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A converging slot-hole film-cooling geometry - Part 1: Low-speed flat-plate heat transfer and loss
Sargison, J. E., Guo, S. M., Oldfield, M. L. G., Lock, G. D. and Rawlinson, A. J., 2002. A converging slot-hole film-cooling geometry - Part 1: Low-speed flat-plate heat transfer and loss. Journal of Turbomachinery: Transactions of the ASME, 124 (3), pp. 453-460.
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This paper presents experimental measurements of the performance of a new film-cooling hole geometry-the converging slot-hole or console. This novel, patented geometry has been designed to improve the heat transfer and aerodynamic loss performance of turbine vane and rotor blade cooling systems. The physical principles embodied in the new hole design are described, and a typical example of the console geometry is presented. The cooling performance of a single row of consoles was compared experimentally with that of typical 35-deg cylindrical and fan-shaped holes and a slot, on a large-scale, flat-plate model tit engine representative Reynolds numbers in a low-speed tunnel with ambient temperature main flow. The hole throat area per unit width is matched for all four hole geometries. By independently varying the temperature of the heated coolant and the heat flux from an electrically heated, thermally insulated, constant heat flux surface, both the heat transfer coefficient and the adiabatic cooling effectiveness were deduced from digital photographs of the color play of narrow-band thermochromic liquid crystals on the model surface. A comparative measurement of the aerodynamic losses associated with each of the four film-cooling geometries it-as made by traversing the boundary layer at the downstream end of the flat plate. The promising heat transfer and aerodynamic performance of the console geometry have justified further experiments on an engine representative nozzle guide vane in a transonic annular cascade presented in Part 2 of this paper.
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|Advisory Opinion No. 96-9:
|Application of Public Officers Law §74 to the Chair of the State Racing and Wagering Board.
The following advisory opinion is issued in response to a request submitted by the law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna on behalf of its client, Jerry Bilinski, Chair of the New York State Racing and Wagering Board ("Board"). Bilinski asks whether certain actions that he proposes to take with regard to his ownership of thoroughbred horses, including the creation of a trust for his ownership interests in two stallions, would place him in compliance with Public Officers Law §74.
Pursuant to the authority vested in it by Executive Law §94(15), the State Ethics Commission ("Commission") hereby renders its opinion that Bilinski's proposal, as submitted, would not bring him into compliance with Public Officers Law §74, as he would not be sufficiently screened from information regarding the sale of his breeding rights in two stallions nor would purchasers of such breeding rights be guaranteed to be unaware of his ownership.
Bilinski was confirmed as Chair of the Board on May 2, 1995 to fill the remainder of the term of the previous Chair. The Board has "general jurisdiction over all horse racing activities and all pari-mutuel betting activities, both on-track and off-track, in the state and over the corporations, associations and persons engaged therein." It has three members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. No more than two of the members may belong to the same political party. The Governor designates one of the members to serve as Chair of the Board and to be the chief executive officer of the agency (Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law §101).
The term to which Bilinski was originally appointed expired on February 28, 1996. His nomination for a full term was sent to the Senate by the Governor. However, before the Senate acted, the Commission opened an investigation with respect to certain activities of Bilinski related to the breeding of horses, and he requested that the Senate delay scheduled hearings on his confirmation pending the resolution of the investigation. As the investigation was drawing to a close in April 1996, Bilinski requested a formal advisory opinion from the Commission. He asked whether certain proposed actions he was prepared to take, including the creation of a trust, would assure that he was in compliance with Public Officers Law §74. At its April meeting, the Commission determined that it did not have enough information regarding the proposed arrangement to render an opinion. On May 15, 1996, Bilinski submitted a more detailed proposal, which was supplemented by a letter of May 24, 1996. It is this proposal that the Commission now considers.
The investigation into Bilinski's activities began when various newspapers reported, in February 1996, that his office telephone number at the Board had appeared in advertisements in the January 13, 1996 edition of The Blood Horse, a trade magazine in the thoroughbred industry, as the number to contact for the New York Stallion Station ("Stallion Station"), a private farm selling stud services of two stallions. As part of the investigation, the Commission also examined Bilinski's continued private business activities related to the Stallion Station in possible violation of Public Officers Law §74.
During its investigation, the Commission learned that Bilinski, prior to his appointment as Chair of the Board, practiced veterinary medicine in North Chatham, New York. He was President and half-owner of a professional corporation, "Jerry Bilinski DVM and Anina la Cour DVM, P.C.". The partnership operated the Equine Medical Center and the Chatham Small Animal Hospital, which is located on a 60 acre parcel owned jointly by Bilinski and la Cour. An adjacent 42 acre parcel containing stallion barns, known as the Stallion Station, is owned solely by Bilinski. A third parcel, known as the Waldorf Farm, contains Bilinski's home, as well as barns for mares, and is also owned solely by him.
Upon his appointment as Chair of the Board, Bilinski ceased practicing veterinary medicine and no longer receives compensation from the ongoing practice. He remains, however, as President and half-owner of the partnership.
In addition, upon taking office, he entered into an agreement by which his partner, la Cour, leased the parcels of property known as the Stallion Station and the Waldorf Farm. These parcels contain barns and fields for the horses which are patients of the veterinary clinic and for the horses which are part of a breeding business which operates on the premises. Two stallions, Go and Go and Cormorant, are kept there. Bilinski had been the Syndicate Manager for the syndicates that own these two horses, but he resigned from that position when he first assumed the position of Chair of the Board. The position, for each of the two syndicates, is now held by la Cour.
Stallion syndicates are groups of persons, or possibly business entities, who divide ownership of a stallion among themselves, usually into forty undivided fractional ownership interests. Each share in the syndicate represents a breeding right to the stallion, entitling the owner to one breeding session per season. These season breeding rights can be used by the share owner to breed his or her own mares or can be sold to and used by another mare owner. The syndicate sets a fee for each breeding season; however, a syndicate member may sell his or her season shares for any amount, or may enter into a foal sharing agreement, in which the compensation consists of a half-ownership interest in any foal which results from the breeding.
Although he resigned as Syndicate manager, Bilinski continues to own 28 of 40 shares in the Go and Go syndicate and 9 of 40 shares in the Cormorant syndicate. In addition, the stallions remain located on the property he owns and has leased to la Cour. They are treated by the Equine Medical Center, and the mares which are bred to the stallions are boarded on the property for various periods of time during the breeding season. Billing for the syndicates is handled separately but is done through the office of the Equine Medical Center. Bilinski's spouse is employed at the Medical Center and also serves as Secretary to the two syndicates.
In addition to his ownership interests in the stallions, Bilinski is the half-owner of approximately 20 broodmares and foals, as well as the full owner of a riding horse.
As a result of its investigation into Bilinski's activities, the Commission determined that there was reasonable cause to believe that he violated paragraphs (i) and (f) of Public Officers Law §74(3) by, while serving as Chair of the Board, selling breeding rights to individuals licensed by the Board and maintaining and creating partnerships in horses with individuals licensed by the Board. However, the evidence developed during the investigation did not demonstrate that Bilinski had a direct role in the placing of the advertisements which listed the Board's telephone number.
The Commission, simultaneously with this opinion, is issuing a Notice Of Reasonable Cause.
On May 15, 1996, Bilinski submitted a proposal to the Commission under which he would modify his current arrangements and the activities in which he engages through the creation of a trust, the termination of certain of his ownership interests and by taking other steps. He asked whether he would be in compliance with Public Officers Law §74 if he were to enter into the arrangement he proposed.
Bilinski's proposal has several elements. First, he proposes to dispose of all of his ownership interests in the thoroughbred horses (broodmares and foals) which he jointly owns with Martin Zaretsky, a licensee of the Board. Zaretsky would surrender his license and Bilinski would then transfer all his interests in the horses to Zaretsky. Zaretsky would make annual payments of principal and interest to Bilinski for five years in accordance with a schedule set forth as part of the bill of sale.(1)
Second, with regard to his ownership of shares in the Cormorant and Go and Go syndicates, Bilinski proposes a trust agreement, which was drafted to track the Model Qualified Blind Trust issued by the United States Office of Government Ethics. Pursuant to the agreement, the Trustee would be vested with the responsibility of managing the trust assets without the participation by or knowledge of Bilinski. However, the Trustee would not be involved in the marketing or sale of any of the season shares that would be transferred to him, nor would he manage, control or otherwise be involved in any aspect of the breeding activities of the syndicates.(2) Basically, the Trustee would receive the earnings from Bilinski's shares in the Go and Go and Cormorant syndicates and pay the horses' expenses. The Trustee could not reveal to Bilinski any details regarding these transactions, but would periodically distribute to him the net income of the trust.
The trust agreement specifically provides that the Trustee has no role in the selling of breeding rights. Beyond the trust agreement, Bilinski proposes that the syndicate manager of the two syndicates would handle the arrangements for sales of the season shares held by the trust of which he is the beneficiary.
In addition, Bilinski proposes that the following steps would be taken:
By letter dated May 24, 1996, Bilinski supplemented his proposal. He stated that, upon reflection, he realized that the handling of the administrative and clerical details of the breeding operations in the same building where his wife is employed could tend to dilute the goal of insulating him from the syndicate activities. He therefore proposed that all records and administrative details relating to the operation of the two breeding syndicates be handled at the residence of la Cour in Albany County rather than the office of the veterinary clinic.
In his submission of May 15, Bilinski also sought to address concerns that sources of information might identify syndicate interests specifically belonging to him; for example, whether a horse currently racing was a foal resulting from the sale of one of his breeding seasons. Bilinski stated that the Jockey Club records would identify the owner of the stallion as the stallion syndicate, rather than the syndicate member whose season was utilized to sire the foal. He further stated that official racing programs issued by track operators, as well as various racing forms and tip sheets, contain no more detailed information which would allow the reader to identify a season owner.(4)
Public Officers Law §74 contains the code of ethics for State officers and employees. This code provides minimum standards against which State officers and employees are expected to gauge their behavior. It addresses both actual conflicts of interest and their appearance. Subdivision 2 contains the rule with respect to conflicts of interest:
No officer or employee of a state agency . . . should have any interest, financial or otherwise, direct or indirect, or engage in any business or transaction or professional activity or incur any obligation of any nature, which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his duties in the public interest.
Standards which are contained in subdivision 3 include the following:
(f) An officer or employee of a state agency . . . should not by his conduct give reasonable basis for the impression that any person can improperly influence him or unduly enjoy his favor in the performance of his official duties, or that he is affected by the kinship, rank, position or influence of any party or person.
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(h) An officer or employee of a state agency . . . should endeavor to pursue a course of conduct which will not raise suspicion among the public that he is likely to be engaged in acts that are in violation of his trust.
(i) No officer or employee of a state agency employed on a fulltime basis nor any firm or association of which such an officer or employee is a member nor corporation a substantial portion of the stock of which is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such officer or employee, should sell goods or services to any person, firm, corporation or association which is licensed or whose rates are fixed by the state agency in which such officer or employee serves or is employed.
As noted above, Public Officers Law §74 addresses not only actual conflicts of interest, but also appearances of conflicts of interest. As Bilinski, as Chair of the Board, has "general jurisdiction over all horse racing activities and all pari-mutual betting activities, both on-track and off-track" (Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law §101), it is imperative that the public trust be maintained and that his actions are free from even the appearance of such a conflict.
Bilinski has asked the Commission whether his proposal, as submitted, would bring him into compliance with Public Officers Law §74.(5) He first proposes to dispose of all his ownership interests in horses which he now jointly owns with Zaretsky, a licensee of the Board, by transferring his interests to Zaretsky after Zaretsky surrenders his license from the Board, with annual payments of principal and interest to be made over five years. The Commission concludes this divestiture would comport with Public Officers Law §74 in that Bilinski would not dispose of horses to, or continue to jointly own horses with, a licensee of the Board.
With regard to the two stallions, Bilinski does not intend to similarly dispose of his interests. Instead, he proposes to enter into the trust agreement. The Commission notes that the trust, although drafted to track the Model Qualified Blind Trust issued by the United States Office of Government Ethics, would not qualify as a "blind" trust under federal law (5 CFR §2634.401[a][1][ii]), which defines such a trust as follows:
A trust is considered to be "blind" only with regard to those trust assets about which no interested party(6) has knowledge. When an interested party originally places those assets in trust, that party still possesses knowledge about those assets. The original assets remain financial assets of the Government official for purposes of ... conflict of interest statutes or regulations, until the trustee notifies the official either that a particular original asset has been disposed of or that the asset's value is less than $1000. (emphasis added)
Since the Trustee would not be obligated to dispose of Bilinski's interests in the two stallions, the trust, as proposed, is not blind as to its assets. This, however, is not fatal to his attempt to comply with §74.
It is critical, however, that Bilinski be shielded from the identity of those who purchase his breeding shares. Section 74(3)(i) prohibits Bilinski from selling these shares to any licensee of the Board of which he is Chair. This prohibition assures that Bilinski cannot use his authority to either favor or disfavor an individual with whom or an entity with which he engages in commercial dealings, and that the public does not perceive that he is so using his authority. If Bilinski were to learn of the identity of a purchaser who is licensed, this assurance would be lost. Therefore, the Commission will examine the proposal to determine whether there would be a sufficient shield.
The myriad of trust provisions which prohibit Bilinski from any knowledge of the corpus of the trust are useful, but they, alone, do not afford complete insulation since the Trustee will not be involved in the sale of season shares. Although not described in the trust agreement, Bilinski proposes that the syndicate manager of the two syndicates would handle the arrangements for sales of the shares that he beneficially owns but which are held by the trust.
The Syndicate Manager of the two syndicates is la Cour, who is Bilinski's business partner. While Bilinski proposes to resign as an officer of the professional corporation, there is no proposal to dissolve that corporation. Moreover, la Cour is the lessee of lands owned by Bilinski. In addition, in testimony before the Commission, la Cour stated that she and Bilinski are "good friends besides partners"; her description of his role in her career seems to be that of a mentor. Because of this relationship, there is a risk that the sales of his season shares will not be blind. There is no assurance that la Cour would not reveal to Bilinski details regarding the sale of his shares, including the identity of the purchasers; nor is there any legal prohibition on her doing so. Furthermore, purchasers are likely to know of the friendship and business relationship between Bilinski and la Cour, thus piercing any semblance of a shield with respect to Bilinski's involvement.
Bilinski's additional proposal that the records of the syndicates be transferred from the veterinary clinic office to la Cour's home does not eliminate the Commission's concerns. Regardless of where the records are kept, la Cour's role as syndicate manager would continue to present these concerns.
In addition, under the proposal, the stallions would remain on the property owned by Bilinski (albeit to be leased to la Cour), which is located across the road from the Equine Medical Center and one-half mile down the road from the Waldorf Farm, on which his home is located. This, along with the other factors, tends to give the appearance that Bilinski would not necessarily be screened from information regarding the sale of his stallion season shares.
Given the ease with which Bilinski could learn the identity of purchasers of his breeding shares who are licensed, the Commission concludes that the proposal, as submitted, would not bring Bilinski into compliance with Public Officers Law §74.(7)
The Commission concludes that Bilinski's proposal, as submitted, would not bring him into compliance with Public Officers Law §74, as he would not be sufficiently screened from information regarding the sale of his breeding rights in the stallions Go and Go and Cormorant nor would purchasers of such breeding rights be guaranteed to be unaware of his ownership.
This opinion, until and unless amended or revoked, is binding on the Commission in any subsequent proceeding concerning the person who requested it and who acted in good faith, unless material facts were omitted or misstated by the person in the request for opinion or related supporting documentation.
All concur:
Joseph M. Bress, Chair
Evans V. Brewster,
Angelo A. Costanza,
Robert E. Eggenschiller,
Donald A. Odell, Members
Dated: May 28, 1996
1. Bilinski has interests in three additional horses, none of which is co-owned with a licensee of the Board. Two of the horses are jointly owned with Senator Joseph Bruno, who had been a client of Bilinski's veterinary practice. Since Senator Bruno is the Majority Leader of the State Senate before which Bilinski's nomination is pending, it appears that it would be inappropriate for them to enter into negotiations for the disposal of those horses at this time. The remaining horse is neither a race horse nor a breeding stallion and will be retained for Bilinski's recreational riding purposes.
2. Although not specifically provided for in the Trust Agreement, Bilinski states that he will also assign to the Trustee his rights to receive awards from the New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund Corporation, which awards will be forwarded directly to the Trustee without notification to Bilinski.
3. Bilinski and la Cour had drawn the existing agreement themselves, and although it is in writing, it is informal and somewhat vague. Bilinski notes that the more formal agreement to be drafted will, for example, exclude an eight acre parcel on which Bilinski's residence is located from the lease of the Waldorf Farm.
4. It should be noted that the official track program does identify the owner of the mare at the time that the foal was born. Therefore, Bilinski's name may appear in a program in that capacity.
5. This opinion considers only whether Bilinski's proposal would bring him into compliance with the provisions of the Public Officers Law, which the Commission is authorized to interpret. The Commission does not have jurisdiction to interpret or enforce the Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law, certain provisions of which may be relevant to Bilinski's activities, and it expresses no opinion with regard to those provisions. For example, §101(2), provides, in part, that the Chair of the Board shall not:
engage in any private employment or in a profession or business, provided, however, that holding stock or office in a corporation which does not interfere or conflict with the performance or proper discharge of his duties in the public interest shall not be deemed engagement in private employment or a profession.
Section 101(7) provides:
No member, officer, official or employee of the board shall participate as owner of a horse or otherwise as a contestant in any horse race at a race meeting which is under the jurisdiction or supervision of the board, or have any pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, in the purse, prize, premium or stake contested for at any such horse race or in the operations of any licensee or franchisee of the board.
Section §107(3)(c) provides that the Chair of the Board may not:
sell, or be a member of a firm, or own ten per centum or more of the stock of any corporation, which sells any goods or services to any firm, association or corporation [which conducts its occupation, trade, or business at racetracks at which pari-mutuel race meets are conducted].
6. "Interested party" is defined as " a Government employee, his spouse, any minor or dependent child, and their representatives in any case in which the employee, spouse or child has a beneficial interest in the principal or income of a trust proposed for certification" (5 CFR §2634.401[a][1][i]). The Bilinski trust also uses this definition.
7. The Commission questions whether, other than through complete divestiture, Bilinski could, through a trust agreement or otherwise, meet the requirements of §74.


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Celebrate the poetry and life of Scotland's foremost poet, and gather with your Old Bar Harbor Caledonia Society friends at 6 p.m. Jan. 26, at Steamer's Restaurant in Ketchikan. The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for cocktails and haggis. Tickets are $15 for those under 12 and $30 for adults.
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It's the sound that's hard to get used to at first. Dean figured it would be the heat and the flames, but no, it's the noise down in Hell, the constant keening of lost souls, the screaming.
It's deafening. It makes his skin bleed.
They beg and they plead. They try to bargain with their tormentors, and nothing they say does any damn good.
Dean imagines John down in Hell. Imagines John strong and silent. Proud, unbroken. John wouldn't scream. John wouldn't whimper. Dean does, and more.
In year thirty, though, the worst sound Dean makes is a whisper: "Yes."


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The number of companies leaving the junior stock market Aim because of financial problems jumped sharply in the three months to September compared with the same time last year, as the recession continues to hit Britain's businesses hard.
Although the overall number of delistings from Aim fell from 72 to 65 in the quarter, the number leaving Aim owing to financial stress or insolvency rose from seven to 27, according to a report out today.
Charles Wilson, of law firm Trowers & Hamlins, which conducted the research with accountants UHY Hacker Young, said: "Financial stress is now the dominant cause of Aim delistings. This is a stark indication of the impact the recession has had on business and an explicit reminder we are not in the clear yet."
Laurence Sacker of Hacker Young added: "For those companies bleeding cash and who cannot find supportive funders, the economy's gradual recuperation may come too late. We can expect financial stress to continue to be a common reason offered by companies for delisting."
Among the 27 companies that left Aim in the third quarter because of financial stress was Premium Bars & Restaurants, which operates 45 outlets including the Living Room and Prohibition brands and is to be bought out of administration by private equity-backed Orchid Group. Oakdene Homes, a southern property developer, is also among those which have gone. Further recent collapses include Intimas, the lingerie business which has just been sold to textiles maker Linwood Fabrics, telecoms group AT Communications and dermatology drugs company, York Pharma.
Apart from running into financial difficulties, the most common reason for a company to leave Aim was because it was taken over by or merged with another business. But due to the economic downturn the number of such deals has also fallen, from 29 in the third quarter of 2008 to 15 in the same period this year.
Around 5% of the total involved moving to another exchange. Online gaming company Sportingbet became the latest business to announce such a move, when it said last week it intended to move from Aim to the full list early next year.
There was a bright spot in the report, with just 15 companies leaving Aim during September, the final month of the quarter. This is the lowest number since March 2008.


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Gene Hackman
Anjelica Huston
Ben Stiller
Gwyneth Paltrow
Luke Wilson
Owen Wilson
Danny Glover
Bill Murray
Seymour Cassel
Wes Anderson
|"I want to make this family love me. How much money you got?"
|Time: 108 mins.
Rating: R
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Genre: Comedy/Romance/Drama
Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
I've been waiting for this film ever since I saw Anderson's last film RUSHMORE. You don't find many director's out there with his eclectic visual style and slightly deranged sense of humor. Many of the same themes are explored further in this tale about what makes a family. His characters are again extremely strange, yet intimately familiar, as they try to find a reason to wake up each morning. It's a story about unrequited love, fame, selfishness, betrayal, sorrow, fear and forgiveness, starring one of the most talented casts ever assembled. Unfortunately, this family saga of pain and redemption isn't half as fun as Anderson wants it to be.
Probably because there's no consistent point of view and too many characters with too many problems. Hackman takes the lead, as the character of the title and the man everyone loves to hate, especially the wife and children he casually left behind. The children Chas (Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson) and adopted daughter Margot (Paltrow) were all once considered geniuses, but now as adults in their 30s are considered has-beens. Their mother, Ethel (Huston), encouraged them all to their early successes Chas was a stock market wiz, Margot a budding playwright and Richie a tennis phenom. Of course, everything fell apart when Royal decided to leave. The family went on as best they could, but Royal's unencouraging influence was too strong. Like a bad penny, Royal shows up 20 years later, supposedly dying, looking for love and forgiveness.
Ethel is torn between her sympathy for Royal and her love for Henry Sherman (Glover), an old family friend who recently proposed to her. Chas is an emotional wreck, trying to raise two young sons after the death of his wife. He's the most bitter towards Royal, a man who showed more interest in the money he was making than in him. Margot could care less if Royal dies or not since he always treated her like an outsider. With her marriage to Raleigh (Murray) on the rocks, she has more than enough on her emotional plate. Richie is the only one to open his arms to Royal without question. However, he was the only one to have any sort of relationship with his father as a child. Of course, no one knows what to make of the major meltdown he had on the tennis court.
For his part, Royal seems to be sincere in his efforts to reconnect with his family. He's having the time of his life, which is why nobody trusts him for a second. Things get out of control fast as everyone is forced to deal with each other again, causing tensions to run high, trusts to be betrayed and secrets to be revealed. Though Ethel loves her children, she couldn't give them what they really wanted their father's approval. What they finally discover is that you can't change people, just your expectations of them. They know Royal loves them, he just doesn't show it in the ways they would like. Initially, this little family reunion causes a total family breakdown, but eventually, everyone works out their issues, though forgiveness is still forthcoming.
There's so much to like about this movie, I can't believe I didn't enjoy myself more. The cast was amazing, each carving out their own little neurotic niche, daring the others to be more interesting than they are. Hackman gives another bravura performance as the father who refuses to grow up. Stiller, Paltrow and Wilson bring their vastly different physical and acting styles to the table, creating three individuals desperate to be loved for their true selves not their talent. Huston, Glover and Murray get the short end of the stick, playing the "normal" ones of the bunch. They just aren't given enough to do to make their roles worthwhile. Owen Wilson, who plays a neighbor kid desperate to be part of the family, is more annoying than funny in a role I could've done without. The best moments are between Royal and his adult children. His attempts at parental affection both painful and humorous.
As if the family weren't screwed up enough, there are several useless subplots that are supposed to raise the notch on their dysfunctionality, but which just serve to be overkill. It's the quiet moments that show us the core of these relationships... and just how unbreakable they are. Somehow Anderson has mistaken wacky and sordid for unusual and interesting. His characters in RUSHMORE are not exactly what one would call model citizens, but even though Max was wrapped up in his own fantasy world, his feet still touched the ground. In the case of the Tenenbaums, weird does not equal funny. I wasn't expecting a laugh riot, but I was hoping to be entertained. For a comedy, it's painfully slow at times, forcing you to wonder what the point of the story is.
For a tale full of visual style and originality the art direction, costumes, editing and choice of music are truly unique and entrancing it doesn't really have anything new to say. We all have issues with our families. Tell us something we don't know. For a man who made adolescence so brutally funny in his previous outing, it's a shame this film never really finds its voice. This certainly isn't the worst film of the year, but it is one of the more disappointing. However, if you're looking for something outside the norm, you'll find enough angst and depravity here to make the trip worthwhile.


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By Edward Cody
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
BEIJING, March 5 -- After months of giving warnings, China and the United States have resigned themselves to Taiwanese plans for a much-disputed referendum on whether the self-ruled island should apply for U.N. membership under the name Taiwan.
Neither Beijing nor Washington has abandoned its strong opposition to the referendum, officials said, because it is seen in both capitals as a backdoor way to emphasize Taiwan's claim to independence, as well as a possible cause of tension in the Taiwan Strait. But faced with President Chen Shui-bian's unshaken determination to hold the vote, U.S. and Chinese officials hope the measure will be defeated by the island's crisis-weary voters.
The controversy over the vote, scheduled to be held in tandem with Taiwan's presidential election March 22, has illustrated anew the degree to which China and the United States have in recent years developed overlapping interests in combating Chen's crusade to push the island toward formal independence. Both governments, each for its own reasons, have put a priority on avoiding conflict and, to that end, postponing a clear legal definition of Taiwan's status in the world.
The Bush administration repeatedly has used strong language to oppose the vote, in public statements as well as private diplomatic contacts. Officials have condemned the referendum as an attempt to inch beyond the long-standing arrangement under which Taiwan functions as an independent country but has a constitution that leaves its status undefined and retains "Republic of China" as its formal name.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice repeated the U.S. opposition during a visit here last week, calling the referendum provocative and a "bad idea." But like other U.S. officials, she stopped short of saying the United States would use its influence to prevent the vote from being held.
"Taiwan is a democratic entity," she said after a meeting with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in which the referendum was a key issue. "Its leaders will decide for themselves."
From the beginning, China has warned that the referendum moves dangerously close to an attempt to unilaterally change the constitutional status quo. China long has insisted the island must return to rule by Beijing, by force if all else fails, and in the meantime must be prevented from declaring formal independence or taking decisive steps in that direction.
In that light, Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office has described Chen's referendum as a reckless gesture. In private, Chinese diplomats have warned their U.S. counterparts that President Hu Jintao's government takes the issue seriously, suggesting the vote may approach the red line for some kind of military response.
But as Taiwan makes preparations to go ahead with the referendum, there have been no signs of military gestures by China. On the contrary, the Taiwan Affairs Office announced a series of measures last week designed to make life easier for the more than 1 million Taiwanese who live and work in mainland China.
The moves demonstrated that Beijing thinks that appearing friendly is more fruitful than threats as a way to diminish the appeal of Chen's independence policies, according to a Taiwan specialist and adviser to the mainland government. Following that line in speeches Tuesday and Wednesday, Hu and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao repeated the country's vow never to allow independence, but avoided specific comment on the March 22 voting, saying only that separatist efforts are "doomed to fail."
The hope in Beijing is no longer that the vote will be called off, the specialist said, but that the measure will fail to gain enough votes for passage. If it succeeds, he added, Beijing could be faced with a difficult decision about whether to react, particularly if Chen decided to use it as a basis for further independence moves during his final months in office.
"We are worried that if the referendum passes, they will use it as a way to push farther down the road to legal independence," the specialist said.
The referendum will have little practical effect, experts pointed out. The United Nations has already rebuffed efforts by Chen's government to gain recognition of the name Taiwan when it takes part in U.N. activities. Taiwan is not a U.N. member; it will not be admitted to the United Nations under any name, the experts said.
But in the struggle over Taiwan, language and symbols have long been important tools. Even though it opposes Chen's referendum, for instance, the opposition Nationalist Party proposed its own referendum measure for March 22, asking whether Taiwan should apply for U.N. membership as the Republic of China or under any name at all.
The Nationalist proposal was a political gesture aimed at Taiwan's voters, a party official acknowledged, and not intended to imply that such a referendum was a good idea. The proposal grew from concerns that people might view the party as insufficiently Taiwanese, harming its presidential candidate, Ma Ying-jeou, he said. Since then, the party has suggested it may call on voters to boycott any referendum, including its own. A formal announcement on that is due next week.
It is too late to remove the Nationalist measure from the ballot now, and both questions are all but certain to be on the ballot no matter how they are viewed in Washington and Beijing, according to Philip Yang, a political scientist at National Taiwan University.
The proposals are likely to gain little support, he said, because the Taiwanese public has grown weary of Chen's confrontational style and the sense of crisis he has promoted in relations with China. Two unrelated referendum issues that the government initiated in conjunction with Taiwan's Jan. 12 legislative elections failed decisively, he noted, "proving that kind of strategy is not really useful anymore."
The Nationalists and their allies won a decisive victory in the legislative vote, leading to predictions that Ma is headed for a win over the candidate from Chen's Democratic Progressive Party, Frank Hsieh. That would be good news in Beijing and Washington, where officials hope Ma's pragmatic views would lower tensions and smooth the way for better relations across the strait.
Special correspondent Jane Rickards in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this report.
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My God, I always dreamed of a Silent Hill hl2 mod.
this looks great!
The level design captures the eerie feel perfectly.
My only suggestion at this point would be to maybe put a glow or outline around items that can be picked up to make them stand out a little more from the environment. When you have a dark setting like SH it'd be almost impossible to find a little key in the corner of a room say.
Other than that I have to say it looks great and I hope the story is good too :P
Thanks man! This helped soo much :D
Now I can plaster the walls of my map with nyancat ~~~
Paint Shop Pro = My fav too <3
Its personal preference though really. It's just what I learned to use so it's easier for me but some people also prefer Photoshop.
He just stole various textures, models and maps from other mods and put them together in a ****** way. Congratz for stealing Keith.
I am having major problems playing this mod and it looks so fun D:!
First off, right when I launch the game I get a white screen and a message at the top that says "Cannot Find Vids:LV50 Decompressor". I can still hear the audio in the background however so I suppose this is the opening cutscene and I waited. But then once the cutscene was over and the menu came up I was missing the Background texture (The menus background was just purple checkers) and finally once I started a new game it was in first person.. not 3rd person :/
Anyone know if there is some way to fix this??
This mod had a lot of potential, and as a huge LOTR fan I'm deeply saddened it's dead. Although it seems a lot like Lord Of the Rings: Conquest I was hoping it would be better gameplay and.. well.. not have empty online lobbies D:


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After building major projects across the world, Renzo Piano is set to open his first building in Spain later this week. The project, Centro Botín, will serve as the new home for the art, cultural and educational programs of Fundación Botín. Ahead of its opening this Friday, June 23, AD spoke with Piano to ask him how he arrived at such a unique project.
The Cossacks of Russia. Source: press service
During the summer months the Spanish capital hosts the East Ballet 2016 festival with performances by Kiev Modern Ballet, St. Petersburg Ballet and the Cossacks of Russia.
We already have representative for Eurovision 2016: Barei. The singer of "Say Yay!" Has managed to be the favorite of the public and the jury composed by Edurne, Loreen and Carlos Marin ... You already have your ticket to Stockholm!
His song is the only one with lyrics written entirely in English. And is that the artist is convinced that it has an international theme that can be liked in Europe.
Spain's national public broadcaster has released the much anticipated song, Amanecer (Daybreak), which will be sung by Edurne in this years Eurovision Song Contest.
Edurne, who rose to fame in 2005 after appearing on a TV talent show, will compete for Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest on May 23rd in Vienna, singing Amanecer (Daybreak), an epic ballad of lost love.


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How Is Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treated?
Treatment options and recommendations for people with chronic myeloid leukemia depend on several factors, including the phase of the disease, possible side effects, and your preferences and overall health. Take time to learn about your treatment options, and be sure to ask questions about things that are unclear. Also, discuss the goals of each treatment with your doctor and ask what you can expect while receiving the treatment.
Targeted Therapy
Targeted therapy is a treatment that attacks the cancer's specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival. This type of treatment blocks the growth and spread of cancer cells while limiting damage to normal cells.
Not all cancers have the same targets. To find the most effective treatment, your doctor may run tests to identify the genes, proteins, and other factors involved in your leukemia. As a result, doctors can better match each individual with the most effective treatment whenever possible.
For CML, the target is the unique protein called the BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase enzyme. There are five drugs, called tyrosine kinase inhibitors or TKIs, currently used to target tyrosine kinase enzymes for CML: imatinib (Gleevec), dasatinib (Sprycel), nilotinib (Tasigna), bosutinib (Bosulif), and ponatinib (Iclusig). All five drugs can stop the BCR-ABL enzyme from working, which causes the CML cells to die quickly.
To find the most effective treatment, your doctor may run tests to identify the genes, proteins, and other factors involved in your leukemia.
People receiving a TKI should have regular check-ups to see how well the treatment is working. Sometimes, a tyrosine kinase drug stops working and the CML develops resistance to it. Resistance can occur if a person does not take his or her medication regularly, as prescribed. Even if the medication is taken correctly, CML may become resistant to TKIs, so it's important to receive regular monitoring with cytogenetic testing, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) testing, or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing to determine how well the drug is continuing to work. If the medication you start with stops working, the dose may be increased or a different tyrosine kinase drug may still be effective.
This type of treatment is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells, usually by stopping the cancer cells' ability to grow and divide. In systemic chemotherapy, the drugs travel through the bloodstream to reach cancer cells throughout the body. A chemotherapy regimen usually consists of a specific number of cycles given over a set period. You may receive one drug at a time or combinations of different drugs at the same time.
Treating CML by Phase
Chronic Phase The immediate goals of treatment are to reduce any symptoms you may have. The longer-term goals are to decrease or get rid of the cells with the Philadelphia chromosome in order to slow down or prevent the disease from moving to blast crisis. Treatment will often first include use of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. An allogeneic stem cell transplantation would be considered afterward only if the TKI treatment is not successful.
Accelerated Phase The same drugs used for chronic phase CML may also be used in the accelerated phase. Although treatment with a TKI can work well during this stage, it is less likely to work as well as it does for chronic phase CML, and many people have a recurrence within about two years. Dasatinib or nilotinib are more effective in providing longer remissions. Therefore, an allogeneic stem cell transplantation should be considered when possible. If an allogeneic stem cell transplantation is not recommended or if a matched donor cannot be found, the treatment plan may include a different TKI or a clinical trial.
Blastic Phase Treatment with a TKI only works well for a few months for people in blast crisis, but it can help to control the CML while a stem cell transplant is being arranged. If the transplant can be done while imatinib or dasatinib is working, then the long-term results are better. Stem cell transplantation in the blast phase is less successful than in chronic phase, but this approach has worked well for some. Many people with CML in blastic phase receive imatinib or dasatinib plus chemotherapy similar to that used for people with acute myeloid leukemia. The chance of remission from this approach is about 20 to 30 percent, although the leukemia recurs for most people within weeks to a few months. Hydroxyurea is often given because it can help control blood cell levels. If stem cell transplantation is not an option, your doctor may recommend a clinical trial.
A drug called hydroxyurea (Hydrea, Droxia) is often given to lower the number of white blood cells until the definite diagnosis of CML is made. Given in capsule form, this drug works well to return blood cells to normal levels within a few days or weeks and reduce the size of the spleen, but it does not reduce the percentage of cells with the Philadelphia chromosome and does not prevent blast crisis (when more than 30 percent of the cells in the blood or bone marrow are immature white blood cells) alone. Although hydroxyurea has few side effects, most people newly diagnosed with chronic phase CML receive imatinib or other tyrosine kinase inhibitors as soon as possible.
In 2012, the drug omacetaxine mepesuccinate (Synribo) was approved by the FDA for people with chronic or accelerated phase CML that is not responding to a TKI. Omacetaxine is given by injection under the skin daily for seven to fourteen days.
Stem Cell Transplantation
A stem cell transplant is a medical procedure in which bone marrow that contains leukemia is replaced by highly specialized cells called hematopoietic stem cells that develop into healthy bone marrow. Hematopoietic stem cells are found both in the bloodstream and in the bone marrow. Before recommending transplantation, doctors will talk with you about the risks of this treatment and consider several other factors, such as your type of leukemia, results of any previous treatment, and your age and general health.
There are two types of stem cell transplantation: allogeneic and autologous. A person undergoing an allogeneic transplant receives cells from another person, whereas a person undergoing an autologous transplant receives his or her own stem cells. Only allogeneic transplants are used to treat CML. In both types, the goal of transplantation is to destroy cancer cells in the marrow, blood, and other parts of the body and allow replacement blood stem cells to create healthy bone marrow. In most stem cell transplants, a person receives high doses of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or both to destroy as many cancer cells as possible.
Also called biologic therapy, immunotherapy is designed to boost the body's natural defenses to fight the cancer. It uses materials made either by the body or in a laboratory to improve, target, or restore immune system function. Interferon (Roferon-A, Intron A, Alferon, Infergen) is a type of immunotherapy. It can reduce the number of white blood cells and sometimes decrease the number of cells that have the Philadelphia chromosome. Interferon therapy was the primary treatment for chronic phase CML before the targeted therapy imatinib became available. A clinical trial showed that imatinib worked better to treat CML than interferon, with fewer side effects. Therefore, interferon is no longer recommended as the first treatment for CML.
Palliative Care
In addition to treatment to slow, stop, or eliminate the disease, an important part of care is relieving symptoms and side effects of CML and its treatment. This approach is called palliative or supportive care, and it involves addressing your physical, emotional, and social needs at any stage of illness.
In addition to treatment to slow, stop, or eliminate the disease, an important part of care is relieving symptoms and side effects of CML and its treatment.
Palliative treatments often include medication, nutritional changes, relaxation techniques, and other therapies. You may also receive palliative treatments similar to those meant to eliminate the leukemia, such as chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy.
Before treatment begins, talk with your healthcare team about the possible side effects of your specific treatment plan and your supportive care options. During and after treatment, be sure to speak up if you're experiencing a problem so it can be addressed as quickly as possible.
Recurrent CML
It is not yet proven whether imatinib, dasatinib, or nilotinib, or the newer drugs bosutinib, ponatinib, or omacetaxine, can cure CML. A remission (when leukemia cannot be detected in the body by cytogenetic testing and there are no symptoms) can be temporary or permanent. This uncertainty leads to many survivors feeling worried or anxious that the leukemia will come back. While many remissions are permanent, understanding the risk of recurrence and your treatment options may help you feel more prepared if the leukemia does return.
If the leukemia returns despite the original treatment, it's called recurrent leukemia. When this occurs, you will undergo another cycle of testing to learn as much as possible about the recurrence, including whether the leukemia is in a different phase. After testing is finished, you and your doctor will talk about your treatment options. Often the treatment plan will include therapies such as targeted therapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, but they may be used in a different combination or given at a different dose than the first time you were treated. Your doctor may also suggest clinical trials that are studying new ways to treat your type of recurrent leukemia.
People with recurrent leukemia often experience emotions such as disbelief or fear. If you experience these emotions, you should talk with your healthcare team about your feelings and ask about support services to help you cope.
Refractory CML
If the leukemia does not respond to treatment, it is called refractory leukemia. People with this diagnosis are encouraged to talk with doctors who are experienced in treating this type of leukemia, because there can be different opinions about the best treatment plan. You might consider seeking a second opinion before starting treatment so you are comfortable with the treatment plan chosen. Supportive care will be important to help relieve symptoms and side effects.
For most people, a diagnosis of refractory leukemia is very stressful and, at times, difficult to bear. People with refractory leukemia and their families are encouraged to talk about their feelings with doctors, nurses, social workers, or other members of the healthcare team. It may also be helpful to talk with others with the same diagnosis, including through a support group.
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AMERICAN SAMOA, MANU'A DISTRICT, Faga Village Site, Address Restricted, Fitiuta vicinity, 99001228, LISTED, 11/13/03
ARIZONA, MOHAVE COUNTY, Peach Springs Trading Post, 863 W AZ 66, Peach Springs, 03001196, LISTED, 11/21/03
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ILLINOIS, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, Virginia Theater, 203 W. Park Ave., Champaign, 03001201, LISTED, 11/28/03
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ILLINOIS, HENRY COUNTY, Atkinson Hall, 108 W. Main St., Genesco, 03001203, LISTED, 11/28/03
ILLINOIS, KANE COUNTY, Riverbank Laboratories, 1512 Batavia Ave., Geneva, 03001204, LISTED, 11/28/03
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WISCONSIN, BROWN COUNTY, Union House Hotel, 200 North Broadway, De Pere, 03001216, LISTED, 11/26/03
WISCONSIN, DANE COUNTY, Dahle, Henry L. and Sarah, House, 312 S. Fourth St., Mount Horeb, 03001218, LISTED, 11/26/03
WISCONSIN, DANE COUNTY, Dahle, Herman B. and Anne Marie, House, 200 N. Second St., Mount Horeb, 03001217, LISTED, 11/26/03
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WISCONSIN, JEFFERSON COUNTY, Saint Bernard's Chruch Complex, 100,108 S. Church St., 111 S. Montgomery St., Watertwon, 03001221, LISTED, 11/26/03
WISCONSIN, JEFFERSON COUNTY, South Washington Street Historic District, Odd numbered 201-309 S. Church St. and S. Washington St. from Emmet St. to West St., Watertown, 03001220, LISTED, 11/26/03
WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE COUNTY, Pabst Brewing Company Complex, Roughly bounded by Highland Ave., 11th, Winnebago and 9th Sts., Milwaukee, 03001165, LISTED, 11/14/03
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Reclining Chair
The chair can tip over backwards when used in its fully reclined position, posing a fall hazard to consumers.
About 2,158
The recalled chairs are Hayward Push Back reclining arm chairs. They are 38 inches high and covered in brown or black faux leather fabric with double-needle baseball stitching. The brown chair is item number HGB-805-1. The black chair is item number HGB-805-2. The item number is on the upper right-hand side of the product tag attached to the bottom side of the chair's footrest.
No incidents or injuries have been reported.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled chairs and contact American Signature to receive free replacement legs. Consumers may also return the chairs for a store credit equal to the full price of the chair. American Signature is contacting its customers directly.
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An Australian Legend: Tom Wills and a tale of two doctors
This is a story about Tom Wills.
Tom Wills created the game of Australian Rules football and was our first great cricketer. His life, also, was a bridge between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians. He died by suicide.
This is also a story about two doctors. Two doctors who, in very different ways, influenced the life of Tom Wills.
The first is John Macadam, the man who delivered the first-ever lecture at the Melbourne University Medical School; the second is Patrick Moloney, a medical student in that very first lecture.
Tom Wills
Tom Wills was a man consumed by sport.
He was born in New South Wales in the year 1835, on a bleak landscape called Captains Flat near Canberra: the game of Australian Rules football was created by a New South Welshman. Never let a Melburnian tell you otherwise.
As a child le lived for a time in a tent with his mother and father in the Grampians, western Victoria, and befriended the local Djab wurrung Aborigines., Tom was a lone white boy growing up in the midst of black children.
When 14 years old Tom was despatched to Rugby School, England where, amongst the elms and soft fields of Rugby, he learned three things: how to play the school's unique football, the craft of cricket and how to drink beer.
Returning to Melbourne at the end of 1856, Tom was a handsome man. When he paraded on the field, women admired and men envied his figure. Independent and a wanderer, he was soon playing cricket for clubs throughout the colony.
In 1858 he famously wrote to a newspaper proclaiming that these colonies should have a foot-ball club. The following year he sat in a pub and, with three other men, penned the first-known rules of Australian Rules football.
Wills was not content with an empty declaration and set out the key elements needed to start this game. His cousin later recalled:
But when T.W. Wills arrived from England, fresh from Rugby school, full of enthusiasm for all kinds of sport, he suggested that we should make a start with it. He very sensibly advised us… to work out a game of our own.
And so he did.
Dr Macadam
Most readers will, I dare say, claim no knowledge of Dr John Macadam. But everyone has heard of macadamia nuts. Yes, the nut is named after this very Dr Macadam.
A wonderful polymath in an era before specialisation robbed careers of variety, John Macadam was chemist, medical doctor and politician. He was born near Glashow and arrived in Melbourne in 1855. A string of accomplishments decorate his CV: member of the Victorian Parliament, honorary secretary of the Royal Society of Victoria, secretary of the Exploration Committee f the Burke and Wills expedition.
But it is for football that we now recall him. The first publicly recorded Australian football match took place between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar on the rolling paddocks next to the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1858.
Tom Wills was one umpire, John Macadam the other. What qualifications Macadam had for the post, other than being a chemistry master at Scotch College, we don't know.
The game was chaotic:
The ball was frequently in the northwest corner of the park, and was at one time taken by a Grammar School player behind his own goal and right round the other side of the cricket-ground fence. This seemed, however, carrying the thing too far, and, on being appealed to, Mr Thomas Wills, who acted as umpire decided that the ball was out of bounds, and it was accordingly brought back.
Four years later, in 1862, the Melbourne University Medical School opened. Dr Macadam dispensed with his football attire and delivered the first lecture (chemistry) in the new medical school. Sitting in this first ever medical lecture was Patrick Moloney.
Death in Queensland
While Dr Macadam delivered his first lecture to the new medical students, Tom Wills found himself living in the Queensland outback. A handful of months earlier his father had been slaughtered in Queensland, by Aborigines, one of 19 white settlers killed, leaving an indelible stain upon Tom for whom nightmares thereafter dogged his sleep.
Despite his father's murder, in late 1866, Tom Wills undertook to create an Aboriginal cricket team in western Victoria. He brought them to Melbourne playing on the MCG on Boxing Day 1866. Up to 10,000 people lined the streets and ground to watch them play. This team, minus Tom, later toured England as the first Australian cricket team.
Tom's act in creating this team is one of the great moments of healing in Australian history but is sadly unknown by the majority of Australians.
Tom Wills, now drinking heavily, was always desperate for money. He lamented:
'My boots are nearly off my feet & I should feel much obliged if you could forward me £2.'
The Melbourne Hospital and Dr Moloney
In the last decade of his life, his name no longer on centre stage, Tom Wills' life descended into disarray and alcohol abuse.
In early 1880, by now an alcoholic, Tom stopped drinking suddenly, and developing Delirium Tremens (DTs), was admitted under Patrick Moloney to the Melbourne Hospital.
The Melbourne Hospital, the city's oldest, stood like a medieval landmark on Lonsdale Street. Constructed of heavy stone, it was a tall, dark building, brooding over the daily life of Melbourne. Each of its three floors, lined by tall oblong windows like heavy eye sockets, peered out from the stone building onto the street below. It arose, grim, like an asylum.
The poor feared the Melbourne Hospital as a place where one went to die or be subjected to experiments for unproven medical treatments. Wards were a Spartan affair: wooden floors, a simple bedside table with a porcelain bowl and jug for the day's ablutions. Vases of flowers – dim embers of hope – were dotted about to dispel the smell of incipient death.
Inside, the business of medicine was practised. In the centre of an operating theatre lay a table for a patient. The table was draped with a white sheet and on it rested a pillow at one end for the patient's head. Perched over the table, was a set of semi-circular benches ascending like a terrace to the back of the room: rows of medical students were spectators to the craft of 19th century surgery.
James Barrett, still a medical student in 1880, recalled that wounds were largely treated without any regard for antisepsis:
Whilst a student I do not recollect a single abdominal perforating injury or operation would which did not end fatally… Surgeons kept operating coats of which they were proud, as they were a mass of blood stains. Gloves were unknown, and the instruments were often held in the mouth.
Patrick Moloney was Tom Wills' doctor, one of the three students who commenced the inaugural medical course in 1862. As a student, Moloney found the operating theatre a repulsive place, physically overcome by the gruesome procedures, sometimes having to be taken there forcibly.
Moloney was probably the most interesting of all the doctors at the Melbourne Hospital but perhaps not the most assiduous in his craft. 'Gentle and generous' he was one of the first two graduates in 1867 from the new Melbourne University School of Medicine. A poet and non-conformist, Moloney counted Adam Lindsay Gordon and Marcus Clarke among his friends. Many years afterwards, medical students of the day recalled him as 'tall, handsome…with a naughty twinkle in his eye'.
Tom Wills was admitted to Ward 21 under Moloney, and recorded as: 'Patient admitted semi Delirium Tremens state tremulous movements of hands – was rather obstinate – refused to remain in hospital'.
The medical records detail, precisely, the treatment Wills received. Potassium Bromide to induce sleep, digitalis to soothe a violent heart and iron salts to improve nutrition. Moloney was noted as liberal in providing 'medical comforts' such as brandy, wine, whisky and champagne for ailing patients. Tom did not receive such 'comforts'.
Death was not uncommon in DTs: exhaustion and dehydration could drain the mightiest of physiques.
When Tom was admitted his tremulous hands were the most conspicuous sign of the growing potency of his DTs. Quick to startle and quick to misjudge, dishevelled and wide-eyed, it would not be long until he started to mistake shadows as assassins.
Within hours of admission, Wills absconded from hospital. The following day, tormented by delusions and hallucinations, he took his life.
Tom Wills' gravesite in Heidelberg lay untouched for 100 years: a patch of dirt, a raised mound with nothing to indicate the man beneath. In 1980, the Melbourne Cricket Club returned and upon this anonymous rise of soil righted the neglect of a century by erecting a headstone to its most famous son.
This is a reproduction of an article that appeared in CHIRON, the Melbourne Medical School's annual magazine.
The author, Dr Greg de Moore (BSc(Med) 1979, MBBS 1982), is a consultant psychiatrist at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. He discovered the medical notes of Tom Wills at Royal Melbourne Hospital. The resultant biography of Tom Wills was short-listed for the National Biography Award. Greg spoke at the 2010 Sydney Writers' Festival.


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It's been awhile - like 2 months... but I am doing well - thanks for checking!
Just moved to DC and started a new job, moved into a new pad and am trying to start a new life here (with a lot of old friends)... still missing Jack and my life in London though!
I am still trying to catch up with my life here and acclemate to my new settings and schedule - but please shoot me an email if you are so inclined.
All my love,
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19 December 2006
London Pics - Yes, I Am Still A Tourist
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Back in Cali
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28 November 2006
New York, New York!
*Anyone who was at Kristin's birthday - this is a shout-out to her and her show-tunes!
The Golden Boy
The Golden Boy
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So Much More NYC
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Way More NYC
Ice-skating in Midtown
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Atlas and St. Patrick's Church
Old Meets New
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Amelie Impersonation
Okay - so no trolls - but Brian and I thought it would be REALLY fun to take pictures in the old photo booth they have in the back of Bar Pilar. To our dismay, it did not work. To our pleasure, I had my own camera...
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ORLANDO, Fla. - An Orlando pharmacist was arrested Tuesday on charges of accepting hundreds of fake prescriptions to supply pills to local drug dealers, according to agents.
Investigators said Ramesh Pathak worked out of the Cure Aid pharmacy on Lake Underhill Road.
WFTV's Drew Petrimoulx was there when Pathak was hauled to jail.
Investigators said Pathak put thousands of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills on the street.
Investigators said the drug dealers would walk into the Cure Aid pharmacy with fake prescriptions and walk out with power drugs.
"Were you supplying pills to drug dealers? Were you giving pills to drug dealers?" Petrimoulx asked.
Pathak, 33, had nothing to say. Neither did family members hanging around the scene. And after officers left and WFTV went inside the pharmacy, employees wouldn't talk either.
But a 13-month MBI investigation into the Cure Aid pharmacy said a lot about the business where Pathak worked and that he partially owns.
"He's put over 5,000 oxycodone pills on the
street, and those are the ones we can account for. There may be more," said Larry Zwieg, an MBI agent.
Investigators said Pathak knowingly filled fake prescription brought in by local drug dealers and marked up the price to compensate for his participation in the illegal activity.
"It's really sad because I have no idea that something like this was going to happen," said Pathak's
friend, Salamie Khan. "He's a very, very nice guy.
"The state department of health today suspended the pharmacy's license to dispense controlled substances like oxycodone and employees put up a sign telling customers it was closed," said Zwieg.
Pathak faces 22 counts of trafficking in oxycodone. He was booked into the Orange County Jail.
His arrest was part of a larger investigation. Earlier this year agents named Amy Fellinger, Heather Delcher, and Ashley Dye as members of the drug trafficking ring Pathak's accused of supplying.
WFTV was in court March 23 when a judge set Fellinger's bond at a $500,000.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - An Orlando pharmacist was arrested Tuesday on charges of accepting hundreds of fake prescriptions to supply pills to local drug dealers, according to agents.
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Couples prove their love lasts through war and peace, rain or shine
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Often times, we focus on the men and women fighting in the forefront and forget about their loved ones holding down the home front. For 70 years, the USO has encouraged and supported US troops and their families. Saturday, to mark its 70th anniversary and to celebrate military families, the USO held a vow renewal ceremony on the Battleship North Carolina.
Through rain or shine, these couples took a vow to love and cherish each other once before and now again to prove their commitment. But these men and women may know a little more about hardship than the rest of us. Their love has been tested by war and distance.
"I'd say 'I love you, dear. Over.' And she'd be in the States, and she'd say, 'I love you, too, dear. Over,'" recalled Tom Conaty.
Conaty married his wife Dianna in 1962 in the Quantico Marine Corps chapel then left his new bride to serve in Vietnam. The Conatys were one of dozens of couples to renew their vows on the USS North Carolina Saturday.
To celebrate the vital role family support plays in the lives of service men and women and to celebrate its 70th anniversary, the USO put on the vow renewal ceremony, complete with flowers, pictures, cake, bubbly and of course, kisses.
"Rough times, good times and in between, so it's time to renew and start anew," said Mindy Songer, whose husband Aaron served in the Army for four years.
Dick and Judy Erickson took the opportunity to start anew in their 50th year of marriage. They were married on Navy Day, October 27 of 1962, before they had technology to keep them connected.
"Lots of letters, and actually one time, he called me from sea, on a radio, which was surprising because there were no cell phones then," recalled Judy Erickson.
Cell phones are something Jason and Heather Ward are certainly thankful for these days.
"Telephones and computers are a great thing," said Jason Ward. "That's pretty much how we kept in touch."
But both couples know it takes more than technology to make love last.
"Stay together, and just look at the bright side," said the Ericksons. "Try not to think about the bad things. Work at it. It's a work in progress every day. But it gets better every year."
All the couples say they are so thankful for the USO, the recognition of their service and the opportunity to renew their vows in such a special place.
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Brazilian club Sep 11, 2010
Became a regular there. Great music.
On fridays you have live band with nice pagode and samba music and after midnight a dj starts with his great selection of typical Brazilian songs. Relaxed atmosphere,friendly staff,trouble makers are taken care of super quickly.
Yes,it is small but you forget you are in Brussels for a night. They make killer caipirinas!!( 5€ before midnight,7€after)
For girls: Expect to have guys asking you to dance
For guys: Enjoy some proper ass shaking by hot girls
And on Sundays until late afternoon you have a chance to try Brazilian food.
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I'm unsuccessful at getting the sample code from the text book 'Art and Science of Java' to work on my Mac, 10.7, running Stanford's latest version of Eclipse. I can get Stanford's sample code working fine, just not the text book's code, which I found here: ftp://ftp.awl.com/cseng/authors/robe...Source%20Code/ and here The Art and Science of Java
Any help would be appreciated. I'm completely new to Java, OOP, and Eclipse.
I'm trying to get the sample code working, so I can see their Java version of 'hello, world', along with their other intro programs.


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This is just a basic layout of how to build fire. Variations can be made including adding red and yellow blinking lights. Experiment to see what works best. (If you are afraid of starting a real fire, or just plain short on timeÉ you should probably check out a pre-made unit at IndoorCampfire.com) ENJOY!!!
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|Reviews for Direction Of A Fool
| agrader chapter 1 . 12/20/2012
This seems to speak of a deep troubling hurt. Your command of the English language to express it is incredible.
| simpleplan13 chapter 1 . 11/27/2010
The first two stanzas seemed like quite a runon sentence the way you punctuated it. I might split it up into two sentences at least.
I loved the word choices here. They were really interesting and they also set a great tone for the type of person who was narrating this piece. You really got a feel for them as a proper high status individual.
I thought the idea behind the piece was interesting. It definitely made me want to know more about this relationship between the two of them. Why she turned to him for help in the first place for instance. I also liked the ending. The idea of sympathy after someone did something horrible is an interesting one, but I especially like how you linked the sympathy with almost a preachiness, which made it seem less genuinely sympathetic in a way.
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| Random-Idiocity chapter 1 . 11/23/2010
Feels like forever since I last logged into FP. I've been pretty busy so that's why it's taken so long for me to review you. I absolutely loved this. ''I fell into the shadow side of me'' - ''it is obvious that you are struggling in the war of love, but playing a side game of darts with my naive heart''. Those were my favorite lines. Wonderful job. Keep it Up!
| nickyO chapter 1 . 11/19/2010
"Side game of darts with my naive heart as the centre target is truly the direction of a fool" - great line; well thought out sentiment of someone hurt but with dignity intact.
I like the image of the dart game alot, but if I'd use it for a poem to describe what tends to go on in my universe, the thrower would be drunk and probably blindfolded-the point of the dart being that sometimes people just throw things out there not really knowing what they're aiming at until it hits. ;)
| Amandriella Peetrifica chapter 1 . 11/15/2010
WOW! I bet you wrote this in the heat of the moment because it is blossoming with passion-filled emotion! I love this! It really draws you in and almost makes you (well, it made me anyway) able to place myself in your shoes to an extent and feel the same..
I love the hinted play on word-usage.
And loads of the lines are ones that others can identify with as well, so I feel this is going to be one of those timeless works of art that will help many other "naive hearts".. :)
The last line resonates a powerful truth as well: Patience and honesty takes a lot less humiliation... and are two highly powerful qualities that I personally wish more held..
| Melanie Layugan chapter 1 . 11/13/2010
Wow, just jaw-dropping and empowering. Keep it up.
| HeroofEnelios chapter 1 . 11/12/2010
This one is my favorite one so far, especially with the way it is written. Really great job and keep on going!
| lymli chapter 1 . 11/12/2010
I dunno why, but this sounded like a essay to me, I like the patience thing...
| Mirabella chapter 1 . 11/11/2010
Wow, very deep. I love the colour you can create with your wonderful vocabulary and word flow. Also, this poem structure really works for you. :)
| Punslinger chapter 1 . 11/11/2010
This is an impressive relationship poem with strong imagery such as "But never did I envision you eventually attempting to rape my total sanity." But there are also touches of grim humor: "Side game of darts with my heart as the centre target." Overall, heartbreakingly beautiful.
| Kati chapter 1 . 11/11/2010
Anna I really like this one! Very nice! :) it seems to hold a lot of emotion.
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