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This Week's Column:
THE BLOOM IS OFF THE MARK
... a MobyLives guest column
by Steve Almond
29 September 2003 — In recent days, an opinion column written by the esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom has been making the literary e–rounds. Like most everything that makes the e–rounds, the piece is both trenchant and ridiculous. Bloom's basic point is that the National Book Foundation made an egregious error in bestowing its annual award for "distinguished contribution" to Stephen King.
Egregious may be too mild a word, though. Bloom seems physically pained (in the manner of gastric distress, one imagines) at the thought that authors such as Saul Bellow and Phillip Roth should now have to share this distinction with a witless hack like King.
To Bloom, who addresses us, as ever, from the ramparts of septuagenarian grumpiness, such reverence represents another example of our cultural idiocy. (Dumbing down is the phrase he favors.) His diatribe, not quite 800 words, also manages to fire broadsides at J.K. Rowling, the "fourth rate" playwright Aphra Behn, and a gaggle of female romantic poets "who just can't write." It is an impressive performance, one that may mark a new land–speed record in literary contempt.
For what's it worth, I don't entirely disagree with Bloom. I've not read any of the Harry Potter books, but I'll trust the old guy when he tells me they are riddled with clich�s. And I happen to share his skepticism when it comes to the made–for–TV idea that the Cult of Potter has been good for literacy. What's more, the modern appreciation for the genius of Shakespeare and the Romantic poets is woeful.
What I don't quite get—and maybe this is because I haven't spent long enough in academia—is why Bloom feels it necessary to sound off against writers he deems inferior, as opposed to celebrating the writers (and the ideas) he admires. And, furthermore, why he chooses to do so in such a lazy manner.
I don't think there's any argument on the matter of whether Stephen King belongs in the same league with Bellow or Roth. But he's no hack. He is, at worst, an uneven writer, one who dips down into pulp, but also has produced—particularly of late—some genuinely moving prose.
But I don't think the merits of Stephen King are really the point here. The point, as I see it, is how most effectively to wake up our culture from its current stupor. By my reckoning, this is a job that falls to writers. Literature is nothing less, after all, than an ongoing discussion about what it means to be human. It is intended to awaken compassion within the reader and, when necessary, distress. King may not be doing as good a job as Bloom would like. But he is doing an honest job, at the very least, one I'm inclined to regard as heroic.
Bloom, on the other hand, can do little more than holler insults from the sidelines. Or actually, check that. In the penultimate paragraph of his sermon he graciously informs us: "Today there are four living American novelists I know of who are still at work and who deserve our praise." There are: Bellow, DeLillo, Pynchon, and Roth.
It's almost sad to see the Bloomster tip his speckled hand so flagrantly. This is all he can come up with? Is he kidding? No mention of Toni Morrison or Nadine Gordimer or Alice McDermott or John Updike or Evan S. Connell or Brad Watson. What cave is this guy living in? (Yes, I know, I know, Plato's.) Does he expect to be taken seriously by anyone other than the charter members of his faculty club?
There's an entire world of literature, quite serious and beautiful, that extends beyond these names, as worthy as they may be of praise. In carting out the usual suspects, Bloom reveals himself not as a critic, but as a caricature—a narrow–minded snob who reviles anything outside his intellectual comfort zone.
What's especially sad about Bloom is that he continues to pollute an otherwise vital message with fatuous derision. As someone who's been teaching literature to college students for several years, I'm in complete agreement with his basic complaint. It is entirely appropriate to lament—even rail against—the moral and intellectual sloth of our current historical circumstance. I, too, dread dealing with students who think that Hamlet was a really cool movie starring Ethan Hawke.
But today's youth are not about to drop their Nintendos and pick up copies of the Middlemarch at the behest of some sourpuss curmudgeon. (I'm not even sure Bloom wants that. He sounds altogether too protective of the canon to allow the vulgar multitudes at it.)
Indeed, Bloom's rage seems entirely misplaced to me. Rather than attacking writers, or those who bestow accolades onto them, he should be excoriating the true opponents of creative enlightenment. A short list would include: the deification of consumerism, the decline in funding for public education, the economic inequality that has become the hallmark of late–model capitalism. This culture discourages creativity, and deep thought, because such actions are not profitable. The horrible fact that people turn to Stephen King rather than Saul Bellow is, in other words, symptomalogy.
Of course, Bloom prefers not to involve himself in anything as messy as socio–economic debate. Lest we forget, he is a scholar.
And more's the pity. It would be nice to have him as an ally. I mean that. Bloom is a brilliant mind, and a true believer in the redemptive capacities of literature. Although he would be loathe to admit this, lurking beneath his petulant elitism is an egalitarian impulse. He knows that young people are turning away from the great books that might save them. But he fails to concern himself with why.
In my own view, it's NOT because Americans are dumb or lazy, but because they fear the chaos of their feelings. Our masters of commerce are quite happy with this arrangement. They want us in this state of terror, as it makes us more likely to obey their constant buy messages. The unexamined life, it might be said, offers an extraordinary profit margin.
But let's remember: it is the job of artists (and always has been) to awaken mercy, to help people feel less alone with their deepest, darkest emotions. And, of course, to encourage them to regard their minds as vibrant and expandable.
I'm certainly glad there's someone like Bloom around to shout down from his ivory tower every once in a while. He may even have the eloquence (or the catchy crankiness anyway) to make his voice heard for a moment or two.
He is not the cure, though. We writers are. We will achieve a greater measure of relevance not by tearing one another down, or making literature exclusive, but by working to promote our common goal, which is to get people reading, thinking, and feeling again.
Steve Almond's short story collection, "My Life in Heavy Metal," is out in paperback. Algonquin will publish his next book, "Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America" this spring. He runs the website StevenAlmond.com. He notes that he has not read "Middlemarch."
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The event will be held at the University's Event Square and is open to the public but spaces are limited and attendees should reserve a place.
Designed by architects Stirling and Gowan, the Grade II* listed building is recognised internationally as one of the most significant buildings of the 20th century and is considered an architectural icon. It was included in a national list of the 50 most famous structures in the UK, and was hailed as one of the top 10 most inspiring buildings.
Guests will hear from a range of speakers including Catherine Cockcroft, Chief Executive of the 20th Century Society, Thomas Pearson, Senior Designer & Conservationist at Arup, Ellis Woodman, Director of the Architecture Foundation and Daily Telegraph architecture correspondent as well as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University Professor Paul Boyle. Presentations will be followed by a lighting display and tours of the building to celebrate the success of the project with the event coming to an end at 9pm.
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Their very first expedition had discovered the universe now designated "Alexandria-1," created by ART's "rescue" of the Great Library. Universe A1's True Present was nowhere near as technologically advanced as SysGov, and the scar the Library raid had left on its collective psyche would be hard to over exaggerate.
In many ways, finding A1 had been the final nail in the coffin of ART's time travel program. It had conclusively proved the model of transverse travel — and of the possibility of transdimensional fratricide — that Kleio's crew had devised. That had been enough to finish off any obstacles to the creation of Gordian Division, and aside from one or two TTVs designed for delving truly deep into Earth geological past, every one of its time machines had been handed over to Gordian.
Vice-Commissioner Schröder had continued the exploration process ART had begun, although he'd confined his efforts to the True Present, but he'd also been deeply involved in the debate over how to approach Universe-T2, the other time-traveling universe, controlled by the System Cooperative Administration. Some members of SysGov had favored just leaving T2 completely alone. After all, the Admin had done its level best to prevent Raibert and his team from saving his universe. Surely there would have been a certain poetic justice in letting them destroy their own?
Klaus-Wilhelm von Schröder had thought that was a terrible idea, for a lot of reasons. For one, it was virtually identical to the one from which he himself had sprung. More importantly, however, they couldn't know — not ahead of time — what would happen to any neighboring universes if one of them blew itself up. And that didn't even consider the billions of human beings – and star systems, and galaxies — which would share in the destruction.
But SysGov had been in no hurry, given how Raibert's first contact with that other Admin had gone, and so it had taken time to carefully consider how it would approach this Admin. During the time it spent thinking, Klaus-Wilhellm's survey teams had continued to spread out through the newly discovered multiverse — cautiously, given how little they yet knew about its structure and the Knot's evidence that humans truly could induce universe-ending catastrophes — and the TTV Kuebiko had been assigned to survey this one when it was discovered.
Kuebiko's crew had known they were stepping into a universe with an advanced human civilization, but no one back home had thought it was advanced enough for time travel. All that had changed when the they detected a foreign chronoton impeller coming online. The Kuebiko team had reclassified the universe as T4 — the fourth universe on record to have confirmed time travel — and then aborted the rest of their mission. They'd returned to SysGov to report their findings and would have received a follow-up mission, but both T3 and T4 assignments had been placed on the back burner. Instead SysGov had finally decided how it would establish contact with Admin and that Gordian Division would be given responsibility for transverse security as well as for policing time travel in SysGov's own universe.
Klaus-Wilhelm von Schröder had even better reason than most to distrust Admin, which was why he had devoted the lion's share of his resources — and personnel — to keeping an eye on their belligerent multiverse neighbor. It hadn't been until months after Kuebiko's initial visit (and months of the Gordian Division's ongoing expansion) that resources had begun to free up for proper surveys of T3 and T4.
Which was why Raibert now found himself looking down at the imagery of T3's population centers.
"So what's caught your eye?" he asked.
"This." Benjamin overlaid SysGov's Earth with T4's and adjusted the display to highlight the discrepancies. Then he zoomed in on a single North American city: what was still known in SysGov as Washington DC.
Raibert raised an eyebrow.
"Watch what happens when I pull up the construction dates for the oldest building still standing back home."
Numbers sprinkled over the city, and Raibert frowned. It took him a minute to realize where Benjamin was leading him, but when he did, both eyebrows shot up.
"Yeah. Interesting, isn't it?"
Elzbietá crossed her arms and squinted at the display. After a moment, she shrugged.
"Okay, guys. I give up. What am I missing? The cities are laid out differently, but we already knew that would be the case."
"True." Benjamin nodded. "But it's how they're the same that's more interesting."
"All the modern thirtieth-century structures are different," Raibert said. "Which we expected, but some of the older structures are the same."
"Some," Benjamin agreed. "But not all."
"Such as?" Elzbietá asked.
"There's no White House."
"Okay," Elzbietá said cautiously. "That's significant. But it could just mean the divergence point for this universe is before its construction."
"Normally, I might agree, despite how early in Washington's history the White House was built in both our universe and the Admin's. But there are what look like the remains of the Pentagon."
"Is that what they called it?" Raibert chuckled.
"Yes, Raibert," Benjamin replied grumpily. "That's what they called it."
"Kind of a no-effort name, don't you think?"
Benjamin frowned at their team leader, then looked rather pointedly back to Elzbietá.
"Anyway. This isn't a case of the White House never being built. It's a case of its having been destroyed."
"Aha!" Elzbietá snapped her fingers. "So my clever husband scores again!"
"Well, that's my hunch, anyway."
"Feels like a good one to me," Raibert said, leaning back in his seat.
"And that's why I think we might want to deviate from our original plan," Benjamin said.
"How so?"
"Well, consider this. We know almost nothing about T4, and while our stealth systems are good, that universe has already surprised us once with tech we thought it wouldn't have. So any time we spend in its True Present is a risk."
"A small risk," Raibert stressed.
"Granted, but not zero. So what if we went back into T4's past, instead, and located the point of divergence? Really pinned it down precisely. That could tell us an enormous amount about T4's societies, just from the overlap with our own. Having a firm grasp of what history we [i]do[/i] share could even help us form a better strategy for making first contact in the True Present."
"That would probably save time in the True Present, too," Elzbietá pointed out. Raibert raised an eyebrow at her, and she shrugged. "Like Ben says, knowing their past will let us visualize their present government's — or governments', plural — response to our arrival. If we turn up, well-versed in their history and able to draw comparisons and connections with SysGov's past, it ought to really speed up the diplomatic nice-making." She grimaced. "I had embassy duty twice in the Navy. Hated it, both times. I'd just as soon spend as little time on that here as I have to."
"Hmmm." Raibert rubbed his chin.
"Plus it might shed some light on whether or not T3 and T4 are connected," Benjamin added.
"Ah." Raibert wagged a finger. "Another good point there."

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Billy Moore (born 7 May 1971) is a former rugby league footballer who played as a   or  forward in the 1980s and 1990s. He played representative football for both Queensland and Australia.

Background
Moore was born in Tenterfield, New South Wales and raised in Wallangarra, Queensland. He was born in Tenterfield as their town's hospital was closer to Wallangarra than the one in Stanthorpe. Moore was quoted as saying, "My Mum assures me I was rushed back to the Channel Country before the oxygen had time to affect my lungs."

He attended Wallangarra State School and, later, Stanthorpe State High School and began playing his junior rugby league for the Wallangarra Bulls. At 15, he played his first senior game for Inglewood-Milmerran against Warwick.

When the Wallangarra Bulls club folded, Moore began playing for the Tenterfield Tigers, where he was selected to represent New South Wales under-17s in 1988. Later that year, after representing Queensland Schoolboys, Moore received contract offers from the North Sydney Bears, Penrith Panthers, Brisbane Broncos and Parramatta Eels, signing with the Bears.

Playing career
In 1989, Moore moved to Sydney to join the North Sydney Bears and played in the club's reserve grade premiership side. In 2019, Moore recalled when he first joined the club saying, "All this talk about the Bears being losers, I didn't give a shit about it, I hated it. I despised the fact that we even mentioned it, because that was the legacy of the past, that wasn't something we'd carry into the future".

With a radical change of the guard the following year, Moore and a number of other players (including long-time back-row partner David Fairleigh) became regular first graders the following year and propelled the club from also-rans in 1989 to finalists in 1991. Although Moore damaged a jaw at the start of that year, he played superbly in the first semi-final win by the Bears for 39 years against Manly, scoring two tries. Moore was first selected in Queensland's State of Origin side in 1992.  Moore was the sole try-scorer in the Maroons' 5-4 win in the second match of the series at Lang Park.

Moore was a regular selection for the maroon jersey for three seasons and famously yelled 'Queenslander! Queenslander!' in an attempt to motivate an underdog Maroons team on their way out of the tunnel in 1995 Moore was reacting to the fact that New South Wales players had said they would belt the first person that said he was a Queenslander. The young Queenslanders won the series 3 nil without its star Super League players. While Moore was initially overlooked for Test duty against New Zealand, he won a place in Australia's World Cup squad at the end of the year. He made one appearance in the competition, against South Africa, before playing further ARL Tests against Fiji (1996) and Rest of the World (1997) in consecutive years.

He continued to play for his club in subsequent semi-final campaigns but his representative career ended when he was left out of the Queensland team for the 1998 series.  At the end of 1999, Moore failed to secure a contract with the merged Northern Eagles club and reluctantly retired.

As part of the South Sydney Rabbitohs push to be reinstated in first grade, Moore played for the club in promotional games to raise money and awareness and to gain support of the rugby league community for a readmission into the NRL which was ultimately successful in 2002.

Post playing
In 2000, Moore was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in rugby league. In August, 2006 he was named in the North Sydney Bears' Team of the Century. He now co-owns a restaurant on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

In 2011, Moore became the ambassador for a second Brisbane NRL expansion team.
In 2015, Moore became a panelist on Fox Sports for the NRL 360 show.  In July 2015, Moore was forced to apologize after making derogatory comments regarding the New Zealand Warriors playing style.  Moore read a statement saying "I would like to sincerely apologise to anyone that was offended by my comment regarding the New Zealand Warriors playing style, particularly the Polynesian community – many of whom I played with and am great mates with".

In 2017, Moore advocated for the return of the North Sydney Bears as a merged entity with the Gold Coast Titans.  There were talks of Norths buying the Gold Coast licence with the club being rebranded as the Gold Coast Bears, which would have also resulted in the creation of a new logo and the return of the famous red and black colors.  At the end of 2017, the bid ultimately failed with the licence being purchased by Rebecca Frizelle and Darryl Kelly.

References

External links

 Billy Moore at yesterdayshero.com.au
 Billy Moore recalls the legend of the Queenslander chant [9 minute video]
 "Billy returns home with his Origin memories", Warwick Daily News, 15 August 2006, retrieved 17 July 2013
 Billy Moore at rugbyleagueproject.com
 Queensland representatives at qrl.com.au

1971 births
Australian rugby league players
North Sydney Bears players
Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
Queensland Rugby League State of Origin players
Australia national rugby league team players
Living people
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby league locks

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2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo Group Review: Where Station Wagon Meets Supercar
Porsche's 550-horsepower, all-wheel-drive wagon is both luxury car and sports car...with a pricetag to match.
By Josh Condon Will Sabel Courtney April 19, 2018
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Two of The Drive's editors—Will Sabel Courtney and Josh Condon—recently spent time with the 2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo. They discussed the finer merits and detractors of this super-speedy station wagon via Slack, an instant message program with a fun ability to summon random gifs based on what users type. The following is a partial transcript of that conversation.
Oh, and one addendum: In response to reader requests from past Group Reviews, we've added a feature we're calling "After-the-Fact Check," where we've gone back and added tech specs and the like where appropriate to the conversation. They're not hard to spot.
willscourtney
So, how about that Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo?
It of the awkwardly long name.
When I got out of it, my first thought was to tell everyone else they could stop making cars, now. Porsche got this.
Really? You were that blown away.
I loved it. I just loved it. It's two fistfuls of stupidly expensive overkill, and I mean that as a compliment. First, it's pretty unique on the market.
"pretty unique"
I mean, depends on how you look at it. It's a $175,000 station wagon.
It's a monster sports car with crazy amounts of utility. Like the Ferrari FF, but way more usable.
That was my ultimate takeaway. It's basically an entry-level supercar, a small crossover, and a luxury sedan, all in one. Three cars for the price of three.
Yeah, exactly. Well put. Though I feel like you're insulting it by calling it a small crossover. Because it's better than that: It's a wagon. Which means it's prettier than a small crossover, and more functional to boot.
I think of it as analogous to a small crossover because a) that's kinda become the standard for two-box passenger vehicles nowadays, and b) it has AWD, whereas most small hatchbacks and wagons don't. But yeah, you're technically correct.
There's no such thing as a small wagon anymore. Not in this country.
/giphy pour one out
/giphy no country for old men
Okay, let's just talk about the price. Because we're going to.
Yeah. $175,170 out the door. Base price of $155K. So, by Porsche standards...ours was lightly optioned?
[After-the-Fact Check: The base price of the 2018 Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo is $155,050 with destination. The regular Panamera Turbo starts at $4,000 less.]
At this point I feel like you have to add $20K to the price of any Porsche automatically, or you're going to drive off the dealer lot and realize the car doesn't have floor mats or door handles or something.
"Why isn't it moving?" "Oh, you didn't check the box for the driveshaft. That's an extra $15,000."
/giphy accurate
Still, there weren't many options I'd leave off our tester. Assuming I was already dropping mad of coin on a Porsche station wagon.
Right. That's kind of unique to Porsche, too; I rarely sit in a Porsche and think, "That's stupid, don't need that. That's stupid, don't need that." Whereas with other German luxury brands, I do. A lot.
I could have done without...
(checks window sticker)
...the sunblinds for the rear windows. Let those backseat fools be blinded.
I mean, I never like carbon fiber interiors for everyday cars. But I actually loved the backseat blinds. Do you remember what a fucking pain in the ass it was when you were a kid and the sun was baking you like a popover? That sucked. Modern technology can solve that very solvable problem—I say worth it. Now let me check the price...$490. Huh. Not bad.
Only, like, 100 percent more than I'd want to pay.
Or you could buy a baseball cap for $10.
Speaking of the interior. I'd like to get one beef out of the way, so I can go on to extolling this car as it deserves to be spoken of.
No carbon fiber, right. Dumb choice—agreed.
Actually, I didn't hate that. Wouldn't be my choice, but it worked here.
No, it's this new infotainment setup with all the hard buttons in a giant sheet of shiny black plastic.
[After-the-Fact Check: The new generation of Porsche Communication Management, or PCM, was unveiled on the second-generation Panamera in 2016. It uses touch-sensitive panels with haptic feedback.]
BUT IT LOOKS SO PRETTY.
It, for lack of a better term, sucks.
You have to look down EVERY DAMN TIME when you want to press a button.
Yeah, I love the way they look—it's the hot new design now, so I've seen a few cars with similar set-ups—but they're not there yet.
And the glossiness means it reflects all the sunlight, making it take twice as long to figure out what button you need.
The Porsche example and every other example I tried is about 60 percent functional. Lots of design flaws, like the glare you mentioned. Lots of UX issues. Lots of pushing "buttons" that don't respond.
Yup. And I get the appeal of it. It's fashionable, tech-forward, and lets you cram more features into a smaller space.
And it's so sleek. It looks like the future.
But it's arguably irresponsible to make drivers look away from the road for as long as they have to in order to use 'em.
Arguably how? It's plain dumb.
/giphy strike that from the record
But we've been bitching about that for a long time now, and frankly the same issues can happen with too many regular buttons or dials. I get all worked up about the distraction question, but I think what mostly happens is that people figure out the four functions they use and can work them all after two weeks.
It is one of those things that's a very specific auto journalist gripe. If you're not in and out of 100 cars a year, you probably wouldn't think about it.
Also, I'd much rather talk about a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8.
Yes. Fuck yes. Because that should be the name of that engine. The 4.0-liter twin-turbo "Fuck Yes" V8.
[After-the-Fact Check: The Panamera Turbo's 4.0-liter V8 makes 550 horsepower from 5,750–6,000 rpm, and 567 pound-feet of torque from 1,960–4,500 rpm. It redlines at 6,800 rpm. All Panamera Turbos are also equipped with an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, and a full-time all-wheel-drive system.]
The overall sensation of acceleration felt physically violent. It was like being inside of a punch.
Did you use launch control?
Nope. That was just on the highway.
Too bad. LC literally bounced my head off the backstop every damn time. Like you said, physically violent.
I can see that. Porsche does a particularly excellent launch control. And with that amount of weight...
It revs to about 5,000 rpm. Sounds delightful. Then...BOOM.
0 to 60 in about three flat. In a friggin' station wagon.
[After-the-Fact Check: While Porsche claims a 0-60 mph time of 3.6 seconds for the Turbo and Turbo Sport Turismo alike, in Car and Driver testing, the Turbo sedan turned in a 3.0-second 0-60 run.]
A large one, at that.
What did you think about the design? Exterior?
It was better than the sum of its parts. Some of the individual angles and pieces looked awkward - the wheels were too big from some views, the hips seemed kinda dorky when you looked back along the flanks. But somehow, put it all together, and it looked spectacular. Especially the rear 3/4.
Same. Rear 3/4 and the profile are straight sexy, but walking around the car some of the angles would hit me like a fart.
/giphy sudden fart
It's a Porsche station wagon. I actually don't care, because it's unique. I mean, you could think of unicorn as just a deformed horse...
Very true. People should buy this just to encourage Porsche to keep making it. And thus encourage other carmakers to make stupid-fast wagons and sell them here. I want my Aston Martin Rapide S wagon, damnit.
What's the competition, even? I'm drawing a blank. E63 AMG, I guess?
Yeah. That was the car that stuck in my craw the whole time I drove the Panny.
Jag makes a wagon, but anything with near as much power?
Nope. It's basically just the E63 on these shores. There's the B5 Alpina wagon overseas, I believe.
/giphy Who gives a shit
Oh—and the Audi RS 7 Performance, as Lawrence pointed out. But that thing's old as hell at this point.
Ah. That one I haven't driven. But he raves about it, says it might be even bigger inside, and is, what...$50K less, or something?
About that, yeah. As is the E63 S wagon. You could buy either of those AND a CPO Boxster with less than 10K miles for the cost of this Turbo Porker.
[After-the-Fact Check: The Mercedes-AMG E63 S wagon starts at $107,945; the Audi RS 7 Performance starts at $131,675.]
Well, then they're categorically different. That's a whole different price range.
/giphy interesting argument
It is. I don't think you can throw the whole, "Well, if you're spending that kind of money..." It's almost half again the price of the Merc or Audi.
True, but I also feel like once you enter that rarefied price realm of $100K-plus cars, people are more likely to cross-shop over a wider range of possibilities. It's as much about the brand as it is the price. And many folks probably see all three as pretty equal.
Maybe. I'm not convinced.
I'd be curious to actually talk to Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo buyers and see what else they considered. Though it'd probably be some weird shit.
If you don't see the difference between $115K and, say, $170K, then this is your fifth car.
"I almost bought a Durango SRT, but instead I got a Panamera Turbo"
Actually, I bet it is weird shit.
Just people who don't give a fuck about money. Which we all wish we could be.
Rich people tend very much to give a fuck about money. Stupid people don't. And some stupid people are also rich. For now.
Back to the car for a moment: I did want to talk about its handling characteristics.
Please, tell me about them. I had it for an interstate blast.
Specifically, the Hogwarts graduate employment program that Porsche gets their chassis guys and gals from. Because there has to be magic involved in this thing. It tracks so flat, stays so even-keeled, sticks through turns like...
...well, like a Porsche. It drives like a 911 with a bit more weight.
If you put someone in the passenger seat, blindfolded, and put the car through some paces, do you think the passenger would tell it was a station wagon?
I don't think they'd realize it's a car. "Where did you learn to fly an F-111?"
[After-the-Fact Check: The General Dynamics F111 Aardvark was a two-seat fighter jet with an unusual side-by-side seating arrangement and a top speed of Mach 2.5.]
/giphy I just shit my pants
That's not shitting.
Nobody would expect a station wagon—or a sedan—to perform like that. Which is the magic of this day and age. We have five, six, seven, or more four-doors out there on sale that drive like (slightly heavy) sports cars but fit four people in comfort. That's pretty damn incredible.
Okay, so here's the interesting question: If you can get the E63 AMG for $50K less, and you're not a Porsche fanboy, why get the Porsche?
I'd argue "the Porsche magic," but that kinda sounds like the former category's argument. The Porsche does handle better, though. It has a certain je-ne-sais-quoi about it, as well. It looks more exotic than the E63, which, while more badass in appearance, is a much more traditional wagon shape. We car nerds dig the sleeper aspect. Many folks don't.
Sure, but in terms of how you can drive it every day it's probably, what, 95 percent of the Porsche in terms of raw feel?
Maybe. But the Porsche also has a delicacy to its dynamics that you can appreciate at everyday speeds. It feels nimbler in the real world. Just a touch, but it's there.
If it were me, I'd go for the E63 wagon and the CPO Boxster. But every time a Panamera Sport Turismo drove past, I'd stare a little too long at it and wonder.
Okay, but what's that worth, is the question? I mean, there's no doubt the Porsche badge is more exclusive. I mean, it might be priced the way it is simply BECAUSE the Audi is priced the way IT is. And a Porsche station wagon is absolutely more unique than a Mercedes station wagon. There's only one of them.
So you're going to pay for that exclusivity. It's a serious style statement, even if the car itself sometimes looks awkward. But I'm not sure that exclusivity is worth that much extra money.
So, let's wrap things up. Final thoughts?
Okay, another way to look at it is missing link between the E63 AMG and the Ferrari FF—it's more than an insane wagon, slightly less than a wagon supercar.
Sorry, this is not a final thought. It's just the price is bugging me.
Hah. Fair.
Okay, NOW, final thoughts.
Okay: this is an extraordinarily well-executed and stupidly, almost unbelievably capable unicorn machine, a Porsche station wagon, that is definitely WORTH the price in terms of the machine you're getting—all things considered, between exclusivity, luxury, performance, style, nerd cred, etc.—but still feels punitively expensive. But as I'm very much a person who would rather have one uber-capable machine than several specialists, it might be my favorite, most perfect car on the road. I will say I haven't been so overwhelmingly blown away—like, kid-in-Willy-Wonka's-factory happy—in a goddamn long time.
That's very true, folks. Josh is rarely happy.
If I can divorce myself from my hangup about the cost—which for some reason is bugging me more here than with other Porsches—it's basically impossible not to love this car. It's a Porsche that's got a cargo bay big enough I can actually lay flat in it, but can also rip around corners and haul ass like a 911 Turbo. And that's not even factoring in the unicorn factor. I'd get used to the glossy buttons. It'd be an angry month, but I'd get used to it.
Yeah, and since we didn't mention the back seat: the back seat is huge and usable and comfortable and I could live there.
[After-the-Fact Check: The Panamera Sport Turismo is the first Panamera with fully fold-flat rear seats. With them lowered, the 18.3-cubic-foot cargo bay expands to 49.0 cubic feet.]
Also—Actually, I bet you'd hate the glossy buttons more after a month.
DON'T CRUSH MY DREAMS
Once I set my radio stations and my climate settings, I never need to touch them again. I just won't let anyone else ever change anything.
You clearly don't hate on principle as much as I do.
/giphy that's all, folks
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from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor

import dcoscli
import docopt
from dcos import cmds, emitting, options, subcommand, subprocess, util
from dcos.errors import DCOSException
from dcoscli.subcommand import (default_command_documentation,
                                default_command_info, default_doc)
from dcoscli.util import decorate_docopt_usage

emitter = emitting.FlatEmitter()
logger = util.get_logger(__name__)

def main(argv):
    try:
        return _main(argv)
    except DCOSException as e:
        emitter.publish(e)
        return 1

@decorate_docopt_usage
def _main(argv):
    args = docopt.docopt(
        default_doc("help"),
        argv=argv,
        version='dcos-help version {}'.format(dcoscli.version))

    return cmds.execute(_cmds(), args)

def _cmds():
    """
    :returns: All of the supported commands
    :rtype: list of dcos.cmds.Command
    """

    return [
        cmds.Command(
            hierarchy=['help', '--info'],
            arg_keys=[],
            function=_info),

        cmds.Command(
            hierarchy=['help'],
            arg_keys=['<subcommand>'],
            function=_help),
    ]

def _info():
    """
    :returns: process return code
    :rtype: int
    """

    emitter.publish(default_command_info("help"))
    return 0

def _help(command):
    """
    :param command: the command name for which you want to see a help
    :type command: str
    :returns: process return code
    :rtype: int
    """

    if command is not None:
        _help_command(command)
    else:
        logger.debug("DCOS bin path: {!r}".format(util.dcos_bin_path()))

        results = [(c, default_command_info(c))
                   for c in subcommand.default_subcommands()]
        paths = subcommand.list_paths()
        with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=max(len(paths), 1)) as executor:
            results += list(executor.map(subcommand.documentation, paths))
            commands_message = options\
                .make_command_summary_string(sorted(results))

        emitter.publish(
            "Command line utility for the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating\n"
            "System (DC/OS). The Mesosphere DC/OS is a distributed operating\n"
            "system built around Apache Mesos. This utility provides tools\n"
            "for easy management of a DC/OS installation.\n")
        emitter.publish("Available DC/OS commands:")
        emitter.publish(commands_message)
        emitter.publish(
            "\nGet detailed command description with 'dcos <command> --help'.")

        return 0

def _help_command(command):
    """
    :param command: the command name for which you want to see a help
    :type command: str
    :returns: process return code
    :rtype: int
    """

    if command in subcommand.default_subcommands():
        emitter.publish(default_command_documentation(command))
        return 0
    else:
        executable = subcommand.command_executables(command)
        return subprocess.Subproc().call([executable, command, '--help'])

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How San Bernardino terror attack survivors are…
How San Bernardino terror attack survivors are struggling with PTSD's 'invisible wounds' 2 years later
Paula Harold has a moment with Heidi, a horse she spent time with in a horse therapy program through Equus Medendi Equine Assisted Therapy in Redlands on Wednesday, May 24, 2017. In back is her husband Anthony. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack in San Bernardino and is now dealing with PTSD. She has completed at least a dozen sessions of the horse therapy program to help her deal with the issues. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
By Suzanne Hurt | shurt@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
PUBLISHED: November 17, 2017 at 8:22 a.m. | UPDATED: December 4, 2017 at 10:02 a.m.
She'd never been afraid of horses before. Yet she froze outside the corral — her mind racing with fear as she watched the palomino quarterhorse walk around the corral in an isolated box canyon.
Since the Dec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Paula Harold had been afraid, distressed and despondent — diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Now she was supposed to go in there and begin equine therapy. But she stood behind the fence – heart beating fast, breathing shallow, her body flooded with anxiety.
"I'm scared," she said softly to horse expert Angie Sheer and therapist Susan Lilly at Buffalo Meadows Ranch in Redlands. "I don't know if it's going to charge me."
Paula Harold and her husband Tony watch as their son Jacob play baseball at Pico Park in Grand Terrace on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack in San Bernardino but is still trying to recover and deal with PTSD. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Paula Harold, of Grand Terrace, watches her son Jacob play baseball with her grandmother, Essie Vaughan, of Hemet, at Pico Park in Grand Terrace on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack in San Bernardino but is still trying to recover and deal with PTSD. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Paula Harold and her husband Tony, both from Grand Terrace, watch as their son Jacob play baseball at Pico Park in Grand Terrace on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack in San Bernardino but is still trying to recover and deal with PTSD. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Paula Harold, of Grand Terrace, checks on her son Jacob, as he sits out an inning while playing baseball at Pico Park in Grand Terrace on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack in San Bernardino but is still trying to recover and deal with PTSD. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Paula Harold and her husband Tony, both from Grand Terrace, have a moment with their son Jacob after playing baseball at Pico Park in Grand Terrace on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack in San Bernardino but is still trying to recover and deal with PTSD. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Paula Harold and her husband Tony have a laugh together as they watch their son Jacob play baseball at Pico Park in Grand Terrace on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack in San Bernardino but is still trying to recover and deal with PTSD. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Paula Harold and her husband Tony, both from Grand Terrace, watch as their son Jacob listen to his baseball coach after a game at Pico Park in Grand Terrace on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2nd terrorist attack in San Bernardino but is still trying to recover and deal with PTSD. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Photo of Hal Houser, a survivor of the Dec. 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, during an interview with the Southern California News Group. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Photo of Sally Cardinale, a survivor of the Dec. 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, during an interview with the Southern California News Group. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Photo of Julie Swann-Paez, a survivor of the Dec. 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, during an interview with the Southern California News Group. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Photo of Debbie Munden, a survivor of the Dec. 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, during an interview with the Southern California News Group. (Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Most days, Paula just stayed home. Reading. Doing housework. Afraid to go out.
She had tried things to stop the anxiety and the depression and the fear after the attack, when she'd seen bullets come through walls as she crawled down a hall to get away while a grazed coworker fell to the floor.
Now she wondered how she could return to her job as a San Bernardino County Environmental Health Services supervisor when she no longer believed in herself.
Paula is among 57 county workers trying to put their lives back together after an attack by their coworker, health inspector Syed Rizwan Farook, and his Pakistani-immigrant wife, Tashfeen Malik, at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
Fourteen people were killed and 22 others wounded when a couple bent on hatred walked into a county holiday party/training event with assault rifles and opened fire shortly after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State.
At the time, the FBI called the mass shooting the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
RELATED: A look back on the San Bernardino terror attack on its first anniversary
Trauma experts say survivors were left with the invisible wounds of post-traumatic stress, which can haunt people like Paula for years or the rest of their lives.
Sources: National Institute for Mental Health; PTSD: National Center for PTSDGraphic by: Paul Penzella —SCNG
Documented as early as Homer's "Iliad," the condition has been known by many names, including "soldier's heart" and "shell shock," but was seared into public consciousness by the troubling experiences of returning Vietnam War vets. In the late 1970s, it was given the name post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD.
Researchers estimate 70 percent of U.S. residents, or 226.2 million people, have experienced trauma, and at least eight percent later developed post-traumatic stress. There don't appear to be studies less than 10 years old updating figures for the new millennium's era of increased terrorism and mass shootings. In 2005, the National Institutes of Health reported PTSD would likely rise sharply in the next decade and become one of the century's top health issues.
Post-traumatic stress can occur after someone has experienced or witnessed a frightening event, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, military combat, rape and sexual abuse, neglect, serious accidents, violent attacks, hostage situations and diagnosis of a life-threatening condition.
RELATED: Survivors of Sept. 11, Oklahoma City terror attacks share their stories, recovery
According to trauma experts and the American Psychiatric Association's latest diagnostic manual, PTSD involves disabling, simultaneous reactions to trauma lasting more than a month. Those reactions include distressing, intrusive memories taking shape as nightmares and flashbacks; avoidance; negative thoughts or feelings like guilt and helplessness; hypervigilance and fear, which limits sleep, concentration and feeling secure.
While anatomical or physiological differences in the brain and harmful childhood experiences such as abuse or illness can leave people more at risk for PTSD, the most influential factor is how close they were to the traumatizing event, said trauma science pioneer Frank Ochberg.
"A perfectly normal person will get PTSD given enough stress," he said.
Journey toward healing
Paula was standing in the conference room, waiting to be in a group photo, when she saw a man in black walk in with a rifle. She remembers her confusion as bullets and gunpowder flew. She heard the shots but can't remember seeing or hearing anything else.
Her mind blanks until she's in the hall, crawling away while Marilyn Krichbaum, a coworker returning from the bathroom, drops to the ground after a bullet grazes her stomach. Paula crawled into a nearby room following others who'd escaped, then saw there was no way out.
She crammed into a storage cabinet and prayed the shooting would stop. Coworkers hid in other cabinets while lead Environmental Health Specialist Hal Houser, Vector Control Program Manager Jason Phillippe and Public Health Assistant Director Corwin Porter held the doors closed.
Paula's husband, Tony Harold, drove her home that night and held her the rest of the evening. They'd always been a strong team. Shaken up after not reaching her for hours, Tony knew he'd have to be mentally tough — the backbone who'd pull the family together.
He answered the front door when journalists came knocking – which sounded to Paula like gunshots.
He set up cameras outside the house. Applied for a concealed weapons permit. And never left her side.
When it was clear she'd been left with post-traumatic stress disorder, they began a journey toward healing whose end remains out of sight.
"I'm not a cheap tent. I'm not going to fold up when things are bad," he said.
Panic and fear
Post-traumatic stress can last for decades or become a life-long condition. Those who get early, effective treatment usually recover quicker and are less likely to have long-term PTSD.
Dec. 2 survivors didn't get counseling the day of the attack, yet first responders did – as did survivors of the North Park Elementary School shooting that killed a teacher and student in San Bernardino this year.
Houser said what people need to know about that day is no trauma experts helped survivors at the scene.
"I don't think there's a dedicated, trained, terrorist response after-effects team – and that really needs to happen," he said.
Time, his family and focusing on everyday life — lugging the kids to school, getting groceries and walking the dogs — have helped reduce his post-traumatic stress.
"All these things help you realize your life is still going. But you do always look over your shoulder," Houser said, sounding sad.
He's felt relief and guilt over surviving. He'd like the public, including mental health professionals, to better understand post-traumatic stress and legitimize what survivors feel after terrorist attacks.
"Especially for some of the survivors that laid on that floor in that room while the killer went around and shot people methodically that were still in agony, or sat there wondering whether he was going to come and shoot them – listening to these sounds for five minutes, wondering when the police were gonna be there to rescue them – that's a lot of terror that can really mess up somebody's mind," he said.
Ray Britain, who was interim chief of the Environmental Health Services division Dec. 2, and other survivors never understood the term PTSD until they experienced the physical and emotional symptoms.
RELATED: Here are the best approaches to treating PTSD, experts and survivors say
He's had high anxiety that's kept him home. Depression. And tension, with his body aching from adrenaline that flows in fight-or-flight reactions stuck on overdrive.
Insomnia – both going to sleep and staying asleep – comes as the event replays over and over in his head. He's had panic attacks where his heart raced and he felt about to asphyxiate.
"I never experienced a panic attack before. But when you really feel one, you truly feel like you're going to die," he said. "Fear kind of consumes your life. You don't want to go back to that place and be that helpless again."
The nervous systems of those with post-traumatic stress become extremely sensitive and are over-stimulated by other people, said Maui-based clinical psychologist Patricia Watson, a senior education specialist for the U.S. Veterans Affairs' National Center for PTSD.
"Many people kind of want to retreat into themselves and don't want to be around others," said Watson, who specializes in terrorism and disaster response.
That was true for Dec. 2 survivors. While some sought solace from family, friends and each other, others simply disappeared.
"I think there are people who have now been lost," said survivor Julie Swann-Paez, adding her heart breaks over how her friends' lives were impacted. "People who were happy people just aren't happy anymore."
Paula had once been confident, outgoing and calm. After the massacre, she became anxious, withdrawn and forgetful. Snippy and impatient at home. Feeling paranoid. In denial over whether the attack happened. She spoke with a voice that sounded like her trust in people had been broken and hid sad blue-gray eyes behind sunglasses.
Tony let her know she wouldn't have to go anywhere alone. He drove her to her coworkers' funerals and memorials, meetings with the FBI and survivors' gatherings.
He took over her responsibilities at home – making dinner, doing dishes and their finances, shopping for groceries. He and the kids – daughter Elizabeth, 11, and son Jacob, 8 — did laundry. He told Paula to relax and just be with the kids, a strength and comfort to her and them.
Tony researched PTSD. He talked to friends with it, especially Marines who'd seen combat.
Paula often asked him, "Why am I here?" For a few months, she didn't have the energy to do more than get dressed and brush her hair.
She felt safe enough to go to church, where the same people sat in the same places. She cried a lot there, leaning on her husband as they sat in a pew. He kept his arm around her.
Like others, she didn't feel ready but returned to work part-time in January 2016 when county officials said she needed to.
'It sounded like gunfire'
County vector control technician Debbie Munden was out of work with PTSD — unable to sleep, jumpy and hyper-aware – for six months, after she and her best friend, coworker Stacy Toynbee, had been in a parking lot in front of the Inland Regional Center's Building 3 when they heard a few bursts behind the structure.
Debbie went cold.
"It sounded like gunfire, but your brain doesn't want to believe that's what it is," she said.
After loud, rapid fire echoed off the buildings, they found refuge next door. Debbie later calmed hysterical coworkers while Stacy, a former Army medic, tended one of the wounded. Nearly two years later, Debbie said she's still somewhat numb, with memory and concentration problems and a shorter temper.
Experts say trauma reminders can trigger intense, uncontrollable physical and emotional reactions such as fear, horror, shame, a pounding heart, muscle tension or trouble breathing. Vivid echoes of traumatic events can feel so real, they're known as flashbacks.
"There's no time sense. It's now. And that can be very frightening," said Ochberg, a psychiatrist and Michigan State University clinical psychiatry professor who edited the first text on treating PTSD and sat on the American Psychiatric Association committee that defined the condition.
"Unfortunately, a lot of people who have flashbacks believe they are psychotic. They believe they are going crazy," he said.
Returning to work after the Dec. 2 attack, Environmental Health Services program specialist Sally Cardinale, 34, had flashbacks every time she went to the bathroom.
She'd been washing at a bathroom sink in the Inland Regional Center when a crack rang out that day. Someone looked into the hall and found a bleeding coworker, Anies Kondoker, standing outside.
"There's a shooter!" said the woman at the door. Kondoker, who'd been hit in the arm and stomach, fled into the far stall.
A bullet slammed into a wall near Sally, leaving smoke. She and three others, including a cleaning lady, crouched on one toilet, hugging each other to avoid falling.
As shooting and screaming poured from the conference room, she thought she was going to die. The cleaning lady screamed and cried in Spanish.
Shut up. You're gonna draw them here, Sally told her.
The gunfire stopped. Sally walked in a circle in front of a stall, wondering what just happened.
"You think you'd be the hero," she said. "I was in shock."
After returning to work in May 2016, Sally envisioned tiles flying off the wall whenever she was in the bathroom. Then she'd go over what she could do if shooting started again.
When she drove, hearing some songs on the radio took her back to Waterman Avenue, where bodies lay in front of the IRC on Dec. 2.
And Sally would again see a woman lying on the ground, her arms shaking in the air in complete shock, until the next time Sally had looked back and the woman's body was covered. Sally had survivor's guilt for some time because she hadn't run in to thwart the attackers like she thought she would.
Jessica Ballesteros was once so intrepid, someone gave her a small rock with "fearless" imprinted on it. She no longer feels safe and is learning to cope with her fear.
"It will always be there. You can't erase that," she said.
Secondary trauma
Dec. 2 survivors wonder if it's possible to completely heal from PTSD. Swann-Paez asked, "Is there any true recovery? Or do you just live with it?"
She had lain on the IRC conference room floor trying to play dead after being shot twice in the pelvis. The environmental health specialist focused on keeping her heart rate down. She blocked out the screams of friends and coworkers dying around her and told herself to stay calm as blood and urine spilled out of her.
"I can't let this rewire my brain," she thought.
Two years later, her mind still replays parts of the attack — Farook entering, coworkers dying. Yet she also replays memories of what she and others describe as secondary trauma – their problems getting medical treatment, medicine or equipment through the county's self-administered workers' compensation program.
Swann-Paez said their employer's "betrayal" has caused her more depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress than the attack itself – which left her with much less post-traumatic stress than some coworkers.
Ochberg, the psychiatrist, said people who were shot at recover more easily from trauma than someone who wasn't but lost a coworker or friend and develops survivor's guilt.
"If you somehow felt responsible for someone who died – that could really haunt you," he said.
Medical treatment delays and denials are a moral injury that has worsened survivors' post-traumatic stress, said Ochberg and Watson.
"It's a secondary betrayal. I would absolutely expect that to prolong the course of recovery," said Watson, the psychologist.
Fighting the stigma
For many sufferers, post-traumatic stress ebbs and flows over a natural course, during which other adversity in their lives or reminders of the original trauma can trigger symptoms months, years or decades later, Watson said.
Those effects can decline over time. The National Institutes of Health reports PTSD symptoms often never fade altogether.
Many people delay treatment for years to avoid scary memories and potentially-debilitating post-traumatic stress reactions.
Some don't know what treatment is available, want to handle it themselves or don't want to be stigmatized as having a mental disorder, Watson added.
There's a movement by Ochberg and others to change the diagnosis from PTSD to post-traumatic stress injury, or PTSI, to destigmatize what psychiatrist Jonathan Shay describes as a biological injury to the nervous system marked by persistent adaptive behaviors that were needed to survive.
Trauma experts now can suggest several approaches to help, such as resiliency building, medicine, cognitive behavioral and exposure therapies, yoga, meditation, acupuncture and biofeedback.
New Jersey resident Sarri Singer, who began New York-based Strength to Strength to support terrorism survivors after living through a 2003 suicide bus bombing in Israel, said psychotherapy doesn't work for everyone. She believes survivors recover better with support from other survivors.
Dec. 2 survivors say they wish they'd been given a list of what would help them recover and where to get help. Instead, they're doing their best to figure it out themselves.
"We're trying everything we can think of," said Britain.
Moving past shock
Paula tried yoga, homeopathic remedies and aromatherapy for anxiety. She began medications in August 2016 as anxiety got bad and a doctor put her out on her first medical leave. Being at home with the kids and outside work helped most, her husband said.
She also felt more at ease because he's nearly always got a gun on him.
It took more than a year before she could start moving past shock and begin to accept that the attack was real and people were gone – including two of her employees. Counseling, exposure therapy and time helped her process the attack.
When she began equine-assisted therapy in January, she felt worthless, isolated and weak. But with encouragement from Equus Medendi founder Sheer and therapist Lilly, Paula slowly went in the corral and later stood in front of the horse.
It took four or five more sessions before she felt comfortable being that close to one.
Paula Harold has a moment with Heidi, a horse she used in a horse therapy program through Equus Medendi Equine Assisted Therapy in Redlands on Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Paula is a survivor from the Dec. 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino and is now dealing with PTSD. She has completed 12 sessions of the horse therapy program to help her deal with the issues.(Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
The short-term program – which involved working with the animal, but not riding — helped Paula build trust and body language awareness.
She learned how to regulate her breathing and heart rate, and how to recognize and process her feelings. She learned that when her anxiety is high, she needs to move. She got hope back by building her strength.
As good as it gets?
In the past six months, Paula's been able to get out more — going to her son's baseball games, picking out pumpkins at a farm. She's guarded and processes things slowly, but has regained some patience and confidence. When she looks somber or withdrawn, Tony takes her hand and tries to lighten her spirit.
She's gone back to work four or five times. Each time, anxiety and depression returned – worse than before.
"So everything we worked for, moving forward — alleviating stress and anxiety, depression is down — she goes back to work and all the triggers came back even stronger," Tony said.
She last went out in July, after a break down at the San Bernardino office, where she and other Rancho Cucamonga staff relocated after five of those killed had worked in their office.
As the two-year anniversary approaches, some survivors' workers' comp cases are being closed when "qualified medical evaluators" or "examiners" list them as "permanent and stationary" with a certain disability level. Several of the nine survivors represented by workers' comp attorney Geraldine Ly were listed as 18 to 51 percent disabled, with most on the higher end.
Permanent disability settlements are based on those levels and divided into weekly payments. Some survivors aren't returning to work. Some are applying for medical retirements. Some survivors' cases were closed far earlier and they were listed without any disability.
In July, a qualified medical examiner said Paula was 51 percent disabled but ready to work again in a different location, in a diagnosis that stopped her temporary disability income without notice.
Wanting her not to work for the county anymore, Tony urged her not to push herself too fast, but said the decision is hers.
However, Paula enjoys her job supervising restaurant and pool inspectors. She returned part-time in September.
"I thought by going back, it would return things to normal," she said.
The first morning, she drove an hour through a thunderstorm, with lightning flashing all around her, to reach the Hesperia office where her new supervisor is also a Dec. 2 survivor.
"I can make it," she told herself as she drove.
After working a month, Paula increased from three to four hours a day, three days a week.
Tony worries she can't progress as fast as the county wants. He's waiting to see how much she can endure and still keep going. Injured workers are supposed to use the settlement money to pay for future medical needs. He wonders why civilian terrorist attack survivors like his wife can't get PTSD treatment as long as they need it, like veterans.
He refuses to believe what the psychiatrist claimed: that his wife is "permanent and stationary" — the doctor's way of saying Paula's condition won't improve even with more treatment.
"I don't believe that that's as good as she'll ever get," he said.
Whatever happens, he'll be there for the rest of the journey as they work together for Paula's recovery.
"Those feelings never go away. You just kind of learn to manage them," said Paula, sitting one morning in a corral shaded by pepper trees.
A quarterhorse named Heidi paced along the fence as she and Sheer watched. Once a skinny rescue animal who didn't trust humans, the horse now weighs 1,100 pounds and is a trusted therapy team member.
"She's beautiful and so strong and so powerful – and yet so vulnerable. And that's what we can relate to," Sheer said. "You can be both – and it's OK."
This story is part of a series on Dec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack survivors' recovery and California's workers' compensation system. The project was undertaken for the USC Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship.
San Bernardino terror attack
Suzanne Hurt | Reporter
Suzanne Hurt has written about everything from boxcar tramps and crooked politicians to surf kayaking, flash floods and the vanishing Borneo rainforest. She's worked as a reporter at the legendary wire service City News Bureau of Chicago and daily newspapers, The Register-Guard and The Modesto Bee, after a stint as an editor. As a freelancer, she produced hard news and nature, science, adventure travel and extreme sports content, including multimedia. For The Press-Enterprise and Southern California News Group, Suzanne specializes in narrative storytelling, backed by extensive hard news experience, strict journalism standards and a master's in literary nonfiction from the University of Oregon's journalism school. She's told the story of one person's survival of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, traced a man's path out of homelessness and recreated the Dec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack in San Bernardino through first responders' eyes. Also covering GA and the environment, she's written about avalanche danger, canyoneering, snowshoeing, desert and waterfall hikes, cowboy movers, rescue divers, rabid bats, stealthy burros, the mother orange tree scientists won't let die and the Jesus pancake.
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package net.koofr.api.rest.v2;

import net.koofr.api.json.JsonBase;
import net.koofr.api.json.JsonException;
import net.koofr.api.rest.v2.data.Links;
import net.koofr.api.rest.v2.data.Links.Link;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;

public class RLinks extends Resource {

  public RLinks(RMounts.RMount parent) {
    super(parent, "/links");
  }

  public Links get() throws IOException, JsonException {
    return getResult(Links.class);
  }

  public static class LinkCreate implements JsonBase {
    public String path;
  }

  public Link create(String path) throws IOException, JsonException {
    LinkCreate c = new LinkCreate();
    c.path = path;
    return postJsonResult(c, Link.class);
  }

  public static class RLink extends Resource {
    public RLink(RLinks parent, String id) {
      super(parent, "/" + id);
    }

    public Link get() throws IOException, JsonException {
      return getResult(Link.class);
    }

    public void delete() throws IOException, JsonException {
      deleteNoResult();
    }

    public static class LinkSetHash implements JsonBase {
      public String hash;
    }

    private static class RLinkUrlHash extends Resource {
      public RLinkUrlHash(RLink parent) {
        super(parent, "/urlHash");
      }

      public Link set(String hash) throws IOException, JsonException {
        LinkSetHash h = new LinkSetHash();
        h.hash = hash;
        return putJsonResult(h, Link.class);
      }
    }

    public Link setHash(String hash) throws IOException, JsonException {
      return new RLinkUrlHash(this).set(hash);
    }

    private static class RLinkPasswordReset extends Resource {
      public RLinkPasswordReset(RLinkPassword parent) {
        super(parent, "/reset");
      }

      public Link reset() throws IOException, JsonException {
        return putJsonResult(Link.class);
      }
    }

    public static class RLinkPassword extends Resource {
      public RLinkPassword(RLink parent) {
        super(parent, "/password");
      }

      public Link delete() throws IOException, JsonException {
        return deleteResult(Link.class);
      }

      public Link reset() throws IOException, JsonException {
        return new RLinkPasswordReset(this).reset();
      }
    }

    public RLinkPassword password() {
      return new RLinkPassword(this);
    }

    public static class LinkValidity implements JsonBase {
      public Long validFrom;
      public Long validTo;
    }

    private static class RLinkValidity extends Resource {
      public RLinkValidity(RLink parent) {
        super(parent, "/validity");
      }

      public Link set(Date from, Date to) throws IOException, JsonException {
        LinkValidity v = new LinkValidity();
        if(null != from) {
          v.validFrom = from.getTime();
        }
        if(null != to) {
          v.validTo = to.getTime();
        }
        return putJsonResult(v, Link.class);
      }
    }

    public Link setValidity(Date from, Date to) throws IOException, JsonException {
      return new RLinkValidity(this).set(from, to);
    }

  }

  public RLink link(String id) {
    return new RLink(this, id);
  }

}


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By Seth Plattner
Photos by Christian Högstedt
When I first meet Michael Zegen, he's standing sleek in a Bonobos tuxedo that, with its tapered trousers and fitted jacket, is a far cry from the boxy, baggy suits he's often seen in, pants practically pulled up to his nipples, as a 1950s midtown business executive on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. In short order, the Amazon series has become renowned for its sartorial flair: vintage designer pieces, pillbox hats, classic coats. But Zegen is hardly itching to borrow style notes from his character, Joel Maisel, husband (kind of) to the titular Miriam "Midge" Maisel who, after learning of Joel's affair, embarks on a stand-up comedy career to save herself from the housewife life she's hitherto been perfectly, painstakingly subjected to. "Our costume department is incredible," Zegen says, "and they do so much research to bring this world to life. But I'm more of a T-shirt and jeans kind of guy."
Indeed, when we finally sit down to chat, he's wearing dark grey jeans and striped grey and black long sleeved tee. Even so, he's eager to show off a new pair of black wing-tipped shoes he recently acquired in Milan at the premiere for Maisel season 2, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. "I've gotten more into the fancy stuff these days," Zegen says, "and I'm starting to know what I like. I was trying to find something kind of special for the premiere, and I was looking around going, no, no, no—then I saw these in the window I knew they were it."
Michael wears the Jetsetter Stretch Velvet Blazer (Navy), the Men's Tuxedo Shirt (White), the Silk Neck Tie (Matte Black), and the Capstone Italian Wool Tuxedo Pants (Tuxedo Black)
He admits they were pricey, but the dude has reason to treat himself. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is beyond bonafide as a TV hit. The show racked up 2018 Emmy's for writing and directing for Maisel showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino and also garnered a Best Actress statue for the series lead, Rachel Brosnahan. Fans undeniably adore Brosnahan for her portrayal of a whip-smart woman who's taking her life into her own hands, but it's Zegen who adds a humanized layer to the series. It's a role he's comfortable in, "I am this guy," he thought, even at his first audition.
Which is not to say Zegen considers himself a louse who would so easily cast aside his wife and children for his secretary. "I just knew I could play him," says Zegen, who, while helping a friend prepare her own audition for Midge, realized that he had to go out for Joel. "I don't know why. I've always been instinctual when it comes to the roles I want to play. And Joel, he's kind of a dick. He's kind of an asshole. He made a huge mistake. But he's trying to rectify it while also dealing with this immense amount of guilt. He's also trying to find some sort of ultimate passion in his life, so he's grounded in a way that people understand and I just find that fascinating to play."
Zegen got bit by the acting bug early. At age 8 to be exact, when, as he tells it, "my parents took me to see Les Miserables on Broadway, and there was this little kid playing Gavroche. I just remember watching him thinking, 'Yeah. Yeah, I can do that.'" Before long, Zegen—who grew up as the middle child of a teacher and lawyer in Ridgewood, New Jersey—was in acting class where "it was me and, like, 20 girls," he says. "It's not like I would have known what to do with them," he continues, "but it was great because I always got the male lead. There was no competition." What's more, Zegen perhaps gained a foundation that's seemed to serve him well in his career: not shying from female-dominated worlds, be they acting classes or TV shows written by, for, and about women.
Michael wears the Italian Topcoat (Navy Boucle), the Tuxedo Shirt (Navy Holwick Blackwatch), and the Capstone Italian Wool Tuxedo (Navy Hopsack)
Sure, he's done plenty of exemplary work in male-leaning projects. After graduating with a theater degree from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, he landed his first acting gig as Dwight the Troubled Teen on The Late Show With David Letterman. From there, he went on to play opposite Dennis Leary in FX's Rescue Me before scoring recurring roles in big cable dramas like HBO's Boardwalk Empire and AMC's The Walking Dead. In 2015, he made his Broadway debut opposite Mark Strong in Ivo van Hove's award-winning adaptation of A View From The Bridge. But it wasn't until meeting the women of Maisel that Zegen's professional stroll turned into a full-blown stride. "Rachel is so giving as a performer," he says of his onscreen wife, "and Amy Sherman-Palladino—she deserves every bit of the respect and accolades she's earned. She's one of the most talented people I have ever worked with. I have and will continue to follow her blindly."
Smart man, considering how that dedication is continuing to pay off. Along with, of course, a third season of Maisel, Zegen has an upcoming role in a yet-to-be-disclosed feature film, as well as his own aspirations behind the camera. "I want to produce my own stuff—movies and TV shows," he says. "I'd like to be the lead in a movie one day. I haven't done that. I've played major characters but I want to be the focal point. Not just because of my ego but just to see what that's like. It's scary but it's something I'd like to accomplish. But it's about doing good projects. And continuing to work with women! Because they run the world, right?"
Seth Plattner is a writer and editor at Architectural Digest. Elsewhere, his work has appeared in ELLE, Glamour, and Men's Health. He lives in New York City, loves karaoke, and, no joke, is a triplet.
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Abstract: Papers of the writer Annick Smith from 1940-2000.
Annick Smith is a writer and filmmaker whose work deals primarily with the literature and history of Montana, memoir, travel, and environmental issues. Born in Paris, France, in 1936, she grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1964, she has lived in Montana, where her husband, David Smith taught at the University of Montana. After his death, she stayed on their rural homestead and raised their four sons. Annick Smith has worked as a high school teacher, a book editor for the University of Washington Press and and editor for The Montana Business Quarterly. She is known for her film credits, which include Heartland, based on Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader, co-producer of Robert Redford's adaptation of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It, and associate producer of Peacock's War. Smith is a founding board member of the Sundance Film Institute in Utah. In Missoula, she founded the Hellgate Writers, a literary center. She has participated in numerous workshops and conferences. Smith and William Kittredge edited The Last Best Place, a best selling Montana anthology. In addition to her books, Homestead and Big Bluestem, her numerous articles, poems, and stories have appeared in Audubon, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, Story and other magazines and journals.
Smith, Annick, co-editor. The Last Best Place: Montana Anthology. Helena: Montana Historical Society, 1988.
Smith, Annick. Homestead. Minneapolis, MN: Publishers Group West, 1995.
Smith, Annick. Big Bluestem: Journey into the Tall Grass. Tulsa, Okla.: Council Oak Books, 1996.
Smith, Annick, editor. Headwaters: Montana Writers on Water and Wilderness. Missoula : Hellgate Writers, 1996.
Smith, Annick. In This We Are Native: Memoirs and Journeys. Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, 2001.
Heartland. Produced by Wilderness Women, 1979.
Peacock's War. Produced by Earthrise Entertainment, 1989.
A River Runs Through It. Produced by Allied Filmmakers, 1992.
The collection of reel-to-reel audio and videotapes, including cassette video tapes, were transferred to the SWC/SCL Audio/Visual Unit.
The collection is organized by correspondence, literary production, project files, printed material, and research materials.
The Following items: Audio, Computer Disks, Film, and Video are located in the SWC audio visual area.
Some films have been transferred to the A-V cold storage vault. These items will need time to acclimate before they can be used. The acclimation process takes 24-48 hours.
The collection is open for research. Copyright is retained by authors or creators of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by U.S. copyright law. Items stored in A-V cold storage vault (16 mm film) will need time to acclimate before they can be used. The acclimation process takes 24-48 hours.


As a week to another exciting a campfire. As we have said little about the brand new Runescape web site in a special video about Runescape 3 BTS, but today we bring you three great guest had been working on this project, in our BBS to chat with you. Join mode (chief creative designer), li mi MOD Galcian (senior game designer) and MOD Mkilley (project manager) today (Wednesday, July 10) at 5 PM BST when they began to live on the BBS to answer your question! If you have a problem, they make sure that you posted here.
I'm MOD lee male, lead creative designer Runescape. My title is what mean? Well, it means that I and my team strength related to any non game graphics and art, is to the public. New sites and cartoon, for example, we and any marketing assets, such as advertising, exhibitions, any printing job and cool illustrations, you see on our website often from talent team, my work. I have been in the Jagex for nearly 4 years in my current role, but only about 1 year.
I'm a MOD Galcian senior game designer Runescape. I is the new seasonal hiscores, various elements of RS3 (camera, a new monster coverage and handbags, etc.) and some new content, we can not talk, just haven't! I only been to Jagex about 5 months, but I worked in many other companies (Codemasters frontier development and Crytek to name a few). All of my knowledge, I have already won the studio, and apply it here Jagex Runescape as we know it can be!!!
I'm a MOD Mkilley, project manager for Runescape. I am currently working on 3 Runescape and other upcoming content. I have been in the Jagex for years now, and once in Runescape, many areas across the web and game - for example, the clan.


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Bassey News
Happy birthday Dame Shirley!
January 8, 2022 Pieter 8 Comments
On today's blog we want to wish Dame Shirley Bassey a very happy birthday! What better song to play now than I Capricorn from her YouTube channel.
Glamor, glamor and "gold fingers": Dame Shirley Bassey turns 85 (From 24 world hours)
In the past 70 years she has been an absolute constant: Shirley Bassey has been in the top 40 with at least one album in every decade. The British woman is the first artist to have succeeded – thanks to her last album "I Owe It All To You" , which made it to fifth place in their home country. At the same time, the "grand finale", as she called it, marked her departure from the world of music. She will be 85 years old on January 8th. Most recently, the singer was hardly seen in public – not even on her social media channels.
Like hardly any other singer, Dame Shirley stands for pomp, glitz and glamor, for theatricality and something triumphant in her voice. This made the singer, who was born in the rough working-class and harbor district of Tiger Bay in Cardiff, the ideal candidate to sing the song "Goldfinger" composed by John Barry in 1964. Two more 007 songs followed later, "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) and "Moonraker" (1979). That means a lot to her, emphasized Bassey: "I'm the only person who has sung three Bond songs! How fantastic is that?"
In fact, Bassey, dubbed Dame Shirley since she was knighted in 2000, had her first number one hit in Great Britain five years before "Goldfinger" with "As I Love You". She was 22 at the time and had had a tough youth. She left school at the age of 14 and began performing as a singer in clubs and bars as a teenager. Her private life has always been turbulent and complicated. In 1954, at 17, she became a mother for the first time, and in 1963 for the second time. Who the father of her two daughters is was never made public.
After the death of her daughter Samantha Bassey temporarily lost her voice. But every time the public almost wrote her off, the singer came back successfully.
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Bassey News, Guest Posts
Happy Birthday, D.S.Bassey!
Image January 8, 2022 sergiooldenburg 11 Comments
Best wishes, Dame Shirley Bassey! Happy Birthday and thank you for your magnificent talent, for your art that enchants generations through your incredible voice interpreting beautiful and unforgettable songs!
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I keep feeling extremely burnt out which isn't helping trying to keep my flat tidy and housework at a reasonable level. I know that some of my health problems may be zapping my energy but surely there is a way to not feel like someone has fed you a tone of zopiclone. I am okay one minute and then it suddenly hits me. I'm typing this from my bed. Hopefully a nap will give me some energy to at least do something. I can't not do anything because it will end up such a mess in my flat. It already looks a bit of a mess. I just don't want any conflict with others. I'm upset with things that happened in the past. That will take quiet a while for me to fully get over. I'm not the same person as I used to be. I simply cannot do conflict anymore. I get far too tired. I haven't felt great in a long time. I need alone time to get over being burnt out. I barely have energy. I know that walking doesn't help but fresh air is helpful in other ways to mental health. I have even got exhausted on walks. I take my car to places a lot more than I used to do. It saves my energy to just do the necessary things every day. I'm sorry if I've ever been a hassle to anyone else. I cannot take it back. I need rest now. I'm too exhausted to be a pain to others now. I just want peace and quiet to recover from this exhaustion.
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Get Fresh in 2010 with the QV Outdoor Market!
Join local farmers, chefs and artists at the third-annual Quartier Vanier Outdoor Market. Located in the heart of Vanier at the corner of Montreal Road and Hannah St., this year's market has more vendors, more variety and more value! The Market will operate every Saturday from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., July 24th until September 11th.


With the death of Lord John Arryn, the Eyrie, seat of House Arryn, is now ruled by Lysa Arryn. She is the mother of Robin Arryn, the future Lord of the Vale. Lysa Arryn is the sister of Catlyn Stark, and she blames House Lannister for the death of her late husband. Additionally, Eddard Stark was fostered in the Eyrie. When King Robert rebelled, it rose with him and Lord Stark. With the Stark traitor's execution, the houses of the Vale have called upon Lady Arryn to join the Young Wolf in making war upon your grandfather. According to Lord Tyrion Lannister, Lady Arryn is extremely scared of any danger befalling Young Robin and refuses to enter the fray in order to protect him. The Houses of the Vale will stop never join war on our side and must be kept out of the war at all costs.


I was checking out the State of the Twittersphere report by Dan Zarrella who works at HubSpot and was really amazed at the kind of information that's in it.
79.79% failed to provide a homepage URL.
75.86% of users have not entered a bio in their profile.
68.68% have not specified a location.
55.50% os users are not following anyone.
54.88% of users with accounts have never tweeted.
52.71% of Twitter user accounts have no followers.
There's tons of other useful infor in the PDF report which is freely available for download from HubSpot.
Of the 79.79% that failed to provide a homepage URL – I'm willing to bet that none of them were spammers.


Christmas makes some giddy with excitement but the fact that people have to exchange gifts is a whole new thing. Some put it off until the last minute but that does not always work well. A lot of people do so because they are still contemplating about what they will get their loved ones. If you are still stuck trying to think of what to buy for everyone, you just have to know the tricks to Christmas shopping. Start by creating a list of everyone you have to get a gift for. When you have several people to get presents for, you can end up forgetting and that will not work well for you. You should also have a list of several things every person in your list wants. You can easily brainstorm especially if there are only a couple of people for you to buy the presents for. The ideas will help you pick the perfect gift for everyone. You may also let past events inspire you when picking Christmas gifts. Let people relieve their happy moments or their childhood through the gifts you give. You will not need a lot of time to do this and the gifts will be well appreciated by the recipient.
You are better off picking something the person needs rather than wants. There is the whole thing of not looking a gift horse in the mouth but it will be better if you pick something the person needs as opposed to wants. It is crucial for you to consider the person's life and what will be more sensible when added to their lifestyle. The people will get to use the gift on a daily basis instead of letting it stay in the box unopened. Not many people will … Read More..
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Hiring the best financial services is also something that you should do, as when you do so, you can get the best help with bad credit history. If you have bad credit history, you are definitely in a bad position, as it will be very difficult for you to get a loan and to deal with potential emergencies … Read More..


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Tomasz Karol Schoen (ur. 7 października 1956 w Krakowie) – polski przedsiębiorca i menedżer, samorządowiec, działacz opozycji demokratycznej w okresie PRL.

Życiorys
Absolwent socjologii na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim (1980). Odbywał także studia doktoranckie na Katolickim Uniwersytecie Lubelskim. Pracował w Dyrekcji Odbudowy Zamku Królewskiego na Wawelu, następnie w redakcji miesięcznika "Znak".

Był związany ze Studenckim Komitetem Solidarności, wchodził w skład redakcji "Indeksu". Na początku lat 80. zaangażował się w działalność "Solidarności", współorganizując sekcję informacyjną związku z Krakowie. Redagował związkowe pisma, takie jak "Goniec Małopolski".

Od 1987 związany z prywatnymi przedsiębiorstwami, był też pełnomocnikiem komisji likwidacyjnej RSW "Prasa-Książka-Ruch" w Krakowie, w 1996 został prezesem zarządu firmy Aspen.

Sprawował mandat radnego Krakowa (1990–1994) i radnego sejmiku małopolskiego I kadencji (1998–2002). Działał w Unii Wolności, pełniąc funkcję przewodniczącego struktur wojewódzkich tej partii.

W 2008, za wybitne zasługi w działalności na rzecz przemian demokratycznych w Polsce, za osiągnięcia w podejmowanej z pożytkiem dla kraju pracy zawodowej i społecznej, odznaczony Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski.

Przypisy

Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Członkowie Niezależnego Samorządnego Związku Zawodowego "Solidarność" (1980–1989)
Działacze SKS
Ludzie urodzeni w Krakowie
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (III Rzeczpospolita)
Politycy Unii Wolności
Radni Krakowa
Radni sejmiku województwa małopolskiego
Urodzeni w 1956


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Warriors need 29 runs in 6 balls.
Charlie McLeod
Afif Hossain
Mehidy Hasan Miraz
Najmul Hossain Shanto
Nurul Hasan
Shoriful Islam
Taskin Ahmed
Charles Edward McLeod
October 24, 1869, Sandridge (now Port Melbourne), Victoria
November 26, 1918, Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, (aged 49y 33d)
Right arm Medium
Australia Victoria
While Wisden was passing through the press the news came from Melbourne by mail that Charles McLeod died on the 26th of November at his home at Toorak. Though never a great force in Australian cricket he was an excellent all-round man, good enough for a place in almost any XI. He came to England with the great Australian team of 1899, and paid us a second visit in 1905. In both tours, without doing anything startling, he justified his selection. In 1899 he was overshadowed by the many finer batsmen on the side, but he scored 545 runs, with an average of 17. The Australians were so strong that he was given a chance in only one of the five Test matches, but against England at the Oval he scored 31 not out and 77. He was always a batsman of the ultra-careful school, very strong in defence, but undistinguished in style. Bowling fairly well in 1899 he took eighty-one wickets at a rather heavy cost. The tour of 1905 found him much the same cricketer as before; he scored 722 runs and took ninety-one wickets. This time he played in all five Test matches, but did little or nothing. For many seasons -- 1893 to 1905 -- McLeod was a member of the Victorian XI in the inter-State matches. He played an innings of 112 against England at Melbourne in 1898 and scored 100 against New South Wales in 1896.
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Test 17 29 5 573 112 23.87 1 4 0 9 0
FC 114 179 23 3321 112 21.28 2 17 62 0
Test 17 27 3374 1325 33 5/65 5/65 40.15 2.35 102.2 1 2 0
FC 114 20134 8124 335 7/34 24.25 2.42 60.1 22 4
Australia vs England at Sydney - December 14 - 20, 1894
England vs Australia at The Oval - August 14 - 16, 1905
1893/94 - 1905
Charles Mcleod
McLEOD CHARLES, born October 24, 1869, died November 26


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