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Professional Services aims to provide the best possible support in delivering the University of Sussex's strategy across its mission for teaching, research and enterprise. We provide support to Schools and departments, and services directly to students; alumni and staff; to other clients of the University, including the local and regional community; and to our range of partners, friends and supporters.
Professional Services quick links
Academic Registry
- Academic Registry website
- Academic Registrar's Office
- Admissions (language requirements, offers, feedback)
- ADQE (curriculum, academic standards, partnerships)
- SSRO (room bookings, timetabling, student progress and data)
- Research Student Administration Office (admissions, progress and assessment, exams)
- Technology Enhanced Learning office (commonly used software and tools)
- (The Co-operative) Childcare (3 months to 5 years)
Communications and External Affairs
Development and Alumni relations
- Sussex Alumni Network (home and overseas networks, donations)
- Agresso
- Corporate accounting services (taxation, insurance, TRAC/FEC)
- Fees and income (student accounts, debt recovery)
- Payments management (invoicing, staff expenses)
- Procurement (sourcing suppliers, buying and ordering advice)
- Professional Services finance (budgeting and forecasting support)
- Research finance (awards and contracts)
- Schools finance (budgeting and forecasting support)
Health, Safety and Wellbeing
- Personnel (terms and conditions, salary scales)
- Payroll and pensions
- Staff Development (learning and development at work)
- Staff welfare
- Equalities (legislation, advice and guidance for staff and students)
- IT Services (email, phones, software, training, Sussex Direct, networks, file storage, HPC)
- IT Help
Planning, Governance and Compliance
- Planning, Governance and Compliance (University governance, policies, committees, planning)
Research and Knowledge Exchange
- Funding
- Managing awards
- Working with business
- Policy and strategy
- Support staff
- Impact
- Ethics
- Intellectual property
- Publications
Residential, Sport and Trading
- Campus trading (shops and banks open times)
- Housing (on campus, off-campus, support, policies)
- Sport (exercise classes, facilities, bursaries, intra-mural)
Student Recruitment and Marketing
- Undergraduate (events, schools and colleges liaison)
- Postgraduate (events, advertising and promotion)
- International (representatives, partnerships)
- Marketing (market research and analysis, campaigns)
- Digital and Creative Media: Publications and Branding, Web Team
Student Services
- Campus and Residential Support
- Careers (jobs, careers, study skills)
- Chaplaincy and Meeting House (faith and spiritual societies on campus and in the area)
- University Counselling Service
- International student support (visas, welfare)
- Student Life Centre (personal, academic, money advice)
- Student Support Unit (disability, mental health and learning support)
- Sussex Regional Access Centre (needs assessment and training for learning support software)
- Widening Participation (First-Generation Scholars programme, Fair Access)
Sussex Estates and Facilities
- Emergencies
- Security
- Maintenance
- Health, Safety and Wellbeing
- Grounds
- Cleaning
- Portering
- Postal
- Print Unit
- Waste and recycling
- Sustainability
- Residences
Sussex Food
Professional services departments
We provide support to Schools and departments, and services directly to:
- students, alumni and staff
- other clients of the University, including the local and regional community
- our range of partners, friends and supporters.
- Academic Registry
We provide support services to students and to staff in Schools and Departments at Sussex.
The department manages the University's links with external bodies such as: UCAS, Local Education Authorities, Student Loan Company, Higher Education Statistics Agency and Training and Development Agency, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and professional and statutory bodies (PSBs).
Key services include:
- admissions for undergraduate, taught postgraduate and research postgraduate, for home/EU and international students
- academic appeals and student complaints
- student registration exam timetabling and e-assessment
- management of University Teaching and Learning Committee
- business management of University quality assurance processes.
- student progress and assessment
- central support and coordination for academic programme development
- external partnerships
- academic policy and procedures, including assessment regulations
- timetabling of teaching and managing room bookings
- maintaining student records (current and past) and management of registration
- production of student transcripts and degree certificates
- management information
- support for teaching and learning for staff and students
- technology enhanced learning
- UKVI compliance.
Admissions Office, Academic Development and Quality Enhancement Office, Student Systems and Records Office, Research Student Administration Office and Technology Enhanced Learning Office. The Academic Registrar's Office can be found at Bramber House Level 1.
Director: Sharon Jones
(01273) 872667 or (01273) 877091
- Childcare
Key service: nursery on campus for children aged from 3 months to 5 years run by the Co-operative Childcare.
Karen Parker, Nursery Manager
(01273) 678356
- Communications and External Affairs
The Communications and External Affairs division manages and enhances the University of Sussex's reputation as a world-leading research and academic institution.
Key services:
- ensuring the University's vision, strategic aims and developments are understood by stakeholders from students and staff to business, media, government, the local community and wider public
- promoting the achievements of academics, researchers, students and professional staff
- working with colleagues to increase the awareness of Sussex's outstanding student experience and the many exciting and innovative University initiatives.
The division incorporates media relations, internal communications, public affairs and campaigns.
Media relations
If you're a journalist or press officer, contact:
Jacqui Bealing (Senior Media Relations Manager)
01273 877437
James Hakner (Media Relations Manager)
01273 877966
Campaigns and public affairs
Michelle Gordon, Interim Director of Communications (Communications and External Affairs)
- Development and Alumni Relations
We support the University of Sussex by raising funds for the University and its work from philanthropic sources. We also engage with alumni of the University and ensure that the University is part of the lives of all its alumni.
Key services include:
- Philanthropic Fundraising (including Major Gifts, Trusts and Foundations, Legacies, and the Annual Fund)
- Alumni Relations
- University Corporate Events
- Graduation Office.
Director: Marina Pedreira-Vilarino
(01273) 873827
- Finance
- We are responsible for all aspects of financial planning and management for the University of Sussex. Key services include:
- financial services to the University - accountancy, payment of suppliers, administration of insurance, invoicing of debtors, procurement of goods and services, collection of income from debtors, investment management, liaison with statutory authorities on financial matters (including accounts, returns, most of which are audited)
- assistance in the identification and exploitation of commercial opportunities or cost reduction processes in line with the University's strategic aims, and in the negotiation of the best terms for the cost of supplies to the University
- assistance in developing ideas and plans to facilitate expansion and further developments within the best practices of public sector stewardship of resources.
Schools Finance, Professional Services Finance, Fees and Income, Payments Management, Corporate Accounting Services, Procurement, Research Finance.
Director: Allan Spencer
(01273) 678307
- Human Resources
We partner the University in all aspects of its people management through the "life cycle" of an employee. Key services include:
- recruitment
- staff development
- payment of staff
- staff well-being
- retirement
- Equality and Diversity for students and staff.
Personnel, Payroll and Pensions, Staff Development, Staff Welfare, Equalities
Director: Sheila Gupta
(01273) 877083
- IT Services
We provide a high-quality networking, computing and support service to help all members of the University make the best use of information technology.
Client Services, Corporate Information Systems, Infrastructure Services
Director: Paul Davies
(01273) 678700
- Library
The University of Sussex Library delivers high-quality, innovative information services that contribute to the successful learning, teaching and research of the University and the community.
Library Academic Services and Special Collections, Library Frontline, Planning and Support Services, Library Content Delivery and Digital Strategy
If you're not a University of Sussex student but would like to use or visit our library, see our Information for Visitors site.
Librarian: Kitty Inglis
+44 (0)1273 877830
- Planning, Governance and Compliance
We combine strategic planning for the University of Sussex with corporate governance activity.
Key services include:
- providing support to the University's senior management to assist in the delivery of strategic priorities and compliance requirements
- undertaking strategic planning, incorporating management of the annual planning process and work on resource allocation
- liaising with the Higher Education Funding Council for England, including the submission of statutory returns
- protecting the University through effective corporate governance and compliance processes, including administration of the business of the University's governing body, records management and data protection
- supports the work of a number of senior University committees, including Council, Senate, Court, Strategy and Resources, Nominations, Audit and Research Strategy.
The Director of Health and Safety is part of the Planning, Governance and Compliance team. Health, Safety and Wellbeing services are delivered by Sussex Estates and Facilities.
Planning and Projects, Governance Services, Information Management and Compliance.
David Cole - Director of Planning, Governance and Compliance
- Research and Enterprise
We support the growth of the University of Sussex's research effort, and its enterprise and knowledge exchange activities.
We also support the University in working with business, government and the third sector and, where appropriate, to secure the University a beneficial interest in any commercially valuable results of its research.
Key services include:
- research development
- research finance
- contracts and IP
- research quality and impact
- Doctoral School
- Director's Office (including Research Governance and Information Systems).
Director: Ian Carter
+44 (0)1273 877718
- Residential, Sport and Trading Services
Key services include: responsibility for the development and delivery of housing, sport, retail and childcare at Sussex.
We support and enhance the student and staff experience, in line with agreed long-term development plans for the University. This includes improved social and retail provision, linked to a planned programme of residential development, and development of sports provision.
Campus Trading Services, Residential Services, Sport.
Director: Charles Dudley
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- Student Recruitment and Marketing
We lead on the University's strategy and delivery for the recruitment of undergraduate and postgraduate students for home/EU and overseas students. We ensure that the University competes at the highest level to attract the best students to Sussex from around the world.
International Office, Marketing, UK Student Recruitment, Digital and Creative Media (Web Team and Publications and Branding).
Director: Marcus Williams
+44 (0)1273 678033
- Student Services
We provide support services focused on improving the student experience, both directly to students and also to colleagues in Schools and Departments.
Careers and Employability Centre, Chaplaincy, Counselling Service (including Health and Wellbeing), International Student Support, Student Life Centre, Student Support Unit, Sussex Regional ACCESS Centre, Widening Participation.
Director: Claire Powrie
+44 (0)1273 678930 or (01273) 678930
- Sussex Estates and Facilities
Key services include:
- space, management and planning
- projects and development
- facilities management (including transport, print/reprographics, grounds, mail, cleaning, security, waste & recycling, helpdesk)
- maintenance (including telecoms and utilities)
- energy and environment.
Partnership Director: Mark Stimpson
- Sussex Food
Key services include:management of eight catering outlets, the Conference Centre and vending.
01273 678221


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Nintendo is celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda video game series in style by hosting a unique symphony concert in London. The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony Concert Tour will stop off in London for a one-off European date, playing music from the iconic series.
The European concert will be held on 25th October 2011 at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo in London, and will include songs hand-picked by Nintendo composer Koji Kondo and his team. Ticket prices for the London concert start at £33.75 and will be available starting on 8th August 2011 from www.ticketmaster.co.uk / www.zelda-symphony.com
"The Legend of Zelda series is famous for its beautiful music and we are thrilled to celebrate 25 years of memorable soundtracks from this iconic series by letting a symphony orchestra bring this music to life," said Laurent Fischer, Managing Director of Marketing & PR for Nintendo of Europe. "The symphony orchestra concert in London will allow fans from across Europe to come together and show their love for all things Zelda while enjoying a truly unique performance & experience."
A 70-piece orchestra will be joined by a choir to perform new arrangements of a variety of songs from the series' 25-year history. The concerts will be produced by Jason Michael Paul, Inc., the producers of 'PLAY! A Video Game Symphony', which has toured the world performing music from video games.
"The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony Concert Tour brings one of the video game industry's most exciting and enduring franchises to the concert hall and presents what we feel is the definitive concert experience for the series," said executive producer Jason Michael Paul. "It's an event that fans and music aficionados won't want to miss."
For more information about the concerts, visit www.zelda-symphony.com
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In 1958 Jean Dausset, a French scientist, discovered genetic characteristics of leucocytes on cell walls that differ for each individual. In 1965, he described the first group of antigens which is now known as the HLA-system (human leucocyte antigens).
Prof. Dr. Jon J. van Rood, a young physician from Leiden researched and proved that matching the HLA-type of donor and recipient had a positive effect on the outcome of transplantation. In 1967 he founded Eurotransplant. The patient oriented allocation of organs was such an improvement that the services of Eurotransplant were sought by transplant centers in the Netherlands and beyond.
Until the mid sixties transplant surgeons matched donor and patient mainly by blood type. Patients had to wait until a matching donor was found in the center were they were treated. In Leiden, Prof. Dr. Jon J. van Rood chose a new approach. Experiments convinced him that the HLA-type of donor and recipients influenced the results of transplantation. But, the probability of finding a donor with a matching tissue type was slight. To make the best possible match he needed a central database of all patients waiting for a donor kidney.
For this reason, Van Rood founded Eurotransplant in 1967. Twelve transplant centers in three countries participated voluntarily and the information of their transplant candidates was registered by Eurotransplant. The centers reported donors and Eurotransplant made the best possible match. The outcome of kidney transplants improved spectacular.
What started as a scientific experiment soon became a foundation whose services were sought by transplant centers in several European countries. A period of rapid growth followed. At the end of 1970 Eurotransplant was active for 68 centers in six countries: Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, West-Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Eventually Switzerland withdrew from Eurotransplant, but in 1991 East-Germany joined in, followed in 1999 by Slovenia, in 2007 by Croatia and on July 1, 2013 by Hungary.
Several former Eastern European countries are currently interested in cooperating with Eurotransplant. This helps them bring the quality of transplantation medicine to a higher level.
During the seventies Eurotransplant started allocating donor livers. A few years later Eurotransplant expanded its services with the allocation of hearts and pancreas. In 1988 the allocation of lungs started and since 1999 intestines are exchanged, although at a small scale.
Since its foundation, Eurotransplant has allocated donor organs for 125 thousand transplants. From the start till the present, Eurotransplant works on a constant improvement of its allocation. In 1996 the Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System (ETKAS) was introduced. This sophisticated system supports a patient oriented allocation of kidneys, balancing medical and ethical principles. The same year the Acceptable Mismatch program started fulfilling its purpose: finding a suitable organ for highly immunized patients.
The Eurotransplant Senior Program, also known as the 'old for old'-program, started in 1999. Organs of donors of 65 years or older are allocated to recipients of the same age group, without taking into account the tissue characteristics.
Starting in 1994, the organization of Eurotransplant underwent a process of democratization. In 1996 an Assemby was installed, thus giving the transplant centers a say in managing Eurotransplant. From then on the members of the Advisory Committees were selected by the national transplant societies. After almost thirty years Prof. Dr. Jon van Rood resigned and was succeeded by Prof. Dr. Yves Vanrenterghem as President, until he retired in 2005 and Prof. Dr. Bruno Meiser was elected.
The most recent step in de process of democratization was the formation of the Eurotransplant Council in 2009. The Council strengthens the bonds within Eurotransplant by offering a permanent platform for the exchange of information between the national authorities of the member states and the Eurotransplant Board.


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A Lover's Almanacby Maureen Howard
One of the pre-eminent novelists of our time dazzles readers with a story of two young lovers in New York. Their romance, seemingly shattered on the eve of the millennium, is played out against the tale of an older couple lost to each other for half a century.
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- 9780670875979
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Publication date:
- 01/01/1998
- Pages:
- 288
- Product dimensions:
- 6.26(w) x 9.28(h) x 1.03(d)
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Louise Moffett cries in the ruins. Tears give way to bleating sobs, her sorrow run dry. She shivers out of her stiff silk dress, unhooks her froth of petticoat, throws both costumey garments on the pile of crumpled napkins and tablecloth stained with wine and ashes. At three o'clock in the morning she is quite alone, strutting in stiletto heels across the floor of her loft littered with confetti, streamers, noisemakers, shriveled balloons. Louise (Lou, Lou-Lou) is not to be seen by a soul in her lacy corset that pops her pearly breasts. As she stoops to retrieve a harmless cake knife from the debris of last night's party, garters stretch across her pink butt and swell of white thigh to the top of seamed stockings. No one will blink in disbelief at the scrap of suggestive white silk veiling her mons veneris.
Louise jabs at her wrist, but the blade of the long silver knife is serrated, dull. It would take force and determination to cut her flesh and why should she? The party's over, not her life, though she has been possessed by final thoughts from the moment when she found herself alone and shot the bolt of her door. Her tears for a man, of course, lying to herself that he has been an amusement, a convenience, nothing more. She teeters in those painful shoes to the bathroom, is shocked and saddened to see her scant underwear, her smooth blond page boy, cheery bright lipstick; the retro makeup and costume for a miserable party. Scandalous, so much snowy lace on white flesh, Miss January, a Calendar Girl, one of those saccharine cuties that hung in every feed store and gas station back in Wisconsin, girlie girls offering themselves to the inaccessible grease monkey or farm boy. Yes, she is such a smutty, unenlightened woman, though her little breasts would never cut it as fodder for male fantasy. Pert breasts admired by Artie Freeman whose toothbrush and razor confront her. And then don't the tears fall fast and furious, for he shaved so badly, always a bloody nick or a patch of stubble left by his ears, ridiculous floppy ears. And, having sworn off the man, she's into it again, choking back saltwater sorrow, for can it be that one night can unravel their years, one rotten night of Artie's misdemeanors. The answer is yes. Her Artie will never give up on his lightness. And the years that stretch ahead offer a diminishing view in which he will never change. Lightness is his affliction.
Louise Moffett is an artist, a painter now scrubbing at her lips as though scraping ill-conceived strokes from a canvas. Her hand quivering, she grabs a razor blade, begins to hack off her hair in dangerous swipes. When this disfiguration is accomplished she unhooks the corset, her body scored with red welts from its stays, and runs naked to the back of the loft, where the bed, lamp, rug made it home, sort of home, for her and her lost love, Artie Freeman. Home in the background as it were, hidden, relegated to a corner behind a screen. Lou hitches on overalls, sniffling as she buttons a paint-stained shirt, one of Artie's threadbare at the cuffs. He would be wearing it still had she not, but that thought as to her care and upkeep of the unworldly man turns her weepy. She will never again give in to his nonsense. Will not keep it light: it--the easy irony of their longstanding affair, their arrangement. As she hauls out a canvas, a sniff of wet acrylic revives her and Louise, kicking away paper horns and cheap wooden crackers, begins to work with a putty knife at a ruined painting, well, at one small corner that's all he has destroyed, of a large work. Now to undo the damage, so she paints through what's left of the night until the smudge is restored to a little apple tree in bloom resplendent. With her last stroke of sap green, the party is over.
Louise Moffett came to this city to make art. She is thirty-one years old and could not name the day when she got serious, oh, not about her painting, that's fixed as the stars, about Artie Freeman who has been her lover, nothing more.
Yet her work, her vision we might say, has depended on a correction of perspective. Large: her Botanical Series presents blowups--just one segment of leaf--oak, birch or maple--its veins, hairs, connective tissue in greens and yellow greens of chloroplast, amber palisade cells as seen through a microscope, a jungle growth unavailable to the naked eye. Small: on each canvas she paints an inset, the little "window" of computerese in which the tree is seen whole--bark, trunk, limbs leafed out, the tiny tree reflecting a landscape of memory. Louise has demoted the backyard maple in Wisconsin to mere detail, as though a postcard of the entire Sistine Chapel balanced on one finger of God, as though the habitat--rocky crag, fishy prey--of an Audubon eagle perched on one feather of the mighty bird. Moving from the huge segment of maple leaf, the living tissue, the viewer's eye quickly sought the comfort of the small static tree. This simple reversal of scale, amusing yet unsettling, has made Louise Moffett somewhat famous. The Botanicals had seemed to her a bold statement about desire for the object once valued and lost, lost beyond simple possession, some dumb Eden of the deluded heart and mind. She steps back to look at her reconstructed apple tree which Lou has not set in a cross-section of leaf. No, the mini tree blooms in a dark swirl of heartwood, the dead center of an old malus, and as she inscribes the Latin name where she usually signs her name, the whole enterprise appears sentimental, an impossible yearning for a time before knowledge, the world pieced back together, her little world of a farm in Wisconsin, and for the antics of a clown, Artie Freeman.
There is this: she wears an impressive emerald-cut diamond, third finger, left hand. Louise would have settled for dime-store, for zircon. Genderwise, her aims are no better than the empty promises of that booby, Miss January. With a shudder of self-loathing, she sees herself as a throwback to sweetheart left in the lurch, for she had so shamefully wanted this chip of blue ice; and when at last the ring was offered Artie played it as farce, for he was bound to be clever as though he had sworn in blood against the more revealing emotions. The cold sun rises, its brightness eerily opaque through snow on the skylight. Louise takes off the ring, smears its little blue velvet box with the white acrylic of her apple blossoms, and though her work is held in high regard and she is young, ambitious, talented and strangely more beautiful in spattered overalls and ragamuffin hair, she chokes back a sob, falls on the bed crying. That bastard has broken her heart.
In the Year of Our Lord 2000--is that the year at last?--he wakes with a swollen head, two heads as it were, one twisting him back to the night of debauchery--to the songs, toots, cries and kisses which preceded his disgrace. He remembers the snapped stem of a glass, a busy white fizz of champagne splotching silk, running into a valley of breasts already damp with dancing. Whose breast? She is headless in memory, if memory is this befuddling pain.
There was snow. Of that he is certain, for the second head turns toward the assault of thick white snow plastered to windowsill. Plastered. Looking back, he remembers beating the trunk of a taxi with his fists, then slipping to his knees in supplication, studying the stamp of tire tread and the faint smear of exhaust on the new white world. Without scarf, gloves, overcoat, he had walked alone through Central Park, unpeopled by the storm, closed to traffic, a paper dunce cap dribbling crimson down his forehead. Concerts, fireworks, all outdoor revels had been called off in the city due to a freaky, calamitous storm. He did not consider that the lone cab, under no obligation to pick up a drunk, was driving the serpentine routes in the park illegally or had lost its way.
Yet here Artie Freeman finds himself, naked in his own bed, a bulging pressure behind the eyes, eyes no better closed than open to the excruciating light and to a view of sodden garments on the floor. Strange boots, coat, tie. The coat is an Eisenhower jacket with military emblems and campaign ribbons now stained. He had fallen a second time under a scaffolding, an armature surrounding his crumbling apartment house, a glamorous double tower erected in a year of disaster, 1929. In this shelter he collapsed in slush next to a barrel where street kids had lit a fire to welcome the incredible year. A girl, too young--twelve, thirteen--had propped him up. Soldier, she said, soldier. He remembers touching the wisps of her hair, limp hair of the undernourished, the ill. The spittle of her childish laughter sprayed his mouth in a mocking kiss, and he recalled the shallow wisdom of her eyes and his own wobbly stance, then his marching off with the hilarious rectitude of a drunk. He had thought the girl sickly pale and too young for any man.
Looking back that's not all Artie remembers: loose bolt of pain, a metallic shift in his head signals the coming day in the Year of Our Lord, Christ, it was Lou's dress he had ruined, the fizzle of his champagne sopping the blue silk from stiff pointed breasts down to a wasp waist.
"Forget it!" She had wrested the broken glass from his hand.
He no longer forgets her flouncing off like--like Mom in an old sit-coin--tidy housewife, prim disciplinarian. The New Year's Eve party being costumed and set in the innocuous Fifties--she flounced in petticoats of that era, hooked into her stays--wasp waist she had named it--to flirt with another man, a pudge in tweeds, white bucks, spiffy argyles. The creep had wiped at Lou's breasts with a clean linen handkerchief. Artie swung at him, whamming his little foulard bow tie into his chinless chin. The women, all with bright lips and sleek hair, screeched at the crash of a lamp, drew off from their men, dark-suited men coming toward him in silence.
"See here, guy"--the voice of Artie Freeman's oldest, perhaps now his only friend--"you want to apologize to the lady?"
Yes, the familiar twang of the pal he beat at chess twenty years. They hitchhiked the continent, tripped together at the peak of Mount McKinley. And though they are of an age, that desperately youthful age, their early thirties, Bud Boyce is more or less Freeman's boss. Once boys playing in cyberspace, now Boyce is a magisterial nerd, space salesman to galaxies, purveyor of time in the stratosphere, adman to corporate second-rate stars. Artie, sidekick to good buddy, was best man when Boyce wed the agreeable corporate wife.
"You want to apologize ..."
Artie laughed, "To--our hostess? The little lady?"
All the while Big Band music and it seemed to him, the couples now turning from his tawdry heroics, shuffling into a samba, that they were all, indeed, from a forgotten day. In the high bright void of Lou's loft the century had ended, not quite the diverting re-enactment they had plotted. At midnight Lou ran the tape of Times Square that once was, pre-porn belt, pre-po-mo tourist trap, just the old dazzling crossroads of the world with thousands of clean-cut kids, clean-cut cops, assembled without fear, the countdown--minute hand jerking to the hour, the big ball descending, shimmering on the black and white screen. Flipping back in time, they drank to 1950, in accordance with Lou's plan--and Artie's; fed up with media blab--for years the city's promotional relations declaring New York PARTY CENTRAL; for months, for weeks the preview of satellite hookup--Alps to remote atoll, laser show from Mount Fuji, grizzled Beatles atop the Great Wall of China. The demoralizing history--info-techno, gender bender, Deco-Eco, Lenin to Lennon, Stravinsky to Sting, Moon Mullins to moon walk, Blimp to Bomb, cola to coke.
On a bright December day, Lou said, "Sure is the end of the world." She had been accosted by a bearded man in a toga who passed her a number--666, her number coming up in his cracked millenarian spiel.
Artie drew out his number, "Get in line." The soothsayer of lower Broadway had scratched yet another 666 on a scrap of spongy pink paper. Shuddering with cold in his soiled white drapery, he had appeared as yet another novelty in People magazine, as an item in the "Metro" section of the Times. There followed a week in which everyone must have their number, always the predictable 666, from this wreck of a loon, once, it was rumored, dean of arts and humanities at Cal Tech or MIT. When, before Christmas, Artie Freeman figured the frequency distribution of cliches over a sampling of three hundred newscasters nationwide would result, median estimate, in "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times," being mouthed, excluding Spanish, Korean and Chinese, at least ...
"Enough!" Lou cried, then went moony, quiet. As though she faced a huge prepared canvas, she had sketched her notion in lightly. "Why not celebrate the mid-century? Turn back," she said. "Suppose we turn back. To my parents, their childhood. Chores, Sunday School, 4 H, both of them safe on the family farm. They might have been chicks in the incubator."
"A little hard to stage in the city." He said no more for it struck him that her paintings were always of the farm, every silo and barn and tree distorted or diminished to force observation, destroy nostalgia, and that her view had prospered in Metropolis. Lou was--at the moment, for the moment--wildly successful.
"Shirley and Harold, they would have been eight or ten," she had no head for numbers, "my father at least ..."
"No, in his early adolescence. So we can just play at being ourselves." She laughed at that one. "With zits and braces," he said.
"Be serious," a phrase she tossed at him from their first days together, lately without much amusement. "I only meant their amazing innocence."
Which Lou and Artie agreed would not be much fun. So that he had come up with the idea of his grandparents' sedate coming of age, a scenario feeding off old movies, shadowy reruns, a cartoon of the Fifties, the postwar American dream. "At least they knew who they were," he said.
"So, who were they?" she asked.
Artie dodged the question with a generic rundown of urban upper-middle class, so that once again Louise knew little of them, these prosperous grandparents, except that the dream had vanished. Their only daughter was dead. Their grandson, A. Freeman, was orphaned, named after no one, father unknown. Determined to claim no personal history, he might have been spawned by a mating of swanky schools and summer camps, or, as he reminded her charmingly--his life began when they met. So Louise, who was indeed serious, was much taken with these people who at least knew who they were in the funky Fifties, and with the sensible irony of a decorous party which might unlock a door.
Artie kicks aside the mound of soggy clothes, his costume of last night. At each step his right knee buckles, tibia grinding back into its socket. Unable to lift his head, he can't see himself in the mirrored medicine cabinet, just as well, for with his hair close-cropped for the party, he looks ravaged, skinned yet foolishly young and proper as he pees an inaccurate stream. At about eleven-thirty in the last century, the fun had gone out of the Fifties. For Artie at least, who had mixed and sampled the Manhattans, the martinis, the rye-and-ginger, the loft had started its slow swirl in which he could distinguish his friends and Lou's--their friends, he would say--and the inevitable extras, artists from her world half known to him, all passing before him in a solemn processional, though slow-dancing or eating the last of the historically accurate buffet--tuna noodle casserole, Waldorf salad, the damp ruins of a Boston cream pie--all twirling to "This Can't Be Love" on the portable hi-fi, vamping toward the millennium. Boozy, as in the old days he supposed, for he is of the recuperative generation, beer and wine, the mild toke, modest indulgences, take or leave your light pleasures, as he has taken Lou, she him, until lately when her unspoken proposition seemed to be that they should be getting on with their lives.
Such morning-after misery when he finally sees the pale stain which the party hat dribbled on his forehead, not the splatter of real blood, an unearthly dripping as from the bodiless heart of sweet Jesus, a bleeding heart crowned with thorns, framed in his grandparents' bedroom. Artie's torture, sharp almost visible. Puffed eyelids, swollen nose not a pretty sight. Lou had been exactly that, pretty in her blue taffeta dress held aloft with petticoats. Perched on high heels, she had displayed her mid-century finery to him. Her enormous canvases were stowed away, propped against their bed in the cozy area behind a screen--reference to privacy, domestic comforts. There was not a trace of turp or fixative in the workaday loft. Homey smells of supper, TV cart with the ten-inch set, a stack of scratched 78s. After that Biblical storm, the power had switched on in lower Manhattan for New Year's Eve and a chandelier only his Lou could unearth in a junk shop shone upon them, a fixture of such artlessness--frosted lights fitted to a futuristic galaxy welcoming the Space Age to the Levittown dining ell.
When he first arrived at the loft, as though her dress made all the difference, she rose on tiptoe to kiss him demurely, to touch the soft brush cut of his hair. Artie had looked down into the pretty dress. White lace poked her breasts forward, not necessarily for him in this getup. Lou's small pliant breasts he had soaped routinely in her, in their--he felt free to say in their Jacuzzi--though Artie Freeman did not live with Louise Moffett in the loft but kept, out of respect for his/their cherished independence, a bachelor apartment uptown. Waiting for their guests to arrive, she had looked to him shy, uncertain, fretting over arrangements of plates and cutlery. He was oddly elated that the great storm which canceled the fireworks at the Battery and at the North boundary of Central Park where the City virtually ended, had not interfered with their party. He had the ring in his pocket, and to Artie, who had left the dark streets uptown, it seemed that Consolidated Edison had conspired to illuminate the loft so that the diamond would dazzle his Lou at midnight.
A miracle of sorts, for at noon on this last day of the year the sky was luminescent grey, a negative. Howling wind swept up the broad avenues, clamored into side streets and blind alleys. Lights dimmed, flickered. Messages, in this city of messages, were half written, half transmitted, cut off in the troubled air. The mad prophet in his toga working the subways from Union Square to Chambers Street was exultant, his doomsday sign whipped into tatters, the last of his ominous numbers tossed like confetti in Astor Place. As the city shut down, so did the holiday air. Office parties dwindled. Not toasting that they had lived to this improbable day, workers--uptight, wary--wished each other safe home by whatever tunnel or train. By late afternoon the city was eerily calm, a short-winded bluster after all, but the last wild card of the century had done its damage.
Bothersome to Artie who worked at home designing plausible graphics for Bud Boyce--stylish bar charts and pies, seductive pictograms out of mightily inferential statistics. He punched at dead keys on the computer, on the phone. He could not call Lou to see if their time trip to the Unfabulous Fifties was still in place. The air in his apartment was suspiciously still, the dark street beyond a massive blank screen. The twilight zone that he (artfree @) dreamt up with Boyce (budboy @) had finally come about: the city had gone wireless. Cyberscouts playing WHAT IF on their screens: what if cables rotted in their decayed wood channels under the crumbling pavements of New York, what if the charged strands drew energy down signaling to resurgent mica in Manhattan's bed of granite, what if info ricocheted off the subway's charge or hyper optics were optioned by nibbling rats, jarred by shiftless tectonic plates. Twenty years since these meager fantasies entertained Artie and CEO Bertram Boyce who, bouncing messages of Product to the ever widening-narrowing world, had no time for such easy plots. Soon after Bud deleted the article before product, invested it with the capital P, Artie's faith went offline, a loss of youth in his microsoft heart, and he withdrew from Bud's enterprise, began simple piecework at home.
So, he was well out of the game, but thought seriously of Y2K unReadiness, the two blank 00s that erased a century, computers calculating the date as 1900, so belatedly searching and destroying each and every encoded day in the old mainframes at the cost of billions. And what if, somewhere around 1965, a neat-minded nerd had thought of the strategic imperative of a full four-digit date, but no one given the joy in the abbreviated language of tech talk, no one listened, for all such trivia would surely solve itself like a simple algebraic formula--x=______. Somewhere, a little guy, programmer retired--the U.S. Census Bureau, the actuarial troops at Allstate?--was laughing up his short sleeve in Scottsdale or hacker heaven. What if, but Artie is cut off, alone in his fantasy, and suppose it was only Mother Nature awarded her last chance to show them up, the communicants, corporate and casuals. To show Artie Freeman up as selfish, uncaring, for in the catastrophic silence he could not call the old man who did not want to welcome last year or the next, his grandfather who on the best of days, did not trouble himself to answer the phone, would not rise from his worn leather chair, or look up from his book, but read, read on, slowly drawing a magnifying glass across the page. The old man was Artie's family, all that was left, and his duty. His only duty to traipse across the Park with groceries, newspapers, clean socks and underclothes. Keep the old man going against the odds. Often, when Artie let himself into his grandparents' apartment--calling it that long after his grandmother's swift death--he feared to find the old man gone, last volume in his lap, head bent to decipher the last word. But his grandfather, fumed out in a threadbare suit, stained tie, translucent finger marking the page in his endless pursuit of history, came toward him with a firm step. "Ah, dear boy!"
"Who else?" For Artie felt he was the only soul who knew that Cyril O'Connor was still alive and that he no longer honored the predictable seasons, forget the second millennium. As the power died in the city, Artie had looked at his dead telephone with some relief. His grandfather would reject his New Year cheer. Though courteous, Cyril O'Connor would dismiss the peculiar holiday, turn back in the fading daylight to recapture the lost line in his book, and once again the dear boy, boy now over thirty, wondered at the perfect tension the old man sustained between the will to die and the will to live.
January 1--Feast of the Circumcision:
At that time: After eight days were past, but already the text in the prayer book would seem to be an adjustment--the seventh day after the birth of Christ as Cyril counted it when he was a small boy, seven days since his electric trains were set up to run round the tree, to stop with the will of his finger at the crossing where the farmer herded his sheep through the village square. Monster sheep, sniffing at chimneys, at a tiny brass bell hung in the steeple. Stupid sheep, knocking the farmer's silo into the looking glass pond. At times he would let the locomotive run his flock down, let the clumsy ovine giants bleed plaster dust onto the green felt grass where the snowy cotton batting never melted, but switched tracks in the nick of time when his soldiers hid under the popsicle-stick bridge plotting to ambush the fort.
Seven days as Cyril figured it to the Circumcision, till his child's prayer book pictured a knife that was about to be plunged into the Babe, a knife large enough to scale a fish, to skin a rabbit, though he was a city boy who only dreamed of such outdoor adventures. Why did the knife hover over the Holy Child? At school the good sister murmured, "Is it not here His suffering begins?" A muffled question to his question. Nor was he told, as he counted down the days, why his father, come home from his beat smelling always of whiskey and still in his patrolman's uniform, began at once to disassemble trains, track, transformer, schoolmarm (rod in hand at the schoolhouse door), barnyard with farmer's wife throwing corn to the chicks out of her checkered apron. His mother had been given the whole expensive setup by a family she worked for, a couple whose boy had died of diphtheria. They could not bear the sight of these toys. Not to accept the charity of Protestants was a matter of his father's inebriate Irish pride, though the parents of the dead boy were Jews. In an apocalyptic siege of unplugging, wrapping, packing, shoving boxes to a topmost shelf, Cyril's kingdom was destroyed one day before custom declared the date on which the dead tree must come down. A punishing feast for a kid in a West Side tenement with few pleasures.
Luke 2:21 At that time: After eight days were past that the child should be circumcised ... When he was fourteen, fine chap though a late starter, for some time prey to nocturnal emissions and perpetrator of shameful practices that might render him a drooling idiot or strike him blind, Cyril looked up a mysteriously forbidden word in the public library. Smegma: an unguent or soap: a secretion of any of the secretious glands, specifically, the cheesy matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin, or around the clitoris or labia minora. Well, that was a good deal of information for the head altar boy at St. Gregory's, a good deal yet not enough. What sort of soap might that be that soiled? And when had the cleansing act of circumcision been denied to the Christians? He dare not ask for answers, but Cyril O'Connor was learning his Latin. Quod turget, urget--what swells, impels--and did not lose faith, by which he did not mean his religion, until, ill-clothed, ill-armed, in cold outdistancing bitter, half the men in his unit were slaughtered in Korea to further inflate the imperial designs of Douglas MacArthur. Captain O'Connor, his zipper unyielding, finally zipped it down. Icy blue fingers adhered painfully for a moment to the soft fold of his foreskin; then Cyril pissed on the frozen chamber of his rifle as he had seen his men do if they were to defend themselves in this indefensible position. Their young leader under orders, he instructed them to go on with the killing in this Police Action, Yo-Yo war, for what else, in the frigid hollows leading to the Yalu River, could they possibly do. For fifty years, Cyril has not celebrated any holy day as holiday, though always a gentleman to those (most particularly his late wife) who delight in the hearts, masks, palms, eggs, crosses, doves, candles and trees that adorn their calendar of belief.
Isaiah 1:14-16.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth;
They are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
And when ye spread forth your hands,
I will hide mine eyes from you:
Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear;
Your hands are full of blood.
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Nowitzki leads Mavs into All-Star break with win
PHOENIX (AP) Dirk Nowitzki (FSY) scored 35 points and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Phoenix Suns 112-106 on Thursday night for their 13th victory in 14 games
BOX SCORE: Mavericks 112, Suns 106
Tyson Chandler (FSY) had 12 points and 12 rebounds, including a tip-in with 19 seconds left. Jason Terry (FSY) scored 16, capped by a pair of free throws with 14.1 seconds to play to give Dallas a 111-106 lead. Shawn Marion (FSY) added 12 points as the Mavericks improved to 9-0 against Pacific Division foes, including 4-0 on the road.
Channing Frye (FSY) scored 24 points and Steve Nash (FSY) had 15 points and 14 assists in just the third loss for the Suns in their last 11 games.
Nowitzki was at his smooth-shooting best most of the night, sinking 8 of 10 in a 19-point first half. He finished the game 13 of 18 from the field and 6 of 6 at the foul line, including a nine-point fourth quarter.
The Suns stayed with the Mavericks through the night despite going 5 of 18 from three-point range.
Dallas had just six offensive rebounds, but two by Chandler came at crucial points down the stretch. On the first, he dunked and was fouled from behind by Frye for a three-point play that put the Mavs up 101-94 with 3 minutes left.
The second, with just over 19 seconds left, gave Dallas a 109-103 advantage.
Frye banked in a three-pointer to cut it to 109-106 with 17.3 seconds left, but Terry's two free throws finally put the game out of reach.
Down by seven at halftime, the Suns led much of the third quarter, but never by more than four points. After Mickael Pietrus' (FSY) dunk gave Phoenix an 80-76 lead, Dallas scored the last nine of the third quarter on Nowitzki's 22-footer, Marion's reverse layup on a pass from Nowitzki, Jason Kidd's (FSY) three-pointer and a dunk by Marion on another assist by Nowitzki.
Dallas led 85-80 entering the fourth quarter and never trailed again.
Nash's driving layup cut it to 94-92 with 5:38 left, but Nowitzki sank a pair of free throws and a 5-foot jumper to boost it to 98-92 and Phoenix never got that close again.
Notes: Nash missed his only three-point attempt and still needs one 3 to move ahead of Eddie Jones (FSY) for sole possession of 10th place on the NBA career list. ... Dallas and San Antonio are the only Western Conference teams Phoenix has not beaten this season. ... Nowitzki's season high was 42 against Detroit on Nov. 23. ... Dallas' lone loss in the last month was at Denver on Feb. 10.
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"This photo is 24 years old today. Happy 24th anniversary to the love of my life Tom Hanks. It feels like 24 hours. Did we just get married?" Hanks wrote on Twitter Monday after posting the picture.
The picture shows Wilson, in her wedding dress, standing next to Hanks, reported Contactmusic. The couple, now 55, met on the set of Hanks' television show Bosom Buddies and started dating while working on the the film "Volunteers".
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Nigella Lawson, food enthusiast and author of the upcoming cookbook Nigella Christmas, offers this hearty dish full of flavor and satisfying protein. Both shrimp and beans are good sources of folate and iron. (Serve with crusty whole-grain bread to sop up all the delicious sauce.)
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Gyllenhaal: Acting's not hard
Jake Gyllenhaal is thankful that acting has allowed him to sample what people do for a living in real life.
The 34-year-old will soon be seen in Southpaw, a sports drama in which he plays a famous boxer. It is yet another occupation that Jake has had the opportunity to sample, and he has revealed how it helps him appreciate what people do in the real world on a day to day basis.
"I hate to be so thoughtful, but I would say when you see what people really do when you're playing a character – I've had the opportunity to play a police officer, I've had the opportunity to play a sociopath, I've had the opportunity to play military, a boxer – and particularly the jobs in the military and the jobs that are physical like this, you're an actor," he explained to People magazine. "There is nothing hard compared to what the people do for real."
Jake had to gain 15 pounds of muscle to take on the role of Billy Hope in the film. The actor admits it gave him a newfound respect for real-life boxers who dedicate their life to the sport.
"The amount of time you have to put into it, the sacrifice that you put into your body, it's not something that you're eager to do again," he added. "It's a huge commitment."
While he isn't keen on maintaining such a bulky physique, Jake is glad that the blood, sweat and tears he put into preparing for the role comes across on camera.
"One thing I know, and we always talk about, is whatever you put into your character, how much commitment you have to put into the movie, all of that energy is in the film," he said. "I can feel that energy when people see the film."
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The 61st Annual Black Tie Dinner of the Toronto Insurance Conference (TIC) was held November 3 at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Toronto. The event was attended by 300 people who enjoyed hearing the views of guest speaker, futurist and digital strategist, Jesse Hirsh. Hirsh owns and operates Metaviews Media Management Ltd., which focuses on research and consulting around new media business models, big data and the strategic use of social media. He is also co-founder of the Academy of the Impossible, a peer-to-peer, life-long learning facility.


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Property: Hotel BijouAddress: Via Fiume 5, 50123, Florence, Italy
Location: Italy > Tuscany > Province of Florence > Florence > San Lorenzo
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- the Hotel is situated at 3rd floor of a magnificent old classic Florentine style building in the historical center, very close to the central train station of Firenze S. Maria Novella (100 mt., only 3 minutes walk) and Mc Donald's store, nearby the Exhibition Center of Fortezza da Basso, and in front of the Congress Center and the Business Center and in short distance from all the points of attraction of the city. The hotel is very near the wonderful Church of S. Maria Novella, the Medici Chapels and the traditional Market of San Lorenzo, next to the marvellous Church of San Lorenzo. At only 50 mt. there are also a nice Chinese restaurant on the corner and the Supermarket CONAD. The hotel has an elevator; rooms are equipped with private bath, A/C, heating, telephone, and TV set: some rooms have external bath. On demand, it's possible to have rooms with balcony. There is also a nice terrace on the roof where guests can sunbathe and enjoy a marvellous view on the city. Information about museums and wine-and-food tours in Florence and in Tuscany countryside. Breakfast is Continental with buffet: prices can range. No night curfew in hotel: concierge service is 24 hours a day. Fax service in hotel. We accept all kinds of groups: schools, religious, seniors, families, etc. Before departure, you can leave your baggages in hotel free of charge and for all the time needed. Credit Cards accepted: VISA, MC, JCB, AMERICAN EXPRESS. There is possibility of FREE parking or garage in the area. Hotel run by a family; they take care of their hotel personally and speak English, Spanish, French. To get FURTHER INFORMATION, LAST-MINUTE, CHEAP RATES, DISCOUNTS & SPECIAL OFFERS please visit our websites => hotel-bijou - florenceroomshotelbijou ... more less
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Ramsett Park is Pawnee's most-visited park.
It is the former site of a Wal-Mart which was converted into a state-of-the-art park in 1986. The park has still retained the flavor of the 80's through its themed playground and bright murals.
In recent years, Ramsett Park has been the site of numerous community activities, including the Pawnee International Cuisine Festival, kindly sponsored and fully catered by Christina's Bagels. In 2003, residents dedicated a bench to Councilman and Mrs. Wendell Partch-Frome, after the couple created a fund supporting an annual Ramsett Barbecue. The Ramsett Barbecue became a lasting tradition until it was curtailed in 2007, due to insufficient sanitation regulations.
Since 2007, the park has been frequented by a large number of animals, many domesticated. After an eight-month hiatus last year to set up cages and traps, Ramsett Park has re-opened to increased popularity. Parkgoers can now enjoy stopping in for a quick game of handball or just taking a cautious stroll.
In "Pawnee Zoo", Ron Swanson alerts Leslie Knope that someone is on fire at Ramsett Park. In "The Set Up", citizens complain that there are a "disturbing number of benches in Ramsett Park", while others complain that they "want to sit more".
Ramsett Park LakeEdit
Every "Ted Party Day", a man named Ted is dunked into Ramsett Park Lake. This is because in Pawnee, the word "Tea" was misspelled in the Pawnee Charter, causing the article to read "citizens shall dump ted into Ramsett Lake".
Facility Hours of OperationEdit
- Monday - Friday: 11:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
- Saturday: 11:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- Sunday: Closed
Note that hours have changed, as of June 2007. Park will return to regular hours in June 2008. Park is expected to return to regular hours in Fall 20___.
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- Walking and Biking Paths
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In 'Ten Years After' (1991) publishers Angelika Muthesius and Benedikt Taschen published the first major retrospective monographic study of the work of their friend, the artist Martin Kippenberger. Alongside the numerous texts (all in English, German and French), this book is profusely illustrated in colour throughout with Kippenberger's paintings, sculptures, drawings, editions, publications, posters, installations and public/social life. Includes an extensive biography, bibliography and list of exhibitions.
Long out of print.
Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.
Kippenberger was "widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation," according to Roberta Smith of the New York Times. He was at the center of a generation of German enfants terribles including Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, Dieter Göls, and Günther Förg.
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Blazing Games - One of those Weeks - Day 7
The final day of the week
Page Last Updated: October 12, 2012
The episodes for this day were going to start in April of 2008, but I decided to start the release of Day 3 episodes a week early. I suppose that the twist at the end of day 5 probably caused a lot of people to abandon this series, though I have not received any nasty emails so have no real way of knowing. For those of you who have not played through the earlier days, use the tabs above to go back to day 1 and play through the series.
This day picks up where the previous day left off. For a change, you actually got to go to sleep on your own and even have a bed. Of course you are in an alien space ship being piloted by a creature that looks like a large dog, but your childhood dream of exploring the universe is coming true. Or is it? What exactly can happen in only two days? Play on to find out.
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Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division raided this small, dusty village on the rocky banks of the Tigris River just minutes before the morning call to prayer on Friday. They carried an old, grainy photo of the suspect.
But he was nowhere to be found. Villages said he hadn't been there in months.
It was a frustrating moment for soldiers in the division's 3rd Brigade, known as the "Rakkasans," who are intent on finding the insurgents responsible for killing their five comrades in the Nov. 19 bombings.
"I'm sure there are terrorists around, but they all live over there," said Capt. Christopher Judge, 35, of Milford, N.H., gesturing toward mountains in the distance as he mocked what Iraqis often say when questioned about people the Army is looking for.
Commanders suspect Musalkah sometimes is a haven for insurgents — loyalists to Saddam Hussein and Islamic extremists — who have attacked workers building a pipeline between Kirkuk and one of Iraq's largest oil refineries in Beiji.
Distant and out of the way, the village lies beyond the Army's usual patrol routes, making it a likely waystation for insurgents who need to hide when the nighttime curfew keeps them off the roads, Army officers said.
So the troops came looking for their bombing suspect.
The raid began with helicopters landing in a sandy field outside the village and soldiers dashing to a group of buildings near a mosque. They roused six men from their sleep, and found a handful of illegal automatic rifles and foreign license plates.
The men were detained, blindfolded with strips of white cotton and left with their faces pressed against a cold mud wall. They were blacklisted as suspected insurgents, but the man that the Americans had come after was not among them.
A psychological operations team walked the streets with a speaker, broadcasting a message in Arabic telling villagers why the soldiers had come.
They were there for one man, the message said. They wanted to know where he was.
"If we have to spend our time here hunting them down one by one, it doesn't matter. So be it," said Sgt. 1st Class Tony Griskey, 36, of Page, Ariz., who led one of the platoons in the raid.
As the morning wore on, soldiers used mine detectors and a bomb-sniffing German shepherd named "Mike" to look for hidden weapons. Frustration sank in as they leaned against mud-brick walls with tired legs and aching backs.
The dog began to whine, his ears tucked back, which soldiers said he often does when a search has gone on too long without finding anything.
Mike tugged his handler down a rocky street covered in trash and cut with ravines.
"Come on, buddy. We've only got nine more months in Iraq. You've got to find some stuff," Judge said at one point.
No weapons were found in the manure-filled livestock pens sniffed by the dog.
But a team working in a boat in the Tigris found about 70 artillery shells cached on the riverbank — although only by accident after getting hung up in shallow water.
Iraqis have complained about what they consider heavy-handed tactics during American raids around the country, but the villagers in Musalkah seemed to take the search in stride.
People peered over mud walls and around corners as soldiers passed. The children were the first to come out, running barefoot through the streets to watch the troops.
Adults soon followed, expressing thanks and touching their chests, a gesture of sincerity in Islamic culture.
One man dressed in a robe and jacket hobbled up. One leg was shorter than the other and he asked if the soldiers could help. There was nothing they could do, they said.
With storm clouds building on the horizon, the soldiers trooped out of the village, at one point singing bits of the Mickey Mouse Club song, a re-enactment from a scene in Stanley Kubrick's movie about the Vietnam war, Full Metal Jacket.
Judge waited on his knees and worked the radios to make sure his soldiers were in place when the helicopters landed.
He acknowledged his disappointment that they didn't find the man they were looking for, but took consolation that the operation went peacefully.
"Anytime you come back and everyone's alive and no one's been hurt, it's a success," he said. "You try to win with small victories."


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Old Bauman's Farm
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| Item: Constable's Two-Handed HammerConstable's Two-Handed Hammer
Type: Two-handed Hammer
Bind on Aquire
Slot: Main hand
Damage: 12.0 - 17.0
Weapon Speed: 3.0
4.8 Damage Per Second
Small chance to stun opponents
Durability: 100/100
Worth: 2s 90c
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| Item: Frayed CloakFrayed Cloak
Type: Cloak
Bind on Aquire
Slot: Back
Armour Value: 11
Durability: 40/40
Worth: 60c
Special thanks to Alluvian for entering this item.
Alluvian has entered 64 LOTRO items.
Linked quests in the series:
Unpaid Debts
Treasure in the Web
Blackwold Valuables
Rurik Fennel, Locksmith
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Blackwold ValuablesGeneral Quest
Constable Sageford is just east of the Milestone in Combe.
The two lockboxes recovered so far have had the initials R.F. Scribed on them. Sageford thinks that a clue might be found at Old Bauman's farm in Chetwood north. The farm was taken over by Blackwolds when they fled from the defeat at Archet.
Search for information about "R.F."
Head east to Constable Wren, then northeast through the logging camp on the road. Follow the road east until you get to the second Blackwold campfire. This is the campfire with the first lockbox and should be visible from the first campfire.
Old Bauman's farm is DUE east of this second campfire, so you can save some time by cutting east through the woods and up the hill. The farm is on the top of the hill.
The clue you need is a dropped item from a Blackwold Supervisor which spawn in the area around the farm.
Special thanks go out to Alluvian for providing this quest writeup!
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Among the major ailments that take a toll on the global human population every year, 'Malaria' deserves a special mention.
This ailment is spread through biting by female infected mosquitoes. However, infected blood transfusion can also be the cause. Malaria can occur to any one and at anytime but the prevalence increases in the monsoon months, since this is breeding season for mosquitoes.
How serious can malaria in pregnancy be? Well to answer that we present to you an overview on – malaria.
Malaria And Pregnancy:
A pregnant woman gets malaria when she is infected by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite (1).
- If it is during the first time pregnancy, the consequences can be very serious.
- The parasite infecting the woman can affect the fetal placenta, exposing both the fetus and the woman to risk.
- If left untreated, it can cause abortion or a premature delivery. Affected women may give birth to a baby that is seriously underweight too.
- Only in rare cases, malaria can get transmitted to the fetus; in such a case, the unborn child's survival rate is very slim.
As it is, malaria in pregnancy is a major reason behind maternal morbidity globally. This is why it is utmost important to diagnose the illness early.
Symptoms Of Malaria In Pregnant Women:
Pregnant women, who get infected with Malaria, face the risk of immunity level reduction. In such women, onset of malaria paves way for certain symptoms and complications of malaria in pregnancy. The shivering and fever is quite commonplace. The symptoms begin to appear approximately 2 weeks after a woman is bitten by an infected mosquito.
Other major symptoms of malaria in pregnancy are:
Not all symptoms appear in every infected and pregnant woman, as it is. Since many of these symptoms coincide with those of flu, only a proper blood test can reveal whether the woman has malaria or not.
[ Read: Fever During Pregnancy ]
Diagnosis Of Malaria In Pregnant Women:
Microscopic diagnosis is the best way to detect the presence of malaria parasites in the body and bloodstream of an infected and pregnant woman.
Rapid detection tests can often skip existence of parasites. In case a pregnant woman is infected with malaria, she should be admitted in the wing for – neonatal care and infectious disease treatment – without delay.
[ Read: Torch Infection In Pregnancy ]
Treatment Options For Malaria In Pregnant Women:
It is important that a specialized crew, headed by an eminent doctor, begins malaria treatment in pregnancy to ensure the health of the baby growing within is not impacted.
While the treatment varies on a case-by-case basis, listed below is the normal course of action taken when a woman expecting a baby is diagnosed with malaria:
1. The usage of drugs depends on which stage of pregnancy a woman is in. Treatment also varies on factors like existing immunity level of the woman in question. The doctors may need to analyze her level of immunity and check medical history for adverse reaction or allergy to prevalent malaria medications.
2. While usage of anti malaria medications such as quinine and chloroquine are common for treating women who have conceived. In some cases that may not be enough, as some patients grow resistant to these drugs.
3. Sulfadoxine and Mefloquine can safely be used in both the second and third semesters of pregnancy. The high fever, which can occur in some victims, is generally treated with antipyretics (2).
4. It becomes necessary to treat malaria-induced complications in a pregnant woman. Doctors need to keep a tab on fluid replacement to evade the formation of pulmonary edema in such patients.
5. Some pregnant women also suffer from serious anaemia after being infected by the Malaria causing parasite. Intervention of infectious disease specialists can be required in some such complex cases of malaria.
[ Read: Drugs Used In Pregnancy ]
Yes, Malaria can be dangerous, however with timely medical intervention both mother and baby can be nursed back to good health. We urge you to stay away from mosquito-laden situations and use the purest water for your drinking and hygiene purposes.
If you know someone who is expecting and is diagnosed with Malaria, make sure she receives quality health care, a good diet and a lot of care.
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Earth is a building block item used in Builders. The player must attack blocks to deplete the blocks "health". Once the block is destroyed the player will be able to collect the block and use it as an item.
Earth blocks are the most common variety of block in the game. They can be found nearly everywhere. Their appearance are either purely mud, or mud with grass on top. Earth blocks are used to construct buildings, as well is a material ingredient for a few recipes.
When you first place an earth block it will always have a mud appearances. However block modifiers such as a Grass seed can be used.
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Olympics 2012: 7 Things You May Have Missed From Monday's Games (VIDEOS)
For the men's gymnastics team, it was indeed the very worst. Right off the bat, the medal hopefuls gave a disastrous performance during the team finals Monday afternoon, falling on multiple apparatuses for a fifth-place finish.
Luckily, the Red, White and Blue fared much better elsewhere, especially in the pool. Monday's biggest star? Seventeen-year-old Missy Franklin, who swam to her first Gold medal in a stunning performance in the 100-meter backstroke.
What else went down during Monday night's extensive coverage?
Celebuzz has pulled together the 10 biggest moments from London. Check them out below.
1.) Team USA Takes a Tumble
The men's gymnastics team got off to a very rough start in the team finals on Monday, beginning with a fall by Sam Mikulak on the Floor Exercise. Subsequent falls occurred on the Pommel Horse and Vault, and after three rotations, the medal hopefuls found themselves in eighth place, or dead last. They recovered slightly to finish in fifth, a far cry from the podium that many had predicted they'd stand on.
4.) Michael Phelps Prepares for Comeback
After a rough start to the London Games, in which he finished fourth in the 400-meter individual medley and second in the 400-meter freestyle relay, Michael Phelps looked much better in the pool on Monday, finishing first in his heat in the 200-meter butterfly. On Tuesday, the two-time defending champion will attempt to become the first swimmer in history to win three-consecutive Gold medals in a single event.
5.) France Beats America — Again
France continued to prove itself in the pool on Tuesday, when 20-year-old Yannick Agnel cruised to victory in the 200-meter freestyle. USA's Ryan Lochte — who fell behind Agnel in the final stretch of the 400-meter freestyle relay — finished a disappointing fourth.
6.) Zara Phillips Gives Royal Performance
Zara Phillips, the cousin of Princes William and Harry, impressed again in the team equestrian competition on Monday, finishing under the limit in the grueling cross-country portion of the event. Phillips was solid again on Tuesday's final leg, showjumping, to help Britain win a Silver medal, behind the favorite, Germany.
Forget Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. Monday night was all about swimmer Matt Grevers, who swam to victory in the 100-meter backstroke finals after a Silver medal finish, in Beijing. His teammate, Nick Thoman, finished second.


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Whew! We had a busy, busy week in first grade. With the 100th day of school and Valentine's day back-to-back, it made for a fun, crazy, and exciting last two days of the week 🙂
Up first… the 100th day of school! It's such a great milestone in our year. It means that we are 100 days into our journey- 100 days smarter and 100 days bigger! The kids {and teachers} love this day. It's just a lot of fun- the kids are so proud of being in school this long and are so excited to celebrate!
We have the kids decorate capes at home, with 100 things on them of course! We wear the caps all day long and as one kiddo told me, "We're just like super heroes!" Yes, we were 🙂
They all looked so awesome! We had stickers, pictures, stars, and pom pons! They all reflected the kid's personalities and all looked so cool. They are the perfect thing to help us celebrate this important day.
We spent the day doing lots of exciting 100th day themed things, including…..
writing 100 words….
…..singing 100th day songs…..
….dancing to 100th day songs….
….finding, coloring, and graphing 100 pictures in the number 100…..
….rolling dice and coloring pictures up to 100…..
…..and seeing what weighed more than 100 coins!
It was a blast! Everything we did revolved around the number 100. It was a really great day and one we will all remember.
As if that wasn't enough fun….. the next day was our Valentine's Day celebration!
We used candy hearts to sort, count, and graph in math.
Of course, we also made these ADORABLE bags to hold all of our Valentine's day cards.
They were so easy to make. The white heart was cut out for the kids and they had to cut up pieces of red and pink to make a mosaic. After, we just glued on their name and stapled to a brown lunch bag. It made for the perfect place to pass out and store our cards to each other!
I didn't get any other pictures because we were too busy celebrating! But the rest of our day included lots of Valentine's day stories, Valentine's day cards, and Valentine's day snacks. We had a great celebration!
Overall, it was a great two days. They were filled with smiles, laughs, and lots of hugs! This is a great bunch of kiddo's and I really enjoyed celebrating with them!
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1. Re: Linux dac 11g server can not start when copy from windowsSunilSharma Apr 1, 2013 6:04 PM (in response to Yu Yang)you need to configure the DB credentials using startclient.sh or using serverSetupPrompt.sh Then try to start the dac services
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