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Cassidy rode the radio air waves from 1950 to 1952. His
popularity grew and grew, every time his show was heard.
These radio shows, together with his movies and
television shows helped make him one of the all-time most
popular heroes of western fiction and cinema. His
popularity continues to grow each year, as generations
new and old delight in the classic tales of this American
Here you will find a radio log based on a list of Hopalong Cassidy radio shows.
|This radio log gives away
solutions in its descriptions of plots. Each show is
numbered and also provides a date which is taken to
indicate the day the program was taped. It's likely dates
for Shows 7 and 29 are off by a year.
To view a show description, click on a Title below.
|Green Valley Payoff (1948)
Dead Man's Hand (1948)
The Medicine Man (1948)
Border of Nowhere (1948)
Death Paints A Picture (1948)
Letter From The Grave (1948)
Man Who Made Willy Whirl (1948)
Flying Outlaw (1948)
Bullets for Ballots (1948)
Coyote's Creed (1948)
Red Death (1948)
Killers of Sandy Gulch (1948)
Bandits of Ridge Creek (1948)
Coltsville Territory (1948)
Range War (1948)
Rainmaker of Eagle Nest Mountain (1948)
The Failure (1948)
Mystery of Skull Valley (1948)
Renegades of San Rafael (1948)
Phantom Bandido (1948)
Murder on the Trail (1948)
Hoppy Takes A Chance (1948)
Voice of the Dead (1948)
Ten Strike Gold (1948)
Red Rock Mesa (1948)
Empty Saddle (1948)
Dead or Alive (1949)
Gunsmoke Rides The Stagecoach Trail (1949)
Tinker's Dam (1949)
Hoppy Settles A Debt (1949)
Hoppy Turns On The Heat (1949)
Death Runs Dry (1949)
Melody of Murder (1949)
Plague of Parson's Folly (1949)
Hoppy Takes The Bull By The Horns (1949)
|Hoppy and the Iron Horse (1949)
Mystery at Three Oaks (1949)
The King of Spades (1949)
The Red Terror (1949)
Four to Go (1949)
Secret of Martin Dune (1949)
An Old Spanish Custom (1949)
The Whistling Ghost (1949)
The Disappearing Deputy (1949)
Blood Money (1949)
The Shell Game (1949)
The King of Cinnabar (1949)
Hoppy and the Schoolmarm (1949)
Mystery at the Diamond Z (1949)
Sundown Kid (1949)
The Golden Lure (1949)
Hoppy Sees Red (1949)
Apaches Don't Need Guns (1950)
Bandit of Blackton Bend (1950)
Hook, Line & Murder (1950)
The Phantom Panther (1950)
Hoppy Plays A Hunch (1950)
A Jailer Named Satan (1950)
Man In The Yellow Mask (1950)
Kidnapper's Trail (1950)
Santa Claus Rustlers (1950)
Hoppy Meets His Match (1950)
Case of The Last Word (1950)
Gunhawk Convention (1950)
Gunfighter in Short Pants (1950)
Songbird of Santa Fe (1950)
Bayou Drums Mean Death (1950)
Six Little Men Who Were Green (1950)
Run, Sheep, Run (1950)
Wet Beef & Dry Bones (1950)
|A Shot In The Dark (1950)
The Unwilling Outlaw (1950)
The Frightened Town (1950)
Coming Attraction Murder (1950)
Bad Medicine At Rimrock (1950)
Black Grass Fever (1950)
The Cold Country (1950)
Death Crosses the River (1950)
Boss of Vinegar Bend (1950)
Land of the Gunhawks (1950)
The Devil's Drum (1950)
Hoppy Elects A Sheriff (1950)
Peril at Pier 19 (1950)
Buckshot Badman (1950)
The Killer in Black (1950)
Stagecoach West (1950)
California or Bust (1951)
Death Comes Invited (1951)
Bullfight (1951)
Women of Windy Ridge (1951)
Right Rope - Wrong Neck (1951)
Cowtown Troubleshooters (1951)
Danger Wears Two Faces (1951)
Stampede at Semple Crossing (1951)
Gambler's Luck (1951)
The Wastrels of Juarez (1951)
Killers of Lion Canyon (1951)
Spider Woman (1951)
Memory of Mace Melot (1951)
Secret in the Hill (1951)
Lawyer of Laredo (1951)
Junior Badman (1951)
Cleanup of Caribou Mesa (1951)
Devil and El Diablo (1951)
|IN BRIEF: In 1886, Branch Patterson owns most of the town of Shotwell. He's campaigning for "Honest Ike" Iverson for sheriff. The former sheriff, Evan K. Hardin, by letter endorses Iverson, though no one knows where he's gone. Janey Malloy runs the town newspaper. Her fianc�e Bill Dixon decides to run against Iverson. A friendly man named Ted, who's recently sold his ranch, lingers long enough to help Hoppy investigate what's going on. Hardin was never known to get along with Iverson -- so why the endorsement? Wires are sent off to New York, but Patterson controls the telegraph agent and changes the message. Hoppy checks with Hardin's former landlady and others, and eventually gets a different story. Through a ruse, Patterson leads him to the sheriff's body. Dixon wins the election. A wire comes from Ted -- Teddy Roosevelt -- saying he's running for mayor of New York City. (Swanton)
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Ark: Survival Evolved Taming Calculator
Ark: Survival Evolved Taming Calculator
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Just like the dam penguin.
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Can We Go Now?
Ed and Anna are fed up with life in suburban Calgary – so fed up they want to know if they can raid their retirement savings to buy a country dream home
Financial Post Magazine November 06, 2007
Ed and Anna Jones are sick of their neighbours. They feel cramped by life in their crowded Calgary suburb. And even though Ed loves his downtown job and Anna is from the city, in the end, they just don't see themselves as urban people. In fact, the Joneses have a long-held dream of moving out to the country and buying a house on an acreage. They used to think they'd fulfill that goal in retirement. But now they've decided they can't wait any longer. "Lately, we've felt like we're postponing our lives," Ed says. Moreover, they want to raise their three young children somewhere with a generous supply of green space and more than four feet between front porches. To make the move a reality, however, they'll have to dig deep into their retirement savings. Can they afford to do that and still meet their other major financial goal of having Ed retire in 15 years, when he reaches age 55?
At least the Joneses are starting from a healthy position. As a manager with a large oil and gas company, Ed earns a yearly salary of $133,000, including a bonus. Anna, 38, is a stay-at-home mom, but she has a small income of $6,500 from child benefits and investments that brings the Joneses' annual household income to $139,500. On top of that, they own their home outright, which was recently valued at $500,000. They also have savings of about $145,000 in RRSPs and $223,000 in non-registered investments.
To make their dream a reality, Ed and Anna expect to spend about $900,000 for land and a house. They can raise most of that money if they sell their current home and cash in the investments they hold outside of their RRSPs. After the purchase, they'd still have a mortgage of about $200,000. For retirement savings, they'd have a total of about $175,000 accumulated in their RRSPs and in Ed's defined-contribution pension plan from work.
So, buying an acreage is in the realm of possibility, but the Joneses worry they'd be "foolish" to sell assets they've spent years accumulating for life after work. After all, they have ambitious goals. Ed says he and Anna would like to have $100,000 a year to fund their retirement lifestyle, which they hope will include lots of travel, both in Canada and abroad. They're also looking forward to joining a golf club, as they've neglected their favourite sport since the kids arrived. And they'd like to have enough money in the future to help their kids with down payments when they buy homes of their own.
All these hopes and aspirations have left Ed and Anna feeling confused about what they should do about their country dream. "Our hearts say 'Yes,' but our minds say 'Whoa, slow down,'" Ed explains. "We're not sure how far it will set us back. Will it add a few years to my working life – or longer? We're just not sure."
What the experts say
David Cox of IPC Investment Corp. in Edmonton says the Joneses can afford to move. And if they're serious, this is the time to do it. Alberta housing prices are soaring. The longer they wait, the more they'll pay, as the gap between a $500,000 home and a $900,000 home widens. "They're losing ground by dithering," Cox says.
Of course, moving now will delay Ed's retirement, says Cox. The Joneses will also have to reassess how much they can spend on travel in retirement and how much they'll be able to help their kids with down payments. But if they really want to move, the trade-offs may be worth it, says Cox.
Ray Kasten, of One 2 One Financial Consulting in Calgary, agrees that the Joneses could leave the city now, but says there are factors they need to consider. For starters, the Alberta real estate market is showing signs of slowing. That means the value of the Joneses' acreage could stop growing in the near future. "But if they keep this investment for 20 or 30 years," Kasten adds, "I don't see a problem."
As for meeting their retirement goals, Kasten says that Ed and Anna will have to accept some setbacks if they move now. But there are strategies that they can use to get back on track. Anna, for example, plans to return to work once their youngest child, now four, starts school, generating money that could be used to rebuild savings.
But even though the Joneses can afford the move, Kasten says they should be absolutely certain that buying an acreage is what they want to do. Looking after such a property takes more work than keeping up with a suburban home, he warns. Are Ed and Anna ready to haul the kids to the city for every soccer game or music lesson?
Finally, he says they should be prepared for possible tax implications. When the Joneses sell their Calgary home, they won't pay tax on the capital gain, as the house is clearly a principal residence. Depending on a variety of factors – such as the amount of land owned and local bylaws – acreages don't always enjoy the same status. Sales can be subject to some tax. Ed and Anna should be aware of potential tax issues.
Otherwise, Ed and Anna can start house hunting, although Kasten and Cox say they should be sure to have insurance, something they didn't mention in the information they submitted for this article. They also suggest the Joneses rethink their $100,000 retirement income target, since they'll be mortgage- and child-free when the time comes to stop working.
But none of these are issues that stand in the way of fulfilling the dream. Kasten says Ed and Anna will do fine if they can maintain their current level of annual saving ($38,650) until retirement and take aggressive steps to replace the savings they sacrifice initially to buy an acreage. If they do that, they'll accumulate $1.85 million by the time Ed hits 55, assuming a 6% return. That would give them an after-tax retirement income of $60,000 a year until Anna is 90, not including CPP and OAS benefits.
In other words, the Joneses can afford an acreage. It may take a few sacrifices, and they may want to consider pushing back Ed's retirement date to meet their all their goals. But the alternative is staying put and sacrificing the lifestyle they want today.
Tip of the Month: Rural homes may be subject to capital gains
Even if you declare a rural home as your principal residence, you may have to pay capital gains tax when you sell it. Canada Revenue Agency usually exempts up to half-a-hectare of land from capital gains on sales of rural residences. It may allow more if, for example, local bylaws set larger minimum lot sizes. But the remainder may be subject to tax when it?s sold. Investigate the tax implications before you buy.


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Steve E. Harris, Bruce Sawhill, Andrew Wuensche, Stuart Kauffman.
Derrida plots made with DDLab
These plots were made for random Boolean networks, n=1000, for k=3, 4, and 5, using the old+new data. The C values are higher in all cases.
k=3, C=0.795
k=4, C=0.708
k=5, C=0.649
There are two diagrams for each k.
left: an overall plot showing rules at random, and with canalizing set. The normalized Hamming range is 0 to 0.5. Each Hamming distance is plotted for a sample of 25 initial pairs of states.
right: details of the initial Hamming range (0 to 0.01) to calculate
the Hamming coefficient based on the first 5 steps.
The average slope between these points and the
origin is taken as the initial slope.
If the initial slope = x degrees, then the Derrida coefficient,
A slope of 45 degrees (Dc=0) indicates the dynamics is balanced between
order and chaos. A slope above the 45 degree diagonal (positive Dc)
is in the chaotic regime, below (negative Dc) is in the ordered regime.
If Derrida plot is based on more than 1 iteration, the slope
above or below the diagonal is amplified, giving a clear indication
where it lies relative to the 45 degree diagonal.
The plots how 4 curves. The top curve is for rules set at random. The 3 lower curves are for canalizing set, for 1, 2 and 3 iterations. Each Hamming distance is plotted for a sample of 1000 initial pairs of states. These are typical plots, and the variance for other networks with the same parameters was found to be low.
Comments: the curves no longer lie on each other, but become shallower with greater k. The k=3 curve in the old paper looks too shallow compared with new k=3 curve, which is steeper despite having greater C.
Click on each image to see it full size.
|k=3, n=1000. Steep curve: random rules. Shallow curve: C=0.795.
|Derrida coefficient. Steep curve: random rules, Dc=+0.58
Shallow curve, 1 itteration, Dc=-0.9
|k=4 n=1000. Steep curve: random rules. Shallow curve: C=0.708.
|Derrida coefficient. Steep slope: random rules, Dc=+1.31
Shallow curve, 1 itteration, Dc=-0.25
|k=5 n=1000. Steep curve: random rules. Shallow curve: C=0.649.
|Derrida coefficient. Steep curve: random rules, Dc=+1.33
Shallow curve, 1 itteration, Dc=-0.39
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Colleen Lowe Morna
22 Jul 2008 06:00
As I breeze through check-in formalities at Accra international airport on my non-stop evening flight to Johannesburg, I cannot help the flashback to 27 years ago when I first started travelling to my second home through marriage from the country of my birth, Zimbabwe. How the tables have turned in less than one lifetime.
In those days there was one flight a week to Accra via Lagos on Balkan Airlines.
By comparison with Accra, Harare was the very essence of tranquility.
You left a country where the dollar was stronger than the US dollar to a land where money changers hung around in dark alleys stuffing notes under their flowing robes. You braced yourself for the heat and the sweat of the airport, the inevitable "third page in your passport" to get through customs, the likelihood of stolen luggage, the hassle to get past hordes of hangers-on looking to squeeze whatever they could out of you.
My first trip to Ghana coincided with Jerry Rawlings's second coup on December 31 1981. A naive Southern African schooled in liberation politics, but without a clue about what it meant to be in a state run by the military, found herself unable to leave the country for a fortnight as every airport, phone line and telex machine was shut off. Rescued by American missionaries who made a foot trip over the border to Togo, I thanked the Almighty for a passport that I could carry with pride whether east, west, north or south on this globe.
As I remember that moment, I am reading the headlines in the Daily Graphic about Robert Mugabe, the global pariah—even in Africa, even in Ghana, his second home through marriage. Ghana, which once proudly claimed Mugabe as its son-in-law, has turned its back on him as well.
It's not just about the way he turned his back on his first wife, Sally, starting a relationship with his secretary as the Ghanaian wife who stood by him through years of incarceration lay dying of a long kidney ailment. That, of course, is a sore point with Ghanaians. As only Ghanaians would have the guts to do, Mugabe's in-laws snubbed his second wife Grace when she tried to visit with him a year ago.
But the sense of betrayal runs much deeper than the sins of the son-in-law. It stems from the statement made at the just-ended G8 summit in Japan: that Mugabe has shamed all of Africa, taken all of Africa down with him when he brazenly marched to power on June 27 after terrorising the opposition Movement for Democratic Change into withdrawing from a second-round leadership election after it won the March parliamentary polls.
Rawlings might not have been the West's idea of a democrat, but he restored enough discipline and order for Ghana to take the harsh economic medicine necessary to halt hyperinflation and get a resource-rich nation back on its rails. He submitted himself to elections. And, just as Ghana blazed the trail to become Africa's first independent nation, it led the way in becoming one of the first post-independent African nations in which one elected leader handed over to another through the ballot box.
John Kufuor's Ghana is not a utopia. But, as Zimbabwe becomes a country ruled by the military in all but name, this at least is a nation in which coups are a thing of the past.
When Ghana knocked all the zeros off its cedi currency a little more than a year ago, after several years of stable economic growth, something amazing happened. The cedi strengthened to just a little over one US dollar. The two now stand virtually at par, as they did in Zimbabwe in 1981.
When Zimbabwe tried the same trick, almost at the same time last year, the inevitable happened. The zeros climbed back again so fast that no one even bothers to give a figure to the inflation rate any more. As the Latin Americans would testify, it takes a lot more to halt hyperinflation than knocking off a few zeros at the printing press of the reserve bank.
As I prepare to leave, an old friend asks me how it is possible for a leader—even if he or she makes every conceivable political and economic bungle—to bankrupt a country as rich in human and natural resources as Zimbabwe in less than our lifetime.
At the airport I brace myself for the worst. Habit has taught me to keep my wits about me, even have extra "pages in my passport" in case they might be needed.
But there is no need. The queues are normal. No one insists on opening my suitcase. I am asked politely which seat I would like.
I go through customs with the minimum of fuss. I even put my feet up in the lounge.
The flight leaves on time.
Gazing down at the lights of Accra I reflect on the 180-degree turnaround that I have witnessed in one country in less than a generation. Is it true that what goes down must come up?
If so, how much further must Zimbabwe sink before it rises? And how much more shame are we as Africans prepared to bear on Mugabe's behalf before we force that turn?
Colleen Lowe Morna is executive director of Gender Links. This article is part of the GL commentary service that offers fresh views on everyday news
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AltSchool gets $33 million in venture capital
(03-18) 10:42 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The business plan was relatively simple: Build a new kind of school that offers technology-fueled, personalized learning and automated administrative services that keep costs low.
Then build a lot of those and make money, eventually a lot of money.
Silicon Valley's deepest pockets have decided to buy into that plan, feeding $33 million of venture capital into San Francisco startup AltSchool, company founder Max Ventilla said Tuesday.
In the public school world, that much money would be enough to support a small school district for a year or pay the annual salaries of more than 400 experienced teachers.
Ventilla plans to mostly spend it on engineers.
The AltSchool computer whizzes will design software and applications that make payroll, hiring, admissions, facilities services, purchasing and other services - typically done by a school district's central office staff - electronically seamless, Ventilla said.
That will allow for huge savings, he added.
"We believe we can get the cost of an outstanding education below public school averages in the next few years while actually improving quality," said Ventilla, formerly of Google and the co-founder of Aardvark, a search company acquired by Google.
Ventilla's business model got financial backing from Founders Fund as well as Andreessen Horowitz, a multibillion-dollar venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen, co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser, and Silicon Valley veteran and investor Ben Horowitz.
"Improving education is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and yet less than 1 percent of education-related expenditures are allocated to the kind of research and development that could bring primary education into the 21st century," Brian Singerman, general partner at Founders Fund, said in a statement.
"It's not every day that we see top-notch technologists coming together with exceptional teachers to rethink schooling from the ground up."
Ventilla also has backing from investor John Doerr, who has backed the entrepreneurs responsible for Google, Amazon, Intuit and Zynga.
AltSchool opened its first school in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood in September. There are now about 20 students, ranging from kindergarten to middle-school age.
In the one-room, high-tech schoolhouse, there are white boards and computerized wall projections, a computer-driven sound system and thermostats controlled by iPhones. Every student has a personalized iPad Mini to check school e-mail and assignments sent by the teachers.
The company has building leases in San Francisco to house a dozen more similar classrooms this fall and is looking for space to expand in the East Bay and Palo Alto.
With many bugs already worked out and systems in place, new sites can ramp up very quickly, and because it's a private company, they don't always have to open in the fall. They can open a school whenever they want.
"It's one of the benefits of our model," Ventilla said. "It's pretty easy to start schools."
Because of high San Francisco rents, the AltSchool tuition is $19,100 now. In the East Bay, it will be closer to $14,000 or $15,000.
Those costs will continue to go down, Ventilla said.
By comparison, though the cost of each student at public schools ranges, state funding is expected to increase to more than $10,000 in San Francisco and Oakland over the next few years. Federal and local funding would add to that.
Investors liked the idea of funding a company that aims to address demand and needed innovation in education, Ventilla said.
"The best investors want to do what you're doing before they even met you," he said. "You can create enormous good through companies that have the ability to attract capital and talent and provide benefit at scale."
Jill Tucker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @jilltucker


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India: Getting to Ladakh and the things you should be aware of
January 1, 1970
More than 2 years ago I met my first Indian friend in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He started to introduce me to Indian culture and recommended me a movie called Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Ever since I saw that movie I wanted to visit that North part of India, Ladakh – land of high passes.
Leh-Ladakh is part of the state Jammu & Kashmir in the North part of India and is a land like no other. Bounded by two of the world's mightiest mountain ranges, the Great Himalaya and the Karakoram. It is surrounded by the international borders with China and Pakistan. Culture and history is highly comparable to Tibetan. The principal language of Ladakh is Ladakhi but educated Ladakhi understand Hindu and also English. It is one of the highest places on earth (altitude between 8,800 feet and 18,000 feet approx.) with very dry and cold clima. In winter temperature reaches -40 degrees Celsius. I read somewhere that only in Ladakh can a person sitting in the sun with his feet in the shade suffer from sunstroke and frostbite at the same time. The beauty of the place cannot be expressed in words. It has breathtaking landscape with Buddhist monasteries (gompas) and beautiful spiritual messages written on colorful fluttering prayer flags.
So we decided, two girls, to go and travel around India for almost a month. You can reach Leh from New Delhi by bus or flight. Since we had in total only 25 days to visit India (Ladakh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Goa and Maharashtra) we decided to take the fastest way to reach Leh. On 26.9.2015 at 10:00 pm we arrived to New Delhi and step on Indian land for the first time. Our connection flight to Leh was the next morning at 5:15 am from national airport, so we needed to change the airport. People were telling us that we need to take a taxi to get there but since I always prefer to travel with local transport I insisted to go by bus. We exit the airport and there it was our first cultural shock. Firstly the heavy, hot and smelly air which made it a little bit difficult to breath in the beginning. And then we enter the empty bus which got immediately packed with Indian men who were staring at us. There were no women on the bus as the time was late in the evening. Many people were warning us about traveling in India especially when I said we reserved train tickets in a sleeper class. At that moment, being the only women on the whole bus we thought to
ourselves that maybe we are really a bit crazy to travel like this. But we wanted to experience the real India with everything that comes along. We arrived to the airport and we still had 6 hours for our next flight to Leh, Ladakh. What to do. Since the chairs are really uncomfortable for sleeping we decided to follow some of the other Indian people and we put our sleeping bags on the floor next to some huge plants right there in the airport. Of course we were already really tired from the whole travel from Prague to New Delhi, so we fall asleep immediately. One guy woke us up that our flight is already leaving so we packed our sleeping bags as soon as we could and run towards our boarding gate. The flight over the mountains lit by a sunrise was so incredible that I was screaming inside from all the joy and excitement.
The altitude of the capital city Leh is 11,562 ft (3,500m) which can cause some problem to tourist which are not acclimatized to this attitude. When we landed we could see everywhere warning signs about high-altitude sickness. Pay attention to your body, drink a lot of water and keep it easy first couple of days. You really need to be careful and if you neglect first signs of high-altitude sickness it can follow to high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) or high altitude cerebral edema (HACE), which can be fatal.
You should find a doctor immediately if you are experiencing any of these signs:
- heavy headaches,
- fatigue,
- dizziness,
- shortness of breath,
- nausea or vomiting,
- persistent fast pulse,
- dry cough,
- insomnia,
- sensation of tingling or burning of the skin,
- nosebleed,
- swelling of hands, face or feet (late symptom),
- social withdrawal (late symptom).
In Leh we experienced completely different clime than in New Delhi which was just 1,5 hours ago. Here the air was rare, dry and cold. The lack of oxygen makes you tired already after few steps.
After getting our backpacks we went to bargain for the cab and search for a guesthouse in upper Leh a.k.a Changshpa which was recommended to me by one friend. Changspa road is really a nice place with a lot of homestays which are hygienic and cheap as well. The golden rule while traveling in India is to always, regardless what you are buying, always bargain for the price.
The thing you should know if you want to visit some places around Leh you will need to obtain a special permission which you can get at any tourist agency in Leh. You will need to leave this permission to any checking point around Ladakh so be sure to make more copies of the permit. After we got settled down in our room and had a nice morning sleep we went to walk around the city to arrange the permission, withdraw the money and trying to book some trips. There was Sunday so it was difficult to arrange anything. We visited some tourist agencies to explore our options for the trips but we didn't arrange anything. Nonetheless we had some really nice talks with the locals.
Our first delicious Indian lunch was in a lovely little restaurant on of the rooftops with a view on the city and the mountains. We had some delicious Palak Paneer and some nice garlic naan (Indian bread).
Through narrow streets we walked up to Leh Palace from where there was an amazing view on the whole valley. Colorful flags, blue sky, mountains covered by snow and green grass made just the perfect combination of colors. The music from monasteries when monks were playing on dungchen was echoing through the valley and the sound was just magical. Dungchen is a long trumpet or a horn used in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies.
Big part of the city was under construction and it was interesting to see how cows are just wondering around all the public places in the city. As you probably already know cow is protected animal in India and Hindus do not eat beef. After walking around the city my friend started to become really tired and experiencing some headaches so we return slowly to our room and went to bed.
When we woke up the next day my friend felt really bad. Her heart was beating really fast, she had big pressure in her head, problems with breathing, felt nauseous and dizzy. I become really worried so I went to look for the owner of the guesthouse and he provided a taxi for us so I could take her to the hospital. In the hospital I needed to fill some forms and we waited for the doctor. Experience in the hospital was interesting as well. There were cleaning ladies cleaning the floor on their knees with really dirty cloths and had masks over their faces. The doctor concluded that she has high-altitude sickness and that she will be fine. He prescribed some pills and she needed to be plugged on oxygen for an hour. Already after only 15 minutes of oxygen she felt much better and I was really relieved she was doing so much better. She fall asleep for a while and during that time they brought one old lady on the bed next to us. There was an old men with her and he started to take selfies with us in the background. Hospital was in a quite pore state with only really necessary things. After an hour my friend felt like reborn and we headed home. We stopped in the pharmacy to get the prescribed medicine and stopped small van who was driving to the center.
My friend went to sleep and since she was feeling much better I went for a walk around the city to get her some food and to visit Shanti Stupa. Shanti Stupa is a Buddhist white-domed stupa (chorten) on a hilltop which was only a couple hundred meter away from our guesthouse in Changspa. Once you overcome all the stairs you see an astonishing panoramic view of the city with mountains in the background. One of the many reasons why people take a trip to Ladakh is to take a break from the everyday schedule and re-assess their lives. It is definitely a great place to invoke some thoughts from within to asses yourself in life.
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Billy Noble
25, lives on the Upper East Side and teaches 12- to 14-year-olds in the Bronx
I guess you could safely say I am not your typical New Yorker. Due to the fairly minimal pay I receive as a teacher and the high cost of living in the city, I don't eat out much and take a lunchbox to work. I'm also in the Air Force Reserve, which means getting up around 4am on weekends, so I'm not much of a cocktails guy either.
But that doesn't mean I don't go out. On a free day I head down to the River Walk, which runs along the East River - with a book. I also might visit one of the nearby galleries; one of my favourites is Neue Galerie (East 86th Street and 5th Avenue; neuegalerie.org), which has an amazing collection of German and Austrian expressionist works. I don't buy many clothes, but Brooklyn Industries (four branches in Manhattan; brooklynindustries.com) has stylish clothing at really good prices.
There's a great Indian vegetarian restaurant called Chennai (1st Ave, between East 86th and 87th), and some good spots to grab a cheap pint near where I live. My favourite is the Kinsale Tavern (E 94th and 3rd Ave; kinsale.com). They have more than 20 imported beers on tap and a nightly "pint special" - the food is traditional pub dishes but they're all really good.
When I do "go out" properly, I usually head to Alphabet City in the East Village. I like the Library Bar (E 1st Street and Avenue A) and Motor City Bar (Ludlow and Rivington; motorcitybar.com) - they can both get a bit crowded and noisy but they're really unpretentious and the music at Motor City is always great.
Annabelle's verdict:
The small Neue Galerie was new to me; it has a great collection of works by Klee, Klimt, Schiele and Kandinsky, and you hear New York voices rather than Japanese and British.
It's an easy stroll down to the park by the East River; take a large coffee and a larger pair of sunglasses to hide behind, so you can stare at the coiffed and buffed society ladies walking their pekes and poodles.
Irish pubs are ten a penny in New York, but the Kinsale Tavern is, I suspect, better than most, with its choice of beers. Frankly, anywhere that calls a turkey and ham toasted sandwich a "Hot Sandwich Adventure" is worth a visit in my book. And it is delicious.
The bars in Alphabet City are a touch hardcore for me; venture in only if you're after loud heavy metal, triple vodkas and a spectacular hangover next morning.
Francisca Ovalle
24, lives in the East Village and works for tourist board NYC & Company
Sunday brunch can be like a competitive sport. It's probably the most popular meal of the week, because it's a good excuse to meet up with friends, eat a lot and have a mimosa or two before noon. Most places don't take reservations, so get there early.
Two of my favourite spots are Curly's Vegetarian Lunch (328 East 14th St; curlyslunch.com), which does to-die-for vegan cakes and fake meat options, and Angelica Kitchen (300 East 12th St; angelicakitchen.com), where you can bring your own wine.
The East Village is known for its arty scene and youthful crowd, and for vintage and thrift shopping; I love Cure Thrift Shop (111 East 12th St; curethriftshop.com), which has a great selection of antiques, books and jewellery; No Relation Vintage (204 1st Ave; norelationvintage.com) for design-classic T-shirts and shoes; and Atomic Passion (430 East 9th St), for kooky dresses and accessories. Whole hours can disappear in the Strand Bookstore (828 Broadway and 12th St; strandbooks.com). It's like a cross between a Barnes & Noble megastore, a flea market and a university library.
Music has a huge presence in the East Village; the Sidewalk Bar & Restaurant (94 Avenue A and 6th St; sidewalkmusic.net) serves food in the front while local musicians dish up tunes in the back. Open-mic nights are a free-for-all, and if that gives you a taste for more avant-garde stuff, visit the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery and Houston; bowerypoetry.com), a performance space dedicated to the spoken word which also hosts local bands and musicians.
For cocktails, a favourite is the Beauty Bar (231 East 14th St; beautybar.com), transformed from a 1950s beauty parlour; it offers martini and manicure specials for $10 in the early evening. Speakeasy-style bars are still fashionable: Bourgeois Pig (11 East 7th Street; bourgeoispigny.com) has a Victorian-gothic feel. Restaurants stay open all night; 7A (109 Avenue A and 7th St) does great comfort food.
Annabelle's verdict:
The East Village's low-rise streets are a jumble of thrift stores, stalls, coffee shops and tiny dimly lit bars. Leave your Jimmy Choos at home, slip on some Vans and a hoodie and prepare to drink pints, eat burritos and come home with cheap floral dresses. The Martinis and manicures at the Beauty Bar are both excellent, and the vast plate of nachos at 7A proved the perfect end to an evening.
Ahmed Ibrahim
53, lives in Brooklyn and is a yellow cab driver
I love Sunday brunch and although it's a short ride on the subway from Brooklyn, it's hard to beat Katz Deli in the Lower East Side (205 E Houston St). Most people know it because of "that" scene in When Harry Met Sally, but it is one of the few traditional Jewish delis left in the city. Just around the corner, Essex (120 Essex Street) also does a great brunch.
New Yorkers love to constantly be seeing and doing, cramming everything in, and the museums are full to bursting on Sundays. It's often better to go on a Friday or Saturday night, when they sometimes host great parties; the Brooklyn Art Museum (200 Eastern Parkway; brooklynmuseum.org) stays open till 11pm on the first Saturday of each month, with talks, films and DJs.
For a cheap lunch or supper with friends we'll often go to Cafécito across the river in Alphabet City
(185 Avenue C; cafecitonyc.com) which does fantastic Cuban food, but for a posh dinner out it has to be the Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn (178 Broadway; peterluger.com) which has been serving the best steak in the city for over 100 years. For cocktails, I love PDT (113 St Marks Place) - a great speakeasy-style bar, whose entrance is hidden in a phone booth in a hot dog restaurant.
Although Sunday nights are traditionally quiet, there are still places to go; the Upright Citizens Brigade (307 West 26th St; ucbtheatre.com) is a comedy club that charges $5 for great improv comedy.
Annabelle's verdict:
I loved Katz Deli - though it's hard to negotiate the system: order at the counter, take separate tickets to different counters and go and get your food when it's ready. Brooklyn Art Museum is more friendly and accessible than somewhere like the Guggenheim, and includes the Sackler Center for Feminist Art - well worth a look.
If you're a meat-eater, Peter Luger will be heaven; ordering fish (as I did) is missing the point somewhat. Cocktails at PDT is a classic New York experience. Find Crif Dogs (known for its deep-fried frankfurters) go into the old-style phone booth and lift the receiver. A door will open but, ironically for a speakeasy, you'll probably only be allowed in if you've called ahead to reserve a table.
Hesu Coue-Wilson
Lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. She is a journalist and has two children, Helena, seven, and Clementine, three.
The best place to head for on a Saturday morning is the Brooklyn Farmers' Market at Grand Army Plaza; get ridiculously cheap and fresh oysters from the fish folk who come straight from Montauk with the morning's catch.
Press 195 (195 Fifth Avenue; press195.com) is a great spot for lunch (try the squash with chipotle chilli) and ideal for stoking up before a walk through Prospect Park. Walk far enough and you can find sections that feel lost and bucolic and very different from Central Park, where you can never really forget you are in the middle of a vast city. If you fancy a bike ride, it's a great wheel from Grand Army Plaza to Coney Island.
If I'm heading into Manhattan for lunch, Chinatown is always a good bet; Jing Fong (20 Elizabeth St) looks and sounds like a noisy airport lounge but the food is incredible. After that, head to Papabubble (380a Broome St; papabubble.com); it's a candy store where they pound, stretch and cool the candy in front of your eyes.
There are some lovely small toy-shops in Brooklyn - my favourites are Lulu's Cuts (48 5th Avenue; luluscuts.com) and Area Kids (154 Montague St). When it comes to the evenings, if we have a sitter, Bargemusic off Brooklyn Pier (bargemusic.org) is fantastic - a decommissioned barge on the East River, where you watch and listen to world-class musicians five feet in front of you. For a show, forget Broadway and head to BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue; bam.org).
Annabelle's verdict:
The subway from Manhattan to Brooklyn only takes around 20 minutes, but it feels like you're emerging into another country. The streets are lined with brownstones; leafy suburbia meets small-town Americana. Pick up a picnic at Press 195 and head to Prospect Park. Stroll down 5th Avenue, the heart of Park Slope - Brooklyn's most fashionable area - and watch the NY equivalent of yummy mummies wheeling prams in and out of Area Kids. BAM's theatres, cinemas and cafes are a fantastic discovery.
Danny Meyer
50, lives in midtown, and is a restaurateur
I guess for me, inevitably, New York is all about food. I love the foodie neighbourhoods best; the Greenmarket on Union Square, where farmers come with their fresh produce and Bleecker Street between 7th Avenue S and 6th Avenue, where you can buy some of the best bread, cheese and meats in the city. Faicco's Pork Store serves fabulous Italian delicacies.
If I want a proper brunch, I head to Dovetail (103 West 77th St; dovetailnyc.com) for elegant cooking, abundant portions and excellent value. For lunch, I'd have to say Union Square Café; (21 East 16th Street; unionsquarecafe.com) - hands up, I own it. Or try Lombardi's (32 Spring Street; firstpizza.com), New York's first pizzeria. For gifts, I never fail to find something in the MoMA Design Store (11 West 55th Street; momastore.org) or Clio in Soho (92 Thompson St, clio-home.com), for beautiful homewares. On a sunny day I head to Madison Square Park; it's a wonderful place to really feel New York; in the shadow of the Flatiron building and the Metlife Clock Tower. And there are few better places to start an evening than with a cocktail at the Algonquin (59 West 44th St; algonquinhotel.com), once home to Dorothy Parker and her circle. The Gramercy Tavern (42 East 20th Street; gramercytavern.com) is a modern take on a traditional New York tavern. For a really top-notch, elegant dinner out it would have to be Daniel (60 E 65th St; danielnyc.com) - dependably refined, with exciting cuisine and gracious hospitality.
Annabelle's verdict:
This is traditional sightseeing territory, combined with a more authentic NYC. The Greenmarket feels slightly surreal - a farmers' market surrounded by skyscrapers, with trestle-tables laden with different varieties of apples, oddly-named potatoes, cheeses and great bunches of chillis. It's an easy walk from here to Madison Square Park before hopping on the subway for lunch at Lombardi's. Try the chopped clams pizza. Cocktails at the Algonquin don't come cheap (around $12), but it's worth it just to watch New York money getting gently sozzled. Dovetail is a world away from an East Village brunch; sleek and slightly mannered.


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Well I've been to hell and back with this recording. Though it wasn't the first true metal recording I ever bought, it was the first recording I ever bought by a true metal band, and at the time, I loved it, as it would do to wean me off the Coal Chamber and Skinlab that was making up the bulk of my CD collection. Then I went to the next stage of metal and attempted to hate it, to try and be true and grim and a sheep to be accepted by the metal community. But after taking what I feel is a maturer look at metal, I felt a need to review this because of some opinions that I see, which I feel are way too unkind to the album, because a prelude to St. Anger, this is not. Let's also get out of the way, the fact that I won't compare this to "Diabolus in Musica", on account of not having actually listened to the album.
I believe that most of the loathing towards this album is because people can't accept that Slayer changed on this album. In addition to this, the fact that Tom Araya is a Catholic seems to have only kicked up a fuss since an interview, we all know he said "God doesn't hate, he loves all, but GHUA is a cool title" – let it go guys! The first sign of the band branching out from their tried and true style was what we heard on "Divine Intervention" seven years earlier, when the music was still thrashy as hell, but the lyrics were almost ripped straight out of a punk album. Yes, admittedly in spite of the positive change, there is some absolute equine faeces which should have never made it onto the album, such as "War Zone", riddled with filler riffs, irritating vocals, and all the rest. Much anger and hatred is on the album, and it's no secret that Kerry King, who wrote a fair proportion of the music and lyrics to "God Hates Us All", was inspired by Slipknot and Chaimara at the time. But looking deeper, the lyrics in particular are, for the most part, a lot less juvenile than they are given credit for, and the riffs are much more technical and better thought out than the 1-finger chords, but I'll get more into that later.
Another major difference is that gone are the days of "thrash from beginning to end". Mid paced and slower parts are scattered throughout the CD. An example of this is "Seven Faces", which kicks off with an intro reminiscent of the quite spooky verses from Divine Intervention's "Serenity In Murder". Said song has some quite well written lyrics too.
Tom's vocals sound as good as ever. His tone is excellent, very high-pitched and as full sounding as they ever were, with no cracks or squeaks or anything close to signs of wear and tear on the old man. His lung capacity is also great, even more so for somebody of his age – have a listen to "Payback", one of the faster efforts on the album. Although the lyrics themselves aren't great, the vocal patterns are as complex as hell, and just you try singing along to it – see if you don't skip lines to draw breath.
Drums also. Whatever you say about Paul Bostaph, the harsh reality is that he actually kicks Dave Lombardo's arse in every aspect of technicality and competence. The difference is that he is sometimes too technical for his own good, and some of the fills and such, though extremely hard to pull off I imagine, just seem a little bit overdone for the music, when on occasions, something simpler would have sufficed. Still, it's better to have too much than too little, and the occasions where Lombardo simply could not have been physically able to keep up and Bostaph pulls off with precision, outweights the bad.
"God Hates Us All" has a production job that's extremely different to previous efforts. The treble is mixed very high on the album, which is a little odd considering the string section tuned down to lower notes than the traditional D# (including as low as A# on a couple of songs). Although the treble stands out most and thus, is what catches your ear, the bottom end is still fairly well done and provides enough heaviness to satisfy.
A sad downside to the recording is that there is a fairly tragic lack of guitar solos on the album. And when there are some, they are pretty much what we dislike about Kirk Hammett – just an excuse to noodle around on the wah pedal, wasting the evident shredding capacity of two great guitarists, even if they think by a "scale", that means the thing you weigh yourself upon. The hatred of scales and arpeggios is how we always liked Slayer, and unlike something where a solo wouldn't fit the style of music, I can imagine solos, or in some cases, much better solos, really suiting the music here.
So it's a different Slayer, rather than a bad one, that churned out God Hates Us All. This is not for thrash purists, nor for somebody looking to get into the cream of the crop of what the group is famous for. This is for somebody that doesn't mind trying different things, and can listen to music with an open mind. If you think you fall into either of the latter categories, give this a try and don't expect some feeble attempt at dragging thrash into the 21st century. It's the songs that branch out and stray far from the traditional ad well-known style of the band, like "Seven Faces" and "Bloodline", that bring the album home.


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Propelled by a torrent of blistering television advertisements,
Despite doubts among some Democrats about the wisdom of attacking Mr. Romney's business career, Obama commercials painting him as a ruthless executive who pursued profits at the expense of jobs are starting to make an impact on some undecided voters, according to strategists from both sides, who differ on whether they are causing any substantial damage.
While the sense of worry and alarm that has hung over the White House for weeks is dissipating, and with his supporters relieved by the
People close to the Romney campaign say it could close its June fund-raising books having collected an additional $100 million, possibly more, a tally that would exceed all expectations and further extend the overall Republican financial advantage in the race.
With that cash influx, Mr. Romney's team is preparing a new advertising campaign that will aggressively portray Mr. Obama as a craven political figure, rather than the transformative leader he pledged he would be.Continue reading the main story
They began that effort in the past several days with a new ad that uses video of
"He's just another politician," Matt Rhoades, the campaign manager for Mr. Romney, said in an interview. "He's not the
And Mr. Obama's aides acknowledged that whatever they do, they still must contend with a troubled economy, with monthly reminders in the unemployment and job creation reports, the next of which comes out on Friday.
Mr. Romney's aides said in interviews that their strategy depended on keeping their candidate close to Mr. Obama in the polls until at least the Republican convention at the end of August. They hope to begin to pull away then with a relentless case that Mr. Obama has not been up to the job of fixing the economy — and that Mr. Romney has the experience and the knowledge to lead the nation to recovery.
They have studiously avoided getting drawn into what they have called side issues. And at times they have limited Mr. Romney's media appearances, even after the health care decision, which conservatives believe will help motivate voters who now see electing Mr. Romney as the only chance of undoing the law.
But Mr. Romney's strategy of avoiding clashes on issues other than the economy and minimizing his risks — he has no public events scheduled until at least the Fourth of July — is starting to draw criticism even from some fellow Republicans, who are urging him to take more specific stands and set out a more positive agenda.
Mr. Obama, by contrast, has put other big issues in front of the nation on his terms, most notably
But even as they have tried to expand the playing field of issues, Mr. Obama's aides said they would not let up on their efforts to challenge the core of Mr. Romney's campaign, his claim to be a better economic manager.
"We've got to make sure people fully appreciate Mitt Romney is not some safe alternative," said
To drive home that point over the past few weeks, Mr. Obama has gone on an advertising binge, spending more than $12 million during a single week in mid-June, according to a Republican group that monitors advertising spending.
According to the independent media tracking firm CMAG, between early April and late June Mr. Obama spent at least $40 million and Mr. Romney at least $10 million, with outside groups like
The latest advertisement against Mr. Romney has been criticized by independent fact-checkers as incorrectly calling Mr. Romney a corporate raider and unfairly alleging that he "shipped jobs to
Mr. Obama's acute focus on Bain has drawn complaints from Democrats, including high-profile surrogates like Mayor
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And strategists with both parties said independent voters speaking in focus groups had indicated that they had seen the ads or heard their charges and that they had raised questions in their minds about Mr. Romney's experience.
And officials with Mr. Romney's campaign said that whatever questions the advertisements might have raised, they had not shifted opinions away from a general belief among swing voters that Mr. Romney is "the guy to fix the economy" and that he "will actually get the job done," said Neil Newhouse, Mr. Romney's pollster.
More important, they said, Mr. Romney remains in a statistical tie with Mr. Obama at a time when he is still recovering from his rough primary fight and is scrambling to raise money.
"As you start to put together a general election campaign, it's when an incumbent president should be at his strongest," said Stuart Stevens, a senior Romney strategist. "They've been preparing for this moment for three and a half years, and we've been in a primary until very recently."
Even with the political terrain newly settled by the Supreme Court's decision, neither side expects the campaign to move beyond its dogfight status before the party conventions and the debates.
"It's going to be very close," Mr. Plouffe said in an interview. "We're not looking for — and don't expect — seismic movement."Continue reading the main story


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Bobby shared this delightful stop-motion/tilt-shift video from photographer Ryan Killackey about California (mainly Los Angeles and the surrounding area). The project is composed of over 10,000 photographs taken over the course of about a year. INSANITY! But lovely insanity!
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A young south Derry man who was spotted by members of a police patrol throwing fireworks from a car last Halloween, was fined a total of £215 when he appeared at Magherafelt Magistrates Court.
Kevin O'Hagan (20), of Ashleigh Park, Ballyronan, admitted charges of using fireworks without a licence and two counts of throwing fireworks at Hillhead Road, Castledawson, on the evening of October 31 last year.
A prosecuting lawyer told the court that at 11.05pm police in plain clothes spotted a male passenger in the car light and throw a firework across the carriageway.
She said a short time later they observed the passenger again throwing another firework on to the carriageway.
The barrister added that no disruption was caused to traffic and police later spoke to O'Hagan, who made a full admission.
Admitting the offences Stephen Atherton, solicitor, pointed out that O'Hagan had just completed a 100 hours Community Service order in relation to another matter and assured the court there were no other matters pending.
Pleading for leniency, Mr Atherton stressed defendant was an industrious young man who has had problems in the past but had now put them behind him.
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Check out the new trailer for Never Alone; a new snowy puzzler from developer Upper One Games.
Never Alone -- Kisima Inŋitchuŋa in Alaskan Native -- takes stories of the Inupiaq and translates them into a beautifully realized world of puzzles that Nuna and her fox must navigate. According to the developer, Never Alone is a game of survival in the form of a platformer.
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We had ourselves another beautiful year. If you have a few minutes, I invite you to watch my love letter to my people, many of whom are you all, near and far, in my heart and mind often.
When it comes to life and art for life's sake, this quote sums up where I am at, personally, at this time.
"Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."
―Pema Chödrön
I have learned a great many ways to live with intentional spaciousness and in doing so have really eliminated social media in the process. Find me via email, phone or good old fashioned mail. I want to be with my people, in connection and communion, even if that means I don't "see" you much through screens, I feel you all deeply. Now, enjoy, hit the HD button if that's an option (I won't pay the $239 they want for the better HD), share with anyone who might want to see the kids and thank you for your love and support. Always, peace.


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In China, Starbucks' most promising overseas market, the coffee giant is redefining what it means to be family-friendly.
This week CEO Howard Schultz and other top executives pitched the potential of a Starbucks career to a crowd of 1,200 in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou — in an event that included not only staffers, but children, parents and even grandparents.
In China, families play a tremendous role in life and career choices. If Starbucks is to successfully broaden its reach there, it needs to bring them on board.
"It's important that we include those family members in the conversation of who we are as a company," John Culver, head of Starbucks' China and Asia Pacific operations, said in a telephone interview.
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Culver noted that a majority of its so-called "partners" are college graduates — and therefore have many career opportunities.
"You should see the pride our partners have when they brought their family into the hall of our grand journey," said Belinda Wong, Starbucks China president, referring to an exhibit that highlighted the milestones of the company's presence in China.
The Partner Family Forum held Tuesday is the Seattle company's third such event since 2012.
Previous ones were in Beijing and Shanghai; the latest incarnation 1,300 miles to the south in Guangzhou underscores Starbucks' territorial ambitions to be everywhere in that country.
It also shows how a company with its own strong flavor of corporate culture is tweaking it to fit China's worklife customs, which incorporate the family.
New Year's parties in China, for instance, can be tightly organized performances where the CEO acts as a master of ceremonies and families are key, said Xiao-Ping Chen, head of the department of management and organization at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business.
The fact that a big chunk of Starbucks' top brass was there also marks China's growing prominence in the future growth of Starbucks.
Starbucks has been in mainland China since 1999, but recently its expansion has reached a rapid clip. Store count has expanded fourfold in as many years.
Now, in nearly 1,200 stores in some 70 Chinese cities, the company has more than 20,000 employees, about a tenth of Starbucks' global workforce.
China will overtake Canada as Starbucks' second-largest international market this year, Culver said, and the company aims to have 1,500 stores there by 2015.
"We have a long runway for growth here," he said.
With the prospect of 300 to 400 new stores a year and eventually operating thousands of stores, China "does give them a long-term unit growth story," said Jefferies analyst Andy Barish.
China is also one of the company's most profitable markets. The company's China and Asia Pacific segment in fiscal 2013 posted operating margins of about 35 percent, versus 5.5 percent for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 21.5 percent for the Americas.
Sales in existing stores in the China and Asia Pacific region grew 7 percent in the quarter ended in March, versus the same period a year ago, and China grew "even faster than the region overall," Chief Operating Officer Troy Alstead said in an earnings call last April.
China is also one of the countries where Starbucks deploys its loyalty- and gift- card programs, a key strategy to add new customers and keep old ones returning.
Gift cards were introduced in January, in time for the Lunar New Year. The rewards program, launched two years ago, has more than 4 million participating customers, representing 40 percent of the company's business in China.
To be sure, there are challenges, cultural and political, in operating in the world's second-largest economy. China remains in the grip of the Chinese Communist Party, which often uses its power over state media to bully foreign companies.
Starbucks had a taste of that dynamic last October when state-controlled China Central Television ran a piece lambasting the company for the high price of its coffee and its soaring profit margins in Asia compared with other regions.
Culver said Starbucks works in a way that is "very transparent and honest" with customers and other key stakeholders, and that has helped it grow in China.
In the end, foreign companies in China have to roll with the government's punches, said David Reid, a Seattle University professor of global business strategy. "That's part of the nature of the game," he said.
Other challenges include adapting to local tastes and customs. While in the U.S. many costumers order coffee and goodies to go, customers in China tend to linger; therefore, stores are larger, analysts say.
Unlike in the U.S., where Starbucks cafes are busiest in the morning, most of the business in Chinese stores occurs in the afternoon and the evening, Culver said.
Starbucks has invested in localizing its management team, the executive added. It has done the same thing with store design; while a few years ago the look of new China stores was conceived in Seattle, now it's drawn up in a studio in Shanghai, Culver said.
For those who adapt, the rewards are rich. Chains like Pizza Hut and KFC, owned by Kentucky-based Yum Brands, are extremely profitable in China, says Jefferies' Barish.
Starbucks faces increasing competition in China from domestic and other foreign coffee chains. U.K. -based Costa Coffee, owned by Whitbread, has made China the focus of its global expansion. It said in April it had 326 stores there and plans to open 400 more by 2018.
Securing top management talent is another challenge. Lots of foreign companies seeking a piece of the Chinese pie are expanding aggressively — making personnel scarce and driving up salaries, said the UW's Chen.
That makes morale boosters like Starbucks' Partner Family Forum important, even though Starbucks' global recognition brings it a lot of prestige with potential recruits, Chen said.
Another lure: Starbucks' ambitions in China may help bring employees closer to their families.
Traditionally, young graduates flock to places in coastal China such as Guangzhou to "pursue their dreams," said Starbucks' Wong. As the coffee company opens thousands of stores throughout the country, it'll provide a good way for Starbucks employees to "return to their hometown" and apply what they have learned, she said.
Starbucks China's embrace of workers' families is being replicated in the U.S. on a smaller scale. Starbucks announced late Wednesday plans for three similar meetings this month, including one June 20 in Seattle. The others will be in New York and Washington D.C.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
computer time
Since the little man will not leave my laptop computer alone, I decided to let him use it while I was cooking lunch today. I let him watch his favorite ABC song on Youtube and he was just tickled to sit in my computer chair without me telling him to get down. He even used the mouse which I unplugged because who knows what he will do with the computer with it plugged in. He had a good time saying the letters while trying to sing at the same time. He pretty much left the computer alone after that session. I might do this often just so he will not mess with my computer and let me use it without him pestering me. Well, I now know what to do. Hopefully he will not ask for more time next time. He did look like a big boy sitting in my computer chair while watching the video. My boy is growing up and before long he will be asking for his own computer.
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The New Adventures of Superman
on April 29, 2007 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Comics
Yeah, its bit late… Maybe a lot late. I've had this done for a while but never got around to posting it here. The message here is… suicide is quite humorous and all you impressionable kids should try it


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Externally Obvious, Internally Mysterious • Minakshi Choudhary
Brett Rawson
When my phone rang and I heard the voice of my community manager on the other side, I was shocked. There was an inland letter waiting to be received by me: that three-fold piece of paper, externally obvious, internally mysterious.
While I dressed up and on the way to post office, all the neurons of my brain were ringing bells to deafen me with thoughts pouring in and pouring out. Mostly thinking, what might have provoked someone to write a letter to me in this world of emails and phones? Turning the form section of that envelope made me more nervous. My hands were frozen with sweat, unable to unglue the piece of paper.
The letter was from my nephew studying in fourth grade in a fully residential school. Between reading the from address and ungluing the letter, I came to know how fast our brain processes and how far it can travel within seconds.
As soon as I opened it, I was all tears seeing this sweet little sender just wanting me to know his address as he left to boarding school. He was under impression that I hadn't written to him because I didn't know his address. This innocence touched me to the core, and at that moment, I wished to hug my sweet little nephew and tell him how we elders are so busy solving the pain of ourselves created by ourselves.
Now, when that sweet little boy is grown up and busy finishing his degrees, I believe he might have forgotten about this episode of his life. We all fall into this trap of forgetting, though our best friend in the form of black and white text always makes our lives colourful with varied emotion rewinded and reversed on timelines.


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The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University holds the Irwin Edman papers, [ca 1930]-1954 (Finding Aid).
There are two Sylvia Plath items in this collection. I know what you are thinking: Who was Irwin Edman? The short answer is that Edman (1896-1954) was Professor of philosophy at Columbia University. The items in the collection are a letter co-authored by Plath and Gamaliel Bradford Senior High School classmate Jeanne Woods dated 15 March 1949 and his reply, dated 28 March 1949.
In their 15 March letter, Plath and Woods respond to Edman's March 1949 article "A Reasonable Life in a Mad World" from the Atlantic Monthly (pages 60-62). The letter is a mixture of sanctimoniousness with aspects Christian ideology. Plath at the time of this letter was a junior in High School and was writing on behalf of her English 31 class which was under the tutelage of Wilbury Crockett. The authors of the letter credit Edman with writing logically on the subject but find fault and inadequacy with his resolutions. They write to challenge his conclusions and hope for an honest evaluation of them. Acknowledging the benefits of nature, they argue that there are limitations on man that prohibit him from creating order in civilization. A human's mind is not enough to see everything in the universe. Edman advocates stoicism, pleasure principle, and hope but Plath and Woods ask about the role of spiritualism (seeking guidance from outside of one's self, from above).
Edman's response from 28 March 1949 is a dismissive missive of which the component parts are sexist, ageist, and patronization. Edman compliments his critics saying that the future of the country is promising because high school students are tackling the subject of his philosophic essay. He writes that if he were teaching the class they would undoubtedly discuss the matter, but that in the shape of correspondence, such a detailed and time-consuming venture that would take a year to talk about sufficiently is not reasonable. Edman writes that "a group of girls about sixteen years old" can hardly hope to solve simply philosophical issues that have been troubling higher minds for about two thousand years. He calls their arguments "traditional beliefs" and encourages them to reconsider their positions after they reach college.
Thanks are due to Tara Craig at Columbia for providing copies of these documents.
Sometimes an archival collection can consist of just one or two items. This collection is a perfect example as it is just one letter from Plath, and a carbon copy reply to her. You can see more libraries that hold Plath materials, both large and small, on the Archival Materials page of my website for Sylvia Plath, A celebration, this is.
All links accessed 18 November 2013.
13 December 2013
Sylvia Plath Collections: Irwin Edman papers at Columbia
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Publications & Acknowledgements
- BBC Four.A Poet's Guide to Britain: Sylvia Plath. London: BBC Four, 2009. (Acknowledged in)
- Biography: Sylvia Plath. New York: A & E Television Networks, 2005. (Photographs used)
- Connell, Elaine. Sylvia Plath: Killing the angel in the house. 2d ed. Hebden Bridge: Pennine Pens, 1998. (Acknowledged in)
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives." Plath Profiles 2. Summer 2009: 183-208.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives, Redux." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 232-246.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 3." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 119-138.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 4: Looking for New England." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012: 11-56.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past." Plath Profiles 6. Summer 2013: 27-62.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Oxford: Fonthill, 2017.
- Death Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets. New York: Poets.org. (Photographs used)
- Doel, Irralie, Lena Friesen and Peter K. Steinberg. "An Unacknowledged Publication by Sylvia Plath." Notes & Queries 56:3. September 2009: 428-430.
- Elements of Literature, Third Course. Austin, Tex. : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2009. (Photograph used)
- Gill, Jo. "Sylvia Plath in the South West." University of Exeter Centre for South West Writing, 2008. (Photograph used)
- Helle, Anita Plath. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. (Photographs used, acknowledged in)
- Helle, Anita. "Lessons from the Archive: Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Memory". Feminist Studies 31:3. Fall 2005: 631-652.. (Acknowledged in)
- Holden, Constance. "Sad Poets' Society." Science Magazine. 27 July 2008. (Photograph used)
- Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, Motion Picture. Directed by Rachel Talbot. Brookline (Mass.): Jewish Women's Archive, 2007. (Photograph used)
- Plath, Sylvia, and Karen V. Kukil. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. New York: Anchor Books, 2000. (Acknowledged in)
- Plath, Sylvia, and Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (eds.). The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1, 1940-1956. London: Faber, 2017.
- Plath, Sylvia, and Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (eds.). The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2, 1956-1963. London: Faber, 2018.
- Plath, Sylvia. Glassklokken. Oslo: De norske Bokklubbene, 2004. (Photograph used on cover)
- Reiff, Raychel Haugrud. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems (Writers and Their Works). Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, 2008.. (Images provided)
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'A Fetish: Somehow': A Sylvia Plath Bookmark." Court Green 13. 2017.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'I Should Be Loving This': Sylvia Plath's 'The Perfect Place' and The Bell Jar." Plath Profiles 1. Summer 2008: 253-262.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'They Had to Call and Call': The Search for Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 106-132.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "A Perfectly Beautiful Time: Sylvia Plath at Camp Helen Storrow." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 149-166.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Proof of Plath." Fine Books & Collections 9:2. Spring 2011: 11-12.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Sylvia Plath." The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath. London: British Library, 2010.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Textual Variations in The Bell Jar Publications." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "The Persistence of Plath." Fine Books & Collections. Autumn 2017: 24-29
- Steinberg, Peter K. "This is a Celebration: A Festschrift for The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3 Supplement. Fall 2010: 3-14.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Writing Life" [Introduction]. Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning. Stroud, Eng.: Fonthill Media, 2014.
- Steinberg, Peter K. Sylvia Plath (Great Writers). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
- "Banking on his passion for Plath" by Melissa Davis Haller. UMW Today. Spring 2005.
- "Sylvia Plath's Three Women to be staged in London" by Alison Flood. The Guardian. 3 December 2008.
- "FBI files on Sylvia Plath's father shed new light on poet" by Dalya Alberge. The Guardian. 17 August 2012.
- "There Are Almost No Obituaries for Sylvia Plath" by Ashley Fetters. The Atlantic. 11 February 2013.


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The final decision in favor of the Norton Simon Museum represents a landmark ending to a complicated lawsuit that lasted over a decade.
Lucas Cranach, the Elder/ the Younger
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Lucas Cranach, the Elder
Wikipedia article "Lucas Cranach the Elder".
From the Fringe | 18.02.2008
Naked "Venus" Gets Free Ride in London
Venus has gone nude for more than 450 years. And prudish public officials could not convince her to cover up on the London Underground.
Topless would've been okay, officials for Transport of London said. But the poster for an upcoming Lucas Cranach the Elder exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London went too far. The German master's "Venus Standing in a Landscape" depicts an unclothed, golden-haired woman cocking her hips behind a transparent veil.
Transport officials demanded the bottom half of the picture be cropped before it could go up in the London Underground. The advertisement was originally nixed for going against a rule prohibiting pictures which depict "men, women or children in a sexual manner, or display nude or semi-nude figures in an overtly sexual context."
Museum officials expressed shock that the "Venus" painting, completed in 1532, could be seen as problematic.
"We wouldn't have put a poster design forward if we thought it was offensive," academy spokeswoman Jennifer Francis said.
Decision reversed
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: She does have a veil
John Whittingdale, an influential legislator, described the original ban as "absolutely bonkers."
On Saturday, Feb. 16 transportation officials admitted they had made a mistake and reversed their decision.
The exhibition on the German artist's work is scheduled to open March 8 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. "Venus" is one of 70 works of Lucas Cranach the Elder which will be displayed in London.