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I was walking down High Street to the funeral home when I spotted Ed Hankey coming toward me. He said, "Jay," then, "Guess who's sick?," then blinked and concluded, "Murray Cutler."
Sometimes bad news takes the form of a greeting. I hadn't seen Hankey for more than twenty years, and I assumed that this abrupt announcement was a tactic to overcome his awkwardness. So I didn't want to reply by explaining that I was back in Medford Square after so long because my father had just died. Family tangles, bereavement, and failure send us home, seldom happiness. I was headed to Gaffey's to meet my mother and my sister, to choose a coffin and arrange the viewing. Perhaps Hankey already knew about my father and was avoiding the subject by mentioning Murray Cutler.
When I asked, "How sick?," Hankey said, "He's at a hospice." His lisp made the word juicier and more emphatic. He cocked his head to look at me, clamping his mouth shut and widening his eyes.
I took a deep breath and nodded, reflecting on the news. Murray Cutler had been our high-school English teacher. He was one of those people whose death, I knew, would be a problem for me. I was resigned to my father's passing: we had no unfinished business, and he knew that I loved him. What I dreaded were the futile formulas of consolation from people who never knew him. I felt fragile in my grief, hypersensitive to sound. Voices on the car radio grated on me; so did music, so did pity.
I said, "Maybe I'll go see him."
"Visit the sick: one of the Corporal Works of Mercy," Hankey said, and laughed. We'd been altar boys together, and we'd sat side by side in English class, where Murray Cutler was a tease—showing me two copies of an exam, saying, "This is mine and that is urine." "Copper Knickers," he said, "he of the heliocentric theory." Cutler talked about the Huguenots simply so that he could call them the Huge Nuts. He had a gift for spotting his victim's weakness.
Hankey was talking about his wife and his children, reminding me that he had married one of our classmates and saying how happy they were. Then, "I never knew Cutler very well. He was a funny guy."
"I know," I said. I wondered again whether to tell him that my father had died. But a death is not something you mention in passing to someone you run into. And it was better to keep these two dramas separate. Individually, they were tragedies; lumped together, they were merely news.
"Everyone said he was a wicked big influence on you."
"In what way?"
"As a story writer and all that."
When I didn't reply, Hankey said, "He taught us the word 'procrustean.' All these years, I've never used it."
"And 'transpicuous.' "
"Whatever that means. You probably used that somewhere, eh?"
"Not yet."
Hankey shrugged and said that the hospice was near the Winchester line, on South Border Road. "The Elms. Big old house. You can't miss it."
South Border Road, of all places, in the wooded Fells, where I'd spent so much of my innocent youth, where I'd left my innocence behind.
"Jay, we were worried about you," my mother said as I entered the waiting room at Gaffey's. She sat compactly, her hands clasped, my sister, Rose, next to her, both of them pale and stunned, as though waiting to see a doctor.
Rose said, "They're getting the catalogue. For the caskets. It's real stressful. I never thought . . . ," but didn't finish the sentence.
In that uncomfortable silence, I said, "I just bumped into Ed Hankey."
"Oh?" my mother said, in a high, querying tone, her way of asking for details.
"He sent his regards. He asked how you were. He was sorry to hear about Dad."
"Oh?" She wanted more.
Rose said, "I remember Eddie."
I could not turn away from my mother's imploring face. I said, "He claimed that when his father passed away his spirit lingered. Eddie could feel it in the house, and sometimes it seemed to be inside him. Unconsciously, Eddie started to be more like his father. Used the same expressions, adopted some of his father's attitudes, was unusually frugal. It made him feel better."
"I can relate to that," Rose said.
"The memory of his father made him stronger. Helped him with decisions."
My mother was dabbing her eyes with a balled-up tissue.
"Eddie was a nice-looking guy," Rose said.
"Your father was so kind. He had no business sense." My mother was clutching her leather handbag. "Now you have to take his place. You're in charge now."
They stared at me, bereft. I sat closer to them and said, "Don't tell anyone I told you, but Eddie had a couple of funny stories about online dating, things going wrong."
A sad smile floated across Rose's lips.
"One of the women he met had posted a picture of her much prettier sister, wearing a tracksuit. She put a caption under it: 'I like working out. Let's get physical.' But when Eddie met her she weighed about two hundred and fifty pounds. She ate a huge meal. He just sat there, dumbfounded."
My mother said, "Oh?"
"Another one met him for drinks. He said she seemed nice, but a bit goofy. Anyway, they ordered some salads at the bar. Then a strange thing happened. This woman got a nosebleed, but didn't seem to notice it. She says, 'Is something wrong?' 'Yeah,' Eddie says. 'You're bleeding into the Caesar salad.' So she gets up and he figures she's going to the ladies' room. But he never saw her again!"
"Something druggy about nosebleeds," Rose said, smiling broadly.
"God forgive me," Mother said, holding her tissue to her mouth, laughing.
And then a solemn man in a dark suit appeared, and we were invited in to peruse the catalogue.
Driving the next afternoon, I moved through a map in my mind, from Bellevue Pond to Panther Cave to Wright's Tower and the Sheepfold, until the shadow of Murray Cutler fell over my memory, and I realized that I was about to come face to face with the man after all these years. I had no idea what I would say to him, but I needed to see him before he died.
At a bend on South Border Road, an old house, fieldstone and brick, loomed from between tall trees, with a pair of heavy-lidded dormers on the roof and bosomy bow windows at the front, "The Elms: Hospice and Palliative Care" printed in green and gold on a swinging board at the entrance to the circular driveway: a family mansion converted into a medical facility.
Inside, at the periphery of the lobby area, a white-haired woman in a blue sweater sat at a desk behind a glass partition with a slid-aside window opening onto a counter, like someone selling bus tickets. She stood and, plucking her glasses from where they were resting on her head and dropping them onto the bridge of her nose, she leaned at me. The odor of new paint and fresh flowers in the lobby made me think of their opposites—decay and deception and death. They were sinister and obvious distractions, like the woman's smile.
"Please sign in." She indicated the visitors' book. I was reminded of the leather-bound visitors' book we had chosen at the funeral home the day before.
I flipped through the pages, searching the "Destination" column. Murray Cutler's name did not appear anywhere.
"Mr. Cutler's not getting many visitors."
"Professor Cutler doesn't have any family," the woman said. Professor! "He'll be glad to see you. He's in two-two-eight. Stairs on the left."
His door was closed. I tried the knob, pushing the door open slowly, then stepping into the inert body odor that hung in the small room like a sour, baggy presence. Murray Cutler lay in a bed facing the window, an elderly woman beside him bent over a book. She turned to me, frowning, looking punished.
"Sorry to interrupt."
"You're supposed to knock. I don't appreciate it when people don't knock." She sighed and hoisted the book. "We're reading this. I'm one of the volunteers."
In this interval, Murray Cutler had not stirred. His head was canted to the side, his mouth open.
"I can take over from you."
"He taught English at Medford High." She glanced at him as though for approval. "Did he teach you?"
"Yes. He taught me how to tell stories."
"He loves stories."
"I have some for him."
In a softer voice she said, "He's got an awful lot of challenges."
That was when he looked at me, not moving his head but lifting his eyes and remaining expressionless.
Although I hadn't seen him since high school, I recognized him at once. Wasted, simplified, and revealed by illness, he was a skeletal caricature of himself: sickness shows us who we really are by making us too weak to pretend. He'd always been thin, but vain about his body. Teachers wore suits and ties back then. His suits had always been well cut and stylish.
Now his skin clung to his skull, a tissuey death's head, yellowish, with dry, split lips. When he drew a breath, his eyes goggled from the effort. He looked weird and weightless on the bed, like a castaway adrift on a raft. Where there had been muscle in his arms, there was now slackened sinew, less like flesh than like old meat.
"I'll leave him to you," the woman said, rising from her chair and handing me the book.
" 'Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls.' " I read the title aloud and made a face.
"Stories of survival and heroism," she said, buttoning her coat. "We've just done Alexander Selkirk."
" 'Robinson Crusoe and his man Freddy—the perfect partnership,' he used to say." I looked to Cutler for a reaction, but there was none.
"He's had a stroke. Well, a series of small strokes. His speech is impaired but his hearing is perfect," the woman said at the door. "He has trouble with his eyesight, too, so please read to him or tell him a story."
When she had closed the door behind her, I put my face close to his.
"Remember me?"
He seemed to strain to focus his yellow eyes on me, his mouth gaping. His clawlike fingers were folded on his chest. A needle was taped into the back of one hand and attached to a clear plastic tube.
"I was your student. Jay Justus."
In a measured set of whispered gasps, he said, "Had so many students."
"You told me I was special."
This took a moment to register, but when it did he seemed to smile, as though I'd teased him, and he opened his mouth wider, showing me what was left of his teeth, discolored stumps and raw gums. He was ill, but I could see that there remained in his shrunken body a distinct intelligence, like an intimation of heat. I was convinced of it when he became impatient, and that spark kept me resolute.
"Story," he said, urgently. Working his dry tongue, he looked reptilian.
"You used to loan me books," I said.
Impatience surfaced on his bony face again, in his bulging yet unastonished eyes.
"You went to Mexico one summer. You told us all about it. How the Mexican children called you papacito and followed you everywhere."
He lifted his head as though to bat away my talk, and, slurring, he said, "Story."
His saying the word gave me so much pleasure that I hesitated until he had repeated it two more times, chewing it in his insistence.
"This is a story about my friend in San Francisco," I said, and Murray Cutler smiled and looked content. "He was lonely. He lived on his own. He worked in a cubicle. He found it very hard to meet people. One day there was an earthquake, which happens now and then in San Francisco. He ran out of his office and found a doorway to stand in for protection. A young woman from his office had followed and cowered next to him. Can you picture it, the doorway framing them? As the tremors continued, he put his arm around her, not saying a word. She welcomed it—she was terrified by the earthquake, by the screams of the people on the street. My friend began kissing her, and, in her fear, she accepted this. When the earthquake was over, she still clung to him, and instead of going back to work he took her to his apartment and assaulted her."
Murray Cutler seemed to listen with his mouth, opening it wider as though to understand better. When I stopped, he grunted with dissatisfaction.
"More," he said.
"Another man, another time, another story. When a fire alarm went off at a hotel, this man found himself outside, in his pajamas and robe, standing next to a woman who was clearly very frightened. Firemen, hoses, sirens, men with axes. The woman recoiled from them. The man took the woman's hand and drew her close and spoke to her in a reassuring way. Like him, she was staying alone at the hotel. Thirty minutes of this, and then the all clear was sounded—a false alarm. But the elevators weren't working. The man helped her find the stairs and led her to her room. 'I don't know how to thank you,' she said, as she unlocked the door. He was still holding her hand. He wouldn't let go. He kicked her door open and said, 'But I do.' "
I stopped talking, and, in the silence I'd created so that this might sink in, Murray Cutler said, in his gargly voice, "Why are you telling me this?"
"I'm Jay," I said. "Remember me?"
I was not sure that it registered or that he knew who I was. I said, "I'll be back."
Two days went by, the days of the wake at Gaffey's. I tried to stay in the background, as relatives filed in to greet my mother, to embrace her and remind her that she was a widow, to tell Rose what a great man our father had been.
My cousin Eva came up to me and said, "I dated a guy who was in Africa, like you. Middle of nowhere. His name was Charlie Saurin. He was a medic in one of those jungle clearings. No roads. The only way in was by small plane. He said that visitors made him feel lonely. Know how he survived it? He said, 'When you don't think about leaving, the place seems bigger.' "
"I used to fantasize about being in the bush like that. Isolated and in charge. The solitary bwana."
"So where were you in Africa?"
Standing so close to my father's casket, I could smell the heavy perfume of the flowers. He lay, his face lightly powdered, his cheeks rouged, his pale hands crossed over the handle of his Knights of Columbus sword. His presence, and that sword, cautioned me. He had been a practical man, who believed in the economy of the plain truth, who thought that fiction was folly and only jackasses and liars made up stories.
"I lived in a city—Kampala. I was a teacher at a good university. I had a nice house and a lot of friends. I had a cook from the coast, who was full of Swahili wisdom."
"Sounds wild to me."
"It was pretty tame."
After they had closed the lid of the casket, and the last mourner had left, my mother went silent; she looked depleted. Rose sat next to her and bent to whisper something, but it seemed only to provoke tears and Mother's clotted voice saying, "I don't know if I can handle this."
I went over to them. I said, "I just remembered another one of Eddie's stories. He found a woman online, who said that she was single and looking to meet someone. They texted back and forth, sent pictures, and made a plan to go out to dinner."
"Eddie's a game guy," Rose said. "You could take some tips from him, Jay. Maybe meet someone nice. What's his thing?"
"Maybe he's lonely," I said.
Mother said, in a clear voice, "Did it work out?"
"He washed and waxed his car to make a good impression," I said. "Then he drove to her house to pick her up. But, as he entered her driveway, a man jumped out of the bushes, yelling at him—a little guy, going ape."
"Who was he?" Mother asked.
"Ex-husband. He'd been stalking her. The woman came to the door and screamed at her ex. He threw his shoe at her. Eddie said to her, 'Hey, I didn't sign up for this. Call him off.' The guy rushed at him. Eddie told me, 'I punted him into the next yard and drove off.' "
Mother was smiling. She said, "Good for him," as Rose took her by the hand and led her away.
When I returned to the hospice the next morning, Murray Cutler looked weaker, vaguer, but hearing me speak he became attentive, as though the sound of my voice had woken a memory in him. If he did not remember me, at least he remembered my stories.
"Earthquake," he said. He raised a skinny finger and poked it at me. "False alarm."
In English class, if any of us pointed at him, or at anything, he'd say, "Be careful. There's a nail on the end of that thing. That's not ambiguous—what is it?" And he'd answer himself, "That's transpicuous."
"Story," he said now, slurring again.
"O.K. I was in Africa, in a place so remote I could get there only by small plane in the wet season. I ran a clinic. This was in western Uganda, near the Congo border, the Ituri Forest. We were so deep in the bush that we had to be self-sufficient. The locals grew cassava and maize. I ate ugali and beans, and occasionally we killed a chicken. No one thought of leaving. Apart from the clinic, there was nothing, not even a school, and no church. The nearest mission was at Bundibugyo—and most people regarded that as the end of the earth. It was not a happy village, but it was resigned to its solitude. My contract at the clinic was for two years, but I agreed to another two. I liked being in the middle of nowhere. When you don't think about leaving, a place seems bigger."
Murray Cutler shifted his hands, clasping them. He looked satisfied, perhaps imagining the desolation of this African village.
"One day, over the patter of rain on my tin roof—a mournful tap-tap I loved so much that it sometimes put me to sleep—over that peaceful repetition, I heard a plane circling the grass landing strip. Usually a plane brought mail and medicine, but today it brought a big smiling white man named Charlie Saurin. This was a surprise. His first words were 'Jambo, bwana—habari gani?'_ _" He seemed to want to make a point, speaking Swahili to me. Swahili was the lingua franca in this nowhere place. I said that I was fine, but that I wasn't expecting him. 'I was sent from Kampala. Mr. Bgoya's orders. I'm here to help.' Bgoya was a government minister. But what was I to do with Charlie Saurin? He was older than me, about forty-five, with a full head of prematurely gray hair, combed back and upswept in a way that made him seem conceited. I'm wary of men who are vain about their hair. They behave as though they were wearing a special hat. To keep him away from my bungalow and the clinic, I gave him the small house the pilot used when heavy rain kept him from taking off. That pilot, Bevan, once told me, 'You don't really know anyone until you've seen him drunk.' "
I repeated this to Murray Cutler to see whether he'd been listening. He nodded and smiled.
"I invited Charlie Saurin to my bungalow for drinks—locally brewed beer served from a plastic basin. He sipped it from the tin dipper, and though he still lapsed into Swahili from time to time—he was conceited about his fluency, too—he was more polite now, more solicitous, speaking to me slowly and deferentially."
Becoming restless, Murray Cutler shifted in his bed and sighed. He said, "And the point is?"
"Whenever he was speaking from the heart, he said it in Swahili. Just before he staggered home, he paused, his hand on the doorknob, and said, 'The history of mankind in four words: 'Mimi nyama, wewe kisu.' "
"Whaaa?" Murray Cutler said, throwing his head back.
"Charlie Saurin started to teach classes, using his house as the school. You'd think this was a good thing, but it disrupted the rhythm of the village. The children weren't free anymore to hoe the gardens or bring water from the stream. The parents began complaining about this to me. One of the aggrieved men brought his son, Junius, to see me. Junius said, 'The bwana Mr. Charlie is taking me to America.' Junius's father said that this was a tatizo kubwa—a big problem—and that Charlie Saurin's behavior was a shauri, an issue.
"So I invited Charlie over to my bungalow again, but this time we didn't drink—we ate. And I saw how he ate, English style, a fork in his left hand, a knife in his right, two deft hands at work, spearing the meat and cutting a small piece and then slicing a bit of cassava and adding that to the fork and, lastly, plastering some limp greens to it and lifting the whole business to his mouth. That told me more than his drunkenness had, and I remembered what he'd said."
"What did he say?" Murray Cutler murmured, letting his head fall again.
"Mimi nyama, wewe kisu. I'm the meat, you're the knife."
His head fell back on the pillow and he worked his lips, as though tasting what I'd just told him.
"The boy, Junius, told the other children that he was going to America. I heard them repeating it at the clinic. I was too busy to pay much attention to the school, but I sometimes saw Charlie Saurin walking with the children past the gardens to the edge of the bush, sometimes singly, sometimes in groups."
I fixed my eyes on Murray Cutler.
"I knew he was trifling with the students, either with promises or with actual deeds. But there was nothing I could do. The students felt familiar toward him, they hung around his house, and they were so convinced of his affection for them that they began to take liberties with his house, his food, some of his possessions. It was the casual, entitled way of rural Africa—after all, he had a great deal, and they had nothing."
Murray Cutler closed his eyes, and I stopped speaking. He opened them again and seemed disappointed that I was still sitting by his bed.
"When he discovered that they were stealing his things, he was enraged. How dare they take advantage of him! He stopped teaching. He told them that no one was going to America with him, least of all Junius, who had stolen his alarm clock. The next time the mail plane came to our clearing in the bush, he got on board and left. He said that the village had destroyed him. But, of course, it was the village that was destroyed, or at least corrupted. No one was the same after the visit of Charlie Saurin. The villagers began to resent me, and now spoke of wanting to leave their home, though there was no easy way out."
Murray Cutler was squinting at me. He snatched at the cord that hung beside his bed, and stabbed at the button to call the nurse.
"This one man ruined everything with his meddling intrusion," I said, staring at him in defiance. I got up from the chair and left the room before the nurse arrived. His last expression was one of uncertainty, perhaps fear. As always, I was relieved to breathe the sweet air outside the hospice.
Mother said, "Is there something wrong?" when I saw her that evening, alone in her house. Rose had gone to see to the arrangements for the funeral, at St. Ray's.
"I'm fine. I'm glad I'm here."
Mother seemed doubtful. The way she sat, knees together, slightly hunched, she looked like a peasant on a hillside weathering a storm.
"This is where I was born," I said. "That's an amazing fact to me. I've been everywhere, and yet this is the only place on earth where I truly belong."
"Oh?" She looked up, hopefully.
"It's kind of humbling to realize that." Mother didn't seem to hear me. I said, "Did you ever hear the expression 'Forgiveness is final'?"
"What does that mean?"
"This is what it means. Another writer I know found out that a man who'd hurt him was suffering a terminal illness. The writer was down on his luck, not much happening in his life, vulnerable to any slight. He had always resented the man who'd hurt him, but when he visited the man he said, 'I forgive you.' "
"What did the man say to that?"
"He couldn't speak. He looked like he'd been slapped in the face. He was disarmed. There was nothing he could do. Because forgiveness is final."
"That's beautiful," Mother said, and took my hand. "I'll cherish that lovely thought. You could write about that."
I looked away. I said, "And I keep meeting old friends here. Some of them are having health issues. I feel that I can be useful."
"You've always been kind that way, Jay."
I returned the following day. Murray Cutler looked at me with dread when I entered the room, but he was too inarticulate to object, unable to do anything but watch me seat myself and stare. He was the helpless one now.
"I knew a couple, very creative woman, very entrepreneurial man, partners in the trucking business." Just the sound of my voice made Murray Cutler clench his fingers in fear. "They split up. She said to me, 'You have no idea. He was always hearing voices. His mother visited him in his office. The voices said, "Stab her in the eye! Stab her in the eye!" ' He explained this in detail to his wife. 'You need to know.' His father had died in a plane crash. He refused ever to get on a plane, but that was all right—his business involved freight in long-haul trucks. His other quirk was that he had to take thirty steps whenever he entered a room, so if a room used up only twenty steps he marched in place for ten more, but very subtly. I asked her, 'What was the attraction?' She loved him. She told me, 'He had the charm that all psychopaths have.' "
In the time it took me to tell this story, the tension left Murray Cutler's body, and when I finished he said in his usual mutter, with a half smile, "What's the point?"
"No one knew that he was crazy." I shifted to be closer to him. I said in a harsh whisper, "Only she suffered, and when she told her story no one believed her. But I believed her. And, as for the man, his punishment—he still heard the voices."
The door opened—one of the nurses pushing a trolley with food trays on it. I was near enough to Murray Cutler to murmur without being overheard, "I'll see you in two days."
The day of my father's funeral was so scripted, and adhered so closely to the script, that it was as though his death were the fulfillment of a long-term plan, and this was the last act in the ritual. I was grateful for that, for the numbingly routine sequence of events: the chanting priest, the vases of flowers, the candle flames, the kind words, and then the casket on wheels, the silent hearse sliding importantly to the cemetery, where the muddy hole had been thoughtfully disguised with a rectangle of purple satin fringed with gold ribbon. There were more prayers, more flowers, and then another procession, the withdrawal, all of it expected. We were sad, but no one cried. The nature and purpose of a ritual is to meet expectations; it is the unexpected that is upsetting.
Murray Cutler cringed when I appeared the following afternoon, later than I usually visited. He must have thought with relief that I was not coming. Then to see me at the end of the day, when he was tired, and to have to hear another story was demoralizing to him. He tried to cover his face as I pulled the chair close to his bed and began speaking.
"I knew a woman who visited Greece on vacation," I said. "A man stopped her on a back street in Athens, where she'd been buying souvenirs. He said, 'I had a dream last night of Jesus Christ. Jesus said to me, "You must go to this particular street. There you will meet a beautiful woman." And here you are.' When she turned to get away, a man in a doorway said, 'Come here. I will help you,' and the woman fled into his house. The man locked the door and raped her. And, when he was done, the other man was waiting to do the same."
Murray Cutler raised his arms as though to defend himself and cowered behind a tangle of plastic tubes.
"Raped her," I said, leaning over and showing him my teeth.
Sitting beside my grieving mother, helping her answer the condolence notes took almost a week. My father had many elderly friends, and none of them used a computer. Rather than send a printed card as thanks for these spidery scrawls, my mother felt—and I agreed—that it was best to write individual replies that reflected each person's degree of intimacy with my father. It was a sensitive business, but it brought my mother and me closer. When she grew weary, she put her hand on my arm as I was writing, improving her responses to these people, and said, "Everything's going to be all right."
Murray Cutler was much worse the next time I saw him.
I locked the door to the room, and he groaned when I sat down and started to speak.
"There was a man I knew who, when he lusted after someone and didn't want to be caught, pawed his prey in public places—in the bleachers at baseball games, in the back rows at concerts, in campgrounds. He possessed a victim by caressing him openly, looking like a dear friend and benefactor, and that was the paradox, because the victim was too fearful to make a scene. And when the victim went home he couldn't report what had happened. He had to make up a story. In his stories, he was not a victim. He was triumphant. He invented dramas and dialogue. He became such an expert at evasion that the oblique habit of storytelling became his profession."
Murray Cutler had never looked more like meat. He tried to turn away, but he was too weak. "But one story always stood for another. What he invented was actually the truth," I said. "Now you tell me a story."
I sat watching him and it was as if a succession of episodes were running through his mind, all their cruel details twitching on his face.
I returned to my old room in my mother's house. I relived all the hopes and fantasies one experiences in a childhood bedroom. I suffered the familiar ceiling, the walls, the window, as if it were a cell where I'd served a sentence and now was confined again. I hardly stirred from the house for a week, and then went out only to accompany Mother to the cemetery. "I want to visit Dad," she said at breakfast that day, cutting a sausage, then putting down her knife.
We were standing at the grave when Mother said, "Your old teacher Murray Cutler died. It was in the paper."
I couldn't speak.
"Dad respected him so much. He was a Harvard graduate, you know. Dad was so proud when he took you under his wing. What's wrong?"
I had begun to cry, sniffling, then sobbing with an odd hopeless honk of despair.
"He thought the world of you," she said. "Dad knew that. He used to talk about it to me." And then she was comforting me. "Go on, let it out, Jay. I know how much he meant to you." ♦


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The trophy to be taken home by one storyteller this Thursday, 8 pm, Moto Saloon at our first ever Big Blue Door Slam, featuring the winners of 2012's Big Blue Door Jams.
That's genuine wood with gold paint, folks! Nothing but class up in this joint!
Heck, it's worth the $5 admission just to get a closer gander at this finely crafted work of art. Just think how much some grasping grandnephew of whoever wins this week will get for this thing on Antique's Roadshow in 2085!


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The Wexler family continued with its real estate holdings. Currently, Eldon, along with his son Koby, manage the Wexler Property Group from its offices in Snohomish WA. Practicing the same key core values that Al Wexler had with his retail chain: delivering quality products, at a competitive price, from knowledgeable and respectful staff.
The Wexler Property Group portfolio has now grown to include properties from the Northern Oregon Coast and Southwest Washington to throughout the greater Seattle Metro Puget Sound area and up into Skagit County.
The Wexler Property Group takes pride in its motto of DEVELOPING lasting friendships, BUILDING quality commercial and residential spaces, and MANAGING to be the best.
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Charm City is calling with exceptional med lab jobs. The sheer number of things to do in Maryland is astounding. Maryland tourist attractions are found in Baltimore Inner Harbor, Annapolis and Ocean City, including all that Maryland beaches have to offer. Discover the many rivers, bays and inlets along the Eastern Shore. Explore waterfront villages and mill towns by the Chesapeake Bay and marvel at the extraordinary boats crowding the country's sailing capitol of Annapolis. Savor every treasure of the waters, from crabs to oysters. Better yet, catch your dinner yourself. Every charm begins here with a Maryland med lab job.
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Custom RV Day Night Shades
- 606345297107
- Shipping:
- Same Day Shipping if ordered by 11am est
Please Note: The blinds are made custom by your preferences, please allow 2-3 weeks before shipping.
Valance and side panels pictured above are not included, for reference only.
Please call if you have questions about ordering or custom options or want to order a sample of a specific color (574) 848-0405
Fabric is 100% polyester
Day Shades
The best day shades are those which are supplied in light colors on sheer fabric, which allows you to enjoy just the right amount of sunlight during the day. At the same time, this kind of fabric blocks out the direct light and heat of the sun, allowing you to maintain a stable ambient temperature and save your eyes from the glaring rays beating down upon your RV.
Night Shades
The nighttime colors we offer are all opaque, so you can benefit from privacy whether it's the middle of the night or day. All you have to do is pull your blinds down all the way and no one will be able to see past them. There's nothing better if you're parked up in a crowded campsite and you just want to get away from it all. These are not full black out material but you can't see through them from the outside. We do offer full black material with our roller shades if you also want to block the sun.
Select the Specific Size You Need
The most important task you have to complete if you want your shades and blinds to have the optimal effect is to measure your windows. Naturally, you'll need to choose a length that covers all of the window area and a little bit below it too. Once you have worked out the length you want to cover, our team of experts can get started on making your customized set.
If you already have some existing accessories attached to your window, such as drapes or valances, then you're going to need to factor that into your measurements. Ultimately, you want your shades to fit underneath the existing fittings in your RV.
In general, we offer a wide range of widths and heights for you to choose from, going all the way from 5.5" to 71" in width and 5.5" to 84" in height. As you can imagine, this vast set of choices enables you to cover just about any type of RV window you can imagine.
Essential Components to Know
When you purchase your day and night pleated shades, it's vital that you understand what you're going to get. This product always comes with the following components and options as explained below.
- A choice of 2 daytime sheer fabric colors
- A selection of 19 opaque nighttime fabric colors
- Widths and heights to fit any RV window
- Standard square rail with lift knobs and rounded fingertip lift rail. Both come in an off-white color.
Place your order right away to receive your custom-made pleated shades as soon as they're ready. If you've got any questions, all you need to do is drop us a line.
How to pick the right size:
When measuring, you'll want to measure the length or "drop" of the entire area covered. It's important to make sure you pick the right size, we manufacture the exact size you order. Make sure the entire window area is covered to assure a custom fit. If you already have valances or draperies installed, make note that your measurement for the width size allows the blind to fit under the current window treatment.
*These custom RV Blinds are non-refundable
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Let's face it, chopping all your hair off can lead you to think there's only one hairstyle you can put it in – exactly how you cut it. But fear no more! With a little bit of research, I've discovered so many cute hairdos for short hair for every hair type. So much information exists about hair styling tips for every length that any help with what to do with short hair is priceless. From Halle Berry to Jennifer Lawrence to Charlize Theron, the short hairdo can be sexy is so many ways.
I've gathered of few of the more popular styles. Enjoy!
1) The Pixie
This cute and edgy haircut has been worn by Jennifer Lawrence, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna recently. The fringe is kept extremely short with textured ends. The same ragged texture is echoed throughout the entire haircut that keeps the look blended and adds interest. Spiking up the top few layers adds a fun, trendy flair.
How to Style:
1. Use your fingers or a comb to arrange hair into place right out of the shower. Pull your bangs to the front and then lightly brush to the side. Lay your hair forward around the temples and then smooth the rest of the hair back and flat toward the nape.
2. Once you have your hair arranged and organize, you can allow hair to air dry or blow dry.
3. When your locks are completely dry, go in with your favorite styling products to polish off edges and spike up the top. Use your fingers to style for the most natural look.
Use a combo of products for this spiky hairstyle. Start with a paste to add texture and spikes then hold it in place with hairspray.
This haircut is very edgy so harder angled faces with square lines should stay away from this pixie hairstyle. Medium thickness hair that is straight or slightly wavy can pull this off. Just make sure your hair isn't too straight that it won't lay down flat. A pixie looks the best when it has some volume.
Cowlicks and hair growth patterns make a huge impact on all haircuts, but especially with pixie haircuts. Make sure your hair stylist examines your hair and scalp closely to create the best short haircut for you.
2) The Side-Parted A-Line
Nothing adds flare to a hairstyle like a little asymmetry! Changing up your look like this will give you an edgier, trendier look that is sure to turn some heads.
How to Style:
- Apply a mousse or root boosting product to the roots of wet hair.
- Using a medium-sized boar bristle round brush, blow dry your hair section by section until everything is dry.
- If desired, used a flat iron to smooth out your hair.
- Finish with a shine polish or serum on the ends.
A medium-sized bristle brush will bring you the best results. It holds up well even after plenty of use and will give you enough tension to pull your thick hair straight, and get it smooth!
Someone with asymmetrical features could benefit greatly from this haircut. It will balance out and disguise one eyebrow that is perhaps higher than the other! Be sure to ask your stylist to create plenty of layers. These will prevent the cut from looking bulky and too heavy.
3) The Smoothed Out Bob
If it's sleek and straight you want, then this is the look for you! Short hair looks fantastic when it's smoothed out. It really allows your cut and color to shine and steal the show!
How to Style:
- Apply a smoothing serum to wet hair.
- Using a flat paddle brush, dry your hair.
- Taking small sections, use a flat iron to smooth out your hair.
- Use a smoothing serum or shine paste on the ends of your hair.
I love Moroccan Oil when I'm flat ironing because it adds tons of shine and softness.
This style is great for those gals with thick hair that want to really accentuate a blunt bob or some fun color. Those with a longer or oval face are best suited to this style.
4) Curls, Curls, Curls
Nothing spices up a short style like adding a little bit of curl! This style is extra simple to create and it adds an element of fanciness to an otherwise ordinary cut.
How to Style:
- Blow dry hair using a flat paddle brush.
- Using a 1-inch curling iron, take small sections and curl all of your hair.
- Finish with a light holding hairspray.
Try a medium hold hairspray for a nice finish that won't leave your hair crispy and crunchy.
This style is perfect for anyone wanting to soften harsh features or for those with a narrow or square shaped face.
5) The Volumizer
Sometimes a little volume is all a girl needs to really make an ordinary hair day extraordinary. Get out your round brush and let's get started:
How to Style:
- Using a medium-sized boar bristle brush, blow dry your hair in small sections.
- Once hair is completely dry, back comb hair at the roots for extra volume if desired.
- Finish with a light hold hairspray.
Try this look if you want to make a round face look lengthened. Extra thick hair with lots of layers will add plenty of extra volume and body.
Short Hair Don't Care!
Whether you've been into a short hairdo you're whole life or you just took the leap, there are a ton of hairstyles out there for you to choose from. Short hair accentuates a woman's naturally sexy features either in her cheekbones, the back of the neck, or the eyes for example. With these and many more unmentioned hairdos, any short cut can really bring out your best look!
More beauty courses on just about anything you can think of can be found here:
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The road to recovery from cancer
Before Angela was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 she considered herself fairly fit and healthy. An early childhood teacher and self-confessed workaholic, the breast cancer diagnosis threw her life into turmoil and her exercise regime went out the door.
ENRICH, an exercise and nutrition program recommended by her oncologist, helped Angela get her life back on track.
Coping with a cancer diagnosis
"I actually had gone to my GP for something else and she noticed that there was a lump, and I was asked to do a mammogram. They found out that I had three lumps in my right breast. It was a whirlwind, you know, day-to-day teaching and all of a sudden, having to go into emergency surgery."
A biopsy confirmed Angela had aggressive stage 3 breast cancer that had travelled into her lymph nodes. She had no choice but to get a mastectomy. Six lymph nodes had been affected, and 16 were removed. Angela's surgery was followed by six months of chemotherapy and then 30 sessions of radiotherapy.
"Throughout my chemotherapy treatment, unfortunately, I felt really ill. I wasn't exercising at all. I would actually force myself to walk down the local shops. The craving that I had was for a lot of salt, so I would have a lot of hot chips, because I couldn't stomach a lot of food, and I was finding that my weight and my mood was shifting.
The side effects of the chemo debilitates you, and I think too, because I didn't exercise, I felt a lot more sluggish, then after the 30th radiotherapy session, that just exhausts you. I found it so difficult trying to cope with everything that exercise wasn't a priority.
Once my treatment was over I had noticed that I had gained quite a lot of weight, and my oncologist had noticed that my mood wasn't exactly the happiest. My oncologist referred me to the ENRICH program."
How exercise helped with Angela's recovery
"I think up until I went to ENRICH, I didn't know the importance of exercise. I needed to get prepared for the major surgery when I had the breast reconstruction and also rehabilitation after the surgery."
Cancer Council's ENRICH program is delivered by a qualified Exercise Physiologist/Physiotherapist and Dietitian, and is part of the recently developed ENRICHing Survivorship program which incorporates additional sessions of yoga and peer support to assist cancer survivors and carers to restore their physical and emotional wellbeing after cancer treatment.
Angela says that the benefits she got from ENRICH are the expertise of a qualified dietitian and exercise physiologist, "but what I particularly appreciated and welcomed was just their passion to help people. The commitment and the passion that I saw in the ENRICH program was a catalyst that actually encouraged me to go and get my health back on track."
"Meeting the dietitian once a week, I had to keep a diary, and reflect on what I ate. It was frustrating at times, because I thought that I ate quite healthily, but it was the amount of food that I was actually eating.
The exercise physiologist helped me get into very basic training, just the treadmill, building up my heart rate.
I started doing Hatha Yoga, and the more that I did the yoga, the more at peace I was becoming. As I became stronger I was finding that the yoga was helping with my lymphoedema as well, and my well being. It's become part of my daily routine, along with walking, you know, along with going to the Survivorship Gym at Concord Hospital once a week, it's part of something that I do."
Moving on from cancer
Angela (on the right)
For Angela, ongoing motivation comes from the benefits she feels, "The peace that I feel and knowing that this is part of my life. If you have been touched with an illness like cancer your life does change. You can't expect to pick up where you were, because it is different."
"Another incentive to exercise and to maintain a regular weight is because my cancer was oestrogen-based, my risk of it coming back is a little bit higher if I gain weight. The healthier that I am, the more that I maintain the weight, the less the risk is.
I think, in hindsight, if I had exercised through my treatment, maybe my mental state would have been a lot better, because I find exercising makes a big difference in my emotional well being. "
"I've often been asked what advice would I give somebody if they were recently diagnosed. There is support out there if you're willing to take it, and I can't stress that enough. If I was to guide others, if they had to go through the same journey, if you can incorporate your exercise, even gentle exercise, throughout, it would be ideal.
I'm in a position now where I can lead a happy and healthy life."
Find out more
Visit our Exercise and cancer page to find exercises, videos and other resources to help your cancer recovery.
Find out about the ENRICHing Survivorship program.
Visit Life after cancer treatment to find all of our programs, webinars and other resources for people recovering from cancer.


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CLM identifies key fleet issues of 2014
At this time of year it has become almost traditional to look forward and predict the most important fleet issues for the year ahead. Here at CLM we have put together our own predictions and believe that cost cutting and reducing whole life costs will remain firmly at the top of the fleet agenda for 2014.
Cost cutting to remain top concern
While the economy is forecast to grow this year, recovery looks likely to be patchy at best. We believe that, after talking with many of our clients, cost control will again be the number one priority.
This means a careful balancing act between achieving lower costs while not compromising customer service – something we are passionate about at CLM.
Taking a whole life cost approach is the only way to get a true cost picture and this is something we will continue to advocate to our clients throughout the year ahead.
Fuel costs will continue to be an issue
Many fleet operators breathed a sigh of relief when the rise planned for this year was scrapped in the Autumn Statement, but we are not out of the woods by any means. Fuel costs remain the second highest cost after depreciation and their careful management should remain a priority.
The use of fuel management techniques, such as fuel cards, the use of supermarket forecourts and driver awareness training, should continue to be important to keep fuel costs in check.
As manufacturers continue to introduce cleaner and more fuel-efficient models, fleets can increasingly make smarter vehicle choices as a more sustainable way of managing fuel costs in the future. Any fleet review should include the identification and selection of the most fuel economical models as a matter of course.
Benefit-in-kind taxes will be a main focus
BIK rates will rise by 1% this year and we all know other rises are in the pipeline. Last year's Budget revealed that low emission cars would no longer be exempt from company car tax and that the maximum tax threshold will increase from 35% to 37%.
In addition, the diesel supplement is to be removed from 2016 and drivers can expect increases to BIK rates in the years ahead. All of this puts the emphasis firmly on making the right vehicle choice for the next three years, with low carbon emissions and frugal fuel economy a priority to help keep tax bills in check.
Electric vehicles will make headway
Increasingly onerous carbon emission legislation plus Government incentives will undoubtedly encourage new developments in electric and plug-in vehicles this year. The Government's pledge at the Autumn Statement to invest millions in developing infrastructure for EVs should be a signal of confidence for the future.
As mainstream manufacturers, such as BMW, release new models to meet emissions, cost saving and efficiency demands, we are likely to see an increase in EV uptake. How meaningful that increase will be still remains to be seen, but all the signs are for more significant fleet interest than hitherto.
Managing the grey fleet will remain essential
Key amongst duty of care responsibilities is the need to ensure that the grey fleet – those cars owned by employees but used for company business – is managed as effectively and with the same degree of professionalism as company-owned vehicles. The grey fleet was identified as a source of concern for fleet managers last year, and we see nothing to signify that it will not continue to be a key issue for the months ahead.
Our advice with the grey fleet is always to manage it as stringently as the main company fleet. That means regular condition checks, scheduled servicing and maintenance and electronic vehicle information capture.
Salary sacrifice will continue to grow
Salary sacrifice car schemes have become increasingly popular as a way of opening up the ownership of brand new, low emission, fully maintained cars to larger numbers of employees. And there seems to us to be no reason why this trend will not continue to gather pace, especially in larger organisations, as an intrinsic part of the flexible benefits packages available.
Finding a reliable partner to ensure the schemes are properly constructed with as wide a choice of vehicles as possible to meet staff needs will continue to be of paramount importance.
Switching suppliers will require due attention
More companies are believed to be looking to switch suppliers due to concerns about rising prices and falling service levels. Changing your fleet supplier can be a tricky proposition that often hinges on getting your tender document absolutely spot-on.
At CLM we have produced a free report that details how to get the best from any tender process and shows how to identify the key questions to ask of any prospective supplier.
Pay-as-you-go maintenance on the increase
Most contract hire packages today come with a maintenance-inclusive element, but many companies that use contract hire to fund their company cars this way don't realise that there may well be a more cost-effective alternative.
One option could be to switch away from a fixed cost maintenance package and consider pay-as-you-go maintenance, managed by a fleet management specialist, instead. This can improve your cash flow, give greater transparency and improve flexibility. It also means that you only pay for service and maintenance as it occurs, rather than accruing for a future eventuality.


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The ICDE Demonstrations program provides an exciting and highly interactive way to demonstrate your database systems research. Demo proposals should focus on developments in the area of data and knowledge engineering, showing new technological advances in database systems, innovative data management and processing techniques, or novel applications of information technology.
All demonstration submissions must be within four pages in the standard IEEE proceedings style and should:
In addition, as an option, authors can submit a short (at most 4 minutes) video illustrating the demonstration scenario. The accompanying video must be in MPEG format and playable using a wide variety of media players, including VLC Media player 1.1.9 (available at: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ).
Demonstrations will be selected based on several criteria including novelty, research contributions of the demonstrated system, and the "wow" factor of the demonstration. The proposal should describe clearly what the audience will see and how it can interact with the system.
Please submit your demo paper (up to 4 pages, IEEE proceedings style) through the CMT site for the ICDE 2013 Demo Track. An optional video (up to 4 minutes) can also be submitted there as "supplementary material".
A demo proposal submitted to ICDE cannot be under review for any other publishing forum or presentation venue (including conferences, workshops, and journals) during the time it is being considered for ICDE. Furthermore, after you submit to ICDE, you must await our response and only resubmit elsewhere if your demo is rejected (or withdrawn at your request). This restriction applies to identical submissions as well as to submissions with a substantial overlap in scientific content and results.


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We've been hearing consistently good news on the housing front for a solid year now. Prices are up, sales are accelerating, and new construction is coming along. But while this week brought another round of positive signs, the United States is still a long way from what can be considered a "normal" housing market.
Both new and existing home sales improved last month. New home sales increased 2.3 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 454,000 homes (March was also revised upward to a 444,000 rate), according to a joint release from the US Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That's a 29 percent increase from the level seen a year ago.
"Not only did we have the increase in April, about as expected, but we had upward revisions for prior months and an acceleration in new home buying even compared to last year," David Berson, chief economist for insurer Nationwide, said in a phone interview. "The level of sales and pace is the best that we've seen since the middle of 2008, when the economy was just beginning to fall into the Great Recession."
Existing sales, which are calculated in a separate survey from the National Association of Realtors, crept up 0.6 percent to a 4.97 million annualized rate (again, with a revision upward for March). "April's existing home sales is evidence of continuing momentum in the residential real estate market," John Tashjian, principal owner of Centurion Real Estate Partners in New York," wrote in an e-mailed analysis. "We have watched the market move swiftly into the recovery stage of a cycle and predict continued growth in sales followed by price appreciation, throughout 2013 and 2014."
"On existing homes, demand is coming form investors who are taking distressed homes off the market and renting them," Mr. Berson adds. "But that helps on the new home side, too."
Prices have also accelerated, driven by tight inventories of existing homes and increased buyer demand. Another hopeful sign: the sales percentage of distressed homes continues to fall, down to 18 percent of sales in April.
But Berson warns that the market still has a long way to go. "These are numbers that historically aren't huge," he says. "Even if you look in the '90s, new home sales ran in a range of anywhere between 600,000 and a million. We're only at about half of where we should be, and it's going to take a while. We saw 1.2, 1.3 million during the housing boom, but that's unsustainable. We need to get back to a pace of sales justified by the demographics, say, 900,000" annually.
Two things are going to make getting to that point a slow climb, according to experts. The first is inventory, which is tight for both new and existing homes. "Unsold new home inventory are pretty close to all-time lows, because builders are being cautious," Berson says. In the case of existing homes, the inventory squeeze is having a marked effect on certain areas of the country.
"Tight inventory – especially in the West, where the median price was up 17.5 percent from a year earlier – is clearly playing a role," IHS Global Insight economists Patrick Newport and Stephanie Karol wrote in their e-mailed analysis. "Since housing starts are currently running well below underlying demand (1.3 to 1.5 million, according to our estimates), and since it takes on average about seven months to complete a home on getting a permit, inventories will probably remain lean through next year."
The other culprit, at least according to the real estate industry, is stricter lending standards, which make it more difficult to get approved for a home loan. "We don't want to go back to 2003, but it's probably a little too tight today," Berson says.
This housing recovery is different than others, he adds, in that in the past the generally reliable real estate market has been the sector that leads the economy out of recessions. This time, it was the area of the economy that was "hurt most by the recession and recovered relatively modestly this time.
Still, "the housing market will continue to improve and outperform the rest of the economy over the next few quarters," Mr. Newport and Ms. Karol from IHS write. "Existing home sales should climb about 8.5 percent in 2013 and 12 percent in 2014."


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Are you looking for newborn baby gift baskets? Or do you just need some ideas for things to go into a basket for a newborn baby?
Newborns grow so quickly, they usually double their birth weight within about 4 months. Because of that fact, you should realize that any newborn clothes you give will not get much wear.
If you want to give something that will be used right away, then here are some ideas that would be perfect in newborn baby gift baskets...
So, now do you have some ideas for what to include in your gift basket? I do hope so...
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In spite of demonstrated need and demand throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, many micro, small, or medium-sized enterprises are not able to access funding for clean energy or energy efficiency technologies that could reduce energy costs and improve competitiveness. In addition, finance for adaptation activities is also scarce.
The introduction of microfinance in Latin America is a groundbreaking innovation because it enables these enterprises to access climate finance for the first time. EcoMicro is building the capacity of the region's microfinance institutions so that they have the appropriate tools and know-how to develop and offer green financial products that help clients address climate change.
Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru
Key facts
- EcoMicro is training 12 microfinance institutions to develop green financial products for climate change mitigation and adaptation activities.
- Each microfinance institution receives a USD 280,000 grant from EcoMicro for technical assistance, which is matched with funds from the microfinance institution itself.
- Two microfinance institutions in Mexico and Peru, for example, are expected to mobilize an additional USD 5.9 million to provide clean energy and energy efficiency solutions for more than 5,000 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in poor areas, enabling them to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20%.
The problem
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that global warming will bring significant changes to Latin America and the Caribbean, affecting crop yields, access to water, energy production and irrigation.
These climate effects threaten to undermine long-term development efforts, and will affect low-income populations disproportionately. Low-income populations often work in sectors vulnerable to climate change, such as farming, fishing, or other productive areas in which micro, small, or medium-sized enterprises are active.
Many of these enterprises are not able to access clean energy or energy efficiency technologies that could reduce energy costs and improve competitiveness. A primary cause of this is that their financial providers, mainly microfinance institutions, do not have the appropriate tools and know-how to develop and offer sustainable green financial products to finance both mitigation and adaptation activities.
EcoMicro is a USD 7 million program co-financed by the Multilateral Investment Fund and the Nordic Development Fund. Designed for Latin American and Caribbean microfinance institutions, its purpose is to develop green finance products so that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises and low-income households can access clean energy, increase their energy efficiency, or adapt to climate change.
Helping the planet
One of the key components of the EcoMicro program is to help microfinance institutions reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint. The program is also reducing emissions by increasing micro, small, or medium-sized enterprises' access to clean energy and energy efficient products.
Helping people
The innovative EcoMicro programme offers solutions not only for microfinance clients, but also for the institutions themselves. EcoMicro enables microfinance institutions to green their own operations and to reduce the vulnerability of their existing loan portfolios to climate change impacts.
Two microfinance institutions in Mexico and Peru, for example, are expected to mobilize an additional USD 5.9 million to provide clean energy and energy efficiency solutions for more than 5,000 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in poor areas, enabling them to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20%.
More than 800 smallholder farmers in Bolivia, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic are testing different models for adaptation financing. These models aim to help farmers maintain or increase their income in spite of climate change threats. In Bolivia, a US$1 million concessional loan from the Climate Investment Funds has been endorsed to scale-up the product and reach an additional 1,000 smallholder farmers.
Spillover effect
Participating microfinance institutions have committed to bringing to scale the green finance products that are being developed and tested. For example, Te Creemos in Mexico, aims to scale up its pilot project with 100 medium-sized enterprises, to reach 2.5% of its loan portfolio, equivalent to mobilizing at least USD $700,000 for green finance products for renewable energy.
The programmatic approach of EcoMicro facilitates the replicability of green microfinance products not only throughout Latin America and the Caribbean but in other developing regions, such as Africa and Asia, by facilitating South-South collaboration and knowledge transfer among relevant stakeholders.
EcoMicro dedicates significant resources to generate knowledge in the form of lessons learned, best practices and key factors for success or failure, which will be captured, synthetized and disseminated. This is expected to advance learning in this new area of green finance for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Individual projects will be evaluated and documented, drawing practical lessons from what has worked and what has not. The case studies that result from these conclusions will be compiled and used in other countries as examples for the industry.
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My ebook Make Mine to Go, is available for pre-order and will be released on September 13 (and you can pre-order prior to that). This is a re-release with a new publisher, JMS Books. The only major change is the beautiful new cover.
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One key to the success of Justin and Toby's marriage is plenty of sexual variety, sometimes with other men they know through the local BDSM club. While Toby assumes the submissive role in their power exchanges, it's more often Justin who generously caters to Toby's erotic appetites. Toby's interest in flirting with a salesman should be trivial in comparison to his other desires. Instead, it sends both men down uncomfortable paths.
Toby manages to assure Justin that it was harmless fun, or so it seems at first. More troubling than Justin being unconvinced is that Toby doesn't entirely believe his own story. When Toby finally figures out he wants something only another man can give him, he knows it won't be easy to tell Justin. Is realizing a fantasy—even an exceptionally compelling one— worth the risk?
"I think we've had enough discussion. Unless you have an objection, I want to have my way with you."
I was never before so thrilled to hear that. "I'm all yours," I said, and I meant it with all my heart and soul.
"Basement. No talking unless I ask you a question."
We usually played in the bedroom unless it was going to involve a lot of equipment, so it seemed like I'd have an extra chance to demonstrate my devotion.
"I'm in a sadistic mood tonight, and you need to tell me if you have a problem with that," Justin said, confirming my impression.
Some nights I was the one begging for more, wanting him to push my limits. Tonight would be for him. "No problem, sir."
* * * *
Justin told me to stand by the spanking bench, facing the door, an order that didn't suggest anything especially interesting. I surmised he was headed for the back wall where we had a large collection of impact toys hanging from hooks. Instead, I heard a rustling of paper and cardboard box flaps. Maybe it was something new. The thought of a kinky surprise sent a surge of blood south. It had been a while since either of us had bought a new toy. I got part of my answer when he returned with a mysterious canvas and leather bundle.
"Strip." He explained only after I started undressing. "I want to try something different. I was concerned it might be on the extreme side, but now I think it's ideal for tonight."
It turned out he was holding a straitjacket, not like the leather or rubber ones from the expensive fetish shops online, but equally serviceable, I imagined, for not only restricting my movement, but making me believably helpless. The thought excited me, but it also made me a little nervous—Justin usually played with my body and used relatively little bondage. This boded something more intense. A quick mental scan of our previous scenes provided no clues to what he had in mind other than my immobilization. He watched me carefully and must have detected my concern.
He dropped the straitjacket by his feet. "All mine," he said as he gathered me into a hug and kissed me hard. "I'll take good care of my Toby. You trust me, don't you?" he asked, picking up the jacket.
I nodded and held out my arms to receive the bondage.
"That's my boy."
Securing the straps properly took a while, giving me a chance to get into a more submissive frame of mind. I stopped thinking about the novelty of his method and concentrated on wanting to obey him. His firm, reassuring voice and his confident handling of me and the equipment made that easier. I took a few deep breaths while he secured the last buckle and checked his work. After adding a hood and attaching the eye coverings, he bent me over the spanking bench and walked away.
The hood muffled sound, but I thought he was putting some toys on the portable rack near the bench. There was no way to predict a choice of a flogger over a crop or cane, or even a single-tail whip. He enjoyed all of them, and in his hands, any toy could turn into an instrument of pleasure or pain. Having so many options enhanced the erotic tension we both craved. I next heard him opening drawers, which could mean almost anything, from dildos to those evil little clips. My guesses leaned toward pain, based on the restraints. It didn't seem like the sort of night involving choices, so I just breathed deeply and waited, happy to be the object of Justin's desire and only slightly uneasy about limits he might test.
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Ever since I travelled to Malacca last year, I fall in love with this Historic State that I decided to travel back to Malacca and booked the same hotel, Hatten Hotel for my short trip vacation! I also booked coach ticket from Grassland Express and Tours Pte Ltd.
From Singapore to Malacca takes approximately 4.5 to 5 hours by coach (About 198.01 km). Along the journey, the bus driver will stop at Yong Peng, Johor, Malaysia. So that the bus driver and the passengers can rest and grab food before continuing the journey to the North or South.
From Yong Peng, you can grab the local Prepaid Sim card to get connected to the outside world especially in this social-media era where you need to Facebook, Instagram, twitter and etc.
I strongly recommend you to get DIGI BEST! Prepaid where you start to connect to the outside world instantly! It is easy to use as it comes with Normal/Micro SIM Card where you can put it inside to your phone without cutting it!
If you worry that they will conned your money just to get the prepaid card, DIGI BEST! Prepaid cost RM10.80 (SGD$4.15) and you are required to top up/reload RM20 in order to use it. They also required your passport to register (BY LAW and Nation Security Purpose. Similarity to Singapore LAW where it required all prepaid user to register in order to use it due to Nation Security ACT).
Still if you still think that they will still conned your money, head down to DIGI AUTHORISED Shop or you continue your journey without connecting to outside world till you reach Malacca.
Finally, the bus reached Malacca district and I am rather annoyed by bus driver. They did not knew where HATTEN HOTEL located and they just simply asked us to alight (First alight at Malacca Hotel! I told the driver that this is not HATTEN HOTEL and he kept saying it in Bahasa Malaysia [BM](Malaysia National Language). I told him to wait and I called the hotel and asked the hotel staff to speak with the bus driver in BM.
So we continue the journey again. Soon, he told us to alight again. I even showed him the photos and told him that it is near Mahkota Parade and I need to call the Hotel again and them ask for direction! Because of the bus driver did not even know their direction!!
Finally, the bus driver get it right and alight us at HATTEN HOTEL!!! This is the worst nightmare from GRASSLAND bus driver!! I never encountered this before where the bus driver did not know the location when they are scheduled to drive Malacca. We are so worry that when we depart back to Singapore, the bus driver did not know the hotel location and fetch us!! We LOL.
We went straight to A&W to have Root-beer and Waffle ice cream! As Singapore did not have A&W anymore, so most Singaporeans will make an effort to dine in A&W when they are in overseas! After that we went back to Hatten Hotel to get our room key.
I am very delighted that I got sea view room although it faced Mahkota Medical Centre (Hospital). After settled down our hotel room, we went out and explored Malacca Place of interest!
We went to St Paul hill and visited to St Paul's Church. It is a historic church building in Malacca and was originally built in 1521.
After that, we head down to Christ Church Melaka. It founded in 1753 and this is the oldest functioning protestant church in Malaysia!
Then, we slowly walked over to Jonker Street and explored the area. Do you know that weekends, Jonker Street will turn into bazaar street during evening time, where visitors can try the local cuisine or get the latest gadgets through the bazaar stalls.
While walking, we discovered a new cafe in the historic state of Malacca and you won't believe it! The Daily Fix Cafe founded in 2014 and located inside NEXT KK SDN BHD. You won't know there is cafe inside unless you step inside the shop.
The Daily Fix Cafe decoration very homely and makes you so comfortable and most of the delights are made by the lady boss! For instant, Gula Melaka Cake (Palm sugar Cake). For those who have sweet tooth will definitely love this!! It only cost at RM4.50 (SGD1.73)! For such a tasty and delicious cake, it is consider very cheap!
You can also order a cup of coffee to chill first before continue exploring Jonker Street and at the same time, relax yourself and enjoy your life in this historic state! Please noted that The Daily Fix Cafe only deal in Cash Term only!
If you are interested to know more on The Daily Fix Cafe, you may wish to click here for more information.
After that we continued our journey and explored around. We saw many historic place of worship buildings which are over 100 years old! It is so amazing they are still in good condition!
After that, we went to the famous Jonker 88 for their Ice Chendol! This place is very crowded and it took us quite a while before we could find a seat to enjoy their dessert! This is the place where you should not be missed!!
If you are Dim Sum lover or carving for Dim Sum, you should not missed this small bazaar which sell Dim Sum at a reasonable price! The bazaar stall is located near to Geographer Cafe. You can choose any Dim Sum that you liked and just pay them!
If you realised that the Jonker Street is actually a Arts and Culture street where you can find many interesting things that you would never see it elsewhere!
If you are smoker, Jonker Street are prohibited smoking area! You will be FINE if you are caught smoking! Please smoke at designated place and obey the Law and Orders.
If you love Mamee, you definitely going to love this!! You can able to get Mamee merchant and World's Best instant noodles 2014, Mamee instant noodles can be found at Jonker house!
It is the first and only Mamee boutique store in Malaysia! Not only that, they also have cafe for visitors to dine in and museum which are going to open soon!
After that, we walked over to A'Famosa Fort which we should not be missed! As it is part of the Malacca heritage attraction that visitors should come here to visit! After that, you can take a ride from the well decorated trishaw and explore Malacca or you may choose to shop in Malacca largest shopping mall, Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall/Mahkota Parade.
If you visit to Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall/Mahkota Parade, there is one crepe cafe which you should not be missed! Nadeje Cake Shop is well-known in Malacca. If you visit Nadeje after 12pm, it will be very crowded and you might need to wait before you can try their delicious crepe!
We ordered Green Tea and Banana Chocolate crepes! It was extremely tasty and yummy! It's very addicting if you want me to describe it! Nadeje Cake Shop located at Mahkota Parade, G23B, EG4 & EG5 (Ground Floor). You may wish to click here for more information.
During the night, you can catch a movie, if you cannot get used to their local cuisine, you can eat at their 24 hours McDonalds. Even at night, this city never sleep as the road full of vehicles.
You should be here in Malacca and I can promise that you will enjoy it!
You may wish to read my previous blog entries on Malacca below:
Melaka Part I: Hatten Hotel. Click here.
Melaka Part II: The Historical State. Click here.
Melaka Part III: Jonker Street. Click here.


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The Denver Broncos did state that they support the military and veterans, and will from now on continue to stand for the national anthem, but they do intend to use their position as a pro sports team to highlight social injustice. "Make no mistake — our actions were in no way a protest of the military, the flag or those who keep us safe. We have nothing but the deepest love and respect for those who protect our way of life and the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. While there's no greater country, it's not perfect. Inequalities still exist, and we have work to do in ALL forms of social justice. We can all do better. It starts with us. We need to do our part and use our platform as NFL players to continue driving that positive change." This statement released by the team may not be what fans are looking for. However, the actions of the Denver Broncos as a team and organization reflect that they understand their fans are upset, and they took care to address the matter. While the rest of the NFL suffers from the financial consequences of these disrespectful protests, it seems the Denver Broncos are the first team to get the point.
Last week when the Denver Broncos played the Buffalo Bills, 32 Denver Broncos players took a knee during the national anthem. These 32 players, who were among the 200 to take a knee during the national anthem last week, indicated their actions were in response to President Trump's comments when he referred to kneeling players as SOB's.
President of Football Operations, John Elway, made it clear he believes in standing for the national anthem, and is likely the driving force behind the Denver Broncos players reversing course when it comes to taking a knee during the national anthem. On Tuesday, John Elway said via the teams website, "I'm one that believes in standing for the National Anthem, and I've always believed that. I believe that this is the greatest country in the world. We are very fortunate to live here, but it's obviously not perfect. There are a lot of things that need to be corrected, and we will continue to work on those things." Mr. Elway continued with his statement saying he understood his players' position and feelings and indicated that when they took a knee it was their decision and not that of Denver Broncos management. Mr. Elway also expressed his desire to focus more on football and taking politics out of the game, clearly demonstrating he and the Denver Broncos front office are paying attention to what the fans are saying.
The head coach of the Denver Broncos also stated that he believes in standing for the national anthem, yet he allows his players the right to peacefully protest. Still, the message that the Denver Broncos front office is sending balances the need of keeping the players happy and to a point appeasing fans who were offended by the team's actions.
Perhaps the real motivators for the Denver Broncos were the latest financial statistics and viewership numbers to be released. Ticket sales have dropped 17.9% compared to last week, ratings took an 11% drop league wide, and DIRECTTV has started to refund customers for their NFL Sunday Ticket subscriptions. Still, many fans feel slighted by the NFL and feel these apology statements don't do enough. Regaining the trust of fans is going to take a much longer time than it took to break that trust. Fortunately, the Denver Broncos realized this.
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I'm In Love With Lisa Morales
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Esta chica si es muy caliente!
Lisa Morales is a TV personality, model, actress, and spokeswoman. She's also super hot.
Lisa has been featured in some of the most affluent television networks as well as fitness and modeling forums. And she literally has the best abs I have ever seen.
In 2006, Morales appeared on Univision's Caliente and competed in their "Super Chica Caliente" international contest, obviously winning with over two million votes. From there, Lisa's career took off faster than John Goodman finishing a bundt cake. In 2009, she appeared in Model Latina on SiTV. In 2010, she hosted the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, reported at the Latin Billboard Awards, and landed the role of Pitbull's girlfriend in the infamous "Hotel Room Service" music video below (go to the 1:56 mark):
How could Pitbull cheat on somebody this beautiful and talented?
Morales was voted one of Maxim's top-10 "Hometown Hotties" later in 2010 and was featured in several Maxim issues following that success. Maxim then hired her to host the Maxim Super Bowl Party in Fort Lauderdale, Maxim Spring Break in Panama City, and Maxim's "Cuervo Games 2011."
Seriously, look at her abs. Good Christ. Those abs and the rest of her amazing body have graced the covers and pages of Natural Muscle 2010, ZLife for Zumba Fitness Clothing Line, LowRider, Ok Magazine, and Maxim's Español/October 2011 Issue. As a fitness model, Lisa has also appeared in several International Fitness Commercials. She has also appeared in National Ad Campaigns for DirectTV Mas and also featured in the 2010 Kmart's Intimates line, Fashion Forever. She is also the face of HotMiamiStyles.com.
Lisa currently resides in Miami where she is one the stars of Telemundo's TV show Nitido which airs every Saturday at 12pm EST. Looks like I need to start getting up early…
Lisa is showing you a lot more than some love below, so now show her some "like" and LIKE Lisa's facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LISA-MORALES/208906996402
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