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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Orphan Drug Development: Insights from the US and the EU Biopharmaceutical Industry
In recent years, the biopharmaceutical industry has seen an increase in the development of so-called orphan drugs for the treatment of rare and neglected diseases. This increase has been spurred on by legislation in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere designed to promote orphan drug development. In this article, we examine the drivers of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in orphan drug markets and the extent to which biopharmaceutical firms engage in these activities with a strategic orientation. The unique context of orphan drugs constitutes a research opportunity to test the applicability of existing theoretical perspectives on CSR and strategic CSR. Using Schwartz and Carroll's (Bus Ethics Q, 13(4):503–530, 2003 ) three-domain approach to CSR and the literature on strategic CSR as a theoretical background, we employ a combination of semi-structured interviews and a quantitative website content analysis to study practices of biopharmaceutical firms in the United States and European Union. Our findings show that both US- and EU-based companies engaged in orphan drugs development perceive their involvement as a responsible business activity beyond the economic dimension of CSR. However, for the majority of these companies their CSR activities do not qualify as strategic according to the criteria established in the literature. We also find significant differences between larger and smaller firms in their use of CSR. Based on these findings, we make several suggestions regarding orphan drug legislation and other measures that might help firms exploit strategic CSR benefits. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
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CLEVELAND — Jeff Teague scored a career-high 27 points and the Atlanta Hawks scored the game's final nine points to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 102-94 on Friday night.
Teague's jumper from the foul line gave the Hawks a 95-94 lead with 2:32 remaining to spark the late run and send Atlanta to its third consecutive win.
Kyrie Irving led Cleveland with 28 points, but the Cavaliers failed to score in the final 2:53 after taking a 94-93 lead.
Lou Williams scored 16 points for Atlanta, which is 8-4 on the road. Al Horford chipped in with 14 points and 11 rebounds.
Dion Waiters scored 18 points for Cleveland, which had its season-high two-game winning streak end.
Cavaliers center Anderson Varajeo, the league's leading rebounder, missed his fifth consecutive game with a bruised right knee. Guard Daniel Gibson left the game in the second quarter with a head injury and did not return.
Irving's drive gave Cleveland a 94-93 lead with 2:53 to play, but Teague's jumper gave Atlanta the lead for good. Horford followed with a jump shot for a three-point lead before Kyle Korver's 3-pointer stretched the lead to eight with 1:21 remaining.
Atlanta scored the game's first eight points and led by as many as 11 in the first half. The Cavaliers chipped away at the lead in the second quarter and Irving hit a running 30-footer to beat the halftime buzzer to cut Atlanta's lead to 55-54.
The basket seemed to spark the Cavaliers, who scored the first six points of the second half and raced to a 68-59 lead.
Atlanta used a 16-6 run to take a 75-74 lead. Cleveland led 80-75 going into the fourth quarter, but Atlanta went on another spurt to take an 83-82 lead on Teague's dunk following a steal.
C.J. Miles and Irving followed with 3-pointers to put Cleveland ahead 88-83, but Atlanta rallied again.
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Where in our Torah is God so forgiving? Whenever we did something wrong, God immediately punished us. I cannot recall one time where we did something wrong and God blindly forgave us. In Judaism, justice comes before forgiveness.
Blind forgiveness may be less beautiful and more betrayal. As Louis Jacobs put it, "Compassion is evil, when it is shown to people who are cruel and utterly lacking in compassion." There is no blind forgiveness and there is no third-party forgiveness either. The perpetrator needs to repent and ask forgiveness from his/her victim, before he/she can be considered for, or be entitled to, forgiveness.
Some crimes are unforgivable. Simon Wiesenthal, in his book entitled "The Sunflower," taught us that a dying member of the S.S. would never be able to ask his victims for forgiveness; therefore Wiesenthal could not grant the Nazi forgiveness. Wiesenthal did not have the moral or Jewish right to do so.
If we cannot forgive the unforgivable, then what can we do with our unresolved anger? Many of us have been wronged in the past and we no longer need to be just talking about Nazis. Friends, family, coworkers, people we trusted, people we loved — all may have wronged us. And now we won't, or we can't, forgive them.
What do we do with these unforgiven?
They may or may not have asked us for forgiveness, so how can we forgive them for such betrayal? Perhaps forgiveness is not for them, but for us. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, author of "When Bad Things Happen To Good People," writes, "Forgiving is not something we do for another person; forgiving happens inside us. It represents a letting go of the sense of grievance, and perhaps most importantly a letting go of the role of victim."
Yom Kippur and the High Holy Days are all about starting our year with a clean slate, not fixing the past, but fixing the future. We need to find a way to let go of our unresolved anger, not for them, but for us.
Gamar Chatima Tova. May you be sealed for a good year in the Book of Life.
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STEM for all in DIstrict 834
District 834 is hoping to bring its students into the 21st Century.
Starting next year the Stillwater Area School District will launch a full Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) initiative.
"We need to prepare our kids for the 21st Century," District 834 Superintendent Corey Lunn said. "We need students to have skills for the future."
The District 834 STEM curriculum will be available for all students - kindergarten through 12th grade - in a variety of formats.
Three-legged stool
The development of STEM curriculum for District 834 started more than a year ago when the district decided it wanted to look at innovative programming, Lunn said.
"STEM immediately came to the forefront," he said. "The challenge was how to implement the program with minimal or no additional resources."
Lunn said District 834's STEM program became a reality thanks to grants and donations from community partners.
"It's kind of a three-legged stool," he said.
The first "leg" was to generate funding to purchase the curriculum and implement the program, Lunn said.
District 834 received a major grant from the 3M Foundation, which will provide $126,675 to purchase new curriculum and materials at the elementary and secondary level.
The second "leg" was identifying how teachers can receive training to teach the STEM curriculum.
District 834 was able to enter into a partnership with St. Catherine University to provide training.
The Anderson Foundation will provide the funding for the training.
Lunn said the total will be $156,000 over three years.
The third "leg" was to purchase lab equipment to fully implement the STEM curriculum. District 834 was able to enter into a partnership with the Hubbard Foundation, which will provide a matching grant of up to $50,000 over a five year period.
"The community really became engaged in this exciting STEM initiative," Lunn said. "All our kids can have those experiences - I think that's what attracted the partners."
Developing the program
District 834 already began offering a few STEM courses this year, which incorporate hands-on learning that require students to solve real-world problems. Next year will expand greatly on those offerings, Lunn said.
Starting next school year, District 834 will begin offering STEM courses in both the elementary and secondary schools, grades 3 through 10.
"We're going to expand out on both ends as we move forward," Lunn said.
At the elementary level, Lunn said the district intends to use "engineering kits" to help educate students on some of the basic concepts of STEM such as circuits, machines and robotics.
At the secondary level, District 834's prime focus will be implementing Project Lead the Way programs.
Project Lead the Way is an advanced set of courses aimed at preparing high school students for college-level classes and careers in the STEM field.
At the junior high level, students will have access to the Gateway to Technology (GTT) program, which features a project-based curriculum designed to challenge and engage the natural curiosity and imagination of middle school students. They study mechanical and computer control systems - think robotics and animation. Students also explore the importance of energy, including innovative ways to reduce, conserve and produce it using solar, thermal and wind power.
At the high school level, District 834 is hoping to eventually offer both pathway to engineering and biomedical sciences through Project Lead the Way.
The pathway to engineering program includes classes on everything from introductory-level courses to aerospace engineering. Other programs that District 834 is hoping to offer include classes on automation and robotics.
The biomedical science program has students explore the concepts of human medicine and are introduced to topics such as physiology, genetics, microbiology and public health.
Not a perfect program
Even though the district will offer a nearly all-inclusive STEM program, it's still not perfect, Lunn said.
District 834 had previously sought $982,300 for STEM facilities during November's election, but the ballot question failed.
The district's facilities are lacking in terms of STEM, but that is something that will have to be reviewed at a later date when funding is available, Lunn said.
"We're severely lacking in the spaces; we're having science classes in spaces designed for English and social studies," he said. "It's not the best plan in terms of what our facilities can offer, but we're committed to developing this program."
Preparing students for the future
Lunn said the implementation of STEM curriculum in all District 834 schools will have countless benefits for students when it comes to preparing them for the future.
Specifically, Lunn said, the STEM curriculum will give students the real world skills that most companies are looking for their employees.
"STEM is one way to do that and that's why we've chosen it," he said. "We need to have experiences where they're applying those skills."
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Julia Fox Garrison had a promising executive career in the computer industry when she suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and paralyzing stroke. While recovering, Julia realized that she had a lot to say. There were lessons to share—about humor, inner strength, self-determination—all chronicled in her memoir, Don't Leave Me This Way: or when I get back on my feet you'll be sorry, published by HarperCollinsPublishers.
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Invisible Children Co-Founder, A co-founder of Invisible Children, the group behind the "KONY 2012" video on alleged atrocities by an African warlord, was detained after a witness reported a man masturbating and acting strangely, NBCSanDiego.com reported. Jason Russell was detained after a man was reported masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, said police Lt. Andra Brown, NBCSanDiego.com reported.
Russell is one of the founders responsible for the "KONY 2012″ video that went viral last week. He is described on the organization's website as a co-founder and "our grand storyteller and dreamer." Russell is also described as a Christian and father to two children who wants to have nine more children with his wife he calls his "best friend for over 23 years."
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High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and Tabata have become both popular and controversial. There are those that believe they are a silver bullet that will dramatically improve performance and others that believe that HIIT is more like snake oil. While these dramatic positions make for entertaining reading, the truth is rather more subtle. I've reviewed the scientific studies to come up with some recommendations based on particular fitness objectives. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/High_Intensity_Interval_Training
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Dolores Hope has been reunited in Heaven with her husband Bob Hope.
The 102-year-old died Monday morning, ET Online reports. Prior to her death, Dolores was a noted singer, philanthropist and mother of four.
The couple wed in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1934 and adopted several children together: Eleanora, Linda, Kelly and Anthony. (Anthony passed away in 2004 at the age of 63.)
The New York City native received many honors throughout her lifetime, including the President's Medal from Loyola College in Baltimore, the Elizabeth Seton Medal Award from Seton Hall College and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Norman Conquest of England of 1066 brought the Cillay family name to the British Isles. They lived in Devon. Ancient records reveal the name Cillay is derived from the Old English word saelig, meaning one who is happy and blessed.
Cillay Early Origins
Devon where they were granted lands by William the Conqueror for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. They were Lords of the manor of Rackenford, and were conjecturally descended from Jocelyn who held the lands at the time of the taking of the Domesday Book in 1086 A.D. from Baldwin, the Sheriff. The family may have originated in Cornwall as in "John Silly, gentleman of St. Wenn, altered his name from Ceely to Silly." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print. No dates were given with the previous quote.
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A multitude of spelling variations characterize Norman surnames. Many variations occurred because Old and Middle English lacked any definite spelling rules. The introduction of Norman French to England also had a pronounced effect, as did the court languages of Latin and French. Therefore, one person was often referred to by several different spellings in a single lifetime. The various spellings include Silley, Silly, Cele, Sully, Silliman and others.
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Many English families left England, to avoid the chaos of their homeland and migrated to the many British colonies abroad. Although the conditions on the ships were extremely cramped, and some travelers arrived diseased, starving, and destitute, once in the colonies, many of the families prospered and made valuable contributions to the cultures of what would become the United States and Canada. Research into the origins of individual families in North America has revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name Cillay or a variant listed above: Edward Silley settled in Virginia in 1635; Sarah Silley settled in Maryland in 1737; Hugh and John Silly settled in Barbados in 1660; Thomas Silly landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1877.
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Restaurant Revisited: Outside the Box at Coach Lamp Restaurant & Pubby Maria Russo in Shows, November 13th, 2013
"The place is clean, a little dark but nothing [like] what I'm used to. So I'm confused why I'm here," Robert Irvine told Bill and Gail Darling, the owners of Coach Lamp Restaurant & Pub in Louisville, Ky. In addition to a tidy space, Robert also found good-tasting food, but it turns out that is where many of the business' problems laid. The high-priced offerings on the menu — coupled with the too-formal ambiance that comes with white linen tablecloths — weren't attracting locals, despite their tendency to visit a neighborhood restaurant nearby. Thanks to Robert's tough-love approach, as well as his Restaurant: Impossible team's work in transforming the outdoor patio into a welcoming space, however, Coach Lamp relaunched as an inviting, comfortable restaurant. Read on below to hear from Bill and find out how his eatery is doing a few weeks after Robert left.
Since Coach Lamp has reopened, business has jumped nearly 30 percent, according to Bill. "The liquor, beer [and] wine sales are 40 percent of the food sales …. The money is in the bar goods," he says. "We are seeing more locals visiting."
One of the most-drastic changes to occur at the restaurant was the reimagined outdoor space, and this has proved to be a successful change. "Everyone wants to sit on the patio now," Bill says. And in terms of updates that were made in the dining room, Bill adds: "No one has complained about the lack of linens or cloth napkins, so that's good. It saves $3,000 a year and a pile of extra work."
Coach Lamp is still serving Robert's menu items, and the "short ribs and hot brown are two of the biggest sellers," Bill explains. "There haven't been any complaints about the fare." In addition to offering a few high-priced beers, the eatery continues to sell draft beer. Bill tells FN Dish, "We have rolled through 5 1/2 barrels since August 14th. That's about 10,000 ounces of beer, or 900+ glasses."
Watch the top-five video mash-ups of some of the most-memorable moments ever featured on Restaurant: Impossible, like the best design updates and worst staff moments.
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Imagine you gathered all of your colleagues together, placed all of your driver's licenses in a bag, and shook them up. Upon pouring them out upon a table face-down, you were to grab one, and now that is you – that age, that mailing address, that perspective on life.
Here are the explosive questions you would be confronted with in determining if you can even grasp how your colleagues operate:
1. Could you understand that age's vantage point?
2. Could you see how that age print would differ from how you think and feel (and thus operate)?
3. What have been some of that age points defining life experiences to date? Do those differ than your experiences?
4. Is it the Yellow Pages or YP.com? MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter, Texting, or _______?
5. Could you relate to that age print's favorite music and television shows? Can you even list a few of either?
6. What are some of the favorite words or phrases that age print uses, as opposed to the favorite sayings of your generation? Does each have their own language?
Many times in our personal and professional lives we "rush to a judgment" and have tendencies of "judging the book by the cover," and in these instances, the possibilities of what could have been may be lost. This is a powerful reality in the workplace today when we look at the generational perspectives, differences, and mode-of-operation when it comes to just the simplest of actions. Your ability to make a quiet connection with the other person in your circle, whether they are of a similar age or significantly different, will afford you the ability to:
1. Learn from them,
2. Enhance and add perspective you may otherwise not have had to your present operational knowledge set,
3. Determine how and when to best engage the other person and find ways to make communication connections with them,
4. Make them feel welcomed and valued,
5. Put the other person at ease and allow you to focus on your engagement agenda without being continually mentally distracted by the age-related variances in actions, dress, appearance, etc.
Excerpted from CPE Link instructor, Dr. Jeffrey Magee's "Coaching for Impact: Generational Diversity of Organizations & Building Cohesive Winning Teams"


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Did HP Ruin Tablet Pricing?
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HP's TouchPad experiment showed what price matters to consumers and the path to market share gains on Apple.
It's not really an experiment, it's a, we're no longer in that business yet have a lot of dead stock making our books look bad. Rather than having a 500 million* loss in stock and the expensive of taking returns from retailers plus disposing of those returns, lets sell them off at a price people can't refuse even though they know the device is discontinued, then the stock is gone and they've only lost 400 million* instead.
It might have been a different story if they'd been able to actually build them for less and but as is they're going to be making a huge loss on each sale, so it's not really a price that any other tablet maker would consider. Even Amazon who could possibly sell at a loss with a view to making money on the long tail of book sales would be a little nuts to consider it, since tablets are so multi purpose there'd be no guarantee people would buy books for it
What it does show though, is what we've known all along, people cannot pass up a bargin, even if they might not really need it. If Amazon sells their tablet at £400 will it take off? Maybe. But if they then do a huge price discount as a limited sale I'd bet they'll sell the lot
Just a matter of how far they could discount before they hit cost.
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Room3 , in pure "Gotic Center".
Penthouse in Plaza Reial nº 10, 3rd floor without a lift, (although it is worth climbing). WE help if you will need.
BIG terrace overlooking plaza Reïal with "chill-out time" at sunset.
Posible 3 double bedrooms.
Main bathroom with jacuzzi besides rooms.
This room 3 has shower and washig hands.
Buffet Brakfast ready from 8.30h for any time.
Kitchen free. No Extra taxes.
Tourist orientation if the need.
Super Central, but quiet as the (URL HIDDEN) 10 min walking distance to the beach.
There are dog, but pets are accepted. STEVIE (WONDER), you will take care and pamper.
With respect to the area, it is very safe in the square itself, surrounding area depends on the hour, but no more than other towns, ... dont be afraid.
Transport all within 100 m.
Cafes, restaurants, disks in the same square.
Shopping in 3 areas possible, even big brands.
We can program guide, with plan to measure, including mountain and sports,"soirées in the beach", bicycles, a gastronomic tour with antique motorbikes(90 e), ...catamaran and ship tours etc....., or simple feel free.
Transportaton to the airport very economic.
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Our panoramic terrace overlooking plaza Real, is the best forum in Barcelona. You will not forget it.
" We accept up to 6 people and there will be an extra bed for babys.
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12h will be the Check Out last day. ( We will Keep your stuff )
Home Sharing Spirit includes taking care of your OWN duties, in order to respect the next.
The host will provide only general cleaning.
Clean towels will be always at your dispossal.
General Light control by the host.
Please , we ask you to pay atention at rest time during the night, especially at the big terrace that wiĺl be open until 22h in order to respect the neighbors.
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Are you feeling frustrated with your job search? Finding it difficult to gain feedback on your CV or job applications for project management roles? Want to gain an insight into what recruitment consultants are really looking for and receive feedback on why your CV and applications are not working?
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Slow Boat to Canada: Maasdam Cruise Review by susanlordjackson
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Slow Boat to Canada
Destination: Canada & New England
Embarkation: Boston
Ship. Loved the Maasdam. Had sailed on Vista class ships before but preferred the Maasdam. She is much more intimate and classy looking. Despite her heading for refurbishment next year I believe, I didn't feel she was in any way "shabby" looking. I much preferred the library and coffee bar as it is set up on the Maasdam, than having it share the Crows Nest as on the Oosterdam.
Cabin. We had an oceanview cabin on the Maasdam, compared to a VA aft cabin previously on the Oosterdam and Westerdam. It was perfectly adequate for this cruise, and I think I would have been disappointed with a balcony on this itinerary as it would have cost twice the price of an oceanview and wouldn't have been good value for money. There was plenty of storage More space and our 2 cabin stewards unobtrusively kept the room clean and tidy and iced our champagne for us.
Food. We try to keep our weight under control by having just 2 main meals a day, breakfast, lunch or brunch, and an evening meal.
We ate most breakfasts in the buffet, and liked the omelette and fried egg stations, and also the tableside tea and coffee service. Had one breakfast in the dining room. Waited forever for the hot cooked breakfast, which finally arrived cold. Didn't do that again. Pastries, hot tea and fruit on the room service breakfast arrived on time and as ordered.
We had the embarkation lunch and also the Mariner Brunch in the dining room and both were delicious, offering limited but tasty menus.
Tried both the regular afternoon tea and the Indonesian tea. Both were very nice.
Room service shrimp cocktail made a nice pre-dinner snack early in the evening.
We had 5 dinners in the dining room, one in the Pinnacle and one in Canaletto.
We had 8pm late fixed seating in the dining room at a table for four on the upper level by the railing. It was very nice. We had 4 great meals there, with excellent food and excellent service. On the second formal night when we arrived our table had not been set up, it just had a table cloth on it. We joked a little with the waiter about us perhaps having shown up a little early, although we hadn't, and expected him to immediately set up the table. He said to sit down and bought the menus. The assistant waiter brought us water and took glasses from the next table, which was set up but had no one sitting at it. The bread came and we asked the assistant waiter to set up the table. He said he'd be back in a minute. In the end we had to get bread plates and knives from the next table ourselves. The wine steward came and when we had finished ordering from him we asked if he would send the waiter over to set up the table. I suggested to my husband that I go and find the Maitre'd, but he didn't want to cause a fuss (our English background showing through!) or get the waiter in trouble. Then the waiter showed up to take our order and I said to him very firmly that I would be delighted to order, but only once he had set the table up properly, which he did. He did say that they had been very busy with early seating as service got behind because everyone wanted lobster. Not really an acceptable excuse. We didn't get any food until 9pm, and what did arrive was cold. This was the worst experience I have ever had in a ships dining room and the maitre'd was unfortunately invisible that night.
Canaletto. After the formal night fiasco in the dining room we decided that we couldn't face the hullabaloo of the Master Chefs Dinner on the final night and that we would eat in the buffet instead. That afternoon we discovered a Canaletto menu and called to see if we could eat there at 7:30pm. They offered us a 7:30pm reservation at a shared table or an 8pm reservation at a table for 2, which we took. The meal was very nice, not really authentic Italian, but nice non the less. The food arrived hot and in a timely manner, and the service was very good.
Pinnacle Grill. We had a nice experience at the Pinnacle grill, although I think some of the "touches" were a little over the top. Three different types of organic salt, which while looking different, all tasted the same... of salt, LOL! I had fish, my husband had steak and we were very satisfied with both the quality and presentation of the food and the service.
On this cruise the show for late seating diners was a pre-dinner show. I didn't like this, as after dinner there is very little to do.
I enjoyed the late night comedienne Julie Barr and also the comedy magician. The production shows were OK, but not great and we never felt inspired enough to stay for the entire length of any of them.
Evening entertainment choices after dinner were limited to either a string quartet or jazz combo, both excellent, but a bit boring after 7 days. The piano bar was next to the casino and always smelt smoky so we never went in there, and the disco was just way too loud.
Trivia. Daily trivia was fun, but a tad too hard for us, although we always had a go! We played name that tune in the Crows Nest and although we won, we ended up with 33/34 when we should have aced the quiz, but one of the HAL answers was incorrect. The tune played was Los Lobos version of La Bamba, but the answer incorrectly given by the DJ was Richie Valens. We accepted that the HAL answer is always considered correct, but my husband couldn't resist taking the DJ aside privately and playing him both versions of the song from his ipod!
We appreciated the fact that the World Cup was shown on a big screen TV in the Crows Nest.
Spa. We had 2 very nice massages in the spa.
Teen Club Although my son is 18, the counselors very graciously allowed him and a couple of other recent high school graduates to join in with their activities, even though technically they were too old. Both my teens enjoyed meeting and hanging out with other teens through Club Hal.
The ports were all pretty low key.
Saint John - We did the jetboat ride here. It was cold and very wet!
Halifax - Took a HAL tour to Peggys Cove (not a patch on Cornwall), drove by the Swissair Memorial (perhaps a short 10 minute stop could have been arranged here for those interested in a photo op), and spent a very interesting hour in the cemetery where some of the Titanic victims are buried. Our guide was very knowledgeable and entertaining.
Sydney - Not much more to see here than the big fiddle on the dock.
Charlottetown - We had planned to take the HAL 7 hour tour, but decided to have a chill out day and wandered around the town and treated ourselves to an excellent haddock and chips lunch instead.
Scenic cruising on the St Lawrence - Unfortunately there was a pea souper outside and we didn't get to see much, but the foghorn worked overtime!
Vieux Quebec - A stunning UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lots of old buildings, shops, restaurants and cobbled streets to explore. My favourite port on this trip.
Last but not least ...smoking! We are non-smokers. We never got information on where smoking was / wasn't allowed, however, the majority of the public rooms seemed smoke free. I am not sure if smoking was allowed in the Piano bar, but it's proximity to the casino and casino bar, where smoking was allowed, meant that it was pretty smelly so we avoided it. I wish that HAL would stop people smoking in their staterooms and in the hallways. There were two cabins near ours with smokers in them, and the adjacent hallways stank of cigarette smoke, to the point where I held my breath walking by them. HAL did issue the same smoking questionnaire at the end of the cruise that they have been using for the past 3 or 4 years, but so far they don't seem to have changed their smoking policy. Less
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West Jefferson Hills tech director wrote the book on digital equipment, literally
To get the right answers, ask the right questions.
That's how every purchase of digital equipment should begin, said Suhail Baloch, technology director for West Jefferson Hills School District. Good questions are: How much do I want to spend? How will it be used? Who will use it?
Prospective buyers can make their responses a template, then follow Baloch's Technology Buying Guide for 2013 on the district's website, www.wjhsd.net.
He details tips for choosing computers, gaming consoles, tablets and smartphones and offers suggestions and research links so that purchasers can make more informed decisions. This was a "self-initiated venture to help co-workeers and the community," he said. Emails from colleagues, asking him for advice, encouraged him to compile the information.
"The point of the guide is not telling someone what to buy, but to make them smart enough to make decisions," he said. "There are advantages and disadvantages to every choice."
Baloch, a Shaler resident, has been with the district since 2001.
He and two other district employees oversee and maintain technology systems used by the 2,700 West Jefferson Hills students and 300 staff members. Currently, he's studying the logistics of students bringing their own electronic devices to school.
Dan Como, principal at Pleasant Hills Middle School, said he appreciates the integration of technology throughout the district's curriculum. Students are introduced to technology as early as kindergarten.
"What we do here is in combination with what the children do at home with their tablets, iPads and PCs," he said. As sixth-graders, "they have more background knowledge than in the past."
At the middle school, Bob Hasak takes the lead in teaching computer software and applications, while Matt Betler applies technology to industrial arts classes. Mathematics teacher Lindsey Mitko helps other staff members as they increase their use of technology.
"We want our students to be active participants" in using technology, Como said. Classrooms have Smart Boards, which are interactive whiteboards. Through a Grable Foundation grant, the school will have an iPad lab consisting of 30 of those devices and an Apple laptop on a mobile cart.
Baloch's online guide gives specifics, such as "If possible, get hands-on experience with the computer using a local vendor. Then, compare local prices with online prices from computer manufacturers, Amazon.com, etc. Make sure the comparison is made using equivalent equipment, warranty, etc."
He considers this to be a time of "muddled" technology, when a single device can have multiple purposes such as an Xbox game console with the ability to play DVDs.
"Sometimes, it's not this or that," he said, suggesting that for entertainment, a tablet computer could satisfy, but for work, a laptop or desktop would be the choice. These days, however, he doesn't recommend desktop computers much.
Consumers upgrade personal equipment in as little as two to three years, for those who love gadgets, or as long as 10 years, he said. Businesses update their electronics every three years while school districts wait about five years to make changes.
"Technology is changing at a phenomenal pace," said Baloch. "What is current is only as good to you as today. You have to keep up."
The popularity of gaming is driving computer makers to add more power to their machines, he said. And once power is increased, more complicated games are designed.
Baloch envisions technology transforming as users seek more interpersonal connections via websites such as Facebook and Skype, rather than just typing messages. He hopes for a balance between personal and technical communications.
"Technology is a tool to supplement education," he said. "It is not an all-in-all in itself."
Dona S. Dreeland is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-388-5803 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What do you do when you're in a Stephen King novel, but you're not a Stephen King character anymore? Or rather: What do you do when you're Stephen King, but you're not a Stephen King character anymore?
King has been knocking out horror stories since 1974's Carrie; in 40 years he's turned out 50 novels, three apiece in the bumper-crop years of 1983 (Christine, Pet Sematary, Cycle of the Werewolf) and 1987 (The Eyes of the Dragon, Misery, The Tommyknockers). He's played around with a pseudonym, written up-all-night doorstoppers and unforgettable slim parables, and become perhaps the most obsessively filmed novelist since Graham Greene. Over the decades he's returned again and again to certain settings and themes: New England and, later, Florida, overcoming helplessness, adolescence and the loss of childhood innocence, rage.
His two most recent novels, Joyland and Doctor Sleep—both published this year, because why not burn it if you've got it in the tank?—feature some of these King hallmarks. Joyland's hero is a teen coping with his first real shocks, the loss of his mother and the breakup of his puppy-love romance. Doctor Sleep is set mostly in New England and takes a familial rage, passed down through three generations, as one of its central themes.
But the years have changed Stephen King. The author who turned his job in an industrial laundry into fodder for working-class horror stories like "The Mangler" now owns three homes. The man who was once so wasted and coked up that he can't remember writing Cujo and The Tommyknockers, among other works, has been clean and sober for decades. At least judging from the outside, King's own life seems to have followed an upward trajectory—and that upward movement toward hope and renewal is reflected in his two newest books.
Both of these novels feel like major departures for King. The psychological dynamics of each are essentially the reverse of those in King's greatest work: An author who made his name chronicling his characters' downward spirals is now trying to write upward.
Almost all of King's greatest writing (the only exception I can think of is "The Body," the novella that became Rob Reiner's Stand By Me) follows the central character down into despair. While Stanley Kubrick's film version of The Shining shows us Jack Torrance purely from the outside—it's Wendy Torrance's movie more than anybody else's—the novel embeds the reader deep inside Jack's disintegrating mind. Pet Sematary, Carrie, and Christine all star characters who are succumbing to horror. In Cujo King even manages to wring pathos out of a large family dog's descent into madness. He's adept at showing how we lose our integrity, hope, and sanity; hence one of his most recognizable tics, the italicized paragraph in which a monster's thoughts suddenly surface within the mind of a man. I still shiver when I think about the bitter, hopeless anger of the old man who owned Christine: you shitters. That awful voice, the Screwtape voice we sometimes catch muttering around the corners of our minds: Stephen King shows us what would happen if that voice ruled the world.
Lots of king's novels are good and a few are masterworks. Cujo is one of the great nihilistic-atheist novels, a scouring book in which all sources of authority betray you and all of your most loving relationships are either deadly or powerless. The horror is blameless and meaningless; Eden is destroyed without any fault accruing to our shaggy canine Adam, who was just investigating an interesting cave when a rabid bat bit him. And against his own will, a good and loving dog became a thing out of a nightmare.
The Shining is one of my candidates for Great American Novel. It's a murder mystery in which the murder victim is, first and foremost, Jack Torrance's conscience. It's filled with scenes in which, as Torrance researches the Overlook Hotel's bloody past, he finds himself confronting his own suppressed or hazy memories. He tells us the self-serving stories he's told everyone else, in which he's a fun guy who's just the victim of other people's misjudgment. These are stories even Torrance himself has begun to believe, because accepting the truth would destroy his sense of self. And then in the snowbound depths of the Overlook Hotel, the truth begins to come back to him, all the dead memories rising and buzzing around his skull like the wasps who mysteriously resurrected themselves in the bug-bombed nest.
The discovery and removal of that nest is one of the most blunt and brilliant metaphors for the life-and-death struggle between Jack Torrance and his own conscience. Torrance finds the nest under the roof of the hotel. As he's inspecting it and preparing to remove it, his mind is somewhere else, working over old grudges the way we do. More than once now we've heard a story about a debate timer: When Torrance was a teacher he ran the debate team, and one kid on the team stuttered. Timing is everything in debate. There was an incident in which Torrance and the stuttering kid disagreed about how much time was left on the clock, Torrance caught the kid slashing his tires, and in attempting to get the kid away from his car he somehow hurt him. That's how he lost his teaching job; that's the reason he's working as the winter caretaker at the Overlook.
This story has always sounded like a lie. When we finally learn the truth, the shock isn't in what really happened—we've already guessed most of that. The shock is in how briefly Torrance allows himself to glimpse a tiny, sharp sliver of the truth ("he would swear that he had set the timer ahead no more than a minute") and how swiftly he turns his mind away from it. In the time it takes to get down from the roof and out to the shed with the insecticide, Torrance has already shut down the part of his mind which is still capable of honesty.
I don't think any alcoholic can read the discovery of the wasp's nest without recoiling in recognition of the sudden onslaught and ruthless suppression of memory, insight, self-knowledge. If you can read this scene and remain unshaken, well, wait a few years and try it again, and see if it hasn't grown sharper teeth. Everybody has a debate timer somewhere in the recesses of memory; the mind is its own place, and some of us reach a point where the mind is the Overlook Hotel, with sordid little hells behind the clean closed doors.
Still, of the novels I've read—and I admit that I haven't read The Dark Tower or anything between Gerald's Game (which I couldn't finish) and Joyland—the greatest is Pet Sematary. A sickly-sweet fog of pure dread hangs over every page of this book. In a sense it's a love story. It's the story of what happens to love when it's replaced by will and need: I won't let you go. It's so powerful because the "hero" here is driven by his paternal love into a place far beyond love, where he doesn't care anymore whether getting his beloved back will be good for the beloved. He only knows that it's what he wants.
This tragic reverse alchemy, in which grief transmutes a devoted husband and father into a howling black hole of anguish and self-will, is accompanied by some of King's most terrifying and well-timed imagery. The image of bereaved father Louis Creed's mind as a tree toppling under the accumulated weight of ice, coming at the opening of a late section of the novel, shocks the reader with its vertigo-inducing promise that things are somehow about to get much worse. Even in his less devastating novels, King's pacing is perfect, like a waltz into perdition.
This writerly skill, plus King's sheer tenacity, means that his more self-consciously literary readers are finally starting to throw around terms like Great American Novel. He deserves it; several of his novels are great in themselves, but especially great as portraits of a particular culture and time. It's amazing that he's managed to work so much Americana into his books with only an occasional lapse into hokeyness. Think of everything his cold fingers have touched: the prom, the classic car, the hot dog, The Wizard of Oz, the Winnebago, "Hey ho—let's go!"
In Joyland, a novel that in most ways could not be more different from Pet Sematary, King takes on the grand American institution of the amusement park. It's 1973, and college kid Devin Jones takes a summer job at a small funfair in North Carolina. He's trying to get over a tough breakup with his first love. When the story starts, he's obsessively listening to his Doors records and even fantasizing about suicide. As the summer wears on, he begins to pull up from this slough of despond—and gets pulled into investigating a series of murders which culminated in a killing in the funfair's haunted Horror House ride. It's a ghost tale written with the propulsive rhythm of a thriller; I stayed up all night for it.
You can tell Joyland was written by an experienced author. King slathers on the foreshadowing, always promising another twist around the corner—and always delivering. The sections often close with a kicker, and while there are too many of these kickers and they're often too cute ("That's called being young"; "Love leaves scars"), there's a comforting assurance to King's use of formula. You feel you're in good hands.
The most interesting feature of Joyland is the guileless humility of its protagonist. There's a gentleness to Jones, and a winsome quality which allows the novel to show us several other characters praising him without the reader starting to find him insufferable. The key to his character is that he actually likes "wearing the fur," donning the stifling Howie the Happy Hound costume, because it does makes little kids so happy. He doesn't fall very far down—he's just a melodramatic teen—but you root for him as he climbs back up.
Dan torrance, the hero of Doctor Sleep, has a much harder climb. King added a defensive author's note to the end of the book, basically saying, I know you didn't want a sequel to The Shining but here it is. And Doctor Sleep does feel like a curiosity, not an essential part of the King legacy. Little Danny Torrance, who barely escaped the ruins of the Overlook, grew up to become an alcoholic lowlife like his father. Unlike his father, he recognizes the nature of his problem—King says in the afterword that he'd always wondered, "What would have happened to Danny's troubled father if he had found Alcoholics Anonymous instead of trying to get by with what people in AA call 'white-knuckle sobriety'?" The book has a plot about vampires who want to capture and torture a little girl who has "the shining," but the underlying structure of the book is Dan Torrance's recovery through AA.
Stylistically, King has always relied on the Hitchcockian close-up, the sudden zoom of the narrative camera. He uses this trick in that glinting first sentence of IT: "The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain." A thing which recurs, and gathers horror around itself with each recurrence, like a snowball. The Dead Zone has its refrain of the bad hot dog, the Wheel of Fortune: these little irrelevancies which create a moral catastrophe for the hero. The very littleness of the objects underlines our helplessness—it takes only a bad hot dog to bring us to anguish.
There are fewer of these unforgettable motifs in the two new novels. Doctor Sleep does have a beautiful, subtle set of images which position Dan as the fulcrum of a turning wheel. The novel's supernatural mechanics set up this imagery; those supernatural images, in which one character can see through another's eyes, are quietly echoed with complex psychological resonance in a scene in which Dan manages to feel pity for a child-killing vampire who's dying at his feet. Looking at the vampire, he remembers a young boy he abandoned in the depths of his drinking. He's able to see the helpless boy in the tortured vampire because he can see himself in both of them; he's the fulcrum, the door that swings both ways.
This image is one of the few places where King gets the most out of the addiction-recovery subject matter. The novel clearly wants to say something about anger, its uses and its evil, but that theme never quite coalesces. The AA scenes feel predictable—they could come from any of the countless contemporary recovery narratives.
But AA does expand King's moral imagination in a way that I, at least, found fascinating.
Conscience is one of King's great subjects: the choice to follow the light or douse it. The "shining" itself, the psychic gift which tells little Danny Torrance that something is very wrong in the Overlook Hotel, can serve as a symbol of the conscience which allows him to see what the adults in his world deny.
King writes passionately and beautifully about the seemingly powerless individual—the abused child, the battered wife—standing up against recognized authority. Before now, I'm not sure he's written a story in which knuckling under is heroic.
Acceptance, submission, doing as you're told: These are concepts open to abuse, as is individual conscience, of course, which easily becomes self-justifying narcissism—but everybody's got to knuckle under sometime. Helen Rittelmeyer has observed that contemporary writers use addiction and 12-step programs to smuggle moral language past audiences who would balk at religious context—even though the two have simliar aspects: "the admission of powerlessness, the submission to authority, skepticism about the value of thinking for yourself, the rote repetition of phrases that to an outsider seem vapid, sentimental, or silly."
Neither Joyland nor Doctor Sleep is a Great American Novel. But Joyland is a good autumnal read, and Doctor Sleep is worth a try if you want to see how tough it is to write—and therefore to imagine—the long hard climb to hope. This upward crawl can be unintelligible even when you've actually done it; so think how hard it must be to imagine when you haven't.


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Breakfast was a joke. Paper plates with kid sized individual cereal boxes and frozen bagels.
Great location and view, but I wouldn't stay hear again.
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