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I have a friend, a writer, who became so obsessed by the Norwegian novelist Per Petterson's "I Curse the River of Time" that he copied it out, word for word—perhaps hoping that his pure replica might unlock the secrets of that mysterious book, with its curling form and drifting sentences. When he told me this, I had not read anything by Petterson. But how could anyone resist such a recommendation? As soon as I opened "I Curse the River of Time" (one of the great titles), I understood the dementing lure. Maybe my friend was trying to get his head, and his pen, around a sentence like this one. The thirty-seven-year-old narrator, Arvid Jansen, recalls family reunions:
My father's brothers with their wives did call on rare occasions and every other Christmas my mother's childless sister came up from Copenhagen acting upper class with her husband who worked in a firm importing French cars and was the creepy owner of an 8mm camera he used for all kinds of things, and my grandparents would also come, their palms worn and hard, from another, more puritanical town in the same country, in the same fashion, by ferry, grey hair, grey clothes, standing windswept and grey on the quay waiting for my father to come down along Trondhjemsveien in a rare taxi to pick them up and sometimes I, too, was in that taxi and they looked so small next to their big suitcases. Or perhaps he was trying to crack the movement of a passage like this one. The narrator recalls how fond he and his mother were of Erich Maria Remarque's novel "Arch of Triumph," and how the novel's heroes were always drinking Calvados:
We said to each other, my mother and I, wouldn't it be great one day to taste this liquor; a liquid that for me turned into the true magic potion, a golden nectar flowing through Remarque's novel and on in multiple streams, acquiring a strange, powerful significance, and that, of course, because it was unobtainable, because they only sold one single brand at the state monopoly and it was way beyond my means. But in Arch of Triumph they were forever ordering Calvados, Boris and Ravic, the two friends in the book who were refugees from Stalin and Hitler respectively, in Paris in the years before the German occupation, and it was Armageddon then, on all fronts, both back and forth in time, and the conversations they had about life left the same bitter taste in my mouth as singing the hymn, which goes: Thank you for memories, thank you for hope, thank you Oh Lord for the bitter gift of pain, which in fact I did at a funeral not long ago. Sing that hymn.
Readers who know only Petterson's most successful (also more straightforward and less interesting) novel, "Out Stealing Horses," which won many prizes when it appeared in English translation, in 2005, might be surprised to encounter these run-on sentences, tripping over their own dropped clauses, pricked with intermittence, properly punctuated but curiously unpunctual.
It is hard to catch the rhythm of their sure-footed dalliance. ("I Curse the River of Time" was translated by Charlotte Barslund, with the help of Petterson.) In the first passage, what is strange is not just the way the function of that linking "and" changes (sometimes "and" is used to connect sequential details; sometimes it is used to shift from one temporality to another) but also the way that information expands and contracts. We go from the precision and banality of the uncle with his 8-mm. camera to the almost placeless, blurred lyricism about the grey grandparents from an unnamed but "more puritanical town . . . standing windswept and grey on the quay." There is something wonderful about the passionate reality with which, in the second excerpt, the narrator invests a liquid that is at first fictional but which becomes absolutely alive, a golden nectar flowing "in multiple streams." Notice, too, that, in a spirit of free association, the narrator's thoughts about the book are bound up with taste: golden Calvados to begin with, and then the bitter taste of the novel, which leads to the "bitter gift of pain" mentioned in the old hymn, and on to the "bitter gift" of the funeral.
How many people think like this? Probably as many as think like Leopold Bloom or Mrs. Ramsay or one of David Foster Wallace's characters. Petterson is remarkably gifted at capturing not so much randomness or irrelevance (habitual catchments of the stream of consciousness) as the staggered distances of memory: one detail seems near at hand, while another can be seen only cloudily; one mental picture seems small, while another seems portentous. Yet everything is jumbled in the recollection, because the most proximate memory may be the least important, the portentous detail relatively trivial. Petterson's interest is pictorial and spatial rather than logical and interrogative. His sentences yearn to fly away into poetry; it is rare to find prose at once so exact and so vague. Yet Petterson is novelistically acute about human motive and self-deception. In both passages, our needy, self-involved narrator hovers over his memories, and finally pokes his way back into the narrative with local assertions of self: "and sometimes I, too, was in that taxi"; "which in fact I did at a funeral not long ago."Arvid Jansen is a familiar Petterson character, and "I Curse the River of Time" could be the title of several of Petterson's novels. Arvid's life is drifting, like the sentences he voices, moving between banal failure and bottomless losses. His younger brother died six years ago, and his mother is dying of stomach cancer; he is on the verge of a divorce, and his career seems stalled. Arvid is wounded and childish, desperate for reassurance from his mother, anxiously competitive with his brothers, dead and alive. When, at one moment, his mother tells him that not a day goes by without her thinking of his dead brother, he cannot help himself and blurts out the kind of complaint that any seventeen-year-old, let alone a thirty-seven-year-old, might be abashed to utter:
"You don't think about me every day," I said.
"No," she said. "Why should I?"
"No, why should you . . . I don't think about you every day, either." But that was not true, so I said, "Yes, I do."
"That's not necessary," she said with her back to me.
"Yes it is," I said.
When his mother decides to return for a few days to the place on the Danish coast where she grew up, Arvid follows her, seeking a quality of communication and commendation that he has clearly never received from either of his parents. In Denmark, at the beach house, he is superfluous, pitiful, chaotic. He sleeps on the sofa, wears his father's old clothes, drinks too much, falls and bangs his head, fights in a bar, and cuts down a tree that has blocked the view from the house, mainly because he wants to prove to his mother that he can do something his father failed to do. He moves obsessively over his memories, and the novel alternates between the present time in Denmark and Arvid's recollections. He tells us about his youth as a Communist activist, about his factory work as a printer, and about the death of his brother. He can't shake the sense that his mother turned away from him when, fired up with ideas about the nobility of work and the power of the proletariat, he told her that he was leaving college and getting a job. She slapped him, and called him an idiot, and, ever since, he has felt that a gulf, "like the Rio Grande," came between them, and "she didn't like me anymore, did not want me."
Most of Petterson's protagonists are blighted by the deaths of siblings and the deaths or disappearance of parents; most of them are separated from partners or spouses, or are otherwise alone. The forty-three-year-old narrator of "In the Wake," an earlier novel that seems related to "I Curse the River of Time" ("In the Wake" appeared in Norwegian in 2000, eight years before "I Curse"), is also named Arvid, and shares several elements with his later incarnation, including a leftist youth and an inclination to drift and despair. Six years before the start of the novel, Arvid lost his parents and two brothers in a ferry accident; his life, and that of his surviving brother, has been spent "in the wake" of that disaster. The prose of "In the Wake" is not as complex as that of the later book, but it has the same strange abysmal openings, moments when temporality seems to crumble and the narrator peers over the brink of deep distances. Arvid remembers returning, in April, with his elder brother, from the site of the accident in Denmark, "in a borrowed van we had far from emptied, and it was still a spring of some kind, the longest ever. He went off to his life, and I went off to mine, and then silence fell. I do not know what happened. I do not know what didn't happen. . . . We did not fly any more, we did not float any more. We were on our way to the bottom, but we did not see that." The narrator of "Out Stealing Horses," Trond Sander, is even more isolated: he lives alone in a cottage in the far east of Norway. He is sixty-seven, and hopes this will be his final home. Three years earlier, he lost his wife in a car accident that he narrowly survived. He appears largely estranged from his daughters. The female narrator of "To Siberia" (known only as Sistermine by her elder brother) spends the last third of the novel drifting, waiting for news of her brother, who, we learn, has died in Morocco: "The days go by, and I go with them, but I do not count them. I wait. It is a flowing feeling."
One source for the sense of hollow belatedness in Petterson's work is likely the disaster that occurred in April, 1990, when the Oslo-to-Frederikshavn ferry caught fire, killing a hundred and fifty-nine people, including Petterson's parents, his brother, and his nephew. In an interview with James Campbell, in the Guardian, he said that his mother had just finished reading his first novel (published in 1989), and had given her verdict: "Well, I hope the next one won't be that childish." The next weekend, she was dead. Arvid's mother in "I Curse the River of Time" has a similar tartness, and all the fiction by Petterson that has been translated into English—which is to say, everything published after 1990—lives in a hanging, unresolved world, as if a reply had been voiced but eternally finds no audience.
Petterson's adult protagonists have intense, complex, anxious relations with the past. Their childhoods are flagrantly vivid to them. Arvid remembers longing for his childhood "with such teeth-grinding intensity that I almost frightened myself." In Petterson's work, the past ghosts its way back into the present with spectral power. It is always clutching at life, pulling at the sleeve of the present. Often, his sentences shift from present to past, mid-flow, without warning. But there is also joy in the natural and easy access that the novelist seems to have to the recollected stories and pungencies of childhood. Walking through a square in Oslo easily brings back, for Arvid Jansen, a remembered topography and, especially, the cinema, Ringen Kino: "Across the square towards the petrol station there were neon signs too, and to the right or the left, depending on which way you came, lay Ringen Kino with its glowing stripes of red neon above the entrance from Trondhjemsveien, on the same side as the bookshop, but after the film you would come out, half-blind, into Tromsøgata right opposite Bergersen's café." Likewise, Trond Sander spends much of "Out Stealing Horses" floating in retrospect, both loving and alienated. He remembers the labor of mowing, and of chopping and stacking wood, in the summer of 1948, and these beautifully rendered scenes (in Anne Born's translation) have the heavy sensuous immediacy of harvesting in Tolstoy and Hardy: "I smelled of resin, my clothes smelled, and my hair smelled, and my skin smelled of resin when I lay in my bed at night. I went to sleep with it and woke up with it and it stayed with me all the day long. I was forest."You do not have to be middle-aged, in Petterson's fiction, to look back at childhood. Here an eighteen-year-old boy from Oslo recalls his childhood in the countryside, and the memories, even the painful ones, purl into running ecstasies:
I have not forgotten the cornfields in autumn, or Lake Aurtjern in July or the apple tree outside my window, and all I had to do was reach out and pick an apple, or the long gravel road where Siri Skirt used to walk and show her bottom for two ten øre coins, and she wasn't wearing anything underneath, and once I was allowed to walk round twice while she held her skirt up under her chin; or the rafting holiday on Lake Hurdal. My father forced me to come with him, and made me pull up a pike that scared me witless, and when I refused, he hit me in the face, and then I hammered a nail into my foot, and we were forced to go home. The teen-ager who remembers these country delights is Audun Sletten, the narrator of "It's Fine by Me" (Graywolf; translated by Don Bartlett), which appears now for the first time in English, but which is Petterson's second novel, published in Norway in 1992. Audun is a working-class Oslo boy, and not without his troubles. A year ago, his brother drove a car into a river and drowned. His parents are separated; his father, whom he last saw five years ago, has been violent and abusive. Yet "It's Fine by Me" is notable, especially given its proximity to Petterson's own family tragedy, for the freshness and optimism of its portrait of Audun's youth. The envelope of hardship cannot hold the arrow of life: Petterson's youthful novel is an openhearted bildungsroman, narrated in a first-person present tense, and we see Audun making his way, vigorous with books and politics and music, and full of determination to write. It is 1970, and Audun and his school friend Arvid (Petterson's favorite name makes an early appearance here) share everything. Jimi Hendrix has just died. The Vietnam War shapes the political discourse. Arvid is a member of the National Liberation Group at school, doing battle with the Young Conservatives, while Audun is an engaged voyeur: "I am a passive member, I have too many other things on my mind." Arvid, who comes from a more bookish household, recommends books like Jan Myrdal's "Confessions of a Disloyal European": "He hands me the book, and I read the page, and the next; it's pure, concise writing about things that you walk around turning over in your mind. I have to have this book, there is something different here, open, bold." Certain writers—Hemingway, London, Gorky, Tolstoy—are charged with significance for the boys. Audun writes in a notebook that he likes to think is similar to one used by Hemingway in "A Moveable Feast." Arvid's father has a recommendation of his own:
"Read this one, boys, then perhaps you'll understand what it's like to toil and sweat for the things you want!" Arvid groaned, but I read the book, and this is the third time now. It is called Martin Eden and was written by Jack London. I had read The Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf, almost everyone we know has read them, but only Arvid and I have read Martin Eden, and we keep it to ourselves.
There is something about this book, and there is something about his struggle, and as soon as I had read it I knew I wanted to be a writer, and if I didn't make it, I would be an unhappy person.
Like Arvid Jansen in "I Curse the River of Time," Audun decides that he must leave school and get a job; he, too, works as a press operator in a factory that prints, among other things, a glossy magazine. There are vivid, energetic sketches of life on the factory floor, including a gruesomely exact scene in which one of the workers loses three fingers from his left hand. Even this witnessed horror cannot quite dim Audun's rebellious vivacity, which sees the world as palpable and there for the taking—Audun is what Robert Lowell once called, in a description of a girl in a Vermeer, "solid with yearning": "From the large windows up under the ceiling a ray of sun comes shining into the concourse, so powerful and tangible you could bang your head on it, if that's what you wanted to do."Hemingway is one persistent influence on Petterson, and so is Knut Hamsun—the protagonists of two early Hamsun novels, "Mysteries" and "Pan," could be models for Petterson's unmoored people, especially in the way that Hamsun, like Petterson, at once reveals and obscures rational motivation. But "It's Fine by Me" reminds us that another influence is the postwar working-class English fiction of writers like Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines, and the early work of the director Ken Loach, whose young heroes raise a disobedient fist to the established order. For both Audun Sletten and Arvid Jansen, the youthful Albert Finney in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (the 1960 Karel Reisz film made from Sillitoe's novel of the same title) leads the way forward. Arvid, in "I Curse the River of Time," recalls that he and his mother shared an admiration for Finney in this role:
My mother liked him a lot too, Albert Finney, when he stood there at his lathe in the bicycle factory right at the start of the film with his shirt sleeves rolled up and bluntly declaimed what he thought of the older workers and the way they were stuck in the mud of the pre-war years and all the things he definitely was not going to waste his life on, and there was no bloody way that he would ever allow himself to be kept down like they had been.
"It's Fine by Me" is slighter than Petterson's later work, and comparatively unmenaced by the threat of failure. Audun Sletten, who is all potential, may well not waste his life, as Albert Finney promises not to do. But Arvid Jansen, in "I Curse the River of Time," does appear to be wasting his life, and seems to have run out of time, though he is only in his late thirties, so that his use of Albert Finney's imprecations has an inevitably nostalgic air. In general, Petterson's later novels look back to a historical moment when political action was exciting and necessary, from a present where it has lost its relevance. "Out Stealing Horses" and "To Siberia" circle obsessively around the Second World War, and involve remembered stories of working for the Norwegian and Danish resistance movements, respectively. "To Siberia" has a tremendous description of the arrival of German troops in a Danish town: "Jesper braked, got off his bike, and squatted down to listen. I did the same. What we heard was the future. A faint drone through the cold, a drone that rose without a sign of fading again, an irreversible drone and Jesper straightened up with a shaking body and rubbed his shoulders before he looked out at the coast." In both "I Curse" and "In the Wake," the narrators, only in their late thirties and early forties and unnaturally aged, return in their minds to the political possibilities (as well as to the political theatre) of the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Both books quote a passage from Sven Lindqvist's "The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu," which seems to function as a kind of lament for the absence of change: "Is social and economic liberation possible without violence? No. Is it possible with violence? No."
The title of "I Curse the River of Time" is borrowed from one of Mao's poems, which begins:
Fragile images of departure, the village back then.
I curse the river of time; thirty-two years have passed.
As Arvid explains, the poem is not political but shows a man whose body is battling time, "as I had felt it so often myself; how time without warning could catch up with me and run around beneath my skin like tiny electric shocks." The novel is set in 1989, and Petterson makes a powerful formal architecture of that year's political upheavals: as Arvid struggles to breach the wall of his mother's estrangement or indifference, so the Berlin Wall is coming down and, with it, the final frail rationale of the enormous hopes of European Communism. When he sees a newspaper headline, "THE WALL TUMBLES," Arvid gets breathless and tearful. "This was bad," he thinks. "I had not paid attention. . . . Time had passed behind my back and I had not turned to look."
There is world-historical time, and there is personal time. Stranded on the other side of his familial Rio Grande, he has not noticed how fast the river of historical time has been moving. In Petterson's fiction, personal retrospect—the ceaseless backward gaze to childhood, to the dominant impress made by one's parents, to all the remembered pleasure and pain of family history—is both a lure and a hazard. Reverie, dreaming, and memory threaten to immobilize the Petterson protagonist, to take him out of time, to set him drifting in deep waters. When Arvid's brother, in "In the Wake," tries to commit suicide, Arvid tells the nurse, "There's nothing the matter with my brother, he just can't stop looking back."
In his interview with the Guardian, Petterson says that he has never doubted that the family is "a centre of writing"; indeed, this centrality is one of the strenuous delights of his fiction. But Petterson's characters are never quite at the center of their own family life, or at the center of the novels they hoveringly occupy. Haunted by tragedy, stalked by absence, competitive with the dead, yearning for restoration, they experience life as elsewhere.
It is one of the most mysterious effects of these novels, which push the reader sideways, in the manner of an unexpectedly sourceless wind. Like Petterson's sentences, his heroes are hard to hold on to and yet hard to let go of. Wherever and whenever they announce themselves, they are actually somewhere else, lost in dream. "I ate my lunch standing at the counter still asleep and cycled the whole way to the exchange with my body full of dreams," the narrator of "To Siberia" says. It's a characteristic Petterson sentence, beginning in solid realism and ending in lyrical suspension. A body full of dreams is not quite present, and not quite present to the reader. Thus it is that Petterson's characters often seem to be living two lives, two versions of heroism: the actual and the ideal, the slightly fuzzy present and the sharply etched past.This anxiety is eloquently voiced in "Out Stealing Horses," when Trond Sander's adult daughter confesses to her father that she had always been troubled by the opening sentence of "David Copperfield," a favorite novel of her father's: "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyone else, these pages must show." To which Trond's daughter provides a dreamy, anguished commentary that mobilizes all of Petterson's lingering, sidling power:
I always thought those opening lines were a bit scary because they indicated we would not necessarily be the leading characters of our own lives. I couldn't imagine how that could come about, something so awful; a sort of ghost-life where I could do nothing but watch that person who had taken my place and maybe hate her deeply and envy her everything, but not be able to do anything about it because at some point in time I had fallen out of my life, as if from an aeroplane, I pictured it, and out into empty space, and there I drifted about and could not get back, and someone else was sitting fastened into my seat, although that place was mine, and I had the ticket in my hand. ♦


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Dr. Williams also has a strong interest in medical education and leadership, and has been working hard with the residency program since 2000. She has worn all of the "hats" of residency leadership: Chief Resident, Assistant Program Director (APD), Associate PD, and now Program Director. Sarah has also been active in helping coordinate and run several CME programs, including our national conference and developing a new series of interdisciplinary ultrasound CME courses. Sarah has both practical real-world experience in education as well as completing the ACEP Teaching Fellowship and is currently completing a Masters Program in Health Professions Education (while continuing to work at Stanford full-time). She also co-runs the multidisciplinary Stanford Clinical Teaching Scholars Program and chairs the Stanford GME Committee's Transitions of Care Task Force.
Sarah's areas of expertise are medical education, leadership in emergency medicine, and emergency ultrasound. Sarah also understands the challenges of combining an active academic career with family; she is a wife and mom of three school-aged boys. She was also the first member of her family to go to college and gets how hard the system can be... Sarah is happy to collaborate with colleagues with anything related to any of the above interests.
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Dear MySQL users, MySQL for Visual Studio is a product including all of the Visual Studio integration previously available as part of Connector/Net. The 1.2.1 version is a beta release of this product which is feature complete but still can contain minor bugs and is not suitable for production environments. This version is appropriate for use with MySQL Server versions 5.5-5.6. MySQL Server 5.7 is also compatible but not fully supported yet. As this is a beta version the MySQL for Visual Studio product can be downloaded only by using the product standalone installer at this link http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/visualstudio/ The 1.2.1 version includes the following new features: - A new MySQL Project Wizard for creating Windows Forms applications. - A new MySQL Project Wizard for creating ASP.NET MVC 3/4 web applications. - A new option in web configuration tool for the ASP.NET Personalization Provider (this feature requires Connector/Net 6.9). - A new option in web configuration tool for the ASP.NET Site Map Provider (this feature requires Connector/Net 6.9). MySQL Project Wizard for Windows Forms -------------------------------------- This wizard automates the generation of a .NET Windows Forms Application that is connected to a MySQL data source and supports CRUD operations. A Typed DataSet or an Entity Framework Model can also be generated to link the Application to the MySQL Database. In this version only one table can be selected in the wizard. This limitation will be replaced with a multiple tables wizard in the 1.2.2 upcoming version. Within the Wizard the user can select one of three options for the View type: Single Layout: A form that contains one control by each existing column in the table with navigation controls and that allows CRUD operations. All controls can include data typed validations for Numeric types and Datetime types. Grid layout: A form with a Grid that contains navigation controls. Master-Detail: A form with a single controls layout for the Parent table and a grid to navigate in the child table. Supported with C# or Visual Basic language. This feature requires Connector/Net 6.7.5, 6.8.3 or 6.9.x. For more details on the features included check the documentation at : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-windows-forms.html MySQL Project Wizard for ASP.NET MVC 3 -------------------------------------- The ASP.NET MVC Project Wizard is available at the Visual Studio New Project dialog, either at the MySql category or by filtering by name. It also can be accessed by using the MySQL Toolbar inside Visual Studio. This wizard automates the generation of an ASP.NET MVC 3/4 application that includes the MySQL Membership configuration to manage ASP.NET authentication. The login and create user views are generated by the wizard and it also includes the generation of multiple browsable views for each one of the tables selected for the application generation. The generation of the MVC items is done also with the creation of an Entity Framework data model either with Entity Framework version 5 or 6 depending on the user's selection. Supported with C# or Visual Basic language. This feature requires Connector/Net 6.7.5, 6.8.3 or 6.9.x. For more details on the features included check the documentation at : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-windows-mvc-template.html New option in web configuration tool for the ASP.NET Personalization Provider ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Personalization provider allows to store personalization state-state data regarding the content and layout of Web Parts pages-generated by the Web Parts personalization service using MySQL as a data source. This feature requires Connector/Net 6.9.x. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-website-config.html New option in web configuration tool for the ASP.NET Site Map Provider ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Site Map provider allows to show a hierarchical list of links that describe the structure of a site. This feature requires Connector/Net 6.9.x. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-website-config.html For discussion, join the MySQL for Visual Studio forums: http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?174 Download MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2.1 beta from: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/visualstudio/ Quick links - MySQL for Visual Studio documentation http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-visual-studio.html - Bugs: http://bugs.mysql.com - Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?174 - Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/MySqlOnWindows/ Enjoy and thanks for the support! MySQL for Visual Studio Team.
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The Conference Board Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 4, 2014
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July 2014
It's been five years since the recession ended, and the global economy is still unable to come even close to prerecession growth rates; it is expected to grow by just 3.3 percent in 2014. While in some countries the unemployment rate is already below its natural rate (considered synonymous with full national employment), in others that moment is still many years away. Economic expansion and the massive retirement of baby boomers in many mature economies are tightening labor markets—but how rapidly and to what degree varies significantly across countries and occupations; interestingly, the most extreme cases of tight labor markets are within the Euro Area.


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The nurse kissed by an ecstatic sailor in New York's Times Square celebrating the end of World War II, has died, her son Joshua Friedman confirmed to NBC News. She was 92.
Greta Zimmer Friedman died Thursday at a Richmond, Virginia, hospital of what her son called complications from old age.
Friedman was thrust into the spotlight in 1980 when Life magazine published the iconic photo in an issue asking for the sailor, later identified as George Mendonsa, and nurse to come forward. Mendonsa, a sailor on leave overjoyed that Japan surrendered, grabbed Friedman as she entered Time Square. She was a 21-year-old dental assistant at the time.
Unbeknownst to either, noted Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured the moment on Aug. 14, 1945, and published it a few weeks later. It became one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century.
"I realized the photo means a lot to so many people," Joshua Friedman said. "My mother always felt like it wasn't anything she did, it was something that happened to her."
She married Misha Friedman who served as a general infantry in the military and is interred in Arlington Cemetery, her son told NBC News.
"She'll be put in there next to him," Joshua said. "It seems fitting."


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The Hope College Chapel Choir has released a new compact disc.
The CD, "A Remarkable Stillness," includes 13 tracks recorded between the spring of 2007 and earlier this year at either St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church or Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The works reflect an overall theme of peace and reconciliation. The CD's title comes from the closing selection, "Rejoice in the Lamb," by Benjamin Britten, the text for which is excerpted from an 18th-century poem by Christopher Smart.
The CD features five works with direct Hope ties. The group's director, Dr. Brad Richmond, professor of music and director of choral activities at Hope, composed three of the selections: "Prayer for Peace," sung in Latin and English; "love is more thicker than forget," based on a poem by e.e. cummings; and "Anthem for Doomed Youth (Part I)." Alfred V. Fedak, a 1975 Hope graduate who is minister of music and arts at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, N.Y., composed "L'Envoy: King of Glory, King of Peace." Jennifer Wolfe, who is an adjunct assistant professor of music at Hope and director of the college's Women's Chamber Choir, composed "A Hymn to God."
The CD opens with "O Magnum Mysterium" (sung in Latin), by Guy Forbes. In addition to the pieces by Britten, Richmond, Fedak and Wolfe, the remaining selections are "Annunciation Carol" (sung in Latin and English), by Robert W. Lehman; "Minoi Minoi" (sung in Samoan), arranged by Christopher Marshall; "A Boy and a Girl," by Eric Whitacre; "Pokpok Alimpako" (sung in Filipino), by Francisco Feliciano; "Sicut cervus" (sung in Latin), by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; and "Magnificat" (sung in Latin), by Arvo Part.
The CD cover shows Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset, England. The inside back page and back cover include photographs taken during the choir's May 2009 tour of South Africa. The choir performed in a variety of settings during the tour, including large urban churches, universities, small parishes in black townships, inner-city missions and AIDS clinic.
The CD's producers were Richmond and John Erskine, who with Jean-Yves Munch also served as recording engineer. The mastering engineer was Glenn Brown.
The booklet was designed by Mark Cook. Richmond took the photographs.
Copies of "A Remarkable Stillness" are available for $10 at the Hope-Geneva Bookstore, which is located on the ground level of the DeWitt Center, on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The bookstore is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but will be open on Saturday, May 8, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The bookstore can also be visited online at www.hope.edu/bookstore/ or called at (616) 395-7833 or 1-800-946-4673.


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Every autumn for the past 27 years, massive crowds have congregated in Delaware to witness a sporting event of extreme proportions. The spectators brave unpredictable weather and uncertain events to watch some of the most dangerous, highest-speed machines duke it out and see who can take home that year's trophy.
No, we're not talking about NASCAR, although that race series is still the number-one draw in the small state. But a close second is Punkin Chunkin, an early-November battle royale of backyard-engineered, pumpkin-launching machines that seem to follow only one rule: Bigger is better. And nowadays, some of the biggest contraptions at the event stretch well over 50 feet tall and 100 feet long, capable of shooting a pumpkin a distance of well over 4,000 feet.
If it sounds ridiculous, that's because it is. But that's just what makes it so impressive and compelling, too.
Tonight at 8 p.m., the latest round of the annual competition will be aired on The Science Channel. It's become something of a Thanksgiving tradition over the past few years, with viewers tuning in to see what crazy new machines will be unveiled, and if any of them will finally hit the one-mile mark. For the second year running, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci and Kari Byron from MythBusters provide hosting duty, bringing their patently fun approach to science and building to the sport of seeing how far a fruit can fly. (Full disclosure: I hosted the TV coverage in 2009 — and I've been dying to go back ever since).
Imahara sums up the enthusiasm well, saying, "As an engineer, a tinkerer, and a builder, it's the kind of thing I'd probably do even if I wasn't hosting the event."
There's a highly impressive element hiding under all those splattered gourd guts. The apparatuses are unique, highly precise machines, their designs requiring huge amounts of creativity and engineering know-how. The time and money spent on their invention, maintenance, and upgrades is another massive component; most teams continue to work on their creations throughout the year, and can spend well over $100,000 on parts and assembly.
Those challenges don't stop the teams from showing up, though — the lineup of machines entered this year was 110 strong, stretching farther than a mile.
The only small part about it all might be the projectiles themselves — the rules require that the teams all use 8- to 10-pound pumpkins, but that part is stated with enough vagueness that most teams have started to engineer their own cross-bred gourd variants, small and compact with thick walls and almost solid cores to best withstand the incredible pressures the machines exert as they blast the pumpkins up to and beyond 500 mph.
There are five major categories of pumpkin chunkers: catapults and onagers, trebuchets, centrifugal, human powered, and air cannons. Each brings a list of pros and cons. The teams all fiercely defend their category as the best.
"Everybody out there is incredible smart, it's this guerrilla engineering but with the backyard spirit. It's a fun fusion," Byron says, discussing the level of complexity that the machines contain, including microprocessor-released valves for the air cannons and massive, V8 engine-powered centrifugal contraptions.
This year's event featured an extra obstacle, too — natural disaster.
"Two days before the Chunk was to happen, Hurricane Sandy pummeled the northeast," Byron explains. "The chunkers usually would have brought their stuff in on a Thursday, and instead they all put their stuff out on a Monday, before the storm hit, because they weren't sure if they'd be able to get their vehicles through. The resilient spirit of all these people is just crazy."
That passion, and the spirit of camaraderie, tends to be the brightest part of the event, with contestants helping each other over the three day event with tools, spare parts, and extra help. It's a big part of what keeps them — and the crowds — coming back each year.
"Over the past two years, I've gotten to know many of the Chunkers," says Grant. "And in addition to being great builders, they're all interesting characters, and excellent people. I'm really looking forward to next year!"


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This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website
ICT infrastructures for e-science
Šis kopsavilkums ir arhivēts un netiks atjaunināts, jo dokuments, kuram izveidots kopsavilkums, vairs nav spēkā vai neataino pašreizējo situāciju.
ICT infrastructures for e-science
The performance of information technology is constantly improving in terms of computation capacity, storage capacity and network speed. This generates new needs in terms of e-Infrastructures. It is now, therefore, essential to adapt ICTs to each phase of the scientific process. Investment in e-Infrastructures represents an opportunity to develop growth and employment, as well as to bring about a new scientific renaissance.
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - ICT infrastructures for e-science [COM(2009) 108 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
This Communication aims at developing the infrastructure of information and communication technologies (ICTs), also known as "e-Infrastructures", in the area of e-science.
The potential of e-Infrastructures
The performance of information technology is constantly improving with regard to computation capacity, storage capacity and network speed. It allows new needs to be met in terms of modelling and simulation in sectors such as research into climate change or targeted healthcare but generates problems when designing e-Infrastructures.
It is therefore necessary to adopt ICTs to each phase of the scientific process, so that researchers can work together efficiently. This adoption will also allow the scope of research to be extended, which should generate, in the long term, a scientific renaissance and contribute to the success of the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs.
The current position of e-Infrastructures
The European Commission's Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development has promoted the development and deployment of e-Infrastructures, in order to strengthen scientific excellence, and to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness.
GEANT is the world's largest multi-gigabit communication network for researchers and educators. In Europe, GEANT is widely used and connects 34 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).
E-science grids (devoted to subjects such as high-energy physics and bioinformatics) are also present in Europe, in particular through EGEE which operates a multi-disciplinary grid with over 80 000 computers on 300 sites in 50 countries worldwide.
Scientific data necessitates new tools and methods. Projects are being developed in Europe so that all scientific content resources are accessible through e-Infrastructure services.
A new supercomputer infrastructure has been identified by ESFRI as a priority to improve European scientific performance and meet socio-economic challenges. The combined action of Member States and the Commission will generate the creation of PRACE, a new European e-Infrastructure dedicated to high-performance computing.
Global Virtual Research Communities are growing fast, which is opening up new perspectives for collaboration in the field of research on a worldwide scale.
European strategy for e-Infrastructures
The Commission proposes a renewed strategy to meet the challenges of e-science for 2020 and beyond. Three interrelated vectors are key to this strategy:
GEANT must continue to increase its performance in collaboration with NRENs, so as to facilitate access to resources and equipment for researchers, educators and students. Both developed and developing regions must be covered. In this regard, Member States must prioritise the use of GEANT as an experimental platform.
Industry is to be invited to use European e-Science grids. To this end, Member States must develop National Grid Initiatives (NGIs). The European Commission plans to facilitate interaction between European e-Science grids and global grids.
Access to scientific information must be improved by developing data-centric science. Member States thus have a duty to invest in the field of scientific data infrastructures and exchange best practice.
A new generation of supercomputing facilities must be implemented. The European Union must comply with the ESFRI objectives which aim to achieve peta-flop performance by 2010 and move towards exa-scale computing in 2020. Research and development in software and hardware must therefore be intensified so as to implement supercomputers. The preparatory work carried out by PRACE is a starting point for Member States that are also invited to invest in associated research fields. In the mid-term, the Commission will prepare a European scientific agenda in the field of supercomputing, covering the components, systems, software and services required.
Member States are also requested to fully exploit infrastructures to serve science and research. The objective is to host global virtual research communities.
A new vision for the European Research Area based on the free movement of knowledge (the "fifth freedom") was defined at the 2008 Ljubljana Council meeting. Moreover, the Aho Report of May 2008 highlighted the importance of developing infrastructures that would allow e-science to be disseminated. This indeed represents a new scientific revolution. It is essential for the European Union to be at the cutting edge of innovation in this field.
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This is a great path to ride your bike fairly easy. my kids have done it from start to finish
Water and nice views
Rode from Centennial Park to downtown Huntington Beach. Nice trail with lots to see. Trail dumps you right into huntington beach.
Great trail to ride to the beach. I only rode on the 14 mile stretch from Amtrak Anaheim station to the beach but the trail was awesome Great surface to ride, parks and brides along the way many on and off access . but continuing trail with no autos to worry about.
Great beautiful trail to ride It can get difficult if the beach is very busy. You may have to ride around and through crowds but it is part of the fun a bit. Bathrooms and food is available all along the trail. Great scenery and mostly flat.
You can park for free in the lot next to the bus roundabout. If you come in at the north end of the trail (off of Warner) and turn right after the jack in the box you'll see a parking lot on the left. There's no fee to park there! 😉
Nice route to log in miles, pretty flat with some mild inclines. Great clean ride
A friend and I both have new e-Bikes. Both are city urban commuter type bikes and both of us over sixty-five. We used to ride years ago but for various reasons we stopped. Now we're back on the road enjoying a lovely trail with wonderful sights. There are little parks and kiddy play areas along the way. We only managed nearly half this time around with a plan to finish the second half in the near future.
Breath taking - separate pedestrian and bike paths - Queen Mary, Marina, and an island with a bunch of man made waterfalls that turn into a light show at night
I suspect this trail is especially popular with the surrounding community. I know if I lived there I'd be cruising down to the beach every day on it! For a couple of out of towners, it was well worth the time we put into exploring it.
After spending the night in Dana Point's bluff hugging Blue Lantern Inn, we parked the car and unloaded the bikes in Dana Point Marina's Baby Beach parking lot so we could enjoy pedaling around the quiet marina streets as well as the San Juan Creek Trail.
After cruising over to Doheny State Beach to the trailhead, we began our trek along the bank of the creek. For the most part it's a nice, fairly quiet ride. On the way up, we took a detour and explored the Trabuco Creek Trail as well as Old Historic San Juan Capistrano.
The San Juan Creek Trail eventually concluded in a somewhat rural area of ranches and equestrian centers. After cruising back down to the trailhead, I must say it's pretty cool to relax on the beach in the cool, salty air and to bask in the sun.
I first rode this trail over forty years ago when it was one of the first Class I trails in southern California, and I must say it was so cool to go from the Inland Empire all the way to the OC beaches! In recent years I've also ridden the upper portion which is a completely different experience but still worthwhile. The lower portion is nice and flat with cool ocean breezes, while the upper portion is hilly in places and much warmer in the summer. Lower: 5 stars. Upper: 3 stars.
As a lifelong resident of the Inland Empire and a Rancho Cucamonga homeowner, I've ridden this trail dozens of times over the years. It's extremely popular with locals and families for bicycling, walking, and jogging. For an urban area it has a great deal of good things going for it. There are also some not so great things.
THE GOOD: Off street, Class I trail following along the historic route of the extinct Pacific Electric Rail Line; some pretty views of the San Gabriel Mountains; historic, one hundred year old homes near downtown Upland; riding between Base Line Road in Fontana to Route 66 in Rancho Cucamonga.
THE BAD: The trail is frequently intersected by major thoroughfares and other streets so there are lots of stops and starts; you're essentially riding your bike between the block walled backyards of neighborhoods for much of the time or behind businesses; going uphill between Route 66 and Base Line Road in Rancho Cucamonga (according to my wife); downtown Fontana homeless.
THE UGLY: When heading west, don't bother going beyond Euclid Avenue in Upland since for the most part there's nothing but some sketchy apartments, warehouses, and industrial complexes the rest of the way.
CONCLUSION: I've traveled thousands of miles in the United States to ride my bike on beautiful, historic, once in a lifetime, bucket list worthy trails. This ain't one of 'em. As a Rancho Cucamonga resident I was excited when they constructed this since it's great, local urban bike riding, and an opportunity for walkers to get in their ten thousand steps or joggers their miles. However, don't plan a big vacation around this one (unless you're coming to visit friends or family and you need to get a bit of exercise).
Looking through the preceding 47 reviews, a title from May of 2013 sums this trail up best: "Better Than Riding a Stationary Bike".
CONSIDER: Just west of Vineyard Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga is a connecting trail called Cucamonga Creek Trail which goes north about six miles into the foothills of Rancho Cucamonga. It's a Class I asphalt trail, and the first few miles are moderately difficult and not especially well maintained, but the last few miles travel diagonally across the foothills and are easy and well maintained as you travel through neighborhoods of million dollar homes and ranches full of horses. Eventually you get to the crown jewel park in our city, Heritage Park, where you can enjoy valley and mountain views and have a picnic lunch. (I've taken my kids when they were little and my 10 year old granddaughter in recent years up this trail). Best of all, you can coast almost all the way back to the Pacific Electric Trail!
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text: Bhama (Malayalam: ഭാമ) is a Malayalam film actress. She debuted in 2007 through Nivedyam directed by Lohithadas. Before her entry to film industry, she was doing a matrimonial programme on television titled Thaali. Lohithadas spotted her in the programme and cast her in Nivedyam.[1]. Her second film was Hareendran Oru Nishkalankan directed by Vinayan, in which she was cast opposite Manikuttan. She paired with Vineeth Sreenivasan in Cycle directed by Johnny Antony. The film was a major success and was touted as the 'the first genuine hit of 2008'.[2]


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I guess my love of photography started as I watched my father use an old Box Brownie Camera.
To my child's eye it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
My passion was further fuelled a few years later when my parents gifted me with a camera. I still
remember walking into the store and staring at my soon-to-be-own camera as it sat in the glass
display cabinet. A Kodak camera. I took many badly shot photos with that little gem, some of
which I still have in albums today.
When I was in my mid teens my parents went one step further and purchased my first SLR, a Ricoh.
It was my constant companion for about 10 years at which stage I gave it up for a model that would
auto focus on my children as they never sat still long enough for me to manually focus.
I miss that camera.
So in retrospect, I owe my love of photography to my parents, who ignited the flame and in their
own way kept it burning through the years.
To Mum and Dad, this site is dedicated to you.
I know I have never said it enough...........thank you.
And to my long suffering husband, who listens with patient ears and trys to look interested when
I talk about fstops and bokeh. Who surprised me last Christmas with a Nikon D70 under the tree, for
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Director Khaled Youssef took on the establishment with his films before Hosni Mubarak's police state was brought down and now believes the arts can challenge the Islamists ruling Egypt after the revolution.
"Art will contribute greatly, just as it did in overthrowing Mubarak's regime," said Youssef, who has joined the opposition campaign against a constitution drafted by an Islamist assembly that is on the verge of becoming the basis for Egypt's laws.
The constitution, fast-tracked to a referendum by President Mohamed Mursi, has exposed the deep rifts between Egypt's Islamists and a rival camp of leftists, liberals, Christians and more moderate Muslims, at odds about how to shape the new nation.
The basic law won 57 percent of the vote in the first round and is now expected to pass through a second round on Saturday. The opposition camp says the document's failure to win a ringing endorsement shows just how divisive it is.
"No constitution is forced on half of a nation oppressively and forcefully," said Youssef, 48, a leftist member of the opposition Popular Current party.
Islamists, who have won every vote since Mubarak was ousted in February 2011, although by shrinking margins, say the constitution must be passed to complete the transition to democracy and Egypt's laws and codes should be based on Islamic principles to reflect the wishes of a Muslim-majority nation.
For liberal-minded Muslims like Youssef, whose camp has struggled to organise against the disciplined ranks of Islamists, that vision means sidelining the rights of Christians, who make up a tenth of Egypt's 83 million people, women and others who see Egypt as a diverse nation and a cultural leader in the Arab world.
"This constitution is heading to the dustbin of history," said the director whose films sought to highlight the nation's slide into poverty under Mubarak and have annoyed Islamists with plots that tackle taboo issues such as sex.
Rights groups say the constitution does not include enough explicit protection for women's rights and point to vague language, such as references to "national" morals. Liberals fear this means religious conservatives will use it to impose social restrictions that could hurt women, minorities and the arts.
The document has a distinctly Islamist flavor. While the source of legislation remains "the principles" of Islamic sharia as in the old text, a new provision adds further details on what that would mean. Another article says Al-Azhar mosque and university, a seat of Sunni Muslim learning, must be consulted on "matters related to the Islamic sharia".
"Under the shadow of the Brotherhood and extremist groups the future of all Egyptians will no doubt be dark," said Fatma Naoot, 48, a poet and columnist, who often speaks out on women's issues and defends the arts against censorship.
Naoot, a liberal Muslim, refers to some of the radical preachers who are now common faces on television as "strangers" to Egyptians, adding: "But I am confident that Egypt will return to us soon."
Defeating the constitution in the referendum now looks beyond the opposition. Their next battle will be a parliamentary election likely in early 2013. The last parliament, dissolved in June, was dominated by Islamists.
Islamists bore the brunt of Mubarak's repressive police state, but liberals and leftists fared little better. Some groups were co-opted, others were harried and their anti-Mubarak protests were routinely crushed by baton-wielding police.
The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, can draw on a social support and charity network it built up over eight decades, even as its members were jailed. The opposition have not yet matched that, even if groups like the Popular Current and Mohamed ElBaradei's Constitution Party are expanding their reach.
"The Brotherhood faction and the extremist religious groups, are unfortunately only ruled by a sense of revenge for the 80 years (they spent) visualizing and longing for power," said Naoot.
Like Youssef, she has become a regular guest on fiercely argumentative talk shows, lining up against Islamists. The shows have become nightly battle grounds on Egypt's future.
"A woman in the eyes of those seated on the chair of power now is merely a 'thing' that has no decision or will," she said, pointing to Egypt's ancient history with its women leaders and female goddesses, and mentioning that in more modern times one of the earliest female aviators was Egyptian.
"Egypt will move on the right path if people stay strong and united in the face of Brotherhood fascism," she said, using the kind of fierce language that has become more common as the political battle lines have hardened.
Both sides employed fiery terms. In a call for a protest in Alexandria this Friday in response to clashes between Islamists and their opponents last week, a Brotherhood official referred to the "ugly face of secularism with its animosity to Islam."
Islamists also say their actions are not seeking to smother the views of others but claim they reflect majority opinion, in a nation where most women are veiled, although that dress code does not indicate political allegiance.
Divisions, they say, are the normal way of politics.
"The whole world is divided and that does not mean the world will enter into global wars," Brotherhood official Essam el-Erian told Reuters after the first-round vote. "Division in any vote doesn't mean the start of a civil war or chaos."
But the Brotherhood's opponents say a constitution should not drive a wedge through a nation because it is meant to reflect the principles of governance not partisan politics.
They also say support for Mursi and his group may be ebbing away. A referendum on a temporary constitution, a parliamentary vote and a presidential election in the past two years suggest at least some slippage in support for Islamists.
The National Salvation Front, an opposition coalition formed after Mursi expanded his powers on November 22 and then pushed through the constitution, has drawn tens of thousands on to the streets to oppose the referendum, although has not managed it with the regularity of Islamists.
Hassan Nafaa, a liberal activist and political science professor, was among voters who plumped for Mursi in the presidential run-off race in June when the alternative was Ahmed Shafik, an ex-military man and former prime minister under Mubarak. Mursi won with 52 percent of the vote.
But Nafaa said Mursi had turned to his own group and ignored other Egyptians, even members of the opposition who had backed him in his election. He said the president was simply dismissing the opposition as "liberals (who) do not have any real weight among the population".


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Microsoft's new operating system has not been well received, and they may be planning to change some fundamental pieces – like reinstating the missing start button and getting you to your desktop as soon as you boot up. But in the meantime, I'll show you how to fix Windows 8's biggest annoyances right now.
First the rumors: Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet reports the update to Microsoft Windows 8 (code named Blue) that will release in August of 2013 may include a start button. The little icon in the lower left hand corner of the screen has been an anchor of navigation for many, over years of Windows use, and they feel lost without it.
But if Microsoft succumbs to pressure and returns it to the operating system, it probably won't be your classic start button, more like an icon in the same place as the original, which will take you to the Metro UI Start Screen of tiles.
Another rumor is that users will have the option to bypass that start screen on boot up and go directly to the Desktop. Foley reports this may not be baked into the update, but an option you can choose. At present, the only way to boot to the desktop is a pretty complicated set of instructions to schedule a task on boot up that takes you to the desktop or download a German program that "makes a few changes to the Windows 8 licensing system" according to the developer, not something most users are comfortable doing.
So in lieu of waiting for the update from Microsoft here are some tips to fix the biggest annoyances now:
Add a Start Button
The easiest way to bring back Start is to download a free program called Classic Shell. It adds a slightly modified icon to the lower left corner. When you click on it, a standard set of Windows menus opens up. You can also customize Windows Explorer to be more like Windows XP or Windows 7.
Boot Straight to the Desktop (kind of)
As I mentioned earlier, there is no elegant way to boot straight to the desktop, but one thing to consider is that all your standard keyboard shortcuts work in Windows 8. So as soon as you hit that start screen with the tiles, hold down the windows key on your keyboard and hit "D." it takes you immediately to the desktop.
If you haven't used keyboard shortcuts in the past, the navigation challenges of Windows 8 make these tricks all the more useful:
· Windows+E opens Windows Explorer
· Alt + Tab toggles between open programs
· Windows+ I opens settings
The Touchpad Or Mouse Is Making You Crazy, Right?
Windows 8 was designed for touchscreen interfaces, and it works pretty well when you are manipulating items on the screen. Microsoft even built in some gestures you can use that help navigate quicker and more efficiently with touch. Unfortunately, they don't translate well to the mouse or touchpad. For example, if you swipe from the left edge of the touchpad, it automatically switches to another open application. So you're trying to move the cursor over something on the far left edge of a web page when suddenly Microsoft Excel pops up, that's what's going on – UGHHHHH! Equally frustrating – if you swipe from the right side of the touchpad, your movement brings the charms bar onto the page. Equally UGHHHHH!
Fortunately, you can disable this gesture. From the desktop hit Windows + I, Change PC settings, General, Turn off the button for "When I swipe from the left edge, switch directly to my most recent app."
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One of the items that had been on my genealogy to-do list for quite some time was to visit the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. I had been through their online records and knew that quite a few people with the surnames I research were buried there. Many of them were in my database as either proven or possible cousins. I not only wanted to get some tombstone photos for my personal records and find-a-grave, but also to find the additional information that might be on the tombstones. (The online cemetery records only show the section/plot and the date of burial.)
One of the reasons I had not been there before was that I was trying to convince The Spouse to accompany me on this trip — actually I wanted him to drive. It's not that it is that far — less than an hour if the traffic isn't bad. The problem is that while my car (SUV, actually) is great for transporting multiple kids and their gear, it's not so great navigating narrow, unfamiliar city streets. At least not with me driving it – LOL! So I was really excited and somewhat surprised when he agreed to go there with me Sunday afternoon. Our somewhat reluctant 13 year-old came with us as well. Actually, it's quite telling how upset The Spouse is with the way his beloved Eagles are playing that he agreed to the cemetery trip on Eagles game day! But I digress….
In preparation for the trip, I created a spreadsheet based on the information gathered from my online search of the Laurel Hill Cemetery records. The format was pretty simple – I had columns for Surname, First Name, Section, Plot and Burial Date. I had about 80 people in the spreadsheet but only about 24 unique plots. I also printed out the cemetery map – which indicated each section. My plan was that once we reached the cemetery, we would proceed through the list, section by section, find the relevant plot(s), take the photos and mark off the names on the spreadsheet. Quick, simple, efficient. Unfortunately, as you can imagine, everything did NOT go according to the plan!
First, we took the "scenic" route there and so the trip took longer than expected – meaning we would have less time to spend at the cemetery since gates close at 4:00. Then there is the cemetery itself – it's huge and the roads are very narrow with limited space to pull off and park. Armed with my cemetery map and spreadsheet, I had a false sense of confidence in our ability to quickly find the grave sites of interest, thus thinking that a stop in the cemetery office was unnecessary. We drove rather aimlessly at first, just trying to find a spot where we could pull over and park. We finally found a spot near section Y.
At first I was thinking that this was good. I had a Bechtel family plot on my list in section Y that we would be able to start with. Unfortunately it's a little difficult for a first-time visitor to figure out the boundaries of each section since they just sort of all flow together. The three of us searched for about 30 minutes before finding the Bechtels – only later realizing that most of that time we spent searching we had drifted into the adjacent sections. Then, when we finally find the plot, there are only 4 tombstones instead of the expected 7 and one of those was completely worn and unreadable. Ugh!
At this point, I was feeling a little discouraged and thinking we needed to come up with a plan B. The Spouse and the Reluctant Teenager, not really being into genealogy in the first place, wholeheartedly concurred. So our next stop was the cemetery office. We were hoping someone there would be able to pinpoint where the plots were located within each section. At this point my high hopes of locating all 23 of the remaining plots on my list in one afternoon were dashed. (Actually, I knew this after about the first 10 minutes, when we were having problems finding the Bechtel plot.) So I chose 4 plots, which the man working at the office helped me locate on the large master plot map they have on display. I then marked the approximate locations on the printed map that I had brought from home. Surprisingly, before we left the office, The Spouse had struck up a conversation with the helpful cemetery worker about the various military generals and other famous people buried in the cemetery. Who knew!
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Yesterday I cropped and processed the photos and added memorials to find-a-grave [link]. A few of the people whose tombstones I photographed already had memorials, so I just added the photos. I've also added some of the photos to this posting. All in all, I think even The Spouse and The Reluctant Teenager had an enjoyable afternoon. Ever hopeful, I am looking forward to our next road trip to Laurel Hill Cemetery and finding the remaining plots and tombstones on my list!!


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Britain's Prince Harry is to travel to the United States to be presented with a prestigious award honoring his work with war veterans and serving members of the armed forces.
The Prince will visit Washington D.C. on May 7 to receive the Atlantic Council's award for "distinguished humanitarian leadership," St James's Palace announced Monday.
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Principal denies link to blast
The headmaster of a primary school that was hit by a blast on Monday that saw two people killed and 44 injured, denied that the incident was the result of a feud involving him, media said yesterday. Many children were among those hurt in the blast, which happened when a man rode a motorcycle past the school in Guilin as they arrived for classes. The cause of the explosion was not clear, but early reports suggested the motorcycle caught fire before a "loud bang" was heard. "Some media said the cause of the explosion could be somebody being involved with a feud with the school principal, who took his retaliation to extremes," said the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party. "Yesterday, the principal, Qin Zhuanhong, denied the claim, saying he had very few enemies and he does not know the blast site tricycle driver." Guilin officials also said the reports were "simply rumors."


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welcome to Nob Hill Riverview Bed and Breakfast, the perfect place to relax and unwind from every day stresses. From the moment you step inside you will find the Inn is elegantly appointed and restored for your comfort. It is our goal to have you feel pampered and welcomed in our turn of the Century Craftsmen home. The home was built for a Doctor in the year 1900. The Inn is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and has been updated with all the modern conveniences. For walking distance fun, the Inn is centrally located in Historical Waterfront, Olde Town part of St Helens, Oregon. The Inn has outstanding views of the Columbia River, just 32 miles from downtown Portland and 64 miles from the Coast. The Inn is centrally located for day travel to Astoria, the Oregon Coast , Mt . Hood, Mt. St. Helens and the Columbia Gorge.
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For an extra romantic touch all three suites offer fireplaces and private baths with upscale amenities. In the afternoon upon your request we offer Afternoon Tea. We feature a wonderful blend of Earl Grey teas served in vintage china with fresh lemon, sugar cubes, and a silver spoon. You'll feel spoiled all settled into a rocking chair with gingham cushions on the wide front porch over looking the river. No matter what the season and even if the weather is crisp outside, we have vintage wool blankets to cuddle under. When you're ready to come inside take the time to sit in front of the crackling fire. What could be more romantic? Our Inn is steeped in the ambiance of another century and ready to welcome you.