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Following all the inter-county action this year, we turned our attention to the club scene, plus we had the no small matter of the All-Ireland camogie IHC final replay.
There were no fewer that seven county finals down for decision this afternoon; two in football and five in hurling as we enter that time of year again.
In football, there were senior finals in Fermanagh and Down, while there were hurling deciders in Westmeath, Offaly, Longford, Kildare and Wicklow.
The camogie IHC replay saw Meath and Cork go head to head again, this time in the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick and we had live updates from all these games throughout the day.
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Recipe: Baby vegetable tartlets with goat's cheese
THESE baby tartlets are the perfect treat for a party.
Makes: 4
Preparation time: 15 minutes
plus 30 minutes' resting time
Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Butter, for greasing
1x320g (11oz) sheet shortcrust pastry
6 baby carrots, peeled and sliced
2 shallots, peeled and quartered
4 baby leeks, sliced and washed
4 baby courgettes, sliced
4 tbsps olive oil, for roasting
2 large eggs
4 tbsps double cream
Salt and pepper
60g (2½oz) goat's cheese
Just before the vegetables are done, line each pastry case with a piece of baking parchment then fill with baking beans (or similar) to keep the pastry in place while baking
Preheat the oven to 170°C/325°F/gas 3. Lightly grease 4 tartlet cases (9cm/3½in). Line each case with shortcrust pastry, prick the bases with a fork, arrange them on a shallow baking tray and place them in the fridge for 30 minutes to rest.
Meanwhile, put the chopped veg in a roasting tray and drizzle with the olive oil. Mix until all the veg is coated in oil. Roast in the oven for 20-30 minutes or until just coloured and tender.
Just before the vegetables are done, line each pastry case with a piece of baking parchment then fill with baking beans (or similar) to keep the pastry in place while baking.
Remove the vegetables from the oven and put the pastry cases in to bake at the same temperature for 15 minutes or until pale golden. Remove the baking parchment with the baking beans and return the cases to the oven to finish cooking the bottom of each case – another 5 minutes or so.
In a bowl, whisk together the eggs, cream, salt and pepper. Arrange the vegetables in the pastry cases. Pour a little of the eggs and cream mixture into each tartlet – just enough to surround the vegetables and come up to just below the edge of the pastry.
Crumble the goat's cheese around the top of each tartlet and bake these again at the same temperature until the egg mixture is just set and the cheese is slightly coloured – about 18-22 minutes. Serve warm or cold.


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Thread: Changing out PS3 HDD help?
02-28-2012 #1imawinner Guest
Changing out PS3 HDD help?
So I'm running 3.55 with a 40gb HDD. I have a 160gb 7200RPM HDD I have tried to swap it out. Followed guides, looked around on here, etc all to no avail. The system constantly states it can't find a valid backup...
I know my external drive is working, because I can load backups, .pkg files, etc from it.
From what I can tell I'm not doing anything wrong, and the drive (internal and or external) may just be incompatible for this.
Mainly this post is to ask, I SHOULD be able to do the backup and everything while on KMEAW 3.55 correct? or do I have to move back to OFW do the upgrade and then redo KMEAW?
Thanks in advance everyone!
02-28-2012 #2nino7050 Guest
Hey, let see you can use HDD Clone boot from this image disc (select bios PC boot from cd) then you must have connected hdd of ps3 end the new one too select surce the ps3 one end the new one like host then clone hem i hope work.
02-28-2012 #3imawinner Guest
what image disc? I see no links or anything, and your instructions don't make a lick of sense (partly because I don't have said program in front of me). Guessing from what I can understand of this. It's going to work like CloneDVD where I just tell it Drive X is source and Drive Y is destination and then let it "clone"?
02-28-2012 #4nino7050 Guest
It a pc program shy call HDD Clone search it read about them, then answer if it useful or not.
02-28-2012 #5imawinner Guest
I'll give it a shot tonight, am I correct in saying I should NOT have to move back to OFW to do this?
02-28-2012 #6nino7050 Guest
i belive not but any way before trying to clone them try format the new one with the ps3 , to have the format ok.
02-28-2012 #7imawinner Guest
Thanks Nino, I'll be back later to let ya know how it went
02-28-2012 #8DemonoidMaster Guest
If you're on Kmeaw (w/e vers.) just do a backup (If not, use the in-built PS3's backup utility), but first you need to format your new HDD to Fat32 so that the PS3 can see it (because anything else wont show up at all) then you need to let the PS3 format it to its own file system.
Now for the methods
Plug it in any of the 2 USB ports via a SATA-to-USB Enclosure (or buy yourself a HDD dock such as this newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153066). What's cool about the HDD dock method is that you can pretty much use your new HDD in your PS3 and use your old one in your HDD dock without even moving anything. just switch them out and voila... brand new HDD in PS3.. and old HDD outside for your movies, pictures, gamesaves, and etc etc
However, i don't think your games can be booted externally (unless Kmeaw can boot games from external drives hurrrr)
Anyhow, buy a HDD Dock... that Thermaltake dock costs like 34+ $ max (newegg has it at 28$) depending on the tax and shit
That 160GB HDD , is it the HDD you want to use in your PS3 (internal) ? and use the old 40GB as external?
02-29-2012 #9brendanj9554 Guest
if its a 40gb console, i am pretty sure the the hdd holds a viatle part off the firmware, thats why it wont boot. if you wanna swap hdd's hassle free. get 3.55 cfw on a usb (search firmware update ps3 via usb)
when you swap hdd's it will ask you for the fw, start select boom, job done. >>> just back up all the stuff you want before hand.


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AZ - Sasabe, Wht/HispMale UP7231, 17-19, bulletproof vest, Dec'00
Hmm, what do you make of this? What was a white teenager doing out in the middle of nowhere, just north of the Mexican border, wearing a bullet-proof vest?
He was 17 to 19 years old with brown hair and was 5'5" tall. He was estimated to have died within weeks of being found on December 21, 2000 in a remote desert area northwest of La Rosa Ranch Road and Highway 286 near Sasabe. FPs, dentals, and DNA are available.
He was wearing two pairs of blue denim pants, a brown leather belt with a white metal buckle, gray sweat pants, a green jacket, a blue bullet proof vest ("Safari Land Body Armor" brand), a light blue pullover sweatshirt, a plaid button-up shirt, and a scarf. No backpack noted, but also found were gray denim pants, black boots, white socks and gray socks, a black Casio watch, two lighters, American and Mexican currency, Chapstick, and a note.
There is no indication of what the note said. Surely not a suicide note, I'd think, considering the fact that he was wearing a serious piece of life-protecting gear.
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Strange. Cartel members have been known to wear bullet proof vests, and even some law-abiding Mexican citizens concerned about the violence do. I don't think we can assume he's not latino.. they may have just not specified or not been sure. Given the presence of both types of currency, location, lack of ID.. etc... I'm guessing this kid was likely involved in some kind of clandestine activities or who knows maybe he was a Mexican citizen and fortunate to have family with enough money to buy a vest and were worried about the violence. I read an article recently about Mexican farmers who are arming themselves, wearing vests and becoming more proactive in protecting their property. Don't know how long that's been going on though. It seems doubtful just because of the age and situation but if he were an American police officer, EMT, etc his prints would be in a FBI database... and it looks like they have good prints on him so I think that situation is highly improbable. I can't think of any other reasons a 17-19 year old would have a vest.
Here's a question... does anyone know if dentists in the the USA still use silver fillings routinely? I only ask because I've had a bunch of fillings, starting in the late 90s til recently and none of mine are silver.. they're all that tooth-colored resin or whatnot. I just saw that he had two silver fillings and I was wondering whether or not that could hint at where his dental care was done.
My first thought was Minuteman or wannabe Minuteman. But this was over a decade ago; were there Minutemen yet in 2000?
Then I thought drug smuggling. US citizens can move across the border more fluidly than Mexican nationals, so having some Mexican currency on hand might not mean much if someone's crossing back and forth quite a bit.
This guy was just awfully young to be messing around out there and, whatever he was doing, he obviously felt it was risky.
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He's not white. For whatever reason, some LEA lump hispanics as being white even when the person is mestizo or Indian. This Doe was probablya smuggler from the other side of the border and was providing some kind of scouting when he got killed.
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I did a little research on the militia-esque groups near the border... the earliest one I could find was founded in 2000. Most of the other, more well-known groups came 3-7 years later. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if there was some informal activity prior to their formal foundation though.
I don't think it's likely he was a part of one these groups. They have strict rules that "patrols" have to be done in groups. I know they're almost always armed, and they often carry things like binoculars, thermal imaging cameras, etc and there's no indication of anything like that on him. Of course he could have been robbed of such items but then it seems odd they would not also take the vest (worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars and often difficult to purchase due to regulations) and the cash.
These groups seem fairly small and relatively close-knit as well. I think even if one of their members decided to break rules and go solo without telling anyone the disappearance would eventually be noticed as they missed group events, and likely reported. They're understandably very concerned about retaliation and their safety.
The local law enforcement and CBP are in frequent contact with members of these groups and would likely recognize the decedent if he were a member.
The age thing is sad, he is so young but you look at what age group is vulnerable to gangs in our country and it's teenagers. The cartels have had boys and girls as young as 11-13 working as hitmen among other roles. It's heart-breaking.
I'm going to try to look through the Mexican missing person database but it's a longshot. Even if he were reported missing in Mexico the database is very incomplete and focuses on women and children but I'm crossing my fingers and will report back.
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I'm looking at several different missing men from Mexico right now but this one is really standing out to me - maybe one of the facial comparison rockstars can take a look. I'm trying to learn how to look at these. To me the jawline looks spot on. The shape of the eyes, brows and temples strike me as well. I don't know what to call them or whether or not they're a valuable landmark - but it looks like they both have those noticeable creases from the nares to the outside corner of the lips. The lips themselves seem way off. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Rodolfo Gordillo Diaz
He went missing 1999 - no mention of month or day. The age is right, height is exact match. He's missing from Tijuana which is about 500 miles away and closer to California than AZ... but out of all the Mexican cases I've looked at that match demographics I think his may actually be the closest.
I've been unable to dig up any more information on him or his disappearance yet, but I'm about to check some Spanish-language sites.
I stumbled on this case yesterday - they found a femur only and were able to determine with a good amount of certainity that it was a 16-50 year old black man 5' 7" to 6' 4". The interesting part is they explain a little bit of how they reached these conclusions in the "skeletal findings" section. It seems to determine race they mostly look at nuances in the shape. I would have thought it would be almost impossible to get that detailed of information without a skull or pelvis. It's amazing what these medical examiners can do.
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Oops - just realized Diaz is 1-2 years older than the range. I was thinking of another case's age range. Not a huge discrepancy but I don't want to put up incorrect info.
Oh, hey, just noticed that I forgot to post a link to this UID's profile. Sorry about that.
Mr. Diaz looks pretty close, might be worth submitting. The forehead height is really the only thing that gives me pause, but I'm no expert either.
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Yeah I agree about the forehead. I'll see about submitting it tomorrow. Can't find any more information on Diaz. I was able to find this article about the UID that has a few more details.
Summary of additional info:
- Homicide victim. He was shot.
- Investigators believe he was Mexican.
- A pack of Marlboro cigarettes with Spanish text was also discovered with him.
- Medium build.
- Jeans he was wearing were Guess brand.
- Article says he was wearing brown hiking boots. Doe and NamUs say black boots.
- Was found near La Osa Ranch (not La Rosa as listed in NamUs and Doe) about 5 mi west of Sasabe and 3 mi north of the border.
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I haven't seen my family since leaving Atlanta in February. I've been looking forward to having my mom and one of my sisters here for weeks! Naturally, the first thing I did way try to kill them with an 8 mile hike in 90 degree temps.
We went up to Potato Chip Rock with some friends. I wasn't expecting it to be quite so hot and one bottle of watch each wasn't enough. Vegas and my mom were about to shoot me. My sister tried to steal my water. But we made it to the top!
Mom will kill me for saying this… but the woman is 57 and she did that hike like a boss. I hope I'm in that kind of shape when I'm her age!
I tired to make it up to them with a beach trip to La Jolla. It was fun… until it rained.
It NEVER rains here. Of course when my family is here not only does it rain, but it stormed – complete with thunder and lightening. So weird.
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It's almost even prettier after the rain!
This WIAW is food I shared with my family. We're trying to eat our way through San Diego.
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I had the usual morning cocktail and morning sludge.
Breakfast was all local. I made scrambled farm eggs with local veggies and herbs – green and yellow zucchini, spinach, basil, and dill, plus some raw sheep's milk cheese. I also toasted some seed bread from the farmer's market with bacon spread and we had a side of sliced nectarines.
For lunch we went to one of my favorite seafood spots in La Jolla, El Pescador. They have a huge counter for freshly caught seafood. You choose what you want to how you want it prepared. You have have it as a taco, over a salad, blackened, as a plate with rice and veggies… any way you like it!
We started with shrimp and octopus ceviche:
Then we had tacos. Mine was scallops with avocado. I love all the fresh cabbage too!
Extra sriracha, obv.
We represented Atlanta at San Diego's Juniper and Ivy, an amazing restaurant in Little Italy whose chef/owner is from Atlanta. I've been eating Chef Richard Blais' food for years and he has yet to disappoint! (You may remember him from Top Chef.)
So. This is a little #strangebutgood. But Holy wow. They are doing some amazing stuff there.
Clockwise from the top left:
- Charred sugar snap peas with espelette dressing, mint, and cotija cheese
- Toasts: fig with burrata, fermented honey, and marcona almond and carne crudo asada with quail egg, cotija, and jalapeno
- Biscuit with fois gras butter
- Octopus with black baba ghanoush, crispy chickpeas, pickled peppers, and sweet 100 tomatoes
- Heirloom tomato with feta ice cream, arugula pesto, breadcrumbs, pine nut, and banyuls
- Baja stone crab meat with mango nectarine and corn a la pancha
- Scallop casino with pork belly and breadcrumbs
- Morel mushrooms with green garlic aioli and beer powder
- Deviled eggs – the base was egg white meringue (?!) filled with yolk mousse and mustard caviar seed
It's hard to choose a favorite. Those deviled egg meringues we so cool. The tomato with feta ice cream was an incredible texture and flavor contrast. And the morels were perfection. But that yolk porn though…
And… Carly came! She just moved to SD too. I'm so glad to have another blogger-friend right down the street! She fit right in my my family craziness. There were drinks and more drinks… by the end of the meal we were BFFs with the restaurant staff.
We can't forget dessert. The left is crispy pretzel bits with butterscotch, dark chocolate ice cream, and pecans. The right is a yodel with devil's cake, white chocolate, and hazelnut brittle with a hot chocolate pour over (done table-side).
Brown food sucks to photograph, especially in the dark. Trust me when I tell you it was incredible. They were both that addicting combo of sweet and salty. Melt-in-your-mouth fabulous (that's what she said).
I'm really sad they're leaving tomorrow… but Vegas and I are trying to convince mamma to move.
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A basic synopsis of this short story "Violent Media is Good For Kids", by Gerard Jones is simply the constructive response to if violent media is in fact a better choice for kids to entertain at such an early age.
Early in our lives we already were faced with choices, a lot smaller from ones of which we grow up, but nonetheless choices. To choose to watch or read about as Jones would say "The Incredible Hulk" was a choice made by his mother but ultimately benefited Jones which impacted his career tremendously. Jones talks about violent media in the way that it makes kids become more independent and feel more self assured about themselves.
According to critics of numerous reports that Jones discovers saying that violent media will only make kids behave in a more destruction, catastrophic manor. But is this the case? Jones discovered from a very early age, that it's okay to try new things, even if those things seem bad or violent to others. As long as you can control yourself in an orderly fashion and not live out the violent media and keep yourself concise and clear headed, there is no problem with viewing the content.
Jones says something at the end of this article that really struck me, and also gives a summary of his own article through his own words "When we try to protect our children from their own feelings and fantasies, we shelter them not against violence but against power and selfhood"--Page 377.
To relate this idea to "King Solomon's Mines", the part where Umbopa enters the story. When Umbopa thinks of himself as an equal that demonstrates that through his path of learning everybody should be equals just like when kids see or read the violent media they understand it and use it for their own lives because that's there own personal learning path.
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text: Analysis of Individual Surgical Performance in Minimal Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass: MP2Holzhey, David M.; Jacobs, Stephan; Mochalski, Michael; Mohr, Friedrich W.; Falk, VolkmarInnovations:Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery: July 2006 - Volume 1 - Issue 4 - p 183-184 Abstract: ISMICS 2006 Annual Meeting Abstracts Author Information Article Outline Cardiac Surgery, Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Objective: Methods: Results: Conclusions: Back to Top | Article Outline Objective: Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) has become a routine operation. Yet, some technical and anatomical aspects as well as human factors deserve special attention and are the source of potential error. Back to Top | Article Outline Methods: 1344 standard MIDCAB-procedures performed between 1996 and 2004 were analysed for ten major complications and risk adjusted early mortality rate. The learning curves and the assessment of perioperative outcome were analysed using standard descriptive statistics and CUSUM failure analysis for the eight involved surgeons with a personal experience ranging from 27–443 procedures. Back to Top | Article Outline Results: The incidence of in-hospital mortality was 0.8% and compared favourably with the predicted mortality calculated by the logistic EUROSCORE (3.6% p<0,01). There were significant differences between the "learning phase" (less than 50 operations), the "intermediate phase" and the "expert phase" (more than 100 operations). Perioperative mortality dropped after the learning phase from 0.8% to 0.4% (p<0.05). The need for intraoperative conversion decreased from 2.7% to 0.2% (p<0.05) after 150 operations. The overall complication rate and need for reintervention dropped after 100 operations from 12.7% to 7.1% (p<0.05) and 5.1% to 2.8% (p<0.05), respectively. CUSUM analysis revealed significant differences between surgeons with regard to the learning curves and complications (3.6%–29.6% p<0.01) despite a similar patient risk profile. Four surgeons crossed the 95% reassurance boundary after 50 or 100 operations whereas two surgeons reached the 95% alarm-line indicating unacceptable high failure rate. Back to Top | Article Outline Conclusions: MIDCAB has become a procedure with low mortality and complication rates but Results are case-load dependent. CUSUM analysis allows for a breakdown of complication rates over time displaying individual surgeons' strengths.© 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Race 1
In a very tough race to handicap (4) CAMWISER put in a super effort at Maywood last race up in class and now drops down to the bottom level. (8) HISTERIO never got into the mile and probably needed the start last out. The 8-year-old pacer gets sent out for a hot trainer. (3) FIVE COUGARS also put in a big effort last out where he was three wide at the half and still got the victory, however he doesn't race his best at Balmoral; command a price.
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Race 2
(2) EXTRAVAGANT ART 3-year-old faces older but has shown he belongs. The pacer draws the rail and has been getting better with each start. (6) ICE SCRAPER is a huge threat if he gets an easy uncontested lead. (3) LUCKY JET has been much sharper with the added lasix but this appears to be a tougher group.
Race 3
(6) JUST ONE DANCE lightly raced 3-yr-old pacer had a ton of pace late last out and has already flashed some ability in just three lifetime starts. (8) WINGS 5-year-old pacer raced gamely to a very nice opponent last start. The mare looks tough to beat on paper and will probably be a short price. (5) INDY ROCKER GIRL really went a tough trip last race and just needs a smooth trip for a piece.
Race 4
(6) CATMANDO does come off a scratch but has dominated this class recently if he's ready. (1) ROCKME AMADEOUS didn't miss by much last out and now gets the best post. (5) DIAL A DRAGON owns only one win on the year but could hit the ticket underneath at a price.
Race 5
(7) HEZUPTOSUMTHIN put in a big effort last race at a huge price and finds a very inconsistent field; threat. (1) ALEQUASH HOTSPUR didn't really fire last start but he was far back early. The sophomore pacer faces older but could be in line for a decent trip. (8) ONE LAST CHANCE when the pacer is right he can go some big miles and any kind of repeat of that last effort could make him a winner.
Race 6
(4) ANTS INER PANTS finds a good spot to do some damage and will probably be involved early; big chance. (9) HERE'S JOHNNY has really raced big every start except for one since he's been at the track. The well-bred colt will be blasting off the gate and just needs a breather up front to be very dangerous. (8) MY MUSCLEMAN fits the class well but would need a perfect steer from the provisional driver to be there on the wire; use underneath.
Race 7
(9) BRIEF'S BOY tough to bet against anything the trainer is sending out and the 4-yr-old pacer has been razor sharp. (10) WESTERN DEAL could be the only threat to the top choice and might be able to get some separation early. (5) RA RA STEVEN comes off a scratch but has been right there on the wire against this group in his last three.
Race 8
(9) SECTIONLINE YANKEE put in a real nice effort first start off a layoff flashing a nice late kick. If the classy pacer is ready she's the best in the field by far. (3) CHLOE HALL just like last week it's just a matter of whether the pacer stays sound. Try and get a look in warm-ups or the post parade to see how the mare is getting over the track. If she looks good she will probably run in the money. (5) KATE THE GREAT mare drops down to a level where she can be competitive and really has a good late kick with the right setup.
Race 9
(1) BEST MAN HANOVER takes a big drop in class, draws the rail, and when right would pace away from the field. However the well-bred 5-year-old is probably a play against on anything but a fast track. (4) PARK LANE DEPUTY went a good effort last out racing gamely but the 7-year-old stallion rarely wins anymore; use underneath. (8) FIRSTCLASSALLTHWAY is also dropping and can pace some big miles from time to time.
Race 10
In a wide open race on paper (6) UNCLE BUD should offer the right price and has the ability to pace up a storm late. (7) FASHION DELIGHT gelding was an easy winner in this class last time he was at this level and drops out of the invite; short price. (2) STAMPED BY DESIGN is one of the sharpest horses in the race and should get a nice spot up front.
Race 11
(4) FOX VALLEY TOUCHE races much better when forwardly placed and has the most back class in the field. (7) MUY CALIENTE is facing significantly less but the pacer seems to race to her competition a lot; command a price. (9) BABE'S CHIP should offer a big price and went a huge effort last out from an impossible spot.
Race 12
(6) MORTAL COMBAT has good closing ability and just needs some racing luck to upset. (3) SHADY MAPLE BULLET just raced evenly last out after being on a nice roll. The pacer will look to rebound and might try and fire early. (5) UPBYFIVE has really been consistently pacing good miles and is very versatile.
Race 13
(8) AGOOD TIME TO ROCK raced gamely after blasting from a tough post last out. The 3-yr-old finds an inconsistent field and is one of the main threats. (1) ROCKIN GLORY was racing better last out before making a miscue. The pacer gets a good post and has the ability despite only one win on the year. (4) SHISWELL'S DELIGHT has really regressed and is a tough play on top but does find a weak field; use underneath.
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Special feature this week. The last 20 minutes this week is Lucy interviewing Sunny Ormonde – her voice may be better known to you as the post-feminist Lilian of course. Worth listening to the first hour first.
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After a discourse on the map of the week our hosts get down to business. Not surprisingly Lilian, Justin and Miranda take prime billing as the last dumps her husband and he decides that moving his mistress into her house immediately without consultation is inevitable. Do these people have no shame?
Yokel Bear is reporting on social media this week – lots of opinions needed. Plus he mentions the need to vote for the podcast. Kirsty has also been examined in depth on the forum.
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Title: Taming the Beast
By: angstytimelord
Pairing: Tenth Doctor/Jethro Cane
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: R
Table: VRD challenge - Pink, 5_prompts
Prompt: The Pink Panther
Disclaimer: This is entirely a product of my own imagination, and I make no profit from it. I do not own the Tenth Doctor or Jethro Cane. Please do not sue.
***"You can't honestly expect me to model myself after a fictitious sleuth who calls himself by a ridiculous name like the Pink Panther!" the Doctor exclaimed. "I've seen some of those movies. He was inept! I'm not that silly, am I?"
"I don't mean the movies!" Jethro told him, laughing and shaking his head. "I mean the cartoon character. I always loved those cartoons when I was a kid. The Pink Panther always seemed really insidious and sneaky to me. I wanted to be like that."
"Sneaky and insidious?" the Doctor asked with a laugh. "Those are qualities that could come in handy if we're going after the Master -- or any other enemies that we might have to confront -- but they aren't exactly stellar attributes for a person to have."
"Well, when I was a kid, I didn't think like that." Jethro grinned, raising an eyebrow as he surveyed the Time Lord. "You know, you could be called the Pink Panther when you get naked. You're tall and thin -- and you can be sneaky."
"What?" The Doctor stood up, his hands on his hips and a mock scowl on his face. "I don't look a thing like that Pink Panther creature! You take that back, Jethro Cane!" He tried his best to look menacing, but he couldn't stop his lips from twitching.
"I didn't mean it in a bad way!" Jethro protested, his own lips starting to curve into a smile. "I only meant that you're .... well, tall and thin, and that you can slink around with the grace of a panther. That's not a bad thing to be, is it?"
"Well .... I suppose that I could let you slide by with that description," the Doctor told him, laughing at the young man's description. "I have the grace of a panther, eh? And just what kind of panther would I be, do you think? A wild, untamed beast?"
"Only when we're in bed," Jethro murmured, moving over to where the Doctor stood and sliding his arms around the Time Lord's waist. "But I can have you eating out of my hand if I try. And don't deny it, because you know it's true. I can tame that beast in you."
"You most certainly can," the Doctor whispered, his dark eyes widening as he felt Jethro's hands tugging at the hem of his t-shirt. "And unless I miss my guess, you might be thinking of ways to tame that beast and make him purr right now."
"Oh, I'm always thinking of that," Jethro replied, sliding his hands under the Doctor's t-shirt. The Time Lord shivered in pleasure as his boyfriend's soft fingertips roamed over his skin, those warm hands moving up his back to pull him closer. "But first, I have to bring the beast out to play."
"I don't think you'll have any problem doing that," the Doctor managed to say, gulping as Jethro's hand moved down, his palm resting on the bulge in the Time Lord's jeans. He leaned into the touch, his breath starting to come faster with each movement of Jethro's hand.
"You know, since you're wearing a white t-shirt and blue jeans, I can't really call you the Pink Panther," Jethro mused, one hand moving down the Doctor's back to rest on the curve of his ass. "I think you need to get out of those clothes, don't you?"
The Doctor didn't answer; he merely stepped back from his young lover and lifted his t-shirt over his head, tossing it carelessly onto the floor. Jethro's nimble fingers were already working at the button and zipper of his jeans, pushing the fabric over the Time Lord's thighs.
It only took another few seconds for the Doctor to push his jeans to the floor and step out of them, standing naked in front of the younger man. "I hope this is pink enough for you -- even though I'd sooner call it pasty pale," he said, making a face at his boyfriend.
"Well .... there are parts of you that are pink," Jethro murmured, sliding one arm around the Doctor's waist again, his other hand moving to the Time Lord's chest to tweak one tender pink nipple as he spoke. The Doctor gasped, his eyes widening at the sensation.
Encouraged by his lover's reaction, Jethro loosened his hold on the Time Lord's waist, leaning forward and lowering hi head to gently circle the Doctor's other nipple with his tongue. He smiled as the small bud tightened, feeling the Doctor's muscles go taut.
"I think that I should be able to tame that beast -- but we may have to move to another room for me to work on it," Jethro said as he straightened up again to gaze into the Doctor's eyes, his voice barely above a whisper. "It would be much more comfortable."
The Time Lord could only manage a nod; it was as though his vocal cords had been paralyzed. There was no way that he could trust himself to speak; if he did, then he might beg Jethro to take him here, on the floor of the control room in any position they found themselves in.
Jethro leaned forward to kiss him, their lips meeting in what began as a gentle breath of a kiss, but quickly progressed into a fierce mating of teeth and tongues, the passion that always flared between them burning ferociously at a moment's notice.
Seizing the Doctor's hand, Jethro moved towards the corridor that led to their bedroom, the Time Lord following on his heels. They were nearly running by the time they reached their destination, both of them eager to let the beasts within them out of their cages for a while.
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Chris McNally Joins Accenture Interactive
EC is please to announce Chris McNally recently joined our client, Accenture Interactive, as Managing Director in a new role to build and expand the automotive sector business across North America.
Chris was most recently Managing Director, Razorfish – NY office with P&L responsibility for a $180M+ business with 300+ people. Chris spent 14+ years at Razorfish and in an earlier role he built the Customer Experience practice at Razorfish before assuming his GM -NY office position.
EC is providing Chris with our unique "Blended Solutions" career transition coaching/consulting support to assist in Chris' successful transition into this newly-created role at Accenture.
EC initiated this transaction on behalf of Accenture Interactive as part of our ongoing relationship and commitment to bring "game-changing" talent to AI's attention.
Tom Smith Joins Jackson National Life
EC is pleased to announce Tom Smith recently joined our client, Jackson National Life, in the newly-created role of AVP, Client Experience & Technologies, reporting to Emilio Pardo, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer.
Previously, Tom was VP, Marketing at FreedomPay, and earlier in his career Tom served in roles including VP, Digital Strategy & Technology and VP, Strategic Growth Initiatives at Transamerica. Tom began his career at GE Capital in the credit card business and later in GEFA (GE Financial Assurance) leading marketing in a number of insurance and affinity marketing businesses.
EC is providing Tom with out unique "Blended Solutions" career transition coaching/consulting support to assist Tom in his successful transition into Jackson National.
EC handled this exclusive, retained executive search for Jackson National Life, a division of Prudential plc, a long-term client of our firm. EC also previously placed Emilio Pardo is his role at Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Jackson National.
Why Are Chief Digital Officers Failing?
The Chief Digital Officer ("CDO") position is one of the fastest-growing, new C-suite positions, and yet, sadly many newly-appointed CDOs are failing within 2-3 years. With marketing having tipped "irrevocably" onto a mobile- and digital-first axis, this failure rate suggests CDO positions are not being set up for success from the outset.
"There is a big difference between doing digital and becoming digital," says Alicia Hatch, CMO of Deloitte Digital (#2 largest and fastest-growing digital agency network). While there are many successful examples of CDOs and companies transforming successfully to becoming digital-first businesses, the vast majority of Fortune 1000 companies are still organized in product-siloes, with legacy organizational structures and archaic technology infrastructures that inhibit their ability to pivot toward customer-centricity.
According to Deloitte's annual CMO study, 87% of business leaders anticipate their businesses being disrupted by digital business models, but only 30% believe they have the leadership or skills to execute on a digital business model.
Mike Sutcliffe, CEO of Accenture Digital says organizational structure need to be addressed, and silos eliminated for true digital transformation to be achieved. In the attached article below, Sutcliffe comments "the way you used to work, your internal organization structures, the silos that existed in your business, are going to have to be rethought. They're not going to be effective in this new world."
"A company cannot hire a Chief Digital Officer simply because the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Technology Officer cannot work effectively together, commented a successful CDO and Head of Customer Experience with experience in consumer banking, telecommunications, and e-commerce.
EC has seen the following scenario too many times:
1. CEO announces an initiative to create a new C-level position of Chief Digital Officer ("CDO") to lead enterprise-wide transformation of the company's business processes to enable a pivot to digital-first and customer-centricity (versus product-centricity).
2. The CDO is given an undersized budget commitment including hiring a limited number of internal digital strategy and customer experience positions to consult enterprise-wide. The true size of the investment required to transform the "digital state" of the business is never properly defined.
3. The CEO does not line up key stakeholders on the Executive Leadership Team…..and additional long-range organizational changes are not addressed up-front…which creates an environment of "business as usual" within the product-siloed divisions within the company.
4. The Chief Technology Officer ("CTO") and organization own 95% of the annual technology budgets and these organizations are typically mired in lengthy development projects on legacy systems (frequently behind schedule and over-budget) which are causing them to lose credibility among C-suite peers.
5. The newly-minted CDO almost immediately get bogged down in organizational politics, budget clashes (since the product-centric SBUs don't want to pay for corporate organizational transformation), and inevitably are told by the CTO that digital transformation will take 10+ years and $50M+
6. Invariably, almost the entire first 2 years are spent studying the digital and customer-centric transformation problem, and evangelizing these changes among ELT members, with little if any tangible results to show for the CDOs efforts. Quietly, many of the legacy divisional Presidents and other ELT heads are waiting for this CDO initiative to go away.
7. By the end of the third year, the CEO who initially sponsored this CDO position and enterprise-wide digital "Center of Excellence" has lost the faith, the business begins to suffer revenue losses (due to lack of customer-centricity) which creates cost-reduction pressure, and the digital experiment comes to an end with the CDO position being cut in an overhead reduction.
EC believes the time has come for a new, innovative approach to assure higher success rates on CDOs gaining traction and producing measurable results sooner. EC has long provided transition support (consulting/coaching) to CDOs, however, what's needed goes far beyond a 90 or 180 day transition plan.
Barney Loehnis, CDO at Mercer, commented, "in contemplating future CDO roles, candidates should require a 3 year contract with full P&L authority and complete autonomy to hire internal and external resources as needed. It is also critical going into a CDO role to have clear organizational objectives (e.g., what are the specific and measurable results the organization hopes to achieve) and ensure that the organizational structure and budget are necessary and sufficient to achieve those goals. Not having either clear goals, or the necessary structure and budget, will ultimately lead to disappointment."
CDOs also need to leverage Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and newer technology developments and developers that are building dynamic new cloud-born technologies able to operate on top of disparate, legacy IT systems and databases. We are in an era of consumers asking Alexa (Amazon) for whatever we want instantly, whether it is the answer to a question, the weather forecast, or ordering something we want to buy. CDOs need similar AI-inspired new tools to help raise them above legacy system limitations and enable real digital transformation to occur in much shorter time-frames.
EC is building an Advisory Board of progressive CDOs and new-age, cloud-born technology companies (i.e., SiriusIQ – www.SiriusIQ.com) to create breakthrough solutions to enable successful digital innovation and transformation in much shorter timeframes. With this approach, we plan to make the CDO position a long-lasting and successful C-suite position.
As always, EC welcomes your comments and input.
Jeff Gundersen, CEO
Executive Connections LLC
Accenture Digital CEO – 'Fix the back-end, be open and eradicate your silos'
Many would be wary of listening to what a consultancy firm with a long history of working in traditional IT had to say about what it takes to be a true digital company. And to be honest, I wouldn't blame those people – the large consulting firms have somewhat of a chequered past when it comes to transformation projects.
That being said, Accenture Digital strikes somewhat of a different tone with me. Accenture as a whole has benefitted tremendously from investing in digital capabilities early on, with its Digital group now accounting for as much as 40% of its revenues and driving huge leaps in profits in recent years.
Accenture Digital has focused on building out core competencies in the big technologies you'd associate with 'digital tech' – e.g. big data, IoT, artificial intelligence – and has spent time acquiring much smaller start-ups that play an interesting role in digital design to boost its credibility.
And speaking with Accenture Digital CEO Mike Sutcliff recently in London, it's clear that he gets it. He understands the challenges facing companies in this fast paced world of changing consumer expectations, which are being hindered by ageing legacy systems.
Sutcliff said that he has been working with a bunch of companies that are looking to blend digital tools with their existing processes, to eliminate a certain amount of friction from the customer experience. However, he added that whilst this can improve things for a business, it shouldn't be the end game. He said:
The much more interesting question is when companies start to rethink how would they achieve their core mission, if they could start from scratch? And how would they take advantage of platforms other people have developed? How would they partner with other members of the ecosystem? What would their different commercial model pricing structure look like? What would the employee experience be? Should they tap into the gig economy?
So there's a whole different set of questions and experience that go into creating a strategy to achieve your mission that's enabled by digital, as opposed to creating a digital strategy to just improve the business you already have.
Digital identifies your best customers
Sutcliff said that to rethink what is possible with digital, companies should really try and understand what customers value and what they're willing to pay for, versus things they value, but don't actually influence their behaviour. He said that there is a fine line between these two things. The customers most at risk are the customers that are subsidizing another part of the customer base, Sutcliff said. Giving an example of the insurance industry, he added:
In the insurance industry, the way it traditionally priced their policies would be to take a very broad population, collapse that into a pool of people that had similar risk profiles based on characteristics about the person. Are they male or female? How old are they? What city do they live in? What's their estimated income range? And so they would create pools of people and they would say, "Because you fall in this pool, this is the price of your policy."
So that worked for a long, long time. And then the digital tools allowed us to understand something completely different about you, which is not "Are you male or female?" Or "How old are you?" Or "What's your estimated income?" But, more importantly, "How do you actually drive the car?" Okay. And so now I actually understand your behavior as opposed to attributes about you, and when I understand your behavior I can have a much more direct, correlated understanding of the risk.
Now, I can go attract, I can make offers to customers who have the least risky behavior, but are part of that big risk pool. And if I pull them out of that big risk pool by making them a good offer, say, "I'm going to save you 30 percent on your insurance." Well, in reality, you were overpaying by 50 percent, because you're the least risky in the pool, and if I can pull you and get you to be my customer, I'll make more money and my competitor will lose more money, at the same time.
Basically, companies are able to use digital tools to understand their customer base at a much more granular level and then are able to offer them a service that is specific to them.
Needs to be done
Sutcliff said that he often gets asked the question, 'What's the difference between computerized and digital?', which is understandable given that technology has played a central role in doing business over the past few decades.
However, Sutcliff believes that digital isn't just about more automation through computers. Instead, he said, digital is about using new tools that allow companies to put the customer at the centre of the experience. It's a very human-centric approach to doing business, which is being driven by mobile, social, data and cloud.
But becoming a digital organisation isn't easy, as well all know. Sutcliff identifies three key priorities, however, for making this possible. They centre around fixing the back-end systems (typically by wrapping an API architecture around the legacy), being more open, and then also attempting to get rid of existing internal, organisational silos.
Sutcliff said:
You have to. You have to fix. In order to create fantastic experiences in what we would call the front office, you have to fix the mid and the back office. Right. And you have to be willing to even rethink the way you design your product or your service, the way you learn from customer usage of that product or service, and then on a much faster cycle keep iterative design going so that you're not releasing a new product or service every two years, you're releasing one every three months.
So, yeah, we think you've got to do front, mid and back office and you have to be willing to increase the clock speed or the cycle time inside the business.
In addition to that basic concept, it's also an open ecosystem approach that leverages other data, other platforms that you don't pay for and create inside the walls of your business. And so you have to open the architecture of your business to be part of that ecosystem and collaborate actively with others in the supply chain and the value chain so that you've got a relevant value proposition to your market.
Now, if you're doing that, if that's digital for you then, by definition, the way you used to work, your internal organization structures, the silos that existed in your business, are going to have to be rethought. They're not going to be effective in this new world. And so there is a massive organizational business model and cultural change that goes on as companies move from thinking of themselves as a black box that serves their customer to thinking of themselves as part of an ecosystem that is collaborating and learning and developing new products and creating new experiences, not 100 percent under their control, but as part of that broader ecosystem.


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Fall is one of my favorite times of year (the others being Any Nice Day ever). It seems to me fall has a wonderfully disproportionate number of nice days.
Booker and I went out early for his morning walk today. I was determined to avoid another episode of Curious Puppy and the New Blacktop so we went before Roxie was out.
It was still dark, the occasional streetlamp giving me a shadow about 100 times taller than I'll ever be. It was dark enough to see the stars, and the Big Dipper, Orion, and Cassiopeia accompanied us on our way. The weather was just right for shorts and Samara's old lacrosse jacket. In other words, perfection all around.
Only one or two cars passed us as we sniffed along, pausing to inspect each and every blade of grass. I like the feeling of being (more or less) alone in the world early in the day. No computer, no phone (I just realized I never take a phone on my morning Booker walks–huh), no one else. Don't get me wrong–I love my laptop and my cell and other people, but sometimes it's nice just to have a few quiet minutes.
You might assume I would use the time alone to think and sometimes I do. But today I just let my mind go. I wasn't thinking about anything in particular, I wasn't trying not to think. (OK, I thought a little about keeping Booker away from the blacktop.) I was enjoying the morning, taking a minute to appreciate the early quietness. There is something very refreshing about taking a few minutes every now and then just to let my mind relax.
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The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: Władysław Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film The Pianist, based on Szpilman's memoir.
Following the war, singer and accompanist, each of whom had lived the same harrowing story, were met with opposing fates: Szpilman was celebrated for his uncanny ability to survive against impossible odds, escaping from a Nazi transport loading site, smuggling in weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish resistance.
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Tuszyñska, who won the trust of the once-glamorous former singer, then living in a basement in Paris—elderly, bitter, shut away from the world—encouraged Gran to tell her story, including her seemingly inexplicable decision to return to Warsaw to be reunited with her family after she had fled Hitler's invading army, knowing she would have to live within the ghetto walls and, to survive, continue to perform at the popular Café Sztuka.
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Agata Tuszyńska was born in Warsaw in 1957 and learned at the age of nineteen that she was Jewish, a secret kept by her mother, who survived the Nazi occupation of Poland. Tuszyńska graduated from the Academy of Drama and Theatrical Arts in Warsaw. She is the author of six collections of internationally translated poetry and a biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer. She is the recipient of the Polish PEN Club Ksawery Pruszyński Prize and a grant from the Fulbright Foundation. She lives in Toronto, Warsaw, and Paris.
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Chapter 1
She picked up the receiver but didn't speak.
She picked up the receiver but didn't speak at first. She breathed—with increasing difficulty, and more loudly—as time passed. She was expecting curses and insults. She waited; they will track her down, they will find her, they'll finish her off. She won't give in. She concentrated all her energy on that.
"I'd like to see you, Vera."
"I can't leave the house."
"I can come to you."
"It's not possible."
"Out of the question."
"They'll break in and steal everything."
"Who will?"
"Are you crazy or what? Do I have to explain it to you? Who am I dealing with? Shhhh . . . keep quiet, please! They're listening in, and we're being taped. You know very well who I'm talking about. They're spying on me, they want to get rid of me. I'm followed everywhere. The concierge is in cahoots with them. They are always breaking in, when I'm in the bathroom or when I fall asleep. They carry off what they can, what is most valuable, what is dearest to me. They steal, they ransack, they burglarize me. Without any scruples. There's no question of my leaving the apartment. They are always watching me."
HE is the most dangerous, whose name she never mentions. Sometimes she calls him the Brute.
"I want to write a book about you."
"I'm not afraid. They've already made up so many lies about me. You have to think of me as Mister K., the one from Kafka . . ."
"Madame K. . . ."
"Madame, Madame . . . !!! It's my skin we are talking about! You still don't understand, you can't understand anything. You numbskull!"
Shortly afterward:
"Vera is sorry. Very, very. Please . . . please excuse me. When I'm having a fit, I become an unbearable old lady!"
After weeks of negotiation, in the spring of 2003 I was granted the honor of meeting her at the door of her apartment.
It was an elegant neighborhood of Paris, the sixteenth, around the Eiffel Tower. After climbing up one flight, I knocked. An inscription, in French, on the door: Knock Loudly! An old woman, not very tall, in a pink dressing gown, opened the door a crack. She didn't trust herself, nor me. A gray chignon coming undone with protruding wisps, a gleam in her eyes, and her right hand leaning on a crutch.
She opened the door a little more. She blocked the dark interior with her body. A chair had already been placed on the landing. She looked at me with suspicion. Her soft hands moved nimbly. "I am casting a spell. I love casting spells." With these gestures she didn't arouse pity. She tried to bring out a second chair by opening the door as little as possible. The inside of her bunker, dark and disturbing. A hideout. On the right, I could see written on the wall, also in French: Thief, thief, put back everything you took, especially the blue poncho . . . I couldn't manage to make out any more at first glance. Her hair, parts of her dressing gown, and her hands quivered. She sat down. We both sat down.
She handed me a tape recorder, even though I had mine. She would keep warning me: "Record it, or else you will forget what they are saying—or worse, what you yourself have said! RECORD IT!"
Her confidences were dull gray, like ashes. Periodically the lights went out in the stairwell. Then my feelings of compassion grew until the lights came back on. A moment of light—the harshest words, the most biting, the most sinister and revealing, until the poignant moment when the lights dimmed. There were several encounters like this, on the edges of darkness.
"You want to reach right into my soul. Just like that. You think it's normal, and that I should agree completely. Just because you feel like it. Because you thought of it. You have no conscience, no heart, you scribblers. Not a penny's worth of consideration. Contemptible!
"You Polish girls, you are so insolent, it's in your nature. You are odiously arrogant. Here she shows up, she wants an interview. And she's not the only one.
"I don't ask anyone in. I see nobody. You are the only one, and afterward, I always regret it. I regret that you've seen what you saw. I don't have any confidence. You have a strange professional bias: cruelty, no compassion."
"That's what you think?"
"Yes, insolent. Insensitive, and not an ounce of compassion for your milk cow. You want to milk me, you take my milk. I can't even kick over the pail. Give it a good kick to spill everything out. Or take back my treasures. I would have liked that, but it's already too late. I've already spoken. Why did I allow this to happen? I don't know. Out of loneliness, perhaps."
We spent a week on the landing. White chairs. Uncomfortable. Tiles on the floor and faded paint on the walls.
It was a place of passage. We were on the threshold of trust. A preface to a relationship.
And then one day I knocked, as usual, and she cracked open the door. Timidly, almost excusing herself, but with a determined gesture, she pulled me inside. I squeezed through a narrow hallway to a room difficult to describe. She made an impatient gesture, pointing to a chair. I can't recall much beyond the darkness, the stifling and oppressive air.
"I've made a pact with the dust. I won't disturb it and it won't trouble me. It's capable of feeling pity. It really is. My enemies work tirelessly. I recently heard a radio program about the Stasi. That's my life."
She moved around cautiously, she navigated between the furniture and piles of cardboard boxes and stacks of newspapers. Barely fifty centimeters from the bed to the table, the chair to the refrigerator; a little farther, a path worn through columns of stacked papers (newspaper clippings, reviews, manuscripts . . . ) led up to the hallway, crowded with suitcases, clothing, dried‑up house plants, piles of accessories either useless or indispensable. Her home was the size of an average bunker in the ghetto (when does it stop, calculating everything in terms of cost—for her hideout, the price of survival, the money extorted by blackmailers?); if this place were emptied out, several people could hide here. The books were falling off the shelves, squeezed together, amassing in the stagnant air.
I had trouble staying there even for a few hours. For months she hadn't left this hideout. For years, if you believed her distorted view of time and reality.
"It's not about you. You are a tool. The ear and the pen, the extension of my hand and my eyes—you are keeping a record of my past. The role doesn't please you, I can see from the face that you are making. But we don't have any time. We don't have any choice. Either it's me on my terms, or else it's silence."
Hanging over the table was a lamp, the shade like a flower with translucent petals of a tree from Israel. Fragile like fragments of parchment, looking like shells. Moneysworth, that's what she called them; that's how she wanted to remember them after lugging them from the desert through Ben Gurion Airport to Orly. She fell in love with the lamp. She fell in love easily with anything that didn't feel human. She painstakingly arranged the little sprigs in a crown. The lamp was a light. Apparently she once saw no danger in it.
Today it's always dark, the shutters are closed.
How is it possible for a person who has spent half her life on stage not to turn the lights on at home? She willingly lived in twilight.
"It's because of them, it's them. Because they installed everything here, I had to get rid of all the lights. The twilight came, I had to get used to it. Their light is stronger. It's special—to enable them to record and film. I can't always stay in the light of a movie camera. Do you understand?"
. . .
"What was the most important thing about singing for you?"
"I wanted to stir emotions. I sang for other people, not for myself. I gave, but I also received from the public an outpouring of emotion and involvement.
"I must have been conceited. That goes with the unthinking nature of youth. I wanted to give, share, I had everything in abundance. I also wanted—and I can't deny it—to be admired. I had been singing since I was very little. It made me feel good, people paid attention to me. I was in a hurry to go on stage. To work. They were waiting for me. The public. Who were they? What, are you also going to throw that up at me? The rich people in the ghetto, the black marketers, guys from the Jewish police, all those to whom fate had given a second chance, who had struggled for it and won, who refused to end up as victims, or as a bar of soap. I didn't want to become soap. I had to sing. To show my worth, so that they would know it, so the game of life could continue. We lacked for nothing, it's true, but do I have to justify myself forever? I worked in order to eat. I received nothing for free. I worked hard."
"Under my pillow I keep a knife, a hammer, and a screwdriver. They press their shapes into my back and the nape of my neck. I have never sold myself cheap. Never! Should I feel guilty? Guilt, always this Jewish guilt. I am guilty of nothing! What were we talking about?"
"That you can't stand journalists."
"Can't stand? That's an understatement."
"What was the most important thing in life for you?"
"Mother. Always. I did everything so as not to hurt her feelings. I know that she was always afraid that someone would harm me. Take advantage of her child. She was smart enough never to say it to me, but she died of fear. I can't remember any longer when I promised her that I would never change my faith. She was a believer. Which I could tolerate. I watched her with emotion as she lit the candles on Fridays, cupping her hands, and praying in a low voice. I will always picture her with her arms folded and her hands open above the flames. A long time ago, I rebelled, I screamed at her, and I was angry. The Jews, the language, the religion! It's only now that it awakens a tenderness in me. I kept my promise even though there's not an ounce of faith in me."
"Is your life fulfilled?"
"I don't understand what that means, a life that's fulfilled.
"There was no time for dreams. I was carried by a wave, it swept me along, it began with a success that I wasn't prepared for. Then it went further, carried me higher. I crashed many times, but I always recovered from my fall. I don't know why I picked myself up again. What's the use of such a long life? I didn't find any relief with the Liberation. They wouldn't let me forget. They have all forgotten, but me, I don't have the right. They reproach me, they want to bury me alive, because I know something that threatens them. I know. They are on tenterhooks. It's a relay race of slanderers that has lasted sixty years already. Now everything is distorted. The merchandise is rotten. You would think that I have descended into Alzheimer's.
"I know a psychologist in America who asked me one day, 'What do you feel, when you come from the stage back to your dressing room and nobody is waiting for you?' That was the first time that someone realized, understood that there could be an open grave dug there. The hole into which I fall once the dressing-room door is closed. Most people have someone with whom they can share their lives; they are mirrored in the eyes of the other person. For a long time my mother played that role. But she is no longer there. She hasn't been there for years. I remain alone. I take off my dress, my makeup. I cast aside my boa. I sit without moving in the easy chair. After the thunderous applause, the bravos and encores, the silence prevails. I am not reflected in admiring eyes—I cease to exist. The difference is brutal. The top and the bottom. The euphoria is the height I fall from. It's painful. I'm afraid of ending the performance, because I know what is waiting for me.
"I have had so many joys. I knew how to appreciate them. I am humble concerning destiny. I know how to say thank you. I don't know whom to thank because I believe in nothing, but I say thank you. It seems that I was pretty, but I wasn't aware of it. It's only now on rereading the old reviews that I notice it. It's repeated often: 'She is beautiful, beautiful.' But was I intelligent or not? I believed that I wasn't stupid."
She was seated on her bed, leaning over. As if keeping vigil over her fear, her hands clasped around her knees. The television screen threw an intermittent light on her face.
She was at home. In her hiding place. Still in the ghetto, fifty years later. She knew very well that she had to hide. The danger was lying in wait, behind every step. Everybody was suspect.
" 'You are not dead!?' I heard the astonishment and the dread in this voice. I had just arrived from Babice near Warsaw, where I had been hiding after getting out of the ghetto. 'You are not dead . . .' That's how I was received a few days after Liberation, in January 1945, by Szpilman, my accompanist during my time in the ghetto, my colleague from the Café Sztuka. He categorically refused to employ me on the radio. 'They say that you were working for the Gestapo!'
"For days on end I don't open my mouth. I've forgotten that I even had a voice. I can't manage to drag myself out of this place. Curious Jewish women ask me how I manage. How do I manage? I cut myself in half. The sick half stays in bed, the healthy half gets up and takes care of the sick one. It's difficult for one to follow the other. I tried having some help, but they never stopped stealing from me. It's a miracle that I'm still alive. But that's what fate decreed. I've lived a long time, too long."
"Vera, what do you think about the most often?"
"That people are bad and I hate them, that I am alone.
"I have to record, and then when I have the time, I will TRANSCRIBE everything . . . I still don't know how to use a recording machine."
She turns it on and clicks it off, then turns it on again. Some background noises. A voice.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
1 She picked up the receiver but didn't speak 3
2 She had promised me her dress 15
3 It was a massive building 45
4 What is the taste of hunger? 65
5 She left the Jewish quarter on August 2, 1942 97
6 You were working with the Gestapo! 115
7 "I can tell you a few things" 136
8 The codes of survival inside the ghetto and on the outside 153
9 "In the above deposition, I have told only the truth" 171
10 She never called him "my pianist" 189
11 "The Jews dreamed of having their own Mata Hari" 202
12 To the Ministry of Public Security 216
13 The train from Marseille pulled into the Gare de Lyon 234
14 They threatened to attend the performance wearing the striped pajamas of the camps 250
15 It's the last letter 268
16 She's happy when I bring records of her singing 280
17 It was to Lailly-en-Val, in the vicinity of Orléans 291
December 12, 2007: The Burial Place 300
Acknowledgments 301
What People are Saying About This
"Darkly absorbing . . . shrewd . . . a probing, atmospheric study of the ghetto's moral ambiguities . . . sharply etched . . . In Charles Ruas's skillful translation, Tuszynska's prose conveys Gran's story in brisk, evocative montage while, appropriately, leaving open enigmatic gaps. She finds no bright line of truth—just subtle shades of gray that are revealing of a nightmarish time."
—Publishers Weekly
"Renders the World War II years in great detail, but the meat of the book lies in the accusation that Gran collaborated with the occupied forces in Warsaw and her vigorous, lifelong self-defense. . . . A great choice for Gran devotees or World War II enthusiasts."
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"Mark is a good prospect with a lot of years ahead of him," added Hoddle. "He's still got a lot to learn but he went in to a difficult game and showed what he can do.
"What he probably isn't doing yet because of his age is sustaining it for 90 minutes but he's proved what he can do in a short spell.
"But that consistency will come because he's a talented player and we've just got to nurse him on."


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DC Circ.'s Reinterpretation Of Original Source Rule
In Davis, the whistleblower raised allegations that the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) improperly obtained Medicaid reimbursement for special education services through claim submissions lacking adequate documentation.
At issue before the D.C. Circuit was when...
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