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We were lucky enough to have a lovely few weeks of summery weather before we headed back home into deepest winter. May seems to be one of the nicest months on the UK now and we got a good run of sunny days and trips to the beach.
Above is the beach at Port Erin, its such a gorgeous bay with a little harbour and a long flat gently sloping beach with no big drop off, Great for kids to paddle and for mums wo watch and not stress to hard.
The kid had a great few trips down here, but the last was the only time I took my camera with me. The pontoon was a huge hit with all the kids (most of the beaches have them for summer time) but on this trip the kid hopped off as soon as it floated. The previous day she had waded out and played with friends only to find that it wobbled more than expected and when she jumped off she discovered the water had gone from mid-chest to chin deep. She was more bothered by the wobbling than the change in depth but decided discretion was the better part of valour the next day!
There were a few jellyfish floating around to look at and the wonderful views and soft sand to make angels in and dig through to find 'treasures'.
A sunny weekend day and we took the opportunity to explore the blooming woods, mine and local historic water wheel. The mines near the wheel are really interesting, you can walk a few hundred metres into the upper level of one and even in that short distance makes it abundantly clear what a horrible working environment it must have been to work in. The kid was not impressed by it!
We climbed to the top of the wheel and then wandered along the valley. Primroses, bluebells and snowdrops were abundant as well as slowly unfurling fern heads and plenty of dandelions. Blue skies and a bit of sunshine and then a lovely lunch at a local cafe. The Easter holiday flew by. Lots of relaxing and time with family. Far to much chocolate.
A pic from our recent trip to Montreal. Not long after this was taken she abandoned the frame and went out solo.
You cant tell from the pic but it was SO cold, -9 the day this was taken
These were taken (mostly by hubby) at a couple of the different walks we did last week. Water, and waterfalls is a bit of a theme at the moment as we are doing a lot of glen walks. Spring is slowly coming and we are seeing snowdrops peeking out and daffodils starting to bloom.
The kid is loving all the outdoor activities and hiking that we have been able to do. I am really enjoying being able to make sure that being outside, just following a path with no schedule or goal is a regular part of each week. I have noticed it has a positive impact on her school work and attitude when she's had a dose of outdoor nature exploring and stress free time.
We are doing the Wild Explorers Club assignments which I signed up for a few weeks ago. I wasn't sure if it would be a hit with the kid or not, but so far she's loving the little videos every week and having a outdoor explorer 'goal' to work towards. This isn't a sponsored post, just something that Ive found really great for instigating 'get outdoors' when its been cold, damp and grey!
There isn't much snow in the Isle of Man. And by that I mean it very very rarely snows. And when it does its fleeting and up high. So last week we felt especially lucky to head out walking early in the morning to see Snaefell under a cloud with a white dusting. All plans for a glen walk went out the window and off we headed up the mountain road (past the ice warnings, lamenting the fact we are driving a mini not a 4×4)
We got to the top of the road and parked up on an icy carpark which was melting fast. The sun was coming out fleetingly through thick clouds and the temperate while still biting with the wind, was warming up. Which honestly was good as I hadn't packed for snow. And certainly not snow on the top of a mountain.
Snaefell is a mountain. But not by a lot; 37 feet to be exact. But its still a mountain and the kid was absolutely determined this was going to be her first snow capped mountain climb. Gumboots, wooly hat, a solo glove and her lighter Therm jacket (we wished we had their new season ski jacket with us as it is super padded) kept her warm enough with the exertion of climbing. The kid powered up, even the steep slippery section right below the summit didn't phase her. At the top the clouds parted momentarily and the views were amazing.
After climbing up the east side we decided to walk back around the west facing back of the slope; along the rail-line that runs in the summer months. The sun hadn't reached the back so it was lovely and not melting yet. By the time we got back round to the car the snow and ice in the car park was gone. The sunny eastern side of the hill was running with water and nothing more than slush.
The kid has ticked off 'climbed her first snow capped mountain' off her to do list and we got to see some of the most amazing views. A great day and one that made dragging ourselves up and out fairly early and in the cold totally and definitely worth it.
We have done plenty of holidays with the kid and I would say that I'm pretty good at packing and working out what we need to keep her happy while we are away. I pack light as a rule, but packing for a longer trip had me a bit stumped.
When I was prepairing for the trip I was on the lookout for something portable, engaging and long lasting. Since the kid loves dolls (her 18inch dolls are one of her most prized posessons) I was drawn to Lottie Dolls as a fabulous small portable doll and as alternative to the increasingly popular (with the kid) but disliked by me, Barbie.
These dolls are small 18cm high, realistically proportioned (based on a 9year old girl) doll with a variety of outfits and themes. What I really adore is that they dont fall into conventional 'fashion doll' 'princess doll' stereotypes. There is Pirate Lottie, Muddy Puddles Lottie, Stargazer Lottie and more.
I got in touch with the fabuous team behind Lottie Dolls and they were generous enough to send the kid two Lotties and some outfits (Super Hero Lottie is still the kids firm favourite). These portable, pop-in-a-pocket sized dolls have been the best thing that we have with us. They go everywhere with the kid, offer hours of amusement and entertainment.
To be clear I am extremely grateful to Arklu for sponsoring the kid while we are travelling – but to anyone feeling like my opinions are rooted in 'it was a freebie' should be reassured that we have bought 2 more Lotties since then and another 4 outfits (and given they have a 30% offer at the moment there's another Lottie in my shopping cart!)
The kid loves mix and matching outfits to different dolls and the freedom to play and experiment.
Other toys we really rate are are the Djeco Mini Games as they are fun and portable as well as always having a good range of crayons and paper. I like the Tiger Tribe sets as they are tidy and self contained.
Crocodile Creek Mini puzzles are ease to pop in a bag and a bonus is that they are double sided. Playmobil is also tough and portable and I love the foil bag sets as they have all the parts for a little storyline in one set. The kid loves the little blind bags from My Little Pony (gag) and also from the Trolls Movie that we saw just before heading on holiday.
Other than that we always bring books for reading herself and being read too. The kid is currently loving the Wrenly Series as she can read them herself and they are nice and illustrated with a fun fast story.
Not forgetting of course, the essential soft toys who can never be left behind. All in all that was a 50ltr kit bag bursting with books, toys and games! Not quite the light minimalist packing I'd been aiming for.
Excuse the instagram images used in this post, between travelling, christmas, miserable weather and getting chicken pox – me as an adult and the kid 2 weeks later. There's not been much photography going on. Or adventuring. But there has been a lot of playing – thank heavens for great quality, portable toys.
A lovely trip to the local wildlife park with family. Lots of differnt animals from our usual wildlife park which was wonderful. Pictures curtasy of hubby.
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Lovely 2-bedroom penthouse with 16m² terrace for sale in Ibiza
- Spain
- Ibiza
- Ibiza Town
- 07800
- Bedrooms 2
- Bathrooms 2
- Size 91m²
- Terrace 16m²
Wonderful 2-bedroom apartment on Playa den Bossa for sale with a rooftop chill out area complete with a jacuzzi.
Found in the most vibrant area of the island, near all the best parties but far enough away that it is quiet, this penthouse enjoys stunning sea and pool views. The penthouse can be found on the third floor of a building with a lift, security and a concierge service.
The penthouse also benefits from access to a communal area which has a stunning garden with tall palm trees and a huge infinity pool. There is a small artificial beach with Balinese beds, to the right of which is a shady chill out area with beds, ideal for reading or having a massage.
On entering the property you find yourself in the living area with one glass wall leading out on the balcony and stairs up to the rooftop terrace with a jacuzzi, from where you can enjoy one of the best sunsets on the island. To the right you will find a separate kitchen area with a washing machine, whilst to the left is the 'night' area of the penthouse, with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
The property benefits from plenty of natural light, due to being exterior, and comes equipped with air conditioning and double glazing, as well as a storage room and a parking space.
This penthouse would be ideal for young couples wanting to live in a vibrant and fast paced environment, as well as for investors, due to its desirable location and high quality.
- Sea views
- Waterfront
- Swimming pool
- Terrace
- Jacuzzi
- Concierge service
- Private garage
- Lift
- Natural light
- Modernist building
- Parking
- Air conditioning
- Balcony
- Chill out area
- Double glazing
- Equipped Kitchen
- Exterior
- Interior
- New build
- Security
- Service entrance
- Storage room
- Views
- Living room with balcony
- Kitchen
- 2 bedrooms
- 2 bathrooms
- Roof terrace with Jacuzzi
Found on the Playa den Bossa, the penthouse is in one of the most vibrant areas of the island. It is less than a 1 minute walk from the beach and very close to the city centre. The penthouse is also well connected to public transport, with a bus stop less than 1 minute away.
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Area of Expertise
People Supply Chain
Labor Compliance
Souvik Bose
Strategic Sales & Account Management Professional with over 13 years' global (India & UK) market exposure with proven success in corporate sales, business development, key account management & retention, relationship management, facility management and team leadership. Track record of consistently exceeding multi-crore sales targets and generating new businesses through strategic planning and cultivating new relationships with CXOs.
Since Sep 12, YOMA multinational solutions, Mumbai
YOMA Multinational Solutions LLP is an initiative of leadership consulting and has been operating in the Indian market for the last 15 years. We represent some of the biggest and the most respected training/consulting companies like DOOR Training & Consulting, Ken Blanchard Companies and Vital Smarts. YOMA was incorporated in 2012 to provide end to end integrated Hr solutions.
Co founder and Director
Lead a sales and Operations team for pan India and oversee sales and operation for Pan India for Temporary Staffing, Permanent recruitment, pay rolling and Hr process outsourcing. Part of core group and responsible for implementation of best systems and processes.
- Responsible for driving various product lines – Temp staffing, permanent staffing, and Hr outsourcing.
- Attained top line figures of INR 7 cr in Fy13-14 (first operating year).
- Attained top line figures of INR 25 cr in Fy14-15 (second operating year).
- Signed high value accounts in Staffing and Perm pan India.
- Manage some of the most complex accounts in Staffing and Hr outsourcing pan India.
- Set up teams (both staffing and perm) and branches in 6 locations across India.
- Developed lot of value added services in staffing that helped in strong bottom-line.
Feb 10 – Sep, 12 GLOBAL INNOVSOURCE SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD, Mumbai
A company committed to the advancement of HR Outsourcing to growing companies. A venture of the $5 Billion GHC Group (Global Holding Corporation), Global InnovSource is the Group's HR venture.
Regional Manager / Regional Head (Temporary Staffing & Facilities Management) – West
Report to Business Head; lead a sales and operation team for the region with 6 Branch Managers and oversee the entire western region for facility management, temporary staffing, sales, operations and key account management. Manage P&L for the region and handle new client acquisition; core committee member for business process improvement to implement best practices.
- Contributed in attaining a gross profit of 5.8 – 6.2% by generating INR 135 Cr. regional turnover in 2011-12 and INR 54 Cr. in 2010-11 for Mumbai Region
- Manage 96 corporate accounts with 11000 temporary staffing figure and topline revenue INR 135 Cr. p.a. in the western region
- Increased revenue and profitability by expanding the client base (associate numbers) from 4500 to 11000 in 2.5 years
- Awarded Best Region and Branch for achieving 78% of the targets in 2011-12
- Awarded Best Branch for Facilities Management for acquiring mega accounts like Axis Bank, Inox and Prime Focus in 2010-11
- Awarded Best Branch Pan India for attaining 160% of the temporary staffing targets in 2010-11 and achieving 85% of the targets in 2009-10
- Developed & implemented regional marketing and business process improvement plans, pricing schedules, and customer service policies to meet the revenue and growth retention goals YoY
- Anchor high volume accounts and generate extra revenue by introducing new sales plus models, implementing & improving customized solution offerings and maintaining relations with CXO's
Mar 08-Jan, 10 TEAM LEASE SERVICES PVT. LTD., Mumbai
India's largest HR services provider offering a gamut of staffing & HR services to corporate clients. Started operations in 2002, and has a national footprint with strong employee base in over 600 locations.
Senior Manager (Business Development & Key Accounts) – West & East
Reported to Vice President (Key Accounts); led a team of 12 Key Account Managers to acquire and manage multiple high revenue accounts and meet revenue targets. Handled business development, new client acquisition, customer retention, key account management of high volume/high profit accounts, and internal liaison to scale up business on quarterly basis.
- Contributed in generating INR 37 Cr. regional turnover in 2009-10 for Mumbai Region
- Led 70 high revenue corporate accounts with 37000 staffing figure
- Bagged 'Employee Stock Options' in Aug'09 for highest client retentions and new acquisitions
- Attained the highest number of revenue sales Pan India with key accounts like Reliance Retail, Aditya Birla Retail, Vodafone etc.
- Signed highest number of compliance audit mandates including Axis, Pratibha, Bombay Dying
- Converted lesser potential accounts to high revenue generating accounts like Diebold, HDFC, Datacraft and Reliance retail within a span of 1.5 years
- Anchored accounts, and built & maintained relations with key decision makers (CXO's) and clients like Reliance Retail, Emerson, Equant, Tata Group and ensure delivery as per agreed SLA's
- Monitored and managed gross margins to ensure profitability, initiate process improvements in compliance with quality standards
May 07-Mar, 08 FASTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INDIA) PVT. LTD., Mumbai
Leading provider of telecommunications network assurance solutions, test & measurement instruments and service assurance solutions in India; established in 1994 with Head Office in Mumbai.
Asst. Sales Manager (Business Development) – West
Reported to CEO; led a team of 7 Sales Managers to manage new client acquisition & retention, and key account management. Identified new business opportunities, acquired new clients, closed commercial deals and worked on RFPs & RFQs and large government tenders.
- Anchored high volume and high profit accounts, built and maintained relations with key decision makers (CXO's) and with clients like VSNL, Bharti, Vodafone, and ECI
- Closed large orders of SDH analyzer, and other test equipment's with GTL, Vodafone and VSNL
- Signed annual maintenance contract with high revenues with Idea, Airtel and GTL
- Closed large government tender with ITI
Jul 04-Feb 07, O2 TELECOMMUNICATIONS PVT. LTD., Glasgow – U.K.
Company providing mobile, fixed & broadband services in UK, Ireland, Germany, The Czech Republic & Slovakia; also known as Telefonica Europe, present in 25 countries and serve over 300M customers.
Manager (Corporate Retention)
Reported to Vice President (Service & Retention); led a team of 17 members to closely monitor market dynamics, competitor analysis of usage & payment history, and change in technology for upgrades and revenue enhancements. Worked closely with channel partners for preparation and implementation of marketing plans; maintained comprehensive marketing information system.
- Received 'Gold Employee of the year' award in 2006 for consistently overachieving targets
- Retained high volume and high value corporate clients like NHS, Shell, Marks & Spencer and Tesco with > 10000 pounds revenue by introducing loyalty programmes and innovative tariffs
Nov 01-Jul, 04 BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING (BSkyB), Glasgow – U.K.
Leading pay-TV provider serving over 10 million subscribers in UK & Ireland. Distributes entertainment, news, & sports programs, internet & telephony service, and also licenses channels to cable operators.
Assistant Manager (Corporate & Retail Sales)
Handled corporate and retail sales and explored & identified new markets to develop business. Prepared & monitored annual promotional budget and planned brand promotion activities at macro & micro level; conceptualized & managed large scale events targeting retail customers.
- Set-up distribution networks with strong focus on customer service, delivery, and retentions
- Added high value/volume clients like Holiday Inn, Sheraton, and Travel Lodge
Nov 01-Apr, 02 Management Trainee
Education & Certifications
- Executive Program in Strategic Finance from ISB, Hyderabad
- PG Diploma in International Marketing (Communication & International Channel Management), Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde Glasgow – U.K
- Bachelor in Arts (Hospitality Management), Robert Gordon University Aberdeen – U.K.
Major Projects
- Global Innovsource Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai – Regional Head (Temporary Staffing & Facilities Management)
- Team Lease Services Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai – Senior Manager (Business Development & Key Accounts)
- Fastech Telecommunications (India) Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai – Asst. Sales Manager (Business Development)
- Telecommunications Pvt. Ltd., Glasgow – U.K – Manager (Corporate Retention)
- British Sky Broadcasting (B SkyB), Glasgow – U.K. -Assistant Manager (Corporate & Retail Sales)
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our ongoing pursuit to get best of the training for Indian Sahana Kumari, lone hope for India being representedin the high jump event at #RioOlympics2016, translates into a podium finish which has been in detail mentioned here.
Also with the support of Indian citizens, #SahanaKumari has already started her practice for #RioOlympics2016 – Check here
A Letter was written to Prime Minister's Office, to look at case of Sole Indian High Jumper who represented India at London Olympics creating history
Here is the acknowledgement from #PMO and directing #Sports ministry to look into the matter
with this acknowledgement, we hope some positive action is taken to support #SahanaKumari
This acknowledgement was in response to constant effort and communication to get support for #SahanaKumari
here is the letter written to PMO –
The Prime Minister of India,
7, Race Course Road,
Delhi, India
Sub: Supporting the cause of Ms. Sahana Kumari, Indian hope at #RioOlympics2016 in High Jump Event
Hon'ble Shr. Narendra Modi ji,
I would like to bring to your notice about Ms. Sahana Kumari, (High Jump athlete from Karnataka) Only Indian Women Athlete to represent Indian in any of Olympics for High Jump event at London Olympics 2012 and also reached Finals of other International high Jump event. Most recently she scored Gold at South Asian games 2016. Currently, she is preparing herself for Rio Olympics 2016. I am attaching herewith the list of records and achievements of Ms. Sahana kumari for your kind perusal.
For this dream, which is not only of hers but of all Indians to have an Indian athlete at medal Podium in athletics at Olympics, Ms. Sahana Kumari requires international training at Ukraine from her previous coach – Mr. Nikintin Evengy (Internationally acclaimed coach from Ukraine) under whose guidance Ms. Kumari achieved her career best record of 1.92 mts, which also is Indian National record in High Jump; also reached up to finals of Common Wealth games 2014 and Asian Games 2014. Ms. kumari is confident that, if she receives 3 months training under her coach at Ukraine or coach is invited to India, she can improve her mark and thus qualify to represent India again in Rio Olympics 2016.
I come with a request for assistance in soliciting a support to sponsor her travel, stay and participating in the Olympic 2016 qualifier event gets sponsored; along with visa approval; India gets better chance of not only getting represented at Olympics 2016 but also possibility of reaching medal podium.
Break up of financial assistance requirement
– Coach fees – Rs6.0 Lakhs (Rs2.0 Lakhs) per month
– Boarding and Lodging at Ukraine
– Participating in Olympic qualifier event at Ukraine
It is very important to nurture the potential sportsperson in best possible environment, to expect, best possible harvest. Here in India we have tradition of felicitation of achievers and medal winners (which is good motivation) but it is even more imperative that potential is been given right push where he/she can convert opportunity into medal.
With this background, I approach you to assist in soliciting the support for India's hope at Olympics 2016. During 2012 for her first Olympics stint, and also first for any Indian athlete in High Jump, even then she wanted support, which was duly provided by social media not only financially but even otherwise, through EkAurPrayaas platform. Details on other activities (like supporting Asom Riot victims, Supporting vitims of #MaharashtraDrought) of Ek Aur Prayaas at – www.ekaurprayaas.org
Here, Ek Aur Prayaas, didn't create any interface for transfer of money, but directly ensured transfer of money from donor to athlete's bank a/c, by publishing her account; Which led to many good individuals support the citizen crowd funding for sports. The same was widely covered by media.
I am looking forward to your positive assistance and guidance to keep the sport spirit alive among us, Indians.
Jaymin Panchal
Co-Founder, Ek Aur Prayaas


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Guardcam DVRFLD Flood Light With Built In Camera & Digital Recorder
Product Information
GuardCam is a complete all-in-one PIR floodlight, camera, speaker and DVR system. Simply connect to mains power, fix to wall and the built in DVR will record straight to the SD card supplied for complete peace of mind.
Key Features:
1. Eco friendly Grade C 230w halogen lamp.
2. High resolution digital camera, clear image recording in video or still frame format. Night images retain colour and clarity due to automatic halogen light illumination.
3. Built in DVR records directly to 2Gb SD card. Up to 750, twenty second video sessions or 1500 still images are recorded onto the supplied 2GB SD card. Oldest Images are deleted and overwritten.
4. Time and date setting applied to all recordings. In the event of mains power failure internal back up batteries ensure the settings are not lost.
5. Easy replay on Windows Media Player. Supplied with an SD to USB converter.
6. PIR motion detector with integral photocell.
7. Audible alert speaker with choice of 3 warnings.
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At long last Sarawak's Irrawaddy dolphins are to be the subject of a conservation based research project. I've constantly banged on about the need to actually go out and conduct some proper research and finally it is happening, great news. On 15th May 2008 the Sarawak Dolphin Project was launched in Kuching. I was aware that this project was on the cards. It has certainly taken a long time to put everything together so congratulations to everyone involved.
The project is a collaborative effort between Sarawak Shell, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and the Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC). UNIMAS has appointed Dr Gianna Minton as the project leader. Gianna spent 8 years in Oman studying whales and dolphins. Her PhD focused on the ecology and conservation of humpback whales in the Arabian Sea.
Sarawak Shell is providing a grant of RM 160,000 to facilitate the research. This is not the first time Shell have supported conservation work focusing on Irrawaddy dolphins. Shell Exploration Philippines funded WWF's Malampaya Sound Ecological Studies Project in Palawan. This conservation project focused on the declining population of Irrawaddy dolphins in the confined waters of the Malampaya Sound.
SFC is the state's principle wildlife protection agency and their staff will also be involved in the boat surveys and other aspects of the project.
The Sarawak Dolphin Project aims to collect baseline data on the seasonal distribution, habitat use and population of dolphins in Sarawak. The geographic focus of the project is Kuching and Miri. The research is not limited to Irrawaddy dolphins although survey efforts in Kuching will focus on near shore waters where the Irrawaddy is commonly sighted. Other species found in these waters are finless porpoises and Indo-pacific humpback dolphins. In Kuching research will focus on Salak/Santubong and neighbouring waters.
The launch of the project received good coverage in the local press. Unfortunately, the Borneo Post, Sarawak's main English language newspaper decided to run a somewhat negative piece focusing on tourism as a threat to dolphins. The front page story with headline 'Dolphin-watch tour packages cause for concern' really missed the point of the whole story. Sarawak's Irrawaddy dolphins face a number of threats but tourism is not exactly the major one. Incidental catch and habitat degradation are the main threats. Hopefully the Borneo Post will carry some follow-up stories that provide more balanced coverage of the project when the various surveys commence next month.


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Kanata Noodle House Reviews & Details
Kanata Noodle House
500 Hazeldean Road
Kanata Noodle House welcomes you to come and enjoy our hospitality and experience the flavors of authentic Vietnamese cuisine. We pride ourselves in offering some of the best Vietnamese food in Ottawa. At Kanata Noodle House we offer an extensive menu with a large variety of noodle, rice and soup dishes from popular Vietnamese cuisine including selections in seafood, chicken, beef, and pork, well as vegetarian options. We will gladly recommend authentic Vietnamese meals that you are sure to enjoy. We are delighted to have just launched our online food ordering service where you are able to order either take out or delivery. You can also come to our restaurant and enjoy a relaxed atmosphere, great food and friendly staff to enhance your dining experience whatever the occasion. Located in the Kanata Centrum, minutes from the 417 Queensway, we and are open daily from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm for your convenience.
- Cuisine:Vietnamese
- Service:Delivery and Takeout
- Major Intersection:Terry Fox Dr And Hazeldean Rd
- Website:Website
- Hours:
- Mon: 11am - 11pm
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Learning in the 21st Century
Today, learning just about anything is more accessible than it ever has been in history. According to YouTube's in-house statistics, each minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to the website. And that's just one of hundreds of wonderful websites which allow visitors to explore and learn about a variety of subjects all around the world.
So when I made the decision to drop out of college and pursue a career in the family photography and printing businesses I knew that this didn't have to mean I would not keep learning. College is structured of course so that a graduate has undergone a quantifiable and standard learning regiment. Most universities offer their students 'a tailored education' to meet the needs of each individual student but in a way it's like going to In'N'Out where you can get a burger with or without cheese, pickles, tomatoes, or sauce – essentially you will still have a hamburger not a burrito. If that product works for you then it's a great way to become educated without having to come up with a truly unique education. However, for anybody who wants to learn a new language, better writing skills, a new workout, or the history of traditional Buddhism, it's merely a matter of willing yourself to seek out said information.
There are a smattering of photography schools, especially in the metro Los Angeles area. These schools range from one day workshops in general tips and tricks to full degrees in Photography and Fine Arts. Yet again, as helpful as these courses may be to a photography student none will offer a truly tailored program which allows the student to explore the aspects of photography he or she is interested in with unlimited depth, or skip over parts of the field which they will not use in their career. Of course it's impossible to say what exactly I will do in photography but shelling out thousands of dollars to LA Film School or the Academy of the Arts seems like a less-direct investment than applying those funds to a photography trip with real-world challenges and opportunities. Thus I have elected to forgo a traditional education in photography and use my closest resource as a mentor.
My father has been shooting photography since he was a kid but really got into it more seriously once his printing business began to be successful. In the early 90s, he and my mom took a three month trip and several shorter trips to photograph the United States. They made beautiful landscape calendars and also printed them to sell for christmas gifts. Although these calendars were less than a million-dollar idea, they did allow our family to travel and enjoy tax writeoffs because the equipment was used for business purposes. We first started with a Lazy Dayz motorhome but after experiencing strong winds in southern Utah sold it to get something heavier. Later came a 45ft. Blue Bird coach which had overheating issues. Finally we settled on a 45ft. Marathon coach complete with a K2500 Suburban 4×4 in tow. My first spoken word was actually 'burban. From a very young age I was fascinated with anything transportation. The 'burban later gave way to a Hummer H1 wagon which was the first sold to civilians in California after Arnold Schwarzenegger.
From a very early age I was fortunate to travel and ride in some neat vehicles. These are passions I still hold today and look forward to sharing with my kids someday.
I felt a brief history was due and again, learning can happen in any variety of forms. ~ImageryAdventures


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At last night's Talk presented by Chris Pounds to the Brixworth History Society the petition to Save the Bradlaugh Hall in Lahore was relaunched with a new on-line petition.
Please visit the Petition page and sign the petition by clicking here.
Also please circulate it to as many people as possible.
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Racism in the Media - Research Paper - 1196 Words
DESCRIPTION: This course examines the historical and contemporary importance of representations (especially those in the mass media) to maintaining racial hierarchy, as well as how representations have been used to fight racism. This course focuses on the United States but will also consider non-US racial representations and the global impact of US media. This course introduces students to theoretical approaches that will help them analyze the roles of race and racism in media and popular culture.
Overall, this speaker really opened my eyes to how I view race in media, and how I portray my views in my work. Deggans did a great job in his delivery of the presentation, and this is a must-watch for anyone trying to do anything in media in modern times.
This is a video about racism in the media
What I mainly took out of Mr. Deggans' presentation was that we often ignore racism in the media today because it is easier to "sweep it under the rug" rather than address it and try to combat it in any possible way. The more I thought about it as he was speaking, the more examples of racism in the media I could come up with.
racism in media :: The Marc Steiner Show
Before this Must See Monday I was interested to hear what Eric Deggans had to say on the topic of race baiting in todays media, but I didn't really know what to expect. I am glad that I was in attendance, and appreciative for him coming to ASU because he dropped knowledge on every single person that was listening. Many questions that I had in my mind when it came to discussing race issues were answered.
Racism in the media | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
This is a video about racism in the media. It contains banned international commercials and a commercial by Amnesty International. Racism in the media does not only affect children in America but children all over the world.Although The Age newspaper often attempts to counteract this trend, recent coverage of Julia Gillard's proposal to ship asylum seekers to Malaysian detention centres has hightlighted how the racial bias in Australian media has influenced the way in which people approach these issues.


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Review: Thecus N5200
Topslakr February 19th, 2007
I've had this device for about 6 weeks now and at this point I think I'm ready to post a fair review. The Thecus N5200 is essentially a NAS RAID box. It's built around a Intel Celeron 600Mhz chip and runs linux. It holds 5 SATA drives up to 750GB which was is the largest available when I bought the unit (It may have been updated to support larger drives by now). Not being a glutton I installed 5 500GB drives in a RAID 5 giving me about 2TB of storage once it is all is setup. Unfortunatly one of my drives was faulty on arrival though so I had to do a bit of extra waiting before I could really start to use the unit. Once all the drives arrived I installed them and began configuring the hardware. First step was a firmware upgrade which went smoothly enough. You upload the file through the interface and then reboot it. I then built the RAID array and setup the unit up to provide both windows file sharing through Samba as well as NFS. It took about 26 hours to actually create that array using the high speed option. I as willing to wait and was expecting that so all was well. I dumped 800GB onto the device and went on my merry way.


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Otis Chandler
28 February 2006 |permalink | email article
The Los Angeles Times produced an epic tribute Tuesday to honor Otis Chandler, its legendary publisher who inherited a stodgy family jewel in 1960 and, for the next 20 years, transformed a parochial, right of center, broadsheet into a major American paper.
If a Pulitzer Prize is awarded for obits, the draft filed by the late David Shaw before his death Aug. 1, and Mitchell Landsberg, who re-wrote the text and did additional reporting, qualifies ń and not just because the farewell runs 13,500 words.
It's a candid, revealing piece - warts and all ń about the tumultuous history under three Chandler publishers, starting with Harry Chandler, Otisí grandfather; Norman Chandler, his father - and very influential mother, Dorothy ěBuffî Chandler. How Otis followed an unexpected path as a maverick to remake the paper over 20 years with top talent, often to the displeasure of many family members, is riveting.
That the family, majority Times Mirror stockholders, sold out to the Tribune Co. in 2000, and Otisí disenchantment with its management leading to his praise for the merger, is covered in unvarnished detail.
For a city with so little understood history, the obit is mportant to educate a new generation of readers, and for newly arrived editors and reporters to grasp in the wake of Tribune-mandated buyouts which cost the paper valuable institutional memory.
It was refreshing for many of us who remember the Otis era to see the Timesí former Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conradís soaring eagle tribute on the op-ed page. Conrad, love him or loathe him, made these pages sizzle. It's no longer true.read full story
Red-Flag Port Warning Ignored
27 February 2006 |permalink | email article
A just released Dec. 13 intelligence assessment by the U.S. Coast Guard of Dubai Ports World and its United Arab Emirates owners raises new questions about the White House deal.
ěThere are many intelligence gaps, concerning the potential for DPW or P&O assets to support terrorist operations, that precludeî the completion of a thorough threat assessment of the merger. ěThe breath of the intelligence gaps also infer potential unknown threats against a large number of potential vulnerabilities.î
The Coast Guardís red-flag warning was completed just over a month before the six-port deal received government approval Jan. 17, with W. out of the loop. Before a bipartisan uproar, the deal was to become effective this week.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Senate Homeland Security Chairwoman, asked, ěHow could there not have been the 45-day investigation thatís clearly required by law?
Is it any wonder that W.ís approval ratings have reached an historic low?read full story
Arnold's Makeover: Is It Credible?
26 February 2006 |permalink | email article
Arnold Schwarzenneger was elected as a bipartisan reform governor. But the defeat of his special-election reform initiatives last fall places his re-election prospects in jeopardy. Wounded, with a 35% approval rating, can he still snatch victory from defeat?
After pandering to the right wing, the makeover Republican is headed back to the center where his winning margin in 2003 came from Democrats and independents. Over the weekend he addressed a state GOP convention in San Jose with delegates unhappy with his hiring of liberal Democratic strategist Susan Kennedy as chief of staff and strategist.
Aping the late Democratic Gov. Pat Brown, he again pitched his $222 billion infrastructure package to rebuild roads, schools, waterways and flood systems ń calculated to help him regain support from constituencies he lost last year ń while asserting a traditional GOP boldness ěto take the people forward.î
On NBCís ëMeet the Pressí Sunday, an ebullient Schwarzenegger refused to say heís running as a Bush Republican but rather as an 'Arnold Republican' to serve everyoneî - asserting the state is better off than four years ago.
On an ominous note, his biggest convention applause line was not about borrowing billions to rebuild the stateís public works. It was mention of conservative Sen. Tom McClintock, his main GOP 2003 opponent in the recall campaign. That McClintock, a candidate for lieutenant governor, disagrees with Schwarzenegger on many policies demonstrates just how much the governor needs 80% of the party vote to win. The governor said he has it now, but MTP moderator Tim Russert correctly said it is just 66%, to an inaudible reply.
Schwarzenneger trails two Democrats, state Treasurer Phil Angelides and state Controller Steve Westly; women are skeptical about him; and Bushís unpopularity hurts him with Democrats and independents with Latinos, in a switch, leaning heavily Democratic in early polls.
The governorís has also hired two White House operatives, Matthew Dowd, who engineered both Bush presidential wins, and Steve Schmidt, the former media ěartillery shellî for Dick Cheney and Samuel Alito. Badly trailing multimillionaires Angelides and Westly in fundraising, the governor has Sen. John McCain, the champion of campaign finance reform, headlining a March 20 dinner. Head table seating with the incumbent starts at 100 grand.
Schwarzeneggerís best hope may be a Democratic donnybrook that will leave the winner vulnerable. Ironically, often contradictory reporting by the print media and quotes from academic pundits suggest the Democratic contenders inspire little passion. That said, the governor is not an even-money bet today.
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It's About Container Security, Stupid!
26 February 2006 |permalink | email article
Intense political debate continues over approval of the White House deal for a Dubai-owned company to take over operations at U.S. ports. But Sunday TV chat confirms there is no serious debate over container security, the core problem.
Critics worry terrorists could infiltrate the company; ex-colleagues lobby Congress for approval; W., who considers United Arab Emirates a close ally, despite past connections between 9/11 hijackers and UAE, suggests criticism of Arab ownership may have racial overtones.
The discussion should be more nuanced. In fact, foreign management of the American ports in not new as the role played by companies in China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and European trading partners - and not government owned - illustrates. The ineffective argument by the White House is that port security is the responsibility of the Coast Guard and Custom officials. That a failed Department of Homeland Security is now a major player in the port issue is, after Katrina, chilling.
The UAE deal plays directly into 9/11 fears and the specter of terrorists from the Middle East penetrating U.S. port defenses as an episode of ě24,îthe celebrated Fox television drama graphically demonstrated a year or so ago.
A New York Times analysis (2/23) suggests the Bush administrationís real port problem is how long it has taken the federal government to set and enforce security standards - and to provide the technology to look inside millions of containers that flow through them. Only 4% or 5% of those containers are inspected and there is virtually no standard for how containers are sealed. (Today's report from Dubai in the NYT describes gamma-ray scanner devices inside containers at the port as "antiterrorism measures still far short of what is needed to ensure security, U.S. auditors and maritime experts say."
Stephen E. Flynn, a retired Coast Guard commander and port security expert on the Council of Foreign Relations, describes the real fear if a nuclear weapon is put inside a container: ěIt will probably happen when some truck driver is paid off to take a long lunch, even before he gets to the terminal.î
With W., a president come lately on a critical issue - and his conservative base in rebellion over the port deal - the trump-card boast of Karl Rove ń ěDemocrats are pre-9/11, Republicans post-9/11î ń is now oh so yesterday. The party opposite momentarily appears more hawkish in the polls on security issues ń a turnover of no small consequence in Election 2006.
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W: Port Security Catch-22
22 February 2006 |permalink | email article
A blindsided W. threatens his first veto of any bipartisan legislation seeking to block the administrationís decision to allow a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates to assume management of key U.S. ports.
Homeland security, a phrase the maximum leader patented, has unexpectedly created perhaps the greatest crisis of his presidency. Conservatives are already calling it ěanother Harriet Miers moment.î
While the United Arab Emirates is an ally of the U.S., opponents note 9/11 hijackers traveled through the UAE and jihadists affiliated with al Qaeda have used its banking system.
A stunned president, unaccustomed to back talk from Republicans, including the congressional leadership, demanded opponents ěstep up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a British company."
The issue has clearly touched a national nerve. Within minutes after the subject became the lede on CNN, the network received more than 3,000 e-mails condemning the scheduled takeover of ports in New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Baltimore, Miami and New Orleans.
Bush insisted that he did not see the issue as a political fight but it is one. Majority Republicans, facing re-election and fearing a backlash, worry about being called ěsoft on securityî ń giving the Democrats a dream turnover issue to exploit.
Unless heís able to effectively kill legislation that would block the port deal ń or accedes to a 45-day review before it becomes effective early next month - the ěwar of terrorî president will face a stupefying Catch-22: back down, or make good on his veto threat. An override would badly damage his legacy.
See 19 Feb. Body Politic Post.read full story
Cheney, Libby, Intel Leaks
21 February 2006 |permalink | email article
Dick Cheney remains incandescent. The guy he shot in a hunting accident hoped he hadnít caused trouble. W. said Cheney acquitted himself on Fox News. Now, a federal prosecutor says Tricky Dick 2ís former chief of staff wants to thwart the criminal case against him.
Scooter Libby was indicted on charges of perjury and obstructing of justice in an investigation of who revealed secret intelligence information about the identity of a covert CIA agent, Valerie Wilson. Through his attorneys, Cheneyís most trusted aide wants sensitive government documents, including the Presidentís Daily Brief for nearly a year for his defense.
The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, in a court filing late last week told a federal judge that defendants like Libby had an incentive to derail their trials by asking for sensitive documents that the government might not want discussed openly.
Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, called the request for the daily brief ěbreathtakingî and ěa transparent effort at graymail.î Thatís the practice of discouraging a prosecution from proceeding by contending that a defendant may need to disclose classified or sensitive information as part of a complete legal defense.
John D. Cline, a San Francisco lawyer representing Libby, challenged the allegation. He told the New York Times that a 1980 law made graymail impossible because the government knew exactly what information the defense was seeking, and a judge must rule on whether it was necessary to the defense case.
Legal jousting aside, what makes the Libby case, slated for trial next January, riveting is what Cheney said in a Feb. 15 interview on Fox News, his favorite network. He revealed he had the authority to declassify intelligence information, citing an executive order that specifies who has classification authority. Besides the president, he said, it ěalso includes the vice president.î
Cheney declined to say if he had ever directed information to be declassified on his own. Significantly, he also said he could not discuss whether he told Libby to leak secrets.
But Libby, the National Journal reported this month, has testified that his superiors directed him to provide reporters with facts from the National Intelligence Estimate in 2003 to bolster the administrationís case for the invasion of Iraq that the United States led.
If Libby was given the authority to out Wilson, who was his direct control at the highest level of government?
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Arab Co. Control of U.S. Ports?
19 February 2006 |permalink | email article
The Bush administration is defending approval of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over six major American ports. The White House considers the UAE an important ally in the fight against terrorism.
It is another myopic rationale for how President Bush parses the war on terrorism. Islamic nations like the UAE and Pakistan are considered to be on our side. But are they? Why is Pakistan so deliberately ineffective in hunting down Osama bin Ladin?
Note that the FBI considered the UAE an important operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Note also that UAE was one of only three nations to recognize the now-toppled Taliban in Afghanistan and a key transfer point for shipment of smuggled nuclear components sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya by the now-pardoned Pakistani scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan.
A secretive U.S. government panel that considers security risks of buying or investing in American industry, and includes representatives from key federal departments, could have asked W. to block the purchase. But it unanimously agreed that the transaction should not be halted.
Shipping terminals in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia will be affected by the sale to Dubai Ports World. That the Homeland Security department, which has listed major ports along the East and West coasts among top terrorist targets, signed off is less than satisfactory based on its poor performance record on Katrina.
(On CNN today, HS chief Michael Chertoff defended the deal, said the Coast Guard is in charge and the subject is "classified." Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, citing the Los Angeles port, demanded briefings.)
Equally astonishing is that the president, who insists 9/11 mirrors his view of radical Islamic terror, has not been pressed by the mainstream media to reconsider the White Houseís earlier approval of DP World.
Sen. Robert Menendez, D- N.J. told the Associated Press, which broke the story, he will introduce legislation to prohibit companies owned or controlled by feoign governments from running port operations in the United States. Sen. Rick Santorum, R.-Pa., facing a tough re-election fight, has urged the president to prevent the sale.
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Cheney: Why Not Full Disclosure?
16 February 2006 |permalink | email article
The vice president accidentally shot a friend while quail-hunting on a Texas ranch early last Saturday evening. The president was informed third hand; the White House waited almost 24 hours instead of issuing an immediate response. The rest is like a bizarre remake of ěWag the Dog.î
The prominent Texas attorney, well known to the president, was treated at the scene by Secret Service agents, transferred to a local Corpus Christi hospital, had a minor heart attack and is now recovering.
The Secret Service informed local police, a guest said it was the victimís fault and Dick Cheney, too busy to comment, decided the ranch owner should first give the story to the local newspaper Sunday morning. The story was posted on its web site at 1:30 p.m. and news agencies get it an hour later.
At 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr. told the president about a hunting accident involving Cheneyís party. At 7 p.m., after speaking with the ranch owner, Karl Rove broke the news to George W. Bush. The presidentís consigliere, aware of the political ramifications, wanted the White House to issue a brief statement. But there was none because Bush was weak and Cheney insisted on complete control.
That Bush would defer to the famously reclusive Cheney when the administration is already far down in public opinion, and under siege on almost every domestic and foreign policy issue, reveals more than anything else that the vice president is really the shadow president. Think absolute executive power, CIA leak case, neocons, Iraq, energy task force secrets. The list is long.
It confirms my belief that Bush 41 and his closest associates wanted Cheney on the ticket to baby sit Bush 43 but, boy, how that strategy has backfired. Privately, Republicans are concerned Cheney is toast ń a joke and no longer a political asset.
ěStar Warsî filmmaker George Lucas best captured Cheney, saying this week in the empire Congress is irrelevant ěbecause the emperor controls everything.î Asked who the emperor might be, he said, ěItís not who you think. The emperor works behind Darth Vader.î The implication was Cheney would be cast as the behind-the-scenes-villain.
Yesterday, Cheney finally bowed to White House pressure. Reinforcing his disdain for mainstream media, he gave an exclusive interview to the conservative Fox cable network. Appearing contrite, he accepted full responsibility for the incident, insisting the delay was for ěaccuracyî in reporting but expressed no regret. Whoís buying it?
Basic instinct matters.
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The Troubles in Iraq
13 February 2006 |permalink | email article
Condi Rice downplays the key role played by the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the unexpected nomination of Ibrahim al-Jafaari to continue as Prime Minister in the next Iraq government. Jafaariís retention appears to confirm the growing strength of anti-U.S. fundamentalists within the new Iraqi Parliament.
How naÔve is Rice? Has she forgotten that the messianic Sadr led two violent uprisings against the U.S. occupation and the interim government in 2004, controls the largest bloc of seats within the Shiite alliance and recently visited Iran and Syria and is reported to have expressed solidarity with their hostility to the U.S.?
Jafaariís retention is a stunning setback for secular forces in Iraq and a fresh blow to President Bushís dream of democracy. A moderate Islamist with strong ties to Iranian leaders, he is criticized for failing since taking office in 2004 to significantly improve security in Iraq, permitting abuse and allowing death squads to the kill Sunni Arabs by the Shiite-dominated government.
The failure of the expected nominee, Adel Abdul Mahdi, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, makes power sharing with the main Kurdish and Sunni groups more difficult. This is especially the case if the alliance led by the former interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, whom the U.S. favors, is excluded from the cabinet.
Anything short of a stunning compromise, as insurgent violence continues unabated in and around Baghdad, is certain to spark anew the bitter debate on selective U.S. intelligence to justify a conclusion that the president decided to attack well before the March 2003 invasion.
Paul R. Pillar, the former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East from 2000 until last year makes credible arguments, dismissed by Republicans as ěpre-war intelligence myths,î in the upcoming issue of the journal Foreign Affairs.
* The administration ěwent to war without requesting ń and evidently without being influenced by ń any strategic-level intelligence assessments on any aspect of Iraq.î
* It ěrepeatedly called on the intelligence community to uncover more material that would contribute to the case for war,î including information on the ěsupposed connectionî between Hussein and Al Qaeda, which analysts had discounted.
* Intelligence community assessments before the invasion indicated a postwar Iraq ěwould not provide a fertile ground for democracyî and would need ěa Marshall Plan-type effortî to restore its economy despite its oil revenue.
* The first request he received from a Bush policymaker for an assessment of post-invasion Iraq was ěnot until a year after the war.î
* That assessment, completed in August 2004, warned that the insurgency in Iraq could evolve into a guerilla war or a civil war. Bush, who told voters during the 2004 campaign that the mission was going well, described the assessment to reporters as ějust guessing.î
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The Kickapoo Identity
13 February 2006 |permalink | email article
When asked about Jack Abramoff on Jan. 26, President Bush replied, ěI donít know him.î But a photo of him and the disgraced lobbyist appear together in a photo on the Time Web site that is the first published image of the two together in the same room. What does it mean?
Scott McClellan says it means nothing, is one of thousands of photos the president has taken with thousands of people over the last five years and has no relevance to the Justice Department investigation of Abramoff. Still, the scandal cast a dark shadow over a weekend Republican retreat in Maryland where Bush reassured the faithful about his weak poll standing. If the GOP really cares about the appearance of a conflict in a midterm election year, it means something.
Time and the New York Times published the photo Saturday showing Bush greeting Chief Raul Garza, leader of the Kickapoo tribe in southwest Texas at the Old Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House on May 9, 2001. Abramoff is looking on from the background and, yes, Karl Rove is seen in a partial profile watching from the presidentís right shoulder.
Although it is not clear what contact Abramoff had, if any, with the president during the 20 minutes the session lasted, the picture taken by a White House photographer is revealing. It demonstrates that the lobbyist, anxious to demonstrate his political influence with Indian tribes, was able, with the aid of senior administration officials, to penetrate the innermost sanctum of government.
NYT reported that the photograph was provided to it by Chief Garza, under indictment on federal charges of embezzling money from his tribe, who said he had ěnothing to hideî in his dealings with Abramoff and the White House. His lawyer said the lobbyist arranged for the chief to attend the meeting, ostensibly for a group of state legislators supportive of Bushís 2001 tax cut plan. Also in attendance was Grover Norquist, a leading conservative tax strategist and friend of Abramoff.
While Abramoff never got the contract to represent the tribe and its lucrative casino, the ěKickapoo Identityî ń a mere photo op or more ń is a classic metaphor for influence peddling at the summit in Washington.read full story
Bush: Recycling the News
10 February 2006 |permalink | email article
President Bush disclosed yesterday new details of a foiled terrorist plot to fly a highjacked jet into a Los Angeles skyscraper, the tallest building on the West Coast, and crediting international cooperation in the war on terrorism with thwarting the 2002 scheme.
His speech appeared to confuse and stun many, gave the impression that Republicans want to make national security the #1 issue in the midterm elections and caused a peevish Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to vent that the White House had not given him advance notice.
While some details are new - the planned use of a ěshoe bombî by hijackers to access the cockpit door - neither Bush nor the White House gave any real reason beyond Rovian spin for releasing details of a plot they first disclosed last October. In fact, most of what Bush said about the plot was already recycled news.
The Sunday Times (London) reported on March 28, 2004 that Osama Bin Laden ordered his operations chief, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to prepare for an attack on Heathrow soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. as part of a two-pronged assault, with a cryptic reference to the Library Tower in Los Angeles.
On March 31, 2004, the Los Angeles Times confirmed that an attack on the Library Tower was planned but never carried out. ěWe were made aware of that information last spring,î said John Miller, the LAPDís top anti-terrorism official (now a rising figure in the FBI) who detailed a number of immediate measures to heighten security and implement high-rise evacuation drills after the plot was uncovered.
Miller said the Joint Terrorism Task Force first learned of Al Qaedaís aborted plans for a second wave of attacks in 2003, according to the Times story. It noted that ětwo law enforcement sources said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, captured in March 2003, reportedly told his interrogators that the Library Tower ń now known as the U.S. Bank Tower ń was targeted along with Chicagoís Sears Tower.î
It is known that L.A. public officials, including then-Councilman Villaraigosa, were privy to briefings on the Al Qaeda plot by Miller three years ago, making his rant a little disingenuous. The mayor told AP that he was amazed that the president would make an announcement on national TV without informing his office. But his office said the White House made such a disclosure on Wednesday.
Villaraigosa issued a reassuring statement updating many of the precautions detailed by Miller in 2003. But Kevin Roderick, editor of laobserved.com, was not reassured by the mayorís math that LAFD helicopters can evacuate 350 people an hour off the roof of a burning building. ěHow many hours would it take to clear a sixty-story office tower?î
The mayor did get a live shot on CNN, but so what? Bush daily plays the network like a fiddle.read full story
Lobby Reform: McCain-Obama Duel
08 February 2006 |permalink | email article
The riveting exchange of letters on lobbying ethics reform this week between Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was refreshingly transparent and a departure from the phony collegiality that governs rhetorical exchanges in the U.S. Senate.
It suggested that trouble lies ahead in ongoing bipartisan efforts to come up with legislation governing relations with lobbyists in the wake of the guilty plea by superlobbyist Jack Abramoff.
A petulant McCain accused the freshman senator of ěpartisan posturingî on ethics reform ń a charge turned aside by Obama as puzzling and regrettable
Based on Obamaís previous letter thanking McCain for the invitation to a meeting to discuss reform proposals, McCain wrote ěI concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable. Thank you for disabusing me of such notions.î
Obama responded he had no idea what ěprompted your responseÖThe fact that you have now questioned my sincerity Öis regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you nor my willingness to find a bipartisan solution to this problem.î
Three points to consider:
First, Republicans, not Democrats, are at the center of the Abramoff scandal. They are angry at attempts to link the lobbying issue to what Democrats call the Republican ěculture of corruption.î
Second, McCain, certain to seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, understands the problem but hopes to be the un-wingnut who can appeal to Democrats and independents. While a media favorite, his emotional outburst suggests heís politically thin-skinned and vulnerable in the long run.
Third, Obamaís parry of McCainís attack was both deft and cool. He made headlines as keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and won election to the Senate. He is the Democratsí fastest rising star.read full story
Bush Budget: What About Justice?
08 February 2006 |permalink | email article
Say a long goodbye to President Bush as a ěcompassionate conservative,î the promise he made on taking office in January 2001. That month the Congressional Budget Office projected that the federal budget would run a huge surplus, in excess of $5.6 trillion between 2002 and 2011.
This week, as Bush releases his new budget plan, the budget office predicts deficits for the five years starting Oct. 1 totaling more than $2.2 trillion. Making tax cuts permanent, 9/11, a recession and dramatic increases in on national security are the reason.
The priorities in the presidentís $2.77 trillion plan, increased spending on the military and domestic security, come at the expense of addressing the huge budget deficit by deeply slashing domestic programs, including health and human services and education.
His obsessive mantra of ěprotecting our citizens and our homelandî may assuage fiscal conservatives by slowing the rate of spending but the larger question is whether, in a midterm election with control of Congress by Republicans at stake, voters will buy his package in November. Or decide W. has his priorities confused.
I mean, the discretionary military budget is up 6.9% and does not include supplemental appropriations of at least $50 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007 and an increase of 1.3 % for homeland security. Consider big funding drops in vocational education, slowing the growth of Medicare and eliminating a food program for low-income women, infants, children and people over 60.
ěA budget is a statement of moral choices, and this budget makes the wrong choices,î said John Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
I recall the warm embrace of Bush and Bono of U2 at the recent National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. The Irish rock star said:
ěHereís some good news for the president. After 9/11 we were told America would have no time for the worldís poor. America would be taken up with itís own problems of safety. And itís true these are dangerous times, but America has not drawn the blinds and double-locked the doors.î
In complimenting America, Bono made clear help was not about charity but about justice. I question whether Bush understands the distinction.read full story
White House Confidential
06 February 2006 |permalink | email article
ěFleischer recalled that Libby ëadded something along the lines of, you know, this is hush hush, nobody knows about this.î
The noir language echoes ěL.A. Confidential,î James Ellroyís crime novel about LAPD and Hollywood corruption in the late 1940s. The quote, from then White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, refers to his lunch with I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheneyís then chief of staff, on July 7, 2003.
Itís fact, not fiction, part of newly released pages of a formerly secret legal opinion by a federal appeals judge about the identity of a CIA officer at the heart of the criminal leak case involving Libby, as reported by the New York Times.
Judge David S. Tatel ës written opinion disclosed that Libby acknowledged to prosecutors that he had heard directly from Cheney about Valerie Wilson, married to Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who criticized the Bush administrationís about Iraq policy. That was more than a month before the columnist Robert Novak first disclosed her identity on July 14, 2003.
The new material amplified and provided new details outlined in the October 2005 indictment of Libby which accused him of falsely telling reporters that he had first learned about Ms. Wilson from reporters when, in fact, according to the charging document he learned about it from government officials like Cheney. (Libbyís lawyers hint his defense strategy may be that his preoccupation with affairs of state may have led to ěimperfect recall.î)
Judge Tatelís formerly secret opinion were reportedly largely drawn from affidavits supplied by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case who is the U.S. Attorney in Chicago.
The new information includes the lunch at which Libby told Fleischer about Ms. Wilson and that she had sent her husband to Africa to examine intelligence reports indicating that Iraq sought to buy uranium ore from Niger. Judge Tatel wrote that Fleischer described the lunch to prosecutors as ěkind of weird,î noting that Libby ěoperated in a very closed-lip fashion.î
Several pages of the opinion, said to contain information about Fitzgeraldís investigation of Karl Rove, the senior White House political adviser, remained under seal. Rove has not been charged but remains under investigation.
Credit release of the new material to lawyers for the Wall Street Journal - a major First Amendment ruling for the right of public access to court records. It raises fresh questions about the hush hush world of the shadowy Cheney, principal architect of the decision to attack Iraq without evidence of WMD ń or any uranium ore from Niger.read full story
Super Bowl 40: L.A. Bid Stalls
05 February 2006 |permalink | email article
NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue told his annual pre-Super Bowl news conference that negotiations between the league and the players union about a new collective-bargaining agreement are not going well. Without a deal, rumors about a special ownersí huddle before their March meeting to consider a Los Angeles franchise are now DOA.
It is known while L. A. is on the agenda for discussion in Orlando, Tagliabueís priority is a new collective bargaining agreement next month. Given recent rhetoric by the NFL Players Association he acknowledged that the labor issue is a complication which must be resolved prior to putting a franchise in the City of Angels.
Without an extension, the commissioner said relative to L.A., ěissues of how to ensure the proper private financing for a stadium and related issues would be very difficult to resolve." Still, he added, ěa lot of things get done at the 11th hour and 59th minute.î
Sundayís Super Bowl is the 40th since the first played in the Los Angeles Coliseum. It was a time when professional football was still a game, not a billion-dollar business, and when John Q. Public could afford a couple of tickets. If the NFL and the players union ever get real MAYBE the city can field a team before 2010.read full story
NFL, L.A. Coliseum Update
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The years long kabuki dance between NFL owners and the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission about the possible return of a team to the famed oval, without professional football since the Raiders left after the 1994 season, nears an end.
Sundayís Super Bowl game between the Steelers and Seahawks in Detroit marks the 40th anniversary of the first championship playoff in the Coliseum between the Packers and the Chiefs, with owners about to decide at their March meeting in Orlando whether or not to return to the City of Angels.
But informed rumors now are that a decision on Los Angeles could be made at a special meeting of league owners in the next couple of weeks. The caveat is that the NFLís long-running collective bargaining issues with the players association are resolved as a deadline nears.
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State of the Union 2006
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There were striking contrasts Tuesday night between President Bushís more somber and modest menu of domestic ideas and the Democratic response by newly elected Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine about ěa better wayî to run the nation.
Bush, mindful of his legacy and a crucial midterm election, outlined proposals on health, education and energy. The most striking was the declaration that the U.S. must get over its addiction to oil, setting a goal of replacing 75% of the nationís Middle East oil imports by 2025 with ethanol and other energy sources.
Given that Bush 41 and Bush 43 made their marks in the oil business the comment seems slightly disingenuous - all the more so because of their longtime coziness with oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Arab states friendly with the U.S., in contrast to oil-rich regimes in unstable Iraq and nuclear crazed Iran.
Bush, of course, has mentioned less dependence on oil in four State of the Union addresses while Nixon and Carter made the same hollow promises to make the U.S. self-sufficient in energy.
The president broke no new ground on foreign policy; defending the war on terror, justifying his secret domestic spying program without warrants and never mentioning withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a top poll concern with voters.
A few TV pundits thought the ingenue Virginia governor was not muscular enough and failed to lay out an alternative Democratic agenda which, of course, is not really surprising because no coherent one exists.
But Kaine hit the right notes, blasting the administrationís poor choices and bad management in Iraq, responding to Hurricane Katrina and a lack of focus on the nationís health care system. ěThe federal government should serve the American people.î
Some party activists and liberal blogs were uncomfortable with the choice of Kaine because during last yearís campaign the former Jesuit missionary in Honduras invoked his religious beliefs. What a hypocriticial reaction! As the first Roman Catholic governor of Virginia, he opposed abortion and the death penalty, but assured Virginians that he would uphold the law on both.
That Kaine defeated Bushís candidate in a Red state sends a strong message to the national Democratic party that it needs to get real, shift away from it's tired New York-Boston-Washington beltway mindset and find a fresh new face to recapture the White House in 2008.
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"Sri Lanka 'National Handball Team' Disappears in Germany," reported a small blurb on CBS News. Most surprised were the people of the small village of Wittislingen in Germany, who hosted the Sri Lankan team for a local tournament. After the match the Sri Lankans disappeared and were nowhere to be found. A brief inquiry yielded that a Sri Lankan national handball team never existed, and that the rather well organized scam enabled 23 illegal immigrants to obtain European Union visas. In We Love Germany: Thanks For Everything… Jenny Vogel deals with the aftermath of the incident, as she presents the story from the point of view of the villagers of Wittislingen.
Sri Lanka 'National Handball Team' Disappears In Germany
MUNICH, Germany - They looked suspicious to begin with and doubts grew when the 23 "players" of the "Sri Lanka handball national team" disappeared from their lodging in southern Germany. The Germans thought they were hosting Sri Lanka's national team; Sri Lanka sports officials say there is no such team. Whoever they are, the Sri Lankans arrived in Germany on Thursday, played in a small tournament and lost all their games and then disappeared Monday from their hotel in Wittislingen just before they were supposed to start a tour of seven Bavarian communities. "We've informed border posts," said a police official in nearby Dillingen, who did not want his name used. But the police are not officially looking for the 23 Sri Lankans since they have visas valid until next month. "We don't know where they are," the police official said Wednesday. Police found a letter in English left behind in their lodgings, thanking the local club for its hospitality and saying they had left for France. "Maybe they wanted to leave a false trail," the police official said. Authorities think the "handballers" could have dispersed around Germany looking for jobs. In Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sports Ministry secretary S. Ranugge said he had no official information because the tour was not approved by the ministry nor any official has accompanied the team. S. Ranugge said there was no registered federation for handball in Sri Lanka and therefore the tourists may have made their own travel arrangements and cannot be called Sri Lanka's national team.


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Food sector is creating many job opportunities to food enthusiasts to create profiles in content and transactions. Moreover media and entertainment industry is changing the face of food industry. Earlier food industry is limited to raw materials and food processing. It can be seen under the monitoring of restaurants, nutrition, cookware and chefs offering their expertise. To a large extent, this change in the scope and outlook of the food industry is the result of the push provided by the media and entertainment industry. The potential for those seeking a career in this sector has grown manifold as a result. Media (TV and online) gives an opportunity for food enthusiasts-turned-budding chefs with a platform to showcase their talent to the world. There is also a growing talent pool of food bloggers. A huge amount of food content is being generated in the digital medium.
The success in Media has created multiple opportunities across the levels of junior, middle and senior level positions. As the industry is expanding in to other areas there were many opportunities created for skilled manpower which the industry currently lacks to some extent. It is also estimated that food processing industry is doubling in next decade and many job opportunities are created to process the transactions. Other than content there were many opportunities are available for multiple talents in the food industry at the entrepreneur level too. Hotels and travel/tourism are also driving the demand for professionals in the food industry. Rise of food tech startups such as Zomato and FoodPanda created many opportunities at transaction levels. So, many opportunities are being generated regularly across the levels. Even consumers are also looking to improve their lifestyles with the growing level of incomes and other factors. Thus, to balance the demand and supply food industry is creating many opportunities and has a lot to look forward to.
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And yet your shadow isn't following you anymore. At some point your shadow has quietly slipped away. You pretend you don't notice, but you have, you're missing your fucking shadow, though there are plenty of ways to explain it, the angle of the sun, the degree of oblivion induced by the sun beating down on hatless heads, the quantity of alcohol ingested, the movement of something like subterranean tanks of pain, the fear of more contingent things, a disease that begins to become apparent, wounded vanity, the desire just for once in your life to be on time. – Collages
But the point is, your shadow is lost and you, momentarily, forget it. And so you arrive on a kind of stage, without your shadow, and you start to translate reality or reinterpret it or sing it. The stage is really a proscenium and upstage there's an enormous tube, something like a mine shaft or the gigantic opening of a mine. Let's call it a cave. But a mine works, too. From the opening of the mine come unintelligible noises. Onomatopoeic noises, syllables of rage or of seduction or of seductive rage or maybe just murmurs and whispers and moans. – The Women's Metro Compartment (Inside Outside)
The point is, no one sees, really sees, the mouth of the mine. Stage machinery, the play of light and shadows, a trick of time, hides the real shape of the opening from the gaze of the audience. In fact, only the spectators who are closest to the stage, right up against the orchestra pit, can see the shape of something behind the dense veil of camouflage, not the real shape, but at any rate it's the shape of something. The other spectators can't see anything beyond the proscenium, and it's fair to say they'd rather not. Meanwhile, the shadowless intellectuals are always facing the audience, so unless they have eyes in the backs of their heads, they can't see anything. They only hear the sounds that come from deep in the mine. And they translate or reinterpret or re-create them. Their work, it goes without saying, is of a very low standard. – The Simposons in Cairo (Naema's Office Is Bleeding)
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I was riding horses before I could walk. You may think I am exaggerating, but this is true. I wasn't riding solo as a baby and toddler, but I was in the arms of my dad as he sat atop his horses. And, I was riding solo by the time I was 5 or so, and competing in amateur rodeos throughout my childhood and tween years. Then I developed a voice of my own and stopped riding.
Because of my equestrian background, I believed I had seen it all. But, not so!
I don't know if you can see it in these 2 photos, but it is possible to bow to authority on a horse. I had never seen this before!
During the Cavalada in Florence last Saturday, in honor of the national holiday of Epiphany, a moment arrived in which all the participants in the parade bowed their heads before the religious and civic leaders on the podium. And to my amazement, the equestrians bowed their heads while leaning as far forward as possible over the back of their horses. As well, they all held their right arms as far back as they could. And, they held this pose for several minutes. There was no mistaking it: these horseback riders were bowing.
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I'm proud of our Vietnam VeteransPosted on 11/27/18 - by Dennis WristonCorporal Allen Thomas Smith, Served with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, United States Army Vietnam.MORE
AllePosted on 11/27/18Allen...Honoring You on your birthday..You will never be forgotten..God bless
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As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.
May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.
With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir
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BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) has become so irrelevant as a consumer device company that it's actually news that President Barack Obama still uses one. But with the release of the company's new Passport smartphone, it's possible that the brand will once again be viable, and headlines like "Barack Obama still uses a BlackBerry: The leader of the free world needs to upgrade" will no longer be accurate.
It's an unlikely comeback in a field where second acts are rare and falling out of favor usually sends you to the scrap heap alongside a pile of Palm Pilots.
The Passport, an oddly shaped device with a five-star rating from 320 Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) reviews, has sat at, or near, the top of the "best-selling unlocked cell phones chart" since the online retailer, along with BlackBerry, slashed the price of the device from $699 to $499. Add in the fact that the smartphone's maker is offering aggressive incentives to Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone users and it's possible that the left-for-dead brand could have a hit (albeit a mild one) on its hands.
What is the Passport?
The Passport is a reimagining of the classic BlackBerry. It has a physical keyboard, something which no other top-tier modern smartphone offers. In addition to that, the device has a unique design -- it's literally shaped like a passport -- which the company explains as follows:
Boundary-breaking and purpose-built for productivity, the BlackBerry Passport smartphone challenges the status quo. BlackBerry Passport comes with a new large square touch screen for an amazing viewing and reading experience, giving you wider vision that unleashes your capabilities to do mobile business the way you have always wanted.
That's a whole lot of marketing hype, but Passport does fill a need. BlackBerry was once a tool for business people, and it's possible that Apple's disdain for keyboards, which has been copied by most Android Phone makers, leaves room for a phone aimed at those users. Now that BlackBerry has a device which is being well-received, it's possible that an unsatisfied army of former "CrackBerry" addicts are ready to return to the fold.
How far has BlackBerry fallen?
Once a major player, BlackBerry has fallen into near irrelevance. If the company can make itself relevant again, this won't be the 2013 Red Sox going from worst to first -- this would be the Montreal Expos somehow winning the 2014 World Series.
In the second quarter of 2014, BlackBerry had a .5% share of the smartphone market, according to IDC. That's a stunning drop from three years before, when the company commanded 13.6% of the market. Once a market leader, BlackBerry is not only being beaten by Apple and Android, it has fallen well behind Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone
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Despite the poor sales, IDC has seen some small signs of life from the company, noting that .5% is actually an increase.
"This is a good sign for the struggling smartphone maker, as most of the increase this quarter came from its BlackBerry 10 devices," the report said. "This represents only the second quarterly increase for BlackBerry 10 since its release in 2013."
The comeback?
The rise of the iPhone and the subsequent introduction of Android makes it unlikely that BlackBerry will ever climb back to its former position. Many of the business users which once clung to their BlackBerry devices like babies to a bottle have moved on.
It is possible, though, that enough of that past audience remains unsatisfied by the lack of top-tier phones with a physical keyboard for BlackBerry to carve out a small niche. Positive word of mouth and aggressive pricing may lead a slow trickle of former enthusiasts back to the brand.
Good reviews and climbing momentum are the start of what will be a long, nearly impossible journey for BlackBerry -- one which will be hampered by the fact that the Passport does not work with Verizon (NYSE:VZ) or Sprint (NYSE:S) -- but a chance is more than most would have given the company just a few months ago.


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We may add another name to the long list of candidates who —say an underwhelming body of fringe scholars— must have written the works of William Shakespeare. The list so far includes the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere; philosopher and writer, Francis Bacon; playwright, Christopher Marlowe; playwright, Ben Jonson; Sir Walter Raleigh; and Queen Elizabeth I. My personal favorite is Marlowe because he would have had to fake his death in a tavern brawl in 1593 and then to have written under a pseudonym for reasons that we are not at liberty to reveal, but "thereby hangs a tale!" I don't really have a dog in this fight. I'm just glad that someone wrote the works of Shakespeare, the same way I'm glad that someone wrote Mozart's Piano Concerto n. 21, even if it was his butcher.
Anyway, the fringe arguments against Shakespeare can be hastily boiled down to these: he didn't have enough education, and he couldn't possibly have known all that stuff about Italy that whoever wrote Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice clearly knew.
the first part, how could the poorly educated son of a
glove maker have written Hamlet? I don't know. I also don't know
how a poorly educated bastard could have painted The Last Supper (when
he wasn't designing helicopters). Or how a lackadaisical
student could have come up with the Theory of Relativity.
Maybe some people are just good at things. Interestingly,
at least one other under-educated dolt, Mark Twain, was on
the fringe side in this debate (in Is Shakespeare Dead?),
but no one seems to know if the Bard of Hannibal really
believed any of that or if he was just being an ornery
contrariant (who—Mark
For the second part, Shakespeare had ample recourse to such things as the Palace of Pleasure by William Painter, a collection of Painter's translations of "Pleasant Histories and excellent Novelles…out of divers good and commendable authors..." that provide the Italian settings and plots for much Elizabethan drama. The collection was cobbled together by Painter from many Italian sources including Boccaccio, Gian Francesco Straparola, and Matteo Bandello. And traditional scholarship points out the obvious: Shakespeare's contemporaries say(!) he wrote the works we attribute to him.
most recent theory is that Shakespeare was a Sicilian!
Professor Martino Iuvara,
71, a retired teacher of literature, claims (in Shakespeare era Italiano,
pub. Ispica. Ragusa, Sicily, 2002) that the Bard was
really Michelangelo Florio Crollalanza, born in Messina in
1564 to a doctor, Giovanni Florio, and a noblewoman named
Guglielma Crollalanza. The parents had Calvinist
sympathies and fled with their infant son to Treviso, near
Venice, to escape the Inquisition. There they bought Casa
Otello, built by a retired Venetian mercenary called
Otello (Othello) who, according to local legend, had
killed his wife out of jealousy. The young bard-to-be then
studied in Venice, Padua, and Mantua, and travelled in
Denmark, Greece, Spain, and Austria. He was befriended by
the philosopher, Giordano Bruno, who, says Iuvara, had
ties with William Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke, and the
Earl of Southampton. In 1588, at age 24, Michelangelo went
to England under their patronage. His mother, Guglielma
Crollalanza, had an English cousin at Stratford, who took
the boy in. The Stratford branch had already translated
their name as Shakespeare, and had a son called William,
who died prematurely. Michelangelo, says Iuvara, took the
name for himself, becoming William Shakespeare.
As one who has taught English as a Foreign Language to thousands of young Italians, I don't think a 24-year-old EFL learner could have written, But thy eternal summer shall not fade/ Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;/ Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,/When in eternal lines to time thou growest:/So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/So long lives this and this gives life to thee. (Or maybe I just had the wrong students.) Also, it is curious that the professor says the name 'Shakespeare' is a translation of the Italian surname, Crollalanza. Crollare equals 'break,' says he, and lanza comes from lancia, meaning 'spear.' The only thing Shake-y here is the prof's English. Crollare does not mean 'shake.' Scrollare (with the initial s) means 'shake.' Crollare means 'collapse' and by squeaky, generous extension, 'break'. Thus, maybe we are looking for 'Breakspeare.' Is there such a name as Breakspeare? Of course. For two, Nicholas Breakspeare, the one and only English Pope (from 1154 to 1159), and his (maybe) cousin, Boso, (pronounced 'Bozo.' I'm not kidding—Bozo Breakspeare), who was a cardinal.
the spirit of the German woman who once assured me that
"sein oder nicht sein..."
(to be or not to be) was by Goethe, I offer up a
compromise solution: Crollalanza moved to England and
became the Pope 500 years earlier. And Goethe? Not a
chance. Hoping against hope, I shall now google every
German phone book I can find to look for the name
Schaukellanze or Schaukelspeer. You see, I have this


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Spider Road Trips
Hit the road with Career Services to visit employers in major metropolitan areas to learn first-hand about the different industries and potential job and internship opportunities within organizations.
In addition to the road trips, we also host evening receptions with alumni in related fields to allow students to connect with the Spider network.
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