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When that project wound down in 1979, Perry took work at Dome Petroleum, then Calgary's brashest company. He found himself in its business development office, at the heart of its ideas-manufacturing operation. "I became intimately involved with 40 megaprojects"—everything from billion-dollar refineries to liquefied natural gas export plants. "It was the greatest experience of my life," Perry says. He travelled more than a dozen times to Japan in a bid to sell B.C. gas there. It was an idea far ahead of its time: Only now are West Coast gas exports coming close to reality.
In 1984, Perry was hired at Unocal, which had found itself in a jam with the coal mine it had opened just outside of Jasper, Alberta. The company was selling coal in Ontario at $55 a tonne. Its rail freight costs were $40.
Perry knew coal could be mixed with water and transported through pipelines. And he knew Alberta's oil pipelines had spare capacity. He wondered: "Can you mix coal and oil?" Turns out, you can. Unocal spent three years on the idea, and Perry's name is on the patent it secured, although the project was never built. But seeds had been sown. Perry saw the potential of moving energy in novel ways.
That potential would soon come back to the fore, after he joined Direct Energy in 1989. Focused on natural-gas sales, it didn't take him long to figure out something was very wrong. Alberta's natural gas sold at a deep discount compared to sources from the rest of North America. In five years of working there, "gas prices I don't think ever went above $1 [per million BTUs]," Perry says. So one day, he began to ponder what he could do about that.
Perry admits he had a beer or two in him when the doodling began. It was 1994 and he was talking to a friend about the low gas prices. "We decided we needed a honking big pipeline," Perry says—a pipe that could end a supply constraint that had been killing Alberta gas. He grabbed a paper napkin and started sketching a 3,719-kilometre straight line from the gas fields of northeastern British Columbia all the way to Chicago. A direct line would open new capacity to the best natural gas market on the continent. He figured the idea would lift prices across Western Canada. Plus, he and a partner had a patent-worthy plan for mixing the gas with valuable liquids—propane, ethane and the like—that he figured would boost the economic attractiveness of the project, by carrying those goods to a new market.
He didn't know it then, but he was right. What he did know was that he was throwing stones at Goliath: Nova Corp., which ran 22,000 kilometres of gas pipeline in Alberta and moved 80% of Canada's natural gas. Nova had the clout of a monopoly, and it wasn't likely to be pleased with his idea.
Indeed, first Nova, then TransCanada after the two companies merged, worked hard to defeat the project, even launching rival plans.
For Perry, there was something pleasingly subversive about taking on the giant. The Alliance pipeline started as the Northern Area Transportation Study, or NATS. Godfrey recalls, "it was an acronym that Glen actually thought was quite funny because he said, 'we're going to be these little gnats flying around the heads of these guys.' "
Perry, Jack Crawford and another colleague presented their plan 150 different times to producers. The audience was initially skeptical. Perry "thinks so fast and he talks so fast that in a lot of cases I think there was an inherent suspicion: Can anybody who talks that fast really be on the straight up?" Crawford says. "But after he said things quickly two or three times, it did make sense."
Perry had the math right. People signed on, in a trickle that became a torrent and enveloped much of the oil patch. With funding eventually secured, the huge 90-centimetre pipe went into the ground.
Canadian gas prices surged and fortunes were made—Perry takes some credit for building Encana into the powerhouse it has become. At $1 gas, the growth of Encana and other gas producers would have been stunted. But after Alliance, Encana no longer had to deal with $1 gas.
An ideas man not interested in running a pipe, Perry left Alliance to sojourn on Pender Island, play with lifters and write about the solar system. But he also spotted a need for another honking big pipeline. This one would carry Alberta's burgeoning oil sands output directly to the Gulf Coast. It was long before Keystone XL, the proposed TransCanada pipe that would travel much the same route, was bruited. But to Perry it made sense: Connect the fastest-growing oil play on the continent with its biggest refining complex.Report Typo/Error
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Demirbilek, Nur & Demirbilek, Oya (2008) Comfort and light. In Lewis, Miles (Ed.) Architectura Elements of Architectural Style. Global Book Publishing Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, N.S.W, pp. 298-319.
Hutchinson, Jim & Demirbilek, Nur (2005) The role of architectural science in interior design. In Abbot, S., Hortz, A., Scullin, S., Smith, D., & Kurucz, R. (Eds.) D : -for design : -for derelique. Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, pp. 52-55.
Demirbilek, Nur & Eryildiz, Demet I. (2002) Solar architecture. In Energy. Ministry of Education Press, Turkey, Istanbul, pp. 254-288.
Ecevit, Ahmet, Demirbilek, Nur, Irkli, Demet, & Yalciner, Ugur (1999) Analysis of Increasing Solar Heat Gains and Decreasing Heat Losses of Buildings in Existing and Proposed Mass Housing Settlements. In Atasoy, Basri (Ed.) Journal of the Institute of Science and Technology of Gazi University. Gazi University, pp. 401-417.
Journal Article
Naish, Daniel A., Tan, Andy, & Demirbilek, F. Nur (2014) Simulating the effect of acoustic treatment types for residential balconies with road traffic noise. Applied Acoustics, 79, pp. 131-140.
Naish, Daniel A., Tan, Andy C. C., & Demirbilek, F. Nur (2013) Speech interference and transmission on residential balconies with road traffic noise. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(1), p. 210.
Naish, Daniel A., Tan, Andy C.C., & Demirbilek, F. Nur (2012) Estimating health related costs and savings from balcony acoustic design for road traffic noise. Applied Acoustics, 73(5), pp. 497-507.
Cheng, Charles Chor Kwan, Leung, Andrew Yee Tak, Lam, Kit Ming, Demirbilek, Nur, & Williamson, Brian J. (2010) A CFD study of Hong Kong refuge floor design : floor height effect. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 4(3), pp. 425-433.
Smith, Diane & Demirbilek, Nur (2010) Shifting interpretations of interiors and buildings: the impact of colour. Colour: Design & Creativity, 5(13), pp. 1-12.
Cheng, C., Lam, K. M., & Demirbilek, Nur (2008) Effects of building wall arrangements on wind-induced ventilation through the refuge floor of a tall building. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 96(5), pp. 656-664.
Demirbilek, Nur, Yalciner, Ugur. G, Ecevit, Ahmet, Sahmali, Erkan, & Inanici, Mehlika (2003) Analysis of the thermal performance of a building design located at 2465m : Antalya-Saklikent National Observatory guesthouse. Building and Environment, 38(1), pp. 177-184.
Demirbilek, Nur & Ecevit, Ahmet (2001) Solar Houses. Enerji Dunyasi, Dunya Enerji Konseyi Turk Milli Komitesi Bulteni (World Energy Council Turkish National Committee Bulletin), pp. 42-47.
Demirbilek, Nur, Yalciner, Ugur G., Inanici, Mehlika N., Ecevit, Ahmet, & Demirbilek, Oya S. (2000) Energy conscious dwelling design for Ankara. Building and Environment, 35(1), pp. 33-40.
Inanici, Mehlika & Demirbilek, Nur (2000) Thermal performance optimization of building aspect ratio and south window size in five cities having different climatic characteristics of Turkey. Building and Environment, 35(1), pp. 41-52.
Demirbilek, Nur & Yener, Cengis (1996) A Proposal for "Correction Values" for Winter Outdoor Design Temperatures. Solar Energy, 57(2), pp. 111-116.
Conference Paper
Naish, Daniel A., Tan, Andy C.C., & Demirbilek, F. Nur (2014) Investigations on road noise level spatial variability within a specially designed acoustic balcony. In Inter.noise 2014, 16-19 November, Melbourne, VIC.
Naish, Daniel A., Tan, Andy C. C., & Demirbilek, F. Nur (2012) Development of a practical design guide for balcony acoustic treatments. In Conlon, Stephen (Ed.) Proceedings of the Internoise 2012/ASME NCAD meeting, New York City, NY, USA, pp. 1632-1640.
Tan, Andy C.C., Naish, Daniel A., & Demirbilek, F. Nur (2012) The significance of balcony acoustic treatments in mitigating urban road traffic noise. In Conlon, Stephen (Ed.) Proceedings of the Internoise 2012/ASME NCAD meeting, New York City, NY, USA, pp. 768-788.
Naish, Daniel, Tan, Andy, & Demirbilek, Nur (2011) A review of road traffic noise indicators and their correlation with the LA10(18hour). In Mee, David J. & Hillock, Ian D.M. (Eds.) Breaking New Ground : Proceedings of the Annual Conference on the Australian Acoustical Society, The Australian Acoustical Society , Holiday Inn Hotel, Gold Coast, QLD, pp. 1-8.
Ly, Phuong, Birkeland, Janis, & Demirbilek, Nur (2010) Towards sustainable housing for Vietnam. In Transitions to Sustainability : The Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science, NZSSES, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Naish, Daniel, Tan, Andy, & Demirbilek, Nur (2010) Predictions of road traffic noise on residential balconies using a specular and diffusion model. In Burgess, Marion, Davey, John, Don, Charles, & McMinn, Terry (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2010), Australian Acoustical Society, Sydney Convention Centre, pp. 1-7.
Ly, Phuong, Birkeland, Janis, & Demirbilek, Nur (2010) Applying environmentally responsive characteristics of vernacular architecture to sustainable housing in Vietnam. In Sustainable Architecture & Urban Development, CSAAR Press, Amman, Jordan, pp. 287-306.
Demirbilek, Nur, Osborne, Lindy, Caldwell, Glenda, & Demirbilek, Oya (2010) "I'm a designer, get me out of tech class!" : closing the gap between design and technology education. In Proceedings of The 44th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.
Williamson, Brian J. & Demirbilek, Nur (2010) Use of lifts and refuge floors for fire evacuation in high rise apartment buildings. In Proceedings of The 44th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.
Demirbilek, Nur, Garcia Hansen, Veronica, & Gard, Stefan (2009) Daylighting design in the architectural design studio. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, pp. 1-8.
Smith, Dianne J. & Demirbilek, Nur (2009) What is that place? Observations of the impact of environment colour through photographic analysis. In Smith, Dianne J., Green-Armytage, Paul, Pope, Margaret, & Harkness, Nick (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association, The Colour Society of Australia Inc, Sydney, New South Wales, pp. 1-8.
Demirbilek, Nur & Smith, Dianne J. (2009) A reflective model for colour studies learning. In Smith, Dianne J., Green-Armytage, Paul, Pope, Margaret, & Harkness, Nick (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association, The Colour Society of Australia Inc, Sydney, New South Wales, pp. 1-8.
Demirbilek, Nur & Depczynski, Fabrice S. (2008) Potential of reducing cooling loads through façade and glass types in medium and high-rise office buildings in sub-tropical climatic regions. In 3rd International Solar Energy Society Conference 2008 46th Australian New Zealand Solar Energy Society Conference, 25 November - 28 November 2008, Australia, NSW, Sydney.
Demirbilek, Nur & Demirbilek, Oya (2007) Architectural science and student-centred learning. In Coulson, James (Ed.) Towards solutions for a liveable future: progress, practice, performance, people. 41st Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 14-16 November 2007, Australia, Victoria, Geelong.
Demirbilek, Nur, Smith, Dianne J., Scott, Andrew, Dawes, Les A., & Sanders, Paul S. (2007) The role of the learning context and designer characteristics challenge and reveal the design process. In Dancing with disorder: Design. Discourse, & Disaster, EAD07 Conference, April 11-13, 2007, Izmir, Turkey.
Smith, Dianne J., Sanders, Paul S., Demirbilek, Nur, & Scott, Andrew (2005) Designing together: A collaborative experiment in design methodology within a multi-disciplinary environment. In Holt-Damant, Kathi & Sanders, Paul (Eds.) Third International Conference of the Association of Architectural Schools of Australasia (AASA), 28-30 September, Brisbane.
Demirbilek, Nur & Depczynski, Fabrice S. (2004) Potential of reducing cooling loads through architectural design and mixed-mode systems in medium-rise office buildings in Brisbane. In Demirbilek, Nur & Depczynski, Fabrice S. (Eds.) Solar Harvest 2002 - Forging Our Energy Future: 40th Annual Conference of the Australian New Zealand Solar Energy Society, 27-29 November, Newcastle, NSW.
Demirbilek, Nur & Kirbeyi, M. Nezih (2003) A Study on Sizing Solar Apertures for Ankara. In ISES 2001 World Solar Congress, 26-30 November, Adelaide.
Bajracharya, Bhishna N, Kumarasuriyar, Anoma C., & Demirbilek, Nur (2003) Vernacular architecture in Queensland, Australia : current planning issues and opportunities. In International Conference on Quality of Urban Life: Policy versus Practice, Istanbul Technical University Urban and Environmental Planning and Research Center, 3-5 December 2003, Istanbul.
Williamson, Brian J. & Demirbilek, Nur (2003) The potential for increasing thermal comfort through selection of construction types in Brisbane. In 41st Annual Conference of the Australian New Zealand Solar Energy Society, 26-29 November, Melbourne, Australia.
Demirbilek, Nur & Cheetham, Amanda L. (2002) Achieving sustainability in architecture : the approach of architects to climate responsive building design practice in south-east queensland. In ANZASCA2002 36th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, 1-4 November 2002, Deakin University, Victoria.
Demirbilek, Nur (1998) Climatic Considerations in the Formation of Vernacular Architecture of Turkish Arid Zones. In Catalyst '97 Conference 'Designing Eco-Solutions', 5-8 December 1997, Canberra, University of Canberra.
Ataberk, Ece & Demirbilek, Nur (1998) Computer Aided Shading Analysis of Buildings. In Gunes Gunu Sempozyumu ve Fuarı '98, 21-22 June 1998, Izmer.
Sahmali, Erkan, Demirbilek, Nur, & Inanici, Mehlika (1998) National Observatory: Passively Climatized Building Design. In Güneş Günü Sempozyumu ve Fuarı, 21-22 June, Izmir.
Demirbilek, Nur, Yalciner, Ugur, Ecevit, Ahmet, & Ozgumus, M. (1997) Middle East Technical University Solar House. In Lee, Trevor (Ed.) Solar 97 : Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, 2-4 December 1997, Canberra.
Demirbilek, Nur, Sahmali, Erkan, & Inanici, Mehlika (1997) A Passively Climatized Building, 2500 m Above Sea Level. In Lee, Trevor (Ed.) The Proceedings of Solar'97. Canberra: Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 1-5.
Demirbilek, Nur (1984) Some Examples of Vernacular Architecture in Hot-Arid Regions of Turkey. In Al-Turabi, Dafalla Adballa, Ahmed El-Hag, Hamid, & Abdel Magid, Isam Mohamed (Eds.) First National Conference on the Science and Technology of Buildings (With Special Reference to Buildings in Hot Climates. Khartoum: Sudan Engineering Society, 8-14 December 1984, Khartoum.
Kennedy, Rosemary J., Thomson, Mark J., Jenkins, Graham A., Foong, Yin K., Demirbilek, Nur, Ferreira, Luis, et al. (2006) Review of South Bank Corporation's Draft Ecologically Sustainable Policy and Implementation Plan.
Kennedy, Rosemary J., Thomson, Mark J., Jenkins, Graham A., Foong, Yin K., Demirbilek, Nur, Ferreira, Luis, et al. (2006) South Bank Corporation's Draft Ecologically Sustainable Development Policy and Implementation Strategy.


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Re: extract style sheet from nb w/ private style sheet
There's undoubtedly a sophisticated way to do this using Mathematica
itself to manipulate the notebook. Here's a naive way to do it:
1. Open the notebook in an ASCII editor. Search for the line:
StyleDefinitions -> Notebook[{
2. Copy that line and everything below it up to, but NOT including, the
Cached data follows. If you edit this Notebook file directly, not
Paste this into a new, blank file in your text editor.
3. Delete the initial
StyleDefinitions ->
of the first line and the final right bracket, ], on the last line.
4. Save the file as, say, MyStyles.nb.
5. Open MyStyles.nb in Mathematica. Save it wherever you want to keep
this style sheet.
Near the end of the notebook proper, before
Gregorio Ferzio wrote:
> Dear Math Grouppisti
> I'm sorry for the worthy newbie question but it's driving me crazy : in The Mathematica Book "Shared and Private Style Sheets" a procedure is describe whose aim is storing a copy of a style sheet within the current notebook.
> What about the opposite direction ? A pleasant notebook is given , endowed with its own private style sheet : how can I draw a shared style sheet from it ?
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
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The history of Judaism in Sarajevo is a long one and while Brooks fictionalizes characters and stories, her settings, conflicts, and dates are historically accurate.
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Hey guys and gals my wife I went to see Argo, the movie last night what a fantastic experience based on a truly amazing event in history. Ben Affleck did a fantastic job both acting and directing, the cinematography was spot on and even if you remember the event and know the outcome the movie was riveting.
Frankly, this is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Surely it should win Oscars - best picture and probably best actor. Also, seeing as it was based on historical events, if there's not already an Oscar category for it, they should create one for the best historic event that a movie was based on.
If you go, and I highly recommend it, be sure to stay for the end credits. During the credits the actual passport photos of the real players are shown and it's amazing how much they look just like the actors who played them, or vice versa. Additionally during the end credits there is a interview with Jimmy Carter who recounts the events from his perspective.
Argo is a story worth telling and it is told well. You will leave the theater with an understanding that we employ real men and women who do real things that we never hear about. Some of these things, like the one Argo, are really more likely to get them killed than be successful. But they do them anyway – in fact sometimes they even champion the cause. It's a movie well worth seeing.
On a side note, the theater was packed but my wife and I managed to score the best seats the house. We got two seats right next to the exit. From a tactical perspective, had Colorado repeated itself we were probably in the best position to have options. Getting there a few minutes early really paid off.
The parallels in Argo to current events are unmistakable on several levels. But let's keep the discussion in this thread to the movie and the event depicted in the movie and not the politics surrounding those events or we will get the thread closed down.


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Pitching Clamps Down PawSox Bats in 2-1 Wings Win
Rochester starter Alex Meyer pitched six strong innings and combined with reliever Ryan Pressly on a four-hitter as the Red Wings topped the Pawtucket Red Sox, 2-1, Thursday night in front of 10,492 fans at McCoy Stadium, to complete a sweep in the two-game series.
Meyer (5-4) and Pressly combined to hold the PawSox to only one hit after the second inning and to retire 19 of the final 21 Pawtucket batters in the game. The Red Wings (49-38) scored single runs in the fifth and seventh innings to scratch out a one-run win, their fifth-consecutive victory.
Meyer struck out seven and allowed only three hits in his six innings of work. The righty walked four and has allowed only one run to Pawtucket in 15.2 innings over three starts this season. Pressly allowed just one baserunner, a two-out single to Alex Hassan in the ninth, in three full innings to earn his fifth save of the season.
Pawtucket (45-44) finished its season-long ten-game homestand with losses in the final three games to go 6-4 over the ten days. Garin Cecchini's RBI single with nobody out in the second against Meyer put the PawSox in front 1-0, but Rochester's pitching dominated for the remainder of the night.
Chris Rahl's solo home run (5) against Pawtucket starter Allen Webster in the top of the fifth tied the score at 1. Webster allowed only two hits and three walks while striking out six in 5.1 innings of work. He was relieved by newcomer Miguel Celestino (0-1) in the sixth, who made his PawSox debut and took the loss.
Rochester's Pedro Florimon led off the seventh against Celestino with a double, then two batters later Dan Rohlfing grounded an 0-2 pitch down the left field line for the game-winning RBI double.
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Could a Cristo Rey school work in Milwaukee?
The Cristo Rey Network of Catholic, Jesuit high schools has its eyes set on Milwaukee.
The network, which operates 24 schools in 17 states, considers Milwaukee a prime location for its 25th school and is partnering with the College of Education on a feasibility study, the first between Cristo Rey and a university.
"I can't think of another city with as much momentum around transforming the educational landscape as Milwaukee," says Robert Birdsell, president and CEO of the network.
In the Cristo Rey model, students attend classes four days a week and work at a participating business in the community the fifth day. Wages the students earn go toward their tuition.
The 12-month feasibility study will gauge the business community's interest in supporting the school and evaluate demand among Milwaukee families.
Marquette has enjoyed a strong partnership with Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago through the Urban Scholars program that was introduced in 2006. Each year, three students from Cristo Rey Chicago and one from the Cristo Rey Network join Marquette's freshman class.
"Marquette has educated Cristo Rey students, and we've seen their success and transformation," says Dr. Bill Henk, dean of the College of Education.
Jeff Snell, one of Marquette's representatives studying the issue and a champion for social innovation on campus, is a driving force behind the move to bring the Cristo Rey model to Milwaukee. He calls the feasibility study "one example of how Marquette seeks to be present to the city and the world using the field of social innovation's emphasis on solving problems as a framework." KV


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Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon
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BeschreibungExplores how two populations of indigenous Mexican migrants are using their multi-layered identities and bi-national labor experiences to organize for economic and political change.
PortraitLynn Stephen is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of "Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca," also published by Duke University Press; "Zapata Lives! Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico"; and "Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below."
Pressestimmen"Where most research on things 'transnational' is anchored on one side of the border or the other, Transborder Lives is conceptually and empirically well grounded throughout the geographic, national, social, political, and economic spaces within which its subjects are dispersed in both Mexico and the United States."--Michael Kearney, author of Changing Fields of Anthropology: From Local to Global "Lynn Stephen's multisited ethnography insightfully unpacks globalization from below, revealing the contours of cross-border communities as they reweave the social fabrics of twenty-first-century North America."--Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz "The aim of the book is to weave together the personal histories and narratives of indigenous transborder migrants with the larger structures that affect their lives, and to highlight their creative responses to their mobile existence...She [Stephen] has certainly achieved her stated goal of pushing the borders crossed by Zapotec and Mixtec immigrants into centre stage, and in the process has illuminated the lives of the 130 million people, who, worldwide, live outside the country where they were born, and have transgressed many borders. This engaging and well researched book will appeal to specialists on Mexico, migration and ethnicity. Its author is to be congratulated on her model, multi-site study of a complex and important issue."- Colin Clarke in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 2009
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URBANA, Ill.—The meeting in River Forest, Ill., was very successful and everyone was most kind and hospitable. The pleasantest thing that occurred in Chicago, however, was the few minutes I was able to spend Wednesday afternoon, after the matinee and before leaving for my meeting, with Mr. and Mrs. Melvyn Douglas.
Helen arrived first. Melvyn, fearful that they would miss me, had her go to the Blackstone hotel, where I am staying, ahead of him. I was anxious to hear news of them both and of both their children.
The boy is married now and has had a most serious operation, from which he fortunately has recovered. But the little girl, who was a personality even when she came to stay with her mother in the White House at the age of five, is now 17 years old and finding out what it is like to be all alone on the Vermont farm in winter 10 miles from her neighbors.
How long she will be there no one knows, but it is good now and then to be close to nature and struggle with the elements rather than with other human beings.
The trip to Champaign Thursday morning was quick and comfortable and we were met by four students. I was to speak that night to the Hillel Foundations and they had planned a busy day. A few photographers and newspaper people met us at the station, and one woman reporter whom I recognized asked me for news of Mrs. Mary Baker, who used to live here.
The first query was whether I had seen a statement by Governor Mennen Williams on the desegregation question, and whether I would comment on it. Not having seen the statement, I did not want to comment.
At 12 noon however, I prepared to see more newspaper people. At 12:15 Mrs. Olive Goldman, whom I first knew when she was a delegate on the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations joined with us for luncheon. And there were other appointments that completely filled the afternoon.
They promised me that I would be back in the hotel by 4 o'clock so I would be ready to leave at 5:30 for dinner and for the evening meeting.
I think perhaps university students can keep one as busy as any group of people for whom one might be speaking.
I found a letter here begging us to come just around the corner and visit the library in our spare time and the librarian kindly sent us a book of short stories to read in our spare moments. She said we may leave it at the desk when we are through with it.
This is kind and considerate if you have any spare time and if you do not have so much reading material that you accumulate during busy days that you carry it back and forth on trips, never quite managing to finish it.


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The impact of long-term illnesses and the
stresses they place on families is difficult to
measure in the workplace, but studies in recent
years have also shown that U.S. employers lose
significant dollars in productivity each year in
tardiness, absenteeism and "presenteeism," when
employees show up for work but are too distracted by
the responsibilities and issues of caring for a sick
family member to perform well.
Overcoming the Myths
A large part of my role when meeting with
families is to help them understand the important
role families and long-term care insurance can play
in a parent or loved one's future. For every truth
associated with long-term care insurance, there are
10 myths. Here are some of the top myths that should
be addressed in long-term care planning:
Most people can pay for their own care
Many people think they can liquidate taxable or
tax-deferred assets, including retirement plans or
annuities, to pay for long-term care costs. The buzz
surrounding reverse mortgages has also given
momentum to the concept of paying for care instead
of having a policy. As with all financial decisions,
you should first consult a trusted financial
professional and a tax advisor to determine the tax
implications and the recommended sequence for
liquidation before doing so.
Long-term care insurance is only for
nursing home care
When most people think of long-term care, they
think of nursing homes. However, over 80 percent of
persons receiving long-term care are in home- and
community-based settings, not in nursing homes,
according to "Long-Term Care: An Overview."
(Testimony before Senate Committee on Finance, March
27, 2001, statement of Carol O'Shaughnessy,
Specialist in Social Legislation, Congressional
Research Service.)
All long-term care insurance is the same
Actually, many policies offer various options,
and all policies are not created equally. When
making a direct comparison from one policy to
another, keep in mind that five key elements of any
policy contribute to price and quality: the
financial strength of the company underwriting the
policy, the daily benefit, benefit period,
deductible, and inflation protection:
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Formaldehyde for mummies
Headlines warn of dangerous chemicals, such as formaldehyde, being found in household and nursery products. Do parents need to be worried?
What is it?
Formaldehyde is a naturally occurring flammable gas with a distinct and pungent odour. It's everywhere – in the air we breathe and in the food and water we eat and drink.
As a result of various metabolic processes, formaldehyde is also naturally present in the human body at very low concentrations and is produced in natural processes and daily human activities that involve the combustion of organic materials – for example, in bush fires or even home fires.
Apart from its presence in nature, it's a key chemical in the manufacturing process, used in the production of fertilisers, paper, plywood, and urea-formaldehyde resins used in pressed-wood products like MDF. It's also a widely used embalming fluid.
Exposing the family
Formaldehyde is present in the family home, but usually at small levels. According to a US report, the levels reported in the average home are less than 0.03 parts of formaldehyde per million parts of air (ppm). Side effects are not usually experienced until it exceeds levels of 0.1ppm.
Some levels of formaldehyde are found in many products used around the home, such as antiseptics, medicines, cosmetics and personal care products like mouthwashes, skin disinfectants and even spermaticide creams.
Formaldehyde is also used to add permanent-press qualities to clothing and draperies, in the manufacture of carpets, and is a by-product found in smog and cigarette smoke.
Is it in baby shampoos?
While formaldehyde is not an actual ingredient in baby shampoos, as such, some contain a substance called quaternium-15 that releases formaldehyde.
One manufacturer of baby shampoos, Johnson & Johnson, has said it is reducing and gradually phasing out the chemical - as well as another one called dioxane, which has been linked with cancer - from its baby shampoo.
How dangerous is formaldehyde?
Classified by Australia's National Occupational Health and Safety Commission as a Category 2 carcinogen – that is, a substance that should be regarded as possibly cancer-causing to humans – formaldehyde is far from harmless. But most homes do not contain anywhere near dangerous levels of the gas.
When levels exceed 0.1 ppm, some people can experience reactions such as watery eyes, burning sensations in the eyes, nose, and throat, coughing, wheezing and skin irritation.
Some people are very sensitive to formaldehyde, whereas others have no reaction to the same level of exposure and it has been known to bring on asthma attacks.
Protecting your family
While your family is most likely exposed to levels of formaldehyde that are well and truly within the safety guidelines, there are steps you can take to reduce exposure.
- Avoid buying uncoated pressed wood products made with urea-formaldehyde (UF) resin.
- Buy used or antique furniture – formaldehyde emissions decrease as products age
- Do not allow cigarette or cigar smoking in your home.
- Reduce your home's humidity, and keep indoor temperatures moderate – more formaldehyde is released when temperature and/or humidity are high.
- Ventilate rooms that contain new or newly cleaned carpets, or where furniture is made from MDF (especially if it is new).
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Move to outlaw the keeping of hens in small wire cages splits California, with farmers saying it could put them out of business.
WHAT do hens want – and how do humans know?
That's the issue at the heart of a fierce battle looming in California between animal rights campaigners and egg producers over the welfare of caged hens. The outcome could crack the state's $300 million (200 million) egg production industry.
A vote in November on whether to give more space to breeding pigs and calves raised for veal could also make California the first US state to ban the housing of egg-laying hens in small wire cages.
If the law is passed – and support for it is running at 63 per cent, according to a poll – most of California's egg producers would be driven out of business, opponents say.
Proposition 2 would give the state's 20 million laying hens, most of which have less floor space than an A4-size piece of paper, enough room in which to spread their wings, lie down, stand up and turn round.
If approved, the measure will come into force in 2015.
Jennifer Fearing, campaign manager for Yes on Prop 2, said: "California voters recognise this is a modest reform and that all animals, including those raised for food, deserve humane treatment. Californians have a long history of very progressive attitudes towards animals and have a commitment to outlawing animal cruelty where it exists."
In San Diego County, brothers Ryan and Alan Armstrong are proud of their 60-year-old family egg farm business and say it is in their best business interests to provide good conditions for their 500,000 hens.
"If the hens are uncomfortable, if they are too hot or too cold, or don't get enough water or don't like their feed, the first thing that gets hit is egg production," Ryan Armstrong said.
About 10 per cent of the Armstrong hens are uncaged. In one vast, breezy barn, 8,800 brown, clucking hens roam under a 9,000sq foot roof. But the brothers say relative freedom is not necessarily a good thing.
"People have the idea that cage-free is healthier, but it's not. The hens sometimes lay eggs in the manure. Sometimes they eat it. If one is sick, it's impossible to catch and remove it. Another problem with so many hens living together is cannibalism," Ryan said.
Demand in California for cage-free eggs, which normally carry a premium of about $1 per dozen, has levelled off in the past three years, the brothers say.
"We had planned 12 cage-free buildings. but we only put up six because demand is not there," Alan Armstrong said.
They said their highest production came from the sort of conditions that most anger animal campaigners: a computer-controlled, air-conditioned barn housing 130,000 hens, six to a wire cage and with the cages stacked five high.
Manure is collected on trays under each cage; clean white eggs roll on to conveyor belts, and sick or injured hens can be quickly removed. "The supporters of Prop 2 are asking us to throw all that away so chickens can spread their wings, but that doesn't make birds healthier," Ryan said. "Sometimes what is better for a hen isn't what you think it might be."
He said the costs of extra equipment, labour and land needed to meet the Prop 2 changes would "put our family out of business".
Animal rights groups say farms like the Armstrongs' are the exception, not the rule and that the Yes campaign has wide support from animal lovers.
"People get it," Ms Fearing said. "We would never keep our pets in cages so small they couldn't turn around, and farm animals don't deserve that misery either."
Europe plans to act in four years' time
THE European Union will bring its ban on keeping laying hens in tiny cages into effect in 2012 – from that date it will allow only "enriched" cages, which offer a bit more room.
An estimated 200 million hens in the 27 EU countries are kept in cages.
Official figures show that 62 per cent of Britain's 29 million laying hens are kept in battery cages, while a third are free-range and 4 per cent are kept in barns.
In California, exposs of poor animal welfare standards have played a major part in shaping public opinion on battery farms, much as they have in Britain.
An undercover investigation in May by the vegan campaign group Mercy for Animals of a large egg farm in Merced, northern California, showed video of rotting hen carcases in cages with live hens and scrawny hens covered in excrement.
And as with many other examples of legislation in the United States, such as on environmental issues, where California leads, other states are likely to follow.


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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Steven Huth Named New CIO and Vice ProvostProvost and Executive Vice President Mark Kamlet has announced that Steven Huth (right), chief information officer for Carnegie Mellon Qatar and a member of the Computing Services management team in Pittsburgh, will succeed Joel Smith as CMU's chief information officer and vice provost, effective Aug. 1. This past fall, Smith announced he would be stepping down to join the faculty in CMU's Philosophy Department.
Before joining Computing Services in 2009, Huth served as technical director of Q-CERT, a joint Carnegie Mellon/ictQATAR program to improve information security in Qatar. During his 15 years at CMU, Huth also has been the deputy director of the CERT program, one of the oldest and most respected computer security organizations, and managed the Information Technology Department for the Software Engineering Institute.
Prior to coming to CMU, Huth was manager of Data Networking and Academic Systems Development at the University of Pittsburgh, where he led the transition to a new campus network, taught telecommunications management, and worked with Academic Computing to provide a variety of student services.
Huth's career of more than 30 years has spanned industry, government and academia. He's worked on diverse projects, ranging from microcomputer system design to real-time data acquisition in operating rooms, to the creation of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University in Prague.


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Last week the largest U.S. banks received a clean bill of health from the Federal Reserve, which pronounced them capable of withstanding the shock from a severe recession.
Tell that to Anat Admati. A professor of finance and economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Ms. Admati doesn't have the résumé of someone likely to launch rhetorical bombs into boardrooms. Yet that's exactly what she and her co-author, Martin Hellwig, have done in their new book, The Bankers' New Clothes.
With clarity and wit, the authors take on some of the banking industry's most sacred cows, including its reliance on high levels of debt. That argument has earned them praise from diverse quarters ("the most important book about banking in a very long time," said Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard economist) but also some vocal critics.
Ms. Admati chatted with The Globe and Mail by telephone from her home in California.
If there is one thing you'd like readers to take away from your book, what would it be?
I want them to know banks are businesses that are not that hard to understand in the end. Banks are not as different from other companies as they tell you they are. There's a sort of a mystique about banking. The book wants to demystify banking so we that can have a discussion about banking as part of the economy, not as something unique and different.
Your focus hasn't been on what banks do with their funds, but the sources of those funds.
We steered the discussion to funding, because the failure of any company is basically the failure to pay debt. So the question is how come you have so much debt that you fail or come near failing? It's a very simple question. But the discussion gets into a box in which we somehow feel like we can't change that. That equity is somehow scarce just for these companies. That's just false. Equity funding is given with the same consideration to all companies.
What I wasn't understanding from the beginning was why these financial institutions were so highly indebted. That was my original question. It seemed that everybody was taking for granted that that's how it is. That it's a debt business. I was like, "What do you mean it's a debt business? They have to have some debt, okay – but do they have to have 95 per cent debt?" I wasn't sure why.
We don't see highly leveraged companies in the economy like that. We don't see companies that routinely have single-digit equity numbers. The banks won't lend to businesses that have so little equity [laughs].
So why are banks different?
Because they want to be and because they get away with it. There's nothing efficient about this way of funding. Nothing. There's nothing about banking that necessitates it or makes it unavoidable.
And the end result is?
It's basically an industry that's allowed to be way [more] dangerous than it needs to be. What we realized too is one of the things about borrowing is it has addictive properties. In other words, once you're highly indebted, among the biases and distortions and inefficiencies that happen is you want to take more risk in general. You might pass up good but relatively boring business lending and do other things. Because decision makers – that is what's so bad about high leverage – won't invest unless they have enough upside.
People have said that your assertion that banks should hold 20 to 30 per cent equity is too expensive and unrealistic.
I've heard it all. Every single thing I have heard. Right now, at least I can say, read my book, because the book unpacks this.
Let me put it to you this way. If you cannot have a viable business at 20 to 30 per cent equity, then maybe you don't have a viable business. That's the way the economy works. How come your business is only viable with 97 per cent or 95 per cent debt which is subsidized [by government guarantees]? In other words, when you can borrow at subsidized rates?
We live in Silicon Valley, where everything is equity funding and we ask why Apple doesn't borrow more. So what's the disconnect between how different banks are from other corporations? When you step into banking, it's like all the rules are changed. It's as if everything is suspended – gravity, everything. [But] how different is it?
These are corporations and they make investments. Their investments are loans. How different are loans from other investments in the economy? How different is their funding? Okay, so they have some debt. They have deposits, fine. But all the money that they create is their debt. So it sits as debt, they owe it to somebody. Then they do stuff with it, and then [if] they lose, what happens then?
You've said your aim is to debunk various fallacies, myths and "irrelevant facts" in the policy discussion around banking. Can you give an example ?
We couldn't imagine the statement that really is the most important used by lobbyists – that somehow more equity, higher capital requirements would prevent banks from lending. We thought, wait a minute. They don't lend when they're already in distress, that's why there is a credit crunch, not because there's more equity. When you have a credit crunch, it's because you already had too much debt and they lost. That's a debt overhang effect.
What was really the moment for me [was when] I opened a textbook for banking. I just wanted to see what they were saying, these people from this island of banking. I saw in the textbook some statement about return on equity. About how ROE is a measure of the cost of different funding. There is an implication that shareholders lose if you have a lower ROE. I fail my students in a basic course for saying something like that. It is really an odd statement. Because you cannot ever talk about return without talking about risk.
If I take money and invest in [U.S.] Treasuries, I get little ROE. So what about it? There's no risk. What does ROE mean without risk? And risk and leverage are intimately related. That's the bread and butter of finance.
This was a textbook by a famous academic, sixth edition. It was part of the culture. And I've heard the ROE argument made and I couldn't really take it seriously. So when I saw it was in a textbook, that was really transformative. I just decided something was really wrong.
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Lynden Allen Wayne Hiland was
born June 8, 2002 in Sterling, Ill., the son of George "Scott"
Hiland and Nonie Starr. For the past month, Scott, Nonie and Lynden
have made their home in Bellville.
Lynden passed away suddenly Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004 at his home.
He will be missed by his parents: Scott and Nonie of Bellville;
grandparents Lori Schaney of Lincoln, Neb., John Starr and Shari
Lenz of Oregon, and Linda Pitts and Tom Moreno of Sterling, Ill.;
great grandparents Dorothy Hiland of De Kalb, Ill., Raymond W. Pitts
of Milledgeville, Ill. and Gladys Kee of Benton, Ill.; aunts and
uncles Patricia Rodriguez of Lincoln, Neb., Joshua Pitts and Hunter
Starr of Sterling, Ill. and Joshua Beck of Chicago.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, John Hiland, and great
grandparents Donna Pitts, Everett Hiland and Wayne Starr, Sr.
Funeral Service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004 at the
Preston Funeral Home Chapel, 213 Crawford Ave. in Dixon, Ill.
Graveside services will follow at 12:30 p.m. in the South Pleasant
View Cemetery.
In lieu of usual remembrances, friends who wish may make memorial
gifts to the Lynden Hiland Memorial Fund, c/o Fifth Third Bank, 102
S. Galena Ave., Dixon, Ill. 61021.
Local arrangements were under the direction of the Schmidt Funeral
Home in Bellville.Hiland
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Commonwealth financial keeps calling me asking for another person. This is the 6th time this debt has been assigned and they asked me to pay for this persons debt otherwisee the calls would continue.
I obtained a coiurt order for them to stop....but they continue to call me.
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This is actually good news for you. Since you have a court order against them to stop contacting you and they have continued to call, that is a violation of the court order.
Take them back to court, get a judgment against them and seize assets if they don't pay. First thing to seize is their phone system lol....good luck. At least this way you get paid for all the harrassment.
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ESPN showed commitment with Wimbledon coverage
It is nothing to celebrate. The major television networks have been our window into the Grand Slam circuit for decades, mixing superb commentary with priceless images of the sport's most compelling players and personalities. But there's an element gone missing: commitment. For that reason, tennis fans can only welcome ESPN's ever-growing dominance at the majors.
As we look back on Wimbledon, has any major sporting event been so thoroughly covered? Tennis Channel was there, as well, lurking on the perimeter, and if you dreamed of programming that lasted from the waking hours until bedtime, you got it: eight hours from ESPN, then another seven from TC, with nearly all of your favorite broadcasters in play.
That's called commitment. It provides what we don't get from NBC when it tape-delays crucial matches or springs Today on an unsuspecting audience. It's what vanished so inexcusably when CBS turned over a U.S. Open men's final to ESPN2 in mid-match (2010). To the major networks, commitment means a money-grabbing retreat to its most trusted programming, sports fans be damned.
And so there is change. Look back with nostalgia on the days of Bud Collins, Dick Enberg and Pat Summerall bringing the nation's tennis boom into your living room with such class and panache. Lament the diminishing presence of Ted Robinson working a match with John McEnroe and Mary Carillo. It's mostly about ESPN now, with essential contributions from Tennis Channel.
Here's how it breaks down:
• U.S. Open: CBS is still in the picture, as well as Tennis Channel, but ESPN recently signed an 11-year agreement to obtain all rights beginning in 2015. As of that year, thankfully, the Open's crazy final-weekend schedule will be trashed. Following Wimbledon's sensible setup, the women's semifinals will be held on Thursday, men's semifinals on Friday, women's final on Saturday and men's final on Sunday.
• Australian Open: ESPN will continue its near-exclusive coverage, with some live action from Tennis Channel.
• French Open: NBC's last stand, on weekends only, with TC and ESPN sharing the bulk of the coverage. NBC's contract allows it to televise one men's semifinal and both finals through 2024.
• Wimbledon: No changes from this year, when ESPN was the exclusive rights holder.
To whatever extent the major-network presence was missed, fans had to be delighted with the prospect of solid, no-surprises coverage at Wimbledon. I thought ESPN did its best work yet, culminating with impressive commentary from Chris Fowler and the McEnroe brothers, John and Patrick, in a three-man booth for the men's final and the Novak Djokovic-Juan Martin del Potro semifinal. That's a tricky assignment, but they offered just the right blend of insight, enthusiasm and -- most important -- silence.
John McEnroe was a blur throughout the fortnight, serving as the ultimate free agent. On several occasions, including the women's final, he could be heard on Tennis Channel's broadcast. Although TC has no match-coverage rights at Wimbledon, it was able to replay BBC matches on its nighttime show (after the ESPN window), so McEnroe -- who has had a long and satisfying relationship with BBC -- could be heard alongside the likes of Mark Petchey, a former tour player from England.
The strength of TC's coverage was in its studio arrangement, with first-rate hosts Carillo and Bill Macatee interviewing a wide-ranging cast of characters including John Newcombe, Jack Nicklaus, Wimbledon historian John Barrett, top British writers Richard Evans and Neil Harman and a number of American journalists. Jim Courier was a constant presence in the network's studio, and his often-edgy commentary was most welcome.
For example, while everyone was marveling at Agnieszka Radwanska's hitting quick-reaction defensive shots from a squatting position, Courier scoffed, "She doesn't need to do that. She's only doing it because she can."
WERTHEIM: 50 parting thoughts from Wimbledon
And another: As video clips showed Grigor Dimitrov in "Baby Federer" mode, clearly imitating his idol's every technique, Courier pointed out, "I've never seen a great champion that was a mimic. It would be good for Dimitrov to find something inside of him that is his own."
As the Centre Court roof was closed after the third set of the Andy Murray-Jerzy Janowicz semifinal -- despite a vehement protest from Murray, who wanted to continue in the 30-40 remaining minutes of light -- ESPN's Brad Gilbert argued (and I agreed) that it's the most fair decision, starting fresh with a new set under the adjusted conditions. Courier countered that "it's an outdoor tournament, and should be played that way as long as possible. They'll be sitting around for a half-hour when they should be out there playing."
Hard to argue with that stance, either.
As for Robinson's future in tennis broadcasting, he wrote via e-mail, "I'm signing a new multiyear deal with NBC for the French Open and the Olympics, Olympic Trials and other Olympic sports events. I plan to work out a new TC deal for the French, Davis Cup and other events. Due to my schedule [Robinson is the radio voice of the San Francisco 49ers], I'll have only two days on site at the U.S. Open, for Tennis Channel on its primetime weekend matches."
Carillo has become a Tennis Channel fixture at the French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open, and although her TC contract expires in October, it's likely she'll have a new deal in hand by year's end.
"I'll also be working the U.S. Open with CBS through 2014," she said, "and I'll do NBC work at the French Open for the foreseeable future."
Other thoughts on Wimbledon
• It's not a requirement that players be gracious in defeat, but Radwanska should take a close look at the aftermath of some heartbreaking losses in the tournament, notably those involving Janowicz, Fernando Verdasco, Rafael Nadal and Djokovic. To exude traditional class at Wimbledon, one should come up with a decent handshake and wait a few moments so both players can leave the court at once. Radwanska didn't even look at Sabine Lisicki during her dismissive handshake after the semifinals, then hurried off into the tunnel.
A big deal? Maybe not, but this is how a lot of casual fans will remember the talented Polish player. Yes, it was disheartening to read Greg Garber's ESPN.com account of Lisicki's meltdown in the final against Marion Bartoli, claiming, "This will be a popular win in the WTA locker room. Lisicki is not beloved by her playing peers. She is seen as overly dramatic and sometimes a bit precious."
Still, here's a tip for Radwanska. No need for hugs, kisses or smiles. Just look your opponent in the eye, if only for a moment.
PHOTOS: Murray, Bartoli celebrate titles
• How could Lisicki become such an emotional wreck after staring down Serena Williams and gutting it out against Radwanska?
"Everything is a little bit different this day," Martina Navratilova said on Tennis Channel as Lisicki broke into tears during her loss to Bartoli on Saturday. "She's losing to the Wimbledon final. Most people need to play one before they win one."
Chris Evert agreed on ESPN, recalling her first Wimbledon final (1973) as a complete disaster, blown away by Billie Jean King in the first set and finding her composure too late in a 6-0, 7-5 loss.
Candid postmatch comment from Bartoli: "When I looked at Sabine's face before going on court, I saw someone very stressed about the situation."
It wasn't much fun to watch, that's for sure. About as enjoyable, tweeted The New York Times' Chris Clarey, "as watching your child freeze during their piano recital."
Credit Lisicki for admitting to the crowd that she was "just overwhelmed" by the occasion. She should check out the tapes of Jana Novotna's progression from a shocking collapse against Steffi Graf in the 1993 final (complete with tears on the Duchess of Kent's shoulder) to her richly satisfying championship victory against Nathalie Tauziat in '98.
• The Lisicki-Williams match in the fourth round was, from a technical standpoint, the highlight of the women's draw and the very definition of modern-day power. The sound of the balls leaving their rackets was so dynamic, I thought for a moment they were playing under a closed roof.
It was a blessed development, as well, that Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka vanished from the draw so quickly. Seriously, aside from their hardcore fans, did anyone lament their absence? The essence of pure tennis is so much about the soundtrack, the feeling of being mesmerized by a memorable rally. I never cease to be appalled by the arrogance and self-absorption of those two, knowing that their incessant caterwauling alienates a significant part of the audience -- both on TV and in person -- to say nothing of the WTA and Wimbledon officials.
And, no, it was hardly a coincidence that the Sharapova-Michelle Larcher de Brito match in the second round was banished to No. 2 Court. That was a very clear statement from the All England Club, where the sport's finest traditions are so ardently cherished.
• Milos Raonic must be wondering if he was born too late. He grew up watching the likes of Pete Sampras, Richard Krajicek and Goran Ivanisevic dominate Wimbledon matches with huge serves and net-rushing tactics, the kind of serve-and-volley tennis that always worked so well on grass. Now he's a grown man, and those days are gone. Big serves will always be an asset, but an all-around game is essential. While Raonic and John Isner consistently come up short, Janowicz and del Potro are the big guys most feared on tour.
• How ironic that in an age of baseline tedium, Taylor Townsend -- the fast-rising junior so rudely criticized for her physique before last year's U.S. Open -- is showing more hustle, variety and net-rushing skill than nearly anyone in women's tennis.
• And here was a comment, heard from a distinguished woman at my neighbor's tennis-watching party, as Bartoli was being interviewed on ESPN: "That's such a sweet, beautiful face. And no makeup, making it even more impressive. Don't you think she's adorable?"
There was agreement, all around. Take that, John Inverdale.


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you mentioned the volts were steadily dropping.. was that just a rough observation based on lights and stuff?
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it was thrown right out from under the hood, the cord ripped right out of the back of it.. I put the cord back in it.. and it still works great
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The kindness with we were greeted really made the difference: we enjoyed in total serenity our mini-vacation in Rome.Gianni
Very comfortable. Really near to metro stop, we were able to move among the monuments of Rome with relative ease. They gave us great advices to choose bars and restaurants, but also for tourist routes.Susan


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When the meal had concluded Ben and I decided to take a walk towards Campo de Fiori, a center of nightlife. After a drink in an Irish tavern, of which there are strangely hundreds in Rome, we set off back to the hotel. We hailed a taxi and were about to get in when we noticed that two women had tried to catch the same cab. We offered to split the cab as we were going in the same general direction; they agreed. As we introduced ourselves they discussed how they just got jobs as the marketing representatives for a new local club called Goa.
They informed us that if we could get ten people or more interested they could give us a great deal for the evening. Being tired with Irish pubs and herds of American students we inquired further. It would cost 15 Euros for a coach bus ride, cover charge, coat check, and our first drink free. Seeing as most drinks in Rome cost 8 Euros alone we felt this was a good investment. I told the women that we would try and get a group together and wished them a good night.
Back at the hotel it was an uphill struggle to get a solid commitment out of anyone. Althoug after an hour we had a good group of fifteen ready to go. We made the call and arranged the coach bus to pick us up at the hotel.
When our group of 15 showed up in the lobby to await the bus I felt their loyalty deserved some sort of reward so I picked up two bottles of inexpensive Prosseco, an Italian sparkling wine, for the bus.
We soon boarded and were off to Goa with champagne corks popping.
The ride lasted about 20 minutes and we stopped in front of a long alley. At the end was a large white building with modern, abstractly shaped windows. Inside was a black, circular bar accented with glowing red orbs hung from the ceiling. This was certainly an authentic Euro club. Professional dancers would stand on raised platforms wearing Carnival type masks.
We danced to the mix of techno and American music through the night, boarded the buses, and rode back to our hotel pleased about our first brush with true European nightlife.


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While I was feeding my nine month old daughter breakfast last week, something rather disturbing appeared on television. I was distracted from my little girl's flat refusal to open her mouth by a debate over, of all things, a video game. Sitting on a sofa in front of the cameras was an executive from Rockstar Games and an American lobbyist, discussing Rockstar's latest release, Bully – or Canis Canem Edit as it's called in Europe.
If you're a keen follower of video games, you're probably well aware of the controversy surrounding Bully. In fact when Gordon wrote a news piece about the game, we were rewarded with a barrage of emails from US lawyer Jack Thompson, literally attacking us for not citing Bully as an evil work of Satan! Some may even say that Jack's behaviour was akin to, well, bullying – but I of course, couldn't possibly comment.
So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that on the eve of the actual release of the game, the controversy surrounding Bully would rear its head in the general media. After all, there's nothing better than a bit of sensationalism to give the mainstream news agencies a shot in the arm. In the debate I watched on television, one of the main arguments against Bully was that it stereotyped children – the lobbyist cited the fact that it was the fat children, or the geeky kids or the poor kids that were the ones being bullied. Of course that could be considered stereotypical, or it could in fact be considered realistic!
I may be getting on a bit (it was my birthday last week and I'm creeping closer and closer to 40), but I can still vividly remember my school days. During my time at school, I didn't bully anyone, but I can remember that the kids that were given a hard time weren't the cool, rich and athletic types, by odd coincidence they tended to be the fat, geeky, or poor kids – now why does that sound familiar? Let me make one thing very clear here, I am NOT saying that any demographic of children deserves to be bullied, because no one deserves that. All I'm saying is that Rockstar's portrayal of the high school social structure isn't negatively stereotypical, it's just scarily honest.
But the big objection that Bully's opponents have is that they say it will insight violence and antisocial behaviour in our youth, and with this I'm afraid, I must take umbrage. I am sick of people not wanting to take responsibility for their own lives and actions. Why do we always have to look for a scapegoat for the latest atrocity? Why can't we just accept that some people are good and others are bad – it's what separates us from the animals, freedom of choice. Kids who steal cars don't have to have played Grand Theft Auto in order to do it, in fact when teenage joyriding was at its height in the late 80s, GTA wasn't even a twinkle in Rockstar's eye. Likewise, violent movies are not to blame for violent behaviour, and they don't breed serial killers. If someone is mentally unstable enough to murder after watching a film, they were just a time bomb in the first place – if it wasn't a movie, it would have been someone stepping on their foot, or spilling their drink that pushed them over the edge.


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I've got nothing but bloat so far, but I can't wait to see all the beautiful bumps!
ditto milkgal :)
I've been taking weekly bump pics since week 10 and wowwie, is there a big difference. I wish I knew how to put together one of those progression pics so that I don't have to post each pic individually.. does anyone know?
Perhaps by the wedding inspiration board? Maybe it works for this?! Can't wait to see the first bumps of the 2013 babies :)
missbliss, if they're on your phone there is an app called photogrid which allows you to make a montage of them. it would be smaller, but it's a start!
I'll be the first :) Clearly, my bump is not due to the baby... thanks to good food! ha!
what a cute sign, jarcye! you're going to have such a cute bump :) i'll start next week at 8 weeks as well!
here's my 8 week! don't mind the ugly blinds in the back or my AW pup. this was taken in the future nursery which is currently pink and pin stripe, but we have big plans to alter that :)
so cute haleigh!
So cute ladies!! I'm 16 weeks and some days I feel like I have a bump and other days I feel like I'm just trying to feel better about my spare tire. I'll try to post a pic soon!
that's me not flexing my tummy, sometimes i think i have two in there! guess we'll find out in 2 weeks ;)
These are adorable, ladies! I don't have a bump to show...but enjoying seeing your pictures.
love this post :)
i skipped a few weeks :cp
here's week 11!
Last week- 24 weeks... this was our name announcement on facebook.
aw i love how you announced her name! and I love that name!
Oh Serenity your announcment is soo beautiful. Too cute to announce it with a little pumkin and I love your shirt!
This is me at 14 weeks. I swear I feel a lot bigger than that though! haha Hardly any of my pants fit me.
Serenity57 - that is such a cute way to do an announcement!


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This is, without question, the least sexy play that you'll find in this Top 12 list. It's ranked #3 overall, but I had some serious consideration of putting it at #1. This play was simply that important and game-altering. Ultimately, I settled on #3, because I'm pretty sure it was the only play on this list that didn't get me up out of my seat, hooting and hollering. Still, Mesko's 65-yard punt in overtime ended up being the defining play of the Patriots revenge against Baltimore in 2010. Watch the video closely. Mesko's back foot is right up against the 1 yard line as the play begins. This was a certifiable field position disaster for the Patriots and I was nearly certain that the game was over. Then Zoltan boomed the snot out of the ball, and suddenly, the Ravens found themselves backed up as the kick finally settled at the 18-yard line. Other than the Jets romp late in the year, this was my favorite game of 2010. We owe it all to Mesko's foot.
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I had my bank discontinue payments, which I found out only lasted for a year, and they took a large sum of money, also unauthorized, which the bank quickly returned upon my notifying them. I have been hounded by this company and threatened with legal action, but I have paid enough for many credit card machines during the time they made authorized and unauthorized withdrawals.
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Originally credited to Parkhurst, but this is not him. He has very different horses, and the head of Golden Arrow rather small with long, broad neck, and very special hair locks in the back of the same neck, as in #44.
The art looks like Dick Ayers' very lively inking and figures, and Cazeneuve is credited to have ghosted him on "Boy Commandos". He is aso credited on Golden Arrow for 1943-45 by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The art is almost similar to his work on "Aquaman" in Adventure Comics #124, and credited stories in Star Sprangled Comics #45. Most probably his story.
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