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Bernie Pleskoff
Rosario, Pacheco integral to Rockies' future
Pleskoff: Rosario, Pacheco vital to Rockies' future
In 15 games that fall, Rosario served as the designated hitter in seven contests and played at catcher in the other eight. What I saw opened my eyes. Apparently, the Colorado Rockies were impressed as well, as Rosario was on the fast track to Denver. He currently serves as the team's catcher while Ramon Hernandez recovers from tendinitis in his left hand.
Rosario is hitting so well, Colorado may have a decision to make when Hernandez is able to return. Rosario has hit nine home runs and is playing well behind the plate. His power and his energy have provided a spark for the Rockies.
When I saw Rosario in the Arizona Fall League, he hit .304 with four homers and 12 RBIs in 56 at-bats. He showed an ability to use a short and measured swing that concentrated on getting the barrel of the bat on the ball. For a young player, Rosario showed a good feel for the game, but he was very raw and untested. If there was any glaring weakness at the time, it was the fact Rosario struck out a bit too much and didn't see enough pitches to accept walks. He was somewhat impatient and wanted to make an impression. Breaking balls seemed to give him fits.
Strikeouts remain a problem, as Rosario has struck out in 35 of his 120 at-bats. But he is also making an impact at the plate, as he has eight doubles and 25 RBIs to his credit as well. There are numerous clubs that would like to have that type of offensive impact from their catcher.
Rosario, a right-handed hitter from Bonao, Dominican Republic, is only 23. He has advanced hitting mechanics for his age and his defense is improving with every game he plays.
Capable of playing third base as well as catching, Rosario is built like a catcher. He is 5-foot-11 and a solid 215 pounds. His body is well proportioned. He is muscular with a big, strong upper body, but his trunk really helps provide a great deal of the power in his swing.
The Rockies' staff is very positive when speaking of Rosario. They say he listens to instruction and is eager to learn and improve -- especially on defense.
Defensively, Rosario has a strong and accurate arm. He has served notice that runners should be careful trying to steal bases when he is behind the plate. So far this season, he's thrown out nine of 29 basestealers.
Rosario has his hands full being a catcher in hitter-friendly Coors Field. He has the challenge of helping his pitchers navigate through lineups. Rosario told me he is working first on his defense without worrying about his hitting. He has to help a young pitching staff, and the young pitching staff has to help him. In essence, they are learning together.
Fellow catcher Jordan Pacheco is making quite a name for himself at third base. Like Rosario, Pacheco is taking advantage of his chance to play. He is hitting for power and he's helping solve a problem that has challenged the Rockies for quite some time. Pacheco is providing quality play at the hot corner, a position that has been challenging for the club to fill.
Pacheco is hitting .289 in 121 at-bats in 35 games. He really drives the ball, using a very level swing while taking pitches to the entire field. He has three triples among his 35 hits. Perhaps the best part of Pacheco's offense is his ability to make contact. He has struck out only 14 times so far this season. Even the best and most seasoned veteran would be happy to have that contact rate.
The 26-year-old from Albuquerque, N.M., is a well-proportioned 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds. He is a true athlete with the agility and coordination needed to play effectively and efficiently.
Finding a defensive home is the ultimate question facing the Rockies regarding Pacheco. While his bat is Major League quality, his defense has been viewed as marginal by many scouts. He may not have the speed and range to play a middle-infield position. He may not have the seasoned footwork and blocking ability to play behind the plate. His arm may not be strong enough to gun down potential basestealers. But while he may not be the most graceful, he is certainly performing more than adequately at third base. He can be a long-term answer or he can hold the position warm until super prospect Nolan Arenado arrives. Pacheco was clear when he told me he is "just doing what I can to help."
As a ninth-round selection in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, Pacheco soared through the Rockies' Minor League system. In parts of six seasons, Pacheco had a .308 batting average. He hit at every level, with a combined high of .323 in '10 at Class A Modesto and Double-A Tulsa.
Although Pacheco began his career playing second base, shortstop and third base, the predominance of his time was spent behind the plate. Having a player with the versatility and ability of Pacheco is like having multiple players wrapped into one.
When a player can hit for average and power potential exists, teams generally find a place for him on the roster.
Challenged by the unusual dimensions and pitching/hitting environment of Coors Field, the Rockies need solid hitters to help the young pitching staff currently being developed. Rosario and Pacheco make things happen. They can hit the huge Coors Field gaps for extra bases. They are quality hitters that are integral to the future of the Colorado Rockies.
Bernie Pleskoff has served as a professional scout for the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Any Liverpool field hockey partisan would have to agree with the time-honored sports notion that it's tough to beat anyone three times in a season.
And that's especially true when that third game decides a Section III Class A championship.
Sure enough, Cicero-North Syracuse would push the Warriors into overtime on a sunny Sunday afternoon at Chittenango High School, only to have Jennifer VanderMeulen produce the winning shot in a 1-0 decision.
Early in the seven-on-seven overtime period, Liverpool drew a penalty corner. VanderMeulen was set to receive the pass, but the ball instead went to Beth Lamison, and momentary confusion ensued.
Lamison, seeing that there still was some time to pass, tapped the ball to VanderMeulen, and the Liverpool senior flung a shot past diving CNS goalie Nicole Gillette into the net, clinching the Warriors' second consecutive sectional title.
Right from the time they first played this fall in a 4-3 overtime classic on Sept. 16 at Bragman Stadium, the sense was that Liverpool and CNS would end up meeting for the sectional title. Even as the Warriors prevailed again Oct. 13 at Coyne Field, the order held — and less than three weeks later, the two neighbors met one more time.
Quite unlike those meetings, though, the Warriors came out slow and uninspired, unable to mount a full attack in the first half as CNS defended well and made an occasional attack, too.
"We were sloppy and slow in the first half, and we weren't awake," said Liverpool head coach Kim Dominick. "(Soon enough) our players realized what was on the line and realized CNS wanted a championship, too."
As it went to the second half 0-0, Liverpool began to organize itself, spending long periods of time in the Northstars' end, probing for the one shot that could mean victory.
But CNS kept resisting, as defenders Ciera Lang, Sarah Wazenkewitz, Valerie Marr and Samantha Cirillo stayed tough. What's more, Gillette enjoyed one of the best games of her career, earning 14 saves.
"We figured it was just a matter of time before we scored," said Dominick. "But Nicole Gillette was phenomenal."
Regulation ended 0-0, leading to the same seven-on-seven OT format that Liverpool used to beat CNS in their first meeting this fall. And it would have the same happy ending for Warrior partisans.
They had both reached the finals on Thursday night, in semifinal games at Homer High School pushed back 48 hours due to the wicked winter weather that hit early last week.
Liverpool used early goals in each half as the stepping stone to a 3-1 victory over no. 4 seed Rome Free Academy, while CNS took full advantage of Baldwinsville's long break to strike early and earn a 2-0 victory over the Bees.
It took less than two minutes for Liverpool to get on the board against RFA, and it would strike again late in the half to take a 2-0 advantage to the break. Another goal just one minute into the second half all but wrapped up a place in the finals.
And the Warriors displayed nice balance, too, as Madison Buckley, Emma Lamison and Marybeth Madia took turns getting the goals. Buckley, Madia and Kayla DeAngelis each had assists, too, as Liverpool didn't even need a point from VanderMeulen to win here.
Kayla Smith had RFA's lone goal, in the second half, but the Black Knights couldn't catch up as Mikey Meagher finished with six saves.
As for CNS, it had gone through a long layoff before its semifinal. But that didn't compare to B'ville, who had not played for 16 days before taking the field for this semifinal game.
Sensing the Bees' possible rust, the Northstars went right after them, forcing penalty corners and converting twice. Both times, Lindsay Flanagan earned the assists, as Alex Gale and Lucia Meola each got one goal.
For the rest of the game, as B'ville shook off that rust and put up a series of tough attacks, the Northstars' defense remained solid. Gillette made 10 saves to give CNS one more shot at Liverpool — with a title at stake.
CNS lost, though, ending a 12-3-1 campaign where its only defeats came to the Warriors. Meola, Gale, Gillette and Katie Barbagallo depart, but a solid core of players will be back in 2009.
Liverpool isn't done, though, as it goes to Vestal High School near Binghamton Saturday for the Class A regional finals, hoping to win and get back to Chittenango for next weekend's state final four.
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- Microsoft Excel – I am using Excel for analytics on my Storyline experiments. Storyline can generate a lot of data so a designer can better understand user's performance, and how to adapt assets to keep the user engaged and on a continuous development path. We've exported data collected to Excel for analysis. Ultimately, the client may go with full-blown reporting and analytics tool, but running these experiments in Excel have allowed me to better understand how to get certain types of data dancing together and rendering beautifully useful charts and tables, providing new insights to the client.
- Infographics – I am still having fun with experimenting with Infographics. Storyline is a very fun way to change an infographic into an animated tour. If you have a great Infographic designed, you may have an excellent candidate to build something fun and more interactive (disclaimer: generally, I do find this to be over-engineering and a well-designed job aid can really trump the same data layered in clicks and animations nine out of ten times).
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Drivers have been warned. Your risks for an accident are on the rise. According to the latest statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the number of car accident fatalities increased last year for the first time since before the start of the economic downturn.
Our Los Angeles car accident lawyers understand that Region 9 (including California and Arizona) saw a close to 10 percent increase in the number of traffic accident fatalities in 2012. Throughout the nation, there were more than 34,000 people killed in traffic accidents last year. The national increase for roadway fatalities is just over 5 percent, much lower than our California increase. If these projections are realized, 2012 will be first year with a year-to-year increase in fatalities since 2005.
But why the increase all of a sudden?
There are a number of reasons that could have led to this increase. Some would say that it's the increased habits of distracted driving, some would say that it's the irresponsible habits of drivers and others would say that it's because of the economy. While all are true, one of the top influences is the economy. As our economy continues to improve, more people are spending time on our roadways. They feel more comfortable spending at the pump (with lower gas prices, too) and they're spending more time commuting to and from work.
Unfortunately, the full 2012 statistics for the state of California have not been released yet, but we're here with the latest California Traffic Safety Score Card from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
According to this report, this is yet another year in which we're seeing traffic accident fatalities rise. From 2010 to 2011, we saw a near 3 percent increase, too.
Alcohol-related traffic accidents accounted for close to 775 of the fatalities we saw throughout the year. Meanwhile, DUI arrests dropped in 2011 to 180,212 as compared to 195,879 in 2010. As a matter of fact, the 2011 DUI arrest figure represents the lowest DUI arrests since 2002. And it's these incidents that are completely preventable.
The distracted driving numbers aren't much better. According to the report, more than 10 percent of drivers are using their cell phone behind the wheel at any given daylight time. That's a number that has climbed more than 7 percent from the previous. It's all in the numbers -- hand-held cell phone convictions increased more than 200 percent in 2011. During this time, there were more than 361,000 drivers convicted.
Fixing these numbers and making our roadways safer is in our hands. Make sure that your full attention is on the road at all times. We know the proper behavior to display behind the wheel -- it's time we make it happen.
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Financial Market-
Any marketplace where buyers and sellers participate in the trade of assets such as equities, bonds, currencies and derivatives. Financial markets are typically defined by having transparent pricing, basic regulations on trading, costs and fees and market forces determining the prices of securities that trade.
Money Market-
A segment of the financial market in which financial instruments with high liquidity and for very short time are traded. The money market is used by participants as a means for borrowing and lending in the short term, from several days to just under a year. Money market securities consist of negotiable certificates of deposit (CDs), Treasury bills, commercial paper and repurchase agreements (repos).
Capital Market-
These are the financial market for buying and selling of funds for long terms, these consists of Shares, Debentures, equities etc,
Capital market is regulated by- SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India)
Lets understand Capital Market instruments in deep :
Capital Market consists of two main blocks, they are-
- Primary Market
- Secondary Market
Primary Market (New Issue Market)-
A market that issues new securities on an exchange. Companies, governments and other groups obtain financing through debt or equity based securities.
Secondary Market-
Secondary market is basically a reselling market , Here the stocks that are already sold in the primary market are resold mostly by the stockholders or companies to gain more returns.
Mr. Bye Bye (rival of Tata) decided to enter in the Retail industry for this he had 50 percent of funds with him, to raise the remaining amount he decided to take the route of Primary market, He offered his company shares to public and this step of offering the securities for the first time in the Capital market is called as Initial Public Offering (IPO), He can raise the money by the following means-
Bonds and Debentures –
The common man which invested in the bond agreement of Mr. Bye Bye's company will receive a bond/Debt agreement , this will say that the common man will get the same amount of money plus interests by Mr. Bye after the specified time limit . The person subscribing the Bond instrument does not have a ownership in the company. As a debenture holder, you provide unsecured loan to the company. It carries a higher rate of interest as the company does not give any collateral to you for your money. For this reason bond holders receive a lower rate of interest but are more secure.
Companies usually divide their capital into small parts of equal value. This smallest part is known as a share. Companies usually issue shares in the public to raise capital. People who buy or are allotted shares are called shareholders. If a person is subscribing the equities issued by Mr. Bye then he will get the same amount of money that he subscribed plus he will get the additional amount that will depand on the profit of the company, equity means you are a part of the company and will get your due if the company earns a big amount of profit in the financial year, but you are in a danger to loose if the company does not do well, equities are more dangerous and high returns oriented than the bonds.
SEBI- Securities and Exchange Board of India
IPO- Initial Public Offerings


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Movie of Nagesh Kukunoor. Was premiered in 2010, with production teams of India. You can watch Aashayein online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Hindi at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2010.
Rating: 5 by 755 users./
Runtime: 120 minutes
John Abraham, Anaitha Nair, Girish Karnad, Farida Jalal, Prateeksha Lonkar, Ashwin Chitale, Sonal Sehgal, Vipin Bhali, Poonam Chitale, Arjun Dhanraj, Keshav Dhanraj, Elahe Hiptoola, Vikram Inamdar, Dixita Jain, Nagesh Kukunoor and Mandar Kulkarni.
Drama, Comedy.
120-minute film (full movie) directed by Nagesh Kukunoor.
The original audio of Aashayein has dialogues in or Hindi, it was produced in India.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2010.
Screenplay written by Nagesh Kukunoor.
Sudeep Chatterjee.
Praful Salunke.
This film was produced and / or financed by Percept Picture Company, SIC Productions and Reliance Big Pictures.
Composed by Salim Merchant and Suleiman Merchant.
Reliance Big Pictures, Mind Blowing Films and Percept Picture Company.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Aashayein has a duration of 120 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or Hindi in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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The new 70cl bottle retails at £21.95 and will be pushed into the UK market with a £4.5 million through-the-line ad campaign.
Karen O'Shea, marketing manager for Smirnoff Western Europe at Diageo, said: "Smirnoff is leading the way in innovation within the vodka category and this new premium offering represents a significant opportunity for retailers to grow their vodka sales by encouraging consumers to trade up."
Diageo formerly distributed Goldschlager, a Swiss cinnamon schnapps liqueur with 24 carat gold flakes suspended in a distinctive bottle, in the UK but this is now part of the Global Brands portfolio.
Diageo handed Goldshlager over in 2008 but has returned with another blinging spirit after a five-year hiatus, although Smirnoff Gold is £2 cheaper and slightly lower in alcohol than Goldshlager, and made with vodka rather than schnapps.


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About REBECCA PRIESTLEYI'm a science historian and writer. I write about all sorts of things, but I'm mostly interested in New Zealand's science history, about which I've curated two exhibitions, The Art of Science and Butterflies, Boffins & Black Smokers. I write a regular science column for The Listener, which you can read here, and I've completed four books, which you can read more about here. I'm now working on an anthology of Antarctic science, which should be finished ... soon and trying to decide between two new book projects: a worthy history of science biography and a fun contemporary science story. Perhaps I'll do both. I mostly blog when I'm adventuring - most of these posts are from recent trips to Antarctica and the Kermadec Islands.
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Antarctica 2014: a few words and some pictures (more to come)
The first time I visited Antarctica I was in the company of a poet (and essayist and novelist), Alice Miller. We were there at the Invitation of Antarctica New Zealand, on their media and artists' programme, and were hosted and … Continue reading
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A different kind of cold
They say for every 10°C drop in temperature, it's a "different kind of cold". The -20°C I experienced camping at Friis Hills in Antarctica was certainly new for me, but the geologists I was with seemed unconcerned: their minds were … Continue reading
Scott's Hut: revisited
Few people conjuring up the "most comfortable dwelling place imaginable" are likely to picture a wooden shelter on an island off the coldest continent on Earth. But that's how Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott described the hut at Cape Evans … Continue reading
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Breathless in Antarctica
Camping in Antarctica last December, I noticed that even though it was extremely cold, -10°C to -20°C, our exhalations didn't make visible clouds. When the helicopter landed to pick us up, though, our breath appeared as dense white clouds. Why … Continue reading
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Formed when they were only 14 years old, the members of Audacity connect with a musical lineage that stretches back about as far as their ages combined. The music invokes trails of Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star, as well as the best work of the Modern Lovers. Twisting in those influences with geographic touchstones like the Descendents and the Adolescents, Audacity crafts tunes that trade in hooks and fun amidst a rush of volume and youthful enthusiasm.
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TECPLOT error reading CGNS files
Hello everyone,
I succeeded building the CGNS libraries under Cygwin, and so I tried to compile some code fortran files, and it generated with CGNS format.
When I tried to read those files with TECPLOT, it failed!! But with the CGNSbrowser it's fine!
So I'm asking if someone met the same issue and what do you suggest to overcome this problem?
In Cygwin you should have some Unix utilities like diff, use this to see if there are binary differences between your generated CGNS and the reference CGNS file.
I've worked in the past with Tecplot but only with text files, not with binaries.
Maybe I'm wrong but CGNS does not let you to also save in plain ASCII format ? Try, if possible, to save in ASCII format and read this in Tecplot (this way you will avoid any difference between how the binary is handled).
Or maybe Tecplot can't handle your CGNS file:
CGNS comes with a cgns_to_tecplot converter. Try that.
I have Tecplot 360 2006 version, and the cgns lib version is 2.5 .
So do you think they are incompatible?
Is upgrading your version of Tecplot an option? If I recall correctly, Tecplot 360 2006 used version 2.3 of the CGNS library. The newer versions use version 2.4, but should generally load 2.5 files without problems. (In those, you may receive a warning message about the library difference, but just continue on.)
I succeeded in reading some of the cgns files generated, but others failed.
And Tecplot keep notifying that the cgns version that I used is more recent than it's own.
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Find the missing number in mathematic successions.
There are 5 levels. 3 successions per level.
You have to hit at least 2 to complete the level.
Use the first level as a tutorial. Find the missing number in mathematic succession.
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Great economical vehicle, would recommend this vehicle to anyone.Since we brought ours three other family members have brought one.Love driving this car, took it the length of NZ.Found the Rav4 to be very economical ran on the smell of on oily rag.It is an ideal vehicle for a small family,easy to do the weekly shopping in.Also very easy to take my partner his lunch out on the farm,would go vertually anywhere,even helped with the calving trailer on the back.


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We launched phase one of Places a couple of months ago, and thanks to the dedicated work of many of you (special thanks for cleaning up the cuisine info), we've got a great start on a deep restaurant database. Today we debut the two most-requested additions to the feature: a way to add a Place without linking from a topic, and an easy way to get to the Places pages.
First, adding a place. If you search for a Place and don't find it, you'll see a link that says: "Didn't find what you were looking for? Add a place now." We thought that requiring a search first was the best way to direct users to the rich board & place content that we may already have, but if you think this is inconvenient, let us know.
Add a Place: http://www.chow.com/places/new
Second, finding Places. We've added hub pages. Places hub pages, like this one for Los Angeles (http://www.chow.com/places/regions/2) are the front doors to regions' Places pages. We've launched with just a handful of these hubs, for some of the more trafficked regions; we'll expand to all the boards soon. Right now, each hub has a Google map, a list of most recently added places, ways to search and browse restaurants, and recent posts. For cities that have them, there are also recent Digests. We'll add more content as we go along.
You can find these hub pages from the top navigation bar on the front page. So, for example, if you go to the front page, click on the Places carat, you'll see a list of regions that correspond to highly trafficked boards. Click on Manhattan and you'll go to the Manhattan front page.
Manhattan Front Page: http://www.chow.com/places/regions/18
We've already begun work on a slew of Phase II enhancements & improvements, so look for changes in the coming months including ability to navigate through places using the map, pulling board posts onto relevant places, neighborhood browsing, saved places on "My Chow" and more.
The engineers have been working very hard on the features we are launching today and the ones to come, and of course on the frustrating technical difficulties that many of you have been having. There will be more snags, I'm sure. But please give the features a try, keep telling us what you think, and we'll keep trying to improve them.


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So, the bloody wench had kissed him at last, plundered his mouth and had taken what he had never offered freely.
Casual liasons with a lovely consenting creature provided much needed solace on the few occasions he craved it,
though he preferred a long night of rum and a blissful sleep in a woman's arms than much else.
Freely offered, freely taken, free to walk away in the morning with his coin and kiss and a story to tell,
without the binding of matrimony.
Her lips were laced with fire, her body splayed over his, a strand of her golden hair gracing his knuckle
as he trembled in the sudden realization that his friend's beloved was committing the cruelest betrayal.
He winced, panting, shoved hands between them, backed away until he felt the solid mast colliding with
his back.
"I'm proud of you, Jack." Elizabeth purred as she gave him that coy, cruel smirk, and for once, words failed him.
She arched against him, twisting catlike, and he could only open and close his mouth, feeling like he was
drowning. She ran her lips over his again, and he jerked away, choking.
"Don't." It was only breathed into a clenched hiss as he shook his head, peering up at her with awe
and disgust. "And what about your *beloved*, Elizabeth?" It was viciously flung at her as he spat,
"I'm hardly one to concern meself with a sense of honor, and decency, but that does not mean I am
quite willing to sacrifice the wee bit I've got left for *this.*" He waved a hand in a wide flourish,
distancing himself even further, eyes narrowing uneasily as she only gave him that coy little
grin again.
She lunged forward, then, and he tensed in instinct, turned away, fearing another attempt to
steal a delusion, or play pirate or whatever disturbance was in the wench's head. His heart
clenched when he felt the sea-slimed shackle against his wrist, the merry jingle of irons and his heart
broke when she stepped away, with that smug hatred glittering in her eyes. Elizabeth slid away from him,
her eyes haunted, as she bulked at the grunt of disbelief, that anguished yank of the chain against
unyielding wood, that sharp awareness and betrayed hurt in Jack's eyes.
Vaguely, he heard the justification burbling from her lips, stammered out in a desperate attempt for
absolution. "It's not after us, it's after you.....this is the only way, can't you *see* that?"
Her voice had taken on the dagger's edge of a shrill, whining plea, as he shook his head, in slow,
bitter-sweet understanding. He leaned forward, relished her pretty face contorted in tears,
savored the horrific knowledge that she had bound herself by chains far harsher than the one
about his wrist.
"Pirate." It was a long, languid purr, soft as a breath. It was only one word, and yet, she staggered away as if
stabbed, one hand clapped over her mouth to fight the rising bile in her throat. Jack was only a defenseless
man, drenched and bleeding and soon to be gone from her life forever. Yet that word had been
spoken in some perverse prophesy that would ghost over her dreams and days until she was nearly
driven mad.
His chuckle felt like broken glass, that satisfied smile far too eerie as she scrambled away after one last
glance. His eyes had never left her retreating form, and her last memory of him was that certain nod. Guilt made
her look back as she was fleeing into the lifeboat, but cruelty made her sputter out the lie and demand their exit with such
venom that even Will flinched. She had snarled out that Jack was staying behind to give them a chance, her
tear-blurred eyes never leaving the doomed ship as they paddled the erratic little boat as far away as possible.
She missed Will's flinch of anguish, those tortured dark eyes gazing back at the Pearl even as they frantically
battled the water and gained a sizable distance from the proud, black ship.
Jack shuddered at the waiting, hungry silence, knowing that the lull would not last for long. He had rubbed his wrist
raw, made his skin slick with the red gore of his own blood in a desperate attempt to lubricate the shackle. It clung
to his wrist, unyielding, regardless of how he bent his fingers, or twisted their bones. He cursed, slung a bootheel against
the mast, and then flung all of his body weight away. He was only rewarded by a vicious yank and the ache of his sprained
wrist nearly breaking. He nearly whimpered in panic, eyes darting for anything that might help. The dying lamp's flicker caught
his attention, as he slung the piece of wood through it's handle and broke the glass against the mass. Hot oil burned
his flesh, nearly charred the open wound to cauterization. He bit his lip at the pain, frantically scrubbed his wrist with the
lamp oil. He grit his teeth, felt his shoulder nearly dislocate and his entire body nearly flung to the sea from the force
of the last attempt. But, the shackle slid off and he was free.
He allowed himself a cocky little smirk, flounced his coat and pivoted sharply to assess the rest of this maddening situation.
He saw the tackline to the lifeboat laying slack along the deck, the rest bobbing in the water, and the rest of the crew
ferroting their way to safety. He choked back the cursing, ignored the sudden burn of tears as the truth seared through
his soul. They had left him to die. Jack grit his teeth, shored up his last reserve of strength as he surveyed the churning ocean,
and the empty ship. He knew it would not be long before the cursed beast came back from the deep to claim its prize, and
the only option really left to him was choosing how to die.
Jack bit his lip in a mournful twitch as he gently pat the ebody wood in a last, loving caress. "I always knew that it'd end like this,
love, you, me, together on the water. Just never thought it would come so soon. We've had a good run, though, darling. Know that."
The Pearl groaned in sad answer, the deck gently tilting as if to embrace him. His hand glided over her steerage abscently, his thoughts
languishing between his demise and these final moments. He shoved the thought of Elizabeth aside, he didn't want to spoil his last
view of the ocean with a betrayer's face. He didn't want her name to be the last word he spoke. Grimly, he shrugged his coat
over his shoulders, and smiled when he found his cutless embedded in a piece of railing. He worked it free, and slid it back into
his sword belt after a long moment of consideration. He scowled when he felt his bare hair where his hat should have been, but
it was all a trifling matter now.
He did not look up when he felt the Pearl suddenly heave upwards, and did not panic at the violent churning against her hull. He did
swallow harder when he saw the dark shadows of tenticles gloaming from the deep, their perverse grip slowly lacing up her sides.
He heard the Pearl's choaking wood, the slow crack from somewhere below deck, the splintering of wood making their
lightening marks against her black. Those sea-murked arms rose higher, and higher, reaching upwards towards God's heaven,
as if the beast at last could snatch the world itself and drag it down. He heard the Pearl's strangled wince, felt her dying,
and strode to the deck to defend his lady, futile though the gesture was now.
Jack staggered from the erratic tilt of the Pearl, shuddered at the dripping muck landing on her deck, winced when the world
had suddenly fallen silent, and he saw the coils of the sea-beast grow still. He shivered when he saw the monster's eye
glimmering in the water, the color of rot and bilge water, and death. He recoiled when he saw the abyss wide mouth suddenly
unfurling, the dark spiral of its gullet lined with seeking, groping tenticles already coiling around his bootheel to drag him down.
Jack lingered for a moment, lay a tender hand across the Pearl in farewell, and then drew his sword, with a bright, coy
"Hello, beastie." The feral sneer of golden teeth and the cadence of his lilting last words were all that he had left as he
raised his sword high, and flung himself into the abyss. He fell, not into water, but dark, slimed silence, as he saw the
gaping maul of the kraken swallow the sky. Thousands of teeth, gnawing at him, his bones splintering, as he suffocated,
the stench of death in the belly of the beast grinding the last of his breath away as his groping hands sliced away the monster's flesh.
Jack heard the thing squeal and recoil, before he finally surrendered and died.
He had fallen out of existance, his last breath and flesh consumed, and abruptly spewed out into this hated place
of endless sand and delusion. The Pearl, by divine mercy, had somehow drifted across the sandless sea to
wind up, stranded as he was. And the Pearl's mad captain frolicked about her deck, babbling to one of his
imagined crew, and marking eternity's passing with little more than a bit more derrangement. It obviously wasn't
heaven, as there was no God, or rum, but it couldn't be hell with his beloved Pearl being there. So, he waited,
in madness, in sorrow, in anguish, never allowing himself to remember what exactly had transpired in those
horrible moments before his demise.
The day that almost broke him had wound up being the day of his deliverance, however odd rescue had come about.
He had flung a rock in irritation out over the fathomless sand, and smirked to see it skip so far away. When he had
ambled his way in yet another endless circle, and saw that the rock was only inches from where he had first
flung the thing, he reared back in indignant effort, heaved it high and threw.
It was mocking and eerie, how the stone had reappeared inches from his turned back, and he backed away from it,
palms raised in a gentle attempt to shoo the cursed thing away. He tilted his head, debated kicking it, and left it
alone. He did not see the stone crack open, the small pinchers waving as if in welcome, the skewered legs of the
crab emerging from the shell, the eerie click, signaling for her multitude to join her. Ever onward, ever slowly,
the little crustatean was joined by a silent tide of thousands, that emerged from the sand, and swelled underneath
the Pearl, lifting the ship from the wasteland.
Jack heard her groan, and he pivoted, his mouth caught in gaping awe as the Pearl was hefted and rolling through
the endless dunes. He watched, stunned, as the ship began her majestic glide to the distant roar of the ocean,
her sails swelling as his heart lurched in his chest, and he broke into a gleeful run after her.
Her tacklines were dragging in the sand, he snatched one and wormed his way aboard, closing his eyes with
a blissful smile. He dofted his hat, adjusted his belt, hid the shock with a resolute grip on the mast as captain and
ship apparently sailed away from death itself. Jack did not bother himself with pondering the lunacy of the circumstances,
and did not torture himself with doubt. It may have only been a dream, but it was far better than the emptiness of the
"I don't know how this is bloody possible, either, love, but it feels heavenly to be back, aye?"
It was lunacy to watch Jack Sparrow proudly sailing over an ocean of sand, his hand gripping the rigging like a
lover's, his face proud and stern as the Pearl continued her graceful dance to the water's edge.
Jack could not stop the ache in his heart, nor the smirk across his face when he saw the beloved waves,
heavenly cerilian and beckoning him onward. It feels like going home, he mused, but then scowled when the
Pearl halted at the shoreline, and he squinted to see the bewildered faces of his former crew blinking up at him
in disbelief. He gripped a tackline, artfully swung himself downward, landed on the sand without slipping,
drew himself up, and strode onward to meet them.
Gibbs, and young Will Turner were already on him, blathering their scraping pleas. He could not help but smirk to
know that the world had truly gone to hell since he had left it. Was very fitting in a way. Pintel, Ragetti, clinging
to each other like drowning children, Ragetti's wooden eye swinging about in the socket, the good eye filled
with cringing fear. Jack brushed his distaste aside, as it was a very trifling matter compared to his return
from the dead. Ahh, yes, there was Tia Dalma, caressing one of her little pets with a smirk, before she
released it to slink back beneath her skirt. She graced him with a wide, rotted smile, and he nodded to her,
with a glittering show of teeth. "Thank ye, love." She nodded, discretely, let him bury hands in the folds of her
mottled dress and embraced him. "Wicked Jack." She whispered, before she let him go.
"Ahh, yes." Jack chuckled, savoring the reasons as to why she thought him wicked burning warm in memory
but leaving the sordid tale unspoken.
Elizabeth's voice rose high and shrill over the gathering crowd, broke over his heart like a storm as he
forced himself to face her. Unwittingly, his hand rose to his wrist-still bearing the scars of the shackle, as his
fingers dug into the callouses. Elizabeth faltered miserably, as the anguished remorse rose in tears.
Jack had gone tense and rigid under the weight of her eyes, and he looked tortured before he
shrugged off the aftermath with an elaborate hitch of shoulders. His cheeks were splitting wide with
the attempt to keep that indifferent grin on his face as he tilted his head towards her. Elizabeth's breath quickened to nearly a
choke as Jack took a distancing step backwards, that awkward, agonized lurch as his hands groped in the air
and then fell to his sides, helpless.
Unwittingly, he rubbed his wrists, in silent rememberance of being shackled to the had only seen that look
before when he was beneath the noose at Port Royal and waiting to dance the hempen jig.
"You-" Jack jabbed a finger at her, splayed his palm wide as if to push her away, lingering there in that
horrible moment, before something hardened that anguish into well-masked indifferent sarcasm.
" S very good to see you, again, love." Each word felt like a blow in their accusation, as Jack only shook
his head with a disgusted sneer and turned away from her. She wilted with relief when Jack pranced over
to accept the welcoming claps on the back from the crew, and lubricating his way back to the world with well-deserved
swallows of rum.
Elizabeth watched him retreat, and swallowed back the tears.
They had boarded the Pearl with little time wasted, and Jack had only shrugged away the questions and the
answers and the speculations with distractions of some of his more scandelous stories, and vapid
heroics. Lies, or truth, it hardly mattered, since the Pearl had emerged from the abyss and Jack was back
in the land of the living. Elizabeth watched him prance about the deck like a feral cat, bellowing orders,
and witty sarcasm with equal aplomb as he puncuated his return with long sips of rum. He never did
tell any of them what had transpired between them, never hinted that anything was amiss, and treated her
with tolerent, distancing indifference.
Elizabeth was not sure if it was an act of mercy or torture, if Jack was trying to spare Will the pain of what
had happened, or if he was simply relishing her misery. Occasionally, she would venture out a question,
and he would offer a polite, cold snipe in return before he'd simply leave. He was leery of her, treated her
as if she were unclean, only paying token respect because it was far safer and less note-worthy than
dredging up all that had happened and remembering.
Did Jack wonder why she had done it? Or did he truly understand her reason and despised her all the more for it?
Guilt had left her anguished, remorse left her fearful, and hanging over all of it was the knowledge that she
had murdered a man and had nothing to offer for absolution but her own twisted justification.
The deed had festered in her soul, poisoning her actions, lacing them with misdirected anguish. She had
lashed out at Will, cornered him and giving him a scalping until he was tense and teary-eyed against the wall.
He had said nothing, only bowed his head in miserable acceptance, gently shrugged away her hand that pinned his
shoulder within reach of her ire, and apologized, before he bolted away. It was only the latest in a long line of
lover's spats that had decayed to cruelty.
Their love had crumbled to only obligation, and Will was openly questioning their engagement, now. He had accused
her of hiding something from her, something deep that was tearing her apart from within. Why couldn't she just trust
him enough to help her? Did she question his love, did she not want him? The questions were so gentle, and hurt all
the more as Will only lingered long enough to grace her with a token kiss, and leave her in miserable, all too
familiar floundering. Was this what drowning felt like? Was it feeling the breath leave and the onslaught, and
not knowing when or how the relief would come? It was a question she could not answer.
Her thoughts had taken her to the voluteer for the late watch. The promise of the lulling roar of the ocean
beneath the stars promised a bit more solace than watching Will flinch in anticipation for another anguished night.
It was better for her to be alone with her thoughts, anyway. She deserved the torture, and there was no
escaping that.
She did not see Jack non-chalantly lounging on the deck, nor did she see his eyes following her fretting pace.
The stench of guilt lingered in her aftermath like the rancid taste of bilge water. Jack mused abscently,
as he downed another draught of rum and watched Elizabeth's eyes flicker from the churning waves, her hands
figiting, her mouth a tense line of pain. She paced the deck in relentless circles, bowing her head and averting
her eyes whenever she caught his eyes on her. He was as at ease as a cat, languidly watching her, only
shaking his head, in disgust, she assumed. Her fingers knotted into fists that she gathered at the small of
her back as she cast a long look at the dark water. The lull of waves against the bow was serene, the ocean
like glass as she leaned forward against the rigging and wondered if it would cleanse her guilt if she flung
herself headlong into the depths.
She heard his bootheels as he landed on the deck, heard them halt a few feet behind her. She could not
bring herself to turn around as she saw Jack's lithe shadow gliding, the soft clink of beads as he slid his arms
into a casual lounge against the railing.
"Miss Swan." Jack scowled at the flinch of her spine as she stiffened, and turned over her shoulder to peer at him.
"Captain Sparrow." It was a clipped, miserable attempt at indifference as she uneasily watched him. Jack said nothing,
only watched the rolling waves for a long moment, before he turned towards her, offered her a weary, sad smirk.
"You know....there's a vexing bit of business between us that's remained unresolved to my satisfaction, and I believe
that I'm owed a bloody explanation as to why." His soft cadence was mangled by the rancored hurt as his eyes narrowed
to a considering glare. She swallowed hard, shivered, and did not answer because she could not. Jack shook his head,
bitterly, as Elizabeth helplessly flung out pleading hands.
"I'm sorry, Jack." The apology was heaved out from her crushed spirit, offered up with hopeless weariness. "It was the only
way, to save the crew, to save Will! You know that-" Her groping stammerings halted when he lay a finger across her lips,
and shook his head with a sigh.
"Even now, you're attempting to pepper your treachery with the trappings of nobility. 's an act of a diobalical pirate indeed,
to betray your beloved by a kiss, and to murder me for your own doubts. You may cloak the reasons ye cherish all ye
like with these high ideals of delusion and sacrifice, love. I won't stop you. But, we both know the truth behind the treachary
is that your cruel heart was caught by the choice of the freedom and your beloved, and you couldn't face yourself."
Something savage twisted her features, made her snarl, "How dare you!" It was a shrill,anguished cry as she rounded on him,
spitting like a wet cat. "How dare you believe that I betrayed you because I wanted you! It was you that monster was after,
not Will, not me, not the crew, Jack! It was you all along, and you were willing to let us all perish in a pathetic attempt to
save your own neck!"
Jack only shook his head, with a soft chuckle, waved his arms in a wide gesture of scorn. "Is that so, love? Were I so concerned
about preserving me own bloody neck, then why did I come back aboard a sinking ship? 'Twas a moment of cowardly indulgence,
a bit of a moral lapse, if you will. I came back, Elizabeth.T'was you all that did the leaving, but it was you who was responsible for
my demise. Cloud the waters all you wish, dearie, that truth will remain clear, and there's naught to be done about it."
Elizabeth bowed her head, the tears freely gliding down her cheek. "Jack, I'm so sorry, I-"
"Are ye now?"
The question was as casual as it was cruel and Jack did not turn to meet her eyes, though he stiffened, and
inhaled a sharp breath. "Are you sorry, love, or truly sorrowful for what I suffered at your whim? My last breath was hardly a blissful exhalation,
I never got me chance to give a fitting death-bed speech. 'S rather ironic, if you think about it, eh? The last bloody time that Captain
Jack Sparrow gets a chance to grace the world with his pleasant linguistics, and I didn't get it on account of being
eaten alive by said beastie."
Elizabeth shuddered as Jack slowly glided the last few inches between them "Do ye know I didn't drown?"
Elizabeth clapped a hand over her mouth, shook her head, pleading, as Jack's soft words continued like an avalanche.
"It's rather difficult to drown when you've been imobilized by a certain you hadn't so callously shackled me to the mast,
I would have had that chance at least. Granted, drowning seems hardly a pleasant way to die, but I imagine it would hurt minutely less
than being devoured, aye? Twas like a noose around me neck, and then my flesh, and then my bones, as it swallowed me...I suppose
I gave the poor beastie indigestion, because it kept gagging on my foul taste, but it never stopped...devouring me." Jack shuddered,
his eyes closing in anguish for a moment as he drew a long, steadying breath.
And suddenly, the sadness died in his eyes, replaced by something ugly and feral as he leaned over her. She swallowed hard,
tried to choke out his name as she tottered backwards, winced when her spine hit the unyielding wood behind her. She was flush
against him, trapped, and terrified.
His eyes seared into hers, dark and yawning as the abyss of hell as he only tilted his head to the side, lay a palm across her quaking
shoulder and dug fingers into her flesh. She shuddered beneath him, her eyes tearing up in a wordless plea for mercy. Gone was the
casual ease, the humanity. She gulped with anguished realization that she was the one who had stripped Jack of any reason to keep them.
Jack's lip curled in a cruel little sneer as he cupped her cheek, drew his thumb slowly down to her trembling neck.
"Pirate." The word was hissed in her ear, the glittering teeth gloaming in the wanning light as he relished the tear sliding down her cheek, and
the broken squeak of anguish. She felt his hot breath against her icy skin, his hands lingering a moment longer before he abruptly
released her. Jack just shook his head,his eyes burning with some emotion she could not place as he stepped away from her.
"I didn't betray you because I couldn't have you, Jack." Elizabeth's voice was scraped raw from the repressed sobbing and he only looked at her.
"But ye still betrayed me, love. Your reasons can't change that." Jack whispered, sadly, as he regarded her for a long moment. Elizabeth trembled as she
swallowed hard, and forced herself to continue, "I know that I have no right to ask for your forgiveness, Jack."
"Aye. You don't." Jack sneered as she recoiled, but only sighed and shook his head, after he wearily rubbed his eyes and slid his arms over his chest.
"S a debt you can neither square away or repay, love." She wilted at his words as he slipped away from her beseeching eyes. His eyes were narrowing hard
as he halted for another tortured moment. "Do you love him, Elizabeth?" She winced at the question, but she nodded resolutely. Jack considered that answer as
he grimly continued the interrogation, "Then why did you kiss me, you heartless wench? Did ye really think I was so captivated by your feminine wiles that I couldn't resist you?"
She drew herself up, then, rose to meet him, with fire in her eyes and a vicous quirk of lips as she only whispered, "Pirate."
His eyes went cold as he shook his head in understanding. "No, love. A betrayer and a murderer." He shook his head with a soft, mirthless chuckle, his eyes filled with dark promise. He sighed, wagged a finger at her. "I forgive you, if only because ye brought me back the Pearl." She felt his knuckles grace her cheek, felt his hands close over hers, and did not feel his lips against hers as Jack gently shoved her aside and let her go. There was no mirth in his eyes, only wounded resolve and bitter understanding as he whispered, "Careful when you're considering a venture off the edge of the map, love. There be monsters."
And he gave her a glittering, sad smirk."Believe me, dearie, I know that all too well."


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John Walsh
i remember mr walsh! really great teacher (academically speaking) when i was there. does anyone know what site he's on???
John Walsh was one of the most knowledgable and accessible teachers I had at Oberon. His ability to ensure that his message came across to all students and not just the better ones was, and still is, remarkable. Furthermore, he was always on hand to offer advice on his any of his three major subjects; English, Literature and media and was more than willing to help myself and my peers outside of class and even school hours. Essentially he was and is an extremely committed and confident teacher.
Love the man. Honestly. Hes amazing. He knows what he is teaching, appreciates his job and respects all his students. If he was ever fired i would hope there would be an argument over it because he is just so wonderful. I also love that he always has an apple or a cup of tea/coffee haha<3


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That's me sitting on it! I had Jaymi take a picture. X3 Haha.
It works!
Here's the pic that inspired this:
It works!
Here's the pic that inspired this:
You did it! You actually did it, lol.
Did Beth manage an opinion?
Did Beth manage an opinion?
Hm..Well, she hasn't said, but then, this wasn't at her house. I hope one day to be able to build some snowCATs there, but it has to snow enough and I'd have to be able to get there. :\ Or if she'd just be nice and let me spend the night and then we have a freak snow storm that night or something..that'd be cool..XD
Is winter tough for you to hang out?
I don't really know, I guess? Last winter wasn't like this because I wasn't even visiting her after school started. I started coming over in February of 2010 and everyweek since. You see, in January of 2010 (about a year ago) I had this dream that she got married to some guy (don't ask were Kris was...I don't know XD) and was moving to Washington. Well, it simply broke my heart! That's sort of when I realized that Beth really meant something to me and I wanted to hang out with her more, so I asked if we could have our visits again and she happily agreed. XD I've been a nuisance since..XD Anyway, so I have no idea if Winter is really a bad time or not..but Christmas is busy, then end of the year/month taxes and business stuff gets in the way..then since it snowed I couldn't come over because it was dangerous to drive in...so yah. :\ I don't think I get to come this week because of business (and school...) so..next week, perhaps? I did see her today at church! She taught Sunday School! It was wonderful, though I knew (as did everyone) that she was very nervous about it. All she could say was that we survived and that she was disjointed, but I gave her a lindor's truffle right after to make her feel better. X3 She liked that very much. Ate it right away! That was my clue that she needed it. X3
Yeah, the business carpet seems to roll out at the end of the year. In fact, I just got my first car insured, registered, and plated today. XD
Gotta love vanity plates.
You just can't go wrong with Lindor truffles!
Gotta love vanity plates.
You just can't go wrong with Lindor truffles!
I'm not sure if I'll get to visit her much if at all this term, actually. :\ According to the carpooling schedule I have with my sister, we wouldn't get home until at least 4pm everyday, and Beth usually makes me leave by 5...so you know. :\ I may have to ask her about Saturdays..Or have violin early on Fridays and maybe hit up Beth's place on the way back? I dunno. :\ We'll see. I'll talk to Beth about it and see what she says.
ha ha!
Brilliant, don't you think? XD
I think your feet are crushing that cat's back... D8
wow u look young 0.o lol
I am young!
lol. im guessing ur about...14. haha


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The Yankees starting pitching was much better in 2003 than it was when they met the Red Sox in 1999.
1999: Jorge Posada/Joe Girardi
2003: Jorge Posada
For Posada, 1999 was the worst year of his career but he was still the much better half of the catching duo with Joe Girardi. Now Posada has gone from spare part to one of the elite of the league and is a good bet to finish in the top three in the American League MVP voting. He is at an age when catchers begin to break down but he seems to keep getting better. How can this be? For one thing, he didn't play his first game in organized ball until he was nearly 20 and did not really start logging a ton of innings behind the plate until he was 29.
First Base
1999: Tino Martinez
2003: Jason Giambi/Nick Johnson
Joe Torre's lineup in Game Four was interesting and clearly the product of a manager thinking about the immediate rather than the established. Leading off, he had a player who walks about once every four games (Alfonso Soriano) while batting ninth was a man who is a good bet to walk almost every game in the person of Nick Johnson. They scored eight runs and clinched the LDS though, so it worked out just fine. Martinez had one of his more passable years in '99 but he is obviously no match for Giambi, even with his batting average blackout in 2003. Johnson was very productive in duty limited by injury. Let's clear something up, too. Going one for 13 in four games as Johnson did in the LDS does not qualify as a "slump." Things are so magnified in the postseason that something like that has a way of getting blown out of proportion.
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A family is a combination of elderly and young. It caters everyone's health needs and issues.
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Movie, eating, outing, functions, this all we do with family then why preventive checkups are kept aside for elders. Mother, Father, wife and children each one is equally important, irreplaceable and has varied healthcare needs.
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"The Global Festival of Ideas is the first in a series of annual forums, hosted by the UN SDG Action Campaign and supported by the Federal Government of Germany. The Festival brings together leading thinkers, policy-makers and civil society, together with gaming experts and policy simulators, to deliver the world's first playable policy conference.
Too often, policy-makers focus on one development objective, at the expense of others. But in the SDG era, a radically different approach must be found: we must be able to promote economic growth and prosperity with environmental sustainability; we must challenge inequality and exclusion in a rapidly globalising world; and we must find ways of protecting individuals and communities caught up in conflict or affected by mass migration; we must deliver effective health services, even though resources are limited.
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The marketing world, which nowadays holds more prophets than the western religions, has spoken about meaning for many years now. People, it is said, are looking for meaning when they buy things or participate in cultural events. Even when they go to work as Tamara J. Erickson writes in Harvard Business Review blog post Meaning is the new money
As the old assumption that managers can "oversee" the quality of people's work and pay more to motivate more falls away, the role of leadership shifts from adopting and enforcing best practices to crafting unique experiences that reinforce the organization's values…. By strengthening meaning and increasing engagement, firms can connect with and motivate employees whenever and wherever they work.
The thing is that you can look at meaning at different depth levels. The depth, in turn, can be examplified with how many times you ask the (oh, so subvertive) question why. From a shallow perspective meaning is answering a single step of why, such as why choose brand X or employer Y? The answer might be that it is strongly associated with a physical (not very likely) or emotional (most likely) need or desire. This is where most intellectual work that I´ve seen dwells. By mastering the art of triggering such needs and desires brands and employers have a lot to gain.
What might not be so obvious, though, is that by opening up for questions about meaning, some people might start to questions the things that cannot be questioned to keep the wheels turning. It´s just like with Christmas traditions. A recent survey by the Swedish Church shows that people have started to question celebrating Christmas. Not questioning the religious content, mind you, that was over 50 years ago in Sweden, but getting all stressed out by cooking, preparing, buying presents and meeting annoying relatives at all. And, that is bad news for business. What business people, that adapt these new crazy ideas about meaningful brands and workplaces, have to look out for is that they eventually get marginalized in people´s pursuit to fulfill their needs and desires.
The funny thing is that when you ask yourself about the meaning of something, you often find that you can´t really remember what you where looking for in the first place. The more the marketing industry opens up for discussions about meaning, the likelier it is that people both within and outside the corporations will peek into that confusing void of realizing that you no longer remember why the heck you run around doing and buying all that stuff for. Off course, there already is a large market in self-help and spiritual litterature, courses and other consumer goods directed to that large and, because of this trend, growing market, but when people even get tired of consuming Christmas, they might grow tired of consuming remedies for too much consumption society also – and then what?
Either we´ll have to remember what we where looking for in the first place and start directing our efforts at creating that directly ourselves or we´ll have to do it all over again, but this time buying books, courses and consumer goods aimed at giving solace about the fact that not even an all-inclusive Yoga-vacation in India while our sourdough bread got taken care of at a sourdough hotel made us more… whatever it was now that we spent our hard earned money to chase after.
As, ususal, it will not be a choice based on the folk-loristic, but strong-lived, idea of free will. It will be based on the dominant pictures in our heads, put there by the communications we choose to pay attention to. And, which is much more spooky, the world economy. As long as the wheels keep turning the way we´re used to, I bet my money on that next years Christmas gift will be a golden ticket away from traditional Christmas – the mountains of plastic toys will be replaced by an almost-real experience of community and peace at a resort somehere. An extra 4-8 % up in Christmas consumer spending, as always…
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A MAN is in a critical condition in a Sydney hospital after becoming wedged between his car and a brick wall.
The 50-year-old had been reversing from a driveway at a unit block on Shadforth Street, Wiley Park when he got stuck on Thursday morning.
CareFlight director Ian Badham told AAP a passerby rushed to the man's aid and pushed the car back about half a metre to relieve the pressure until emergency services arrived.
A doctor performed emergency surgery while NSW Fire and Rescue worked for 40 minutes to free the man, Mr Badham added.
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