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Nature's BlessingIncreases your healing by an amount equal to X% of your Intellect.Usable byClassShamanPropertiesLocationRestoration, Tier 3AffectsHealing Spell powerRanks3RequirementsPoints required10Spec specificYes
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0200/0300 Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Changed to only affect healing. Changed from 30% Intellect converted into Bonus Healing to 15% Intellect converted into Healing Spell Power, which amounts to the same bonus to healing spells.
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Obama, Seeking Unity on Russia, Meets Obstacles - The New York Times
Europe|Obama, Seeking Unity on Russia, Meets Obstacles
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By PETER BAKER JUNE 4, 2014
Obama Backs Ukraine’s New President
President Obama met with President-elect Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine in Warsaw and offered the United States’s support to Kiev.
Publish Date June 4, 2014. Photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times. Watch in Times Video »
BRUSSELS — President Obama started his day in Warsaw struggling to convince his friends in Central and Eastern Europe that the United States is being tough enough with Russia. He ended his day in Brussels, still struggling, but this time to persuade America’s core Western allies to stay tough with Russia.
The dizzying contrasts underscored the challenges Mr. Obama faces navigating the complicated waters of European politics as he tries to forge a unified stance against Russian aggression in Ukraine. On the defensive at home for a prisoner swap, he finds himself pressed overseas by some allies unsatisfied with his reassurances of resolve and others unimpressed with his arguments for action.
He arrived here on Wednesday to have dinner with the leaders of the Group of 7 powers who, at his urging, had excluded President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia as punishment for his annexation of Crimea. But Mr. Obama’s counterparts from Britain, France and Germany all ended up scheduling one-on-one meetings with Mr. Putin later on. President François Hollande of France even arranged to have dinner with Mr. Putin on Thursday just after having a separate dinner with Mr. Obama.
Not only were they unwilling to snub the Russian leader entirely, as Mr. Obama sought, they were also reluctant to go along with other efforts to isolate the Kremlin. Most notably, the French government repeated that it would go ahead with the $1.6 billion sale of powerful warships to Moscow along with plans to train 400 Russian sailors in France this month. And other European leaders were cautious about setting further red lines threatening additional sanctions against Russia.
Mr. Obama’s aides repeated their opposition to the French sale on Wednesday but tried to play down the disparate approaches of the leaders.
“The question is not whether they’re meeting,” said Benjamin J. Rhodes, the president’s deputy national security adviser. “The question is what people are saying in those meetings. And our belief is that there needs to be a unified message.”
Others expressed concern. Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister who saw Mr. Obama in Warsaw and then traveled to Kiev later in the day, said Moscow was playing the allies against one another.
“I really hope the G-7 dinner tonight has produced the cohesion necessary,” he said. “It’s only by sticking together that we can influence events. Russia is very consciously cultivating and using different bilateral links.”
The leaders used their dinner on Wednesday to discuss what might set off another, more expansive round of sanctions. Some Europeans want to keep new sanctions in their pocket, as they put it, to impose only if Russia escalates the situation, while others say Moscow should avoid new penalties only if it proactively works to stop pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
After a long discussion, the leaders left the question largely unresolved. In a joint statement, they again condemned Russia’s actions and called on the country to stop the flow of arms and fighters across its borders. But they did not specify what might prompt them to broaden their sanctions to target entire sectors of the Russian economy. Instead, they threatened “to impose further costs on Russia should events so require,” without elaboration.
Unlike some other Western European leaders, Chancellor Angela Merkel sided with the tougher line in a speech to the German Parliament before flying to Brussels. Mr. Putin “has to make his influence felt” with pro-Russian separatists who have attacked and seized government offices in eastern Ukraine and do more to prevent weapons flowing into Ukraine across porous Russian borders, she said.
“If all this does not stop,” she told Parliament, “then we will not shy away from imposing new sanctions.”
But the French government repeated its refusal to cancel the warship sale, saying it would be illegal to break a contract under international law. French officials view the economic imperative as outweighing the geopolitical costs.
“France cannot bat aside these economic questions with the back of a hand,” said Jean-Louis Carrère, who leads the French Senate’s committee on foreign relations and defense, noting “the serious economic difficulties” the country is facing.
They also disagreed with Mr. Obama’s strategy of walling off Moscow from the outside world. “We’ve tried not to isolate Russia,” said a French official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss delicate a diplomatic dispute. “How can you ignore Russia today? They are important actors in the Middle East. They are everywhere.”
That Mr. Obama is caught in the middle may be frustrating to him, given that he does not seem eager for a confrontation with the Kremlin either, but he wants to avoid allowing Russian aggression to stand with impunity and feels pressure at home to take a tough line. Even within his team, there are cross pressures about how to respond, most recently over sending more troops to bolster the security of Poland and other NATO allies in the east.
Mr. Obama sided with aides who advised against a more robust military presence in the east in the short term for fear that it would be unnecessarily provocative. But he did promise to spend up to $1 billion if approved by Congress to increase joint exercises, expand military training and preposition equipment. And in a speech in Castle Square in Warsaw on Wednesday before flying here, he had strong words of support.
“Poland will never stand alone,” Mr. Obama said. “Estonia will never stand alone. Latvia will never stand alone. Lithuania will never stand alone. Romania will never stand alone.”
Mr. Obama was addressing a ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the elections that led to the eventual collapse of Communist rule in Poland, and he linked those stirring events to the current upheaval in Ukraine. “The Ukrainians of today are the heirs of Solidarity — men and women like you who dared to challenge a bankrupt regime,”he said.
His message drew mixed reactions. “The U.S. president did not miss the opportunity to say the right things in the right time and place,” said Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, a former Polish prime minister.
But Witold Waszczykowski, a senior member of Poland’s chief opposition party, Law and Justice, said that $1 billion for a region of 10 allies was not much. “In the past 25 years, we heard a lot of nice speeches, also from other American presidents,” he said. “Now it’s time to turn words into deeds. Because it’s us who are neighbors with the greatest aggressor.”
Mr. Obama met in Warsaw for the first time with the newly elected president of Ukraine, Petro O. Poroshenko, and pledged support for efforts to stabilize his country. Mr. Obama announced that the United States would provide Ukraine with $5 million worth of night-vision goggles, body armor and communications equipment long sought by its security forces.
Secretary of State John Kerry also spent time talking with Mr. Poroshenko, privately urging him to provide evidence of Russian involvement with separatists with which to confront Russian officials. He plans to meet with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov in Paris on Thursday.
Mr. Obama praised Mr. Poroshenko. “I have been deeply impressed by his vision,” he said after their 70-minute session. “The United States is absolutely committed to standing behind the Ukrainian people and their aspirations, not just in the coming days and weeks but in the coming years.”
Reporting was contributed by Rick Lyman from Warsaw, Alison Smale from Berlin and Alissa Rubin and Steven Erlanger from Paris.
A version of this article appears in print on June 5, 2014, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Obama, Seeking Unity on Russia, Meets Obstacles. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
Analysis of President Obama’s Speech JUNE 4, 2014

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Bertrams Bake and Take Their Cake
[caption id="attachment_3028" align="alignleft" width="224"] What a line up![/caption]
An impressive line up of treats and goodies was seen in the staff canteen at Bertrams in Norwich a couple of weeks ago when Carole Fletcher (Sales) and Tom Chapman (Customer Services) arranged a fun Bake & Cake Sale.
Why Bertrams are fundraising
Great Ormond Street Hospital is close to Bertrams colleagues' hearts as it has provided Michelle Ward from Customer Services and her son, Kieran a great deal of support and help since Kieran was born. Kieran was born in Jan 2011 he was struggling with his feeding and was sleeping a lot, at 10 weeks old found out that Kieran had a VSD (Hole in his heart)
[caption id="attachment_3029" align="alignright" width="300"] Michelle with Kieran[/caption]
In October 2011 they decided that Kieran needed to have an open heart operation to close the hole. The hospital has provided the facilities and support to carry out 2 open heart operations for Kieran and hospital accommodation for Michelle and partner for various overnight stays at the hospital.
It is now 3 months after his 2 open heart ops and Kieran has done amazingly well, he has started to eat more solids, drink his bottle and put on weight, he has turned into a cheeky 16 month old little boy.
Donations allow the hospital to buy equipment, fund research and provide better facilities that would otherwise be unaffordable under the NHS. This is a fantastic charity and any support that we can give goes a long way to helping them continue to provide the dedication and support that they do for babies like Kieran.
What Bertrams did
[caption id="attachment_3030" align="alignleft" width="224"] Cupcakes are proving popular this year[/caption]
The Sales and Customer Services team as well as many other employees from across the business put their baking to the test and provided some wonderful treats to help raise money for such a wonderful cause. The cakes went down very well, with even some questions being asked as to who made the delicious carrot cake muffins?!!
Jason Cherrington & Graeme Underhill have also promised that if we bake them a further 12 sausage rolls each, they will pay towards our fundraising total. Further baking will definitely be happening over the next few days in that case I believe!
Alexa Wylie (Executive PA) donated a generous amount after seeing the benefits of the Great Ormond Street Hospital documentary on T.V.
Michelle and Kieran also made an appearance on the day, even though it was Michelle’s day off. To see Kieran full of life and such a happy little boy, was lovely and this is all thanks to the Great Ormond Street Charity and staff. Michelle was delighted that we had decided to raise money for the charity and thanked us considerably for doing so!
A fantastic £270 was raised. A huge thank you to all involved!!!!
Mark Cashmore, Chief Executive 17 June 2012 at 06:02
Good to see Kieran looking so healthy in the picture. I hope he continues to progress well under Great Ormond Street's care
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012Looking for a roommate to move in A.S.A.P. in $500/month (plus utilities) room on Western and Division (self.chicagoroommates)submitted 4 years ago * by s-squirrelThe place is a the bottom two of three floors. First floor has a spacious living room, bathroom, and kitchen. Second floor has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Your room would be one of the larger ones (unfurnished) but with a shared bathroom. Pics (excuse the phone quality):
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I done talk! | Extension of Expression
I done talk!	23 Jun 2015 4 Comments
Tags: doubles, funny, linguisitcs, sign, syntax, trinidadian english creole
A few things caught my attention when I first saw this sign at a doubles stand and it was actually what inspired me to have this section as part of my blog. I won’t say that I’m a linguist so i apologise in advance for my terminology or lack thereof but having done a minor in Linguistics counts for something. In the first place, the syntax (word order) of the first phrase is quite interesting. The verb ‘are’ comes all the way at the end as very often Trinidadian English Creole (TEC) does not care much for the SVO (subject, verb, object) word order of English. Then, of course no question mark is needed as we all know that the difference in ‘she coming later’ (statement) and ‘she coming later’ (question) in TEC can be done through intonation. Why complicate life?
Anyway, back to the sign. Another classic element of our speech is the evident repetition or redundancy as some may say. ‘Drinking’ would have been fine or even ‘taking drinks’ but ‘drinking the drinks’ surely drives the point home because let’s admit ‘Is fall she fall in the big drain?’ is not the same as asking ‘Did she fall into the drain?’. No no no emphasis and repetition are key in this case! You can almost hear the words as if they were being shouted out in response to the question ‘What would you like printed on the sign sir?’ I’m laughing just imagining how that went down….unless it was done by the vendor himself of course.
Lastly….oh the IRONY. You forced us into some harsh introspection (what kind of person am I? what is the meaning of life? why am I here?) well maybe not so far but you get my point. Then, after scolding our bad actions you proceed to threaten and shame us in a way that effectively makes us feel like we’re on the receiving end of the phone in ‘Taken’ *cue clip*
CLICK HERE: ‘I KNOW WHO YOU ARE’
What really is ironic though is that maybe we aren’t the ones meant to be ashamed. What I’m trying to say is don’t let ME embarrass you with that wrong spelling of the word ’embarrass’. Who am I kidding? I understand, it happens to the best of us and even more so when we are wrongfully robbed of the money owed to us. Sometimes I still double check when I write the word receive (yes i just checked haha) or constantly remind myself that to spell the name of that little voice inside my head it’s as easy as writing a school subject with a carefully placed prefix…..yup you guessed it con-SCIENCE.
I love doubles. I love my country. I love Trinidadian English Creole and accept it as a legitimate language. It’s one of the things that makes us so unique. Just to end….oh gosh next time yuh stop to eat yuh lil doubles with slight and drink yuh drink (red solo preferably?) pay the doubles vendor what is due to him plzzzz 🙂
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Jun 23, 2015 @ 14:44:47 That’s a really clever way to remember how to spell conscience … I tend to struggle with that one too! Great post!
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Jun 23, 2015 @ 14:48:13 Lol u see it works and thanks 🙂 Reply	LuLu
Jun 23, 2015 @ 16:45:48 Haha love it
Jun 26, 2015 @ 09:03:34 This is such an accurate analysis yes! Excellent work
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Cloud over the pier | SG Photography
Cloud over the pier
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Category:Password Protected Items | NEWLOVEPLUS Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia
Instructions (unlock item)Edit
a number of game items are provided by magazines or various other sources.here is a quick tutorial how to use them to your benefit:in the title menu select:1st option, オプション / Options -->5th option, パスワード入カ / Password Key In -->type the codes to unlock the items
once you confirm you'll get a 'bonus' screen,that means unlocking was successful.
Instructions (give Item)Edit
in the game every time before you meet with the girlyou will be asked if you'd like to give a present to her or not,choose the 1st option and select the item you would like to give hershe will use the item whenever the time is appropriate.
Password listEdit
These are all known passwords that you can enter from the options menu.Some codes are for all girls, some are for each girl.
Ichiban Kuji / SweatsEdit
Manaka : 1BankujiLP
Rinko : 1kujiNewLP
Nene : IchibanNLP
Weekly Ascii / HatEdit
Manaka : AsciiWeek
Rinko : AsciiAKB
Nene : AsciiPlus
TVBros. / PochetteEdit
Manaka : TVBrosLP
Rinko : TVBrosLOVE
Nene : TVBros
Special Shounen / Gold EarringsEdit
(All) BSMagazine
______ no kokoro / 100 RichEdit
Manaka : L5jsyuN97f
Rinko : BT4kx85puE
Nene : VtY69j7isw
4Gamer.net / EyeglassesEdit
(All) 4GamerNet
Dengeki Online / Blue Floral ScarfEdit
(All) DenOnline
ITmedia / WristwatchEdit
(All) ITmediaNLP
Weekly Shounen / 100 RichEdit
(All) WMLOVEPLUS
Weekly Shounen / Diamond RingEdit
(All) WSMagazine
Famitsuu.com / Pair of TeacupsEdit
(All) FamitsuCom
Monthly Shounen Rival / Silver Heart & CrossEdit
(All) GSRival
Weekly Famitsuu / GlovesEdit
Manaka : Wfamitsu
Rinko : Sfamitsu
Nene : Famitsu
Dengeki G's Magazine / ApronEdit
Manaka : GsMagazine
Rinko : DengekiGs
Nene : DGsM
UNIQUE ONE TIME CODESEdit
Signing up for the special Love Plus credit card in Japan gets you a Uribo themed umbrella.
Buying the Love Plus Pia magazine gets you a long scarf with a different design for each girl.
Buying the New Love Plus guide gets you 100 rich.
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The puppy princess rides again | Behr Rake's Blog
January 22, 2008 in car, dog, dogs, great dane, hospital, humor, life, mom, perspective, pet, pets, puppies, puppy, random thoughts, show dogs, thoughts, tree, vet
Behr, Next time you go for a ride, have mom and dad roll the window down a little, stick your nose and and sniiiiiiiiiffffffff. It is the most wonderful experience you will ever have. You will experience all kinds of smells! It’s wonderful.
Every time I say to my dogs, let’s go bye bye, Jonesy (my male Chihuahua) runs. He thinks it’s time to go to the vets. The other two haven’t caught on yet.
dearest princess behr,
the human woman bought a beautiful pink harness to protect me when I ride in the car and she expected that I would grow into it. I never did. It’s really big and since you are a princess, I am thinking that it might fit you one day. would you like me to send you a photo of the harness? send me an email at swanhilda@gmail.com and I promise to send you a photo.
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Just got my pack through from Wiltshire Council giving me candidate informaton for the unitary elections on June 4th. Some facts and figures for you:
6 candidates contesting my ward of Box & Colerne
3,835 electors
£791.75 is the amount I'm allowed to spend
4%: usual Green vote
11%: potential Green vote because of some Parliamentary difficulties you might have heard about (and I hope to get a lot more than that having knocked on hundreds of doors over the last month)
9am on June 5th: start of verification process of the ballot in Chippenham.
1pm (approx): actual start of count and of nail biting.
98: number of wards to declare and councillors to elect on that day.
10th: my wedding anniversary on the same day.
12: number of Green Party posters up in the village.
0: number of posters and canvassers from other parties I have seen out and about.
For a bit more see here.
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Elections in Wiltshire
The list of who is standing where in Wiltshire's unitary election has been published.
There is a brief news item on it here but the breakdown by parties of the 354 candidates fighting for 98 seats is as follows:
Conservatives 98
Devizes Guardians 4
English Democrats – Putting England First 5
Liberal Democrats 94
UKIP 48
Declaration of interest: I'm standing for the Green Party in Box & Colerne ward where there will be a BNP candidate on the ballot along with Con, Lib Dem Lab and Ukip.
Meanwhile, up a level of representative democracy and my MP, James Gray, is taking a fearful beating from . . . his own party.
Read about it here and then here and also here
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President Bartlet declines to run
Martin Sheen, who played the fictional US President Bartlet in The West Wing, has told students at Oxford that he would never run for office.
Sheen, who is well known for his progressive politics, said the thought of spending all his time in meetings was too much.
"Acting is what I do for a living," he said. "Activism is what I do to stay alive."
Having properly launched my campaign to be elected as a councillor in Wiltshire I can empathise with the 'activism' bit. Getting out and talking on the doorstep to residents, addressing public meetings (as I did on Tuesday night) and debating with other people is invigorating. (You can find out more on my Facebook site).
You just hope to carry that enthusiasm through when the smoke has cleared and you find yourself in the council chamber debating the minutiae of policy.
Kerron Cross has nice post on this where he says: "I am simply hooked on the West Wing". The show is like a little cult where fans swap favourite liberal one-liners. Cross picks out a bit where Bartlet takes apart a bigoted talk show host.
However the clip below, for me, is another cracker. Bartlet is up against a folksy southern Republican who, watching it now, comes across as a male version of Sarah Palin. They accidentally meet in private just before a social engagement when this exchange takes place.
I took part in a debate with the other candidates in my ward on Tuesday night. The Lib Dem's had wanted me step aside because I would be splitting the anti-Tory vote. Yet I watched their prospective councillor struggle to even read off a cue card correctly. That was my "Boy, crime, I don't know" moment.
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Gearing up for June 4
After months of preparation, starting to really gear up for the local authority elections on June 4.
Just had this Facebook site set up for my local campaign.
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How to trace CryptoAPI calls | Decrypt my World
How to trace CryptoAPI calls	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
October 29, 2007By Alejandro Campos Magencio0	0
An application may use CryptoAPI without us developers realizing it. Security classes in .NET Framework use CryptoAPI behind the scenes. CAPICOM.dll uses it, too. The issue appears when the API returns an error which can help us to find the real cause of the issue, but the code calling it captures the error and returns a completely different one which won’t help us at all. Remember for instance my previous post, RSACryptoServiceProvider fails when used with mandatory profiles, where .NET was returning “Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) for this implementation could not be acquired” but the real error was being returned by CryptAcquireContext: NTE_TEMPORARY_PROFILE. With .NET’s error I don’t know what’s going on. With CryptAcquireContext’s I do know.
bm Advapi32!Crypt* “.printf \”\\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\\n\\n(%#x)\\n\\n\“, @$tid; .echo CALL;k 1; bp /t @$thread poi(@esp) \” .echo;.echo RESULT; .if(@eax=1) {.echo SUCCEEDED} .else {.echo FAILED;!gle}; .echo;.echo <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<; G;\”; G;”;
What is that “bm” command doing exactly? It will be easier to understand it if I write it this way:00  bm Advapi32!Crypt*
01  ”
02      .printf \”\\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\\n\\n(%#x)\\n\\n\”, @$tid;
08      \”
26      \”;
29  “;
00) We set a breakpoint on all APIs found in Advapi32.dll which start by “Crypt”. The following commands will be executed when the application calls any of those APIs thus reaching any of those breakpoints:
02) We print the id of the thread calling the API (“$tid” pseudo-register). “.printf” works pretty much the same way as our old friend “printf” in C. Instead of ‘ ” ‘ and ‘ \n ‘ we will have to use ‘ \” ‘ and ‘ \\n ‘, because these commands are already between ‘ ” ‘.
04) We print the string “CALL” with “.echo“.
05) We print the first line of the call stack gotten when the breakpoint is reached (“k 1“). The API we are calling will correspond to that first line. Here we could show the parameters being passed to the API by using “kp” command (if we have symbols -.pdb files- associated to Advapi32.dll), or any other way.
07) Now we want to know what happened after the API finished executing. When we stop on the breakpoint set at 00, the “esp” register (stack pointer) points to the return address where we will go after the call to the API ends. So we set a breakpoint at that address with “bp“. And if we don’t want weird things to happen on multi-threaded applications, we have to specify on which thread (“$thread” pseudo-register) we are setting that breakpoint. 28) Once we’ve set the breakpoint at 07, we can continue the execution of the application with “g” command.
09 & 10) We print the string “RESULT”.
12) When the API has finished executing, its return value will be stored in the “eax” register. The Crypt* functions in Advapi32 will return 1 if they succeed or 0 if they don’t. We use “.if {} .else {}” command to determine which one we got.
14) The API succeeded, so we print the string “SUCCEEDED”.
18 & 19) The API failed, so we print the string “FAILED” and show the last error value with “!gle” (Get Last Error) command.
- Some people may think that setting a breakpoint at 07 is unnecessary, as we could use “gu” command to get to the end of the call instead. But if we use “gu” and a CryptoAPI calls another one, we will miss the return value of the former.
- I tried setting the breakpoint at 07 using “~~[$tid] bp …“, but the behavior wasn’t correct. I don’t know why the debugger was stopping several times on the same breakpoint instead of just one. Using “bp /t @$thread …” instead worked just fine.
PS: I’m currently developing a Windbg\Cdb script based on the principles explained in this post which traces all CryptoAPI calls, but this time showing all their in & out parameters in a very user friendly way. You can see its current version here.
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BACK OFF GOVERNMENT!: Nuke 'em
I came across this piece and this one on NASA's efforts to use Nuclear reactors in space probes and ships.
People have a natural anti-nuclear reaction when they start to hear suggestions like this one. Fears, founded or unfounded, of accidents occuring and potential disastrous consequences are to be expected.
This technology has been sold as a necessary requirement for missions to Mars or beyond. I'm not so sure that is true.
I really think that this effort has more to do with NASA getting the public comfortable with the concept of using Nuclear power in space. If successful they may become less jittery about ideas that NASA has proven could work in the past and deliver huge increases in rocket efficiencies... like say nuclear rockets...
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Hearts players paid December wages - Yahoo Eurosport UK
Hearts have announced their players had received their overdue December wages - on the day the Scottish Premier League imposed a seven-day deadline to comply with a number of orders or be faced with unlimited sanctions.A SPL sub-committee met on Wednesday after players' union PFA Scotland submitted a formal complaint on behalf of Hearts' first-team squad on December 16, when wages were not paid on time for a third consecutive month.A statement on the club's official website, www.heartsfc.co.uk, read: "Hearts will carefully consider today's SPL judication into the matter of late payment of players' wages and will decide on the course of further action."The SPL made a series of demands - ordering the payment of December's wages, interest owed, costs for proceedings, plus timely payment of this month's wages, due on January 16 - with a January 11 deadline in order to halt the financial uncertainty surrounding the club.Hearts have announced one of those orders had been met, but insisted the payment on the day of the SPL's meeting was merely coincidence.The statement added: "Meanwhile, the club has today received funds and has paid the outstanding players' wages for December. The payment is the result of successful business conducted by the club and it is coincidental that this has happened on the same day as the judication by the SPL."The sale of Eggert Jonsson to Wolves, which was completed on January 1 for an undisclosed fee, is believed to have been key in today's payment by Hearts. The SPL had earlier issued a statement making demands of the Tynecastle-based club.The statement read: "An SPL board sub-committee today adjudicated in the dispute between 14 players and Heart of Midlothian FC. The SPL board sub-committee has ordered December wages to be paid by January 11."Interest on all sums overdue from October, November and December wages must also be paid by January 11. January salaries must be paid on time on January 16. The club must also pay the claimants' legal expenses and the SPL's costs of today's hearing."Both sides have the right to appeal the decision to the Scottish FA within seven days."Sports & RecreationBusiness & Economy

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Cricket-Warner, Smith make mark on return to Australia... | Daily Mail Online
Published: 04:12 EDT, 6 May 2019 | Updated: 04:12 EDT, 6 May 2019
MELBOURNE, May 6 (Reuters) - David Warner smashed an encouraging 39 with the bat and Steve Smith took a brilliant catch in the field as the pair savoured a victorious return to the Australia fold in a World Cup warm-up against a New Zealand XI on Monday.
Australia play their first World Cup match against Afghanistan on June 1 in Bristol. (Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by Nick Mulvenney)
Cricket-Warner, Smith make mark on return to Australia...

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Muscat Confidential: Ministry of Tourism & Marina Bandar Rowdha management cripple Commercial Tourist Operators
Posted by Undercover Dragon at 5:05 PM
How am i not suprised! Greed, lack of Intelligence and incompetence rule the day again. Keep up the good work MOT.
(p.s what's with the ever increasing grocery prices!? Surely another act of greed!?)
Anonymous May 10, 2010 at 6:31 PM
I didn't realize the Marina were MoT and Zawawi!
Unbelievable. No wonder they were after CAYC.
Thats What I May 10, 2010 at 8:04 PM
As economic advisor to HE Maqbool bin Ali Sultan Al Lawati one would expect Saleem Qassim Al Zawawi to know exactly what a berth is worth.
Who can tell what a berth at the Yacht Club would have been worth if Her Excellency Dr. Rajiha Abdul Ameer Ali Al Lawati had obtained the land for.......
Oh – isn’t the news about British Passports and Qatar intriguing
White Tiger May 10, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Owning a boat my self and with my humble marina clubbing experience in Bahrain, I have noticed that the Marina club doesn't make a lot of money from the boats. Rather, the club makes it from the supporting facilities it offers, such as (fueling, Engine Overhauling, painting, etc) in addition to all of that we shouldn't forget the the food and beverage and the retail element of the club it self...
All in all, I think its an uneducated decision... that normal I guess in our part of the world hasty decision without the thinking of the consequences!
Queen of Ireland May 11, 2010 at 8:06 AM
How long will it be before MBR increase the membership fees for the non-commercial members as well?
Smaller boats are already being squeezed into tiny berths to make way for the gin-palaces. The berthing charges certainly do not reflect the salaries of the boat boys. No wonder they spend their time sitting in their air conditioned cabin rather than assisting boat owners!
Thats What I May 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM
ah White Tiger - the phrase 'Rentier Economy ' and its attitudes, springs to mind when considering the decision
nolongerveryoptimistic May 11, 2010 at 2:10 PM
The MOT also set up their own MBAR based sea tour operations in direct competition with the independants already trying to eke a living from the dwindling customer base. A clear indication that the MOT has little real interest in their mandate and will stoop to any level to get their grubby little hands on every bit of cash available to them - either by monopolisation through unfair competition, manipulation of permissions or simply the more traditional practice of brown bag shares!
Thats What I May 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM
Why would you take issue with the Ministry of Tourism Operating Tourist products – look at the experience they have
The Ministry’s super Yacht
The Ministry’s semi submarine -
The Ministry’s Youth Hostile owned by the Ministry but run by a ….UAE company who also run a single hotel behind the Adidas Factory Outlet in Al Ain UAE
The Ministry’s 12 room eco Hotel and conference centre and exhibition operated by the Ministry subsidy OMRAN and opened managed by … a Lebanese company
the year old issue Dragon blog Page on a similar issue
Hoota Cave owned by the Ministry and managed by ….. a Lebanese company
about Hoota cave
Not certain if these are owned by the Ministry
the new Car Ferries arrive in June 2008
the latest news on 1st April 2010 that a Car ramp is being built
Undercover Dragon May 11, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Those links are all broken.... remove the www.blogger part and repost!
Thats What I May 12, 2010 at 6:31 AM
http://www.ameinfo.com/200268.html
The Ministry’s Youth Hostile owned by the Ministry but run by a ....UAE company who also run a single hotel behind the Adidas Factory Outlet in Al Ain UAE
http://www.flamingo-hotels.com/hotelsresorts-0.html
The Ministry’s 12 room eco Hotel and conference centre and exhibition now operated by the Ministry subsidy OMRAN and opened & managed by ....a Lebanese company
http://www.rasaljinz.org
http://www.superyachts.com/news/exroyal-yacht-loaloat-al-behar-available-for-charter-391.htm
muscatconfidential.blogspot.com/2009/06/ministry-of-tourism-putting-pressure-on.html
Hoota Cave owned by the Ministry and managed by....a Lebanese company
http://www.showcaves.com/english/misc/showcaves/AlHoti.html
http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080604042758
the latest news on 1st April 2010 that the ferry car ramp is being built
http://www.nfcoman.com/en/PressRelease.aspx muscatconfidential.blogspot.com/2009/06/ministry-of-tourism-putting-pressure-on.html
http://www.nfcoman.com/en/PressRelease.aspx
Abdullah May 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM
TWI- you shouldn't be so negative about the Ministry of Tourism's projects, instead we should concentrate on their successes: ------------------------------------------------
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Well I guess that's all of them.
Thats What I May 12, 2010 at 6:55 PM
but I couldnt possibly
The marina has an interesting history, starting out as a SAOG... The place was obviously not built by someone with marina experience & thus found itself struggling even to service its soft loan. Cynics might argue it was designed to take advantage of the softloan. the 1st thing that strikes you there; is the oversized sea wall, which even depreciated over 50 years would be a drag on a place that has a limited ability to generate revenue. After being lumped together with other "sick companies" the final decision was to nationalize. a slight hitch meant that the government had to pay 2 or 3 times what they wanted to because the major shareholders tried to bring in outside investors & started a bidding war. in the end the shareholders conceded at about half the initial value and all ceded their shares except for 1 person... at about the same time the current chairman got a job at MOCI & coincidently got put in charge...and thats how the marina got to its present state. Things were looking up briefly when the current management did at 1 point bring in a big marina managment co. owned by Donald Trump who had grand plans & wanted to invest, but I dont think that coincided with the chairmans vision. In the end lets hope competition helps bring this facility back under proffessional management.
Hmm well while I might agree with all of the REST of the above, there is no question that the marina wall, which was built to withstand the 'hundred year storm' over MUCH negativity, saved each and every boat in the Marina during Cyclone Gonu; only 6 boats sank and the basin filled to such an extent that another few centimetres of water inside the wall (had the storm gone on much longer) and each and every boat there would have smashed itself to pieces. But that wall was a lifesaver; not a white elephant ...
I fail to see how commercial Omani vessels should be changed one rate, whilst private vessels are charged another rate.
Most marinas in the world charge for LOA (Length Over All), MBR however adds a "width" scale to this (usually this is only applied to Multi-Hulls), just to up the fees.
With no in-house boat skills, no chandlery, inadequate berth fire protection, poor physical security and a hideous management policy it's amazing people use it at all.
Oh but like so many things here, there is no option, for those who own vessels slightly larger than speedboats.
A cynical person may argue it is because expats can not form a commercial company, and therefore this is a mechanism of applying a nationality based charging system;


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Delhi's air quality dipped just ahead of Diwali. Several areas in Delhi recorded poor to very poor air quality a day before Diwali. According to CPCB data, Delhi’s average PM2.5 and PM10 levels two times above the safe standards of 60 and 100 micrograms per cubic metre, respectively. The average PM2.5 and PM10 levels at 7pm were 123.5 and 253 micrograms per cubic metre, respectively. Stubble burning in Haryana and Punjab are moderate but gradually increasing resulting in poor air quality in Delhi-NCR.
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Mos Taike | Wookieepedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia
< Mos Taike
Between the Xelric Draw and the Northern Dune Sea[1]
"Welcome, or maybe sympathies, given that this is a backwater town on the galaxy's backwater-iest world. But even here, one person can make a difference."
―Bren Kingal[src]
Mos Taike was a small city on Tatooine.
A small chapter of Meatlumps just outside of Mos Taike
It was located just outside Mos Entha, between the Xelric Draw and the Northern Dune Sea.[1]
The mayor of the small settlement was Gramm Rile, an older individual who cared a great deal about his citizens.[2] Lorne Prestar acted as the Chief of Security for the city. It was also the former home of Ackli.[3] Additionally, the xenobiologist Dusque Mistflier and the Imperial scientist Tendau Nandon once investigated a krayt dragon graveyard located near the city.[4]
Sometime following 0 BBY, Mos Taike was vulnerable to repeated Tusken Raider attacks. The mayor pleaded with both the Galactic Empire and Jabba the Hutt for protection, but to no avail. Fortunately for the mayor, with the help of a devoted spacer, the city managed to gather enough citizens to repel a massive Tusken raid.[2]
The city itself could be described as a small backwater town on a small backwater world. Still, it was home to a number of notable venues, such as the Third Sun Cantina. This establishment, managed by a Bith named Stella doubled as both a cantina and a medical center. The city also had a number of other facilities, such as a garage for vehicle reparations, but it lacked any kind of shuttleport for incoming travelers. A gang of technology-hating terrorists known as the Meatlumps established a small chapter on the outskirts of Mos Taike.[2]
Mos Taike was one of many cities on Tatooine that players of the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies could visit, prior to the games closure on December 15, 2011. However, unlike the other cities on Tatooine, Mos Taike was the only one which lacked a shuttleport for easy transport to and from the town.[2]
Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I (First appearance)
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
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Les Créations D'Elliam: The favorite scrapbookers blog tour
Je suis super honorée car j'ai été nominée par Marie-Pierre Capistran une scrappeuse fantastique et d'une gentillesse extraordinaire! Nous nous sommes rencontrées via instagram et facebook et sommes maintenant toutes les 2 sur l'équipe créative de Tchoubi.
*I'm very honored today because I've been nominated by Marie-Pierre Capistran for the favorite scrapbookers blog tour. She's a lovely scrapbooker and the sweetest girl! We met via instagram and facebook and now we're on the same Tchoubi DT
C'est donc à moi maintenant de partager un peu de ma vie créative avec vous
*It's now my turn to share a little about my creative life with you
I'm working more on Cuts2luv, my little flair company than on my scrapbook assigments those days! I've release a new collection in late august and my flairs are now sold in 5 scrapbook stores in Quebec. I'm so very busy with this!
But I might find some time to do my Dt assigments! My next project on the table is the last Creative Scrappers sketch of this term. I have to prints pictures!! :)
Most of the time, it takes me 1 or 2 hours to finish a layout. Depending of the style I want to create. I have always a lot of silhouette cuts in a bucket so I don't need to stop everything to start cutting shapes. I'm pretty organised, I have everything I need on hands.
Anyone surprised if I say flairs? I love them! They are the perfect embellisments to add. I have a ton of them, from my company of course but also from other brands!
No matter if they are in english
They are all fun to use! I love spending time to choose the right one that will fit perfectly with my layout.
I create when I can! With 4 boys at home (yes I count my husband in) I don't have so much time left. So when I have 1 hour in front of me.. I get in my workspace. I often start with papers and start the background with gesso, ink, watercolors... I find a picture that would look great after. If I find nothing I print in black and white! Sometimes I look on my background thinking "OH MY where am I going with this? This will be the uggliest layout ever.." and finally this is often my fav ones!
I will answer PINTEREST save me! Everyday I spend at leat 30 minutes or more looking for inspiration. I pin every thing I like or inspire me for further projects. Some will say that they loose time on pinterest but I don't feel it like this! I often do projects that where inspired first by seing them there. Here's my pinterest profile if you want to follow me http://www.pinterest.com/elliam/
At the moment my fav scrabpookers are Nadia Cannizzo, Sasha Farina, Stephanie Papin, Melanie Blackburn and Ebony van der Starr to name only a few...
That's not an easy question! I think I do not have a style... I love trying everything, yes I use very often inks, gesso and all the mixed media stuff but I also love using only papers. I'm a clustering girl that's clear but Creative Scrappers often makes me get out of my comfort zone with sketches that I would not choose naturally.
And a sketch that made me cry.. ok not realy but uhg!! that wasn't easy to me!
Caroline Nouvelot
Sorti droit de la tête de Caroline Elliam à 08:05
Marie-Pierre Capistran 8 sept. 2014 à 16:21:00
NicE!!! C'est vraiment le fun d'en apprendre plus sur toi. J'étais sur que tu n'avais que 2 garçons….. J'adore tes flairs!! :)
Caroline Elliam 10 sept. 2014 à 17:28:00
comment ça tu savais pas?! T'es pas abonnée à mon instagram ou quoi? J'arrête pas de les prendre en photo! :P Merci beaucoup pour cette nomination! <3
Anne-Marie 9 sept. 2014 à 11:44:00
1ou2h pour créer tes pages, Waouwwwwww, tu m épates ! Elles sont superbes et pleine d énergie ! j'aime beaucoup ton style et tes associations de couleurs !
Caroline Elliam 10 sept. 2014 à 17:27:00
bon parfois plus hein! hihihi! Merci!
Isablabla 12 sept. 2014 à 10:36:00
J'aime tellement TOUT ce que tu fais, sans exception... continue de m'inspirer!
Petitecerise 7 oct. 2014 à 03:55:00
punaise j'ai carrement oublié!!!!! bon bein je sais qu'elle sera mon prochain post mdr!!!!


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And So Begins My New Life: October 2007
posted by Granimore | 5:50 PM | 4 comments links to this post
It's been about 10 days since my last post, and I usually don't go that long without commenting on something. However, work has not provided much material for me to post about. I'm still waiting to hear from the State Board as to when I can take my test, and only in the last day or two has business picked up. We have two full service funerals next week, one with burial at the National Cemetery on Monday, the other with Mass and burial in town on Tuesday. We also have a memorial service Monday, but myself and another employee will be taking care of the funeral. I'll be driving the hearse and leading the procession to the National Cemetery, and the other guy will be driving the limo.
That's the news, now over to Granimore for Sports.
I've been following the first two games of the World Series, sort of. I'll flip back to the game between commercials on my regular channels. I really want the Rockies to win, and I hope they can overcome the two game deficit while they are back home in Colorado. The reason I'm rooting for the Rockies is because they are a young team, and I don't believe they've been in a World Series before. They remind me of the Atlanta Braves, which I followed while I lived there, right up to the 1995 victory in the World Series. After that, I didn't care anymore. I just wanted to see them win for once in their Atlanta history. Anyway, the Red Sox were in a World Series, and victorious, I believe, just three or four years ago. They've had their turns, I want to see the underdog come out on top.
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This month has been fairly quiet. As of yesterday at close of business, we had eleven calls, only one of which had any type of services at all. This morning we were expecting a delivery of caskets. At 4:40a.m., I get called out to make a removal. The pre-arrangements call for direct cremation. I made the removal, came home, showered, ate a nice breakfast, then went back to work.The truck rolled in at 8am with 27 caskets. We got those unloaded by 10:30a.m. The whole time we were working, and all through the lunch hour, the phone was eerily silent. About 2p.m. the phone starts ringing, and two lines are ringing at once. The owner was on one line, while I answered the second line, which turned out to be another death call. I took all the information, and my boss and another guy got ready to leave to make that removal. Right as they are about to get into the hearse, a car pulls up and a woman gets out. She wants to check on her friend's pre-arrangements and make sure we have all of our information up to date. While my boss handles that, the phone rings, and it's someone wanting information on pre-planning. So my boss fields that call while I finish up the walk-in.
Funny how we went all morning without a single phone call or drop-in, then suddenly the skies open up and the calls and visits come rolling in. That's what makes this job so unpredictable, and why you should take care of things when you have the chance to, because you never know when it's all gonna bust loose on you.
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This post is different from any I've ever done. This is a short story I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I hope you like it.
The hearse slowly pulled up to the house, the lone occupant double-checking the address before parking in the dimly lit street and getting out. The full moon was brilliant, lighting up the pre-dawn sky like a pale sun, washing everything in a silvery glow; a stark contrast to the dark task at hand.
The driver opened the door, the dim interior light of the vehicle an unwelcome intrusion into his somber mood. Slowly he got out of the funeral coach and looked up and down the street, wary of any traffic that might be stirring at this early hour. Witnesses were not desirable to this task, but usually unavoidable at all but the most inconvenient of hours, such as this. Curious neighbors, usually, seeing a hearse and knowing death had come calling. Driven by a morbid desire to know who and how, they would gather timidly on their lawns, watching from afar, hoping for a sight or a story to tell to their coworkers or friends, or anybody that would listen. Some would boldly approach and ask questions. The driver always answered politely, but volunteering as little information as possible.
Slowly he made his way to the front door, studying the path he would have to navigate with his stretcher; a narrow driveway with one car crowding the tiny concrete slab. He hoped the driver would volunteer to move it.
Attached to the driveway was a sidewalk, parallel to the house, then taking a 90° turn at the last moment to end at the front door; an inconvenience, but a minor one. His stretcher was easy to maneuver, he could handle it. His biggest concern was the layout of the inside of the house. Narrow hallways that would make it difficult to get the stretcher into the death room, lots of heavy furniture, messy clutter; these were some difficulties he had faced in the past.
He rang the bell, knowing the hospice nurse was waiting on the other side, ready to have the task complete so she could go home and get some much needed sleep. The door opened almost immediately; she must have seen him pull up. He introduced himself as she showed him in. He looked around the room; a large living room, open and spacious. Good. He followed the nurse into the dining room, where she had set up her temporary office; paperwork and clipboards, medicines and equipment laid out casually on the handsome oak dining table.
Most everything he needed to know he had taken at the initial call; name of the deceased, date and time of death, location. Now he needed a few more items before he could proceed. Primary physician: the hospice doctor. Next of kin: none. That was sad, he thought, to die alone, with no family or friends to comfort you. Only a nurse, unknown until very recently.
She showed him to the adjoining room, until recently a sun-room. Curtains now covered the windows, but the moonlight spilled in through a small gap, landing on a table which held a glass of water, a bottle of pills, some crumpled tissues. A hospital bed filled the room, and various blankets and pillows were stacked on a nearby chair. The body lay in the bed, head tilted to one side, eyes closed, mouth slightly agape. Hands folded across the stomach by the nurse, a sign of respect for the deceased. This body was small. Good, he thought, easy to manage. Larger bodies were problematic for one person, but not impossible. Anyway, nurses could be counted on to help, if necessary. But with small persons, he usually didn’t trouble them. Their work was done by the time his presence was necessary; no sense making them work harder than they had to.
He inspected the body, looking for IV lines, bandages, sores, bodily fluids, anything that could make this task more unpleasant. The nurse had done her job well; the body was clean and ready for the final journey. He paused a moment, looking at the aged skin, so discolored from ruptured capillaries. Even the lightest bump could lead to serious bruising. Even an injection or IV needle could cause drastic damage to the skin. He hoped he held up better as he aged.
He looked around the room, making sure he had room to bring the stretcher right up to the bed. The chair needed to be moved, but only a little. After carefully pushing it to one side, out of the way, he found the bed controls and raised the bed to its highest position. He told the nurse he would be back in a moment with the stretcher.
On his way back through the living room, he looked around. A few pictures in frames dotted the walls and some of the furniture. A husband and wife in their early years, perhaps. More pictures, same couple. Different settings; a sandy beach, a cool, green hillside, an amusement park, an antiques market, a cruise ship. In each picture the couple is a little bit older, but in all of them they are as happy as in their youngest days. Suddenly the pictures are no longer of a couple, but of the person in the bed. The spouse died, the driver thinks, leaving the other behind alone to mourn. He hoped his end, when it came, would be more fitting than this sad testimony.
He stepped out into the silvery darkness, once again scanning the street. A lone vehicle approached, moving too slowly for his liking. Suddenly a newspaper came sailing out the window, and he realized it was merely the newspaper man, making his morning deliveries. He wondered if the person in the house had a subscription. What would happen to all the papers yet to be delivered? Would the neighbors tell the newspaper of the death and have the subscription cancelled, or would this simple task be overlooked in the pressing details to be handled in the days ahead? Would the papers pile up on the doorstep, a mute testimony to the lonely end of a life?
Quickly the driver returned to his vehicle, opening the back door and pulling out the stretcher. He made an adjustment to the cot cover, neatening it up and smoothing it out. After all, this job was as much about appearances as it was about service. He rolled the stretcher up the driveway, maneuvering carefully around the car. It would have been nice to have it moved, but he could deal with it. Down the sidewalk and around the bend, through the front door and into the house, the wheels clattering slightly on the rough texture of the concrete sidewalk.
He brought the stretcher into the death room, lining it up next to the bed. He removed the cover and unfastened the straps, letting them dangle over the side and out of the way. He reached into his pocket and brought out a pair of latex gloves. Safety first. He remembered a patient he had picked up a few weeks ago. A young man, gaunt and emaciated. The nurses had told him cancer, but when the death certificate had come back from the doctor, the “Cause of Death” section contained but one word: AIDS. He put on the gloves and thought, always play it safe.
Standing by the stretcher, with it between him and the bed, he was ready to begin. Gently, he placed one hand behind the neck. With the other he cradled the thigh, then pulled the body toward him, sliding it from the bed onto the stretcher. Most people assumed his job involved a lot of lifting. The reality was that more sliding than lifting occurred.
After some minor adjustments and getting the body well-centered on the stretcher, he fastened down the straps which held the body securely in place. One across the chest, the other across the legs. The straps were a necessary precaution. Without them it would be very easy for a body to slide off the stretcher, particularly while riding in the hearse. A corner taken too fast would be all it would take. This had never happened to the driver, but there was that one time where he was carrying a 600 lb. body and it tipped, stretcher and all, after a sudden, sharp turn. Fortunately, the body was too large and the hearse too small to prevent a complete tip over. The stretcher and body ended up at a 45 degree angle for the rest of the trip to the funeral home.
Placing the cot cover over the body, he thanked the nurse for everything and slowly began the trip back to the coach. At the front door he asked the nurse for one favor; to lift up the foot end of the stretcher and guide the wheels over the threshold. She did this easily, and he did the same at the head. Thanking her once again, he steered the stretcher down the sidewalk to the driveway. The nurse apologized for not thinking to move her car, but he assured her that was no problem.
Once past the car, he quickly maneuvered the stretcher into position at the rear of the hearse and opened the door. Best to have this done as quickly as possible. The less time he spent in plain view with the body, the better. This was not a spectator sport, after all, though sometimes people treated it as such. He placed the head of the stretcher into the hearse, then pulled the release lever while lifting. The wheel assembly unlocked and folded beneath the cot as he pushed the stretcher into the back of the coach.
Once the stretcher was fully inside, he closed the door and got back into the driver’s seat. Slowly, respectfully, he pulled away from the house at a snail’s pace. After a half block or so, he sped up, ready to be finished with this job. A few miles to the crematory, he thought. 20 minutes to unload, the drive back. By the time he returned, he figured, he would have just enough time to go home, shower, and get back to work for the regular business day. At least he would have time to shower. The calls he hated most were those that came just as he was rising for the workday. No time to shower or shave. The funeral home had a reputation for arriving quickly when called, unlike competing firms, which could sometimes take several hours to respond.
Finally he reached his destination. The sun slowly lit up the morning sky as he unlocked the rear door to the crematory. He walked in and turned on the lights, then headed straight for the log book. Consulting his notes, he recorded the name of the deceased, date and time of death, and date and time of delivery to the crematory in the log. Then he grabbed a cremation container and laid it out on the lift, the mechanical hoist which could raise or lower a body for easy placement on the cooler racks.
Quickly he unloaded the body, ready to go home and freshen up. He guided the stretcher next to the hoist, then slid the body off and into the cremation container. Sometimes he wished there were a more delicate way of effecting the transfer, but it worked effectively, if not with some dignity. He remembered the first time he attempted this transfer on his own. His co-worker had made the process look so easy; grab the sliding board which lay under the body, make sure the body and container were evenly lined up, then pull quickly. The body had slid off the stretcher, and with a dull thud had dropped neatly into the container. The first time the driver tried it, the body caught the edge of the container, which folded beneath the weight, and the body had started to slide to the floor. Fortunately, the coworker was at hand and caught it before it hit the deck. That experience had left him shaken for a few days, and he vowed never to let that happen again. So far he had been successful.
Closing the container, he guided the hoist into the cooler; a massive box, refrigerated to around 35 degrees or so, with rows of racks waiting to receive their gruesome cargo. Finding a convenient, open spot, he raised the bed of the hoist to the proper level, then slid the container into it’s berth. Rollers on the hoist and the racks made this a neat and easy task.
He maneuvered the hoist back to it’s proper place, then returned to the cooler, taking one last look around at the rows of boxes stacked in the cooler racks. Each box holding a body, a loved one, a wife, mother, husband, daughter, son, sister, brother. Each box a family in pain, loved ones in mourning for the life they lost. One last look around, making sure all is in place. He turned out the light, the cold and darkness overtaking the dead as the door slammed shut behind him.
posted by Granimore | 8:09 PM | 8 comments links to this post
Yesterday afternoon we get a call from a family who has lost a loved one. They were basically price-shopping, but my boss had a feeling we would eventually get the call. About 7pm or so last night, I get the call to go get the body, bring it back to the funeral home and prepare for a cot view the next morning.
So I went and got the body and spent about an hour to an hour and a half getting everything ready; getting the body on the table, cleaning it (there was blood in the hair), getting the eyes and mouth closed and posed, and doing as much as possible prior to this morning, when the family would be bringing clothes in for the cot view.
My coworker arrived at work this morning at 9am, and he double checked my work and said I had done a good job. I had to fix one spot at the corner of the mouth; the cheek was sunken in a little. I put a small piece of cotton in to plump it out and that was that.
The owner came in about 9:30 and took one look and said he looked good. He made no adjustments at all. I believe he thought the other employee had done all the work. The family came in a short while later, and while the owner sat with them the other guy and I dressed the body and placed it in the chapel. The owner came out a few minutes later to check the body before letting the family in. He made one adjustment to the hair and let the family in.
They came out a few minutes later and were raving about how wonderful the body looked and how bad the person had looked at the moment of death. They just couldn't believe we were able to make them look so good. And that made me feel good, not because I'm a glory seeker, but because I was able to make them feel better about their loss. After they left the owner was commenting on what they had said, and I made sure to say something to the effect of, "yeah, I was here for two hours last night getting him ready..." So the owner now knows, if he didn't before, that I am capable of making these kinds of preparations.
posted by Granimore | 12:53 PM | 1 comments links to this post
There hasn't been a lot happening at work, so I haven't posted anything new in about a week. It got me to thinking; has this blog run it's course? Is it time to pack it in? I just don't know yet. I've been pondering the matter, but I'm undecided about the whole thing. At the very least, I will keep it going until I pass the State Boards. After that, I'll just have to play it by ear. In the meantime, I'll keep you updated on my Board exam, and anything that may happen during the course of my workday.
posted by Granimore | 7:28 PM | 4 comments links to this post


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NBA ESPN Fantasy League: Power Rankings (Week 1:Start to Nov 6) | Sydrified Sports and Entertainment
NBA ESPN Fantasy League: Power Rankings (Week 1:Start to Nov 6)
If you’re NBA Fantasy League’s scoring system is more sum than rank, then you might like this.
Otherwise, just come back later when I place a lot of chick pics on this site.
With that said, the Fantasy League I’m in has the following stats:
1 offensive rebound = 2
1 defensive rebound = 1.5
1 assist = 2
1 steal = 2.5
1 block = 2.5
1 turnover = -1
1 foul = -0.5
1 double-double = 5
1 triple-double = 20
1 quadruple-double = 100
If you check the stats out, then you’ll love it when your point guards and power forward draw double-double outputs.
Actually, the players that lead this list did just that.
Click more if you want to see the list because THE SCRAMBLE HAS BEGUN.
Every Monday (or Tuesday if I get lazy), I’ll try to put the top names in this list.
And since it’s a Monday… CHECK THIS OUT!
YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY WHEN YOU HAVE AT LEAST FIVE PLAYERS IN THIS LIST ON YOUR SQUAD!!!
50 MARCUS CAMBY / PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
49 GERALD WALLACE / CHARLOTTE BOBCATS
48 AMARE STOUDEMIRE / NEW YORK KNICKS
47 BRANDON JENNINGS / MILWAUKEE BUCKS
46 MARC GASOL / MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES
45 PAUL PIERCE / BOSTON CELTICS
44 ERIC GORDON / LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS
43 MANU GINOBILI / SAN ANTONIO SPURS
42 JASON RICHARDSON / PHOENIX SUNS
41 ANDRE MILLER / PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
40 BRANDON ROY / PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
39 STEPHEN CURRY / GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
38 KEVIN GARNETT / BOSTON CELTICS
37 RICHARD JEFFERSON / SAN ANTONIO SPURS
36 WILSON CHANDLER / NEW YORK KNICKS
35 KEVIN LOVE / MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES
34 AL JEFFERSON / UTAH JAZZ
33 RAYMOND FELTON / NEW YORK KNICKS
32 TONY PARKER / SAN ANTONIO SPURS
30 DAVID LEE / GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
29 TYREKE EVANS / SACRAMENTO KINGS
28 BLAKE GRIFFIN / LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS
27 ANDREW BOGUT / MILWAUKEE BUCKS
26 LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE / PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
25 DIRK NOWITZKI / DALLAS MAVERICKS
24 JASON KIDD / DALLAS MAVERICKS
23 KEVIN DURANT / OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER
22 DERON WILLIAMS / UTAH JAZZ
21 JOHN WALL / WASHINGTON WIZARDS
20 LEBRON JAMES / MIAMI HEAT
19 DWYANE WADE / MIAMI HEAT
18 ELTON BRAND / PHILADELPHIA 76ERS
17 MIKE CONLEY / MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES
16 CARMELO ANTHONY / DENVER NUGGETS
14 TIM DUNCAN / SAN ANTONIO SPURS
13 JOSH SMITH / ATLANTA HAWKS
12 RUDY GAY / MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES
11 KOBE BRYANT / LOS ANGELES LAKERS
10 PAUL MILLSAP / UTAH JAZZ
9 MONTA ELLIS / GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
8 DERRICK ROSE / CHICAGO BULLS
7 LUIS SCOLA / HOUSTON ROCKETS
5 DWIGHT HOWARD / ORLANDO MAGIC
4 JOAKIM NOAH / CHICAGO BULLS
3 CHRIS PAUL / NEW ORLEANS HORNETS
2 PAU GASOL / LOS ANGELES LAKERS
1 RAJON RONDO / BOSTON CELTICS
I am aware… I sense a lot of violent reactions from the readers. Where is Steve Nash? Where is Joe Johnson? Where is Chris Bosh??? Don’t worry; they’ll pop when they’re ready. Johnson is so one-dimensional. Why is Kobe. Melo, or Monta Ellis in this list even if they are known as shot-crazy players? Maybe next week he can debut in the list.
Same goes for Chris Bosh. It seems like LBJ and D-Wade is using him as a better version of Udonis Haslem. Karl Malone when he transferred to the Lakers had better numbers and there were four superstars in that LA Lakers squad!
As for Steve Nash, this list is PG-friendly. If he can claim the assists more, then he’ll see his spot on the list. Unfortunately he isn’t like Rondo who can pass to almost anyone in Boston because they have the ability to finish with his passes.
The key in this league is to claim players that can lead you in two or more statistical departments.
Who will lead next week?