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"I refuse to paint the world black," declares Pierre-Auguste Renoir (the great French actor Michel Bouquet) in "Renoir," Gilles Bourdos's compassionate late-life portrait of this French Impressionist painter, infirm with rheumatoid arthritis. "A painting should be something pleasant and cheerful," he adds. "There are enough disagreeable things in life. I don't need to paint more."
It is the summer of 1915 and Renoir, 74, has just lost his beloved wife, Aline. He will die four years later. The great man, now rich and famous, is slavishly attended by a retinue of female servants, several of whom are former artist's models, at his farm, Les Collettes, at Cagnes-sur-Mer on the Cote d'Azur. World War I rages to the north.
His two older sons, Pierre (Laurent Poitrenaux) and Jean (Vincent Rottiers), have both suffered serious battle injuries. Early in the film Jean returns home on crutches to convalesce from a wound that nearly cost him a leg. A third son, Claude (Thomas Doret), a k a Coco, in his early teens, lives on the property.
Despite laboring in excruciating pain, which requires his hand to be tied to his paintbrush, Renoir remains obsessed with the way "the velvety texture of a young girl's skin" absorbs the light. He experiences a surge of vitality when he meets the 15-year-old Andrée Heuschling (Christa Théret), a k a Dedee, a voluptuous, mouthy, high-strung redhead recommended as a model by Henri Matisse.
"Too early, too late," Renoir comments wryly, meaning that their age difference prevents them from becoming lovers. For Renoir, Andrée, who has a ravenous appetite for life, is the spirit made flesh, a beauty "Titian would have worshiped," he announces.
Renoir's philosophy is distilled in five words: "Flesh! That's all that matters."
While watching the movie, exquisitely photographed by the Taiwanese cinematographer Mark Ping Bing Lee ("In the Mood for Love"), you may surrender to that unabashedly sensual vision, celebrated in every shot of Les Collettes' gorgeous, seething landscape of windblown trees, grass and streams that reflect what Renoir calls "the fury running through my nerves."
But the movie, like its subject, refuses to stir up unnecessary melodrama. There are many small conflicts and psychological undercurrents, but the closest thing to a narrative theme is the effect Andrée has on the Renoir household. Pierre-Auguste, Jean and Claude all fall under her spell, while Renoir's caretakers are outraged by her arrogance. In a violent outburst, she smashes several priceless plates.
When Andrée and Jean first meet, and she asks him what he wants to do with his life, he replies glumly that he has "no dreams and ambitions."
She scolds, "Never say that to a woman — she'll despise you."
They have an affair during which Andrée, who dreams of being a movie star, stokes his interest in filmmaking, and we see his first steps in that direction.
Just outside the gates of Les Collettes lies the real world in its war-torn shambles, glimpsed in a scene in which the radiant Andrée rides her bicycle past rows of wounded, disfigured soldiers sprawled by the roadside, who eye her with a mixture of hunger and despair. Here is the horror Renoir has shut out of his sight.
Mr. Rottiers plays the 20-year-old Jean as a blank lost soul waiting for his future to find him. When he recovers, he is torn between staying with Andrée and returning to the war to fight beside his comrades.
The movie ends as Jean is about to leave Les Collettes. He didn't die. After returning safely, he and Andrée married, and before they separated in 1931, she made 15 silent films under the name Catherine Hessling. Jean went on to cinematic immortality as the creator of classics like "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game."
"Renoir" doesn't strain to create a deeper sense of artistic continuity between father and son beyond suggesting that Pierre-Auguste and Jean shared a vision of life expressed in the father's advice to "let yourself be carried through life like a cork on water."
That sense of fluidity is embodied in the canvases shown in the film (painted by the famous art forger Guy Ribes), whose figures dissolve into the landscape and into one another in an ethereal mist.
"What must control the structure is not the line," Renoir declares. "It's the color."
"Renoir" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for art-related nudity and brief language.


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This article article is part of a series entitled The Wild and Wonderful Nepal:
- The Wild and Wonderful Nepal: Festivals you shouldn't miss
- The Wild and Wonderful Nepal: Boudhanath Stupa – the largest Buddhist monument outside Tibet
- The Wild and Wonderful Nepal: Trekking in Nepal
Probably everybody who visited Nepal who haven't asked themselves how come a country with such propensity towards infringements such as minor crimes and offenses is at the exact same time the place to find the most spiritual and guileless people. The name of the republic comes from the name of Ne, the sage who as thought in the Ancient times to protect the people, for which the word back then was "pala". Of course, now, many things have changed – but Nepal remains a highly traditional country.
Buddha Jayanti (early-mid May)
The personality of these people might seem strange at first and if you choose to stay for more than a couple of days all their simplicity will start to make sense. One thing the Nepal people surely keep is the sacredness of the rituals and festivities, which represent one of the most important touristic attractions. As history endowed them as Buddha's descendants, the annual ceremony recalling the wisdom and the immaculacy takes place in a high-spirited manner, gathering pilgrims from all around the world. If the Buddhist philosophy represents interest to any level to you, the Vesak holiday commonly known as 'Buddha Jayanti' in Nepal is one of the events to be attended. It is the moment of the year when Gautama Buddha's birthday and enlightenment are celebrated and the most visited place is, naturally, Lumbini, the birthplace of the thinker.
The socio-cultural differences between the Nepal people of dissimilar backgrounds are the cornerstone of this heterogeneous society within its distinct layers. This is why not only the spiritual, headed for thought people go to Nepal, but also the young lively, vibrant, bustling. The ones seeking colorful lights, crowds and playful mise en scenes. The festival called Fagu Poornima (Holi) is known all around the world as being the holiday of water and colors.
Fagu Poornima, aka Holi (March)
Celebrating the death of Holika, the good demoness in Hindu scripture, people throw water and colored powder at each other.
The commonly accepted symbols are also important, as the color someone throws towards another is wishing them what the color means to come true. For instance, if flinging red at someone represents you wish them victory, yellow symbolises happiness, blue means peace, orange stands for joy, pink is love, purple is health, while green means health. Blending all these colors the shade then obtained stands for life itself.
The purpose for which people get together on this day, during a spring day is the celebration of good over evil, about which people think that it is unnecessary to be powerful as long as you feel powerful. As the spiritual side of Nepal people blends, just like the colors do, with the jocular, ludicrous one people from all corners of the world gather to manifest together on a feast of joy and color.
Shivaratri (February/March)
This is probably the festival which you'll find most shocking, but it's also extremely fascinating. Flocks of people with their faces and sometimes entire bodies painted white, conducting all sorts of rituals, occasionally inflicting pain on themselves, smoking, singing, bathing, walking nude – you'll see all this and many more at the Shivaratri festival. Yep, you really don't want to miss out on something like this!
Shivaratriis the third very important festival in Nepal. It is also related to religion, since the population belongs to two different beliefs, yet very rooted in the collective mind – Hindu and Buddhist. Lord Shiva, also known as The Lord of the Lords is believed to have lived in the Himalayas in Mountain Kaitash. The celebration of his wedding with Parvati.
Since the translation of 'Maha ShivaRatri' is 'the night of Shiva', the ceremony never takes place during the day. And sometime between the end of February and early March people bathe in the holy river and start bonfires, as the weather is still cold and unfriendly. This doesn't stop them however from coming to Nepal a few weeks before the event takes place. During this night, the Shiva lingam (the word meaning mark, inference, representation) is washed, once at every three hours with rose water, milk and honey. Some of the devotees don't drink water all day long, not to mention the whole night while the ceremony takes place.
No matter what religion you are, being interested in different cultures living together peacefully, although they're so heterogeneous and distinct, Nepal is the place to go. These people can give a consummate example of humanity. Their rituals, cultures and traditions as they participate ones to other religion's celebrations out of respect for otherness.


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A couple of years back I made one of the biggest mistakes that you can make during an interview. I had just graduated from college armed with a degree in accounting and a small firm wanted to interview me for an accounting position. I had already secured a position at another company but I was still looking for other employment opportunities.
So I am in the interview and the guy is giving me the standard questioning that people get when they are on a job interview. I was asked questions like:
Why do you want to work for us?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Why should I hire you?
What makes you different than the other people seeking out the job?
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In my opinion, I was doing very well answering all of his questions. However the question that he asked that severely hurt my chances of landing the job was, "What are your salary expectations?" After consulting some advisors and classmates about the interview, I realized that my response was a disaster. I told him that I was expecting to make $15 per hour. This calculates to a little over $31,000 a year. The problem with this answer was that the average starting salary for accountants coming out of college at that time was around $40,000.
This answer showed the interviewer that I was not prepared for the interview and did not really understand what it meant to be an accountant, which I think was a major reason why I was not hired. It also may have given the impression that I was desperate. The $15 per hour figure was based on what I was making at my other job as a retail manager. I was making about $12 to $13 per hour so $15 per hour, to me, was a big jump. But the salary range for retail managers and accountants is totally different.
After this experience, I realized that a major part of the interview process is doing your research on the position which includes finding out the salary range. The salary range is simply the spread between the highest salary and lowest salary for the position. Once you know what the salary range is for the position then you know what your base salary should be. Secondly, you know the amount that you can ask for above your base with little issue.
Example: You are interviewing for a position as a marketing manager. You find out that the highest salary for this position is $65,000 and the lowest salary is $50,000. What you know now is that the base salary for the position is $50,000. You also know that if the interviewer asks you about salary expectations, then you can ask for $60,000 with no problems because that is within the range of salaries for that position.
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Lastly, when you are interviewing for a position make sure that you are prepared, not only for the standard questions, but, for the question about salary expectations as well. This will show the interviewer that you are prepared and not desperate. Most importantly, it will keep from being under paid.
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Meloneras holidays 2019 / 2020
If you're looking for a chic and sophisticated holiday in 2019 / 2020, head to Meloneras. This upmarket resort in Gran Canaria is situated on the south coast of the island, just 30 minutes away from the airport. With an infectious laid-back vibe, Meloneras offers visitors the chance to enjoy the Canary Islands in a luxurious setting. As a quieter resort, Meloneras is ideally placed to take advantage of the nearby bustling attractions in Maspalomas, Puerto Rico and Playa del Ingles. And while the resort has a trendy and affluent reputation, you can enjoy the delights of the spacious beaches, pristine golf courses and fine dining restaurants without breaking the bank.
Visiting the island's capital of Las Palmas gives you the chance to see another side to Gran Canaria. Delivering culture and attractions in spades, the short bus journey is well worth the trip.
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Whether your ideal holiday is relaxing on the beach, being pampered in a spa or scouring designer boutiques for the perfect outfit, Meloneras has something for everyone. Active holidaymakers won't miss out, either. With camel rides, water sports and stunning golf courses for starters, there's plenty to keep you from getting bored. Add in historical architecture and museums, boat trips and a chance to take on Lady Luck at the casino, and you'll see why Meloneras is known as one of Gran Canaria's classiest destinations. The sweeping promenade is a great place to soak up the resort's atmosphere before hitting the beach or finding a shaded refuge in a seafront bar. If Gran Canaria's toasty temperatures are hotting things up a little too much, nearby Aqualand water park in Maspalomas is the ideal place to make a splash with family and friends.
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Elsewhere on the island you might well find yourself faced with a feast of expat bars serving a 'full English' to hoards of hungry Brits. But this luxury location boasts a touch of sophistication that's brought luxury dining options to the area. Over 20 restaurants serve up a range of food choices, including authentic Canarian and Spanish cuisine. You'll also stumble across a few surprises. One of Meloneras' best restaurants specialises in Peruvian dishes alongside sushi and delicious risottos. Track down a restaurant serving traditional Canarian food if you can. With influences from the Spanish mainland thrown into the melting pot, along with African and Latin American recipes, the flavours combine to create some amazing dishes. Take advantage of the fresh catches brought to the island's shores by trying the vieja sancochada, an authentic fish casserole served across the island, which celebrates the abundance of fish caught locally.
A holiday in Meloneras offers families the best of both worlds. Parents can enjoy the chic surroundings and laid-back luxury, safe in the knowledge that there's plenty of entertainment on hand to keep children and teenagers happy. Younger children will love the Angry Birds Activity Park in Puerto Rico, while all the family can get involved in the fun at the Aqualand water park. Adventurous families can head out on a camel trek across the sand dunes in Maspalomas or head to the roller coaster at Holiday World. If you're worn out from all of the activities on offer, you can spend long lazy days on one of the many beaches, or catch a movie under the stars at the Moonlight Cinema. Explorers can indulge in a spot of sightseeing on an Electric Bike Tour or one of the many boat trips available.
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A holiday to Meloneras is top of many golfers' lists. It boasts two courses, one of which has recently been completed. Meloneras offers ideal conditions for the perfect round of golf. Sunshine, sumptuous views and courses to challenge any golfer's hard-earned handicap. If you'd rather head off on an adventure rather than tee off, the camel safaris explore the nearby sand dunes of Maspalomas. Seeing the expansive dunes from the back of a camel is certainly a unique way to see the Canary Islands. If the arid heat sees you searching the horizon for an oasis in the sun, head to Aqualand. Packed with pools, slides and rapids, there's something to keep everyone in the family happy. Adrenaline junkies can take on the Tornado, Adrenalina, Mamut or Boomerang – all high-octane waterslides guaranteeing thrills, spills and water-based fun. If all that sounds far too much like hard work, pick a spot on the Lazy River and let the current drift you around the park while you soak up the sun.
With year-round sunshine, Gran Canaria is the perfect destination for topping up that tan. On a holiday to Meloneras you can take advantage of its quiet and spacious beach. And if it's a game of frisbee you're after, the nearby beach in Maspalomas is ideal for families. If you like your beach days to offer even more in the way of excitement and adventure, head east to Playa del Ingles. The expansive beach plays host to a variety of water sports for adrenaline junkies looking to burn off some steam after relaxing on the beach. If you need to refuel after a day on the water, Playa del Ingles' beachfront is lined with restaurants and cafés all serving up tasty treats. To see what's happening under the water, head west on the island to Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria. Just a 20-minute drive away, there's a glass-bottomed boat trip that leaves the area. Perfect for spotting brightly coloured marine life living just off the Canary Island's coast.
If your idea of a perfect night out involves fine dining and perhaps some pre-dinner drinks in a classic cocktail bar or café, Meloneras is for you. For a night out to remember, why not head to the casino? With much more than just gambling on offer, there's plenty of entertainment to enjoy before you head to the roulette tables. The Legends Cabaret Show is renowned for the high quality of tribute performances. Sit back and enjoy the show, as dancing and singing legends take to the stage. If you're here purely for the gambling, there are over 70 gaming machines to try your luck on. Card game fans won't be disappointed as the casino boasts the usual blackjack tables, plus poker tables, including the all-important Texas Hold'em tournaments. Away from the glitz, glamour and high-stakes gambling at the casino, Meloneras offers a laid-back night out on the Canarian coast. If you're looking to move things up a gear and party all night, take the 10-minute bus ride to Playa del Ingles. This coastal playground never really seems to sleep, with the festival atmosphere carrying on into the wee small hours.
Everything about Meloneras has an air of luxury about it. From the gastronomic dishes served up in the fine dining restaurants, to the glamour of the glitzy casino, Meloneras is chic and sophisticated. This makes it an ideal destination for couples who enjoy the finer things in life. Playa de Amadores, or Lover's Beach, is just a 20-minute drive away, and while the beach is popular during the day, it's a peaceful spot to enjoy a sunset together. For the ultimate in romantic indulgence, book a couple's spa package at the Costa Meloneras Spa. Side-by-side you can enjoy a range of relaxing therapies to ease away your worries and stresses from everyday life. If you're an active couple eager to get out and explore, a morning trek into the Maspalomas dunes to catch the sunrise is well worth the early wake-up call. Catch a boat trip from Puerto Rico to catch a glimpse of the many marine mammals that visit Canarian waters – dolphins are spotted regularly, with the occasional sighting of pilot whales, too.
For a glimpse into the island's history, head to the Punta Mujeres Archaeological Site in Maspalomas. Thought to be an Aboriginal coastal settlement, the ruins date back to the 9th century. Houses and other structures were found, and may have been part of a much larger settlement. Away from Meloneras, Gran Canaria's capital is home to the majority of the cultural attractions, and no holiday to the island would be complete without a visit to Las Palmas. Art aficionados will want to check out the Atlantic Centre of Modern Art, with their ever-changing series of exhibitions and events. Other noteworthy museums include the Science and Technology Museum, and Christopher Columbus House. The impressive house is more like a palace and Columbus is rumoured to have stayed in the house in the 15th century. If you're travelling in June or July, you may well catch one of the many festivals held on the island. Las Palmas plays host to four in July, including a popular folk music and dance festival, and St John's Day. The celebrations include dancing in the streets, bonfires on the beaches and a week of concerts, theatre and sporting events.
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Upstairs Downstairs (2011) and just now discovered that it is a continuation of the 1970s TV series, which I have not watched.
I enjoyed this newer version of Upstairs Downstairs, even without having seen the original programs. It was an entertaining look into the life of the aristocrats and the servants of 1936 England and consists of three one-hour episodes.
I'm sure that if you enjoy period dramas like Downton Abbey and you are looking for more similar programs, that you will enjoy this one. Take a peek at the trailer:
Personally, I'll be looking for the original series, which ran from 1971 to 1975 and which I see is available in a boxed set called Upstairs, Downstairs: The Complete Series.
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2015 in August 27th, the Hebei public space construction forum held in Shijiazhuang. Provincial Science and technology department director Wang Zhixin attended the meeting and delivered a speech, deputy director of the provincial science and Technology Department presided over the meeting of the director, the director of the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau of the District, the director of high and new, some of the people responsible for the creation of space, such as the forum to participate in the meeting of the people's Republic of China in. read more
daily hardware industry prospects, in order to get a good profit, need to seriously understand the strength of the brand. Many novice investors do not know how to choose the project management, then today Xiaobian will take you to the general understanding, I hope to help you.
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in such a rapidly changing era, if we blindly conservative, I am afraid it is difficult to make their business better development, therefore, innovation is inevitable. No matter what profession, need innovation. I always have some "strange" ideas, such as business cards, we give people the purpose of sending a business card? Don't want to leave a deep impression on the other side in a very short time? But the name card mostly is square, it is difficult to achieve for too observant of conventional standards., fresh, gifted with an extraordinary retentive memory effect. read more
now in our lives around, the cosmetics store can be said to be everywhere, at the same time, for many people, entrepreneurs choose to open a cosmetics shop is actually very market, there is also competition in the fierce competition, it is important to note the location scheme actually.
1. cosmetics shop close to the place where people gather. Such as theaters, cinemas, parks and other places of entertainment, or near large factories, organs, which can attract pedestrians, on the other hand, easy to make the customer remember the location of the store. read more
what kind of project is the most suitable for the present rural people to start it, look at us now the mentality of the people, the pursuit of the kind of green pastoral life, so now the rural project is very marketable, look at those who are on the market development potential.
1, high yield dairy cows good results. 1 annual milk production 7 tons of fine varieties of dairy farmers, according to the average price of nearly 3 years of milk sales calculation, medium city per cow net income in 8000 yuan; if the deep processing, has better efficiency. In some big cities, 1 excellent breeds of dairy cows produce milk, , as well as the production of dairy products, the income can reach more than 11500 yuan. China's milk consumption market is expanding from the city to the countryside, the demand growth far exceeds the growth of production. Online purchase. Therefore, in the next 3-5 years, farmers raise high dairy cows. read more
rural electricity supplier development has gradually begun to spread, with the continuous promotion of rural Taobao pilot, the rural market has achieved initial success, the success of a group of people in rural areas to achieve the goal of entrepreneurial wealth.
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College Apprentice Scoops NHS Award
Danielle Tomlinson, 25, an Apprentice Clinical Skills Technician employed by the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has won an NHS award recognising excellence in the workplace.
As part of her Level 2 Laboratory Operations Apprenticeship at Preston's College, Danielle joined Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Clinical Education Team in May 2015 and assists in the provision of education to Trust employees, student nurses and undergraduate doctors.
The talented apprentice triumphed over more than 30 other entries in the 'Living the Values' … Read More and Comment »
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Water Production
Water Production Supervisor - Mike Clift
Assistant City Manager for Utilities an IT - Jason Newberry
511 SW Lake Road, Wellington, KS 67152
Business Hours PH -- 620-434-5353
After Hours Contact PH -- 620-326-2562
The Water Production Plant was built in 1996. It is capable of producing over 5 million gallons per day. Water from the Wellington Lake, multiple wells, and the Chickaskia River is treated to provide water to the City, 3 Rural Water Districts and the City of Mayfield. To date, peak production has been 3.3 million gallons, so the Water Plant should be able to provide all of the water needed for our current customers.
The raw water is treated with Alum and Hydrated Lime as it enters the plant which causes Flocculation which causes the dirt particles to come together much like snow flakes. These settle out in a process called Sedimentation and are removed. The water is then Filtered to remove any remaining particles. We Disinfect the water with Chlorine, and add Fluoride as the last step before it leaves the plant.
A staff of 4 controls water production. Each operator is school trained with mandatory testing and certification by the state. They aggressively run the plant and monitor the water to provide quality water to each customer.
The Consumer Confidence Report is your source for our water quality information. It details all of the mandated testing, which is required by State and Federal Law. In addition to the required tests, the staff performs quality checks at least every 2 hours, up to 250 per day.
Please click here to view our CCR report.
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder that affects the large intestine. IBS affects about one of out every 10 persons in the world although rates vary from region to region. Some research suggests that about 14% of Americans have IBS although the vast majority are undiagnosed.
Signs and symptoms of IBS include cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation, or both. Some people can control their symptoms by managing diet, lifestyle and stress.
The role of food allergy or intolerance in IBS isn't fully understood but science-based evidence indicates that the Low FODMAP Diet can help manage the gastrointestinal symptoms associated with IBS. And soyfoods can be part of the Low FODMAP Diet.
FODMAP is an acronym that stands for: Fermentable – meaning they are broken down (fermented) by bacteria in the large bowel, Oligosaccharides – "oligo" means "few" and "saccharide" means sugar. These molecules made up of individual sugars joined together in a chain. Disaccharides – "di" means two. This is a double sugar molecule. Monosaccharides – "mono" means single. This is a single-sugar molecule. And Polyols – these are sugar alcohols (however don't lead to intoxication!).
When consumed in foods and/or drinks, FODMAPs can be poorly absorbed in the small intestine and pass through to the large intestine, where two major events happen:
- The FODMAPs are readily fermented by bacteria in the large bowel, contributing to the production of gas.
- The FODMAPs are also highly osmotic, meaning that they attract water into the large bowel, which can alter how quickly the bowels move.
These two processes can then trigger symptoms including excess wind, abdominal bloating and distension, abdominal pain, constipation or diarrhea, or a combination of both.
Many soyfoods, although not all, can be part of the Low FODMAP Diet. If you have IBS, good choices are firm tofu (as opposed to silken tofu), soymilk made using isolated soy protein, soy cheese and tempeh. Tempeh is made by fermenting whole soybeans. It has an excellent texture and is highly nutritious and may help to promote the growth of friendly bacteria, which could lead to an assortment of health benefits.


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"Chinlock for Chuck" event tonight
Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Shane Helms, James Storm, Gunner, Reby Sky and more will be appearing at the "Chinlock for Chuck" event tonight at Northern Durham High School. All proceeds for the event will go towards Chuck Coates who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2006 and now again in 2012. For more details on the event visit www.chinlockforchuck.com.
King Kong Bundy to be honored on April 5th
King Kong Bundy Announced for Wrestling Hall of Fame
Bundy to be first inductee into new Wrestling Hall of Fame!
Milwaukee, WI – January 14th, 2013 — The Pro Wrestling Report is pleased to announce the creation of the PWR Hall of Fame with an induction ceremony to be held in New York City on April 5th, 2013.
Our first inductee will be King Kong Bundy – a man who many say should have been inducted into the Hall of Fame many years ago. Bundy has achieved so much in the wrestling business including headlining "Wrestlemania 2" with Hulk Hogan and appearing on the hit TV show "Married with Children" in the 1980's. Bundy is referred to as one of the best "big men" to ever wrestle.
The PWR Lifetime Achievement Award was created in 2009 and based on the overwhelmingly positive response that award has received, PWR is launching this Hall of Fame to recognize the legends of Pro Wrestling that have not yet been recognized by other exiting Hall of Fames.
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients:
· 2009 – Bobby "The Brain" Heenan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYxhyo2uFt4)
· 2010 – Demolition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdl6-5RaLI)
· 2011 – "Mean" Gene Okerlund (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz_eQenrNtI)
· 2012 – Kevin Nash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0uNN24Fix8)
This Hall of Fame will be about respect for the contributions of the inductees and will not be impacted by the normal "politics" of Pro Wrestling.
The Ceremony will be hosted by PWR Host Dameon Nelson (twitter: @dameonnelson) and will be open to the public. The Hall of Fame Ceremony will be the kickoff to PWR Weekend in New York where the Shenanigans in the Concrete Jungle Party will occur the following evening also at Hotel Pennsylvania. The Party will be hosted by Kevin Nash and will feature appearances by several other major names in Pro Wrestling! Tickets for the party are available now at www.pwrshow.com as well.
More inductees will be announced in the coming weeks along with the names of the stars who will be inducting the 2013 class.
Event Details
Who: Pro Wrestling Report
What: Hall of Fame Ceremony
Where: Hotel Pennsylvania Ballroom, 401 7th Avenue, Manhattan, NY
When: Friday, April 5th, 2013 at 8pm ET [Pro Wrestling Report]


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Lessons from the aftermath: What 6 countries can tell us about how to recover from disaster
An earthquake in Western China, a tsunami in Indonesia and the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York may sound like incomparable events. But there's common lessons to be learned in how these places recovered afterward.
That's the point of After Great Disasters, a new book by Laurie A. Johnson and Robert B. Olshansky, published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The authors look at recent catastrophes in six countries, in search of good practices that can help government leaders everywhere prepare for the next one.
Johnson is a consultant whose urban planning practice specializes in disaster recovery and catastrophe risk management. Olshansky is a professor and head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Both have spent considerable amounts of time in disaster zones around the world, studying the governance structures, institutions and policies powering recovery in each of them.
In addition to the events in China, Indonesia and New York, the book covers the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2010-11; the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, and the 2011 quake and tsunami in Japan's Tohoku region; India earthquakes in Latur in 1993 and Gujarat in 2001; and Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy in the United States.
I caught up with Johnson and Olshansky recently to find out more about why they wrote this book and what lessons it contains for policymakers around the world. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Christopher Swope: How did you get into this topic?
Robert Olshansky: It really started with the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles in 1994, and the Kobe earthquake. They occurred on the same day, January 17th, one year apart. The Northridge earthquake was the biggest urban earthquake in the U. S. in quite some time. It wasn't a catastrophic disaster, but it was big. It was really costly. It was highly disruptive. Then, a year later, in Kobe, you had what the 'Big One' would look like in a modern city.
What started our questioning was what can we learn by looking at the two of these things together? When we get the 'Big One' in the U. S., the kind of catastrophic urban disaster that we know we can get, how might we be able to deal with that?
Q: Looking through the book, I see lots of pictures that have your names on them, and they're clearly taken shortly after earthquakes, tsunamis, terrible things have occurred. Are disasters new to you each time, or are there patterns in terms of what you see and sense from people on the ground?
Laurie Johnson: We have enough of these under our belts that even if we're not there, we kind of have a sense of scale to begin with. Watching the tsunami wave on TV, I just knew that was going to be devastating.
Laurie Johnson and Robert Olshansky
An event like 9/11 was really interesting because it's a vertical city. While the footprint was quite small at the World Trade Center disaster, you start thinking about all the occupants of those buildings and in Lower Manhattan, all the density of infrastructure and you realized this was going to be a really challenging rebuilding process.
Robert Olshansky: Is it always different? Yeah it is. But what drives us in this is that there are a lot more things that are similar in these places than you would think. That's why you can take lessons from one place and apply it somewhere halfway around the world.
Human beings really react to things the same way. There's a lot of similarities. The issue of dealing with things in the compressed timeframe that you have after a disaster. The issue of how information flows, how money flows, and so on. You get very similar types of organizations that will form after these disasters because they really have the same sets of concerns, even in very different cultural situations.
[See: A 'cure' for catastrophe?]
In terms of the context, every situation is unique. Could we as experts just jump into some new place and start telling them what to do? In a microsense, no, not at all, because the context is totally different. We could tell them what kinds of things they need to think about and how they should go about thinking those things — how they should go about approaching the problem, within their context.
Q: The lens of your book is looking at countries and comparing lessons across countries. Yet cities are where the bulk of the casualties, financial damages and complex planning questions are. Why look at this from a country level?
Robert Olshansky: It has to do with the culture, the legal system, all of those kinds of things. There's ways in which India handles things, Indonesia handles things, so we wanted to do it that way. But you're right, where all the action happens is at the city level.
The other thing is that disasters we look at tend to be the really large catastrophic urban disasters. In all of those cases, it becomes a significant question at the national level. There's some policy decision, maybe a body that needs to be introduced, at the national level.
Laurie Johnson: The kind of event we've been intrigued by is when a disaster exceeds that local capacity, and then the question of what happens after that. Yes, local governments and communities need outside assistance, resources and financial assistance to recover. With that comes a loss of control. Yet as planners, at least in a Western context, the decisions that you are making for long-term recovery are typically quite localized decisions. You have land-use planning, the location and style of housing, infrastructure development. It's a key question: How do you create an empowered local government and local leadership in that context?
Q: How much planning can a community do in advance of a disaster when they don't know where the extent and severity of the damage will be?
Laurie Johnson: The best that I've observed is where [policymakers] try to set the institutional relationships and the general context of recovery in advance. We call those things 'recovery frameworks' because they aren't actual specific plans. Though once an event happens, you have to create a more specific plan for that specific pattern of damage.
[See: 'Sustainable insurance': Seven takeaways from the first-ever summit of insurers and city leaders]
Prior to that, you can generally set the ground rules for recovery. You can talk about your government structure. You can identify responsibilities for the different kinds of government policies that you know are likely to be issued during recovery. You can identify the values you want to maintain going into recovery. These are the institutions, the agencies, that are going to take the lead. These are the institutions that are going to be supportive.
Q: What are some case studies that represent real innovations in how nations and cities are dealing with these questions?
Robert Olshansky: They have a really good process in Indonesia. In terms of being community centered, the way that they finance and plan community facilities after disaster is all designed so that the communities make the decisions. Their housing reconstruction is designed so that it's owner-driven housing reconstruction. They do this really knowingly. In fact, after the tsunami, they actually admitted that this was sort of a risky approach. But they felt it was the best way, and it's really worked.
One reason why they have a good system is because they've had a whole lot of big disasters in a short amount of time and learning as they go. The tsunami was one of the most enormous things anybody could face. It struck the province of Aceh which had just had 30 years of civil war. It was really just the worst of everything. Which is another reason to admire them.
[See: Summit aims to boost local strategies on disaster risk]
The national government set up an agency in Aceh that was purposefully designed to build local capacity. An important part was they knew it would sunset after four years. The whole idea was to bring local officials in to know how to do everything on their own.
Then there's China's recovery from the 2008 earthquake. They physically rebuilt everything in two years, which is incredible. They were able to do that because their system, they had just directed from the top down: Drop everything else you're doing, we need to recover from this earthquake. They rebuilt everything physically really fast. They made some mistakes. There's empty industrial parks and there's farmers who have been relocated but they don't have jobs. I'm struggling with what to make of China because as enormous as the earthquake was, the recovery wasn't substantially different than what China does in the early part of the 21st century. They build cities unbelievably fast.
Q: That seems to be one of the central tensions here — central versus local control of the process. Is there a good way to manage that tension?
Robert Olshansky: What we argue is the best way to manage recovery — and we'll put 'manage' in quotes, it's not a really good word, but it's what we've got — is for higher levels of government to provide financial and technical resources, so that the lower levels of government and individuals can do the recovery better, being able to make their own decisions in their context.
There's a question of who 'does' recovery. Most of the entities are at the local level. Individuals are going to start acting to rebuild their houses. Businesses are going to start acting. All those things are going on. Government is just one of the players. Our perspective in our research and in our book is:Given that government is only one of the players, government still has a significant role and what is it the government should do?
Q: There's also a tension between the speed of recovery versus the need for deliberation. Is there an example of that with any clear lessons?
Laurie Johnson: My classic example is in New Zealand, which had a very centralized approach. They had identified what they called a residential red zone. That was largely driven by the fact that they have a nationalized insurance program.
All these houses were having damage from liquefaction, and it was going to be very costly for them to repair, remediate the sites for that kind of land with these houses on it. They created these red zones to buy out these houses rather than keep paying insurance coverage over and over and over to fix these houses.
That policy got put in place, but in those red zones weren't just houses. Those red zones had churches in them. They had small commercial units. They had vacant lots. They had people without insurance in them. A simple consultative process would have made them aware of that. Instead, the policy came out and then people sued. They ended up in court and lost that court case and had to go back and redo the planning.
The pressure to be fair, the pressure to make policy, the pressure to move fast with recovery, is great. People work in earnest to try to make decisions quickly, to try to move the process along as quickly as possible and ameliorate people's suffering. And yet at the same time, there are things that you have to deliberate on to get better policy making.
[See: Christchurch's SCIRT offers a model for rebuilding after a disaster]
The more change that you're making, the more consultation [with the public] you need. If you're just putting back exactly what you had before and it's a simple repair process and nothing is changing, then you probably don't need as much consultation. The more change that's going to happen through policy, the more consultation and deliberation there needs to be.
Q: Isn't consultation challenging when people are traumatized or relocated?
Laurie Johnson: Planning in that post-disaster context is really challenging because you can do it too soon and people really aren't ready to make those kinds of decisions. At the same time, you need to be helping set that policy framework and helping to define enough about the recovery in order to get the funding in place and the institutions in place. In New Orleans, the first plan, the Bring New Orleans Back Plan, was done really quickly when residents weren't in the city — so many people had been displaced, and so weren't able to participate in the process. There was a backlash to that.
The same was true in Japan. A lot of planning happened really fast after the tsunami and people were still really traumatized by the event and in great fear of the possibility of a recurrence. A lot of decisions were made about relocating housing into the hills and building very large tsunami protection walls. And then as those walls started to get constructed and people saw what they would aesthetically do to their communities, a lot of people had regrets and there was a lot of questioning about those policies. Some of that stuff is still being worked out today.
Robert Olshansky: In terms of speed versus deliberation, a really important role for government is to listen. What often happens is you have the big disaster and the residents, the citizens are all clamouring for action. The government thinks that what they need to do is to act fast. They need to start rebuilding things fast. The way they do it is by closing the doors and shutting down public involvement so that they can make quick decisions and build things fast, feeling that's what the people really want and they'll be happy for it in the end.
What we see is that's really not so. What the residents most want is to be seriously listened to, and to be seriously empowered and to be a part of what's going on. Transparency and de-centralized power sharing is what's needed. If you bring them along, then they're even willing to let things go a little longer, as long as they understand why and they've had some say in what they're going to get in the end.
Q: Are there any more concrete recommendations you'd leave readers with?
Laurie Johnson: One is the issue of having good institutions prior to disaster. The more you're just working on ensuring you have good institutional processes, planning and community engagement on a regular basis, you don't have to create all that after a disaster.
What we're really emphasizing is being nimble after a disaster, not just putting a policy in place and walking away. You've got to constantly plan and act simultaneously, you've got to monitor, and you've got to adjust your budget as well.
One specific thing we talk about in our recommendations is about relocation. In almost all of our cases, there were areas where rebuilding was not ideal and policies were made. Some of that was done on a lot-by-lot basis, like with the Road Home program in Louisiana, so people were just making a decision — hey, I'm not coming back, I have a new life. Versus other places like China and New Zealand, where they've actually sort of said these areas cannot be rebuilt upon. That is where there's a lot of change going on, and it's really personal change — change that's affecting your home. We strongly urge people to consider that those kinds of processes should only be done with the full participation of residents.
Robert Olshansky: We talked about the importance of communication and information, and one of our recommendations makes the point that it costs money to do that. You need to budget for that. It's easy to add up the amount of physical damage and think that's the money you need for recovery. If you don't pay for those information systems or for planning and the public empowerment, you're really going to have a heck of a hard time rebuilding.
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From the Republic of Turkey comes this wonderful impromptu rendition of the Super Mario Bros. theme song, a familiar tune in an unfamiliar place.
Unfamiliar that is unless you live in Turkey, where Çağrı Ulusoy on the darbuka and Emre Kaya on clarinet add a distinctively Turkish flair to the song that propelled a million plumbers after a million princesses. It's encouraging to see people on the other side of the planet drawing the same enjoyment from Koji Kondo 's work. The land may be distant, thee clothing and customs may seem strange, but the song? It's a universal constant.
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Yeah, Rain Man definitely filmed here8
Here's a compilation of screen shots from the 1988 film "Rain Man" starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman and photos of some of the locations, taken by me.
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge / Cincinnati – Covington
Here is a scene where they are crossing the Roebling Bridge between Ohio and Kentucky:
Here is a photo I took of the bridge:
Pompilio's Restaurant – Newport, Kentucky
There was a scene filmed at Pompilio's Restaurant. Here is the exterior from the film:
I took this photo last year. It looks so much less barren now!
Here's the interior of the restaurant, a scene when they are ordering their pancakes from their waitress: Sally Dibbs…Dibbs, Sally. Interestingly, Bonnie Hunt also played another Sally, the Porsche in Pixar's Cars!
I made an odd observation. If you look carefully, the floor and furniture look so much the same, but yet…different. The chairs were switched from green to red, and the floor was switched from red to green…
Here's a scene from the movie looking from the bar into one of the rooms of the restaurant (from above).
A close up of that dining room
The bar in the background
The Hearthstone Inn & Cabins – US 52, Metamora, Indiana
This scene where Raymond wouldn't go out in the rain was supposed to take place on US 60 somewhere in Missouri. In reality, it was filmed at the Hearthstone Inn & Cabins on US 52 in Metamora, Indiana.
This first screen capture, from the movie, is of the restaurant to the left, and the cabin Charlie and Raymond are staying in is to the right (you can see the Buick in front of it)
Here is a shot of the restaurant from 2005. Where it says "The Hearthstone Restaurant" in the following photo, was where the cabin sat perpendicular in the movie (the restaurant buildings have been added onto).
This screen capture from the movie is essentially the same scene from above, only this is supposed to be the next morning. Also, you can see a number of small cabins up on the hill in back.
Here is a closeup of the cabin, which now sits up on the hill, in front of the little cabins.
Here is a farther away shot of where the cabin sits now, behind where it was in the movie, and facing US 52.
In this scene inside the cabin, Charlie's impatience is growing as Raymond refuses to go outside in the rain. Note the neon restaurant sign in the background, just to Charlie's right. That is the Hearthstone Inn sign, which sits along the north side of US 52 in Metamora, Indiana. The view out of this cabin is southeast.
The Big 8 Motel – US 66, El Reno, Oklahoma
Finally, the rain ends and back on the road they quest. Their next stay is at the Big 8 Motel, billed as "Amarillo's Finest." Actually, this motel was located in El Reno, Oklahoma.
Unfortunately, sometime after the movie, the property was sold and it became the nondescript "Deluxe Inn." The beautiful neon sign was gone, the building had a horrendous paint job, and it was anything but deluxe…the condition of the motel in the movie was pretty good, but by the time I passed through in August 2000, it was in decline. It continued to worsen until the motel closed and was finally demolished.
The gentleman in the screenshot below was the real owner of the Big 8 (he was in at least one Route 66 documentary I have seen). Under his ownership, the Big 8 was in good shape, but after he sold it, in started to decline.
The following screen captures show the location of their room, 117. Nice touch to have room numbers in neon tubing above the doorways.
The room number was still 117, but all of the neon tubing was gone.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
The scenes filmed in Guthrie were as Charlie stopped (again) to use a phone booth to conduct business, Raymond leaves the car and attempts to cross a street in search of K-mart. Halfway through the intersection, the "walk" sign changes to "don't walk," prompting Raymond to stop in his tracks, disrupting traffic and forcing Charlie to seek medical / psychiatric help…probably as much for himself as Raymond.
Arriving in town…heading east on Oklahoma Avenue from the west end of town
Oklahoma Avenue, just west of Division Street
Oklahoma Avenue and Division Street
This scene was filmed with Raymond walking north on Division Street at its intersection with Oklahoma Avenue (our view is to the south).
Raymond is still facing north on Division Street, while we are looking east down Oklahoma Avenue
Charlie takes Raymond to a doctor
The above scene was filmed inside this space in the building at the northeast corner of Oklahoma Avenue and Division Street. Raymond is sitting in front of the window that diagonally faces the intersection.
You can see the building in the photo below is visible in the window behind Raymond, which is located on the southwest corner of Oklahoma and Division (it's the same building he passed when he first crossed the street).
All of the above scenes in Guthrie were filmed very compactly at this corner, or steps away.
November 28, 2008: Route 66 (Day 2)2
This morning at the motel, I did searched geocaching.com for geocaches along Route 66, as well as back to Indianapolis. I just got a new GPS, a DeLorme PN-40, and was anxious to try it out. I hadn't cached for a while, and was ready for some caching!
We left the motel and followed 66 through Rolla, where we found our first cache of the day, and our first in Missouri. We decided to stick with just one or two caches per hour so we could make it as far as Oklahoma City on this trip. We also wanted to get to Pop's – a gas statiohn/ soda ranch / cafe that sells nearly every type of soda made. I recently saw a brand of soda, Olde Brooklyn, with flavors named after New York City boroughs / neighborhoods, like Bay Ridge Birch, Flatbush orange, Coney Island Cream Soda, etc. Pop's sells it, so I know I'll be picking up a lot of soda here! I also haven't had Route 66 Root Beer in a while and it's very good!
We slowly meandered our way on 66 through Missouri. For as many times as we have been through Missouri, I hadn't stopped to take a photo of this A & W Root Beer Burger Family…not this time!
I also hadn't stopped by the remains of the old Stony Dell Resort before, or at least, taken photos. Also picked up a cache here too!
We found several more caches along the way near Devil's Elbow as well as one when we made our usual stop at Wrink's Market in Lebanon for a drink and a snack (homemade cookies! mmmm). We talked a little with Terry Wrinkle, son of original owner, Glenn Wrinkle. As is becoming our trend, we also stopped at Redmon's Candy factory in Phillipsburg.
They sell homemade fudge, chocolates, taffy and a variety of hard candy that you can mix & match. They also have all types of new and old novelty candy like pop rocks, wax bottles, candy cigarettes, etc. We took 66 through Springfield and found a cache on the east end of town near the old Holiday Drive-in. Another place we hadn't stopped to take a photo before!
We continued on 66 through Carthage, Carterville, Webb City, and Joplin. In Carthage, we noticed the HISTORIC 66 sign installed by Rod Harsh, who ran a Route 66 Visitor's Center in an old filling station in Carterville, Missouri. Rod had a "sign the route" project, and we donated $25, which made this sign installation possible.
Outside of Joplin we took an old alignment of 66 into Galena, Kansas.
We thought about stopping to eat a newer place in Galena called "4 Women on the Route" but it was closed (probably due to the holidays). It's a neat new addition to Route 66. They have a cafe & gift shop and two interesting photo ops-one is a rusty old tow truck. Why on earth you ask would a rusty old tow truck be a photo op? Well, old cars, whether rusty or restored, are always cool subjects. But this particular tow truck was the inspiration for the Pixar animators to create Tow Mater for Cars. A set of eyes added to the windshield and there you have him! Unfortunately, despite the fact that these ladies possess the actual inspiration for Mater, complex legalities prevent Disney's legal team from allowing them to refer to the truck as Tow Mater, so they named him Tow Tater instead. I suspect that many children unknowing or caring of such legalities & whose minds soak up every detail regularly make the necessary correction. We arrived at Eisler Bros. a short time before closing.
We picked up a couple of Route 66 books – the 2nd volume of David Wickline's "Images of 66″ and the 2nd edition of Jerry McClanahans amazing, "EZ66 Guide." Don't travel 66 without McJerry's book. It's an absolute must-have for any trip on 66. Here's an endorsement…since we were originally heading to Atlanta, once we decided to take 66, I lamented about not having McJerry's guide with us. As soon as I saw the updated 2nd edition, I immediately said we MUST get it! The EZ66 guide aids travelers in navigating Route 66. Excellent maps, very accurate and detailed without being TOO detailed and cumbersome, are provided along with EZ turn by turn directions. This guide is so well done, I dare say it's darn near perfect. He gives the novice 66 travelers an EZ way of traveling the route seeing sights along the way, without bogging you down in details but yet remaining accurate with the explicit caveat that the route does change over time, traffic conditions, detours, etc.).
With late fall trips come early sunsets and sunset fell quickly as entered Commerce, Oklahoma.
Pat and I both had the same thought about dinner: Waylan's Ku-Ku Burger! Great hamburgers and crushed ice…and a great neon sign at dusk! It was a little (only just a little) past the ideal time I like to shoot neon, but still enough ambient light to get a good shot.
We ended up in Stroud, and thought we'd check out the Skyliner Motel. After looking at a room, we decided to stay.
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November 27, 2008: Route 66 (Day 1)0
We woke up this morning intending to head south to Georgia. After a last check of the weather we noticed the forecast had worsened. The chance for rain increased significantly, and since I had a specific purpose for this trip mostly involving outdoor photography, it was not something I wanted to do in the rain. We struggled between wanting to go and whether or not to trust the forecast. We could go somewhere else with a better forecast or not go at all. Pat hinted at going west on 66 since we hadn't done that in a while. He's very indecisive, as readers of his blog know from his recent post. We didn't have enough time for him to put up a poll on his blog to decide where to go, so he let Amber decide. He wrote 3 options on bottle caps: go to Georgia as planned, take Route 66 west as far as we could go, or stay home, and geocache locally. Whichever cap she picked was what we'd do, and she picked geocaching.
Since we now had no time constraints, I watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Amber & plotted a couple of Indiana cache routes with my new DeLorme Topo 7 software. I also played with transferring waypoints to my new GPS, a DeLorme PN-40. So once I did that and the parade ended, I asked Pat about heading out. Then Pat says, "Wanna go to Atlanta?" So much for the written in stone bottle cap selection. I'm game to try it, so I finished packing, said goodbye to Amber and off we went.
We figured by this late hour, we'd have to superslab most of the trip, so we could get to our destination at a reasonable hour the next day. It was especially important, since the forecast called for some showers building late Friday and Saturday was looking like a total washout. As we headed south on I-65, I started feeling some negative road karma, but while I didn't want to go home, I really didn't want to deal with rain. I also didn't feel like having to superslab the trip in a hurry, and I thought that by the time we'd get to Atlanta, I'd only have a small window of "cloudy" weather with rain closing in. At best, I'd have to rush around taking my photographs before rain set in, and at worst it would be raining. So I said to Pat, "Let's go on 66 instead!" So we cut across town to I-70 and started our journey west.
After we crossed into Illinois, we took US 40, only taking the evil-I into St. Louis. We exited at Hampton Road and took 66 partly through town. By now, Ted Drewes is in "Christmas tree selling" mode. We passed by Crestwood Bowl, of which I haven't had the chance to take a photo until now.
On Chippewa, there was a Shell station with unleaded gas for 1.33! We took the Interstate from the west side of town to Eureka, then took 66 until Stanton. At that point, we got back onto the Interstate. We thought we might make it as far as Rolla where there are plenty of lodging choices. We passed by Finns Motel in St. James and decided to check it out. The price was reasonable the room was clean and they had WiFi so we opted to stay.
We didn't get much sleep the night before and I was fairly exhausted so I fell asleep right away.
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June 2004: Tulsa Route 66 Festival0
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June 2003: Route 66 – Oklahoma & Missouri0
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Our Honeymoon on Route 66 (Day 3)0
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Amarillo, Texas
We started our day by meeting with Ken & Melissa, two of their kids Alicia & Jericho, Ken's friend Mark and Nicole to go to breakfast at a fine place called Jimmy's Egg, where we met up with more e-group members: Jim Ross, Laurel Kane, Sue Preston, and Mark Potter. Jimmy's Egg is much like a Denny's or Perkin's, it dispenses some fine bacon & eggs!
After our breakfast with the group Sunday morning (Thanks, Ken!!) we mosied west. We took a very slow, leisurely pace, staying off the interstate. We passed through Yukon (the hometown of Garth Brooks) and El Reno, where we saw that the Deluxe Inn was closed down. The rooms were being torn apart – old mattresses littered the parking lot! The Deluxe Inn was formerly the Big 8 Motel, and was unique in the fact that it was used in the 1988 movie Rain Man, with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. Filmmakers thought the motel and sign were perfect for a scene where the main characters stayed in Amarillo for the night. However, with the Big 8 being in El Reno, Oklahoma, they created a sign to hang on the motel touting it as "Amarillo's Finest." The owner decided to keep the sign and promote it's appearance in Rain Man. The room they stayed in remained decorated as it was in the movie, and you could stay there, or at least just look and take pictures. Unfortunately, during Jennifer's trip in August 2000, the Big 8 had changed hands, and become another non-descript, dumpy motel called The Deluxe Inn (a misnomer if ever there was one!). But now, it appears that they are tearing the place down, yet another example of how history takes a backseat to "progress."
After we left El Reno, we decided to take the original alignment of Route 66, dating back from 1926 – 1933, which cut north through Calumet and Geary. From Geary, it meandered south as an unpaved, dirt alignment to the point where it crossed the South Canadian River at Bridgeport. However, the site of that river crossing, also known as the Key Bridge, was demolished in the 1950's. So, we headed east and connected with a newer alignment of 66, which cut across the South Canadian River on a 3/4 mile long, 38 arch pony truss bridge, built in 1933, thus spelling demise of the Key Bridge. We continued on to Hydro, where we stopped to check out the now-closed "Lucille's" historic gas station, dating back to the 1940's. From there, we went on to Clinton, where we first stopped to check out the site of the former Pop Hick's Restaurant. Pop Hick's was located on Route 66 for a long time, and was featured in Michael Wallis' video Journey Down Route 66. Jennifer was quite disappointed during her first trip upon discovering that Pop Hick's had burned down a year earlier! Unfortunately, the current owners had no insurance, so they were unable to rebuild. We then toured the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum, which is more than worth the $3 admission.
We had driven about 100 miles after 6 hours. So after we left Clinton, we jumped on I-40 through western Oklahoma and into Texas. We did get off the Interstate at the business routes (66) through Shamrock, McLean, Alanreed (where Pat nearly had a fatal encounter with a skunk with tail fully engaged), and Groom, where we visited the 190 foot-plus tall "Cross of the Plains," much like the cross in Effingham, IL along I-70. We needed to jump back onto the Interstate to Amarillo where we got in around 10:00 PM. Going against our better judgment, we had a small steak dinner before they closed the doors at the Big Texan. The Big Texan is famous for offering a free 72oz. steak dinner if you can eat the steak, potato, salad, shrimp cocktail, and roll & butter within an hour. (www.bigtexan.com) If you don't make it, the cost is about $60. Just so happened one gent was trying the challenge while we were there. He walked out $60 lighter!
Another fellow e-group member, and human resources director at the Big Texan, Becky Ransom, reserved an incredible room for us at the Big Texan Motel. The furniture is all rustic in appearance, including wooden doors covering the windows instead of drapes. It was a very nice stay!!
Until tomorrow…
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Our Honeymoon on Route 66 (Day 2)0
Fenton, Missouri to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Saturday, June 15 brought a loooong part of the journey. Unfortunately we had to take I-44 through Missouri so we could get into Oklahoma at a reasonable time. We had, individually, both been on Route 66 in Missouri, and through part of Missouri together (see our April 2001 trip), but it still pained us to be on the Interstate! We didn't like "shunning" the Mother Road! We did take Route 66 at Exit #261 in order to go to Pacific, where we had breakfast at Monroe's Route 66 Diner, which is housed in a metal Quonset hut. Very excellent diner with great road food – perfect to start your road trip with a hearty breakfast! Reasonable prices, too.
We also stopped in Stanton, to go to the Antique Toy Museum for a case of Route 66 Root Beer for the road. After purchasing our root beer and some other souvenirs, the owner offered us a free tour. We didn't have much time to do the tour justice (Jennifer had been there for a visit in August 2000), but we did enjoy about a half an hour there exploring their expansive (and expensive!) collection of toys.
We continued on through Missouri, and unfortunately, as we approached the Kansas/Oklahoma borders, we realized we couldn't take the route through Kansas (and would miss Eisler Brothers' General Store) or else we would be very late meeting our friend, Laurel Kane. Laurel is an avid Route 66'er and collector of postcards – see her website: Postcards from the Road. She is from Connecticut, as was Jennifer, and recently moved to Oklahoma after purchasing an old D-X filling station in Afton, Oklahoma on the shoulders of Route 66. Laurel is restoring the station, which dates back to the 1930's, where she will greet visitors on Route 66, where they can view her thousands of vintage Route 66 postcards as well as her dozen or so Packards which will also be on display. Long story short (hopefully), Laurel brought us together…when Jennifer was still living in Connecticut and joined the e-group, she met with Laurel for an afternoon of discussion and story-swapping about Route 66. Later that evening, Jennifer received an e-mail from Laurel's friend Pat. Unbeknownst to Jennifer at the time, after their meeting, Laurel e-mailed Pat, telling him she found Pat's future wife! When Jennifer moved to Romeoville, Illinois, we met in person and hit it off…a year and a half later, here we are – honeymooning on Route 66! Now, back to our trip….
We met Laurel at Waylan's Ku Ku Burger in Miami, Oklahoma, then motored down Route 66 to her Afton Station for an updated look at the renovations. After visiting with Laurel for several hours, we hated to part, but our destination was Oklahoma City, so we needed to continue.
As we took the Evil I (aka, the Interstate) into Tulsa, we noticed some heavy storms up ahead. We witnessed an impressive lightning display, which turned into torrential rainstorms, and continued until Oklahoma City. It did not make for fun travel, especially on the crowded Interstate! Thanks to an incorrect map on Yahoo, we got lost trying to find our hotel, the Route 66 Drive Inn Hotel & Suites, which was on the west side of OKC. Of course, the map showed it on the east side. But being the Road Maven couple that we are, we found our way there.
We arrived around 10:00 PM and were told our choice of two rooms had been held for us by our friend Ken Turmel. Ken is a fellow Route 66 e-group member, and a retired postal carrier who has created what is called "PostmarkArt." It's hard to explain, so see Ken's website, designed and maintained by Jennifer: PostmarkArt by Ken Turmel). Ken and his wife Melissa were in the room next door, and in a room across the courtyard were two of Ken's daughters, and another fellow e-group member, Nicole. We met Ken for a while, and later Nicole, and talked until 1:00 AM! Knowing we were all meeting in the morning for a big Route 66 e-group breakfast, we finally said goodnight!
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July 2001: Oklahoma Route 66 Cruise0
Pat and I decided to attend the Oklahoma Route 66 Association's annual cruise this year, held on July 13 – 14, 2001. Cruisers have the option of travelling eastbound or westbound, with festivities centrally planned in Yukon.
I had just moved to the Chicagoland area back in January and Pat lives in Indianapolis, so we thought about the most efficient way we could get together, to start our drive to Oklahoma. I was able to get a very inexpensive flight from Midway Airport to Indianapolis, so Pat picked me up there and we headed out to Oklahoma.
Since we were coming from Indiana and didn't have alot of time, we obviously cruised west, starting in Miami, Oklahoma at Waylan's Ku-Ku Burgers (they have great crushed ice!!).
Ending in Yukon, there was a sock hop and car show, which was alot of fun. On Sunday morning, I had to get to Tulsa for a return flight to Midway. We had difficulty finding the airport and I arrived at the airport with minutes to spare before my flight.
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When I look at the Ars Geotia Demons my first thought is how fantastic their designs are. Nevertheless they still look like an uncomfortable, pathetic, and painful amalgamation of random animals.
Haha, this is great Daniel.ReplyDelete
Ha! I love their faces and all their random animal limbs. I want this to be the mascot image for people who post too many selfies. Sort of like performers got the hook. Narcissists need to get the Selfie Demon. Cool idea!ReplyDelete
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In the process of migration to RN ! Have two questions
1. Does RN support Oracle DB ?..
2. Say if I want to retreive some specific data(order number) from DB how would I make RN fetch it ?..
Any help would be appriciated
In regards to Jerry Fuerstenberg's post on June 10, 2013 about backward compatibility. The SOAP API is backward compatible. Any SOAP request (the XML sent over the wire) that runs before the ugprade should run after the upgrade. If this is not the case, it is a product defect and I would encourage you to submit an incident to customer care.
The only exception to this I can think of would be if the namespace version used in the request was deprecated and removed.
It sounds like you updated your SOAP bindings after the upgrade. This then necessitated the code changes you mentioned.
When you re-generate your bindings, most SOAP toolkits will pull down the WSDL again. When the WSDL is retrieved, it will return the most current version by default. There is a way to request a specific version, but I forget what the URL parameter is. Regardless, you should only be re-generating your SOAP bindings when you intend to consume a new version of the namespace (most likely for new functionality).
Trust me, we had dozens of tickets open with support after our upgrade. I'm relating what support told us. But that's a discussion outside the scope of this thread. The point is that, since we switched to the soap API we've had backward compatability problems during our upgrades. They may be bugs, but they are still problems and Ramana should keep it in mind.
What Ryan stated is correct and if you're targeting a supported API version, you shouldn't have backwards compatibility issues.
Do you mind sending me a private message with the incident number so I can follow up on the issue you had? That would help us better understand what happened and take steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Thank you!
Just a simple question
We are trying to upload a custom PHP script using the file manager in the RN just wondering are we doing it rite ?..Or are there anyother means of doing this?..
Where do I upload the SOAP API PHP from ?..
Without knowing what you're trying to do, it's going to be hard to help you.
I don't really know what you mean about the "Soap API PHP" I'm not sure that's even a "thing"
My bad ! should have been more specific. Well, we are trying to migrate an existing CRM to RN and I have a PHP team for the development purposes. However, we have not started the migration yet we are just trying to understand RN and the things which we need in the process to accomplish this. I have been going through the documentation and ofcourse with the help of you guys gained a little insight into this. Have a few things to clarify though
1. The RN connection to the database has to achieved by SOAP or REST services now where in RN would I be able to do that ?..(are there any access points in RN for this ?..)
2. The RN client has to be installed on the customer service agent's workstation in order to access it. Is there a way where they can access it from the browser ?..That way they can use any workstation.
PHP scripts on the Oracle RightNow server cannot leverage the Connect Web Services for SOAP (CWSS) API, they can use the Connect for PHP (CPHP) API.
The SOAP API is designed to be used by a client that is external to the Oracle RightNow servers.
I am not able to see process designer in my navigation set and I am the administrator for our account any reason why ?..or is there anything which I need to enable ?..
The "Process Designer" management plugin is only available if an internal configuration setting is enabled on your interface. Please ask your account representative about enabling the process designer.
Thanks Ryan !
Ryan I created a widget from the admin customer portal and I have uploaded a custom model to my customer portal site using cyberduck how would I link that custom model to my widget and how would I call that widget (invoke) itself so that it would give me my output
Ramana, this is a RightNow Connect forum. I would recommend taking a look at the Customer Portal forum.
Also, take a look at the sample widgets & models. They should give you a good starting point.
Sure thanks
Is there any documentation for RightNow CX and Oracle forms integration ?..
To keep the forum clean please open a new topic when asking a new question.
see this post on oracle forms integration : https://cloudcustomerconnect.oracle.com/posts/69aaef0c8e