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Getting legit with WWE Superstar – The Legit Boss "Sasha Banks"
Posted on May 19, 2017 by Shah
The Legit Boss. When these words pop into the minds of the WWE Universe fans, one superstar comes to mind – female wrestler Sasha Banks. Hailing from Boston, Banks grew up watching WWE as a child and idolising late wrestler Eddie Guerrero.
With big dreams to one day become just like her idol, she started wrestling at the age of 18. Banks has learnt many things from watching Guerrero wrestle. It taught her to never give up no matter what people have told Guerrero when he was told that he was too small to do this and that. Watching him has fueled the passion in her, citing Guerrero as an amazing wrestler.
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Up till today, Banks has broken many WWE records, compared to when she first started at NXT where she was first signed to WWE. Recently, WWE made the decision to name all female wrestlers as Superstars and not Divas. It is a huge step for somen wrestlers to be known and recognised as equals with their male counterparts. When asked how she felt about the change, Banks said that it's "awesome and huge". Not only that, WWE even changed the whole Divas title into a Womens' Champion when this was announced.
So what's next for the Legit Boss? Main eventing Wrestlemania of course! Every wrestler's dream is to headline Wrestlemania and she will never stop till she is there. Banks is best known for a lot of first-time matches. First women Ironman Match for the NXT Women's Championship with Bayley, main event RAW with Charlotte after 4 years and a Women's Hell In The Cell main event match for the RAW's Women's Championship with Charlotte.
Banks even dreams of a Women's Ladder match and even a Women's Money in the Bank match one day. Women's wrestling has come along way since it's humble beginnings. Back then, women wrestlers have set the pace for the future generation. Banks feels that womens' wrestling wouldn't be where they are now if not for the past events.
WWE fans know that RAW and Smackdown aren't the only main roster wrestling that is offered. They also have NXT where future main roster wrestlers show what they have before being called up to be in the main roster. Sasha was from NXT, so when asked who she wants to see being called up and who she feels is doing an amazing job in NXT, her immediate answer is Australian wrestlers Peyton Royce and Billie Kay. She even hopes to work with the Iconic Duo if the opportunity arises. Banks also mentions that she wants to wrestle the undefeated NXT Women's Champion "Asuka".
For all wrestlers, their dream after retiring from WWE is to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame. With many great wrestlers in the list like "Edge", "Ultimate Warrior", "Kurt Angle", "Beth Pheonix" and even "DDP (Diamond Dallas Page)". When asked who she wishes to induct her into the Hall of Fame, Banks without missing a beat named her best friend Bayley. She even wants Bayley to be inducted with her.
What was Banks favourite moment or match she has taken part in throughout her career in WWE? Winning her first RAW Women's Championship in LA against Charlotte Flair. That was the the highlight of her career winning the title that she had been dreaming of as a child.
Sasha Banks has broken many barriers in wrestling entertainment and she will continue to do so. So naturally, we had to ask what she thinks makes her stand out from the other wrestlers. " I have purple hair and I am the Legit Boss and the only best one in the whole World", she quipped.
The Fifth Parlour would like to thank WWE Singapore for giving us the wonderful opportunity to participate in this conference call and we would also like to say a big thank you to Sasha Banks for taking time out of her busy touring schedule to speak with us.
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MSHA'S ANNUAL WINTER ALERT CAMPAIGN
Mine Safety and Health Administration Announces Annual Winter Alert Campaign
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced its annual Winter Alert campaign, reminding miners and mine operators of the increased hazards that colder weather creates at both surface and underground coal mines.
The Winter Alert campaign, which runs each year through March, emphasizes increased vigilance and adherence to safety principles during the winter months, when cold temperatures increase hazards for miners. Throughout the Winter Alert campaign, MSHA personnel regularly visit mines around the country to heighten awareness of the changing conditions that occur during winter months, and will distribute materials that focus on best practices for safely performing miners' jobs.
"The cold winter months bring an increased risk of underground coal mine explosions, as well as an increase in hazards associated with ice and snow that collect at surface facilities and preparation plants," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health David Zatezalo. "During the Winter Alert campaign, MSHA personnel will work to ensure miners and mine operators have information to maintain safe and healthful working conditions."
When the barometric pressure drops during colder weather, methane can migrate more easily into the mine atmosphere, increasing the risk of an explosion. Dry winter air also results in drier conditions underground, allowing coal dust to become suspended in the mine atmosphere, increasing the danger of an explosion.
Examinations are the first line of defense underground and should include the following:
Check for methane.
Know the mine's ventilation plan and maintain ventilation controls.
Continually apply rock dust to prevent the propagation of an explosion.
At surface operations and preparation plants, hazards such as limited visibility, slippery walkways, and freezing and thawing highwalls may lead to accidents.
Check highwalls and benches for stability.
Examine vehicles for exhaust leaks and consider limiting engine idle time to reduce risk of carbon monoxide asphyxiation.
Remove snow and ice on roadways, and apply sand to maintain traction.
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I'm typing this with a howling wind blustering outside and the sun beating down, it's be a great washing drying day, but I fear my pants may end up over the rooftops! Maybe I'll risk it later if it drops a little. My studio is closed today as Gibside Estate has to shut when there are high winds due to visitor safety concerns and lots of big ole trees so I'm taking the chance to update you all with my new blog :).
If you follow me over on Instagram, you may see we snuck away for a little adventure to the Lake District the other week. We camped for 2 nights on the shores of Ullswater, it was great to escape but not long enough. We had a terrific thunderstorm the first night then the next day gorgeous sunshine, high up walks and the best fish and chippy tea. I'm trying to clear another window to do it all over again.
Before I went away, I was working on a BRAND NEW PRODUCT for the boys...a super Bergamot and Cedarwood Skin and Beard oil for conditioning and soothing hair free or hairy chins alike (available now over on the website). It was destined to go into a gift set with our Gone Adventuring Limited edition soap and a great camping mug in a Father's Day collaboration with @Sovendebjorn.
Here's what we came up with...there are still a couple left in our 'For the Boys' section on the website if you need a last minute gift for dad.
Don't you just LOVE those camping mugs?
Don't forget, there are a couple of gift sets left and a few individual BEAR oils too if you need any Dad gifts.
Our NEW blog, NEW soaps for Summer and a creative collaboration for Father's Day.
We're into June already and it's looking to be a great summer. This year's word for me is 'renew'. So far the website has had a facelift (lots more to do, but we're getting there), I've launched my first 'Spring Collection', with a Summer collection hot on it's heels (more in a bit), and now I have a new place for my blog...all change round these parts, I tell you.
My new blog is fully integrated with my website now, so one less place for me to travel to, and will hopefully help my website become more easily seen and found by the google spiders.
If you follow me over on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, you'll have seen a few sneaky peeks at some new soaps I've been developing over the last month or two, they are re-worked versions of some Limited Editions I made quite some time ago now, but they are so lovely I wanted to bring them back for another season. I had hoped they'd be launching last week, but due to double printer failure, I've not been able to complete the labelling so there has been a slight delay. I have a spangly new jazzy printer about to be installed so I'm going ahead and putting them out there for you now.
A pile of fresh Scicillian lemons, sherbetty and zesty may chang and rich creamy vanilla notes of resinous benzoin, softened with freah dairy cream to nourish the skin.with a touch of luxury. Imagine homemade lemonade, and a creamy bowl of meltingly luxurious dairy ice cream, sprinkled with candied lemon peel and sherbet, eaten in the late afternoon sun, under a canopy of vine leaves fringed with gold.
The sun drifts high over golden wheat, the warm breeze is filled with the gentle lazy buzz of honeybees, butterflies dive and hover, swallows circle and gather over wild flower meadows in high summer, notes of warm skin, grassy chamomile, heady wild honeysuckle blooms, and herby lavender rise into the dry, warm air.
These are all available to buy now from the shop but will ship from 11th June once I'm back from my own little adventure.
There will be more Summer goodies launching in a few weeks time, including another new soap, new bath milks and more, watch this space.
Gone Adventuring also makes an appearance in our Limited Edition Delux Father's Day Gift box too, along with a brand new Cedarwood and Bergamot skin and beard oil to treat Dad to this Father's Day, you'll find these listed in 'For the Boys' over on the website. these will be made up to order and will ship from 11th June to arrive in time for the big boy's day.
I think that's about it for now, see you after my camping trip.


Thanks to a generous donor, Moorfields Eye Hospital has bought a femtosecond laser which will be used to support an NIHR funded research trial which will assess the benefits of the latest high-precision laser technology in routine NHS cataract operations. This is the first time that femtosecond laser surgery will be widely available on the NHS for cataract patients.
Age-related cataract is the leading cause of visual impairment in the world and cataract surgery is the most commonly performed eye operation worldwide. One in three people in the UK is predicted to require treatment at some stage with 300,000 cataract operations taking place in the UK each year. Moorfields performs more than 15,000 cataract procedures a year.
Although the technology has existed for some time, it has generally only been available for private patients. We are delighted to have the opportunity to extend this technology to NHS patients and are extremely grateful to the donor for his generous support.


The Mourning Dove is easily recognizable with its long, plump, medium-sized body and undersized head. They are an interesting and intelligent bird and are sometimes called Turtle Doves. The body is a grayish light brown colour with a very pale, rosy breast and black spots on its folded wings. The brown colouring on the feathers makes a perfect camouflage, especially on bare ground.
A couple of dozen birds huddled together near our home during most evenings this past winter. Their favourite spot at night was some bare ground under our lilac bush, which was not too far from the bird feeder and where they were protected from strong winds and some predators by the board fence. It wasn't until I used binoculars that I could identify the brown lumps as birds.
Although the Mourning Dove does have a mournful call, it is much more prevalent once another breeding season starts and the birds stake out a territory to attract a mate and raise their young. Doves are very fast flyers, using powerful wing beats with their long, pointed tail stretching out behind them. The wings make a whistling noise as they take off. They are usually found on hydro wires or in fields or patches of bare ground where they love to forage for seeds and insects. The method of scratching and looking for seeds reminds me of free-range chickens on a farm. About the only place you won't find Mourning Doves is in thick forest.
The nest is a flimsy structure – little more than a haphazard pile of twigs perched precariously on a branch – usually in an evergreen tree close to the trunk. The base of the nest is so loosely built that the eggs are often visible from below. Sometimes the eggs fall to the ground because there is so little nest to support them. Usually two white eggs are laid, with incubation being about 15 days. Strangely enough, the male usually sits on the nest during the day and then the female takes over for the night shift. Fledglings leave the nest about 15 days after hatching. Two broods are usually raised each year.
If the young birds survive long enough in their flimsy home, they get a special treat, unlike other birds. Doves and pigeons produce a unique food called pigeon milk, rich in fat and protein. It is not really milk at all but it is produced by glands in the crop of the parent bird. It would be almost impossible for the adult bird to try to pour this liquid into the mouth of a hungry baby; however the dove has a better way.
The parent opens its mouth wide which, allows the baby bird to stick its head deep inside to feast on the thick, nutritious, regurgitated food. The chicks obviously thrive on this unusual diet as the Mourning Dove is one of the most numerous and widespread birds in North America.
Doves and pigeons also drink differently than other birds. Most birds dip their bill into the water, taking in a mouthful at a time and then tipping the head back to let the water flow down the throat. There is a better way though – doves and pigeons submerge their bill and take in the water in a continuous draft. One or two long drinks are usually enough and then they can fly away. This ability to drink quickly is advantageous especially when predators such as cats or hawks are lurking around.
While a lot of these birds migrate south to areas like southern Mexico and Central America, near Lake Ontario our doves remain year-round, relying on bird feeders and grain from nearby fields. They seem to like roosting together on sheltered, bare ground during miserable weather. It's amazing that their numbers remain high, as some 70 million are shot annually, mostly in the U.S. There can't be much meat on them but it makes me think of the nursery rhyme about four and twenty black birds baked in a pie!


If you're taking the GO train into or out of the Brampton GO station, note that you will experience significant delays.
Metrolinx told inBrampton.com that a fatality on the tracks west of the Brampton GO station has shut down the tracks in both directions.
The trains have stopped running and could remain stopped for up to two hours.
Emergency crews are on scene responding to the incident.
GO buses should be available to provide alternate transportation.


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Meeting Name: Board of Port Commissioners Agenda status: Supplemental
Meeting date/time: 9/29/2022 4:45 PM Minutes status: Final
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299-22 1 1.1 Closed Session CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR - (Pursuant to California Government Code Section 54956.8) Property: 1 Market Street, Oakland, CA (Howard Terminal) Negotiating Parties: The Oakland Athletics and the Port of Oakland Agency Negotiator: Pamela Kershaw, Director of Commercial Real Estate Under Negotiation: Price and Terms of Payment Property: 2800 7th Street, Oakland, CA Negotiating Parties: TraPac, LLC and the Port of Oakland Agency Negotiator: Bryan Brandes, Maritime Director Under Negotiation: Price and Terms of Payment Property: 1700 Maritime Street; 2440 W 14th Street; 6805 Tobruk Street; 2498 W 19th Street, and adjacent areas - all in Oakland, CA - on the portion of the former OAB north of 14th Street, generally bounded by Maritime Street on the West, 14th Street on the South, Outer Harbor Intermodal Terminal (OHIT) on the East, and Admiral Toney Way and West Grand Ave (elevated roadway) on the North. Negotiating Parties: CVAG, Impact, PCC, PTI, and the Port of Oakland Agency Negotiator: Bryan Brandes, Maritime Director Under Negotiation: Pri Action details Not available
298-22 1 1.2 Closed Session CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION - (Pursuant to Paragraph (1) of Subdivision (d) of California Government Code Section 54956.9): Number of Matter(s): 3: (1) East Oakland Stadium Alliance, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, Harbor Trucking Association, California Trucking Association, Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc., and International Longshore and Warehouse Union v. City of Oakland, etc., et al., Alameda County Superior Court Case No. 22CV009325 (2) Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority v. City of Oakland, etc., et al., Alameda County Superior Court Case No. 22CV009309 (3) Union Pacific Railroad Company v. City of Oakland, etc., et al., Alameda County Superior Court Case No. 22CV009330 Action details Not available
300-22 1 1.3 Closed Session CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (Pursuant to California Government Code Section 54957.6): Employee Organizations: International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 21; Service Employees International Union, Local 1021; Western Council of Engineers; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1245 And Unrepresented Employees: Port Employee Units H/M Action details Not available
301-22 1 1.4 Closed Session PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION - (Pursuant to California Government Code Section 54957) Title: Executive Director Action details Not available
302-22 1 2.1 Ordinance Ordinance 4660, 2nd Reading Of An Ordinance Approving And Authorizing The Executive Director To Execute A Fourth Amendment To Temporary Rental Agreement With City Health, A Medical Corporation, To Extend The Term To August 31, 2023, With Anticipated Annual Revenues Of $42,000, Operating At Oakland International Airport. approved Pass Action details Not available
304-22 1 2.3 Ordinance Ordinance 4662, 2nd Reading Of An Ordinance Approving And Authorizing The Executive Director To Execute A License And Concession Agreement With Gaiaca, LLC, Doing Business As Gaiaca Waste Revitalization, For Premises Located At 424 Pendleton Way, Oakland, For A Term Of Five (5) Years, With One (1) Five-Year Mutual Option To Extend, For An Initial Monthly Rent Of $9,500. approved Pass Action details Not available
305-22 1 2.4 Ordinance Ordinance 4663, 2nd Reading Of An Ordinance Approving And Authorizing The Executive Director To Execute A Space/Use Permit With HG Oak F&B Concessionaires JV For A Food & Beverage Concession For Two Units At Oakland International Airport For A Term Expiring At The Latest On March 31, 2035 With Anticipated $19.4 Million Total Rent Payable To The Port Throughout The Term And With Potential Total Capital Contribution By The Port Not To Exceed $1.2 Million. approved Pass Action details Not available
307-22 1 2.5 Ordinance Ordinance 4664, 2nd Reading Of An Ordinance Approving And Authorizing A Space/Use Permit With Boutique Air, Inc. For A Term For Over Three Years From May 16, 2022 To June 30, 2025, With Annual Consideration Of $88,852 For Premises At Port Building L-210 (Hangar 2) And Port Building L-230c At North Field At Oakland International Airport. approved Pass Action details Not available
310-22 1 2.6 Resolution Resolution 22-89: Supporting The Raising Of The United Nations Flag On The United Nations Flag Pole At Jack London Square And Commending The United Nations Association - USA, East Bay Chapter. (Board) approved Pass Action details Not available
303-22 1 2.2 Ordinance Ordinance 4661, 2nd Reading Of An Ordinance Approving And Authorizing The Executive Director To Execute A Third Amendment To Lease With DHL Express (USA), Inc. To Extend The Term For Five Years To December 31, 2027 At Annual Consideration Of $563,995 For Premises At North Field At Oakland International Airport. approved Pass Action details Not available
296-22 1 5.1 Report Supplemental Information Report: Proposed Adoption of Various Policies Into Title 2 of the Port of Oakland Administrative Code (POAC) By Amending and Restating Prior Port Ordinances (Port Attorney) received and filed Action details Video
293-22 1 6.1 Resolution Resolution 22-90: Approve and Authorize the Executive Director to Execute: (1) a Professional Services Agreement with Intellisoft, Inc. to provide a comprehensive and automated Identity Management System (IdMS) software at the Oakland International Airport (Airport) and Provide System Updates for a Term of 7 Years for a Total Cost Not to Exceed $2,830,000; and (2) a Professional Services Agreement with Faith Group, LLC to Provide Project Coordination Implementation Support Services for a Term of 2 Years for a Total Cost Not to Exceed $250,000, and Waive Formal Competitive Procedures. (Aviation) approved Pass Action details Video
294-22 1 6.2 Ordinance Ordinance 4665: Adopt an Ordinance to Approve and Authorize the Executive Director to Execute an Amendment to Space/Use Permit for Retail and Duty Free Concession with WDFG North America LLC to (i) Extend the Term through January 31, 2023 for approximately $520,454.85 in Anticipated Revenues; (ii) Grant the Executive Director the Authority to Extend the Term on an As-Needed Basis for Up to an Additional Five Months from February 1, 2023 through June 30, 2023 for approximately $130,113.71/Month in Anticipated Revenues; and (iii) Waive Certain Restrictions in Resolution No. 16-144 - Resolution Approving a Restatement, Affirmation and Update to the Board's Policy for Awarding Concession And Customer Service Privileges at the Terminal Complex. (Aviation) approved Pass Action details Video
297-22 1 6.3 Ordinance Ordinance 4666: Enactment of An Ordinance to Amend Port Ordinance No. 867 to Reassign the Salary Grade for the Senior Maritime Commercial Representative Classification from Salary Grade 586.2 to Salary Grade 515.1. (Finance & Admin) approved Pass Action details Video


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CHRISTMAS IN THE PIRANHA INN
Christmas Cabaret
"The stage is dark. There is howling wind. Dogs bark in the distance. A shadowy figure enters the stage, holding a candelabra to light his way..."
OneFourSeven
A Devised Show based on waiting rooms
OneFourSeven takes place in the mind of a young immigration officer, Angelo Walker, as he descends into a world of waiting rooms and a journey into his past and future. OneFourSeven is an evening of polyphonic physical theatre, full of strange people, beautiful images, carrots, and lots of numbers.
THE PIRANHA LOUNGE
A Devised Show based on short stories
Meet Og - he's a man who just loves too much and can't stop giving his beloved wife Barbara everything she asks for. Meet Petunia - or perhaps you'd rather not, given her penchant for double-dealing card counting and sideline in sadism. Meet Barbosa - a horny teenage kangaroo who dreams of Baccara...
VIVA MARIA!
She's the wrong side of 60, her husband's having an affair with his lesbian sister & somebody is trying to kill her. It's all in a days work for Brazilian soap queen TIA MARIA. He's 25 & has just arrived in São Paulo to meet his date. So what could go wrong when Matin meets MARIA ALVES?
TWO LOST SOULS ON A DIRTY NIGHT
A Play from Brazil - UK Premiere
Paco and Tonho work in a street market in a huge metropolis. Both are young and poor. Tonho is full of dreams, but can't look for a better job with the pair of shoes he's got. Paco has beautiful, brand new shoes. The conflict is established.


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Howl of the Carrion King – Chapter One
All the Right Reasons
Haleen Synger stood on a rocky crag in the burning desert heat. Her long, black hair danced in the wind, while her deep, brown eyes gazed with longing at the city below. Katapesh was neither a kind place, nor a forgiving one, but it was home.
She sighed. After fifteen years on the streets she had done it again. She almost couldn't believe it. All this time and she hadn't learned a thing.
The first time it had happened she was a child of seven years old. She had been in the back garden tending the pesh cacti when they came. Their helms and shields glittered in the midday sun and their blue robes fell around them like a waterfall. She had gasped at their beauty. She ran up the back steps, threw open the door and skipped to the front entryway.
They stood there, fully armored, with their glistening scimitars drawn. She stopped when she saw them, paralyzed. Her mother sat in the corner of the room, motionless, her bruised face turned to the sandstone floor. He father stood before them on his knees, gesturing wildly with wide, terrified eyes.
"No!" he was saying. "No!"
She hadn't understood what was happening at the time. She hadn't known her father was an illegal pesh dealer, or realized that he had willingly broken the most important law in Katapesh and interfered with legitimate trade. That knowledge came later. What she did know was that they had come to take her father away. Her father and their home.
"No!" she had screamed. She threw herself at the Zephyr Guard's polished bronze boots and pulled at his clothes. "Don't take Father away!"
The guard ignored her and reached for her father.
"Take me, instead!"
"Yes!" said her Father frantically. "Take her, instead!"
The Guards hesitated, but only for a moment. "Your crimes weigh more than your offer."
"I… I have another daughter! She is young and pretty! Take her, too!"
The Guards paused.
"Ghaniyah!" her Father called. "Come here!"
Haleen's elder sister, thirteen and at the cusp of womanhood, had come obediently at her Father's call.
"See? Take them!"
The Guards sheathed their swords. The leader nodded once and then spoke. "Let it be stated for the records that the Zephyr Guard accepts Aqil Saeed ibn Najjar's offer of his two daughters on behalf of the Pesh Guild of Katapesh. His right hand shall be taken as payment for his crimes on behalf of Pactbroker Hashim ibn Sayyid, and his branding as Guildless will occur directly afterwards, as ordered by the Pactmasters themselves. The Guildless shall not be tolerated."
Her Father had sighed then, in relief.
Her Mother neither moved nor spoke.
Two of the Zephyr Guards led Haleen and her sister out of the house and down the road to the Pesh Guild headquarters. Their Father's screams as his hand was severed could be heard the entire walk.
It took Haleen a few days to realize that the man they were brought to now owned her. That she and her sister were his to do with as he wished. His slaves. It was the brand they seared onto her forearm that really drove it home. 'Property of Tahsin Sumrah ibn Zayad al-Muhib,' it said, 'For Life.'
Haleen attempted escape at every opportunity and got away at least once a week. She always ran straight home. "Father! Mother!" she would call. "I'm back!"
Her parents would come running. Her Mother would embrace her, hug her and cry. Her Father would frown.
"Haleen," he would say as he called for the Guild Guards. "You used to be such a good daughter. So obedient. What has happened to you?" The Guards always arrived after a few minutes. It was just enough time for her to plead and cry with her parents. To tell them the torments she had suffered that week.
She hadn't known that the Guards let her escape. She hadn't known how much worse her sister had it or what happened when they were separated. Not until the day her sister died. That's when it all became clear to her. That's when she knew.
With Ghaniyah gone, Haleen would be next.
Haleen would never leave this place alive.
She escaped that day for the last time. With tears streaming down her face she had stormed into her parents home, a whirlwind of grief. Her Mother held her and sobbed. Her Father scolded her and called the Guard. Only this time, Haleen wasn't destined to return.
At the sight of the Guild Guards her Mother grabbed a kitchen knife and plunged it into the eyes of the first Guard.
"Run, my child!" she had cried. "Run!"
And Haleen did. She ran as far and as fast as she could. She ran until her feet bled and her lungs felt as if they would explode.
Her Mother was executed in the public square the next day. She died bravely, with her welt covered face held high in defiance. Haleen had watched from a nearby rooftop.
As young as she was, Haleen understood that her Mother's life had paid for her freedom. She vowed that day that she would not let her Mother's sacrifice go to waste. That she would never be held against her will again.
And now, fifteen years later, she had taken her Mother's sacrifice and thrown it away.
She had failed.
When she was twelve, Haleen had been living in a small room, no bigger than a shed, that she had purchased from a surly old dwarf named Ho-tep. It lay in the back alley behind his book shop, the Gilded Tome. He had helped her occasionally, throughout her time on the streets and even given her a job as a messenger when she needed money. He was her only friend.
Until she found them.
They were hiding behind a street vendor's stall, chained together at the ankles. The first, a ruddy skinned boy with thick black hair, was trying to pick the lock upon his chains with a chicken bone and an apple core, while the second, a half-orc child with reddish brown skin, tried his best to look inconspicuous. They were younger than her. No older than six. Old tears had left streaks down their dirty, bruised faces. The brands upon their bony arms proclaimed them slaves for life.
Haleen had heard the hurried footsteps of the Zephyr Guard approaching. She should have run. She should have saved herself.
But she didn't.
She saved them instead.
They stayed with her even after they had been freed and as the years passed she became their big sister and protector while they became her very heart and soul. Her beloved boys.
A week ago, when the elder of her boys, Santon – now a strapping young man of seventeen – burst into their one room home screaming that Chochy – her kind-hearted, monster of a half-orc – had gone missing, she vowed she would do whatever it took to find him and bring him home.
Unfortunately for Haleen, Chochy's life was legally forfeit to not one, but two Guild leaders and when she found him in their hands she knew not only what saving his life would entail, but that she would pay it without hesitation.
And so, for the second time in her life, Haleen Synger willingly offered her freedom in exchange for another's. She was right back where she had started. Nothing had changed.
Well, perhaps one thing had changed. This time Haleen had a sword.
Her reverie was broken by an impatient huff. The guards behind her shuffled their feet. Haleen sighed. If she did not follow them now, of her own will, they would force her to. Her hands trembled and edged closed to the well-worn handle on her scimitar.
No. She couldn't draw steel on these men. It would mean the end for Chochy.
She couldn't fight back. She wouldn't. Chochy meant too much to her.
Haleen cast one final look at her home and then turned and walked away. It was the last she would ever see of Katapesh.
She had paid a hefty sum to have her original slave brand removed and now another had replaced it. It sat in the exact same place and stung with every breath of wind and brush of sand. Worse than the pain it caused was the burden. It weighed upon her much heavier than the original ever had. It's very existence mocked her Mother's memory.
'Property of Tahsin Sumrah ibn Zayad al-Muhib' it said. 'For life.'
Her Mother would be so disappointed.
Kaali hovered behind her daughter, watching her cast a final glance at their home city of Katapesh. A spectral tear rolled down her cheek.
Fifteen years ago Kaali had sacrificed her life to give Haleen a chance at freedom and, despite the odds, it had worked. Haleen evaded capture but Kaali, filled with regret at allowing her other daughter to die, could not rest. Her spirit lingered on, attached at its very core to Haleen's well-being. Over the years she had protected Haleen as much as she could given her undead existence. A stray noise to lead pursuers astray, an especially shadowy corner to hide in and, on very rare occasions, a ghostly manifestation were about all that Kaali could manage, but it proved to be enough.
Against this though, Kaali was helpless. There was nothing she could do.
Haleen had given up her hard won freedom in exchange for her adopted brother's, just as she had done for her Father's so many years before. It was what Kaali herself should have done when her precious girls had been offered up as barter for her no good husband.
As Kaali watched her daughter follow her captors across the endless sands, she felt her hold on this world loosening. She was fading. Letting go. There was nothing more she could do here, on this world, and so the other world was calling her. The Dawnflower's burning light would claim her today, as it should have fifteen years ago.
Another spectral tear rolled down her scarred face, and she smiled.
Haleen was exactly where she had started.
But this time she was there for all the right reasons.
Her Mother was so proud.


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One Last Time (2000)
One Last Time (Live In Concert) is the official home video with a complete concert from Tina's Twenty Four Seven Tour, which was the highest-grossing tour in 2000. It was filmed with 18 different cameras at her final two concerts at London's Wembley Stadium in July. As a special bonus, it includes exclusive backstage interviews and behind the scenes footage. The video was re-issued in 2007 on a 3 DVD Box Set and in 2013 on Blu-ray disc, together with the Celebrate! home video.
Release: November 2000 / 2007 (re-issue) / 2013 (blu-ray)
Label: eagle
Format: VHS / DVD / Blu-ray
Charts: USA: #21
Certifications: UK: 1x Gold, 1x Platinum / Germany: 1x Gold
Time: 120 Min.
I Want To Take You Higher (Live) 3:50
Written by Sylvester Stewart
Absolutely Nothing's Changed (Live) 3:43
Written by Terry Britten, John O'Kane
A Fool In Love (Live) 2:37
Written by Ike Turner
Acid Queen (Live) 1:31
Written by Pete Townsend
River Deep, Mountain High (Live) 4:09
Written by Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich
We Don't Need Another Hero (Live) 4:58
Written by Terry Britten, Graham Lyle
Better Be Good To Me (Live) 7:46
Written by Holly Knight, Nick Chinn, Mick Chapman
Private Dancer (Live) 7:34
Written by Mark Knopfler
Let's Stay Together (Live) 5:24
Written by Al Green, Willie Mitchel, Al Jackson Jr.
What's Love Got To Do With It (Live) 9:01
When The Heartache Is Over (Live) 4:22
Written by Graham Stack, John Reid
Baby, I'm A Star (Live) 4:14
Written by Prince / Performed by Lisa Fisher & Stacy Campbel
Help (Live) 8:27
Written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Whatever You Need (Live) 5:24
Written by Harriet Roberts, Russell Courtenay
Sitin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Live) 1:36
Written by Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness (Live) 5:16
Written by Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly
I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Live Tina & John Miles) 4:59
Written by Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong
Written by Robert Palmer
The Best (Live) 4:51
Written by Holly Knight, Mike Chapman
Proud Mary (Live) 9:25
Written by John C. Fogerty
Nutbush City Limits (Live) 7:00
Written by Tina Turner
Twenty Four Seven (Live) 6:27
Written by Terry Britten, Charlie Dore
Backstage Interview
Behind The Scenes Footage
from the booklet
Filmed at Wembley Stadium during the "Twenty Four Seven Millennium Tour 2000". A state-of-the-art stage set, 18 cameras, one of the world's top directors (David Mallet); combined with Tina Turner's usual powerful performance - make this, her final UK concert, an event never to be forgotten.
Blasting out hit after hit from her amazing 4 decade career, Tina proves herself once again to be... simply the best. Watching this DVD you can see why Tina Turner has sold more concert tickets than any other female artist in history and why, though Tina will give her famous dancing shoes a rest, this title will still stand as a repeatable, collectable, performance experience to her millions of fans ....
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A daughter who is jia 嫁 is out of the house is gone forever, water poured out of a bucket, never whole, never yours again.
Fourteen, or so. I'm in the front seat of the Subaru, with my mother, on my way to violin lessons in upstate New York. We're talking about some man we knew who married some woman we knew, and we're speaking in Chinglish, as usual. I said, "Yeah, and so he jia her?"—he married her?
My mother almost swerved the car, yelping back, "No! No, you can't say that! Men qu 娶, and women jia 嫁."
Or, to be more precise grammatically, women jia gei 嫁给 a man when they get married. Jia 嫁, meaning: to marry out of one's home; gei 给, meaning: to give, given. Qu 娶, meaning: to take a bride. It's insulting to say that a man jia 嫁 when he marries—it implies that he's useless, even "effeminate," that he's gone to live with her.
As per patrilineal custom, she is supposed to go live with him and erase her old family as family, see only her husband's family as true. Historically, a man might truly jia 嫁 if he were poor and marrying into a rich household, if he gave up his surname and his right as head of household.
But today, saying a man jia 嫁 is largely something pejorative, unserious, whispered behind backs and closed doors. Real only in language.
In the Shih-Ching , the ancient Book of Odes , there is a line from a Zhou era poem that leaves little room for confusion: zhi zi yu gui 之子于归. Meaning: the daughter is getting married; she is returning to her real home. For a bride to return to her birth home means that something terrible must have happened.
When my aunt married in Taiwan in the 1980s, this was still custom: My grandfather had to pour a bucket of water out onto the porch. Because that's what a married daughter is: spilled-out water. You can never collect her all back together; never have her back as yours again. That's what jia gei 嫁给 is. Given away. Unable to come back.
As the car that carried my aunt and my newly minted uncle drove away, my grandmother yelled at my grandfather, "Pour it! Pour it, why haven't you poured it yet?"
A daughter who is jia 嫁 out of the house is gone forever, water poured out of a bucket, never whole, never yours again.
There is a neutral, general verb that means "to marry" or "married": jiehun 结婚. But jia 嫁 and qu 娶 are still what happens from a groom or a bride to the other person—rather than what happens between them. Jia 嫁 and qu 娶 are individual, active, relative to the one performing the act; jiehun 结婚 is more circumstantial, speaking to a new, communal state of being.
See here the difference between Reader, I married him and Reader, I got married to him .
When I type the Charlotte Bront ë line into Google Translate, it spits back: "Reader, I jia gei 嫁给 him." Reader, I married him . Without missing a beat, even Google knows which verb Jane Eyre would have to use.
See here the difference between Reader, I married him  and Reader; I   got  married    to him .
Today, the concepts of qu 娶 and jia 嫁 are not supposed to matter, even as they are still the words we use. There is no need for a bride to give up her family of origin when she marries. There is no great discrimination against men who must marry for material stability, against those who have to leave their own homes for their wives'—today, last names can be hyphenated, allotted differently to different children, re-ordered as a couple wishes.
And still, the language mattered enough to make my mother yelp.
I moved from the States to Beijing, where I had never truly lived before, which I had never called home. I joined a gym, where I became friends with Wang, thirty-one, with a funny haircut that looked like a newsboy cap. He told me that he had married when he was my age, twenty-two. His wife was twenty. College sweethearts.
"That's very young," I informed him.
"Yeah?" he said. "When do you want to get married? After all your degrees?"
"I don't know. Maybe never."
"Hey, want to hear a joke?" he asked.
"The Chinese say there are four types of beings in this world: men 男人, women 女人, demons 妖, and . . . "
And what? I couldn't catch his last words. He had a way of speaking inside his mouth.
He said it again. ". . . 有博士的女人. Women with doctorates." He grinned; thought it was funny.
I didn't know what to say, so I told him what I read the other day, what Joseph Brodsky once said: "You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn't come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language."
Jia 嫁, meaning: to marry out of one's home; gei 给, meaning: to give, given.
Ji à 嫁 is composed of the ideographs for "woman" 女 and "home" 家. But in Chinese, the term for "home" 家—also transliterated as jia but pronounced "ji ā" rather than "ji à" —means much more than just that. Xiaolu Guo, in her novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, illuminates this well: "In Chinese, it is the same word 家 for 'home' and 'family' and sometimes including 'house' . . . '家', a roof on top, then some legs and arms inside. When you write this character down, you can feel those legs and arms move around underneath the roof . . . In English, it's different . . . It seems like that 'family' doesn't mean a place."
Qu 娶 is composed of the ideographs for "to take" and "woman."
My first wedding reception in China—the marriage of two people I don't know. Fifth floor of the Shanxi restaurant, seated "high-up" in the chain of guests, meaning close to the families of the newlyweds. The son of longtime neighbors, my aunt's best childhood friend. I was only there because my uncle couldn't make it.
Which made things worse when I didn't know what to do when the groom and the bride, whom I didn't know, came to pay their respects to me, according to custom. I learned on the spot that he had to toast a glass of wine or light a cigarette for every man in the party. She had to feed every woman a piece of candy.
Candy on the wedding day has been a Chinese custom since ancient times, meant to signify spreading sweetness and joy to everyone. But this was the first time I'd heard of manually feeding it to guests.
The bride tore open a piece of something orange-flavored and held it to my mouth and then someone took a picture of us, and then she and the groom moved on. I found out from my aunt afterwards, on the train ride home, that the groom had loved someone else, someone who had left him. But he had had no property to his name, so he married this woman instead and would go to live with her in her parents' house. The unspoken; yellow and hanging in the air. The furrowed brows. No one had said anything. I swallowed my words: so did he qu 娶 her then, or did he . . . ?
Did it, does it, matter ?
We had to spit out the candy the bride fed us because this all happened before we ate.
Early morning in April. The outskirts of Taipei, where the smell of yesterday's rain was still in the air. On the platform, waiting for the train to see my grandmother, my mother's mother, for the first time in many years. I was eating two tea-boiled eggs from the Family Mart and a bag of the little melt-in-your-mouth cookies I ate by the fistfuls as a kid, playing on my grandmother's spare bed.
So many different ways to say grandmother, zumu 祖母, in Chinese; the same goes for wife. You'd think that with all these words, the Chinese are obsessed with women, can't stop finding new ways to name them. The terms for grandmother are largely regionally contingent, often bound by local dialect. In mainland China, depending on whether she is paternal or maternal, my grandma is my nainai 奶奶 or my laolao 姥姥; in Hong Kong, my mahmah 嫲嫲 or my pohpoh 婆婆; in Taiwan, my mother's mother is my waipo 外婆.
You'd think that with all these words, the Chinese are obsessed with women, can't stop finding new ways to name them.
But the diverse terms for wife are universal, do not vary in preference across geography. Nor is there any rhyme or reason for which to choose in any given case. She can be a laopo 老婆, qizi 妻子, xifu 媳妇, furen 夫人, taitai 太太, neiren 内人, jiannei 贱内—there are more, apparently, that I can't think of, that I never knew. That I might never know.
Guo writes in A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers : "'Love,' this English word: like other English words, it has tense. 'Loved' or 'will love' or 'have loved.' All these specific tenses mean Love is a time-limited thing. Not infinite . . . In Chinese, Love is '爱' (ai). It has no tense. No past and future. Love in Chinese means a being, a situation, a circumstance."
The house in Taiwan where my grandmother now lives is not the one she lived in when her eldest daughter married. Pulling up outside, I took in the familiar contours: the off-white exterior, the narrowness of the road, the sidewalks wet with sudden spring rain. I got out of the car.
In my mind, I assembled the skeleton of the facts that I know, clothed the bones in what little color I could conjure: Thirty-plus years ago, when my mother's eldest sister married, my grandparents watched the car drive away down a dusty lane, away from the other house that I do not know. My grandmother is pulling at the bucket, trying to get my grandfather, whom I've never met, to perform the rite.
"No, no," my grandfather says. "She'll always be my daughter. Always. So what if she's married?"
My grandmother eventually wrests the pail from him and scatters the water across the front yard.
Lavinia Liang grew up in four different states in the US. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, TIME, VICE, AGNI, Roads & Kingdoms and elsewhere.
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Suddenly, the Seattle Symphony Chooses Ludovic Morlot's Successor
by Gavin Borchert
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:25pm
When in 2010 Morlot was tapped to follow Gerard Schwarz's 26-year tenure, he was largely an unknown quantity: He'd guest-conducted here twice, but the second time was dramatic, stepping in at short notice (for a conductor grounded due to the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruptions) and saving the day. But Thomas Dausgaard—named in a press release tonight as the SSO's next music director, starting in the 2019-2020 season—was pretty clearly the front-runner. The Danish maestro has been the orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor since 2014, and has already been smoothly spliced in to the orchestra's commitment to recording on its own label, with two CDs so far: Mahler's Tenth Symphony, released in June and nominated for a Gramophone Award, and Nielsen's Third and Fourth Symphonies, to be out in November. His appointment was the culmination of a six-month search by an 11-member committee of SSO musicians, Board members, and staff chaired by Board member Paul Leach. The SSO's press release touts Dausgaard's advocacy of new music and his relationships with Scandinavian and English composers; it's heartening to be able to expect a commitment to such composers as fervent as the one Morlot felt for the music of Henri Dutilleux, featured on several of the SSO's most ravishing and acclaimed recordings. Our next opportunity to hear Dausgaard will be his all-Brahms concert January 25 and 27.
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CLIA regulations governing blood gas analysis in both moderate and high complexity labs are very specific as to the qualifications of those performing the tests and signing-off on competencies. CMS revised surveyor guidelines at the beginning of 2015 to require mandatory citations in four areas regardless of the presence or absence of any negative outcome or potential harm. One of the four citations involves issues related to personnel qualifications. While the CLIA regulations regarding personnel qualifications and responsibilities for testing and supervision have not changed, the requirement to issue mandatory citations has caused concerns among respiratory therapists involved in blood gas analyses. At issue are the education requirements one must meet in order to conduct blood gas testing, requirements for sign-off authority on competencies, and whether a Bachelor's Degree in a title other than Respiratory Therapy meets the criteria. Answers to these issues are provided in a chart and a list of FAQs to assist RTs in clarifying the qualification standards. However, it is important to keep in mind that accrediting bodies such as the Joint Committee and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) may have more stringent standards than current regulations.


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Remembering TC Westcott, EVP and COO of the New York Academy of Sciences
TC WESTCOTT
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
It is with great sadness that the New York Academy of Sciences announces the passing of TC Westcott, its long-time EVP and Chief Operating Officer.
Ms. Westcott joined the New York Academy of Sciences in the fall of 2013 and was responsible for the financial, operational, and programmatic management of the Academy. "TC has been an integral part of the Academy's leadership over the past five years," said Ellis Rubinstein, President and CEO. "She spearheaded many of our most valued programs and partnerships, and has helped to make the Academy one of the premier science organizations of its kind in the United States. But more importantly she was in many ways the Academy's linchpin and number one advocate: someone who knew every staff member by name, always had a word of encouragement for younger staffers, and whose unfailing good cheer and generosity made the Academy a better place. Her dedication and commitment to the success of this organization was deeply appreciated and will be sorely missed."
Prior to joining the Academy, Ms. Westcott was the Vice President of Finance and Administration and Treasurer at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a higher education institution focused on art architecture and engineering. Before joining Cooper Union, she was the Vice President of Finance and Administration at The Polytechnic Institute of NYU. She has also served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Planned Parenthood of NYC.
Ms. Westcott was a Queens native and graduate of Lehman College. She was a registered nurse and earned an MBA from Columbia University. She is survived by her husband Robert Westcott and daughter, Nora Westcott.


Context: (520.46) She answered by the silent affirmation of closing her eyes and inclining her head. She saw his lantern circling through the air as she turned away.
Discussion: It's difficult to see a lantern with one's eyes closed.
Alternative: She answered by the silent affirmation of closing her eyes and inclining her head. Upon opening them, she saw his lantern circling through the air as she turned away.
Context: (709.12) [Wyatt speaking to Dagny] "I'll see you tonight."
(714.3) [Later, Galt speaking to Mulligan by phone] "Tonight? Yes, I think so. We will."
(714.26) [Shortly after, Galt speaking to Dagny] "If you're not too tired by evening", he said, "Mulligan has invited us for dinner."
Discussion: At the time that Wyatt informed Dagny that he would see her that night, plans for the evening had not yet been made. Indeed, Wyatt was not yet aware that Dagny was in the valley until that moment, so he would have had no chance to have heard the plans, nor reason to anticipate them, no reason to speak of the evening.
Alternative: I'm sure I'll see you around.
Context: (1135.11) "Don't worry," said Ferris.
(1135.15) "It seems to me . . . that we have no other choice . . .", said Mouch; it was almost a whisper.
(1135.19) Dr. Ferris turned to Lawson. "Gene," he said tensely, still whispering, "run to the radio-control office. Order all stations to stand by."
Discussion: Dr. Ferris was not whispering, and therefore could not still whisper. Only Mouch could do that.
Alternative: "Gene," he said tensely, whispering in turn.
Context: (681.28) "The wire's okay,", [Kellogg] said. "The current's on. It's this particular instrument that's out of order. There's a chance the next one might be working." He added, "The next one is five miles away." "Let's go," [Dagny] said.
(683.7) It was Kellogg who glanced back, after a while, and she followed his glance: there was no headlight behind them.
Discussion: Dagny chose the least efficient direction in which to walk. Given that it would be a five mile walk to the next track phone, it did not matter in which direction they walked to reach it; it would still be five miles. However, heading for the track phone behind the Comet would have taken just as long to reach, but would have reduced by five to ten miles the total distance they would have to walk in order to ultimately return to the Comet.
Alternative: Rather than saying, "Let's go", Dagny should have said, "Our walk back will be miles shorter if we try for the track phone behind the Comet." She turned back in the direction of the feeble headlight. "Let's go." Omit 683.7-8.
Context: (991.7) [Wet Nurse speaking] ". . . that's when they shot me . . . in the parking lot . . . from behind . . ."
(989.26) [Rearden] felt the boy's hand clutching his with abnormal strength of agony, while he was noticing the tortured lines on the face, the drained lips, the glazing eyes and the thin, dark trickle from a small, black hole in too wrong, too close a spot on the left side of the boy's chest.
Discussion: A small, black hole is the mark of an entrance wound, not an exit wound, so the Wet Nurse could not have been shot from behind. Most bullets are designed to hit their target without exiting at all, thereby imparting all of their kinetic energy to the target. In most situations, being shot from behind will not create an exit wound in front, especially with a thick target like a torso, and the odds are great that the bullet would be deflected or halted by impact with bone. Further, exit wounds are generally larger and more irregular than entrance wounds and would not leave a small, black hole, but rather some beveling oriented away from the entrance wound or ricochet. A low-power weapon would not have the punch to reach all the way through, and a high-power weapon would do much more damage on exit.
Context: (1156.37) The wheels [of Francisco's airplane] were running faster, as if gaining speed and purpose and lightness, ignoring the impotent obstacles of small jolts from the ruts of the ground.
Discussion: John Galt's rescue occurs on the night of February 27th in New Hampshire. The odds of there being no snow on the ground at that latitude and time of year are virtually zero.
Context: (290.42) "Hank, that motor was the most valuable thing inside this factory," [Dagny] said, her voice low. "It was more valuable than the whole factory and everything it ever contained. Yet it was passed up and left in the refuse. It was the only thing nobody found worth the trouble of taking."
(356.36) [Dr. Stadler speaking] "How could they abandon, just abandon, a thing of this kind [...] And besides, from a purely practical aspect, why was that motor left in a junk pile?"
Discussion: Perhaps a plausible reason the motor was left behind was because it was a prototype that never did work?
Alternative: None. Given the importance of the motor to the plot development, any alternative wording would need to be far reaching, and beyond the scope of this pamphlet.


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Poppo, a homeless alcoholic who lived in the Jungle Island parking garage, will now be best known for having been the victim of a cannibal. Gruesome photos of his face circulated on the Internet.
His recorded interview took place July 19 at Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center, a long-term-care facility in Cutler Bay. Poppo calmly explained that he had no address and was too old to work.
He told Sgt. Altarr Williams and Det. Frankie Sanchez that he was standing near South Bayshore Drive and 13th Street, just beside the Miami Herald building, when he heard a car door slam and then saw a man appear. The man was bigger than Poppo and carried nothing in his hands.
He thought it happened on May 16, but the sergeant explained to Poppo that his recall was about 10 days off.
It was the 26th, a Saturday, at about 2 p.m. Masses of revelers were partying in Miami Beach for Urban Beach Week. Poppo was on the MacArthur Causeway, minding his own business, when he was approached by Rudy Eugene, a 31-year-old who washed cars, and liked to smoke marijuana and quote the Bible.
"For a while he was acting nice. Then he got flustered. He probably remembered something that happened on the beach and was not happy about it," Poppo said.
He said Eugene said something about wanting "to score" and not being able to.
Eugene, he said, started talking funny. He started to scream. He seemed preoccupied with death, Poppo recalled. Although he did not mention it in the taped interview, in a later meeting with police the victim said Eugene accused him of stealing his Bible.
"For a very short amount of time I thought he was a good guy," Poppo said. "But he just went and turned berserk."
Poppo remembered Eugene telling him that they would both die.
"You and me buddy and nobody else," he quoted Eugene saying. "He must have been souped up on something."
Poppo calmly described how Eugene chewed his face and gouged his eyes out using only "brute force." Eugene, he said, carried no weapon.
"He mashed my face into the sidewalk," he said. "My face is all bent and bashed up. My eyes, my eyes got plucked out. He was strangling me in wrestling holds, at the same time he was picking my eyes out."
The attack ended with five blasts from Miami Officer Jose Ramirez's gun.
Sgt. Williams, who was investigating the shooting, asked Poppo if he had provoked Eugene.
"What could provoke an attack of that type?" Poppo responded. "I didn't curse at the guy or say anything mean or nasty."
No information ever surfaced to explain Eugene's bizarre behavior. Speculation that he was high on so-called "bath salts" was debunked by a medical examiner's report, which showed that Eugene had only marijuana in his system.
"He apparently didn't have a good day at the beach and he — he was coming back," Poppo said. "And I guess he took it out, took it out on me or something. I don't know."
Although Poppo sounded coherent and lucid, parts of his account show he may have been confused about some details. It's unlikely that Eugene had hitchhiked across the causeway, and the surveillance camera video captured by The Miami Herald showed the attacker was naked at the time of the incident. Even though he first told police Eugene was shirtless, Poppo later recalled a green shirt and shorts. In fact, he said, the victim and attacker wore similar clothes.
He said he believed Eugene was a dealer, a tidbit he said he knew perhaps by "telepathy."
Poppo spent several weeks at Jackson Memorial Hospital being treated for his injuries. Doctors removed one of his eyes and the other was severely damaged. He had two puncture wounds in his chest, which doctors said may have been from the bullets fired from the officer's gun.
Poppo also had a broken rib and infections on his face. He lost his eyebrows, nose, part of his forehead and right cheek.
When doctors spoke to the media in mid-June, Poppo's brother, who lives in California, was acting as his health-care surrogate. Poppo subsequently took over responsibility for his own care and has declined to give interviews. A transcript of one of his three interviews with police shows he told detectives that he did not like how he was portrayed in the press and did not want to talk to the media.
About a month ago, he transferred out of the hospital to the South Dade facility, where a social worker helped him reconnect with his older sister, Antoinette.
It had been at least 30 years since they last talked.
"I asked [the social worker] if he wants to talk to me, and she said, 'He talks about you all the time.' I said, 'Really?' " Antoinette Poppo told The Miami Herald by phone from New York. "He asked me how the family was. He wants to know if I'm ever going to move to Florida. He said he'd like to see me. I would love to see him, but I have Parkinson's."
Poppo told his sister he likes the place where he's living and that he gets a lot of mail, which is read to him.
"They treat him very well, and the social worker said they like having him," she said.
Poppo told his sister he'll be having more surgery, but won't be able to see again.
She and her brother don't talk about why he drifted away from the family or what he'd been doing the past three decades. Nor, she said, does she ask about the attack.
"He doesn't say, and I don't ask," she said. "I don't want to push it."
In his interview with police, Poppo tired of discussing it after about 15 minutes. Saying he was exhausted, he wanted to wrap up. Asked if he had anything he wanted to add, he thanked Miami police for showing up when he began to scream to save his life.
"If they didn't get there in a nick of time, I would've definitely be in worse shape," he said. "Possibly I'd be DOA."
Miami Herald staff writer Elinor Brecher contributed to this report.
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'Zombie' attack victim may spend rest of life in Miami-Dade nursing home
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Ronald Poppo listens to Heat games through a portable radio, but he'll never watch TV again. He's relearning how to play guitar, but he has lost interest in reconnecting with his family.
Poppo's doctors offer to give him prosthetic eyes and rebuild his chewed-off nose, but he turns them down.
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Keeping It Country
The Town of Fairview was incorporated in 1958 with a population of 50. Since that time, it has grown steadily to today's population of almost 9,000. The community is marked by large houses on large lots, expansive open spaces, numerous horse farms, excellent schools, rolling hills, vast hardwoods, beautiful creeks, and the extensive Village at Fairview shopping area and mixed-use center.
A petition to request an incorporation election for Fairview was submitted to the county judge and commissioners' court on April 21, 1958. The petition contained the following thirty-three names: Edgar Bush, V. W. Glover, Joe Hooper, C. A, Ostrawn (sp?), M. E. Travillion, L. W. Bryson, Mrs. L. W. Bryson, Mrs. W. H. Ellenburg, W. M. Bush, Mrs. W. M. Bush, E. A. Hooper, Elsie Hooper, Mrs. V. W. Glover, P. L. Barksdale, Mrs. P. L. Barksdale, H. L. Lowry, Mrs. H. L. Lowry, L. M. Nelson, Mrs. L. M. Nelson, Mrs. J. F. Summers, H. J. Petefish, Mrs. H. J. Petefish, Mrs. Robert R. Miller, Mr. Robert R. Miller, Mrs. Clyde Geren, George Apple, Mrs. George Apple, H. L. Knight, Mrs. H. L. Knight, B. C. Knight (?), C. H. Murray, J. K. Wa(?)
Fairview came into existence following an election held at what was called the Fairview Grocery on May 7, 1958. Ordered by Collin County Judge W. E. Button after submission of a petition, the purpose of the voting was to determine whether or not the Town of Fairview would be incorporated as a town. The ballot choices were simple: "Corporation" or "No Corporation." A total of fifty ballots were cast, with only two of those opposing incorporation. Judge Button signed the order incorporating Fairview on May 12, 1958.
According to accounts, the town's name might just as easily have been Wetsel because there were two communities included in the incorporated land – Fairview and Wetsel. The latter community began when Henry Wetsel, a Pennsylvania immigrant and carpenter by trade, sold his grist and flour mill in McKinney (a three- to five-oxen operation described as a "first-class ox mill") and head right a square mile of land four to five miles south of town. That land is memorialized today as the Henry Wetsel Survey. He built his cabin on the Fisher and Sawyer stage road that ran from Austin through McKinney on its way to the Red River. One account suggests Henry operated a new grist mill on the northwest corner of today's Stacy Road and SH 5 beginning in about 1850. Either here or at his McKinney mill he lost an arm in a terrible accident. He also supposedly built a two-story house with large cedar trees in the front yard on the west side of the stagecoach road, and brought Bermuda grass back from East Texas and had the first lawn of its kind in the area. This story seems not to ring true, however. Lawns were not really "invented" for many more years, so the grass story may have more accurately described one of Henry's descendants.
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