Your gown has been cleaned and presumably repaired and inspected, so it is time for the final touch: Preserving your gown for the next bride.
Allowing your gown — and its accessories — to sit in a closet or drawer for years unpreserved can affect the fabric in many ways. Without proper attention, you may not have a gown to pass down to your daughter or future daughter-in-law.
The preservation or "keepsake" box and the tissue should both be acid-free. This will slow or possibly stop aging and reduce yellowing and fabric deterioration.
Long-term storage in an attic, in a drawer, inside a trunk, in a plastic bag, or on a hanger in a closet can dramatically change the pH balance of the fabric, and possibly discolor it, sometimes beyond restoration.
Results can vary, depending on the type of fabric and its condition at the time of storage, but the wrong storage location can attract moisture, insects, and stains, and may cause the fabric to rot and become too brittle to restore.
Your drycleaner will probably offer you the opportunity to "view" your gown before it is boxed and preserved. In most cases, there is no need to view the gown before it is preserved but, if you want to check specific details, such as stains or sewing, then ask your cleaner to contact you before they actually box the gown.
There may be different-sized boxes available for fuller dresses, so ask first.
Lastly, it is okay to open the box each year to "check it out." If your cleaner suggests otherwise, or says you will "void the warranty" by opening the box, then there should be some very good reason for this instruction!


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once the PHP sub-process finished, call of the tearDown() method from the test class.
For more information on the execution engine of test in atoum, you can read the section about the annotation @engine.
The methods setUp() and tearDown() allow respectively to initialize and clean up the test environment for all the test method of the running class.
The methods beforeTestMethod() and afterTestMethod() allows respectively to initialize and clean up the execution environment of the individual tests for all test method of the class. In contrast of setUp() and tearDown(), they are executed in the same subprocess.
It's also the reason why the methods beforeTestMethod() and afterTestMethod() accept as argument the name of the test method executed, in order to adjust the treatment accordingly.
// Executed *before all* test methods.
// Executed *before each* test method.
// Executed *after each* test method.
// Executed after all the test methods.
By default, the setUp(), beforeTestMethod(), afterTestMethod() and tearDown() methods does absolutely nothing.
It is therefore the responsibility of the developer to overload when needed in the test classes concerned.


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RSpec.shared_examples 'common meander' do
  let(:original_hash) { { x: 1 } }
  let(:original_config) { described_class.new(original_hash) }
  let(:config_copy) { described_class.new(original_config) }

  describe '#merge!' do
    it 'doesnt change original hash values' do
      config_copy.merge! :x => 2, 'test' => 3
      expect(original_config[:x]).to be_eql(1)
    end

    it 'doesnt set new values to original hash' do
      config_copy.merge! :x => 2, 'test' => 3
      expect(original_config['test']).to be_nil
    end
  end

  describe '#[]= and #[]' do
    it 'doesnt change original hash values' do
      config_copy['test'] = 2
      config_copy[:x] = 3
      expect(original_config[:x]).to be_eql(1)
    end

    it 'doesnt set new values to original hash' do
      config_copy['test'] = 2
      config_copy[:x] = 3
      expect(original_config['test']).to be_nil
    end

    it 'covers child hash by cover_class' do
      config_copy[:x] = { z: 1 }
      expect(config_copy[:x]).to be_kind_of(config_copy.class.cover_class)
    end

    it 'behaves like hash_with_indifferent_access' do
      expect(original_config['x']).to be(1)
    end

    it 'allows not string nor symbol keys' do
      original_hash[1] = 1
      expect { original_config[1] }.not_to raise_exception
    end

    context 'true-false values' do
      let(:original_hash) { { x: true } }

      it 'changes value even if it doesnt true in boolean expression' do
        config_copy[:x] = false
        expect(config_copy.x).to be_eql(false)
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#initialize' do
    context 'without arguments' do
      let(:original_config) { described_class.new }

      it 'creates object with empty keys list' do
        expect(original_config.keys).to be_empty
      end
    end

    context 'nil argument' do
      let(:original_hash) { nil }
      let(:original_config) { described_class.new(original_hash) }

      it 'creates object with empty keys list' do
        expect(original_config.keys).to be_empty
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#method_missing' do
    it 'doesnt change original hash values' do
      config_copy.x = 2
      config_copy.y = 1
      expect(original_config[:x]).to be_eql(1)
    end

    it 'doesnt set new values to original hash' do
      config_copy.x = 2
      config_copy.y = 1
      expect(original_config[:y]).to be_nil
    end

    it 'allows to access key value by method' do
      expect(original_config.x).to be_eql 1
    end

    it 'doesnt create method with _some_name_= key' do
      original_config[:z=] = 3
      original_config.z = 4
      expect(original_config.z).to be_eql(4)
    end

    it 'creates new value if block given' do
      original_config.z { |z| z.x = 1 }
      expect(original_config.z.x).to be_eql 1
    end

    it 'calls original method_missing if no values set' do
      expect(original_config).to receive(:[])
      original_config.non_exist
    end

    context 'original key already has some value' do
      it 'overrides this value' do
        original_config.x { |x| x.x = 1 }
        expect(original_config.x.x).to be_eql 1
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#key?' do
    it 'true if value was changed' do
      config_copy.y = 2
      expect(config_copy.key?(:y)).to be_eql true
    end

    it 'true if original hash has this value' do
      config_copy.y = 2
      expect(config_copy.key?(:x)).to be_eql true
    end

    it 'false if no such key in exact hash or original one' do
      config_copy.y = 2
      expect(config_copy.key?(:z)).to be_eql false
    end

    context 'different type keys' do
      let(:original_hash) { { :x => 1, 'y' => 2 } }

      it 'true if original one had symbol key but argument is string' do
        expect(original_config.key?('x')).to be_eql true
      end

      it 'true if original one had string key but argument is symbol' do
        expect(original_config.key?(:y)).to be_eql true
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#keys' do
    it 'converts to_s keys of both current and super hash' do
      original_config[:y] = 2
      expect(original_config.keys).to include('x', 'y')
    end
  end
end

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There has also been a surge of interest among office tenants and developers in South End, perhaps better known for its breweries and thousands of new apartments than Class A office space. Beacon Partners has opened 1616 Center, next to Price's Chicken Coop; Dimensional Fund Advisors is building a new, seven-story headquarters on the former Food Truck Friday lot.


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This is a list of Nepalese List A cricketers. List A cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams. Matches played in the tournament of World Cricket League division 2 and above also qualify as List A. This list is not limited to those who have played List A cricket for Nepal and may include Nepalese players who played their List A cricket elsewhere means in Nepal national team, or any other domestic matches which has list a status. Nepal got honored with an ODI status on 15 March 2018 after the win over Papua New Guinea in the playoff game of The ICC world cup qualifier-2018. Netherlands beat Hong Kong in the next game ensured that Nepal will secure an ODI along with T20I status till 2022 and a road to ICC Intercontinental Cup as well as ICC World Cricket League Championship which will be continued for 4 years till 2022.

The list A players of Nepal are listed alphabetically by their last name.

Key

Players

Statistics are correct as of Nepal's most recent List A match, against Netherlands 17 March 2018.

See also

 Nepal national cricket team
 List A cricket
 List of Nepal Twenty20 International cricketers
 List of Nepalese First-class cricketers
 List of Nepalese Twenty20 cricketers

External links

 Cricket Archive
 Nepalese players in the 2014 World Cup Qualifier
 Nepalese players in the 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Two

References

Lists of Nepalese cricketers

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Now that the Articles were signed, the English took possession of the Irish town, while the Irish still occupied the English town, each party having a guard at their own end of Ball's Bridge. While the Articles were under discussion, there was some relaxation of discipline on both sides; the officers and men of both armies visiting each other perfectly freely, and fighting their battles over again in quite a friendly and convivial spirit. It seems most likely that the following anecdote belongs to this period, and not to the day of the Boyne, as sometimes asserted, Sarsfield is said to have asked some of the enemy's officers "What they now thought of the Irish?"
They said that their opinion of them was "What it had always been."
Sarsfield appears to have taken this in an uncomplimentary sense, and replied: "Change kings, and we'll fight you again."
This free intercourse afterwards gave rise to difficulties, and had to be restrained. By the Military Articles, the Irish officers and soldiers who desired to enter the French service had liberty to do so; and it was further stipulated that Ginkel should provide, at his own cost, ships for their transport, and that of their families, hostages being taken for the safe return of these ships when the work was done. Sarsfield was naturally desirous of taking with him to France as large a number of men as possible.
"On the other hand, the Lords Justices," as Harris frankly admits, "were not wanting in their duties to countermine the design, and to render the effects of the Articles of as little force as possible."
Every effort was made by them and by Ginkel to thwart Sarsfield, and induce the Irish either to take service under William, or to go back to their homes. Each side accused the other of attempting to break the Articles. Sarsfield, in order to prevent his men from deserting, is said to have kept them practically imprisoned in the Irish town, the gates of which were shut and guarded; many escaping by scaling the walls and swimming across from King's Island. On one occasion a sharp dispute took place between Sarsfield and Ginkel, respecting a lieutenant-colonel, who had written to Ginkel, complaining that he had been imprisoned for refusing to go to France. Ginkel at once ordered four guns to be planted on Ball's Bridge,
"Saying with some heat, that he would teach them to play tricks with him, which my Lord Lucan hearing of (for so we may venture to call Lieutenant General Sarsfield now, since the articles do it), he came out to our camp, and several sharp words passed, my Lord Lucan saying at last that HE WAS THEN IN THE GENERAL'S POWER. Not so (replies the other) BUT YOU SHALL GO IN, AND THEN DO THE BEST YOU CAN."
Sarsfield explained that some prisoners of State, who had been set at liberty, had afterwards come from the English camp and spoken disrespectfully of the Irish officers, and that it was for this misdemeanour that the colonel had been imprisoned. He was probably an agent of Ginkel's, as Harris suggests when commenting upon this.
"And indeed it is not impossible that several of those Irish officers who resorted the camp, were tempted by rewards and promises to draw off as many of the Irish as they could from the French voyage."
The colonel was set at liberty, and the matter dropped. As soon as the Articles were signed, the Lords Justices wrote to Mr. Francis Cuffe, their agent in Dublin, to go at once to Lambay, where the Bally more garrison were still confined. By the Treaty of Limerick they were already free, and at liberty to leave the country if they so desired; but Cuffe, without letting them know of this, was to promise that on taking the oath of allegiance (which they were not bound to take, if going abroad), and agreeing to remain quietly at home, they should be discharged, and given provisions for their journey. This Harris admits to have been a trick.
"Another LESS JUSTIFIABLE STEP," he says, "was taken to discourage the embarcation of such numbers of soldiers to France, "but this was done solely by the directions of the General and the officiousness of Count Nassau, who would not suffer the wives and children of the soldiers intended for France to be shipped with the men, not doubting that it would hinder a great many from going. This was certainly an infraction of the first of the Military Articles, which provided for the passage of all persons willing to go to France, together with their families."
Sarsfield, in a very polite letter to Ginkel, protested against this, hoping, he said: –
"That as hitherto they had proceeded on both sides with sincerity, so, relying on his Excellency's honour, and the publick faith, they expected to be dealt withal, without wresting or extorting any meaning out of the articles contrary to agreement, and the genuine sense of them, which candid manner of proceeding will add to the reputation of your arms, that of your justice."
Instead of yielding at once, Ginkel consulted the Lords Justices as to how he could avoid complying with Sarsfield's just demands. They, however, told him plainly he was bound by the obligations of the Articles. This was politic as well as just, with the Irish still under arms, and the French fleet in the background. Ginkel, who really had some difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of transports, made the most of his difficulties; and it was not until after a good deal of correspondence between him and Sarsfield that everything was satisfactorily arranged.
On October 5th Sarsfield and Wauchope made speeches to the soldiers, holding out to them hopes of good pay and active service in France, and telling them that next year they might have a chance of redeeming the fortunes of Ireland by an invasion.
"And a great many other advantages," says Story, "were laid before them, which would have seemed improbable to any but Irish Men, who easily believe what they would have, but are as soon dejected at any frivolous misfortune."
Early next morning, October 6th, the Irish clergy preached sermons at the head of each regiment, exerting all their eloquence to induce the soldiers to take service in France, rather than join the ranks of a heretic prince. This done, the bishops gave them their blessing, and the whole force of the Irish Foot was drawn up either on the Clare side of the river or on King's Island to the number of 14,000 men.
The appearance of these Irish troops, many of whom afterwards fought so gallantly in the armies of France, as they mustered after the siege in their tattered garments, was so wretched as to excite the ridicule of the French officers, who amused themselves with many jests at their expense, as they marched past. Those who accepted service under William, or wished to return to their homes, were to file off at a certain point; those who volunteered for France were to march straight forward. The event was anxiously watched by Sarsfield and Wauchope on the one side, and by Ginkel and his officers on the other. The result is thus described by Story:
"That which they called the Royal Regiment, being then fourteen hundred men, seem'd to go off all entire except seven men, which the General was much concerned at; then my Lord Ivaeghe's Regiment of Ulster Irish, came off entire to our side, as did also Colonel Wilson's and about half of my Lord Louth's, and a great many out of most other Regiments, Brigadier Clifford, Colonel Henry Lutterel, and Colonel Purcell, all appeared averse to the going for France."
About 2,000 of the Irish went home, 1,046 mustered at Ginkel's quarters, and the rest, some 11,000, followed Sarsfield, to Ginkel's great disgust. Not all of these, however, were shipped to France. There were many delays before sufficient transports could be obtained; and when it came to the point many refused to leave the country that they knew and loved, for service in foreign parts, which they did not know. When the first transports, which had sailed from Limerick, returned to Cork to take on board a second detachment, news began to get about that the Irish had been badly treated in France, and that the officers instead of keeping the rank they had had in Ireland, were each moved down a step by order of Louis, but contrary to the wishes and promises of James. In a contemporary letter quoted by Story, the writer says –
"Never people that had left their all, to come hither to serve were so meanly treated… When they are landed they lye in the field, a night or two at least, before they are sent into their quarters, and then they get neither money nor cloaths, and but little of anything else. As I pass along the streets, the souldiers wish they had died in Ireland before they came here, and many of the Officers express themselves to the same purpose, and are extremely dejected and melancholy."
On the other hand, on November 19th, 1691, the Lords Justices state in aa letter that they had: –
"Received complaints from all parts of Ireland of the ill-treatment of the Irish who had submitted, had their Majesties' protection, or were included in articles."
This caused a revulsion of feeling, so that: –
"Some thousands of those who had quitted the Irish army and gone home with a resolution not to go to France, were then come back again and pressed earnestly to go thither, rather than stay in Ireland, where, contrary to the Catholic faith, as well as law and justice, they were robbed of their substance and abused in their persons."
Whether it was that many women and children, not included in the Articles, presented themselves for shipment at the last moment, or whether there was gross mismanagement on the part of the Irish agents responsible for the shipment, it is hard to decide. But when the last transports were about to sail from Cork, there was a terrible scene. The shipment took place on the 8th of December, on which very day Sarsfield gave Ginkel a release to the effect that:
"As he has provided ships for as many as are willing to go," he is now free "from any obligations he lay under to provide vessels for that purpose."
Ginkel, therefore, was not in fault; unless he succeeded in overreaching Sarsfield at the last moment, of which there is no evidence. Wauchope seems to have superintended the embarkation, and on him Story lays the chief blame; though he says that the overcrowding was due to a proclamation issued by Sarsfield and him:
"That as many of the Irish as had a mind to't, should have liberty to transport their families along with themselves."
"Accordingly," he continues, "a vast rabble of all sorts were brought to the water-side, when the Major. General (Wauchope), pretending to ship the souldiers in order, according to their lists, they first carried the men on board; and many of the women, at the second return of the boat for the officers, catching hold to be carried on board, were dragged off and through fearfulness, losing their hold, were drowned; but others who held faster, had their fingers cut off, and so perished in the sight of their husbands or relations."
This terrible catastrophe was not apparently due to the deficiency of accommodation in the ships; as a great number of women and children were afterwards got safely on board, and taken to France. The immediate cause was evidently a panic among the women, who, fearing they would be left behind, crowded into a boat not intended for them. The rough usage they received was disgraceful to those immediately concerned in it, and no proper care for their orderly embarkation can have been taken.
Thus inauspiciously began that flight of the "Wild Geese," which went on through the reigns of Anne and the first Georges; filling the ranks of the armies of Europe with the flower of the youth of Ireland. It cost England dear, in more ways than one, and caused an English king to curse the unjust laws which deprived him of such soldiers.
Story estimates the total number of persons taken to France from Limerick and Cork at 12,000. This seems to be a pretty correct estimate, as Fumeron, the French Commissary in Limerick, writes from Brest, December 10th, 1691, that 8,000 Irish troops had disembarked there up to that date.
The capitulation of Limerick and conclusion of the Irish war, caused great rejoicing in London. In a news-letter in the Earl of Denbigh's collection, William is described as watching the Lord Mayor's Procession from the balcony at Whitehall, The most popular item in this was "a group of Orange Trees, with aa number of Irish Rapparees hung in effigy from the branches."
Space does not permit of anything but the briefest chronicle of Sarsfield's subsequent life on the Continent.
In the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris there is an interesting letter from an octogenarian Irish officer to his son, giving an account of his own services in Ireland and on the Continent. In this he complains bitterly of James's treatment of his faithful Irish followers. On their arrival, he says, James made an arrangement with Louis,
"By which we were placed upon the French establishment, reserving for himself our extra pay for his own maintenance, and that of his household. We gladly consented to this bargain, though made at our expense; as it made him free of all obligation to the French king, except the honour of his alliance."
In spite of this, however, the King showered his favours upon the English and Scotch Jacobites, who formed his court at St. Germain, and when the Irish presented themselves they were received with scant courtesy, the King scarcely daring to speak to them, and only upon the most commonplace subjects. Melfort and his brother, Lord Perth, were high in his favour. Sir Richard Nagle, who had been his Secretary of State for Ireland, was now left in the background; and the officers were degraded, some even to the ranks.
The Irish were formed into four regiments, as we find from Narcissus Lutterell, whose diary briefly mentions the principal events of Sarsfield's subsequent career. The first of these was called the Prince of Wales's Regiment; the second and third were commanded by the Duke of Berwick and his brother, Henry Fitzjames; the fourth by Lord Lucan, upon whom Louis conferred the order of the Holy Ghost, promising him a good post in the French army. He was afterwards, Luttrell says, given command of the Irish in Italy, but he never went there; for now, at last, there was a plan on foot for the invasion of England. Louvois had died suddenly, after an angry interview with Louis. He had always looked with disfavour upon such an attempt, even when it had every chance of success. Now, when he was dead, Louis resolved upon it. A camp was formed on the Norman coast, where all the Irish regiments were mustered, the command being given to Sarsfield. There had been some disaffection on the part of the Irish, who were discontented with the treatment they had received; "so that Sarsfield was posted away to appease the said discord."
A great fleet was assembled at Brest, 80 ships of the line and some 300 transports. Bellefonds was commander-in-chief, and De Tourville, admiral. James himself, with the Duke of Berwick, was to embark with the expedition. He counted on the English admiral, Russell, and other captains, and hoped that the fleet would declare for him. Russell, disgusted by a stupid proclamation of James, frankly told his agent that he would fight the French if he met them, even if the king himself were on board; and fight them he did, defeating and destroying the French fleet off La Hogue, after several days' engagement, on May 24th, 1692.
This was a severe blow to James, who proposed to retire to a monastery; and to Sarsfield it must have been among the great disappointments of his life. In June, Luttrell says, it was rumoured he had been "clapt up in the Bastille for holding correspondence with the king's enemyes," having been but badly used. This seems to have been a false rumour, for in July he was in high command at Steenkirk. In this great battle, William endeavoured to surprise the French under Luxembourg; but was defeated after much slaughter on both sides. The English regiments suffered severely, losing several officers who had distinguished themselves in Ireland. Mackay, Douglas, Lanier, all fell here; as did Mountjoy, who had been exchanged for Richard Hamilton at the end of the war; and Hamilton himself, who, on being exchanged, accepted service under William in Flanders. In this battle Sarsfield greatly distinguished himself, and was mentioned by Luxembourg in his despatches of August 4th, 1692, as having shown: –
"That valour of which he had given such proofs in Ireland."
He adds:
"I can assure your Majesty that he is a very good and capable officer."
After the battle, finding he had several prisoners and wounded men in his hands, he wrote to Auverkerke to let him know they would be well treated and exchanged as soon as possible. Narcissus Luttrell's diary says that several French surgeons were sent from Brussels to attend to the wounded,
"Whom Sarsfield had taken much care of, praising their courage, promising that they should want for nothing, and so soon as recovered, they should be exchanged."
On Luxembourg's recommendation Sarsfield was raised to the rank of lieutenant-general in the French army. Shortly after this, in September, 1692, Ginkel, now Earl of Athlone, writes from the camp in Flanders, that Sarsfield has written him "obliging letters" and with the king's permission he (Ginkel) has sent him a present of two English horses. This gave him an opportunity of writing to Sarsfield about some of the transports which had been seized by the French and not returned.
In April, 1693, Sarsfield received his marshal's baton; the Duke of Berwick to whom he had so long been subordinated, only then being made a lieutenant-general, if Luttrell's diary be correct. He did not long enjoy his new honours, receiving a mortal wound at the battle of Landen, fought in July that same year.
At Landen, Luxembourg was again opposed to William, whom he attacked this time. He had made a feint of besieging Liège, inducing William to leave his position at Louvain, and advance to Neer-Hespen, having detached a body of 20,000 men to cover Liège. Luxembourg then turned back from Liège, and advanced with some 80,000 men to attack William, who was left with but 50,000 to guard his frontier. Instead of retreating behind the river Gheet or Gette, which was in his rear, William resolved to await the enemy where he was. He had occupied several moated villages, upon which his lines rested, Walcowen and Neer-Landen being on his left, Neer-Winden and Laer on his right, his centre extending from Neer-Landen to Neer-Winden. In an incredibly short time he had strongly fortified these villages, and entrenched his whole line between village and village. He was strong in artillery, having 100 guns in position, with which he was able to annoy the French as they came up, for some hours before their own batteries could reply.
The village of Neer-Winden was the key to William's position, and was furiously attacked several times by Luxembourg, and several times taken and re-taken before it was finally held by the French. In the first attack, the Duke of Berwick, in endeavouring to rally his men, was taken prisoner by his uncle, Brigadier Churchill, who recognised him, as he attempted to escape by passing for an English officer. He was at once taken to the rear, where he had a short interview with William, which he thus describes:
"The Prince made me a very polite compliment, to which I only replied by a low bow: after looking steadfastly at me for an instant, he put on his hat, and I mine; then he ordered me to be carried to Lowe."
He was afterwards exchanged for the Duke of Ormond, who had been wounded, and taken by the French William, when he found that the day was going against him, did all that a brave general could do to avert the utter rout of his army. When they were driven from their entrenchments, he covered the retreat, and was almost the last to leave the field. He had a narrow escape in passing the bridge across the Gheet, amid the press of his broken troops, many of whom were drowned in the river. He conducted his retreat in a masterly manner, and Luxembourg gained little by his victory.
It was in the last charge that Sarsfield, at the head of the flower of the French cavalry (no Irish regiment being engaged), as he drove the enemy down to the river, was struck by a musket ball in the breast, and fell. As he lay on the ground he is said to have put his hand to his wound, and, seeing it covered with blood, exclaimed: "Would to God this were shed for Ireland!"
He was carried from the field to the village of Huy, where he died in a few days, of the fever induced by his wound. He was, no doubt, buried there, but no stone marks his grave.
He left one son and one daughter. His son, James Francis Edward, was brought up by the Duke of Berwick (who married Lady Lucan in 1695), and served under him in Spain. He was afterwards employed to organise a movement of the oppressed Catholics in Ireland, in favour of James III, which came to nothing. He died, without issue, at St. Omer, May 12th, 1719. He had been decorated and pensioned by Philip V., for gallantry at the Siege of Barcelona.
The daughter married Baron de Neuburg, styled King of Corsica.
Sarsfield's mother survived him, as appears from the following extract from the diary of Colonel Peter Drake, of Drakesrath, under date 1694: –
"From Paris I went to St. Germain, where I met with Mrs. Sarsfield, mother of Lord Lucan, and her two daughters, Ladies Kilmallock and Mount Leinster; the eldest of whom was my god-mother. These ladies, though supported by small pensions, received me with great generosity, and treated me with much good nature."
Eugene Davies, in his Irish Foot-prints on the Continent, gives a romantic account of Lady Lucan's courtship by the Duke of Berwick, who visited her at Huy, where she lived for some time after her husband's death.
"She was still quite young, and even girlish in her manners, despite her widow's weeds, and was remarkably prepossessing in appearance. Her own relatives as well as those of her late husband, had so completely abandoned her, that she was in almost absolute poverty in Huy. Berwick's heart grew full of pity for the desolate beauty, and as pity is akin to love in such cases, he soon became so enamoured that he offered her his hand, which was graciously accepted."
The marriage took place immediately, and Berwick became the guardian of Sarsfield's son. This was in 1695. In 1696 the lady, now Duchess of Berwick, was outlawed by William; in 1698 she died; and on Berwick's second marriage next year, with Miss Bulkeley, Davies says he "abandoned" the young Earl of Lucan.
Little as we know of Sarsfield's private life, his personality makes a very vivid impression upon the student of his career. The big man, dreaded as a swordsman as he charged at the head of his cavalry, had a big heart in his breast, brave, loyal, generous, and affectionate. Possibly he lacked the organizing and business qualities which go to make a first-rate general; possibly he could not have done what St. Ruth did in training a raw army, and handling it as at Aughrim. But it is unfair to assume that, with St. Ruth's opportunities, he could not have done so. He never was in supreme command of an army. He undoubtedly possessed many of the qualities which go to the making of a commander; the power of inspiring those under him with confidence and enthusiasm, an instinctive sense of the value of a bold attack in defensive warfare, a dauntlessness and fertility of resource in defeat, a power of making his presence felt and dreaded even by a victorious enemy. He was, in many respects, unfortunate; but he "never did to fortune bend the knee." As one looks at that best-known portrait of him, taken from the Bingham picture, the face seems to wear a somewhat melancholy expression. The eyes, that gaze out from under the great wig with its flowing curls, are sad; but the mouth, with its firm-set lips, is full of resolution. It is the face of a chivalrous gentleman, courteous, kindly, honourable, easily irascible, no doubt, but easily appeased; and there does not seem to be a trace of that swelling vanity of which he has been accused. One thinks of Hamlet's speech to Horatio:
"Thou hast been
As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing;
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Has ta'en with equal thanks: are bless'd are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop, she please.

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Now Hiring in Lake Travis: What Business Owners Really Need to Stay Afloat
Written by Cathy Hale | November 2, 2016
The employee shortage is not a new topic in the Lake Travis area.
We wrote about it a year ago, crunching the numbers to illustrate exactly how serious the problem is.
We recently said goodbye to our friends at Kid-E-Shack, who closed their doors citing hiring woes as one of the main causes. And they aren't alone.
The "Help Wanted" and "Now Hiring" signs aren't just peppering the Lake Travis area, they're blanketing it.
In a shopping center with 15 retails shops, you can easily see 12 signs posted. What's scary is the shortage of skilled workers is a problem in Westlake, Bee Cave, Lakeway, Steiner Ranch, and Four Points. It's beyond problematic.
We know community leaders are doing their best to find answers, like van-pooling, but efforts are slow-going.
In the time it takes to implement solutions, how many more businesses will be forced to close their doors?
Which makes us wonder, what do business owners really need?
122% increase in Lakeway alone
If you take a peek at job postings online, searching in the Lakeway area specifically, you'll see some interesting indicators as to the seriousness of the hiring headaches.
For example, on Indeed it says, "The Lakeway, TX job market is strong compared to the rest of the US. Over the last year, job postings in Lakeway, TX have increased by 122% relative to a national decline of 32%."
700 jobs in the Lake Travis area
If you search another popular website like StartWire, more than 700 jobs are posted within a five mile radius of Lakeway. From shift supervisors at Starbucks to line cooks at H-E-B to physicians at Scott & White, the career opportunities run the gamut.
Solutions in the works
Capital Metro is open to conversations about creating programs to assist Bee Cave and Lakeway, but neither currently has a contract in place with the agency. This means you have no public transportation and you probably won't in the near future.
Relief in the form of vanpools would mainly assist big retailers who need a lot of employees — like Target, Home Depot, and H-E-B — because these programs come with a price tag that most small businesses cannot afford.
Like a dog chasing its tail
A great example of the nature of employment in Lake Travis can be illustrated with Oaks at Lakeway.
When H-E-B began construction, the excitement was palpable. But when everyone saw the enormous store take shape — a store that would require lots of employees to keep it running — the reality set in.
What began happening behind the scenes was pretty simple. Let's say an employee who was working at Lowe's left to work at H-E-B and then left again to work at High 5. Now let's say this happens hundreds of times. It's a cycle that's hard to break in the "boomburbs."
They need you
One of the best attributes about Lake Travis is its "live local" mantra.
Part of the solution to the hiring woes in Lake Travis is in your hands.
You can shop at the newest stores and dine at the newest restaurants. Plus, you have the gems in Lake Travis that have been around for many many years.
Think of living local as reinvesting in all of them. Your patronage matters.
Can we "live local" better?
If you see a "Now Hiring" sign and you know someone looking for a job, connect the dots for them.
If new employees are learning the ropes at a new job, be patient and supportive.
Don't get flustered by the construction at Hill Country Galleria. Instead, understand how amazing it will be after completion.
In these instances, what you do and how you do it is absolutely crafting the future of Lake Travis.
The Lake Travis Chamber of Commerce is actively working together with the community to find viable solutions. If you'd like to be part of that conversation contact Laura Mitchell at [email protected] or call the office at 512-263-5833.
About Cathy Hale
Cathy is a nationally recognized writer, marketing nerd and proud mom of two. In addition to her role as Senior Staff Writer for Lake Travis Lifestyle, Cathy is a content writer for brands like Little Remedies and Clear Eyes. Over the years, she has been featured as a mommy influencer for Babble, iVillage, SELF, Parents and BabyCenter. She's been happily navigating the wild world of motherhood in Lakeway since 2007. Catch her on Instagram: @CathyATX
Monika Matthews says
A long time resident of Lake Travis I would like nothing better than to work here vs. driving 45-min to an hour each to my job as a Golf and Hospitality Professional in Austin. Salaries in Lake Travis need to keep up with the expense of rental- housing here. $ 10.00 – 12.00hr just does not pay the rent.
M. Matthews
Denise Iles says
It would be helpful to the businesses and us if a list of local job openings could be posted to this site. Is there anyway to know who is hiring without going to each business to check if there is a "hiring" sign hanging in the window?
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Sue Ellen says
I'm a sales guru and at 60 years young I am looking for a part time sales position. How do I find out what's available. I'm a people person and customer service is what I appreciate and will do.
Bridge Bertram says
If you have a Facebook page you can add a resume or a job ad to the Facebook page "Jobs in Lakeway, Bee Cave, and Spicewood."


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Posted by Phil on Mar 12, 2021 in All, biopic, Film, musical, News | 0 comments
Kenneth Branagh is going to direct the untitled Bee Gees< biopic movie for Paramount Pictures. I wonder if it will be called Staying Alive? Ben Elton is working on the screenplay.
The Bee Gees were a music group formed in 1958, featuring brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.
The Bee Gees have sold over 120 million records worldwide (with estimates as high as over 220 million), making them among the best-selling music artists of all time. The Bee Gees' Hall of Fame citation says, "Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees." The Bee Gees are the third most successful band in Billboard charts history after the Beatles and the Supremes
Barry Gibb, who took part in Frank Marshall's HBO documentary How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, is working on the new film and will be executive producer according to Deadline.
Paramount got life rights to the Gibb family estate, and the rights to use their classic songs in a movie back in 2019.
It is still early days for this one, but I do like The Bee Gees and I now wonder who will be playing the Brothers Gibb?


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MPA vs. MBA: What's the Difference?
No matter the industry in which you plan to pursue employment, investing in a master's degree can help you rise to the top of your organization. But not all master's degrees are created equal.
For emerging leaders, the choice between a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) can be a difficult one. Both focus on organizational management and there can be significant overlap in the coursework required for each degree, but there are some key differences that can have a significant impact on which career paths are open to you after graduation.
Private sector skills, public section passion
The contrast between an MBA and an MPA is usually framed as that between profit-driven, private sector employment (MBA) and mission-driven, public sector employment (MPA). However, this doesn't tell the whole story. Many MBA holders work in the government, in nonprofits or in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and, likewise, many MPA holders find themselves in key positions at major corporations.4
The difference between the two degrees is more fundamental than which job markets will find your skillset attractive after graduation. Instead, it comes down to how you'll approach your career as a manager and leader. The degree you choose will influence the success benchmarks you'll find most important, the ways you'll approach funding your business and your personal attitudes toward the significance of social service in your chosen career.5
Profitability versus social good
For a private corporation, it's pretty simple to measure success: Look at the profits. From the smallest mom-and-pop retail shop to a multinational conglomerate, the success or failure of a business is dependent on its profitability. By contrast, for organizations such as nonprofits or government entities, success can be far more difficult to measure. Because these organizations aren't expected to generate profits, success is best measured as "doing the most good for the greatest number of people."
If an MBA prepares you to work within markets, an MPA prepares you to work in the gaps between the markets, where individual and social problems remain unaddressed. Practically, this requires a different set of skills. While an MBA will emphasize ways in which leaders can maximize profits, an MPA prioritizes skills like working with disparate groups to reach compromises and make decisions in uncertain environments.6
Relying on publicly available funds
Another key component of organizational leadership is securing and managing funding for your enterprise. In the private sector, funding is just one among many terms that can affect the bottom line. But as an MPA holder, your allocation of funds must always be conducted with a focus on the public and the public good. This difference may seem insignificant at first, but upon further inspection, the management of public funds requires a noticeably different approach. In an MPA program, you will develop the skills necessary for fundraising, soliciting donations and applying for grants.
Working hard for the common good
At the end of the day, the choice between an MBA and an MPA must take into account your personal approach to your career path. Each of us is motivated by a variety of different factors, and the degree you pursue and your subsequent career choice should reflect not only your goals, but also your interests, passions and values.
If both an MBA and an MPA can provide a comfortable standard of living and will help you develop important skills for management, it comes down to a personal choice: Would you rather spend your time working for the improvement of your company or for the betterment of society?
A bright future for the "fourth sector"
Regardless of which degree you choose, recent trends suggest an overall movement toward a business environment that places a greater emphasis on the public good, no matter where you work. Indeed, some have taken to describing the emerging crossover between private-sector, governmental and nonprofit missions as "the fourth sector," a new hybrid market to which an MPA is perfectly suited.7 Not only that, but general trends indicate that millennials, soon to be the most represented generation in the workforce, place community service ahead of a high salary when they rank what motivates them at work.8
With an MPA, you'll be prepared to meet the challenges of the future head on, with an adaptability that your employer will appreciate. If you have a head for business and a heart for community service, you may be destined to follow an unconventional path toward an online MPA.
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Press Release on Rt. Hon. Speaker's Visit to TAR, PRC
The Rt. Hon. Mr. Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Federal Parliament of Nepal, arrived at Lhasa on 7 September 2018 for a 6 day visit of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) upon the invitation of the Chairman of the TAR Government H. E. Mr. Qi Zhala.
On 8 September 2018, the Rt. Hon. Speaker visited the temporary premises of the Consulate General of Nepal in Lhasa located in the premises of Tibet Hotel. During his visit, Mr. Gobinda Bahadur Karkee, the Consul General, briefed the delegation about the activities of the Consulate General and about Nepal-TAR relations.
The Rt. Hon. Speaker visited the products exhibition in the Fourth China-Tibet International Tourism and Culture Expo 2018. In the afternoon, he attended a seminar named "The Third Pole of the World Tourism and Culture Summit". In the seminar, H. E. Mr. Qi Zhala, Chairman of the People's Government of TAR, PRC, highlighted the attractions of TAR as a unique tourist destination of the world and the priority attached by his Government to the development of tourism industry. He stressed that the TAR Government has adopted the policy of opening up Tibet to the visitors from all around the world.
A Vice-Minister from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of PRC also delivered a speech in the seminar. He emphasized that the central Government of China, particularly H. E. Xi Xinping, the President, has paid great attention to the development and prosperity of Tibet. Representatives from the Chinese Academy of Science, business and tourism associations, including from other provinces of PRC, also spoke in the seminar. The speakers shared their success stories on how they were able to promote different forms of tourism in their provinces and how the experiences could be beneficial for TAR. The representative of the Chinese Academy of Science drew attention to the threat posed by global warming and climate change to Tibet and Himalayan region, and mentioned that if these problems are not controlled, global warming and climate change could endanger this region, which exists as the water tower of South Asia.
Before attending the seminar, the Rt. Hon. Speaker also visited the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple of Lhasa, which are its central tourist attractions and also very famous Buddhist shrines. He attended the Princess Wencheng live performances in the evening, which dramatizes the marriage between Tsrong Tsam Gampo, the legendary king of Tibet, and a Tang dynasty princess named Wencheng.
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नेपाली महावाणिज्यदूतावास, ल्हासा रहेको हालको स्थानमा महावाणिज्यदूतावासका भवनहरु तथा परिसर पुनर्निर्माण कार्य निकट भविष्यमै शुरु हुन लागेकोले पुनर्निर्माणको अविधभरका लागि २०७५ भदौ ४ गतेदेखि नियोग निम्न ठेगानामा सर्न लागेको व्यहोरा सम्बन्धित सबैका लागि जानकारी गराइन्छ ।
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« Day 598 – Australia is like that!
I guess I'm a sort of an amphibian human being. Not that I'm cold-blooded or have 4 legs. But I tend to find comfort and joy in most environments, from the empty and isolated Aussie outback with no modern luxuries around, to here, at Carolyne's place!
It feels like heaven here – the bed is huge and firm, the internet is fast, Suzy (the Cat) is adorable, the kettle gives me hot water (coffee!) with no fuss and fumbling with the multifuel burner, the fridge is cold, the sun's warm. Life can be so sweet & simple.
In fact, the cosyness of just fooling around in the house – slightly pretending it's all mine, while Carolyne's at work in town at the Forensic Science Department – prevented me from doing any sightseeing at all today. So much for planning. Instead Carolyne and I went to the movies to see a cute little French move, Conversations with my Gardener – or as the French would have undoubtedly put it, Dialogue avec mon jardinier.
In most Australian states (incl. SA) you have to wear a helmet when cycling. I find that stupid. Downright.
Partly because I don't have one and don't intent on buying one 'cos I feel quite claustrophobic (and geeky) with to much crap attached to my head (no sunnies either), and partly because I think the Australian urge to control its citizens went too far here. So far I've managed to cross the continent with just a few warnings from the police (a firm "Put your helmet on!") , and I believe I'll be able to continue that way…Time will tell.
Quote of the Day: With our thoughts we create the World – Buddha.
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In his first battle since 2010, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin landed a number of exhausting blows to knock out Carolina Hurricanes rookie Andrei Svechnikov within the first era of Monday's first-round playoff sport. Svechnikov remained down at the ice after the bout and needed to be helped to the dressing room. He was once later dominated out for the sport.
Svechnikov challenged Ovechkin to the battle after the 2 exchanged slashes more or less 11 mins into the sport. Ovechkin agreed to the bout, losing his gloves. Ovechkin is 40 kilos heavier than Svechnikov. This was once simply the fourth battle of Ovechkin's occupation and his first within the playoffs.
Hurricanes Trainer Rod Brind'Amour implied after the sport that Ovechkin shouldn't have approved the battle.
"It's a bit bit tricky as a result of I simply heard Ovi speak about it. He mentioned our man challenged him," he mentioned. "So if that's the case, it's a bit other. If you happen to watch the video, [Ovechkin] slashes him two times … then Svech will get him again. I don't know if there's phrases exchanged, however one man's gloves comes off approach first — and that's Ovi, no longer our man.
Svechnikov, a 19-year-old Russian scoring winger, had mentioned previous within the collection that Ovechkin is somebody he seemed as much as as a child. The No. 2 pick out within the 2018 draft performed in each and every sport for the Hurricanes within the common season, scoring 20 targets and including 17 assists. He had two targets in Recreation 1 of this collection and an lend a hand in Recreation 2.
If any workforce were given momentum from the battle, it was once the Hurricanes, who ruled the Capitals in a Five-Zero win in Recreation three. Washington nonetheless has a 2-1 collection lead, however the workforce wasted a chance with Carolina down two forwards for lots of the sport. Along with Svechnikov taking place, Micheal Ferland suffered an undisclosed upper-body harm within the first era.
Ovechkin has finished a bit little bit of the entirety to begin the collection, scoring a objective in Recreation 1, putting in two in Recreation 2 and turning in 15 hits around the 3 contests. Don't be expecting to look him preventing once more anytime quickly.
Christian Djoos has slightly noticed the ice those playoffs. His coaches need that to modify.
This might be Brooks Orpik's remaining run with the Capitals. He's making it depend.
How smartly do you have in mind the Capitals' Stanley Cup run? Take our quiz.


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Registration will open in mid July, 2013. Students should register via this site or by completing the registration forms in the CDO.
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Answer: Hi dear u should have healthy diet which Includes correct combination of iron calcium vitamin protein vitamin c fibre rich, folate rich . U should have fruits vegetables milk chicken. Egg dry fruits salad in ur regylar diet. Don't miss ur medicines.
Answer: Hello... Dear during first trimester,you may experience nausea, vomitting, tiredness and more sleepy during day too,so you should have nutritious diet will help lot.. Include folate rich whole grain,oats ,millet,green leafy vegetables, veggies and fruits will help lot in neural tube development Always have fruits after meal will increase stamina,thus prevent tiredness Have two glasses of milk daily,also include curd,paneer,tofu will increase calcium content,which is needed for bone development of fetus If you feel more nauseated or have too much vomitting,have breakfast within a hour of wakeup,add ginger,cumin to your diet will helps in preventing these issues,can also have cumin water will help a lot It is essential to drink three litres of water a day,also include soup, juices will help to prevent dehydration Include lean chicken,eggs and low mercury content fish,prefer home made foods rather than outside food, avoid papaya, grapes, pineapple Apart from diet,it is essential to take folic acid tablet will helps in preventing neural tube development and avoid heavy workout,take rest as much you can.
Answer: Hii Your body uses the nutrients and energy provided by the food you eat both to build a healthy baby and to keep your body strong. A healthful diet for pregnancy is one that contains most or all of the essential nutrients your body needs and one that provides the right balance of carbohydrate, fat, and protein without too many calories. To build your healthful pregnancy diet ,choose a range of nutrient-packed foods from the following groups: Fruits: 3-4 servings a day. Choose fresh, frozen, canned (in natural juice, not heavy syrup), and dried fruit or 100-percent fruit juice. Include at least one citrus fruit (orange, grapefruit, tangerine) each day because citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C. Limit fruit juice consumption to no more than 1 cup a day; juice is high in calories compared with whole fruit, and it does not deliver the fiber that whole fruit does. One serving equals one medium piece of fruit such as an apple or orange, or 1/2 of a banana; 1/2 cup of chopped fresh, cooked, or canned fruit; 1/4 cup dried fruit; or 3/4 cup of 100-percent fruit juice. Vegetables: 3-5 servings a day. To get the greatest range of nutrients, think of a rainbow as you fill your plate with vegetables. Choose vegetables that are dark green (broccoli, kale, spinach), orange (carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, winter squash), yellow (corn, yellow peppers), and red (tomatoes, red peppers). One serving equals 1 cup of raw leafy vegetables such as spinach or lettuce, or 1/2 cup chopped vegetables, cooked or raw. Dairy foods: 3 servings a day. Dairy foods provide the calcium that your baby needs to grow and that you need to keep your bones strong. To get sufficient calcium, drink milk and eat yogurt and cheese. To save on calories and saturated fat, choose low-fat or non-fat dairy products. If you are lactose intolerant and can't digest milk, choose lactose-free milk products, calcium-fortified foods, and beverages such as calcium-fortified soymilk. One serving equals 1 cup of milk or yogurt, 11/2 ounces of natural cheese such as cheddar or mozzarella, or 2 ounces of processed cheese such as American. Protein: 2-3 servings a day. Select lean meats, poultry, fish, and eggs prepared with minimal amounts of fat. Beans (pinto, kidney, black, garbanzo) are also a good source of protein, as are lentils, split peas, nuts, and seeds. One serving equals2-3 ounces of cooked meat, poultry, or fish, which is about the size of a deck of cards; 1 cup of cooked beans; 2 eggs; 2 tablespoons of peanut butter; or 1 ounce (about 1/4 cup) of nuts. Whole grains: 3 servings a day. It is recommended that you eat a minimum of six servings of grains per day; at least 50 percent of those grains should be whole grains. Whole grain breads, cereals, crackers, and pasta provide fiber, which is very important during pregnancy. Eating a variety of fiber-containing foods helps maintain proper bowel function and can reduce your chances of developing constipation and hemorrhoids. As often as possible, select whole grain foods over those made with white flour. For example, eat whole wheat bread rather than white bread. One serving equals 1 slice of bread, 1 ounce of ready-to-eat cereal (about 1 cup of most cereals), or 1/2 cup cooked cereal, rice, or pasta.
Question: Which type food I eat??
Answer: Hello, I'm happy to help. Few of the foods to eat when you are pregnant are : Dairy products. Sweet potatoes Eggs Broccoli and dark, leafy greens. Berries Dried fruits and Whole grains. Consume whole grains like whole wheat chapatti, brown rice, oats, whole meal bread etc. Include at least 2 to 3 servings of protein rich foods like milk and milk products, egg, pulses, dal, chicken, fish etc. Take care.


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Vattenfall Cyclassics, Germany
This German sportive gives Cyclist a taste of life in the fast lane
Taking place just three hours ahead of the famous Vattenfall pro race, this German sportive gives Cyclist a taste of life in the fast lane
We are racing through one of the most famous red-light districts in Europe when I recognise the bar where, barely 36 hours earlier, I'd watched a muscular dwarf wearing just a cape and a pair of Speedos gyrating on a podium in front of a sign which said in German 'Will dance for money'.
I don't have time to dwell on this flashback. The bunch is at least 100-strong and we are nudging 45kmh. We are only 3km from the finish of the Vattenfall Cyclassics sportive and our proximity to the fleshpots of Hamburg's Reeperbahn (also known as die sündigste Meile, 'the most sinful mile') has led to a collective raising of testosterone levels. A blood-curdling sprint finish surely beckons.
André Greipel, John Degenkolb and the cream of the professional peloton are a few hours behind us. Admittedly there's not much happening on the Reeperbahn on a Sunday lunchtime, but I wonder if the pros will be equally distracted by our 'colourful' surroundings. Have Team Sky factored this
into their training programme? Were scantily-clad models employed to pose provocatively on the slopes of Mount Tiede in Tenerife as Ian Stannard and co churned out the watts? Throughout the sportive we've managed to survive the strict cut-off times to complete the same route the pros are doing in what is Germany's only elite UCI World Tour race. Now all we have to do is cross the finish line…
Six hours earlier and I'm trying to keep warm. A bitter wind is blowing down the Mönckebergstrasse and the sun is still hidden behind the bulk of Hamburg's Hauptbahnhof railway station as nearly 19,000 cyclists look for their starting pens. Mine happens to be near the front, along with the other 2,000 riders registered for the 155km distance. Another 12,000 doing the 100km route are behind us, while a further 7,000 doing the 55km distance are starting on the other side of the city centre.
This is my first time at the event, which has been running as a precursor to the professional race since 1996. It's a mostly German affair and as such quickly lives up to the vorsprung durch technik stereotype of well-ordered efficiency. Pre-race feed stations, changing facilities and bag storage are all in abundance. Cavernous marquees with showers will be awaiting us along with our medals at the finish. And 'Yes, of course' is the answer every German gives to the question, 'Do you speak English?' I get talking to Eric Salzinger, an ex-amateur American Football player who the previous year finished 22nd overall in the 100km race. This will be his seventh year, yet he's clearly as excited as a first-timer.
'With an almighty whoosh, a 100-strong pack of riders churns by in a blur of Lycra'
'We don't have any mountains or even big hills in northern Germany [the total elevation for the 155km route is only 650m] so riding over the Köhlbrandbrücke [harbour bridge] is very special,' he says. 'It's considered one of the longer and more challenging climbs. It sounds odd, but riding over it at 35kmh does hurt.'
He also teaches me some German words that will be useful in the peloton – vorne, a warning for a hazard ahead; and hinten, to let other riders know you are behind them. However, as an Englishman weaned on The Great Escape, I'm naturally wary of using the word achtung…
We are waved off exactly on time at 7.35am, with the other pens starting off at 15-minute intervals behind us. I'm naively expecting a 'neutralized' section, maybe a gentle amble through the deserted city centre streets to allow our kaffee and franzbrötchen to digest. Instead it's a full-on scramble to get to the head of the race before the route enters the city's dockside wasteland of swing bridges, disused tramlines, chimneys and cobbles. Most hazards are indicated well in advance, and many of the tramlines have been filled in with fresh tar, but there's nothing to be done about the stiff wind blowing in off the River Elbe other than grimace and bear it.
After seven kilometres I can see the twin pylons of the Köhlbrandbrücke looming ahead. The dual carriageway leading to it – normally off limits to cyclists – is relentlessly long and straight, and though the incline isn't particularly steep, the side winds make it a hard slog. Our attempts at forming echelons are, frankly, an embarrassment.
The cable-stayed bridge is a feat of impressive engineering, apparently, but all I'm concerned about is keeping in touch with the wheel in front of me. The Cyclassics is that kind of event – less about the views and more about the sensation of actually being part of a fully-functioning, racing peloton. As we leave the stripped, industrial landscape behind us and cross the river towards a more rural, leafy terrain, it becomes clear that total concentration on my bike and my co-riders will be a prerequisite for the next few hours. Riding at speed in such close proximity to so many complete strangers – none of whose bike-handling skills I can take for granted – is as terrifying as it is exhilarating. (My caution is justified. I will later learn that 66 riders needed hospital treatment, including one for a serious head injury, as a result of crashes in the event.)
The first of two 'mountain classifications' is a gentle 1.5km incline. Spinning up it in a line of about 20 riders is easy. We reach a wooded part of the climb when suddenly it all goes quiet. It's like the ominous silence in a Tarzan film that precedes the invasion of killer ants. And then, in an instant, I feel the faintest shift in the air behind me, and a distant whisper turns into an almighty whoosh as a 100-strong pack of riders from pens C and D finally catch up with us and go churning by in a massive blur of garish Lycra and spinning limbs.
A few of us jump out the saddle and try to grab the tail end of the group, but these boys mean business, largely because they are only covering the 100km distance. I sit back down again and try to regain my previous rhythm, the sympathetic applause of the spectators ringing in my ears.
This is the other memorable feature of the sportive: the number of people who have come out onto the streets early on a Sunday morning to cheer and encourage thousands of amateurs. It's still several hours before the pros will be steaming around the course offering the promise of a famous face or a discarded team-branded water bottle, and yet already hundreds of fans have set up their deckchairs and folding tables and are getting excited – excited! – at the sight of me puffing and panting past them. The watching children are just as keen, lining the kerbs and offering out their hands for high fives from us. After doing this several times at well over 30kmh, I realise that if it's leaving my palms red and stinging, what is it doing to the tiny digits of the poor six and seven-year-olds in my wake?
Don't stop now
The sun is high in the sky by now, but even the simple operation of rolling down my arm warmers or taking a swig from my bottle is fraught with complications. There are so many strangers' wheels in such close proximity I'm frightened the slightest deviation from my line will bring the whole pack tumbling down.
By the time we head back through Hamburg's city centre, the bunch I'm with has thinned down to a single thread of riders. The majority have peeled off left toward the finish line of the 100km course. Suddenly I'm feeling alone and exposed. I'm also out of food and water. There's a feed station in six kilometres. Do I give up the wheel I'm on to refuel or keep up this momentum and risk hunger knock?
'If high-fiving at 30kmh is leaving my palms red and stinging, what's it doing to the tiny digits of the six-year-olds?'
As soon as I veer into the feed zone I realise my mistake. I'm the only rider there amongst the tables heaving with energy bars, chopped bananas and segments of orange. I quickly fill my bottle, stuff some bananas in my jersey pockets and clip back in. A pack of about 20 riders goes racing past. Can I catch them? I check behind me. There's no sign of any other groups so I'm going to have to give chase. I grind my way through the gears. The road is wide and straight and the group ahead seems within touching distance. Soon I'm churning the pedals around at 45kmh but they aren't getting any closer. The riders at the back of the group are freewheeling, not even pedalling, and yet I still can't catch up. The rules of aerodynamics mean they are getting a free ride while I'm almost coughing my lungs up.
Eventually I have to ease off and hope there's another group not far behind me, otherwise I'm going to blow up. As I pass knots of spectators I get a rapturous reception. They don't know if I've lost contact with the bunch ahead of me or am a brave solo breakaway from the group behind. Both scenarios seemingly merit the approval of the crowd. Even in no-man's land, I'm a hero.
Eventually I'm hoovered up by a strong line of about two dozen riders. I slot in near the back and say a silent prayer. Each rider is taking a good pull at the front – at least five minutes – and I'm nervously watching the number ahead of me diminish gradually. Soon it'll be my turn. There's very little talking between us, though occasionally a rider will peel off to the side and express his frustration at something with hand gestures and scary-sounding German vowels.
When there's only one rider left ahead, there's a sudden surge in speed and a gap opens up in front of me. He's a broad-shouldered giant with calves like tree stumps, but surely he's not supposed to ramp up the pace like this? I'm now being half-wheeled by the guy behind me. I have to bridge the gap before I'm overtaken by the rest of the group and spat out the back.
I manage to hang on, bracing myself for my turn. I glance down to my side and can see from the shadows that our train is still intact. Now it's all down to me. The big guy peels off and I put my head down as the wind slaps me in the face. I'm glancing between my Garmin and the road. I've lost a few kmhs but manage to keep the pace in the early 40s. We arrive at a 90° right turn thronged with excited spectators waving rattles and honking horns. I take a deliberately wide line allowing the next rider to come through whether he likes it or not, hoping the colour and confusion of the crowd will conceal my cowardice. No one seems to notice and I enjoy a much-needed breather at the back of the line.
With under 20km to go we reach the second 'classified' climb, the Kösterberg, which rises from the banks of the Elbe to the heady height of 90 metres over a distance of three kilometres (the pros, however, will be tackling the Waseberg, the next street along with its 15% incline that is inexplicably out of bounds to us amateurs). We've caught up with another group and our combined mass sweeps up the hill imperiously.
Now that we're on the home straight, the tension rises with the pace. As we turn on to the Reeperbahn, there's no time for complacency. But my fears of a violent sprint finish are fortunately unfounded – a series of 90° turns in the last kilometre and a ramp up to the finish line seem to drain any remaining vestiges of competiveness from our legs.
I cross the line and am funnelled down a succession of back streets to the banks of the Alster lake, where I swap my transponder for my medal. Then it's time for a shower, beer and schnitzel, which I'm happy to take at a more leisurely pace than the preceding six hours.
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The Forage House
Book Type: Poetry
by: Tess Taylor
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Pages: 88pp
Review by: Julie Swarstad Johnson
"[S]he could see her story going on, her people there in the past—a way of imagining that grounds her," writes Tess Taylor in her debut full-length poetry collection The Forage House ("Meeting Karen White, Descendent of Jefferson's Gardener Wormley"). While these words describe someone other than the collection's primary speaker, they prove an apt summary of Taylor's first book: in The Forage House, we witness a personal discovery of family history and how it colors the speaker's present. Throughout the collection, Taylor's first-person speaker finds herself immersed in the vivid reality of her family's past, a past that spans a period from Thomas Jefferson to a Confederate soldier who survived Gettysburg to her parents' early years of marriage living in a Brooklyn commune. The Forage House presents the simultaneous distance and unshakeable presence of history through poems that bridge research and imagination, the distant past and the lived present.
Taylor's most notable ancestor—Thomas Jefferson—acts as the volume's lynchpin. Two poems in, we're with Taylor's speaker as she inspects an archaeological dig in a field a half mile from Monticello. "Inheritors of absences, we peer / into the five-by-five foot ledge," she notes, juxtaposing the bare reality of archaeology with lyrical description of what history makes of us ("Eighteenth Century Remains"). For the speaker, the things left out of her family's history haunt her most, Jefferson's slave children forcing her to reconstruct her theories. "Erasures are deliberate and accidental. Erasures are deliberate," she writes, showing us the process of readjusting her thought based on what her research brings to light ("Meeting Karen White, Descendent of Jefferson's Gardener Wormley"). In a long poem, "A Letter to Jefferson from Monticello," Taylor's speaker addresses Jefferson directly as "O hypocrite," but by the poem's end, he becomes "ambitious foundering father I revere & hate & see myself in." Taylor doesn't simply settle for either hate or reverence but chooses instead to show us both options, arguing that both have a place in our understanding of history.
Accuracy plays a key role in Taylor's ability to see both good and bad. In The Forage House, accuracy takes the form of details, whether as a meticulous recording of objects or the use of historical documents, including family papers and oral histories. In "Museum of the Confederacy," Taylor notes "tatters delicate as widows' laces," "Lee's tarnished bowls," and "the Davis boy's toy musket," but then juxtaposes them against the present reality of "the state hospital . . . / smelling like sour cafeteria pizza, sweat," and the presence of smokers and freeways. Historical documents take the form of family papers or eyewitness accounts from living relatives, and Taylor uses these resources to astonishing effect. In "Oral History 1963," for instance, Taylor recounts a violently suppressed march in Danville, North Carolina during the Civil Rights era and her grandfather's attempt to stand up to the judge who sentenced the demonstrators to fines and labor. The poem summarizes a newspaper article on the demonstration and quotes her grandfather's letter to the judge, conveying the horror of the situation and imbuing the grandfather with a sense of heroism. But at the poem's end, Taylor admits that he "backpedaled," and the poem concludes with the judge's words: "Mr. Taylor, you should have considered your wife & children." Taylor uses arrangement to her advantage, piecing together the scraps of experience to create a memorable whole.
Although Taylor weaves together scenes from the past with conviction, she also doesn't argue for one authoritative version of events. In The Forage House's final poem, Taylor's speaker envisions her mother, in the past, moving from research in a library in India to elopement with the man who will become Taylor's father. As in the poems throughout the collection, rich details fill this imagining: "a Maharaja's crooked portrait" and "moldering civil servants' maps, tobacco tariffs" give way to a landscape where "cows paw garbage fires at dusk," and "prayers rise like minarets" ("Bombay Archive 1975"). However compelling these details, as the poem concludes the speaker's mother gets the last word: "And, No, my mother says, you haven't listened. / No, it wasn't like that really—" For all the depth of research evident in this collection, Taylor boldly admits—and embraces—her potentially flawed position as a poet. She invites us to not only inhabit the past with her, but also to examine the impossibility of ever really knowing it completely. Because of Taylor's candor, The Forage House succeeds as both historical record and a well-written poetry collection, a memorable combination that invites us to inhabit Taylor's vision of the past.


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Chip Babcock Discusses the Election and His Role as a Member of the Commission on Judicial Selection
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As the nation awaits results of the 2020 election, The American Lawyer spoke with attorneys and staff at law firms around the United States – including Jackson Walker partner Chip Babcock – about how the race is impacting their work.
In the article, he noted:
"I am staying very busy today but on only one matter with any connection to the election. The rest of my work today relates to ongoing litigation, and if my clients are distracted I haven't seen it. Of course, I am still a member and vice chair of the Commission on Judicial Selection and will be studying data from the 2020 elections across the state and how money played into the various judicial races."
To read more, view The American Lawyer's article "As Votes Are Tallied, 'Less Work Will Get Done' but 'Business Goes On' at Law Firms" (subscription required).
Meet Chip
Houston partner Charles L. Babcock is a nationally recognized trial and appellate attorney. Chip's practice experience includes bet-the-company litigation, First Amendment litigation, commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, government investigations, media litigation, and appellate litigation. In addition to receiving the Ronald D. Secrest Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award from the Texas Bar Foundation, Chip has been named a "25 Greatest Texas Lawyer of the Past Quarter Century" by Texas Lawyer and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
In October 2019, Chip was appointed to serve on the Texas Commission on Judicial Selection. The 15-member Commission has been tasked with studying how Texas selects certain trial and appellate judges—including statutory county court judges, district judges, and appellate justices and judges—and reporting findings and recommendations to the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the governor by December 31, 2020.
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In last year's Chief Marketer social marketing survey, we said that if you weren't integrating social media into your marketing plans, you were not behind the curve — yet.
According to this year's findings, that window is rapidly closing. About 64% of the more than 1,300 respondents to our 2010 Social Marketing Survey said they now integrate social into their media mix in some fashion, whether through a Facebook page, Twitter account, a corporate blog, a social community on their site or via a third party, or simply by interfacing with influential bloggers. Another 21.5% said they aren't up and running in social media yet but expect to be so by the end of next year.
That means by 2012, more than 85% of marketers anticipate having a significant marketing presence of some kind in social media whether corporate blogs, social networks, microposting platforms like Twitter, or some format that has not yet surfaced in the social media world. That compares to 80% who said last year that they had or would have a social marketing plan in place in 2010.
Not that the respondents who said they're practicing social marketing claim to have a handle on its true marketing impact. In that respect, social marketing seems to be a lot like Mom's chicken soup: It can't hurt, and it might help.
Those remarks dovetail with the benefits social marketers said they get from the channel. Many of these social rewards closely track the benefits highlighted in last year's survey, but at higher reporting rates. For example, 81% of this year's respondents said the chance to reach consumers as they want to be reached was the biggest benefit from social marketing, about the same proportion as in 2009. But 59% said they were in social because their target customers were spending more time online, making it the second most cited advantage, up five percentage points from last year.
And while low cost remained a notable driver for engaging in social marketing (52%), the ability to listen to prospects and customers and engage them in interactive dialogue came up big-time as a social-media asset — 52%, compared to only 37% of respondents who cited it in 2009.
Equally revealing is this year's list for anti-social behavior from marketers who aren't using the channel. Last year's number one response, "lack of budget" (44%), has fallen back to number five this year and dropped to 22% of respondents. Apparently, marketers have been convinced that social can be done cheaply, at least.
But the new confusion is over exactly what to do. Among respondents not using social media for marketing, the largest proportion (36%) told pollsters this year that they're paralyzed by the inability to decide which social medium will offer the biggest benefits for their brand and their markets. And 23% said they were uncertain what first steps to take when dipping a toe into social media.
In people resources, shortage of in-house expertise is about as big a barrier to social marketing this year (35%) as it was last time (37%). But this year a lot of social media avoiders ticking the "other" category as a reason for not getting in the game cited a shortage not of experts, but of basic personnel to give social media the round-the-clock attention they believe it requires.
Among those who do use social media for marketing, responses to the question about their strategic aims were surprisingly similar to last year's result. Both audiences named driving traffic from social to their brand Web site as the primary reason for engaging in the channel, although a lower proportion named that as a primary aim this year (56% compared to 69% of respondents in 2009). And once again, speaking directly to passionate fans ranked second as a reason to use social (54%).
But while sales conversions (41%) and lead-gen aims (31%) still figure in the top five reasons to do social marketing, it's interesting to see that simply racking up raw numbers of followers (34%) has shouldered its way into the ranks of goals for social marketing. Last year, one-fifth of respondents said they were running campaigns and maintaining presences in social channels to stay even with their competition. This year that share of social defensives is lower (14%).
That suggests that some of the respondents who last year worried about not going head to head with their rivals in terms of a Facebook or Twitter presence are now worried about looking much less popular that the competition.
When it comes to the tools and specific tactics social marketers espouse, the majority of respondents (72%) said their brands maintained a profile, presence or other kind of account within the most popular social networks. Only 7% said they found no reason to establish that kind of presence in any social channel.
The larger the company's revenue, the more likely a respondent was to say that his or her brand does something in social networks. In this year's survey, 78.2% of marketers who worked for companies earning more than $50 million said they managed social media profiles of some kind for marketing purposes. But so did 75.2% of those whose employers earned $5 million to $49.9 million, and more than two-thirds (68.4%) of those at companies earning less than $5 million a year.
And the most common tool for integrating social media into a brand's campaign is, as might be expected, simple placement of a button icon on its Web site or in e-mail. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they invite visitors or recipients to engage with them by that means. The next most popular social tool was uploading video to YouTube or other aggregator sites, an approach two in five (41%) respondents said they take.
Only a bit more than one-third of respondents (37%) said they make their e-mail shareable within social networks, and even fewer (34%) said they target special rebates or other value-add offers to consumers who fan or follow them on social networks.
That last is surprising, because research has shown that the desire to hear about deals first or exclusively is one of the driving reasons consumers fan brands in social media. For the same reason, it's of interest that so few respondents (14%) said they're using social media to entice fans or followers to share coupons with their social graphs.
One thread running through many of the responses and comments received in this year's survey is that while social marketing may be necessary and relatively easy on the budget, it's also far from being truly measurable — at least not in the same below-the-line terms as other channels.
In fact, 42% of those who answered the Chief Marketer poll said they consider themselves either "not very" or "not at all" effective when it comes to gauging the bang they're getting for their social marketing bucks. That's within shouting distance of half the response pool.
Meanwhile, another 48% said they or their agencies are "somewhat effective" at applying metrics that convey a real picture of their social campaigns' impact. Only 10% of the marketers polled said they feel themselves — or, if appropriate, their marketing agency partners — to be "very good" at determining social marketing success.
And that non-traditional workaround seems to be the tack being pursued by lots of other marketers. They want to be in the social sphere because their customers are; but at the same time they need to visualize how impactful their social marketing efforts are, and how cost-effective as a use of their budgets and resources.
Most of those polled (59%) said that need for a proxy success metric translates, at minimum, into tracking the numbers signing up to friend, fan or "like" their brand in social media. But 44% take that head count to the next level and estimate the effect of their social marketing by the number of times their content in the channel gets shared, forwarded or re-tweeted, taking that as an indicator of user interest.
In case you were wondering, Twitter seems to have made itself a permanent nest in the great marketing tree, with 50% of respondents saying their company has a corporate account for marketing purposes. Another 15% said they will launch in Twitter within 12 months. If another 10% who now say they're considering Twitter follow through on their evaluation by 2012, that will mean three-quarters of the marketers polled this year will be on the microblog platform.
By far the most popular approach to handling Twitter seems to be to put one person or small group in charge (73%) and let them become 140-character megaphones for the company line, speaking on topics closely related to the brand.
By contrast, only 17% of marketers said they or their company encourages numerous individuals to tweet as themselves on brand-related subjects. And an even smaller proportion (10%) opt for the full-authenticity route and let multiple folks post to Twitter as employees on whatever subject they think will draw readers and re-tweeters to the content.


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RIGHT ON!!! Now this is the kind of writing I've been waiting for from you. And as a matter of fact I have written a similar blog on myspace. Not only is this a huge issue in society, it is a major problem for families too. Even though the price of coffee may seem high, I love to visit the coffee shops for just the peaceful atmosphere, the homeliness. And no, I don't think that people would shun you away there, at least not in my experience! As a matter of fact I am going to my new favorite one in the city next week YAY!!!


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DRUGS | WINNIPEG MAN BUSTED FOR TRYING TO IMPORT FENTANYL
The Canada Border Services Agency and Royal Canadian Mounted Police charge a Winnipeg man for alleged importation of fentanyl.
On July 25, CBSA officers at the Vancouver International Mail Centre intercepted 39 grams of fentanyl.
The quantity of fentanyl seized could have produced up to 400 doses according to the CBSA.
The parcel originated in China and was headed to Winnipeg. The declaration on the package said it was documents however a white substance was found and sent for analysis. It was later confirmed to be fentanyl.
"This seizure demonstrates how the CBSA is Canada's first line of defense against the smuggling of illegal drugs" said Roslyn H. MacVicar, Regional Director General, Pacific Region, Canada Border Services Agency
Border Service officers turned the drug over to RCMP "D" Division in Winnipeg for further investigation. On August 5, 2016, a joint operation was conducted in Winnipeg that resulted in the arrest of Jayden Obireck-Becker, 21, from Winnipeg.
"Fentanyl continues to pose a significant threat to public safety. Interagency cooperation, as seen in this investigation, is the key to keeping Canadians safe from the dangers of fentanyl. The RCMP remains committed to working with all stakeholders to reduce the supply, demand, and harm of this dangerous drug." said Tim Olmstead, Inspector, Federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit, RCMP "D" Division
Obireck-Becker has been charged with:
Importation and possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
Possession of a prohibited weapon under the Criminal Code.
Obireck-Becker is scheduled to appear in Winnipeg Provincial Court on September 8, 2016.
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