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MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has announced a new procedure that the customs will offer 24-hour cargo clearance at King Abdullah Port.
This development brings significant benefit to our loyal customers and makes us the first Port in the Kingdom to introduce such a forward-thinking initiative.
Starting from Monday 20th February, procedures now involve the manifest being uploaded five days before the arrival of the vessel, and the Delivery Order being released two days before arrival.
Containers will be scanned during the discharge process, and a fully automated process will continue to ensure that our customers are kept thoroughly informed at every stage.
Our customers are already enjoying the benefit of our most advanced port with the latest technology at King Abdullah.
The Port sits on the main trade route between Asia and Europe, making it a superb location for serving key global markets.
Hisham Al Ansari, Chief Executive for MSC Saudi Arabia, said: "This announcement brings great benefit to our customers and we are therefore delighted to be ahead of the field in presenting this progress.
"The Port itself is already seen as a superb infrastructure, with over 30 deep water berths, direct highway access 24/7, and such a perfect main-trade position between Asia and Europe.
"Adding 24 hours cargo clearance in addition to this existing offering really does make for so many advantages to busy global customers."
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Ethereum(ETC) prices have gone up 3000% ing 2017. Ethereum can be mined on any PC or smartphone with mining software. Mining digital currency like Ethereum requires some technical knowledge about computer programming, shell commands and digital currency. For beginners to get started, it requires researching somewhat about digital currency mining.
You will need to have knowledge about the hardware required and then download and configure the correct mining software with the correct settings. Once you have done this the software will run in the foreground, and if you use the PC for other tasks the mining software can interfere. The point is for a beginner all this can be cumbersome.
Thankfully there is software that does all the above straight out of the box. You can be mine the following digital currencies either concurrently or you can choose which digital currency/currencies you would like to mine.
- Zcash;
- Ethereum;
- Ethereum Classic;
- Bitcoin;
- Litecoin;
- Bytecoin;
- Monero;
- FantomCoin;
- QuazarCoin;
- DigitalNote;
- MonetaVerde;
- Dashcoin;
- Aeon coin;
- Infinium-8;
All that is required is software that works on Windows, Linux or Mac. Register and sign in to an account for your digital wallets and then choose the currency/currencies you choose to mine. You can even choose between CPU and GPU mining. Choose to start mining as soon as your computer starts. This is all done in a easy to use GUI.
Download the MinerGate mining software and easily mine by clicking the button below. Once the MinerGate situs web opens after clicking the button, choose the Sign Up button. Once your have an account, login and choose Downloads from the top navigation menu, then Download the correct software version for your PC or smartphone platform.Download Miner

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Transit of Venus, live-ish from Australia
Clouds mess things up, in physical and computing senses of the word
To Reg readers hoping for a quick peek of today's transit of Venus from Sydney, where the whole thing was visible for hours, we're sorry to disappoint, on two counts.
One is our utterly unprepared state for the event: Sydney sold out of solar filters for cameras and telescopes about a week ago. Even tatty cardboard glasses were being traded on the black market for astronomical (pardon the pun) sums. Welders' goggles were all welded to welders so they could get on with welding. We therefore lacked an apparatus with which to capture our very own transitory images.
Sydney was also overcast and rainy for much of the day, with only occasional glimpses of the sun to be had. That at least meant our expense account wasn't spent in vain.
Other clouds were also troublesome. Sydney Observatory's live stream of the event was inaccessible by mortal browsers. We assume those guys have heard about using cloud computing to buy extra capacity for big events, but didn't see a point in asking them on a day they were experiencing other cloudy frustrations.
Happily others who do this stuff more regularly were up and running. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation had a live stream and offered the chance to embed it. We did so, but the link above now offers a recap of the event. We did at least pinch the screen grab below.
We've since found time-lapse video from the Culgoora solar telescope, a facility 500km north west of Sydney, and seeing as the observatory offered it for download have prepared it for your viewing pleasure below.
Do let us know how the transit goes for you, wherever you are.®
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In a few hours, the hype will be history: At 1 p.m. ET, Apple (AAPL) boss Steve Jobs will take the stage at San Francisco's Moscone Center to deliver his keynote at Apple's annual developer conference. Most expect him to announce a new, 3G version of the iPhone, in addition to things we know he'll show off -- like the new app platform for the iPhone and iPod touch.
As with past Apple keynotes, there won't be an official live audio or video stream. We will offer live coverage and analysis of the keynote, including a live blog of Jobs' speech from the Moscone Center. (Update: Live coverage here.)
Don't want to watch our live stream? There are plenty of others to pick from. If for some reason we go down we'll be checking in on MacRumors' Live text feed, which offers real-time updates. There will also be plenty of chatter on Twitter: The best way to check up on it may be via Summize, which offers real-time Tweet search; Twitter says it'll be watching extra close to reduce the odds of an outage during the keynote.
What to pay attention to? Beyond the new phone and platform, it's possible Jobs will talk about the next edition of Mac OS X, 10.6. Or he might show off new products: Either gadgets like an Apple tablet or a new MacBooks, or a new "Mobile Me" synching service.
We also expect Jobs to unleash some sales milestones; to some extent, his keynotes are like mini earnings calls. Specifically, we think it's likely he'll announce that Apple has sold its 5 billionth song via iTunes. And phones? Apple sold 5.4 million iPhones through the end of March, so an announcement of 6 million phone sold through early June is a no-brainer; an announcement of 7 million iPhones sold would be impressive.
We'll see you at 1 p.m. In the meantime, enter our 3G iPhone prediction contest!
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LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - Mar 21, 2013) - The Las Vegas office of Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce added three new brokers to its roster, Sharon Beesley, Adam Collins and Curtis Sanders -- all of whom joined the company from the NAI Global Las Vegas office.
NAI Global recently made the decision to sell off their Las Vegas franchise license and close down their NAI Las Vegas office at the end of March. The decision created a unique opportunity for both the NAI brokers involved and the commercial real estate companies in the market all looking to add good brokers.
"It's rare for recruiting to be done out in the open, with each broker looking to find the right fit by comparing different commercial real estate companies and services against one another. We were fortunate to pick up three very talented brokers," said Ed Turpin, Managing Director for the Las Vegas office of Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce. "This is just the beginning of some great things to come for our office. Look for more announcements soon. We welcome Sharon, Adam and Curtis to our team and look forward to adding their expertise to our investment, hotel/gaming and industrial teams."
Sharon Beesley
With more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of commercial acquisitions, sales, leasing, and development Sharon Beesley, CCIM, joins the company as an associate specializing in investment properties.
Prior to Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce, Beesley served as a Vice President with NAI. She also gained extensive knowledge and experience as a Corporate Broker for Parcelon, LLC and Monument Realty, Inc., where she provided property valuation, asset management and dissolution of REO properties for various lending institutions. She was also involved in commercial sales and leasing with MDL Group, where she specialized in retail, office and industrial properties. In addition, Sharon served as Vice President of land acquisition for a leading Las Vegas home building company for over a decade.
Adam Collins
Adam Collins is an Associate with Cushman & Wakefield |Commerce where he specializes exclusively in the hotel and gaming property brokerage markets.
Prior to joining the company, Collins specialized in hotel and gaming properties with NAI. He launched his commercial real estate career more than 10 years ago in Albany, New York at the age of 18. Focusing exclusively on the multi-family/investment property markets, within three years Collins became one of Upstate New York's leading brokers. Collins' notable transactions include many landmark, trophy properties, including one of New York's largest student housing portfolios and a professional basketball team.
Curtis Sanders
Curtis Sanders, SIOR is a Director with Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce, where he specializes in build-to-suits, the sale and leasing of industrial and office buildings, as well as vacant land.
Prior to joining C&W |Commerce, Curtis spent more than 20 years with NAI Las Vegas. He joined the firm as Senior Marketing Consultant with their highly regarded industrial division; he then became a Senior Vice President focusing on industrial, office and land properties. He also gained extensive experience with Merrill Lynch Commercial Real Estate in Los Angeles, CA and Arthur Robloff & Company also in Los Angeles, CA.
Curtis has a Master's Degree of Public Service/Business Management from DePaul University's School of Business, Chicago, Illinois. He is a father of three daughters, a U.S. Army Veteran and a Martial Arts Black Belt.
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About Cushman & Wakefield |Commerce
Cushman & Wakefield |Commerce, an independently owned and operated member of the Cushman & Wakefield Alliance, has been the leading provider of real estate brokerage services for more than 30 years. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, the firm has offices throughout Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Washington. It offers consulting, brokerage, tenant and landlord representation, property and facilities management, and valuation services to corporations, institutions and investors throughout the Intermountain West and Pacific Northwest. For more information, and for property listings, broker information, market category reports and more visit www.comre.com.
About Cushman & Wakefield
Cushman & Wakefield is the world's largest privately‐held commercial real estate services firm. The company advises and represents clients on all aspects of property occupancy and investment, and has established a preeminent position in the world's major markets, as evidenced by its frequent involvement in many of the most significant property leases, sales and assignments. Founded in 1917 it has 243 offices in 60 countries and more than 14,000 employees. It offers a complete range of services for all property types, including leasing, sales and acquisitions, equity, debt and structured finance, corporate finance and investment banking, corporate services, property management, facilities management, project management, consulting and appraisal. The firm has more than $4 billion in assets under management through its wholly‐owned subsidiary Cushman & Wakefield Investors. A recognized leader in local and global real estate research, the firm publishes its market information and studies online at www.cushmanwakefield.com/knowledge.
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HelpCenter Live! Upgrading
2.1.2 -> 2.1.3 and 2.1.1 -> 2.1.3
NOTE: This page is undergoing revision, as 2.1.3 has not been released yet…
WARNING: Neither 2.1.2 nor 2.1.3 are supported on Windows servers with anything other than PHP 4.x.x. If you are using PHP 5 on your windows server we can not support the app. Additionally this may be expanded for any ISAPI PHP install. This is due to the Smarty template engine not supporting these situations. We will be changing the Smarty Template engine for 3.0.0, however this will probably require HUGE rewrites of HCL, which is just not feasible for a minor or maintenance version change.
2.1.3 is a drop in upgrade for 2.1.2. What this means is that you copy new files over the old files. Here are the steps, in order:
1. BACKUP your /hcl directory and your HCL database. Do not skip this step, if you have to roll back it can be a bear if you don't keep exactly what you had before the upgrade.
2. Download 2.1.3 from http://helpcenterlive.com
3. Unzip the file into a local directory, we're going to delete some files before we upload.
4. Delete the following from your local version of 2.1.3:
A. /cache
B. /compile
C. /icons
D. config.php
5. If you want your users to be able to delete transcripts (probably not a good idea), download
config.php to your 2.1.3 directory and edit it, somewhere in the file (it really doesn't matter, just
between the <? and ?>) and add the following: $conf['opdelete'] = true;
6. Upload your 2.1.3 directory to your site, right over the top of the existing files and folders. When your
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7. If you can part with osTickets, go into /hcl/modules/ and remove the osTicket directory. osTicket is dead
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – It is difficult for a coach to evaluate an intra-squad softball scrimmage. If the hitters do well that means the pitchers are off. If the pitchers are overly effective that means the hitting is lagging.
Sunday afternoon the Lipscomb Lady Bisons took advantage of temperatures in the high 50s for a scrimmage at Draper Diamond at Smith Stadium.
Coach Kristin Ryman liked what she saw overall.
"It is kind of a mix of emotions as a coach," Ryman said. "I feel like we had a good balance of hitting and pitching. I thought our hitters took advantage of the mistakes our pitchers made. I thought our pitchers did a good job of working on our hitters. Overall, I thought it went well."
Ryman and pitching coach Megan Smith got a long look at pitchers Heather Parker, Tanner Sanders and Ashley Anderson. Sanders had not pitched since last spring due to an injury.
"We got some really good work in for Heather, Tanner and Ashley," Ryman said. "It was probably more innings than they would have usually thrown in a scrimmage situation. It was good to push them to throw a little bit more in a game setting."
The scrimmage was a full seven innings in length.
"Ashley has had a good preseason so far," Ryman said. "She had a good fall. So much of it with Ashley is confidence.
"She has made huge strides. She has the talent. She has the movement. Her speed is good. As long as she trusts her pitches she is going to be in a good spot.
"Tanner looked good considering she hasn't thrown in a game since last spring. For her it was exciting to be back out there and throwing as well as she did. The big thing with Tanner is endurance. She is close but it will be process to get her back to the point where she can throw a full seven innings. I am really pleased with what she did."
Ryman summed up Parker's performance as a typical one for the senior right-hander.
"Heather comes in and hits her spots and does what she is supposed to do," Ryman said. "She is a smart pitcher. Sometimes it can be hard for a pitcher to self-correct, but if she makes a mistake it registers with her quickly.
"She has the knack for being able to work through those situations. Physically she knows what to do correct those mistakes. She understands herself and her pitching that well."
One of the areas Ryman will be working with is the attitude of her players on the field.
"We told them at the end of the scrimmage that I don't want to put an emphasis on the results right now," Ryman said. "At times we had great results.
At times we had ugly results.
"We need to see if we are mentally where we need to be. Are we making adjustments" Or are we making the same mistakes over and over again?"
Another area of emphasis will be the body language of her players.
"We talk a lot about how you carry yourself on the field," Ryman said. "That is a big deal.
"What is our body language like? Are we carrying ourselves on the field the way we need to do?"
Ryman stresses the way the Lady Bisons work in pregame drills is an indication to opponents what to expect when the game begins.
"Working on defense in pregame is the first time opponents are going to see you on the field," Ryman said. "What kind of impression are you going to make?" It's how you take the field and how you hustle on and off."
The Lady Bisons open the season at home Feb. 7 against Virginia Tech as part of the Music City Classic.
"Our talent will speak for itself," Ryman said. "The next one-and-a-half weeks we will work out the kinks.
"We will be getting in as much live hitting as we can. We need to work on seeing the ball and recognizing the zones."
The Lady Bisons were picked to finish third in the Atlantic Sun Conference by the coaches,
behind No. 1 USC Upstate and second place Florida Gulf Coast. The Lady Bisons lost in the championship to Upstate last season in the A-Sun Tournament. The goal, as always, is to return to the NCAA Tournament.
Ryman thinks that starts with the little things.
"We know it is hard to simulate game day," Ryman said. "On game day the adrenalin will be pumping. People will be in the stands cheering.
"We are stressing every single day what the mental approach to practice should be. We want to make sure we are doing things with a purpose."


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Don't get tripped up by the unexpected. Here are some key things you need to be aware of before you make your way to our fun-filled shores.
Visa & customs
Most visitors to Singapore do not require a visa for entry. For more information on visa requirements and the Visa Free Transit Facility, you can check with the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority or the Singapore Overseas Mission closest to you. The period of stay granted will be shown on the visit pass endorsement in your passport.
For a smooth arrival experience, do view this video to learn about the immigration process.
Upon departure, you may use the enhanced Immigration Automated Clearance System (eIACS), which offers you express self-clearance immigration. Do view this video to learn about this process.
For your convenience, download the Singapore Customs mobile app, Customs@SG, which allows you to declare and pay the duty and/or Goods and Services Tax (GST) for your overseas purchases on the go, before arriving at the checkpoint in Singapore. Find out more on declarations and payment at Singapore Customs.


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- Substantial natural resources: agriculture (cotton) and mining (gold, bauxite and iron)
- Political situation is stabilising; drive to restructure the economy
- International aid
- Economy vulnerable to weather and commodity price fluctuations
- Geographically isolated
- Precarious security situation
- Dependent on international aid
Growth is vibrant but volatile
Economic growth, although still strong, is expected to continue slowing in 2019. Agricultural and gold production, the twin driving forces of the economy, are having to contend with less benign economic conditions (raw material prices, security risks, etc.) than in previous years, making growth more volatile. Gold production levels are expected to remain broadly similar to those of the previous year. In August, the government upped its stake in the Fekola mine, which entered full production in 2018, in a move that is expected to boost its revenues by around 1% of GDP. Uncertainties surrounding the price of gold, which accounts for more than 60% of exports and 12.5% of GDP, will therefore have a major bearing on the country's performance. Once again becoming Africa's leading producer in 2017, the cotton sector should continue to grow, assuming weather conditions are favourable. Cultivated land has increased by nearly 5%, paving the way for more rational use of inputs and capital goods, and should ensure that the country maintains its leadership. Public investment will remain strong (around 9.5% of GDP) in 2019. One of the main objectives is to improve energy infrastructure (electricity), the lack of which is undermining the competitiveness of Malian companies. The government is also looking to improve its human capital, which has long been hampered by high levels of poverty, inequality and low literacy (about 35%). To this end, the government met with Huawei, a Chinese ICT firm, on the sidelines of the 2018 China-African summit and signed a training partnership to help young Malians acquire ICT skills. Private consumption will remain the biggest contributor to GDP and should get a lift in 2019 as inflation is kept in check while agricultural incomes, on which 80% of the population depends, go up.
Public and external accounts exposed to cyclical risks
The government's 2019 budget aims at reaching the WAEMU convergence criteria, which requires the deficit to be under 3%. Government spending, which is equivalent to more than 20% of GDP, is highly sensitive to cyclical risks – particularly security risks – and is expected to continue to rise slightly in 2019. Since unrest first broke out in the north of the country in 2012, military and security spending has more than doubled, reaching 3.8% of GDP in 2017, and will probably remain at a fairly high level in 2019, notably due to the financing of the G5 Sahel force. In addition to these current expenditures, the country must, on the IMF's recommendation, continue its investment expenditure to address the infrastructure deficit and build a foundation for sustainable growth. Faced with these expenditures, which cannot easily be reduced, the government will have to rely on more effective mobilisation of tax revenues if it is to meet its budget promises in 2019.
The trade deficit, which is largely dependent on commodity prices, is expected to widen in 2019. Rising prices for oil, which accounted for over 25% of imports in 2018, and food products (about 15%) are expected to weigh heavily on the balance. The increase in public investment, particularly in capital goods, is also likely to contribute to higher imports. Increased cotton production will not be sufficient to prevent exports, which are also being hurt by uncertainty about gold prices, from stagnating. The deterioration in the trade balance, coupled with a small increase in the services deficit (over 11% of GDP in 2018), is unlikely to be offset by increased foreign budget support and the improvement in the transfer balance (12% of GDP), which can be attributed to the persistently high level of expatriate remittances, with the IMF forecasting a 5% increase in 2019. As a result, the current account deficit is set to remain high and will be financed mainly through increased project grants and slight increases in FDI and portfolio investments.
Re-election for IBK and no change in the security situation
August 2018 saw President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (IBK) re-elected with more than 67% of the votes in the second round. While IBK's victory was hardly in doubt, his score (lower than in 2013), the fact that he had to take part in a second round of voting, and accusations of fraud by the opposition point to growing unrest within Malian society. Source of discontent include corruption (the country is ranked 122nd out of 180 countries in Transparency International's index) and insecurity, which represents the country's biggest challenge.
Terrorist attacks by Islamist groups are continuing, and despite the Algiers Agreement of 2015, conflict persists between the central government and the northern Tuareg tribes, who want more autonomy. Managing these tensions remains a complicated task – in particular because of difficulties surrounding financing for the G5 Sahel force – for a country that has to fight on this front while simultaneously trying to rebuild its democracy. This fragile situation puts a heavy strain on the country's business climate, which dropped two more places in the 2019 Doing Business ranking to 145th worldwide.
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Coach Johnson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
If you like to be challenged, then this contest if for YOU! I need an amazingly original logo for my new Leadership Coaching Firm. Looking for a tight combination of a light bulb and stars that has a web 2.0 feel (gloss, 3d, gel, shine, etc). This will be the first of several needs and the winner could land a position on my design/branding committee! As Jay Z would say... "SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT..."
Inspiratude Leadership Coaching (note: Inspiratude is a combination of the words inspiration and attitude.)
Winner of this contest could receive additional business for design of a blog logo, business cards, and other web needs.
The logo is for a new leadership coaching firm called Inspiratude Leadership Coaching. I am currently laying the foundation for a blog, which will be the firm's first service offering. I am also in the process of writing a leadership coaching book that is due out late this year, early next and will be the firm's first product offering.
Inspiratude's target audience will be those in the age range of 18- 30. The firm's philosophy is that a desire to inspire and a positive attitude are the two most important ingredients to leadership success – dispelling the myth that young people in corporate America can't be great leaders due to a lack of tenure or work experience. That said, the logo should be hip enough to register with this age bracket, yet corporate/professional enough to register with anyone outside this age bracket who is interested in leadership.
- Here are some links to light bulb images I like, try and make your bulbs look like this: http://mirror-us-ga1.gallery.hd.org…-3-AHD.jpg,
- http://www.techtrendgroup.net/logo/…_image.jpg (I think this is so hot, lets see if you can make an exploding light bulb with stars coming out!)
- http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/im…n_bulb.jpg
- http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thu…t_bulb.jpg
- I have two color schemes in mind. Scheme 1: Red, White, & Black. Scheme 2: Royal Purple, Gold, and Black. I am open to any other color schemes you all may want to present, but those are my preferred ones unless you can blow me away with something else.
- I'd like to see some incorporation of a light bulb and stars. One thought I have is to have stars bursting out of a lightbulb (symbolizes a star being born or growing from the power of thought leadership). Please note, I would like the light bulb to look as real as possible. Not a big fan of the cartoon looking bulbs.
- I would like a web 2.0 feel to the logo with some type of glaze, reflection, 3d, and/or gel appearance. This is where you can be creative as clearly I am not, lol.
- As for the text, I'd like to see "Inspiratude Leadership Coaching". An idea is to have the text in a circle with image of star and bulb in the middle. But I'm totally open to how you choose to blend text and image. No desired font, but remember to make it appealing yet professional. Some sort of cursive maybe???
- Here is a contest a business partner of mine hosted and I really like to give you a sense for my taste buds: http://99designs.com/contests/6589/…435646.jpg.
- Cartoon looking light bulbs or the use of stars that are not directly tied to the light bulb itself.
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Welcome to The Mount Somerset Country House Hotel in Somerset
Please note: Our lift facility is currently out of use for maintenence purposes. Applogies for any inconvenience.
The Mount Somerset Hotel and Spa is a stunning luxury19 bedroom Regency country house hotel in Taunton, Somerset, set in four acres of beautiful grounds. This grand dame of a building sits high upon her mount, cradled in between the Quantock and Blackdown Hills, affording guests some of the best views in Somerset.
With its high ceilings, sweeping spiral staircase, opulent decor and a feeling of gentle elegance and luxury, The Mount Somerset has all the characteristics of a quintessential English Regency mansion.
Why Stay at The Mount Somerset Hotel & Spa?
Well, it's definitely because of the idyllic setting, our luxury bedrooms (some with private hot tubs), not to mention the outstanding service of our friendly team. The Mount Somerset truly stands out amongst country house hotels in Somerset.
Perhaps it's our boutique spa with its bubbling hydrotherapy tub, thermal suites and ESPA treatments, or our 3 AA Rosette restaurant, headed up by our talented head chef Mark Potts. Then there's the relaxed lounge with open fires, perfect for relaxing with a cocktail and canapés after a day of discovering Somerset.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- There are several ways to follow the progression of a prospect from the time he's a 14-year-old incoming high school freshman through the two years until he's a more fully developed, 16-year-old that has just begun his junior year.
In the case of Ankeny (Iowa) High School elite prospect Keaton McKinney, the easiest path to follow is to take a look at his Perfect Game Player Profile and read the assortment of scouting reports the PG staff has complied since McKinney first attended the 2010 PG Midwest Underclass Showcase Aug. 28-29 at Perfect Game Field-Veterans Memorial Stadium.
McKinney, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound right-handed pitcher and right-handed swinging first baseman, was back at Perfect Game Field Saturday and Sunday for the PG Midwest Top Prospect Showcase, an event enjoying its 14th year. It is running simultaneously with the PG Midwest Underclass Showcase, the event McKinney attended as a 14-year-old two years ago.
"I just wanted to come out and play because I really haven't played much lately," McKinney said from the visitor's dugout at PG Field. "I just wanted to have some good competition and there are a lot of good guys over here. I really like going to these showcase type of things."
This is the ninth PG event McKinney has attended -- he is also a veteran of the PG Iowa Spring and Fall Wood Bat Leagues -- and his sixth showcase since that 2010 debut at the Midwest Underclass. McKinney was listed at 6-3, 197-pounds, in August, 2010, and his fastball sat in the 82-84 mph range, topping out at 84.
The report from that event noted that McKinney had "a tall athletic frame, good baseball body" and called him a "versatile two-way prospect" with "a chance to be a very high-level hitting prospect." It also stated that he "may have as much upside on the mound (with) good quick compact arm action." It concluded that he will be a "very interesting prospect to follow."
Fast-forward to the 2011 PG National Games-Class of 2013 held at the University of San Diego in mid-August. McKinney was then listed at 6-4, 205, and that PG scouting report noted that he was "very strong for his age" with a "long and strong swing" that "generates bat speed with extension out front."
His fastball was then sitting at 84-86 and the report noted that the fastball had "nice sink and run, even better sink/run on a potential plus change up."
Finally, just as his 2012 summer high school season at Ankeny High was getting into full swing, McKinney was selected to perform at the Perfect Game Junior National Showcase at the Metrodome in Minneapolis in mid-June.
Then listed at 6-5, 210, his fastball was sitting at 84-88 and topped out at 90. While the scouting report from that event once again made mention of his "long and strong swing" it also noted that he "might be a better long-term pitcher, slow-paced delivery, accelerates to the plate."
McKinney was thrilled to be part of that event, and with his strong progression and as the No. 72-ranked national prospect in the 2014 class, it's likely he'll be invited to next year's Perfect Game National Showcase for class of 2014 seniors.
"All of the top players from everywhere got to go to Minnesota and play in the Metrodome and it was awesome," McKinney said. "Pitching against guys that you hear about from all over the country is really a fun experience."
McKinney was back in Minneapolis attending a Minnesota Twins-sponsored scouting showcase at Target Field on Friday where he did some pitching. Because of that workout, he did not throw at this event.
He took part in BP session Saturday morning where he "showed good bat speed" and "has pop in his bat with a fluid stroke and leverage in his swing" according to a PG blog entry, and later hit a solo home run in the first of two games he played here.
"These are beneficial for sure," McKinney said of the showcase experiences. "They've gotten me more recognition than I could have ever gotten (without them) and it's helped a lot."
He also received a lot of recognition this summer as an all-state member of Ankeny's Iowa Class 4A state championship team. The Hawks finished 43-2 after winning the state title, and earned the No. 20 spot in the final Perfect Game Great Plains Region rankings (the Great Plains Region includes high school teams from Iowa, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota and Missouri).
McKinney hit .406 (56-for-138) for the Hawks, with three home runs, 18 total extra base hits and a team-high 51 RBI. He was 7-0 on the mound with a 1.75 ERA and 34 strikeouts in 40 innings pitched.
"Our team, from top-to-bottom, there's not a weak spot (in the lineup)," McKinney said of the Hawks. "Our team is just fun and we had a lot of good chemistry and were just red-hot the whole season."
Several of his Ankeny High teammates were also in attendance at PG Field this weekend. RHP Nick Belzer (2013) -- an Indiana State commit -- 3B Matthew Johnson (2013) and MIF Brent Jones (2014) joined McKinney at the Midwest Top Prospect, and SS Joseph Monosmith (2014) and LHP Nate Schweers (2014) were at the Midwest Underclass.
McKinney has already committed to play college baseball at the University of Arkansas in the powerful Southeastern Conference. He has developed a friendship with Blake Wiggins, a highly ranked 2014 shortstop prospect from Little Rock, Ark., and the two made their visits to Arkansas together before their sophomore years in 2011. They both committed shortly thereafter.
"I just loved it down there; I loved everything about it. The coaches, the field, the atmosphere -- it was pretty sweet," McKinney said. "And playing (in the SEC) is just awesome with all those great fields and all those big crowds."
With two more high school baseball seasons in front of him, no one is a rush to pigeon-hole McKinney as a pitcher or a position player. He will continue to be pegged as a two-way player probably right up until the time he either enrolls at Arkansas or is selected in the 2014 MLB First-Year Player Draft.
"Everywhere I go I hear something different," he said. "I'm just practicing at both (positions) and I just want to get better and whatever happens, happens."
McKinney has hooked up with Chad Raley and the powerhouse Marucci Elite travel ball program, so there's a chance he could be playing in either the PG WWBA Underclass World Championship Oct. 4-8 in Fort Myers, Fla., or the PG WWBA World Championship Oct. 25-29 in Jupiter, Fla. Marucci Elite is the defending champion at both blockbuster, season-ending tournaments.
Other than that, he's going to relax while concentrating on his two remaining high school seasons and also participating in as many PG events as time allows.
"Since I committed, everything's been taken off my shoulders and I just get to have fun and go out and play baseball," he said.
Expect the PG staff to be hard at work generating even more scouting reports over the next two years.


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I'm very excited posting the first of our Saturday Spotlights!!
The first challenge coming under the spotlight is last week's challenge:
My wonderful Team Mates helped me by picking their favourites.
I also visited each entry and boy oh boy, what a fabulous selection of projects.
Was it fun? Yes!!
Is it easy to shine the spotlight on just one entry? No!!
In no particular order (does this sound familiar?) 6 runner-ups were picked:
#13 - Ellen Taylor - Those summer strawberries look so juicy!
#9 - Angela Wood - what a pretty & unique project!! This was a team favourite!
#26 - Dawn C - what an excellent CAS creation!
#6 - Debbie S - your photographs are so fun and put a smile on my face!
#48 - Barb Thompson - A delightful card and a fabulous vacation ahead for you!
#1 Hazel - great up-cycling creating a fun Christmas card (1 of 4 entries!)
And this week's Spotlight falls on:
#39 Beth F - (1 of 3 entries!) - Congratulations!
Here is Beth's happy summer creation:
It reminded me of summer vacations and all the fun we had as kids!
The construction is excellent and the colours and DP's so vibrant.
Go visit each of the blogs to view the lovely creations and congratulate everyone!
Again, thank you to each one of you that entered the challenge,
each of the projects were really special in it's own way.
It was pure pleasure visiting all the blogs and it really inspired me!
Hope to see you back here next Saturday when we shine the spotlight on another entry or maybe 2...
Don't forget about our current Anything Goes Challenge!
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It's not a great sign that she's been moved to a private room from intensive care -- where she would be more closely monitored by doctors and nurses.
As TMZ first reported ... Joan has been on life support since being rushed to Mount Sinai hospital in NYC last Thursday.
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Paul Bunyan is a mythological lumberjack who is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill. The character was first documented in the work of U.S. journalist James McGillivray in 12910. In 1916, as part of an advertising campaign, advertisement writer William Laughead reworked the old logging tales into that of a giant lumberjack and gave birth to the modern Paul Bunyan a folklore character.
Paul Bunyan statue in Bangor, Maine
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statue in Bemidji, Minnesota
Apparently, French-Canadians originated the tales during the Papineau Rebellion of 1837, which is when they revolted against the young English queen This possibly explains Paul Bunyan's last name. Boyenne is a colloquial French-Canadian expression which means "Good Grief" or "My Goodness."
The Legend
At the mouth of the river in the Two Mountains area near Saint-Eustache, Quebec, loggers battled against the British. Among them was a bearded giant named Paul Bo0njean, his nickname – Bonyenne.
Another legend is that of a man living in Ottawa Valley (an actual person). His name – Big Joe Mufferaw or Joe Montferrand, Defender of the people.
The name was eventually Anglicised and the stories changed from generation to generation. Historians later say that the idea of Paul Bunyan with a blue ox was created in the twentieth century.
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"Although it is claimed in some sources that 'there is no…evidence of any Paul Bunyan story being told before…McGillivray's story, The Round River Drive, published in 1910, 'McGillivray had published some stories in the Oscoda, Michigan Press on August 10, 1906, and Governor of Michigan Jennifer M. Granholm proclaimed the centennial of that date as 'Paul Bunyan Day.'
Bunyan and the Blue Ox
McGillivray's story doesn't portray Bunyan as a giant, nor is there mention of an ox. However, J. E. Rockwell, who wrote tales of Bunyan, referred to the blue ox in the February1910issue of The Outer's Book. One tale indicates Bunyan to be eight feet tall and weighing three hundred pounds.
A historian, Carlton C. Ames, claimed (in 1940) that Bunyan was an invention of the twentieth century and not a nineteenth century folk hero. But William Laughead took the stories and reworked them into the modern character and sold the character to the Red River Lumber Company.
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According to Wikipedia, "Bunyan's birth was somewhat unusual, as are the births of many mythic heroes, as it took five storks to carry the infant (ordinarily, one stork could carry several babies and drop them off at their parents' homes). When he was old enough to clap and laugh, the vibration broke every window in the house. When he was seven months old, he sawed the legs off his parents' bed in the middle of the night.[11] Paul and Babe the Blue Ox, his companion, dug the Grand Canyon when he dragged his axe behind him. He created Mount Hood by piling rocks on top of his campfire to put it out.
Babe the Blue Ox, Bunyan's companion, was a massive creature with exceptional strength.[12] Most imagery of Bunyan shows Babe the Blue Ox as being of proportionate size (meaning massive compared to everything else). Among other subjects, a myth about the formation of Great Lakes was centered around Babe: Paul Bunyan needed to create a watering hole large enough for Babe to drink from.[8] There are also stories telling that the 10,000 Lakes of Minnesota were formed from the footprints of Paul and Babe while they wandered blindly in a deep blizzard. Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were said to give Babe to Paul Bunyan, because they were all "woodsey" pioneer types. Paul Bunyan has dozens of towns vying to be considered his home. Several authors, including James Stevens and D. Laurence Rogers, have traced the tales to the exploits of French-Canadian lumberjack Fabian "Saginaw Joe" Fournier, 1845–1875. Fournier worked for the H. M. Loud Company in the Grayling, Michigan area, 1865–1875, where MacGillivray later worked and apparently picked up the stories."
Bunyan and the Blue Ox in Bemidji, Minnesota – part of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Bangor, Maine, Rumford, Maine, Westwood, California, Del Norte County, California, St. Ignace, Michigan, Ossineke, Michigan, Enchanted Forest Water Safari, N.Y., and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Dells and Minocqua, Wisconsin.
There are many more statues and parks devoted to Paul Bunyan and he continues to be the subject of advertisements. This summer, Minnesota Twins Baseball player, Jim Thome, played the role of Bunyan, together with the blue ox, with two other players commenting.
I found this history of Paul Bunyan interesting and would be interested in knowing how any of you would use Paul Bunyan as a hero in a romance or adventure novel.
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For my generation of college students, arriving on campuses as American involvement in the Vietnam War was winding down, Susan Sontag was one of those culture-changing stars that the radical sixties had brought forth. She was a glamorous presence on the New York scene, an intellectual often seen and heard around town, a writer whose work many of us followed, especially her essays in The New York Review of Books. She was beautiful and hip, a princess of high bohemia, intimidating, free, and, incandescently, always on. She became even more famous after "On Photography" (1977) and "Illness as Metaphor" (1978). I don't remember when the signature white streak began to appear in her lustrous, abundant hair, but I think of her as someone who went out dressed in her fame, like a great scarf thrown over the shoulder at the last moment. And I must admit that, when we became friends, I was far too pleased to be seen with her.
Not much of Sontag's writing was autobiographical, but in 1987 she published a memoir, in this magazine, about a visit she'd made as a teen-ager to Thomas Mann in Los Angeles—her family had moved from Tucson to Los Angeles when she was thirteen—and I remember feeling that she'd kept a secret from me, because, as often as we'd talked about Mann, his brother, his son, and Alfred Döblin's jealousy of his fellow-exile, I hadn't known about the pilgrimage. The following year, when we were both living in Berlin, she asked me if I kept a journal. I asked her the same question, and she shook her head. I should not be surprised that she turned out to have kept one. After all, she worked in as many genres as she could, and a journal is often an emerging writer's first practice at expression.
Sontag's "Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $25), edited by her son, David Rieff, is a fascinating document of her apprenticeship, charting her earnest quest for education, identity, and voice. The volume takes us from her last days at North Hollywood High School to the year that, now living in New York, she published her first novel, "The Benefactor." Born in 1933, Sontag was barely sixteen when she went to Berkeley, from which, after one semester, she transferred to the University of Chicago. Yet she was already sounding like Susan Sontag, kingmaker, declaring, in a journal entry from 1948, that "The Magic Mountain" was "the finest novel" she'd ever read, and immersing herself in the journals of André Gide. Her voice never aged, perhaps in part because she did not lose her avidity for experience, and, of all forms of experience, reading left her at her most alert and restless.
Gide was at the height of his fame in the English-speaking world when Sontag, at the age of fifteen, stayed up late into the night reading the second volume of his journals. "Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!" she wrote in an entry from 1948, a year after he was awarded the Nobel Prize. "Thus I do not think 'How marvelously lucid this is!'—but: 'Stop! I cannot think this fast! Or rather I cannot grow this fast!' " Gide's puritanism spoke to the cloistered, brilliant girl's overvaluation of self-laceration as intellectual honesty. So, too, did his unapologetic reports of his responses to literature—of sobbing on a park bench after reading about Catherine and Heathcliff's last meeting. Sontag confessed her lesbianism in some of the earliest entries, and the sense of a shared sexual heterodoxy may help explain why she believed she'd found a companion in Gide; just as he wrote about falling in love with "M." during the First World War, she was soon writing about her infatuation with "H."
The writer's sensibility was, for her, a thing to be studied, pondered, and the questions she longed to ask of the writers she cared for seemed to hold all the answers to her future. She and two friends had their chance to interrogate Thomas Mann—"God," as she dubbed him—a few days after Christmas in 1949:
We sat, immobilized with awe, outside his house (1550 San Remo Drive) from 5:30 to 5:55, rehearsing. His wife, slight, grey face and hair, opened the door. He at the far end of the large living room on the couch, holding a large black dog by the collar, which we'd heard barking as we had approached. Beige suit, maroon tie, white shoes—feet together, knees apart—(Bashan!)—Very controlled, undistinguished face, exactly like his photographs. He led us into his study (walls lined with book-cases, of course)—his speech is slow and precise, and his accent is much less prominent than I expected—"But—O tell us what the oracle said."
And so the youthful witness entered, determined to remember everything: what the great man said about "The Magic Mountain" as an allegory and what the character Hans Castorp represented, which translations of his work he liked best, and what he thought of Joyce and Proust.
The most extensive journal passages from Sontag's earlier years concern her sexual experiences at Berkeley and her exploration of gay bars on the seamy side of San Francisco in 1949:
A opened the Tin Angel last night and H asked me to come. Until I got drunk I thought it all rather depressing—H was high right away, and spent the evening being hysterically amiable to all the women whom she'd slept with during the last year (and now loathed): they all seemed to be there. . . . Mary's old girl friend was, too, looking very sullen. . . . B and A got very drunk, naturally, and broke one of the windows. . . . I can imagine what they're saying this morning! . . . After a million other people, H got around to necking with me, which was, to put it mildly, lots of fun. . . . Then up came some creep (H had been shouting all over the room: "she's only 16—isn't that amazing? And I'm her first lover"), who wanted to "rescue" me. . . . H pushed me at him ("Have some heterosexual experience, Sue") and before I knew it we were dancing and necking.
When it came to her unfolding, complicated sexuality and her frustrated engagements of the heart—"I am reborn," she proclaimed in May of 1949—she turned to her journal as a confidant, which may account for a somewhat intermittent quality to the over-all story the journal tells. She denied that reason and passion could be at odds; the mind had to accept where the heart led, or, at least, not be a hindrance to it.
Husband and child appear suddenly. It's as though her relationship with the sociology instructor Philip Rieff, whom she met in Chicago—"the ugliest city I've ever seen: one continuous slum"—had taken place off-camera. For the entry dated December 2, 1949, we get one line: "I am engaged to Philip Rieff." A year later comes another line, somewhat ominous: "I marry Philip with full consciousness + fear of my will toward self-destructiveness." (She was not yet eighteen years old.)
In the mid-fifties, Sontag and her husband were living the anxious life of young academics in Cambridge, Massachusetts; she had entered graduate school at Harvard, studying English and then philosophy, while her husband taught at Brandeis. She was feeling "malcontented with a new fierceness." In September of 1957, "Reborn" provides a focussed narrative about a crucial episode in her life, starting with her packing up house:
I went to the ground floor + out the back entrance on to Mass Ave. and walked home. It was now 1:00. I shut the padlock on the kitchen closet, shut my suitcases, used the toilet, then called a Harvard cab which came in three minutes with a pleasant old man driving it. It was now 1:15. I directed him down Mass Ave. (1) to stop in front of the Widener entrance so I could return a book ([John] Gay's Plays—Abbey edition, with the music); then (2) to the post office, where I mailed the rest of the packages, including one of old clothes to Chicago; then (3) to the Bradley offices on Brattle St., where I left a copy of the lease + the keys to the house with perspiring, disorganized Mr. Elliot; then (4) to Back Bay Station.
This was, it seems, the last time that she and Philip would live together as husband and wife. In "Reborn," she had the most to say about her life during periods of upheaval, when taking another difficult step in the making of herself.
After leaving her husband and her child—"Baby, sweet boy, forgive me"—she embarked for Oxford and moral philosophy. She then abandoned her plans for a master's degree and, having gone to Paris on a holiday, decided to stay there. She was reunited with "H," her first lover from the Berkeley days, and she ended up escorting her discontent through the sort of hotel rooms that Baldwin said made him understand why so much of Parisian life took place in cafés. "My relationship to H baffles me," she wrote, and she went on:
I want it to be unpremeditated, unreflective—but the shadow of her expectations about what an "affair" consists in upsets my poise, makes me fumble. She with her romantic dissatisfactions, I with my romantic needs and longing. . . . One unexpected gift: that she is beautiful. I had remembered her [from SS's days at Cal] as definitely not beautiful, rather gross and unattractive. She's anything but that. And physical beauty is enormously, almost morbidly, important to me.
These entries are made in the anguished but self-justifying mood that Gide warned his readers to distrust, noting that he seldom wrote in his journal when life was going well. After the humiliation of reading, in H's journal, a "curt, unfair, uncharitable assessment" of herself, Sontag explained why she felt no guilt at having peeked at someone else's private musings: "One of the main (social) functions of a journal or diary is precisely to be read furtively by other people, the people (like parents + lovers) about whom one has been cruelly honest only in the journal."
What slowly emerges from the unhappy, sometimes cryptic meditations of "Reborn" is a sense of Sontag's ferocious will. There are explicit references to it in moments of self-disgust ("My will is more flabby than it's ever been before") and self-coaxing ("But reason won't make me do it, only will"). No matter how wounded she was, she moved on. After rereading Gide's "The Immoralist," she decided that she had outgrown him: "The next books I want to read are the Kafka diaries." The pages of "Reborn" establish the primacy of reading in her life. ("Oh, the ecstasy of aloneness!") At a bookshop in 1953, she opened a collection of Kafka's short stories and turned to "The Metamorphosis":
It was like a physical blow, the absoluteness of his prose, pure actuality nothing forced or obscure. How I admire him above all other writers! Beside him, Joyce is so stupid, Gide so—yes—sweet, Mann so hollow + bombastic. Only Proust is as interesting—almost. But Kafka has that magic of actuality in even the most dislocated phrase that no other modern has, a kind of shiver + grinding blue ache in your teeth. In her notebooks, too, she could rehearse her self-consciousness, as in this entry from December of 1957:
On Keeping a Journal.
Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one's private, secret thoughts—like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.
Once Sontag is back from Europe and settled in New York, divorced, and in custody of her son, the domestic is overheard in her notebooks from time to time. It is in her groans over another up-and-down affair with a woman, in a mother's pride in her son's precocity, and in her continued, bitter reflections on marriage: "The thought of going back to my old life—it hardly even seems like a dilemma anymore. I can't, I won't. I can say that now without strain." Several of her "Ideas for stories," jotted down now and then in "Reborn," clearly draw on her experience, but she had little use for her past. She had written, in 1957, a sort of stream-of-consciousness "Notes of a Childhood" (though she later exclaimed, in her journal, that she'd had no childhood):
Hearing John Howard Lawson [black-listed scriptwriter] speak. Has a limp.
Grandma Lena feeding me mashed potatoes.
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Weeping when Roosevelt died.
Listening to world premiere (radio) of Shostakovich's Seventh [Symphony].
. . .
Giving blood for Israel. The ache in my arm.
"Reborn" is full of lists—lists of random words ("lotophagous"), of music heard, records to buy, books to buy, films seen, gay slang, Hebrew words, Hindu gods, Latin words, stories she planned in the manner of Strindberg. Some lists are cautions to herself:
Criticize publicly anyone at Harvard—
Allude to your age (boastfully, mock-respectfully, or otherwise)
Talk about money
Talk about Brandeis
Shower every other night
Write Mother every other day
Every list pertaining to her reading is a prescription for self-improvement. (There are surprises, such as how anti-Freudian she was early on.) "My reading is hoarding, accumulating, storing up for the future, filling the hole of the present." She seemed to remember everything she'd ever read. When she heard four-year-old David announce that he "sees Jesus on the cross" when he shuts his eyes, she decided that it was time to break out the Homer.
The Susan Sontag I came to know is most obviously presaged in the young diarist's cultural voraciousness. As she ran around Manhattan and cruised out to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, I sometimes got the feeling that she went to everything all the time as a way of staying one step ahead of her melancholy. Her appetite for culture was astonishing—the ballet, modern dance, opera, avant-garde theatre, chamber music, film, and more film. She had no chitchat and, like Edmund Wilson, she loved to instruct those on whom she lavished herself, whether they asked for it or not. She could go on for hours, and I enjoyed getting browbeaten for not having read "Ferdydurke." She was an enthusiast, and her essays, apart from one condemning Leni Riefenstahl, are appreciations, strenuously celebratory examinations. Occasionally, the A student in her could bounce her into strange judgments, as when she championed Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's scarcely endurable "Hitler: A Film from Germany," because she was thrilled to get its obscure silent-film references.
Sontag the essayist was more confident than Sontag the fiction writer. She had inspirations about how to tell a story that made up for some of the things she couldn't do in fiction—such as realistic dialogue—but her humility toward the Novel arose from the fear that her prose lacked the amplitude and lyricism that her literary ambitions called for. Her discipline and her capacity for labor were remarkable, almost an accusation, and yet it was touching to hear her say that she read aloud to herself pages of "The Volcano Lover" (1992) and crossed out words and phrases, trying for the right tone, hoping to increase the velocity of her sentences, struggling to make her prose sound effortless—like Elizabeth Hardwick's "Sleepless Nights," she'd say. Her need to prove herself as a novelist turned her against the essay form for a while and put her in a rage with her own best achievements. After "In America" (1999) received a National Book Award, she felt vindicated and went back to writing essays; "Regarding the Pain of Others" (2003) is an example of her brilliance at a kind of moral inquiry that was neither academic nor merely belletristic. For Sontag, prose was not a vehicle for expressing what she thought; it was itself a form of thinking, and, perhaps more exactingly, of feeling as well.
"I don't know what my real feelings are," she wrote in 1960. "That's why I'm so interested in moral philosophy, which tells me (or at least turns me toward) what my feelings ought to be. Why worry about analyzing the crude ore, I reason, if you know how to produce the refined metal directly?" She had assumed that only the academic life could give space to her love of books. An underlying story of "Reborn" concerns her disengagement from that creed. When a Harvard professor asked her what she thought of the legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart's seminar, Sontag recounts, "I was condescendingly, politely negative: the attitude I know he takes." In "Reborn," whether she is teaching at the City College of New York or at Sarah Lawrence—and missing, yet again, one of her classes—it is clear that, as fond of her students as she could be, she doesn't want them in her head. Her way of putting forward an argument did retain an aggressiveness learned in the graduate seminar, when she declined to defer to the guys. But she wanted to be a writer, and would do almost anything to make that happen, which is why it is moving to find in her notebooks a degree of self-doubt and self-criticism not usually associated with Susan Sontag: "The mind is a whore."
In 1962, she was knocking Henry James and Proust for what she considered to be their snobbishness. The rich were not glamorous and sex wasn't dirty, she decided, and one can detect the changing social mood in such pronouncements, an impatience and a growing radicalism. "Reborn" is overwhelmingly a record of an inner landscape, and so there is little sense of the times—no mention of civil-rights demonstrations, no arguments about Cuba. Sontag barely even let her journal know that she was at work on a novel, although the effects of that undertaking are perhaps apparent in the increasingly aphoristic style of her pages. The reading lists go on: Tillich, Gibbon, G. Le Bras.
In the earliest entries, the lists included William Faulkner, Nathanael West, and Sherwood Anderson; and in the early sixties she did take note of a list of metropolitan writers (Bellow, Ellison, Grace Paley). But she soon left the Americans behind. Her literary preferences may have represented a reaction against the provincialism of a childhood spent in Arizona and Southern California. But they may also have related to a strain of American culture that was profoundly influenced by the refugees from Fascism—the artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, and composers of the Weimar generation. Then, too, she grew up as an American for whom Europe was a threatened, cutoff place, and as a romantic girl she was bound to want to see the places that she had read about.
Sontag, the mature writer, was wary of imposing social categories on literature. She had worked too hard for her place at the table with the guys to accept what she considered relegation to the ghettos—Women's Literature, Gay Literature. Something of that feeling, a refusal to let the guys corral her, may have been behind her reticence, in interviews, about her partner, Annie Leibovitz. (She once berated me when I said that I didn't mind being called an African-American writer, as opposed to a writer who was African-American.) The realm of literature, to her, was a universal community, a brotherhood of the subversive and the good. "Reborn" traces that evolving, innocent faith. An entry from 1961: "Writing is a beautiful act. It is making something that will give pleasure to others later." ♦


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All living things are mostly water. About 90% of our body weight is water. We need water to survive. Putting fluids into the body is known as hydration. We lose water from three mechanisms in our physiology: respiration (the fog on the mirror when we breathe on it), insensible water loss from sweat, and elimination via urination or defecation. Dehydration occurs when the losses are greater than the input.
On the whole, we usually maintain our normal water balance by eating and drinking. All fruits and vegetables, all protein foods, and all cooked starches are mostly water in their composition. All the liquids we drink are water. In normal circumstances, we replace the water lost from sweat, respiration, and elimination so the body stays healthy and well hydrated.
There are several problems that can arise that can cause more fluid to leave the body than enters it. When this happens, dehydration is the result.
Thirst is a good mechanism to remind us to drink. In a normal, healthy person, there is almost never a problem with dehydration if adequate fluids are available. There is really no need to drink more than we are thirsty for. It is important to note, that healthy babies (who cannot yet talk) must be offered fluids on a regular basis, especially in hot weather. Infants should be offered a mother's milk or formula, not water or juice, since they need nutrition, and drinking is their only source. Water is a great drink selection for all children above 9 months. Juice is really just sugar water, so it should be used sparingly on a day-to-day basis.
Signs of adequate hydration and dehydration
How can we tell if the child is adequately hydrated? A well-hydrated child is alert, has a shiny wet tongue, cries with an appropriate amount of tears, and urinates regularly. The urine is light in color.
If there is a deficit of fluid, the urine output decreases dramatically, and the child gets lethargic and irritable. The tongue gets pasty and the saliva gets thick and stringy, the eyes look dull and sunken, and there are no tears when crying. The urine, when it is present, becomes dark yellow to orange and has a strong odor. These changes occur gradually as the condition worsens. (One exception: In children with diabetes, paradoxically, the urine output remains high while the child develops all of the signs of dehydration.)
Older children will complain of headaches, nausea, and weakness when they are in the early stages of dehydration.
Preventing Dehydration
Heat problems
During high fever, or in very hot weather and during exertion, the fluid loss is mainly from sweat, and it is important to give extra fluids. When there is high fever, the body can be cooled by tepid bathing or giving antipyretics such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Reducing the body temperature to normal or near-normal will decrease the loss of fluids. Water sports like sprinkler running, water fights, and swimming activities are good. Allowing a child to run around in wet clothes on these days helps prevent dehydration.
During very hot weather, especially during exertion in hot weather, the most important precaution is to drink often and replace salt as well as fluid. Sweat, which is needed to keep the body from overheating, is made up of salt and water. In the circumstance of hot weather and exertion, replacing only water can lead to a salt deficiency, which can cause serious imbalances in the body's chemistry.
I usually recommend that children be given lots of water and small amounts of pretzels, pickles or other salty foods. There are drinks that are sold, like Powerade, which have some salt in them, but there is not enough salt to make them worth all the junk in them. Ordinary tap water, which can be conveniently carried in sports bottles, is the most refreshing drink and the best hydrator.
There are many illnesses that a child can contract which lead to vomiting. Vomiting can cause dehydration by preventing the entry of fluids into the body. Overcoming vomiting in a child with viral gastroenteritis can be very challenging. One useful trick is to give very small amounts of fluids at a time. We usually advise parents to start with ½ ounce of a clear liquid every 15 minutes for one hour, and if it is tolerated without vomiting, increase the amount by ½ ounce every 15 to 20 minutes. If the child vomits, wait 30 minutes and try the last volume that was tolerated.
It is advisable to have some sugar in the clear liquids, to take away the Ketones which form during starvation. Ketones can add to the feeling of illness, and increase nausea. Even sugar or lollipops can help this part of the problem.
Infants do well with mother's milk as the fluid, but not with formula. For non-nursing infants and children under 18 months, we usually use the rehydration solution, Pedialyte. This clear liquid, which also comes in ice pops, has the replacement sugar, salt, and fluid needed to maintain the body chemistry. Older children can drink any clear drink or nibble on regular ice pops. The artificial orange ones seem to allay nausea best. White grape juice is less acidic than apple juice, so it is better tolerated. Clear chicken broth, the age-old remedy, actually works fine. If the vomiting does not abate and the child shows signs of dehydration, a physician should be contacted. Intravenous hydration may be needed.
When there is a diarrhea present, the loss of water can usually be replaced by oral intake. Once vomiting has stopped, the fluids can be given in any quantity the child will take. At this point, the child should be given a full solid food diet, including milk and milk products. This will increase the number of bowel movements initially, but it will ultimately stop diarrhea most efficiently. Probiotics such as Culturelle and Florastor are very useful in stopping diarrhea.
If the diarrhea is severe and watery, and if the child shows signs of dehydration, a physician should be contacted.
Diabetes Mellitus
This is very rare in children, but when it occurs, the child has excessive thirst, urination, and weight loss, and appears dehydrated despite the large urine output. If this is suspected, a physician should be contacted. Maintaining hydration is a very important job. It is very helpful to monitor children during the course of a potentially dehydrating illness so that hydration can be increased whenever signs of dehydration are noted. As in many other situations, prevention is the best cure, so staying ahead of the fluid requirements on a hot day saves a lot of problems.
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Broomfield, CO, USA and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - December 5, 2013
Webroot, a leader in cloud-based security intelligence solutions, today announced expansion into Malaysia with the addition of Agile Network to its global network of distributors. Agile Networks is complimenting its product portfolio with Webroot SecureAnywhere® solutions for consumer and business to help its customers benefit from improved malware protection, system performance and overall productivity.
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