Edward Jackson, 78, is missing from Greenwich, Conn., on Dec. 21, 2018.
"Missing subject has been located and is safe," police said at 7:10 p.m.
GREENWICH — Police are asking for the public's help to locate a missing 78-year-old with dementia Friday.
Edward Jackson was last seen on Greenwich Avenue near the J. Crew store. He was wearing khaki pants and a blue jacket (as seen in the picture provided). Police said he his thin hair and is a dementia patient.
The photo provided was taken Friday.
Police ask that anyone who sees Jackson to stay with him and call 911 immediately.


With the discovery of oil in Kenya and Uganda and with vast quantities of natural gas found off the coasts of Tanzania and Mozambique, East Africa is increasingly being viewed as the world's next frontier for oil and gas exploration and production. The size of the discoveries has raised the likelihood of the region hosting its first liquefied natural gas plant and the region's resources have been attracting the interest of the world's oil and gas majors. However, infrastructure is often lacking, security poor, and the onshore and offshore challenges of operating in the region are many. Added to that, the vast levels of investment required by IOCs entering the region means that the need to manage risk and implement appropriate risk management measures are high.
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It is an unwritten rule or an age old custom to bring gifts to party when you are invited. When we so much as visit someone's house for an informal lunch or a dinner, we normally make it a point to bring them a home cooked dish. It is a polite way of saying "thank you for inviting me". However, when you are attending a celebration, it is a norm to bring the host a gift for the occasion that they are celebrating. How to choose the perfect gift though, will they like what you bring them, will it be useful for them, it is an art to be able choose the perfect gift. But if you are not one for the art, then here is guide for you.
If you have been invited for a party, it is apt to know what the party is in celebration of. Who the party is being held for and what is their age. All these factors play an important role in helping you decide what you should give the Gold Coast celebrant as a gift.
It helps a great deal to know the person you are gifting. If you know them at a personal level, you might have an idea of what they like or need in their lives. This makes it a lot easier to pick out a gift for them. If you don't already know them, then try to get an idea of their personality before the party. Speak to your common friends or people you know are going to be attending to get a general idea of what the person is like and what he might appreciate as a gift.
Deciding on a gift becomes tricky when you are trying to match preferences and your budget. In case of a marriage celebrant, you are given a registry which lets you know what the newlywed couple needs. All you have to do is choose from the list of things the one thing that fits your budget and gift it to them. But every occasion is not wedding and not all parties have registries to make your job easy. Here it helps to decide on a few things and then finalize on one which fits your budget.
Some people appreciate the effort and thought that goes into making a gift. If you know the person will be happy to receive something that is not store bought, then make a gift for them, it will save you a lot of money and make an impression on the person you are gifting it to. However, a lot of them do not appreciate hand made goods and think it to be cheap, make certain of the persons preferences before you start spending time of a DIY.
Gifting can be very exciting for the person giving the gift and the person receiving it. The sheer joy of unwrapping a gift is ethereal. If the gift is from the heart, then you know for sure it is going to be loved.


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Third-party shipmanagers today cover over 15% of the world fleet with more than 8,700 individual ships under their watch, according to data provided to TradeWinds.
While this leaves almost 50,000 vessels managed by shipowners, specialists describe a market that is seeing increased demand and attracting the attention of institutional investors.
"I think eventually the Greek market will go the same way [as Japan]"
Data provided by V.Group, the private equity-backed market leader, shows there are 8,764 ships managed by third-party service providers today. Its numbers show tankers to account for the largest slice of third-party vessels, narrowly ahead of bulk carriers, and general cargo and passengerships.
OSM Marine Group chief executive Geir Sekkesaeter, whose company saw financial heavyweight Oaktree Capital Management become a major shareholder this summer, says much of the growth is coming from existing customers who are expanding their fleets, rather than shipowners opting for a change of management strategy.
Bjorn Hojgaard, chief executive of Anglo-Eastern Univan, says the industry today is no longer seen as an inferior option, as it was perceived by some back in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, it is attracting a lot of interest from institutional money, a trend observed throughout the shipping services arena.
He says the fine net of regulations and vetting machines in shipping has made shipmanagement of ships more commoditised and a healthy proposition for shipowners.
Japanese shipowners are the largest users of third-party management services, according to V.Group figures provided to TradeWinds. The 1,229 Japanese-owned ships under management are nearly double the total of 628 from second placed Norway.
The US, with 552 ships under third-party management, and Chinese owners, with 470, are also ahead of the world's largest shipowning nation, Greece, which has 398 vessels, the figures show. Germany, Singapore and South Korea are the other nations where shipmanagers are finding the most demand for their services.
Hojgaard says Japan's leading position as a user of shipmanagement services is due to the decline of the country as a seafaring nation.
"Japan used to be a home-grown market, with home-grown management and home-grown vessel superintendents," he says. "But over time, there were fewer and fewer Japanese going to sea. Now it is a real rarity to see a Japanese seafarer.
"Because of that, there are fewer and fewer who end up in shore-based shipmanagement positions. This makes the Japanese owners go to the shipmanagers and say, 'I need good crew from India or the Philippines and I need an organisation with some scale and depth to take in my ships without it being an extraordinary effort'.
For now, however, it is changes in the shipowning landscape that are helping open doors for shipmanagers to find new clients.
"Today on the owning side, people buy and sell fleets, not ships," Hojgaard says.
He says an owner who has a fleet of 20 bulkers and an equal number of chemical tankers may decide to exit one of those markets. This would require the company to lay off a lot of crew it has spent a lot of time and money training, and a lot of shore-based staff as well.
"Five years later you decide to get back into that market and you buy another fleet of 20 ships. Suddenly you have to man them again and you will not have all those crew and all those shore staff on the shelf needed to run those ships," he says.
Claes Eek Thorstensen, president and chief commercial officer of Thome Group, agrees it is easier to grow with a manager than if an owner has to hire all the people for themselves.
"If you are going to be in shipmanagement, you are going to need a certain scale to get contracts, to have a crew pool to drive, and you need skilled people so you build a competence base for yourself which is attractive," he says.
It is not just traditional growth-minded shipowners who are turning to shipmanagers. Traders have been building up their owned fleets again, with Trafigura widely believed to have placed its fleet of 35 tankers with two established names after a competitive tender process.
Wilhelmsen Ship Management's Schou says traders make good clients as they are not subject to the volatile markets and have a much more stable business case when investing in steel.


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Seattle Bike Works Gives Away 250 Bikes
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by Carolyn Bick
On an overcast Saturday afternoon, kids and parents jostled together into Bike Works' anteroom for the nonprofit's twice-annual Kids Bike-O-Rama event. Volunteers fitted kids with shiny new helmets, still other kids lined up outside the door to a room filled with an array of free children's bikes, designs and colors including delicate floral patterns, eye-catching jewel tones, Star Wars decals, and sleek shades of grey and black. Outside, volunteers and parents helped children test out their new bikes, resulting in a few tumbles that were quickly overridden by a combination of excitement and stubbornness.
Bike Works' Community Engagement Coordinator Jasmine Bechlem said the Columbia City-based organization has been holding the Dec. 15 event "in some form or another" ever since the nonprofit was established 22 years ago. Bechlem said the event lines up with the nonprofit's overall goal of building communities and empowering youth and adults within those communities by making sure no one lacks for transportation and health access, due to financial restrictions.
Furthermore, all the bikes and helmets at the Kids Bike-O-Rama are always given away completely free of charge, which aligns with the nonprofit's commitment to never turn away anyone from its other classes and programs during the year, due to lack of funding.
This is crucial for many of Bike Works' young participants, Bechlem said, as many of them are underprivileged, or immigrants and refugees. Some are even experiencing homelessness.
Most of the youth who went home with bikes that day were getting them for the first time in their lives. Because the event is aimed at children between the ages of 2-8, Bechlem said, it not only helps introduce them to biking, but it also allows them to take part in social activities with friends and family.
"They have the ability to do anything that any other child would do with a bike after school in the summer," Bechlem said. "[They have] that access not just to health and transportation, but all the experiences that grow and develop us into dynamic human beings in the world."
Two of these dynamic human beings were excitedly running around the bike testing area, as the boys' father, Essa Samama, tried to corral them. Samama said he decided to get his older son a bike at the event.
"He has a smaller bike – they are sharing – but it's gotten a little bit smaller, for him," Samama said, gesturing towards his older son. "I was going to get a big one, but when they told me about this, I was like, 'Okay, let me just wait, before I bought one for him.' And he's got a little brother, so him, too, can use the other one."
Bob Anderton, center, checks the fit of Ethan Ibañez's helmet, during Bike Works' annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
Amy Ferlazzo, center, helps Nathaniel Good-Ferlazzo, left, ride a bike, during Bike Works' annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
Michael Toubbeh, right, helps Luqman Farah, center, ride his new bike, during Bike Works' annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
Reflected in a door, Angel De Jesus, center, adjusts his helmet, during Bike Works' annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
Tags are attached to bikes, during Bike Works' annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
Jadyalen Blossom tightens a bike seat, during Bike Works' annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
People walk through rows of children's bikes, during Bike Works' annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
Pictures are reflected in a mirror at Bike Works, during the organization's annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
Featured Photo: Sam Harris, right, shows Yaretzi Navarro, left, a bike, as Daniel Navarro, back left, looks on, during Bike Works' annual Bike-O-Rama at its headquarters in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, on Dec. 15, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Bick)
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Sending Strength to Anyone Shopping With Mom Today
By Meredith Paul
Updated: Nov 21, 2018 @ 4:36 pm
Black Friday brings up a ton of memories for me: bacon Brussel sprout-related food comas, multi-day Law and Order: SVU marathons, and, of course, shopping with Mom. As most anyone with a mother and a credit card knows, the mental file labeled "Shopping with Mom" contains within it many of the best and also worst memories. It's why the thrift-store dress-shopping scene from Ladybird punched so many of us right in the gut. We've been there.
We use our clothes to declare who we are, and our mothers often see that in a way we can't. Sometimes it's a source of joy — a way for them to remind us of our strength and value at a moment when we might not be able to see it for ourselves. Sometimes it's a source of pain: a loud, sour note that strikes a dissonant chord between who we know ourselves to be and whomever it is our moms wished we were.
Throughout my life, shopping with my mom is a place I return to frequently, or rather, crash land, after the light traumas I love to attract. The experience is like a comically large trampoline held by a bunch of firefighters; I come hurtling out of the window of a five-story building and into a Macy's with Lisa Paul.
At times growing up, my vision of who I wanted to be didn't line up with hers. I remember bursting out of a dressing room, extremely proud of a pair of low-cut bell-bottom jeans that very sexily laced all the way up the side, with lots of open spaces revealing my legs beneath. She laughed.
She burst out laughing at, what I'm sure appeared externally as, a frizzy haired, semi-nude adolescent potato inelegantly stuffed into a sack. Her reaction made me feel, in a way that to this day remains unparalleled, unseen. I knew, at 14, that I was turning into a sexual being, growing up and becoming a woman. She still saw me as her American Girl Doll-loving little girl who frequently conducted full volume conversations with her Leonardo DiCaprio poster, believing it could transmit her messages of love directly to the man himself. (Just in case this still might be true: Hey, Leo! Call me?)
As any self-respecting teen would when confronted with a situation like this, I screamed and slammed the door so hard, it made another woman in the dressing room come and give my mom an understanding pat on the back.
Growing up, I always felt insecure about my body and was especially uncomfortable about my triple-D chest. When it was time to get a prom dress, it was especially hard to find one that fit and didn't make me look like an 18-year-old Jessica Rabbit, if she were chubbier and very pale. And before you gasp at my crass body-shaming of myself, please take a moment to revisit the year 2008: Lauren Conrad was our queen and Ashton Kutcher our king; the ability to possess a Sidekick phone seemed as important as diplomatic peace with North Korea; and Britney Spears was making absolutely wild decisions with umbrellas. The teen prom dream was a silk floor-length, low-cut, tropical print spaghetti strap dress over a deeply orange spray tan. None of this cared if you did not look or fit or exist in any way similar to a Lauren Conrad. Sometimes your mother was the only one attempting to bridge that divide.
This is where I legally have to mention I grew up on Long Island, a place known globally for the tendency to go a little off-the-rails with "Events."
At prom in my town, people come to sit in bleachers and watch the kids walk a red carpet, pulling up in fire trucks, Rolls Royces and in some cases, on Jet-Skis towed by dads in pickup trucks. Some kids would perform pre-planned skits on the red carpet. In other words, this is the one place where prom is exactly as momentous as your average teenage girl thinks it is.
It's why we can still support multiple specialty dress boutiques with names like 'Pzaz' and 'Flair,' while literally every other type of brick-and-mortar store is struggling to survive in the age of Amazon.
My mom took me to every one of these within reach: three months of Saturdays going from shop to shop, trying on every dress with the right amount of sequins or wrong amount of cleavage, as one after the other did not quite fit. When this invariably happened, my mom would get outraged at the style or the cut, always careful to never react in a way that I could interpret as a flaw about my body.
She and I were on the same team, searching for dress that would prove to me that my body was right — that I was. She was refusing to allow me to view myself as a victim to whatever societal standard I had internalized from movies and magazines, or Lacrosse jerks named "Jamie" from my AP earth science class. It was her way to guide me toward self-love. When we found the dress that fit, that felt amazing, it was a triumph — for both of us. I wanted to look amazing and she wanted to make sure I was ready for this huge moment of a becoming a woman. She wanted me to look like "who I was" for a moment that would mark the beginning of who I was to become. I wanted to look hot, and, if I say so myself, I did.
Three days before the dance, my prom date dumped me to take someone else. Because I was a junior and he was a senior, this meant I couldn't attend at all. I will always remember two things about this day. One: it marked the occasion of my first Xanax (procured via an emergent call to my pediatrician). Two: My mom and I went right back to the mall.
After I stopped sobbing, she stuffed me in our Volvo and took me to the nearest Lucky Jeans (again, it was 2008). She watched me try on approximately 100 bootcut pairs while refreshing Facebook for prom photos and delivering unbelievably sick burns about my dearly-departed date.
I walked into that store as a girl who got publicly, humiliatingly dumped three days before prom. Because of my mom's combination of affirmations, reassurance about how well I was pulling off the jeans, and, weirdly, reminders about my scholastic accomplishments and bright future, I walked out as Myself, again. This exchange was like Oxi-Clean, removing a stain this event could have left on me for good, returning me to a gleamingly clean shirt with an equally bright future. It worked; I am now an extremely rich CEO married to Leonardo DiCaprio. Okay, not quite; but in part because of those shopping trips with my mom, I learned to accept variations on what a bright future might be. And one is loving how I look in a dress.
But as I said those shopping trips weren't always happy. We got in one of our biggest adult fights over my college graduation dress. By the time graduation rolled around, I was exhausted. I felt totally disconnected from my preppy New England college. I could no longer identify with the friends I had made over bottomless handles of Rubinoff and sorority formals; I was souring on my frat-boy quarterback boyfriend. Alone and rocked by the transition, I had nothing on the horizon but a bleak prison of a cubicle nine-to-five. I was ready to put it all in my rear-view.
While we were shopping, I couldn't work up the energy to care which dress I got for my graduation day, an arbitrary vestment to live under a black polyester gown. I was depressed and tired and ready to perform whatever functions would get me out of there the quickest. She got upset with me for not caring. My mom would squawk her disapproval as I chose a shapeless muumuu. She wanted me to cherish the moment, acknowledge my accomplishment, bask in it and represent that through my clothes. She was convinced that the right dress would say "I'm proud of myself, proud of this accomplishment." She succeeded by way of a beautiful white lace belted shift. Now, when I look back on those pictures, I find it hard to recall that drained, demoralized girl.
I see a triumphant young woman setting out on the world in a crisp new dress — and that was exactly what my mom saw all along.
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It's been a pleasure sharing with you on this blog about English language!
But it's time for me to close this blog as I can't update it as often as I should. As I have already explained on this one that I'm closing too, I opened too many blogs when I started blogging. I am still very keen on blogs, but since 2008 I have learned a lot, and now I have just decided to keep blogging about any educational topic on just one blog, instead of having one for each topic.
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