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August 3, 2014
June 25, 2014
Don't Be That Guy 5
Don't be that guy: Professional Candy CrusherThis guy was at the bus stop. His bus was on the other side of the intersection stuck in a traffic jam. He realized it would take eighty more seconds for the bus to reach the stop, so he took out his phone and started playing Candy Crush. Right there on the road at ten in the morning with twenty other people rushing to catch the bus!
I was impressed with his commitment to crushing candies and his Zen-like demeanour while he was at it. Maybe that's his passion in life. Like how Sivamani makes music by clinking his morning coffee cup with a tea spoon.
So I installed Candy Crush on my phone to see what hidden gems it has. And by the time I was on level six, I couldn't help but wonder how boring that guy must find reality that he cannot bear sixty seconds of it. What exactly is his brain subconsciously avoiding? Excel sheets? Emptiness? Original thoughts? We may never know.
Don't be that guy: Birthday song charanam singer
Don't be that girl who uses the phrase 'Golden words are not repeated'What the hell does that even mean? It doesn't make any sense. I first heard it when I was 6 years old. I found it extremely annoying. I recently heard someone say it again. It still sounds as gross as a hippo in a thong.
Don't be that guy: Vegetarian Thoughts
Don't be that guy who orders Mocktails at treatsI know as a teetotaller, you volunteer to double check the order, collect all the 'lost and found' things, make peace when things get boorish, nod profusely when the conversations get "deep", check on folks who lock themselves up in the rest room, give water to the dehydrated, take care of the tips, and finally herd people into their respective autos/taxis late in the night. We are ever so grateful for all your sober services but do you really have to order those mocktails?
I mean that thing named 'Designated Appletini' is actually Tropicana mixed fruit juice in a funny shaped glass. 'Queens Punch' is Nimma soda. No one should be paying 350 rupees (plus tax) for Nimma soda. That too from the drinks budget. Seriously, don't be that guy!
If the real reason you order mocktails is for the selfies, please go kill yourself. Just eat a holy religious book of your choice and choke on it and die. No blood. No gore. It's very elegant. If you want to take it slow, go to a forest and handcuff yourself to a tree and throw away the key and starve to death. That would be interesting too.
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May 1, 2014
To pee, or not to pee
It's been hours. The pressure was building up. So is regret over the recent glass of sugarcane juice with ice. But for the moment, things are in control.
I looked for a proper place to mind my business. The footpath was the first thing that came to my mind. Why? I don't know why. It's my male instincts perhaps. Humans have been shaped by millions of years of evolution to relieve themselves on a tree trunk and walk away as if no one noticed. That's who we are. (Of course, by humans I mean human males)
Now some people consider doing it 'out in the open' like that a disgusting habit. I understand why they feel that way. Just step out of your house for half an hour anywhere in this country, you'll see a Desi Dude urinating on a wall. That wall is part of someone's house. A house with TV serial sounds, filter coffee smells, Sai Baba calendars and an old women in the living room.
But that makes no difference to the Desi Dude. The Desi Dude doesn't give a shit. As far as number one is concerned, Desi Dude is like Tuco from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
"Don't be that guy! Things are still in control. There is enough time to find a proper place", the rational part of my brain assured me. I walked past a row of independent houses combed apart by narrow lanes. I could sense a public toilet fifty yards away.
Now public toilets are not for the faint-hearted or the sensitive-nosed. I am both. This one was like a fortified castle with a protective moat. Except that the castle is a modest PWD construction with questionable water supply. And the moat is filled with unidentified organic material in various stages of decomposition.
After inspecting the toilet from a safe distance, the idea of peeing on a stranger's house sounded more appealing. Moments like these make me feel thankful for being male. Being a man is clearly better than being a woman. It is considered rude to say it out loud but that is the truth. We have outdoor options!
I searched for an appropriate wall, preferably one that belonged to the Central Government. Why the Central Government? I don't know. Instincts again. Pissing on the Central Government seemed like a right thing to do.
And so I did. It was a good spot. No street lighting and right next to the staircase where everyone spits. I stood under the starlit sky amidst croaking toads, fluttering moths and cricketing crickets. And sprayed my Mountain Dew coloured wizz on the concrete wall. Blisssss.
Okay, before you start judging me with the usual 'Being an educated person blah blah blah-muppaavala...' let me assure you that this has nothing to do with my education. It is human nature. When people have a choice between the responsible thing to do and the convenient thing to do, they always do the convenient thing.
Imagine you're on your way to the grocery store. You're in the parking lot. You put on your helmet and then realized that you forgot to carry the jute bag. Do you go back to the apartment to get the jute bag? No way!
You know that's the responsible thing to do but you have to take off the helmet, park the bike in a corner, wait for the elevator, go to the fourth floor, unlock your house, search for the jute bag, lock your house again... It's too much effort. It's not difficult. It is inconvenient. You'd rather pay the grocer two rupees extra for a polythene bag. We all do.
Or look at weddings. There are a thousand guests at the reception. And everyone gets their own little half a litre bottle of Bisleri. What the fuck is happening there? It's a sanitized wedding hall. With food, flowers, family and friends. Not an RTC bus. We can drink water there. The caterer is already serving 24 items in steel buckets using steel ladles. He can surely handle a few more steel jugs and steel glasses.
But he doesn't. Because it is extra work. The glasses have to be washed, dried, counted, stacked and maintained. Thankless work. Because there is always an off chance that some fussy wedding guest will find a little smudge inside a glass and make a big deal out of it.
The caterer doesn't want to take that risk. The bride's father doesn't want to deal with that shit. And so 3000 bottles of plastic are permanently buried in mother earth's belly. All of them from a single wedding party.
The wedding lasts for 2 days. The marriage, maybe for 40 years but the plastic? 50,000 years! That's not a very bright thing to do as a species. But it is convenient.
You cannot argue against convenience. We rarely face situations where we have to choose between good and evil in the course of our boring lives. Most of our choices are between responsibility and convenience.
Standing in the queue at the RTO office is responsible. Hiring an agent who will "manage" the process is convenient. Exercising regularly is a responsibility. Sitting on the couch and ordering pizza is convenience. Paying attention to human beings in the room is polite. Staring into our phones is convenient.
Speaking the truth may be the right thing to do. But lying to avoid awkward situations is convenient. Being nice to a stranger requires empathy. Being an asshole is incredibly convenient.
Chasing your dreams is risky. Holding on to that job is convenient. Risking rejection in a relationship takes balls. Stalking the girl online is convenient. Doing something about issues we care about is hard work. Twitter is convenient. Speaking out against injustice is the right thing to do. Silence is convenient.
Selfishness is convenient. Peer pressure is convenient. Giving up our privacy for an online discount coupon is convenient. Sending kids to IIT coaching is convenient. Times of India is convenient. Corruption is convenient. Hypocrisy is convenient. Consumerism is convenient. Patriotism is convenient. Obedience is convenient. Status quo is convenient!
And that is why the Desi Dude pees on the road. It has nothing to do with his education, qualification, culture, sun sign or conscience. Peeing on the road happens to be ridiculously convenient. I am not kidding. If women could, they totally would!
For the record, I am not condoning unabashed public urination. One should not pee on someone's house. I don't encourage that at all. I myself try not to. But if it is very very urgent and there are no good toilets around, what else are we supposed to do?
Convenience is the real enemy.
April 25, 2014
Laundry Day - Documentary Short
April 22, 2014
February 16, 2014
The Toothpaste Conspiracy Theory
You going to the neighbour's kitchen?
Yes, I smell Mangalore style fish curry.
Can you get me some toothpaste?
I asked if you could get some toothpaste on your way back.
Why should I get it?
I'm out of toothpaste. I thought I'll borrow some just for the day.
You go get it yourself. I don't like stealing things.
You steal food all the time!
That is different.
How is it different?
It's different because you're a human. And I'm a cat.
That is why I asked you to sneak in through their kitchen window, walk up to the attached bathroom and get the toothpaste. You can put it back in the same place once I am done.
Sorry I can't steal toothpaste. It's against my principles.
Stealing is not against your principles.
Stealing is not but toothpaste is. I don't believe in toothpaste.
What is there to "believe" in a toothpaste?
Why do you need toothpaste?
To brush my teeth.
Exactly. I don't believe in that.
You don't believe in brushing?
No. I am not against brushing. You should brush your teeth. Humans have always brushed their teeth. Not with the modern plastic bristled brushes you use today but with Neem twigs, rough cloth, pieces of leather, something or the other. Brushing is useful. Brushing is important. I am just not convinced about toothpaste.
Correlation doesn't imply causality. Bad dental health in modern societies is because of the exceptionally high starch and sugar (and cola) content in our diet which our hunter-gatherer genes have not evolved to handle.
Alright, let me make an economics argument then:
What is this, a new conspiracy theory?
I'm not saying it is a conspiracy but think about it. In the last 20 years alone toothpaste companies have made your toothpaste green, blue, red, pink, orange, mint, peppermint, spearmint, vanilla mint, fennel, cinnamon, clove. They made it a transparent gel, half-gel half-paste, multi-flavored, multi-layered, multi-textured, added crystals, added fluoride, added sugar, added salt, added activated charcoal, bleaching agents, glycerin and a lot of other chemicals along with the the extra goodness of natural herbal extracts and then started removing them one by one saying sugar-free, low fluoride, no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no non-veg, no crystals, no glycerin, no bleaching agents... what exactly is going on there?
Do you really need those advertisements having futuristic dentist labs with transparent touchscreen control rooms, college boys with low self-esteem, hot chicks with creepy sparkling teeth, ocean surfing stunts, concerned mothers, lazy fathers, four out of five dentists, 3D graphics, sciencey jargon and that forever-alone germ?
What forever-alone germ?
Here's a fun fact. The toothpaste actually plays a very marginal role in your oral hygiene.
Marginal role?
Yeah, it is the physical action of the brush against your teeth that does all the cleaning. Scientific studies have shown that any abrasive agent like rock salt or activated charcoal will work just as fine as any toothpaste in the world.
So The toothpaste doesn't matter?
The toothpaste doesn't matter.
All that foam?
Totally non-functional.
The blue crystals?
Just a placebo.
The 24 hour freshness guarantee?
It's a bamboozle.
The sugarcane-ripping, green-apple biting strong teeth?
Total humbug.
An outright hoax.
Damn it!
I know.
That explains all the advertising. If the toothpaste companies do not advertise as aggressively as they do, we will all go back to a no toothpaste world and it would make no difference whatsoever.
Some things exist only because they sound good in an advertisement.
That is true.
I was going through your kitchen stuff the other day. There was a jar of Boost and it had some weird tasteless yellow and blue crystals in it. The label says that they are "Envita nutrients that give you 3X stamina". Now I'm not an expert on nutrition but that sounds like bullshit. I mean how is something blue in color even edible?
You licked my Boost?
I do it all the time. Here's the interesting thing. I ripped apart a packet of Surf Excel. And even that had little blue crystals in it. In fact, the same shade of blue. And the same weird taste as well. The label says that they are "power surfactants that remove the toughest of stains" and I was thinking, "Wow… these are some versatile crystals!"
They're everywhere, G2. Facewash, toothpaste, soap, chewing gum, ice-cream, shampoo, shaving gel, energy drink powder... these blue crystals are everywhere.
I know. Procter & Gamble is using these blue crystals like Mallus use coconut.
Why are humans working on improving soap and toothpaste like it holds the key to the cure for cancer? Haven't you, as the most intelligent species ever to walk the earth, noticed that a "New & Improved Formula" makes NO DIFFERENCE whatsoever?
We know but advertising is not exactly a democratic medium. People don't get to choose the ads they want to watch.
I mean why can't all humans arrive at a consensus saying, "Look. I think we have improved toothpaste enough. We don't really need green tea flavored toothpaste. Let's put our limited energy and natural resources towards solving more important problems."?
Oh, that's not gonna happen. It goes against the very logic of advertising. They're in the business of making us buy things we don't need with money we don't have. It is their duty to throw that shit.
You know what, you should protest against this system. Show them the finger. Boycott toothpaste. It'll be fun.
No, I'm not boycotting toothpaste.
You should.
Get out of here!
What is the big deal? Even Gautama Buddha never used toothpaste. Is he not worthy of emulating?
Sure... I'll meditate but I'm not giving up toothpaste.
He meditated under the Bodhi tree for 49 days. Do you think he took breaks in between to brush his teeth twice a day? No. He would have never achieved enlightenment if he listened to his dentist!
I am not eliminating toothpaste from my life.
You know who else never used toothpaste?
Prophet Mohammad?
Yeah... yeah... the prophet too (peace be upon him) but let's not go there.
Disclaimer: No toothpaste tubes were stolen in the making of this post.
January 17, 2014
Don't be that guy - Jan
Don't be that guy who thinks street food is unhealthyOur parents, teachers, doctors and other noble professionals right from our childhoods told us that street food is not good for our health and that we should not eat pani puri, bhel puri, masala batani, samosas, kachoris, bajjis, peanuts, bhutta, pieces of raw mango, amla, pineapple and guava on the roadside because they might be unhygienic.
Yes, it is true. We would be better off by completely avoiding them but what we have done is we replaced the unhygienic roadside food with a more hygienic combo of Lays, French fries, kaati rolls, burgers, and aerated drinks at fast food joints and there lies the irony.
The worst thing that can happen to you if you eat pani puri of questionable integrity is an upset stomach and maybe a little inconvenience to roommates/family members for a couple days. That is it. It is completely treatable and our immunity system may even get a little robust in the process but regular consumption of processed foods like chips, French fries and colas give us obesity, makes us susceptible to heart disease, diabetes, kidney problems...
You see the difference?
If you eat pani puri twice a day for five days in a row, your body tells you're doing too much pani puri. Your stomach makes a 'I-have-a-bad-feeling-about-this' noise on the sixth day and you'll automatically stay away from it for a few weeks. There is no such biological red signal for too much Pepsi.
Street food is unhygienic. Fast food is unhealthy.
|Middleclass doublethink
Don't be that guy who drives a super bike in the cityJust because your bike can go from 0 – 60 in 5.2 seconds doesn't mean you should do it on Bannerghatta Road. Dude, don't get me wrong. The bike your father gifted you can zoom at 220 KMPH on an abandoned airstrip and that is awesome. It literally inspires awe in my mind.
Having said that, I feel it is my duty to point out that on city roads you come across as a source of attention-seeking noise pollution. You may want to work on that. The way you startle uncles on Honda Activas by overtaking them in your typical rich kid my-dad-has-connections-so-I-can-hit-and-run-and-no-one-will-arrest-me driving style doesn't help at all. You may want to work on that too.
Don't be that guy thinks anyone who hasn't shaved in 2 weeks is depressedNo, they aren't. They're just too lazy to shave.
Don't be that guy who promptly changes the date at midnight
|It's the next day only when
i) You have slept and woke up
ii) There is sunlight
Don't be that guy who tells the driver how to driveThis happens a lot doesn't it?
Some people just instinctively take that responsibility to critique the driver, constantly giving him constructive feedback and instructions to the driver... "overtake the bus" "nice turn" "ikkada left" "speed breaker" "switch to the right lane" "now slow down..." "look at that asshole!" "horn kottu.. horn kottu" "put 4th gear" "goyya undi choosuko" "Tchah! We would've crossed the bridge by now if you switched to the right lane then." ...
Self-appointed captains of the ship these people are. And while parking or reversing... the only time when the driver actually needs his help, they're on their dumb phones!
Don't be that guy who dislikes cats because they are not loyal
Why do humans deserve loyalty from animals? Look at what you are doing to us. There are barely any large mammals left on the planet. Those that are still alive are imprisoned in "National parks" and "Forest reserves" where you poach them one by one. You kill them for their fur, for their horns, for their teeth, for their ivory, for their skin, for their balls and sometimes just for fun. These things are not even required for your survival! That is why animals in what you call "the wild" don't trust you.
And look at the lives of animals that obey you. Bulls for instance have evolved in nature to graze all day in large groups on open grasslands occasionally defending themselves from a hunting tiger or a pack of wolves. You domesticated them and for the last ten thousand years, you've been cutting off their balls, making them plough your fields, pull your carts and generally torturing them for your needs from the moment they are born to the day their bodies are too old for that kind of slavery. And after you extract everything from them, you replace them with the next generation. It's the same story with chicken, horses, pigs, sheep, donkeys and pretty much every species that is obedient to humans. This process gets unimaginably horrifying with the rise of mechanized food production. This is what happens to animals when they trust you.
Dogs are the only species to have benefited from showing loyalty to humans. Dogs not your best friends. They are your only friends. The rest of the animal community considers them back-stabbing sons of bitches anyway.
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January 6, 2014
Clockwork C2
Why is there so much time around?
Time? Who has time?
I mean information about time. Why are there so many devices that tell you the time all the time?
There is an alarm clock by your bed, another clock on the wall behind the alarm clock. In fact there is a clock in every room of your house and also in your phone, tablet, Kindle, camera and computer screen; on every photo, email, status, tweet, pin, scrap, fork, and cart; on your wrist watches, car dashboards, FM radios, mp3 players, TV channels, DVD players; in every shop, restaurant, public place, traffic signal and heck even on refrigerators, microwave ovens, and induction stoves!
It is almost impossible to look anywhere and not see a clock. You are a species of obsessive time-keepers!
That is because we have so little of it.
If there is one thing that everyone… humans, cats, dogs, trees… has equal amounts of, it is time. All have 24 hours in a day.
Yeah but between a coconut tree, a pet cat, and a human being, the human has much more things to do. We can't afford to waste much time.
But you waste so much time! And other people's time too. And you're always ten minutes late for everything.
Hey, I am always exactly ten minutes late, okay? That is punctual but just off the mark. That consistency deserves some credit, don't you think?
That "just off the mark" is what your boss calls "always late". Why can't you make a small adjustment to your daily routine?
It's not that easy. I tried. I set my watch to run ten minutes faster. Setting the watch was easy but believing in it was difficult because my phone is synced with the network time. So I set my phone 10 minutes fast. And then I realized I had to set my computer too. And then my office computer and my tablet and my Kindle and...
Wow, you did that?
Yeah. I set all my clocks 10 minutes fast and tried to follow my new personal clock but these social networking apps just won't let me. When someone just replied to a tweet, the twitter app would show it as "10 minutes ago". Every time I try to really believe in something, the internet ruins it instantly. Soon I was mentally subtracting ten minutes every time I looked at my watch. The whole purpose is defeated.
You never fail to fail.
In my defense, my failure was inevitable. Those days are over. My grandfather had only two clocks – his wrist watch and another "grandfather" clock. If my grandfather wanted to get more punctual, all he had to do was to set both his clocks ten minutes fast and believe in it. That's it. It was that simple for him. But it's much more complicated now.
It's weird... this human obsession for precise time-keeping.
What do you mean weird?
It's not natural. I mean cats don't believe in it. I rely on the sights and sounds of nature to keep track of time. The sparrow's morning invitation that says "bite me", the warmth of the sunlight in the afternoon when I nap near the kitchen window, the secretive squeaks of mice as they pore through your trash at midnight... these are the things that tell me the time. We rely on our instincts.
Yes, wearing a watch is unnatural for cats. If I saw a cat wearing a watch, I'd shit in my pants and call the Army. But what is unnatural for cats is not necessarily unnatural for humans.
What about your great-grandfather? He didn't have much use for a clock. He probably just followed the rhythms of nature just like cats.
Humans for thousands of years before him kept track of time only through the natural cycles of day and night, the movement of the sun, moon and constellations in the sky. They didn't care about the exact time. It didn't matter whether it was 6:40 AM or 7:20 AM. It was just "morning" but seasons mattered a lot. They anxiously watched out for the signs of changing seasons, growth of plants and migration of birds. What they did on a typical summer day was vastly different from what they did on a spring day which was completely different from how they chilled during Kaartheeka Maasam. That is what I call natural.
That is a very vague definition of natural.
Forget about the definitions. I'll tell you what is not natural: Your life where you are stalked, hounded, judged, chided, rigidly monitored, intimidated and enslaved by your own clocks. That is not natural.
Oh come on, it's not as bad as you make it seem.
I'm telling you... clocks are the real masters of mankind.
That is bullshit.
Oh yeah? Who woke you up in the morning?
I woke up by myself...
Abba cha!
...with some generous help from four different alarms.
See! You begin your day by begging the clock for 20 more minutes of snooze time. When you eventually wake up, the clock reminds you that you have overslept by 14 minutes and makes you feel guilty about it.
For the record, I never feel guilty about too much sleep.
Do you wake up moments before your alarm clock actually goes off?
Do you know why?
I don't know... I never thought about it.
It's fear.
Yes, fear. All your life, you've been conditioned to wake up afraid of being late to work or school or some other appointment. Your day begins exactly at 9:10 AM. Then you have a 5 minute shower, make "2 minute" noodles and catch the 9:40 bus for a "25 minute" commute to reach office exactly 10 minutes late for the meeting that starts precisely at 10:30 AM every morning. Everything you do... what you do, when you do, how to do it is all dictated by The Clock.
At least I don't sleep when it is time to sleep.
I'll give you credit for that but don't you see bigger picture?
You eat lunch not when you are hungry but because it is time for lunch. Students open their books not out of interest or curiosity but because there isn't much time before the exams. Parents want their daughters to get married early because they think she is running out of time.
People go to the gym and run for exactly 30 minutes till a beeper announces that their workout is over. Friends try to wish each other on their birthdays at the stroke of midnight. You make resolutions to exercise, read, and spend more time with loved ones not because you feel from within that you should become a better person but because it is that time of the year when everyone makes resolutions. No wonder they all crash in the first two weeks. The list is endless.
Thank you. Happy new year to you too!
So how did you end up like this?
We invented clocks for obvious reasons
Yeah but in those days, each city had its own time based on local sunrise and sunset cycles.
It changed with the industrial revolution. It made transportation faster and with it, synchronization of clocks became very important especially for the railways. It was so important that the British govt. passed a law in 1880 that required all timetables in Britain to follow the single time of Greenwich. It was the first time in human history that the population of an entire country was obliged to live by an artificial clock.
It is the norm now.
Trust me, it feels completely "natural". The assembly lines along which modern industries are organized also require thousands of employees and machines to work in tandem following precise timetables. From those modest beginnings, the whole world eventually got tuned to GMT.
Unfortunately the assembly line mentality was not limited to industrial production only. It percolated into almost every sphere of human activity. Strict timetables are imposed on schools, hospitals, restaurants, prisons and everything else. Scientists are even debating if we should really follow the movement of the earth around the sun for our time.
That is the story of humanity. You just keep withdrawing from nature at every step. You biologically evolved to be hunter-gatherers in open grasslands and moderately dense forests. Then you domesticated animals, figured out agriculture, invented the wheel, learned to extract metal, started trading and ended up living in towns and cities so that you don't have to depend on the wilderness for food.
The Industrial Revolution and faster communication channels implied that your reach is not limited by geography. Air conditioning and other things ensured that you don't have to care about the weather or the seasons either.
You reached a stage where you eat genetically modified organisms, drink corn-sugar solutions in plastic bottles and live in houses with smooth monochromatic surfaces and right angles. The end result is a life devoid of organic experiences. A life that involves an endless loop of waiting for weekends and then wondering where the hell it went!
Finally when the body and mind complain about the dreadful monotony of rigid timetables under the tyranny of clocks, you realize you need to take some time off to "unwind"... much like rusty old CLOCKS!
I don't like the way you say clocks anymore.
The idea of a modern vacation is itself quite funny. It is not a coincidence that the most popular holiday spots – mountains, beaches, lakes and the countryside – are places with the least number of clocks.
What is your ideal holiday? Let me guess. You wake up when you feel like waking up. You eat when you are hungry. You stare at the clouds, hear the birds, smell the flowers and feel the fleeting wind all at once. Your senses are working at their peak capacity.
You lose track of time. You do things that excite you, maybe even things that exhilarate you. You introspect and try to make meaningful connections with your identity, religion, people, and nature. Just in a short while, you begin to feel really alive, momentarily free from the clock. You wonder why you don't do this more often.
But not for long because time flies, especially when you are on a low budget 3 days-2 nights package holiday. And then your holiday comes to an abrupt end with the hotel charging half a day's extra rent for overshooting the check out time by 35 minutes.
Welcome to The Clock!


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DARIEN, Conn. -- After the Darien Republican Town Committee unanimously recommended Kevin Fullington and Michael Nedder for the Zoning Board of Appeals at a special meeting, both formally joined the board.
Fullington, a Fordham Law School graduate, is a Partner with Herrick, Feinstein and co-chair of Government Relations Practices. He has lived in Darien for five years with his wife and their two children, both of whom attend elementary school in Darien. Before joining Herrick, Kevin spent 10 years in government, most recently as deputy director and general counsel in the New York City Mayor's Office of City Legislative Affairs.
Nedder, also a Fordham Law School graduate is a Managing Partner of Nedder & Associates. He has lived in Darien for 35 years with his wife and three children, who also attend elementary school in Darien.
The GOP approved the nominations on Saturday, June 14. The Board of Selectmen formally appointed both candidates for the Zoning Board of Appeals at its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, June 16.
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With the help of mobile devices like laptops, smartphones and tablets, working from just about anywhere is now more possible than ever. Regardless of whether you are on the road traveling for a business trip, working from home, or driving down the street to grab your third coffee of the day, advancements in mobile devices allow us to always be on and connected to the office at all times.
Aside from the obvious voice, text, and browser capabilities most used on smartphones today, the iPhone (News - Alert) offers a number of other benefits that help professionals to make the device more than just a connection to the office and more of a beneficial tool to staying productive no matter where your office is located.
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The picturesque town of Carlsbad, CA, nestles quietly near the Pacific Ocean just north of San Diego. Once known as the Avocado Capital of the World, the seaside locale is home to a world-famous spa, quaint antique shops, and the studio of painter John Asaro.
Asaro built his home with the cream-colored stucco studio in the back yard 15 years ago. In spring, brilliant pink and red bougainvillea flowers climb across the studio entrance, and a banana tree stands like a leafy sentinel at the front door. Mexican tile steps cut a pathway from the studio to the home that he shares with his wife, Janet, and two teenage daughters, Amber and Devon.
Asaro has incorporated a minimalist aesthetic into the 600-square-foot space—an aesthetic that his wife, an interior designer, is fond of challenging on occasion. "She keeps trying to sneak rugs in here for the floor," Asaro grouses good-naturedly. "But I like the space the way it is."
To his way of thinking, the key element in the studio is the ability to control the bright Southern California light that floods the space almost daily. As Asaro talks, he points to two 8-foot-high windows that face each other. "I have warm light coming in from the south because the sun is on the south and cool light coming in from the north. The mixture creates a perfect light. When it changes I can adjust the mini-blinds," he says.
Asaro is known for impressionistic and romantic figurative works that are bathed in sensuous light. He has designed his studio so he can paint his models at either end of the rectangular room. And on close inspection, a visitor soon notices that almost everything in the studio is mobile. "I count 17 separate items in here on wheels," Asaro says, taking inventory.
For starters, there's a moveable tan-colored sofa that occupies one corner—a posing place for his models, as well as his vantage point for viewing works from a distance. Also, two easels on wheels are present and glide easily across a painted wood floor. So does a floor-length mirror that Asaro uses to study paintings in reverse.
Three hand-carved wooden beams that stretch across the width of the 14-foot-high ceiling are among the few stationary items in an environment where wheels rule. "I copied the beams from some I saw in a Venice fish market and carved them myself," Asaro says. The beams are in the studio simply because they are Italian, he explains, referring to his heritage.
Is his studio complete? No, Asaro replies emphatically, and he lists a string of possible changes including raising the roof to 20 feet in height. "I never feel like my studio is finished," he says. "It's a continual work in progress."
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Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both of their lives. Now thirteen years old, Sharlah has finally moved on. About to be adopted by retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, and his partner, Rainie Conner, Sharlah loves one thing best about her new family: they are all experts on monsters.
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Coming off a dominating victory over Morgan County the previous week, the Commerce faithful hoped for a wave of moment would carry the Tigers to their second victory of the year Friday night.
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text: EURO QUARTZ CX1V CRYSTAL Miniature Crystal for Pierce Oscillators 10kHz to 600kHz FEATURES Frequency Range 10kHz to 600kHz High shock resistance Low ageing Designed for low power applications Full MIL testing available OUTLINE & DIMENSIONS DESCRIPTION CX1V crystals consist of a high quality tuning fork resonator in a rugged, hermetically sealed ceramic package. CX1V is intended for use in Pierce (single inverter) oscillator circuits. SPECIFICATION Specifications stated are typical at 25°C unless otherwise indicated. Specifications may change without notice. Frequency Range: 10.0kHz to 600.0kHz Standard Calibration Tolerance*: see table Motional Resistance (R1): Figure 1 Max = 10~169.9kHz, 2x typical 170~600kHz, 2.5x typical Motional Capacitance (C1): Figure 2 Quality Factor (Q): Figure 3 Min. is 0.25x typical Shunt Capacitance (C0): 2.0pF max. Drive Level 10~24.9kHz: 0.5µW max. 25~600.0kHz: 1.0µW max. Turning Point (T0)**: Figure 4 Temperature Coefficient (k): -0.035ppm/°C2 Ageing, first year: 5ppm max. Shock, survival***: 1,000g peak, 1ms, ½ sine Vibration, survival***: 20g rms, 10~2000Hz Operating Temperature Range Commercial: -10° to +70°C Industrial: -40° to +85°C Military: -55 to +125°C Storage Temperature Range: -55° to +125°C Maximum Process Temperature: See package handling notes * Tighter frequency calibration is available. ** Other turning point is available *** Higher shock and vibration survival is available STANDARD CALIBRATION TOLERANCE Frequency Range (kHz) 16~74.9 75~169.9 ±30ppm ±50ppm 170~249 ±100ppm 250~600 ±200ppm LOAD CAPACITANCE (CL)* Frequency Range (kHz) PACKAGING 10~15.9 16~24.9 25~54.9 CX1V crystals are Tray Packed as standard Load Capacitance 11pF 10pF 9pF Frequency Range (kHz) 55~99.9 100~179.9 180~600 Load Capacitance 8pF 5pF 4pF * The load capacitance we use to calibrate CX1V. (Other CL is available.) HOW TO ORDER CX1V LEADED CRYSTALS CX1V - S - 03 - 32.768K, Side Leads 'S' if special, custom design. 03 = Non RoHS Compliant Otherwise leave 05 = RoHS blank Compliant Frequency K = kHz 30 Calibration Tolerance @25°C (in ppm) / I Temp. Range C = -10° ~ +70°C I = -40° ~ +85°C M = -55° ~ +125°C S = Customer specified EUROQUARTZ LIMITED Blacknell Lane CREWKERNE Somerset UK TA18 7HE Tel: +44 (0)1460 230000 Fax: +44 (0)1460 230001 [email protected] www.euroquartz.co.uk EURO QUARTZ CX1V CRYSTAL Miniature Crystal for Pierce Oscillators CRYSTAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT R1 Motional Resistance C1 Motional Capacitance 10kHz to 600kHz FIGURE 1 CX1V Typical Motional Resistance R1 L1 Motional Inductance C0 Shunt Capacitance CONVENTIONAL CMOS PIERCE OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT FIGURE 2 CX1V Typical Motional Capacitance C1 Turning Point Temperature FIGURE 3 CX1V Typical Quality Factor (Q) Note: Frequency f at temperature T is related to frequency F0 at turning point temperature To by: f-fo =k(T-To)2 fo PACKAGE HANDLING The CX crystal is hermetically sealed in a ceramic package. Normal handling and soldering precautions for small, low thermal mass parts are adequate when installing or testing CX crystals. CX crystals may be wave soldered with proper precaution taken to avoid desoldering the leads. A slow machine rate or too high a pre-heat temperature or solder bath temperature may damage the crystals. Lead to package solder interface temperature should not exceed 175°C, glass lid to package seal rim temperature should not exceed 210°C. If the seal rim reaches temperatures above the maximum specified, the package may lose its hermeticity. Loss of hermeticity results in a frequency decrease and motional resistance increase. FIGURE 4 CX1V Typical Turning Point Temperature (To) EUROQUARTZ LIMITED Blacknell Lane CREWKERNE Somerset UK TA18 7HE Tel: +44 (0)1460 230000 Fax: +44 (0)1460 230001 [email protected] www.euroquartz.co.uk


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The KS Hegde Hospital, is a full fledged 1200 bed hospital attached to the Institute. The hospital has state-of-the-art facilities in Anaesthesiology, Dermatology, ENT, General Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Radiology and TB, Chest & Respiratory diseases.
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These departments have advanced facilities such as ECHO, TMT and Holter for entire non-evasive work, state-of-the-art flat panel cathlab, a variety of interventional options including coronary and peripheral angiograms via femoral and radial route, coronary and peripheral angioplasties, drug eluting stent implantation, temporary and permanent pacing, AICD implantation, paediatric interventions like ASD, VSD, PDA and device closure, specialised laproscopic set up for paediatric patients, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, urethro reno scopy, neuro OT, neuro endoscope, spinal surgery equipment supported by a full fledged neuro ICU etc.
The Physiotherapy department has several modern equipment like the EMG, LASER, Interferrential Therapy, Ultrasound and Short wave diathermy to deal with all types of musculo skeletal problems. This division also has cardiopulmonary and neurological rehabilitation programmes. The Speech Therapy section performs diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic rehabilitation for various speech, language and hearing disorders.
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About the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital
University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital has been dedicated to meeting the health care needs of children and families since 1919. As Iowa's only comprehensive children's hospital, we provide care for children from birth to young adulthood. Services range from promoting wellness to the care of general childhood illness, surgery, traumatic injuries, life-threatening and chronic illnesses, and developmental disabilities. As part of an academic medical center, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital also performs groundbreaking research to help solve the mysteries of childhood diseases, in addition to training the next generation of health care professionals. UI Stead Family Children's Hospital is a state-of-the-art pediatric facility that is part of the comprehensive resources of UI Hospitals and Clinics. Our physical facilities grew considerably in 2017. Consistent with our philosophy of patient- and family-centered health care, the new hospital was designed by, with, and for pediatric patients and families.
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Child Life Specialists at University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital focus on meeting the emotional and developmental needs of children who are in a health care setting. For a child, the excessive anxiety and stress related to illness, separation from family during hospitalization, and medical encounters can be emotionally damaging and interfere with the child's response to medical treatment and care. Major interruptions in a child's life can invite dependency and erode self-esteem and may jeopardize the child's growth and development. Through the use of play and other forms of communication, a Child Life Specialist helps reduce the stress and enable children and families to cope with these experiences.
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If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.Almost exactly four years ago, I was fretting about Ralph Nader. You see, Nader had just announced his candidacy and I was worried about a repeat spoiler performance. As our (bad) luck would have it, Kerry lost to Bush by a sufficient enough margin that Nader wasn't the difference-maker.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457 (1897)
Today, Ralph Nader has once again announced that he is running for President. As I look back on what I wrote in 2004, I realize that two ideas from my February 2004 post still ring true to me today:
The first point: Ralph Nader will not have an effect on the election in any way, shape, or form. In some bizarro alternative universe, Ralph Nader's star rose after the 2000 election, and he rode a groundswell of support into a renewed bid in 2004. We rallied around his message of battling the corporate kleptocracy, we decided to take the fight to a two-party duopoly and we railed against a flawed electoral system...
...but that world isn't our world. None of the above ever happened. What really happened after 2000 and again in 2004 was that Ralph Nader went back down the cultural rabbit/hobbit hole, disappearing from the national stage. Who knows? Maybe he was headlining policy wonk cruises the whole time and I just haven't been paying attention.
The second point: Ralph Nader is destined to join the ranks of Aaron Burr & Alger Hiss. Like Burr & Hiss, early Nader's contributions (remember that without him we would have neither the EPA nor OSHA) will be overshadowed in time by late Nader's hubris. 50 years from now, they'll remember Nader's contributions to the regulatory state? Not a chance. They'll remember him as the guy who was the but-for cause of George W. Bush's election.
Now, in that last sentence – linking Nader to Bush's 2000 win in Florida – I realize that I sound like the stock Nader critic. And the stock Nader critic should expect to hear from the standard Nader supporter: "It's his right to run," they say, pointing out that he's a natural-born citizen over the age of thirty-five.
But in responding to critics like me who say "Nader should not run" with the statement that "Nader legally can run," Nader's remaining supporters miss the point of Justice Holmes's passage above.
The law provides good guidance regarding what we can do. In a criminal context, the law tells us what we cannot do (unless we want to suffer the penalty). From this negative, we can infer that anything not prohibited is permissible. We can do it.
Yet, the law says nothing (or next to nothing) regarding what we should do. Even if something is legal, ought I to do it? You might find the answer to that question in a book, but it won't be a book of statutes or a bound book of legal opinions. When Nader's remaining supporters respond to critics who say he should not run by saying that he has every right to run, they substitute should for can.
As Bill Clinton has noted, Ralph Nader's 2000 run as the Green Party candidate "for the Presidency "prevented Al Gore from being the 'greenest' president we could have had."
O remaining Nader supporter,
I'm well aware of what Ralph Nader could do in 2000.
What should he have done?


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NEW YORK (AP) ? Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, died Thursday, his spokesman said. He was 83.
Ertegun, a Turkish ambassador's son, remained connected to the music scene until his last days — it was at an October 29 concert by the Rolling Stones at the Beacon Theatre in New York where Ertegun fell, suffered a head injury and was hospitalized. He later slipped into a coma.
"He was in a coma and expired today with his family at his bedside," said Dr. Howard A. Riina, Ertegun's neurosurgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Ertegun will be buried in a private ceremony in his native Turkey, said Bob Kaus, a spokesman for Ertegun and Atlantic Records. A memorial service will be conducted in New York after New Year's.
Ertegun started collecting records for fun, but would later became one of the music industry's most powerful figures with Atlantic, which he founded in 1947.
The label first made its name with rhythm and blues by Charles and Big Joe Turner. It later diversified, making Franklin the "Queen of Soul" as well as carrying the banner of British rock — with the Rolling Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin — and American pop — with Sonny and Cher, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and others.
Today, the company, part of Warner Music Group, is the home to artists including Kid Rock, James Blunt, T.I., and Missy Elliott.
Ertegun's love of music began with jazz, back when he and his late brother Nesuhi ? an esteemed producer of such jazz acts as Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman — used to hang around with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in the clubs of Washington, D.C.
"My father was a diplomat who was ambassador to Switzerland, France and England before he became ambassador to the United States, and we lived in all those countries and we always had music in the house, and a lot of it was a kind of popular music, and we heard a lot of jazz," Ertegun recalled in an interview with The Associated Press. "By the time we came to Washington, we were collecting records and we amassed a collection of some 25,000 blues and jazz records."
Ertegun parlayed his love of music into a career when he founded Atlantic with partner Herb Abramson and a $10,000 loan. When the label started it made its name with blues-edge recordings by acts such as Ruth Brown.
Despite his privileged background, which included attending prep school and socializing with Washington's elite, Ertegun was able to mix with all kinds of people. That attribute that made him not just a marketer of black music but a part of it, said Jerry Wexler.
"The transition between these two worlds is one of Ahmet's most distinguishing characteristics," Wexler said.
Black music was the backbone of the label for years. It was Atlantic, under Wexler's production genius, that helped make Franklin the top black female singer of her day.
"We had some pop music; we had Bobby Darin … and we developed other pop artists such as Sonny and Cher and Bette Midler and so on," said Ertegun. "But we had been most effective that set a style as purveyors of African-American music. And we were the kings of that until the arrival of Motown Records, which was long after we started."
But once music tastes changed, Ertegun switched gears and helped bring on the British invasion in the '60s.
"If Atlantic had restricted itself to R&B music, I have no doubt that it would be extinct today," Wexler said.
Instead, it became even bigger.
In later years Ertegun signed Midler, Roberta Flack and ABBA. He had a gift for being able to pick out what would be a commercial smash, said the late producer Arif Mardi


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This Warwick build will leave your competitors, especially AD carries, wondering why they cannot hurt you. It relies on the armor runes early game to make it difficult for AD to hurt you in 1v1 fights and ganks, so it may be beneficial to avoid AP characters until you can build some MR. Warwick can deal some good damage while tanking without having any damage items because of his 20% damage using his Q. The passive lifesteal will help you in 1v1 battles and in not having to go back to heal as often.
One issue with this build is mana, which is why it is important to keep a blue buff on as much as possible. Once you get your madreds razor, keeping a blue buff is easy.
I went with armor runes in this case to mitigate the damage you take from AD carries. Early game, especially in ranked, warwick is more likely to run into other AD junglers that Ap characters so having the extra armor really helps surviving long enough to use Q a few times and to let your teammate come and clean up the kill if needed. A lot of players dont expect a WW to be so tanky so you can take advantage of this early game. The armor also helps with jungling vs. creeps early on.
(You could choose to keep seals as armor runes and use marks for something else like magic penetration, but that is up to you.)
The cooldown glyphs are good to allow you to use Q as much as possible, which will how you keep your health up and is generally the way you finish an opponent off. After building up Q early my warwick generally can use Q every 3 seconds or so which is huge for healing and for dealing the 20% flat damage. In my opinion there is no reason to build AP into this build because the 20% is plenty to do what needs to be done.
The health quints help jungle early on and also give you more health to build up before you go into a gank.
Masteries can be tweaked on preference if you want to add improved smite or exhaust, but after you get madreds you will find warwick rarely uses smite so it is only useful for the first two red and blue buffs, and maybe a dragon after that. The 5 second shortened CD isn't really needed.
I think it is important to have at least one point in utility mastery because with this build you HAVE to keep a blue buff as often as possible in the laning phase so you aren't constantly going back to base and missing opportunities for ganks.
When it comes to items, this build relies on what the other team is building. The core items are for sure
1. Madreds razor- for easy jungling (can be built into bloodrazor end game if you want more damage, or wriggles lantern if you want some lifesteal and damage early game and want to have the free ward).
2. Mercury's treads- i ALWAYS get these because it makes up for the fact that i don't use any MR runes, glyphs or seals. The extra tenacity is nice as well but once you get these it makes it easier to face the AP characters in the laning phase.
3. Spirit Visage- I know these seems like a staple for Mundo but i have found it is perfect for this warwick build as well. Since you are sticking with the 20% damage and not adding an ap for the Q, this increased healing is awesome and helps warwick keep his health up. Not to mention a little MR and it gives you some cooldown reduction which again is great to spam Q.
4. Sunfire Cape- this item is one of my favorites for any tank because you will be in the middle of the battle and the damage is nice. It also adds additional health and armor and makes farming creeps endgame VERY easy. The sunfire cape will also do damage for the duration of your stun which adds a nice boost.
After that, warmogs is always nice because it increases warwicks health pool and health regen so he can last longer in team fights while healing himself. Also after having these two items end game it will seem like you are healing yourself thorough the large amount of health regen you will have.
I leave it up to you for the rest, thornmail is nice when your playing an AD heavy team or Force of nature if there is just too much ability power. If you have another tank that is doing well you can pick up an item to add to warwicks attack speed or base damage as well.
Skill Sequence
This is pretty straightforward for Warwick, Max your Q when u can then W which adds alot of damage and buffs your teammates, but make sure you have at least one point in E so you can chase down opponents in early ganks.
ALSO MAKE SURE YOU TURN YOUR E OFF IF YOU ARE TRYING TO SNEAK UP ON AN OPPONENT THAT IS BELOW THE HEALTH THRESHOLD TO GIVE YOU A SPEED BOOST! Turn it back on when you are in pursuit and your presence is known
Summoner Spells
Exhaust- great for ganks and messing with the opponents AD carry in team fights. This has been essential and when coordinated with teammates abilities and your stun it almost always lets you get a gank in.
Smite- great for getting blue buff early game but is not needed after you get madreds... if you think you can jungle WW without it, do it and use another spell. It is good for an early dragon though....
Other possible spells....
teleport- for obvious reasons
flash- good to get in range on ganks or escape but i have found it is better to stay in the fight and heal with your Q and auto attacks, which will bait people to try and kill you while your team drops them.
Whatever floats your boat....
Creeping / Jungling
For my jungle I start out with the cloth armor and potions at blue and usually kill it pretty fast especially if there is a leash. Then I snag the wolves and move on down to the two giants or the wraiths. Red buff is a little harder so i usually wait until I get madreds because the blue buff is most important early to keep your mana up.
Keep your head up, if you see an gank opportunity early it never hurts to try but I generally wait until level 4 when i have a point in blood scent. It is always good to grab boots before a gank to because warwick will seem very slow without them.
With all the early game armor it is easy to take out their AD jungler or their AD carry. After laning phase just make sure you are getting blue buff whenever possible and also stealing other objectives (dragon and red buff).
Team Work
Your survivability in team fights with this build will be awesome, especially if you have a designated tank on the team the opponent will expect less from you and think they can burn you faster. Make sure to use your stun in team fights on the right character; i.e. stun the character that is about to burst your team down. I like to stun an AP carry like ryze before he explodes someone or even keeping a fiddle from bringing his ult into the team.
Your W is a good buff for your AD and autoattackers so keep that on in team fights.
I have also found that warwick is great for baiting because he can keep healing so well and can also keep a champion trying to kill him while you can get your team to respond and help you.
The CD on infintite duress is pretty low so it should be available in all end game team fights. It wont do a whole lost of damage but the heal is nice and the stun is awesome.
Pros / Cons
Pros- Super tanky, survivability, healing and end game survival; lifesteal can ensure you almost never have to B.
Cons- mana without a blue buff can drop quickly, you have to be wary of AP character early one, and also you dont have a slow so you rely on keeping up with the enemy or stunning them. A phage could be good if you are haveing trouble tracking opponents down


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Part 11 Casuarinaceae - Cecropiaceae
Casuarinaceae, a small family with only four genera and 95 species, are native to Australia and the western Pacific. Casuarina, the genus of interest to us here, consists of 17 species. The most frequently seen species is C. equisetifolia, known commonly by a variety of names including Australian pine (no relation to Pinus, but it's a convenient name), common ironwood, she-oak, beefwood, or simply as casuarina. Its characteristic flowers and cones are seen in the photo. It has been widely planted as a windbreak–in the Hawaiian Islands and throughout the Pacific basin–as well as for its usefulness as a timber tree.
This species is widespread in the Hawaiian Islands occurring on all of the main islands and on many of the northwestern islands. A casuarina forest, showing the tendency to overwhelm all other vegetation, can easily be visited on Moloka`i's northern coast at the overlook to the Kalaupapa Peninsula (see image). Folks who stroll barefoot on beaches will likely have encountered the cones of this species! Extensive plantings of casuarina, heavily clipped by the Trade Winds, can be seen from the road along the eastern cliffs of Moloka`i (see image). The very similar Casuarina glauca has also been extensively planted in the islands. A view of this species lining one of the tracks on Läna`i is seen in the photo.
In spite of the usefulness of casuarina as a valuable timber tree and as a beach stabilizer, there is more to the story. In short, casuarina is one of the most aggressive alien trees on the Hawaiian Islands. It grows rapidly, produces heavy seed crops, and prevents colonization of other species–natives and other aliens alike–through the massive amount of leaf litter that accumulates. One writer, Maui Mike (Michael T. Garrison), has called it "The pine tree's evil twin." See also Floridata's Casuarina equisetifolia profile.
Historically, this family of six genera and about 300 species (Manual) was considered to be intermediate between Moraceae (fig family) and Urticaceae (nettles) but is now considered part of the latter (Soltis et al., p. 176). Future treatments of the Hawaiian flora will undoubtedly recognize this new alignment. Cecropia is a genus of 61 species from tropical America (Mabberley, p. 162). A single naturalized species occurs on the Hawaiian Islands, Cecropia obtusifolia (see image), known commonly as the trumpet tree. This species occurs naturally from southern Mexico to Ecuador. In the islands it occurs in open fields and wet forests on Kaua`i, O`ahu and on the Big Island. Particularly healthy populations of trumpet trees can be found along the southeastern coast road on the Big Island.
Literature cited…
Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, P. K. Endress, and M. W. Chase. 2005. Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Sunderland, MA.
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This place has been consistent with very good food and very good friendly service With a warm feeling when ever you visit.
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This place has been consistent with very good food and very good friendly service With a warm feeling when ever you visit.
Good ole cookin done the right way and at a great price! When you are bored with fast food and chain food, start going here where it feels like mom/dad just made you a plate of your favorite breakfast.
good small restaurant for breakfast and lunch , not sure if there open for dinner . I like special things so i had the chicken livers for lunch . For that alone i will go again !!
This is one of my favorite breakfast place that has a very good atmosphere, prices and good service, friendly staff!
Love coming here the building has been around a long time neat place with a lot of history and good southern style food, we mostly eat here for breakfast
Food is outstanding. We don't come for the décor, which is like stepping into a southern diner from the past. Prices are very reasonable, and the staff have outstanding hospitality. We try to come here every time there is a horse show at Clarcona Horseman's...More
If you're looking for a good no frills Homestyle Cooking this is one of our favorites in Apopka. For breakfast the locals meet and discuss everything from politics to hunting and fishing there is an elite group that gets to sit in the back room...More
Good home cooking! Fast friendly service.Food was good and cheap! Can't beat that! Locally owned and operated,better then chain restaurants.Will revisit soon!
This is a cute, hometown restaurant that is always really busy. It is really cheap, like $6 for 2 eggs, bacon, and pancakes. The coffee is pretty good. The servers are friendly. The tables could be roomier, and it looks like the last time it...More
Who's giving them such a good reviews, and we believed them and went for breakfast. Eggs were okay, bacon so bad that I couldn't eat it ( a first for me ), potatoes were plain- no onions, peppers or spices, and actually my rye toast...More


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Starting in January, after 60 blogs in total including 52 interviews by year-end, I'm writing my last standard blog for this decade, for 2009 :-). This also marks the beginning of my third decade in doing interviews - to share insights, best practices from working professionals and experts; the time and resources donated to support the industry and IT professionals. A very rich and rewarding experience. It only takes an extra minute in my work and travels to ask, this simple question, "How about being interviewed to share your experiences with a broad audience?"
This journey started in 2005 for IT Manager Connection and I still enjoy every minute. It's a real privilege sharing with you every week.
Thank you for your patience, meaningful comments, many e-mails and connecting at conferences too. Always drop me a line or come up and chat. If you have a story you wish to share through an interview, let me know; or why not be a guest blogger in IT Manager Connection and let others benefit from your know-how.
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from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who digs for or mines gold.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
It happens that the antiquities collector is also seeking Jason's Golden Fleece for an avaricious gold-digger named Sand Saref (played by the fetching Seychelle Gabrielle in flashback and by the vampier Eva Mendes in the present), who also happens to be the Spirit's teen heartthrob.
McGuinness described Cetin as "controlling" and a "gold-digger" and claimed that he had been keen on acquiring the property the McGuinness family owned on the Turkish Aegean.
Turkey murders: father flies out to comfort daughter in wake of killings
We haven't seen his daughter this entire season (have we?) and he's married to a young gold-digger who spends his money and, if he loses enough through this, may leave him, while simultaneously trying to sleep with Joan, whom he recently got pregnant.
Mixed in with the vitriol levelled by the press and its readers at Mills when their marriage ended was an element of told-you-so directed at Sir Paul himself, a sort of collective satisfaction in characterising them as a rich and foolish old man duped and deluded by a conniving gold-digger, one of the oldest stories in the book.
Sir Paul, you're a credit to your love songs | Stephanie Merritt
Meanwhile, she is his "accuser," reduced to a type: a "hotel maid" or a "college student," and thus is set up to be caricatured as a gold-digger, or a vindictive woman, someone with a clear motive to accuse an innocent man of a serious felony.
Jackson Katz: DSK's Alleged Victim Should Not Be Called His "Accuser"
Hillary is a gold-digger who will grab anyone's coattails that can help her self-serving ego.
Even though I went into the audition convinced it was a gold-digging ruse -- by the way, if I had given off the least bit of a gold-digger vibe I am sure I would've been out the door so props to the dating company there -- I came out struck most by what Golden Bachelor's idea of what a woman should be.
Elizabeth Stanley shows us a show biz gold-digger with bravura but she also performs the sad "Growing Up" with considerable depth.
Sweeping stereotypes are horrible -- I hate being seen as a high-maintenance gold-digger living off my ex's hard-earned money just because I'm a divorced blonde.
Palin is a gold-digger and will and is NOT qualified to be President of U.S. maybe a Mayor ....... she trying trying to run on her looks alone and there better be smarter AMERICANS than that!!!!


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Dear Friends, Sisters and Brothers in Christ!
By the Grace of God, Third Avenue Calvin Reformed Church, Beaver Falls, PA, is preparing to celebrate its 105th year of worship, ministry, fellowship and mission, in the Name of our Lord, Jesus Christ! Our Anniversary Celebration is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, November 3, 2013. Please come and join our congregation in giving thanks to God for the past and in dedicating ourselves to new ministries for the future.
More detailed information will be sent to you in the weeks ahead, but for now, please mark the date in your calendars. We look forward to sharing with you a wonderful afternoon of worship and celebration!
In Christ,
Ms. Arlene Csoman, Chief Elder
Rev. Imre A. Bertalan, Pastor
"Te benned bíztunk eleit?l fogva!"


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Emily Wolfe and King George to Warm Up Festival Crowd
Austin-rocker Emily Wolfe and George Strait Tribute band King George will ready the audience for headliners The Toadies and Everclear at Carrollton's 8th Annual Festival at the Switchyard on Saturday, November 4 in Historic Downtown Carrollton.
Emerging artist Emily Wolfe dominates the stage with her creative songwriting, powerful vocals, and tenacious guitar riffs. With comparisons to other artists like PJ Harvey and Jack White, Wolfe's performance is guaranteed not to disappoint.
After Wolfe, King George takes the stage to honor country icon George Strait. Crowds will be "Carried Away" to the tunes of top hits by the King of Country.
A full Festival entertainment schedule as well as the entire musical line-up will be announced in the coming weeks.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the event which hosted more than 30,000 patrons in 2016.
To stay up-to-date with the latest Festival at the Switchyard news, visit carrolltonfestival.com or follow us on social media at facebook.com/CarrolltonFestival or twitter.com/carrolltonfest.


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It was a brouhaha that left many students and parents in Florida's capital city without a beloved principal. But for folks well beyond Tallahassee (and even Florida) it ought to serve as a wake-up call for dramatically re-thinking our society's upside-down patterns in compensating educators.
Here's what happened: on the Friday before Independence Day, the superintendent of Leon County Schools announced that Leon High School principal Rocky Hanna had been "promoted" to a district office administrative role. The news startled almost everyone (including Hanna) and evoked an immediate firestorm.
Angry parents and students organized a rally to protest the move. The local newspaper – and many prominent residents – urged the superintendent to rethink his decision. And recent graduates wrote articles and letters describing how Hanna belonged at Leon High, "not at some district office desk job."
To be sure, Hanna seemed perfectly suited for his position as principal of Florida's oldest public high school. He is a graduate of Leon High, part of a family with deep roots at the school, and an inspirational leader who enthusiastically celebrated his students' achievements in the classroom, on the athletic field, and in the performing arts.
In addition, Hanna distinguished himself at Leon by giving special attention to an often-overlooked population: "regular" students that are neither high achievers nor potential dropouts. Moreover, Hanna won plaudits throughout the community for pulling often-hilarious stunts to rally Leon students to participate in various community service projects.
So, why did Leon County school superintendent Jackie Pons pluck this popular principal from a position that seemed to fit Hanna like a glove? Pons said he needed Hanna in the district office to fill one of several openings caused by recent retirements. And while this explanation failed to satisfy some Leon High loyalists, all I know is that this job change never would have happened had Hanna's move to the district office not been a "promotion" to a higher-paying position.
Which begs a larger question: why are compensation patterns in education so upside down? Why do we typically compensate "star" educators (great teachers and great principals) less than the district office supervisors whose administrative skills, while valuable, are often less central to education's primary task?
I mean, can anyone imagine the owner of the Miami Heat announcing that LeBron James has done such an outstanding job leading his team to the NBA championship that he is being "promoted" to a front office job in the Miami franchise?
Can anyone imagine the president of the University of Alabama announcing that Nick Saban has done such a good job winning football national championships that he is being "promoted" to a senior administrative position in the Crimson Tide's athletic department?
The reason these scenarios are so unimaginable is because compensation patterns in the world of sports are guided largely by market forces. Stars get paid like stars. Role players get paid like role players. Top sports administrators earn a lot (usually for good reason) but they rarely make more than the stars they oversee. Because the stars are in the center of the action, where high performance is most prized – and where differences in quality typically affect outcomes the most.
Thankfully, the Florida Legislature has taken steps in recent years to introduce performance-based pay into the education sector. Yet, sadly, its efforts have been strongly resisted by the union officials that claim to represent Florida's teachers.
This begs another question: why do the union officials who negotiate on behalf of teachers make dramatically more than the teachers themselves? Most Hollywood agents make only a fraction of what the stars they represent earn. Yet, according to recent Labor Department filings, the head of the National Education Association currently makes $362,644. The head of the American Federation of Teachers pulls down $407,323 a year. And here in Florida, more than half the Florida Education Association's employees have six-figure compensation packages.
Meanwhile, the average Florida teacher earns less than $50,000 – even if she's a star in the classroom.
Clearly, it's time to rethink compensation in education. We need more performance-based pay to reward great teachers – and to prevent great principals from bring "promoted" to desk jobs that take them away from the students they inspire. That, at least, seems to be the lesson from the recent brouhaha in Tallahassee.