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Travel Dynamics Internationalby Vasos Papagapitos
A contributed article by the president of a small and elite cruise line specializing in very unique voyages. Travel Dynamics was among the first cruise lines to offer cruises to Libya, Lebanon, Tunis and Algeria, in addition to other exotic voyages such as the Amazon and Antartica. Currently, they are experiencing the same visa problems in Libya for US citizens as Oceania and Silversea, but they hopeful they can reach a settlement -- Ed.
Enrich Your Mind, and Inspire Your Senses on Small-Ship Cruises of Discovery.
My name is Vasos Papagapitos, and I am the co-founder and Co-President of Travel Dynamics International. Since 1969, we have been planning and operating some of the most intriguing and unusual cruise experiences the world over. It's all right if you haven't heard of us - we only sail two very lovely, very small ships, and we often arrange our itineraries with some very interesting cultural organizations, so if you have not been directly affiliated with them, you may not have received word of our trips. That's something we're trying to change, because we believe many, many more people are becoming interested in travel experiences that go beyond the basics of sightseeing, beyond even the luxury standard - and engage with the culture, history, arts, peoples, and beliefs that give a destination its specific, individual character - that sense of identity and richness that, when experienced, allows the traveler to see the world in a totally different and fuller light. We can offer you something entirely unique in the realm of cruise travel.
Our Difference: Small yacht-like ships (our private yacht Callisto carries just 34 guests; our small cruise ship Corinthian II offers all-suite accommodations to a maximum of 114 guests), totally unique itineraries arranged around themes in history and culture; on-board and on-site lectures by prominent American scholars, authors, journalists, scientists, adventurers, and experts; a relaxed, yet elegant ambience similar to that on board a private yacht; a tradition of gracious, elegant yet un-stuffy service equal to fine hotels and restaurants; highly unusual destinations that are overlooked by mainstream cruise lines, even those operating small ships.
"The trip started beautifully and got better every day. The tour guide�was exceptional - balancing logistics with his profound knowledge. Very creative itinerary-always a new approach and new angle� Would like the owner's name and address so I can write a personal 'thank you.'" - John O. Whitney, West Palm Beach, FL, participant on Greek Civilizations: From the Bronze Age to Byzantium, 2006.
Our Itineraries: For 2007, Travel Dynamics International has scheduled 20 individual itineraries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region. In 2004, we were the first American cruise operator to undertake cruises in Libya following the fall of the travel embargo, and our exploration of ancient Greek and Roman cities in Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria remains one of our most sought-after itineraries. We offer leisurely, wide-ranging cruises as well as focused investigations of history, mythology, and contemporary cultures. For example: The Hero in History: Homer, Virgil and the Foundation of the Heroic Ideal, which touches upon locations associated with The Odyssey and The Aeneid en route from Athens to Valletta, Malta; Empires of the Past - The Minoans and Mycenaeans, which takes a close look at the first two civilizations of ancient Greece, traveling to Troy, Crete, the Peloponnese, and mainland Greece; Edith Wharton's Mediterranean, a cruise from Sicily to Turkey and Athens, based upon a recently discovered travel memoir by the American author - and many, many other thoughtful journeys. (During our idyll along the Dalmatian coast, we even stop in secluded coves and sheltered bays so you can go swimming in the Adriatic, right off the stern of the yacht!)
"A wonderful trip, luxurious hotel, a great little ship with just the right size company, guest lecturer and extraordinary food and service, flawless staff and fascinating architectural sites and beautiful Italian art, countryside and towns!" -- M. Behrens, New York, NY, Sicily 2006.
We also have highly acclaimed voyages to Antarctica, the Brazilian coast, the lower Amazon, and a remarkable land-cruise program called The Road to Timbuktu and the Rivers of West Africa. In early 2008, we will be operating even more ambitious itineraries - a cruise from Cape Horn, South America, to the Cape of Good Hope, Africa, stopping at the most remote inhabited island on Earth along the way; a cruise of South Africa by sea; and a month-long exploration of Africa's Atlantic coastline, visiting 12 African nations between the Cape of Good Hope and the Rock of Gibraltar.
"This was the best trip we have ever taken. The whole experience was magical�I especially appreciated the pains the lecturers and naturalists took in explaining why the Antarctic is so important and why we should keep it pristine and safe from exploitation (vested interest here - I'm a biologist.) -- Joyce Schwartz, Weston, MA, Antarctica 2004.
Our Lecturers: As we cruise, we alight one day beside the ruins of a 3,000-year-old city, and a classic village with its rustic traditions the next. In the morning before our excursion, or in the evening after its completion, our study leaders hold court for a lecture and discussion on the places we've seen. Certainly not every day - which would seem like work, and we wouldn't want any of that - but on a handful of them. They include superb professors of mythology, archaeology, literature, classics, religion, geology, astrophysics - the entire gamut of the arts and sciences - from the best American universities, as well as journalists, authors, diplomats, and masters of other fields. They remain on the ship throughout the voyage, and are selected for their warmth, charm, gregariousness, and presentation style just as much as for their expertise.
We are adding study leaders to our trips constantly, but a few of the speakers we're particularly excited about for 2007 include:
- Karen Armstrong, renowned author on world religions, including the best-selling A History of God and the recent A Short History of Myth Religion & Culture in Classical Greece, May 1-13, 2007
- Marvin Kalb, journalist, former moderator of "Meet the Press," and former Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for CBS and NBC News The Black Sea: Crossroads of Culture from the Ancient Past to the Present, July 29-August 10, 2007
- Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, world-famous author of What Went Wrong?, an analysis of Islam and the West: The Lost Cities of Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria, November 9-21, 2007
Our Ships: The 34-guest private yacht Callisto inspires not just admiration, but affection, because of its wonderful ambience, and its highly personalized service provided by a superb staff - including a dining staff that, whenever possible, acquires fresh provisions from local shops on shore for the preparation of local specialties that night.
"Certainly our favorite part of the trip was on board the Callisto. What a beautiful vessel and wonderful staff! The arrangements were comfortable and the service was impeccable. Everyone from the captain on down was courteous, helpful and friendly. The small size made us feel welcome and part of the family, not just a passenger on a trip. The food was excellent and the diverse range of local produce and goods was wonderful. We cannot say enough about the five-star service on board Callisto and would recommend it to anyone." -- Jennifer Garner, Pittsburgh, PA.
The 114-guest Corinthian II is a superb ship in mega-yacht style, with outside-facing suites for all passengers, the smallest a very generous 225 square feet. Several suites include balconies accessible via sliding-glass doors. The 70 European officers and crew ensure an atmosphere akin to a private club for the length of your voyage.
"The size of the Corinthian II was perfect. Not having assigned meal seating have us a chance to meet many wonderful and interesting people." --Carol S. Bernstein, Tenafly, NJ.
On both ships, whenever possible, we arrange for meals to be served al fresco on our wide Sun Deck so that you may have the glorious experience of traveling through the Bosporus Strait, or along the Cote d'Azur, with your meal.
On-Board Society and the Experience: Those who choose to travel with us come from many, many backgrounds and experiences, but a few things always unite our guests into a very friendly, congenial group: they are well-educated, and have a sincere interest in the places we visit, stemming from their rich life experiences. Dinner conversations are fantastic. Before you depart on your trip, we are constantly arranging special events, curator-guided museum tours, unique visits to little-known local gems� So on a Travel Dynamics International cruise, expect some unexpected magic. Last but not least, we know it's sometimes difficult to hear your guide while wandering through an archaeological site, so we provide closed-circuit headsets to everyone on board so you can be sure to experience everything we offer. I hope you'll consider us, because for so many people, the experience we provide is so wonderful, the phrase "This is the best trip we have ever taken" is something we hear a lot. There are many luxury small-ship cruise operators around, but no one else gives you all this - for just about the same price as a "normal" small-ship cruise. I look forward to seeing you on board.
For additional information on Travel Dynamics International programs, go to www.TravelDynamicsInternational.com or call (800)257-5767.


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State Local Annual2011
State and Local Documents Task Force
DATE: Saturday, June 25
TIME: 8am to 10am
LOCATION: Westin Canal Place Ballroom I
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I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Attendance Sheet
III. Adoption of the Agenda
IV. Approval of Minutes from ALA Mid-Winter 2011, San Diego
V. Liaison Reports (reports from Committees that have met and only items that are of direct interest or affect SLDTF)
Legislation Membership Program (Crenetha Brunson) Cataloging (Rich Gause) Education (Robbie Sittel) GITCO (Rebecca Blakeley) Publications Rare and Endangered Government Publications (Sarah Erekson)
V. Discussion Join us for an in-depth discussion/tip sharing session on collecting electronic state and local documents. We will break out into small groups and discuss how our states or individual institutions are cataloging, preserving and/or providing access to e-documents on the state and local level. We will then come together as a larger group to discuss this issue.
VII. Old Business
VIII. New Business
IX. Recap of any action items, next steps
X. Adjourn

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A Blackpool man is one of the 298 passengers feared dead in the Malaysian airline disaster.
Glenn Thomas, 49, was on board flight MH17 – thought to have been shot down over war-torn Ukraine.
He is one of at least nine British nationals known to be among those on board the Boeing 777-200,
Mr Thomas grew up in Molyneux Drive, South Shore, and went to Highfield High School.
He worked as a journalist in the resort before joining the BBC in the early 1990s.
Friends say he moved to Geneva, Switzerland, around a decade ago to work for the World Health Organisation (WHO) and later the United Nations.
He posted on Facebook yesterday of a "long day's journey into night" before boarding an Air France plane from Geneva to Amsterdam.
He then connected to the Malaysian Air MH17 flight from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport – bound for Kuala Lumpur – before planning to complete the final leg of his journey to Melbourne, Australia.
After hearing news of the crash Mr Thomas' family had to wait for confirmation that he had boarded the flight.
The Gazette understands the authorities confirmed the news the family had all feared late last night and that Mr Thomas was, indeed, among those feared killed in the tragedy.
It is understood he has a twin sister, Tracey, who lives in Blackpool. He was not married and did not have children.
Tributes flooded in last night over social networks.
Paying tribute to Mr Thomas, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said: "I can confirm he was on the flight travelling to Australia to attend the Aids conference in Australia.
"For the time being we would like to give his family time to grieve. We have lost a wonderful person and a great professional. Our hearts are broken. We are all in shock."
On Twitter, Timothy O'Leary, communications team leader at the WHO's Western Pacific office, wrote: "I grieve for my friend and former WHO colleague Glenn Thomas who died in the missile attack on MH17 over Ukraine."
BBC TV news editor Rachel Kennedy wrote: "Horrified to discover lovely Glenn Thomas on MH17. Always a smiling face, will be hugely missed."
Freelance journalist Ilan Moss wrote: "I'm absolutely devastated to learn of death of WHO colleague Glenn Thomas in MH17 on way to AIDS 2014."
Javier Munoz wrote: "Sad news today, a member of my WHO family was in the Malaysia Airlines plane."
Toby Johnson added: "Sorry to hear of the loss of all in MH17. For Geneva-based media pros, loss of WHO's Glenn Thomas particularly sad."
The authorities at Schiphol said that more than half the people on board – 154 – were known to be Dutch nationals.
There were also 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filippinos and one Canadian.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond called for an international investigation to establish what to happened to Flight MH17 which crashed into territory held by pro-Russian separatists.
Speaking at the Foreign Office following emergency talks with ministers and officials, Mr Hammond said: "I'm deeply shocked by this appalling incident and I send my heartfelt condolences to all those who may have lost family and friends. We're determined to get to the bottom of understanding what has happened here.
"As yet we do not have any definitive information about how this incident occurred and I don't want to speculate at this stage. We believe there must be a UN-led international investigation of the facts."
He said Britain was prepared to make Air Accident Investigation Branch assets and specialists available to assist such an investigation.
US vice president Joe Biden said the airliner had "apparently" been shot down - although the details were unclear.
"I say 'apparently' because we don't actually have all the details. I want to be sure of what I say. Apparently, have been shot down. Shot down, not an accident. Blown out of the sky," he said.
The disappearance of the airliner from the radar screens as it flew over eastern Ukraine prompted immediate allegations and counter-allegations with the government in Kiev and the separatist rebels blaming each other.
Graphic images from the crash scene near the village of Grabovo showed a pall of thick smoke hanging above the site.
Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak said "no stone can be left unturned" in the effort to find out what happened.
"If it transpires that the plane was indeed shot down, we insist that the perpetrators must swiftly be brought to justice," he said.
He said the Ukrianian authorities had agreed to open negotiations with the rebels to create a safe corridor to the crash site.
Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "shocked and saddened" by the tragedy, while Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko described it as a "terrorist act".
Ukraine has been torn apart by internal strife since the overthrow of the Moscow-backed regime of Viktor Yanukovych, with Russian backed separatists already accused by the authorities in Kiev of shooting down military jets with missiles supplied by Russia. The Ukrainian government immediately blamed the separatists with President Poroshenko declaring the "armed forces of Ukraine did not take action against any airborne targets".
Anton Gerashenko, an aide to the Ukrainian interior minister, said the plane was flying at an altitude of 33,000 feet when it was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher, a Soviet era surface-to-air missile system.
But a spokesman for the rebels said the plane must have been shot down by Ukrainian government troops.
Russian president Vladimir Putin laid the blame for the crash on Ukraine.


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Welcome to the Exide Frisco Recycling Center Closure Website.
The purpose of this website is to keep the community updated on the process and timeframe for this work. The closure projects are being monitored and regulated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The Frisco Recycling Center is a former lead acid battery recycling complex located at 7471 South Fifth Street, Frisco, Texas. Exide Technologies (Exide), the current owner, and its predecessors operated the facility for this purpose from 1969 to November 30, 2012. The Site encompasses 257 acres consisting of the 87 acre Former Operating Plant (FOP) and the surrounding 170-acre Undeveloped Buffer Property. Exide has entered into an agreement to sell the Undeveloped Buffer Property to the Frisco Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and the Frisco Community Development Corporation (CDC) after successful completion of the TCEQ Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP) for this portion of the Site. Much more detailed information on each project can be found from the above "Projects" link as well as links within the project overview below.
Notice of Public Information Meeting
A public information meeting will be held on October 4, 2018 regarding the Response Action Completion Report (RACR) for the Exide Undeveloped Buffer Property (J-Parcel). The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at The Depot at the Frisco Heritage Center, 6499 Page St., Frisco, TX 75034. Representatives of Exide Technologies, the City of Frisco, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will be present.
The purpose of the public information meeting is to provide the public the opportunity to ask questions or submit comments on the RACR for the J-Parcel. The RACR was posted on the website for public comment on July 31, 2018. The public comment period will close on October 11, 2018.
The RACR is also available for viewing and copying at the Frisco Public Library, 1st Floor, Free Publications Area, 6101 Frisco Square Boulevard, Frisco, Texas.
Closure of the Recycling Center will follow established regulatory processes. Exide has divided the required work into the following components:
* Decontamination and Demolition – Work performed in accordance with the January 25, 2013 Decontamination and Demolition Work Plan is complete. Only the Administrative Office and Wastewater Treatment Buildings remain. For details see the Decontamination & Demolition page located under "Projects" or CLICK HERE.
* Investigation and Remediation – This project includes investigation, remediation, and certification of the remedy for the Exide Former Operating Plant. The Former Operating Plant consists of the Exide Frisco Recycling Center's former production/operation area (battery recycling and secondary lead smelting facility), four landfills (three closed landfills and one landfill that is active and designated the "Open Landfill"), and ancillary facilities. Two creeks cross the Exide property from east to west, including Stewart Creek, which runs along the south side of the former production area, and a tributary to Stewart Creek (the "North Tributary"), which runs along the north side of most of the former production area. (For more details on the creeks CLICK HERE). The Former Operating Plant occupies 87 of the 257 acres owned by Exide. Exide is investigating environmental conditions at the Former Operating Plant and will retain ownership of this portion of Exide's property after the transfer of the remaining 170 acres to the Frisco EDC and CDC. Exide submitted the comprehensive environmental investigation report (the Affected Property Assessment Report or "APAR") for the Former Operating Plant to the TCEQ and the EPA on July 10, 2013. The TCEQ and EPA issued comments on the APAR, including a request for additional assessment activities. Exide responded to these comments, including proposed additional assessment activities. Exide received conditional approval of the response to TCEQ and EPA comments on November 19, 2013, authorizing Exide to proceed with additional assessment activities. Exide completed these additional assessment activities and submitted a Revised APAR to the TCEQ and the EPA on May 22, 2014. A comprehensive cleanup plan for the Former Operating Plant will be prepared after the investigation phase is completed to the satisfaction of the TCEQ and EPA. For more details see the Former Operating Plant Investigation & Remediation page located under "Projects" or CLICK HERE.
* Open Landfill Remediation – There are four landfills on the Former Operating Plant: three closed landfills and one landfill that is active (designated the "Open Landfill"). The scope of this project was proposed to include the retreatment of certain waste in the active cells of the Open Landfill (located in the northern portion of the Former Operating Plant). This work was intended to be completed as a separate project concurrent with the investigation and remediation of the overall Former Operating Plant. As part of operations prior to closing, a rock-like waste called "slag" was generated during the lead smelting process. Regulations required the slag to meet certain standards prior to disposal in the Open Landfill. Exide treated the slag and tested slag after treatment pursuant to a sampling protocol. No other material was disposed in the Open Landfill.
Analytical data for treated slag deposited in the active cells of the Open Landfill indicated that some of the treated slag deposited may not have met the treatment standards. Exide performed sampling of the material in these cells and compared the results to the treatment standards. Through this sampling, an estimate of the volume of slag in the active cells with unacceptable results was developed. To resolve this issue, Exide submitted a work plan to the TCEQ to perform a retreatment project, subject to a pilot test to determine whether it would be feasible to excavate, re-treat, test, and re-deposit this material in the Open Landfill. The TCEQ approved this work plan, but the pilot testing encountered discrepancies in the testing results, believed by Exide to be caused by lab error. Due to the pilot project results, the full-scale retreatment project was not implemented. No activity with respect to the slag deposited in the active cells of the Open Landfill beyond the pilot testing has been or will be conducted until approved by the TCEQ. For more details see the Open Landfill Remediation page located under "Projects" or CLICK HERE.
* Long Term Maintenance of the Exide Former Operating Plant – The scope of this project will be determined during development of the cleanup plan after the investigation phase is complete.
* Investigation and Remediation (also known as the VCP Parcel) - This project includes investigation, remediation, and certification of the remedy to obtain a TCEQ Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP) Certificate of Completion to prepare the property for transfer to the Frisco EDC and CDC, economic development entities of the City of Frisco. The Undeveloped Buffer Property consists of approximately 170 acres of undeveloped land surrounding the Former Operating Plant. This portion of the Exide property is being investigated and remediated under the TCEQ's VCP. For the VCP project, Exide and the City of Frisco are co-applicants. The VCP process is similar to the Former Operating Plant investigation and cleanup, except the Affected Property Site Report (APAR) and Response Action Plan (RAP) are being developed concurrently. Preparation of these reports is nearing completion. For more details see the Undeveloped Buffer Property Investigation & Remediation page located under "Projects" or CLICK HERE.
* Transfer Property to the Frisco EDC and CDC.


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Friday, 15 June 2012
Diet soda experiment conclusion & Got Energy? Tri
Each measurement should be marked as a point and not with a continuous line (since I wasn't continuously measuring myself, but I used the kid program Make a Graph, which doesn't have that option :)).
Speaking of that triathlon, I got an over 14 minute PR in the Olympic distance with a 2:38:17. The distances are 1.5 km swim (plus run up a large hill barefoot), 40k bike ride and 10k run. Unfortunately I have had bad bursitis in my left shoulder from carrying Mattias, so my swim didn't improve much. Plus some guy kept swimming into me. See if you can find me (my initials are the first two letters of "the") Times are swim, transition, bike, transition, run, total and places in each are listed before the times. Miles per hour is listed after the times for swim, bike and run. Confused?
A few photos from the triathlon taken by my dad. SR did really well, by the way, but that story will perhaps one day be found on his blog. Outfit of the race: Bob's. I don't think he swam in these- and considering the lack of bikes on the racks, it took him a while to change (the belt might have slowed him down ever so slightly)
5 comments:
- Olga King said...
Congrats to your race, and I am throwing a wild guess your other half won? Seems that in general your experiment was helpful.
- 15 June 2012 at 15:10
- Marathon Mom said...
Great race, congrats! Interesting experiment and great results, glad you found the issue. If only I had a diet soda addcition too then I could just use your results to know why I have the belly issue, although I think I am close to figuring mine out as well, 6 days without my massive morning bowl of cereal and it looks much better (sorry no data to back it up)
- 15 June 2012 at 17:19
- Danni said...
Nice job on the race! I do wonder if you drank one diet soda instead of however many you said you drank you'd still have a happier belly? I drink probably 3-4/week and am feeling resistent to the notion that I should stop :p That said, my belly has enough fat that a little bloat is probably not detectable.
- 15 June 2012 at 17:42
- sea legs girl said...
Olga, he got 14th out of 106 in the sprint distance.
- 15 June 2012 at 19:28
- Alicia said...
Wow, cool! That was an easy fix. Except, now you've taken away the mystery for us to try to figure out:)
- 15 June 2012 at 20:01


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All too often, the difference between the fantasy of traveling with children (wee ones skipping along in wonder against a majestic European backdrop) and the reality (jet-lagged children who won't leave the hotel) can be vast. Thanks to The Little Bookroom Guide to Paris with Children, you don't have to wait until your kids are in college to visit Paris.
Paris with Children guides you through visiting Paris' most important sights in a child-friendly way. Organized around places to play, eat, shop and stay, the book allows you to plan your day around activities that both you and your children will love.
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In accordance with the new provisions of the UCI Anti-Doping Rules that came into force on January 1, 2009, financial penalties have been imposed on riders who were recently suspended by their respective National Federations following the conclusion of proceedings opened against the riders during last season.
Article 326 of the UCI Anti-Doping Rules establishes a fine corresponding to the net annual income of any rider committing an offence sanctioned by a suspension of two years or more. Consequently, the first financial penalties are imposed on the following riders:
Maurizio Biondo (ITA): 13,750 euros
Inigo Landaluze (ESP): 27,300 euros
Danilo Di Luca (ITA): 280,000 euros
This measure, backed by the UCI's allocation of the sums collected to the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), will certainly contribute to making the fight against doping more effective. It also confirms the UCI's determination and commitment in this sphere and once again makes cycling the leading sport in terms of rooting out all forms of cheating.
After the "Commitment to a New Cycling" signed by riders in 2007, the inclusion of Article 326 in the Anti-Doping Rules represents another crucial step towards making athletes more responsible for their actions.
The UCI is confident that implementing this new provision of the regulations will complement the broad range of preventative measures and dissuasive policies that have been applied to cycling in order to rid the sport of the scourge of doping.
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The 2014 NBA draft is one of the most hyped in recent memory because of its boatload of elite prospects and depth all the way into the second round. Every Friday, USA TODAY Sports takes a look at which prospects on the draft board can most help or hurt their stock throughout the coming week.
Duke freshman Jabari Parker
Schedule: Saturday at Syracuse, 6:30 p.m. ET, ESPN; Tuesday vs. Wake Forest, 9 p.m. ET, ESPNU.
Statistics: 18.8 points and 8.1 rebounds a game.
Parker, Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid have emerged as the primary options for the No. 1 pick. But while Embiid is the center, Parker and Wiggins play the same position (small forward) and therefore will be compared endlessly all season and likely well into their NBA careers.
In November and December, that was all fine for Parker, even as Wiggins won their head-to-head matchup. He had significantly better numbers and probably had played the tougher schedule. But Wiggins has raised his game as No. 7 Kansas' season has gone, a product of his amazing conditioning and passive attitude early in the season. He posted 56 points in two games last week and plays a tougher schedule because the Big 12 Conference is deeper than the Atlantic Coast Conference this season.
Parker, meanwhile, has not so much stalled as sputtered, particularly in the second halves of games. In Monday's victory against Pittsburgh, he had 16 in the first half but only five in the second. The trend's root problem is visually clear: Parker still has an unrefined body and seems to get tired in the second halves of important games. No. 16 Duke's four losses have beared this out further: Parker has averaged 11.3 points in the first halves of those games and 5.8 points in the second halves.
Wiggins' freakish athleticism is what put him above Parker on most draft boards to start the season. He's a better defender and has greater potential because of it. But now we're seeing a possibly fitness issue popping up for Parker, too, a difference first noticeable when Kansas beat Duke back on Nov. 12. In that game, Parker had 19 points in the first half as Duke led 42-40, but he only added eight in the second half as duke was outscored 54-41. Wiggins, conversely, had six points in the first half but 16 in the second, when he and Parker went directly at each other for much of the stretch run.
Parker still is playing well, particularly in first halves. And fitness issues are nothing new, and many NBA players have overcome them. Carmelo Anthony, the Syracuse star whom Parker most often is compared to, had a similar body type but now has slimmed down and become a dominant NBA scorer and annual All-Star.
But this could be a deal-breaker for teams deciding on Wiggins or Parker at the very top of the draft. That's why it's important for Parker to step up Saturday against No. 2 Syracuse's rabid defense and two NBA prospect forwards, C.J. Fair and Jerami Grant. Fair and Grant both have the size and athleticism to match up against Parker and will provide NBA-caliber tests while working to wear him down on both ends.
GALLERY: Jabari Parker through the years
Missouri junior Jordan Clarkson
Schedule: Saturday vs. Kentucky, 1 p.m. ET, CBS; Tuesday at Florida, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN.
Statistics: 18.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists a game.
It's not too often that a pair of 6-5, athletic point guards go head to head, but Clarkson and No. 11 Kentucky's Andrew Harrison are a rare breed. Clarkson has shot up draft boards this season after redshirting last year because he transferred from Tulsa. He's athletic and has a propensity for drawing fouls, but he will need to improve his shooting as he might not translate to being an NBA point guard. This week, in which he gets Kentucky and No. 3 Florida, should be a good test to determine whether Clarkson has the stuff to be a mid-first-rounder or if he still needs more seasoning.
Iowa State senior DeAndre Kane
Schedule: Saturday vs. Oklahoma, 4 p.m. ET; Monday at Oklahoma State, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN.
Statistics: 16.6 points, 6.8 rebounds and 5.2 assists a game.
Kane, like Clarkson, is a transfer in his fourth college year. But unlike Clarkson, he didn't have to use a year as a redshirt because he graduated from Marshall last spring. He's dramatically improved his play this season and gone from relatively unknown and inefficient midmajor star to potential NBA player. The versatile senior is more naturally a playmaking shooting guard, but he has slid over to point guard at times, too. No. 18 Iowa State has lost four of its last five games because of the strength of its schedule, and that gets no easier now. But Monday's game against No. 10 Oklahoma State is particularly important to Kane because he will get a chance to match up with likely first-rounders Marcus Smart and Markel Brown in the Cowboys' backcourt. Kane could be a late first-rounder, but he also could go undrafted in this deep field. He has a lot to gain by coming out on top vs. Smart and Brown.
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As I've sat at the baby pool this summer, there's one giant difference that stands out from my pre-baby life and it's not the obvious one: The loud screaming kids running all over the place splashing cold water on me before I've even put my bags down. It's the number of one-piece bathing suits – and not just on the kids. See, even when (if?) we get our pre-baby bodies back, there are plenty of women who still aren't comfortable in their favorite two-piece bathing suit. Even if we lose the baby weight, start exercising again, and mostly get back in pre-baby shape, there's one thing that's hard for us moms to truly reclaim: our abs.
Long gone are the days of washboard abs (OK, who am I kidding?) and taught tummies. Instead, we're a little looser, a little squishier, and a lot weaker when it comes to our core.
In defense of moms everywhere, it's not our fault.
Think about what pregnancy does to your abs from a physiological stand point. They're stretched out beyond oblivion, constantly being pushed, strained, and stretched for the better part of pregnancy. For some women, the ab muscles can literally separate down the middle to make room for that growing baby and your growing belly. There's just only so much stretching they can take. Hormonal changes help make that possible. Hormones, such as relaxin, help things loosen and, well, relax.
Unfortunately, there's no magic hormone that comes in after that fact to save the day and put all the pieces back together again. That's all up to us. It takes patience (you can't start working those abs right after giving birth, trust me), hard work, and persistence. It helps if you know what you're doing. A thousand crunches a day probably couldn't give you your pre-baby abs back. Crunches and sit-ups alone don't target all of the many muscles that make up our core (and "six pack look"). But that doesn't mean it's a hopeless case. By adding in some non-crunch moves that focus on some of the other core muscles, you can get your abs back. Here are some tips and favorite abdominal exercises from personal trainers that are also moms – meaning they've been there, done that.
Post-Baby Abdominal Exercises and Tips:
Your abs are never the same after having kids, but here are a few ways to work on getting them back, plus how to keep them that way once you do.
Tip #1: Make modifications when starting out to find what works for you
"As a Pilates instructor, I'm a fan of moves like the hundred, teaser, and roll up. There are tons more moves, of course, and it's important to make modifications when you're first starting out." – Laura Baker of FitMamaLove
Laura's ab exercises to try:
Tip #2: Choose ground-to-stand exercises that work the entire core
"I think that ground-to-stand exercises are GREAT for the core! Think burpees, turkish get-ups which work the entire core, test balance, AND burn max calories!" – Lindsay Wright of Lindsay's List
Lindsay's exercises to try:
Tip #3: Use resistance bands to work on "splitting abs"
"I love using a looped resistance band or bungee ropes for standing ab bends. I started doing them early into my pregnancy when I started getting 'splitting abs' and it totally strengthened my whole core and stopped my abs from splitting!" – Kim Ludeman of Trainer-Kim
Kim's exercise to try:
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Falconry and Hawking has been important skill in a variety of places through out history. It is the sport of nobles and nomads, and many in between. In some places and times, Raptors are bonded to people, using their magic connection to everyones benefit. It is only natural that magical items connected to raptors and Hawking came into existence.
Falconry and Hawking is the sport of the nobles, rich, and important. It is to the nobility of the day and age as Golf is to the executives of today.
In other places it is an important tool for hunting and scouting. Falconry and Hawking makes short work of hunting small game.
Any important area of endeavor will eventually attract innovative technology for its tools. Given a fantasy realm, magic is that technology. It is only natural that magical items related to raptors occured.
This scroll (and codice) is about said items, magic items and charms used for hawking and falconry. Most of these items will not be "one of a kind", they will be common enchantment… developed a long time ago and passed on to apprentices down the line.
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Gloves of Command are raptor gloves that cover the hand and the entire length of the forearm. They are made of firm leather, with strong angular cuts. What helps make them distinctive is the line of shiny brass rivets along the bottom edge.
The Glove, when worn, grants the wearer an increase of personal confidence, which translates into a slight plus when dealing with person skills, and a good plus when dealing with Raptors.
The true magic of the glove, which normally requires spell energy to activate, allows the raptor to hear and respond to loudly spoken commands even when they are far aflight.
The Glove of Bonding is a large soft comfortable hawking glove, a trusting glove... a glove you need to trust the raptor not to punch through.
The soft leather is intricately tooled with a coursing pattern akin to Celtic knot work and scrollry. It will look aged and comfortable quickly, especially with the claw scratches on it.
Each glove must be made for a specific raptor. The raptor's name will be worked into the tooled scroll work.
The Glove, when worn, allows for a Bond between the raptor and wearer. This allows for telepathic contact between the raptor and the human. It will also allow the wearer to do some of the more interesting bonded magics with enough effort (see through the eyes, share the sensation of flight, or even transfer into the raptor).
These gloves can be used to train a bond between a pair. As they bond grows stronger (or as the Human gains skill in its use), they will not need the glove at all. However many still hang on their glove so they may share the sensation with others.
This stand has been enchanted so that any raptor who stays on the stand will become calm and soon fall asleep without a hood. Great for calming down agitated birds or to force injured birds to rest.
A side note: If a person leans upon the stand, they will often find their mind waundering... eventually they become lost in their day dream.
The Eyepiece of the Falcon is traditionally a monocle or worn magnifier. However, if your world has advanced some, eye glasses or goggles would also be possible shapes.
No matter what the actual shaped, the item has fine etching along its metal rims. The etching is a feather pattern.
The Eyepiece increases the sight of the person wearing it. It grants stronger distance sight (eyes of the falcon).
In addition it sharpens the sight of the wearer so they can more easily spot allows any bird they are currently flying.
With the expenditure of personal magical energies, the wearer can also transfer their sight to the falcon (or the raptor being flown). They can see what the raptor sees. This is handy for scouting, hunting, and spying.
Some people simply need help in dealing with these near wild creatures. Thus the Jesses of Obedience were created. They make the unruly raptor more obedient and able to understand/ follow the directions of their flighe, allowing them to be flown more easily. It is helpful in training as well.
In short, they grants pluses to Hawking rolls.
These Jesses have small gold beads in their knots. That is the only way to determine what they are. If those beads are removed or fall out, the item is depowered.
There are some less savory uses for these items. Jesses are simply some leather thongs that can be put on the wrists of smaller humans. Those people find themselves more obedient and less free in their thinking. These are useful for those of the Evil Cultist persusasion... and could be found in a Garage Sale from Hell.
This is more of a charm than a magic item. The Cord is a small cord with two dozen or so brass and glass beads. It examined carefully, one will find one tiny single barb (the main shafts that slide off the central hollow shaft) inside each bead. The cord is wrapped around the wrist (usually held with a single line knot).
The cord is a charm, granting a simple +1 to Hawking rolls.
The feather is an oversized one, with a wrap of gold and copper wire around the lower quill. There is a fringe of small beaded cords off the gold and copper wire wraps.
Running this feather along the feathers of a bird will both strengthen and smooth the feathers. (The Birds seem to enjoy this effect.) It will also promote rapid regrowth of lost or broken feathers. Regular use will allow a rapid return to full flight in 1/3rd the time or a month if no return was expected.
Running the feather while humming a charm will also help the bird recover injuries to bones and muscle.
One little know side effects, well unknown to all but regular bird trainers, is that this works on human hair. This could explain why those that care for birds often have such long, lovely, hair.
These are tiny green patina bells attached to a trained raptor's legs above the jesses and the master's glove. The specially-made pair of bells will each ring with a different tone, designed to carry a long distance. The bell on the glove will "ring" slightly, if pointing in the direction of the bird's bells. The tone increases as they grow closer. The disadvantage is that it makes a great deal of noise in general use (especially when the two bells are close).
There are small bells used to keep track of children which use the same enchantment.
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Kurdish-Arab tensions continue to grow in northern Iraq
BAGHDAD — In another sign of the growing tension between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs, a Kurdish political coalition in one northern province is boycotting provincial council meetings until the main Arab party there cedes council leadership positions.
Iraqis in all but four of the country's 18 provinces went to the polls in January to elect new provincial councils, which are similar to American state legislatures. The new councils held their first meetings this week.
In the northern province of Nineveh, however, where Sunni Muslim Kurds and Sunni Arabs are competing for power and territory, the Kurdish coalition, the Nineveh Fraternal List, walked out of the council's inaugural meeting.
Kurds had been in the majority on the council until the January elections, but then the main Arab party, al Hadbaa, won slightly more than half the seats, and the Kurds fewer than a third. The Kurds vowed not to return until the Arabs hand over two of the council's top three leadership positions.
"We have the second-most seats and deserve to occupy some of the executive offices," said Darman Khatari, a Fraternal List spokesman.
Members of al Hadbaa, a secular and mostly Sunni Arab nationalist party, call the Kurds' demands unreasonable, especially given the council's makeup.
Local officials in at least one predominantly Kurdish city, Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, have announced that they're cutting contact with the provincial council until the Fraternal List's demands are met.
"The people of Sinjar demonstrated yesterday in protest against the exclusion of Kurds from the administration of (Nineveh)," Dekheel Qasim Hassoun, mayor of the mostly Kurdish city, said Monday. " . . . we have decided not to acknowledge or deal with the new governor."
Hashim al Tael, a Sunni Arab national lawmaker from Nineveh, said the disagreements are troubling, especially because they emerged so early.
"This is just the beginning," he said. "We may witness much more."
Tensions between Kurds and Arabs aren't new in Nineveh. But they're rising fast, and U.S. officials are worried that they could quickly explode into large-scale violence.
In many ways, the Kurd-Arab problem may be the biggest threat to Iraq's long-term stability. Leaders on both sides have suggested that they'd resort to arms to protect their interests in disputed areas.
Attention has focused on the Arab-Kurdish dispute over Kirkuk, an oil-rich city just south of Kurdistan where Kurds are fighting to reassert control after Saddam Hussein forced them out and Sunni Arabs took over.
However, Nineveh and its capital city of Mosul have remained far more violent than much of Iraq has. U.S. military commanders have said they'll keep troops there past a scheduled June 30 withdrawal date if Iraq's government agrees.
The province's northern and western borders touch Kurdistan, Iraq's semi-independent northern region, where Kurdish leaders have been struggling to gain greater autonomy from Iraq's Shiite-led central government.
Though Sunni Arabs make up the majority of Nineveh's population, Kurds are a large minority. Both Arabs and Kurds in Nineveh have been competing for the loyalty of the area's other minorities, which include Christians, Shabaks and Yazidis.
Despite the Arab majority, Kurds held most of the seats on Nineveh's provincial council before January's elections — largely because many Sunni Arabs boycotted the last provincial elections in 2005.
While in control, Kurdish leaders moved to expand their reach in Nineveh over the past three years.
Today, Kurdish security forces, known as the Peshmerga, patrol many areas of the province. In hundreds of schools, children learn Kurdish curricula from teachers funded by the Kurdish Regional Government, despite the fact that the province is constitutionally under the control of Iraq's central government.
In January's elections, al Hadbaa candidates ran on a pledge to push out Peshmerga forces and reverse the Kurdish expansion into Nineveh.
Voters apparently liked what they heard, though Kurds fared better than many had expected given their numbers in the province.
Al Hadbaa won 19 of 37 seats. The Fraternal List took 12. The mostly Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party won three. Under required quotas, Christian, Shabak and Yazidi candidates were given one seat each.
During the new council's first meeting on Sunday, members voted to select five top leaders: a provincial governor, his two deputies, a council speaker and his deputy.
All but one of the positions went to al Hadbaa. An independent Turkoman, Hasen Mahmoud Ali, was selected as the governor's second deputy, but Fraternal List members want the selections cancelled and two of the top three positions given to Kurds.
In an interview broadcast on an Iraqi radio station Monday, Atheel al Najafi, the head of al Hadbaa and Nineveh's new governor, said the Fraternal List's requests are unreasonable.
He said he believes that coalition leaders will quickly realize that they lack the numbers to make such demands and give them up.
(Reilly reports for the Merced Sun-Star. Abbas is a McClatchy special correspondent. McClatchy special correspondent Sahar Issa contributed to this story.)
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I'm an engineer - matter of fact, I'm an ELECTRICAL engineer - so one of the FIRST things I'd be looking to do is to TURN IT BACK ON! There has been idle and not-so-idle chatter about what would happen in response to EMP - Electro-Magnetic Pulse, which can damage or destroy some electrical systems. The fact remains that there are electrical systems which would not be severely impacted, and sophisticated electrical circuitry which is more vulnerable can be hardened against EMP.
I note with slightly amused interest that there is a new show this fall on US television about what might happen if the power were somehow turned off permanently. Sorry, no such thing as "permanent" in this instance. The laws of physics remain, and so long as they do, I intend to USE THEM.
Please fix the power Loren - what will I do without the Internet and the Nexus? Or video games?
Maybe have to rely on Solar energy.
My house has neither plumbing nor heat, and the only reason that it has electricity is because I use it to make my living. I suppose I could try re-training my old brain to draw with a pencil again. Once after a hurricane power was out in our neighborhood for three weeks, and I rather enjoyed it. People were visiting neighbors, reading books, making babies, and sitting on porches playing guitars. I'm really not a Luddite, but I prefer to keep dependance on technology in perspective.
Get solar panels which I should do anyway.
Good point, Lillie. A solar panel/battery system connected to low demand electric appliances would do the trick. But I don't see computers, routers, and big screen TV's powered this way. The problem, of course, is that we aren't independent. We depend on power for refrigerated groceries and for medical services, for water treatment and pressure. Even my sump pump, working away at this moment to keep the basement dry, would run out of battery power in a few hours. It's all very scary.
If it were just the electrical grid that is gone,
I would not miss the internet, but I would miss music.
Otherwise, my life . . . . not much change at all.
Like Steph S.-- probably spend some money on photo volt stuff.
And you go, Loren.
It depends how it were to happen. If power lines went down, I'd be looking for people like my late father - who once strung lines for the REA "Rural Electrification Administration" - to put them back up. In case of something like a major storm, this could take days, weeks, or even months. If the grid went down or the like, I'd be looking for people like Loren to fix it - or fix the items that an EMT pulse damaged if they were not sufficiently "hardened" to shield against such things.
In another scenario, it would be possible that there would be fewer power plants online. The first ones to go might be the ones powered by natural gas, if there were to be supply disruptions or if the price got too high. Most of the power comes from coal, which will last at least a few more decades. A good bit of power comes from hydroelectric, and I suppose in the event of a severe and sustained drought, those could stop generating power - although in such an event, we would have much more pressing problems than power - namely drinking water and food. Some of our power comes from such things as wind turbines, which would continue to operate. Nuclear plants will continue running for quite some time with no further fuel. Power generation will not go away quickly.
In any event, there would be some serious problems if the power went out for a sustained period - even locally. For one thing, all of our refrigerated and frozen food would be spoiled in a couple of days. For another, our indoor climate systems - most especially air conditioning and electrical heat - would not keep us cool or warm. Even in the case of gas or oil furnaces, if we use furnace blowers to distribute that heat throughout the house - making said furnace unworkable. In winter, that would lead to other serious problems, such as water or sewer pipes bursting. This wouldn't be as big of a problem as it sounds, since municipal water systems and wells require electricity to operate. Natural gas, as opposed to "bottle gas" or propane, would cease to operate too as there would be no provision to pump it and keep up the pressure. You'd run out of oil or propane, with no provision to get any more. Staying warm would be a problem. If you had a woodstove or fireplace, you might be able to stay warm using local wood or other combustables.
Assuming that the electrical systems in cars still worked, you could drive your car (and listen to the radio or CD player if you wanted) to get to an area with power - at least until the local problem was fixed. If the nearest gasoline station with power were beyond the driving range of your car, you would not be able to purchase gas, because gas pumps work on electricity. You'd need to take enough gas in gas cans (yours, or any others you could obtain from neighbors - some of whom might ride with you).
The backbone of the internet - everything from the wiring coming to your house or business, the router, the ISP, and the other internet hubs and end-users - also run on electricity. The internet would be gone, gone, if the power went out globally and permanently - even as unlikely as that would be to happen in the short term.
Banks primarily work via electronics these days. It would be at the very least cumbersome to do anything from cash a check to deposit a check into the bank. Electronic funds transfers would not work, so if you are being paid via electronic funds transfer - especially from a non-local source, you would not have access to your money. Forget ATMs.
Much of what you would need to buy or sell you would need to do by barter. That would be more workable in some areas than others.
In the mean time, we could read about things that interest us in books. If you run out of them, your local library has quite a few, many of which are on topics that interest you. Or, spend time with local friends or family, including one's significant other. Without television and video games to distract us, we would find we had a lot more time to spend with one another. If the outage were to be everywhere, so going somewhere else would not help, you could work on putting together a better community and to improve what was there.
News would be hard to come by. There would be no internet, TV, or radio news sources if the outage were extensive. Even telegraph would not work, nor would such things as amateur radio. We would have to rely on accounts from people travelling through - on foot or horseback. Diesel trains would have trouble being fuelled, but they probably could be - for awhile anyway.
Interesting exercise.
You're not kidding that "there would be some serious problems if the power went out for a sustained period". Not only do nuclear power plants only have a two week supply of fuel for backup cooling generators, chemical plants also depend on power for keeping hazardous and toxic chemicals in safe storage. We don't even think about chemical storage, we take it's safety for granted. The country would be littered by radioactive meltdowns and chemical disasters within a few weeks. There are seven chemical plants near me
You can look up this information for your location. The TV fantasies always ignore the really scary consequences.
What would happen without people to maintain it is devastating!
The History Channel came up with a series "Life After People", exploring what would happen in lots of ways if humans just somehow vanished. These are available on Youtube.
There are also TONS of buried chemical wastes, buried in containers which will last somewhere between decades and centuries, depending on the specifics of the chemical, which we have produced as a byproduct of making something else, which we do not know how to destroy or dispose of safely, but buried it hoping that someone in the future figures it out.
It's the same with nuclear wastes. As yet, there are no long-term storage sites for spent nuclear fuel rods - that was what the proposed Yucca Mountain site was to do, but there have been too many political and environmental issues with setting it up. So, instead, nuclear plants keep them in pools under at least 20 feet of refrigerated water. The pools were designed to store the used fuel rods for a few months, but as there's no long-term facility, many of them have been there for years, and plants have had to create more such pools. If the refrigerators go out, these rods heat up - at a heat level where they catch fire after rapidly boiling the water out of their pool. This is one reason that Fukushima caught fire. If there are a lot of them together, they may go critical.
If the nuclear power plant could produce power for its own use, the rods would be safe for a few months or a couple of years. When the reactor stopped producing electricity for the plant's own use, there would be a melt down. Multiply that by all of the reactors on earth and the result would be a disaster above any scale we've ever seen.
I hope that you have some sort of backup option. About a year and a half ago, while trying to fix up my previous house in Oklahoma before selling it, the town was hit by a tornado, and the power was off for 3 days - which spoiled all of the food in the refrigerator, and thawed everything in the freezer.
It's one thing to work out ways of getting electrical power back, and quite another to consider not having the ability to exploit electricity as an option. Thought experiment:
Imagine that something catastrophic happened -- say a devastating thermonuclear event that collapsed existing infrastructure and wiped out most of the minds adept at understanding and rebuilding it. We'd be in about the same place with material technology that we were a mere couple of hundred years ago, but without the skilled, smart people to move us forward. They do, after all, tend to congregate in likely target spots.
We would still have exploitable (if less readily) coal and oil energy (and thus steel) to allow the smart-ish & aggressive types to once again colonize those less agressive or a bit slower on the uptake. Information transfer would slow to a crawl, further enhancing aggressionist advantage even without the tool of Fox News. The immunosuppressive advantage enjoyed by western Europeans 500 years ago is gone, and knowlege of food diversity is more widespread; so the political power structure in rebuilt societies would likely be more even. It might even be a world without a superpower!
It is posible that the humanity on this planet may become extinct, but. until then, electricity willl always be there. There is so much generation, transmission and distribution capacity established that total losss of electricity is impossible. Let us not worry. Nuclear fusion is going to be the next source of energy and that will ensure that electricity will always be there.
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The notorious and pugnacious manager of artists including The Rolling Stones and Sam Cooke, Allen Klein took control of The Beatles' business affairs in 1969, following the death of Brian Epstein.
Born in America on 18 December 1931, Klein was the son of Jewish immigrants from Budapest. As a teenager he excelled at mental arithmetic. After graduating from Upsala College, New Jersey in 1956, he began auditing for record companies and bookkeeping for a number of showbusiness names.
In 1957 he began a business partnership with his wife Betty. Two years later he met singer Bobby Darin at a wedding, and offered to make him $100,000. Darin asked what he needed to do, and Klein reportedly said: "Nothing. Just let me go over your accounts."
Klein pursued Darin's record company for money he regarded as owed to the singer. Darin gave Klein free rein to audit his accounts, and duly received the cheque Klein had promised.
The hostile approach became Klein's trademark. He picked up further celebrity clients, and record labels began to fear his methods.
In 1963 Klein became Sam Cooke's business manager, negotiating an unprecedented agreement between the star and the music industry: Cooke ended up with the rights to all his future recordings, gate receipts for concert, 10% of all record sales and back royalties.
The deal had a huge effect on the music industry, though it's worth remembering that he was far from the only management svengali around at the time. Andrew Loog Oldham, for example, secured ownership of all The Rolling Stones' master tapes, which he then leased to Decca; a method he picked up from Phil Spector.
When Oldham fell victim to drugs in 1965, Klein took over management of the Stones' affairs. Jagger, initially impressed by Klein's business skills, recommended him to Paul McCartney, who was looking for someone to take over The Beatles' business matters. Klein met John Lennon on the set of the Stones' Rock And Roll Circus, but they didn't discuss business and little came of the meeting.
The Rolling Stones soon began to doubt the trustworthiness of Klein. They decided to fire him in the late 1960s, and in 1970 set up their own business. However, a legal settlement left Klein the rights to most of their songs recorded before 1971.
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Shortly after the recording of Rock And Roll Circus, Allen Klein read a comment by John Lennon that financial problems at Apple Corps would leave them "broke in six months".
The Beatles had been without a manager since Epstein died in August 1967. Although NEMS, headed by Brian's brother Clive, had looked after the day-to-day running, and Paul McCartney was mostly steering the band's artistic direction, there was little grasp of the bigger picture. There were, crucially, few people trusted to sort out the practicalities of business as Epstein had done.
By 1969 it was clear that Apple's finances needed to be addressed urgently. McCartney favoured his father-in-law Lee Eastman, but the others – led by Lennon, who on 28 January had appointed Klein his personal advisor on the spot after a meeting at the Dorchester Hotel in London – objected. They felt that Eastman would put McCartney's interests ahead of the rest of the group.
Klein offered to take a commission only on The Beatles' increased business, a change in his normal method of operating. If Apple continued losing money, he said, he would take nothing.
With Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr united, Paul McCartney agreed to pose for photographs with Klein as a sign of unity. However, although he pretended to sign a new contract, he never put his signature to it. The subsequent fall-out over the management of the group was one of the key factors in their break-up.
Allen Klein swiftly renegotiated their EMI contract, obtaining them the highest royalties ever paid to an artist at the time. EMI, in return, were allowed to release Beatles compilations, which Brian Epstein had always resisted.
The single Something/Come Together was released on 31 October 1969. Until then, The Beatles had never lifted a single from one of their albums; they had either been stand-alone, or released on the same day as their parent album. The release illustrated the band's shifting attitudes towards money-making and artistry.
Klein's action gave The Beatles a hit and some much-needed income. He also helped resurrect the abandoned Get Back project, which became Let It Be. Klein brought Phil Spector to England to work on it, a move which led to years of resentment from Paul McCartney.
Apple Corps was overhauled, and Klein drastically cut expenditure, cancelled charge accounts for many staff and friends of the band. Although in many ways necessary, Klein's business ethos was in stark contrast to the anything-goes attitude with which Apple was set up. He alienated many of those who had previously been part of the band's circle, and fired Epstein's long-standing assistant Alistair Taylor.
He also closed the loss-making experimental and spoken word imprint Zapple, which only released two albums: Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music No 2: Life With The Lions; and Harrison's Electronic Sound, which carried the liner note, "There are a lot of people around, making a lot of noise; here's some more."
Although McCartney deeply distrusted Klein, he admitted to him, "If you are screwing us, I don't see how." McCartney went on to sue the other Beatles in order to dissolve The Beatles' business partnership.
The solo years
After The Beatles split up, Allen Klein assisted John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the making of the Imagine film, and helped George Harrison organise the Concert for Bangladesh. The concert's financial arrangements led to a breakdown in relations with the former Beatles.
Rather than arrange payment and agree amounts with UNICEF beforehand, Klein had waited until after the concert, which led to questions about the amounts raised and a US tax investigation. Although some funds went to UNICEF at the time, additional amounts were frozen until the 1980s. Klein was also accused of keeping money from the live album.
Klein had also agreed with Harrison that Ono shouldn't perform at the concert, which led to a breakdown in Klein's relationship with Lennon. Klein was fired, but sued Lennon, Harrison and Starr for $19 million. In 1977 he settled for $4.2 million.
Lennon's 1974 album Walls And Bridges contained a song, Steel And Glass, which attacked Klein.
My Sweet Lord
An interesting footnote concerns George Harrison's 1971 hit My Sweet Lord. Harrison was sued by Bright Tunes Music due to the song's similarity to The Chiffons' 1963 song He's So Fine. Although he said he "wasn't consciously aware of the similarity", he was later found to have "unintentionally copied" elements from the song.
Allen Klein supported Harrison during the early stages of the lawsuit, and following the judgement advised him to offer to buy Bright Tunes as part of the settlement negotiations. When The Beatles collectively sued Klein, however, ABKCO chose to outbid Harrison for Bright Tunes.
In 1978 Klein paid $587,000 for the copyright of He's So Fine. Therefore, Klein became Harrison's legal opponent; in effect, he was attempting to buy the lawsuit in order to get damages he knew Harrison would have to pay.
Judge Owen later ruled that Klein had unfairly switched sides, and that he shouldn't profit from the judgement against Harrison or from the purchase of the song rights. Klein was awarded $587,000, to be payable by Harrison to ABCKO. In return, Harrison got the rights to He's So Fine.
As an aside, the demo version of Beware Of Darkness, from All Things Must Pass, is said to contain lines written about Klein:
Watch out now,
Take care
beware of soft shoe shufflers,
Dancing down the sidewalks.
Pushing you in puddles
in the dead of night,
Beware of ABKCO.
Allen Klein died on Saturday 4 July 2009 of Alzheimer's disease, at his home in New York City. He was 77.


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Following are the versions of Google's Android operating system, which comes with a variety of Google applications. Unlike the iPhone, each Android device manufacturer can overlay its own user interface features, which means the same version of the OS may not function identically in different devices. In addition, OS versions are rolled out at different times, and not all Android devices qualify to receive new updates. To save battery, a Doze mode limits background activity on a per-app basis, and Do Not Disturb can be set to allow repeat callers to get through. See Android. Nougat 7.0 - 2016 If the app is compliant, it can be resized and moved around on screen as with a desktop computer. The Settings menu shows more information without going to a second level, a slider changes the display resolution and emergency info can be displayed on the lock screen. A Virtual Reality mode supports Google's upcoming Daydream VR feature, and Doze mode helps with battery life. An internal architecture creates two stages: one that Google provides across all devices, and a second stage for vendor-supplied software. In addition, OpenJDK, the official Java open source runtime version, replaces Apache Harmony. Marshmallow 6.0 - 2015 Major features are Android Pay mobile payment system and standardized fingerprint support, automatic data backup to the Google cloud, more context awareness of the user in Google Now and integration of the SD Card into internal storage. Instead of agreeing to a slew of permissions before an app is installed, an app can be programmed to ask users for their consent when a resource is actually needed, such as contacts when e-mailing a photo. The Google Now voice search can be accessed from the lock screen, and Doze Mode sleeps the device after no activity for 30 minutes (notifications still come through). See Android Pay. Lollipop 5.0 - December 2014 A redesigned user interface, known as Material Design, with notifications adhering to the card-based Google Now system. The Java Dalvik runtime engine is replaced by Android Runtime (ART), which provides cross-platform support for ARM, x86 and MIPS CPUs. Enterprise features include separating personal and business apps. Lollipop defaults to encrypting the user's data to prevent theft in the event the device is compromised. The user's passcode is required to unlock the device and data. See Google Now. KitKat 4.4 (formerly Key Lime Pie) - October 2013 A slicker, more polished interface and a host of changes, including improvements for instant messaging, photo editing and a full-screen display mode that is more immersive. Support for older phones with less than 1GB of RAM memory. "OK Google" was added to activate a voice search. Jelly Bean 4.3 - July 2013 Low-power Bluetooth Smart was added with improved support for right-to-left languages (Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). Each tablet user can be restricted for parental control, store demos or other purposes. An autocomplete for the phone dialer offers numeric or name suggestions, and the OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics standard is supported for greater game realism. See Bluetooth LE. Jelly Bean 4.2 - November 2012 Major changes are support for multiple users on tablets (users have their own home screen and apps), a panoramic photo mode and direct wireless transfer to a TV set via Miracast (support in the TV or set-top box is required). Swiping gestures and predictive text were added to the keyboard. Jelly Bean 4.1 - August 2012 Jelly Bean can provide the user with information automatically throughout the day (see Google Now). Also included are improved camera features and notifications. An internal "Project Butter" makes Android run a bit smoother, and the speech-to-text function (voice typing) works without an Internet connection, although not quite as accurately. Jelly Bean also includes an improved voice search, which is the counterpart to Apple's Siri. Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 - October 2011 Introduced on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) combines Gingerbread and Honeycomb versions into one. ICS added a raft of new features, including facial recognition unlocking, resizable Widgets, Wi-Fi Direct and touchscreen keys in lieu of hardware Home, Menu and Back buttons. It also introduced NFC data transfer (see Android Beam). Honeycomb 3.0 - February 2011 Introduced on the Motorola Xoom, Honeycomb is a tablet-only version that takes advantage of larger screens. Touted as "3D Holographic," it adds toolbars at top and bottom and incorporates tabbed browsing and other desktop features. When plugging into a computer's USB port, Honeycomb uses Microsoft's Media Transfer Protocol (see MTP) for file transfer rather than connecting as a USB mass storage device. Gingerbread 2.3 - December 2010 Introduced on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus S, support was added for VoIP, enhanced copy/paste, front-facing camera, AAC audio and near field communication (NFC). Gingerbread allowed for screens with WXGA and higher resolution. Froyo 2.2 - May 2010 Support for Bluetooth hands free, push notifications, Wi-Fi hotspot functionality and greater screen resolution. Better Microsoft Exchange and Android Market integration. Eclair 2.0/2.1 - October 2009 Support for Microsoft Exchange mail. Search expanded to include SMS and MMS messages, and HTML5 support in the browser. More camera features, including flash, zoom and white balance. Donut 1.6 - September 2009 Search expanded to include bookmarks and history. More camera integration and features. Cupcake 1.5 - April 2009 Support for Widgets, such as a search box into the app on the home screen, virtual keyboards, MPEG-4 video and YouTube/Picasa uploading. Version 1.0/1.1 - September 2008 First version of Android released on the HTC G1. It included all the basic Google programs (search, mail, contacts, calendar, etc.) along with synchronization. In February 2009, Version 1.1 added the capability of saving attachments in messages.
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London is a collection of diverse boroughs, each offering a unique insight and experience into the historical and regal city. And the food's good too.
With the buzzing River Thames at its core, London is a multicultural wonderland with a host of foreign influences flavouring every aspect of daily life. So to get the most out of your visit in one of the world's most international cities, get into our London travel guide.
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Start with the big ticket items – Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Oxford and Regent Street, Madame Tussauds, Tate Modern, Tate Britain – and tick them off the list. Then look for more local highlights:
- Head to the Columbia Road Flower Market and enjoy tea and bagels at Café Columbia
- Enjoy a picnic in Richmond Park surrounded by deer
- Consult a stylist at Selfridges, Harrods, Liberty or Harvey Nichols and find some of the world's most fabulous fashion
- Finish your evening on the sidewalk tables of Bar Italia in Soho.
Central and West End
Museums, Georgian terraces, old pubs and breathtakingly expensive property are a great start for your visit to London.
The West End
Most visitors will head to the West End (which is actually one of the most central districts, wedged between the City of London to the east and distinct from London's West) and with every good reason. Stroll the narrow cobblestone
streets of cosmopolitan and colourful Soho and catch a world-famous show at a Shaftesbury Avenue theatre. Walk through the Roman piazza of Covent Garden with its covered market and pop-up shops, bustling with tourists visiting the Royal Opera. There are hundreds of clubs, cosy pubs, trendy cafes and
eclectic boutiques lining every street, as well as Chinatown for a bite to eat.
To the immediate southwest
You'll find plenty of the big draw cards like Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and Horse Guards Parade, all joined together by sweeping tree lined avenues like The Mall and Birdcage Walk. And to the west, prestigious Belgravia, Chelsea, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Mayfair, Notting Hill and Chelsea with their markets, million dollar mansions and green open parks. Worth sneaking a peek to see how the other half live.
Further west
Notting Hill was known for its gritty bars, alternative cafes and Jamaican culture long before its charms were amplified on the big screen with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, but you'll still find plenty of fun on its winding streets, especially on weekends when the whole area is taken over by a sprawling street market. Head back into the centre in one of the famous London cabs and visit the sweeping Hyde Park (lots of fun on Sunday at Speaker's Corner), elegant Kensington Palace and distinctly middle-eastern Marble Arch.
North London
Lying to the north of central London, you'll find countercultural Camden Town, former haunt of Amy Winehouse and epicentre of London underground life. The market at Camden Town is a classic and colourful visitor experience – with acres of open-air stalls to browse and great global food along the locks of Regent Canal.
You'll also find Tottenham Court Road and some of London's best furniture shops as well as literary Bloomsbury with its elegant garden squares and must-visit destination, the British Museum - home to centuries of human history, art and culture. Around the corner you'll find Senate House library, an art deco architectural masterpiece worth seeing and home to the University of London library. The building also features in a number of period TV shows and was rumoured to be Hitler's preferred choice of HQ if he ever conquered the UK.
Further north you'll find affluent Marylebone, the spectacular Regent's Park, home to London Zoo and the exclusive St Johns Wood, home to the famous Lord's Cricket Ground where you can take a behind the scenes tour.
East London
They used to say only those born within the sound of the Bow Church Bells were cockney, but East London now extends way beyond its humble origins as the city's working class district.
A modern update
Now you'll find swish contemporary business districts including Canary Wharf, Docklands and Whitechapel in the East and the vibrant Clerkenwell with its historic streetscape and the old Smithfield markets, along with boutique hotels, swanky bars and exclusive restaurants back towards the centre. The area received a new surge of development with the 2012 Olympics and shops, restaurants and bars have followed to this new financial and commercial hub.
The financial district
The City of London or the 'Square Mile' can also be considered in the east of Central and serves as the city's main financial district. You'll find plenty of swish
bars and expensive London restaurants as well as St Paul's Cathedral, the Royal Exchange and the Barbican crammed within the mediaeval walls of this former Roman settlement.
A more relaxed east end
Afterwards, you can visit the nearby Tower of London, or head north to Hoxton Square and Shoreditch, official stomping ground of the East End hipster. Or keep going east along the Thames to get to GMT, the World Heritage site Greenwich, best known as the 0 meridian and a popular Sunday destination.
South London
'Sarf London' includes Bankside, Borough, Lambeth, Southwark and multi-cultural Brixton across the river within its diverse boundaries with plenty of big attractions like the Globe Theatre, Tower Bridge, London Bridge, the Tate Modern and Imperial War Museum.
Rapidly gentrifying Brixton is still at the centre of the Caribbean community and is famous for its market and street art. You'll also find freshly gentrified suburbs like Battersea, Clapham and Wandsworth, suburban refuges for London's priced out middle class. With parks and London's quintessential gastropubs on every corner, they're a great place to go for a Sunday pub lunch or stroll around the park.
In the southwest, you'll find polite London suburbs like Richmond Park, Kew Gardens and Wimbledon – all popular places to visit in London on the weekend.
If shopping is your thing, you're in the right city. London is home to some of the worlds finest department stores, including Selfridges, Harvey Nicols, Harrods, Liberty and Fortnum and Mason, the Royal family's favoured shopping location. Dotted around the city, from Oxford Street to Knightsbridge, hop on the tube or catch an iconic London cab and you can be shopping to your heart, or your credit cards, delight in no time. You'll also find an array of boutiques and designer shops along Bond Street in the city, or to the south from Sloane Square down the King's road. Admire the fine houses as you go and slip in to one of the gardens to enjoy some greenery in the city.
Dominated by the impressive outline of Windsor Castle, the oldest and longest continuously occupied castle in the world and current home to HM Queen Elizabeth II, these twin towns of Windsor and Eton Riverside have a rather surreal atmosphere, with the morning pomp and ceremony of the changing of the guards in Windsor, and the sight of school boys dressed in formal tailcoats wandering the streets of tiny Eton. Windsor town centre is full of expensive boutiques, grand cafes and trendy restaurants. Eton, by comparison, is far quieter, its one-street centre lined with antique shops and art galleries. Both are easily doable as a day trip from London.
Oxford and Cambridge
You can do either in a day trip or if time allows make the most of your trip and spend a night.
Follow in the footsteps of Oxford's most famous alumni including Lewis Carroll, Bill Clinton and TS Eliot, as you explore the home of the worlds oldest speaking English school and enjoy a peaceful walk through captivating college courtyards and cobbled lanes. See the Bodleian Library, one of the oldest libraries in Europe. The unspoilt narrow alleys and ancient squares of this naturally beautiful town will definitely capture your imagination. A treat for 'Harry Potter' fans of all ages, Christ Church was used as one of the major locations in the magical films.
Spend time in the elegant city of Cambridge, home to the world-famous university of the same name, and explore renowned Cavendish Laboratory, King's College Chapel, and the Cambridge University Library. Have a look at the oldest college that's still in existence, Peterhouse, which dates back to 1284. If time and more importantly the weather is on your side, hire a punt (the local equivalent of a Venetian canal boat) and enjoy everything Cambridge has to offer from the relaxing River Cam.
The Cotswolds
If you've dreamed of visiting quintessential England, the Cotswolds is where you'll likely find it. Think dry stone walls and undulating countryside. And quaint villages filled with old-world churches, tempting inns and ancient woodlands. No matter the season, there are festivals to celebrate, gardens to explore, cream teas to indulge and so much more.
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Spring in London (March to May) can be quite unpredictable, expect temperatures from 20°C to lows of 10°C. Summer, too, can be unpredictable, with weeks of either continuous rain or joyous sun. The average maximum is 22°C and sometimes it may reach 30°C. Autumn arrives in mid September and generally lasts until late November. Expect cooler, wetter weather. Winter in London is very cold, with the average temperature at around 5°C, maximums averaging 7°C and minimums at 2°C.
From the airport
After arriving at London Heathrow, located around 22 kilometres from the city centre, you can easily connect to Paddington Station in London's central zone one via the Heathrow Airport Express, or to Victoria Station and other major hubs in the city's south by shuttle bus. There are also shuttle buses direct to Oxford and Cambridge straight from Heathrow. If you don't want to negotiate public transport after a long flight, there is always the classic black cab or our popular London Airport Private Arrival Transfer is the way to go.
In and around the city
Once in the city, there are plenty of options to get around in London – buses, rail, bike and of course, the eponymous Tube, a highly effective underground train network, with three and a half million journeys made on it every day. If you like to do things on your own, simply jump on the Tube or the Hop-on Hop-off bus armed with a handy London Pass and let the city take you where it may.
The cheapest and easiest way to get out of London to some of England's wonderful cities and towns is with your own car hire or via overland train. If you don't want to negotiate the sprawling circular roads of London, you might find it easier to hop onto one of our day tours from London to regions like Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and Bath, Leeds Castle, Canterbury Cathedral and Dover or Oxford, Cotswolds, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Castle Day Trip from London.
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Syrian President Hafez Assad died Saturday after a long struggle with diabetes, lymphoma, kidney failure and heart problems according to the Lebanese surgeon close to the Assad family in an interview with USA TODAY.
Assad's health has bogged him since November 1983, when he suffered his first heart attack and was hospitalized in a Damascus clinic. He was later diagnosed with a rare blood cancer that develops slowly, medical sources told AFP.
According to other medical sources what killed Assad was most likely his diabetic complications.
Diabetes is a disease in which the body is unable to properly use and store glucose causing it to back up in the bloodstream allowing sugar to rise too high. Untreated and poorly managed, it leads to various complications such as lymphoma, and retinopathy, both of which the late president Assad experienced in his final days while recovering from a stroke a few weeks back.
The reason diabetes affects the circulation is due to the fact that high blood sugar levels damage blood vessels. They make the walls thicker and less elastic, so blood has a harder time passing through. Diabetics also have higher fat levels in their blood due to the higher amount of sugars in the blood. These fats or lipids clog and narrow the blood vessels, sometimes completely, leading to heart attack, angina (heart pain), stroke or painful legs.
Although reported to be a vegetarian who abstained from alcohol, Assad's health has been on a downfall since his heart attack in 1983 –albawaba.com.
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Hirsch Gruener Veltliner Velt #1 2012
Region: Austria » Niederösterreich » Kamptal
Winery: Weingut Hirsch
Color: White
Varietal: Grüner Veltliner
Weingut Hirsch:
Johannes Hirsch. Kamptal Vintner with Vision and Perseverance 721 rolls of a wild boar is evidently the distance between the glassed tasting room to the prime vineyard sites Lamm, Gaisberg and Heiligenstein. The view from the Johannes Hirsch Winery in Lower Austria's Kamp Valley sweeps over stunning vineyard slopes and pauses at the almond tree. If you were naïve enough to believe that being a... Read more
Johannes Hirsch. Kamptal Vintner with Vision and Perseverance 721 rolls of a wild boar is evidently the distance between the glassed tasting room to the prime vineyard sites Lamm, Gaisberg and Heiligenstein. The view from the Johannes Hirsch Winery in Lower Austria's Kamp Valley sweeps over stunning vineyard slopes and pauses at the almond tree. If you were naïve enough to believe that being a vintner is always this romantic, you would immediately want to change your profession. Johannes Hirsch has truly achieved something here than many only dream: a harmonious symbiosis of steadfast tradition and modern esprit as lifestyle. This is a winery with roots from the 16th century that today represents the utmost quality in wine, innovation, and global thinking. It is no question that quite a portion of courage and perseverance was necessary to come so far. Terry Theise, the American wine prophet and importer of top Austrian wines, describes Johannes Hirsch, his "Vintner of the Year 2009", as fearless. Fearless because Johannes Hirsch follows no conventions in his quest for quality, makes no compromises, and is prepared to swim against the current. Fearless because he does not intervene and allows nature to take its course in the vineyard. Fearless because he also allows the evolvement of what has grown in the vineyard to occur unadulterated in the wine cellar. The result is vibrant wine, with either firm and mineral or creamy structure depending upon the aspect and soil of its vineyard of origin. These are wines that excel with clarity and remain appetizing glass for glass; the wines of Johannes Hirsch are seldom over 12.5% ABV. Since the end of the 1990's, Riesling and Grüner Veltliner of exquisite clarity and lightness have become his signature. The top wines carry the names of their vineyard of origin: Lamm, Gaisberg and Heiligenstein. "Trinkvergnügen" has also enjoyed world-wide success. For a wine of such finesse and minerality to be categorized as an "entry level" wine is quite ironic. All of Johannes Hirsch's vineyards are cultivated biodynamically, but this is a logical consequence for him and not something that he blows his horn about. The quality of his wines speaks for itself since the conversion to very old traditional cultivation methods. Despite his relative youth, Johannes Hirsch exudes a certain calm poise. He manages the winery together with his father and his wife Sandra, who studied marketing. He manages to find plenty of time for his young children, Marie and the twins Florian and Josef. He exerts the same calm patience with his children as he does with his vines, allowing them to become who they were meant to be. Read less
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