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Guitar Great Leo Kottke in Concert at the Clark February 28
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Leo Kottke, frequent guest on National Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion and considered by many to be one of the greatest and most influential acoustic guitar players of the past thirty years, will perform at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, February 28, at 8 pm. Tickets are $28 ($25 per member and student). Purchase tickets online at clarkart.edu, by calling 413-458-0524, or stopping by the Clark's museum shop during business hours.
For the past three decades, Kottke has been unrelenting in his pursuit of a unique musical vision that has placed him among the foremost acoustic guitar stylists. Kottke has the ability to embrace folk and pop melodies as readily as he assimilates jazz, blues, and classical influences into his music. For all its technical brilliance and harmonic sophistication, Kottke's music is eminently accessible. In concert, Kottke intersperses humorous monologues with vocal and instrumental selections from throughout his career.
"Leo Kottke's guitar instrumentals - deep, resonant pieces that roll along on rock-steady finger-picking patterns…evoke American music as a guitar itself might hear it," wrote Jon Pareles of the New York Times.
Kottke's 1971 major label debut, Mudlark, and seminal Six and 12-String Guitar (1972) announced the arrival of a major new voice in acoustic guitar instrumental music. Classic Kottke albums like Chewing Pine (1975), Balance (1979), Time Step (1983), My Father's Face (1989), Great Big Boy (1991), Peculiaroso (1993), and One Guitar, No Vocals (1999) have consistently won over new fans while continuing to surprise and delight longtime aficionados. Over the years, Kottke has worked in the studio and shared concert stages with everyone from Lyle Lovett, John Fahey, T-Bone Burnett, and Rickie Lee Jones, to Paco de Lucia, Pepe Romero, John Williams, John McLaughlin, and Joe Pass. Kottke performed Bob Dylan's "Girl of the North Country" for the 2005 film North Country starring Charlize Theron, and his songs "Busted Bicycle" and "Coolidge Rising" were heard in the 2005 film The Ballad of Jack and Rose starringDaniel Day-Lewis.
The Clark is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, MA. The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday 10 am to 5 pm (daily in July and August). Admission is free November through May. Admission June 1 through October 31 is $12.50 for adults, free for children 18 and under, members, and students with valid ID. For more information, call 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu.


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Michigan State forward Branden Dawson will put the NBA on hold and return for his senior season. The 6-6 Dawson made the announcement official on Tuesday afternoon.Read More »
Michigan State forward Branden Dawson will put the NBA on hold and return for his senior season. The 6-6 Dawson made the announcement official on Tuesday afternoon.Read More »
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Slowly but surely, Kevin Wilson is building at Indiana. It has been a slow, steady process. He has gone from one win, to four to five last year, inching the Hoosiers closer to their first bowl since 2007. That breakthrough finally may come to fruition in 2014 – if a new 3-4 defensive scheme offers a modicum of improvement to what has been a woebegone unit.Read More »
Few programs in the Big Ten can match the feel-good vibe that's circulating in the Twin Cities. This is a Minnesota program that's ascending and looks to have a legit shot to perhaps win the new Big Ten West. Jerry Kill continues to put his stamp on this team, a squad that plays smart and is stocked with personnel that fits what Kill wants to do on both sides of the ball.Read More »
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Sarasota Concert Association: Chee-Yun and Jeewon Park
Date: January 20, 2010
by: June LeBell
The Sarasota Concert Association's first performer of the season called in sick a couple of months ago, so violinist Chee-Yun and pianist Jeewon Park rode in on their white horses to save the day.
Chee-Yun, a prize-winning violinist who's been with the illustrious Young Concert Artists and studied with Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard, has made a major career since her first U.S. appearance at the age of 13 with the New York Philharmonic in a Young People's Concert.
Park, who holds degrees from both Juilliard and Yale, is a master of the piano, offering support to her musical partner while taking good advantage of her own virtuosic skills at the keyboard. She's a wonderful soloist in her own right, but she doesn't step on any musical toes — a great trait in a chamber-music colleague.
The pair's playing of the Beethoven "Kreutzer" and the Brahms D minor, Opus 108 sonatas was not only exquisite, it was sensuous, colorful and personal. They made the music their own without spoiling the intent of the composers. The word that kept coming to mind over and over as they played was "cantabile." They sang the phrases.
Chee-Yun's interpretation of the well-known Bach "Chaconne" for solo violin showed her to be as much of a performer as a serious musician, making good use of her virtuosity without any of the glitz or mannerisms to which so many other violinists resort. And the pair's encores — the gorgeous "Song Without Words," by Charles Wadsworth, and the fiery "Zigeunerweisen," by Sarasate — showed their consummate musicianship and technical prowess.
It was a recital where showmanship and skill stood side-by-side without detracting from each other. Even Chee-Yun's tendency to talk a bit too much was welcomed, because what she said was both charming and enlightening, so we had as much fun as she and her pianist seemed to be having.
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Functions into processes, using arrows
Pointfree notation is often the most elegant way to write a function in Haskell. Put simply, any time you write code such as:
foo x = f (g (h x))
Or, if you are a dollar fan:
foo x = f $ g $ h x
You can rewrite it as:
foo = f . g . h
Consider this example of a function composition from Neil Mitchell that finds the mode (most common element) of a list:
mostCommon :: Ord a => [a] -> a mostCommon = head . maximumBy (comparing length) . group . sort
A nice composition of four functions. Each function in that pipeline of functions is taking a single input and producing a single output, which is then fed into the next function. This pipeline of pure functions is analogous to a pipeline of communicating processes — each taking a single input and sending on a single output to the next process. So is there an easy way of converting such function pipelines into process pipelines? The answer is yes — by using arrows.
Even if you are a Haskell programmer, you may not be familiar with arrows. They can be used to express these input and output compositions. We can convert our function pipeline to use arrow notation by just changing the composition operator:
mostCommonArr1 :: Ord a => [a] -> a mostCommonArr1 = head <<< maximumBy (comparing length) <<< group <<< sort
This is because by good design/happy accident, a function does not need any special annotation to become part of an arrow. If we want to be more general, we must use the arr function to convert pure functions into arrows:
mostCommonArr2 :: Ord a => [a] -> a mostCommonArr2 = arr head <<< arr (maximumBy (comparing length)) <<< arr group <<< arr sort
A bit more cumbersome perhaps, but we haven't changed the original too much — the pipeline of the four functions is still visibly there. Now that we have our function pipeline expressed in terms of arrows, changing to a process pipeline is a relatively simple matter. You'll need to import the Control.Concurrent.CHP.Arrow module, and then re-type the pipeline to be a CHP process with channels, and stick runPipeline on the front:
mostCommonArrProc :: Ord a => Chanin [a] -> Chanout a -> CHP () mostCommonArrProc = runPipeline $ arr head <<< arr (maximumBy (comparing length)) <<< arr group <<< arr sort
And that's it. The function here is now a communicating pipeline of four functions, wrapped up into one. mostCommonArrProc will sit there waiting to be sent a list of items, and once it has been, it will output the most common element of the list. So we've re-used our simple pure-function pipeline as a pipeline of communicating processes, with only a little change in notation.
Note: Since base-4, Arrow has become based on Category, which means you can actually express the function using the original dot composition, like so:
mostCommonCatProc :: Ord a => Chanin [a] -> Chanout a -> CHP () mostCommonCatProc = runPipeline $ arr head . arr (maximumBy (comparing length)) . arr group . arr sort
I prefer the <<< notation of the arrows, as I think it better expresses a pipeline of processes — and it doesn't require base-4.
I think I should clarify: when I say process pipeline, I mean a pipeline of processes that are all operating concurrently with each other. So by changing to the process arrow from the function arrow, you get four concurrent processes in a pipeline, so that four items of data can be in the pipeline at once and operated on concurrently. However, without the strict output mentioned in my other comment, you're not going to get speed-up — just thunk-building!
CHP is a really cool project. The concurrent library I've always wished to have, but never had time to build, big thanks
Arrows are a nice fit for building and connecting processes/agents together and CHP lets us do run our agents concurrently. So thanks for providing an arrow interface too
I think to that the (<<>>) operators fit better then (.) from Category , so one has finer control about parallelization.
Btw. do you have a strict version of "runPipeline" which creates channels evaluating their input to rnf?
So, when will we see an "efficient" concurrent FRP library based on CHP?
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I have been working at Opera Solutions full-time for more than 5 years
Pros – People at manager and below levels are great
- Smart: top schools, top performers
- Personable: normal people you'd want to grab a drink with
- Creative: willing to suggest new ideas, and try to learn new things rapidly (as the firm shifts focus)
The idea behind "predictive analytics" is a good one. That said, so is the idea to time travel. Success takes more than an idea. You need to be able to execute on it. Execution is not hiring a bunch of smart people. You need leadership and direction.
Cons – Employees are Mistreated
- Pay is below market, especially for the hours put in
- You work 80+ hour weeks, only to be told retroactively you won't get a bonus (3+ months after you were supposed to get it, with ZERO communication or lies in the interim)
- I have been bonus eligible for 4 years here: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012: No bonus in 2009 (financial crisis, understandable), decent bonuses in 2010 and 2011, No bonus in 2012 (even though we were told all year it was our best year ever). 50% bonus rate is unacceptable.
- Management is sneaky, deceitful, and totally unethical: Both times we got zero bonuses, we were strung along by lies. Management would tell us bonuses were "delayed" for weeks, then months, then complete silence on the matter, then the hammer would drop and we'd be told the truth. They're literally just trying to squeeze water out of rocks.
- More unethical practices: They closed the Paris office and told the employees they'd have the option to transfer. Then, they stopped answering all communications from the Paris employees, declared bankruptcy in France, and didn't offer transfers (after months of saying they would and leaving the employees in limbo). The French employees had to scramble to find jobs, after being lied to for months. On top of that, management told everyone that the French employees simply didn't accept the transfer offers.
- You're still expected to work like a consultant, but be paid like
Horrible Execution by Management
- Senior Management was tasked with facilitating the shift from "consulting" to "technology / product". They have failed. Horribly.
- Whenever someone who knows what they are doing in the big data / product world (e.g. senior folks from SAP, Oracle, etc.) is brought in, they realize what a mess Opera is and leave within 6 months.
- Many managers and principals are former consultants, and have no idea what they're doing in analytics projects or product driven projects. Not their fault - they're consultants, but it makes projects extremely frustrating. They haven't been trained, and many have no idea how to deliver a product driven project.
- Horrible cash management: Hired tons of scientists and sales people who have yet to deliver anything really, while the consultants deliver project after project in "services", working typical consulting hours. Then there is no cash to pay the revenue generating consultants, because cash was burned on scientists, sales people, and failed products.
- Everything is pretty much smoke and mirrors. Product names and ideas keep changing, but there is nearly nothing tangible to show for it. Consultants are then tasked with spinning this smoke and mirrors into something during business development and sales efforts
Offshore Model
- The offshore model is extremely frustrating. On analytics projects, huge chunks of teams are in Shanghai and India
- Hours become unmanageable if you want to be in any way productive due to time zone differences
- Turnaround times are slow because of the timezones. Though the "24 hour model" is pitched, what it really means is everything takes at least twice as long to do because you can only talk to your team at the beginning and end of each day, and deliverables can then be reviewed, with more wait time in between
- Communication can be very difficult and inefficient. Lengthy, detailed emails are required, compared to traditional consulting firms where you can just sit with your team, brainstorm, review data together in real time, etc. Huge waste of time, and very stressful, because if the communication is not clear, you lose an entire day of work from the offshore team
- It is all stemmed from Opera's reluctance to bring teams to the same location to work (because this costs money)
Advice to Senior Management – Remember that your "resources" are people. Though we claim to be a technology and product firm, everyone knows we have basically no real ground breaking products or technology. The magic is in the analytics done on bespoke projects and in the delivery of services projects by consultants. Those results are driven by people. The people are what makes this firm tick, and you are driving your best people out.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company
I have been working at Opera Solutions full-time for more than 3 years
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A newly discovered structure where mouth-puckering compounds called tannins form inside plant cells. Plants from oak trees to corn make tannins, which discourage nibbling insects and reduce damage from UV light. Tannosomes are tiny organelles that arise in chloroplasts, structures that capture light energy. There, sacs of green pigment break into little spheres.
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The last time I spoke with comedian Eddie Pepitone was June, just prior to the world premiere of his movie "The Bitter Buddha" in Chicago, where it screened during the Just For Laughs festival. Nine months and several tour stops later, he and director Steven Feinartz (a Buffalo Grove native) return to town this weekend on a triumphant wave of social media fervor. Both will be at the Music Box Theatre on Friday, with Pepitone performing a set Saturday at the Lincoln Lodge.
I was unfamiliar with Pepitone before seeing the film last year. Long an underground comedy favorite (and championed by comics including Marc Maron and Patton Oswalt), he is an entertaining and complicated man whose "epic grumbling has a lovely, vulnerable, crazy poetry to it," I wrote back in June. If Jackie Gleason and Larry David had a love child, Pepitone would be his name. He proves to be an ideal documentary subject. There is nothing slick about the man. If he held anything back it doesn't show.
Feinartz followed the New York-born, LA-based comedian for about a year (the film includes footage from a performance at The Hideout), capturing Pepitone's disheveled yet discerning sense of the absurd that exists side-by-side with a genuine quest for enlightenment — hence the film's title. What comes through is a person simultaneously explosive, vulnerable and positively buoyant, onstage and off.
Consider his "shirts-so-fresh" bit from his act:
"I'm in a commercial audition and the casting agent says, 'All you have to do is say, "Honey, how'd you get the shirts so fresh?" And then improvise, whatever pops into your head.'
"So the things that popped into my head were: 'Honey, how do you get the shirts so fresh when each year a hundred species go extinct? Yet you still get the shirts so fresh!' And it builds to the point where I say, 'Honey, how do you get the shirts so fresh? I mean, yesterday your sister came over and took her life in front of the children, yet you still get the shirts so fresh? How do you do it? Actually, the question isn't how, but why? Why do you get the shirts so fresh when the world is crumbling?"
When we caught up, he commented on such riffs: "A lot of times I'll listen to myself and think, 'I'm just so full of s---' after I finish. That's my problem: I believe in things, but only for a few seconds." He punctuated that last part with a rolling giggle, which (for a man who has built a career based on rage) is as unexpected as it is delightful. "To me, my rage onstage is a parody of rage. I take it to a level where I try to show how absurd it is to be so rageful. What's underneath it is just a guy who is scared. And also laughing."
Which doesn't mean the man is a picnic. "He hates the airport," Feinartz told me. "He hates anything that has to do with transportation. It really stresses him out. Anything to do with the airport security line or waiting for people to sit down on the plane, that's Eddie's Kryptonite. It's like clockwork, every time. I fear for him. I don't want him to have an outburst. 'Eddie, keep it together — we're promoting a movie, you don't need to make a scene here.'"
Though they didn't know each other before filming began, the pair have become friends. Feinartz thinks that made for a better movie. "If I had been close with him it probably would have been a completely different film. I would have guarded him a bit more. So I'm kind of happy I had distance initially. I could show all his sides and not be completely protective."
There have been some changes in Pepitone's life since filming ended. He married his girlfriend in November, which might come as a surprise to audiences watching the film. (Her on-camera appearance is so brief, you worry their relationship has run out by the end.) They have moved out of the apartment seen in the film, the one I described as "a few precarious piles short of a hoarding intervention." (Pepitone's wife hated that footage, by the way.)
Pepitone's regular appearances on "Conan" (heckling the talk show host from the crowd) coupled with the film's release have combined for a modest career boost. "I've already seen it. I can tell when I'm doing stand-up, the crowds are there specifically to see me, and the crowds have been good. When I get introduced in clubs now, there's a level of applause that I never had before. It's definitely notched things up. It's interesting. But it certainly hasn't turned me into an overnight success."
After his stop in Chicago, he leaves for extended tour dates in Australia and then the U.K. I asked how his New York-accented act works overseas. "Really well because I think they like seeing an unhinged American. So I'm just going to go and (expletive) be me."
Comedian Eddie Pepitone and director Steven Feinartz come to the Music Box Friday for a screening of "The Bitter Buddha." Go to musicboxtheatre.com. Pepitone performs his act Saturday at the Lincoln Lodge. Go to thelincolnlodge.com.
Casting news, part I
Pilot season continues with the casting of former Second City players Keegan-Michael Key (of Comedy Central's "Key & Peele") and Brad Morris (a staff writer on "Cougar Town") as the male leads in a new USA single-camera comedy created by Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair (of last year's short-lived NBC series "Best Friends Forever"). Fellow Second City alum Stephnie Weir (also a consulting producer on "Raising Hope") joins the cast of an NBC comedy pilot starring "The Office's" Ellie Kemper.
Casting news, part II
This week it was announced that Steppenwolf ensemble member John Malkovich will star in the TV adaptation of the book "Republic of Pirates," set in the 18th century. And both ABC pilots shooting in town this month added recognizable names to their casts, including Christian Slater and Steve Zahn in "Influence" and James Cromwell in "Betrayal." The networks won't announce which pilots have been picked up for series until May.
Casting news, part III
In local movie news, the big-screen adaptation of "Divergent" (the first in a trilogy of the best-selling dystopian novels by Evanston resident Veronica Roth that begins shooting in Chicago next month) has added actors Maggie Q (star of the CW's "Nikita") and Zoe Kravitz ("X-Men: First Class").
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Chicago native and "South Pacific" star Mitzi Gaynor comes to Chicago for a screening of the 1958 movie musical Tuesday at the Music Box Theatre, where she will be interviewed by film historian Leonard Maltin as part of Turner Classic Movies' annual "Road to Hollywood" tour. Go to musicboxtheatre.com.
Among the Chicago films that screened this week at Austin's South by Southwest festival were "Born in Chicago," a documentary tracing the musicians who made their way to Chicago during the Great Migration. Also at the fest was Joe Swanberg's "Drinking Buddies," the local filmmaker's first project featuring name actors (including "New Girl's" Jake Johnson, also a Chicago guy; Olivia Wilde; Anna Kendrick; and Ron Livingston) that filmed in town over the summer. The early reviews for the improvised project are positive if not overly effusive, with the Hollywood Reporter declaring that "Swanberg escapes the mumblecore ghetto with a sexy relationship comedy." It has yet to be picked up for distribution.


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The daughter of Roberta E. Phillips of Smithfield and the late Albert Phillips were married at the home of her relatives, John and Vera Myers on state Route 213.
The son of the late John Donald and Marian K. McHugh, he is retired but formerly a chief operator/repairman at P.O.R.I. Inc. of Weirton.
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• April 26 – May 25 , 2014, (course in French only)
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It was in 1969 that Swami Vishnudevananda, founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres, taught the first Yoga Teachers´ Training Course in the West. Today, this internationally renowned course is being taught by his senior disciples. Every year, more then 1000 people follow this course throughout the world.
The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres are the biggest yoga organisation in the world and have a long experience in training yoga teachers. This 4-week intensive course covers all practical, theoretical and philosophical aspects of yoga.
The approach to teaching is personal, focusing on the individual student. Upon graduation, students receive the certificate of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres, entitled Yoga Siromani. The Sivananda Yoga Teachers Training courses are officially certified by the worldwide yoga Alliance for the 200 and 500 hours standard for Registered Yoga Schools (RYS).
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World Health Day 2004 is an unprecedented event for road safety advocates around the world. For the first time since its inception in 1946, the World Health Organization (WHO) is using its annual health message to target road safety. The slogan – Road safety is no accident – was chosen to focus the world's attention on this growing transportation and public health problem and to highlight the fact that traffic fatalities and injuries can be avoided if governments and other key stakeholders implement the measures necessary to prevent them. On April 7, 2004, road safety stakeholders are being asked to promote awareness, understanding and discussion of road safety issues and to initiate or implement actions to address these concerns.
The main reason for this growing global problem is the projected increase in traffic fatalities and injuries among "vulnerable" road users in developing countries, where an estimated 90% of all traffic-related casualties currently occur. "Vulnerable" road users are pedestrians and riders of bicycles, motorcycles and mopeds.
In Canada, the outlook is considerably more positive. Fatalities and serious injuries resulting from traffic collisions are at or near historical lows, despite steady increases in the numbers of vehicles and drivers on our roads. Still, in 2001, 2,778 road users were killed in Canada in traffic collisions. More than 220,000 were injured, including almost 17,000 who sustained serious injuries. Annual estimates of costs associated with these crashes and casualties are as high as $25 billion.
Issues such as poor roads and high population densities are often cited as factors that contribute to the casualty rate among vulnerable road users in developed and underdeveloped countries alike. These factors are not really a problem in Canada. As an extremely large and highly developed country, Canada has one of the highest per capita vehicle ownership rates in the world. Not surprisingly, almost 80% of all road user casualties are motor vehicle occupants.
Vulnerable road users make up the remaining 20% of road users killed and seriously injured each year in traffic crashes. In 2001, 556 vulnerable road users were killed and 3,603 were seriously injured. Pedestrians comprised the largest group of victims among vulnerable road user casualties, accounting for 61% of fatally injured victims and 52% of those with serious injuries. Motorcycle or moped riders accounted for 28% of fatalities and 33% of seriously injured victims, and cyclists comprised the remaining 11% of fatally injured and 15% of seriously injured crash victims.
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Alcohol Use – approximately 25% of all fatally injured pedestrians had been drinking prior to being struck and killed by motor vehicles3. Among fatally injured pedestrians who had been drinking, 74% had blood alcohol concentration levels that were twice the legal limit to drive a vehicle.
Time of Day – 20% of pedestrians were killed and 17% were seriously injured between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Location – almost 40% were killed and more than 50% were seriously injured at intersections. By the same token, approximately 60% were killed and 45% were seriously injured at non-intersection locations.
Conspicuity – more than 55% were killed and almost 40% were seriously injured at night or in artificial lighting conditions.
Urban Areas – almost 70% of pedestrians were killed and more than 90% were seriously injured in urban areas with posted speed limits of 70 km/h or less. Slightly more pedestrians were killed at non-intersection locations (53%) than at intersections (47%) in urban areas. The pattern for seriously injured pedestrians was reversed (43% at non-intersection locations and 57% at intersections).
Traffic Controls – almost 20% of pedestrians were killed and almost 40% were seriously injured at road locations with traffic signals or road signs. In urban areas, more than one in four pedestrians were killed and almost 45% were seriously injured at signalized road locations.
Rural Roads and Highways – slightly more than 30% of pedestrian fatalities occurred on roads with posted speed limits of 80 km/h or higher. Of these, 85% were killed at non-intersection locations while crossing the road or walking along the roadside.
Age – younger pedestrians (14 years or younger) were most often at fault prior to being struck by motorists and killed or seriously injured. Overall, 50% of all pedestrians killed or seriously injured were deemed to have been at fault. Being at fault includes such pedestrian actions as crossing the intersection without the right-of-way, crossing between intersections, coming from behind a parked vehicle and running into a roadway. Age is also highly correlated to the locations where pedestrians are killed or seriously injured. The youngest victims (9 years or younger) were most often struck at non-intersection locations (e.g. darting out into traffic between parked vehicles), while the oldest (70 years of age or older) were most often struck at intersections (e.g. crossing against a red light). Pedestrians aged 70 years or older were over three times more likely than the national average to be killed and almost twice as likely to be seriously injured.
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But how many have actually seen the heart of Bithlo for themselves?
Turn off 50 onto County Road 13, for example, and the trailer homes are so old and decrepit that it looks as if a breath of wind could tip them over. Junkyards pile cars several stories high.
Drainage ditches aren't maintained well enough to prevent flooding after a hard rain. An old recycling facility that operated as a dump has sat neglected for years and is a suspected source of environmental contamination. Everyone in the community relies on well water, and black tanks at some well sites warn of contamination from an old gasoline leak at a nearby gas station.
For a lot of people in Bithlo, living here is a cheaper alternative to living closer to Orlando, about 20 miles away.
But the trade-offs come at a high price. For one thing, getting from one place to another can be an all-day project since Bithlo lost its public bus service.
Tonya Watne shares a small trailer with her husband and their three young children. He works in a day labor pool and uses the family's only car. She's looking for a job.
"There's no way to get anywhere to do anything," she said.
Lynx offers a call-ahead pick-up service for Bithlo, but she said it's unreliable.
"I've missed doctor's appointments for my kids because it either doesn't show up or shows up really late," Watne said.
Sometimes she rides a bicycle and tows the kids in a bike trailer. She doesn't feel safe walking or cycling along 50.
"I walk against traffic for that reason," she said. "If there's going to be a car that hits me at least I have time to try to push my kids out of the way."
Tim McKinney says he's seen a number of pedestrian accidents on 50 since he started working in Bithlo in 2009.
It's just one of the things that make Bithlo anything but comical.
McKinney works for United Global Outreach, which started a small school in the community and is pushing for cleaner water and clean-up of the old dump. He drives the streets of Bithlo like an all-in-one cop, mayor and dad.
On Friday, his white Chevy pick-up turns down a dirt road to a cluster of homes just a few feet from a fence surrounding the dump. People call him by name.
"Tim's the one that's stirred it up and we're grateful for it, actually trying to get something done," says Terry Parrott, who has lived in Bithlo most of his life.
Parrott has fought with the county over flooding problems on his street. During the hurricanes he had water over his front steps and nearly into his home.
He says Bithlo's problems go beyond simple neglect by the county.
"The people and the county neglected this, everybody's at fault for this," he said. "I'm not just blaming the county, but the county could have fixed most the problems out here."
Parrott just received a bad-news letter a few months ago from the state. Seems his water is not safe to drink because of iron content. He remembers his daughter not wanting to get in the bath as a child because the water looked so dirty.
The solution to the water problem seems as simple as hooking Bithlo into the county's main water supply. The water lines run just about a mile short of Bithlo. But nothing has happened because of the cost to the county and the thousands of dollars in hook-up fees for residents who can't afford it.
McKinney says Bithlo's problems can be solved. There are grants and other money available to fix the water problem.
What's missing is political will. You know, the kind of all-out mobilization you'd expect to see if Isleworth had brown water coming out of their taps.
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Following in the footsteps of Persona 3 Portable, the second highest rated PSP game of all time, and based on Persona 4, one of the most beloved ATLUS titles ever, P4G delivers an enhanced and expanded portable roleplaying experience. Visuals have been beautifully remastered to take advantage of the vibrant 5" OLED display. The game's aural presentation is better than ever, with 1.5 times the voiced dialogue of the original release. A new online dungeon rescue feature allows users to call on other players for assistance when they are about to die in the TV world. P4G is also overflowing with new content: new Personas to collect; new story events along with an all new character; stunning new anime cut scenes, which include a new opening animation with a new song from master composer Shoji Meguro; a host of fan suggested tweaks and changes, and much, much more! Persona 4 Golden is far more than just a handheld version of an all-time classic: it's the best way to experience it yet!
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Construction should start sometime after June 1.
The Highway 64-Pine Ridge Avenue intersection also has to be rebuilt.
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Transportation to and from the hunt area, why a seperate charge on a package hunt?
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Transportation to and from the hunt area, why a seperate charge on a package hunt?
I was just reading an older thread about the true cost of a hunt and it brought to mind a question
I have mulled over for my 14 yrs of experiences in hunting in Africa. Maybe I got up too early and
I'm not quite awake yet but here goes-
If you have a fixed base of operations (say a farm in South Africa or Namibia that you do all your hunting on)
and you want to market to first time hunters from other countries [USA], why do you list a fee to pick up and
transport them to your facility, especially if you tell them at a show you will meet and greet them
at the airport? Why not add this into the total cost of the "all inclusive" package hunt?
Do you really think they are going to drive themselves to your property? It just smacks of a hidden
cost that pops up by surprise. No hunter from the USA is going to drive himself to your property,
especially if it is a first time or even second or third time hunter. From a marketing stand point it
just doesn't make sense to pop this fee when they have no other way of getting there. It should be included as it is expected to be picked up and transported by road to the hunt. Now if you are talking about an a la carte hunt then things might be different but where you market to first time hunters with a "show special" or "package hunt" then popping the extra fee just puts a bad taste to the whole issue. Just my opinion as a consumer. I have brought over 6 other hunters on first time hunts and 4 of the 6 had the same question when I took them to DSC to find an outfitter for their hunts.
Granted this question has bugged me for a long time. I know there are costs involved for pick up
but really- how else are they going to get there?
OK I'll stand back now and try to catch all the rocks being thrown my - let me have it :-)
Cliffy, i totally agree with you.
If hunters fly to us lets say Kimberley or Bloemfontein we never charge any fee at all . Of course if we have to collect 7 hrs away in JHB we will ask a fee if its a small hunt etc.... but never the less this will be discussed before or just add in the package as u described it.
I just think its rude if a client fly's half way around the world and spends so much on his hunt that this small gas fee is needed...
cheers Owen
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Every one is looking to make packages as reasonable as there are. The competition factor. you know...
A days time to pick up and drop off...is time that has to be accounted for...
At what point do you say it is OK to charge for the pick up and drop off days? 1 hour or 2 hours or more what? If you flew into the bush you would be met at the airplane...That's an option.
This is a part of the safari that i have a budget for...
I look at it this way...you have the choice of flying into the bush or meeting your PH and visiting on your drive into the bush...either way you should expect to have to pay for the services provided.James Grage - New Mexico
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It cuts both ways.
I can see Cliffy's point...it looks like poor marketing. But then again they are telling you how much transportation costs are on the hunt. Then you can compare with someone who puts everything into one package. Some outfitters charge daily fees or reduced daily fees for pick up and drop off....and to me THAT IS A HUGE TURNOFF. I understand...gas,vehicle and time cost money....state how much it costs, I'll decide if I'll pay for it.
Bottom line people are going to compare trophy fees, daily fees and transportation costs.....as it's going to cost some guys business.
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I like packages with everything included .
That works well for us and the clients are happy at the end of the day .
Each person has different situations and setups so i can't judge other outfitters.
Maybe if someone donated a hunt at SCI he wants to recoup some of his costs ?Willem Faul
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The one's that irritate me are the per person pricing- how can they rationalize charging a per person rate when they have the same expenses (fuel, drivers, maintenance, etc.) whether it is one or ten people traveling.
Another one that that gets me are the observer fees some of these places charge- $250 plus per day for a couple of meals a day and a little booze for my wife is pretty steep. It would be one thing if they are taking tours, but to lay around, relax, and read? Some operators rates are pretty steep for the effort required to entertain an observer.
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My hunts were both done by the internet and e-mails, so I was aware of the costs incurred. My PH met me at Johannesburg last year, and we drove a LONG way to the camp. This year I flew to Kimberly, and the trip and costs were much less. They PH is running a business, so I don't mind the fee if I am given options and costs. I feel the costs were reasonable considering the time and distances involved. I agree that I might have been upset if I had not known about the costs, but I did know and I, therefore, agreed by signing with the PH. I was given the TOTAL costs up front...can't be better than that.
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The hunt I signed up for next year included the picking us up at Port Elizabeth and the 1.5 hour drive to there place. They also did not charge for the first or last day when they return you to the airport. I understand they are close to a major airport and that helps. However I looked at other that were also close and when they charge (especially per person for 2 of us) per person and the first day is one of the hunt days that was a turn off for me. They also have a reasonable non-hunter rate. So I booked a 10 day hunt. That is 10 hunting days and 2 days non-hunting that are not charges. There other rates were good also so they did not just up the prices to get the money back.
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Some guys try to recover some costs on this but I maintain that 90% of outfitters would include a road transfer within 5 hours from the airport to the farm especially in SA. (especially those with realistic market related daily rates)
On the other hand we need to remember that on safari's of short length such as 7 day or 10 day hunts including a lion or such that a charter is the most logical choice.... and it could also be included, it should just be stipulated, as time is of great importance and a 9 hour on way roadtrip is just a bit rough.
I say again cheap Wallmart hunts are everywhere but look at the costs and extras, booze, transfers, the little nickle and dime things. The average 1x1 limpopo based outfitter (85 - 90% fall in this) at $400 a day will not charge any road transfers.
One could be put in a situation with a group of 8 - 10 hunters, this can very easily happen, mostly I set up a transfer company at my cost which runs into $1500, IMO a small price to pay especially with a group with some spending potential.
My best.Jaco Strauss
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This message is for George. My husband & I were recently in Mexico City and stopped by Casa Gonzalez to visit you. My mother and her family use to stay at Casa Gonzalez back in the 1950s. Before my mother passed, she took my sister & I to your house for Christmas Dinner in 2004.
Her name was Patricia Ann Carey Gardner and her parents were Helen and Harold Carey from Lawton, Oklahoma. I'm not sure if you remember them because your family has hosted so many people. But they always spoke kindly of your family and country.
I'm sorry that we didn't not get to meet you, but it was a wonderful experience to be back in Mexico City and to see your lovely home again.
Take care and hope to meet you again someday,
Misha Gardner Dyer
Thank you for sharing your memories and pictures! I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you again in the not so distant future.


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Herbs can be taken safely, but it is always better if they are used along with an understanding of the mechanism by which they aid in treating thyroid problems. Basically there are three types of thyroid conditions – an overactive thyroid, an under-active thyroid and an enlarged thyroid. The conditions are self-explanatory, and the level of activity of the thyroid reflects the adequacy or inadequacy of hormone release.
Herbs for thyroid provide the required support to the organ. They do not work like conventional medicine that tries to replace thyroid hormones, reduce the size of the gland or curb production. Herbs, vegetables and fruit have various properties that aid in the healing processes, and it is these natural capabilities that are harnessed and targeted by herbologists and naturopaths. Many natural plant-based products are strong antioxidants that can effectively combat free radicals in the body. They can also provide effective thyroid support by stimulating the gland.
One class of herbs for thyroid health used as thyroid supplement belongs to the commiphora genus of East Indian. African trees yielding balsamic products known as guggul and Ashwagandha, (_Withania somnifera_) also aid thyroid health.
Despite the fact that herbs have been used since ancient times and the curative properties of these herbs has been demonstrated adequately, they are still contested by conventionalists. The sheer lack of funding and support from research facilities is responsible for the non-acceptance of herbs in general. But conventional medicine has actually indirectly helped in popularizing herbal medicine. The side effects of allopathic drugs have been by the far the best ad campaign that herbal medicine could ever get.
A note of caution must be added here. The safety aspect of herbs should not be overplayed. Remember that many herbs have to be prepared in a particular manner to eliminate toxicity. Some, if not prepared properly can be lethal, and others need the systemic approach for preparation to be effective.
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