Home Career Advice Should You Work During Vacations?
Should You Work During Vacations?
One of the most cherished workplace benefits is having a paid vacation. As the Christmas season draws near, it is refreshing to get away from the busy life to have fun, refresh and have a good rest. When you don't go for vacations you become susceptible to burnout.
We can't snap our fingers and make our work disappear, but we shouldn't deny ourselves the opportunity to escape the office for brief yet necessary periods of time. Vacations are amazing, but did you know that working vacations can be incredible experiences, too? It can be hard to completely separate yourself from your work to go on vacation, but there are ways you can relax and have fun while keeping up on your workload.
Though the idea of working while on vacation may be horrifying, it's a practice many uphold anyway. It might seem like too much sacrifice to do so but in reality, working while away can be self-serving. Working during vacation is less stressful since you can be in the comfort of your homes and stay connected work-wise while ensuring things run smoothly. Putting in some work during vacation periods makes for a much less stressful transition back to the office afterward.
Of course, there comes a point when too much checking in during your vacation time can distract you from your vacation or defeat the purpose of it altogether. As long as you're working because you want to, not because you have to, then there's nothing wrong with carving out a little time each day to give yourself that peace of mind.
We've all experienced that end-of-vacation dread that comes with knowing we're about to return to a mountain of work at the office. If plugging in during vacation minimizes that worry, then maybe it's not such a bad thing after all.
Before you hit the beach, ask yourself this: Is there a point in the year where your workload is less? Even if you can't get away from it all without working, you may be able to take advantage of a natural downswing in work so you don't have to worry about fitting everything in while you're away. Once you've narrowed down on a possible month or two, compare it to the best times to travel and the location of your choice.
Work vacations are all about work, of course, but they are also all about vacations, too. Schedule your time just like you do when you're at home on the job. Set up times for work and times for relaxation or vacation activities — and stick to that self-imposed schedule. One pleasant feature of a working vacation is the flexibility it comes with. Have a massage scheduled for 10 a.m.? Shuffle your work to a later time slot.
While it is a drag to work while on vacation, make a point of owning it. Don't sit around and feel discouraged or stressed out that you have to work later. You can work earlier in the day so you can enjoy the rest of your day, or push work that still needs to be done to the back of your mind as you enjoy your cool and fresh breeze.
Not everyone can take a work vacation in the first place, so it's an excellent idea to keep positive and get what you can out of your stay while keeping connected back home. You will enjoy the best of both worlds.
Are you planning a vacation this Christmas break? Tell us how you intend to fuse in a bit of work while away.


On March 25, Route 555 will no longer serve Eastgate or Issaquah; customers can ride King County Metro Route 271 between Bellevue and Issaquah.
Currently, almost 80% of the current ridership on Route 555 is between Northgate Transit Center and Bellevue Transit Center, with the Bellevue-Eastgate-Issaquah segment carrying very few riders per trip. To maximize resource efficiency, Sound Transit would eliminate the low-performing route segment. Resources will be reinvested into improving reliability on Route 554.


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Posted: Apr 14 2021
Why do MuslimsGive Qurbani?
Why do Muslims Give Qurbani?
Qurbani is a very holy time of the year for Muslims and followers of Islam. It falls across the 10th, 11th and 12th days of the last month of the Islamic (lunar) year, known as Dhul Hijjah. It is followed by Eid al-Adha, or Big Eid as it is sometimes called. For those outside of the Islamic community, Qurbani is little known compared to other events like Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr. For the benefit of friends of the Islamic community and those who are new to the community or who don't have the guidance of a local Imam, we have put together this guide as to why Muslims give Qurbani.
The Origins of Qurbani
Qurbani can be traced back to the Prophet Ibrahim (AS). He was commanded by Allah (SWT) to sacrifice the person who was closest to him – his son, Ismail. Ibrahim (AS) loved his son dearly, but in order to demonstrate his devotion to Allah (SWT), he was prepared to sacrifice his son. Ibrahim (AS) explained to Ismail what was commanded of him by Allah (SWT) and, in obedience to his father and acceptance of what was required by Allah (SWT), agreed, but he requested two things.
First, he requested that his legs and arms be tied so that he would not struggle, and he also asked that his father wear a blindfold so that he didn't have to see him suffer. Ismail accepted the sacrifice because he was aware of how much his father loved him, and he knew that Ibrahim needed to do this to prove his devotion to Allah (SWT).
At the last second before the sacrifice, Allah (SWT) swapped Ismail for a ram, saving Ismail. The process was a test by Allah (SWT) to determine how devoted and submissive Ibrahim (AS) was, and after showcasing his dedication, Ibrahim (AS) passed the test.
Qurbani is observed by Muslims in order to honour the sacrifice that Ibrahim (AS) was prepared to make as he demonstrated the level of devotion and submission Allah (SWT) expects. As well as being an act of obedience, Qurbani is also an act of charity which is very important and is echoed throughout the religion of Islam.
"A person is not a believer who fills his stomach while his neighbour goes hungry." Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) (Bukhari)
Through Qurbani, Muslims are able to express wahda (unity) as they help those who need it most. They also learn patience and are made aware of the mercy Allah (SWT) chooses to impart, as well as showing mercy to brothers and sisters who are experiencing trying times and do not have the means to support themselves.
How Muslims Observe Qurbani
Traditionally, every able Muslim should give one share of Qurbani in the form of sacrificing one small animal (a sheep or a goat). The animal is sacrificed in the name of Allah (SWT) in accordance with the Qurbani sacrifice rules. It is then divided into three parts: one part is to be eaten and enjoyed by the donor and their family, one part is to be gifted and eaten by the donor's friends, and one part is to be given to someone who is in need and hungry.
Muslims live far and wide around the world and it is not possible for everyone to give Qurbani in the traditional way. As a result, charities like Orphans in Need accept Qurbani donations and use them to purchase and sacrifice animals on the donor's behalf. Whilst the donor will not see their share and their friends will not see the second share, they will still reap the rewards of making the donation and those in need will be able to enjoy a nutritious and filling meal.
"For every hair of the Qurbani you will receive a reward from Allah, and for every strand of its wool you will receive a reward." (Al-Tirmidhi)
Give Qurbani
Fulfil your obligation as a Muslim and show your devotion to pleasing Allah (SWT) by giving your Qurbani through Orphans in Need. We greatly appreciate your donations and will use your Qurbani to fulfil your Islamic duties and feed those who are most in need around the world.
For more information on the work we do or how we distribute your Qurbani, please get in touch.
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namespace edash_packager {
namespace media {
namespace mp2t {

class Mp2tMediaParserTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  Mp2tMediaParserTest()
      : audio_frame_count_(0),
        video_frame_count_(0),
        video_min_dts_(kNoTimestamp),
        video_max_dts_(kNoTimestamp) {
    parser_.reset(new Mp2tMediaParser());
  }

 protected:
  typedef std::map<int, scoped_refptr<StreamInfo> > StreamMap;

  scoped_ptr<Mp2tMediaParser> parser_;
  StreamMap stream_map_;
  int audio_frame_count_;
  int video_frame_count_;
  int64_t video_min_dts_;
  int64_t video_max_dts_;

  bool AppendData(const uint8_t* data, size_t length) {
    return parser_->Parse(data, length);
  }

  bool AppendDataInPieces(const uint8_t* data,
                          size_t length,
                          size_t piece_size) {
    const uint8_t* start = data;
    const uint8_t* end = data + length;
    while (start < end) {
      size_t append_size = std::min(piece_size,
                                    static_cast<size_t>(end - start));
      if (!AppendData(start, append_size))
        return false;
      start += append_size;
    }
    return true;
  }

  void OnInit(const std::vector<scoped_refptr<StreamInfo> >& stream_infos) {
    DVLOG(1) << "OnInit: " << stream_infos.size() << " streams.";
    for (std::vector<scoped_refptr<StreamInfo> >::const_iterator iter =
             stream_infos.begin(); iter != stream_infos.end(); ++iter) {
      DVLOG(1) << (*iter)->ToString();
      stream_map_[(*iter)->track_id()] = *iter;
    }
  }

  bool OnNewSample(uint32_t track_id,
                   const scoped_refptr<MediaSample>& sample) {
    std::string stream_type;
    StreamMap::const_iterator stream = stream_map_.find(track_id);
    if (stream != stream_map_.end()) {
      if (stream->second->stream_type() == kStreamAudio) {
        ++audio_frame_count_;
        stream_type = "audio";
      } else if (stream->second->stream_type() == kStreamVideo) {
        ++video_frame_count_;
        stream_type = "video";
        if (video_min_dts_ == kNoTimestamp)
          video_min_dts_ = sample->dts();
        // Verify timestamps are increasing.
        if (video_max_dts_ == kNoTimestamp)
          video_max_dts_ = sample->dts();
        else if (video_max_dts_ >= sample->dts()) {
          LOG(ERROR) << "Video DTS not strictly increasing.";
          return false;
        }
        video_max_dts_ = sample->dts();
      } else {
        LOG(ERROR) << "Missing StreamInfo for track ID " << track_id;
        return false;
      }
    }

    return true;
  }

  void InitializeParser() {
    parser_->Init(
        base::Bind(&Mp2tMediaParserTest::OnInit,
                   base::Unretained(this)),
        base::Bind(&Mp2tMediaParserTest::OnNewSample,
                   base::Unretained(this)),
        NULL);
  }

  bool ParseMpeg2TsFile(const std::string& filename, int append_bytes) {
    InitializeParser();

    std::vector<uint8_t> buffer = ReadTestDataFile(filename);
    EXPECT_TRUE(AppendDataInPieces(buffer.data(),
                                   buffer.size(),
                                   append_bytes));
    return true;
  }
};

TEST_F(Mp2tMediaParserTest, UnalignedAppend17) {
  // Test small, non-segment-aligned appends.
  ParseMpeg2TsFile("bear-1280x720.ts", 17);
  EXPECT_EQ(video_frame_count_, 80);
  parser_->Flush();
  EXPECT_EQ(video_frame_count_, 82);
}

TEST_F(Mp2tMediaParserTest, UnalignedAppend512) {
  // Test small, non-segment-aligned appends.
  ParseMpeg2TsFile("bear-1280x720.ts", 512);
  EXPECT_EQ(video_frame_count_, 80);
  parser_->Flush();
  EXPECT_EQ(video_frame_count_, 82);
}

TEST_F(Mp2tMediaParserTest, TimestampWrapAround) {
  // "bear-1280x720_ptswraparound.ts" has been transcoded
  // from bear-1280x720.mp4 by applying a time offset of 95442s
  // (close to 2^33 / 90000) which results in timestamps wrap around
  // in the Mpeg2 TS stream.
  ParseMpeg2TsFile("bear-1280x720_ptswraparound.ts", 512);
  parser_->Flush();
  EXPECT_EQ(video_frame_count_, 82);
  EXPECT_GE(video_min_dts_, static_cast<int64_t>(95443 - 1) * kMpeg2Timescale);
  EXPECT_LE(video_max_dts_, static_cast<int64_t>(95443 + 4) * kMpeg2Timescale);
}

}  // namespace mp2t
}  // namespace media
}  // namespace edash_packager

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David C. Banks (born August 5, 1959) is an American attorney and educator who is currently serving as the 31st New York City Schools chancellor in the administration of Mayor Eric Adams.

Early life and education
Banks's mother was a secretary and his father, Philip Banks Jr., retired as a lieutenant from the New York City Police Department. Banks grew up in Southeast Queens. He has two brothers, including Philip Banks III, who retired from the NYPD as chief of department on October 31, 2014. Banks earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and a Juris Doctor from St. John's University.

Career
Banks worked for the city's law department and the state attorney general before becoming a public school teacher in Crown Heights. He also helped to create the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice, a prototype for the small schools initiative. Banks served as president and CEO the Eagle Academy Foundation, a network of public all-boys' schools until his appointment as New York City Schools Chancellor.

Personal life
Banks's partner, Sheena Wright, is the current First Deputy Mayor of New York City. She was the former Deputy Mayor For Strategic Policy Initiatives of New York City and former president and CEO of the United Way of New York City.

References

External links
 Biography from the Eagle Academy Foundation

Living people
New York City School Chancellors
Rutgers University alumni
African-American educators
1962 births

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The Ukraine Fraud
The Biden-Kerry Connection
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7 April 2019. Four (4) months after the Ukraine Court and SDNY took action against spies in the 2016 Election, the FBI/DOJ opened an investigation [page 2] into PrivatBank, Burisma Holdings Limited, Ihor Kolomoisky, Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Two (2) weeks after Joe Bide
Two (2) weeks after Joe Biden announced his candidacy, another fraud to cover-up the Russian collusion scheme for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election began.
Chris Murphy (D) began the Ukraine impeachment fraud by accusing Donald J. Trump of betraying his oath of office and using his attorney to solicit influence from Ukraine officials in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
10 May 2019. Chris Murphy (D) documented his accusations to James E. Risch (R) Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations stating Donald J. Trump was using his attorney to operate a shadow government to influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
25 July 2019 at 9:03-9:33am. Donald J. Trump telephoned Volodymyr Zelenskyy to congratulate him on winning the first single-party majority in modern Ukraine history.
Mike Pompeo was on the call to get a perspective on steps taken by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to end government corruption, before he could certify the release of U.S. Military aid by Congress.
Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken, created a Fraudulent Whistleblower Complaint (Complaint) against Donald J. Trump and included Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
They used the fifty-two (52) day built-in hold on payment for U.S. Military aid to Ukraine to accuse Donald J. Trump of withholding aid for personal benefit.
12 August 2019. Eighteen (18) days after the actual Telephone Call and confident the WH would not release transcripts because of Executive Privilege, they gave a copy of the Complaint to Richard Burr (R), thus preventing them from editing inaccuracies in the forgery.
Anonymous was represented to Richard Burr as a Whistleblower with concerns about a risk to national security, and based on second-hand knowledge, he believed Donald J. Trump had solicited interference from Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
Because Petro Poroshenko had Nationalized PrivatBank, the IMF had frozen Foreign Aid to Ukraine, thus preventing the $391 million in U.S. Military aid transfer.
11 September 2019. Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka authorized a Police raid PivatBank offices. The owner of the bank, Ihor Kolomoisky is working with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ruslan Riaboshapka on the anti-corruption reforms.
Twelve (12) days after the IMF released the hold, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff remained in Washington DC and used the two (2) week Congressional break, and the power of their office to perpetrate a fraud against the U.S. and the Ukraine.
They began fraudulent Impeachment Proceeding against Donald J. Trump and threatened Volodymyr Zelenskyy, under the guise of a threat to National Security.
13 December 2019 at 10:10am. The House Panel voted on both Articles of Impeachment. They were approved on a party line vote:
· Democrats 23
· Republicans 17
Jim McGovern (D) stood in for Jerald Nadler because he called in sick. He said President Donald J. Trump withheld military aid to a country under siege to extract a personal political favor.
Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff had scheduled the U.S. Military aid to be paid by 30 September 2019, it was paid on 11 September 2019, nineteen (19) days early.
17 December 2019. The Democrat led House Rules Committee voted on the Rules debate on the Floors for both Articles of Impeachment. They were approved on a party line vote setti
17 December 2019. The Democrat led House Rules Committee voted on the Rules debate on the Floors for both Articles of Impeachment. They were approved on a party line vote setting up a vote by Impeach President Donald J. Trump by fraud.
· Democrats 9
· Republicans 4
Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff used the vote for impeachment to bribe Donald J. Trump into resigning from office.
18 December 2019. The Democrats opened the vote on the two (2) Articles of Impeachment President Donald J. Trump, then exposed their bribery scheme by withholding them from the Senate.
The DNC 2020 staged Russian hacking Narrative begins on 14 January 2020 followed by another orchestrated leak of information on the evening of the DNC Debate and the eve of Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff's release of their fraudulent Articles of Impeachment.
The DNC 2020 Staged Narrative:
Russian intelligence targeted Burisma Holdings in the Ukraine, hacked into their Servers, Computers and Networks, stole Hunter Biden employment records and leaked information to hurt Joe Biden.
Burisma Holdings called CrowdStrike (DBA Area 1 Security) to investigate their own staged attack, assess damage to the Servers, Computers and Networks and assist in remediation efforts.
End DNC 2020 Staged Narrative
14 January 2020. They used the scheduled termination date of Microsoft Technical Support for Windows 7 as cover and conspired with MSM to report the staged hacking.
CrowdStrike already provide Cyber-Security and Cloud Storage at Burisma Holdings with 24/7 monitoring systems to alert of any Cyber-Intrusions, thus exposing the staged hacking.
Nancy Pelosi documented her deep rooted hatred for Donald J. Trump with her impersonation of British Monarchy issuing the Death Warrant signed with the gold pen, then delivered on a Silver Platter, to whom her Majesty pre-determined guilt without trial.
15 January 2020 at 10:10am. Nancy Pelosi introduced her group of Impeachment Managers a/k/a Prosecutors selected to deliver and execute her fraudulent Articles of Impeachment to the Senate.
She later signed them using the gold pen then directed her executioners to parade them through the Capital during delivery.
Robert Menendez (D), Richard Durbin (D) and Patrick Leahy (D) used Lev Parnas in their May 2018 scheme to bribe Yuriy Lutsenko (Ukraine Prosecutor General).
The Rachel Maddow staged an appearance for Lev Parnas to implicate Donald J. Trump and Rudy Giuliani in a cover-up in Ukraine.
Robert Menendez (D) is the Florida neighbor of Lev Parnas dba-GEP who arranged $325,000.00 from Dmytro Firtash a/k/a Burisma Holdings in the Ukraine to be paid to the pro-Trump PAC American Action First in Florida to implicate Donald J. Trump and Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine.
15 January 2020 at 7:00pm. Lev Parnas told Rachel Maddow he did nothing without the consent of Donald J. Trump and Rudy Giuliani and they knew exactly what was going on in Ukraine.
Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and MSM Manufactured Evidence then began leaking it to influence the outcome of the Senate Impeachment Trial .
17 January 2020. They orchestrated the release of Privileged and Confidential Work Product from the GAO and Lev Parnas's criminal case file.
Eric Ciaramella and Sean Misko are the Whistleblower behind the Fraudulent Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump.
Sean Misko is the partner of Eric Ciaramella and aid to Adam Schiff. Mark Zaid and Alex Soros are partners.
Adam Schiff, Alexander Vindman and Mark Zaid are the voice behind Eric Ciaramella and Sean Misko.
Alexander Vindman & Leonid Vindman are brothers. Both are involved in the phony Russian & Ukraine Collusion Narrative.
They are all members of Alex Soros rubber duckie club. F/K/A rubberduckielifeforlife productions LLC.
Volume 5 - Column 2 for the:
Burisma, WJC, Alan Apter, Alexander Vindman & Leonid Vindman Ukraine & Russia Collusion.
Volume 8 - Column 3 &
Manufactured Whistleblower Complaint.
Mitt Romney is a Material Witness in the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump.
He is in collusion with Joe Biden, John Bolton and Adam Schiff to Impeach the President and cover-up his own partnership with Cofer Black and Alan Apter with Burisma.
Volume 8 - Column 2 for the Burisma, WJC Collusion with Burisma partners, Directors and Shareholders, including:
15 January 2016. Joe Biden and Eric Ciaramella met with Ukraine PM Volodymyr Groysman in Washington DC.
They solicited influence in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election in exchange for an additional $220 million in U.S. Military aid.
Ukraine then provided the FBI, Alex Soros NGO: AntAC, CrowdStrike, working with Joe Biden, Eric Ciaramella, Adam Schiff, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, Nellie Ohr aka Fusion GPS access to classified information and allowed them to conduct illegal operations in the Ukraine to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
Joe Biden and John Kerry are co-founders and partners in Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC. a/k/a RSB, LLC. a/k/a RS Bais, LLC.
Alan Apter, Chairman of Burisma Holdings is also partners with Joe Biden and John Kerry.
They are business partners of Serhiy Leshchenko and Mykola Zlochevsky in the Ukraine.
Burisma Holdings uses PrivatBank, Alan Apter is the Chairman of Russian banks Renaissance Capital et al, used by Teneo Holdings, WJC and WPP.
Russian and Ukraine Connections
In May 2014, Burisma Holdings announced Hunter Biden and Devon Archer had been appointed to the Board of Directors.
Their appointment was in name only and for the sole purpose of concealing money laundering from Burisma Holdings through PrivatBank in Cyprus, Renaissance Capital et al to the New York accounts of Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC. a/k/a RSB, LLC. a/k/a RS Bais, LLC.
Hunter Biden and Devon Archer did not ever work for and were not ever paid by Burisma Holdings.
The New York accounts of Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC. a/k/a RSB, LLC. a/k/a RS Bais, LLC. document both had embezzled large amounts of the laundered money from Burisma Holdings.
The election of Volodymyr Zelenskyy exposed Ukraine influence in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, spying on the Trump Campaign, Petro Poroshenko embezzling U.S. Foreign Aid and his connection to the laundered money and shell corporations in Delaware.
The bank account records provide the source and destination bank account numbers of: Burisma Holdings Limited, PrivatBank, Bank of China, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and John Kerry's business partnerships with:
Paul Pelosi, Christopher Heinz, Russian banks, Teneo, Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC. a/k/a RSB, LLC. a/k/a RS Bais, LLC.
The above entities and persons have not filed under FARA or disclosed their financial interest in their Executive Branch and/or DoS Financial Disclosures.
23122019 D&A Notice of Fraud, Counterfeiting and Production of Evidence. Roberts vs. Biden. Case No: 32 DR-19-187
"10. Family members of DEFENDANT Robert Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz are business partners of Serhiy Leshchenko and Mykola Zlochevsky in the Ukraine and currently under investigation for their part in the counterfeiting scheme.
11. Between March 2014 and December 2015, the scheme accumulated $156,073,944.24 with an Average Account Value (monthly balance) in the amount of: $6,785,823.66."


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Two major types of lung cancer are non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. Causes of lung cancer include smoking, secondhand smoke, exposure to certain toxins, and family history.
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Recently we were reminded that we who labor in law libraries are not immune from the request, "Can you get me this company's annual report?" While our colleagues in corporate libraries may find this request arriving on a daily or weekly basis, we legal types may have to dredge up memories of last year's research to recollect our last such adventure. Several factors play into the east with which this research can be accomplished. We will review those factors and provide some sources for your next annual report hunt.
Let's get some of the details squared away first. What kind of annual report are you seeking—the report provided to shareholders (glossy, pretty, summarized) or the SEC required 10K? Are you looking for the most recent annual report or are you trying to find the 1986 report? Since the SEC documents have become increasingly easy to find – either free or for a fee we are not going to review those sources. The Internet has also made it easier to obtain recent company produced annual reports – from Annual Reports Online or the Investor Relations Information Network or often from company websites. The tougher research nut to crack, however, are the older company generated annual reports and the financials from either annual report prior to the past few years.
If you are not sure what we mean by these annual reports, OhioLink offers guidance on the different types of annual reports as well as an excellent list of sources. Since some legal researchers may need primers on business sources, we would like to recommend an incredible web guide in the Guide to Business History Resources as part of the Guide to Finding Business Information at the Library of Congress. This source should be required reading for anyone trying to find historical company information since it lists directories, sources for obsolete stock information, and company archives. Another source that will help you formulate your query on historical company data is available from the New York Public Library. This guide will lead you through the questions to ask yourself (or your patron) as you struggle to dig up information on a company.
So where do we go to find these older company annual reports? The Library of Congress offers suggestions. University of Pennsylvania Libraries offers suggestions for finding older annual reports and their collection at the Lippincott Library includes a collection of historical annual reports. We won't list all of the academic options for annual report collection, just highlight some that offer guidance. If you have a local university, by all means check their business collections first.
Commercial vendors have seen the need for accumulating historical annual reports and financials. ProQuest recognized the void in 2006 when it digitalized 160 years of history and annual reports from over 800 of America's top corporations. While access via ProQuest may not be free to many law firms, patrons of large public libraries usually have access via their public library. Mergent (previously Moody's) also recognized the need for historical information on companies and includes an archive in their annual reports data. This material may also be available at large public libraries if a law library doesn't not have a subscription. Gale also includes historical annual reports in their International Directory of Company Histories. For more details on this extensive business resource, see this link. While we often think of GSIOnline (LiveEdgar) as primarily a source for SEC filings, it has included a database of annual reports in its offerings and is a source many law firm libraries have access to already.
If you are seeking really old annual reports, you may want to check out the Baker Library at Harvard University. Their website is worth a visit just for the image of the Bear River Tunnel Company displayed on their page. Baker's Historic Corporate Reports Collection includes selected original company documents from 1820 onward. For a chart outlining what Baker Library has collected in company information and documents, go to this chart. Columbia University also maintains an annual report collection of "oldies but goodies" and the excel spreadsheet on their website allows you to quickly see if they have the report you need.
A final caveat to novices doing company research – public company's obviously have to provide more information to shareholders and to regulating bodies than do private companies. Other types of entities, such as LLC's (limited liability companies) or LLP's (limited liability partnerships) generally release even less information about themselves or their officers. Researching private companies is an art that requires more than a Coast to Coast column to articulate. Learn something about the type of company you are hunting for before spending too much time hunting for its historical data so that you don't pursue material that never was public.


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Entre Luas é o terceiro álbum de estúdio da banda Quadrilha, lançado em 1997.

"Por cada Lua que passa, chega uma ideia nova, mudam as marés. nascem outras coisas, solta-se o canto brejeiro de uma terra que nos conquista. E entre Luas fez-se uma história, uma história de noites longas passada por muitos e bons dias. Por isso que este trabalho assim seja." in CD por Sebastião Antunes.

Gravação
Gravado e misturado nos Estúdios Noites Longas em Abril e Maio de 1997 por Maria João Castanheira, produzido por Pedro Pimentel.

Faixas

Créditos
 Sebastião Antunes - Voz, Guitarra Acústica, Flautas, Bandoleta
 Pierre Escodo - Concertina, Acordeão, Teclas
 Mário João Santos - Bateria, Percussão
 João Ramos - Violino, Tin Whistle
 Rui Nunes - Baixo

Ligações externas

Álbuns de Quadrilha
Álbuns de folk
Álbuns de músicos de Portugal
Álbuns em língua portuguesa


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Ryan Clark – Executive Chef, Casino Del Sol Resort
From the minute he worked as a Sous Chef at Tucson's Fuego Restaurant in 1999, Ryan Clark, CEC, knew he wanted to be a chef. He graduated top of his class at the Culinary Institute of America and garnered his first accolade at 23 when he was named one of the Top Sixteen Junior Chefs in the U.S. by the American Culinary Foundation. After working a few years in NY, he came home working at Elements Restaurant at the Sanctuary Resort, Paradise Valley, under acclaimed Chef Beau MacMillan before making his way back to Tucson where he honed his craft at Canyon Ranch Resort & Spa and The Dish Bistro. His first Executive Chef position was at the Lodge on the Desert until October 2013 when he had the opportunity to partner in his own restaurant, Agustin Kitchen. Currently, he's the Executive Chef for the AAA Four-Diamond Casino Del Sol Resort where he oversees a staff of 450 in 11 different culinary operations. Chef Clark holds the rare distinction of being Tucson's Iron Chef for three consecutive years. He also holds the title of Tucson's Copper Chef and has won top honors thrice in the World Margarita Challenge. In 2012, he was nominated by Food and Wine Magazine as one of the top 10 Best New Chefs in the Southwest.


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First openly transgender person executed in US requested classic meal before death
Democrats push to abolish federal death penalty
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami provides insight on 'Fox and Friends Weekend.'
An inmate in Missouri believed to be the first openly transgender woman executed in the nation's history requested a classic final meal and delivered a remorseful statement before dying on Tuesday.
"I am sorry for what I did," Amber McLaughlin, 49, said in a final, written, statement. "I am a loving and caring person."
McLaughlin was convicted of murdering an ex-girlfriend in 2003 and then dumping her body near the Mississippi River in St. Louis. The inmate had been held on death row in Missouri before the Tuesday execution.
Before the execution, McLaughlin requested a simple meal of a cheeseburger, french fries, a strawberry milkshake and peanut M&Ms, St. Louis Public Radio reported.
This photo provided by the Federal Public Defender Office shows death row inmate Amber McLaughlin. McLaughlin was put to death Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, for a 2003 killing, becoming what is believed to be the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. (Jeremy S. Weis/Federal Public Defender Office via AP, File)
A spiritual adviser was by McLaughlin's side during the execution, when the two spoke quietly before a fatal dose of pentobarbital was injected. McLaughlin breathed heavily before dying, the Associated Press reported.
McLaughlin began transitioning three years ago at the state prison in Potosi.
McLaughlin had petitioned Missouri Gov. Mike Parson for clemency ahead of the execution, which was denied. In the petition, McLaughlin cited traumatic childhood and mental health issues, which the jury never heard during trial, which led to depression and suicide attempts.
Sue Gibson, left, of Jefferson City, and Jay Castilow, of Columbia, hold signs along with others outside the Missouri Supreme Court building while protesting the execution of Amber McLaughlin on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in Jefferson City, Missouri. McLaughlin was convicted of killing Beverly Guenther in 2003. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
"McLaughlin terrorized Ms. Guenther in the final years of her life, but we hope her family and loved ones may finally have some peace," Parson said in a written statement after the execution.
McLaughlin was in a relationship with Beverly Guenther in 2003 and would show up and sometimes hide at Guenther's office near St. Louis after the two broke up. Guenther, 45 at the time of her death, obtained a restraining order and was even sometimes escorted by officers to her car at the office.
This photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Amber McLaughlin. McLaughlin became the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)
Her neighbors called authorities in November 2003 when Guenther failed to return home from work one day. Police searched near the woman's office building and found a broken knife and trail of blood near her car.
McLaughlin later led police to a spot on the Mississippi River where the body was dumped. Police said the woman was raped and stabbed repeatedly before her body was dumped in the river.
McLaughlin is believed to be the first openly transgender individual to be executed in the U.S. A total of 18 inmates were executed in 2022, including two in the state of Missouri.


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CMB'S GREAT CANADIAN SONGS
Of the thousands of Canadian songs we have listened to over the years, our favourites are listed below. As we do not want to weary the reader with a list as tall as the CN Tower, we add selections from only the cream of the crop. We exclude cover songs and allow only one entry per artist. We include songs of any language, of any genre, and all recordings, not just hit singles. From time to time we will induct a new entry to the list and update the ranking. Below is a list of our ATF (i.e. all-time favourite) tunes by Canadian artists with links to articles we have written in dedication to and with information and trivia about each song. Those wishing to explore the diverse treasures of the vast ocean of Canadian music can use this as a place to start.
LINKS TO ARTICLES
"Crying Out Loud for Love" by The Box (1987)
"One More Colour" by Jane Siberry (1985)
"Push" by Moist (1994)
"Steal My Sunshine" by Len (1999)
"Let's Play" by Kristina Maria (2011)
"Sing" by Theo Tams (2008)
"These Eyes" by The Guess Who (1969)
"Far Too Frail" by Skinny Puppy (1984)
"A Criminal Mind" by Gowan (1985)
"I Was a Fool" by The Boomtang Boys (1999)
"Heavenly Blue" by Burton Cummings (1980)
"Flesh under Skin" by National Velvet (1988)
"Tokyo" by Bruce Cockburn (1980)
"Hot Child in the City" by Nick Gilder (1978)
"Philadelphia" by Neil Young (1994)
"I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado (2000)
"Je n'ai que mon âme" by Natasha St-Pier (2001)
"Song in My Head" by M+M (1985)
"La Corrida" by Mitsou (1988)
"At the Feet of the Moon" by The Parachute Club (1984)
"3 Dressed Up As a 9" by Trooper (1979)
"Living On Video" by Trans X (1983)
"Rock Machine" by Copyright (2001)
"I Want You Back" by Sherry Kean (1984)
"Overworked and Underpaid" by Randy Bachman (1992)
"For Germans" by Images in Vogue (1983)
"Believe in You" by Amanda Marshall (1999)
"Phasors on Stun" by FM (1977)
"Never Surrender" by Corey Hart (1985)
"Yeah, Whatever" by Moev (1988)
"I Really Love You" by Ian Thomas (1978)
"Jukfuk" by Sally Yeh (1987)
"Subdivisions" by Rush (1982)
"Passion" by Zappacosta (1984)
"Saviour" by Lights (2009)
"Aria" by Delerium (2000)
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" by Bryan Adams (1991)
"Angel" by Sarah McLachlan (1997)
"Nova Heart" by The Spoons (1982)
"Eyes of a Stranger" by The Payola$ (1982)
"The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats (1982)
"Worlds Away" by Strange Advance (1982)
"Baby Ran" by 54-40 (1986)
"Tonight Is a Wonderful Time to Fall in Love" by April Wine (1975)
"Just Walk Away" by Celine Dion (1993)
"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1974)
"My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" by Chilliwack (1981)
"Ghosts of You" by Chantal Kreviazuk (2006)
"Thank U" by Alanis Morissette (1998)
"My Happy Ending" by Avril Lavigne (2004)
"Someday" by Glass Tiger (1986)
"Falling Forward" by Frederick (2008)
"When I'm With You" by Sheriff (1983)
"Put Me On" by Diamond Rings (2012)
"Break My Heart" by Victoria Duffield (2012)
"Don't Let It Go to Your Head" by Fefe Dobson (2005)
"Clone" by Metric (2012)
"Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen (2011)
"Love Struck" by Stonebolt (1978)
"Missing You" by Candi and the Backbeat (1989)
Newest Inductees
"Vacances de 87" by Le Couleur (2013)
"I Was a Fool" by Tegan and Sara (2013)
"Cover Me" by Jonas & The Massive Attraction (2013)
"All For You" by Lexi Strate (2013)
"Whatever It Takes" by Ron Sexsmith (2004)
RANK TITLE ARTIST YEAR
65 Crying Out Loud for Love The Box 1987
64 One More Colour Jane Siberry 1985
63 Push Moist 1994
62 Whatever It Takes Ron Sexsmith 2004
61 Steal My Sunshine Len 1999
60 Someday Glass Tiger 1986
59 Falling Forward Frederick 2008
58 Let's Play Kristina Maria 2011
57 Sing Theo Tams 2008
56 These Eyes Guess Who 1969
55 Far Too Frail Skinny Puppy 1984
54 A Criminal Mind Gowan 1985
53 I Was a Fool Boomtang Boys 1999
52 When I'm With You Sheriff 1983
51 Vacances de 87 Le Couleur 2013
50 Heavenly Blue Burton Cummings 1980
49 Flesh Under Skin National Velvet 1988
48 Tokyo Bruce Cockburn 1980
47 I Was a Fool Tegan and Sara 2013
46 Put Me On Diamond Rings 2012
45 Hot Child in the City Nick Gilder 1978
44 Philadelphia Neil Young 1994
43 I'm Like a Bird Nelly Furtado 2000
42 Cover Me Jonas & The Massive Attraction 2013
41 Break My Heart Victoria Duffield 2012
40 Je n'ai que mon âme Natasha St-Pier 2001
39 Song in My Head M+M 1985
38 La Corrida Mitsou 1988
37 At the Feet of the Moon Parachute Club 1984
36 Don't Let It Go to Your Head Fefe Dobson 2005
35 Clone Metric 2012
34 3 Dressed Up as a 9 Trooper 1979
33 Living on Video Trans-X 1983
32 Rock Machine Copyright 2001
31 Call Me Maybe Carly Rae Jepsen 2011
30 I Want You Back Sherry Kean 1984
29 Overworked and Underpaid Randy Bachman 1992
28 For Germans Images in Vogue 1983
27 Believe in You Amanda Marshall 1999
26 Love Struck Stonebolt 1978
25 Phasors on Stun FM 1977
24 Never Surrender Corey Hart 1985
23 Yeah, Whatever Moev 1988
22 I Really Love You Ian Thomas 1978
21 Jukfuk Sally Yeh 1987
20 Missing You Candi 1988
19 Subdivisions Rush 1982
18 All For You Lexi Strate 2013
17 Passion Zappacosta 1984
16 Saviour LIGHTS 2009
15 Aria Delerium 2000
14 (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Bryan Adams 1991
13 Angel Sarah McLachlan 1997
12 Nova Heart The Spoons 1982
11 Eyes of a Stranger The Payola$ 1982
10 The Safety Dance Men Without Hats 1982
9 Worlds Away Strange Advance 1982
8 Baby Ran 54-40 1986
7 Tonight is a Wonderful Time… April Wine 1975
6 Just Walk Away Celine Dion 1993
5 You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet Bachman-Turner Overdrive 1974
4 My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone) Chilliwack 1981
3 Ghosts of You Chantal Kreviazuk 2006
2 Thank U Alanis Morissette 1998
1 My Happy Ending Avril Lavigne 2004
• Only one song per artist
• No cover songs
• All songs are from the rock 'n roll era that began in the 1950s
• Songs can be performed in any language
• All songs were considered, not just hit singles
What are your favourite songs from Canadian artists?


The Air Force Symbol is the official symbol of the United States Air Force. It honors the heritage of our past and represents the promise of our future. Furthermore, it retains the core elements of our Air Corps heritage, the "Arnold" wings and star with circle, and modernizes them to reflect our air and space force of today and tomorrow.
If used with the logotype, the two elements are in a fixed relationship and cannot be altered.
The Air Force Public Affairs Agency produced a poster series explaining each element of the symbol. Like our Airmen, each individual part has a role to play in representing our service but is truly great when all those individual elements come together to work as a whole.
The Air Force Symbol is registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office. It's registration number is 2,767,190. The Air Force Trademark & Licensing Program enforces the U.S. Air Force's trademark rights by working with Air Force legal counsel and the Department of Justice for instances requiring legal action.


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Terrängen runt Aegina är platt norrut, men åt sydost är den kuperad. Havet är nära Aegina åt nordväst. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km öster om Aegina.  Aegina är det största samhället i trakten.

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You only listen to comedy? Try these radio plays...
by Nigel Deacon
The Brilliant Darkness of Radio Drama
by Steve Walker
TEN FAVOURITE PLAYS - NIGEL DEACON'S CHOICE
I am often contacted by people who tell me they like comedy shows but would like to give radio plays a go, and they ask me to recommend something to start them off. You need a strong story line which will appeal to almost anyone, good casting, and excellent writing. Here are ten plays which are gripping, thrilling, funny or intriguing and which might - just might - cause a person to send back the television licence, put away the comedy tapes and listen to some master storytelling instead...as a young listener once confided to Trevor Hill*, the pictures are better on the radio......
1. DEADFALL, by Rodney Wingfield. 60m. Harry, an explosives expert, is in the demolition business, blowing up old factory chimneys. But he used to work for an undercover part of the Ministry of Defence, and was involved in an assassination attempt on a rising black politician, Kabinda. Some odd events take place - an old colleague turns up; there is an car accident; someone disappears.... is Harry's past catching up with him, or is it all coincidence? This is a superbly-paced thriller, broadcast first by the BBC and subsequently in Canada and Australia. It stars Bob Peck as Harry Davis, Judy Berry as Jenny Brown, with Stephen Thorne, Jim Reynolds, Alan Dudley, Aubrey Woods and Peter Howe; produced by Ian Cotterell.
2. THE KAMIKAZE GROUNDSTAFF REUNION DINNER, by Stewart Parker 75m
It's a pretty surprising notion at first appearance, but the Kamikaze Groundstaff do have a reunion dinner; they're not failed Kamikaze pilots, but the men who serviced the planes. John le Mesurier (as a wealthy Japanese dentist and ex-groundstaff) finds at the Reunion Dinner that the Kamikaze spirit is not dead, even forty years on....
3. THE POINT OF THE STORY, by Perry Pontac, 45m
A small comic masterpiece: a story within a story within a story within a story and back again. All Perry's plays are fun, and this one is superb.
4. EVENTS AT THE SALAMANDER HOTEL, by Don Haworth 90m A wonderful, hilarious play about a hard-up travelling saleman and his cronies who evolve a novel strategy for cutting their accommodation costs when times are difficult....Stephen Thorne is the narrator ("Uncle Mort" in the Carter Brandon stories), and there is a strong supporting cast. Not to be missed.
5. SKYHOOKS, by Alan Plater , 90m
Comedy set in an architect's office...a middle aged architect has his world disturbed when there is an attempted takeover by a thrusting young newcomer...but as compensation, there's the young dolly-bird on Work Experience ... will he be the one to win the sweepstake if he's the first to chat her up?
6. GLIDING WITH Mr. GLEESON, by Bernard Farrell , 75m
Mr. Gleeson works in advertising; works hard, gets home exhausted, but is he appreciated? His son is training to be a hang - glider, but will that pay the bills? Then there's mother-in- law, criticising and carping about his job but happy to scrounge; and his daughter, hard at work going to discotheques...he comes to a decision: things are going to change. Comic play with a serious side; stars Alan Barry and Doreen Hepburn.
7. THE STONES OF MUNCASTER CATHEDRAL, by Robert Westall , 75m
A supernatural thriller, narrated by the steeplejack who is hired to restore part of the cathedral. He feels uneasy each time he works on one of the towers, and his son starts to behave strangely. Following this there's a serious accident. He decides to look into the tower's history. A frightening, gripping story. With Peter Meakin as Joe Clarke, Terry Molloy as Sergeant Allardyce and John Webb as the Revd. Morris; directed at Pebble Mill by Rosemary Watts.
8. PRINCE OF THIEVES, by Rod Beacham , 90m
Another memorable comedy play...Mr. Prince has just come out of jail and is planning another Big Crime .... with the aid of his two ex- cronies and a nutty academic, a genius who can open electronic locks including the ones in security vaults - unfortunately he sees himself as an avenging angel where his wife is concerned...Stephen Moore is Prof. Pargetter, Peter Vaughan is Jack Prince, and his long-suffering henchmen are played by Alan Thompson (Worm) and Trevor Nichols (Cruncher).
9. TIME AFTER TIME, by Gerry Jones , 45m
One of the best plays ever written for radio -a traveller, suffering from amnesia, checks into a hotel. But it is like no other.... the staff are evasive; and no-one will tell him where he is.He decides to leave, but each attempt leads him back to where he started; he cannot get out. And people keep repeating themselves- what is going on? This play has been broadcast in two versions; one by the BBC and one by ABC (Australia).
10.HAUNTED BY MORE CAKE by Steve Walker , 45m
We are in the territory of the very very odd... I am going to a concert, and if I use a stethoscope I can hear my recently-deceased uncle somewhere in my guts...why is the attractive young lady (also down there) playing tennis with lecherous old Mario? And why are there thousands of old balls in no-man's land behind the tennis court? With Graham Crowden as Uncle Ginger, Joan Mattheson as Aunt Maud, and Stephen Tompkinson as their nephew Lionel. Also stars Victoria Carling, John Bull, Richard Pearce, Philip Sully, John Warner, Joan Walker, Nicholas Courtney, Jo Kendall. SMs Peter Novis, Jane Napier, Keith Graham; directed by Ned Chaillet.
* recounted by Trevor at the VRPCC conference 2001
Nigel Deacon, Diversity Website.
For me writing a radioplay is like drawing directly into a listener's head. So as I am also an artist and draw every day, radio drama was a natural extension of my other work. In my radioplays I draw into the mind's eye pictures in spaces that are described by words, character, sounds and action, the ambition being to blow those heads apart with a combination of images, ideas and emotions that will change each listener forever.
There is an oft-repeated statement about radio drama: unlike television or cinema it does not dictate to the imagination of the audience, but allows each listener to imagine the pictures for themself according to their personal mental drift. This is not true of my plays. In my plays I do the imagining, then share it; radio drama is a mind-altering tool, so must be precise and exact. The audience must be led where the play wants them to go or they will be left wandering in the dark all alone. In my plays I am with them.
Words and sounds and evoked spaces are how a radio drama is drawn into the head, but there are times - whole plays even - when the drawing is withdrawn. The power of a drawing is centred in what it selects to show and what it omits. So what is left in a radio drama if the pictures are withdrawn? A spirit is left behind, a ghost of a drawing remains, the play's unique consciousness endures invigorated. In other words, you don't have to see anything with the mind's eye. You just have to hear. The play is then like a silhouette, but one that is only darkness, figures moving in a brilliant darkness, leaving the listener with something felt, not complicated by seeing, as with a dream whose emotions are still active upon waking but whose pictures are not. Radio drama, therefore, is a medium perhaps better placed for the communication of raw and subtle emotions than any other. It can educate the feelings, rather than merely exciting them.
So Bernard Shaw's famous put-down about radio drama that it is theatre for the blind misses the whole point. That you can't SEE what is happening IS the power. It is a joke that you can't see, waiting to be exploited.
The above goes some way to explaining why radio drama has suffered so badly from the dumbing-down which has slashed and burned across the whole of British culture since the mid-90s. On TV there are no longer any imaginative plays to watch. Someone wanted it that way. But there are still pictures to look at, so there is an illusion of action. There is also shouting, an illusion of emotion. Plus, TV is a communal medium - people watch it together, keeping up running commentaries, part of a shared life. Radio listeners do their listening alone. There is no distraction except the play itself, something absorbing, into which the consciousness wishes to be absorbed, even while doing other things. So when radio drama is dumbed-down, when its potential for imagination is curtailed, nothing that I have claimed for it here is activated, so nothing is happening.
This, sadly, is where radio drama is right now, and personally speaking, it is no longer possible to get produced the kind of plays I wish to write, not in the UK anyhow. Radio drama is a fragile and misunderstood medium and may already have left us. And if it has, we have lost a place in which to create, to share, to feel, which had qualities and specialities that do not exist elsewhere. The BBC had the opportunity, when things were generally dumbing-down, when culture was narrowing in other areas, to intensify its commitment to radio drama by freeing it up, making it a true arena for free imaginative expression, a national theatre bursting with diverse life. But instead it went with the age. With the drear narrowness that has resulted, the BBC may already have killed the medium it had protected for so long.
The management style of control-freakery has also played a part in the suppression of a grander radio drama. Perhaps because, as I said above, radio drama is a mind-altering tool, its influence is to be feared, like all influences great, small and minuscule. So this is how it must be in a land now devoted to a hatred of imagination, a British vice now more prevalent than ever before. The majority of Britishers now are well aware that they have none of it. Radio drama cannot thrive with its ideas narrowed and its imagination suppressed. So instead of awakening the unimaginative and entertaining the dumbed-down-upon radio drama is doing nothing.
The position of the writer has also changed. When I started writing plays at the BBC everyone there was fond of saying that radio drama was a writer's medium, and they almost meant it because it was almost true. If anyone said so today it would be an outright lie, because there is no truth left in it. Writers have become a servant class at the BBC, and this lack of spirit, of independance of mind shows in the plays still produced. The values of the producers, of the secret committees, are dictated to tame writers who must comply in order to be employed. I remember John Osborne railing on the exact subject at his last public appearance ten years ago. 'Poor thing must be drunk', they said. He was. But that is why he was. He was also prophetic, except that it is now worse than he predicted it would be, radio-wise, writing-wise, everything-wise.
I wish I could write a radioplay about a wombat balancing on a stick. For a whole hour-long radioplay it would be up there. But this idea would have to be approved by a half dozen individuals and committees, worried by the allegorical influence upon the increasingly ageing listenership of a wombat up a stick. And each person and committee would want something changed - the wombat, the stick - until nothing of pure value was left. This is why my radio drama days are over. You'll have to imagine the wombat and the stick all by yourself, in brilliant darkness.
�Steve Walker .
Extracts from a conversation between Emon Hassan and Steve Walker are reproduced on SW page 2. His radio plays are discussed on SW page 1.
(Texts of many of Steve Walker's radioplays, and also a selection of his silhouettes, are available on his website
http://www.swalks.com )


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S.C. Club Salutes Pals Lost Sept. 11 With An Ongoing Gift: Education
By Bill Fields Photos by Michael Cohen/Getty Images
Mark Anderson, a second-year member of the Nationwide Tour who caddied at Secession, got aid for four years while working toward his degree at South Carolina.
There are two white Adirondack chairs near the first tee at Secession GC, and unless the no-see-ums are saying otherwise, they are a perfect place for a drink, a cigar, a thought. The seats offer a great view of South Carolina's lowcountry marsh, but their meaning goes beyond a vista.
Among the 2,753 people who died at the World Trade Center in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, among the 658 who perished at Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment bank located on the 101st to 105th floors of the North Tower, were two Secession members, Jeff LeVeen and Stephen Roach.
The chairs are for two absent friends -- hard workers who lived well, family men who loved golf. "Jeff used to come down, bring his friends and spend the week," says Secession member Frank Stone. "It was like their fraternity -- pizza, golf, cards, yucking it up. Steve would come from New York and his brother, Rick, from Boston. They'd spend long weekends. It was a family reunion for them. Secession is full of passionate people who love golf. That's who they were."
They were city boys -- LeVeen a 55-year-old New Yorker, Roach a 36-year-old Bostonian -- drawn to play getaway golf at Secession, an exclusive private club of 750 members in sleepy Beaufort, S.C. Secession took its name because Beaufort is where the Articles of Secession were written in 1860, facilitating South Carolina's withdrawal from the union. The club, with caddies and without real estate, continues its Civil War theme with tees named for generals (Grant, Lee, Sherman, Jackson) and holes named for battles such as Bull Run, Shiloh and Gettysburg. The Blue-Gray, a fall member-member, is Secession's biggest occasion.
At the 2001 Blue-Gray just after 9/11, LeVeen, a father of five, and Roach, a dad of three, were saluted by a moment of silence, bagpipes, prayers and a tribute of golf balls driven into the marsh. Member Andy LaVallee, tears in his eyes, told Stone they had to do more to honor LeVeen and Roach.
"We had to do something special," LaVallee says. "Members come down for three or four days, four or five times a year and strike up friendships and rivalries. Those guys were part of the fabric of Secession, very generous men. We had to create more of a legacy to them."
LaVallee and fellow members along with the victims' families decided to form the LeVeen-Roach Scholarship Fund to help Beaufort-area kids go to college based on need, academics and some connection to golf. Grants range from $1,500 to $10,000. Starting with five recipients in 2002-03, 188 men and women -- about three-fourths having no connection to Secession -- have received $1.2 million ($1.6 million has been raised, all within the club) to finance their education, according to Stone, the fund's treasurer.
Mark Anderson, a second-year member of the Nationwide Tour who caddied at Secession as a teen, got aid for four years while working toward his 2008 business management degree at South Carolina. England native Chris Summers, 39, currently Secession's accommodations manager, started at the club as a caddie in 1997. He used money from the LeVeen-Roach scholarship to pursue a business education at South Carolina's Beaufort campus, attending night classes for seven years before graduating in 2007.
"It would have been a real struggle without their help," he says. "It wasn't only the money, but the enthusiasm they had for what I was trying to do that meant so much."
The 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 will prompt a pause to remember the tragedy, but for the families of those who were killed, the occasion will arrive with a grim sameness. "The 10th anniversary won't be any harder than the ninth, no harder than the third, no harder than the first," says LeVeen's 33-year-old son, Andy. "There's a lot of hype over anniversaries, whether a tragic one like Sept. 11 or the Mets winning the World Series, but I miss my father every day."
The LeVeen family will gather Sept. 11 as it has on each of them since the terrorists bleached the color from that blue-sky Tuesday. Tears, laughs, stories. But a difference, this year. On Sept. 12, Andy LeVeen's daughter, Virginia, named for her paternal great-grandmother, will celebrate her first birthday. By the time Virginia is ready for college, the LeVeen-Roach Scholarship Fund hopes to still be offering a helping hand to those who need it.
"Out of something really, really tragic," says LaVallee, "came something really, really good."