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By Jim Henneman and Jim Henneman,Evening Sun Staff
April 11, 1991
Jose Mesa is getting closer to where the Orioles want him to be, but he hasn't acquired the finishing touch."He got ahead of a lot of hitters, which is good," said pitching coach Al Jackson. "But he still stretches it out too much. He's using up too many pitches going to 3-and-2 counts."Mesa worked six strong innings, but came away a loser in last night's 2-0 White Sox win. He might have left with the game scoreless had it not been for a momentary lapse against Sammy Sosa.With two outs, Mesa got two quick strikes on Sosa before issuing his fourth and final walk of the night.
Michael Phelps makes a clean dive back into competition
By Childs Walker, The Baltimore Sun
April 24, 2014
MESA, Ariz. - There was a time, before the 2012 Olympics, when swimming became a grim exercise for its greatest practitioner, Michael Phelps. The pool felt like a place of obligation, not joy, and thus Phelps walked away from the sport after bringing his record gold-medal total to 18 in London. That dread was nowhere in evidence Thursday when Phelps made his triumphant return to competitive swimming after a 20-month retirement. Phelps beamed on the starting block before his first race, acknowledging the effusive roar he'd received from a sellout crowd at the Mesa Grand Prix. Then, he showed he could still swim a little bit. In a performance that wiped away any doubts about his form, Phelps posted the day's fastest qualifying time in the 100-meter butterfly at 52.84 seconds.
Mesa misses target
By Jim Henneman and Jim Henneman,Evening Sun Staff
September 13, 1991
Joe Orsulak gave Jose Mesa all the assists he could muster last night. They weren't enough to keep the righthander from sinking a little deeper into a sea of uncertainty.Manager John Oates gave Mesa every possible chance to survive, probably one more than was prudent, but the Cleveland Indians eventually got more opportunities than they could run their way out of on the basepaths. The result was a 6-5 loss for the Orioles, made all the more agonizing by a three-run flourish in the ninth inning after a potential rally in the eighth was squelched by a gamble that backfired on third base coach Cal Ripken Sr.When Mesa finally left, with the bases cluttered and nobody out in the fifth, the Orioles were on the verge of seeing a 3-2 deficit grow to 6-2. By that time, the Indians had put 12 runners on base, six via walks, and Mesa had thrown only 34 strikes in 72 pitches.
Michael Phelps says he's 'having fun' as he returns to the pool this week
By Childs Walker and The Baltimore Sun
April 23, 2014
MESA, ARIZ. - Michael Phelps couldn't say it enough times, even joking that he would bore questioners with his repetitive explanation for returning to competitive swimming. "I'm having fun," he answered over and over Wednesday in his first public remarks since his comeback became official last week. Phelps, 28, will swim at the Mesa Grand Prix Thursday, his first race since he won his record-setting 18th gold medal at the 2012 Olympics. He said then he'd never be back, that he'd be relieved to live away from the pool for the first time in his life.
Mesa: Birds' 94-mph mystery
By Jim Henneman and Jim Henneman,Evening Sun Staff
September 18, 1991
BOSTON -- Whatever problems Jose Mesa had last night, they were more typical than physical. His record (5-11) is more indicative of the way he pitched than his arm, which alternately delivers 90-mph boomers and extra-base rockets.The big righthander ranks right alongside Ben McDonald as one of the major mysteries of the Orioles' pitching staff. McDonald is down for the third time this year, and the fourth in his brief career, because of an injury.Mesa has two operations on his resume and has also done a turn on the disabled list this year (17 days)
Mesa having one Eck of a year
By KEN ROSENTHAL
August 15, 1995
Jose Mesa and Dennis Eckersley.Bet you never thought you'd see those names in the same sentence when the Orioles traded Mesa for Kyle Washington three years ago.But now here's Mesa, needing just two more saves to tie Eckersley's record of 36 consecutive saves in a season.He's not just a Cy Young candidate, he's an MVP candidate. No other team has more saves.Mesa earned No. 34 with a perfect ninth inning last night in Cleveland's 9-6 victory over the Orioles.He could tie Eckersley before he leaves town.
De la Rosa to Yankees Mesa next?
By Jim Henneman and Jim Henneman,Staff Writer
March 6, 1992
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Francisco de la Rosa was announced yesterday as one of the players to be named in last week's trade with the New York Yankees that brought Alan Mills to the Orioles.And there continues to be speculation that Jose Mesa, another right-hander, could be the next to go.De la Rosa, a reliever who was injured almost the entire month after being promoted to the major leagues last September, had been designated for assignment when the Orioles obtained Mills, also a right-handed reliever.
Mesa heats up for new shot at making roster
By Kent Baker and Kent Baker,Sun Staff Correspondent
March 26, 1991
BRADENTON, Fla. -- Jose Mesa came into spring training a bit behind other Baltimore Orioles pitchers, but he had an excuse -- Mesa spent the winter in Rochester, N.Y.The Orioles right-hander took it easy, rarely venturing outside, because "it was really, really cold. But my wife lives over there, so I went."The weather curtailed off-season throwing for Mesa, who came back last year from two operations on his pitching elbow and was one of the Orioles' most dependable starters during the last five weeks.
Mesa's loss shows Orioles miss Poole
By Jim Henneman and Jim Henneman,Staff Writer
April 27, 1992
NEW YORK -- It may not have made a difference, but on a day Jose Mesa was two pitches shy of a potential win, Johnny Oates came up short one left-hander in the bullpen.The result was a 3-1 loss to the Yankees that kept the Orioles from taking over second in the American League's Eastern Division.Except for a solo home run by Kevin Maas in the fourth inning and a double by Roberto Kelly in the eighth, Mesa was effective throughout the 7 1/3 innings he worked. But when Andy Stankiewicz, who tortured the Orioles all weekend, opened the eighth with a ground single to left, both Mesa and Oates were in trouble.
Orioles must decide on Mesa's future
By Ken Rosenthal
February 25, 1992
SARASOTA, Fla. -- The Orioles' most difficult spring decision revolves around a pitcher who is their No. 7 starter. Jose Mesa is out of minor-league options. Either the Orioles trade him, or risk losing him on waivers.Mesa, 25, opened last season as the club's No. 2 starter, but the way things stand, he won't make this team. The rotation is set with five other righthanders, and veteran lefthander Dennis Rasmussen is the logical replacement if one of them gets hurt.Problem is, Mesa can't be demoted without being exposed to the waiver process, which makes him available to every team.
Possible reasons abound for Michael Phelps' return to swimming
By Childs Walker, The Baltimore Sun
April 22, 2014
For almost a year, the question was "if" Michael Phelps would return to competitive swimming. Now that Phelps is scheduled to end his 20-month retirement Thursday in Mesa, Ariz., a more nuanced question looms: Why? Phelps sounded fairly certain he no longer wanted to confine his life to the pool when he walked away from the sport after the 2012 Olympics. He had seemingly put the perfect exclamation point on his career, winning gold in his last race to bring his record medal haul to 22, including 18 golds.
Michael Phelps plans to return to competition this month
By Jean Marbella and Mike Klingaman, The Baltimore Sun
April 14, 2014
Less than two years after he retired as the most decorated Olympian ever, Michael Phelps is diving back into competition next week - a move that could lead the Baltimore swimmer to his fifth Summer Games in 2016. Phelps will compete in the Arena Grand Prix, held in Mesa, Ariz., from April 24 to 26, USA Swimming announced Monday. It is his first competition since the London 2012 Games that brought his total medal count to 22, 18 of them gold. "The One has returned," swimming analyst Mel Stewart said, in what was typical of the delighted response to Phelps' decision.
Man is ordered held in custody to await trial on drug charges
By Jennifer McMenamin and Jennifer McMenamin,sun reporter
February 16, 2007
A U.S. District Court judge ordered yesterday that a suspected drug dealer whose girlfriend was found dead in the trunk of her car last month be held in federal custody while awaiting trial on heroin distribution charges. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake reversed an earlier decision by a federal magistrate judge to release Jermarl A. Jones to a Baltimore halfway house until his June trial. Referring to the unsolved homicide of Jones' longtime girlfriend, Sintia Mesa, the judge mentioned "the uncertainty of the circumstances of what happened with Ms. Mesa" among her reasons for detaining the defendant.
Appeal blocks release of victim's boyfriend
By Jennifer McMenamin and Jennifer McMenamin,sun reporter
February 3, 2007
After speaking privately with homicide detectives investigating the death of the girlfriend of a man charged with dealing heroin, a judge ordered that the man be released to a Baltimore halfway house while awaiting trial on federal drug charges. But federal prosecutors immediately appealed the ruling, effectively blocking the release of Jermarl A. Jones before a U.S. district judge conducts another hearing next week. The decision came at the end of a detention hearing during which a deputy U.S. marshal detailed his nearly seven-month search for Jones and the ways he believed Jones and his girlfriend attempted to evade authorities hunting for him. Jones, 31, of Hyattsville was arrested last month on a year-old federal indictment that charged him with conspiring to sell heroin.
Victim linked to drug case
By Nick Shields and Matthew Dolan and Nick Shields and Matthew Dolan,sun reporters
January 31, 2007
A woman whose body was found in the trunk of her car this week in Northwest Baltimore had been tracked by federal agents as part of a drug investigation involving her boyfriend, authorities said yesterday. Sintia Mesa had been monitored by agents searching for Jermarl A. Jones, who is charged with conspiring to sell heroin, according to federal law enforcement officials. Jones was in Mesa's car when he was arrested Jan. 3 in North Baltimore, a deputy U.S. marshal said yesterday. No one has been charged in Mesa's death, which police are investigating as a homicide.
Missing woman found dead in trunk of car
By Nick Shields and Nick Shields,Sun reporter
January 30, 2007
Sintia Mesa's friends and relatives spent the weekend hoping the missing woman would be found alive. Yesterday, her sister passed out fliers near the Randallstown beauty salon where the woman, and her car, had last been seen. Within hours, the car, and the 25-year-old woman's body were found. Mesa's body was discovered in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of the Park Place Garden Apartments in Northwest Baltimore, city police said. It was unclear yesterday evening where or how Mesa died, authorities said.
Mesa starting to raise serious questions
By Jim Henneman and Jim Henneman,Staff Writer
May 26, 1992
SEATTLE -- Jose Mesa had to be perfect in spring training to win a spot on the Orioles' pitching staff.Now the time is rapidly approaching when the righthander may have to duplicate that effort to keep his job.After a decent start, when he pitched well enough to win his first three starts, Mesa (1-5) has lost four in a row after last night's 7-3 setback to the Seattle Mariners. And with the Orioles (26-17) still clinging to first place in the American League's Eastern Division, every loss Mesa suffers is magnified.
Late great Mesa closes out doubts
By Peter Schmuck and Peter Schmuck,Sun Staff Writer
July 25, 1995
CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Indians designated Orioles all-time saves leader Gregg Olson for assignment last week. Sent him packing because they already had the dominant closer in the American League. Let him go because Jose Mesa wouldn't let him pitch.How's that for a telling episode of "How the Baseball World Turns"?Mesa suddenly is on top of it. He watched for years while Olson built a reputation as one of the game's top closers, never suspecting that he someday might be the guy looking down from the mountain in the bottom of the ninth.
Mesa Air's hot-headed CEO
By New York Times News Service
January 25, 2007
PHOENIX -- On a one-to-10 scale, 10 being the most volatile personality, Jonathan G. Ornstein, chief executive of Mesa Air Group Inc., cheerfully admitted, "I used to be an 11." Ornstein, 49, will not hazard a guess as to his current level of hot-headedness, but some in the airline business say he still rates double-digits. "I don't know that I've ever hung up on anyone in my life - except Jonathan," said Scott Kirby, president of US Airways, which employs Mesa to fly smaller planes on shorter routes and is the regional airline's biggest customer.
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December 12, 2006
Lee Mazzilli, replaced as a bench coach for the New York Yankees, will move across town to become the lead studio analyst for the New York Mets on SportsNet New York. Mazzilli, whose contract wasn't renewed by the Yankees, will join pre- and post-game studio host Matt Yallof for 85 of the 125 games on the Mets' network. The SportsNet New York broadcast team includes former Mets teammates Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling and lead booth announcer Gary Cohen. The Brooklyn native played outfield and first base for the Mets from 1976 to 1981 and returned in 1986 to play for the World Series championship team.
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Is it possible to have desktop icons for connected devices
I'm wondering if there is a way to show the connected devices as icons on the desktop as is done in OS X. If you aren't sure of what I'm talking about, it's when I plug my phone, external hard drive, DVD, etc into the computer and instead of always going into My Computer to view what's connected, it shows up as an icon on the desktop. Is this possible, or is this just a feature I have to live without unless I cross over to the dark side and use OS X?
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Hello xanpolak, and welcome to Seven Forums.
You should be able to right click on the device in the "Computer" window, then click on Create shortcut to have a shortcut created on your desktop for a desktop icon.
Hope this helps, :)
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Thanks! That is a good solution.
Though, I don't really like that the icons remain on the desktop when the device isn't plugged in. I was hoping for something that automatically makes the icon appear on the desktop when I connect a device. Is that possible?
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In that case, I think using the free program Desk Drive would be better for this.
Desk Drive sits as a icon in the system tray monitoring your system. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically when you pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer instead of you having to open Window's Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away.
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Thanks, Brink! That's exactly what I was looking for.
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Award-winning documentarian Laura Poitras, whose Edward Snowden feature Citizenfour took home an Oscar in February, is suing the United States government for information concerning what she calls dozens of harassing detainments by security officials at airports both in the U.S. and abroad.
Poitras' career has centered on politically charged films, starting with 2003's Flag Wars, but while promoting My Country, My Country in 2006, which was critical of the Iraq War. The filmmaker said she began facing increased scrutiny and harassment while traveling overseas for work.
TheWrap reports she filed a lawsuit Monday in Washington, D.C., and alleges from 2006-2012 she was subjected to enhanced security screenings, including being singled out for prolonged detainments when she reentered the United States from working abroad, and sometimes prior to departing.
"I'm filing this lawsuit because the government uses the U.S. border to bypass the rule of law," Poitras said in legal documents.
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A press release obtained by TheWrap states Poitras' added security stopped suddenly in 2012, when journalist and colleague Glenn Greenwald reported the story in The Atlantic.
Poitras' lawsuit names the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Her film Citizenfour, which followed conversations with notorious NSA whistleblower and international fugitive Edward Snowden, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary back in February.


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Here at Ozicare we have you, our customer, in the forefront of our minds. We understand that your car, home, lifestyle and loved ones should be protected. We use sophisticated, industry leading underwriting techniques and form trustworthy partnerships to do just that.
We care about you and your car, your home and your contents. Which is why we offer flexible, tailored insurance policies which help provide you with peace-of-mind, at a price you can afford.
Ozicare is a part of an international network of insurance companies, parented by the Budget Insurance Group. The group was established in the 1980s and has grown to become a leader in innovation, providing easy to understand insurance options and continuously setting new standards for the industry across the globe, including in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia.
Ozicare was introduced in Australia in 2001 and has experienced extraordinary growth since its commencement. With our combined international experience, knowledge and high quality service standards, we are now well-established in the Australian market; with our Car and Home & Contents policies being underwritten by Auto & General Insurance Company Ltd and our Life Insurance policies being underwritten by our trusted partner, Hannover Life Re of Australasia.
Auto & General Insurance Company Ltd is a member of the Insurance Council of Australia, participates in the Insurance Code of Practice and is authorised to conduct insurance business in Australia by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA). As one of the most trusted brands in the Life Insurance industry, Hannover Life Re of Australasia is the third largest reinsurer in the world. Despite being a part of such a large and successful insurance network we've never lost sight of what has always been most important to us; looking after our customers and ensuring your most valuable assets are protected.
Ozicare has been awarded CANSTAR's Direct Life Insurance Outstanding Value award for 2017.
CANSTAR endeavour to include the majority of product providers in the market and obtain quotes for three levels of cover (low, medium, high) for every age from 20-59, each gender and smoking status. Each product is reviewed and awarded points for its comparative pricing and an array of features, which are weighted to reflect importance and relevance to consumers. CANSTAR give the Outstanding Value Award to the insurer /insurers who offer outstanding value based on their cumulative score and star rating performance across all criteria.
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Men look at what they like and men. like. boobs.
Now, I know what you're thinking, "Kate, this is not groundbreaking news. We all know that men. like. boobs." Yeah, granted, this might be common knowledge. But how about the first part of that statement: men look at what they like.


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Welcome to Clane Athletic Club website!
Located in the historic village of Clane, Co.Kildare, our club is one of Ireland's newest athletic clubs. The club, which is completely volunteer-led, was reformed in 2012 with the principal aim of promoting athletics, for all ages, in the village and environs of Clane.
Our coaches and athletes have worked hard over the past 5 years to build the club into a strong, reputable club and we are very proud to have won and held onto our Kildare "A League" status for the past two years.
Our club is proud to be affiliated to the Irish governing body for athletics; the Athletics Association of Ireland.
We place a strong emphasis on community, and encourage the development of athletic skills, in a fun, friendly and sociable environment.
We're based at Scoil Mhuire, Clane Community School.
New members are welcome!
2018 Autumn training
Training will resume soon, return date to be announced next week.
Watch out for updates!
Queries for children on the current waiting list:
Due to the clubs popularity, Clane AC are currently operating a waiting list for new members. Our team of coaches are constantly reviewing the age groups and coach allocation to see if we have more space available.
If you wish to place your child on the waiting list, please contact the club registrar, Niall Heffernan via this websites email or on our facebook page, and as soon as we have a place available, we will be in touch with you.
Clane AC is a volunteer based club. We are always looking for and welcome more coaching volunteers.
Having more volunteer coaches means the club can open up spaces to allow more children to train.
Please contact us if you are a parent of a child on the waiting list, and think you might like to help out by assisting our existing coaches?
Full mentorship by the club will be provided and new coaches will be sent on A.A.I certified coaching courses and first aid safety classes also paid for by the club.
*Childrens safety is of utmost importance to us, so all coaches/assistants/committee members require full Garda Vetting, attend a Code of Ethics course / Child Safeguarding course and must sign a club code of conduct form. This process is overseen by our Child welfare officers.
Junior Athletics
Clane AC welcomes its 2018 members from 6 years of age (i.e born in 2011 - the child must be 6yrs old by 01 January of that year and turning age 7 at some point during the same calendar year)
These younger members are introduced to athletics through the "Little Athletics" / "Junior Athletics" programmes, where they learn the basics of Agility, Balance and Coordination and progress to learning the skills and techniques involved in the core athletic disciplines of running, jumping, throwing and walking.
Adult Running club - Meet 'n Train
Get involved in our Adult running groups - they are meet & train sessions, where all fitness levels are catered for from Couch to 5km right up to marathon level.
See the Clane AC Adult Running club section of this website for further information.
Clane AC Adult Running Club highly recommends


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Answered By: Jeffrey Orrico Last Updated: Feb 01, 2017 Views: 116
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) can be an efficient way to get a more complete citation of a work and, sometimes, to get a link to it, particularly for more recent works. Searching your title and using the "Cite" link shows:
Banks, James A. "The canon debate, knowledge construction, and multicultural education." Educational Researcher 22.5 (1993): 4-14.
Conveniently, when you are searching from the library IP address, it includes a link to the library database where you can access the full-text article:
You can also search the title phrase in major databases related to your subject or in bibliographies for your subject. Whenever possible, it is a great time saver to make note of the full citation when your first see it (in an assignment, in your textbook, in another article or book, etc.). You can save the information in a personal research bibliography using EasyBib, RefWorks (both available on the library website) or your own citation management software.
If you find that the item is a book or DVD, check our catalog to see if it's in the library. If it's a journal article, use the Journal Title search tool to see if we have that journal in print or in a database. If it isn't here, you can then request it via ILLiad interlibrary loan.


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Held In response to the recent abandonment of pets over the Chinese New Year period and continued media stories on adoption efforts, stray and homeless dogs in Singapore, the National Geographic Channel has partnered four dog shelters to hold the largest ever dog-adoption drive in Singapore.
Kenneth Wong braves the rainy Saturday morning to cover the event that is close to his heart being the owner of a silky terrier himself.
Held at the Dalbergia Green, East Coast Park, the Dog Whisperer Free Pet Shop event is organised by the National Geographic Channel with representatives from the pet industry and 4 dog shelters coming together to champion a very noble cause.


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Jonny Wilkinson has given Exeter Chiefs a ringing endorsement as a growing force not only within the English game, but also that of Europe after he tackled the Devon club for the first time at Sandy Park on Saturday.
The Toulon skipper landed a penalty and drop-goal in his side's narrow 14-9 Heineken Cup victory – a result which lifted the French superstars back to the summit of Pool Two.
However, the World Cup winner was quick to praise the resistance put up by the Chiefs, who head to the South of France this coming weekend for the return fixture at the Stade Felix Mayol.
"It was a tough game, but we expected that," said the 34-year-old playmaker. "It's fabulous to see the way they [Exeter] are playing the game and the strength that they are able to compete and beat so many teams.
"I think last year a lot of people mentioned when they played Clermont what a battle they put up, but it's no longer about that for them. These guys are beating teams day in, day out and playing great rugby in doing that. It's a magic thing for English rugby and an example for people to follow. What they are showing for 1 to 15, they've guys with skills and playing in that manner, it's just great and something to learn from.
"As a team I know we will learn from what they are doing and we grow stringer because the way they play is hard to play against. It's great for us, great for Europe and great for what they are doing down here. Coming here today, it's a fabulous place, fabulous support and long may it continue."
And with the two teams set to resume Heineken Cup battle again this weekend, Wilkinson is expecting another stiff examination from Rob Baxter's side on home soil.
"We know we have to prepare damn well to play against them," said Wilkinson, who was named European Player of the Year last season. "We've seen first hand today what what the Chiefs are capable of and maybe if a few ball didn't go down or the rub of the green went slightly different, we know we would have been in a very different situation right now.
"Right now we'll take each game as it comes, but these guys will be incredibly tough next week. Then whoever they face after that, it's impossible to say who is going to qualify from this group. Like I said, today could easily have been a different story, so I wouldn't like to be doing this again."
With Toulon next, then European dates with Glasgow Warriors (home) and Cardiff Blues (away), there is still plenty for the Chiefs to play for as the Heineken heads towards the final straight of the pool stages.
Likewise, Toulon and Wilkinson still have plenty of hurdles to overcome themselves. The England international continued: "It's do or die every game, and it reminds me somewhat of the Rugby World in 2007 when we came off the loss to South Africa and suddenly you find yourselves backs to the wall in every game. It doesn't matter how well you get out of that next one, you are still in the same position, and it's a stressful place to be.
"Obviously we lost to Cardiff last time and that put us in that position, but at the same time it does something for you and if you are able to use that pressure; turn it into positive motivation and work together, then you grow as a team."
The Chiefs will use this coming week to tweak a few areas of their game plan before heading to Toulon on Friday with game day following a day later at 2.35pm.
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My talks
Below you can see a list of talks I have given for various events along with slides/videos links. If the particular record has a '[PL]' before it - it means it was made in Polish language.
The convention for a given event is name/location.
Thai Py, Bangkok, Thailand
- Let's play code review: how to write better python code first time - slides
- Insecure Things to Avoid in Python - slides
PyCon PL 2017, Ossa, Poland
- Python as a hacker's toolbox vol 2 - slides
- [lightning talk] A simple step for better security when using Python - slides
- [lightning talk] Python AST rewriting: 'how does PyTest do that' - slides
Code Europe, Kraków, Poland
- [PL] Capture The Flag: interesting way of spending time - slides
PyCon PL 2016, Ossa, Poland
Noc informatyka 1.0, Kraków, Poland
- [PL] Unusual debugging tools - slides and examples
KNI Kernel Computer Science Organisation, AGH UST, Kraków, Poland
- [PL] CTFs - similar talk to the one at Code Europe conference
- [PL] Shells, buffering and IPython - slides
- [PL] How to learn IT - slides
- [PL] Not working for me either - debugging tools for Linux and Windows - no slides, covered GDB debugging, linux tracers (ltrace, strace), Valgrind, Windows Sysinternals, Dependency Walker and debugging through IDEs - PyCharm and Visual Studio. Done with my friend Alex.


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The power of Machine Learning
Enterprise Content Management systems such as Alfresco and Drupal provide great features to organise your content. For example, Alfresco provides aspects, categories and tagging to organise your documents. However end users may provide tags with spelling mistakes, using synonyms, abbreviations, different cases that may cause semantic ambiguity and relevant information loss.
Powerful predictive analytics
This is where machine learning comes in to play. Machine learning – mining historical data with computer systems to predict future trends or behaviour – touches more and more lives every day. Search engines, online recommendations, fraud detection, spam filters – machine learning powers all these modern services. But these uses barely scratch the surface of what's possible.
Machine learning can be applied to organise, find and analyse large volume of content much more effectively. This makes it easy to search for and find the most relevant content in large content repositories.
Machine learning can be applied to organise, find and analyse large volume of content much more effectively. This makes it easy to search for and find the most relevant content in large content repositories.
Organise your content
Machine learning organises documents by finding a structure in the unstructured content. Using machine learning, we can annotate documents with its thematic information, providing tag recommendations at the time of content creation.
We can create or extend folksonomy and taxonomy structure using auto generated semantic categories & enrich the content using derived new metadata allowing companies to unleash more value from their data, more quickly and efficiently.
Machine Learning for Alfresco
Manually creating and most importantly maintaining an organisational taxonomy to organise documents is time consuming and labor intensive.
Machine Learning for Alfresco enables:
- "Automated" content identification, consistent labelling and categorisation for Alfresco documents using widely used machine learning techniques such as clustering, classification and topic modelling.
- Enhanced faceted search available in Alfresco 5 to provide recommendations to end users using conceptually enhanced content.
- Improved Information Governance by automating records classification and leveraging Alfresco's Records Management capabilities.
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Pitbull is gonna storm on 1st December 2011 at Sunway Lagoon Surf Beach! As the fans of Pitbull, obviously i'll grab any opportunity i could to watch him in the awesome concert with awesome stage!
Courtesy to Digi, one of the lucky blogger will be given opportunity to have Photographer pass on that night! Which mean if i am selected, i'll able to grab my camera in and shoot Pitbull in near range! Awesome isn't!??
So why Digi should pick me to be their official photographer? Because I been loyal to Digi since year 2005! Ok, just joking! A self disclaimer here! I am not pro, i dun have nice equipment like others but, i do have experience in shooting concert! I have been attending quite number of concert and performances and i do enjoy shooting them as much as possible with a creative composition in my mind.
Here are few example pictures from my past experiences :
Hennessy Artistry event from difference places and tim
* Sona One and Joe Flizzow *
* ZE and her dancers *
* Deja Voodoo Spell *
* Mizz Nina *
* Da Mouth *
* Da Mouth *
Tiger Asian Music Festival 2011! 10 hours for 25 artist! Craziest concert ever! :D
* Rosevelt *
* Will Ng *
* DayDream *
* Namcha *
* Paul Wong *
Not to forget, the recent Arthur's Day 2011 at Speedcity KL!
* Prema Yim *
* Dragon Red *
* Soler *
* Mizz Nina *
* Taio Cruz *
If I would like to pick the ultimate shot ever among all my collection, i would love to show this pic!
* Namcha! Shot taken during Tiger Asian Music Festival 2011 *
I found the angle, lighting, composition make it somehow make everything look difference :)
In addition to that, all DiGiMusic™ Pluz subscribers wills tand a chance to win passes to Pitbull concert too! Send PB to 2016 to participate in this contest and you'll stand a chance to win Meet & Greet passes and VIP tickets to catch Pitbull live in Malaysia!
Click here to find out more on how to win the passes courtesy of Digi! Remember, contest period is from 17 October - 17 November 2011 only!
Let's hope my skill are qualify enough to be Digi official photographer! Thank you Digi!


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Financial advisors who are going independent need to make sure that they aren't stepping on their former employer's toes, lest they find themselves embroiled in costly litigation, experts say.
D. Alexander Washington, president of the Washington Consulting Group in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., says that when he contracted with his prior employers -- major financial institutions -- they disclosed that all clients were the sole property of the institution and would remain with them should his contract be terminated for any reason.
The contracts also typically contained a non-compete clause for up to one year.
"I suggest when considering going independent, to market a product or two totally outside of the products marketed under your current contract to avoid any conflict of interest and probable litigation," Washington says.
Alan Moore, founder of Serenity Financial Consulting in Milwaukee, says that advisors going independent would be wise to tell the firm what their niche market focus would be.
If the focus is different than that of the firm, the principals likely wouldn't mind if the advisor takes a few clients within a niche and might even refer new clients to them.
The same is true for clients who may not be generating a certain amount of revenue, says Mark P. Cussen, a financial author and educator in Leavenworth, Kan.
"Most firms will be more protective of high-net-worth clients than they will be of someone with $50,000 in a mutual fund," he says.
Another way to avoid litigation is connecting with clients on social media, Cussen says.
This can be an excellent method of announcing moves, because social media isn't connected to clients' financial accounts and lie outside the holding firm's jurisdiction. Advisors using this strategy connect with their clients on LinkedIn or become their Facebook friends before they leave the old firm, and then after advisors start a new firm, they post a general Facebook comment or change their LinkedIn status that they have opened their doors, and their former clients will get automatic notifications just like everyone else connected to or friends with them. This, way, they aren't actively reaching out to their former clients.
Arthur Stein, founder of Stein Financial in Bethesda, Md., used to work at a registered investment advisory firm that traded through Raymond James, and his contract with his former employer specifically stated that he owned his clients and whenever he left, he could take them with him.
"Once I decided to leave, I sat down with the owner of the RIA to review a list of who I considered to be my clients," Stein says. "There was no disagreement, and we also agreed on how the transfer would be done."
Jennifer Woods Burke, securities attorney and the founder of compliance consulting firm CompliGuide in Palisades, N.Y., says few advisors actually negotiate their ultimate departure when they first start working for a firm.
"Instead, they sign whatever is put in front of them without giving much consideration to what is in their best interest and what can be changed in a contract, if anything," she says.
"If your manager and your firm loves you then there is likely a possibility that you can come to terms on matters after the fact. Sometimes you can also negotiate further when the firm is desperate for you to leave," Burke says.
"Bottom line: It is something that a financial professional should consider and may be worth the shot," she says.
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer in Running Springs Calif. She has contributed to Financial Planning, On Wall Street and American Banker.
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The term "Founding Fathers" is commonly used to refer to the group of influential political movers and shakers from early American History. While a small group of names have been popularized over the years following the Founding Era, there were roughly 250 men who could be considered a "Founding Father". These men lived during the periods of the Revolution, the War for Independence, and the early Republic and significantly contributed to the creation of what would arguably become the greatest Republic in human history.
Obviously included in this group were the 204 unique statesmen who did one or more of the following:
- signed the Declaration of Independence
- signed the Articles of Confederation
- attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787
- signed the Constitution of the United States of America
- served as Senators in the First Federal Congress (1789-1791)
- served as U.S. Representatives in the First Federal Congress
Other statesmen (at times overlapping with the above group) that should qualify were the members of the various Continental Congresses, including the 14 different men who served as President of Congress (Hancock and Randolph both served twice), various state governors, senators and representatives, ministers/diplomats to foreign countries, and the initial members of the United States Supreme Court.
Additionally, there were several men who deserve to be considered Founders due to the significance of their contributions to the creation of the "the American system". This group consists of prominent military leaders, ministers, orators, authors and pamphleteers who may not have served in any type of position within the civil government.
Below is a list of several of the most famous Founding Fathers. Each of these individuals has a dedicated profile page on this site featuring a short biography and collection of relevant quotations. Simply click on any name that is hyper-linked (highlighted/underlined) to visit the page for that particular Founder. For a more complete list of the roughly 250 individuals who can be considered a Founding Father, many of whom also have dedicated profile pages, please head over to the following page.
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, Charles Carroll, Samuel Chase, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, John Jay, George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Rush, Joseph Story, Charles Thomson, George Washington,


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Infrastructural developments currently ongoing in the central region under the National Democratic Congress government lead by President John Dramani Mahama is said to be unprecedented in the history of the region.
The government is said to have invested over $350 Million US Dollars in the building of schools, roads, hospitals and many infrastructural developments in the region to help alleviate the plight of the people and raise their standard of living.
Mr. BernardAllotey Jacobs, the central regional chairman of the NDC, stated this in his remarks at a ceremony held in Cape Coast to inaugurate various committees of the NDC in the region.
Mr. Allotey said though the government is faced with power crises at the moment, the kinds of developmental projects currently going on across the whole country and the central region in particular, cannot be over looked.
He said members of the opposition NPP who thought that the NDC can never build the Kotokoraba Market and the Cape Coast Sports Stadium, can now attest to the fact that these two projects have seen the day of light.
He added that the government was doing a lot for the region and therefore charged members of the NDC to use every single opportunity they get to preach to the electorates about the good works of PresidentMahama.
"Meet the electorates' one on one and explain matters to them. Politics is all about talking. If you talk wisely, people listen and if they accept what you tell them, they will respond positively and salute you with their tombs" Chairman Allotey explained.
He cautioned members of the NDC not to be over confident because politics has its own dynamics. He advised members of the various committees not to wait till it's about six or three months to the elections before they would start executing their tasks.
Mr. Aquinas TawiahQuansah, the regional minister for his part entreated both old and new executives of the party to continue to work together in the interest of the party. He said an old leopard is always a leopard and therefore called on the members of his party to give maximum respect to anyone who has served the party in any form in the past as well as those who are in the helm of affairs now.
He charged members of the committees to avoid any favouritism and bias when dealing with issues.
On the upcoming parliamentary primaries of the party, he reminded those who have the desire to contest to follow the lay down procedures of the party to avoid any unnecessary confrontation and confusion.
In all, eight committees were inaugurated. They were Legal and Constitutional, Political, Research and Organisational committees.
The rest were Communications, Youth Wing, Finance and Women's Wing Committees.
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Prime Number
is a publication of Press 53, PO Box 30314, Winston-Salem, NC 27130
Guest Editor: Short Fiction
Gerry Wilson
A seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry Wilson grew up in Pontotoc, a little town nestled in the hill country, in a household with her maternal grandmother, a born storyteller. Gerry's love of story began there. For more than twenty years, she taught English and creative writing to high school students. As she learned how to impart her love of reading and writing to her students, her yen to write fiction blossomed.
Now retired, Gerry writes short and long fiction. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals. "Mating," the first story in
, won the 2014 Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction. In 2015 she received a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship. She has studied fiction writing with Andre Dubus III, Antonya Nelson, Ann Hood, Jane Hamilton, Connie May Fowler, Dorothy Allison, and Ron Hansen. She is currently working on a new novel.
On the boat to Ship Island, Jana and Eric sat below deck on a wooden bench facing a large woman and four children with carrot-colored frizzy hair and freckled skin like their mother's. The woman wore a loud print dress, its buttons straining over her breasts and stomach. She fanned herself with a folded newspaper. The oldest child, a slight, vacant-looking girl missing her upper front teeth, stared open-mouthed at Jana. Identical twin boys were fighting over a bag of Cheetos. Jana wondered how old the boys were—four, maybe?
With these drugs, multiples are a possibility
, her doctor had said. The youngest, a little girl wearing a faded pink ruffled top and shorts fat with a diaper, clung to the mother and sobbed into her shoulder. When the toddler turned, Jana saw the wide, flat face and almond-shaped eyes of a Down's Syndrome child. Jana shivered. So many things could go wrong.
Eric had said there would be a place to change into her bathing suit on the island, but the thought of dirty stalls smelling of chlorine and sweat and urine had turned Jana's stomach. She'd worn her suit under a pair of shorts and a tank top, and now it wedged into her crotch and bound at the legs and the spandex tummy panel was so tight she could hardly breathe.
The nine o'clock boat on Saturday morning had been sold out, so Eric had booked them for ten-thirty on this one, the smallest and oldest of three boats that crossed the Mississippi Sound to Ship Island and back every day in summer.
"It's the same boat I used to take," he'd said. "It'll be like stepping back in time."
It had rained heavily along the coast the night before and the sky was still overcast. The boat sat dockside, dead still in the murky water, only the occasional slap of a small swell, the water more olive-brown than blue or green, foam on the surface like soap scum. Inside, voices echoed off the metal walls: loud laughter, an older couple sitting behind them arguing, children yelling and crying. It hadn't occurred to Jana that the boat wouldn't be air-conditioned. Sweat trickled down her back. Her thighs stuck to the wooden bench. She thought of cattle cars and slave ships. She glanced at her watch: ten-forty.
"Why aren't we going?" she said.
Eric shrugged. "Beats me."
The little girl across from them had stopped crying. The woman sat her on the floor with a naked baby doll the child slammed against the floor repeatedly. One of the doll's eyes was missing, a black hole.
"You watch her, Lola," the mother said, and the older child slid off the bench and onto her hands and knees. "Boo," she said to the baby. "Boo!" The baby smiled, tears still running down her cheeks, a rivulet of snot on her upper lip. The woman opened her
National Inquirer
and ate a Snickers bar, sucking the melting chocolate off her fingers. The boys found the life vests under the seats and flailed each other with them. The mother said, "Y'all quit that, now!" They stopped but were soon back at it, and from behind her tabloid the mother said, "Boys, if I have to put this paper down, I'm gonna wring your necks." The baby girl toddled the narrow space between their feet toward the center aisle, unsteady on her short legs. When the older sister blocked her way, the baby laughed and did it again until one of the boys stuck out his foot and tripped her.
"Jamie Peets!" the mother said, scooping up the wailing child. "Now look what you done. Shame on you!" She grabbed the boy by the arm and wedged him between her and the window. "Don't you dare move." She turned to the boy on her other side. "You neither, Jimmy."
The boat's engines revved into a loud thrum. The vibration ran though Jana like an electrical current.
"What if I get seasick?" she said.
Eric said, "You won't. The barrier islands keep the water calm."
He had told her about Ship Island. Growing up, he had gone there with his dad and his two brothers, but his parents had divorced when he was fourteen and his mom had moved them back to Ohio, where she was from, and his dad had moved away too and disappeared from their lives. Eric hadn't been back to the Mississippi coast in twenty-five years. Jana had grown up in Atlanta, but she had never been to the Gulf. A convention—Eric was a pharmaceuticals company rep—had meant a trip to Gulfport.
"I can't be this close to the island and not go. Come with me," he had said.
The boat lurched and then eased away from the dock. It rode so low Jana thought if she reached out the window she could trail her hand in the water, like riding in a canoe. The Captain came on the loudspeaker, welcomed everybody aboard, and talked about the weather.
"Already ninety degrees, folks. Gonna be a hot one." He told them to be on the lookout for dolphins, especially on the starboard side. Another crewmember went through the emergency procedures.
Once they were out of the harbor, the boat picked up speed and settled into a steady rhythm. A fine spray misted through the open window, but Jana didn't mind. At least it was cooler. The hormones she had been taking made her hot, nauseated, weepy, and bloated—all the symptoms of early pregnancy without the pregnancy.
The mother rocked and shushed the baby, cutting her eyes at the little boy who looked subdued. "You got a bad, bad brother, don't you, Cissy?"
The baby quieted and tugged at the buttons of her mother's dress. "Titty," she said.
"Oh, Lord. Not right now." The mother rummaged in her big bag and brought out a box of vanilla wafers and gave the child one. The child—Cissy, Jana knew now—threw the cookie on the floor and set up a howl, grabbing at her mother's breasts.
The woman sighed. She unbuttoned her dress and exposed a freckled, stretch-marked, blue-veined breast. The girl made smacking noises while she nursed, kneading her mother's flesh with one hand like a kitten. Jana had never seen breasts that big. The woman made no attempt to cover herself. She looked at Jana. "This botherin' you?"
"No, not at all," Jana said, her face going red. She looked out the window. The sun had come out. Even in sunlight, the water was grayish and dull.
The woman nursed about five minutes on one side, then the other. "There, that's enough," she said, plucked her breast from the child, and buttoned her dress. Milk dribbling down her chin, the little girl climbed off her mother's lap and stood looking up at Jana. She patted Jana's bare leg with one sticky hand.
The mother said, "Would you look at that. She likes you. She don't usually take to strangers."
Jana managed a smile. She found a book in her bag and disappeared behind it, but the baby pounded Jana's legs with both fists.
Jana put the book down. "Hey there," she said to the baby. "Hi, sweetie. Cissy." The baby stretched her arms toward Jana and made little sounds like the cluck of a chicken.
"She wants you to pick her up," the older girl said.
The twin at the window said, "I need to pee."
"Me too," the other boy said.
The mother said to Jana, "I could stand to go myself. You wouldn't mind watching her for a minute, would you?"
Before Jana could think what to say—
Sorry, I can't, I'd rather not
—the woman sat the baby in Jana's lap and used a faded blue washcloth to wipe the child's nose. She offered the cloth to Jana. "I'll leave this with you," she said, "in case Cissy needs it. She's got a little cold."
Speechless, Jana took the dirty rag, stuffed it between her and Eric on the seat, and wiped her hand on her shorts. She hadn't brought any hand sanitizer. The baby felt hot and damp and smelled of urine and something sour. She stood on Jana's lap, her short legs locked straight, and touched Jana's face and hair. The child's eyes were gray, almost translucent, a little bit crossed. Jana's stomach turned.
The mother pointed at the older girl. "Lola's good with Cissy. She knows what to do. Anyway, I'll be right back." She said to the boys, "Well? Come on." She squeezed between Lola on one side and Eric, Jana, and Cissy on the other. The little boys scrambled after her.
Jana had not noticed the size of the woman's belly while she was sitting. "Eric, did you see that?" she whispered. "I swear I think she's pregnant."
Eric glanced at Cissy. "Surely not. Why would you—"
Jana shook her head. "I can't imagine."
The baby looked around then, her face crumpling, and sat down hard on Jana's lap. "Oh, please don't cry," Jana said. She didn't know what to do with a toddler, let alone one like Cissy. "What does she like, Lola?"
Lola shrugged. "She likes jiggling okay."
Jana bounced her knees. "You mean like this?" Lola nodded. Jana remembered a song from her childhood and sang it.
This is the way the ladies ride,
ladies ride, ladies ride,
This is the way the ladies ride
All the way to town, oh.
Cissy clapped her chubby hands. When Jana stopped, the child nodded vigorously and wriggled.
"She wants to do it again," Lola said.
Another verse, and another. Before long, the baby tired of the game. She rubbed her eyes and nuzzled Jana's breasts, but she didn't cry. Jana rocked her a little, and she fell asleep. Jana explored the idea of her, the weight and warmth against her own body, the wispy red curls, those almond eyes. She wondered how old the mother was; it was hard to tell.
The woman and the twins were gone a long time, it seemed. The little girl grew heavy, and Jana wondered what she would do if the mother didn't come back. But that was crazy; where would the mother go?
There was a commotion behind them. A member of the crew rushed past, carrying a first aid kit.
"Can you see what's going on?" Jana asked Eric.
He stood up, sat back down. "No. Something's happening, though."
Jana shifted the child in her arms and turned to look. A crowd was gathering near the back of the boat. The crewmember shouted, "Everybody in your seats! Give us room!"
Some people did as they were told; others didn't. Jana couldn't see what was happening, either. Then something—a movement, a sound—made her look away from the crowd. A boy and girl, possibly fifteen, sixteen, sat two rows back. The boy's face smooth, almost angelic, no beard, a shock of dark hair over his brow, the girl's bare shoulders tan, her long, blond hair cascading down her back. She was sitting on the boy's lap, touching his face, his hands on her neck and back and in her hair, and they were kissing, deep, searching kisses, oblivious to the ruckus. Jana couldn't bear to watch and yet she couldn't turn away. Since they'd been trying to have a baby, sex with Eric had become all about Jana's hormone levels and cycles, the right day and time, the best chance of conceiving.
It wasn't long before the crowd dispersed. The twin boys came running down the aisle. Their mother yelled at them to stop, but they kept going.
"Sorry it took so long," the woman said, squeezing past Eric's and Jana's legs. "Long line at the restrooms. And somebody fainted back there."
Jana took stock of the big stomach. Yes, she thought, pregnant. The woman took Cissy and sat down next to Lola. Jana's arms felt a little numb and weightless. There was a wet spot on her shorts.
The baby girl stirred and whimpered, then settled. The woman kissed the top of her head.
"Mama missed you," she said, "yes she did." The boys ran past again. "Little hellions. You got kids?" she asked Jana.
"No." Jana stopped herself from explaining although she always felt the need to. She had been married briefly when she was very young, no children. She had sworn she wouldn't marry again, and then Eric had come along six years ago. Eric had never been married. He wanted a child, maybe more than she did. She was thirty-eight years old. They had been trying for a while.
"I got three more," the woman said. "The oldest, Ben? He's eighteen, he just went to the Army." She paused. "I was sixteen when I had him. Jesus, what I didn't know then."
Jana added the numbers. This woman was thirty-four years old, four years younger than Jana. How could that be—a woman like her with seven children, probably another on the way, and Jana couldn't conceive?
"Count yourself lucky," the woman said. "Kids are trouble. Trouble and heartache." She shifted the baby girl and extended her hand to Jana. "I'm Ruby," she said.
Reddened, rough knuckles, dirty nails. Jana didn't want to touch Ruby, but how could she not? She shook Ruby's hand. Warm, moist, the palm callused.
"I'm Jana. This is Eric."
"Hi," Eric said. He stuffed his book in his backpack. "Come on," he said to Jana. "We're almost there. Let's go up on deck."
The island, a long, low slash of white against the dull water of the sound, rose into dunes topped with scrub pines and sea oats. Jana and Eric were among the first off the boat. She looked back for the woman, Ruby, and her children, but she didn't see them. The pier extended far out into the sound, and a long boardwalk led over the dunes to the Gulf beaches. Nearly noon, the sky clear now except for thunderheads lingering far out over the Gulf, the sun directly overhead, the air hot and still, hardly a breeze. The sand burned Jana's feet through her sandals. By the time they reached the top of the dunes, blood rushed in her head and ears and neck, and she was drenched in sweat and out of breath. The horizon tilted dangerously. She stopped, held on to the rail. Her period was six days late. She didn't think Eric had noticed. She hoped he hadn't. She wanted to know for sure before she told him.
Eric said, "You okay?"
She nodded. "God, Eric, is it always this hot?"
"Yeah, in the summer."
To their right, the old fort. To their left, a small concession stand out in the open, no shade. A low, cinderblock building with a sign for restrooms and showers. A small pavilion. In front of them the white sand beach, already crowded with the passengers from the earlier boat, and the water, clear aquamarine out a long way until the color deepened to green, then blue. The surf was higher than Jana had expected.
"You're disappointed, aren't you?" Eric said.
Jana felt sorry for him. He remembered the island through the lens of childhood, the last good days with his father.
"No. It's pretty. The water's beautiful."
Eric suggested they tour the fort first and then spend time on the beach. "I used to find great shells out here," he said. "I don't know about now."
The old fort's brick walls rose thirty feet above the Gulf. Inside, it was cool and damp, a relief from the relentless heat and sun. Eric pointed to the south side. "I used to climb those ramparts." They were standing on the parade ground when Jana spotted Ruby near the foot of a brick tower, the little girl on her hip, Lola beside her.
"Don't you go up there!" Ruby yelled. The twin boys scampered like monkeys up the tower's outside stairs. "Come down right this minute!" she shouted, but the boys hung over the rail around the top, their legs dangling. A guide climbed up and led them back down. He said something to Ruby that Jana couldn't hear. Ruby, whose skin was already turning a hot shade of pink, flushed even deeper. She huffed off, the boys running ahead, Lola trailing behind.
After the fort, Jana and Eric bought hamburgers from the concession stand, a beer for Eric, water for Jana. While she was on the fertility drugs, she couldn't drink. They ate standing up in the pavilion—no seats left—but at least there was shade. They rented chairs and an umbrella and threaded their way among the crowd down to the water's edge and walked east. They passed Ruby and the children. She had spread a blanket near the water line, no chair or umbrella, and she sat with her dress pulled up, revealing her enormous white thighs. Lola seemed absorbed in building a sand castle. The twin boys chased each other in and out of the shallow water, and the baby girl sat in the sand near her mother with a shovel, filling and dumping a plastic pail.
Down the beach, away from the crowd, Eric set up their umbrella and chairs, and Jana took off her tank top and shorts and slathered on sunscreen. She handed the bottle to Eric.
"Do my back?" she said.
Eric rubbed lotion on her back and shoulders. "Hmm. Nice," he said. Her shoulders were tight. He kissed her hair. "There. That good enough?"
She nodded. She wanted to say no, it's not, don't stop, don't ever stop.
Eric moved his chair away from the umbrella. She tossed the sunscreen at him. "Put some on," she said, "or you'll cook."
She sat in the sun for a while, but the sand flies wouldn't leave her alone. "I'm going in the water," she said. "You coming?"
Eric didn't answer. Dozing. Irritated, she walked down to the water. The high surf had carved a ledge in the sand, but then the shore sloped off gradually. She waded in, the cold water a shock after the heat. She was thigh-deep when a wave knocked her down, and then another. She rode the waves and sometimes they took her down and she struggled to get back on her feet. She swam out beyond the breakers and floated on the swells. She felt weightless and small. She thought about the tiny, alive thing that might be swimming inside her, no larger than a seed, its cells doubling and redoubling, all its parts coming together. She had a doctor's appointment the day after they got home. If this treatment cycle failed, she didn't know what they would do. Give up, probably.
She turned from her back and treaded water, looking toward the beach. Eric stood on the shore, waving and calling to her, but she couldn't hear. He waded out, turning sideways against the breakers, and swam to meet her.
After the swim they went for a walk. Tangled ropes of seaweed and piles of broken shells littered the beach. "It must have been stormy out here last night," Eric said. "Heavy surf breaks shells up like that."
Crosscurrents in the surf met in a chaos of spray, the waves played out, and the backwash at the water's edge tugged at their feet. Jana tried to scoop up periwinkles, tiny white, yellow, and purple bivalves, but they burrowed into the wet sand and disappeared, leaving bubbles, then nothing, as though they had never been there at all.
"I picked up a bucket full of these one time and carried them home," Eric said. "Once they're out of water, the shells pop open and the little clams die. They smelled awful. My mother had a fit."
They had walked a quarter of a mile or so when Jana spotted the two kids who'd been making out on the boat. Beyond the breakers and the pale aqua shallows of a sandbar, way out where the water deepened, they splashed and ducked each other and laughed like children
"Look, Eric." She pointed. "Those kids. They were on the boat with us. Watch them."
The boy and girl came together, treading water, kissing, riding the swells. Jana imagined how they would touch each other under the water, and later, hidden away in the dunes, they would have sex, or maybe not hidden but brazen, right there on the beach, so lost in each other that they didn't care who saw.
"Yeah," Eric said. "I see them." He put his arm around Jana's waist. Their bodies had dried in the sun, their skin salty and hot. He pulled her closer and ran his hand down her back.
"We'll be okay, Jana," he said. "We'll have a baby, and we'll be okay."
They walked on to the end of the island to see the split the hurricanes had made. There were dredges and barges offshore, the work going on to restore the island, but for what, Jana wondered. It would happen again.
They were almost back to where they'd left their stuff when they heard screams. People were running on the beach. Jana and Eric ran, too, toward the sound.
Jana took it all in: Ruby, two park rangers, the faded blanket, the woman's tote, Cissy's doll and pail and shovel. The twin boys' sunburned shoulders, their round eyes. Lola standing alone at the edge of the water, waves lapping around her feet.
Jana turned in a full circle, scanning the beach and, God, no, the water, for Cissy.
One of the rangers was on a walkie-talkie. "We've got a missing toddler out here. Need assistance." The walkie-talkie crackled.
Jana buried her face against Eric's chest.
"They'll find her," he said. "How far could she get?"
"I need you to describe her, Mrs. Peets," another ranger said. "Hair, eyes. What she's wearing."
"She's two. She's—" Ruby looked at Lola. "Oh Lord, Lola, what's Cissy wearing?"
Lola shrugged.
Jana spoke up. "Pink. Pink top and shorts." Ruby looked at Jana like she'd never laid eyes on her.
The ranger wrote it down.
"Redheaded, like me," Ruby said. "Gray eyes, like her daddy's." Ruby fluttered her hands around her face like she was batting away flies. "She's got the Down's. Not too bad, see, she's a smart girl. She wouldn't run off."
The rangers looked at each other. One said, "Where'd you last see her?"
Ruby pointed at the blanket, her hand shaking. "Right here," she said. "She was right here a little bit ago."
The other ranger knelt beside Lola and brushed the child's hair out of her eyes.
"Hi, sweetheart," he said. "Don't be scared. Did you see where your little sister went?"
Lola shook her head.
The ranger said, "It's all right if you don't know. But you can tell me if you do."
She looked at Ruby, then toward the water. "I told Cissy not to," she said, "but she don't mind me." Lola's thumb went in her mouth.
Ruby's voice rose to a keening. "Oh," she said, "oh Lord. Oh Jesus." She sank heavily to the blanket. One of the twins, then the other, sat beside her and patted her arms. Lola dug in the wet sand with her bare hands.
Jana and Eric waited in line to board the boat back to Gulfport, the cacophony of the beach replaced by stunned murmuring among the crowd, the crackle of walkie-talkies, the rangers' voices over bullhorns, organizing the search of the dunes. A Coast Guard rescue boat trolled offshore. Ruby sat in the shade of the pavilion with the other three children who were eating popsicles. A woman park ranger sat with them. How long would Ruby have to wait?
"Did you hear?" a woman behind Jana said. "That woman fell asleep and left the older girl to watch the baby and those rowdy boys. What kind of mother does that? All those people around, and lifeguards. Why didn't somebody see her? Poor little thing."
Jana faced the woman. "That little girl has a name," Jana said. "Her name is Cissy."
Near the front of the line, the teenage couple stood a little apart, the sunburned girl looking back toward the beach, arms crossed over her breasts. The boy slouched against the boardwalk rail. He tucked the girl's damp hair behind her ear, but she didn't seem to notice.
As the boat left the island dock, a thunderstorm blew in and stirred up the waters of the sound. Jana rested her head on Eric's shoulder. She looked out the window and remembered Cissy's odd face and eyes, her short legs, how she'd clapped her hands and touched Jana's face and hair. She imagined a calm place deep in the waters of the Gulf where light played like stars on the surface and the currents flowed gently and the wind and lightning couldn't reach, the baby floating there, turning somersaults and cartwheels, swimming, her eyes open to the wonder.
Crosscurrents and Other Stories
Issue 89, April – June 2016
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Suitcase overhaul
I am a great collector of bags and boxes (as the overcrowding issue in the house is testament to!) and I particularly like old suitcases. I love the idea that these treasures have been around the world to far flung places, or a vital part of a joyful family holiday or maybe even stored someones special treasures under the bed. I have quite a few and decided that a rather sad looking one needed a new lease of life, and would make a great crate for craft fairs and then double as display space on the table. So we had a play and this is what we came up withA bashed and scratched exteriorA … [Read more...]


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