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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Choices, Part 9.
"I have a car. It seats four. I'll drive." Emily offered.
"I'll drive."
"No way, mother. My car, I'm driving." Myra looked like she was about to say something when Michael piped up.
"I'm sure there will be ample time for all of us to share the driving. After all, by my calculations it's somewhere in the neighborhood of a 15-hour drive to get to Eve. And since she is the closest, that should be our next stop, don't you think?"
"And where, exactly, is Eve?" I asked.
"Well I don't know exactly, but as far as I can tell, she's in New Orleans."
"What the hell is she doing in New Orleans?"
"She's…working. Yeah, that's it. She has a job there."
"Michael, there's obviously something you don't want to tell me, so of course that's what I want to know. What is she doing in New Orleans?" I loomed a little, but the little shit was unperturbed. That's what comes from being God's Own Enforcer, you get to be a little hard to intimidate.
"She's working. And if you want to know exactly what she's doing, then I guess we'll have to find her."
"Alright then, let's roll. Emily, keys." I was already heading for the door with my hand stretched out behind me, but Myra's voice drew me up short.
"Freeze, buster. You might be able to fly the coop at a moment's notice without so much as a hairbrush, but us womenfolk are going to take a few minutes to pack. So why don't you and your little friend just sit there and enjoy each other's company while Em and I go pack a couple of bags. We'll be right back."
Now I'm not going to say the thought of hopping on Lucky's bike and rolling east didn't occur to me, but I knew that would only doom me to a trip with a naggin archangel as my only company, and besides, since her presence was evidently required, I figured this would be a good time to get to know my youngest living child. They didn't take that long, especially considering their gender, and it didn't take us long to catch I-49 east and get the wheels on Emily's Camry to humming. We stopped for the night in Tyler, a little town on the appropriate side of Dallas, and got a couple of rooms at a Quality Inn.
Michael volunteered to stay outside with the car to "better commune" with his Lord, since angels don't really need sleep, and Myra just laughed when I raised on eyebrow at her as I headed into my room. She turned around and followed Emily into their room and I tossed my backpack onto the other bed and stretched out to watch a Law & Order rerun for a little while. I didn't feel much like sleeping, and since there's always a Law & Order rerun on no matter what time you turn on a hotel TV, I just kicked back and tried to process a day, that even in my nearly limitless experience, had to deem was pretty screwed up.
I had processed myself into a nice solid sleep with my boots still on when I heard a soft knock on my door. I grinned and smoother my hair into place as I crossed the room, popping an Altoid as I took the chain off the door.
"I knew you wouldn't be able to sleep with me laying just a few feet away…"my words trailed off when I looked down at Emily standing there in a t-shirt and sweatpants, looking up at me nervously.
"I'm sorry, I didn't meant to…I should just…I'll see you in the morning…Oh fuck I'm suchanidiot…" she turned and started to bolt but I caught her arm before she finished the turn.
"Hey, hey, hey what's wrong? Come in, sit down, I'm sorry, I just…" I trailed off myself as I realized I was rambling.
"Just what? Just thought I was my mom?" She arched an eyebrow at me in a perfect imitation of the look I'd given her mom a couple of hours before. "Not bloody likely, as your divine friend would say. She's out cold. I think today was a lot for her to handle."
"I know the feeling. I thought I was going to lie here and watch TV for a while and didn't even know I was asleep until your knock woke me."
"Oh God! I'm so sorry! I'll go, I didn't mean to wake you, I just assumed you'd be up. I mean, Michael doesn't sleep, so I guess I thought that maybe you didn't either."
"Michael's an angel. I'm human, or at least pretty much human. I do sleep, not as much as most, but I do sleep. But I'd rather talk to you. I'm sure you've got a few questions for me."
"A few? Yeah, that might be an understatement. But I guess, I mean, I guess my only real question is why?"
"Why? Why what?"
"Why did you make my mom fall in love with you? Did you love her? I know why you came back, you didn't mean to, but why did you leave in the first place? And don't give me that shit about not watching people die, I can see that lie in your eyes."
Sometimes I wish I had normal kids. All these years, and every single one of them has been a precocious little shit. All the way back to Abel, who knew what our Father wanted almost before he did. And Cain, who was so quick and strong. They've all been amazing kids in some way. Take Matthew, my last son. He was the bravest kid I'd ever seen. I didn't want him to fight in the war. I knew better than to think that the Redcoats actually had a chance – free will has been winning out ever since Eve ate the fruit, but Matthew had a fire in his soul. He burned with so much righteousness that he would have blinded that little putz Michael, and he felt the injustice of the British rule so sharply that I never had a chance of talking him out of the war. I only went along to protect my identity, and in the hope that if I was with him, I could keep Matthew from doing anything too terribly foolish. I was wrong, of course.
It wasn't even that much of a battle, really. We were far from any of the major incursions, just fighting with a bunch of patriots in Winnsboro, SC when a Loyalist group decided to follow up on the recent surrender of Charleston by wiping out the patriots throughout South Carolina. Our ragtag bunch beat them back pretty handily, but not before Matthew was shot in the leg. It would have been easier on him if they'd hit him in the chest. The doctor, or what passed for one there, didn't even try to treat the wound, just hacked his leg off above the knee with a crude saw. The doctor knew nothing of disinfectant, and all he had for a painkiller was a stick to bite down on, and a little whiskey when he woke up the next morning screaming in agony.
He lasted for six days before the pain, the shock and the infection killed him. I sat beside his bed day and night with my musket across my legs, daring anyone to try and move him. I held him when he shook with chills, I mopped his brow when the fever started, and eventually I wrapped my arms around him and cried into his sweat-soaked hair as he lay still. I looked down into Emily's eyes, blazing truth the way Matthew's eyes used to glow with righteous anger, and I started to tear up.
"Alright. But if we're going to have this conversation, I'm going to require some mental lubrication."
"A drink, kiddo. I don't tell these stories sober. It's a rule I've got. Think your mother will be good to sleep through the night? This could take a while."
"After the day she's had? Yeah, I gave her half an Ambien, so she'll be out for a good eight hours."
"Then let's roll." I started toward the stairs, heading for the bar a couple hundred yards down the street, when I heard Emily clear her throat. I stopped, and looked at her standing there, barefoot, 24 years old, wearing sweats and a T-shirt that obviously served as pajamas. "Good point. You wait in there, I'll go get us a bottle and a couple of glasses, and I'll be right back."
No, I didn't ask her what she liked. I didn't really care. The booze wasn't for her, it was for me. She would probably need a slash or two before we were done, but I was gonna need a couple good belts before we ever started.
"That's not good for you, you know." Michael said as I walked past the car. He was sitting on the hood leaning back against the windshield looking up at what stars he could see through the sodium vapor parking lot lights.
"If I want your opinion, angel, I'll beat it out of you."
"I'm just trying to help."
"If I ever ask for your help, please stick that fiery toothpick you carry around up my ass." I didn't wait around to hear his response, if there was one. I walked to the bar, flashed my best smile at the bartender and asked her how much for a bottle of Johnnie Walker Green. After a few minutes of negotiation, I slipped him a ridiculous amount of money and walked back to the hotel with two highball glasses and bottle of good whiskey.
I knocked on the door, walked in, poured two fingers of amber firewater for Emily and knocked back a stiff shot of my own. I decided to dilute the second belt with one ice cube and knocked it back, too.
"Geez, Dad. Is it that bad? You're hitting that stuff pretty hard."
It had been a long time since anyone called me Dad, or anything like it, and her words made my hand shake a little more. I poured myself a third drink, added a couple of ice cubes to this one, and sat down at the ubiquitous round table that you find in every cheap hotel across the US. Emily sat cross-legged on the bed nearest the door, and for a long time she just looked at me.
"Well, go ahead. You wanted to ask me questions, ask." I said when I could no longer stand her looking at me like she could see everything without giving me the benefit of lying about it.
Her voice was very small when she finally spoke, but it was loud enough to bring the walls of Jericho down all over again. "Why didn't you want me?" She looked up at me through a curtain of her own hair, and those eyes, those eyes that could see straight into the heart of the matter, were full of tears.
I was on the bed with her before I knew I'd moved, and I was holding her as she cried little girl tears. She sobbed like the little girl I'd never known her as, and all I could do was sit there stupidly and wrap my arms around her and rock back and forth. After a few minutes her crying started to slack off, and I smoothed her hair back out of her face and wiped her face dry with my shirt sleeve. I looked her straight in the eyes and said, with all the sincerity in my soul "I never knew about you, baby. I was gone before your mom even knew she was pregnant. If I'd known you were coming, I could never have left you. And if I'd ever seen you, I could never have left you. I've had hundreds of kids over the years, and I've never been able to stand leaving after I've seen their eyes. It's not that I didn't want you, baby, it's that I never knew there was a you to want."
"I know. I mean, I've always known that. But it never mattered, you know? At least, not until you were here to say it to me."
"I get it. But it's true. You know that, right? I didn't leave you. I just left. It might not have been the right thing to do, but it felt like what I had to do. At least then."
"I know. So why did you make my mom fall so hard for you? You know she's never had a third date in my life?"
"Wow. No, I didn't know that. That wasn't the plan. That's not the way it was supposed to go. We were just supposed to be a summer thing, a couple of young people sowing oats, or at least one young person sowing oats and one person who still looks pretty good for a really, really, really old dude." She laughed, and I knew we were good. If I can make 'em laugh they can't stay too mad at me. And it's harder to throw things when you're laughing.
"So you were supposed to just be a fond memory and maybe the face she saw every once in a while when she looked across the breakfast table at her husband?"
"Something like that, although I'll admit in my vainer moments to hoping I was remembered in slightly different moments than those taking place at the breakfast table, unless you have an unconventional idea of breakfast." I arched one eyebrow and got a punch on the arm and a golden laugh as my reward.
We talked through the night, mostly inconsequential getting to know you crap, but it was nice to take the time to connect to someone, someone who I didn't have to hide my true nature from. By the time the sun came up and her mother came in from the room next door with coffee we were friends.
9 comments:
- DrChako said...
I like it. Adds some good character development. Didn't advance the story though, at least as far as I can tell.
One moment of revulsion - when they fell onto the bed, I thought you were taking this story in a really sick, incestuous direction. Perhaps they can just sit and hug?
- Falstaff said...
oooh, good point. I went in an changed that in the offline version to "I was sitting on the bed next to her..." Yeah, I thought for the briefest second about making an incest angle happen, but it made me queasy and wouldn't serve the characters, so I made that go away. Fast.
Thanks again, Doc.
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- schuhe mbt said...
"Michael, there's obviously something you don't want to tell me, so of course that's what I want to know. What is she doing in New Orleans?" I loomed a little, but the little shit was unperturbed. That's what comes from being God's Own Enforcer, you get to be a little hard to intimidate.
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Friday, July 25, 2008
57 comments:
- INDIGENE said...
I know this is going to sound mean, but I would love to tip those over! Wonderful illustration! :)
- July 25, 2008 at 9:52 PM
- Tracy said...
Oh, this is soooo good, Eric! I love the Eiffel Tower-tower of cans. What a great idea :) Your art amazes me! You make it look so effortless.
- July 25, 2008 at 10:10 PM
- Sean Ashby said...
I've been trying to think of what on earth I could do with the theme of "canned" and haven't come up with much. This is a great idea, I wish I'd thought of it! (Really well done, too, of course =)
- July 25, 2008 at 10:18 PM
- johanna said...
that's quite an accomplishment for him. i hope it manages to stay up but i think a lot of kids would be tempted to see those cans topple over. lol. love the illustration!
- July 25, 2008 at 10:26 PM
- Amy said...
Wonderful -- I love how he seems so proud too. :)
- July 25, 2008 at 11:13 PM
- Bella Sinclair said...
Wow, that's quite an accomplishment. Don't tell me -- that's French Onion Soup, no? He SHOULD be proud! Wonderful, cheery illustration.
- July 26, 2008 at 12:48 AM
- Kate said...
Aaawww!! How fun! I love it! The grocer looks so proud.
- July 26, 2008 at 1:44 AM
- SENTA said...
What a great idea! What else can I say, fabulous as usual...
- July 26, 2008 at 2:23 AM
- linda sarah said...
this is so wonderful! the eiffel tower made magnificently out of cans - very beautiful and very fun - I love visiting this blog!
- July 26, 2008 at 5:23 AM
- Eric Barclay said...
Thanks Indigene! I want to knock it over, too.
Thank you, Tracy.
Thanks, Sean. I know what you mean... some topics are just hard to illustrate.
Thank you, Johanna.
Thank you, Amy.
Merci, Bella!
Thank you, Kate!
Thanks, Senta!
Thank you Linda... I love visiting yours as well!
- July 26, 2008 at 7:26 AM
- SCOTT BURROUGHS said...
This rocks! It has total appeal and really nice design. Great work!
- July 26, 2008 at 9:52 AM
- MayY . C 五月媽媽 said...
hey, missing your entry last week.
Now, this is another fantastic piece.
love the guy in apron and stacking high canned food, what a clever entry Eric !
- July 26, 2008 at 11:02 AM
- ValGalArt said...
He looks quite pleased with himself and you should too! I love this Eric :)
- July 26, 2008 at 11:39 AM
- zime said...
Nice illo so funny!!
- July 26, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- Renata Nunes said...
I loved your idea, so colorful and funny! Great job!
- July 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- Jo1day said...
Great idea, and I really like the fresh, simple style
- July 26, 2008 at 1:52 PM
- cata said...
OH!!! La France!!!!
Bellissimo, Eric.
- July 26, 2008 at 2:20 PM
That's an excellent idea for the topic. He looks so proud of himself. You should proud of yourself. Great illustration.
- July 26, 2008 at 3:39 PM
- Sandra said...
Eric this is a great illustration, he does look very pleased with himself.
- July 26, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- em said...
I love it! Very cute! ~M
- July 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
- ratsliveon said...
Tres bon!
That's right I'm showing off my high school french ;)
He looks so proud! I hope nothing bad happens to his tower.
- July 26, 2008 at 6:32 PM
- erin said...
oo-la-la, can't wait to watch the last day of la Tour tomorrow in Paris (the race will be in paris, alas not moi). Great illustration!
- July 26, 2008 at 7:50 PM
- Eric Barclay said...
Thanks, Scott! I lived in Colorado for almost 7 years and really miss it.
Thanks, May. Sometimes it's nice to take a break. :-)
Thank you, Valerie.
Thanks, Zime!
Thank you, Renata.
Thank you, Joanna- I appreciate the compliment!
Thank you, Cata. His leaning tower didn't work out so well. ;-)
Thank you, Katie!
Thanks, Sandra!
Thank you, Em!
Mercí, Ratsliveon. But I think this will end badly. :)
Erin- me too! Can't believe how close this year's tour is! Thanks for your comment!
- July 26, 2008 at 10:20 PM
- Lisa M Griffin said...
Very creative! And yes, why is there an overwhelming desire to jump in this illo and tip over all those cans.
THanks for sharing.
- July 27, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- janie said...
He's being very ambitious, i think I'll just take that one in the middle:)
- July 27, 2008 at 12:39 PM
- Gaia said...
How great!! Such a fantastic take on this week's topic!
I agree with Sean, it wasn't easy at all... :)
- July 27, 2008 at 12:55 PM
- Lori McDonough said...
That Eiffel Tower wouldn't stand a chance of survival with my kids in the store! Yikes!
Awesome illo! Great idea.
- July 27, 2008 at 8:30 PM
- krisztina maros said...
great design by this stockboy :) and really great retro illo by you, again!
- July 28, 2008 at 3:09 AM
- Flora D said...
Lovely illustration!
- July 28, 2008 at 7:11 AM
- Mary Anna said...
WOW! Your work is amazing! I love, love, love the colors, the softness, the everything! (Oh, to have talent!)
- July 28, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- ms. froggie said...
bwahahahahahahaha!!!! i can never visit this store....that is just WAAAAAAY too irresistible!
fantastic illio, eric! love the mood, his gesture! :))
- July 28, 2008 at 11:47 AM
- Edrian Thomidis said...
Eric, this is so clever. I love the look of satisfaction and pride.
You manage to say so much with so little. I really enjoy your style.
It would only take for one of my kids to come on by and knock it down! Great job!
- July 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM
- Eric Barclay said...
Thank you, Lisa!
Thank you Janie... There's an aisle clean-up in his future.
Thanks Gaia!
Thanks Lori. It wouldn't stand a chance with my kids, either.
Thank you, Krizstina.
Thanks, Flora!
Thank you Mary Anna!
Thanks Colleen! :)
Thank you, Edrian!
- July 28, 2008 at 4:26 PM
- nina seven said...
very clever...and so well done! i love it!
- July 28, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- July 29, 2008 at 2:40 AM
Verry nice illustration! Great idea!
- July 29, 2008 at 7:53 AM
- abhishek singh said...
luv ur work !!!
loved the canned ...
n what mood in ur foggy ..i really liked the expression in that one ...
i' always happy to look at ur beautiful stuff.
n ur work is always conceptually driven.
- July 29, 2008 at 8:20 AM
- Roberta said...
I want to shop where you shop. The grocers in this part of Texas are never that creative!
Clever and perfect illo!!!
- July 29, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- Bobo Cat said...
Yeah! He's a grocer with architectural background! Brilliant idea!
- July 29, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Wow, Vive la France! I just have to love this one. Great concept, great execution!
- July 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- -J.Meyer said...
Nice, I like the use of the blue cans for negative space. Smart! =)
- July 29, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Eric Barclay said...
Thanks, Nina!
Thanks, Jim!
Thank you, Sascha.
Thank you, Abhishek!
Thanks, Roberta. They don't stack them like this at my grocery store, either.
Thank you, Julia!
Thank you, Shani! When I saw that the topic was 'canned', and that the person who suggested it was from France... the idea just popped in my head.
Thank you, Jennifer!
- July 29, 2008 at 7:54 PM
- Natura said...
So nice! I enjoyed your work very much :)
- July 30, 2008 at 1:19 AM
- kathy hare said...
a very clever response to the word Eric.. :)
- July 30, 2008 at 3:02 AM
- Happy Little Atom said...
okay, hi. I can totally see this in the Jacque book...
- July 30, 2008 at 4:08 AM
- carli said...
great idea and wonderful illustration
- July 30, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- lil kim said...
great illo! See - this proves you can work in a perhaps mundane job but still be creative in it! (no offence to all the shelf stockers out there)
- July 31, 2008 at 4:21 AM
- Thierry said...
Ahahah! So great!
I like your works!
But what is there in these cans?
- July 31, 2008 at 4:24 AM
- vjarumugam said...
you are one happy man eric! all your illo's show that. :) there is this certain amount of peace that lingers in every piece of yours. you are certainly right about your description. you have a beautiful family that inspires your work. "simply" awesome.
- July 31, 2008 at 9:11 AM
- lucky said...
I truly love your work...
So whimsical!
And always bringing me back the children's books that I loved as a kid in the 70s!
Thanks for your kind comment!
- July 31, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- SaiSai said...
Nice concept, it makes me nervous that a herd of kids might run by...
- July 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM
- Kelly Medina said...
Wonderful illustration. He does look so proud!
Thanks for your comment :)
- July 31, 2008 at 3:23 PM
- *daisy said...
Adorable!! :D I really love the lines and shape of the grocer and the overall composition- and you always such fun colors too!
- July 31, 2008 at 5:49 PM
- Eric Barclay said...
Natalí, Kathy, Carli, Kim, Denise, Saisai, Kelly, and Daisy: thanks so much for your comments!
Vjarumugam- thanks so much for your kind words.
Thierry- thanks for your comment. I think it's French onion soup in the orange cans, and blueberries in the blue cans. The only thing certain is that the stock boy is dreaming of France. :-)
Kari- can't wait to work on the book when you're in town!
- July 31, 2008 at 9:15 PM
- Connie said...
Love the Eiffel Tower! Clever idea and charming illustration.
- August 1, 2008 at 2:54 AM
- Christy said...
Very clever stack 'em up! :)
- August 2, 2008 at 5:33 PM
- Mike Vatcher said...
Your stuff is great. Such lovely little stories.
- August 6, 2008 at 8:30 AM


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Warming ocean temperature and the dramatic loss of ice cover is opening Arctic waters to new and expanded shipping, fishing, research, offshore oil development, tourism, and other economic activities. The growth in Arctic marine operations is due in large part to natural resource development within the region and greater economic ties of the Arctic to the global economy. Bering Strait transits increased from 245 in 2008 to 325 in 2012, a 53 mile wide passage which provides the only connection between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans. While vessel activity is light compared to other regions of the world, the capacity to provide aid and support for these vessels is extremely limited.While sea ice loss is accelerating during summer months due to warmer global temperatures, the regional weather includes dense fog, extreme cold, severe storms, and unpredictable ice flows. Therefore, the Arctic still remains a challenging environment for any shipping operations.The Bering Strait region is perhaps the single most productive and diverse marine area in the Arctic. The region provides critical habitat for walrus, seals, fish, several types of whales, and immense numbers of birds. It has an ancient human history and an enduring cultural heritage of significance to all, especially the indigenous peoples who live in the Bering Strait Region. This regional indigenous culture and its subsistence hunting and fishing traditions continue to be vibrant today.IUCN, NRDC and UAF held a workshop with 37 local, governmental, scientific, indigenous and environmental experts to identify possible means of implementing protective measures identified in previous workshops. Because of the multiple users of the marine environment, timely and effective communication is paramount between governments, vessels, and hunters. Workshop attendees focused the discussion on how to best acquire and disseminate information on the location of ships, hunters, hazards, and marine mammals. The meeting urged improved communications infrastructure including updating the U.S. Coast Pilot, and increasing communications and vessel tracking equipment for subsistence use hunters. The Identification of voluntary measures for shippers would also advance improved management in this region. In addition, as one of the most sensitive and complex Arctic marine areas, special area designation for the Bering Strait region should warrant early attention at the IMO, and international cooperation toward a strong Polar Code is critical.
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How much time do you spend in the future? How much time do you spend in the past? When will you return? Suppose that you subtract everything in the conscious mind that is not directly related to the past, nor is it related to the future. What will be left? These are the key questions forming the basis for the project 'A Crack in Time and the Break of Dawn', a musical and artistical expedition reaching out for the ever-present, everlasting Now. In a remote area of Norway, surrounded by mountains and forests, lies the studio 'Aagseth Studios'. On the 19. Of August 2005, a group of musicians and artists gathered for a full 48 hours with the purpose of creating a 'virtual music CD' based on improvised experimental jam music and digital video art. Microphones were placed both inside and outside of the building. All activity within the duration of the project were recorded: improvised experimental jam music, spontanious conversation and natural ambiences alike. There were live-rooms for drum-kits, electric guitars, bass and trumpet. An acoustic room for acoustic guitars, harmonica and percussion, a vocal room for vocals, flute and computer/sound-effects, a conversation room for philosophical discussion, and a mixing room to tie it all together in real-time. Microphones were placed outside and around the studio to capture outside activity and ambiences from the surrounding forest. Visual artists and musicians were working in parallell, encouraged to let their actions become totally spontanious based on the creative flow of the moment.. This is the fifth CD in a series of all improvised experimental jam music spawn from the project 'A Crack in Time and the Break of Dawn'..


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Let's talk about open rates. They're up! They're down! They don't matter! Senders are obsessed with open rates for a very simple reason: emails that are not opened do not get clicks or conversions. We don't want to overstate the importance of the open rate but we challenge you to find a successful email program that doesn't maintain a consistently high open rate. So, let's go back to basics and talk about ways to boost a sagging open rate.
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The Semi-automatic expansion of existing terminological ontologies using knowledge patterns discovered on the WWWAn implementation and evaluationHalskov, Jakob (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The research object of this thesis is the so-called knowledge patterns and their usefulness in automatically extracting specic semantic relations from unannotated and uncategorized text on the WWW so as to facilitate semi-automatic updating and extension of existing ontological and terminological resources. The main contribution of the thesis is the implementation of a com- plete ontology extension framework called WWW2REL which is 100% based on a knowledge-poor, domain-independent processing of WWW text snippets and includes the three stages of pattern discovery, pattern ltering and relation instance ranking. Unlike most comparable systems WWW2REL is special in that it is both highly portable, can be applied to any semantic relation type and operates directly on uncategorized WWW text snippets. The system is tested on the biomedical UMLS Metathesaurus for four dierent relation types and manually evaluated by four domain experts. It is demonstrated that high precision in the task of knowledge discovery from a noisy text source can be achieved using a very simple instance relevance measure and two ranking heuristics. In contrast, many comparable systems operate on richly annotated academic text and tend to apply heuristics which are custom-tailored to a specic domain and/or relation type. When selecting the overall best ranking scheme, average system performance across all four relation types ranges between 70% to 65% of the maximum possible F-score by top 10 and top 50 relation instances, respectively. Finally, the thesis experiments also examine the portability of individ- ual knowledge patterns and of the ranking heuristics. It is concluded that synonymy KPs are the most domain independent closely followed by ISA KPs, whereas patterns for "may_prevent" and especially "induces" are more dependent on the domain. Empirical experiments also suggest that a ranking heuristic which penalizes relation instances whose arguments occur frequently in a general language corpus can be highly eective, but may need to be adapted to the domain in question. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7731
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Enhancing Social Entrepreneurship and Stakeholder TheoryDacanay, Marie Lisa (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis develops a framework for understanding how social enterprises engage the poor and address poverty, a pressing global problem of the 21st century. Using casebased theory building, it studies a theoretical sample of three pairs of Philippine-based social enterprises, where the poor were suppliers, workers, and customers. In half of the cases, the poor were also owners. The research studies the roles and role changes of the poor in these social enterprises, how and why these roles changed, or did not change, and the impact of the roles and role changes, if any, on the social enterprises and the poor. Data for the research was gathered mainly from key informant interviews, published and unpublished organizational documents as well as previous studies done by external consultants on the case subjects. Based on a cross case analysis of the data from the theoretical sample, the thesis develops three models of stakeholder engagement among social enterprises with the poor as primary stakeholders or SEPPS, namely: control, collaboration and empowerment. This thesis provides insights and develops propositions about the importance of stakeholder engagement and the power and limitations of these three models in bringing about social inclusion and poverty reduction. These propositions are suggested to be applicable in countries in the South other than the Philippines where systemic poverty and inequality are exacerbated by the failure of state and market institutions to address the needs of the poor. This thesis makes a contribution to social entrepreneurship and stakeholder theory. It does so by sharing a perspective from the South and giving a voice to the poor as stakeholders. The researcher notes that overall, the poor and the South are under-represented in these discourses. On the whole, social entrepreneurship theorizing has been characterized as embryonic as a topic of academic inquiry. Stakeholder engagement is considered an under-theorized area in stakeholder theory. In developing a framework for understanding stakeholder engagement models involving the poor, this thesis makes a first step towards applying and extending stakeholder theory in SEPPS. The thesis likewise enriches social entrepreneurship theory by conceiving of SEPPS as a global social enterprise model that catalyzes South-North cooperation to address poverty and inequality. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8513
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In the Textile and Fashion IndustryAndersen, Kirsti Reitan (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987 put the topic of sustainable development on the political and corporate agenda. Defining sustainable development as "a development that meets the needs of the future without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (WCED, 1987, p. 43), the Report also put a positive spin on the issue of sustainability by upholding capitalist beliefs in the possibility of infinite growth in a world of finite resources. While growth has delivered benefits, however, it has done so unequally and unsustainably. This thesis focuses on the textile and fashion industry, one of the world's most polluting industries and an industry to some degree notorious for leading the 'race to the bottom' in global labour standards. Despite being faced with increasing demands to practise sustainability, most textile and fashion companies continue to fail undertake the changes that are necessary to achieve greater sustainability—or at best continue to struggle in a globalized and highly interconnected industry to implement the necessary changes. In light of this failure, this thesis investigates how organizations can change towards practising sustainability, focusing on the potential of taking a design approach to bringing about processes of organizational change. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9444
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A Performative ApproachAlbu, Oana Brindusa (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation provides a critical analysis of transparency in the context of organizing. The empirical material is based on qualitative studies of international cooperative organizations. The dissertation seeks to contribute to transparency and organizing scholarship by adopting a communication centred approach to explore the implications of pursuing ideals of transparency in organizational relationships. The dissertation is comprised of four papers each contributing to extant debates in organizational studies and transparency literature. The findings indicate that transparency, in contrast to being a solution for efficiency and democratic organizing, is a communicatively contested process which may lead to unintended consequences. The dissertation shows that transparency is performative: it can impact authority by de/legitimating action, shape the processes of organizational identity co-construction, and its intersection with new media technologies can create tensions. Thus, the dissertation questions instrumental tendencies which regard transparency as full disclosure, the opposite of secrecy, and a way to achieve a consistent organizational identity. The dissertation provides a framework of organizational transparency which underlines its negotiated, power-infused and paradoxical nature. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8916
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An Ethnographic Study of Trust, Distance, Control, Culture and Boundary Spanning within Offshore Outsourcing of IT ServicesTøth, Thomas (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD dissertation is an ethnographic field study of the collaboration between Berlingske Media, one of the leading media companies in Denmark, and their Indian IT service provider, HCL – one of the largest IT service providers worldwide. The dissertation studies the day-to-day operational collaboration between actors from the client organization and the vendor organization in order to understand how vendor-side actors, as individuals and as a collective, can be constructed as trustworthy collaborators in the eyes of the client-side actors. While trust is the theoretical epicenter of this thesis it is, in acknowledgement of the contextual and dynamic nature of trust, subjected to an interdisciplinary analytical framework. Thus, the four analytical chapters in Part II introduce four different factors that influence the client-side actors' perceptions of vendor-side actors' trustworthiness: distance, control, culture and boundary spanning. The analytical conclusions are summarized in Part III of the dissertation. Based on these analytical conclusions a number of practice-oriented suggestions on how the client-side actors' perceptions of the vendor-side's trustworthiness can be improved are presented and discussed. Furthermore, the theoretical implications are presented and discussed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9115
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Exploring Fashion Industry Business Models and the Circular EconomyHvass, Kerli Kant (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation examines post-consumer textile waste from the fashion industry's perspective, and addresses how business model innovation can facilitate reuse and recycling of garments and a transition towards a circular economy of fashion. Focusing on the emerging reuse and recycling practices of fashion brands the study builds upon one explorative and two in-depth case studies of industry pioneers and their endeavors of integrating reuse and recycling activities in their business models. Theoretically the study rests on business models, business model innovation for sustainability and circular economy. The study seeks to provide a unique contribution as it synthesizes the theoretical and empirical insights from the field of business model innovation and circular economy in the context of post-consumer textile waste. By highlighting and extending the idea of business model innovation for circular economy it makes a justification that product end-of-life phases require attention and can include new value propositions that companies can create, deliver and capture. This dissertation contains three articles, each of which contributes to an improved understanding of post-consumer textile waste management in the context of the fashion industry and its related opportunities and challenges. The findings cover both broad industry-level and more specific company-level discoveries. The industry-level findings provide a general understanding of existing practices among fashion companies while the company specific findings identify key issues and challenges of integrating a product's end-of-life aspects in an existing business model. Collectively, the findings demonstrate that end-of-life management of products is an emerging field among fashion companies and used garments can provide new value propositions for fashion brands. The findings also illustrate that the field is in its infancy and lacks best practices within business models, supply chain infrastructure, technological solutions and consumer engagement. Transition towards a circular economy implies full systemic change, and innovation not only in business models, but also in technologies, society, policies and finance methods as well as consumer behavior. None of these aspects can work in isolation and require that different stakeholders work in tandem. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9282
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• It comes in smooth and chunky: Jerome Bettis now has his own premium tequila. It's the perfect shot for drunk driving school bus drivers. [PSAMP]
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Yogavelraj wrote:Now you are comfort and knowledge about your boundry. Try to get sketch in the format of autocad from the civilenginner. Keep it your self and share the cad drawings to architect or civilenginner whome you prepare to give design of your house. My suggestion is for planning architect is the professional who is qualified for planning. He will charges. As per his professional ethics. But it will. Be little higher than the civil engineer. But it has own value than a civil engineer who will charage less. Bcz of his limited knowledge.
Thanks Again for the feedback , but i am trying to find how do i know who is Qualified for Planning .. is it like any Architect is will do planning . or is there any approved one for BBMP


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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - Wank in the Woods 2011 - Part 4
Ruslan Tarovsky, Honza Copak, Mattias Solich, Rado Zuska, Jan Pribyla, Paul Fresh, Rado Princ, Zdenek Zimola and Yuri Bulakov continue in Wank In The Woods 2011. This is the 4th part, which carries on from the change of positions right at the end of part 3. Paul Fresh is fucking Zdenek Zimola while Jan is fucking Yuri and Mattias is being plowed nice and deep by Rado Z. There is lots of moaning as the cocks go deep into their hot asses. Honza, Dmitry and Rado P keep busy at the same time, wanking themselves and being sucked by the bottoms. Zdenek really enjoys Paul's big dick up his ass and is rock hard as he is taking it. The same applies to Yuri who is wanking his throbbing cock as Jan plows him. Yuri loves the action sucks on Rado P while Jan keeps ramming his ass. The guys change positions again, this time with Mattias sitting on Paul's hard cock, while Rado P fucks Zdenek who in turn is fucking Yuri. Honza also gets a turn, with his big cock deep fucking Rado Z who sucks on Jan as his ass is being well fucked. The action is truly hot as everyone is involved, Dmitry loves the threeway action with Rado P, Zdenek and Yuri and leans over to suck on Yuri's cock. But he want even more, so Rado Z fucks his tight ass and Jan takes a turn in Honza's ...
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Fernandes hasn't ruled out Van der Garde for 2014
iedo van der Garde has not been ruled out of the running to stay at Caterham beyond 2013.
That is the claim of team 'supremo' Tony Fernandes, who is keen to bring Heikki Kovalainen back into a race seat next season.
"I do not want to start another season with two 'pay drivers'," the Malaysian entrepreneur told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
"Kovalainen has a good chance of getting one of the two seats," Fernandes revealed.
Currently, Caterham's drivers are van der Garde, who has struggled at times in 2013, and Frenchman Charles Pic, whose 2014 seat was considered safe due to his strong backing and existing contract.
But Fernandes said van der Garde is also in the running.
"He's come back well after a difficult start. Canada was the low point, when I was thinking I had made a big mistake.
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Elephant 6, the collective made up of Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Apples in Stereo and many other indie rock favorites, have been working on this feature film Major Organ and the Adding Machine for a while, and on Sunday, they're screening it at the Roxie. AND playing some songs. Their show at the Independent the night before is sold out, so if you don't have tickets to that, you might want to hurry up and buy tickets to this.
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Château Mont-Redon, established in 1344, is one of the oldest wine-producing Estates in France and the largest single property in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The Estate includes 100 hectares of the most perfectly-sited vineyards in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, spread over the region's three main soil types: the western limestone slopes, sand and galet stones on the plateau. The wines are made by vinifying all of the cépages together, to promote aromatic complexity, and are blended after 18 to 24 months ageing in cask. These are elegant examples of Châteauneuf that age well.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, literally the Pope's new castle, (referring to move of the papal court to Avignon the the 1300s) is a large appellation in the Southern Rhône and is considered the birth place of the Appellation Contrôlee system. In 1923 Baron Le Roy of Ch Fortia had successfully established a strict set of rules for the production of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, including delimiting an area for wine production and setting a minimum alcoholic strength of 12.5%. Reds and whites are produced, but the former is the far bigger of the two. Both colours produce rich, full-bodied heady wines rarely below 13.5 - 14% alcohol, distinctly southern and warm in character. The reds can vary from the hot, stewed or underipe to the rich, powerful, complex and tannic. The red wines can be aged for anything between 5 - 20 years depending on the quality of the individual wine. The sweetness and headiness of red Châteauneuf-du-Papes comes from thre Grenache grape, it makes wines of sweet fruit, high alcohol and light colour. This is the dominant variety. There are increasing amounts of Châteauneuf-du-Papes which are Grenache only. However the classic and most common version is a blend of up to 13 varieties, the main players being Grenache, Syrah (which lends colour complexity and finesse) and Mourvèdre (which also lends colour, complexity, tannic backbone and acidity). The other varieties include the decreasing Cinsault, Counoise - highly thought of for its acidity- and a number of white grapes that can also be blended into the red wines aswell as being used for makings whites, the most important of these are Grenache Blanc, Bourboulenc, the excellent Clairette and Roussanne.The vineyard area extends over more than 3000 ha, the chief communes being Châteauneuf-du-Pape itself, Bédarrides, Courthézon, Orange, and Sorgues. The soils differ throughout the appellation from the classic large "Galet" stones which radiate heat to the low-trained old goblet vines, to varying degrees of clay, limestone and sand (the last of these can produce very sensual, silky wines the most famous of example of which would be Rayas.) Winemaking techniques vary from the traditional, all or part of the stalks included in the winemaking, fermentation and ageing in large old wooden foudres, to the more modern de-stalking, tank fermentation and new oak barriques maturation, or a blend of the two. The appellation is big therefore there are plenty of underperformers, however there is also, fortunately, an increasingly large selection of top class producers, including: Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe, Beaucastel, Clos des Papes, Domaine de Pegaü, Ch Rayas, Pierre Usseglio, Jean-Paul Versino, Vieux Donjon and Domaine de la Janasse. The best White Châteauneuf-du-Pape usually seems to have a high proportion of Clairette in it, though there is also an excellent single varietal Roussanne made by Beaucastel, the wines are powerful complex but are low in acidity and should usually be drunk in the first three years after the vintage.
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The Pentagon is preparing to send surveillance aircraft, including drones, into Syrian airspace to gather intelligence on Islamist targets, laying the groundwork for a possible expansion of the limited U.S. military air campaign beyond Iraq, senior U.S. officials said.
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Bilel Mohsni's late double salvo secured Southend a 3-1 victory at Crewe to keep them top of npower League Two.
The Shrimpers had been knocked off top spot temporarily as Matt Tubbs helped Crawley to a 1-0 victory at Northampton in the day's early kick-off. However, Kane Ferdinand's first-half effort looked set to propel Southend back to the top until Harry Davis levelled for Crewe.
Paul Sturrock's side peppered Alex's defence in search of a winning goal and got two in three minutes, with Mohsni netting in the 88th and then a minute into stoppage time.
AFC Wimbledon sit in the third automatic promotion spot behind Southend and Crawley after usurping Morecambe, who they beat 2-1.
Goals from Jack Midson and Christian Jolley helped the recently-promoted side recover from Stewart Drummond's opener to win at the Globe Arena.
Elsewhere in the fourth tier, Craig Fagan's solitary goal saw Torquay fall to a 1-0 defeat at Bradford, who were reduced to 10 men in the 24th minute after Andrew Davies received a straight red card.
Burton also grabbed a 1-0 win thanks to Justin Richards' early goal at Rotherham, while Gillingham drew 1-1 with Port Vale , Danny Kedwell's spot kick levelling things up after Marc Richards broke the deadlock.
Aldershot fell to a 2-1 home defeat to Macclesfield despite taking the lead through Danny Hylton as George Donnelly and Ross Draper goals turned the match.
Fans at Cheltenham's match with Dagenham and Redbridge witnessed three goals in a nine-minute spell, which started when Alan Bennett headed the home side in front in the 40th minute.
Jon Nurse levelled in first-half stoppage time only for the Robins to secure three points when James Spencer netted four minutes after the restart.
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