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Voices from Gaza
Palestine (West Bank/Gaza)
November 25, 2012
Gaza is one of seven places around the world where we're working to build an international network of young leaders who think globally and act locally. They're learning about social issues, global needs and alternative dispute resolution, exchanging ideas across borders and inspiring their peers to take action on critical humanitarian issues.
As the hostilities between Israel and Gaza brought increased airstrikes and escalating violence to both countries in mid-November 2012, members of our youth leadership program in Gaza shared how the conflict affected their lives.
Read about their experiences over the course of five days:
November 18, 2012
'I wish to live in peace'
Alaa Al Khatib, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
Like anyone in this world, I hope to get up in the morning and enjoy the sun shining without the fear of bombing here or destruction there. But I did not sleep last night because of the explosions in Gaza every single minute. In the morning I started to feel sleepy and very soon fell asleep for awhile. Suddenly, the sound of airstrikes made me wake up again.
That moment my father told me that we needed some bread and water. Despite the bad situation, I went to the nearest market to get what we needed. The situation was good enough, but then suddenly while I was walking there was a missile from an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft. Many people went to see what happened and then my mobile rang. It was my father asking me, 'Are you okay? Are you still alive?' I told him, 'Don't worry, I am fine.'
My family and I spend the whole day listening to the radio. There is no TV because as usual the electricity is cut off. Furthermore, we call our relatives and friends in other areas to see if they safe or not, and our friends call us to know if we are still alive or not.
Warfare usually occurs infrequently between nations. But in Palestine the situation is different, the struggle becomes a part of the Palestinian daily life. On the personal level, this situation makes me frustrated and confused.
I spend my day calling my friends, helping my neighbors and listening to the sound of the bombs and warplanes. Everyone is frustrated, exhausted, easily annoyed and worried about the future. My mind does not stop racing and my heart does not stop pounding. I am always thinking and ask myself: Will we live a stable life? Can we have a better future? What about the next generations? And the most puzzling question is: Will we suffer forever?
I wonder if I will live to the next moment. I hope to achieve my dreams and that there is an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people. We have a hope to live like other nations. I wish to live in peace.
'My little brother has lost his appetite for food and play'
Maissa Abdul-halim Abu Samra, 23, iYouth participant, Gaza
On the first day of this operation there was a bombing very close to our home. Right now, we have enough food and our house has not been damaged. But we are very afraid for the children and families who are now without shelter. There is bombing all day and all night.
Since I cannot go to university or even study my lessons or revise them, I just watch the news on TV when there is electricity. I just heard about 10 people killed, including five from the same family, four children and their father, and four other women...
I am tired psychologically from it. I am trying to keep up my spirits, but I am afraid about my family. I don't want bad things to happen to them. I ask Allah always to protect them and all the Gazans.
My family tries to be strong, but I can see the fear through their eyes. I have one little brother who is seven years old. He used to be a very active boy, but now he prefers to stay beside my mom and all his drawings are about the violence and about children being hurt. He has lost his appetite for food and play. We try to help him not be afraid, we always read him stories and play with him so he can forget what is going on outside.
I just need safety and security for my people and ask the international community to put pressure to end these massacres against civilians of my country. I think we are strong enough here in Gaza to challenge any fears.
'I can't believe we are still alive after last night'
Deema Al Sousi, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
Well, I can't believe that we are still alive after last night. It was the worst ever. Warplanes were flying at very low altitude, making me constantly afraid of what would happen. Then they started bombing especially my area, which is full of civilian people and children. Bombings were heard everywhere here in the Gaza Strip, and as usual, panic and fear are the main emotion in this miserable time.
My feelings are so complex, I can't explain them in the right manner. Fear, panic, worry and even more. Living in Gaza is like hell right now because of the explosions and killings.
I am a university student and am supposed to be at class right now, continuing my life normally. But these attacks deprived me of this right. This situation has made me think deeply about this world and appreciate the meaning of peace.
People here have a faith that helps them to continue their life even with all the difficulties. They do believe that Allah will be beside them and help them in these difficult situations!
Right now, I am getting news from the television and local radio station, but the most important is social media. Facebook and Twitter cover what's going on here every second, so it gives us a full understanding of our situation and provides us with pictures and a lot of information about targeted places.
My biggest fear is that there will be a ground invasion, because I deeply believe that if this happens, our life will get worse and worse than ever before. I hope we can continue our life peacefully without more killed and injured people.
'The house next to ours was bombed'
Fadwa Ashour, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
Today was a very hard day. At about 1:30 a.m. our house was shaken as a result of the Israelis bombing a nearby building. The building was used by the Alquds TV satellite channel. Then again in the morning at about 10:30 a.m. the house next to ours was bombed. Our house suffered substantial structural damage.
I felt so scared.
I hugged my two little brothers Yusuf, 7, and Kareem, 3. I kept wondering why anyone would want to hurt us.
Our people have become more supportive and display extreme care for each other.
'Fear is at a level that I have never seen before'
Nada Redwan, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
I cannot describe what I am going through. Today I got to sleep for just a few hours and then woke up to the sounds of bombing.
My family's fear is at a level that I have never seen before. We stay gathered in one room in front of the TV watching the news and listening to the sounds of shelling.
No one goes out. The children are kept in their houses. My friends and I stayed in touch after every missile to check that the other is still safe.
The situation is very scary and it makes me feel so much anxiety that I can't sleep enough and I can't eat normally. It has made our life a great nightmare.
'I can't even go to the market ten feet away from my house'
Hassan Abu Edwan, 20, iYouth participant, Gaza
Facebook has become a network of unstopping instant news. I know everything that happens in Gaza before they even show it on TV.
Due to continuous bombings all around my neighborhood, I can't even go to the market ten feet away from my house. For the past three days all I did was sit in my room while missile after missile shook the entire neighborhood.
I feel a mixture of fear and hope. My biggest fear is that the war will last longer than what everybody is saying, because I can't stand seeing more children, women and elderly hurt and killed.
But fear all around the Palestinian community has been replaced by courage and hope despite all of the destruction and bombings. Some people have lost their homes and some or even all of their family members, but they know that patience and tenacity are the road to salvation.
'I'm scared, frustrated and hopeless'
Summer Al Jamal, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
I cannot do anything, I cannot leave my house because I might get killed. I'm scared, frustrated and hopeless. My biggest fear is losing my family and friends.
I stay in touch by cell phones, Facebook and Twitter. My friends are scared, they want to get back to the situation before the war. I hope this all ends soon.
'We are all in danger'
Hazem Habeeb, 22, iYouth participant, Gaza
How am I supposed to feel when my family and all of my friends are in danger? How am I supposed to feel when there are bombs falling over Gaza every minute? When every minute the number of dead and injured people is increasing? How am I supposed to feel when there is a likelihood that the next victims could be me, my family or someone I know?
I am afraid that something bad could happen to one of my family or one of my friends. When I hear that there is an explosion close to one of my friend's houses, I call them. A lot of my friends have had to leave their houses because they are too damaged to live in. I've only been able to go once outside to buy some basic needs for the family. We are all in danger.
'Life has stopped'
Mohammed Al Kurd, 23, iYouth participant, Gaza
Life has stopped. No one can go out in this situation. I cannot study, cannot do anything as I usually do. The war has stopped everything!
Actually, the only thing in my mind now is the safety of my family. I am trying to call everyone I know every day.
It hurts me deeply to see my people, innocent civilians, bombed and killed without doing any fault.
Everyone here feels that they are a target, so everyone has fear inside them. We are simply trying to live our life, so people try to pretend that everything is okay. But everyone fears more violence.
We are like one body here, we are all brothers and sisters, we are all one family, everyone looks after everyone. We hope that this war will get over, and Gaza will stand again because we are strong people.
November 19, 2012
'All the places around us are targets'
Hind Yasser Al-Khaldi, iYouth participant, Gaza
We're suffering because all the places around us are targets — a lot of the public buildings in my neighborhood were bombed. We sleep on the floor to be safer, but it has started to hurt me. I've been staying awake for the whole night and sleep too late in the morning.
I'm afraid of losing my friends, family and relatives. I think about how I can keep them safe and what we will do if things get worse. Where will we go?
The biggest fear is to lose my home, or someone I love, and I hope all of this will end quickly without any loss and I stay safe with my family.
Even though we are all scared and stressed, we try to act normally as much as we can because of the kids. Of course I feel sorry and sad, but I really do my best so my family does not feel that I'm afraid. I try not to cry when I see the people hurt and killed on the news so the kids stay calm.
But still my sisters don't eat well and sometimes don't eat anything. By now, we don't have enough bread, but thank God we can still buy some food from local markets. Thank God our house has not been hit.
'I woke up today to news of catastrophe'
Amal Bahir, iYouth participant, Gaza
I woke up today to news of catastrophe — two members of my family were killed by aggressive attacks to their car.
These difficult days and the situation are affecting me so badly. It makes me nervous and worried all the time!
My family has become much more connected these days. But people here are always sad, worried and hopeless.
'We live together or die together'
Ramy Salem, 24, iYouth group facilitator, Gaza
I feel that I am so lucky. I bet you are surprised from my answer! Well, I think I am lucky that I had come back to Gaza two weeks before the offensive started. Thus, I am close to my family. I don't need to think too much and stay worried and under pressure. Now, we live together or die together.
I am a social media activist and have been spending time tweeting about the situation here. I am tweeting updates so the people outside Gaza will be aware about what is going on in the Gaza Strip.
Airstrikes can be easily heard from where I live. The closest place hit nearby was the Al-Dalou family's house. Nine members of the Al-Dalou family — a mother and her four children, a grandmother, great grandmother and two aunts — were killed in the strike. Three generations of Al-Dalou family were buried under rubble.
Last night, I thought it was a quiet night but I have just realized that was only here in Gaza City. According to the IDF updates, 100 sites in Gaza were targeted since midnight. Only five rockets were fired from Gaza. My biggest fear is a second version of Operation Cast Lead, the 21-day war from December 2008 to January 2009 when more than 1,200 Gazans were killed.
We are human and our only hope is to have a decent life.
'I am sick of these horrifying explosions'
Deema Al Sousi, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
The sound of the Palestine Stadium being targeted early this morning was the most intimidating thing I've ever heard in my 21 years. This stadium is very close to my house.
I am sick of these horrifying explosions, tired from the continuous shelling. I cannot look any more at the TV footage of my Gaza. We are afraid that if we leave our home, we will never come back again. It is a horrible feeling.
The Al-Dalou family was just massacred. Nine people were buried under the rubble of their house. Why?
Another sad story: My heart breaks for the Hjazi family. The mother has just died as well after struggling to survive for about an hour. She followed her husband Fo'ad and her two little kids, Suhaib, 2, and Mohammed, 4, who were taken from under the rubble of their house.
These stories make me think deeply about the horrible feeling of losing one of my family or friends. I don't want to lose anyone of them, they are all what I have in this world! How hard to live this experience.
'We all spend the day like it is the last day of our life'
Summer Al Jamal, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
There were bombings so near us this morning.
My two little brothers, 11 and 9, they get scared at night. My parents try to assure them that everything will be okay. The thing is, they are not sure if that will be the case. We all spend the day like it is the last day of our life.
November 20, 2012
'It was a very scary night'
Deema Al Sousi, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
When I woke up this morning, the first question I asked my mother is, 'Are we all okay?' It was a very scary night. Bombings were crazy continuous. I feel like every shelling caused an earthquake. It's very hard to live under attack, to feel you could be killed at any moment. My normal life now is more airstrikes, explosions, killing and panic.
Everything is getting worse here. I'm just now hearing news about more people killed in an attack that hit Al-Yarmouk football stadium.
When planes started shelling the Gaza Strip, the kids in our family started shouting and crying. And I can't do anything. They ask me why this is happening to them, and I can't find an answer to their questions. I just hug them and say, 'Don't worry, tomorrow we will live in peace.'
'Suddenly my bed starting shaking'
Hazem Habeeb, 22, iYouth participant, Gaza
Last night the Israeli air force was striking everywhere.
They struck an empty government building that was so close to us. I just was in my bed trying to get some sleep and suddenly my bed started shaking. My dad started shouting to us, 'Come here! Hurry to the middle of the house!' My family was so scared and my little brother started crying. The only thing we could do at that moment was pray to stay safe.
It was so hard, and what makes it more painful is that you know with each bombing there are many people killed, not to mention the number of injuries.
'I just wish for peace for all'
Alaa Abuiteiwi, 23, iYouth participant, Gaza
I usually spend my days at the research lab at school, get lunch with my family and hang out with friends at night. But now we cannot leave the walls of our house. We have enough food, but many other families have moved to our house, so there is a lack of things like cooking oil, blankets and mattresses.
Today I heard that two people were killed by airstrikes near my house. I just wish for peace for all.
'We do not want escalation, but events do not bode well'
Alaa Al Khatib, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
In Gaza all the days are terrifying and alike. The number of people killed is soaring. Violence is the only thing we see and hear.
Life here in the Gaza Strip is paralyzed. No one is going to work, university or school. If anyone moves outside, he could be killed. Everything is shut down and everyone is suffering.
Right now, we have enough clean water, bread and grain. But if this situation continues for many days, it will become a food crisis.
We do not want escalation, but the shelling is still hitting the civilians. And the threat of invasion is still looming on the horizon. Events do not bode well. We are not pessimistic, but the airstrikes are intense and uninterrupted. The bombings, explosions and destruction are everywhere. The situation is very tense.
But even though our life is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming the suffering. We need an immediate cease-fire, saving the civilians and allowing the human rights organizations to help. We need security; we demand justice; we want peace.
'Now the worst place you can imagine is the sea'
Anas Hamra, 22, iYouth participant, Gaza
I usually wake up every day and stand a bit to watch the beauty of the sea. But now, with Navy warships shelling at least 20 to 30 rockets per day, the worst place you can imagine is that place — the sea.
The shelling usually starts at midnight strongly. We have many broken windows from the bombing. You can see the trail of the rockets in the picture.
Now, every time I see the sunset coming, I am just getting ready for another nightmare of more shelling overheard and more destruction in this place.
November 21, 2012
'We can barely breathe clean air'
Anas Hamra, 22, iYouth participant, Gaza
After so many massive airstrikes on Gaza last night, I am smelling dust all over the area.
We can barely breathe clean air. I can't see anything outside the windows because it is so thick.
'It was an unbelievable, unforgettable night'
Deema Al Sousi, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
It was like hell, the aggressive attacks continued heavily right up until the last minutes before 9 p.m., the time to start cease-fire.
I can't forget the heart breaking story about Abd Al Rahaman Naim...his father Majdi Naim, a doctor at Shifa Hospital, had not seen his son for eight days. And then today he saw him come into the hospital, killed. What can I say? No words can truly describe this.
So there was a mix of feelings when I first heard of a cease-fire. I felt so sorry for those killed, may their souls rest in peace. But so happy because we really suffered enough from these attacks. And also so worried because I know if this cease-fire fails, we will suffer more and more.
But mostly, my smile was big when I heard about the cease-fire from the news on Facebook and Twitter. I thought, 'Oh finally, I will continue my life normally as other youth in this world and enjoy a peaceful night!'
It was an unbelievable, unforgettable, meaningful and amazing night as well! People were celebrating, women, men, children and elderly people were still outside, uniting their voices and cheering.
'We hope this is a permanent truce'
Nada Redwan, 21, iYouth participant, Gaza
Wednesday was full of action, so many places bombed and a lot of people killed. By the night, we were all in so much fear and hoping for the war to stop.
So when we saw about the cease-fire on TV we didn't believe. We double checked it by the Internet, and then we were so happy, we laughed and sang. The feeling was awesome.
Our hopes are high for change. We believe that Gaza will be a better place and we will live happily. We hope this is a permanent truce.
November 22, 2012
'The heart began to beat again in the Gaza Strip'
Anas Hamra, 22, iYouth participant, Gaza
Tuesday was one of the most brutal and bloody days. And Wednesday night was a very difficult night. I bet that no one in the Gaza Strip slept that night for a moment.
For so long I waited for the declaration of a cease-fire and truce. And what a moment when Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, announced a cease-fire agreement. I was very cheerful and I stayed tuned to the last moment of the end of the war.
While my family was listening to the speech about the cease-fire, my little sister started jumping. Then she asked me, 'Will we sleep peacefully this night? We will not hear the sounds of the explosions?' I replied, 'Don't worry, everything is going to be good. You will sleep the whole night without fear.'
After 9 p.m., the Palestinians gradually began to come out of their homes and they started cheering, launching fireworks and celebrating. In that moment, the shops opened their doors and the taxi drivers drove their cars. Simply, the heart began to beat again in the Gaza Strip.
After those happy moments, everyone returned back to their homes. It was a quiet night, and you could feel as if Gaza City was a ghost city because all the people were sleeping and no one moved. It was such an exhausting eight days.
I wish only for the return of stability and calm to the region and the end of the conflict. I would like to thank the countries that contributed to the end of the warfare and saved the peace, like the U.S. and Egypt. I hope peace will prevail here and in all parts of the world.
'Finally, I got my beautiful picture'
Anas Hamra, 22, iYouth participant, Gaza
After eight days of war, of complete destruction of homes, buildings, cars, the general outdoors and the taking of innocent children, women and youths' lives!
Finally, after a long wait for the clock to turn to 9 p.m., the time when a really strong and true cease-fire between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli Army would take effect.
Finally, I got my beautiful picture.
Yeah, it's raining. But it's so peaceful after the eight days of fighting — and it's also my mom's birthday, so really what a joyful day we are having!
I would like to truly thank everyone from my heart who have stood and supported me and Gaza in the past days.
شكراً لكم مع الحب — Thank you, with love.
'I am ready now to help everyone who needs us'
Mira Bakri, iYouth Program Coordinator, Gaza
I thought that November would be full of wonderful things, especially since it started in an amazing way, with my best friend's wedding on November 1. And then all my friends surprised me on my birthday, November 11.
A few days later, we were on vacation for the Hijri new year, but the leaders of our iYouth program wanted to work, so I decided to join them. The office was full of excitement and enthusiasm as we worked on a plan for the next phase of the program, planning the community service projects, the trainings and the other activities we would implement.
Around 3 p.m., our small meeting was interrupted with all of our cell phones ringing — we received the news of the assassination of one of Hamas's leaders. All of us fell silent, the active and happy faces around me became worried ones. We decided to go back to our homes, hoping to see each other the next day.
Unfortunately, we became prisoners in our own homes.
I spent the whole next day calling my friends and colleagues to make sure they were fine as I watched the news to see what was happening minute by minute.
On the third day, I received a call from my manager asking me if I was interested in working under these circumstances. Without any hesitation, I agreed. I started calling the youth leaders and asking them to contact the more than 300 members of the program to find out what they and their families might need at this time of the war. After ten hours of continuous work — phone calls, text messages and emails — we sent our report back to the office. It was the beginning of assessments to determine how Mercy Corps may be able to respond to emergency needs.
The next day we started working in a different way, to collect the youths' voices and opinions about what was happening. We also kept trying to collect information for the assessments, though that was challenging in many ways, but we wanted to help in any way we could. We continued working all through Wednesday, November 21.
When we first heard news about the truce, we waited to make sure it was true — we have heard similar news before that turned out not to be correct. But when we were sure of the news, I started receiving phone calls and hearing the people in the streets celebrating.
Despite our happiness that the war was over, we were still afraid that there would be more fighting again.
But when I woke up today, November 22, I felt sure that the truce is true. I wanted to see all my friends that I missed so much during these difficult days. I met some of them and we walked in the streets to see how they look now.
I am ready now to go back to my work, to start preparing for the next steps, to help everyone who needs us and to reach the biggest number of people and provide help to them.


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Maranello, 28 July 2010 – The fine tuning of the newly born Ferrari 458 Challenge continues and, as from yesterday, it was at the Vallelunga circuit for a test, with two drivers, the Italian Maurizio Mediani and the Brazilian Jaime Melo, taking on the role of test driver, as they took turns at the wheel of the Prancing Horse sports car.
At the end of two days at the Roman circuit, both men were pleased with what had been achieved. According to Mediani the 458 Challenge is "very quick and extremely good fun," its handling inherited from the road going car from which it is derived, combined with modifications made for its specific use in racing. Melo, just back from the fifth round of the American Le Mans Series, in which he races a F430 GT2 run by Team Risi Competizione, highlighted how much the driving experience is enhanced by the electronics systems operated with the now classic manettino on the steering wheel, a first for a car used in the Ferrari one-make series. "I am sure that Prancing Horse competition owners will be very pleased with this car," commented the Brazilian before leaving the circuit to prepare for the next ALMS round, which takes place on 7 August at the Mid Ohio circuit.

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7111.0.55.002 - Agricultural Survey: Apples and Pears, Australia, Preliminary, 2001-02
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Apple production steady, while pear production falls in 2001-02
Preliminary Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimates of Australia's apples and pears production in 2001-02 indicate the production of 325,000 tonnes of apples and 148,000 tonnes of pears.
Apple production increased marginally over the previous year, while pear production decreased by 14%.
Unfavourable seasonal conditions were experienced in 2001-02 across the major southern apple and pear growing regions in Australia, although conditions were generally more favourable in New South Wales and northern Victoria.
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Sandra Bullock is having second thoughts about her latest role, part of a star-studded plea to Congress for funds to clean up wetlands damaged by the Gulf oil spill.
The Oscar winning actress' spokeswoman said she wants out of a video until she learns whether the campaign was influenced by oil companies. She was alerted after the website DeSmogBlog called the campaign an industry ploy to get support for drilling and to stick taxpayers instead of BP with the bill for cleanup.
Women of the Storm, the group that produced the video, lists America's Wetland Foundation as a partner. As DeSmogBlog points out, the foundation lists BP and other oil companies as sponsors on its website.
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Anne Milling, founder of Women of the Storm, told The Associated Press the foundation provided experts and information, but says the video was not funded by oil companies.
In the video, Bullock is joined by a bevy of other stars, many of whom hail from Gulf Coast states. Dave Matthews, Harry Shearer, Blake Lively, Peyton Manning and Emeril Lagasse, among others, ask people to "Be the One" to take action to help fund the environmental recovery effort.
"What can you offer?" Bullock asks in the PSA. "Your voice. Speak up!"


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Play the Songs
- "Kiss Me, Kate" Overture
- Another Op'nin', Another Show
- Why Can't You Behave?
- Wunderbar
- So In Love
- We Open In Venice
- Tom, Dick Or Harry
- I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua
- I Hate Men
- Were Thine That Special Face
- I Sing Of Love
- Finale Act One
- Too Darn Hot
- Where Is The Life That Late I Led?
- Always True To You In My Fashion
- Bianca
- Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- Shrew/Grand Finale
Passions run high as leading lady Lilli Vanessi and her ex-husband, actor/director Fred Graham, battle onstage and off in a production of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. With romance, comedy, sophistication, and behind-the-scenes high jinks, KISS ME, KATE combines the irreverent humor of two brilliant writers: Cole Porter and William Shakespeare. Musical numbers include "So In Love," "Wunderbar," "Tom, Dick or Harry," "Too Darn Hot," "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," "I Hate Men," "Always True to You (In My Fashion)" and "Another Op'nin, Another Show."
Music Samples provided courtesy of Jay Records and Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
- Synopsis
- Credits
- Orchestration
- Materials
- Cast
- History
- Musical Numbers
- Upcoming
Act I
In a Baltimore theatre, the cast of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew rehearses for the opening of the show that evening ("Another Op'nin', Another Show"). Egotistical director/producer/leading man Fred Graham stars as Petruchio, and his movie star ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi, is playing Katherine. The two argue incessantly, and Lilli is particularly angered by Fred's interest in the atractive young actress Lois Lane, who is playing Bianca. After the rehearsal, Lois's boyfriend Bill appears; he is playing Lucentio, but he missed the rehearsal because he was gambling. He tells her that he signed a $10,000 IOU in Fred's name, and Lois reprimands him ("Why Can't You Behave?").
Before the opening, Fred and Lilli meet backstage, and Lilli shows off her engagement ring from Washington insider Harrison Howell, reminding Fred that it's the anniversary of their divorce. They recall the operetta in which they met ("Wunderbar"). Two gangsters show up to collect the $10,000 IOU, and Fred replies that he never signed it. The gangsters say they'll give him time to remember it and will return later. In her dressing room, Lilli receives flowers from Fred, and she realizes that she is still "So In Love." Fred tries to prevent Lilli from reading the card that came with the flowers, because he actually intended them for Lois. But Lilli takes the card with her onstage, saying she will read it later.
The show begins ("We Open in Venice"). Baptista, Katherine and Bianca's wealthy father, will not allow his younger daughter Bianca to marry until his older daughter Katherine is married. But Kate is shrewish and ill tempered, and no man desires to marry her. Three suitors – Lucentio, Hortensio, and Gremio – try to woo Bianca, and she says that she would marry any of them ("Tom, Dick, or Harry"). Petruchio, a friend of Lucentio, arrives, expressing a desire to marry into wealth ("I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua"). The suitors hatch a plan for him to marry Kate.
Kate, however, has no intentions of getting married ("I Hate Men"). Nonetheless, Petruchio attempts to woo her ("Were Thine That Special Face"). Offstage, Lilli has an opportunity to read the card. She walks on stage off-cue and begins hitting Fred, who, along with the other actors, tries to remain in character as Baptista grants Petruchio permission to marry Kate.
Offstage, Lilli furiously declares she is leaving the show. However, the gangsters have reappeared, and Fred tells them that if Lilli quits, he'll have to close the show and won't be able to pay them the $10,000. The gangsters, at gunpoint, force Lilli to stay.
Onstage, Bianca and Lucentio dance together ("We Sing of Love"). Petruchio and Kate, newly wed, exit the church, followed by the gangsters, now dressed in Shakespearean costume as they keep an eye on Lilli. Petruchio implores Kate to kiss him, and she refuses. He lifts her over his shoulder and carries her offstage while she pummels his shoulder with her fists ("Kiss Me, Kate").
Act II
During the show's intermission, the cast and crew relax in the alley behind the theater. Paul, Fred's assistant, along with a couple other crew members, lament that it's "Too Darn Hot" to meet their lovers that night. The play continues, and Petruchio exhausted from 'taming' Katherine, mourns for his now-lost bachelor life ("Where Is the Life That Late I Led?").
Offstage, Lilli's fiancé Harrison Howell looks for her. He runs into Lois, and she recognizes him as a former lover but promises not to tell Lilli. Bill is shocked to overhear this, but Lois tells him that even if she is involved with other men, she is faithful to him in her own way ("Always True to You in My Fashion"). Lilli tries to explain to Howell that she is being forced to stay at the theatre by the gangsters, but Howell doesn't believe her and wants to discuss wedding plans. Fred insidiously points out how boring Lilli's life with Howell will be compared to the theatre. Bill sings a love song he has written for Lois ("Bianca").
The gangsters discover that their boss has been killed, so the IOU is no longer valid. Lilli leaves—without Howell—as Fred unsuccessfully tries to convince her to stay ("So in Love" Reprise). The gangsters get caught on stage and improvise a tribute to the Bard ("Brush Up Your Shakespeare"). The company prepares for the conclusion of the play, the wedding of Bianca and Lucentio, despite Lilli's absence. Just in time, Lilli enters and delivers Kate's final speech beautifully ("I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple"). Fred and Lilli wordlessly reconcile on stage, and the play ends with the two couples united (Finale).
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Sam and Bella Spewack
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Full Instrumentation
2 Violin I
1 Violin II
1 Viola
1 Cello
1 Bass
1 Reed I: Clarinet, Alto Saxophone & Flute II
1 Reed II: Clarinet, Alto Saxophone & Bass Clarinet
1 Reed III: Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Oboe & English Horn
1 Reed IV: Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Flute I & Piccolo
1 Reed V: Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone & Bassoon
1 Horn
2 Trumpet I & II
1 Trumpet III
1 Trombone
1 Percussion:
Timpani (2 Drums)
Snare Drum (Brushes & Sticks)
Bass Drum
Tom Tom
Cymbals (Suspended & Hi-Hat)
Wood Block
Vibraphone (optional)
1 Harp
1 Piano-Celeste
1 Guitar – Mandolin (doubles Violin)
Piano-Conductor's Score sent with rehearsal material.
Rehearsal Materials
2 Piano/Conductor Scores
20 Libretto/Vocal Books
Optional Additional Materials
1 Stage Manager's Guide
(In Order of Appearance)
Fred Graham – Actor, Producer, Writer
Harry Trevor
Lois Lane
Ralph (Stage Manager)
Lilli Vanessi
Stage Doorman
Bill Calhoun
First Man
Second Man
Harrison Howell
Specialty Dancers
"Taming Of The Shrew" Players
Bianca (Lois Lane)
Baptista (Harry Trevor)
Gremio (First Suitor)
Hortensio (Second Suitor)
Lucentio (Bill Calhoun)
Katharine (Lilli Vanessi)
Petruchio (Fred Graham)
Singing Ensemble
Dancing Ensemble
The original Broadway production had a cast of 40, including chorus.
KISS ME, KATE played for 1,077 performances on Broadway at the New Century Theatre and for 501 performances in London at the Coliseum Theatre. The original cast included Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang. The original cast album issued in 1948 by Columbia Records had the distinction of being the very first Broadway cast recording to be issued on LP. KISS ME, KATE was revived in 1999 at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway, where it played for 881 performances starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, and at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London, where it played for about 300 performances starring Brent Barrett and Marin Mazzie.
Awards (1949)
5 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Produced Show, Best Script, Best Score and Best Costumes.
Act I
Overture – Orchestra
1. "Another Op'nin', Another Show" – Hattie & Chorus
1a. Dance – Orchestra
1b. Reprise: "Another Op'nin', Another Show" – Hattie & Chorus
1c. Scene change – Orchestra
2. "Why Can't You Behave" – Lois & Bill
2a. Scene Change – Orchestra
3. "Wunderbar" – Lilli & Fred
4. "So In Love Am I" – Lilli
5. Padua Street Scene – Dancers
5 (cont.) "We Open In Venice" – Katherine, Petruchio, Bianca, Lucentio, & Chorus
5a. Padua Street Scene – Orchestra
6. "Tom, Dick, Or Harry" – Bianca & Suitors (Lucentio, Hortensio, & Gremio)
6a. Encore: "Tom, Dick, Or Harry" – Bianca & Suitors
7. Rose Dance – Orchestra
8. "I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua" – Petruchio & Men
9. "I Hate Men" – Katherine
10. "Were Thine That Special Face" – Petruchio
11. Scene Change – Orchestra
11a. Scene Change – Orchestra
12. "I Sing Of Love" – Bianca, Lucentio, & Chorus
12a. Tarantella – Orchestra
13. Finale: "Kiss Me, Kate" – Kate, Petruchio, Principals, & Chorus
Act II
14. Entr'acte – Orchestra
15. "Too Darn Hot" – Paul & Boys
15a. Scene Change – Orchestra
16. "Where Is The Life That Late I Led" – Petruchio
16a. Scene Change – Orchestra
17. "Always True To You (In My Fashion)" – Lois
17a. 1st Encore – Lois
17b. 2nd Encore – Lois
17c. Scene Change – Orchestra
18. "Bianca" – Bill & Girls
19. Reprise: "So In Love Am I" – Fred
19a. Scene Change – Orchestra
20. "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" – Two Gangsters
20a. 1st Encore – Two Gangsters
20b. 2nd Encore – Two Gangsters
21. Pavanne – Orchestra
22. "Women Are So Simple" – Katherine
23. Finale: "So Kiss Me, Kate" – Full Company
24. Final Dance – Orchestra
24a. Grand Finale: "Last Curtain" – Full Company
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SYRACUSE A large group of politicians, citizens and businessmen and –women have launched an initiative to encourage the state to keep a 1.4-mile stretch of Interstate 81 as it is instead of turning it into an arterial boulevard.
Savei81.org revealed itself at a press conference on Thursday, Aug. 1, in downtown Syracuse, where supporters spoke out against the New York State Department of Transportation's proposal to turn I-81's viaduct stretch, the elevated portion of the highway that runs through the central business district, into an arterial boulevard through the city with stoplights and cross streets, something the group said would irreparably damage the city's economy by creating a backlog of traffic. The group also issued a press release after the conference outlining its goals.
"I-81 is an economic backbone for our area, a vital artery that links city neighborhoods and suburban and rural areas with Downtown Syracuse and many key destinations," said Tony Mangano, Savei81.org spokesman and local business owner, in the press release. "It plays a critical role in the region's economy, public safety and accessibility. We must ensure that its current function is preserved, and Savei81.org is committed to working toward that goal."
Fourth District Legislator Judy Tassone said she signed onto the campaign because she was concerned about the impact the reconstruction might have on local businesses.
"I signed on to this campaign because I represent so many of the businesses and people that would be affected if I-81 was to be re-routed around the city, and this would happen if they bring it down to a boulevard," Tassone said. "I am talking about hotels, small business and thousands of people that commute into the city to their jobs every day. I do not think that Albany should be making such a huge decision that involves so many of us without our complete input representing our constituents."
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Two years ago, as she was leaving home on a hot Wednesday morning in Grozny, several attackers forced Natalya Estemirova, the prominent journalist and human rights defender, into a car. A young witness--who later fled for fear of reprisal--recalled that Estemirova cried out she was being kidnapped and that a white Lada sedan then sped off. Estemirova's body was found a few hours later, ditched along a road near the village of Gazi-Yurt in neighboring Ingushetia.
Suspicion immediately fell on Chechnya's administration, and, specifically, the republic's president, Ramzan Kadyrov. He had made no secret of his hostility toward Estemirova and the organizations she worked with--the human rights group Memorial, the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and the regional online news agency Kavkazsky Uzel. She had investigated human rights abuses, kidnappings, torture, and extrajudicial killings in Chechnya--crimes that often implicated local security and law enforcement officials, as well as the military men known as Kadyrovtsy for their devotion to the Kadyrov clan.
Kadyrov has repeatedly denied involvement in Estemirova's murder, even filing a defamation lawsuit after Memorial's head, Oleg Orlov, publicly blamed the Chechen leader for the murder. (A Moscow district court acquitted Orlov on June 14.) President Dmitry Medvedev condemned the murder back in July 2009 and pledged that the killers would be apprehended and punished. But two years later, the investigation is on the wrong track, Estemirova's colleagues said at a press conference at the Independent Press Center in Moscow last week.
An investigation carried out by Novaya Gazeta, Memorial, and the International Federation for Human Rights concludes that the official inquiry has erred by focusing its suspicion on Alkhazur Bashayev, a rebel leader whom Chechen authorities say was killed in a 2009 firefight. Bashayev was allegedly angered that Estemirova was looking into reports that separatists were recruiting young men from the village of Shalazhi. (Estemirova indeed traveled to Shalazhi in May 2009 to check out such reports.)
But Estemirova was working on a more sensitive story at the time of the murder, her colleagues told journalists last week. She was investigating the possible involvement of Chechen police officers in the public execution of local resident Rizvan Albekov. On July 7, 2009--a week before Estemirova's own killing--armed men wearing camouflage clothing shot Albekov in the center of Akhkinchu-Borzoi village, in the presence of local residents, Memorial reported at the time. Before killing him, the assailants asked Albekov if he was helping boyeviki (the rebels); without waiting for a response, they riddled him with bullets and warned the stunned group of witnesses that a similar fate awaited others who helped the rebels, Memorial said.
Estemirova was the first person to report on the case. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, which is leading the Estemirova probe, initially considered the reporter's coverage of the Albekov execution to be a potential motive in her own killing, colleagues said. In their report, titled "Two Years After the Killing of Natalya Estemirova: Investigation on the Wrong Track," colleagues said that detectives traveled to Chechnya's Kurchaloevsky district, and lead investigator Igor Sobol sought information from Chechnya's prosecutor's office about Albekov's killing and local police abuses. But investigators inexplicably stopped pursuing the Kurchaloevsky lead in early 2010.
As currently focused, the official investigation is built on flawed evidence, the new report asserts. The 30-page document details questions about the car officials say was used to kidnap Estemirova; a falsified police identification card said to carry the photo of Bashayev; and a weapons cache allegedly found in the Bashayev home that included the murder weapon. How, the authors asked, did the car have no sign of struggle between Estemirova and her kidnappers? How was Basheyev able to falsify a police identity card? The report's authors say Bashayev was not sophisticated enough to do so.
But most questions arise from the investigation's handling of the forensic evidence collected from under Estemirova's fingernails--material that likely contained the DNA of her killers. The material, authors said, showed that Estemirova fended off at least three attackers, one of whom was a woman. Investigators ordered only one type of DNA testing, they said, which could not categorically confirm or disprove involvement by Bashayev. In the process of the testing, the report's authors said, the samples were virtually depleted, making further testing nearly impossible. It is still, possible, however, to compare the completed test results against other possible suspects--such as police officers in Kurchaloyevsky. So far, according to the new report's authors, such tests have not been carried out.
In a statement on Friday, the second anniversary of Estemirova's murder, the Investigative Committee said it had evidence as to the "irrefutable involvement" of Bashayev in the killing. "The motive for this crime," the statement reads, "the investigation considers Bashayev's revenge for Estemirova's publications about his recruitment of rebels and attack on a Moscow businessman, as well as [Bashayev's] attempt to discredit the government structures of the Chechen Republic." The Investigative Committee said it is seeking Bashayev on an international arrest warrant--reports of his death notwithstanding--and that revealing evidence would jeopardize the investigation. Apparently responding to the report by Estemirova's colleagues, the Investigative Committee said: "Some statements in the mass media about [Bashayev's] lack of involvement are not based on facts but are simply the subjective opinion of persons who do not possess the necessary competence, do not have information, and do not have access to all of the materials of the criminal case."
For their part, Estemirova's colleagues called on authorities to allow them such access. At the press conference on Thursday, the Estemirova family lawyer Roman Karpinsky told journalists that he has filed a claim with the European Court of Human Rights, protesting the investigators' denial of access to relevant case material to his clients.
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By now you should know that three former VCU players will participate in NBA Summer Leagues (as of this writing). Bradford Burgess will play for the Orlando Magic in the Orlando Summer League July 9-13, while both Jamie Skeen (Chicago) and Larry Sanders (Milwaukee) are set to play in the Las Vegas Summer League July 16-22.
The word is that Burgess may also play in Vegas, but that hasn't been decided. Orlando isn't sending a team to the Las Vegas Summer League, so he'd have to play for another franchise, which isn't uncommon. Old Dominion's Kent Bazemore, for instance, will play for the Oklahoma City Thunder in Orlando and the Golden State Warriors in Las Vegas.
Here's a quick look at the schedules for the three VCU guys, as well as the TV listings. The good news for Ram fans is that NBA TV will essentially broadcast every game, most of them live.
One game to keep an eye on will be the July 22 game in Las Vegas between Skeen's Bulls team and Sanders' Bucks squad. The NBA TV schedule wasn't available that far out, but I'm assuming it will also be carried by the network.
ORLANDO MAGIC LEAGUE: Bradford Burgess (Orlando)
Monday, July 9
Brooklyn vs. Orlando, 11 a.m. (NBATV)
Tuesday, July 10
Detroit vs. Orlando, 3 p.m. (NBATV)
Wednesday, July 11
Utah vs. Orlando, 5 p.m. (NBATV)
Thursday, July 12
Philadelphia vs. Orlando, 5 p.m. (NBATV)
Friday, July 13
Boston vs. Orlando, 10 a.m. (NBATV)
Orlando Magic Summer League roster
Notes: Teams will play four 10-minute quarters. Overtime periods will be three minute in length.
LAS VEGAS SUMMER LEAGUE : Larry Sanders (Milwaukee) and Jamie Skeen (Chicago)
Monday, July 16
Milwaukee vs. New Orleans, 10:30 p.m. (NBATV)
Tuesday, July 17
Chicago vs. Boston, 10 p.m. (Tape delay NBATV, July 18, 12 p.m.)
Wednesday, July 18
Milwaukee vs. Washington, 4 p.m. (NBATV; plus a replay July 19, 12 p.m.)
Chicago vs. Houston, 6 p.m. (Tape delay NBATV, July 19, 2 p.m.)
Thursday, July 19
Milwaukee vs. NBA D-League, 10 p.m.
Friday, July 20
Chicago vs. Golden State, 8:30 p.m. (NBATV)
Saturday, July 21
Chicago vs. L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. (NBATV)
Milwaukee vs. Boston, 10:30 p.m. (NBATV)
Sunday, July 22
Chicago vs. Milwaukee, 4 p.m. (TV schedule not yet available)
Milwaukee Bucks Summer League roster
Chicago Bulls Summer League roster (not yet available)


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Jan 05, 2020
9 days on the Nautilus Belle Amie
Value season!!!!
It's always been hard to persuade folks to travel after the holidays so our attitude is "what the heck, let's offer super value pricing". The diving is as good as ever and you can't beat our pricing at this time of year. As always, Socorro is about amazing interaction with our favourite giant mantas. No other mantas in the world behave like this. We don't know why but we LOVE IT!! And the mantas clearly love us back. You can also expect interaction with dolphins, 10 kinds of shark. Water temps are usually in the mid - high 70's.
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We have an upcoming referendum on the 23rd of June which will generate four months of delicious popcorn so here's somewhere to post news, titbits, opinions and general bullshit....
We have an upcoming referendum on the 23rd of June which will generate four months of delicious popcorn so here's somewhere to post news, titbits, opinions and general bullshit....
First for everyone getting fucked over by the older generation who will be dead/drooling in a care home in the next decade and not have to deal with any of the fallout.
Originally Posted by Paul Mason
Oi reckon Engerlund will leave the EU. Oi also reckon that Scotland will then leave the UK.
Be all good for everyone concerned, I think.
Будь смиренным, будь кротким, не заботься о тленном
Власти, данной Богом, сынок, будь навеки верным...
Я люблю Росcию, я - патриот
Time to get educated on the subject then.
I'm sure my fellow Brits will be doing the sahahahahaha.
Hoping you vote out of eu so I can enjoy the drama and watch your island crash and burn.
God if we leave the EU then I'm getting on a plane and rejoining it. (tbh this is actually what I want to do in a few years anyways, so this might just accelerate that plan)
It's astonishing how cameron has managed to bring together proeuro and antieuro by coming up with a negotiation that is completely irrelevant to both.
It's the act of arrogance it dragging everyone else out to his meeting to discuss this inane bullshit that gets me the most. Europe has huge, serious problems and some are quite urgent and some very deep; and he's just wasted a month of everyones time in talking about exactly how long people must be in a country before claiming benefits and blocking the singh route to citizenship.
For what it's worth my list of EU bullshit:
1 Strasbourg
2 Appointment of the commission by governments directly
3 farming subsidies
4 Fucking Strasbourg. How can anyone take the EU seriously when it performs this circus?
5 MEP expenses
6 Unified policy on refugees and integration. You'd think the EU of all entities would be good at integration.
Half of these might not even be problems, I'm as much of a blinkered UK person as the next despite trying to learn about it.
At the moment I'll vote in because of this basically:
And I'll vote based on what I see, hear and read. Not because of some personal vendetta against eastern europeans or because I dislike the man standing on the opposite side of the argument.
You lot need to grow the fuck up to be honest.
what do continental euros think of the whole thing?
So first they fuck over the NHS then they want to leave EU so doctors and nurses who are here but didn't get citizenship are shipped back to EU.
This is hilariously entertaining.
Guns make the news, science doesn't.
While I do enjoy ordering stuff from the UK without having to go through customs, and think that Camerons idea to base amount of child support for kids living in other eu countries on their living costs IN that home country(in 2015 Hungarians working in Austria claiming child benefits for their families in Hungary got 780 on average. That's ridiculous considering their living costs) - he can go fuck himself on literally everything else.
No more cherry picking. Deal with it. Jpg or get fucked UK
Basically the usa would invade another desert somewhere, and the cont. euros would argue about old fashioned traditions disappearing.
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London can stay in and declare itself a sovereign state, the rest of you can fuck off and leave.
cont. yurop don't care that much about brits being in or out of the EU, I man aside from the common borders and being included in the governing bodies like all the other members, they've arguably contributed fuckall in return in the last decade.
Except Viviane Redding, she's a good girl.
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The John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award recognizes an ICHRIE member for lifetime contributions to outstanding scholarship and research in hospitality and tourism. The award is given to an International CHRIE member who has made and continues to make significant contributions to the field of hospitality and tourism through scholarly research published in hospitality and non-hospitality journals over an extended period. It serves as a tribute for a distinguished individual who has demonstrated both leadership in a specialized field of study and high standards in the systematic and objective analysis of data that has led to a significant contribution to the body of knowledge.
Qualifications for the John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award:
John Wiley & Sons Innovation in Teaching Award
The John Wiley & Sons Award for Innovation in Teaching recognizes an International CHRIE member for the individual's implementation of innovative, creative, and effective teaching techniques in hospitality education at the high school, diploma, and college or university level.
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W. Bradford Wiley Memorial Research Award
The W. Bradford Wiley Memorial Research Award is given to a superior research publication on a topic relevant to the field of hospitality or tourism management by an International CHRIE member.
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McCool Breakthrough Award
This is an award to honor the spirit of Willie McCool. This award will be given to an individual, group, program, school, college, association, or corporation that has made a significant break through or introduced a unique approach in the spirit of ICHRIE's mission. The award recognizes an event, activity, or program in the spirit of Willie McCool, a dedicated and successful astronaut and son of Audrey and Barry McCool, faculty members at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Qualifications for the McCool Breakthrough Award:
The event, activity, program paper must represent a noteworthy breakthrough or new way of doing things and demonstrate a significant improvement or change over regular operations.
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Industry Recognition Award
This special award is given to a hospitality and tourism industry professional and/or organization in recognition of a pattern of demonstrated commitment to advance hospitality and tourism education as a discipline.
Qualifications for the Industry Recognition Award:
Chef Herman Breithaupt Award
The Chef Herman Breithaupt Award honors the memory of a pioneer in culinary education by recognizing outstanding achievement and contributions to foodservice education by a chef/educator. The recipient of this award must exhibit high professionalism, demonstrate a strong commitment to hospitality education, and have a record of contributions to International CHRIE and the industry as a chef/educator.
Qualifications for The Chef Herman Breithaupt Award:
Notes on The Chef Herman Breithaupt Award:
An International CHRIE member may receive the award only once. It is given to a culinary specialist.
Raphael Kavanaugh Champion of Education Award
This unique award is given by the International CHRIE Board of Directors—upon special occasion—to honor a corporation, organization, or individual who has made a long standing commitment to, or shown a pattern of support for, special initiatives that advance the mission of ICHRIE.
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This award is given rarely—as you can see from the list of past winners: Gilles Honegger, J.W. Marriott, Jr., William P. Fisher, E. Ray Swan, Gilbert Valterio, Hank Cockerill, Michael Hurst, Tony Marshall, Kathy McCarty and Raphael Kavanaugh.


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Starred sites for adult fiction readers' advisory
- Inclues pictures of covers, series lists, and pre-pub/forthcoming information as well.
- Brought to you by Bowker -- available only inside the library .Locate books by author, title, or attributes in six different areas for fiction: genre, setting, location, character, timeframe, and topic. Choose the "find similar" button and then narrow down by attribute.
- Note: OCLC has a prototype of a very similar database at FictionFinder.oclc.org -- it is limited and less user-friendly at this point, but keep an eye on it, since it's still in the making.
Other sites mentioned in my presentation
Children's Sites
- Click on "Find a Book" in the middle of the front page. Run by the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Public Library; annotated by librarians.
- Especially of note: the Juvenile Series and Sequels database
- Run by Sylvan Learning Center, has limited listings and is grade-level dependent, but might jog your mind for some suggestions based on reading level and subject matter.
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A plan to build twin tunnels beneath the Delta has a new price tag: $24.5 billion.
A plan to build twin tunnels beneath the Delta has a new price tag: $24.5 billion.
The cost of Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal has increased by more than a billion dollars since the last formal estimate in February 2012, even though the project has since been downsized, according to documents released Wednesday.
And while water users will pay for the tunnels themselves, complementary parts of the plan that are supposed to restore the Delta's environment rely in part upon billions of dollars worth of water bonds that have not yet been approved by the public.
Despite the daunting dollar figures, officials said Wednesday that the water users stand to actually save $5 billion over the next half-century as a result of a more reliable water supply, better water quality and reduced risk of an earthquake, though critics of the plan say the benefits are overstated.
"When you consider the current trends in the Delta, I think the real question is, 'Can we afford not to (act)?' " said Mark Cowin, director of the state Department of Water Resources.
Officials announced the tunnel financing details at a news conference in the Silicon Valley, an urban area that depends on Delta water. Ultimately, urban and agricultural water districts throughout the state will have to decide if they want to pay their share, but it's unclear exactly who would pay how much.
Among Wednesday's new details:
� The tunnels alone would cost $14.5 billion. Restoring and conserving 145,000 acres of wildlife habitat would cost an additional $4 billion. And not quite $1 billion would be spent on other measures to improve the Delta's health, such as battling alien weeds and improving conditions for fish in the Stockton Deep Water Channel.
� Operating and maintaining the tunnels would cost $1.4 billion over 50 years. Administration, monitoring and research would collectively top $1 billion.
� Overall, the water users would pay for better than two-thirds of the total project. The public would pay $7.6 billion, including $3.5 billion collectively from a water bond on the 2014 ballot and another bond that would be proposed at some future date.
Much of the debate about the tunnels has centered on whether diverting water from the Sacramento River near Hood will help or hurt the Delta as an estuary.
The new documents will also foster discussions whether the plan makes economic sense.
Among other issues cited by critics, the project has increased in cost despite that officials reduced the number of large intake sites on the Sacramento River from five to three.
Asked why the cost went up, a consultant for the state said Wednesday that reducing the number of pumps saved money, but that the tunnels also had to be built larger and longer to allow the water to be fed by gravity to the existing export pumps near Tracy. The cost increase may also be partly attributed to inflation and more complete estimates about the cost of administering the plan.
Asked about relying on bonds that have not yet been approved, the state said it will seek other sources of money if the public says "no."
"We have 50 years to implement this plan," Cowin said. "Success is not tied to the passage of that particular (2014) bond."
University of the Pacific economist Jeffrey Michael, who has worked in the past as a consultant for a commission that opposes the tunnels, said Wednesday that the latest financing plan appears flawed.
It is not the statewide cost-benefit analysis for which he has lobbied. Officials said Wednesday that a statewide analysis would be done by midsummer, but Michael has questioned whether that analysis will be adequate.
He said the $5 billion in purported benefits to the water users is based on an excessively low estimate on how much water will be available if the tunnels are not built.
"The net benefits are actually pretty thin here," Michael said.
What's more, included in Wednesday's documents is a table showing the benefits to water users from other alternatives - including continuing to send water through the Delta, as it is today.
The benefits of that alternative were quantified at $4.4 billion, comparable to the tunnels and much less expensive.
"Just from an economic standpoint, through-Delta does as well as the twin tunnels, and that's from the contractor's perspective," Michael said. "I didn't create these numbers."
Generally, however, those who rely on Delta water exports praised the plan. Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, said the plan "demonstrates the fiscal prudence of investing in a water supply and delivery system that will serve Californians for the next 50 years and restore the Delta's fragile ecosystem."
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Welcome to the forum! Stick around, you will get better.
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EFT refunds are processed daily based on Student Account activity. The University does not accept prepayment or hold payments, therefore a refund is processed if there is a credit balance (the University owes the student). Typically the EFT refund will take 2-3 days from the time we process a refund until the money appears in your account.
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When two or more magnets are swallowed, they attract to each other internally. Many incidents have resulted in surgeries to remove the magnets. When a magnet has to be removed surgically, it also can require repairing the child's damaged stomach and intestines.
If you suspect magnets have been swallowed:
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• Medical symptoms to watch for are: abdominal pains, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
• In X-rays, multiple magnetic pieces may appear as a single object.
These high-powered magnets are not the magnets off your grandfather's refrigerator door. They are up to eight times stronger than magnets that are used in toys.
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