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Leighton and Port beaches were closed this morning and Fisheries Department officers set more drum lines after a 4m shark was spotted a few hundred metres off Leighton beach.
Surf Life Saving WA reported that a 4m shark was swimming south about 100m off North Leighton about 8.30am, as hoards of people began arriving for surf club.
The alert prompted the fisheries vessel, which had been returning from Mullaloo after inspecting Perth drum-lines, to rush south.
Swimmers and surfers were still in the water despite the warning.
After arriving at Leighton, officers set extra drum-lines at the southern corner of the beach in a bid to catch the shark, the species of which is unknown.
The beaches were later re-opened after no further sightings of the shark.
All 10 drum lines were checked earlier this morning but all were clear.
On Friday the lines were deployed for the first time off the metropolitan coast under the Barnett Government's shark catch-and-kill policy.
Four tiger sharks, all under the 3m limit. have been caught in the first three days since the lines were set off metropolitan beaches.
Of those, three have been released and the other was dead when fisheries officers arrived.
A dead 2m-long shark was dumped about 15km offshore yesterday as hooks were being checked hours before thousands of people rallied at Cottesloe Beach this morning.
The shark, believed to be a tiger shark, was pulled aboard about 6.45am off Leighton Beach.
A second shark was pulled up and released off Scarborough Beach at 10.35am.
About 6000 people descended on Cottesloe Beach yesterday to protest against the State Government's shark-kill policy.
They stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the sand, terraces, stairs and in the car park united in their opposition of the drum lines 1km offshore.
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The beach was transformed into a sea of placards by 10am, dotted with women in mermaid costumes, men dressed up as sharks and a cardboard cut-out of Premier Colin Barnett hooked on the end of a fishing rod.
Police on horseback watched over the rally and a plane circled overheard towing a banner that said "Great Whites have rights #nosharkcull."
Chants rang out between the speeches, including, "It's their water, stop the slaughter," and, "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want your bloody baits."
At one point, the crowd turned around to face the Fisheries boats as they travelled past, shouting, "Leave our sharks alone."
A couple of pro-policy protestors arrived to a chorus of boos, but they were outnumbered 3000:1 by a mix of teenagers, families and seniors.
Former journalist and shark expert Hugh Edwards addressed the protest, labelling the Barnett Government's catch-and-kill policy a "waste of everybody's time".
"That policy has failed dismally as you can see by the number of people here," he said.
"It's going to cost between three and five million dollars for the first year and it's not going to prevent attacks.
"All of the fatal attacks in WA since the year 2000 have been great whites and great whites of major size.
"When we had the five attacks two years ago, two people were totally consumed, two were bitten in half and the fifth would have been consumed if they hadn't got the remains into the boat.
"That indicates there's a shark of five to six metres, species great white, and we need to know more about great whites."
He said the money would be better spent on scientific studies, such as working with the US group Ocean Search.
Protest organiser Natalie Banks said the money should go towards tagging, helicopter patrols, the eco-barrier trial at Coogee Beach and shark shield technology.
Labor leader Mark McGowan slammed Mr Barnett for wasting all the good work the Liberal Government had done on shark attacks before the introduction of drum lines.
He said the current policy was a waste of money that could be spent on tagging or other pressing issues including mental health.
"I am absolutely certain that every person here today values human life and I am absolutely certain that every person here today also values our beautiful, diverse, wonderful ocean," Mr McGowan said.
"It does not need to be a choice between the two.
"If offends me when I see people on the television like Troy Buswell making out as though if you object to this, you don't value human life."
Sea Shepherd managing director Jeff Hansen said the Government was forcing the Fisheries Department to carry out a cull it did not support.
"Look what the Barnett Government is making our Fisheries Department do," he said.
High Wycombe mother of three Christine Maynard, 57, questioned why the Government would remove the drum lines before the Rottnest Swim.
"Why are they pulling them out for the Rottnest Swim? Does that mean it's dangerous in the water at the moment," she said.
"This isn't based on any scientific facts - it's just a knee-jerk reaction and it makes it so much less safe. I wouldn't take the kids out there if I still had young kids.
"(Barnett) should listen to the people. He should listen to what the every day, ordinary people have to say."
Dino Colica, a 36-year-old from Bibra Lake, was at Cottesloe with his wife and child, protesting against the "draconian" policy.
"Obviously Colin Barnett's stance on this is very arrogant. He's not listening to the general public of WA so this is the only way we figure we can help by supporting the activists," he said.
"This isn't just activists or hardcore protestors, it's the general community."
Peter Newman, 25, made the journey from Butler with his family to join the rally against the shark-kill.
"It's a barbaric thing to do. Why can't they tag the sharks and then monitor and research them," he said.
"If someone goes on a safari in Africa and they get attacked by a lion, you don't say, 'Oh well this isn't good enough, we'll have to have a cull.'
"You're going into their territory, just like you're going into the shark's territory."
The Australian Greens told protesters at Cottesloe that the catch-and-kill policy must end immediately because "drum lines along the Perth coast target threatened species and vulnerable marine life".
"This is appalling, cruel and illogical marine policy," Greens leader Senator Christine Milne said.
"The drum lines kill indiscriminately and we have seen sharks being brutally slaughtered off our beaches.
"The Premier should admit he was wrong and end the cull immediately.
"The ocean is the sharks' home. We here recognise that. Mr Barnett should too."
The Greens' marine spokesperson, Senator Rachel Siewert, will present a petition to the Senate in coming weeks with the names of more than 79,000 people opposed to the Government's policy.
"There has been a passionate response from people around Australia and around the world to this cull," Senator Siewert said.
"The WA and federal governments will be held to account for reckless, knee-jerk policy making.
"Drum lines are indiscriminate and threaten a range of marine animals.
"We've already seen undersized sharks caught, and WA's other marine life is under threat.
"Strong, non-lethal policy options exist that can educate and protect the public, including monitoring, tracking and tagging, and personal deterrent technologies."
A 19-year-old woman was issued with a move-on notice and is expected to be summonsed for trespassing after an incident at Fremantle boat harbour this morning.
The Fremantle woman had attached herself to Department of Fisheries vessel about 4.30am.
The Department of Fisheries denied protesters' claims that the boat's departure was delayed by two hours.


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An uncharacteristically poor year saw Liverpool finish eighth in the Premier League, one place below bitter cross-town rivals Everton.
2011-12 equaled their poorest season in the top flight (since the beginning of the Premier League era) and their lowest points tally since 1956.
With a new campaign however, comes a new manager, fresh players, and a sense of renewed ambition.
Here are 5 reasons why Liverpool fans can be optimistic about the 2012-13 season.

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There might be no more difficult road game in Major League Soccer than against Real Salt Lake, a combination of atmosphere, altitude and the fact the home team is probably the best side in the league.
It's the challenge facing the Galaxy following a huge step forward on the weekend, but building upon their first victory in two months isn't all about winning.
L.A. could lose Wednesday night at Real Salt Lake and consider it another stride toward where the team wants to be, which is the playoffs. L.A. is just five points out of fifth place -- and 11 out of third, which avoids the wild-card round -- with 20 games to go, and both of those targets would have been easy pickings last year.
But until Sunday night's 1-0 triumph over Portland, a few short stretches of games aside, the 2012 Galaxy haven't had much in common with their predecessors.
"There's still plenty to play for, and there's plenty of hope," Galaxy captain Landon Donovan said following Tuesday's training session at Home Depot Center a few hours before the flight to Utah. "I think what's been most frustrating are results are results. Some days they go your way and some days they don't.
"We've got to be better about how we play. And if we play the way we did Sunday and we'd tied the game or lost the game, I think we could live with that. But it's getting back to playing that way. If we play that way in Salt Lake and don't get the result that we want, I think we can live with that."
The Galaxy had gone eight games without a victory, its U.S. Open Cup opener included, then put together its most complete performance since a 3-1 romp in March over D.C. United despite missing 11 players to injury, suspension and international duty. Last year it didn't matter who wasn't available, L.A. grinded results regardless of personnel; there were clear echoes of that in Sunday's victory.
The schedule, David Beckham noted, is "never ideal when you play on Sunday and have to travel Tuesday and play at [4,550-foot] altitude on Wednesday," but prevailing over such circumstances is key to turning this season around.
"It's not an easy task the play three days later against, in my opinion, the best team in the league," Donovan said. "But if we want to get back to where were were last year, then these are the challenges we need to overcome. Last year we didn't make any excuses about anything, we just went about our business, and we want to get back to that."
WORTH NOTING: Robbie Keane is expected to rejoin the Galaxy in training Thursday, the team's first work day following the game. Ireland finished last at Euro 2012, dropping all three of its games. "We got beaten three times, but there can't be any complaints to the players," Keane told media in Poznan, Poland, after Monday's 2-0 loss to Italy in a Group C finale. "We all gave our 100 percent, we can put our hand high and simply say that we were beaten by better boys. Of course, you come to this tournament with an aim to win. ... You never think you will end up on the back foot." ... Midfielders Mike Magee, Michael Stephens and Hector Jimenez are back from suspension and available for selection, although Jimenez is dealing with a leg injury. ... The all-time series is tied, 8-8-6, after RSL's late rally for a 3-1 victory in a March 10 league opener at HDC. RSL is 8-7-5 in regular-season MLS meetings. ... Donovan said he watched RSL's victory Saturday night over Chivas USA, "and they looked confident and comfortable and they're firing on all cylinders." ... The Galaxy are home Saturday night against the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Head coach: Jason Kreis
Key players: M Javier Morales, M Kyle Beckerman, D Jamison Olave, D Nat Borchers, G Nick Rimando, F Fabian Espindola, F Alvaro Saborio, M Will Johnson.
Local guys: Rimando (Montclair/UCLA), D Tony Beltran (Claremont/UCLA), M Luis Gil (Garden Grove), G Kyle Reynish (Valencia/UC Santa Barbara).
Update: MLS-best RSL (32 points) extended its unbeaten streak to seven with an impressive 3-0 victory over Chivas USA at Home Depot Center last weekend. The Lions have tremendous talent all around the field, and Espindola and Saborio are in particularly good form that ought to be enhanced with Morales' return from a quadriceps injury. Borchers and Olave remain the league's best center-back tandem, Beckerman one of the most influential central midfielders and Johnson one of the most underrated of players.
Out: D Andrew Boyens (sports hernia), F Edson Buddle (right knee surgery), F Adam Cristman (concussion), D Omar Gonzalez (left ACL tear), M Dan Keat (right knee surgery), D Leonardo (right knee inflammation).
Questionable: D Bryan Gaul (facial fracture), M Hector Jimenez (left quad hematoma), F Pat Noonan (right quad strain).
Out: D Chris Schuler (left foot bone stress response).
Questionable: M Luis Gil (right knee strain), M Sebastian Velasquez (right foot turf toe).
Probable: M Javier Morales (right quadriceps strain), D Jamison Olave (right calf strain).
Rio Tinto Stadium (Sandy, Utah), 6 p.m.
Referee: Kevin Stott
TV: KDOC/Channel 56 (English) and KWHY/Channel 22 (Spanish)
Radio: ESPN Deportes (KWKW-AM/1330, Spanish)


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In 1999, after writing a book about improving long-term care for the elderly, Bill Thomas did what authors do: He hit the road for a promotional tour. He appeared on radio and television. He also met with public officials, offering his perspective as a gerontologist — a doctor who specializes in treating the elderly — on what was wrong with nursing homes: They were utterly devoid of hope, love, humor, meaning — the very stuff of life. He gave lectures on the changes he had in mind, which included adding pets, plants, and children to nursing-home life. But at each stop, he also demonstrated why this is no ordinary book and this was no ordinary tour — and why he is certainly no ordinary doctor.
Thomas, now 42, didn't write a prosaic account of the principles behind Eden Alternative, the nonprofit organization that he and his wife, Jude, operate out of their farm in Sherburne, New York. Instead, he told a story, a fantastic tale interweaving fact and fiction. Learning from Hannah: Secrets for a Life Worth Living (VanderWyk & Burnham, 1999) is a novel that doesn't call itself a novel. It begins with Thomas and his wife completing a book about the medical aspects of aging and then taking a much-needed vacation. While sailing south from San Juan toward the island of Montserrat, they get caught in a storm that leaves them shipwrecked. For nearly a year, they live in a mysterious place called Kallimos, where they learn the ways of a society in which the elderly play a vibrant role in the community. Instead of living apart from younger generations, the oldest inhabitants are embraced by them. The wisdom and experience of the elderly are valued as a resource. When Thomas and wife eventually return home, the lessons from Hannah, the old woman who mentored them, become the inspiration and foundation for Eden Alternative.
It wasn't enough for Thomas to communicate his vision for better long-term care through an imaginative book. He also developed a one-man show based on the tale. In the summer of 1999, the Harvard-educated doctor turned novelist turned actor launched the Eden Across America Tour, traveling by private bus to 27 cities in 31 days with his wife, their five children, and his parents. It's not hard to imagine Thomas on stage; he's alternately funny, exuberant, and sincere, offering glimpses of a natural theatricality. After a performance at a medical school in the Midwest, he wrote in his online journal, "I had the strange sense that the ghosts of medical professors past were looking on us and clucking their tongues. I didn't care."
For Thomas, the Eden Across America Tour never ended. It can't. Not if he's going to fix long-term care in this country. For all practical purposes, he says, the industry is broken. "Does anyone want to leave his home and go live in a nursing home?" he asks. "Does anyone want to put a parent, spouse, or loved one there? That's why we're turning the industry upside down."
It's an audacious mission and a truly big fix — one that requires more than just fresh ideas. It demands an unorthodox approach to mobilizing and motivating a wide range of forces, many of which have little incentive to change. "You need to have people go a little nuts about what you want to do," Thomas says. On its own, the industry isn't going to do an about-face and overhaul its core ideas. And individual nursing homes are often too overwhelmed by the day-to-day demands of caring for residents in a heavily regulated field to try anything new. Hoping to prod people into going a little nuts about radical reform, Thomas appeals to their imaginations and their hearts. Hence the book, the tour, and the play. "A lot of innovators don't focus enough on the story that they're telling," he says. "But the story is the only thing that ever gets people to change. It captures your passion and conviction and inspires others to feel the same way."
It's no accident that Eden Alternative evokes another story: that of the Garden of Eden. A garden is the central metaphor behind Thomas's vision. "Human beings aren't meant to live in institutions," he says, "but that's what most nursing homes are: big, impersonal, cold institutions that don't treat people the way they want to be treated. People are meant to live in a garden, a place where they can grow and thrive as human beings."
So far, about 300 nursing homes in the United States (as well as a handful in Europe and Australia) have been "Edenized." Which is to say that these institutions have been deinstitutionalized and turned into warm, nurturing human habitats. The results have proven not only good for residents but also good for business. Impressed by the improved quality of care, residents' health, and staff retention, several states have begun offering Eden grants — using the fines that more backward-looking facilities pay for violating regulations.
Typically, an Eden nursing home is divided into neighborhoods, with a staff that knows the residents personally — their background and interests as well as their medications. There's all sorts of activity: children playing, dogs and cats visiting rooms, birds chirping. The institution becomes a close-knit community teeming with life.
The transformation, however, is often arduous. Creating an Eden home involves major organizational and cultural change, because the facility has to think differently about care, priorities, and old habits. For instance, the residents have more input into how the facility operates, as do the staff members who work closest with them — a shift that often proves difficult for traditional-minded administrators.
"Out of all the people we've talked to about creating Eden homes, no one says, 'This is a horrible idea,' " says Jude Thomas, who conducts Eden workshops with her husband. "But some people think that all they have to do is bring in a dog, and everything will be better. It won't be. This is an entirely different philosophy. It's a total change."
Voices in the Garden (Part I) Jane Lough, administrator, Toomsboro Nursing Center, Toomsboro, Georgia: "This one lady, Mrs. Miller, dressed nicely every day and got her hair done once a week for the first year and a half she was here. Then she went into the hospital for pneumonia, and when she came back, she wouldn't get out of bed. She gave up. So I got her a blue parakeet named Mercy, and we put the cage on an IV pole next to her bed. She would feed it crackers and sing to it. After three or four months, she got up, got her hair done, and started going everywhere with Mercy. She'd tell people she loved that bird."
Mission: Overcoming the Three Plagues
After graduating from Harvard Medical School, Bill Thomas had his heart set on the emergency room. He liked the action and the adrenaline rush. But in 1991, after completing his residency in family medicine at the University of Rochester, he tried something different: becoming the physician at Chase Memorial Nursing Home in New Berlin, New York. He discovered that he enjoyed working with the elderly, getting to know them, hearing their stories. He also discovered that nursing homes were seriously flawed — even the best-performing facilities. At Chase, the equipment was up-to-date, the staff was dedicated, and the inspection record was spotless. Yet the residents were miserable. "What appalled me was how lonely and bored they were," Thomas says. "It was painfully obvious to me that they were dying in front of my eyes."
He concluded that nursing-home residents suffer from three plagues: loneliness, helplessness, and boredom. They feel lonely because they've been uprooted from their family, friends, and even their pets. They feel helpless because they've lost control of their lives; for the most part, they eat, sleep, get dressed, and bathe according to the institution's schedule. Finally, they feel bored because the few activities that are available to them, such as watching television, aren't meaningful or fulfilling. "Care for the elderly is not simply about health care or medicine or technology," Thomas says. "It's about creating the right environment and caring relationships that sustain an older adult in his last years."
While working at Chase, Thomas received a $200,000 grant to improve life for the facility's residents. The experiment gave rise to Eden Alternative. Bringing animals into nursing homes was not a new idea, but in the past, they were usually brought in for visits. They didn't live on the premises, as Thomas prefers. That way, the animals become companions, and the residents grow attached to them. As one of the 10 Eden principles says, "Loving companionship is the antidote to loneliness."
If the elders — Thomas finds the term more dignified — are able, they lend a hand in grooming or feeding the animals, watering plants, or reading with children. These activities not only allow residents to engage in everyday physical therapy, but they also satisfy another fundamental human need, one that often gets neglected: giving care, as opposed to only receiving it.
At Eden facilities, residents and staff are partners. Whenever possible, the two groups work together, voting on what type of pet to add or what type of decorations to put up. Staff members understand that what they call the workplace is a far more intimate and personal place to residents: It's home. And that understanding shapes decisions. Eden removes hierarchical or autocratic management. Like the residents, the certified nurse assistants, who make up the bulk of the staff, have more control over their schedules and help make decisions about how to divvy up work. "What you find is that as the managers do to the staff, the staff does to the elders," says Thomas. "So if you treat the staff well, the elders will benefit."
That's the case in the Toomsboro Nursing Center, a 62-bed facility in rural Georgia. Since adopting the Eden model, the staff has become more responsive and more unified, and the care has become more compassionate and individualized, says Jane Lough, an administrator at the center. Instead of giving orders, Lough tells the certified nurse assistants, "You know this resident. Tell me what you think she needs." By working in teams — the Conquerers, Earth Angels, Outrageous Girlfriends, and Untouchables — employees began seeing beyond their roles as cook, laundry aide, nurse, and housekeeper. They realized that every staff member provides care in one way or another. As the stickers that they wear declare, "I'm a world-maker." "That's one of Dr. Thomas's terms," says Lough. "In a nursing home, very little of the outside world comes in, except for the staff. They are the residents' world, and they have the opportunity to make it a special place."
Eden does not reverse the aging process, of course, but studies, including one done by the Texas Long Term Care Institute in San Marcos, Texas, indicate that the residents' overall health does improve: They had fewer infections and required less medication. Meanwhile, the staff absenteeism went down and retention went up — a significant improvement in an industry that is notorious for high turnover.
"Relationships are the foundation of good health care," Thomas says. "This is nothing new. But it's not something that the industry has made a priority." In fact, some institutions actively discourage relationships between staff and residents. "When I started out, I was told, 'You don't share yourself with residents, because it hurts too much when they die,' " says Lough. "That's definitely not the attitude here."
Voices in the Garden (Part II) Kathleen Perra, director of nursing, St. Luke's Home, New Hartford, New York: "Every day last summer, we had school-age day care here. There were kids screaming down the hall, cats jumping on tables. It was bedlam, but it was great. You want those unpredictable things happening for the residents. Of course, health-care workers favor predictability. We work around schedules. I'd say the biggest change with the Eden program is for the staff."
Method: Warmth, Suction, Frost
Nursing homes that are designed like gardens provide an apt metaphor for Bill Thomas's program, because, like a garden, Eden Alternative doesn't occur naturally. It requires preparation, hard work, and continuous scrutiny as it evolves. Otherwise, if the changes are taken for granted or neglected, Eden eventually shrivels up and dies.
Since founding their organization, Bill and Jude Thomas have become change experts out of necessity. Merely tweaking facilities wasn't effective. Creating an Eden involves a complete transformation. "Some homes think that Eden and the operation of the facility are two separate things," he says. "But Eden is all over. It affects everything you do."
The duration and success of the change process depends on what Bill Thomas calls the "warmth" of the organization. A warm culture is open to change, because employees have trust and generosity for one another, whereas a cold culture is characterized by pessimism and cynicism. After conducting a survey to determine an organization's temperature, the Thomases or one of 5,000 Eden associates nationwide begin "warming the soil." In some cases, managers hold a potluck dinner at someone's house, where they can't discuss work. Employees also perform good deeds, or mitzvahs, for their colleagues and the residents without expecting anything in return. "You open people's minds by opening their hearts," Thomas says.
Before virtually every step — before adding pets, before switching to self-scheduling — the staff votes. If the outcome isn't unanimous, the group continues the education process. "You can't force change on anybody," says Thomas. "Consensus is the only way. You have to get the entire staff to see the advantages for themselves and become excited about what you're going to do. We call it creating 'suction.' "
Thomas also expects setbacks, or "frost," as he puts it. It's a natural part of change. "I tell the leaders to expect that what they're changing will be smashed to bits, and when that happens, they have to be ready to pick up the pieces and move forward," says Thomas. "People are going to get scared. They're going to make mistakes." Every year, about 5% of Eden homes drop the program. But Thomas doesn't give up hope for them. He prefers to think that they're experiencing a long frost.
Voices in the Garden (Part III) Ron Rothstein, president and COO, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: "You don't cure the three plagues overnight. Some of our residents have been here a while, and they've become depressed. It takes time to bring out the best in them. I'm a type A personality — a 'gotta get it done today' type. But culture change is slow. And subtle. You don't necessarily see the relationships between people every day."
Momentum: Progressives vs. Stalwarts
Eden Alternative's headquarters isn't located in an actual garden. But almost. It's on a lush farm in the rolling hills of upstate New York, 60 miles southeast of Syracuse. On 220 acres that had been abandoned for 50 years, Bill and Jude Thomas brought Summer Hill Farm to life, building a house, barn, retreat center, and 14-room lodge. It's here that you fully appreciate how much of a Renaissance man Thomas is. In the fields behind his house, he uses draft horses to pull the machinery that cuts and rakes the hay. Come wintertime, he takes the family on a horse-drawn-carriage ride into the snowy woods to tap maple sap in order to produce Summer Hill Syrup.
In a very real sense, Summer Hill is the Thomases' personal Eden, a home with dogs and children and individuals who need long-term medical care. Hannah and Haleigh Thomas, 5 and 7, suffer from a rare neurological disorder that prevents them from being able to see, speak, and walk. During a break in the Eden training, Jude checks on them and their nurse and dotes on the dark-haired girls in the double stroller. "When people ask if the Eden program can make a difference in someone who's in a nursing home, I tell them that it can, because I see how Hannah and Haleigh respond to loving care," says Jude. "I honestly believe they're alive because of Eden."
When her husband isn't at Summer Hill, he's spreading the word to nursing-home administrators, regulators, insurance companies, policy makers, and industry associations. He gives about 40 talks a year. Thomas is an optimist — "It can be different," his business card says — but he's also a realist. He knows that he can't fix the country's nursing homes on his own. He relies on Eden associates to promote the program, share success stories, and conduct training sessions in their communities.
Part of changing an industry is about choosing wisely where to focus your energy. In long-term care, as in any field, the stalwarts vastly outnumber the progressives. In general, Thomas says, the progressives have ideas and enthusiasm but lack real authority or management skills, and the stalwarts have authority and experience but resist changes in the status quo. Thomas doesn't turn down invitations to address the latter, but he doesn't court them either. "The reason I'm not racing to Edenize 17,000 nursing homes across the country is because I know that I'll never win over the stalwarts," he says. "I'm focusing on the progressives, because they're interested in changing things."
Ultimately, Eden Alternative is a repair for a broken industry. The replacement, says Thomas, is his Greenhouse Project. It involves houses that are built for small groups of elders and that have a dedicated staff. They are actual homes, instead of an institution that calls itself a home. St. Luke's Home, where Thomas used to be the medical director, expects to break ground on the first greenhouses within the next couple of years. After that, he says, the next logical stage is an Eden Village, where the greenhouses and the elders are part of a larger community.
But why stop there? he wonders. Why not apply these principles to other institutions, such as schools and prisons? Thomas jokes about starting a group called "Institutions Anonymous." Maybe he's only half joking. "Don't get me started," he says.
Chuck Salter (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a Fast Company senior writer based in Baltimore. Learn more about Eden Alternative on the Web (www.edenalt.com), or contact Bill Thomas by email (email@example.com).
To find out more about Learning From Hannah: Secrets for a Life Worth Living, go to http://www.vandb.com/hannah.html
Sidebar: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Through Eden Alternative, Bill Thomas is making a difference in long-term care for the elderly. He's turning institutions into places where residents actually enjoy living. Here's how he's fixing things.
Have a good story to tell. Stories help people understand your ideas. Through your passion, stories inspire others to get on board and make your vision a reality. "You need a mythic, heroic story that people will respond to," Thomas says. "Ours is about creating gardens for our elders where they can thrive. That's something that people want for their mothers and fathers."
Watch your language. Eden has a vocabulary all its own, most of which grew (pun intended) out of its defining metaphor of cultivating gardens. Eden practitioners know what they mean by "warming the soil" and "experiencing a frost." It may sound goofy, but it's a way of changing the conversation within an organization.
Don't mistake tokens for real change. The most visible component of Eden is the animals that reside in nursing homes. But "fur and feathers," says Thomas, aren't a shortcut to transformation. Unless you change the culture and philosophy, the facility won't be different. It will still be an institution — but with pets. Big deal.
Make innovation a group activity. Thomas doesn't claim to have all the answers for improving nursing homes. The Eden program gives a framework and some ideas, but individual facilities decide which changes are best to make. Administrators share ideas through Eden's Web site and at get-togethers. Thomas has the same "open source" philosophy about the Greenhouse Project, which involves building homes for small groups of elders. He's sharing his ideas online and letting others build on them. "You can't do it alone," he says.
Expect setbacks. Failure is an inevitable part of the change process. So you'd better be prepared for it, or you won't be able to bounce back. Understand that people are going to get scared and revert back to doing things the old way. Forgive them and move forward — and expect it to happen again. "Frost always comes," says Thomas. "We've never been wrong on that one."
A version of this article appeared in the February 2002 issue of Fast Company magazine.


text: [[quoteright:316:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s_Fear_4364.jpg]]->''"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."''The second of three novels in ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'' by Creator/PatrickRothfuss.Kvothe, now a young man studying at [[WizardingSchool the University]], decides to take a few terms off and travel the world after a particularly eventful month leaves him on the outs with the Masters. Armed with a letter of introduction from a noble friend, Kvothe travels to Vintas, where he becomes embroiled in [[DeadlyDecadentCourt courtly politics]], bandit attacks along the King's Road, a beguiling faerie enchantress, training from the legendary [[WarriorMonk Adem mercenaries]], and a troubling homecoming. All while trying to come to grips with his growing love for Denna, and trying to tease out information on the mysterious Chandrian, as well as [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar the Amyr]], a band of warriors who even the Chandrian still fear, despite the Amyr supposedly being disbanded hundreds of years ago...See also ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind''.%%%%%% When adding tropes, please be sure they do not belong to the first novel.%% We've had to do more than one clean-up of story elements from there showing up here.%%%%----!!Examples:* AffablyEvil: Devi has a reputation as a ruthless loan shark who takes a vial of blood as collateral, giving her the power of life and death over her deadbeat clients. However, she's a young, attractive and perfectly courteous woman who even has a soft spot for Kvothe. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler: her willingness to harm her deadbeat clients with sympathy is mostly just a scare tactic. She uses it to gain favors, which is what she's really after]].* AlchemyIsMagic: One of the courses taught at the University. It is very explicitly ''not'' "chemistry with a bit of magic," as shown when a fireproofing balm becomes extremely flammable when exposed to water--something that Kvothe thinks is a prank until he sees it with his own eyes.-->'''Simmon:''' Repeat after me: "I know absolutely nothing about alchemy."* AllLowercaseLetters: Felurian's dialogue is written this way.* AncientConspiracy: Kvothe believes the Amyr might be this; his friends are skeptical.* AndIMustScream: Kvothe's response to Felurian, trapped inside his own lusty body.* ApothecaryAlligator: Caudicus has one. It actually was his predecessor's. He admits he doesn't know why he had one, but kept it anyway. Kvothe is actually quite amused to see it.* ArbitrarySkepticism:** Kvothe at times. Sometimes he calls himself on it, as when he's complaining to Felurian that light acts like a wave, not thread, and then realizing how silly this is. Played straight with his reaction to the Lockless Box and the suggestion its sealed with magic, however. Its made pretty clear this is a mix of his university training and disdain for vintish superstition talking.** Inverted with Wilem. He will shoot down a lot of wild suggestions on any range of topics Kvothe or Simmon will put forward, especially Kvothe's speculation on the Amyr. Yet when Kvothe tells him he met Felurian, Wil accepts it readily, to Kvothe's surprise.* AristocratsAreEvil: Most aristocrats are stuffy, elitist and selfish. Ambrose is a particular example, but Kvothe meets quite a number more like him. The Maer is selfish and used to getting his way. There are some aversions, such as Bredon and Simmon.* ArmorIsUseless: The Adem don't wear armor. It apparently would just slow down their perfect martial arts moves. Armor also doesn't seem to be much use against them.* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Carceret is a female version.* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: ** Kvothe makes an impression in Vintas as follows.--> I was one of '''those'''. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind.** "Oh perfect, a musician on top of everything else." The Adem, part of whose hat is being TheStoic, consider musicians equivalent with prostitutes because they express their emotions. To a whole room. Again and again.** "In order to survive, I begged for crusts, stole a man's shoes, and recited poetry. [[LampshadeHanging The last should demonstrate more than all the rest how truly desperate my situation became.]]"* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: The Adem mercenaries practice a martial art that is so powerful that 10-year-old girls can kick the snot out of men. The Adem also claim that being morally superior makes women better fighters.* AttemptedRape: Implied rather strongly with [[spoiler:Kvothe, in a flashback to his beggar-orphan days. He manages to fight them off, though he had failed to previously at least once, and the memory of it saves him from Felurian's mind control]] * BarefootSage[=/=]DoesNotLikeShoes: The HermitGuru Jax encounters in Hespe's story politely refuses Jax's offer of shoes, saying he has no need of them.* BerserkButton: ** Don't accuse Devi of Malfeasance without proof. It will end badly. ** Don't [[spoiler:pretend to be Ruh and go around kidnapping and raping young girls. There won't be much left after Kvothe is done with you.]]** Hurting, humiliating or belittling Kvothe when Bast is around is also a poor idea.* BewareTheNiceOnes: "There are three things [[TitleDrop all wise men fear]]: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." * BlackBox: There are certain rare items that are usable in Kvothe's time, but cannot be manufactured since they require magic that has been lost. Examples:** Caesura, as well as other Adem swords, never get dull.** Kilvin possesses many such objects, and shows Kvothe a pair warding cubes that can create an invisible physical and thermal shield. In fact, Kilvin invokes the trope himself to explain why Kvothe's efforts on the Bloodless are useful despite the existence of the warding cubes: unlike the cubes, the Bloodless can be replicated.* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Felurian. Kvothe specifically notes that she's not evil, it's just her nature. The Fae overall seem to play by a different set of rules. Bast seems to understand basic human morality, though he occasionally chooses not to follow it.* BookEnds: Bast reciting the "Elderberry" counting rhyme. At the beginning, it's to choose what bottles to pick for a mixed drink. [[spoiler:At the end, it's to decide which of the soldiers to kill first, with which [[NoodleImplements random]] implement about the camp.]] And, as before, the book begins and ends describing the silence of three parts.* BrickJoke: In the [[TheNameOfTheWind first book]], Elodin asks Kvothe, "Do you know the seven words that will make a woman love you?" Several examples pop up:[[spoiler: "I need you to breathe for me," "I was just wondering why you're here," "I guess I'm doomed to die loveless," "You know, I could have carried you," and "For all that, she lacked your fire,"]] showing that the right words are based on context, as does Naming.* CallBack: ** When Vashet tells Kvothe, [[spoiler:"I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time,"]] Kvothe replies, [[spoiler:"This was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof." This is a reference to Elodin's test of recklessness in ''The Name of the Wind'']].** In ''TheNameOfTheWind'', Bast sneaked into Chronicler's room at night and opened a discussion with the line, "We need to talk." Mostly, Bast talked and Chronicler listened. In this book, it's Chronicler's turn.** In the first book, when Chronicler finally convinces Kvothe to tell his story, Kvothe remarks "You'd hold my story for ransom. You'd use my own best trick against me." This book reveals that's how he convinced Felurian to let him go, so he could make his song about her much better and play it the world over.* CannotSpitItOut: ** Kvothe continues to have trouble confessing his feelings to Denna** It's implied that the reverse is also true in Wise Man's Fear making this a case of EveryoneCanSeeIt. Kvothe has started doing much as Denna is doing(slighty different in that she is mostly doing it to survive, and he doesn't do it for money/presents), i.e. Essentially becoming a ChivalrousPervert. He and Fela have a conversation about this wherein this exchange occurs:-->'''Kvothe:''' I refuse to throw myself at her like every other man she's ever met. she hates it. I've seen what happens.-->'''Fela:''' Have you ever thought she might feel the same way? You do have something of a reputation with the ladies.* CantArgueWithElves: Because they'll stop teaching you if you do. During the time Kvothe spends with the Adem, they spend alot of time proclaiming their superiority to Kvothe and calling him a barbarian. Kvothe, who usually doesn't take shit from anybody, has to take it because otherwise they won't teach him the MagicalMartialArts he's become fascinated by. He doesn't even argue when they insist that sex has nothing to do with reproduction.* TheCasanova: Subverted--Kvothe discovers that, even though AllWomenAreLustful, their idea of what constitutes a working relationship involves more emotional commitment than he can offer.* CassandraTruth: Kote tries to convince one of his friends in the village not to head off to war [[spoiler: by telling him the truth about who he is and why Chronicler is there. He is not believed.]] It's implied that some of the other things the boy has been told (his mother is sick and his girlfriend is pregnant) have also been dismissed.* CharacterDevelopment: One example of major character development is Felurian who was a narcissistic personality when she "met" Kvothe. Even after they came to a truce, her lessons and other nice things she did for him were motivated by how it helped her. However, after Kvothe's ordeal with the Cthaeh, Felurian was moved to genuine pity for Kvothe, something that was apparently so rare for her she hadn't any idea how to comfort him.* ChekhovsGun: As in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'', exposition and important future plot points get mentioned in stories the characters tell.** Kvothe works on an intricate and difficult bit of artificiery that uses a kind of chemical that can seep through the skin[[note]]This is a real thing, as is much of the magic in the story, albeit with fantastical effects. DMSO, or dimethyl sulfoxide is an example of such a delivery agent, many compounds will dissolve in it, and it moves readily through the skin, making it an effective delivery agent. It gets even worse when the sulfoxide group is replaced with mercury. The main researcher on dimethyl mercury had a drop of the compound fall on her rubber gloved hand, and was dead five months later of severe mercury poisoning.[[/note]], and the text stresses the danger when, after getting ''a single drop'' on his sleeve, he cautiously lifts the cloth away from his skin with tongs and cuts it off with scissors rather than risk touching it. Later, he's drugged using that exact same method.* ChivalrousPervert: As of book two, Kvothe ReallyGetsAround, but he's very careful not to make any unwanted advances, and he has nothing but disgust for men who treat women poorly.* CloserToEarth: The Adem believe that women are morally superior to men and that only women can teach the Lethani because they understand it better and are better fighters because of it.* ColdSniper: Kvothe singlehandedly kills 17 bandits from long distance using sympathy while in the Heart of Stone, which strips away the user's emotions.* ComicSutra: Felurian has lots of colorful names for sex and/or foreplay acts: playing ivy, a thousand hands, waves upon lilies, etc. (Felurian once apparently administered waves upon lilies to herself, and quite well.) Kvothe gets in the act as well and invents swaying against the wind. Later, Kvothe observes that Vashet is so businesslike about sex that "it was more like seventy-five hands." * CoolOldGuy: Bredon quickly befriends Kvothe by teaching him to play a strategy game and giving him advice on how to manuever through court politics. Bredon doesn't seem to care what other nobles think of him, and might even indulge in pagan orgies. * CoolSword: ** Besides "Folly" which is still hung on the wall of the Inn, Kvothe gets an ancient sword he calls "Caesura" during the story. Kvothe mentions they are not the same sword.** When Kvothe makes up a story about Chronicler, he claims he has a sword of paper that can cut you from anywhere if he writes your name on it.* CruelMercy: What Kvothe did to [[spoiler: Alleg]] with the waterskin.* DarkerAndEdgier: Than the first book. YMMV, but Kvothe kills a ''lot'' of people in this book, and in some pretty nasty ways. Also, a lot more sex. The author got complaints about the sex. [[SkewedPriorities The violence death and torture, not so much.]]* DeadpanSnarker: "That's us," Sim said agreeably. "We are chock full of arcane secrets." "We tinker with dark forces better left alone," Wil said nonchalantly.* TheDreaded: The Cthaeh, a being that can see the future perfectly and is one of the most evil things in existence. It specializes in [[ButterflyOfDoom creating butterflies of doom]] by acting as a malicious oracle, telling visitors whatever truths will cause the most damage. And if that weren't enough, the flowers that surround it act as a panacea so there's always someone trying to talk to it. Bast says that he would rather fight all the Chandrian together than exchange ten words with Cthaeth. There is an ancient order of immortal Fae, wielding bows that can kill a man with perfect accuracy from half a mile off. Their ''only'' purpose is to make sure '''no one''' speaks to the Cthaeth, and no one even goes near anyone who went near it.* DoorStopper: Parodied in [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/03032011/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' [[CharacterShill strip/ad]] for the book. It has ''one hundred and fifty two chapters,'' clocking in at nearly 1,000 pages.* DoubleMeaning: When he meets [[spoiler: the Ruh impersonators]], Kvothe makes a series of misleading statements to them that all have a chilling double meaning.** When Kvothe persuades Anne to let him try the stew while it's cooking, she says it won't be her fault if his stomach starts aching. He laughs and says, "No, Mother, it won't be your fault." [[spoiler: It will be his own fault, because he is secretly adding poison to it.]]** Kvothe declares, "Anyone who does not enjoy this fine stew is hardly one of the Ruh in my opinion." [[spoiler: The false Ruh who eat the stew will not enjoy it, because it is now poisoned.]]** He asks them if they know how to play "Piper Wit." When they don't, he picks up his lute and says, "Let me. It's a song every one of us should know." [[spoiler: A real Ruh would have known the song.]]** When they ask how long he will travel with them, he replies, "Until no one objects to my leaving." [[spoiler: After he kills them all, he asks their corpses if any of them object to his leaving.]]** He declares, "I swear on my mother's milk, none of you will ever make a better deal than the one you made with me tonight." [[spoiler: None of the fake Ruh will survive to make another deal.]]* DoYouWantToCopulate: The Adem are like this. They consider sex to be nothing particularly special, to the point where Kvothe's teacher asks the question almost verbatim when she realizes he is DistractedByTheSexy. In contrast, the Adem also have strict cultural taboos against showing emotion and playing music in public.* DramaticPause: When singing his song to Felurian, Kvothe pauses to get her to attention right before serving her with a BackhandedCompliment.* EarnYourHappyEnding: This book ends on a slightly brighter point of Kvothe's story, with him [[spoiler:surrounded by friends, able to study freely at The university, and moderately wealthy for the first time in his life.]] However, Kvothe mentions that going forward a bit, things get darker real quick, so this is just a [[HopeSpot Hope Spot]].* EccentricMentor: Elodin. ''Finally.''* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Subverted with Tempi. He speaks with broken grammar, yet seems to be very wise and knowledgeable. When Kvothe gets to Ademre, he finds out that most Adem can speak fluently, and that Tempi is rather dumb for an Adem.* ExactWords: Many of Kvothe's statements to [[spoiler: the Ruh impersonators]] have a DoubleMeaning, with the implied meaning being a FalseReassurance and the Exact Words being a threat.* EyeScream: Kvothe's treatment of the bandits.* FailureHero: Kvothe believes this about himself which is why he is hiding out as an innkeeper.* TheFairFolk: Felurian, The Sithe, The Cthaeh, Bast... we hear about a few more, as well.* FalseReassurance: Several of Kvothe's statements to [[spoiler: the false Ruh]] sound like he's completely on board with their behavior, but his words have a dangerous DoubleMeaning.* FamedInStory: Partly due to his own efforts, Kvothe is becoming this by the end of the book.* FantasticRacism: Various ethnicities have stereotypes against each other. People think the Cealdim are obsessed with money, due to the abundance of Cealdish moneylenders and the strength of their currency. A lot of people hate the Edema Ruh, believing them to be thieves and kidnappers, which is actually untrue. Kvothe tells a story that portrays several nationalities by their stereotypes, then lionizes the Edema Ruh. It offends his audience. * FantasticSlurs: ''Ravel'' is a slur against the Edema Ruh. As Kvothe puts it, "its use makes light of the systematic slaughter of thousands of Ruh." ''Shim'' seems to be a slur against Cealdish people, as it denotes a low-value piece of their currency; Simmon mentions that Ambrose called Wilem this at one point.* {{Fetish}}: Kvothe finds it extremely erotic to see a woman playing an instrument.* {{Foreshadowing}}: Full of this.** [[spoiler:The researching on the Adem and Denna's letter about meeting a mercenary lead up to Kvothe's training with them. Learning about playing a "beautiful game" of tak from Bredon hints at the philosophy of Lethani.]] ** An offhand reference to persecution of the Edema Ruh begins at the start and eventually culminates in the encounter with Lady Lackless.** Bast's [[spoiler:strange reaction to Kvothe being mugged is a sign that he paid the soldiers to rob the inn.]] ** "There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." Kvothe runs afoul of all three.** The rhyme regarding the rings worn by Kvothe can be considered this; he acquires rings of wood, bone, and iron (at least) in his travels.** Read carefully the description of Meluan Lackless. Pay attention to her reason for hating the Edema Ruh. There will be a quiz later regarding a certain relative of Kvothe's (see "StealthPun" below).** Invoked at the same time as BrickJoke in universe by the Cthaeh: -->"The Maer has already come close to the Amyr, though he doesn't realize it. Stick by the Maer and he will lead you to their door." The Cthaeh gave a thin, dry chuckle. "Whatever else you might forget, remember what I just said. Eventually you'll get the joke. I guarantee you'll laugh when the time comes."* GenreBlindness: Rather perplexeingly, given how [[GenreSavvy savvy]] he usually is, Kvothe does not realize that Elodin's inane and pointless requests are not designed to directly give answers, but to enable a person to find the answers themselves, until long after he has left the class. [[spoiler:This directly ties back to his FatalFlaw: impatience.]]* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Bast panics when he realizes Kvothe spoke to [[spoiler: the Chteah]]. The Chronicler snaps him out of it with a slap, which is the opposite of their usual interactions.* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: The Adem consider themselves to be on a higher moral level than "barbarians," and part of that is their total lack of sexual inhibitions. However, Felurian is [[BlueAndOrangeMorality completely amoral]], and has terrific sex as well.* HardLight: The shaed Felurian makes for Kvothe uses shadow for cloth and light for thread.* HornyDevils: Felurian magically causes men to be overwhelmingly attracted to her. She has sex with them until they go insane. Kvothe's memory of AttemptedRape saves him. * HotForTeacher: Kvothe is turned on by grappling with his Lethani instructor so much that he gets a boner. Luckily, she takes care of it for him whenever he needs.* IKnowYourTrueName: ** Kvothe gets the upper hand on [[spoiler:Felurian]] this way.** He fakes this with Dedan when he gets too unruly, as well.* InsultBackfire:** When Tam calls Tempi's mother a whore, Tempi responds, "You are very kind. I thank you." Prostitution is unknown to the Adem because they have no sexual taboo and practice free love. If someone's paying you for sex, that says ''very'' flattering things about your prowess in the sack! ** Dedan attempts to insult Tempi by saying that he fights like a woman. The Adem culture, however, believes that women are superior fighters because they have a better understand of Lethani morality. Tempi affirms, "Yes. I fight like a woman." * IntoxicationEnsues: The "plum bob" alchemical concoction Kvothe is dosed with completely strips him of his inhibitions and moral grounding. When asked if he would consider murdering his mortal enemy in cold blood worse than stealing a pie, he asks whether it's a meat or fruit pie. When asked what would happen if he did kill Ambrose, he says, there will probably be a trial and people will buy him drinks. Someone ''had'' just bought him a drink for messing with Ambrose, but that was ''how'' he got plum-bobbed.* IronicEcho: Kvothe enjoys doing this to people who have previously mocked him, often using the exact same phrasing.** Type I: Kvothe chastises Ambrose about the danger of candles after he anonymously burns Ambrose's room. Echoes Ambrose's comment in The Name of the Wind when Ambrose tricks Kvothe into bringing a candle into the Archives.-->'''Kvothe:''' "Candles are dangerous things. Honestly boy, I don't know what you were thinking. You'd think a member of the Arcanum would have more sense."* LeastRhymableWord: Kvothe is interrupted in the middle of a song, right after he sings a line that ends in "silver." We never do find out what on earth he was planning to rhyme it with.* LetsGetDangerous: Two thugs stop in to rob Kote's inn. Kote attempts to fight them. [[SubvertedTrope He loses]]. * LittleMissBadass: Kvothe is paired with a fighter of a comparable level of skill to his own. This turns out to be Celean, a little girl, no more than ten years old. [[spoiler:She wins. Over and over again.]]* MagicMusic: It's implied that the "true names" of faeries sound like musical notes. The Adem, who consider singing ''indecent'', mention "songs of power" in one very old story.* {{Matriarchy}}: Adem society is a Patriarchy Flip. The Adem all believe that women are morally and physically superior to men. One female Adem says with some pity that men have absolutely nothing to contribute to the world.* MagicAIsMagicA: Considering the way sympathy works, some of the audience wondered what's stopping you from using a ''person'' or a corpse as a [[VoodooDoll mommet]]. The answer? ''Absolutely nothing''. There's a reason they used to burn sympathists at the stake.* MeaningfulName: In-world, names are very important to say the least. Many (possibly most) of the names in the story are inspired by words in various RealLife languages.* MusclesAreMeaningless: A discussed trope. The Adem mercenaries say that women are better fighters even though they are smaller and weaker than the men. Vashet asserts that strength has very little to do with fighting ability.* MookHorrorShow: ** Near the end of the book [[spoiler:Kvothe [[TranquilFury dispassionately]] hunts down and kills the false troopers who have kidnapped and raped a pair of girls while pretending to be Ruh.]] Recognising the brutality of what he has done actually gives him nightmares wherein he sees himself as a pitiless monster hunting down his actual family.** When Kvothe and the Maer's mercenary group track the bandits who stole the Maer's tax money and attack their camp, Kvothe uses sympathy to systematically and mercilessly kill most of the bandits.* MrFanservice: During the entire expedition in the woods of Vintas, Tempi usually wears his skin-tight mercenary reds. Except the time that he spends most of the day stripped to the waist, or the times when Kvothe and Hespa discover that the Adem have NoNudityTaboo.* TheNeedsOfTheMany: ** The Amyr's credo is ''Ivare Enim Euge'', which translates to ''For the greater good''.** The Duke of Gibea, [[spoiler: thought to be an Amyr in hiding by Kvothe]], killed tens of thousands of people in medical experiments that resulted in "the most thorough [work] ever done" on the human body and physique, and the research has likely saved ten times more people than he killed.* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Notably averted by the Adem. The women are thought to be stronger fighters, yet they're screwing so often that no one, over the course of several thousand years, has figured out that sex has something to do with reproduction. That's a lot of screwing.* NoodleIncident: "Chapter Fifty Two: A Brief Journey." Also, Kvothe's trial in Imre, which he skips because it bores him.* NotSoDifferent: Kvothe and [[spoiler:Denna. Both stay somewhere where they're abused because it's the only place they can learn what they want to learn.]]* OhCrap: Many, many times. But probably the most notable was when [[TheFairFolk Bast]] hears that Kvothe has spoken to Cthaeh.* OldMaster: Shehyn.* TheOmniscient: The Cthaeh, who can see all possible futures perfectly, and is "perfectly malicious." It knows the exact outcome of every single possible action it could ever make, and always chooses the one that will cause the most harm to the world. Bast describes people who come into contact with it as "plague ships sailing for a harbor," because their actions will [[ButterflyOfDoom set up terrible events to occur]]. Bast describes it as infinitely more dangerous than even the apparant BigBad of the series, the Chandrian. Chronicler, however, isn't quite as convinced that it can have as much influence as Bast believes. The Fae in general however are so afraid of it that they kill anyone who talks to it from out of hearing range. And then shoot the crows too.* PlayingCyrano: Kvothe to Maer Alveron of Vintas.* PrecisionFStrike: Bast delivers the only instance of the f-word as of yet after Kvothe gets done talking about the Cthaeh. * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Any Adem mercenary. Played with in that they are extremely practical in terms of doing what it takes to win.* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When Kvothe gets drugged with a poison that completely removes his ability to judge morality, he can't figure out which is worse, killing a man or stealing a pie. But when it's suggested he might rape a girl, he just says, "I could never do that. Just like I couldn't eat a stone or walk through a wall."* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: After Kvothe's involvement in a shipwreck, everyone at the University thought he was dead.* RevealingCoverup: Kvothe notices that almost all hard fact concerning the Amyr has been either removed or muddied, creating a consistently inaccurate mess. Later, the Maer corroborates this.* RewritingReality: Invoked by Kvothe, who told [[TheStoryteller Old Cob]] a fib that Chronicler had this power.* RhymesOnADime: Felurian often speaks in rhyme, and Kvothe lapses into it when he's with her. He and Denna also engage in some of it as repartee. Simmon can compose verse on the spot as well.* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Kvothe goes on one against the [[spoiler:fake Edema Ruh]].* SecretTestOfCharacter: Kvothe casually asks [[spoiler:a band of Ruh]] if they know the song "Piper Wit." The fact that they do not confirms to him that they are not who they say they are.* ShaggyDogStory: Kvothe tells one to the mercenaries he's leading so they stop asking him for stories.* ShockAndAwe: There's a thunderstorm when the mercenary band confronts the bandits. Kvothe puts this to good use.* ShoutOut:** Caudicus, the Maer's arcanist, has a [[ApothecaryAlligator stuffed crocodile]] hanging from his ceiling.** Kvothe's "I don't believe in faeries" line upon meeting Felurian is a ShoutOut to either ''PeterPan'' or ''[[Literature/SummerKnight Summer Knight]]'' from the [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dresden Files]].* SpeakOfTheDevil: The Chandrian know when you speak their true names. [[spoiler:This is how and why they tracked down and killed Kvothe's family.]]* StandardRoyalCourt: The court of the Maer of Vintas. Since we're seeing this story from Kvothe's point of view, it comes off as a bit of a DeadlyDecadentCourt.* StarvingStudent: Kvothe's struggle to come up with his tuition money continues to drive the plot.* StealingFromTheTill: Kvothe's arrangement with the University's bursar allows them both to embezzle money from the Maer.* StealthPun: [[spoiler: Part of the theory that Kvothe's mother is Meluan Lackless's (Lockless's) sister]] is based in a song written by Kvothe's father that Kvothe sings in ''The Wise Man's Fear''. One of the lines is "It's worth my life to make my wife not tally a lot less". [[spoiler: Meluan's sister's name was revealed as Netalia. Therefore, Kvothe's father wrote "It's worth my life to make my wife ''Netalia Lockless''.]] * TheStoic: The Adem believe that showing emotion in public is unseemly. They're so committed to maintaining stoic expressions that they instead use hand signals to express emotion and add subtext to their words.* SublimeRhyme: Felurian speaks almost entirely in rhymes. As mentioned above, Kvothe and Denna also get into the act when bantering. More easily noticed in the audio book.* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Sympathy and Alchemy, analyzed to the point that they aren't even considered magic anymore.* TooCleverByHalf: ** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Elodin as a reason he's not keen on teaching Kvothe.** Kvothe, in turn, thinks this of the Maer.* TookALevelInBadass: After Kvothe studies with the Adem.* TranquilFury: Kvothe's reaction towards Denna's patron beating her.--> "It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold."* TrainingFromHell: Kvothe's time among the Adem, which leads to [[SecretTestOfCharacter whippings]], [[CantArgueWithElves being constantly belittled and humiliated for being a barbarian]], and on several occasions being tossed around by a [[LittleMissBadass 10-year-old girl]].* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[CloudCuckoolander Elodin]] decided to enter the Masters' Hall one night by climbing on the rooftop, then knocking on the glass window like a door. [[TheStoic Lorren]] responded to this by unhinging the window and saying hello. (He's probably seen Elodin do much stranger things.)* VestigialEmpire: The Aturan Empire.* VirginPower: An interesting variation: [[spoiler: When Kvothe meets Felurian, a faerie seductress who [[OutWithABang loves men to death]] or drives them mad, he's never been with a woman before. Afterwards, he composes a beautiful song about her, but she's rather offended when he sings of his experience with her being "nice". 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This is the stereotypical lie parents tell their kids about dead pets.* WhatTheHellHero: ** Marten is rightfully freaked out when Kvothe [[spoiler:kills the bandits using sympathy with a corpse]].** Quite a few people are alarmed at the fact that he [[spoiler:killed the fake Edema Ruh]].* XanatosGambit: Alveron's scheme to send Kvothe after bandits would result in either the bandits being removed or Kvothe's position in the court and the Maer's obligations of support, significantly weakened.* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: The Adem. They have no cultural taboos about nudity or sex but are horrified if anyone were to even think about performing any kind of music in public. This stems from their belief that displaying emotion in public is uncivilized and should only be done in private with those you are closest to, as such their language involves intricate hand signals to get the meaning of your words across. 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Victor Gutekunst of Yulan, NY, passed away at home on Friday, December 6, 2013. He was 65.
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Harris W. Myers of Kauneonga Lake, NY, a lifelong Sullivan County resident, passed away on Saturday, December 7, 2013 at his home surrounded by his loving family. He was 73.
Visiting hours will be held from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, December 12 at Ramsay's Funeral Home, 3534 Route 55, Kauneonga Lake, NY. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, December 13 at Grahamsville Reformed Church, Route 55, Grahamsville, NY. Interment will be private and at the convenience of the family.
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The Other Fashion Stars On The CFDA Red Carpet
Now that we've gotten over what Lady Gaga was wearing to the CFDA Awards, we can focus on the other stars that rocked the red carpet!
Ashley Greene looked stunning in her hot pink minidress framed by black shoulder portions. Strappy black heels, a black purse, and smoky eye makeup added a finishing touch.
Jessica Alba also worked neon in a dual-colored gown. It was cinched just above her stomach to show off her baby-bump. She highlighted the look with gold acessories including large earrings and a pair of bracelets.
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A place of preservation : post-custodial preservation of students' electronic records at the University of Texas at Austin (2006-08)Students' records are essential to the operation of a university and are considered to be vitally important records. At UT Austin these records remain in the custody of the Office of the Registrar indefinitely. As the ...


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The Columbus Dispatch - October 31, 2012 10:16 AM
The Ohio Supreme Court today indefinitely suspended the law license of a Hilliard lawyer for ongoing misconduct.
Attorney Mark J. Squeo, 50, first was suspended in 2003 for failing to meet continuing education requirements, followed by another suspension in 2005 for failing to register as a lawyer.
A disciplinary panel recommended an indefinite suspension for Squeo following a complaint by the Columbus Bar Association alleging he practiced law without a license in 2004 and gave false information in connection with a 2009 traffic crash.
The justices unanimously agreed in their ruling that Squeo engaged in conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty or misrepresentation and conduct that reflected adversely on his fitness to practice law.
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Late on a Sunday afternoon, its tables and booths are filled with young families and solo men, everyone looking happy to be there. Spanish is the language of choice, Latin music lends a festive note, and pupusas appear on seemingly every table. With good reason: The crisp, saucer-shaped rounds of corn flour (or rice flour) are delicious. The pockets filled with shredded zucchini and cheese are good; the ones stuffed with refried beans and cheese are even better. But the pupusas I find myself reordering most often are the snacks rich with pork that's been ground and fried with onions, tomatoes and peppers. They cost a mere $1.25, and they come with a little salad of pickled cabbage plus jalapeno and tomatillo sauces. Two or three of the pupusas make a nice meal, and even if you were to throw in a beer, you'd still get change back from a ten-spot.
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Dates: October 1-28, 2010
Reception: Sunday, October 10, from 1 – 4 p.m.
October brings two textile-related exhibitions to the UNO Art Gallery. Curator Jay Rich, a local textile artist/researcher, brings together historical as well as contemporary examples of a unique fabric dye process in his Carved Board Clamp Resist exhibition. At the same time, Sequenced Fibers, curated by UNO art professor Bonnie O'Connell, showcases books from around the country made from fabrics or handmade papers.
The process of dyeing cloth by clamping it between pairs of carved mirror-image boards originated in China in the seventh century. Used extensively in Japan during the fourteenth and fifteenth, carved clamped board resist dyeing was a quick way of producing Japanese theater costumes. Artists from the US, Australia, and Belgium today continue to carve boards to create dye patterns for fabrics and clothing. The UNO exhibition features over forty historical kimonos representing 200 years of production as well as contemporary garments and many dye-process artifacts.
Thirty-four contemporary books and book objects were juried
into the Sequenced Fibers exhibition by UNL art professor Karen Kunc. These
books, she says, "challenge and expand the parameters of the fiber and book
arts traditions." The exhibition features letterpress, digital, as well as
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Both exhibitions open on October 1 and run through Thursday, October 28, 2010. The UNO Art Gallery is located on the first floor of the Weber Fine Arts Building on the UNO campus at 6001 Dodge Street. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. In addition, appointments at other times are encouraged. All events are free and open to the public and the gallery is accessible to people with disabilities.
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"I think these are the kernels of a national movement," Secretary Arne Duncan said earlier this week during the announcement of a major new effort by public schools in five states to add significantly more time to the school year for tens of thousands of students starting in the 2013 school year.
The schools in Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee will use a mix of federal and state funding to cover the cost of adding 300 hours of instruction and enrichment to the school year, and will receive technical assistance from National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) and capacity building grants from the Ford Foundation, which has committed $3 million a year over the next three years in support of the state efforts.
Secretary Duncan, who joined Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy at the announcement, has made increased learning time a priority during the Obama Administration. "I'm convinced the kind of results we'll see over the next couple of years I think will compel the country to act in a very different way," Duncan said.
In conjunction with the announcement, NCTL released a new report showing a significant increase over the last three years in the number of public schools that have expanded learning time. The report, Mapping the Field, shows district schools now account for 40 percent of all expanded-time schools, up from 20 percent of the total in 2009.
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As former Dallas Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells used to say, "You are what you are." America's Team was a 6-10 disaster in 2010, turned 8-8 mediocre team in 2011.
So what about 2012?
Let me put it this way—I'm tired of hearing writers, analysts and even fans proclaim each year that the Cowboys have few holes to fill, because they already have so much talent, and blah, blah, blah.
Sure they do.
The Cowboys have seven players which represent cornerstones of a future contender. They are:
QB —Tony Romo
RB—DeMarco Murray
WR—Dez Bryant
OT—Tyron Smith
OLB—DeMarcus Ware
ILB—Sean Lee
DE—Jay Ratliff
As for the rest of the roster, excluding kickers, everybody is either a question mark or simply needs to go.
The 2012 NFL draft is months away, and only a portion of the draft order is in place. But, since Dallas and its fans can finally be honest about the problems, let's look at potential solutions.
With one pick in each of the seven rounds, they each need to count big time.
And forget free agency, because the Cowboys are not going to have a very large war chest. Besides, ask another 8-8 team, the Philadelphia Eagles, how free agency worked out for them.
I am not anticipating other acquisitions in free agency or considering players that could return to school.
Here we go.