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CHICAGO – In a college class several years ago, the professor asked us if we had ever pretended to be a different class than we actually were.
A girl in the back of class raised her hand. She had a brightly-colored Louis Vuitton monogram clutch on her desk.
"My dad's a doctor," she said. "And my parents are, like, really well-off and stuff. And they pay for all my tuition and my dorm and everything, and most people I know have to pay for all their own stuff. So for a long time I was really embarrassed. Like, when I would go shopping I would stuff the designer bags in the back of my closet and pretend I got stuff at Goodwill."
The way she said it, it was clear she expected sympathy or at least admiration. But instead there was a very long, awkward silence. We all looked at one another and imagined what it would feel like to rip out her blonde extensions and stomp on them until she cried. (At least that's what I was imagining.)
But she brought up a good point.
We might not like to talk about it, but there are some very real (if invisible) divisions between American socioeconomic classes – with a heavy emphasis on the "economic." We like it say that in our society we don't have a caste system, but it's just not true. In England, you can tell how wealthy someone's family is by their accent and the way they speak. Here, you can often tell by the way they dress – and especially by the way they shop.
I am extremely fortunate to never have experienced real discrimination in my life. Things weren't always rosy financially, but I have spent my whole life situated comfortably in the middle class. I paid for my own college, my parents never bought me a car and I worked through high school. While not judging people who have a different situation, I'm proud of all these things.
Most of the time.
I'm a TJ Maxx, Target and Kohl's kind of girl. They have wonderful, beautiful clothes and I love to shop at these places. Of course I would love to visit more upscale stores as well. But I stay away from them, fearing the sideways glances of clerks who know they're not going to make a sale.
I love Ralph Lauren, but on a recent trip to Chicago I didn't dare go in the store. Same with Saks Fifth Avenue, Gucci, Coach and even J. Crew. I passed by their storefronts slowly to take in the beautiful fall looks on the mannequins, but I couldn't help but feel that if I walked in it would be a "Pretty Woman" moment ("We don't have anything for you here").
My love of fashion has to do with having a real appreciation for the beauty and artistry of individual pieces. Even if I can't buy it, I like to look at it. It's why I subscribe to "Vogue" – I can't order that several-hundred-dollar pair of shoes in the ad of the September issue, but I wish I could, and what's wrong with wishing?
I couldn't resist when I saw an LK Bennett store on Michigan Avenue. Kate Middleton has made the label's nude pumps a global sensation, and they only have about a dozen stores in the U.S. As a devoted worshipper of all things Middleton, I couldn't miss my one opportunity to get a little closer to her (and if that sounds stalker-y, it should).
So my friend and I walked in, looking like complete tourists with our rain-drenched outfits, squeaky flip-flops and embarrassingly-enormous camera. I tried to play it cool. I went to the first rack and saw a gorgeous shift dress. It cost $285. I would have given anything to try it on, but I felt the salesgirl's eyes on me.
"I'm just browsing," I said, feeling certain that she knew my own dress was from Wal-Mart.
"Okay," she said sweetly. "This whole section is 30%, just so you know."
"Oh really! Thanks." I tried to pretend that I could afford even 70% of $285.
I didn't get thrown out of LK Bennett, "Pretty Woman"-style. Maybe it helped that I wasn't dressed like a prostitute. And maybe it's silly, my phobia of browsing at high-end stores where I have no intention of spending any money.
Still, I can't help but think that maybe the salesgirl took pity on me. She was young – younger than me – and she can't be making very much working the floor at LK Bennett. She was in high school, probably, or college. There was something careless and endearing about the way her hair was messily pulled back - as if she had rushed to get here, to her minimum-wage, commission-earning job. Maybe she knew that by holding that dress in my hands, I just wanted to know what it felt like to be Kate Middleton.
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You made a factual error regarding the class system in England, which, unlike the US, actually has a class system based upon birth status. Specifically, if a person is descended from European royalty and can claim a title they're considered upper class regardless of their economic status. There are many impoverished royal descendants who cannot afford to maintain their ancestral homes and must either sell or rent them out to tourists, but they don't lose their class status in doing so. In the US one's class is determined by social, economic and "power" factors, i.e. an uneducated homeless guy who wins the lottery wouldn't automatically become upper class just by virtue of his money. On the opposite end Mitt Romney or any of the Kennedys are upper class by wealth but also by the powerful and influential families they come from.
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I left off talking about truth in gardening and will use this blog to explore very, very non traditional gardens. Traditional media is fine and buy garden books of you want traditional stuff. Let's enter John Greenlee's garden:
I am working with John on a new book "Meadows By Design" and is the reason I am on the road, now in Chicago. No one who knows John will dispute he is a madman and a passionate lover of grasses. He is also at work on a book: "Kill Your Lawn" and proudly displays his garden style in his Pomona, CA garden:
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Truth in gardening. A good garden photo should not simply document – it should reveal, make one wonder.
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Three years ago, at the age of 39, Mimi Kilroy had finally settled down and married George Paxton, the billionaire.
Five years earlier, George Paxton, who supposedly hailed from outside of Boston, which could mean anywhere really, had suddenly popped up on the social scene in New York. It was practically a rule in New York society that every few years, a billionaire would appear as if from nowhere, usually in the form of a middle-aged man who had suddenly made a fortune and was in the throes of a midlife crisis. Having slaved for years to make money, he was now in the position to finally enjoy his life, and the very first thing to go was always the first wife. Such was the story of George Paxton.
His first two years in New York followed the usual lines: He was feted and petted, and continually fixed up on blind dates, because there is nothing more exciting to society than a newly single man flush with a fortune he isn't exactly sure how to spend.
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whatever you decide to do with them, when you're done, you could buy a bottle tree for the garden or patio and put the rest on there. they're really popular in south mississippi, and they're really pretty when the light hits the bottles. here's a picture:
(* mine is inside, because i'm still an apartment dweller, but my boyfriend's mom offered to buy me one & i couldn't pass up the opportunity, so i'm saving for when i have a yard. i'm sure you could find a way to craft one by driving metal bars into a wooden stake or something if you can't find one to buy, then just secure in the ground with concrete...?)
sorry the pic is small of the actual tree. this is a pic i took for my mom to show her the apartment; it's the only bottle tree pic i have at the moment. heh.


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Sebastian Steinlechner wrote: > The problem here is, that /usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib in debian > pure64 (though I don't know why that is). You answered your own question-statement without realizing it. By "pure64" you can tell that it is a pure 64-bit system in the same way that an i386 installation is a pure 32-bit system. That is to say that /usr/lib is the native architecture. On amd64 the native architecture is 64-bits so /usr/lib is the natural location for the native 64-bit libraries. As a pure system it does not have accommodations for the older, troubled, and obsolete biarch nor the newer but not yet implemented multiarch. The symlink from lib64 pointing to lib is an accommodation for the older biarch model. However, having said that, working toward multiarch is definitely a high priority. And the underlying cpu and kernel does have the capability to run both 64-bit and 32-bit architectures on the same system. It is possible to run both and most of us do. But it is not not wonderfully pretty at the moment. That is what multiarch is supposed to solve. Much of the add-on software from non-debian origin is targeting less enlightened distributions using a different system architecture model and so issues like these are going to be common on Debian amd64 for a while. That is going to be a task that many on this list will be working through in the days ahead. Debugging, patching, educating, and advocating. I still would not trade it out since I believe the effort to create a better Debian is worthwhile. Bob
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Phillies RHP Kyle Kendrick (6-4, 3.56 ERA)
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Padres RHP Jason Marquis (9-2, 3.59 ERA)
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I was really shocked when i heard this. I am sure you guys already know about the 2 month old baby giving birth to 2 twins (dead) in Pakistan. This broke the guiness book of world records, from 40 years ago.
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ISLAMABAD: Two months old baby had twins in her belly till the doctors operated her to remove dead twins, weighing 1 Kg while their height was 15 cm.
As per details, since from the birth of baby girl, tumor in her belly was reported but x-ray reports and ultrasound did not reveal the fact that 2 babies were being reared in her belly. The baby was brought to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences(PIMS) where Surgeons operated her on Tuesday and recovered twins from her abdomen.
The surgeons declared that operation was very complicated because the liver and intestines of the baby were jointed with the twins and that one of the twin had completed his cycle of growth while the other one was in a state of half completion. Doctors claimed that twins survived in the abdomen of baby for 4 months before succumbing to death.
It is said to be the first ever miracle of its own origin in the medical history. Doctors revealed that the operated baby is still in critical condition and it may extend to 3 days whereas the baby is being looked after in emergency ward and it is hoped that she will recover soon.
Lets all pray that the baby will survie, after all it isnt her fault, its god that is respsoble.
Well i was also watching this story on the channel "GEO TV" and they said that "That this is a sign from god, that the world is gonna end"I think that is pretty ridiculous to assume! Know one knows for a fact that the world is gonna end.
What do you guys think about this whole situation?
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Wooooooow! Shocking and seems so unrealistic! I guess I proved myself wrong..it is realistic! I hope the baby will be fine!
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You can't blame them for feeling jittery. After all, look what happened to Ellen, the American sitcom that infamously pulverised its own ratings by allowing the star, Ellen DeGeneres, to come out as a lesbian mid-series. She has never repeated her earlier success, though her girlfriend, Anne Heche, has become a huge star in the wake of the furore.
But it looks as though the Beeb has little to worry about. For a start, Cameron claims Rhona is not a gay sitcom. "Sure, it informs who she is, but it is not the point of the show. Ellen was a show that gradually built up to her 'coming out', while Rhona is about a woman who just happens to be gay." Just to make sure we've got the message, she cites her main influences as Rhoda and Seinfeld, carefully avoiding any reference to Queer As Folk, the series that must surely have paved the way for her show getting the green light.
In any case, how gay the series turns out to be is hardly of much consequence; in fact, in many ways, the gayer it is, the higher the ratings may turn out to be. Lesbians are chic, everyone knows this, even this week's National Enquirer, with its Hollywood Lesbians Special. The big question is why? Is it to do with an enlightened sexual consciousness or a global breaking down of taboos? Maybe - but there's another, more significant reason. It's one we should have suspected all along, from the moment Vogue cheerfully endorsed the joys of "bi-try" and from recent snaps of newly-minted Sapphic superstars Drew Barrymore and Liv Tyler coyly puckering up together.
The real reason has been unearthed by the University of Maryland in America. It pays to be gay - particularly if you're a top-ranking star in the film or entertainment industry. A study of 100 top female stars reveals that gay women earn on average $7.9m while other stars take home a mere $6m. Perhaps this is the reason why actors such as Angelina Jolie are currently flirting with lesbianism - never mind that they're married: they know it will capture the stunted imaginations of male studio executives. Brooke Shields recently posed for US gay magazine Advocate, saying she expected to marry again but in the meantime "found women very attractive". Laura Dern was photographed kissing fellow actor Amy Yasbeck and her act was applauded by singer Melissa Etheridge.
So is going gay a good career move? Actor Sophie Ward, who came out as lesbian four years ago, laughs wryly at the suggestion. "After I came out, I certainly noticed that people were a bit wary of casting me, particularly for television parts. I think there was a feeling that I wasn't safe. Even now, I get the impression with some of the more commercial roles I'm up for that they still think I'm a bit risky. But it's very hard to tell if you don't get a job just because of your sexuality. Luckily most people in the business are strong-minded and don't get swayed by it, but I think it will take time for people to relax about me."
She points out that there may be one reason why lesbians earn more money, although there are no statistics to back this up in the UK: "You have to fight very hard to get where you are as a lesbian in this business. You have to be even more assertive and I think that might be reflected in how much you ask to be paid."
Jess Search, deputy commissioning editor for independent film and video at Channel 4, believes there's a mystique about being a lesbian that may reflect in success and earning power, particularly in creative arts and the media. "It's nothing new that a male audience will find a good-looking girl more interesting if they know she's a lesbian. In general, gay women used to be seen as subcultural, something that went on behind closed doors. Now we're no longer in the ghetto, we're more socially acceptable. Men find lesbians sexy, it creates a buzz around you."
Rhona Cameron, though, is not a typical example. "Most lesbians, especially those in the public eye, suffer from Navratilova syndrome," Search says, "where you can risk coming out only when you're at the top of your game. Then you can afford to do it. That may be the reason why the women surveyed in America were seen to be earning at high levels."
Madeleine Sheahan, a lesbian and business affairs executive with a TV company, believes gay women are not usually fantasy figures. "Most lesbians live smaller, more ordinary lives than anyone else. Men aren't really interested in us, unless there's a prospect that they might get sexually involved with two women. Otherwise it's boring to them. They tend to think women who end up with women do that because they are somehow disappointed in love or, worse, can't get anyone else. That's why they love Anne Heche - she defies all that. In reality, though, most lesbians aren't like that and they are not advantaged by their sexuality."
The University of Maryland study also examined the earning power of women employed in all sectors and found that lesbians in their mid-40s earned a third more than their straight counterparts. Seth Sanders, the economics professor who led the research, asserts that the reason for this imbalance is that lesbians will have known from an early age that they will have to be economically self-sufficient and also that they will not have children.
"This is absolute rubbish," counters Jo Monroe, a lesbian who runs a website for the television industry. "Many, many lesbians I know have children and many of them were married and had kids before they were confident enough to come out. Also, the childless lesbians I know tend to conform to the stereotype of being social workers or teachers, earning £20,000 per year. It's true that there are women like me who have set up our own businesses but that doesn't mean just because we're lesbians we're somehow going to be earning loads of money."
Jocelyn Watson is the lesbian caseworker for employment at the Lesbian and Gay Alliance, which provides help and advice for the gay and lesbian community. She claims she takes calls from women experiencing discrimination difficulties over parity of pay in many different sectors, including the film and TV industries. "I would strongly refute that the earning power of lesbians in this country is higher than that of their colleagues. Women are discriminated against across the pay scales and opportunities are limited. There's still a problem for women to be out and open with their sexuality. It may be fine for Hollywood stars and women in America for whom there are lots of opportunities, but here the big issue for lesbians is how they are going to get a job in the first place."


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Discover Florence, Italy from a different angle! This guided tour begins with a visit to the Uffizi Gallery, one of the most famous museums in the world for its extraordinary collections of paintings and ancient statues, including masterpieces such as Botticelli's Spring. From there your guide will take you through the Vasari Corridor, the Medici's secret passage way across the Arno, to the Pitti Palace. Built to allow safe and private passage for the grand dukes, it now is filled with precious works of art. Be sure to include the combined Uffizi Gallery and Vasari Corridor Guided Tour ticket in your itinerary - it combines Florence, Italy highlights and secrets in a perfect way!
- Tour is scheduled and confirmed without minimum number of participants, from Tuesday to Sunday
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- Visit will be made on foot.
- Visit starts with the guided visit of the Uffizi Gallery to then proceed to the Vasari Corridor and ends at the Boboli Gardens of the Pitti Palace.
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IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UMBRELLAS: Only small umbrellas are allowed inside the Uffizi Gallery. Clients bringing large umbrellas will be required to store them in the museum locker before entering the Gallery. At the end of the tour in Piazza Pitti, clients will have to go back on their own to the Uffizi Gallery (10 minutes walking) to retrieve their umbrellas. The storage service at the entrance of the Gallery, is open until 6:40pm.
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Scotland Gets First Taste Of EV XLD
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With big UK chart names appearing at the events, such as Liberty X, Girls Aloud and McFly, the FMX team sought a bankable solution for their regular client. Setting aside their own Electro-Voice XLC system, ""too large for this type of event"", they chose EV's new XLD system, which sets a new standard in precise coverage and dynamic headroom for compact line arrays.
"The XLD looks great and it performs superbly in the flying position, although we have the option to ground-stack it as well. It is very compact and, in my opinion, a worthy addition to EV's family of line array systems."
The XLD was used as the main PA at the two venues; Easterbrook Town Hall in Dumfries, and the Ayr Racecourse. With Shuttlesound's Jason Kelly in the supporting role of system tech for the shows, the PA was set up with 12 XLD 281 full-range boxes and 4 XS212 subs, with additional XLC118 subs. The system was powered by EV P3000 RL series amplifiers, remote- controlled by EV's proprietary IRIS (Intelligent Remote Integrated Supervision) management software. The show was mixed from a Midas Heritage 2000 console running Klark Teknik's DN9340 Helix EQ, which provides wireless control over all the commonly used EQ functions, allowing instant and simultaneous online control of up to 64 channels of EQ from a tablet computer.
Ron McGillivray of FMX reported: ""I really do like my XLC system, it's just that it was a little too big for these occasions. We were looking for something smaller that was also suitable for conferencing. The XLD looks great and it performs superbly in the flying position, although we have the option to ground-stack it as well. It is very compact and, in my opinion, a worthy addition to EV's family of line array systems.""
EV's X-Line Very Compact™ range (XLD) offers two principal system choices for different applications. The most compact single 8-inch XLE™ and the slightly larger, more powerful, double 8-inch XLD™. Each full-range line-array element features two ND2S compression drivers for maximum high-frequency headroom. Both systems can be combined with the matching XS212 bass cabinet for low-frequency extension.
The XLD 281 is a 3-way design that uses an 8-inch neodymium LF transducer, an 8-inch neodymium LF/MB transducer, and two ND2S neodymium, 2-inch voice coil compression drivers. The 281 features a sophisticated internal crossover network and can be operated in biamp or triamp modes. It is 9.9" (25cm) high x 28.8" (73cm) wide x 14.4" (37cm) deep, and weighs 47lbs (21.3kg).
Electro-Voice (EV), is a professional audio brand of Telex Communications, Inc., a leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of sophisticated audio, wireless, multimedia, aircraft, broadcast and communications equipment for commercial, professional and industrial customers. Telex Communications markets its products in more than 80 countries under the brands EV, Telex, RTS, Dynacord, Midas, Klark Teknik and others.
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Campbell Live talks to the police officer who signed off on the Dotcom police operation.
Seventy-six police officers, many armed with automatic weapons and pistols, including members of the elite Special Tactics Group, arrived at Kim Dotcom's Coatesville property on January 20, to arrest him on charges relating to copyright offences.
Campbell Live enters Kim Dotcom's Coatesville mansion
But Dotcom and his staff allege the police were heavy-handed in their raid of the mansion.
Assistant Police Commissioner Malcolm Burgess defends the police actions.
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Supporters of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act have argued in favor of scrapping current workplace election rules in order to give – as their bill name implies – a "choice" to workers.
Given that the public sign-up process known as "card check" is notorious for subjecting workers to the threat of intimidation, coercion, and retribution, the claim has always been dubious at best. Yet there's another type of worker choice that EFCA supporters conveniently ignore.
Although most people think of union election procedures in the context of workers deciding whether to form a union in the first place, it's worth asking what kind of options workers have when they want to leave one union to join another. Clearly, it's a question of worker choice – and once again, an election with a private ballot is what's protecting that choice:
"A federal labor board decision this week has given a major victory to a breakaway union vying with the giant Service Employees International Union to represent tens of thousands of California healthcare workers.
"On Tuesday, the National Labor Relations Board called for elections to determine who has the right to represent some 2,300 Kaiser healthcare workers employed at various sites in Southern California.
"An SEIU affiliate currently represents the workers, but the breakaway group filed a petition in February challenging the SEIU. The balloting, likely to be held in January, will give employees a chance to choose between the two unions."
McDonnell, "Labor Board OKs Challenge to SEIU," Los Angeles Times, 12.04.09
Ironically, EFCA supporters think so too. Remember the letter written by 16 House Democrats to Mexican officials back in 2001?
"We understand that the secret ballot is allowed for, but not required by Mexican labor law. However, we feel that the secret ballot is absolutely necessary in order to ensure workers are not intimidated into voting for a union they may otherwise not choose."
Democrats have argued rather clumsily that their advocacy of the secret ballot was not about forming a union, but choosing between two rival labor organizations. They're right – and it proves the point just as well. If we want to protect workers' right to freely choose how and whether to be represented by a union in the workplace, the best way to do so is through a secret ballot.
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Over the last couple of weeks, many people have been asking me for the download links for GeoFlow. Well, I am pleased to say that GeoGlow has made it's public preview today and is available for download now. Find below some useful links (including the download link)
And I guess it is time to cut down on some of the earlier limitations that I had mentioned about the beta release of GeoFlow:-
– Related tables are not supported in this release.All the data should be in one table.
– Backend data changes are not reflected in the visualization in this release and this will mean deleting and recreating the visualizations.
– No Undo/Redo is supported in this release.
– No way to slice and dice data within the visualization
– No drill down functionalities from a higher level (say, states) to a lower level (say, counties) which is there in tools like Power View. Not bad huh? Some new features are also there like the Top / Bottom 100 Chart shown below. It is interesting to note that GeoFlow is not available to all versions of Excel 2013. The supported Microsoft Office versions are:
Enough of me telling, it's time to explore this add-in on your own now. Download GeoFlow today and take your data for a 3-D drive!
Does it work on SharePoint on-premises?
Thanks Jason
All my data uses the OSGB1936 projection. Does GeoFlow support spatial references other than WGS1984?
[…] Now let's see some of the new features that has come up since my last post on Power Map. […]


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Written on: 28/04/2004 by detail records (2 reviews written)
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So I'm not sure if my sense of taste is fading or something, but I found this tea to be kinda blah. Maybe I didn't use enough leaf (1 1/2tsp/12oz), or I didn't steep it long enough? Though I'd think if I did it would get bitter.
I get cloves/cinnamon from the chai, though no sense of chocolate at all. And I get something vaguely smoky, but it's kinda just there on the back of the sip. I don't really get the hazelnut like I was hoping, which is disappointing.
No huge astringency, it's just sorta there hanging out.
Overall this is a nicely mild chai to have that doesn't seem like it wants to knock your senses about, but I don't get much of any of the other teas that are supposed to be in here. I imagine this would be nice with milk, though I'm not sure it would really add/subtract much of anything in the overall picture.
I'll probly drink this, but it'll still be going into the swap/sell bin since it's not really anything I'll likely ever crave/reorder. /sigh/ I hope it's not my sense of taste going. >>


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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- With Juan Antonio Samaranch still hospitalized, newly elected Jacques Rogge on Friday officially took over as president of the International Olympic Committee.
Standing in for Samaranch, recovering from severe fatigue, first IOC vice president Keba Mbaye handed Rogge the keys to Chateau de Vidy, the IOC's marble headquarters on the shores of Lake Geneva.
IOC director-general Francois Carrard told The Associated Press that Samaranch was now out of intensive care but needed to rest in hospital for a few more days.
''It is painful circumstances that have brought me to present you the keys of the Olympic house,'' Mbaye said. ''It is because our honorary life president Juan Antonio Samaranch is ill that I've been charged to hand you the keys that open Vidy and the Olympic movement to you.
''It is ... a symbol of the ship's wheel that you will now be guiding,'' Mbaye said of the former Olympic sailor. ''It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous. But I know you are a good captain.''
A smiling Rogge accepted the golden key.
''At this moment, as I officially take the keys, my first words are for the one who should have taken a prominent part in the ceremony,'' Rogge said in front of 200 guests and journalists attending the ceremony at the Olympic museum. ''Unfortunately, he could not be with us but he insisted himself the ceremony go on.
''Be reassured I understand the gravity of this moment and its symbolic importance. By handing me these keys you are entrusting me with the leadership of the International Olympic Committee and it is with great enthusiasm that I start my office as president of the IOC.''
Rogge, a 59-year-old Belgian surgeon, was elected Monday in Moscow as the eighth president in the 107-year history of the IOC.
Samaranch, who had led the IOC for 21 years, collapsed early Wednesday during a radio interview with a Spanish station after his return flight from Moscow. The IOC said he was in stable condition and continuing to improve.
''Yesterday I visited the president at his hospital sickbed and asked him what he would like me to say at this ceremony,'' Mbaye recounted. ''He answered: 'Nothing. Nothing.' Then he added, 'You know, the day before yesterday I almost died, but after our session in Moscow, after what we accomplished there, if I had died it would almost be in happiness.'
''Stay with us Juan Antonio,'' pleaded Mbaye. ''We still need you, need your advice and council.''
Samaranch had a grueling schedule in Moscow, where the host city for the 2008 Summer Games was chosen and the new IOC president was elected.
Meetings started at 9 a.m. daily with receptions or dinners in his honor most evenings. It was also hot and humid in the Russian capital, and many of the venues had no air conditioning.
At times during the Moscow session Samaranch looked shaky and tired. After Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games on Friday, he had to be reminded to sign the host games contract before ending the meeting.
But until the end Samaranch retained absolute control of the movement, snuffing out pleas from at least one IOC member for him to withdraw the nomination of his son as a member.
This article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Saturday, July 21, 2001.
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K. M. V. Swamy[1], B. G. Sheeparamatti[1], G. R. Prakash [1]
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This study is performed to know which central plate geometry is best suited for electrostatically actuated switch. The simulation is carried out in COMSOL Multiphysics, where user is free to model the geometry without depth knowledge about geometrical dependency of electrostatic. The study of the centrally suspended geometrical models such as circle, square and rectangle suspended by two short ...
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The objective of this work is to develop a MEMS based Variometer to measure the vertical speed and to sense the instantaneous rate of climb or descent in Aircrafts to meet the miniaturization requirements in avionics industry. The design consists of dielectric material in between two micro electrodes. The micro diaphragm is placed on one of the electrode. As the aircraft changes altitude, the ...
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I informed my counsel to stop all work in my divorce case as we decided to go throught a mediator. I received his notice of hearing on motion indicating "the the undersigned will present for hearing hte withing Motion to Withdraw Representation, etc. with a July 22 @ 9, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard. This was also sent to my husband. Do we need to be at this hearing? If so, can I change the date due to my travels? Any guidance would be appreciated.
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Your attorney is withdrawing his representation of you and notifying the court he will no longer be representing you. You do not have to attend the hearing and you can consent to his withdrawal if you like.
Going to mediation does not mean you do not need an attorney. More importantly, while a mediator will try to help you and your soon to be ex to reach a separation agreement that will be acceptable to the court. Every mediator should tell you and your ex to have the mediation reviewed by your own attorney.
Before allowing your attorney to withdraw make sure you understand what that means and if your soon to be ex is represented by legal counsel, you might want to keep yours.
If your husband is not represented by legal counsel, it may not be as big a problem. However, I would still want an attorney to review the mediation agreement before you signed it and submitted it to a Court.
Good Luck
I agree strongly with Attorney Roth.
Mediation is not a panacea, and it is not appropriate in every situation. On numerous occasions, we have seen a controlling or dominant people convince their spouses to engage in mediation, knowing full well that their spouse would likely drop their own advocate, be less likely to engage in any aggressive financial discovery, more opportunity to obfuscate and control.
Mediation can only work if both parties have equal bargaining power, equal knowledge of the marital finances, and both have a desire to come to a fair and reasonable outcome.
In any event, there is absolutely no reason that you cannot engage in mediation and at the same time retain counsel who can inform you and look out only for your interests.
There is a communication problem here. You may consider talking to your attorney, and if for no other reason, to get another date. This attorney may charge you for this time. So if you want to let this person go, ask the attorney to file an assented motion to withdraw.
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Some in Hollywood, it seems, just can't let go of past political hopes - or at least want to use their films to continue pushing their political preferences. In Funny People , the new movie from writer/director Judd Apatow ( IMDb page ) which opened July 31, a character played by Seth Rogen ( IMDb page ) wears a 2004-era "Vote Kerry" T-shirt with an artwork outline image of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. I caught the scene with Rogen sporting the T-shirt in the promotional clip played during this past Monday's re-run of the July 20 Tonight Show... continue reading
With "Losing Support" as the on-screen heading, ABC's World News on Friday night certainly made clear how President Obama is losing favor with the American people as his approval level and attitudes toward his health care efforts continue steadily downward so now more are opposed (50 percent) than in favor (45 percent) and he's suffered a 29-point drop in agreement with enacting a "public option." But ABC's Kate Snow still saw a "glass half full" view as she managed to end with a positive spin for Obama: It's not all bad news for the President. We didn't find an overwhelming... continue reading
On Friday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez interviewed commentator Dick Morris about his latest book critical of the Obama administration, Catastrophe . After reading the book's full title, Rodriguez observed: "This title, though, Mr. Morris, can't you see a lot of people dismissing it right off the bat as alarmist? It screams at you." In response, Morris pointed out the dire state of the economy: "9.5% unemployment, four quarters of negative growth, our car companies in receivership, our health care program about to be taken over, and banks being nationalized, and I'm alarmist?" Rodriguez replied by citing recent media... continue reading
Even though conservative columnist Robert Novak was talked about and attacked many times on MSNBC's Countdown show - especially as host Keith Olbermann frequently devoted time to the Valerie Plame case - the MSNBC host did not take time this week to report on Novak's passing. In fact, even though he reported on Novak's hit-and-run car accident last year just before Novak's brain cancer diagnosis and portrayed him negatively, Olbermann never revisited the story to inform viewers that his illness was the likely cause of the conservative columnist's erratic behavior. And when Olbermann launched his Countdown show's regular "Worst Person... continue reading
"We're the only industrialized democracy that doesn't cover every citizen" and "that is immoral," Mark Halperin , editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine where he oversees " The Page " blog, declared on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight in illustrating the prism through which journalists view the debate over the proper role of government in health care. Halperin's contention occurred back on Thursday, August 6, but I'm just now catching up, following a vacation, thanks to a tip from Steve Allen of the Gentleman from Lickskillet comic strip, which had a liberal media bias theme a couple of weeks... continue reading
The Washington Examiner's Byron York blogged Thursday about how ABC World News anchor Charles Gibson declared "enough already" when asked on Chicago's WLS Radio ( audio ) about Cindy Sheehan's plan to travel to President Barack Obama's Martha's Vineyard vacation spot next week to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. York observed how "that's a remarkably different stance from the one Gibson took four years ago" when he was co-host of Good Morning America. Specifically, York recalled: On August 9, 2005, the ABC anchor conducted an extensive on-air interview with Sheehan. "Cindy Sheehan is her name," Gibson began. "She... continue reading
Lost in Thursday's Today coverage of Senator Ted Kennedy's letter requesting a succession plan, should the Massachusetts senator be unable to serve due to health reasons, was how nakedly partisan the act was. While NBC's Matt Lauer noted, at the top of the show, that Kennedy sent a "poignant letter to lawmakers," asking for a succession plan, he nor any other NBC correspondent, mentioned that Kennedy was asking for a change in a rule the state Democrats put in place to prevent a then-Republican Governor Mitt Romney from appointing a replacement for Democratic Senator John Kerry, if Kerry had won... continue reading
Less than two hours after the news of Bob Novak's passing on Tuesday, Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik, a regular on CNN's Reliable Sources, took to his "Z on TV" blog to excoriate Novak. Though Novak never approached the vile, personal degradation regularly delivered by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Zurawik condemned Novak as "a very dark force in cable TV news contributing mightily to the toxic culture of confrontation, belligerence and polarization that so defines cable TV." He charged: " There is no way to be nice about his impact on cable TV during its formative years - and his... continue reading
ABC, CBS and NBC on Wednesday night all showcased liberal Democratic Congressman Barney Frank's rejoinder - "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" - to a woman's question: "Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy as Obama has expressly supported this policy?" As if the premise were coming from a typical anti-ObamaCare conservative , ABC's Charles Gibson set up the exchange by asserting "the contentious rhetoric over health care reform has gone up another notch. It happened in Massachusetts, after protesters brought pictures of President Obama with a Hitler-style mustache to a town hall meeting... continue reading
The network morning news shows could not have cared less about the passing of conservative columnist Robert Novak. While ABC, CBS and NBC all ran obituaries during their August 18 evening news shows, ABC's Good Morning America and CBS's The Early Show on Wednesday completely skipped over Novak, not once mentioning his death. Over on NBC's Today, fill-in news anchor Hoda Kotb squeezed in a brief item during the 7am update: " Friends and fellow journalists are remembering famed columnist and TV commentator Robert Novak. He died Tuesday in Washington after a battle with brain cancer. Robert Novak was 78... continue reading