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Aum Swastyastu ... Welcome to the Stranger in Paradise

(Published in the Hello Bali Magazine, January 2007)

In Bali, in the olden days, pre-Pilates, pre-spa explosion, pre-boutique hotel, pre-Milo even; there lived a contented, if slightly pickled, group of expatriates in Sanur and Ubud. The year was 1968 and there were only about a dozen of them. Most famously there was Dutch painter Han Snel, who lived in Ubud with his lovely Balinese family and, in Sanur, Australian painter Donald Friend whose ’Bali Diaries’ (the fourth and last in the Donald Friend diary series) were launched on 15 th November at the National Library in Canberra. Friend was a brilliant writer and painter and a spell-binding raconteur.
The diaries tell tall tales of intrigue and lust – there’s never a shortage of that on the Fabled Island –and blow the cover on a few juicy scandals. However, the book basically describes his own feisty, feudal-cum-colonial life style, infused with Tuans and Nyonyas (as we were all once called), Balinese treasures, heavenly gardens and, towards the end, an ignominious retreat. This month, a few of the old guard – Tuan Kris (Christopher Carlisle, co-creator of the Bali Hyatt), Nyonya Ruth (Ruth Hill, wife of S.E. Asian architect du jour, Kerry Hill (of Amanusa, Alila Manggis and Alila Ubud fame), Tuan Leurik (Sir Warwick Purser, Jakarta party-planner and international face of Mikimoto) – gathered in Sydney, the week after the launch of Tuan Donal’s diary, to celebrate the 70 th birthday of Nyonya Karol (Napisan heiress Carole Muller, last of the red-hot Nyonyas, champion of the oppressed and co-creator, with her then husband – legendary Legian lothario Peter Muller – of the stunning Bali Oberoi and Amandari hotels).

Donald Friend had visited the Mullers at their handsome country property ‘Glenrock’, near Canberra, in 1966, on his way to Bali, so he was well versed about the happening in the Hindu Happy Valley before he got there. One December 1966 entry in Friend’s diary, written after his first trip to Bali is very poignant:

“I am tempted to try, when I return to Bali, to get hold of some land along this beach and build a little thatched house to live in for a few months each year. It might be arranged as part of the real estate venture with Attilio, though at the moment the laws do not allow a foreigner to own land in Bali, there are ways to arrange it.
If I do this, I must, from the start, immunise myself from pain at the transience of all such things and the house can be thought of as something almost as impermanent as a stage-set. I hate so to see good things in unnecessary decay and neglect but, in such parts of the world as this, where even the artists who sculpt in the soft stone are utterly unconcerned about the swift rotting away of all their work. Indeed, they are quite indifferent to its decay, so long as it is no longer in their possession. So much of work of every day is devoted to exquisitely arranged offerings to the gods and other such creations made of flowers and wisps of straw and leaves meant to last an hour or less that the passing nature of things is accepted also as inevitable to such creations as we westerners try to give some permanence.”

By the time I hit Sanur in 1974, as a clandestine tennis coach at the Bali Hyatt, Tuan Donal already had a very permanent grand palais at the Batujimbar Estates; designed by Geoffrey Bawa. Peter and Carole Muller had a beautiful Ubud home next door to the former studio of Dutch painter Rudolf Bonnet.
Tuan Leurik and his wife, Melbourne heiress Nyonya Lissa Purser, had a deluxe duplex, with bamboo lounge set, running metres of intricately carved walls and pretty staff. The staff had stylish uniforms designed by batik impresario Iwan Tirta.
Now, it’s not that the old Tuans and Nyonyas were any more or less competitive in the ‘luxury villa’ stakes than today’s punters (anyway the word ‘villa’ was not used then); it’s just that their houses and their staff were genuinely beautiful. They all had museum quality collections of Balinese art, amazing gardens and drop dead gorgeous houseboys, all over 18 (read the dirty bits in Donald’s diary for more!). They wore haute bohemian (trust fund babes on pot) outfits – batik moo-moos and such – and talked about barong migrations, palace ruins and princely intrigues – not Kate Moss and Schapelle Corby. We were forever racing off to visit temple festivals and palace weddings. Bali was our mistress and we were all in love.
And no-one more so than Tuan Donal, lover of all things bright and beautiful (the Balinese certainly footed that bill!). Nyonya Carole, the former Miss Coolangatta ( Queensland) with her love for Balinese traditional architecture and the fine arts ran a close second in the Bali-besotted stakes.
Friend writes of an evening at home during this golden age:

“Little Made Berata is my great delight, the youngest of the household, who goes seriously about his work, imbues all his acts with an old-fashioned courtesy.
Unconscious that I am observing him, he brings in a terracotta brazier of charcoal, adds to it a few grains of incense, notes in what direction the smoke bends, moves the brazier so that it will waft towards me. Then he adds a few more grains of the fine Javanese resin, and as the plume of smoke ascends, with a beautiful very Balinese gesture inbred with absorbed gravity, fills his cupped hands with the smoke and washes his face in its sacred perfume.”

I cried when I read this bit in the diaries. Not because Donald is long gone – as has Berata’s great beauty for that matter – but I cried at the beautiful way Donald describes the gentle edge of Balinese perfect-ness of gesture and grace. I cried for a lost age.
Today, Nyonya Carole and her flatmate, Peter Muller, have invited 300 of their closest friends to a thé dansant at Pier One, hard on Sydney’s stunning Harbour Bridge. There’s something fin de siècle about the event. The crowd is a fascinating mix of old Bali hands and the pick of Sydney’s art world (artists John Olsen A.O., Margaret Olley A.O., plus N.S.W. Art Gallery director Edmund Capon). In the wings are actors Arthur Dignam, Claudia Karvan and Nell Campbell. Draped along the Harbour foreshore, like melted Mr. Whippy vans, are the leaders of Sydney’s Haute Bohemia – Wendy Whiteley, Sheila Caroll – and of high society – ‘Bubbles’ Fisher, ‘Bubbles’ de Vere, Richard Cobden S.C. and Maggie Tabberer. It must be noted that all present are fervent Bali-lovers and frequent visitors to the fabled shores. How fabled would they still be, one has to ask, without Donald Friend’s diary!
For the occasion, couturier Milo of Seminyak has created an aqua and ivory flapper dress for the effervescent Nyonya. ‘Teamed’ with her trademark floral top-knot, worn Pedanda Istri Buda Keling style (rampant and screaming) the Ubud fashion icon makes quite a splash.

At 2 p.m. Peter Muller screens a ‘This is your life’ slide show, which highlights Peter’s and Carole’s life as the Don and Diva of Bali Style in the 1970s. We all view slides of their trips to Fiji on Adnan Khashoggi’s private jet in matching Harry Soeharyo batik shirts; their stint as ambassadors for a V.W. Rent-a-Safari outfit and Peter marking out Bali’s first garden bathroom at their gorgeous Campuan home.
And many, many more: all seminal images from a golden age of Bali expatria.
Some ‘ Bali hands’ present feel that the conservatively-culled slide show is “a bit of a whitewash”. Excised are the images of the full-blooded Nyonya that are so near and dear to all bulé aga (Hill-tribe expats. Ed.). The famous image of Carole dancing the limbo for Queen Elizabeth, for example, in front of the Pura Dalem in Pengosekan in 1976 or the widely circulated ‘RED HOT NYONYA’ images (see Nyonya in gingham one piece previous page).

There was some mention of Carole’s two amazing interior decorating jobs in Bali – the Bali Oberoi (1973), with Harry Soeharyo (now gone), and the Amandari (1990), with Neville Marsh – but there was little mention of Carole’s prowess as a cultural anthropologist and fine art expert (much of her Bali collection has gone to the N.S.W. art gallery; including an exquisite door painted by her friend and mentor, Donald Friend).
In the 1970s Nyonya Carole was something of a rebel in Bali’s then staid expatriate community: she ‘went native’ whenever it suited her.

Her Indonesian was faulty but she understood the people and the culture like few others. ‘Settlement patterns’ was her middle name. She was the first Bali anthropologist to go on an all babi guling (roast pork) diet. She was a tough old boiler on matters of finance but would cry if a dance or a ceremony got too beautiful. Her Bali houses were always exquisite – more vernacular-modern than ethnic-chic – and were much published in the style books of the time. Her last great house renovation and decorating job, Villa Tirta Ayu, overlooking the royal baths at Tirta Gangga in Karangasem, can still be viewed today.
Nyonya Carole’s antics in Bali – all wholesome – inspired over two decades of intense scrutiny and a lively series of cartoons by Stephen Little and Deni Chung who worked for this column during the 1980s and 1990s (see Hot Nyonya for an eye-full).

• • •

After the slide show, the jazz band plays sentimental favourites as gourmet meat pies circulate. The sun dips over Goat Island as John Hardy jewellery designer Polly Purser, Carole’s god-daughter, and the widow Wendy Whiteley, Empress of Lavender Bay, dance a tender waltz.

25th November, 2006: to Geria Kamasan, Banjar Kamasan, Gelgel, Klungkung for the body-washing of a distant ‘uncle’
Gelgel is an ancient imperial capital south of the the more recent imperial capital of Klungkung. It was probably founded in the 14th century by the great Hindu-Javanese holyman Sri Semara Kepakisan, the founder of most of Bali’s royal Dalem dynasties. Some centuries later Dewa Agung Jambé, the then emperor (Dewa Agung) of all Bali, moved the palace from Gelgel to Klungkung, where his descendents still live and thrive, as pangemong (royal custodians) of the great Pura Besakih mother temple.

The wife of the deceased, and her daughter, protect the deceased’s modesty

 This morning Gelgel village feels like Yogyakarta in the 1960s, all handsome Hindu architecture, wide streets, low walls and shady trees. I stray into a small red brick temple near the ceremony and am struck by the beauty of the Klungkung Style Majapahit Era (16th century) beauty of the red-brick architecture.

At ten o'clock, I walk into my ‘uncle's’ house (my Balinese father’s sister married a Brahmana in Gelgel in the 1960s) to find it packed with sweet country-style Klungkung Brahmana (not the slightly haughty urban Denpasar variety). Teenage Brahmana hotties, beautifully attired in full ceremonial dress, are in every garden recess – gossiping, petting and cooing. It appears that, in Brahmanic Gelgel,  body-washings are where one meets one’s husband or wife-to-be!

Young faces at the Penyiraman, Geria Kamasan, Klungkung

 At noon pedanda high priests start sweeping in –the deceased was a much-loved and hard-working member of his religious community. All the pedanda and pedanda istri (lady high priests) are dressed in elegant pedanda daywear– topcoats and silver canes for the men, white sarungs and Frida Kahlo-hairstyle topknots resplendent with yellow flowers for the ladies.

The corpse is soon carried out and laid on a raised platform on the courtyard floor.  High priests and priestesses soon surround the almost naked body – the deceased’s wife and daughter are holding firmly in place a white loin cloth  – and start cycles of Vedic chants and flower flicking rituals from standing positions on chairs. In this pretty garden, streaming with bright noonday light, it is an extraordinary spectacle.
 For the umpteenth time I ponder on the incredible variety and beauty of Balinese ceremonies, island-wide, surviving completely intact into the iPod age.

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Mission statement of FedEx

This is FedEx Corporation mission statement overview in 2013. For more information on how to write a mission statement, please refer to our article.

Company Background

Name FedEx Corporation
Logo FedEx Corporation logo
Industries served Courier
Geographic areas served Worldwide
Headquarters U.S.
Current CEO Frederick W. Smith
Revenue $ 42.7 billion (2012)
Profit $ 2.03 billion (2012)
Employees 300,000 (2012)
Main Competitors DHL International GmbH, TNT Express N.V., United Parcel Service, Inc. and many other courier companies.

FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. It offers integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world's most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 290,000 employees to remain absolutely, positively focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities.

FedEx mission statement 2013

“FedEx Corporation will produce superior financial returns for its shareowners by providing high value-added logistics, transportation and related business services through focused operating companies. Customer requirements will be met in the highest quality manner appropriate to each market segment served. FedEx will strive to develop mutually rewarding relationships with its employees, partners and suppliers. Safety will be the first consideration in all operations. Corporate activities will be conducted to the highest ethical and professional standards.”
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FedEx mission is evaluated 2.9 points, indicating above average level. The statement lacks 3 components: markets, technology and concern for public image (social and environmental responsibility). It mentions only one value, integrity, out of four values used in our evaluation. Even though the company provides them separately, most important values should’ve been included in the statement as well. FedEx mission is customer-oriented, which means that it focuses on customers’ needs, unlike product-oriented missions that focus on what products and services to offer.

In order to make better usage of their statement, FedEx should address more stakeholders in it and add some additional information about what markets it serves, if it uses the newest technology and how socially and environmentally responsible the company is.

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Video: A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?

Jim Butler, father of Sgt. Jacob Butler, talks about visiting the place in Iraq where his son was killed.

WELLSVILLE, Kan. — The day after Jim Butler learned his son had died in Iraq in 2003, a U.S. Army casualty officer showed up at the family's small ranch to explain what happened.

Your son was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in the city of As Samawah, the officer said. But he had no other details to offer, nothing about how the fighting came about or what Sgt. Jacob Butler was doing when he was killed. For the grieving father, it wasn't enough. The question of how Jake died gripped him in the days after, in part because he'd made an unusual promise before his son left: If you are killed, I will go and stand where you fell.

So Butler made a simple request to the Army — for Jake's casualty report. Rules require one when soldiers are killed in a war zone. Unit commanders are supposed to create and maintain them, along with numerous other field records.

"They said, 'We'll have to see,'" Butler recalled, "because one should have been made."

Nine years later, Butler is still waiting for a report he may never get. As an investigation by ProPublica and The Seattle Times revealed, the Army has lost or failed to keep that document and many other field records from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The 1st Armored Division — Jacob Butler's unit — is among those lacking many of its records. Documents and interviews show that dozens of units are in similar shape, and that U.S. Central Command in Iraq also lost records related to joint-service operations in the theater.

History is cheated when front-line records are lost. And without them, veterans can face delays securing benefits for combat-related disabilities.

But missing records can have another after effect — creating uncertainty and confusion as survivors struggle with the heartbreak of loss.

Family members of soldiers who die in war are entitled to casualty reports if they request them. That fact did not help Jim Butler. He pressed the Army repeatedly in the months after Jake's death for his casualty report, but got a series of conflicting and perplexing responses instead.

"I felt hurt because I felt they should be truthful," Butler said of the Army. "Is that too much to ask?

"If it turned out Jake was killed by friendly fire, it would hurt, but I could handle it," he said. "If he died by suicide, it would hurt, but I could handle it."

The truth turned out to be far different, but Butler had to dig out the story himself. And he never saw the most complete official account of Jake's death until a reporter provided it.

Ambushed From Three Sides

In photographs, Sgt. Jacob Butler was, like his father, slight in build. The 24-year-old infantry scout had the look of a determined, sincere and perhaps slightly unnerved soldier new to war. At his heaviest, his father said, he couldn't tip the scales at 130 pounds.

Jake was the middle of five sons the Butlers raised, an outgoing, aggressive boy who had a kind streak, his father said.

"He'd basically give you the shirt off his back. He'd help everybody, but if you screwed him around, your better watch out. He thought everybody should be fair to each other," Jim Butler said.

Shortly after high school, Jake told his father he wanted to join the Army "to make a difference in the world. And he wanted to travel and see what life outside a small town was like."

The world Butler found himself in the morning of April 1, 2003, couldn't have been further from his Kansas home. The sky broke clear after the sand storms of recent days abated. The only green came from palms along the Euphrates River, a break from the mud brown houses and roads coated by sand that drifted like talcum powder in the slightest breeze.

About 11 a.m., Butler and eight members of his unit, known as the 1/41, stared warily through the groves as they drove three unarmored Humvees west on a road parallel to the river. Sgt. Butler commanded one Humvee, sitting shotgun. A gunner sat suspended in a webbed sling, his torso above the roof.

Their goal, according to the squad's leader, was to check on a series of bridges in the heart of the enemy-held city of As Samawah. Commanders needed to know if the bridges were strong enough to support tanks, supply trucks and Bradley fighting vehicles for a pending assault on the city.

As the squad approached the city center on the river's south side, empty shell casings crunched beneath their tires. Sgt. Alex Velasco, in command, expected no trouble despite the fact that a ferocious, four-hour firefight had occurred on the same spot only the day before.

That encounter ended with the U.S. soldiers pulling back, carrying eight wounded. The bridges were left to the Iraqis, who had suffered some 40 casualties.

"Our plan of action was to sneak in and sneak out and not get into an altercation," Velasco recalled in an interview for this account.

The Humvees pulled up to the first bridge in a standard "T" formation — two parked forward and the third to the rear in the middle. Velasco's vehicle had pulled past the bridge while Butler's formed the cross at the bridgehead and the third Humvee sat behind. All was quiet as the soldiers prepared to get out.

In an instant, a rocket-propelled grenade raced across the river from the north bank, exploding on the front of Velasco's Humvee and blasting the driver into the open road. Shrapnel hit Velasco in the face as the boom deafened him.

Rifle fire spurted from both sides of the river while Iraqis poured out of a trench behind the Humvees and others fired from a nearby rooftop on the same side of the Euphrates. Butler's roof gunner took at least two bullets in his legs, and the radio crackled with reports to the others: "I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit!"

Velasco's Humvee burst into flames. Because it was loaded with claymore mines and several pounds of plastic explosives, Velasco, his wounded driver and roof gunner fled.

In the following confused minutes, Butler commanded the remaining soldiers. He told his driver to back around and give cover to the wounded men about 50 yards upstream, all the while firing his M4 carbine out the passenger window. The roof gunners shot at as many as 30 enemy combatants¸ Velasco said.

Two of the wounded soldiers were thrown on the hoods and top of the Humvees, while Velasco squeezed into a back seat. They raced back the way they came, through the palm trees up the river road.

The ambush had come from three sides. A Kiowa helicopter from the 82nd Airborne Division soon appeared above, launched a missile into Velasco's burning Humvee to destroy it, then flew off to the south.

Butler was slumped against the passenger door, Velasco said. According to his fellow soldiers, Jim Butler said, the last sentence Jake spoke was that of an infantryman in combat: "Get them and get the (expletive) out of here."

'To See What He Had Seen'

Just before 11 on the night of a new moon, Jim Butler heard car doors shut and steps on the porch. His wife Cindy was sound asleep. Butler rose from the couch as two U.S. Army officers knocked on the sliding glass door.

"I said, 'Is he hurt real bad? Or is he dead?'" Butler recalled. "They just held their heads down."

When his son had come to him with news of his enlistment, they had a talk, Butler said. He had missed Vietnam — he was too young — but he remembered how hard it had been on the returning soldiers.

"I told him I believe in freedom, honor and peace, and not just for us, but for everybody in the world," Butler said. "And I told him, 'I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope it doesn't come out like Vietnam.'"

Born in Shawnee, Kan., Jim Butler was a jack-of-all-trades who worked as a carpenter, mechanic and most any job he could find to supplement income from raising a few beef cattle. Wiry, with salt-and-pepper hair combed straight back, he often punctuated points in conversation by stabbing his hand through the air, a cigarette between his fingers.

Butler made his promise one day when Jake stood in the gravel driveway, along with one of his brothers. He did it because he felt helpless, he said. This was the last thing he could do for his boy, now leaving on a man's journey.

"I went there to see what he had seen, smell the air that he had smelled, say a prayer for him and kind of get a peace of mind in my heart to what he had gone through that day," Butler said.

"I made the promise. I'd hoped I would never have to do it, but if I did I would do it at any cost."

Butler said he continued asking for a casualty report in the days after Jake died. At various times, he said, he was told the Army did not have to file one in time of war or that the search for a report was continuing.

A similar pattern played out when Butler asked if he could see his son's body: He was told at one time it was not viewable, because of wounds, and at another time that it was partially viewable. When Jake's body did arrive, he insisted.

"I told them, 'You going to open this casket?' 'No, no, sir, we can't do that.' I said, 'Bull.' I said, 'When he was alive he had a contract with you. He's dead, he belongs to me. So open the casket.'

"And we did. So, it was just Cindy and I, but Cindy was able to grab his hand one last time, you know, and it meant a lot to her."

Still, frustration set in, and it focused Butler's grief.

That May, he visited Fort Riley, Kan., where his son's unit was based. This time, Butler said, he was told he would never see a casualty report because the Army was "having problems."

As summer arrived, the family heard nothing more about any record of Jake's death. But in August, the 1/41 came home from Iraq. Twenty-eight members of Jake's platoon traveled to the farm to pay respects to the Butlers.

"Each one I talked to individually," Jim Butler said. On the porch of the farmhouse, they drank beer, told Butler about the ambush and his son's heroism and, finally, about a different cause of death: Jake had been shot twice, in the stomach and head; he had not been killed by a grenade.

Butler then demanded to see an autopsy report. In September it arrived. The pictures of Jake's body were hard to look at, and the report was technical. But it listed yet another cause of death: A single gunshot to the head.

The differing explanations only spurred him to find out more. "Maybe I'm sick, or maybe I'm crazy," Butler recalled thinking.

A month later, Butler decided he would make good on his promise.

At age 47, he had never before been on a commercial jet. But Butler flew economy class to Kuwait City in October 2003, unannounced and uninvited, straight into a war zone. After some initial wrangling with the Army, and with the help of a sympathetic colonel, a squad of volunteers flew him by helicopter to As Samawah.

Butler walked to the spot where Jake was shot, aided by pictures taken by Velasco and other members of the 1/41. As Iraqis stood around them in clumps, he produced a compact-disc player and cued Jake's favorite tune, "Imagine" by John Lennon.

When the piano notes finally faded in the afternoon heat, Butler ejected the disc, flung it into the Euphrates and left for home.

A Posthumous Medal

Jake Butler was the first soldier from Kansas to die in the war.

To verify this account of his death from Velasco and others, ProPublica sought Army records. Despite multiple oral requests and four Freedom of Information Act filings, neither the Army nor Central Command in Iraq produced field records or a casualty report from the time his unit was in Iraq.

It now appears that no records from Butler's battalion, or even his division, exist for the invasion, based on a search for field records by Army history detachments. And according to a spokeswoman for Fort Riley, the 1st Armored Division turned in no records from Iraq before being moved in 2008 to Fort Bliss, Texas.

In September 2003, the Butlers were told that Jake had been posthumously awarded a Silver Star, the third-highest award for valor in combat. The family received it from an Army colonel during Wellsville Days in their hometown, where Jim and Cindy had been named grand marshals by the town.

The citation that accompanied the award contains the most detailed official information available about how Jake died. Yet, Jim Butler said the Army never provided it, and that he hadn't seen it until ProPublica obtained a copy this year and showed it to him.

"Due to his actions, the scout mission was successful and resulted in a successful assault two days later across the very bridge that he died to gather information on," the citation reads. "Sgt. Butler gave the ultimate sacrifice by giving his life for his country, but far greater than that, he died showing the greatest love a soldier can show, by laying his life down for his friends."

Velasco said he believes Butler died instantly. No one realized it at the time, but a bullet had hit him in front of his right ear as the Humvees fled.

Nine years later, Jim Butler has taken on a new task — writing a book to tell his son's story. He drives his son's pickup, emblazoned with Jake's photo in the rear window in front of a U.S. flag. Every year on April 1, he and his wife visit the grave at the Wellsville town cemetery.

He is satisfied with what he knows about Jake's last minutes. Butler just wants to move on.

"I got a pretty good picture now," he said. "No thanks to the Army."

Steve Hebert contributed to this story.

Peter Sleeth is a veteran investigative reporter who covered the Iraq war for The Oregonian and helped the paper win a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for breaking news. Now freelancing, his most recent piece for the Oregon Historical Quarterly is a profile of progressive-era activist Tom Burns.

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    The easy way is via hooks and functions. Here’s a quick illustration. I’m coding off the top of my head, so have your FTP ready in case you need to correct something. :-) First line takes out regular stuff. Next line pumps in your goodies which would be in a function:

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Some business managers mistakenly use the term “issue” and “problem” interchangeably; however, doing so may complicate the daily decision making processes by lumping all issues and problems together and possibly make a bad situation worse. Separating issues from problems helps to prevent smaller issues from becoming problems. This business practice is so important that there is an entire management discipline predictably called, “issue management” (IM). The Dow Jones says that “successful issue management depends on addressing concerns before they become full blown problems.” 1Therefore, it is deduced that issues are smaller, less threatening and require minimal effort to find resolution – but left unchecked could expose the organization to greater risk. There is an analogy to help put this concept into proper perspective – “forgetting your lunch is an issue, but losing your job is a problem.2 Therefore, the difference between an Issue and a problem can be explained this way, “Problems are solved. Issues need to be resolved…. To solve is to explain and to resolve is to separate a thing into its component parts or elements, then determine a course of action.” (Jaques 2007. P 36, 37)

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Linguistic Perspectives and Existential Anxiety in Arun Kolatkar’s Poems  This paper focuses on the linguistic perspective and existential anxiety in Arun Kolatkar’s poems. Arun Kolatkar is not a familiar name for many of us, in fact until he was included in the undergraduate syllabus of English Honours by West Bengal State University two years ago he was not known to us. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932 –2004) was a poet from Maharashtra, wrote in both Marathi and English. Radically experimental in nature, his poems are oblique, whimsical, mysterious, baffling and at the same time dark, sinister, and sarcastic and funny. His poetry represents the quintessence of modernism and left profound influence modern Marathi poets. Despite his inspiring and profound creativity it is ironical that his greatness has not been adequately acknowledged or recognized even after 7 years of his death. I would like to begin by quoting from one of Kolatkar’s Marathi poems. main bhAbhiiko bola

kya bhAisAbke dyuTipe main a jAu?
bhaRak gayi SAli
rahmAn bolA goli chalAungA
mai bolA ek raNDike wAste?
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He translated the poem into English himself as “Three cups of Tea” allow me beautiful
I said to my sister in law
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you had it coming said rehman
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kill your brother i said
for a bloody cunt
(Three cups of Tea) Although a major influence on Marathi poetry, he is primarily known for his first book of English poetry, Jejuri (1976), a sequence of 31 poems about a visit to the temple of Khandoba at Jejuri, a small town in western Maharashtra. A visual artist and designer by profession Kolatkar went on to win the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1977, while his Marathi verse collection Bhijki Vahi won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004-2005. He claimed that he was inspired by the Beat generation poetry as well as...
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Four Waikato University students have come up with an innovative way to collect, store and update medical records in third-world countries.

Jesse Howse, Michael Watson, Haley Littlewood and Kieran Thomson, are developing a multi-party, easily updateable smartphone app that will keep vaccination records and remind individuals of when they're due for a booster shot.

The team of four, appropriately named Team APPortunists, is one of two teams from Waikato to secure a place in the 2013 Microsoft New Zealand Imagine Cup finals.

The technology competition is the world's largest, with entries from around the globe creating software using Microsoft applications.

Ms Howse, 19, a first-year management student at Waikato University, said time she and fellow team-mate Michael Watson spent in Ghana and Cambodia respectively, was the catalyst for developing the technology.

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Jailbreak your iOS 6.1 device today (if you want)

Good news for people who like Apple’s products but don’t like its walled garden approach to apps: there’s now a jailbreak for iOS 6.1. That means you can monkey with your iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and iPod Touch to install custom themes and the sort of apps that Apple wouldn’t normally let within several miles of an iOS device. Of course, jailbreaking an Apple product will void your warranty, so do so at your own peril.

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Since 2004, our blog’s been a popular destination for thousands of designers and developers.

‘Creativity over predictability:’ Video from my talk about why web design has lost its creative soul

Last week, Creative Bloq published Noah Stokes’ article on “Why web design is losing its soul.” It’s a good read on exactly the same subject that I’ve been talking about since I spoke at Beyond Tellerrand in Berlin last year.

Marc Thiele on creating the schedule for beyond tellerrand

Video of my ‘Counting stars: Creativity over predictability’ talk from Beyond Tellerrand in Berlin

Marc Thiele’s started posting videos from his excellent Beyond Tellerrand event in Berlin last month.

Three conferences in three weeks

For someone who hasn’t travelled or done much conference speaking for the last two years, this past three weeks have been pretty busy with both. I’ve spoken at three conferences and hosted two workshops and I enjoyed every one.

Join me at The Web Is… for a new ‘CSS3 For Responsive Web Design’ workshop

Last years’ Handheld Conference in Cardiff was an incredible event. A bearded me even got to push a dalek with my friend Jon, as well as deliver a talk and host a sell-out workshop. This November I’ll be back in Cardiff for Handheld’s successor, The Web Is… I’m a last minute addition to the speaker line-up (again) and back workshopping with a new ‘CSS3 For Responsive Web Design’ workshop.

Scripts and slides at dConstruct 2014

I spent last Friday in Brighton attending the tenth, but my first dConstruct. It was a fabulous conference, in an elegant venue, thoughtfully organised by Clearleft and masterfully presented by Jeremy Keith. Every talk was excellent in different ways and all of them had been brilliantly curated by Jeremy, following, loosely in some cases, the theme of ‘Living With The Network.’ I’m writing a new talk and dConstruct was exactly the inspiration I needed.

Join me in Berlin for a new ‘CSS3 For Responsive Web Design’ workshop

In all my travels I’ve not yet been to Berlin. That’s changing in November when I’ll be appearing at the fabulous beyond tellerrand.

Look at the lips on that lectern

Jeremy posted links to all the videos from dConstruct 2013. I wasn’t there but I’ve listened to the audio before now. Even so, it’s good to see video of my favourite talk, ‘Don’t Feed The Trolls’ by Nicole Sullivan.

A transcript of my Modern Designer’s Canvas talk

Smashing Magazine have published an (edited for print) transcript of the ‘A Modern Designer’s Canvas’ talk that I gave at both An Event Apart in Atlanta and Smashing Conference last week in Oxford.

Minor moans about lecterns

After some welcome time away, I’ve spoken at several conferences recently, notably An Event Apart in Austin, Milton Keynes Geek Night in, err and last week’s Smashing Conference in Oxford. With those events still fresh in mind, I have a few minor moans about lecterns.

On preparing a conference talk without slides

Last week I came back from a lovely, if too short, trip to the American South that included me giving a talk in Atlanta. It felt fabulous to be back on An Event Apart’s stage and I’m humbled by every invitation. I gave a new talk, ‘A Modern Designer’s Canvas’ about finding your medium, not becoming intoxicated by your tools or a process and following your own, not someone else’s path. I gave it without a supporting Keynote slide deck.

Video of my talk, “How to call your client an idiot without getting fired”

The final Handheld conference in Cardiff last November was one of the best, and most memorable, that I’ve ever spoken at and attended. Standing on the largest stage in Europe in-front of 1200 people, pushing a dalek onto the stage with my friend Jon, the Welsh male voice choir, it was a wonderful day.

A plea for conference organisers to host photography workshops

Talking with Dan on this week’s Unfinished Business got me thinking about photography and workshops and wanting to learn to make better photographs.

Handheld’s Welsh Veterans Male Choir

An Open Letter (to the web industry) from Handheld 2013

Accidentally speaking at Handheld Conference

While we’re on the subject of unexpected conference talks, I’m stepping in to fill Sarah Parmenter’s high heeled shoes at Handheld Conference this month as Sarah’s had to unfortunately cancel.

Closing the show at An Event Apart Atlanta

I can’t quite believe I just wrote that, I’m pinching myself to make sure it’s still true. And it is. Next February, we’ll be heading out to Georgia again where I’m speaking once again at An Event Apart in Atlanta.

Slides for my talk, Designing an atmosphere of accessibility

Today I’m over in Oslo, Norway, giving a talk at Accessibility Day 2013 (Google translated link). My topic is “Designing an atmosphere of accessibility” and I cover how I think focussing on content first as part of responsive design, and in particular working on design ‘atmosphere’ (typography, colour and texture) helps better, more accessible design.

My slides for the talk are already available on SpeakerDeck, but of course, you really had to be here.

CSS3 for responsive web design workshop at Smashing Conference in 2014

2012’s Smashing Conference in Freiburg had the best atmosphere of any European conference I’ve been to and, while I wasn’t there, I hear this year’s was pretty special too.

Two upcoming talks

It was lovely to hear Laura Kalbag talk about accessibility at Revolution in Shrewsbury a week or more ago. Especially as I’ll be doing the same in Oslo in a couple of weeks. I’m returning to conference speaking at Accessibility Day 2013 (Google translated link) run by those fine people at Northern Beat. My topic is “Designing an atmosphere of accessibility” and I’ll cover how I think focussing on content first as part of responsive design, and in particular working on design ‘atmosphere’ (typography, colour and texture) helps accessible design.

Then the following day (gulp) I’ll be in Scarborough at #TIDE 2013. I’m looking forward to this event enormously as I finally get to meet my CSS hero Harry Roberts and see a few old friends there too. I’ll be talking about “How to call your client an idiot without getting fired” (no guarantees) which is a lot more serious than it sounds as it’s all about encouraging better client participation in design projects. I’ve given this talk once before and this time, like the last, there’ll be no slides, just me.

It’s been a while and I’m justifiably nervous about both talks for different reasons, but it’ll feel good to be back.

Video from Laura Kalbag’s Responsive Design Systems talk at Responsive Day Out conference

Chris Mills: Laying out the future (Slideshare)

CSS3 for Responsive Web Design workshop at Handheld Conference 2013

Handheld is “the conference for all things mobile” that’s happening in Cardiff, Wales on 27th – 28th November 2013 at the Wales Millennium Centre. Handheld has a fabulous line-up of speakers and tickets go on sale on March 1st, St. David’s Day. (You can get get 10% off your ticket with the offer code unfinishedbz.)

If you needed another reason to head to beautiful Cardiff Bay, I’m hosting a new workshop, “CSS3 for Responsive Web Design.”

Josh Clark: Designing for Touch

Luke Brooker: Improving Your Responsive Workflow with Style Guides

The full video of my talk from Smashing Conference is now online

Come on down

Yesterday, when I appeared on The Web Ahead, I issued this challenge to anyone who complains about hearing familiar faces speak at web conferences:

Smashing Conference videos and interviews

Encouraging Better Client Participation In Responsive Design Projects

Brad Frost’s notes from my talk at Smashing Conference

Harry Roberts: Big CSS (YouTube link)

I spoke at a Smashing Conference

A couple of months ago, Smashing Magazine’s Vitaly Friedman, Marc Thiele and I were talking over email when he asked if I’d fill an open speaking slot at Smashing Conference. I was already hosting two ‘Fashionably Flexible Responsive Design’ workshops there, so I hesitated because, as you might remember, I’m cutting down the number of conferences I speak at and I’d planned to speak at only An Event Apart in Austin this year.

New Adventures and me

Some conferences just have ‘that’ special feeling. @media was the first for me in 2005. The An Event Apart in Seattle in 2010 where Ethan Marcotte first talked about responsive design, another. Most recently, the first New Adventures also in 2010.

Zoe Gillenwater’s Building Responsive Layouts presentation

Divya Manian: Designing in the browser

Bringing a knife to a gunfight — my slide deck from An Event Apart, Austin 2012

I’ve just come home from a ten hot days in Texas, where I had the honour, again, of speaking at An Event Apart alongside some of the best speakers in the industry. I enjoyed the trip, and especially the conference, enormously.

I’ve spoken at conferences regularly since my first time (again alongside Jeremy and Jeffrey) at @media 2005. (I’d never have guessed then that we’d still be friends, still doing this thing, all these years later.) But in the last couple of years I started to enjoy speaking less and emotional risk/reward ratio that goes with public speaking tipped too much toward risk. So I decided to not speak at all in 2012. That is until Jeffrey persuaded me to speak in Austin.

Unlike Jeremy, this wasn’t my first not-SXSW visit to Austin as Elliot, Simon, Tim and I and a bunch of design globetrotters went there to redesign a bank a few years ago.

I’m glad I went. Every An Event Apart conference feels special, but at this one the (unplanned) recurring themes were spooky. My talk was about designing, design process and particularly how our conventional design tools — drawing tools like Fireworks and Photoshop — are not equipped for designing today’s web. They’re ‘Bringing a knife to a gunfight!’ From the website:

In the mid-nineties, when designers started making their mark on the web, they did it with software tools and processes that they’d brought with them from print. But the web’s a different place now than it was ten, five, even two years ago; the tools and processes we’ve relied on for years are no longer capable of properly designing today’s flexible, responsive web. In this session, we’ll find new ways to design that better serve the needs of today’s responsive web, and investigate better, alternative tools and approaches to design. We’ll learn too how new tools and approaches can improve communication between designers and developers and our clients.

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  • Action for immediate non-compliance is required after the Arkansas Criminal Detention Facilities Review Committee released its compliance report for the Arkansas County Juvenile Detention Facility.
    As a result, Arkansas County Sheriff Allen Cheek and Jail Administrator Robbie Fread have been asked to attend the joint meeting of the budget and finance committee and the government affairs and elected officials committee at 8:30 a.m. prior to the July 9 quorum court meeting.
    Justice of the Peace Tom Hasty said, next month, the men would be asked to discuss where they are at in correcting the findings in both the juvenile and adult detention facilities, which both included housekeeping items.
    “It’s the first time it’s ever come up and it concerns me,” Cox said.
    The Arkansas County Detention Center has 58 inmates, including 40 males, as of Tuesday. There were three male juveniles in the juvenile detention center.
    A “good general house cleaning” was needed at the juvenile detention facility, the report noted. Three employees needed to be trained while staff also needed training in CPR and first aid. The facility lacked a written policy on strip searches.
    Both facilities needed a written policy for medical and dental care services available to inmates and a written fire plan. Self-contained breathing apparatus with training on usage were also needed at both locations along with updated fire equipment at the adult jail.
    The compliance report notes that the adult jail needs a written policy on emergencies. A written evacuation plan also needed to be posted once written.
    Fread said they are working on written policies now, including one for jail inspections that is based off of a Boone County policy.
    Additionally, the report noted that some personnel needed basic jail training courses as well as basic CPR and first aid training. The hiring of a full-time nurse was also recommended, although the report noted it has sufficient personnel.
    The last comments were that the “showers need to be painted and mold needs to be removed,” “all strings and rope-like items need to be strung up and removed from curtains made from garbage bags,” and “cells need to be cleaned and free of clutter.”
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Quote: For reference, for the $1400 you mentioned, I have purchased two Brioni and two Belvest suits and had them altered, and purchased two Attolini and two T&A shirts, with spare change for a Brioni and Barbera tie as well. That does sound like a great deal, but are those suits new/used? And how do you go about buying in that way. Simply try it on in the store and hope that the suit on Ebay has roughly the same fit?
Quote: I Think Canali are decent, but if you are paying full retail for suits, that is fairly unusual on this forum... for E1100 you can get awesome suits from various sources (discounters) How come no one buys full retail on suits on this forum? Everybody just buys from E-bay or something? I would hate to do that, I'd like to feel a suit and to try it on etc. Where I am from we also don't have to many discounters.
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How to really make Twitter work for your business

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By Tina Hamilton

By now entrepreneurs and small business owners should be aware that marketing from social media platforms is highly advantageous—namely Twitter. I thought I knew it all when it came to utilizing Twitter for marketing efforts, however, the old saying “you never stop learning” proved to be very true. I knew Twitter for being a notorious platform for fans to follow celebrities on, and for big businesses to establish contact with people via blasting multiple daily tweets. I was under the misconception that when it came to marketing, only large corporations benefited from using Twitter. I was mistaken, for in the words of Yoda, “size matters not.” Twitter can even benefit a kid with a lemonade stand.

Simple rules to follow

When setting up a Twitter business account there are some simple rules you will want to follow that I discovered are very effective. If you are a home-based entrepreneur the Twitter winds will blow your sails towards the shores of other companies and marketing experts with whom you can connect. Marketing your brand on Twitter (correctly) will open more doors for advantageous encounters.

Brand yourself

When setting up your profile make sure you take advantage of the area reserved for your profile photo and instead upload an image of your company’s logo. This will help to establish brand recognition, and the verbal tweets that you provide can be placed with a visual image that will brand itself into your audience member’s minds.

Wave your Twitter flag

In other words, let EVERYONE know that you are on Twitter. Tell all your friends and followers on Facebook, Linkdin, Pinterest, and any other social media platforms you may be using. This is a numbers game: the more followers you get, the better your brand’s online exposure will be.

Being a leader means to be a follower

As a business leader you will want to follow as many businesses, entrepreneurs, marketing experts and those who are relevant in your field. It is common “Twitter etiquette” that if someone follows you, you follow him or her in return. You should also follow all of your competitors for two simple reasons: (1) you can keep an eye on “what they are doing” and (2) it provides an opportunity for their followers to discover and follow you.

Stick to business

We all know that bartenders aren’t supposed to talk about politics and religion, and the same holds true for business Tweets. As you will see lots of tweets floating through cyberspace that stress views on non-business related issues, you may feel tempted to respond. But don’t. Running a successful Twitter campaign requires one to stay on neutral ground at all times.

Get visual

Sharing images is a great way to draw attention to your brand. People are more inclined to respond to tweets that include images—just make sure they are business appropriate. A photo of the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders could offend those who dislike the team or upset those who think cheerleading objectifies women. Instead, show an inspirational and motivating image or personal photo from your place of business (a happy client using your services, for example).

Trust me guys, follow these tips and you will see a difference in the number of people you communicate with via your brand. Not only have these methods helped me; they have helped many others who took them on board. Here’s to some successful tweeting!

Author’s Bio: Tina Hamilton is a veteran journalist who enjoys covering a wide range of topics like social media, business, society, and others as a staff writer for Organic Media Group, a boutique SEO consulting agency. You can follow Tina on Twitter as @TinaTheScribe.

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UNMISS head opens new civilian protection site in Malakal

June 9, 2014 (MALAKAL) – The head of the United Nations mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Hilde F. Johnson on Monday inaugurated a new site for the protection of civilians (PoC), situated adjacent to the UN base in Upper Nile state capital Malakal.

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The new facility, UNMISS said, is intended to relieve congestion in the existing site inside its compound. It reportedly has an area of 100,000 square metres and can accommodate between 8,000 and 9,000 internally displaced persons.

Johnson, while opening the site, hailed the existing cooperation between UNMISS and its humanitarian partners.

“As long as people feel afraid, they can know they have our protection,” said the SRSG during a ceremony in the context of the inauguration of the new PoC site,” said Johnson.

“That commitment remains and UNMISS has received a new mandate from the UN Security Council where protection of civilians is not only important, it’s a top priority”, she added.

Meanwhile, of the estimated 19,000 civilians currently living inside the mission’s Malakal facilities, slightly over 3,100 had reportedly already moved to the new PoC site as of 7 June.

The mission opened its gates to all unarmed civilians facing an imminent threat of physical violence when the crisis in South Sudan erupted in the capital, Juba on 15 December 2013.

Currently, however, over 93,000 civilians are reportedly living in 10 of the mission’s compounds nationwide, the largest number of IDPs to be housed by UNMISS since hostilities forced hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese residents to flee their homes.

Johnson also expressed optimism about Tuesday’s meeting in Ethiopia between president Salva Kiir and opposition leader, Riek Machar.

“We really hope that progress will be made so that there will be full compliance with the cessation of hostilities agreement and major steps are taken towards comprehensive peace”, she remarked.

“Ultimately, it is peace and stability that will permit people to feel safe enough to return to their communities and neighborhoods”.

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My Visual Sudoku Strategy

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I like Sudoku strategies that are simple and logical for me. I like solving Sudoku puzzles without using candidates, if at all possible. In reality, eventually you will need to put in candidates.

Step One
Find as many of the numbers (1 through 9) as you can, simply by looking at the placement of the given numbers in the puzzle.

I'll use the Sudoku puzzle shown above to demonstrate what is logical for me. First, I look for numbers that are repeated often in the original given numbers. The completed Sudoku puzzle must have each number in the puzzle nine times (because there are nine columns and 9 rows).

You'll see that the number 2 is given five times. So I look to see if I can determine where the other four 2's should be.

You'll see that column nine, row six has to be a 2 because columns seven and eight already have a 2 and rows four and five already have a 2.

You'll see that column three row nine has to be a 2 because rows seven and eight already have a 2 and column one already has a 2.

Then you can see that column five, row two must be a 2 because columns four and six already have a 2 and row one already has a 2.

The last 2 needs to be in column two, row three.

I do the same thing for the 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 but cannot find any additional specific places for those numbers to be in this sample puzzle at this point in time.

Step Two

My next step is to try to complete the numbers in any column, row, or region where at least four numbers are known.

For this example, I will use the top one-third of the grid to demonstrate. That is, columns one through nine and rows one through three.

Row two has five known numbers. This means the other four numbers (5,6,7,and 9) are needed to fill the empty spaces in row two.

I start with the number 5.

I cannot conclude that the number 5 should go in column one, so I check if the number 5 can conclusively go in column two.

In row two, I already have 1,2,3,4 and 8. In column two, I already have 2,6,7 and 9. The only number missing is a 5. So column two, row two must be a 5.

We still need to place the 6,7 and 9 in row two.

In row two, there already is a 1,2,3,4,5 and 8. In column seven, we already have a 6, and in the top right region, we already have a 9. Therefore, column seven, row two must be a 7.

Now we need to place a 6 and a 9 in row two. The top right region already has a 9, so column nine, row two has to be a 6.

And that means column one, row two must be a 9. We've now completed row two.

We can see the top right region only has three missing numbers (1,4,5).

Column nine, row one must be a 1, because column nine already has a 4 and a 5 in it.

It is not possible, at this point, to determine conclusively where the 4 and the 5 should go.

So, we move on to the top left region because there are only three missing numbers (6,7,8).

You can see that column one, row three must be the 6, because there is already a 6 in columns two and three.

Now we have numbers 7 and 8 to place in the top left region. Column two already has a 7, so the 7 must go in column three, row one and the 8 must go in column two, row one.

Now that I have 12 additional numbers already filled in, I repeat the process.

Now there are six known 6's, so I can determine that column eight, row five must be a 6 because columns seven and nine already have a 6 and rows four and six already have a 6. So you just keep continuing the process.

I hope this Sudoku strategy can help someone else become a pro at solving Sudoku.

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Sugarquill forum > Dates & Ages, What we now know contains supporting evidence that McGonagall is in the same rough age group as Rubeus Hagrid and Tom Riddle.

"You there! What on earth are you doing out of your common room? It's after ten. As a prefect, I'll be reporting you to your head of house."

I was half way through evening patrol, which usually took about two hours. Every second Tuesday was my responsibility. Turning down the transfiguration corridor, I saw a shaft of light spilling out of the open door at the end of the hall.

"Good evening, Minerva." Professor Dumbledore called softly as I approached. He looked up from the sheet of parchment he was marking as I came into the light. "You might take the halls toward the Slytherin dormitories, as two sixth years may be dawdling in that direction," he advised with a twinkle behind his half-moon spectacles. I used to wonder how he always knew what was happening in other parts of the castle. As a matter of fact, I still do.

Coming down the marble stairs, I thought I heard the familiar creak of the oak front doors. As I reached the hall I saw nobody. "Hello?" I called. Perhaps I was just hearing things, or perhaps someone had just left the castle.

As I stepped out an April breeze whipped across my face. The waning moon cast faint shadows across the lawn, and I could see a large figure walking into the forbidden forest. Only one thing for it: I would have to awaken the gamekeeper.

Ogg opened the door of the gamekeepers cabin after I knocked.

"I think that big first year has gone into the forest." I told him.

He cursed. "Hagrid?" he asked. I didn't know the boy's name, and at my shrug he answered his own question, "Hagrid." He went back into the cabin. "Come on, Muldoon." A whimpering yowl came from the dark and the big dog came limping toward the door with his master behind him. "You have your wand? Let's go."

"What? You want me to come along?"

"That's right," he answered, "McGonagall, is it?" I nodded. "Stay with me and you'll be fine," said Ogg as we walked toward the edge of the forest, Muldoon snuffling around the undergrowth ahead of us.

The trees were getting thicker as we followed the boarhound who appeared to know which way the boy was going. As if he knew what I was thinking, Ogg said, "Muldoon will know which way he went. He loves Hagrid… goes straight at him whenever he's on the grounds. Light your wand, now, Lumos!"

For a few minutes we walked in silence. There were rustling sounds beyond the wandlight that I was sure were not Muldoon. I thought I heard hooves but when I pointed my wand toward them I could see nothing but great gray gnarled trunks.

"Best keep your light toward the path, McGonagall. There are things in here don't prefer humans." He talked quietly, as if he preferred not to be heard himself.

"Werewolves?" I asked, turning my light back onto the path.

"Yes, but they're not so dangerous tonight. Full moon was last week." He said.

"What then?" Quite aside from being curious, I wanted to be prepared for what I might encounter.

"They won't bother us if we don't bother them. Lots of stuff - unicorns, centaurs - lots of stuff. Can't think why anybody'd come in here anyway, but-" High pitched laughter cut off our quiet conversation and Ogg Grabbed onto my robes and whispered, "nox!" Both wands went out and we were plunged into darkness.

I could feel him shaking as he took a few steadying breaths. Muldoon whimpered right next to us and from ahead down the path I could hear scuffling. The laughter came again from off to the right and a moment later the gamekeeper whispered, "Lumos," and started shakily to walk again with no explanation. He turned and saw that I was not moving. "Erkling." He said. "Don't follow it. Stay with me." I hadn't an inkling what an Erkling is, but lit my wand and followed.

The scuffling got louder as we drew nearer and suddenly the boarhound ran down the path, wagging his tail. In a clearing we came upon an astonishing sight. The big first year that Ogg called Hagrid was grappling with something even bigger than himself; it looked to be ten feet tall, and by our dim wandlight it appeared to have green-tinted skin. "Oh…" said Ogg.

"What on earth…" I began, but never finished. As they pivoted I realized: a troll. Hagrid threw his opponent against a tree and picked up a nearby boulder, which he held over his head menacingly. The troll's huge barrel-shaped chest heaved and he grunted, leaned against the tree, and sat quietly.

"Hagrid! What on earth?" The huge boy turned suddenly and dropped the boulder. His face showed half giddiness and half remorse. Upon seeing us, the troll suddenly moved to stand up and Hagrid grabbed for his boulder and hollered, "Git back ter the path. I'll come!"

I didn't need telling twice. I scuttled down the path right behind Ogg and after a minute we heard a thump behind us and stopped. "Shall we go back for him?" I asked.

Ogg looked pale and slowly answered, "If I have to go back and he's still alive I'll kill him." Just then Muldoon came loping up the path with a great tall figure behind him. Ogg raised his wand as Hagrid's voice called out, "Comin'."

One word from the gamekeeper, who turned towards the castle: "Detention." I followed him with Hagrid and Muldoon close behind. I had turned up some interesting things in three years as a prefect, but this was certainly one of the strangest.

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