the "picodon" AOC famous goat cheese, truffles, olives from Nyons, Cotes du Rhone wines ... The Drome is the first bio department of France!
Are you convinced? Discover the Dr¶me Provencale and its surroundings, what a better way to organize your next vacation and find a sunny place, undertake outdoor activities, take advantage of this village full of charm and authentic ... Discover the heart of Dieulefit.
Close to Montelimar, we provide villas 5 minutes from dieulefit downtown, in quiet area surrounded by mountains. Each of our homes offer many services (WiFi, TV, blu-ray, radio, pool, tennis, BBQ, lounge area, kiosks, wooded gardens and terraces).
Geographic location:
Dieulefit lies between DrûÇme Provence and Dauphinûˋ (capital of glassware and pottery) close to: Enclave des Papes, Nyons the olive capital, the magnificent forest of Saou, Les Gorges Ardeche, Vaison la Romaine, Mont Ventoux, Crest, and Grigan castle of Marquise de Sevigne, the Baronnies, Mont Ventoux, Montelimar the capital of nougat, Mont Ventoux, the Vaucluse Mountains.
Holiday rentals are ideal for a family, couple or friends (up to 15 guests in Flacheres and 30 guests in Hubacs) in Dieulefit while enjoying the charm of this village in the heart of the Drome ProvenûÏale. Our villas are furnished, fully equipped and available all year-round, book online and get the best rate depending on the season.


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The view from up there was amazing, the best that I saw in the Blue Mountain. In my opinion if you going to Katoomba, don't miss this walk. It's not a easy one, but it is an amazing site.