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Student Procedures: Foreign Language Approval Plan Processing
- Opening Foreign-Language Approval Plan Shipments
- Opening Boxes, Assembling Invoice Copies, and Checking off Titles:
- If There is Something Wrong with the Shipment:
- Distributing Invoices and Shelving Books:
- If the Review Shelves are Full:
- Clean-Up:
- Foreign Approval Plan Processor List:
(Note:Hogarth and the LCCAP Africana approval plans follow different unpacking procedures--please see below.)
These shipments are located in the foreign approval plan delivery area. Try to start by unpacking the shipments which been in the delivery area for the longest period of time. Ask the student supervisor if you need assistance in identifying the oldest shipments.
Opening Boxes, Assembling Invoice Copies, and Checking off Titles:
Always open shipments one box at a time. (Important: Be sure to keep the outer mailing label from a box until you are certain that the contents of the box correctly match the accompanying invoice.) The invoice for each box can be found either in a marked envelope or inserted inside one of the books.
We need to keep the complete original invoice as well as one additional copy. If the vendor has sent only the original invoice, you will need to make one photocopy of it. If the vendor has sent the original invoice and one copy, nothing more is needed unless the student supervisor has indicated differently. If the vendor has sent more than two sets of invoice copies in addition to the original, the extra copies may be discarded.
Note: If the invoice is longer than one page, please collate and staple the pages for both the original invoice and both sets of copies so that you have the complete original invoice, collated and stapled, as well as one complete copy that has been collated and stapled.
On the original invoice, check the books in the box against the titles listed, placing a check mark to the left of each title received. If the contents of the box correctly match the invoice entries, write "all received," your initials, and today's date at the top the original invoice as well as at the top of both of the copy.
If There is Something Wrong with the Shipment:
If you discover a problem with the shipment (e.g., missing books, wrong books sent, etc.), rubber band the books together with all copies of the invoice as well as the mailing label you've been saving, and bring the shipment to the student supervisor. If the student supervisor is away, leave the stack of books with a note explaining the problem on his or her desk, and move on to another box.
Distributing Invoices and Shelving Books:
If the books in the shipment correctly match the titles on the invoice, gather the books together into a stack and place the copy of the invoice in the top book so that it can be clearly seen. The original invoice should be taken to the student supervisor.
Place the books on the review shelves designated for the approval plan shipment which you're opening. Individual shipments should be separated with book ends or banded together with pink ties. Label the review shelves with a note indicating today's date. Please Scotch tape the note to the shelf just below the first book. If you fill more than one shelf with books, label each shelf you use in a similar fashion. Note: Never divide an individual shipment beyond its designated area. If a shipment is too large to fit in the available space talk to the student supervisor. They need to know and may also need to inform the appropriate bibliographer.
If the Review Shelves are Full:
If the shelves for your approval plan are full, talk to the student supervisor. He or she can locate alternate locations for books. If the student supervsor is away, leave a note on his or her desk (or a truck) along with the stack of books that you were unable to shelve.
Take packing trash to the mail room (boxes go to the box pile, styrofoam packing peanuts go to the round bin, and plastic bubble wrap and usable bubble wrap envelopes have their own bins). Please do not overfill the recycling bins. If necessary, white newsprint can go in the gray bin for newspapers on the back dock. Plastic, metal, brown paper and corrugated cardboard can be placed in the back dumpster bins in the trashroom on the back dock. The backdock trashroom lights are generally on motion detectors, but have a switch if someone has accidentally turned them off. Return the carton opener to the desk. Clean up your work area.
Please note: Please be sure to arrange your work shift to allow for enough time to finish opening any given box all the way through. Don't start in on a new box if you don't think you will have enough time to get it completely finished. Move on to another task instead. Ask the student supervisor if you need direction.
The backdock door cannot be open for more than 15 minutes at a time after 3:30.
Foreign Approval Plan Processor List
(invoices go to the student supervisor)
Aux Amateurs de Livres approval plan (#1087) -- Nicole
Bach (Susan) approval plan (#1092) -- Nicole
Books from Mexico approval plan (#1090) -- Nicole
Clarke's Bookshop approval plan (#1102) -- Nicole
Eastview - Russian approval plan (#1105) -- Nicole
Eastview - Statistical approval plan (#1106) -- Nicole
Eastview - Baltic approval plan (#1107) -- Nicole
Harrassowitz (Otto) approval plan (#1059) -- Loretta
+ Hogarth Representation approval plan (#1082) -- Loretta
Jerusalem Books approval plan (#1115) -- Lark
Kubon & Sagner approval plan (#1065) -- Nicole
Kubon & Sagner approval plan (#1066) -- Nicole
Latin American Book Store approval plan (#1093) -- Nicole
Latin American Book Store approval plan (#1096) -- Nicole
Latin American Book Store approval plan (#1100) -- Nicole
++ LCCAP Africana Blanket Plan from Library of Congress -- Loretta
Libros Andinos approval plan (#1094) -- Nicole
Puvill Libros approval plan (#1078) -- Loretta
Retta approval plan (#1097) -- Nicole
Rittenhouse approval plan (#1085) -- Lark
Schuler's Books approval plan (#1116) -- Lark
Touzot approval plan (#1076) -- Nicole
Worldwide Books approval plan (#1095) -- Lark
+ Hogarth approval plan follows a slightly different unpacking procedure from the other plans. The books do not go onto a review shelf but go onto an empty book truck instead (please ask the student supervisor if you need help finding an empty book truck). Each shipment should be placed on a different shelf of the truck with its corresponding invoice copy. They should be laid flat with the invoice on top of it leaving at least half the shelf empty as a work space for the bibliographers. The truck should then be delivered to main aisle area where the Yankee firm orders are parked, but on the end of the wall closest to the double doors to the main library. The original invoice goes to the student supervisor and the corresponding copy can stay with the books, according to the normal procedure.
++ LCCAP Africana shipments are shipped in large quantities and have many boxes to an invoice. Carefully open each box and try to locate the invoice. Sort and separate the boxes to go with their corresponding invoice. Once this step has been done, it is easier to sort the titles into invoice order.
Look at the top of the invoice and determine if you have a Serial shipment or a Monographic shipment. Serial items get sorted into invoice order, checked off, laid flat and taken directly to the processor. Monographic items are stood up, tattle taped and left for the bibliographers to see before delivering to the processor.
In some cases, it is difficult to verify the titles due to the language. Carefully check off all items that you can read or transliterate. The rest may be done by count. Missing items occur a little more frequently from this vendor. Circle the item that is missing and let the student supervisor know.
Tattle Tape all books except the Hogarth approval plan and LCCAP serials.


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Federal Judge Grants Relief In Part, Requires Parish to Provide Essential Utilities to Developer
Posted on 20. Jun, 2011 by admin
On June 20, 2011, Federal Judge Helen Berrigan issued an order partially granting the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center's (GNOFHAC) and Provident Realty Advisors latest motion to hold St. Bernard Parish in contempt of court. The order requires St. Bernard Parish to allow Entergy to release electricity to developer Provident Realty Advisors' sites, and ordered defendant St. Bernard Parish to provide water taps to the four development sites in question. In the order, Judge Berrigan cited the need for electricity at the sites in order to make it possible for Provident to provide adequate security in the face of recent acts of racist graffiti. Judge Berrigan also noted the need for water on site for safety reasons. Finally, in the order Judge Berrigan calls on expert Dr. Anthony Lamanna to provide additional assistance to the court in making decisions still unresolved regarding the Parish's claims about on site construction issues.
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Edinburgh Fringe Exhibition celebrates Livingstone's Fellow Explorers
Two women, descendants of Livingstone's fellow explorers, are celebrating Livingstone's bicentenary with their exhibition, Livingstone's Africa, which runs from 13-18 August 2013 at the Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone's Land (off the Royal Mile).
Specialising in African tourism, Claire Foottit and Mary-Anne Bartlett were drawn together by a shared connection with the missionary explorer, Dr David Livingstone.
Travel writer and photographer, Claire Foottit, is the great great great niece of William Cotton Oswell, the man who launched Livingstone as an explorer, on his first expedition to Lake Ngami in Bechuanland (now Botswana) in 1849.
Artist and safari-operator, Mary-Anne Bartlett (director of Art Safari), is the great great great granddaughter of Sir John Kirk, doctor and naturalist on the Zambesi Expedition (1858-1864) in Nyasaland (now Malawi), who later became the British Consul in Zanzibar.
"In the bicentenary year of Livingstone's birth this exhibition of paintings and photography is our personal celebration of our forebears who played an important role in Livingstone's achievements," says Claire Foottit.
"We have both been inspired by our family links with Africa, by David Livingstone and by the many people we meet in Africa who continue to forge for development, maintain strong family links and conserve a unique way of life which is often integrated with Africa's natural wonders of wildlife and landscape," says Mary-Anne Bartlett.
From Zambia to Zanzibar, Malawi to Mozambique, Botswana and beyond, this exhibition of vibrant photographs and enchanting watercolours of people, wildlife and landscapes encapsulates the essence of Africa today, yet also connects with a world of the past.
Further information:
- Livingstone's Africa exhibition is on at the Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone's Land, 477b Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2NT (near the Royal Mile) from Tuesday 13 to Sunday 18th August, from 10am to 7pm daily.
- Claire Foottit and Mary-Anne Bartlett will both be present at the exhibition venue.
- Mary-Anne Bartlett will be running a sketching workshop at Edinburgh Zoo on Friday 16th August, £35, bookings at firstname.lastname@example.com or ring 01394 382235.
- Claire Foottit will run a street photography workshop in Edinburgh on Thursday 15th August, £35; to book contact firstname.lastname@example.com or ring 0131 669 3335.
- Claire Foottit has worked as a travel writer and photographer specialising in African tourism and conservation for over 20 years. Her work has been published by the national press and she's also written and contributed to Bradt and Insight Travel guides. http://www.foottitbydesign.com blog: http://safarihorizons.wordpress.com
- Mary-Anne Bartlett is an artist and tour operator whose heart is in Africa. She paints in watercolour, writes for travel and art publications (author of Bradt Guide to Malawi) and teaches the art of sketching wildlife and landscape when she's out on safari. Her company Art Safari was set up to run painting holidays in the African bush; the company has now spread worldwide, www.artsafari.co.uk and has a subsidiary bespoke travel wing called Close Encounters Africa, www.closeencountersafrica.com
- Livingstone's Africa is part of David Livingstone 200, a series of events celebrating the Bi-Centenary of David Livingstone. www.davidlivingstone200.org
- Part of the exhibition will continue to Malawi where Livingstone and Kirk spent much of their time during the Zambesi Expeditions. It will be on exhibition in one of Malawi's oldest buildings at La Caverna Gallery, Mandala, Blantyre in October.


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Breville Die-Cast 4-Slice Smart Toaster
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- Summary
Breville's high-tech electronic toaster anticipates your every preference, supplementing five precise toasting levels with a special "a bit more" function that provides a touch of extra browning at the end of the cycle.
- Select from five precise browning settings.
- Five push-button settings: Toast/Cancel, Lift & Look, Bagel, Defrost and A Bit More.
- Choose the "a bit more" setting once initial toasting is complete, and the bread will automatically lower to continue toasting.
- Extra-wide slots accommodate bread, bagels and pastries.
- Lift-and-look feature allows midcycle adjustments.
- Audible signal indicates when toasting is complete.
- Includes a slide-out crumb tray for easy cleanup.
- 4-slice model has independent controls for each pair of slots.
- Sturdy die-cast aluminum construction with brushed-steel finish.
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- Model #BTA840XL
- Die-cast aluminum with brushed-stainless-steel finish.
- 4-slice: 11 1/2" x 10 1/4" x 7 1/2" high; 13 lb.; 1800W.
- This product is intended for use in the United States and Canada and is built to United States electrical standards.
- Designed and engineered in Australia, Made in China.
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- Do not operate toaster without crumb tray in place.
- Wipe housing with damp cloth and dry thoroughly.
- Clean out crumb tray regularly.
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a series of sound sculptures
various plants, wood, conductive thread, earth magnets, amplifiers, batteries, iPod
In Spring of 2015, I was granted a residency at Leland Iron Works in Oregon City, Oregon. I spent my time there exploring the intersection of nature and technology by combining various natural materials found on site with new high tech materials, such as conductive embroidery threads and miniature circuits, to make functioning electronic speakers. Building technology in the field, making such things as 'leaf speakers' and 'seed speakers', amplifying the sounds of nature, and introducing compositions as interpretations of the landscape, my aim was to find out what natural materials make good membranes for moving air and translating digital audio files into airwaves that can be heard. This experimentation resulted in small scale, temporary, site-specific sound installations at Leland Iron Works and a subsequent series of sound sculptures.


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Social q's: How to Survive the Quirks, Quandaries, and Quagmires of Today (Paperback)
A modern comedy of manners that shows what passes for good behavior today, from the New York Times "Social Q's" columnist Philip Galanes. A cornerstone of The New York Times's Styles section, Philip Galanes confronts today's most awkward and pressing questions with laugh-out-loud dish and practical wisdom. Not only about the new ways to thank a friend for throwing you a bridal shower, or how to deal with a noisy neighbor, but also how to navigate a new age crowded with Tweets, twits, OMGs, and WTFs, Social Q's is a knockout book that will guide you swiftly through the treacherous terrain of modern etiquette--and keep you laughing for days.
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"SOCIAL Q'S by Philip Galanes is the one book you need to help guide you through some of life's toughest social challenges! It's smart, funny, and incredibly practical." —Peter Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Lighten Up and It's All Too Much
"Philip knows his way around an awkward situation—but enough about us!" —Kathie Lee & Hoda
"I love Philip Galanes' New York Times column! And the book is a must! Social Q's is a beacon of light in the foggy haze of today's world." —Jessica Seinfeld
"Consider SOCIAL Q's your funny, wise and indispensable guide for honing, improving and finessing YOU—your own special creation!"—George Wayne, contributing editor, Vanity Fair
"Zesty, zingy, zippy, zany. Everything I want to say about the funny and very talented Philip Galanes starts with the letter z. He and SOCIAL Q'S are truly zonderful."—Henry Alford, humorist and author of How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still On This Earth)
"Life in the 21st century is one rude awakening after another. But now we have Philip Galanes' SOCIAL Q'S to the rescue—very smart, very funny advice for sidestepping any etiquette A-bomb."—Kendall Farr, author of The Pocket Stylist and Style Evolution
"Philip Galanes has made a name for himself as a weekly columnist doling out important advice on social etiquette and now has collected all this wisdom in one terrific book called Social Q's. But all this leaves me to wonder what an expert on social etiquette was thinking when he asked a busy woman in the throes of redecorating her apartment to take valuable time away from her rabbit to write a book blurb?"—Amy Sedaris
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I'm finding it very difficult to concentrate with a houseful today, so here are some quick-and-unrelated things you may have missed – stick with it, I know there are some things below which will inspire you:
"Prime Minister, how much more clearly do we have to speak, before you understand us?"
Wait for the reading of Dr. Seuss at the end.
What we're seeing in England is that huge government spending, high taxation and socialist policies don't work. Why are we bringing them here?
Could British Christians be sued for having Crucifixes in their homes?
Obama in Cairo: David P. Goldman aka Spengler posts the most thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of the Cairo speech I have yet read.
Obama's embrace of a declining culture and his abandonment of America's principal ally in the Middle East are gestures without precedent in American history. The consequences are incalculable; the only certainty is that the outcome will be very different than the one for which the president hopes. In the meantime, American Jews have the opportunity to consider how easily manipulated they were, and how complacent in their exercise of influence. Obama won them over with token gestures, including a Passover Seder at the White House. But he has thrown them under the bus on the only real issue of substance for Jews, namely the security of the state of Israel.
Don't miss it.
Lorie Byrd: Taking no prisoners with The Rush Standard. She reminds the press, who are shocked, shocked, at the Rhetoric of Rush, that the Orations of Olbermann and others have been out-of-control for a while:
Olbermann said President Bush was accomplishing what Bin Laden was trying to do to America? That sounds pretty close to what Rush Limbaugh said. In fact, it is almost indistinguishable.
Yes, it's partisan, but it's also true, and you'll want to read it all.
Also partisan and very true: Feminism has long-ceased being about advancing the cause of women. Melissa Clouthier looks at how political expediency defines which women are championed, and which can be fantasy-raped or oppressed without so much as a raised eyebrow. Can you guess which women are which?
The Religious Left: Engaging in some unusual bickering. It seems, ultimately, to be all about the Benjamins.
Speaking of religion and the left: When Bush mentioned religion, it was "scary" but Obama talks about Jesus more than Bush did, and it worries the left and the press? Not at all. The Atheists are still comfortable and keeping the faith with him. Just saying.
George Tiller: Patrick O' Hannigan on George Tiller's Murder and how it is resonating with the "Abortion is a blessing" crowd. Also, a Lutheran explains Tiller's church connections in ways that have not previously been spelled out, to my knowledge. I found it very interesting. I wonder what Bonheoffer would have thought of him?Orthodox Liturgical Worship: A Baptist Minister says it's not for Lightweights!:
Saint Anthony the Great isn't just old school. It's "styli and wax tablets" old school. We arrived ten minutes early for worship and the room was already filled with people lighting candles and praying. There was one greeter. I said, "We don't know what to do." She handed me a liturgy book and waved us inside.
Pews? We don't need no stinking pews! Providing seats for worshipers is SO 14th century. Gorgeous Byzantine art, commissioned from a famous artist in Bulgaria. Fully robed priests with censors (those swinging incense thingies). Long, complex readings and chants that went on and on and on. And every one of them packed full of complex, theological ideas. It was like they were ripping raw chunks of theology out of ancient creeds and throwing them by the handfuls into the congregation. And just to make sure it wasn't too easy for us, everything was read in a monotone voice and at the speed of an auctioneer.
…I LOVED IT. Loved it loved it loved it loved it loved it.
In a day when user-friendly is the byword of everything from churches to software, here was worship that asked something of me. No, DEMANDED something of me.
Behold, something greater than yourself.
A Dying Priest: Finds a teachable moment. A must read, via Deacon Greg
Speaking of Deathbeds: "tell me about the Trinity"
ACLU: America, tear down those crosses!
What Hath Toni Morrison wrought?: The inevitable line and the debatable.
Disproving the narrative that Christians "hate science": The Vatican visits the Big-Bang Machine and says, "The Church never fears the truth of science, because we are convinced that all truth comes from God."
Previewing Obamacare: Look to the North! Also, Merkel 1 – Obama 0
Catholic Health Care Networks: is this one complicit in abortions?
Do people still watch this bitter, unfunny misogynist?
Twitter: Changing how we live?. You can follow me on Twitter, btw, here. I didn't think I'd like it. But when you have an opinion on everything, as I do, it's too addictive.
Unemployment: Yid with a Lid says The Big O Owns It.
Bank Stress Tests: Unncessary sequels
Hmmm…are we really protecting the wolf at the door? Is Obama Ozymandias? Hmmmm….
Not a big Hobbit Fan, but: This house is very cool, and I'd live in it.


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I have clients various in the western US with projects that have ranged throughout at least 12 states including Texas, Oregon, Washington, California and Wisconsin. These projects include architectural design work, construction document drafting and project management for buildings ranging from custom homes to elderly care facilities. In addition I have done solar array drawings, life safety drawings, plumbing design and drafting, electrical plans and design, lighting layouts, fixture layouts, and various other types of architectural related drafting.
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Episode #104 (Syndicated Episode #106 & #107)
TV: In two parts.
VCR: Not attached to any other episode.
DVD: Attached to "Man In The Blue Suit", "Lunch Box" & "Lost Baby." On the Best of Lost Episodes, it is attached to Stand-In For Murder (55 version), Principle of The Thing, A Little Man Who Wasnt There & Songwriters. On the Restored Lost Episodes DVD Box Set, it is attached to Peacemaker, The Adoption, Stars Over Flatbush & One Big Happy Family.
Air Date: 4/16/55
"A Weighty Problem":
The reason why this episode is not attached to any episode on VHS is because MPI believed the false information from The Honeymooners Lost Episodes book that stated that this episode is 48 minutes long. That is not the case. Episodes that haven't been released like the 1957 Trip to Europe episodes are said to have run longer. Thankfully, if you get this episode on DVD, you will get more episodes.
Trixie is helping Alice do some dress work. Ed Norton comes in and helps out himself. He also fixes Alice's leaky kitchen faucet and says to Alice to turn that thing down or otherwise they will get a face full. The girls leave. Ralph comes home all ticked off. The company inspector came on the bus. Ralph: "What do you think that chowder head had the gall to say to me? He said: 'Kramden, this is a warning. You are getting too fat to drive a bus. If you get any fatter, you wouldn't be able to get behind the wheel of a bus.' I was so mad; I wanted to throw him off." Ed: "I don't blame you Ralph. Why didn't you?" Ralph: "I couldn't squeeze out from behind the wheel." Gee, shouldn't that tell Ralph that he is too fat? Ralph has a book that says how much you should weigh at a certain height. Ed uses Alice's measuring tape to measure Ralph. The only trouble is that the tape is off by an inch but Ed and Ralph doesnt know it. Ed measures Ralph. Ralph is 5'11 and since Ralph only weighs 246, he isn't overweight. Ed leaves.
Ralph goes over to the kitchen faucet which is still upside-down and gets a face full of water. Alice comes in and warns him to turn the faucet right side up before using it. Ralph: "Thanks a load." Ralph tells what happened with the company inspector and Alice assumes that the company inspector told Ralph he was too fat to drive a bus. Ralph: "How did you know I was overweight?" Ralph mentions that for his weight, he is four pounds underweight and that it says so in the chart. Alice: "You must have been looking at a chart for a hippo." Ha! Ralph is off to a Raccoon dinner without his jacket saying that he doesn't need it. Alice doesn't buy it and says that Ralph won't put it on because he's too fat. Ralph puts it on in the bedroom and leaves and as he leaves, you can see the back is ripped in half. Another inclination that says that Ralph is too fat.
At the Raccoon meeting, everyone is so sick of eating food while Ralph comes in eating another turkey (according to the cooks, he had already eaten everything in sight.) He goes over to them and asks for more. Cook: "We don't have anything more to throw away." Ralph says that all of us should get more food. See, everyone else is full but Ralph is the only one who's hungry. Ralph goes into the kitchen to get some cigars. He goes out the "In" door. Ed goes to the kitchen and tries to go out the "Out" door and accidently hits Ralph. Ralph and Ed then have a funny conversation about what door Ed should have used to go out into the kitchen which in the middle of it, Ralph says that a five-year-old is smarter than Ed. Gee, that was nice...NOT! The meeting starts and Ralph gives a treasury report. He states that the Raccoons have a deficit of $489. Immediately after Ed gives is foolish idea to cut the dues in half to cut the deficit in half, Ralph makes a motion that the meeting should be adjourned. Meeting adjourned! Some meeting. It's like: "What are you going to do about the deficit Ralph?" one of the Raccoons bets Ralph that he's not six feet tall, and it turns out he's right--Ralph's only 5 feet 11 inches! A five-foot-eleven bus driver is supposed to weight 238 pounds, and Ralph weighed 246--before the banquet. If Ralph doesn't lose eight pounds before the physical he's supposed to take, he could lose his job. This is the end of the first half.
When this episode is shown on TV in two-parts, after the first half, they show us what is going to happen in the second half. That is something you don't see with other two part episodes. Also, when I originally recorded part 2 of this episode from WPIX in 1996, I thought it was a half-hour show since my VCR only picked up the last few minutes of the recap in part two. I later learned that there was more to this episode.
Ralph immediately goes on a diet. Two days before Ralph's physical at home, Alice is eating food so fast that Trixie is getting concerned. Alice: "The sight of food drives Ralph crazy." Mrs. Manicotti comes by and asks if she could hide a birthday cake for her husband for a surprise and asks if Ralph and Alice can come. Alice says yes but Ralph can't come because with all the food and his diet, it will be too tempting. Mrs. Manicotti says that she will be cooking veal cottichitore (sp?) tonight and that the smell will go outside. She leaves. Ralph comes home and when he hears Trixie saying that she has to go home because she has things to do, he accuses her of mentioning food. She leaves. Ralph is going crazy by not getting any substantial amount of food. He opens the window and when he smells Mrs. Manicotti's food, he says that the whole building is against him. He calms down and Alice gives him a fork and a knife with his supper which consists of two celery sticks. Ralph (yells): "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT THAT WAS MY SUPPER? WHAT ARE THESE THINGS (the fork and knife) FOR, TO COMMIT SUICIDE WITH?" Ralph comes down and says that tomorrow, he isnt going home. He's going straight from his job to the gym and he's going to stay there until 10 or 11 and work out and not come home until he's under the weight limit. Almost like me in a way except that I am not fat.
Ed comes down as Alice leaves and says that some people with a reducing machine will come by tonight. He and Ralph play a crossword puzzle which only makes it worse when it mentions things that relate to food. The people with the reducing machine come and after Ralph is rapped in, the machine is turned on. Ralph is having a lot of trouble so he yells for Norton as things from the set start to fall because of the reducing machine.
The night before the physical, the girls are in the Kramden home. Alice puts the cake away. Ed Norton comes up to fix the pipe. He has a late shift tonight in the sewer. The girls leave. Ralph comes home early. He didn't have the strength to exercise so he got on the scale and it said: "238 and 3 quarter pounds." He's a quarter of a pound underweight. Gee, Ralph not having the strength to work out is such a surprise...NOT! Another question: Shouldn't it strike Ralph that the scale he used might be off balance since it said: "238 and 3 quarter pounds" and the scale at the physical could say something different? Ralph goes to the fridge and sees the food for the party. He wants it but Ed won't let him have it. He appreciated Ed's help as Ed leaves. But when Ralph discovers the cake, some weird music plays and Ralph snaps. He takes the food just as the girls arrive. Ralph (yells): "I'M DESPERATE ALICE! STAND BACK!" He goes into the bedroom. Alice retrieves the smashed cake and food. Trixie and Mrs. Manicotti leave. Alice says that since the food was being in here was her idea and that she didn't know Ralph was going to be home early, it was her fault. Alice goes to bed, but Ralph wants to have one small feast, he likes the icing and cake that were on his fingers as the weird music plays again and the episode ends without any footage of Ralph getting his physical.
Episode #105 (Syndicated Episode #70)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Anniversary Gift."
DVD: Attached to "Anniversary Gift", "Pickles" & "This Is Your Life." On the Restored Lost Episodes DVD Box Set, it is attached to Principal of The Thing, Songs & Witty Sayings, Letter To The Boss (55 version), Stand-In For Murder (55 version), Double Anniversary Party, The Check-Up & Forgot To Register.
Color Episode Title: "Follow The Boys."
Lost Episode Title: "Boys & Girls Together."
Air Date: 4/23/55
"Boys & Girls Together":
When I recorded this episode in 1997, I really thought it was a two-parter, but I was proved wrong. Also, you want to talk about edits, nearly half this episode is cut when it is shown on TV.
Alice is planning to go out to dinner with Ralph. Ralph has other plans. He and Ed are bowling for The Hurricanes. If they win this "very important" game, the team will tie another team for eighth place. Alice is upset. Another family (the Fallons) move in. Ralph welcomes Mr. Fallon by inviting him to join him and Norton for pool, bowling, and lodge meetings, but Fallon is busy all the nights Ralph and Norton go out together--he spends all those nights with his wife. Later, Trixie tells Alice that she read in a magazine that the reason men spend so much time apart from their wives is because the wives let themselves go and allow their marriages to become dull and predictable. The girls make a pact to bring romance back to Chauncey Street.
This is the first scene that you will see on TV. The next day, Alice is all dressed up and turns of the lights, lights a candle and welcomes Ralph. Ralph: "So you forgot to pay the electric bill, huh?" That is funny. Alice says that with the lights off and a candle lit, it is romantic. Ralph: "Who do you think we are, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds?" Alice tries to do more romantic things for Ralph like hugs and kisses, a bushel of compliments, a roast-beef dinner, and romantic music, but Ralph doesn't change. Alice dances and offers Ralph to dance with her. He doesn't and says to Alice a line that would be repeated in "Mama Loves Mambo": "You want to wiggle? Wiggle over to the stove and get my supper." Soon each is pouring out fourteen years of frustration. Alice is complaining about him playing Skee-Ball tournaments. Gee, a Skee-Ball tournament. I didn't know that they EVER existed. Ralph: "It's the money that I won in the Skee-Ball tournaments that practically furnished this whole apartment. It's the prizes that I won in the pie-eating contest that got you that dress. What do I have to show for it?" (yells): "DON'T YOU DARE SAY IT!"
Then Alice lays down the law: Ralph will be allowed out alone one night a week; any other night he goes out he has to take her with him. Alice: "From now on, you are going to act like Mr. Fallon." Ralph: "So that's the bum that's behind all this." Since this is the first scene that you will see on TV, the viewer will say: "Who's Mr. Fallon?" Ralph objects but it falls on death ears.
Ralph talks to Ed the next day. After four nights out with Alice, Ralph is invoking the Constitution and his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Ed: "But the marriage license is an amendment to the Constitution." Ed has an idea: They will walk faster than the girls and eventually the girls will lose them." Ralph thinks that that idea is stupid. Alice and Trixie have said they want to spend time with their husbands but not spoil their fun, so Ralph figures the way for him and Norton to win back their freedom is to keep the girls out so late that they ask to go home, thus "spoiling" their husbands' night out and disqualifying themselves from participating in the boys' activities. When I watched this episode with a friend of mine, he said that Ed's idea was better.
Hours later--after pool, rowing boats, visiting Roseland and Coney Island, and bowling--the girls are invigorated and the boys are walking zombies. They stop in a restaurant and Ralph and Norton can't even stay awake. Ralph: "We are going to stay out and enjoy ourselves." Half asleep, Ralph and Ed wind up dancing together (which gets an ovation from the crowd), and then fall asleep standing up. The girls give up trying to keep them awake. Alice: "All right Bellows and Yolanda." They ask to go home. Ralph and Norton drag themselves home, victorious, but not before Ralph has trouble going through the revolving door because of lack of sleep.
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This painting was chosen yesterday — chosen to leave my little nest for the big city of Atlanta, to live its life in a luxurious loft. I'm a little sad because I always loved it. And I'm a little happy because someone else loved it as much as I did.
This is the life of an artist — a life of letting go.
First you have to let go of inhibition, of perfection, of rejection and of fear, constantly reminding yourself that not everyone is going to like what you create, and it's ok.
Then, someone comes along who not only likes it but wants to purchase it, and you have to let go again. It's a roller coaster of emotions on any given day.
So back to the easel I go, getting ready for the next letting go lesson.
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Sometimes you have a day that shines on you — not only in an external way, but inside as well. All the good stuff you feel in your heart and your head somehow surfaces and shows up in your face and in your walk and in the way your carry your burdens. I know this only because it happened to me after a rather enjoyable and productive day "working" in the studio.
Sophie is my dog, and she expects an afternoon stroll to the bay. So that's where we were going. A new neighbor and her pet crossed our path, and we exchanged pleasantries. She shocked me with a "You look nice today." Really??? In my old jeans, t-shirt and work boots? It wasn't the outfit, I realized. It was the "infit."
I thought about this for quite some time, hoping I could duplicate the day, and keep that look going. The only way, I think, is to take every kind of day and focus with enormous gratitude on every breath with which we are gifted. Then give that gratitude to another with a smile and a strut that shouts of shine.
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A day after Scott Walker made an artful denial of wrongdoing and muddied his status as a target of prosecution, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Sunday released a letter to Scott Walker calling on Walker to produce evidence he had been exonerated in federal and state criminal corruption probes that already have resulted in 15 felony charges, 13 grants of immunity and two guilty pleas.
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Sex offenses committed on college campuses reported to the Education Department have almost doubled in the past five years, according to the Associated Press' Kimberly Hefling. A letter from the Education Department to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) reported that officials believe that the increase is because of federal enforcement efforts and the increasing public attention to the campus sexual assaults.
The letter continued by stating that sex offense cases reported to the department in yearly crime statistics reports had increased from 3,357 cases in 2009 to 6,073 in 2013. Both law enforcement officials and education leaders say that sex offenses are underreported, so the accurate number is likely much higher.
In order to push colleges and universities into creating solutions to the problem, the Obama administration has begun to release the names of schools which are facing Title IX investigations. (Title IX covers a range of gender equity issues in schools, including sexual violence, sexual harassment, parity in athletics and denial of benefits.) The increase in the number of offenses is probably because campuses are improving their handling and reporting of such crimes. But Laura Palumbo, prevention campaign specialist with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, says there are still inconsistencies in the collection of evidence and the reporting of the offenses.
Boxer says it is clear that Congress must increase its efforts to eliminate the epidemic of sexual assault on campuses and ensure that it has the resources it needs to protect college and university students nationwide.
There is a backlog of cases that continues to grow at the US Department of Education, along with a drop in the number of staff members in the department's Office for Civil Rights.
"We are standing a bit in front of the fire hose," Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Education Department, told HuffPost.
There were 788 full-time employees in the office in 1995 who received 4,981 discrimination and Title IX complaints. By 2014, the total staff numbered 544, yet the number of complaints had grown to 9,989. Investigations have shot up from 55 in 2014 to 109 currently. At the same time, the length of time involved in finishing these investigations is growing longer.
President Obama, in his proposed 2016 budget, is planning to increase the Office for Civil Rights funding by 31% to $131 million, which will will be used to hire 210 full-time employees. This will lessen the time it is taking to close cases, which in 2014 extended to an average of 1,469 days. The office has used its ability to threaten federal funding if an institution fails to cooperate with the office.
The Daily Progress reports that Boxer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) received the letter from the Education Department after they had inquired about the length of time taken for the investigations. Specifically, they were referring to a University of Virginia case which had taken place on June 30, 2011 and still had not been completed.
Kaine said. "It's critical that universities get timely feedback so they can take proactive steps to improve campus sexual violence prevention policies."
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text: AHMEDPUR EAST - Nawab of Bahawalpur Salahuddin Abbasi on Thursday announced launching Bahawalpur Awami Party at a big public meeting held at his residence Sadiq Garh Palace Dera Nawab Sahib. More than 22,000 people including 8,000 women were seated in the lawns of historical Sadiq Garh Palace, spread over six acres of land while thousands of people could not enter the palace as the traffic remained jammed around the palace roads for more than three hours. Caravans from each corner of all the three districts of Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalnagar and Bahawalpur had started arriving at Sadiq Garh Palace early in the morning while Nawab of Bahawalpur Salahuddin Abbasi unveiled Bahawalpur Declaration at 12:38am. He was the only speaker who spoke to the mammoth public meeting while former federal minister for information and broadcasting Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani, former minister of state Farooq Azam Malik, Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab Amir Dr Syed Waseem Akhter, former federal minister Syed Tasneem Nawaz Gardezi, Makhdoom Syed Ahmed Mehmood, Syeda Salma Gillani, PML-QA leader Syed Tabish Alvari, former chairman district council Bahawalnagar Mumtaz Ahmed Matyana, former Vice Chairman Col (r) Malik Ahmed Zia, former Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Sahibzada Mohammad Usman Abbasi, former Tehsil Nazim Liaquatpur Syed Masood Alam Shah, former Chairman Municipal Committee Ahmedpur East Mian Mohammad Ilyas Ayaz, former Chairman Town Committee Uch Sharif Makhdoom Syed Zafar Hassan Gillani, former leader of Opposition in District Council Bahawalpur Mian Rafiatur Rehman Rehmani, former PML-NMakhdoom Syed Ali Hassan Gillani, PPP leader Hassan Askari Sheikh besides thousands of activists of the PPP, the PML-N, the JI and both factions of JUI graced the splendid event. Two screens of 20X30 size were displayed in the Sadiq Garh Palace. Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi appeared on the stage at 11:50am and he delivered speech for more than 18 minutes in which he said the people of former Bahawalpur State have gathered for the first time in former Abbasides rulers Palace after 1875. Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi said that Bahawalpur is the soil of Sufis and Khawaja Ghulam Farid and inhabitants of the area are being deceived since the establishment of One Unit. He said that by the grace of Almighty Allah former provincial status of Bahawalpur would be restored which would change the destiny of 12.5 million people of Bahawalpur. He said that all old Serakis, Muhajirs and Abadgars were Bahawalpuris. He asked them to awake up and join their hands for the restoration of former Bahawalpur province just to secure the future of new generations. He alleged that the successive governments plundered the wealth of Bahawalpur, resulting in increasing the sense of deprivation among people of Bahawalpur division, adding that now the chapter should be closed and the practice should be shun. He pledged to resist anti-Bahawalpur policies and urged the masses to prepare themselves for his call to come on roads to get their genuine rights. Nawab Abbasi said that he only believes in Quid-e-Azam and Nawab Sadiq Mohammad Khan Abbasi-Pakistan and the accord struck between Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and his grandfather Nawab Sir Sadiq Mohammad Khan Khamis Abbasi. The Amir of Bahawalpur told the big audience that he knows well that Bahawalpur province would not be restored by the parliament rather it would emerge from the streets and roads of Bahawalpur. He thanked the media, leaders of all political parties, women, youth and lawyers for extending unconditional support to him in the restoration of former provincial status of Bahawalpur. It is to be noted that District Bar Associations of Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalnagar and Bahawalpur, Hight Court Bar Association Bahawalpur and Ahmedpur East Bar Association observed a complete strike to express their solidarity with Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi. Similarly, markets and bazaars of Ahmedpur East, Dera Nawab Sahib and Uch Sharif remained closed up to 2:00pm and large numbers of businessmen and traders attended Sadiq Garg Palace meeting which according to observers was the biggest ever in the history of Bahawalpur.


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An unofficial build of CyanogenMod 11, which is based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP), is available for both the NFC and non-NFC variants of Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus bearing model numbers GT-I9105P and GT-I9105. Using the custom firmware, the handset can be updated to the latest KitKat software version, Android 4.4.2.
What works
RIL (Calls, SMS, Mobile Data)
Sensors (Accelerometer, Compass, Light, Proximity, etc)
Camera (photo and video)
Video playback
Audio (playback and recording)
Everything else not listed under 'known issues'
Known Issues
Vibration needs some time to initialise after boot
HW Composer not used in landscape
Screenrecord does not work
FM Radio does not work (you can use SpiritFM)
Stock browser does not use hardware acceleration (Please use Google Chrome)
Does not work on 4.1 stock ROM's bootloader, please upgrade to 4.2 before flashing
These CM11 builds come in the courtesy of senior XDA member, CoolDevelopment. Head over to the source thread to know more about the custom release.
Galaxy S2 Plus users who wish to install Android 4.4.2 KitKat on their devices using unofficial CM11, may follow our step-by-step guide. It should be noted this build does not work on Android 4.1 stock ROM's bootloader, therefore, users are advised to upgrade their devices to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
IBTimes UK reminds its readers that it will not be held responsible for any mishap. Before following the installation, users are also advised to ensure their devices meet following requirements.
1) Install USB Drivers for Galaxy S2 Plus to transfer files between the Android device and the computer.
2) Enable USB Debugging Mode on the phone to connect it with the computer and use Android SDK with it. [Navigate to Settings>> About phone. Tap on Build Number several times until a message appears saying 'You are now a Developer.' Now enable USB Debugging Mode by navigating to Settings>> Developer Options.]
3) As the tutorial might wipe all data of the phone, create backup. If the device is having any custom recovery such as ClockworkMod or, TWRP then backup data using the same.
4) If the Android phone powers off due to lack of battery during the process, it could damage the device. Therefore, the Galaxy S2 should have charge above 80% battery charge.
5) The phone should be rooted and have ClockworkMod recovery installed. Ensure that latest version of recovery is installed. Click here for our guide to root and install CWM recovery on Galaxy S2 Plus.
6) The Android 4.4.2 KitKat CM11 ROM works only with Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus GT-I9105/GT-I9105P. As applying this to any incorrect variant might brick the device, verify the model number of Galaxy S2 by navigating to Settings>> About phone>> Model number and install ROM according to the model number.
7) After flashing the ROM if the device gets stuck on Booting animation or experience boot loop then perform wipe cache partition and wipe dalvik cache a few times before rebooting the device.
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Android 4.4.2 KitKat CyanogenMod 11 ROM for Galaxy S2 Plus I9105/ Galaxy S2 Plus I9105P
How to install Android 4.4.2 KitKat on Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus with CM11 build
Step-1: Connect Galaxy S2 to the computer using USB cable and transfer the downloaded zip files to the internal SD card of the phone. Do not extract any file
Step-2: Disconnect the phone from the computer and switch the device off
Step-3: Place the phone into recovery mode by pressing and holding Volume Up, Volume Down and Power buttons together
Note: In recovery mode, use Volume buttons to scroll between options and Power button to select the desired option.
Step-4: Create a Nandroid backup of the existing ROM which can be restored later if the new ROM does not work or users wish to go back to the previous ROM. Select Backup and Restore, then select Backup again. Go back to main recovery menu after the backup is completed
Step-5: Perform a Factory Reset by selecting wipe data/factory reset and confirm the action on the next screen. Go back to the main recovery menu
Step-6: Select install zip from sdcard then select choose zip from sdcard and head over to the location where the CM11 ROM is saved. Select it and confirm installation
Step-7: When the ROM is installed, select again choose zip from sdcard and flash the Gapps file
Step-8: When the installation process is completed, go back to the main recovery menu and reboot the phone by selecting reboot system now. The phone will reboot now and boot up into the customised CM11 firmware. The device will take a few minutes to boot up for the first time after the ROM was installed
The CM11 unofficial build featuring Android 4.4.2 is now installed on the Galaxy S2 Plus. Head over to Setting>> About phone to verify the new software version of the device.
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Psalm 40:3 — He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.
Child, just ask Me. I have so many gifts waiting to give you. I know your heart, your yearning and hunger to seek Me. This pleases Me so much, it's what I've longed for… for you to desire more of Me, for you to spend quality time in My Presence in order to grow our relationship. We are becoming one in unity and thought. Don't question it anymore, I am with you, I am part of you. I've put a new song in your heart, it's so exciting to see this blossoming. Continue to praise Me, I am grateful that you recognize what I have done for you… and I appreciate the trust and faith you show. I'm giving you boldness, do not be afraid to speak My Word, they need to hear it so they can come to Me, to know Me. Be My Light and shine brightly so that the lost will put their trust in Me and believe.


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Calgary jacks up Grey Cup ticket prices
Canadian football fans will have to dig deeper if they want to attend this year's Grey Cup in Calgary.
Ticket prices for the 2009 CFL championship game at McMahon Stadium will range from $195 to $370, according to notices sent out this week to Stampeders season ticket holders. That's up from the $87 to $274 charged for the 2008 contest in Montreal.
Stampeders season ticket holders will get a break, as they'll pay between $119 and $295.
"We've created a two-tier system in that season ticket holders are entitled to one price, and public seats are entitled to a separate price," said Greg Albrecht, president of the 2009 Grey Cup Festival.
"Obviously, we want to see our season ticket holders get the benefit of their commitment with the Stampeders."
Stampeders president Scott Ackles said one reason for the price increase is a relative lack of seating at McMahon Stadium, which typically holds 35,650 fans for football games.
An announced crowd of 66,308 at Olympic Stadium saw the Stampeders defeat the Montreal Alouettes in last year's Grey Cup game, the second-largest attendance figure ever.
At last year's CFL championship in Montreal, fans shelled out between $87 and $277, while tickets ranged from $94 to $560 in 2007 in Toronto. The previous year in Winnipeg, fans paid between $141 and $275.
"The Grey Cups the last three years have all been in 55,000-to 60,000-seat stadiums, and the most we can seat is about 45,000," Stampeders part-owner Ted Hellard told the Calgary Herald earlier this month.
"Obviously, with less tickets out there, you're going to have a stronger demand. But only time will tell."
Football fan Chas Young told CBC News she's been to the last nine Grey Cups, but can't afford to attend this year in her hometown.
"They make lots of money from us all through the year. Grey Cup is just a big cash grab because they do up the prices astronomically," Young said.
"To demand from us little wee ones to pay the big bucks … yeah, I'm not too happy with them for that."
In November, CFL commissioner Mark Cohon said he wasn't in favour of cutting ticket prices in light of the current economic slowdown.
He said the problem with lowering ticket prices is that it gets difficult to bring them back up again.
Meanwhile, the National Football League announced in November it would reduce playoff ticket prices by an average of 10 per cent in response to the economic crisis in the United States.
Cohon said he would prefer teams in his league explore ticket packages and incentives rather than reducing prices.
"Our games are very affordable, and I believe we would be better served to take an aggressive approach to tickets," he said, adding aggressive companies are the ones that tend to survive tough economic times.
The CFL is in good shape, Cohon added, pointing to league attendance that topped two million for the seventh year in a row in 2008 and a salary cap that will remain at $4.2 million for 2009.


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January 2012
This year, the Missions and Evangelism Department of the Antiochian Archdiocese teamed with North Texas Orthodox Missions for a joint conference held in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. The speakers were Fr. Joseph Huneycutt, Fr. Evan Armatas, and Fr. Peter Gillquist. The dates were January 20-21, 2012. The conference was dedicated to the memory of His Eminence, Archbishop Dmitri.
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The history and tradition of this spectacular resort fulfill a golf-lover's fantasy.
I'm sitting on the waterfront veranda of The Lodge, one of two luxury hotels at Sea Island Golf Resort. (The Lodge, adjacent to three golf courses on St. Simons Island, feels like an old English manor; The Cloisters, built on Sea Island in 1928 but reintroduced in 2006 after a three-year renovation, blends the history and aesthetics of Mediterranean revival style.) I'm sipping a Jack Daniels, taking in a brilliant sunset, and listening to the soulful sounds of a solitary bagpiper who's been strolling the shoreline for the past hour. Enchanted by the music, the scenery, the wildlife, the canopy of oak trees and the genteel and gracious hospitality throughout the resort, I'm more relaxed than I've been in ages. (I had intended to go for a massage at Sea Island's famous spa, but after only a few hours at the resort I no longer need one…)
Truth be told: I'm not a golfer but since I'm married to one, I looked forward to a mini-vacation at this renowned Forbes Five-Star resort, home to one of the top-rated golf schools in the country. Little did I know how much the property has to offer above and beyond golf! James Gibson, Sea Island's VP of operations, lists a hunting lodge, a shooting school, a yacht club featuring fishing, sailing and kayaking, a pristine beach, numerous swimming pools, an award-winning 65,000-square-foot spa, an indoor atrium, many fabulous restaurants (including the five-star Georgian room and my favorite, Colt & Alison) and numerous bars (I loved the Oak Room!) among the resort's amenities. "Our demographic is multi-generational," he explains as we sip tea in the historic Trophy Room. "Guests come with their children and grandchildren, couples come for romantic getaways, groups come for golf outings, and of course many PGA golf pros have chosen to make this their home." Asked to articulate the essence of Sea Island, what makes it truly special,Gibson talks about the employees. "At least 80 of our people have worked here more than 25 years, which is unheard of in our business," he explains. "Robert, who works in our men's locker room, has been with us 50 years. Ask him how he's doing and he'll always respond 'Mighty Fine' which is what we now call him. Our repeat customers always make it a point to visit with Mighty Fine…"
Brannen Veal, Sea Island's director of golf, grew up playing golf in Macon, Georgia but turned to baseball at Auburn University (his dad had been a professional ball player with the Detroit Tigers). "After college, I went back to golf, starting out as a golf cart attendant as many of us do. I'm a good golfer (Editor's Note: He's being modest; he's actually a scratch golfer.) and I've taught in Golf Digest top schools, but my passion is the service aspect: I love helping people enjoy the game."
Discussing Sea Island's celebrated state-ofthe- art Golf Performance Center (featuring 3D capture, 13 top-rated instructors, three fitters, two fitness experts and its own psychologist), Veal talks about an individualized approach tailored to personal goals and skill levels. Focusing on five core competencies (long game, short game, fitness, club fitting and mental game), Veal notes that each competency has its own instructors. "Our goal at this Performance Center was to create the ultimate golf experience: the best courses, luxury accommodations, fine dining, top fitness programs, exceptional instructors (who currently work with Davis Love, Matt Kuchar, Harris English, Zach Johnson and other pros) and our own sports psychologist, Dr. Morris "Mo" Pickens.
Veal points out that while many professionals frequent the Performance Center, it's not just for five-handicappers. "I'd say the average handicap is mid teens, and of course we also welcome beginners. And that's one of the paradoxes we struggle with: because we have so many pros and so many top-50 teachers, people sometimes assume they're not good enough to be here. So we're trying to make the experience less intimidating. It's essential for us to grow the game and not be so focused on professionals and top amateur players. Sure they're great, sure we want them here, but it's just as important to get those beginner golfers who've never held a club, to make them feel comfortable so they want to be part of the game." Delving a bit further into the mental game, Veal jokes that "it's the one place where I could destroy Dr. Mo: if he knew what was really going on in my head, he might never recover…" More seriously, he explains the process: usually a 30-minute initial assessment followed by Dr. Mo accompanying the golfer on nine holes and then coming up with suggestions. "It's not earth-shattering stuff: it's generally about how you compartmentalize, prioritize, focus and then let go. I know that's oversimplified, but it works. And it's as applicable to business, and to life, as it is to golf…"


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J.M. Coetzee has been awarded the Nobel prize for literature.
I'm afraid I've only ever read one book by Coetzee, and it was a short one — the novella Waiting for the Barbarians. My one encounter with Coetzee, however, was a case of the right book at the right time. If his other works have had a similar impact on his other readers, then Coetzee's Nobel honors are well deserved.
Barbarians is an extended parable about guilt and responsibility, knowledge and innocence. It describes — in the word's of President Bush's favorite devotional writer, Oswald Chambers — how we are responsible "for what we refuse to look at."
Coetzee's protagonist is a middle class magistrate in a frontier town of an unnamed Empire. He is not particularly wealthy or powerful, and he has had little reason or inclination to wonder about the source of the Empire's wealth and power. "I have not asked for more than a quiet life in quiet times," he says.
Then one night, "I took a lantern and went to see for myself." He sees a man — an old man, a foreigner, a "barbarian" and an innocent — who has been killed by an interrogator representing the power of the Empire. Until that night, the magistrate had been half ignorant, half in denial. But now he knows. And knowing, he must act.
I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there is no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again.
Coetzee's story had obvious implications for the author's specific context — Coetzee is a white South African born in Cape Town. But it is also a universal story.
Once you learn this, what do you do about it?
"There are some [people] in the world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us," Miss Maudie Atkinson says in To Kill a Mockingbird. But most of us aren't born heroes, like Atticus Finch, or like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "born with the strength and skill to fight the vampires, to stop the spread of evil."
We're more like Coetzee's magistrate, or poor, overwhelmed Xander, with no special powers, no superhuman "strength and skill."
Yet here we are, lantern in hand. And the monsters and the Empire are real. "A quiet life in quiet times" is no longer an option.
So what do we do?


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The Wizard of Oz, a best picture nominee in 1939, will be celebrated at this year's Oscars®. With the event already honoring heroes – real and fictional – the 86th Academy Awards® looks to be filled with myth and magic.
The 86th Academy Awards will be broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre® on Sunday, March 2nd, by ABC. The press release follows the jump.
The Oscars will honor the 75th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz," a best picture nominee in 1939, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today.
"We are delighted to celebrate the birthday of one of the most beloved movies of all time at this year's Oscars," said Zadan and Meron.
"The Wizard of Oz" received six Oscar nominations, winning two for Original Score and Song. Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The telecast, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world's preeminent movie-related organization with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards – in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners – the Academy presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events; provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors; acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology; and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history. Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies.
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