With the drill clearly not going the way LeBron James had intended, The King hurled the ball against the gym wall, roughly 20 feet above the baseline where the media had assembled.
Seconds later, the drill not going Chris Bosh's way, he slammed the ball against the floor, uttering an expletive that would have drawn a technical foul in a real game.
Day 1 of training camp clearly had the Miami Heat standing at attention Tuesday, fitting for a practice taking place on an Air Force base in the Florida Panhandle rather than in downtown Miami.
"This makes it probably the most competitive practice in a Miami Heat uniform that I've ever had," said Dwyane Wade, who helped orchestrate this much-hyped union of Three Kings.
"We've never had an opening day like this," added Udonis Haslem, entering his eighth season with the Heat.
Apparently, it's not every day that the Heat practices while Col. Michael T. Plehn, the base commander, chats with Heat President Pat Riley at a courtside table. Or with a half-dozen service personnel in fatigues shooting pictures and videos. Or with the starburst logo of the Air Force Special Operations Command painted on the court.
They say the people who work here at the 1st Special Operations Wing are intense about their jobs. Tuesday's drill sergeant, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, was asked if his players could possibly remain this intense about their jobs this week.
The session ended with Wade in a heated discussion with assistant coach Bob McAdoo, the acting referee, over an out-of-bounds call favoring James' side.
A correct call, even Wade later admitted.
"I just wanted to get in on the argument," Wade said.
Discipline being another key word in these parts, Spoelstra, tongue-in-cheek, said he intended to address the matter of questioning McAdoo. Might someone face K.P. duty?
"I'm going to clean that up tonight," Spoelstra said. "You're talking about a Hall of Fame, two-time scoring champ, and if you didn't know that, he'll let you know that. But he's also an excellent official and I'm going to make sure he gets treated with the appropriate respect, OK?"
The Heat is here at least in part to tame the media circus surrounding this team. While Monday's media day in Miami attracted 275 reporters, Tuesday's workout drew a more-manageable 70. Shortly after reporters were escorted into the gym for the end of practice, James dunked.
"He wasn't doing that before y'all came in," Wade joked.
"That's just me," James said of his intensity. "Being around new teammates, you don't want to wear out your welcome on Day 1. But I can't hold back because my leadership skills won't allow me to do that."
More than 8,000 military and 700 civilian personnel work amid the tall pines and brick buildings of Hurlburt Field, which, when included with nearby Eglin Air Force Base and Eglin Range, forms the largest Air Force installation in the country. The Heat, which will train here for six days, arrived Monday evening to a welcoming reception attended by hundreds of airmen and women.
"We didn't expect it to be anything like that," Haslem said. "It was so much emotion in the room, some people were crying. Just to know we can affect people that way, and touch people that way, that just makes you feel real good."
Before the trip is over, Heat players will have a chance for an up-close look at aircraft and servicemen assembling weapons and loading bombs. First Lt. Belena Marquez said that while there's excitement on the base to host NBA stars, she expects the Heat to benefit as well.
"That's because airmanship and sportsmanship, if you really look at it, are quite closely related," Marquez said. "As an airman, you know that you must be a good leader. You must be a good follower. And your teammates are counting on you every day to do your job and do it well. And the same thing is true on the basketball court."
The Heat is staying at a hotel on the base comparable to a Courtyard, although players are granted liberty to leave the base in the off-hours.
Adjustments to accommodate the team include the Heat bringing its own backboards, rims and nets and installing special beds in the hotel.
"You know, they're too tall to fit in a queen-size bed," Marquez said.
Haslem: "We're fine. Got my room. Got my refrigerator. Got a microwave. Got a DVD player. I'm cool."
Everything, it seems, is cool. Until the players step back on the court, of course.


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NOSTALGIA, 2009, still from a two-channel video. All images in this article, unless otherwise noted, are courtesy the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
TALK SHOW, 2009, actor Tom Noonan listens to actress Jill Clayburgh recount Lisa Ramaci's story about the murder of her husband in Iraq.
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This is not a media critique: Omer Fast hasn't got a bone to pick with the mass media. Nor does he have any coy postmodern gripes with the machinations of Hollywood or the motion-picture industry. Contrary to some of the persistent conventional wisdom about his work, he doesn't have a particular problem with media manipulation—we are all conscious of how media constructs what we see and hear and shapes representations of the real, and Fast respects his audience enough to assume that basic awareness as a given. As he himself says, in typically understated and matter-of-fact fashion, at the conclusion of his breakthrough film The Casting (2007), "I'm more interested in the way that experience is basically turned into memory, and then the way that memories become stories, the way memories become mediated as they get recorded and broadcast."
Fast speaks these lines on camera, as himself, or perhaps playing a certain rendition of himself as an artist/director, while he interviews an American veteran of the Iraq War and attempts to explain how his films deconstruct and distort the stories that his films' participants relate. Surrogates and proxies for the artist, played by actors, appear repeatedly in his work, his doppelgängers acting not only to insert some sort of authorial focal point for what is taking place, but also to account for what the artist admits may be his own sense of guilt in appropriating someone else's real story and pulling it completely apart. It was The Casting, which grafts together the soldier's personal recollections of two separate disturbing and violent incidents—one in Iraq, the other in Germany—and uses that material as the entry point for a multilayered and ambiguously nuanced meditation on the slippages of memory and the unstable representations of narrative, that won Fast the Whitney Museum of American Art's Bucksbaum Prize in 2008 and gave the 37-year-old Jerusalem-born, Berlin-based artist a new level of notoriety.
This past November, Fast made his first foray into the realm of live performance. Invited to devise an event for Performa, the New York-based performance art biennial, Fast came up with the idea of presenting a talk show, which he simply titled Talk Show. Staged inside the Abrons Art Center auditorium in front of a live audience, Talk Show was partly a conventional television confessional and partly an elaborate grown-up version of the children's game of "broken telephone." On three consecutive nights, three different guests were invited to tell a personal story to one of six well-known American actors—Jill Clayburgh, Lili Taylor, Dave Hill, David Margulies, Rosie Perez and Tom Noonan. After recounting their stories in great detail, the guest would join the audience and watch as another of the six actors appeared from offstage, took their place and listened to the first actor retell the story as their own—a process that was repeated alternately with all six actors. With each iterated version, the narrative drifted, some details dropping away or becoming fuzzily transmogrified, other elements taking on disproportionate significance, while completely new narrative threads and digressions would be inserted or emerge.
Adding another layer of complexity to the project, the three guests were in a sense anonymous celebrities, chosen for being people with personal stories that had significance in some larger historical or social context: Bill Ayers, the founding member of the radical 1960s Weather Underground group, who lost his lover, fellow Weatherman member Diana Oughton, in the accidental explosion of a secret bomb-making workshop in a New York townhouse in 1970; Lisa Ramaci, whose husband, journalist and art critic Steven Vincent, was kidnapped and executed in Iraq in 2005; and David Kaczynski, the brother of Ted, the infamous Unabomber, who was instrumental in helping FBI investigators capture the domestic terrorist. With a transparently mannered theatricality reminiscent of 1960s and 1970s talk shows and game shows such as To Tell the Truth, What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret, none of the three guests were openly identified—either to the audience or the performers—and they told their stories within the framework of private tales of family trauma and loss, downplaying details of the broader context.
By the end of the grapevine process of six back-to-back recollections, each story had become distorted beyond recognition. If "language is a virus" (as the junkie-poet laureate William S. Burroughs once observed), then the three evenings at the Abrons Art Center were controlled epidemiological experiments, with words, emotions and memories mutating and adapting as they passed from one host body to the next. In conversation with ArtAsiaPacific in March, Fast—who emphasizes the importance of the physicality of bodies to his work—also likened this sequence of alterations to a rapid Darwinian process of evolution and devolution, in which the audience was put in the privileged (if somewhat uncomfortable) position of apprehending the whole, with an almost omniscient overview, as it plays itself out across six generations.
What occurred each night was unrehearsed and unscripted, and the actual narrative facts, the details of his guests' confessions, were unknown to even Fast until each participant took the stage. Fast's structural brief to the performers was simple: they were to listen and then faithfully convey what they remembered of the story they had just been told to the next performer, internalizing it in some way and allowing for involuntary alterations and some liberties to be taken in introducing improvised embellishment or associative digression as needed to keep the story personal and alive. On the final night, for example, David Kaczynski's poignant personal remembrance of an older brother who was both unusually intelligent, observant and compassionate, as well as increasingly detached and ultimately estranged from his family, was slowly but steadily transformed. A story of sibling empathy turned into a laundry list of resentments and festering jealousies, which despite (or perhaps because of) its fictionalizing transgressions somehow amplified the real strain of domestic angst underlying the original tale. On the second night, Lisa Ramaci's harrowing chronicle of her husband's brutal abduction, beating and murder by an Iraqi militia left few audience members unaffected. Yet despite the sensitive and subtle alterations made by subsequent performers, the story was turned on its head and effectively sideswiped by comedian Dave Hill's self-reflexive jaunty interpolations, which recast the traumatic events as a tawdry tale of lust and marital infidelity in the Iraqi desert, a distasteful farce complete with water-park weddings and jetskis. This evolving "freak show," as Fast refers to it, was created not with the intention to damage his guests' dignity or cause offense to his audience but to illuminate an awareness of our own conditioned responses to the stories of others and the array of personal associations that we reflexively and unconsciously call upon while digesting narratives. We all of course do this with our own memories as well, telling and retelling accounts of real experiences that often ultimately become mere anecdotal husks through repetition and the retroactive workings of our desires, turned into recalibrated and burnished parodies of themselves.
At times, the exercise made the audience distinctly uneasy and discomfited, the spectacle of seeming cruelty and disfigurement unraveling before their very eyes (and their own voyeuristic involvement in it) eliciting polite but audible grumbles, murmurs and occasional boos (as in the case of Hill's excesses on the second and third nights). The proceedings undercut cherished assumptions about what kind of catharsis—both for the solitary "confessor" and for the collective of the audience—is socially acceptable. On the latter point, Fast's experiment offered no easy answers, yet his inclusion of a comic, a literal wild-card Joker given a tacit nod to lead the evening away from the tastefully reverential, seemed to suggest that the safety of mere empathy and commiseration is not enough. For Fast, watching the whole process unfold each night was a strange alternating admixture of horror and pleasure. For an admitted control freak such as himself, the lack of editorial control once the parameters were determined and the proceedings set in motion produced an unaccustomed sense of vulnerability that he appreciated—"a feeling," he says, "that I was responsible for it morally, but in some sense I wasn't responsible for its content." Freed from the obligation, or even the ability, to determine the trajectory of the evening or shape its outcome, he had created an autonomous and self-sustaining system of colliding and interacting bodies. As to the ultimate success or failure of Talk Show, Fast is noncommittal, unsure of what success would actually look like, but happy that "nothing really bad happened" and more importantly that "none of my guests were hurt terribly by what I did . . . and aren't going to come after me with the nearest sharp object."
The fluidity and instability of both narrative and memory revealed in Talk Show is a constant in Fast's work, linking this experimental project (a Berlin version is planned for May) with the narrative confusion that slowly unspools in The Casting. That sense of constructed realities undercutting themselves is also what drives his 2008 two-channel video Take a Deep Breath, which presents itself as a film about a terrorist bombing at a café in Jerusalem and the ironic paradox of a paramedic faced with the moral imperative of saving the life of the sole survivor—the suicide bomber. However, the film quickly pulls back to reveal the whole scenario as a movie set within a movie set, in which an actor playing a caricatured version of Fast as the film director frets nebbishly about soundstage trivialities while his crew makes grade-school jokes about whether the actor playing the dismembered bomber has an erection (while failing to note that this low-wage extra has perhaps experienced a real-life conflict that is only obliquely referred to)—all of them apparently inhabiting a world less real or grounded than the fiction they are trying and failing to endow with a sense of authenticity.
THE CASTING, 2007, production still. Courtesy the artist, Postmasters Gallery, New York, gb Agency, Paris and Arratia, Beer, Berlin.
TAKE A DEEP BREATH, 2008, production still showing an actor playing a caricatured version of Omer Fast as the film director.
Confusion about what constitutes the authentic, whether it is the authenticity of the artist's intent or that of the truths we expect from various forms of documentation, are there in Fast's other well-known film, Spielberg's List (2003). This two-channel video installation—often mistaken as a critique of Hollywood filmmaking—patiently revolves around a series of interviews he conducted with residents of Krakow, Poland, who had been hired as extras to play concentration-camp inmates (and occasionally Nazi guards) in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993). On adjacent screens, Fast shows footage of both the ruined set of the Auschwitz camp built by Spielberg's production company, and talking-head shots of the interviewed extras, who speak in Polish with English subtitles. Fast hired two translators to produce the subtitles and the film often shows identical moments from the monologues concurrently, allowing viewers to see that the same statements have been interpreted faithfully but nevertheless subjectively and therefore with sometimes inconsequential but strangely resonant disparities in meaning. One woman begins her recollections by saying either "Sometimes there is an emptiness because you want to say everything at the same time . . ." or "Sometimes there is an echo because you want to say everything at the same time . . ." The gap between the two renditions forms its own echo, like the space between the real concentration camp and its double, the real victims and those hired to reenact their suffering. It permits a slight crack of doubt, allowing the true meaning of even the most minor comment to be called into question.
Some of the individuals Fast interviewed were alive during the Holocaust, while others have only heard stories about it and approximated an experience of it through its reenactment on film. Yet for all, their recent memories of being chosen to participate in the film, their visceral experiences of playing the roles of victims or perpetrators, the disputes over payment or the discomforts of their work conditions are as real as the traumatic historical subject matter. Fast's editing in Spielberg's List, which dispenses with conventional documentarian cues that situate the context of a particular piece of testimony, confuses and muddies the various experiences, just as memory does. Memory is not an immutable entity, it is an organic and transitory phenomenon, a continually updated and corrupted process of editing.
Everything starts with a conversation: Fast's work is intrinsically collaborative in that the kernel of each piece begins somewhere in an exchange with another human being. The interview, the eyewitness account, the interrogation, the cable news broadcast, the TV talk-show conversation and confession—these are the storytelling forms of the modern age. As humans, we have always been addicted to stories and narratives. We are born to generate them and hardwired to detect meaning in the realities that shape our experiences. We have developed conventions and rules for finding narrative patterns and categories that give form to those experiences, replete with all their inherent contradictions, ambiguities and paradoxes. Fast's most recent work, Nostalgia (2009), a three-room film installation shown at the Whitney Museum this year, began when the artist conducted a series of interviews with African asylum-seekers and refugees in England. One detail from one of those interviews, a digressive aside told by a former child soldier about how he was taught by one of his guerilla captors to make a rudimentary trap from sticks and twine for ensnaring partridges in the bush, became the core of a succession of increasingly convoluted narrative elaborations.
In the first of three episodic looping chapters, we see a man, dressed like a hunter or survivalist, demonstrate how to make the trap while we hear a Nigerian refugee describe in a voice-over the instructions for its making. The second chapter, presented on two adjacent screens, is a reenactment of Fast's interview with the asylum-seeker, which plays out as a straightforward question-and-answer session that grows tense and uneasy as a shifting dynamic emerges between interviewer and interviewee. The interviewer seems suspicious about the man's presentation of facts, skeptical about the purpose of the trap, interrupting to point out inconsistencies or misstatements, and yet cowed by the refugee's experience with bushcraft skills and local customs about which he knows nothing. The interviewee, for his part, seems eager to recount the parts of the trap story he likes, keen to tell the interviewer what he wants to hear and adjust details accordingly to produce a favorable outcome, subtly aware of his position of power—the simple seductive power that comes with the possession of a story.
The final chapter of Nostalgia is an even more fantastical elaboration. Costumes and props suggest the film is set in the 1970s, but gradually the work reveals itself to be a science-fiction thriller depicting an alternative reality in which England is a failed state whose refugees desperately attempt to gain illegal entry into the prosperous promised land of an unnamed African nation. Here the story of the trap continues to morph and mutate, having become a metaphor for any number of possible meanings. In one scene it is the solution to a child's grade-school homework assignment, "How Things Were Made"—implying a future state of lost knowledge and faint collective memory of increasingly forgotten survival skills. In another, it becomes the validating shred of information that a captured English asylum-seeker offers his interrogator as proof that he comes from an impoverished place called England and has subsisted off the land there. In a third scene, the trap is used as an amorous metaphor by the interrogator and her married lover, while in another it becomes the story with which the lover soothes his nightmare-plagued daughter—the specificity of the trap's construction now reimagined as a reassuring fantasy, a tool for catching the monsters that haunt her dreams. Throughout the sequence of intertwining chapters and scenes, the recounting of the instructions for a trap remains inviolable and unchanged, but the meaning and context of its retelling are constantly shifting around it.
There is an undercurrent of dark humor in this high-production version of "broken telephone," in which a seemingly inconsequential aside is the only element to survive a journey of fraught storytelling. As Fast told AAP, "the analogy is this fruit with a hard indigestible heart and the stuff that grows around it is the good stuff." But that fleshy part of the fruit perishes quickly. The seed, however, "if swallowed, comes out the other end pretty much the way it started." If you take this analogy to its logical conclusion, we are the colonized hosts for stories, carriers of informational genes that are determined to survive and be passed down through the generations. Fast prefers not to ascribe humor to his own work, which he says would be the height of presumption, but he is pleased and seemingly relieved if others do. But the flipside of this brand of humor is horror. Contained in those drifts and slippages, in Nostalgia and other works, is that same terror you find in the Alzheimer's patient repurposing the vacated framework of one memory and confabulating it with another that may bear some formal or emotional similarity, the once intimate memory becoming strangely alien or gapingly public, the elaborately meaningful drained away to nothing.
As for whatever the original story was that began a particular project, Fast has no need to know anything about it, even if he could. He assumes, as we all must, in art as in life, that what he is starting with is itself a rendition, a constructed, practiced and reworked version of some experience that is already for the most part gone and inaccessible to us. That is just the way things are. If, as neurobiologists have recently theorized, the human brain craves that reliable fix of dopamine that is released not only as a reward for sex or sprinting 100 meters but also for the successful acquisition of information, then stories are indeed our drug of choice. And storytellers are our willing enablers.
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Corp is planning to demolish her four local restaurants in order to build the Mega Multiplex Food Plaza. Working chains in this game will build money quickly and by doing the following it is possible to reach the level goal and expert level goal way before Flo runs out of regular time in any given shift level. This is the second iteration of the best selling casual game, but the formula remains the same. When you do keep the people happy, and make enough tips to complete a level, you'll get to choose one of several improvements to your restaurant. You can get more information on diner dash games through, Free Diner Dash Games. Purchase upgrades and increase the number of tables Although things are pretty simple and straightforward in the beginning, it gets more complicated the more you play. I have fun playing this game because I am not comfortable playing it on mobile gadgets.
The varied settings didn't hurt either. It mainly follows the main female protagonist of the series named Flo, the successful waitress, who has just discovered news that Mr. Complete each action without breaking the chain for the highest score. Codes and Tips for Game Play General game play is much like the original diner dash game. In conclusion Diner Dash 2 Restaurant Rescue once again contains some sturdy gameplay, decent graphics and best of all some interesting and fun gameplay that will make you come back for more. The game lets you a chance to create an exciting garden of your dream, in which you can grow different plants, trees and flowers around the world. Rather than being a mind-numbing click-fest, this is a pulse-pounding quick jolt of excitement.
Managing a restaurant is no easy business, especially since you have to work with customers and provide all of them with the best possible service. Finally, another game that is not about killing, racing or fighting. If you have installed a different version of the same game from a different Website , please delete it, then download and install the Shockwave version. Diner dash has around fifty level with the first fourty being the most crusial. Big and obtain a chance to make enough money to return him. Naturally, the faster you move, the better the customers will tip you when they leave. Contact: , done in 0.
Our all time favorite food service game is back and even more difficult than before. The core gameplay is the same as in the first title - but that's not a complaint. Invite your fellows to show off you bakery. The goal of each stage is to reach a certain profit, but you can also go beyond that and aim for the expert mark if you feel capable. Just when you think you've mastered serving and cleaning, a new facet is added, like cleaning up spills from families.
Click on the image to get a better view. Flo is on a mission again but instead of building up her own chain restaurants throughout Diner Town, her goal is to save the rundown restaurants that used to be great places to go but have definitely seen better days. This current incarnation of the extremely popular Diner Dash series includes quite a few more challenges and tasks to perform and is more difficult than the original title. Explore the world… Airport Mania: First Flight is an immersive Single-player Flight Simulation developed and published by Lemon Team. His plans involve demolishing Deb's diner and building a Mega Multiplex Food Plaza.
What's turned me into the best table of the night, every night? The game lets you a chance to open your dream restaurant and cook tons of delicious foods using different recipes. Now, as the protagonist, you need to run to assist your friends and reaches just in time to fend off Mr. You'll serve food in every locale from a Mexican canteen to an Italian pizzeria, each with different items to give to your customers, breaking up the stages nicely. With any of the diner dash series of casual games that have been released, there are certain items that can be used to ensure easier achievement of that expert score in every shift level. Keep the customer happy and the restaurant stays open.
If the security is set too high, you might be blocked from accessing our server. Giving your customers seats to dine, getting their others, let them eat and clean up their mess. There were other minor issues with the title, including imprecise controls, but these were insignificant in the big scheme of things. Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue includes prominent features such as Multiple Levels, Time Management Gameplay, Smooth Controls, and more. Since we last saw Flo, her restaurants have become a huge hit, however upon returning from Nirvana, our heroine learns that her former corporation, the B. She decides to rescue the restaurant. Ironically, the game's only real problem is from the occasionally excessive number of customers.
It's not exactly a deep story, but the plot that is there did help to keep my interest. There is a chance to build your dream restaurants and decorate with lots of accessories and items… Goodgame Café offers a chance to amaze your customers with your cooking skills in the Time Management Online Simulation. Make it beautiful with tons of accessories and decorations and… Restaurant Story is a Casual, Virtual World, Adventure and Baking video game developed by Storm8 Studios. In this version you have to earn enough and get extra tip to keep Mr. To paste: Click in the box where the registration name or license key is to be entered, then press the Ctrl and V keys simultaneously. HighEncryption Pack and 'Root Certificates Update' should both be selected if they are available on this page.


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Today's success doesn't guarantee success tomorrow. It is rather the companies willing to redefine who they are today, what they sell and how they operate is going to result in their win or loss in this digital age. According to market research firm IDC, on an average companies lose around 20 to 30 percent in revenue every year due to inefficiencies. And yet, many companies continue to "make do" with their current applications, process and systems even though those may not be the right solutions. Digital transformation of the business is key for the success but it is very important to know whether your digital transformation is in the right direction of the need of your business!
When I asked the question to person responsible for sale in the company "what you do when some customer calls you and asks for some product he requires buying"? The "Answer was, I ask my purchase team...!" With more automation the business process required to be more integrated and intelligent to guarantee success. For example a customer service and Sales team who heavily relies on CRM, inventory management and order tracking solutions, the employees in these departments must be aware of all of these systems if they want to optimize the customer experience. However, without a standardized solution to access these processes they are forced to constantly shift between multi-sources of information, resulting in confusion and gaps in productivity.
This point is more concern with optimised decision making; The Leaders who lack the most relevant insights at their fingertips are less likely to make smart decisions. Most of the time data is available but leaders may receive inaccessible or erroneously reported information due to a lack of real-time reporting, simply because there was too much process in doing so. If a leader doesn't have the right information at right times the decision making become very difficult and does not achieve its goal. The overall optimization of a Business can be achieved by creating an Enterprise Model that includes Strategies and Objectives along with a robust enterprise wide system to manage the business operation, controls and measure the KPIs. The KPIs is integrated into the Process definition and optimization efforts and can further assign to a responsibility. A dashboard based monitoring setup to track the actual KPI values to compare against objectives. And when a KPI is found out of range, a simple click mechanism to determine which process is causing the issue and who has the responsibility for addressing the issue.
The overall result is that the decision maker has critical information at hand to prioritize the Business Process Optimization efforts to achieve established goals.


A RALLY is being organised to protest against controversial plans to close Hope Hospital's maternity unit.
A RALLY is being organised to protest against controversial plans to close Hope Hospital's maternity unit.
The event is being held opposite the hospital at Stott Lane playing fields and will be taking place on Saturday, March 25 - the day before Mother's Day.
The Advertiser and Salford City Council are calling on readers to attend the event - which starts at 11am - in a show of support for our Hands Off Hope campaign.
Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority (SHA) is proposing to shut Hope's maternity unit and neonatal intensive care unit, forcing women to give birth outside the city and effectively marking the end of the Salfordian.
Mums-to-be would instead have to travel to units at Oldham, Bolton, Wigan, St Mary's, Stepping Hill, Wythenshawe, North Manchester or Tameside.
Hope's facilities will only be saved if the SHA decides to go with Option C.
Around 17,000 residents have now signed our petition backing that option and supporting numerous reasons why the unit should stay in the city.
We want you to make banners and placards to take along to the rally to make sure the SHA is left in no doubt about the strength of feeling among residents against the closure.
The consultation finishes on Thursday, April 13 so this is your last chance to show your support for Hope Hospital.
Advertiser editor Vince Hale said: "We know thousands of you want to keep maternity facilities at Hope Hospital but now is your chance to get actively involved and show the Strategic Health Authority just how much you care.
"If you don't stand up and shout now - it could be too late."
Car stickers can be collected from the Advertiser's Church Street office or council libraries and leisure centres.


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Thomas Fawcett
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Name Thomas Fawcett [1]
Christened 11 Jul 1720 Cheshire, England
Died 22 Sep 1720
Person ID I2819 My Family Tree | McGee-Christensen
Father John Fawcett, b. 1676, Lambton, Durham, England , bur. 9 May 1760 (Age ~ 84 years)
Mother Elizabeth Stonehewer
Christened - 11 Jul 1720 - Cheshire, England
Fausett-McKee Family History from 1630 to July 2000
By Robert Bruce Dunbar, Jr.
[S2] Fausett/McKee Family History, Robert Bruce Dunbar, Jr., 4 (Reliability: 3), 26 Nov 2012.
Thomas was the fifth child of John Fawcett (3-3) and Elizabeth Stonehewer. He was christened 11 July 1720 in Cheshire, England. He died as an infant and was buried 22 September 1720.
John was born in 1676 in Lambton, Durham, England, third child of Christopher and Dorothy Fawcett. He married Elizabeth Stonehewer. They had nine children: Christopher (4-5), Richard (4-6), (our ancestor), John (4-7), William (4-8), Thomas F. (4-9), Mary (4-10), Dorothy (4-11), Elizabeth (4-12), and Elizabeth (4-13). Elizabeth Stonehewer was born about 1680 and was buried 18 May 1766. John was a barrister. He was buried 9 May 1760.


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Ataíde de Melo Patreze (Mirassol, 20 de dezembro de 1941 — São Paulo, 3 de março de 2006) foi apresentador de TV, empresário e socialite brasileiro.

Biografia
Herdeiro de uma fortuna deixada por seu pai, iniciou na televisão na década de 1970, nas redes Tupi, Record e Globo, como auxiliar de Silvio Santos. Na década de 1990 teve seus anos de maior sucesso, com o programa Athayde Patreze Repórter e, em seguida, com Ricos e Famosos, ambos no SBT. Também foi colunista social.

No final de sua vida, trabalhava simultaneamente na TV Comunitária de São Paulo e na TV Milênio (TVA).

Seus programas cobriam viagens, festas da alta sociedade (principalmente paulista), eventos do mundo empresarial e entrevistas com ricos e famosos. Foi o criador do bordão "simplesmente um luxo" e utilizava sempre um microfone dourado em seus programas, que afirmava ser "de ouro dezoito quilates".

Patreze possuía apenas um dos rins, pois havia doado o outro ao filho Marcos, nascido de seu primeiro casamento. O outro órgão começou a apresentar problemas com o tempo, obrigando-o a realizar sessões freqüentes de hemodiálise.

Em 2002 Ataíde depôs na CPI do Tráfico de Órgãos na Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais, pois o mesmo havia declarado semanas antes em um programa da RedeTV! que um médico do Hospital Sírio-Libanês havia lhe oferecido um transplante de rim por 50 mil dólares. Ataíde declarou estar juntando o dinheiro - já havia vendido sua BMW por 25 mil dólares - quando se arrependeu da intenção. Tudo isso está documentado nos anais da CPI de Tráfico de Órgãos e no livro "Transplantes De Órgãos - O Que A Máfia Não Quer Que Você Saiba", de Paulo Pavesi.

Estava a espera de um transplante renal, sem no entanto encontrar um doador compatível, quando faleceu na noite de 3 de março de 2006 devido a uma arritmia e conseqüente parada cardíaca, após uma sessão de hemodiálise.

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Apresentadores de televisão do estado de São Paulo
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Zelenka: Missa Votiva, ZWV 18 (Alpha Collection)
AJ 0355
Release Date: July 2018
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Solo Performer
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks
Missa Votiva in E minor, ZWV 18
1. Kyrie I
2. Christe Eleison
3. Kyrie IIa
4. Kyrie IIb
5. Gloria in Excelsis Deo
6. Gratias Agimus Tibi
7. Qui Tollis
8. Qui Sedes ad Dexteram Patris
9. Quoniam tu Solus Sanctus
10. Cum Sancto Spiritu I
11. Cum Sanctus Spiritu II
12. Credo in unum deum
13. Et incarnatus est
14. Crucifixus
15. Et Resurrexit
16. Sanctus
17. Benedictus
18. Osanna
20. Dona Nobis Pacem
Solo: Collegium 1704 Performer
Solo: Václav Luks Performer
Missa votive is among a handful of liturgical works composed late in the life of Jan Dismas Zelenka, the Bohemian musician who arrived at the Dresden court in or about 1710 as a violone player in the celebrated Hofkapelle of August II, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. Throughout the 1720s, and whilst still employed as a performing musician, Zelenka composed constantly, mostly producing music for the recently established Catholic court church in Dresden. After the death of Dresden Kapellmeister Johann David Heinichen Zelenka became responsible for the direction of music in this royal chapel, a task at which he worked untiringly with neither appropriate title nor remuneration. The Missa votive draws attention to the health of the composer who had experienced at least two major bouts of illness during the 1730s. The autograph inscription on the cover of the score reads 'Vota mea Domino reddam. Psal: 115. Versu 5…' The fifth verse of Psalm 115 is 'Vota mea Domino reddam coram omni populo ejus' (I will pay my vows to the Lord, before all his people). Another Latin note at the end of the score states that the mass was composed in fulfillment of a vow. The work is one of the great masses created by Zelenka during the final years of his life.


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Title 31: PARTNERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 19: UNIFORM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ACT
Subchapter 12: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
§1460. Fees; penalties
A document required to be filed under this chapter is not effective until the applicable fee required by this section is paid. The following fees or penalties must be paid to and collected by the Secretary of State: [PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
1. Reservation. For filing of an application for reservation of name or a notice of transfer or cancellation of reservation pursuant to section 1309, subsection 1, a fee of $20 for each limited partnership affected;
[PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
2. Assumed or fictitious name. For filing of an application for an assumed name under section 1308, subsection 2, a fee in the amount of $125, and for filing of an application for a fictitious name under section 1415, a fee of $40;
3. Termination of assumed or fictitious name. For a termination of an assumed name under section 1308, subsection 2, a fee of $20; for a termination of a fictitious name under section 1415, a fee of $20;
4. Registered name. For filing of an application for a registered name of a foreign limited partnership under section 1309, subsection 2, a fee of $20 per month for the number of months or fraction of a month remaining in the calendar year when first filing. For filing an application to renew the registration of a registered name, a fee of $200;
5. Change of registered agent and registered office or registered office for domestic limited partnerships.
[PL 2007, c. 323, Pt. F, §37 (RP); PL 2007, c. 323, Pt. G, §4 (AFF).]
6. Reinstatement fee after administrative dissolution. For failure to file an annual report, a fee of $150, to a maximum fee of $600, regardless of the number of delinquent reports or the period of delinquency; for failure to pay the annual report late filing penalty, a fee of $150; for failure to appoint or maintain a registered agent, a fee of $150; for failure to notify the Secretary of State that its registered agent or the address of its registered agent has been changed or that its registered agent has resigned, a fee of $150; for failure to file an amended application, a fee of $150; and for filing false information, a fee of $150;
[PL 2007, c. 323, Pt. F, §38 (AMD); PL 2007, c. 323, Pt. G, §4 (AFF).]
7. Certificate of limited partnership, amendment or cancellation. For filing of a certificate of limited partnership under section 1321, a fee of $175; for a certificate of amendment under section 1322, a fee of $50; and for a statement of termination under section 1323, a fee of $75. For filing of a certificate of amendment under section 1322, subsection 2, paragraph D, a fee of $20, and for filing a restated certificate of limited partnership under section 1322, a fee of $80;
8. Certificate of correction. For filing of a certificate of correction under section 1327, a fee of $50;
9. Foreign limited partnerships. For filing of an application for authority to do business as a foreign limited partnership under section 1412, a fee of $250. For a certificate of amendment under section 1412-A to change the legal name of the foreign limited partnership, for a certificate of amendment under section 1412-A, subsection 2, paragraph A or B to admit a new general partner or to dissociate a general partner, respectively, or for a certificate of cancellation under section 1417, a fee of $90. For filing a certificate of amendment under section 1412-A, subsection 2, paragraph C or D to change the address of a general partner or to change the address of the registered or principal office, a fee of $35;
[PL 2007, c. 535, Pt. A, §6 (AMD); PL 2007, c. 535, Pt. A, §7 (AFF).]
10. Photocopies. For all photocopies, whether certified or not, a fee of $2 per page. The Secretary of State may issue photocopies of instruments on file as well as other copies;
11. Certified copies. For providing certified copies of any instrument on file as provided for by this chapter, a fee of $5 for each copy certified in addition to any fee due under subsection 10;
12. Issuing certificate. For issuing a certificate of existence, certificate of authority or certificate of fact as provided by section 1329, a fee of $30;
13. Preclearance of document. For preclearance of any document for filing, a fee of $100;
14. All other filings. For receiving and filing any certificate, affidavit, agreement or any other paper provided for by this chapter, for which no different fee is specifically prescribed, a fee of $35;
15. Annual report. For filing of an annual report under section 1330 for a domestic limited partnership, a fee of $85; for filing of an annual report under section 1330 for a foreign limited partnership, a fee of $150;
16. Amended annual report. For filing an amended annual report for a domestic limited partnership under section 1330, subsection 2, a fee of $85; for filing an amended annual report for a foreign limited partnership under section 1330, subsection 2, a fee of $150;
17. Service of process on Secretary of State as agent. For accepting service of process under section 1317, a fee of $35;
18. Articles of merger or conversion. Articles of merger or conversion of a limited partnership with or to another type of business entity as provided by subchapter 11, a fee of $150;
19. Late filing penalty. For failing to deliver an annual report by its due date, in addition to the annual report filing fee, a fee of $50; and
[PL 2007, c. 231, §38 (AMD).]
20. Certificate of revival after dissolution. Certificate of revival after dissolution for a domestic limited partnership, as provided in section 1401-A, a fee of $150.
[PL 2007, c. 231, §39 (NEW); PL 2007, c. 231, §40 (AFF).]
All fees collected as provided by this chapter must be remitted to the Treasurer of State for the use of the State with the exception of those fees established by rule and collected for expedited service. Fees for expedited service are deposited into a fund for use by the Secretary of State in providing an improved filing service. [PL 2005, c. 543, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).]
PL 2005, c. 543, §C2 (NEW). PL 2007, c. 231, §§38, 39 (AMD). PL 2007, c. 231, §40 (AFF). PL 2007, c. 323, Pt. F, §§37, 38 (AMD). PL 2007, c. 323, Pt. G, §4 (AFF). PL 2007, c. 535, Pt. A, §6 (AMD). PL 2007, c. 535, Pt. A, §7 (AFF).


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Mutawintji reservation delivers on multiple fronts
on September 5, 2019 September 5, 2019 by NPA NSWLeave a comment
The National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) has warmly welcomed a 57,000 hectare addition to NSW's reserve network. The new park, purchased by the Mutawintji Board of Management, joins Mutawintji Nature Reserve, National Park and Historic Site to create a complex of conservation lands of over 132,000 hectares.
Gary Dunnett, Executive Officer of NPA said "this is an immensely satisfying outcome on so many levels.
"The Mutawintji Board of Management's decision to add lands they've purchased to the reserve system is a ringing endorsement of the Indigenous ownership model for parks.
"The large scale and high degree of connectivity of the expanded conservation complex will help ensure that populations of native species—including the threatened yellow-footed rock wallaby—can thrive in the long term.
"This new reserve is located in a bioregion[1] called the Broken Hill Complex that had, until today, the lowest proportion of land protected of any of NSW's 18 bioregions. This reservation boosts the area protected from 2% to 3.5%. While short of Australia's international commitments of 17% protection per bioregion, it's a big step in the right direction.
"And of course, this is highly significant because it hopefully signals a much-needed acceleration in national park creation under the Berejiklian government. Minister Kean committed this month[2] to reserving 200,000 hectares in two years, and he's out of the blocks quickly with Mutawintji.
"We look forward to working with Minster Kean on more fantastic additions to the reserve network."
ENDS.
MEDIA CONTACT: Gary Dunnett | 02 9299 0000
[1]Bioregions are areas that possess broadly similar climate, geology, landforms and native vegetation. See https://www.environment.gov.au/land/nrs/science/ibra for more information.
[2]https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/nsw-minister-proposes-10-fold-increase-in-national-park-creation-rate-20190818-p52ibi.html
Tagged: conservation Mutawintji Nature Reserve reserve additions
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title: Martyrs Alexander and Virgin-martyr Antonina at Constantinople
all_saints: Venerable Theophanes the monk and Pansemne the former harlot of Antioch; John the wonderworker, metropolitan of Tobolsk and all Siberia

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prokeimenon: null
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Posted September 26, 2017 & filed under In the News.
Daniel Yergin talks oilsands past, present and future. Read more in the Edmonton Journal here.
Posted September 11, 2017 & filed under Uncategorized.
The Environmental Forum Committee hosted their 3rd Forum (Water & Land Use Planning) on September 27th in Calgary. More than 150 key stakeholders in the resource development sector came to hear the perspectives of senior leaders from industry and government.
Posted September 6, 2017 & filed under Uncategorized.
Posted September 1, 2017 & filed under Uncategorized.
Posted September 1, 2017 & filed under Aboriginal Rewarding Partnership Award, Awards.
2013 Aboriginal Rewarding Partnership Award The Blood Tribe – Fort McKay First Nation Employment Partnership Pilot Project It was hoped when this award was established ten years ago that, ultimately, "all-First-Nations" partnerships would emerge to affirm, reflect, and promote the inherent ability and capacity of aboriginal people to succeed independently of any particular industrial partner….
Posted September 1, 2017 & filed under Awards, Major Reclamation Award.


After recently exploring the large, federally funded fallout shelters located within various downtown Spokane basements (and writing about them in the May 20, 2004, issue of The Inlander), my curiosity shifted to a more intimate brand of nuclear fallout protection: the backyard bomb shelter. These home-based bunkers of concrete and steel represented a growth industry during the really dicey years of the Cold War, when world events -- along with a fair amount of paranoia -- had many Americans believing that a fiery nuclear death for themselves and their loved ones was a real and imminent possibility.
What horrors real or imagined would compel a homeowner to sink considerable time, effort and cash into something that might never be used? And assuming that nifty bomb shelter performed perfectly, protecting yourself and your family from blast, fires, fallout and pleading neighbors, what would be waiting for you on top after it was all over? Why, the smoldering wreckage of your previous life, that's what, with little more than a painful, lingering death in your future. But hey, you survived.
Yet people did build them. And many still exist, buried deep in backyards all over the country. One such shelter is located in northwest Spokane, in the backyard of the Borneman residence -- a house located just a few blocks from where I grew up. As a kid, I was oblivious to its existence. Back in 1989, so were the Bornemans.
"Nobody told us about it when we bought the house," explains Carol Borneman. "It was winter at the time, with snow on the ground. I saw these two vent pipes and I assumed they were some kind of lights out here. Then our realtor said, I bet that's a bomb shelter. I was like, 'No way.'"
The house was built in 1960. Borneman believes that the bomb shelter was installed a couple of years later. She says while her husband and son have both checked it out, she has never ventured down for a look.
"You're welcome to go exploring," she laughed. "Just don't expect me to go with you."
And so I went exploring. How could I refuse? Yet, as you might expect, the typical backyard bomb shelter is a less than inviting place.
Spider webs covered the steel ladder rungs of the descending tube and the musty smells of a 40-year-old crypt rose from the darkness. I went down. When I got to the bottom, the passage made a 90-degree break into the shelter. Facing an utterly black void, I fired up a propane lantern and crawled in. Once inside, I stood up and realigned my spine. (The journey through the narrow entryway was kind of a backbreaker.) The shelter itself was shaped like a giant tuna can, roughly 9 feet in diameter and 7 feet high. While it was surprisingly roomy for just one person, I had a hard time imagining how a typical family of four -- along with all the supplies required for the standard two-week stay -- would manage in such tight quarters without completely losing their minds.
There was a hand-cranked pump for drawing air down into the shelter but precious little else save for a few candle stumps, some broken beer bottles and assorted fast food wrappers.
"The people before us weren't the original owners, but they had to know about it," said Borneman. "Somebody had been down there, obviously partying."
Now isn't that the ultimate value added feature of any home -- a bomb shelter that doubles as a subterranean lounge?
"Some people have pools," Borneman laughed. "We have a bomb shelter."


Low-cost US airline Southwest Airlines announced Monday that it would buy its low-cost rival AirTran Airways for US$1.4 billion. The merger announcement comes just days after United Airlines sealed a merger deal with Continental Airlines.
"The acquisition of AirTran represents a unique opportunity to grow Southwest Airlines' presence in key markets we don't yet serve and takes a significant step towards positioning us for future growth," Gary Kelly, CEO of Southwest, said after the merger was announced.
The Southwest-AirTran deal, which awaits antitrust regulatory approval, will gain Southwest a larger US network. By merging with AirTran, Southwest will also be a strong competitor in Eastern United States cities such as New York City, New York, Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia and Washington, D.C., cities that Southwest had previously not touched much. Southwest also will be going international for the first time, inheriting AirTran's Mexican and Caribbean routes. The newly merged company would keep Southwest's name and livery.
Southwest will be offering AirTran stockholders US$7.69 per share. That's 69% more than AirTran's Friday, September 24 closing price. However, AirTran stock shot up 62% to $7.36 on Monday, while Southwest's stock rose more modestly to US$14.01. Delta Air Lines stock declined by 2% on Monday, as Southwest will gain an AirTran hub at Atlanta, which is also Delta's primary hub.
The new airline would carry over 100 million passengers, creating the world's fourth largest airline. Last year, Southwest carried 101,338,000 passengers, while AirTran carried 23,998,000 fliers. Southwest will be 25% larger after the merger is completed.
Consumer advocate Clark Howard also weigned in with a positive remark on the deal. "It's so good for the flying public. This is an opportunity for a discounter to have the kind of heft and national reach of the full-fare airlines," he said.
Southwest even has said that fares could go down, as the "Southwest effect", which is supposed to stimulate competition, "has the potential to stimulate over two million new passengers and over US$200 million in consumer savings, annually" in Atlanta, according to the company. After the merger, Southwest also plans to drop AirTran's checked baggage fees of US$20-25. Southwest currently does not charge for checked baggage.


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The National Air Force Museum of Canada is an aviation museum dedicated to preserving the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is located on the west side of CFB Trenton in Trenton, Ontario.

The museum is a permanent archive which collects, preserves and displays Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) memorabilia, photographs, paintings and documents as a lasting tribute and memorial to all the men and women who served in the RCAF and its predecessor organizations.

History
The RCAF Memorial Library and Museum opened on 1 April 1984 – the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Canadian Air Force – in the CFB Trenton Recreation Center. However, the museum quickly outgrew the location and moved to the base's former curling club exactly 10 years later in 1994. With the acquisition of a Handley Page Halifax restoration project in 1995, the museum was again short on space. So from 2004 to 2005 the museum constructed a purpose built Main Exhibition Hall. This was not before the name of the museum was changed to the Air Force National Museum in 1998. Ten years later, it was changed again to the National Air Force Museum of Canada.

Between November 2012 and August 2013, a second phase of construction was completed on the main exhibition hall. This involved adding additional staircases between the two floors of the building and finishing various rooms.

In 2016, the museum acquired an Avro Lancaster that had been on display in Edmundston, New Brunswick. Chris Colton, the executive director of the museum for 21 years, retired in June 2018. Later that year, the museum acquired a CP-140 Aurora.

Collection

Aircraft on display

 AEA Silver Dart – replica
 Auster AOP.6
 Avro Anson
 Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck 18774
 Beechcraft CT-134 Musketeer 134201
 Bell CH-118 Iroquois 118101
 Bell CH-135 Twin Huey 135102
 Bell CH-136 Kiowa 136204
 Boeing CH-47D Chinook 147201
 Boeing Vertol CH-113 Labrador 11315
 Boeing 720 18024
 Bombardier CC-144 Challenger 144601
 Burgess-Dunne – replica
 Canadair CF-5 Freedom Fighter 11672
 Canadair CF-104 Starfighter 104646
 Canadair CP-107 Argus 10732
 Canadair CT-114 Tutor 114015
 Canadair CT-133 Silver Star 21435
 Canadair CT-133 Silver Star 133593 – cutaway
 Canadair Sabre V 23257
 de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 WB550
 de Havilland Canada CP-121 Tracker 1545
 Douglas CC-129 Dakota 12963
 Handley Page Halifax A.VII NA337
 Hawker Hunter F.58 J-4029
 Hawker Hurricane II V7287 – replica
 Lockheed CC-130E Hercules 130313
 McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo 101040
 McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet 188911
 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF 23+45
 North American Harvard II 3270
 North American Yale 3411
 SAGEM Sperwer 161007
 Sikorsky Dragonfly 9601
 Supermarine Spitfire IX ML380 – replica

Under restoration

 Avro Lancaster B.X KB882
 Lockheed Hudson VI FK466

Memorials
There are 29 memorials and cairns dedicated to RCAF squadrons and units:

 No. 6 Group RCAF
 No. 6 Repair Depot
 306 Maple Leaf Wing RCAFA
 405 Squadron
 407 Demon Squadron
 408 Squadron
 413 Squadron
 424 Squadron
 426 Squadron
 429 Squadron
 431 Squadron
 434 Squadron
 435 Squadron
 436 Squadron
 437 Squadron
 438 Squadron
 AWFP Association
 Burma Bomber Association
 Canadian Military Flight Engineers Association
 Dodo Birds – ex RCAF Flight Sergeants
 Jewish Memorial
 Loadmaster Memorial
 Mobile Support Equipment
 Non-Destructive Testing
 Para Rescue Association of Canada
 RCAF and Allied Forces Bomber Command
 RCAF Fighter Pilots Association
 RCAF Meteorologists
 RCAF Police
 Sabre Pilots I Air Division
 Workshop Machinists

Affiliations
The museum is affiliated with: CMA,  CHIN, OMMC and Virtual Museum of Canada.

See also

List of aviation museums
National Museum of the United States Air Force
Organization of Military Museums of Canada

References

External links

 History of the Canadian Forces Museums 1919–2004
 Photos of the museum collection
 Photos of the museum collection

History of Canadian military aviation
Royal Canadian Air Force
Military and war museums in Canada
Military history of Canada
Aerospace museums in Ontario
Air force museums
Museums in Hastings County


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What You Need to Know for a Colombia Vacation
Hours Posted on January 30, 2019 December 26, 2022 Hours Updated on December 26, 2022
When I told people I was heading out on a Colombia vacation, most of the reactions fell into two groups: a blank stare, or a litany of how dangerous Colombia is and that drugs and violence are rampant.
My personal favorite was someone who talked about drugs and violence but then said, "oh, but they have really good coffee there."
Ok, then, I'm sold.
But seriously, what do you need to know for a Colombia vacation? Of course, we have all heard of the "infamous man of Medellin," Pablo Escobar, and his wildly successful (depending upon how you define success, of course), cocaine empire of the 80s and early 90s.
I personally knew of him but not very much. Now there is the Netflix show, Narcos, to fill in any gaps. Because Hollywood always gets it right.
For those who think I lost my mind going, I will say that I did check the United States State Department site to see what my country had to say about the safety of tourism for a Colombia vacation.
It was a 2 out of 4 (4 being very high-risk countries like Iran and Iraq). If my country thought it was safe to go, I thought it was worth investigating.
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What You Need to Know for Your Colombia Vacation
Why the White Powder?
Colombians
The "Infamous Man from Medellin"
What You Need to Know about the "New" Colombia
What I found was a pretty amazing place. Colombia is a poor country overall marked by a huge chasm between the rich and the poor—perhaps even greater than that we find in the United States when we talk about the 1%.
And we might assume the rich are the drug dealers, right? Some may be, perhaps, but not most. The rich are the politicians.
Yes, that's right. In a country where corruption is rampant, the politicians are the top of the socioeconomic ladder. Let that sink in for a few minutes.
Colombia is marked by a history of corruption and violence by the government and this was something I heard consistently in every single walking tour I went on. Sometimes government-sponsored violence was done indirectly through para-military guerrilla groups acting on behalf of the government.
At other times the government either assumed responsibility or was believed to have been responsible. So much of the violence throughout Colombia's tumultuous history was done by or on behalf of the government.
So, when you think about the people in a poor country trying to carve out a means to live and you consider the opportunity from the notorious white powder—sure, it's dangerous. But life in Colombia during many periods in history was dangerous.
In Medellín, we saw a wall decorated with the names of those who went missing during particularly violent periods of time not by drug cartels, but by the government.
When an opportunity for more money than you ever thought possible presents itself with some risk, but with a huge reward, perhaps it doesn't look so bad. Particularly when you not only can't trust your government to take care of you, but you can't even trust them to protect your basic safety. Some people may think–why not?
I don't pretend I know everything about the long history of this country and I certainly don't mean to simplify or to glorify it. However, once you understand even a little bit of what the people have endured over the last few hundred years, it seems to put things into perspective.
It seems, to me, at least, to make a little more sense why people would risk their lives, and the lives of their families for a life of crime.
The Colombia I saw was of incredibly hard-working and resilient people. The guides I met shared stories of their childhoods seeing dead bodies on their way to school and being gunned down in random machine-gun fire. When you grow up as a small child with this kind of violence, how can you not become desensitized?
And yet, there is a strong sense of pride among the people. They are proud to be Colombian. They live loud and proud, with loud voices and loud music showing their emotions openly. These people have lived through such adversity and have hope for the future.
Their optimism is so appealing and it's impossible to resist. Colombians would prefer to not look backward but instead, to look forward. Because no matter where they have been, things will continue to get better.
And they are, as evidenced by the increases in tourists. With tourist dollars flowing into the country, the life of many Colombians improves and optimism continues to increase.
Colombians are kind and generous
The "Infamous Man from Medellin"
Does the name of the "infamous man from Medellin" come up? Of course, how could it not? He was mentioned on every walking tour I took.
And not just in Medellín, but also in Cartagena and Bogota. His home on the lake in Guatape was noted.
People share stories from those times and although it sounded like those in the cities were much more impacted than those in the country, all live under the cloak of that being the best-known thing about Colombia.
I saw a cart in Manizales selling t-shirts with his face on them.
Pablo Escobar tees
The people I spoke with would rather talk about something else, anything else, other than what they view widely as a dark stain on their history. However, they understand that he is still a person of interest for many and that tv shows like Narcos glorify his life.
They talk about him to provide a real-life perspective of the man and what life was like when he was alive, and they seem to will you to talk about other things of more interest and more reflecting of the people as a whole.
People may capitalize on his infamy with t-shirts with his picture and tours in his name. Locals will talk about him as they know they must, but then they'd rather move on. It's not a point of pride, certainly. But it's what people know about Colombia.
Well, except for the coffee.
What You Need to Know about the "New" Colombia
The country has found peace now, following the 2016 peace accord. between the Colombian government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP).
It took more than four years to secure approval, and ultimately was pushed through and ratified by Congress. The conflict had been going on since the 1960s with for formation of FARC, one of the dominant guerrilla groups in the country.
Though only just under 50% supported the treaty, people are hopeful that this marks a new era in Colombia. Tourists are coming by droves, finding a country with a lot of history, culture, beauty and a culinary mecca at very low prices for most of the world.
The various regions in Colombia offer very different experiences, from beaches and a Caribbean feel in the Cartagena area to the cloud forests, rain forests, and jungles through much of the country and the mountainous cities of Medellin and Bogota.
Would I recommend a Colombia vacation? Is Colombia safe? I'd recommend a visit absolutely and without hesitation. Be open, do your research about places to visit in Colombia, and learn what you need to know. Most of all, be open to learning.
And yes, the coffee is really good.
A Traveler's Guide to the Best Places to Visit in Colombia
21 Best Things to Do in Cartagena
Best Day Trip from Cartagena—Palenque de San Basilio
Colombia Travel Tips—25 Things to Know Before You Go
Best 11 Things to do in Medelliín
The Most Colorful City in Colombia—Guatapé
Living Abroad—Colombia Coffee Triangle Exploration in Manizales
Top 11 Fun Things to Do in Bogotá
Best Day Trip from Bogota—Zipaquira and the Salt Cathedral
Top 10 Things to Do in Salento Colombia
The Best Colombian Coffee Farm Tour in Salento
Hiking Cocora Valley—The Top Thing to Do in Salento
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