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This second batch of photos is from our stay at the hotel. The hotel was also a casino, but it had a movie theater, bowling ally, pool, workout room, restaurants, buffet, and arcade in it as well. We utilized most of these amenities during our 10-day stay.
Every morning we would exit our room, number 438, Tralee would run down the hall and wait for us at this window by the elevators. As soon as we got there, she would push the down button, wait for the elevator, walk right in after it opened and hit the "L" button for lobby. She knew exactly what to do after we told her the first time.
When the elevator door would open into the lobby Tralee would see all the fancy blinking casino lights and her reaction was always, "Oooo! Look Mom! Look!"
Our hotel room was pretty basic. However, we pretty much only bathed and slept there, so it was perfect for us.
Every time I put my face on (which isn't very often) Tralee wants to join in the fun. While we were in Vegas, this was Tralee making herself pretty as I was doing the same.
The end result:
Three days before our final day in Vegas I took Tralee bowling. She LOVED it. That's all she talked about the rest of the day, "A Tree bowing?" Which translates to, "Can Tralee going bowling?" I would usually answer, "Maybe we can go bowling later with Daddy." All I heard after that was, "Daddy go bowing?" We ended up bowling everyday after this until we left.
Tralee's first bowling score is pictured below. In her defense, we didn't use those nifty ramp things until halfway through her first game. A lady bowling next to me asked me why we weren't using one, since every time Tralee threw her ball down it rolled S L O W L Y to the pins. I forgot all about the ramps. After that, all we used to bowl were the ramps, and Tralee knew exactly what to do. I didn't have to help her at all. She knew which ball was hers, how to line up the ramp, and how to stand back and watch her ball knock the pins down. It was awesome. In my defense, I let Tralee bowl for me, and the bumpers weren't up when my name was. . . so it pretty much went into the gutter every time. I really can bowl more than a 32.
After bowling we would go to the arcade. Tralee is at the age where just sitting on the games is enough for for her, she thinks she's playing as long as there's something to look at on the screen. Works for me! Her favorite game to sit on was this motorcycle one. The motorcycle would rock back and forth, and she LOVED it!
The person on screen kept doing tricks. Eventually Tralee started copying them. Here she is doing the "superman" pose. Pretty talented, don't you think?
On Friday night our hotel's buffet had a sea food event. All I ate were crab legs. I mean, how can you not eat crab legs when they're all-you-can-eat. We gorged ourselves on crab legs, salmon, shrimp, and oysters. I felt no guilt either. Not one little bit. The pictures below are from our seafood night.
Jim took this picture of me reading to the kids before bedtime. My foot is filthy! Don't look at it. Great, now that I typed that, all you're going to look at is my foot. How about this: Don't look at my cute kids. They're way to cute, so don't look at them.
Here we are on Saturday night cosmic bowling. We were going to go down to the strip, but all Tralee was talking about was bowling. So, we decided she would have more fun bowling at the hotel, than she would on the busy Vegas strip. We'll take her to the strip when she's a little older and will have more fun riding rides and whatnot.
Check out Jim's perfect form:
Hunter fell asleep right away.
Jim and Tralee's scores:
Playing at the arcade after bowling:
I think I have one more Vegas post to do. . . then I'm all caught up! HOORAY!! Stay tuned.
Friday, October 9, 2009
3 comments:
- Joni said...
Oh man I love it! Looks like a blast!
- October 9, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- Nana said...
What a great time you must have had and Tralee was in her glory. I'm so glad you had that chance to go to Vegas, a break from the usual routine and fun, fun, fun.
I didn't know they had stands for the kids to put the bowling ball on and let it roll down the alley. No wonder she wanted to bowl all the time, that was fun.
Great pictures, I really enjoyed them
Love, Nana
- October 10, 2009 at 7:11 AM
- Audie said...
Your foot totally grossed me out! Just kidding!!
- October 10, 2009 at 9:18 PM
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some days i really love my job.
even in the midst of bureaucratic bullshit, and long hours of marking essays, and ridiculous-though-endearing things children do (please stop ripping the flexible plastic off of your 3-ring binder in the middle of class — with your TEETH), i just really love teaching.
yesterday was a great day. my students made me laugh, i made them laugh, we wrote some great reflections, and to top it all off, they brought me homemade cupcakes.
one of my favorite novels to teach is the outsiders by s. e. hinton. in the states, my students immediately related to the greasers and eventually grew in empathy for the socs; they realized that things really were rough all over, that socio-economic advantages did not mean someone's life was perfect. its accessibility makes it a student favorite too.
(of course, they learned about the literary aspects of the novel too: themes, mood, foreshadowing, motifs, yada yada yada.)
i'll admit that i had preconceived expectations of how my students in egypt would react to this book. although i was confident they would all love it, i also assumed that because of their own socio-economic situations, they would not necessarily understand the greasers.
silly me.
in the first chapter or two, that was sorta true. they asked me a million questions — "how do they live like that? why do they live like that? they are only teenagers; it's not okay for them to act like that!" some of it was tinged with judgement, but most of it was expressed with incredulity. what's portrayed in the book is so different from their own lives on so many levels. they simply didn't recognize it.
by the time we were 2/3 done, one of the girls raised her hand at the start of class. they had been assigned a particularly exciting chapter as homework the night before.
"miss, all of us love the greasers, and we feel like we are part of their group. so because [spoiler alert!] happened to the boys, we are all SO SAD. and i think it's because the narrator is a greaser. we feel like we are inside his head, and we can relate to him. maybe if the author had used a soc as a narrator, it would be different, but we all feel like we're greasers too." outbursts of assent from the other girls followed.
my boys had a similar reaction. they all loved the greasers, and they all could relate to these characters.
this is why i love my job. this is the power of teaching literature.
yes, my students are learning about character development, and motifs, and narrator point of view, and other fascinating literary aspects.
but they are also learning about stereotypes and analyzing the danger of said stereotypes, how they do not leave room for individual identity. and about character motivation, and how cultural expectations can influence the choices characters (and by extension people) make.
literature creates a space for readers to insert themselves into the story. my kids might not recognize the poor side of town in 1960s oklahoma, but they recognize misunderstandings, identity issues, loss and grief. i love this part of my job the most. (the homemade cupcakes are a close second.)
i also love my kids' varied reactions to the book:
one girl is so obsessed with the character of johnny that the actor who portrayed him in the '80s movie is now the background picture on her cell phone. ralph macchio is making a comeback amongst grade 8 egyptian girls.
another girl cried her eyes out for 30 minutes after the death of a character. in the midst of her full-body sobs, she bawled, "death is not a joke!"
a reluctant reader, after we finished the penultimate chapter, yelled out, "no! there's only one chapter left! i refuse to read it! this book can't be over!" as soon as we read the last page, he turned back to the first one and started over. no joke.
seriously. i am so lucky to do what i love. now i need to return to the report cards i've been working on all afternoon.

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Social Impact Bonds are a new financial instrument being developed in the UK by the Young Foundation and Social Finance. There is more about them here and here. They are similar to Social Policy Bonds in that they link rewards to success in achieving meaningful social outcomes. They appear to differ in that unlike under a Social Policy Bond regime, the contract to achieve the specified outcome would not be tradable. It seems that Social Impact Bonds would reward pre-selected organizations, or parts of pre-selected organizations for working efficiently: they would still have incentives to achieve the specified goal. They might even contract out some of the required work.
Compared with Social Policy Bonds, though, SIBs would be less tradable. There would be no transparent market for them. The composition and structure of the organization trying to achieve the outcome would therefore be fixed and pre-determined. Under a Social Policy Bond regime, on the other hand, the type, structure and composition of organizations working to achieve the target would be subordinate to the most efficient way of reaching it. This means, amongst other things, that broad, longer-term goals could be targeted. The identity of the organizations envisaged as benefiting from any efficiency gains under a SIB regime is another point of departure. They seem to be local authorities or other government agencies. It would appear, therefore, that gains from improved efficiency would be most likely to be remain with the agency and so, perhaps regrettably, be less motivating than direct financial incentives to employees.


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BOONE, N.C. — The Hayes School of Music (HSOM) at Appalachian State University announces the 50th anniversary celebration of its Cannon Music Camp, with a reunion to take place July 6–8. Past campers, faculty and staff will gather at the Broyhill Music Center on Appalachian's campus to commemorate the event.
Reunion events include a concert given by current Cannon Music Camp faculty; a reception for camp alumni and guests; a reunion concert, which includes camp alumni; a banquet; and social time for former campers to become re-acquainted.
"I am constantly amazed at the number of people that are eager to talk to me about the Cannon Music Camp experience that changed their life and propelled them into a career in music," said Dr. James Douthit, dean of the HSOM.
"Many professional musicians across the globe, some of whom matriculated to their collegiate studies in the Hayes School of Music and others who attended other institutions, fondly recall their experience in the Cannon Music Camp as a transformational moment in their path to becoming a musician," he said.
The Cannon Music Camp is a three-week, music-filled retreat that offers a comprehensive course of musical instruction for student musicians who are rising high school freshmen to rising college freshmen, with intensive college preparatory work in performance and music theory.
Campers participate in daily ensemble rehearsals and music theory classes in an atmosphere that elevates the students' musicianship. Each camper also receives one-on-one instruction from HSOM faculty in weekly private lessons.
Cannon Music Camp Director James G. Daugherty, who has been a part of the camp for the past 28 years, shared, "Ensuring that every student who attends camp has an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive in a positive musical environment with like-minded friends and a talented, caring faculty/staff is paramount to the Cannon Music Camp experience. I believe this is why our camp is as healthy today as it was that first summer in 1969.
"The impact of Cannon is far-reaching and goes well beyond what happens inside the three-week camp experience," he said. "Our camp changes students' lives, one note at a time."
Cannon Music Camp history
In the spring of 1968, after several years of discussion, a committee of music faculty members was appointed to develop a plan for the establishment of a summer music camp on Appalachian's campus.
These members included Dr. Nicholas Erneston, then-dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts; Dr. William Spencer, late professor emeritus of music who chaired Appalachian's Department of Music from 1958 to 1972; HSOM Professor Emeritus Joseph Logan; and Drs. Charles L. Isley Jr., Walton Cole and MacWilliam Disbrow, all of whom are late professor emeriti of music in the HSOM.
A formal proposal indicating the rationale, operating procedures, instructional organization and budget was submitted in October 1968 to the university's administration. On Jan. 9, 1969, Dr. William H. Plemmons, Appalachian's second president, and Robert Allen, then-director of public affairs, met in Kannapolis with Charles A. Cannon, the late board chair of the Cannon Mills textile company.
Cannon donated $10,000 in support of the project, and the new summer music program at Appalachian was named Cannon Music Camp — both in memory of Cannon's wife, Ruth Cannon, and in honor of Cannon.
According to Daugherty, approximately 135 students, representing six states, arrived on campus on July 13, 1969, to participate in the first session of the Cannon Music Camp. The camp faculty numbered some 17 members, assisted by 10 graduate music students who served as counselors.
In the 1969 session, the instructional program included symphony orchestra, concert band, concert choir, string orchestra and several small ensembles, Daugherty said. "Daily instruction was given in music theory and private instruction was provided in each instrumental area and in voice," he added.
Over the past 50 years, 10,000 campers from 37 states and 13 countries have attended the camp.
The alumni concert to be held July 7 at 8 p.m. in the Broyhill Music Center's Rosen Concert Hall is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Cannon Music Camp office at email@example.com or 828-262-4091.
About the Hayes School of Music
The Hayes School of Music prepares young musicians for professional lives as performers, composers, music educators, music therapists, conductors and music industry professionals, ensuring the next generation of musical leadership for the state, region and nation. Noted for quality instruction by national and internationally recognized faculty musicians, the school offers four undergraduate degree programs and three graduate-level programs. Learn more at https://music.appstate.edu.
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As the premier public undergraduate institution in the state of North Carolina, Appalachian State University prepares students to lead purposeful lives as global citizens who understand and engage their responsibilities in creating a sustainable future for all. The Appalachian Experience promotes a spirit of inclusion that brings people together in inspiring ways to acquire and create knowledge, to grow holistically, to act with passion and determination, and to embrace diversity and difference. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Appalachian is one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina System. Appalachian enrolls more than 19,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate majors.
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Understanding the Living Building Challenge Workshop (New York City): SOLD OUT
International Living Future Institute
Thursday, November 3, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM (EDT)
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Understanding the Living Building Challenge provides a 6-hour in-depth introduction to the Living Building Challenge. Attendees are the green building leaders in their community: design professionals, contractors, developers, owners, government officials and employees of public agencies. In short, anyone and everyone who can impact the development of the built environment.
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|Petal rationale + strategies: Water, Energy, Health / Small Group Discussion
|Lunch + Case Studies
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|Breaking down Barriers / Community + Tools / Full Group Discussion /
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the key components of the Living Building Challenge
- Discuss the rationale for restorative design principles
- Understand successful strategies for compliance with each performance area
- Recognize financial, regulatory and behavioral barriers and incentives related to high performance design
- Describe the Living Building Challenge Community resources and certification process
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- Continental breakfast and lunch included
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Amanda Sturgeon
Amanda is a licensed architect with fifteen years experience designing and managing some of the most sustainable buildings in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to joining the International Living Future Institute, she was a Senior Associate at Perkins+Will where she co-directed the Sustainable Design Initiative across 20 offices worldwide and managed numerous sustainable projects. Amanda was a founding board member of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council and a recent board member of AIA Seattle. Amanda won the Betterbricks Architect award in 2008 and has been involved in leading many local committees for USGBC and AIA. She has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Sydney, Australia and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Amanda was born in England, grew up in Australia and has lived in the United States since 1996.
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Congress Should Support Protection Provisions For Migrant, Trafficked Children
Roll Call: What You Don't Know About Migrant Children May Kill Them
Jen Smyers, associate director for immigration and refugee policy with Church World Service
"…Our country has an obligation — moral and legal — to provide protection to … [migrant and trafficked] children, and to not deport them back to gangs and unspeakable violence. The 2008 trafficking law exists for this very purpose. But right now, Congress is trying to roll back important protections in this law to 'deport these children more quickly.' … This is not the answer. And this cannot be the American response. It is unconscionable that Congress would roll back a law because more children are in need of its protection. Instead, we need to provide these children the protection, care, counseling, and legal assistance they need to apply for asylum and protection…" (7/30).


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Pilot struggled to keep plane stable before crash
Al Paul talks about his nephew Steve Witcpalek who died in a February plane crash that also killed John Pagel, Witcpaleks father-in-law Jeff Bollier/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
GREEN BAY – The pilot flying John Pagel and Steve Witcpalek back to Green Bay told air traffic controllers he was struggling to maintain control of the airplane in the minutes before it crashed.
The Feb. 22 crash in an Indiana farm field killed pilot Nathan Saari, a Bellevue resident, as well as Pagel and Witcpalek.
Thousands attended memorial services Friday and Saturday for Pagel, a prominent Kewaunee County farmer and business owner, and Witcpalek, his son-in-law.
RELATED: Thousands attend visitation for Kewaunee County farmers John Pagel, Steve Witcpalek
RELATED: Kewaunee County dairy farmer, business leader John Pagel dead in Indiana plane crash
Saari, a corporate pilot who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, took off from Eagle Creek Airpark, in Indianapolis, at 6:20 p.m. Central Standard Time. He almost immediately began to deviate from the aircraft's assigned heading and altitude, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary investigation report.
Saari told air traffic controllers he was struggling to keep the Cessna 441 Conquest II stable.
For a few minutes, he had the aircraft on track, but he again reported having trouble keeping the airplane stable as he started to climb from 10,600 feet toward an altitude of 23,000 feet.
The NTSB reported air traffic controllers lost radar and radio contact with the aircraft shortly before it crashed at 6:39 p.m. Feb. 22
Witnesses told investigators the aircraft was very loud and that the engine sound was steady up until the plane crashed into a soft, muddy farm field outside Rossville. The airplane left a debris field that covered about one-fourth of a mile, according to the report.
The airplane was owned by Ponderosa Aviation, an affiliate of the Pagel family's prinicipal farm, Pagel's Ponderosa Dairy.
The NTSB indicated some details in the preliminary report could be changed in the final report. Final crash reports can take a year or more to complete.
Kewaunee School Board President Brian Vogeltanz talks about the Pagel family's contribution to area schools and the community. Jeff Bollier/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin


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This is another story that I can't place an accurate date on. Logically I think it had to occur in 1979 after my fourth escape, but there isn't enough time available for it to have happened then. So I'm at a loss as to when it was. All I'm sure of is that I was a young adult, somewhere between 18 and 21.
This story begins with my hitchhiking from the east coast to the west coast. I went west because I'd not seen the Pacific Ocean and felt slighted. Early in the east to west trip I was picked up by a friendly trucker. He wasn't going too far, but when our ride ended he stopped at a truck stop then got on his CB radio looking for a west bound trucker willing to give me a ride. A trucker came back saying he was going to Los Angeles, but said he was too tired to drive and asked if the hitchhiker could drive. The guy helping looked at me for the answer. I shrugged then shook my head. He told the guy I could and that I'd meet him in ten minutes. In those ten minutes the guy taught me to drive an eighteen wheeler.
When the guy going west said he was tired he hadn't exaggerated. He was completely fried. When I got into his truck he stuck his head out of the back sleeper and said, "Your turn. Go west. Wake me in six hours." He pulled his head back into the sleeper and was snoring in minutes. I crawled over into the drivers seat and studied everything. It was similar to the truck I just received my instructions in, so I was ready to go other than the wee little issue that he'd not showed me how to start the thing. With the guy in the back sleeping I took my time studying everything. When I felt I knew where everything was I started the engine. I ground the gears horribly when I tried to put it into second gear, but didn't wake the sleeping trucker, so revved the engine as I was taught and tried again. More grinding, but it went in gear this time. Getting out of the truck stop's parking lot was frightening, but I managed without swapping paint. Once on Interstate 70 it was easy, fun even. In six hours when I woke the guy up I was exhausted myself, but a competent trucker.
He dropped his load in LA. I made forty bucks unloading the truck for him, something known as "lumping". When we parted company I felt like I'd learned a new way to travel the country and a way to make spending money while doing it. I could have went back east with this guy except I'd traveled this far to see the Pacific Ocean, something I hadn't accomplished yet. I asked for directions to the ocean then walked in that direction with my thumb out. The first guy to give me a ride was trouble. I don't recall his name or even how the conversation evolved as it did, but in no time he'd explained that he and a few guys had some stuff going on and were looking for another guy. He wouldn't tell me what it was but did invite me to stay at their place for the night. It was getting late so I agreed.
They had a nice rented house in an area of LA called Woodland Hills. There were five or six guys who lived there but I only met three of them. The house was littered with guns and drugs. I asked again what they were into and was told they'd tell me after we partied. There were pills, which I didn't know anything about and pot. I was given my choice of pills. The three guys were eating them like candy, so I took a handful, pretended to swallow them with a beer, but dropped the pills in my shirt pocket instead. When a joint was passed around I took it and faked an inhale. I didn't do any of the drugs because I honestly didn't want to do them ever again. (Thinking it through, this must have been after I was married in 1977, because before that I'd have smoked the pot.) After the three of them were thoroughly stoned I asked what they were into. This time the guy who was their leader said armed robbery. He said they had robbed everything from banks to drug dealers. After that revelation he pulled an automatic pistol from behind a couch cushion. He handed me the gun and said, "Welcome to the crew. Get some sleep because we've got a job tomorrow."
I acted like I was asleep on the couch until an hour after they'd all gone to bed. Once they were out I left. As I was leaving I noticed a motorcycle helmet upside down on a table near the door. Inside the helmet were a set of keys and a wallet. I took both. The motorcycle was a nice Harley-Davidson. I pushed it for half a block before cranking it and riding away. It was three in the morning when I viewed the Pacific Ocean for the first time. I parked the bike and walked across the sand and touched the water. I wanted to stay longer, but felt the need to be gone before those guys woke. I threw the gun I'd been given far into the ocean then rode north to San Francisco. I dumped the Harley there. From there I hitchhiked all the way to the Washington border, got bored with the west, turned around and hitched south again.
The wallet I stole from the armed robber crew had a Canadian driver's licenses in it under the name Alan Grant. It worked well since Canadian driver's licenses back then lacked a photo. It did have a description, but Alan Grant and I were close enough to match. It also had several hundred dollars in it, which was useful as well.
The next interesting thing that occurred on this trip was on the outskirts of Denver. I was hitchhiking west on Interstate 70 when a pickup truck stopped. A guy who I assumed was a rancher introduced himself as Ruben Shaw. I introduced myself as Alan Grant, from Ontario Canada. (Ironic that I can remember all these names but not when this happened. I even recall the name of the town on Alan Grant's license, but can't spell it. Something like "Repentagency"). So Ruben Shaw asked if I had a driver's license. I produced my new Canadian one. He says, "Perfect. I'll give you a ride if you drive so I can get some sleep." I agreed and asked how far to go, to which he answered, "Until it runs out of gas." Everyone had turned cryptic on me. So I drove east on I-70 from Denver, having no idea how far we were going. I had noticed that the truck had Colorado plates, so it couldn't be too far.
In two hours the truck ran out of gas. I'd already figured out that it had two gas tanks so when the first tank was empty I flipped the switch for the second gas tank and the engine caught again. Ruben Shaw slept through the slight change in speed so I kept going. Colorado is a huge state. It seemed like forever until we started getting close to Kansas. When I realized we had only a few exits left in Colorado I woke Ruben Shaw. He looked at the exit and said, take this one. Ruben Shaw was impressed that I'd figured out how to switch his tanks and smart enough to realize I should wake him before going into Kansas. He acknowledged that it was luck that I woke him at his exit, but he also said there's value in luck. So Ruben Shaw offered me a job and a place to stay.
Ruben Shaw operated the only water drilling business in a two hundred mile range and he was good at it. As luck would have it his assistant had quit after breaking Shaw's backhoe, which was why he'd driven all night to Denver. To get parts to fix the backhoe. He had a shop that also served as a barn for his horses. The place had an apartment which Ruben liked to have lived in to have someone to look after the place since his shop wasn't near his house. I worked for him for about a month. There wasn't a lot to do in Burlington Colorado but I worked so hard there wasn't a lot of free time. What free time I did have I spent on Ruben's dirt bike or his wonderful horse Black Jack. Water drilling was an experience. The places we put in wells were so remote it made little sense to me. The ranches out there were measured in sections. You never asked a man how many acres he had, always how many sections. A section is one square mile, or 640 acres. Those ranches were all ten or more sections. Big places with cattle scattered all over the place. The cows needed water, which we drilled.
I liked Ruben Shaw and his wife and young son a great deal. I hated to leave, but I had to attend to something back home so I said my goodbyes and stuck out my thumb. In 2001 when I was on the run I was driving west and by chance stopped in Burlington Colorado for gas. Seeing the the place brought back memories. I asked the gas station attendant if she knew Ruben Shaw. She said sure, he's in a couple times a week. I explained my connection to Ruben and said, "I'm glad Ruben's still alive." "No," she said. "I was talking about his son. Ruben Senior died a few years. You've missed him." I'd always liked and respected Ruben Shaw. I'd not thought of him for many years, but now that I knew he had passed it was hard for me to imagine him gone.
Sometimes you make good friends while hitchhiking.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Hitchhiking East to West
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These are great stories.ReplyDelete
I really like it when those with adventurous lives write their experiences down and share them.
Many avid readers, like myself, genuinely appreciate them.Replies
He has plenty of adventure stories! He is writing them all in his autobiography and I can't even believe some of the stuff I'm reading. I thought I had heard it all growing up, but I didn't!Delete
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"Adventurous life," is being generous. More like a life where I run from one disaster to another. I've always been a rather private person, but now that I am sharing my life's story I find it rewarding that others appreciate it. Thank for your comments. I do appreciate them.
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A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the two run into a problem the local cop, who happens to be an old friend of Olivia's, seems to be turning a blind eye to incriminating evidence.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan 19 (CMC) — Gladstone Brown, a former Bermuda cricket captain who was also an outstanding footballer, has died following a recent illness. He was 73.
Brown, known by his nickname of "Sad", was Bermuda's first ICC Trophy Tournament captain in 1979, when he led the island to the semi-finals of the inaugural tournament in England.
He was a forward for Young Men's Social Club, one of the island's top football teams during the 1960s, when they won three-straight league titles.
Winston Trott, who played football with Brown at Young Men's Social Club, cricket with him at Devonshire Recreation Club and also for both the Somerset Cup Match team and Bermuda, was saddened to hear of Brown's passing.
"As a cricket captain, he set his standards pretty high, as far as how it should be done and why it should be done this way or that way. He was a good team player," Trott told the Royal Gazette newspaper.
"I had been visiting him but there wasn't a whole lot we could do, just make sure he was comfortable and let him know we were thinking about him at all times."
Trott opened the bowling while Brown opened the batting in the various teams they played for. Brown led from the front as Bermuda finished top of their group in the 1979 ICC Trophy, then a 60-overs competition, against East Africa, Argentina, Papua New Guinea and Singapore to reach the last four.
In the semi-final, when reaching the final would have guaranteed a place in the World Cup against the Test-playing teams, Bermuda suffered their only loss of the tournament, making 181, with Brown the second-highest scorer with 34, before losing to Canada by four wickets.
Bermuda, then led by Barbadian Colin Blades, reached the final of the next Trophy tournament in 1982, again held in England, but with Sri Lanka now a Test-playing country, only the winner advanced to the World Cup.
Although Bermuda did eventually reach the 2007 World Cup staged in the Caribbean, Zimbabwe dashed their hopes in the 1982 Trophy final by overhauling the 231 for eight posted by Bermuda, led by Brown's team-high score of 48, Zimbabwe winning by five wickets.
Earlier, Brown scored the tournament's first century when he finished with 100 in an opening stand of 211 with Winston Reid, a Barbadian who made 128 that day against Malaysia as Bermuda piled up 348 for nine. They then dismissed Malaysia for a paltry 64, with fast bowler El James taking five for two in 7.1 overs.
"Reid was usually the faster scorer but 'Sad' got his century first," Trott told the Gazette. "We had a team meeting, it was a little heated, and the next day Reid and 'Sad' opened up and 'Sad' got to his century first, which was unusual because he was the anchor man."
The friendship between Brown and Reid continued into retirement when Brown, who later owned his own taxi, would often visit Reid at his upholstery shop in Somerset.
"We would talk cricket, about the national team," Reid, who moved to Bermuda in 1974, said. "He was passionate about the national team. He loved cricket and wanted to see Bermuda cricket move forward."
Brown scored a total of 206 runs in 11 innings in Cup Match, Bermuda's premier annual domestic fixture between Somerset and St George's, between 1969 and 1983. He produced more notable performances in the Central Counties Cup, scoring 153 not out in a match in 1984 after sharing in an eighth-wicket stand of 284 with Arnold West.
Brown later served as a cricket administrator, including being first vice-president of the Bermuda Cricket Board of Control (now the Bermuda Cricket Board) in 1997 when fast bowler James was elected president. Brown also served as chairman of the BCBC disciplinary committee and treasurer in 1999.
Paying tribute, current board president Lloyd Smith said: "It is a very sad day as we mourn the passing of Gladstone 'Sad' Brown, a legend in the local cricket fraternity. 'Sad' played a huge role in the development of our great sport, on the field as a player and off the field as an administrator."
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Where? Penistone, South Yorkshire
Website? http://www.penlit.co.uk/
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Past Festivals? Ran from 2014-2016
2016 - John Broom, Gyles Brandreth, Jacqueline Creek, Peter Hadfield, Mike Harding, Dr Joan Healey, Milly Johnson, Dr Marek Kukula, Barbara Lee, Brian Lewis, Gervase Phinn, Andy Platt, Seni Seneviratne +
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Topic Page: Symmetry
n pl -tries
1 similarity, correspondence, or balance among systems or parts of a system
2 maths an exact correspondence in position or form about a given point, line, or plane See symmetrical (sense 2)
3 beauty or harmony of form based on a proportionate arrangement of parts
4 physics the independence of a property with respect to direction; isotropy
[C16: from Latin symmetria, from Greek summetria proportion, from syn- + metron measure]
generally speaking, a balance or correspondence between various parts of an object; the term symmetry is used both in the arts and in the sciences. In art and design, it is often used in a somewhat loose sense, to mean a kind of balance in which the corresponding parts are not necessarily alike but only similar. A symmetrical design should produce a pleasing effect; if there is too close a correspondence, the effect may be monotonous. Ancient Greek architecture is particularly distinguished for its symmetry. In modern art, the Dutch artist M. C. Escher achieved a number of striking effects in his works exploring mathematical symmetry. A mathematical operation, or transformation, that results in the same figure as the original figure (or its mirror image) is called a symmetry operation. Such operations include reflection, rotation, double reflection, and translation. The set of all operations on a given figure that leave the figure unchanged constitutes the symmetry group for that figure. The symmetry groups of three-dimensional figures are of special interest because of their application in fields such as crystallography (see crystal). In general, a symmetry operation on a figure is defined with respect to a given point (center of symmetry), line (axis of symmetry), or plane (plane of symmetry). In biology, symmetry is studied in the correspondences between different parts of a given organism, as between the left and right halves of the human body or between the various segments of a starfish (see symmetry, biological). In physics, basic symmetries in nature underlie the various conservation laws. For example, the symmetry of space and time with respect to translation and rotation means that a given experiment should yield the same results regardless of where it is performed, what direction the equipment is pointing in, or when it is performed. These three symmetries can be shown to imply the laws of conservation of linear momentum, angular momentum, and energy, respectively.
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Leeu Collection hospitality group has announced its partnership with Chef Ritu Dalmia, a restaurateur from Delhi, where she owns Italian restaurant Diva. Chef Ritu will look after all international restaurant interests of the Leeu Collection, excluding its South African restaurants. The appointment of Chef Ritu reflects the focus of Leeu Collection on Hospitality acquisitions in South Africa, Italy, and the U.K..
The Media release received yesterday suggests that two new restaurants have been acquired by Leeu Collection, one in Milan and one in the U.K. The new acquisition in Milan is planned to open later this year. The U.K. Restaurant is set to open next year. Chef Ritu has hosted two TV cooking shows on Indian television TV, and she has written a cookbook.
The Leeu Collection was founded in 2010 by Indian businessman Mr Analjit Singh, when he bought his first property in Franschhoek. He has since acquired further properties locally, as well as in the U.K., and in Italy.
In our country, Leeu Collection has focused its accommodation assets on Franschhoek, with three five-star accommodation establishments: Leeu Estates, a 17-room country house retreat and boutique winery; Leeu House, a 12-room hotel; and Le Quartier Français, a 21-room hotel and its three-bedroom LQF Villa. Its restaurant portfolio includes restaurants in Leeu House, in Leeu Estates, at Le Quartier Français, Marigold, and in Tuk Tuk Microbrewery, all located in Franschhoek. The Leeu Collection accommodation property Linthwaite House in the Lakes District in the U.K. has a restaurant too. Earlier this year it was announced that a 100-room hotel is to open in London in 2019, while a hotel is set to open in Florence too.
'Ritu has an appetite for innovation in the kitchen and she has dazzled foodies around the globe with her culinary skills. With this new collaboration we strengthen everything the Leeu Collection stands for – culinary experiences with no boundaries, global in nature and unsurpassed in experience. A celebration of our philosophy through food', says Carrie Wicks, CEO of the Leeu Collection.
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If you haven't dedicated your heart, soul, and at least 90% of your brain to Stranger Things, then your priorities are upside down.
For those of you who've finished Season 1 of the series, the obvious question concerns the fate of Will, Mike, Eleven, Dustin, Jonathan, Nancy, and Steve in Season 2, which, by the way, is DEFINITELY HAPPENING.
Well, the creators of the show, The Duffer Brothers, sat down with IGN UK to share a load of information about what they've got planned for Season 2 of Stranger Things, and it's fair to say we learned a lot.
1. It will be set in 1984 — a year after the first season.
The Duffer brothers were kind of fangirling over this year in particular because a lot of really famous pop-culture movies came out that year - in particular Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom, Karate Kid, and Gremlins.
2. It's going to be a lot darker.
"We like thinking of these as movies, and it's going to feel very different, and I'm sure that a lot of people are going to prefer Season 1, but I think a lot of people will prefer Season 2, because I think it's going to be a little darker, and a little weirder," Matt shared. "I think we feel like we have a license to go a little weirder in this season, so that's been a lot of fun.
3. There's going to be new tension to resolve.
Ross Duffer compared Season 2 to being it's own complete little movie, saying that after the return of Will Byers at the end of Season 1, "a new tension" will have surfaced for the gang to face.
4. There will be justice for Barb.
Sad news regarding the fate of Barb, because it looks like she's definitely not going to be making a reappearance. The good news is that the Duffer brothers have assured fans that Barb won't be forgotten: "We'll make sure there's some justice for Barb."
5. Jancy might potentially rise.
"Jonathan is a complicated guy. He's not the smoothest when it comes to dealing with girls. He's never had - in my eyes anyway - he's never had a girlfriend. So he doesn't really know what the hell he's doing," Matt explained.
"Whereas Steve knows what he's doing. I feel it's very realistic. Some of it is just me still angry about High School, in a very immature way. I never got a girl in High School. It didn't happen. If Jonathan ends up getting Nancy that's like a fantasy to me - it doesn't feel very realistic. But maybe we can build to it."
6. The series might continue after Season 2.
Admitting that they're still figuring out how long they need to wrap up the story, the Duffer brothers revealed that they don't see it being the kind of series that needs six or seven seasons to get there.
Oh, and they already know how the whole thing's gonna end, by the way.
7. Dustin will undoubtedly get his pudding.
"I'm sure when Dustin goes back to school he gives lunch lady Phyllis some sh*t about it", Ross confirms. Matt continued that now "he's going to get pudding whenever he wants it. That would be my guess."
You do you, Dustin.
8. It looks like Dr. Brenner definitely isn't dead.
"I would say that if we were going to kill Brenner… as an audience member watching the show, if that was his death, that would be very unsatisfying to me – when the monster jumps on him, and we cut away," Duffer said. "He would deserve much more than that as an ending. So yes, there's a possibility of seeing him again."
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Volleyball is vying to become the first sport played at both the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics. Continue reading "Snow Volleyball at the Winter Olympics? Maybe"
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Olivia Blatchford is ready to play hard to get. The American professional squash player is tired of the sport presenting itself and begging the International Olympic Committee to include it in the quadrennial Games. Continue reading "Squash's Continued Struggle for Olympic Inclusion"
The age-old debate of club vs. country is back in the limelight as the National Hockey League put its foot down regarding its players participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Continue reading "NHL Says 'No' to 2018 Winter Olympics"
Running is one of the simplest competitions in the history of mankind. No team is needed. No expensive equipment is required. It's one person against at least one other competitor.
That's why running, especially sprinting, has been part of the Olympics since their inception. Continue reading "A History of Sprinting at the Olympics"


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The Dallas Cowboys are waiving WR Deonte Thompson and S Treston Decoud on Friday, according to their agent.
Cowboys are releasing #TeamDEC clients @_TD31 & @DTPrime6 both players will be subject to waivers as of 4pm today
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Thompson, 29, signed with the Ravens as an undrafted free agent out of Florida back in 2012. After being waived at the start of the 2015 season, the Bills signed him off of the Ravens' practice squad.
The Ravens cut him loose at the start of the 2014 season and later signed him to their practice squad.
The Bills signed him off of the Ravens' taxi squad towards the end of the season, but cut him loose with an injury settlement the following year. Thompson caught on with the Bears and spent over two years in Chicago before he was released last year and re-signed by the Bills.
The Cowboys signed Thompson to a contract this offseason and has been on and off of their practice squad this season.
In 2018, Thompson has appeared in eight games for the Cowboys and caught 14 passes for 124 yards receiving and no touchdowns. He has also totaled 147 kick return yards.


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A Frankley man who robbed an unconscious pensioner of just a torch after a violent attack in a West Heath street – which only ended when bin men on their round arrived to help the victim – has been jailed.
Violent and unprovoked
31 year old Kenny Field, of Cranbourne Close, had already smashed the window of a resident's home in Forrell Grove before setting upon the elderly man in Redhill Road at around 6am on 19th January this year.
Field punched the 72 year old in the head more than 20 times in the unprovoked early morning attack, fracturing his eye socket and rendering him unconscious.
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The attack only ended when three refuse collectors rushed to the pensioner's aid – the attacker fled with just the man's torch.
Field was identified as the prime suspect after investigating officers trawled local CCTV footage. Having moved out of the area to try and evade capture, he was tracked down to an address in Stourbridge and arrested.
Field was found guilty of robbery and criminal damage at Birmingham Crown Court. He was also found to be in breach of a restraining order. He was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison on Friday (24th November).
Detective Constable Paul Jauncey, from Force CID, said: "This was a needlessly violent attack which left the victim with sickening head injuries.
"It was a relentless and cowardly assault by Field who tried to avoid justice by fleeing the area. However, through diligent detective work we were able to track him down.
"Field refused to give a reason for the attack and only responded with no comment answers during his police interview.
"It is not just the physical but psychological damage such an assault can cause and Field will now have plenty of time to reflect on his cowardly actions now his freedom has been removed."


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Another mistake not to commit the corporate website. Last week I got to talk to a customer who opened a company abroad of which owns 100% and also sole administrator. The company in question is actually a "foreign-dressed" company and when I explained how things are really the mirage of tax savings has vanished. To tell the truth this was not the only (big) error committed because there is a second: the company website has been opened in its name from Italy! A website registered to a subject resident in Italy and supported by Italian servers can be considered by the IRS as a "stable organization", or as if you had a real office with offices in Italy. In the end the only thing "foreign" that has this company is the address of the registered office and therefore is a company 100% Italian because:
While the legal residence is a criterion of formal rule, identifiable in the place where the company has its own registered office, the residence tax can depend on several factors. In principle, the tax residence is located in the country where a company has established its registered office. Many countries consider fiscally resident a company not only if it has in its territory the registered office, but also for example if it has the centre of effective management of the business, or if in the country there is the principal object of the activity of the company. If two states are taking similar criteria to establish tax residency, it happens that a company is to be considered fiscally resident in two different countries. The double taxation treaties are intended to settle such disputes, which could generate a double tax at the company's head. In the case of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the Double Taxation Convention signed by the two States stipulates that the tax residence is assigned to the State where the effective management Centre is established. A company with its registered office in Amsterdam, but a centre of effective management in London, will have its legal residence in the Netherlands, but will be considered fiscally resident in the United Kingdom.
I begin to explain how to lose the Italian tax residence in a legal way without risking investigations by the Revenue Agency to obtain legitimate tax benefits, it is not enough to take a plane find home abroad and live for the Most of the year e.g. In Malta moving to Malta, moving to the Canary Islands, obtaining residency or residency status in Bulgaria may seem quite simple, but you should know that some states require the possession of certain income requirements, a bank account abroad, a Signed lease. Obtaining the foreign tax residence is not always an easy task but it is even more difficult to achieve the loss of the Italian tax residence. To lose the Italian tax residence a citizen who intends to move abroad must carry out a formal step and a substantial step:
If I reside formally and substantially abroad I do not have to pay income taxes in Italy on the part of income I produce abroad.
We clarify in a simple way you can have a company abroad and manage it and administer it from Italy, paying taxes only abroad? Of course not! Of course you can have a foreign company, you can also have foreign tax residence, no problem, but the same to pay taxes only in the foreign country where it is located, must be really managed and administered from abroad. So if I have a foreign company and I manage it in full from Italy billing also to Italian customers for tax purposes is not correct and I will have to pay taxes in Italy. Here we go?? We have/contabili tax methodologies and the incorporation of foreign companies that can still make you pay less taxes than having a company at 100% Italian but you have to plan well the new corporate structure also at the level of quotas, and Administrators. The fiduciary management of a well structured foreign company is a method to save taxes.
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Real estate has become an increasingly popular investment for a growing number of Americans, due in large part to the consistent property appreciation and rental income that it promises.
Many people do not realize that they can invest their retirement in real estate; as a result, they purchase real estate without reaping the tax benefits of a 401k or IRA.
With a self-directed IRA, you can invest your retirement plan in real estate with several significant advantages, enumerated below.
Delayed taxes on investment gains
When you invest in real estate outside of a retirement plan, you owe tax right away on your rental income. When you sell the property for a gain, you'll also owe taxes on your gain even if you plan on reinvesting that money in other real estate investments. An IRA delays taxes on your real estate income as long as you keep the money in your retirement account. This can help you earn a higher after-tax-return on your real estate portfolio.
Tax-free growth through a Roth IRA
If you invest through a Roth IRA, your investment earnings are tax-free when you take a withdrawal after the age of 59 1/2. By investing in real estate with a Roth IRA, you will not have to pay taxes on your rental income, your capital appreciation, or your gains from selling a property. In exchange, you do not receive a tax deduction for your contributions into the Roth IRA like you would with a Traditional IRA. However, with a large real estate investment the tax-free growth offered on a Roth IRA may be a better incentive than the initial tax savings on a Traditional IRA because gains in a Traditional IRA are taxable when you start to make withdrawals during retirement.
Leveraged growth
When you invest in real estate, you do not have to pay off the entire purchase at once. You may choose to pay off a portion of the cost and then take out a mortgage for the rest. As such, you can leverage your money through borrowing to earn a higher return. For example, if you put down $100,000 to buy a $250,000 property, your rental income will be coming out of an asset worth $250,000. Even when you take into account the borrowing costs, your return should be higher than if you had just bought an asset worth $100,000– and even better, that higher return is growing tax deferred in your IRA.
Upon purchasing real estate with a mortgage in your IRA, the mortgage can't be titled in your name; instead it must be titled in the name of your IRA. Furthermore, it must be a non-recourse loan which means the loan is only backed by the value of the real estate that it's paying for. Therefore, if you default on the loan, the lender is able to seize the property, but your other assets or personal credit score won't be affected. Thus, while a non-recourse loan may charge a higher interest rate than regular mortgages, it also enables you to better protect your finances.
Protection against inflation and market volatility
The real estate market tends to be more stable than the stock market, as the real estate market lacks the same daily volatility of stocks. As a result, many view investment in real estate as a less stressful and lower-risk opportunity to invest retirement savings. Furthermore, real estate returns historically outpace inflation, allowing your retirement spending power to grow.
Rental income
When you purchase real estate property, you can rent it out for steady rental income. This rental income can then be used to pay off the mortgage and other expenses on your investment property, meaning you just need to come up with the down payment. Any extra rental income can stay in your IRA, where it will grow tax-deferred, and can be used for future investments. When you retire, you may continue to receive rental income to supplement your other savings.
A chance to pay for your dream retirement home
Do you have a dream retirement home in mind? Then your IRA can help you finance that dream. By purchasing retirement property through an IRA, you can use the property's rental income to pay off the mortgage, as the IRA tax savings will allow you to do so quickly and effectively. When you're ready to retire, you can withdraw the property title from your IRA and then move into your new home.
If you wait until you are at least 59 ½ to take the property out of your IRA, you'll avoid the 10% early withdrawal penalty. In addition, you can't live on the property while it's still owned by your IRA, as this can lead to tax problems; however, nothing's stopping you from driving by and seeing your future home, knowing that it's steadily being paid off with your rental income.
If you're going to invest in real estate, why not invest with all the possible tax benefits? By using your IRA benefits to their fullest, you can make real estate a more effective part of your retirement plan.