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Continued from part one, this is part two of five.
Bill, a fast-moving, loud-talking, big spending businessman from the interior, had come in late morning and insisted on taking me out for a 'working lunch.' It had, interestingly enough, been very productive, and while he consumed copious amounts of expensive booze, we both stayed reasonably sober and got a hell of a lot accomplished in the restaurant. Consequently, on our return to the office all I had to do was clean up the copy and reprint it.
"Ms. Lord, will you ensure that Mr. Shields is absolutely comfortable while I finish this up?"
Putting down her pen and standing swiftly erect by her desk, Penelope answered, "Of course, Mr. Jackson." Her steely gaze and bold poise held Bill's attention as she led him to the couch, and offered him a drink. She had serviced several clients since her first time, with Jock, yet, I never failed to enjoy the show. My final copy always took a little longer than expected, what with the distraction across the office.
Bill, knowing his limits, or perhaps anticipating something, declined a drink. He watched in rapt fascination as my assistant sank to the couch beside him and immediately reached for his crotch. Stroking his entrapped manhood with one hand and toying with his zipper tab with the other, she said softly, "Can I make you more comfortable, sir?"
"I believe you could," he replied, still motionless, but tense with expectancy.
I watched this exchange from my desk, delighting in the interplay. Penelope did this so well – played it so straight – although I puzzled about how much of it was play. Nonetheless, I thought I caught a trace of smile before she turned her attention to releasing his monster. And monster it was. Bill was huge and getting huger. He must have been nine or ten inches already and he wasn't yet stiff. Caressing it to full stature with deliberately slow strokes, Penelope looked like she was considering how to approach a new problem. I saw her subtly lick her lips just as she lowered her face to his cock. However, she'd barely covered the helmet when he lifted her head and plunged his hand beneath her skirt, into her crotch. "Let's not beat around the bush, as it were."
I didn't catch all that was said, but, abruptly Penelope had swung around on the couch and was lying on her back, legs wide open, waiting as Bill removed his clothing. He caught my eye, smiled and winked; I attempted to focus on my computer. Penelope watched him intently with a curious look of interest as he undressed. His erection bobbled out in front as he climbed between her legs. "Here he comes," Bill announced plunging in unceremoniously.
Penelope's legs shot straight up; her hands clasped his shoulders and her eyes clamped shut as she expelled a whooshing grunt. Bill began to move in long, slow strokes, stopping once to peel my assistant's blouse from her wonderfully stiff boobs. Taking up his rhythm again, he pumped faster and faster, watching steadily as Penelope's breath puffed audibly and her head, eyes shut tight, began to shake back and forth. They sounded like a pair of locomotives playing chicken. Bill's huffing, her whimpering – his hips slapping her buttocks, the tempo increasing to a frenzy; Penelope's head snapping left and right, her legs across his back, pulling him tight – it was a marvelous sight.
Just as I was sure Penelope was going to climax, Bill let go an eerie howl and stiffened, holding his massive meat, deep inside her. I could see his hips twitch as he shot volley after volley of come into her.
"Kee-rist!" Bill rolled off her, unclasping her legs, then sat with a thump on the floor. "Wow! Dan! You gotta have some of this," he called, adding, as an aside to himself, "like I'd believe you don't, anyway." Rousting himself off the floor, he yelled, "Haven't you finished the fuckin' contract, yet?" He stomped his foot. "Get your ass over here!" The whole time, Penelope had just laid there, almost catatonic, her breasts heaving, glistening as they parted the front of her open blouse. Bill turned to her, grabbed her hand and pulled her to sitting. "Now then, little lady," he coaxed, pulling at her blouse, "let's get you naked." She let him finish peeling it off then, smoothing it down again, unzipped her skirt and stepped out of it. "You may as well leave your stockings on, don't you think?"
"Okay," she murmured, straightening the tops.
Turning to me, as I approached the lewd scene, he said in a conspiratorial stage whisper, "Quick, Dan. Double team! Get out of those duds." With that, he guided Penelope onto the couch, positioning her on all fours, then, with amazing stamina, stabbed his once-again-rigid member into her slick, blossoming vagina, doggy-style. Moving to her head, with one knee on the couch in front of her, I presented my luscious assistant with my own now raging hard-on.
Grasping it with one hand, she guided it to her lips then hesitated for a moment. I waited – but not for long. With Bill's next stroke, Penelope rounded her lips and allowed herself to be pushed onto my ready rod. Bill set the rhythm, but that was fine by me. "The customer is always right," I said to myself, as I luxuriated in Penelope's expert oral ministrations. Bill was accelerating and Penelope was puffing through her nose and around me with in a growing frenzy. As for me, my cock was throbbing against her tongue – quivering at the feel of her inner cheeks – trembling as it was drawn in and out, through the perfectly warm and soft opening of her lips.
Our mutual cadence was becoming frantic. I knew we were, all three, approaching crises. With a cry of anguish, Penelope suddenly pulled off me and dropped her head to the couch between her elbows. She continued to hold me, squeezing, and subtly stroking as she gasped short, sharp breaths, her shoulders heaving under the constant pounding behind her. It all happened in an instant, her cry of woe mingled with Bill's bellow of triumph as he threw his head back and rammed his full weight into her folds. Her pitiful defeat, supplicating before his victory, whilst her little hand continued to hold onto my enflamed sword – it was all too much for me, and I jerked and pumped strings of semen all over her hair and onto her neck.
We were all still for a moment, a silent dénouement to a battle well fought. I felt a pang of – I don't know – not guilt – but disappointment, for her – that she had got so close but had not come. Yet, it was amazing to me that she could actually have not come. So it goes.
Penelope collapsed, panting, onto the couch when Bill and I stepped away. As we gathered our clothing and put them on, she rose like a wraith and slipped into the washroom. We were in to final process of completing our contract when she re-emerged, hair damp but otherwise all straightened up, and returned to her desk.
Signing the papers and putting all the documents into envelopes, Bill kept exclaiming, "I can't believe it," and, "Danny-boy, you dirty old shit," and the like. Penelope was back at work as if nothing had happened.
Bill shook my hand and, as he turned to leave, he stepped over to Penelope's desk and said, "It was very nice to meet you, Ms. Lord."
She looked up at him and replied in a friendly business-like voice, "My pleasure, Mr. Shields."
I'm sure it was that hint of wild frightened innocence in her eyes that I still often see that did it. "How about one for the road, my sweet?" he asked, his voice dripping just a little, and his hands already unzipping his fly-front. Penelope swiveled her chair, extricating his still turgid, still damp cock without a word and leaning forward to engulf him. I just stood and stared. There was no need for pretense now. Holding one hand on his hip and the other at the base, deep in his pubic hair, Penelope utilized her wheeled chair to facilitate a fast, deep blowjob. Bill's hands went to her ears, as he followed her measured bobbing, her lips stretching and welcoming his slick meat. Showing no signs of fatigue, Bill's erection grew once again to its massive proportions. Nonetheless, Penelope was eminently effective. Suddenly jerking and moaning and pulling her lips hard against her own hand, Bill stiffened yet again, unloading his liqueur into her throat. Despite it being his third round, it must have been substantial as Penelope, gagged and coughed. As she sat back in her chair, a string of semen fell from the corner of her mouth and landed on her skirt.
Bill rearranged himself quickly, picked up his case and headed for the door, with a casual wave. "'Bye folks," he called, "Catch you later."
"Well," I muttered, returning to my desk, "that was a fine bit of business," although I'm not really sure what I meant by that.
Penelope dabbed at her skirt with a tissue before turning her attention back to her computer screen.
Before she left that afternoon, I called her over to my computer to show her an accounting spreadsheet. "I just wanted you to see your bonuses for today. Fourteen hundred's not too bad, eh?" She just nodded looking closely at the screen, so I explained my reckonings. "You gave me a hand job – I know I spent a lot of time in your mouth, but I actually ejaculated in your hand. Okay?" Once more she nodded without removing her eyes from the screen. "And Mr. Shields came in you twice, as well as a blowjob. Randy old bugger, isn't he?"
Penelope rose from peering at the computer and turned to me. "Mr. Jackson," she said, with an almost unnatural serenity, "please don't share these details with me anymore. I trust you to be honest in your accounting. But to see it like that," she nodded towards the screen, "makes me feel… I don't know, makes me feel very hollow – very empty. It's a feeling I don't like. Okay?" She looked hopefully into my face.
"Okay," I assented.
"Thank you, sir," she whispered, giving my shoulder a very slight squeeze before heading back to her desk. "I'll go now, if that's okay."
I glanced at the clock. It was five to four. "Sure. Good night." It turned back to the offending file and saved it back to its locked and hidden folder. I mused about what she'd said. I guess I could sort of understand it. It was sort of, 'if I don't face it, it doesn't really exist.' I suspect we all like to leave our heads in the sand at times.
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Some while later I was musing about the fact that Penelope seemed to get so close, right at the edge, in fact, but she hadn't yet climaxed. I thought about my 'faking it' clause in her bonus schedule, as I observed her pretty features, focused and intent at her terminal. "Bit of a non-concern, that one." An image of her lying on the couch, head thrashing, limbs vibrating, voice keening, ran across my mind. She'd been so close. I really would love to see her come. I'd love to make her come. I could picture myself, crouched between her thighs, laving her in long strokes, my tongue parting her puffy, trembling labia as she bucked and heaved and leaked against my face. Oh, wouldn't that be nice?
Yet, that image didn't quite work. Although I would dearly have liked to go down on her – have her come against my tongue, there was something about our arrangement, something unwritten and unspoken, something silently understood that forbade me from giving her the cunnilingal orgasm she desperately needed. I believe she understood that, too, for she never tried, even subtly, to tempt me to go down on her, even when she was left hanging on the very edge – vibrating like a tuning fork.
And it worried me that, through all of this, Penelope hardly ever smiled. It's not that she looked unhappy, or even indifferent, but she didn't smile. Finally, as we sat for a moment in the sweaty afterglow of another great afternoon fuck, I asked, "What's the matter?" She gave me a puzzled look in response. "Are you so unhappy here?"
She heaved a sigh, as she straightened her rumpled skirt and blouse. "No," she said, most matter-of-factly, "I like the job well enough, it's just that – I don't know – maybe I just don't deserve to smile."
"What the hell do you mean by that?"
"Well," she explained, sounding rather forlorn, "I foolishly trusted a bastard who left me half a million dollars in debt, and whoring to pay it off. I mean, how much worse could I have fucked-up my life?"
"Oh, please. Whoring is such a crude term. I mean, really, it's not nearly that bad."
Her look said loud and clear, "Oh, yeah?" but she just muttered, "That's easy for you to say."
"Okay," I went on, "I'll concede you're basically indentured until you – uh – pay off – or at least facilitate repayment of this debt, but 'don't deserve to smile'? Give me a break!" She glanced at me with a peculiar sort of interest. I started pulling my trousers on, taking a moment to formulate my argument. "I mean, listen," I turned to her and grasped her shoulders, turning her to face me. She was virtually limp. "Look at me, will ya?" Her eyes slowly rose to meet mine. I paused for a bit, holding her gaze, then I launched my lecture. "It was foolishness – your foolishness that got you into this situation in the first place. You made a poor choice – perhaps a very poor choice. But it was just a simple mistake – a simple and genuine mistake; everybody makes mistakes from time to time: but mistakes don't endure, they just pass." I gave her shoulders a little shake for emphasis. "That mistake has long passed. For Christ's sake, stop dwelling on it. Let it go." I let go of her arms, but she didn't slump. Her eyes held mine. "Jesus, stop beating yourself up about it. Just accept what you've got and go with it." I cupped her cheeks and as I added, "You might even try to enjoy it, eh?" She nodded, looking sort of like this was a novel idea. "Smile, already!" I shouted as I stood, buckling my belt. "What else is there?"
Amazingly, it worked. She smiled as she stood and shook her head, whispering, "Yeah, what else is there?" It was virtually the first full smile I had ever seen from her.
"My god woman, you're absolutely radiant when you smile!" She shook her head again, her blonde locks swinging softly, still a little damp from exertion, and allowed a barely audible chuckle, before returning her attention to her computer screen.
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Fully ensconced within her delicious snatch, I pounded frantically the last couple of strokes before raising my head to bellowing my arrival out loud. It had been a busy morning, and our noon quickie was a welcome respite. My office couch was beginning to show evidence of horizontal activity in its undulating seat cushioning. Pushing myself up on my arms, I savoured her echoing pulses against my slowly diminishing cock. Penelope had stopped, once again, just shy of an orgasm. Her sweaty breasts rose and fell, as she regained her breath – her eyes shut tight. From my vantage – good old missionary position – I was looking straight into her eyes as she finally opened them. "Still resisting your own arousal, eh?" I observed.
Her eyes stayed open. "I guess," she whispered, "it's still something to do with guilt." She shrugged, then added, gracing me with a bashful smile, "Just like the smiling business, I'm not really sure I deserve it."
"Well, shit," I complained. "I don't want to lecture again, but, hey," I tried to use a big-brotherly tone – that was more than a little at odds with our position, my penis still turgid, still inserted – "it was just being naïve – a bit gullible, maybe – that got you into this. Well, naïveté is not a fault. So there's nothing to feel guilty about." I was getting on a roll, again. I felt like a revivalist, preaching at the altar. "Listen, girl, your financial debt will eventually be cleared, so don't go hanging onto this unnecessary guilt. Forgive yourself. Let it go. Let yourself go." She said nothing, just nodded and gave me a subtle, thoughtful smile. Imitating a school teacher, I said, "We'll try again, tomorrow," and left it at that. I clambered off her supine form, recovered my abandoned raiment and returned to my desk, whistling softly.
Later that week, at the end of a Friday that didn't let up until late, as I finally cleared my desktop, I looked over at Penelope who was doing the same. "Well, Ms. Lord. What do you say we put the week to rest with a bang?"
"Of course, Mr. Jackson," she replied, sounding for all the world like she was agreeing to lock up when she left. Her apparent dissociation continued to amaze me. Nonetheless, she quickly logged off, walked over to my desk and began to caress me, seductively removing my jacket and unbuttoning my shirt so she could glide her hands across my bare chest. I sat still, feeling myself relax, as she ran her hands softly over my nipples. Then she took my hand and led me silently to the couch.
Flipping her skirt up, she sat, bare bottom on the soft fabric, and pulled me by the belt to face her. Without a word, without a rush, but with a studied smoothness and grace, she carefully removed my cock from the confines of my pants, dipping her head forward so that she could tickle me with her pointed tongue. I resisted the temptation to grab her ears and thrust while she slowly, teasingly licked around the helmeted head before sucking my swelling member into her warm mouth. I let my hands fall to her chest, inside her gaping blouse, and fiddle idly with her nipples. The warm, firm sponginess of her breasts, the stiff insistence of her erect nipples was, in itself, arousing – not to mention the magical motions of her mouth and lips. Quickly, almost too quickly, I felt the heat of crisis rising with my iron-like erection.
Abruptly, I pulled out, pushed her back and shoved my sword into her deeply, stabbing without regard for anything but my own gratification. Despite the thinly veiled savagery of my entrance, Penelope was open, warm and welcoming as her vagina swallowed me whole. Her slick, thick lubrication attested to her arousal, and she heaved up violently against my thrusts. Like beasts in rut, we grunted and roared, smacking together, mashing our pubes together into one seething mass. I could feel the molten mass of release boiling in my loins, the pressure building; but beyond that I could feel Penelope's core temperature rising as well. Her eyes stared ahead with a glazed concentration as she held onto my shoulders, pushing against me, whimpering and sighing. Her quivering and quaking traveled the length of her body, and I could feel her legs tensing across my back as her inner muscles gripped and released my insistence. Her jaw trembled, slightly agape.
Arching onto her shoulders, throwing her head back, she pushed onto me once more, lifting her back and hips completely clear of the couch. "Unnngh!" she cried, in a piteously muted voice. She was so close.
Ramming myself deep into her, I muttered, "Let yourself go," just as I let loose. Volley after volley of semen spurted from my sceptre, scalding her insides. It was just enough to put her over, at last, and she screeched, thrashing her head from side to side, digging her nails into my arms as she held me fast. I froze for a moment, and lodged deep inside, my cock pulsed against her convulsions, spitting and spurting for longer than ever. As she relaxed her grip on my arms, letting her legs fall from my back, I started up thrusting again. My cock remained rock hard and began twitching once more. Penelope's genitals, still highly sensitive, slowly rejoined the onslaught. It was only, probably, a few moments, yet Penelope's response rapidly became convulsive as she tensed against me, eyes rolling back, and screamed pathetically like a wounded beast.
The apex having been met, we slowly crumpled until we lay – me pressing her onto the couch, her enduring limply – mutually exhausted. "Holy shit!" I muttered a few times. I couldn't quite think of anything else to say. Penelope just lay inert under me, but the hint of a satisfied smile crept onto her lips and settled there.


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From time to time, I have presented you with some of the Labor Market Information (LMI) that helps the Workforce Investment Board reach decisions about training and other workforce development interventions. Recently, I received a Regional LMI Profile for the Cape and Islands. It includes data through March 30 , which is very current for labor market information.
One of the groups that we work extensively with is the unemployed population in our region. The Summary of Trends section of the Profile contains the following summary of unemployment claimants:
A total of 2,875 individuals were continuing to collect Unemployment Insurance (UI) in the Cape and Islands Workforce Area during November 2005, with just 17.5 percent collecting for at least 15 weeks. The percentage collecting for 15-plus weeks on the Cape and Islands was about half the state average of 34.2 percent.
The share of UI Claimants on the Cape and Islands who earned less than $500/week on their previous job was 37.3 percent as compared to 32.2 percent for Massachusetts as a whole. By contrast, 19 percent of Cape and Island claimants had weekly wages in excess of $1,000/week, as opposed to nearly 26 percent across the entire Commonwealth.
With regard to age, 54.1 percent of Cape and Island claimants were 45 years or older, which was significantly above the statewide share of 43%. In fact, the Cape and Islands had the second highest proportion of UI claimants who were 45-plus, trailing only the Metro South/West Workforce Area (54.6 percent).
Less than 6 percent of the Cape and Islands claimant population were high school dropouts, which was substantially below the statewide share of 11.5 percent. Conversely, 28.4 percent of the Cape and Islands claimants possessed at least a bachelor's degree as compared to 24.2 percent for the state as a whole.
The largest occupational category, Food Preparation and Serving, represented more that 1 in 5 UI Claimants (20.9 percent). In addition, Office and Administrative Support (10.8 percent), Management (10.5 percent) and Sales (10.4 percent), were all large contributors to the claimant population. Collectively, these four occupational categories accounted for more than half (52.6 percent) of the Cape and Island claimants.
From an industry perspective, Accommodation and Food Services was by far the largest source of UI Claims, responsible for 1 in 3 claims on the Cape and Islands. Retail Trade was the second largest industry group at 12.4 percent. The high concentration of claimants in these two industry groups (46.2 percent) reflects the dominant economic and seasonal influence of tourism on employment and claims activity on the Cape and Islands.
Another area of activity that is summarized in the Profile is the Labor Force and Unemployment.
Between the fourth quarters of 2004 and 2005, the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate on the Cape and Islands increased from 4.1 to 4.5 percent. A total of 6,109 Cape and Island residents were unemployed in fourth quarter 2005. During this same period, the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate in Massachusetts increased from 4.3 to 4.4 percent.
Consistent with a small increase in the unemployment rate, the number of employed persons on the Cape and Islands fell by 523 ( minus 0.4 percent) to a 2005 fourth quarter level of 129,792. Between the fourth quarters of 2004 and 2005, the number of employed persons in Massachusetts declined by 2,713 or less than 0.1 percent.
Slow labor force growth continues to characterize both Massachusetts and the 16 Workforce Regions. During the period under review, the Massachusetts labor force increased by less than 0.1 percent (2,348), while the Cape and Islands labor force actually fell by nine residents.
Some of the other data that are summarized include Employment by Firm Size, Industry Employment and Wage Trends, Population Estimates 2000-2004, and Journey to Work information. The Profile includes 31 charts and graphs that present the raw data.
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JAMES Gonzales' tribute to the Tunku on the 110th anniversary of his birthday on Feb 8, "The Tunku's legacy" (The Star, Feb 15), is remarkable.
Permit me to add the lesser known contribution of the great leader.
As in his struggle for freedom from imperialism, the Tunku was committed to defend to the hilt human rights principles at all levels.
The brutal policy of apartheid enforced by the South African government for 12 years came to a head in mid-March 1960 with the Sharpeville massacre.
The police killing of 69 black protesters led to international condemnation.
Tunku was one of the world leaders to protest against the brutality.
He immediately sent a telegram to the then British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to include apartheid on the agenda for the Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers to be held in May 1960.
The South African Prime Minister Dr Verwoerd avoided the con- ference, perhaps due to hostile criticism from many member countries. He sent his Minister for External Affairs Mr Louw to face the music.
It is relevant to note that Malaya was a new member and that conference was the first since our country gained independence.
So it was the first conference Tunku attended.
The sad part is that the conference had no constitution or written rules.
There was, however, a general understanding that members do not interfere in the domestic policies of other members.
So the matter was discussed informally by prime ministers with Louw. The Tunku took the bull by the horn.
Although the Tunku's efforts did not yield the desired results, his courage in pursuing the issue boldly must be appreciated.
Apart from apartheid, the con-ference discussed a wide variety of important subjects including Malaya's proposal for technical assistance which was well received.
At the final press conference, the Commonwealth Relations Secretary, Lord Home, said that non-Asian members appreciated very much the opportunity the conference gave them to benefit from the wisdom and experience of such eminent statesmen as Nehru and Tunku Abdul Rahman.
The Tunku's outstanding statesmanship and diplomacy must have earned him this honour.
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The deadline for submitting a design for the murals is Monday at 4 p.m. Details are available at the airport's administration office or from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod's Web site, www.artsfoundation.org.
Submissions will be judged by Clare O'Connor, director of workforce development for the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce; Lisa Hergenrother, executive director of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod; and John Griffin, vice chairman of the Barnstable Municipal Airport Commission.
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I'm also taking part in the kid's clothes week challenge from September 20-26. Despite our fall becoming a crazy mess over the next several weeks, including my triumphant return to teaching here in a few weeks, I am going to make progress on sewing through my fabric stash! My darling husband said to me last week "You sure have a lot of fabric. I don't know what you do with it all, but I'm glad it makes you happy!".
Also, in honor of national sewing month, I shall remove my sewing machine and serger from the dining room table (you're welcome, honey - I know you want the dining room back!) and transform our windowless basement bedroom into my sewing room. I've already started moving the massive piles of clothes that have accumulated in that abandoned room to their proper place - either the laundry room or the Goodwill pile. I'm hoping to donate at least 5 bags of clothes to our local Goodwill this month.


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I use Centos 6.3 and Firefox. I used to install the plugin, it loaded well, then I tried to enter the game. The game loads and works fine, I guess. When I press mouse-button, I hear shots, I can change weapons, move, jump and so on. The only issue is - the screen is black. I can't see anything.
FLASH-Player is installed and works well. The plugin downloaded all data for the game. What else I could check, considering Linux environment?
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Steel H-piles
have been widely used because of their ease of handling and driving. A
wide range of pile sizes is available, with different grades of steel.
The maximum allowable axial load is about 3 000 kN.
to concrete piles, they generally have better driving characteristics
and can be installed to great depths. H-piles can be susceptible to deflection
upon striking boulders, obstructions or an inclined rock surface. In areas
underlain by very dense cohesive soil layers, heavy section H-piles with
appropriate tip strengthening are commonly used to penetrate and to withstand
hard driving.
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areas or adjacent to structures where heave of the surrounding ground
may cause problems. When large pile groups are to be driven at close spacing
in granular soils, compaction may increase the driving resistance. Steel
H-piles can be driving in large groups without the need of predrilling
(a method commonly used for concrete piles) thereby also reducing the
risk of excessive vibrations, which might cause settlement of adjacent
buildings founded on sand.
H-piles may
be strengthened by welding stiffening plates on to the pile toe, which
facilitates punching through thin layers of rock or boulders.
A disadvantage
of the H-section pile is the tendency to bend on the weak axis during
driving. Thus if piles are driven to a large depths, a considerable curvature
may result.
The low resistance
to penetration of the H-section pile in loose sandy soils may be a disadvantage
in circumstances where high shaft friction and end bearing resistance
is required at an economical depth of penetration. Since little compaction
of the sand is achieved around and beneath an H-section pile, the shaft
friction can be relatively low: In such a case the pile may not achieve
satisfactory resistance and may need to be driven to a dense sand stratum
or other resistant layers.
A plug of
clay, similar to that of the tube pile, may
be formed within the flanges of H-section piles. For assessment of bearing
capacity, it is important to check by calculation or load testing that
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the flanges of the H-section pile. In the case of dense granular soils,
which has been disturbed during pile driving, the skin friction (which
can be mobilised on the interior of hollow piles or within H-section pile
flanges) may not be sufficient to achieve the required shaft resistance,
or base resistance (plug at the pile toe). Therefore, the base resistance
of tube or box piles and H-section piles in granular soils or rocks is
often calculated using only the net cross-sectional area of the steel.
In granular soils the skin friction on hollow piles or H-section piles
can be calculated along the entire steel surface, provided that this can
be verified by measuring the length of soil plug after driving. The assumed
internal skin friction must not exceed the plug weight where uplift loads
need to be resisted.
Special types
of steel H-section piles can be manufactured, which are welded or coupled
together to increase their end bearing area or resistance to lateral loads.
"Wing piles" consist of short lengths of steel H-section welded to the
bottom of standard H-section piles. These "winged piles" are specifically
designed to give a high-end resistance for a limited penetration into
a bearing stratum of sand. However, the increase in pile resistance may
not be in direct proportion to the increase in base area because of the
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Kumari Puja marks Maha Ashtami in Bengal
Pre-pubescent girls were worshipped as goddesses across West Bengal Saturday. Devotees gathered at Belur Math, the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission near here for Maha Ashtami celebrations, part of Durga Puja festivities.
The ritual of Kumari puja, a significant part of Maha Ashtami worship, was started in 1901 by the founder of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission (RMRM), Swami Vivekananda.
An unmarried girl between one to sixteen years in age, who has not yet reached puberty and is bereft of desire, worldly pleasures and anger, is selected for the ritual that highlights the importance of women.
West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan too was part of the large gathering at Belur Math in Howrah district, about 10 km from the state capital. The large gathering of devotees from across the world watched in awe as monks carried out the ritual.
Depending on their age, the girls are worshipped in the various forms of the goddess.
Seven-year-old Kankana Chakrabarty was chosen as the Kumari Saturday and worshipped in the "Malini" form of the goddess.
At break of dawn, the Kumari was bathed in Ganga water, draped in a red sari, adorned with flowers and jewellery, with a "sindur (vermillion) tilak" applied on her forehead.
The young Kumari fasts the whole day until the puja is over. She is made to sit before the goddess's idol on a decorated chair with priests chanting hymns and dhak (traditional drum) being played in the background.
According to religious belief, after the puja, the divinity of the goddess descends into the Kumari.
Kumari puja was also conducted at many other community pandals and traditional households across the state where Durga puja is organised.
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May 26, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 35 • By ELI LEHRER
About half way through its 12th season, South Park (Comedy Central, Wednesdays, 10 P.M. ET) has attacked, to take just the first five letters of the alphabet, AIDS research, Britney Spears, Canadians, drug-related social panics, and Eliot Spitzer. Indeed, it's difficult to find an interest group, ideology, or big name celebrity the show hasn't yet managed to mock.
South Park, of course, is an animated show about the often absurd adventures of four foul-mouthed fourth-graders--they aged in the fourth season but not since--living in the town of South Park, Colorado. Most stories revolve around antihero Eric Cartman, an enormously fat, scheming, and bigoted nine-year-old who counts Hitler as his hero and hippies as his primary enemies. Crudely animated--two shorts and the show's initial pilot were created with paper cutouts, and today's computer-animated version retains the same look--South Park's uniquely stylized visual vocabulary gives it enormous freedom to offend. Past episodes have included "on camera" depictions of cannibalism, defecation, misshapen breasts that hang down to an unfortunate woman's waist, and a nebbishy version of Jesus.
At least two books of academic essays, a full-length cultural study (Toni Johnson-Woods's Blame Canada), and a perceptive book of media criticism (Brian Anderson's South Park Conservatives) have dealt with the show at length. So far, indeed, extended essays have compared it to everything from Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal (convincing) to medieval carnival traditions (a stretch). But its real roots may go even deeper. In fact, more than any other piece of modern pop culture, South Park may borrow and even revive the forms, ideals, and purpose of the ancient Greek comic theater. At once, South Park manages to combine social relevance with absolutely absurd humor and does so, in part, through its enormously stylized presentation of the world.
Aristophanes' The Frogs--recently issued in a new, funny, energetic, easy-to-read translation from Canadian academic Ian Johnston (Richer Resources, 108 pp., $9.95)--offers as good a point of departure as any.
First performed at a festival dedicated to the god Dionysus in 405 B.C., it tells the story of a foolish Dionysus as he journeys to the underworld with his smarter-than-he-is slave Xanthias. The two go to seek better authors of Greek tragedy because (Dionysus says) the more recent playwrights haven't reached the levels of older ones. The two have a number of adventures, including an encounter with the legendary strongman Hercules, a trip across the River Styx that involves a croaking contest between Dionysus and an enormous number of frogs--hence the title--and finally, a long, slightly tedious in-joke-laden contest between the great tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides that was funnier to Greeks than to any modern audience. (Aeschylus wins.)
Although probably Aristophanes' best play--it pulls off the task of being very funny while making intellectually interesting points about the nature of artistic creation and cultural change --The Frogs is not his funniest. That honor goes to the infamous story of an all-female multinational antiwar sex strike he recounts in Lysistrata (a play that, in Jeffrey Henderson's popular translation, averages one penis joke per page while conveying a profound antiwar message).
When it comes to these Greek dramas, perfectly good translations like Johnston's and Henderson's--and, for that matter, the best modern performances--deliver a far different experience than Greeks would have enjoyed. Critic Toby Lester has remarked that today's experience of any Greek play or poem is equivalent to watching a "play" by Richard Wagner or reading "poetry" by Stephen Sondheim (himself the creator of a musical based on The Frogs). In other words, simply reading the plays or watching them in modern performance gives viewers only part of the South Park-like experience the Athenians would have enjoyed.
Performed in front of free-male-only audiences, Athenian plays served public and private purposes simultaneously. For Athenian citizens, and some privileged Greek foreigners living in Athens, attendance at the theater--a public amenity sponsored by the wealthy--represented a key opportunity for alcohol-lubricated social bonding in public. On the other hand, the experience remained disassociated from daily life: All-male casts invariably wore masks and long robes to hide their body shapes and, when they played male roles, strap-on phalluses. Performances focused on annunciation, choral accompaniment, and occasional visual spectacles rather than any semblance of genuine, deep emotion. Plays brought people together in social settings but, at the same time, offered a spectacle that contained social criticism by means of disconnection from ordinary experience.


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Last Thursday, a friend handed me six tickets to the Michael Franti concert in SLC last Sunday. Whaaaat? People are so good.
We tossed sparkling water and cocoa-almonds into a Whole Foods bag and laid ourselves on the grassy knoll of Red Butte Gardens. The older kids were whining, they didn't want to be there. The younger ones were willing. But, waiting for the concert to begin felt to them…infernally long. I was holding out hope that the evening would get better, but it wasn't looking good.
And then, Franti took the stage. Started singing "and that's the sound of sunshine coming dowwwwn…"
Woes melted. Teenagers stood and jumped to the beat, arms up, heads back, laughter as they sang. In seconds, the songs ingnited all sorts of feel-good feelings. And I remembered how worth it those moments of dragging and drudgery are if you can just….wait them out. Hang on. Hang in. Hold tight.
To thank our ticket benefactor, we decided to pull together one of our favorite gifts, highlighting the lyrics of our favorite song from the concert. Don't you prefer a personalized something to give over the standard bottle of wine or berry-scented candle? Yeah, me too.
I've made these gorgeously simple little canvasses for all sorts of occasions, and in all shapes and sizes. They're absurdly simple and so fun to share.
Start with a packet of letters. Wooden letters with a bit of weight or sticker letters work best. You want to make sure the letters stay in place to get a proper look once you paint.
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Once your letters have been stuck, toss your canvas on a plastic tarp (or straight on the grass outside if your 10-year-old has been employed for afternoon cutting), then spray paint. Layer colors or spray paint with a single color. I prefer semi-gloss or matte finish paints to get a nice, even look. Spraying in the heat of the summer sun makes this project faster than ever, you can paint and dry in a matter of minutes when drying under direct sun.
Once finished, gently peel your letters off. Wrap and gift, or hang and enjoy.
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Sri Lanka was recently named the best-value destination in the Post Office's Long Haul Report, and with British Airways launching a new route to Colombo in 2013, there could hardly be a better time to go. So we were pleased to spot this deal for a week on the beach next June, including daily breakfast and direct flights, for £699 per person -- a £230 saving on the original price.
The 4-star Eden Resort & Spa offers direct access to Beruwala's "golden mile" of beach on the island's tropical southwest coast. There is an outdoor pool, two bars and restaurants serving Sri Lankan, Indian and western food. Eden rooms have wooden floors and a private balcony overlooking the gardens. There's also a spa specialising Ayurvedic treatments and body wraps (additional charges apply).
This offer is valid for departures from London Gatwick on 5, 12, 19, 26 June, 2013 and is part of a wider Indian Ocean sale.
Beruwala is about two hours' drive from Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport. Transfers are not included, but can be added for £72.86 per person, return.
Nearby attractions include the Kosgoda Sea Turtle Conservation Project, the traditional Buddhist temple at Kalutara and the Sinharaja Forest Reserve, a wildlife-rich national park that is home to leopards, monkeys and elephants. You are also less than an hour's drive from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Galle -- a city that Lonely Planet calls "a living time capsule" and home to a 300-year-old Dutch fort.
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As soon as Mother Nature started to melt snow in this Northern part of Europe, a joint effort to build a World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Pavilion began. The wooden pavilion will be constructed mainly of UPM materials.The Pavilion will be located at an empty lot between Design Museum and Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki. It will be open from May until September.
"Pavilion will be opened here". Construction period lasts only few weeks and started around mid-March. For the construction workers, first tasks were to clean the lot from snow and place the under construction. There are many unique joints and details in the Pavilion. This provides an additional, but interesting, challenge for the workers in addition to the construction schedule.Prefabrication of the wooden elements has started already in February. The main modules for the Pavilion will be manufactured at STARA's facilities.We at UPM strongly believe that sustainable buildings and structures of the future are made of wood. The Pavilion will become a landmark of our ecobuilding expertise. The main raw materials are Finnish pine and spruce.These pictures are taken in the beginning of April:
Contemporary building design is a joint effort between Aalto University, the Design Museum, the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 foundation and UPM showcasing how creative collaborations can turn new products made of recycled raw materials into world-class design.These pictures have been taken during by mid-April:
We launched design-spirited Facebook pages in March. This, the very first UPM corporate level Facebook account concentrates this year to design issues, as UPM is one of the main corporate partners for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.Right from the front page you will have a summary of our versatile references and products from different business areas. Special interest will be on the WDC Helsinki 2012 Pavilion and other design related actions.Please follow www.facebook.com/UPMGlobal, share & like our Facebook pages!UPM & Design press kit available at: www.upm.com/EN/MEDIA/Press-kits
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Window Screens Let the Breeze In and Keep the Bugs Out
The warm weather is upon us and we have the opportunity to air out the house. We can raise the windows and let the cool breezes blow through. Hopefully, you have window screens to keep those testy flies out.
Use Adjustable or Snap-In Screens
I bought an older home and somewhere along the way, the screens went bye-bye. The windows are an awkward size, but I was able to find adjustable screens to fit the windows.
If you have standard size windows, you should be able to find snap in screens to fit them. When purchasing new windows, ensure they include the screens. You'd be surprised that some windows don't have screens included in the price. Open up your windows to let the breeze blow through and let the screens keep those pesky bugs outside where they belong.
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I thought it was snowing yesterday. Hey, snow in May has happened before, right? I kept catching glimpses of white fluttering past the window, but then when I stopped to look, I didn't see anything else. Finally, as I looked through other windows, I caught a glimpse of our cherry blossom tree, which has just hit full bloom. That's when I realized that all the white flutters were actually cherry blossoms fluttering over the roof and past the window. It was beautiful.
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LISBON – The Town Council voted to table discussion regarding limiting the power of the Planning Board due to the absence of Code Enforcement Officer Christopher Sherwin at Wednesdays meeting.
He had been asked at last months meeting to compile a proposal to limit the mandate of the Planning Board by taking away its review of residential building permits and removing dimensional requirements for site plan applications.
Planning Board Secretary Patrick M. Madlin, addressing the Town Council, said he felt the Town Council was unfairly targeting the Planning Board.
Town Supervisor James W. Armstrong said he feels like the Planning Board is doing its job by ensuring potentially uninformed property buyers are aware of their purchases.
The Planning Board protects these people, he said, adding later that the Town Board does not have any animosity towards the Planning Board.
Council member and Planning Board liaison Susan M. Duffy said she doesnt think the town should be governing common sense. She believes many of the duties currently handled by the Planning Board would be better off in the hands of the Code Enforcement Officer.
Mr. Madlin believes Ms. Duffy has it out for the Planning Board after they initially denied her site plan for a gas dock along the St. Lawrence River. The gas dock was finally approved after she hired an attorney.
Ms. Duffy agreed that was the impetus for her to run for the Town Council. Ms. Duffy owns the Off the Hook Bed and Breakfast and sells gasoline on the river.
After one of the votes [rejecting her site plan] she told me that she would not forget that I did not vote in favor of the gas dock. She has used her position on the Town Board to pursue a personal vendetta against the Planning Board and to promote her own interests, said Mr. Madlin. Most disturbingly, was the swift action of this board to condemn the Planning Board based on the beliefs of Ms. Duffy.
Mr. Madlin also questioned public statements made by Ms. Duffy that alleged cronyism on the Planning Board.
In September, Ms. Duffy said Mr. Madlin was able to build a new house even though his property is less than the required one acre. Town law stipulates that property must be at least one acre before new building may commence.
Ms. Duffy unfortunately is ignorant of the fact that lots that existed prior to 1989 are grandfathered in. We did not build on the same footprint, nor were we required too, said Mr. Madlin.
Ms. Duffy had raised concerns over the building taking place at Mr. Madlins property after a site plan application submitted by Ronald L. Bush was tabled. Mr. Bushs property had been empty for roughly six years and was technically too small to build a mobile home on, as he intended.
In the end, the Planning Board did not grant Mr. Bush a variance, but tabled the application meaning that it was automatically approved after a period of 62 days. That time has nearly elapsed.
Mr. Madlin called on Ms. Duffy to be removed as liaison to the Planning Board. She has proven to be a saboteur and is nothing more than a petty distraction to the work completed by the Planning Board.
Mr. Madlin said that Planning Board member Glenn R. Harris has resigned following the spat between the Town Council and the Planning Board. That position will need to be filled by a Town Council appointment.
Mr. Madlin also said he is unsure of his future on the board.
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Ducks not surprised by late-season turnaround
Mike Moser had a reminder for people surprised by Oregon's late-season success.
"I don't even know if people remember, but we started the season off 13-0," Oregon's senior forward said after Oregon's 85-78 win over Arizona State Tuesday night at Matthew Knight Arena. "We are a team that's capable of this, it's not really a surprise to us. We were just wondering when it was going to happen. We got in a drought, kind of got stuck there and kept chipping away. We'd lose by two and three points, all close games. Finally, we kind of turned it around and its funny people are still surprised."
Oregon's regular season has been defined by three separate stages: A 13-0 start followed by eight losses in 10 games and now the Ducks have won six straight games heading into the finale Saturday at 1 p.m. against third-ranked Arizona.
"I knew we were capable of it," Oregon coach Dana Altman said. "During the losing streak, we were on the road a lot, so I knew the schedule was going to flip in our favor. We had to take care of business and play better, but I knew we had the talent. I knew the guys were staying together, there wasn't any panic. They weren't jumping ship on us, so I knew we had a chance. We had to focus and take care of business and get better as a team if we were going to do it."
While not surprised, Altman pointed out that bouncing back from a mid-season slump is a tough task.
"A lot of teams would have folded at 3-8," he said "We had just lost three games by two points, but we had great leadership and the guys in the locker room did a great job staying together. They kept pushing each other and that is a testament to their character. I said all along that they are good guys and they have shown it. To fight back from 3-8, I don't know if a lot of teams would have done that."
Junior guard Joseph Young gave Altman much of the credit for keeping the team together during a tough stretch.
"We are overcoming adversity," he said. "It all started when we lost the first couple games and we never gave up. Coach kept us in there, kept us working hard and we proceeded onto the season."
Sophomore guard Damyean Dotson said the Ducks never changed their demeanor as their season took various turns.
"I really believe we stayed the same," Dotson said. "When we were losing, people were kind of down, but it was the same energy and everything. We picked it up in practice, but the locker room was the same. Now it is towards the end of the year and we are trying to do something big."
Moser said the Ducks are better than they were during their 13-game winning streak when those rose as high as No. 10 in the Associated Press poll.
"I would say we are definitely better," he said. "Our chemistry is better, obviously we have been playing together for almost a year now. Our defensive chemistry is getting better so I'd say we are a better team than we were in November."
That was the goal that Altman talked about from the beginning of the season.
"We still have a lot of work to do, but it is March and you have to play your best in March," Dotson said. "We have to keep working in practice and do what we have to do to focus in on teams that we have to play and we will be fine."
Oregon lost to Washington, Oregon State, UCLA and Arizona State during the first half of conference play, but won rematches against each of those teams during their current winning streak.
"We're getting better," Altman said. "I still don't think we are hitting on all cylinders. There is a lot more we can grow into, but we don't have a lot of time to do it."
Oregon has improved to 9-8 in the Pac-12 Conference and moved into a tie for sixth place. At 21-8 overall, Oregon is in most NCAA Tournament projections and can likely lock up a berth with a win over Arizona on Saturday.
"We're trying to play like every game is an NCAA game right now," Moser said. "That heightens the value to it. Saturday will be the same and next week will be the same. We want to keep playing as if we are not in the tourney, like we are still fighting to get in."
Oregon had its first day off in more than a week Thursday following a stretch of three games in six days, including a double-overtime win over UCLA. The Ducks will have three days off before facing Arizona (28-2, 15-2), which played at Oregon State on Wednesday night.
"This time of year, you forget about this one and move on to the next one and try to get as focused as you can," Altman said. "We don't want to overwork them, we won't be in the gym a long time Thursday or Friday. We want to be intense and be sharp and get ready for a really big game."
Moser said it is not the physical pounding that wears on teams at the end of the regular season.
"We need to get rest, but right now at this point of the season, it is all mental," he said. "We've got to come to play."
Steve Mims covers Oregon football, men's basketball and baseball for The Register-Guard. He has been a sportswriter at the paper since 1999 and covered high school sports while also reporting on Oregon football in the Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl as well as men's basketball during their Elite 8 run in 2007 and trip to the Sweet 16 in 2013.


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Some family members of Sept. 11 attack victims are speaking out against new airport security rules that permit small knives on planes.
The Transportation Security Administration announced Tuesday that people will be allowed to carry folding knives with blades 2.36 inches or less onto planes.
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"A rock opera is a work of rock music that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections in the manner of opera. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are not unified by a common theme or narrative. More recent developments include metal opera and rap opera (sometimes also called hip-hopera). A rock opera tells a coherent story, and may involve songs performed as if sung by separate characters in a drama, as in classical opera."
Imagine a version of Cinderella where the setting is 1964, the ball is prom, the dance moves are the Twist and the Mashed Potato ("It's the latest/It's the greatest"), and Cinderella goes by "Cindy." Choreographers Donna Marisa and Hannah Bontrager have. The mother-daughter team directs the Eugene-based contemporary ballet company Ballet Fantastique, and will bring their critically acclaimed Cinderella: A Rock Opera Ballet to the Lincoln Performance Hall Sunday, August 5 at 4 pm. The all-original production recently sold out its run at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts and earned consecutive standing ovations.
Shelley and Cal James (of the famed Satin Love Orchestra) join the dancers live on stage with their Agents of Unity Band performing the show's soundtrack: fourteen hits from the early 60's, including "You Don't Own Me," "And Then He Kissed Me," "Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry," and "Wild Thing." Shelley created all-new arrangements of each of the songs per the Bontragers' choreographic needs and the subtly adapted storyline.
Highlights of the two-act ballet include: Stepsisters "Dris" and "Stasia" harass Cindy in "Big Girls Don't Cry," which opens Act I; the Sunnydale Fairy Godmother tells Prince Charming "You Can't Hurry Love," and the stepsisters dream of the ball in their nighties to "Mr. Sandman." In Act II, Cindy enters to the Beatles' "Saw Her Standing There," the clock strikes twelve to "Save the Last Dance for Me," and when Prince Charming shows up with Cindy's missing pointe shoe, we hear "My Boyfriend's Back." For each of the show's fourteen scenes, the Bontragers created choreography referencing authentic movement from the period, while still challenging the Ballet Fantastique company dancers' classical technique and virtuosity.
Ballet Fantastique, a contemporary chamber company comprised of seven professional dancers from across the US, has made a name for itself in these kinds of out-of-the-box revisions of classic story ballets. Ballet Fantastique's other original repertoire includes a raucous Wild West ballet version of Shakespeare's As You Like It; Love at the Café Terrace, a 25-minute ballet dramatizing Vincent Van Gogh's "Night at the Café Terrace" painting; and the sell-out Arabian Nights, a full-length original ballet dramatizing seven ancient tales from the 1,001 Nights, each with a compelling, nuanced female protagonist.
Collaborating with live musicians is another Ballet Fantastique signature, and the idea for the "rock opera" version of Cinderella came when the Bontragers decided to produce a collaboration with Shelley and Cal James that wasn't what Hannah calls "just another mixed-repertory show…We wanted to take the standard ballet company/live music collaboration up a notch."
"We have been honored to work with Shelley and Cal on this challenging artistic endeavor. They're world-class musicians and such fun to collaborate with," says Donna. Shelley adds, "As musicians and songwriters, we strive to put a unique spin on any cover songs we arrange, so it's been a perfect match to be working with Ballet Fantastique for this creative twist on the Cinderella classic."
Shelley and Cal's Agents of Unity Band includes: Joe Weber (lead electric guitars), Rica Wright Weber (background vocals/percussion), Tom Teutsch (rhythm/backing guitars), Jason Palmer (drums), Shelley James (lead vocals/acoustic guitar), Cal James (bass guitar/background vocals), and Jennifer Scurlock (background vocals).
Ballet Fantastique was founded in 2000. The company has performed throughout the Northwest, and will tour its As You Like It: A Wild West Ballet to San Benedetto, Italy, in July 2013. Cinderella: A Rock Opera Ballet will be Ballet Fantastique's first performance in Portland. The ballet is appropriate for all ages; run time is 90 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission
Friday, August 3 at 7 pm: Florence Events Center
Sunday, August 5 at 4 pm: Lincoln Performance Hall, PSU campus, downtown Portland
Ballet Fantastique's 2012-2013 season:
October 22-23: Cirque de la Lune (with Mood Area 52, Betty & the Boy, and Troupe Carnivale LIVE)
Feb. 2-3, 2012: The Misadventures of Casanova (with guest Russian choreographer Dina Fadayeva)
May 4-5, 2013: Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen's classic tale set in the French Quarter of New Orleans with Gerry Rempel Jazz Syndicate LIVE)
Summer 2013: The company tours As You Like It: A Wild West Ballet to Italy
Mission Statement: Ballet Fantastique, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, keeps classical ballet vibrantly alive in our city through unique, community-centered, world-class training, educational, and performance experiences for young artists, audiences, and professionals.


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Sean Holley calls for improvement
Sean Holley has urged his players to be more threatening after watching Bristol Rugby slip to an opening day defeat to Cornish Pirates.
"We lacked a bit of cutting edge and there is plenty to work on"
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Bristol could have earned a draw, only for Adrian Jarvis to see his last-gasp conversion attempt sail wide.
But the First Team Coach believes the players need to improve as the Greene King IPA Championship season progresses.
"I thought it was a disappointing spectacle for the Championship," Holley told bristolrugby.co.uk. "The error count was high, the conditions were poor and every team that plays us is coming for a cup final.
"We need to be ready for that and I don't think we were on Sunday – I'm disappointed with the performance. We weren't good enough and that's a true reflection of where we are right now.
"We didn't deserve to lose the game, but we certainly didn't deserve to win it either. The players have to start believing – we looked a little timid and we have to give them confidence to be more threatening.
"I'm expecting more dominance from our players and we need to be putting sides away. We scored at the death, but it was too little, too late.
"We need to set our stall up and change the mindset of our players. Be more relentless, going for teams, being fitter than the opposition and being tenacious.
"We lacked a bit of cutting edge and there is plenty to work on – we need to be better than this."


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The purpose of this study is to test in a randomized clinical trial (N=300) a series of hypotheses concerning the efficacy of an extended expert-system intervention plus nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for treating tobacco dependence among patients hospitalized on a smoke-free psychiatric unit. It is hypothesized that the intervention will be more effective than the enhanced standard care control condition (on-unit NRT with self-help brochure) in producing biochemically verified abstinence from cigarettes at 3-, 6-, 12-, and 18-months follow up. Additionally, intervention participants will exhibit greater stage progression, commitment to abstinence, and delay in relapse to smoking following hospital discharge, factors predictive of future success with quitting smoking. Smoking cessation treatments have been shown to be highly cost-effective with the general population of smokers, and cost is likely to be a consideration in efforts to incorporate additional services into an inpatient psychiatric setting. Therefore, a secondary specific aim is to model the cost-effectiveness of the smoking cessation intervention. Intervention efficacy will be examined in a university-based psychiatric inpatient unit. A smaller pilot study (N=48) will examine translation of the intervention to a county hospital serving a more diversified patient population.
Tobacco Use Cessation
Tobacco Use Disorder
Behavioral: Tobacco Use Cessation
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Treating Tobacco Dependence in Inpatient Psychiatry
- 7 day point prevalence of cigarette abstinence [ Time Frame: 1 week, 3 mo, 6 mo, 12 mo, and 18 mo post-baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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|Study Start Date:
|July 2006
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|April 2011
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|April 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Behavioral: Tobacco Use Cessation
This intervention consists of nicotine patch therapy during hospitalization; a stage-based self-help manual; an individualized, expert-system, feedback report at intake, 3 months and 6 months post-hospitalization with carbon copies sent to participants' outpatient clinicians; and an individual 30-min smoking cessation counseling sessions during hospitalization. Additionally, up to 10 weeks of nicotine patch is provided to intervention participants intending to stay quit following hospital discharge.
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Inclusion Criteria:
Men and women over 18 years of age hospitalized on an inpatient psychiatric unit who report smoking at least 5 cigarettes per day. Other inclusion criteria include: smoking at least 100 cigarettes in one's lifetime, residing in the San Francisco Bay Area with no plan to relocate outside of the area in the next 18 months, and access to a telephone for scheduling follow up assessments.
Exclusion Criteria:
Dementia or other brain injury precluding ability to participate; non-English speaking; severe agitation, psychosis, or hostility; and medical contraindications to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Recruitment of acutely psychotic, manic, or hostile patients will be delayed until there is significant reduction of these symptoms. Medical contraindications are: myocardial infarction in the preceding 3 months, unstable angina pectoris, liver or kidney disease, current pregnancy or breast feeding, allergies to adhesives, or other medical conditions that the medical team deems incompatible with NRT use.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00136812
|United States, California
|Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
|Principal Investigator:
|Judith Prochaska
|University of California, San Francisco
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|Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH / Assistant Professor, UCSF
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|Study First Received:
|August 25, 2005
|Last Updated:
|April 25, 2011
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|United States: Federal Government
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Tobacco Use Disorder
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
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Molecular epidemiology and viral load of HCV in different regions of Punjab, Pakistan
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4 Ideal Laboratories, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Virology Journal 2014, 11:24 doi:10.1186/1743-422X-11-24Published: 10 February 2014
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is highly infectious pathogen which is responsible for causing Hepatitis around 200 million individuals worldwide. In Pakistan, 4.7% of HCV prevalence has been reported and HCV genotype 3a has been found to be the major source of infection in Pakistan but still there is lack of information on distribution of HCV genotypes and viral load in various geographical regions of Pakistan. Therefore, current study was designed to determine distribution of HCV genotypes as well viral load in different areas of Punjab province of Pakistan.
A total of 995 serum samples were taken from those individuals in which antibodies against HCV were detected through ELISA, from different regions of Punjab i.e. Lahore 317(31.85%), Faisalabad 70(7.03%), Gujranwala 129(12.96%), Gujrat 106(10.65%), Sialkot 94(9.44%), Sargodha 60(6.03%), Mandibaha-ud-din 135(13.56%), Jhang 86(8.64%). Qualitative PCR was performed to determine viral load and genotyping was performed using Nested PCR. Chi-square test was used to determine the age and sex-wise prevalence of HCV. Out of 995 samples, 888 samples were found positive for HCV RNA. In all regions, genotype 3a showed highest prevalence (82.81%) followed by genotype 1 (3.41%), mixed genotypes (2.41%), genotype 2 (0.50%), genotype 5 (0.1%) and unclassified genotypes (10.75%). Viral load in 29.5% patients infected with genotype 3a was less than 600,000 IU/mL, while it was between 600,000-800,000 IU/mL in 27.9% patients and 25.22% patients had more than 800,000 IU/mL viral load.
HCV genotype 3a is the most prevalent genotype in various regions of Punjab. Viral load of HCV patients in these different regions of Punjab are reported for the first time. Moreover, based upon these results the Patients having viral load below 800,000 IU/mL would be expected to show better response of anti-HCV therapy.


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