WASHINGTON – (AFP) – A new kind of bird flu has been causing deadly pneumonia in baby seals off the northeastern US coast and could pose a risk to humans, according to US research released Tuesday.
The new strain has been named avian H3N8, and is blamed for the deaths of 162 seals along the US coastlines last year, said the study in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
Most of the dead seals were younger than six months of age.
While there have been no known human cases to date, scientists at Columbia University in New York urged caution, given the history of bird flu and its ability to evolve into forms that can infect people, like H5N1.
"Our findings reinforce the importance of wildlife surveillance in predicting and preventing pandemics," said W. Ian Lipkin, professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
"HIV/AIDS, SARS, West Nile, Nipah and influenza are all examples of emerging infectious diseases that originated in animals," Lipkin added.
Scientists sequenced the full genome of the new strain and found it originated from a bird flu virus that had been circulating in North American waterfowl since 2002.
Over time, the virus gained the ability to infect mammals by latching on to receptors in their respiratory tracts.
Wildlife experts first grew alarmed in September 2011 when an increasing number of seals from the coasts of Maine to Massachusetts began developing pneumonia and skin lesions.
A total of 162 dead or dying seals were recovered over the next three months, the researchers said.
Early research on the mutations in the strain "suggest enhanced virulence and transmission in mammals," though further study is needed, the authors said.
The bird flu that most people know about, H5N1, remains relatively rare but has killed about half of the people it has infected since the first outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997.
The World Health Organization has tallied 606 human cases of bird flu since 2003 and 357 deaths, according to a June report.
The so-called swine flu, or H1N1, broke out in Mexico in 2009. The H1N1 virus spread into a global pandemic that claimed the lives of 17,000 people.


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World-class telemedicine robot technology supports NHS recovery
Published: 29th November 2021
Consultant Connect solution puts remote consultant virtually at patient bedsides.
Our Telemedicine 'robots' used at Liverpool Women's and Alder Hey children's hospitals has featured in Building Better Healthcare – read the piece here.
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Consultant Connect solution puts remote consultant virtually at patient bedsides
Consultant Connect enables medics to monitor, examine and speak to patients remotely.
Telemedicine provider, Consultant Connect, has announced a breakthrough in UK healthcare innovation with the arrival of state-of-the-art robot technology to the NHS.
The device will revolutionise UK healthcare by enabling specialist consultants to see, hear, and speak with patients as if they were at their bedside – even if they are miles away at a different hospital or at home shielding with COVID symptoms.
Consultant Connect offers a leading advice and guidance service to the NHS and has now added a robot division.
The device allows clinicians to give specialised care at a minute's notice that may otherwise have been unavailable, as well as reducing locum costs.
Liverpool Women's Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool used two telemedicine devices during the pandemic, which enabled them to keep a full neonatal service running.
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has also begun using the devices during a ward round.
Dr Steve Jackson, consultant physician and chief medical information officer, said: "With the Teladoc robot I can be doing a ward round on one site in the morning and have a clinic booked immediately afterwards in the afternoon at another.
A potential benefit to patients is the increased access to specialists on other sites, including outside of the trust or across the region in future, which could mean fewer patients need to be admitted or transferred between hospitals
"The system allows for greater efficiency because I'm not having to add travel time or risk being delayed in traffic.
"This means I'm able to spend more time with patients and I have more opportunity to discuss their plans and care.
"I am also able to review patients who are admitted to my ward between my formal ward rounds, and this means that they may be discharged earlier."
He added: "The image and sound quality of the system are excellent and allow me to see and talk to the patient, alongside onsite junior doctors, while having all the relevant medical records at hand – something you're not able to do via a phone call.
"Another potential benefit to patients is the increased access to specialists on other sites, including outside of the trust or across the region in future which could mean fewer patients need to be admitted or transferred between hospitals."
The telemedicine device uses two ultra-high-definition cameras which enable a consultant to see scans, take a temperature, or read hand-written bedside notes.
Powerful batteries allow it to run off-power for four hours and it is height-adjustable, with a pan-tilt and zoom head, allowing a consultant to study monitors.
These devices are a hugely-exciting development in telemedicine and one that will revolutionise efficiency in the NHS
And the remote consultant can grab images of a scan, send it down to the device by the bedside, and annotate it in real time for the medical team with the patient.
In addition, boom cameras with a 36x zoom can look down on a patient in close detail and consultants can listen in to a stethoscope to hear a heartbeat in real time.
The robot's arrival in the UK follows the acquisition, in January, of Consultant Connect by US telemedicine firm, Teladoc.
Jonathan Patrick, chief executive of Consultant Connect, said: "These devices are a hugely-exciting development in telemedicine and one that will revolutionise efficiency in the NHS.
"They buy back time for specialist consultants which will ease pressure on staff. That, in turn, will reduce waiting times for patients and provide them with better outcomes."
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That Click is a documentary about legendary photographer Douglas Kirkland that with his camera portrayed sixty years of pop culture ranging from photojournalism to celebrity portraits, from film photography to global events. After taking some of the most iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe, with his unique style and approach he described fashion, celebrities and show business with immortal images that still influence us today. Douglas Kirkland is an American photographer renowned for his portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Brigitte Bardot, among others. "I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can to help make them feel comfortable in front of the camera," he has explained. Born on August 16, 1934 in Fort Erie, Canada, he began his career as an apprentice to the acclaimed photographer Irving Penn in 1957. Five years later, Kirkland was put on an assignment for Look magazine to photograph Coco Chanel.
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About:Ruth Fiori, L'invention du vieux Paris. Naissance d'une conscience patrimoniale dans la capitale, Wavre.
In L'invention du vieux Paris ("The Invention of Old Paris") Ruth Fiori chronicles the rise of preservation societies in 19th century Paris that led to the patrimonialization of the capital. What does it mean to "preserve" a monument? The author highlights the ideological differences that spurred the construction of a patrimonial perspective which we inherit today.
Reviewed: Ruth Fiori, L'invention du vieux Paris. Naissance d'une conscience patrimoniale dans la capitale. Preface by Dominique Poulot, Wavre, Mardaga, 2012.
Parisian modernity is a nostalgic modernity. The momentum of progress did not take hold of the capital without leaving in its wake a sense of loss, the loss of "old Paris", a passionate attachment which became manifest when its ongoing existence seemed threatened with demolition. "Le vieux Paris n'est plus," ("Old Paris is no more") wrote Baudelaire ("The Swan", The Flowers of Evil), and it seems that from the start it gave itself up for lost – so much so, indeed, that we might well wonder whether it ever really existed: Is it not rather the fruit of literary, but also historical, invention? This is the hypothesis Ruth Fiori explores in L'invention du vieux Paris.
It makes sense for starters to ask from what point in time that "old Paris" can be dated: i.e. not just what buildings, what physical state of the city and what period are meant in this context by the adjective "old", which automatically changes referents over time, but also when the very notion of "old Paris" arose and how it has shaped our perceptions of Paris ever since.
As the title suggests, L'invention du vieux Paris seeks first to reconstruct the genesis of the notion of "old Paris" and to trace the fluctuation of the historical markers framing it, the values underlying it and the actions which that notion consequently served to legitimize.
Ruth Fiori shows that the expression "vieux Paris", which made its first appearance as a purely descriptive category at the close of the 17th century (when it meant pre-Renaissance Paris), first gained currency during the Enlightenment to serve as a foil: "old Paris" was that muddy chaotic mass decried by Voltaire, the "dark, narrow, hideous center of the city" (Des embellissements de Paris, 1749) bequeathed by barbarous centuries past. His description fuelled dreams of razing the city and building a new city in its place that would be at once clean, comfortable and, above all, grandiose, worthy of being – as it claimed to be – the capital of the civilized world. So to the hygienist and functionalist arguments were added aesthetic considerations – steeped, as it happens, in classical sobriety and regularity –, and this combination of arguments prefigured the terms in which Haussmannian discourse would be subsequently articulated.
A veritable reversal ensued with the emergence of the Romantic sensibility around Victor Hugo's oeuvre. Old Paris was still a "labyrinth", to be sure, but a dazzling one, a "tricot inextricable de rues bizarrement brouillées" ("an inextricable fabric of strangely scrambled streets" (Notre-Dame-de-Paris), the victim of a cold and calculating, tasteless and soulless modernity disfiguring the city in its purported attempts to beautify it. Specialized literature and albums of picturesque views of the city, such as those of Lancelot Turpin de Crissé (Souvenirs du vieux Paris, 1833) and Alexandre Pernot (Le vieux Paris, 1838), engendered and established an image of old Paris, defined this time around as pre-revolutionary, that would eventually preside over subsequent struggles against state-driven "vandalism": Haussmann's designs on Paris would be opposed by what were already firmly entrenched convictions and discourse.
But the radicalness of Haussmann's projects triggered a decisive shift, according to Ruth Fiori, from a Romantic, initially aesthetic, concern to a genuinely historical concern for the city's architectural heritage. The monotonous and rigidly regulated new city that was taking shape was not only ugly, but above all, in the eyes of its detractors, illegible and hopelessly mute. The extent of the destruction of whole neighborhoods, which threatened to strip Paris of its memory, called for "the constitution of a new history" (p. 72). Initially thought of as an antidote to forgetting, "a form of compensation", as Fiori puts it (p. 77), this new history gradually suffused the real city with a ghostly presence that was resuscitated in books – but also in Paris itself, whose façades began to be fitted out with memorial plaques and inscriptions, and its pavements marked with the traces where older edifices had once stood. This old Paris, which thus attained the dignity of a subject of scholarship, was not just a bunch of more or less aged buildings. It was gradually amplified into an atmosphere, a teeming profusion of past ways of life, the quondam cacophony and characters of the city's streets, of vanished trades and crafts, fairs and festivities. The chronicles and descriptions thereof, which became increasingly abundant, combined the historical exactitude of details with the whimsy of idealized fantasies in a manner sometimes impervious to any attempt to distinguish fact from fiction.
So the first half of the 19th century saw old Paris become an "historical object worthy of study", which was the prerequisite for its gradual conversion into a "patrimonial object worthy of preservation and conservation" (p. 77) in its materiality: this heap of lamented ruins was ready to become a veritable battleground.
This conversion was the upshot of action by various preservationist "groups" (as the author refers to them generically). This is the central focus of Ruth Fiori's investigation, which seeks to show, using Paris as a case in point, the "importance of associative groups in the construction of patrimony" (p. 14). The shift from the theoretical work of scholarship to activism and organized pressure brought to bear on the City and the State, the shift from denunciation to prevention, commenced in the 1870s and culminated in 1884 with Charles Normand's founding of the Société des Amis des Monuments Parisiens (SAMP, "Society of Friends of Parisian Monuments"), whose members included Paul Marmottan, Charles Garnier, Albert Lenoir, Eugène Müntz et al. From the outset, the SAMP was intended to be a "permanent force, a jealous and intelligent guardian of various branches of art and scholarship" (Normand, p. 24). Seconded by a certain number of other organizations, by learned societies in various districts of Paris and by local committees, such as the Commission Municipale du Vieux Paris ("Municipal Commission of Old Paris"), it showed unflagging tenacity in its efforts to mobilize public opinion for the preservation of old Paris by means of publications for the learned and layman alike, by organizing guided tours, conferences and banquets, and by launching direct appeals to elected officials and large-scale press campaigns, some of which were quite creative (such as the 1870 publication of an obituary for the Arènes de Lutèce ). Ruth Fiori details some significant examples of these preservation campaigns, the twists and turns of which were to continue in some cases for over 20 years.
These groups did not always emerge victorious, and Ruth Fiori scrutinizes the causes of their defeat in each case. But in their deliberations and actions, one finds – and this is what makes her inquiry most interesting – the germ of the ideas of patrimony and monument on which we still rely to this day.
The Société des Amis des Monuments Parisiens was an example of a theoretical challenge to the establishment arising out of civil society that gradually gained a wider hearing and greater authority. From the very beginning, the SAMP sought to develop a "second opinion" challenging every step of the way the official expert opinion of the Commission for Historical Monuments set up in 1837. The Commission's reputation was already tarnished by a "black legend" (p. 113), which was by and large well-founded, if only on the grounds of its powerlessness: it looked on, either helpless or conniving, as a number of buildings were torn down (e.g. Hôtel de la Trémoille and Eglise des Célestins in 1841) or mutilated (e.g. the Collège des Bernardins turned into a fire station in 1845), and was bitterly reviled for doing nothing about it.
But above and beyond these specific instances, the opposition between the Friends of Parisian Monuments and the Commission for Historical Monuments was of a theoretical nature. It stemmed from their radically divergent approaches to patrimony and their fundamentally different views of urban reality. Fiori shows that the defining aspect of the preservation groups was, in the manner of the Carnavalet Museum curators and in the auspicious context in which the history of art attained the dignity of a fully-fledged discipline, their having promoted a truly historical and documentary perspective committed to what they called the "value of art and history" (p. 128). This perspective set them apart from the essentially aesthetic or artistic point of view that the Historical Monuments Commission had inherited from Romanticism.
This difference in perspective was most clearly manifest in defining the scope of the capital's architectural heritage. A look at the Commission's lists of historical monuments at the close of the 19th century shows that, proceeding chronologically, they excluded everything (or virtually everything) built after 1750. That can be explained by aesthetic preferences (the Commission was dominated by men of the Romantic generation with little appreciation for the styles of the Ancien Régime and the Empire) as well as ideological considerations (detractors often associated these styles with the regimes that nurtured them). In typological terms, the Commission favored official and religious architecture, in other words elaborate "monumental" architecture, in the ordinary sense of the word. For example, when excavation work on the Rue Monge unearthed the Arènes de Lutèce, for whose preservation the State would have had to buy up land owned by the public transport operator CGO (Compagnie Générale des Omnibus), the Commission came out against it, deeming the amphitheater "of very mediocre interest in terms of its construction and layout" (Viollet-le-Duc, p. 123), which is undeniable if it is compared to the Roman amphitheaters in Nîmes and Arles. However, the Parisians groups did not seek to defend the Arènes as a work of art, but as an "historical memento and archaeological site" (p. 123). This idea of a "historical memento" was likewise deployed to legitimize petitions to protect non-monumental constructions, i.e. minor or vernacular buildings as the Mire du Nord ["Northern Lookout" in Montmartre], the Moulin de la Charité ["Charity Mill", a former monastic windmill] in Montparnasse Cemetery or the Regards de Belleville [small buildings over underground water springs], whose retrospective value simply lay in the fact that they still bore witness to something that had disappeared. So it was the very idea of a "monument" that was redefined, explains Ruth Fiori (who owes much here to the work of Françoise Choay), by a return to its etymology: from the Latin monere, to warn, remind, "monument" originally meant "that which calls on memory", which goes far beyond mere monumental edifices or works of art intended to serve as memorials.
Paradoxically, this historicist approach to patrimony as testimony to the past led little by little to extending "old Paris" to include parts of "modern Paris" against which the concept had been developed in the first place. In 1886, for instance, when plans for an elevated railway involved blocking the view of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and Trinité, Charles Garnier pointed out that "these new churches will be old someday" (p. 199). Similarly, the regularity of the Rue de Rivoli, jeopardized by unsightly raised structures, was in 1906 adjudged "characteristic of its age, hence respectable" (Lucien Augé de Lassus, p. 232).
Ultimately, the preservationists' new conception of a monument was not confined to the building proper, but included its surroundings, which "contribute in large measure to its aspect" (SAMP Bulletin, p. 200) since they determine the way in which it is seen – an idea, Fiori points out, that prefigured ideas of "site" and "urban landscape" that were to come much later. The conjunction, described by Eugène Hénard, of Sainte-Geneviève Library, the Panthéon, the Lycée Henri-IV and the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont has at least as much intrinsic value as each edifice taken separately. Just as the Hôtel des Invalides is inseparable from the esplanade in which it is set. Conversely, the void hollowed out around the Tour Saint-Jacques, which is all that remains of a 16th-century abbey, made the tower a sort of readymade before its time: "It's an Eiffel Tower in the Gothic genre," wrote Arthur Rhoné in 1889 ("Réflexions sur l'enlaidissement progressif des villes qu'on embellit", p. 46). Consequently, as the Amis des Monuments Parisiens saw it, the boundaries of the city's architectural patrimony ultimately all but coincided with those of the city itself, which, in the name of history, must remain untouched.
For this new standpoint also determined a new take on the respect owed to patrimony, i.e. on what it means to protect a monument. Under the dominant influence of Viollet-le-Duc, the Historical Monuments Commission undertook huge restoration projects that verged on reconstructing what were often largely imagined buildings. The City of Paris, for its part, prioritized practical ends, i.e. overhauling and converting buildings to serve new functions and, in so doing, saving them from the wrecking ball while altering them significantly. As for the Parisian scholars, who conceived of monuments as documents, or even relics, of the past, they could not see such undertakings as anything but adulteration, tantamount, in the final analysis, to despoliation and destruction. Since the value of a monument derived, in their eyes, from its value as a record of the past, it required authenticity, and therefore a preservation policy that confines itself to consolidating, as discreetly as possible, to avert collapse. That was what they had demanded for Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, which their strenuous efforts helped to save despite its dilapidation and the indifference of the archdiocese. During its restoration under the architect Louis Sauvageot, however, the old church was decked out with an anachronistic clock tower that disfigured it and was to remain in their eyes the epitome of the government's incompetence in these matters.
So from the outset, this "archeological" conception of built heritage and of the city came up against its own contradictions: a church, to remain a church, needs a bell tower; a building, a city, are made to be inhabited. But as Fiori points out, the recognition of their historical value paved the way for the "process – much later, of course – of the museification of urban space" (p. 254) and jeopardized not only their use, but, by the same token, their raison d'être in the city. What is more, the old art of building was now perceived and celebrated as an art of living: the revaluation of "old Paris" was largely due to a nostalgic yearning for its vivacity and festivities, in a word, for its life. And yet the preservation of old Paris, because it inevitably involved a form of embalming, a break with the immediacy of experience and detachment from it through (in this case, historical) consciousness, could only lead to the death that was supposed to be averted.
Is the "beauty of Paris" political?
So the history of "old Paris" is one of the gradual ascension of an outlook claiming to be axiologically neutral, both in aesthetic and political terms. The SAMP presented itself from the outset as nonpartisan, and it seems its members' party affiliations did indeed vary considerably. Protecting the patrimony was apparently not the sole preserve of conservatives advocating a return to the past. The nostalgic bent of the preservationists' struggle was not directly reactionary; in their discourse at least, they even described it as being open to the future. And of course, as Ruth Fiori emphasizes, the gigantic reconstruction of "Old Paris", designed by Albert Robida, was offered up as an attraction for visitors to the World Fair in 1900, alongside the Eiffel Tower, the underground and the glorification of electricity. But is that enough to establish, as she argues, "its non-contradiction with the idea of modernity" (p. 99)? It is perhaps regrettable here that the author does not show more clearly how, and to what extent, beyond mere statements of intent, the faith in progress could be reconciled with a love of the past.
Be that as it may, beyond their ideological differences, it was the patrimonial outlook they invented that brought the "friends of old Paris" together. A case in point is the Chapelle Expiatoire , whose "invisible" patrimonial value (p. 186) they sought to unveil, faced with republican elected officials upset at the prospect of preserving such a political symbol of the Ancien Régime: "The Chapelle Expiatoire is testimony to a state of mind that spurred on a literary renaissance steeped in an often intemperate admiration of the past; it is also the product of artistic methods that hold an ineradicable place in the succession of French architectures" (Jacques de Boisjoslin, p. 186).
To her credit, however, Ruth Fiori does qualify this assessment by suggesting, for example, that the attachment to or rediscovery of the grand Ancien Régime town houses was not wholly devoid of ulterior political motives. Above all, she shows how in the early 20th century the heated arguments over the "Americanization" of Paris were actually "on the borderline between urban imagination and the questioning of [national] identity" (p. 290). Defending "la beauté de Paris", which at the time appeared essential to sustaining the international influence of this "capital of capitals" (Massart, p. 243), became a national policy issue. Behind the recurrent condemnation of the new so-called "skyscrapers", as anxious observers called certain tall buildings that were actually quite modest compared to American high rises, lay the defense of an architectural, but also social and cultural, model embodied in a certain humanistic and artistic vision of the city. From then on, the already century-old idea of Paris split into two cities, distinct and inimical, became blurred: "old Paris" and "modern Paris" were reunited by the dread of leaving the city in the hands of the narrow materialism of engineers, which could be expected to produce every possible ill, starting with dullness and ugliness, qualities hitherto ascribed to modernity.
Charles Garnier summed up this struggle in a phrase that is, in hindsight, quite telling: "Paris must not be turned into a factory; it must remain a museum" (p. 240). In other words, a place where art is celebrated, though in an unresolved state that incessantly imperils the life it sought to glorify. Paris, the whole of which has now become "old Paris", has gained the prestige of a halo of memories that only makes it admirable insofar as it evokes what no longer exists, and perhaps never existed. Voided of its reality, "Paris" always seems somewhere else, and that may be why it is so difficult today to know how to build and how to live there.


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BYBOX Tour de box fundraising challenge for Zoe's Place
MHWmagazine September 6, 2011	Uncategorized
On your marks, get set, go! are words ringing in the ears of ByBox staff as they get ready to set off from ByBox' Coventry Distribution Centre, off Red Lane, Coventry on a gruelling fundraising 'Tour de Box' challenge which takes place on Thursday 8th September.
ByBox staff have formed themselves into three teams (Red, Blue and Yellow) who will each compete in a bid to raise money for Coventry based Zoe's Place – the third in a trio of hospices dedicated to the care of terminally ill babies and young children in Coventry and Warwickshire.
And in the true spirit of the ByBox ethos of meeting challenges head on, the Tour de Box event will push the boundaries to the limit with a mix of tasks which include cycling, kayaking in inflatable rafts, riddle solving before a final cycle sprint back to the Coventry Distribution Centre.
ByBox has already raised over £2000 in advance of the event from a mix of staff and customers and will continue to raise funds well after the event too, all of which will go to the hospice located in Ash Green, Coventry.
The new purpose-built facility is the first of its kind in this area and is dedicated solely to the respite and one-to-one palliative care of babies and children under the age of five with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses and special complex needs.
With the facilities to care for six babies at any one time, the hospice is expected to benefit an estimated 40 families a year. Its running costs exceed £700,000 a year, with most of the funding through public donations.
Zoe's Place started taking patients in July. Features inside the hospice include specially-made cots, a multi-sensory pod with soft play equipment and adapted toys.
Stuart Miller, ByBox' Co-founder and CEO commented: "The Tour de Box concept is a means of engaging staff whilst at the same time putting something back into the community
"Everyone gets involved whether it be taking part directly, following in the support vehicles or simply cheering their teams on and the fact that we are able to raise substantial sums for such a worthy cause is fantastic.
"We also owe a huge thank you to those who have already generously supported including Jaspers, First Project Maintenance, Unipart Technology Logistics and InTouch Solutions Consultants."
Founded in 2000, ByBox has transformed the field services market with its innovative solution of delivering overnight, pre-8am to a network of 18,000 drop boxes at 1,350 locations, ready for an engineer to start work.
Additionally the company has recently expanded into the consumer market with online retailers such as figleaves.com offering customers free drop box delivery as an option at one of its 300 consumer friendly locations. To further extend the network of drop boxes across the UK an agreement has recently been formed with Network Rail to install drop boxes at all mainline stations and Royal Mail will shortly be rolling out its 'iBox' solution at 17 mainline train stations in London and across six other key cities, in conjunction with ByBox. The trial is set to run for six months.
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Losing a loved one is a very difficult event that takes an emotional toll on all of the surviving family members. Families are often confronted with the task of having to arrange funeral and memorial service details soon after the passing, making the beginning of the mourning process seem all the more arduous. The fact that there is a lot of planning and preparation for these services, often requiring details that may not even have anticipated, such as the use of a casket burial vault for traditional burial ceremonies, may not only cause more grief, but put a unexpected financial burden on the family that they may have not been prepared for. Sadly, many individuals are not aware that there are alternative options for purchasing memorial products, often for substantially less than they are offered by the funeral home.
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For those that are having a traditional ceremony for the lost individual, there are a variety of products and services that may be necessary, but one that often gets overlooked is the need of a casket burial vault. While this unexpected necessity may cause an unexpected finance, it is truly useful in that it preserves and protects the essence of the loved one against the elements, and the pressure exerted all around the casket over time. These vaults not only help maintain the composure of the piece, but the appearance of the gravesite, for all future generations to come.


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David Letterman Jokes
1. Mitt Romney and his family have a big two-day weekend plan. They're going to hike to the top of his money.
2. Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket.
3. Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.
4. How about that Rick Santorum? He came in second because he is the anti-Romney. Wait a minute. I thought Mitt Romney was the anti-Romney.
5. The Republican debate was on earlier tonight. Side effects may include nausea, vomiting and sexual dysfunction.
6. Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.
7. Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?
8. I worry about Rick Perry. One, he's too conservative, Two, his debating skills. And three...Oh crap, what was three?
9. Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself: "Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book?"
10. Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.
11. The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.
12. Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.
13. Gays are now allowed to serve openly in the military. So maybe our next war could be a musical.
14. Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.
15. They had a midnight raid and they cleaned out Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Streeters were camped out for about two months. So if you're keeping score, here's what the score is now: Eighty down in Zucotti Park; Wall Street executives arrested: Zero.
16. Here's why Sarah Palin says she won't be running for president. She says she can be more effective at getting others elected by not running. And I thought, well, that's true, because in 2008 she got Obama elected.
17. Over the weekend Mitt Romney went body surfing. He has not body surfed since the '90s when he starred on "Baywatch."
18. Osama bin Laden...lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.
19. Mitt Romney was a guest on "The Tonight Show" on NBC. It's interesting - you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out.
20. Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him.
21. Over the weekend they gave Dick Cheney a heart transplant. Finally all of those midnight trips to the graveyard with the hunchbacked assistant have paid off.
22. You all know Newt Gingrich. Newt is short for Newton. People say if that's the case, what is Mitt short for? It's short for "Mittens."
23. Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich.
24. I was talking to a friend about Santorum. He said: "For all my years in the State Department, I know one thing. Terrorists, what they fear most is a guy in a sweater vest."
25. They're saying now that Rick Santorum is gaining momentum because he's not Romney. And Mitt Romney was furious. He replied: "Well, I can do that."
26. Newt Gingrich is against same-sex marriage. Well, actually, he's against same-marriage sex.
27. Newt Gingrich has criticized "New York elites" who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.
28. Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.
29. Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.
30. Mitt is the guy you think you look like. Newt is the guy you actually look like.
31. I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right.
32. Mitt Romney said that he liked to fire people. Well, there's a pretty good message to send to Middle America. When Rick Perry heard that, he said: "Well that's nothing. I like to execute people."
33. Don't you think Ron Paul looks like one of those people they interview after every UFO sighting? Ron Paul looks like the guy you see in the horse-racing movies on the back stretch with a stopwatch. He looks like a guy you'd keep overnight for observation.
34. Hillary Clinton is putting on a little weight. She'd better be careful. If she gains 10 more pounds, Bill's to start hitting on her.
35. Doctors say Dick Cheney need a heart transplant, but Cheney isn't worried. He's already picked out a hunting buddy.
36. Dick Cheney predicts that President Obama will only last one term. This is coming from the same guy that predicted weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
37. Snooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar.
38. George W. Bush is writing a book...It's all part of his war on literacy.
39. Sarah Palin made her debut as a Fox News analyst. They finally found a job that she's not under-qualified for.
40. Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed in the eye with a carrot.
41. Since 1980, there have been 91 breaches of security at the White House. Well, 92 if you count George Bush.
42. The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us.
43. It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.
44. President Obama says he wants to put an end to the policy "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Yeah, in the military. This is not to be confused with George Bush's policy "Don't Know, Don't Care." That's a whole different deal.
45. John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.
46. Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you.
47. I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic…Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.
48. President Obama is going to take two weeks to unwind, as opposed to President Bush, who never wound.
49. The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver.
50. Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought: "Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign."
51. Sarah Palin is joining Fox News. The new slogan is "hair and unbalanced."
52. They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.
53. You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.
54. Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said "refudiate." It's not a word - you have refute and repudiate, and she combined them. A lot of times that will happen and people will confuse combinations of words. I remember a couple years ago John McCain mistakenly combined the words Vice President and Palin.
55. Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.
56. Sarah Palin says she wants limited government. Does she mean fewer elected officials or more officials who resign in the middle of their terms? I think limited government will be perfect for her limited abilities.
57. On his book tour President Bush is being very candid. He says he used to do stupid things when he was drunk. But think about it, who among us hasn't had a couple of drinks and invaded Iraq?
58. Part-time Governor Sarah Palin shot and killed a reindeer on last week's TV show. And that was her Christmas special. Took her three shots. Well, she's rusty. Last thing she brought down was John McCain.
59. Sarah Palin, part-time Governor of Alaska, is angry because Michelle Obama is encouraging kids to eat healthy. Sarah Palin believes the government shouldn't tell us what to do. Sarah Palin believes SHE should tell us what to do.
60. Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah ... But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected.
61. Now how about this, ladies and gentlemen? The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. She will no longer be the Governor of Alaska. First thing, she woke up and went out on her porch and waved goodbye to Russia.
62. Mitt Romney looks like a guy modeling briefs on a package of underwear…He looks like a guy who goes to the restroom when the check comes…He looks like a guy who would run a seminar on condo flipping…He looks like he is the closer at a Cadillac dealership…He looks like that guy on the golf course in the Levitra commercial.
63. How about John McCain? He looks like a guy at a restaurant that says I'm leaving 10%, that's good enough… John McCain, looks like the guy who goes to the curb for the paper and locks himself outside of the house… He looks like the guy who picks up his TV remote when the phone rings…He looks like the guy at the supermarket who is confused by the automatic doors.
64. I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi… She looks like the nurse who weighs you and then makes you sit alone in your underwear for 20 minutes…She looks like a real estate agent whose picture you see on the bus stop bench… She looks like the hygienist who makes you feel guilty about not flossing…She looks like the relieved mom in a Tide commercial.
65. Big news coming out of the Vatican. Pope Benedict resigned. And they're busy looking for replacements. The smart money is on Tim Tebow.
66. I have to hand it to President Obama. He is full of confidence, really kind of cocky and full of himself. At the end of his State of the Union address he showed America his Kenyan birth certificate.
67. Pope Benedict is quitting. That's a tall hat to fill.
68. The Pope said he just doesn't have the energy to be Pope anymore. He tried the deer antler spray and it didn't work.
69. The Republican Party has its own line of clothing. The problem is it keeps coming apart at the seams.
70. In the last two months Fox News has fired Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska, and Dick Morris, well-known political pundit. Well, great. Two more jobs lost under Obama.
71. The power went out for 35 minutes in the Superdome. It was the most highly viewed power outage since Obama's first debate with Romney.
72. A power outage during a Super Bowl in Louisiana - but don't worry. FEMA said they will be there no later than Thursday.
73. We have a new secretary of state, John Kerry, former senator from Massachusetts. For four years Hillary Clinton served as the secretary of state, and in a moving ceremony today Hillary official turned over the pants suit.
74. If I seem a little woozy, it's because I'm wearing a pair of those Hillary Clinton double-vision glasses.
75. Women serving in the United States military will now be serving in combat. Finally there will be somebody in the tank who will stop and ask for directions.
76. This year nobody was elected to baseball's hall of fame. No player has ever gotten into the hall of fame without winning Ohio.
77. Ten days from now Barack Obama will be inaugurated. I'm telling you, it is really starting to look bad for Mitt Romney.
78. The inauguration will have a lot of corporate sponsors, big money, and corporations sponsoring the inauguration. It will be the same with the Kardashian baby.
79. Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, has never been hotter. "Lincoln" received 12 Oscar nominations. "Lincoln" also received a nomination for best hat.
80. We're $20 trillion in debt so somebody at the treasury department says that what we'll do is print a coin for a trillion dollars. I've seen a prototype. It has a beautiful profile of Regis Philbin.
81. You can use the trillion-dollar coin to pay off the national debt, or it will help you get a Kardashian.
82. What happened to the fiscal cliff? Are we on it or off it? Forget it. The debt ceiling is the brand new crisis. The fiscal cliff was just the warm-up, just for beginners, like a student film.
83. Chuck Hagel is the new secretary of defense nominee. They are saying that he may be reluctant to send troops into a war zone needlessly. What kind of a nut job is this guy?
84. Has anyone seen Al Gore's Current TV? I don't mean by mistake. I mean, who's actually watched it? Well, Al-Jazeera has purchased Al Gore's old TV network, Current TV. So it's now owned by Al-Jazeera. And listen to this: $500 million. This is a little something Al Gore has come up with called "global fleecing."
85. Al Gore, Al-Jazeera; Al-Jazeera, Al Gore.
86. Al-Jazeera has some fabulous programming lined up. They've got a new show called "Storage Jihad." They have "Project Burka." And a show called "Real Virgins of Fallujah."
87. According to the Mayan calendar, Friday is the end of the world. You know what? There is a sign of the apocalypse. The New York Knicks are in first place.
88. Even with the apocalypse there is always something good. There's always a silver line. For example, The Mayan apocalypse will put an end to those commercials where a crazy lady talks to strangers about her colon.
89. I went to see "Lincoln," and I think it's a precise historical document. I was flabbergasted to realize that President Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, wore pantsuits.
90. The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.
91. It's been a tough decade for Lindsay Lohan. She's either in prison or she's in rehab. She's been in rehab so many times that the rehab cafeteria has a sandwich named after her.
92. Now Lindsay Lohan is apparently broke. To raise money - say your son's having a bar mitzvah - Lindsay will appear at your son's bar mitzvah. She's also available for end-of-the-world parties.
93. And now The Mayan Channel forecast. Thursday: cloudy, chance of showers, high 39. Friday: volcanos, asteroid strikes, apocalypse.
94. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton collapsed, passed out, banged her head, got a concussion. She is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Ravens.
95. For the next six weeks Hillary will be in an orthopedic pants suit.
96. This weekend I finished my packing for the apocalypse coming up on December 21. What do you take? What do you leave behind?
97. If you think traffic is bad now, wait until the 21st with people trying to get out of town for the end of the world.
98. Christmas is just around the corner. It's just under two weeks away, and today Santa released 10 years of tax returns.
99. The Mayan calendar says that on the 21st, we're done. We've only got about a week left, and I haven't even started packing.
100. On the bright side, the end of the world kind of takes the edge off the fiscal cliff, doesn't it?
101. The Mayans predicted that last joke wouldn't work.
102. Barbara Walters' "Ten Most Fascinating People" show was on last night. Number one was General Petraeus. I think if this guy was a little less fascinating he would probably still have his job.
103. The North Koreans are always making trouble. They launched a rocket there over the weekend. It was scary when they fired that rocket. It flew right over my vacation home in Pyongyang.
104. According to the Mayan calendar, December 21 marks the end of the world. Then why am I Christmas shopping?
105. December 21, the end of the world, is a Friday. So it means dress is casual.
106. Today Wal-Mart announced that on apocalypse day they will open at midnight. I think the Mayan calendar is becoming too commercialized, don't you?
107. Mitt Romney got a job. He's working at a Marriott. He is the guy that comes out to the pool and tells the kids to stop splashing.
108. Because of climate change "Frosty the Snowman" has a new name. Now he's called "Frosty the Puddle."
109. They spotted Mitt Romney at Costco. One day you're running for president of the United States. The next day you're shopping at Costco for giant jugs of mayonnaise. While you're at Costco, go ahead and return that Oval rug you ordered.
110. Mitt Romney got a job at a Marriott hotel. President Obama's trying to stop us from going over the fiscal cliff. Mitt Romney is trying to stop people from stealing towels.
111. Mitt Romney of course lost the election. Think about it this way. One day you're the Republican candidate running for president of the United States, and the next day you're sitting in Applebee's blowing on your soup.
112. Mitt Romney has a new job. He's going back to work. He got a job at a Marriott. When you're at the front desk arguing over your mini bar bill, Mitt will be the guy that comes from out back and says: "I understand there's some trouble?"
113. It's a very proud night for myself and my family and my staff and my friends. I received a Kennedy Center Honor. And today the Republicans are trying to block it.
114. With the Kennedy Center Honors, I am now 17th in line for president.
115. I'm worried about the fiscal cliff in the same way I'm worried about Martians. Every now and then I look for them but I don't know what I'll do when I see them.
116. Last night we had a rough audience, very unpleasant. And then halfway through the show they voted to secede.
117. After the election, 20 states said they've got to get out. They said: "We can't take it anymore," so 20 states are working on seceding from the United States. We're facing real economic problems, so take those 20 states that want to leave and charge them $10,000 apiece.
118. Yesterday Barack Obama looked especially good. He looked relaxed and ready to lead, so he took questions from the press for 20 minutes then finished up with a few Al Green songs.
119. President Obama is in town today. He's visiting the places that were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. And he's visiting people who lost their power. Those are Republicans, but that's a different story.
120. The Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree is being put in place this afternoon. They bring it in and hoist it with a crane and steel cables. It's the same way they get Chris Christie into his pants.
121. Then they start decorating the tree with a beautiful array of Christmas lights and on the very top they put a tiny little Mayor Bloomberg. In fact, it actually is Mayor Bloomberg.
122. According to a study, there are three areas where humans now are getting dumber. High school kids. Retirees. And another group of dumb people? Four-star generals.
123. How about that General Petraeus? Then they got an FBI guy sending pictures of himself with his shirt off. Is that the surge or are you just happy to see me?…You know who I blame for all of this? Anthony Weiner. He's the guy who started this whole thing.
124. You remember Paul Ryan? He was Mitt Romney's Gilligan, his little buddy. He wanted to be vice president but it didn't work out. They did some of those focus groups and it turns out people didn't want a vice president with two first names.
125. A woman is so angry with the election results that reportedly she got in her car and ran over her husband. She's so mad that Romney didn't win, she runs over her husband. It was Karl Rove's wife.
126. Gas rationing. Welcome to 1974! Here's the only good thing. We don't have enough gas now to drive over the fiscal cliff.
127. James Bond beat Abraham Lincoln at the box office. Boy, it's really been a lousy week for Republicans, hasn't it?
128. Republicans still will not admit that they underestimated the power of the Hispanic vote. As a matter of fact, Latinos are calling this Cinco Denio.
129. I heard an update from Con Edison, the electricity company. They said the Republicans now will be without power for the next four years.
130. I knew Obama was going to win. I knew this little secret. Use it next time there is an election and see if it doesn't work out. The guy who wins the presidential election is usually the guy who kills Bin Laden.
131. Two-term presidents is a pretty small club in the history of the United States. The only club smaller is Latinos for Romney. And then the only club smaller than that it Latino women for Romney.
132. Karl Rove was running the Republican deal. He spent $400 million to try to get his party in power. They don't know what happened. The Republicans are confused and scratching their heads. They won't know what happened until they find the black box.
133. I have political insiders who tell me that Mitt Romney - and he seems like an upbeat guy - is depressed. He just sits in a darkened room watching video tape of that first debate over and over and over.
134. His wife Ann said: "Mitt you got to cheer up. You know what will make you feel better. Go spend some time with your money".
135. Here's what they're saying was Mitt's problem. He lived in his own bubble, his own little air-tight capsule, surrounded by sycophants who told him only what he wanted to hear. Wait a minute, I'm sorry, that's me.
136. Here in New York City and the tri-state area we need another snowstorm event like the Republicans need another old white guy.
137. I went out to vote. I was in line for four hours. And then it turned out later that it was a gas line.
138. Everybody is talking about the fiscal cliff. And I'd be talking about the fiscal cliff too if I knew what the hell it was.
139. Republicans are talking about being open to compromise when it comes to the fiscal cliff. And I'm saying: "What the hell have you done with the real Republicans? Where are the real Republicans? That's not the Republicans I know".
140. Well, finally the long race is over and as usual a guy from Kenya won.
141. Obama won last night, and for the Democrats that's great, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens in tonight's debate.
142. It was a big night for the Democrats. Obama was on the electoral vote and the popular vote. Mitt Romney on the other side won the unpopular vote.
143. Some Republicans are taking it hard. Clint Eastwood spent the entire day buying drinks for an empty bar stool.
144. A victory like this is just the kind of thing that might sway the undecided voters.
145. They had a CBS exit poll last night. 100 percent of the people questioned in the exit poll said they were leaving.
146. Mitt waited until 1 a.m. to give his concession speech. They were talking to him and said what are you going to do now? And he said: "I plan to spend some time with my tax returns."
147. Mitt Romney was very gracious in his remarks in his concession speech. Shortly after Mitt Romney conceded, Paul Ryan was untied and set free.
148. New York City is desperately trying to return to normal. Wait a minute. When were we normal?
149. You folks ready to vote? On the bright side, after Tuesday we'll finally be rid of at least one candidate. That's good news.
150. Mitt Romney is reminding everybody about changing your clocks. He's urging his voters, his constituents, and all Americans to turn your clocks back to 1954.
151. Good news for the Republicans: Once the polls close on Tuesday, they'll be able to bring out Paul Ryan again. He's been hiding with Mitt Romney's tax returns.
152. The hurricane cleanup seems worse than we thought. President Obama came to New Jersey. Chris Christie invited him to come in, and they put politics aside to get New Jersey up and running as soon as possible. And then they had lunch together and President Obama gained 10 pounds.
153. It took hurricane-force winds to blow a Democrat and a Republican together.
154. Mayor Bloomberg announced that Sunday's marathon will go ahead as scheduled. Immediately afterward, Paul Ryan announced he finished in 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 12 seconds.
155. Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
156. It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
157. I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
158. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
159. Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, "I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day." Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?
160. People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
161. There is no off position on the genius switch.
162. If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsover.
163. There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
164. I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
165. There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
166. Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
167. Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?
168. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
169. A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
170. As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body.
171. Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.
172. For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.
173. Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.
174. Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.
175. I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.
176. Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.
177. It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
178. I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.
179. New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
180. New York…when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
181. No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.
182. President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.
183. President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?
184. The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.
185. President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
186. The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.
187. The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
188. The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.
189. Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
190. USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
191. We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.
192. We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
193. Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.
194. We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.
195. Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
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Former Jessops director David Adams is to take on Dragons' Den TV star Peter Jones in the fiercely competitive online camera market after being appointed chairman of growing retailer Park Cameras.
Adams is to spearhead Park Cameras' growth as it goes head-to-head with Jessops, the retailer he used to chair, and which is now owned by Jones.
Jones acquired the Jessops brand out of administration this month and is planning on relaunching the retailer as an online business. Jessops collapsed in January, as revealed by Retail-Week.com.
Park Cameras has a turnover of £20m and sells online and through a flagship store in Sussex.
Adams, who stood down as Jessops chairman last year after a difference of opinion with its then owner HSBC, said there is room in the market for a service-led camera specialist after Jessops' collapse.
Adams said Park Cameras has a "strong reputation" and that it appeals more to the "camera pro" than Jessops, which is more aimed at the average consumer.
"It's a place for the real camera enthusiast, which appeals to me," he said. While Adams said it was too early to say whether Park Cameras would open shops beyond its "centre of excellence" flagship in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, he said growth was on the agenda.
Adams said the retailer is looking at other towns for possible stores and has not ruled out taking on former Jessops shops if the decision was made to expand the portfolio.
As Jessops emerges like a phoenix from the flames following its collapse earlier this year, the HMV saga still rumbles on.
Camera retailer Jessops, which fell into administration in January, collapsed under debts of £81m.
Dragons' Den star Peter Jones is aiming to take on 30 closed Jessops shops after buying the brand out of administration earlier this month.


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U.S. Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve (ANG/AFRC) awarded Terma North America, a subsidiary of Terma - a Denmark-based Aerospace, Defence and Security Group - a US$ 44.3M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a 3D-Audio System (3DAS) for their F-16 Aircraft. Work will be performed at Terma's Facilities in Denmark, and is expected to be complete by January 2024.
"On behalf of the ANG and AFRC, we look forward to add this capability to our F-16 Fleet. It will enhance the Fighter's Self-Protection Suite which is based on the Terma ALQ-213 Electronic Warfare Management System. With the added dynamic threat cues and noise reduction, the situational awareness and mission effectiveness will greatly increase for our pilots", said Lt. Col. Jason Halvorsen, ANG and Randy Howell, AFRC. The contract award was the third within a short period of time and marks a true global breakthrough for Terma's advanced Audio-based Communication and Situational Awareness Solution.
In December 2017, the Belgian Defence and the Royal Netherlands Air Force signed similar contracts with Terma for Aircraft Audio Management System, which also includes the market leading 3D-Audio and Noise Reduction Capabilities.
The 3D-Audio and Active Noise Reduction System was initially fielded in 2009 on Royal Danish Air Force F-16s and has been combat proven. The system provides enhancement of the Pilot's Situational Awareness, Survivability, and reduction of workload by presenting audio warnings/cues and radio messages in a full 360-Degree spherical representation. This capability enables the pilot to get the dynamically updated warning tone/cue in the true direction of the threat and spatially separating radio communication for increased speech intelligibility. The system also provides Active Noise Reduction (ANR) and Electrical Noise Reduction (ENR) for reduced pilot stress and fatigue.
"We foresee an interesting future development for our 3D-Audio System as we are receiving positive indications for future programmes from various potential customers. We look forward to establish a robust application area with a global product and services installed base," says Michael Houmann Tandrup, Director Business Development. Terma Aeronautics.
The Denmark-based high-tech Terma Group develops products and systems for Defence and Non-Defence Security applications including Command and Control Systems, Radar Systems, Self-Protection Systems for Aircraft, Space Technology, and Aerostructures for the Aircraft Industry.
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"The RNLAF has a strong and long-standing partnership with Terma, encompassing the majority of our aircraft. In this framework, we are confident that the Defence Material Organisation and Terma are committed to provide the RNLAF F-16's with the new AAMS/ANR Capability to increase the operational effectiveness and safety of the aircraft and pilot", said Air Commodore Richard Laurijssen, Royal Netherlands Air Force. This adds yet another Terma product to the RNLAF Fleet of aircraft and is a testament to the many years of cooperative efforts between RNLAF and Terma to ensure Optimum Survivability Solutions for the Air Crew.


A booming culinary scene awaits visitors to San Diego, with many of its restaurants headed by chefs and entrepreneurs from within the LGBT community. Add to the equation a host of other dining hotspots that regularly support LGBT events and fundraisers, and the result is a tapestry of endless options that capture everything from the latest and greatest farm-sourced meals to hearty casual chow and innovative haute cuisine.
Veteran chef-restaurateur Deborah Scott wows with dishes inspired by native-American and Latin cooking techniques. Since its sleek remodel recently, Scott has extended the menu's global reach while maintaining her popular standbys such as Indian corn pudding and achiote flat-iron steak with chimichurri.
Amid a mini restaurant row that has emerged in the quiet neighborhood of Mission Hills, visitors will find some of the coziest farm-to-table meals at The Red Door. Sharing the same kitchen is the adjacent Wellington Steak & Martini Lounge, which brings classic beef Wellington back into vogue.
Also in Mission Hills, along a quaint block of Goldfinch Street, is the new Patio on Goldfinch, a former TV repair shop that underwent a dazzling, eco-conscious redo complete with living walls and an eye-popping "cheese cave." The menu focuses on sharable plates that are both savory and detailed. The restaurant and its front patio fill up quickly on most days, so reservations are recommended.
Considered the nation's only LGBT-owned brewing company, this casual hangout greets with provocatively named beers and pizzas. With nearly a dozen signature brews in the offing such as "Pearl Necklace" and "Banana Hammock" and a menu extending also to salads and wings, the atmosphere is consistently as festive as the brewery's nearby sister restaurants, which include Baja Betty's, The Gossip Grill and Urban Mo's Bar & Grill.
LGBT couples seeking a romantic dinner experience in Hillcrest should look no further than this elegant, cozy French newcomer to the restaurant scene, which knocks out some of the best bouillabaisse and duck confit in the gayborhood. With limited seating in both the dining room and outdoor patio, a feeling of exclusivity pervades.
Headed by pastry maestro and Food Network personality Keegan Gerhard, patrons witness fabulous desserts in the making when perched at the roomy dining bar. On the opposite wall is a fully stocked liquor bar with table seating available throughout the center of the bright, airy interior. The menu includes well-crafted savory dishes, but it's the sour cream chocolate cake and "faux foster banana imposter" that keep some of us coming back regularly.
Glitter and glam set the stage at Lips, a drag supper club located in San Diego's "other Hillcrest" – in the neighborhood of North Park. The outstanding performers double as servers as they deliver a full slate of grilled specialties to your table with rousing doses of song and humor. Special late-night "taboo" shows are added to the schedule on Saturdays.
Also in North Park is the sure-footed Smoking Goat, where duck-fat truffle fries and slow-cooked pork belly are all the rage. The menu highlights well-executed meat and seafood entrees, some which are stamped with French flair. Situated in a double storefront, the restaurant flaunts a stylish, earthy interior and features a sizable front patio.
In the village center of University Heights, where the popular Bourbon Street Bar & Grill resides, visitors can enter into Lei Lounge's light-splashed canopied patio for island-inspired small plates and titillating cocktails such as aloe vera Collins and basil-pineapple martinis.
Among the highly reputable fine-dining restaurants in San Diego is The Marine Room, established in 1941 and located on the sands of La Jolla Shores. The food is exquisite and the view captures a good deal of drama during high tides and winter storms as ocean waves lap against the restaurant's large, reinforced windows.
Formality rules the day in this penthouse perch near Balboa Park, affording diners exquisite views of the bay and San Diego skyline. It's one of the few restaurants in town that maintains a dress code, so leave your cargo shorts and sandals behind when arriving for such delights as Maine lobster strudel and rack of lamb.
One of the most common dining questions visitors ask is, "What's the best Italian restaurant in San Diego?" My answer: "There are many." Reigning among the hottest lately is Buona Forchetta, which operates in a mostly residential section of South Park. The kitchen cranks out classic Neapolitan pizzas from a high-inferno oven as well as other authentic Italian fare that transcends spaghetti and meatballs.
If venturing into the Uptown neighborhood of Kensington, perhaps before catching an independent film at Landmark's Ken Cinema, the rustic ambiance of Bleu Boheme is your ticket to Paris' Left Bank with its classic and outstanding French cuisine. Although if you favor oysters and whole-roasted fish over beef bourguignon, Fish Public dishes up an array of oceanic gems with panache.
With locations in Normal Heights and the Gaslamp Quarter, both kitchens serve extraordinary meals inspired partly by the owners' Azerbaijani roots. The seasonally driven menus change frequently, although dishes such as kebab platters, apricot-braised lamb shanks and hand-made crepes filled with savory ingredients are among the dependably delicious standbys.
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Frank Sabatini Jr. is the author of Secret San Diego (ECW Press); worked at the former San Diego Tribune; and has since covered the culinary scene extensively for Pacific San Diego Magazine; San Diego Uptown News; Gay San Diego; NBC, Living in Style Magazine and The Gay & Lesbian Times.


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The top 25 of the ranking of Russia's top executives published Wednesday for the first time in its 14-year history had three new names that were not associated with state companies or traditional resource-oriented industries.
The Top 1000 Business Leaders ranking, prepared by the Russian Managers Association, is based on how the best of the best in 17 business areas evaluate themselves and their colleagues. Those from the previous ranking choose who will be in the new one, but newcomers who submit their applications are rated too and may appear on the list.
According to the survey of 278 business leaders, a typical top manager in Russia is a 43-year old man who does not come from Moscow or St. Petersburg. He is married with two children and has university education. One fifth of the managers have an MBA degree.
Business in Russia is still largely dependent on the government, and state companies have traditionally dominated the ranking.
Almost 30 percent of all top managers in Russia are women, only 4 percent are expats, and only two out of a thousand have had problems with the law.
Although almost a third of top managers work in the IT, finance or retail sector, the commodities, metal and mining industries are so far predominant.
"Business in Russia is still largely dependent on the government, and the top managers list only proves that; it is traditionally composed of the leaders of companies either partly owned or controlled by the state," said Alexander Kasprzhak, managing director of the Russian Managers Association.
While a change in the list is a rare occasion, this year some of the new leaders represented the IT and retail sector and were not associated with the traditional resource-oriented post-Soviet economy.
Yevgeny Kaspersky, owner and CEO of Internet security company Kaspersky Lab, Yandex chief Arkady Volozh and Sergei Galitsky, the owner of the Magnit retain chain, were the three new names that entered the top 25 of the ranking this year.
"The number of technologically advanced companies in Russia is growing and they have a great potential in this sector. Mathematics and engineering education is pretty good [in the country]," said Nikolai Pryanishnikov, director for Microsoft Russia. "But the use of this potential by top executives is still underdeveloped."
There are changes, but it was not business that triggered them, Kasprzhak said.
"The government and state-owned companies are the ones that demand innovation. Moreover, this demand is connected with an effort to meet their social obligations more effectively, and this is where the IT sector is growing," Alexander Kasprzhak said.


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namespace Magento\CatalogInventory\Model\Indexer\Stock\Action;

/**
 * Full reindex Test
 */
class FullTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @var \Magento\CatalogInventory\Model\Indexer\Stock\Processor
     */
    protected $_processor;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->_processor = \Magento\TestFramework\Helper\Bootstrap::getObjectManager()->get(
            'Magento\CatalogInventory\Model\Indexer\Stock\Processor'
        );
    }

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     * @magentoDbIsolation disabled
     * @magentoAppIsolation enabled
     * @magentoDataFixture Magento/Catalog/_files/product_simple.php
     */
    public function testReindexAll()
    {
        $this->_processor->reindexAll();

        $categoryFactory = \Magento\TestFramework\Helper\Bootstrap::getObjectManager()->get(
            'Magento\Catalog\Model\CategoryFactory'
        );
        /** @var \Magento\Catalog\Block\Product\ListProduct $listProduct */
        $listProduct = \Magento\TestFramework\Helper\Bootstrap::getObjectManager()->get(
            'Magento\Catalog\Block\Product\ListProduct'
        );

        $category = $categoryFactory->create()->load(2);
        $layer = $listProduct->getLayer();
        $layer->setCurrentCategory($category);
        $productCollection = $layer->getProductCollection();
        $productCollection->joinField(
            'qty',
            'cataloginventory_stock_status_idx',
            'qty',
            'product_id=entity_id',
            '{{table}}.stock_id=1',
            'left'
        );

        $this->assertCount(1, $productCollection);

        /** @var $product \Magento\Catalog\Model\Product */
        foreach ($productCollection as $product) {
            $this->assertEquals('Simple Product', $product->getName());
            $this->assertEquals('Short description', $product->getShortDescription());
            $this->assertEquals(100, $product->getQty());
        }
    }
}

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