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"There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes."
— Tõnu Õnnepalu (Border State)
For $3.30 plus postage you can buy the collected works in hardcover of Jay Cantor.
Do you remember his works: The Death of Che, Great Neck, Krazy Kat, On Giving Birth to One's Mother, The Space Between : Literature and Politics?
I am thinking about him because like Leopold Bloom I was looking at the book carts of dollar books in front of the Strand and found GREAT NECK.
Here is a man who is a tenured professor at Tufts who runs a program in creative writing. He is also a MacArthur Fellow and as such is certified to be a genius.
He has written a comic book that is to be published in the Spring.
Great Neck is 703 pages long and published by Knopf in 2003. The copy I purchased from the Strand was unread.
I stopped reading
The leper's bell was heard before the leper appeared. But today it seems that the leper bell has acquired multiple voices and publishers ever at the ready for the next or last thing… and of course compassion is the order of the day but what to make of LOUD IN THE HOUSE OF MYSELF Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall… who you will be happy to know is an artist and a belly dancer living in New York City.
28 people are credited by the author for helping her being her book to market and that does not include anonymous others and beasts…
The woman got a lot of problems but her prose is very orderly: "Still, I spend a lot of time wondering if I'd have been a borderline if I'd been raised by liberal artists in New York City. In Prairie Grove, if you don't bow your head and pray to Jesus you're culturally transgressive. In New York, I have yet to hear anyone say grace before every meal, but my parents pray before eating a McDonald's cheeseburger…"
A good line and sure to get a chuckle in parts of New York City but I wonder if she would get a laugh at the storefront churches down here on the lower east side of Manhattan?
But it is the orderly prose that has been carefully prepared by her publishers at Norton which is the problem…
The leper's bell
If someone you love dies, you mourn . If you are a writer you then probably write about it. Even James Joyce did this. You might remember his beautiful little poem on the death of his father and the birth of his first grandson.
The concluding lines:
A child is sleeping:
An old man is gone.
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!
The poem is a model of what ought to be done.
If one is writing prose, Uwe Johnson's memorial to his friend Ingeborg Bachmann, A TRIP TO KLAGENFURT In the Footsteps of Ingeborg Bachmann, is a suitable example.
80 or so pages and we feel both Johnson's personal loss and the loss to the world at large but we are given reasons for feeling this grief. The sculptured prose, the shaping, the selection of detail and the brevity all contribute to making Johnson's book a model memorial.
Sadly, Francisco Goldman in SAY HER NAME chose to go simply with the emotion, with the feeling and allowed the words to flow on and on…
Starting in promise with a series of quotes which sadly go down hill into banality, but the start is from Waiting for Godot:
Vladimir: Suppose we repented…
Estragon: Our being born?
Goldman's own text also begins in promise: "Aura died on July 25, 2007. I went back to Mexico for the first anniversary because I wanted to be where it had happened at that beach on the Pacific Coast. Now, for the second time in a year I had come home again to Brooklyn without her.
Three months before she died, April 24, Aura had turned thirty. We'd been marred twenty-six days shy of two years."
There are a few more little snips and then as they say the plunge, fall, descend into a cellar of the text. Opened at random: "That first winter of Aura's death I was fixated on not losing my gloves, my hat, or my scarf… "
350 pages and it seems Goldman has been a guest in Berlin, in Mexico and continues I guess to live and possibly teach in New York… the book comes with many blurbs…
On and on.
He is evidentialy a man of feeling but he is still able to operate in the world with some efficiency, it would seem. Goldman is a fortunate man. But now he has to carry this book around on his back. Might it not have been better to carry the memory of his love since he has replaced this love with this book, a book of 350 pages about himself, which is perfectly sterile.
Those dollar book carts also provided: THE SECRET LIFE OF OUR TIMES. New Fiction from ESQUIRE edited by Gordon Lish. Introduction by Tom Wolfe and dedicated to Lish's son who is named Attituc. Lish mentions Captain Midnight and he became as I remember it, Captain Fiction, and charged rich people a lot of money to listen to him and to read their "fiction" --- the bait being he was an editor at Knopf and if you kissed the magical prose orifice you got a book published but then he ran into accounting problems and what happened to Gordon Lish? which echoes a novel by Charles Simmons in which the refrain is Who the fuck is Harold Brodkey?
Tom Wolfe mentions in his intro: " I do not detect the slightest shred of despair. I detect something buoyant and fun-loving.
This is in 1973.
Now, you know why something was going to go wrong. Esquire, Lish, Wolfe prided themselves on picking the best writers, writing available.
Let's make list.
Raymond Carver (2 Stories), Don DeLillo, Joy Williams (2 stories), Bruce Jay Friedman, Joyce Carol Oates, Bernard Malamud, GABRIEL Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, A.B. Yehoshua, Richard Brautigan, John Barth, John Gardiner (2 stories) Gail Godwin, John Irving, Hilma Wolitzer, Raymond Kennedy, Earl Thompson, William Harrison (2 stories) Richard Brautigan, James Purdy, David Ohle, David Huddle, Michael Rogers, John Deck, James S. Reinbold (2 stories), Jerry Bumpus, Robert Ullian, Thomas Bontly, David Kranes, Alan V. Hewat
I have arranged the names from the familiar, the vaguely familiar to the…
Of course we are all destined to be forgotten but already some of these names are forgotten except to their few close ones… but these were thought by GL and TW to be the future or at the very least a marker of that moment 1973-7, no despair, buoyant, fun-loving.
We can see now the perils of trusting those who are : fun-loving and buoyant and not given to despair.
A page by Dahlberg, Kerouac, Burrough, Wescott, Julian Green…
I know or knew a few of the less known names in this list: William Harrison taught at the University of Arkansas for many years and had no interest in what I was writing, but he was well liked by George Garrett and Tom Whalen: he had some very popular novels but then dropped to the side… much in the way of how it happens in Hollywood: one day they stop returning your phone calls… it is not because of any great failure but something happens and the phone no longer rings and eventually: I wonder what happened to?... He wrote a novel about a suicide plot of students at the University of Chicago, IN THE WILD SANCTUARY. which should have been made into a movie but that didn't happen… he began writing novels set in Africa, realistic novels with movie potential… and I guess he will be best known for ROLLERBALL which was made into a movie… he was incredibly handsome, movie star looks, rare in the world of writing
Robert Ullian was a friend of David Black who was one of the very few of the people I met when I came to NY who went on to great success not with his books of which there were many and still of much interest but as a TV writer and producer… so made lots of money… got awards for Law and Order. Miami Vice episodes… you can look him up in IMDB… but he is one of the few who I thought would write a great book… he read much more smartly than I did and was much more intelligent: I still remember him talking about how Nabokov did it… I even went to a freshman comp course he taught at one of the city colleges… he wrote and wrote and got awards for journalism but that real book has eluded him--- he tried with a book about his father: a detail of which I remember, the father hitting someone who was tormenting him and this person in turn permanently paralyzed--- that certain nightmare for anyone who had a relative who had polio and seeing people who were paralyzed… but it was the matter-of-fact cruelty of this moment in the book that has lingered all these years and I am sure DB has long forgotten in… but has gone across into the land of TV and movies but he has that lingering understanding that even more than the book writers: how perishable it all is…:
I forgot … Robert Ullian? I don't know what happened to him--- Richard Elman said his family sod mattresses or something: how's that for idle gossip?
Well, anyway, Ullian and a guy named Craig Nova and William O'Rourke were friends of David Black… Nova was married to Irini Spanindau and that ended… she became a Knopf writer… and he went off to the wilderness after writing three fierce little book sbut he quickly started writing novels that were supposed to be popular…
William O'Rourke was a disciple of Edward Dahlberg and wrote a very good firt novel MEEKNESS OF ISAAC and then some powerful essays and then seemed to move aside after some "popular" novels and ended up at Notre Dame, at least with a warm room and a place to go for some hours every week as a professor… he does political writing or commentary…
David Huddle used to invite me and David Black over to his apartment on West End Avenue where we tried to write a group porn novel inspired by both Anthony Burgess's suggestion and the success of a novel by some Newsday writers… David had been a torturer in Vietnam.. sorry ,interrogator, in Vietnam since he had a little college.. but he got the story in this anthology published and got tenure at the University of Vermont…. He taught creative writing for 30 some years and I guess still does… he keeps writing poetry and stories and novels… but they all avoid the central event of his life: what he did or didn't do in Vietnam, which is probably understandable…. But he is the epitome of the cheerful, the posiitve, the friendly...
"I do not detect the slightest shred of despair. I detect something buoyant and fun-loving."

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06 Mar 2015 • by Natalie Aster
LONDON – As urbanisation and industrialisation levels rise and irrigation practices in agriculture improve, the submersible pumps market in the APAC region is also gathering momentum.
The regional market is forecast to grow at around 6.5% CAGR to reach a value of USD 18.9 billion by 2019. China holds the lion's share (29.1%) of the market, and it will likely keep its leadership position over the forecast period. The country is set to post the fastest CAGR of 7% through to 2019, followed by India at 6.9% and Indonesia at 6.7% over the very same period. In spite of a range of favourable factors impacting the sector like decreasing resources of fresh water, deep and ultra-deep water exploration activities, the increasing number of maturing oilfields, the market is facing key challenges including failures of submersible motors, high costs of troubleshooting, amid others.
Topical research report "Asia-Pacific Submersible Pump Market by Type (Borewell & Openwell), by Industry (Chemical, Construction, Energy and Power, Water and Sewage, and Others), by Application (Industrial, Agriculture, and Domestic), and by Country - Trends and Forecasts to 2014 - 2019" worked out by MarketsandMarkets (M&M) presents a detailed analysis of the market for submersible pumps in the APAC region. It provides the volume and value data pertaining to the market, segmented based on submersible pumps' application, type and industry. A granular country-wise segmentation is provided as well. The research publication thoroughly describes the competitive landscape and the top market players, giving unbiased insights and analysis of the development strategies utilised and favoured by them. Key industry developments are disclosed, with coverage of agreements and contracts, M&As, expansions, and novel product launches. It also discusses the key market restraints, drivers, opportunities, hot issues, and key trends in the industry. Furthermore, the report contains detailed forecasts of the APAC submersible pumps market.
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The heart is the hardest working muscle in the human body. The heart is located almost in the center of the chest. The adult human heart is about the size of a fist.
The heart beats at an average rate of 80 times a minute. That's about 115,000 times in one day, or about 42 million times in a year. In a 70-year lifetime, an average human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. The heart works hard even when you are at rest.
The average heart rate for children 10 years and older and adults is 60 to 100 beats per minute. In a well-trained athlete, the heart rate can be healthy at a rate of 40 to 60 beats per minute.
The cardiovascular system is made up of the heart and blood vessels. Its job is to circulate blood throughout your body. The blood brings oxygen and nutrients to the tissues.
The heart is made up of:
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The ventricles pump the blood out of the heart.
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Arteries carry blood from the heart to the body tissues.
Veins carry blood back to the heart.
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Each valve is meant to allow the forward flow of blood. It prevents backward flow.
An electrical system that serves as a natural pacemaker and wires which conduct electricity to stimulate the heart to contract.
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The purpose of the Thames Barrier is to protect 125 square kilometres of central London from being flooded by storm surges or exceptionally high tides that can travel up the lower Thames from the North Sea. It was conceived, as a response to the catastrophic flooding of London in 1953 which killed 300 people. It was designed by Rendel, Palmer & Tritton and constructed by a consortium made up of Costain, Hollandsche Beton Maatschappij and Tarmac Construction. The ingenious gates were manufactured by Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd of Darlington, England. Work on the barrier began in 1974. It was completed in 1982 and has been operational ever since.
The Thames Barrier is located between Silvertown in the London Borough of Newham and the 'New Charlton' area of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is 520 metres (1,706ft) wide and has 10 steel gates, each weighing 3,300 tones that can be raised into a defensive position.
The Thames Barriers was originally commissioned by the Greater London Council and is now operated by the Environment Agency who monitor current weather conditions and make the decision when to operate the gates. Information is constantly gathered and analysed from weather satellites & ships, oil rigs, and coastal monitoring stations. The closure of all 10 gates takes about 1.5 hours and costs around £16,000.
As of March 2014 the Thames Barrier has been reactively closed 174 times since it was completed. Some 87 of these closures protected the city from tidal flooding while 87 closures were used to manage river flooding. The number of times per year that the barriers are required to close has been steadily increasing over the decades raising questions about the long-term effectiveness of the structure.
The best place to view this engineer marvel is from the Thames Barrier Information and Discovery Centre located on southern side of the river at the offices of the Environment Agency: 1 Unity Way, Woolwich, London, SE18 5NJ. However, it can also be viewed from the Thames Barrier Park on the opposite side of the river.
A list of closure times for scheduled maintenance is available on the official Government website: https://www.gov.uk/the-thames-barrier.
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From souvenirs to bring home to your family at half-term to local treats to sample, here is your definitive guide of what to buy as a first-time visitor to Belfast.
Irish fudge
If you have a sweet tooth, take a closer look at Irish sweets, especially Irish fudge. These delicious sweets with a creamy taste are a very popular souvenir. There are plenty of flavours to choose from, including caramel, chocolate and rum. I should say that the fudge is very, very sweet, so a little bit goes a long way.
As quintessentially Irish as shamrocks. If your friends and family members are beer lovers, a couple of cans of Guinness makes a good gift. Not a beer fan? Guinness-flavoured foods on offer include chocolate, barbecue sauces and fudges which actually taste really good. If you're looking for something more long-lasting, there are plenty of Guinness-themed souvenirs (T-shirts, mugs, key holders etc).
Irish whiskey
Irish whiskey makes the perfect gift for the male members of your family – dads, granddads, brothers etc. You can buy whisky from any Tesco. But… if you want to get something really special and have some fun into the bargain, you might want to consider going to Bushmills. Ireland's oldest distillery dates back to 1608 and offers tours and whisky tasting. You can also buy a whole range of whiskies ranging from the basic 10-year old ones (which cost around £10) to elite (21-year old whiskies (cost start from £100 to £300!). You can also get sweets (toffees or jams) with whiskey flavour.
Game of Thrones merch
If you have Game of Thrones fans among your friends and family (and I am pretty sure you do!) you are lucky. Since Northern Ireland is the main location of the series production, there's a whole bunch of themed souvenirs – from mugs to T-shirts and board games. If you want something fancier, you can look at jewellery designed in the Game of Thrones style (for example, earrings in the form of little direwolves or a necklace with a dragon egg). These things look amazing, but can be pretty expensive (from £20 to £200), so probably this gift would go to someone who is really special for you.
Irish-themed jewellery
There is a treasure trove of beautiful jewellery in Irish souvenir shops – earrings, rings, necklaces, watches etc with traditional Celtic symbols (shamrock, four-leaf clovers, Celtic knot…) They look absolutely stunning, and are very original and feminine. If you are looking for a present for your mum or a girlfriend, this could be a perfect choice. The prices vary depending on the materials (silver plated or real silver and gold) from £6 to £90.
Irish knitwear
Ireland is a country of sheep and wool, so it's no wonder that woollen clothing is one of the most popular things to buy. From cute warm socks and scarves to pullovers and shawls – you can find a gift for any taste and for any wallet. And if you come from a cold country (like me) or think the Northern Irish winter is freezing, I strongly recommend you get something for yourself as well – it will definitely become a life-saver for the winter months.
Where to shop?
The Welcome centre at Queen's, sells lots of locally produced gifts, which is just in the main Lanyon building. All or most of these things are also really easy to find in Belfast city centre in specialised gift shops like Carroll's Irish Gifts and Souvenirs and Belfast Visitor's Centre. If you want to look for something more unique, you can check out St George's Market or a shop called The Wicker Man where you'll find lots of traditional gifts and crafts created by craftsmen all over Ireland. Happy hunting!
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Redlands (Calif.) East Valley High School and USC coach Lane Kiffin are at odds thanks to a deferred scholarship.
Defensive end Kylie Fitts, a four-star recruit Rivals ranked seventh nationally at his position, was committed to USC and took extra high school classes so he could graduate early and enroll at the university in January.
Fitts talked to a couple USC coaches at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl on Jan. 5 and they said they were ready to have him on campus. But the following Monday, he received a call saying his scholarship was no longer available for the spring semester.
Fitts was supposed to be on campus on Jan. 10.
The Trojans didn't pull his scholarship entirely, but deferred him to the fall because they didn't have a scholarship freed up from a graduating senior like they thought they would. However, since Fitts had already graduated high school, he had nowhere to go and didn't want to wait.
"Recruiting man, it's crazy," Redlands East Valley coach Kurt Bruich told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "He's wanted to go to USC for as long as he can remember and now he feels betrayed. He did everything he was supposed to do from his end and he was a loyal kid. I think they thought because of that loyalty he'd still want to go there. He said to me 'What am I supposed to do for the next five months?' It seems shady. I think it seems shady to everyone."
Consequently, Fitts, who was recruited and offered by several major programs around the country, has decommitted from the Trojans and opened up his recruiting.
Bruich told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that Notre Dame, Washington and UCLA were all back in the mix.
The whole scenario has caused some consternation between Bruich, who runs one of the better programs in the state, and USC. Bruich even took to Twitter on Friday to express his feelings about USC and specifically coach Lane Kiffin.
When people are desperate, their true colors show. Take the USC coach, captain of an underachieving ship. His true color: SHADY! #goKylie
— Kurt Bruich (@CoachBruich) January 11, 2013
Recruiting issues like this happen everywhere, but this isn't exactly the kind of publicity USC needs right now, especially on the heels of an underachieving season, which resulted in a bowl loss to Georgia Tech and a 7-6 record.
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Munnar is a beautiful place in Kerala. One of the famous and preferred tourist destination for honeymooners in India. Munnar attracts newly wed couples with its superb nature beauty and scenic & serene ambiance.Breathtaking backwaters, green hill stations, lush spice plantations, historical places, beaches etc all are to make honeymoon holidays in Kerala glorious.
Have a look at major tourist attractions in Munnar
Attukal Waterfalls
One of the most mesmerizing nature's creations, the Attukal Waterfalls in Munnar are truly eye catching.Located at a distance of 9 km's from Munnar, the Attukal Waterfalls has an enticing view of hills and the thick forests, this scenic spot is ideal for a family tour or romantic honeymoon holidays.
Munnar Tea Plantations
Munnar is an attractive destination with the world's best and renowned tea estates. There are more than thirty tea estates in and around the city. The quaint and lush greenery of Munnar's tea garden is sure to entice you into divine serenity.
About 15 km from Munnar, one of the famous hill station of Kerala. an ideal place for the sight of Nilgiri Tahr or the rare mountain goat at Munnar, The panoramic beauty of Rajamala mountain will make you want to stay here forever!
Devikulam is a picturesque hill station near Munnar. Its beautiful valleys and high majestic mountains make Devikulam is an ideal picnic spot for honeymooners and Families.
Eco Point
Eco point, the sightseeing spot near Munnar, is good for boating as well. As the name suggests, Echo point is the place where you can hear the echoes of your own scream.
Eravikulam National Park
The Eravikulam National Park is home to the rare Nilgiri Tahr. The National Park home to a large variety of flora and fauna. Moreover, the beauty of the park is unique.
Tours to any destination get successful when it would be arranged by a right tour operator. There are hundreds of travel agencies in Kerala, who can arrange any tour to Kerala, but only few tour operators can make your travel memorable.
Estire Holidays and Travels offers various tour packages which include Adventure tours, Kerala Honeymoon Packages, Kerala Holiday Packages, Alleppey Houseboat Tours, Thekkady Tour Packages.


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Things have been rather quiet lately, the most excitment of late was last Saturday kisarazumama and I went up to Baltimore for the annual Edgar Allen Poe birthday celebration in honor of Eddy's 201st - it was rather disappointing that the Poe Toaster didn't show up on the night of the 19th as he has for the last 60 years to offer up half a bottle of cognac and 3 roses but certainly many folks tried to make up for it, well the roses anyway as there were quite a few on his grave this year. (If there had been cognac I do not know, perhaps the local winos had already made off with any bottles!) Somebody even put up a sign on the fence that said "Poe Toaster Applications Taken Here".
This year actor Jeffrey Combs did a one-man show entitled "Nevermore" playing Poe towards the end of his life as he is giving a reading of his work & becoming drunker & rather more unhinged throughout the performance, perhaps a bit of a controversial way to show him but they based it on many stories that made such an evenining certainly plausible. The play was directed by Comb's frequent collaborator Stuart Gordon (they are best known working together on "Re-Animator" based on a story by one of the fellows Poe certainly influenced, H.P. Lovecraft) and afterwards they did a Q&A session along with the writer of the play, Dennis Paoli, a long time friend of Gordon's.
Amused to see in attendance was last year's performer, John Astin :) It's great to see such a turnout of fellow intellectual geeks celebrating a writer!
lots of roses on Poe's grave this year
Q&A with Stuart Gordon (center) & Dennis Paoli (left)
and joined by Jeffrey Combs
We were a couple minutes late due to mondo-obsessive art collector Liz here.... I read on Audrey Kawasaki's LJ that she would be releasing a print for one hour that happened to fall between 6-7 PM (with the play to start at 7 PM) so I had to find a place with wifi en route and googled up a Panera Bread in Columbia and stopped there on the way, only to have the website crash due to the sheer #s of people trying to order and I nearly gave up as it took me about half an hour to get through but in the end I did land one and managed to get to Baltimore pretty quickly & just missed Combs' entrance.
I love the print - "Hyakki Yakou" or as I call it, "Girl with Yokai", it will be my first of hers :)


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by Frank Dunnigan
August 2013
The sword of time will pierce our skins.
It doesn't hurt when it begins,
But as it works its way on in,
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin...
—M*A*S*H theme song
Remember those old movie scenes in which hundreds of daily paper calendar pages go flying off in the wind to represent the passing days? That's the way a lot of us are beginning to feel lately.
Back in 1966, Father Jacobs taught Algebra at St. Ignatius on Stanyan Street, and he noted that that time really does seem to pass more quickly as we get older, because each single year represents a smaller and smaller proportion of our entire lifetime frame of reference. But lately—well, the passage of time has evolved into a hurricane-like whirlwind!
Just last week, I was leafing through some recent newspaper and magazine articles, reading about a number of celebrities from my own 1960s-1970s youth, who are now at, or approaching, huge birthdays. In case you have not noticed, many of the folks who were young along with all of us, are now getting downright old: Desi Arnaz, Jr., sixty; John Goodman, sixty-one; Kirstie Alley, sixty-two; Jane Pauley, sixty-three; Angela Alioto, sixty-four; Jerry Mathers, sixty-five; Elton John, sixty-six; and perky Patty Duke—who is now a very aged Social Security recipient and their online spokesperson—is sixty-seven.
Others who were just a bit ahead of many of us, age-wise, are also getting up there. Joe Namath, Julio Iglesias, Mick Jagger, Leslie Uggams, and Ken (Eddie Haskell) Osmond are all seventy. Barbra Streisand, Muhammed Ali, and Wayne Newton are seventy-one. Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Art Garfunkel are seventy-two. Al Pacino, Nancy Sinatra, Ringo Starr, and Raquel Welch are seventy-three. Judy Collins, Grace Slick, Dick Smothers, Lily Tomlin, Tina Turner, Carl Yastrzemski (remember when he was the hot-hitting new kid in the 1967 World Series?) — all seventy-four. Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, Elliot Gould, and Jon Voight are seventy-five; Mary Tyler Moore, Shirley Bassey, Warren Beatty, Bill Cosby, Tommy Smothers, and Marlo Thomas seventy-six; Alan Alda, Dick Cavett, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Redford, and Burt Reynolds seventy-seven; Woody Allen, Julie Andrews, and Dihann Carroll seventy-eight; Hank Aaron, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, and Ralph Nader are seventy-nine; and—incredibly —Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Petula Clark, and Yoko Ono are all turning eighty!
Many of these folks are as old as or even older than all four of my grandparents were at the end of their long lives! How has the passage of time moved so quickly without me noticing? (Answer: I've been getting older, too, right along with all of the above!) It further astounds me that other people, who were always "grown-ups" to so many of us—people like Willie Mays, Dan Rather, Sean Connery, Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Shirley Temple, Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett, Mel Brooks, and Doris Day are now well beyond eighty and, in several cases, almost ninety—yikes!
It's funny how all of these names evoke a feel in those of us who remember them from earlier days. These were the folks we lined up to see in long-gone theaters (the Parkside, the Coronet, the Alexandria), listened to on KYA or KFRC when out on a date in Dad's '64 Chevy Impala, or watched on prime-time TV with our families, (or perhaps syndicated reruns on a portable black-and-white TV on those long-ago late nights when the rest of the family or the roommates in our first apartment were sound asleep). We went to sporting events and concerts to see these people perform, we followed their lives and their romances, and we listened to their beliefs.
To put it as kindly as possible, very few of these folks are commanding the same level of attention and audience turn-out that they once did. An entire generation of us that grew up on the mantra "never trust anyone over thirty" has had to concede that many people who once espoused that thought are now more than double that age.
The upshot of all this is that many of us are slowly but surely beginning to cede the reins of the universe to a younger generation—one that has come of age in this millennium—people for whom the decades prior to 9/11 are as distant a memory as World War II and the Depression were for those of us who call ourselves baby boomers. I am fortunate to count among my relatives and close friends a number of bright and energetic people under the age of thirty. The troubling thing to me, though, is that they live such fast-paced lives that trying to have a conversation with many of them can sometimes make me dizzier than I normally am.
I just wish that they would learn to stop and smell the roses a bit more often—or as Ferris Bueller admonished us all more than twenty-five years ago: "Life moves pretty fast—if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
This transition to a faster-paced society is never more apparent than when I watch a television news program. When did newscasters, particularly those reporting weather, traffic, and sports, decide that they had to talk at breakneck speed? Whatever happened to Walter Cronkite's deliberate, measured cadence of precisely 120 words per minute (when many of his colleagues were clocked at 150 words per minute)? Today, we have so-called on-air talent that seems determined to reach closer to 200 words per minute—which is fine for personal reading, but not for listening to someone else speak about newsworthy issues of the day.
This, of course, is part of today's larger problem of multitasking. Who says that we have to multitask every minute of every day? When Dad mowed the lawn, he mowed the lawn, and when Mom did the laundry, she did the laundry. Not so very long ago, if we were on the phone with a friend, that's precisely what we were doing at the moment—not trying to text, drive, navigate with a GPS, eat breakfast, drink coffee, or comb our hair at the same time—mainly because we were tethered to the wall by the telephone cord. Sometimes technology improvements fall victim to the rule of unintended consequences, when they cause us to miss out on some important things because we end up trying to do too many things all at the same time.
In the early 1950s, my grandfather, a retired longshoreman, just a bit older than I am today, always set aside certain parts of each day for doing the things that he enjoyed the most. When I asked him why he was usually sitting in his armchair in the living room whenever I came to visit, he explained that he had to read his newspaper after breakfast until he was finished with it—obituaries first, then news, sports, comics, horoscope, columnists, weather, and crossword—in that order. Then it was time to listen to the radio, have a bite of lunch, and then go out and do a few errands for Grandma, perhaps bumping into a friend and having a chat, and then buying the evening newspaper. Once he was back at home, it was time to put on his slippers and go through the day's mail before dinnertime, and then after dinner, there was that freshly printed evening newspaper to read, along with newly-arrived copies of Life, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post that might have been in that day's mail, and perhaps watch or listen to a favorite TV or radio program. If Grandma suggested a different project to him, he would consider it, but usually with the response, "That's a good idea—that's what tomorrow is for."
Today, I think back to my grandfather's outlook on life and try to pursue my own activities with that same level of enthusiasm and satisfaction that he showed—and I do believe that it's time to see what's new with Woody and David's latest podcast before I check my email and then stretch out on the couch to finish reading my electronic copy of the San Francisco Chronicle, and then take a short nap before dinner!
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It's Saturday and of course that means there isn't a game for Lewes. It actually could be any day of the week at the moment and the game wouldn't be on. The rules state that we actually had to wait until Friday to officially call the game off, although the persistent rain during the last week had left a lake the size of the a swimming pool across the pitch.
The latest postponement, the fifth in succession, means that the club have played just two games at the aptly named Dripping Pan since November. Somehow, somewhere we have to fit in nine games that have now been postponed. Lewes aren't the worst hit team by any means – Grays Athletic have played four games less than us and are still in the Ryman League Cup.
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We are inviting you to the fascinating one-day tour to Veliky Novgorod from Saint-Petersburg by express train "Lastochka"!
During this wonderful trip you will visit one of the oldest and one of the most important Russian towns, which was first mentioned in 859. After a pleasant journey on the high-speed comfortable train which takes only 2.5 hours you will be met by a local guide with the driver who will make you a sightseeing tour around Novgorod, tell you the history of this ancient town, show you the Kremlin which was constructed in 1044 and which was used as a fortress and as a central administrative part of the city. There you will discover a monument to the Millennium of Russia, designed by Mikhail Mikeshin and established in 1862 to celebrate the millennium since the first Russian king Rurik arrived to Novgorod. After that you will visit the Cathedral of Saint Sophia – the main orthodox church of the Archbishop of Novgorod constructed in the early 11th century. Inside you will find beautiful ancient frescoes, wooden iconostasis with old Russian icons, including the miraculous 12 century icon of Our Lady of the Sign.
Your private tour guide will also take you to the other side of the River Volkhov where you will see the Yaroslav's Court – the market area of the ancient Novgorod with the walls of the Merchant's Yard and nearly 5 different orthodox churches such as St. Nicholas Church, Church of St. Procopius and the Church of the Myrrh-bearing Women. This area is surrounded by small Russian-styled cafes, don't hesitate to try Russian Borsch or pancakes, pies and pelmeni!
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By Laozangmin (Old Tibetan) See the original article in Chinese
Group photo of retired cadres and Aku Tenba (from the left: Drolma gyab, Dorje, Tseden, Youla, Dorje Tsering, Louba, Geri, Dorjetar, Guoba)
It is difficult to drive through Guomai pass' wall of fog ("Guomai la" is "Laji Mountain" in Chinese, the watershed of the Yellow River and the Tsongkha River (Chin. Huang Shui), the mountain dividing "Haidong" from "Qingnan"), on the other side of the mountain you can see a project underway—"Xijiu Highway's Laji Mountain Tunnel". By 2011 at the latest, this five-kilometer tunnel will overcome this 3,820 meter high natural barrier, saving a lot of trouble and all kinds of potential driving hazards. In all, this time it took me almost three hours before I arrived at the Trika (Chin. Guide) County seat.
First thing in the morning the next day, I went to Minyak Stupa, and chatted with Aku Tenba. At the doorway to Minyak Temple I saw two women prostrating to the tightly closed doors: silhouettes falling together, mouths murmuring prayers that converged with the sound of morning prayers chanted by monks inside the temple to create a kind of beautiful song of praise to the morning. Behind them, next to a pool of incense, that scraggly cluster of lilacs (Tib. Agara)—a luxuriant foliage of lilacs, a single bud left on a branch, pleasantly surprised me beyond words—
Tibetan sixth month: hometown lilacs
Flames waving like lilacs—offering lamps in front of Minyak Stupa
A small room on the south side of Minyak Stupa suddenly appears in front of my eyes. I've never noticed this corner before. Aku Tenba says retired cadres come on their own to work, they've already cleared away the weeds from inside a long-abandoned building, tidied it up, and are preparing to use it as a resting station for pilgrims. It is also everyone rebuilding this Tsanpo Stupa for the sake of salvation, amassing goodwill, the "public space" of a concerted agenda.
Minyak Temple
Pilgrims below Minyak Stupa
In front of the stupa I also have a new discovery—a big iron box for offering lamps and incense. Aku Tenba said that everyone pitched in to purchase it. In the winding corridor below the stupa I also realized there was a list of donor names and a description of where contributions went; temple operations made public, under the full supervision of everyone, even though it's not an innovation, it still gives people a new feeling and inspiration. Aku Tenpa said those retired cadres are extremely hard working, they come everyday to do circumambulations, then bump heads at the monastery's temple management committee, everyday everyone has a new topic, "sometimes they'll argue about one thing until they're red in the face", Aku Tenpa said.
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Donors of the offering box, incense alter and prayer flags'
From Minyak Monastery Lunar calendar 25 April 2009
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Announcement of the situation of expenditure of donations and investments by the faithful general public for Trika's Minyak Stupa
1. The making of an entire mani wheel: 640 expended
2. Newly made iron box for butter lamps: 2557 donated
3. Work on a new incense altar: 432 expended
4. A building with four sections: 1425 expended
5. Purchased 300 small and large butter lamp offering cups: 1050 donated
6. Purchased 9 boxes of offering butter: 720 expended
7. Hoisting prayer flags in the seven directions of the monastery: 50 expended
8. Releasing baby fish: 100 expended
9. Purchased utensils for renovated building: 242 expended Utensils included one cooking pot, two small and large water ladles, two washing basins, one water utensil, two small and large tea thermoses, two iron plates, ten chairs, and eight locks.
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I met those retired cadres at the temple management committee, they were all still full of youthful spirit, most had worked for several decades at the grassroots level, they came from all over: Guinan, Tongde, Hualong, and also local Trika people, they have now chosen to settle down in the Trika County seat. Talking with these old fellows I felt like they were also just like young people who had their own issues they paid attention to and individual interests, for example old Tseden who worked in Golok half his life had considerable understanding of research on Tibetan history and local views. From the bodies of these older generations I saw an old but firm power of belief and a beacon of hope of kindred spirits—here I'd like to manipulate a line of Mr. Lu Xun's: I'm not afraid to speculate about the best intentions for the Tibetan people (the original saying was "I'm not afraid to speculate about the most evil intentions for the Chinese people"!)
Old Tseden: A pipe and misty appearance, talking about history he is clear and logical.
Going through a curtain of rain and looking back at that high mountain locked deeply in thick fog, I truly long for Guomai la Tunnel to be built and put into use sooner!
Reader comments
[11 August 2009 | By: Huare Xiuduo]
To those Trika scholars who have a heart, come back more to your old home (typo in original?), introduce your hometown, the true situation can be seen, true hearts can help. I read this with pleasure!
[11 August 2009 | By: 1]
The comments on your blog are all by your own hand! This kind of self-consoling tactic shows that you're not an ordinary son of a dog! Remember, internet search engines are something terrible!!!!! A simple method can reveal a comment's ID in an instant, sure enough it's a shit eater!!
Below is Laozangmin's reply:
"A simple method can reveal a comment's ID in an instant"—this is quite new, please teach us this "simple method", presumably this commenter is familiar with this way, I sincerely ask you to teach us — on another note, I express my deep pity for your pain and worrisome troubles that come from ignorance!
[10 August 2009 | By: Palm of Melting Snow (Zhangxin Huaxue)]
Those bragging and speaking empty words have left, but those like Laozangmin remember one thing, honestly, there are fewer and fewer people doing real work. Helping one.
[6 August 2009 | DF.W]
The power of faith will certainly allow the only Tsanpo Stupa in this world, this stupa that is a symbol of respect for ethnic culture will certainly tower over this land, bless this land with favorable conditions and good luck. Thanks to Laozangmin, thanks to these old folks who earn people's respect!
[5 August 2009 | He]
You're still conducting propaganda for the stupa, your energy is admirable. Minyak Stupa is your everlasting topic.
[4 August 2009 | NNN]
Minyak Stupa is your everlasting topic……
[4 August 2009 | A bowl of barley wine]
Actually you're the person who has put in the most effort to rebuild this Tsanpo Stupa for the sake of salvation, as a fellow villager I thank you for your many years of hard work, I salute you.


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How would it feel to be traveling in space and looking out at the vast universe and wondering if you will ever see home again?
Late elementary to early intermediate students who like moving, expressive music will enjoy the wistful, longing melody of Far From Home. This piece will give your student practice in moving their hands from one 5-finger position to another in such an easy way they hardly know they are doing it. If you have a student who can play above their reading ability, Far From Home can also be taught practically by rote. A reflective older beginner or adult student who wants to play something more difficult than they are currently working on in their lesson book will enjoy this piece. The score includes careful pedaling, expression markings, and fingering, for an artistic performance.
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Interstate 910 Louisiana
Signed in the field as Business U.S. 90, Interstate 910 is the hidden route number for the West Bank Expressway. This designation is a precursor to the Future Interstate 49 extension, which may take over all of existing I-910 once it is constructed parallel to existing U.S. 90 between Lafayette and the greater New Orleans area.
The West Bank Expressway is a commuter freeway joining Westwago, Marrero, Harvey and Gretna with the New Orleans central business district via the Crescent City Connection Bridge. The Mississippi River crossing was tolled until March 2013, when a court ruling suspended them. The toll plaza remained in place until June 8, 2016, when demolition work started.1
Route Information
East End – New Orleans, LA
West End – Marrero, LA
Mileage – 9.70
Cities – New Orleans
- Junctions –
Source: December 31, 2018 Interstate Route Log and Finders List
I-910 Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT)
|Vehicles per day
|East of Ames Bl
|Exits 5 to 6
|Exits 6 to 8
|Exits 9 to 9A
|GNO Bridge
|Exit 11 to I-10
Source: La DOTD – Average Daily Traffic Counts
Orleans Parish 2013, Jefferson Parish 2017
U.S. 90 Business in New Orleans was designated as a part of Future Interstate 49 in 1991 by federal legislation. Kam Movassaghi, secretary of the state Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD), requested federal officials in May 1999 to formally label both U.S. 90 Business in New Orleans and along the Westbank Expressway as part of Interstate 49 as well as a section of U.S. 90 freeway from Raceland to Berwick. Federal officials rejected the two requests in September 1999 because neither were connected to the existing Interstate 49. Instead officials offered to make the New Orleans segment a spur of I-10 until I-49 is extended.2
The Interstate 910 designation came to fruition when it was approved by AASHTO on October 1, 1999, but it was not signed. The October 31, 2002, Interstate Route Log and Finders List, published by the Federal Highway Administration, revealed that the Interstate 910 designation is official on its Auxiliary Routes page with 9.70 miles.
Subsequent actions by LADOTD for I-910 from an January 2003 email indicated that signing the route was still a possibility:3
The signing of the Westbank Expressway as I-910 is still on hold due to the inclusion of this section of highway in the Future I-49 Corridor. The Department is about to initiate work on an Environmental Impact Statement for 37 miles west of the Westbank Expressway. At the conclusion of that study, we will be in a better position to determine how to proceed.
Since that time, the Interstate 910 designation remains unsigned and no further plans to post it were announced. As originally envisioned, I-49 South will extend southeastward from Lafayette to Morgan City, east to Houma and east northeast to the Westbank Expressway and New Orleans. The east end is not set in stone however, as I-49 South may instead turn northward at Boutte and overtake Interstate 310 to end at I-10 by Kenner. Should that be the case, I-910 may remain indefinitely in place along U.S. 90 Business.
East End – New Orleans, Louisiana
West End / End of Westbank Expressway – Marrero, Louisiana
- "Crescent City Connection toll plaza demolition to start Wednesday." Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA), June 5, 2016.
- "I-910 MAY PAVE PATH IN N.O." The Times-Picayune, April 1, 2000.
- Email from Ronnie Goynes, LADOTD (01/27/03)
Page updated September 21, 2016.


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Why Responsive Design is the most important feature for your website
Responsive web design allows a website to adjust its layout to the screen size on the device that is being used by the viewer. This allows any sized screens from mobile phones to large monitors to have the same content presented with text and images appropriately sized to be read.
Why is Responsive Design the most important feature for your website?
Here are the reasons:
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The majority of people will use their smartphones to search for something online. When someone visits a website it can only take a few seconds before they decided whether to stay on that website or find another. So not only do you need content that is to the point and obvious, having that content in a logical and easy to read layout is critical. If someone visits your website and they cannot find what they need efficiently, they will leave. Having a Responsive Design will ensure that your content will scale based on the device the viewer is using so that they can access your content with ease.
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Google recommends responsive design not only to make it easier for your viewers but it indirectly helps to index your website in search engines. This can affect the ranking of your website in search results as it makes Googlebot's crawling more efficient and can index more of your websites content.
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Long gone are the times where we have two versions of a website, a core website and a mobile website. This has become extremely time-consuming having to maintain two websites. With responsive design, we can simply scale all of the website's elements to fit any device screen size. This can even work with new devices to the market with limited maintenance or change.


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JERUSALEM — Claims by the son of a Hamas founder Wednesday that he was a long-term spy for Israel exposed a new side of the Islamic militant group's vulnerability and punched a hole in its meticulously groomed image of secrecy and discipline.
The spy affair comes at a time when Hamas is still reeling from suspicions that Hamas informants helped Israel assassinate a top Hamas operative in a Dubai hotel. The back-to-back scandals were sure to leave Hamas leaders fearful of their own and ever more painfully aware of how capable Israel is of reaching the inner circles of their organization.
At the center of the latest affair is 32-year-old Mosab Yousef, a son of Sheik Hassan Yousef, a Hamas founder serving a six-year term in an Israeli prison.
Hamas, which overran the Gaza Strip in 2007, dismissed the younger Yousef's claims as a lie and said they were part of an Israeli attempt to weaken the movement. However, the man's father did not rule out that his son was an informer, contending he was blackmailed by Israeli agents as a teen.
New security concerns
Analysts said the disclosures hurt Hamas' image and were sure to trigger new security concerns in the movement.
The Israeli Haaretz daily reported Wednesday that Mosab Yousef provided intelligence to Israel's Shin Bet security service for more than a decade, preventing dozens of Hamas attacks against Israelis, including suicide bombings, saving hundreds of lives. The paper said he also helped put several senior Palestinian operatives behind bars.
The younger Yousef, who moved to California in 2007, declined an interview request by The Associated Press.
His memoir, "Son of Hamas," is being published in the United States next week. His publicist confirmed that the information presented by Haaretz is described in the book. The author wrote on his Facebook page that his memoir "will blow your minds away, it is going to be like a tsunami in the Middle East."
Mosab Yousef was considered one of the Shin Bet's most valuable assets and was dubbed "The Green Prince," a reference to his Hamas pedigree and the Islamists' signature green color, Haaretz said.
The newspaper said it confirmed Mosab Yousef's account with Shin Bet agents, including his handler. The report said Mosab, who converted to Christianity, despised Hamas and acted out of ideological conviction.
The elder Yousef said in a statement from prison that he did not rule out that his son was recruited by Israeli intelligence, but he had no access to the movement's secrets.
First jailed by Israel in 1996
The father said Mosab was first blackmailed by the Israeli agents as a 17-year-old, and others in Hamas were told. The cleric did not say what damaging information Shin Bet might have used against his son.
"Whether what Haaretz reported is true or not, Mosab was not an active member in Hamas or in any of its military, political or religious branches, or any other body," the elder Yousef said in the statement distributed by Hamas.
Mosab Yousef was first jailed by Israel in 1996 and released in 1997.
The Shin Bet routinely tries to recruit Palestinians of all factions as informers, including those in prisons, by using blackmail or promising benefits, such as work or travel permits.
The spy affair comes at a time when Hamas is still smarting from the Jan. 19 assassination in Dubai of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, suspected by Israel of procuring Iranian arms for Gaza.
On Wednesday, Dubai police said at least 15 more suspects using foreign passports are wanted for the slaying of the Hamas commander, raising the alleged hit squad tally to at least 26. Several names were traced to Israeli dual nationals, but all denied involvement.
The violent Hamas has been in Israel's sights since its founding in 1987. Israel has killed key Hamas leaders in Gaza, most in airstrikes, though it botched a 1997 attempt to kill Khaled Mashaal, now the movement's supreme leader.
More vulnerable to infiltration
Authorities in Dubai have arrested two Palestinians in the al-Mabhouh slaying. Hamas' Fatah rivals in the West Bank have alleged that Hamas moles helped the killers.
Hamas also denied media reports that two al-Mabhouh aides in Damascus were sought for questioning about the assassination. Instead, Hamas has alleged that the two Palestinians in custody in Dubai had links to Fatah.
Hamas long prided itself in its secrecy and discipline, in contrast to the fractious, unruly Fatah movement.
However, analysts said that as Hamas grew from a shadowy underground movement into Gaza's ruler, it became more vulnerable to infiltration.
"Hamas is no longer a small organization which is easily controlled by any leadership," said Khaled Hroub, a Hamas expert at Cambridge University.
The al-Mabhouh assassination undermined Hamas' image as a coherent, organized group, and the exposure of Mosab Yousef as an informer was even more damaging, he added.
"There have been a number of stories of having some collaborators on the margins and fringes (of Hamas), but not the son of a leader," he said. "It will leave a stain on Hamas' image."
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As an editor, I'm frequently asked questions about writing. In this series, I'll work on answering some of those questions. Sometimes questions don't come in the form of, well… questions. Sometimes the question lies in random conversations. So, here we go! Number one:
The truth is, I have nothing worth reading in this little head of mine. There's no story. No inspiration. No drama worth expressing to the world. There's nothing to give a shit about. I don't even know what to write about. I'm nobody with nothing to say.
Sound familiar?
The actual truth is that everyone has a story worth telling. Everyone has a voice worth listening to. The most common problem is that we have to figure out how to let the voice out without caring what anyone has to say about it. The question isn't, "What should I write about?" The question is, "How do I let my story out?"
You. Just. Write.
See, fear is debilitating in any realm, not just writing. The fear of what others think often drives us out of our minds. Fear of rejection or trolls or whatever often keeps our truths just out of arm's reach which then keeps us from writing down what's in our souls. That's always been my problem.
But, guess what?
I'm learning to shut that filter down, too. I'm learning to let people's opinions fly through one ear and out the other without a second thought. Let that shit fall by the wayside. Not only is this new attitude doing wonders for my writing, it's also having a killer effect on my personal life.
So, you know what? Fuck other people and their opinions. You don't have to be rude, hateful, or nasty, but never censor yourself either. Don't let small minds keep you from sharing your story. Be you, do you, and your mind and writing will thank you for it.
You have a voice; go use it.


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Man commits suicide, helps others live
Relatives of Gautam Tandel, who committed suicide on Monday morning, donated his eyes and skin as per his last wish; cops yet to ascertain reason behind the drastic step
Relatives of Gautam Tandel woke up to a tragic Monday morning after they were informed that the 40-year-old had ended his life. What baffled the relatives was the fact that Tandel had not left behind a suicide note. This notwithstanding, they fulfilled his last wish of donating his eyes and skin following his death.
"We were surprised when he insisted that we should donate his organs if he passed away during Diwali. Those were the last words he said to me in person," said Kalpana Patel, Tandel's sister. A former IT professional, Tandel resided alone in a flat in Kurla (W), and allegedly hanged himself from the ceiling on Monday morning around 7.45 am. It was his neighbours who first discovered the body. They broke open the door after Tandel failed to respond to their calls and repeated knocks on the door.
"We were informed about the unfortunate incident around 8.30 am. He was rushed to the civic-run Rajawadi Hospital. We insisted that before we take his body home, we wanted to donate whatever organs that could be collected," said Patel. While Tandel's eyes were collected on time after contacting an NGO, the Patels had to contact at least four NGOs before they got in touch with Sion Hospital's skin bank, almost seven hours after his death.
"His death was so sudden and unexpected, we were not prepared and struggled to get in touch with an NGO that could direct us to the right place. I approached several doctors in the casualty ward of the hospital, but they said donating his skin was not possible," said Yogesh, another relative. It was around 3 pm when doctors from the Sion Hospital reached the morgue to collect Tandel's skin in the nick of time. The Patels felt that posters or signboards with contact details of NGOs should have been installed at the morgue and casualty ward for spreading awareness.
Dr Kanchan S, a doctor from the burns unit of the Sion hospital, said, "Usually, we collect skin from the inner thighs, legs or dorsal side of a deceased after we are notified by our NGO within six hours of the patient's death. After six hours the skin starts deteriorating. This is the first time we collected skin from a morgue. Generally it is done in the casualty or emergency ward, an hour or so after the patient's death. In this case, the skin was collected just in time."
Tested and preserved
Once collected, the skin is then processed in the microbiology department, and the blood is tested for diseases such as AIDS, hepatitis, among others. If the skin tests negative for the diseases, it is stored in a frozen state for future use. Doctors said preserved skin lasts for four to six months and is used in skin grafting.
"In homographs and allographs, the skin is used on patients to promote tissue formation or granulation so that the patient heals. The skin is applied for only three to four days and then removed," said Kanchan. Dr Sanjay Wathore, medical officer at the post-mortem centre of the Rajawadi Hospital, said this was the first time that skin donation took place there.
"The cause of death was asphyxiation. We are glad his eyes and skin were sent for donation, which will benefit other patients," he said. A sub inspector from the Kurla police station said a case of accidental death was registered in the matter and investigation was on to determine why Tandel took such a drastic step.
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Love to the End, at its core, follows the life and work of a modern day Orthodox Christian saint, Mother Maria Skobtsova. To give a brief summary of her life, the saint was born in pre-Revolutionary Russia into an aristocratic family and was a part of the events that rocked the world to its core. She was early on a part of the Bolshevik movement, but seeing that the new regime was as cruel, if not worse, than the one which preceded it, she fled with her children to France. On the way she had a conversion of the heart, in great part due to the loss of one of her children, and she returned to the Orthodox faith and was tonsured a nun. She lived out this vocation in the middle of Paris, devoting her life to the service of the poor. She met her end rescuing Jews from death in the concentration camps, giving up her life on Good Friday 1945. She embodied Christ's words, "no greater love hath a man than this, that he give his life for his friends." She is commemorated by the state of Israel as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations," and amongst the Orthodox as a saint and martyr.
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In life, they say, there are no shortcuts. The same can be said for GEA's approach to innovation – including its latest offering: the GEA CompaX – the world's first semi-hermetic compact screw compressor designed for use with NH3, or ammonia chillers.
Following seven years of intense development, this new technology is opening up new opportunities for customers to solve their air conditioning needs while meeting safety, sustainability, cost-effectiveness and reliability targets.
What do frozen pizza, an indoor ski arena in Dubai and a bustling airport or hospital in summer all have in common? They all need to be kept cool. And while we have come to take such conveniences for granted, the pressure is on to increase the sustainability and efficiency of the refrigeration and cooling technologies we depend on today.
A critical component of any cooling system is the refrigerant. In the past, the go-to solution was hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), however, they are being phased out around the world and primarily replaced with natural refrigerants, such as ammonia – a colorless inorganic compound of nitrogen and hydrogen which can exist in either liquid or gas form. While this transition to "NatRefs" takes place, many producers, and therefore their customers, are still dependent upon HFCs for their air conditioning, heat pumps and chillers, which has broad impacts across the commercial, industrial and residential sectors. Likewise, the cost of HFCs are increasing, for example in Europe, due to the decreased HFC quota under the new European F-gas Regulation.
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The smart 3-in-1 design of the GEA CompaX builds on proven GEA Grasso M series compressor technology, incorporating a suction gas-cooled electric motor and an oil separator in an extremely compact design without external piping. The compressor's outstanding efficiency is a result of the copper winding in its suction gas-cooled electric motor – unique for ammonia compressors. This solution means no external cooling is required. Its compactness further reduces the risk of leakage and eliminates the need for a shaft seal. Thanks to GEA CompaX, customers can simply have it all: Minimized leakage risk for safe air conditioning as well as an ammonia solution for maximum plant efficiency and a clean environment.
The CompaX forms the heart of the recently launched GEA BluQ chiller, and is surrounded by efficient heat exchangers. A key advantage of the new BluQ chiller is that it only requires 40-50 g of ammonia per kW cooling capacity, meeting international demand for "low ammonia content" liquid chillers. If you compare the BluQ with its 1.2 MW and required 60 kg of ammonia to HFC chillers, which may require 400 kg of refrigerant, that alone represents a significant cost-savings. "The new GEA CompaX compressor combined with the GEA BluQ chiller not only provides end users with a way forward and out of their current situation, but is a truly future-proof solution that delivers in terms of CO2 reduction, total cost of ownership (TCO), safety and reliability," explains Dirk Oschetzke, GEA product manager for screw compressors.


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(And yes, I deliberately put all the cool stuff on top to piss off luddites.)
Be sure to watch this 'ere video. It'll blow your socks off.
Especially if your a Trekkie. Then you simply cannot afford to not watch it.
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Autism symptoms reversed in lab
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