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O Estádio José do Rego Maciel (conhecido popularmente como Estádio do Arruda ou Arrudão, ou ainda Mundão do Arruda) é um estádio de futebol localizado em Recife, estado de Pernambuco, Brasil. Pertencente ao Santa Cruz Futebol Clube, tem atualmente capacidade para 60.044 espectadores.

O maior estádio de Pernambuco
O maior estádio de Pernambuco e entre os dez maiores da América do Sul, o Estádio do Arruda, é um dos principais estádios do Brasil. Em Pernambuco, além do tamanho, é considerado um dos melhores estádios do nordeste e do Brasil de acordo com o site WorldStadiums, concorrendo de perto com os estádios públicos do Castelão (Fortaleza-CE) e Fonte Nova (Salvador-BA).

O estádio foi construído pensando na mobilidade do espectador, possui uma elevação mais suave dos degraus que facilita o acesso dos torcedores. A visibilidade é de 100%, no estádio não existe alambrado, isso proporciona uma das melhores visão do campo de jogo do país. A acústica é uma das melhores, o som emitido no anel inferior é projetado para o campo de jogo pelo anel superior funcionando como um amplificador do burburinho da torcida. Além disso, é dotado de um estacionamento para 400 veículos e 35 ônibus.

Pela Avenida Beberibe, em frente ao estádio, circulam mais de 10 linhas de ônibus (1 integrada ao metrô), o que facilita a logística para a circulação de espectadores.

Este estádio já foi palco de vários jogos internacionais, tais como a Minicopa do Mundo, Copa América 1989, Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo e amistosos da Seleção brasileira. Recebeu, recentemente (em 2009), mais um jogo pelas Eliminatórias da Copa e foi avaliado com nota 9,5 no quesito organização pela Confederação Brasileira de Futebol.

História do Estádio
O Santa Cruz passou por muitos bairros do Recife antes de se estabelecer no atual. A primeira sede do Santa Cruz foi num sobrado da Rua Glória nº 140. Depois esteve na Rua do Imperador, Estrada de Belém e, finalmente, Avenida Beberibe nº 1285, nossa sede atual no bairro do Arruda.

Em 1943, entretanto, o Santa Cruz começava a se implantar no bairro do Arruda, ao alugar um terreno entre a Avenida Beberibe e a Rua das Moças e que até então vinha sendo utilizado pelo Centro Esportivo Tabajaras, um clube suburbano de muito peso. Como o local, propriedade particular do Industrial Arthur Lundgren, fundador das Casas Pernambucanas, era bastante cobiçado, o Santa Cruz, através de Aristófanes de Andrade e do médico Gonçalo de Melo, apressou-se em adquiri-lo, pagou ainda Cr$ 1.000,00 (hum mil cruzeiros) ao Tabajaras que tinha uma loja de artigos esportivos.

No mesmo ano foi comprada, uma casa na Avenida Beberibe, que, quando reformada, acabou servindo como sede para o clube. Neste ano foi criada uma comissão pró-sede que, após grande campanha, obteve expressivo valor para aquisição da sede. Na presidência do clube, Aristófanes de Andrade trabalhou obstinadamente para que o local passasse para os domínios tricolores. Foi o que aconteceu, o Santa Cruz finalmente consegue comprar o terreno com apoio dos seus torcedores, um local que mais adiante iria ser construído o estádio coral.

Construção
Em 1954, José do Rego Maciel – que hoje empresta seu nome ao estádio – dava condições para que o Santa Cruz se apossasse definitivamente do terreno, ele atraiu investidores como o banco bandepe, para construção do estádio. Nesse ano começou a ser construído o que hoje se chama de Repúblicas Independentes do Arruda. Muitas campanhas foram feitas junto aos torcedores porem foi financiado pelo banco, que acabaram ajudando a construir inicialmente o "Alçapão do Arruda", com arquibancadas de madeira e situado em posição oposta à atual.

No ano de 1965, com a venda de cadeiras cativas e títulos patrimoniais, o clube começou a construir o seu estádio, o que só foi possível devido a uma mobilização de torcedores nunca antes vista. As pessoas levavam ao clube todo tipo de material de construção e doavam a sua mão de obra, construindo assim com as próprias mãos o quarto maior estádio particular do mundo. Foi graças a torcida do Santa Cruz que além de construir a sua casa (estádio), construiu também uma das histórias mais bonita do futebol brasileiro, pois o Arruda foi construído a suor, sangue e lágrimas de seus torcedores. O terreno onde hoje está situado o estádio do Arruda foi doado pelo Coronel Frederico João Lundgren.

Campanha do Tijolo
A campanha do tijolo foi uma das maiores mobilizações já vista no Brasil feita por uma torcida de um clube de futebol. No início da década de 70 muitos torcedores do Santa Cruz uniram-se para ajudar a construir o estádio do Arruda. Foi através de várias doações, de sua torcida, que o Santa Cruz Futebol Clube conseguiu construir um dos maiores estádios do Brasil, foi uma mobilização épica, os torcedores corais traziam todo tipo de material de construção, além disso muitos ajudaram a construir o estádio com as próprias mãos realizando serviços de construção civil. Mestre-de-obras, pedreiros, encanadores, engenheiros civis, arquitetos e ajudantes em geral conseguiram construir o estádio tricolor, um dos maiores do Brasil.

Banco do Estado de Pernambuco e José do Rego Maciel: Patronos do Arruda
Não se pode falar do Estádio do Arruda sem lembrar do ex-governador de Pernambuco, José do Rego Maciel, que foi também presidente do Santa Cruz, e conseguiu gordos empréstimos "a fundo perdido", os quais foram preponderantes para que se construísse o estádio. Lembramos que na década de 1970 vivíamos um Regime Militar e se proliferavam por todo o país estádios monumentais, estilo Maracaná. Nesse período construíram o Mineirão em Belo Horizonte-MG, o Castelão em Fortaleza-CE, a Fonte Nova em Salvador-BA, somente para citar os mais importantes. Porém inúmeros outros estádios foram construídos pela iniciativa pública. E o Estado de Pernambuco e o Recife não poderiam ficar de fora. O grande Coral José do Rego Maciel conseguiu que ao invés de construírem um novo estádio, ampliassem as precárias estruturas do Arruda. Formou-se assim uma parceria entre Governo do Estado e Santa Cruz. E o empréstimo foi dado a fundo perdido, logo após a falência do Banco.

Inauguração
No dia 4 de junho de 1972, num amistoso contra o Flamengo do Rio de Janeiro, o Estádio do Arruda foi inaugurado oficialmente, contando com a presença de 64 mil pessoas, como descreveu o Diário da Noite no dia seguinte:

 "Um misto de futebol exibição e competição foi o que realizaram, ontem no Arruda, as equipes do Santa Cruz e do Flamengo do Rio, na festa de inauguração do estádio José do Rego Maciel, o Mundão do Arruda".

Mas não foi somente por isso que a partida terminou zero a zero. A boa performance do goleiro Renato, do Flamengo, impediu a movimentação do placar pelas suas extraordinárias defesas. As duas equipes aplicaram idênticas sistematizações táticas: 4-2-4, variando para 4-3-3. O Santa Cruz utilizava o ponteiro esquerdo Betinho para, com Erb e Luciano, formar seu tripé. Quando os cariocas ficavam em posse da bola, Doval abandonava aquela posição, transformando-se em outro atacante. O mesmo foi observado com relação ao time da casa. Atrás, pelo lado tricolor, Sapatão e Rivaldo bloqueavam a passagem da área pelo miolo. No Flamengo o mesmo acontecia com Chiquinho e Tinho. As jogadas esquematizadas não surtiam efeitos. Os atacantes não tiveram criatividade, não tentaram jogadas pessoais e a troca de passes laterais foi muito usada na tentativa de encontrar um caminho por onde os atacantes penetrassem. Foi por isso que, no primeiro tempo, apenas um lance motivou o público: um chute de Betinho, de longe, forçando Renato a mostrar suas qualidades de goleiro. Daí para a frente, o público não vibrou e o placar em branco permaneceu até o final do primeiro tempo. No segundo tempo, o rubro-negro carioca voltou com duas substituições: Fio e Liminha.

O primeiro no lugar de Doval e o último no lugar de Zé Mário. O Santa não mexeu. Por ser um jogador exibicionista, que procurava sempre fazer firulas com a bola, Fio deu a impressão inicial que deslancharia a retaguarda do Santa, através dos seus dribles desconcertantes. Mas foi apenas um lampejo. O "crioulo doido", depois de 15 minutos de jogo, voltou ao lugar comum, pior disso até, não conseguindo fazer metade que Doval fizera no primeiro tempo. Já Liminha não alterou nada. Jogou o mesmo futebol de Zé Mário. Como o Flamengo ficou meio esfacelado no seu meio de campo, o Santa Cruz disso se aproveitou e passou a jogar melhor que o seu rival. Aos 15 minutos, Cuíca perde a primeira grande chance, chutando por cima um bola em que ele estava cara a cara com Renato. Numa tentativa de dar maior agressividade ao seu ataque, o Flamengo procedeu outra substituição, desta vez, Dionísio no lugar de Vicente, mas o Santa Cruz continuou apertando o cerco e outra grande chance para abrir o marcador surgiu aos 31 minutos: Beto, que substituíra Cuíca, cabeceou encobrindo o goleiro Renato no lançe mais bonito da partida. Todo o estádio gritou gol, mas a bola passou de mansinho pelo poste do lado esquerdo do Flamengo se perdendo pela linha de fundo. Daí por diante, os jogadores não se entregaram com vigor nas jogadas, passando a tocar a bola como que satisfeitos pelo marcador em branco. Os jogadores ficaram em campo "gastando" a bola até terminar a partida. Com um trabalho muito bom, dirigiu o amistoso o árbitro Sebastião Rufino, tendo como auxiliares Armindo Tavares e Geraldo Alves.

As equipes formaram-se assim:

 Santa Cruz
 Detinho; Ferreira, Sapatão, Rivaldo e Cabral (Botinha); Erb e Luciano; Cuíca (Beto), Fernando Santana (Zito), Ramón e Betinho.
 Flamengo
 Renato; Moreira, Chiquinho, Tinho e Wanderlei; Zanata e Zé Mário (Liminha); Vicente (Dionísio), Caio (Ademir), Doval (Fio) e Arilson.

A renda da partida fornecida pela federação foi de CR$ 193.834,00, com um público pagante de 64.000 pessoas.

Parque Aquático
Em 1978 foi inaugurado o parque aquático, com toda a infra-estrutura de vestiários, sauna e banho turco.

Sede
A atual sede foi inaugurada em 3 de fevereiro de 1980.

Última ampliação
Em 1º de agosto de 1982, foi inaugurado o anel superior, quando o Mundão do Arruda passou a ter a capacidade elevada para 110.000 pessoas. Em 2000 todos os estádios brasileiros tiveram sua capacidade reduzida quase à metade, sendo assim a capacidade do anel superior do Arruda caiu de 44.000 para 25.000 pessoas e a do estádio de 110.000 para 65.000, e atualmente é de 60.044.

Dados
 Nome oficial: Estádio José do Rego Maciel
 Acesso:
 1 - Ônibus: 82 linhas (1 integrada ao metrô)
 2 - Sistema de transporte complementar
 Coordenadas: 8.026900 Lat. S, 34.891301 Long. Oeste
 Data da Inauguração: 4 de julho de 1972
 Ano da ampliação: 1982
 Área construída: 30 mil metros quadrados
 Capacidade antiga: 110.000 espectadores
 Capacidade atual: 60.044 pessoas
 Capacidade detalhada: Anel Superior (15.000 pessoas). Anel Inferior (21.400 Pessoas), Sociais (6.100 Pessoas), Sociais ampliação (1.200 Pessoas), Cadeiras (5.950 pessoas) e Camarotes/conselho (932 pessoas).
 Iluminação: 2000 lux
 Dimensões do campo: 105 x 68 metros
 Tipo de grama: Bermuda
 Vestiários: 4
 Banco de reservas: 4
 Banheiros: 48

Qualificações
 Inclinação suave do estádio e acesso facilitado
 Campo de jogo protegido por fosso
 Melhor visibilidade do campo de jogo (sem alambrado)
 Excelente acústica
 Maior número de guichês de bilheterias do Brasil
 Gramado de primeira linha
 Vestiários padrão FIFA
 Ponto turístico do Recife
 Um dos estádios mais conhecidos do Brasil

Estrutura
 Sede Monumental das Repúblicas Independentes do Arruda
 Auditório climatizado com capacidade de 200 pessoas
 Museu Histórico Coral
 Elevadores com acesso à tribuna de honra, camarotes e cadeiras
 Ginásio poliesportivo
 Dois campos anexos de futebol society
 Parque aquático com 3 piscinas anexas
 Sauna
 Banho turco
 Centro médico para recuperação de atletas
 2 Restaurantes
 Sala para futebol de mesa
 Sala de Sinuca
 Sala de Pebolim
 Sala de Tae-kwon-do
 3 academias de musculação
 Alojamento profissional
 Alojamento da base
 Loja oficial
 Salão de eventos com capacidade de 5 mil pessoas
 Estacionamento para 400 veículos
 Várias lanchonetes
 Delegacia do torcedor
 2 geradores
 3 bilheterias com 13 guichês (total 39 guichês)
 Sala de troféus

Cobertura
Cerca de 15.600 lugares são protegidos do sol e da chuva (28% do estádio). Além das cadeiras cativas, parte do anel inferior é coberta. O projeto da Arena Coral visa cobrir o estádio em sua totalidade atual.

Assentos

O estádio conta com 6 mil assentos novos instalados em 2009, sem contar com os camarotes e tribunas. Existe um projeto para que toda a social receba os mesmos tipos de assentos utilizados nas cadeiras cativas.

Camarotes
O estádio do Arruda possui os camarotes mais luxuosos de Pernambuco. Com capacidade para 100 pessoas, os espaços pertencem a vários grupos da iniciativa privada, alguns dos quais são patrocinadores oficiais do clube. Ambiente climatizado, serviço de buffet, garçons, assentos acolchoados, lounge, segurança e visão do jogo privilegiada são algumas das características que compõem tais espaços.

Visibilidade
100% de visão 360 Graus. O sistema de segurança baseado em fosso garante a segurança contra invasões e a máxima visibilidade, em contraposição aos estádios que possuem alambrado. Apesar de não existirem pontos cegos no anel superior, o anel inferior possui alguns pontos cegos.

Comunicação
O estádio conta com um sistema de som que atua dentro e fora dele. Em jogos de grande público o serviço é complementado por caixas de som.

Deficientes
O estádio do Arruda conta com uma área exclusiva para 100 deficientes com acesso facilitado por rampas.

Sanitários
48 é o número total de banheiros do estádio do Santa Cruz. Entre 2008 e 2009 os banheiros foram completamente reformados. Todo o piso e o revestimento foram trocados por um novo acabamento em porcelanato. Alguns banheiros também dispõem alternativamente de chuveiros. O clima quente do nordeste dispensa a necessidade de chuveiros elétricos.

Iluminação
O atual sistema de iluminação do estádio do Arruda é dotado de lâmpadas de última geração, instalado em 4 torres de iluminação de 20 metros antiofuscantes. Depois da reforma de 2009, o Arruda passou a ter 2000 lux de potência e é hoje, junto ao Maracanã, o estádio mais bem iluminado do Brasil.

Sistema de Vigilância
O sistema de vigilância é o mesmo utilizado na Copa do Mundo de 2006, sendo que 200 câmeras fazem o monitoramento interno e externo do estádio. Algumas delas estão instaladas em pontos estratégicos onde se concentram torcedores das organizadas e nas cadeiras. Os monitores ficam sempre à disposição das autoridades para auxílio em ações de emergência.

Sistema de Transportes
O Arruda está localizado na zona norte do Recife sendo, dentre os três maiores estádios de Pernambuco, o mais bem servido com linhas de ônibus. 82 destas linhas passam em frente ao estádio, uma das quais está vinculada ao Sistema Estrutural Integrado que interliga o metrô à toda a região metropolitana do Recife.

Gramado
O gramado do Arruda era um dos melhores do Brasil. Em 2009 ele foi completamente reformado pela GreenLeaf (empresa especializada do setor) que utilizou as tecnologias mais modernas adotadas em obras semelhantes no primeiro mundo. O tipo do grama utilizada no Mundão do Arruda é a bermuda, a mesma do Estádio João Havelange, Mineirão, Arena da Baixada e da Granja Comary. O sistema de irrigação é por aspersão e automatizado com equipamentos usados nos campos esportivos de primeiro mundo. O sistema de drenagem é duplo - subterrânea e superficial, de maneira a retirar o excesso de água do solo o mais rápido possível, porém a fraca manutenção do campo e vem prejudicando o estado do gramado.

Pintura

A nova pintura do estádio do Arruda foi desenvolvida por uma empresa de design que tem forte tradição em marketing esportivo. A pintura dá a sensação de acolhimento e conforto, o projeto de pintura do estádio foi baseado na cobra-coral, mascote do Santa Cruz. A ideia foi desenhar escamas no espelho (parte frontal) da arquibancada que dessem a impressão que a cobra-coral estivesse abraçando o Arruda e ao mesmo tempo defendendo o clube.

Maiores Públicos
  6 x 0 , 96.990, 29 de agosto de 1993, Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo (75.000 pagantes).[1]
  2 x 0 , 90.400, 23 de Março de 1994, Amistoso da Seleção Brasileira
  2 x 0 , 76.800, 09 de julho de 1989, Copa América.

1) Náutico 0 x 2 Sport, 80.203, 1998, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.

2)  Santa Cruz 1 x 1 Sport, 78.391, 21/02/1999, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.
Estréia de Mancuso no Santa Cruz.

3) Santa Cruz 1 x 1 Náutico, 76.636, 18/12/1983, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.

4) Santa Cruz 1 x 2 Sport, 75.135, 03/05/1998, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.

5) Santa Cruz 2 x 0 Sport, 74.280, 18/07/1993, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.

6) Santa Cruz 2 x 1 Náutico, 71.243, 28/07/1993, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.

7) Santa Cruz 0 x 2 Náutico, 70.003, 11/07/2001, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.

8) Santa Cruz 0 x 1 Sport, 67.421, 20/05/1990, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.

9) Santa Cruz 1 x 2 Náutico, 65.901, 08/02/1998, Campeonato Pernambucano, Estádio do Arruda.

10) Santa Cruz 2 x 1 Portuguesa, 65.023, 26/11/2005, Série B, Estádio do Arruda

Shows
O estádio é conhecido por ter recebido shows de artistas internacionais com recorde de público, como Paul McCartney, Menudo e Bon Jovi.

Alguns dos principais jogos no Arruda em 2011
  2 x 1  . Estreia do Tricolor em casa, pelo Campeonato Pernambucano.
  2 x 0 . Santa ganha do seu maior rival, na semana de seu anivesário.
  3 x 3 . Um dos maiores clássicos ja visto pelas torcidas, onde o Santa saiu atrás do placar, virou o jogo, tomou a virada, e depois empatou o jogo, foi o verdadeiro Clássico das Emoções.
  1 x 0 . Em um jogo de muita marcação e emoção , o Santa superou todas as suas limitações e derrotou um dos maiores clubes da ultima década.
  0 x 1 . Grande final do campeonato pernambucano que sagrou a equipe anfitriã como campeão estadual.
  x  Seleção Pernambucana de Futebol. Partida amistosa entre a seleção brasileira de futebol feminino e a Seleção Pernambucana de Futebol (em substituição à Argentina que não pôde participar do amistoso em função da erupção de um vulcão no Chile).
  0 x 0 . Partida que deu acesso ao Santa para o Campeonato Brasileiro da Série C em 2012.

Maiores Públicos de 2011
  0 x 1 , 62.243, Campeonato Pernambucano. Final do Campeonato Pernambucano (Jogo que consagrou o Santa Cruz campeão do campeonato pernambucano 2011)
  0 x 0 , 59.966, 16 de outubro, Campeonato Brasileiro. Quartas de final da Série D no qual bateu a media de publico do ano
  1 x 0 , 46.681, 30 de março, Copa do Brasil. Segunda fase da Copa do Brasil
  2 x 0 , 45.621, 6 de fevereiro, Campeonato Pernambucano. 9ª Rodada do Campeonato Pernambucano
  1 x 0  , 44.642, 25 de Setembro, Campeonato Brasileiro. Oitavas de final da Série D
  0 x 0 , 42.584, 24 de Julho, Campeonato Brasileiro. 1ª fase da Série D
  1 x 0 , 35.020, 14 de Agosto, Campeonato Brasileiro.1ª Fase da Série D
  3 x 3 , 33.208, 20 de março, Campeonato Pernambucano. 17ª Rodada do Campeonato Pernambucano
  2 x 1 , 33.099, 18 de setembro, Campeonato Brasileiro.1ª fase da Série D
  3 x 1 , 32.156, 30 de abril, Campeonato Pernambucano. Semifinal do Campeonato Pernambucano
  1 x 0 , 27.746, 4 de setembro, Campeonato Brasileiro.1ª fase da Série D
  2 x 1  , 25.136, 27 de janeiro, Campeonato Pernambucano. 6ª rodada do Campeonato Pernambucano

Santa Cruz tem a maior média de publico do Brasil em 2011.

Ver também
Lista dos maiores estádios de futebol do Brasil

Ligações externas

 CoralNET

Jose Rego Maciel (Arruda)
Santa Cruz Futebol Clube
Jose Rego Maciel


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One-off Mercedes V12-powered Isdera Commendatore 112i comes up for sale
Why yes, there's a rearview mirror on the roof.
Bringing back fond memories of playing Need for Speed II SE as a kid in the late 1990s, the elusive Isdera Commendatore 112i is looking for a new owner. Offered directly by the German boutique shop, the one and only gullwing-doored supercar is up for grabs as part of the 2021 Paris auction by RM Sotheby's scheduled for February.
It's one of the finest examples of how a small company can borrow from the parts bin of more established players and end up with a spectacular product. Where should we start? With the engine, of course. It's a Mercedes M120 6.0-litre V12 also used by the Pagani Zonda, developing more than 400 bhp in this one-off creation. That might not seem like much by today's standards, but keep in mind the car was built nearly three decades ago.
Gallery: 1993 Isdera Commendatore 112i
Since Mercedes did not engineer a manual gearbox for M120, Isdera had to improvise and used a five-speed manual Getrag transmission modified by RUF with the addition of a sixth gear. Corroborated with a sleek body with a low 0.306 drag coefficient tested in Mercedes' wind tunnel, the end result was a supercar able to top out at 211 mph (340 km/h).
Speaking of the body, there's more to it than the jaw-dropping design as the intent was to make it as aerodynamically efficient as possible. Even the windscreen wiper was developed from scratch for that purpose, while conventional side mirrors were replaced by a roof-mounted periscope mirror.
Eagle-eyed readers will notice Isdera borrowed additional bits and pieces from other companies, including the pop-out headlights from a Porsche 968 while the dials for the instrument cluster were taken from Mercedes-Benz.
The man behind the company, former Porsche employee Eberhard Schulz, wanted to take the Isdera Commendatore 112i to Le Mans, but it never happened due to the lack of funds. Thankfully, the road car was eventually completed with help from a Swiss consortium after Schulz ran into financial issues caused by the economic slump in Japan where most of the Isdera's funding originated.
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It was shown at the 1999 Frankfurt Motor Show as the "Silver Arrow" with CLK GTR-styled side mirrors instead of the quirky roof-mounted mirror. It also swapped out the BBS wheels for a more traditional five twin-spoke design. Fast forward to late 2016, Isdera bought the car back and reverted it to the original 1993 specification.
Being such a valuable automobile, it's no wonder the Commendatore 112i has covered fewer than 10,500 kilometres (6,524 miles) during its troubled life. RM Sotheby's will auction the unique supercar at no reserve, and it goes without saying it will fetch a pretty penny. It's worth mentioning the one-off machine is registered and road-legal in Germany, so it's a fully usable 1990s rear-wheel-drive beast with a Mercedes V12 and a manual gearbox.
Source: RM Sotheby's
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If I'm absent on this space… it's never because I want to be. And it's never because I'm out of photos and words. And it's rarely because I'm too busy to be here (though sometimes it is). But usually, more times than not, it's because my health is still lacking and things are unquestionably harder for me than they've ever been before. And every single action I take in my life requires so much more effort than ever before. And I only have so much energy to spend throughout my day in the down moments.
And sometimes I think that I should come on here and share what's happening– because there are other people who are struggling just like me. But honestly, I'm tired of being a broken record. I'm tired of sharing my occasional ups and subsequent downs. I just can't. Not this often. Not right now.
So if I'm absent, it's not because I don't care about this space, because I do. And it's not because I don't want to document, because I definitely do and I wish I could do so without energy and just by transferring my thoughts somehow. But honestly, I feel like maybe, more than anything, my lacking health is more of a reason than ever to document. But sometimes I cant. Whether physical or emotional, sometimes I cant.
And so I wanted to come here, with this little bit of energy that I'm harvesting tonight to say thank you– because as much patience as I've had to have on myself in the last three years of illness, I'm very aware that others must practice patience with me too. And sometimes people don't want to and relationships fade. But some people stay and those are the people who mean the most to me. So thank you. Thank you for staying. Thank you for being here. I'll keep saying it over and over but I appreciate it.
Praying for you! For healing and peace.
I'll always be here for you, Andrea. As someone else with chronic pain and illness, I most definitely understand what you're going thru.


¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 On this chart, the villanelles in the anthologies I examined (listed below) are plotted by number and year. Blue squares are data points, and the red line shows an increasing average since 1970.
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, ed., The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918, New edn. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1940). 0 None.
D. J. Enright, ed., The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, 1945-1980 (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980). 0 None.
Martin Booth, ed., Contemporary British and North American Verse: An Introductory Anthology (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1981). 0 None.
Donald Merriam Allen and George F. Butterick, eds., The Postmoderns: The New American Poetry Revised, 1st Evergreen edn. (New York: Grove Press, 1982). 0 None.
Robert Penn Warren and Academy of American Poets., eds., Fifty Years of American Poetry: Anniversary Volume for the Academy of American Poets (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1984). 0 None.
Jay Parini, ed., The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995). 0 None.
Michael Collier and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College, eds., The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Hanover, NH; London: University Press of New England, 2000). 0 None.


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The first map to show all of the underground railways in London was published in 1908 and showed the railways as a geographical map. The map was published by the Underground Electric Railway Companies of London (UECL), showing all of the major stations in central London however the map was hard to navigate with the station names being written in small text, odd angles to follow representing the railways and a complex mess of awkwardly twisting lines. As the map was expanded to show the stations further from central London, the central section of the map became a jumbled mess and the areas around the edges of the map became wasted space.
A further attempt to improve the map was undergone in 1926, with providing regular spaces between the stations and allowing for some artistic license with the twisting routes of the railways. However, the result could not be superimposed on a street map as previously, focusing on stations rather than primarily routes allowed stations like Edgware and Richmond to seem closer to central London than they physically are.
Later in 1933 a diagrammatic representation of the tube lines was published, based on electrical circuitry diagrams, the map focused on the stations on the railways or lines rather than their geographic location. This map became the basis of the tube map today and was designed by Henry Beck, who is accredited on the bottom of every tube map since 1933.
There have been some changes and tweaks to the original design, however the design and feel of the map is generally the same.
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CnT Architects (Chandavarkar & Thacker) is a legacy practice that enjoys the distinction of being Bengaluru's first architecture firm. Established by the late Narayan Chandavarkar in 1947, it was reorganised as Chandavarkar & Thacker by Tara Chandavarkar and the late Pesi Thacker. When the current leadership — Prem Chandavarkar (managing partner), Mehul Patel (principal) and Vikram Desai (principal) — took over the reins of the firm, they decided "to extend this legacy to create a practice that did not revolve around dominant personalities, but drew its energy from a spirit of collaborative and creative inquiry that involved all members of the firm, as well as clients and other collaborators." This is why the design and project leadership of the six associates — Amit Rastogi, Chaitanya BK, Manickvel GK, Prashant Kulkarni, Sreenath Vinaykumar, and Vamsi Verma — and their Hyderabad representative (A Pratyusha) is equally recognised and feted.
From close to two-thirds of the practice being devoted to the design of industrial buildings and campuses for the first few decades, emerged a value system that discouraged "form for form's sake" — strengthening the founding philosophy of eschewing an "architect's architecture" or architecture for visual impact. From the '90s, the tilt towards industrial design decreased with the inclusion of multi-family residences, institutional buildings and campuses, corporate offices and interiors, and commercial architecture.
The practice, which is as old as independent India, would like to urge the design fraternity to discard the four beliefs that dominate the profession: the meaning of an architectural work springs from the intentions or philosophy of the architect; the best way to validate your work is through peer review; theory is foundational to practice, and, finally, the creative cutting-edge of architectural practice is the result of individual genius.
Moving forward, team CnT Architects would like to improve its abilities in sustainable design; offer a model of design practice that is not personality-driven; and focus on imagining cities and thinking about how individual projects affect the shaping of our cities. And the joy, they say, lies in the journey rather than chasing pre-defined goals.
Instead of choosing a project, the firm would like to single out a project type: single family homes. Being a firm whose economics depend on designing larger projects, private residences are not profitable undertakings. However, they continue to do at least one home per year to retain sensitivity to people and stay grounded.
They are in the midst of many exciting projects and would prefer to focus on the journey and not on a single project. But the team is excited about the recent opportunity to break out into some new areas of work: mainly, urban design and healthcare projects.


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NY: Knopf. VG+/VG (see notes). 1985. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 355pp . Rem. line bottm edge, some 'aging' to DJ. .
NY: Viking. VG+/VG- (see notes). 1979. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 293pp . SIGNED by the author. Spine of price-clipped DJ quite sunned, some sunning other areas. .
Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina. VG+ wraps. 1993. trade pbk. paperback. 8vo . 270pp .
NY: Columbia U. Press. VG+/VG (see notes). 1981. 2nd ptg. hardcover. 8vo . 191pp . O P name stamp. Some sunning to DJ, especially to spine. .
Amherst: U. of Massachusetts. VG+ wraps. 1996. trade pbk. paperback. 8vo . 240pp . P O name stamp of a UMass prof. .
Urbana, IL: U. of Illinois. Near Fine/VG+. 1982. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 237pp . 1/4" tear top rear, and an incidental mark on rear panel of DJ. Nice copy. .
Chicago: Reilly and Lee. Fine with original 'spiderweb' glassine wrapper and a slipcase. 1914. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . unpp . Glassine has a couple of tears to 2", and a 1/2" x 1" chip bottom spine. Slipcase is soiled, with 2 split corners. Unique baby record/diary book, with various pages for the baby's name and birth date, birth announcement, gifts, first tooth, first toys, a page with tiny envelopes for pieces of the first bonnet, dress, shoes, coat, and the like. On a heavy stock of paper that will stand up to having photos tipped in. Unused ! A one-of-a-kind gift for the new mother who loves this kind of thing. .
NY: Viking. VG/Good+ (see notes). 1963. 1st. hardcover. 4to . 277pp . NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. Top edge a bit soiled. P/C DJ has several tears to 3/4" top spine, other shorter, small chips. .
NY: Random. VG/Good+ only (see notes). 1976. 2nd ptg. hardcover. 8vo . 388pp . Signed by the author fep. Nursing home stamp fep, rem stamp bottom edge. Half dozen 1/4-1/2" tears to DJ. In mylar. .
Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina. VG-, NO dj (see notes). 1995. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 382pp . Fewer than 10pp have checkmarks in margins, o/w better than VG-. .
Devon, UK: Prospect Books. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2001. 1st THUS. hardcover. 8vo . 269pp . Slightest bow to cover, book crisp .
GC: Doubleday. VG+/VG+. 1992. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 416pp . Signed by the author: INSCRIBED "To David, My best, Judith Levine" Bit of foxing to edges. .
London: Aurum. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2005. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 382pp .
London: John Murray. Fine/Fine. 2005. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 362pp .
Boston: Little Brown. VG+/VG- (see notes). 1980. 2nd ptg. hardcover. 12mo . 189pp . DJ has a number of 1/4-1/2" tears, some edgewear. .
Cambridge: Harvard U. Press. VG-/VG. 1999. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 391pp . Distinct bowing to front cover, couple creases to DJ flaps. .
Guilford, CT: Lyons/Globe Pequot. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2009. 1st. hardcover. large 8vo . 273pp .
NY: Twayne. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1995. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 315pp . Signed by the author: INSCRIBED to her aunt, "who has ever been a role model and inspiration...November 1994" .
NY: Round Table Press. VG/Good only EX LIB. 1936. 1st US EX LIB. hardcover. 8vo . 432pp . Bookplate of South China Public Library, 'discard' written in red, down end paper. No pockets or call letterss. See notes--> On the bookplate it is written that this book was donated to the library by Dr. Rufus M. Jones, 1938. Have to assume this is the famous Quaker theologian. .
NY: Random. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1993. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 373pp . Signed by the author on the half title. Nice copy, gift quality. .


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Sean Ali Stone (născut 1984) este un regizor de film american, producator, de imagine, scenarist și actor.

Filmografie (regizor)
 Wall Street: Banii sunt făcuți să circule, 2010
 W., 2008
 World Trade Center: Urmele supraviețuitorilor, 2006 - și producător
 Alexandru, 2004 - și scenarist, producător
 Wall Street, 1987
 Fighting Against Time: Oliver Stone's Alexander (2005) (as qriter, producer, director, cinematographer)
 The Death of Alexander (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)
 Resurrecting Alexander (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)
 Perfect Is the Enemy of Good (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)
 Nuremberg: A Vision Restored (2007) (as producer, director, cinematographer)
 Singularity (2008) (as writer, producer, director)
 Graystone (2011) (as writer, director)

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Yeah for Friday! This morning I have a post at A Jillian Vance Design with this cute little Bunny Love die set and the Bunny Hugs stamp set.
I die cut the bunny with Core'dinations cardstock and sanded it to show the embossed lines. More close up photos and details are on the Sending Bunny Hugs Card blog post.
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Been clicking around a bit. Loving your cards. So creative. I may have to try a couple of them out for myself.
Stopping by from Bloggy Moms. 🙂 Have a great week.
Isn't he cute Beth! Love the fringe die grass.
Such a super cute card!


If you have not yet achieved the English language requirement for your Griffith University degree, Study Abroad or Exchange program or Griffith College diploma, you can join our highly popular Direct Entry Program.
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After class you can continue to practise your English using specially developed independent learning plans.
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Classes start every five weeks. When you start will depend on your Griffith University degree or Griffith College diploma start date and the number of weeks you are recommended to study English.
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When you successfully complete the Direct Entry Program at the equivalent IELTS level needed for your degree or diploma, you can enter your program directly without needing to submit a proficiency test result.
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Here at Sandes Avenue Dental Practice in Kendal we pride ourselves as being one of the top Dental Practices in the country.
We are committed to providing five-star service and quality and being treated as a "VIP" is a level of care and service that you deserve.
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Dr Arfan Iqbal; the Principal Dentist is one of the few dentists in the country to be Dental Phobia Certified and most certainly provide our patients with the finest quality care in General, Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry. We use the latest technology in Cosmetic Dentistry including Teeth Whitening, Smile Makeovers, Dental Implants and Facial Rejuvenation.
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THE MEDIA IS THE PROBLEM ... TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT !!!!
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IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS IN ARIZONA- PLEASE TELL THEM ABOUT THIS.
A group has organized a "Support Lt. Colonel Terry Lakin Day" series of rallies on Monday, Dec. 6, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in front of Sen.
SEPTEMBER 11TH ARE THERE ANY EVENTS IN ARIZONA ????
Does ANYONE KNOW if there will be a 9-11 EVENT ?????
COULD AN INDEPENDENT BEAT MCCAIN in the ELECTION ?????
Just wondering... CAN an independent run in the ELECTION ... I KNOW HAYWORTH and DEAKIN can't run as an INDEPENDENTS because they ran in the PRIMARIES ... BUT ????????? Is there a candidate that could run as an Independent and BEAT MCCAIN ???????? Just wondering ????
NEW YORK -- The Rev. Al Sharpton says he's ready to travel to Arizona and march in the streets to protest the state's new immigration law.
Did you see the Sheriff's Cold Case Posse event on 9/22/12?
Welcome to the Surprise Tea Party.
Thanks for the info. Also, April 15 there will be a tea party at Tempe Diablo Stadium 6-830 pm.
Thanks, they are great kids. You're right about the trolls, it would be better if none of us responded and just let them talk to each other. But sometimes they make me so mad.
I try to remember a quote I read somewhere. "He who angers you, controls you"
Hi Grits, found you, love the photo of your dogs. I'm Nancy on this site, photo is of my grandkids. See you on Gretawire.
Welcome Grits, Welcome to the Tea Party. Thanks for becoming a Patriot. I see you will attend the meeting in the West Valley tonight. Great, need directions or any info let me know. Just click my name and drop me a note. Consider joining the West Valley group, so any needed info about the group will reach your inbox.Just click the Groups, top of page, and sign up. Your participation is valuable to this country as we try to sort out our actions.Again, Thank You, and God Bless Charlie Oh , puppies, puppies, puppies, we like puppies.


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National savings decline to 10% of GDP
Posted on November 4, 2005 by The Independent in Business
Eric Chiriga
ZIMBABWE'S national savings now stand at 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) instead of the ideal 25%, as the country's galloping inflation continues to wreak havoc on the economy.
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The high inflation, which increased by 51,2 percentage points to 411% a fortnight ago, has not only depleted the nation's savings but has also killed a spirit of saving among ordinary Zimbabweans.
The Minister of Finance, Herbert Murerwa, who has been trying to promote a culture of saving, has admitted that national savings of 10% of GDP are way too low.
In his 2005 national budget statement, Murerwa said high domestic savings were a prerequisite for investment and sustained economic growth.
"Regrettably, overall savings in Zimbabwe have remained low and are estimated to be about -1,7% of GDP in 2004," he said.
He added that this has denied the economy resources for productive investment at a time when both the public and private sectors require higher levels of investment.
"Consequently, investment has remained low at levels of about 5% of GDP," he said.
Zimbabwe has not received significant external investment over the past five years due to poor governance and lack of the rule of law. Investors have shied away from Zimbabwe because of its unstable political and economic conditions. Instead, major investors in the country like BHP and Lonrho have closed down operations and several others have relocated to neighbouring countries that offer better prospects.
Before investing in a country, investors consider the level of savings to determine whether the target market can afford to buy their product.
Currently investors are shying away from Zimbabwe because a majority of its population do not have enough disposable income.
Zimbabwe's GDP per capita is about US$300. Economic analyst John Robertson said that savings are declining because it no longer makes sense to save money in a market where the inflation rate is triple digit. "Savers are getting negative return on their money because of galloping inflation which government has failed to tame," Robertson said.
Workers can no longer afford to save from paltry incomes which they live on.
While inflation is hovering above 400%, banks like the POSB and the Central African Building Society (CABS) offer interest on savings accounts of only 11% and 7% respectively.
Robertson said the decline in savings would make it increasingly difficult for government to fund budget deficits and will have a negative impact on both domestic investment and foreign direct investment.
The country's working population can no longer afford the benchmark of US$1 a day – equivalent to about $60 000 on the official market and approximately $100 000 on the parallel market.
According to the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe, a basket of goods for a family of six last month cost $11,9 million from $9,6 million in September.A majority of workers in Zimbabwe earn far less than that a month.Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono has been forced to revise his inflation forecasts for year-end from between 20-35% earlier this year to between 35-50% and later to 50-80% before recently climbing down again to settle for 280-300%.
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Janssens wrote many publications on regions other than South Asia, especially Africa. These are not included.
2004 & Jacques van de Gaag and Jan Willem Gunning, "The role of social capital in early childhood development: evidence from rural India." AIID report January 2004.
2005 Measuring externalities in program evaluation: spillover effects of a women's empowerment programme in rural India, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper Series TI 05-017/02.
– "Indiase vrouwengroepen en de effectiviteit van ontwikkelingsprogramma's," (= "Indian women's groups and the effectiveness of development programmes"). Vuurwerk May 2005, VU University Amsterdam.
2007 Social capital and cooperation: an impact evaluation of a women's empowerment programme in rural India, [Amsterdam: Thela Thesis, 2007] (Tinbergen Institute Research Series 401). – PhD thesis Free University of Amsterdam.
2010 "Women's empowerment and the creation of social capital in Indian villages." World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 38,7: 974-989.


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The Democratic Alternative (; abbr. ДА, DA) was a political party in Serbia. It was founded in July 1997 by secession of certain members from the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), most notably Nebojša Čović who served as the party's president during its entire existence. It later merged into the Social Democratic Party (SDP), whom its leadership took over.

Democratic Alternative was part of the 2000-2003 Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), which ran on the December 2000 parliamentary elections. It received 6 seats of the 176 won by the Democratic Opposition. Nebojša Čović became the interim Deputy Prime Minister on October 24, 2000. On 25 January 2001 the new government was elected in which he served as Deputy Prime Minister until 18 March 2004. For a short time from 12 March 2003 to 17 March 2003 Čović was the acting Premier in the wake of the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

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Novi Sad 2021
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Most Important Events
Call for a Japanese writer for AiR programme in Novi Sad (Serbia) and Pécs (Hungary)
Plovdiv – artistic residential programme 2019
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the European Capital of Culture
Published 03/07/2019 in category: News
The Svilara Cultural Station will host the exhibition of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of the most important representatives of impressionism, from 3 until 20 July. The exhibition will be opened symbolically at 20:21 (8:21 p.m.), with professional exhibition guidance by the curator from the Gallery of Matica Srpska. The entrance is free of charge.
The fourth programme platform 'The Fortress of Peace', launched by the 'Novi Sad 2021 – European Capital of Culture', will be closed with the exhibition of more than 20 posters by world famous painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
During the following three weeks, Svilara will revive the spirit of France from the late 19th century, i.e. period in which Lautrec lived and created, since other cultural contents will be organised, in accordance with the exhibition topic. The seventh art, through film screenings, including the documentary about Toulouse-Lautrec, will take us to France. The 'Manush' jazz trio, who will perform on 9 July 8:30 p.m., will give us a sense of Lautrec's France.
Lautrec gained fame as one of the first artists who created posters, as one form of advertising, and the 'Moulin Rouge' poster was the most famous one. Therefore, professors from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad will hold the lecture on the topic of posters, as well as the ways in which we can express and promote cultural programmes.
In addition to the exhibition, films, concerts and lectures, visitors will have a chance to taste drinks characteristic for France from the late 19th century.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on 24 November in 1864, and died on 9 September 1901. The misunderstood artist had rigid attitude when it comes to his appearance and appearance of other people, since he had a form of osteoporosis. He was not in search for beauty, but truth, thus he presented his characters realistically, sometimes even uglier than they were in reality.
Lautrec's life can be described as bohemian. Since he came from a wealthy family, he ran from the elite and count life and spent his days with 'ordinary' world, founding the shelter in cabaret.
No matter how his life was hard, he managed to make revolution in art and bravely introduce something completely different in French painting, which was inconceivable for his contemporaries.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – the third big name from the world of art, whose works citizens of Novi Sad had a chance to see within the 'Fortress of Peace' programme platform from 7 June until 7 July, with the aim to prepare Novi Sad for 2021, when Novi Sad will become the centre of European culture.
Foundation "Novi Sad 2021 - European Capital of Culture"
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Report of the Committee 2013.
Copyright © 2014-2016. All rights reserved. Cultural Centre of Novi Sad


That is right - I will say it THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT!
1. He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine - Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary's Presidential aspirations - something no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!
2. He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty - No more Kennedy's trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!
3. He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!
In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats.
The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party. In just one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the house, if not the senate back to the Republicans.
4. He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are.
Every Generation seems to need to relearn the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very well!
5. He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan. In One year he rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans. Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America !
6. His amazing leadership has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding citizens have rallied and have provided a "stimulus" to the sporting goods field while other industries have failed, faded or moved off-shore!
7. In all honesty one year ago I was more afraid than I had ever been in my life. Not of the economy but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends, strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat out wrong.
8. When the American People wake up no smooth talking tele-prompter reader can fool them!
Barak Obama woke up these Great Americans. Again, I want to say thank you Barak Obama!
They have A Great sense of humor!
What is she hanging on to?
John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama all die and go to heaven. God looks down from his throne and asks McCain, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"
McCain takes a breath and then replies, "Well, I think so because I was a great leader and tried to follow the words in your great book." God looks down and then says, "You can sit to my left side."
So, McCain takes his seat and then God asks the same question to Hillary, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?" Hillary thinks for a second and then replies, "I think so because I have been fighting for the rights of so many people for so long." God again looks down and this time says, "You can sit to my right side."
Finally God turns to Barack Obama and asks, "Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?"
Obama smiled and replied, "I think you're in my seat."


Several weeks ago, the ultrarunners of the year were announced. While perusing the list of previous winners, I noticed a runner by the name of Bernd Heinrich, who had won the award three out of four years in the early '80s. After some learning a bit more about Heinrich (thanks, Google!), who also turned out to be a distinguished biology professor as well as author, I decided to track him down for an interview. Enjoy!
about your nickname back then and your evolution as a runner in general.
One nickname that I recall was "wiesel" ["weasel", the editor] because, at age 6-10 I was so small and thin and quick and getting into everything. I didn't have shoes and we lived in the woods and I ran along a sandy road to get to the village school and back. I was not running all the time, of course- I liked to stop a lot and examine things along the way since there wasn't much to go home to.
What made you move up to the ultra-distance?
you consider that your greatest achievement as an ultra runner?
No. I'd wanted to and had expected to go ten or more minutes faster in that run. I had earlier run a 50 in a little over 5 hrs -it was on my way to the 100k. That 100k I felt was my best run, in 6:38 .
Winning that marathon- so totally unexpected.
I think that 100k. But probably the greatest satisfaction was finishing my one and only 24 hour run, on the track. I had planned to set the 100 mile record and then stop. The day before running 24 hours was in my mind totally out of the question. But, on race day running 100 miles in record time was out of the question; the weather forecast that morning before the start was for over 80 F. So, I changed my dream. I had trained three months on a solid base of 4 years, had depleted and carbo-loaded, taken days off, and felt peaked. I could not not run. I could still run at a slower pace, though, and take advantage of the coolness at night, and so I did; I set the American record, but only just barely. It was incredibly intense at near the end after a very long night, because to do it I had to speed up the last few miles! I did. I think I ran close to 6 min miles. When I heard the stopping shot I involuntarily dropped like a blasted hare, and they hauled me off in an ambulance to the hospital, because I started shaking like a leaf when they dumped cold water over me and put on the ice cubes. While lying there in bed I just kept repeating a hundred times over: "I did it – I did it- I did it–", and I felt GREAT!.
Did you have any runners that you looked up to?
I can't begin to name them, ever since high school. They were all gods- I felt so insignificant, yet inspired to know there were heroes..
loved to run, though, and mostly just as a means of locomotion, to go somewhere. Racing is an entirely absolutely different thing. Long after I raced in high school and in college, I just ran by myself. Not training for anything. Just running, and people would stare and point because I wore short shorts and seemed to be in a hurry–. Once I had a couple of guys corner me with their pick-up in a side road. I jumped on the running board of their truck like a bear on the attack, and would have yanked the bastards out, but luckily they suddenly stopped jeering, and one even smiled- so did I then, too- and we were friends. Anyways, as for RUNNING, I had (almost) nothing to prove to anyone. I KNEW I was no great runner- not like my heroes.
The only thing I eventually decided to prove to myself was that I could run a marathon. The result, that I already just told you above, took me totally by surprise. OK- I was, after Boston, 40 years old now. I knew for a fact I'd never get any better- I could only get slower. I had really wanted to stop then, but I had caught up to many at the end, and now I "had" to run a "real" distance race, or else I knew I'd regret it later.
I'm so glad I tried!! If I'd started ultras 30 years earlier I might have run hundreds, rather than a dozen or so, because I'd gradually have improved, and could always dream of running better. I could still run, and did, all the time. But in no way would I or could I take basically two or more days- and dollars-out of my life and tight budget, to do a race, when I could run anytime out my door and into the woods and back- and all without ANY hassle. WHY race??? I knew for a fact that I'd be slower in every race, anyways, PROVIDED I gave it my best in the races that I ran- and I did that, because I was running for records and because I knew I am not a particularly talented runner- not like my heroes.
What would you consider the key to your successes?
never. That's often a good motivator.
Are you still active as a runner?
Was till last year- jumped only into a couple 10k for the heck of it – around 42 min, as I recall. But not now, have had one injury after the other during the last year. I am quite bummed out about it.
are also about running. Please tell us a little bit about your books.
title because two other books came out with "Racing the Antelope," and these had nothing to do with racing nor antelopes. The topic of running, is however about adaptation in general, and the running book incorporates more than running per se- including material from my Physiologican Ecology lectures in animal adaptation, coupled to the personal experience of the 100k race.
The other books are quite varied, but most relate, in one way or another, with the marvels of Creation and with my personal adventures trying to elucidate how it all "works." My last (and best, I think, next to the running book) would be in the novel section, if it weren't all true. I decided to use the real names. It's "The Snoring Bird", which was an ultra to write, because it covers so much ground and took so long to finish.


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I told Mrs. D'Amato to take Jake into the kitchen until Walter Cole arrived, then sat down to examine the gift from the Traveling Man. It was about ten inches high and eight inches in diameter and it felt like glass. I took out my pocket knife and gently pulled back an edge of the wrapping, examining it for wires or pressure pads. There was nothing. I cut the two strips of tape holding the paper in place and gently removed the grinning bears, the dancing candy canes.
The surface of the jar was clean and I smelled the disinfectant he had used to erase any traces of himself. In the yellowing liquid it contained I saw my own face doubly reflected, first on the surface of the glass and then, inside, on the face of my once-beautiful daughter. It rested gently against the side of the jar, now bleached and puffy like the face of a drowning victim, scraps of flesh like tendrils rising from the edges and the eyelids closed as if in repose. And I moaned in a rising tide of agony and fear, hatred and remorse. In the kitchen, I could hear the boy named Jake sobbing, and mingled with his cries, I suddenly heard my own.
I don't know how much time elapsed before Cole arrived. He stared ashen faced at the thing in the jar and then called Forensics.
"Did you touch it?"
"No. There's a phone as well. The number matches the caller ID but there won't be any traces. I'm not even sure he was at that phone: that number shouldn't have come up on the cell phone ID. His voice was synthesized in some way. I think he was running his words through some form of sophisticated software, something with voice recognition and tone manipulation, and maybe bouncing it off that number. I don't know. I'm guessing, that's all." I was babbling, words tripping over one another. I was afraid of what might happen if I stopped talking.
"What did he say?"
"I think he's getting ready to start again."
He sat down heavily and ran his hand over his face and through his hair. Then he picked up the paper by one edge with a gloved hand and almost gently used it to cover the front of the jar, like a veil.
"You know what we have to do," he said. "We'll need to know everything he said, anything at all that might help us to get a lead on him. We'll do the same with the kid."
I kept my eyes on Cole, on the floor, anywhere but on the table and the remains of all that I had lost.
"He thinks he's a demon, Walter."
Cole looked once again at the shape of the jar.
"Maybe he is."
As we left for the station, cops milled around the front of the building, preparing to take statements from neighbors, passersby, anyone who might possibly have witnessed the actions of the Traveling Man. The boy, Jake, came with us, his parents arriving shortly after with that frightened, sick look that poor, decent people get in the city when they hear that one of their children is with the police.
The Traveling Man must have been following me throughout the day, watching my movements so he could put into action what he had planned. I traced back my movements, trying to remember faces, strangers, anyone whose gaze might have lingered for just a moment too long. There was nothing.
At the station, Walter and I went through the conversation again and again, pulling out anything that might be useful, that might stamp some distinguishing feature on this killer.
"You say the voices changed?" he asked.
"Repeatedly. At one point, I even thought I heard Jennifer."
"There may be something in that. Voice synthesis of that kind would have to be done using some sort of computer. Shit, he could simply have routed the call through that number, like you said. The kid says he was given the jar at four P.M. and told to deliver it at four-thirty-five P.M. exactly. He waited in an alley, counting the seconds on his Power Rangers digital watch. That could have given this guy enough time to get to his home base and bounce the call. I don't know enough about these things. Maybe he needed access to an exchange to do what he did. I'll have to get someone who knows to check it out."
The mechanics of the voice synthesis were one thing, but the reasons for the synthesis were another. It might have been that the Traveling Man wanted to leave as few traces of himself as possible: a voice pattern could be recognized, stored, compared, and even used against him at some point in the future.
"What about the kid's comment, that this guy with the scalpel had no face?" asked Walter.
"A mask of some kind, maybe, to avoid any possibility of identification. He could be marked in some way, that's another option. The third choice is that he is what he seems to be."
"A demon?"
I didn't reply. I didn't know what a demon was, if an individual's inhumanity could cause him to cross over in some way, to become something less than human; or if there were some things that seemed to defy any conventional notion of what it meant to be human, of what it meant to exist in the world.
When I returned to the apartment that night, Mrs. D'Amato brought me up a plate of cold cuts and some Italian bread and sat with me for a time, fearful for me after what had taken place that afternoon.
When she left, I stood beneath the shower for a long time, the water as hot as I could take it, and I washed my hands again and again. I lay awake then for a long time, sick with anger and fear, watching the cell phone on my desk. My senses were so heightened that I could hear them hum.
"READ ME A STORY, DADDY."
"What story do you want to hear?"
"A funny story. The three bears. The baby bear is funny."
"Okay, but then you have to go to sleep."
"One story."
"One story. Then I go to sleep."
In an autopsy, the body is first photographed, clothed and naked. Certain parts of the body may be X-rayed to determine the presence of bone fragments or foreign objects embedded in the flesh. Every external feature is noted: the hair color, the height, the weight, the condition of the body, the color of the eyes.
"Baby Bear opened his eyes wide. 'Somebody's been eating my porridge, and it's all gone!' "
"All gone!"
The internal examination is conducted from top to bottom, but the head is examined last. The chest is examined for any sign of rib fractures. A Y-shaped incision is made by cutting from shoulder to shoulder, crossing over the breasts, then moving down from the lower tip of the sternum to the pubic region. The heart and lungs are exposed. The pericardial sac is opened and a sample of blood is taken to determine the blood type of the victim. The heart, lungs, esophagus, and trachea are removed. Each organ is weighed, examined, and sliced into sections. Fluid in the thoracic pleural cavity is removed for analysis. Slides of organ tissue are prepared for analysis under a microscope.
"And then Goldilocks ran away and the three bears never saw her again."
"Read it again."
"No, we agreed. One story. That's all we have time for."
"We have more time."
"Not tonight. Another night."
"No, tonight."
"No, another night. There'll be other nights, and other stories."
The abdomen is examined and any injuries are noted before the removal of the organs. Fluids in the abdomen are analyzed and each separate organ is weighed, examined, and sectioned. The contents of the stomach are measured. Samples are taken for toxicological analysis. The order of removal is usually as follows: the liver, the spleen, the adrenals and kidneys, the stomach, pancreas, and intestines.
"What did you read?"
"'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.'"
"Are you going to tell me a story?"
"What story would you like to hear?"
"Something dirty."
"Oh, I know lots of stories like that."
"I know you do."
The genitalia are examined for injuries
or foreign material. Vaginal and anal swabs are obtained and any foreign matter collected is sent to a DNA lab for analysis. The bladder is removed and a urine sample is sent to toxicology.
"Kiss you where?"
"Everywhere. On my lips, my eyes, my neck, my nose, my ears, my cheeks. Kiss me everywhere. I love your kisses on me."
"Suppose I start with your eyes and move down from there."
"Okay. I can live with that."
The skull is examined in an effort to find evidence of injury. The intermastoid incision is made from one ear to the other, across the top of the head. The scalp is peeled away and the skull exposed. A saw is used to cut through the skull. The brain is examined and removed.
"Why can't we be like this more often?"
"I don't know. I want us to be, but I can't."
"I love you like this."
"Please, Susan…"
"I could taste the booze on your breath."
"Susan, I can't talk about this now. Not now."
"When? When are we going to talk about it?"
"Some other time. I'm going out."
"Stay, please."
"No. I'll be back later."
Rehoboth Beach in Delaware has a long boardwalk bordered on one side by the beach and on the other by the sort of amusement arcades you remember from your childhood: twenty-five-cent games played with wooden balls that you roll into holes to score points; horse races with metal horses loping down a sloped track, with a glass-eyed teddy bear for the winner; a frog pond game played with magnets on the end of a child's fishing line.
They've been joined now by noisy computer games and space flight simulators, but Rehoboth still retains more charm than, say, Dewey Beach, farther up the coast, or even Bethany. A ferry runs from Cape May in New Jersey to Lewes on the Delaware coast, and from there, it's maybe five or six miles south to Rehoboth. It's not really the best way to approach Rehoboth, since you run the gamut of burger joints, outlet stores, and shopping malls on U.S.1. The approach north through Dewey is better, running along the shore with its miles of dunes.
From that direction, Rehoboth benefits from the contrast with Dewey. You cross into the town proper over a kind of ornamental lake, go past the church, and then you're on Rehoboth's main street, with its bookstores, its T-shirt shops, its bars and restaurants set in big old wooden houses, where you can drink on the porch and watch people walk their dogs in the quiet evening air.
Four of us had decided on Rehoboth as the place to go for a weekend break to celebrate Tommy Morrison's promotion to lieutenant, despite its reputation as something of a gay hot spot. We ended up staying in the Lord Baltimore, with its comfortable, antiquated rooms harking back to another era, less than a block away from the Blue Moon bar, where crowds of well-tanned, expensively dressed men partied loudly into the night.
I had just become Walter Cole's partner. I suspected Walter had pulled strings to have me assigned as his partner, although nothing was ever said. With Lee's agreement, he traveled with me to Delaware, along with Tommy Morrison and a friend of mine from the academy named Joseph Bonfiglioli, who was shot dead a year later while chasing a guy who had stolen eighty dollars from a liquor store. Each evening at 9 P.M., without fail, Walter would call Lee to check on her and the kids. He was a man acutely aware of the vulnerability of a parent.
Walter and I had known each other for some time—four years by then, I think. I met him first in one of the bars in which cops used to hold court. I was young, just out of uniform, and still admiring my reflection in my new tin. Great things were expected of me. It was widely believed that I would get my name in the papers. I did that, although not in the way that anyone would have imagined.
Walter was a stocky figure wearing slightly worn suits, a dark shadow of a beard on his cheeks and chin even when he had shaved only an hour before. He had a reputation as a dogged, concerned investigator, one who had occasional flashes of brilliance that could turn an investigation around when legwork had failed to produce a result and the necessary quota of luck upon which almost every investigation depends was not forthcoming.
Walter Cole was also an avid reader, a man who devoured knowledge in the same way that certain tribes devour their enemies' hearts in the hope that they will become braver as a result. We shared a love of Runyon and Wodehouse, of To-bias Wolff, Raymond Carver, Donald Barthelme, the poetry of e. e. cummings, and, strangely, of the earl of Rochester, the Restoration dandy tortured by his failings: his love of alcohol and women and his inability to be the husband that he believed his wife deserved.
I recall Walter wandering along the boardwalk at Rehoboth with a Popsicle in his hand, a garish shirt hanging over a pair of khaki shorts, his sandals slapping lightly on the sand-scattered wood, and a straw hat protecting his already balding head. Even as he joked with us, examining menus and losing money on the slots, stealing fries from Tommy Morrison's big Thrasher's paper tub, paddling in the cool Atlantic surf, I knew that he was missing Lee.
And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole's—a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small happinesses and the beauty of the familiar, but uncommon in the value it attached to them—was something to be envied.
I met Susan Lewis, as she then was, for the first time in Lingo's Market, an old-style general store that sold produce and cereals alongside expensive cheeses and boasted its own in-store bakery. It was still a family-run operation—a sister, a brother, and their mother, a tiny, white-haired woman with the energy of a terrier.
On our first morning in the resort, I stumbled out to buy coffee and a newspaper in Lingo's, my mouth dry, my legs still unsteady from the night before. She stood at the deli counter, ordering coffee beans and pecans, her hair tied loosely in a ponytail. She wore a yellow summer dress, her eyes were a deep, dark blue, and she was very, very beautiful.
I, on the other hand, was very much the worse for wear, but she smiled at me as I stood beside her at the counter, oozing alcohol from my pores. And then she was gone, trailing a hint of expensive scent behind her.
I saw her a second time that day, at the YMCA as she stepped from the pool and entered the dressing rooms, while I tried to sweat out the alcohol on a rowing machine. It seemed to me that, for the next day or two, I caught glimpses of her everywhere: in a bookshop, examining the covers of glossy legal thrillers; passing the launderette, clutching a bag of donuts; peering in the window of the Irish Eyes bar with a girlfriend; and finally I came upon her one night as she stood on the boardwalk, the sound of the arcades behind her and the waves breaking before her.
She was alone, caught up in the sight of the surf gleaming white in the darkness. Few people strolled on the beach to obscure her view, and at the periphery, away from the arcades and the fast food stalls, it was startlingly empty.
She looked over at me as I stood beside her. She smiled.
"Feeling better now?"
"A little. You caught me at a bad time."
"I could smell your bad time," she said, her nose wrinkling.
"I'm sorry. If I'd known you were going to be there, I'd have dressed up." And I wasn't kidding.
"It's okay. I've had those times."
And from there it began. She lived in New Jersey, commuted to Manhattan each day to work in a publisher's office, and every second weekend she visited her parents in Massachusetts. We were married a year later and we had Jennifer one year after that. We had maybe three very good years together before things started to deteriorate. It was my fault, I think. When my parents married they both knew the toll a policeman's life could take on a marriage, he because he lived that life and saw its results reflected in the lives around him, she because her father had been a deputy in Maine and had resigned before the cost became too high. Susan had no such experience.
She was the youngest of four children, both of her parents were still alive, and they all doted on her. When she died, they ceased to speak to me. Even at the graveside, no words passed between us. With Susan and Jennifer gone, it was as if I had been cut adrift from the tide of life and left to float in still, dark waters.
T HE DEATHS OF SUSAN and Jennifer attracted a great deal of attention, although it soon faded. The more intimate details of the killing—the skinning, the removal of the faces, the blindings—were kept from the public, but it didn't stop the freaks from coming out of the woodwork. For a time, murder tourists would drive up to the house and videotape one another standing in the yard. A local patrolman even caught one couple trying to break in through the back door in order to pose in the chairs where Susan and Jennifer had died. In the days after they had been found, the phone rang regularly with calls from people who claimed to be married to the killer, or who felt certain that they had met him in a past life or, on one or two occasions, called only to say they were glad my wife and child were dead. Eventually I left the house, remaining in touch by phone and fax with the lawyer who had been entrusted with the business of selling it.
I had found the community in southern Maine, when I was returning to Manhattan from Chicago after chasing up one more obscure non-lead, a suspected child killer named Myron Able, who was dead by the time I arrived, killed in the parking lot of a bar after he tangled with some local thugs. Maybe I was also looking for some peace in a place I knew, but I never got as far as the house in Scarborough, the house that my grandfather had left me in his will.
I was sick by that time. When the girl found me retching and crying in the doorway of a boarded-up electronics store and offered me a bed for the night, I could only nod. When her comrades, huge men with muddied boots and shirts that smelled of sweat and pine needles, dragged me to their pickup and dumped me in the back, I half hoped that they were going to kill me. They nearly did. By the time I left their community, out by Sebago Lake, six weeks later, I had lost more than twelve pounds and my stomach muscles stood out like the plates on an alligator's back. During the day, I worked on their small farm and attended group sessions where others like me tried to purge themselves of their demons. I still craved alcohol but fought back the desire as I had been taught. There were prayers in the evenings and every Sunday a pastor would give a sermon on abstinence, tolerance, the need for each man and woman to find a peace within himself or herself. The community funded itself through the produce it sold, some furniture it made, and donations from those who had availed themselves of its services, some of them now wealthy men and women.
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text:
<?php
namespace Aura\View\Helper;

class TagTest extends AbstractHelperTest
{
    public function test__invoke()
    {
        $tag = new Tag;

        $actual = $tag('form', [
            'action' => '/action.php',
            'method' => 'post',
        ]);

        $expect = '<form action="/action.php" method="post">';

        $this->assertSame($expect, $actual);

        $actual = $tag('div');
        $expect = '<div>';
        $this->assertSame($expect, $actual);
    }
}