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'Fear' greatest threat to First Amendment freedoms
Published 5:21 pm, Tuesday, July 23, 2013
At various times, every American likely has wished for less of some things that the First Amendment protects. Less hateful speech, for instance.
But wishes don't change constitutions. And the same 45 words of the First Amendment exist today as when they were ratified by the fledgling nation as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791.
But the just-released 2013 State of the First Amendment survey by the First Amendment Center gives us reason to worry about the future because of a repeating threat to our core freedoms — fear.
In this year's survey, conducted in May, about a month after the Boston Marathon bombing, 34 percent of Americans said the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees, up 21 points from the 13 percent recorded in the 2012 survey.
The increase is the largest one-year rise in the survey's history, and more than double the point increase seen in the wake of 9/11, when those fearing too much freedom went from 39 percent to the all-time high of 49 percent.
Fear has been a powerful force in American history. A mere seven years after we gained the Bill of Rights, amid fear that a critical press would tilt us into war with France, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which authorized jail terms for those who criticized Congress or the president.
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President Lincoln suspended certain civil rights during the Civil War. Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII. There were "blacklists" during the McCarthy era. The unprecedented national-security restrictions and regulations adopted quickly after 9/11, embodied in the Patriot Act, resulted from wide fear of future terrorism.
Even seven months later, in the 2002 SOFA survey, 49 percent of us said the First Amendment went too far — still the highest result recorded in the annual sampling.
We have been reminded many times by public officials that "the First Amendment is not a suicide pact." But protecting and preserving fundamental rights preserves the very character of the nation — those qualities of religious liberty and freedom of expression that make the United States unique in all the world.
While there certainly are forces that aim to do this nation harm, history has shown us that political leaders may overreact to threats, and gain at least temporary political support from a fearful citizenry.
In the years after 9/11, the percentage of those saying we had too much liberty "reset" to between 25 percent and last year's 13 percent. But this year's results warn that even a single incident — even as authorities moved swiftly to arrest the Boston bombers — can endanger public support for freedoms we have had for 222 years.
The nation's Founders didn't waffle, or let fear dilute their support, when it came to standing behind the permanence of the First Amendment: Its first words are "Congress shall make no law ... "
Even when faced with real threats, we need to remember who we are as a nation, and what we stand for in the rest of the world.
Gene Policinski is senior vice president of the First Amendment Center.

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We support our bishop in his vision to "guard the faith and pave the way."
The Church of the Apostles prays daily for healing — in body, mind, and spirit — for all those who request it, and therefore, we believe that the Holy Spirit moves and works throughout parish life.
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South East firms Robert Blackford & Co and Francis Lovett are merging with the aim of becoming the number one referral white-collar crime firm for the City.
Croydon-based Robert Blackford specialises in criminal defence and family law. Crime firm Francis Lovett is based in Woking, Surrey, and specialises in fraud and e-crime.
Francis Lovett managing partner Trevor Francis said: "We're hoping to offer our serious fraud expertise to City firms that don't touch criminal law at all, but will have white-collar clients with criminal needs mixed into civil litigation."
Francis Lovett has 21 lawyers in its criminal defence team and four in family. It has a satellite office in Temple. Both firms are members of the Government's specialist fraud panel.
Francis will be the managing partner of the new firm, Blackfords LLP. It will be formed officially on 1 April and have a turnover of £3m.


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Zurich, Switzerland and Cambridge, Mass., April 05, 2013 – Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH and Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502), today announced that Swissmedic, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, has granted approval for ADCETRIS® (brentuximab vedotin) for two indications: (1) the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory CD30 positive Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) after autologous stem cell transplant or after a minimum of two previous treatments if a stem cell transplantation is not a treatment option, and (2) for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (sALCL). Takeda intends to launch brentuximab vedotin in Switzerland in the coming months.
"Brentuximab vedotin has been shown to offer a high overall response rate, including durable complete responses in both of its indications," said Emanuele Zucca, M.D., Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland. "Approval from Swissmedic signifies an important advancement in the treatment of patients with these rare CD30 positive hematological cancers who are relapsed or refractory and previously had limited options."
"Takeda is committed to developing innovative medicines that have a potential to make a difference to patients' lives. The approval of brentuximab vedotin in Switzerland represents an important step for Takeda's oncology franchise," said Trevor Smith, Head of Commercial Operations, Europe & Canada, Takeda Pharmaceuticals. "We've made significant progress in making brentuximab vedotin available in the EU member states since receiving EMA conditional marketing authorization last October. We now look forward to making ADCETRIS, a CD30 targeted therapeutic option available to patients in Switzerland as soon as possible."
Brentuximab vedotin is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) directed to CD30, a defining marker of classical HL and sALCL. Swissmedic approval for brentuximab vedotin, which will be held by Takeda Global Research & Development Centre (Europe) Ltd, is based on data from clinical trials and other supportive data in relapsed or refractory HL and relapsed or refractory sALCL.
The European Commission (EC) granted conditional marketing authorisation for brentuximab vedotin for the two similar indications in October 2012.
Notes to Editors
About ADCETRIS® (Brentuximab Vedotin)
ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) comprising an anti-CD30 monoclonal antibody attached by a protease-cleavable linker to a microtubule disrupting agent, monomethyl auristatin E (MMAE). The ADC employs a linker system that is designed to be stable in the bloodstream but to release MMAE upon internalisation into CD30-expressing tumor cells.
ADCETRIS was designated as an orphan medicinal product in Switzerland for both HL and ALCL by Swissmedic on 9 December 2010.
ADCETRIS is a registered trademark of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company and Seattle Genetics are jointly developing brentuximab vedotin. Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, Seattle Genetics has U.S. and Canadian commercialisation rights and the Takeda Group has rights to commercialise brentuximab vedotin in the rest of the world. Seattle Genetics and the Takeda Group are funding joint development costs for brentuximab vedotin on a 50:50 basis, except in Japan where the Takeda Group will be solely responsible for development costs.IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
ADCETRIS is contraindicated for patients who are hypersensitive to ADCETRIS. In addition, combined use of bleomycin and ADCETRIS causes pulmonary toxicity, and is contraindicated.
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML): John Cunningham virus (JCV) reactivation resulting in PML and death has been reported in patients treated with ADCETRIS. In addition to ADCETRIS therapy, other possible contributory factors include prior therapies and underlying disease that may cause immunosuppression.
Patients should be closely monitored for new or worsening neurological, cognitive, or behavioral signs or symptoms, which may be suggestive of PML. ADCETRIS dosing should be held for any suspected case of PML and should be permanently discontinued if a diagnosis of PML is confirmed.
Serious infections and opportunistic infections: Serious infections such as pneumonia, staphylococcal bacteraemia, and herpes zoster, and opportunistic infections such as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia and oral candidiasis have been reported in patients treated with ADCETRIS. Patients should be carefully monitored during treatment for emergence of possible serious and opportunistic infections.
Infusion-related reactions: Immediate and delayed infusion-related reactions, as well as anaphylaxis, have occurred with ADCETRIS. Patients should be carefully monitored during and after an infusion. If anaphylaxis occurs, administration of ADCETRIS should be immediately and permanently discontinued and appropriate medical therapy should be administered.
Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS): TLS has been reported with ADCETRIS. Patients with rapidly proliferating tumor and high tumor burden are at risk of TLS. These patients should be monitored closely and managed according to best medical practice.
Peripheral neuropathy (PN): ADCETRIS treatment may cause PN that is predominantly sensory. Cases of peripheral motor neuropathy have also been reported. ADCETRIS-induced PN is typically cumulative. Patients should be monitored for symptoms of PN, such as hypoesthesia, hyperesthesia, paresthesia, discomfort, a burning sensation, neuropathic pain, or weakness. Dose modification for PN should be instituted accordingly.
Hematological toxicities: Grade 3 or Grade 4 anemia, thrombocytopenia, and prolonged (equal to or greater than one week) Grade 3 or Grade 4 neutropenia can occur with ADCETRIS. Complete blood counts should be monitored prior to administration of each dose.
Febrile neutropenia: Febrile neutropenia has been reported. Patients should be monitored closely for fever and managed according to best medical practice.
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS): SJS has been reported with ADCETRIS. If SJS occurs, treatment with ADCETRIS should be discontinued and appropriate medical therapy should be administered.
Hyperglycemia: Hyperglycemia has been reported during trials in patients with an elevated body mass index (BMI) with or without a history of diabetes mellitus. Patient who experiences an event of hyperglycemia should have their serum glucose closely monitored.
PREGNANCY: There are no data from the use of ADCETRIS in pregnant women, although studies in animals have shown reproductive toxicity. ADCETRIS should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefit to the mother outweighs the potential risks to the fetus. If a pregnant woman needs to be treated, she should be clearly advised on the potential risk to the fetus.
FERTILITY: In nonclinical studies, ADCETRIS treatment has resulted in testicular toxicity, and may alter male fertility.
About Hodgkin Lymphoma
Lymphoma is a general term for a group of cancers that originate in the lymphatic system. There are two major categories of lymphoma: Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Hodgkin lymphoma is distinguished from other types of lymphoma by the presence of one characteristic type of cell, known as the Reed-Sternberg cell. The Reed-Sternberg cell expresses CD30.
About Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
ALCL is a type of aggressive T-cell lymphoma, comprising about 3 percent of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) in adults and between 10 and 30 percent of all NHL in children. There are two distinct forms/types of ALCL, including primary cutaneous ALCL and systemic ALCL (sALCL). sALCL is a clinically aggressive, systemic lymphoma that primarily involves lymph nodes and expresses CD30.
About Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH
Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH headquartered in Zurich, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited located in Osaka, Japan. Takeda is a research-based global company with its main focus on pharmaceuticals. As the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and one of the global leaders of the industry, Takeda is committed to strive towards better health for patients worldwide through leading innovation in medicine. Additional information about Takeda is available through its corporate website, http://www.takeda.com/.
About Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, a leading biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Mass., was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. in May, 2008. The Company's research, development and commercialisation activities are focused in oncology. Additional information about Millennium is available through its website, www.millennium.com.
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By DAVID MALACHOWSKI
Special to the Times Union
ALBANY — Singer, songwriter and cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge brought her Revival Tour 2008 to the Palace on a warm Saturday night, and this was without a doubt an event.
Since her debut in 1988, Etheridge has made waves with her music and her personal life as well. Way before being a lesbian was trendy and fashionable, Etheridge was out and about but it was her passionate performances, well-crafted songs and emotive vocal delivery that garnered her millions of fans.
At the Palace, the stage was simply but effectively decorated with cascading colorful squares of fabric, a rainbow if you will. Etheridge looked healthy and happy, her hair (gone during chemo) back as well as her unending energy. This show took on an autobiographical slant, starting out in Leavenworth, Kan., coming of age in California, getting her career nder way, her life, her loves.
With a crack band behind her, Etheridge kicked "Mama I'm Strange," soared with the wide open "California," and burned through the relentless funk-fest of "Brave & Crazy." "Somebody Bring Me Some Water" went through the row while an urgent "I'm The Only One" held a blues jam. "If I Only Wanted To" simmered, "I Run For Life" took an inspirational tone.
A triumphant "Come To My Window" was nearly levitating, while a riveting "The Kingdom of Heaven" started off with intensity, then exploded with a fiery guitar solo.
Surprisingly (or not) Etheridge even broke in a thinly veiled endorsement of Barack Obama in a moving "What Happens Tomorrow." She had just gotten over a cold (added a bit of grit to her already gritty voice), but for nearly two and a half hours Etheridge worked the stage hard, gathered bouquets of flowers after nearly every tune. She'd throw her head back and just wail while the crowd hung on every word, every note, and every swivel of her hip.
She talked at length about her bout with cancer: "Cancer?" she said "I don't have time for cancer." Her stories at times took on the tone of an inspirational speaker, empowering her followers to be themselves, to follow their dreams and not let anything — including cancer — stop them.
The music was powerful. The message was even more so.
David Malachowski is a local freelance writer from Woodstock and a regular contributor to the Times Union.
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave, Albany.
Length: 2 and a half hours, no break.
The crowd: girls, girls, girls (around 1900) and maybe 5 guys.
Highlights: "I'm The Only One," "Brave and Crazy," "The Kingdom of Heaven"


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Government says the onus is on the 3 000 civil servants struck off the payroll last month to prove they are bona fide workers to have their salaries reinstated.
This comes amid reports that some civil servants were drawing salaries without setting foot at their workstations, while several schools, especially in rural areas, were manned by two headmasters and close way before official dates.
Some people who left the civil service years ago are still drawing salaries, while some go on leave without signing any documents.
Government ceased July salaries for the 3 000 civil servants because they were not present at their work stations when it conducted a head-count in March.
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The physical count, ordered by Cabinet, is expected to weed out ghost workers.
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira yesterday said there would be no problems for those who would prove their status.
"It is no longer business as usual because we want efficiency and discipline in the system," Minister Mupfumira — who is also the Acting Minister for Information, Media and Broadcasting Services — said.
"We are not retrenching or firing anyone from the service, but it is just cessation of salaries because we have to pay someone for work done.
"We cannot pre-empt the audit because since it was ordered by Cabinet, there are steps which should be followed. The 3 000 workers are not only teachers, but include other civil servants who were not present when the head-count was done.
"Those affected will have their salaries reinstated after proving that they exist in the system."
Minister Mupfumira said the civil service audit revealed that some civil servants were getting salaries, yet they were employed elsewhere.
"It is clear fraud and perpetrators should be dealt with. We have been paying people who have not been going to work and some of them are double-dipping and there is no one supervising them."
In one of the cases traced by Government, a person based in Australia is still drawing salary from the Government, yet he was not offering any services here.
It is understood that over 63 schools had two headmasters each, while other schools in Murehwa, Mhondoro and Chimanimani closed days before the official closing dates.
Both headmasters were drawing allowances that come with the post.
"Audit teams were only told by villagers that the schools had closed well before the official dates and this means Government will be paying teachers who are not providing full service delivery and this should stop," Minister Mupfumira said.
She said during the civil service audit, it was discovered that some people were on leave without signing the requisite forms.
Minister Mupfumira said Government would punish heads of departments who assisted in those fraudulent activities.
"We are not saying people should not go on leave, but just like any other business operations there are rules which should be followed," she said
"You go to a station and you are told someone is on leave and you ask for papers, there is nothing. You even check with our pay point, the Salary Services Bureau, and they do not have any paper to support that and this means someone is swindling Government."
If one goes away without filling leave forms, he or she creates a "committed expenditure" to Government and gets paid cash in lieu of leave when he or she retires.
Minister Mupfumira said some bona fide workers were coming forward through the respective structures and their salaries would be reinstated.
"We did the audit in March and the instruction was that if you were not at the work station you should go to the district offices with the relevant documents," she said.
"Some did so between April, May and June and some never bothered to do so until the Civil Service Commission took a decision to cease their salaries. Real workers are coming forward."
Government called for the audit as more than 80 percent of the revenue collected is going towards salaries, starving other sectors like infrastructure development.
In his 2015 Mid-Term Fiscal Policy Review Statement last week, Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Government would cut the civil service wage bill to 40 percent.


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England against Italy is often a strange contest. For two nations with rich and diverse histories, often involved in the same interlocking spheres of European influence, very little is found to link the two nation's politics, cultures and, at least now, football teams.
All, however, was not always like this. England and Italy fought two of the same world wars, one on the same side, one on opposing sides, and a quick glance through the crests of many Serie A club indicates a deeper link between Italian football and England than first may be thought.
AC Milan and Genoa, both featuring a St George's cross in their club crest, were founded by a group of Englishmen under the guise of 'Cricket and Football club', Catania's first incarnation was 'Royal Yacht Catania', named by a group of English cargo sailors, and there's some debate as to the formation of Palermo, although both conflicting stories point to an English link. From then on, though, the bond between English and Italian football fades.
There were fleeting moments in the 80s and 90s with players, including Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne and even Luther Blissett, taking a taste of Calcio, Carbonara and Calabrian wine. Even the majority of players to enjoy modicums of success in the Premier League, Gianfranco Zola, Fabrizio Ravanelli and to an extremely lesser extent Massimo Taibi, have now left our green isle, but the cultural differences, as this Euro 2012 tournament have emphasised, have started to grow steadily less important.
Both England's current and former managers, Roy Hodgson and Fabio Capello, understood and worked within Italian football culture, with Hodgson having two spells at Internazionale in Milan and Capello, quite obviously, hailing from Italy. The two most successful managers in the Premier League last season, Roberto Mancini and Roberto Di Matteo, also represent this growing link, having both played and now managed in England. And then there is the current walking news story, filling page after page of both English and Italian newspapers, one Mario Balotelli, set to start tomorrow night against his current day-to-day home.
This growing tie, perhaps reaching its highest point since the late 19th century, is also expressed with the style of the current England team, and the way in which Chelsea went about winning the 2011/12 Champions League. Here, it can be said, Catenaccio pervades, with defensive displays, for England against France, and for Chelsea against Barcelona and Bayern Munich, leading to English success both at international and club level.
Whether this link in footballing styles and cultures lasts may be something that does not sit easy with England fans or the powers at be at the FA, with the complex at Burton-upon-trent close to completion and a wider use of small sided matches for children being brought in, it appears that the model of English football schooling is focussed on the Spanish rather than Italian way. And if the distinct divide between the Italian and English journalists in the press centre here in Kiev is anything to go by, the current Anglo-Italian link is but a mere anomaly in wider football history.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. President Bush's approval rating in California has inched downward to a new post-Sept. 11 low, according to a Field Poll released Thursday.
While 50 percent the state's voters approve of Bush's performance as president, 45 percent disapprove and the rest are undecided. In July, 51 percent approved and 43 percent disapproved.
Immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, support for Bush leaped upward, with 74 percent saying they approved and 16 percent disapproved of his performance. Just before the attacks, 41 percent approved, and 48 percent disapproved.
In December 2001, Bush's approval rating climbed to a high of 76 percent, but his disapproval rating crept up to 19 percent.
Democrats have reversed their post-attacks approval, with 72 percent now believing he is doing a poor job. Among independent voters, 48 percent now hold a negative view. Bush continues to enjoy an overwhelming 86 percent approval rating from Republicans.
A separate poll released Thursday by the Public Policy Institute of California found 53 percent of residents approve of Bush's performance in office, while 42 percent disapprove.
The Field Poll shows Californians' approval of Bush's handling of the economy has slipped to 50 percent, down from 55 percent in a similar poll 16 months ago. Moreover, 50 percent of Californians now think the nation is headed down the wrong track, while 44 percent think the nation is moving in the right direction.
Support for Bush's re-election fell from 46 percent to 42 percent just in the last month. Three-quarters of Republicans favored his re-election, while three-quarters of Democrats did not.
Support for his Iraq policy also has slipped, from 60 percent immediately after the United States began its military action to 52 percent approval in the Aug. 10-13 telephone survey of 1,036 adults. The survey has an error margin of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
The Public Policy Institute poll found 50 percent approval for Bush's handling of Iraq and 45 percent disapproval. Those surveyed split on whether the war has gone well, and whether it's worth the cost. Nearly 60 percent said the war improved the nation's long-term security, but 53 percent also believe the Bush administration intentionally exaggerated evidence that Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction.
The Field Poll found sharp party and gender divisions over the cost of the war, as well. Two-thirds of Democrats say the war isn't worth the cost in lives and other losses, while three-quarters of Republicans say it is worthwhile. While 60 percent of men say the war is worth the costs, only 39 percent of women agree.
The Public Policy Institute found 62 percent of Californians approve of Bush's handling of terrorism and domestic security, down from 70 percent a year ago. Nearly 60 percent of residents are confident the United States can prevent future terrorist attacks. However, 54 percent are concerned that new laws will hurt civil liberties.
The PPIC telephone survey of 2,001 adult residents was conducted Aug. 8-17, and has an error margin of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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In part two of the investigation into cruciate injuries, we look at advances in medical science.
Éanna Falvey can remember his own uncle's situation, for instance: a diagnosis of 'fluid on the knee' in the '60s brought his hurling career to an end, and by the time a London surgeon saw the injury — a cruciate ligament tear — four years later, a successful outcome couldn't be guaranteed.
"The operation now isn't a patch on what it was," says Falvey. "You're back in six to eight months if you do the rehab."
That's an encouraging prospect, but one thing patients should bear in mind is their surgeon's familiarity with the procedure
"Per Renstrom in Scandinavia says – controversially – that anyone who's not doing at least three cruciates a week isn't an expert in cruciate repair," says Falvey.
The rehab work must still be done afterwards, though, and it's a challenge.
"What's guaranteed is this," says Falvey, "the better shape your quads are in before a cruciate operation, the better you'll do after it.
"The more work you do afterwards the better you'll do: there's a threshold of work to do and if you don't do enough of it you're putting the graft at risk.
"A good operation is a fantastic start, but if you don't do the rehab you pay the price.
"The whole reason the knee is so special is that it's bone sitting on bone with all the stability being provided by ligaments and muscles – neuromuscular control – and those muscles have to be retrained after the operation.
"When you stand, for instance, your muscles are working against each other. Little accelerometers in the joint are constantly telling your brain to adjust your stance to avoid toppling over – your joint has to be retrained in all that after a cruciate operation."
Falvey points to the "massive research and money" that are put into rehabbing cruciate injuries.
"Look up the research from the States. Where does the early stuff come from? What sport?
"Skiing. When you ski your ankles are locked and your knees take all the stress. Most of the cruciate research in America comes out of places like Aspen, Colorado, where you have dozens of skiers getting injured and there's a lot of cash involved. The Steadman Clinic, which a lot of people would have heard of, is in Vail, Colorado."
The fruits of that research are seen in the quick return to action of pro sportspeople after cruciate injuries.
"A professional rugby player who comes back to play within six months has had twice-a-day physiotherapy. That may not be true of Joe Bloggs who tore his cruciate in a five-a-side game, obviously.
"Something that should be factored in, though, is the isolation that sportspeople can feel in recovering from a cruciate injury. That's very real.
"Someone in a team sport is suddenly removed from the people he spends eight or nine hours a day with normally, and that emotional isolation can affect their appetite to do the rehab work. Sportspeople can become genuinely depressed because of that."
One question may not be strictly medical: how did the cruciate become so well-known?
"There's a reason cruciate injuries get so much publicity. The two big time-loss surgical injuries are cruciates and shoulder dislocations.
"The latter are more common in American football, rugby, and maybe Gaelic football, but not really in soccer.
"In terms of time lost to sport, the big injuries, hamstring is number one, cruciate number two and groin number three. With a cruciate you're out for six months. If I have 40 players and one of them tears a cruciate, he's out for six months and I've lost 1/18th of my squad.
"If I have four hamstring injuries, each of them is two months, but it's only about the same as one cruciate.
"However, there's no operation to get a hamstring victim back on the pitch, while there is a cruciate op. So it's big because it happens a lot.
"In rugby union studies it's the second biggest reason for time lost to sport after hamstring injuries, and there's more cutting and twisting in Gaelic football, so you would expect more cruciate injuries.
"Also, the media is more clued-in now and are more focused on injury details in a way they weren't 10 years ago, even."
Ten years ago — 20 years ago, even — the broken leg seemed more terrifying to a sportsman, it seemed, but recovery from that injury seems almost guaranteed now.
"Trauma surgery has come on a lot," says Falvey. "We had a rugby player who fractured and dislocated an ankle, and back in the day with that injury, there'd have been a screw put in, and six weeks after that it'd have been taken out, and six weeks after that he'd have been back in again.
"Today, though, when you dislocate the ankle you can have damage to the cartilage, so we checked his injury with an MRI to make sure there was nothing there, and then we scoped the ankle. And then we put it together.
"So he came out the other side because there was nothing else in the joint that had to be fixed as we were working on it. The level of technology is a lot better.
"But you still have guys with their careers ended by broken legs today. The difference with years ago is that you would have had guys not playing because they had 'bad knees', and fellas would have been saying, 'what's wrong with him, no fracture and he can't play'.
"They didn't know it was a cruciate injury — or how bad that injury was."
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Posted 13 September 2015 - 11:08 AM
Thanks for that info - yes it does help!
I went back and checked out the pics that my WC sent me way back when we started planning. You are absolutely right, it doesn't look like there are any trees around where they normally set up the tables at Playa Azul, so I think the pics I saw before were mislabeled. I'll definitely have to explore other options with my WC as far as lighting goes then, or look at a different reception location like Captain Morgan beach. I really liked the look of the palm tress all lit up as well!!
I sent Martina another email an hour ago and I will let you know what she says. Like I said, I wasn't planning on holding one bad review against her (although it was alarming to read!) but for her to not respond to my concerns makes me even more hesitant to book with her!!
I didn't go with an outside vendor for the chair bows. We are using the turquoise bows as it matches perfectly. But I'd probably do the same thing and just go with white if you can't get a match. Did you look into buying your bows online and bringing them with you? I wonder if that would be cheaper than the outside vendor? Or go with white and buy some colour coordinated hand finds or something like that? Even though it may be windy we did purchase some white wood hand fans to place in all the ceremony chairs. I figured the guests would make use of them at some point in their trip.
If you are curious about the bad review check out weddingwire.com. There are four reviews in total. Three positive ones all from 2014 and the bad review form June of this year.
Posted 14 September 2015 - 07:27 AM
Hi there,
I tried all weekend to send the documents to the email you provided but they kept getting rejected at your end. I even broke them down to one document per email and it didn't work.
Edited by TaraW, 14 September 2015 - 07:29 AM.
Posted 15 September 2015 - 03:46 PM
I feel like I'm monopolizing this right now!!
It's been an interesting few days and I wanted to share a few of my interactions during my planning:
First off, I was in communication with my WC and she happened to mention that we were going to finalize the reception site closer to the wedding date ....HUH????? I sent her back a message to clarify and she responded telling me that Playa Azul already had a party of 300 booked in the evening of my wedding. I freaked a bit because I booked this date and Playa Azul a whole year in advance and nobody said anything to me at that time!! Anyhow I responded back and told her that the reception location was just as important as every other aspect of the wedding, and we specifically chose both the Strawberry Package and Playa Azul, and didn't want to find myself hating the choices that I was given "closer to the wedding day" in April when everything was booked up.I insisted that if it was being changed from my original location that I be allowed to confirm another location right away and not be moved again, and if this couldn't be done I would have to look at other venues because I wasn't going to have this kind of stress. She wrote me back right away and apologized saying she had made a mistake on the date, and Playa Azul was indeed available and I was booked there. I starting thinking that I had read somewhere of another bride trying to be moved from Playa Azul and they told her there was a party of 300 as well .... Coincidence??? I wonder if they keep this location in case a larger party books, and use this as a standard line with brides?? Anyhow just in case any of you are wanting Playa Azul and you find that they won't solidify the reservation .... Stick to your guns and insist like I did and hopefully it works out!!!!
My second weird interaction was with MVP hair and makeup. I emailed asking about costs and when she provided me with a quote I let her know that I already had found a company that was slightly less expensive, so I was going to stay with them, and thanked her for her time. She responded back in a way that I felt was quite rude, asking me if I wanted a price or a professional, had I checked out the online reviews and what company was I already dealing with? I told her I was looking for both a professional AND a price as I was a bride on a budget and declined to share with her the other company's name. I also found her suggestion that I haven't done my research quite disrespectful. It's a destination wedding so of course I'm doing my research! Anyhow she offered me another lower quote and I asked some clarifying questions because she doesn't charge a flat fee so I wanted to know if it included travel costs, false eyelashes, etc. and I also asked what she recommended between false eyelashes and extensions given the climate. She answered me back but didn't answer all of the questions, so I asked them again. Then she answered the wrong question altogether and when I clarified myself she responded back that she wasn't going to answer my questions until I booked with her!! I was trying to factor in the costs of false lashes vs lash extensions before I committed to her quote, but I couldn't do that because she refused to respond until I paid her. I told her that if she couldn't answer a few simple questions then I wasn't going to hire her, and she then told me that we "weren't the right fit" which I thought was funny. Clearly we weren't the right fit when all she was focussed on was her bottom line and not willing to help me determine if her services would fit within my budget. Not the way to book a bride that's for sure!!! Anyhow just wanted to share the experience so be careful if you are dealing with them!! I have chatted with quite a few vendors (photographers, make up, etc) and they have all be quite lovely and happy to answer questions, and don't seem to want to insult you in the process if you thank them for their time and go with someone else! Either that or they don't respond to your emails at all like one of them has done recently
Any other interesting interactions or frustrating experiences you all have had recently?? Hopefully not!! this is supposed to be a less stressful way to tie the knot isn't it???
Posted 17 September 2015 - 11:29 AM
Hello brides-to-be,
Barcelo has great spots for weddings, I'm sure you'll find =the right one. Take a look at this video and watch the spots that are there. This wedding was full of great moments.
Happy planning.
Posted 18 September 2015 - 11:38 AM
Welcome to the forum!! I agree with the other ladies about how to determine pricing. I Still don't know exactly how much the end cost for the wedding will be, but we started by selecting a packaged from the wedding list ( found on Barcelos website). We made our package decision based on how much additional the per person price would be ( its different for each package). We are going with the Mint Breeze Package with starts at $2600 and is additional $30 per person after 20 people.
I am currently in the process of choosing the cake and menu for the reception. After this, I will began choosing, Décor, DJ, Photographer etc. and this is probably where the other costs will start to add up outside of the chosen package.
If you have any other questions while you're deciding let me know, and ill do my best to answer. Happy Planning!
Wow @TaraW,
I cant believe the MVP sales rep was so rude and pushy!! I'M glad you are doing your research! I haven't yet come across ant frustrating experiences but I'm sure glad you let us know about the receptions site issue. I will be prepared for that now. I cant wait to see what the options are!
Thank you for sharing
Posted 18 September 2015 - 02:20 PM
It was definitely weird, and it got even weirder! I thought I was communicating with a female, but it turned out to be a male ... who followed up with another snotty email to me a few days ago!! We then got into this very strange banter back and forth where he kept insisting that he did answer my questions, even though he could clearly see the email chain. I even highlighted it for him and he would just respond like he was completely clueless. I ended it by telling him I would be sharing our interaction with my fellow brides and he was not happy, saying I was punishing him simply because we "weren't a good match" He just didn't get it at all, it was so bizarre! Anyhow thankfully I have had lots of really lovely conversations with companies, regardless of whether I have booked them or not. This was a bit of a one off situation and certainly would give me some pause if I was considering booking with them!!
Just an update ... still no word back from Martina at Best Moments! I sent her that initial email that I told you about, then a second one a week later asking for her to get back to me soon .... and nothing yet! Between the lack of response and the really bad review, I think that's enough red flags for me!!
@SammyMac - that last update was for you!!
Posted 04 October 2015 - 09:42 AM
@TaraW sorry for the late reply. I've been traveling for a little while. Good to know! Thanks for the update. I've confirmed our location a couple times - I wonder if she will try and pull the same thing with me. Are you settled on Playa Azul now for both the ceremony and reception? How is the planning coming along?
Posted 04 October 2015 - 06:14 PM
Hey there! No worries!
Not sure if people will experience the same issues with their WC's trying to change the reception locations on them. If you have it in writing then I think you are fine. I didn't have written confirmation for the reception for some reason, and I kept pushing for it, which prompted her response. I did find it weird that as soon as I pushed back she backed down. I think the resort tries to keep areas like Playa Azul open for possible large bookings unless they get a bride that is totally insistent! (like me! )
The planning is all done with the exception of our spa bookings that we do a month before. I have sent my WC a long list of questions regarding some of the finer details that I want to obsess about while I have nothing else to do! Haha! They could probably wait until the week before but why not get them out of the way (questions about reception lighting options for Playa Azul, specific details about my bouquet, etc. ) I'm also waiting back to hear if our paperwork is all in order or if we need to send some things through the Mexican Consulate here in Canada first. My WC was kind enough to present some documents that I scanned and emailed to the Mexican Judge ahead of time to make sure they don't need to be translated, etc. No sense in wasting money I don't need to spend! It's a bit of a pain if you've been married before (as we both have) because it adds to the paperwork. I'm still waiting on my dress as well (still 2 months away) and just trying to hit the gym as often as I can before it arrives
I did send Martina at Best Moments a third and final email as well. I told her I was very disappointed in her lack of response to both my makeup questions I had asked and my worry about the bad review I read, and told her that it was way too many red flags for me and I certainly couldn't trust her enough with my big day if she just ignored me repeatedly, which I've read that she does a LOT of. Certainly not the way to keep your destination brides stress free! I have confirmed and booked with Beso Brides and they are awesome at getting back to me, have very competitive prices, great reviews and are super accommodating! They don't take a deposit either as they like to book their brides on a respect/trust basis which I think is rare!
Otherwise that's pretty much it! How about all of you fellow Barceló brides out there (this thread is quiet right now!!) What planning stage are you on? How are things going? Anything you are stuck on, stressed about or enjoying about it all? Have your wedding dresses arrived yet, are your rings all ready to go and all of that good stuff??
Posted 09 October 2015 - 11:16 AM
Hello Barcelo brides!
Wow after reading all of this I feel like I'm way behind in the planning process!! I'm still waiting to hear back from my WC..it took forever to hear back from her the first time. I haven't picked anything yet..packages or locations. I've booked hair and makeup (Sara Tamargo), booked the DJ (Discomovil) and ordered my dress. That's about it! Hopefully it all comes together by the end of March! Hubby and I just moved so that took priority over wedding planning.
Posted 11 October 2015 - 07:32 PM
@barcelobride2016 - welcome to the forum!
It may seem like lots to do but you will get through it fairly quickly once it gets rolling. Definitely first things first - decide on your favorite location in the resort for your wedding! I don't think you can go wrong with any of them, it's just depends on what you are looking for and what you envision. Some of the locations book up fast so get on that part as soon as you can! I'm sure if you have questions or need clarification on some things about locations you can ask here first - we may get back to you faster than your WC!
Once you get started on the plans, set a location and start the process, I'm happy to send you some documents I have if you'd like. The WC will not let you proceed through to the next step until you have decided and answered her back on everything from the previous step. I can forward you the info that I've gathered throughout the process so you and your fiancé can sit down and pour over it so you can make some tentative decisions ahead of time and be more prepared as she walks you though it and not feel like you are help complete hostage to the (sometimes) lengthy delays in getting email responses. Just be prepared that it can take up to a week for them to respond, so don't be too alarmed!!
Happy planning!!
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Trying to make money off of the sordid behavior of her daughter! I don't believe she 'wants to tell her story' , I think they're just using the opportunity. Please ppl don't fall for this, don't buy this woman's book.
You obviously do not have kids. If by any slim chance you do, God help them! There is a saying "blood is thicker than water", as Met commented, she is the model of a mother. Admitting your child has a problems, but being there to try and pick up the pieces - that is the calling of a true parent.
during a trial like this it is very easy to cast an individual in a 1 dimensional view. This mother is trying to tell the other side of the story, and trying to reverse some of the perceptin and damage that has befallen her family. Its an attempt to regain dignity and tell the world that there is another side to her daughter. The crimes were inexcusable, but that woman was to a certain degree a victim her self. She's paying for her crime. But in a couple of years she will be released and then has to move on with her life while the whole world watches and judges. This mother is laying the foundation for recovery, healing and mvoving forward. She's doing what any parent will do if that was their child. Dont blame her, she didn't commit the crime. But every1 is looking to her asking, how she could have raised such a monster. judgement should be reserved for those who are without faults....
she has to make money it the recession
Wether she was a good mother or not I still don't believe in making money off of this story. That's my point. Yes it is awful for the mother to know what her daughter has done but it is even worse for the poor kids that were put through that hell. And no I Would not wish that on any mother, I can only imagine how difficult it is. I am sure no mother would ever choose such behavior for their child.
And by the way, why do u say god help my children? Because I wouldn't choose to write a book about our struggles if we had any? How do u know what I would or wouldn't do for my kids? There's no need to be disrespectful.
To me, this woman, was a picture of a true mother. With the press focussed on the daughter, she never missed a court hearing and I can imagine the humiliation that went with it. But she stood her ground-a true picture of a mother
But any other mother of the tons of other criminals in this country feel humiliation, what make this lady different? For the sake of our kids who just want a normal life, don't make this Barbie girl the HERO! Why not write a book about one of the victems??? Why not tell their story? Can you imagine a kid who has already lost too much and is subjected to this sickness? What hope does the said kid have for its future, write their story and give the proceeds of that book to orphans, I WOULD BUY THAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!
its not as black and white as you make it. Barbie isnt a hero, and did horrible things. She was to a degree a victimc 2 if you followed the trial. That Dirk dude is a piece of work... I cant imagine the horror their victums must feel, but they are free to write a book about it two someday. Barbie's trial got a lott of media attension, not all rapists have well publised trials. She didn't ask for the spot light. She and her familly suffered a very public humiliation and she and her familly have been tarred with the same brush, by assosiation. She's trying to clean up the mess her kid made, like any normal parent would do. Give her break, in 10 years one of the victims will also write about it and go on Oprah and tell her sad story in an attempt to market their extraordinary recovery, and reccolection there of. I thInk the mother is acting in a pretty predictable way and in a very dignified exceptable way. The the title of the book again....
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its no woman, its a guy with a mangina
i have a book on how to survive zombies...it says dont wear chainmail as it will slow u down...dont use a chainsaw cause it runs out of fuel...and DO NOT GO KILLING WITH CHICKS
Oooh i think the woman human didn't want to kill her sisters :O
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Thank you, Linda, always. I couldn't complete this story without your big help.
The Glass Horse
Spoiler: The Locket, Blackbirding, Fool's Gold, Rock of Ages, Grief and the Lepers, Compass and the Killer, the End of Jenny
The sunken wreck wasn't very big. Several lemon-sharks passed over the deck. They didn't stop for the dead bodies which were tied at the main mast. Instead many kinds of small colourful fishes pecked at them.
A lump-fish drifted into the empty hold.
Charles V sat on the bottom surrounded by the natural creatures of the South Seas.
The dream about her ex-lover was bittersweet but when she awoke, it faded quickly without trace, and she forgot all of it.
It was very early morning. Isabelle Reed stretched like a cat in her warm, comfortable, tiny bed, half opening her green eyes, smiling at the pleasure of waking up in her own place.
"Well, not completely my place yet, but some day-." She jumped out of her bed and started to prepare for her daily chores. The sun hadn't risen yet. Everything outside was shades of dark blue. But it wasn't too dark to do her work.
She was cleaning stalls humming an old song without thinking. Dante nudged at her back with his warm wet nose. The air was still cool and smelt of fresh hay.
She was in a good mood. She felt like everything would go smoothly and well today. Something, maybe a lingering piece of her dream whispered to her, and she suddenly thought about her ex-lover.
If I hadn't met Marcel, then I never would have come here. And now, I'm here by myself. Life is strange.
Isabelle never had had her dream before Matavai. Since her childhood she had been too busy trying to survive her life to dream, so she had known only to fulfill her desire any way she could. She might be greedy. She would like to have power and fortune, of course. But those things were desires, not a dream. While she had been with Marcel, when he had planned to steal that gold, she had thought about gems, a rich voyage to America with him. But it had been only a desire.
She had never thought about her life, what she really wanted to do, what she really wanted in her life.
She had a dream for the first time in her life. Her stables.
After she finished cleaning the last stall, she looked over her stables. She could see the new horses which she had bought from Pinon standing silently and swinging their long tails peacefully.
The sound of their grazing felt so cheerful to her.
Isabelle smiled at the sight and left for her own breakfast.
She cracked two eggs into a small bowl and added a little milk. After making quick work of scrambling the eggs, she glanced through her very small kitchen.
She really ought to have settled in by now. But even now, after she had spent longer than a year in this small building, still she had only one pan, a few unmatched dishes, and cutlery of various designs. And an old small cooking stove that was one that someone who had lived before her had left behind along with a huge, ugly, useless copper kettle. The kitchen symbolized the whole of this residence, the minimum, plain -too plain. It didn't look like someone's home but a temporary residence.
She usually had lunch or supper, or both in Lavinia's, and she thought it would stop once she had set her horse business on its way.
With only one sauce-pan, Isabelle couldn't cook eggs and make her coffee at the same time.
So she had to have cool eggs and hot coffee, or warm eggs and cool coffee in her morning.
She knew that she should cook the eggs last. An omelet or scrambled egg was quick, but brewing coffee took time.
However she wanted very hot coffee in her morning, so her only choice was 'cool egg' or 'without egg' and have a mango instead.
I swear I'll buy another pan soon! And I need a coffee pot, and cutlery, too. -And a big cooking stove someday.
She quickly but carefully filled some ground deep-roasted coffee beans in a small flannel bag. The aroma was so nice in early morning air. But the scrambled egg was already cool.
Clare Devon was searching in her belongings for a book which she hadn't already read. From one glance at the beginning of the novel she had decided it didn't look so good, but at least it was new. She was always starving for new prints since she had come to Matavai. New books were rare here. She would read willingly even old newspapers and cheap novels if she could get them now.
No it's not here. It must be in my office.
She had recently received a package of several books which her aunt had sent from London with a few small pretty things that women like - scented soaps, silk ribbons and a small silver comb with engravings of workmanship. Packages from her young rich aunt didn't come as often now, but still there was no place for them in her small room at Lavinia's. So her possessions were now stocked separated at two places; in her room in Lavinia's and in the office of the Matavai Messenger.
Aunt Beryl was the only relative who was very rich and who hadn't shown any disapproval at Clare's adventure. She even seemed amused by it. On the other hand, her own brothers hadn't changed their opinion; a young woman traveling to Tahiti, without chaperone, using her small property from her grandmother for such a thing, they hadn't liked any of it.
And they had said if their mother had been alive, she would have convinced her to stop her silliness. Clare had thought if their father had still been alive, he would stand for her only in her mind.
The young owner and only reporter of the Matavai Messenger didn't often think about her aunt these days. When she was a teenager, she had admired her young aunt; -Beryl was only seven years older.
But Clare had found she was not like her aunt; beautiful and eccentric. Her aunt had been always different from her plain relatives even when she had been still a girl in a not particularly rich family in the district. Beryl had left her family to marry a much older American ignoring her whole family's disagreement. Her husband made a fortune with a coal mine, two years after their marriage. And he had died a very rich man. After her husband's death, Beryl hadn't come back to her family and had chosen instead to live in London. She had sponsored young artists in London. Many newly-discovered artists and writers surrounded her in her salon. Once Clare had been invited to her salon and Clare had thought to herself how ordinary she was in comparison!
She wanted to be independent. But she couldn't be eccentric and she didn't want to be the one of those unusual people. They were too avant-garde. And she had no regrets about it. That kind of atmosphere wasn't really to her liking. And yet Clare had not been able to stop admiring her young beautiful aunt
On the other hand, she didn't feel she fit among her cousins and friends in her age, either. She could enjoy being with them. She had always liked to talk about pretty things and share small harmless gossip with them. But also she had often wondered what she was doing there during cheerful chatting or girls talk. Sometimes she had had to save what she wanted to say in front of her beloved brothers. And her father, one of the few people to whom she could speak almost freely, -he had been a rare person in his generation, had gone several years ago. Since then her oldest brother had ruled the family including her father's printing office, and frankly her brother had never understood her even though he loved his sister in his way.
Clare had been looking for her place always –until she started the Matavai Messenger. And the opportunity had made by a fake - a man whom she had thought that she had admired and had wanted to see; back then she had thought that her actions might made her like aunt Beryl. However there had been no-one like the man Clare had expected there. Instead there was only a drunken sailor.
She set about building her own independent life here in Tahiti. And the opportunity had been given by a man who had pretended to be a completely different man than he really was!
Completely different? Is he, really? Jack?
There is a clever and gentle young man who loves literature as much as I hiding in that shabby seaman.
And now, she started to like him –very much. Even his dangling earring which had annoyed her before, looked not odd to her; it's like a part of him.
What would Beryl say if she knew?
She picked up a small set of china which was from her aunt. She might bring it to her office for tea. –But even with beautiful tea cups, she would likely make poor tea.
She had frowned when she took a sip from her cup and mumbled 'what's wrong with my tea?' when her friend, Isabelle had joined her for tea in her office last week. Isabelle said she only needed to wait two or three minutes more until the tea leaf opened. But Clare couldn't find that few minutes of patience somehow.
On the other hand, Isabelle who seemed to always be a person in action could make wonderful tea as well as her strong, aromatic coffee. But the woman didn't even have a proper tea-set or even two cups the same.
Clare thought about tea time at Isabelle's; she often shared a drink with her friend at her stables. Tasty coffee with a simple white cup for Clare and a tin cup for Isabelle in front of Isabelle's stable yard. The aroma of tropical flowers and the sea breeze mixed with the coffee aroma. If she was lucky, there were a few coconut-flavored pancakes which Isabelle made using 'her only pan'. Clare had spoke about many of her interests and a bit of Jack McGonnigal. Isabelle listened and sometimes commented with short, simple, and straight-forward expressions. Clare had never needed to worry that Isabelle would think about her as a strange woman whose head was filled with strange things like she had been back in England.
Isabelle often told Clare about her plan for her horse business which she might not have told anyone other than her. Oh, they were so different, and yet they were such good friends.
Clare smiled to herself thinking about her life in Matavai.
I'm building my beautiful life here finally. Life is strange. I went on a voyage for the first time in my life; it'd taken more than five months from Liverpool. And began my real life.
Isabelle stunned, looked back over her shoulder.
She and Captain Grief were at the wharf to see Pinon's departure. One young man was running toward a family. A slender girl was waving her hand to call the man, parting a few meters from her family.
"You thought he was calling you?" David looked down Isabelle who was still looking at the young man and the girl.
Bebelle -Was that a childhood nickname -or perhaps a pet name used by some lover?
She glanced at her tall partner and shrugged, but didn't answer his question.
Still looking at her David thought, did Marcel Pinnette used to call Isabelle, Bebelle?.
"Look, David. There's Pinon. Is that woman his wife?"
"Looks like it," he replied, turning to look at the big group of European families.
Pinon was leaving Tahiti for his young wife's sake. Isabelle couldn't remember if she had seen her before. Mrs. Pinon was a small blonde woman. She'd never liked Tahiti, so Isabelle had heard.
Pinon - he was so good at business. I can't believe he could lose it over his wife.
Isabelle frowned thinking how she herself had borrowed money for the Rattler -for David's sake. She had known it hadn't been a wise choice. But she hadn't hesitated.
The two looked at Pinon's departure from afar. When Pinon recognized Isabelle, he nodded at her beyond his friends and acquaintances before he got on board leading his wife.
"I heard Pinon's return to France is all for his wife. Did you know that?" David asked.
"Yeah." She turned to leave. "We can have your breakfast and my coffee before we go to see Winston."
The tall captain didn't follow her.
"I have a lot of mending to do on the Rattler today, you know. Perhaps you can bring something for my breakfast from Lavinia's. See you later." With that he hastily left.
Isabelle knew that they had mending that had to get done in a hurry, but that wasn't the real reason. Mauriri - David was avoiding him –as usual.
Isabelle could imagine how horrible it was when old acquaintances ignored him. Even Mauriri's wife who used to think David was part of her family never talked to him when they saw each other on the street or in the market or anywhere. She just nodded to Isabelle alone and went on ignoring her husband's former best friend.
Leani Lepau adored her husband very much. And she knew how her beloved husband had been hurt by David Grief! She would never forgive David until Mo forgave him. Isabelle felt so sorry for David. But after all he couldn't avoid his situation forever.
At least some of his friends and acquaintances didn't exclude David. Instead it was him, David who excluded them. He seemed to be avoiding every old friend. And he had talked with his acquaintances only when he had to.
Isabelle had never really believed that David enjoyed her company. She did feel she and David could trust each other. They could laugh together sometimes. But it didn't mean he wanted to be with her. He always missed his ex-partner, Mauriri.
Isabelle asked Mauriri to crew on the Rattler almost every voyage, and he rejected her every time.
She kept offering, just businesslike. She had never pushed hard. Just asked, and got his rejection, then left, and came again the next time.
Since David and Mauriri's partnership had broken up, whenever David came to Lavinia's with her, it was because he didn't have anyone except her. That's what she thought, anyway.
The high spirits she'd felt when she woke up had already gone.


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A finely debated exchange about the role of blogs in community action has shown up. But it's not on a blog, or at one of the countless panel discussions and conferences on the topic still spreading across the fire-swept (or fire sale) media tundra. This one was on some printed pages in the Alameda Sun newspaper, circulation 20,000.
The polite dust-up between Alameda residents Ani Dimusheva and Lauren Do, was sparked by a post here about how bloggers pressured Alameda officials to reverse a bicycle ban in parks and certain other public places. I won't try to do an invariably poorer job today than either Ani or Lauren did of articulating the issues – you should read them for yourself. All I'll say is that the point was argued about whether, or actually how much, blogs are responsible for communities acting instead of just talking.
My original post did not give credit to BikeAlameda, which definitely mobilized people over the bike ban. I was set straight in an email by Lucy Gigli, president of the organization.
Ani's piece, which did mention BikeAlameda, was titled, "Blogs Alone Don't Generate Political Action". They do, the author goes on to say, help "keep government transparent, but don't translate further unless they are accompanied "by real, live action. Policies are, after all, made in actual rooms by actual people."
Lauren's couterpoint, entitled "On the Impact of Blogs" conceded that "blogs have no fingers (to) dial a telephone, nor…legs (to) storm the gates of City Hall." But they are also sometimes "the first medium to tip key stakeholders in the community…" Lauren cites a George Washington University paper that blogs nurtured "readers' intrinsic interest in politics" and suggested avenues of action.
Someone I used to work with commented here the other day that Bronstein At Large is not a blog but a "second-write newspaper column," by which he might have meant "second-rate." Well, that hurts. Crochunter, another commenter, said on the same post, "Phil, rather than write a column that just asks a lot of questions, why not write something insiteful & informative?" Everyone's a critic.
Clearly I'm no blog or blogging expert. And I'm addictively curious and like asking questions rather than assuming I know everything already, which I certainly don't. But I am an advocate and enthusiast when it comes to getting useful information to people and letting them know what they can do about it if they want to act. Bloggers, the Alameda Sun, The Chronicle, commenters, etc., all form the spineworks of a pro-am media relationship that's just exploring how to work together to improve life and make things happen.


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Council chiefs in St Helens have opened a new car park in the town centre.
The 10 space pay and display car park is on Waterloo Street near Tyrers and Church Square shopping centre.
It offers more access to more people and is a welcome addition to town centre car parking. Recent figures show that St. Helens is one of the cheapest places to park in the North West.
St Helens Council also operates a Free After Three scheme on Chalon Way, St. Mary's and Birchley Street.
Council leader Barrie Grunewald said: "The council is totally committed to finding different ways of supporting our retailers in these difficult trading times. The free after three scheme is proving very popular."


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But it is Number Sixteen's conservatory featuring an interesting mix of ethnic art, and private tree filled garden, that really sets it apart. The tree filled garden runs the length of the hotel and serves drinks and light refreshments all day. It is perfect for guests to relax in, dine or entertain friends or colleagues. Many of the bedrooms overlook the garden. The garden rooms have their own private courtyards and with direct access to the garden.
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Scientists to drill Arabian seabed to understand monsoon
Scientists have drawn up plans to extract sedimentary samples from the Laxmi basin located about 400 nautical miles southeast of Mumbai coast.
New Delhi: Seeking to understand the monsoon better, Indian scientists will dig a deep bore hole in the Arabian seabed to collect sedimentary samples that would help rebuild climate variation over the past few thousand years.
Scientists have drawn up plans to extract sedimentary samples from the Laxmi basin located about 400 nautical miles southeast of Mumbai coast.
"We are negotiating for hiring one of the two scientific drilling ships for collecting samples from a depth of up to three km under the seabed," Shailesh Nayak, Secretary in the Ministry of Earth Sciences said.
He said once the ship is hired, scientists would be able to start the ocean drilling programme and collect samples over a three-month period.
The main objectives of the programme is to reconstruct the entire history of the monsoon over a few thousand years and study the evolution of the Himalayas.
The programme is also expected to shed light on the evolution of the topography of the Himalaya-Tibet plateau which controls the climate in South and East Asia.
A long-term reconstruction of mountain building, erosion, and deposition synchronous with monsoon activity is key to testing the links between climate and Tibetan evolution, scientists said.
Thus basins surrounding the Himalaya -- the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal -- are excellent repositories for studying the relationship between tectonics and climate, according to the proposal for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme.
Sediments in these basins which are brought by rivers flowing through the world`s highest terrain record the history of the world`s most spectacular continental collision zone, it says.
"If we can reconstruct the past 1,000 years of climatic data, it would be a good handle to improve forecast of monsoon," Nayak said.
He said only two drilling ships are available worldwide -- JOIDES Resolution operated by the US National Science Foundation and Chiyku of the Japan Marine Science and Technology Centre -- which are heavily booked.
The hiring of ships for a period of two to three months is expected to cost Rs 50 crore, Nayak said, adding that the real work of analysing the the IODP cores would take a few years.


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The resort boast 3 restaurants serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and food and drink service is available poolside. The resort also has several BBQ grill areas for guests to use. The Westin also provides free shuttle service back and forth to Whaler's Village as well as three stops in Lahaina.
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This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. Adrian's in his room (which he shared with Kevin Cloud)
and you can see here that he was modeling the Baron of Hell out of clay himself, based on his own sketch of the Baron.
Also, this was the very first clay model that was made for DOOM.
At this stage, he wasn't called the Baron of Hell, but rather, a Bruiser Brother (since there were two of them at the end
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Series: Sebastian Grady
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Originally published in Feline and Famous.
Also appears in Drowning Ice Cube and Other Stories.
Original title: Credit the Cat
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Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Detective Story and Detectives
This work is a subwork of the following works : Feline & Famous: Cat Crimes Goes Hollywood (1994) [Anthology] Authors: Jon L. Breen
, Barbara Paul
, Bill Crider
, Les Roberts
, John Lutz
, Barbara Collins
, P.M. Carlson
, Jan Grape
, Rochelle Majer Krich
, James M. Reasoner
, Edward D. Hoch
, Tracy A. Knight
, Ted Fitzgerald
, Catherine Dain
, Bruce Holland Rogers
, Jill M. Morgan
, Terry Black
, Livia Washburn
Drowning Ice Cube and Other Stories (1999) [Collection] Authors: Jon L. Breen
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A mother of a 3rd grader in Belton, Texas wants school officials to attend diversity training after her daughter's hair was called "unacceptable."
Marian Reed said an assistant principal at Tarver Elementary School took her child out of gym class and said she would have to go home because the hair was unacceptable.
"She cried and said no one was going to want to be her friend because her hair was not as pretty as the assistant principal's," Reed said. "And, as a parent, that's heartbreaking because that's just what God naturally gave her."
Reed said her daughter's hair was in afro-puffs pony tails, but the school called it a faux hawk, which is against their dress code.
"It wasn't in a mohawk," Reed said, "It's not shaved on the side or anything. She was a little girl being 9 years old."
Reed also said her daughter has worn the same hairstyle when her hair was in synthetic braids, but the school never complained.
"I don't believe that it was intended to be racial," Reed said. "But, I think, the district as a whole may need some cultural diversity training."
Charla Trejo, the executive director of campus leadership, said the school was just enforcing the dress code and being consistent.
"We had an assistant principal call a parent and make them aware of the dress code issue," Trejo said. "And then just try to resolve that by asking them to take care of that."


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