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A Final Session
Chapter Twelve
Marty carefully eased the key into the lock of apartment 3. Turning it gave him an apprehensive fizz in the pit of his stomach and he knew Tom was feeling the same as he saw him slide his hand to the holster on his hip and pop the fastener that held his gun in place. They had no information that told them anyone other than Edward Mellor lived here, but they knew better than to take these things for granted. Silently he put the palm of his hand flat to the peeling paintwork and pushed. The door swung open in one fluid movement. Tom, hand poised on the handle of his gun, stepped tentatively forward, scanned the interior and gave a low whistle.
"Not what I expected, given the outside of this establishment." Tom remarked, his brows rising as he looked around.
They had gotten Edward Mellor's address from a rather distressed Dr Wilson and the keys from a disturbingly unrepentant Edward when they'd searched him prior to tossing him in the back of the patrol car. The address they got led them to a shabby building on Hester. The ground floor was given over to a grocery store with four apartments above and when Marty stepped out of the car and looked up he was met with a façade that was lousy with peeling paint and rotting wood frames. The inside of the store wasn't much better. When they went in to find out how to get upstairs Tom swore he saw stuff that had stopped being sold when he was a kid. He didn't want to think about what dates were on half this stuff. After being directed by the storeowner to a side door they climbed the dimly lit, narrow stairs up to apartment 3.
As he stepped through the door after his partner Marty had to admit it wasn't what he had been expecting either. "Welcome to lifestyles of the poor and psychopathic." He quipped.
It was a studio apartment, nothing out of the ordinary in its layout; bedroom area to the left of the door, living area directly in front with kitchen area to the right and a door leading off it, which Marty assumed, would be the bathroom. What was surprising was the décor. They'd expected the inside to be like every shabby, low rent apartment they'd every busted into, thready carpet, smoke stained walls and mismatched furniture. Edward's apartment though was definitely not like that. The entire interior had been painted white, walls, ceiling, woodwork, floorboards, all white and not a soft, warm white but a stark white which, as a backdrop, displayed every stick of the apartments furniture with startling clarity.
The reason the furniture stood out so much was that all of it, every last piece was black, the bed and bedclothes, chairs, table, computer desk, lamps, blinds, all black. It wasn't only this that struck Marty and Tom though. This guy appeared to have no personal stuff. There were no ornaments, high school trophies, family heirlooms, nothing not even any photographs apart from one Marty could see framed on the nightstand. The only remotely personal things were books, lots of them all rowed in order of height on the black painted shelves that stood next to the computer desk.
"Stella wants to decorate with all this minimalist stuff. I'm just not that sure. Not real homely if you ask me." Tom muttered as he gazed around. He turned when he became aware that Marty was staring at him. "What?"
"You movin' in together?" Marty feigned a shocked look.
"NO! No, it's her place I just … I mean I stay a lot but … Ah hell, I'm not getting' into this with you." Tom shook his head and moved over to the bedroom area.
Marty smiled as he stepped towards the bookshelves, pulling out a pair of latex gloves from his pocket and snapping them on.
"What's he got? Jackie Collins?" Tom asked, eager to change the subject.
"Yeah, right." Marty laughed. "Looks like they're all psychology books. No fiction."
"What? Freud 'n' that?"
"Nah, no Freud. Maybe he didn't agree with the guy." Marty smiled and turned his attention to the desk where a laptop and four box files lay.
"Well, one good thing." Tom called as he peered under the bed and then kneeled up to look at the picture on the nightstand, "It's not gonna take us long to find anything if it's here." He peered at the blurred photo of a smiling woman with shoulder length black hair holding a boy of around four years. The boy had his arm around the woman's neck lovingly but was frowning at the lens. "Think this could be mom?" He straightened holding the frame up to Marty.
"Dunno." Marty replied without even looking up. "Think this could be our evidence?" He asked waving above his head a tape and manila folder he'd fished out of the top box file.
Tom moved quickly over to the desk and opened the next file as Marty leafed through the folder he'd taken from the top one. "Looks like proper records lifted from the practice. It's full of real personal stuff. Mentions the name Estelle. That's the Goldberg's right?" Marty questioned.
"Look." Tom said, pointing to the long side of the file he was rifling. The initials J&A F had been written down the side in neat marker pen. Marty looked at the side of the file he'd taken the folder out of and saw M&E G. Looking across to the third he saw it was marked R&E R. His stomach tightened as he looked to the box file at the bottom of the pile marked J&C D. Grabbing the box file up Marty pulled it open to see Esther Bergen's original forum notes lying neatly in the bottom.
Tom looked up at Marty. "Hey," He started, shifting from side to side. "I know this stuff is evidence but I'm really not comfortable with goin' through that file if it's as personal as these ones."
Marty nodded. "Me neither." He agreed quietly. "I'll bet we got plenty on this fruit loop with the other three files and tapes. We'll pass this to the boss. It can be his call." Suddenly the shrill tone of his cell phone burst through the air making them both jump. Marty fumbled it in his haste to answer.
"Boss?" He answered sharply, the tension in his voice palpable. "Any news? Right. Uh, yeah we got plenty. Three tapes. Yeah, notes too. Will do."
"No call from the hospital yet?" Tom demanded as Marty ended the call.
"Nah'. Boss just wanted to know if we'd got anything here. Seemed happy when I told him we did." Marty tossed the box file back onto the desk top with a heavy sigh.
With Marty and Tom gone to check out Mellor's address Karen and Fisk moved into his office to listen to the tape. They sat in silence as it rolled, Fisk occasionally shifting uncomfortably in his chair and fiddling with the bagged therapy notes file they'd found on the Dunbar's dining table. When the tape finally came to an end they both sat back and looked at each other. After a moment the Boss cleared his throat and spoke quietly, "I don't think anyone else needs to hear this, do you?"
She shook her head. "There's some pretty personal stuff on there, so no."
"Agreed," Fisk nodded. "If Tom and Marty get enough from Mellor's place I'll be able to make this disappear. Ah, to be honest if they don't it's disappearing anyway." He slipped the tape recorder back into the evidence bag and tossed it in his drawer. "I'll give them a call." He finished.
Karen sat back in her chair as the Boss called Marty's cell. She rubbed her hand over her eyes and squeezed them shut. She had a headache coming on and she never got headaches. She wondered idly if Jim had any aspirin in his desk drawer. He was always popping the things; surely he'd have some. She resolved to go and look as soon as the boss was done. He seemed to be finishing up the call with Marty, "just tapes or anything else? Good. Get back over here and we'll go through them." He dropped the receiver down and looked up towards Karen. "Tom and Marty got tapes and notes on all three vics so looks like we can bury the stuff relating to Jim."
Karen nodded and rubbed her hand across the back of her neck. "Good." She shuffled her feet.
"Anything you wanna add, Karen?" Fisk asked.
"No, I'm good boss."
"Ok. Look, you should let me know if you think you need to see anyone about what happened today." He said slowly.
"What d'you mean what happened today!" She snapped sharply
Fisk looked at her hard. "Well, you partner getting attacked was at the front of my mind."
She visibly relaxed and shook her head. "I'm fine, really."
"The service is always there if you want." He finished.
Karen stood up and shifted on her heels impatiently. "I'm gonna head back to the hospital Boss, if that's ok? I can't sit around waiting for them to ring anymore and Christie could probably use the company."
"Sure. Call if anything changes." He said, but Karen was already out of the door.
A half-hour later Karen pushed the door to Jim's room open. The lights were low and the room was quiet except for the rhythmic beep of a heart monitor and gentle breath sounds muffled by a plastic oxygen mask. "Hey" she said quietly as she walked towards the bed in which her partner lay. Christie jumped a little and turned in her chair to face Karen.
"Sorry. Didn't mean to make you jump." She apologized, noticing that Christie Dunbar looked pale and, for all the sleep she'd had, tired. She was dressed in light green scrubs, which washed her complexion out, and her usually slick black hair was all mussed and tangled at the back.
"How's he doing?" Karen asked tentatively as she looked over his face, the right side of which had developed into a puffy mass of purple and red angry bruises that bloomed beneath the stitched cuts on his cheek and lower lip. His right eyelid was swollen and wet looking.
"OK. CT scan was clear and he's stable, he's just not waking up." She looked away from Karen and back to her husband, her brows knitting.
"How about you?" Karen pressed gently.
"I don't know." She shook her head. "I went to bed in my apartment and I woke up here without a clue about what happened in between, so honestly, I really don't know." She finished, her voice wavering a little.
"You want me to call anyone?"
Christie shook her head. "Not yet, not if you can stay for a bit." She replied. "I know Jim would like it if he knew you were here."
"Really?" Karen asked.
"Really." She smiled.
Karen nodded. "Sure. I can stay. I didn't really wanna leave before but …"
"The job." Christie nodded.
"Yeah. Somethin' like that. I had to see this guy, the interview." Karen explained, noticing how Christie frowned a little and then deftly changed the subject when she mentioned Mellor.
"Thanks for staying with him while I was downstairs." Christie tried to smile. "He doesn't like hospitals and I'd hate for him to have woken up and been alone."
"Yeah, I know. He's always a little out of sorts when we have to interview anyone here so I wouldn't have left him. Look, you want me to call his family or have you already done that?"
"His mom and dad? God no!" Christies voice was sharp. "Thanks, but no." she said more gently. "After last time I wouldn't have that man in a hospital room with Jim again."
Karen raised her eyebrows at Christie as she pulled one of the heavy visitors chairs up next to her.
"It's a long story but last time I banned him from the hospital. Jimmy thought it was funny as hell when he found out." She looked at Karen's still questioning expression and tried to explain without getting into the whole horrible story. "Jim's dad's always been a bit of a bully and no one ever stands up to him. Well, I did and Jim thought it was hilarious." She smiled at the memory of how Jim had laughed when she told him what she had done. It was one of the only things he had seen any humor in back then after the shooting. "He called me his knight in shining armour." Christie finished, her hand stroking Jim's, carefully avoiding the IV that was taped to the back of it.
"Makes a change." Karen smiled. "Doesn't he always like to be the knight?"
Christie nodded her chin trembling. "He has a thing about not being able to protect me, you know? He's always going on about it and I always argued, told him I could protect myself and that he was still my man despite … Well he was right wasn't he? He couldn't protect us." She looked over at Karen, her face white. "He was right."
Karen shook her head and reached out to put her hand on Christies forearm, "No you're wrong Christie and he was wrong." Christie looked into Karen's face her forehead wrinkled in a frown. Karen hadn't wanted to mention what she and the Boss had just listened to but she wanted Christie to know what Jim had been prepared to do to protect her. "We have a tape, that man, he had a tape running and I listened to it. Jim protected you Christie, he did. He protected you with his life."
A single tear rolled down Christies face as she blinked and looked away from Karen.
Karen moved forward in her chair. "You want me to get you anything? You need me to pick up some clothes for you?"
"I'll call my sist…" She started to reply but stopped, "Jim?" She stood abruptly and leaned over the bed. "Jimmy, sweetie can you hear me?"
Karen looked over to Jim and saw his left eyelid flutter as he tried to open his eyes.
For the second time that day Karen found herself shifting on the uncomfortable plastic of a hospital chair. As soon as she saw Jim trying to open his eyes she had rushed out of the room and down the corridor to find a doctor. The one she found didn't seem to understand her sense of urgency as he and a nurse calmly made their way to Jim's room. Once they'd gone in Karen hung back in the corridor, allowing the door to swing shut in her face. After what seemed like an eternity the door pulled open and the doctor re-appeared.
"You can go in now if you like." He smiled.
"How is he? Is everything ok?"
"He's fine. He's very groggy and not saying much but he's responsive and we're happy with him at this stage. Don't try to get him to talk too much now. We'd prefer he get some more rest. Tomorrow he should be much more alert."
The doctor moved away down the corridor leaving Karen taking a deep breath as she pushed open the door. The nurse was still in the room, wheeling the now silent heart monitor back against the wall and hooking the oxygen mask up above the bed.
"Jimmy, Karen's here." Christie told him as she leaned over the bed.
Karen placed her hand over Jim's. "Hey partner."
His lips moved a little, "Hey." He whispered back.
"Don't try to talk too much. Doctors orders." She smiled hoping he could hear it in her voice.
"I need to tell you what happened, this guy, …" He whispered
"No need, we got him. We were at your apartment and we got him. Marty spotted a pattern."
"On his own?" Jim tried to smile but stopped when he felt the stitches pull in his lip.
"On his own." Karen nodded.
"I'm gonna let you get some rest ok and I'll be back in the morning if that's alright?" She looked over to Christie who nodded.
"Feel better, ok?" She pressed onto his hand and started to move away when his fingers caught in hers. She looked back at him as he squeezed her hand tight and then let go.
Christie called out just as Karen reached the door. "Karen?"
"Thanks. Thanks for being there for him."
Karen looked back at Christie but unable to hold her gaze quickly turned back to the door and pushed her way out to the bright lights of the corridor.
It was late afternoon by the time she left Belleview and the heat was at its height of oppression. She'd called the squad and the Boss had said he'd meet her at the hospital tomorrow. She was just about to stow her cell phone back in her pocket when something beeped making her jump. The tone of the beep was unfamiliar and it took her a moment to realize it was Jim's pager that she'd fastened to her belt. She snapped it off and looked at it. The screen was blank. What did he say about the extra button? She really couldn't remember so just pressed the first one that hit her fingertip.
"Juniper Valley" Droned the stilted voice of the pager. Juniper Valley? It meant nothing to her, no, hang on! It did ring a bell but what was it? It was on the tip of her brain. Dumbly she stood rooted to the spot on the sidewalk as she desperately tried to drag the elusive information forward.
Eventually Karen's memory did come back to her. It would have come sooner if a beat cop and then a helpful older lady hadn't both stopped to ask her if she was ok.
"Sorry I took so long." She cooed as she stooped down in front of Hank a little while later and clipped his leash onto his collar. "Do you need me to settle the bill now or does he have an account?" She asked the receptionist at the Juniper Valley Animal Hospital.
"It can go on account, don't worry about it. Um if you're taking care of him do you need some feed?"
Karen hadn't thought about this. "Yeah, doesn't he have a special diet or something?"
"I'm afraid so. Hang on and I'll get you a bag of biscuits. We don't usually allow these to go on account though." She gave Karen a questioning look.
"It's fine. I'll get them." She looked down at Hank. "I'm sorry boy, you can't go home just yet so you have to come with me ok?" He tilted his head and fixed her with his glittering eyes. "I got a little bunny though so you have to behave. You gotta promise not to eat him, cause somehow I don't think he's on your approved diet plan." Hank whined. Karen sighed, her cheeks puffing out as she contemplated the dog sitting in front of her. "OK. Probably a bit much to ask." She rubbed her hand through his fur thoughtfully. "We'll go someplace else. We'll go see someone you'll like."
Straightening up Karen hefted the bag of biscuits from the receptionist's arms, wrapped Hanks leash around her wrist and pushed her way out of the double doors.
Andy Bettancourt leaned his elbows back on the top step of the porch and straightened out his long legs, his heels idly scraping the concrete path that ran up to the three front steps of his pale green painted duplex. It was early evening and he should have been getting ready for his usual Saturday night poker game with his buddies. He didn't mind missing though, in fact he'd been thinking of dipping out before his daughter had called to say she was dropping by.
Dropping by. "Hmm" he'd grunted to himself as he replaced the receiver in the cradle. It was a fair way to drop by at short notice. Mind you, he thought, that was Jersey for you, you could get out but it would always keep calling you back. He knew his girl though and she had sounded a little off. He shrugged to himself; maybe he was imagining it, he'd soon see. She'd never been any good at hiding things from him, from her mother yes, much to Carla's annoyance. He smiled at the memory of his wife being indignant that she didn't have a daughter who confided everything in her as she had done with her own mother. He remembered what he had said, "You're not your mother baby and Karen isn't you. And may I say, thank god you're not your mother." She had laughed as his hands found her waist and slid to her hips as he pulled her close to kiss her neck. She'd swatted him away with her apron, telling him to cut it out if he wanted dinner that night. She always did a lot of swatting away; play-acting whenever he tried to get fresh around the house or if anyone was around. When they were alone though she would remember all the little passes he had made over the day and get her own back.
Blinking Andy leaned his head back, stared up at the trees overhead, and wondered idly if he had more than one TV dinner in the freezer. Karen would not be impressed if he didn't. He was just about to get up and go inside to look when he heard the noise of a car slowing to a stop. She was here.
Karen felt a rush of warmth in her stomach as she drew up in front of the house where she grew up and saw him in his usual spot waiting for her. She felt like she was eight years old again, coming back from a disastrous ballet class and seeing him there.
Killing the engine she undid the seat belt and flung back the door.
"Hey Mr. what you doing?"
Andy had jumped up from the steps and was making his way to the car. "Waiting for you Beattancourt. It's been ages. What d'you do, drive like an old lady?"
"I'm police trained, I can drive faster than you know." She laughed.
"Yeah well I want you driving like an old lady. No speeding." He said warmly as he grabbed his daughter in a bear hug.
"You look good dad." She looked up at him and smiled.
"Karen, I saw you three weeks ago. Even an old croc like me can't go downhill that fast." He scanned his daughters face and noticed she looked tired, her eyes were a little red like she'd been crying. He was about to turn her round so they could go inside when something caught his eye. "Um, Karen are you aware you seem to have a bear in the back of your car?"
"What? Oh God I nearly forgot!" She cried sounding mortified as she pulled the back door open, "Dad, this is Hank."
Andy looked at the huge shepherd that jumped down from the back seat of the car whilst his daughter pulled a bag of biscuits out after him. "Is that his food just for tonight?" He laughed.
"No. Actually he doesn't eat that much, and you CANNOT feed him bits of crap like you used to with Harley." She chided.
"Watch your mouth and I did not give him stuff, he stole it." He defended.
"Yeah. Mom might have bought that line but I don't."
As Karen closed the door with a quick push of her rear end Andy took Hanks harness in his hand. "Nah, take the leash Dad. If you take the harness he'll get confused."
"He could join the club then. I take it he isn't yours?"
"He's my partner's. Jim's. You remember I told you about him. Anyway he's in hospital so I'm taking care of his dog. If you take the harness he thinks he's working and you don't know how to command him so he won't understand what you want him to do. That's if he'd even move for you." She mumbled as they made their way up the front path. "He's almost impossible to get to move unless it's Jim giving the order." She gave a little laugh.
Andy's brow creased in a frown as he looked across at his daughter whilst she studiously paid attention to the sack of biscuits, her purse, and her hair, anything to avoid looking him in the eye. "Come on." He said. "Lets get inside and feed this monster and then me and you can have a beer and catch a game."
Karen felt the easy comfort of home wrap around her as she padded into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator to hunt for food. Her eyebrows rose as she saw a homemade apple pie sitting on the middle shelf.
"Ms Kinsella been round again?" She shouted back to the living room, her voice teasing a little.
Suddenly her dad spoke up from right behind her.
"Don't get smart. She just brought a pie."
"I wish you'd let her bring more than pie Dad, and I know mom would want that too."
"Ah, come on, gimme a break." He dismissed the subject.
"No Dad. It's been four years now and I don't want you to be alone."
"Let's talk about your relationships instead." He said wickedly.
"No fair! I'm too busy for a boyfriend."
"Hmm. It's too warm to stay inside. Lets get that beer and sit back out front."
"Mom would have a fit."
"That she would sweetheart, that she would."
A moment later they were back on the porch sitting side by side on the front step with Hank laid out on the neat square of lawn in front.
"He's very quiet." Andy commented, nodding over to Hank.
"They're trained not to bark." She supplied. "Although that could have just been Jim winding one of the other guys up. I'm not always sure." She smiled, hugging her knees to her chest.
"You gonna tell me what's up, or are we gonna dance around it some more?" He asked, pulling from the bottle.
Silence enveloped them for what seemed like an age. Andy was just about to change the subject when she spoke. "My partner got attacked in his apartment by this guy we'd been after. By the time we got there he was a mess and I … I nearly lost it."
Andy frowned, not seeing her problem. She looked up at his confused face. "I'm not supposed to bail out dad! God! I'm trained and I know what goes down in situations like this!"
Andy took a breath and licked his lips. "Did you tell any of the squad how you felt?"
"Yeah, I talked to one of the guys. He was nice about it and I know he has a point about me not having seen everything but …"
"But you're still not gonna cut yourself any slack? This guy, he older than you, been on the job a while."
"'Bout eight or nine years."
"You think you know better than him? Sounds like he's got the experience to know what he's talking about."
"That's not it." She moaned
"Well you gotta help me out here kid cause I'm missing something. Sure I can see how you might be kicking yourself for not being a strong as think you shoulda been but you'll know if there's a next time…"
"I feel like I let him down, dad! How can I look him in the eye now!"
"Karen, surely he's a reasonable man …."
"His last partner ... I don't know what heppened exactly, Jim said he didn't step up as much as he could have, but his last partner dad, let him down and blinded is where it got him!" She snapped. "It's plain to see how he feels about that guy. He can't even stomach to talk about him so how's he gonna feel when he finds out his current partner let him down too?"
"Karen, I think you're over reacting to this. There's gotta be a world of difference between what happened today and what happened when Jim's other partner did whatever he did." He sighed. "You look all in. Come on; let's take this mutt down to the store. We can buy real food and cook a real dinner and then what you need is to have a good nights sleep in an impossibly pink and frilly bedroom." He smiled as Karen leaned her head against his shoulder.
"I never wanted it pink. I wanted pale green." She said.
"I know, but your mother wanted pink, and ballet lessons, that's why you got 'em."
"D'you think I let her down too?" She mumbled.
"Whoa, you are feeling sorry for yourself aren't you?" Andy laughed, refusing to let his daughter wallow any more. "Sure she wanted you to be a doctor and like pink and frills and at least get one certificate in ballet but she was so proud of her girl who fixed trucks with her daddy and joined the boys in blue."
With that he pulled her up and propelled her down the steps, lightly grabbing Hanks leash as they went. "Come on. We gotta get off this street before Laurel spots me. She's like one of them trap door spiders when she sees me out here. I'm not even safe with you."
She smiled up at his face "Laurel? When did she stop being Ms Kinsella?" She laughed.
"Gimme a break!"
She pulled Hanks leash out of his hand and slipped her other hand into his. She'd done the right thing coming here. Home always made her feel calm whenever she had things on her mind. Tomorrow would look better she told herself. "OK." She agreed as they made their way from the house towards the store, Hank pulling eagerly at the leash. "But you know if you went round she might give you food and we wouldn't have to go to the store." She laughed.
Andy Bettancourt looked down at his daughter, raised his eyebrows and plonked a heavy hand on the top of her head, ruffling her hair, causing her to duck out from under his palm. "Brat." He muttered as she continued to laugh all the way down the street.


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This summer I planted some foxglove seeds and they have thrived with the odd exception - I now hear we are expecting a severely ccccooooldd winter and am worried they will not overwinter to flower next summer. I believe they are perennials so if I plant them out now while it is mild, will a layer of leaves protect them enough to allow the roots to keep growing and have a successful show next year or have I completely messed up!
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The owners of 30 pheasants that died of eastern equine encephalitis in Lebanon have worked with state officials to euthanize the remaining birds in their flock of about 75.
Thirty of the birds died in a two-week period before the rest of the flock was culled, acting state veterinarian Elizabeth McEvoy said Wednesday.
Their deaths prompted the owners to seek testing by the state, which confirmed that the birds died of EEE. Town officials were notified on Sept. 7.
By the end of last week, "a couple more" had died, McEvoy said. On Friday, all of the remaining birds were euthanized.
All of the birds were less than a year old. They had been delivered to the farm in a single shipment, and none ever left the property, McEvoy said.
The owners, who have asked not to be identified, own property in an undisclosed area of Lebanon, "at the dead end of a dirt road," McEvoy said. They were raising the pheasants solely for personal use, in part to train their Brittany spaniels to flush out game birds during hunting outings.
While frost — which can end mosquito season — was predicted for most inland areas of Maine on Wednesday night, state health officials were still wrapping up a busy season for EEE and West Nile virus.
Two suspected cases of EEE in peacocks were under investigation Wednesday, said McEvoy, and no test results were known.
Dr. Stephen Sears, the state epidemiologist, has said that as many as 45 species of mosquitoes live in Maine, but only five or six species transmit the West Nile and EEE viruses.
No cases of either virus have been reported in humans this summer in Maine. West Nile virus has been found in mosquito-monitoring pools in Lebanon, Gorham, Standish, Saco and Biddeford, and EEE has been detected in mosquitoes in surveillance sites in Lebanon.
One positive test for West Nile, in a Philadelphia woman who was visiting Maine, was shown to have been contracted outside Maine. The woman was treated and has recovered, health officials have said.
The euthanized birds from Lebanon were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's laboratories in Colorado because federal health officials "were interested in testing the birds," said McEvoy. She has not been notified of any results from those tests.
One reason the flock was euthanized is that, on rare occasions, a bird can contract EEE, survive the disease and remain infected until spring.
Though McEvoy did not know whether a bird could transmit the virus to other birds the next year, euthanizing the remaining birds in the flock in Lebanon seemed a prudent, pre-emptive measure to the owners and state officials, McEvoy said.
Another outbreak of EEE, in 2009, left some birds alive and appearing "apparently healthy but (carrying) the virus," she said. "That is the concern" that led to the additional evaluation and euthanasia of the pheasants.
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NEW YORK (Jun. 26)
There has been a "substantial increase" in the membership of the American Jewish Congress throughout the United States during the past year, Dr. David Petegorsky, executive director of the A.J.C. reported at the quarterly meeting of the organization yesterday. More than 200 delegates attended the session, at which it was decided that the bi-annual convention of the Congress should be held in New York in the middle of November.
Rabbi Irving Miller, president, reported to the delegates that he had taken sharp issue with the State Department for "whitewashing" Nazi gains in German State elections. Rabbi Morton M. Berman, chairman of the national administrative committee of the A.J.C., defended the stand of the Central Conference of American Rabbis against teaching religion in the public schools and the released-time program for religious instruction. This stand was criticized last week by Rev. John S. Middleton, secretary to Francis Cardinal Spellman.


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Yesterday I describe each of the steps in a STEM engineering design process. A copy of the steps in the process display in a printable poster and a student planning document are shared in that post. Today I want to walk you through the STEM Engineering design process steps. I will be sharing a recent project we did at my house.
Walking Through the STEM Engineering Design Process
The first step in the process is to define the problem. JDaniel has been exploring levers as part of a Scout enrichment unit. The problem we focused on had to do with creating a lever to do a simple task like put a basketball in a basket. If you want to leave your project more open ended you could ask your children to find a way to use a lever to complete a simple task.
After defining the problem, you will need to look at the constraints of the project. The supplies available to you and the availability of boxes for the project would really be a constraint of this project. (We had a variety of engineering supplies available to us.) Time might also be another constraint.
Brainstorming is a challenging part of the STEM engineering process. Your children will let their imaginations shine as they share their ideas.
One of the key elements we needed to brainstorm was how to create the hoop for the basketball. There were two main ideas that were discussed. The first was to attach something like a plastic spool leftover from Christmas ribbon to the box. The second was to create the hoop from a part of the box. After a little discussion, it was time to decided that we would use part of the box.
The planning set involves creating a diagram of what you are going to make. Then you will create a list of the supplies you will need.
Here is a list of the supplies we used:
- Box with attached lid
- Paper clips
- Plastic spoon
- Rubberband
- Variety of toy balls
- Jar lid
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Pencil
After planning our creation, it was now time to put it together and test it out.Our task had several distinct tasks. First, a hoop needed to be traced onto a section of the box and then cut out. Then the hoop section needs to be attached to the box with paper clips. Finally, a lever needed to be created.
Once everything was put together. We needed to test it out the lever and see if we could make a basket.
It is during this step in the process that you look at what worked and what needs to be improved. We decided we need to test out a way of attaching the paper clips that made it easier for the ball to fall through.
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(CNAC 194? - December 25,1946)
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June 29, 2000. From Bob Sherwood
"I do not remember Tommie Wong. I remember Tommy Wing and Young Wong. The latter lived in San Antonio. When I was there five years ago I talked with another Chinese who had known him and said he was dead. Hay, some of us are getting old!-----Bob"
and this message, too
"I just knew them as "Wing and Wong". They both came from the US, Wong from San Antonio. CNAC and the AVG had a re-union in Taipai in 1964 which my wife and daughter attended. Wong wrote me that it "was his dearest wish" to attend but he could not afford it. Wong's first name was "Young". Wong objected to a Chinese customs inspector going thru his bag in Kunming; pulled a knife on the inspector and spent one or two nights in a Chinese jail. He got badly bitten by insects, objected to the "slop" they fed him; and when he got out kept referring to the God damned Chinese. He got out by tossing a note to a Chinese kid to notify CNAC where he was. ---Bob"
Names mentioned:
Joe Hall
Y.G. Wong
Lester Chin
Moon Chin
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Sherry-Lehmann: the best new wine store that you don't need to visit
The venerable wine retailer Sherry-Lehmann moved and I couldn't wait to check out the new digs. After all, with so much innovation in New York City wine shops, I was eager to see how the management of this patrician shop capitalized on the opportunity to do something different with their new space at Park Avenue at 59th Street.
They didn't. It's lighter, with windows on two sides now. But it's still compact, now with less friendly displays.
On my visit, two things caught my eye as I browsed. First, all the bottles are locked down. And I'm not talking just the Petrus–even the $9.99 pinot grigio is clamped to the shelf. Wow, shades of Paris, not BottleRocket! I guess you can't be too careful at 59th and Park.
Second, there are no shelf talkers. You know, those little flaps of paper that usually bark out a score. I use this as a cursory indicator of whether a wine shop "feels the love," with staff-written flaps being the most loving and distributor print-outs being the least. What to do in the absence of a flap?
Ask someone. Eegad–human interaction! In a couple of paces I was at the counter where many tie-wearing men were keeping themselves busy. One broke away and asked if I needed help. Feeling summery, I said that I was looking for a Soave since I have previously bought the excellent Pieropan there for $17 (find this wine). We walked over to a computer terminal in the aisle and the sales rep tapped and clicked. Apparently I could have done this computer inquiry myself (a nod to the new wave of wine shops? Or a page out of Border's book?).
The search generated four Soaves, one of which was out of stock and the other two were just in the warehouse, for next day delivery. The fourth the sales rep was not familiar with so I didn't leap at that. On to the next thing: cru Beaujolais?
Indeed they had a small shelf dedicated to cru Beaujolais, dominated by several DuBoeuf offerings. I spotted a bottle of 04 Chateau des Jacques, which I had just enjoyed in a recent Bojo tasting, and for $15/bottle, I snapped it up (find this wine). Well, I didn't actually take the bottle from the shelf since it was locked down. But I told my affable sales rep that I would like it, he tapped into his handheld device, which sent my request to the basement storage room where my order was printed out. We stepped to the register and he rang me up and the bottle appeared slightly afterwards.
What's striking in the New Sherry-Lehmann is that it is so similar to the Old Sherry-Lehmann. With newcomers such as Moore Brothers offering the entire store chilled to 60 degree store and a kids play area, BottleRocket offering enticing displays of food and wine pairings, Crush with breathtaking design, Astor's quirky shelf-talkers, the New Sherry-Lehmann remains stuck in a bygone era of wine shop design. Not that it is necessarily bad. Just striking.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it must be the prevailing logic. The storefront actually seems somewhat superfluous since belies a massive back-end operation with a 65,000 square foot, climate-controlled facility in Brooklyn (now THAT I would like to see!).
Sherry-Lehmann has come through for me on a number of occasions in the past year and it remains without a doubt one of the top wine shops in the city. I find their selection to be quite good, the staff on the phone to be friendly and knowledgeable, and their next-day delivery to be excellent. But won't be rushing back to the small showroom itself. Why go to the store, after all, when with a quick phone call, they'll bring it to you?
505 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022, (212) 838-7500.
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About Banderas Bay
In1524, Spanish conquistador Francisco Cortés de Buenaventura arrived on the coast of this beautiful bay. Legends say that 20,000 warriors came down from the mountains above and assembled in the lush valley, into his path. Their bows, decorated with banners in a rainbow of colors, were so impressive that the Bay became known as the "Bay of Flags," or Bahía de Banderas.
Today the bay is sanctuary to sea life including giant manta rays, sea bass, red snapper, sailfish, marlin, dorado, dolphins and more. Humpback whales come each winter to birth their young, and Olive Ridley sea turtles return each year to the nesting grounds along its shores.


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When hubby and I go out of town, my in-laws completely spoil take care of Mr. Pug and Miss Doxie. ;-) They really do take excellent care of them and spoil them to boot, so I am overjoyed. I just don't think the dogs miss us much, lol. I thought that would bother me, but it is awesome to know they are in such good hands while we are gone. It's easier to enjoy myself when I know everything is okay on the home front.
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Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1968–1969
|Concert by Led Zeppelin
Poster for Led Zeppelin's concerts at the Fillmore West, used to help promote its 1968/1969 tour of North America
|Associated album
|Led Zeppelin
|Start date
|26 December 1968
|End date
|16 February 1969
|No. of shows
|36 (41 scheduled)
|Led Zeppelin concert chronology
Led Zeppelin's 1968/1969 tour of North America was the first concert tour of North America by the English rock band. The tour commenced on 26 December 1968 and concluded on 16 February 1969.
The genesis of this tour was the cancellation of a concert tour by the Jeff Beck Group, which happened to be managed out of the same office occupied by Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant. Grant contacted the promoters and convinced them to take on Led Zeppelin instead.[1]
To help publicise the band in America before the tour, Grant sent white label advance copies of the band's debut album to key FM radio stations. The album itself was issued on 17 January, mid-way though the tour. According to tour manager Richard Cole, the tour was underwritten by Grant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and bass player John Paul Jones, while singer Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham were paid a salary.[2]
For this stint of concerts, Led Zeppelin initially played as the support act for bands such as Vanilla Fudge and Iron Butterfly (both of which were also contracted to Atlantic Records) and Country Joe & the Fish. However, as the tour progressed, it became apparent that Led Zeppelin was easily outshining the headline acts.[3][4] As guitarist Jimmy Page explained:
[B]y the time we reached San Francisco, the other groups on the bill just weren't turning up. Country Joe & the Fish backed out of playing with us on the West Coast and Iron Butterfly didn't turn up on the East.[5]
In interviews, bass player John Paul Jones has expressed similar recollections:
To be honest, most of what Country Joe [and the Fish] was doing was just a band of friends going on stage. They would play, start a song and drift into another song, which sounded really great. And we would just go on and go "bang, bang, bang" with three driven songs with solos, and people must have thought, "What did we just see?" And there was nobody else doing that at that time. I'm sure it had a lot to do with the success. We got four numbers in by the time most bands had tuned up ... We were very tight and close as well. It was always kind of "us against the world" back then.[6]
In one famous concert, Led Zeppelin's final of four nights performed at the Boston Tea Party, the band played for more than four hours with only one album worth of material. As Jones explained:
We played four nights at The Tea Party, and by then we had an hour and a half's music to play; we played four and a half hours on the last night – we played the act twice, and then did everybody else's act with Who, Rolling Stones and Beatles numbers. Peter hugged us at the end of the gig, picked all four of us up at once. We knew we were actually going to make it.[7]
It was during this tour that Led Zeppelin's drummer, John Bonham, developed a close friendship with the drummer of Vanilla Fudge, Carmine Appice.[7] [8] The average fee charged by Led Zeppelin for a concert during this tour was around $1,500. It has been stated that for one show they performed for a mere $320.[3] Figures like these would soon be dwarfed by the six figure sums routinely demanded, and received, by Led Zeppelin on subsequent tours as their popularity skyrocketed. Peter Grant recalled that "The Yardbirds had been getting $2,500 a night but people like Bill Graham had faith in us and so did the kids who saw it."[3] Grant, who was unable to attend the tour with the group, also stated:
I couldn't go with them, but it was a fantastic 12 date tour, and they said "Great, if that's what we've gotta do, we'll go and do it" ... Three of the group had never been to America before and didn't know what to expect. They did a week with the Vanilla Fudge. My instructions were for them to go over there and blast them out. Make each performance something everybody remembered. They really did that.[8]
Tour set list[edit]
The fairly typical set list for the tour was:
- "Train Kept A-Rollin' " (Bradshaw, Kay, Mann)
- "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Dixon)
- "As Long As I Have You" (Mimms)
- "Dazed and Confused" (Page)
- "Communication Breakdown" (Bonham, John Paul Jones, Page)
- "You Shook Me" (Dixon, Lenoir)
- "White Summer"/"Black Mountain Side" (Page)
- "Pat's Delight" (Bonham)
- "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Bredon, Page, Plant)
- "How Many More Times" (Bonham, Jones, Page)
- "Killing Floor" (Burnett)
- "For Your Love" (Gouldman)
There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour.
Tour dates[edit]
|Opening Act(s)
|26 December 1968
|United States
|Denver Auditorium Arena
|27 December 1968
|Seattle Center Arena
|Floating Bridge
|28 December 1968
|Pacific Coliseum
|The Trials of Jayson Hoover
|3,708 / 15,038
|29 December 1968
|United States
|Portland Civic Auditorium
|30 December 1968
|John F. Kennedy Memorial Pavilion
|Salem Armory Auditorium
|2 January 1969
|West Hollywood
|Whisky a Go Go
|Alice Cooper
|3 January 1969
|4 January 1969
|5 January 1969
|9 January 1969
|San Francisco
|Fillmore West
|Taj Mahal
|10 January 1969
|11 January 1969
|12 January 1969
|13 January 1969
|San Diego
|Fox Theater
|15 January 1969
|Iowa City
|Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge
|Mother Blues
|17 January 1969
|Grande Ballroom
|Linn County, Lawrence Blues Band
|18 January 1969
|Linn County, Target
|19 January 1969
|Linn County, Wind
|20 January 1969
|Wheaton Youth Center
|21 January 1969
|Hunt Armory
|22 January 1969
|Cleveland Public Hall
|23 January 1969
|Boston Tea Party
|The Raven
|24 January 1969
|25 January 1969
|26 January 1969
|27 January 1969
|Springfield Municipal Auditorium
|29 January 1969
|Electric Factory
|31 January 1969
|New York City
|Fillmore East
|Porter's Popular Preachers
|1 February 1969
|2 February 1969
|The Rock Pile
|Teegarden & Van Winkle
|1,200 / 1,200
|New York City
|United States
|Scene Club
|7 February 1969
|Kinetic Playground
|Jethro Tull
|8 February 1969
|10 February 1969
|Elma Roane Fieldhouse
|14 February 1969
|Miami Beach
|Thee Image Club
|15 February 1969
|16 February 1969
|Baltimore Civic Center
|The Gun
- ^ Liner notes by Cameron Crowe for The Complete Studio Recordings
- ^ A to Zeppelin: The Story of Led Zeppelin, Passport Video, 2004.
- ^ a b c Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4, p. 15.
- ^ "Their Time is Gonna Come", Classic Rock Magazine: Classic Rock Presents Led Zeppelin, 2008, p. 17.
- ^ Nick Kent, "Bring It On Home", Q Magazine, Special Led Zeppelin edition, 2003
- ^ Dominick A. Miserandino, Led Zeppelin – John Paul Jones Archived 2015-05-12 at the Wayback Machine., TheCelebrityCafe.com.
- ^ a b Mat Snow, "Apocalypse Then", Q magazine, December 1990, pp. 77, 79.
- ^ a b Chris Welch (1994) Led Zeppelin, London: Orion Books. ISBN 1-85797-930-3, p. 34.
External links[edit]
- Comprehensive archive of known concert appearances by Led Zeppelin (official website)
- Led Zeppelin concert setlists
- Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4.


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Rock-Bottom Rates Abound.
One of the benefits of our misfiring national economy is that home buyers are able to take advantage of unprecedented low interest rates on home loans. It seems as if there is an endless supply of lenders coming out of the woodwork looking to get a piece of the booming real estate market in the Bay Area, and they're aggressively making their pitch to buyers on the radio, TV, and the Internet.
So with all of these choices at your disposal, which institution is right for you?
The answer to that question will be very different depending on whether you are purchasing a new home or re-financing your existing home. For this discussion, I will focus on the purchase side.
Service is Paramount for Purchase Loans.
If you're in the market to purchase a home and your Realtor is suggesting that you to use his or her preferred lending institution, you should probably take heed to their suggestion. They're not doing this because they will get some sort of "financial incentive" by referring their favorite institution (that's illegal, by the way). A good Realtor should be suggesting a lending institution that can a) best execute the loan process in the defined time-frame, and b) provides attractive rates and terms.
Did you notice that "interest rate" was not the first criteria? That's because service and execution are absolutely critical when you're purchasing a home in this hyper-competitive real estate market. I can probably count on one hand the number of institutions that truly understand the Peninsula real estate market, and that have invested in the infrastructure required to service this market.
Here's why service and execution are so important…
Don't Forget: It's a Contract.
When you write an offer to purchase a home, you're entering into a binding contract with conditions and associated deadlines that must be met by you to complete the purchase. These conditions will of course vary depending on the buyer and the home they are purchasing. But unless you are paying all cash for your home (lucky you if you are), you will be signing up to conditions pertaining to the funding of your purchase — and that means making and keeping commitments on behalf of your lender. (This is the primary reason why purchase loans differs so much from re-finance loans.)
And if you're entrusting your loan to a bank that doesn't understand the local market, or doesn't have a good track record on hitting their dates, you are unwittingly putting your offer or your home purchase at risk.
There's nothing terribly difficult to understand here — in any contract, if you don't execute the agreed upon conditions, you are in breach of the contract. It's no different when you are buying a home — if your lender doesn't meet the commitments you have specified in the contract for the finance contingency, appraisal contingency, and/or the close of escrow date, they have just breached the contract on your behalf.
And that puts you and your Realtor into damage recovery mode — not a good place to be in a negotiation.
Listing Agents Are Taking Note.
In a incredibly competitive real estate market like the one we're in now, the listing agent often has the luxury of receiving stack of offers from which to pick the winning bid. As such, they are able to closely scrutinize every aspect of the offer — from the price, to the terms — and pick the one with the best one. What's the best offer? It's not always the highest price. Increasingly, it's the offer with the best reward-vs-risk trade off. And what are the "risk" items in an offer? It's the contingencies and other conditions that may get in the way of a smooth escrow. This is where partnering with the wrong lender can really hurt you.
If you're going to bat with an institution that's either not known to the listing agent, or worse yet, one that the listing agent has had a bad experience with, your offer is already in deep trouble. I've seen a number of offers get bounced entirely out of consideration solely because of the lender that was chosen.
Who's the Best?
The problem is that everyone has their own definition of who the best lender is. But consider this: Wells Fargo and Bank of America together write probably 2/3 of all purchase loans for residential property in the Bay Area right now. Does that mean that every agent is enamored with both of these institutions? Of course not. But it does mean that both banks DO understand the local market, and they've invested in the infrastructure to execute on purchase loans, because they continue to get the lion's share of the business. There are a few smaller bank that understand the local market too, and have been very successful here.
It's also important to note that the loan officer behind the loan is just as important as the bank that they work for. I've had widely varying degrees of success with different mortgage brokers at the same bank. Much of your success lies in the hands of the mortgage broker who will be babysitting your loan application during the purchase. (If you need some suggestions on who I believe does really well in this market, feel free to contact me and I can provide you with some excellent references.)
The bottom line is that if your Realtor has a couple of "go-to" people that they refer to, understand that there's a very good reason why you're being encouraged to go that path. While you may want to work with your local credit union, or an internet bank, or the institution that issues you your credit cards, be very cognizant of their track record in closing home loans and how they are perceived in the local real estate market. It's not worth a 1/8 point difference in the interest rate to jeopardize your home purchase.
If you still really want to give them your business, you can always refinance your home with them later… when time is not so critical.
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Natural slate wall sconce etched with the kanji characters for "karate." This functional wall art will add a timeless, natural element to any decor. Because it is made from real stone, the varying pattern of the rock not only adds character, but also makes each sconce truly unique. No two look alike!
The soft glow of a candle will illuminate and enhance the beauty of the stone surface, adding warmth to any room.
The sconce measures 7" x 4" with a candle ledge that measures 2.75" wide by 2.75" deep. Candle holder and tea light sold separately.


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We're in the middle of a drupal to drupal migration of one of our content types (blogs) and a stakeholder pointed out that they have a large set of redirects for the contet types that will need to be migrated, which raises the question of how to find all the redirects. The easy thing to do is to list the redirects where the source is the node id of blogs published blogs.
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Favoured with mixed weather conditions, celebrations in Newcastle were as usual most impressive.
Christmas Eve Mass at 12 midnight was very well attended as was Christmas morning Mass. Fr Desmond expressed sincere good wishes to all parishioners and thanked them all for their good attendance. Also thanked were the many people out in any way preparing for the special festivities, with a special thanks to our sacristan for her continued dedication to the church duties, thanks also to the servers who never fail to turn up. This year again both the senior and junior choirs introduced some new Christmas hymns and were complimented on doing so.
Thanks also to the Fas who erected and decorated the Christmas tree in the centre of the village and for the Christmas lights outside the Community hall and Tig-Na-nDaoine.
To the postmistress Catherine, assistant Helen, postman
Cathal and helper, the
local business people and
their staff for their courtesy
and efficiency to each and
every one during the Christmas rush
The best of health and happiness in 2013 is extended to all the readers of the "Newcastle Notes" and a sincere thanks to the clubs and individuals who supply news items during the year.
Saturday evening, January 5, at 6.30pm is: Sean Fitzpatrick and Christine O'Loughlin. Reader of the Word: please check notice in the Church porch.
SCOR NA nOG
Congratulations to our local dancers who won the County final in Holycross recently, they now go forward to the Munster semi-final in January and we wish them continued success.
Cards: J O Gorman, C Dwyer, E Cullinane, M Dwyer, J Mangan, S Dwyer. Lucky Table: M Kennedy and A McCarthy. Raffle: E Cullinane, J Mangan, M Dwyer and M Kennedy.
Congratulations to Cormac and Tara O'Flynn on the birth of their first baby, a boy named Aidan. A future star for the GAA club no doubt!


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This program is the first step in the dedicated study and practice necessary in becoming an Iyengar yoga teacher. Because of its methodical approach and depth of study, it is also an excellent program for students who want to deepen their personal practice and understanding of Iyengar yoga.
Students who complete this program may decide to begin an apprenticeship with Peentz Dubble or other Certified Iyengar faculty in learning how to assist in Iyengar yoga classes at Down Under School of Yoga. Other students may want to become a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and will develop a program of continued study and mentorship under Peentz Dubble's guidance toward accomplishing that goal. Certification is given by the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and involves completing Teacher Training, mentorship, ongoing and regular study of Iyengar yoga, and applying for and completing the Introductory level of Assessment.


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Microsoft and Nokia Partnership – Creative Destruction?
Have you watched Seinfeld – a hit American sitcom of 90s? If not, then you would not understand this analogy (my apologies). If yes, then Microsoft and Nokia partnership is like, Kramer and Newman putting their heads together to come up with competitive solution.
Does combining two failed mobile strategy equal to one winning strategy? Nokrosoft or Microkia? Managements at Nokia and Microsoft seems to think it is. Both are desperate to make it successful! And in the process following age old thesis. Nokia bought Symbian – it did not work. Nokia partnered with Intel for MeeGo – don't know what's happening! What makes management or board of director think that partnership with Microsoft will work?
Nokia does not seem to have a clue about what smart phone means. Don't get me wrong, Nokia's smart phone hardware is best-in-class on technological front. It beats iPhone or Blackberry hands down. But, Nokia still thinks smart phone as just a piece of hardware. It does not seem to realize that smart phone is an ecosystem.
Windows seems to lack foresight on mobile. It is stuck with legacy desktop/laptop mindset. It believes stripping down desktop windows will make mobile OS.
Now both managements think they can come together to present a fourth viable competitor to the troika of BlackberryOS, iOS, and Andriod.
I am not an expert in mobile technology. I am merely its user. I am nobody to call this a failed strategy. But history of last decade suggests; creative destruction is at work in both companies, i.e.. at Microsoft and Nokia.
Microsoft picks a hardware supplier who is going downhill. And Nokia picks a software supplier that has time an again shown lack of vision in mobile computing.
Nokia failed at smart phone. And by choosing WindowsMobile7, Nokia seems to have decided to fail again. Nokia probably lost an opportunity to resurrect itself in mobile business by ignoring Andriod. WinMobile7 will probably get short-term steroid boost.
Having said this, I certainly feel that either Nokrosoft or Microkia will exists. It is not likely to be a total disaster similar to standalone Nokia smart phone. But I am skeptical that it will provide formidable fourth front to closed iOS, closed blackberry, or an open Andriod.
Furthermore, I do not believe mobile OS is big enough for a fourth competitor. HP and Dell's OS have been left behind. Plam's OS failed! Motorola's own OS failed. Symbian failed! MeeGo destined to fail. Nokia-Microsoft partnership is likely to remain 'also ran' rather than force to reckon with. Motorola seems to have got another life (again!) by adopting Andriod. Did Nokia missed an opportunity? Time will tell.
Finally, Nokia's new CEO, Elop, came from Microsoft. Picking WinMobile7 shows that there is baggage of legacy. History will tell you that one cannot supplant strategy from old company to the new company. It has never worked – environment in which these strategy operate are different.
Summary is; I would not invest in such companies. Not that I have an opportunity to invest in either of them. I thought this was a very good example to present my thoughts.
As a user of mobile technology or ecosystem – what are you thoughts on this one?
business, Microsoft, Nokia


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Skip to comments.Study: Taxpayer-Funded Charter Schools Cost Less than Public Schools
Posted on 10/07/2013 3:05:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
A new study done by policy group Save Our States has discovered that publicly funded charter schools cost taxpayer less money in New York than traditional public schools - by a margin of more than $3,000 per student.
Why the 24-27 percent discrepancy between charter schools and public schools? The report points to teacher benefits:
Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.
The group's study directly challenges a New York City Independent Budget Office study from 2010 that suggested the cost gap between charter schools and more traditional public schools was much more narrow.
According to Harry Wilson, a co-author of the new study and experienced pension expert, the IBO study was "fraudulent" for not measuring employee benefits by the same standards used by corporations.
Both IBO and Save our States are defending their reports. Either way, charter schools will play a critical role in the New York City mayoral election. Democrat Bill de Blasio has been aggressive about charging charter schools rent and has made education reform a core component of his campaign platform. In contrast, Republican Joe Lhota is a passionate charter school advocate and critic of de Blasio's proposals. Although de Blasio is the current favorite in the polls, this new study and the recent pro-charter school/anti-de Blasio endorsement from state education chancellor Merryl Tisch could change the game.
Ultimately, voters will need all of the information on this top priority that they can get.
As long as the teachers' unions are the owners of the Dem Party charter schools will always face obstacles; they expose the unions as a destructive force in education and threaten their very existence.
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A promising development for expats seeking Medicare coverage overseas. Medicare does not pay for care outside of the United States. This is a hardship for retirees living overseas who otherwise qualify for Medicare services. This is understandable given the record of fraud and corruption by overseas providers (plenty of the same in the U.S.A) in the Philippines and elsewhere in connection with the Tricare military benefits program. Offering Medicare payments on behalf of hundreds of thousands of overseas retirees to thousands of foreign medical providers could be a nightmare.
However, Medicare offers the "Medicare Advantage Program" as an alternative to traditional Medicare. The Advantage programs provide medical services through private insurance companies, usually HMOs. These plans receive payments from the Federal government to provide Medicare services to Advantage program enrollees.
The Medicare Advantage providers are allowed to provide services beyond those allowed under traditional Medicare. For example, most Advantage programs offer dental and vision services. It appears that the Advantage programs are also free (to an unknown extent) to provide services overseas. Here's what the Medicare brochure says: "If you have a Medicare Advantage Plan (like an HMO or PPO) or anotherMedicare health plan, your plan may offer additional coverage for health care services you get outside the U.S. Check with your plan before traveling to seewhat's covered." See http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/11037.pdf
At least one Medicare Advantage program, the Care1st HMO in Southern California is said to be linking up with an physician's group (IPA), United Physicians International to provide Medicare Advantage services to provide Medicare services in the Philippines through their clinic at The Medical City in Manila. The Medical City is a well respected hospital, however I don't have detailed information on the relationship between TMC and UPI. See the Medical City website.
One thing to keep in mind — with traditional Medicare you are free to seek medical services from just about any hospital or physician in the United States, including relatively nearby Hawaii. If you enroll in a Medicare Advantage program, you are generally required to use providers which are part of the Advantage Plan network you have joined. At some point you may need or desire to return to the U.S. for treatment. You will restricted to hospitals and physicians in your HMO network. So basically you get coverage in the Philippines at The Medical City in exchange for giving up nationwide traditional Medicare coverage in the U.S.
Another possible complication with the UPI/Care1st program is that you must reside in Southern California to enroll in Care1st. There may be other Medicare Advantage Programs offering similar services. The economic rationale seems compelling. The HMO receives Medicare funding but pays for medical services at drastically lower Philippine rates.
Despite teething problems, these new programs have the potential to be a tremendous benefit to expat retirees.
You can see a copy of the UPI brochure here.
We have a Filipina acquaintance from Tigbauan who is a nurse in Los Angeles. She is an agent for the UPI Program. You may contact her for additional information.Yolanda Lim Cell: 323-637-0691 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Dr. William A. Hunt, 82--a professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University, former head of the psychology department at Northwestern University and a pioneer in developing programs for smokers trying to quit
--died Friday morning in his Evanston home.
Funeral arrangements and a memorial service at Loyola were pending.
Dr. Hunt, a clinical and experimental psychologist who had been chief psychologist for the U.S. Navy in World War II, was known for his research on physiological responses.


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The RNC hasn't elaborated — despite several requests — on its view that its misleading "Census" fundraising mailer is legal, despite a recently passed law that aimed to ban such missives.
But it may hang on the fact that the law, which passed last month, only forbids mailers with the word "census" on the outside of the envelope — while in the RNC's mailer, "Census" is visible through the envelope's window.If that's the case, it would hardly be consistent with the spirit of the law. And Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has just introduced new legislation to close that potential loophole.
Said Issa:
The RNC's mailings plainly violate the spirit and intent of the law. Today I introduced legislation to clarify Congress' intent and remove loopholes that resulted in this mailing slipping through. Deceptive mailings must not be allowed to interfere with the constitutionally mandated Census. This legislation deserves bipartisan support and I am working with Congressional Democrats to advance this bill as expeditiously as possible.
The loophole defense also wouldn't sit too well with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who sponsored the original bill. In a statement to TPMmuckraker, Maloney expressed outrage:
So the RNC is now the party of loopholes? This is an issue of leadership and Michael Steele should show some leadership and order his staff and paid consultants to stop deceiving the American public, stop trying to make a partisan buck on the Census and stop these mailings before he is compelled to do so by the Postal Service after they complete their investigation.
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A Climber Saved
Until last night, it had been three years since the Army's Chinook helicopter had flown into the medical camp at 14,200 feet for a rescue. Some of the world's best climbers were recruited to perform a ground rescue of a 61-year-old Armenian climber who had fallen two days ago from Denali Pass. He had sustained some injuries to his ribs and was unable to walk. For two days high winds left him stranded at High Camp at 17,200 feet, under the watchful care of an Air National Guard PJ (parajumper). There was no chance of a helicopter rescue until the winds subsided, and the patient was growing weaker.
Finally, Chief Mountaineering Ranger Roger Robinson made the difficult decision to send up a team of expert climbers to bring the patient down to Dr. Howard Donner at Fourteen Medical. (To see the route up Denali, go to Climb.) And if the weather cleared, a Chinook helicopter would fly in to rescue the climber from the mountain and take him to a hospital in Anchorage.
The list of names that took part in the rescue reflects the elite of American climbing today: Pete Athans, Mark Twight, Joe Reichert, Scott Backes, and Steve House. They climbed up to 17,200 feet in record time, packed the patient into a litter, and painstakingly lowered him along Denali's West Buttress ridgeline between 16,000 and 17,000 feet to the fixed ropes at the top of the Headwall. From there, the rescuers set an anchor, clipped the litter into a 500-foot rope, and began lowering him down the 800-foot Headwall, the steepest part of the West Buttress route.
By the time they reached camp, the rescue had taken on a momentum of its own, as climbers from all over camp joined in the march across the high plateau to where the National Park Service tents stand as the boundary. Donner was in his medical tent readying intravenous fluids, while Ranger Robinson was communicating with the Army Chinook, hoping the clouds would lift for a brief moment to allow them clearance to fly into camp and land.
"From 7,000 feet to the summit, the whole mountain is clear, except for a few clouds here at 14,000," Pete Athans said as he brought the patient in to camp with Twight, Reichert, Backes, and House. If the Chinook were to land, there would be only a brief window of opportunity before the clouds closed back in. The patient was in stable condition, but he needed to get off the mountain to get closer medical attention to the possible fractures to his ribs.
We heard the Chinook minutes before we could see it, framed in a bank of light clouds as snow fell. It's a massive helicopter, and as it approached it filled the sky with its insect-like shape. We had built a landing zone made of bright red body bags to provide visual guidance to the pilot attempting to land in a sea of white. As he lowered toward the spot that John Grunsfeld was indicating with flares, a wall of circling snow 300 feet high welled up in the rotor wash, obscuring the helicopter from view. Minutes later, the patient was carried onto the helicopter by a six-person team, including Donner and Athans.
As the helicopter lifted off, an avalanche of snow created by the rotors blasted the 30 of us attending the rescue. It was like nothing any of us had seen before: in the middle of the night a huge machine broke the silent falling snows by flying in to our remote camp high above the clouds. One more climber had been saved, safely plucked from the sides of Denali through an extraordinary human effort.
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Most of the time I use the Robot's Pajamas as my personal outlet for saying what's cool or for bitching about things. Today I decide to give back and as a public service I'm trying to help spread the word to all the ladies out there that might not necessarily be following the latest toy news on super geek sites (obviously we're much cooler than the average geek leaning site).
Feast your eyes on these She-Ra Polly Pockets:
Where can you get this wonderful mash up of two of the most popular girls toy lines from the fine folks at Mattel? The bad news is they'll only be available at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, so unless your already going or know someone who is, you probably won't get them. The good news is if you can get them you'll get Polly as She-Ra, a Catra, and Frosta, a character nobody cares about but is still super cool regardless.
I had a conversation with a fellow geek and I stated that these things might be popular outside the collection. I know lots of female collectors that want such a thing. The only problem is that I don't think a lot of them follow the usual outlets for toy news. Take Robot's Pajamas female staffer Babette for example. She wouldn't know about these at all and now that she is aware of them she'll stab me in the face if I don't help her out to get one.


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Jobstoday's Virtual Careers Fair is an online platform where employers can showcase their business and vacancies.
The 11-day fair will take place from February 18 to March 1.
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The Trump administration's new budget outline calls for a 28% cut in funding for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Defenders of USAID insist that foreign aid is vital to advancing U.S. interests. They're right—but there's also plenty of waste.
On its website, USAID explains that the "Purple My School" program, a joint venture with the United Nations, "encourages peers, teachers and parents to become allies of LGBTI students" in eight Asian countries. "Through teachers' facilitation, students discuss issues surrounding homophobia, how to create safe spaces for LGBTI students, and are encouraged to wear, draw, or make something purple." (The acronym stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex.)
To promote transgender rights in Central America, USAID has "helped Guatemala's Election Tribunal update election manuals and provide trainings to electoral officials on how to be sensitive to people whose appearances are not congruent with the birth name on their personal identification card."
During the Obama years, USAID was prominent in sectors like LGBTI rights, abortion and "social justice"—promoting agendas that were neither supported by large segments of the U.S. population nor of clear benefit to American national interests. The agency often acted as if it were a private nonprofit organization with a liberal agenda, rather than a taxpayer-funded arm of the U.S. government.
The agency's defenders insist that such projects are the exception—that USAID's $27 billion budget contains little that is frivolous or ineffectual. But it's impossible to determine based on publicly available information if the amount of wasteful spending is closer to zero or 28%. USAID and its contractors have mastered the art of re-christening programs to appease congressmen and their constituents.
During the Obama years, for instance, USAID spent counterterrorism funds on traditional antipoverty programs by claiming that poverty is "exploited by extremist groups." It justified sponsorship of Somali girls' basketball teams and "community dialogue sessions" the agency said were "essential to the stabilization of regions that have suffered from mistrust, conflict and turmoil for decades."
The next USAID administrator, as yet unnamed, will need to reassess all existing programs to determine which ones are actually advancing U.S. interests. In some instances, the answer will be clear—like programs that improve local conditions to discourage illegal immigration to the U.S. In others, the connection will be indirect, as in the case of development initiatives that promote cooperation on security issues.
Such a reassessment would open eyes among members of Congress who have not hitherto seen much need for revamping USAID. It would surely demonstrate the need for major cuts to existing programs.
But that doesn't necessarily mean the overall budget should be gutted. At least some of the savings should be redirected to programs that will advance U.S. interests in a cost-effective manner. Crafting fruitful programs will require replacing the theories and assumptions underlying much of USAID's current work—especially the dubious idea that geographic and environmental factors account for underdevelopment.
Many programs give recipients no incentives to undertake self-improvement, thereby creating perpetual dependencies. Every country that has made the transition from Third World to First World did so through improvements in public-sector governance and private-sector entrepreneurship. Those improvements were contingent upon human capital—highly educated and suitably motivated elites.
USAID resources should therefore be reallocated to areas that strengthen governance and stimulate economic growth. Activities that cultivate human capital, particularly higher education and governmental training, deserve more funding. The U.S. government pursued a similar course in the 1950s and 1960s, and to good effect, before discarding it in the 1970s out of a misguided anti-elitism.
The South Korean, Taiwanese and Chilean leaders who transformed their countries from aid absorbers into strategic allies were products of the USAID scholarship program. USAID's occasional emphasis on governmental leadership since that time has fueled further successes, as in the case of Colombia's judicial system, which helped curb cocaine shipments to the U.S.
USAID's activities must also be integrated with those of other national-security organizations, particularly the State and Defense departments. Under President Obama, USAID preferred to keep its distance from other agencies, often treating development as if it could be addressed in isolation from other elements of foreign policy. Experience has shown such segregation to be counterproductive. Corrupt officials steal funds earmarked for economic development programs and demand bribes that stifle private enterprise. Teachers stay away from schools and nurses avoid health clinics when insurgents threaten their families at gunpoint.
Effective foreign assistance requires a unified strategy that addresses development, governance and security in unison. USAID will need to collaborate more extensively with the rest of the government. Its guiding principle should be that the primary purpose of American foreign policy is safeguarding the interest of America's citizens.
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Winner of the 2007 Thomas Merton Award from the International Thomas Merton Society
"Lipsey is a fine messenger for Merton. There are few books that so readably and thoroughly admire the practice of any artist as beautifully as Lipsey's does. Lipsey is a master of interpretation, guiding more than leading headstrong, nudging the reader to join with him and with Merton in the act of creating, and then in understanding the consequence of that creation. Lipsey's quietly argued book creates a strong context for continued appreciation of this giant light from the last century—a light that shines, we see, through still more lenses than we previously knew."—Parabola
"Roger Lipsey has custom-built the very place, perhaps, that Merton dreamed of finding for his work; an authentic refuge for luminous things and curious treasures."—Suzi Gablik, author of The Reenchantment of Art
"Kudos to Roger Lipsey for opening up Thomas Merton's visual art, which has been largely ignored until now by his reading public as well as by most Merton scholars and interpreters of his work. Our gratitude for Angelic Mistakes is boundless, both to the author and publisher. This richly illustrated volume is the best introduction to the mature visual world of Thomas Merton, which deserves a wide audience."—Brother Patrick Hart, Thomas Merton's secretary, editor of The Intimate Merton <p align="left">"It's not easy to write about the deeply wordless world from which these haunting images emerged, but at last the challenge to think out loud about this neglected side of Merton has been taken up by Roger Lipsey. Breaking new ground, Lipsey thoughtfully explores aspects of Merton-as-artist."—Jim Forest, author of Living with Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton
"This astonishing book looks at an aspect of Merton's life that has been almost ignored—his art—and shows, with copious quotations and profound insight, that it was a visual expression of his prayer. Here we have access to that wordless, imageless experience that was nearer to him than life itself. It is a book to be read slowly, quietly, and repeatedly: a wonderful book."—Sister Wendy Beckett, host of the PBS series Sister Wendy's American Collection
"A remarkable piece of work and a remarkable piece of publishing."—Phyllis Tickle, author of Prayer Is a Place: America's Religious Landscape Observed


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Graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University are designed to help students develop an understanding of the fundamental principles of Mechanical Engineering through lecture, tutorial, and laboratory activities. Modern, well-instrumented laboratories in thermofluids, energy conversion, stress analysis, vibrations, and control systems provide experience in measurements and applications to ensure a thorough understanding and appreciation of the subject matter. The department consists of thirteen full-time faculty members, forty postgraduate students, and one hundred and twenty undergraduate students. Several research centres are affiliated with the Department.
Length of Program
- MEng - typical time to complete is 2 years
- MASc - typical time to complete is 2 years
- PhD - typical time to complete is 3-4 years
Research Areas
- Fluid Mechanics
- Solid mechanics
- Combustion & environment
- Energy and heat transfer
- Energy modelling
- Mechanical design
- Micro-machines/MEMS
- Manufacturing
- Grinding
- Control systems and robotics
- Finite element modeling of advanced materials for manufacturing processes
Admission Requirements
Candidates must satisfy the general requirements for admission to the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
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