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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Disgusted with LIAT's serviceEdward E. Doway - Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 at 9:26 AM
Dear Editor,
One of the reasons why tourism in Dominica is at a low is because the Caribbean lacks a proper airline.
People tell me they refuse to visit islands in the Caribbean where LIAT flies and I can certainly understand why. In fact, though LIAT was my first Corporate employer, I am very ashamed and disgusted with the service and I have had some very bad experiences with the Antigua-based airline.
Imagine, I am trying to travel to St. Kitts from Dominica for a meeting and not only is it impossible to find a flight that would take me there in one stop, the flights are so expensive and the service, especially from LIAT is so poor.
How is tourism in the Caribbean ever going to improve when the Caribbean Airline is only focused on servicing Antigua and if one is going to St. St.Kitts in the North, you have to travel to Barbados. What is the logic? Not even God in heaven understands.
I resided in the Bahamas for years and it is so easy and so much cheaper to travel within the Bahamian Islands and also to North America. There are so many options.
I believe the Caribbean Governments should consider taking LIAT off the routes that LIAT says is unprofitable like Dominica and Nevis and allow for a new Airline which would be registered in Anguilla or Trinidad and Tobago, so that they don't have to deal with Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority in Antigua.
It is about time we allow the smaller Caribbean islands in the North to have access to proper, punctual air service. Once I thought that the passengers were the reasons for the flight delays, but now I am convinced that it is the Operations Center in Antigua and the pilots.
Well, let's open the doors. There is a very large airspace in the Caribbean and Trinidad that can give us all the air safety coverage that we need. Thanks to Seaborne and Winair, maybe we can expand their routes within the region and forget Caricom treaties, but provide a service to our locals and visitors.
Our problem right now is not the lack of an International Airport in Dominica. We lack the comfort of knowing that we can move from point A to point B in the lesser Caribbean and get where we are going on time at a reasonable airfare. ECCA keeps stonewalling investors who want to start a new airline because they want to protect LIAT.
Barbados wants to get all the tourist visiting the Caribbean, so they make LIAT divert all its flights via Barbados. Maybe out people need to impress on our leaders to wake up and take action.
The lack of airlift is the lack of visitors to fill our hotel rooms allowing us to see a Return on Our Investment.
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72 Comments
This airline they call liat is the most digusting airline that ever sailed the skies. They are a disgrace to aviation.Most of the staff have no manners, the administration of this company have no idea as to what humsn relations is about nor anykind of sense. as to CUSTOMER SERVICE. may be if they new how to serve people they would be better off. God will help them see the LIGHT .Customer service is just not in their line of Business
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque December 16, 2016
Steve, see if you can cipher this one out, we are using Antigua condition of Independence as an example, the arrangement with Antigua is totally different from Dominica in that they have a governor-general representing the queen who is actually head of State, in regards to Antigua.
Charles Savarin is Dominica head of state, and that's the difference, which cause us not to be a member of the British Commonwealth of nations, all our former links to Britain has been severed.
"Antigua and Barbuda is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary form of government. The British monarch is nominal head of state, represented by a governor-general. The constitution allows for a two-chamber legislature, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives. Executive power is vested in a Council of Ministers headed by the prime minister, who is the head of government."
"a constitutional monarchy ." that makes a vast difference in our system of government.
Them people just chat with no sense. Build an international Airport and you'll have options. The Parrotts nah fly go no where. LIAT will get and ease. LIAT have too much problem with Dominica , bad weather, planes can't land, remove weights to maintain balance when landing and take off at DOM. hEAVY RAINFALL AND WINDS EXCEEDING 23 KNOTS COME ON. you need an International runway.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to explain that to some Parrots.
And as for the culprit Doway, we need to be Compensated and Reimbursed for the monies . Fork it up.
"Francisco, there are quite a few small ones, including Air Antilles, Winair, Hummingbird, Air Sunshine, Cape Air, Tradewind, etc., and what I'm describing only takes one."(Steve).
Okay Steve, let me agree that there are more regional Airline than I knew existed. the few which I recognized are limited to the same size of aircraft as LIAT has. It is not a lack of airlines, and getting more commuter aircrafts to fly to Dominica.
The problem, and obstacle of Dominica, is that we do not have an International Airport. Take it from me; if there was an International Airport in Dominica, there would be no need for LIAT. You talk about Hummingbird, they say it is owned by Sam Raphael Dominica, but where is Hummingbird now based?
I hear in St. Croix, isn't that strange Steve? I have an emergency at the moment, later when I get back I will expand on this.
Okay, let me tell you this; in every business, one have to find a way to improve the business in a way that will produce revenue, and be profitable the idea is not to operate at a lost, you cannot afford to operate in the red, and continue in business.
A few years ago Gerald "Jerry" Watts born in Dominica, I believe but certainly to a Dominica mother from Portsmouth, who was a minister in the George Walters government in Antigua. That was in the 1970's saw the need to develop LIAT to a point where LIAT could operate Internationally. Hence, he went to Dominica, and consulted with Dominica Government, and inform our government of the day of the changes which about to take place, and that or Government should build an International Airport to accommodate LIAT passenger 747 Jet propulsion aircrafts.
LIAT two 747 aircrafts, and began flight to Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Guyana, and they had a few flights into Miami Florida. Dominica could have definite from the…
Edison got money from the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan, in the form of grants, and loan, of which the interest rate on the loans were fixed at 4% Rosie Douglas, and even little-boy Skerrit ran his mouth off saying they have no need for international airport in Dominica. Ian pop eye said they could get "jetport" built for a fraction Edison James is spending to build one.
The fact of the matter is this: The Airport James and the UWP had in its first phase construction cost less than four hundred million, dollars of the secured 80% of the money from the Government of Trinidad & Tobago tobuild it, what did Mr. illustrious Athie Martin and his coalition party do. They shut it down, chasseing the Trinidad contractors, and engineers out of Dominica.
More to come!
"LIAT two 747 aircrafts, and began flight to Jamaica,"
Let that read LIAT bought two 747's aircrafts.
LIAT two 747 aircrafts, and began flight to Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Guyana, and they had a few flights into Miami Florida. Dominica could have definite from the improvements, Dominica government refused to take the advise of Jerry, stating it is too expensive to build International Airport in Dominica.
To crown it all both ignorant Dominicans along with Dominica government officials said "we doh want it, because Antigua, and Barbados have one already."
Can you imagine the stupidity in our people? The UWP came along led by Edison James, and by the way I would not sleep well if I did not identify him as me cousin too. He decided to build a International Airport, he got money, from the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan, in the form of grants, and loan, of which the interest rate on the loans were fixed at 4% Rosie Douglas, and even little-boy Skerrit ran his mouth off saying they have no need for international…
Steve Foerster December 15, 2016
Look, I wish we had nonstop flights to New York and London too, but it would cost a billion E.C. dollars to build an international airport, which means that even if we live as long as Ma Pampo we will never, ever see it. I wish that weren't so, but it is, and the focus needs to be on what is actually possible, such as more smartly scheduled connecting flights that eliminate the need for overnight stays in the region.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque December 17, 2016
Steve, it is sentiments such as yours which has caused Dominica not to have an International Airport you see.
What is the difference in you complaining it will cost a billion dollars to build one, is it not the same as saying "we doh want it?"
When Edison James was building one for less than four hundred million dollars the Labor Party including Skerrit said it was too expensive, and they could build one for a fraction of what James was spending.
So how come you are complaining it will cost a billion dollars to build. Don't you know the longer Skerrit procrastinate, it is the more expensive it will become to build. St. Vincent International is the last I know to be build, one have to spend money in order to make money. St. Vincent International will not pay for it self in ten years, but eventually it will pay for itself!
I am surprised you feel that way, in that case you are suggesting that an International Airport must never be built in Dominica. Steve I do not care…
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque December 17, 2016
I am surprised you feel that way, in that case you are suggesting that an International Airport must never be built in Dominica. Steve I do not care what connecting flight you talk about it will not help.
The Chines told Skerrit, the only way Dominica will begin to make some progress is when we build an International Airport. There is absolutely no alternative. you can station thousand the size of LIAT on all of the islands with International Airport waiting to Dominica, that will not help one bit!
Tourism is a flop in Dominica because there are no improvements to Air Access to the Island. LIAT in it's capacity is trying it's best regardless of our weather namely High Winds at Douglas Charles, weight to and from the island have to be removed to maintain the weight and balance of the Aircraft during take off and landings.
Mr. Doway should know that if he claims to have worked at LIAT. No Airline knows the ins and outs of Dominica like LIAT.
A solution to the problem is to build an international airport where the people would have choices of travel and more tourists. I find that as a past worker of LIAT he lacks the knowledge of Airline business, safety and security and airlines suffer ridicule for following these rules. If LIAT was not following these rules then the FAA would've ceased operations. Mr. Doway shame on you.
Hebrew it appear that when they wanted to circumsize you they gave you a lobotomy instead.. If you are not qualified to talk about a subject is best you keep quiet unless you want to appear to be a fool. Ask father Christmas to bring you a pair of wings so you can start practice flying or to change you into one of his reindeer. you will get free food and travel.
Wait this guy is in Dominica? We know you as Joseph Doway. What has become of our Monies from the Aero Club Flight School? What advise you have for LIAT Airlines if you have failed in Managing a simple flight school with a single engine Aircraft. We still need reimbursements for training, some of us are still paying our loans and you ran to Dominica.
LIAT our Airline has it's problems and it is transparent in all it's transactions but you have not been nor could you get your dream flights to Barbuda sorted out. Come on, anyone from Antigua who reads your article will laugh
Titiwi, read the following, perhaps you will discover you know less about Liechtenstein than you think you know. It is a sovereign nation, a sovereign State to 1806, that country has been a sovereign nation for two (210) hundred ten years, where are you from?
The Principality of Liechtenstein was established within the Holy Roman Empire in 1719; it became a sovereign state in 1806.
Until the end of World War I, it was closely tied to Austria, but the economic devastation caused by that conflict forced Liechtenstein to conclude a customs and monetary union with Switzerland.
Note: all the islands of the Caribbean except Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad, have the same arrangement with East Caribbean Currency.
Since World War II (in which Liechtenstein remained neutral) the country's low taxes have spurred outstanding economic growth. However, shortcomings in banking regulatory oversight have resulted in concerns about the use of the financial institutions for money laundering.
"Mr. Foerster, as it is we are not truly independent, But neither are Monaco, Lichtenstein, San Marino although they have sovereign status. Even the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man have their own internal self rule under the British."(Titiwi).
Madam/Mr Titiwi, I wonder on which one of the planets in the Milky-way, or beyond the Milky-way, or beyond the second heaven you were born? You see just because something flash into our minds, which seems to make sense to us, can become an embarrassment to ourselves and the country of our birth. With that said read I suggest you read your words in the quote, and then see if you understand the meaning of the word Sovereign Nation, or nation Sovereignty!
So, let the definition of the word Sovereign as in "Freedom from external influence " Do you understand the word autonomy, or free from being controlled by another sovereign power? Autonomy means the quality, or state of being self-governing, directing freedom especially moral…
Autonomy means the quality, or state of being self-governing, directing freedom especially moral independence.
Everything you said in the quote above is absolutely nonsense! In the first place there is a reigning King in Monaco, who answers to any outside power. I will not argue except to say you do not have the faintest idea of what you are talking about. In your comment you made the claim that Dominica, is not independent; that is a very stupid thing to say.
Dominica is a sovereign country, with a Prime Minister, and a President, our nation is a republic. The same as the United States of America, we are politically independent, and you cannot change that; now if you say we are politically independent, however not economically independent, that I could buy, be sure of what you are talking about before you talk nonsense!
Antigua, and the rest of the Windward and Leeward islands are all independent, though they have a Governor Representing the queen of England;…
Antigua, and the rest of the Windward and Leeward islands are all independent, though they have a Governor Representing the queen of England; and the reason for that is because they chose to remain within the British Commonwealth of Nations, whereas Patrick John chose that Dominica became a Republic; hence the actual name of Dominica is "The Commonwealth Republic of Dominica!"
Steve Foerster December 15, 2016
The actual name is "Commonwealth of Dominica", and yes, despite being a republic we are just as much a member of the Commonwealth of Nations as any other formerly British country that has replaced the Queen with a president as its head of state.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque December 16, 2016
No Steve, Dominica is not a member of the British Commonwealth! The fact is we are a republic the same as the United States of America. America, fought for and gain it Independence from England more than two hundred years ago, and is not a Member of the British Commonwealth, the same as India.
That is why Charles Savarin is President of Dominica, he does not report the British Monarchic, nor the British government, unlike the islands of Barbados, and the rest of the Windward islands, and Antigua, and St. Kitts, all of which has governors appointed by the queen of England, and paid by the British the queen.
I do not know if you know this. There was a guy from Guyana Rose who was governor of Antigua, one time he went to England to consult with his queen, while walking under a building scaffold it fell on him and killed him.
I am telling you Dominica is not part of the British Commonwealth of Nations, as far as I am concerned Dominica is not a nation aligned with any country!
Steve Foerster December 16, 2016
Francisco, your ignorance is truly legendary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_in_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations
LIAT is pain in de A I travelled to Barbados with LIAT my suitcase went on a previous flight. Half an hour before the flight they announce because of high winds the flight is cancelled. We paid guest house to sleep in Marigot 80 EC per person LIAT refused to refund us and blamed the wind. The next morining they put us on the first flight and here comes trouble, In order to collect my suitcase I stayed one hour the lady was out. Humm never say never.
Accountant charged with forgery
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ST JOHN'S, Antigua – Joseph Doway, an accountant, is facing 48 charges of forgery and uttering related to his duties to deduct statutory remittances from a construction company's employees' salaries.
Allegations are that that the monies were deducted but were not paid into the Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS), Board of Education (BOE), Social Security Scheme (SSS) and the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) as is required.
The total combined amount is $53,751.88 over the period from December 2010 to April 2011.
Doway appeared in St John's Magistrates' Court before Chief Magistrate Joanne Walsh yesterday when his attorney made application for him to be granted bail.
Attorney Maureen Payne Hyman told the court that Doway, who is a Dominican national, is not a flight risk since he is married to an Antiguan police officer and has lived here for several years.
The court wanted…
Joseph Doway, is this the same Joseph Doway writing about LIAT? He has failed miserably in managing a flight school in Antigua and is blaming LIAT? What you need to do sir is to return to Antigua to respond for your sins.
Try to seek ways in which Dominican can improve Air Access because that Little Airport nah cut it. You need an International Airport here, it's only a matter of time Antigua starts to flood this article. We are disgusted by it.
How many years Independence and No improvement in Air Access? Stop complaining an do because the day LIAT leave Dominica Dawg better than all you.
We want back compensation for monies ……….. who went to his flight school. Now we know where he is. The Law will find him. Mr. Doway could not manage the Flight School and has breached ECCAA regulations. He cannot tell LIAT how to run their business, he's not fit to do so. It's gonna be Antigua against Dominica situation here.
Yes because with all the training he said he got and the fake Airline experience he say he has he was never able to get a 1 cessna 3 seat airline company off the ground and he ran away with our monies. LIAT has made it thus far regardless of selfish criticisms from ungrateful people who have made it safe to their destinations. LIAT holds the safest record in history, others have failed at this and yall still travel on them. I agree with LIAT that if there is danger CANCEL AND DELAY THE FLIGHTS because the ones who fly the Aircrafts have families too who desire to see them at home safe and sound. If Dominicans want a reliable service of competition for LIAT , then they build an International Airport.
he is very out of order to bashing another country for his dam failure and comparing other countries with us Caribbean that have so many better income and ways to make there airline run with a decent manner .. why did he not say let us small Caribbean .. countries work together to develop to bring in tourist all over.. we are one ppl from the time we start distancing our selves from each other shows how selfish we are..there is why we Caribbean country aint progressing because every body wants to blame everyone and dont want to settle the matter and come together… lord help us.. this man really dam bright look ya man na come dam blame ma country for nun low antigua come talk bout antigua this antigua that go blame ya self for your lack of progress
LIAT can serve as a basis for doctoral thesis. A don't care attitude, poor service always late and behave they are doing you a favor.i can go on and on with the violations I have seen as a child to present. The many complaints that I have filed. The letters I have written is countless. I have stopped traveling with them. If I cannot get a seat on another carrier I will not fly. Corporation unstressed when money is not coming in and Reifer-Jones et al are out of jobs.
This is so true, LIAT don't care too much about Dominicans anyway. Dominica is not recognize in the Caribbean island far less larger countries. So hard to get a flight to go to Dominica and when you do, prepare to stay in another country overnight. Travelling is so hard on me, my vacations has so many questions and I am tired of explaining myself to even co island folks. "Is it the island you have to change many planes.' they asked. we need some reliable plane for Dominica.
Mr. E Doway should know how Airline business works because he tried to start a Flight School in Antigua and it didn't last a year. Don't try to play innocent that you have the solution for LIAT. When you digging hole for LIAT dig a bigger one for you too at least LIAT is transparent in all it's business. You should stop it, No one wants to go Dominica because it's too risky to operate there. Delays are always going to happen because the Damn Airport is in the wrong place and when Dominica weather messes up then you guys are F….d. Don't blame LIAT, Blame you Government for not having a proper structure.
We are waiting Dominica, Edwards has alot to answer for in Antigua. Don't let us start.
@ Antigua Source… Your comments are completely asinine! As one reader so aptly put it, what does the failure of Mr. Daway's flight school business have to do with the substandard and shoddy service of LIAT? It is attitudes like yours which stand in the way of improvement in LIAT's service to Dominica. There is no leadership in that organization – the acting CEO doesn't give a damn and that filters all the way down to the porters. There is no point in complaining because those go unacknowledged much less answered. It is so bad in Dominica, that LIAT personnel are openly taking bribes to let passengers go through with luggage. Other passengers are gouged with arbitrary overweight fees! Still others are verbally attacked by overzealous employees whose over inflated egos are sustained by a manager who does not care because I understand he is on his way out to his bigger things! The Dominica operation requires a complete overhaul – until then, Seaborne and Winair – here I…
So now LIAT's fallacy and inefficiency is a gateway to attacking Mr. Doway and Dominica? REALLY? Dominica is not the only island experiencing the wrath of Leave Island Anytime Time and it is a known fact; so stop your attacks. LIAT is a disservice to most of the islands and needs competition and no more of our tax dollars.
Anon December 15, 2016
@Antigua source, St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Kitts also express concerns about the LIAT service. Are these islands airports also in the wrong place ? It seems that the only island not having problems with LIAT is Antigua.
I am overjoyed to read this editorial because our family likewise share Mr. Dorways frustration and complete dissatisfaction with the service, or lack there of, provided by LIAT. During the summer my husband traveled on business to Trinidad from California, then from Barbados to Dominica. The leg of the trip from Barbados to Dominica took upwards of 10 hours! So it took as much, or more time to travel from California to TT, as it took to travel from Barbados to Dominica. When we expressed our utter disgust about this experience to others on the island they are not surprised. This is truly shameful! The carribbean people and visitors to the area deserve better. One gets the feeling that there is no accountability; the LIAT representatives just don't care. It is my sincere hope that the powers that be takes this issue seriously and gets it addressed.
Thursday 8th Dec evening Flight Barbados to Dominica Three hours plus late. Total Confusion at Liat Barbados gate 9. My luggage left out in 3 x Thunder Storms and soaking wet. No Information as to what was happening. Once there is Competition Liat will Disappear and be a bad memory. I have been in the Caribbean 10 years, the first problem I experienced was Liat's nonexistent customer service and one of my last. Roll on Competition
In life you control what you can control. Dominica lacks an airport capable of accommodating long range non-stop air travel in and out of the island. So long as we continue to rely on someone else to make decisions in our best interest, we will be at the bottom of the barrel.
Inter Island travel is still major issue especially for Dominica. Our leaders lack any foresight into present issues and concerns, far less for future ones.
Our roads fail all the time due to inclement whether and we employ the same engineering failures of the past, to address issues of the present and future. This is a recipe for continued failure in all arenas.
I traveled that route when I lived and worked in St. Kitts. I see that nothing has changed since.
All I can say is L.I.A.T socks, all the Caribbean government heads of states complain about but ,yet they do nothing to fix it, so I say shout up, or doing something about it, me I myself , and I don't fly liat anymore if it's not seaborne I will stay home .
Edward, for as long as you live, and Dominicans continues to dwell in the thirteenth century happy with their backward life; LIAT will remain an obstacle in the life's of all Dominicans.
As long as there is a Labor Party Government run by people like the bunch led by Roosevelt Skerrit what you now have "Douglas-Charles Melville Hall Airport," that is the very best, all of you will ever get! It is ironic for you to suggest that the governments take LIAT of the rout!
Let us assume they shout LIAT down, what airline do you have in mind to fill the gap flying into and out of Dominica? With all your talk like all the rest; not once you mentioned the name International Airport! Don't you see you are nothing more than a waste of time talker.
Your thoughts are simply sweet sounding music to your ear; nevertheless, by the time you and others stop talking, you are ready to vote for Skerrit who is the actual obstacle in the way of development of the country. LIAT is not…
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque December 13, 2016
LIAT is not Dominica's problem, the backward minded politicians, and people like you who are contented with Douglas-Charles airport and Roosevelt Skerrit, is the real problem! The rest of the Caribbean gets their fair share of the tourists. So, do not compare Dominica to any other island.
Unless an International Airport is built in Dominica, you will not even get a real remnant of the traveling tourist; a few Ships call, but that is a joke in comparisons to what the other islands get. Foreigners' only go to Dominica when it is a must, otherwise Dominica is not on the tourist agenda!
I have flown internationally, and yet to see any International Route remotely appear in red heading to Dominica. That will only happen when and if there is an International Airport in Dominica. Ask Ralph Gonzalez of St. Vincent why he did not advise Skerrit to leave office rather than advising not to build Dominica International Airport.
This is a good way to sell the idea to someone with the capabilities to understand and absorbed these way of thinking. But how many in our Gov't can even decipher such great words?
These guys have been doing some thing one way so change to them is like climbing a mountain on crouches.
Change is always good Mr. Politicians .
The time and expense of trying to get to DA is a major deterrent for tourists and residents alike. The location of the major airport is also a problem as most of the activity is on the Roseau side of the island. And LIAT has been a problem for a long time. Even solving one of the problems would be a help, however, nothing seems to be forthcoming when you have a PM that takes private flights.
If LIAT was only doing the routes that Seaborne and Winair were doing the Caribbean would not have an effective island hopping airline. Remember that many airlines have tried but most have failed. So rambling about how bad liat is a tired subject. If it was as easy as u make it sound, the problems that are plaguing inter island would be solved a long time ago.
Tourism will always be a major factor in transportation in the region. Destinations that do well have the facilities to support their business. The facilities are adequate until someone can't get to some destination that is not heavily traveled. There are problems everytime there is a big event and problems when activity is low. Liat's role is not to bring in tourists from outside the region. Its business is to circulate what is within. We need one approach to bringing tourists from all over the world into the region and another for circulating people between the islands. The more we invest in bringing international tourists into the region, the better the chances for Liat and others to survive and serve Caribbean nationals. Let's be honest. How many people want to travel from Dominica to St. Kitts daily? Skype may be your need at the moment.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that part of the issue? Tourists can get into the region pretty easily as it is via Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad for example. The issue is their journey to our smaller islands involves many stops, is unreliable, expensive etc etc. I think it would be more profitable for LIAT (or as Mr. Doway suggested an alternative airline) as well as for us, if LIAT could extend their reach. More people, more demand, less stops to try and fill up planes, easier access, more profits, ergo cheaper fairs. Caribbean Airlines(CAL) is doing that with destinations in the US, Canada and South America and they seem to be doing pretty ok. I for one enjoy their service much more. LIAT need a revamp. If anything, CAL should buy out LIAT.
You are so right mr. Doway. Not only is it inconveniencing residents of islands like Dominica but a deterrent to attracting meaningful investors to our shores. We can not continue to live of the proceeds of passports sales for ever as that is simply unsustainable in the long run and vulnerable to other, larger countries imposing visa restrictions on our passport holders at any time with little or no warning. We must start thinking about our own people first and stop playing second fiddle to the likes of Antigua. We do not need a separate Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority, which serves as cartel to protect other islands' interests and restricts development of our region as a whole. What are the real, tangible benefits we derive from being members of the OECS or even Caricom? Maybe we should consider an alliance with our French neighbours instead?
Steve Foerster December 13, 2016
It's in our immediate and direct interest to work with one or more regional airlines to offer short flights that are scheduled to connect with long-haul flights into PTP, FDF, and SXM without requiring an overnight stay. Any regional institution that is getting in the way of that, whether LIAT, the ECCAA, or whomever, should be dismissed from consideration.
That said, a wholesale realignment from Caricom to the French islands would be a very far reaching policy change. Would that even interest the French in the slightest? If so, what would they would expect? There's no point in regaining sovereignty from one arrangement only to surrender it again for another arrangement.
Mr. Foerster, as it is we are not truly independent, But neither are Monaco, Lichtenstein, San Marino although they have sovereign status. Even the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man have their own internal self rule under the British crown, including the ability to determine their own fiscal policy. It would not be impossible for us to to organise ourselves in a similar fashion and become a free port- & financial offshore basis, respected and recognised by the regular international community. I would have thought that this may be of particular interest to French citizens with our proximity to their "Departements Antillais".
Steve, how many regional airlines do you know operating in the region?
There are International Airports on all of the islands except Montserat , and Tortolla, and Nevis, and even at that St. Kitts International Airport serves Nevis.
Besides the are thinking of building a bridge to link St. Kitts, and Nevis. So, all you have is Humming Bird, which Skerrit might be half owner.
Try to be realistic man, and say it as it is without an International Airport built in Dominica air transportation into and out of the country will be a problem, as it has been for the past sixty years, and counting, I was alive when Kelsick of Montserrat flew the first Piper which landed at Melville Hall, that private lone aircraft which flew between Antigua, and Montserrat, later become LIAT Leeward Islands Air Transport!
The first events took place in 1958, I was yet a little lad.
Steve Foerster December 14, 2016
Francisco, there are quite a few small ones, including Air Antilles, Winair, Hummingbird, Air Sunshine, Cape Air, Tradewind, etc., and what I'm describing only takes one. Conversely, an international airport would cost a billion dollars, literally. It will never happen. Never! It's time to stop dreaming about it and make the best transportation plans we can that can actually happen.
Titiwi, I'm all for that, but it takes a lot of commitment, including a willingness to stand up to the tax cartel of the OECD. Remember how much people cried about us being on their "blacklist" last time?
We have that same makakkery with our flour and animal feed that we must buy from fellow OECS countries, not even all of,Caricom and that crap sugar we bringing in from Guyana. Government does not get any duty payment on that but is our brothers in St. Vincent, Grenada that are benefiting. Our bakers have trouble finding decent flour but have no choice. Even coca cola so expensive here because we must buy from St. Lucia to get it duty free. Not even Barbados you can buy it from without paying at least 100%. Who is benefiting from that? Nobody, except from the monopolies in the other OECS islands and importers here. The government should free that up and open the market to free competition. They would not lose anything but would get a lot of goodwill from the voting public. Wake up, time we look after ourselves first and not other islands. What do we sell to St. Vincent, Grenada or Guyana after all. Boy, we are screwed by our own politicians.


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I don't like any of them very well, but the one with the dollar signs the best. See no particular reason to use $1 ,etc and not $any-symbol. I admit have not giving it that much thought. About needing to move dollar signs, if it is longer code, the (lambda(blabla) body) would be small relative to the body, so just writing the lambdas would be better anyway. Edit: needs to tell which argument it is, silly me.
All these examples use manipulation of the strings the symbols contain. I really dislike that, for one. Also, people might use it when they should be using flet or small functions(with function output). Making syntax like this could distract from making good code.

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Re: NAVIFOR vs. FCC vs. C10F
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2016 12:10 am
Sum1 wrote:What if we reached further down and asked "Who gets to determine the capabilities a CPT or CMT are supposed to have?"
A complex question that I certainly cannot answer, but easily on par with Fleet size, warship capabilities, aircraft weapons systems, etc.
Sum1 wrote:But getting back to the Navy... can NAVIFOR adequately achieve the MT&E and requirements functions it should be chartered with doing across the breadth and depth of all IWC communities? Do we need to perhaps course correct or even chart a new course to get us where we need to be? I don't think it's beyond the scope of NAVIFOR to do the MT&E, although the MT in this case would likely be easier than the E, if you ask me.
I think the course correction was the creation of NAVIFOR. Unfortunately, it is taking a long time to work through the issues to ensure NAVIFOR works as a TYCOM while FCC/C10F works as an operational commander. Back in the day, CNSG was very much both. I think we are still seeing some hesitance to shed certainly legacy responsibilities that were inherent in CNSG. At the same time, the C10F role as SCC and our P3 billet sourcing makes these issues all that much more convoluted.
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cubewebsolutions needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Banner required to be used in two locations for email and newsletter distribution software application. Web 2.0 look and feel if possible.
Email Marketing @ JR Network Solutions
I am using an email/newsletter distribution appplicaton that I am able to brand with my own images, and would like to have a banner created that can be used in two loctions: Login screen and Main screen.
I have uploaded two images to assist contestants in this request. Please see the "What I want" section.
My business name is JR Network Solutions. The font I use for my full business name is Humanist Bold. I'm not sure what the logo font is.
- The login screen sample: http://www.jrnetworksolutions.com/e…screen.jpg. I would like a banner created which will be situated in the location where the temporary banner is on this page.
- The banner that gets created here needs to be used on the second screen, which is here: http://www.jrnetworksolutions.com/e…screen.jpg
- The bannner should be no more than 520px wide, and 200px high, to fit within the allocated space.
- The banner needs to allow me to change any of the layer colours, including the background, so I can then tweak it at my end in Photoshop CS3
- A sample of my business logo that needs to be incorporated into the design is at: http://www.jrnetworksolutions.com/jrlogo.jpg
- You can access the AI file to get my full logo here: http://www.jrnetworksolutions.com/jrns.ai
- Green is #8cc63f and blue is #00457c, but once again I need to be able to change these individually later if required
- Text can be slightly bevelled & shadowed in s similar way to the words "Email marketing software just for designers" on this website http://www.campaignmonitor.com/
- Final product to be handed over in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop file formats
- Everything has to be proportional
- Anything that looks too fun looking or unprofessional.
- Artwork that I can not later later myself. I need to be able to change colours of every aspect layer, including the background.
- Anything that is outside of the requirements. If you need furher information, please ask via the system.
- Only plain background colours, not any gradients. so this can be easily changed per above.
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|Ashley Theatre - Charleston, SC
The Ashley Theatre was built by Pastime Amusement Company to serve St. Andrews Parish. It was the last theater built by Pastime.
Chuck Cromer, of Charleston, wrote us that he remembers the Ashley Theatre well and the Saturday afternoons he spent there in his childhood.
"This single screen theatre was my hangout as a kid since it was within walking distance of my home. I grew up in the Westwood neighborhood which is between Avondale and Moreland. My buddies and I would stop by Stephen's Candy Store, just around the corner, and load up before going to the movies. I can still remember getting two caramels for a penny. We saw such pictures as Sampson and Delilah, Gone With the Wind, and William Castle's 13 Ghosts with those classic glasses so you could see the ghosts."
Chuck West, a friend who now lives in Texas, wrote us regarding the Ashley Theatre.
"I do remember an experience at the Ashley Theatre in St. Andrews Parish. A friend and I rode our bicycles down to the theater to see a Frankenstein movie one afternoon. It was early evening when the movie let out— just starting to get dark. The perfect light to hide spooks in the shadows, but enough to allow us to see the glint in their yellow-green eyes. I don't think I had ever peddled my bike as fast as I did that evening. Luckily, we made it home without an encounter with Dr. Frankensteins creation."
At this time, the Ashley Theatre is a women's consignment store. The ticket booth is still there as is the lobby. The auditorium floor slopes toward the stage. The small stage with its tidy proscenium is there with two sets of footlights that fold into the floor. The small window used by the projectionist is there and still works.
On either side of the stage are doors. One leads onto the stage. The one on the right side of the house leads down to a service area. The original load-in double doors used to bring any needed stage scenery or equipment into the building are still in place.
From The Evening Post, Charleston, SC, February 18, 1950
"• • • The Ashley Theatre offers a modest seating capacity, sufficient we believe to take care of the present patronage. It is equipped with standard projection and sound systems - modern theatre seats have been installed - a heating plant that introduces moisture and fresh air, well filtered, will keep the theatre comfortably warm in winter - an air conditioning plant will maintain temperature at a refreshing degree during the summer - a sprinkler system, a safeguard against fire, has already been completed - concrete floors and masonry walls add up for additional fire protection - a small size stage has been provided and on occasions, amateur contests or small size stage shows my be presented.
• • • The initial policy calls for the presentation of four different programs each week - two day programs will be offered on Mondays and Tuesdays and on Thursdays and Fridays- one day programs on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
• • • Theatre will open at 5 p.m. from Monday through Friday, with a 2 p.m. opening for Saturdays and Sundays - performances will be continuous.
• • • A parking lot, with a capacity of approximately 150 cars, surrounds the theatre on three sides - the us of this lot will be free to theatre patrons.
• • • The management will gladly cooperate with any civic organization in St. Andrews Parish, that may wish to make use of the theatre at other hours of the day, when it is not in regular operation.
• • • The erection of the Ashley Theatre would have taken place several years ago - but for the ban placed by the government on theatre construction, which was extended far beyond the actual emergency period.
• • • A further delay was caused when a change of architects was considered advisable and in this connection, we take the opportunity of commending Mr. Augustus E. Constantine, local architect, for the nice layout that he has given us - also to express our sincere thanks to the different contractors and craftsmen, who contributed their skill diligently in various ways, in making the Ashley Theatre a cozy and attractive little playhouse."
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Bridging The Gap
The story of Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen is very well known. However, what about that of the heart and soul of the Cullen family?
The vague outline of Esme's human life, put forward by Stephanie Meyer, leaves a lot to the imagination.
What happens between each of these guidelines? What is the attraction between the eternally youthful pair, the glue that holds them together?
When Esme Platt jumped from the cliff in 1921, she thought she had nothing left to live for. As she goes through the fiery transformation, and comes out the other side she finds two men who will forever change her outlook on the life she lost.
When the worlds of the preternatural and humans collide what are the aftereffects? A continuing story of pain, love and learning to trust the world once again. Continues through the Pre-Twilight life of the Cullen "parents."
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1. Malevolence
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It's funny when you watch the motion pictures; when the hero dies their life flashes before their eyes. I used to scoff at the idea while my girlfriends blubbered. How could they always remember their one true love or the significant days until that one moment? How could someone, when staring down the barrel of a gun, remember all these things and not the impending doom?
I look out at the expanse of Lake Superior from my very own, exclusive viewpoint on the edge of a cliff. Now that I actually faced death, I wonder if I had been wrong. Maybe my life would flash before my eyes. Or maybe not...maybe I would get to choose my final thoughts. The wind at my back gave a persuasive puff, rocketing me forward towards the edge, even as the rock crumbled under my grimy, bare feet, I battled this force. I may have said it was corny, but as I watched the sun set on the day and my life as a whole, my life did indeed flash within grasping distance of my face. Although most of my memories caused me anguish, I relished this along with the physical pain in my muscles and my feet because it took some hurt away from that which had caused me to come here. I urged my unconscious to show me my good memories, but it didn't listen; instead, it dredged up the most painful ones.
I was born in 1895 in the town of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Now if you asked my girlfriends what their most life changing experience was, they would say their lives changed when they married or when they gave birth. Mine, however, changed about six years prior to my marriage. Most memories of my childhood and adolescent years were beaten to a bloody pulp as was the body holding them. However, this one day has stayed with me up until this day. Where my parents and friends were slowly losing features in my memory, his face stays put. If I try hard enough it is his wheat hair and topaz eyes I can see in the sun as if he's calling to me, like the angel he appeared to be. I can just make out his scent and his voice saying my name in the chill wind as it blows past me; causing goose bumps to rise upon my skin. Dr Carlisle Cullen was my personal angel, my protector, my mental savior.
After that day, I grew up. Watching Dr. Cullen walk away from me and the life he led in Columbus while I stood by helpless was enough to change my life around. Although it is embarrassing to express, I had far more feelings for the kind stranger than I cared to think. My heart blossomed through his kind and soothing words, as my broken leg healed thanks to his cold and perfect hands. I eventually grew up from the sixteen year old who had grown accustomed to climbing trees with the boys as opposed to knitting with the girls. I grew, I learned, I dreamed; dreams varying from finding my own Carlisle Cullen to moving to the newly expanding west on the railroad to teach in the schools of the new towns.
Each and every one of my previous dreams came crashing down around me when I met Charles, giving way to a new set which all stemmed from this first meeting. In him, I found someone who pleased my mother and a man to whom my father more than willingly gave my hand. He was someone who possessed a higher degree of hope than any other man I had come across since I started to dream. I may not have loved him, but I told myself repeatedly that I would never see my angel again no matter where upon the earth I tread. I married him because my parents taught me that you could learn to love someone just as you learn to read and write, just as my mother had with my father. Charles loved me, I think-or was a very good actor-and cherished me from our courtship months to our wedding, so I put all the feelings I had in my heart aside and I listened to my brain. Now, I wish I had listened to my broken heart.
I remember his smile of complete and utter contentment, and my mother's tears of joy, as I walked down the aisle in my flowing ivory dress by my father's side. We said the traditional vows to one another before the witnesses we had assembled between our families, but I now wish I changed the vows to anything that he couldn't pick apart with a fine tooth comb. His smile, which had been so wide, so utterly convincing, soon changed to a sneer, as the bliss of normal weddings melted into odium, and the bedroom door was closed tightly shut.
I heard stories of physical abuse, even in a small town like the one I used to live in. But never in the years before my marriage did I believe that this sort of abuse would find me. It did. The physical beatings that I took were not so bad now that I think back to them. The pain associated with them would decrease with time, and disappear completely; the scars and bruises I had won would vanish. Whereas the verbal abuse that came from his mouth alone stays with me, even until now and I dare say it will forever. Where the beatings opened up old fissures and branded my pale skin once again, verbal abuse would tear open my diminishing self-esteem and leave me cowering and broken under his raised hand and vulgar drunken slurs. I am still able to remember the different angles his face twisted up as the different emotions ran across it; jealousy, anger, loathing. He could even take me roughly as his own and only his, even though I had no intention or backbone to leave in the first place. I will always be able to remember the lashing sound, and the snap-like feeling of leather over my bare back and the pain of his rough hands, callused from yard work, on the skin of my face or neck, and the ever familiar feelings of the wooden grains under my fingers and knees as I kneeled before him every night. Each and every feeling was freshly imprinted in my mind like it had happened. However, all of these are not comparable to the pain that I am actually feeling now. I feel weirdly content that he didn't have the opportunity to take everything from me. He was not the one to give me the worst pain I have ever experienced, and the pain he did cause me I have learned to live with because I have felt it worse twice before, when the only two people I truly loved disappeared from my life.
I was hospitalized more times than normal for anyone, least someone of my age. The bruises upon my upper arms or thighs gave the tell-tale sign of marital abuse, yet the doctors were either far too oblivious or very heavily bribed to take any notice and just bandaged me up for the falls I was admitted for.
As my friends had children in their own happy marriages, I shrunk back into the shadows of my bedroom, waiting for the next time he would come home from a rather bad day at work and find petty things that would push him into a rage. Where my friends were able to confide anything they wished to their siblings, other friends, or parents, I learned to live a life of solitude in the large house with the six members of staff, who were the only people in on my secret. I found quickly after the fateful day of my wedding that my parents would do anything to keep Charles and I bonded for life. Even as I told them about the clandestine life that I was forced to lead in the confines of the house, or proved my descriptions to be the truth by the marks which were marring my skin, they turned their faces the other way. You are to be a good wife, Esme. You honor your husband, they continually preached to me. So with no parents, a slowly diminishing amount of friends and with nothing of any note present in my life, I spiraled downward, and accepted the punishments I was given with no pleading or crying.
The peaceful side of the earth, the side outside of that which I lived in came down around not only my feet but everyone's in 1914. The Great War started, the light dimmed more from my life as the propaganda posters appeared on brick walls and telegraph poles around the town, as my friends' husbands and some other town folk were drafted to the unknown world of Europe. The beatings I received generally decreased; at least the physical ones. For the years leading up to his drafting, Charles was the person cowering in fear in the house, lest the letter would find him to drag him into the type of wild and vicious world that I was a prisoner in.
It was auspicious that my mind was the only place anyone in my life couldn't enter. Mainly due to how my thoughts would have been drastically frowned upon once the big day arrived. I will always be able to remember the exact shape, size and the handwriting that appeared on the letter as it lay unopened and untouched on the doorstep like some foul smelling animal. I basked in the furious expression upon his face as he read the letter, his vehemence this time centering on the weak, meaningless piece of paper in his strong, brutal hands.
July 3rd, 1916. The steam whistled around me as I stood on the platform with him. The conductors whistles rang through the fog, as the image of a stout man appeared. His loud drawl sounded through the air: Last Call. The sound and sight of Charles' luggage hitting the concrete startled my attention away from my brown, leather shoes. I noticed the look in his eyes only just before his mouth crashed against my own; relentless in its movements and hard as he bit down onto my lower lip drawing my blood once again. "You are mine," his vindictive, sneering voice spat into my ear before he turned, brushing past me in an instant. My tears fell, and I pressed my tongue softly against my damaged lip as his olive drab uniform disappeared from view; the heavy metal doors clanging shut behind him. As the other wives pulled out their lace handkerchiefs while running alongside the steadily quickening train, I stood still, my eyes hitting the floor once again. The veil from my hat hid the first small smile that had graced my lips in years.
He was away for two joyous years. News hit home of soldiers dying, and a grey cloud of misery rolled over our small town. However, in the town's dismay, I was the lone member of society with a trace of pleasure through my life. I was happy alone, strong and content. I dreamt of the day when the letter would find me, telling me of my husband's demise in battle, and in that time it would be the last time that I pretended. In all honesty, I desired for this dream to come true. However, when the news came of the Armistice treaty in 1918, I lost all hope that my wish had come true. The ever present God for most people had once again evaded me and was long gone.
The hollowness in his sunken eyes was an ominous sign once he stepped from the train on that cold December day. From this, I knew that my life, and everything that I had built up in the two years, was crumbling from its core once again; ready and willing to be torn down. The unusual scared and pleading screams that came from his mouth once I was safe in my dreams were enough to scare me. The sharp tang of whiskey on his breath as he breathed down my neck on a night, the drunken stumble of his leather boots on the wooden floor and the bloodshot look to his eyes appeared before his face twisted up with things from the past and the present. His broken and bruised hands did his bidding this time; he threw things, he hit and he strangled as I bordered the world between unconsciousness and consciousness as I hid under my blanket.
The sickness came next about a year after his reappearance. Every morning the same twisting sensation appeared in my lower abdomen as my feet hit the cold bedroom floor. I would stand on my feet; wobble faintly on them before I ran to the bathroom. It would then disappear for hours at a time, in which I ate and ate, and cried at mediocre things which didn't cause me pain. At first I believed it to be the after effects of the night before, or the extremely common twenty-four hour bug which plagued the doctor's surgery or even a late forming bout of food poisoning. It was one day which changed my whole beliefs.
The sick ran from my mouth as I wretched over the lavatory, perspiration mixing with tears as they dripped slowly from my chin. I stood quickly, softly swaying on my unsteady legs as I grabbed the cream basin and looked into the oval mirror placed above it. My brown eyes were sunken and bloodshot, while charcoal black bags appeared underneath. My skin was waxy with sweat as a tendril of hair stuck stubbornly to my forehead. I truly looked like I felt. I placed my clammy hand to my stomach; trying fruitlessly to quell the unease I felt. My small fingers hit something hard; like a defined bump as I probed my belly. I looked back into the mirror before swiftly reaching back to undo my dress which tumbled to my feet, leaving me standing in the bathroom in a silky chemise. It hung slack around my small, thin form all the way to my stomach where the pale pink stretched over a prominent shape. I looked back to the mirror and I almost didn't recognize the woman staring back at me. The tears in my eyes were out of joy rather than pain.
My body became gradually worse of the first few months of my pregnancy. The mental strain of carrying a child in a highly abusive relationship was vast, along with the physical pain of my many beatings and the favorable pain of bearing a child. The body he left me with in 1916 only began to scratch the surface of what my body resembled during my pregnancy. However, it was only when I saw the light purple bruises upon my lower torso, from my own hands, that I truly considered my escape route. I had tried the first four months to minimize any harm that my husband would cause to my babe and so when I saw the harm that I had managed to inflict by achieving my goal, I felt sickened. It was my job as a mother to protect and cherish that life inside me and if I was the one putting him, unintentionally, in danger then it should not be the life I should be forced to live or the world to raise a defenseless child.
With all these ideas in mind, and my life now centered on the tiny force within me; November 1920 became the first time in years that I started to dream again.
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Red Hat Ascends Linux Summit as Linux 3.5 Release Approaches
At $1 billion dollars in annual revenue, Red Hat is the undisputed financial leader of the pure play Linux world. They aren't however the only show in town, well actually they are, if the town is Boston and it's Red Hat Summit time.
1) Red Hat Summit
Red Hat's annual user event was held last week in Boston, with no shortage of news supporting the conference.
At the high level, Red Hat announced new IT and DevOps versions of its OpenShift PaaS service. With the new offerings, the Linux vendor is aiming to enable a hybrid cloud modality where developing and deploying to the cloud is part of everyday operations.
Red Hat also formally announced its first official storage release with Red Hat Storage 2.0. The new storage platform is based on the open source Gluster 3.3 release and adds in additional management and enterprise hardening.
During the event, Red Hat staffers also provided an update on where Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is headed. The next big version of Red Hat's flagship platform will include the Btrfs filesystem as one of its primary system, a change from the current RHEL 6.x where Btfs remains in tech preview.
Product news wasn't the only thing going on at Red Hat Summit, CEO Jim Whitehurst also took the time to deliver a visionary keynoteabout - nuts and bolts. Whitehurst drew the comparison between the invention of the auto-lathe in 1810 and the cloud. Prior to the auto-lathe, which enables the manufacture of standard sized nuts and bolts, there were no standardized nuts and bolts. Once those building blocks were standardized, planes, trains and automobiles followed. In Whitehurst's view the cloud will do the same thing for computing.
"60 years after the invention of the computer we are now finally getting to standardized piece parts, what I'd call cloud computing," Whitehurst said.
2) Linux Kernel rc 5
While Red Hat was touting its successes, Linus Torvalds was busy (as always) adding to his own legendary success. This past week, Torvalds issued the fifth release candidate for Linux 3.5
Work on the Linux 3.5 kernel comes on the heels of the Linux 3.4 release back in May.
3) Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2.
Work also continues among Ubuntu developers, who last week pushed out the second milestone (alpha 2) of Ubuntu 12.10 the Quantal Quetzal.
It's still very early days for Ubuntu 12.10. The third alpha is set for August second and the first beta is currently expected to drop on September the sixth. Final release is currently scheduled for October 18th.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.


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Slipknot Percussionist Shawn Crahan Finalizes 'Antennas to Hell' Trailer Series
Short of recapping former members, it looks as though the Slipknot 'Antennas to Hell' trailer series is coming to an end with percussionist and founding member Shawn Crahan.
The latest clip shows exactly how far Crahan will go within the band's performances, often knocking over his drum kit after a particularly hard set and giving all the energy he can exert onstage. The video, which was soundtracked by the Slipknot song 'Snuff,' also shows the lengths that Crahan will pursue in order to win over the fans. It shows him offstage mugging for the camera with a crowd waiting in line, playing with an unsuspecting interviewer, and generally having a good time with his "clown" persona.
But in the end, it's a grueling life that Crahan has made for himself, as is shown at the end of the video when the clown is unmasked, a little grimy from the remaining face paint with a freshly bloodied wound that opened on his forehead after a performance.
Having skipped over Crahan, #6 in the band, earlier, it appears as though the trailer cycle is complete. Be sure to look back at past clips featuring Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison and Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones and Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor to see the entire series.
All of the videos were meant to whet your appetite for the 'Antennas to Hell' hits collection, coming July 24.
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Vol. LXI, No. 20
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
DEEP DISCOVERIES: "I most enjoyed teaching the medical students and residents and working with children." Dr. Kenneth Gould, who practiced pediatrics, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis for more than 40 years in Princeton, continues to teach adolescent psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as well as courses in infant and toddler birth and development. ??
"My mind to me a kingdom is;"
This line from a poem by 16th century poet Sir Edward Dyer is emblematic of the work of Princeton resident Dr. Kenneth Gould. Exploring the intricacies of that "kingdom" and helping others to discover and uncover buried experiences within their own minds has been his life work. As a pediatrician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, he has been dedicated to furthering the physical and mental health of children and of adults.
"I had always liked children and was especially interested in them," says Dr. Gould. "In high school, I began to have an interest in pediatrics and worked as a helper in a hospital. Then, I gravitated toward the idea of becoming a physician."
It was a career well-chosen. Intellectual curiosity had been a part of his life from the earliest years. Born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1927, he was the first son of Harry and Jean Gould. His brother Robert was born seven years later.
Yankee Fan
Growing up in the Bronx in the midst of the Great Depression, Ken enjoyed sports, reading, music, movies, and science. "I was always an athlete. I played stick ball in the street, baseball in junior high and in high school, I was on the track and field team," he reports, adding that as one of the best athletes, he was able to wear the coveted green jersey when other teammates wore the standard gold shirt. He also received an award from the New York City Public School Athletic League for excellence in athleticism.
"I was a very strong Yankee fan," he continues. "I went to games with my father and my friends, and when we saw Mayor LaGuardia, we'd call out to him, 'Hey, Little Flower!' which was his nickname, and he'd wave back."
Years later, an incident further strengthened his attachment to the Yankees. "My wife and I were in Paris, at the Coach leather store, and who should walk in but Joe Dimaggio. He was never one to give autographs, but I went over and when I said I was a big Yankee fan, he gave me his autograph. I'm still a strong Yankee fan today."
Dr. Gould also enjoyed music when he was a boy, and he played the piano-accordion, taking lessons at the famous Wurlitzer store in Manhattan.
Going to the movies was another major activity, and as he says, "I liked to go to the Park Plaza movie theater. They had double features, and my favorites were Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. 15 cents for the movie and 5 cents for a candy bar!
"I liked to read, too, especially The Arabian Nights, Robin Hood, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, and The Rover Boys. I was also interested in non-fiction scientific subjects."
Mounted Policeman
Dr. Gould's parents had both grown up in the Bronx, and those days during the Depression were difficult for people. "My father grew up in an orphanage, and my parents were not well-to-do," he recalls. "But my aunt, whom I was close to, did have money. She lived on Riverside Drive and drove a Packard car. She took us on trips to various parks, and to Jones Beach and Orchard Beach.
"I also really looked up to my father's younger brother, Michael. He was a mounted policeman in Manhattan, and he'd let me see the horses."
Ken liked school and did well, joining the chemistry club both in grade school and high school. After passing the entrance test, he was accepted into the prestigious and academically rigorous Bronx High School of Science. He was up to the challenge, graduating with honors in 1944. He recalls a particularly strong influence and mentor, Charles Cogan, who taught political science.
"He was the head of the New York Teachers Federation, and he was one of the main reasons I didn't become an advocate of Communism," observes Dr. Gould. "He said Communism was an illusion. Later, I argued with members of the American Communist Party and debated with them at Union Square."
Dr. Gould was 14 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prompting the American entrance into World War II. He remembers it well. "We were seeing a movie that Sunday, and they interrupted it to tell us about the attack. Interestingly, in grade school, I had written a paper saying the U.S. should fortify the Hawaiian Islands because I thought the Japanese were a threat."
After graduating from Bronx Science, Ken joined the Navy but was able to enter New York University for six months before being called up. Following basic training at the Naval Lakes Training Station in Illinois, he was sent to Gulfport, Mississippi and to the Navy Pier in Chicago for training in radar and sonar repair. He then reported for duty on the U.S.S. Frontier, a destroyer tender, in San Diego.
Great Experience
Ken was discharged in 1945 and looks back on his military service as a great experience. "I loved the Navy. I had a real feeling of patriotism, which I still have today."
There was an abundance of camaraderie during World War II, he points out, with the servicemen and women experiencing full support from the homefront. "The USO women in Chicago treated us wonderfully," he notes. "Everyone felt very supported."
Returning to NYU, he majored in biology and literature, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1948. "Biology helped me to become a doctor, and because of the literature, I wrote poetry," he explains.
Entering New York University College of Medicine in 1948, he was captivated both by medicine and his interest in poetry. The latter led to an unexpected association with the famous doctor/poet William Carlos Williams.
"I looked up to him because he was exemplary in two areas dear to my heart: poetry and medicine. He continued to practice medicine in Rutherford, N. J. even when he became a prominent poet. I sent him some of my poetry, based on my hospital internship experience," says Dr. Gould. "He answered and commented on the poems. He said he saw me as a reflection of what he was at one time. And he added: 'Don't try to do both. It will kill you!'
"Years later, I met him at a poetry reading at the 92nd Street Y in New York, and we talked about our correspondence."
Famous Doctor
While still in medical school, he met another famous doctor. "When I was on rotation at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, C. Everett Koop (later Surgeon general of the U.S.) was chairman of the University of Pennsylvania surgery department. He was an excellent surgeon, and he was known also for his love of children. Later, I met him at a dinner, where he was the speaker, and I mentioned I had admired him both as a surgeon and for his love of children. Dr. Koop replied: 'I still love children.'"
After graduating from medical school, Dr. Gould began a rotating internship at Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, followed by a residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York. He recalls Professor Harry Bakwin as a major mentor. "A professor of pediatrics at Bellevue, he was my most important influence in medical school. I learned so much from him. He also played the violin, and invited us to his town house for musical get-togethers.
"In one of my later rotations, I was assigned to take care of polio patients. There were rows of iron lungs, which allowed them to breathe. There were no vaccines then, and they gave the interns a shot of gamma globulin in hopes of protecting them. I also worked in the tuberculosis ward, helping to treat kids with TB."
He later faced an even more difficult challenge when as a resident at Memorial Hospital at Sloan Kettering, he worked with childhood leukemia patients. "One day, I had to pronounce five children dead from leukemia," he remembers. "There was very little to be done for it in those days."
A rotating residency in pediatrics at Kings County Hospital and Willard Parker Hospital in Brooklyn followed, and during this time, his personal as well as professional life took a new direction.
"When I was at Willard Parker Hospital, some friends wanted to go to a girl's birthday party up in Monticello, N.Y. in the Catskills. I was the only resident with a car I had a beat-up Ford, given to me by my aunt so we went to the party, and it was nice. I started talking to the girl Audrey and we talked about music and children. She had gone to the University of Pennsylvania, lived in New York, and was visiting her parents in Monticello.
"I took her out and on our third date, we got engaged! We will have been married 52 years this June!"
Pediatric Practice
In 1955, the newly-married couple headed to Detroit, where Dr. Gould had a Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology at Children's Hospital of Michigan.
Coming back east the next year, the Goulds settled in New Brunswick where Dr. Gould opened a pediatric practice and became a respected and successful pediatrician. "50 years ago, my wife and I moved to New Jersey with our young family," says Princeton resident Alvin Gordon. "We asked our new friends and neighbors to recommend a pediatrician. The answer was unanimous: 'Get Ken Gould!'
"Over the years, I've come to respect Ken as a very knowledgeable person who is alert to and concerned about the world around him; an enthusiastic competitor, whether it be across the backgammon board, the tennis court, or the handball court; a gregarious individual with a positive outlook. He is a good friend."
Despite his enjoyment of working with children, in time, Dr. Gould became restless. "I got tired of prescribing formula and treating kids mostly for colds, etc. It wasn't challenging me," he reports. "At one time, when I was an intern at Bellevue, I had considered becoming a child psychiatrist."
Now it became a reality, and in 1963, it was back to school! This time as a resident in adult psychiatry at Philadelphia General Hospital. "I found it fascinating, and I was determined to become a child psychiatrist."
Commuting from New Brunswick to Philadelphia was another challenge now that daughters Ellen and Georgeanne were in the family, "But my wife Audrey was very supportive."
Sigmund Freud
Moving on to a Fellowship in child psychiatry at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, Dr. Gould grew increasingly interested in the workings of the mind. "I also wanted to learn more about myself," he explains. "I began to explore the writings of Sigmund Freud, and then applied to the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis. I was interviewed by three senior psychoanalysts to see if I was a suitable candidate. I passed and was accepted, and had to undergo the psychoanalytic training at the same time I was doing my psychiatric residency."
It was daunting: four years as a psychiatric resident and four times a week for five years for personal analysis at the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis. Five years was a short analysis, he says!
Psychoanalysis emphasizes uncovering repressed areas in the patient's unconscious that may have a detrimental impact on behavior, explains Dr. Gould. By means of free association and dream interpretation, a well-trained analyst can help the patient confront buried experiences and begin to heal.
When in such a vulnerable situation, the patient may become especially attached to the therapist. "In a good therapeutic relationship, the psychiatrist is careful not to allow it to develop into a dependent relationship," says Dr. Gould. "A good psychiatrist should be well-trained, and relate well to people."
As his friend, retired Princeton physician Dr. William Haynes, notes, "One of Ken Gould's most important characteristics is his ability to listen. It's so important for all who practice medicine."
In 1967, Dr. Gould opened a practice, including child and adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in Princeton. "My wife and I always liked Princeton, and we decided to move here. We especially appreciated the cultural aspect, the opportunity to attend musical and dramatic performances at McCarter Theatre and events at the University."
Play Therapy
In his practice, Dr. Gould typically saw patients once or twice a week. Children were often referred by pediatricians, and his own experience as a pediatrician was extremely useful in his practice. He saw children as young as three, and at that age, their symptoms frequently resulted from family problems. Sessions included meeting with parents separately as well as private time with the child. Dr. Gould often used play therapy, such as toys and doll houses, to help children feel comfortable.
In the case of adults, he notes that on occasion, patients undergoing psychiatric treatment might move on to psychoanalysis in an attempt to uncover especially deep-seated problems. He believes in "psychodynamically-informed psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis is not as highly regarded as it once was, but the basic tenets of Freud's theories are still important. Drugs are also very important now. They represent the cutting edge in psychiatry. But don't throw out the baby with the bath. Psychotherapy is so necessary. A combination of drugs and psychotherapy is effective."
Passing on what he has learned to others is very important to Dr. Gould, and he continues as professor of clinical psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has also served as staff psychiatrist at the Princeton Medical Center; psychiatric consultant for the Adolescent Unit at the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital; monthly lecturer at the Carrier Foundation on Infant, Child, and Adolescent Development to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School students; lecturer at the Princeton Adult School; and consultant at the Princeton YWCA, giving a series of seminars on problems of the single mother.
Dr. Gould holds memberships in numerous professional organizations and societies, including the Council of New Jersey Psychiatric Association; New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society (former president); American Psychoanalytic Association; and he was president of the New Jersey Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
He has also served as psychiatric consultant to the New Brunswick public schools; consultant psychiatrist at Douglass College, consultant psychiatrist at Continued from Preceding Page Edison public schools, and is a member of the consultant board, Association for the Mentally Handicapped in Princeton.
The recipient of many awards and honors, Dr. Gould is especially proud of being named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in recognition of his outstanding service as a psychiatrist and teacher.
"Old Guard"
His writings have also appeared in many professional publications.
Dr. Gould remains very involved in his field. As his friend Dr. Haynes points out, "He just gave a wonderful talk for the 'Old Guard' on what's going on today in the field of psychiatry, and he is still teaching medical students. He and his wife have been very generous in giving their time and talents to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, including the endowment of an annual world class speaker who brings updates in the latest developments in research."
In addition to teaching, Dr. Gould is busy with numerous activities, dinners with friends, and weekly meetings of the "Old Guard."
"This is a group of 150 retired people who meet in Princeton," he explains. "They have very fine minds and achievement in common. Notable individuals from Princeton University, business, and science come to lecture and afterward, there is an excellent question and answer session."
Dr. Gould was a recent "notable" speaker, when he discussed what's ahead for psychiatry. "The beginning of the 20th Century focused on Freud's study of the mind, and it continues to be very important," he explains. "Interestingly, Freud started out as a neurologist; he felt the future of psychiatry, in addition to understanding the mind, was an understanding of the brain.
"Now, in the latter 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st century, with the advances in technology, research into the study of the brain is more and more important. It's a unique combination of the study of the mind and the brain, like a unified field theory. Physical problems of the brain have an impact on the mind and behavior. It has been said that 'the brain is a living organ of the body, expressing itself in the mind.'"
New Yorker
A proponent of the vigorous life in all ways, Dr. Gould remains physically active. Although he has given up handball, squash, and tennis, he continues to work out at the gym four times a week. He enjoys traveling, and he and his wife have been to Greece, France, England, Hungary, and Guatemala, with Italy his favorite overseas destination.
In the U.S., "Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker!" It is a cherished place to visit, and he and his wife have kept a pied a terre in Manhattan. They enjoy theater, concerts, and museums in the Big Apple.
"I love living in Princeton, however," he hastens to add. "We love everything at McCarter from Emily Mann, and Barnes & Noble is my second home! I like non-fiction, literature, history, and politics."
Dr. Gould is very proud of his family, and he is happy that his two married daughters and his four grandchildren live in Princeton, where he can see them often.
"My wife Audrey is a very successful financial advisor, he adds. She established The Gould Group, a financial consulting group, with our daughters. I admire my wife so much, and I look forward to the continuing enrichment of the life of my family. As one gets older, family relationships become more meaningful. I've been a lucky guy."
Helping others to find self-enlightenment through psychiatry and thus to experience a more fulfilling life has been Dr. Gould's mission. As in any endeavor, even the most serious, a sense of humor lightens the journey. He is well-aware of this. Prominently displayed in his study is a bright red woman's high-heeled shoe, entwined with an elaborate crystal necklace.
"I once had a patient who had a shoe fetish," he explains, "and I frequently presented his experience as a case study to my students. As a token of their appreciation, at a Christmas party, the resident students at Robert Wood Johnson gave me this very special shoe. I treasure it!"
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DuPont Leader Calls for Commitment and Accountability to Prevent Global Food Crisis
James C. Borel Urges Group of Global Leaders in Europe to Work Together to Feed a Growing World
GENEVA, Feb. 8, 2012 - DuPont Executive Vice President James C. Borel urged more than 200 business, government and non-profit leaders to commit to a new level of collaboration and personal accountability to achieve global food security today at The Economist Conferences Feeding the World summit in Geneva. The Feeding the World summit explores actions needed to ensure that a global population rising to 9 billion or more can be fed sustainably and equitably.
"We know that the consequences of hunger and malnutrition are so devastating, so multi-faceted, that no one company, country or organization has all the answers. It will take all of us working collaboratively to ensure that every person has enough nutritious food to eat," Borel said. "Together, we must take action. Now is the time for increased accountability to prevent the looming crisis that will have ramifications for all people."
DuPont has committed to invest US$10 billion in research and development dedicated to the food, agriculture and nutrition sectors and advancing 4,000 new products by the end of 2020; supporting training and education opportunities for youth around the world, and working with farmers to improve the livelihoods of families in rural communities. (For more information on DuPont's commitment to global food security, visit foodsecurity.dupont.com).
Borel provided several examples of how DuPont is committed to helping feed a growing world including:
- Developing a natural culture that preserves and stabilizes raw milk and extends its shelf life by 8 to 12 hours. To a dairy farmer in a developing country, this product can help improve their business model, ensure a valuable protein is available to their family and community, and potentially help them lift themselves out of poverty.
- In Africa, DuPont is helping to equip the next generation of smallholder farmers with skills so they can become self-sustaining by investing $2 million over two years to establish a comprehensive professional development institute for 4-H African leadership. The company's initial focus is in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa – countries where the need to engage young people in agriculture is greatest.
- Other projects under way involve technology to deliver drought-tolerant seeds to local farmers across the globe. These new seeds will improve productivity and efficiency of water usage across many different crops and regions.
"Science is global – but solutions must be local. The chances of achieving that goal are increased dramatically by creating science-based innovations that target specific local challenges, collaborating with others on solutions and bringing know-how to the people and places that need it most," said Borel.
"I'm pleased that DuPont is marshalling its resources to address key issues from the committee's findings. We need to follow the lead of organizations like DuPont, who commit to doing something about global food security, because they know hunger is at the heart of all other global issues," said Daschle.
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We arrived late in Osaka from the Tottori prefecture, exhausted, but our Japanese colleague insisted that we still head to this shop for a taste of Hakata-style ramen. This colleague of mine is a foodie and so far, his recommendations had not been disappointing. In fact, they were excellent. Despite the late hour, the restaurant was still packed to the brim, a contrast to the quiet, dark street where it's located. We were fortunate to have found seats at the communal dining table that resembled an old, big tree trunk. There were jars of condiments on that table – preserved vegetables, pickled ginger, soy sauce and chilli powder. On that cold, early autumn night, I waited eagerly and hungrily for my bowl of ramen, unknowing and uninformed of the ingredients and taste.
When I had my first taste of the tonkotsu broth there, at 一風堂 in 2003, I knew my life would be changed forever. The broth was white, but it was not from evaporated milk that we so conveniently pour into our fish soup noodle to enrich the flavour. Instead, the tonkotsu, in general, is the result of long simmering of pork bones and fatty cuts of meat. Served hot, the aroma from a combination of lard in the broth and garlic oil was heavenly. Topping the ramen were some crunchy slices of wood ear and melting soft pork belly. I said this exceptional noodle dish changed my life forever because until today, the aroma and taste still linger in my mind and I've never stopped craving for it. For me, the choice of broth is quite obvious whenever I drop by a ramen shop.
Perhaps too indulged in my first bowl of tonkotsu ramen, I'd forgotten to inquire how the kanji words of 一風堂 are pronounced. It has, for a long time, remained as the nameless, excellent ramen chain that I've been
proselytizing recommending to my friends and family back home.
一風堂 is pronounced as Ippudo, as I'd discovered recently when I visited their first shop at the Mandarin Gallery. By now, I'd tried more than a dozen tonkotsu broths in town; some better, mostly not. I was interested to compare the tastes; between now and my first experience in Osaka, eight years ago. The condiments offered in Osaka back then were not found here. And instead of the rustic, rather unkempt interior, this branch seemed to have been jazzed up with a touch of contemporary zen. I prefer the rustic design, actually. One thing remained – the required snaking queue.
I've been revisiting the Ippudo branches in Singapore rather frequently, not because of my now tamed addiction to their tonkotsu, but of requests from visiting friends from abroad. The perpetual queue at Mandarin Gallery is repulsive and at times, almost drove me to turn to Ootoya at Orchard Central, which could possibly guarantee a crowd as well. I've been enlightened by some websites to visit the UE Square branch. And since then, snaking queues were never again a problem for me.
Ippudo Shiro, which means white in Japanese, refers to the tonkotsu broth. Despite the difference in presentation (the bowls look strange but ergonomic now), essentially, the flavours and aroma were very much similar to what I had years ago. It was a good taste down memory lane. The strands of ramen were cooked to my desired texture - springy, but on the soft side. I guess in Ippudo, that kind of texture is termed medium.
What's new to me was the incorporation of Tao in the UE Square branch's name. Previously, I thought Tao was the name of another famous Japanese ramen joint and that this branch serves both ramen from Ippudo and Tao. And I've been telling my dining companions (all of them!) of this too, partially to impress them with my ramen knowledge.
Actually, Tao refers to a famous Japanese drum group! According to the website, IPPUDO TAO is a synergy of two Japanese traditions: ramen and drum performance and At IPPUDO TAO, one can enjoy TAO's live performances via a huge screen while having ramen that have been created exclusively in the spirit of TAO. I'm still digesting the concept while burying my embarrassment in misinterpreting the restaurant's name.
I tried the Tao Aka (red in Japanese), which consisted of curlier egg noodles in a tonkotsu broth with the addition of spicy miso paste. Previous dining experiences had taught me to take spicy lightly (and sweetly) in Japanese restaurants but this particular paste was, though far from a habanero chilli, rather spicy. Although I still prefer the shiro, this serves as an interesting alternative, especially on a cold, rainy night, like now.
For me, it's hard to explain how good is a tonkotsu broth. It's a measure of density, richness, lightness, aroma, flavours, patience and skills. Although the last few years have seen ramen shops sprouting across the island, I've not had one version of tonkotsu that embodies all the said characteristics. I won't be surprised if some shops use powdered tonkotsu flavouring too.
I can't and won't say that Ippudo serves the best tonkotsu or Hakata-style ramen in town but this is definitely one of the very few outstanding ones.
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Cajuns, LSU Square Off at Alex Box Stadium
Two nationally ranked teams from the state of Louisiana square off tonight at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge as the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns take on the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge.
Game time is scheduled for 6:30
The Cajuns (7-1) are ranked 10th by Baseball America and 13th by Collegiate Baseball. Baseball America has the Tigers at #7, while Collegiate Baseball ranks the Tigers #1.
LSU (7-0) has won the last three meetings between the two schools, including a 5-1 win in the NCAA Baton Rouge regional back in June.
LSU will start left hander Cody Glenn (1-0, 1.50 ERA) against the Cajuns. Glenn has a victory over Southeastern Louisiana last week and pitched a two hit shutout against the Cajuns last season at M. L. "Tigue" Moore Field.
The Cajuns will counter with right handed pitcher Greg Milhorn (1-0, 0.00 ERA) who has allowed just two hits in 7.1 innings of work.
This is the only scheduled meeting between the two clubs in 2014.
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