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Boeing said it delivered 100 commercial aircraft in the third quarter, a significant increase over the 62 delivered in the third quarter of 2005 when production was compromised by a 27-day assembly workers' strike. Deliveries comprised 81 737NGs, three 747s, three 767s and 13 777s. Year-to-date deliveries total 295 compared to 217 in the year-ago period. The vast majority (223) were 737NGs, followed by five 717s (including three under operating lease), 11 747s, nine 767s and 47 777s.
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<name>, two of our spies were sent to steal documents from a ship at the Theramore docks. They gained the papers but were discovered, and were forced to throw the documents into the sea.
One spy later escaped, but was unable to recover the prize. He reported his failure to me, and I now charge the task to you.
The documents are in a footlocker, in the waters somewhere beneath the Theramore docks. Find those documents, <name>, and bring them to me.
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731 Lexington Avenue
|731 Lexington Avenue
|Alternative names
|Bloomberg Tower, One Beacon Court
|General information
|Offices, residential
|731 Lexington Ave, New York City, NY 10022, US
|Construction started
|Vornado Realty Trust
|Antenna spire
|286 m (938 ft)
|246 m (807 ft)
|Technical details
|Floor count
|Floor area
|1,345,489 sq ft (125,000.0 m2)
|Design and construction
|César Pelli & Associates
|Vornado Realty Trust
|Structural engineer
|Thornton Tomasetti
731 Lexington Avenue is a 1,345,489 sq ft (125,000.0 m2) glass skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.[3][4] It houses the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. and as a result, is sometimes referred to informally as Bloomberg Tower. The building also houses retail outlets, restaurants and 105 luxury condominiums. The residences are known as One Beacon Court and are served by a separate entrance.[1] The tower is the 24th tallest building in New York City and the 46th tallest in the United States. It stands at 55 stories tall, reaching 806 ft (246 m).[5][6]
Located at 731 Lexington Avenue, the building occupies the same block where Alexander's department store once stood. It opened in 2004.[1]
Construction and design[edit]
Construction on 731 Lexington Avenue began in 2001, three years after the vacant Alexander's department store was demolished.[1] The building was developed by Vornado Realty Trust and César Pelli & Associates served as the design architect.[2] The building comprises a full city block between Lexington and Third Avenues and 58th and 59th Streets. The complex features two towers constructed above a steel office and retail section, separated by a seven-story atrium.[2] The residences are known as One Beacon Court and are served by a separate entrance.[7] The design of the courtyard at One Beacon Court, which connects 58th and 59th Streets, was inspired by other historic New York enclosures such as Grand Central Terminal, the reading room of the New York Public Library Main Branch, and the skating rink at Rockefeller Center; glass walls curve around the perimeter of the courtyard, tilting slightly inward as they rise.[8]
Bloomberg L.P., seeking to consolidate its operations into one space, negotiated a deal with Vornado Realty Trust to lease 700,000 sq ft (65,000 m2) of office space at the base of the tower, even though One Beacon Court was originally intended to be a residential building. As part of the deal, Bloomberg with STUDIOS Architecture as their design firm, was able to design the office to suit the company's needs, which included space for rows of uniform desks for approximately 4,000 employees and a large central atrium known as the Link that overlooks the courtyard.[9] Paul Goldberger, in the Aug. 6, 2007, issue of New Yorker magazine, lauded the Bloomberg offices as "a newsroom truly designed for the electronic age ... a dazzling work environment tucked inside a refined but conventional skyscraper."[10] By 2011, Bloomberg L.P. added another 200,000 sq ft (19,000 m2) of office space at 731 Lexington Avenue and announced plans to expand to an additional 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m2) in the former Philip Morris building at 120 Park Avenue.[11]
Charlie Rose was formerly produced and taped out of the Bloomberg facility.[12] Bloomberg L.P.'s own Bloomberg Television also has its flagship studio housed there.
Primary retail tenants include the first large national chains to open stores in the neighborhood, namely The Home Depot, H&M and The Container Store.[1] The tower is also home to Sirio Maccioni's Le Cirque restaurant which moved from The New York Palace Hotel in 2006.[13]
As of 2014[update], residential tenants included Beyoncé, former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, and baseball players Johnny Damon and Bobby Abreu. Steven A. Cohen cut the price on his duplex-penthouse from $115 million to $79 million as of June 2015, and a year later (June 2016) to $72 million.[14] Joseph Betesh, co-owner of hip hop clothing outlet, Dr. Jay's, owned an apartment there from 2005 to 2013. VFT Investments, based in London, now owns that condo.[15]
Residents have access to concierge service by the London-based Quintessentially, as well as use of the Beacon Club, the 29th-floor amenity space that includes fitness center, entertainment suite, children's playroom and business center. Other amenities include 24-hour doorman, garage and valet parking.[16]
See also[edit]
- List of tallest buildings in New York City
- List of tallest buildings in the United States
- List of tallest buildings in the world
- ^ a b c d e Gregor, Alison (24 May 2006). "A Tower Goes Up, and a Neighborhood Perks Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ a b c "Top Projects Completed 2003–2004". McGraw Hill Construction. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ vnony.com:731 Lexington Avenue
- ^ NYTimes:To Find 1 Beacon Court, Better Ask for Bloomberg
- ^ Nash, Eric Peter., and Norman McGrath. Manhattan Skyscrapers. New York: Princeton Architectural, 2005. Print.
- ^ Barbanel, Josh (3 April 2009). "Luxe but Logy". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ "731 Lexington". TheSquareFoot. TheSquareFoot. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ Davidson, Justin (22 March 2005). "Where the sky is no limit". Newsday. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
The tower itself has a more regular rhythm, the beat of each story accented by a floor-level white metal band that sticks out all the way around. At the 30th floor, where the tower turns residential and the ceiling heights shrink, the bands come closer together, as if the drummer had picked up the pace, accelerating into the diffuse white glow of the crown.
- ^ Gregor, Alison (23 April 2006). "SQUARE FEET: INTERVIEW -- WITH BARRY M. GOSIN; Trained in Manhattan, Graduating to the World". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ Goldberger, Paul (6 August 2007). "Towers of Babble". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ Bagli, Charles V. (9 February 2011). "Growing Bloomberg L.P. To Rent Half of a Tower". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
- ^ http://www.charlierose.com/about Charlie Rose|About
- ^ Bruni, Frank (6 February 2008). "In Defense of Decadence". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Steven Cohen Hacks Another $3M Off Penthouse, Now $79M". June 29, 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ Maurer, Mark (25 October 2013). "Dr. Jay's owner sells One Beacon Court pad for $5.5M". The Real Deal.
- ^ "One Beacon Court". CityRealty.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bloomberg Tower.
- Article about Bloomberg Tower in The New York Times
- Bloomberg Tower at Wirednewyork.com
- Bloomberg Tower at Emporis
- Bloomberg Tower street view from Google Maps
- Skyscraper office buildings in Manhattan
- Buildings and structures completed in 2005
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That is great, Renee! Congratulations on the great success of your family's first reunion! It is so special that it turned out great because that excitement will generate over into the next reunion. Much success to you all in the planning of the next one. Keep this going...it's a wonderful and needed tradition.
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Four faculty members in the SFUAD Creative Writing & Literature Department will publish books in 2016.
Matt Donovan – "A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Essays on Ruin and Redemption" (Trinity University Press, March 2016)
The nonfiction book is a collection of essays, many of which were written during Donovan's year as a 2012 Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. Each year, the Rome Prize, as it is known, is awarded to approximately 30 artists and scholars from around the world who represent the highest standard of excellence.
James Reich – "Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness" (Anti-Oedipus Press, March 2016)
A prelude to "Heart of Darkness," "Mistah Kurtz!" discloses the contents of the papers Kurtz entrusts to Marlow and the end of Joseph Conrad's canonical novella. Malcolm McNeill, author of "Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook, and Me," has said of Reich's upcoming novel: "A phenomenon, a tour de force; James Reich has written a masterpiece."
Julia Goldberg – "Inside Story: Everyone's Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction" (Leaf Storm Press, Summer 2016)
According to publisher Leaf Storm Press, "'Inside Story' tackles the myriad approaches to the burgeoning genre of creative nonfiction—from memoir to criticism to literary journalism—by deeply exploring each stage of the generation, reportage, writing and editing of stories. Drawing on and integrating examples and advice from diverse practitioners in the field, 'Inside Story' extends beyond idea and inspiration with practical advice, examples and exercises geared toward everyone from writing students, citizen journalists, bloggers and working writers."
Anne Valente – "Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down" (William Morrow/Harper Collins, Fall 2016)
The novel follows four yearbook staff members in the wake of a mass high school shooting as they try to piece together a record of what happened, and as a series of mysterious house fires begins to erupt in the community.
As the newest faculty in the Creative Writing & Literature Department, Valente, will give a reading of some of her new short stories on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. in O'Shaughnessy Performance Space (Benildus Hall).


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Three quarters of women in the UK have experienced violence or harassment in cities, new research has suggested.
A YouGov poll of 2,518 women, commissioned by the charity ActionAid, found that 75% of women had been subject to violence in urban areas.
The researchers found that 23% of UK women had been groped in public, and a third (36%) felt at risk when travelling on public transport.
Three in seven women (43%) said they felt at risk of harassment on city streets.
The proportion of women in other parts of the world who had experienced urban violence was even higher.
In Thailand and Brazil, 86% of women said they had been subjected to harassment or violence in public.
The poll was commissioned to mark the launch of the charity's International Safe Cities for Women Day which takes place on May 20.
Sarah Carson, ActionAid's women's rights campaign manager, said the research highlighted a "global epidemic".
"Every day women around the world face groping, unwanted touching and many other forms of harassment on the streets of their cities.
"But behind every statistic, are real women. Women who have been raped in their homes in the slums of Delhi, women in Brazil who fear the drug traffickers who dominate and control their neighbourhoods, and garment workers in Cambodia and Thailand who are abused and harassed in and around their workplace.
"It is appalling and unacceptable that this is happening in cities around the world."
The charity is campaigning for the Government to increase the proportion of aid going to women's groups working on the frontline in poor communities.
ActionAid are asking for £70 million over the next three years to be committed to the existing aid budget so that "no matter who she is or where she lives, no woman has to live in fear of violence or harassment in her city".


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If women's fashion moves at the speed of light, menswear has a more languid pace. For the top men's designers, each season doesn't bring massive sea changes. Instead, it's subtle tweaks here and there and big shifts can take years to make their way into the average guy's wardrobe.
It was certainly that way with skinny jeans. Initially the subject of ridicule, slimmer pants evolved to become the norm in men's style. They still receive plenty of ignorant hate, but if you were to ask a version of Ronald Reagan's famous question, "Are your pants slimmer than they were four years ago?" for most men, the answer would be "yes."
Slim pants create a sleeker, more streamlined silhouette that allows the clothes to more closely mirror the body's actual form. And if they are cut properly, guys have found that it's possible to wear skinny pants without having to sacrifice any range of movement. The proportions of the pants also compliment the slimmer tops men have been wearing.
Of course, it wouldn't be fashion if the pendulum didn't swing at the same moment that one trend started achieving mainstream acceptance. Lululemon came out with a roomier pair of pants that had what it called Anti-Ball Crushing technology and they quickly sold out. Then there was a study that linked skinny jeans to nerve damage. Now there is evidence that the top menswear designers are embracing the roominess and moving towards baggier pants as well.
The inaugural New York Fashion Week: Men's took place last week in lower Manhattan with designers showing their Spring 2016 collections and wide-legged pants appeared in a number of different runway shows and presentations. It certainly wasn't an across-the-board paradigm shift. Labels like Ovadia & Sons, Polo Ralph Lauren and Michael Bastian all stuck with the trimmer cut for the pants they sent down the runway. But it was impossible to overlook all of the baggier pants that called to mind everything from mid-1990s raver style to the trousers worn by fashionable Oxford students in the 1920s.
Here is how five designers interpreted the new wider-leg pants:
No one went baggier than Duckie Brown. The label from Steven Cox and Daniel Silver dressed models in pants with a 48-inch waist (seriously!) and then cinched it with a long ribbon to keep them from falling down. It was certainly on the extreme side of the spectrum and, as such, attracted plenty of attention, but it's tough to imagine this look catching on in a big way.
Alabama native Billy Reid has always maintained a Southern charm to his clothes that is refined without being fussy in the way that only a true Southern gentleman can pull off. So it was interesting to see how looser pants fits filtered through the Billy Reid Americana lens. What it ended up looking like was comfortable and not a bit sloppy. The pants had a breezy quality whose appeal is easy to see when you come from the South where scorching temperatures are a way of life.
Chai channeled the '90s New York City vibe of his youth for his spring collection, although some of the trenchcoat-over-loose-pants looks also recall Lloyd Dobler in 1989's Say Anything. Either way, it's interesting to see that skateboarding-street aesthetic from two decades ago make a return.
Like Billy Reid, Todd Snyder is another quintessential American designer, offering up his interpretation of timeless classics as opposed to chasing trends. For his spring '16 show, Snyder was inspired by the Italian island of Capri, where men have been making baggier pants look stylish for decades. The result was an excellent blend of two of the world's style capitals.
Geller sent a few different pant silhouettes down the runway showing that it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing battle between skinny and baggy bottoms. The looser styles had a billowy flow that conveyed a sense of motion and looked really comfortable. It's really easy to imagine guys gravitating toward pants like these.
Justin Tejada is a writer and editor based in New York City. Follow him on Twitter at @just_tejada.


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I don't believe the cause of the problem lays with Sarah Palin in the Arizona shooting. She is being used as a scapegoat.
A young man with a gun in his hand may have pulled the trigger, but isn't he also a victim of all the unrest and disruptive ways of our political scene in our nation's capital.
I hear you folks repeat, over and over, "It's what the American people want."
I don't believe you folks have any idea who we are and what our needs are.
If you quit back-biting, nit-picking and backstabbing each other to get your way, we may have a chance.
A man in jeans, work shirt and muddy boots could do a better job. Take off your ties, loosen your top button and get some air into your brain, then you are ready to work.
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Calgary interviews key component to combineby Aaron Vickers / Calgary Flames
CALGARY, AB -- Before select members of the 2013 NHL Draft had the chance to be put through the paces in the physical component of the NHL Scouting Combine, the Calgary Flames and 29 other teams had the chance to drain them mentally.
John Weisbrod and the Flames took full advantage of the opportunity.
"That's something we've really expanded," said before the combine. "This year, for example we're going to interview a whole bunch more guys at the combine in Toronto than we ever have before. I put a lot of value in that sitting and looking in a guy's eyes and asking him questions."
Quickly becoming an integral part of scouting, the interviews gave Calgary the opportunity to dig deeper into the prospects they've been watching all season.
And that information can be invaluable, according to Tod Button, Calgary's director of amateur scouting.
"The interview process can tip you off to a lot of different things," he said. "It can send you on a different direction that you never thought of as far as information gathering. It gives information about a player you didn't know about. It gives you a lot of information about the player you're trying to investigate. It's a very deep process. It's not one question or two questions you ask. You go into a lot of different tangents and you follow a lot of different leads, so to speak, from what you get from that information."
It's what happens after the brief meeting that's equally as important.
"Basically the interview process at the combine, all that does is put you on a path to dig deeper on certain areas," Button said. "You only get 15 minutes with the kid and I don't think anybody can really get a good feel deep down inside of what a kid's made of in 15 minutes. The overall interview process, very important. The combine interview process is just a starter to get a bigger, broader base of the kid."
That's not to say Weisbrod, Button and the rest of Calgary's executive staff are trying to unearth psychological philosophies in the half of a half-hour with each prospect.
In fact, it's quite the opposite, according to Button.
"We're not trying to get into the kid's head. We're aware that the kids are well prepared," he said. "It's more of a give-and-take with us. We want to make the kid comfortable."
With an increasing importance on appearances and answers at the combine, it's becoming increasingly difficult to break down the wall between a perceived 'right' answer and an honest, heartfelt response.
With prepared, rehearsed and canned answers, the job of interviewing can become a difficult task.
"It affects it in a negative way," Weisbrod said. "You know pretty quickly when you're sitting with someone that's reciting his lines versus someone that's just 'what do you want to know' and real nature and real open and obviously you have to take that into account when you evaluate what's happened in the room."
But once the kids are comfortable, it becomes easier for teams to familiarize themselves with the player across the table.
"Once the kids are loosened up, they're very good at telling you how they really feel," Button said.
And that's when the information starts to flow.
"There's a lot of information you can gather about the kid, his intangibles, how he sees the game, how he sees himself and how he presents himself to you," Button said. "The bottom line in any interview process is the players are looking to put their best foot forward. It's a job interview for them."
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Threadflip is a 1.5-year-old fashion and accessories marketplace that lets loyal users sell and buy previously worn, high-quality duds. At a recent housewarming for its new Dogpatch headquarters, we couldn't help noticing all the stylish employees—and even got a secret tour of their hidden white glove "closet" (read: warehouse). But what really caught our eye was the slideshow of special-to-San-Francisco editorial photoshoots showing on one of the HQ's lofty walls (see some recent images, above).
They told us that the editorial approach to showing the site's wares began with small employee gatherings during which they'd photograph friends in items they wanted to sell on Threadflip. Soon it became obvious that the images could be used for more than just an attractive listing.
Every look is styled with clothing, shoes and accessories from the White Glove Service (the high-end inventory sent by Threadflip sellers to photograph and list on their behalf), which means, at some point, it was available on the site. Most of the images are photographed by Martine Pinnel and Bailey Harada Stone, who both attended the Academy of Art, with local models (and sometimes friends of Threadflip), and they all feature San Francisco-area hot spots.
And, unlike that Chanel blazer, the photos aren't going anywhere.
The well-attired folks at Threadflip told us that they plan to increase the frequency of the shoots to a couple times a month with "mini shoots" that reflect a trend or concept of the week.
Browse some of the photos above, and let us know: Which San Francisco landmark through the eyes of Threadflip is your favorite?


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Syndicated columnist Robert Novaks commentary on Palestinian Christians and the West Bank village of Aboud was an egregious example of revisionism. It featured false premises relying on repeated errors. The column appeared February 16 in his home newspaper, in the Chicago Sun-Times under the headline Historic Christian towns losing ground in Holy Land and in the Washington Post as Christian Victims of Israels Wall, among other publications.
Five major errors are listed below, followed by facts of the matter. Those facts regarding the security barrier were supplied by Israeli Ministry of Defense officials responsible for the barrier, via the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.
1) Novak alleges that Israeli policy promises further reduction in [Christian Arabs] 1.7 percent share of Israels population. Israels Christian Arabs comprise 2.1 percent of the countrys 2005 population of 6.9 million. Their numbers have grown by at least 270 percent since Israels founding. (This figure includes Syrian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Coptic, and Ethiopian Christians, but not Christian immigrants from the former Soviet Union.) Israel is the only place in the Middle East, including the area under jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, in which the Christian Arab population has not been declining for decades.
Novak may confuse statistics for Israel and the PA. Prof. Justus Reid Weiner notes in Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society, published by The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the Christian population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has plunged [from about 20 percent after World War II] to less than 1.7 percent now. Weiner suggests that the beleaguered plight of Christian Arabs remaining in the PA is attributable in part to the adoption of Muslim religious law in the constitution of the Palestinian Authority. Further note the February 23 Jerusalem Post Magazine article, Christians Under Cover.
2) Novak claims that the village of Abouds residents are being deprived of their water supply by the new [security barrier] construction and the new barrier will ... take over the aquifer that supplies one-fifth of the West Banks water supply. Israeli officials responsible for the barriers route say it does not affect Abouds water supply. They note that if a well is on the western (Israeli) side of the fence, its their obligation to supply the village, installing new water lines if necessary to ensure continuing access. A local reservoir, built by the Israeli Water Authority for both nearby Jewish settlements and Aboud, should have been encompassed by the barrier for security reasons, but was left outside (on the eastern side) to lessen the impact on Aboud. As for the underground aquifer in the Samarian Mountains, it is not relevant to the barriers route. Israel and the PA have a continuing agreement regarding water, sewage, contamination and related matters that has been adhered to meticulously even during the Al Aqsa intifada. The barrier does not reduce supplies available to either side.
3) Novak charges that the new barrier will confiscate 39 percent of the villages olive fields. Israeli officials say they know of no basis for that figure. According to one, olive trees on the western, or Israeli side were replanted on the Palestinian side. Other officials noted that the barriers route will affect four small areas of Abouds farmland — and in those cases a one-time compensation payment will be made, plus annual usage fees. The land is not being expropriated but used temporarily, so long as the security barrier is needed to protect Israelis from Palestinian terrorism. Access will be provided through agricultural gates to land west of the barrier or through the Ofarim crossing 24 hours a day.
4) The columnist alleges that twelve kilometers of the barrier will be built on Abouds land, and the villages of Al-Lubban and Rantis also will lose more territory. Israel officials note that Aboud residents have not petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court regarding the barrier, perhaps because the land in question is not private property but state land, as it was under Jordanian, British and Turkish rule. No private property was or is being taken from Aboud. Neitherwill Al-Lubban or Rantis lose more territory. And twelve kilometers [approximately seven miles] of the barrier could not be built on Abouds land in any case — the small village does not extend that far.
5) Novak claims that the Israeli settlements of Beit Arye and Ofarim were built on land taken from residents of Aboud. Beit Arye and Ofarim were constructed on state land years before the security barrier. Residents of the now-merged Beit Arye-Ofarim, not Aboud, have petition the Israeli High Court of Justice about the barrier — they claim that the route, intended to minimize the impact on Aboud, leaves the fence too close to their homes.
False premises
The allegation that Israeli policy has contributed to heavy migration of Christian Arabs amounts to unfounded historical revisionism. Evidence to the contrary includes:
A) Islamic mafia accused of persecuting Holy Land Christians, in Londons Daily Telegraph, Sept. 9, 2005. It reports that Christians in the Holy Land have handed a dossier detailing incidents of violence and intimidation by Muslim extremists to Church leaders in Jerusalem .... The dossier includes 93 alleged incidents of abuse by an Islamic fundamentalist mafia against Palestinian Christians, who accused the Palestinian Authority of doing nothing to stop the attacks. The dossier also includes a list of 140 cases of apparent land theft, in which Christians in the West Bank were allegedly forced off their land by gangs backed by corrupt judicial officials.
B) A Dec. 23, 2003 United Press International feature stating that year after year, bishops of the 15 Christian denominations in the Holy Land plead with their flocks not to go away. But they do move. Two generations ago, 15 percent of the Palestinians were Christians, chiefly Greek Orthodox. Now their share has dwindled down to two percent [no more than 50,000] .... By contrast, 200,000 Palestinian Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants have moved to the Americas, Australia, Europe or other Middle Eastern countries ....
C) Novak notes heightened concern about Palestinian Christians since the January 25 election victory of Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement). But the problem pre-dates Hamas legislative win. The Israel Defense Forces reported on Dec. 26, 2002 that documents captured during operation Defensive Shield reveal that in the last couple of years the residents of Bethlehem, especially members of the Christian faith, have had to suffer with violence directed against them by the armed militias, bandits, and thugs, with members of Fatah taking an active role.
D) Under Jordanian occupation of the West Bank, the number of Christians in Jerusalem declined from 25,000 in 1949 to less than 13,000 in 1967.
E) Muslim abrasion of Christian populations is a centuries-old process, as documented in The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam, by Bat Yeor, 1996, Associated Universities Press.
Opinion columns not based on facts are misleading. Novaks February 16 column on Christian Arabs and the village of Aboud was misleading at best, anti-Israel propaganda at worst.


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In record time, tagging a startup as "Uber for X" has gone from big-money venture-capital pitch to tired old joke. Everyone wants to write an app that disrupts some big industry. How many people are succeeding?
Not many, argues The New York Times' tech columnist Farhad Manjoo. Parking, grocery shopping and take-away are just a few of the many industries that have been pitched as ripe for disruption, offering consumers better service at lower cost. And that pitch actually seemed to make sense, when services were still in the first flush phase of their venture capital infusions, and offering their product at a loss in order to build a labour force and customer share.
Now, however, they look a lot more like high-end services for affluent consumers willing to pay a premium for convenience. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. If high-end consumers are willing to pay someone to bring them stuff, and that someone is happy earning the money, then this is great news for the economy. On the other hand, letting the highest-income consumers pay someone to pick out their groceries, rather than picking them out themselves, is not exactly a revolutionary disruption of the grocery industry. It's a moderately convenient service delivered at a premium cost.
Why don't these businesses look more like Uber, which has simultaneously increased the availability and convenience of taxi services, while lowering the cost? Manjoo suggests that it's because Uber was disrupting a taxi cartel that was able to extract significant economic rents from customers, made possible by heavy protection from local regulators.
Groceries, parking and take-away, on the other hand, are more like normal competitive industries. Sure, an app might streamline things a bit, adding enough value to let businesses expand their reach or lower their prices a bit. But since the app itself has to take a cut in order to pay back those investors, there actually isn't much room to deliver massive savings.
Niggling doubt
This explanation makes sense to me. But a niggling doubt remains at the back of my mind: Does even Uber live up to the hype of being "Uber for X"?
I've been writing about Uber since close to its inception, and I'm a big fan of the service. Its original incarnation as a method of summoning black cars was revolutionary for those of us who live in suburbs without reliable taxi service or a clear and safe route from the train station at night. (This no longer describes my neighbourhood, actually, since there's been considerable residential development over the last few years. But at the time Uber launched, my nearest subway stop was in the middle of a sea of office buildings that tended to be deserted after 7 pm).
But in the years since its launch, Uber has focused on making taxi service not merely more easily available, but also cheaper. UberX is consistently cheaper and more reliable than a Washington, DC taxi, and that's pretty much what I hear from people in every other city where Uber operates, with the lone exception of London.
Part of this success is undoubtedly because local taxi cartels had a lot of inefficiency built into them. The value of a New York taxi medallion has cratered since the arrival of Uber, and that represents economic rents that were being transferred from drivers and customers to the medallion owners. Since those medallions previously sold for upwards of a million US dollars, there's room for Uber to take a healthy portion of those rents while still offering drivers and passengers a better deal.
But the more I talk to Uber drivers, and read the message boards, the more I wonder if we aren't in a bit of a golden moment for Uber -- the moment while there's still a lot of investment money to subsidise operations, and before drivers realise that wear and tear on their cars is actually an enormous hidden cost that needs to be accounted for in calculating their hourly earnings.
I say this because I've started to hear drivers talk about people they know who dropped out because of the wear and tear on their cars -- something that I never heard a couple of years back, even though I often asked about it. (Yes, in the height of all journalistic clichés, I usually interview drivers.) It also shows up on bulletin boards like Glassdoor.com. The volume of complaints about wear and tear on the cars seems to be rising, often coupled with complaints about the fare and reimbursement cuts that Uber has pushed as it tried to break even.
Sustainable strategy?
This is obviously far from scientific data, but it makes a certain amount of sense. Most people are not accountants or small business owners, and it doesn't necessarily occur to them that they need to calculate their hourly wage for Uber driving net of tyres, oil changes and depreciation on their vehicle, as well as petrol and any costs they incur for having the car cleaned after some barhopper vomits in it. That may have enabled Uber to sign up people who were willing to drive for a lower price than they would if they were fully factoring in all their expected costs.
But that's a strategy that doesn't last. The reason that I have been asking Uber drivers about it for so long is that, well, like I said, I usually interview drivers about their jobs. And taxi drivers, longtime professionals, are acutely conscious of the cost of replacing their tyres, their oil and their vehicle. Which they need to do a lot more frequently than normal commuters.
I'm not accusing Uber of bad faith here; I'm just saying that over the past few years, the company has probably benefited from a pricing anomaly in the market for drivers. (Not to mention a recession that kept a lot of potential drivers un- or underemployed.) As information about the cost of vehicle maintenance spreads, that pricing anomaly will go away. At which point, it seems quite likely to me that either the pool of drivers will shrink, or the fares will have to rise toward something closer to what we pay for taxis.
That's not the death knell for Uber, of course. It provided a valuable service even when it was just a virtual dispatch for black cars. UberX also adds real value to the market, although I think perhaps not quite as much value as passengers and drivers currently perceive. And they've continued to innovate, with ride-pooling, and things like take-away delivery services. I would be very surprised if the company were not around, and quite profitable, in 10 years.
But I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that I'm not taking quite so many Ubers, as the prices rise to bring passenger demand into equilibrium with a willing and informed supply of drivers. The taxi industry will stay disrupted. But the resulting transformation may not exactly be a revolution.
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Brazil vs. Croatia: Film Focus as Oscar Calms World Cup Opener NervesJune 12, 2014
The 2014 FIFA World Cup kicked off with a bang on Thursday evening, with Brazil defeating Group A rivals Croatia 3-1 in an enthralling matchup.
Marcelo's own goal got the hosts off to an awful start, but Neymar's scuffed effort brought them level before half-time. Neymar converted a penalty to allow the Selecao take the lead, then Oscar capped a magnificent display by poking a late effort into the bottom corner.
Formations & XIs
Brazil used their usual 4-2-3-1, with the exact same XI that started the 2013 Confederations Cup final. Luiz Gustavo held off the challenge of Fernandinho midfield and Neymar started as a No. 10.
Croatia crammed three exceptional playmakers into their formation, playing Luka Modric, Ivan Rakitic and Mateo Kovacic from the start. Dejan Lovren started and Sime Vrsalkjo played out of position at left-back.
Stunted Brazil, Direct Croatia
Right from the off, Brazil looked...off.
Hulk started on the left and Oscar on the right, belying Luiz Felipe Scolari's year-long tradition of playing the former on the right (to stretch the pitch) and the latter centrally (to attract markers).
It wasn't working, and with Croatia bagging an early, excellent goal, crowd pressure grew immeasurably as the Selecao "template" failed to come to fruition.
Neymar, playing as a No. 10, was swamped out by the studious Ivan Rakitic and Luka Modric. They shackled him easily and stopped him from receiving balls to feet. That isolated Fred in turn and stumped the attack.
The Vatreni, on the other hand, were flying from the first minute. Ivica Olic burst forward inside the first minute and broke a challenge, worrying the defence, and on the third wide attack they scored.
Line of Engagement
There were a plethora of errors in the buildup to the Croatia goal, but the major culprit—the man who put his teammates in a real hole—was Paulinho.
He's caught face-on high up the pitch and knows Ivan Rakitic has a runner (Olic) outside and a man free (Mateo Kovacic) to pass to. The last thing he should do is dive in and "force" the action from the ball-player, but that's what he does and he takes himself out of the game.
It was very Kieran Gibbs-y against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League last season, and it's an example of how naive defending can kill you on the flanks.
There were other problems—Thiago Silva was slow to come out, David Luiz allowed his man across him and Marcelo scored an own goal—but it starts with Paulinho in the Croatia half.
Brazil eventually snapped out of it, but it wasn't a systematic change that sparked the recovery.
Yes, Hulk switched over to the right in the 36th minute, but it was individual effort and determination that allowed the Selecao to claw their way back into the game.
When a 4-2-3-1 meets a 4-2-3-1, as loosely happened in Sao Paulo on Thursday, midfields are matched man for man and it can be tough to find space. It takes an individual to beat a challenge to open it up, and that began happening as time ticked on.
First, a driving Paulinho broke into the box and split the centre-backs, then Neymar danced around Rakitic and hit the byline for a cross. Eventually it was the excellent Oscar who did the damage, battling for a 50/50 in midfield, laying it off to Neymar and letting the 50-cap wonder do the rest.
Oscar, throughout, tried his hardest to make things happen and change the flow; he delivered the pass for the penalty allowing Neymar to score his second and crossed again later when Luiz fluffed his lines for a third.
Croatia pushed forward after going down, opening the distance between their midfield and defensive lines in order to allow more players to attack.
Ante Rebic was also brought on to run at players, and Scolari matched the strategy by introducing Hernanes and Bernard.
The openness of the final 15 minutes was astounding, with space in the midfield allowing players to travel with the ball and take each other on one vs. one. Far from your cagey, careful opener, this one had all the late-game verve of a must-win fixture.
Just when it seemed as though Croatia could sneak a late equaliser under immense pressure, Oscar charged down the the other end and punted an 18-yard effort into the corner to seal it.
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WASHINGTON: Ilya Kovalchuk scored the tiebreaking goal on a 5-on-3 power play with about 8 1/2 minutes left to complete the New Jersey Devils' 3-2 comeback victory over the Washington Capitals on Thursday night.
Washington led 2-1 entering the third period on power-play goals by Mathieu Perrault and Mike Ribeiro.
Andrei Loktionov made it 2-all midway through the last period, and Kovalchuk put New Jersey ahead for the first time off Patrik Elias' assist. Elias had scored a short-handed goal in the second period.
PANTHERS 5 FLYERS 2: At Philadelphia, Jonathan Huberdeau and Peter Mueller each had two goals to help Florida snap a five-game losing streak with a victory over Philadelphia.
Tomas Kopecky also scored for Florida, which was 0-2-3 since a 3-2 shootout victory in Philadelphia on Feb. 7.
BRUINS 4 LIGHTNING 2: At Tampa, Floriada, Nathan Horton scored two goals, and Boston beat Tampa Bay.
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SENATORS 3 RANGERS 2 SO: At Ottawa, Kaspars Daugavins scored in the seventh round of the shootout and backup goalie Ben Bishop earned the victory in relief of injured starter Craig Anderson as Ottawa beat the New York Rangers.
BLUE JACKETS 3 RED WINGS 2: At Detroit, Vinny Prospal scored with 24.7 seconds left, capping a comeback that lifted Columbus over Detroit.
Damien Brunner and Valtteri Filppula scored in the first 2-plus minutes of the game to put the Red Wings ahead by two, a cushion they wasted for a third time during their five-game losing streak.
MAPLE LEAFS 3 SABRES 1: At Toronto, James van Riemsdyk scored two goals to lead Toronto past Buffalo, spoiling the NHL head coaching debut of the Sabres' Ron Rolston.
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A Blue Plate Special: Peach Blueberry Crisp
Serves 6 to 8
There is something about the phrase, "Blue Plate Special," that makes one's blood pump faster. All-American, hearty, ample, satisfying, unpretentious, classic, comfort food. A promise that you won't leave hungry.
But first, a little gift/giveaway from the publisher! For this entire month, you can download your copy of The Mom 100 Cookbook Sampler for free! If there's no such thing as a free lunch, this might come close. The Mom 100 is Workman's "Blue Plate Special" for August, meaning that no matter what device you have, you can get the e-version of the 10-recipe sampler for a big honking $0. And there's even a video. Not a whole lot of risk there; I'd say you should go for it.
Now, back to the whole blue plate thought. I love eating at nice restaurants, trying new things, and being dazzled by the fancy footwork of amazing chefs. So do most people. But when it comes down to it, what we all want at the end of the day, most days, is a plate of something we can identify, that is delicious, and comforting. And if we are feeling indulgent, we might just follow that up with a blue plate special dessert, too, like this Peach Blueberry Crisp.
A Blue Plate Special: Peach Blueberry CrispPrint
Crumb Topping
- ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cups old-fashioned oats
- ¾ cups brown sugar
- ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoons Kosher salt
- ½ cups (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- ¼ cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 8 ripe peaches
- 2 cups cups blueberries
To Serve
- Vanilla ice cream or sweetened whipped cream
Step One. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Butter an 8- or 9-inch square baking pan.
Step Two. To make the crumb topping, in a medium mixing bowl, mix together the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Add the butter, and using your fingers, rub the mixture together until the butter is distributed into the dry ingredients, and the whole thing has a consistently bumpy, crumbly texture. Set aside.
Step Three. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Drop the peaches in the water, a few at a time, and lift them out with a slotted spoon after 15 seconds. Slip off the skins, and slice them into medium-thick slices.
Step Four. To prepare the fruit, in another medium-sized mixing bowl, combine the sugar and flour. Add the peaches and the blueberries, and toss to coat the peaches and berries. Transfer to the baking pan, and evenly distribute the crumbled topping over the top. Bake for about 45 to 50 minutes, until the fruit is bubbling around the edges and the topping is nicely browned.
Step Five. Serve with ice cream or sweetened whipped cream.
Cooking Tip #1
Make a triple batch of this crumb topping, use one third on this crisp, then keep the rest in a plastic container or zipper top bag in the fridge. It can top any kind of fruit, instantly transforming it into a blue plate dessert, and so next time you pick up some nectarines, or pears, or berries at the market, you are at least halfway there to turning them into another couple of crisps.
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The war was long and bloody. People died every single day, lost souls, they�re called. But I know that more than the dead are lost. The dead are the lucky; they no longer have to suffer. Perhaps, I could be called bitter. It wouldn�t bother me; I�ve been called worse many a time. Maybe I should be called stupid for thinking the war could have been anything but long and deadly. But I�ve been called worse than foolish as well.
I wish the war had been enough to take my life as well, because I�m no longer in a position to even choose to die: the Azkaban guards are trained not to kill us, for here, death would only be merciful, and we few who remain are not worthy of mercy.
Even here, however, surrounded by others who wore the Mark, I am thought of as the lowest of the low. I was pulled to this side only weeks before the war met its own end; before the precious Harry Potter had finally slain the beast. Oh yes, the Boy-Who- Wouldn�t � Die was enough to end this war, but he wasn�t enough to save her.
Ginny Weasley, sweet innocent thing that she was, was fool enough to think she could save me from myself. With her guidance, and the occasional well placed hex, I was swayed to fight for the Order. Not for noble reasons of course, I just wanted more time to be around her; and frankly was tired of taking orders from my father; it hadn�t gotten me anywhere thus far. I couldn�t have cared less who won the war so long as that fiery redheaded pixie stayed alive and stayed with me.
That�s probably why she had to die, of course. You see, I don�t get to have good things in my life, not really. My mother, God rest her, was the first to teach me that when the Dark Lord killed her for my failure to kill Dumbledore. �A life for a life,� he said.
I understand that Ginny�s death should have moved me to vengeance, should have spurred me on my course to end the war, but all it did was drive me to madness. I blamed Potter for her death, because he was the only one with her when she died; he was the bastard who came to tell me, �I�m sorry, Malfoy, there was nothing I could do,� as he handed me something that could have only come from her.
It was a ring, a promise ring made of intricately woven silver daisies. The detail in the tiny thing had been beautiful when I had found it, but even more so when I slipped it on her finger. She had said yes, had agreed to marry me once the war had ended, and had begun to fill my head with stories of a small house and children.
�Just think, Draco!� she�d said laughing as I kissed her forehead. �We�ll find a little cottage somewhere, and we won�t leave it for a week after we�re married. And eventually, we�ll have beautiful babies. Oh, I hope they�ll have your eyes.� I nodded, going along with everything she said, almost too happy to believe that any of this could be real. We spent the rest of that day together, laughing, pretending, if only for that short time, that there wasn�t a war to get back to; that we weren�t both potentially hours away from death.
And of course, it was too good to be real, or at least to be real for long. Those same stories have become my nightmares, haunting me even in my waking hours. I know that if she were alive, she�d be ashamed of what I�ve done. When Potter handed me the ring, I did the only thing I could, I shoved him to the ground, and I ran. I didn�t stop as I ran though the battle field, wishing for a stray curse to hit me and end what was now a worthless life; I didn�t stop until someone made me.
I awoke what must have been hours later, my head in the lap of my aunt, her hands stroking my face. �Hush now, Draco,� she cooed. �Hush now, you�re home.� I had never expected to be accepted back into the ranks of the Death Eaters, but I was. My head was filled with the promise of revenge. I would make Harry Potter pay dearly for losing her. But even that revenge was denied to me. It was Potter who caught me, of course, his eyes disbelieving as he pulled the mask from my face, but that didn�t stop him from stunning me and knocking me unconscious.
As my vision faded to black I swore I could hear her voice crying my name. I thought then that I was dying, that Potter had finally done something right. Or at least I hoped I was dying and that it was her voice, however reluctantly, welcoming me into the afterlife. When I awoke in my cell, the cold was the first thing that hit me. In the dark, I shivered for what seemed like hours before finally regaining feeling in my hands. When I began to feel the aching throb throughout my body, I knew that the death I had hoped for had never come; I knew it had all been a lie. If it was her voice I had heard, it was her ghost, disappointed that I had let all the good she had given me die with her.
Perhaps it�s better that she gone now, and I pray that she doesn�t watch me from above, because I know she�d be ashamed of what she would see. I won�t even delude myself with the thought that I�ll see her again; I�m not worthy of whatever afterlife she inhabits.
The only thing left for me, is to wish for a slow and painful death, one to wash away the sins and blood on my hands. But I already know they will never be clean again.
The wind screamed and moaned as it blew though the trees of the forest. Draco Malfoy, smeared with blood and covered with dirt paid it no mind as he kneeled on the cold ground, letting the pouring rain wash him clean. Thunder crashed above him as the lightening in the sky lit up the man running towards him. It was Harry Potter, and there were tears streaming freely from beneath his glasses. When he reached him, Potter stood doubled over, his hand outstretched so that Malfoy could see what it held. Another bolt of lightening streaked though the sky, causing the small silver ring to shimmer in the night.
Draco could feel the life being sucked from him. Mind spinning, he tore the ring from Potter�s hand, and grabbed the other collar.
�What happened?� he demanded. �Damn it, Potter, you said you�d look after her! You promised her bloody mother that you wouldn�t let her out of your sight, that nothing would happen to her!�
Shaking, Harry wouldn�t meet his eyes as he stammered out an apology that would never be enough.
�I�m sorry, Malfoy, there was nothing I could do.� Harry seemed as if he was going to say more, but Draco had already heard too much.
�You were supposed to protect her!�
With a yell of anguish, he threw the slightly smaller man to the ground and began sprinting towards the trees, never to look back.
And yet, if he had, he would have seen the smile gracing the lips of Harry James Potter, twisted enough to rival that of the Dark Lord himself.
I never asked to be a hero, but apparently that�s what I was born to be, the Boy Who Lived, and all that. But never once did anyone ask me what I wanted from my life. I often think about whom I would have been, what I could have done, if my parents had never been killed- if there had never been a Lord Voldemort. But Ginny says dwelling in the past will solve nothing.
She�s right, I know. The past is full of nothing but pain, of war, of fighting, of death. That�s why I had to make it better for her. She didn�t understand that what she was doing was crazy. I know that she didn�t really love him, and that�s why I had to save her. Malfoy had her under his charm, and the silly girl thought she could make him a better person, and that he was actually capable of having feelings. As if the devil could actually be taught to love! That�s why I did it though; I�ve always know what was best for her.
I knew it was a bad idea the second Snape brought Draco Malfoy to the Order. I made sure everyone knew how I felt, but like always, no one listened. I tried to warn them; I told them we couldn�t trust him. Eventually, I showed them how right I had been all along, but not before he had had the chance to get inside of Ginny�s head.
Why he picked her, sweet angel that she was, I�ll never understand. He probably just wanted to taint the most innocent and pure thing he could find. At any rate, he succeeded. It started alright at first; they fought with one another. I was so proud of her for the way she held her ground, and then he began to manipulate her. I watched as, before my eyes, Ginny changed. They weren�t fighting then, they were talking, laughing, I even once saw him kiss her. It was something I couldn�t stand for. But what finally did it, was when he asked her to marry him. I expected her to tell him where to shove his pathetic little promise ring, but to my surprise, and horror, I might add, she accepted, throwing her arms about him, and peppering his face with kisses, kisses that should have been mine, because she should have been mine. I was what was best for her after all; I always had been.
The ring itself was repulsively simple. A flimsy little thing; it wasn�t even made of gold. No, poor little Malfoy was no longer his father�s pet and so he didn�t even have enough money to buy her something in gold. It was silver, a tinny silver band of daisies. Daisies! And I would have given her diamonds! It�s what she deserved after all. I even went to talk with her afterwards. I was trying to knock some sense into her, reason with her, but she would have none of it. She had the nerve to laugh at me. �Harry,� she said, �it isn�t about money. It�s about love.� As if she could really know what love was. She�d been very close to getting a reputation during school, something I would have been willing to over look, but to love Malfoy? I doubt even his mother could have done that.
I hadn�t understood how badly Malfoy had messed with her mind until I had begun to put my plan into action. My plan at first was to steal the ring, but she never took it off, so I did the next best thing: I went out and had a new one made. I spent enough time glaring at the damn thing to describe it in perfect detail for the jeweler; he did a fantastic job.
I had studied Malfoy well enough to know that rejection would crush his ego, and in the beginning, I had planned to give him the duplicate ring when Ginny was out of the way. I was going to tell him that she never wanted to see him again, and demand that he leave. The downside to this plan would be if he wanted to talk to her, or if she tried to go looking for him once she realized he was gone. I knew I needed something more finite. I would tell him she had died, and give him the ring back, hoping then that he would give up his game of loving her, and leave never to return again. Then, I would go back to Ginny and inform her that he had been killed in battle.
I would be there for her, to help her slowly pick of the pieces he had torn her life into. Yes, I would be there, and she would finally see what I had known since I was sixteen: she and I belonged together. I would forgive her, of course, for hurting me while she was infatuated with Malfoy, she couldn�t help it; he had always been manipulative.
In the end, Ginny and I were supposed to live happily ever after. That�s how it�s supposed to be after all, the hero gets the girl. But of course, Malfoy had a way of messing my plans up.
After I had told him Ginny had died, he ran. He must have run all the way back to the Death Eater�s camp because the next time I saw him, the mark was burned black into his arm. I hadn�t known it was him when I�d fired at him, but when I finally pulled the mask from his face, the intensity of my strikes grew. He had proved me right; he was inherently evil, why else would he turn so quickly from the light?
And then, the complications began. I had just knocked him out when Ginny came running towards us. She had seen his damn blond hair from wherever she was, and began sprinting with tears in her beautiful eyes towards where we were � he never saw her though. She screamed his name, and fell to her knees next to his body. Fortunately, as she�d been running towards us, I�d been able to cast the illusion of death upon him; she wouldn�t be able to see the rising and falling of his chest, or feel the beat of a pulse flow though his veins.
I should have just killed him, but this revenge would be so much sweeter. I would make sure he spent the rest of his life rotting in an Azkaban cell, grieving for Ginny, who he�d never realized was alive. It was lucky I got my revenge too, because the sodding git got his as well. Ginny blamed me for everything, for Draco�s death, never mind that he still got to live. She never spoke to me again. The bastard took away my happy ending. He ruined everything by coming back. Because of him, the story didn�t end the way it should have. The hero didn�t get the girl; she would always belong to him.
Ginny fought viciously through the Death Eaters surrounding her. Ever since Draco had died, she tried her best to make ever single one of them pay for even the possibility that it cold have been them to end his life. She tried to ignore the pain in her chest as the rain clouded her vision. As the lightening split the sky, she caught a glimpse of a color she thought she�d never see again. Without a second thought, she began running towards it.
It was him. He was skinnier than the last time she�d seen him, and he�d exchanged his Order�s Crest for a cloak of inky night and a Death Eater�s mark burned deep into his arm, but she would know his face and the perfect blond of his hair anywhere. Running towards him, she could see Harry, his wand trained on him, on a man who was supposed to be already dead.
The thunder drowned out her screams as he ran towards them, her heart hammering fast in her chest, He was alive, never mind that Harry had lied to her, she would get to touch him again. But her world came crashing down before her eyes as she watched Draco Malfoy fall to the ground.
Shoving Harry out of the way, she fell to her knees beside Draco�s body. Wiping the hair from his eyes, she pressed her hand to his neck searching for the pulse that had to be there: nothing. Her breathing began to keep time with the staccato beats of rain as she lowered her head to his chest.
Her heartbeat mocked her, because it was still beating, and his no longer would. How could this have happened? She had already lost him once, why a second time?
�Ginny, I�m sorry, I had to! Look at him! He took the mark!�
Harry�s reasoning made so little sense to her brain, nothing mattered now. Ginny had thought she was going to be okay, that she could have survived his death, but in the course of a few minutes her world had been resurrected, only to come crashing down around her.
His blond hair, matted with rain and mud lay still in the bitter breeze, and storm-colored eyes were open wide with nothing to see. She placed her lips to his in a final goodbye; at least this time, the fate had given her a way to tell him that she loved him.
Briefly describe what you'd like to receive in your fic Briefly describe what you'd like to receive in your fic I'd love a fic that makes me cry. Cry because it's heartbreaking or cry because it's a true-love, real-life fairytale, but I want to feel moved to tears by your masterful piece of fiction.
The tone/mood of the fic: captivating and emotionally stirring
An element/line of dialogue/object you would like in your fic: something lost forever, a chain of daisies, a very dark and stormy night
Preferred rating of the the fic you want: The higher the better
Canon or AU? canon [although the Epilogue can be ignored]
Deal Breakers (anything you don't want?) : incessant fluff [I know that the prompt makes it difficult, but I really dislike more than a spoonful of fluff], Ginny sacrificed, OOC Ginny/Draco, too much sunshine/rainbows/butterflies [I find that this is disrespectful to the memories of all those who lost their lives fighting. Yes people 'move on' but they don't forget.]
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Piston Draft Review: Walter SharpeJune 30, 2008
This is the first of a three-part look at each of Detroit's three 2008 draft selections.
I have to be honest. I am still scratching my head, but have faith in Joe Dumars. He has his way of doing things and they have been effective thus far during his tenure at the helm of the Detroit Pistons.
The draft went from excitable to "huh?" in a heartbeat. The rumors had been that Detroit had their eye on D.J. White, a power presence down low from Indiana. Everything seemed to work according to plan as he was there at #29 and Dumars nabbed him. Sounded like just what the doctor ordered.
Many fans, including myself, we taken by surprise to see Dumars trade him so quickly to Seattle for two second round selections. Was money a factor? Could be, but with a rookie salary slot, it wouldn't seem so.
Dumars knows talented players and with second round picks, there are no guarantees and no guaranteed money. And with the D-League and a roster full of young players already, maybe this was the way to go. So who is who and new at The Palace? First up is Walter Sharpe.
No. 32: Walter Sharpe, 6-9, 245-pound forward, Alabama-Birmingham.
Many downgraded Sharpe due to a shady past and a "lazy" presence. Diagnosed with narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder that led to tardiness to team functions and academic shortcomings, Sharpe now takes medication that he says turned his life around.
"It's definitely behind me," Sharpe boasts. "My worst days are behind me and my best days ahead of me. Nobody thought I had narcolepsy. People thought I was just lazy and slept a lot."
And while some have compared his game to Laker forward Lamar Odom, it is unknown at this time if Sharpe will make the club out of camp of spend some time at Fort Wayne of the D-League.
He will have to prove that an arrest at a club with four other UAB players was a case of poor judgment, and not a character issue that will continue. Though he says he was sticking up for team mates, he knows he should have known better. He is working on being a better man, and player.
"I can't completely blame it on narcolepsy," Sharpe admits. "I'd just say that some things I could have done better."
"I like to put the ball on the floor," Sharpe points out. "I'm not scared to dribble or shoot it from anywhere. I like to pass the ball. I like to do everything on the court that you can do on offense. Maybe by looking at me or reading my stat line, you might not notice that, but in due time, you'll see."
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The plane came down around 10:00 a.m. in the wooded area separating the north and southbound lanes of Interstate 287 between Exit 30/North Maple Avenue and Exit 35/South Street. in Harding, New Jersey.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, three adults, two children and a dog were on board.
Greenhill & Co., an investment bank, tentatively identified two of the victims as their employees, Jeffrey F. Buckalew and Rakesh Chawla. Buckalew, 45, was head of Greenhill's North American Advisory activities. Chawla, age 36, was a Managing Director who specialized in the financial services sector. He had joined the firm in 2003 from The Blackstone Group.
The plane belonged to Buckalew, who was an experienced pilot. The company also said Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and their two children, Jackson and Meriwether, were believed to be on the plane.
The Socata TBM-700 single-engine turboprop had departed from nearby Teterboro Airport when it disappeared from radar, said FAA spokesman Jim Peters. The plane was headed to Georgia.
The pilot had discussed icy conditions with controllers just before the plane went down, but investigators were unsure what role, if any, icing played in the crash.
Wreckage was scattered over at least a half mile, with a section found lodged in a tree of a home about a quarter-mile away, near a highway entrance ramp. The crash closed both sides of the busy highway for hours, though several lanes were open again in time for the evening rush hour.
Chris Covello of Rockaway Township said he saw the plane spin out of control from the car dealership where he works in Morristown, near the site of the crash.
"It was like the plane was doing tricks or something, twirling and flipping. It started going straight down. I thought any second they were going to pull up. But then the wing came off and they went straight down," he said.
The high-performance Socata TBM-700 turboprop had departed from nearby Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and crashed about 14 minutes into its flight. It was headed for DeKalb Peachtree Airport near Atlanta.
The pilot had a seven-second call with a controller about icing shortly before the crash, said Robert Gretz, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, told a late-day news conference.
Gretz said he did not know whether the pilot was reporting icing had occurred or was questioning the location of possible icing conditions. He said he was unaware of any icing on the ground that would have required deicing.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the pilot had requested clearance to a higher altitude shortly before the plane dropped off radar. The NTSB said the plane had climbed to 17,500 feet.
Ice can form on airplanes when temperatures are near freezing and there is visible moisture, such as clouds or rain. The ice adds weight to an aircraft, and rough accumulations known as rime interrupt the flow of air over wings.
In extreme cases, a plane can lose so much lift that it falls out of the sky.
Icing played a role in crashes in 2009 involving a Colgan Air flight outside Buffalo and an Air France flight off the coast of Brazil. In both cases the pilots sent their airplanes into uncontrolled spins while trying to deal with accumulations of ice.
Most versions of the TBM-700 have deicing systems. But recordings available online show that even airliners with powerful deicing equipment were having trouble clearing the ice Tuesday. The pilot of a commuter jetliner headed to nearby LaGuardia Airport asked a controller for an immediate climb into drier conditions.
The pilot of the TBM-700 was told to maintain an altitude of 10,000 feet as he headed southwest over northern New Jersey. A controller warned him about the conditions in the clouds above.
"There are reports of moderate rime. ... If it gets worse let me know and when center takes your handoff I'll climb you and maybe get you higher," the controller said.
The pilot responds: "We'll let you know what happens when we get in there. And yeah, if we could go straight through it, that's no problem for us."
David Williamson, 19, was doing maintenance at a golf course in Morristown when he spotted a plane in trouble, with smoke coming off both sides of the wings.
"It was really scary," he said.
When the plane crashed, he said, it sent up a "huge plume of thick black smoke."
The plane just missed a pickup truck on the southbound lanes before crashing into the median, Gretz said.
Charred wreckage was left across the median and highway, a heavily used route that wraps around the northern and western edges of the New York City area. A huge ball of charred metal sat in the middle of the northbound lanes.
The occupants of the plane were headed to Georgia for both personal and business reasons, Gretz said.
Greenhill & Co. said Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and the couple's two children, Jackson and Meriwether, were traveling with him.
"The firm is in deep mourning over the tragic and untimely death of two of its esteemed colleagues and members of Jeff's family," the company said in a written statement.
A resident at Chawla's Upper East Side apartment building remembered him as being constantly on the go, leaving early and getting home late.
Arthur Yellin, 68, said that Chawla and his family were "wonderful people" and that the banker doted on his three children.
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The course offers students with a background in fashion design or a closely related discipline the opportunity to take a fresh view of their work and their creative direction. The course's learning and teaching philosophy emphasises creative freedom and offers students the opportunity to explore and experience London as an international fashion design centre and a rich resource for research, providing invaluable insights into progression to postgraduate study or employment in the international fashion industry. The learning and teaching are project'based and offer students the freedom to experiment and find or re'define themselves within a creative environment. The course emphasises breadth as well as depth of research and an innovative approach to design development. The course begins with staff'directed and / or industry projects aiming to support students in identifying and further developing their strengths and addressing their weaknesses. This enables students to develop their work in consultation with staff on an ongoing basis. Fundamental to the course is the commitment to support student's creative development with appropriate design, technical (pattern cutting / garment construction) and professional skills to help take advantage of the benefits and challenges that studying in London provides. Later projects are negotiated with course staff and self'directed, offering students the opportunity to demonstrate independent learning in the context of their final project. The curriculum also introduces students to the potential of a range of different approaches to the visual communication and articulation of design ideas. Personal and professional development emphasises the skills and aptitudes required in designing for a specific market, researching and taking account of current trends and, in particular, the personal presentation skills required to support application for entry into postgraduate study and / or employment in the international fashion industry. Students leave the course with a portfolio and realised design work that will effectively support access to postgraduate study and / or entry into employment in the fashion industry.
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