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While investigations into a potential South East Queensland (SEQ) bid for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games are underway, a study released this week estimates a Los Angeles 2024 Olympic Games could deliver more than $18 billion (US) in economic uplift for the United States.
The study conducted by Beacon Economics and the University of California shows an LA 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games could increase economic output by up to $11.2 billion in Los Angeles and $18.3 billion nationwide, creating more than 70,000 full time jobs in the region.
The Council of Mayors (SEQ) recently completed a 12 month pre-feasibility study into a potential regional bid for the 2028 Olympic Games before voting to complete a full Feasibility Study, SEQ Sporting and Performance Space Audit and People Mass Movement Study in 2017.
Acting Council of Mayors (SEQ) Chair Cr Paul Antonio said the potential economic benefits of an LA 2024 Olympic Games are achievable due to the city's high reuse of existing venues, something that could also be achieved in SEQ by using the region's existing facilities.
"The potential 2024 host cities – Los Angeles, Paris and Budapest – are the first to truly benefit from the reforms of Olympic Agenda 2020. These reforms allow bid cities to maximise use of existing and temporary venues to deliver a cost effective, low risk Olympic Games.
"With the 2018 Commonwealth Games venues and our existing world-class facilities such as Suncorp Stadium and Queensland State Velodrome, SEQ could be well placed to capitalise on the economic and infrastructure delivery benefits of a potential Olympic Games bid.
"Los Angeles has embraced Olympic Agenda 2020 by delivering a bid that is first and foremost about improving the future of its city, not just the Olympic Movement. This is why the SEQ Mayors believe there is merit in investigating whether the same could be achieved here.
"We're not blind to the costs of an Olympic Games, the key is making sure we do our homework to guarantee any costs are far outweighed by the delivery of more jobs, a stronger economy and better public transport for our residents," said Cr Antonio.
A study released last year by the Centre for Law and Economics of Sport at the University of Limoges estimated a Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games could deliver up to €10.7 billion in economic benefits to France.
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Google, Apple and Others Seek to Push Beyond Banners, Text Messages
Google, Apple and several start-ups are trying to break the mold in mobile advertising, hoping to persuade marketers to spend more on a format that the technology industry has been hyping for years, with little to show for it.
Until now, mobile advertising mainly consisted of small banner ads tucked into the corner of a mobile Web page or text-message ads that often resembled spam. As a result, the mobile-advertising market remained relatively small, even as mobile phones proliferated....


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There's a rumor making the rounds that Quasar, a.k.a. SHIELD agent Wendell Elvis Vaughn, will appear in the Avengers movie and will be portrayed by model-actor Kevin Pennington.
ComicBookMovie.com was among the sites that claimed to have received the following press release:
"S.H.I.E.L.D. invites you to join the AVENGERS initiative: Meet the cast of S.H.I.E.L.D. and join the Avengers initiative! Marvel Studios to announce a S.H.I.E.L.D. Assembly in New York City for spring 2011. During principal filming, S.H.I.E.L.D. will be out in full force in NYC to recruit and find new members. Cast members on hand include Samuel L. Jackson (Director Nick Fury), Clark Gregg (Agent Phil Coulson), Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill) and Kevin Pennington (Agent Wendell Vaughn). Fans will get the chance to meet the stars and get their photograph taken with them at the event."
Alas, none of this is true. A Marvel spokesperson informed IGN that "this particular press release is a fabrication."


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When the market moves up to record levels and into uncharted territory, that can present challenges for investors who use charts to forecast future moves.
Technical analysts can no longer look at prior highs that could serve as areas of resistance. There are no former peaks to reclaim. It\'s the stock picker\'s equivalent of sailing off the map of the known world.
Yet there ways to use recent price-action to come up with estimates of how far this current rally can go, say technical-focused forecasters.
One option is to look at a recent area of price consolidation for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index . Consolidation is a technical term referring to a period when a stock or index takes break in its advance and typically moves slightly down or sideways for a while. For example, the S&P 500 consolidated in a 60-point range from early March through early May– finding a bottom near 1,540 and peaking near 1,600.
Some technical analysts say this signaled its next move also would amount to about 60 points, from roughly 1,600 to 1,660. And in fact, the S&P 500 has been trading in the vicinity of 1,660 in the last few sessions, after conquering resistance near 1,600.
"It's just a very standard measured move based on that previous consolidation," said J.C. Parets, who is the founder of Eagle Bay Capital and writes at allstarcharts.com and for MarketWatch's Trading Deck.
Some chartists are looking for the S&P 500 to take a break now that it's around 1,660. Miller Tabak's chief technical analyst, Jonathan Krinsky, said that like a lot of market watchers, he's been expecting a pause or a pullback.
Another chart element to watch is the S&P 500's distance above its 200-day moving average, a longer-term trend line. The benchmark is trading about 12%-13% above that key level, and that might seem like a bit much for some technical analysts.
"It certainly is concerning when we get this far above the 200-day, but it's not unprecedented to see it moving higher," Krinsky said.
The encouraging precedent, he says, comes from the 1995 market. The S&P 500 actually rose as much as 14% above its 200-day line during 1995, yet the index never saw so much as 4% pullback the entire year, Krinsky said.
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Monday, February 15, 2016
Iran to Issue Visa on Arrival for Citizens of All But 9 Countries: Spokesman.
Iran to Issue Visa on Arrival for Citizens of All But 9 Countries: Spokesman. (Iranfrontpage).
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari on Monday announced a decision that will enable the citizens of all but nine countries to obtain Iran's visa on arrival at the country's airports.
Iran has decided to issue visa upon arrival at the airport for everyone except the citizens of nine countries, Jaberi Ansari said in his weekly press conference here in Tehran.
"Certain countries like the United States and Britain are exceptions to the immediate issuance (of visa)," he said, adding that the details of the plan and list of the countries excluded will be made public later.
He further explained that the decision to ease the visa regime has been made based on the county's interests and in line with plans to facilitate the entrance of tourists given the extensive tourism capacities of Iran.
Earlier, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi announced that the country's foreign ministry will issue 30-day visa for citizens of 180 countries upon their arrival in Iranian airports.
Head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masoud Soltanifarhad also noted that Iran has formulated plans to increase revenue from the tourism industry within the next ten years to an amount equal to the income generated by oil sales. Hmmm........Israel, US, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia.....
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Include Friends on a Get-Away
To add a little fun to some of your get-aways, invite friends to go along sometimes. Last Friday we took Paul and Jean Strom to a pasta lunch in the foothills an hour's drive from our home. We caught up on what they have been doing and enjoyed sharing our stories. They took us on roads we had not yet explored. Flowers covered acres that climbed up a hill to vineyards beyond. Beautiful oak trees seemed to be painted into the background.
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
More Dating Wisdom
The subtitle in Dr. Kenneth Ryan's book, "Finding Your Prince In a Sea of Toads" is "How to Find a Quality Guy Without Getting Your Heart Shredded." The book offers 86 short chapters full of wisdom for people who are looking for satisfying life-long relationships.
An example is Chapter 31, "Men Are Microwaves, Women Are Crockpots". Dr. Ryan uses this analogy to explain the fundamental difference between men and women's sexuality. If men want to learn to be good lovers "they must learn to be slow subtle, and nuanced." There are many chapters giving excellent advice on the role of sex in relationship. Section Three of the book warns "Don't Sleep with Him--Why Not". Section Four: "Don't Sleep with Him--How Not".
Dr. Ryan offers important advice on relationship at a time when our culture has legitimized dating practices that are not likely to lead to satisfying life long soul mate relationships. It is especially helpful for young women who struggle with blending their values with their need for love.
Dr. Ryan offers important advice on relationship at a time when our culture has legitimized dating practices that are not likely to lead to satisfying life long soul mate relationships. It is especially helpful for young women who struggle with blending their values with their need for love.
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Labels: book review, dating, relationship values
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Dr. Kenneth Ryan Gives Dating Advice
"Finding Your Prince In a Sea of Toads" struck me as a very clever title. Author of the book by that title, Dr. Kenneth Ryan, and his wife have been counseling engaged couples for years. He has written a book of advice for women on dating.
He focuses on the top five mistakes he believes women make. Here are his five top mistakes:
Don't be too passive.
Don't be too aggressive.
Don't be naive about men.
Don't panic.
Don't sleep with the boy friend.
"Dr. Ryan started writing for his three daughters--everything that they need to know about the truth of relationships and sex so they will be two steps ahead of any guy they might date," according to his publicist. Does anyone know everything they need to know about the truth of relationships and sex? We think we know, but a life time isn't long enough to really know. That's what makes relationships intriguing and challenging.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Edward and Alisha's Story
We met in 2002. The course of our lives had already been set. We knew we loved each other from the moment we met. However, our relationship was filled with challenges that we were ill equipped to deal with.
My relationships with women began when I was 21 when my first child was born.. I proceeded to have six children with three other women. I would keep thinking I was making the right choice. They were not the women who were right for me. The differences between us were so great and we were horribly unskilled. Each one of these relationships created great pain for all of us.
When I met Alisha she already had a three year old and was two months pregnant with another man's child.I knew she was the right woman for me. We have had three children together for a total of eleven children. You may wonder how we got into this mess. We wonder also. The answer comes from our families.
My parents never married. They were never with anyone for long. My mother raised eight children with seven different dads. She raised them all by herself. To have this many kids with this many men means that there were always men coming and going in my life and family. Once a week my dad would pick me up and drop me off at my Grannie's house. I never had any time with him. After my Grannie died when I was 13, my dad picked me up once a year on my birthday and took me around to the clubs where he played. He would feed me drinks and drugs. No wonder I did not have a clue on how to form a family. I never felt like I belonged to anyone.
Alisha did not fare much better. Her mom was in love with alcohol and men. When Alisha would ask about her father, her mother said, "I don't know who your father is. It could be one of two men." Alisha never learned who her father was. In this situation she felt absolutely unlovable.
We now know that we knew very little about how to form a family. We both believed we were right and we were out to prove it. This system made us and our children very unhappy. We ended up yelling at each other nightly.
Through the Relationship Skills Center we heard about the Flourishing Families Program from Birth and Beyond. Alisha was very excited about the program and we both decided to go. I had no idea what a difference a class like this would have on me, our relationship and our family. We have stopped arguing and can now talk about our differences. We learned how to create a dialogue. We can communicate and take the time to see each other's point of view. The best part of all is what is happening with our children. They are doing better in school and getting into less trouble. We are breaking the cycle of abandonment and neglect in our family. We are getting married and we will be together forever!
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Relationship Skills Center Offers Hope
The Relationship Skills Center in Sacramento began with an organizational meeting sponsored by "Healthy Marriages", a national group promoting education and support for good marriages. Since that time Carolyn Rich Curtis, Ph.D has led a group of hard working volunteers in creating and nurturing an educational relationship center which has reached out to struggling couples. Here is the stated purpose of the organization:
Relationships and marriages thrive in our community
We promote the development of healthy, safe, and stable families where children thrive.
1. To promote the sustainable development of strong, safe, and stable families among those at-risk.
2. To teach young people the skills necessary for forming and sustaining healthy relationships.
3. To support couples as they transition from being a couple to a healthy family.
Look for a story from a couple whose lives changed after attending one of their classes.
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Allergic to Bull: What Happened Tonight
Allergic to Bull: What Happened Tonight
Aaron Walker recounts his SWATing experience from this past Monday night 25 June.
Let me say upfront that what is going on in this country borders on the insane. Leftwing kooks like Kmberlin get their panties in a twist because a conservative blogger tells the truth, then Kimberlin's little groupies step up and act on his behalf, calling in false police reports. Not just false reports, false reports involving gunfire and murdered wives which makes the police a little nervous and apprehensive when they answer the call.
If this doesn't stop, an innocent person will die by gunfire and it will be Kimberlins fault.


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July 31, 2013 (CHICAGO) --Chicago police have issued a robbery alert for a section of the South Side.
They say that two stores on the 2200-block of South Wentworth were burglarized three days ago.
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Guerry was previously VP, general manager of GDIT's national intelligence sector.
General Dynamics Information Technology has named Bernard Guerry senior vice president and general manager of the company's Intelligence Solutions division.
In his new role, Guerry will lead the division, which provides high technology solutions, systems integration, IT systems and mission support services to the U.S. intelligence community, the Defense Department, coalition partners and NATO, the company said.
Guerry was most recently vice president and general manager of the company's national intelligence sector, where he has served since 2006.
Before General Dynamics, Guerry served 22 years at positions within the federal government, including a tenure at the Office of Management and Budget's Federal Acquisition Council, General Dynamics said.
He holds a bachelor's degree in business from the Citadel, a master's degree in management, and is a graduate of the Air War College.
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Miss Mae writes G-rated romances and mysteries that are getting great reviews. Check out When the Bough Breaks. Check out the blurb.
Darlene Moore's reason for shunning Parker Shane has nothing to do with his reputation of being a playboy. She even dates him before the death of her mother forces her to move away. After a two-year absence from Dalesville, she returns home to find
Parker exchanging wedding vows with her sister. Two months later, her sister dies.
Then Richard Ryan, head of Dalesville's wealthy, prominent family, and Parker's employer, goes missing. Could there be a connection to his disappearance and Parker's unexpected promotion?
Danger and questions a plenty barrage Darlene with the deadly speed of a six-shooter. Who called down a representative from a Washington agency? Who later assaulted him? Who attacked Darlene at her friend's apartment? And will Parker's scandalous brand of playboy be changed to one of murderous culprit? Or, in the moment of Darlene's greatest need, might he become her rescuing knight?
You can read more about her books and see the many book trailers on her website. Check out the trailer for When the Bough Breaks below.


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Latest Weather Blog
NBA unveils new rules to make baselines safer
The NBA is expanding the area that must be clear behind the basket and cutting the number of photographers along the baseline in an effort to improve player safety.
The new regulations, calling for an extra foot of open space on both sides of the basket stanchion, were sent to teams Tuesday by league president of operations Rod Thorn in a memo that was obtained by The Associated Press.
The "escape lanes," the unoccupied area on either side of the stanchion to the closest photographer spot, will increase to 4 feet. Only 20 camera positions, 10 on each baseline, will remain, down from 40 during the 2010-11 regular season.
Thorn says changes were planned for "several years" and teams were informed in July, before Indiana's Paul George broke his leg crashing into the stanchion.


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No more remember eclipse plugins url. I know how difficult it is to find the url of each eclipse plugin and install it via 'Install New Software'. Especially if you are behind office firewall you cannot install those plugins.
Eclipse Helios has resolved those problems introducing 'Eclipse MarketPlace'.
Benefits of this feature (Eclipse MarketPlace) :
– No more remember the eclipse plugin url's
– Find which plugins are popular all over the worls
– Trusted Plugins as millions install from here
– Install all those plugins even if you are behind a firewall (eclipse plugin url is not restricted by the firewall)
– Install multiple plugins in a single shot
– Switch to Yoxos catalog
Here is my video where I explained step by step guide to install plugins using eclipse marketPlace.


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| of Marketing
Marketing & Logistics | Coggin College of Business
E-marketing, Marketing Channels, and Strategic Marketing Management
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1970
MBA The Ohio State University, 1967
B.Com. Cairo University, Egypt 1962
Adel I. El-Ansary is the Donna L. Harper Professor of Marketing at the University of North Florida and Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of North Florida as the First Holder of the Paper and Plastics Educational Research Foundation Eminent Scholar Chair in Wholesaling, he served as Professor and Chairman of Business Administration at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Having lectured, consulted, and conducted research in over thirty-five countries across six continents; El-Ansary achieved the status of a global educator.
El-Ansary is a Fulbright Scholar. He received the State of Florida University System Professional Excellence Award in 1999 and was named Prime Osborne, III Distinguished Professor in 2002. He is co-author of the leading text-reference books on E-Marketing, 3rd and 4th editions, Prentice-Hall, 2003 & 2006 and Marketing Channels, 1st through 8th edition, Prentice-Hall, 1977 - 2015. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Marketing, Encyclopedia of Economics, American Marketing Association Marketing Encyclopedia, the Logistics Handbook, and over thirty-five contributions to books and conference proceedings. El-Ansary's research and writing contributed eighteen key articles published in major journal including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing Channels, Journal of Retailing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Relationship Marketing, Journal of Macro Marketing, European Business Review, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, and International Marketing Review.
El-Ansary was on leave from the University of North Florida 1995-1996 to serve as Chief of Party of International Business and Technical consultants, Inc. in Cairo, Egypt. He was in charge of all aspects of project management for the monitoring and evaluation of the Privatization Program of the Government of Egypt funded through technical assistance provided by the United States Agency for International Development (U.S. AID). El-Ansary served as team leader and project coordinator, implemented, or participated in over twenty government and international organization contracts and assignments including U.S. AID, the World Bank, and the Governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Kuwait, and Qatar. He served on Presidents' Nixon and Ford national Advisory Council for the U.S. Small Business Administration. He served on a sub- Presidential Mission for President Reagan's Caribbean Initiatives. The focus of the mission was on improving food distribution in Central America.
El-Ansary completed over sixty national and international consulting assignments and executive development programs for clients including the Jacksonville NFL Jaguars, Volvo Penta, Volvo Car Corporation, Northrop Corporation, Paper Corporation of America, Rotel International, IBM, Aluminum Association, Family Health Foundation of Louisiana, General Electric Information Services, and Saudi Arabian Airlines. He conducted over twenty-five executive briefings nationally and internationally and delivered over fifty speeches at major national and international business and academic conferences.
El-Ansary served on the National Advisory Board of U.S. Small Business Administration under Presidents Nixon and Ford, the Board of Director of the International Consultants Foundation, the Global Council of the American Marketing Association, Founder of the Special Interest Group in Wholesale Distribution and Co-Chairman of the Relationship Marketing Interest Group of the Academic Council of the American Marketing Association, and Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Marketing Science.
Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science
Named Prime Osborne, III Distinguished Professor in 2002
State of Florida University System Professional Excellence Award in 1999
Fulbright Scholarship 1966 - 1970
American Marketing Association 1967-Present
Founding Member, Academy of Marketing Science 1972-Present
Society for Marketing Advances
United States Government:
U.S. AID, Grant for Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Africa – Advisor for Morocco and Egypt Country Introduction, August 2003 – February 2004.
U.S. AID, IBTCI, Inc., Chief of Party, IBTCI, Inc. Monitoring and Evaluation Contract of the Privatization Program of the GOE, Cairo, Egypt, August 1995-1996.
U.S. AID/IBTCI Pharmaceutical Distribution in Russia, February 1995.
U.S-Oman Joint Commission Technical Assistance Program, Curriculum Development of Oman Business College, Muscat, Oman, January-March 1992.
U.S.AID Technical Assistance Program to the Government of Jordan, Private Services Development Program. Diagnostic Study of Marketing Channels for Services, June-July 1989.
U.S. AID Contract No. 263-0125-0-00-9016-00, Office of the Minister for Cabinet Affairs and Administrative Development, Government of Egypt. Prepare Management Development Plan for Egypt, November 1988-January 1989.
National Commission for Employment Policy Contract 7074-P-2-M-029 71500-4123-000, Development of Taxonomy of Issues from various academic fields dealing with the mandate of the commission, July-September 1987, and provide technical management assistance, March 1988-January 1989.
U.S. AID Contract No. 664-0334-C-00-6034-00, Cartage Institute of Technology (CIT), Tunis, Tunisia with the Academy for Educational Development. Design Marketing Strategy for CIT, February-June 1988.
U.S. Department of Treasury Contract No. R-1193 with the Academy for Educational Development. Design the academic plan and head team of experts to design the curriculum, College of Management Science and Planning, King Faisal University, Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia, December 1984-January 1986.
U.S. AID Contract 664-0315, Tunisia Technology Transfer Project through the Academy of Educational Development to design and deliver a Case Development workshop for the faculty of Institute Superieure' de Gestion, Tunis, Tunisia in Washington, D.C., July-August 1986.
U.S. AID Contract 664-0315, Tunisia Technology Transfer Project through the Academy of Educational Development to deliver key lecture series in Strategic Marketing, Marketing Channels, Sales Management Research and Practice, and Strategic Management, Institute Superieure' de Gestion, Tunis, Tunisia, March 1986.
U.S. AID Contract I Q C P D C-0092-I-02-4045-00, Social Marketing and Economic Development Conference, November 19-20, to prepare and present background paper on Social Marketing and participate in conference sessions, Washington, D.C., September-November 1984.
U.S. AID Contract 664-0315, Tunisia Technology Transfer Project through the Academy of Educational Development to deliver key lecture series in Marketing Management and Channel Management and provide curriculum development assistance, Institute Superieure' de Gestion, Tunis, Tunisia, March 1984.
U.S. AID Contract O T R-0000-0-00-3219-00 to develop a policy paper on "Food Marketing System Modeling in Developing Countries: Identifying Paths for Improving System Productivity," July-September 1983.
U.S. AID Contract N E B-00290C-00-1037-00 through Triton Corporation, Washington, D.C., to develop Distribution System Expansion Program and review Oral Pill Introduction Program for Family of the Future in Egypt, May-June 1983.
U.S. AID Contract AID/D P E-0611-C-00-1033-00 through Triton Corporation, Washington, D.C., to revise Contraceptive Social Marketing Plan for Honduras, April-May 1983.
U.S. AID special mission to Costa Rica and Honduras to examine food marketing channels for the urban poor and recommend overall strategy for system reforms, March 1983.
U.S. Department of State, International Communication Agency Tour of Morocco and Tunisia. Lecturer to top government official, business executives, and student leaders. "U.S. Economic Policy: A Multinational Perspective," "North-South Dialogue and the Multinationals," "Technology Transfer and the Role of MNC's in Economic Development," "Improving Distribution Productivity: Macro and Micro Perspectives," "Social and Societal Marketing in Perspective," October 1980.
The World Bank:
The World Bank, Washington, D.C. Consultant to EMENA Division (Europe, Middle East and North America), Technical Cooperation Group. Design the academic plan for the School of Business and Economics, King Saud University, Al Gassim, Saudi Arabia, September 1982-January 1983.
Economic Development Institute, the World Bank, Industrial Projects Program, 1978.
Government of Egypt:
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs, Government of Egypt. Advisor to the Deputy and First Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs on Reorganization of the Ministry's Unit for Economic in Cooperation with U.S. AID, July-October 1981.
State of Kuwait:
Advisor to Kuwait University on College Planning and Curriculum Design, College of Administrative Science, December 1988-1990.
State of Qatar:
Advisor to the College of Business Administration, University of Qatar for the Revision of the Undergraduate Business Curriculum, January 1996.
Transformational Learning Opportunity Grant for the Design and Implementation of Undergraduate Study Abroad, China 2008. $15,000 supported by the Board of Trustees and Office of the President, University of North Florida, 2007.
Internationalization Grant, International Center, University of North Florida, in support of joint research visits, Goteborg University, Sweden and University of Vienna, Austria, Summer 2004.
College of Business Administration, University of North Florida. Research Grant for the Design and Implementation of Marketing Strategy Course for Distance Learning Program, Summer 1999.
Paper and Plastics Education Research Foundation. Research grant for the design of Sales Force Effectiveness Research II, PAPER Foundation, Great Neck, New York, 1992 and 1993.
Distribution Research and Education Foundation (DREF). Research grant for the design and development of Wholesaling: Structure, Strategy, and Management course at University of North Florida, 1990.
School of Government and Business Administration, George Washington University. Research grant in support of "A Feasibility Study for Improving Productivity in Food Distribution," Summer, 1979. Unpublished Report. "A Frame of Reference for Improving Distribution Productivity: The Food Industry Case."
LSU Foundation Research Grants for 1971-1972, 1972-1973, 1974-1975, and 1975-1976, in support of "Distribution Channels Research." Unpublished Report. "Marketing Channels: Analytical Systems and Approaches." A working paper on Marketing Channel Theory.
LSU Graduate Council Summer Research Grant 1975, in support of "Marketing Structure, Practices and Opportunities in the Arab Republic of Egypt." Unpublished report. "Marketing Structure, Practices and Opportunities in the Arab Republic of Egypt." A report prepared for LSU Graduate Council Research Grant, 1975.
Marketing channels, 8th edition, with Robert W. Palmatier, Louis W. Stern, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2015
Marketing channels, 7th edition, with Anne Coughlan, Erin Anderson, and Louis W. Stern, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2006.
E-Marketing, 4th edition with Judy Strauss and Raymond Frost. Englewood, Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2006.
E-Marketing, 3rd edition with Judy Strauss and Raymond Frost. Englewood, Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003.
Marketing Channels, 6th edition with Louis W. Stern, Anne Coughlan, and Erin Anderson, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001.
Selected Cases on Marketing Strategy Design and Implementation, New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Primis Custom Publishing, 1998.
Marketing Channels, 5th edition with Louis W. Stern and Anne Coughlan Englewood, Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Winning Customers and Building Accounts: Some Do It Better Than Others. Great Neck, New York: PAPER Foundation, 1994.
Marketing Channels, 4th edition, with Louis W. Stern. Prentice-Hall, 1992.
Management in Marketing Channels, with Louis W. Stern and James Brown. Prentice-Hall 1989.
Marketing Channels, 3rd edition, with Louis W. Stern. Prentice-Hall, 1988.
Marketing Channels, 2nd edition, with Louis W. Stern. Prentice-Hall, 1982.
Marketing Channels, with Louis W. Stern. Prentice-Hall, 1977.
Strategy and Policy Formulation: A Multi-functional Orientation, 2nd edition, with Robert Shirley and Michael Peters. John Wiley and Sons, 1981.
Strategy and Policy Formulation: A Multi-functional Orientation, with Robert Shirley and Michael Peters. Wiley/Hamilton Publishing Company, 1976.
"The role of Marketing Intermediaries: "Wholesaling," in Michael J. Baker, ed. Encyclopedia of Marketing, 2nd ed (Andover, Hampshire, England: International Thompson Business Press, 1999).
"Wholesaling: New Ways of Selling, New Forces and Challenges," in Jeffrey Heilbrunn (ed.). American Marketing Association Marketing Encyclopedia: Issues and Trends Shaping the Future, Lincolnwood, III: NTC Business Books, 1995, pp. 122-126.
"The Role of Marketing Intermediaries: Wholesaling," in Michael J. Baker, (ed.) Encyclopedia of Marketing. London, England: Routledge Reference, 1995, pp.
"Marketing Channels: Strategy, Design, and Management," with Louis W. Stern in James F. Robeson and William C. Capacino (eds.), The Logistics Handbook. New York: Free Press, 1994, pp. 116-150.
"Channels of Marketing," in Douglas Greenwald, Editor, Encyclopedia of Economics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993, pp. 138-141.
Book Chapters:
Sauer, A., El-Ansary, A. I., Tomczak, T., & Reineke, B. (2007). Managing change in distribution - Achieving success on the way to "multi-channel 2.0". In Wirtz, B. (Eds.), Handbook of Multi-Channel Marketing. Wiesbaden: Gabler. Pp. 221-233.
El-Ansary, Adel I, (2011). "Shelby D. Hunt's Contributions to Scholarship in Marketing Channels," Chapter 13 in James R. Brown, ed., Legends in Marketing: Shelby D. Hunt, Volume 4, Channels of Distribution. New Delhi: Sage Publications, Inc. pp. 155 – 162.
El-Ansary, Adel I. (2011). "E-commerce & Internet Marketing," in Robert Peterson and Roger Kerin, eds., Marketing Strategy, Vol. 1, Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 71 - 72.
El-Ansary, Adel I. (2011). "Multichannel Marketing," in Robert Peterson and Roger Kerin, eds. Marketing Strategy, Vol. 1, Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 179 - 180.
El-Ansary, Adel I, (2011). Preface to Cases on Business and Management in the MENA Region: New Trends and Opportunities. IGI Global Publishing, pp. xvii – xix.
El-Ansary, Adel and Greg Gundlach, (2010). "Contributions of Professor Jagdish Sheth to the Field of Relationship Marketing: An Integrative and Illustrative Framework," in Atul Parvatiyar and Balaji C Krishnan, Legends in Marketing: Jagdish Sheth. Relationship Marketing, Volume 8. Sage Publications. pp. 215-222.
Articles in Refereed Academic Journals:
Schakett; Flaschner; Gao; El-Ansary (2011). "Effects of Social Bonding in Business to Business Relationship," Journal of Relationship Marketing, Volume 10, Number 4.pp. 264-280 .
Yi Liu, Lei Tao, Yuan Li, Adel I. El-Ansary ( 2008). "The impact of a distributor's trust in a supplier and use of control mechanisms on relational value creation in marketing channels," The Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 23, Issue. 1; pp. 12 – 22.
G Zhuang, Y Xi, Adel I. El-Ansary (2008). "The Impact of Interpersonal Guanxi on Exercise of Power in a Chinese Marketing Channel," Journal of Marketing Channels, Vol. 15, issue 2/3, pp. 185-210.
Samli, A. Coskun and Adel I. El-Ansary (2007)."The Role of Wholesalers in Developing Countries," International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Volume 17, Number 4, pp. 353 – 358.
"Marketing Strategy: Taxonomy & Frameworks," European Business Review," volume 18, No. 4, 2006, pp. 266-293.
"Relationship Marketing Management: A School in the History of Marketing Thought," Journal of Relationship Marketing, Vol. 4, No. 1/2, 2005, pp. 43-56.
"A Framework for Relationship Marketing: A Marketing Channel Context," in Jagdish N. Sheth and Atul Parvityar, Research in Marketing, Vol. 13 (1997), pp. 33-46.
"Strategies for Improving Sales Force Effectiveness in Wholesale Distribution," Journal of Marketing Channels, Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 1993, Special Issue on Wholesaling, pp. 5-21.
"Sales Teamwork: A Dominant Strategy for Improving Sales Force Effectiveness," with Noel B. Zabriskie and John M. Browning, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, vol. 8, No. 3, 1993, pp. 66-74.
"Supplier Relationships: A Channel Management Approach to Sales Force Effectiveness," Journal of Marketing Channels, Vol. 2, No. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 107-122.
"Sales Force Effectiveness Research Reveals New Insights and Reward-Penalty Patterns in Sales Force Training," Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Vol. 13, No.2, Spring 1993, pp. 83-90.
"A Strategic Perspective of Communication and Information Systems in Marketing Channels," Journal of Marketing Channels, Vol.1, No. 4, Summer 1992, pp. 3-16.
"Strategies for Reforming Food Marketing Systems in Developing Countries: How Could Better Systems Feed the World," International Marketing Review, Vol. 3, Spring, 1986, pp. 39-49.
"A Multi-Stage Approach for Comparative Marketing Analysis," Journal of Macro Marketing, Vol. 2, No.2, 1982, pp. 59-65 (Marilyn Liebrenz, co-author).
"A General Model for Understanding Channel Member Behavior," Journal of Retailing, Winter 1977, pp. 13-30 and 93-94 (Robert A. Robicheaux, co-author). Reprinted in Bruce J. Walker and Joel B. Haynes (eds.), Marketing Channels, 2nd Edition. Columbus, Ohio: Grid, Inc., 1978, pp. 57-71.
"The Portrayal of the Sexes in Advertising: An Overlooked Area of Societal Marketing," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Summer 1976, pp. 577-583. (Stephen W. Brown and Nancy Darsey, co-authors).
"Distribution Productivity in Developing Nations: The First Phase in the War on World Hunger," Middle East Management Review, 1976. (Date and pages not available to author).
"Determinants of Power-Dependence in Distribution Channel Relations," Journal of Retailing, Summer 1975, pp. 59-74, 94.
"Societal Marketing: A Strategic View of the Marketing Mix in the 1970's," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Spring 1974, pp. 316-321.
"A Theory of Channel Control: Revisited," Journal of Marketing, January 1974, pp. 2-7. (Robert A. Robicheaux, co-author).
"Toward a Definition of Social and Societal Marketing," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Spring 1974, pp. 316-321.
"Social Marketing: The Family Planning Experience," Journal of Marketing, July 1973, pp. 2-7 (Oscar E. Kramer, Jr., co-author). Reprinted in Ralph M. Gaedeke (ed.), Marketing in Private and Public Nonprofit Organizations. Santa Monica, California: Goodyear Publishing, 1977, pp. 356-366.
"Power Measurement in Distribution Channels," Journal of Marketing Research, February 1972, pp. 47-52 (Louis W. Stern, co-author).
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Vinpearl Ha Long Bay Resort
Whether you're a tourist or traveling on business, Vinpearl Halong Bay Resort is a great choice for accommodation when visiting Halong Bay. From here, guests can enjoy easy access to all that the lively city has to offer. With its convenient location, the hotel offers easy access to the city's must-see destinations.
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Every one of the 33 pool villas at L'Alyana Villas Ninh Van Bay are spacious and beautifully appointed with guests' comfort in mind. The beachfront and lagoon villas are set in exclusive waterfront locations with stunning views over the lagoon and Ninh Van Bay. An open-plan layout is designed to take full advantage of the spectacular views and create an inviting indoor/outdoor ambience. The elevated and private Hill Rock Pool Villas offer tree-filtered ocean views and a luxurious tree house experience. The three-story layout provides a spacious sleeping area with king-sized beds high in the tree canopy as well as a large entertaining deck and living area where you can enjoy a private dinner cooked by your personal chef. Each villa has a personalized butler service to attend to your every whim while rooms are fitted out with every modern convenience including iPod docking stations, wireless Internet, and high definition televisions. You can while away the hours in the hammock or sun lounge and discover how quickly you can adapt to the life of a true epicurean.
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Located in Nha Trang – the city of blue sea & white sands, Liberty Central Nha Trang is the first urban resort of Liberty Central Hotels. Just about 40 minutes from Cam Ranh International airport through a scenic drive, this hotel offers perfect blend of local charm & international standard services. Our newest 4-star hotel proudly boast 227 well appointed guest rooms with gorgeous oceanview and easy access to the beach.
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Stockholm is loaded with things to do but there are certain must-see attractions that should definitely be on your list of things to do when visiting the Swedish capital.
17 natural wonders in Switzerland that'll take your breath away
For such a small country Switzerland, a land of mountains, is spoiled by its spectacular natural scenery. In almost any part of the country, you'll be treated to view that will take your breath away, and leave a lasting memory. Here, discover 17 of the natural wonders that can be found in Switzerland.
Top 15 most beautiful lakeside towns and villages in Europe
Europe is home to some of the world's most stunning lakes, with mountainous backdrops and quaint little towns along the shores. We take a look at the most beautiful lakeside towns for you to explore across the continent.
Here are the best cities in the US to celebrate New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve comes but once a year. And it seems finding the right place to celebrate is always a challenge. So whether you're of the raucous type, or simply looking to sip on some bubbles under an impressive fireworks display, here are the best cities in the US to ring in 2017.
The world's most visited city of 2017
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Although Cambodia is still crawling through a recovery due to its brutal past, millions of tourists flock to Siem Reap annually to explore the temples of Angkor Wat. A majority of those tourists come from neighboring Thailand, Laos, or Vietnam without knowing what to expect from Khmer food. Commonalities with neighbors aside, Cambodia's resourceful people have found their own ways to add a tasty, unique twist to otherwise familiar dishes. Curries are a common staple of Khmer food, although they are typically less spicy than those found in Thailand. Khmer food tends to contain a larger variety of stir-fried vegetables and more garlic than found in Thai food.
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The recent rash of re-releases that have come out have modern gamers spending their time playing new versions of games that came out ages ago. Some feel that the improvements are beneficial, while others say they are tainting the feel of the original. Ryan got a chance to try out the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Editions, and gives his opinion on how re-releases ought to be made.
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A stylish, small, and adjustable mount for your Pi Camera.
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- 1/4 inch hole for tripod mounting.
Assembling the Camera Mount
The Camera Mount is a small no-frills mount ideal for desktop of light tripod use. It also avoids you having Sugru or Blu-tak on your precious camera board.
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Take the large plate, and place the camera module lens into the square hole, such that the screw holes on the camera module line up with the screw holes on the plate.
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Use the 4 nuts and bolts to attach the camera module to the plate. Do not over tighten. The module board must be straight, not bowed, under the pressure of the screws.
3. Second plate
Clips the second plate into one of the 4 sets of slots along the sides of the main plate. The set you choose determines the angle the camera rests at.
The ribbon cable should be at the top of the assembly.
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The camera's natural orientation seems to be with the cable at the bottom, which is awkward with such a springy cable. You can use raspistill -vf -o filename.jpg to correct the orientation.
5. Tripods
To attach the camera mount to a tripod, clip the second plate to the lowest set of slots. Now place the hole in the second plate onto the tripod thread and gently screw until attached. The slight angle of the camera mount keeps the screw secure.
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It's award season again here at Professional Remodeler and with the help of Ken Kanline at the Chrysalis Awards, this may be the best series of entries that has ever been submitted to our Design Awards program.
This year we received a huge number of high-quality remodeling projects that demonstrated the latest remodeling design trends. From kitchen and bath remodels to whole house reconstruction projects, hundreds of entries were submitted for the 2013 Design Awards.
The monumental task of reviewing each of the entries, grading them on specific criteria, and then reviewing the projects again before assigning the final award designation fell upon the shoulders of four remodeling industry veterans. This year's judges included:
- Bob Bell, CAPS, CGR, Bell's Remodeling
- Craig Durosko, GMR, CGP, CR, founder and chairman, Sun Design Remodeling Specialists
- Stephen C. Gidley, GMB, CAPS, CGP, CGB, CPRC, CR, president and CEO, Stephen C. Gidley Inc.
- Don Van Cura, CR, CKBR, CLC, owner and president, Don Van Cura Construction
This past summer, these four gentlemen sequestered themselves in a room at the University Club of Chicago for the better part of two days reviewing the Design Awards. After deconstructing and discussing each of the entries multiple times over, our judges pared the entries down and recognized a total of 101 for a specific award. Broken down by the level of award, there were 30 Bronze, 32 Silver, 26 Gold, and 13 Platinum winners. The Platinum level included our Project of the Year, a Green Remodel completed by the Phil Kean Design Group (see "Greener Pastures", page 22).
This year there were 15 companies recognized for two awards; three companies won three separate awards; one company was recognized for four awards; and two companies (Custom Design & Construction and PURE Design Environments) each won five Design Awards.
Design trends come and go every year and that is reflected in our Design Awards. Two years ago smaller budget kitchen and bath projects dominated the entries. Last year we saw a large number of outdoor living and whole house remodeling projects submitted. This year the Bathroom Over $30k and Kitchens $50k-$100k categories garnered a good portion of entries.
The number of high-end, big-ticket remodeling projects have waned over the past few years, but they still exist—just in fewer numbers. Most recently we noticed a shift toward practical, needs-based projects reflective of a struggling economy.
Where are we today? There is evidence out there for both types of projects. As the economy continues to improve, homeowners are once again investing more in their homes; furthermore, homeowners are finally completing the remodeling project they postponed a couple of years ago.
As consumer confidence increases, bids will continue to turn into projects for the remodeling industry. Recent statistics from both NARI and NAHBR have indicated that market activity in 2013 continues to increase quarter over quarter.
The remodeling market has stabilized, but we will have to take a wait-and-see approach before we give 2013 any awards.


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Friday, December 19, 2014
Engagement Photos
I've had these for a while, but I thought I'd share a few of these with you guys. Taking engagement photos in the early morning hours of the day in the desert. It was an awesome experience just walking around the desert talking to each other walking hand in hand. There's something ultra magical about phoenix sunrises. So peaceful and calm. The air is cool, but the sun is always warm. Ugh, love it. I will never not be a desert lover.
I hope you guys have a great weekend, Peace!
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Your blog and photos are so gorgeous ♥
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U.S. Cellular and Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia Announce Return of Black History Month Art Contest
ROANOKE/CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (Feb. 1, 2013) – U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia are pleased to announce the return of the Black History Month Art Contest which is now in its sixth year. The contest is designed to honor influential African-Americans and inspire students' creativity.
"We believe in partnering with the community to celebrate our county's rich culture, heritage and diversity," says Dana Dorcas, director of sales for U.S. Cellular in the Mid-Atlantic, "At U.S. Cellular we're about connecting people. By sharing the success of our heroes and role models, we can learn to build better futures for ourselves and our children."
Members of nine area Boys & Girls Clubs in Roanoke, Christiansburg and Shawsville were invited to select an influential African-American and develop his or her likeness into an original 8.5 x 11 portrait using any art medium. From those submissions the Boys & Girls Clubs determined the top 10 finalists.
"Rewarding relationships with partners like U.S. Cellular help us inspire young people to recognize important contributions that people have made and use their creative expression at the same time," said Laurie Gibbons, chief professional officer, Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia.
In the past five years, more than 1,500 club members have participated in the contest and the competition gets tougher every year. The Boys & Girls Clubs received several hundred submissions from nine area clubs this year before narrowing the field to the final ten contestants. Last year's first place winner was Logan Baker who won for his portrait of NFL football player Deion Branch.
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A suggestive advertisement showing Rihanna writhing around in her underwear features shots of a butt and body double, The Sun reports.
The pop sensation is seen in the Armani ad having a nightmare in bed before putting on a pair of jeans.
But shots that appear to show Rihanna, 24, in her underwear showing her chest and butt are in fact model Jahnassa Aicken.
Rihanna's management insisted that the Irish Aicken, 27, sign an order banning her from talking about the job.
But a source said, "Jahnassa's torso, body and bum appear in parts of the ad."
The source added, "It's shocking Rihanna wanted one, considering she loves posing with no clothes -- plus she's in great shape."
The Belfast-based Style Academy agency booked Aicken, who received a "modest sum" for the shoot. She was first spotted by Rihanna's people in a crowd during shooting of the star's "We Found Love" video in Northern Ireland. They used her as a stand-in before she was cast in the Armani ad.
A spokesman from the Advertising Standards Authority, the UK's independent regulator of advertising, said, "If we have complaints consumers have been misled by the use of a body double, we will investigate."


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Late in August, as a shadow 70 miles wide was traveling across the United States, turning day briefly to night and millions of Americans into watchers of the skies, the British classicist Emily Wilson, a woman of 45 prone to energetic explanations and un-self-conscious laughter, was leading me through a line of Ancient Greek. "Polytropos," Wilson said, in her deep, buoyant voice, pointing to the fifth word — πολuτροπον — of the 12,110-line epic poem that I had come to her office at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss. On the wall hung pictures of Wilson's three young daughters; the windows behind her framed a gray sky that, as I arrived, was just beginning to dim. The poem lying open before us was Homer's "Odyssey," the second-oldest text, after his earlier poem, the "Iliad," in a Western tradition impossible to imagine without them.
Since the "Odyssey" first appeared in English, around 1615, in George Chapman's translation, the story of the Greek warrior-king Odysseus's ill-fated 10-year attempt to return home from the war in Troy to Ithaca and his wife, Penelope, has prompted some 60 English translations, at an accelerating pace, half of them in the last 100 years and a dozen in the last two decades. Wilson, whose own translation appears this week, has produced the first English rendering of the poem by a woman.
"One of the things I struggled with," Wilson continued, sounding more exhilarated than frustrated as she began to unpack "polytropos," the first description we get of Odysseus, "is of course this whole question of whether he is passive — the 'much turning' or 'much turned' — right? This was —"
"Treat me," I interrupted, "as if I don't know Greek," as, in fact, I do not.
"The prefix poly," Wilson said, laughing, "means 'many' or 'multiple.' Tropos means 'turn.' 'Many' or 'multiple' could suggest that he's much turned, as if he is the one who has been put in the situation of having been to Troy, and back, and all around, gods and goddesses and monsters turning him off the straight course that, ideally, he'd like to be on. Or, it could be that he's this untrustworthy kind of guy who is always going to get out of any situation by turning it to his advantage. It could be that he's the turner."Continue reading the main story
As Wilson spoke, I recalled a little formula by the American critic Guy Davenport about the difference between Homer's two poems: "The 'Iliad' is a poem about force; the 'Odyssey' is a poem about the triumph of the mind over force." Wilson was parsing the nature of that triumph, embedded in the poem's very first adjective, a difference in mind that would make for a difference in Odysseus's nature, both as a warrior and as a husband.
"So the question," Wilson continued, "of whether he's the turned or the turner: I played around with that a lot in terms of how much should I be explicit about going for one versus the other. I remember that being one of the big questions I had to start off with."
That there could still be big questions about a nearly-three-millenniums-old poem that most everyone has heard of — it has exerted an influence on writers, from Virgil to Milton to Joyce — has everything to do with how Wilson is seeking to redefine the job of modern literary scholarship, an ambition that seems, in part, an inheritance. Born in 1971 in Oxford, England, Wilson comes from a long line of academics on her mother's side. Her mother, Katherine Duncan-Jones, a Shakespeare specialist, taught English literature at Oxford; her mother's brother, Roman history at Cambridge; her mother's father, "a disappointed philosopher" — disappointed because, though he went to Cambridge, he couldn't get a job there — taught at Birmingham; and her mother's mother, Elsie Duncan-Jones, also at Birmingham, was an authority on the poetry of Andrew Marvell.
That inheritance was as much literary as it was a matter of temperament. Her mother's experience as a female academic, Wilson said, over lunch the next day at a noisy bistro, "was tied up with her colleagues in Somerville," the women's college where she taught. "The older colleagues were mostly childless women and had this whole sort of anger — anger and also refusal to understand that there might be extra demands on my mom's time, because she had children." Wilson's mother and another colleague took matters into their own hands. "It was revolutionary," Wilson tells me, with uncomplicated pride, "and it was resented: I was the founding member of the Somerville crèche. She and another female colleague who had a child who was the same age as me organized this day care, first in my house and then it moved to this building near Somerville College."
Mostly, Wilson recalls a quiet, almost somber childhood with her younger sister, the writer Bee Wilson, and her father, the prolific biographer, novelist and critic A.N. Wilson. "There was a lot of silence," Wilson says. "As a kid I was just aware of unhappiness, and aware of these things that weren't ever being articulated, but the sense that nobody is going to be saying what they feel or encouraging anyone else to say what they feel. If you're unhappy, all you can do is go to your room and cry silently." Her parents divorced shortly before she went to college.
In school, Wilson was shy but accomplished. She liked French but was in terror of talking in class. "The potential shame of pronouncing a French word wrong was pretty inhibiting," Wilson said, laughing. "It's very easy to pronounce a French word wrong." But with Latin, Wilson found an instant home. She loved the systematization of it, the reams of things to memorize and to get right. "You have all this information, and you can regurgitate, in the sense that you can strategize to translate an English sentence or a Latin sentence. You can do it all in writing. You don't have to have beautiful Latin pronunciation. It took away a whole level of shame."
As an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, Wilson studied classics and philosophy. Though her education there, she says, offered her a strong introduction to literary study, it wasn't lost on her that none of her professors were women. "There was an awareness of it being sort of a boys' club. Just the fact of never having a female teacher, but it's a difference to how you feel when you don't have any mentors who don't even know what it would be like. I never had a female mentor in classics." Still, the appeal of classics as a discipline was profound, particularly the way that Greek drama presented great emotional tumult. "I had a childhood where it was very hard to name feelings, and just the fact that tragedy as a genre is very good at naming feelings. It's all going to be talked out. I love that about it."
Although Wilson was undecided on a direction after taking her undergraduate degree — she had thoughts of doing law — she ultimately chose to do further studies in English literature at Oxford while she figured her way forward, rereading some of her favorite books, particularly Milton's "Paradise Lost." Emerging with a sense that the writers she appreciated most were in dialogue with antiquity, Wilson pursued a Ph.D. in classics and comparative literature at Yale. Wilson knew that if she was "being smart," she ought to focus on something understudied, like Plutarch. "I loved Plutarch, but I didn't love him as deeply as I loved Sophocles, Euripides, Milton. I just felt like I wanted to spend a little bit longer with Euripides."
Dedicated to her grandmother Elsie, Wilson's first book, "Mocked With Death," grew out of her dissertation and was published in 2004. It looks at the way mortality was imagined, in the tragic tradition, by Milton, Shakespeare, Seneca, Sophocles and Euripides. Rigorous in its readings, Wilson's study is also frequently touching. It is about the broadest of human inheritances: our constant awareness of all that we will lose, are losing, have lost.
"If you're going to admit that stories matter," Wilson told me, "then it matters how we tell them, and that exists on the level of microscopic word choice, as well as on the level of which story are you going to pick to start off with, and then, what exactly is that story? The whole question of 'What is that story?' is going to depend on the language, the words that you use."
Throughout her translation of the "Odyssey," Wilson has made small but, it turns out, radical changes to the way many key scenes of the epic are presented — "radical" in that, in 400 years of versions of the poem, no translator has made the kinds of alterations Wilson has, changes that go to truing a text that, as she says, has through translation accumulated distortions that affect the way even scholars who read Greek discuss the original. These changes seem, at each turn, to ask us to appreciate the gravity of the events that are unfolding, the human cost of differences of mind.
The first of these changes is in the very first line. You might be inclined to suppose that, over the course of nearly half a millennium, we must have reached a consensus on the English equivalent for an old Greek word, polytropos. But to consult Wilson's 60 some predecessors, living and dead, is to find that consensus has been hard to come by. Chapman starts things off, in his version, with "many a way/Wound with his wisdom"; John Ogilby counters with the terser "prudent"; Thomas Hobbes evades the word, just calling Odysseus "the man." Quite a range, and we've barely started. There's Alexander Pope's "for wisdom's various arts renown'd"; William Cowper's "For shrewdness famed/And genius versatile"; H.F. Cary's "crafty"; William Sotheby's "by long experience tried"; Theodore Buckley's "full of resources"; Henry Alford's "much-versed"; Philip Worsley's "that hero"; the Rev. John Giles's "of many fortunes"; T.S. Norgate's "of many a turn"; George Musgrave's "tost to and fro by fate"; the Rev. Lovelace Bigge-Wither's "many-sided-man"; George Edgington's "deep"; William Cullen Bryant's "sagacious"; Roscoe Mongan's "skilled in expedients"; Samuel Henry Butcher and Andrew Lang's "so ready at need"; Arthur Way's "of craft-renown"; George Palmer's "adventurous"; William Morris's "shifty"; Samuel Butler's "ingenious"; Henry Cotterill's "so wary and wise"; Augustus Murray's "of many devices"; Francis Caulfeild's "restless"; Robert Hiller's "clever"; Herbert Bates's "of many changes"; T.E. Lawrence's "various-minded"; William Henry Denham Rouse's "never at a loss"; Richmond Lattimore's "of many ways"; Robert Fitzgerald's "skilled in all ways of contending"; Albert Cook's "of many turns"; Walter Shewring's "of wide-ranging spirit"; Allen Mandelbaum's "of many wiles"; Robert Fagles's "of twists and turns"; all the way to Stanley Lombardo's "cunning."
Of the 60 or so answers to the polytropos question to date, the 36 given above couldn't be less uniform (the two dozen I omit repeat, with minor variations, earlier solutions); what unites them is that their translators largely ignore the ambiguity built into the word they're translating. Most opt for straightforward assertions of Odysseus's nature, descriptions running from the positive (crafty, sagacious, versatile) to the negative (shifty, restless, cunning). Only Norgate ("of many a turn") and Cook ("of many turns") preserve the Greek roots as Wilson describes them — poly ("many"), tropos ("turn") — answers that, if you produced them as a student of classics, much of whose education is spent translating Greek and Latin and being marked correct or incorrect based on your knowledge of the dictionary definitions, would earn you an A. But to the modern English reader who does not know Greek, does "a man of many turns" suggest the doubleness of the original word — a man who is either supremely in control of his life or who has lost control of it? Of the existing translations, it seems to me that none get across to a reader without Greek the open question that, in fact, is the opening question of the "Odyssey," one embedded in the fifth word in its first line: What sort of man is Odysseus?
"I wanted there to be a sense," Wilson told me, that "maybe there is something wrong with this guy. You want to have a sense of anxiety about this character, and that there are going to be layers we see unfolded. We don't quite know what the layers are yet. So I wanted the reader to be told: be on the lookout for a text that's not going to be interpretively straightforward."
Here is how Wilson's "Odyssey" begins. Her fifth word is also her solution to the Greek poem's fifth word — to polytropos:Continue reading the main story


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Hi, I removed the front coil springs to replace the upper and lower control arms on a 71 chevelle. I tried to take note of how everything was installed but didn't with the coil springs. One end is flat and closed and the other is an open coil. Does the flat end go on top or bottom? Please help if you can, I'm having a hard time finding any good info. Some sites I've checked saytop and others say bottom?? Thanks, Dale
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This page seems relevant: http://www.chevelles.com/forums/16-brakes-suspension-steering/373256-71-front-coil-spring-orientation.html
Flat goes on top
Thanks....went right in!!!
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