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Richard Joseph Vach, Sr.
BERLIN – Richard Joseph Vach, Sr., age 80, died Monday, Nov. 19, 2007 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Jerome Ignatius Vach and Martha May Bevans Vach. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Carroll Vach, in 2003.
He is survived by his children, Carroll Vach England of Ocean City, Richard J. Vach, Jr. and Laura Hudson of Ocean City, Martha Vach Redding and her husband Lawrence of Ocean City, Thomas Carville Vach of Berlin and Joshua Barney Vach of Wilmington, N.C. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Vach, in 1975. Also surviving are five grandchildren, Richard Marshall England, Elizabeth Carroll England, Carroll Ashley Redding, Elizabeth Blair Redding and Lawrence Tate Redding; one great grandchild, Richard Winston England; two nephews; and one niece. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Norman Vach.
Vach had attended Johns Hopkins University and was a WWII Marine veteran. He had been an entrepreneur. He and his late wife had owned and operated the Chalet Motel and the Quarter Deck Restaurant in Ocean City. He also built and operated the Wild Goose Chase Restaurant in Ocean City and Voxpop Marketing Systems in Berlin. He had been a homebuilder, inventor and design engineer. He had also been part owner and designer of the Avalon Market in West Ocean City as well as Kiva and K-38 restaurants in North Carolina. He was a member of St. Mary's/Holy Savior Catholic Church, a founding member of the Ocean City Health Services Association, which was responsible for the Isle of Wight Medical Center, former Worcester Preparatory School board member and a member of the Ocean City Lions Club. He was most proud to have been a member of the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team National Champions in 1950 and enjoyed attending their many reunions.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Holy Savior Catholic Church on 17th St. and Philadelphia Ave. in Ocean City. Friends may call on Friday evening from 6-8 pm at the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin. Interment will follow the service in Sunset Memorial Park in Berlin. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Coastal Hospice, PO Box 1733, Salisbury, Md. 21802.
Linda Gordon
NAPLES, Fla. – Linda Gordon, 65, passed away peacefully on Nov. 12, 2007 after a brief illness.
She was a writer, journalist, dog-lover and friend to many in Florida and in Maryland. For 11 years, she was the restaurant reviewer for The Naples Daily News where she wrote under the byline L.G. Gordon. She was also a feature writer for the paper's Neapolitan section and wrote for Gulfshore Life, the Philharmonic Center for the Arts and elsewhere. Her restaurant reviews can be found on the walls of restaurants throughout southwest Florida.
She was a creative, kind and caring person with an independent spirit and a unique sense of humor. Born in Towson, Md., she attended the Maryland Art Institute in Baltimore.
Prior to moving to Florida, She was a columnist, feature writer and editor for newspapers in Maryland and Delaware including Oceana, Maryland Coast Press, Maryland Coast Dispatch, Ocean City Today and others. She also wrote occasionally for the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post.
She is survived by her beloved Lilybelle; her sister, Marsha Smith and family of West Chester, Pa; her cousin, Bill Starkloff of Ocean City; her long-time friend, Jim Lilliefors of Naples; and many other friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Wilma and Raymond Gonter; her brother and soulmate, Joseph Raymond Gonter; and her dogs, Chester, Mr. Puggers and Glory.
A celebration of her life will be held at a date to be announced.
In lieu of flowers, send donations to the Naples Dog Center, 967 Fourth Avenue North, Naples, Fla. 34102.
Dr. John S. Green III
SNOW HILL – Dr. John S. Green III, 87, of Snow Hill, died peacefully at home Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007.
Born and raised in Towson, Md. he was the son of the late Dr. John S. Green Jr. and Helen Cole Green.
Green graduated from Gilman School in 1938, Princeton University in 1942 and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1945. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Green practiced radiology on Maryland's Eastern Shore, chiefly in Easton, Chestertown and Crisfield; he also worked for several years in Baltimore and Aberdeen. He was twice president of the Maryland Radiological Society and he served on several committees of the State Medical Society, principally the Program Committee, which he chaired for one year.
At Princeton, Green was proud to have been a member of the 1942 National Championship lacrosse team.
He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Linda E. Green. His first marriage was to Gertrude Dorsey, who predeceased him. He is also survived by a sister, Helen C. Green of Cedarburg, Wis.; five children, G. Dorsey Green of Seattle, Judy Scribner and John S. Green IV, both of Naples, Fla., Barclay Green of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Melanie Whisner of Snow Hill; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Services for Green will be private, at his request.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Green's memory to Coastal Hospice, PO Box 1733, Salisbury, Md. 21802; or to Princeton University, Friends of Princeton Lacrosse, PO Box 5357, Princeton, N.J. 08543-5357.
Arrangements are in the care of Holloway Funeral Home P.A., 501 Snow Hill Road, Salisbury, Md. 21804.
Ada J. Beam
BERLIN – On Nov. 20, 2007, Ada J. Beam passed away.
She was the beloved wife of the late George Edward Beam, Sr.; devoted mother of Vicki J. Cymek and her husband Douglas, George E. Beam, Jr., and his wife Mary, Sam E. Beam and his wife Annette and the late Charles E. Beam, Sr.; mother-in-law of Lee Beam; dear grandmother of Charles, Linda, Richard, Kimberly Ann, Stephen, Adrienne and David; amd great-grandmother of Sheryl, Taylor, Lauryn, Alex, Carley, Logan, Connor, Riley, Blake and Payton. Also survived by one brother and one sister.
Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Rd, (beltway exit 26), on Friday, Nov. 23 from 2-4 and 6-8 pm, where a funeral service will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m.
Interment will be at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. The family suggests contributions to the Hospice of Baltimore, 555 W. Towsontown Blvd. Towson, Md. 21204 or the American Cancer Society, 8129 Town Center Drive, PO Box 43025, Baltimore, Md. 21236.
Eleanor Anne Murray
OCEAN PINES – Eleanor Anne Murray, 86, died Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007 at home.
Born in Athens, Ga., she was the daughter of the late Ralph H. and Eleanor Burns Johnston. She is survived by three daughters, Mary C. Courtney of Havertown, Pa., Catherine A. Springhoen of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Marguerite M. Berry of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a brother, R. Joseph Johnston of Yorktown, Va.; a sister, Christina Callahan of Indiatlantic, Fla.; and two grandchildren, Sarah and Phillip Courtney.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert J. Murray in 2002.
Murray had been a dietician and a homemaker. She was a member of St. John Nuemann Catholic Church in Ocean Pines. She was a member of the Women's Democratic Club of Ocean Pines and the Swimmin Wimmin at Ocean Pines and a member of the Ocean City Art league. She enjoyed painting with watercolors and was an avid bridge player.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held. Memorial donations may be made to Coastal Hospice at the Lake, P.O. Box 1733, Salisbury, Md. 21802.
R. Cleveland Bounds
NEWARK – R. Cleveland Bounds, 88, of Newark, died Monday, Nov. 19, 2007, at his home in Newark.
He was born in Newark on March 20, 1919, a son of the late Rodney Cleveland Bounds Sr. and Bessie Jones Bounds.
Cleveland, as he was fondly known, enjoyed his work on the farm, where he spent most of his life. He was a member of the Future Farmers of America and Worcester County Farm Bureau and a very active, lifetime member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Newark, where he served on the cemetery committee in years past. He was an outdoorsman who loved quail hunting and surf fishing. He and his late wife, Pauline, had the honor of hosting the first foreign exchange student in Snow Hill, Brit Bohnsdalen of Norway.
He is survived by two daughters, Susan E. Bounds of Rockville, Md., and Elaine B. Frick and her husband, Joe, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla.; a son, Paul Bounds and his wife, Nancy, of Berlin; two grandchildren, Coard Bounds and Anne Marie Bounds; a sister, Doris Shockley and her husband, Curtis, of Snow Hill; and two brothers, Thomas Bounds and his wife, Mary Louise, and Roland Bounds, all of Newark. He is also survived by several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his loving wife, Pauline C. Bounds, who passed in 2000; a sister, Hilda Williams; a brother, George Bounds; and a sister-in-law, Alta Bounds.
A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 23 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Newark, where family and friends may call from 2 to 3 p.m. The Rev. Shirley Evans will officiate. Interment will follow in the church cemetery, Trinity Garden of Memories.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in his memory to Trinity United Methodist Church, c/o Betty Groton, 213 Colbourne Lane, Snow Hill, Md. 21863.
Arrangements are being handled by Short Funeral Home in Delmar.


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Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership Join Forces to Launch UP Global
New Organization to Celebrate & Connect Entrepreneurs Worldwide
New York, NY, May 23, 2013 – Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership announced today that they will join together to create UP Global, a new organization supporting the creation of vibrant entrepreneurial communities around the world. With generous support from The Kauffman Foundation, the Case Foundation, Google for Entrepreneurs, Microsoft and The Coca-Cola Company, UP Global will combine the impact and reach of Startup Weekend's action-based programs with the Startup America Partnership's deep expertise in building strong regional ecosystems. UP Global will leverage the strengths of both organizations to build a more comprehensive offering that bolsters entrepreneurial communities across the globe.
"We initially launched the Startup America Partnership as a three-year project focused on jumpstarting the entrepreneurial economy, but as we watched the tremendous momentum that was built through the launch of more than 30 regional ecosystems, we knew there was a need to continue a broader effort to help maximize the success of American startups," says Steve Case, chairman of the Startup America Partnership, who will also join UP Global as chairman of the board. "Partnering with Startup Weekend, an organization that has played a critical role in inspiring and preparing tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, is the perfect solution to continue our mission."
As part of UP Global, the Startup America Partnership will strengthen and expand the first truly national entrepreneurial ecosystem with deep local roots. UP Global will then expand and utilize best practices internationally with the vision of being the single most effective organization supporting entrepreneurial communities across the globe. Both Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership will retain their brand names and missions, joining with Startup Digest, NEXT and NYSE Corporate Connections, all closely collaborating with and powered by UP Global.
"Over the past few years we've seen an incredible groundswell in grassroots entrepreneurial activity across the nation and around the world. There is a huge need to drive consolidation and added collaboration among community leaders in order to create more clarity for entrepreneurs so they can easily find the local resources they need to get up and going, when they need them. Seeing two organizations that we support come together is a win for all entrepreneurs," says Tom McDonnell, CEO of The Kauffman Foundation.
UP Global will become the first full-spectrum support structure for entrepreneurs, focusing on every aspect of the entrepreneurial journey, from pre-idea through high growth stages. The organization will be grounded in two key pillars: empowering startup champions to deliver action-based learning programs for entrepreneurs, and building local, regional, and national networks between startup champions in order to drive collaboration, sharing of best practices, and celebration of the entrepreneurs at the heart of the movement.
"Startup communities are truly driven by their leaders, and we've shown that we can provide useful tools and frameworks for those leaders to foster sustainable early stage ecosystems, ultimately leading to the creation of more meaningful and persistent firms," says Marc Nager, President of UP Global.
For more information on UP Global, please visit www.UP.co.
About UP Global
UP Global is dedicated to empowering the entrepreneurial community and building networks that drive collaboration and strengthen entrepreneurs worldwide. With a platform offering action-based learning programs, resources, and networks for entrepreneurs and leaders, UP Global aims to be the leading organization strengthening/transforming communities through entrepreneurship. The UP Global model is dedicated to leveraging existing strengths within communities while developing and offering additional high-impact programs. UP Global currently powers Startup Weekend, Startup Digest, Startup Next, NYSE Corporate Connections, and more. With reach in over 110 countries, UP Global is a rapidly-growing, impact-based collaborative effort made possible by support from The Kauffman Foundation, Google for Entrepreneurs, the Case Foundation, Microsoft and the Coca-Cola Company.
About Startup Weekend
Startup Weekend™ is a non-profit organization that supports the development and expansion of entrepreneurship through events worldwide that educate aspiring entrepreneurs by immersing them in the process of moving an idea to market. Startup Weekend has built a network of more than 100,000 alumni, thousands of volunteer organizers and over 100 trained facilitators spread across more than 400 cities in more than 100 countries. Kauffman Foundation, Gates Foundation, Google For Entrepreneurs, Microsoft Bizspark and .Co are among a great list of supporters. For more information, visit www.startupweekend.org
About the Startup America Partnership
The Startup America Partnership is a growing national movement of thousands of founders, experts and resources providing startups access to the corporations, investors, and services they need to grow and succeed. Launched at the White House in early 2011, the Partnership brings together startups and local champions from around the country focused on creating successful networks for young, high-growth companies to thrive. AOL co-founder Steve Case chairs the Partnership and the Kauffman and Case Foundations are its founding partners. American Airlines, American Express OPEN, Dell Inc., Intuit Inc., Microsoft and NYSE Euronext are corporate sponsors. The Partnership will identify, measure and report on the effectiveness of cross-sector collaboration in support of entrepreneurial ventures and its effect on job creation and growth. For more information on the Partnership, visit www.s.co and follow us at www.twitter.com/startupamerica and www.facebook.com/startupamerica
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Animal Facts
Scientific Name
Tegula brunnea
Animal Type
brown algae, bryozoans, diatoms
to 1 inch (25 mm)
top snails, limpets, abalone; Class: Gastropoda
Cape Arago, Oregon to the Channel Islands
Natural History
With its smooth, conical shell, a brown turban snail looks like a "foot" wearing a large hat. The shell, usually covered with red algae, is orange or bright brown. The "foot" has dark brown or black sides, with white or cream below. To reproduce, the separate sexes broadcast milky sperm and bright grass-green eggs into the sea, where fertilization occurs.
Even though the brown turbans and the black turbans are the two common turban snails in the intertidal zone, they don't intermingle. The black turbans live in the high intertidal zone; the brown turbans live in the low intertidal or subtidal zones, mostly on the tops of the giant kelp canopy. The brown turbans slowly wander about the kelp fronds, rasping the film of diatoms on the kelp's surface with their filelike tongues.
At the present time, brown turban snails are abundant. However, as creatures of the kelp forest ecosystem, their future depends on the fate of the giant kelp forest. Contaminated runoff or sewage and sludge dumped into the ocean can harm the giant kelp forest and the creatures that depend on it for their home.
Cool Facts
If the brown turban snail is dislodged from an irregular rock bottom, it can readily right itself, but on a gravel bottom it uses pebbles as a tool. It picks up pebbles with the front of its foot and transfers them to the back part of its foot—this changes the snail's center of gravity, enabling it to roll over and right itself.
Hermit crabs use the empty turban snail shells for protective armor. The brown turban snail flees (snail style) from both the scent and touch of pisaster sea stars but ignores non-predaceous sea stars.


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August 27 - October 25, 2015
Mainstage Theater
Presented by Fox Valley Repertory
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm, Sundays @ 2pm Thursdays, August 27 & September 3, 8pm; September 17 & 24, October 15 & 22, 2pm
Tickets: $32-$42
By Charlie Shanian and Shari Simpson
"Maybe Baby, It's You." Or maybe...it isn't?! From the very first kiss to the not-so-golden years of marriage, "Maybe Baby" is a wild ride through the search for that most elusive relationship— the soul mate. What starts as a laundry list of must-have soul mate qualities swiftly dwindles down to a desperate plea of finding someone who is simply "warm and breathing" in this comical quest for compatibility. From "Mr. Right" who hilariously becomes "Mr. Wrong" the minute he steps onto the dance floor, to an elderly couple who considers remarriage at their grandson's soccer game, this series of eleven vignettes is sure to warm the hearts of lovers everywhere! Rating: PG
- Start:September 27, 2015
- End:September 27, 2015
- Where:Mainstage Theater, 4071 East Main Street, St. Charles, IL, USA, 60174
- Phone:(630)-443-0438
- Event Type: Arts & Theater
- Ticket Price:32.00 - 42.00


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In January 2015, Tom Stoppard's newest play—yet to be titled—will premiere at the National Theatre in London. Stoppard, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, is best known for the production, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, first performed by Oxford University students in 1966. Throughout his career, Stoppard has received four Tony Awards, in addition to an Academy Award for his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love. Philosophical in nature but comical in language and presentation, his work is often described as "serious comedy."
The forthcoming play is Stoppard's first since the production of Rock 'n' Roll by the Royal Court Theatre in 2006. The content and cast of his most recent work has been kept secret by both the writer and the National Theatre's artistic director, Nicholas Hytner. Hytner will be directing the play during his final season with the National Theatre.
To celebrate this news, Cultural Compass will be giving away a signed copy of Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. To be eligible to win, tweet a link to this blog post and mention @ransomcenter. If you're not on Twitter, send an email to hrcgiveaway(at)gmail.com with "Stoppard" in the subject line. All tweets and emails must be sent by midnight CST tonight, and winners will be drawn and notified Monday, April 21. [Editors Note: This contest has now closed, and the winner has been notified.]
Related content:
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Image: Tom Stoppard, whose archive resides at the Harry Ransom Center, on The University of Texas at Austin campus in 1996.


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A seminary student has an affair with an insurance adjuster he met in an office building near Riverside Church; then they go their separate ways — and that's the whole story.
A collective of Dumpster-diving dropouts follows an "Anarchristian" creed on the edge of a student ghetto, and in the novel about them the faith is as sloppy as the sex.
In The New Yorker, a novelist describes his best seller as a work about free will written from a Catholic perspective — but the novelist is Anthony Burgess, dead almost 20 years, and his essay (about "A Clockwork Orange") is a lecture exhumed from 1973.
This, in short, is how Christian belief figures into literary fiction in our place and time: as something between a dead language and a hangover. Forgive me if I exaggerate. But if any patch of our culture can be said to be post-Christian, it is literature. Half a century after Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Reynolds Price and John Updike presented themselves as novelists with what O'Connor called "Christian convictions," their would-be successors are thin on the ground.
So are works of fiction about the quandaries of Christian belief. Writers who do draw on sacred texts and themes see the references go unrecognized. A faith with something like 170 million adherents in the United States, a faith that for centuries seeped into every nook and cranny of our society, now plays the role it plays in Jhumpa Lahiri's story "This Blessed House": as some statues left behind in an old building, bewildering the new occupants.
It's a strange development. Strange because the current upheavals in American Christianity — involving sex, politics, money and diversity — cry out for dramatic treatment. Strange because upheavals in Christianity across the Atlantic gave rise to great fiction from "The Brothers Karamazov" to "Brideshead Revisited." Strange because novelists are depicting the changing lives of American Jews and Muslims with great success.
I am the author of a book about four 20th-century American Catholic writers, and I am often asked who their successors are. Usually I demur. I observe that we look in the wrong places. I point out that Graham Greene and J. R. R. Tolkien were considered baffling in their time. I cite Matthew Arnold to the effect that ours is a critical age, not a creative one. I reflect that literature is created by individuals, not compelled by social forces.
Now I am writing a novel with matters of belief at its core. Now I have skin in the game. Now I am trying to answer the question: Where has the novel of belief gone?
The obvious answer is that it has gone where belief itself has gone. In America today Christianity is highly visible in public life but marginal or of no consequence in a great many individual lives. For the first time in our history it is possible to speak of Christianity matter-of-factly as one religion among many; for the first time it is possible to leave it out of the conversation altogether. This development places the believer on a frontier again, at the beginning of a new adventure; it means that the Christian who was born here is a stranger in a strange land no less than the Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Soviet Jews and Spanish-speaking Catholics who have arrived from elsewhere. But few people see it that way. People of faith see decline and fall. Their detractors see a people threatening rear-guard political action, or a people left behind.
Half a century ago O'Connor framed the struggle to "make belief believable" as a struggle for the attention of the indifferent reader. The religious aspect in a work of fiction, she insisted, is "a dimension added," not one taken away, and she explained how she added it: "To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."
It worked: who can forget the nihilist evangelist Hazel Motes in "Wise Blood" or O. E. Parker in "Parker's Back," who gets the face of Christ tattooed across his shoulders? But we forget they are believers from the middle of the last century, created by a writer who died in 1964.
Since then, novelist and believer have traded places. These days it is real live religious people who seem always to be shouting — large and startling figures in the pulpit, at the rally, on the courthouse steps and outside the White House. In response, writers with Christian preoccupations have taken the opposite tack, writing fiction in which belief acts obscurely and inconclusively.
O'Connor called for fiction that dramatized "the central religious experience," which she characterized as a person's encounter with "a supreme being recognized through faith." She wrote that kind of fiction herself, shaped by her understanding that in the modern age such an encounter often takes place outside of organized religion — that in matters of belief we find ourselves on our own, practicing "do-it-yourself religion."
Today the United States is a vast Home Depot of "do-it-yourself religion." But you wouldn't know it from the stories we tell. The religious encounter of the kind O'Connor described forces a person to ask how belief figures into his or her own life and how to decide just what is true in it, what is worth acting on. Tens of millions of Americans have asked those questions. Some of us find ourselves asking them every day. But even in fiction, which prizes the individual point of view, and in our society, which stresses the individual to excess, belief is considered as a social matter rather than an individual one. When we talk about belief we talk about what is permissible — about the sex abuse scandal or school prayer or whether the church should open its basement to 12‑step everything. What about the whole story? Is it our story? Is belief believable? There the story ends — right where it ought to begin.
The most emphatically Christian character in contemporary American fiction is the Rev. John Ames, who in Marilynne Robinson's novel "Gilead" writes, in old age, to his young son as he prepares for death in 1957. More epistle than epic, the novel is historical fiction in mufti, with a strand of the story going back to the Civil War. And yet it arrived in 2004 as a tract for the times. It presented liberal Protestantism as America's classical heritage; it set Ames's wise, tender reverence against the bellicose cymbal-clanging of George W. Bush's White House.
With "Gilead" Robinson took O'Connor's insight about "do-it-yourself religion" back to church, creating a minister whose belief is believable because it is so plainly the fruit of a personal search. But the novel's originality conceals the fact that, as a novel of belief, it is highly representative: set in the past, concerned with a clergyman, presenting belief as a family matter, animated by a social crisis.
Those are the ways that belief figures in contemporary American fiction. Even today, there are as many novels of religious childhood as there are parochial schools and Bible camps. There are the complex domestic novels of Alice McDermott and Louise Erdrich, in which belief is a language of the tribe. There is the perduring local religion in the post-Faulkner worlds of William Kennedy and Toni Morrison: like the convent in Morrison's "Paradise," which is transformed from mansion to Catholic nunnery to redoubt for wayward women, belief is a fixture on the landscape even as its significance changes. "Religion was merely there," the narrator of Jim Harrison's novel "The Great Leader" says, "like cod liver oil, taxes, the beginning of school."
In some fiction belief is part of the matrix, a rumor writ large. So it is in the work of Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy's early novel "Suttree" (1979) has an effortlessly biblical flavor, but by "No Country for Old Men" (2005), religion is reduced to a reminder of last things. At one point, the "redneck" Sheriff Bell surmises that Satan created the narcotics trade to "bring the human race to its knees." "I told that to somebody at breakfast the other mornin and they asked me if I believed in Satan. I said Well that aint the point. And they said I know but do you?"
DeLillo's novels of plots and terror are shot through with a mystical sense that "everything is connected in the end." DeLillo devised the grandest religious scene in recent American fiction: the Unification Church mass wedding at Yankee Stadium that opens "Mao II." He framed the frankest justification for religion, from a nun in "White Noise": "Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes." He wrapped up "Underworld" with two nuns seeing a vision of a murdered girl on a billboard in the Bronx. But religious belief, in DeLillo, is finally unreal. The true believer in his work is Lee Harvey Oswald in "Libra": a man in a small room, nurturing a scheme.
DeLillo and McCarthy are seen as prophets, but Christianity in their work is a country for old men, and in the work of their successors it is further diminished. Jonathan Franzen in "Strong Motion" depicted an anti-abortion preacher more convincing than the real ones (his ride is "a Town Car with a prolife 7 vanity plate") and then stepped aside; Colum McCann depicted a hard-drinking radical friar with brotherly affection in "Let the Great World Spin," but positioned him as just one colorful figure in the novel's Krylon mural of 1970s New York. In "The Marriage Plot," Jeffrey Eugenides (whose virgin suicides were Catholic girls) used his hero's sojourn in India with Mother Teresa's nuns as mock-heroic counterpoint to the serious business of a depressed genius akin to David Foster Wallace.
The novelist Thomas Kelly once told me that he thinks of Alice McDermott's characters as cousins of his own. Obviously, plenty of people feel the pleasure of recognition when they read these writers' novels. I know I do. I have been to church with these characters, have stood at font and graveside with them. But when I close the books their beliefs remain a mystery. Not in the theological sense — a line going off the grid of cause and effect, a portal to the puzzle of existence. I just don't know what they believe or how they came to believe it.
Better are the stories in which religion catches the characters, the author and the reader by surprise. In Raymond Carver's "Cathedral," a man getting drunk with a blind stranger puts the man's hand on his own and traces a cathedral for him on a grocery bag after they overhear a TV program about the Middle Ages. In Denis Johnson's "Beverly Home," a recovering drug addict spies on a woman through a window as she showers and dresses. He sees a truly spicy scene: a ceremony in which her husband — they are Mennonites, she with head scarf and he with beard — seeks her forgiveness for some unspoken violation by falling to his knees and washing her feet.
These stories are not "about" belief. But they suggest the ways that instances of belief can seize individual lives. "Cathedral" has the efficiency of a parable: with the drunk leading the blind, the old Christian edifice comes skeletally into view. In "Beverly Home," the addict in recovery is a proxy for the reader: a peeping Tom, a voyeur of other people's beliefs, he discovers that those beliefs, strange as he finds them, join him to the believers in a way that changes him, for they suggest "that there might be a place for people like us."
"Cathedral" was published 30 years ago, and Carver's successors make him seem a Solzhenitsyn of explication. Take David Means. In his story collection "The Spot" (2010), Means handles religion like the sludge in the Kalamazoo River, powerful enough to be toxic in anything more than trace amounts. The seminarian who becomes involved with the insurance adjuster in "Reading Chekhov" doesn't have a belief in his head; the ex-preacher in the title story who once undertook to baptize a young woman in the Kalamazoo waxes eloquent about how he went about it, but the naked waif he baptized is as blank and passive as a porn character. "Go on, do it to me, make me clean or whatever," she says, and he proceeds to drown her uneventfully.
This refusal to grant belief any explanatory power shows purity and toughness on the writer's part, but it also calls to mind what my Catholic ancestors called scrupulosity, an avoidance that comes at the cost of fullness of life. That — or it may show that the writer realizes just how hard it is to make belief believable. So it is in "The Gospel of Anarchy," a 2011 novel by Justin Taylor. The book is set at a commune in Gainesville where some young Christian anarchists pursue religion and sex without borders, inspired by one Parker, a lost boy and prophet. Parker's gospel suggests a slacker's Kierkegaard, and his friends' professions of faith are clunky, too: "Was it possible then that it was our yearning itself that delayed him? Was the force of our longing acting as a barrier instead of a draw?" The novel uses multiple points of view, but the one that matters most — that of its narrator and part-time protagonist, David — is the least credible. Where his conversion away from online sex is a perfect piece of realism, it is hard to imagine that he (or anybody) would go in for this Anarchristian stuff.
Randall Jarrell ruefully remarked that when it comes to poetry, you can get a conversation started around just about anything: the lives of the poets, the state of poetry, the craft of poetry — anything but a poem. In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer.
"It's really something," the Carver narrator tells his blind friend, as he ponders the cathedral he's drawn. Maybe that "something" is enough. But if you think, as I do, that we look to literature to understand ourselves and our place on earth, then belief hasn't been understood until the serious writers have had their say.
So you keep looking for the literature of belief. You find it where you can. In journalism like Eliza Griswold's "Tenth Parallel," where Christians and Muslims encounter each other in acts of geopolitical soul-to-soul; in "House of Prayer No. 2," a memoir in which Mark Richard, going over the trail of a bizarre life, sees signs from God here, there and everywhere. In "The Children's Hospital," Chris Adrian's fable about an offshore world as religiose as our own; in James Wood's essays about unbelief as belief's shadow and echo. In "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," where Dave Eggers's account of his father's Catholic funeral suggests why he cares about The Believer. All the while, you hope to find the writer who can dramatize belief the way it feels in your experience, at once a fact on the ground and a sponsor of the uncanny, an account of our predicament that still and all has the old power to persuade. You look for a story or a novel where the writer puts it all together. That would be enough. That would be something. That would be unbelievable.


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By Jade 3 years ago.
Naked 2, just like Naked 1 and Naked Basics, totally revolutionized my makeup stash when I got them. I now use these three palettes almost exclusively, and if I do use other shadows, there will always be a shade I use from my naked palettes to pull the look together. Naked 2 is my go to for a nighttime look, specifically Snakebite, Suspect, YDK and Busted. Pistol and Verve are slightly too cool toned to work on me most of the time, and I rarely use Blackout just due to personal perference, though I can attest to it being extremely pigmented. Foxy is a good shade for blending out a shimmery highlight, such as Bootycall. Tease is an absolutely gorgeous shade, though sadly the one shade in this palette which I feel is subpar, as it is powdery and sheerer, though I still love it as a transition shade. Half-baked is an odd addition to this palette, as it is extremely warm toned, as well as being a repeat from Naked 1. I really would have preferred an antique gold in its place. Chopper is another odd one out, though a lovely highshimmer shade in its own right. This palette is a mainstay and I would be lost without it!!
By Ash 3 years ago.
This is a solid palette, with 12 shades that are excellent for daily use. It includes a double-ended brush and a mirror. The eyeshadows are not as pigmented as some other brands that place strong emphasis on pigment, but this makes the palette very useable as a tool to build everyday office looks and "nude" looks. It is possible to do more dramatic looks with this palette alone as well, since there are darker brown shades, a glittery gold shade, and a matte black shade.There are definitely a couple of shades that stand out more - in my own palette, I find that I use Half Baked (glittery gold), Snakebite (shimmery brown), Pistol (shimmery grey), Verve (shimmery silver), YDK (glittery silver with a hint of pink), and Busted (shimmery dark purple-brown) a lot more than the other shades.There is excellent value for money here. I do not really use a lot of product in my eyes or build a lot of coverage (or at least, not with this palette). I have had this palette for 2 years now, and use it lightly about 3 days a week. I have only hit pan on Half-Baked, Verve, and Busted. I can easily see myself using this palette for another 2 years.The brush that comes with the palette is not bad, but I would say that the flatter brush is not always precise enough for more clearly defined looks. I use the brush mostly for creating smoky looks, or when I contour areas of my face that need a brush that is smaller than a regular contour brush.I did not have a lot of issues with fallout - the shades in this palette are not so pigmented that fallout is a major issue. However, on darker colours like Busted (this shades tends to crumble more than the others, probably because it is probably the most pigmented shade in the palette), you may want to apply some powder on your undereye area for safety before applying it.Overall I would highly recommend this palette for people who want a palette that can handle both workplace-appropriate looks as well as more dramatic smoky eye looks. It would make a fantastic gift for anybody who likes makeup, granted they do not have the palette already.
By Lorena 5 years ago.
I absolutely love this palette! There is at least one color I will use everytime I do my eyes. Its my go to for travel since it has a very slim case and there is such a variety of looks you can get with just this one palette. There is a slight fall out with the shimmers and thats easy to fix. 1. Tap out the access before using the brush 2. Use an adhering spray or liquid like MAC Fix + or 3. Do eyes firstt before face. That way any fall out that you get, you can easily remove with a wipe or hide when you apply your foundation. The palette is pricey. I got mine when Urban Decay was still selling them at $49. That was still pricey then but now any Naked palette will run you $54. The price has been steadilly increasing for the last few years, if it ever goes over $55.
By Lisa 6 years ago.
I wanted to love this. I wanted to love it *so much*. I'd heard sooo much about Naked (original) but it just looked too warm for my skin (though I do have a slight yellow-leaning tone, most warm shades look awful on me!). Naked2 seemed ideal, with it's "greige" (aka grey-beige) and taupe shades - right up my alley, I thought! Um, not exactly. Yes, the colours all swatched gorgeously on my skin. However, I find this palette very hard to wear unless you mix it with other mattes (only 3 in here, I believe), OR you can handle very shimmery-to-almost-metallic eyeshadows. For myself, I find I can usually use one very shimmery/metallic shadow but I like to balance the rest with matte or satin shadows or it's just too much on me. I also purchased the Naked Basics palette and LOVE that - using the Basics and adding a high-shimmer from Naked 2 would work well, but I felt that it was not the best use of my money to have the Naked 2. The quality sure is there; I could immediately see what people are so crazy for UD shadows! You need the lightest hand for the shadows as they're so pigmented. They feel creamy to apply and only the most glittery shadows have much fallout. The double-ended brush it comes with is cruelty-free (synthetic bristles) and works nicely for patting on shadow with one end (can also use the flat end for lining the eyes with shadow); the other end is great for blending and crease definition. Considering that each pan is almost exactly the size of a full, single eyeshadow but costs approx.as much as 2.5-3 X single shadows would, you can't argue with the price. I would rate it 5 stars for quality, but only 2-3 for wearability - again, unless you can easily rock a lot of high-shimmer shadow or you don't mind mixing in other more matte shadows with the Naked 2.
By Jarvis 7 years ago.
Features a good variety of shades that work well on many skin tones and some surprising essentials (the pair of highlighters is nice, as is the all-matte taupe Tease). The brush is durable and usable, and the packaging itself, while a step up from Naked's hard cardboard, has a weird flaw: the individual pans are not very tightly attached to the metal case. While this can be fixed with a hot-glue gun and some patience, it's a bit of a pain. Another curiosity is the repetition of the shade Half Baked from the original Naked palette; while it's a great shade, a bright glittery gold might be harder to use everyday than say, another matte nude. Regardless, it's a great palette and makes an excellent present.


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It was rumored for a while before any official announcement was made, but we can now confirm (via EW) that The Dark Knight Rises will be available in a limited 'broken cowl' edition which you can see below.
The Blu-ray of the film will be packed with features including:
– The Journey of Bruce Wayne
– The Batmobile documentary
– Ending the Knight – an in-depth look featuring about 17 featurettes at how Nolan and his production team made The Dark Knight Rises
The Blu-ray, as well as DVD and digital versions of the film will be available on December 4th.
In The Dark Knight Rises, it has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act.
But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more dangerous, however, is the emergence of Bane, a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile. But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for Bane.
The Dark Knight Rises has earned $1.067 billion at the worldwide box office.


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- : The best candidate. Our strongest endorsement.
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- : Acceptable.
- : Vote only to prevent worse candidate(s) from winning.
- : Terrible. Do Not Vote. All your other votes will count.
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General Election Recommendations
November 6th, 2018
Statewide Offices
Lt. Governor
Important voting note:
Many are recommending Ed Hernandez to "strategically limit" evil. Why? Eleni Kounalakis is a socialist and probable governor/presidential candidate in the future. She is a powerful, more appealing Bernie Sanders. It would be best to defeat her now. Ed will never advance to a higher office.
Secretary of State
State Controller
Treasurer; California
Attorney General; California
Insurance Commissioner
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
U.S. Senator
Important voting note:
Many recommend Dianne Feinstein over Kevin de Leon to "strategically limit" evil. They dislike the thought of voting for her, but de Leon is a socialist anti-family candidate. If elected, he could run another one or two terms. Feinstein will never run again. In addition, de Leon could be a vice presidential candidate – our first total socialist. He must be defeated and stopped from being senator for the next 18 years.
California Supreme Court
California Supreme Court (Vote Yes/No)
California State Court of Appeal
Justice, California State Court of Appeal; Fifth District (Vote Yes/No)
- Chuck Poochigian: 9 (JI: 9, Q: 8) Yes
- M. Bruce Smith: 4 (JI: 1, Q: 8) No
- Kathleen Meehan: 4 (JI: 1, Q: 7) No
- Thomas Desantos: 5 (JI: 1, Q:9) No
- Mark W. Snauffer: 5 (JI: 2, Q:9) No
- Donald R. Franson: 8 (JI: 7, Q:8) No
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Representative, 4th District
- Jessica Morse (D)
- Tom McClintock (R)
U.S. Representative, 16th District
- Elizabeth Heng (R)
- Jim Costa (D)
U.S. Representative, 21st District
- David G. Valadao (R)
- TJ Cox (D)
U.S. Representative, 22nd District
- Devin G. Nunes (R)
- Andrew Janz (D)
State Senator
State Senate, 8th District
- Paulina Miranda (D)
- Andreas Borgeas (R)
State Senate, 12th District
- Anna Caballero (D)
- Rob Poythress (R)
State Senate, 14th District
- Andy Vidak (R)
- Melissa Hurtado (D)
California State Assembly
California State Assembly, 23rd District
- Jim Patterson (R)
- Aileen Rizo (D)
California State Assembly, 31st District
- Lupe Espinoza (R)
- Joaquin Arambula (D)
California Board of Equalization
California Board of Equalization, Member, District 1
Proposition 1
Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act
- A Yes Vote: The state will sell $4 (8) billion in bonds for affordable housing.
- A No Vote: The state will not sell bonds.
Proposition 2
No Place Like Home Act
- A Yes Vote: The state can use mental health funds for housing for the homeless.
- A No Vote: The state cannot use the funds.
(The Biggest Taxpayer Rip Off Award 2018)
Proposition 3
Bonds for Water
- A Yes Vote: The state can sell $8.9 (17 billion) in bonds to fund water and environmental projects.
- A No Vote: The state cannot sell bonds.
Proposition 4
Bonds for Construction at Hospitals Providing Children's Health Care
- A Yes Vote: The state can sell $1.5 (3 billion) in bonds for the construction, expansion, renovation, and equipping of certain hospitals that treat children.
- A No Vote: The state cannot sell bonds.
Proposition 5
Homeowners Tax Base Replacement Initiative (Prop 13)
- A Yes Vote: All homeowners who are over 55 (or who meet other qualifications) would be eligible for property tax savings when they move to a different house.
- A No Vote: Homeowners who are over 55 would not see a continuation of Proposition 13 benefits if they move to a different home.
Proposition 6
Gas Tax
- A Yes Vote: Gas and vehicle taxes recently passed by the Legislature would be eliminated.
- A No Vote: Gas and vehicle taxes recently passed by the Legislature would continue to be in effect.
Proposition 7
Daylight Saving Time
- A Yes Vote: The Legislature, with a two-thirds vote, could change daylight saving time if the change is allowed by the federal government.
- A No Vote: California would maintain its current daylight saving time period, early March to early November.
Proposition 8
Regulation and Price Control of Kidney Dialysis Clinics
- A Yes Vote: Kidney dialysis clinics would have their revenues limited by a formula and could be required to pay rebates to certain parties (primarily health insurance companies) that pay for dialysis treatment.
- A No Vote: Kidney dialysis clinics would operate without the extra control.
(The Most Deceptive Proposition of 2018 Award)
Proposition 10
Expands Local Governments' Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property
- A Yes Vote: State law would not limit the kinds of rent control laws cities and counties could have.
- A No Vote: State law would continue to limit the kinds of rent control laws cities and counties could have.
Proposition 11
Private-Sector Emergency Ambulance Employees to Remain on Call During Work Breaks
- A Yes Vote: Private ambulance companies could continue their current practice of having emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics stay on-duty during their meal and rest breaks in order to respond to 911 calls.
- A No Vote: Private ambulance companies would be subject to labor laws for this industry. Based on a recent court decision, these laws likely would require ambulance companies to provide EMTs and paramedics with off-duty meal and rest breaks that cannot be interrupted by 911 call.
Proposition 12
New Standards for Confinement of Certain Farm Animals; Bans Sale of Certain Non-Complying Products
- A Yes Vote: There would be new minimum requirements on farmers to provide more space for egg-laying hens, breeding pigs, and calves raised for veal.
- A No Vote: Current minimum space requirements for confining animals would continue to apply.
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Bob Costas & Brian Williams Co-Host NBC's Opening Ceremony Coverage Friday at 8 P.M. ET/PT
"Olympic Ice" Debuts Friday on USA Network at 6 P.M. ET
NOTE: This is a daily listings document that will be distributed by the NBC Olympics press office throughout the Torino Games.
TORINO, Italy -- February 9, 2006 -- NBC's 2006 Winter Olympics coverage begins Friday with the Opening Ceremony of the Torino Games, which promises a dramatic entrance of some 2500 athletes from 80 countries during the Parade of Nations as they gather in the Olympic Stadium in Torino to experience a high-tech, high-energy spectacle with a uniquely Italian flare and the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron. Bob Costas and Brian Williams will co-host NBC's primetime coverage of the Opening Ceremony at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Mary Carillo will join them in a featured role along with reporters Andrea Joyce, Melissa Stark and Jimmy Roberts. Jim Lampley, working his 13th Olympics, which surpasses the legendary Jim McKay for most-ever Olympic broadcast assignments, will man the anchor chair in the main studio. Costas will host NBC's primetime coverage throughout the Games, Feb. 10-26.
Five-time Olympian and 2002 gold medalist Chris Witty (West Allis, Wis.) will carry the flag leading the USA delegation into the Opening Ceremony. The U.S. will be the 67th delegation to march in the Parade of Nations, after Spain and before South Africa.
"The Olympic Opening Ceremony is the most important event for the vast majority of the athletes here. Most won't come close to a medal, and for them, this is the pinnacle of their athletic careers," said Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Universal Sports & Olympics, who is working his eighth Olympics and sixth as executive producer of NBC's coverage. "There is the obvious curiosity of people all over the world wanting to see their athletes come into the stadium, but this event is much more than that. In a world that has as many tensions as our world today, there is a moment of hope that comes from seeing all the world's best, young athletes gather peacefully together. It represents a greater sense of nations working together than we ever get from the U.N."
NBC Universal's unprecedented 418 hours of Winter Olympics coverage actually begins at 6 p.m. ET with the debut of "Olympic Ice" on USA Network, hosted by Carillo and co-host Dick Button, who notes that the program "is going to be more fun than anything for me because for once we'll be able to say what we want." Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton will alternate with Button as co-host.
Highlights for Friday, Feb. 10, 2006, include:
8:00 p.m.-Midnight
Opening Ceremony
Parade of Nations
Lighting of the Olympic Cauldron
2:39 a.m.-6:00 a.m.
Primetime Replay
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Olympic Ice
NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Primetime):
The Torino Opening Ceremony promises a dramatic entrance of some 2500 athletes from 80 countries during the Parade of Nations as they gather in the Olympic Stadium in Torino to experience a high tech, high-energy spectacle with a uniquely Italian flare.
Four years ago, at the Opening Ceremony in Salt Lake City, the members of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" hockey team reunited to light the Olympic Cauldron, adding to the long tradition of memorable Olympic flame lightings. The question still remains, who will add to the legacy and ignite the cauldron in Torino?
Note: The Olympic Stadium in Torino, the former Stadio Comunale, built in the 1930s, was used as the historic home of football matches by the Torino Calcio and Juventus FC football teams until the 1980s.
"Olympic Ice" will provide a daily all-access pass inside the world of figure skating-the Winter Games' most popular and intriguing sport. The one-hour program, dedicated to an entertaining mix of breaking news, in-depth analysis and exclusive athlete interviews, will present the most comprehensive skating coverage in Olympic broadcast history.
"Olympic Ice" will be hosted by Mary Carillo with distinguished skating analyst and two-time Olympic gold medalist Dick Button and 1984 Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton alternating as co-hosts. "Olympic Ice" launches February 10 and airs nightly through the Games' figure skating competition, 6-7 p.m. ET, on USA Network.
Highlights for Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006, include:
3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Luge-Men's Singles Competition
Nordic Combined-Individual Gold Medal Final
Alpine Skiing-Men's Downhill Final Timed Training
Figure Skating-Pairs Preview
8:00 p.m.-11:30 p.m.
Figure Skating-Pairs Short Program
Freestyle Skiing-Women's Moguls Gold Medal Final
Speed Skating-Men's 5000m Gold Medal Final
Alpine Skiing-Men's Downhill Final Timed Training
Midnight-1:00 a.m.
Ski Jumping-K95 Individual Competition
Figure Skating-Pairs Analysis
Medals Plaza-Awards Ceremony
1:00 a.m.-4:30 a.m.
Primetime Replay
7:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Biathlon-Men's 20km Gold Medal Final (LIVE)
Noon-2:30 p.m.
Hockey-Women: USA vs. Switzerland (LIVE)
7:00 a.m.-Noon
Hockey-Women: Finland vs. Germany (LIVE)
Sweden vs. Russia (LIVE)
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Hockey-Women: Canada vs. Italy (LIVE)
Gold medal favorites in the 2006 Olympic pairs competition are Russia's Tatyana Totmiyanina and Maxim Marinin, who live and train in Chicago. The two-time reigning world champions are back after a scary crash at a competition in Pittsburgh in October 2004-Totmiyanina fell to the unforgiving ice headfirst. The crash and her remarkably quick recovery received widespread media attention last fall and an outpouring of fan support. Also watch for the top U.S. team, Rena Inoue and John Baldwin (Santa Monica, Calif.) who became the first pair in history to land the throw triple Axel in competition at the 2006 U.S. Championships.
America's first look at Houston's Chad Hedrick, the two-time reigning world champion in the men's 5000m makes his Olympic debut today. Hedrick, a former inline skating world champion, was inspired to switch to speed skating just four years ago when he watched former inline rival Derek Parra win gold in Salt Lake City while playing blackjack in Las Vegas.
Reigning world champion in women's moguls Hannah Kearney makes her Olympic debut tonight. Just two years ago, the 19-year-old New Hampshire native was a high school star in soccer and track that also happened to be an up and coming freestyle skier.
The men's downhill final timed training helps determine the start order for Sunday's downhill and offers a first look at the men who will make one daring downhill dash for gold tomorrow night, including reigning world champion Bode Miller (Bretton Woods, N.H.) and veteran Daron Rahlves (Sugar Bowl, Calif.) of Team USA. Miller and Rahlves won gold and silver at the 2005 World Championships in Bormio, Italy.
NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Daytime):
The USA has never won a medal in Nordic Combined, in which athletes must combine the power and agility of ski jumping with the endurance and determination of cross-country skiing. Veteran U.S. Olympian Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) has a chance to end that drought, if he can keep pace with German world champion Ronny Ackermann, the gold medal favorite.
In the men's singles luge competition, defending Olympic champion Italian Armin Zoeggeler begins his chase for a second straight gold, which could be the first for the host country Italy at the Torino Games. Also watch for Minnesota's Tony Benshoof, an emerging contender who's having his best season.
NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Latenight):
Ski Jumping begins as the world's best soar beyond the length of a football field in pursuit of Olympic gold. Watch for Finnish star Janne Ahonen, who doubles as a drag racer back home.
The puck drops for the first day of two scintillating weeks of Olympic hockey, featuring LIVE coverage of the world champion U.S. women's hockey team against Switzerland. Olympic veterans Angela Ruggiero (Harper Woods, Mich.) and Krissy Wendell (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Team USA as they attempt to reclaim gold after falling to archrival Canada four years ago.
Be sure to set your alarm in time to catch LIVE coverage of the men's 20km gold medal biathlon final, the Torino Winter Games' first medal event, featuring one of stars of the Salt Lake Games, five-time Olympic gold medalist Ole Einar Bjoerndalen of Norway in the first of five chances to strike gold in Torino.
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Mary Washington alumnus Teresa Seay is the latest in a line of outstanding coaches for the University of Mary Washington riding team, having led the Eagles to the regional title in 2011, 2014 and 2015.
Seay, who has worked at Hazelwild Farm - the school's home facility - since graduating from UMW, and has served as an assistant coach for the Eagles, took over as the head coach for 2009-2010. She teaches classes for the university.
"It's an honor to hold the reigns of the Eagle riding program," said Seay. "As a former rider at Mary Washington, I am very proud of the successful tradition the team has maintained over the years, and look forward to building on that success into the future."
A very successful rider while competing for Mary Washington, Seay advanced to the 1998 IHSA National Championships. She graduated with a degree in Biology in 1999.


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The CNET Green Tech Blog reports on a recent oceanographic expedition that took a long hard look at a shameful situation; the floating islands of our garbage in our oceans.
Plastic contamination in the world's oceans is worse than previously imagined and no amount of technology can clean it up, according to Charles Moore. The oceanographer returned February 23 from a five-week odyssey in the Pacific Ocean with samples showing 48 parts plastic for every part of plankton.
"We are damned to a future of pollution by plastic," said Moore, who has spent more than a decade investigating Pacific plastic pollution. "There's no evidence it will end in a millennium."
A plastic "graveyard" double the size of Texas swirls in the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. There, his crew had found in the water six parts of plastic for every part plankton, with a fivefold increase in the amount of plastic between 1997 and 2007.
But their latest voyage found the pollution even thicker in the "highway" of ocean leading to the great Garbage Patch, according to Moore, who founded the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in Long Beach, Calif. Moore said that area comprises 2.5 million square miles.
In the Pacific alone, heavily polluted plastic zones amount to the size of the continent of Africa, Moore estimated.
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I want to do something, not sit idly by;
The problem is huge; the problem is drastic;
The oceans are choking with thrown-away plastic:
Plastic bags and sandwich wraps,
Toys and lighters, bottle caps;
One-use razors, plastic combs,
All the junk that fills our homes;
One part plankton, six parts trash—
The ecosystem's bound to crash.
The plastics are forming new habitats too,
With small crabs and barnacles eating this goo,
And seagulls fly over to feed on crustaceans,
Though toxins are higher in these new locations.
A plastic graveyard, twice the size
Of Texas has been formed, and lies
Off Southern California's coast.
This, only one among a host
Of garbage masses, giant isles,
Some 2.5 million square miles.
These plastics are coming from us—me and you—
We can't simply wait; there are things we must do.
As much as we can—though we're set in our ways—
We must change, and change quickly; no time for delays!
Demand greener packaging; vote with your dollars—
They say money talks; we can make sure ours hollers.
This cuttlefish fears for his relatives' fate;
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|Unknown Devices
Unknown Devices
New! You can get a beta version of the next Unknown Devices with Windows Vista support. I will be posting new beta versions as features are added but please give it a shot and let me know if you have any issues at email@example.com. The beta version works with Win95, 98, 98se, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.
Download Beta 1.4.20 (June 2, 2007)
- Added pastebin upload option. See http://www.halfdone.com/pastebin/?id=1-F94 for example
- Added Zip file support (Don't extract DeviceLists.zip). Future version will allow using zip or not.
- Now works on the device lists in memory, in most cases will detect faster, expecially from older systems and slow drives (like floppies) at the expense of using more ram.
- Improved Win9x detection (Thanks Cliff).
- Finally fixed the crash that would happen on shutdown
- Switched to usbdevs.txt from SIV. Future version will allow using either usbdevs.txt or usb.ids
- Added more computer details like Chipset and product key
I also setup new forums! Visit http://forums.halfdone.com, where you can post comments and bug reports about the site and Unknown Devices. As always you can still email me directly if you wish otherwise.
Version 1.2
* Download latest pci update at Craig's website (right click, save link/target as...).
Unknown Devices helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.
By checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it, this program attempts to figure out what the device is. You might not have to open your case or look up random numbers off of PCI cards to figure out what they are.
Program supports Win95, 98, 98se, Me, 2k, XP and 2003 but not NT. It also attempts to support future OSes.
It runs fine from a CD or floppy. It's free for personal and (especially) business use. The program contains no adware, spyware, malware, popups, or whatever is the latest name for junk software. If you want to add it to a cd collection or magazine that is fine, just drop me an email.
You can also access this webpage using the shorter url http://halfdone.com/ukd
Current Version is 1.2, May 25, 2003
Screen Shots
Download Now
* Download latest pci update at Craig's website (right click, save link/target as...).
Other Download Options
Complete package
Zip file, no install. Includes the program itself and the pcidevs.txt file.
Size: 392k (402,080 bytes)
MD5: d92226faa64b9ebfc45916632d758eab
Major Geeks
Download the latest pci list from Craig Hart's Page (3rd download from the top).
35183 Downloads since July 20th. ~7000-10,000 before that.
Just the Program
Just the program EXE file. Can be copied ontop of an older version.
pcidevs.txt still required.
Size: 306k (313,856 bytes)
MD5: b821d5300c2731aa00557d9c22b4ffac
Speakeasy Webspace
29673 Downloads since July 20th.
PEBuilder (BartPE) Plugin
Sherpya from netfarm.it has created a PEBuilder plugin for Unknown Devices. You can get it at http://oss.netfarm.it/winpe/. You can learn more about PEBuilder (a cd bootable version of WindowsXP-03) at http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/.
When you setup a PEBuilder CD you will have an option to ADD a plugin, just point it to this cab file.
Source Code
Borland C++ Builder 5 source code. Only for programmers, not for Huntersoft.
Size: 59.8k (61,252 bytes)
MD5: 955054e3af5688992071f3e073eeeb50
Halfdone.com HTTP
Halfdone.com FTP
26731 Downloads since July 20th.
Older Versions
You can download Version 1.0 here and You can download Version 1.1 here.
Thief Alert!
Heh, someone ripped my program. See these SOTWs for more information:
- Rip off, last update Nov 2nd 2003.
- A Message to Huntersoft, last update Apr 25th 2004.
- CPCW Magazine wrote an article about copyright issues, Chinese style.
Here is my comments about it, last update Apr 25th 2004.
I think we should email him and his Order process companies and complain!
Change Log
- 1.0 - April 9, 2003
- Public Release
- 1.1 - April 20, 2003
- Fixed highlight and focus issues with the device tree
- Missing a source file (DisplayResults.cpp was actually in another folder but was still compiling!)
- Fixed crash when pressing F2 when nothing is selected
- Fixed reporting incorrect device count when there was an error
- Fixed general spelling/grammar mistakes
- Program now looks for pcidevs.txt in the same path as where the exe is, regardless of the current folder
- Removed the debug info, the "Search Results (Internal Stuff)" thing (can be enabled in source)
- Device Tree is now readonly
- F2 now just copies the selected line to the clipboard
- Created a slightly better about and updates box
- Added right-click popup menu
- Added F5 to redetect devices
- Added Ctrl-C to copy the text without first "editing" it
- Added searching the internet using Google. Use the menu, popup or F3 (use Ctrl-F3 to search with "+drivers")
- Added saving the device list to a text file. Use the menu or F6
- Added more Unknown Device strings (for the icon)
- Latest pcidevs.txt, see About->Updates or pcidevs.txt itself to learn how to update it yourself.
- 1.2 - May 25, 2003
- Fixed reporting no devices found if only one device was found
- Fixed Logic Bug when reading device info from the pcilist
- Says "Unknown" if it's unknown (not just skip it)
- Displays an icon if the device is completely unknown, update your pcidevs.txt file
- Added reporting of known bad Subsystem IDs
- Added more Unknown Device strings (for the icon)
- Latest pcidevs.txt, see About->Updates or pcidevs.txt itself to learn how to update it yourself.
Help file (kinda)
- Press F3 to search the selected text on the internet. (Ctrl-F3 to search with the "+drivers")
- Press F2 or Ctrl-C to copy selected to clipboard
- Using a line under Full Details for a websearch will likely give you better results
- This program only knows about PCI and AGP devices. It will not be able to help with ISA devices, original PCMCIA cards, USB, SCSI, firewire..etc except for the controllers for these devices.
- This program might not display the unknown icon for some devices even if windows really doesn't know what it is. If you see one please email me with the EXACT name windows detects it as like "Standard PCI Graphics Adapter" so I can add it.
- Also this program shows all devices found in the registry including devices that no longer exists! Will be fixed when I figure out how.
PCI detection is provided by Craig Hart's pcidevs.txt. See his webpage at http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802 for updates to the file and more info.
Bugs? Suggestions?
Please email me here at firstname.lastname@example.com with any bug reports or suggestions. Let me know if this program has helped you out!
If you find any unknown devices that this program says it doesn't know about, please provide this info to Craig Hart or email it to me and I'll pass it along. See Craig's webpage for details.
Links from Other Sites
If you happen to know how to find out, using the registry, what devices are present or not present and/or If you know where you can get a complete list of unknown devices as windows reports them, like "Standard PCI Graphics Adapter" and "PCI Multimedia Audio Device" or even better know how to tell if windows knows it's an unknown device, drop me a line at email@example.com. Especially under Win9x-ME. Thanks.
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Michel Belanger
July 6, 2013, KAZAN, Russia (Team Canada) (ISN) – The Canadian men's volleyball team opened Group D competition at the 27th Summer Universiade with a 3-0 (25-14, 25-16, 25-16) victory on Saturday.
Left side Nicholas Hoag of Sherbrooke, Que. (Sherbrooke College), led the winners with eight kills in the match, while middle blocker Braden McLean of Birch Hills, Sask. (University of Saskatchewan), added six kills, two service aces and two blocks. Jay Blankenau of Calgary (Calgary) recorded 22 assists.
"I'm pretty relieved that we are starting," said head coach Larry McKay from the University of Winnipeg. "We were in the village for a few days and we were anxious to begin. We played a good team and we were prepared to play well. It was the beginning for us and we will build on that. I think we'll need to be better than we were today."
Canada had control throughout all three sets leading by no less than two points and only surrendering the lead three times early in the first and second games.
In the first set, Canada opened by capitalizing on three straight United Arab Emirates errors to be the first to eight and 16 points. The Canucks kept a double-digit lead throughout until a Hoag attack froze the UAE back line to win 25-14.
The opponents combined for six service errors on the first 14 points of the second set to sit tied 7-7. Canada scored the next five points on the strength of three attacks from the middle by Daniel Jansen Van Doorn of Langley, B.C. (Trinity Western). With the cushion, Canada sailed to the 25-16 victory.
UAE's Amer Ghulam Almarzooqi received a red card for unsportsman-like action to give the Canadians a 6-1 advantage to start the final set. Losing a starting player motivated UAE and the country outscored Canada 5-2 on the next seven plays. But after the UAE rally, the red and white scored the next five straight points to once again extend to a large lead and win 25-16.
"It was important for us to start strong and I think we did it," said Hoag, the son of senior national team head coach Glenn Hoag. "We established our reception and it helped us to set our offence. We made mistakes but we managed to get the service back quickly."
Team Canada website: http://english.cis-sic.ca/universiade/summer/2013
Team Canada Twitter: @CDNUniversiade | #gocanada
Summer Universiade website: www.kazan2013.com/en
Canada is looking for a podium spot for the second time in the last four Universiade tournaments. After claiming a silver medal in 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand, the Canucks finished sixth in 2009 in Belgrade, Serbia, and barely missed the podium in 2011 in China, taking fourth place.
Next up for the Canadian men is Mexico (1-0) Sunday at 8 p.m. local (noon ET).
BOXSCORE: Canada vs UAE


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Stampede Rally Comes Up Short Against Bucs
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- The Sioux Falls Stampede home woes continued Saturday night as they dropped a 2-1 heartbreaker to the Des Moines Buccaneers in front of large crowd of 4,553 at the Sioux Falls Arena.
The loss kept the Herd winless in home in their last six games (0-5-1) and dropped them to 21-12-3 on the season and three points behind Sioux City for third place in the West. Tony Calderone tallied the only goal while Art Brey stopped 22 shots, but took the loss in goal.
After a back-and-forth start to the game, the Bucs broke through at 16:29 of the first period when Oskar Norlov tallied his first goal of the season. The Bucs broke into the Stampede zone on a 3-on-2 and cashed in when Norlov one-timed a pass in the left circle just underneath the crossbar to give Des Moines a 1-0 edge. Sioux Falls outshot the Bucs 10-9 in the first.
Norlov struck again in the second period when he took a pass from Ryan Galt inside the left circle and wristed a shot through traffic that floated under the left arm of Stampede netminder Art Brey and gave the Bucs a 2-0 edge. The Herd posted 14 shots in the period, but nothing would go past the Buccaneers netminder, Ryan Ruck.
The Herd finally broke through 4:46 into the third period when Calderone tallied his 11th goal of the season. Keith Burchett sent a pass inside the left circle to Calderone who wristed a shot past the stick side of Ruck and brought all 4,553 faithful to their feet as it brought the Herd within in a goal. It also marked the Stampede's first goal in over five periods dating back to the night before in which they were blanked by Sioux City.
The Stampede responded to the goal, putting up 12 total shots in the period, but the puck would not bounce the Herd's way. Sioux Falls pulled Brey in the final minute and had a flurry in front of the Bucs net, but the puck bounced wide on each attempt and a last scramble of shots were blocked by the Des Moines defense to preserve the victory.
Sioux Falls finished the night 0-for-3 on the power play while going 3-for-3 on the penalty kill and outshot the Bucs 36-24 on the night.
The Herd will look to get back into the win column this weekend when they travel to Kearney, Neb. to take on the Tri-City Storm, Friday and Saturday night.
Courtesy: Sioux Falls Stampede


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Nicholas Dillon had wanted a big sleepover party on Saturday with a bunch of friends.
His mom said, "How about just one?"
The smaller party, it turned out, was a good thing. If the 9th grader at New Technology High School in Napa had invited a bunch more buddies to crash on his living room floor, there likely would have been a lot more injuries.
Instead, only the 13-year-old was injured. He suffered pelvic fractures when the family fireplace fell on his lower body after the Napa earthquake hit about 3:20 a.m. Nicholas's family is thankful that the X-rays showed his spine, however, is OK.
U.S. & World
"It's a miracle," Nicholas's aunt Carmen Rosales told NBC Bay Area on Monday. "We feel grateful that things weren't worse."
Fortunately, his family said, he woke up with the first jolt and quickly flipped himself over and started crawling away.
Still, the fireplace collapsed on the lower half of his body, and his brother heard his screams for help. His mother stumbled through the bricks to get him, but didn't get any response when she called 911. His family drove him to the nearest fire station, and from there, he was able to get to the hospital, where he underwent a 10-hour surgery, his aunt said.
On Monday, Imanol was in tears recalling what happened to his friend.
"All I remember was he started yelling my name and then I yelled his and I saw the bricks coming down on him," Imanol said.
Nicholas, an avid soccer player who will be off the field for at least four or five months, was one of the 208 patients treated at Queen of the Valley Medical Center complaining of pain. His was one of the more serious cases, though, and he was airlifted to the University of California at Davis Medical Center.
Aside from Nicholas, one other person remained in critical condition after suffering a cardiac emergency following the quake. Fifteen others were actually admitted to the hospital.


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IMF Survey Vol.35, No.11 June 2006
- What's On
- IMF Financial Data
- In the News: First Multilateral Consultation to Focus on Global Imbalances
- Productivity Gains will be Essential to Sustain Euro Area Growth
- Caruana Named to Head IMF's Financial and Monetary Work
- Lasting Growth in Marshall Islands hinges on Further Fiscal and Structural Reform
- Country Briefs: Malaysia's Economic Position is Strong, But Challenges Lie Ahead
- Transparent Management of Oil Revenue is Top Priority for São Tomé and Príncipe
- Policy: Inflation Targeting can Work in Nonindustrial Countries
- Research: "Offshoring" of Services Boosts U.S. Productivity
- Why Too Much Public Sector Lending can be Harmful
- Country Focus: Singapore: From Recovery to Sustained Economic Expansion
- What is Driving Pakistan's Inflation: Money or Wheat?
- Forum: Mapping a Brighter Future for the Kyrgyz Republic
- Forum: Pragmatism: Latin America's New "ISM"?
In the News: First Multilateral Consultation to Focus on Global Imbalances
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Release Date: April 4, 2008
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Teresa Miller, a professor in the University at Buffalo Law School specializing in criminal punishment, knows all too well the stereotypes of law students visiting prisons. People naturally assume the students are the unselfish ones, and the inmates -- who have little to lose and time to waste -- get all of the benefits.
"Encountering Attica," a documentary film that chronicles a year of meetings between a group of first-year UB law students and inmates from the Attica Correctional Facility, stands that stereotype on its head.
The students are the ones with the most to gain, Miller says. They're seeing how the effects of the laws they're studying in class play out in the lives of real people with real stories. In this case, the men are serving long sentences, many of them for murder. Legal studies for these students become flesh and blood.
And the inmates, who most people assume would welcome the chance to occupy their ample time explaining their plight with eager young law students, are the ones willing to help, at their own peril.
"One of the things we're trying to do in this documentary is to show that the law students are learning a great deal from the encounter, and for the inmates, it's risky for them to participate," says Miller. "Other inmates hear they're participating in something like this, and they assume they're doing something with the administration, assume they're snitches or moles, and that is a dangerous label to carry in prison."
And word travels fast in the highly routinized world of Attica, Miller says. So if one inmate wants to send a harsh or violent message to another for something like participating in a prison documentary, the attacker often can get to his victim.
"Easily," says Miller. "It turns out the inmates are not the lucky ones."
That's the dramatic setting of "Encountering Attica," which shows how inmates convicted of the same crime often are treated differently and receive different sentences. The documentary is part of the
ongoing effort of the law school's Projecting Law Project to demonstrate how new media can be used in the study of legal issues.
"It's easy to make a judgment when you're reading about a case in a textbook or a news story," says Siana McLean, a first-year law student from Toronto and one of three UB Law students actually going behind the bars into Attica. "When you actually hear a person telling his story, it can change your perspective.
"This is not to take away blame," says McLean, "but to actually see the effects of circumstances like growing up in poverty and preconceived notions that go along with race. As a person of color, I look at it as more of a reason to be in law school."
Spreading the word has always been a big part of Miller's work, and "Encountering Attica" is a prime example. She hopes to obtain permission for another digital video project next year that would look behind the walls of Albion Correctional Facility, a prison in Orleans County that houses only women.
The crew making "Encountering Attica" showed early takes to other Law School students last semester. And Miller took part in an assembly last fall at Bennett High School during which she showed parts of the documentary-in-progress to students in the Law Magnet program.
"The students asked very practical questions," Miller says. "They were not completely unfamiliar with the prison system."
Which, for Miller, is exactly the point of doing the project.
"The more people are put away for long, long periods of time with no thought to what they are going to be like when they get out, the more we harm the society they're released to," says Miller.
"One of the reasons it's so important to do this project and study what is going on in prison is because prisons have an increasingly profound effect on every layer of society as we rely more heavily on them; we put so many people away.
"So when people come out after having lived 15 or 20 or 30 years behind bars, or just having a whole population of young men that do short terms, but keep cycling in and out of jail, those institutions are forming the society we will have in the near future, the world my kids are going to grow up in."
Tim Gera, a UB graduate student in media studies and the videographer for the project, notes: "The only time we think of inmates in a positive light is in the movies when it's Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. The big surprise is to go in there and connect with them so easily. There wasn't as much difference between us and them as you would have believed."
Miller expects to have the final version of the documentary completed by this summer. The latest work-in-progress version will be screened at 4 p.m. May 1 in O'Brian Hall on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
Excerpts of the documentary are available online: an "orientation" segment at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsV8yWdvuEs and an interview with an inmate at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwWegWyhrv0.
The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, a flagship institution in the State University of New York system that is its largest and most comprehensive campus. UB's more than 28,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities.
Charles Anzalone
News Content Manager
Education, Educational Opportunity Center, Law,
Academies, Honors College, Student Activities
Tel: 716-645-4600


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Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.1.2, JellyBean Update for Verizon Creates Issues With LTE
Verizon rolled out its Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.1.2, JellyBean update for customers last week.
The rather large upgrade brought many new features to the device along with some new problems. Verizon customers have reported that they have been experiencing severe issues with 4G LTE since performing the update on their smartphones.
Sites such as Android Authority recommend not downloading the update until these problems are fixed. Some of these users who are complaining are only getting one or two bars on 4G LTE, and their data speeds have slowed to a crawl.
A factory reset will not correct this issue either. Most users will have to wait for Verizon and Android to fix the problem themselves.
With the update, the smartphone now has features that were first released for the Galaxy Note 2 including multi-window multitasking and multi-screen. It will also have S Beam's Auto Share Shot along with some bug fixes and other features which can be seen in the company's official change-log for the Galaxy S3.
The NFC feature has been improved with the update, as it will now be easier to turn on. Burst shot will not be the default setting on the stock Camera application and a web browsing issue that caused the S3 to reset has also been corrected.
The update is 129MB and can be downloaded over-the-air. Users can access it by going into Settings > About Phone > System updates. Once that is done, users can tap the Restart and Install button to finish the upgrade. When it is finished, the new software version will be JZO54K.I535VRBMD3. The update has not been officially confirmed by Verizon at this time.


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Special assistance and requests
Yes. Emirates has two categories of service, with separate conditions and requirements, for our passengers between the ages of 5 and 15 who are travelling unaccompanied by an adult.
For children between the ages of 5 and 11, classified as Unaccompanied Minors, we have separate check-in facilities and dedicated ground staff to help on departure and arrival.
For the purposes of fares, any passenger aged 12 or over is considered an adult. However, passengers between the ages of 12 and 17 are not able to accompany a child alone without a passenger who is 18 years or older. In such cases the applicable adult fare applies for all. Please contact your local Emirates office to arrange these bookings.
We also provide special attention for those children between the ages of 12 and 15—classified as Young Passengers.
Please visit the Unaccompanied Minors page for more information, or contact your local Emirates office.
What if my child has a connecting flight or overnight transfer?
Connection times
If your child is transferring to another airline as part of their itinerary, the maximum connection time allowed at the airport is four hours.
If they're transferring to another flight in Dubai, the maximum connection time is eight hours. This is because we have specialist members of our team to care for your child and we can only allocate them for this time.
Overnight transfers and unaccompanied minors
A child under 16 can't fly alone if their transfer involves an overnight stay at the connecting airport or they need to travel between airports to get to their connecting flight unless you arrange for an adult guardian to meet and care for them at the transit point.
In both situations, you'll need to confirm these details with us before we can accept your child on board.
Special needs
Children with special needs or who need specific care must be accompanied by a fare-paying guardian who is 18 years old or over.
Terms and conditions
For safety and security, as a legal parent or guardian you'll need to complete and sign a Declaration of Indemnity form before your child can fly with us. You'll find these forms at Emirates Airport Offices.
The unaccompanied minor's parent or guardian must stay at the airport until the flight has departed. The parent or guardian collecting the unaccompanied minor at the airport must provide proof of identification. We offer our Unaccompanied Minors service only on our flights, and not with our partner airlines. Please contact the airline to find out about their services for children travelling alone.
French minors travelling outside of France
Minors with French citizenship who are travelling outside of France without their parent or legal guardians must carry an official authorisation to exit the country, in addition to their passport. The original authorisation must be presented along with a copy of the identification of the parent or guardian who signed the document.
Spanish minors travelling outside of Spain
Spanish minors under 18 years old travelling outside of the Spanish territory without the company of any of his/her legal representatives (parents or legal guardian /s), must carry in addition to passport, a signed declaration of travel permit outside of the national territory. The form may be obtained from the Spanish Police, Civil Guard, Courts, Notaries, Town halls or Consulates.
In the case of foreign minors in Spain for their Departure from national territory must carry the Passport of their respective State or valid travel document in force.
Regarding foreign minors resident in Spain or residents in another EU state please contact the Authorities regarding the applicable documentation.
For more information and queries please contact the Spanish authorities to ensure valid documentation in place.
Unaccompanied minors travelling to Canada
Air Canada doesn't accept unaccompanied minors from other airlines. Therefore, if your child is travelling flying alone with us, you can book our Unaccompanied Minors service as far as Toronto. In Toronto, the child must be collected by their parent or guardian.
If your child is travelling to Canada alone, or with an adult with no legal custody over them, we strongly advise you to give them a travel consent letter. It must be signed by their legal guardian or a parent with legal custody. The letter should contain these details:
Italian minors travelling outside Italy without an adult
There are special requirements for Italian children travelling alone outside of Italy. If your child is an Italian national aged up to and including 13, they will need to carry a letter of authorisation (a dichiarazione di affido) from the local police (questura) if:
If you live abroad, you can get this authorisation from an Italian embassy or consulate. The dichiarazione di affido can't be issued by the airport police. Without this authorisation, your child won't be allowed to leave Italy. This only applies to Italian citizens; all other nationals can travel without this authorisation.
Travelling on other airlines
Each airline has their own restrictions and regulations on the unaccompanied travel of minors. If your itinerary involves travel on another airline, you should check the specific unaccompanied minors rules for that carrier before making your booking. These can include restrictions on the acceptance of unaccompanied minors when connecting to or from other airlines.
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