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The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success
Re-Creating the Corporation:
Creating the Corporate Future:
Presents a participative systems approach to interactive planning. Describes how to formulate the system of problems and opportunities that face a corporation.
Ackoff's Best: Timeless Observations on the Life of Business
From managing teams, maximizing the effectiveness of information systems, and problem solving, to creativity, crime, and the role of the corporation in a democratic society, these writings are a cornucopia of insights, observations, and powerful lessons that will help you improve the effectiveness of your organization.
The Art of Problem Solving Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables:
Shows how to develop an understanding of the art of creative thinking and design creative solutions. Based on real problems faced by real managers.
Beating the System: Using Creativity to Outsmart Bureaucracies
"Coauthors Russell Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin have spent their lives studying how organizational systems work, and here they share both perversely entertaining anecdotes about the abuse of individuals by a variety of bureaucracies, and descriptions of
Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow's Crisis...Today
Envision your ideal solution: then, work backwards to where you are. Start-to-finish techniques and examples drawn from hundreds of companies, non-profits, and government organizations will show you how to use idealized design.
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: with 40 New Management f-Laws
Finished just before Professor Ackoff's death late in 2009, Systems Thinking for Curious Managers opens the door to a joined up way of thinking about things that has profoundly influenced thinkers and doers in the fields of business, politics, economics, biology, psychology. Although Systems Thinking was 'invented' early in the 20th century, even Peter Senge's best-selling "The Fifth Discipline" (Systems Thinking is the fifth discipline) failed to popularize the term. But now, in business and academia, in the public sector and in the search for solutions to the environmental problems we face, Systems Thinking is being talked about everywhere. This timely book presents 40 more of Russ Ackoff's famously witty and incisive f-Laws (or flaws) of business - following on from his 2007 collection "Management f-Laws". All those in this collection are new and previously unpublished. Andrew Carey's extended introduction ties these f-Laws into the rest of Ackoff's work and gives the reader new to Systems Thinking a practical guide to the implications of Systems Thinking for organisations and managers.
Management f-Laws: How Organizations Really Work
A full collection of more than 80 of Russell Ackoff's management f-laws: the uncomfortable truths about how organizations really work, what's wrong with the way we design and manage businesses, what makes managers tick... and how we can make things work better.
Articles tags: business career classic creativitity curious cat picks customer focus Deming leadership learning organization management managing people Project management quality learning systems thinking
Design and Planning in Organizations view details
A great introduction to the Spring 1996 Center for Quality of Management Journal on this topic.
Management Gurus and Educators view details
An Idealized Design of the U.S. Healthcare System view details
"A consortium consisting of representative stakeholders in the National Healthcare (so-called) System has produced a "true" redesign of that system."
A Day with Dr. Russel L. Ackoff view details
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Video of presentation to the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
"Among the topics Dr. Ackoff discussed during the workshop were:
- The history and application of systems thinking
- How do social systems allow us to understand and overcome long term problems in today's environment?
- How can you effect change within the system in which you play a role?"
A Brief Guide to Interactive Planning and Idealized Design view details
"Interactive planning is directed at creating the future. It is based on the belief that an organization's future depends at least as much on what it does between now and then, as on what is done to it. Therefore, this type of planning consists of the design of a desirable present and the selection or invention of ways of approximating it as closely as possible. It creates its future by continuously closing the gap between where it is at any moment of time and where it would most like to be."
The Future of Operational Research is Past view details
"I hold academic OR and the relevant professional societies primarily responsible for this decline-and since I had a hand in initiating both, I share this responsibility. By the mid 1960's most OR courses in American universities were given by academics w
Resurrecting the Future of Operational Research view details
"In a previous paper I tried to show that OR is in a mess. There is no one solution to a mess. What is needed are designs and inventions that will enable Operational Researchers to formulate their ideals explicitly, pursue them effectively and do so in a
A Systemic View of Transformational Leadership view details
"Therefore, a transformational leader is one who can produce, or encourage and facilitate the production of, a mobilizing vision of a transformed system. Equally important, the leader must be able to inspire and organize or have organized an effective pursuit of that vision and maintain it even when sacrifices are required."
Transforming The Systems Movement view details
"Systems thinking produces radical and potentially revolutionary visions of public institutions. Nothing short of such visions can transform the state of world affairs. I believe we have an obligation to the global society of which we are a part to make
From Mechanistic to Social Systemic Thinking view details
An excellent article based on his presentation to the Systems Thinking in Action Conference.
All articles by Russell L. Ackoff
Author Quotes
It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.
If there isn't joy in work, you won't get productivity, and you won't get quality.
Invterview of Dr. Deming and Dr. Ackoff
Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.
Management f-Laws
The end of one problem may be the beginning of another.
The Art of Problem Solving
The basic managerial idea introduced by systems thinking, is that to manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
On Purposeful Systems
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.
Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.
A Major Mistake That Managers Make
A system is more than the sum of its parts; it is an indivisible whole. It loses its essential properties when it is taken apart. The elements of a system may themselves be systems, and every system may be part of a larger system.
We have also come to realize that no problem ever exists in complete isolation. Every problem interacts with every other problem and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. Furthermore, solutions to most problems produce other problems; for example, buying a car may solve a transportation problem but it may also create a need for a garage, a financial problem, a maintenance problem, and conflict among family members for its use.
Redesigning the Future
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Centre extends validity of driving licence, RC, permits till March 31
The transport ministry said it has issued an advisory to all states and Union Territory administrations in this regard. The extension applies to all documents which have expired since February 1, 2020 or would expire by March 31, 2021.
7:16 PM, 27 December, 2020 Updated 7:20 PM, 27 December, 2020
This is the fourth extension from the transport ministry. MoRTH had earlier this year issued advisories dated March 30, June 9, and August 24 regarding extension of validity of documents related to Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989. Photo: iStock
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on Sunday (December 27) extended the validity of motor vehicle documents like driving licence (DL), registration certificate (RC), permits till March 31, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ministry said it has issued an advisory to all states and Union Territory administrations in this regard. The extension applies to all documents which have expired since February 1, 2020 or would expire by March 31, 2021.
An advisory from MoRTH said, "Taking into consideration the need to prevent the spread of COVID-19, it is further advised that the validity of all of the above referred documents may be treated to be valid till 31st March 2021. This covers all documents whose validity has expired since 1st Feb, 2020 or would expire by 31st March 2021."
Also read: People with mild to medium colour blindness can now get driving licence
It added, "Enforcement authorities are advised to treat such documents valid till 31st of March 2021. This will help out citizens in availing transport related services, while maintaining social distancing."
All the states and Union Territories are requested to implement this advisory in letter and spirit so that the citizens, the transporters and various other organisations which are operating under this difficult time during COVID pandemic may not get harassed or face difficulties, the ministry said.
This is the fourth extension from the transport ministry. MoRTH had earlier this year issued advisories dated March 30, June 9, and August 24 regarding extension of validity of documents related to Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989.
It was advised that the validity of fitness, permit (all types), licence, registration or any other documents may be treated to be valid till December 31, 2020.
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
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My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person
you're falling in love with your idea of love.
I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
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Maria Bello is still unmarried. She was previously in a romantic affair with Dan McDermott, a screenwriter in 2004. The pair welcomed a son named Jackson Blue in 2006. However, they ended their relationship in 2006. After that, she dated Clare Munn and wrote about having a same-sex relationship with her in November 2013. Also, they ended their relationship in 2015.
Currently, she has been dating Elijah Allan-Blitz since 2016. They have not revealed any future plans, but they are enjoying their love life. Hope, they will get married soon. She currently lives in Venice, California with her son and her boyfriend, lives a few blocks away.
1 Who is Maria Bello?
2 Age(51), Parents, Siblings, Family, Nationality, Ethnicity
3 Maria Bello: Education, School/College University
4 Maria Bello: Professional Life and Career
5 Maria Bello: Awards, Nominations
6 Maria Bello: Net Worth($8 M), Income, Salary
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Who is Maria Bello?
Maria Bello is an American actress and writer. She is popular for her roles in 'ER', 'The Cooler', 'A History of Evidence', and 'Prisoners'. She is also better known for her performances in 'Touch', 'NCIS', 'Payback', and many more.
Age(51), Parents, Siblings, Family, Nationality, Ethnicity
She was born on April 18, 1967, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. Her birth name is Maria Elena Bello and she is currently 51 years old. Her father's name is Joe Bello (a contractor) and her mother's name is Kathy (a nurse and a teacher).
Bello's father belongs to Italian American and her mother is Polish American. Her mother is a cancer survivor and she was with her daughter, Maris, during the attacks of the World Trade Center and Kathy volunteered to help the victims. She has got two brothers: Joseph and Christopher and one sister: Lisa. She grew up in a Roman Catholic family.
At the age of 20, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Maria holds American citizenship but ethnicity is a mix of Polish and Italian.
Maria Bello: Education, School/College University
Talking about her education history, she graduated from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania and later she went to Villanova University and majored in political science. She was interested to become a lawyer but she took acting classes during her senior year, just for fun.
Maria Bello: Professional Life and Career
She debuted her television career from a minor role in Fox's TV series, 'Misery Loves Company' in 1995. She appeared as the female lead role of a corporate spy in the CNS television drama 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' by the following year and later moved to the film industry.
Maria Bello has debuted her film career from the role of Kitty in the film 'Permanent Midnight' in 1998. After a year, she portrayed the role of Rosie in the film 'Payback'. Also, she appeared as Gail Monahan in 'Towelhead' in 2007, Nancy Stockwell in 'Downloading Nancy' in 2008, Kate Carroll in 'Beautiful Boy', Martha in 'Bravetown' in 2015, Lindsey in 'Evry Day' in 2018, and as Carly Winter in 'Giant Little Ones' in 2018.
In addition, she appeared as Mrs. Smith in 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' in 1996, as Dr. Anna Del Amico in 'ER' from 1997 to 1998, as Lucy Robbins in 'Touch' from 2012 to 2013, and she has been portraying the role of Jacqueline 'jack' Sloane in 'NCIS' since 2017.
Maria Bello: Awards, Nominations
She won Blockbuster Entertainment Award in the category Favourite Supporting SActress-Comedy/Romance for 'Coyote Ugly' in 2001, won CFCA Award in the category Best Supporting Actress for 'A History of Violence' in 2006, won NBR Award in the category Best Ensemble for 'Prisoners' in 2003, and nominated several times in her career.
Maria Bello: Net Worth($8 M), Income, Salary
She has an estimated net worth of around $8 million and she has earned that sum of money from her professional career. Also, she earns around $125,000 per episode from the American reboot of the British series, 'Prime Suspect'.
Maria Bello: Rumors and Controversy/Scandal
There was a rumor regarding her separation of her with her girlfriend, Clare Munn, and the rumor has ended after she began dating Elijah Allan-Blitz.
Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size
She has a height of 5 ft. 5 inches and weighs 55 kg. Maria Bello has blue eyes and blonde hair. Her body measurement is 32-24-32 inches. Her dress size is 6(US), bra size is 32A, and her shoe size is 9(US).
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Maria Bello is active on social media like Instagram, Twitter, etc. but she does not seem to be active on Facebook. She has around 88.1k followers on Instagram, and around 72.6k followers on Twitter.
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The Miami Heat needed a break and they are taking advantage while they're in Miami with an early celebration of Dwyane Wade's 32nd birthday.
Friends, family and his bosses Pat Riley and team owner Micky Arison were on hand for the yacht party, which could only be held in the city of Miami at this time of the year.
While his birthday is on January 17, the Heat have a busy schedule once their road trip resumes in Washington D.C., where they visit the White House on Tuesday to celebrate their 2013 NBA Championship a day before facing the Wizards. Wade's birthday coincides with the Heat's road clash against the Philadelphia 76ers.
Just days after celebrating the birthday of teammate Michael Beasley in New York City, the Heat team gathered on a fully customized Li-Ning "Way of Wade" yacht for the event.
As for the party itself we'll let the pictures tell the story.
ESPN NFL SEATTLE -- When he got around the edge, there was no one for Marshawn Lynch to hit. Directly ahead was open field, the end zone and the Seattle Seahawks' place in the NFC Championship Game.
"That was maybe 'Beast Mode II.' I don't know but it was a very cool way to end that game and give us the score that we needed," Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.
Lynch carried 28 times for 140 yards and two touchdowns and Seattle's defense flustered Drew Brees and New Orleans in a 23-15 victory Saturday in the NFC divisional playoff game.
Steven Hauschka added three field goals in blustery conditions and the top-seeded Seahawks advanced to the NFC title game for the second time. They will host San Francisco or Carolina next Sunday after last reaching the conference title game in the 2005 playoffs.
Seattle shut out the Saints in the first half, got Lynch's first 100-yard game since Week 10 of the regular season and received a spark from the brief return of Percy Harvin before he left with a concussion. Lynch scored on a 15-yard run in the first half and capped the victory with a 31-yard scoring run with 2:40 left that Carroll celebrated by jumping into offensive line coach Tom Cable's arms.
"I don't run to get tackled," Lynch said.
Lynch's clinching TD was a similar to that 2010 play. Lynch read the blocking perfectly and cut to the outside using two blocks from tight end Zach Miller and Jermaine Kearse. Lynch's only contact was a stiff-arm of Keenan Lewis that allowed him free passage to the end zone and left CenturyLink Field swaying.
"It's all want with him," Seattle wide receiver Golden Tate said. "He's blessed with tremendous athleticism and body control and power. But right there he wanted that. He just wanted it and he went and got it."
Lynch set a franchise playoff record for yards rushing. His running made up for another shaky day passing by Russell Wilson. Seattle's offense was a concern heading into the postseason and, outside of Lynch, did little to quell those worries.
"At the end of the game I knew they were going to bring everybody," Wilson said.
Feed The Beast Marshawn Lynch eclipsed 130 rushing yards for the third time in his postseason career. Only Terrell Davis and Thurman Thomas have more 130-plus games since the current playoff format started in 1990.
--ESPN Stats & Information Carroll said they won't know Harvin's status for the NFC championship game until later in the week as he goes through the league's concussion protocol.
"He was electric. He made some awesome plays today," Wilson said about Harvin. "... They were trying to find ways to stop him and they were struggling with that."
Colston then recovered the onside kick when it caromed off Tate's and directly to the Saints' receiver.
"We're not scared of him," Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman said. "We have to deal with him but he has to deal with us."
Graham's lack of production was just part of the Saints struggles, especially in the first half. New Orleans was shut out in the first half for the third time in Sean Payton's tenure as head coach and first since 2011. Brees was held to 34 yards passing in the half.
Colston finished with 11 receptions for 144 yards for the Saints. ... Wilson's previous low for yards passing was 108 against Arizona in Week 16. ... Saints K Shayne Graham missed field goal attempts of 45 and 48 yards both wide left into the wind. ... This will be Seattle's third championship game appearance overall, also playing in one AFC title game.
ESPN NFL FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- LeGarrette Blount wasn't satisfied with three short touchdown runs, not against a team coming off the second greatest comeback in playoff history.
So the 250-pound back who makes long runs routine took off on a 73-yarder and carried the New England Patriots to their third straight AFC Championship Game with a 43-22 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Saturday night.
Suddenly, the ground game has replaced Tom Brady as the heart of the Patriots' offense.
"Once I get into the open field, they're going to have to chase me," Blount said. "And if they catch me, they do. And if they don't, they don't. They usually don't."
They didn't two weeks earlier when he scored on runs of 36 and 35 yards in the regular-season finale against Buffalo. He also returned kickoffs 83 and 62 yards in that 34-20 victory that gave New England a first-round bye. And they didn't on his long touchdown that gave the Patriots (13-4) a 36-22 lead early in the fourth quarter against the Colts (12-6).
The Patriots will face the winner of the game Sunday between the Broncos and Chargers. It will be in Denver if the Broncos win, and New England will host it if the Chargers win.
Blount tied Curtis Martin's team playoff record of 166 yards rushing, on 24 carries, two weeks after rushing for a career-high 189.
"He's got that combination of size, power, and quickness and speed," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "He can run hard. He can make guys miss and he can go the distance."
Blount scored on three 2-yard runs in the first half, then burst through the right side for his 73-yarder. Once he reached the end zone, he placed the ball gently on the ground made soggy by a game-long rain.
On the next series, Luck threw his third interception, and the Patriots capitalized with Stevan Ridley's second touchdown run, a 1-yarder that finished the scoring with 11:12 left.
"I'm just disappointed in myself," Luck said. "I can't commit that many turnovers and have a chance to win against a great team like this."
Blount joined Ricky Watters, who had five touchdowns for San Francisco on Jan. 15, 1994, as the only players with four or more in a playoff game. The Patriots' six rushing touchdowns tied the 49ers' total in that game for second-most in playoff history.
A Season In A Day In his first career playoff game, Pats running back LeGarrette Blount had more yards and twice as many TDs as he had with the Bucs in 13 games last season.
Saturday 2012 season Games 1 13 Carries 24 41 Yards 166 151 TDs 4 2 -- ESPN Stats & Information While the game was billed as a matchup between quarterbacks -- longtime great Brady and second-year star Luck -- the Patriots' leader was content to hand off while Luck threw an interception on his second pass and never found consistency. He threw two touchdown passes to LaVon Brazill but also threw four interceptions.
Luck had three interceptions a week earlier but led the Colts from a 38-10 deficit early in the third quarter to a 45-44 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in a wild-card game.
"We had our chances, man, to make plays and get our offense back on the field," Colts safety Antoine Bethea said. "Last game, we were able to do that, but it was a great quarterback, a great offense and a great team we were facing (Saturday)."
The Colts trailed 21-12 at halftime, then cut the deficit to 29-22 on a 35-yard pass to Brazill with 5:01 left in the third. The Patriots dominated the rest of the way.
"We just had to keep our foot on the gas pedal," Blount said, "and make sure that they didn't do to us what they did to Kansas City."
Blount's first touchdown came on New England's first offensive play after Alfonzo Dennard's interception. He scored again on the Patriots' second series.
Luck responded with a 38-yard touchdown pass to Brazill. Former Patriot Adam Vinatieri set an NFL record with his 59th postseason extra point, making it 14-7.
Blount's third touchdown came 4:06 into in the second quarter before Vinatieri's 36-yard field goal made it 21-10.
The Colts got a break late in the first half when Danny Aiken's snap sailed over punter Ryan Allen's head, ending up in a safety. The Patriots also got a break that the Colts didn't get a touchdown out of it after Allen failed to concede the safety.
Allen fumbled into the air, and Indianapolis' Jeris Pendleton slapped the ball out of the end zone.
"Ryan probably wasn't sure how close they were to him," Belichick said.
Allen hurt his shoulder on the play, and place-kicker Stephen Gostkowski punted the rest of the game. Brady took over Allen's holding duties.
Indianapolis got the ball on the free kick, but the drive ended with Luck's second interception.
Vinatieri's 21-yard field goal early in the third quarter made it 21-15.
Then the Patriots took a 29-15 lead on Ridley's 3-yard run and his carry for a 2-point conversion.
But Luck came right back with his second touchdown pass to Brazill.
"We didn't accomplish the ultimate goal," Colts running back Donald Brown said, "but there are definitely some positives to look back on."
Brady completed 13 of 25 passes for 198 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions. Luck was 20-for-41 for 331 yards.


You have probably already looked here, but in his biography of Milton (the original 1968 edition), Parker cites Phillips (Darbishire's edition) and "court proceedings incident to Milton's oral will on Anne's disability."  Parker also speculates interestingly that Anne "was a retarded child" as well as physically disabled.  He does not cite any comments from Milton himself  (Parker,Vol. II, 936, n. 61).  Anyway,I had the biography at hand.
>Those of you who subscribed to my humble blog (thank you!) already know I've been thinking recently about the iconic image and legend of Milton dictating PL to his daughters. I'm wondering if anyone here is aware of Milton making reference to Anne's disability? I seem to recall reading a comment in one of his letters or pamphlet that may have obliquely referred to her, but I can't seem to find it now. Thanks!


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Q: getting the original values from the concatenated numbers in c Referring to the below question,
How to concatenate two integers in C
unsigned concatenate(unsigned x, unsigned y) {
    unsigned pow = 10;
    while(y >= pow)
        pow *= 10;
    return x * pow + y;
}

How do I get the original values for x and y without using arrays? I need less processing overhead.

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How do I get the original values for x and y without using arrays?

Information is lost.  To reconstruct x,y addtional infomation is needed.
Example 1234 could have beeen formed by
x    y
123  4
12   34
1    234
0    1234

Aside: Improved answer on the original concatenation problem.

A: You pass two arguments to concatenate().
If you pass two arguments to unconcatenate() you can get your numbers back:
void unconcatenate(unsigned *first, unsigned *second, unsigned concatenated, unsigned limit) {
    unsigned pow = 10;
    while (pow < limit) pow *= 10;
    *first = concatenated / pow;
    *second = concatenated % pow;
}

unsigned x, y, foo = concatenate(1234, 56);

unconcatenate(&x, &y, foo, 100);
printf("%u unconcatenaded to %u and %u.\n", foo, x, y);

see https://ideone.com/bg7qMd

A: I haven't commented on it yet, but that original question makes no sense to me.
In my experience, at least, the goal is to concatenate numbers with a known, fixed number of digits.  For example, if I have
int year = 2021;
int month = 10;
int day = 2;

(that is, a date next month), and I want to "concatenate" them, the desired result is of course 20211002.  It would be quite wrong to output 2021102 — because nobody could tell whether it was supposed to be October 2, or maybe January 2!
At the other question, there's a comment that "100 * x + y fails when y == 0", as if concatenating 23 and 0 should yield 230, or maybe 23, but that sounds crazy to me.
Since the question here is about getting the original values back, the answer is obviously to know how many digits each original number had.  For example, if you know you have two 2-digit numbers x and y, then z = 100 * x + y is absolutely the right way to concatenate them.  And then, having done so, getting the original values back is equally straightforward:
x = z / 100;
y = z % 100;

The key is that we picked that magic number 100, that effectively sets y as 2 digits, in advance, and baked it into the code.  We did not, as some of the answers at the other question (and the code fragment in this question here) suggest, dynamically and empirically discover a scaling factor at run time by doing successive multiplications by 10.  (And by not doing those successive multiplications to compute pow every time, we'll have less processing overhead, too.)
Summary: while(y >= pow) pow *= 10; is the wrong way to concatenate numbers in C.  The right way is
z = 100 * x * y;

and once you've done it that way, you get the original numbers back by doing
x = z / 100;
y = z % 100;

If y might have more digits, pick an appropriate multiplier greater than 100, and use that instead.  And do be mindful that if you're not careful, your concatenated number can end up bigger than an ordinary int will hold.

P.S. I said "if you know you have two 2-digit numbers x and y", but that's not quite right.  If you're using 100 * x + y, then y has to be two digits (or less), but it's okay for x to be more than 2 digits (within limits).

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Book of the Week: The Odysseum
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Strange cargo: Spiers and Robson's route across the world. Image by Johnathan Montelongo, taken from The Odysseum, by Jo Tinsley and David Bramwell (2018, Hodder & Stoughton). All Rights Reserved.
David Bramwell recounts the bizarre adventures of two men in the 1960s who decided to travel across the world, hidden in a crate.
One of the stranger tracks to be found among the clattering, shimmering brilliance of The Velvet Underground's back catalogue is an eight-and-a-half-minute short story called 'The Gift'. Penned by Lou Reed, 'The Gift' is narrated by the soft Welsh tones of the band's violinist, John Cale, and juxtaposed with the early Velvet's trademark thumping beat, guitars and feedback.
Reed originally wrote the story during the early 1960s while attending Syracuse University in New York. At the time Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a popular TV series and its macabre tales may have played a role in inspiring the young Reed to pen a story involving a dark twist of fate. 'The Gift' recounts the adventures of Waldo Jeffers, a lovesick student back home in Locust, Pennsylvania during the summer holidays. With his college sweetheart, Marsha Bronson, living in Wisconsin, Jeffers is having to endure the pains of a long-distance love affair while also growing anxious about his girlfriend's fidelity.
Surrendering to a growing paranoia that Bronson might not stay faithful to him – but without the necessary funds to travel to Wisconsin – Jeffers hatches a plan to have himself delivered in a large cardboard box to Bronson's house, as a surprise. When he arrives three days later, Bronson and her friend Sheila attempt to open the mysterious box but, finding it tightly sealed, resort to using a metal cutter. Unhappily for Waldo, his head is split open like a melon.
Around the time that Reed was penning the macabre track, Reg Spiers, a 22-year-old Australian athlete stranded in the UK, had struck upon a similar plan for dodging his travel fare back to Oz. Spiers, a promising javelin thrower, had come to England in 1964 to train as a potential Olympic contender, but after his wallet was stolen from his apartment he found he didn't have the necessary funds to get home to Adelaide. His young daughter's birthday was fast approaching and he wanted to be there to celebrate it with her.
Spiers had, however, taken some part-time work at an airport in the UK and learned that it was possible to send crates long-distance, marked 'cash-on-delivery'. With the help of a friendly rival – the British javelin thrower John McSorley – Spiers had a special crate constructed, measuring 5 by 3 by 2ó feet (1.5 x 1 x 0.75 m), into which he could stow away during the long journey. Inside the crate, Spiers was able to sit cross-legged or lie on his back with his knees bent. Specially placed handles mean t that he could open the crate from the inside. Travelling light, his minimal luggage included tins of food, water, a blanket, a pillow, chocolate, his passport and a large empty bottle in which to empty his bladder.
For five days before the illicit excursion, Spiers ate very little in order to slow down his bodily functions. Then, on 17 October, he had himself transported to Heathrow Airport. His crate claimed to contain tins of paint and had a fictitious Australian address labelled on the side.
Spier's journey didn't get off to a propitious start: severe fog at Heathrow left him stranded in the baggage hold for 24 hours but, once air-bound, he used the interior handles to leave the confines of his tiny prison cell and stretch his limbs. The first leg of the flight was short, as the plane stopped in Paris to pick up more passengers. At this point, Spiers almost gave the game away. Having been standing in the hold when the plane began its rapid decent, Spiers scurried back into his crate, forgetting that he'd left his urine bottle perched on top. To his relief, on landing, he overheard a conversation between the French baggage handlers that suggested they thought his yellow bottle had been left as a joke by the British baggage handlers: British toilet humour at its most literal.
After being airborne for another ten hours, Spiers landed in Mumbai and was deposited upside-down on the airport's runway in the sweltering Indian heat. This was the most dangerous portion of his journey. Dehydration began to set in and he stripped naked in an attempt to cool himself down, knowing he'd have even more explaining to do if the airport staff heard him and opened the crate to find a parched and naked Australian inside.
From Mumbai, the rest of the journey went relatively smoothly. After a fuel-stop in Singapore, Spiers finally landed in Perth Airport – chosen for its small size and relatively lax security – where his crate was carried to a freight shed and left. When night fell, Spiers snuck out, found some tools to cut his way out of the airport's fence, and hitch-hiked back home, just in time for his daughter's birthday. The entire journey – all 63 hours and 13,000 miles (20,900 km) of it – had hardly cost him a penny.
Spiers was so pleased with himself, and happy to be reunited with his family, that he forgot the one thing he'd promised to do on his return: to let fellow conspirator John McSorley know that he'd arrived home safely. Back in England, the athlete, aware of the very real risks of Spiers's journey, was getting increasingly anxious that something had happened to his friend. As time passed, McSorley felt he had no choice but to contact the authorities and spill the beans. The press soon tracked Spiers down and, true to the pioneering spirit of the Aussies, was treated as a national hero. A leading Australian political sent him a telegram of congratulations and five pounds, describing the daredevil journey as 'a gallant effort by a real Aussie'. With so much good publicity around the escapade, Qantas declined to fine Spiers. His luck, however, was not to last.
While Spiers was riding high on his new-found fame, somewhere in Australia's dusty Outback, a homesick Welshman was at his wits' end. Earlier that year, yearning for adventure, Brian Robson had signed up to be a 'ten-pound Pom' – a cultural exchange programme initiated after the Second World War to encourage Brits to emigrate to Australia. To avoid this being a mere jolly, those who signed up were given a one-way ticket and had their passports confiscated for two years. Having been given a job as a railway ticket clerk in a one-horse town, Robson quickly came to regret his decision. He was bored and lonely. To him, Australia felt like a prison sentence. 'I wanted to go home about 12 hours after I landed,' Robson confessed decades later in an interview for the podcast Snap Judgment. 'There was nothing to do. In the Outback we mainly ate beans out of the tin. And they were cold most of the time. All I could think of was cheddar cheese. And home.'
Within a few weeks Robson tried his luck as a stowaway on a passenger ship to England but seasickness got the better of him. Bilious and miserable, he gave himself up, was dropped off in New Zealand and sent back to Australia. Home and freedom seemed beyond reach until Robson chanced upon Spiers's story in a local newspaper. With typical Aussie nonchalance Spiers talked about his adventure as if there was nothing to it. 'I just got in the thing and went. What was there to be frightened of? It's no different to how I travel now overseas. There's the seat. You sit in it and go,' he boasted to a BBC reporter.
Robson reasoned that his only chance of freedom was to follow suit. With the help of two friends in Melbourne he had a crate constructed and planned to pass it off as a computer being sent to the UK for maintenance (computers were ridiculously heavy and bulky back in those days). He packed a book of Beatles songs to keep himself entertained, as well as some plastic bottles and a large suitcase. Following Spiers's example, Robson's crate was labelled 'cash on delivery' and 'fragile, this way up'. The Brit's crate, however, was smaller than Spiers's and the suitcase made it impossible for him to move. Crucially, there was no easy means for him to get out. Instead, he was secured inside with a rope harness and had a pair of pliers to remove the nails on his arrival.
Problems began almost immediately after a short flight from Melbourne to Sydney. Unbeknown to Robson, he was now no longer flying direct to the UK. Having been overfilled with freight, his original plane had transferred some of its cargo to a PanAm flight, bound for America. This extra cargo included Robson, who would now be taking the 'scenic' route back to the UK. What's more, the hold on the new plane was unheated. But there was worse to come. While being loaded onto the PanAm flight, Robson's crate was placed upside down in the baggage hold. For the next 22 hours, Robson was trapped upside down, unable to move and in an ice-cold prison. With the extreme temperatures, and his head taking the full weight of his body, Robson's joints began to swell. He started to experience severe pain and difficulty breathing. Slipping in and out of consciousness, he hallucinated that the plane was about to crash into the ocean. But even in his most torturous hours, Robson was unwilling to break out of his crate, knowing he'd be deported if discovered on arrival. Australia had really got under his skin.
After many torturous hours of torment and pain, his body creeping towards death, Robson finally felt the plane land and his crate being carried into a freight shed. Fumbling for a torch he managed to turn it on, but, with his limbs barely functioning, the torch fell to the floor and he was unable to retrieve it. This simple error saved his life. The light attracted the attention of a freight handler who, peering into the crate, saw what he thought was a dead body and rushed off to get help. When the crate was prized open, Robson's pallid but blinking face revealed that he was alive. Just. Unable to speak and still struggling to breathe, Robson was carried out in his cramped posture by a medical crew. When they attempted to straighten him up, his body jack-knifed back to its foetal position, as if spring-loaded.
Amid his pain and confusion, the drawl of the customs officers, cops and medical crew made it clear to Robson that he hadn't even made it back on home turf, but was in Los Angeles. Had he travelled 42 hours, covered 8,000 miles and endured crippling pain only to be deported back to the land of cold beans, dust and boomerangs? Robson was taken to a prison hospital to convalesce and, once his voice had returned, was interviewed by the FBI, who were initially convinced that he'd been kidnapped or was a Russian spy. As the truth unfolded, his story created a media storm. Unsure what to do with him, the authorities finally decided that Robson's fate lay in the hands of the airline he had arrived with: PanAm. Like Qantas, PanAm decided to make good use of the publicity and when Robson was well enough, they sent him back to the UK, free of charge. What's more, he flew first class.
Had Robson remained undiscovered in the freight shed in LA and continued the final leg of his journey over the northern ice cap to the UK, the cold would have finished him off for good. By a twist of fate, a lucky accident saved his life. He arrived back in Cardiff to a hero's welcome. And, while the cheddar cheese sandwich that he'd been dreaming of didn't taste quite as good as he'd remembered, he was ecstatic to be home.
Our tale, however, doesn't quite end there. While Robson went on to have a fulfilling life, running a successful chain of retail outlets, Spiers's lot took a very different trajectory. After retiring in the late 1970s, the athlete turned his talents to a different kind of illicit cargo: drug smuggling. In 1981 Spiers was arrested and charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and hashish into Australia. Threatened with a ten-year sentence, he managed to skip bail and carried off another spectacular vanishing act only to be arrested in India the following year, again for drug smuggling.
Once more, Spiers evaded jail and smuggled himself out of the country with a fake passport. The third time he was not so lucky. Caught at a Sri Lankan airport in 1984 with a sizeable quantity of heroin, he was sentenced to death. After a long appeal process, Spiers was finally returned to Australia and in 1987 began a five-year prison sentence in Adelaide.
By the time he reached his 40s, Brian Robson had long gotten over his unhappy ordeal in Australia. Having made peace with the country, he decided it was time to return there for a holiday – a chance to see the place with fresh eyes. While it's not recorded whether Robson considered looking up Reg Spiers during his travels Down Under, it must have crossed his mind. The pair had never met and this one-off journey back to Oz would have offered Robson the opportunity to finally meet Spiers in person and to thank him for inspiring his own daredevil escape. And perhaps that's exactly what Robson had planned to do, until he learned of Spiers's incarceration and thought better of it. To witness behind bars the heroic individual who had provided the catalyst for his own break for freedom would have been too much of a dark twist of fate.
This is an extract from The Odysseum: Strange Journeys that Obliterated Convention, by David Bramwell and Jo Tinsley (Hodder and Stoughton, £16.99). Buy a copy here.
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March 1, 2018 Emily Payne
A prolific actress, producer, and director in both film and television, Salma Hayek Pinault is a fierce advocate for women's rights. In December 2017, she published an op-ed in The New York Times detailing alleged sexual harassment by film executive Harvey Weinstein, sparking an important and ongoing conversation surrounding workplace harassment and the abuse of power.
Globoforce is thrilled to announce that Salma will be joining us as keynote speaker at WorkHuman 2018 in Austin, Texas, April 2 to 5. She will share her story and speak about the importance of speaking out against sexual harassment to put an end to abusing power in the workplace.
"Until men and women have achieved the same value across all industries, abuses of power will continue to be socially accepted," Salma says. "Fortunately, we are finally becoming conscious of this vice that causes unspeakable harm to others. I am inspired by those who are speaking out and I am proud to add my voice to the chorus of those no longer afraid to speak upon this difficult subject."
Salma has been nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild award, and BAFTA award for her leading role in the film Frida. She also won an Emmy for her directorial debut with The Maldonado Miracle, and she served as executive producer on ABC's award-winning program Ugly Betty.
Born and raised in Mexico, Salma now serves as the spokesperson for the Avon Foundation's Speak Out Against Domestic Violence program, which provides domestic violence education, awareness, and prevention, as well as support for victims of domestic abuse. She spoke in front of the U.S. Senate in 2005 to encourage the extension of the Violence Against Women Act, which was passed in January 2006, securing $3.9 billion for thousands of domestic violence crises and intervention agencies throughout the United States.
In 2013, Salma joined Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Frida Giannini to co-found Chime for Change, an organization dedicated to improving the education, help, and welfare of women and girls around the world. She is also on the board of the Kering Foundation, which aims to support refugee and migrant women worldwide and combat violence against women.
At WorkHuman 2018, Salma will join international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney; business thinker and bestselling author Simon Sinek; Co-founder and CEO of GoodThink Shawn Achor; Dr. David Rock, bestselling author and director of the NeuroLeadership Institute; Brené Brown, Ph.D., research professor and three-time New York Times bestselling author; and Steve Pemberton, chief human resources officer at Globoforce.
We can't wait for Salma to join us in these vitally important conversations and help continue our work towards building work environments based on equality, inclusion, and respect for all.
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Kennon Whaley will spend six years in prison for lying to the bankruptcy court about how he paid off a $100,000 gambling debt.
Whaley's company, Southeastern Stud & Components. Inc., grossed more than $34 million in 2005 and employed about 125 full-time workers. But business had decreased substantially by 2009, so Whaley filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and remained in bankruptcy until 2011.
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Essig explained to the jury that those who file for bankruptcy are provided protection from debt collectors, but they must disclose ongoing financial information to the court.
About a year after filing bankruptcy, Whaley walked out of a Las Vegas casino with about $100,000 in debt.
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"At that time, Southeastern Stud was still in bankruptcy and approximately 70 percent of its employees had lost their jobs," the release states.
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105 thoughts on "The Beast from the East"
derrickjknight on March 16, 2018 at 9:27 am said:
No wonder you moved to Cornwall. That post-snow crocus picture, though excellent, is surely stretching relevance :)
Ellen Hawley on March 16, 2018 at 9:40 am said:
Oh, I dunno. If I put in a photo that's even vaguely connected to what I'm writing about, I'm going to claim the connection. It happens so rarely. And I did sneak back in and add crocuses to my list of flowers that froze and survived. (They weren't on it when the post first went live.)
derrickjknight on March 16, 2018 at 10:49 am said:
itsgoodtobecrazysometimes on March 16, 2018 at 9:34 am said:
I heard somewhere, the reason why Britain collapses from a snowflake, is because the government decided (and rightly) that its not worth putting in some of the stuff other countries have, such as heated paving because the cost of putting it in, compared to the country grinding to a halt every 7 years of so for a couple of days is not worth it, they have put in certain things in Scotland and North England as they get it more often.
I don't know how much it was a single decision–a bunch of people in a room discussing it–or just something the country drifted into piecemeal, but it does make sense. But heated pavement? Who, when, where, how? That'd have to cost a fortune and be wildly energy intensive. Unless it's in Iceland, where they have all that spare geothermal energy sloshing around.
itsgoodtobecrazysometimes on March 16, 2018 at 11:01 am said:
I think it was Norway
Good lord. I can see the advantages, but I'm not convinced it's a smart thing to do.
itsgoodtobecrazysometimes on March 16, 2018 at 2:46 pm said:
Its something to do with melting the ice rather than the snow, I think. I just want heated pavements, I think it sounds really cool
I'm still not convinced. I start thinking about how many miles of pavement even a small patch of city has….
This is true, I assume they have heated runways as well
And fur-lined tunnels.
itsgoodtobecrazysometimes on March 16, 2018 at 10:55 pm said:
fake fur?
I guess it'd have to be. To tell you the truth, I hadn't given the proposal much thought.
Maybe we should. Grab some of the best ideas round the world and try them here.
Okay, but I'm still against the heated sidewalks. Sorry. It's important to be against something, don't you think?
Normally, but imagine walking along heated pavements
I'm just the kind of grump who'd walk along saying, sure, they're nice and all that, but damn they use a lot of energy.
Maybe we could look at solar power heated pavements
Right. We've found common ground.
J R Dalton on March 16, 2018 at 9:34 am said:
This was fun. Thank you.
My pleasure. Thanks for letting me know.
John Evans on March 16, 2018 at 10:57 am said:
I reckon Its the millennial generation who are having the problem with the snow – and causing problems for us all by not knowing how to deal with it. To oldies like me, an inch or two of snow in the South of England isn't a big deal; winters in the UK were a lot harsher in the 1950s, '60s and even the '70s, before global warming began to mess with the climate. We expected snow pretty much every winter – it never lasted for more than a week or two at the most, but we knew we'd get some. And nobody really panicked – we just got on with it. The people in charge of insfrastrusture and services, like roads, railways, the power grid, the water supply, the post, and food delivery kept the services going, and we all moaned a bit if the snow lasted for longer than we thought was reasonable.
The people in charge of this stuff now are largely millennials in their mid to late thirties, and people in their forties who were born in the 1970s. They've never really experienced cold winters with snow and ice, so their health and safety conscious reaction to its occurrence is to panic and shut everything down, "just in case". The further south you go in the UK the more ridiculous the panic you see, nowhere more so than in London. Two cm of snow and all the buses and trains grind to a halt "just in case". This attitude isn't helped by the (erroneous) perception that climate change means it's not worth investing in snow ploughs and de-icing equipment – all very convenient when government agencies and local authorities are strapped for cash anyway in our austerity lead times.
The reality is that climate change doesn't mean we're going to be having tropical winters in the UK anytime soon, but the politicians, managers and bureaucrats don't yet seem to have grasped that. It's quite the opposite – the consequence of global warming is that we're likely to get more extreme swings of weather, and given that the UK is in one of the planet's chaotic weather zones anyway, this is going to affect us a lot. So warmish winters, with sudden relativity extreme cold intervals, torrential rain and storms with very high winds, all pretty much at random, are going to become norm. The politicians, managers and bureaucrats are going to have to be prepared for this if they want our infrastructure and services to keep going in the face of sudden extreme weather events. Panicking and hiding under the bed ain't going to be enough!
Having said this, the people of Scotland and Northern England have always expected to experience harsh winter weather, and they are by and large prepared for it and able to deal with it. It's those soft southern b*st*rds (as northerners affectionately call them) who just can't hack it!
You make some good points, although if I agree with that bit about soft southern bastards I may get run out of Cornwall, so I'll register an official objection to that if you don't mind. Or if you do.
I've seen photos of a massive storm that hit Cornwall in the sixties. It carried enough snow to have paralyzed Minnesota and I don't know how long it stayed. Weeks, I'm guessing.
John Evans on March 16, 2018 at 7:14 pm said:
Just to clarify, the "soft southern …" isn't my opinion (as a Midlander born, and an honorary Southerner, I'm ok with living in't deep south). I should have put the phrase in quotes. When Northerners they say it, I think they're they're most likely to really mean Londoners – the residents of Cornwall (and maybe Devon) are probably excepted anyway.
I know Cornish people who argue–vociferously–that they're not English, but it's hard to argue that we're not southern.
1963, not just Cornwall. You can see footage and photos of it in various places online. Yep, weeks.
Thanks for the year. I've seen photos of the village during it. If I didn't know where it was, I wouldn't recognize it.
John Evans on March 17, 2018 at 12:29 pm said:
The 1963 winter in the UK was particularly bad. It seemed to go on for weeks. I remember endless cold days in the poorly heated classrooms at my "modern" (i.e.fairly recently built) secondary school.
You make me wonder if an outdated building wouldn't have been an improvement.
Val on March 17, 2018 at 10:10 pm said:
My husband remembers it clearly, I recall only a bit of it but I was still a child, I probably enjoyed it!
To a kid, yes, it'd be magical.
In Minnesota, you could always find someone to say, "When I was a kid, the snowbanks were much higher than this," and then someone else to remind the first person that when they were a kid, they were shorter.
Haha! Yep!
Viola Bleu on March 16, 2018 at 11:16 am said:
Send it away … I don't want it again!!!!
Great post 🥂🌸
If it looks like another one's coming in, I'll stand on the cliffs and yell at it. Results not guaranteed, unfortunately.
Viola Bleu on March 16, 2018 at 2:56 pm said:
Superb plan … go for it!!!! 🤪🥂
The snow's going to hit Hertfordshire! No golf courses open for all those company executives. How will they cope?
Disaster! Stop the trains. Shut down the country.
Alexis Rose on March 16, 2018 at 11:42 am said:
I still live in MN and dream of someday wintering for a month or 2 in a place with no snow. Great post 😊
Thanks. When I was still in MN, I longed for a place like this. I was sure I'd be a completely different person if I didn't have to suit up as if I was stepping out of the spaceship for six months of the year. And y'know what? It turns out I'm halfway a different person here. It really has changed me.
Alexis Rose on March 16, 2018 at 3:08 pm said:
Thats wonderful! Im glad you made the move across the big huge pond. 😃
Thanks. That's two of us. And Minnesota's a quieter place since I left.
BerLinda on March 16, 2018 at 12:01 pm said:
Ha ha! It was the same in Ireland – and no bread, milk or potatoes – people nearly died. Maybe a few actually did ;) Now I'm just holing up and waiting for Anyname from the South ;)
As long as Anyname from the south doesn't meet SomebodyMean from the West, it's okay. Our ice storm came from a western wind that took a dip south then met the Beast. Anyway, spring's coming. I promise. I just don't want to commit about how long it's going to take.
Spring 2019 ;)
Laurie Graves on March 16, 2018 at 12:31 pm said:
I laughed as I read this. Oh, snow! And, oh, those who are not used to dealing with it. At the end of our driveway, the ridge left by the plow is a force to be reckoned with, and we have dubbed it "wall o'snow." We have to get our car out, so the wall must completely come down. Anyway, we've had three storms similar to the Beast, and a fourth one is predicted for next week. Good times!
The Wall O'Snow must feel like the wall at the end of the world if you've got to get the car out. Damn, that stuff's hard to shovel.
Laurie Graves on March 16, 2018 at 6:04 pm said:
You got that right! After every storm, when we face the Wall O' Snow, we droop in despair. Somehow, though, we always get through.
fragglerocking on March 16, 2018 at 12:38 pm said:
Cornwall was prominent in my newspaper after Storm Emma, as a killer plant turned up on Porthkidney (really? that's a name?) Beach. They were all over the place and looked like parsnips, but really they were Hemlock water dropwort roots (Oenanthe crocata), Highly toxic as in you'll be dead tomorrow and today will be the worst day of your life.
Where I grew up, in Yorkshire, winter consisted of snow for at least 2 months, and was no big deal, even in our out-of-the-way hamlet we got out and about. But that was 50 years ago and though Yorkshire still gets a Lions share, it isn't anything like back then, so they shut down too now. Wimps-R-Us. :)
There really is a Porthkidney Beach: https://www.visitcornwall.com/beaches/good-beach-guide-2014/west-cornwall/hayle/porthkidney-beach. Porth is Cornish for port. Kidney is English for this sounds a lot like the original Cornish word but isn't and what the hell, we don't care. You do understand that I'm making that last part up, right?
Some dead man's fingers were found on our beach too, leading to many warnings on the village web site. What did the world do before villages had a web site?
fragglerocking on March 16, 2018 at 2:23 pm said:
Eat fake parsnips and die?
D'you know, the UK's been having snow and ice probably since the planet began (well, once it got most of its over-heated bits out of the way) and certainly in my lifetime (which, while not the same age of the planet thus far, certainly goes well over 60 and a half) there's been more than enough snow and ice for the various governments both national and local to do something about it for its people – and of course, none of them have. Salting and plough-sweeping roads is one thing but as you say, doesn't help the poor souls who have to get out of their homes. It's kind of like when we have a heat wave – "Oh my God, this NEVER happens here!" cry the natives, when in fact it does. Okay, no way do we have the extreme weather of other countries but we do have it sometimes and I still can't understand why we can't cope with it! :-)
The ones I feel sorry for (and yes, I know the adults' coats are made for this) are the spring lambs that are dumped by farmers into pastures that have barely recovered from a snowfall, enjoy a few days of warmer weather and then find themselves buried upturned-nose deep in heavy snowfall.
As for Cornwall… well it is the 'California of England'… so unlikely to get the worst of the weather. (Grins.)
I know it happens here, but the question is, does it happen often enough to invest in a fleet of snowplows and et ceteras? A question I answer with a ringing "I don't know."
In Minnesota, it was very much up to everyone to work out how they'd get out of their houses after the city had ever so helpfully plowed them in. The people who had it worst were the ones who lived in corner houses, because they really were expected to clear the snowbanks so people on foot could get through. But we did at least own snow shovels. And many had snowblowers, which I hated but came to see the point of. In our neighborhood, people tended to be helpful. If they knew someone couldn't clear their own walk, someone would generally do it. And you'd often find people out clearing each other's walks after a storm just because it was a nice thing to do. It was pretty impressive.
I think Americans living in places like Minnesota are probably much kinder to each other (because they have to be) than the average person in the UK. I can think of many times, when I lived in London and people were snowed in, and nobody lifted a finger to help anyone.
I'm not sure it's about country but city size. Here in the village, people can be incredibly supportive. Minneapolis is a much smaller city than London, and people in our neighborhood knew each other–mostly.
John on March 16, 2018 at 1:47 pm said:
Good read Ellen! It seems odd that the UK gets so little snow as it's so far north. The Weather Channel started naming storms some time ago which seems silly really.
It's the ocean that keeps it (relatively) warm. Deep water's a heat sink–it cools (and warms) more slowly than the land. Plus we're near the Gulf Stream, at least if the melting ice caps don't divert it. I'm not sure what up-to-date models say about the likelihood–it's something I read about years back and haven't followed. If the Gulf Stream does take another path, we'll be in considerable trouble, I expect.
My first reaction to naming storms was like yours, that it's silly, but as I started writing about it I realized that it gives us a way to both talk about and remember them. And people have always done it spontaneously. Minnesotans who were around then will still remember the Superbowl Blizzard and the Halloween Blizzard. This gives us a way to remember the ones that don't coincide conveniently with a holiday or a sports event.
Tea and Tales1 on March 16, 2018 at 2:18 pm said:
We did not get a bit of snow this year in Oklahoma. It was 80 yesterday and will be today. Having lived in Fergus Falls, MN. and having gone to college at NDSU in Fargo I know what real snow is. This girl did her four years in 3 and headed straight back to south Georgia! You are very brave living in that stuff!
It's not always easy to tell brave from foolish. But 80 degrees? In March? That's downright scary.
Usually means a really hot summer. One year we had over a 100 days over 100 degrees. Even the chickens got in the pool!
I can remember a few days over 100. Not easy to live with.
I live for those days. Below 70 and I am not happy.
We have a friend here who longs for hot weather. If she really had to live with it, she'd wilt. I know I did.
Dan Antion on March 16, 2018 at 2:25 pm said:
Sounds very much like what happens in Atlanta, GA or other places here that "never get snow" until they do. We have a new CEO in our company here in Hartford, CT. He grew up in Buffalo, NY where, if the snow is measured in inches, it didn't snow. People keep hoping the office will be closed. I'm glad the thaw has come and the Crocuses or Croci survived.
So am I. It's one of the things that reminds me I'm not in Minnesota now.
Sorry to hear about the new boss. That's really not fair.
He's not that bad, but he shrugs off 6″ of snow like it's nothing (which it is).
Six inches? It used to be nothing. Now, oddly, it's a huge amount.
Inexplicable.
snakesinthegrass2014 on March 16, 2018 at 5:56 pm said:
We didn't get any snow here in northern Florida this past winter, of course. But the frigid temps that hit the upper northeast in December and January did get us down to the teens at night a few times. Our condo was built for winter temps that only go into the low 40's. Several times my wife asked me why we aren't living in Miami. I had no answer for her!
Glad to hear you got through your storm(s) safely.
I used to work with a woman from Florida–this was in MN–and I remember her talking about how cold it got there when it dropped down below freezing, and how unprepared they were for it. Doesn't Miami get that kind of weather occasionally, though?
It does. But that information will have to come from someone else than me if my wife is to believe it. :)
Timeless Classics -- Poetry by Ana Daksina on March 17, 2018 at 1:33 am said:
A RELEVANT PHOTO??? Are you feeling okay??
Good enough to pass for normal, thanks. In other words, not my usual self.
PASS FOR NORMAL???!!!??? ELLEN… (Insert terminally cutsie yellow wordless poet emoji here)…
I can–or so I like to think–do that when the situation's grave enough. But I haven't gotten normal enough to use emojis yet. And neither, I see with approval, have you.
Timeless Classics -- Poetry by Ana Daksina on March 17, 2018 at 2:41 pm said:
Oh, thank GAWD — there does seem still to be a little hope even for the likes of us, then. It was worrying me.
Sleep well. It'll all be okay.
April Munday on March 17, 2018 at 9:16 am said:
Although I don't like snow, possibly because I've seen too many drivers do stupid things in it, I do despair at the tendency of journalists and weather people to panic at the sight of a single snowflake. You see them reporting on snow that's allegedly causing problems, through which you can clearly see grass. Not that that was the case a fortnight ago. I suspect that it will be this weekend.
I'm hoping it will be this weekend. One prediction has freezing rain coming Cornwall's way.
April Munday on March 17, 2018 at 11:07 am said:
Oh no. That's even worse than snow. We had that as well a fortnight ago. That was only the second time I'd ever seen it.
It is bad–really immobilizing. In MInnesota, the ice (from snowbanks melting in the day and freezing at night) was much worse than the snow.
We have snow again. A couple of inches.
Less than an inch here and it's melting–more decorative than real, but I've heard a few outdoor events have been canceled.
ladycee on March 17, 2018 at 11:11 am said:
Wow! Popular blogger I can see from all the comments. Enjoyed reading your post – love the humour.
Popped across from Mostlyblogging's Spring Party blog hop.
Thanks for stopping by. I love the comments I get–some of them are a scream, and they keep me going.
Emma Cownie on March 17, 2018 at 5:10 pm said:
Thanks, Ellen, I did enjoy reading this. We didn't get any snow in Swansea (as usual it stops at Port Talbot) so watched the snow-related hysteria on the news with bemusement. The Snow hysteria has since been replaced with Russian/spy-hysteria!
Do the Russian spies stoop at Port Talbot too?
As I write this, the temperature's below freezing (the horror! the horror!) and we're in full hysteria about freezing rain. Okay, not full hysteria, but we're thinking about it.
Emma Cownie on March 18, 2018 at 8:55 am said:
Hmmm. That's an interesting question I hadn't considered!
annabellefranklinauthor on March 17, 2018 at 9:47 pm said:
We only had the tiniest dusting of snow here on the Gower Peninsula (South Wales), but the supermarket shelves were still empty for days, and the bin men refused to come and collect our rubbish – consequently there was twice as much rubbish as usual this week, which meant they could only collect half of it and had to leave the rest behind. Mine included. Not happy!
The supermarket shelves were pretty empty here too, and today, when I did my grocery shopping, I overheard a few people talking about stocking up for the next few days. I'm hoping that's hysterical over-reaction but the votes aren't in yet.
How many weeks will it take to get the rest of your rubbish collected?
annabellefranklinauthor on March 17, 2018 at 10:15 pm said:
I dread to think! The worst of it is, if it's left too long the foxes come and tear the bags open, and we end up with trash strewn all over the place.
Don't mention that to the council. In these days of endless budget cuts, they'll decide the foxes can replace trash collection. Foxes, I'm told, don't really understand money and can be convinced to work for scraps.
dolphinswithmohawks on March 17, 2018 at 10:13 pm said:
Shoulda bought one of those flamethrowers Elon Musk was selling on the internet!
Next time tie a couple of politicians to your front bumper, head first, and use those famous British stiff upper lips to plow the road.
Wow, I had no idea that's what the famous British stiff upper lip was all about.
Gunta on March 18, 2018 at 11:43 pm said:
I've gone from Boston,Utah and the foothills of the Sierra sorts of winters to those in San Francisco and now the Oregon Coast. I must say that I prefer the latter. Far less fortitude required! :D
Yeah, I'm not much on that kind of fortitude anymore. If I ever was. What a relief!
Having said that, there's snow outside my window right now. We had something that looked very much like a real snowstorm last night, although I don't think it dropped more than two or three inches. It's melting as I type. Now that's what I call well-behaved snow.
Squashy Moss on March 23, 2018 at 5:48 pm said:
I find myself chuckling about this. My poor little crocuses got squashed bless em. They grow in patches in the lawn. We couldn't find the best place not to squash'em and the pond was positively perilous. Essex had a shit load of snow. The beast gave us a right mauling. So much do I couldn't get home and had to spend the night in work. I came ready prepared it happens every time we get more than 6 inches of snow. Nice to read your blog. Take care x
Our daffodils looked that they'd had it, but once the snow melted they came back and look gorgeous. I wish I knew how they do that–it's a trick I'd like to learn. In Minnesota, 6 inches wouldn't slow anyone down much. But it happens more often, so yeah, it's worth preparing for.
Manja Mexi Movie on March 24, 2018 at 6:32 pm said:
Funny stuff, hm, this geography/snow correlation. Like you, I moved much to the south from snow-heavy Slovenia's capital and this year's snow was the first I experienced in my five years here. I woke up with it and it lasted until 1 pm. (Except on our table outside, there it remained for a day. It's a cool table.) There were about 10-15 centithings of it. And ice on the turns. Still, I drove to the beach, I just had to take some shots. To see snow on the beach, olive trees and cacti seemed so wrong. (There was a post with photos, maybe you've seen it.) Amore was ecstatic that he was the only person in the radius of 400 km who owned an ice grater (or what's it called, for grating the ice off the windscreen). He bought it in Slovenia. When I reached the car where he left it at the train station like every day I laughed. First I wasn't able to determine which car was ours because all cars were white. He didn't bother clearing the snow, except his side of the windscreen. It took me ten minutes, instead of melting it got harder. Not something I'd imagine doing almost on the coast of Tuscany.
I enjoyed your account because nothing terrible happened (except that towing – I hope she gets reimbursed). There were baker's goodies and milk. And your friend I hope had some good times those few days with her unexpected guests. There are no coincidences. But the best is the expression "to be Darwined out." :D He was surely on to something.
I think what you're talking about is a scraper–the thing for the windshield. In Minnesota, they fell into two categories, long-handled ones (usually with a brush on one side and a scraper on the other) and short handled, which was good for ice because you could really put some power behind it.
When we first moved here, we ended up scraping frost off our windshield with a credit card one morning and agreed that it was ridiculous for two Minnesotans to not own a scraper, even if we were living in Cornwall. I now own a short-handled one, imported from Minnesota. I'm careful not to lose it because I don't know what it'd take to replace it.
cat9984 on April 7, 2018 at 4:05 pm said:
I don't remember which storm it was, but the papers reported that the stores in NYC were running out of milk and kale. I cannot image any other place having a bunch of people stocking up on kale before a storm
Ellen Hawley on April 7, 2018 at 4:06 pm said:
All I can tell you is that it's not the New York I grew up in. We'd never even heard of kale.
Andrew Green on April 8, 2018 at 9:56 am said:
Once upon a time there were seasons. In the winter it got cold, in the summer it got warm. Now we have 'Arctic Chills', Heat Waves and Beasts from the East.
Ellen Hawley on April 8, 2018 at 12:15 pm said:
Not to mention global warming and strange weather patterns.
elle superstar on May 13, 2018 at 12:08 am said:
Loved this post – so many things I could relate to, hahahhaaa.
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In the week since we left Mesa Verde, we've covered hundreds of miles as we finally make a serious attempt to head back toward Michigan. The hours spent in the truck are not the fun part of the trip by any means, and we keep finding places we'd like to linger. All of the sudden, there's no time for that.
We left Mesa Verde in a blizzard of snow and sleet. It seemed like a great idea to wait out the bad weather for a day or two in Durango, a picturesque cowboy town not far away, but at a substantially lower elevation. We spent one day checking out the brewpubs and walking the streets of this gorgeous (tourist trap) town. It's the kind of place in which you can instantly picture yourself leading an idyllic life. Trees and flowers were performing their spring blooming act, and it couldn't have been more pleasant. We watched the Durango Narrow Guage Railroad Train pull into the station. What a thrill.
Getting back to our roots on Day 2, we decided to hike a portion of the Colorado Trail, which stretches nearly 500 miles from Durango to Denver. Although there were probably 20 cars at the trailhead, the Trail itself was pretty quiet. With Jezzy in tow, we wandered along a very fast-moving creek, up and up to Gudy's Rest at about 9000′ – a perfect lunch spot. By the time we got back to the truck, we had covered just over eight miles – a good workout for us, especially in thin air.
Weather once again thwarted our travel plans to Great Sand Dunes National Park. Getting there would have involved crossing the 12,000′ Wolf Creek Pass. Predictions were for 4-7″ of blowing snow on our travel day, which would likely require us to install our tire chains to cross the Pass. We carry chains, as required, but have successfully avoided having to use them. So, we poured over our maps for an hour, and elected to go with Plan B – a run south to Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. It turned out to be a great decision.
An excellent campsite in an empty campground was ours for three nights for the grand total of $18 (love our National Parks Senior Pass). There's a big population of Abert's Squirrels here, which drove Jezzy nuts! I've never seen anything like these critters with their big white chests and long ears. I tried to get a photo, but these were always chasing each other around, so here's a photo of a photo from the Visitor Center. Here, there are cliff dwellings, talus houses, petroglyphs and an excellent museum housed in a beautiful CCC-era building. We scrambled up 140′ ladders to visit Alcove House. Our first day of exploration was finished off with a four mile hike to a high waterfall in a narrow canyon. I was baffled by these big dots on this tree until I realized that it was resin or sap from the injury of limb removal. Maybe it's just my newfound interest in trees, but this really intrigued me. One of the other reasons we wanted to visit Bandelier is that it's located in Los Alamos, NM, site of the Manhattan Project. Teams of scientists worked secretly to develop the atomic bomb in the 1940s. We figured there HAD to be a great museum there, as well as many related sights. Well……no and yes.
The Bradbury Science Museum is devoted to the exploration of nuclear physics. Of course, a big historical portion of that is the Manhattan Project. The pale guy is Robert Oppenheimer. Parts of the Museum were interesting, but most of the Museum required a very high level of knowledge to explore. I will admit to understanding about 1% of what I saw. John definitely scored higher – having taken some college physics classes. But it was baffling – here are a couple of photos to back me up on this. We decided that it should be called the Bradbury Science Museum for Scientists.
But, the history of Los Alamos is intriguing. Basically, the US Government commandeered the property in the town under eminent domain, and established the Los Alamos National Laboratory. A full-scale building project began, and scientists and their families were gathered. We viewed the homes of Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, which are now both private residences. The entire town of Los Alamos seems to be offices of the Department of Energy. There are dozens of Tech Centers scattered around, and many super-fit, military types are seen everywhere. There's a feeling of being on high alert. I rode my bike in from Bandelier, and had to pass through a security checkpoint on the highway. Stuff like that…But, what other town will have live images from Mars posted on a video board next to a brewery? You gotta love that! Leaving Bandelier, we stormed through northern New Mexico and into Oklahoma for a brief one-night stay at Black Mesa State Park. Petrified wood, dinosaur tracks, and a deserted campground were the highlights – temps in the mid 70s!
One more long day on the road brought us into Kansas to Cheney State Park. We made several interesting stops along the way. Liberal, Kansas (the city, not the ideology) has promoted itself as the Land of Oz. We visited Dorothy's house, and John listed for the Tin Man's heart. They get points for effort, but it was pretty lame.
Our second stop was even sillier – the sight of the secret tunnel of the Dalton Gang of the 1880s. We didn't open our wallets to visit the secret tunnel (re-created, not original), but I did get a photo of the dead Daltons after the big shootout. Our last stop of the day was more interesting. Greensburg is the home of the Big Well, the biggest, deepest well in the world dug by hand. It's 109′ deep and about 32′ across. Stairs allow you to climb down about 50′ into the well, which is rather creepy. But, it is overshadowed by the story of the destruction of the entire town of Greensburg by a Force 5 tornado on May 4, 2007. Everything was demolished. The Visitor Center highlights the reconstruction – all the homes, schools, churches here are less than 10 years old. It's amazing. This is one of those crazy little places that I'm very happy to have visited.
After a super long day on the road, we were delighted to find an entire loop at Cheney State Park with no other campers. Everyone is jammed down in the sites with electric and water, and we're hanging out by ourselves in the tent section. It's a great ending to a busy day. If you've stuck with this post to the end – thanks. It's rather disjointed – I realize that the longer I go between posts, the less sense everything seems to make when I try to put it together. So, a few photos pasted together with a bit of commentary is all I can manage. It's been a great trip – we're both anxious to get home, but not quite ready yet to get back to real life. So, we race on to the Big Finish.
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Will you be coming through the U.P. on your way home? The mosquitoes and black flies haven't started yet.
Unfortunately, we are headed back to Michigan via NC. I'll bet the gnats and noseeums are in full flight.
Neil, we've left plenty of places for the 'next' trip. There's so much to see and do….
We've got lots of sand dunes in Michigan, so we are used to that kind of walking – two feet forward, one foot back. We loved Bandelier, so there's no remorse for having to change plans. When you camp small, like we both do, the weather is too important to ignore. Overall we've been pretty lucky with the way things have turned out.
Thanks for checking in. Do you and Yoly have any big camping adventures planned?
I love that you find such fascinating and fun places without tons of pre-planning and reservations. Your adventures are so exciting as they unfold before you. Looking forward to seeing you when you get back.
I've been surprised by how pretty Kansas is, even though it's so flat you can practically see from one end to another. Spring is in full force here, the weather is perfect, and we enjoyed poking around some oddball spots.
When I was in the Peace Corps in Africa, I was lowered by a rope down a hand dug well that was 30 meters deep. It wasn't nearly as wide as the one you show in your picture here. The diggers kept a lizard down there to see if there were any poisonous gases coming in much like coal miners would take a bird down with them. It was pretty scary at the bottom. It was all dark, and when I looked up, the light from the top of the well looked about the size of a quarter. I didn't linger down there. I barely hit bottom when I tugged on the rope to have them bring me back up. Gave me a lot of respect for the well diggers that went down there for an hour or two at a time and sent the dirt back up one bucket at a time.
You are far braver than I, Carolyn. I'll bet you earned a lot of respect yourself for doing that. I certainly can appreciate the inner fortitude it took to take that journey down into the well. Thanks for sharing your story – you are amazing.
Glad Plan B turned out to be enjoyable. Wolf Creek Pass is challenging when dry let alone with snow thus smart move to recalculate. I remember when that tornado destroyed Greensburg and the efforts made to rebuild.
I don't remember Greensburg, but Joplin is clearly ingrained in my memory. Hope I would respond so valiantly if I'm ever confronted with such a difficult situation.
Hope you are finding a bit of nice weather yourself, Ingrid.
I'll say this, you visit an eclectic variety of places, from the Dalton hideout to Bandolier National Monument to the Los Alamos Museum! That, and your having some terrible weather at times.
Of course my favorite parts are the natural things like the waterfall and scenery, along with the squirrel. I'm sure that if I were near Los Alamos that I'd visit the museum also, it's too bad that they geared it to the physics geeks and not to the general public.
All in all, I'd like to retrace your steps one of these days, it's been a very interesting winter from reading your posts.
A little electicity can be a good thing. We tend to concetrate only on what we can hike, bike, and eat – causes us to miss a lot I'm sure.
The Science Museum made me shake my head. As we were leaving, it was invaded by a classroom of 4th graders (or thereabouts). I wondered what they really could possibly glean from such dense information.
You'd love the place we are now – Big Brutus in West Mineral KS. We are camped next to the second largest mining earth mover ever built. Hokey, but I have to admit that it's pretty spectacular.
You have nothing to apologize for, I only wish that I had your gift for commentary, my sailing blogs would be so much more interesting!!! Great pictures also!
Sometimes, its just hard to string a few coherent sentences together. I left out lots of things that I wanted to remember for myself, which was the primary reason for starting the blog. It's hard when we will go for several days without any decent signal. That's when things really get jammed together – you probably get a lot of that, too.
I'm glad you enjoyed visiting the Big Well !!!
Ken, I remembered that you had been there. It's a crazy story, isn't it?


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Drama returns with new season of "Riverdale"
By Leanne Signoriello – Features Editor
The CW's "Riverdale" returns to television with a brand new season October 11. Photo Courtesy of The CW
The CW's "Riverdale" returns to television with a brand new season October 11. The revamped, modern version of the classic comic's new season is sexy, mysterious, and full of drama, proving why it scored seven awards at this year's Teen Choice Awards.
Last fall, audiences were able to see Archie Comics come to life with the series. The show is a modern adaptation to the Archie Comic Book series that features familiar characters such as Archie Andrews (KJ Apa), Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart), Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), and Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse). The dramatic series revolves around the mysteries of the fictional town, including the death of high school hero, Jason Blossom (Trevor Stines).
The end of season one was only the beginning of the problems that are about to unfold in the small, yet divided town of Riverdale. Although fans learned the truth about Blossom's death at the end of season one, it ended with a bang (literally), as Archie's father was shot. The culprit is someone we can only speculate as being a part of the town's gang of suspected criminals, the South Side Serpents.
Nobody is safe and relationships are on the line. Betty and Jughead captivated fans with their romance shared in season one. However, with the controversy and tension between the North Side residents and the South Side Serpents, the town has never been so divided and Jughead will have to choose between his family or his North Side girlfriend.
New faces are anticipated for the cast. Fans will finally meet Veronica's dad and await to see the drama that unfolds after his return from prison, in addition to a new possible love interest for Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch).
The tension and drama is at an all time high going into the second season in what seems to be the next Civil War in Riverdale.
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