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Loans can help us achieve the things we want in life. Whether it's that new car, that extension to your home, the financial freedom to chase a business dream or anything else, a loan can be a huge help. When it comes to loans though, which bank should you go with? It's an answer with a great many potential answers, and NatWest are one of them.
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Our Thailand all inclusive packages are our highest selling packages from all as Thailand tour is cost-effective as well as entertaining. If you want to have fun on lavish beaches and on the same time want to enjoy South-Asian culture with monk temples then this is the best place for you. These travel packages to Thailand are cost effective as well as inclusive packages that offer you best at less cost. These cheap packages to Thailand are best to explore this place, their people, their culture, and a shopping hub where you'll be getting a great variety. With that Thailand, the cuisine is considered as the best cuisine in the world and not in restaurants its street food is world famous and it's best to go for those if you want to enjoy their food. There is also a floating market there where vendors sell foods and other things on boats. You can enjoy lake view and with that do some shopping. Talking about lakes they have world best pink lakes with pink water lilies.
• 03 nights' accommodation in Phuket
• 02 nights' accommodation in Pattaya
• 02 nights' accommodation in Bangkok
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• Full day Phi – Phi Island tour with lunch in Phuket
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• Bangkok city and temple tour with Gems Gallery
• Safari World and Marine Park
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Day 1: After reaching Thailand International Airport, meet our representative at Phuket who will take you to booked hotels. Complete check-in formalities and relax for some time. Then you can explore the city with beautiful beaches, street food, and markets. It has rich nightlife as well as great sculptures to be visited in a day.
Day 2: Next Day, after breakfast go for Phi Phi island, you will be reached there using the ferry. It's one of the popular destinations in Thailand. After reaching there you will come to know why it's the best place as you'll be enjoying Maya Bay Landscapes their that are outrageous. Enjoy lunch at the beach with a wide variety of foods available there both street food as well as lavish restaurants. With that, you can enjoy lots of water activities like swimming, snorkeling. Return back to the hotel. Stay Overnight.
Day 3: After breakfast, you will be taken further for city tour where you can explore different temples, local cultures, and Buddhism inspired monuments. There are also Portuguese inspired monuments at this place with great sculptures. With that, it has one of the vibrant markets in South Asia where you will get lots of colorful things for your house decoration as well as clothes. Wat Chalong is a revered Buddhist temple on the island, pay a visit. Explore Rawai Beach, Sea Gypsy Village and Cape Promthep. The rest of the day is at leisure. Overnight stay in Phuket.
Day 4: After breakfast, take flight for Bangkok by visiting our representative. Further, check our reach our executive at Bangkok who will further take you at Pattaya which is 2 hours away from Bangkok. Our Bangkok Pattaya tour package is mesmerizing and sensational beach destination. Views here will be breathtaking and paradise on earth. Here you can do all fun for chill yourself either you want to hit the bar, go to the beach and want to have a super relaxing massage. Everything and anything that you want to cool down and enjoy Thailand will be available here. Its nightlife is considered as one of the most happening time. You can spend evening chillaxing or we recommend Alcazar Show where you can opt for an evening of a world-famous cabaret that can give the Lido and Moulin Rouge a run for their money. It has a grand theater with sitting of 1200 representing the vibrant art of Thailand, Alcazar offers a unique blend of acting, stage design, costumes, and glamor.
Day 5: Post breakfast, this day will be dedicated to Coral Island Tour with the beautiful Blue land island. Spend the day under the warm tropical sun – relax, swim, snorkel or just lay around and enjoy the beauty. You can also dive down into the waters to witness the marine life up and close. Return to the hotel. Enjoy the evening at leisure. Later, have a comfortable overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 6: Post breakfast, get back to Bangkok a place with great nightlife and endless pleasure and freedom available here. It's also called the city of the temple where you will be witnessing great art. Our city tour will take you to one of the amazing Buddhist temples around the city with beautiful location and monuments. Visit Wat Traimit, Temple of the Golden Buddha which is home to a 5.5-ton statue of the holy Buddha made from gold and is a fine example of art. Next stop comes at Wat Pho, Temple of the Reclining Buddha that is home to the largest and the oldest shrine. Enjoy a shopping spree at the Gems Gallery next. Head to the comfort of your hotel. Overnight stay in Bangkok.
Day 7: Last day you can visit vivid market or bars and enjoy the city pleasures here. Or you can visit Bangkok Safari or Marine Park. It's one of the popular zoos in the world divided into four parts- if you are fond of wildlife then this place is best for you. It has Safari Park, Bird Park, Game Park and Macaw Island. Several lunch options are available here for you to pick from. The evening is free for you to roam around in the city and see the vivid nightlife. Return to your hotel for a restful overnight stay.
DAY 8: Tour ends Next morning after breakfast checks out from the hotel. Get a timely transfer to the Bangkok International Airport for your return flight. The tour ends. Take these wonderful memories home and cherish these beautiful beaches forever with our vacation packages to Thailand.


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Don't worry, your Sensei is still around. Between football pratice, homecoming, and girls softball games it's been a hectic week. Things will settle down soon and I'll be back to reviewing vacuum cleaners. See you then!
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Somebody (I won't say who) asked what can you write about servers - they just get faster every year.
But vendors of server hardware, the CPUs that drive them, and of services based on servers aren't short of a few words on the matter. Speaking at last week's IDC ServerVision 2002 conference, Vernon Turner, IDC group VP, global enterprise server solutions, foreshadowed the buzzing box (or rack) scenario where IT executives move away from worrying about hardware and that the hardware would move into a cupboard behind the stationery cupboard. They would worry about delivering services. "That's what the business is there for, not to maintain hardware infrastructure," he added. Members of Sage-Au (Systems Administrators Guild of Australia) may be amused by this.
Mike Muller, VP and GM server and workstation operations for Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific, picked up the theme via the Utility Data Centre concept, where HP was investing "large amounts" to develop the next-generation data centre with "self-aware" management. A search for this concept on HP's Web site only brings up a discussion of the anticipated TCO benefits of server consolidation (using HP's 'Konsolidator' tool) and a picture labelled 'HP Utility Data Centre: server-storage-networks-middleware-systems management-operating systems'. More research to be done, I guess, but the idea appears to be a self-managing data centre which does a bit of everything. Echoes of IBM's project Eliza?
Gary Cotterill, business development manger, enterprise systems products, Sun Microsystems, confessed to being an old school Cobol programmer who helped "create the fake emergency that was Y2K - which was solved rather well", and then launched into a "then, now, and future" discussion of Sun's Risc-processor Unix server capability. He traced the evolution of Unix servers over the past 20 years from one CPU to the 106+ CPU monsters of today which also come with up to half a terabyte of RAM and petabytes of storage. This evolution had brought a one million per cent growth in scalability - a growth largely based on the interconnect (between processors) rather than Moore's Law (and you'd expect a Sun guy to point that out). The future included one of hardware and software self-sizing, self-diagnostics, self-healing and real-time capacity planning. Maybe the Sage-Au dudes will have to adapt.
AMD's manager, market development group server and workstation product marketing, Mark Tellez, was eager to dispel the Texas-based company's image as a 'fast follower' by stressing an impressive new patents track record. He described the move to 64-bit Intel architecture as evolutionary, and one which AMD could help along by making all its eighth generation processors able to run 32-bit and 64-bit applications natively. AMD's Itanium challenger, Opteron, formerly codenamed SledgeHammer, will debut next year in one- and two-chip workstations and in servers that handle up to eight hammers.
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A trained pianist, drummer, guitarist and singer/songwriter, Sivz's unbeatable musical background has been instrumental in her success in Vancouver's nightlife scene. She is regularly found spinning across top venues while holding her residencies at the city's prestigious underground club MIA and renowned after hours Gorgomish. In the past year she has shared the decks with high-profile international headliners including Claptone, Bakermat, Dusky, Chris Lorenzo, and Eats Everything to name a few.
The epitome of a house-head, Sivz is consumed by repetitive 4/4 beats, simple basslines, spoken word vocals, and evolved Chicago-house synths. But whether she's dropping funky, soulful house or beat-driven tech house, she is one artist respected in the scene for nailing her sound. Sivz is most known for her G-House specialty, mixing the attitude of rap & hip-hop vocals with the jackin' basslines of house to bring a twist to the house genre that makes the crowd feel an instant surge of swagger. She is also recognized for her ability to freestyle through the various sub-genres of house while programming a journey-like set flow.
With her strong musical foundation, Sivz naturally took the next step in exploring music production in 2016, remixing King Deco's "Read My Lips" in collaboration with I Know Karate. The remix charted on Hypeddit's Top 100 House Tracks at #38. Now heading into her 2017 season with many exciting festival and international bookings, Sivz is wrapping up a handful of originals to showcase to her new crowds.
She may have made it from the dance floor to the DJ booth, but Sivz has never stopped dancing. Both a beauty but moreso a beast on the decks, you'll experience this natural entertainer's undeniable passion for music first-hand when she hijacks the room with her contagious energy, even throwing on the occasional gas mask for shits & giggles.


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Lecture by Curator Karen Lemmey offers a controversial look at this renowned work
Brooklyn, NY – Dr. Karen Lemmey, Smithsonian American Art Museum's curator of sculpture, will present a FREE lecture titled "From Skeleton to Skin: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave" at the Kingsborough Art Museum on November 1 at 2pm. Powers' Greek Slave (1843) is the most highly acclaimed sculpture of the nineteenth century, so famous that Powers applied for a U.S. patent on the composition. This lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition Shaping a Vision: American Sculptors in Their Studios, which runs through November 12, 2016 at the Kingsborough Art Museum, located on the Kingsborough Community College campus.
Lemmey organized the exhibition "Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave," which is on view at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum through July 9, 2017. While conducting her research for the exhibition, she uncovered some previously unknown—and highly controversial—truths about the sculptor's working methods, which she will share with the audience.
Before joining the Smithsonian's staff in 2012, she was a research associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and served as monuments coordinator for the City of New York's Parks & Recreation. Lemmey earned a bachelor's degree in art history from Columbia College, Columbia University and holds a doctorate in art history and certificate in American studies from the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Kingsborough Community College is dedicated to promoting student learning and development as well as strengthening and serving its diverse community. Kingsborough annually serves approximately 15,000 full- and part-time students in credit and non-credit bearing courses in liberal arts and career education. As one of the City University of New York's seven community colleges – the only one in Brooklyn – Kingsborough provides a high-quality education through associate degree programs that prepare students for transfer to senior colleges or entry into professional careers. The campus is located at 2001 Oriental Boulevard, in the Manhattan Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Russia on Monday held a day of mourning for at least 171 people who died in its worst flooding disaster as questions mounted over whether officials did enough to warn of the impending calamity.
Flags flew at half-mast over the Kremlin and other official buildings and entertainment programmes were shelved as Russians asked how so many people lost their lives and property in the catastrophe in the southern Krasnodar region.
More than 25,000 people lost part or all of their belongings in the flooding, which overwhelmed the town of Krymsk after torrential rains and also caused significant damage in the neighbouring cities of Gelendzhik and Novorossiisk.
Several funerals took place at a cemetery outside the devastated town, where tractors had to be used to dig graves, while grieving relatives accused the authorities of failing to give a flood warning and lying about the true toll.
The embattled local governor described the floods as a "great surprise," but both pro-government and opposition newspapers showed rare unanimity in saying the authorities had badly failed to provide sufficient warning to the local people.
"The tragedy of Krymsk was a perfect demonstration of what slovenliness and hoping against hope brings about," said the pro-Kremlin Izvestia daily in a scathing assessment of the official reaction.
The Vedomosti daily said that flooding in the Krasnodar region was in no way a novelty and authorities were well aware of the risk, particularly after deadly floods in the summer of 2002 that also hit Krymsk.
"The catastrophe shows up the inability of the authorities to protect the population from natural disasters," said the opposition-inclined economic newspaper.
"People were not evacuated and were not warned about the threat," it said.
The staunchly pro-government Komosmolskaya Pravda asked simply in a stark headline over a picture of the Krymsk devastation: "Why so many dead?"
It noted that residents had received warnings about the severe weather through SMS messages and also information on the news ticker of local TV. "But, as the inhabitants of Krymsk say, most people knew nothing about this."
The Moskovskiy Komsomolets newspaper said tersely: "The Krymsk catastrophe could have been foreseen and averted.
The governor of the Krasnodar region Alexander Tkachev however described the flood as a "great surprise" and claimed that nothing could have been done to avert it.
"This is the same kind of catastrophe as an earthquake. What can be done? Man here can do nothing against this, he has no chance," he told Izvestia.
President Vladimir Putin, facing the most severe crisis since he returned to the Kremlin in May, ordered an inquiry to explain the massive death toll after viewing the disaster area from a helicopter.
The force of the water was so ferocious that many residents said they suspected the floods were caused by a release of water at a local reservoir on the Neberdzhai River.
Russian investigators were looking into documents and questioning officials for "further legal assessment of the how officials responsible for preventing the scope of the tragedy carried out their duties," the Investigative Committee said Monday.
Putin, wearing a black shirt, was shown on television at the weekend grilling officials about whether an emergency release of water was possible.
"Where did the water come from?" Putin asked government officials in televised remarks. Governor Tkachev swiftly replied: "It was raining."
The day of mourning also remembers 14 Russian pilgrims who were killed when their bus overturned in Ukraine on Saturday.
The dark weekend for Russia recalled other summertime catastrophes such as deadly wildfires in 2010.
At least 171 people died in the flooding disaster, with the district around Krymsk the worst hit, with rescue teams finding 159 bodies including those of three children, police said.
Krymsk is about 200 kilometres (120 miles) northwest of the Black Sea resort of Sochi where Russia will host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
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Our company is frequently involved in mergers and acquisitions, and we typically don't know the security posture and integrity of the IT resources in the company we're acquiring.
In the past, rather than conducting an upfront security audit, we simply opened the floodgates to allow network traffic to flow from the acquired company into our trusted environment. In one case, that allowed a virus to propagate through several parts of our network, requiring many hours of cleanup.
A security audit could have prevented that. But unless an upfront audit is written into the acquisition agreement, it can't be started until after the merger or acquisition is completed. Many target companies resist such upfront agreements, however, fearing the loss of sensitive information if the deal doesn't go through.
But that's not the worst of it. Once the acquisition deal is signed, the executive staff is in such a rush to integrate the companies that security assessments typically take a back seat to bottom-line profitability concerns.
Fear of the Unknown
It's difficult to determine the integrity of another company's infrastructure prior to establishing a trust environment between our environment and theirs. Here's what usually happens: The network team configures a dedicated circuit to the acquired company, throws up a firewall and asks the acquired company to configure its servers to set up trust relationships with ours. The most important goals are to give new employees access to our e-mail, human resources applications, company intranet and a few other critical applications. If the company we are acquiring sells a software product, its engineering team also needs access to our source code -- our company's bread and butter.
What we fear most is that the newly introduced resources may be infected with a virus. It's also possible that the other company's servers don't meet our security configuration requirements and are vulnerable to an attack, or have already been compromised.
I've seen incidents where the e-mail server at the acquired company had been fully compromised when someone added a packet-sniffing device to the network. The company had contracted out the installation and configuration of its e-mail server, and no one on staff was capable of managing the resource. The server was never maintained properly, so the packet sniffer went unnoticed for more than three months.
We need a security gateway product that can act as an interim measure until a full assessment can be completed, mitigating the most common problems we might encounter during an acquisition. We want something that offers good protection at a low cost and with few hardware requirements. The product must also be easy to manage.
We have other requirements as well. In the past, each company that we've acquired has had fewer than 200 employees and used minimal bandwidth. This is important, because any gateway product must be able to cope with expected traffic levels.
Symantec Gets the Nod
After a search, we selected the Symantec Gateway Security appliance from Symantec Corp. This appliance combines virus protection, Internet content filtering, a virtual private network and an intrusion-detection system in one box.
We planned to buy several appliances and preconfigure them for easy and rapid deployment. We planned to use them only until we had validated the integrity of an acquired company's infrastructure. Then we would remove them, apply our current standards and put the gateway aside until the next acquisition. But our plan ran into opposition from the network group, which is responsible for the day-to-day management and configuration of our firewalls.
The network team currently manages Cisco Pix firewalls with Solsoft Inc.'s centralized management software, Solsoft NP, and they were uncomfortable introducing another firewall product -- especially if they had to manage it. Doing so would mean additional training, familiarity with the product, support issues and extensive lab testing, the team complained. Like other departments within our company, the network group is already spread thin.
I explained that Solsoft NP may be able to manage the Symantec appliance's firewall component. This would mean that the network team wouldn't need to be intimate with the syntax or configuration of the access lists for the gateway device.
But they stood firm: They absolutely didn't want to manage any aspect of the firewall portion of the Symantec gateway. Instead, they suggested, why not use some of the extra Pix products they had lying around? These could work as an interim solution. But we'd still need the Symantec appliance for the other security functions.
We may end up not using the firewall portion of the Symantec product. But at this point, we'll get an evaluation unit in. Once we start lab testing, we'll have a better understanding of just how difficult the administration of the firewall is before making a final decision.


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Yesterday's news of the USADA charges against Lance have made numerous friends ask me what I think of the situation. It seems to be the same with many of my fellow Lance Armstrong Foundation supporters and volunteers.
I am not Lance Armstrong and I cannot speak for him so if you want his view you need to contact him.
My personal opinion is I hope the public does not confuse Lance the cyclist of years past with the work of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Any charges stemming from his cycling days are not issues with Lance Armstrong Foundation. They are completely two different aspects of his life.
I personally support Lance in his efforts to defend the recent charges by the USADA. Lance has done a great job to date defending himself on past allegations so I expect him to do the same.
I will not spend time focusing on the allegations. My time will be spent helping the 28 million survivors around the world. My work with the Lance Armstrong Foundation helps people affected by cancer and empowers them to take action. That will be my focus.
Lance is the founder and chairman of the greatest cancer fighting organization in the world and a great cyclist. It was his hard work, dedication and inspiring advocacy that has lead the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It was his fight which inspired me to get involved days after being diagnosed with cancer. He is a true inspiration to all cancer survivors.
I look on the bright side and I believe Lance unless proven otherwise, but again it does not affect my view on the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the outstanding work they are doing.
That is the way I look at it. The Lance allegations are not a reflection on the Lance Armstrong Foundation, there Executive staff lead by CEO Doug Ulman, the great staff, their partners and their awesome volunteers.
There are several hundred LIVESTRONG Leaders globally which will face some tough questions over the next few weeks or months, but we will remain focused on the foundation, their mission and supporting the 28 million survivors around the global.
I continue to support, volunteer and raise funds for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. I am glad Lance is leading us in the fight against cancer. All the drama and allegations that is going on right now does not change that.
Thank you Lance for creating such a terrific organization, inspiring me and allowing me to help others. No matter how this all works out I know you will still come out on top and continue to lead the fight against cancer.


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Trying leg spin, but batting priority: Pujara
Cheteshwar Pujara is already seen as India's next big batting star in Tests. But he is determined to evolve, even bowl spin, to become a regular in the limited-overs teams, as he explains in an interview to HT.india Updated: Mar 17, 2014 02:52 IST
Cheteshwar Pujara is already seen as India's next big batting star in Tests. But he is determined to evolve, even bowl spin, to become a regular in the limited-overs teams, as he explains in this interview. Excerpts:
You have established yourself as a Test batsman, how do you plan to reinvent yourself for ODIs and T20s? Are you fighting a perception battle?
It's a case of perception. If you look at my domestic and list A matches, I have a decent strike rate. I have done well in Tests in the last one-and-half years and I want to extend that to other formats. I have even started bowling, not just to get an ODI place, but purely to contribute in some form or the other.
It is interesting you have turned a leg spinner.
I started out as a spin bowler and then became a batsman. I used to bowl leg spin in junior cricket, but due to my knee injury, I had stopped.
Won't pivoting exert pressure on your knees?
I have been working on my fitness, so there is no chance of a recurrent injury. And I am just bowling leg spin, trying to get control and gain confidence by playing some club matches. But that is not my priority. It is batting, fitness and fielding, in that order.
In Tests, you can take time to get a look in, but in ODIs your strike rate must be healthy. Is it going to be a battle against your natural instincts?
There isn't a huge difference between Tests and One-dayers. When you walk in, you still have two new balls and you have time to settle down. The real difference is between Tests and T20s. In Tests, once I score around 60-70, I step up my scoring with a strike rate of almost around hundred. It is during the death overs that one has to play innovative shots. In T20 format, I have to play strokes from ball one. For that, I have to add a few shots, play a few more shots.
In Tests, you duck and sway against bouncers, but in ODIs and T20 you got to play them. Is that going to change your approach?
In the matches in India against Australia and England, where I scored big runs, I played pull shots quite naturally. On slower wickets, I tend to play the pull shot a lot. But I am still trying to improve.
I don't want to play the pull only to the short deliveries. I am working on how to play it against back of the length deliveries. I am practicing a lot and will have the confidence to play them in matches also.
How do you maintain the tempo between Test series?
I keep myself busy playing club, office and local matches in Rajkot. I also play matches in Mumbai.
While away from the game, my practice and sometimes travel with India A takes care of maintaining my tempo.
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Australia is chipping in to stop the illegal logging trade.
Federal Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig announced on Thursday that $8 million has been allocated to help stop illegal timber from entering international supply chains.
The Nature Conservancy and the International Tropical Timber Organisation will use the funds to help countries battling illegal logging set up verification systems for their timber exports.
Some Australian timber imports still come from illegal sources, the minister says, and the government can't stop the trade from home alone.
"It's a $60 billion problem," Mr Ludwig said.
"In Australia we also have a problem, it's nine per cent (of imports) estimated that we need to combat."
The move will bolster the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act, which came into effect last month.


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Addressing the challenges that face racialized licensees.
As part its ongoing diversity efforts, the Law Society of Upper Canada released a consultation paper, Developing Strategies for Change: Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees. The paper is the result of an investigation into the challenges faced by racialized lawyers and paralegals by Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group in 2012. This past fall and winter the LSUC held public consultations to gather feedback on the paper and its findings. Raj Anand, former chair and current member of the working group spoke to National about the initiative.
National: Why was it time for this study?
Raj Anand: Because there is an increase of professionals in the legal profession — it's now about 17 per cent of lawyers in Ontario by our last count — that are racialized and are experiencing challenges on both an individual and systemic level. But it's largely anecdotal evidence. There has been very little study of these issues. We thought that it was important to the mandate of the Law Society's acting in the public interest to look into these issues to verify whether the anecdotal evidence was accurate and to determine what would be within the jurisdiction of the Law Society to act upon it.
N: What, according to the study, are the obstacles faced by racialized licensees?
RA: The study showed that one's race is a constant and persistent factor at every stage of entry and advancement in the legal profession. To give you an example of how that came out in terms of statistical evidence, in the survey we asked racialized and non-racialized respondents to tell us whether a set of 17 factors — including racial and ethnic identity — created a challenge for them in their entry into the legal profession and separately in their advancement in the legal profession. And the results were quite striking: 40 per cent of racialized licensees said their racial or ethnic identity was a major factor. For non-racialized licensees it was three per cent.
N: Why is it important for the legal profession to properly reflect the society it serves?
RA: A more diverse legal profession has a lot of clear advantages. First of all, there is the simple issue of fairness. There is no reason why an individual should be held back by virtue of a characteristic over which he or she has no control and which is irrelevant to their skill, their intelligence and their ability.
A more diverse legal profession means that there will be lawyers from the various ethnic and racial communities that can better serve those communities.
And the existence of a more diverse legal profession also means that there will be role models. Role models in professional associations, the Law Society, the Bar Association and others, which will say a lot to high school students, to university students, to young lawyers about opportunity and their place in society.
From the standpoint of the law firm, greater diversity obviously has marketing and client service implications. The ability to speak a different language and the ability to understand and be part of different religious and cultural observances is integral to any kind of human relationship. It's no different with a solicitor and client relationship.
Diversity is also a very important aspect of the work environment. Studies have shown that just as a more gender diverse workforce is a more effective workforce, the same is true of a more racially diverse workforce.
N: Are there solutions to the problem?
RA: The solutions fall into a few categories. The first relates to the organizations that lawyers practice in. and what can be done to make them more welcoming and to create greater opportunity and to assist in advancement. So we looked at, for example, diversity programs within firms. Many of the large firms have the programs, in part as a result of the continued professional development requirements that we created a few years ago, where they can do this themselves.
Another is the Self-Assessment. The Self-Assessment on Diversity Issues, which is by analogy to what professor Amy Salyzyn spearheaded for the CBA. [CBA Ethical Practices Self-Evaluation Tool]I've been working in this area of human rights for a long time and it's been a sort of a truism. It's almost not even questioned that avoiding complaints or barriers or challenges is a much more effective strategy than remedying barriers and challenges after the fact. And that includes discriminatory acts and harassment and everything else.
And so how do you do that? Well, obviously one of the ways is through policies and training. The other is with this self-assessment tool. And that's a possible solution. And then there's a question of whether the Law Society should require these tools, use its authority as a regulator. But that raises issue because the Law Society, generally speaking, doesn't regulate firms or organizations. It regulates lawyers.
These are ideas that have come up, but we are seeking input.
N: What's next for the project?
RA: We're collecting feedback. We originally had 11 of these feedback sessions, and I think we'll probably get to about 20 or 25. There's e been a lot of interest expressed. In addition to sessions like the one we had in Ottawa, and the webcast sessions from Toronto, we are also meeting with individual firms, corporations, members from the legal community, professors and others. The feedback will help the Working Group propose next steps and make concrete recommendations for Convocation to adopt. It will ultimately be the Convocation's decision as to what is adopted in terms of mandatory or voluntary, or as I say, good offices measures in all these areas. The will be a debate at Convocation about this and hopefully we'll get our report passed.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
Katya Hodge is National's managing editor.


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I've a friend whose name is Rosie,
she said that she would like a Tea Cosy ...
OK I'll stop right there with the - umm - poetry (?) but honestly I did not realise until this was over 1/2 ways knitted that there was possibly some sub-conscious nominative determinism in my choice of Tea Cosy pattern for Rosie. This is called "Rosie Posy" - a lovely pattern by Loani Prior. Knitted body, crochet roses.
I have Loani Prior's fabulous book "Wild Tea Cosies" but "Rosie Posy" is available as a free pattern.
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Roses for Rosie
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Labels: crochet, hand knitting, tea cosy, tea cozy
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Gravesham in Bloom – Trash To Treasure
The Trash to Treasure project is series of community participatory artist led creative workshops to create coastal and recycling themed temporary art installations for Gravesham in Bloom 2015.
The aim of the project is to engage the community into the Gravesham in Bloom themes through a high quality and inspiring arts experience. LV21's workshop programme focuses on working in collaboration with stakeholders such as council staff, volunteers and chosen community groups to create functional, temporary art interventions in key locations to support the overall project. In addition, LV21's shipmate artists provide practical information to share skills and inspire participants to develop further interventions and installations using a variety of recycled materials in their own allocated locations along the project trail.
Focus for the artwork includes:
- Tyre Art
Upcycling old tyres into nautically themed planters mainly located around the two identified town centre car parks;
Tyres transformed into nautical, ground installed planters such as varying sized anchors, boats, waves, stripy lighthouses, pebbles, sea shells, fish, sea creatures, a magical underwater scene…
- Bicycle wheels & tyres
Upcycling old bicycle parts (especially spoke wheels and tyres) to form parts of / link in with the car tyre planters;
Bicycle wheels transformed into wind powered whirligigs / pinwheels and floral shapes, wind chimes, sundials…
- Wooden pallets
Upcycling used freight pallets to create planting structures fitting to the nautical theme;
Pallets transformed into vertical garden planters, trellis structure, pier / raft theme, beach signage displaying nautical phrases…
Participants also had an opportunity to create vinyl designs for window/hoarding displays.
Participating artists:
LV21 www.lv21.co.uk – lead arts organisation
Päivi Seppälä / Poppana www.poppana.com
Wendy Daws www.wendydaws.co.uk
Wendy Smith www.wendysmith.co.uk
Xtina Lamb / Printed Wonders www.medwayfineprintmakers.co.uk
Thank you to the following organisations for their 'trash' donations:
- www.trithebike.co.uk
- Prestige Panel Craft / Daniel Gale
- Watling Tyres
- London Port Authority – Gravesend
- Gravesham Borough Council recycling / waste management team
- Gravesham Borough Council Arts and Heritage Team
- Gravesham Borough Council town centre management
Thank you also to the commissioners and funders:


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We, at the Faulkton Area Schools, believe:
• The students of this school are the reason we are all here.
• All children can learn in many different ways.
• Self-esteem is critical to student development and learning.
• Children can benefit more from their schooling if they come to school ready to learn.
• Supportive parental involvement contributes significantly to a child's learning and development.
• Adult modeling is a powerful means of teaching young people.
• The school environment should be safe and conducive to learning.
• Application of learning enhances retention, participation, and motivation.
• Effective learning involves thinking at a variety of higher order thinking levels and goes beyond memorization.
• Education is a responsibility shared by the school, parents or guardians, and the community.
• The teachers of a school are the school's greatest resource.
• The
students of a school are the community's greatest resource.
The Faulkton Area Schools promote mutual respect, civility, and orderly conduct by and among board members, teachers, administrators, staff, students, parents and the general public.


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Lawyers challenge Hariri tribunal's right to exist
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Lawyers for the four men indicted by the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon say the court has no right to exist and should dissolve itself.
Lawyer Emile Aoun told judges at the tribunal on Wednesday that the U.N. Security Council resolution that created the court was an illegal violation of Lebanon's sovereignty. Aoun is defending the absent suspect Salim Ayyash.
The tribunal was set up to investigate the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a bomb blast that also killed 22 others.
The court has indicted four members of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group which, along with its allies, now holds a majority in Lebanon's Cabinet. Hezbollah denies involvement in Hariri's killing and has refused to extradite the suspects.


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Sometimes during my lunch break I find some crazy rooms in our office block and these are one of those rooms.
It's so simply yet so prefect for a lady and of course moments to just have a Selfie overload!!!
I decided why don't I show you what a Friday would look like in my world of lunch breaks.
What I love about this fitting room are the simple hangers on the side which is covered with silk fabric and allows you to hang up your garment while you are trying on something else, so cute. The white seat I found out was an old bench that was found laying on the side of a road and was just given a much needed paint job. The beautiful mirror was bought at a craft store in town that is now closed down. I was pretty upset when I found out but lead me to wanting to DIY my own. That will be a different post on its own.
Beanie – H&M Top – Models Own Jeans – Mr Price Shoes – Tekkie Town
I am so sure that the first thing you notice about my outfit is the bright red beanie on my head, I love wearing it when I really feel like standing out or just added some colour to a dull outfit. My love top was a top I had bought from my church, Hillsong Cape Town, when we had our Colour event this year. The theme was "The greatest love story ever told" and that is why love is printed on the shirt. Blue jeans are a must have for everyone. The one I have on is an ankle grazer and I love wearing it with heels or a boot but today I wore it with my famous comfy shoes "chucks".
As you can see I love a Selfie every now and then. I go to the extreme sometimes but that's just me.
Show me your best Selfie and tag lion20two on Instagram or nerdlion22 on twitter. Can't wait to see your looks
God bless xxxo


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Hey ya'll!
Thanks for the emails and package full of goodies and letters and everything this week! :) Glad hear about the St. George fun as well as Nan's recital! I sure miss those three hour recitals, but I'm sure everyone did great! Good luck to the two little people who are participating in festival this weekend! ;) BIG congratulations to Bryce on the math competition!!! I'm glad I have such awesome siblings that I can brag to everyone about. :)
So as you could probably guess from my subject, we had an exciting week! Sister Hatfield's birthday was last Wednesday and our district leader invited us to a members house to do service that day-bottle feeding boxer puppies. (cute right?!) So he (our district leader) had told the lady the day before that Sister Hatfield was having a birthday and asked if there was anything she could do. SOO- we just barely introduce ourselves to this lady and she turned to Sister Hatfield and asked if it was her birthday, Sister Hatfield responded in the the postive, and this lady busted out a can of silly string and started singing and covering her all over with silly string! SO comical!!! hahah couldn't stop laughing! it was great! It was at this same member's house that we also held legless lizards and a parrot! She is great! I'll send some pictures eventually. I'm sending some pictures in the mail this week btw so keep your eyes peeled for them.
Dad asked about Allison!!! She's on date!!! We went on exchanged this week so I actually wasn't there when she agreed on a date to be baptized-but I was so excited to hear about it!!! We got a call from Sister Hatfield and Sister Hatfield just said "guess what just happened!!" and I said, "Allison is on date?" (not being completely serious), and Sister Hatfield said, "she sure is!" I was so shocked and thrilled I just started bawling. Happiest moment thus far on my mission-hands down. She also came to church yesterday which was exciting. :) She liked it and is planning on coming next week which is good! Sister Hatfield and I are doing a musical number in sacrament meeting next Sunday so we're hoping that will be motivation for some of our investigators and less active friends to come!
Well thanks so much for all the love and support! Keep sharing the gospel through your example in your corner of the world! Look up to and love ya'll so much!
Sister Hedelius


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Ann Coulter, the leggy blond scourge of all things leftish, is releasing her latest book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," on this supposedly demonic day. In it, she asserts, "Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe."Meanwhile, things look a lot less apocalyptic here in Madison. We're planning to nurse our hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia over a tall cool one while pondering the mystery of why the squares of the first seven prime numbers add up to 666 and watching the sun set on Lake Mendota from the Edgewater pier (666 Wisconsin Avenue).
Unless, of course, the Beast makes it rain cats and dogs. Or, worse, frogs.
UPDATE: No, not frogs -- tornadoes.


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Vicki Behm
February 11, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Event Navigation
A Retrospective, a gallery-wide solo exhibition. In the long arc of her career, Vicki Behm has shifted easily between the restrained elegance of architectural commissions to quirky line drawings that immortalize the beauty and sheer joy of extraordinarily ordinary things. Vicki's hand-drawn journals are treasure troves of personal documentation and convey an intimate, wide-eyed look at a life lived in real time. With much of her artwork, Behm highlights a long love affair with Mexico and its deep folk traditions. Handmade paper, labels of elixirs and ephemera from Oaxaca are collaged into her signature ink drawings. Her Day of the Dead Skeletons—there are a few gangling giants in this show—are more human than ghostly. Vicki's dramatic installation, 1000 Drawings of NYC, last seen in 2016 at 440 Gallery, will be represented by a selection of drawings that include new works created for this show.
Thu-Fri 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Sat-Sun 11:00 am – 7:00 pm


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Dr. and Mrs. (Nancy) David Rice Boyd of Honea Path, S.C., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Angela Lauren Boyd, to Ryan James VanGorder, both of Charleston, S.C.
The future groom is a son of Elaine and John Evans VanGorder, of Ellwood City.
A graduate of Belton-Honea Path High School, Honea Path, S.C., the future bride earned a bachelor of science degree in business management from Anderson College, and earned a master of education in higher education administration from Clemson University. She is the director of MBA Employer Relations and Professional Development at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C.
A graduate of Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, the future groom is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and is studying for a master of engineering management degree from Old Dominion University. He is a reactor operations engineer with Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corp. in Charleston, S.C.
A July wedding is planned in Charleston.


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Oh boy. This is going to be quite an entry.
We've got two interviews with police officers.
So that's going to be a thing.
But first, something a little more laid back.
Fritz Ritter (Doorman)
The doorman as an occupation is (surprisingly enough) still alive. I still see doormen (usually not women) in the front of hotels in Boston or somewhere else they have big hotels. But otherwise I almost never see them, probably because of the rise in automation and technology with regards to customer service making them unnecessary.
Ritter's interview is mostly concerned with differences between when he started and the 70s:
The neighborhood's not so good any more like it used to be. Used to be very nice, one of the best neighborhoods in the city—Nice restaurants, nice movies, and nice people. You know what I mean? I mean very high class. … There's still some good ones in this building, very nice ones. Mostly middle class, I would say. and some hippies too. But I think it will go down a little bit more. (p. 126)
Notice that "not good any more" is conflated with more poor folks coming around. The issue of class would likely be felt in a big hotel and especially one where you mostly have upper class customers. The biases from the upper class folks might transfer over time to the doorman or the doorman may have it to begin with, which is why they applied.
Ritter also talks about how it isn't just the people but also the rise of burglaries. He notices it's gone up since he got back from the war in 1945. This made me think about the after-effects of war and how war can continue to affect the economy in small (and big) ways long after it is done. I'm not sure what demographic the robbers meet or if any of them were vets but it's not unfair to say the wars can cause violence back home.
He says having a union means things like a vacation and 40 hours a week as well as 5 days. He's been at it for around 40 years so it's safe to say he's seen many changes. Ritter considers the change with unions a positive one.
Work is inherently controlling in many ways and Ritter's interview highlights that point here:
You had to wear hats always. I had a problem one time with the boss. I didn't want to wear a cap. I don't know why. I always take it off. He comes by, I put it on. He goes away, I take it off. Off and on, off and on.
But that's the way it is.
If tenants came by, you had to stand up. If you were sitting down, you'd stand up. as a doorman then, you couldn't sit like this. When I was first hired, I sat down with my legs crossed. The manager came over and he said, "No, sit down like this" —-arms folded, legs stiff. If tenants came in, you had to stand up quick, stand there like a soldier. You only spoke when they spoke to you. Otherwise, you don't say nothin'.
(p. 127)
"That's just the way it is" and similar refrains are the long-standing tradition of the resigned. It's not necessarily a bad thing to notice wrong and accept it inasmuch as you are forced to (or else not be able to pay rent). But usually "that's just the way it is" is referring to the fact that it's Status Quo and often Status Quo is God (figuratively).
More to the matter at hand (at head? chest? foot?) the control over the worker isn't just about how they speak but the ways in which they move. The ways in which they dress is also regulated as Ritter mentions (though not with the same sort of treatment I would give) and even your disposition towards everyone.
Through the mechanic of work, human bodies and brains alike are controlled. The preferences of the work is, of course, disregarded. And their preferences are constantly either overridden or pushed down as much as possible by the boss.
Interestingly enough Ritter talks about his own experiences with classism (he doesn't call it that) against himself:
When the house was high class, the tenants look down on me. When they used to see me on the street they'd make believe they didn't know me. There was a restaurant in here. I used to go there once in a while, they'd make believe they didn't see you. (p. 127)
But Ritter doesn't care and perhaps because it doesn't bother him he might not imagine the bother it may create for others that he has some biases of his own underneath.
Such as:
But I would like to see the house the way it was. If a stranger come in today, I stop him. I ask where he's going. Some of 'em give me a little trouble, especially the Democrats, the black ones. I call 'em Democrats. I don't want to say colored or white or anybody—just Democrats. (p. 128)
I've seen some weird ways us white people try to talk ourselves out of feeling racist, but just calling people of color democrats has gotta be one of the stranger methods I've seen recently.
Lastly, here's one of Ritter's final bits in the interview:
I hope God is good to me, that I have my health. so long as I feel good, I work, because I have a nice job and I don't kill myself. I wouldn't like to take off now and sit on the bench here, with the older men here. I wouldn't like it every day, like friends of mine. I'm active, I like to do something. (p. 129)
Why does "doing something" always have to equate to "doing work?" Can't playing with friends, reading books, going for walks, trying to get to know new people, travel and so on can't be "doing something" as well? None of these activities are necessarily meaningless just because they're not the job you've had for 40 years.
Vincent Maher (Policeman)
Okay, here we go. I don't usually make these interviews a point-by-point response (and that's not literally the case here, for what it's worth) but Maher's attitude is so despicable and arguable that I feel compelled to.
First off, "policeman" is a glorified title, he may as well be a traffic cop:
He presently directs traffic in Chicago's Loop. He had previously been a member of the Tactical Unit. Due to a personal grievance, he had resigned from the force. For a time, he worked as a bartender—disconsolately. "I had a deputy chief come in and a commander. They said, 'Vince, you're a cop. Get your fanny back on the job. I came back on the job and I'm happy." (p. 129)
Given what he says towards the end of the interview, that's debatable:
I'm in this Loop traffic. I don't even consider this a job. It's like R&R, rest and recreation. My day today is like—- (whistles) it's a no-no. It's nothing. I get up, I eat, and I blow the whistle. It's not very exciting.
(p. 137)
Only a page earlier Maher says:
I love risk and challenge. Driving a semi down the road is challenging. You never know what's going to happen. (Laughs.) Some guy passes you, cuts you off, you're jack-knifed. You blow a tire, you're gone.
I don't like a boring life. (p. 136)
So it seems pretty clear that:
- Maher doesn't like boring things
- He appreciates a challenge
- But isn't getting either with the traffic job
- And thus likely doesn't care for his job
Like I said, point-by-point.
The victim complex starts early and often with Maher:
I make an arrest on someone who commits a crime of violence. I have to resort to a physical type of arrest to subdue him, I might have to shoot the person. I'm chastised for being brutal. It's all right for him to do what he wants to do against myself or legitimate people, but in no way I can touch him.
I don't see the justice. (p. 129-30)
First off, who in their right mind actually chastise police when they're fighting for their life? Even me, an anarchist, isn't going to blame a cop for shooting back against someone whose shooting at them. Unless they instigated the incident to begin with maybe, but even then I'd understand shooting back and not wanting to die on a basic level.
Second, who says it's okay for the robber or whoever is committing a violent crime to attack other people? I am guessing there's even less people who are not only saying, "A cop defending themselves is always brutal and hence wrong." but also saying something like, "Also it's totally fine for the violent person to attack other people. Whatever."
This is a classic example of a police officer turning completely dissimilar situations (situations that involve cops provoking a shootout or a violent confrontation) and trying to act like some straw man is what's being criticized. You can only play the victim as a cop if you're completely strawmanning what other people are actually saying about your job.
Third, and last, yes to some extent cops should probably (if they are to exist at all) be more restrained than the criminals they are trying to catch. Yes, you may have to shoot a violent person but make sure there's as little collateral damage as possible and make sure you shoot their leg or some non-lethal option if at all possible.
I've been accused of being a bigot, a hypocrite, and a few other niceties. I'm a human being with a job.
(p. 130)
You don't deserve respect just because you're a human being. Do people who have committed various crimes, expressed little to no remorse and constantly try to harm others after deserve respect? Many people would argue no. They don't get a pass on their brutal and uncaring behavior just because they're a human being.
Also, I'm pretty sure some serial killers see themselves as "human being with a job" so that's not a very compelling statement. And more to the point, human beings with jobs are…human beings with jobs. Even excluding everything I've just said, humans are fallible and can thus fuck up at their jobs. And when you fuck up a job that involves protecting the lives of others then that deserves a bit more scrutiny than being a janitor, for instance.
This is just more of the "poor me, I don't get any respect because now people are criticizing my position!"
There's some comments about how white neighborhoods don't need him as much as black ones do. Mostly because black folks are involved in "actual crime". But as you might expect there's no real criticism or investigation on Maher's part about why that may be the case (even presuming that's true). Gosh, maybe systematic racism and slavery had a negative effect on people of color and their tolerance for us white people's bullshit. Can you blame them?
I mean, yes, you can. And you should obviously treat people equally with regards to crimes. But at the same time, the reasons why people commit crimes can vary wildly and that's always important to keep in mind. People of color, because of white supremacy, systematic racism and years of disadvantages tend to have less access to material needs.
This lack of access can lead to, for some, to commit crime out of desperation. But the same can be said of poor white folks (which Maher admits, "I don't mean blacks alone. There are Southern whites that come up here, they live in jungles. So do the Puerto Ricans." Ignoring the architectural racism there (not sure what else to call it), that's good to recognize.
In those early days nobody knew the word ni***er. There was no hate. You came and went as you pleased. I've seen kids come out of a bad neighborhood, some become priests, some become policeman … I don't believe what some judges say: because of environment … I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I never finished high school. I finished the hard way … (p. 130)
Gosh. Where to start?
There's this thing y'all may have heard of (Maher obviously hasn't) called white privilege. Now, I know the term wasn't around back then but the concept wasn't exactly unknown. It shouldn't be hard to discern at practically any time in the US's history that as white people we have different experiences, sometimes very different ones, than people of color.
There's a big difference being poor and white and being a person of color and being poor. Having issues of class is definitely a trying experience (take it from a poor white person) but having that and race is an issue I won't even pretend to know with regards to the tribulations one may go through.
I don't know what "early days" Maher is talking about but hate has always been around. Poor folks and especially poor folks who don't look like the "normal" population have never been free to come and go as they please. And people have been using the N-word way back in the slavery days I'm fairly sure. So what is Maher talking about?
In the sea of garbage that is this interview, here's one good thing:
I don't believe in entrapping. To entrap is to induce someone to commit a crime. … I'd rather have a prostitute working the street. This is her trade and it's been going on since Adam and Eve. If I were President, I'd legalize it. … They render a service as long as they're clean and don't hurt people.
(p. 130)
Much of this is perfectly sensible…which is why it makes so many other sections of this interview suck even more. If Maher can be so sensible about prostitution then what stops him from applying that logic to his job?
I used to call the girls at two in the morning and say, "I need four or five for the nigh." And they'd say, "Okay Vince, we'll be here. …" They'd all be lined up and I'd lock 'em up. I'd grab one of the broads off the street and I'd say, "Charlene, you'd better hustle because I'm coming back later and if I catch youse around—-boom—-you're gonna get nailed. The beef is on."
First, I just want to point out that Wendy's was founded in 1969.
But more(?) importantly this completely contradicts what Maher just said. If he'd rather a given situation then why doesn't he actually work towards it? The problem with cops is self-evident. They can't actually go with their conscience and instead have to let the law override their conscience most of the time.
Which is why people call them robots.
I'm human. I make mistakes like everybody else. If you want a robot, build machines. … I'm an honest cop. I don't think any person doing my job could face the stuff I face without losing your temper at one time or another. I've used the word ni**er … (p. 131)
Look. Plenty of things can be frustrating in life. Getting your life threatened can be an awful experience and it's not one I think any of us should have to go through. That being said, if your first reaction (or even second or third) is to start yelling racial slurs at people then maybe you have a much bigger problem than just your temper.
I understand that these interviews took place in the early 70s. People were still trying to accept that Jim Crow had been ended and that the Civil Rights Movement…you know, happened. White people anyways. And for a cop, I'm sure when they're being interviewed and they're white, they're going to have lots of issues with race.
But still, fuck this.
You can also work on the [black neighborhoods], where you can talk your fool head off and get nothing. They don't understand this nicety-type guy. So you walk with a big stick. Like the adage of a mule: He's a very intelligent animal, but in order to get his attention you have to hit him on the head with a stick.
Same thing applies on the street. (p. 131)
Comparing black people to mules to justify your brutality against them is all kinds of y i k e s.
Has it ever occurred to Maher that maybe they don't appreciate the "niceties" of white folks who see them as animals and comparable to a mule? Just a thought.
The term "brutality" is smothered and stripped of all definition throughout this interview:
You walk up to some of these people and they'll spit in your face. … So I have to get physical sometimes. It isn't done in a brutal sense. I call it a corrective measure. You get these derelicts on the street. I've dealt with these people for years. You wack 'em on the sole of the foot. It isn't brutal but it strings and he gets the message: he's not suppose to be sleeping on the street. "Get up!" You get him on his feet and say, "Now go back to junk heaven that you live in and get some sleep." Someone coming down the street sees me use the stick on the sole of his foot is gonna scream that I'm brutal. (p. 132)
Hey, you know what's probably existed for about as long as prostitution? Homelessness. And maybe there's a bit of an inherent brutality to taking people off of the streets when they're not harming anyone. Who is the homeless person hurting as they lay on the street, out of people's way (most of the time I see them) and sleep? Who are they harming?
How is this much different than the non-violent offense that you've admitted prostitution can be? Is it not brutal to tell people to go to a "junk heaven" and hit them at all when they've not aggressed against you at all? I think it is and I think it's brutal to not only do all of these things but to then downplay it, as if everyone else is just overreacting.
I'm not going to keep rehashing Maher's obvious racism so let's skip ahead a bit:
I'd love to go out on the college campus and grab some of these radicals. It's more or less a minority. when you apply logic and truth and philosophy, they cannot come back at you. You cannot fight truth. Who's being brutal? Before I make an arrest, I'll tell the guy, "You have a choice. you could be nice and we'll walk. If you become combative. I'm going to have to use physical force against you to compensate. In fact, I'm gonna have to break some bones. You forced the issue." (p.133)
Really? You're going to have to break some bones? How is it not brutal to want to grab people just for their political ideologies? And if you're just arresting them (you know, threatening them with restraint and confinement) just for being radicals then how is that not brutal?
Maher compares the Black Panthers to the SS, of Nazi Germany.
So that's a thing that happens.
I'm not even going to go over how wrong that is but I just wanted to denote he sees himself as the allied forces and black militants as equivalent to the task force who helped Hitler kill millions.
But no, he's just a human being who makes mistakes. Please.
The cop on the corner took you across the street, right? Now, ten o'clock at night, he's still there on the corner, and he tells you to get your fanny home. He's not being nice. The next time he tells you, he's gonna wack you with the stick. In the old days, if you went home and told your dad the cop on the corner whacked you with a stick, you know what your father did? He whacked you twice as had. (p. 134)
Nope. No brutality here. Just advocating of children being beaten for disagreeing with someone in a uniform and then having them beaten harder at home by someone they can quite possibly challenge even less: Their parent.
The old, "If you don't want the law and you don't like my country, get out." is invoked on the same page and I can't help but denote the irony of someone who is a cop and hates entrapment and wants prostitution to be legalized. To be fair, I guess Maher does act consistently in that he still throws sex workers in jail, so, yay consistency?
The only remaining good part of the interview is here:
There is a double standard, let's face it. You can stop John Does' average son for smoking pot and he'll go to jail. But if I stop Johnny Q on the street and his daddy happens to be the president of the bank or he's very heavy in politics or knows someone, you look like a jerk. …I could care less who he is.
If he breaks the law, go. (p. 134)
This is the upside(?) of equitable distribution of the law, despite whatever the law actually is or you disagree with it. At least through that system you'd still find double standards and injustices between application in reality when it meets your favored idealism of everyone having to "go" (to jail).
Maher tells a story of how he helped other cops raid a beach that had hippies who were having "sex orgies and pot and everything" they were causing property damage ("puncturing tires, breaking antennas off cars, throwing bottle …"). But when Maher was locking them up for hitchhiking the public felt they were getting out of hand.
This is Maher's response:
I did the job the citizens wanted me to do, right? All of a sudden, "Hey dummy, lay off!" (p. 135)
It's almost like the public can't change their mind or may have limits on what they think is acceptable. Maybe all they really wanted was to have the disturbances late at night stop, the property damage cease and for them to have sex and do drugs somewhere else. Hitchhiking seems pretty irrelevant to all of those things to me, even if it was also happening.
At this point in the interview and my writing about it I'm losing my patience with Maher. But hopefully you get the point, he's a completely brutal robot who I'm glad doesn't work in the police when Terkel interviewed him.
Hopefully he enjoyed long long years of directing traffic.
He barely deserves that much.
Renault Robinson (Policeman, founder of the Afro-American Patrolmen's League)
To be honest, much of what I have to say about police also applies to Robinson. He gives a much better interview that doesn't make cops look like out and out monsters. He criticizes much of the (white) police force, the racist double standards within the force and society as well. He speaks well and doesn't seem like he'd be an awful cop.
That said, he's still a cop.
I watched the double standard at work, blacks being treated one way and whites the other. I learned one things: whites control the vice and gambling in this city. They make most of the money out of it and very few are arrested. The people being arrested are blacks. (p. 137)
Passages like the above one permeate the interview. Robinson isn't afraid to call out the hypocrisy of white folks and especially the cops around him. He talks about the working conditions of having to spend 8 hours with a co-worker who doesn't want to talk to him, much less acknowledge him in any way.
The hypocrisy within the police force goes deep:
You arrest a narcotics peddler three or four times, you know what he's doing. There's a way of putting him out of business if you wanted to. If you think about the people operating policy, bookies, narcotics—hundreds and hundreds are employed in these illegal trades. It's full-time work.
A lot of people would be out of business if the broke these things up.
What the police do is just enough to let the public know they're out there. there's no fight between the professional criminals ad the police. There's no police brutality here. They know the police, they got the bond money in their pocket or a lawyer who'll be down there. We maintain an image, that's all. To look as though we actively pursue organized crime. It's a farce.
The fight is with the normal citizen who goes astray once in a while. (p. 138)
Though I'll quibble here with Robinson that putting narcotics deals out of business is a much harder task than he makes it out to be. The illegality of drugs is what drives their profits and so someone will be there to replace them and with likely better tactics to keep them safe than the person who got caught before them.
This is why the war on drugs won't ever end. You can't fight an easily accessible and marketable good on the market and expect to beat it by making it illegal or busting up those who sell it. Maybe it has some sort of effect on the people who are on the margins. So if that's the target audience then OK. But that doesn't accomplish much.
Robinson also talks about the ease of which it is to convict dealers in court or to simply let them off the hook to make a spectacle of them. He discusses how it's much easier to get people in trouble under the pretense of checking their car for a routine traffic light stop than trying to look for drugs by themselves. But that's no surprise.
And while people of color are targeted, Robinson also mentions folks with long hair, out radicals (ones with PEACE IN VIETNAM bumper stickers for instance) and white women who are with black folks. All of these groups (and others I can only imagine) were targeted around the time Robinson gave his interview.
Robinson inadvertently puts Maher in his place:
The young black is the big police hang-up because his tolerance of police brutality has grown short. They say, "The new ni**ers don't respect us any more the way the old ni**ers used to. We used to holler at 'em and shout at 'em and kick 'em and they went along with it."
Young ni**ers ain't going along with it and that's what bugs them more than anything in the world. That's why more young kids are being killed by police than ever before. They won't accept dehumanizing treatment. (p. 139)
Come to think of it, I really appreciate this contrast between Maher and Robinson.
We can see the different experiences of a white cop and a black cop. It seems pretty clear to me just from what I've said and quoted so far that Robinson is a good guy whose trying to make an immoral job…be less immoral.
The average young white cop is in bad shape. I think he can be saved if a change came from the top. If it could be for just eight hours a day. They may still hate ni**ers when they got off duty. They may still belong to the John Birch Society or the Klu Klux Klan.
So what? they could be forced to perform better during the eight hours of work. (p. 140)
Which, you know, probably isn't going to go well for him.
In fact, he's in fact thousands of dollars in debt to the state thanks to racist cops who hate him and is likely to be fired soon after the interview takes place. Maybe working within the system just isn't going to cut it, especially not when you can't really force the racism out of people.
Robinson's co-worker sure doesn't love him and he's working with him for 8 hours because the force wants to pretend that segregation has ended in some meaningful way. And so this kind of top-down force doesn't seem to be going so well. So why should Robinson expect much different from a top-down executive order within HQ?
I'm guessing Robinson buys into the "right people and right policy" liberal mindset. But it's impractical for a whole host of reasons. The "right people" can't act "right" if the word "right" actually translates to "do whatever the law says" when the law is often immoral and the right policy can't be"right" for similar reasons.
Again, Robinson may be a "better" cop than Maher (by leaps and bounds even) but he's still a cop.
This passage blew my mind, not necessarily in a good way:
"I don't like your people, but I can work around you. Maybe I'm wrong in feeling that way, but that's how I was brought up. I got basic feelings about my kids going to school with blacks and it can't be talked away. You can't talk me out of my fears." I respected him for his opinion and he respected mine.
We got along. (p. 140-41)
Just…how? I can't even imagine working with someone who resents your very existence and then excuses it on the ridiculous notion that it's fear and fears can't be reasoned with (untrue). Or that he grew up with the idea that people of color shouldn't mingle with white folks and therefore he can't change (also untrue).
But then, I suppose that was life for many folks of color back then.
I'm sure it still is to some extent.
I am running out of steam so let's finish with this great quote:
You could take a tender white boy, give him a badge and a gun, and man! he becomes George Wallace over night. (p. 141)
Robinson thinks if we change "the rationale by which they work" things would be better but doesn't seem to get that this also means challenging white supremacy on a lot of grounds.
Or who knows, maybe he does get this and just isn't spelling that part out for whatever reason.
At the end of the interview Robinson states that he feels there's now a "tremendous difference" in the attitude of the black police within Chicago now that the League of Afro-American Patrolmen has been created.
And I can't deny that that may have been true at the time. But I think it's worth pointing out that now, in 2018, it looks like the police have done anything but progress in many ways and that's worth keeping in mind too.
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As founding members of critically acclaimed Toronto based band Do Make Say Think, Ohad Benchetrit and Justin Small have been creating engaging and epic music together for over fifteen years. As composers, their focus has always centered around artistic integrity, passion, and spirited experimentation.
Cinematic in nature, Do Make Say Think has been featured in such award-winning films as The Corporation, Scared Sacred, Everything's Gone Green, and the Oscar-winning Syrianna. The band has also had the honour of doing live scores for silent film masterpieces including the 1919 film 'Tales of the Uncanny' in 2009 and most recently for TIFF Bell Lightbox's presentation of Eric Von Stroheim's 1924 film 'Greed'
Ohad and Justin have composed original score for feature films 'A Simple Curve',Bruce McDonald's 'Hard Core Logo 2', Jay Cheal's 'Beauty Day', an Art Gallery of Ontario curated installation piece for the 2007 nuit blache, and a remix for the film 'Walk All Over Me' . In addition, Justin has sound-tracked a documentary for the CBC titled 'Annie Pootiotook'.
As a member of Broken Social Scene, Ohad has also had the opportunity to score Bruce MacDonald's "The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess" and "The Tracey Fragments", "Snow Cake" directed by Marc Evans and more recently, 'Day Dream Nation' by Michael Goldbach. An accomplished engineer and producer, in 2007 Ohad produced Kevin Drew's critically acclaimed debut solo album "Broken Social Scene presents Kevin Drew…Spirit If".
Projects are always in the works and will be updated on this site.
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Greetings Ohad and Justin. My name is Chris Perkins-Cook. I am a indie filmmaker, and was curious about if you would ever consider composing for indie films and how much you charged. I tried to look up information on how to contact you, but this was as far as I could go with limited web presence. Even a reply, would be an honor.
Thanks so much
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Here in the U.S., the mid-size sedan market is thought to be all but impregnable to newcomers. Ruled for decades by models that have become icons of the industry, the segment has enjoyed a long and peaceful reign by the likes of the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. But the funny thing about success is that if you're not very, very careful, it breeds complacency. While the titans of the four-door kingdom have been sleeping on beds of cash made on the innovations of two decades ago, Hyundai has been busily polishing its reputation and pouring over $550 million into fresh research and development for new and advanced drivetrains for its 2011 Sonata.
One of the long accepted tenants of the mid-size sedan is "Thou Shalt Have a Six-Cylinder Option." Ironically enough, this mode of thought arose as a challenge to the previously held belief that if you wanted to move four-doors in America, you had to offer a V8 under the hood. But when Japan's Big Three proved they could dish out V8 horsepower with six-cylinder fuel economy, the eight-cylinder family hauler all but disappeared from the scene. Now, Hyundai is out to repeat history by debuting a turbocharged four-cylinder designed to rattle the cages of Toyota, Honda and Nissan.
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From the exterior, there's little to differentiate the Sonata 2.0T from its non-turbocharged siblings other than a few subtle badges. The sedan retains the same beautiful "fluidic sculpture" design as the 2.4-liter four-cylinder variant, so buyers can expect the same swept nose, complete with artfully-pointed headlights and sculpted hood up front. Likewise, the profile is still dominated by a single, arching crease that reaches from just below the front fender well to meet the wrapped taillights at the rear. In all, the look is cohesive and is about as far from the copycat designs of the company's past as you can get. We dig it.
Inside, buyers won't find the interior any different from what's available in the base Sonata. The same high-quality soft-touch dash remains in place, as does the smattering of piano black accents along the door panels and center stack. Speaking of the door panels, soft material insets just above the armrest do much to improve their feel.
The Sonata's center stack is dominated by easy-to-navigate dual climate controls and an attractive navigation/entertainment touchscreen. While we typically rail against the easily-scratched faux-metal trim that frames the rest of the waterfall, it serves the Sonata cabin well. Perhaps the best praise we can lay on the interior of the Sonata is that it has its own personality – you're simply not likely to mistake the cabin for that of a Toyota or a Honda, despite the fact the material quality is finally on par with those makes.
That's not to say that everything's right as rain inside. The Sonata 2.0T packs a heap of intelligent engineering solutions under the hood, and those tricks had to have cost some serious money. Even so, Hyundai has kept the vehicle's base MSRP down to a miserly $24,145 without destination (compared to $19,195 for the basest of naturally aspirated Sonatas). That means that some things had to be done to keep the price point at an acceptable level, and while most of those concessions remain well out of sight of both driver and passengers, the Sonata's gear selector feels more than a little flimsy. The shifter lock button comes across as light and hung-up more than once during our time behind the wheel. Likewise, the overall action of the transmission stalk felt sloppy and lacked the precision inherent in the rest of the vehicle.
Still, we think we can forgive Hyundai for a cheap-feeling shifter given all that's going on under the hood. The company has managed to successfully blend its direct-injection system with forced induction to create a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder good for a dizzying 274 horsepower and 269 pound-feet of torque. Even better, all of that twist comes in at a low 1,750 rpm, so you can nearly forget about turbo lag. Of course, slapping a turbo onto a small-displacement, direct-injection engine and calling it a day is nothing new – look no further than the Ford line of EcoBoost mills or some excellent-but-unbranded engines from General Motors as proof – but Hyundai has chucked in a few of its own tricks to both improve response and ensure the engine is as bulletproof as any of the company's other powerplants.
The little 2.0-liter engine packs some pretty advanced tech, including a cast stainless-steel exhaust manifold. In addition to boasting slightly better thermal properties than a standard cast-iron piece, Hyundai says that the manifold was specifically built to handle pressures well in excess of what the Hyundai-designed, Mitsubishi-built twin-scroll turbo can handle. Why? Longevity. The engineers say this engine has been put through a grueling 300 hours of testing at wide-open throttle. Once that was wrapped up, the powerplant was then subjected to a further 20 hours of testing at engine speeds above the redline.
Of course, that stout manifold is only a small part of the recipe. In order to help keep the engine's temperature under control, Hyundai has implemented something it calls "aluminum thermal sprayed counter spiny liner," which is essentially a new way of layering aluminum onto the exterior of the cylinder sleeve to increase surface area. That greater surface area allows for improved cooling efficiency. According to Hyundai, this is the first application of the counter-spiny liner in the automotive industry.
Speaking of keeping things cool, Hyundai is also using a unique air channeling system on the vehicle's intercooler. The guide routes air to the intake and outlet areas of the intercooler, and Hyundai claims it keeps intake air up to 50 degrees cooler than with no guide. All these refinements help contribute to that nearly instantaneous throttle response and lofty horsepower figures.
But here's the real shocker. Hyundai has tuned the four-cylinder to have a compression ratio of just 9.5:1. That means that even with all of that grunt on tap, this engine drinks regular unleaded gasoline. Even better, it drinks very little of it. Fuel economy sits at 23 mpg city and 33 mpg highway, though the company has included an Active Eco button that helps flatten out throttle fluctuations to keep fuel consumption as low as possible.
Bolted behind the engine is the same proprietary six-speed automatic transmission found in the regular 2.4-liter Sonata. Hyundai has thrown in a set of steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters for manually rifling through the gears, and while the pieces serve up a satisfying click and feel solid enough, the gear changes are a bit too reluctant to be worth using all the time. Our recommendation is to simply leave the car in Drive and let the computer do the thinking. The shift logic on the Sonata 2.0T is crisp, putting the car in the right cog for the right speed no matter what your driving style.
We spent our time behind the wheel of a Limited model, which comes packed to the gills with all kinds of interior niceties, though Hyundai also offers up an SE model with sport-tuned dampers and springs. Even so, the Limited simply feels good to drive. It has the sort of confident, planted feel that has all but evaporated from the mid-sized import sedan segment, and we have to admit that we're glad to have it back. The ride is comfortable without being marshmallowy soft, and the four-door moves well through bends despite its substantial size. Curb weight has been kept to around 3,400 pounds depending on equipment, and the Sonata 2.0T comes with brakes that are more than capable of handling the tonnage.
And there's more than enough power to get this show moving, too. The four-door dispatches traffic with glee, all without so much as a peep from under the hood. The revs swell, and there's a slight sense of urgency from under the hood, but the cabin isn't inundated with buzzing from the thrash of four tiny pistons out front nor any whine from the turbo. You simply dart quickly away from surrounding traffic. Hyundai says that the jump to 60 mph from a dead stop takes just 6.8 seconds, and we're inclined to believe them. Even better, there's next to no torque steer, even when your right foot gets overzealous.
It's hard not to be genuinely surprised by the 2011 Hyundai Sonata 2.0T. With more power and better fuel economy than the V6 variants of the Camry, Accord and Altima, all at around $3,000 less than the majority of its major competitors, we just can't find a coherent all-around argument against the turbo'd Korean. Regardless of how many of the cars hop off of the lot when they go on sale this week, it looks like the days of the V6 mid-sized sedan are numbered.
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Mango Pudding
My grandmother make the best Mango Pudding!
I think it is all the years or trial and error that make grandmothers so good at cooking. My boyfriend says I am a good cook... but not better then his Mom, which I don't take offense to because we cook very differently. She makes homey classics that warm you from the inside out and I love to experiment and use weird ingredients, and make things a little healthy... well most of the time anyways. I will share the most amazing chicken wings with you soon, that are so good to the taste-buds, but so hard on the heart!
Anyways back to my Grandma, my mom is a fantastic cook, but my Grandma makes certain things that are just irresistible! Like her potato salad, her baked ham, her ribs, her pickled beets, and her mango pudding. Those are my faves. I didn't call her to ask her the recipe when I had a craving, I went online. I only ask for recipes when I am with her so I can have the full demo; except the first time I cooked a turkey, I was 697 kms away and I certainly needed her advice then! But for the Mango pudding recipe I will probably wait until the next time I see her which hopefully will be soon. She is only a ferry trip away!
And ask her I will because this mango pudding did hit the spot, but wasn't quite what I remembered in my grandma's version. I just followed the recipe from here and it was pretty good but I already have a few tweaks in mind, and I can't wait to see what my grandma does! I'll be sure to keep you updated.
And just so you know Mango Pudding is dreamy! Its creamy and oh so mango-y and refreshing. A near perfect fruit dessert that will leave you feeling satisfied and light at the same time!
Posted by Tiff on Thursday, April 29, 2010
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Ain't she cute?
Ain't she cute?
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Aw, she's VERY cute! My oldest son is in marching band. 🙂
By: Michele on April 2, 2008
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I think so ! Happy WW.
By: Jenn on April 2, 2008
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Yes, she is!
Some of the best times of her life!
By: Carletta on April 3, 2008
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Hello fellow Georgian! She may be a Band Geek, but it won't hurt her any. I have 2 sisters who did that. They each have nothing but fond memories, and one of them got a pretty fair husband out of it, too. They've been married 22 years now. I'm not sure if that comforts you or scares you, but my sister is still pleased about it. 😉
By: WillThink4Wine on April 3, 2008
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Pretty cool uniform. Back in ancient times, when I was in the marching band, we had the UGLIEST uniforms in the world… She looks like she's enjoying herself. Brings back memories from the dim past… lovely photo.
By: Raven on April 3, 2008
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She is indeed a cute young lady with her band uniform! Happy WW!
Oh by the way i just got back from one month away of participating the WW so these are my entries now.
A Dozen Pupppies
Beautiful Sunset
By: Utah Mommy on April 3, 2008
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Very cute indeed! She seems enjoying herself..
I agree to one of the previous comments, the uniform looks cool. When I was still in school (which seems like decades a go :p) ours was green!! Could you imagine? GREEN!! It was shocking 😀
By: Photo Corners on April 3, 2008
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- with bulging eyes, as from surprise or wonderment; astonished.
Origin of bug-eyed
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I glanced at my fellow classmate in the backseat, who shot me a bug-eyed, horrified look.My Own Horace Mann Story and The New York Times Abuse Report
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But if it goes in the direction of the bug-eyed panic among McCain flacks, Barack Obama could approach 400 electoral votes.Whose Heads Will Roll on Nov. 5?
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Historical Examples of bug-eyed
They just stand there, bug-eyed and frightened like anything.The Flying Cuspidors
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Guess I must have sat there, starin' bug-eyed and lookin' batty, from 14th to Wall.
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As for Ernie, he just stands there starin' bug-eyed and gaspy, as if he didn't know what to do.Torchy and Vee
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Mr. Oyster returned his glasses to their perch, bug-eyed Simon, but then nodded.Unborn Tomorrow
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