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Analysts said liquidity problems at oil and asphalt transportation and storage provider SemGroup LP may have helped trigger the recent sell-off. A number of the company's subsidiaries filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy rules in Delaware federal court Tuesday.
In the bankruptcy filing, the Tulsa-based company described what it called a "severe liquidity crisis" caused by demands for massive amounts of more money from brokers to cover large bets it had amassed on futures and options. Those demands grew increasingly tough to meet as energy prices rose and Wall Street's credit problems mounted.
On July 16, a day after oil prices began to tumble, the company transferred its trading account and in the process recognized $2.4 billion in losses as it became clear it could not cover its trading positions. Co-founder and former President and CEO Thomas Kivisto owes about $290 million of that total.
"It turns out that the run-up in crude oil prices in June and early July had ... a lot to do with the squeeze on SemGroup's hedges," analyst and trader Stephen Schork said. "Now the only question is are there more 'SemGroups' lurking in the shadows?"
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Dec 06, 2013
New video highlights George Kozmon's playful work
Nov 02, 2013
Cinematheque to show eight classic comedies by Ernst Lubitsch
Dec 02, 2013
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2013 Fall Exhibition
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Dec 02, 2013
CIA's Contemporary Artist Index: 31,000 strong, and now easier to use than ever
Dec 13, 2013 @ CWRU White Building, Room 411 in Cleveland, OH
CWRU + CIA game design final presentation with Microsoft Game Studios
Nov 22, 2013
CIA wins UCI award for Euclid Avenue ArtBox project
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34th annual Scholastic Art & Writing Exhibition
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CIA named one of the "Best in the Midwest"
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"Inside Llewyn Davis" is the most satisfyingly diabolical cinematic structure that the Coens have ever contrived, and that's just one reason that I suspect it…
"Inside Llewyn Davis" is the most satisfyingly diabolical cinematic structure that the Coens have ever contrived, and that's just one reason that I suspect it…
This film charts the small humiliations a teen girls suffers as she navigates the world of sex, and how they start to accumulate.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
This week we'll be featuring the work of the women who write for RogerEbert.com.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Nelson Mandela and with the people of South Africa.
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Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Nelson Mandela and with the people of South Africa.
Gerardo Valero sees the potential for a good remake in "Escape from New York."
Pablo Villaça offers his perspective on "The Great Beauty."
Strong-women movies dominate the box office; Rashida Jones on the pornification of everything; Barbara Stanwyck and her biographer; why "cat lady" is just another sexist…
Links to all the articles by RogerEbert.com's women writers during this week-long event. Updated daily.
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
The logic of "stupid poor people"; the retrogression of "Boondock Saints"; Zizek and Chomsky documentaries; David Simon on "12 Years a Slave"; a case for theological studies.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt discusses "Don Jon," his first film as a writer-director.
Movie blogger calls 911 over cell phone use at Toronto Film Festival; what Harun Farocki taught; why TV is, if not wholly better than movies these days, then at least more compelling; stop it with the Oscar predictions, already, it's only September; no more open letters to Miley Cyrus, please, ladies; Batman rescues kitten from burning building; video for MGMT's third album.
In its third season, producer Steven Spielberg's "Falling Skies" brought in a new team of writers to rethink the allegorical underpinnings of the show. It worked.
An amazing special Roger made with Gene Siskel in 1990, talking to Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas about the future of movies.
Why you should always go to the funeral; six reasons why DVDs will survive; a 40th anniversary celebration of "Super Fly"; Dr. StrangeCinema's indictment of Spike Lee's Kickstarter campaign; on Buzzfeed's fatuous lists; Saul Bass' legendary movie posters; Siskel and Ebert's 1990 special about the "Future of the Movies."
Michael Mirasol muses on "Pacific Rim" and the strange antagonism to the film, and on its relationship to its inspirations.
Nick Schager ponders the new crop of action directors, who bring 'serious film' cred to the genre, but can't seem to show personality where it counts the most.
Peter Sobczynski eulogizes the late, great, astoundingly prolific writer Richard Matheson, "whose work in a career that would encompass seven decades influenced anyone who encountered, it regardless of the medium he was working in." Includes appreciations of "Duel," "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," "I Am Legend," "Somewhere in Time" and many other works, original and adapted.
Suicide glamour and magazine-shaming; how American textbooks dumb down Vietnam; remembering the late investigative journalist Michael Hastings; why sex on the first date is not an inherently bad thing; the American vs. the French way of making movies; Love and Rockets covers, collected; Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.
Marie writes: Widely regarded as THE quintessential Art House movie, "Last Year at Marienbad" has long since perplexed those who've seen it; resulting in countless Criterion-esque essays speculating as to its meaning whilst knowledge of the film itself, often a measure of one's rank and standing amongst coffee house cinephiles. But the universe has since moved on from artsy farsty French New Wave. It now prefers something braver, bolder, more daring...
If we said there was a clear throughline from "Bonnie and Clyde" and Richard Donner's "Superman: The Movie," you'd say we were crazy, right? Get ready to eat your words as we prove once again that showbiz works in mysterious ways.
As a companion piece to our reassessment of "At Long Last Love," Peter Bogdanovich recalls the film's orgins, its forgotten pleasures, and the studio-mandated tinkering that turned it into a box office bomb. He also recalls turning down an offer of help from Gene Kelly, casting Burt Reynolds, and a remarkable encounter with Roger Ebert.
Ben Kenigsberg recaps Cannes's post-awards press conferences and closing-night party.
Barbara Scharres reports on the winners at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ben Kenigsberg makes his predictions for Sunday night's Cannes awards.
"Only God Forgives" commits the unforgivable sin of being boring, "Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight" is about old white men arguing about race, and "Blue is the Warmest Color" takes its time to follow the transition from uncertain teenager to knowing adult.
After duds "Jimmy P." and "Grand Central," the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" saves the day for Barbara Scharres.
Power is rarely discussed at Cannes, and it's ostensibly all about art, although careers can hang on critics' approval, and whether films are sold here, and to how many regions of the world. The annual jury press conference on the opening day is the first and foremost love-fest in which the concept of competition is downplayed and jurors find novel ways to sidestep the question of comparing one film to another in order to award the Palme d'Or in ten days.
Barbara Scharres sets the stage the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Saturday, May 4, was one month to the day that Roger left this earthly plane. In honor of Kentucky Derby weekend I am posting this photo of Roger and I proudly sporting our hats at Churchill Downs. There have been several photos of us wearing hats over the years. For some reason hats delighted us to no end. And Roger was particularly fond of some of the more outrageous hats we wore. That day while we were watching the races we were so pleased that we could wear our hats both in doors and out. You can't wear a hat in a movie theater.
In my copy of his book "Scorsese," Roger Ebert wrote these words: "Every movie lover needs a hero."
I've found mine in Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg has been my hero ever since I, in my childhood, saw his more popular films (" Jaws," "Temple of Doom," "Hook," " E.T.," "Close Encounters," et al.), but recently, as I covered areas in his filmography I hadn't before, and doubled back to some that I didn't quite remember, I was struck by how much he really is my hero.
But what really matters is the Muriels. You know, that time-honored annual movie award that is not named after Bette Davis's Uncle Oscar, but after co-founder Paul Clark's guinea pig. Throughout the month of February (the 6th through the 23rd), the winners have been announced, as you know because you've been regularly clicking on the Muriels link right here on Scanners. Anyway, you know what "Argo" can do; the Muriel voters, on the other hand, chose to give the year's top prize to what, for me, was obviously the most rewarding movie experience of the year: Leos Carax's "Holy Motors."
By Kevin Lee, Our Far-Flung Correspondent
In the age of YouTube and Vimeo, one of the most exciting developments in film culture are online video essays that explore different aspects of the movies. These videos take footage from films and reconfigure them using editing, text, graphics and voiceover to reveal startling observations and insights, visualizing them in ways that text criticism can't. These videos are typically produced independently by using consumer-level equipment, demonstrating that just about anyone with a computer can be both a filmmaker and a critic. The only limits are those of imagination and intelligence.


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An Audience of One is excited to announce we will participate in Cortland County's Pumpkin Fest 2010 (Courthouse Park, Cortland NY). We will be playing on Sunday Oct. 3 2010 1:00pm to 2:30pm. We are also planning on distributing a limited quantity of NASB Bibles for free. If you have some NASB bibles you are invited to help us spread the message.
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This eighteen hole course presents well-bunkered greens which greatly accommodate the target-skilled golfer. All of the holes are lined with mature fur and maple trees. The fairways are ample and flat. The layout for the back nine is punctuated with significant wetlands. The signature hole is #15, a 157-yard, par 3, which requires a carry over wetlands to a well-bunkered green. The green has a significant slope to the right.
Holes: 18 | Greens: Bent Grass | Fairways: Bent Grass |
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The U.S. now ranks 29th in the world for infant mortality, compared to its previous ranking of 27th eight years ago, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Back in 1960, the country stood at No. 12 for those deaths.
The new ranking is based on infant deaths in 2004, the most recent year data was available for 37 developed countries. Singapore ranked first, with 2 infant deaths per 1,000 live births; Romania was last, with 16.8 infant deaths per 1,000 births.
The actual rate of U.S. infant deaths in 2005 — 6.86 per 1,000 live births — was pretty much the same as it was in 2000, when it was 6.89 per 1,000. But for the first time since the 1950s, the rate has plateaued, just as the government is pushing to lower it to 4.5 infant deaths per 1,000 births by 2010.
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Arms Race
Over the past century, the arms race metaphor has assumed a prominent place in public discussion of military affairs. But even more than the other colorful metaphors of security studies--balance of power, escalation, and the like--it may cloud rather than clarify understanding of the dynamics of international rivalries.
An arms race denotes a rapid, competitive increase in the quantity or quality of instruments of military or naval power by rival states in peacetime. What it connotes is a game with a logic of its own. Typically, in popular depictions of arms races, the political calculations that start and regulate the pace of the game remain obscure. As Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., has noted, "The strange result is that the activity of the other side, and not one's own resources, plans, and motives, becomes the determinant of one's behavior." And what constitutes the "finish line" of the game is the province of assertion, rather than analysis. Many onlookers, and some participants, have claimed that the likelihood of war increases as the accumulation of arms proceeds apace.
A close examination of the historical evidence reveals a different picture. Political purposes almost always drive and govern arms races. It is common for a major race to be initiated by a state interested in changing the political status quo. In some cases, the response of states content with the status quo is swift and resolute, but in other cases it is constrained by domestic political or economic considerations or diverted by diplomatic calculations. The course of an arms race has frequently exacerbated a sense of rivalry and occasionally even determined the timing of a war; but most often it has ended in a political settlement between rivals or in a decision by one side to moderate its buildup.
The first competitive buildup in which contemporaries used the arms race metaphor seems to have been the naval rivalry in the late nineteenth century, in which France and Russia challenged Britain in the context of acute tensions over colonial expansion. The British responded with a determination to remain masters of the seas. The ultimate result was not war, but rather an Anglo-French political settlement in 1904 and an Anglo-Russian rapprochement in 1907 against the background of a rising German threat.
The German challenge to Britain in the early twentieth century involved the most famous naval arms race of all. As the post-Bismarck political leadership decided that Germany must become a world power, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was able to justify building a large German battle fleet. When the British finally responded, the upshot was a competition that fit an action-reaction model more closely than any other arms race. The Germans in the end could not keep up, because of domestic difficulties in raising taxes and pressures to give greater priority to spending on the army. Though the naval arms race did poison Anglo-German relations, it was the actions of the German army, not the German navy, that ultimately produced war in 1914.
A third major naval arms race, involving the United States, Britain, and Japan, erupted at the end of World War I. It was fueled by Japanese efforts to expand their political influence in East Asia and by an American attempt to gain greater political leverage over Britain. This was a race that, for financial reasons, none of the participants wanted to run very far. It ended at the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 with the first major arms-limitation treaty ever and a new political settlement for East Asia.
Was there, then, no truth at all in the 1925 verdict of a former British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, that "great armaments lead inevitably to war"? In fact, an arms race among European armies had some part in the outbreak of World War I. In the July crisis of 1914, German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg took greater risks in brinkmanship than he might have otherwise done, because of a presumption that Russia's stepped-up efforts to improve its military capability meant Germany would be in a stronger position to win a war in 1914 than later.
Similarly, Adolf Hitler was in a rush to attack France in 1940 and the Soviet Union in 1941, partly because of the dynamics of an arms race that he had started in the 1930s. Held back by domestic financial constraints, Britain and France had lagged behind. But they, and Germany's other adversaries, had accelerated their rearmament in the late 1930s, and Hitler moved forward his program of conquest lest the German lead be overtaken.
Japan, too, succumbed to "now or never" calculations in 1941. Its naval leaders appreciated that the Japanese navy had gained a lead over the U.S. Pacific Fleet in every class of warship, but that a massive American naval program begun in 1940 would leave them far behind by 1943. Coupled with the effects of an American oil embargo against Japan, this playing out of the dynamics of an arms race helped to prompt an attack on the United States in December 1941 (see Pearl Harbor, Attack on). But in this case, as in the two European wars, hegemonic political ambitions fueled the conflict.
Leads and lags in an arms race against a background of a hegemonic struggle characterized the Cold War as well, but the deterrent effect of weapons of mass destruction made "now or never" calculations much less tempting for the superpowers of the nuclear age. The arms competition between the United States and the Soviet Union did not fit an action-reaction model very well. For domestic political and economic reasons, the United States was slow to rearm in the late 1940s even as it perceived hegemonic ambitions on the part of the Soviets. After the United States did greatly increase its nuclear and conventional arms during the Korean War, the Soviet leadership for its own domestic reasons made only a partial response. When from the mid-1960s the Soviets undertook the most massive peacetime military buildup in history, the United States chose to disengage somewhat from the race. Not until after 1979 did it reassess its posture. The new qualitative improvements embodied in the last American arms spurt of the Cold War made Soviet military leaders nervous and helps explain why they were willing in the mid-1980s to accept the new ideas promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev in hopes of raising the technological level of Soviet society. The arms race that had produced the greatest anxiety among contemporaries ended in the most astonishing political settlement of the past century.
Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., "Arms Races: The Metaphor and he Facts," The National Interest (Fall 1985); Patrick Glynn, Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Races, Arms Control, and the History of the Cold War (1992); Paul Kennedy, Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870-1945 (1983).
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The Belvidere School District's Electoral Board will determine whether Dana LaPier's candidate petitions are valid Tuesday morning.
Charles Huntington, who is not seeking election, challenged LaPier for incorrectly identifying District 100 in the heading of his nomination papers and not specifying the election year.
He also challenged LaPier for not identifying the city, village or school district number in his affirmation paragraph and not specifying the election date.
A hearing for LaPier's petitions is set for 7 a.m. Tuesdsay at the school district's central office, 1201 5th Avenue in Belvidere. If the Electoral Board deems the objections valid, LaPier will be removed from the April 9 ballot.
LaPier is seeking a 4-year term on the Belvidere School Board. There are five candidates running for three Belvidere full-term seat positions.
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How Streets Get Named, From Durt Road to Promenade Chardonnay
SEATTLE (Zillow) -- Yes, there really is a Farthell Road (Chambersburg, Texas), as well as a Durt Road (Casco, Maine), a Poop Deck (Freeport, Texas) and a Crummy Road (Clark Fork, Idaho).
Who decides whether you will be fated to live on one of those unfortunately named streets or on something with a more pleasant ring, such as Lucky Lane (Rockford, Ill., among many other cities), or a whimsical and memorable one, such as Haveteur Way (San Diego)?
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Catherine Nicholas, agent/owner of the Cado Real Estate Group in San Diego, which builds subdivisions, says what happens in the city of Carlsbad (a San Diego suburb) is typical.
"The developer submits street names to the city through the relevant departments for review," says Nicholas, who worked in Carlsbad's Planning Department for years and coordinated the street naming process, which often takes weeks from submission to approval. "The building, engineering and public works departments all comment, but the departments that have the most input and veto power are police and fire. The concern here is that the street names are unique and intelligible enough for them to distinguish and find a street and property in an emergency." She says the post office also gets a final review, as a general rule.
Many cities also have guidelines on the type of street names required for an area of town. "When I worked in Carlsbad, there were four main areas and other subareas with 'themes' -- such as bird names or historic names," she says. "I would reject a name if it didn't follow the appropriate protocol."


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ECB President Draghi has changed the complexion of the week to come ... The President's comments yesterday saw financial markets snap into a 'risk-on' phase. Draghi warned that it was within the ECB's mandate to do "whatever it takes to preserve the euro". More pertinently, he suggested that sovereign debt premia were hampering "the functioning of the monetary policy transmission channels", an interpretation that opens the way to short-term action. Markets have rallied aggressively in the wake of these comments, Spanish 10-year yields dropped 74bps to 6.85% (below the psychologically important 7% level). Italian yields dropped 50bps, while the euro rallied from lows below $1.21 to $1.23 yesterday (although has since retraced a little) and equities rallied.
ECB posied for more action? ... Previously we assumed no policy changes at this meeting after July's rate cuts. Yet having raised the prospect of action, failure to deliver over the coming week could result in a sharp reversal. Further rate cuts appear off the agenda for now. Instead expectations centre on a restarting of the Securities Markets Programme (SMP), whereby the ECB buys peripheral sovereign debt. This need not be tied to the Governing Council meeting, although Trichet theatrically unveiled purchases during a press conference around a year ago. The ECB may also hint at further LTROs if it fears the transmission mechanism is compromised. This would have more impact if combined with a loosening of collateral arrangements, as has been muted. But the greatest hopes surround the prospect of a longer-term solution whereby the ESM is given access to ECB funding as hinted at by Nowotny's recent comments. This remains little more than hope at this stage. Yet markets are poised for ECB action and this in itself should help to smooth the passage of next week's Spanish and Italian auctions.
Renewed ECB focus shifts the spotlight from the FOMC announcement...Today's subdued, but not disastrous US Q2 GDP report, including modest upward recent revisions, failed to make a more pressing case for urgent stimulus at next week's FOMC meeting. Our global team believes that modest stimulus is likely on Wednesday, with the Fed perhaps pushing its "extended period " language out to 2015 from end-2014. However, more concerted stimulus and the prospects for further QE depend more on the outlook for growth. The Fed will have seen both the coming week's ISM and ADP surveys by the time it makes its decision. However, it will not know the full payrolls report until later in the week. Our global team forecasts another subdued 80k headline rise in July, with the unemployment rate remaining unchanged at 8.2%. It believes that this will continue to build the case for a more decisive easing - a restart of QE - in September.
The Bank ofEngland's MPC meeting should be a lower key affair...Notwithstanding this week's surprisingly sharp drop in Q2 GDP, the call for further stimulus at this stage is muted by the range of measures the Bank has introduced since last month's Mansion House speeches. With economic data distorted by one-off effects and the MPC gauging the impact of its stimulus to date, we think, barring a severe economic shock, that the MPC will remain in wait-and-see mode until November when the currrent QE programme expires. Yet, given the distortions to official statistics, it will be even more important than usual to gauge the pace of underlying activity over the intervening period. Our own business barometer, published on Monday, should provide a key insight to this and we will also watch the PMI releases later in the week. We suspect these PMIs will suggest that for now at least, the underlying pace of activity remains subdued, but is not declining further.
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Pipe Chess Set
Each piece is its own pipe that can be smoked during the game. Or any time, really. The kings are larger pipes with larger bowls to be enjoyed at the game's end. An excellent idea from Curtis P.
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by Madeleine Nov 07th 2013
I really enjoyed working with Stephen. I needed a desk and a kitchen island for a small apartment, and he helped site and size both items perfectly. The final products are fantastic- the quality of the craftsmanship is great, as is the quality of the wood he found. Everything arrived on time as well!
Review of Wooden Chillum Chess Set
by Curtis P. Aug 20th 2013
Stephen is an extremely talented artist. I am very happy with my new chess set! He was very understanding, a great listener, and is extremely open to new ideas. The product was created in a very timely fashion and Stephen also provided pictures of the whole process along the way. I felt like a learned a lot about the process and the creation of my custom chess set. I recommend Stephen 110%! Thank you Stephen!
Review of Wooden Desk - possibly slab
by Jonny Mar 14th 2013
I set out to get an heirloom-quality desk made for myself. I had an idea of what it would look like, and Stephen's portfolio had plenty of projects that were similar to what I wanted. But what really recommended him to me how he involved his clients with the creation process. Stephen drove us down to a lumberyard in New Jersey where we walked around and he educated me about various hardwoods, and giving me his honest opinion about which pieces he thought I should get. He also let me be the one to buy the raw material, saving me a good chunk of money! As the work progressed, I would get invites to the shop to see the progress and he invited me to help in the sanding and oiling processes. I would get text messages about some point of the design I hadn't thought of. I got emails each week with progress updates. We spent another few hours knocking around a home depot, creating the supports that the slab would need. From start to finish I was involved, and got a real appreciation for the... Read more
Review of A small table for a corner
by Frank Mar 11th 2013
I contacted Stephen after seeing some of his work on this site. He was very professional and worked diligently from the start making sure that we were on the same page design-wise. He shared his design sketches, asked questions, and updated with pictures throughout the process. I wasn't having a large piece made but you can tell he really cared about making the finished product the best it could be. I will definitely be using Stephen again in the future when I need to have something else made. I'm glad I was able to use reclaimed wood and support a local craftsman and I encourage everyone to do the same.
Review of Basic woodworking - joining and finishing plywood
by Rachelle Sep 19th 2012
Stephen was great to work with. First of all, he was willing to take on our small project and get it done on a very short deadline. He was very accommodating and helpful throughout the whole process. The dioramas he made were just what we needed for our workshop materials to look polished and professional. Thanks Stephen!


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Dabney, Colonel G. M., J.P. an irascible retired officer who does not like boys but who is charmed by Stalky & Co. and permits them to go on his land. "In Ambush". Daily Express Leggatt told the sentry that the car was the Daily Express delivery wagon. "The Horse Marines". Dalhousie the hill-station where Strickland took his family. "The Son of his Father". Dallas, Dr. the medical man at Friars Pardon. "An Habitation Enforced". Dallington, Manor of de Aquila gave it to Hugh. "Young Men at the Manor". It is mentioned in several of the Puck stories. Dallaston a character in "His Brother's Keeper". Dalyngridge, Sir Richard a knight of William the Conqueror's army who meets Dan and Una in "Young Men at the Manor" and succeeding stories. See also "The Tree of Justice". Dalziell, Colonel 'Old Dhurrah-Bags'. "The Honours of War". Damper, The Lieutenant Rayne. "A Flight of Fact". Dan brother of Una, to whom most of the stories in Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies are told. Their parents and household also appear. Another Dan is a red ox in "A Walking Delegate". Dana Da an extraordinary Indian. "The Sending of Dana Da". Danby a Quartermaster in H.M.S. Archimandrite. "The Bonds of Discipline". Dancing-Master, the a character in "A Second-Rate Woman". Dandie McRimmon's pet dog."Bread upon the Waters". Another is a horse in "Mrs. Hauksbee Sits Out". Dandy the horse Miriam rides at the end of "The Brushwood Boy". "Dane-geld" (692) never pay an invader to go away. "Danny Deever" (390) a soldier is hanged in front of his regiment for shooting a comrade. Danton, Georges Jacques French politician of the Revolution (1759-94), mentioned in "Brother Square-Toes". Daoud Shah the villain who intrigued with the Pathan's wife. "Dray Wara Yow Dee". Daphne one of the women Midmore knew before he was converted to hunting. "My Son's Wife". D'Arcy a baron who rose at the order of Robert of Normandy. "Old Men at Pevensey". 'Dark children of the mere and marsh' verse over chap. 7, 'Of Buffaloes and Pigs', Beast and Man in India. (It is marked 'Pigs and Buffaloes' in the Collected Verse.) Darlin' Jane how the Orderly Officer addressed "The Shut-Eye Sentry". Darzee the tailor-bird who helped "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi". "Darzee's Chaunt" (650) sung in honour of the above. Dass see Purun Dass. Daubeny, Hon. Wilfred a captain on the Staff of the C.-in-C., to whom Vincent and his men are responsible. "A Burgher of the Free State". "Daughter of the Regiment, The" the twenty-sixth story in Plain Tales from the Hills. Mulvaney explains why Miss Jhansi McKenna, daughter of 'Old Pummeloe' and Colour-Sergeant McKenna, was so called, and how, as a little girl, she helped her mother take water to cholera-stricken soldiers. Mulvaney arranged for her to marry Corporal Slane when he was promoted to Sergeant. Davids he was confused with Davies in the matter of a ham. "A Flight of Fact". Davies see above and "The Brushwood Boy", where a subaltern who was a bit of a shirker appears. Another of the same name is the artificer of Judson's ship in "Judson and the Empire", and Davies Tertius was at school with Stalky. Daw, Harry Halo' the Draft's real name. Dawkins and Pratt the sailors Chidden laid out in the row over "A Sea Dog". Dawlishe a Judge who assists in "The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P". 'Dawn off the Foreland - the young flood making' 'Mine Sweepers'. "Dawn Wind, The" (697) one of the "Songs from English History". Dawson at school with Stalky; goes to Mr. King for extra Latin. "A Little Prep". Kite Dawson is the funny man in the party held up by My Lord the Elephant. Another Dawson appears in "Mrs. Bathurst". Day see Policeman Day. Day's Work, The see Appendix 1 for list of contents. "Dayspring Mishandled" the first story in Limits and Renewals. Graydon ran the Fictional Supply Syndicate and employed many young writers, including Manallace, who loved Vidal Benzaguen's mother, and the unpleasant Castorley who proposed to her and was refused. He inherited wealth and gave up 'hack writing' for 'Literature'. Manallace made steady progress while Castorley became a critic and an expert on Chaucer. A fragment of a new 'Canterbury Tale' is found in the U.S.A. which Castorley pronounces to be genuine, although, unknown to him, Manallace has forged it. The former is knighted but dies before the latter has made up his mind to disclose it to him. Lady Castorley obviously has her eye on the doctor, Gleeag. Followed by "Gertrude's Prayer". De see Grish Chunder De; his brother, Debendra Nath De, was killed by Alla Dad Khan. "The Head of the District". De Aquila see Aquila, de; "The Tree of Justice". D'Cruze, Michele the telegraphoperator who seizes "His Chance in Life". De Forest of the Aerial Board of Control. "As Easy as A.B.C." De Sussa, Mrs. she bought a dog. "Private Learoyd's Story". De Thouar once Prime Minister of that unnamed Dominion believed to be Canada. "The Puzzler". De Vitre leader of the cattle-lifting party in "Stalky". His companions were Parsons, Orrin, and Howlett. Another (of the Poona Irregular Moguls) is mentioned in "Letters on Leave, no. 1". De Vitre the idle son of an American millionaire. Captains Courageous. De Wet, Christian Rudolph (1854-1922), Chief Commandant of the Orange Free State Army during the Boer War. He is mentioned in "M.I". Deacon also called 'The Reverend'. A horse in "A Walking Delegate". "Dead King, The" (221) : a tribute to King Edward VII. DeadKings in Letters of Travel tourists and archaeologists in Egypt. "Deal in Cotton, A" the fifth story in Actions and Reactions. The Infant entertains a house-party which includes Stalky, Strickland, and his son, the latter being home on sick-leave from Africa where he is Assistant Commissioner at Dupe. He is interested in growing cotton, and the account of how he obtained �200 from Ibn Makarrah, a slave-trader, together with the labour that would enable him to begin, is related by "Imam Din". Dean a gunsmith mentioned in "What Happened". Deans, Winny one of Masquerier's people. "The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat". Dearlove and Billings found Strangwick nearly off his head. "A Madonna of the Trenches". Dearsley one of the Hugh Pilots. "An Unqualified Pilot". Another is the contractor Mulvaney fought for the palanquin. "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney". Death appears in the story called "On the Gate". Death in the Camp, A a sketch in Abaft the Funnel. The narrator hears of the death of Strangeways in his own house with his own people about him and compares it with those he knows of in India, where young men die suddenly, alone and with no provision for their families. "Death-Bed, A" (283) gruesome verse on the various ways men die in war which purports to be an explanation to the Kaiser at the end of the 1914 war. Debits and Credits see Appendix 1 for list of contents. Deborah the bee. "The Vortex". "Debt, The" the eighth story in Limits and Renewals. William, six-year-old son of the doctor of the gaol, is left with his ayah while his parents are out playing tennis, but 132 (a prisoner) and Mahmud Ali the sewing-man are looking after him. It is the time of King George V's illness and 132 tells how the King was inspecting War Cemeteries in France just after the 1914 war in very cold weather and told a general to put on his British Warm; the General said that he owed his life to the King, and 132 maintained that for that reason the King would recover from his illness. Followed by 'Akbar's Bridge'. Decapod an early automobile. "A Tour of Inspection", "Steam Tactics". December see "Verses on Games". Decker, Major a character in "Mrs. Hauksbee Sits Out". "Declaration of London, The" (304) the Government insisted on a measure being treated as a party matter. It followed the coronation of King Edward VII and Kipling thought it shameful. "Dedication" from "Barrack-Room Ballads" (83) 'verses in praise of those who' fought and sailed and ruled and loved and made our world'. "Dedication-To Soldiers Three" (618) four verses likening his work to clay figures and comparing it to rubies and pearls. The poet appreciates that the bazaar will praise, but asks: 'Heart of my heart - have I done well ?' Deegie, Mrs. an attractive woman 'whose men . . . fell away and got married'. "The World Without". Deeleys, the host and hostess of He and She in "The Lamentable Comedy of Willow Wood". Deemes, Mrs. the lady whom Jevon insulted. "A Friend's Friend". "Deep-Sea Cables, The" (173) communication through the uttermost depths of the sea. Deercourt, Emma a friend of Minnie Threegan. "The Story of the Gadsbys". Deesa the mahout of "Moti Guj - Mutineer". Deever, Colonel John Anthony nearly shot by Simmons "In the Matter of a Private". Deever, Danny see ' Danny Deever'. Deighton an officer of the Horse Battery. "Only a Subaltern". Delane, Sir D. mentioned in "The Education of Otis Yeere". Delarey the Boer commander mentioned by Zigler. "The Captive". Delighan a colour-sergeant in the Fore and Fit; father of Cris. "The Drums of the Fore and Aft". "Delilah" (7) Delilah Aberyswith was married to a member of the Government at Simla; Ulysses Gunn, who wrote for the papers, used his charms to make her obtain an important State secret from a Councillor. (Title and part first line.) 'Dellius, that car which, night and day' 'Carmen Circulare'. Delville, 'Shady' he and his wife, ' The Dowd', figure in "A Second-Rate Woman". Demby, Miss 'the Buttonquail'. "William the Conqueror". Dempsey a policeman friend of the narrator. "Brugglesmith". A Bob-Tailed Dragoon and Mulvaney's rival for the hand of Dinah Shadd. "The Courting of Dinah Shadd". Dennis a colour-sergeant who lends Mulvaney the cart in "The God from the Machine". A civil officer associated with the Infant and Hicksey in an affair in Burma. "A Conference of the Powers". Dennis O'Hara, who was killed by Rafferty, appears in "The Solid Muldoon"and "Black Jack". Dennis, Father the popular R.C. Chaplain of the Mavericks, mentioned in several of the Army stories. Departmental Ditties see Appendix 1 for list of contents. "Departure, A" (722) verses accompanying "The Parable of Boy Jones". Deputy Commissioner, a McGoggin's superior. "The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin". (See also Yardley-Orde ; Without Benefit of Clergy.) Deputy Inspector General of the Veterinary Service; prescribes for Garm. Deputy Sahib, a mentioned in "At Howli Thana". "Derelict, The" (149) a derelict vessel mourns her condition and fate. Deroulett known as Tommy Dodd. "The Head of the District". Desert see "The Face of the Desert". Deserter, a an Indian soldier shot by Ortheris. "On Greenhow Hill". Dessauer Editor of the Bloemfontein Banner. 'Destroyers At Jutland' chap. 3, Sea Warfare. "Destroyers, The" powerful verse on small and dangerous craft. Destructor Miss Fowler has one -an incinerator - in her garden, where Mary Postgate burns Wyndham's toys, etc. Devadatta King of Benares. "A Deal in Cotton". Devenish his information, together with that of Wharton, is used to check Mahbub's message sent to Creighton by Kim. "Devil and the Deep Sea, The" the fifth story in The Days Work. The Haliotis, a pearl-poacher, is shelled by a foreign gunboat and the engine-room wrecked. She is arrested and towed to an out-of-the-way harbour and the crew are sent up-country. Some eight months later they are ordered to be returned, and as it will be two months before they can get a passage, Wardrop suggests they live in their ship. They manage to effect repairs and steam away, scuttling her in the mouth of a harbour, where, it is to be supposed, she will wreck the gunboat on its next call. Devil-Child Mowgli is so called by Buldeo in the Jungle books. Devil-in-the-Dusk the Beast (the Wolf) is so called in "Song of the Men's Side", following "The Knife and the Naked Chalk". Devil of Discontent see "The Last of the Stories". Devil of Eua mentioned in Kim in connection with the Hill people. Devils Sir Richard so called the gorillas he fought in "The Knights of the Joyous Venture". Devine, Major of the hospital train, "The Way that he Took". Another is one of Bayley's officers. "The Army of a Dream". Devlin a colour-sergeant in the 195th who leads the search for Wee Willie Winkie. Devolution an H.M. ship in "Their Lawful Occasions". Dewey, Major commanded the companies whose way was blocked by "My Lord the Elephant". Dhobi Smith's washerman, who dies in the epidemic started by Ram Buksh. "New Brooms". Dholes the hunting-dogs of the Deccan that Mowgli fought in "Red Dog". Dhulip Singh mentioned in "The Mutiny of the Mavericks". Dhrumshticks (Drumsticks) Mulvaney's nickname for his Colonel. "The Big Drunk Draf". Diamond Mrs. Strickland's mare that was stolen and carried faggots. "The Son of his Father". Diamond Harbour forty miles below Calcutta. "An Unqualified Pilot". 'Diana of Ephesus' verse over "Venus Annodomini". Diana of Tara-Devi the name given to Kitty Beighton by the men of Simla. "Cupid's Arrows". Dick Mary Postgate's cousin. Dick Four at the U.S.C. "The United Idolaters",etc. Dickson Quartus Dick Four. Dickson Tertius brother of the above. Diego Valdez Lord High Admiral of Spain. "The Song of Diego Valdez". Digby the child the dogs call Smallest. "The Great Play Hunt", "Thy Servant a Dog" and "Toby Dog". 'Dim dawn behind the tamarisks - the sky is saffron-yellow -' "Christmas in India". Dimbula "The Ship that Found Herself". Di'monds-an'-Pearls Mulvaney's name for the lady in "Love-o'-Women". Din Mahommed the groom dismissed by Colonel Williams who advises the tribesmen not to harm Wee Willie Winkie. Another is in the Survey Department. "The Mother-Lodge". Dina Nath one of Orde's visitors. "The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P." Dinah a jet-black Aberdeen of the dwarf type, Marden's pet in "The Woman in his Life". See also Shadd: a Dandy Dinmont belonging to Jerry Martlett. "A Flight of Fact". "Dinah in Heaven" the little bitch who waited in Heaven until her owner arrived; St. Peter passed them both in. Dingo Yellow-Dog Dingo chased Boomer until his hind legs grew. "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo". 'Dinner in a Gun-Room' sub-head to chap. 6, A Fleet In Being. Dinniss the Sergeant-Major with twenty six years' service. "Surgical and Medical". Diplomat, an aged bargains with young Chinn before being vaccinated. "The Tomb of his Ancestors". D.I.R. the railway that employed "The Bold 'Prentice". Director-General of Public Education he assists the Prime Minister to bring a sheep to the camp of the narrator. "Namgay Doola". Directum a horse mentioned in "A Walking Delegate". "Dirge of Dead Sisters" in praise of the nurses who died in the Boer War. See also "Mary Kingsley". Dirk an H.M. ship in "Their Lawful Occasions". Dirkovitch the Cossack present at the return of Limmason. "The Man who Was". Dirty Man the owner of "Toby Dog". "Disciple, The" who will read a Gospel many ways, alter many things, and wound his Master worst of all. 'Discontented and Impenitent Thieves' sub-head to chap. 3, A FleetIn Being. Displaie of New Heraldrie, A the eighteenth 'uncollected' story in vol. xxx of the Sussex Edition, being an article in the Spectator suggesting coats-of-arms for the countries of the Empire to commemorate their activities in the 1914 war. "District at Play, A" an account of an annual holiday or `Sports Day' in a centre in India where the natives are engaged in woollen manufacture. Collected in vol. ii Of From Sea To Sea. "Disturber of Traffic, The" The first story in Many Inventions. The narrator spends a night at a South Coast lighthouse where Fenwick, the keeper, tells him of Dowse, who kept a lighthouse at the end of the Flores Straits. The currents run so swiftly that the water looks `streaky' and Dowse gets the impression that the ships that use the Straits are the cause of it. He accordingly arranges light-buoys and so forth to give the appearance of wrecks in the channel, aided by Challong, the Orang-Laut. He is eventually taken off the station, naked and mad, but recovers and becomes a wherry-man at Portsmouth, where the tides run crossways. Ditta Mull a friend of Tods. "Tods' Amendment". Another appears in "To be Filed for Reference". Dives see "The Peace of Dives". "Divided Destinies" the poet wishes he were an artless 'Bandar' without possessions and without a care in the world. Djinn an H.M. Ship in "Their Lawful Occasions". Djinn of All the Deserts he makes a magic in "How the Camel got his Hump". Others appear in "The Butterfly that Stamped". Dockett farmed Pound's Farm; Jesse worked for him. "Friendly Brook". Doctor
Doctor's Work, A speech at the Middlesex Hospital in 1908. A Book of Words. Dog-boy in charge of Vixen and Garm. "Dog Hervey, The" in A Diversity of Creatures. A strange story about a squinting dog and a girl whose father used to 'patch up' drunken young men; how the dog appeared to one of them long after he had left the place, and how he met Moira Sichliffe again. Followed by "The Comforters". Dog, the appears in "How the Camel got his Hump" and "The Cat that Walked by Himself". Dog-without-a-Master the wolf is so called in "The Knife and the Naked Chalk". Dogra Soldier travels with the Lama and KIM in the train from Lahore. Dogs other stories and verses about dogs include : "Garm - a Hostage", "The Great Play-Hunt", "Teem ", "Thy Servant a Dog", "The Woman in His Life", " Dinah in Heaven", "Four-Feet", "Supplication of the Black Aberdeen", and "The Power of the Dog". (Carrington, p. 476.) Dolabella the Grotkau. "Bread upon the Waters". Dolbie, Rhoda Midmore's housekeeper and mother of Jimmy. "My Son's Wife ". Dollins guests of Deeleys. "The Lamentable Comedy of Willow Wood". Dolly Bobs Kipling's pony Dorothea Darbishoff, so called because she came from Russia. Something of Myself. Domesday Book there are many references in "Below the Mill Dam". Doncaster mentioned in "The Prophet and the Country". Donkin of the jail a member of "The Mother-Lodge"; another is an old friend recalled by Dravot. "The Man who Would be King". Doolan, Tim see "Thimla Dhula". Doolie-bearers mentioned in "My Own True Ghost-Story", and many of the Indian tales. A doolie is a simple form of litter, also used as an ambulance. (Hindi doli.) Doone mentioned in the club scene. "The World Without". Doris the girl Phil arranged to meet in Cadogan Gardens. "Aunt Ellen". Dormer the ne'er-do-well of Wick's company, also known as the Looney Fishmonger. "Only a Subaltern". Dormil, Miss and Mrs. appear in "For One Night Only". Dormouse nickname for Dumoise. "The Mark of the Beast", "By Word of Mouth". Dorothea see Dolly Bobs. Dorothy and Margaret nursing sisters in "The Way that he Took". Dorset Regiment see "The Burning of the 'Sarah Sands'". Double Ends Grambags, Mulvaney's names for "My Lord the Elephant". Dougherty father-in-law of Lot Vermilyea. "The Shadow of His Hand". Doughty Doctor in the Mavericks. He certified Father Victor medically unfit to go to the front. Kim. "Dove of Dacca, The" a Rajah takes a dove to war, to be released if he is defeated, so that his servants can burn his palace to save it being sacked. He is successful, but the bird escapes and he returns to find his palace a waste. Dove, the one of Colonel Bayley's officers. "The Army of a Dream". Dowb 'The first of all his race'.`A General Summary'. Dowd, the Mrs. `Shady' Delville. A Second-Rate Woman. Downs, Sussex celebrated in "The Run of the Downs" and often mentioned in the 'Puck' stories. Dowse the inappropriately named keeper of the Wurlee Light. "The Disturber of Traffic". Doyle, Paddy mentioned in the Refrain to "The Merchantmen" (from an old chantey). Dragomiroff the Russian member of the A.B.C. "As Easy as A.B.C". Drake, Sir Francis circumnavigator and Admiral (1540?-1596) ; appears in "Simple Simon". His father, Parson Drake, is mentioned. See also "The Song of the Dead" and "With Drake in the Tropics". Dravot, Daniel "The Man who would be King". "Dray Warn Yow Dee" the first story in the series In Black and White, collected in Soldiers Three. A Pathan accosts the narrator with a request that he buy almonds and raisins; the Sahib is an old acquaintance, so he explains that his wife has intrigued with one Daoud Shah, whom he intends to kill, as he has killed the woman. The story recounts his wanderings and the `eternal triangle' from an Eastern viewpoint. 'Dread Mother of Forgetfulness' "Hymn to Physical Pain". Dream of Duncan Parrenness, The the twenty-seventh story in Life's Handicap. Parrenness, a dissolute young writer in the service of the East India Company at Calcutta, dreams that he meets his older self, who bargains with him, taking away his trust in man and his faith in women. Before he leaves, his older self places something in his hand. It is a piece of dry bread. Dredd the dealer in books who bought the Bible into the binding of which Manallace had hidden the 'Chaucer' forgery. "Dayspring Mishandled". Drum-Horse a piebald Waler whose apparent reappearance after death caused "The Rout of the White Hussars". The picture of another gives a clue to "The Man who Was". Drummer-Boy one is detailed to look after Kim. "Drums of the Fore and Aft, The" the last story in Wee Willie Winkie. Jakin and Lew, drummer-boys, accompany the regiment to a frontier war; the lack of seasoned soldiers brings about a shameful withdrawal in the face of the enemy. The boys strike up 'The British Grenadiers' on a drum and fife; this, together with the remarks of their officers, brings the regiment to attack with success. The boys are killed. Dry-Cow Fishing, On see "On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art". Dubois one of the inventors of 'Cloudbreakers'. "With the Night Mail". Ducane, Sub-Lieutenant of H.M.S. Archimandrite. "The Bonds of Discipline". Duchy one of the locomotives in "-007". Duck one appears, laughing, in "The Brushwood Boy". Duckett, Lieutenant-Commander H.R. ('Horse') captain of H.M.S. Gardenia. "A Flight of Fact". Ducos, Roger the French Consul. "A Priest in Spite of Himself". Duddell a Quaker from Ipswich. "The Army of a Dream". Dudeney, Arthur Captain of the Esther Grant. "A Tour of Inspection". Dudeney, Mr An old shepherd, friend of Dan and Una. "The Knife and the Naked Chalk". Dufferin Frederick Temple Hamilton Temple, First Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), succeeded Lord Ripon as Governor-General of India in 1884. (See 'One Viceroy Resigns', "The Song of the Women" and Cornell, pp. 60, 126.) Dugard an injured husband who shot his wife's lover. "Love-o'-Women". Duggan Sahib possessed a mota-kahar in which he nearly knocked down the Regimental Chaplain. "In the Presence". Duggard a murderer mentioned by Gunner Barnabas. "The Likes o' Us". Duggy an A.D.C. at the ball when "Mrs. Hauksbee Sits Out". Dulloo name assumed by Strickland as "Miss Youghal's Sais". 'Duly with knees that feign to quake-' "Rimmon". Dumoise a civil surgeon in "By Word of Mouth", mentioned in "The Mark of the Beast". His wife was a daughter of 'Squash' Hillardyce. Duncan
Dungara 'the God of things as they are'. "The Judgment of Dungara". Dunmaya a Hill-woman who marries Phil Garron and makes a man of him. "Yoked with an Unbeliever". Dunnee Kipling's groom. Something of Myself. Dunnoo the dog-boy who rescues Jukes from the Village of the Dead. "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes". Another appears in Kim. Dupe young Strickland's headquarters. "A Deal in Cotton". Durga otherwise Kali, or Sitala, to whom shrines are built against smallpox. "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat". Durga Charan uncle of the unfortunate Bisesa ; she was living in his house when Trejago met her. "Beyond the Pale". Durga Charan Laha a native of Calcutta; Shafiz Ullah meets his son in London. "One View of the Question". Durga Dass
Durro Muts the 'no-fears', the Ustrelyahs (Australians). "A Sahibs' War". Dutch Captain reports the odd activities of Dowse at the Wurlee Light. "The Disturber of Traffic". 'Dutch in the Medway, The' the poor state of the Fleet in the Dutch war of 1664-72. "Dying Chauffeur, The" motoring verse after A. L. Gordon. "Dykes, The" a song of seadefences in the nature of a parable drawing attention to the dangers that follow a sense of security and the awakening national feeling of other countries. "Dymchurch Flit" the ninth story in Puck of Pook's Hill. Dan and Una are in an oast-house with Hobden when an old friend of the latter, Tom Shoesmith, comes in. The two talk, and the children hear how the blind and deaf sons of a widow help the Pharisees escape from England. 'Dynamo, Song of the' see "Song of the Dynamo, The". Another is installed in the mill. "Below the Mill Dam". N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |


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London, Ontario, Canada - September 14, 2011. Londoners on their lunch hour were treated to a free concert sponsored by a local property management company featuring the local tribute band "The McCartney Years." Fronted by Yuri Pool, the band has cultivated a loyal fan base in the city through concerts and other public appearances. In January 2009 the band recreated the famous Apple studio roof top concert by the Beatles.


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Publicado em abril 23, 2012 por Redação
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(Probe International) Nearly 100,000 people living in the Three Gorges Dam reservoir area face relocation due to the threat of geological disaster, which has increased since the dam was filled to its highest water level.
Nearly 100,000 people in the Three Gorges Dam reservoir region will be relocated over the next three to five years due to an increased threat from dam-related geological disaster, an official with China's Ministry of Land and Resources announced this week on China National Radio (CNR).
According to Liu Yuan, an inspector for the Ministry of Land and Resources, Department of Geological Environment, and director of the Office of the Three Gorges Geological Disaster Prevention Leading Group, landslides and bank collapses in [large] dam reservoir areas are to be expected when dams are filled to their highest water level. He said that during the past nine years, a number of incidents related to landslides and bank collapses had occurred in the Three Gorges Dam reservoir area, but such threats had been managed through disaster prevention and early warning strategies.
Disaster prevention, however, is 'really tough', said Liu, and the future was not 'optimistic' for the Three Gorges area. Since October 2010, when the reservoir was first filled to its highest level of 175 m, more than 70% of the 'risky' incidents that have occurred in the reservoir area could be categorized as sudden and formed a pattern that demonstrated an increase in the potential for hazardous and unpredictable threats. Urgent measures were now required, he said, as a possible increase in landslides and bank collapses not only posed a threat to people living in the reservoir region (Liu announced 100,000 are to be relocated), but also, Liu admits, to shipping traffic on the Yangtze River, which is a site of great interest to tourists.
Shanghai Daily reports that an increasing number of monitoring sites were seeing adverse effects from the reservoir's maximum water level.
"We will start to deal with the rock falls and landslides at 335 sites and call for people to work together to monitor the 5,386 potential danger sites. We also need to replace the affected monitoring sites and displace about 100,000 residents," Liu told CNR, Shanghai Daily reports.
Liu said his Ministry would work with local governments in the region to implement disaster prevention and management measures.
A growing list of woes
In May 2011, the Chinese government finally conceded publicly some of what critics had warned all along — that the Three Gorges Dam project was troubled and faced a number of concerns: ecological deterioration, the potential for geological disasters and the status of relocated residents.
In its statement addressing the issue, the government promised to "properly handle the negative effects brought by the project to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and improve the long-term mechanisms for geological disaster prevention."
The most dramatic scenario facing the region cited by critics is the potential for seismic disturbance or even a catastrophic earthquake.
The following is a translation of the China National Radio news report of Liu Yuan's announcement:
Nearly 100,000 more people to be relocated with the increase of geological disasters in Three Gorges reservoir area
By Feng Huiling, China National Radio (Zhongguang Wang), April 16, 2012
The Three Gorges Dam authority has tried three times to fill the Three Gorges Dam reservoir to its NPL (normal pool level) of 175 metres since 2009, and finally got the job done in October 2010.
In general, in the first three to five years after (large) dam reservoirs are filled to their highest level, new incidents of landslides and bank collapses in the reservoir area are to be expected. As such, the prevention of geological disasters is really tough and that is why around 100,000 people living in the reservoir region are now facing relocation, says an official with China's Ministry of Land and Resources.
Talking to a reporter from China National Radio [the national radio station of the People's Republic of China], Liu Yuan, an inspector for the Ministry of Land and Resources, Department of Geological Environment, and director of the Office of the Three Gorges Geological Disaster Prevention Leading Group, said a number of incidents related to landslides and bank collapses have occurred every year in the Three Gorges reservoir area. But there have been zero casualties and injuries, he says, thanks to the monitoring in place and a timely warning system over the past nine years. In the near future, however, he says the prevention and control of geological disasters in the Three Gorges area is not optimistic.
Liu Yuan: Over 70% of geological disasters (and risky incidents in the Three Gorges reservoir area) can be categorized as sudden incidents (that have occurred) since the reservoir was filled to 175 m (first managed in October 2010). In some places, the geological disasters (and risky incidents) are associated with the filling and dropping of the water levels, and there is a growing tendency (of the situation), so urgent measures such as engineering projects and relocation are needed to be taken. In some places where landslides and bank collapses have occurred along the reservoir, even if no people and housing are there, the surging waves are dangerous and pose a serious threat to shipping on the Yangtze River.
Liu Yuan said that in the coming period of time, the Ministry of Land and Resources will cooperate with Hubei Province and Chongqing Municipality to properly implement various prevention and control tasks.
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Chartered Financial Banalyst
For about 2 months before my boy Mark took the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Level 3 exam, he didn't go out at all. He'd go to work, come home, hit up the gym, and then study. That was it. Done.
"Going out is fucking lame, anyway," he'd bark from the couch when I rolled up to his place on a Friday with two Lauren Conrad lookalikes. Sitting there in sweaty mesh shorts and a T-shirt, he'd wave a #2 HB pencil in the air dismissively. "Staying in is the new going out." Then Lauren #1 would strut over to his fridge, showing off her perfect physique in the process. She'd take an ice cube and press it seductively against her collarbone as she closed her eyes and sighed in relief from the dense heat of New York City summer. I could see the Monte Carlo simulation running in Mark's brain; Crystal Ball says—"you will get laid." Then, right after his eyes entered back into his skull, he would look back down begrudgingly at his practice exam and mutter to himself, unconvincingly: "Whatever. That bitch is a 6, anyway…"
He'd break down right as we were leaving, his face falling into his hands. We'd hear his sobs all the way from the street, and I'd feel the girls' hands tighten around my arms as he started clawing away the window screen and shaking the wrought iron bars he had installed during the Level 2, specifically to save him in such situations.
You see, Mark really loved to go out. I mean loved. Obviously, we all like drinking and slaying chicks, but more so than anything, Mark just straight up loved "being out there." "Gotta get up in the mix," he'd coach himself if he hadn't been out in more than two or three nights. He had to scratch that itch. The heat, it gave him clarity. He was the kind of guy who'd buy 4 bottles, not to drink them, but just for that one moment when everyone was surrounding him, cheering him on and taking pictures as he snarled and held all 4 bottles held up to his mouth in triumph. And the only time he was happier was when he was on his computer posting that ridiculous photo up on Facebook as his profile picture, his status set as "absolutely killing it."
I don't know very much about the "Chartered Financial Analyst" program. Generally, I'm the one chartering shit, so the concept doesn't even really make sense. From what I gather, though, it's a set of exams that you take to get certified to be a money manager out in Ohio and for some reason, Mark, as one of the few non-prop traders I know, also has to take it. They ask you trivial finance questions and tease your brain with provocative ethical scenarios like: "Should you steal your clients' money? Answer yes or no."
I do remember, a few months after graduating from college, hearing the news that a girl we knew, Jen, had somehow managed to fail the CFA Level 1 exam. There was such widespread disbelief in the community, on the same order of magnitude as when we heard someone we knew was "making a documentary." Something like 40% of people pass the exam, and frankly, we just couldn't wrap our heads around the concept of the 59th percentile. "I'm disgusted," said a friend who had hooked up with Jen once, quickly making his way into the bathroom to shower and rinse his mouth out with Scope. Jen took the failure as a sign—an opportunity to "follow her dreams" and become an actress. She is now the subject of our other ex-friend's documentary, the title: Banker Chick Gets Creative: A Riches to Rags Story.
To be fair, though, there is one redeeming aspect of the CFAs—one characteristic that is actually legit, the calculator. One of the two calculators permitted to be used on the CFAs is the HP 12C, and apart from the fact that its name sounds like some highly involved consulting framework, it is the epitome of Banker technology. The 12C embodies everything about us—elegant, bold, somehow clinging on to life in a world that no longer needs it. One look at its brushed plastic exterior and you think: "Damn, this thing is pro."
Excel Mobile, it speaks a pure, unambiguous language: Reverse Polish, a postfix notation that eliminates non-commutative issues. So instead of having to enter 7 + (5 * 2) – 5, you'd enter: 7 5 2 * + 5 -. Direct and to the point, crisp even—exactly how Bankers think and speak. I met a model from Kraków once, and although we hit it off physically, her English struggled, blocking us from that real "same plane" level I like to reach. So as a gesture of cultural sensitivity, I decided I'd speak to her in something closer to her native tongue. Over Lil's Wayne's Lollipop, I pointed between us aggressively and instructed: "You, friends, 2, TIMES PLUS… panties MINUS" Boom. "Same plane," said her eyes.
But overall, it's all very misguided, the concept of having to be sanctioned to practice finance by some governing body. To me, being a financier is god given, a birthright. There are no "Chartered Investment Bankers." You cannot charter someone to be a prolific value adder. It is an art, not a trade. As far as I'm concerned, I've been chartered to do whatever the hell kind of finance I want since I was 10, screaming at Production (Celia, my Hispanic maid) to not fuck up comb-binding my book reports. "You numbered the Table of Contents?!" I'd scream at her, winging the thing across the kitchen. And then I'd provide the brand of constructive feedback you might hear from a pissed off MD at Goldman:
"This kind of shit might fly at Banco Popular, but not in my house."
It's been almost three weeks now since Mark took the CFA exam, with three, perfectly actionable weekends in between. Most other guys partied their faces off after the exams, but for some reason, Mark still hasn't really gone out. He just sits on the sofa in those unwashed mesh shorts, staring off into space. He's a shell, a shadow of who he once was. It's as if something inside of him has died.
"What the fuck, man?" I'll ask with a practiced, artificial tone I like to call "emotion."
Mark takes a moment to respond, but finally lets out: "It's gone…"
After I ask what he means, he beats his fist against his chest and explains what has escaped him: "The fire."
Somehow, I thought that fire might come back, that Mark might remember how great everyday life in finance is, but he hasn't. Last weekend, I dragged him out to The Hamptons, and at Pink Ellie, he just stood in the corner alone, nursing his first bourbon. He seemed perplexed, tilting his head and looking at the world from a new, ethically conscious perspective. His 12C was still with him, cradled affectionately in his hands like a BlackBerry.
This got the attention of one genius girl, a Long Island native, who came up and asked, genuinely: "Omg, is that the new iPhone?!" Bouncing, she grabbed the boxy device from his hands. She looked at it awestruck for a moment, caressing its sharp edges. Then, hoping to zoom in, she started to pinch the ½ inch wide, very touch-insensitive screen.
Mark would have normally responded with something like "iPhone for me, girl? I'm the BlackBerry Thunder," but instead, he just gazed at her longingly. No flame was left in him, no embers even. Timid and almost monotone, he proposed: "You, foreign film, pinot noir, PLUS, PLUS, subtitles, MINUS?"
I'd say the 4G iPhone crashing to the ground was symbolic, but those things are built so fucking strong you could run over them with an H3 and they wouldn't shatter. Mark, however, took it as a sign.
I looked over and saw him leaving the club, a shadow cast over his glass of bourbon and the calculator with his business card taped to the back. Over at our table, another guy was doing Mark's patented pose, but the snarl was too creepy, not genuinely elated enough, and there were only 3 bottles, not 4—it just really wasn't the same.
In that moment, I had to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged—their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.
The 10 next to me was angling herself to most prominently display her lack of tan lines, and I let out, a little less practiced, and a little less artificial:
"I guess I just miss my friend."
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Towson will look to earn its second road victory since March 3 when the team faces the Nova Southeastern Sharks for a match beginning Monday at 1 p.m. It will be the first of two mtaches in two days for the Tigers, who also face Florida Atlantic on Tuesday.
Now 7-4 this season, the Tigers are led by sophomore Nisha Shah, who has a team-high 11 singles victories this season. Joining her in double figures is junior Andrea Samlin, who has played well of late to improve her record to 10-5.
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A Silver Lining in Washington State, which has its own potential legislation on the books-to target misleading Crisis Pregnancy Centers. As Amie Newman reports, if passed the law would "require centers to disclose that they do not 'provide services or referrals for abortion or comprehensive birth control' or 'medical care for pregnant women.'" She also notes that the legislation would require that these center immediately test women instead of stalling them to make it more difficult for them to have abortions.
The sad thing about this excellent legislation from Washington is that it would make it the only state to have such statutes. At the moment, CPCs are running rampant with few regulations, while the examples above show that abortion clinics are utterly bombarded with regulations. There's no question we're in an all-out war on women's bodies.
For even more information on restrictions potentially on the books--and to see what's at stake in your own state--take a look at this map from the Ms. Blog and Tableau public.
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Read MoreLike I had previously said, there isn't much to do around here. You really have to create your own fun. We are near Olgebay Park which has a lot of great outdoor activities. We are also near the city of Wheeling which offers a few things to do as a college student. If you're willing to drive, Pittsburgh isn't too far from here either. If you're the type of person who expects the fun to present itself to you, you will definitely not be happy here.
Read MoreI did sports that took up most of my time
Read MoreDon't plan on having a ball going out because this collage isn't near the hottest night clubs. Sports, family and friends is what most students enjoy about WLU.
Read MoreThere is always something going on, from ice-cream socials to church bonfires to Greek Life T-shirt tye-dying events. The first week is packed with fun activities to get you out there and help you meet other people.
Read MoreHang out with friend on the weekend if they stay. There are some fun activities on the weekdays. There are a lot of games for football and basketball.
Read MoreThere isn't much to do for fun in the town the college is in. However, there is a zoo, golf course, ski slope within 10 miles of the college. It is also about 20 miles from a big city.
Read MoreAs I mentioned, lots of shopping and dining opportunities.
Read MoreThe University offers free tickets to sporting events for students, they also offer movie and game nights for students to attend.
Read Morehang out with friends
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