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What's for lunch? [Bernard Shore] checks out the meal he ordered from room service at LRMC. The English visitor enjoys oatmeal for breakfast and tea on request. PHOTOS BY TOM BENITEZ/ORLANDO SENTINEL At your service. A menu at the bedside allows patients to call in requests for the food they want, unless it is forbidden for medical reasons.

Salesmen flocked to salesmen, lawyers to lawyers, neighbors to neighbors. One man said he didn't know his neighbors until he retired and saw them at REMECON meetings. Everyone seemed to know someone: They talked about families,investments, the last meeting, golf. It was all over by 11:30, ending with the MIZPAH, a prayer that closes each meeting. By 11:45 the men in elf hats had taken down the decorations and the room was almost empty. It had been a successful meeting everyone interviewed agreed. [Richard Bowers] said he had felt a good deal of Christmas spirit. [Howard Segall], who'd removed his Santa costume, thought it was \"fantastic.\" Like many men, Segall said the club gives him an opportunity to make new friends, to keep busy. \"You have to keep alive, keep active.\" Segall, now 71, retired 3 1/2 years ago from his job as a wholesale tobacco and candy distributor.

THE ESTEEMED FORMER cricket reporter and music critic of the Manchester Guardian, Neville Cardus, once compared Sir John Barbirolli with Sir Adrian Boult. \"John Barbirolli,\" said Cardus, \"who had a romantic, a Latin, temperament, would reveal the music via his own feelings and his first-class musical mind. He would give you performances that were Barbirollian . . . Sir Adrian is a man of a quite different stock. Adrian is absolutely English. From him you could get . . . a faithful representation of the score, with no exaggerations, no indulgence in temperament or in tempi. There are some conductors whose virtue is that you remember them, and there are others whose virtue is that you don't remember them.\" EMI's new series of CD reissues in both the \"British Composers\" series and in the \"Phoenixa\" series should refresh many memories and make new friends for Sir Adrian's recordings. Born in Chester in 1889, Adrian Cedric Boult took a D. Phil. in music at Oxford and proceeded to the Leipzig Conservatory, where he observed Nikisch conduct and studied with Reger. Returning to England, he led a number of concerts in Liverpool, Covent Garden and London, and then served in the War Office during The Great War. The story is told that [Vaughan Williams] made his first revisions to his London Symphony in Boult's office, surrounded by the supply of boots that the conductor was charged with distributing. From 1919 to 1930 Boult taught at the Royal College of Music, where he wrote A Handbook on Conducting, and moonlighted as conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra. In 1930 Dr. Boult, as he was then called, became director of music at the BBC and permanent chief conductor of the newly formed BBC Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble that he led until his forced retirement in 1950 -- a retirement that caused him some bitterness; indeed, the event calls forth the only mild signals of distress that this eminently Edwardian gentleman allows to sully the equanimity of his autobiography, My Own Trumpet (1973).

Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike deposited large quantities of sediment on coastal wetlands after making landfall in the northern Gulf of Mexico. We sampled sediments deposited on the wetland surface throughout the entire Louisiana and Texas depositional surfaces of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and the Louisiana portion of Hurricane Ike. We used spatial interpolation to model the total amount and spatial distribution of inorganic sediment deposition from each storm. The sediment deposition on coastal wetlands was an estimated 68, 48, and 21 million metric tons from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Gustav, respectively. The spatial distribution decreased in a similar manner with distance from the coast for all hurricanes, but the relationship with distance from the storm track was more variable between events. The southeast-facing Breton Sound estuary had significant storm-derived sediment deposition west of the storm track, whereas sediment deposition along the south-facing coastline occurred primarily east of the storm track. Sediment organic content, bulk density, and grain size also decreased significantly with distance from the coast, but were also more variable with respect to distance from the track. On average, eighty percent of the mineral deposition occurred within 20 km from the coast, and 58% was within 50 km of the track. These results highlight an important link between tropical cyclone events and coastal wetland sedimentation, and are useful in identifying a more complete sediment budget for coastal wetland soils.

Major deltas and their adjacent coastal plains are commonly linked by means of coast-parallel fluxes of water, sediment, and nutrients. Observations of the evolution of these interlinked systems over centennial to millennial timescales are essential to understand the interaction between point sources of sediment discharge (i.e. deltaic distributaries) and adjacent coastal plains across large spatial (i.e. hundreds of kilometres) scales. This information is needed to constrain future generations of numerical models to predict coastal evolution in relation to climate change and other human activities. Here we examine the coastal plain (Chenier Plain, CP) adjacent to the Mississippi River delta, one of the world's largest deltas. We use a refined chronology based on 22 new optically stimulated luminescence and 22 new radiocarbon ages to test the hypothesis that cyclic Mississippi subdelta shifting has influenced the evolution of the adjacent CP. We show that over the past 3 kyr, accumulation rates in the CP were generally 0–1 Mt yr−1. However, between 1.2 and 0.5 ka, when the Mississippi River shifted to a position more proximal to the CP, these rates increased to 2.9 ±1.1 Mt yr−1 or 0.5–1.5 % of the total sediment load of the Mississippi River. We conclude that CP evolution during the past 3 kyr was partly a direct consequence of shifting subdeltas, in addition to changing regional sediment sources and modest rates of relative sea-level (RSL) rise. The RSL history of the CP during this time period was constrained by new limiting data points from the base of overwash deposits associated with the cheniers. These findings have implications for Mississippi River sediment diversions that are currently being planned to restore portions of this vulnerable coast. Only if such diversions are located in the western portion of the Mississippi Delta plain could they potentially contribute to sustaining the CP shoreline. Our findings highlight the importance of a better understanding of mud-dominated shorelines that are often associated with major deltas, in light of the enormous investments in coastal management and restoration that will likely be made around the globe, now and especially later during this century.

From the Panama Papers to the Paradise Papers, massive document leaks in recent years have exposed trillions of dollars hidden in small offshore jurisdictions. Attracting foreign capital with low tax rates and environments of secrecy, a growing number of offshore jurisdictions have emerged as major financial havens hosting thousands of hedge funds, trusts, banks, and insurance companies.

Byrnes, M.R.; Rosati, J.D.; Griffee, S.F., and Berlinghoff, J.L., 2013. Historical sediment transport pathways and quantities for determining an operational sediment budget: Mississippi Sound barrier islands. In: Brock, J.C.; Barras, J.A., and Williams, S.J. (eds.), Understanding and Predicting Change in the Coastal Ecosystems of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 63, pp. 166–183, Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Historical shoreline and bathymetric survey data were compiled for the barrier islands and passes fronting Mississippi Sound to identify net littoral sand transport pathways, quantify the magnitude of net sand transport, and develop an operational sediment budget spanning a 90-year period. Net littoral sand transport along the islands and passes is primarily unidirectional (east-to-west). Beach erosion along the east side of each island and sand spit deposition to the west result in an average sand flux of about 400,000 cy/yr (305,000 m3/yr) throughout the barrier island system. Dog Keys Pass, located updrift of East Ship Island, is the only inlet acting as a net sediment sink. It also is the widest pass in the system (about 10 km) and has two active channels and ebb shoals. As such, a deficit of sand exists along East Ship Island. Littoral sand transport decreases rapidly along West Ship Island, where exchange of sand between islands terminates because of wave sheltering from the Chandeleur Islands and shoals at the eastern margin of the St. Bernard delta complex, Louisiana. These data were used to assist with design of a large island restoration project along Ship Island, Mississippi.