These are questions we have received from real customers in the past 20 years in the menu cover field.
Are there minimum quantities for stamped menu covers and for blank menu covers?
Yes. For menu covers that require your logo to be stamped on the product, the minimum is 24 ea. of the same item and color. Otherwise, the minimum order is 12 ea.
Can my order be drop shipped to a secondary or third party location?
Yes, Boxerbrand is happy to accommodate orders that require drop-shipments. Please note however; on first time orders for distributors, full payment by check is required in advance. Orders will ship upon check clearing.
The answer varies from product line to product line but here is a quick	guide: Café Menu covers ship within 7-14 business days. All other items ship in as little as one week to as many as four weeks. Your Boxerbrand quote will state the projected lead-time.
Yes. Please ask a Boxerbrand Sales Representative to discuss your particular needs and requirements.
How are your menus sized?
Descriptions of menu cover sizes always refer to the paper size that fits inside the cover. For more information, see our image placement guidelines.
Can I pay extra to get my order here faster?
No. All lead times are stated at time of quote and are strictly adhered to.
How long will you store my die?
Foil Stamp Dies: Dies that have not been used for five consecutive years will be discarded. Burnishing Dies: Will be kept in storage permanently. Blind Deboss Dies: If made of magnesium will be discarded after five consecutive years of non use. If made of brass, will be kept permanently. Photo Reproduction & Custom Color Dies and Film: Dies will be kept in storage permanently. Extra film not used on the job associated with it, will be kept in storage for future use, for two years.
How do we clean our menu covers?
Our Menu Covers are both waterproof and stain resistant. However, there are some products that can leave permanent stains such as indelible ink. Follow our care & maintenance tips for more information.
Can ink stains be removed from Menu Covers?
No. Unfortunately, there is no reliable way to remove ink stains from menu covers, so please protect your menu covers from ball point pen, and other indelible ink sources. Please visit our product performance chart to learn about our stain-resistance test.
Do you have anything stock?
Yes. Some of our Café Covers are stocked. However, available inventory changes rapidly so please check with a Boxerbrand Sales Representative to see which items are in stock.
Where are Boxerbrand products made?
We are proud to say that Boxerbrand products are made in Boston, MA, USA. We source materials from all over the world but 100% of our manufacturing is done right here in Boston.
What shipping method does Boxerbrand use?
Boxerbrand normally ships by UPS Ground service. However, UPS expedited services and FedEx are always available when necessary. Also, for our Canadian customers we ship to all parts of Canada.
Yes. 2 free samples will be delivered to you anywhere in the U.S, once you have spoken directly with a Boxerbrand Sales Representative. However, because the number of possible products is so large, it is not always possible to find the exact item in the size, color, and texture you are looking for. A Boxerbrand Sales Representative will either try to find the samples you request, or something very similar, to offer a good representation of what you are looking for.
All returns require authorization. If your product is deemed defective or you have received incorrect merchandise, Boxerbrand, at it's discretion, will either replace the product or refund your payment in full. In all other instances, returns, if authorized, apply to merchandise only, and will be subject to a 20% or $25.00 restocking charge, whichever is greater.
Where does Boxerbrand deliver menu covers?
We deliver our menu covers all over the world. From New York to New Zealand and everywhere in between.
How can we customize Boxerbrand menu covers with our logo?
You may select from a variety of Stamping Methods depending on the material chosen. Boxerbrand will foil-stamp, burnish, blind-emboss, or apply a full color treatment to most of our menu covers.
What materials are available for Boxerbrand menu covers?
We offer a variety of materials including Bonded Leather, Linen, Latex-Saturated Paper and super-durable Synthetic Urethane. One thing they all have in common however, is that Boxerbrand materials are all sourced from top quality manufacturers throughout the world. A Boxerbrand sales associate can help you identify which material will be best for your project and location.
What styles are offered in Boxerbrand menu covers?
Boxerbrand carries a variety of menu cover styles ranging from contemporary to classic. Whether you are looking for menu covers for a bar, restaurant, café, or bistro, Boxerbrand has a product that will fit your needs.
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On the first day of our trip we were heading for a boat cruise to see the Statue of Liberty and decided to have breakfast near Battery Park. We caught the subway to Rector Street and quickly huddled into George's New York cafe to escape the biting cold. The cafe is a no-frills, laid back establishment that, according to my guidebook, is popular with Wall Street bankers. We naïvely ordered three plates of pancakes in a variety of flavours for our breakfast and were left open-mouthed when dinner sized plates stacked sky high with thick fluffy cakes piled with fruit arrived. It was like trying to eat a gateaux for breakfast. They were honestly delicious and the individual jugs of hot maple syrup went down a treat. You'd think that this would have taught us just how big the portions are in New York, but a whole week of over-eating was still to follow!
It's impossible to choose between my two favourite spots for lunch so in the name of gluttony I'm including them both on my menu. My first lunch highlight was Papaya King, which I'd read about on The Londoner blog. I dragged my mum and sister all the way from the Museum of Natural History, across Central Park and through the swanky buildings of the upper west side for a taste of what I'd read were the 'best hot dogs in New York'. In spite of the rain, our long trek was worth it when I sunk my teeth into my 'Side on Top' frankfurter. This glorious 'dog', decadently topped with chilli, cheese and curly fries (don't judge me) was mouth-wateringly delicious.
Equally gratifying was the burger and fries I had at Five Guys after enjoying dazzling views of the city from the Top of The Rock. There are a number of Five Guys outlets dotted across the city but the one I visited on west 55th street was conveniently located near the Rockefeller Centre and was a perfect spot for lunch. The walls of this stripped-back burger joint are plastered with quotes and clippings of rave reviews for the Five Guys burgers, and after I bit into my perfectly juicy beef burger topped with pickles, relish, jalapeños and mustard I understood why they receive such reverent accolades. I loved the fact that all the toppings were free meaning you can custom-make your perfect indulgent burger and try a new combination on each visit.
It's amazing how draining fantasy shopping in Bloomingdales can be; all the ooh-ing and aah-ing really takes it out of you. After cooing over Kate Spade purses and Marc Jacobs bowlers, my mum, sister and I needed an afternoon reprieve so headed to the store's mini Magnolia Bakery for a pick-me-up. I gorged on a lighter-than-air pistachio cupcake while the others devoured a slab of chocolate and banana heaven. I know the Magnolia brand is over-hyped thanks to a certain Ms Bradshaw but I definitely enjoyed my visit and am considering purchasing the Magnolia Bakery cookbook to see if it can better my now dog-eared copy of Hummingbird Bakery Recipes.
After enduring a deathly cold but mesmerizing night time open-top bus tour of the city, our guide recommended us her favourite Italian restaurant to head to for dinner; Carmines off Times Square. We thought we'd listened to her advice that the portions were large when we ordered two dishes between the three of us but were once again left picking our jaws up off the table when our choices arrived. Our Ragu rigatoni and chicken Parmigianino were both to die for but were ridiculously over-sized. We saw other tables share one lasagne between four so if you ever go to this Italian haven pay better attention to our tour-guide's advice!
One evening after visiting a carbon-copy Chinese restaurant, we decided to head somewhere a bit more exciting for dessert. We meandered back to Times Square where our hotel was located and headed into The Brooklyn Diner. We took our swivel bar-stools at the counter and feasted our eyes on the dessert menu. After a lengthy internal debate I decided on a classic chocolate milkshake which was delicious, but instantly regretted my decision when a fellow diner a few stools down was served an epic slab of red velvet cake topped with perfectly rosy strawberries. The fact that the gentleman devoured the entire serving and then unfathomably ordered seconds only made my error in judgement harder to swallow. There's always next time (sob).
After five solid days of over-eating my waistline is certainly suffering the effects of my New York Menu, but having enjoyed an epic smorgasbord of delicious, Instagram-able treats, the extra inches are certainly worth it. Where do you recommend eating in New York?


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Q: Functor from a group to a poset Are there examples of functors from the category of a single group to the category a partially ordered set (some sort of representation of the group in a poset) ?

A: Maybe the question (and the elided second question) wants to be rewritten as asking about posets of subgroups of a finite group, and asking about construction of the "incidence geometry", a simplicial complex attached to that poset?
I suggest this revision because it has at least one worthwhile answer/discussion, namely, for Coxeter groups ... definable as groups $G$ generated by sets $S$ of reflections (elements $s\in S$ satisfy $s^2=e$), defined by relations $(st)^{m_{s,t}}=e$ for $s,t\in S$ for some integer $m_{s,t}$ (by convention $m_{s,t}=\infty$ if no power of $st$ is $e$). The simplest example is the symmetric group on $n$ things, which is generated by "reflections" consisting of "adjacent" transpositions.
The special subgroups of $G$ are those generated by subsets of the set of reflections. Two special subgroups are incident when their intersection is also special. Collections of mutually incident special subgroups are taken as simplices (maybe inclusion-reversing), and we obtain a simplicial complex (the associated "Coxeter complex").
It is a not-completely-trivial result that the resulting complex is a triangulation of a sphere for finite Coxeter groups. For certain infinite Coxeter groups ("affine" ones) the Coxeter complex is a triangulation of an affine space.
Another, related case of a meaningful simplicial complex attached to a group is the (spherical) building attached to parabolic subgroups $P$ of a reductive group $G$: two parabolics are incident when their intersection is another parabolic, and mutually incident collections are simplices (inclusion-reversing). These buildings are constructible by sticking together the Coxeter complexes ("apartments") made from conjugates of "Weyl groups". For example, for $G=GL_n(k)$ with a field $k$, the "Weyl group" $W$ is identifiable with permutation matrices in $G$, so is a Coxeter group, and the "apartments" are spheres.
More of this sort of discussion is possible, in many directions, ...
Edit: given the poser's (re-) framing of the question in the context of transformational (mathematical) music theory (an interesting idea, about which I read a few things some years ago...): very likely, the operationally useful idea would be that of "a group acting on [something]". Keyphrase "acting on", rather than "group qua group". Yes, relevant posets can easily arise, as "subsequent" states/ideas in a sequence of such, with the ordering simply being (essentially) "later", in a piece of music that is deterministically performed. (!) Even more literally, since we do not imagine music going backward in time, the truly relevant notion is semi-group acting on poset. [But now I must stop, because I have not thought about actual applications to music beyond this mild deconstruction of modern "theoretical music theory", and, also, I'm more sympathetic to the "tonal" tradition, and do not see music as essentially mathematical, any more than I see playing outfield as such... and, by this, I don't mean to disparage anyone...]

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what would have happened if i was there to help josh.
josh:"you are taunting me! die you heathen scum!" josh lunges at the snowman only to be held back by me.
we ride down to the bottom of chair eight and ride up to the top.
and that is the story of why there is no longer a chair eight.
such a skillful intervener. indeedy!
hahahahha. yes, i agree with ducky1.
What, did you ask the snow man its age?
As soon as you see this, go on AOL messanger, and I'll give you my e-mail address so we can stay in touch.
oy, hilarity! maybe you'll see my brother. he is very tall. very skinny. very irritating. and I believe he's wearing a turtleneck.
lol… I'm told we look a lot a like.
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Coffee-Bike welcomes first UK franchisee
Tomasz Podpora has taken up the mobile cafe opportunity, joining a global network of 120 franchisees, and will be trading in the Trowbridge area
Updated: May 18, 2016 Published: May 18, 2016
Mobile coffee-shop franchise Coffee-Bike has marked the next stage in its international expansion with the addition of its first UK franchisee, Tomasz Podpora.
Now operating his mobile cafe in the Trowbridge area and markets and festivals in the nearby locale, Podpora said he has been keen on becoming self-employed "for some time" and was drawn to the Coffee-Bike franchise following its success in other countries.
Originally established in Germany, Coffee-Bike offers a mobile coffee-shop business model and has more than 120 franchisees operating across 13 countries.
The chain has franchise opportunities available for £10,550 (through its rental model) or £21,500 ( through its purchasing model).
On his decision to become a franchisee, Podpora commented:"I was impressed by how rapidly the Coffee-Bike franchise system has been growing in Germany and other international markets during the last five years. I am proud to be part of the system at such an early stage in the UK market. This advantage helped me to secure the hot spots in my home area."
Coffee-Bike CEO, Tobias Zimmer, said:
"We are eager to capture the UK market. […] We are looking forward to several new UK starters in the next couple of months. Moreover, we are delighted about Podpora starting now in Trowbridge as the first of many UK franchisees".
Find out more about Coffee-Bike's UK franchise opportunities here.

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Ankle Instability and Knee Kinematics
What's This Research About?
Yoga teachers and movement professionals tend to say it's all connected.
This paper touches on an aspect of that, namely how the ankle (a distal joint)
affects more proximal joints of the knees and hips as well as landing kinematics.
They ask several questions pertaining to CAI's impact on potential knee injuries.
Previous studies have reported that CAI can be associated with biomechanical
and muscular alterations in the knees and hips. How? In knee flexion upon
landing, and in how the muscles of the quadriceps and hamstrings contract.
It's been shown that people with CAI have decreased knee flexion and increased
posterior GRF when landing from a jump. Reduced knee flexion coupled with more
GRF leads to more ATSF which potentially leads to ACL injury.
This study asks the following questions?
How does CAI affect landing kinematics in the sagittal plane?
How does CAI affect posterior GRF when landing a jump?
Do people with CAI experience more GRF because of the
inefficient kinematics of the joint?
How does it affect ATSF? Does CAI create more ATSF in the knee
and does that put people with CAI more at risk for ACL injuries?
Ariana Rabinovitch
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TITLE: Individuals with chronic ankle instability exhibit altered landing knee kinematics: potential link with the mechanism of loading for the anterior cruciate ligament.
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PUBLICATION: Clinical Biomechanics of Elsevier Publications
AUTHORS : Masafumi Terada, Brian Pietrosimone, Phillip A. Gribble
Chronic Ankle Instability (CAI): Recurring ankle sprains that may or may not include functional impairments. Lateral ankle sprains are very common in people who are physically active. 73% of those who have had ankle sprains may develop chronic ankle instability.
Anterior Tibial Shear Force (ATSF): the amount of lateral force at the knee joint. It's the most direct loading mechanism of the ACL and thought to be a probable component of ACL injury.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL): knee ligament that is often injured.
Ground Reaction Force (GRF): In physics, and in particular in biomechanics, the ground reaction force is the force exerted by the ground on a body in contact with it.
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Victrelis (boceprevir)-B.C. expands PharmaCare coverage for Hepatitis C
VICTORIA - The Province is expanding PharmaCare coverage for patients suffering from hepatitis C to include the drug boceprevir (Victrelis and Victrelis Triple), helping patients and their families.
Boceprevir was approved by Health Canada for use in patients with chronic hepatitis C in July 2011. Following that approval, the drug was reviewed through the national and provincial drug review processes, which determine if a drug provides benefit over existing drug therapies. The Province undertook an expedited review process, to allow patients who could benefit from boceprevir to access the drug through PharmaCare as quickly as possible.
PharmaCare coverage for boceprevir will be provided through the Special Authority program for patients with chronic lab-confirmed hepatitis C infection (genotype 1), who meet eligibility criteria. New patients who have not received treatment before for hepatitis C, as well as previously treated patients who have responded only partially to or relapsed after another treatment for hepatitis C will be eligible.
Expanding coverage to include boceprevir represents an investment of up to $50 million over the next three years. Every year, the Province spends more than $100 million on prevention, education and treatment of hepatitis C.
Boceprevir is a new treatment for chronic hepatitis C (genotype 1), taken in combination with two other drugs (peginterferon and ribavirin). In clinical trials, patients who had never received treatment and took the boceprevir combination had a 25 per cent higher cure rate over those who did not. In patients who had previously been unsuccessful on other therapies, the boceprevir cure rate was 38 per cent higher compared to those who received peginterferon and ribavirin alone.
Hepatitis C is a disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus. If hepatitis C is left untreated or uncured it may result in end-stage liver failure, leading to organ transplantation or death.
Minister of Health Michael de Jong -
"By expanding PharmaCare coverage to include boceprevir, we will be able to help hundreds of British Columbians suffering with hepatitis C, including those who were previously unsuccessful with other therapies. I am especially pleased that by undertaking an expedited drug review process, we have been able to make this drug available to British Columbians sooner than initially anticipated."
Dr. Mel Krajden, Clinical Prevention Services-Hepatitis, BC Centre for Disease Control -
"The rapid approval of boceprevir is a major step forward towards the potential future elimination of hepatitis C infections in British Columbians. Viral cure is known to reduce mortality, improve quality of life and prevent progression of liver disease. "
* Boceprevir is a new treatment for chronic hepatitis C (genotype 1), taken in combination with two other drugs (peginterferon and ribavirin) over a period lasting between 24 and 44 weeks.
* The number of newly diagnosed cases of hepatitis C has fallen dramatically, from 7,700 in 1997 to 2,444 in 2009 and the Province is committed to preventing new infections, identifying those suffering from hepatitis C and providing them the treatment they need.
* There are about 64,000 British Columbians currently diagnosed with hepatitis C, of whom about 25 per cent have cleared their infection without treatment.
* Without PharmaCare or private drug plan coverage, boceprevir would cost patients about $1,050 per week.
* PharmaCare also provides coverage through the Special Authority program for Pegasys RBV and Pegetron / Pegetron Redipen to hepatitis C patients.
* The Province is committed to meeting the goals of B.C.'s strategic viral hepatitis framework, Healthy Pathways Forward, which focuses on preventing new infections, identifying those suffering from hepatitis C and providing them the treatment they need.
Ryan Jabs
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This GIF Shows the Surface of a Comet - and It's Breathtaking
ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA
It's been four years now since the Rosetta spacecraft zoomed into space and rendezvoused with a comet.
At that point, the craft took the first photos of a comet's surface, which turned out to be quite breathtaking, as you can see below.
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The Rosetta mission, which was spearheaded by the European Space Agency, accomplished many historic firsts:
The first spacecraft to orbit a comet.
The first spacecraft to fly alongside a comet as it entered the inner solar system.
The first spacecraft to examine a frozen comet being warmed by the sun.
The first mission to send a robotic lander to a comet's nucleus.
The first images of a comet's surface.
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Rosetta also took some stunning shots as it approached the comet, as shown above.
This image was taken in May 2015 using Rosett's navigation camera. It was taken from a distance of just under 140 kilometers from the comet's core.
But now, Twitter user @landru79 has put the icing on the cake by putting multiple images together to create a 1-second video that shows what it would be like to walk on the surface of the comet.
As you can see below, the results are incredible.
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If you ask me, this almost looks like an old-time black and white silent movie from back in the day.
It's a little spooky, too, if I do say so myself.
Nevertheless, it's an impressive view of something that you and I will never get to see in real life!
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Join the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of SA in May when they stage the all-time favourite, The Mikado!
The son of the Mikado is missing and his intended bride is on the hunt for her prey! Meanwhile, the Lord High Executioner of Titipu is annoyed to find that his fiance is enamoured with an itinerant wandering minstrel.
Join Ko Ko in the town of Titipu and be part of his "little list" for this comic and musical celebration of all things Japanese!
With its blend of humorous satire and wonderful music, The Mikado is a great night out for the whole family.


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Trappers Crossing is nestled in the East Keystone Neighborhood of the Keystone Ski Resort. A serene neighborhood boasting mountain, river and forest views, the location is among a favorite for travelers to the Keystone area. The complimentary shuttle service stops just steps from the front door.
An outdoor hot tub is located on site with beautiful mountain views. Guests of Trappers Crossing also receive access to The Dakota Lodge outdoor heated pool and hot tubs located in the River Run Village and open year round.
Trappers Crossing 8763 is a cozy 698-square-foot condo. The full kitchen is open to the living and dining area, with seating at the breakfast bar as well as a dining table.
Two sofas, one with a pull-out sleeper, a gas fireplace, and flatscreen television furnish the living room. A walkout balcony is off the dining area and includes a quiet forested view with river sounds, seating, and a gas grill for guests to enjoy.
The bedroom is equipped with a queen bed and small television, while the bathroom offers a jetted tub. The hallway closet includes a stackable washer and dryer. Also included in the rental are free Wifi and outdoor parking.
Lovely, comfortable apartment with plenty of space for our family of 4. The location was perfect as it was peaceful and the resort shuttle stopped right at the property. We would definitely stay here again if we returned to keystone.
Our only problem was with the key cards, which kept failing. Laura was incredibly helpful and went above and beyond to ensure we weren't stuck out in the cold!
Everything was clean, and it was nice to have a kitchen. It was easy to get where we needed via the free shuttle, and the area was serene.
Tyler V left a 5 star rating after their recent trip to Keystone, CO.
Zachary F left a 5 star rating after their recent trip to Keystone, CO.
Loved this weekend getaway. This condo was perfect for my family of 3.. it has everything you need. Right next to the forest, loved the view and the sound from the river. Perfect place to relax and get away from daily routine. It was our first time going to keystone and we loved it. And the access to the jacuzzi and other hot tubs by river run was the cherry on top.
Didn't have my contact with the manager but on our way back home I noticed I we didn't gave the keys back along with the parking g pass, called and they were very understanding and gave me the option to mail the keys to them so I didn't have to go back. Thank you!
What a beautiful place. The complex and the condo were just perfect. Ground floor, no stairs very nice. Close to lots of restaurants and shopping. Comfortable furniture and a fully equipped kitchen. Scenic beauty off the balcony complete with outdoor grille. I would highly recommend this choice, you will not be disappointed.
Accommodations were great. The only negative thing is the master bedrooms' bed. It is older and not comfortable for two people.
We really enjoyed our stay. Although we did get a little warm since the ac was not working, it was still very nice and well kept. We always had the windows open and the balcony door open as well when we were there to keep a fresh breeze through the condo, it helped that it got pretty cool during the evening hours! We LOVED the weather! I've already told my parents and my friends parents, they need to go!!
Everything was awesome! We will definitely be back again soon! The location was great and secluded but close enough to what we needed. The place was very clean and well maintained. Highly recommended!
Jody E left a 4 star rating after their recent trip to Keystone, CO.
This is the second property I've stayed in at Trappers Crossing. Excellent location (quiet, nicely appointed, backs up to woods and stream), and just enough off the beaten path to feel remote, but close enough to River Run that the activities you want are right there.
This place was near perfect and exactly what we were looking for. We are entrepreneurs and run very hectic lifestyles so when we getaway we go for effortless stays and as much luxury as we can afford. This mountain condo was perfectly tucked away, but still close enough to everything. We enjoyed a glass of wine on the balcony in the evening, and coffee by morning. The jetted tub was an added bonus and helped us to relax as soon as we got there. The hot tub was a short walk across the lot and it too was a fabulous addition to this trip. With Frisco, Breck, and Lake Dillon a short drive away there was plenty to do and see. The hikes around the property are particularly nice to stroll after a good home cooked meal. The only critic I have would be the bedroom. The bed was not very comfortable and could use a pillow top mattress, or just an updated mattress all together. Other than that, the condo and our stay was perfect.
We LOVED our stay here! The back porch was a big hit - looking out into the forest (you can hear the river!) with no one else in sight. The condo is perfect for a couple, it had everything we needed. Nice and quiet too - I think there were other people staying in our building but we never heard them. Great getaway!
Daniel K left a 5 star rating after their recent trip to Keystone, CO.
Very nice, clean, quiet. The sounds of the creek running nearby were great, and everything was very comfortable. we will definitely book here again when we need a weekend escape!
We are so thankful how easy and wonderful working with the staff of Key to the Rockies were! Very kind and professional interactions with everyone I spoke with about our stay.
I found the team at the Key to the Rockies the most helpful and caring team. I asked so many questions. I called multiple times and there was never a time that I did not get a friendly response and always answers to my questions.
Overall we were really happy with our stay. Condo is clean and nice and had everything we needed for the weekend.
We loved this condo and will return! Great quiet location but so close to resort and a quick shuttle ride to/from the slopes. The washer/dryer was a bonus.
Love this condo and will be back! Short shuttle to lifts, village, clean and full kitchen, hot tub, big windows ... all we neede it was there.
From the intial booking, through the check out, our experience was wonderful. For the cost, we couldn't have asked for a more cozy, welcoming little home away from home for our week in the Rockies!


At the beginning of his song, "Somewhere In Colorado," Nathan Reich writes about a storm that's coming. It's going to be a real ripper. The force that it's going to possess is going to be something fierce. He can see the winds picking up by the increased bustling of the leaves on the tree outside of his window. He's closing the windows and he's intending to try to grab some sleep, in preparation for what's about to hit, knowing that he might need the strength for whatever's going to be on the other end of it. It's nothing real though. It's the storm that he dreams about. It's the one that's always so threatening, the one that's feared - just like you look at the headlights coming toward you on a late night, about to pass you in a hurry, mere feet away. It's the car that's going to cross the centerline and turn your lights out in a tragic, bloody mess. You think about it with every car that passes, every single one, always ready to swerve to the right if you have to.
The storm that Reich observes is, however, as real to him as he ever needs it to be. It's the storm, or all the collateral damage that's going to eventually get him, though it will never strike in the form that he envisions. The beautiful misery that he creates on his excellent new album, "All Night Pharmacy," is a collection of drops in the bucket, all of which will eventually tip him over and bury him. Many of those same drops bring with them some of the love, kindness and safety that he's looking for, so turning the drips off entirely is out of the question. The good always comes with the bad and we're tired of hearing it.
Reich finds his pieces of happiness in his sadness, just like a pro. He sings about the end of the world, all the abandoned machinery and makes plans to meet up with someone he cares about at the dump - the place where he knows he's going to have to meet everyone. A quiet night of introspection leads to an observation tinged with possible regret, when he sings, "From the bedroom, I can hear the cars, buying something from the liquor store." The shape that he suddenly gives the silence that he needed to hear such a thing is breathtaking. He sings of the bloodless butcher and the luckless fighter and their small chances - familiar with them because they are everyone's chances.


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During an incredibly tough second race weekend in the Caterham Supersport Championship, Ben Tuck battled mechanical issues, penalties and crashes to make a stunning Race 1 recovery drive from 37th to 11th at the Anglesey Circuit in Wales. In Race 2 Ben suffered engine problems before a heavy rear quarter impact caused suspension and exhaust damage to his ailing car, after which Ben had to nurse his car to the finish in 20th.
Satisfied that he had extracted the maximum possible result under the circumstances from Race 1, Ben set his sights on moving forward to battle with the leaders in Race 2, starting in 11th place. He managed to climb to 9th place before power problems hampered further progress and before long he had to defend from the chasing pack each lap. With two laps to go Ben unfortunately suffered a rear quarter impact which damaged the car and sent him spinning off the track. With badly damaged rear suspension, Ben carefully guided the car to the flag, coming through in 20th place.
In his second Caterham race weekend Ben again displayed that despite a myriad of problems he could remain focused and deliver a hugely impressive performance under the most difficult of circumstances.
The car will now return to PT's workshops for investigation and repair before the next round at Zolder in Belgium on 4th and 5th June.


Neuromuscular Reeducation in Delray Beach is an energetic soft tissue technique which focuses on rehabilitation of the soft tissue. It is a non-invasive treatment which helps in restoring proper muscle function and movement so that the body heals and performs at its optimum level. This treatment gives fast and lasting pain relief and restores the loss of function which occurs due to injuries to the nerves, connective tissue, muscles and joints. It integrates the characteristics of trigger point therapy, sports massage, fascial release and active release techniques.


KATHMANDU, May 15: It took around 18 hours to count just 2, 000 votes and strike a deal among candidates in a ward of the Lalitpur Metropolitan City (LMC). There are 29 wards in the LMC.
With this snail-pace vote counting, it might take around 20 days to complete the vote counting in the metropolis.
The vote count at ward no. 1 of LMC is over.
No votes have been counted after 1,540 votes secured by mayoral candidates.
The results of Mahalaxmi and Godawari are yet to come. The results of one ward in Konjyosom and the other in Mahankal has come out.
According to returning officers, the vote counting was delayed after it took a long time to forge agreement on the valid and invalid ballot papers and the selection of representatives of the candidates.
Following the complaints expressed by the people over the slow vote counting process, Chief District Officer (CDO) Dipak Kafle urged the concerned officials to speed up the vote counting.
"Let's count votes as quickly as possible. I have just returned from a metropolitan city and two municipalities after taking stock of the vote counting process," said CDO Kafle.
According to Hari Prasad Regmi, the returning officer of Godawari Municipality, vote count is getting delayed since the election procedure and ballot papers area quite new for returning officers, candidates and voters.
Regmi said the vote count results of wards have not come out yet officially.
Similarly, Ram Ghimire of Mahalaxmi Municipality said they are preparing to announce the vote count results after resolving minor technical issues.
With its entire panel, Nepali Congress candidate Nirmal Tandukar has been elected in LMC-1.
Similarly, UML candidate Ram Krishna Acharya has been elected with its panel at Mahankal Rural Municipality-6.
Similarly, CPN (MC) candidate Santa Lama has been elected at ward no. 1 of Konjyosom.


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Fashion Design Schools Online
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Would You Like to Break Into the Fashion Design Field?
It Can Be Difficult to Get Into This Competitive Business
If You Have the Talent and the Right Education -- it can Happen
Finding the Right School is Half the Battle
Do you think a fashion career would be a good fit for you?
This website could help you to quickly and easily discover various of the affordable and trusted fashion business institutions around the country today.
The intent of these colleges is to develop inventive and hardworking people to take on jobs in fields of design and style, retailing and marketing.
These Louisiana universities collectively offer a handful of distinct degree courses, which include associate, bachelor and even master's degrees, in addition to certification programs.
General types of classes in this major offered at these schools include illustrating; three-dimensional design; pattern drawing; innovative theory; software design tools; stage costume style and design; grading, marking and cutting; and textiles and accessories.
Individuals participating in the commercial segment of this industry will enroll in courses concerning fashion, but may also complete a number of classes in business, general accounting and even a couple in general economics.
Where Will These Schools Be?
Colleges offering fashion design diplomas are not very prevalent. Typically, the college near you doesn't offer a degree program in this subject.
Quite a lot of students realize that they have to transfer to one of the handful of places that has a college which features a fashion-related degree. Most of these schools are generally located in just the major cities.
Because of this, a lot of candidates will sign up for an online school in order to get their diploma.
A number of other innovative candidates will sign up at their area college and combine individual courses from a few various disciplines in order to develop a customized education and learning alternative that might permit them to receive an first starting real job upon graduation.
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Trans Youth Book Reading and Discussion — TREES, Inc.
Join us at the LGBTQ Center for a reading and discussion of the book _Jacob's New Dress_ by Sarah Hoffman with illustrations by Chris Case.
The reading will be led by Ula Gaha, Reference and Instruction Librarian at St. Mary's College. The discussion will be led by Meghan Buell, President of TREES, Inc. (Transgender Resource, Education & Enrichment Services).
This is an all ages and free event.
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FDI in Gujarat
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Gujarat has attracted more foreign direct investment (FDI) than what its GDP size alone would suggest. But relative to its peer states (especially Tamilnadu, Delhi, Maharashtra and Karnataka, and possibly Andhra Pradesh) it has fallen short significantly. The above findings which we made in an earlier study are further confirmed through a survey of opinions and views of CEOs and others intimately concerned with the foreign investment decision process. The survey also brought out the crucial importance of infrastructure, and the quality of governance. Interestingly most of the problems are capable of being corrected through appropriate government action. The intrinsic exploitable advantages of the state remain large. Electricity supply – its poor quality, inadequacy and high price; the adverse law and order situation including the impact of the communal strife and riots and the perception of biases in the implementation of law have been important in adversely affecting FDI. The large comparative advantage of the state in industry and manufacturing implies that the states' future is intimately dependent upon the growth of manufacturing in India. Success therefore involves coordination with the central government, because many of the difficulties in moving forward and in evolving into modern industries faced by Gujarat's existing manufacturing involve policy infirmities at the central /macroeconomic level. Important among these are the `inverted tariff structures' that many of Gujarat's manufacturing, especially those in the small and medium scale industries, face and the tame pricing of the Indian rupee, in contrast to East Asian countries' strategy of undervaluing their currencies. There is much that Gujarat can do to attract the new manufacturing and service industries (offshore industries of a wide variety, IT and biotechnology industries). Besides the improvement of Governance especially with regard to control over communal strife, it would need to improve the quality of life in cities and overcome the infrastructural constraints especially with regard to education and availability of technical skills. If Ahmedabad its principal city, can improve its ranking in the hierarchy of central places, Gujarat could successfully attract a lot more FDI, and other non-equity forms of collaboration in the new manufacturing and service industries.
Foreign Direct Investment on Gujarat from January 2000 to October 2006 was estimated to be around Rs. 4,112.73 crores which comes to around USD 898.8 million. Gujarat ranks six in terms of FDI Inflows in India.
Impact of FDI on Gujarat Economy
Impact of FDI on Gujarat Economy has been positive for it has led to the all round development of the state. Impact of FDI on Gujarat Economy has proved to be beneficial for the various industries in the state have grown, developed and also expanded.
Factors attracting foreign direct investment in Gujarat:
The state provides extensive network of railways.
Gujarat has the highest number of airports in the country.
The state provides excellent network of roads.
Professional services to the investors are provided in Gujarat.
The state is highly industrialized.
Location wise, Gujarat has a strategic location providing easy access to the African, western, and Middle East markets.
Skilled manpower is abundantly available in Gujarat.
Industries attracting foreign direct investment in Gujarat are:
Food processing industries
Amount of foreign direct investment in Gujarat:
The regional office of Reserve Bank of India in Ahmedabad received US$ 970.3 million as foreign direct investment for the state during January 2000 to December 2006. The total percentage of foreign direct investment that the regional office of Reserve Bank of India in Ahmedabad received came to 3.7% out of the total foreign direct investment in India during this period.
Doing Business in Gujarat India, leading industrialized State. Business opportunities: Agribusiness, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Automotive, …
Gujarat is the leading industrialized State of India. Gujarat is one of the most preferred investment destinations of India, providing opportunities in almost all the sectors of the economy, particularly information technology (IT), tourism, textiles and agricultural sector.
Gujarat houses a number of multinational corporations, private sector companies, public sector enterprises and a large number of medium and small scale units. It is a manufacturing powerhouse with world-class production capabilities in textiles, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and agro-based products.
The State is also known for its entrepreneurial spirit as well as robust social and physical infrastructure.
Gujarat boasts of a rich and varied cultural heritage, that is reflected in its art, music, cuisine, literature, religious traditions, etc. It is rich in bio-resources and has a forest cover of 1.88 billion hectares. It has 10.7 million hectares of highly diversified cropping area and is a leading producer of horticultural crops.
Moreover, the State is rich in mineral resources like limestone, lignite and bauxite. It is also a leading producer of cement and soda ash and has the largest diamond processing industry in the country. Thus, the geographic diversity and strategic location has made Gujarat home to an incredible diversity of people.
With 5% of India's population, Gujarat has 16% of industrial production. Gujarat had an annual average growth of 9% in the last 3 years and an average industrial growth of 15%.
The Gujarat Government gives tax concessions for investment in backward areas. For instance, the Government has announced exemptions for investment in the Kutch district. Further, the state has offered an excise exemption to all new units for a period of five years from July 31, 2001 to December 31, 2005.
The state offers investors a distinct advantage in terms of quality manpower and infrastructure facilities such as power and water supply, ports and now a gas grid. This is encouraging multinationals and leading Indian companies to turn their manufacturing plants in the state into global sourcing bases.
Invest Opportunities in Gujarat
ABB plans to invest a further US$ 500 million in its Vadodara plant and use it as a global sourcing base for circuit breakers and other electrical equipment. Arvind Mills, the second largest denim manufacturer in the world has doubled its manufacturing capacity. Glaxo SmithKline India, plans to use its manufacturing plant in Ankleshwar as a global sourcing hub for an intermediary used in manufacturing Zantac. Aventis, an international pharma giant, will service its global requirements for glibenclamide from its plant in Ankleshwar, Gujarat.
Invest Opportunities in Information Technology. Gujarat is a good destination for IT industries. There are several big IT software companies located in the State. Accordingly, the Government of Gujarat has undertaken several initiatives in the IT sector. It has formulated an IT policy, which aims to promote overall IT growth in the State, create enormous employment opportunities as well as develop skilled manpower in IT.
Main Gujarati companies:
Essar Global Limited (EGL) is a diversified business corporation with a balanced portfolio of assets straddling the manufacturing and services sectors: Steel, Energy, Power, Communication, Shipping & logistics, and Construction. EGL, through its six sectoral holding companies, has an enterprise value of over USD 20 billion (INR 80,000 crores) and employs 20,000 people worldwide.
A US $24 billion corporation with a market cap of US $31.5 billion and in the league of Fortune 500, the Aditya Birla Group is anchored by an extraordinary force of 100,000 employees, belonging to 25 different nationalities. In India, the Group has been adjudged "The Best Employer in India and among the top 20 in Asia" by the Hewitt-Economic Times and Wall Street Journal Study 2007. Over 50 per cent of its revenues flow from its overseas operations.
Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) is a technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company. It is one of the largest and most respected companies in India's private sector.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is one of the world's leading information technology companies. Through its Global Network Delivery Model™, Innovation Network, and Solution Accelerators, TCS focuses on helping global organizations address their business challenges effectively.
Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) is India's largest food products marketing organization. It is a state level apex body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat which aims to provide remunerative returns to the farmers and also serve the interest of consumers by providing quality products which are good value for money.


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Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
How did this 1898 novella become modern and postmodern literary theory's most inscrutable touchstone? According to Henry James's Notebooks—and scholars have disputed this, but then they dispute everything, as we'll see—he got the kernel of the novella, a ghost story, from the Archbishop of Canterbury:
Saturday, January 12th, 1895. Note here the ghost-story told me at Addington (evening of Thursday 10th), by the Archbishop of Canterbury: the mere vague, undetailed, faint sketch of it—being all he had been told (very badly and imperfectly), by a lady who had no art of relation, and no clearness: the story of the young children (indefinite number and age) left to the care of servants in an old country-house, through the death, presumably, of parents. The servants, wicked and depraved, corrupt and deprave the children; the children are bad, full of evil, to a sinister degree. The servants die (the story vague about the way of it) and their apparitions, figures, return to haunt the house and children, to whom they seem to beckon, whom they invite and solicit, from across dangerous places, the deep ditch of a sunk fence, etc.—so that the children may destroy themselves, lose themselves, by responding, by getting into their power. So long as the children are kept from them, they are not lost; but they try and try and try, these evil presences, to get hold of them. It is a question of the children 'coming over to where they are.' It is all obscure and imperfect, the picture, the story, but there is a suggestion of strangely gruesome effect in it. The story to be told—tolerably obviously—by an outside spectator, observer.
The Turn of the Screw does relate the above plot, but with two complications. First is the "outside spectator, observer." For this role, James took a cue from earlier British fiction and invented a nameless governess, "the youngest of several daughters of a poor country parson." She answers an ad from a London gentleman to look after his orphaned niece and nephew, Miles and Flora, at Bly, his country estate. The Master specifies that he is not to be disturbed by reports of what happens at Bly: he gives the governess full authority over the household, which also includes a company of domestic servants headed by the kindly Mrs. Grose.
James teases us—and his heroine—with the possibility that this story is another Pamela or Jane Eyre, that the governess will win the heart of the Master and superintend the estate not as his employee but as its mistress. This possibility—and the well-read but inexperienced 20-year-old governess is well aware of it as a romantic possibility—never materializes. Instead, the ghosts of the previous governess, Miss Jessel, and her lower-class paramour, the servant Peter Quint, materialize, though possibly only to the governess herself, who openly desires some opportunity to prove herself a responsible, resourceful, and even heroic steward for her absent Master.
Her heroism consists in her rescue of the children from the dead couple's corrupting influence. Miles, it transpires, has been dismissed from his school for unspecified transgressions, misbehaviors presumably picked up from Quint, who was, as Mrs. Grose informs the governess, "much too free" with "everybody" while he lived. The governess's attempts to protect the children from corruption, however, prove dangerous and eventually lethal at the conclusion.
The conclusion of the text is not the conclusion of the tale, however, which brings me to James's second twist or turn on the Archbishop's anecdote. With his characteristic indirection, James gives us the end of the story at the beginning of the book: the governess's narrative is introduced by another nameless narrator, who tells of a Christmas gathering where the attendees share ghost stories. After hearing the tale of a haunted child, a man named Douglas promises to tell a story about two haunted children, and in the process provides the novella its polysemous title: "If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?"
Douglas sends for a manuscript he has kept since his undergraduate days, when he befriended his sister's governess; the manuscript is her account of her time at Bly. Some of those at the party titter that Douglas must have been in love with the governess, though she was 10 years his senior, but he protests that the love story in her manuscript doesn't involve him.
Mrs. Griffin, however, expressed the need for a little more light. "Who was it she was in love with?"
"The story will tell," I took upon myself to reply.
"Oh, I can't wait for the story!"
"The story won't tell," said Douglas; "not in any literal, vulgar way."
The frame story's invocation of erotic cryptography and narrative obfuscation is the warning above the gate to this tale of a governess possibly in love with someone who isn't there and possibly seeing two more people—themselves class-crossed lovers—who aren't there either.
Note James's metafictional play: he takes for his subject the materials of popular romance, of Gothic and sentimental fiction, but he makes the common reader the anti-promise that he will provide none of those genres' usual satisfactions. The governess, likewise, imagines herself to be a Fielding, Radcliffe, or Charlotte Brontë heroine, but finds herself instead in much more mystifying territory, in a poetic universe that doesn't quite exist yet, but which will later be called, among other things, the Kafkaesque (though we might mention Emily Brontë as ghostly English forerunner).
In his Preface to The Altar of the Dead and Other Tales, James explicitly differentiates between what we would call "literary" and "genre" fiction (he labels the latter "pure romance"), and he differentiates not on the basis of subject matter—literature doesn't have to be strictly realistic: it can have haunted houses—but on the basis of treatment and emphasis:
We want [the story] clear, goodness knows, but we also want it thick, and we get the thickness in the human consciousness that entertains and records, that amplifies and interprets it. That indeed, when the question is (to repeat) of the "supernatural," constitutes the only thickness we do get; here prodigies, when they come straight, come with an effect imperilled; they keep all their character, on the other hand, by looming through some other history the indispensable history of somebody's normal relation to something.
To serve as proper objects of serious literary representation, ghosts and demons and their genre cousins (he also mentions pirates and detectives) must have human relevance. They attain human relevance by being grounded in ordinary human life. This is not a completely revolutionary idea—Walpole had something like it over a century before James, and he took the hint from Shakespeare—but James's proto-modernist twist is to insist, in The Turn of the Screw, on a narrator whose psychology becomes the center of the tale. The ghosts are only interesting insofar as they affect this psyche, and are still more compelling when understood as projections of it.
In his Preface to the 1908 New York Edition of The Turn of the Screw, to which version James made a number of edits throwing the governess's subjectivity and uncertainty further into the foreground, he gives a further turn to romance by claiming that the ghost story, if it wishes to retain the "dear old sacred terror" and the air of "[p]ortentous evil," must remain calculatedly vague. The reader must do the work of imagining the worst:
Only make the reader's general vision of evil intense enough, I said to myself and that already is a charming job and his own experience, his own imagination, his own sympathy (with the children) and horror (of their false friends) will supply him quite sufficiently with all the particulars. Make him think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
If the governess's consciousness is more interesting than what it perceives, how much more interesting to the reader is the reader's own consciousness in perceiving the governess? James's commitment to the cryptic, his refusal to "tell…in any literal, vulgar way," leads him to design a text that reads its readers more than we read it. The illicit thoughts incited in us by the text's ambiguities become our chief concern.
As James Joyce wrote of another strange neo-Gothic fin-de-siècle novella, "What Dorian Gray's sin was no one says and no one knows. He who discovers it has committed it." But this is too literal: the guilt may come even from knowing what we aren't supposed to know about sin. Virginia Woolf was truer to the Jamesian vagueness when she wrote of The Turn of Screw itself, "We are afraid of something unnamed, of something perhaps in ourselves."
As for Oscar Wilde, his prosecutor, turning the screw on the aesthetic defendant, certainly believed he had discovered Dorian's crime, and the interpretive holes in James's text have been similarly crammed by critics with unspoken sexuality, his corpus serving as playground for the Freudians and Foucauldians. We can't deny he invites such attention. An analysis of one extended passage will show how James elicits forbidden thoughts. Here the governess and Miles discuss the reason for his expulsion:
He looked in vague pain all round the top of the room and drew his breath, two or three times over, as if with difficulty. He might have been standing at the bottom of the sea and raising his eyes to some faint green twilight. "Well—I said things."
"Only that?"
"They thought it was enough!"
"To turn you out for?"
Never, truly, had a person "turned out" shown so little to explain it as this little person! He appeared to weigh my question, but in a manner quite detached and almost helpless. "Well, I suppose I oughtn't."
"But to whom did you say them?"
He evidently tried to remember, but it dropped—he had lost it. "I don't know!"
He almost smiled at me in the desolation of his surrender, which was indeed practically, by this time, so complete that I ought to have left it there. But I was infatuated—I was blind with victory, though even then the very effect that was to have brought him so much nearer was already that of added separation. "Was it to everyone?" I asked.
"No; it was only to—" But he gave a sick little headshake. "I don't remember their names."
"Were they then so many?"
"No—only a few. Those I liked."
Those he liked? I seemed to float not into clearness, but into a darker obscure, and within a minute there had come to me out of my very pity the appalling alarm of his being perhaps innocent. It was for the instant confounding and bottomless, for if he were innocent, what then on earth was I?
What did Miles say? The text's refusal to satisfy our curiosity on the matter forces our mind to go in every which direction in search of what is "enough" to get one "turned out," to denominate whatever it is in James that dare not speak its name, to elaborate on what the governess calls, in reference to Quint's life, "strange passages and perils, secret disorders, vices more than suspected."
Considering Quint's transgression—his affair with the higher-class Miss Jessel, an affair that, it is implied though never stated, left her first pregnant and then dead—we might assume that he conveyed some erotic knowledge to the boy, which the boy then passed to his schoolmates. Or maybe, much more innocently, the lower-class laborer simply taught Miles some profanity, and Miles then taught it to his friends. Or maybe, much more disturbingly, Quint himself sexually preyed on Miles, and Miles in turn himself acted out sexually at school. (Is "green twilight," by the way, queer code language, a reference to the Wildean green carnation? In a text so withholding, one does become paranoid.)
But no matter what happened at school, Miles is innocent by definition, since he, an orphan of 10, cannot be held responsible for how an adult has corrupted him. (He is not, however, innocent in the angelic way the governess, with her head full of Victorian sentiment, thinks he and Flora both are; this is just the obverse of thinking them secretly depraved. One of the governess's flaws—and her society's—is to see children as capable only of pure goodness or absolute evil rather than ordinary humanity.) What is the governess if Miles is innocent, as he is? That is the only easy question the text poses: she is guilty. Of what? Of being "blind with victory," of being so possessed by a will to knowledge that it becomes a will to domination. She is guilty of putting the torturous interpretive screw to her young charge.
Which observation leads me to a question so horrifying few critics seem to ask it, though they have raked over every other inch of this text. As the governess exclaims, "The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear." I fear she could be guilty of something even worse than intellectual imposition. Are we so sure the governess's desire is all for the absent Master? Are her endless references to the children's "more than earthly beauty" not a little disconcerting, not to mention her eerie nighttime visit to Miles's bedroom or her comparison of her accompanying him to church as akin to "some young couple…on their wedding journey"? Is Miles's flirtatious manner with the governess ("His 'my dear' was constantly on his lips for me") not perhaps a victim's desperate survival strategy, a mollifying concession meant to deflect a more violent trespass? Might The Turn of the Screw not in the end be a cross-gendered anticipation of Lolita?
The novella's omnipresent disquieting hint of predation, whether we take it to be Quint's or the governess's, must be what provoked the strong reactions of the novella's otherwise laudatory early reviewers, who write of how "the very breath of hell seems to pervade some of its chapters," who pronounce it "distinctly repulsive," "very cruel and untrue," and "the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read in any literature, ancient or modern." Henry James, concludes one reviewer with an eye toward holiday retail, "is by no means a safe author to give for a Christmas gift."
Almost every scene, every dialogue, every description in The Turn of the Screw can be interrogated in the above way. Like other works by James, it is a running stream of double entendre. Because so much of what is said in the book is ambiguous, and so much else left out, our imagination runs wild (or Wilde) over the grounds at Bly in quest of secret knowledge. It is no wonder, then, that the novella became a key text, second only to Hamlet, for Freudian literary criticism, and then later for other critical schools that refused to take any text at face value.
The history of Screw criticism just is the history of modern criticism: more even than Dracula, James's novella should be read in the Norton Critical Edition. There you'll find, in addition to the notebook entries and Prefaces of James and the novella's early reviews quoted above, Edmund Wilson's pioneering psychoanalytical explanation of the text, "The Ambiguity of Henry James." Wilson declares the narrative "a study in morbid psychology," a "characterization of the governess" and "her inability to admit to herself her sexual impulses."
Wilson further implies that we require not only Freud but also Marx to explain the source of the governess's delusions, which include her "English middle-class class consciousness." Her desire is not merely erotic but also economic—a desire to join the Master's class, and a consequent, if hypocritical, disgust at Quint's similar attempt to ascend to Miss Jessel's status. Adding to Wilson, Bruce Robbins in his overtly Marxist entry in the Norton chastises the governess for evading "her recognition of what so many voices are trying to tell her—her identity with 'the others'"—i.e., her own status among the exploited, which status she abjects in her abhorrence of her fantasized sexual parvenu Quint.
On the other hand, one of the more fascinating pieces in the volume is Robert B. Heilman's essay arguing for the reality of the ghosts against the psychoanalytic critics. He systematically demonstrates, or tries to demonstrate anyway, that all of what Wilson called the text's "ambiguities" can be resolved in favor of the governess's interpretation. To take only one example, the governess openly discusses and even jokes about her crush on the Master; if the Freudian explanation requires sexual repression, then isn't it a problem, asks Heilman, if "the governess's feelings for the master are never repressed"? Heilman wants to defeat the Freudians to save the novella for religion: it is, he says, "a drama of salvation." This goal aside, though, his emphasis on the genuine ambiguity of the book's ambiguity—there really is not enough evidence to say decisively whether the ghosts are real—is necessary to appreciate the most sophisticated reading of the text.
The showstopper of the Norton is a long—over 30-page—excerpt from Shoshana Felman's "Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice (Turning the Screw of Interpretation)," a study in poststructuralist meta-psychoanalytic interpretation. Felman shows that we need the whole unholy trinity, all three masters of suspicion—I mean Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche—to provide a rational explanation for this haunting. Freud takes care of the sexual element, and Marx the economic, but we require too a Nietzschean understanding of the will-to-power motivating every exercise of interpretation to see not only how the governess tortures her preferred meaning out of Miles, but also how Edmund Wilson tortures his preferred meaning out of the governess. The interpreters of the text have taken on the role of its heroine, unconsciously and compulsively restaging the novella's drama of lethally reductive reading.
What the interpreters miss, observes Felman, is that James has trapped them into thinking themselves superior to the governess, even though they, like her—and like us all—are wandering in the maze of meaning, unable to obtain an Archimedean vantage outside of language and sexuality from which to judge anyone or anything absolutely and finally. Felman emphasizes the "fact that literature has no outside, that there is no safe spot assuredly outside of madness, from which one might demystify and judge it, locate it in the Other without oneself participating in it," and she denounces both Edmund Wilson and the governess for their "discourse of totalitarian power" in their insistence on a single meaning. James offers "an invitation to repeat the text, to enter into its labyrinth of mirrors, from which it is henceforth impossible to escape." Nor should we wish to escape, because our entrapment is therapy for the totalitarian temptation, a lesson in how to live within the considerable limits of human subjectivity.
In Felman's reading of The Turn of the Screw, the hermeneutic of suspicion finally turns on itself, until reading becomes a perpetual process of self-reflection, half-chastened, half-playful, rather than any capacity to expose the final truth of the other. In time and space, a driven screw goes forward, but in the ideal space of reading, its turning only describes a circle.
Felman echoes Maurice Blanchot, who in his own piece on James collected in the Norton, focuses on the writer rather than the reader, on James's need to explore every possibility of his donnée, on "the pure indeterminacy of a work," before setting to write. Blanchot nevertheless comes to a similar conclusion about literature's infinitude of unrealizable potential:
[S]uch perhaps is the essence of James's talent: to make the work present at every moment and to suggest, behind the structured, determined work, different structures, the limitless, weightless space of the narrative as it might have been, as it was before all beginnings.
James writes a perfectly ambiguous story—a story as ambiguous as life itself. I am confident of only one thing about this book: James did not intend us to believe or to disbelieve in the ghosts, he intended us to notice the narrative's irresolvable ambiguity. As Felman observes, James, the author who will not tell us what his book means, is himself the absent Master.
The founding premise of Marx-Nietzsche-Freud, the proposition from which all else in their various thought follows, is the absence of God. We are in consequence responsible for our own societies, economies, values, psyches, and interpretations. This lack of a Master is the same stipulation that incites the governess's dilemma, and then again the dilemma of her readers: the problem of an opaque but intolerable psychic and social economy that seems to cry out for an emancipatory interpretation nowhere available, that seems to invite us to feats of what may be heroism, but then again may also be acts as evil as that which we tell ourselves we war against.
The final turn of the screw: we're free. Isn't it terrifying?
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22 October 2019 at 4:43 AM
I think it's obvious that the governess is sexually repressed, but your argument for The Turn of the Screw as a cross-gendered anticipation to Lolita is interesting.
Have you seen the adaptation The Innocents by the way?
Thank you! I have seen the adaptation, but not for a long time and don't much remember it unfortunately.


Can light wake you up in the morning?
Winter is coming, nights become longer than days, and it's a nightmare for me to wake up at 6 am into a dark and cold room. What if there was a way to create artificial "sunrise" to make the room feel much warmer and pleasant?
This is an easy task, I am going to create a smart light bulb that fits into my current ceiling lamp. It will simulate a sunrise by slowly light up the room. If it works I am going to connect it with my phone to make it a proper alarm clock.
To create a smart lightbulb you first need a "dumb" bulb because of its socket that is screwed into a lamp and provides power supply. I smashed it with a hammer. This delight procedure removed the glass from the aluminum socket and after soldering wires to socket and pin at the bottom, the base of the smart lightbulb was ready.
Next, you need a support for all the electronics. I used a perf board and cut it to fit an Arduino Nano microcontroller, 5V power supply, and all the electronics components.
Safety warning: You are working with voltages greater than 50V. Contact with high voltage may result in severe injury or death.
Since I am using a regular light bulb which is powered from AC mains voltage I cannot directly use microcontroller to control the power going to the light bulb. I need a TRIAC. This little device acts as a relay that can switch on and off pretty quickly. The microcontroller will power on and off the triac in order to alter the AC sine wave, thus dimming or brightening the light. However, AC voltage is controlled differently than DC voltage. AC sine wave needs to be cut in precise manners and so triac have to be turned on and off in precise moments to achieve that (see image below). In other words, microcontroller needs to know when the sine wave of mains voltage crosses zero to cut each of the half waves to the same size. Otherwise, the light would be flickering.
To detect zero crossing of mains voltage there is a 4N35 (U1) optocoupler with a transistor which turns on when sine wave crosses zero. The microcontroller will see that as a high signal on its input pin. Optocoupler has another function, it is to isolate the low voltage from the mains voltage circuit.
Second optocoupler - MOC3063 (U2) - with a triac on output is used to isolate microcontroller from high voltage triac (Q2). Make sure you are not using optocoupler with zero-cross feature because it only switches on when sine wave crosses zero.
As a microcontroller, I am using Arduino Nano. Its main purpose is to control triac and to start turning on the light when the set time comes. To provide real-time clock there is DS3231 accurate real time clock module which also preserves time when power is lost.
To provider 5V for chips, I am using cheap 5V 700mA step-down power supply connected to mains voltage from bulb socket. Nice and handy solution!
The program is pretty simple, when the lamp is powered up by the switch it will light up the room an slowly dim it into the night as a verification that electronics still work. During the night it checks the real-time clock stored in the DS3231 module and finally at 6 am the room is slowly light up to full "daylight" until the lamp is powered off by the switch.
Check out the code attached I think its self-explanatory. If it's not I am a bad developer!
Now I will experiment for a few days or weeks and if it can wake me up in the morning I will evolve this project into something more smarter and less crude!


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Q: Hilbert projection theorem, closed unit ball $B$ Let $E$ a normed vector space. Let $B = \{x \in E, ||x|| \leq 1\}$ a closed ball. It's a closed convex.
$E$ is a Hilbert space. I have to determine an expression of the projection on the closed unit ball.
I know that the projection $P_B$ can be written as it : $\forall y \in B, ||x-P_B(x)|| \leq ||x-y||$, ($x \in E$) with $P_B : E \rightarrow B$. But I don't see how to determine the expression of the projection. Someone could help me ? Thank you in advance and I hope my English is understandable.

A: For $\|x\|\ge 1:$
$$P_B(x) = \frac{x}{\|x\|}.$$
For $\|x\|\le 1:$
$$P_B(x) = x.$$


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Two-fifths of pension schemes admit to having no cyber policy
By Sophie Smith
Industry research has shown the "mixed state" of cyber security amongst UK pension schemes, revealing that whilst 57 per cent of schemes have a cyber strategy, over 40 per cent do not.
The survey from Aon, Cyber Threats to Corporate Pension Schemes, found that 75 per cent of trustees have had training on cyber risks, but that fewer than one in five schemes have clearly documented cyber hygiene policies.
Trustee portals were also found to be the most common way of sharing information (70 per cent) and data (86 per cent), despite the majority of schemes confirming that they undertake no checks on the security of these portals, instead relying on providers to do this.
However, whilst the assessment of cyber controls at administrators was "extensive", with almost 90 per cent of schemes conducting checks, the "majority" do not use specialist expertise to assess the checks of providers, while less than 50 per cent assessed any providers other than their administrator.
In addition to this, 95 per cent of schemes stated that they had a data breach policy, yet over a third (36.7 per cent) still admitted to sending investment instructions in unencrypted emails.
Furthermore, despite guidance from The Pensions Regulator on response plans, only 40 per cent stated that they had a robust incident response in place, with 60 per cent of schemes believing that they can rely on the sponsor's cyber security resources in the event of an incident.
However, Aon warned that there are concerns over the reliability of such support, with further questioning revealing that only 30 per cent of schemes had received input from the sponsor for their incident plan.
Nearly two-thirds (63.3 per cent) of schemes also stated that they have not assessed the potential financial impact of a cyber-attack, with just 2 per cent of schemes taking out a cyber insurance policy, with 20 per cent relying on their employers policy, and over 45 per cent relying on their trustee indemnity policy.
Commenting on the findings, Aon partner, Paul McGlone, stated: "We launched the Aon Pension Cyber Scorecard as a tool for UK trust-based pension schemes to assess their cyber resilience across a range of areas, and as a means of comparison with other schemes.
"More than 100 UK schemes have now used the scorecard, so we have a detailed view of the state of preparedness across the industry – and it is a mixed picture.
"We can see that some schemes have strong governance across all areas, while others are only starting their cyber journey. However, the scorecard also provides a road map for how a scheme can take its cyber controls from novice to proficient in relatively short order."
In addition to this, McGlone noted that the responses in the assessment did vary "somewhat" by size, with larger schemes performing better on average.
"However, we concluded that size was not the key determining factor of cyber resilience," he clarified. "Rather, it is what the market calls 'cyber maturity', with trustee awareness of the issue being a key factor in driving action and maintaining watchfulness.
"Schemes that have identified and understood the issues and then taken steps to address them, come out of the scorecard assessment well. Schemes that have not yet engaged with the issues, do not. On the plus side, we believe that many improvements can be made swiftly."
Aon principal consultant, Vanessa Jaeger, added: "In many respects, it's encouraging that the position across the industry is changing quickly.
"The very nature of cyber risk means that it is an evolving area in which even the biggest, best resourced, best prepared schemes can't think 'job done' and relax. This is an area that requires periodic assessment to stay on top of the latest challenges."
'Historic day' for UK pensions industry as Pension Schemes Bill gains Royal Assent
Govt sets out intentions to raise pension access age to 57 in 2028


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Swimming / FINA / News
August 1, 2022 - Emma Hruby
Ariarne Titmus throws down fastest split ever as Australia sets relay WR
Ariarne Titmus recorded the fastest split ever in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. (Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images)
Ariarne Titmus made history at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday as Australia set a new world record to win the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay in a time of 7 minutes, 39.29 seconds.
The Aussies beat the previous best, set by China at the Tokyo Olympics, by 1.04 seconds.
✔World Record ⏲ 7:39.29
✔200m fastest split ever ⏲ 1:52.82
✔🥇🥇🥇🥇
🇦🇺 @SwimmingAUS smashes World Record in the Women's 4x200 Freestyle Relay as Ariarne Titmus splits fastest ever! #swimming @birminghamcg22 pic.twitter.com/IFYaYViBg9
— FINA (@fina1908) August 1, 2022
Titmus anchored the relay with a time of 1:52.82, the fastest relay split ever. She became the first woman to break 1:53 in a relay split.
The world record in the 200-meter individual freestyle is 1:52.98, set by Federica Pellegrini at the 2009 world championships. Those world championships were the last of the super suit era, as the suits were later banned at the beginning of 2010.
Titmus touched first for Australia, more than 12 seconds ahead of Canada, which took silver, and another five seconds ahead of England, which finished in third.
Also on Sunday, Emma McKeon became the most successful athlete in Commonwealth Games history, winning her 11th career gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle. She surpassed fellow Australian swimmers Ian Thorpe, Susie O'Neill and Leisel Jones for most career golds at the Games.
"It is a fun event for me, the 50. I feel like I am a lot more relaxed this year than last year," McKeon said. "I have not done as much work as I had this time last year but the place I am in mentally is showing in my performances."
In total, McKeon has won 16 Commonwealth Games medals. With four more races to go, she could surpass the record of 18 career medals.
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Katie Ledecky dominated 2022. What are her plans for 2023 and beyond?
The star swimmer is targeting the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Emma Hruby - Sep 23, 2022
Cal swimmers question direction, independence of coach investigation
Women's swimming coach Teri McKeever is under investigation.


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